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7/31/14, "This time, Gaza fighting is 'proxy war' for entire Mideast," CNN, Josh Levs
"The conflict raging in Gaza is different this time . While Hamas' rocket attacks and Israel's military actions may look familiar, they're taking place against a whole new backdrop.
"This is unprecedented in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict," says CNN's Ali Younes, an analyst who has covered the region for decades.
"Most Arab states are actively supporting Israel against the Palestinians -- and not even shy about it or doing it discreetly."
"Most Arab states are actively supporting Israel against the Palestinians -- and not even shy about it or doing it discreetly."
It's a "joint Arab-Israeli war consisting of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia against other Arabs -- the Palestinians as represented by Hamas."
As the New York Times put it, "Arab leaders, viewing Hamas as worse than Israel, stay silent."
One of the outcomes of the fighting will likely be "the end of the old Arab alliance system that has, even nominally, supported the Palestinians and their goal of establishing a Palestinian state," Younes says.
"The Israel-Hamas conflict has laid bare the new divides of the Middle East," says Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. "It's no longer the Muslims against the Jews. Now it's the extremists -- the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, and their backers Iran, Qatar and Turkey [and the US, UN, and EU] -- against Israel and the more moderate Muslims including Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia."
"It's a proxy war for control or dominance in the Middle East," says CNN's Fareed Zakaria.
To understand why and what all this means, we need to begin with understanding of Hamas.
Hamas, which has controlled the Palestinian government in Gaza for years, is an extension of the Muslim Brotherhood. To many Americans, the brotherhood is familiar for its central role in the power struggle for Egypt. But it's much larger than that.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is international, with affiliated groups in more than 70 countries, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE," says Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The Arab Spring showed the region that uprisings can lead to the Brotherhood gaining power. So it's a threat to the governments it opposes.
"Israel's ongoing battle against Hamas is part of a wider regional war on the Muslim Brotherhood," says the Soufan Group, which tracks global security. "Most Arab states share Israel's determination to finish the movement off once and for all, but they are unlikely to be successful."
"From the perspective of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE and some other Arab states, what the Israeli Prime Minister is doing is fighting this war against Hamas on their behalf so they can finish the last stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood," Younes says.
"Arab governments and official Arab media have all but adopted the Israeli view of who is a terrorist and who is not. Egyptian and Saudi-owned media are liberal in labeling the Muslim Brotherhood as 'terrorists' and describing Hamas as a 'terrorist organization.' It's a complete turnabout from the past, when Arab states fought Israel and the U.S. in the international organizations on the definition of terrorism, and who is a terrorist or a 'freedom fighter.'"
Egypt's new President vowed during his campaign that he would finish off the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former military chief, deposed Egypt's first freely elected leader, President Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood, last year following mass protests against Morsy's rule. El-Sisi was elected officially in June.
"In Egypt you have a regime that came to power by toppling a Muslim Brotherhood government," says Trager. "It's therefore in an existential conflict with the Brotherhood. So it doesn't want to see Hamas, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, emerge stronger in a neighboring territory."
Egypt also has another reason to stand against Hamas: rising violence and instability in Sinai, the northern part of Egypt that borders Israel and Gaza. Hamas' network of tunnels includes some in and out of Egypt used to smuggle goods include weapons for attacks on Israeli civilians.
The new Egyptian government has been "cracking down aggressively since it removed the brotherhood from power," Trager says.
El-Sisi closed the border crossings between Egypt and Gaza, which has helped block Hamas militants from escaping or smuggling in more weapons during Israel's onslaught. But it also has contributed to the humanitarian crisis of people trapped in Gaza.
Egypt proposed a cease-fire, and Israel quickly accepted it -- indicating that it contained the terms Israel was looking for, analysts say. Hamas rejected it. While Egypt has worked furiously to try to broker a truce in the past, Cairo this time shows little rush to change its proposal to one much more favorable to Hamas, analysts say.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan
The monarchies of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have called on Hamas to accept the cease-fire proposal as is.
"We condemn the Israeli aggression and we support the Egyptian cease-fire proposal," Jordan's King Abdullah said last week.
Countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE are "challenged by Islamists who come to power via the ballot box rather than through royal succession," says Trager.
"So these countries have been directly supportive of the coup in Egypt because it removed elected Islamists and therefore discredited that model."
Saudi Arabia is "leading the charge," partly through backing the coup and financing state media reports that attacked the brotherhood, says Younes.
"Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE all see the destruction of Hamas as of benefit to their internal security as well as to regional stability."
"The Saudis and the Egyptians are now more scared of Islamic fundamentalism than they are of Israel," says Zakaria.
"The Saudi monarchy is more worried about the prospects of Hamas winning, which would embolden Islamists in other parts of the Middle East, and therefore potentially an Islamist opposition in Saudi Arabia."
But Hamas is not alone.
Turkey and Qatar
Turkey and Qatar remain supportive of Hamas.
Qatar supported Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood government, and built "an Egypt-centric Al Jazeera network that became known for its strongly pro-Muslim Brotherhood line," says Trager.
Qatar also funds many Muslim Brotherhood figures in exile, including Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal, who is believed to have orchestrated numerous Hamas terrorist attacks.
"I think this is a case of a country with a lot of money to burn making a certain calculation in 2011 that made a lot of sense at the time: that the Brotherhood was the next big thing that was going to dominate many of the countries of the region," says Trager. "Realistically, it made sense to bet on it."
Turkey has "more of an ideological sympathy with the Brotherhood," he says.
Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with CNN, accusing Israel of "genocide."
"Erdogan has tried to use the cause of the Brotherhood to bolster his own Islamist credentials at home," says Trager. Last year, Erdogan cracked down on mass demonstrations in his country.
Iran and Syria
Iran has long supported Hamas, supplying it with weapons. And Meshaal used to be based in Syria.
But that changed. In 2012, Meshaal left Syria as the country's civil war deepened -- a decision believed to have caused a breakdown in his relationship with Iran as well, says Firas Abi Ali, head of Middle East and North Africa Country Risk and Forecasting at the global information company IHS. Tehran is aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Now, Syria -- Israel's neighbor to the north -- is locked in a brutal, multiparty civil war, with Islamist extremists hoisting severed heads onto poles. The war, believed to have killed more than 115,000 people, is just one of the many developments emphasizing how many "fault lines" there are in the region, Richard Haass, president of Council on Foreign Relations, told "CNN Tonight."
"There's fault lines within the Palestinians between Hamas and the other part of the Palestinian Authority. You have Sunnis vs. Shia. You have Iran vs. Saudi Arabia and the Arabs. You have secularists vs. people who embrace religion in the political space."
The Palestinian Authority
Paying a price for all this is another key player: Fatah, the Palestinian faction that controls the West Bank. Fatah and Hamas have long fought each other, but earlier this year made another effort at a unity government.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is in charge of the government in the West Bank, "seems politically exhausted by all the twists and turns he has made in search of a durable solution," the Soufan Gruop says. "And the one chance of reasserting his authority through a unity government that would have forced Hamas into a subordinate and less militant role has now disappeared. He must now watch helplessly as protests in the West Bank undo whatever progress he had made towards a two-state solution." via Free Rep.
US fails to back Israel in UN Security Council vote:
7/28/14, "UN Security Council calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire," dw.de/un, AP, AFP, Reuters
"The statement was passed unanimously, with all 15 Security Council members voting in favor of the statement....This came just hours after US President Barack Obama spoke via telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on him to work for a sustainable ceasefire.
US fails to back Israel in UN Security Council vote:
7/28/14, "UN Security Council calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire," dw.de/un, AP, AFP, Reuters
"The statement was passed unanimously, with all 15 Security Council members voting in favor of the statement....This came just hours after US President Barack Obama spoke via telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on him to work for a sustainable ceasefire.
In a statement, the White House said Obama had "made clear the strategic imperative of instituting an immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire that ends hostilities now and leads to a permanent cessation of hostilities based on the November 2012 ceasefire agreement."...
Obama admin. backs Islamic terrorists:
7/28/14, "US and Egypt find themselves at odds once again," Jerusalem Post, Zvi Mazel
Map of Israel's Sunni and Shia neighbors:


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From The Editor
By Carol Berkin
In recent months, our newspapers, cable shows, blogs and even You Tube have been filled with articles and commentary on the American economy. From optimistic reassurances that American capitalism and its institutions are basically sound to jeremiads warning that our national character and our national economic system are in dire states of decay, we are bombarded with information [and misinformation] about such fundamental elements of our economy as the role of banking, the stock market, corporations, and the public policies and political philosophies that affect production, consumption and investment. But, as historians and history teachers, we search for a broader perspective on the complex economic issues of our day. We ask questions such as: How has American capitalism evolved? When were banks introduced into our economy and what functions have they served in the past? How did the stock market come into existence and why is it so important today? Who were the pioneers of American industry and finance, and how should we evaluate their successes and failures, the problems they created and those they sought to solve? How has government policy affected economic growth or crisis in the past?
In this issue of History Now, five noted scholars grapple with and provide answers to these questions. The result is a primer on the American economy, describing clearly and accessibly the origins and development of our most critical institutions, the role key individuals played in shaping them, and the changes that have taken place in them over the centuries. We are confident these essays will help you shape effective lessons in the classroom – even if they do not provide surefire ways to make your fortune!
Our overview essay, "Getting Ready to Lead a World Economy: Enterprise in Nineteenth Century America," is written by Joyce Appleby. In it she traces the rise of liberal capitalism and the spirit of enterprise that catapulted the United States into a leadership role in the modern world. Next, Richard Sylla unlocks the mysteries of the banking system in his essay "The U.S. Banking System: Origins, Development and Regulation," explaining the functions banks perform and how their role in our economy has expanded and undergone regulation over past centuries. In "The Rise of an American Institution: The Stock Market", Brian Murphy traces the evolution of a convenient ad hoc trading arrangement into one of the most influential institutions in American society. T.J. Stiles then confronts the longstanding argument over the larger than life entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century in his essay "Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?" And, finally, Professor Roger E. A. Farmer sheds light on the intersection of government and the economy in his essay "Economic Policy Through the Lens of History."
As always, History Now offers several additional features. The interactive feature in this issue – "Scandal! Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption that Rocked America"—has been produced in partnership with the Museum of American Finance. Our archivist, Dr. Mary-Jo Kline, has provided a rich collection of websites, articles and books for you to draw upon if you want to pursue any of the topics in the five essays. High school master teachers and award winners Bruce Lesh and Phil Nicolosi point out several of the major themes in the essays that might serve to focus your classroom lessons on the American economy, and three talented teachers provide you with sample lesson plans, complete with links to Web resources.
In closing, all of us at History Now wish you an enjoyable and productive summer.
Carol Berkin
Editor, History Now
Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books including Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Conservative, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, and Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence.


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Walter P. Chrysler, the American Locomotive Company and a 1932 Newsreel
American Locomotive Company played a brief but important role in the career of a great American automobile executive Walter P. Chrysler. In December 1909, Chrysler's first manufacturing job was superintendent of the Pittsburgh Works plant of the American Locomotive Company.
As described in this chryslerclub.org profile, Chrysler was recruited from the railroad industry in January 1912 by an Alco director James Storrow to work for Buick:
A Brief Look at Walter P. Chrysler
By Mike Petersen
From chryslerclub.org
This article was featured in the November, 1986 issue of WPC News
Chrysler, the last independent car manufacturer to enter the automotive industry. Most of us see the name everyday, but few know much about the man. We can still hear him speak to us from the pages of his autobiography "Life of an American Workman." In the book "Birth of a Giant," by Richard Crabb, all of the personalities and the events of the early automobile days are tied together. These two books are highly recommended reading as a means of understanding where the industry came from and to reflect on where it may be going.
Chrysler was the third of four children. He was born in Wamego, Kansas in 1875 ( raised in Ellis, Kansas ) and recalled later in life the Indian scare of 1880 and the six shooter that his father, a locomotive engineer, carried. "Scientific American" was Chrysler's favorite magazine.
His first job as a janitor brought him 10 cents an hour. In 1893 he took a cut in pay to 5 cents an hour in order to enter a four year machinist apprentice program. By the second year he was earning 10 cents an hour, then 12.5 cents in the third year, and finally 15 cents an hour in the fourth year. During this time he studied air brakes before the Union Pacific Railroad installed them, and he studied steam heat that was replacing the coal stoves in passenger cars.
In 1897 Chrysler moved to Wellington, Kansas to work for Santa Fe Railroads and to learn new things. After two weeks he was at the top of the pay scale -- 27.5 cents an hour. So he went back to Ellis, Kansas for 30 cents an hour and then on to Denver, Colorado where a job at Colorado & Southern lasted two weeks. From there he hopped freights and moved around looking for work in places like Cheyenne, Wyoming.
In 1900, Chrysler was back to 30 cents an hour in Salt Lake City, Utah working for the Denver and Rio Grande Western. He had saved $60 and took the big plunge -- marrying Della Forker from Ellis, Kansas. At this time Chrysler took an electrical engineering correspondence course.
Chrysler was earning $90 a month as a foreman over 90 men in 1902. He took more correspondence courses and moved on to the Colorado and Southern Railroad in Trinidad, Colorado for $105 a month as general foreman. In 21 months he became a master mechanic; only 29 years old, yet the boss of 1000 men and earning $140 a month. He was then transferred to Childress, Texas to build a new shop with a raise in pay to $160 a month. At the completion of that assignment Chrysler went to Chicago Great Western in Oelwein, Iowa at $200 a month and had a life savings of $500.
In 15 months Chrysler moved up to general master mechanic and just 3 months later to superintendent of motive power for $350 a month. A keen interest in automobiles started at the Chicago Automobile Show in 1908. The Locomobile touring car was on display and could be purchased for a mere $5,000. Chrysler put up $700, all of his savings, and borrowed $4,300 in a loan arranged by Ralph Van Vechten and co-signed by Bill Causey. Chrysler took the Locomobile apart as soon as he got it home and studied it. He did not drive it for three months; however, on the first outing in the car, indeed the first time behind the wheel of any car, Walter P. Chrysler ran into the neighbor's ditch and garden.
At 34 years of age he was in charge of thousands of men and millions of dollars worth of equipment, at $350 a month. Chrysler took more correspondence courses in engineering and after an unpleasant meeting with the new president, Chrysler took a cut in pay to $275 a month in order to work for American Locomotive Company as a foreman in the Allegheny shop in Pittsburgh. Here he bought another car -- a Stearns-Duryea 6 cylinder.
Chrysler was promoted to works manager at the age of 36. James Storrow, director of American Locomotive Company, got Chrysler together with Charles Nash, who was then president of General Motors. Chrysler was earning $12,000 a year but accepted a job as works manager at Buick for $6,000 a year. He was finally in the automobile business. In his first week at Buick he reportedly earned his first year's pay. It seems there were no records on cars released for test drives and Buick was "losing" one to four cars per day. This was brought under control rather quickly. A piece-work schedule was established at Buick. Elimination of a chassis gloss coat cut the time per chassis of 4 days to 2 days and production increased from 45 a day to 75 a day. An assembly line was started along with spray paint and the idea of painting before assembly -- production rose to 200 a day. Other changes essentially involved the substitution of metallurgy for cabinet making. After three years and no raise, Chrysler asked for $25,000 a year.
In that year, 1915, Billy Durant returned to gain control of GM for the second time. Chrysler was general manager of Buick in 1916 when Durant offered him the presidency of Buick. Chrysler accepted (he also backed out of the formation of Nash Motors Company) and received $120,000 a year and $380,000 a year in GM stock at the price of the stock on the day of the contract. During these years at Buick, Chrysler became acquainted with K.T. Keller, a young master mechanic.
Chrysler quit GM in 1920 as the president of Buick and the vice-president of GM in charge of operations. This action came about when Durant announced at a civic meeting that GM would build a new plant in Flint, Michigan to manufacture Buick frames. Chrysler had arranged with A.O. Smith to build the 1921 Buick frames, so this surprise announcement resulted in Chrysler's resignation.
At forty-five years of age Chrysler was retired and puttering about his Detroit office. Willys-Overland was $50 million in debt and back into the picture comes Ralph Van Vechten who earlier arranged Chrysler's $4,300 car loan. Chrysler was asked to come into Willys and save the banker's $50 million but the risk of not pulling this off was so great that Chyrsler asked for 2 years at $1 million per year. He was concerned that failure to save Willys would reflect on his abilities. In two years the debt was reduced to $18 million.
During those two years Chrysler brought in Fred Zeder, Owen Skelton, and Carl Breer to an engineering center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. These men (all of whom were at Studebaker the year before) worked on a new car and a new engine. Failure to interest Willys executives in a new engine lead to the break with Willys at the end of two years. At this time Maxwell Motors was $26 million in debt and Chrysler was asked to help out, and he did at a salary of $100,000 a year and a stock option. He secured a loan of $15 million for Maxwell and sold cars out of existing inventory for $995 -- a profit of $5 per car. Chrysler went after the New Jersey engineering center for $5 million, but Durant outbid him at $5,525,000. The work done on the new car was turned over to Durant in the deal, and thus the Flint car came into existence. Zeder, Skelton, and Breer were moved to the Chalmers plant in Detroit as part of Maxwell to continue work on the new engine.
At this point, Studebaker made an unsuccessful attempt to buy Maxwell and the new high compression engine. This engine, and a new car, required $5 million to get into production in 1923, money that Maxwell did not have. The 1924 New York Auto Show was an excellent place to display the new car and secure a loan, but since the car was not in production it could not be displayed at the show (Ed. Note: recent evidence uncovered at the Detroit Public Library shows that Chrysler had a display at the NY Auto Show. All the attention, however, at the coup of providing a display at the Commodore has led many astray -- even the story In Chryler's own book). Chrysler rented the lobby of the Hotel Commodore, the show's headquarters and a place where men in the industry stayed during the show, and displayed the new Chrysler.
Financing was secured from Ed Tinker of the Chase Securities Corporation and 32, 000 Chryslers were built in 1924 and sold for $1595 — the same as Buick. This car was a true 70 mph performer with four wheel hydraulic brakes and a replaceable oil filter. On $5 million debt the company had a net profit of $4,115,000!
In 1925, MaxwelI Motor Corporation was re-organized into the Chrysler Corporation and Chrysler bought the banker's stock at $16. In 1926, K.T. Keller, from the Buick days, came on board as general manager and become president a few years later. Also that year the Chrysler 50 replaced the Maxwell and competed with Dodge. The model numbers indicated top speeds - 50, 60, 70 and 80 mph -- and later models used 62 and 72 designations to indicate improved models.
Chrysler was in fifth place in 1927 with sales of 192,000 cars. $75 million was needed to build a foundry, forge, and new facilities; Chrysler became acquainted with Clarence DiIIon, of Dillon, Reed and Company, who had brought Dodge in 1924 for $146 million.
In May, 1927, Chrysler and Dillon negotiated for 5 days straight in a suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and at 5 p.m. on the fifth day, the deal was struck -- Dodge was sold for $225,000,000 (comprised of $170,000,000 in Chrysler stock and $55,000,000 in Dodge liabilities). Chrysler had canvas signs made up in advance that were installed that evening at the Dodge Main -- they simply read "Chrysler Corporation - Dodge Division". Chrysler's capacity was increased five fold!
K.T. Keller became Dodge president in 1929 and by 1937 Chrysler was free of debts. There were 76,000 employees.
Chrysler died on August 18, 1940 and was not there to witness the fine contribution Chrysler Corporation made to the war effort. This effort was perhaps the most fitting tribute to the man and to the company that could get things done. In May of 1940, Keller was asked to build tanks and from a set of blueprints and a cornfield, tanks were rumbling out the door of a new plant in just seven months! Really remarkable.
In this two-minute 1932 newsreel, Walter P. Chrysler, Fred Zeder (Head of Chrysler Engineering) and K.T. Keller (President of Dodge) discuss the new Dodge Brothers car. Check out Zeder's response to Walter Chrysler's question; "Fred, are you proud of this car?" at 1:32:
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Worcester's public water system dates back to 1848 and now has 592 miles of water mains. Some of the underground mains that go back to the 1870s are still in use today.
The water mains range in size from 3/4 of an inch in diameter to as big as 54 inches in diameter. There are nearly 40,000 water service connections in the city.
The water distribution system provides on average 24 million gallons of water per day to residents and businesses in Worcester, as well as to customers in Paxton and several other water districts in the surrounding towns. The supply system has 10 reservoirs in five neighboring towns and a water filtration plant in Holden, which began operation in 1997.
Water from the reservoirs is sent to the filtration plant for treatment. The filtered water is then sent out through the distribution system to customers throughout the city. At some of the higher elevations in the city there are water storage tanks: at Airport Hill (Coppage Drive), Chester Street, Indian Hill, Millstone Tank (Skyline Drive, Belmont Hill), to name a few.
The water system operates on an enterprise fund: Its expenses are paid for with revenue generated for water services. The water enterprise is not subsidized in any way by taxes.
This fiscal year, about $6.7 million is supposed to be borrowed to finance improvements to the water system.


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What ho sed de ting!
How you doing, you lot out there? Gosh! You, I guess you are now the proud owners of
the very first little box set of the re-released singles from Iron Maiden. Well, I've got to
say this, welcome to Not a lot of people know that, part 1. Cause here, I'm here I'm
about to tell you a few stories now and in the next oooh nine releases of this here box
sets, over the period of the next ten weeks. Now look here, first of all, my goodness, it's
ten years almost to the day...my... ooh little chickadees out there, oh you've got your
grubby little hands on Running Free, Burning Ambition, oh gosh! The very first single!
Sanctuary, Drifter, and I've Got The Fire, the second singles..gosh! The first one was
released, as I said, almost ten years to the very day on February 8, 1980. Cor, dear!
Here, I'll tell you something, right? You know 'Arry... 'Arry Harris, right, he had a band
called Gypsy's Kiss ....yeah it's disgusting isn't it...and you know what that rhymes with
dontya? Well if you don't, I'm not gonna tell ya anyway so there. He had this song called
Burning Ambition, which I suppose was a real sort of drive for 'Arry then because he was,
you know, full of ambition to get his music out and play it to people, and he had this
song. And he was in this band Gypsies Kiss, well they were, cause they couldn't handle
this song. And they turned around and said "'Arry you know look at all these chord
changes and time changes", as he's famous for, and I should know...come on, give us a
break. So, he took the song to the band and they've gone, "Oi 'Arry, gypsies kiss off will
ya, I can't play that!" And he said, "Oi, I've had enough of this then, I'm gonna go find
some people that can, so kiss you and all". So anyway that's what he did. Not kiss them,
no, he did the other thing, you know, what it rhymes with... mm off. I'll say he pissed
off, so there you go. Whatever. Now he went out and he formed a band, and um..uuh,
Burning Ambition was actually recorded late in 1979 and originally featured the original
drummer in fact of..in fact I think there was one guy before him...but Doug Sampson was
on drums in those days. Dave double tracked on guitars... you know, he double tracked
and all..he doesn't have to though, does he? You know what I'm saying.
Well, ok, Running Free as well was also the first art work from Riggsy...RIGGSY! Now you
knowI tell people I'm actually from another planet you know cause I'm a bit off the wall,
well I'll tell you this boy OWNS the other planet, my goodness! No god bless him, he's a
diamond guy I love him, what an artist! He first brought Eddie into the first sleeve on this
the Running Free single, and Eddie if you remember rightly was standing in the shadows,
you never really saw him. But uh, oh my goodness, he brought him out didn't he, on the
first album all in his glory and splendour, Eddie comes out and go "yeeeeh I'm here," so
watch out folks. Well there, what can you say about it, Running Free, it's a song the
band still to this day plays, it's one of the truly great Iron Maiden songs, I mean not only
just because it was their first single, but...what a crack.
And now then, well we've gone through that, Burning Ambition we talked about, on the
other side we got Sanctuary...on the other single rather, we've got Sanctuary, Drifter
live, and I've Got The Fire, an old Montrose song. Well this... this was the first top-30
entry actually, it made number 29 and uh, oh you know the boys were really happy it
was released 23rd of May 1980 cor dearie me, it was a couple within a few months of
one another... You lucky boys and girls! Woah, as I said you've got one every week for
ten weeks coming out here...ah, oh well. This was recorded by the way...the live Drifter
and I've Got The Fire, was recorded in the Marquee in April 1980. And that was a good
year, I've got a good drop of wine at home made in 1980, yeah still got half a bottle left,
it's really good. I've Got The Fire, it's an old Montrose song as I said, and Steve liked it
so he recorded it live, and it used to be a set opener for the band in those days, but on
the back of that they kind of got into the deal of like not recording sort of Iron Maiden
songs on the b's, this was when the beginnings when b-sides were other people's songs
that the band decided to play.
Anyway around this time, they uh, they didn't get top of the pops ...rotten buggers...but
we all know why, it's the bleedin BBC isn't it? Well you know we'll work out some sort of
abbreviation for that later on...but anyway they couldn't get on because there was some
industrial action, you know strikes and all that good stuff, you know what the BBC
usually like to do...
You! He moved the broom!
Well, is he a labourer? No he f'king well ain't!
Well that's it, we're going on strike. Put your teacups up to your face lads, lets go out to
the canteen and have another drink...
You know, whatever...Well what can you say, what can you say, strikes all around. So
the boys didn't get to play top of the pops -- that's no biggie, you know they never play
the band anyway do they? poxy BBC... Chrity!
Anyway funnily enough, around this time it the very first gig I ever did with Iron Maiden,
no not actually playing with them like as a band, a full band. I played in a band called
McKitty, and these guys in McKitty...a guy called Donnovan McKitty himself, we did a gig
in Belgium, and it was in fact... not a lot of people know this...but it was in fact Maiden's
very first European gig, how about that, and I was there! So there! Hmm! Stuff that up
your f'king pipe and smoke it! Right! So there you go. I was, I was really privileged to be
there, and that's when I really first met the band, we got on so well and we had such a
riot....what can I say?
Anyway, you remember the Sanctuary sleeve, you lot? Yeah...Maggie Thatcher...weeelll,
can you believe it, she was there, you know what she was trying to do...stupid cow...
she was trying to pull down an Iron Maiden poster off the wall. Well, what can you say
about that? Not a lot, believe me! She was...I dunno why they called her the iron
maiden, do you? Nothing like this....I know why! Maybe because she's like Eddie!
Listen! By the way I've got to tell you this little story real quick, allright, I'm running out
of time on this one but nevertheless... You remember Eddie, right? Course you remember
Eddie! Well this is the origin of Eddie, right. The band used to have this backdrop which
featured this theatrical mask and it sort of spat out all this red dye and smoke and all
that gobby stuff and here's poor old Clive sitting under it getting gobbed on every
night... "Oy! what's all this?!", he's going, "What's all this red st...you know, this shit
coming over my head, I've had enough of that paint", eh....anything you could find,
anything they could find they'd sling in it. Anyway, they called him Eddie the Head, see,
and it's after an old East-End joke that goes as follows:
'Ere, Eddie was very unfortunate, he was born without a body. So nevertheless, his
parents loved him dearly and took him home and placed him on the mantelpiece one day.
Well, his family gave him lots of love and attention and he always got loads of presents
on his birthday kind of...blowing things, and hats and all that kind of stuff, wow...
Anyway one year he was about 16, and the hospital phoned up Eddie's parents and they
said to them, they said "look, due to modern technology and all those good things that
we can do with you know all this stuff nowadays, we are now able to build Eddie a
body." So, with this the parents were soooo excited, they couldn't believe it, and they
couldn't wait to tell Eddie, I mean this is it, Eddie's gonna have a body! Weeeha!
However, as it was close to his birthday, they decided to tell the doctors to go ahead
and build his body, and then they would surprise him, you know they weren't far away
from his birthday... well, a good birthday present, so anyway... A few weeks later the big
day arrived, yes, Eddie's birthday. So his parents goes up to him, and walked up to the
mantelpiece and "Hello Eddie, how you doin? This year is gonna to be the best birthday
yet! Have we got something for you, such a wonderful present! And his mum's going "Oh
goodness Eddie we're so pleased!" And Eddie's going, "Oh no!" said Eddie, "Not another
fucking hat!"
Hahahahaha! Oh, I think it's funny! Shit, it is! It's pretty good innit! Anyway, after
this...anyway, Derek came up with the creature Eddie and the body and that on the
record covers, and the name was just carried over and the rest is history innit? And
Eddie's out there, yet he's got to have a bit of nookie before long, that's all I can say


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Punctuated by the beautiful Nerang River, this suburb has come a long way since its waterway was named "little" by its original Indigenous inhabitants. The river itself is a popular place for picnics, boating and fishing with a platform at Arthur Earle Park allowing easy access to catch the bream, flathead, whiting and trevally which inhabit these waters.
Despite being inland, water seems to be the theme of Nerang, which is also home to Hinze Dam and its recreational facilities with state-of-the-art interpretative centre; lakeside parks; walking, bike and horse trails; and barbecue areas. A historic river mill built in 1910, with a café along the banks of the river, is also a highlight of a visit here. The river may be little, but Nerang's heart is big.
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This post will be my last entry before I leave for my summer vacation to Malaysia tomorrow.I promised I will try to post more authentic and delicious homemade food cook by my mom as long as the Internet connection is cooperate..Well,can't wait to test my mom cooking...so long..
Well,as far as I know there are only 2 types of Pomfret:black and white..But recently when I shop for seafood and fish at fishmonger I come across Atlantic promfret,it's also know as " Brama brama" .This fish look exactly like regular pomfret,same shape and size.The only different is the color and thickness of the outer layer skin!!.The skin texture look like silver and it's quite thick.For me, I peeled the outer layer of the skin away after the fish cooked before consumed.To be honest, I think the skin look like leather,pardon my ignorance!! I think this type of fish is suitable for grilling or baked..but I preferred to cook it with vegetable curry!! Viola!!
2 Atlantic pomfret,clean and cut into 1/2
100 gm baby carrot
2 tomato,cut quarter
10 asparagus cut 2 inch
2 medium onion,peeled and cut chunk
10 red chili pepper,removed seeds and cut
4-5 tbsp sambal belacan pasta
4-5 tbsp fish curry powder(Baba's brand)
2 sprig curry leaves
1 can coconut milk(400ml)
1 cup whole milk or more if you like extra sauce
2 cube anchovies bouillon(shrimp or chicken is OK)
2 tbsp sugar
2-3 tbsp oil
salt to taste
1:Prepare a 5 qtr stock pot or wok at medium high heat.Add in oil ,curry leaves, sambal-belacan-paste and curry powder,mix well with spatula for 5 minutes.
2:When the paste is fragrant,add in coconut milk ,milk,carrot and anchovies bouillon.When the gravy bubbly boiled add in the rest of all the vegetables .Cook for another 10-15 minutes before add in sugar and salt.
3:Check the seasoning ,add in cut fish.Cook for 5-10 minutes at high heat.Do not overcooked the fish.Dish out and serve warm with rice,bread or noodles.


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The MVP winner is…..
Who'll win the MVP race?
It appears to be a three-horse race, first basemen Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols and outfielder Manny Ramirez.
Two writers from each NL city voted. Ballots were due the day after the season ended. Tomorrow at 2 p.m., we'll know the answer.
Howard had the big month of September when it meant the most. He put the team on his shoulders and led them to the Division title.
Ramirez limped around Boston, got traded and carried the Dodgers to their Division title.
Pujols put up awesome numbers all season but his Cardinals finished 11 ½ games behind the Cubs.
When Howard won in 2006, Pujols questioned that a player from a non-division winner should be an MVP. Well, he now faces that prospect.
The Phillies have won the last two, Howard and J-Roll. Will it be a trifecta?


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It's a conundrum. Tiny little yellow potatoes in summertime are a totally irresistible thing. But who wants to heat up the house boiling or roasting them indoors?
Here's how to get soft, creamy potatoes, with a minimum of indoor cooking (if any). And the best part is, you don't even have to cut them up into similar sizes, as long as they're all less than 3-inches long. It's a forgiving recipe; if the potatoes go too long, don't fret. Just mash them and serve with a dollop of butter.
Top requirement: Get good potatoes. The most beautiful you can find. That means a trip to the farm market.
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Lindsey Vonn could bring some excitement to Monday's alpine combined at world champs
BEAVER CREEK — Lindsey Vonn acknowledges that her chances of claiming a medal in Monday's alpine combined or Friday's giant slalom are "slim," and that she's hoping for a "miracle," but she could make things very interesting in the combined.
She can be expected to have one of the best runs in the combined downhill Monday morning. In fact, I expect her to take a little anger out on the course where she settled for bronze in super-G and finished fifth in downhill.
But even if she wins the combined downhill, she will have to exceed expectations in the combined slalom in the afternoon. Until this week she hadn't trained slalom in more than two years.


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Fortunately for us, this is not one of our weeks. Unfortunately for Councilman David Yassky, he provided us with a proposal that is almost the Platonic Ideal of what we like to write about. So without further ado, we'll tell you about the councilman's scheme.
As we all know, the City of New York is in complete financial meltdown. Our economy is like Chernobyl, except when the banks implode, there won't be any green stuff flying out into the streets. And the expected loss of property and sales tax has everybody hustling to find some fiscal relief for our spend-crazy government. Some have suggested selling bridges, raising and lowering taxes, and even melting down our beloved manhole covers for their precious platinum cores, but Councilman Yassky has come up with a solution that we find utterly trashy.
Yassky has proposed that, in order to save money on public trash-can creation, maintenance, and even pick-up, that our beloved green cylinders be sold to the highest bidder and emblazoned with bikini-girls selling fried chicken sandwiches, dish detergents, and Bruce Willis movies.
That's right, folks. Waste receptacle advertising.
The idea does have that ironic "screw you": by letting companies pay for the privilege of associating their likely cruddy products with a literal bucket of crud, but we think that the sinister cynicism of the idea far outweighs any deep-seeded anti-establishment subtext.
By suggesting this, Yassky shows where his sympathies lie, and it is not with the welfare of the public. His heart may be in the right place, because after all, he's just trying to save us taxpayers a few dollars down the line, but these savings, like buying Tang instead of oranges, will wreak untold havoc on our bodies and minds at a time when the only thing we need is relief from the overwhelming artificial stimuli that we have introduced into our environment.
We ask you, David Yassky, aren't there enough advertisements in our lives already? Whether we commute by bus, train or automobile, our mornings and evenings are swollen with slick product pitches designed explicitly to deceive us. New Yorkers are honest people wanting nothing more than to stay productive and be happy, yet we have to be exposed to advertisements for pubic dye on our train rides to work.
We have to refuse calls from political action committees and telemarketers in our own homes. People pay to advertise bands or sporting companies as a fashion statement. Even your favorite weekly community newspaper is packed to the gills with ads shilling surplus cornhusks, striped bendy straws, and old refrigerators.
(Editor's note: The statements made in Pol Position do not reflect the opinions of our publisher or staff. In truth, we love all of our advertisers as if they were our own children. Probably more than our own children.)
After he sells off all of the city's garbage cans, we have a short list of suggestions for public places that still do not have corporate sponsors. If Councilman Yassky is lucky, he still might find buyers for these hot advertising locations in and around New York City.
We've noticed that there is a renovation-related wrapping around the 59th St Bridge, and a resourceful candy marketer could easily make that iconic landmark look exactly like an Snickers bar.
We would also like to suggest corporate sponsorship of street names. Many members of our staff actually live in Councilman Yassky's district, and are looking forward to having our mother's write to us at 536 Tampax Avenue and telling our friends that we live at the corner of Enron Boulevard, just past West Mission Impossible 4 Street.
But if we truly want to be good, patriotic New Yorkers and help our beloved city find it's way out of its crisis, we should be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. A number of corporations have adopted a new initiative that will pay cities to tattoo slogans and logos on their faces, so that when tourists visit our city, a quick glance into the crowd will remind them of the great, fresh taste of Listerine.
It's a small sacrifice to make for financial stability, and we at Pol Position just adore Listerine, for that swishable, kissable, can't-missable smile. We think that all of our readers should go to their corner store and buys some Listerine right now, to wash that garbage-taste right out of their mouths.


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Sigh, My life has come back to earth with a spectacular bump today as I've been doing admin, sorting my house out and dealing with my naughty furry baby. She broke two cups today and smashed a glass! She's never been this naughty before so it's driving me a little bit loopy! Im so tired and cant wait to wear skate shoes and jeans for the foreseeable future!
Thursday, February 20, 2014
LFW AW/14 : day five
Sigh, My life has come back to earth with a spectacular bump today as I've been doing admin, sorting my house out and dealing with my naughty furry baby. She broke two cups today and smashed a glass! She's never been this naughty before so it's driving me a little bit loopy! Im so tired and cant wait to wear skate shoes and jeans for the foreseeable future!
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your hair here is amazing! love the big bouncy curls! hope you had an amazing time at the BRITs!! :)ReplyDelete
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You're so lucky getting to go to the Brits! I so want to go next year! Love those boots xxReplyDelete
you're so lucky that you went to the brits! your hair looks amazing here!ReplyDelete
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Really like your dress and your hair also looks lovely :) hope you had a good time at the BRITS it looked amazing!ReplyDelete
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I absolutely love this coat, it has such a lovely fit and suits you wonderfully! I've really enjoyed reading your LFW posts, some of my favourites : )ReplyDelete
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I think this is my favourite of your fashion week outfits! So elegant and sophisticated, yet still so darn cool! xReplyDelete
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Your hair looks so lovely like that (: loving the coat too! Really like pale blue/grey colours (: xReplyDelete
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don't be mad at your little furry friend for breaking a glass! she's so cute and it all that matters! haha, hope you had fun at brits, love the outfit! xxReplyDelete
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all of your outfits for LFW are just awesome! love all of them :) xxxxReplyDelete
I think you had the best LFW outfits of any bloggers:)xReplyDelete
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Gorgeous outfit... your hair looks incredible!ReplyDelete
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Love this outfit, especially the coat and bag! also I really enjoyed all your fashion week posts! xReplyDelete
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
We have been playing with the new NX Gen X6 miners from ZeusMiner for a few days already and have already shared some interesting findings from our testing, but it is now time for detailed reviews focusing on each of the new lower power usage Scrypt ASIC miners. Beginning with the top model – ZeusMiner Lightning X6 Scrypt ASIC miner, rated officially as 40-42 MHS at 980W power consumption and being sold by ZeusMiner for $1399 USD, though you can already find it cheaper at their distributors. What Zeus did with their new X6 miners is to lower the voltage and operating frequency of their Scrypt ASIC chips and as a result we got the new lower power usage products. Now, if the reduction in power usage was not combined with new lower prices of the devices they might not have been so interesting with the continuing to increase Litecoin network hashrate. The lower power usage and the new lower price however do make the new X6 series of miner interesting option to consider if you are planning to invest in Scrypt ASICs. The ZeusMiner Lightning X6 might not be currently the most powerful in terms of hashrate Scrypt ASIC miner, however it is probably one of the best ones in terms of price per MHS from what is currently available on the market… especially if you manage to get it at sub $1000 USD price.
Zeus has a strange policy of citing hashrate for their products, but not giving a recommended frequency for their products and the miner software does require the user to give an operating frequency for the chips. This is still valid for the new X6 miners, meaning that you need to find the best frequency yourself, though you should start at around 220-230 MHz for the Lightning X6 as per our tests results. With the smaller Thunder X6 and Lightning X6, and probably the Blizzard X6 as well a good start frequency seems to be 250 MHz and we have found out the reason for this frequency difference. The ZeusMiner Lightning X6 has the Scrypt ASIC chips inside operating at 1.05V and the other miners from the X6 series use voltage of 1.1V and as a result they are able to operate at higher frequency without problems. The lower voltage on the Lightning X6 was probably needed in order to bring the power usage level of the miner below 1000 Watts as otherwise the consumption could go as high as 1.1 KW or even higher and make it harder to find a suitable PSU for the device.
We have measured the power usage of the Lightning X6 operating at a frequency of 230 MHz and the result we've got was about 906-914 Watts as actual power usage and about 970W measured at the wall (taking into account the PSU efficiency). The actual power consumption measured at the wall could be higher depending on the PSU used, the 1200W Corsair 80 Plus Platinum power supply we have used does remain with high power efficiency at the measured load, so there is not much power wasted, but you can easily go above 1000W with other not so efficient one. So apparently Zeus did a good job in lowering the power usage almost two fold with just about 10-12 MHS lower power usage compared to the previous generation miners with 256 chips.
Our tests have shown that the optimal operating frequency of the ZeusMiner Lightning X6 Scrypt ASIC miner is around 220 MHz, though at that frequency the hashrate you can expect to get is slightly lower than what is being advertised – we are getting around 36-38 MHs with about 6.6% HW errors. If you increase the operating frequency of the chips to 230-235 MHz we can get about 39-40 MHS, but the level of the hardware errors does increase almost twice to about 12% which is even less acceptable. The higher the number of HW errors you get it means that you are pushing the hardware a bit too much, and even at 6.6% it is more that we would normally like to have. Zeus does advertise the Lightning X6 as a 40-42 MHS Scrypt ASIC, but we feel that a more adequate rating for the performance should be 38-40 MHS.
Here is the situation with the poolside reported hashrate at the LTC Rabbit Scrypt mining pool using the new fixed difficulty ports for Scrypt ASIC miners and the Lightning X6 running at 220 MHz operating frequency. We are getting an average hashrate of about 37.4 MHs with peaks to almost 38.5 MHS and drops to about 35.5 MHs. At 230 MHz the poolside result was slightly higher with an average of about 39.2 MHS and peaks going as high as 40.8 MHS and drops to about 37.5 MHs. Of course the poolside hashrate can vary a bit based on multiple factors, but the locally reported hashrate we are getting shows consistent results with what the pool is giving us out as performance data.
With the ZeusMiner Lightning X6 we see a good improvement in terms of lowering the power consumption for a 256-chip miner without too much of performance loss. The price of the miner is also very good considering that you can already find the Scrypt ASIC miner with a price per MHS of about $25 USD. We did not like very much the high level of HW errors that we are getting in order to be able to push a performance close to the one officially advertised hashrate, but the difference isn't that huge. And only if the miner could not be so noisy, but at that power usage you can expect to have a lot of noise coming from the cooling fans used to keep the device cool.


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No More Pentagon Dinners: Al Qaeda Leader Killed… Again
Anwar al-Awlaki dead for second time in two years
Steve Watson
According to a "senior US administration official", Al Qaeda Boogie Man Anwar al-Awlaki has been reported killed in an air strike in Yemen, which is the exact same way he died in 2009.
The Yemeni defense ministry confirmed the claim, stating that the same counterterrorism unit that killed Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen to kill al-Awlaki.
"Cynics will point to the strategic timing" notes TIME, adding "just a week after embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned from four months of medial treatment in Saudi Arabia following an attack on the presidential compound."
Moi? Cynical? Never.
There are a couple of issues I would like to address, however.
Why should we believe the American born cleric al-Awlaki, who has been linked with everything from the aborted Christmas Day underwear bombing to the ink toner plane bomb plot, is dead this time around?
Like many supposed terrorist leaders before him, Awlaki has previously been reported killed.
On December 24, 2009 several news outlets reported that Awlaki was believed to have been killed in a joint U.S-Yemeni pre-dawn air strike by Yemeni Air Force fighter jets on a meeting of 30 or so senior al-Qaeda leaders at a hideout in Rafd, a remote mountain valley in eastern Shabwa.
The Reuters news agency spoke to an unnamed Yemeni official at the time who said: "Anwar al Awlaki is suspected to be dead (in the air raid)."
Awlaki's death was also reported by Fox News and Al Jazeera.
On December 28 The Washington Post reported that U.S. and Yemeni officials had confirmed that al-Awlaki was at the al-Qaeda meeting.
Then on December 29 it was reported by Newsweek that a Yemeni journalist called Abdul Elah Hider al-Shaya had been in contact with Awlaki after the air raid, and was claiming that he was still alive.
The report stated:
There is no independent way to confirm Shaya's account and U.S. intelligence officials are now ducking the question of whether they believe Awlaki is dead or alive. "His status is not entirely clear," a U.S. intelligence official says."
Between then and now, the so called "key leader" of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has popped up in several slick videos and was said to have produced al Qaeda's signature English-language internet magazine.
As we have previously reported, every significant Al Qaeda leader appears to have been killed or reported killed several times, indicating that these people are simply names,interchangeable at the whim of the Pentagon, US Intelligence and their corporate media mouthpieces.
The American-born cleric is perhaps the most complex of these characters.
Every indication points to Awlaki being a double agent working for US intelligence. He has been involved in almost every terror plot over the last couple of years, from directing the underwear bomber, who was allowed to board the plane by order of the US State Department aided by a well-dressed man who got Abdulmutallab on the airliner despite the fact that he was on a terror watchlist and had no passport, to advising Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Authorities have engaged in a cover-up of what happened at Fort Hood after they ordered Private Lance Aviles to delete cell phone footage of the attack.
Awlaki's alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI.
Lawyers in a case relating to the much vaunted 2007 terror plot to attack Fort Dix and kill "as many soldiers as possible" concluded that FBI informants were the key figures behind the operation and that the accused, six foreign-born Muslims, were merely bungling patsies.
Similarly, the "Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out to be "a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac". The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group.
Awlaki was also the spiritual leader of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, a fact that didn't seem to concern Pentagon top brass who invited him to dine with them just months after the September 11 attacks despite the fact that he had personally colluded with the very hijackers who were alleged to have slammed Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
The US Special Operations Command's Able Danger program identified the hijackers and their accomplices long before 9/11, and would undoubtedly have also picked up Awlaki.
It is inconceivable that top Department of Defense officials were unaware that Al-Awlaki was interviewed at least four times by the FBI in the first eight days after the Sept. 11 attacks because of his ties to the three hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour.
Nevertheless, not only did he dine with the military's finest, he was given a glowing report by the Defense Department for his role as the featured guest speaker on "Islam and Middle Eastern Politics and Culture."
These revelations were unveiled in internal Department of Defense emails obtained under the freedom of information act.
Al-Awlaki's videos were routinely released by the IntelCenter, which as we have documented is nothing more than a Pentagon front group that has been caught red-handed releasing fake Al-Qaeda videos to bolster support for the geopolitical agenda of the US government.
Researcher Webster Tarpley has documented, Awlaki is "an intelligence agency operative and patsy-minder" and "one of the premier terror impresarios of the age operating under Islamic fundamentalist cover" whose job it is to "motivate and encourage groups of mentally impaired and suggestible young dupes who were entrapped into "terrorist plots" by busy FBI and Canadian RCMP agents during recent years."
If Al-Awlaki really is dead this time around, the Pentagon has lost one of its top go-to men as far as the manufactured "war on terror" is concerned.


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Student Who Wrecked Pro-Life Display With Car to Face Judge
A 22-year-old Dartmouth College student will appear in court early next week after he allegedly used his car to run over a pro-life display set up by a student organization.
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights In Education (FIRE), the man, Emery S. Coxe, has been charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly drove his Toyota Camry off of the road and into a display created by Vita Clamantis, a pro-life student organization, in mid-April. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
The display was called the "Cemetery of the Innocents," the Vita Clamantis blog explains, and featured 546 American flags that were set up to represent the 54.6 million lives lost to abortion since the case of Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.
"The purpose of this display was not to condemn but to ask for forgiveness and to promise hope, to promise ourselves and each other that we will do better, we will care better, we will be better," Vita Clamantis President Robert M. Smith wrote in the blog.
"We put these flags out to ask every Dartmouth student a simple question: when your friend, your sister, your cousin, your neighbor, finds herself in this crisis, afraid and uncertain, feeling like the decision of her life weighs upon her, what will you do?"
The group also used the display as a way to advertise a moderated discussion that was held on campus.
But according to The Dartmouth Review, the peaceful display site quickly became more like a battle zone. The signs created to explain the display were defaced, some of the flags were stolen and someone even planted a sign of their own nearby that said, "May the child you save be GAY."
Later, Coxe allegedly drove his car through the display and knocked over a number of the flags, as photos from the Review show. At one point, there were three security vehicles and a Hanover Police Department cruiser at the scene of the display.
"Unfortunately this isn't that uncommon when it comes to displays on campus, and particularly pro-life displays," Robert Shibley, senior vice president of FIRE, told The Christian Post on Friday.
Shibley says dissenting opinions are not being well-received on most campuses, neither from individuals nor from the schools themselves. FIRE researches the speech codes of about 400 schools annually, and last year the organization found that about 65 percent of schools have speech codes that are either unconstitutional or would be considered so if they weren't private.
"That's two-thirds of schools specifically telling students in the rules what they can or can't say. When you have a culture like that it's not surprising that students, when they're faced with expression they don't like, think it's okay to destroy it, trash it, get rid of it or, in this case, run over it," said Shibley.
Information on the speech codes of specific schools are available on FIRE's website, Shibley says, although he believes that schools should take the initiative and do a better job of teaching students "how to operate in a free society."


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Cartoons of the day: Happy New Year 2014
Happy New Year. 2013 wasn't a great year for many, with dysfunction in Washington and natural disasters in Colorado and elsewhere. So it's probably best that Father Time is now passing the baton to the New Year's baby in that classic cartoon tradition. Here's a selection of New Year's cartoons for your viewing pleasure.
Also, check out New Year's cartoons from a year ago.
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How the future of the country sees the future of of public libraries.
If there's one thing older generations like to complain about today's young people, it's their devotion to electronic devices. What kind of world will we end up with if kids these days are all reading books on their smart phones? Which leads to the question of the future of libraries, the public's brick-and-mortar meccas for the printed word, which despite increased usage post-recession are still struggling to keep their doors open.
A Pew Research Center report released today offers some insight into the minds of the very same younger Americans who will grow up to define what our libraries will become. Among young people (which Pew here defines as 16-29 years old), 75 percent had read at least one print book in the last year, versus just 25 percent who had read at least one e-book. And when it comes to libraries themselves, turns out Millennials are much more bullish on them than you might expect:
The blue bars in the chart above represent the percentage of surveyed young people who say libraries "should definitely" implement a particular policy. Over half favor increasing e-book choices, but are split on moving books out of public reach (23 percent say definitely yes, 29 percent say definitely no). Notice that the four highest-ranked ideas have nothing to do with checking out books or electronic tools: they're about community programs and library spaces.


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Preface: I want to make this abundantly clear- I, in no way, shape, or form, claim to be the judge on these matters. This is undoubtedly a charged subject, and it deserves to be treated as one. The Deadspin community is one I hold dear, and that in itself is the only reason I feel obliged to write this. All of you are most welcome to discuss in the comments below, though I fear I may not be either available or willing to discuss this evening. Also, do be a peach and keep this here on Sidespin. -GB
Today was full of stories about the NFL and Ray Rice. Sometimes his wife, Janay, was even mentioned by name. Absolutely flabbergasting- but that's a subject for better writers, and hopefully many of them women.
I can give you the spiel about knowing women and children who have suffered at the hands of domestic violence, who have been abused, beaten, wounded, and left with scars no one should bear. That would be a foolish thing to extrapolate forever on, because I can never actually know what depths of pain and despair that encompasses. And frankly, I feel confident assuming most of our little community on Sidespin doesn't have much of a clue either.
So let's talk about us. Deadspin, where we come to (at least) try and be funny. The very nature of what we do here is make jokes, blow off steam, and admittedly, I (chief of hypocrisy), consistently seek applause and attention. Free content and clicks for a company based on people working for stars instead of dollars! Narcissists as the world's online day laborers. The great thing, however, is that it builds a community of people who make each other laugh. The dark side, often, is the result of the same intentions.
This is where I (and others) have found ourselves today. What is this? Or this? What about that? And Christ, the fuck is this? There's so many of them, by us. Why? Is this the example we set for new commenters? Why, in the midst of being abhorred by the horrifically dismissive "punishment" of a fucking abuser do we treat it as dismissive as well? Who in god's sake gave us the pass to treat Janay Rice in the same casual manner as Roger Goodell? Who, damn you? When did being an (often) self-proclaimed anonymous internet comedian, which, essentially, we all try to be, give us the high horse to choose when to condemn one while still emulating their disregard for the same horrific event? Is Janay being beaten unconscious funny to you? Is formulating turns of phrase while thinking about it amusing? Is a handful of non-tangible stars and our inflated egos somehow more valuable? We're the same bunch who came to the defense of one of our own when she posted one of the most gut-wrenching things to ever see the light of day here, and yet we casually cartwheel the other way, desperately, for a few laughs when it's a woman being drug across a fucking hallway that we hardly know.
All I ask, and hear me as someone who respects all of you as a wonderful community, to give this subject some thought before the weekend. We can do better than this.


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Wednesday's poll shows the New Jersey Republican's positives outweigh his negatives among Democrats, independents and women.
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The poll also shows Newark Mayor Cory Booker with an early 51 to 31 percent lead over incumbent Frank Lautenberg in the 2014 U.S. Senate race.
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More Nonsense about the Trade Deficit
It has become conventional wisdom that a rising trade deficit is bad news for the economy. This week's announcement of an expanding deficit in June prompted such headlines today as this one in the news pages of the Wall Street Journal: "Wider Trade Gap Signals Weak Growth." As my colleague David Boaz blogged earlier today, the trade deficit is even blamed for daily swings in the stock market.
I've been studying and writing about the trade deficit for years, and devoted a whole chapter of my 2009 Cato book Mad about Trade to the subject, and I keep coming back to a basic question: If the trade deficit signals weak growth, why does the U.S. economy seem to perform so much better during periods when the trade deficit is growing, and so much worse when the trade deficit is shrinking?
Think back to the 1990s, the "goldilocks economy" when growth was strong, jobs plentiful, and inflation low. That was also a time of rising trade deficits. In fact, the trade gap grew for eight years in a row, rising from $77 billion in 1991 to $455 billion in 2000. In that same period, the unemployment rate dropped from 7.3 to 3.9 percent.
Again, in the middle of the George W. Bush presidency, the trade gap grew for five straight years, during a period when the economy expanded and the unemployment rate fell from 5.7 to 4.4 percent.
In contrast, the trade deficit invariably shrinks during periods of recession. The trade deficit fell by more than half from 2007 to 2009 as domestic demand and imports plunged and unemployment soared. Sagging domestic demand means fewer imports.
Of course, I'm not arguing that a bigger trade deficit stimulates the economy. I am arguing, contrary to the conventional wisdom reflected in this morning's headlines, that an expanding trade deficit does not appear to be a drag on growth. In fact, the plain evidence is that an expanding trade deficit is more often than not a signal of stronger growth.


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Prior to joining Shell, he was a diplomat at U.S. Embassies in Turkey, Germany, and Hungary. He was with an NGO in Egypt and spent two years in Indonesia consulting with oil companies.
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We don't really know much about the level of success on software development projects. Many people refer to the Chaos Report by the Standish Group which reports that 34% of IT projects are successful, 51% challenged (over schedule, and/or over time, and/or missing significant functionality), and 15% of projects are considered failures. However, at Dr. Dobb's we've found time and again that those numbers simply don't reflect the actual success rates being experienced by our readership. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that only one third of development projects are reasonably on time, on budget, and deliver pretty much what people want. But what I do doubt is that people actually measure project success in those terms.
In December 2008 we sent a survey out to the Dr. Dobb's mailing list and 279 people responded. Of the 279 59% were developers/modelers and 25% were in management, 80% had 10 or more years in IT, 16% worked in orgs of 1000 or more IT people, 92% worked in commercial firms, 68% were North American, and 16% European. The goals of the survey were to determine how people actually define project success and then how successful various approaches to software development proved to be in practice.
Success is in the Eye of the Beholder
We asked about four factors which we believe are critical issues for software development projects: functionality delivered, quality delivered, effective use of funds, and schedule. When it comes to functionality delivered, 83% believe that meeting actual needs of stakeholders is more important than building the system to specification. Similarly, 82% believe that delivering high quality is more important than delivering on time and on budget. Effective use of development funds is also important, with 70% believing that providing the best ROI is more important than delivering under budget. Finally, when it comes to schedule 58% believe that delivering when the system is ready to be shipped is more important than delivering on schedule.
What we found isn't surprising, but it clearly questions the "on time, on budget, to specification" definition of success. More specifically, of the 271 people who indicated how they defined success, only 11 (4%) indicated that a software development project must be on time, on budget, and to specification. More important, not one of the business stakeholders who responded to the survey believed in this definition of success. Interestingly, 122 respondents (45%) indicated that were flexible on all three factors.
There are several important observations to make:
- First, different people define project success in different ways, one size does not fit all. One of the criticisms that I get about the surveys that I run is that it's hard to judge the true success rates of projects because I'm not inflicting (and I use that word on purpose) a specific definition of success. Interesting opinion, but as you'll soon see that's not really an issue. I instead turn this criticism around and question any research that did insist on a specific definition of success.
- Second, different project teams within the same organization will have different success criteria, so once again one size does not fit all. For example, a project team within a bank producing a customer-facing informational web site will have different success criteria than a team who is working on an internal web site, and both will differ from the criteria for a team working on their funds transfer system.
- Third, the stakeholders should drive the success criteria for a project, a fairly obvious concept that we appear to be struggling with as an industry. Although few stakeholders seem interested in "on time, on budget, to specification" they often ask for this on many projects, I suspect because they expect little better of us. As professionals we need to start giving them more effective options.
- Fourth, it seems strange that only 4% of people defined success as on time, on budget, and to specification considering how often we seem to be asked for that. This to me is a clear indication that we should be giving people choices, the implication being that we would actually need to be sufficiently skilled to deliver software when it's ready to be shipped, spend our IT investment wisely, and build software which meets the actual needs of stakeholders.