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Family structure relates to various aspects of families, the way they are organised, the power relations within the group, the size of the family etc.
A conjugal family consists of one or more parents/guardians and their children. The most common form of this family is regularly referred to as a nuclear family.[1]
A consanguineal family consists of a parent and his or her children, and other people. This kind of family is common where mothers do not have the resources to rear their children on their own, and especially where property is inherited. [How to reference and link to summary or text] When important property is owned by men, consanguineal families commonly consist of a husband and wife, their children and other members of the husband's family. [How to reference and link to summary or text]
A matrifocal family consists of a mother and her children. Generally, these children are her biological offspring, although adoption of children is a practice in nearly every society. This kind of family is common where women have the resources to rear their children by themselves, or where men are more mobile than women.
Kinship terminologyEdit
- Main article: Kinship terminology
Archaeologist Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881) performed the first survey of kinship terminologies in use around the world. Though much of his work is now considered dated, he argued that kinship terminologies reflect different sets of distinctions. For example, most kinship terminologies distinguish between sexes (the difference between a brother and a sister) and between generations (the difference between a child and a parent). Moreover, he argued, kinship terminologies distinguish between relatives by blood and marriage (although recently some anthropologists have argued that many societies define kinship in terms other than "blood").
Morgan made a distinction between kinship systems that use classificatory terminology and those that use descriptive terminology. Morgan's distinction is widely misunderstood, even by contemporary anthropologists. Classificatory systems are generally and erroneously understood to be those that "class together" with a single term relatives who actually do not have the same type of relationship to ego. (What defines "same type of relationship" under such definitions seems to be genealogical relationship. This is more than a bit problematic given that any genealogical description, no matter how standardized, employs words originating in a folk understanding of kinship.) What Morgan's terminology actually differentiates are those (classificatory) kinship systems that do not distinguish lineal and collateral relationships and those (descriptive) kinship systems which do. Morgan, a lawyer, came to make this distinction in an effort to understand Seneca inheritance practices. A Seneca man's effects were inherited by his sisters' children rather than by his own children.[2]
Morgan identified six basic patterns of kinship terminologies:
- Hawaiian: only distinguishes relatives based upon sex and generation.
- Sudanese: no two relatives share the same term.
- Eskimo: in addition to distinguishing relatives based upon sex and generation, also distinguishes between lineal relatives and collateral relatives.
- Iroquois: in addition to sex and generation, also distinguishes between siblings of opposite sexes in the parental generation.
- Crow: a matrilineal system with some features of an Iroquois system, but with a "skewing" feature in which generation is "frozen" for some relatives.
- Omaha: like a Crow system but patrilineal.
Western kinshipEdit
- See also: Cousin chart
Most Western societies employ Eskimo kinship terminology. This kinship terminology commonly occurs in societies based on conjugal (or nuclear) families, where nuclear families have a degree of relatively mobility.
Members of the nuclear family (or immediate family) use descriptive kinship terms:
- Mother: a female parent
- Father: a male parent
- Son: a male child of the parent(s)
- Daughter: a female child of the parent(s)
- Brother: a male child of the same parent(s)
- Sister: a female child of the same parent(s)
- Grandfather: father of a father or mother
- Grandmother: mother of a father or mother
Such systems generally assume that the mother's husband has also served as the biological father. In some families, a woman may have children with more than one man or a man may have children with more than one woman. The system refers to a child who shares only one parent with another child as a "half-brother" or "half-sister". For children who do not share biological or adoptive parents in common, English-speakers use the term "stepbrother" or "stepsister" to refer to their new relationship with each other when one of their biological parents marries one of the other child's biological parents.
Any person (other than the biological parent of a child) who marries the parent of that child becomes the "stepparent" of the child, either the "stepmother" or "stepfather". The same terms generally apply to children adopted into a family as to children born into the family.
Typically, societies with conjugal families also favor neolocal residence; thus upon marriage a person separates from the nuclear family of their childhood (family of orientation) and forms a new nuclear family (family of procreation).
However, in the western society the single parent family has been growing more accepted and has begun to truly make an impact on culture. The majority of single parent families are more commonly single mother families than single father. These families face many difficult issues besides the fact that they have to raise their children on their own, but also have to deal with issues related to low income. Many single parents struggle with low incomes and find it hard to cope with other issues that they face including rent, child care, and other necessities required in maintaining a healthy and safe home.
Members of the nuclear families of members of one's own (former) nuclear family may class as lineal or as collateral. Kin who regard them as lineal refer to them in terms that build on the terms used within the nuclear family:
- Grandparent
- Grandfather: a parent's father
- Grandmother: a parent's mother
- Grandson: a child's son
- Granddaughter: a child's daughter
For collateral relatives, more classificatory terms come into play, terms that do not build on the terms used within the nuclear family:
- Uncle: father's brother, mother's brother, father's/mother's sister's husband
- Aunt: father's sister, mother's sister, father's/mother's brother's wife
- Nephew: sister's son, brother's son, wife's brother's son, wife's sister's son, husband's brother's son, husband's sister's son
- Niece: sister's daughter, brother's daughter, wife's brother's daughter, wife's sister's daughter, husband's brother's daughter, husband's sister's daughter
When additional generations intervene (in other words, when one's collateral relatives belong to the same generation as one's grandparents or grandchildren), the prefix "grand" modifies these terms. (Although in casual usage in the USA a "grand aunt" is often referred to as a "great aunt", for instance.) And as with grandparents and grandchildren, as more generations intervene the prefix becomes "great grand", adding an additional "great" for each additional generation.
Most collateral relatives have never had membership of the nuclear family of the members of one's own nuclear family.
- Cousin: the most classificatory term; the children of aunts or uncles. One can further distinguish cousins by degrees of collaterality and by generation. Two persons of the same generation who share a grandparent count as "first cousins" (one degree of collaterality); if they share a great-grandparent they count as "second cousins" (two degrees of collaterality) and so on. If two persons share an ancestor, one as a grandchild and the other as a great-grandchild of that individual, then the two descendants class as "first cousins once removed" (removed by one generation); if the shared ancestor figures as the grandparent of one individual and the great-great-grandparent of the other, the individuals class as "first cousins twice removed" (removed by two generations), and so on. Similarly, if the shared ancestor figures as the great-grandparent of one person and the great-great-grandparent of the other, the individuals class as "second cousins once removed". Hence the phrase "third cousin once removed upwards".
Cousins of an older generation (in other words, one's parents' first cousins), though technically first cousins once removed, often get classified with "aunts" and "uncles".
Similarly, a person may refer to close friends of one's parents as "aunt" or "uncle", or may refer to close friends as "brother" or "sister", using the practice of fictive kinship.
English-speakers mark relationships by marriage (except for wife/husband) with the tag "-in-law". The mother and father of one's spouse become one's mother-in-law and father-in-law; the female spouse of one's child becomes one's daughter-in-law and the male spouse of one's child becomes one's son-in-law. The term "Sister-in-law" refers to three essentially different relationships, either the wife of one's sibling, or the sister of one's spouse, or the wife of one's spouse's sibling. "Brother-in-law" expresses a similar ambiguity. No special terms exist for the rest of one's spouse's family.
The terms "half-brother" and "half-sister" indicate siblings who share only one biological or adoptive parent.
Family in the WestEdit
The diverse data coming from ethnography, history, law and social statistics, establish that the human family is an institution and not a biological fact founded on the natural relationship of consanguinity.[4][5]
The different types of families occur in a wide variety of settings, and their specific functions and meanings depend largely on their relationship to other social institutions. Sociologists have a special interest in the function and status of these forms in stratified (especially capitalist) societies.
The term "nuclear family" is commonly used, especially in the United States and Europe, to refer to conjugal families. Sociologists distinguish between conjugal families (relatively independent of the kindreds of the parents and of other families in general) and nuclear families (which maintain relatively close ties with their kindreds).
The term "extended family" is also common, especially in the United States and Europe. This term has two distinct meanings. First, it serves as a synonym of "consanguinal family". Second, in societies dominated by the conjugal family, it refers to kindred (an egocentric network of relatives that extends beyond the domestic group) who do not belong to the conjugal family.
These types refer to ideal or normative structures found in particular societies. Any society will exhibit some variation in the actual composition and conception of families. Much sociological, historical and anthropological research dedicates itself to the understanding of this variation, and of changes in the family form over time. Thus, some speak of the bourgeois family, a family structure arising out of 16th-century and 17th-century European households, in which the family centers on a marriage between a man and woman, with strictly-defined gender-roles. The man typically has responsibility for income and support, the woman for home and family matters.
Philosophers and psychiatrists like Deleuze, Guattari, Laing, Reich, explained that the patriarchal-family conceived in the West tradition (husband-wife-children isolated from the outside) serves the purpose of perpetuating a propertarian and authoritarian society.[6] The child grows according to the Oedipal model, which is typical of the structure of capitalist societies,[5][4] and he becomes in turn owner of submissive children and protector of the woman.[7][8][9][10][11]
The family institution conflicts with human nature, and one of its core functions is performing a suppression of instincts,[4][5] a repression of desire commencing with the earliest age of the child.[6] This psychic repression is such that social repression becomes desired, forming docile subjects for society.[6] Michel Foucault, in his systematic study of sexuality, observed more precisely that desire, other than being repressed, is shaped and used as a tool, to control the individual and alter interpersonal relationships. organized religion, through moral prohibitions, and the economic power, through advertising, make use of unconscious sex drives. Dominating desire, they dominate individuals.[12]
According to the analysis of Michel Foucault, in the west:
the [conjugal] family organization, precisely to the extent that it was insular and heteromorphous with respect to the other power mechanisms, was used to support the great "maneuvers" employed for the Malthusian control of the birthrate, for the populationist incitements, for the medicalization of sex and the psychiatrization of its nongenital forms.—Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality vol I, chap. IV, sect. Method, rule 3, p.99
According to the work of scholars Max Weber, Alan Macfarlane, Steven Ozment, Jack Goody and Peter Laslett, the huge transformation that led to modern marriage in Western democracies was "fueled by the religio-cultural value system provided by elements of Judaism, early Christianity, Roman Catholic canon law and the Protestant Reformation".[13]
In contemporary Europe and the United States, people in academic, political and civil sectors have called attention to single-father-headed households, and families headed by same-sex couples,[How to reference and link to summary or text] although academics point out that these forms exist in other societies. Also the term blended family or stepfamily describes families with mixed parents: one or both parents remarried, bringing children of the former family into the new family.[14]
Power relationsEdit
Type of familyEdit
- Complex family
- Dysfunctional family
- Extended family
- Nuclear family
- Schizophrenogenic family
- Step family
Aspects of familyEdit
These and other aspects of families are considered as sociocultural factors that may affect personality development, mental health, educational attainment etc. These would include:
See alsoEdit
- Culture (anthropological)
- Family of origin
- Family members
- Empty nest
- Endomethodology
- Family systems theory
- Homosexual parents
- Group structure
- Kinship structure
- Living arrangements
- Parenthood status
- Single parents
- Social structure
- Stepchildren
- Stepparents
- ↑ nuclear family - "a woman and/or husband and dependent children." - Definitions of Anthropological Terms - Anthropological Resources - (Court Smith) Department of Anthropology, Oregon State,University
- ↑ Tooker, Elisabeth. "Another View of Morgan on Kinship." Current Anthropology 20, no. 1 (March 1979): 131-134.
- ↑ Williams, Brian; Stacey C. Sawyer, Carl M. Wahlstrom (2005). Marriages, Families & Intinamte Relationships, Boston, MA: Pearson. 0-205-36674-0.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lacan 1938-2001, pp.24-25, 56
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Fugier Pascal, 2007, p.226-8
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Deleuze-Guattari (1972). Part 2, ch. 7, pp.129-31
- ↑ Italiano:
Gianni Vattimo Tutto in famiglia (article appeared on Il Manifesto October 15 2004)
- ↑ Italiano:
Luttazzi, Daniele Bollito misto con mostarda (2005) p.262
- ↑ Wilhelm Reich The Sexual Revolution 1975 - Pocket Books (p. 71-77)
- ↑ Theodor W. Adorno and Stephen Crook Adorno ISBN 0415270995, p. 9-10
- ↑ E. James Anthony, The Family and the Psychoanalytic Process in Children (1980). Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 35:3-34
- ↑ Foucault, The History of Sexuality
- ↑ The Collapse of Marriage by Don Browning - The Christian Century, (February 7, 2006, 24-28.). URL accessed on 2007-07-10.
- ↑ Blended and Blessed - Encouraging Step-Families [dead link]
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You have the right to be free from discrimination when you receive goods or services, or use facilities. For example, this right applies to:
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Relevant policies and guides:
March 2002 - This Report is based on the many and varying viewpoints presented to the OHRC in the course of its public consultation on accessible public transportation in Ontario. Conventional and paratransit systems are examined in depth, in terms of the human rights principles that apply, the issues raised, and the impact on older persons, persons with disabilities, and families with young children. Three key issues raised throughout the consultation were funding, standards, and roles and responsibilities. These issues are examined in depth.
The opportunity to succeed: Achieving barrier-free education for students with disabilities2003 - The Report provides an in-depth picture of human rights issues relating to disability and education in the province of Ontario. It outlines "Actions Required" of key players in the education system to address the practices and attitudes that limit the ability of students with disabilities to access education equally. It also includes specific Commission commitments which are steps that the Commission will take to help combat discrimination against students with disabilities. The Commission's analysis and recommendations are informed by the comprehensive input received from stakeholders throughout the course of the consultation.
The Ontario Safe Schools Act: School discipline and discriminationJuly 2003 - The main purpose of this report is to examine whether the Ontario Safe Schools Act and Regulations and the school board policies on discipline, known by some as "zero tolerance" policies, are having a disproportionate impact on racial minority students and students with disabilities. Advocates of zero tolerance argue that the policies are colour blind and fair because all the students who commit the same offence will be treated the same. Opponents point to other jurisdictions where there is data showing that suspensions and expulsions have a disproportionate impact on Black and other racial minority students and students with disabilities.
Paying the price: The human cost of racial profilingOctober 2003 - The Report begins with a brief explanation and definition of racial profiling. In addition, the Report explains the human cost of racial profiling on the individuals, families and communities that experience it. It details the detrimental impact that profiling is having on societal institutions such as the education system, law enforcement agencies, service providers and so forth. It also outlines the business case against profiling – in essence the economic loss sustained as a result of racial profiling.
Dining out accessibly: A review of audit results and commitmentsApril 2004 - In the spring of 2001, the Commission began its efforts to engage the restaurant industry to promote the accessibility of its services and facilities for persons with disabilities in Ontario. The audit focused on the physical premises and services of seven select restaurant chains totaling 28 locations across the province.
"Next Stop, Accessibility" Report on the public transit stop announcements in OntarioApril 2008 - In October 2007, in response to recent developments and ongoing concerns in the area of transit accessibility, the Commission began an inquiry into whether transit providers across the province announce transit stops. Through this initiative, the Commission hoped to improve awareness in the transit sector of the importance of announcing all stops for the purposes of inclusion and accessibility, and to secure commitments toward quickly developing and implementing stop announcement plans.
Human Rights Project Charter - Windsor
The Windsor Police Service (Service) and the Windsor Police Services Board (Board) for many years have been open to the concerns brought forward by various ethno-racial, cultural and faith organizations and communities. The Board and Service responded with Service-wide change initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting human rights and equity, including the development of a Diversity Statement in August, 2004.
In view of these factors, the Board and Service approached the OHRC proposing a project charter modeled after the Toronto project charter.
Human Rights Project Charter - OHRC, MCSCS, MGSAugust 2011 - The Human Rights Project aims to provide time limited support to MCSCS in its ongoing initiatives aimed at identifying and eliminating any possible discrimination in the employment of MCSCS employees and in the delivery of services by MCSCS. This Project Charter details the agreed upon relationship to be established between the three parties to fulfill these aims.
Moving towards barrier-free services: Final report on the restaurant accessibility initiativeJuly 2006 - For the past five years, the Ontario Human Rights Commission ("the OHRC") has been working closely with the restaurant industry to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities, older individuals, and families with young children. This is the OHRC's final public report on this initiative.
Report of the Ontario Human Rights Commission on police use of force and mental health
February 2014 - People with mental health disabilities are often among the most vulnerable people in Ontario. Many face a unique set of challenges where they live, in workplaces, or in our communities. When people are in crisis they also present a unique set of challenges to police services when considering the use of force. This leads to many concerns from a human rights perspective. It is not the role of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) to comment on individual cases – we leave it to other experts to resolve these. But it is our role to look at common themes and concerns, and offer ways to move forward.

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The Illinois Department of Transportation will consider putting the proposed high-speed rail system on 10th Street, according to its application for federal stimulus money to build the system.
But IDOT is calling on the City of Springfield and Sangamon County to complete an environmental study on the 10th Street option, and the application indicates such a study would not be completed for several years.
In its application for federal stimulus money to build a high-speed rail system through Springfield, IDOT expressed a clear preference for putting the system on the Third Street corridor. The 10th Street option, IDOT said, would set the project back several years
"The earliest construction could commence would be 2015," the application states. "Staging of the new structures while maintaining (Norfolk Southern Railroad) freight operations would likely require at least two years, plus a third year for final track installation. This would mean that (high-speed rail) passenger operations between Chicago and St. Louis could not commence until 2018."
Third Street, by contrast, could be ready as early as 2012, according to the application.
However, IDOT conceded that the Third Street option was controversial, saying the department has called on the City of Springfield and Sangamon County to perform an environmental impact statement (EIS) based on the possibility of putting the system on 10th Street instead.
"Since a number of properties would have to be acquired, and since the Tenth Street Corridor is adjacent to an area with a significant minority population, a full EIS is likely to be required in order to qualify for federal funding," the application states. "An EIS of this magnitude normally would require at least two years…."
The order to commission the EIS would likely not be issued until 2012, IDOT said. That would push completion of the 10th Street EIS back to 2014.
Prior to the Oct. 2 application deadline, IDOT told the city and county that the department would not conduct an EIS for 10th Street because it would not be completed by the deadline. IDOT spokesperson Paris Ervin said prior to the deadline, the department was focused on submitting its best option, which it considered to be Third Street. In negotiations, however, the city and county pressed IDOT for concessions on a 10th Street EIS.
"We're communicating more now," Ervin said, adding that IDOT has agreed not to begin construction while still in negotiations with the city and county. "Negotiations are still under way."
Ernie Slottag, spokesman for the city, said the EIS could be completed in 12–16 months once started, and it would not cause a delay as IDOT suggested.
"There is a lot of other work to be done outside of Springfield," Slottag said. "The stretch between here and St. Louis hasn't even been touched. A new EIS wouldn't delay the project at all."
If the new EIS concludes that 10th Street is not a good option, Slottag says, "We'd be stuck with Third Street."
"We don't think that will be the case," Slottag continued. "We think it will be a more favorable choice."
Meanwhile, IDOT's application is one of 45 applications from 24 states, according to the Federal Railroad Administration. FRA said the applications are requesting more than $50 billion, though only $8 billion has been released so far.
FRA spokesman Warren Flatau said the agency is reviewing applications and has not set a firm date to announce funding recipients, although the awards are expected sometime this winter.
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President Nixon and his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, discuss North Vietnamese sanctuaries and supply routes in the neutral border country of Cambodia. General Creighton Abrams, the US military commander in South Vietnam, wants those sites bombed, regardless of the fact that military strikes against locations in a neutral country would be flagrant violations of international laws and treaties. Abrams has assured the White House that no Cambodian civilians live in those areas—a false assertion. Nixon orders Kissinger to come up with a plan for bombing Cambodia. Kissinger, his military aide Alexander Haig, and Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman develop the basic plan in two days. The first wave of bombings will begin three weeks later (see March 15-17, 1969). Nixon's secret bombings of Cambodia—dubbed "Operation Menu"—will trigger a wave of global denunciations, further energize the antiwar movement, and help precipitate the leak of the "Pentagon Papers" (see March 1971). (Reeves 2001, pp. 48-49)
President Nixon makes the final decision to launch "Operation Menu"—secret air strikes against Cambodia (see February 23-24, 1969). He meets with Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers, ostensibly to discuss the decision of whether "to bomb or not," but unbeknownst to the two officials, Nixon has already issued the order and begun a system of phony telephone records put in place to disguise the bombings. Congress is not informed of the bombings. The first stage of the bombing, "Operation Breakfast," is productive enough to lead Nixon to predict the war in Vietnam will be over by 1970. (Reeves 2001, pp. 58-59)
Former New York Police Department detective Jack Caulfield begins his new job as a White House aide. Caulfield was added to the White House by Nixon aide John Ehrlichman after President Nixon's decision to use private, secretly held funds for political intelligence operations (see January 30, 1969). Caulfield is to conduct various political intelligence operations without being noticed by the CIA, the FBI, or the Republican National Committee. Originally, the idea was to pay Caulfield out of unspent campaign funds from the 1968 elections (see November 5, 1968), but Caufield insisted on being given a White House position. (Reeves 2001, pp. 67)
The New York Times reveals the secret bombings of Cambodia, dubbed "Operation Menu" (see February 23-24, 1969 and March 15-17, 1969). National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger is apoplectic in his anger: shouting to President Nixon, "We must do something! We must crush those people! We must destroy them!" Kissinger is not only referring to the Times, but Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers, whom he believes leaked the information to the Times in order to discredit him. (Nixon has an unproductive phone conversation with Laird before his meeting with Kissinger; Nixon opened the phone call by calling Laird a "son of a b_tch," and Laird hung up on the president.) Nixon suggests Kissinger's own staff may be the source of the leaks. He is most suspicious of Kissinger's aide Morton Halperin. By lunch, Kissinger has talked to the FBI about wiretapping suspected leakers. By dinner, Halperin's phone is tapped. The next day, Kissinger's military aide Alexander Haig has the FBI tap three more men "just for a few days," warning the FBI not to keep any records of the wiretaps. The three targets are Kissinger's aides Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Daniel Davidson, and Laird's military assistant, Robert Pursley (who will again be wiretapped several months later—see May 2, 1970). At the same time, White House aide Jack Caulfield (see April 2, 1969) arranges for a wiretap on a private citizen, syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft. While the FBI wiretaps are legally questionable, Caulfield's tap is unquestionably illegal. Caulfield has the director of security for the Republican National Committee, former FBI agent John Ragan, personally install the wiretap in Kraft's home. The tap on Kraft produces nothing except the conversations of housekeepers, as Kraft and his wife are in Paris. Nixon has the French authorities wiretap Kraft's Paris hotel room. (Reeves 2001, pp. 75-76)
On April 24, President Nixon orders US and South Vietnamese troops to secretly invade the "Parrot's Beak" region of Cambodia, thought to be a Viet Cong stronghold. The decision is controversial. Nixon knows that many senior military officials, as well as his Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, will oppose the operation, so he carefully keeps Laird ignorant of the invasion plans. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger privately alerts Laird to some of the less controversial elements of the operation (but not the use of US forces in the invasion), and Laird recommends advising Congress of the imminent military action. Kissinger says Nixon will handle that himself. (Nixon only tells one Congressman, Senator John Stennis (D-MS), the hawkish chairman of the Armed Services Committee.) As the evening wears on, Nixon repeatedly calls Kissinger's office, barking out contradictory orders and hanging up, as he flip-flops on whether to actually go through with the plan. "Our peerless leader has flipped out," Kissinger tells his staff. Nixon calls Kissinger with further orders and tells him, in a slurred, perhaps inebriated voice, "Wait a minute, Bebe has something to say to you." Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, Nixon's longtime friend and millionaire political and personal financier (who has been thoroughly informed of the operation when many senior government and officials have not), takes the phone and says, "The president wants you to know that if this doesn't work, Henry, it's your ass."
Staffers Resign - Kissinger, who has himself kept his staff ignorant of the invasion, tells one staffer, William Watts, to coordinate the National Security Council's work on the invasion. But Watts, outraged at the secret invasion of a neutral nation, refuses. "Your views represent the cowardice of the Eastern establishment," Kissinger snaps. Watts comes towards Kissinger as if to strike him, then turns and walks out of the office. Watts resigns his position minutes later. Kissinger's military aide, Alexander Haig: tells Watts: "You can't resign.… You've just had an order from your commander in chief." Watts retorts, "F_ck you, Al, I just did." Two other Kissinger staffers, Anthony Lake and Roger Morris, also resign over the invasion.
Others Informed - The plans are finalized by Nixon and Kissinger, with Rebozo sitting in on the discussion. Only on the evening of April 26 do Laird, Secretary of State William Rogers, and other Cabinet officials learn of the plans to invade Cambodia. Rogers is horrified; Laird is ambivalent, but furious that he was left out of the decision-making process. The invasion takes place on April 28. Congress and the press learn of the invasion on April 30. (Reeves 2001, pp. 199-206)
US and South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia, attacking North Vietnamese and Viet Cong bases and supply lines. Angered by the move, four men from Henry Kissinger's National Security Council staff resign (see April 24-30, 1970). (Blum 1995; Hitchins 2001; Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2005) By the end of May, scores of villages have been destroyed. (Blum 1995) Though US ground forces are withdrawn by June 30, the South Vietnamese troops will remain, occupying heavily populated areas and supported by continued heavy US air bombings. During this time, popular support for the Khmer Rouge broadens, its ranks swelling from 3,000 in March 1970 to a peak of about 30,000. (Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2005)
When the press reports the secret US-led invasion of Cambodia (see April 24-30, 1970) and the subsequent massive air strikes in that country, Alexander Haig, the military aide to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, notes that New York Times reporter William Beecher has been asking some suspiciously well-informed questions about the operation. Beecher's latest story also alerts Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the bombings (Laird, whom Kissinger considers a hated rival, has been kept out of the loop on the bombings). Haig tells the FBI he suspects a "serious security violation" has taken place, and receives four new wiretaps: on Beecher; Laird's assistant Robert Pursley; Secretary of State William Rogers's assistant Richard Pederson; and Rogers's deputy, William Sullivan. (Reeves 2001, pp. 212)
At 3 p.m. on May 4, 1970, White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman informs President Nixon of the shootings of four unarmed college students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in Ohio. After a night of rioting and the torching of a campus ROTC building, prompted by outrage over the secret Cambodia bombings (see April 24-30, 1970), about 2,000 students faced off against squads of National Guardsmen in full riot gear. After tear gas failed to break up the demonstrators, and some of the protesters started throwing rocks at the Guardsmen, the Guard was ordered to open fire. Thirteen seconds and 67 shots later, four students were dead and 11 were wounded. Nixon is initially aghast at the news. "Is this because of me, because of Cambodia?" he asks. "How do we turn this stuff off?… I hope they provoked it." Later his response to the increasingly confrontational antiwar protesters will become far more harsh and derisive. (Reeves 2001, pp. 213)
Speaking in support of the Kent State shootings, in which National Guardsmen slew four unarmed students and wounded nine others (see May 2, 1970 and May 4-5, 1970), Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA) says of efforts to stop student protests on university campuses, "If it takes a bloodbath, then let's get it over with." (Hunt 9/1/2009, pp. 19)
President Nixon meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, CIA Director Richard Helms, and the heads of the NSA and DIA to discuss a proposed new domestic intelligence system. His presentation is prepared by young White House aide Tom Charles Huston (derisively called "Secret Agent X-5" behind his back by some White House officials). The plan is based on the assumption that, as Nixon says, "hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans—mostly under 30—are determined to destroy our society." Nixon complains that the various US intelligence agencies spend as much time battling with one another over turf and influence as they do working to locate threats to national security both inside and outside of the country. The agencies need to prove the assumed connections between the antiwar demonstrators and Communists. The group in Nixon's office will now be called the "Interagency Committee on Intelligence," Nixon orders, with Hoover chairing the new ad hoc group, and demands an immediate "threat assessment" about domestic enemies to his administration. Huston will be the White House liaison. Historian Richard Reeves will later write: "The elevation of Huston, a fourth-level White House aide, into the company of Hoover and Helms was a calculated insult. Nixon was convinced that both the FBI and the CIA had failed to find the links he was sure bound domestic troubles and foreign communism. But bringing them to the White House was also part of a larger Nixon plan. He was determined to exert presidential control over the parts of the government he cared most about—the agencies dealing with foreign policy, military matters, intelligence, law, criminal justice, and general order." (Reeves 2001, pp. 229-230)
President Nixon approves the "Huston Plan" for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. Four days later he rescinds his approval. (Washington Post 2008) Nixon aide Tom Charles Huston comes up with the plan, which involves authorizing the CIA, FBI, NSA, and military intelligence agencies to escalate their electronic surveillance of "domestic security threats" in the face of supposed threats from Communist-led youth agitators and antiwar groups (see June 5, 1970). The plan would also authorize the surreptitious reading of private mail, lift restrictions against surreptitious entries or break-ins to gather information, plant informants on college campuses, and create a new, White House-based "Interagency Group on Domestic Intelligence and Internal Security." Huston's Top Secret memo warns that parts of the plan are "clearly illegal." Nixon approves the plan, but rejects one element—that he personally authorize any break-ins. Nixon orders that all information and operations to be undertaken under the new plan be channeled through his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, with Nixon deliberately being left out of the loop. The first operations to be undertaken are using the Internal Revenue Service to harass left-wing think tanks and charitable organizations such as the Brookings Institution and the Ford Foundation. Huston writes that "[m]aking sensitive political inquiries at the IRS is about as safe a procedure as trusting a whore," since the administration has no "reliable political friends at IRS." He adds, "We won't be in control of the government and in a position of effective leverage until such time as we have complete and total control of the top three slots of the IRS." Huston suggests breaking into the Brookings Institute to find "the classified material which they have stashed over there," adding: "There are a number of ways we could handle this. There are risks in all of them, of course; but there are also risks in allowing a government-in-exile to grow increasingly arrogant and powerful as each day goes by." (Reeves 2001, pp. 235-236) In 2007, author James Reston Jr. will call the Huston plan "arguably the most anti-democratic document in American history… a blueprint to undermine the fundamental right of dissent and free speech in America." (Reston 2007, pp. 102)
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman reports that he has successfully created the special investigations unit ordered by the president (see Late June-July 1971). His first choice to head the unit, speechwriter Pat Buchanan, refused the position. Ehrlichman rejected fellow aide Charles Colson's own choice, retired CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, who has recently joined the White House staff (see July 7, 1971). Ehrlichman turned to his own protege, Egil "Bud" Krogh, and David Young, a former assistant to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, to head the unit. Young gives the unit its nickname of "Plumbers" after he hangs a sign on his office door reading, "D. YOUNG—PLUMBER." Their first hire is former FBI agent and county prosecutor G. Gordon Liddy, a reputed "wild man" currently being pushed out of the Treasury Department for his strident opposition to the administration's gun control policies. (Reeves 2001, pp. 348-349)
In his first press conference in over five months, President Nixon announces the resignation of Secretary of State William Rogers. He is to be replaced by Henry Kissinger, who also retains his position as National Security Adviser. Kissinger says around this time that chief of staff "Al Haig is keeping the country together, and I am keeping the world together." (Reeves 2001, pp. 605)
Bo Burlingame, a former member of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, interviews former Nixon White House aide Tom Charles Huston, the author of the notorious, unconstitutional "Huston Plan" (see July 14, 1970). Huston is just coming off a speech to a conservative audience in which he said that his plan, and Nixon's attempt to seize executive power at the expense of Congress and the Constitution, was excessive and mistaken (see Late 1973). Huston, a lawyer, a former Army intelligence officer, and an early leader of the Indiana chapter of the conservative extremist group Young Americans for Freedom, tells Burlingame that he found an interesting parallel between his group of right-wing extremists and Burlingame's left-wing extremists: "I was interested to learn that you people were frustrated because nobody was listening to you. You know, we felt the same thing at the White House. It seemed as if a momentous crisis was at hand, and nobody was aware of it or cared."
Coup d'Etat Begins with Creation of Fear in Populace - Huston is contemptuous and dismissive of many of his former White House colleagues, particularly Richard Nixon. "Frankly, I wouldn't put anything past him and those damn technocrats," he says of Nixon and his senior aides. "[Y]ou can't begin to compete with the professional Nixonites when it comes to deception.… If Nixon told them to nationalize the railroads, they'd have nationalized the railroads. If he'd told them to exterminate the Jews, they'd have exterminated the Jews." He took a position with the White House in January 1969 "believing that things were finally going to be set straight."
Disillusioned - Huston became increasingly disillusioned with the lack of idealism in the Nixon White House, and left after deciding that Nixon and his top officials were less interested in implementing true conservative reforms and more interested in merely accumulating power. The Nixon team was an apolitical, power-hungry bunch "whose intellectual tradition is rooted in the philosophy of [marketing and advertising guru] J. Walter Thompson.… This administration has done more to debauch conservative values than anything else in recent history."
Fear and Repression - Considering his plan to abrogate the fundamental rights of hundreds of thousands of Americans, Huston seems quite supportive of those rights even in the face of national danger. "The real threat to national security is repression," he had told a New York Times interviewer not long before the Burlingame interview. "A handful of people can't frontally overthrow the government. But if they can engender enough fear, they can generate an atmosphere that will bring out every repressive demagogue in the country."
Explaining the Huston Plan - Huston explains the rationale behind his radically repressive plan, telling Burlingame that the country was on the brink of mass insurrection and the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was not doing nearly enough to combat the civil rights and antiwar protesters, particularly groups like the Black Panthers and Burlingame's Weather Underground. By early 1970, many in the White House were ready to ease Hoover out of power; when, shortly thereafter, the mass protests against the Cambodia bombings (see February 23-24, 1969 and April 24-30, 1970) and the Jackson State and Kent State shootings (see May 4-5, 1970) occurred, Huston and others at the White House thought there was a far more organized and systematic underground, left-wing revolution going on than they had evidence to document. "We just didn't believe we were getting the whole story," he says.
Removing Hoover - Getting rid of Hoover and replacing him with someone more amenable to the White House's agenda was the first goal, Huston says. The June 1970 "Interagency Committee on Intelligence" (see June 5, 1970) was designed to maneuver around Hoover and have him implicitly authorize counter-insurrection methods that he had always opposed, including "surreptitious entry" and "covert mail coverage." The committee was the genesis of the Huston Plan. But Hoover stops the plan in its tracks by going through Attorney General John Mitchell. Whatever he said to Mitchell is not known, but Mitchell chewed out Huston and saw to it that the plan was terminated. Huston says that the unit of illegal campaign operatives later known as the "Plumbers" (see July 20, 1971) stems in part from the White House's inability to force Hoover from power. Had Hoover made the FBI available to conduct the illegal burglaries and surveillances that Nixon wanted done—had Nixon supported the Huston Plan—the Plumbers would have never come into existence. "I find that totally indefensible," Huston observes.
Ethical Confusion - Burlingame is bemused by Huston's apparent ethical schizophrenia—on the one hand, Huston has come out strongly for constitutional freedoms, and on the other hand is now saying that his plan, which he himself has long admitted was blatantly illegal, would have avoided the entire Watergate contretemps and would have worked to bring the country into line. In fact, Huston asserts, he believed at the time that the Watergate conspiracy was completely legal. "I took the view that in internal security matters the president had the right to infringe on what would, in other circumstances, be constitutional rights, but that decision encompassed a decision that you forfeit the right to prosecute." This view is why he left the Justice Department entirely out of the loop on his plan, he says.
Deliberately Keeping outside the Framework of the Law - The entire Huston plan would have never been used for anything except intelligence-gathering, he says. It was necessary for the plan to be exercised outside the structure of US law, he says. "[Y]ou don't want a constitutional or legal mandate," he says. "You don't want to institutionalize the excesses required to meet extraordinary threats. The law just can't anticipate all the contingencies." He now thinks that he went too far with pushing for extraordinary powers; that if Hoover could have been eased out of power, the FBI could have done what needed doing without breaking the law. Burlingame writes that he cannot help but think that Huston is employing "tortured legalisms" to "cover his flank," and questions Huston's portrait of himself as an increasingly marginalized conservative idealist who became so disillusioned with the amoral power-mad bureaucrats of the Nixon administration that he walked out rather than further jeopardize his own principles. (Burlingame 10/1974)
The US has been conducting airstrikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen, but denying responsibility for them, according to cables provided by the whistleblower organization Wikileaks to the British daily The Guardian. The bombings are being attributed to local forces rather than the US in an attempt not to rile Arab public opinion. The Guardian breaks the story based on a number of cables provided by Wikileaks, which contain damning quotes. In a September 2009 cable Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh told US President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, John Brennan, "I have given you an open door on terrorism, so I am not responsible." Following a strike that killed multiple civilians carried out by the US, but attributed to Yemenis in December 2009, US Ambassador to Yemen Stephen Seche cabled Washington to say: "Yemen insisted it must 'maintain the status quo' regarding the official denial of US involvement. Saleh wanted operations to continue 'non-stop until we eradicate this disease.'" Just over a week later, Saleh told General David Petraeus, then head of US Central Command, "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours." This prompted the deputy prime minister, Rashad al-Alimi, who was also at the meeting, to joke that he had just "lied" by telling parliament the bombs in Arhab, Abyan, and Shebwa (the alleged al-Qaeda strongholds) were American-made but deployed by Yemen. In addition to the secret bombings, the Yemen-related cables published by The Guardian on this day deal with Yemeni reluctance to meet some US demands, the inaccuracy of some US weapons, large payments to be made by the US to Yemen, the Saudi Arabian reaction to the strikes, poor counterterrorism training for staff at Yemeni airports, Yemen's unwillingness to share information about Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, alleged to be an al-Qaeda bomb-maker, and poor counterterrorist infrastructure in Yemen. (Booth and Black 12/3/2010) Before the "war on terror," the last time the US bombed a country in secret was during the Vietnam War, when the US bombed Cambodia (see March 15-17, 1969). It was a New York Times report on the bombing that was one of the spurs behind President Richard Nixon's formation of the later-infamous "plumbers" unit (see May 9-10, 1969).
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Padres give Gyorko much-needed breather vs. Giants
SAN DIEGO -- Padres second baseman Jedd Gyorko got his first day off this season Sunday when manager Bud Black slotted Alexi Amarista into the starting lineup in Gyorko's place.
Black said the day off would give Gyorko, who had played every inning of the team's 16 games thus far, a much-needed breather both physically and mentally.
"I think this is just a day for Jedd to watch a game," Black said Sunday. "I think it will give his mind a little rest, based on a number of factors. We'll put him back in there tomorrow in Milwaukee. It's tough to take him out of the lineup."
Gyorko was coming off a Saturday night in which he went 0-for-3 and was hitless in his last 10 at-bats. In addition, Gyorko has had a lot on his mind recently, having signed a contract extension Monday worth $35 million.
He entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning of Sunday's 4-3 loss to the Giants, hitting a lineout, then played the final two innings at second base.
Black gave Gyorko a heads-up that he would get Sunday off after Saturday's game to ensure Gyorko got as much of a mental break as possible.
"We told him last night so he wouldn't worry so much about those at-bats from that game," Black said.


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A-Rod's Meeting With MLB Is On For March 1st
Via the Times –
Alex Rodriguez is scheduled to meet with officials from Major League Baseball on Sunday. The officials want to know who provided him with performance-enhancing drugs and whether that person had access to major league clubhouses.
Three people who know about the details of the meeting confirmed that it was still scheduled to take place, despite comments Saturday by Yankees Manager Joe Girardi that Rodriguez wanted to have the meeting postponed. Rodriguez said he expected to play in Sunday's exhibition game in Sarasota. "I'm on the 9 o'clock bus," he said.
Rodriguez will be interviewed by Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's top drug-testing official, and members of baseball's department of investigations. An official for the players union and at least one of Rodriguez's lawyers will attend the meeting.
Along with questioning him about where he received the banned substances, the officials want to know about his relationship with the trainer Ángel Presinal, who has been accused of distributing steroids to major league players.
Although Presinal has been barred from major league clubhouses, many players continue to train with him, including Rodriguez, who worked with him as recently as 2007.
There's a part of me that thinks this whole thing is about Ángel Presinal – and baseball wants to crack this guy. And, for now, A-Rod is a way to try and get more on Presinal.
Betcha Rodriguez says nada about Ángel Presinal. Why should he – unless baseball cuts Alex a deal or something?
But, if A-Rod says nothing on Presinal; and, then, somehow baseball and/or the feds get their hands on Presinal…well, Rodriguez better hope that Ángel is more like Greg Anderson and less like Joe Valachi…because, if Presinal has some post-2003 dirt on Alex, then it's a whole new ballgame on the A-Rod PED scandal.
And, if it's proven that Alex was using something in 2007, it would not shock me to see the Yankees try and use that to void out his contract (or, at the least, try and get his salary reduced) – especially if baseball then tries to suspend Rodriguez for using post-2003.


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* fix bug with sticky crits in 6.0
* mark compatible with 6.0
* mark compatible with wow 5.4
* mark compatible with wow 5.3
* fix bug in raid-difficulty detection
* mark update for WoW 5.2
* fix configuration-menu not working correctly
* fix Friendly-check in UnitHealth and UnitPower triggerconditions
* add Monk as valid class
* add option to enable triggers only for specific specs
* color triggers in options according to whether they are active or not
* extract "Style"-tab for triggers
* add error-handling to color-text-field
* fix possible nil-error when 3rd party addons show messages way early
* fix taint-bug that could break the glyph-UI
* allow value 0 in aura-stack-count in triggers to fire on every stack gain
* fix "Ready, Set, Aim..."-Trigger
* added new default-triggers:
+ Warrior - Fury:
- Bloodsurge
- Raging Blow!
+ Deathknight - Unholy:
- Sudden Doom
+ Mage - Arcane:
- Arcane Missiles
+ Mage - Fire:
- Pyroblast
- Heating Up
+ Monk - Windwalker:
- Combo Breaker
+ Paladin - Protection:
- Grand Crusader
+ Shaman - Elemental:
- Lava Surge
+ Warlock - Demonology:
- Molten Core
+ Warlock - Destruction:
- Backlash
* fix frost-trap-spell ids
* fix absorb-amount for Periodic damage
* update for patch 5.1.0
* update for patch 5.0.4
* localize environmental damage
* adapt new powertypes from MoP
* improve accuracy of loot-events
* also fire Miss-Triggers for other melee-misses
* fix missing missed-amounts
* [223] fix combat-events not being enabled properly
* fix filters for outgoing DoTs
* fix automatic renabling after login
* mark compatible with WoW 4.3
* play all sounds on master-channel
* increase max-value for filters to 100000 (from 1000)
* compatibility to WoW 4.2
* fix problem with user-settings that might be left behind after removing default-triggers
* compatibility to WoW 4.1
* fix bug in alternate power bars text
* extended options to hide full overheals (Hots/direct heals)
* make sucessful spellcast trigger working
* reduce minimum fontsize to 6 (down from 12)
* replace honor-gain-events by currency-gain-events
* properly display alternate powertypes (like Sound or Corruption)
* add "Cast started"-Trigger condition
* fix missing spell-ids
* remove no longer valid triggers
* round honor-gains to 3 digits
* fix trap-cooldown-grouping
* remove judgements from cooldown groups
* fix power-triggers for units with multiple power types
* do not forcefully disable blizzard fct on login
* fix triggers for Eclipse
* add new powertypes to options
* add new Triggers for:
+ Slam! (Warrior)
+ Blood Swarm (Deathknight)
+ Shadow Infusion (Deathknight)
+ Focus Fire (Hunter)
+ Ready, Set, Aim... (Hunter)
* fix Trigger Lock and Load
* fix possible nil-errors in Triggers
* make compatible with 4.0 (port cooldown-module and honor-notifications)
* fix lua-error when casting Shadow Word: Death
* fix icons showing in aura- and cooldowns-notifications
* prevent parrot from completely failing when spellIds are missing
(this means, that parrot will kind of work when the patch hits US.
The real 4.0-update will be pushed on when it hits EU)
* add option to shorten amounts and modifiers (like 26k)
* fix behaviour of the hide-realm-option
* slightly improve combatlog-parsing cpu-usage
* make sure triggers that are default-disabled stay enabled
* remove the aura-polling-hack
* fix bug that cause triggers to always go back to being sticky
* fix short text setting
* cleanup the default spellfilters
* spell-filters should start working without reloading the interface now
* add Triggers for "Fingers of Frost" and "Decimation"
* add option to color names by class (for party/raid members)
* only truncate the realm name from players
* add option to flash screen on triggers
* add secondary condition "Battle stance" to Overpower trigger
* add option to check the stackcount for "Buff active"-secondary Condition
* reorganize some options (i.e. move them to more proper category)
* add missile-barrage to default-triggers
* add item cooldown ready Trigger Condition
* fix bug with AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets embed
* really fix short throttle-texts not disabling properly for healing events (#136)
* fix error in embedding of AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets
* upgrade to LibDeformat-3.0 and get rid of Ace2 for good
* fix short throttle-texts not disabling properly for healing events (#136)
* add "ad-hoc-fix" to stop spamming of berserk-triggers
* fix possible error with SharedMediaWidgets-embed
* add default-trigger for Serendipity
* fire both Trigger-conditions (aura gain, and aura stack gain) when a stackable
aura is gained. When a additional stack is gained (to a buff already
present) only Aura stack gain fires.
* fix more possible memory-leaks
* add default-trigger for Warlock's "Molten Core"
* fix memory leak in the new Aura-Trigger-module
* add hack to make some broken Proc-triggers work again
* add option to shorten throttled text
* add functionality to throttle reputation-gains
* do not show outgoing heals to pets.
* bump toc to 30300 (for patch 3.3)
* make "disable in raid"-options for combat-events work with 3.2s heroic raids
* do not trigger soulshard-gain on every item created
* fix Soulshard gains
* fix "Own Aura"-field in buff-active-conditions
* use SharedMediaWidgets for Sounds and Master font settings
* set more default-values when creating a new trigger-condition
* make options use a bit less memory
* fix cooldown-module missing to report finshed cooldowns sometimes
* add config-mode-support (http://www.wowwiki.com/ConfigMode)
* fix Pet-misses showing the tag in the text (like "Pet absorb [Amount]")
* Move to Ace3 (got rid of the rest of LibRock)
* major changes to the Trigger-System
+ TriggerCondition now support multiple arguments
+ Most TriggerConditions can be used more than once
+ simplified the List of built-in conditions
* add Primary Trigger Conditions:
+ Incoming damage
+ Outgoing damage
* add Secondary Trigger Conditions:
+ Item buff active
* use ingame-translations for damage-types
* Fix the double-combo-point-issue (Ticket #41)
* add support for CombatEvents:
+ Pet skill interrupts
+ Outgoing Siege damage
+ Pet buff gain/fade (disabled by default)
+ Pet debuff gain/fade (disabled by default)
+ Enemy buff gain/fade (disabled by default)
+ Enemy debuff gain/fade (disabled by default)
* optimize the Cooldown-module to use much less CPU-time
* continue showing events when dead
* Do not control Game Damage/Healing by default
* only schedule "Check for XX seconds"-timer when a Trigger is using it
* properly update scroll-area-choices when profile is changed
* fix locale-error
* Direction-choices in ScrollAreas-options now update properly
* remove Dependency of LibBabble-Class (and use built-in class-translations)
* add options for always hiding unit- and skill names (except Cooldowns)
* add secondary condition "Active talents"
* new Triggers' class-lists contain only one entry by default
(the current player)
* add support for per-spell-filtering (by name or ID) (fixes Ticket #42)
* add support for per-spell-throttling
* add default-filters for Unleashed Rage, Ferocious Inspiration, and
Abominable Might (fixes Ticket #16)
* Hide realm name in tags (fixes Ticket #83)
* allow spell-ids as parameters in aura-trigger-conditions
* add 2 triggers for Eclipse (Wrath and Starfire)
* add trigger for The Art of War
* add trigger for Kill shot
* add secondary conditions "Target minimum health" and "Target is player"
* add secondary condition "Lua function" to run custom lua-code for checks
* add more options for Cooldowns (treshold and filters)
* hide full overheals (but add option for making them visible again)
* show player's heals on pets only as incoming pet heal (Ticket #92)
* show correct icon when using "Wild Quiver" (Ticket #93)
* fix some issues with the Config when Ace3 is not installed seperatly
* fix new shared cooldowns of hunter traps
* remove windshock from shared cooldowns
* fix bugs in new ace-config (fixes Tickets #80 and #81)
* rewrite the db-import of default-triggers (uses a versioncheck now)
This means default-triggers do not get recreated when deleting them.
* bugfixes in profile-switching
profile-applying to submodules
profile-copying and reseting
* use ace3 for config-stuff
* make profile-switching work again (by using AceDB-3.0)
Note: The profile now defaults to your Character-profile instead of
"Default". Try switching profiles to regain all saved settings.
* add Parrot to the Blizzard-Addon-Options
* add new Primary TriggerCondition: Successful Spell Cast (Ticket #65)
* add secondary Trigger Conditions (Minimum/Maximum Target Health Percent)
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* make Heals show properly in 3.2 (fixes Ticket #78)
* add support for throttling miss-events (avoids like parry, block, etc.)
* add "minimum power percent"-secondary trigger condition
* add secondary conditions for "in vehicle" and "mounted"
* make dot-crits show as sticky.
* fix optdeps.
* add Options to disable CombatEvents when in a raid-instance.
* add icon-override for mutilate.
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45 years ago today, March 22, 1963, the Beatles released their first album Please Please Me. This mono version was rush-released to the public in the UK to capitalize on the success of the hit single of the same name which had reached #2 on the charts. The album contained six cover songs, but more importantly it contained eight songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. A stereo version of this album was later released in 1963 on April 26th.
In the U.S., most of the songs from Please Please Me were first released in 1964 on the Vee-Jay Records label on the renamed album Introducing The Beatles. And in 1965 a similar collection was issued once again on Capitol Records as The Early Beatles. The unexpurgated Please Please Me was not released in the U.S. until the Beatles catalog was released on CD in 1987.
Other than the singles and the flip sides of "Please Please Me" and "Love Me Do" (the Beatles' first single which had charted and reached #17 in the UK), all the other tracks were recorded in a marathon session on Monday, February 11th, 1963, at Abbey Road Studios. The Beatles, with George Martin producing, essentially recorded their live act in 9 hours and 45 minutes. The entire day's session cost around £400. And besides John, Paul, George Harrison and Ringo Starr playing their respective instruments, George Martin also played a little piano. The earlier tracks recorded the previous September and November had session player Andy White on drums, who has also recorded with the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Herman's Hermits, and Tom Jones.


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S. C. Wood Works is a custom home builder and remodeler in Massachusetts. To us, home building, remodeling and design is as much about craftsmanship and delivering a quality project as it is building relationships with our clients. We want a logo that helps us get across our name in a way that shows clients that we are unique, pay attention to details and offer a product customized to their needs.
Homeowners in Massachusetts, more specifically from the greater Boston area down to Cape Cod.
We really need to incorporate our company name "S.C. Wood Works" in a way that it comes across with a bold taste of quality embedded in it. Like if a furniture maker were looking at a piece of exotic wood that he knows he could turn into beautiful artwork we want our clients to look at our logo and know they will get quality with a robust sense of comfort. Using rich dark tones are appealing to us as well as possibly implementing detail in a way that doesn't overwhelm. Take a look at some of our photos that show projects that we've completed as well as primitive logos we've thrown together. Logo 3 is what we are currently using for our website http://www.MaHomeRemodeling.com
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Benefiting Chief Seattle Council and Your Unit
Use the search bar below to find out if your employer has a matching program, and if so how to use it.
The Employer Matching and Volunteer Service Hour Programs through Chief Seattle Council help facilitate the Boy Scout and Cub Scout programs by supporting camp maintenance, council training and events, and quality programming for your Scouts. Anyone who has an approved employer and donates funds or time with Chief Seattle Council is eligible for this program.
The Volunteer Service Hours program includes a special thank-you to our valued volunteers: in return for submitting volunteer hours through your employer we offer Scout Bucks. For every 50 hours submitted, Chief Seattle Council will issue your unit two (2) $50 Scout Bucks. These Scout Bucks can be used to pay for the following Chief Seattle Council camps and council or district run activities:
- Summer Camp
- Wood Badge
- Day Camp
- PTC Training
- Parent/Pal Camp
- Resident Camp
- Leader Training
- Council Jamboree
- Council Venturing Activities
- District Activities
- Purchases at the Seattle and Silverdale Scout Shops
See the back of the Scout Bucks or the frequently asked questions below for more details on how they may be used and how they are issued.
There are many local companies that offer a volunteer service hour program including Boeing, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Adobe, and Alaska Airlines. To find out if your employer has a program use the search bar above.
Each company has their own set of rules regarding their program. For this reason, Chief Seattle Council may not know the specific rules or criteria for your employer. We encourage you to search for your employer above. All hours must be submitted through your employer first. Chief Seattle Council cannot facilitate the initial submission of hours.
Thank you, your participation in this unique program makes a difference in the lives of youth throughout our Council!
Frequently Asked Questions about our Volunteer Service Hour Scout Bucks Program:
How does a unit qualify for the volunteer service hour incentive program?
The unit must have a volunteer who works for a company that offers a volunteer service hour donation program which pays a minimum of $10 per hour donated. Check with your human resources manager or click here to find out if your company offers a volunteer service hour program. Once a unit reaches 50 cumulative hours of paid service hour grants they qualify for Scout Bucks.
If there are two volunteers in my unit who work for different companies, does each one need to donate 50 hours?
No. We look at the combined total of hours donated for a unit. For example: If Jimmy donates 25 hours through Boeing and Jenny donates 27 hours through Microsoft, the unit would still receive Scout Bucks because both Jimmy and Jenny submitted a combined total of 52 hours on behalf of the same unit. Additionally, since there 2 hours not used, those hours will be put towards the next set of 50 hours donated within the calendar year.
I don't work for Microsoft or Boeing, but I work for another company that donates money for volunteering my time. Do I qualify for this program?
Yes. Submit your hours through your company to initiate the process. Use the search tool above to find your company and information on how to submit hours.
When will I receive my Scout Bucks?
Scout Bucks are issued quarterly since most companies pay for volunteer hours on a quarterly basis. We can only issue Scout Bucks for volunteer hours we have already received payment for. You can generally expect to receive Scout Bucks in April, July, October, and January. Scout Bucks are mailed to the Committee Chair of the unit and to the Troop Committee Chair for LDS units.
Do my extra volunteer hours carry over to the next year?
No. Scout Bucks must be earned in the same calendar year. Volunteer hours submitted during the final quarter of the year (October, November, and December) will be distributed as Scout Bucks in January of the next year. However, any extra hours from the final quarter will not be carried over to the new year.
How may I use my Scout Bucks?
Bring your Scout Bucks to the Council office to pay for a district or council run event, or stop by the Scout Shop to pick up program supplies. Scout Bucks must be tendered in person or via mail.
Can I use Scout Bucks to pay for items over the phone?
No. Scout Bucks must be tendered in person. They cannot be emailed, faxed, or photo copied in any way. They can, however, be mailed into the council office with camp payments or registration.
Will I receive change for my Scout Bucks if I spend less than $50?
No, change is not given for Scout Bucks. Each $50 Scout Buck is used in its entirety during a transaction.
Can the Scout Bucks be used to pay for district events such as Klondike and Merit Badge Weekends?
Yes. They can be used for any district or council run activity that benefits youth. For example, a marble tournament would qualify.
Can I use Scout Bucks to rent a council camp or equipment for my unit?
No. Scout Bucks can only be used towards council or district sponsored activities, not specific unit activities.
Why can't I use Scout Bucks for Scout Night at the… (Insert team name here)?
Even though these events are made available through Chief Seattle Council and sponsored by the council, they are not run by the council. Scout Bucks can only be used towards payment of a council/district run event. The same would apply for any other activity that would take place outside of a council facility except those mentioned on the back of Scout Bucks.
Can Scout Bucks be used to reimburse someone for prior Scout Shop purchases or Council activities?
It says that I can spend the Scout Bucks at the Scout Shop, does this include the Trading Post at camp?
No. Scout Bucks cannot be used for purchases made at camp.
Can I use Scout Bucks at other councils?
No. The Scout Bucks incentive program is provided and facilitated by Chief Seattle Council. Other councils will not recognize Scout Bucks as a form of payment.
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Grill Fish on a Plank
From the first bite, you'll be hooked. Planked fish has it all, flavor, ease, and flair.
Was it really the best fish I had ever tasted, or was it the setting and the company? Perhaps it was both.
We'd been in the hot sun all day photographing an oyster roast when we arrived for dinner at Ann and Mike Shaw's house at Brays Island Plantation near Beaufort, South Carolina. Moss was hanging from the huge oak trees, the sun was setting over the water-- a marvelous atmosphere for a meal.
The grill was hot, and so was the alder plank atop it, ready to take on a glistening cut of salmon. Mike drizzled olive oil over the fish, sprinkled it with Creole seasoning and fresh dill, and squeezed a plump lemon over it before placing it on the heated plank. The wood began to smolder, and--with the addition of the seasoned fish--the aroma filled the air. In just 15 minutes the salmon was cooked to perfection, smoky and tender.
Mike's dinner was superb, and I couldn't wait to try it in my own backyard. But would it translate? I hoped for the best.
The technique of cooking on planks is not new. Developed by Indians along the Pacific Northwest, cooking on cedar and alder has been a tradition for centuries. Chef Emmanuel Afentoulis of the Skamania Lodge Dining Room in Stevenson, Washington, prepares 35 to 40 pounds of salmon a day this way. He uses 1-inch-thick alder boards designed with holes drilled on the diagonal. The 3- to 5-pound salmon fillets are secured with soaked wooden skewers, then the planks are hung vertically around a cone-shaped, slow-burning fire pit where the whole salmon fillets roast slowly, basting in their own oil as they absorb the scents of the wood and the smoke.
At least three hours before grilling, Emmanuel coats each fillet with potlatch seasoning, a spice rub named after the ceremonial feast of the Indians of the Northwest coast. Made by pulverizing hot peppers and dry spices, this recipe has been used for years at the lodge, but Emmanuel adds his own touch to each batch. "One of our top sellers, Potlatch Salmon, is always on the menu. You might call it our signature dish," he says.
Harry Aldrich, who brought this ancient cooking method to the 21st century (at outdoorgourmet.com), sells cedar planks--his preference--and shares recipes with other plank lovers. "It's not just a piece of wood," says Harry. "It's a new twist on an old tradition."
"You open the grill, see the fire, and someone shouts, 'Oh, no! You've ruined the meal!' The plank may be on fire, but the fish is perfect and the dinner guests are wowed by the aroma and the presentation. It's not burning fish on a grill. It's fun, it's creative, it's gourmet, it's success."
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• Order planks online, or head to the nearest lumberyard or cabinet shop and have them cut to fit your grill. Buy untreated wood no thicker than 1 inch. Cedar and alder are popular choices, but mesquite, cherry, oak, peach, apple, and oak add their flavors. Avoid resinous woods, such as pine. Note that planks resembling cedar shingles have a tendency to crack, burn, and splinter, making them good for one-time use only--which, of course, makes cleanup easier. And you can use higher temperatures if the planks will be tossed.
• Ted Reader and Kathleen Sloan, coauthors of Sticks and Stones: The Art of Grilling on Plank, Vine and Stone, recommend soaking planks in water for at least one hour, preferably six hours or overnight.
• Chinook Planks manufactures two types of planks--one for use in the oven and the other for the outdoor grill. They come in alder and cedar. Their alder planks are designed for oven use; they have wells for catching drips and strengthening rods to keep the wood from splitting. Oven planks are a bit pricier than outdoor grill planks; however, they last longer (with an average life span of five years). These can be found in kitchen shops or ordered from 800/765-4408.


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"The Bible is like no other 'religious' book in that those who answer God's call are blessed with the discernment to ferret out what is true or not. Have at it..."
I imagine a devout and fervent Muslim would say the same about the Quran. What makes the Bible so different in your opinion?
Absolutely love this analogy!
That's an analogy I've never heard before; but a damn good one.
another way of putting it
"Wholly" concur? But you're right, the teacher never arrives. Class dismissed...
Awesome, I got a good laugh out of that one. Of course there are those that will always follow the shepherd. He in turn will watch out for them and keep away the wolves. So that later they can all be lead to slaughter.
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In Prototype 2 Sgt. James Heller is infected with a mutagen that gives him access to an amazing variety of super powers. One would think Best Buy and Radical Entertainment could come up with a preorder incentive more compelling that vehicle armor.
But no, placing five dollars down at Best Buy gets you Sgt. James Heller's Hardened Steel Vehicle Armor, a special power that somehow makes military vehicles Heller enters tougher than normal military vehicles. Why? I don't know. Maybe he extends some sort of carapace over the vehicle, or his tendrils are inside rapidly repairing any damage that might be done to it.
Or Best Buy needed a preorder incentive and this was all they could come up with. Makes for an exciting video, doesn't it? And all GameStop got was the ability to kick enemies in the ass. I am driving to Best Buy right now.


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I'm interested in changing from Ubuntu to Debian. I currently have 12.04LTS installed on its own boot partition which is separate from the
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Family Doctor in the San Francisco Area
Family doctors are physicians specializing in the treatment of the whole body. They treat each illness, each organ, and each system regardless of age or gender. The main advantage of seeing a family doctor in San Francisco is the continuous, personal patient-physician relationship that promotes premium, comprehensive care.
Physicians who wish to become family doctors in San Francisco must complete three formal years of residency in addition to undergraduate and medical school. During this residency period, family doctors gain experience in caring for people in all stages of life, in ear, nose, and throat care, as well as in care for chronic conditions, particularly diabetes, asthma, and heart disease. This extensive experience immerses the prospective family doctor in most areas of general medicine and ensures that the doctor is capable of diagnosing and treating the broad range of illnesses he or she will encounter in his or her career.
Regularly scheduling visits to your family doctor is key to maintaining your good health. The personalized approach family doctors in San Francisco use with patients is an integral part of good long-term health patterns. To develop your personal treatment plan, your family doctor will ask questions about your family health history and lifestyle to determine your health risk factors. Having a doctor who knows your face makes your visits both more pleasant and less stressful.
Family doctors in San Francisco adhere to the rigorous standards of medical care. The American Board of Family Medicine requires recertification by written examination every six years. To maintain board certification, family doctors are required to complete a minimum of 150 hours of continuous medical education every three years to foster self-assessment and growth in clinical knowledge and skill. In addition, family doctors in San Francisco are supported by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), which provides high-quality learning opportunities for family doctors, as well as patient education materials and practice management support. It is clear that family doctors provide the best in patient care by vigorously pursuing excellence in each area of general medicine.
Most family doctors in San Francisco are members of the Medical Association as well as the San Francisco Medical Society.


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Malaysia: Jet search shifts to smaller area
Although dangerous weather conditions once again forced searchers to suspend efforts to find a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, Malaysia said Tuesday that it has narrowed the search for debris to an area the size of Texas and Oklahoma in the southern Indian Ocean.
"We're not searching for a needle in a haystack — we're still trying to define where the haystack is," Australia's deputy defense chief, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, told reporters at a military base in Perth, Australia, as idled planes stood behind him.
Australian Defense Minister David Johnston, in a meeting with reporters Tuesday, acknowledged the urgency of the search for missing Flight MH370, but stressed that the part of the Indian Ocean where possible debris from the flight has been spotted is both dangerous and remote.
"We cannot put pilots and crews at risk; we cannot put ship's company at risk; we just have to deal with this location as best we can," Johnston said.
Flight crews from six nations are putting in exhausting hours to search the area. Yet, the massive international search for signs of the plane's location has not produced any concrete evidence, and no wreckage has been retrieved. The search is expected to resume Wednesday when the weather improves.
In the latest news conference from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's transport minister explained how the suspected location of Flight MH370 was worked out using satellite data. He also said that the search area in the so-called northern corridor has been called off. "All search efforts are now focused on the southern part of the southern corridor," Hishammuddin Hussein said.
STORY:Satellite tracked Malaysia plane in 'unprecedented' way
MORE:'All lives lost' doesn't end puzzle
Earlier, Johnston said: "Let's be clear, to this point in time we have not successfully identified and recovered any debris from the aircraft in question."
Despite the lack of a definitive discovery, Johnston said he believes the plane went down in the Indian Ocean, because that is the best theory out there.
Meanwhile, Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya announced Tuesday that the airline will continue to provide food, hotel accommodations and transportation to relatives of the missing passengers.
Ahmad also announced that the airline will give $5,000 to each missing passenger's next of kin.
"We recognize that financial support is not the only consideration, but the prolonged search is naturally placing financial strain on the relatives," Ahmad said. "We are therefore preparing to offer additional payment as the search continues."
RELATED:Malaysia Airlines defends text to families
In Beijing, furious relatives of the missing passengers marched on the Malaysia Embassy, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, "Liars!," according to the Associated Press.
The Chinese government has demanded that Malaysia turn over the satellite data it used to determine that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed in the Indian Ocean with no survivors. Of the 239 people on board Flight 370, 153 were Chinese nationals.
Johnston was asked if he was surprised that Malaysian officials told the missing passengers' family members that all aboard the plane had died, before the wreck had been discovered.
"I am not surprised about anything with respect to this," Johnston said. "Until we recover and positively identify a piece of debris, everything is virtually speculation."
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Thursday Shorts II: Witcher nudes, Catherine shots, Disciples III, WoW, MMA, Make-a-Wish
More shorts for your Thursday are below. Some, are NSFW. Hopefully you are home by now anyway.
Playboy headlines
Dead Rising 2 gets the Playboy treatment
Capcom's bringing the Bunnies to Dead Rising 2 thanks to a partnership with Playboy magazine.
Playboy centrefolds to feature in Mafia II
2K's announced a partnership with Playboy to bring centerfolds and front covers from the magazine's past to Mafia II when it releases this year.
Playboy Playmates try their hand at being Bayonetta
Playboy has a feature up on its site where you can vote for one of five ladies doing their best Bayonetta impression.Choose between Ryan, Chernise, Kat, Jillian or Shannon through here (via D'toid), and watch the video after the break.
Newly-struggling THQ, battered by the market after last week's confirmation of a studio closure and loss of a couple of franchises, has come out fighting today with an announcement of a "multi-year Playboy agreement" to produce "multiple Playboy-branded, lifestyle themed, non-nude mobile games featuring bikini-clad Playmates to be released worldwide. The first title, Playboy Games: […]


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About The Tiny Tiara
Hello and welcome to The Tiny Tiara!
My name is Nicola and I am the proud mommy of two adorable children. My daughter Machaila is my clone in every way. Like me she is sassy and loves all things pink and pretty, sparkly and fluffy. My son Mackenzie is the sweetest little boy who loves dragons and dinosaurs, wears his rain boats all the time and tells me he loves me every day. My two little ones are the joys in my life and are many times the inspiration behind many of the things that I do and they help me to see that everything, even the little things in life, should be celebrated.
My second joy in life is designing parties and entertaining and it was through the creation of unforgettable parties for my own daughter that started it all. I created The Tiny Tiara to help others put a tiny bit of pretty into every one of their parties and celebrations.
A few years ago I designed and started a website www.shoptinytiara.com in which I offer online party products such as printable party designs, online party planning services and a pretty selection of party supplies and necessities. I also offer on-site ultimate theme parties for children. Recently I started a blog www.tinytiaraparties.com in order to keep in touch with my fans and readers on a daily basis as well as to offer daily party planning tips, tricks, printable designs, ideas and fun party recipes.
Thank you so very much for visiting and I truly look forward to creating something pretty for your parties!
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