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Governor Cuomo and Legislative Leaders Announce Agreement on Legislation Strengthening New York's Domestic Violence Laws
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced an agreement on comprehensive legislation to strengthen New York's domestic violence laws.
The agreement includes a series of measures to protect victims of domestic violence and crack down on repeat offenders. Provisions in the bill include increasing the penalty for a repeat offense to a felony; allowing judges to consider risk factors such as firearm possession and violations of restraining orders in determining bail; and establishing a statewide Fatality Review Team to find new ways to prevent intimate partner homicides.
"With domestic violence remaining a major problem here in New York and across the nation, our state must continue to lead in strengthening laws to better protect victims and crack down on offenders who cause harm to their families," Governor Cuomo said. "By creating a new felony crime for repeat offenders, the state will come down harder than ever before on those who attack over and over again and ensure that these criminals can no longer hurt their victims. We will never tolerate domestic violence in any form, and I commend Majority Leader Skelos, Speaker Silver, and the bill sponsors for their work in reaching an agreement on this important legislation."
Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos said, "This agreement builds on our commitment to combat domestic violence and protect innocent victims, which has always been a focus of our Senate Republican conference. Rather than politicize this issue as others have done, weve worked cooperatively with the Governor and Assembly to once again show that government can function and deliver on a critically-important issue. I applaud the Governor for his leadership and commend Senator Saland and Senator Golden for helping us achieve a strong bill that will save lives."
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, "For many years the Assembly has taken steps to eradicate domestic violence by strengthening laws to protect the health and safety of abuse victims while ensuring more perpetrators of domestic violence face the increased penalties they deserve. This includes the recent passage of a bill establishing felony-level charges for repeat offenders, an issue also addressed by this legislation. I applaud Governor Cuomo and my colleagues in the Senate for their steadfast commitment to what is and has always been an Assembly priority, strengthening the wall of legal protection that surrounds victims of domestic violence in the Empire State."
Domestic violence is a problem of enormous prevalence and impact in both New York State and across the nation. It has been identified by the U.S. Surgeon General as the number one health problem affecting American women, and it floods the justice system of New York State as well as the courts of every other state in the nation. The agreed-upon legislation will provide a number of important provisions to help New York State better prevent domestic violence and protect victims.
Senator Steve Saland said, "Not since 1994, when I fought for the mandatory arrest policy for situations involving domestic violence, have we made such significant progress for those who are abused by an intimate partner or family member. This was a collaborative effort and I genuinely believe with the enactment of this legislation, we are making our State a safer place for many who live in fear. Today, their voices have been heard."
Senator Marty Golden said, "This life saving agreement creates better protections for victims of domestic violence from abuse and harassment in their homes and personal lives. Our society should not tolerate hateful acts of domestic violence and this new law will continue our states long standing tradition of protecting womens rights. No one in the Empire State should have to live under the threat of violence and fear."
Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Helene Weinstein said, "With an estimated 400,000 domestic violence incidents reported every year in New York, this is a crisis that demands our attention and our best efforts. I applaud my colleagues in the Assembly and Senate and the Governor for supporting a legislative package that addresses these issues, protects victims, and further penalizes abusers."
Chair of the Assembly Codes Committee Joseph R. Lentol said, "I applaud Governor Cuomo and my colleagues in the Assembly and Senate for working together on this important agreement. The enactment of this legislation ensures that crimes of domestic violence can be effectively prosecuted and abusers brought to justice. These measures are critical to strengthening our ability to protect victims of abuse."
Creates New Felony and Misdemeanor Crimes to Prevent Harassment and Crack Down on Repeat Domestic Violence Offenders
The legislative agreement enhances penalties for domestic violence offenders who repeatedly commit misdemeanor level offenses. The legislation would establish the crime of "Aggravated Family Offense" as a class E felony to ensure that defendants with a history of domestic violence who repeatedly commit misdemeanor offenses are prosecuted as felons. The legislation would also establish a new class A misdemeanor of "Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree", committed when a defendant, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm, causes physical injury to an individual or their family or household member.
Although New York State already has a number of strong domestic violence protections, many domestic violence abusers repeatedly commit low-level offenses, subjecting victims to continuing fear and potential harm. For example, a defendant with 132 prior convictions, many of which stemmed from assaults against his partner, served nine months in jail for an assault against his daughter. Since his release on that case, the defendant has been arrested again for domestic assault. By creating a new class of felony and misdemeanor offenses, the legislation will help ensure that repeat offenders are subject to harsher penalties. The maximum penalty for a class A misdemeanor is 1 year in local jail, but for a class E felony, the maximum sentence is 1? to 4 years in state prison.
The aggravated harassment misdemeanor takes effect in 60 days, and the aggravated family offense felony takes effect in 90 days, after the bill becomes law.
Allows Judges to Consider Additional Risk Factors in Determining Bail to Better Protect Victims from Further Harm
Under the legislative agreement, courts would be required for the first time to consider certain risk factors when determining recognizance or bail for a defendant who is charged with an offense against a family or household member.
Currently, courts are not required to consider any special factors when determining recognizance or bail in a domestic violence case, allowing offenders in some cases to go free on low bail and thereby allowed to stalk, harm and sometimes kill their specifically targeted victims. Under the agreement announced today, judges will be required to consider well established risk factors, such as an offender's prior violation of an order of protection and the accused's access to guns. These considerations will help ensure that domestic violence victims are spared additional harm and, in some tragic incidences, their lives. This part of the legislation would take effect 60 days after the bill becomes law.
Establishes Statewide Fatality Review Team to Find New Ways to Reduce Intimate Partner Homicides
Under the legislative agreement, the Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence will establish a statewide domestic violence fatality review team. The review team will bring together domestic violence-related professionals to review domestic violence homicides, in an effort to understand more fully the factors involved and determine how the system can be improved in order to help prevent future deaths. The review team would report periodically to the Governor and the Legislature to assist the State and local communities in improving domestic violence prevention measures.
The review team would be established 180 days after the bill becomes law.
Ensures That Domestic Violence Offenders Can Not Control Disposition of a Victim's Remains
Under the legislative agreement, individuals who have been charged with causing the death, or who were the subject of a restraining order protecting the deceased person, will not be eligible to exercise control of the disposition of the deceased remains.
Current state law details which individuals have the right to control the disposition of remains, without any consideration as to whether the person entitled to exercise such right may have killed the deceased. The agreement today ensures that individuals who exhibit extreme hostility towards a decedent as evidenced by an order of protection or being the subject of criminal charges arising out of the treatment of such decedent are barred from planning final funeral and burial arrangements.
Recently, a woman in Western New York was brutally murdered, and her husband was charged with her murder. The husband refused, for an extended period of time, to make appropriate funeral arrangements, allowing the victim's body to remain in the county morgue. Because of the provisions of current law, the county was not authorized to allow other family members to lay this woman to rest. When the husband finally acted, he disposed of her body in a way that her family believed was intentionally disrespectful and violated the woman's beliefs.
This provision would take effect 30 days after the bill becomes law.
Improves Safeguards to Protect the Location of Victims of Domestic Violence to Prevent Further Abuse
Under the legislative agreement, victims of domestic violence will be better able to keep their whereabouts confidential from offenders. The agreement enhances the ability of victims to shield their location by using a substitute mailing address maintained by the Department of State (DOS). Under this program, state and local governments must accept the substitute address, with extremely narrow exceptions, and DOS will forward mail on to participants' actual addresses. This part of the bill would take effect immediately.
In addition, the legislative agreement allows victims of domestic violence that seek medical and mental health services to have their insurance claims, forms, or billing correspondence sent to a confidential address. Too often, the address of the insurance policyholder is the same address as the alleged abuser. The legislation would allow victims to designate alternative contact information so they may receive health insurance correspondence in a safe location of their own choosing, such as the home of a friend or family member, a post office box, or a shelter.
This part of the bill would take effect on January 1, 2013.
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Archive for the 'New World Order' Category
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June 14, 2011: Steven John Hibbs / The Tonka Report (TTR) – June 14, 2011
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: Ironically, on the two year anniversary of the launching of this site back on June 14, 2009, I bid you all farewell until further notice. Peace and God bless to all… No Fear!! – SJH
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June 14, 2011 at 5:46 pm
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City Government Wants Keys To Properties Belonging To Residents
June 13, 2011: Uploaded by CrushingBastards / YouTube – June 7, 2011
City Government Demands All Keys To Properties Belonging To Cedar Falls Residents
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: Well, why not just give them your first born for human sacrifice?! – SJH
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June 13, 2011 at 2:50 pm
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The Missouri River Could Experience Flood Of Biblical Proportions
June 12, 2011: KMOX Editors / KMOX News Radio 1120 – June 8, 2011
The Fort Peck dam is upstream in Montana… – SJH
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – An expert on Missouri River reservoirs is sounding a very loud, very urgent warning about the chance of catastrophic flooding this summer.
Bernard Shanks, an adviser to the Resource Renewal Institute, says the Fort Peck Dam and five others along the Missouri are already full with the Army Corps of Engineers releasing record amounts of water to prepare for snow-melt and heavy rain up-river.
As a guest on KMOX's Total Information AM Wednesday, Shanks was asked what he fears will happen should the Fort Peck Dam fail and set off a chain-reaction.
"There would be a flood like you've never seen," Shanks told hosts Doug McElvein and Debbie Monterrey. "It would be literally of biblical proportions." He foresees a very real threat of "chest-high" water in St. Louis before summer's end.
Shanks' main concern: that the Fort Peck dam, which he maintains is built with a "flawed design", would be overwhelmed by snow-melt and heavy rains up north and give way, causing reservoirs downstream to collapse in a domino effect. If that happens? "It would be the most epic man-made disaster in the United States," Shanks replied bluntly.
He says most of the dams holding back water along the Missouri River are 50 to 70 years old, and like people they tend to weaken with time. "I have followed this issue for 40 years, and I have never seen them more at-risk than they are today," Shanks warned.
Missouri River – Flood Of Biblical Proportions
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: Bailing out banks at the expense of our American infrastructure… – SJH
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June 12, 2011 at 1:57 pm
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Fukushima Now Ten Times Worse Than Chernobyl In Pacific Ocean
June 12, 2011: Ethan A. Huff / NaturalNews – June 11, 2011
Dai-ichi reactors have been continually belching out radiation for months now! – SJH
Recent readings taken roughly 19 miles out to sea from the Fukushima nuclear power facility in Japan have revealed radioisotope levels ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas after the massive Chernobyl disaster.
Because Fukushima is much closer to water than the Chernobyl plant is, the ongoing fallout there is shaping up to be far worse than Chernobyl, at least as far as the world's oceans are concerned, and time will tell just how devastating this massive disaster will be on the entire world as radiation continues to circulate around the globe.
"Given that the Fukushima nuclear power plant is on the ocean, and with leaks and runoff directly to the ocean, the impacts on the ocean will exceed those of Chernobyl, which was hundreds of miles from any sea," said Ken Buessler, Senior Scientist in Marine Chemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, several months back. Since that time, it has been revealed that Fukushima reactors 1, 2, and 3 have all experienced "melt-throughs," which are considered to be the worst possible outcome in a nuclear disaster (http://www.naturalnews.com/032657_F…).
Various atomic experts are now in agreement that the unfolding situation in Japan truly is "as serious as it gets in a nuclear disaster." Even the Japanese government itself is now admitting the grave reality of the situation, having recently announced it will submit a report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) explaining the details of the melt-throughs, which basically mean that radioactive fuel appears to have burned through the outer containment vessels of the reactors and have gone directly into bare earth.
"Dangerous levels of radioactive iodine and cesium have already contaminated the sea, the soil, groundwater, and the air," said reporter Mark Willacy of the Australian Broadcast Corporation in a recent Lateline interview (http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/cont…). "This week plutonium was detected for the first time outside the stricken plant, and Strontium-90, known as a bone seeker because it can cause bone cancer and Leukemia, has now been found as far away as 60 kilometers (37+ miles) from the facility."
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Japan's Radiation Fallout 'A Monster You Can't See' – [NBC: 6-08-2011]
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: The radiation isn't going away any time soon. Breathe shallow… – SJH
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Mercatus Center: "Freedom In The 50 States" – 2011 State By State
June 12, 2011: Jason Sorens and William Ruger / Mercatus.org – June 7, 2011
This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.
It updates, expands, and improves upon our inaugural 2009 Freedom in the 50 States study.
For this new edition, we have added more policy variables (such as bans on trans fats and the audio recording of police, Massachusetts's individual health-insurance mandate, and mandated family leave), improved existing measures (such as those for fiscal policies, workers' compensation regulations, and asset-forfeiture rules), and developed specific policy prescriptions for each of the 50 states based on our data and a survey of state policy experts.
With a consistent time series, we are also able to discover for the first time which states have improved and worsened in regard to freedom recently… Read More
State Freedom Rankings
- 1. New Hampshire
- 2. South Dakota
- 3. Indiana
- 4. Idaho
- 5. Missouri
- 6. Nevada
- 7. Colorado
- 8. Oregon
- 9. Virginia
- 10. North Dakota
- 11. Florida
- 12. Oklahoma
- 13. Iowa
- 14. Texas
- 15. Georgia
- 16. Tennessee
- 17. Kansas
- 18. North Carolina
- 19. Alabama
- 20. Utah
- 21. Wyoming
- 22. Arizona
- 23. Nebraska
- 24. Mississippi
- 25. Wisconsin
- 26. South Carolina
- 27. Michigan
- 28. Arkansas
- 29. Montana
- 30. Vermont
- 31. Pennsylvania
- 32. Kentucky
- 33. Maine
- 34. Minnesota
- 35. Louisiana
- 36. West Virginia
- 37. New Mexico
- 38. Connecticut
- 39. Delaware
- 40. Washington
- 41. Illinois
- 42. Ohio
- 43. Maryland
- 44. Alaska
- 45. Rhode Island
- 46. Massachusetts
- 47. Hawaii
- 48. California
- 49. New Jersey
- 50. New York
Freedom In The 50 States – 2011
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: The demand for state's sovereignty could lead to secessions… – SJH
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June 12, 2011 at 10:53 am
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The Enlightened Ones: In The Illuminati And The New World Order
June 11, 2011: Michael Howard / Rense.com – June 11, 2011
"The world is governed by far different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." – Benjamin Disraeli
On 1 May 1776, the year of the beginning of the American revolution against British colonial rule, a young university professor, Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830), from Bavaria, founded the Order of Perfectibilists, later to become world famous as the Illuminati or 'Enlightened Ones'.
Weishaupt's family had Jewish ancestry, but he was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith and educated by the Jesuits.
His father died when he was seven and he was fostered by his godfather, a German aristocrat called Baron Ickstett.
Although schooled by priests from the Society of Jesus, the young boy spent hours in his godfather's extensive library reading learned works on philosophy and science. As an undergraduate at university, Weishaupt studied the ancient Greek Eleusian Mysteries and the mystical doctrines of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. Even at this young age he was thinking about forming a secret society based on the pagan mystery schools. He later wrote:
"At a time, however, when there was no end of making game of and abusing secret societies, I planned to make use of this human foible for a real and worthy goal, for the benefit of people. I wished to do what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular authorities ought to have done by virtue of their offices."
Adam Weishaupt became a lay professor in canon law at the Jesuit-run University of Ingoldstat near Munich while still a young man. His sudden rise to prominence in the university and his radical views caused consternation among the Jesuit priests. This led him to become involved in many bitter disputes with them about matters pertaining to religion.
In 1774 in either Hanover or Munich Weishaupt became interested in Freemasonry. However, he was disappointed in what he found, believing the Freemasons did not understand Masonry's occult significance, and refused to accept its roots in the ancient pagan religions. In 1777, he finally joined the Masonic Lodge of the Strict Observance Rite in Munich, which practised a form of neo-Templar-Masonry.
At this time the Order of Perfectibilists also became known as the Order of Illuminists or the Order of the Illuminati, sometimes known to its members as the Society of the Hidden Hand. Illuminati was the plural of the Latin Illuminatus, from illumino meaning lighten or enlighten, or 'enlightened one', a term used to describe the initiates of the pagan Mysteries. At first the Order had only five members who were radical freethinkers, but they soon attracted the attention of Bavarian society and within ten years of its foundation there were over 2,000 members.
Illuminism spread from Ingoldstat all over Bavaria and then to other German regions such as Saxony, Westphalia and Franconia that were at the time ruled by feudal princes. It was also exported abroad to the Austria-Hungarian Empire, France and Italy. The Illuminati's membership was largely drawn from the middle and upper classes and in this respect it is ironic that revolutionary movements are seldom started by the working-class. Instead, they are usually led by intellectuals and disenchanted members of the ruling power elite. Members of the Illuminati allegedly included doctors, teachers, lawyer, judges, university professors, priests, police and military officers, and aristocrats such as Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Duke Ernst of Gotha, Duke Karl of Saxe-Weiner, Prince Augustus of Saxe-Gotha, Prince Carl of Hesse, and Baron Dalberg.
The inclusion of these aristocratic and royal rulers in its membership roll seems strange considering the aims of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt's personal vision was a utopian pacifist society without monarchy, private property, social inequality, national identity and religious affiliation. In this new state people would live together in harmony in a universal brotherhood based on peace, free love, spiritual wisdom, intellectual and scientific knowledge, and equality. According to Weishaupt's doctrine in his own words:
"Salvation does not lie where strong theories are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascends to heaven, or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest. The revolution which is about to break [the French Revolution] will be sterile. It is not complete."
The Illuminati's main targets for criticism were the rule of the European royal families, the power of the Roman Catholic Church and the rich landowners who kept the peasants in a feudal state of servitude and poverty. According to its enemies, this doctrine was represented in the oath of allegiance taken by new members when they joined the Order. They allegedly promised to hate and resist, "The altar [the Church] and the throne [monarchy] and to crush the God of the Christians and utterly extirpate the kings of Earth."
Initiation into the Illuminati
The anti-royalist and anti-clerical nature of the Illuminati was also reflected in its initiation ceremony. The candidate was led into a small room where, in front of an empty throne, a table stood with the traditional symbols of kingship – a sceptre, sword and crown – on it. The candidate was invited to pick up these objects, but if he did then he would be refused entry into the Order. Having passed this test, he was led into a second room with a table draped in black cloth. On this table were a plain wooden cross and a red Phrygian cap as worn by initiates of the ancient Mithraic Mysteries. The cap was given to the initiate and he was told to wear it proudly as it was worth far more than the crown of any king.
New members were called Minervals, from the pagan goddess of wisdom Minerva, and the Order's primary symbol was a wreath of oak leaves surrounding an owl sitting on an open book. This represented the essential combination of wisdom and knowledge, and the owl was also the sacred bird of Minerva. This symbol was made into a pendant that the Illuminati could wear secretly under their ordinary everyday clothes. It is tempting to see a connection between this emblem and the giant statue of an owl that features in the modern rituals at Bohemian Grove in California. At this private estate an annual gathering of male politicians, businessmen and media executives takes place, and it is claimed by some conspiracy theorists to be an Illuminati front.
Adam Weishaupt believed in the eventual redemption of humanity and the restoration of human beings to the state of perfection that is supposed to have existed before the Fall and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. He also believed this redemption was only obtainable by following the esoteric teachings preserved by the pagan mystery schools who were the guardians of the Ancient Wisdom. Both men and women could become members of the Illuminati and they were taught religious freedom, and the choice to follow any or no religious belief. To live without the moral straitjacket of the sexually puritanical and corrupt Church was their birthright as human beings.
How the Illuminati Recruited and Expanded Across Europe
The new member was expected to recruit others into the Order like a modern form of pyramid selling. Because of Weishaupt's involvement with Freemasonry, it was decided to use the movement to spread the Illuminati message and members were encouraged to join Masonic lodges. In 1780 Baron Adolf Franz Freidrich Knigge (1752-1796), a German diplomat, was initiated as an Illuminist. He was already a Freemason and under his direction Illuminism spread throughout the Masonic lodges of Europe. He also introduced several degrees or grades of initiation into the Order. These grades were Novice, Minerval, Illuminatus Minor, Illuminatus Major, Knight, Priest, and Magus. A Priest for instance was a person who taught the other members the occult sciences, philosophy, history, politics and the arts and crafts.
Weishaupt established a network of Illuminist agents throughout Europe with access to prominent politicians, priests and cardinals, nobility and royalty. They reported back to the Grand Master of the Illuminati supplying him with intelligence and gossip collected and used for his own personal purpose. It is possible the aim was to blackmail people in powerful positions and thereby control them. By this time his enemies were claiming Weishaupt had decided his utopian anarcho-libertarian society could not be achieved peacefully. Allegedly he began plotting to overthrow the monarchies and governments of Europe using force if necessary.
In 1784 Baron Knigge and Adam Weishaupt quarrelled about the direction of the Order and this coincided with the exposure by police spies of an alleged Illuminist plot to overthrow the ruling Habsburg dynasty of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the same year a royal edict was issued by Duke Karl Theodor, the ruling elector of Bavaria and a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, banning membership of all secret societies not officially recognised by the state. This edict specifically mentioned the Order of Perfectibilists, which was described as a renegade branch of Freemasonry.
Soldiers, police officers, judges, university professors, schoolteachers and anyone working for the civil service were forced to admit to their membership of secret societies and had to either leave or be dismissed from their posts. In 1785 Adam Weishaupt was removed from his own position at the University of Ingoldstat and banished from the city of Munich to live in the countryside on a state pension. He moved to Regensburg where he was protected by Duke Ernst of Saxe-Gotha, an ancestor of the present British royal family who are of German descent. In World War I they changed their family name from Saxe-Gotha-Coburg to the House of Windsor after anti-German protests.
In October 1786 the Bavarian authorities seized a cache of Illuminati secret documents from the home of a member of the diplomatic corp, Xavier Zwack, in Landstut and the castle of Sondersdorf belonging to Baron Bassus, both prominent members of the Illuminati. These were published in Munich in 1787 under the title Einige Originalschiften des Illuminaton Ordens. They revealed the full extent of the Illuminati's alleged plans to destroy Christianity, topple the monarchy, overthrow the civil governments of Europe and eventually extend their influence worldwide. Even though it was claimed these documents were blatant forgeries, as a result of their publication the Order was legally prohibited and membership of it could result in the death penalty.
Many critics of the Illuminati saw its 'hidden hand' behind both the French and American Revolutions in the eighteenth century and believed it survived underground after its prohibition. The fact that Adam Weishaupt lived for another forty-three years in apparent obscurity led to speculation the Illuminati also survived. One of the founders of the French Revolution, the Comte de Mirabeau, was rumoured to have been a secret Illuminist. Some claim the plan for the original uprising to storm the Bastille prison in Paris that sparked the Revolution was discussed and agreed at a closed session of the Grand Masonic Convention in 1782. Count Mirabeau is supposed to have addressed the delegates and said his aim was to destroy the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church in France. In its place he said a "religion of love" would be established to replace it. In fact, during the French Revolution religious observance was temporally replaced with the secular worship of the Goddess of Liberty.
Groups Claiming to Inherit the Mantle of the Illuminati
Following the prohibition of the Order of Perfectibilists, several occult secret societies claimed to have inherited its mantle and to be carrying on its work. These included the Society of Illuminists founded in Avignon in the late 1780s by the unlikely partnership of an excommunicated Catholic priest and a Polish count. It later changed its name to the Academy of True Free Masons when it moved its headquarters from Avignon to Montpelier. Although it is rumoured the group still existed in 1812, it actually stopped functioning during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror that followed it.
The Concordists were a Russian secret society founded around 1790 as the alleged successor of the Bavarian Illuminati. They were suppressed in turn in the early 1800s by the Russian government who outlawed them as a subversive political organisation. In the early 1900s a journalist and spy for the Prussian secret police called Albert Karl Theodor Reuss (1855-1923) used a charter of authority supplied by the English Freemason John Yarker to establish a new Academy of Masonry. The Academy was later amalgamated into the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Order of the Eastern Temple or Order of Oriental Templars founded by high-ranking German Freemason Karl Kellner.
The OTO was connected with John Yarker's Masonic Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Mizraim and was supposed to possess the key to all the Masonic-Hermetic mysteries. Kellner claimed to have been taught these 'secrets' by three Eastern adepts. Theodor Reuss is mostly remembered today for initiating the notorious twentieth century occultist and magician Aleister Crowley into the OTO in 1912. The Great Beast 666, as he called himself, and known to the sensational newspapers as 'The Wickedest Man in the World' (surely not compared with his contemporaries Stalin and Hitler?) became the head of the Order in Britain and Europe. He claimed that the OTO was a Rosicrucian-Illuminatist group descended from the Bavarian Illuminati. Crowley was also a long-term secret agent working for MI6 or the British Secret Intelligence Service.
In the twentieth century the alleged surviving Illuminati in its various clandestine forms was seen as the eminence gris behind World Wars I & II, the Bolshevik Revolution and fall of the Romanovs in Russia in 1917, and the rise of both communism and fascism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It was widely believed by conspiracy theorists that the organisation would back any political group or doctrine or social movement and indulge in left and right-wing politics to achieve its age-old aims. Because Adam Weishaupt was of Jewish descent, the Illuminati became connected with Zionism, the international banking system, and even the entertainment industry and Hollywood where Jews are prominent.
In the modern world the Illuminati have been seen as a major factor and influence in international power politics, allegedly fomenting wars, civil disorder and revolutions in their attempt to establish a one-world government. They have variously been seen behind the contrasting ideologies of globalism and neo-conservatism, multiculturism, environmentalism and 'green' politics, the 1960s 'permissive society', and the New Age spiritual movement. The Illuminati have also been held responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union (which paradoxically they are supposed to have created) and the military policing actions by the United Nations, the Anglo-American alliance and NATO since the end of World War II.
It is claimed the draconian anti-terrorism laws introduced by Western governments in the wake of 9/11 and the emergence in recent years of a 'Big Brother' electronic surveillance society, where human rights and freedoms are restricted or infringed, is the work of the Illuminati from behind the scenes. Organisations such as the European Union (EU), the proposed North American Union (NAU) of the USA, Canada and Mexico, the UN, and the World Bank, are seen as Illuminati projects.
Secret 'Shadow Government' Groups
So-called 'shadow government' groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission set up after World War II, are also said to be fronts for the modern manifestation of the Illuminati. The CFR was founded in 1921 by Colonel Edward House, a political advisor to President Woodrow Wilson and financed by wealthy international bankers. Colonel House was denounced by his political enemies as a Marxist seeking to establish a socialist government in the USA leading to a one-world government. Paradoxically before World War II the CFR was accused of supporting and financing the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany. After the war it was labelled a populariser of international socialism through the UN. The CFR's apparently contradictory political aims were explained by conspiracy buffs as typical of the Illuminati fronts that use both left and right politics. That is why the organisation recruited its US members from both the Democrat and Republican parties.
Allegedly, another sinister arm of the modern 'shadow government' and the Illuminati is said to be the Bilderberg Group. Founded in May 1954, it held its first meeting at the Bilderberg Hotel in Osterbeck near Arnhem in the Netherlands. The Bilderberg Group was organised with the support of the CIA by Dr. Joseph Retinger, a mysterious figure involved in international Freemasonry and secret intelligence work, and Prince Bernard of the Dutch royal family. In 1946 Retinger told a meeting of the CFR in London that his personal political vision was a united Europe as a bulwark against anti-Americanism and communism. His plans took a step forward eight years later when the Bilderberg Group began its annual meetings attended by representatives of the business world, international banking, the media, the military-industrial complex and politics.
Few people attending Bilderberg meetings have ever talked publicly about what happened or what was discussed. However, Denis Healey, a larger-than-life character who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour government of the 1970s, once let the proverbial cat out of the bag in a television interview. Asked what the Bilderberg Group was, Healey admitted its ultimate political aim was "a single community throughout the world" or a one-world government.
The 2009 Bilderberg Conference was held from 14-17 April at a hotel in a town near Athens, Greece. Among the participants were the queen of the Netherlands, former prime ministers and prominent government ministers from the host country Greece, the USA, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, representatives of NATO, the UN, the American National Security Agency (NSA), directors of international banks, and the World Trade organisation, and the editors of national and international financial newspapers and magazines.
According to conspiracy theorists and professional Bilderberg watchers, those who attended this meeting apparently agreed to produce a false picture for the public of imminent economic recovery from the global recession and banking crisis. The attendees were to encourage banks and private investors to put their money back into the stock markets. The plan is apparently to create a new financial crisis in 2010 that will plunge the world into a deeper and more serious recession than we have so far experienced. This would cause high levels of unemployment and civil disorder and pave the way for more draconian laws to control the population. Eventually the situation would get so bad that martial law would have to be declared and there would be calls for a one-world government to be set up to restore global order. The meeting also allegedly backed the Lisbon treaty, which will eventually create a European federal super-state or United States of Europe with a single currency, the Euro.
In his State of the Union address in January 1991, President George H. Bush told US Congress the impending Gulf War to liberate the oil-state of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation was part of a new "big idea" he called the New World Order. He described it as bringing together diverse nations in a common cause to achieve "the universal aspirations of humankind, peace and security, freedom and the rule of law." Many of those who heard or read the address interpreted President Bush's remarks as a coded reference to the Illuminati's aim of a global government.
With the election of the first black president in American history, Barack Obama, in November 2008, it seemed as if the neo-con forces with their New World Order agenda had been defeated. It was widely predicted by media commentators and political experts that America was entering a new stage in its development, a time of hope and change when the discredited right-wing policies of the neo-cons would be consigned to the garbage can of history. This was illustrated by postcards on sale in the UK showing the new president as a shining knight on a white horse. The picture was simply captioned 'Hope'.
It has been pointed out that for the first time in a generation there appeared to be no known links between President Obama and 'shadow government' groups such as the Bilderbergers. However, rumours of a secret tryst between Senator Hilary Clinton and Senator Obama in Virginia during the Bilderberg Group meeting of 2008 held in that state raised suspicions. It was suggested both politicians may have secretly attended the meeting. Also several prominent members of the Obama administration have been identified as Bilderberg attendees and members of the CFR and Trilateral Commission, which as its name suggests brings together leading past and present politicians from Europe, the United States and Japan. This is not surprising considering that, Illuminati front or not, the so-called 'shadow government' acts as a training and recruiting agency for the Western world's aspiring politicians.
At the time of writing President Obama's honeymoon period with the American public seem to be over. Recently he has been criticised for his radical (by American standards) heath-care plans, his bailing out of international banks with taxpayers' money, the delayed withdrawal from Iraq and his acceptance of the premature Nobel Peace Prize only days after he committed a further 30,000 troops to the ongoing Afghan War. In some extreme conspiracy theory circles, Obama is an Anti-Christ figure accused variously of being an Illuminati pawn promoting a one-world government, and a secret Muslim and socialist plotting to transform the United States into a military dictatorship.
This ongoing story of the Illuminati, and the secret societies claiming to succeed it, is one of a conflict between opposing forces seeking ultimate power for different reasons. It exposes a sinister agenda on those who have hijacked democracy and the idealistic concept of a utopian form of government guaranteeing real freedom to all its citizens. It is a noble concept corrupted for selfish political purposes using xenophobia, religious intolerance and fear as its weapons of choice.
The modern heirs of the Illuminati, if that is what they really are, are hardly 'enlightened ones' as they are only interested in the acquisition of personal power, the suppression of knowledge, and the control of the masses who they want to keep in a state of ignorance. However, there is still hope that genuine initiates of the Ancient Wisdom are working secretly behind the scenes of international politics to improve our modern world and lead it to a brighter future. [For further information on the subjects discussed in this article please visit…
Michael Howard is a writer, researcher, editor and publisher who has been interested in occult parapolitics all his adult life. He is the author of Secret Societies: Their Influence and Power from Antiquity to the Present day (Destiny Books USA). He lives in England and can be contacted by e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or by post at BM Cauldron, London, WC1N 3XX, England.
This copyrighted article is from New Dawn Special Issue 11 (March-May 2010) at… http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/special-issues/new-dawn-special-issue-11.
Open Your Mind – Illuminati Symbolism
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: I thought this rather apropo considering the element in St Moritz… – SJH
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Written by Steven John Hibbs
June 11, 2011 at 9:20 pm
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Media Silent As The Bilderberg Group Seal World's Fate In Secrecy
June 11, 2011: Uploaded by RussiaToday / YouTube – June 10, 2011
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: Actually, we do know who is there, along with some new arrivals… – SJH
Bilderberg 2011: Official Attendee List Of Global Elite In St Moritz
Bilderberg Live Saturday (Go to link below for video)
"Infowars.com has confirmed several more names of Bilderberg attendees not on the previously published list, including Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the former PM of Spain, former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates."
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June 11, 2011 at 2:45 pm
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Finally. After weeks of controversy, most of it generated by people who hadn't seen the movie, The Last Temptation of Christ has opened. People who like to think for themselves can now make up their own minds.
The controversy surrounding this tale of Christ has sparked picket lines and shouting matches. Church leader Donald Wildmon and Last Temptation director Martin Scorsese debated on "Nightline." A band of fundamentalists offered Universal Pictures $10 million to buy the movie and destroy it. And protests at the house of Universal president Lew Wasserman took on an ugly anti-Semitic tone.
All of which brings to mind the line from Hannah and Her Sisters: "If Jesus came to Earth today and saw what was being done in his name, he would never stop throwing up." So much fuss and nonsense over such an entirely well-intentioned enterprise.
The Last Temptation of Christ is a long-cherished project for Scorsese who, along with screenwriter Paul Schrader, has adapted the speculative novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. It is a thoughtful, serious film about the struggle between flesh and spirit, and emphasizes the human anguish and dimensions of Jesus (it does not, contrary to rumor, deny the notion of Jesus' divinity).
The opening and closing sections of the film are the most intriguing. In the first reel, we find Jesus as a carpenter who hears voices and is disturbed by his Chosen status. The middle, more familiar section of the film shows the Jesus of the Gospels, accepting his role as Messiah, enduring the temptations in the desert, gathering his disciples, and performing miracles.
The final portion of the film is a fantasia during the crucifixion, as Satan leads Jesus on a tour of what his life might be if he chooses to live only as a man—complete with marriage, children, and a sexual life. There is no explicit precedent for this in the Gospels, but it's a legitimate extension of the idea of temptation, and it actually heightens the concept of the sacrifice of Jesus; if there weren't any temptation, it wouldn't be a sacrifice.
The Last Temptation runs on for two hours and 40 minutes. It's a stark-looking movie (Scorsese made the film on the amazingly small budget of $6.5 million, in Morocco) and Scorsese aims for none of the grandiose effects that we know and love from Cecil B. DeMille biblical pictures. The actors speak in everyday American accents, the dialogue itself is without the usual King James poetry.
Much of it is engrossing. The theological debate within the film becomes a bit murky and inarticulate at times; the film never seems to find the specific argument it wants to put forward, but perhaps that was the intention.
A lot of the debate is between Jesus, played by Willem Dafoe (the Christlike sergeant in Platoon) and Judas (played by Scorsese favorite Harvey Keitel). In this version, Jesus virtually orders Judas to betray him, and noting Judas's anguish, says that "God gave me the easier job."
Mary Magdalene is played with considerable sensuality by a tattooed Barbara Hershey; Andre Gregory is arresting as John the Baptist; Harry Dean Stanton does a touching cameo as Saul, later Paul; and David Bowie is a patrician Pontius Pilate.
Scorsese says he has been wanting to film this story for the better part of two decades, but it seems to me in many ways he's been making it all along. There is tortured Christian allegory in Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull, and those films actually deal with faith and redemption in more alive, forceful terms than this new film. It isn't Scorsese's best movie, but The Last Temptation isn't glib blasphemy, either.
First published in the Herald, August 1988
We certainly haven't gotten any more enlightened since then; you can imagine what would happen to this movie is someone tried to make it now. I think I'd like it more today myself, but I haven't watched it stem-to-stern in a while (saw the parts with Harry Dean Stanton a couple of years ago and was really stirred). The casting of Keitel is one of those strokes that at first seems puzzling, and eventually feels inspired.


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Somehow no one was injured when a van on Moscow's Kashira highway exploded into a hugely massive fireball last Friday.
The driver had tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, but was obviously unsuccessful. It took firefighters fifteen minutes to finally stop the blaze.
But seriously, that fireball. Jesus. What was in there? Gunpowder laced with Semtex and napalm?
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TORONTO – A controversial anti-strike bill that cuts benefits and reins in wages for thousands of Ontario teachers will soon become law.
The minority Liberals and Progressive Conservatives teamed up to pass the legislation, which has angered unions and a national civil liberties group.
They say it violates constitutional rights and have vowed to fight the bill all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The governing Liberals brought back the legislature early to get the bill passed before Sept. 1, saying the province couldn't afford the rollover of old contracts.
But since the proposed legislation is retroactive to that date, it would claw back any pay hikes or benefits once it becomes law.
The bill, which passed by a vote of 82 to 15, would force new contracts on the majority of teachers and education workers in the province to help eliminate Ontario's $15-billion deficit.
It's based on an agreement the province reached with English Catholic and francophone teachers, which included three unpaid days off in the second year and cutting sick days in half to 10 a year.
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ATLANTA - A state judge has temporarily suspended a Georgia law that would ban abortions for women who are more than 20 weeks pregnant.
The General Assembly passed the law earlier this year and it was set to take effect Jan. 1. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Doris Downs blocked the law in a Friday order as part of a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.
Downs will rule later on the merits of the ACLU's challenge.
The law bans doctors from performing abortions five months after an egg is fertilized, except when they decide a fetus has a defect so severe it is unlikely to live. The law also makes an exception to protect the life or health of the mother, though that does not apply to a mother's mental health.
The ACLU filed suit on behalf of three obstetricians. The organization says the law violates the state's privacy protections as provided for in the Georgia Constitution.
State attorneys argued to Downs that blocking the law, even temporarily, would go against the will of the Georgia's elected legislative body. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Sam Olens did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon.
Similar "fetal pain" laws have passed in six other states, with various challenges filed in state and federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can limit abortions when there is a reasonable chance the fetus could survive outside the womb. That is generally considered to be no earlier than 23 weeks.
Debbie Seagraves, executive director of Georgia ACLU, said the organization opted for a state challenge because "the constitution here has particularly strong protections of privacy."
Under existing Georgia law, women can seek an abortion for any reason during the first six months of pregnancy. During the final three months, doctors can perform abortions only to protect the life or health of the mother.


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HONOLULU — The search advisory committee has identified three candidates for the position of Vice President for Academic Planning and Policy of the University of Hawaiʻi System. The candidates are scheduled to take part in meetings and interviews on Oʻahu and the neighbor islands with key administrators, faculty, student representatives and other university groups during the last week of April and first week of May. Following meetings with the candidates, the committee and the community at large will submit comments to President David McClain who will recommend one of the finalists to the UH Board of Regents.
"We are very pleased with the quality of experience our candidates have displayed in their academic careers," said Gene Awakuni, Chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu and chair of the search advisory committee. "The committee looks forward to meeting with each of the finalists and learning more about what each might bring to the position."
The three finalists are Dr. Amanda L. Golbeck, professor of internal medicine and professor of preventive medicine and public health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita; Dr. Linda Johnsrud, interim vice-president for academic planning and policy at the University of Hawaiʻi System; and Dr. Jay Noren, executive vice-president and provost, and dean of the graduate college at the University of Nebraska.
Amanda L. Golbeck has been a professor of internal medicine, and professor of preventive medicine and public health, at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita since 2003. Her previous administrative experience includes positions for the State of Kansas Board of Regents as vice president for academic affairs, and at Wichita State University as director of its medicine and public health program. She received her doctorate and master's degrees in biostatistics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Linda Johnsrud has been interim vice president for academic planning and policy at the University of Hawaiʻi System since March 2005. Previously, she was interim chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi—West Oʻahu, associate vice president for academic planning and policy, and professor in education administration at the University of Hawaiʻi—Mānoa. She received her doctorate degree from Ohio State University in higher education, and her master's degree from Western Illinois University in college student personnel administration.
Jay Noren has been at the University of Nebraska since 2002 as executive vice president and provost, and dean of the graduate college. He also serves as a professor in the department of preventive and societal medicine. His previous administrative experience includes positions for the National Institute of Health Policy's Health Workforce Program, where he served as director, and Texas A&M University, as vice chancellor for health affairs. He received a master's in public health from Harvard University, and a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Minnesota.
For more information about the UH vice president for academic planning and policy search, including a schedule for each candidate's visit, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/executivesearch/vpapp/.
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A. Alive
That' s a photoshooting we did a while ago with a newcomer and inspiring photographer, Danae Geroulakou. She is a girl who opens herself to the world but stays true to herself and her passions.
More photos coming soon.
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dress: vintage
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t-shirt: Graveyard band t-shirt
jeans: see by chloe
Always, Child Of The Sea: EARTHBOUND


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Stockton, CA
Norma Lorayne Peterson
July 18, 1919 - October 14, 2013
Norma Peterson was born in San Francisco to Giobotto and Caterina Canessa on July 18, 1919. While still a baby she moved with her family to a farm east of
Stockton. By age four she was running away to the elementary school where her sister went. Her mother enrolled her in the first grade that spring and she went into the second grade that fall. Norma always had a love for learning and knew at a very early age that she wanted to be a teacher. She graduated from Stockton High and went onto the College of the Pacific (UOP). Norma graduated in June, 1940 with
honors in math and science.
Norma started her teaching career in Jackson, California where she met the Peterson family. After the War she married William Peterson and moved back to Stockton. They divorced in 1974. Norma taught math and biology at Stockton College until Stagg High opened in 1959. She taught algebra and geometry at Stagg until her retirement in 1980.
Norma was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Stockton Oaks Chapter. She enjoyed many friendships through her work in Eastern Star, both in Stockton
and throughout the state.
Because Alzheimer's disease was claiming her memory, Norma moved to Corvallis, Oregon to be near her daughter. With the care of her family, she was able to stay in her own home for eight years before moving to a foster care facility. Norma loved the Oregon landscape with all the trees; she was an environmentalist at heart. Norma died on October 14, 2013 at age 94 with her family standing vigil.
Norma is survived by her daughter, Kay; son-in-law, Ron; grandsons, Jon and Chris and great granddaughter, Katie. She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Rita.
At her request, no service will be performed and her ashes will be scattered in the Pacific.


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Over the winter, Stefan Loble, the founder of Bluff Works, reached out to us to see if we wanted to try out his company's pants. As it was still brutally cold where I lived, I agreed but knew it would be a while before I could give them a proper on-bike shakedown.
Well, many months later and we've finally gotten a good bit of use out of the pants. RL and I teamed up to offer our thoughts and observations of the pants for your review.
First off, the pants themselves. Here are some details straight from the Bluff Works website:
* 100% technical, breathable quick-dry polyester. Nylon pockets.
* Zippered front hidden internal security pocket to deter pickpockets. Large enough to hold your passport.
* Rear zippered pocket sized for an oversized travel wallet.
* Discrete side pocket phone storage to keep you from sitting on it. Fits an iPhone or a Galaxy S4.
* Hidden loop to clip keys or a security badge inside your front pocket.
* Nickle-free jean tack closure.
* Interior pocket images made to inspire.
* Designed and manufactured in New York City, of imported fabric from Taiwan.
* Machine washable. Line or tumble dry.
One thing to make clear right up front: these pants are not marketed for bike commuters, nor do they have any bike-specific features. The features the Bluff Works DO have turn out to be great for we bike commuters, even if they were not specifically intended for us.
The stitching is tight and even, and the fabric feels like a very quality material. The Bluff Works are put together very nicely. They come in four colors: charcoal, classic grey, velvet brown, and light khaki. I got a charcoal pair to wear, and RL got khaki.
The zippered pockets and key-hanging tab are great for an active lifestyle. You don't have to worry about items falling (or being lifted) from your pockets on the subway or the bike. The soft nylon inner pockets feel great against the skin, and are roomy enough for pretty much anything you need to carry. Best of all, the care instructions are printed right on the pocket liners!
Jack's thoughts:
The polyester fabric is soft, and has a slight sheen. My wife didn't care for the sheen, but I rather liked it. I think these pants make me look pretty good, and I think they make RL look good, too. As you may remember from our previous review of the Levi's commuter pants, I think commuter-friendly pants should actually look the part of business-appropriate attire, not dolled-up jeans. The Bluff Works answer my prayers in that respect! I felt perfectly comfortable in casual situations as well as more formal events. Hell, I even wore these beauties to a memorial ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery, and a couple people remarked on my snappy duds.
The cut was overall pretty perfect for my body. I did find the waist-to-crotch measurement a bit snug, and you'll see that RL did too. Otherwise, the pants were comfortable and stayed looking nice — no ironing needed after a wash.
As I mentioned, the pants aren't geared specifically toward cyclists, so all the seams and whatnot are just where you'd expect them to be in a pair of regular street pants. That being said, I didn't notice any discomfort riding with the Bluff Works pants on. They stayed nice, too — with the fabric warding off splashes and stains and staying wrinkle-free, you really could go directly from bike to boardroom in these!
I give the pants a solid thumbs-up, but I'd love to see perhaps a reflective inner cuff or something to make them a little more bike-friendly for our purposes. And, at $88 for a really nicely-made pair of pants, designed AND manufactured in New York City, I really applaud that. I've spent more for lesser pants that didn't look (or perform) half as nicely.
RL's thoughts:
I liked the way they fit, a bit more slim than my other slacks, but they're nothing like skinny or hipster jeans. It's super hard for me to find pants with a 29″ inseam…yes, I've got short legs. When I received them I wore them to various holiday parties and events without having the need to iron or even wash them. Yes that's correct, I didnt' wash them for about 3 months! During those 3 months, I wore them about 5 different times. I didn't have to iron them either. Basically after I wore them, I hung them on pants hangers, the kind that you clip the waist to. That allowed the fabric to relax and not get wrinkled.
The material used isn't as soft as some of my other slacks,but it is more durable. With that said, it's thicker and rougher to the touch. They almost remind me of a better quality of Dickies work pants, but much more stylish. I dug the zippered pocket in the rear and the other in one of the side pockets. Speaking of side pocket, the right side had this cool loop that you can clip your keys onto for safe keeping.
Surprisingly the Bluff Works pants never caught a stain nor did any of the stitching come undone. I wear these pants anytime I am going to a business meeting, church, or on a hot date with my wife. She actually likes the way these fit on me. One thing you have to look out for, MOOSE KNUCKLE. That's the boy version of Camel Toe. Ya these pants are notorious for showing off your package especially if you're sitting down. I noticed this when I was at church. I was sitting and when it was time to pray, I looked down and WHOA! I had to use my Bible to cover up and be modest!
Other than the Moose Knuckle, no complaints about these pants. They wash easily, wrinkles come out if you just let them hang, doesn't stain and no odor! Yep, even the most humid of days that produce the worst swamp balls/ass, no stank.
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Again, the Bluff Works might not have any bike-specific features, but that shouldn't deter you from checking these out. Outstanding fit and finish, smart features, and a polished look are worth the price of admission. Bluff Works is planning other products in the future, so keep your eyes out. In the meantime, swing over to their website, where the pants are available for online purchase.


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Member Articles
If You Can Multi-Task, You Can Work Out!
There are plenty of ways to work out at home
by Diane Lang | 5964 views | 7 comments | Rate this now!Follow @Work_It_Mom
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LOL nice!
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Jen157 on 2nd February 2012
Wow! Awesome! I never thought of those. I am going to try some of them right away! The only thing that I do now that I can suggest - depending on the size of their child - is doing bicep curls with their child. My son is 23 pounds and I usually curl 20 at the gym so it works perfect. I just roll him up and down and he laughs and laughs. When I roll him up, I kiss his belly. Of course, if he gets much heavier than this I wont be able to do it anymore. When he was small enough for his Snuggli pouch, I would do squats with him in it, too.
Flag as inappropriate Posted by oceans mom on 22nd July 2008
The blow dryer squats are a fabulous idea! I used to use my dryer time to stretch (seeing as I was already bent over.. I just touched my toes, hold for 15 seconds and stand up.. repeat!)
Flag as inappropriate Posted by The Tattooed Mommie on 20th March 2008
I work out 5x a week but I just love the blow drying squats idea! LOL
Flag as inappropriate Posted by KathyHowe on 26th February 2008
Great ideas; I'll start with the blow-drying squats!!
I'll add that you can do your Kegels during your daily commute -- try squeezing your PC muscles (like you are stopping urination) every time you are at a traffic light.
Flag as inappropriate Posted by relaxnsmile on 26th February 2008
Those are great ideas, and I will begin incorporating them into my day.
Flag as inappropriate Posted by alanaransley on 26th February 2008
Diane, there are fabulous tips -- I am going to start doing some of them right away! Multi-tasking is my middle name (practically!) and yet it never occurred to me to use it t work in a work out...
There are some other wonderful suggestions in the comments for the post at The 36-Hour Day:
Flag as inappropriate Posted by Lylah M. Alphonse on 22nd February 2008


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9 features to help your trip fly by
Time is precious, particularly when you're travelling. The cabin is a great place to relax and enjoy some me-time. Here are nine services for a supremely pleasurable flight
1.) A seat in heaven
The new Business Class seat is so comfortable you may find yourself hoping the flight never ends. At the press of a button, the seat, which is continuously adjustable, turns into a bed with a horizontal sleeping surface almost two meters long. When we set out to design this new seat, we didn't just rely on the experts: we also asked more than 1800 passengers to contribute their suggestions in an online survey and practical tests.
2.) Lufthansa Magazin
A comfy seat, perhaps even a glass of wine – and inspiring reading matter! Don't mistake Lufthansa Magazin for an onboard entertainment guide slash list of duty-free items that you flick through briefly. You'll find that our magazine is so much more: gripping features, background reports on aviation topics, entertaining lifestyle and culture articles. Discover inspiration for your next trip and insight into exotic worlds. In fact, all that's missing is a crackling fireplace.
3.) Shopping on the fly
Enjoy a comfortable spot of shopping high up in the sky. The Lufthansa WorldShop catalog contains perfumes, cosmetics, watches and jewelry, useful travel accessories and great gifts for kids. You can pay in cash, by credit card, with your bonus miles – or any combination of the three. And if you can't wait to get shopping, the service is even available before you board: with our preflight services you can prebook your purchases online from four days before your flight.
4.) A treat for eyes and ears
Lufthansa's inflight entertainment is like having a vast media library at your fingertips – from the comfort of your seat: 100 feature films in up to eight languages, 200 TV programs, entire seasons of popular series. And on top of that, there are also 30 radio channels, a fantastic choice of music and audio books. Select, lean back, enjoy – and you'll find that time really does fly by.
5.) A change of perspective
Real aviation enthusiasts can't be tempted by Hollywood. Their action comes live from our outside cameras: on many Lufthansa aircraft live videos of what's happening outside the plane are streamed direct to the seat screens. You have a choice of the cockpit view, the bird's-eye perspective or a view from the engines, and you can switch between the three to really see what's going on around you.
6.) Exercising in the air
A stiff neck, heavy legs, nasty backache? For Lufthansa passengers the cure is only a touchscreen away: in the inflight entertainment program, stars from FC Bayern München demonstrate a few exercises that you can easily do in your seat. Thomas Müller does neck rotations, Rafinha stretches, Jérôme Boateng shrugs his shoulders. Each exercise takes only 20 seconds – but even a quick trip to the toilet is a great opportunity to stretch everything back into place.
7.) Hotspot in the sky
An increasing number of Lufthansa aircraft are equipped with the new communications portal, FlyNet, which currently is exclusively available on long-haul flights, but will soon be rolled out to selected short and medium-haul services, too. Flynet functions like a conventional public hotspot: activate the WiFi function, open your browser and your device will automatically connect to the network on board. Browse the internet, write emails, stream films…it's as if your feet had never left the ground.
8.) Kids' apps
Digital fun for our young passengers: Lufthansa's apps for children are informative, exciting and easy to use – not just during the flight. "Take-off! The fun-packed journey for little passengers" for children from three upwards contains six pictures full of animated fun and incredible detail from the world of aviation. In the new, action-packed game "Super JetFriends" players from seven years up have to complete tasks all around the airport, helped by the two Lufthansa mascots, Lu and Cosmo.
9.) Amenity kits
A bag full of goodies, beautifully presented in pouches created by famous designers. On Lufthansa's long-haul flights you don't just get a toothbrush handed to you. Instead, in First Class, our current amenity kits are designed by Jacob Jensen, but very soon we'll be replacing these with the universally popular miniature cases by Rimowa. In Business Class, Bree and Jil Sander have designed the bags we'll be giving away in the next months. They contain everything you need to make your flight a relaxing and pleasurable experience: a skincare set (with lip balm and moisturizer), a dental set with a toothbrush and toothpaste, an eye mask, ear plugs, socks and headphone covers. We hand out roughly three million kits a year – some of them even go on to become real collector's items, attracting top prices on eBay.


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Landing murder suspect pleads not guilty
Man accused of killing Chicago Bears fan
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The state attorney's office is looking to see if second-degree murder charges against a man accused of slitting the throat of a Chicago Bears fan at the Jacksonville Landing last month, killing him should be upgraded.
Matthew Hinson entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment Thursday morning.
Prosecutors said they are looking to see if this should become a death penalty case.
Hinson's trial date was set for March 11.
The 27-year-old is accused of killing 42-year-old William Pettry.
Pettry, of Illinois, was visiting Jacksonville for the Bears-Jaguars game and was at Fionn MacCool's Irish Restaurant and Pub the night before.
Investigators said Hinson apparently became jealous and enraged when he saw his wife talking with Pettry at the restaurant. They said he "calmly and cold-bloodedly" cut Pettry's throat, then walked out and drove away.
Pettry was a father of three young children.
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