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by Cameron Kerry, General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The time has come for Congress to pass strong Internet consumer privacy legislation that provides clear rules of the road for businesses and consumers while preserving the innovation and free flow of information that are hallmarks of the Internet economy.
That's the Obama Administration's conclusion based on the work we have been doing on commercial data privacy. Three months ago, the Commerce Department published its Green Paper, which contained preliminary policy recommendations to enhance consumer protection and strengthen online trust, while ensuring the Web remains a platform for innovation, jobs, and economic growth.
In response, the Commerce Department received thoughtful and well-researched comments from over a hundred stakeholders representing industry, consumer groups, and academic sectors. We carefully reviewed all them. Through the Privacy and Internet Policy Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTIC), which I co-chair with Assistant Attorney General Christopher Schroeder, we consulted with Federal agencies and key White House offices to develop a roadmap for moving forward on this important Administration priority.
Based our review, we have concluded that baseline consumer privacy legislation will strengthen the U.S. Internet privacy framework for consumers and businesses alike. The Obama Administration is committed to working with Congress to pass a bill that provides a stronger statutory framework to protect consumers' privacy interests in data that are collected and used or disclosed in commercial contexts in the Internet economy, while supporting innovation. Consumer privacy legislation should have the following elements:
First, the bill should include the concept of a "consumer privacy bill of rights" based on comprehensive, widely accepted Fair Information Practice Principles. These consumer data privacy protections should be legally enforceable and broad and flexible enough to allow consumer privacy protection and business practices to adapt as new technologies and services emerge. Any legislation should avoid duplicating or conflicting with the requirements of existing sector-specific data privacy laws and regulations.
Second, any legislation should recognize that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plays a vital role as the nation's independent consumer privacy enforcement authority. The Administration recommends granting the FTC explicit authority to enforce any consumer privacy bill of rights with an eye towards appreciating that any standards should evolve and adapt to a rapidly evolving digital marketplace.
Third, the Administration will work to promote global interoperability with our allies and trading partners. The legislative approach that we recommend could help to reduce the multiple compliance burdens that companies currently face and provide consumers with more consistent cross-border data protections.
And finally, consistent with existing Federal requirements and ongoing Administration policy development in this area, the Administration recommends adoption of a Federal consumer data security breach notification law that sets national standards, reconciles inconsistent State laws, and authorizes enforcement by State authorities.
In the coming weeks, the Commerce Department and NSTC subcommittee will be working to fill out these elements as we finish up our work on Administration policy and engage with Congress. With or without legislation, we will continue to convene stakeholders as well as the FTC and other government agencies to develop enforceable best practices or codes of conduct for consumer data privacy.
This work is important to the continued vitality of the Internet as an integral part of economic, social, and civic life in the United States and across the globe.


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I've started looking into CouchDB of late; I think it may be a great solution to some of our common issues around collecting "survey" style data from users. Our current approach uses a big nasty hierarchy of Hibernate entities.
I wanted to have some real, and real-world, data. Since I'm a big board gamer, I thought it would be nice to have a local copy of the BoardGameGeek database. I wrote a program that scrapes data from the BGG site and loads it into CouchDB.
#!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'hpricot' require 'open-uri' require 'thread' require 'couchrest' # Extension to Hpricot class Hpricot::Elem # content at # if block given, return value comes from yielding # actual content to the block def cat(expr) result = self.at(expr) return nil unless result content = result.inner_html.fixup return (yield content) if block_given? return content end # content-at converted to int (via to_i) def cati(expr) self.cat(expr) { |content| content.to_i } end def search_to_text(expr) self.search(expr).map { |e| e.inner_text.fixup} end end $BGG = "http://boardgamegeek.com" $catalog_pages = 0 $game_pages = 0 $games_added = 0 # Access to couch db. From what I can tell, the Databsae is multithreaded. $DB = CouchRest.database!("http://127.0.0.1:5984/board-game-geek") # The thread pool. $POOL_SIZE = 10 $QUEUE = Queue.new workers = (1..$POOL_SIZE).map do |i| Thread.new("worker #{i}") do begin proc = $QUEUE.deq proc.call() end until $QUEUE.empty? end end def enqueue &action $QUEUE << action end def parse_browser_page(url) end class String def fixup() self.gsub("'", "'").gsub("&", "&") end end def parse_and_load_game(game_id) $game_pages += 1 page = Hpricot.XML(open("#$BGG/xmlapi/boardgame/#{game_id}?comments=1&stats=1")) bg = page.at("//boardgame") ratings = bg.at("//ratings") comments = (bg/"comment").map do |e| { "user" => e[:username].fixup, "comment" => e.inner_text.fixup } end doc = { "_id" => game_id, "title" => bg.cat("name[@primary='true']"), "description" => bg.cat("description"), "designers" => bg.search_to_text("boardgamedesigner"), "artists" => bg.search_to_text("boardgameartist"), "publishers" => bg.search_to_text("boardgamepublisher"), "published" => bg.cati("yearpublished"), "categories" => bg.search_to_text("boardgamecategory"), "mechanics" => bg.search_to_text("boardgamemechanic"), "images" =>{ "url", bg.cat("image"), "thumbnailUrl", bg.cat("thumbnail"), }, "players" => { "min" => bg.cati("minplayers"), "max" => bg.cati("maxplayers"), "age" => bg.cati("age") }, "stats" => { "rank" => ratings.cati("rank"), "averageRating" => ratings.cat("average") { |content| content.to_f }, "ownedCount" => ratings.cati("owned") }, "comments" => comments } enqueue do $games_added += 1 $DB.save_doc(doc) end end def process_game(game_id) begin doc = $DB.get(game_id) # Found, do nothing rescue RestClient::ResourceNotFound # Not in the database yet, so fire off a request to parse its page. enqueue { parse_and_load_game game_id } end end def parse_catalog_page(url) puts("[%24s] %4d catalog pages, %4d/%4d games parsed/added (%4d actions queued)" % [Time.now.ctime, $catalog_pages, $game_pages, $games_added, $QUEUE.length]) doc = Hpricot(open(url)) $catalog_pages += 1 doc.search("//table[@id='collectionitems']/tr/td[3]//a") do |elem| href = elem[:href] game_id = href.split('/').last() enqueue { process_game game_id } end next_page_link = doc.at("//a[@title='next page']") return unless next_page_link next_page = next_page_link[:href] # Add this last, to give the other actions a chance to operate. # A better mechanism would be a priority-based queue, where the catalog # page parse action is lower priority than the other actions. enqueue { parse_catalog_page($BGG + next_page) } end # Kick it off start_page = $ARGV[0] || ($BGG + "/browse/boardgame") enqueue { parse_catalog_page start_page } # Wait for all the workers to complete workers.each { |th| th.join } puts "BoardGameGeek loader complete." puts "Queue not empty!" unless $QUEUE.empty?
Key pieces of this is Hpricot to parse HTML and XML, and CouchRest to get the data into CouchDB.
Did I go overboard? I don't think so ... this runs in about two hours, and created a database of nearly 40,000 documents (about 340MB). Using a thread pool just seemed to make sense, since (outside of the XML parsing), every aspect of this is I/O bound: pulling data from BGG or pushing data to CouchDB.
The code is naive about some threading issues and simply crashes if there's an error. Oh well.
Next up: learning how to build views against this data and deciding how to use it all. I'm thinking Cappuccino.

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It will he surprising to some—though certainly not everyone—that among the first issues engaged by the revolutionary thinkers at the turn of the twentieth century were those having to do with choice and determinism, with morality and ethics, with nationalism, with leadership, with the mobilization of masses, and how revolution was to be understood in the broad expanse of history. They are questions that continue to shape the revolutionary thought of our time.
Morals and ethics lie at the core of revolutionary commitment. As such, moral and immoral behavior, sustained or abjured by appropriate ethical assessment, becomes critical to any revolutionary enterprise. That enterprise is inextricably associated with the advocacy of, or resistance to, violence. At some stage in the process it becomes necessary to systematically address ethical and moral questions. At the very least, the proponents of revolution must justify to themselves or others their endorsement of real or potential violence. As early as his first efforts at revolutionary analysis, Karl Marx extended what could only be characterized as a slack interpretation of morals and ethics—as well as a singular account of human conceptual life in general. In The Communist Manifesto of 1848, he simply dismissed the notion that there were "eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc.;" or that any such ideas should independently influence the course of human conduct. He argued, instead, that such ideas, other than eternal, were relative, a function of the time, place, and circumstances in which they find expression—and whatever influence they exercise, as we shall see, was to be understood to be the derivative result of objective factors that, taken together, he identified as time-specific "modes of production?'
Those were the convictions that shaped Marx's view that it would soon be the case that the "mass" of contemporary revolutionaries, the proletariat, would no longer entertain archaic notions about religion and the whole attendant "learned" nonsense about a transcendent morality emanating from the "realm of God", Marx informed the revolutionaries of his time that the morality of the proletariat would represent the "interests" of the emerging productive forces—the productive forces of the future—and as such would represent the only defensible morality for rational actors.
For all the efforts made to distinguish Marxism from fascism in any of its real or fancied forms, there is a lingering suspicion that the two ideological systems arc somehow related. The similarities were noted even before Italian Fascism had reached political maturity. Many Marxists were there at the birth of Fascism. However strenuously resisted by some, the relationship was recognized in totalitarianism. During the tenure of the regime, it was acknowledged by some of Fascism's major theoreticians. And after the passing of Leninist communism, its relationship to fascism, in general, was acknowledged by many of its erstwhile practitioners.
The difficulty that many have had with all that is the consequence of political science folk wisdom that has made fascism the unqualified opposite of any term of Marxism. So fixed has that notion become in the study of comparative politics that the suggestion of any affinities between the two is generally dismissed. And yet, some contemporary comparativists recognize that there was an unmistakable "essential ideological kindredncss" shared by fascism and Leninism. It was equally clear that at "certain pivotal ideational junctures, les extremes se touchent. (extremes come together)". It is important to try to understand how that could be possible. In answering that, one has a foothold on how one might explain the concept "totalitarianism"—that has fascism and the variants of Marxism as its referents. Attempting to begin to explain the relationship is part of the story of revolutionary thought at the turn of the twentieth century.
Italian Fascism was not Hitler's National Socialism, and it was not Lenin's Bolshevism—but all three shared some sort of affinity, however minimal. For the purpose of the present exposition, the relationship between Mussolini's Fascism and Lenin's Bolshevism is of central concern. It speaks to the ideological relationship shared by Italian Fascism and one or another variant of Marxism, and helps us understand why relevant similarities regularly resurface in any study dealing with modern revolutionary political systems. It is a story that covers almost half a century of European radical thought—and involves some of the major intellectuals of the first quarter of the twentieth century.
While it is only a thread in the complex tapestry of revolution in our time, it is an important and interesting concern. It deals with revolutionary morality and the ethical system that sustains it. It addresses the issue of how the revolutionary theorists at the beginning of our time attempted to understand human choice and political decisions. It deals with revolution and its motives, and violence and its uses.
In the course of time; all these concerns were addressed by self-selected Marxist revolutionaries at the end of the nineteenth century; some of whom were to become the leaders of revolutionary movements in the twentieth. History was to subsequently identify some as "Marxists" and others as "fascists." Those with whom we shall concern ourselves were all Marxists of one or another persuasion. The most interesting, for our purposes, were to ultimately be identified as "Mussoliniani;' intellectual leaders of Italian Fascism.
The reactor core of any political movement are the ideas that motivate it, but these ideas are themselves supported by a metaphysical structure which in turn shapes their nature. Old Europe starts dying when it rejects its Christian heritage and embraces the materialism of the Positivists. Those of the Alt-Right who are positivists/materialists are simply the Left dressed in right wing garb.


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You do realize you don't need Randi to run a double blind test, in fact, it costs very little to go down your local university, talk to the dean of a school of science, and ask if any of their students would be interested in performing a double blind test on your cable belief.
In the time it took you to write this long winded article you could have done a double blind and proven once and for all that you have magical ears and can tell the difference between audio cables. Use the ones agreed upon, or borrow the overpriced ones you mentioned and do the test. Ideally use as many as you can, expensive versus cheap and control.
Even after listening to your entire argument the only thing I'm left thinking is, "If you didn't back out, why not do the test and get front page news all over the world for proving the difference can be heard?" You might not make a million bucks but I guarantee you'd make hundreds of thousands in sponsorship.
So time to shit or get off the pot. Do the test.


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Homeland Security Acts on Cyber Workforce Recommendations
Department is assessing its talent and looking for ways to streamline hiring, among other steps.
The Homeland Security Department is working to implement 11 recommendations from an advisory council to better develop, recruit and retain sophisticated cybersecurity talent.
In a webinar on Thursday sponsored by Government Executive and Northrop Grumman, Dr. Doug Maughan, director of the cybersecurity division at DHS, said the department is moving forward on 11 recommendations released in October by the Homeland Security Advisory Council's Task Force on Cyber Skills to effectively recruit, retain and train mission-critical cybersecurity professionals.
DHS is moving forward on defining cybersecurity roles and tasks, maintaining an authoritative list for these tasks and evaluating its talent inventory and ensuring that it has the current and future skills capacity to accomplish certain cyber tasks, Maughan said.
"As you can imagine in today's cybersecurity environment, your skills can quickly become out of date if you don't keep a training regimen for the future," Maughan said.
As part of the second objective, DHS also has established a departmentwide organization to address the cyber skills shortage, and has been pairing that effort with the agency's human capital office to help streamline the federal hiring process for cybersecurity talent.
"We obviously have a ways to go on that, but with cybersecurity and the attention it's getting in our department and in the government in general, we are looking very deeply at a hiring processes that need to change," he said.
DHS also is attempting to expand and change the pipeline of cyber professionals by working with community colleges, secondary schools and universities; organizing cybersecurity competitions; and working with the Veterans Administration to potentially train up veterans in the cybersecurity field, Maughan said.
Finally, the department is directing the majority of its direct hire authority in IT to hire 600 employees with mission-critical skills. It also is establishing a Cyber Reserve program that will allow it to tap retired DHS cybersecurity workers to help during "surge times," Maughan added.
"What we have done is established a residency program with some of our operational organizations within the department," Maughn said. "Our goal is to get the students into an operational environment where they can both learn and demonstrate operational skills, all aimed at trying to get them cybersecurity jobs in the future."
Tony Sager, former chief operating officer at NSA and director at the SANS Institute, said a key factor in attracting cyber talent is the government's ability to demonstrate that these careers have upward growth potential. "Federal employees, especially those in technology areas, are proud to say they could make more money any day but are happy serving the country," Sager said. "But most federal employees don't believe the system is looking out for them."
Sager also encouraged agencies, particularly in times of tight budgets, to figure out how they can scale their resources across government. Most agencies, for example, do not have the resources for a large intern program, but they may be able to partner with other agencies to share resources including cyber interns and staff, he said.
Managers also have to get over the mindset that they have better knowledge or stronger skills than their younger counterparts, Sager said. "The manager is no longer the all-knowing wizard who teaches the youngsters all of these great skills," he said. "Now, these young guys have a lot more information on current technologies than I do."
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text: [Ed Zarick] built a module to control his vehicle which he calls the Jeeputer. The name's a mash-up of Jeep and Computer; the device itself is a combination of Arduino, character LCD, and a collection of shift registers and relays for interfacing. Watch the video after the break to see what this can do. We were surprised in the beginning when he says that all he has left to do is remove the steering wheel lock and he'll be able to drive using the interface, but we think he means type in a code to unlock the ignition, not remote control for his car. He then goes on to demonstrate garage door control, power cycling for CB radio, GPS, 110V power inverter, vehicle light control, and much more. This must be the most feature packed car computer we've seen so far.


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Doseone The power of word and a child's imagination walk their way through Doseone's works creating music described by Urb as "so indelible you may have to physically turn it off and take a breather." From his landmark release Them, to his collaboration with the Notwist, 13 & God, to his recent output as an author, Pelt, his releases have overflowed with such style that it prompted one reviewer to dub him "an artist who may turn out to be one of our generation's most important." One of hip-hop's most prolific artists, he is the driving force behind Themselves, cLOUDDEAD, and Subtle and has provided guest vocals for a slew of other notable releases. From an East Coast birth, to a Midwest education, and now a West Coast lease, it's full circle and all heart. "Some kids just gotta be different, and some kids just gotta be Doseone." - Vice |
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Sri Aurobindo Ashram is located in Pondicherry, a small coastal town 160 km south of Chennai, in South India. Visitors wanting to travel to Pondicherry will most likely have to pass through Chennai, whether they arrive there by air, train or road, and thereafter cover the remaining distance to Pondicherry by road, a journey which generally takes about 3 hours.
Several private and government-owned buses leave Chennai for Pondicherry every half-hour. However, visitors arriving at the Chennai Airport, or even those with a lot of luggage, might find it more convenient to hire a taxi for this leg of their journey.
Pondicherry is also connected directly by air with Bengaluru (Bangalore) with a few flights a week. There are convenient connections from Bengaluru to major Indian cities.
A limited number of rooms are available in Ashram guest houses for visitors coming for a short visit to Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Since accommodation is limited and is often fully booked, it is advisable to make reservations in advance. A list of guest houses that accept advance bookings is provided here, along with a brief description of the facilities they provide. In case visitors come to the Ashram without a confirmed booking, they may approach the Bureau Central, which allots rooms according to requirements, provided accommodation is available.
While it is possible to enter the main Ashram building freely during visiting hours, some sections of the Ashram require that you obtain a pass before you can be allowed to enter. If you get accommodation in any of the Ashram Guest Houses, you will be given the appropriate passes. However, for those not staying at an Ashram guest house, the Bureau Central can help by providing information and the pass you might need.
The Bureau Central office, designed as an exhibition hall, also provides an introduction to the vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and their method of spiritual practice, through permanent exhibits of photographs, captions, text, videos and books.
There are daily conducted tours for those interested in visiting the various units of the Ashram, the Pondicherry town, as well as the Auroville township.
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In the interest of extra safety, Port Washington North is going to be the first village on the peninsula to require all businesses to have digital carbon monoxide alarms.
The village already held a public hearing on the measure and adopted it at its board meeting last week. The law takes effect Jan. 1. The village did not address residences, since they are already required to have the alarms by state code.
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Random recipes, ranting, and other various things that begin with "r".
In which I wonder...
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Is there a law that states that any sort of electronic device that makes a high pitched chirping noise to alert you to a low battery state always runs out of batteries between 12AM and 4AM? Cause nothing beats trying to figure out where the beeping's coming from at 3:30 in the morning.
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September 26, 2012
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) reacted with disappointment today to the Commonwealth's announcement that it will appeal the district court decision which established that gender reassignment surgery is necessary medical care for prisoner Michelle Kosilek.
Gunner Scott, Executive Director of MTPC said, "We are very disappointed that the Commonwealth has decided to go in this direction. Care that is medically necessary for prisoners cannot be denied based on public opinion."
Jennifer Levi, Transgender Rights Project Director for GLAD said, "Constitutional rights belong to everyone, even the least loved, least popular people among us. Prisoners have a right to necessary medical care, and this is indisputably medical care, as the very strong district court decision established."
She added, "There really is no legal ground for this appeal. We believe the district court decision is very solid and will stand."
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders is New England's leading legal organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and HIV status.
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition is dedicated to ending discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression.


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The White House President George W. Bush |
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 18, 2004
Press Gaggle by Scott McClellan
Aboard Air Force One
En Route Little Rock, Arkansas
MR. McCLELLAN: Good morning. The President began the day with a -- by hosting a breakfast for the newly-elected senators. They had a good discussion. The President talked about the importance of working together where we can find agreement, and the President talked about his second term agenda and the priorities that we are working to pursue, from Social Security -- from strengthening Social Security to tax reform, as well exercising spending restraint as we move forward on budgets in the second term.
Q Just Republicans?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, this was the -- all the newly-elected senators. Remember, he had the luncheon with the newly-elected House members on Tuesday at the White House, and this was following on that meeting.
Let's see, then he had his usual briefings. He taped his radio address, which talks about the APEC summit and the visit to Colombia. And then we've got -- when we get there the President will first participate in a coffee reception -- I think that's a short reception. Then he will make remarks at the dedication of the library. The President looks forward to paying tribute to President Clinton and his presidency. Then there is a tour of the library following that, that the President will participate in, and a post-dedication luncheon, where the President will be one of the people making a toast to President Clinton. And then he gets to Crawford this evening. And that's all I've got.
Q Is the -- what's the White House reaction to the discovery, or the news that Iran is trying to outfit nuclear warheads on missiles?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think Secretary Powell was talking about intelligence that we have seen; that's what he was referring to. I think our views are very clear about Iran. Iran needs to follow through on the recent agreement they came to with our European friends. They need to fully comply with the IAEA and their inspections. They need to suspend their enrichment related and reprocessing activities. And they need to ratify and adhere to the additional protocol, as well. That's our view.
Q Scott, there's nothing in --
MR. McCLELLAN: Obviously, the International Atomic Energy Agency looks at all the issues related to Iran and its nuclear programs. And we expect Iran to cooperate fully with the IAEA. They've spent quite a bit of time over the years hiding their program and their intentions.
Q What implications would it have for the Middle East for Iran to have nuclear tipped missiles?
MR. McCLELLAN: What implications would it have in the Middle East?
Q For the Middle East --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, the international community is united in its resolve to make sure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon. And that's why we are working for a peaceful, diplomatic solution to this matter. And, ultimately, our view is that Iran needs to stop all its enrichment related and reprocessing activities; there's no need for it. And that's the way to show -- give everybody confidence that they're not pursuing a nuclear weapon
Q Scott, there's nothing in the agreement with the Europeans that concerns missiles in any way. There's nothing in the IAEA's charter that permits them to even investigate missile activities. So is the United States making any particular demands on Iran, or any suggestions to the Europeans about how missile development should be included in these --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, look, Iran has made commitments to the international community, and they need to follow through on those commitments.
Q They have nothing to do with missiles --
MR. McCLELLAN: What we're talking about is activities that could be related to a nuclear weapon program, and the International Atomic Energy Agency looks at those issues. If you're talking about developing warheads that could be put on delivery systems, like missiles and --
Q But that's not what the Secretary said, right? He said --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, again, I mean, I can't get into discussing any of the intelligence that he's referring to, beyond what he said. But we are continuing to work through the international community, work with the international community to make sure that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon.
Q -- report about the dissident group in Europe that said there is a secret installation where the Iranians are actually enriching right now. Have you seen that; can you confirm that?
MR. McCLELLAN: Seen the reports?
Q Yes.
MR. McCLELLAN: Yes. We're aware of those reports. I mean, that's been -- the report in the press over the last couple of days. And certainly, as you're aware, that is an organization that we include on our terrorist list. And so it's not an organization that we have any contacts with, but --
Q Do you have any --
MR. McCLELLAN: All the reports of that nature are things that the International Atomic Energy Agency should look at as part of their investigation into Iran's nuclear program. But, you know, no, we're not in a position to get into verifying the validity of that report.
Q Do you have a deal yet on intelligence reform?
MR. McCLELLAN: Not that I'm aware of -- unless it's happened since we've been on the plane. (Laughter.) There is progress that is continuing to be made in Congress to get it done this week. Speaker Hastert indicated that he would like to get it done this week. We're continuing to work very closely with congressional leaders to make it happen as quickly as possible. It's a high priority for this President and he is someone who is strongly committed to building upon the reforms we've already put in place. And we'll continue working closely with Congress to get it done.
Q Scott, what are the President's plans for his own presidential library? Where is he going to put it?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think it's way too premature to start getting into talk about his presidential library. If the election had turned out the other way, maybe it wouldn't be -- (laughter) -- but it's a little early to start talking about his presidential library, or speculating about where it may be.
Q He's got to raise money for it-- I mean, that takes time.
MR. McCLELLAN: There will be plenty of time to discuss this at a later time.
Q Is there any -- has he never said anything about it?
MR. McCLELLAN: That's not something he has to spend a lot of time focusing on right now. Like I said, if the election had turned out a different way, maybe it would be.
Q Hey, Scott, has President Bush talked to President Clinton since he won reelection?
MR. McCLELLAN: Not that I'm aware of. I'll double-check it, but I don't believe so. I'll have to double-check.
Q What's the question?
MR. McCLELLAN: Have they talked since the reelection. I'll double-check that, though.*
Q Does he ever talk to him or --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, certainly when he was in the hospital, the President called him and wished him a speedy recovery. So they have talked from time to time.
Q Scott, there was a report last night about -- I think it was $20 million, I'm not sure of the amount -- going to the Palestinians, being released. What does the administration hope that money -- what do they want to get with that money?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, first of all, there hasn't been any announcement made on any additional financial assistance. And I'm not here to announce anything at this point. We made it very clear that we want to work closely with Palestinian officials and assist them as they move forward on elections and building the institutions necessary for a viable state to emerge, and that's what we're committed to doing.
Q There's no announcement on any money being transferred to them?
MR. McCLELLAN: No announcement at this point. But we are committed to assisting them as they move forward on building the democratic institutions necessary for a viable state to emerge.
Q The President is now going to be traveling for, oh, the next 10 days. Should we expect any Cabinet resignations or appointments?
MR. McCLELLAN: See, you asked this yesterday and I said I'm not going to do this every day. (Laughter.)
Q Well, if you do it today, then you don't have to do it for the next 10 days. (Laughter.) We promise. There is an embargo on future questions if you just say "no." (Laughter.)
Q Is it safe to say the pace is going to slow down? How should we view it?
MR. McCLELLAN: We will keep you posted. There is nothing else I'm aware of for today.
Q You guys heard him, we can ask him every day. (Laughter.)
MR. McCLELLAN: And I again will tell you we will keep you posted at the appropriate time.
Q Has a Russian bilat been put on yet?
MR. McCLELLAN: Actually, I believe -- let me double-check that, but I believe we were working to add that and I think that has been added. Let me double-check that, though.
Q Saturday?
MR. McCLELLAN: Yes. I saw it on the latest schedule that I had, so I think it has been scheduled. And I'll double-check the day, but I think that's correct.
Q Scott, I read a report that Governor Schwarzenegger is going to be down there for the CEO summit. Will he be meeting with the President at all?
MR. McCLELLAN: Oh, down in Chile? It's not on the schedule that I've seen. All right? Thank you.
* President Clinton called the President right after the election to congratulate him on his election victory.
* There is a luncheon bilateral scheduled with President Putin for Saturday.


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ONE of the most important figures in the fight to abolish slavery spent most of his childhood in Cardross and was educated in Helensburgh.
Zachary Macaulay, whose father was the minister of Cardross Parish Church from 1774 until his death in 1789, became a colonial governor, a philanthropist, and a slavery abolitionist and campaigner.
Born in Inveraray on May 2 1768, the son of the Rev John Macaulay and his wife Margaret Campbell, he received his basic education in the burgh before teaching himself Greek and Latin and reading the English classics.
He went to work in a merchant's counting house in Glasgow, fell into bad company and became a heavy drinker in his early teens. So in late 1784, at the age of sixteen, he emigrated to Jamaica, where he worked as an assistant manager at a sugar plantation.
He was deeply affected by the horrific violence of the slavery which surrounded him, but eventually became hardened to the plight of the slaves — by his own admission "callous and indifferent".
He was a good worker, had successfully moderated his drinking, and proved himself to be a model book-keeper. He also, eventually, began to take an interest in the slaves and their welfare.
In 1789 he returned to Britain and secured a position in London. His sister Jean had married Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, a country gentleman and ardent evangelical, and soon after Macaulay went to stay with them he began to come under their influence.
He underwent what he described as a conversion experience, and soon became to know Babington's associates, among whom were William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton.
Partly because of his experiences in Jamaica, in 1790 he was invited to visit Sierra Leone, the west African colony originally founded by Granville Sharp to provide a home for emancipated slaves from the United States who came to Sierra Leone via Nova Scotia.
Two years later he returned to Sierra Leone as one of the council members, and he was promoted to governor in 1794, administering the colony during a crucial five year period of its history — during which he successfully repelled an invasion by French revolutionary naval forces.
In 1795 he even travelled as a passenger on a slave ship to find out what it was like to sail on the Middle Passage. He brought 21 boys and four girls back from Sierra Leone to be educated by the Clapham Sect in their African Academy. Sadly, many of the children died from measles once in London.
He married Selina Mills from Bristol on August 26 1799, and they settled at 5 The Pavement, Clapham, London, SW4. They had several children, including the historian, poet, politician and peer Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Macaulay joined the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, working closely with William Wilberforce, and soon became a leading figure in the parliamentary campaign against the slave trade.
He later became secretary of the committee, which became known as the African Institution.
His major contribution was to work on the collection and collating of the huge volume of evidence and drafting of reports — a role to which he was ideally suited as a skilled statistician with a meticulous approach and an exceptional head for figures.
He also became a member of the Clapham Sect of evangelical Christian reformers, together with Wilberforce, Thornton and Edward Eliot, and edited their magazine, the Christian Observer, from 1802-16. He was also secretary of the African Institute from 1807-12.
In the 1820s Macaulay turned his attention towards securing the total abolition of slavery itself.
He helped found the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery (later the Anti-Slavery Society) in 1823, and was editor of its publication, the Anti-Slavery Reporter.
Through his incessant hard work and reasoned argument, he helped to lay the foundation for the eventual abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833. Prime Minister W.E.Gladstone confessed that Macaulay had been his tutor in framing the Bill.
During a speech in the House of Commons Mr Gladstone said: "There is a name closely associated with this struggle for the abolition of slavery, one who has been the unseen modest ally of Wilberforce, and the pillar of his strength; the name of that man is Zachary Macaulay."
A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was also an active supporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society.
After a period of ill health, he died in London on May 13 1838, and was buried in Mecklenburgh Square. A life size bust by Henry Weekes was erected in the north west tower chapel in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
The inscription on the pedestal, composed by Sir James Stephen, reads: "In grateful remembrance of Zachary Macaulay, who, during a protracted life, with an intense but quiet perseverance which no success could relax, no reverse could subdue, no toil, privation, or reproach could daunt, devoted his time, talents, fortune, and all the energies of his mind and body to the service of the most injured and helpless of mankind.
"And who partook for more than forty successive years, in the counsels and in the labours which guided and blest by God first rescued the British Empire from the guilt of the slave trade; and finally conferred freedom on eight hundred thousand slaves.
"This tablet is erected by those who drew wisdom from his mind, and a lesson from his life, and who now humbly rejoice in the assurance, that through the Divine Redeemer, the foundation of all his hopes, he shares in the happiness of those who rest from their labours, and whose works do follow them."
Just under the bust is a medallion with the kneeling figure of a slave inscribed "Am I not a man and a brother".
In a book entitled 'Helensburgh and the Three Lochs', published by Macneur and Bryden Ltd. in the late1950s, burgh man J.Arnold Fleming wrote: "A son of the manse, this man of one idea, with little means, devoting his life to the well-being of humanity, wearing himself out to an untimely death in 1838, is an epic in our annals.
"During his life he never forgot what he owed to Helensburgh, and frequently returned here accompanied by his brilliant son. They stayed at the Baths Hotel where they would be welcomed by Mrs Henry Bell.
"If conjecture does not lead one astray, it is believed that his Lordship paid many visits to this countryside later where his parent spent his boyhood, for none revered him more."


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Presenting: The Eagles cheerleaders' newly redesigned Vera Wang uniforms
Come Sunday, the city and football viewers across the country will see new uniforms on the Eagles cheerleaders at the team's home opener at Lincoln Financial Field.
It's been 10 years since this Philly flock has switched up its look, but a fresh, new makeover has landed.
Come Sunday, football viewers across the country will see new uniforms on the Eagles cheerleaders at the team's home opener at Lincoln Financial Field.
Once again, world-renowned designer Vera Wang, who created and debuted the cheer squad's visible white, black and green spandex pieces in 2003, undertook the hefty responsibility of creating stylish athletic wear in a city filled with tough critics.
She says of the experience of re-creating the pieces: "It was an honor to create the uniform design that has now become synonymous with the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders." On the actual designs, Wang adds, "I always embrace the opportunity to work on extensions of my original creations and enjoyed designing new signature pieces for the beautiful and talented cheerleaders to wear this year."
New items will continue to be unveiled throughout the season. Each signature piece will be midnight green and show the Birds logo. Every piece has been designed by Wang, including a black sparkle sneaker for squad members to wear throughout the season.
The Eagles cheer squad in 2003 was the first NFL troupe to have its uniforms designed by a high-fashion designer. Wang's name over the years has become synonymous with haute couture wedding gowns.
A close friend of Jeff and Christina Weiss Lurie when she was first commissioned to design the cheerleaders' uniforms, Wang once again worked side by side with Christina Lurie to revamp the pieces.
Lurie says: "Vera beautifully achieved our vision for the signature pieces with a fashion forward and sporty look that represents our style. We feel the uniforms are ideal for the cutting-edge image of the cheerleaders – chic while displaying athleticism."
Wang, a former figure skater, has taken her athletic background and knowledge to create costumes for Olympic athletes like Michelle Kwan and Nancy Kerrigan. Professionally, she's also served as a mentor to Coatesville-born figure skater Johnny Weir.
Wang, 63, started as a fashion editor at Vogue and was design director at Ralph Lauren before launching her eponymous line in 1990.
The Vera Wang name has now turned into a lifestyle brand, with a line of home products for Kohl's and a lower-priced collection of gowns called "White by Vera Wang" offered by Conshohocken-based David's Bridal.
As part of the Eagles debut, the cheerleaders appeared at the GBK gifting and styling lounge at New York Fashion Week.
Wang, meanwhile, revealed her Spring 2014 collection on Tuesday - interestingly enough mixing in baseball jackets and windbreakers as part of an overall sporty spring/summer line. We wonder if her recent work with the Birds had any influence on the line.
The Eagles' home opener is 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15 against the Chargers.


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Believing what governments say can be hazardous to your health. It's even truer from corporate-sponsored studies on the benefits of their products. Thus, be very leery about the new CSL Ltd. one on the effectiveness of taking one Swine Flu dose. More to the point, any Swine Flu shot as, in single or multiple doses, they're all extremely toxic, dangerous, and must be avoided to protect human health from the pathogenic onslaught vaccines are designed to unleash.
CSL is "Australia's leading biopharmaceutical company (and) the only commercial manufacturer of influenza vaccines in the Southern Hemisphere." It's currently producing "a pandemic influenza vaccine called Panvax H1N1 which uses the proven technology that has enabled us to provide Australia with seasonal flu vaccines over the last 40 years."
The New England Journal of Medicine published "the welcome news," claiming to show one shot produced the same immune response protection as annual flu vaccines. More on their ineffectiveness and hidden dangers below.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (part of the US National Institutes of Health) also claims its early trials and studies confirm one dose provides protection eight to ten days after inoculation. Again beware – their advice endangers your health, especially about Swine Flu and the vaccines designed for it. They advise everyone take them voluntarily. Later, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may mandate them if enough people don't comply, and individual states may follow suit.
Separating Facts from Government and Industry Disinformation
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), annual flu shots are advised for "all children from 6 months through 18 years of age," everyone over 50, pregnant women, and individuals with "long-term health problems" like heart, lung, kidney or liver disease, HIV/AIDS, other immune system diseases or persons with weakened immune systems, asthma, diabetes, anemia, certain muscle or nerve disorders, residents of nursing homes or chronic care facilities, and certain others.
Warning about "seasonal epidemics," the World Health Organization's (WHO) advice is much the same, adding that "Seasonal influenza spreads easily and can sweep through schools, nursing homes or businesses and towns…. The most effective way to prevent the disease or severe outcomes from the illness is vaccination."
The WHO claims, "Among healthy adults, influenza vaccine can prevent 70% to 90% of influenza-specific illness. Among the elderly, the vaccine reduces severe illnesses and complications by up to 60%, and deaths by 80%."
Information below shows WHO claims are false and misleading. So are the CDC's and NIH's and doubly so for the new Swine Flu vaccines.
All Vaccines Are Ineffective and Unsafe
Gary Null is a leading health and nutrition expert, author, documentary filmmaker, founder of the Progressive Radio Network, and syndicated host of the longest running health program in America, Natural Living with Gary Null.
On September 18, 2009, he interviewed Dr. Viera Scheibner, "arguably one of the world's most respected scientists and scholars on vaccine medical data…. Her investigations uncover how the vaccine industrial complex (and complicit government regulatory bodies produce) pseudo-science that is fraught with inconsistencies, poorly designed studies, erroneous interpretations, and conclusions that are patently false" – by design, not chance.
She calls vaccinations "an illness industry," causing a "pandemic (of) degenerative diseases (and) behavioral problems."
From her research and writings on vaccine science and history, she said:
Ever since the turn of the (last) century, medical journals published dozens and dozens of articles demonstrating that injecting vaccines (can) cause anaphylaxis, meaning harmful, inappropriate immunological responses, which is also called sensitization. (This) increase(s) susceptibility to the disease which the vaccine is supposed to prevent, and to a host of related and other unrelated infections.
We see it in vaccinated children within days, within two or three weeks. (Most of them) develop runny noses, ear infections, pneumonitis, (and) bronchiolitis. It is only a matter of degrees, which indicates immuno-suppression, (not immunity). It indicates the opposite. So I never use the word immunization because that is false advertising. It implies that vaccines immunize, which they don't. The correct term is either vaccination or sensitization.
In addition, "Vaccines (can) damage internal organs, particularly the pancreas," so everyone vaccinated, including for seasonal flu, is vulnerable to contracting severe "autoimmune diseases like diabetes," Addison's Disease, Arthritis, Asthma, Guillian-Barre Syndrome, Hepatitis, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Osteoporosis, Polio, and dozens of others.
Some can kill. Others produce a lifetime of disability and pain because autoimmune disease happens when the "body attacks itself," or more accurately "is attacked" by an unhealthy lifestyle, stress, and various harmful ingestible substances; that is, toxins in drugs, food, air, water, and other liquids. According to immunologist, Dr. Jesse Stoff, human health is compromised four ways:
- by poor nutrition;
- man-made environmental toxins;
- disease-causing organisms and their toxins; and
- immune system trauma from factors like x-ray radiation and stress.
Other factors include a lack of sleep and exercise, smoking, heavy alcohol consumption, and various excesses that throw the body out of balance, making it susceptible to a host of debilitating illnesses.
Known Toxins in Seasonal Flu and Other Vaccines
Millions voluntarily take annual flu shots not knowing their harmful ingredients. With variations by producer, they contain numerous stabilizers, neutralizers, carrying agents, and preservatives, including:
- 25 micrograms of mercury (thimerosal), a known neurotoxin; one microgram is considered toxic; according to the NIH, "mercury and all of its compounds are toxic, exposure to excessive levels can permanently damage or fatally injure the brain and kidneys;" even "exposures to very small amounts" can also cause "allergic reactions, neurological damage and death;" it's also linked to autism;
- aluminum hydroxide and phosphate, known to be linked to some neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease; the Office of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports x-ray evidence of pulmonary fibrosis among workers studied; it also reports that patients undergoing long-term kidney dialysis develop speech disorders, dementia, or convulsions;
- formaldehyde, a known carcinogen according to the National Cancer Institute; it's also linked to upper respiratory tract problems and effects on lymphatic and hematopoietic systems (relating to human blood cells);
- gelatin, polysorbate 80 and resin – ingredients causing severe allergic reactions;
- ammonium sulfate, a suspected gastrointestinal, liver, and respiratory toxicant and neurotoxicant;
- sorbitol, a suspected gastrointestinal and liver toxicant;
- phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), a suspected developmental and reproductive toxicant;
- beta-propiolactone, a known carcinogen and suspected gastrointestinal, liver, respiratory, skin and sense organ toxicant;
- gentamycin, an antibiotic;
- triton X100, a strong detergent;
- animal tissues and fluids, including potentially contaminated horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, pig blood, and porcine (pig) protein/tissue;
- calf and fetal bovine serum;
- macerated cancer cells;
- diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue; and/or
- other ingredients varying by producer.
Contrary to industry and government agency advice, annual flu shots are dangerous and ineffective. According to Croft Woodruff, president of the EDTA Chelation Association of British Columbia:
"Statistically, you'd be more likely to avoid the flu if you took nothing at all. So why are we subjected to the flu vaccine media blitz each year?" In a word, profits assured annually as long as enough people take them — for all vaccines (besides the enormous bonanza from the Swine Flu vaccines), billions of dollars in annual revenues, according to leading producer estimates.
On September 29, Wall Street Journal writers Jonathan Rockoff and Peter Loftus explained that the industry believes vaccines:
will become an increasingly important source of growth to replace aging blockbusters that are poised to lose patent protection. Vaccine sales are growing faster than sales of other prescription medicines and are largely immune to the generic competition that is already cost drug makers billions of dollars in revenues on their top-selling treatments. Moreover, government agencies both in the US and around the world are increasingly reliable buyers of vaccines as they seek to stockpile medicines that could help protect the public in case of a major flu outbreak.
Or perhaps, in the case of Swine Flu, infect it as part of a sinister depopulation scheme through involuntary male and/or female sterilization and future deadly illnesses while rewarding producers with hundreds of billions in profits from global inoculations over the next few years. For what may be planned, it doesn't get any better than that. As a result, the public is cautioned to ignore media and official hype and stay safe by refusing all vaccines, especially the new Swine Flu ones that may, in fact, be bioweapons.
More Disclaimers about Flu Vaccine Effectiveness and the Truth about Their Dangers
First the worst news. Annual flu shots may induce one or more of the above-mentioned annoying to life-threatening autoimmune diseases, including severe allergies, diabetes, and the Guillan-Barre Syndrome (GBS) nerve disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness, paralysis, and at times death. They can also cause encephalitis, an acute inflammation of the brain; various neurological disorders; and thrombocytopenia, a serious blood disorder.
Now the bad news. Annual flu shots don't work, except to enhance producer profits, which is why the industry, complicit regulatory bodies, and the media tell unsuspecting people to take them.
Each year, government health agencies guess which viral strain(s) are most worrisome. Usually they're wrong. For example, New York Times writer Lawrence Altman headlined his January 15, 2004 article, "Vaccine Is Said to Fail to Protect Against Flu Strain" in reporting that the CDC said its most recent recommended flu vaccine had "no or low effectiveness" against that season's Fujian threat, based on study results from its first ever health providers survey. Other studies report similar findings, and so do reliable scientists from their research.
The Lancet reported that a 2008 study on "immunocompetent elderly people aged 65-94 years enrolled in Group Health (a health maintenance organisation) during 2000, 2001, and 2002" found that "influenza vaccination was not associated with a reduced risk of community-acquired pneumonia during the influenza season." Influenza predisposes individuals to contracting pneumonia.
In understated terms, the prestigious medical journal concluded that "The effect of influenza vaccination on the risk of pneumonia in elderly people during the influenza seasons might be less than previously estimated." Yet doctors keep recommending them based on misleading industry and government information.
In October 2007, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health reported on the "mortality benefits of influenza vaccination in elderly people: an ongoing controversy" and concluded:
"frailty selection bias and use of non-specific endpoints such as all-cause mortality have led cohort studies to greatly exaggerate vaccine benefits. The remaining evidence base is currently insufficient to indicate the magnitude of the mortality benefit, if any, that elderly people derive from the vaccination programme."
On May 1, 2003, the New England Journal of Medicine reported on the largest ever study to determine the effectiveness of pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine inoculations – based on medical data for 47,365 people aged 65 or older from 1998-2001. It found no significant association between vaccination and a reduced pneumonia risk in concluding:
"alternative strategies are needed to prevent nonbacteremic pneumonia, which is a more common manifestation of pneumococcal infection in elderly persons." In other words, flu shots don't work, so why take them.
An October 2008 published study in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine had similar conclusions based on doctor visits during the two most recent flu seasons. It reported:
"In 2 seasons with suboptimal antigenic match between vaccines and circulating strains, we could not demonstrate VE in preventing influenza-related inpatient/ED or outpatient visits in children younger than 5 years. Further study is needed during years with good vaccine match."
In September 2008, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reported that the Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta concluded as follows from "clinical, laboratory, and functional data" collected on 1,813 adults "with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to six hospitals outside of influenza season" in Alberta:
"mortality benefits of influenza vaccination" are "overestimated" even though the population inoculated increased from 15% in 1980 to 65% in 2008.
In the October 2006 British Medical Journal, Dr. Tom Jefferson wrote about "Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence" and concluded:
Evidence from systematic reviews shows that inactivated vaccines have little or no effect on the effects measured. (In addition), Little comparative evidence exists on the safety of these vaccines…. The optimistic and confident tone of some predictions of viral circulation and the impact of inactivated vaccines, which are at odds with the evidence, is striking. The reasons are probably complex and may involve a messy blend of truth and conflicts of interest making it difficult to separate factual disputes from value disputes.
In other words, influenza vaccination programs are ineffective and worthless. They're also dangerous.
In 2006, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews reported on an Oxford University, Institute of Health Sciences examination of "Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children" and concluded from the results of 51 studies involving 263,987 subjects aged 23 months to six years that vaccines are little more effective than placebos. It added that:
"If immunisation in children is to be recommended as a public-health policy, large-scale studies assessing important outcomes and directly comparing vaccine types are urgently needed."
FDA-Approved Swine Flu (H1N1) Vaccines
On September 15, the FDA:
announced today that it has approved four vaccines against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The vaccines will be distributed nationally after the initial lots become available, which is expected to be within the next four weeks…. Based on preliminary data from adults participating in multiple clinical trials, the 2009 H1N1 vaccines induce a robust immune response in most health adults eight to 10 days after a single dose, as occurs with the seasonal influenza vaccine.
The FDA warned that "People with severe or life-threatening allergies to chicken eggs, or to any other substance in the vaccine, should not be vaccinated."
Approved US vaccines are produced by CSL Ltd., Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Ltd., Sanofi Pasteur (a division of Sanofi-Aventis Group), and AstraZeneca's MedImmune LLC. According to the FDA, "All four firms manufacture the H1N1 vaccines using the same processes, which have a long record of producing safe seasonal influenza vaccines."
Meanwhile, other governments have placed large orders for Baxter's CELVAPAN A/H1N1 vaccine, Novavax's VLP, and GlaxoSmithKline PLC's versions to assure all the major vaccine producers share in the enormous profit bonanza.
Sanofi Pasteur's vaccine proved ineffective with one shot, and Medscape Medical News reported that while it will have fewer side effects it may not protect against the 2009 H1N1 strain.
Novartis' version contains its proprietary squalene adjuvant MF59, linked to annoying to potentially deadly autoimmune and other diseases, including paralysis, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and Gulf War Syndrome. Glaxo's ASO3 poses the same risks and will be available in America through CSL Ltd.'s vaccine.
Squalene in vaccines has been secretly used for years, but according to Dr. Rima Laibow, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation:
"Never before has (it) been (officially) approved for use in a drug in the United States. But once before, when it was allowed in certain military vaccines, more than 60,000 soldiers were hospitalized (by what became) known as 'Gulf War Syndrome.' (In Doe v. Rumsfeld, a) Federal Court in 2004, forbade its involuntary use by United States troops."
"This new (Swine Flu) vaccine has, literally, 1,000,000 time more squalene than the experimental military vaccine, known as 'Vaccine A.' The attempt to rush this dangerous vaccine into the bodies of the public without safety testing is a violation of US law, regulation and medical ethics and must be condemned."
Glaxo (GSK) will distribute CSL Ltd.'s vaccine with its own proprietary high potency squalene adjuvant MPL (monophosphoryl lipid A) system ASO3 that exponentially enhances its dangers as Dr. Laibow explained.
After being linked to Gulf War Syndrome, Army scientists concluded from over two dozen post-war animal studies that nanodoses dangerously compromise the human immune system and may also kill.
MedImmune says it FluMist is a "gentle nasal mist. It's a quick spray in each nostril, one of the places where the flu virus enters the body. (It) helps your body develop proteins called antibodies that help protect you from the flu."
Dr. Rima Laibow calls FluMist a "recipe for pandemic. (It) contains 3 live viruses. You shoot it up your nose and your immune system gets a chance to make antibodies to three live, weakened viruses while the manufacturer hopes against hope that one of these three actually causes a disease this year…. Of course, if you are immune compromised or go near someone who is, you will get sick or infect them with the virus and they can get the flu."
Laibow and others also warn that Flu Mist risks potential brain damage, making it an extremely hazardous drug. The nasal passage olfactory tract is a direct pathway to the brain. Ingesting viruses through it risks encephalitis, a viral-induced acute brain inflammation.
British geneticist and bilphysicist Dr. Mae-Wan and biologist Joe Cummins add that:
"Vaccines can be dangerous, especially live, attenuated viral vaccines or the new recombinant nucleic acid vaccines, that have the potential to generate virulent viruses by recombination and the recombinant nucleic acids could cause autoimmune diseases."
According to Medimmune, "FluMist is a (nasal administered) vaccine approved for the prevention of certain types of influenza disease in children, adolescents, and adults 2-49 years of age," except for:
— children and adolescents regularly taking aspirin or products containing it; or persons with certain:
- sensitivities,
- health problems,
- illnesses,
- malignancies,
- immunodeficiencies,
- nutritional deficiencies,
- abnormalities,
- allergies, or
- infections — categories applying to the majority of the population, including many in it unaware it means them.
MedImmune's product information states:
Administration of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine Live, Intranasal, a live virus vaccine, to immunocompromised persons should be based on careful consideration of potential benefits and risks. Safety has not been established in individuals with underlying medical conditions predisposing them to wild-type influenza infection complications.
Appropriate medical treatment and supervision must be available to manage possible anaphylactic (life-threatening allergic) reactions following administration of the vaccine…. Hypersensitivity, including anaphylactic reaction, has been reported during post-marketing experience with FluMist…. Intranasal may not protect all individuals receiving the vaccine.
Each producer lists numerous adverse reactions to its vaccines. Those MedImmune reported included:
— "Congenital, familial and genetic disorder: Exacerbation of symptoms of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy (Leigh syndrome);
— Gastrointestinal disorders: Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea;
— Immune system disorders: Hypersensitivity reactions (including anaphylactic reaction, facial edema and urticaria);
— Nervous system disorders: Guillain-Barre syndrome, Bell's Palsy;
— Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders: Epistaxis;" and
— "Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders: Rash."
The FDA has not approved nasal vaccine sprays for children under two, adults over 49, or pregnant women. Product instructions also warn that:
"FluMist recipients should avoid close contact with immunocompromised individuals for at least 21 days," that should include health care workers but it doesn't. It suggests the likelihood that the vaccine's live virus will spread among immune-weakened hospital patients and elsewhere through close contact with their providers.
In their article titled, "Vaccines' Dark Inferno," Gary Null and Richard Gale warn that:
"The vast majority of scientists, physicians, nurses and public health educators' trust that the ingredients in a vaccine have been individually and synergistically proven safe and effective." So do most people, even though commonly held beliefs are wrong, including by professionals who should know better. Because they don't, their patients' are endangered by the array of above toxins that in combination with new ones can trigger "a pandemic of Vaccine Disease, manifesting in myriad illnesses (including the new H1N1) dependent upon each vaccinated person's genetic predisposition and the robustness of (their) immune system(s to withstand) any epidemic threat posed by wild infectious pathogens (that) could unfold in so-called developed, hygienic society."
Since most governments sacrifice human health for business profits, who are the guardians to protect us from the coming pathogenic onslaught that may weaken or destroy the immune systems of millions of unsuspecting people, and likely sterilize and/or kill them. Something to consider before submitting to dangerous vaccines that everyone has a legal, ethical and for many a medical right to refuse.


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Information Clearinghouse – by Courthouse News Service
WACO, Texas (CN) – A Texas sheriff threw two Latino men into jail for 39 days "with no charges, no hearing, and no probable cause" and seized the $14,000 they had saved up to buy a new car, the men claim in Federal Court.
Roberto Moreno-Gutierrez and Jaime Moreno-Gutierrez sued Hill County, the Hill County Sheriff's Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety, in Federal Court. Hill County, whose seat is Hillsboro, is between Waco and Dallas.
"On March 31, 2011, plaintiffs Roberto Moreno-Gutierrez and Jaime Moreno-Gutierrez left their home in Killeen, Texas and were traveling to a car dealership in Plano, Texas to purchase a vehicle, specifically a 2007 Nissan Maxima Hybrid Electric Vehicle," the complaint states.
"Defendant Jaime Moreno-Gutierrez, having sold a prior vehicle, a 2004 GMC Envoy, for nine thousand and no/100ths ($9,000.00) dollars, part cash and part check and combining his money with a loan of four thousand and no/100ths ($4,000.00) dollars, had gathered together over fourteen thousand and no/100ths ($14,000.00) dollars in cash and checks for the purchase, which is confirmed by Hill County Jail property receipts."
The men claim Texas State Trooper Carl R. Clary pulled them over, driving a K-9 unit.
"The trooper provided no traffic violation information or reason for the stop to the plaintiffs," the complaint states. "The trooper requested driver licenses from both plaintiffs, which he then took to his patrol unit. Upon returning, he requested to search the vehicle. Consent was given, and he then brought out his dog. After a search, the dog was put in its kennel. No drugs or drug paraphernalia were found in the vehicle or on the plaintiffs.
"The officer used a translator apparatus to translate his questions but did not translate the Spanish responses into English. He inquired as to the money, and plaintiffs explained where it came from and why they had legal possession.
"There was simply no indication of wrongdoing. Nevertheless, Trooper Clary seized the money and waited for backup. After 20 minutes, the plaintiffs were taken to another squad car and were told they were going to be interviewed where it was quiet. Even though there was no sign from the K-9 and, therefore, no probable cause, the arriving officers tore apart the vehicle looking for money or drugs that did not exist.
"At the Hill County Sheriff Department, the plaintiffs were never handcuffed, never Mirandized and never told they were under arrest; rather, they were asked where they were from. The money was counted, and they were then booked into Hill County Jail for what jail documents call pending charges pursuant to 'money laundering.'"
So began their odyssey in Hill County Jail: an ordeal with a scant paper trail.
"The Texas Department of Public Safety Officer never filed a Probable Cause Affidavit," the complaint states. "There was no warrant; there is no record of the plaintiffs being brought before a magistrate; there is no record of a bond hearing; and no bond was ever set by Hill County authorities, all of which has been was confirmed by FOIA requests and USDOJ FBI CJISD Reports."
The plaintiffs say their families scraped together money to pay for their defense, and retained Peek & Toland on April 6, 2011.
"Between April 6, 2011 and April 12, 2011, counsel made several calls to the Hill County Sheriff Department/Jail and was told they had no information and to call DPS Officer Clary or the district attorney," the complaint states.
"On April 12, 2011, counsel sent a request to the Waco, Texas office of the Texas Department of Public Safety for contact information on the detective assigned to the case for copies of the probable cause affidavit and arrest warrant or offense report. None was provided.
"There was no cause number, offense report, warrant, or probable cause affidavit, defense counsel for plaintiffs had no reference for their requests for bond or bond hearing.
"Between April 12, 2011 and April 25, 2011, counsel, in a series of calls and visits, pointed out to the jailers there were no charges; no offense report; no probable cause affidavit on file; and plaintiffs were being held more than 72 hours in violation of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Section 17.033(b).
"Counsel was told to contact the arresting officer or the office of district attorney. On another occasion, counsel was told there was an 'ICE hold detainer.' The 48 hours passed and plaintiffs were not released. The FOIA request reveals no ICE hold detention (Form I-247) notice during this time." (Parentheses in complaint.)
After the plaintiff's attorney sent a letter to State Trooper Clary asking for information about their charges and did not get a response, he filed a motion with the Hill County DA's office for an examining trial, and another motion with Hill County's district clerk, seeking information and/or a case number.
Again there was no response, plaintiffs say.
"On May 9, 2011, (the first time immigration documents showed up in the FOIA file), ICE sends an immigration warrant, at which time immigration officials were told no charges were going to be pursued and an immigration bond was set and paid," the complaint states. "Plaintiffs were released after 39 plus days of incarceration with no charges; no hearing; and no probable cause, all in violation of state and federal laws and constitutional requirements.
"All authority to continue detention under the immigration detainer or state law had expired 36 days earlier. It was defendants' legal duty to immediately release plaintiffs.
"Nevertheless, defendants continued to imprison plaintiffs, without legal authority, for approximately 39 days.
"During this 39-day detention, both plaintiffs, their counsel and plaintiffs' family members protested to HCDF employees that they were entitled to release. HCDF employees responded by stating that they would remain in custody under the federal immigration laws.
"Plaintiffs had no opportunity to appear before a judge to seek release or to learn the reason they were deprived of his liberty. Plaintiffs had no opportunity to post bond."
The plaintiffs seek damages for civil rights violations, false imprisonment, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent supervision, training and retention.
They are represented by Cary Toland of Brownsville.
Trooper Clary is not a party to the complaint.


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THE devastated family of tragic Jade Clark have collected over a thousand signatures calling for the speed limit to be reduced on a section of the A31.
Jade's mother and stepfather, Sharon and Danny Clark, and her nan, Linda Pidgley, are determined no other family should suffer their pain and have vowed to keep fighting until something is done.
Sixteen-year-old Jade was killed when she was knocked off her scooter as she rode westbound towards the Ashley Heath roundabout.
Ringwood town council pressed for a 50mph restriction between Picket Post and the roundabout but the Government turned down the request, saying that only three per cent of the accidents that occurred there were due to motorists speeding.
But Sharon, 42, said: "I just don't want anyone else to go through what I've gone through.
"We want to see the speed limit cut in the section from the two Burley garages to the Ashley Heath roundabout.
"It's very dangerous there. You get people coming out of the petrol station at a standstill into 70mph traffic and people trying to swap lanes all at one location.
"I know there will be another fatal accident, I know it will happen again.
"At the moment we feel like they're not listening to us; they're not taking it seriously, but I'm not the type to give up."
She added the family's grief had been compounded by the news that Brian Hampton was to appeal against the six-year sentence for causing the crash that killed Jade and then attempting to evade justice.
"It disgusted me when I heard he was appealing," she said. "I felt sick. It was so soon afterwards." But she said overwhelming support from the community in Ringwood had helped the family and she thanked Spencer McCarthy, of Churchill Retirement Living, and Kevin Morrison and all his crew at Ringwood fire station for their efforts to keep Jade's memory alive.
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Va. High Court Rules Against Breakaway Anglicans
Nine conservative Anglican churches were dealt a blow Thursday when the Virginia Supreme Court overturned a lower court's ruling that favored the breakaway congregations.
The long battle over multimillion-dollar church properties continues to rage on three years after The Episcopal Church sued the group of nine churches after they left the denomination.
"We are disappointed with today's ruling and will review it as we consider our options," said Jim Oakes, chairman of the Anglican District of Virginia, which is the umbrella organization for the nine Anglican congregations, in a statement. "This is not the final chapter in this matter."
The state high court ruled that a Civil War-era statute, which grants property to departing congregations when there is division within the denomination, was incorrectly applied in the dispute. The matter has been remanded back to the lower court for further proceedings.
"This decision brings us one important step closer to returning loyal Episcopalians, who have been extraordinarily faithful in disheartening and difficult circumstances, to their church homes," said the Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston, bishop of Virginia, in a statement.
Breakaway congregations have worshipped in their church buildings since they voted to sever ties with The Episcopal Church – the U.S. arm of Anglicanism – in 2006 and 2007. They realigned with a missionary arm of the Church of Nigeria – a province of the Anglican Communion – while small minorities of members chose to remain in The Episcopal Church.
The Virginia parishes were among dozens of congregations throughout the country that left in the years following the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay bishop.
In December 2008, a Fairfax County judge said the departing congregations are allowed under Virginia law to leave and that they can keep their property. The Episcopal Church and Diocese of Virginia, however, appealed the ruling to the Virginia Supreme Court.
Despite the high court's decision, Oakes continues to argue that the church properties are titled in the name of the congregations' trustees and not in the name of the diocese or The Episcopal Church.
"[W]e continue to be confident in our legal position as we move forward and will remain steadfast in our effort to defend the historic Christian faith," he stated.
The Episcopal Church has filed dozens of lawsuits against parishes that have left and continue to occupy church properties. Conservatives have denounced the denomination for draining money and distracting the churches from their mission through litigious actions.
Jeff Walton, Anglican program director at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which monitors denominations, commented, "The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia have frittered away millions of dollars that could have been used for ministry and are now being thrown into the black hole of property litigation.
"While the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in favor of the diocese today, there are ultimately no winners in these church property disputes."
Earlier this week, U.S. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori defended the body's legal proceedings, stating, "The reality is that sometimes the church does need to resort to civil courts to assert its rights," according to Anglican Essentials Canada.
The Episcopal Church consists of 111 geographical dioceses with over 7,000 congregations and over 2 million members.


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Breaking: Israelites in Sinai Suddenly Achieve Freedom From Pharaoh — Good Times Forecast
Approximately two million Children of Israel are now encamped in the Sinai following their extraordinary exodus from Egypt yesterday. Just days ago, they were slaves to Pharaoh. Today, they are free men and women, destined for self-determination in a land of their own. Only now are the details of their fantastic experience coming to light.
The dramatic sequence of events began some weeks ago with the unexpected return of exiled prince Moses, who previously fled Pharaoh's wrath after slaying a taskmaster. In his daring appearance at the Palace, the inarticulate Moses, speaking through his brother Aaron, declared himself to be the personal emissary of a powerful new "God," previously unknown to the Royal Court. Moreover, Moses asserted that his God was the protector of the Children of Israel, who have been in bondage for more than four centuries in Egypt.
The entire Royal Court was aghast as Moses demanded that the Children of Israel be permitted to travel three days into the desert for an unprecedented "feast and sacrifice" to their God. Making clear that he was not asking a Court indulgence, Moses looked straight at Pharaoh, stamped his roughhewn staff and issued the ultimatum that would be his rallying call during the coming days: "Let my people go."
Laughter echoed throughout the hall as Pharaoh sneered, "Who is your 'God?' I know him not. Nor will I let Israel go!"
Showing little patience, Pharaoh cited reports that Moses had been "disturbing the people from their works" in various building projects wholly dependent upon slave labor. As a punitive measure, Pharaoh proclaimed that henceforth slaves would be compelled to gather their own straw, even as their daily brick quota was maintained.
But the maneuver backfired, and indeed became the opening volley in an escalating series of punitive measures against Egypt. Without warning, Moses called upon mysterious divine powers and turned all waters in Egypt to blood. Reports from every district indicate that not only were rivers and streams turned bloody, but so were waters already contained in ordinary jugs and troughs.
Bloody waters continued for about a week, followed by an uncanny infestation of frogs. Amid complaints from every corner of the kingdom that frogs had invaded every "oven and bedchamber," Pharaoh agreed to negotiate.
During a Palace meeting, Pharaoh reportedly told Moses, "Take away the frogs… and I will let your people go." This was at first interpreted as a total victory for the Children of Israel. But the next day, as soon as the frogs retreated, Pharaoh reneged and canceled permission for the three-day religious exercise in the desert.
Pharaoh's reversal prompted a third so-called "plague," this one an infestation of lice. Pharaoh now offered to allow the religious feast Moses demanded, but only if it took place within Egypt proper. Moses countered that the feast would include sacrifice of lambs, which was anathema to Egyptian religious precepts and might incite the Egyptian populace to violence.
Impressed by the first three plagues, Pharaoh finally yielded to the desert site, but with the strict proviso that the Israelites "not go very far away." This verbalized Pharaoh's true fear that the three-day excursion was but a pretext for a general exodus, and that once out of Egyptian territory, the Israelites would not return. Precious slave labor for Egypt's ambitious building programs would then be lost.
Court sources note that Moses cleverly sidestepped the issue of returning to Egypt following the feast. Instead, he simply assured that the lice infestation would be terminated. But in view of Pharaoh's previous broken promise, Moses warned that the monarch should not this time be "deceitful." Observers predicted it, and indeed no sooner did the lice vanish, than permission for the desert ritual was again rescinded. Moses returned to Court and in quick succession brought plagues of livestock disease, boils and then hail.
So much destruction now covered the land, that Moses was summoned for an emergency round of negotiations. This conference marked a turning point, with the hitherto mocking Pharaoh finally conceding the power of Moses' God. Court sources reported that Pharaoh's mood was grim as he confessed, "I have sinned… I and my people are wicked." Without prolonged debate, even as an unending barrage of hailstones battered the Palace, Pharaoh declared, "I will let you go."
But true to form, as soon as the hail stopped, Pharaoh reneged a third time. An angry Moses now returned to the Palace and warned, "Let my people go" or an infestation of locusts would cover the land, devouring any remnant the hail had not already destroyed. Without waiting for a reply, Moses walked out.
Frightened Royal Advisers now sought a compromise that would save face, yet still satisfy Moses. A messenger summoned Moses back to the Palace for another round of intensive negotiations. Pharaoh's new offer conceded the desert site, but stipulated that only Israelite men could participate. The idea was that with women and children left behind, the Israelites would surely return, and the national slave force retained.
Moses totally rejected this proposition, declaring, "We must go with our old and our young, with our sons and our daughters." Pharaoh might have agreed, but now Moses added a new demand– that "the flocks and herds go with." Pharaoh's suspicion that the desert festivity was merely a pretext for a general exodus was now greater than ever. Accusing Moses of harboring evil intentions, Pharaoh held firm: male adults only. At that, negotiations were abruptly broken off, and Moses was literally escorted out of the Palace.
Left with no choice, Moses called forth the locust invasion. Agricultural sources are only now tabulating the damage, but one reliable survey reported, "There was not left any green thing in the trees… or the fields." More detailed assessments were impossible because the locust plague was followed by an eerie round-the-clock darkness lasting three full days. This latest crisis precipitated the final negotiating session.
A "final offer' was placed on the table: the Children of Israel– men as well as families– could journey three days into the desert for their religious ceremony. But under no circumstances could the goats and cattle go along. As before, Moses refused all compromise. He explained the desert ceremony was unprecedented, and there was no way to predict exactly how many animals God would command them to sacrifice. Therefore, the entire flock would have to be taken. Pharaoh refused, and Moses snapped back, "Not a hoof shall remain." At this, Pharaoh broke into almost uncontrollable rage. Barely restrained, the king vowed never to negotiate with Moses again– and warned that if the two ever met again, Moses would be executed.
The details of what happened next are still emerging. In Goshen, Israelites were observed painting their own doorways with lamb's blood– itself a bad omen in Egyptian dogma. By nightfall, all Israelites were off the streets and in their homes. At midnight precisely, an unexplained affliction began sweeping the Egyptians, while passing over the Children of Israel. Health authorities claim that there was neither rhyme nor reason to the plague. But unconfirmed reports assert that it was always the eldest in each family generation to be stricken.
This latest plague was the final blow. After just a few hours, it was clear that no family had been spared. Even Pharaoh lost a child. Palace messengers were dispatched in the middle of the night, searching streets filled with wails and cries of horror. They finally located Moses and brought him to a predawn meeting with a humbled and beaten Pharaoh. All demands were accepted. In a trembling voice, the once all-powerful monarch beseeched the slave leader with the simple words: "be gone."
There was no time to lose. Before Pharaoh could again change his mind, Moses organized the Israelites into a makeshift but massive caravan. So speedy was their withdrawal that, as one Israelite described it, "the people took their dough before it was leavened."
Crowd estimates of the departing throng were as high as two million persons– some 600,000 Israelite men, their wives and daughters, and what was termed "a mixed multitude" of recent converts. This latter group was drawn from various desert tribes and nomads who had thrown in their lot with the Children of Israel in order to enjoy the protection of their seemingly omnipotent God.
But the ordeal of the Israelites was not over. Intelligence reports reaching Pharaoh quickly confirmed his worst suspicions. The Israelites were fleeing into the desert without any effort to commence their festival. They would soon all be totally out of Egyptian jurisdiction.
Pharaoh openly conceded to one adviser, "What is this that we have done, that we have sent Israel away from serving us?" An angry Pharaoh then declared the Red Sea a "Line of Death" that he would not permit the exodus to cross. An army of 600 chariots was immediately organized. With Pharaoh in the lead chariot, the force raced after the Israelites.
It is still unclear why Moses chose the south route towards the Red Sea. Unpredictable tides made fording risky at best. Indeed, as the Sea came within view, the Israelites realized they could not cross. Panic gripped the entire caravan as columns of dust rising from Pharaoh's charioteers could be seen in the distance. One well-placed Israelite who requested anonymity recalled that Moses himself was confronted by one follower crying, "Were there no burying places in Egypt that you took us to die in the desert?" Another reminded Moses that such a confrontation was predicted back in Goshen, taunting, "It will be better to serve Egypt."
Faced with a total breakdown of morale, backed against the Sea, and with 600 deadly chariots rushing toward them, Moses beseeched his people, "Fear ye not… God will fight for you." Asking God for a miracle, Moses simply waited. Sources close to Moses reveal that he was rebuked by his God, who answered, "Wherefore criest unto me? Speak unto the Children of Israel that they journey onwards."
God's intention was not immediately clear, insiders say, because the Sea was not fordable. The debate has only begun over what next occurred. Was it the culminating miracle of Moses' all-powerful God, as the Israelites insist? Or was it a combination of bizarre natural phenomena that saved the day? But this is what happened: A sudden, fierce sandstorm gripped the wadi separating the Egyptian charioteers and the fleeing Israelites. This effectively halted the Egyptian advance.
Meanwhile, the same east wind that whipped up the sandstorm over the Egyptians, also swept back the waters of the Red Sea, thus revealing high ground for a ford. Moses dramatically lifted his arms, pointing the way throughout the night as the two million Israelites bustled across. The fleeing slaves had barely reached the opposite shore when an advance unit of Egyptians found their way through the sandstorm. They led the others, and suddenly the entire Egyptian force was racing at top speed toward the Line of Death.
Cries of terror filled the Israelite camp as they awaited their doom. But then the same blistering sandstorm shifted to the seawaters. The lead chariots were confounded, lost their way, and quickly became mired in mud as they veered off the ford. Ironically, one group of charioteers trying to find their way out of the storm spotted Moses on the shore. In a brilliant tactical move, Moses again dramatically raised his arms, and pointed. Mistakenly thinking this to be the way out, the Egyptians organized their comrades to flee in that direction. But a close aide of Moses reveals that when Moses stretched out his arms this second time, he could see flash flood waters from the morning rains racing through the wadis. Within moments, the floodwaters overtook the ford, covering all that stood in its path.
Thousands of Egyptian charioteers and fighting men along with their horses were drowned. Royal search teams were unable to recover a single survivor, and as of now, Pharaoh himself is still listed as missing.
The Children of Israel were overwhelmed by the miraculous turn of events. They broke into songs thanking their all-powerful God, vowing that they would "glorify Him forever." Moving through the camp on the east shore of the Red Sea, one could see jubilation on every face. And one could understand and believe the words of one of Moses' closest advisers who predicted with confidence, "We are now free men. Our troubles are over!"
Edwin Black is the bestselling author of The Transfer Agreement, IBM and the Holocaust, War Against the Weak, Banking on Baghdad, Internal Combustion, Nazi Nexus, The Plan, The Farhud, British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement, Financing the Flames and a novel, Format C:. He can be reached at www.edwinblack.com, and Facebook.com/EdwinBlackBook, Twitter.com/EdwinBlackBook.


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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Gyoza or Gow Gee wrappers
120g pork, minced
180g cabbage, very finely shredded
3 spring onions, finely sliced
1 tablespoon Japanese Soy Sauce
1 tablespoon Sake
1 teaspoon Sesame Oil
1/2 teaspoon Sansho
1/2 teaspoon Sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
Gyoza or Gow Gee Wrappers are round and are white rather than yellow like Won Ton wrapper. It's these wrappers that will give you the best result.
To make the filling:
Combine the minced pork (I like to mince it myself from pork shoulder) with the cabbage, spring onions, soy, sake, sansho, sesame oil and egg in a bowl and mix well. Place this in the fridge for at least an hour to allow the flavours to amalgamate.
Making the Gyoza:
Take a wrapper and place it on a bench. Moisten the edge with a little water - this will help it seal. Lay a small amount of filling along the centre of the wrapper. Be careful not to overfill.
Draw the edges together to form a half moon. Press to make sure the edges have sealed.
Stand the gyoza upright and push down slightly to flatten it's base, then move along the edge pinching and twisting. Traditionally, it's said that gyoza should have 5 pleats.
Keep repeating the process until you've used all the mixture up. These will freeze really well - the best method is to place them in the freezer on a tray for an hour or so before moving them into storage containers where you will keep them in single layers. The initial chilling should stop them from sticking.
To cook:
Gyoza have a two part process. The first is steaming and the second is frying. There are various ways of doing this - I quite like this one-pan method.
In a fry-pan pour in a thin layer of water. Let it come to the boil before adding the gyoza. Place a lid on the pan and turn down the heat and let them simmer. The water should just about be gone by the time the gyoza are ready. Remove the gyoza, dry the pan and add a little oil. Heat this then add the gyoza - cook the base and one side only until they are nice and crispy.
Serve with Japanese Soy Sauce or Ponzu Sauce.
Tagged with Savoury Food
11 comments
- AnonymousJune 29, 2006
Those look beautiful! How did you get them so perfect? Mine never look that good.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 29, 2006
I appear to cook mine back to front. I sear them first in a hot pan with oil, then throw in a cup of water and steam (with lid on). Uh huh...a somewhat dangerous pursuit I must admit. Hence the reason for full apron, oven mits and a quick lidding technique ;-).
I never even thought to try your way. Hmm...logic sometimes is not my strong point!! Hi Mellie - I have seen it done in that manner though they really just wipe the (non-stick) pan with oil and cook them over very low heat, once they have started to colour hot water is added, heat raised, lid put on and they steam, they then let it continue cooking until all the water has gone and it starts to brown again, it's then finished with a splash of soy in the pan.
Ange - they are addictive and a "must have" when we go out for japanese.- AnonymousOctober 10, 2006
I'm just getting into this great page - thanks.
the fry first then add water method is what was used by my host mothers in Japan when I first learn to make these.
Great memories are made sitting around with friends making these tastey morsels!


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Selita Ebanks attended The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival wearing what might be the most gorgeous gown I've seen. She choose a chartreuse floor-length gown with diamond accents draped over her neck and shoulders that were sewn into to the fabric.
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