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|2,960 sq. ft.
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|5 nights
Casa da Figueira is a beautiful traditional Portuguese villa with a large private heated pool, gorgeous mature tropical gardens, and a private fruit garden. Discrete housekeeping services are provided during weekdays. Casa da Figueira is only a 5 min easy walk from a beautiful large sandy beach, a lovely village, excellent restaurants, and several cliffs with nature trails for hiking or biking. It is also located within an hour drive from 15 wineries and over 40 golf courses. Portugal has been named Europe's 'Best Golf Destination' for 2014. It is truly your private paradise!
Casa da Figueira is the perfect vacation resort for a relaxing holiday. A fantastic location for a private honeymoon, a group of friends, or for a family get together. There is plenty of room for children to play and adults to relax and enjoy the pool, garden and orangerie. With 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms the villa can accommodate up to eight adults.
Casa da Figueira has nicely decorated living and dining rooms, a fully equipped newly remodeled kitchen, free wireless internet and local phone calls, satellite TV, DVD, air-conditioning, fireplace, and two covered terraces that provide shade and excellent locations for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Two French doors open from the dining & living rooms to one of the covered terraces and walled-in private pool area which is only for you, your family or friends to enjoy. The pool is 1m deep on the shallow end and 2m 20cm on the deep end. It is over 10 meters long and 5.6 meters wide. The pool can be heated for an extra weekly fee. This might be needed in spring and fall. In the hot summer months the pool stays warm from the sunshine alone. Lazy pool chairs are available for your enjoyment. The front door opens to a covered terrace ideal for breakfast in the sun, connected to a large private courtyard where your children can play all kinds of ball sports. A winding pathway enters a lush enclosed tropical garden and the orangerie with fruit trees such as lemons, mandarins and oranges which are ripe in the winter.
The fig tree, which has delicious ripe fruit in the summer, gave the house it's name: Casa Figueira. It stands in the middle of the large yard surrounded by palm trees and an olive tree. The yard is completely surrounded by a tall beautiful white wall with gates that can be locked. This makes it an ideal location to bring little children who'll have plenty of secure room to play.
The newly renovated kitchen with plenty of counter top space has everything you need to prepare delicious dinners and clean up afterwards. The kitchen opens to a smaller courtyard with build-in barbeque. Behind the courtyard is the Orangerie with lemon, orange, clementine, and pear trees. You are welcome to enjoy the fruit when it is ripe. In addition we plant an annual herb garden with a wide variety of herbs that the clients are also welcome to use when cooking.
From the front courtyard a 70 meters private walkway brings the guests to a very quite cobblestone road. Walk this secure Parque da Praia narrow road for 250 meters (just a couple minutes) and you'll arrive at the lovely large sandy beach.
Casa da Figueira inside: The living room is connected to the dining room and has a brand new fireplace that you are welcome to use. Two French doors open from the dining and living rooms to the covered terrace and private pool area. The front door opens to another covered terrace linked to a large courtyard with a pathway to a lush enclosed tropical garden.
There are three bedrooms in Casa Figueira that can accommodate up to 8 adults. The master bedroom has a new king size bed (180cm x 200cm), a large wardrobe and dresser as well as an antique desk. The master bedroom connects into a beautifully renovated private bathroom with a large two-person bathtub and Portuguese sink. A second large bedroom has a traditional and comfortable double bed as well as a twin-size bed and a large build-in wardrobe. A sunny third bedroom has three twin-size beds and a large build-in wardrobe. It also has a new private sink. This is an ideal room for a family with many children. In addition to the master bathroom, there are two other bathrooms in the hallway, one with a full bath, one with a shower.
Casa da Figueira opens to a covered terrace, connected to a large private courtyard where your children can play all kinds of ball sports. A winding pathway enters a lush enclosed tropical garden with a variety of trees and flowers. The fig tree, with delicious fruit in late July and August, which gave the house its name: Casa Figueira. It stands in the middle of the large yard surrounded by palm trees, an olive tree and many other tropical plants. The yard is completely surrounded by a tall beautiful white wall with gates that can be locked. This makes it an ideal location to bring little children who'll have plenty of secure room to play.
The kitchen door opens to a second courtyard with a build-in open fire barbecue pit. Charcoal can be bought at the local Baptista grocery store. Behind the courtyard is the Orangerie with lemon, orange, clementine, and pear trees. The guests are welcome to enjoy the fruit when it is ripe. In addition we planted a small herb garden with a wide variety of herbs that the clients are also welcome to use when cooking.
On weekdays Amelia, our amazing housekeeper of over 20 years, provides exceptional daily housekeeping services. Towels are changed twice/week and linen once a week. Amelia makes you feel welcome and immediately at home and can help you with your laundry. Amelia will be able to provide friendly help and assistance as needed.Feel free to leave her a tip if happy with her services.
The pool is cleaned once a week on Wednesdays, the yard is taken care of once/week on Thursday.
There are plenty of opportunities to dine in Praia da Luz. Our favorite restaurant is called Onda Luz Restaurant and is located right when you enter the village of Luz and walking distance from Casa da Figueira. It looks plain and simple from the outside, but the food is just delicious and the service great. Ask for cataplana. Near the beach in Praia da Luz, also walking distance, try out the renovated 16th century Fortaleza or try one of the many small fish restaurants adjacent to Praia da Luz church. There is also a good Indian restaurant, Pasmina, next to the church. The Dolphin Restaurant, also walking distance from Casa da Figueira, is a fairly new South African restaurant in Praia da Luz that serves several very interesting and tasteful dishes. The atmosphere is also nice. The Papagaio in nearby Espiche (5 min drive) where you can eat as much as you want with a variety of 7 meats baked right at your table on a hot stone is also nice; they have fado (music) some nights.
There are also plenty of opportunity to explore the area. Here are a few half or full-day trips that I recommend. Walking or biking west of Praia da Luz on the nature trail adjacent to the cliffs gets you to Burgau, a working fishing village, and Salema with a beautiful beach. You can also make the scenic 2.5 hour hike from Casa da Figueira to Lagos.
Another half day trip is driving West of Praia da Luz towards the "End of the World". About 30 km past Praia da Luz you reach Sagres with its Fortaleza which School of Vasco da Gama from where the Portuguese discovered half the world. A couple miles past the Sagres Fortaleza is Cape St Vincent which is the most westerly tip of Europe, called the "End of the world". The coastline running North from Cape St Vincent is undeveloped and wildly beautiful. It faces onto the open ocean with nothing but the Azores between here and the East Coast of the United States.
The Algarve was recently selected by the German golf magazine as the best place in Europe to play Golf. The Algarve is a highly regarded year-round golfing destination, a true golfer's paradise. There are over 27 fabulous golf courses in the Algarve with many more under development. Several of them are close to Casa Figueira. The closest one is just up the road (5min drive) called BoaVista at the entrance of Luz.
Exclusive Privacy: Casa da Figueira will be only yours for the week: you will be the only tourists there when you rent it, no-one else is allowed on the secure property except with your permission. We do want to keep the property in exceptional condition year-round. The pool is cleaned once/week on
The best way to get to Casa da Figueira in Luz is to fly to either Lisbon or Faro (airport in the Algarve). Lisbon is a 3 hour drive to Casa da Figueira and Faro is a 1 hour drive to Casa da Figueira. Both journeys are very scenic and on excellent highways. There is also an express bus and as well as a train connection between Lisbon and Faro to Lagos if you prefer to travel without a car. Lagos is a historic town about a 10 min drive from Luz. Once in the villa everything is walking distance: beach, shops (local grocery store delivers at home), restaurants, hiking. Lagos is accessible from Praia da Luz with an easy 20 min Onda bus ride Linha 4. Lagos has a refreshing, relaxing charm with lots of cozy restaurants, many bars, live music, local art shops and an active marina. A daily fresh fish market, weekly vegetable market and monthly flee market provide unique charm to the city. In fact there are many flee markets where you can find great treasures in towns all across the Algarve.
The Algarve also has many award winning wines. About 15 wineries are located within 1 hour drive from Casa da Figueira. Many of the wineries provide wine making tours and/or wine tasting opportunities. North of the Algarve is Aljentejo, a region with many internationally known wines. Although it is about a 1.5 to 2hr drive to visit the wineries in Aljentejo, it is definitely worth a trip.
I am looking forward to help you make your holiday at Casa Figueira as wonderful and memorable as possible. We hope you enjoy your stay at Casa da Figueira!
We were both born in Europe and now live in Boston, MA. Jesus teaches at MIT and Sophie does research for a technology company. We have 6 grown-up children. My parents bought Casa da Figueira when I was a teenager. Casa da Figueira is a beautiful traditional Portuguese villa that has been in our family for 4 decades. We do yearly upgrades and maintenance to keep it in exceptional condition while maintaining the authentic atmosphere. We recently renovated the kitchen and we have renovated the bathrooms, build a beautiful pool, completely surrounded the large property and tropical yard with a traditional white wall so its safe for children to run around. Each January we do significant maintenance so please do let us or Amelia know if something needs to be upgraded. Keeping a traditional Portuguese home in exceptional condition requires on-going maintenance work. Our own six children, now young adults, have enjoyed coming to Casa da Figueira at all ages. We are looking for individuals or families who will enjoy Casa da Figueira as much as we do and who can help cover the costs of maintaining this beautiful exclusive property and keeping Amelia, our truly amazing housekeeper who has worked for my family for over 25 years, employed. We are very much looking forward to hear from you. A comprehensive folder with information about Casa da Figueira, Praia da Luz and the Algarve is available for your use. Please do add your personal comments and suggestions so our other clients can benefit from your experience.
We hope you will enjoy Casa da Figueira as much as we do. Looking forward to hear from you!
Sophie Vandebroek & Jesus del Alamo (Casa da Figueira owners)
Sophie Vandebroek & Jesus del Alamo purchased this villa in 2007
Casa da Figueira, a traditional Portuguese villa with heated private pool and tropical gardens is paradise for us. The location is perfect: Lisbon is a 3 hour highway drive and Faro is a 1 hour highway drive to Casa Figueira. Casa Figueira is extremely closely located to the safe and large sandy beach in Parque da Praia, the beach park. In fact, you can hear the waves while enjoying breakfast outside. The 70 meter walkway gets you to a little cobble stone street that is one block from the eastern side of the beach. The Algarve has 40 fabulous golf courses, with the Boa Vista Course just 5 min from Casa da Figueira and 15 wineries. The villa is also one block from a nature trail that goes up the cliffs and is ideal for jogging, walking, biking or to witness amazing sunsets. The eastern limit of the beach of Luz is marked by the famous "black rock" noticeable since all the other cliffs are golden orange. Praia da Luz retains the charm and character of a traditional Portuguese village yet offers excellent facilities to complement the broad, safe, sandy beach. The narrow village streets meander up from the beach, past white-washed houses, an 16th century Fortaleza turned into a romantic restaurant and pretty yellow church offering many different religious services, to the village center with many restaurants, grocery stores, and a few pottery stores. The Algarve's long Moorish control, its Mediterranean climate, and its abundance of fine sandy beaches endow the Algarve with a unique character. Separated from the rest of Portugal by rolling hills, Algarve, the southernmost province, with its abundance of sun, sardines and tuna, is an ideal vacation location. The closest city to Praia da Luz is Lagos. While Lagos is a very historic town, it has a refreshing, relaxing charm with lots of cozy restaurants, many bars, live music, local art shops and an active marina. A daily fresh fish market, weekly vegetable market and monthly flee market provide unique charm to the town.
To answer this question, here is great feedback we received from one of our recent clients: 'We had such an incredible time. Your villa is charming, and obviously taken care of with a lot of love and attention. Amelia was wonderful, very helpful, and very patient with our questions. We walked everywhere, took tons of pictures, the views were stunning, and ate at pretty much all the places you mentioned. My husband went diving in Lagos, and all the guys went golfing up the road. We found the cork shop at the other end of the village, and we got used to orange egg yolks. We checked out all of Luz. We found the bakery and the soup shop. Quejadas were declared our breakfast food. We took a ride down to the fort in Sagres, and spent a day in Tavira exploring. That was an incredible crash course in history. We took plenty of pictures of the bridges, fort and churches. We climbed the mini mountain behind Casa da Figueira and walked all the way around it. That was more than enough exercise for me, but would not have missed it because the views and changing colors were perfect. By mid week, the guys were checking out the 'for sale' signs and comparing prices. We met all kinds of people, who were very kind. Needless to say we are not an overly quiet group, animated conversation being the norm, so at all the restaurants we went to, the owners came over and talked with us. Lots of stories were shared, and lots of advice was given. We were very surprised to find the beach being dog friendly which was great. We also had a person at the beach who made sand sculptures every day. There are so many other things we experienced on this trip that I am sure I am forgetting. In short, I have never had such a relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable vacation in my life. We all had a wonderful time and would consider doing it again.' - Janie, Ed & Travis Gschrey, New York State, USA Also very unique are Casa da FIgueira's tropical gardens and many mature fruit trees (for you to enjoy).
Hi Sophie, we have had a wonderful time! We are leaving in the morning and are so sad to go! This has been such a nice vacation. We haven't done a real vacation in a very long time. We have done many travel destinations to see cities, but this has been a great relaxing trip! It helps when Amelia somehow secretly does the dishes when you are not looking! :) We have been to three different beaches (found some good surf on the west coast only 25 minutes away for the kids and their boogie boards!), hiked up the mini mountain behind us and walked to the next beach and back, swam in the pool I don't know how many times!, visited "the end of the world", and just walked around and explored the area.
Thanks again for letting us into your home. My 7 year old declared that Portuguese people build really great houses!
Property is lovely and close to the beach and all the great restaurants.
Amelia was amazing and very helpful. Going to miss her.
We had a few cold days but overall beautiful sunny days.
The fresh fish was wonderful and we took a trip to Sagres to watch the fisherman bring in their catch and had a lovely fish lunch.
Walked to Burgau, took a historical tour of the Algarve, a trip to the market in Loule, several trips into Lagos.
Hope to come back.
The house is nicely appointed and has lots of space for a family of four or more. Would absolutely stay there again when we visit next. Air conditioning worked well (not always the case in the area). Kitchen has what you need and local grocery stores deliver. Fresh lemons from the orchard were a bonus. The owners' suggestions for restaurants/places to visit are very good ones. The pool and backyard are really the highlights and are very private and a fantastic way to spend a lazy day hanging out as a family. Not the easiest place to find but once you get there its very easy to relax. The owners' were very responsive and accommodating with even minor problems and questions. Some issues with a fuse box were a relatively minor brief annoyance but quickly dealt with. The housekeeper was a nice touch as well...who really wants to do laundry on vacation?! The location is great for the beach and reasonably easy to get to anything you would want to go to in the area.
Clean residence , close to beach and lots of great restaurants and grocery stores.
Some opportunities for improvement:
1.In spite of a map and directions the property was hard to find.A person who delivered our golf clubs who hasived in area for 15 years couldn't find the place.Perhaps a video clip from the nearest roundabout on the beach area by walking route as well as driving route would help.
2, The pool was cool on entering but ok once in for a minute or two. Heater should be increased by a couple of degrees.
3. Make the washer and dryer available to the guests. The lady wasn't available enough to satisfy the needs of the guests.
This is the fourth time we have visited this property. All arrangements were as advised and worked perfectly. The villa is close to the beach and town yet private and secure. It is well maintained and Amelia's housekeeping skills are an added bonus. The weather was perfect in the low 20's. warm enough to swim yet not too hot for toddlers who both slept well. We look forward to returning again.
Wow! This villa is truly as wonderful as the description, photos, and other reviews describe it to be. We can't decide if the best feature is the location, the gardens and pool, or the comfortable home.
As the description indicates, the villa is only a few (truly a FEW – maybe two or 3) minute walk to the beach. There's a wide sandy beach with umbrella and chair rentals, a watersport rental hut, and towering cliffs on one end. Adjacent to the beach is a strip of small restaurants which serve a variety of food as well as drinks (Sangria seems to be a specialty). Another couple of minutes away by foot is the village, with additional restaurants, a grocery store, etc.
The gardens and pool are every bit as beautiful as the photos show them to be. The grounds are so peaceful with the birds singing and the lovely & fragrant flowers.
The house was well-appointed yet comfortable. There was plenty of space for the five in our party to be together, or have some private time. The bedrooms are large and the beds were very comfortable. The kitchen had everything we needed to cook a few dinners at home. Amelia not only does a fantastic job with the housekeeping, it was also helpful to have her available to answer questions.
We could have easily spent the entire week just relaxing at the villa, OR on the beach, OR sightseeing in the Algarve. All were equally inviting, but we did a combination in order to experience as much as possible. We took the train from Lisbon to Lagos (with a transfer in Tunes), then a ~10 € taxi ride from Lagos to Luz. We easily could have managed the entire week without a car, but we decided to rent one midweek to do some additional sightseeing. We drove to Sagres for sunset one night, and spent one day in Almancil with a stop in Porches (at a pottery shop). We also took the cliff walk from Luz to Lagos, and did a kayak tour of the grottoes (highly recommended).
Overall, I can't think of a better place to spend a holiday.
We fell in love with Casa Da Figueira from the minute we stepped foot into the secluded garden that surrounds this villa.
5 of us total vacationed here for 2 weeks. We each had plenty of room to relax together or separately in this spacious villa.
The well maintained gardens filled with flowers, fruit trees and song birds provided many hours of relaxing sights and sounds, as well as a multitude of Photo opportunities.
The villa itself is ranch style, open, spacious, comfortable and welcoming. The living room is well furnished for relaxing near the pool...just a few steps outside the living room door. The kitchen is well equipped for the many meals we cooked, instead of eating out. We shopped locally in town, a five minute walk to the nearest big grocery store, that also sells wine and liquor. Closer smaller cafe/mini Mart's are also available. It's a 2 min walk to the beautiful beach with blue green waters and picturesque cliffs.
Every time we came home we were so taken by the beauty and privacy of Casa Da Figueira, we could hardly believe we had this estate all to ourselves.
Our wonderful housekeeper , Amelia came by every week day to tidy up the house and do our laundry, as well as being very helpful with answering questions...she's a real sweetheart. We were sad when we had to leave our new found favorite getaway...
Casa Da Figueira is a gem in paradise.
Casa da Figueira is a beautiful traditional Portuguese villa with a large private heated pool, mature tropical gardens, and daily discrete housekeeping services during weekdays and enclosed garage. Casa da Figueira is only a 5 min easy walk from a beautiful large sandy beach, a lovely village, excellent restaurants, and several cliffs with nature trails for hiking or biking. There are 20 golf courses and 15 wineries within an hour drive. Praia da Luz's waves are also excellent for surfing and other water sports. It is truly your private paradise!
Casa da Figueira is the perfect vacation resort for a relaxing holiday. A fantastic location for a private honeymoon, to bring a couple friends, or for a family get together. Casa da Figueira has 275m2 indoor. There is plenty of room for children to play and adults to relax and enjoy the heated pool, barbeque, garden and orangerie. With 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms the house can accommodate up to eight adults.
Other Activities: What is really nice about Casa da Figueira is that you could easily spend all your vacation time on the property enjoying the large heated pool, the mature tropical gardens with plenty of flowers and trees, the orangerie with lots of fruit, the BBQ area or the front porch. It is truly a private oasis once you enter the gate from the enclosed covered garage into the property.
Once you exit the property you are on Praia da Luz, which used to be a fisherman village. Praia da Luz retains the charm and character of a traditional Portuguese village yet offers excellent facilities to complement the broad, safe, sandy beach. The narrow village streets meander up from the beach, past white-washed houses, an 16th century Fortaleza turned into a romantic restaurant and pretty yellow church offering many different religious services, to the village center with many restaurants, grocery stores, and a few pottery stores.
A lot of historic sites, wineries and golf courses are within 30 min drive. Enjoy!
Golf: The Algarve where Casa da FIgueira is located has over 20 fabulous golf courses and the weather is perfect for golfing year round. There are also 15 wineries within an hour drive from Casa da Figueira. They offer wine tasting and some also do wine making tours.
The Algarve has been selected by the German Golf Magazine as the best place in Europe to play Golf. The Algarve is a highly regarded year-round golfing destination, a true golfer's paradise. There are over 27 fabulous golf courses in the Algarve with many more under development. Several of them are close to Casa Figueira.
* Boavista (18 holes, 6,053m) is located 5 min from Casa Figueira and overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
* Palmares (18 holes, 5,961m), Meia Praia is located 10 min from Casa Figueira in Lagos with spectacular views of the Bay of Lagos.
* Parque da Floresta (18 holes, 5,670m), Budes, Vila de Bispo, 10 min West of Casa Figueira.
* Alto Golf (18 holes, 6,125m), near Alvor, a picturesque fishing village.
* Golfe do Morgado (18 holes, 6,399m), new Championship course lies on the lower slopes fo the Monchique mountains.
* Penina (18 holes, 6,343m), West of Portimao, and surrounded by eucalyptus trees.
We also registered Casa da Figueira as a Portuguese Estabelecimento de Alojamento Local which means we have implemented all safety features and have a tourist license for renting it out.
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Pool heating is extra: March & November: $240/wk; April-October: $175/wk. No pool heating available December, January & February.
Cancellation policy: 80% of your deposit will be refunded if cancelled 90 days prior to arrival. If cancelled closer to your arrival, 80% will be refunded if other clients are found that rent at the regular rate.
* Approximate monthly rate. Actual rate will depend on the days of the month you stay.


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Airdrie Stud Jan. 29 reported the birth of the first foal by grade I winner Creative Cause .
The gray or roan filly is out of the Indian Charlie mare Incarnate Memories, a half sister to grade II winner and grade I-placed runner Hello Liberty, as well as listed stakes winner Pious Ashley.
"It seems only right that Creative Cause's first-foal would be out of an Indian Charlie mare," said Airdrie owner Brereton Jones in a release. "We gave him Indian Charlie's stall after his passing because we believed he has the potential to do the same great things for Airdrie Stud that Indian Charlie did.
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A son of three-time leading sire Giant's Causeway and the grade I-winning millionaire mare Dream of Summer, Creative Cause won the Norfolk Stakes (gr. I) and Best Pal Stakes (gr. II) at 2 en route to being named an Eclipse Award finalist.
Creative Cause went on to be a major name on the Triple Crown trail as a 3-year old. His defeat of grade I winner Bodemeister in the San Felipe Stakes (gr. II) established him as the West Coast's top Classic prospect for 2012.
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- Admissions
- Academics
- Research
- University Life
- Alumni
- About
Admissions & Info:
Terry Adkins, Prophet (After John Brown), 2012.
Terry Adkins is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and cultural practitioner engaged in an ongoing quest to reinsert the legacies of unheralded immortal figures to their rightful place within the panorama of history. He stages emblematic installation-based experiences that utilize a variety of real time and static media. Adkins is professor of fine arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gianna Commito, Bear, 2011.
February 12 at the Katzen Arts Center
Gianna Commito has exhibited her work at MoCA, Cleveland,the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina, Geoffrey Young Gallery in Massachusetts, and The Drawing Center and Taxter and Spengemann gallery in New York City. She received her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa, and she is an assistant professor of painting at Kent State University.
March 26 at the Katzen Arts Center
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a London-based artist, will speak about her work. Yiadom-Boakye has shown work internationally in solo exhibitions including the Jack Shaniman Gallery, New York; the Chisenhale Gallery, London; and the Corvi-Mora, London. She has been included in many group exhibitions including 'The Progress of Love' at the Menil Collection, Houston and 'The Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition' at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine. Her work is included in many public collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; Tate Collection, London; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; among others. Additional awards include the Arts Foundation Award for Painting and the deciBel Award for Visual Arts.
This artist talk is supported by the Kinetic Lecture Series and the Katzen Fund.
Please see also:
Spring 2013 Critical Colloquia Series "Outside In" — featuring Amy Raehse of Goya Contemporary and Nudushank Gallery.


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Miley Cyrus & Co-Star Get Close On Set (PHOTOS)
Miley Cyrus was spotted getting close to co-star Joshua Bowman on the set of So Undercover in New Orleans over the weekend.
Miley, 18, giggled as she walked and talked with Joshua, 22. The "Can't Be Tamed" songbird wore a baggy olive green sweater over a white collared shirt with tight dark jeggings. Meanwhile, Joshua wore a big puffy coat and a dark blue t-shirt. Stay warm you two!
What do you think of Miley's new friend? Check out more photos and share your thoughts in the comments.


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Fort Bend ISD receives accolades on successful delivery of FRED Program
Published 12:00 am, Friday, October 11, 2013
Fort Bend ISD's Title I Parent Resource Centers received high praise from two education experts for operating successful FRED (Fathers Reading Every Day) Programs at Title I elementary schools.
Dr. Stephen Green, Associate Professor and Extension Child Development Specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, and Charlie Rice, Head of Health and Corporate Development at the Fatherhood Institute in Marlborough, England, visited the Parent Resource Centers at Mission West Elementary School (MWE) and Lantern Lane Elementary School (LLE) to learn about FBISD's best practices regarding recruitment strategies, delivery of parent education classes and support services, and measuring program success.
Rice, who is anticipating expansion of the FRED program to schools through England's Fatherhood Institute, was particularly interested in learning how FBISD attracts fathers and keeps them involved in the program.
Parent Resource Center Coordinators Gabriela Escobedo of Mission West Elementary and Lisa Yeager Ortiz of Lantern Lane Elementary explained how the program is introduced and supported by parents. They were joined by Amanda Hartley, FBISD Title I Coordinator; Priti Avantsa, Title I Social Worker; and principals Rebeca Bangstein (MWE) and Dr. Yvette Blake (LLE), who also offered input regarding the program's success.
"Getting students excited about the program has helped us attract more parents to our campus," said Escobedo. "Students can be our biggest cheerleaders for parent support. It also helps to make parents feel welcomed and comfortable in the school environment."
Fathers (or other family members) who sign up for the FRED Program commit to four weeks of reading 15-30 minutes a day to their children at home. After completing the program, many of the fathers remain active on campus by taking part in such programs as Dads as Mentors and WatchDOGS.
Dr. Green, who developed the program's structure and content as an employee of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, commended FBISD on its success with the program and spoke of how the District is leading other school districts in its recruitment efforts.
"The FRED Program is a non-threatening way to introduce dads to reading to their children," said Dr. Green, "and FBISD is doing a great job at getting dads interested in the program and involved in schoolwide activities."


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Electricity retailers are being unfairly blamed for soaring bills when government green schemes and infrastructure costs are to blame, a Senate inquiry has been told.
Energy Retailers Association of Australia executive Cameron O'Reilly on Tuesday argued the case for deregulation of the industry.
"It is not the retail or wholesale electricity tariff prices that have caused recent price rises but network charges and green schemes," he told the Senate select committee on electricity prices hearing in Sydney. "It is retailers, not consumers, who bear the risk in volatile wholesale markets."
But South Australian senator
Senator Xenophon agreed regulations affected the price of electricity in the Australian market.
"The current rules for the national electricity market are not just broken, but skewed against consumers," he said.
Senator Xenophon said a federal takeover would help sort out the problems.
"It's not my role to give Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott advice but if they want to pick an election winner they should be looking at federal control over electricity rules in this country so that consumers can get some price relief," he said.
The independent senator wants regulations, such as those governing the rollout of smart metres, to be subjected to much stronger consumer interest tests to safeguard financially vulnerable customers.
"The fundamental interest must be that of small and medium businesses around the country that are paying through the nose for electricity," he said.
The committee on electricity prices is holding its first public hearing in Sydney on Tuesday before heading to Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra.
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Thanks manuel that did the trick.
Also What do you think about setting up a Wiki so we can start writing documentation for m0n0wall?
Here is an example of what im talking about: http://wiki.xoops.org
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To: hillsidestudio at aeroinc dot net
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Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] m0n0wall runs out of disk space trying to uploadfirmware.
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 hillsidestudio at aeroinc dot net wrote:
> > m0n0wall runs out of disk space when trying to upload a newer ver. of
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> Helloooo... Please use the mailing list archive! This question has already
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> Seems like I'll have to add a search feature to the archive real soon.
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The Napa Valley has become the most famous wine region in the United States and its vintners have produced many a drop that rivals the best of France, Italy or Australia. But neighbouring vineyards of lesser-known Sonoma Valley are garnering overdue attention.
Sonoma County is about twice the size of Napa but has half the number of wineries, making for a truly authentic and country town experience. All up, there are about 40 wineries in the valley, which is separated from Napa by the Mayacamas Mountains to the east. Sonoma has a cooler climate that allows fruit to mature slowly and gracefully.
The history of California wines begins in the late 1700s when Franciscan monks moving north from Baja California (now Mexico) established a string of 21 missions from San Diego to Sonoma. Eventually all the missions produced wine.
8555 Sonoma Highway, Kenwood, California
Blink when entering Chateau St Jean on the long driveway up and you may think you are in the south of France. Nestled among Mediterranean-style gardens, the elegant architecture of the 1920s building conveys the beauty and grace that distinguish Sonoma wines.
The chateau was built by industrialist family the Goffs as a summer residence. It became a winery in 1973. Upon arrival, I'm greeted by two fountains, a rose garden, citrus-planted terracotta pots and a small demonstration vineyard.
Of the 110 hectares, about 36 are planted with premium grape varieties. CSJ is part of the Treasury Wine Estates, which recently was spun off from
We head to one of the three private tasting rooms on site. However, there is a main tasting bar and also a fantastic delicatessen where you can order a gourmet picnic lunch.
Bob Benson, our hospitality specialist, takes us through tasting five bottles of wine. The former graphic designer says there is no doubt that Sonoma has ridden the coat-tails of pioneering wine producers in Napa.
"These guys who were real pioneers like Robert Mondavi, Brother Timothy Diener – the winemaker for Christian Brothers – and Russian-French oenologist Andre Tchelistcheff, who planted vines at famed Beaulieu Vineyard," he says. "These guys were committed that California wines could stand toe to toe with the best in the world."
CSJ winemaker Margo Van Staaveren is the fourth winemaker in the winery's history. She has marked more than 30 harvests at CSJ.
CSJ produces between 350,000 and 400,000 cases a year and roughly two-thirds of that is its renowned Sonoma County Chardonnay. The 2010 chardonnay is oaked for about nine months, giving it the typical rich and buttery characteristics.
The other varietals include viognier, riesling, fume blanc, pinot noir, malbec, syrah, merlot and cabernet sauvignon (including the famous Cinq Cepages Cabernet Sauvignon).
Most of these wines are vineyard designated and available only at the winery.
24737 Arnold Drive, Sonoma, California
A family-owned and operated winery specialising in Rhone-style wines such as syrah, marsanne and zinfandel, Cline Cellars has an interesting farming process that makes it unique.
Since 2000, Cline has farmed the Green Strong way (naturally and sustainably) in an attempt to avoid reliance on chemical pesticides and fungicides.
Cline also imports raw minerals of volcanic origin crushed to dust from Arizona and incorporated in the soil. Calcium in the form of ground-up oyster shells is also mixed into the vineyard to provide nutrients. The electricity at its Carneros plant is 100 per cent sourced from solar energy.
The 140-hectare estate is steeped in history: it was the last California mission site before it was moved to the town of Sonoma in 1823 and a Miwok native American village site.
Cline's vines in the Carneros region typically are under a blanket of chilly fog in the morning before the blistering heat of midday comes along, followed by the cooling of the late Pacific Ocean breezes.
Vines struggle for survival, reducing their yield but it's not all bad news as this also equals flavour and concentration.
110 West Spain Street, Sonoma, California
While it was Cafe La Haye just off the main square in Sonoma that made foodies sit up and take notice of this country town, you can't go past The Girl & The Fig, which sits diagonally across the square on West Spain Street.
It's "country food with a French passion", so says the menu and it's right on the money. Try the pastis-scented steamed mussels with frites, the duck confit salad with two legs or the grilled fig, walnut, pan-seared beet and goat cheese salad.
The menu changes regularly as owner Sondra Bernstein and manager partner and chef John Toulze adapt to seasonal produce.
Just like a plump ripe fig, The Girl & The Fig food is fresh, healthy, and bursting with flavour. The rustic Provencal-inspired cuisine allows earth's true and natural flavours to shine. Ms Bernstein opened The Girl & The Fig in 1997 originally in Glen Ellen, about 15 minutes north of the Sonoma square, but in 2000 she relocated into more upscale quarters on the north-west corner of the square in the historic Sonoma Hotel.
Sip a Lillet Blanc on ice at the mahogany bar that was brought from the east coast in the 1920s before heading outside to the patio for lunch. Try a locally produced viognier paired with artisan cheeses as the late sunshine creates long shadows under the trellis. It's is not a bad way to spend the afternoon.
29 East MacArthur St, Sonoma, California
MacArthur Place was once one of Sonoma's oldest homes, set on a 120-hectare vineyard and a working ranch. Today, the lush 19th-century estate is a luxurious inn and spa.
There are 10 rooms in the manor house, the original residence, built in the 1850s, although there are more than 60 rooms, suites and cottages in total.
There is a library to kick back in and brush up on your wine knowledge before heading out on tastings.
For those who want to indulge, there is a full-service spa but I chose the outdoor giant chess garden as the unique play of this boutique hotel.
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The Victorian government has hit out at federal government plans to reap more tax from global technology firms, claiming it could lead to a major loss of foreign investment.
The backlash comes a week after Assistant Treasurer
Victorian Technology Minister
"Of course companies operating in Australia need to be paying their fair share of tax revenue . . . but we don't want a punitive regime."
Mr Rich-Phillips made the comments after announcing that IBM would fund up to 150 new jobs in Victoria as part of a software testing facility. He accused the government of sending a negative image to the business world and called for more incentives rather than extra taxation.
"The reality is the Commonwealth seems to be targeting anybody who's got a dollar at the moment, and that's not a good message to be sending because we need to be maintaining a good business and taxing environment, which is competitive globally," he said. He said Canberra was failing to see the non-tax value generated by global companies through the jobs and expertise they provided. "We're in one of the most competitive regions in the world and this capital is footloose so we need to be continuously improving our business environment and skills base to attract it."
But NSW Treasurer
"NSW expects all companies to meet their tax law obligations," he said. "One way to increase the tax contribution from IT activity would be to reduce the low-value GST threshold for imports, and we continue to urge the Commonwealth to consider this as a priority. This would ensure a level playing field for all companies and bring Australia into line with other overseas jurisdictions."
A spokesman for Mr Bradbury said Australia remained an attractive destination for foreign investment.
"The government does not apologise for putting in place a tax system that seeks to ensure that all taxpayers pay their fair share of tax," he said. "If Mr Rich-Phillips believes that hard-working Australian families and businesses should have to pay disproportionately high taxes because multinational corporations are not pulling their weight, then he should come out and say so."
Grant Thornton national lead for transfer pricing Jason Casas said the new review could accelerate the trend of smaller companies moving jobs and operations overseas.
"This [review] is a bit like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted," he said. "The government and Australian Tax Office need to focus on a more co-ordinated approach. [They need to] make the operating environment such that companies don't want to move overseas, want to have their intellectual property here and want to do the research and development in Australia to keep the jobs here."
He said the federal government's continuing efforts to gain more tax were eroding Australia's ability to compete with rivals on the cost of doing business.
"You don't want to be creating costs for Australian companies when times are already difficult," Mr Casas said. "The changes being proposed around transfer pricing will add significant costs to the bottom line and costs bases on an ongoing basis.
"The focus has been on the Googles and the Apples of the world . . . but what you'll see now is the next layer of local companies will start looking at using the same techniques – we're increasingly finding our small and medium-sized clients approach us on how to . . . shift jobs overseas."
- Brendan Lau | Paying the price of an ID crisis
- Hotels miss point of Gen Wi-Fi
- MYOB open to expansion after raising
- Town wants NBN after fire cuts it off
- Apple, Samsung ramp up store offerings
- Uber app aims above and beyond everyday taxis
- Match that face, curb that liberty
- HP's marriage to Autonomy rocky from start
The Australian Financial Review


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21 Weird Turn-Ons That Are Almost Too Embarrassing To Admit
When it comes to what women find erotic, really, anything goes. There's the regular stuff — kissing, touching, oral sex, sex, erotica or porn. Easy to talk about! It really turns me on when you put your mouth on my vagina. And then there's the grittier stuff, but still fairly standard — dirty talk, sex toys, light bondage, butt play. Edgier, but still completely approachable. I want you to tie me up and fuck me in the ass. But then there are those other things that turn us on, that we can hardly explain, that may even make us feel uncomfortable. Like when you're spelunking through the bowels of the internet and you find a picture of naked, male conjoined twins and you start to get aroused and you're just kind of like, Why the hell is this making me want to diddle myself? You're not exactly going to tell your friends about it, or even your partner. Can you imagine? Hey honey, I was thinking we would try some conjoined twin play tonight. No way. Below, a number of women shared their weirdest, most bizarre turn-ons. You know, the ones that they would never admit to anyone, except millions of anonymous strangers online.
1. Naked, conjoined twins. Pictured above. Do they have a penis? Two penises? We have a fantasy where we find out.
2. Being called a "good girl" in bed. Damn you, Robin Thicke, you've blurred the lines of my arousal.
3. Facials and or/ butt facials. Sue us for wanting to be an across the board cum canvas.
4. Beer guts. Tubby bellies are so fun to pinch and squeeze and watch bounce up and down during sex.
5. Being spit on. Sometimes on the vaj…
6. Mens' thigh meat. So firm compared to ours, which makes it all the more fun to take a bite out of.
7. FetLife message boards. The best place ever to get an S&M fix.
8. Armpit hair on men and women. It must be all the pheromones up in there that get us hot and bothered.
9. A bald man's sweaty head. There's no hair to catch the sweat and it just drips and drips and drips like a never-ending sex faucet.
10. "Supernatural" fan fiction. You don't have to watch the show to get aroused by the fan fiction.
11. Reading the Craigslist casual encounters section. Some of those are really dirty.
12. Giant pythons. They are reminiscent of large cocks.
13. Sticking fingers and toys in mens' butts. So, turns out it's hot to watch a straight man get it in the ass.
14. Super skinny dudes with no body hair. The gay community calls them otters. We don't care, we just want to swim with them.
15. Boob sucking that mimics breastfeeding. It must be some primal motherhood thing.
16. Undercover handjobs on reality TV. Ahem. "Big Brother" live feeds.
17. Some — though not tons of — back hair. It's a texture thing.
18. Christian wife spanking blogs. They're like porn. Seriously.
19. Licking inside the ear. Wet Williessssssss.
20. Getting our hair shampooed. Makes us feisty.
21. Southern Californian accents. It would be, like totally rad if you talked dirty with that accent, dude.


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WAR ON SYRIA; Rumors Of Chemical Weapons Attack On Israel By NATO's Syrian Rebels To Blame Assad & Justify Intervention, 'FALSE FLAG' WARNING
(AE) – I've been planning on writing an article warning that the current situation in Syria is incredibly 'ripe' for some sort of provocation in order to rally US Congress, and NATO countries, to justify the unprovoked bombing of Syria, which has been under foreign invasion by NATO's terrorist mercenaries for over two years.
An attack on innocent little Israel would perfectly fit the bill… either way, SOMETHING is going happen, very soon, to justify NATO's unstoppable goal of… REGIME CHANGE
See video below…
2013.9.9 Syrian Rebels Plan Chemical Attack On Israel From Government Controlled Lands, RT Sources (RT, youtube.com):
A number of anonymous sources close to the Syrian conflict have told RT that rebel forces are planning to launch a 'provocation-attack' using chemical weapons – against Israel. Let's go live now to RT's Paula Slier in Tel Aviv – to hear more about this.
KENT STATE MASSACRE; Shooting Started By FBI Informant Agent Provocateur, COINTELPRO False Flag, Obama Admin Continues Coverup
(AE) – The Kent State Massacre was just one of many COINTELPRO events orchestrated by the FBI and Richard Nixon's fascist administration.
COINTELPRO has never stopped, it continues to this day, in various forms…
2013.5.6 Agent Provocateur Triggered Kent State Massacre!, Obama & Eric Holder Refuse To Look At New Evidence (RT, MOXNEWS, youtube.com):
May 06, 2013 Russia Today News
2013.5.5 Oliver Stone On Kent State University's May 4 Visitors Center (TheRecordPub, youtube.com):
Prior to the formal dedication of the May 4 Visitors Center on May 4, 2013, award-winning film director Oliver Stone toured the facility before sharing his thoughts on May 4 and the Visitors Center with reporters in a room at Taylor Hall on the evening of the 43rd commemoration of the Kent State Shootings. Stone talks about how the events of May 4, 1970, impacted him personally and his views on the impact of the events on America's social and political landscape at the time in addition to the importance of remembering those events today.
The Jack Blood Show – February 18 2013
MONDAY 2.18.13 (Mattress Sale Day / "Presidents Day 2013) – Jack Blood gives the true meaning of "President's Day" – how that equates to State's Rights…. Various stream of Consciousness news interpretations, and a couple of politically incorrect jokes. FBI stops its own bomb plot on Oaktown's B of A (an admitted false flag to frame anti government – pro freedom – activists) and the Monday news you are not hearing anywhere else – all framed in a surrealistic painting. SUPPORT THE JACK BLOOD SHOW ARCHIVES BY DONATING TODAY at the www.deadlinelive.info Chip in — OR by writing to email@example.com – Don't be the guy or grrl that is responsible for the show going away!
FBI Plot to Blow Up Bank in Oakland — Stopped by FBI (Feb '13) / Plan was a False Flag to frame Anti Govt Activists!
February 16, 2013 by Jack Blood
Filed under Featured
Reminiscent of the NY Federal Reserve Plot in 2012!
Yet another terrorist plot put in motion by FBI is stopped by FBI just in time for FBI to take credit.
Oakland Bank Bomb Plot Suspect May Get Mental Health Evaluation
(Remember that THIS WAS THE FBI'S IDEA!!!!!!!)
FBI: Calif. Man Hoped to Incite 'Civil War' by Framing 'Anti-Government' Right-Wing Groups for Terror Attack
Matthew Aaron Llaneza Charged in Bomb Plot, Wanted to Frame Anti Goverment Right Wing Groups
Credit: AP
Federal agents arrested 28-year-old California native Matthew Aaron Llaneza on Friday after he allegedly attempted to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a Bank of America in Oakland, according to the FBI. Llaneza, a Taliban sympathizer, plotted to blame the attack on right-wing, anti-government groups in a bid to incite a "civil war."
"Llaneza's arrest was the culmination of an undercover operation during which he was closely monitored by the FBI's South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force. Unbeknownst to Llaneza, the explosive device that he allegedly attempted to use had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public. Llaneza was charged this morning by criminal complaint with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against property used in an activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce," according to an FBI press release.
Prior to his arrest, Llaneza met with a man he thought was connected with the Taliban and the mujahidin in Afghanistan — though he was actually an undercover FBI agent. The terrorist suspect suggested carrying out an attack against a bank in the San Francisco Bay Area using a car bomb. He planned to carry out the false flag attack and make it appear as if "the responsible party was an umbrella organization for a loose collection of anti-government militias and their sympathizers."
"Llaneza's stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war," the FBI release states.
(* Josh Tolly in this you tube keeps calling the suspect Adam Lanaza – which would be weird… His name is: Matthew Llaneza )
Dan Rather CBS – FBI Involvement in 1993 WTC Bombing
Cary Grove IL. School Drill To Include Shooting Blanks In Hallways
January 30, 2013 by Jack Blood
Filed under Americas
We are always leery of these "drills" as several of them in the past either went LIVE, or were used for cover in an adjacent false flag attack.
CHICAGO (CBS) — A school shooting drill planned for tomorrow in the far northwestern suburbs has many parents upset.
According to a letter from Cary-Grove High School principal Jay Sargeant, there will be a code red drill at the school on Wednesday.
It will include somebody shooting blanks from a gun in the hallway "in an effort to provide our teachers and students some familiarity with the sound of gunfire."
CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports, during the drill, teachers will keep students in their rooms, lock their doors, and draw their curtains. Police will sweep the building, while someone will fire two shots – blanks – from a starter pistol.
Cary Police Chief Steven Casstevens said, "From the school's request, they want to let the students know what the sound of gunshot might be, should that occur in their school."
But any gunfire at a school – even blanks – had some parents and students shaking their heads.
Parent Kassy Pinter said, "It's probably necessary to have the 'code red' drill, but not really necessary to shoot the blanks in the hallway."
Parent Sharon Miller said the way Cary Grove has planned the code red drill is absurd and also thinks it's not necessary to shoot blanks in the hallway.
"If you need to run a drill, you run a drill," she told WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya. "They run fire drills all the time, but they don't run up and down the hallway with a flamethrower."
Parents were also concerned about some students getting too upset during the exercise.
Pinter and Miller both also pointed out that not all guns sound alike, ranging from a light popping sound to a loud bang.
The parents were also concerned about the notification letter from the school. Pinter said she did not receive it in her email. Miller said she's the only one of the parents she knows who has received it.
Some in the school community endorse the idea.
Substitute teacher Debbie Gummerson said, "Let's put the kids through some training, and maybe we could save some lives that way, should something ever happen."
Parent Dina Coutre said, "Nowadays it's better to be safe than sorry."
School spokesman Jeff Puma said the small number of parents who have contacted the school are evenly split for and against the drill. He said another notification will be going out today, and teachers will discuss the drill plans with students during classes.
Puma said the school has worked closely with the Cary Police Department on the drill plans.
"It was their recommendation that we do this in order to create the knowledge necessary to keep our students safe in an active crisis situation," Puma said.
Pinter and Miller also said they don't like the way police recommend students to be "sitting ducks" in their classrooms if there's a shooter in their school.
They said they'd always taught their children to find a way out of the school if they're not near where the shooting is going on–to run out a door or climb out a window.
Puma said, "I don't believe there would be any school that would tell you to do that, and that's coming from police and emergency management officials."
Last year, Community High School District 155 also used simulated gunshots at another emergency drill at Crystal Lake South High School, but only faculty and staff were present, not students.
The full email:
Dear parents:
At Cary-Grove and across District 155, we make your child's safety our number one priority each day. As a parent, I can assure you that we understand our responsibility to return your child safely at the end of each day. While we take many preventative steps to keep our building secure, we also practice our response should a crisis arise. Some examples include meetings with first responders, a comprehensive crisis response plan, and simulations. We are planning a code red simulation on Wednesday, January 30. We feel it is important to explain the simulation to you in advance so that you and your child might be able to better understand what will take place on Wednesday.
The simulation will take approximately 15-20 minutes, during which time teachers will secure their rooms, draw curtains, and keep their students from traveling throughout the building. Please note that we will be firing blanks in the hallway in an effort to provide our teachers and students some familiarity with the sound of gunfire. Our school resource officer and other members of the Cary Police Department will assist us in sweeping the building to ensure that all students are in a secure location during the drill. At the conclusion of the drill, we will take some time to process what occurred and then we will return to our normal classroom routine.
I encourage you to discuss the drill with your student both before it happens and after. These drills help our students and staff to be prepared should a crisis occur, but it may cause some students to have an emotional reaction. In those cases, your voice may provide reassurances of the drill's importance. Additionally, we have trained social workers on staff who can speak directly with your child should he or she need added support.
Should you have any questions, please contact me or any member of the Cary-Grove's administrative team. Together, we can keep our school a safe place for your child to learn and grow.
Jay Sargeant
MSM covers false flag? Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings?
January 23, 2013 by Jack Blood
Filed under World
English-speaking jihadis seen in Mali, as a Canadian is reported to have co-ordinated Algeria attack
London Independent
Canada is investigating an allegation by the Algerian Prime Minister that one of its citizens co-ordinated the terror raid at the Saharan gas plant in which dozens of hostages were killed.
Westerners, including a man with blond hair and blue eyes, are believed to have been among the Islamist militants who launched last week's attack on the Tigantourine complex near Algeria's border with Libya.
A French jihadist, previously unknown to authorities, and two Canadians are suspected to have been involved in the hostage-taking, and reports also claim that a man with a Western accent was among the extremists who lured terrified gas workers from their rooms during the hostage crisis.
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told reporters that a man, judged "by his English accent" to have been Canadian, was among the 32 Islamists whose raid on the Algerian refinery prompted a global crisis. One of the Canadians, identified only as "Shaddad", is alleged to have played a leading role in the attack which left 58 hostages – including 37 Westerners – dead after a four-day battle with Algerian forces. Five further Western workers are still unaccounted for. "A Canadian was among the militants," Mr Sellal said. "He was co-ordinating the attack."
The militant group also included men from Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania and Niger, Mr Sellal said. At least 29 Islamists from eight nationalities were killed in the operation to end the siege, with the remaining three captured alive. The make up of the attacking group – an al-Qa'ida splinter brigade who call themselves "Those Who Signed in Blood" – will be carefully examined as security experts try to assess the scale of the terror threat across North and West Africa.
Concern at the international composition of the Algerian kidnap brigade will be compounded by reports from residents in Diabaly, Mali, that Islamists who overran the town last week contained English-speakers and militants of European appearance. Speaking to The Independent yesterday after French and Malian forces had retaken the town, student Amadu Dumbia said: "I definitely heard them and there's no chance that I made a mistake with another language. They spoke like they were from England, but had darker skins."
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the leader of the group who is suspected of masterminding the gas plant attack from outside Algeria, yesterday warned that there would be more attacks on those participating in the military campaign in neighbouring Mali. In a statement to a radio station in Mauritania, which received regular communications from the militants during the In Amenas plant siege, the Algerian-born militant said: "We warn all the states who took part in the Crusader campaign against the Azwad region [northern Mali] that if they do not retreat from their decision there will be more operations."
He also insisted that the brigade which undertook the attack was not local, saying "only five Algerians" took part in the attack and "none of them were locals from the city".
Prime Minister David Cameron today told the Commons that the West faced a "generational struggle" in combating the "poisonous ideology" of Islamic extremists in the Sahel. Mr Cameron said that Britain would join the manhunt for Belmokhtar and promised extra support for the French campaign in Mali. Echoing the language used by Tony Blair in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, he said: "This is the work our generation faces and we must demonstrate the same resolve and sense of purpose as previous generations have with the challenges that they faced in this House and in this country."
A spokeswoman for Canada's Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday said that they were still seeking clarity on a possible Canadian connection to the raid. "We are in close contact with Algerian authorities, but nothing [has been] confirmed yet," Chrystiane Roy told Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper.
The Algerian authorities have declined to confirm whether the alleged Canadian co-ordinator was among the 29 militants who died.
One of the hostage takers was a North American who took part in the killing of numerous Japanese workers, the AFP agency reported. An Algerian employee of a Japanese engineering firm working at the site, identified as Riad said the Islamist attackers shot three Japanese who were in a bus, then went straight to the rooms occupied by the Japanese.
"One terrorist shouted 'Open the door' with a North American accent, then fired," he told AFP. "Two other Japanese died and we found four other Japanese bodies inside the base."
One of the kidnappers was tall, blond with blue or green eyes and spoke English, an Algerian military source told the Norwegian daily Aftenposten. Norway's Statoil energy company was one of the two foreign firms operating at the gas complex.
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Operation Gladio: False Flag Terror Attacks Never Stopped After Cold War
By Alex Thomas
January 14, 2012
From terror attacks in Italy and Belgium, to the assassination of the Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, Operation Gladio, the stand behind army in the event of the invasion of Europe by the Soviets, actually resulted in a widespread campaign of terror.
According to numerous experts on the operation, Gladio was infiltrated by the CIA and NATO, turned into a terrorist organization, and subsequently used as a political weapon to force Europeans into voting for establishment politicians throughout the use of terrorist acts to create a narrative of fear.
"One of P-2's specialties was the art of provocation. Leftist organizations like the Red Brigades were infiltrated, financed and / or created, and the resulting acts of terrorism, like the assassination of Italy's premier in 1978 and the bombing of the railway station in Bologna in 1980, were blamed on the left.
The goal of this 'strategy of tension' was to convince Italian voters that the left was violent and dangerous-by helping make it so," wrote Mark Zepezauer.
During a recent interview by author Richard Cottrell, these facts were brought to light with Cottrell making the startling statement that Gladio has NOT ended as previously claimed.
Tonight we are going to take a look at the role of Central Intelligence Agency in sponsoring false flag operations, in particular we will be examining Operation Gladio, a cold war black opera orchestrated by the CIA who launched terrorist attacks in Italy and throughout Europe in order to blame leftist communists.
The chosen targets were usually public places in order to create maximum impact.
Bombs were planted in banks and railway stations and trains. Snipers fired at will into innocent crowds of peaceful protesters or weekend shoppers simply out buying groceries.
It was a slaughter of the innocents, and the United States, working through the CIA and secret war departments of NATO, carried out a long series of false flag attacks throughout the European continent to meet its own political ends. "
If Operation Gladio has never ended then all terror attacks throughout Europe and even those in the United States, should be looked out with a highly suspicious eye.
"Gladio is active alive, working, and plotting to this day.
It is behind terrorist atrocities which have been performed in Europe not just 20 30 40 years ago but which have been performed within shall we say minutes in the historic record.
This is the important thing to remember, all the time we keep talking about Gladio as something that happened in the past, it was a long time ago maybe we should bury now…
Its not, this is an organization or idea or brand or trademark which is so useful you cannot put it away."
Using facts gained through investigation into Operation Gladio and then fast forwarding to the present, one must wonder if these same elements within the US government are once again carrying out false flag attacks on innocent civilians (including Americans) to further push their political goals. (disarming the American people among other tyrannical plans)
As investigations into both the Colorado Batman movie shooting and the Sandy Hook Shooting have shown, many different attacks within American have had all the hallmarks of a false flag operation and, among numerous other operations and false flag plans that have become public, Operation Gladio shows that elements of our government have in the past carried out false flag terror attacks.
For instance, when you take an independent minded look at the details revolving around the Sandy Hook Shooting a series of startling facts comes to light.
Once again a government-funded mock emergency drill was being conducted at a nearby local school at the very same time the supposed realtime shooting was taking place at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut – leaving all the fingerprints of a government staged false flag event to strip guns from the American people.
Many people involved in responding to the Newtown school shooting have been shown to be participants in active shooter drills either in the past or on the very day of the shooting. To top it all off, there are still many inconsistencies in the official story.
One of the noticeable problems with the official story is that alleged shooting suspect Adam Lanza's car was identified as a black Honda Civic, Connecticut plate number 872 YEO which is registered to a one Christopher A Rodia (born August 1969), totally discrediting the official story.
An excerpt from a local publication details the fact that an active-shooter drill was indeed taking place during the actual event known as the Newtown or Sandy Hook Schools Shooting, thus signifying all of the classic signs of a false flag operation.
Fast forwarding to the present, we have seen a large-scale media attack on the 2nd Amendment and now, in a startling turn of events, elements of the corporate media are literally attacking those who question the shooting.
When you consider the fact that the corporate media has absolutely been complicit in the Sandy Hook Shooting, it makes sense that they would send an elitist Vanderbilt (Anderson Cooper) to broadcast one of the most hardcore segments of shilling the corporate media has ever conducted.
The above facts are merely a small fraction of the startling details that have come to light in regards to the Sandy Hook Shooting as well as the horrific Colorado theater shooting.
So, with the knowledge of Operation Gladio and the details surrounding numerous attacks within the US, is it possible that elements of the current United States government are involved in black ops staged terror as we speak?
Towards the end of the interview with Infowars Nightly News, Cottrell was asked if he thought attacks of the sort carried out under the auspice of Operation Gladio were a possibility in America.
Do you think they are barbaric enough to kill innocent children as an excuse to attack our 2nd Amendment?
To that end, his stern and straight forward yes reply should open the eyes of free thinking citizens throughout the world.
OPERATION GLADIO (aka P2OG) – Remembering Govt Sponsored Public Shootings (to frame and catch bad guys)
January 9, 2013 by Jack Blood
Filed under Featured
In case this gets lost down a memory hole…. here is some info that definitively relates to the rash of public shootings in the USA. If you are talking to people about Aurora Co, and Newtown CT being potential "False Flag" attacks, and they think you've lost your marbles…. direct them here! Its been done before!
Operation Gladio, a decades-long covert campaign of terrorism and deceit directed by the intelligence services of the West — against their own populations. Hundreds of innocent people were killed or maimed in terrorist attacks — on train stations, supermarkets, cafes and offices — which were then blamed on "leftist subversives" or other political opponents. The purpose, as stated above in sworn testimony by Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra, was to demonize designated enemies and frighten the public into supporting ever-increasing powers for government leaders — and their elitist cronies.
"'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force … the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
Also see P2OG (info here)
What is the "Shock Doctrine"?
WAR ON SYRIA; Kucinich, US 'Immeasurably' Closer To War In Syria, Obama Deployed Troops To Jordan 'Without Notifying Congress'; WARNS OF FALSE FLAG?
"All it takes is a single incident…" – Dennis Kucinich
My guess is a chemical weapons "incident" will be used to justify a "humanitarian intervention" in Syria, which will allow NATO to implement their much desired "No Fly Zone", and that inevitably leads to… NATO "love bombs".
Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich believes the deployment of American troops in Jordan — which was announced Wednesday — brings the United States "immeasurably" closer to being dragged into the civil war in Syria.
"I can see in a moment how it happens: we're a few dozen miles from the Syrian border and all of a sudden we are within the reach of physical danger. All it takes is a single incident," Kucinich said in a phone interview with U.S. News.
The Ohio congressman complained that the commander-in-chief sent the troops to Jordan "without notifying Congress." Ironically, Kucinich noted, the Obama administration announced the deployment exactly ten years after the House of Representatives authorized President George W. Bush to invade Iraq.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta disclosed on Wednesday that over 100 American troops had been sent to near the Jordanian border with Syria.
"As we've said before, we have been planning for various contingencies, both unilaterally and with our regional partners," explained Pentagon spokesman George Little in a statement reported by The Associated Press.
The AP reports that the U.S. troops will be working on "increased cooperation and more detailed planning" in response to the Syrian conflict.
Kucinich, however, doesn't see the necessity of sending troops. "Putting U.S. troops on that border draws the U.S. much closer to war in Syria, which is a nightmare already and can be more of a nightmare for our country," he said. "The talk of stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons … that's an argument for making an effort to try to lessen the violence, not intensify it."
"There's a trail of causality here," Kucinich added. "Once you position U.S troops on the border of a conflict area, it immeasurably increases the possibility of the U.S. getting drawn into the conflict — because we're there."
2012.10.10 Kucinich; US 'Immeasurably' Closer To War In Syria By Steven Nelson (usnews.com):
Turkish False Flag on Syria
October 6, 2012 by Jack Blood
Filed under Commentary
The news is out but bears repeating. New reports confirm it. It shouldn't surprise. It's one of the oldest stunts around. Attacks launched are blamed on victims. Wars follow. More on Turkey's false flag below.
Sinking the Lusitania in May 1915 preceded America's April 1917 WW I entry. The 1933 Reichstag fire helped Hitler assume dictatorial powers.
On August 31, 1939, Nazis impersonating Poles attacked a Gleiwitz radio station. It was on the border between the two countries. WW II followed.
Roosevelt manipulated the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. It gave him the war he wanted. Japan's fleet was tracked across the Pacific. Pearl Harbor's Admiral HE Kimmel wasn't warned. Casualties were needed to turn pacifist Americans into raving Japan haters and get congressional support.
Numerous other false flags followed. The August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident is well-known. Over a decade of war followed. For suffering Vietnamese it never ended.
In August 1990, Washington colluded with Kuwait's al-Sabah monarchy. Saddam was entrapped to invade. In January 1991, the Gulf War began. Genocidal sanctions, more war, occupation, and destruction of the "cradle of civilization" followed.
September 11, 2001 was the Big Lie of our time. Virtually everything about the official story was falsified. Most Americans still believe it. Wars on humanity rage out-of-control. Millions of corpses attest to Washington's viciousness.
False flags are an American tradition. Big Lies launch wars. Official accounts are fake. Propaganda works that way. Turkey's ruling government is a Washington tool. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a useful stooge. So are top officials around him.
They threaten world peace and their own people. On October 6, Hurriyet Daily News headlined "Turkey not far away from war: Erdogan."
On October 5, he said:
"We are not war-lovers, but we are not far from war either….I am calling once more on the al-Assad regime and its supporters: Don't dare to test Turkey's patience."
"We are not bluffing and we will follow this incident closely. God willing, the Syrian people would soon be saved from this cruelty and governed by an administration that guarantees the rights of all parties."
He referred to the alleged Syrian mortar attack. Five Turkish nationals were killed. What he omitted says more than he revealed. Early reports suggested perhaps a stray Syrian mortar accidentally struck Turkish territory.
On October 6, Reuters and other news services reported more mortars from Syrian territory landing in Turkish territory. For four consecutive days, Turkish artillery shelled in response.
Erdogan is Washington's lead regional belligerent. Smell a rat about what's going on because there is one.
On October 6, the Syrian National News Agency (SANA) headlined "Yurt Newspaper: Erdogan's Government Handed over the Mortars to Armed (Free Syrian Army) Groups in Syria which Shelled Akcakale Town."
Yurt is a Turkish newspaper. Contributor Ali Sirmen reported what's going on. He said Erdogan is acting on Washington's behalf. He's complicit in war crimes.
"The Newspaper also revealed that the bomber which was used to launch the mortar on the Turkish Akcakale town is only used by NATO."
Editor-in Chief Merdan Yanardag explained more. He claimed he had information from a reliable source. He said "Turkey was the side which sent the mortars to the members of the so-called" Free Syrian Army.
This information "affirms that the Government of Erdogan's wrong policy was behind the falling of the mortar in the town that claimed the lives of 5 Turks."
Hamsayeh.Net (Iran & International News Online) reported the same story. On October 6, it also headlined "Turkey Attempts to Trigger a NATO-led War on Syria, saying:
Turkey is one of 28 NATO countries. It's very much part of Washington's imperial wars. In 2011, it helped wage war on Libya. It's doing it now on Syria.
Even The New York Times admitted that it's unknown who's responsible for mortars landing in Turkey. Ankara's knee-jerk response was scripted in Washington. False flag planning originated there.
Obama officials orchestrated the whole show. Ousting Assad was planned years ago. Only its timing remained to be determined. It arrived and continues daily. Turkey's false flag suggests full-scale intervention perhaps looms.
Whether it precedes or follows US elections doesn't matter. It's likely coming. Perhaps Libya 2.0 is planned. NATO already is involved. Lead belligerents include America, Britain, France, and Turkey.
On October 6, Press TV headlined "Syrian army kills dozens of insurgents including four Turks," saying:
Syria reported four Turkish nationals were killed in Aleppo. It's not clear whether or not they were combatants. Perhaps more information will clarify.
In March 2012, Syrian forces captured 13 French officers. They were caught redhanded with FSA fighters. At the time, France's foreign ministry dismissed the report. Lying is official policy.
On October 4, Syria News headlined "Turkey: Syrian rebels have taken responsibility for attack on Turkish village?!" saying:
Germany's ZDF television reported the news. It said:
"Rockets and Mortar Fire – Turkey exacts vengeance for an attack from the Syrian side which took place yesterday afternoon. For weeks, Ankara has warned for any provocation in direction to Turkey. Until late at night, the fighting has taken place. Meanwhile, Syrian rebels have taken responsibility for this provocation."
Another ZDF program called "Heute in Europa" reported the same story, saying:
"Yesterday night, Turkey took revenge for attacks from REBELS in Syria that have previously attacked a Turkish border village."
Mortars were launched from territory controlled by FSA fighters. A leaked video clip said they admitted responsibility for striking Akcakale and killing five Turkish nationals.
On October 6, Mossad-connected DEBKAfile headlined "Syrian soldiers told to stay 10km from Turkish border, forming buffer zone."
They were ordered out of artillery range. "Turkey had begun clearing a 10 km deep strip on the Syrian border" to facilitate FSA movement. The London Guardian reported the same thing.
Clearly the ball advanced closer to war. False flag provocations make it more likely.
On October 6, Voice of Russia's Roman Mamonov headlined "Turkey Effectively Declares War Against Syria," saying:
Ankara preparations are underway. Parliamentary authorization was approved. Institute of Strategic Estimates expert Azhdar Kurtov said:
"Declarations made by the Turkish leadership speak for themselves. This is not just militant rhetoric but an order to the armed forces, in case of an emergency, to cross the border and carry out military activities on Syrian territory. What is this if not a war?"
"Though, certainly, Turkish commanders and politicians will think twice before starting an invasion. In my opinion, they will carry out a massive probing, just like towards another neighboring country, Iraq. The Turkish armed forces supported by their air force are quite capable of carrying out local hostilities on Syrian territory."
Damascus understands the situation. It's doing what it can to cool tensions. It's impossible when foreign militants launch cross-border attacks from its territory on Turkey.
It's a setup, a provocative false flag. At the same time, Syria's army is strong and able to retaliate. Turkey is playing with fire. Full-scale war assures all sides lose.
What's coming remains to unfold. Heightened tensions suggest the worst. It's hard imagining why Erdogan and top officials around him would risk so much for so little. Serious internal opposition exists for good reason. Whether it can stop him remains unknown.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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