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- In your Online Store, on the Products menu, click Products.
- Click the name of the product you want to update.
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The Forgotten Garden
The Forgotten Garden
I'm crazy about fairy tales. Always have been, always will be. But I don't mean perky animated movies like The Little Mermaid; I mean the eerie, ambiguous narratives of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, or the late 19th-century retellings found in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. These stories --- evoked explicitly in Kate Morton's THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN --- are emotionally complex, mixing terror with magic, cruel fate with happy endings. (If the success of Stephenie Meyer's vampire books is any indication, readers young and old still take pleasure in being scared out of their wits.)
This is not to say that THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN will shiver your bones. It's much more benign than that. Still, there is a mystery at its heart: Why was a four-year-old girl apparently abandoned by her parents in 1913 and left alone on a ship bound from London to Australia?
To answer that question, Morton constructs a generation-spanning chronicle of three women. First is a Victorian fairy tale author named Eliza Makepeace (it's hard to believe she didn't exist, given the quality of the three stories included in the book). Her well-born mother runs off with a seaman, is disowned by her family, and dies of consumption, leaving her daughter to the tender mercies of the evil Swindells (a couple straight out of Dickens) in fog-shrouded, crime-ridden turn-of-the-century London. Eliza, who from an early age loves to spin stories and play Jack the Ripper in the mists, is eventually tracked down by her mother's family and delivered to their Cornwall estate, Blackhurst Manor. There she finds a repressive aunt; a vague, creepy uncle --- but, on the brighter side, also a hidden cottage and garden that become her private preserve, and a young invalid cousin, Rose, who becomes well with the help of Eliza's loyalty, strength and active imagination. (If this sounds strangely like THE SECRET GARDEN, it is. Morton cleverly makes Frances Hodgson Burnett a guest at a Blackhurst garden party, where she is inspired by Rose and Eliza's story to write her classic novel.)
The second thread is Nell Andrews, the perplexing abandoned child. When the ship reaches its Queensland, Australia, destination, she is found by the harbormaster and raised by him and his wife; only when she turns 21 is she told that she isn't their child. After this shock, Nell turns strange and withdrawn. But in 1975, prompted by the contents of the small white suitcase that was found with her on the dock --- notably, a beautifully illustrated book of fairy tales by Eliza Makepeace --- she sets out to solve the conundrum of her true origins. She ends up in Cornwall, where she buys Eliza's former cottage and garden. She intends to return and make her life there, but something prevents her.
That something is strand three, Cassandra, Nell's granddaughter. Nell is widowed and estranged from her daughter, Lesley, who rather unceremoniously dumps her 10-year-old on mom. Cassandra grows up with Nell, shares her work at the antiques stall, and in 2005 --- 30 years after Nell's journey to Cornwall --- keeps a vigil at her grandmother's deathbed. When Cassandra, who has her own past losses to contend with, discovers that she has inherited Cliff Cottage, as the Cornwall hideaway is known, she in turn goes to England to play detective.
Even summarizing these stories lucidly is difficult, so you can imagine how hard it was to write them (Morton must have resorted to some sort of chart). For the most part the triple-pointed design of the book is successful. It's good to have one of the themes of the novel --- the overlay of memories; the way the mind mixes fact and fiction --- so well supported by its structure.
What isn't good is that echoes of other books are so loud in THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN (I had the same difficulty with Morton's first novel, THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON, which was straight out of Daphne Du Maurier). It's as if she has absorbed her favorite novels too well; here there are intimations not only of Dickens and Hodgson Burnett, but of Wilkie Collins, Howard Pyle and Du Maurier (again). In her acknowledgments Morton pays tribute to children's book authors and says this book is partly "an ode to them" --- but she fails to make the material her own. Too often it reads more like a pastiche of other people's styles and ideas. And although it's pleasantly written, there are a lot of rather formulaic ladies'-novel conventions: beautiful heroines with red hair, a handsome stranger showing up at the right moment, mistaken identities, gossipy local historians, an old seadog with a peculiarly accurate memory….
Yet I do treasure --- and share --- Morton's passion for old-fashioned children's literature and book illustration. In Eliza Makepeace's tales, which have exactly the proper cadence and timelessness, this inspiration comes through splendidly. I just wish there had been more in THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN that emerged from that deeper place in Morton's imagination.
But if it's atmospheric entertainment you want, this is a knockout. Morton, like her heroine Eliza, has the storyteller's touch. Filled with romance, tragedy and luscious period detail, the novel would make a rip-roaring miniseries. Despite its length, it's suspenseful enough to keep you coming back for just one more chapter (though your lids are heavy) before you turn out the light.
Reviewed by Kathy Weissman on January 22, 2011
The Forgotten Garden
- Publication Date: April 7, 2009
- Genres: Fiction
- Hardcover: 552 pages
- Publisher: Atria

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Sandy Hook panel zooms in on school safety, trauma
- Sandy Hook Advisory Commission was formed after the Newtown tragedy
- Gov. Dannell Malloy wants recommendations by March 15
- Group also focusing on school safety%2C mental health
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Without details from the police investigation in the December shooting massacre at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School, the state commission charged with examining the incident will focus initial efforts on school security and response to trauma.
Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III said the criminal investigation could stretch to June or beyond if the state pursues criminal charges. The investigative records remain confidential under a court seal while the investigation is ongoing, he said.
The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission was formed to provide recommendations to prevent gun violence, improve school safety and mental health systems. The commission met for the first time here Thursday — 41 days after gunman Adam Lanza killed 27 people and himself. Twenty of the victims were students at Sandy Hook, six others were school officials. Sedensky, who oversees the investigation into Lanza, said at present that it doesn't appear anyone would be charged in connection with shootings.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has asked the commission to submit an interim report March 15 so that any legislative action can be taken before the Connecticut General Assembly session concludes in June.
Commission Chairman Scott Jackson, mayor of Danbury, said he chose to tackle security and trauma response because those areas "don't rely on detailed police reports." Instead, he said, the commission will be able to think more broadly about public policy that would stop all shooting incidents.
"It'll be more difficult to separate fact from fiction, but we also won't get locked into the specific facts of the day," Jackson said. "That was a singular event with a singular individual."
Jackson has asked the commission to reconvene by early February to consider setting statewide standards for school security, similar to construction or fire safety standards, that could be tied to state funding.
"We should dig in and find best practices," he said. "We can have meaningful work done by March and we can link state dollars to achieving these goals."
Jackson said he would also seek a joint meeting with the Legislature's Sandy Hook committee to discuss gun-control measures.
The commission will discuss other issues, such as changes to mental health laws, as more information becomes available, Jackson said. He said he did not expect to have access to the gunman's mental health records in the foreseeable future.
He said the commission will meet for at least six months and will hold public hearings.
Sen. John McKinney, the Republican leader in the Connecticut state Senate, said the commission "will work in concert" with the Legislature's task force on gun violence prevention and children's safety. Today's commission meeting "was a good start to that process," said McKinney, whose Senate district includes Newtown.
Malloy, who supports gun rights, said earlier that the commission should examine whether mental health professionals have the resources to intervene when people need help. In most recent mass shootings, the shooter exhibited warning signs, he said.
Among those testifying Thursday: former Colorado governor Bill Ritter, who was a Denver district attorney in 1999, when the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School occurred. Two students killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.
Ritter -- who served on the Columbine Review Commission, which recommended ways to improve crisis response, school security and medical treatment for victims -- told the Connecticut commission that its work would be important and have nationwide ramifications.
"The nation watches. The nation asks questions and wants to understand why and how these tragic events continue to occur,'' Ritter said. "Your work can actually make a difference."
University of Virginia law school professor Richard Bonnie, a former member of the commission that reviewed the 2007 shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, told the commission not to feel pressured to act quickly in recommending policy changes.
Bonnie said it could take the commission two years to finish its work. He warned that acting prematurely could lead to "disproportionate responses," such as eroding privacy rights of the mentally ill.
Sandy Hook resident Fadil Bajraliu said he supports the commission efforts. "I hope it will do something really good for Newtown and the country," said Bajraliu, whose daughter, Vanessa, a fourth-grader at Sandy Hook, survived the shooting. Bajraliu, a carpenter who served in the Kosovo Army and moved to Newtown in 1994, said he's a gun owner who believes "we have to take the army guns out of the hands of the people."
Assault weapons like the one police say Lanza used at the school are "made for the army" and not the public, he said.
Sandy Hook resident Sam Mihailoff said the commission represents "a step forward." Theretired schoolteacher is a neighbor of Francine and David Wheeler, whose 6-year-old son, Ben, was among those killed."Talking about the issues is a positive thing — even if nothing comes of it," Mihailoff said.
Another Sandy Hook resident, Chris Aug, said the commission "may be a good start," but changes also must be made outside Connecticut."I think it's going to take a lot more than a state commission to make impactful changes," he said. "If history is any indication, I don't see this recent tragedy having much — if any — affect to prevent a similar tragedy from occurring elsewhere."
Changes in "gun and ammunition policies" need to be national, Aug said. "With nearly 10 states within a four-hour drive from each other, it's way too easy to bypass local laws.
Members of the commission:
• Chairman Scott Jackson, mayor of Hamden, Conn.
• Adrienne Bentman, director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living
• Ron Chivinski, a teacher at Newtown Middle School
• Robert Ducibella, founding principal of DVS Security Consulting and Engineering
• Terry Edelstein, the governor's liaison to non-profit organizations
• Kathleen Flaherty, an attorney who works at Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut
• Alice Forrester, executive director of the Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic
• Ezra Griffith, professor emeritus and senior research scientist at Yale University's Department of Psychiatry
• Patricia Keavney-Maruca, a member of the state board of education and a former technical high school teacher
• Christopher Lyddy, a former state legislator who represented Newtown who is a consultant on stress and trauma
• Denis McCarthy, Norwalk, Conn., fire chief
• Barbara O'Connor, University of Connecticut director of public safety and police chief
• Wayne Sandford, a professor at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences and former deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Management & Homeland Security
• David Schonfeld, the director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement and a professor at the University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics
• Harold Schwartz, chief psychiatrist at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living. and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• Bernard Sullivan, former Hartford police chief and former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety
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Static Mirror installation for Hidden Door festival
I have a pleasure to announce that I am a part of the Hidden Door Festival - the event is happening during this weekend at Roxy Art Club, Edinburgh.
I got commissioned to make an interactive installation that I've called Static Mirror. So, if you're Edinburger – come along to see the exceptional maze full of art and bands performing live, otherwise just enjoy my piece on-line.
Click the image above to activate (webcam required.) There's a accompanying noise, so mute the sound if you are i.e. at work.
© 2010 Tomek Augustyn. All rights reserved.
If you're looking for a deeper meaning, please read the artist's statement.
Coming out of the underground club, Tomek brings the idea of interactive VJing into a gallery space by confronting visitors with the imagination they might have about themselves.
He asks the old question – "Do our bodies exist for real or are we just a bunch of particles bound together by invisible forces as a temporal form of expression?"
The answer could be found by observing the nature of static noise reflection – as long as you move, you are.
On a technical note, the piece uses my HiSlope (alpha) video processing engine (shortly available as open-source.)
You can also press '/' to play with the manual controls and '\' to view the stats for the camera.06:11 PM | posts | 2 Comments | Tags: as3, hislope, osx, fx, experimental, pixelbender


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Destination guide: Madrid, Spain
Madrid is the capital of Spain (Europe) and is in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula.
To get to know this city, you can visit El Retiro Park, the Temple of Debod, the Sabatini Gardens, the Capricho Park, the Main Square, the Royal Palace (a baroque castle made of stone and strategically located on the top of a cliff) and the Cibeles Fountain (a sculpture representing the Romen goddess Cibeles), as well as many other attractions.
Purchase your flights to Madrid and discover all of Spain's culture, history and traditions.
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Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Home to Picasso's Guernica, arguably Spain's single-most famous artwork, and a host of other important Spanish artists, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is Madrid's premier collection of contemporary art. The collection principally spans the 20th century up to the 1980s. In addition to Picasso's Guernica, which is worth the admission fee on its own, the work of the Madrid-born Juan Gris (1887–1927) or Georges Braque (1882–1963) may appeal.
The work of Joan Miró (1893–1983) is defined by often delightfully bright primary colours, but watch out also for a handful of his equally odd sculptures; his paintings became a symbol of the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. The Reina Sofía is also home to 20 or so canvases by Salvador Dalí, of which the most famous is perhaps the surrealist extravaganza that is El Gran Masturbador (1929).
If you can tear yourself away from the big names, the Reina Sofía offers a terrific opportunity to learn more about sometimes lesser-known 20th-century Spanish artists. Of the sculptors, watch in particular for Pablo Gargallo (1881–1934), whose work in bronze includes a bust of Picasso, and the renowned Basque sculptors Jorge Oteiza (1908–2003) and Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002).
Latitude: 40.4081162400000 / Longitude: -3.6945026140000
Sub-Type: Art Gallery
Telephone Number: +34 91 774 10 00
Opening Hours: 10am-9pm Mon & Wed-Sat, 10am-2.30pm Sun
Pricing: adult/student, under 18yr & over 65yr €6/free, free to all Sun, 7-9pm Mon & Wed-Fri, 2.30-9pm Sat, audioguide adult/student €4/3
Address: Calle de Santa Isabel 52
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Atocha
Website: www.museoreinasofia.es
Museo del Prado
This is one of the premier art galleries in the world. The more than 7000 paintings held in the Museo del Prado's collection (although only around 1500 are currently on display) are like a window on the historical vagaries of the Spanish soul, at once grand and imperious in the royal paintings of Velázquez, darkly tumultuous in Las Pinturas Negras (the Black Paintings) of Goya and outward-looking with sophisticated works of art from all across Europe.
Spend as long as you can at the Prado or, better still, plan to make a couple of visits – it can be a little overwhelming if you try to absorb it all at once.
Entrance to the Prado is via the eastern Puerta de los Jerónimos or northern Puerta de Goya. Either way tickets must first be purchased from the ticket office at the northern end of the building.
Latitude: 40.4137220100000 / Longitude: -3.6924127080000
Sub-Type: Art Gallery
Telephone Number: +34 91 330 28 00
Opening Hours: 9am-8pm Tue-Sun
Pricing: adult/under 18yr & EU senior over 65yr €8/free, free to all 6-8pm Tue-Sat & 5-8pm Sun, audioguide €3.50
Address: Paseo del Prado
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Banco de España
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.museodelprado.es
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
One of the most extraordinary private collections of predominantly European art in the world, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is a worthy member of Madrid's 'Golden Triangle' of art. Where the Museo del Prado or Centro de Arte Reina Sofía enable you to study the body of work of a particular artist in depth, the Thyssen is a place to immerse yourself in a breathtaking breadth of artistic styles.
Most of the big names are here, sometimes with just a single painting, but the Thyssens' gift to Madrid and the art-loving public is to have them all under one roof. Not surprisingly, it often ends up being many visitors' favourite Madrid art gallery.
Latitude: 40.4159874800000 / Longitude: -3.6950325970000
Sub-Type: Art Gallery
Telephone Number: +34 91 369 01 51
Opening Hours: 10am-7pm Tue-Sun
Pricing: adult/under 12yr €8/free, audioguide €5
Address: Paseo del Prado 8
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Banco de España
Website: www.museothyssen.org
Parque del Buen Retiro
The splendid gardens of El Retiro are littered with marble monuments, landscaped lawns, the occasional elegant building and abundant greenery. It's quiet and contemplative during the week, but comes to life on weekends. Put simply, this is one of our favourite places in Madrid. Laid out in the 17th century by Felipe IV as the preserve of kings, queens and their intimates, the park was opened to the public in 1868 and ever since, whenever the weather's fine and on weekends in particular, madrileños from all across the city gather here to stroll, read the Sunday papers in the shade, take a boat ride or nurse a cool drink at the numerous outdoor terrazas.
Latitude: 40.4144443600000 / Longitude: -3.6881814090000
Sub-Type: Public Gardens
Opening Hours: 6am-midnight May-Sep, 6am-11pm Oct-Apr
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Retiro, Príncipe de Vergara, Ibiza or Atocha
Plaza Mayor
Designed in 1619 by Juan Gómez de Mora, the stunningly beautiful Plaza Mayor is a highlight of any visit to Madrid. The grandeur of its buildings is one thing, but this is a living, breathing entity, from the outdoor tables of the terrazas to the students strewn across the cobblestones on a sunny day. The plaza's first public ceremony was the beatification of San Isidro Labrador, Madrid's patron saint.
Thereafter, bullfights watched by 50,000 spectators were a recurring spectacle until 1878, while the autos-da-fé (the ritual condemnation of heretics) of the Spanish Inquisition also took place here. Fire largely destroyed the square in 1790, but it was rebuilt and became an important market and hub of city life. Today, the uniformly ochre-tinted apartments with wrought-iron balconies are offset by the exquisite frescoes of the 17th-century Real Casa de la Panadería (Royal Bakery); the present frescoes were added in 1992.
Latitude: 40.4155790600000 / Longitude: -3.7072420120000
Sub-Type: Square
Transportation Type: underground rail Details: Sol
Antigua Casa Talavera
The extraordinary tiled facade of this wonderful old shop conceals an Aladdin's cave of ceramics from all over Spain. This is not the mass-produced stuff aimed at the tourist market, but comes from the small family potters of Andalucía and Toledo, and ranges from the decorative (tiles) to the useful (plates, jugs and other kitchen items).
Latitude: 40.4208813800000 / Longitude: -3.7088222080000
Sub-Type: Traditional ceramics
Telephone Number: +34 91 547 34 17
Opening Hours: 10am-1.30pm & 5-8pm Mon-Fri, 10am-1.30pm Sat
Address: Calle de Isabel la Católica 2
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Santo Domingo
El Rastro
El Rastro, Europe's largest flea market, is a Madrid institution. It's been an open-air market for half a millennium. The madness begins at Plaza de Cascorro and the maze of streets branching off it. Cheap clothes, luggage, antiques, old photos of Madrid, old flamenco records, faux designer purses, grungy T-shirts, household goods and electronics are the main fare, but for every 10 pieces of junk, there's a real gem waiting to be found. A word of warning: pickpockets love El Rastro as much as everyone else.
Latitude: 40.4090194100000 / Longitude: -3.7065768240000
Sub-Type: Flea Market
Opening Hours: 8am-3pm Sun
Address: Calle de la Ribera de Curtidores
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: La Latina
Mercado de Fuencarral
Madrid's home of alternative club-cool is still going strong, revelling in its reverse snobbery. With shops like Fuck, Ugly Shop and Black Kiss, it's funky, grungy and filled to the rafters with torn T-shirts and more black leather and silver studs than you'll ever need. This is a Madrid icon and when it was threatened with closure in 2008, there was nearly an uprising. .
Latitude: 40.4234043700000 / Longitude: -3.7008656450000
Sub-Type: Clothing
Telephone Number: +34 91 521 41 52
Opening Hours: 11am-9pm Mon-Sat
Address: Calle de Fuencarral 45
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Tribunal
Almendro 13
Almendro 13 is famous for quality rather than frilly elaborations, with cured meats, cheeses, tortillas and huevos rotos (literally, 'broken eggs') the house specialties.
Latitude: 40.4126259000000 / Longitude: -3.7099130400000
Sub-Type: Tapas
Telephone Number: +34 91 365 42 52
Opening Hours: 1-4pm & 7.30pm-12.30am Mon-Fri, 1-5pm & 8pm-1am Sat & Sun
Pricing: meals €15-20
Price Range: Moderate
Address: Calle del Almendro 13
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: La Latina
Restaurante Sobrino de Botín
This is the oldest restaurant in the world (1725), which also appears in many novels about Madrid, most notably Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. The secret of its staying power is fine cochinillo (suckling pig; €22.90) and cordero asado (roast lamb; €22.90) cooked in wood-fired ovens. Eating in the vaulted cellar is a treat.
Latitude: 40.4140847600000 / Longitude: -3.7080145700000
Sub-Type: Roast Meats
Telephone Number: +34 91 366 42 17
Opening Hours: 1-4pm & 8pm-midnight
Pricing: meals €40-45
Price Range: Moderate
Address: Calle de los Cuchilleros 17
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: La Latina or Sol
Website: www.botin.es
The Michelin-starred Santceloni is one of Madrid's best restaurants, with luxury decor that's the work of star interior designer Pascual Ortega, and nouvelle cuisine from the kitchen of master Catalan chef Santi Santamaría. Each dish is an exquisite work of art and the menu changes with the seasons, but we'd recommend one of the set menús gastronómicos to really sample the breadth of surprising tastes on offer.
Latitude: 40.4387909900000 / Longitude: -3.6916741010000
Sub-Type: Catalan
Telephone Number: +34 91 210 88 40
Opening Hours: lunch & dinner Mon-Fri, dinner Sat
Pricing: meals from €125, set menús €132-165
Price Range: High
Address: Paseo de la Castellana 57
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Gregorio Marañón
Website: www.restaurantesantceloni.com
Café Belén
Café Belén is cool in all the right places – lounge and chill-out music, dim lighting, a great range of drinks (the mojitos are especially good) and a low-key crowd that's the height of casual sophistication.
Latitude: 40.4243412800000 / Longitude: -3.6966163150000
Sub-Type: Chill-Out Bar
Telephone Number: +34 91 308 27 47
Opening Hours: 3.30pm-3am
Address: Calle de Belén 5
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Chueca
One of the spiritual homes of flamenco in Madrid, Cardamomo is a dark, smoky bar that draws a knowledgeable crowd. It has lost a little atmosphere after a recent change of owner, but the flamenco is top-notch and there are nightly shows at 10pm.
Latitude: 40.4155027800000 / Longitude: -3.6994709680000
Sub-Type: Flamenco
Telephone Number: +34 91 369 07 57
Opening Hours: 9pm-3.30am
Pricing: admission €25
Address: Calle de Echegaray 15
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Sevilla
Website: www.cardamomo.es
Run by Brazilians and dedicated to all things Brazilian, Kabokla is terrific. Live Brazilian groups play some nights from around 10pm (from percussion to samba and cover bands playing Chico Buarque). When there's no live music, the DJ gets the crowd dancing. It also serves Madrid's smoothest caipirinhas and runs samba and capoeira classes outside opening hours.
Latitude: 40.4260686900000 / Longitude: -3.7079585060000
Sub-Type: Brazilian Bar
Telephone Number: +34 91 532 59 66
Opening Hours: 10pm-1am Tue-Thu, 6pm-3am Fri, 2.30-6.30pm & 10.30pm-3.30am Sat, 2.30pm-10pm Sun
Address: Calle de San Vicente Ferrer 55
Transportation Type: underground rail
Details: Noviciado
Events Overviews
Madrid loves to party, and seemingly any excuse is good for a fiesta. in the city be sure to look out for the following events. There's more information online at www.esmadrid.com.
Month by Month
Arco (Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporánea)
One of Europe's biggest celebrations of contemporary art, Arco draws galleries and exhibitors from all over the world to the Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I exhibition centre near Barajas airport. It's held mid-February.
Mercedes-benz Fashion WeekThe infamous Bryant Park fashion shows are sadly not open to the public. But whether you're invited or not, being in the city this week – when the couture world descends upon Manhattan to thrill over new looks – could provide a vicarious thrill, especially if you can find the after-parties. A second fashion week is held in September.
Festival Flamenco
A combination of big names and rising talent comes together for five days of fine flamenco music in one of the city's theatres.
March - April
Jazz es Primavera
Three weeks of jazz in the leading jazz venues across the city.
Suma Flamenca
Another soul-filled flamenco festival that draws some of the biggest names in the genre.
Dos de Mayo
On 2 May 1808, Napoleon's troops put down an uprising in Madrid, and commemoration of the day has become an opportunity for much festivity, often called the Fiesta de la Comunidad de Madrid. The day is celebrated with particular energy in the bars of Malasaña.
Fiesta de San Isidro
Isidro Around 15 May, Madrid's patron saint is honoured with a week of nonstop processions, parties and bullfights. Free concerts are held throughout the city, and this week marks the start of the city's bullfighting season.
Día del Orgullo de Gays, Lesbianas y Transexuales
The colourful Gay Pride Parade sets out from the Puerta de Alcalá in the early evening, and winds its way around the city in an explosion of music and energy, ending up at the Puerta del Sol.
Veranos de la Villa
Madrid's town hall stages a series of cultural events, shows and exhibitions, known as Summers in the City.
August - September
Summer Festivals
Small-time but fun, the neighbourhood summer festivals, such as San Cayetano in Lavapiés, and San Lorenzo and La Paloma in La Latina, are great for cheap entertainment from mid-August to September.
La Noche en Blanco
On September's White Night, first held in 2006, Madrid stays open all night with a citywide extravaganza of concerts and general revelry in 120 venues.
October - November
Fiesta de Otoño
Music, dance and theatre take over Madrid from mid-October to mid-November, during the fantastically cultural weeks of the Autumn Festival.
Emociona Jazz
Madrid loves its jazz too much to be confined to just one festival. In November groups from far and wide converge on the capital for concerts across town.
Activity Overviews
It doesn't come much more Spanish than Real Madrid or bullfighting. Watching a live game involving Real Madrid is an unforgettable experience. Attending a corrida (bullfight) at the Plaza de Toros Monumental de Las Ventas is a very local thing to do – love it or loathe it, you won't leave indifferent. Basketball is another spectator sport option.
For those who prefer getting all sweaty and making their own sport, there are gyms, health centres, swimming pools and tennis courts scattered throughout the city. Excellent spas and massage centres represent the height of pampering for those keen not to get too active.
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Many private gyms, such as Gimnasio Chamberí, also offer yoga and Pilates.
Public gyms and indoor pools (normally for lap swimming only) are scattered throughout Madrid. They generally charge a modest €3.50 to €7 for one-day admission and can get pretty crowded at weekends and after work hours. More expensive (€10 to €15 per one-day admission), privately owned health centres usually have less crowded workout rooms.
SwimmingIf you'd rather splash around than labour over laps, the following public pools are worth trying, although they can be completely overwhelmed in summer.
If you fancy a game of tennis surrounded by the greenery of the Parque del Buen Retiro, consider the Polideportivo La Chopera.


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Colorados Future formed in 2009 to figure out what to do with the Colorado constitution, which dictates how the state collects and spends money in sometimes conflicting ways.
The group in the past has pushed for ballot questions that would make it harder to amend the constitution in the future. But now, it has switched strategies in order to amend troublesome chapters that are already in the constitution.
Were going to go for the tough one. Were going to go for the fix, said Brenda Morrison, a member of Colorados Future, in a presentation Friday to Action 22, a group of Southwest Colorado county leaders.
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A West Brookfield police officer has been suspended and faces an assault and battery charge in connection with an alleged domestic incident in Warren.
Officer Harold A. Parker, 50, is scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Central District Court in Worcester after a woman with whom he had been living alleged he had "slammed her against the wall" on Sept. 3 after she asked him to move out of her Brimfield Road home.
According to court documents, a Warren police officer urged the court not to issue a criminal complaint against Officer Parker.
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Chief Bruce D. Spiewakowski described the effort not to pursue a criminal complaint, by one or more of the town's police officers, as a "mistake."
"Due to the unfamiliarity of the procedures of your court, the victim was not requested to appear to give testimony," the chief wrote the court.
Court records in Central District Court indicate a Warren police officer did not tell the alleged victim about an Oct. 22 probable cause hearing. The woman had called the Warren Police Department on Sept. 3 to report that a police officer had assaulted her.
Had she known about the hearing she could have described her version of events to the court.
The chief's letter to the court said failure to inform the victim was because of the officer's "unfamiliarity" with court procedures.
The court records in the case also indicated an unnamed Warren policeman who investigated the allegation urged the district court not to issue charges — despite a Worcester clerk-magistrate having found probable cause to proceed with a criminal case.
"Assistant Clerk Magistrate Paul Johnson found probable cause and inquired as to what the wishes of the police department were. Our officer mistakenly indicated that we did not wish to have the complaint issued," Chief Spiewakowski wrote in his Oct. 22 letter.
The chief concluded the letter saying, "The victim in this case … had contacted me prior to the hearing and I have personally met with her. (She) has a strong desire to see this complaint move forward. I am respectfully requesting that the court issue the complaint against Harold A. Parker for assault and battery."
As a result of the chief's letter, the court — which on Oct. 22 said "complaint denied (because of) request of complainant" — reversed itself and issued a complaint against Officer Parker.
West Brookfield town officials have confirmed that Officer Parker has been on paid administrative leave since the incident.
The most recent annual town report shows Officer Parker's wages at $68,376.
The Warren police summons report lists Officer Parker's marital status as married. He is not married to the alleged victim.
A temporary restraining order was issued early last week ordering Officer Parker to stay away from the alleged victim. He was also ordered to surrender all firearms to West Brookfield police. He moved out of the house he had been sharing with the woman.
Although the case was initially filed at the Western Worcester District Court in East Brookfield, a judge ordered the case moved to Central District Court in Worcester to avoid any appearance of a conflict. West Brookfield and Warren police matters are handled at the East Brookfield courthouse.
West Brookfield Police Chief Thomas O'Donnell said last week he was notified almost immediately of the Sept. 3 incident by Sgt. Charles H. Laperle of his department.
According to a statement the alleged victim gave to Chief Spiewakowski on Sept. 6, Officer Parker was on the phone with Sgt. Laperle right after the alleged assault.
In the police report, the woman told police that just before the alleged assault, she took a handful of his clothes and threw them into the yard. Officer Parker did not want to leave and she said he grabbed her "with both hands and shoved me against the wall" and stated "that was a (expletive) mistake."
The Warren police report on the incident indicated the disagreement was touched off when the pair argued over Officer Parker discovering emails that the woman had sent to another man.
"When confronted about the emails by Harold, (she) became angry and told Harold to leave."
Warren police were called back to the home the same night and the alleged victim told police she wanted to file charges against Officer Parker, but the Warren police report adds, "She refused cooperation at this time."
She indicated to Warren police she would take up the matter with the West Brookfield police chief. Chief O'Donnell declined to comment on that topic.
Officer Parker, who now lives in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., joined the West Brookfield force in 1996 and has been a full-time patrolman since 1999.
He was suspended from the force for four months in 2002 after it was determined that he had failed to include information in a written report on a party held by teen-agers the previous October. One of the youths at the event, a minor, received a broken finger while being subdued by police, the chief said, and that injury was not noted in Officer Parker's report.
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Airbus test pilots and managers celebrated Friday after the long-awaited inaugural flight of the Airbus A350 XWB went off without a hitch.
Aviation enthusiasts around the world had their eyes on France as the aircraft took off from Toulouse-Blagnac airport around 10 a.m. local time and landed safely about four hours later.
The test crew waved an Airbus flag from a hatch above the cockpit as the aircraft taxied after its successful maiden journey.
The crew, who emerged to applause from waiting friends and family, said the aircraft proved easy to handle and performed well throughout the test program.
"After the first few minutes, it didn't feel like we were doing a first test flight," said Peter Chandler, chief test pilot for Airbus. "It was so relaxed and so predictable."
"It's a great day for all people who have a passion for aerospace," said Airbus Chief Executive Officer Fabrice Bregier.
New jet makes inaugural flight over France. CNN's Jim Boulden explains.
In an interview with CNN's Richard Quest, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney says the company's newest jet will put it back on top.
Airbus hopes to have the new aircraft fully certified for commercial flight within 12 to 13 months, he said.
"This is about going fast but never rushing, and I am very confident that after this first flight ... we will deliver this aircraft by 2014 to our first customers," he said. Airbus hopes to capture more than half the global market of 6,000 long-range aircraft over the next 20 years, he added.
"I knew it was going to be impressive, but I was blown away," Airbus Chief Operating Officer John Leahy said immediately after the A350 XWB takeoff.
"Did you hear how quiet it was? Did you hear what you didn't hear? We're going to set new standards. Not just for comfort, not just for performance. But for environmental friendliness. People living around airports won't even know we're taking off," he said to the attending press.
The flight followed many hours of training in a simulator for the six international test flight crew members.
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However, the company has not confirmed speculation that Airbus is planning to show off its new plane to aviation enthusiasts at the show, which runs June 17 to 23.
Frank Chapman, an Airbus test pilot who watched from the ground, said the decision had not yet been made but would depend on the data from the test flight and safety checks over the next few days.
Paris Air Show 2013: On your marks, jet set, go!
The A350 XWB is the first in a family of super-efficient passenger planes Airbus designed to go head-to-head with rival Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and 777s.
"XWB" means "extra wide body." There are three members in the A350 family: the A350-800, the A350-900 and the A350-1000, which seat 270, 314 and 350 passengers, respectively, in three-class seating.
The first test plane, "MSN1," was unveiled on May 13 at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France.
Turbulent production history
Friday's first test flight was the latest achievement in what has been a turbulent production history for the A350 program since it was first announced in 2006.
"Airbus's initial A350 design wasn't an entirely new aircraft, but a knee-jerk reaction to the 787," aviation journalist David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of
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earlier report
"The company, which was hip-deep in sorting out A380 development, simply hadn't foreseen the huge pent-up demand for a more efficient 250-seat airliner, and tried to take the easy way out by offering a re-engined version of its A330."
While the A330 is incredibly popular, the airlines were more interested in the potential efficiency offered by a clean-sheet design, he added.
Airbus rolls out new A350 XWB
Being publicly lambasted by some of its largest customers -- one aviation executive called it a Band-Aid reaction to the 787 Dreamliner, while the CEO of Singapore Airlines said the plane just didn't go far enough -- the pressure was on for Airbus to come up with a plane that would genuinely advance the global aviation scene.
This year, there were cancellations. Abu Dhabi-based airline
Etihad Airways axed seven orders
for A350-1000s, saying they still weren't happy with the design, criticizing its range, performance and fuel burn.
"Airbus belatedly woke up and countered with a completely new version of the A350, and managed to tap into the market," said Kaminski-Morrow.
On the technical side, the big appeal for airlines is that over 70% of the A350 XWB's airframe is made from advanced materials that combine composites (53%), titanium and advanced aluminum alloys.
The A350 XWB is the first Airbus passenger jet to use both fuselage and wing structures made primarily of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, resulting in lower fuel burn as well as easier maintenance, according to the company.
Its rival, the 787, is one of the most advanced airliners launched in recent years, and is made up of 50% composites and uses 20% less fuel than other aircraft in the same category.
Airbus A350 time crunch
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Industry experts said ahead of the test flight that there was an outside chance the A350 XWB might be spotted in the skies at the air show, even though Airbus had said the plane would be too busy carrying out flight tests to attend.
"We're still waiting to find out whether the A350 will put in an appearance," said
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"That certainly would be a highlight -- it's one of the newest and most exciting aircraft, but it and Bombardier's C-Series are at a critical point in their development.
"It becomes a bit of a fight between the marketing people, the publicists, who want the company to get all the best headlines, and the engineers who are working to critical deadlines to get the plane ready to fly as soon as possible," he explained.
"What may happen is they pop in for one day -- fly in and then fly out again -- or even, in the case of the A350, that they do a flypast, without even landing."
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Some Context for What's Transpiring in Pakistan and What Not to do in the Upcoming 2013 Elections
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The New SAVAK in Pakistan, the latest spate of shia killings, should be examined in the context given below and the senseless creation of "revolutionary times" across the world will begin to make sense. Pakistan is a component of it. That component is tickled through sectarianism as that is the genius of our peoples. Other nations are tickled according to their own respective genius minds. The New SAVAK in Pakistan works for these superman gods in no less a measure than the old SAVAK worked for its own superman god. Is this stuff rocket science you people? Why can't learned people in Pakistan see it? Especially why can't the high falutin armchair analysts, and the defense analysts, who have routine access to media see it? Look at my examination systematically unlayering the overarching context below. Does that sound like American empire or Zionist empire to any of you? Or does it appear exactly what it is — an Oligarchic Empire for World Government being constructed with "an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece" (Hard Road to World Order, CFR 1974 – read the superman's paper if you think I make things up with my unconstrained hyperactive imagination)!
Com'on you idle spectators and bullshit purveyors (those who deliver crap in the opportunity they get in the media), all my good friends I am sure. Six feet under the maggots can't tell the bloody difference. Only the dead have seen the end of war, says Plato. Sure — those living see it everyday. And Most recently, in the systematic Muslim killings in Pakistan where, in the immediate aftermath of targeting the Hazara shias in Quetta with a bomb on 16 Feb. 2013, the shia eye surgeon, Dr. Ali Haider, and his 11-year-old son Murtaza Haider (photos above, more graphic images here), were ruthlessly and prematurely dispatched to meet their Maker with bullets to their head in Lahore this past Monday, 18 Feb. 2013. إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ .
You, me, all of us, don't speak up right now, you, all of you my friends in Pakistan, they are coming for you and me next (the question in the photo above is not merely rhetorical; the assertion by the child is also not rhetorical, but a dare, a show of courage and perseverance that mirrors the Palestinian defiance living and dying under the jackboots of a superman terrorist state). For, this is the harvest of remaining silent when ZA Bhutto was politically declaring the Qadianis non-Muslims. Watch this confessional speech in Urdu by the brilliant late Pakistani Shia scholar, Allama Syed Irfan Haider Abidi, in which he openly apportions due credit to the Shia scholars of the time, of 1974, for participating in that political travesty in support of the Sunni ullema led effort that ZA Bhutto was orchestrating from behind the scenes to neutralize the American sponsored fanatic religious opposition to him (see Profiles of Intelligence quoted in Who Killed Benazir Bhutto for America's role in funding the PNA Alliance of the religious right to finally unseat ZA Bhutto).
Chicken coming home to roost for the Shias of Pakistan
Caption Quoting the Shia scholar (translation is mine): "All the Muslims in the world would not have been able to declare Qadianis kafir if 'Ali Waale' were not present!" (time 1m 55s) See Role of Shias in Qadianis' Kafirdom ( http://tinyurl.com/Raahe-Nijaat-Pakistan )
Who gives the right to man to challenge another's beliefs; let alone deny a people their political, religious, civil, and basic human rights, including to not be killed by either the pirate or the emperor for their beliefs, inheritance, ethnicity, their land, whatever? See Islam and Knowledge vs. Socialization.
You open that can of worms by the state giving legitimacy to calling one group "kafir", and now the Shias and Ismailis are the new "kafirs" today. Following that, who's next? YOU, my sunni friends, who are silently watching the spectacle of shia deaths and demonization, just as both together previously spectated the Qadiani pogroms in silence; you and your parents, and your siblings still living in Pakistan and unlucky enough to not have the Green Card or Canadian citizenship. It is these cracks and lacunas in our sectarian ethos which are perennially ripe for harvest for the "revolutionary times", we see being enacted today in Pakistan. Unless we get rid of these sectarian cracks that are repeatedly and deliberately enlarged into fault-lines by empire builders who know how to both cultivate and harvest these most efficiently for "imperial mobilization", we are burnt toast.
And learned people who are supposed to have the wherewithal to lead the charge, to educate the public mind to what's really going on, to motivate them to stand up, have all been turned into glorified House Niggers and useful idiots.
Never too late to throw that yoke of servitude—even for house niggers and silent bystanders—and for selfish reasons of self-preservation if not for altruistic concern for anyone else.
So what can we do? Two things to begin with:
1) Perceptively comprehend the overarching motivation of the super-terrorists in order to come up with proper self-defence. See my article unlayering reality below. Among all the patent lies the "vulgar propagandist" (Chomsky's epithet, not mine) Bernard Lewis spinned on Islam over the years, the one thing he stated most accurately was: "Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the [super]terrorist, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them." Well, obviously the victims of the super terrorists must intelligently play at that table to also defend themselves by whatever means will be effective. This will lead all of us who are capable of understanding to comprehend that all variants of Islam, "militant Islam", "moderate Islam", and "revolutionary Islam", are creations of minds working assiduously on "imperial mobilization" over a lifetime. None will therefore be fooled by them.
This means shias won't be fooled by "revolutionary Islam" despite their partisanship with the shia sect, and sunnis won't be fooled by the other versions despite their partisanship to sunni sects. These have nothing to do with the religion of Islam and its 1.6 to 2 billion ordinary believers — but with methods of creating "controlled chaos" by cognitive infiltration of the religion, which means creating chaos that is predictable, its tempo increasable and decrease-able at will, and switch-off-able when its purpose is harvested. At present, that tap control resides in the West. It is entirely independent of the local population which therefore cannot break through its strangulating grip in the normal fashion. Just like the "Iron Wall" that surrounds Palestine. That diabolical construct was accurately described by Vladimir Jabotinsky: "This colonization can, therefore, continue and develop only under the protection of a force independent of the local population – an iron wall which the native population cannot break through."
Something similar to this "Iron Wall" protects these mal constructs of "Islam" rapidly devouring our nation while simultaneously lending the much needed pretext to the West for sustaining its "imperial mobilization". Its strategic and full spectrum redressing takes more than just ineffectively banning these terrorist organizations (which has been tried halfheartedly in lip-service to the Hegelian Dialectic) or ineffectively curtailing their antediluvian "Islamization of Pakistan" programs (which is talked about by the so called secular humanists who are the second line of useful idiots of empire, the first being our leaders, those who are not outright mercenaries that is). It is discussed elsewhere.
2) Bravely speak up, stand up, be part of the making your presence felt in society by giving up the silence of the lamb, the ostrich, and the coward.
In that speaking up, and standing up, boycott the forthcoming Pakistani elections.
Not participating is a resounding NO vote to reject the entire corrupt system. Do not participate in a fabricated system designed to ab initio continue its servility to massa; all waters run only Westward, even if wearing the turban, the beard, clean-shaved, in uniform, in awami-libas, in duppatta, in burqa – and that includes Imran Khan, the favorite savior of the young generation.
Imran Khan is some part of the right-wing Difa-e-Pakistan Council (Defence of Pakistan Council – DPC) group of "militant Islam" formerly known by different acronyms some officially banned: SSP1, LeT2, LeJ3, JeM4, ASWJ5, JuD6, TNSM7, etc., (I lost track), who are state-sponsored and even openly supported by the Punjab government (PML-N's Chief Minister in Punjab Shahbaz Sharif et. al.) and by right-wing elements of the ISI. And of course, Imran Khan also occasionally flirts with the "moderate Islam" of Tahir-ul-Qadri. Both Hegelian Dialectics of "Islam" are sponsored by different factions from within the Pakistan military, which in turn is paid from the Western tax-payers hard earned monies to become the coveted Military Inc. of Pakistan with the Western power's great blessings. This praetorian guard, a rising new "feudal class" in Pakistan, is now fully invested in staying America's proxy army in Pakistan. This is how power flows in Pakistan today behind the veneers and puppetshows put up before the public – be it the elected Parliament, or the many variants of "Islam". Without their minimally tacit approval, not a fly can buzz in Pakistan. It would be found riddled with bullet holes the very next day. The combined output of all these variants of "Islam" and their open and secret benefactors, is to lay the groundwork for the creation of "revolutionary Islam", whether or not they each realize it. That is the shia arc of crescent a long time in the making and yet to be fully realized. We are, after all, looking at a lifetime of World Was IV. Many teams have to play their part, and it seems to me that "revolutionary Islam" has been gestating in the oven too long. I am sure General Hameed Gul (Ret.) understands this better than the brainless posterboy of modernity, Imran Khan, his foolish rapidly aging protégé who has been dying to become president at all cost. A good donkey to ride on for the ubermensch.
But then again, perhaps not, as it was this traitor General, then head of the ISI, who gave to neighboring Muslim Afghanistan "their Vietnam War" in service to his massa in Washington, purveying the fiction of "strategic depth" to carry the Pakistan army along. I once had a long conversation with a former director of ISI the day after his daughter's wedding at which I was an unofficial (hobbyist) photographer. When I presented the bride and groom with a beautiful photo album of their wedding pictures that I instantly had processed the same day, the father of the bride invited me to join them for lunch, which I did. In the conversation he disclosed that he was a former director of ISI, and when I explained to him where he got his specious "strategic depth" from to fck Pakistan, he simply couldn't believe nor refute the commonsense of my straightforward observations. I held him to rapt attention for the entire time and all he could murmur was: why did it not occur to us? None of these Generals are known for their commonsense. Groomed at Westpoint and Sandhurst, they reach their positions of power in Pakistan's military only after being vetted by the white man to be psychologically able to carry the white man's burden on Pakistan's back without complaint. As I noted in 2008:
'In 2007, while the 'Army Act 2007' was still in effect, I offered two Pakistani military men, recently retired 3-star generals, whom I had occasion to partake a meal with in Islamabad, that I could craft any terrorist to their specification for them for a mere $15000 – a number that I conjured up out of thin air thinking it was suitably low to impress upon them how easy it was to harvest the surviving victims whose parents, wives, daughters, sons, had been bombed to smithereens, who had nothing to look forward to in life except the abyss of hunger, deprivation, and alienation, and especially from among those holding the 'Pakhtoonwali' tradition. I was trying to rationally talk them out of bombing our own peoples in the tribal belt in this fictional 'war on terror' by explaining to them how Machiavellian political science works. I had held their attention for over 3-1/2 hours. And I was rather stunned when one of the 3-star generals of Pakistan's Army, and let me hasten to add (Retired), responded to my 'jihadi manufacturing challenge' with "Zahir you are asking too much, I could do it for $2000"!'
Imran Khan is the worst Trojan horse of them all – why? Because he is presented as "Mr. clean" and unrecognizable by the masses as being worse than "Mr. Ten Percent" from whom many Pakistanis knew what to expect from the very beginning. As an intelligence and Western asset, Imran Khan will deliver the worst nightmare yet to simpleton Pakistanis. All his plans are outright scams to feed more people from the gravy-train of state treasury. All his plans are plans to loot and plunder anew – for the fresh crop of plunderers – since he cannot harvest any of the old already sponged off stuff. His energy plan or education plan for instance? After HEC under Ata ur Rahman and Sohail Naqvi squandered billions in crap, Imran Khan is proposing to spend trillions, 2.5 trillion in fact, to replace one crap with another crap. He wants to make English compulsory and the medium of instruction after 8th grade in Urdu medium and public schools to bring them at parity with English medium schools; and teach everyone in Pakistan the same standardized curriculum. What is that mother? Even India which is ahead of us in all metrics education, does not have such an insane policy. Yet they have IITs which surpass the best IVYs in America in terms of competition to get in. The son of Infosys president couldn't get into IIT so he went to Cornell – as a safety school! We don't have one decent university in Pakistan where I would love to send my own children and this moron now wants to spend 2.5 trillion rupees in another boondoggle? Increasing literacy rate is great goal – it cannot be carried out in a slave state with no economy to absorb them. The development of a nation cannot happen overnight – only its rape and theft in the name of doing speciously sounding great things can happen overnight. Just like Ata Ur Rahman did, and no one could challenge that mother for his hare-brained schemes that turned Pakistan's higher education universities into a diploma mill for third-rate and often plagiarized work (see my report sent to the Supreme Court of Pakistan—also ignored by them).
As for Imran Khan's energy policy? You think anyone in Pakistan has the balls to go against the WB-IMF tag team which has neo-liberalized, i.e., privatized our economy? See what Thomas Friedman says about it below: "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."
Imran Khan is just offering more scams and only fools and simpletons will go for them—that is our Pakistani genius. Watch him and his confrere, the flag-bearer of "moderate Islam", Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri, partake at the massa's table in the 2011 World Economic Forum. Invited there to ensure that the brown-nosing horses run in the future electoral races will all be compliant to the white man's burden! These two bit house niggers, groomed into power in Pakistan the same way Benazir Bhutto was, have the balls to stand up to the massa? With what? The Pakistan military works for the same massa, are paid from the same coffers, as does the entire bureaucracy, the media, public and private institutions, and what is now almost a fashion to be considered avant-garde, to call oneself a think-tank, all of whom continually echo the same core axioms of the massa, live off of its largesse of aid, and occasionally play controlled dissent.
Caption Pakistani house niggers, Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri, seated on the massa's table at the Western super financial elite's World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2011. (Photograph source: a reader submission) How did these two political "no-ops" of least significance get invited to world economic forum for the white man's recognition? They are neither financiers, nor industrialists, and nor do they hold any economic or financial ministerial position within the government of Pakistan. Yes, as Western intelligence assets managed by their local counterpart, both are being rewarded for selling the massa's pitch on "moderate Islam" (even in their occasional controlled dissent with the Pakistani establishment which is most dutifully towing the massa's full line on "militant Islam"). And Tahir ul Qadri specifically for his "600 page Fatwa on Terrorism". Both house niggers artfully retain the core axioms of massa on "militant Islam", to continually push the envelope of the Hegelian Dialectic forward as a self-fulfilling prophecy!
I say, enough of being fcking simpletons!
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
[1] Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
[2] Lashkre-e-Taayba (LeT)
[3] Lashker-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) or (LJ)
[4] Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
[5] Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat Pakistan (ASWJ).
[6] Jammat-u-Dawa (JuD)
[7] Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM)
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Unlayering the Middle East War Agenda: Making Sense of Absurdities
Sunday, January 23, 2011
This is a response to the unforensic focus on the Middle East War Agenda which permeates the alternate media even today, well into the 10th year of the New Pearl Harbor, orchestrated like the Nazi's Operation Canned Goods to "goosestep the herrenvolk across international frontiers" – first into Afghanistan, Iraq, gradually inching its way throughout the arc of crisis, next target: the Crescent of Crisis, Iran. Time magazine had quoted Zbigniew Brzezinski self-servingly presaging these very events in 1979 at the cusp of the Iranian Revolution: "An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries." (U.S. National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Time, Jan. 15, 1979)
It was in the same year that President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, waging a clandestine proxy war upon the USSR, had started giving covert aid to the CIA backed Afghan mercenaries (later renamed "Mujahideens") to foment sufficient agitation at the flank of the USSR to provoke a Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan to protect their own hegemonic interests: "According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention." After the Soviet Union had taken the bait and invaded, blood-thirsty murderer playing chess in other peoples' blood, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski confessed in 1998 that he again wrote to Jimmy Carter back in December 1979: "The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire." (1998 interview to French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur)
Thus, the arc of crisis which Brzezinski had glibly predicted in January 1979, was firmly seeded by January 1980 as the Carter Doctrine, otherwise known as "God is on your side", to set it all ablaze in the coming future. Sufficiently implanted with the necessary explosive mix of religion, "jihad", hostage crisis, Iranian Revolution, Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, drug trade, and sectarian fanaticism unleashed in Pakistan by the hanging-judge-military dictator General Zia Ul Haq installed there by the Carter White House in support of the CIA cultivating and harvesting "Islamic Mujahideens" to fight the USSR, it didn't take much ignition beyond the priming. The fire quickly became self-sustaining as new recruits grew up in the lighted cauldron and couldn't easily distinguish their head from their ass – especially with the Pakistan military being in full collusion with the CIA in screwing both Pakistan and Afghanistan society on the Grand Chessboard. Today, these war criminals pat themselves on the back for destroying the USSR with Muslim and Afghani blood costing the complete destruction of what was previously a still stable Afghani and Pakistani society – but they'll all hang someday even if their carcass has to be dragged out from six feet under. In 1996, Zbigniew Brzezinski renamed the arc of crisis in his next geostrategy book The Grand Chessboard, with an even more imposing epithet, "the global zone of percolating violence", illustrating with maps galore the arc of crisis for those still uninitiated into the vagaries of the exercise of American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Initiatives of the sole unchallenged superpower. (page 53)
That foretold future – explicitly and very publicly presaged in 1979 in a popular weekly magazine read by all and sundry not just in the United States, but in the entire world – fully unleashed by the New Pearl Harbor on September 11, 2001, had the former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice self-righteously justify the purpose of America's hegemonic cultivation of "the global zone of percolating violence" in 2006 in these sacred words: "What we're seeing here, in a sense, is…the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do, we have to be certain that we're pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old one." (U.S. Secretary of State to George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, July 21, 2006)
All the preceding is what the blood thirsty hectoring hegemons have themselves narrated.
But comparing their narration to empiricism tells a slightly different story.
That War Agenda today to "birth pangs of a new Middle East" is still variously blamed upon:
the Zionist agenda for Eretz Yisrael,
and/or upon the sole superpower's Primacy and Its Geostrategic Initiatives to preemptively acquire and extract the natural resources in the Middle East and Central Asia before any other nation or group of nations can rise to challenge its dominance.
The former Zionist agenda is pitched as the ungodly wars waged by the Jewish neoconservaties who dominate Washington, blueprinted in their PNAC and other Wolfowitz drawn strategy documents for Securing the Jews-only Realm.
The latter superpower agenda is pitched as the wars of primacy for America's sole preeminence, blueprinted in Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard and in Pentagon's many Joint Vision strategy documents.
Both premise, while appearing sensible in 2003 when I too employed them in my maiden book Prisoners of the Cave, in the light of today's empiricism outright lead to absurdities.
America is going bankrupt due to these global wars with rising national debt which now stands in the 13 trillion dollar range as officially reported by the US Treasury, and its budget deficit this year, 2011, is 1.4 trillion dollars. This means America has to borrow, i.e., have its central bank the Federal Reserve print, 40 cents for every dollar it spends, thus also commensurately increasing the national debt and the burden upon the already suffering American tax payer.
What sort of idiotic primacy agenda for preeminence is that?
The United States hasn't been able to extract any of the natural resources either from the Middle East and Central Asian soils anymore than she was already extracting previously – as much as it wanted – with its own coddled dictators firmly in power.
Why did she need to wage murderous wars to decimate the region to remove its own cultivated dictators?
It also sure hasn't been good for the Anglo-American oil companies – they can't do business when the region is torn asunder by the cycle of insurgency and counter-insurgency manufactured by the Anglo-American Allies themselves. Same in Afghanistan – no pipelines, only the so called quagmires, as even the mainstream news of the United States puts it.
As for Israel, if Eretz Yisrael is the principal reason for decimating Iraq with millions of tons of Depleted Uranium munitions, destroying its fertile top soils and bountiful water tables, not to mention the ancient DNA of its inhabitants, and with only immense hatred and ire of its millions of Arabs now irretrievably implanted to greet the Zionist from Israel if they ever set foot onto its soil for resettlement, then the Jews can't really occupy that land for themselves now can they?
What did the Israelis really gain by brutally removing the servile Iraqi puppet of their own client state, the United States?
Only chaos in the region!
What Zionistan's founding father, David Ben Gurion, would have easily called "revolutionary times". Well, according to that science of hegemonic conquest, these chaos-like conditions in the Middle East have also only created more fertile grounds to administer further mind-fcks to the natives because "what is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times".
What other benefit? Perhaps some smaller equally compliant but unstable ethnic principalities carved out of the former equally compliant monolithic and stable Iraq, which today lies in ruin.
But wait, NO Eretz Yisrael!
Only enormous hatred for Israel, and America.
What an agenda for preeminence!
Only the keystone cops could have blueprinted it.
Reality is almost like an onion.
Comes in layers.
The outer layer, when peeled, shows the next inner layer.
And so on down to the core.
It is difficult to get to the core of reality, without first unpeeling it, layer by layer.
The empirical fact however is that it is not mentioned in the mainstream, and by many others in dissentstream either, because the conspiracy is to not even acknowledge that the onion exists at all for social engineering of 'United we Stand' and 'introducing beneficial cognitive diversity' to mislead the public.
But the outer layer of the onion is not the entire onion, however persuasive and inviting it may appear!
These are mere labels, the neocons, neoconservatives, neo-cons, they mean nothing by themselves.
America has been involved in warfare from Wounded Knee to Afghanistan, and before WWII, there were no neo-cons by that name.
So how does one explain America's vast military-industrial-academe-media complex which is what actually wages the wars? How does one explain America's national security state?
But why do they wage wars?
For Israel?
The focus on Israel, and the Jewish Lobby, in my view, can at times be a gigantic red herring. See: "Pamphlet: How To Return to Palestine", and "The white man's burden still looks white in color!". The real focus must remain on the oligarchy which funds all sides of wars, and have been doing so for 250 years, and for what eventual purpose?
The War on Terror, the war on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, the war on Pakistan, the war on Iran, on whatever mantras and asinine pretexts, by themselves make no sense – as the war of neo-conservatism – and it is easy to pin it upon the most visible harbingers for their most obvious motives! The outer layer of the onion.
And what about the silent economic wars of neo-liberalism – aka free trade?
Thomas Friedman best captured the interplay of these two sides of the imperial coin – the thunderous wars of shock and awe, and the matching silent wars of hunger and deprivations due to the loot and plunder of global natural resources via the stranglehold of contrived third world debt – in his 1999 New York Times column titled Manifesto for a Fast World: "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."
But peel down behind both types of wars, behind both philosophies of primacy which are as old as hegemony, as old as mankind, and we get World Government.
Global Governance would not be possible without the transformative abilities of these wars which seed controlled chaos, deprivations, disenfranchisement, and fabricated public appeals to authorities to resolve matters. Which of course they subsequently do, with greater and greater centralization of powers into the private hands of the same oligarchy who create the very crises for which they ex post facto present their own preferred solutions. See: Response to Financial Times Gideon Rachman's 'And now for a world government'.
David Ben Gurion aptly described this Machiavellian modus operandi as "what is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times".
The unlayering is important to get to the heart of the matter, quickly, before it is too late. And one of the reason it is not unlayered in time, is to seed fait accompli. That is the master political science. To understand this political science which is time-critical and which is what enables only narrating these matters ex post facto, see: "Of Ostriches and Rebels on The Hard Road to World Order".
That too, by itself, is still not the inner most core of the onion, only the next layer down, but it already demonstrates that focus on the outer layer of the onion of reality, the visible reality, makes for a great red herring.
No one in Plato's cave can ever figure out the reality behind the images on the screen, by examining, and in no matter what excruciating a scholarship, the images on the screen before them.
That is why the outer layer of the onion, whether one sees the onion at all or not, is often pointless garbage.
Whenever I cook dinner at home, I always throw away the outer layer of the onion, it tastes terrible :-)
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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Johnson City, Tenn. - Georgia Southern's John Durik went 2-5 with two home runs and five RBIs to lead the Eagles in a 9-3 win over East Tennessee State at ETSU's Cardinal Park. The win gave the Eagles a three-game series sweep of the Bucs.
Georgia Southern (14-11, 7-2 Southern Conference) struck for three runs in the first, second and eighth to secure the win. ETSU (6-16, 4-8 Southern Conference) scored one in the fifth, the eighth and one in the ninth.
Georgia Southern's scoring began in the first when Buc starter Shannon Carter plunked lead-off man J.R. Revere and the Eagles' Durik followed with a two-run homer. Matt Easterday stroked a single to left, stole second and scored on a base hit by Scott Henley. The Eagles led 3-0 after the first.
Durik belted his second home run of the game, a three-run shot, in the second inning to give the Eagles a 6-0 lead. Carter helped himself in the fifth by knocking in ETSU's first run with a single to right center that plated Jeremy Terry. Later in the frame, the Bucs loaded the bases but Eagle starter David Ray got Nathan Copeland to ground out to the shortstop and end the threat. The Bucs loaded the bases again in the sixth but couldn't manage a run off Ray.
Ray pitched six innings, allowing six hits and one run to improve to 5-1 on the season. Carter pitched five innings, allowing six runs on six hits, and fell to 1-3 on the season.
Buccaneer pitching held Georgia Southern without a hit from the third inning to the seventh inning when Ryan Flemming led off the frame with a double. ETSU reliever Josh Warner ended the Eagles' rally by getting Durik to ground into a 6-4-3 double play.
The Eagles increased their lead to 8-1 with a two-run shot by Scott Henley in the eighth. With two outs in the inning, a Flemming double scored Dustin Langley to give Georgia Southern an eight-run advantage.
Freshman Chad Boruff belted his third home run of the season, second of the series, in the eighth to close the gap to 9-2. Ryan McKinney nailed his third home run of the season in the ninth to close the scoring at 9-3. Danny Pugh went 3-4 for the Bucs.
ETSU will return to action on Tuesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. when it hosts SEC-rival Tennessee.


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Treasurer releases updated repository list
The Warren County Treasurer's Office has released an updated repository listing sale after last month's upset and judicial sales.
There are 66 parcels on the updated list with approximately half located in Pleasant Township (12), Limestone Township (11) and Conewango Township (11).
On the list, approximately 25 of the properties are vacant while between 15 and 20 are mobile homes. There are two houses on the list as well, one on .34 of an acre in Mead Township and another on .34 of an acre in Freehold Township.
Parcels on the repository listing are properties that did not sell at judicial sale. When a property does not sell at judicial, the Tax Claim Bureau becomes the trustee of the parcel.
The minimum bid for a property on the repository listing is $250 and can be submitted to the Tax Claim Bureau, which will then submit the proposal to the relevant taxing bodies, the school district, county and relevant municipality, for approval.
If all three of the taxing bodies do not agree, then the property remains on the repository list.
And for some properties on the current list, that means decades.
A lot in the City of Warren has been in repository since 1987 while .04 of an acre in Sugar Grove Township has been in repository since 1993.
In 2013, 25 properties have been added to the list.
But how are those properties taxed? Assessed value? The $250 bid? Judicial sale price?
According to County Treasurer Denny Munksguard the taxed amount would be "the price paid for the property." He said that value would be "considered the fair market value of the property."
He explained that there are three instances in which that taxed amount could change: A county re-assessment, if the property is sold as part of another property or if the property is improved.
On Monday, WCSD Business Manager Jim Grosch said that, regardless of the amount, a parcel coming off repository would go from "nothing to something" from a revenue standpoint, noting that the district could "capitalize if someone built on it."