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Developed in partnership with faculty, staff, students, the Advisory Board and the Alumni Council, the 21st Century Campus Initiative (PDF) addresses our state's need to expand access to higher education by outlining a vision for how we intend to grow in both size and excellence.
The Arts Task Force was appointed by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs to consider ways to enhance curricular and extra-curricular arts education and engagement opportunities. The Arts Task Force Report includes 11 recommendations in areas including space and resources, curricula, and media arts. A campus comment period took place in May of 2013 to gather feedback on the recommendations.
Arts Task Force Report PDF
The Chancellor's Community Engagement Council (CCEC) was appointed in February 2013 to guide UW Bothell's progress in fulfilling the commitment to community engagement outlined in the campus mission and identified as a priority in the 21st Century Campus Initiative strategic plan.
Chancellor's Community Engagement Council PDF
The Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Environmental Sustainability (CASES) was recommended by the Sustainability Task Force and appointed by the Chancellor. CASES is charged with coordinating and guiding progress fulfilling the 21st Century Campus Initiative commitment to environmental sustainability.
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Environmental Sustainability PDF
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The Proposal to Establish Schools at UW Bothell (9/30/10) was developed in consultation with the GFO Executive Council (EC) and the Academic Council in order to support recent and future campus growth in size and complexity. After incorporating campus input, the Chancellor and EC approved a final proposal on 8/29/2011.
Final proposal to establish schools at UW Bothell PDF
The Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning Task Force (MQRTF) was charged to consider how UW Bothell could move forward in initiatives for mathematics and quantitative reasoning across the curriculum. The resulting reporting offers a strategic plan for the teaching of and learning of mathematics and quantitative reasoning across UW Bothell's academic programs.
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As part of the Provost's Two Years, Two Decades (2y2d) Initiative, academic and activity units on the three UW campuses participated in the Program Evaluation Initiative in support of the FY 2012 budget planning processes. UW Bothell's report was developed in collaboration with the GFO and academic units and, while primarily focused on academic units, addresses contributions of the entire campus. Administrative units are engaged in a related evaluation process, which will be reported through other means and are not detailed in this document.
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On September 22, 2006, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Thomas Bellamy formed the Applied Science and Technology Planning (ASTP) group to make recommendations regarding future applied science, science, and technology programs at UW Bothell. The Phase I Report identifies promising program approaches through analysis of regional workforce needs, student demand and interest, and successful programs elsewhere. Phase II will involve developing a specific set of recommended majors, minors and/or concentrations.
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Upon a request from the General Faculty Organization, the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs appointed the Human Subjects Review Task Force in July 2003. The task force was charged with making recommendations for implementing the Human Subjects Review (HSR) protocols. The task force was asked to achieve two primary goals: (1) to develop and enhance learning opportunities, through workshops and other methods, regarding the roles and responsibilities necessitated by HSR at the University of Washington; and (2) to make recommendations regarding the extent to which (if any) the campus should assume responsibility for HSR processes at UW Bothell.
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Created in February 2004, the overarching mission of this task force was to enhance the successful pursuit and implementation of a wider range of research grants and contracts at the UWB. Specifically, the group was charged with three primary tasks: (1) to explore funding venues and enhance strategies for successful grant proposals; (2) to clearly articulate the UW grant/contract avenues and procedures; and (3) to create a relevant on-line grants and contracts "tool-kit" appropriate for the campus. The specific recommendations put forth by the task force can be found in its final report.
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(5-for-5) (June 2004)
In 2003 the General Faculty Organization and the Academic Council officially charged the Academic Strategic Action Initiatives Committee with identifying key initiatives for implementation in 2005. The name "5-for-5" refers to the five strategic academic initiatives that, having been endorsed by all key academic quarters, are to be implemented over the subsequent five years.
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UW Bothell welcomed its first freshman class of 130 students in 2006, with curriculum and academic services coordinated by the newly chartered Center for University Studies and Programs (CUSP). The innovative lower division center was developed through an intensive campus-wide planning process and today supports the academic experience for over 500 pre-major students.
The materials below include the original planning documents and charter, as well as subsequent reports and documents related to the ongoing development of our lower division programs.
In accordance with the Reauthorization of the CUSP Charter process (approved 6/5/10), the GFO Executive Council and Vice Chancellor Jeffords have reviewed and approved the CUSP Implementation Task Force Report as an addendum to the original CUSP Charter. Together these documents (combined in this PDF file) will serve as the guiding documents for CUSP for the three-year period beginning Fall 2011.
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The CUSP Implementation Task Force (CITF) Report outlines the completion of the implementation process called for in the Reauthorization of the CUSP Charter, approved by Chancellor Chan in June 2010.
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On June 5, 2010 Chancellor Chan reauthorized the CUSP Charter and approved recommendations for continued growth and enhancement of UW Bothell's lower division programs.
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Based on the findings of the CUSP Review Report and extensive campus-wide deliberations, the GFO Executive Council outlined a set of recommendations to guide ongoing lower division development.
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In February 2009, the CUSP Review Committee was appointed by Vice Chancellor Jeffords and the Executive Council of the GFO to undertake the third-year review mandated by the original CUSP charter (11/7/05). The CUSP Review Report outlines the findings from this comprehensive review process.
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Freshman applicants who were admitted to the University of Washington Bothell (UWB) for Autumn 2006 and who declined to enroll were surveyed electronically in August 2006 to explore the decision process, experiences with UWB, and expectations for college or university among declining freshmen.
Survey of Admitted Freshmen PDF
Entering freshmen and their family members attending orientation at the University of Washington Bothell on July 15, 2006, were asked to complete paper-and-pencil
questionnaires about their experiences, opinions, and expectations concerning University of Washington Bothell.
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University of Washington, Bothell (UWB) will be enrolling its first freshman class in
Autumn 2006. As part of the process of planning for recruiting and admitting freshmen, UWB, with the support and assistance of University of Washington, Seattle (UWS) and University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT), conducted a survey of entering freshmen at University of Washington, Seattle.
Autumn 2005 Survey of UW Entering Freshmen PDF
The FOCUS (Faculty Oversight Committee for University Studies) works to develop specific courses and processes to serve freshmen. The initial charge to the founding members outlined the work of the group, along with the criteria to guide that work.
Charge to the Founding Members of the FOCUS PDF
On November 3, 2005 Chancellor Olswang approved the Charter establishing CUSP Charter. CUSP was created to manage coursework and assessment for UW Bothell's lower division core and distribution course requirements, and facilitate coordination of academic programs, student life, and academic services for lower division students.
Charter for the Center for University Studies & Programs PDF
The Lower Division Task Force was charged by the GFO and the Vice Chancellor with recommending a curriculum, structure, and support services in order to implement a lower-division program, beginning in Fall 2006.
Final Report of the Lower Division Task Force (Initial Planning Phase) PDF
(January 2005)
Washington's research university branch campuses were created in 1989 to increase
opportunities for students in several regions of the state to complete their baccalaureate and graduate-level studies at public universities close to their homes. Currently, the University of Washington operates branch campuses in Bothell and Tacoma. The Bothell campus is located on the same campus as Cascadia Community College.
HECB Report on Branch Campus Development Plans PDF
Parameters guiding the creation of a lower division program were outlined in this report by the GFO Executive Council.
Planning Parameters for a Lower Division Program PDF
UW Bothell Report to the Washington State Legislature for Substitute House Bill 2707.
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Chinese New Year's Day Concert to Play Melbourne Recital Centre, Feb 10
In a very special celebration of the Chinese New Year, The People's Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of Culture and the Shanghai Municipal Government join the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, China's premier international performing arts festival, and the China National Opera House to present the Chinese New Year's Day Concert, a bold showcase of some of China's finest opera at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday 10 February.
This landmark collaboration between star tenors from China's leading opera houses together with Orchestra Victoria and guest Australian soprano Greta Bradman will be the China Shanghai International Arts Festival's first concert outside of China, as the two countries herald in the new Chinese Year of the Snake. Singing together in both English and Chinese, they perform a unique repertoire divided between popular folk songs and classical arias from east and west.
Under the acclaimed baton of permanent China National Opera House conductor Zhu Man, one of the most active young female conductors in China today, Melbourne welcomes four of China's leading tenors; Chi Liming, heralded by sections of the Western media as "the most promising tenor in the world", frequenting distinguished stages across the US and Europe since 2005; Xue Haoyin, winner of the 2005 Royal Opera House Young Artists Competition, playing a myriad of principal roles on the Covent Garden stage from 2006-2009 before choosing to return to China; Gu Xin, President of the China Oriental Performing Arts Group; and Yang Yang, winner of the Mandarin Art Performing Prize, China's leading award for the performing arts, the Golden Bell Award, China's highest music prize, and recognised in 2012 by CCTV (China Central Television) as one of the China's top ten tenors.
The Chinese performers will share the stage with guest Australian soprano Greta Bradman (grand-daughter of Sir Donald Bradman). Bradman has learnt one well-known Chinese folk song, "In A Faraway Place", while the Chinese tenors have mastered Greta Bradman's choice, Australia's unofficial national anthem, "Waltzing Matilda". Commissioned for the event, the new arrangement by director and conductor of a cappella group The Australian Voices, GorDon Hamilton, captures the fascinating appeal of the collaboration with its capacity to re-imagine familiar cultural artefacts into new and unknown territories. Says concert co-ordinator Barry Plews, "Australia and China are very different and the cultural landscapes in the two countries can be very different indeed, but it is interesting, the two together, performing together, performing the same works together, but being themselves 'different'. Waltzing Matilda indeed!"The Chinese New Year's Day Concert is presented by the Centre for China Shanghai International Arts Festival in association with the China National Opera House and supported by Orchestra Victoria.
Presented by China Shanghai International Arts Festival, the Chinese New Year's Day Concert will take place on Sunday, 10 February, 2013, at 3pm at the Melbourne Recital Centre, 31 Sturt Street, Southbank. Greta Bradman, soprano, Gu Xin, Chi Liming, Xue Haoyin & Yang Yang, tenor, and Zu Man, conductor, with Orchestra Victoria. Tickets: melbournerecital.com.au / 03 9699 3333.

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Conversations about Cloud – "What is Cloud Computing?"
Sometimes we spend so much time involved in the inner-workings of something ("inside the sausage factory") that it's valuable to occasionally come up for air to get a fresh perspective on things. I had one of those moments this week during a conversation with a Sr. Engineer at one of our customers. After a long whiteboard session about networking within their Data Center, he asked me if it was useful (YES!) and then he said he wasn't sure how that had anything to do with Cloud Computing. The rest of the conversation went something like this:
ME: That was great because you highlights many design considerations for building massively scalable data center networks. [SCALABLE]
HIM: Glad it was helpful, but please don't tell me this is Cloud Computing. This is just the evolution of Data Centers because now VMs and Applications can be mobile.
ME: OK, what do you think Cloud Computing is?
HIM: Cloud Computing is the stuff on the Internet, you know, like Amazon AWS or Google. All the on-demand, self-service, *aaS stuff that marketing people talk about.
ME: OK, fair enough. Does your company (Enterprise – Financial Services) use any Cloud Computing?
HIM: Are you serious, we have rules about where our data goes, how it's accounted for and how it's audited. You can't do that in Cloud Computing. (NOTE: Not completely true – Cisco is doing some important work in that space.)
ME: Do your IT group use your resources (Compute, Network, Storage) efficiently?
HIM: In the past we weren't great at it, we did a lot of design for peak usage, which meant utilization was low at time. But things like Virtualization is starting to help with that. And as we move to 10Gb Ethernet, we're starting to combine LAN and SAN traffic. So the newer areas of the Data Center are much more highly utilized than before. [EFFICIENT]
ME: How long does it take to deliver IT resources to the line-of-business these days?
HIM: It used to take quite a while, maybe 4-6 weeks. That included purchasing, installation, configuration, cross-coordination with other teams, etc. But we're started automating some of those processes (VM templates, server profiles, wire-once 10Gb Ethernet, etc.) and the times have come down quite a bit. We're probably at a few days now and should be within a day before the end of the year. [ON DEMAND]
ME: So much more on-demand than in the past?
HIM: Yeah, I guess so.
ME: What about the applications you use?
HIM: You know we have tons of apps to deal with. Obviously many of them are legacy client-server apps that we'd like to get rid of but can't for a while. We're about 40% virtualized, hoping to do more. And then there are some new types of applications that the analytics/quant teams are starting to build which are pretty different, they use all sort of parallel paths and lots of machines. But those run periodically, not all the time. [MULTI-TENANT]
ME: So you have to build three different networks for all of those?
HIM: No, we have to figure out how to put them all on the same infrastructure, as much as possible. Basically the network has to evolve to deal with the new stuff (lower-latency, extending L2 domains, application mobility) and try not to break the old stuff. It's been good and bad, since we learned some new skills and keep pushing forward, but we'd love to be using more of the newer applications faster.
ME: Do you have a plan for Disaster Recovery or alternative locations if this Data Center has issues?
HIM: Yes. We have to plan for failures. It can be expensive, but so can the loss of revenue and productivity if we only had a single site.
ME: So what you're telling me is that you've design the infrastructure to be highly-scalable; you are becoming more efficient through consolidation; you are becoming more responsive to the business through automation and you're adapting the infrastructure to deal with multiple types of applications and internal business units? And you're able to apply internal security and auditing models to that environment? I don't know if you want to call that Cloud Computing or not, but if nothing else, it sounds like you're delivering better IT services to the business.
HIM: Hmm, I see where you're going with that….
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Great article, or should i say conversation? no matter what it was great reading this as it helps me understand what cloud computing is actually about! thank you


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Colorado moose attack injures 2 women
They were walking their dogs in the city of Black Hawk when the encounter took place, the Gilpin County Sheriff's Office said.
"All of a sudden, I looked up and he was looking right at me and grunted and then charged," Jackqueline Boron told CNN affiliate KDVR. "I tried to get up, and he kept coming back and stomping on me."
"When I fell back he got me here," Boron said, pointing to her arm. "Then, when I curled up forward, that's when he got me on the head."
The attack left Boron with staples in the back of her head, 15 stitches on her leg and four broken ribs, KDVR reported.
Ellen Marie Divis was also stomped on by the moose, but was able to get away to find help.
"I heard 'help me, help me, help me,'" neighbor Chris Hockley told KDVR. "This lady comes running up to her house and she's covered in blood."
The sheriff's office issued a warning after the attack.
"If you encounter a moose: walk away from it — DO NOT walk towards it; moose are agitated by dogs; make sure your dog is on a leash, control the dog(s) and walk away," the warning said.
Lesson learned, Boron said — don't mess with a moose.
"Don't hike (when) you know … there's moose out there."
By Ed Payne
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the city on a sunday is the best. any unCANNYnees amplified by the complete absence of people. no shops open. maybe a few men in hi-vis vests working on the roads, otherwise ghost town.
the city on a sunday is the best. any unCANNYnees amplified by the complete absence of people. no shops open. maybe a few men in hi-vis vests working on the roads, otherwise ghost town.
'With Soho, it's like the designer drew an logical, square grid of streets, and then rubbed out some of the interconnecting roads, and added a couple of tiny little streets in between. So you can't rely on certain streets crossing, and other streets are secreted within the gaps with fractal-like detail. It should be so easy, but if you go into it with a gung-ho attitude you're liable to get it in the ass (so to speak).
that's it exactly derek you#ve hit the nail on the head
Round Charing Cross Road is really nice on a Sunday morning too - no people, so you actually get to look around you. London's really beautiful when you get rid of everyone else.
The city's weird though. I find walking round there my legs get twice as knackered as anywhere else. You feel like you've walked miles sometimes but it's just a couple of blocks. Must be extra specially hard pavement or something.
If you're going to take a totally eurocentric view, then yeah. Where I live, walking is oppression. Every step is sweaty, sticky pain and a reminder of your lowly status as others zoom past in their air conditioned cabs. Nobody in Asia would walk anywhere unless they had to (unless you're talking temperate northern countries like Japan).Originally Posted by k-punk
Of course me, I'm the one in the air conditioned cab so it's kind of irrelevant, but thought I'd point it out.
I think canals are the walker's secret weapon. They're these instant shortcuts that are barred to any other form of transport and they slice right through the middle of any major british city. When I lived by the canal by Victoria Park I walked everywhere. And you get all sorts of little glimpses of nature by the canal too. Like the dead eels that build up by the locks every few weeks. Anybody know why that happens?
So you're taking a southern asianocentric view, then?Originally Posted by Backjob
Surely it's not only in Europe that walking is liberatory. I know people who live in China and they enjoy walking.
Newsflash: in the UK, every step is a reminder of your lowly status too, as ppl zoom by in their big cars. But who wants to be in the ruling class?
Most of the time walking in London, actually I feel pretty damn superior to the mugs sat in their cars going nowhere in traffic.
Cycling is redemption. I had to leave London because cycling shrank the place so much and there was nowhere left to go on my trusty steed. Having a big electric motor laced into the front wheel didn't help.Originally Posted by k-punk
Last edited by HMGovt; 03-02-2005 at 09:11 AM.
i've got a bike but i'm too scared to ride it. the traffic intimidates me. i need someone to coax me out.
Buy a helmet.
so when they find me lying in the path of oncoming traffic with a broken neck i'll look stupid as well as dead.
The canal towpaths are good for cycling* and there are some good cyclepaths between stratford and hackney, which you might already knowOriginally Posted by luka
*don't do when drunk though
i harbour a suspicion that there is some juju involved
I adore walking through London, as a proper country person who has to contend with The Bugs home town of Weymouth, with all of its three streets - I find the size of it endlessly fascinating.
I keep promising myself that when I have a bit of spare cash and time I'll just book myself into some lowly hotel and spend a long weekend on my own doing nothing but exploring properly with a camera. Of course it never happens.
Two of the things Iain Sinclair identified after the 7/7 bomb:
a) Many people in London do not wear suitable footwear for walking (primarily women I guess)
b) Many people who work in London have no clue where they are without the help of the tube map.
It's a cliche that tourists will get the tube one stop when it's far quciker to walk, but this is also true of commuters. Every time there's a tube strike or similar you see people wandering around by Bank station or Liverpool Street completely confused - and they are there every day.


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Standard of living
Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area. The standard of living includes factors such as income, quality and availability of employment, class disparity, poverty rate, quality and affordability of housing, hours of work required to purchase necessities, gross domestic product, inflation rate, number of holiday days per year, affordable (or free) access to quality healthcare, quality and availability of education, life expectancy, incidence of disease, cost of goods and services, infrastructure, national economic growth, economic and political stability, political and religious freedom, environmental quality, climate and safety. The standard of living is closely related to quality of life.[1] In 2013, the Human Development Index ranked the top six countries for quality of living as: Norway, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, United States and Germany.[2]
- Measurement 1
- Criticism 2
- See also 3
- References 4
- External links 5
Standard of living is generally measured by standards such as real (i.e. inflation adjusted) income per person and poverty rate. Other measures such as access and quality of health care, income growth inequality, Disposable Energy (people's disposable income's ability to buy energy) and educational standards are also used. Examples are access to certain goods (such as number of refrigerators per 1000 people), or measures of health such as life expectancy. It is the ease by which people living in a time or place are able to satisfy their needs and/or wants.
The idea of a 'standard' may be contrasted with the quality of life, which takes into account not only the material standard of living, but also other more intangible aspects that make up human life, such as leisure, safety, cultural resources, social life, physical health, environmental quality issues, etc. More complex means of measuring well-being must be employed to make such judgements, and these are very often political, thus controversial. Even between two nations or societies that have similar material standards of living, quality of life factors may in fact make one of these places more attractive to a given individual or group.
However, there can be problems even with just using numerical averages to compare material standards of living, as opposed to, for instance, a Pareto index (a measure of the breadth of income or wealth distribution). Standards of living are perhaps inherently subjective. As an example, countries with a very small, very rich upper class and a very large, very poor lower class may have a high mean level of income, even though the majority of people have a low "standard of living". This mirrors the problem of poverty measurement, which also tends towards the relative. This illustrates how distribution of income can disguise the actual standard of living.
Likewise Country A, a perfectly socialist country with a planned economy with very low average per capita income would receive a higher score for having lower income inequality than Country B with a higher income inequality, even if the bottom of Country B's population distribution had a higher per capita income than Country A. Real examples of this include former East Germany compared to former West Germany or Croatia compared to Italy. In each case, the socialist country has a low income discrepancy (and therefore would score high in that regard), but lower per capita incomes than a large majority of their neighboring counterpart.
See also
- Cost of living
- Demographic-economic paradox
- Total fertility rate
- Gini coefficient
- Human Development Index
- Index of Economic Freedom
- Median household income
- Where-to-be-born Index
- Right to an adequate standard of living
- Working hours
- ^ "Standard Of Living Definition". Investopedia.com. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ^ http://hdr.undp.org/en/2013-report
External links
- Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living by Freddy Madero
- Commission on Living Standards


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March 2009, Projects Abroad is offering a solution to the shortage of city jobs.
Projects Abroad, the leading global organizer of volunteer placements, is offering a solution to the shortage of city law jobs, as highlighted yesterday in The Evening Standard
A number of city law firms are paying graduates thousands of pounds not to start work for a year after being hit hard by the recession. Many are being told to use the money and time off to do something "meaningful and constructive".
Projects Abroad runs volunteer schemes in 24 countries around the globe, and offer law and human rights voluntary work placements in areas as diverse as China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mongolia, Morocco, Senegal, Togo and South Africa (http://www.projects-abroad.co.uk/projects/law-and-human-rights/). Volunteers are offered opportunities such as changing legislation and providing legal services to businesses, community organisations and individuals in developing countries.
Placements are suitable for law graduates, law professionals wishing to take a career break, law students and people who have completed a law conversion course.
Projects Abroad recorded a 50 per cent increase in applications in January 2009 from Britons who had recently been made redundant, compared to a year earlier. It has been reported there will be 3 million people redundant in the UK by the end of 2009.
Dr Peter Slowe, founder and director of Projects Abroad is available for interviews and comment.
Go to the Recent Press Releases page.
Thank you!
One of our Programme Advisors will get back to you as soon as possible with an answer to your question.


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Michael BallestasPDGA# 35093 Open/Advance
Began Playing Disc Golf: In May of 2007 my friend Chris, introduced me to disc golf and was hooked instantly. How could you not be!
First Disc: The Archangel, good for anyone starting off. It's a great distance driver with less power required to throw it.
Favorite Morley Field Hole: Hmm, there's so many of them, but it have to be 12 because there are so many different pin locations and many trees to make it challenging.
Morley Field Aces: 11 aces at Morley..2c twice, 5c, 8a, 11a, 14d, 15a, 15e twice, 17b, 18b
Favorite Disc: Z Predator, a nice over stable disc that has many uses besides a backhand. For thumbers it's great, it flips over slow and can go pretty far…it has saved me form trouble numerous times.
Favorite Driver: Star Destroyer, it's a great fast, reliable disc that I can always count on. Once they get beat in they can hold a line for awhile and get there quick
Favorite Midrange: It's a 178 Z Buzz and anybody that knows me would say that as well. It's a GREAT midrange because it can hold just about any line you give it and just glide to the pin
Favorite Putter: 175 Soft Omega
"In My Bag": Soft omegas(2) putters 175g
Star destroyer 174g
Star Excaliber 175g
Star TL
Champion Firebird 170g
Champion Wraith 175g
Z Force 172g
Z Predator 174g
Z Buzz 177g
Z wasp 176g
Stratus 174g
Star Gator 175g
Favorite DG Website:
Not much time to look, to busy playing
Favorite Pro Player:
Snapper.. I've played with Snapper many times and just watching him throw effort less and accurate blows my mind. He's a great teacher and you can learn many things by watching him.
Tips for other players that have helped you: Start with a controllable disc, like a Valkyrie or even a Archangel. Start off throwing slow, getting the right technique first because you are less accurate if you try and kill it. Just go out there and have fun! Remember, there are always players willing to help you out…just ask!


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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public-Private Partnership Program is designed to facilitate collaborations to improve public health through biomedical and behavioral research. Partnerships can be established directly between the NIH—as a whole or through one or more of its Institutes, such as NIAID—and any of a several organizations, including patient advocacy groups, foundations, pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies, and academic institutions.
NIAID uses solicitations to support public-private partnerships that stimulate private-sector investment in the development of innovative ideas, preclinical and clinical trials, and products that would otherwise be too risky to be considered by private companies. For example, public-private partnerships, such as the Medicines for Malaria Venture, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) work to support and accelerate discovery, clinical research, and product development.
Many of these partnerships have produced notable successes. For example, in 2010 a clinical study conducted by FIND reported a major milestone in tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. It showed that a test developed through an NIAID-supported public-private partnership yields highly accurate and much more rapid results than what is possible with current TB diagnostics. In the study of 1,730 patients, the Cepheid Xpert MTB/RIF TB test successfully identified 98 percent of all confirmed TB cases and 98 percent of patients with TB bacteria resistant to rifampin, a commonly used TB drug. The Xpert TB test provides results in fewer than two hours. Current TB diagnostics can take several weeks, even months.
In 2007, NIAID launched NIAID Partnerships with Public-Private Partnerships to establish collaborations with diverse organizations to develop new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for neglected diseases. Such ventures include multiple partners and help to obtain funds and resources from public-sector agencies, philanthropic organizations, and others. One recent collaboration aims to develop a new drug for visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that is fatal if left untreated. Another seeks to increase the drug pipeline for drugs against African sleeping sickness.
For more information about public-private partnerships, visit the NIH Public-Private Partnership Program.


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"There are many factors that influence the dishes and menus I put together, one of the main being the hotels unique location. Situated in between the New Forest National Park and the Jurassic South Coast of England I am able to source an abundance of ingredients from on our doorstep, great shellfish, cheese, dairy products and free range eggs. Not to mention the ingredients which we are able to forage from the hotels grounds, such as honey from our bee hives and berries to make jam. The second influence is a personal one, my passion for travel. I like to bring elements from different cultures and entwine these with our local ingredients. I aim to provide a menu and experience which reflects the hotels location but with a subtle undertone of international flavours and spices, as well as creating a flexible dining experience ultimately offering something for every pallet… "
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It doesn't matter what "community" he is part of, nor who he is. He's a hacker, a father of two beautiful girls and a husband. He's being robbed of his life, and his daughters robbed of their father.
What matters is we can help. All of us - some of us (me) have been lucky enough to get help and support when we needed it most from people we didn't expect it from. To this day, I can't think about that without tears coming to my eyes. I can not imagine his pain - and I can not put myself in his shoes - it is place I dare not go.
We can help him; we can help his family. Even if only a little, and even though we know what the future will hold.
Read what he has written; help him if you can and are able.
Even if you can not help him financially; help him with words: Sometimes words are all we can pass on, but they're powerful and they mean more than you could possibly imagine. When you're in a dark and hopeless place, kind words and wishes of hope can mean the difference between retaining hope and sanity and giving up.


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The Founders of Dancecyprus aspire to provide a permanent, professional company to uplift and entertain our audiences and to inspire dancers and choreographers to believe they have a future in this country.
Dancecyprus has the following aims:
To perform a repertoire in a variety of styles. The repertoire will also include performances in which part of the program will be music only.
To encourage artists to be inspired by Cypriot heritage and culture, thus developing the company's Cypriot identity.
To create new works.
To promote performance opportunities for professional dancers and musicians from Cyprus and abroad.
To extend audiences by providing easy access to a broad spectrum of dance.
To develop understanding and enjoyment of dance by imaginative programming, lectures, lecture-demonstrations, informal talks, interviews, etc.
To act as cultural ambassadors abroad.
To cooperate with other charities where appropriate.
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Secondary school education is measurably associated with positive effects on health, well-being, and productivity (Alvarez 2003). For girls, research shows that those with more years of education marry later (Ozier 2010), have smaller families (Schultz 2002), and survive childbirth at higher rates (McAlister and Baskett 2006). They experience reduced incidences of HIV/AIDS (Hargreaves et al. 2008), earn more (Psacharopoulos and Patrinos 2004), and live in societies with higher national rates of economic growth.
Given this, governments in developing countries are working to provide secondary education on a larger scale and build on the primary education gains connected to the Millennium Development Goals and Education for All initiatives. However, while primary schools are widespread, with near equal numbers of boys and girls enrolled, secondary schools remain scarce, are mostly in central towns and urban areas, and enroll fewer girls than boys and too few poor and disadvantaged children. There are also large regional variations in the secondary education enrollment rate: while the global rate reached 70% in 2010, up from only 43% in 1970, enrollment is still below 40% in sub-Saharan Africa (UNESCO 2012). Evidence also shows that many children are leaving primary school without basic literacy and numeracy, and those who do make it to secondary school are often unprepared for the higher levels of learning required. Importantly, the world of work in developing countries is also changing from a focus on subsistence agriculture and small-scale industry to a more complex mix of formal and informal economic activities in local and globally-connected economies. Although secondary education is the level from which most youth will enter the labor force, it is still largely conceptualized as a route to tertiary education and has relatively high per student costs compared to primary education.
Questions about secondary education that need answers include how to increase demand, improve teacher skills, promote employment-relevant skills, and support alternative models of learning for learners in low-income settings. There is therefore an urgent need to support and build the evidence base for new models that deliver quality, relevant, and accessible secondary learning to often-neglected populations, including the poor, girls, those living with disabilities, those in areas affected by conflict, and other disadvantaged groups. This includes scaling-up approaches that have proven successful, testing innovative pilots, and increasing our knowledge of how to close the gaps that continue to constrain marginalized populations from accessing secondary education.
The aim of the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education
(PSIPSE) is to accelerate innovation in secondary education programming, research, and development in selected countries. It is led by a group of private donors and donor advisors, including ELMA Philanthropies Services, Human Dignity Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, MasterCard Foundation, and Wellspring Advisors, who have come together to encourage a new wave of innovation and learning in secondary education. This collaboration was born from the principles of the Global Compact on Learning, which underscores the importance of collaborative action to achieve quality learning outcomes, and supports goals of the UN Secretary General's Global Education First initiative. Participating donors not only work with each other, but also actively aim to enrich the knowledge base of the wider secondary education field.
The PSIPSE began in early 2012, when a Call for Proposals was issued to solicit projects that could help inform the imminent expansion and transformation of secondary education. The 2012 Call yielded over 500 letters of inquiry and, ultimately, 19 projects were selected for over $8 million in support. The 2013 Call for Proposals builds on this momentum and channels attention to critical gaps research has identified in the delivery of more widespread and quality secondary education. Donors have allocated $10 million for the 2013 Call subject to the quality of proposals received.
The PSIPSE's focus is both upper and lower secondary education. Where schooling at the upper level is further divided between traditional general secondary education and vocational education, PSIPSE is focused on increasing the relevance of general secondary education learning. PSIPSE supports programs and projects targeted to the formal education system and informal programs that help students transition to or re-enter the formal system. PSIPSE is interested in four thematic areas: demand, improving teacher effectiveness, promoting employment-relevant skills, and alternative educational models for learning (see 'Thematic Areas of Interest' section below).
All proposed projects should incorporate fresh thinking and raise new possibilities that address challenges in the secondary education agenda. The PSIPSE invites potential partners to push the boundaries of creativity; consider cost-efficient, innovative solutions; and re-think the content, instructional methods, delivery systems, and partnerships common in secondary education. Projects should be context-relevant and evidence-driven, and should yield insights that can expand the policy horizons of government planners, other large scale implementers, and technical experts. The PSIPSE hopes projects can also inform future educational investment by various donors.
Proposals submitted may be for pilots, for research, or for scale-up (see 'Types of Projects' section below). Regardless of their nature, the PSIPSE encourages projects with replication and scale-up potential. Across the four themes, the PSIPSE looks for projects that (i) target marginalized populations, such as girls; (ii) use technology in innovative, cross-cutting ways**; or (iii) do both. The PSIPSE is also concerned with the delivery of secondary education to conflict-affected populations in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and in Uganda.
The geographic focus for this Call for Proposals is East Africa, Nigeria, and India (see 'Geography' section in full call for proposals below). The Call is open to organizations (but not to individuals), including private sector entities proposing projects with charitable purposes, and working on specific education challenges in these places. The PSIPSE is particularly interested in collaborations between non-profit or public stakeholders and private sector entities.
Download the full 2013 Call for Proposals to learn more about thematic areas of interest, types of projects eligible for support, application process, and more.


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The NFL Owners Meeting in Orlando is over, and the Green Bay Packers are returning back to 1265 Lombardi Ave. to conduct business.
With little else to focus on, attention turns back to the pro day circuit, and there's a big one on tap for Thursday.
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel will be having his own personal pro day workout, throwing passes to wide receiver Mike Evans, another top-rated prospect for May's NFL Draft.
The NFL Network will provide live coverage of Manziel's pro day from 10:30 a.m. until noon CT.
Manziel took part in the measured drills at February's NFL Combine but chose not to throw, instead waiting for today's opportunity to throw in front of NFL scouts and coaches.
There's been no word if the Green Bay Packers will be represented in College Station, Tex. on Thursday, but they'll at least have the opportunity to watch on television.
It's doubtful the Packers have much interest in Manziel seeing as they're pretty much set at the quarterback position for years to come, but the division rival Minnesota Vikings might be one team that seriously considers Manziel in the first round.
On the other hand, the Packers might be very interested in Evans, however unlikely it may be that he drops to the 21st overall selection.
With James Jones departing Green Bay for Oakland in free agency and Jermichael Finley still testing the open market, it makes sense that the Packers are looking to add new weapons for quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Evans is 6' 5" and 231 lbs. and fast for his size. As a tall target, he'd provide an element to the Packers' passing attack that's been missing ever since Finley got injured.
During the offseason, Evans has been working out with former Green Bay Packers and Hall of Fame wide receiver James Lofton on his craft.
No other Texas A&M players will work out after having their pro day on March 5.
Additional pro day workouts take place at Ball State, Louisiana Tech, Georgia Southern and Coastal Carolina on Thursday.
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Amateur snapshot, made with Kodak Brownie camera, of Kennedys and Connallys in the motorcade about two minutes before the shooting in Dealey Plaza.
An ocean of ink has been wasted "proving" that John F. Kennedy was killed by any person or organization other than the U.S. Secret Service, the law enforcement agency charged with his protection. In the 2002 book by the late Philip H. Melanson entitled, "The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency" lays the blame for the murder of JFK exactly where it belongs: On the shoulders of the officers and their supervisors in the U.S. Secret Service charged with his protection, who not only failed to protect the president from assassination, but took part in a dastardly conspiracy to murder the young president and gave perjury to the Warren Commission in order to cover up their guilt.
This untold story is revealed in Chapter three, "Losing Lancer -The JFK Assassination" (pp.58- 89) - where we learn that SS agents Roy Kellerman and William Greer lied in their official reports and gave perjury to the Warren Commission about their actions the day of the assassination. One can understand the reason why the lies and perjury: Kellerman and Greer could have saved President Kennedy that fateful day in Dallas.
The two Secret Service agents -Kellerman and Greer - were in the "death car" with President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza. The agent in charge of the detail was Kellerman in the front seat and Greer was the driver when Oswald's first shot rang out that wounded JFK and the Texas governor. In the six or seven seconds before the fatal head shot, Kellerman froze and Greer slowed the car, instead of speeding up and/or swerving the vehicle to throw off the sniper's shots.
On Friday November 22, 1963 I was a student at Fairland High School in Rome, Ohio in the first of my afternoon classes, British Literature, or "Brit Lit" as we students called it. We were engaged in the study of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and doing a class discussion of the "Ides of March" scene in Act III where Caesar is murdered by the Roman Republicans under the leadership of Marcus Brutus in the Senate House. About thirty minutes into our class, well conducted by Mrs. Daniels, a former subject of Queen Elizabeth and student actor at her British college, the PA announced that all students were to assemble in the cafeteria. This seemed odd and fightening, the last time this had happened at our high school was in October, 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis when the USA and USSR stood toe to toe in possible nuclear combat.
When we were seated in the cafeteria, the reason for the assembly was passed quickly from table to table: "PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS DEAD!" Many of us shook our heads in disbelief. JFK dead? Impossible! He was too young...and too full of life. He was the husband of a beautiful woman everyone called "Jackie" who set the latest women's fashions. Kennedy was a war hero, the skipper of PT 109 who survived along with his crew a sinking by a Jap destroyer in the South Pacific during WW II. The world famous author of "Profiles in Courage." The patriot who stood down the Communists in Berlin in 1961 and during the October Missile Crisis 0f 1962. The Statesmen who told us, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. The new King Arthur of the New World who with his latter day "Knights of the Round Table" - the Armed Forces of the United States - would liberate mankind from all forms of tyranny over the mind of man!
Then a delegation of teachers led by our dour principal, Schultz, entered the cafeteria. We noticed that the normally unemotional German-American Schultz had red eyes and tears running down his face. We knew then the rumor was true: President Kennedy was dead. This raw display of sadness from a "Man's Man" like Schultz set off a wave of crying in the cafeteria, especially from the girls. My high school girlfriend, the daughter of a Baptist minister, moved her lips in the Lord's Prayer. When it became clear that Schultz couldn't force himself to make the official announcement, the assistant principal, Mr. York, told us that President Kennedy had be murdered in Dallas, Texas. This set off another wave of crying, prayers, remarks and questions. "Who killed JFK? Why didn't the Secret Service stop this from happening, Mr. York?
But York had no answers, although he did have one last announcement to make: Fairland High School was closed until further notice, and we were sent home to be with our families on what turned out to a weekend of national mourning.
Indeed, who killed President Kennedy? An ocean of ink has been spilled and several motion pictures produced that "prove" JFK was murdered by any person or organization other than the dirty little rogue Communist - Lee Harvey Oswald - using a piece of junk Italian army WW II carbine purchased for $19.95 by mail order. Conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory fail to prove anything other than the facts discovered by the Warren Commission, which were that President Kennedy was killed by a lone assassin who fired three rounds that day in Dealey Plaza from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository.
The Wikipedia gives this account of the Kennedy assassination:
According to the Warren Commission[12] and the House Select Committee on Assassinations,[13] as President Kennedy waved to the crowds on his right with his right arm upraised on the side of the limo, a shot entered his upper back, penetrated his neck, slightly damaged a spinal vertebra and the top of his right lung, exited his throat nearly centerline just beneath his Adam's apple, then nicked the left side of his suit tie knot. He then raised his elbows and clenched his fists in front of his face and neck, then leaned forward and towards his left. Mrs. Kennedy (already facing him) then put her arms around him in concern. Governor Connally also reacted after the same bullet penetrated his back creating an oval entry wound, impacted and destroyed four inches of his right, fifth rib bone, exited his chest just below his right nipple creating a two-and-a-half inch oval sucking-air chest wound, then entered just above his right wrist, impacted and cleanly fractured his right wrist bone, exited just below the wrist at the inner side of his right palm, and entered his left inner thigh.[14][15] The Warren Commission theorized that the "single bullet" struck between Zapruder frames 210 and 225, while the House Select Committee theorized it occurred exactly at Zapruder frame 190.
According to the Warren Commission, a second shot struck at Zapruder film frame 313 (the Commission made no conclusion as to whether this was the second or third bullet fired) when the Presidential limousine was passing in front of the John Neely Bryan north pergola concrete structure (the House Select Committee concluded that the final shot was the fourth shot). They each concluded that this shot entered the rear of President Kennedy's head (the House Select Committee determined the entry wound to be four inches higher than the Warren Commission), then exploded out a roughly oval-shaped hole from his head's rear and right side. Head matter, brain, blood, and skull fragments, originating from Kennedy, covered the interior of the car, the inner and outer surfaces of the front glass windshield and raised sun visors, the front engine hood, the rear trunk lid, the followup Secret Service car and its driver's left arm, and motorcycle officers riding on both sides of the president behind him.[16] Mrs. Kennedy then reached out onto the rear trunk lid. After she crawled back into her limousine seat, both Governor Connally and Mrs. Connally heard her say more than once, "They have killed my husband," and "I have his brains in my hand."[17][18]
United States Secret Service agent Clint Hill was riding on the left front running board of the followup car, immediately behind the Presidential limousine. Hill testified he heard one shot, then, as documented in other films and concurrent with Zapruder frame 308, he jumped off into Elm Street and ran forward to try and get on the limousine and protect the president. (Hill testified to the Warren Commission that after he jumped into Elm Street, he heard two more shots)[19][20][21] Hill believed she was reaching for something, perhaps a piece of the president's skull.[22] He jumped onto the back of the limousine while at the same time Mrs. Kennedy returned to her seat, and he clung to the car as it exited Dealey Plaza and accelerated, speeding to Parkland Memorial Hospital. After the president had been shot in the head, Mrs. Kennedy began to climb out onto the back of the limousine, though she later had no recollection of doing so.
In any event, whether there were one, two , or three snipers in action at Dealey Plaza that day the agency with the responsibility for protecting President Kennedy was the U.S. Secret Service. Clearly this branch of federal law enforcement failed to carry out their assigned task, and recently released documents point to gross incompetiency, delection of duty, cowardice, stupidity, perjury, conspiracy and a cover up designed to indict President Kennedy as being responsible for his own death.
THE FIRST: Secret Service Agent William Greer, a high school dropout with a tenth grade education, was the driver of the open car with containing President Kennedy and Texas Governor Connally along with their respective wives. Until that fateful day, Greer had led the life of a lackey, first in his native Ireland, and later as a driver for the Secret Service. Furthermore, it seems certain that Greer was ever given specialized training by the Secret Service on how to conduct his driving should he come under fire. The picture we get of Greer is a low I.Q. servant promoted way beyond his level competiency.
THE SECOND: Secret Service Special Agent Roy Kellerman, Greer's supervisor, who sat next to him in the front of the Kennedy's limo in Dealey Plaza. As the Secret Service Agent-In-Charge of President Kennedy's security, Kellerman made many mistakes. First of all, standard operating procedures for the Secret Service were to place agents at rear of the presidential limo and along the sides. at Love Field where President Kennedy and company started their tour of Dallas, two Secret Service agents took station at the back of the car, but were ordered off by Secret Service Agent Roberts, with no objection from Kellerman.
Melanson had this to say of the assassination of President Kennedy:
"He (Kellerman) did not relate how he had frozen for those six or seven seconds after the first shot - a time span that allowed the "kill shot" to the president's head.
Agent William Greer, the driver of Kennedy's car, neglected to admit how he had failed to hit the gas after the first shot or swerve the vehicle to throw off the unseen sniper's aim. The limo continued rolling at a snail's pace down Dealey Plaza. Worse, he actually slowed down almost to a complete stop.
As Greer followed the established procedures and waited for a command from Kellerman, the president was a proverbial sitting duck. The agents had those six or seven seconds to do something, anything, before the president's head was nearly blown off. They did nothing and covered up their actions - or lack of them - to the Warren Commission and others."
Perhaps Greer and Kellerman's lack of judgement and slow responses were the result of another little reported activity by the the Secret Service agents charged with protecting President Kennedy that fateful day in Dallas, Texas: At least nine of the agents were seen drinking on the night of November 21 - 22. A bad hangover experienced by Greer, Kellerman and other SS agents would go along way in explaining the death of a young president. The Warren Commission called this a "breach of discipline" and according to Sercret Service regulations, agents "On Call" are forbidden intake of alcohol.
Said Melanson of the testimony of Greer and Kellerman before the Warren Commission:
"At least two agents lied to the Warren Commission . Even worse, as they created the fiction about how thorough they had been, they implicitly pinned the blame on the fallen president himself, hinting that Kennedy's recklessness or fatalism - not anything the agents had done in Dallas - ignited a tragic sequence of events. Kennedy's critics still chant the mantra that the president brought it on himself. These outright lies and half-truths cannot absolve the Secret Service for losing the life of a president for the first time in its history."
Additional mistakes made by the Secret Service that made the assassination of President Kennedy almost inevitable: The dog leg turn at Dealey Plaza that made the Kennedy limo a sitting duck; the Secret Service allowed the Dallas newspapers to publish the Kennedy's exact route from Love Field to Dallas on November 19, 1963; the follow up car was too far behind the Kennedy limo and the eight agents in it, four or whom had been out late drinking, were not effective.
Said Chief Justice Earl Warren speaking of the performance of the Secret Service agents in the follow up car Texas Book in Dealey Plaza on that fateful day:
"Now other people, as they went along there, even some people in the crowds, saw a man with a rifle up in this building (Texas Book Depository) from which the president was shot. Now don't you think that if a man went to bed reasonably early, and hadn't been drinking the night before, he would be more alert to see those things as a Secret Service agent, than if they stayed up until three or four o'clock in the morning, going to beatnik joints and doing some drinking along the way.
After all is said and done concerning the death of President Kennedy, the two Secret Service agents present in the limo bear most of the responsibility: Agent Greer, the driver and his boss, Agent Kellerman. In fact, Greer was later to confess to author William Manchester that he told Mrs. Kennedy,
"Oh, Mrs. Kennedy , oh my God, oh my God. I didn't mean to do it. I didn't hear the shots. I should have swerved the car, or at least not hit the brakes and let it come to a near stop. I couldn't help it. Oh, Mrs. Kennedy, if only I'd seen it in time."
Jacqueline Kennedy would later tell author Mary Gallagher,"Agent Greer had not acted during the crucial moment...He might just as well been Mrs. Shaw (the nanny of John and Caroline). You should get yourself a good driver so that nothing happens to you."
The U.S. Secret made numerous "mistakes" - far too many and can only part of a conspiracy by a high ranking "Mr. Big" who pulled the strings of the Secret Service like a Puppet master.
Consider the roster of Secret Service personnel and their actions that led inevitably to the death of President Kennedy.
Agent Winston G. Lawson of the Secret Service Presidential Detail in the company of Agent Sorrells of the Dallas field office drove the proposed Kennedy motorcade route on November 14, 1963, and thus were well aware of the dog leg at Dealey Plaza that had to be taken at slow speed that exposed President Kennedy and his party to gun fire coming from the high rise structures in the area.
Secret Service agents assigned to the Kennedy motorcade were allowed to drink the night before into the early hours of November 22, 1963 with the knowledge of their superior officers. Secret Service regulations state clearly that "On Call" agents be alcohol free at least 24 hours in advance of a protective mission. This did not happen, nor were the hung over agents replaced with sober agents for the fateful day.
On November 19, 1963, the Dallas "Times Herald" and other local newspapers printed the exact route the Kennedy motorcade would take on November 22, 1963. It is certain that the Secret Service was aware of this breach of security, yet they did nothing to modify or change the Kennedy motorcade route. This was another major error on the part of Agents Lawson and Sorrells.
Agents Greer and Kellerman – the driver of the Kennedy limousine and his supervisor – froze when the three shots were fired by Oswald in Dealey Plaza. Agent Greer stopped the car briefly and looked back to the passenger compartment where President Kennedy was being killed and Governor Connally seriously wounded. This was in complete disregard of Secret Service regulations that required the car to speed up and make evasive moves to throw off the aim of an sniper in case of an assassination attempt. Agent Kellerman is recorded as freezing when the shots rang out. It was only when Agent Hill jumped aboard to keep Mrs. Kennedy in the car did Agent Greer put on the gas and exited the kill zone.
The actions of Agent Emory P. Roberts are highly suspect. At Love Field where the Kennedy motorcade begin that fateful day, This was highly irregular and another violation of Secret Service regulations. So unusual was this move one of the bodyguards is filmed holding out his hands as if to ask, "why?" Later when the shots were fired in Dealey Plaza, Agent Roberts ordered his men not to leave the back up car. This order was disobeyed by Agent Hill who managed to keep Mrs. Kennedy from climbing out of the presidential limousine. This was the only heroic action displayed by the Secret Service that fateful day.
Agent Kellerman and "The Battle of Kennedy's Body." The actions of Agent Kellerman went from passive to aggressive when he and a Secret Service detail with drawn guns stole the body of President Kennedy and the blooded limousine from Texas authorities, who had jusdiction over the evidence of the homicide. This made detailed analysis of the crime scene very difficult.
Removal of the bubble-top
Another controversy with direct bearing on the criminal investigation of the assassination relates to the origin of the order to remove the bubble-top from the presidential limousine. Kinney adamantly told me that he, and not the president, was solely responsible for the removal of the presidential limousine's clear roof on November 22, 1963. However, in testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, agents Kellerman and Win Lawson spoke of their involvement in that critical decision.
Kinney passed away on July 21, 1997. This correspondent cannot be definitive regarding the number of individuals involved in the decision to remove the bubble-top. However, based upon thorough investigation of the issue, the strong possibility exists that Lawson, acting through Kellerman and/or Boring, either gave the order or was represented as having given it.
Reduction of motorcycle outriders
The frequently repeated story that JFK ordered a reduction in the presence of motorcycle outriders in the Dallas motorcade is in need of correction. Although presidential motorcades on all prior stops on the November, 1963 Texas trip normally included anywhere from three to six cyclists on each side of the JFK limousine (a fact confirmed by numerous press and official White House films and photographs), the plans for Dallas were altered by Secret Service officials to give JFK just four non-flanking outriders.
Thus the presidential limousine was opened to crossfire, and the perceptions of professionally trained eye- and ear-witnesses were eliminated from the scene of the crime. Former agents Kinney and Godfrey confirmed that JFK never gave direct or implicit instructions to remove motorcycles from security positions adjacent to his car. Further, films and photographs of prior Texas trip stops clearly show a heavy motorcycle outrider presence during motorcades, up to and including the Fort Worth motorcade of November 21, 1963.
The origin of the order to strip presidential security by reducing motorcycle-based security remains mysterious, and carries sinister implications.
Security Stripping
Could Dallas have been deemed a sufficiently non-threatening environment so as to justify a stripping of presidential security? Not according to on-the-record comments from former agents Kellerman and Abraham Bolden (to the Warren Commission and this correspondent, respectively). They stated that they were at a loss to explain or otherwise find justification for the at least three separate checks for threats and harmful subjects in Dallas conducted by the Protective Research Section of the Secret Service that produced negative results.
Given the city's history, including the 1963 attacks there against Adlai Stevenson, the acknowledged presence in Dallas of radical, violence-prone Right Wing groups and anti-Castro operatives, and the knowledge, commonly and officially held within the Secret Service and the Kennedy administration, of ongoing, non-location-specific threats against the president, those results were, in the opinion of interviewees, highly unusual.
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The scene at Love Field. Agent Roberts orders President Kennedy's rear guard agents off his limo.
One half second before the fatal shot. Agent Greer has stopped the limo and is looking at President Kennedy. Agent Kellerman appears frozen. At the point both JFK and Governor Connelly are wounded.
Robert F. Kennedy has been quoted as saying that LBJ was "mean, bitter, vicious -- [an] animal in many ways...I think his reactions on a lot of things are correct... but I think he's got this other side of him and his relationship with human beings which makes it difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is what Bob McNamara suggested to me...if I wanted to get along.
Central to Johnson's control was "The Treatment",[24] described by two journalists:[25]
- The Treatment could last ten minutes or four hours. It came, enveloping its target, at the Johnson Ranch swimming pool, in one of Johnson's offices, in the Senate cloakroom, on the floor of the Senate itself — wherever Johnson might find a fellow Senator within his reach.
- Its tone could be supplication, accusation, cajolery, exuberance, scorn, tears, complaint and the hint of threat. It was all of these together. It ran the gamut of human emotions. Its velocity was breathtaking, and it was all in one direction. Interjections from the target were rare. Johnson anticipated them before they could be spoken. He moved in close, his face a scant millimeter from his target, his eyes widening and narrowing, his eyebrows rising and falling. From his pockets poured clippings, memos, statistics. Mimicry, humor, and the genius of analogy made The Treatment an almost hypnotic experience and rendered the target stunned and helpless.
In the 1948 elections, Johnson again ran for the Senate and won. This election was highly controversial: in a three-way Democratic Party primary Johnson faced a well-known former governor, Coke Stevenson, and a third candidate. Johnson drew crowds to fairgrounds with his rented helicopter dubbed "The Johnson City Windmill". He raised money to flood the state with campaign circulars and won over conservatives by voting for the Taft-Hartley act (curbing union power) as well as by criticizing unions.
Stevenson came in first but lacked a majority, so a runoff was held. Johnson campaigned even harder this time around, while Stevenson's efforts were surprisingly poor. The runoff count took a week. The Democratic State Central Committee (not the state, because the matter was a party primary) handled the count, and it finally announced that Johnson had won by 87 votes. By a majority of one member (29-28) the committee voted to certify Johnson's nomination, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher Frank W. Mayborn, who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee.
There were many allegations of fraud on both sides. Thus, one writer alleges that Johnson's campaign manager, future Texas governor John B. Connally, was connected with 202 ballots in Precinct 13 in Jim Wells County that had curiously been cast in alphabetical order and all just at the close of polling. (All of the people whose names appeared on the ballots were found to have been dead on election day.) Robert Caro argued in his 1989 book that Johnson had stolen the election in Jim Wells County and other counties in South Texas, as well as rigging 10,000 ballots in Bexar County alone.[19] A judge, Luis Salas, said in 1977 that he had certified 202 fraudulent ballots for Johnson.[20]
The state Democratic convention upheld Johnson. Stevenson went to court, but—with timely help from his friend Abe Fortas—Johnson prevailed. Johnson was elected senator in November and went to Washington, D.C., tagged with the ironic label "Landslide Lyndon," which he often used deprecatingly to refer to himself.
CONCLUSION: The facts of the Kennedy assassination case point in only one direction: Towards the U.S. Secret Service. I do not think they acted alone. I believe they were ordered to enable the assassination by Lyndon B. Johnson who had been a rival for the presidential nomination in 1960, and hated JFK for coming between him and the Oval Office. The facts of the case indicate that LBJ was a decades long political criminal and psychopath who stole elections and destroyed rivals.
Who else in the government had daily access to the all levels of authority in the Secret Service as did LBJ? Add to the fact that the assassination happened in Johnson's home state of Texas which he knew like every inch of his ugly naked body. The facts are that LBJ had the motive, opportunity and the pull necessary to cause the murder. It is interesting the parallel in what happened in Dallas that fateful day and the movie hit of time, "The Manchurian Candidate" in which a Communist trained assassin is dispatched to murder a presidential candidate with a high powered sniper rifle in order that his Vice President can put on, "The Bloody Shirt" and be elected President.
I know many Americans would find it unbelievable that a president's own body guards would join a conspiracy to assassinate him, so I encourage everyone to review the facts of the case. I am well aware that many Americans would not believe that the U.S. Secret Service is anything other than a band of selfless patriots who would throw themselves in front of an assassin's bullet. I can only say in defense of my thesis that I have had over 17 years experience in dealing with the Secret Service, and my observation is that these people are traitors who often give perjury in court, harass innocent suspects and invent false crimes to sent ordinary Americans to prison.
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The National Agricultural Landscapes Forum brought together thought-leaders from around the country to foster a deeper understanding and dialogue about major trends and issues shaping the future of agriculture, conservation and rural regions. Held April 7 and 8 in the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the forum put forward policy and program opportunities to increase government effectiveness and engender cross-jurisdictional collaborations that improve agricultural and conservation outcomes in a sober budgetary environment.
The following is the first in a series of stories that will reflect on the major themes from the forum and what they mean for 21st century agriculture.
A failure to plan is a plan to fail
The need to think strategically about the future of agriculture was a sentiment shared among the conservation leadership gathered at the recent National Agricultural Landscapes Forum. Looking at the landscape from his vantage as former California Secretary of Agriculture, A.G.Kawamura described California AgVision 2030—a stakeholder-driven effort to shape the state's food and farming system—as an example of how to bring diverse interests to the table to move agricultural policy into the 21st century. Calling for an agricultural renaissance, Kawamura shared his perspective on converging watersheds, foodsheds and energysheds that will create dynamic communities and end the 20th century exodus from rural America. "The human landscape means there's an ag landscape as a part of the human environment," he explained. "How do we plan the environment so it's sustainable in all its different aspects?"
One answer came from Richard Barringer, Research Professor in Planning, Development and Environment at the University of Southern Maine. Barringer pointed to the New England governors' Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Land Conservation. This ground-breaking initiative addresses five regional landscape themes, including keeping "Farmlands in Farming" and "Forests as Forests." While New England, according to Barringer, is a "land of rugged individualists, we're living in new time," and this effort embodies several key principles: private ownership creates challenges and opportunity; collaboration is absolutely necessary; and conservation solely for natural benefits is no longer enough–today we must incorporate the social and economic benefits. Working together must be a part of the plan. Inspired by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak's address at an America's Great Outdoors workshop in March, Barringer concluded, "Our conservation legacy will be defined by new partnerships and collaboration."
A changing demographic landscape
A necessity for more effective collaboration points to a need to understand who will be farming in the 21st century. In a poignant keynote address, Sec. Vilsak's Chief of Staff, Krysta Harden, asked, "Are we talking to all the right people to ask them what they need or are we only talking to people we are comfortable with and know?" She pressed further: "Are we talking to people who feel like they don't usually have a place at the table?"
Walter Hill, Dean of the College of Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Sciences at Tuskegee University, reminded us that historically we have not succeeded in engaging the whole community. The 2007 Census of Agriculture shows growing ethnic, racial and gender diversity and a rapidly aging farm population. Farm operators 75 years and older increased by 20 percent while those under age 25 dropped 30 percent. Farmers aged 65 or older own 21 percent of America's farmland, suggesting a huge transfer of land is imminent.
Hill challenged the audience, comprised largely of gray-haired men, "to get inclusion from every group that you can." He advised, "Building trust is a monster; it takes time." By 2042, the U.S. Census Bureau also predicts that current minority populations will become the majority, and it is time to start now if we want to be ready.
Beyond the tipping point?
As former Secretary of Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets Roger Allbee pointed out, it has been 30 years since the National Agricultural Lands Study (NALS), the only time the federal government has comprehensively assessed the challenges and opportunities facing the nation's agricultural land base. Since then, he said, "We've lost as much farmland as Illinois and New Jersey put together." Proportionally more of our best land has been lost, especially prime farmland and cropland. As Craig Cox, senior vice president of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Environmental Working Group stated bluntly, "The 21st century reality is we'll have less land and water with which to do more."
Since NALS, we have developed 41 million acres of rural land—or one out of three acres ever developed in this country. Cox was spot on when he said we've been "losing rather than gaining ground."
Assuming development continues its historical pattern—consuming our best agricultural soils fastest— Jeff Herrick, research soil scientist with USDA Agricultural Research Service, believes demand for farmland will drive expansion onto marginal lands or rangelands. He called for resilient landscapes that have the capacity to recover from extreme weather events: "Sustainable production at landscape scale." However, with a rapid increase in non-operator landowners, especially in the Corn Belt, Iowa State Assistant Professor J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr., predicts that future landowners will be further removed from the land, both geographically and culturally, less likely to participate in working lands programs and will spend less on conservation.
A challenge worth taking
If we continue these patterns, where will we be in 2042 when the world population is predicted to be nine billion people? The National Agricultural Landscapes Forum presented a valuable baseline but now we need to answer the big questions: How much land will we need to meet 21st century demands not just for food, fiber and fuel but also for clean air and water and biodiversity? What do we need to do now to secure it? Who will be the farmers and ranchers of tomorrow and what resources will they have to conserve and protect our precious agricultural landscape?
What rang clear from the voices emerging from the forum was the need to think strategically and plan for the future of agriculture, conservation and our precious land and water resources. As Craig Cox advised, "We will have to run much faster and smarter to stay in the same place." It has never been more urgent to conduct a forward-looking assessment of the agricultural landscape and create the vision and policy direction needed to ensure—borrowing from Aldo Leopold—its integrity, stability and embodiment of community.
About the Author: Julia Freedgood is Managing Director for Farmland and Communities at American Farmland Trust.