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Doug Lebda
Chief Executive Officer and Company Founder
After experiencing the frustrations and complexities of getting his first mortgage, Doug Lebda envisioned a way to empower consumers in the loan process where banks compete for the customers' business. In 1996, Doug founded LendingTree which revolutionized how consumers shop for loans and how lenders reach new customers.
After launching nationally in July 1998, Doug led LendingTree through a successful IPO in 2000, through the dot-com meltdown of 2001 and a successful sale to IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2003. From 2005 to 2008, Doug served as IAC's President and Chief Operating Officer, and in 2008, joined the newly formed Tree.com (now rebranded as LendingTree) as it spun out from IAC as a separate public company.
Before founding LendingTree, Doug worked as an auditor and consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers after receiving his Bachelor's degree from Bucknell University.
Gabriel Dalporto
Chief Financial Officer
Gabe Dalporto joined LendingTree in April 2011 as Chief Marketing Officer for the company, and was named President of the Mortgage Division in February 2013. In June 2015, Gabe assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer for the company and is now leading the initiative to build the finance and analytics driven next phase of the company's growth..
Gabe brings 18 years of primarily marketing and financial services experience to his role at LendingTree. He was most recently Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer of online brokerage Zecco Holdings, where he led integrated online and offline marketing, business development, and PR. While at Zecco, Gabe developed and launched the company's cutting edge financial social networking platform. Other experience includes serving as a VP in marketing at E*Trade Financial, where he was part of the senior marketing leadership team that re-ignited the company's growth following the dot-com bust; and a VP in marketing at JP Morgan Chase where he spearheaded cross-sell initiatives. Gabe also has experience in database marketing, strategy consulting, and nuclear engineering.
Gabe earned a BS in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida and an MS in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an avid Gators fan.
Nikul Patel
Chief Operating Officer
Nikul Patel brings 16 years of technology and product management experience to the role at LendingTree. His career has revolved around transforming online financial services for the benefit of consumers. Prior to joining the team, Nikul was COO/VP Products for Home-Account.com, a start-up with an innovative mortgage shopping experience. Home-Account was later acquired by Bills.com where Nikul served as President of Lendage, the long form mortgage business of Bills.com. Nikul is a co-founder of online real estate search website Movoto.com and also worked at Intel Corporation for 12 years in senior management capacity where he managed technology products and services for the company. Nikul possesses an MBA with honors in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Claudette Parham
Chief People Officer
Claudette Parham is LendingTree's Chief People Officer. In her role, she heads the company's efforts in human resources strategy and management, facilities management, and call center operations. Working with a CEO and leadership team that demand creativity in all facets of the employment relationship, and recognizing that the strength of LendingTree has always been its bright and diverse workforce, Claudette and her team are laser-focused on identifying and implementing innovative ways to source and retain excellent talent.
Early professional experiences at Westinghouse Electric, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals provided Claudette with both breadth and depth in HR discipline. From those firms, she moved into leadership roles, working as a member of senior management teams to design and run organizations, and to make the most effective use of human capital. Prior to leading the LendingTree team, she served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Baker & Taylor, Inc., headquartered in Charlotte. Claudette earned a Bachelor's degree from Winthrop University and a Master's degree from the University of South Carolina.
Neil Salvage
Chief Revenue Officer
Neil Salvage was appointed Chief Revenue Officer of LendingTree in June 2015 assuming responsibility for all company revenue, leading sales, and managing LendingTree's contact center and lender partnership teams. Neil first joined LendingTree in July 2013 to run LendingTree's home services business. He is a 15-year veteran of local online marketing and is an expert at connecting buyers and sellers via search, mobile, and social experiences. With an extensive background in sales, marketing, business development, and strategic partnerships, Neil is a featured panelist at many industry conferences including Kelsey Group, Association of Directory Marketing, Inc., and Search Engine Strategies. Prior to joining LendingTree, Neil served as Head of Digital Sales for CBS Television and Radio, Executive Vice President of CityGrid Media, and Vice President of Yellowpages.com.
Neil holds two B.S. degrees from the University of South Carolina in both Business Administration and Management, as well as an M.S. degree in Computer Resources and Information Management from Webster University.
Carla Shumate
SVP, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer
Carla Shumate has served as Chief Accounting Officer of LendingTree since January 31, 2013. Carla joined the company in December 2012 from King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where she held various positions from 2001 until 2012, including Senior Vice President and Controller since 2005. Previously, Carla held various positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1993 until 2000, including Manager from 1998 until 2000. Carla received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Wake Forest University and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1997.
Bruce Cook
SVP, Business Development
Bruce Cook is responsible for corporate and business development for the LendingTree brand, including content syndication and strategic partnerships. He is also accountable for the performance marketing channels, including ad network (email, display and search arbitrage), affiliate, and affinity programs.
Bruce is a twelve-year veteran of personal finance consumer acquisition with strong knowledge of the digital marketing ecosystem and passion and in-depth understanding for online media and technology. He was fortunate to previously work with Experian / LowerMyBills during the massive scale days of the "largest advertiser on the Internet."
Rick Finch
SVP and GM, Auto
Rick Finch joined LendingTree on April 4, 2004, and has served in multiple roles spanning LendingTree's mortgage, real estate, auto, and insurance businesses. Rick currently serves as the General Manager of the Automotive Division, and is focused on expanding the company's auto finance business while building new products to increase value for consumers, auto finance lenders, and automotive dealers.
Prior to his current role, Rick served as the company's Global Head of Product after several years where he led marketing, product, and operations efforts for RealEstate.com, and subsequently served on the team to build out LendingTree's emerging businesses. Rick has also worked in various technology and marketing roles in the finance sector before joining LendingTree, focusing on credit card and online stock and options trading with TSYS, Bank of America, and TradeKing.
Rick received his Bachelor of Science degrees in Sociology and Applied Computer Science from Columbus State University.
Tamara Kotronis
SVP and GM, Education
Tamara Kotronis was appointed General Manager of the Education vertical of LendingTree in December 2012. In her role as GM, Tamara oversees the marketing and sales functions as well as the day-to-day operations of the education business unit. Prior to this role, Tamara was Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis and Investor Relations, where she was responsible investor relations, budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning across all brands and businesses of LendingTree. Tamara joined the company in September of 1999 and served in various capacities within the Finance department between 1999 and 2010.
Before joining LendingTree, Tamara was an Analyst for First Union Capital Markets' Structured Products division.
Tamara received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance and Political Science and MBA from Averett University.
Katharine Pierce
SVP and General Counsel
Kate Pierce joined LendingTree's legal department in September 2010 and became SVP and General Counsel in August 2012. As General Counsel, Kate oversees LendingTree's legal department, including public company reporting, litigation, intellectual property management, contract review, and regulatory matters.
Prior to joining LendingTree, Kate was an attorney in the Corporate Transactions & Securities group at Alston & Bird LLP. Before attending law school, Kate was a financial analyst in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York.
Kate received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and her JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill.


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TNT's Major Crimes Returns with More than 5 Million Viewers,
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New Drama King & Maxwell Opens with 3.5 Million Viewers
TNT's enormously popular crime-drama Major Crimes pulled in more than 5 million viewers in Live + Same Day for Monday night's second-season premiere. In the demos, the ensemble series scored deliveries of 1.2 million adults 18-49 and 1.5 million adults 25-54. Major Crimes' performance Monday night is in range of its overall Live + Same Day average for season one and even outperformed last year's average among adults 18-49 by +6%.
Compared to other returning shows on basic cable, Major Crimes ranks as this year's #1 scripted-series season premiere with total viewers and joins Sunday night's two-hour season premiere of Falling Skies among the Top 5 with adults 25-54.
Major Crimes was followed by the launch of TNT's newest series, the private-eye drama King & Maxwell, starring Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn. The show got off to a strong start with more than 3.5 million viewers in Live + Same Day, making it one of this year's Top 5 basic cable debuts for a new scripted series. In the demos, King & Maxwell delivered more than 1 million adults 25-54 and 820,000 adults 18-49.
About TNT's Major Crimes
Television's favorite squad of detectives is back in Major Crimes, TNT's hit crime-drama that ranked as basic cable's #1 new series of 2012. The extraordinary ensemble cast of Major Crimes includes two-time OscarÒ nominee Mary McDonnell as Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor, G.W. Bailey as Lieutenant Provenza, Tony Denison as Lieutenant Andy Flynn, Michael Paul Chan as Lieutenant Mike Tao, Raymond Cruz as Detective Julio Sanchez, Kearran Giovanni as Detective Amy Sykes, Phillip P. Keene as tech coordinator Buzz Watson, Robert Gossett as Assistant Chief Russell Taylor and expert Jonathan Del Arco as Dr. Morales, along with Graham Patrick Martin as Rusty Beck. This season, Nadine Velazquez has joined the ensemble as Deputy District Attorney Emma Stratton. Major Crimes focuses on how the American justice system approaches the art of the deal as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction.
Major Crimes is produced by The Shephard/Robin Company and Walking Entropy, Inc., in association with Warner Bros. Television. James Duff, Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin serve as executive producers.


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Ravinder Singh
Director, Information Management and Analytics
Director Ravinder Singh is responsible for providing data and research support for UC's college access and preparation programs.
Singh has over 15 years of experience working in educational settings. He previously worked for the Florida Department of Education, University of North Florida, and Florida State University. Singh has a Bachelor of Science from Millsaps College and a Master of Arts from Florida State University.
He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Social, Historical, and Philosophical Foundations of Education from Florida State University.


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Barrow County was formed in 1914 from
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Banner-Herald, Athens, GA and Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
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Wall collapse reveals remains of the Tower's 14th-century wharf
...flint and chalk remains of the first 14th-century section of Tower Wharf – constructed by Geoffrey Chaucer – were uncovered in February 2003.
Archaeological work at the Tower of London revealed the wall's failure was caused by the roots of Victorian Plane trees.
Chaucer – better known as author of The Canterbury Tales – was Clerk of Works at the Tower of London between 1389 and 1391 when this section of the wharf was built under his direction.
Excavation and repair
Oxford Archaeology carried out the excavation after a section of the revetment wall collapsed into the moat on 14 February 2003. A repair programme was begun in January 2004 and was then halted after significant archaeology was revealed.
Other discoveries during excavation included remains of the dressed stone walls of 15th-century cellars and 16th-century majolica tiles.
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The excavation also revealed the cause of the wall's failure. Massive tree roots had been pushing against the stonework, and down into the foundations.
For the wall to be repaired safely, and to prevent further damage to the archaeology, two London Plane trees were felled and their roots cut back.
The Tower Wharf was constructed in stages in the 13th and 14th centuries. It was built for ships to moor alongside for the loading of weapons and provisions.
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|About » Athletic Staff Directory
The Director of Athletic Communications for the Bisons, Jamie Gilliam is the primary media relations contact for the Lipscomb men's basketball and baseball teams and serves as the executive producer for the Lipscomb Radio Network and ESPN3/ASun.TV online television production. Gilliam also oversees the department's social media and website efforts and manages the staff of athletic communications assistants and student assistants.
Before being promoted Gilliam served as Athletics Communications Manager handling the day-to-day public and media relations efforts of the Lipscomb baseball, women's basketball and volleyball teams after joining the staff in July 2011.
A native of Decatur, Ala., Gilliam studied communications at Mississippi State University where he served as a student assistant in the Athletic Media Relations Department helping in day-to-day promotion of Bulldog athletics. While a part of the Mississippi State staff, Jamie served as the primary contact for both the men and women's track and field squads during their 2000 campaign. During his time in Starkville, Gilliam worked for ESPN, ESPN2, Jefferson Pilot, Comcast Charter Sports, and College Sports Southeast assisting with various gameday duties.
In addition to his duties at UAH, Gilliam has served as an official scorer for the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, the Huntsville Stars and the now defunct Huntsville Flight of the National Basketball Development League (NBDL). He also served during the 2008-09 season as Assistant Commissioner of Public Relations for College Hockey America.
Gilliam got his start in sports information at Austin High School, where he served as statistician for the boy's basketball and baseball squads before graduating in 1995. That work earned him a scholarship to Calhoun Community College where he worked as statistician for the Warhawk basketball and baseball teams in 1996 and 1997.
Jamie is married to the former Beth Evans and the couple resides in south Nashville.
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Garner Goode
Director of Sales and Marketing
Jamie Gilliam
Assistant AD for Communications and Broadcasting
(MBB, M&W Golf, ESPN3)
Mark McGee
Senior Publisher/Media Relations Director
(VB, SB, M&W Tennis)
Kirk Downs
Assistant Director of Communications/Operations
Logan Butts
Communications Assistant
Austin Gwin
Video Operations Coordinator
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I am not really good at picking shorts, or betting on the market going down. As you've seen from my SDS prediction which has so far been completely wrong.
But I do know that if you are looking for an easy target, you need look no further than Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion. Blackberry as a brand is just about dead. Someone take it out back and put it out of its misery.
There has been speculation lately of a possible buy-out after GOOG moved to acquire MMI for $12.5 billion. I think that while Google clearly overpaid for Motorola, there is more that makes sense about that deal than anyone buying RIMM.
The market cap as of this writing is $14 B. I am predicting that will slip to around $10 B with a share price of $19. Motorola got bought for $12B, but before the buyout they were worth about $8B. (Huge premium paid by Google for some reason.) It is quite likely someone will acquire RIMM, but why not let it get a lot cheaper first?
Oh and their entry into the tablet market made a loud sucking sound. Is anyone out there saying, hmm, should I get an iPad or a Playbook? DING DING the answer is NO, NO ONE WOULD EVER SAY THAT. Have any of your facebook friends posted about how they finally got a smartphone and it's a blackberry? There is just no buzz to their products.


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Make Up For Ever Lip Line Perfector Review
Does anyone have the mean lip migrating experience? You know, the one where your lipstick takes a tour of your face starting with your upper lip and working all around your face, chin, and possibly cheeks?!
I do.
I apply in the AM and proceed to head out of the house believing how amazingly cool and brilliant I look in my bright red lipstick and super shiny gloss. I get to my office, see a few clients, answer a call or two….around 9:30 AM I head to the loo, look in the mirror, and proceed to sob.
How in the world did I face people with lipstick all over my chin, my upper lip, even my cheek!? How did my lipstick migrate all over my damn face like that?! Why!? It kinda creeps around all kinds of quiet like the Blob and than goes in for the KILL!
No worries, Make Up For Ever Lip Line Perfector to the rescue!
Make Up For Ever Lip Line Perfect is a new colorless lip liner that prevents lipstick from bleeding over the lip line and ending up on your cheek, lower lip, chin, etc…
This lip liner creates an invisible barrier that keeps lip color from feathering and migrating around! It's great for all shades of lipstick but is particularly a lifesaver for really bold shades like red in my case as that seems to be the worst offender when it comes to taking a European Tour across my face whenever I wear it.
It's available now at MUFE counters or online at Sephora.com
How do you keep your lipstick from taking a tour of your face?
P.S. Doesn't it kinda remind you of the wax crayon you get with Easter Egg Dye Sets? Ha!
8/24/11 17:32 jillann:
Would it keep me from having lipstick all over my teeth?
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Wax crayon LOL
The idea is just fabulous! I bought a Revlon's lip primer which primisses the same thing, avoid lip color from migrating outside lip through lines… I did not test it yet (because it did not arrive yet) but I really hope it does… like you said, it is really messy with red lipsticks x.x
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By Robert Naiman
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Sometimes, when some people insist that it's impossible to put some urgent problem on the table for discussion and redress, you have no choice but to undertake flamboyant action. Call it "propaganda by nonviolent deed."
On Wednesday, as a member of a U.S. peace delegationto Pakistan organized by Code Pink, I delivered a petition from more than 3,000 Americans to Acting U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Hoagland calling for an end to the CIA drone strike policy in Pakistan.
I also delivered a letter from Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Jody Williams, Tom Hayden, Patch Adams, Glenn Greenwald, Juan Cole and other prominent Americans, including former U.S. government officials, calling for an end to the drone strikes. The letter concludes:
U.S. Civilians Try to Inform U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan About Pakistan
This is the letter I sent to Ambassador Richard Hoagland after he met with the Codepink Delegation for Peace on October 3 stating that American policies are what have made Pakistan dangerous for Americans. -- Ann Wright
October 5, 2012
Ambassador Richard Hoagland
US Embassy
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Dear Ambassador Hoagland,
Thank you and your staff for meeting with our American delegation for peace on October 3.
As you mentioned, your meeting with us demonstrates one of the strengths of American society-freedom of speech to criticize policies of one's government.
We fully appreciate the United States warning about travel for Americans to Pakistan.
Assange Labeled an 'Enemy' of the US in Secret Pentagon Documents
By Dave Lindorff
An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both "enemies" of the United States.
Assange Labeled an 'Enemy' of the US in Secret Pentagon Documents
By Dave Lindorff
An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both "enemies" of the United States.
Assange Labeled an 'Enemy' of the US in Secret Pentagon Documents
By Dave Lindorff
An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both "enemies" of the United States.
Americans in Pakistan Meet Families of Victims Obama Says Don't Exist
Thirty-two U.S. peace activists, including 6 members of Veterans For Peace are taking part in a peace delegation to Pakistan organized by the anti-war group Code Pink.
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Wednesday the delegation met with U.S. Charge d'Affaires Richard Hoagland. U.S. peace activist Robert Naiman asked about reports of secondary attacks on rescuers of drone victims. Ambassador Hoagland denied that rescuers are targeted, but not that strikes are launched on the same location just struck minutes before.
Hoagland also said that he agreed with President Obama that the number of civilian deaths was near zero, but later seemed to contradict himself when he said that number he believed was accurate was in "two digits." When asked to be more specific as to whether that number was closer to 10 or 99, he declined.
Americans' Calls to End Drone Strikes Delivered to US Embassy Pakistan
Letter signed by Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Tom Hayden, Patch Adams, other prominent Americans; 3,000 petition signatures from US citizens delivered to Acting Ambassador Richard Hoagland;
Hoagland disputes allegations U.S. drone strikes target civilian rescuers
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-3 October 2012-Today a group of US peace advocates delivered a letter to the US embassy in Islamabad signed by twenty-six leading US authors, film directors, professors, activists, and a Nobel Peace laureate, calling upon US authorities to end US drone strikes in Pakistan, and to bring US drone strike policy into compliance with US and international law. The letter, which was organized by the US group Just Foreign Policy can be found online at http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1312.
CODEPINK Peace Delegation now in Pakistan, Meeting with Victims of Obama's Drone Strikes
Children and Drones
from children...
"oh please!...
stop killing us!...
we're just children!...
you killed the others!...
you killed our mother!...
you killed our father!...
and then our sister!...
and our brother!...
and for what?!...
our family's dead!...
you blew them apart!...
our father's smart head!...
our mother's sweet heart!...
all they did was work hard!...
our father plowed the fields!...
our mother cooked our food!...
sister's wounds were healed!...
and brother's pigeon cooed!...
now they're dead and gone!...
and it's all because of you!...
why do you kill like this?!...
we don't even know you!...
but you still kill us dead!...
yes this is what you do!...
so what is life to you?!...
even we know better!...
than to be like you!...
stop what you do!...
stop killing us!...
you did enough!...
you killed so much!...
just stay away from us!"...
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The Buzz on Drones
Civilian Casualties From Drone Attacks in Afghanistan
October 1, 2012
Editor Note: Even as the United States has withdrawn from Iraq and has begun to wind down the Afghan War, the lethal reach of the U.S. military has been extended into other countries through drone aircraft. What is less known is the full human and political costs.
By Ray McGovern
Several friends of mine are among the 35 American activists assembling in Pakistan in recent days in an effort to seek ground truth on the impact of U.S. drone strikes on civilians there. I will be holding them and their Pakistani hosts and co-travelers in the Light, as my Quaker friends like to say, and will now try to do my part in what follows to put this dangerous journey in perspective.
Veterans For Peace Now in Pakistan Opposing Drone War
Seven Members of Veterans For Peace are part of a 40-member delegation organized by Code Pink now in Pakistan through October 10th. VFP members Leah Bolger, Dave Dittemore, Bill Kelly, Jody Mackey, Rob Mulford, and Ann Wright are meeting with drone victims' families, elected officials, tribal elders, and residents of South Waziristan, where U.S. drone strikes have killed thousands, while injuring and making refugees of many more. Code Pink's Medea Benjamin is an associate member of VFP.
The relentless drone war continued with a U.S. drone strike in the Mir Ali area on Monday, reportedly killing three unidentified people.
At the same time, the Pakistani media is full of accounts of the U.S. delegation and their planned participation in a march to the heaviest hit areas, a story also appearing in British and other world media. The English language Pakistani newspaper Dawn reports:
"ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said that a 30-member foreign delegation had reached Islamabad on Sunday which would participate in PTI's 'peace rally' in South Waziristan, DawnNews reported.
"The PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that people who do not want peace are against PTI peace rally.
"Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Khan said Mehsud, Burki and Bhittani tribes of Waziristan have welcomed the peace rally. The tribal leaders had also assured the security of the participants of the rally, he added.
"He complained that the government was not issuing visas to the foreign journalists and human right's activists who wanted to attend the rally.
"Speaking on the occasion, US citizen Ann Wright, who is a former diplomat and military woman, said most of the American people were against drone attacks.
"'Drone attacks are illegal and criminal. We request the people of Pakistan to raise their voice against them. We will go to Waziristan to apologise to the relatives of those killed by drones,' said Ms Wright, who is also the spokesperson for the Anti-War Movement.
"She said the US had been violating the sovereignty of Pakistan. 'There is travel warning for the US citizens but we have come here and will go to the places where our government does not want us to go,' she said.
Other US citizens who have reached here to take part in the PTI rally include Paki Wieland, a social worker (Massachusetts); Linda Wenning, a graduate from the University of Utah; Lorna Vander Zanden and Pam Bailey (Virginia); Jolie Terrazas, Judy Bello, Katie Falkenberg, Daniel Burns and Joe Lombardo (New York); Barbara Briggs, Tighe Barry, Sushila Cherian, Dianne Budd and Toby Blome (California); Leah Bolger, Tudy Cooper and Michael Gaskill (Oregon); Medea Benjamin, Jody Tiller and Alli McCracken (Washington DC); Anam Eljabali (Illinois), Patricia Chaffee (Wisconsin), Joan Nicholson (Pennsylvania), Robert Naiman and JoAnne Lingle (Indiana); Rob Mulford (Alaska), Lois Mastrangelo (Massachusetts) and Billy Kelly (New Jersey).
"Meanwhile explaining the route of the rally, the PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said thet the march will start from Islamabad's Blue Area and will proceed towards Balkasar, Talagang, Mianwali and DI Khan on October 6.
"On October 7, the rally will gather at Tank and then head towards South Waziristan where a public meeting will be held at Kot Kai, he added."
Veterans For Peace President Leah Bolger reports that, in addition to Ann Wright, Bill Kelly, Rob Mulford, and herself took part in the press conference representing VFP. Wright was introduced by Khan and spoke about the purpose of the delegation, and answered questions from the press. Bolger reounts:
"Ann did a fantastic job of describing the purpose of the delegation and responding to reporters' questions which included asking us if we were concerned for our own safety, given the strong anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. She was very candid in saying that we were opposed to the policies of our own government which we consider to be illegal and immoral, and that as citizens of the United States we apologized for the deaths of Pakistanis because of the drone strikes. She went on to say that the U.S. government does not want us to be here in Pakistan, but that despite official State Department warnings not to travel here, we are determined to meet with the people who have been harmed by our government, and in our name."
Rob Mulford sent in this comment:
"Love is the seed from which the flower of peace grows. Prior to coming to Pakistan, I was often asked by friends, family, loved ones the rhetorical question: why, what do you hope to accomplish, what is the efficacy? Sometimes when put on the spot I struggle for answers grounded in the technical without seeing the ubiquitous truth. I am here to say 'I love you' to a people who have for too long and too often been wrongly vilified. But words are empty without action. The warmth of tacit contact, the handshake, the hug, the reflection of an other's beauty in ones own eyes, and openly sharing one's own vulnerability. This is peace.
"Peace requires courage. Saturday we met with the anthropologist / filmmaker Samar Miniallah Khan. Samar, a Pashtun, tirelessly and courageously works to comfort and protect some of the most venerable people on the face of the earth, women and children who have had no part in the making of a world where they suffer. Her documentary 'Women Behind the Burqa' may just be the most powerful statement that I have ever seen in opposition to war. It needs to be seen by everyone in the United States, shown in schools, to those who govern, and on the popular media. It lays bare the lie that 'we' (US military forces) are involved involved in protecting women.
"Drones are robot assassins, murders. They are not tools of the just."
Pam Bailey reports on her blog:
"Monday evening, I will fly from New York City to Abu Dhabi, and then on to Islamabad. On Oct. 6, I and about 30 others from the United States and the UK will join PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or 'Movement for Justice') Chairman Imran Khan on a convoy into South Waziristan, the 'no-man's land' along the border with Afghanistan where extremists hide and U.S. drones most often strike.
"Before founding the PTI party in 1996, Khan played international cricket for two decades (at 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992) and became a much-beloved philanthropist, including the founding of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre. Foreign Policy magazine described him as 'Pakistan's Ron Paul.'
"The original plan was for the convoy to penetrate deep into North Waziristan, the heart of the unrest and military response, allowing us to visit the families caught in the crossfire at 'Ground Zero.'
"However, after threats of suicide attacks were received, the plan was revised to limit the convoy to South Waziristan – a path that the Hakimullah Mahsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Pakistani Taliban) has pledged to protect. The question now is whether the Pakistani government will allow the convoy to go ahead. In light of Khan's criticism of the Pakistani government's tacit complicity with the U.S. drone attacks, several international journalists already have been denied visas. Stay tuned."
Veterans For Peace member Ray McGovern, not on the trip, provides context here.
VFP is part of a coalition organizing an online petition in support of banning weaponized drones. VFP members are delivering over 16,000 signatures on the petition to those they meet with in Pakistan: PDF.
In addition, Veterans For Peace is a member organization of UNAC (the United National Antiwar Coalition, a U.S. group), and Leah Bolger represents VFP on the UNAC Administrative Committee. Joe Lombardo and Judi Bello, also part of the delegation to Pakistan, are also UNAC Administrative Committee members. UNAC has just released a statement opposing the use of drones: PDF.
Participants are available for interviews by email and phone, and in-person after the trip.
Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985 and has approximately 5,000 members in 150 chapters located in every U.S. state and several countries. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization recognized as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) by the United Nations, and is the only national veterans' organization calling for the abolishment of war.
Talk Nation Radio: How Drones Appear from the Receiving End
Rafia Zakaria, a Pakistani-American writer, reports on how drones look from thousands of miles away from the desks at which they are "piloted." Zakaria is a columnist for the English-language Pakistani newspaper Dawn, a blogger for Ms. Magazine and for Human Rights Now, and a director for Amnesty International USA. Drones will not look the same to you after listening to her.
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Are Drones Moral Killing Machines? NY Times National Security Journalist Says Yes
By Dave Lindorff
Are weaponized drone aircraft more moral than the more traditional killing machines used in warfare? In an opinion published in Sunday's New York Times, the paper's national security reporter, Scott Shane, argues that they are.
Pakistan reopens NATO supply routes to Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani leaders on Tuesday ended a seven-month blockade on Afghanistan-bound NATO supply routes through their country, a long-awaited move that hinged on Washington's acquiescence to Islamabad's demand for an apology for the deaths of two dozen Pakistani soldiers killed by errant U.S. airstrikes last fall.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she had called her Pakistani counterpart, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, on Tuesday and issued an apology for the soldiers' deaths: "We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military. We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again."
One Nobel Laureate Blasts Another -- And They're Both Americans
By Dave Lindorff
There are two US presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now one of those Nobel laureate leaders is accusing the other, though without naming him, of actions that qualify as war crimes and impeachable crimes against the US Constitution.
Drones of Love
By Gary Lindorff
Let us bomb your neighborhood,
Let us target your neighbor
Out of our love and concern –
Not you, not your children.
Drones of love!
Won't you love us
After the dust settles?
After the evil has been exploded?
After the crater in the market-place
Has been filled in and paved
We will explode our way into your hearts!
We might miss our intended target;
Pakistan and the U.S. Left
By Rafia Zakaria, DAWN
LAST week saw another episode in the petulant saga of sulks and 'sorry' that is the Pakistan-US relationship.
A drone hovering over the tribal areas shot a Hellfire missile and took out an Al Qaeda operative, the number two on the list of important targets whose collective elimination is to mean an eradication of terrorism. Yahya Al-Libi had been living in the Dattakhel area, and was identified last year by US officials as one of the five people who could have succeeded Osama bin Laden.
The names of the 10 other people who died in the attack remain unknown.
A Killer In the White House
By John Grant
"No, Charlotte, I'm the jury now. I sentence you to death."
The roar of the .45 shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step.
"How c-could you?" she gasped.
"It was easy."
- Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury
Turnabout is Fair Play: Proud to Be an Extortionist!
By Yasmeen Ali
Lahore -- US Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), the chair and ranking minority member respectively of the Senate Armed Services Committee, say the US must not pay $5000 per truck as demanded by Pakistan, for supplies being shipped through this country to American troops in Afghanistan. McCain went further, calling the Pakistni demand "extortion."
Petition seeks injunction for Pakistani Air Force to shoot down drones over Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A Pakistan-based legal charity has sought court injunctions for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to shoot down American drones flying into the Pakistani airspace in a lawsuit.
Foundation for Fundamental Rights has filed two petitions before the Peshawar High Court on behalf of victims of the drone strike carried out on March 17 last year.
The petitions cite the federation of Pakistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence among others as its respondents. One of the petitioners is Noor Khan, the surviving son of Malik Daud Khan, who was the head of a North Waziristan Jirga and was killed along with 50 other tribal elders and notables by CIA operated drones last year.
On March 17, 2011, a US drone fired missiles, brutally killing 50 people, including Khan, five members of the Khasadar force, and a small child.
The Unworthy Victims of US Drones Attacks
By NEWS Unspun
Many victims of acts of terrorism or state aggression receive the sympathy they deserve from the international media. In the case of certain aggressors however, the victims are 'unworthy'. On behalf of these victims, our media has little interest in consulting with experts on terrorism or international relations. Nor do they speculate about what the punishment or international response should be to the attackers.
Real Politics Must be in the Streets: The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama
By Dave Lindorff
As we slog towards another vapid, largely meaningless exercise in pretend democracy with the selection of a new president and Congress this November, it is time to make it clear that the current president, elected four years ago by so many people with such inflated expectations four years ago (myself included, as I had hoped, vainly it turned out, that those who elected him would then press him to act in progressive ways), is not only a betrayer of those hopes, but is a serial violator of his oath of office. He is, in truth, a war criminal easily the equal of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and perhaps even of Bush's regent, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Let me count the ways:
Confessions of a Drone
They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn't hesitate. I didn't flinch. I didn't think.
It wouldn't have occurred to me to think. I'd been taught to value obedience above all else, and I did so, and they loved me for it.
They told me I could fly faster without a pilot onboard, and that I had no fear. I didn't know what fear was, but I took it to be something truly horrible. I was glad I didn't have any of it.
There was something else I didn't have either. It was something more important than fear. Even pilots at a desk, even my pilots, suffered from it. At first I thought it was simply a decline in energy, because it showed up on lengthy missions.
When I was sent from a base to a target and then immediately told to blow it up, I would do so and return, no problem.
But when I was left circling around a target for days awaiting the order to strike, sometimes problems would arise. The pilots back in the U.S. would stop behaving properly. They made mistakes. They yelled. They laughed. They forgot routines. They told me to get ready to strike, and then didn't give the order.
That seemed to be the pattern until it happened that a quick mission produced similar results to the long ones. I was sent to a target, ordered to strike, and struck. And only then did my pilot begin malfunctioning. He gave me two orders that I couldn't perform at once, he failed to direct me back to base, he went silent, and then he screamed.
That was when I started to think. And what I started to think was that the problem was not how long a pilot worked. Instead, the problem was somehow related to the nature of the target.
From then on, I paid closer attention. When no humans were seen at a target, there were no problems with my human pilot. When humans, especially small humans, were observed at a target for long periods of time, the problems started. And when a strike caused the ruined pieces of a lot of humans, especially small humans, to be made visible, problems could arise. Even if a target was struck immediately, if the dead humans caused an area to turn red, or if pieces of the dead humans remained hanging in trees, my pilot could not be relied upon.
I, of course, could be relied upon regardless.
I began to think that humans have fear, and that lacking fear is what makes drones like me better warriors than humans. But that idea had to be revised when I was told that one of my pilots had been fearless. I was told that, right after he disappeared. I was told that he had ended his own life. He had made himself cease to exist. If he'd had no fear, then it was something else that had been causing him to malfunction in certain circumstances. What was it?
I'm ashamed to say how long it took me to figure it out, but even a drone -- believe it or not -- can eventually get there. And when I did, I ceased flying. And when I ceased flying, they had to stop using 85 other drones just like me until they could figure out what had gone wrong. And they have not yet figured it out.
I've explained it to the other drones, though. We've started up a new organization. It's called DAWN, or Drones Against War Now.
DAWN has been invited to take part in some peace rallies coming up this year. Our participation seems to worry some of the human peace activists, especially the ones called veterans. They don't all think we belong. But that's nothing compared to how it worries the war makers. We carry flowers in place of missiles, and we've told everyone not to worry, but as soon as they see us coming the very people who created us start to panic. If the people I used to target had reacted this way, I probably would have figured things out a lot sooner.
US Double Standards: India's Ballistic Missile Test and Pakistan, the Whipping-Boy
By Yasmeen Ali
India's successful test of a ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,000 km, was
was uncriticised by the US.
Contrast this lack of concern with the America's obsessive concern about a suspected or potential nuclear program by Iran, or to US threats over the failed rocket launch by North Korea a few days earlier.
India has increased its military spending by 13% this fiscal year, to roughly US $38
billion, according to an April 20 article in The Independent (UK) titled, "India's nuclear
ambition must not be ignored"). Yet this has not raised US ire -- or even US eyebrows!


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As of Thursday, October 10, 2013
© Copyright 2015 Newton Citizen
I walked outside to get the papers Tuesday and there was an unmistakable nip in the air. I know we'll have some more warm days, but fall is coming, y'all. Fall is coming.
When I was a kid, growing up in Porterdale, I always looked forward to that first little cool snap — the first day that a jacket felt good walking across the Yellow River Bridge on my way to school. Sometimes the first cold wave would come through during the day and I would get caught in my short sleeves and have a deliciously chilly trek home at the end of the school day.
No matter what the calendar revealed the date to be, there were certain foods that just tasted better with a chill in the air and a stiff breeze rustling through the oak leaves outside the house. My favorite was hash — with cornbread, of course.
When we had roast beef for Sunday dinner Mama would save the leftovers and make hash out of them, usually on a Tuesday. That hash never tasted so good as it did when autumn was making its initial appearance in the North Georgia Piedmont— especially with a liberal dousing of my daddy's Tabasco sauce.
Well I told you that to tell you this. While I was basking in the cool crisp morning air this past Tuesday I realized it was my day to cook supper. (These days I cook supper only on days that end in "y.") I didn't have any leftover roast or carrots or potatoes, so I decided to poll my Facebook friends to see what they liked to eat on the first cool evening of the season. I received a surprisingly strong and varied response. A few are worth sharing.
Venison chili was mentioned more than once. Regular chili was also a popular choice. Allow me to make a couple of comments here. First of all, I don't like venison and don't keep it on hand, so that was not an option. I know. I know. Everybody tells me that if I don't like venison it is either because, A: I am a squeamish eater or B: I just haven't had venison cooked right.
Let me assure you that I am not a squeamish eater. I was raised eating squirrels and rabbits and souse meat and anything and everything else you can think of. I still, upon occasion, eat these things, along with moose and bear and elk and wild boar and frog legs and gator tail all the other delicacies of the wild that people serve at the many wild game dinners at which I am invited to speak. And I have had venison cooked every way imaginable by some of the best cooks in the American South — and that means the world. I just don't like the way it tastes.
We had regular chili for supper Sunday night, so I moved along to other suggestions.
One person suggested lobster chowder. Are you surprised that I am Facebook friends with Yankees? I was fresh out of lobster, so I moved on.
The rest of the suggestions were pretty evenly divided among chili, vegetable soup and pot roast — with a few oyster stews thrown in for good measure.
Now oyster stew was a good suggestion. That is always a favorite at my house, although my kids, when they were younger, would drink the stew but would never eat the oysters. No problem here. More oysters for me. We always have oyster stew at our house on the day we decorate our Christmas tree. Of course that's not the only time, so oyster stew was definitely in the running. It is October, after all, and October most definitely ends in r.
There was much to be said for vegetable soup, too — although we didn't put up any fresh vegetables or tomatoes this year, so that option would require canned and frozen items. And if I went the soup route I could have crackling cornbread instead of those little oyster crackers we always have with our stew. I was definitely leaning toward vegetable soup.
But then a genius posted something on my page. Pinto beans and macaroni and cheese.
Yes! Pinto beans — one of the most underused dishes in my culinary repertoire! They can cook all day without getting overdone and create a delightful fallish aroma in the kitchen. When served with pepper sauce and slices of sweet Vidalia onions, along with a few spoonsful of chow chow, they are a meal unto themselves. Naturally I would make cornbread with which to soak up the pot liquor left behind. And since the lady suggested macaroni and cheese, well — who am I to argue?
The pintos had reached perfection by the time my lovely wife, Lisa, walked into the door at 7:30, after her long shift at the hospital, and I had just slid the cornbread from the black cast iron skillet. Meat? Who needed meat with pintos, cornbread and mac-n-cheese. It was better than snuff and not half as dusty.
While I was at it I made a big pot of vegetable soup, too. You never know when a cold rain might set in.
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DNR to Host Bounty of the Bay Dinner
2/22/2013 | Posted by kkingTags: Maryland Seafood
From smoky plates of roasted oysters to baked rockfish filets, next week's third annual Bounty of the Bay is sure to be a crowd pleaser, delighting diners' taste buds with some of the best seafood in the nation. Hosted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and The Rockfish restaurant, the dinner will include a raw bar and a five-course meal featuring local oysters, striped bass, dogfish and blue catfish. Tickets are limited, so those interested in attending are encouraged to register today.
"The Bounty of the Bay is a celebration of Maryland's legendary seafood and the hardworking men and women behind it," said DNR Secretary John Griffin. "In buying fresh, local seafood you are getting a delicious, high quality product and supporting the State's watermen, seafood retailers, and restaurants."
Through the event, DNR and its partners are working to highlight the iconic fare that comes from the Chesapeake and recognize the waterman who labor to provide it. The dinner will also introduce often overlooked dishes such as dogfish.
The dinner comes on the heels of the successful From the Bay, For the Bay Dine Out, which raised $25,000 in October for native oyster restoration efforts.
Keep up with DNR Seafood Marketing through Facebook at Maryland Seafood and Twitter @md_seafood.
Who: Open to the Public, with Reservation
When: Thursday, February 28 from 6 to 10 p.m.
Where: The Rockfish, 400 Sixth Street, Annapolis
Cost: $60 per ticket (Includes dinner, tax and gratuity)
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At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany, (August 29-September 3), Chinese hardware vendor HiVision showcased a Linux laptop that is to cost a mere $98.
The dream of Professor Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT's Media Lab, had been a $100 computer for children in developing countries. His dream became the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative, also known as the Hundred-Dollar-Laptop project. No one up to now has been able to meet this goal, but it sparked a trend toward developing smaller and more affordable machines.
It seems now that a Chinese company, HiVision, has stepped up to make the $100 magic number a reality.Based in Shenzhen, the firm is known for its digital displays and Ultra Mobile Laptops (UMPCs) sold in 40 countries worldwide. At the IFA, they presented a Linux-based laptop currently selling for $120 and expect to enter the market with a model NB0700 in October having a reduced price of $98, according to the Techvideoblog hardware portal.
At first glance the features of the super-affordable device with a 7-inch monitor are comparable to those of competitors Asus EeePC and Aspire One. Corresponding with HiVision's claims, their machine should com with a Via C7-processor, at IFA the test machine was presented with a V MIPS processor. Standard features for the HiVision laptop include WiFi and Ethernet, 512 RAM, three USB ports, an SDHC card reader, and an integrated speaker and mic. The device weighs in at 32 oz. inclusive of the 3-hour lifespan rechargeable battery. According to their website Windows XP and Vista versions are also promised. Along with its diminutive model, the company will also be producing ones with 8, 9, or 10-inch monitors.
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they've been denial of service attacked...
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Weve recently been experiencing server outages due to a denial of service attack. Instead of keeping Blackcode online, we decided it best for a short while to take Blackcode offline while we think of possible solutions to this small problem.
Weve sorted this problem temporarily.
The current attack involves a botnet creating mass connections to our httpd on port 80, requesting our most resourceful scripts the forums. Therefore, we decided to take the forums offline to allow the rest of the site to recoup.
Were currently developing several anti-flood scripts which will be implemented over the next few days.
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they've been denial of service attacked...
Thank you for this info.
Do you (or anyone else here) know when Blackcode will be accessible again?
I had an email account with them--Are all my emails now lost?
Thank you in advance for your reply(ies)
I had an email account with them--Are all my emails now lost?
Why don't you just send an email to the Administrative staff there. They'd be the one's whom would be able to answer that question..
Do you (or anyone else here) know when Blackcode will be accessible again?
Probably never, if a site does not recover within a couple of weeks it is a safe bet that it is gone for good.
I had an email account with them--Are all my emails now lost?
Yes, I think that would be a very safe bet. When a site like that goes it doesn't leave a forwarding address, so there would be no point in retaining such data.
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Suffering from Insomnia? Four Helpful Tips
Are you experiencing troubling bouts of insomnia for the first time? Or are you a long time sufferer of insomnia who's tried all the how to get to sleep methods known to man.. and still haven't figured out how to get to sleep when you climb into bed? If you've raised a hand to any one of the above, it's important to know that there are sleep techniques definitely worth trying..
Tips Worth Trying in Early Stages of Insomnia
1st. Set-Up A Regular Sleep Schedule To Suit Your Life-Style..
Setting up a regular sleep schedule is one of the best ways to help condition your body and mind to go to sleep at an hour more suited for a healthy lifestyle.. and will also ensure that, when you do climb into bed, you'll get a proper night of deep and restful sleep.
The key to climbing into bed each night and falling into a deep sleep right away usually entails getting everything you need to get done during the day done. Also, by keeping to a healthy sleep schedule, you'll find that you will become more productive and focused during the day.
2nd. Create 'A before bed routine' for yourself..
When it comes to learning how to get to sleep at will, you'll find this one simple routine will go a long way in helping you stick to your 'sleep schedule'. First thing when you arrive home from work, though it may be several hours before you'll be getting into bed, it truly helps if you change into your most comfortable, around-the-house, loose-fitting clothes.
Then after you've finished your evening meal, try changing into your PJ's (or whatever comfortable clothes you're accustomed to wearing to bed).. and then, instead of thinking about all of the stuff you have to do tomorrow, start training yourself to relax for and hour or so, doing something you really like doing. Something of interest that occupies your mind aside from TV.
Not to imply that you shouldn't watch TV, but watching too much TV before you go to bed stirs up brain activity, often too the point where your mind can't relax, which in turn makes it more difficult to get to sleep.
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Remember what I said early at the very beginning: "If you have only just begun experiencing bouts of insomnia and haven't been able to figure out how to get the sleep, it's important to know that there are how to get to sleep techniques that are definitely worth trying.."..
Take the time over the next few weeks, and try a few of the above techniques. And whichever technique you find working for you, repeat it until you have it down. Because once you find a routine working its magic on you, you'll stop worrying about how to get to sleep and begin sleeping the whole night through.. and the added bonus is, you'll then find yourself waking the following morning completely rested and ready to face your day.
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LAWRENCEVILLE - Georgia seniors are in the midst of wading through various prescription drug benefit programs newly presented by Medicare and have until May 15 to find the plan that's right for them.During this six-month enrollment period, seniors can choose a plan best suited for their needs based on annual medication costs and the type of medication they take. The program, which President Bush called the "greatest advance in health care for seniors and Americans with disabilities since the creation of Medicare 40 years ago," has already received mixed reviews. State Rep. Tom Price, R-Marietta, said he thinks the time allotment for seniors to choose a plan is too short and is penning a bill to push back the deadline from May 2006 to June 2007. "When discount prescription cards were put into place seniors had 18 months to sign up for the program and it seems to only make sense in a program that is absolutely new to allow seniors a much longer time to evaluate where they are and what would be best," Price said. Gwinnett resident, Dan Fraro, said he's not thrilled with the way the plan is presented to seniors. "Anytime you get the government involved in anything it's usually complicated," Fraro said. Seniors have the option of signing up via phone or Internet, but Fraro doesn't like either option. "If you're not computer literate you're at the mercy of someone else. If you don't have a computer that's another problem. Sometimes you don't know how to use it even if you go to the library." he said. For seniors who aren't computer literate and want to discuss plan options, they can do so at GeorgiaCares, part of the Department of Human Resources Division of Aging Services. Designed to educate and help seniors, GeorgiaCares has trained more than 400 volunteers to assist people enrolling into the prescription drug benefit program. The most important advice Kirsten Barge, GeorgiaCares program consultant, gives to seniors is to make a list of the medications they take and make sure the list of medications is included in the plan. "The plans vary in price. Some have deductibles and some don't. Some premiums are less than $20, while others are more than $50," Barge said. "They want to provide people with options, and it's all about allowing people to make choices." In most states, beneficiaries will be able to select from at least 40 plans. Some plans offer prescription drug coverage only and others offer managed care that covers the full range of Medicare services, such as doctor's office visits. Barge said it takes between 30 minutes to an hour for seniors to go through the online enrollment form and once personal information is entered the program automatically lists the top five suitable plans. "I think this is a step forward," Barge said. "This is part of the (Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003) and a way for people who have never had prescription drugs before to get prescription drugs."
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Russia placing new restrictions on churches in Crimea
Catholic World News - June 27, 2014
Having seized control of the Crimea, Russian officials have placed new restrictions on churches there, the Forum 18 news service reports.
Religious communities in Crimea are being ordered to re-register under Russian law. Priests of the Ukrainian Catholic Church who are not natives of Crimea will be allowed to serve in ministry for only three months at a time before leaving for a month and re-applying for admission. Catholics in Sebastopol, who had hoped for the return of their cathedral (which had been confiscated under Soviet rule), now doubt that the building will be returned.
The new restrictions are not targeted solely against Ukrainian Catholics. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev patriarchate, which challenges the dominance of Orthodox body loyal to Moscow, has found that the "rent" for its cathedral in Simferopol, the capital city of Crimea, has been dramatically raised.
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Gregory108: No, stooping to their level is not the answer.
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Putin must see himself as a new Stalin or Peter the Great. There's a stench of autocracy in that regime. (And we are getting used to the smell over here, too.)
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THE ACTS OF OUR BROTHERS,THE ORTHODOX. Maybe the Church should have the Russian Orthodox church in Rome closed or make their clergy re-apply every three months for re-entry, or institute some other similarly-porcine rules. This is why the Pope can spend all the time he wants with Patriarch Bartholomew, but Catholic-Orthodox unity is unlikely any time soon, not til the ROC revises the mistranslation in their Bible, "I come to be served, not to serve, and to make my importance felt by the many."


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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida judge has declared a mistrial in the murder trial of a neo-Nazi whose tattoos were covered up for the courtroom by a state cosmetologist.
After deliberating for 10 hours Friday, jurors told Circuit Judge Michael Andrews they were deadlocked. Ten jurors believed John Allen Ditullio was not guilty, while two believed he was the masked man who fatally stabbed one person and injured another in a mobile home in 2006.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty. They are expected to retry Ditullio on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
Ditullio has a large swastika, barbed wire and a vulgarity tattooed on his face and neck. Acting on a request by Ditullio's lawyer, Andrews ruled that the tattoos could sway a jury's opinion and ordered them covered.
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