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"Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him!" The elusive Tweetro App is back in the Store as Tweetro+. You have to have been living under a rock to have missed the whole shebang over Tweetro and Twitter these past weeks. Yeah, Tweetro got too popular for Twitter so they had to cut it down to size by reducing its tokens to 100K. Our buddy at WindowsObservers.com carried the whole story. You can peruse the whole details there.
So now Tweetro is back as paid App, because Twitter wants in on the piece of the Pie of course. But at $10.00? I find that rather steep for an unofficial Twitter client. You have to bear in mind that Twitter itself is creating its own client as we speak, and it will eventually compete with Tweetro+ whenever they released it. And there is the possibility, even more probable that Twitter's own client will be free in the Store as it will be a joint effort between Microsoft and Twitter. So Lazyworm may be pricing Tweetro out of the market, and that will be very sad as this is a good Twitter client. Curious here to see how this all will play out.
For the new-old App itself, I am taking a very close look at the description and screenshots, I can't see any thundering differentiating feature as far as I can see. Of course its polished and professional and all now, but it doesn't diverge much from what we've already seen in its Free incarnation. Following is the description of the paid version in the Store:
Tweetro+ is an elegant Twitter client for Windows 8 and regarded by many as the best Twitter experience on the platform.
Included in purchase:
– Exclusive access to Tweetro+ (limited number of installs)
– 2 Twitter account slots (you can add up to 5 via in-app purchase)
DISCLAIMER: We cannot guarantee that this app will continue to function in the same way that it does in its purchased state (subject to any changes in Twitter's API, rules and regulations).
Real-time streaming of tweets (timeline & search results)
In-app browser
Pin multiple tweet columns to main hub
Photo browser
Custom views (snapped, portrait, landscape)
Semantic zoom for bird's eye view
Multiple account support
So, there it is, the much awaited Twitter Client is back. Question is will you take the bait? What do you think about the price. Let me know in the Comments. Note there is no Trial mode, you buy this or you don't, so I assume most of you that knows the app wouldn't mind to buy without trial. But for new users? I think they should have added a Trial mode. Anyway, download the app now via the Source Link below.
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32. RAINER MARIA RILKE: Letter to a young poet
This comic is an epilogue to my Litany Against Fear story.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was a famous Austrian poet and is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. The above quote is taken from the book Letters to a Young Poet, which collects Rilke's letters to a young man deciding whether to become a writer or enlist in the Austrian army (pretty easy decision if you ask me). The full passage reads: If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
– Thanks to my lovely cousin Wendi for submitting this quote.
– Ok, who recognised the picture at the end and went AH-HA! and who went HUH? Be honest. And did anybody recognise the man even before the final panel?

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Sens. McConnell and Paul display contrast of styles
- McConnell seeking re-election in 2014
- Paul a potential presidential candidate in 2016
- McConnell described as insider%2C Paul as a showman
CINCINNATI -- As news broke of possible military action in Syria at the end of August, Sen. Rand Paul took to Twitter and television to denounce a possible military attack, declaring Americans did not want a "questionable or misguided war."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a more measured approach. He didn't come out against any military strikes until last week – with a speech on the Senate floor – becoming the last member of leadership in Congress to take a position.
Syria embodies the contrast between Kentucky's two senators, both Republicans, who have found themselves at the center of almost all political debates – one more of a showman, the other more of an insider.
And despite the differences in philosophy and personality, both are trying to help each other. Paul has endorsed McConnell's re-election bid; he will likely hope to take advantage of McConnell's contacts in Paul's potential 2016 presidential run.
McConnell has made overtures to the tea party faithful whom Paul represents in the hopes of gaining their support in his 2014 re-election bid.
"I think we've got two senators in the national spotlight that seem to both be using each other for political purposes," said Mark Riddle, a Democratic political consultant from Simpsonville, Ky., who ran Jack Conway's campaign against Paul in 2010. "It will be interesting to see how it turns out."
McConnell, a 30-year veteran in Washington, D.C., has become admired and feared as a ruthless campaigner and brilliant political strategist. Paul, after three years in the Senate, has used folksy charisma to develop a loyal following as the de facto head of the tea party movement, though his showmanship has created a "love him or hate him" divide both inside and outside of the party.
McConnell keeps the media at arm's length and has made it a priority of late to avoid most media questions. He escaped through a back door at Northern Kentucky University last Friday after giving a lecture praising former Sen. Jim Bunning. At the Lincoln Day Dinner in Hebron in June, as a crowd of people gathered around him to shake his hand, he deflected a reporter who managed to make it through the crowd before his staff could stop the interaction. He didn't make eye contact or say a word. He just pointed the reporter in the direction of his staff. He eventually conceded to a 90-second interview later that night before walking away.
McConnell's aggressive campaign style has rubbed even some in his own party the wrong way. McConnell's statement at the Boone County Republican Christmas Gala in December about his campaign raising $7 million and that he "welcomed the challenge" from anyone who wanted to take him on rankled some tea party members in the audience who saw it as a direct challenge.
"It's the idea of being a bully and attacking anyone that doesn't agree with you," said Larry Robinson, president of the Northern Kentucky Tea Party.
But those who know McConnell say this gruffness can be misinterpreted. He gives forethought to everything he says, said Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist who advised McConnell's campaigns in 2002 and 2008.
"He doesn't make flippant remarks," Jennings said. "He thinks carefully about his policy statements and how they will affect Kentucky. He is not prone to knee-jerk reactions. People see him as a serious leader who has a mind for finding a way to get things done to the benefit of the commonwealth."
Jennings thinks that a lack of humor is the biggest misconception about McConnell. He can excel at trading barbs at raucous political events. Jennings cited McConnell's political ads in the past as examples. His ad during his first Senate campaign in 1984 using search dogs to make light of incumbent Walter "Dee" Huddleston's attendance record has gone down in political science lore.
"He's not looking to deliver tomorrow night's 'Top 10' on Letterman, but he really has delivered some of his sharpest political attacks over the years in funny ways," Jennings said.
Paul, on the other hand, has sought out the media at almost every stop as he tests the waters for a possible 2016 presidential run. Paul's style plays well on social media, many say.
"People in the social media world tend to gravitate toward personalities, such as Chris Christie, Elizabeth Warren," Riddle said. "Rand has a personality that fits his message. The most dangerous place to be in politics is between Rand Paul and a camera."
Both have a presence on Twitter and Facebook, though many of McConnell's tweets appear in the third person from his campaign while Paul seems to do more of his own tweeting.
That down-to-earth persona for Paul has resonated. During a stop in Iowa in May, Paul's followers sold T-shirts proclaiming him the "Palatable Paul." Many described his appeal to The Enquirer as "non-threatening" and "likeable."
"He has the right values and stands up for what he believes in," Coreen Trost, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, said in May when Rand Paul spoke at GOP dinner. "He does it in a way that grassroots people can really understand. They can connect with him. He doesn't come across as being above any of us."
But it has also garnered many critics. His outspoken style spurred Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to lump him in with other conservative, media-hungry "wacko birds," a term Paul has touted as a badge of honor at some of his events. He has also tried to reach out to other groups. His decision to speak at predominantly African-American Howard University drew critics and supporters. He talked about the history of the GOP's relationship with African-Americans. But critics thought it glossed over many aspects, particularly in the last 50 years.
Some applauded Paul's effort, like the National Journal's Josh Kraushaar, who called it a "gutsy speech."
Some, like Adam Serwer of the liberal-leaning Mother Jones, saw it as condescending.
"It is way past time for pundits to retire the notion that white politicians deserve extra credit for being willing to talk to a room full of black people," Serwer said.
Paul's style, however, gets him noticed, said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report.
McConnell's style of working behind the scenes and forging alliances often gets drowned out by the web clips of much younger politicians who have leapfrogged in the ranks, said Rothenberg. Political newcomers like Paul or Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who's only been in the Senate for nine months, can already be talked about as presidential candidates, Rothenberg said.
"Guys who don't know where bathrooms are in the Senate are already talking about running for president," Rothenberg said. "Mitch would not have done that. In McConnell's day, you came into town and became an expert in public policy. You learned how to put coalitions together."


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I'm amazed with color PCW , does it relies on dithering recognition ? (00 and 11 are colors 0 & 1 but 01 and 10 are colors 2 & 3 or something like this)
Hi.It's something like that; in 4 colour mode (360 x 256) the index colour is simply each 2 bits group (00, 01, 10, 11 are 0, 1, 2, 3 respectively). Same for 16 colour mode (180 x 256).In attribute mode (360 x 256), reads 16 bits; 8 for attribute (4 background, 4 foreground) and 8 for bitmap. It's similar to Spectrum / Timex, MSX, Thomson, etc. where you have only 2 colours in each 8x1 block, but could use all 16 colours at the same time without rasters at the same resolution as the 4-colour mode. It also facilitates ports from those platforms.
Nice ! i love the simplicity (not in conception i suppose) and power of the 4 colors mode, do you plan to distribute this card ? does it will need modifcation of the PCW ? do you estimate the cost of the modification ?
It's just a prototype at this moment; I'm using a cheap FPGA board (about $10, link) and using about 1% of it.I don't think I'll publish a finished version in the near future because I want to make a bus interface, integrate DK'Sound, HDMI, ... But if you want to experiment by yourself I can send you the code, instructions, etc.
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The 20 best Super Bowl bars in Seattle
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Don't have a house party to go to Sunday? Prefer the atmosphere of a bar for the Super Bowl? Here are 20 great bars in Seattle for watching the big game.
I took to the Interwebs to ask Seattleites for their favorite places to watch football. Most of the bars in the above list were suggestions, with a few editorial additions. And surely there are more than 20 great places to watch the Super Bowl.
So, if you've got a favorite bar that's missing from this list, please say so in the comments below.
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Back with Padres, new CEO Dee has grand visions
SAN DIEGO -- When Mike Dee arrived for his first stint as a Padres executive in 1995, ownership made three key commitments to San Diego fans: to enhance fan experience, to immerse the organization within the community and to field a team that could win consistently.
At his introductory news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Dee gave his evaluation of those three aspects: check, check and coming right up.
Dee, who stepped down as CEO of the NFL's Miami Dolphins to join the Padres as president and CEO in July, said he already sees the Padres' fan experience and community involvement as thriving, and the foundation has been laid for a consistent winner to emerge in San Diego.
"There's a culture to winning -- not just winning on the field, but winning off the field," Dee said. "I think that tone has been set by this ownership group, and I look forward to striving for that excellence."
After being introduced by executive chairman Ron Fowler and lead investor Peter Seidler, Dee spoke of his optimism for the organization.
Fowler said Dee's role will very hands-on and that he'll oversee almost all of the franchise's day-to-day decisions.
"I call him Mr. Outside, because he'll be out and about in the community," Fowler said. "My job is to make sure the money is there to do what we want to do."
Dee focused on two keys to building a winning culture in San Diego. First, he noted the changing state of the game and the increasing ability for small-market clubs to compete.
"Philosophically, in a small market, it's very important to draft well and to develop your own talent," Dee said. "You can have success if you don't do it, but it's appreciably harder."
He also spoke to the financial aspect of talent building, and said the club's new ownership group will provide a solid backing for a larger payroll down the road.
"Clearly, we're going to look to invest more in the team, moving forward," Dee said. "We're in a great condition to do that."
General manager Josh Byrnes is looking forward to discussing spending allocations with Dee.
"Payroll is certainly part of it," Byrnes said. "But it's also investment spending, whether it's player development, medical or the international side; anything that we can do to give ourselves a better chance to produce talent."
Dee spent eight seasons as an executive with the Padres from 1995-2002 before he became the Red Sox's COO in 2004. He spent six seasons in Boston before leaving for the Dolphins in '09. Dee called his return to San Diego "my last move in my sports career, to be here for the long haul."
Dee said solving the Time Warner Cable-Fox Sports San Diego split will be one of his first orders of business.
"Until we're in every household in San Diego, there's work to be done," he said. "It's obviously a priority -- something we have to fix."


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In order to enhance the capacities of countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe in implementing the Convention, the Assistance Programme was developed and adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its third meeting in 2004. For more information on the Assistance Programme, please see here.
According to the workplan, the following Assistance activities were implemented during the biennium 2013–14:
- Activities under the preparatory phase (e.g. in Montenegro, Turkmenistan)
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- Subregional workshops or meetings for feedback and training on the self-assessments and action plans developed by beneficiary countries (not implemented)
- Danube Delta project involving the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Romania — parts on both hazard and crisis management (continued)
- Other projects submitted by countries through action plans under the Assistance Programme, in accordance with the cyclic mechanism (not implemented)
- Two advisory missions (e.g. in Georgia)
- Meetings of the Working Group on Implementation reviewing self-assessments and action plans developed by the beneficiary countries, backed up by teleconferences (2013; 2014).
A complete list of Assistance activities during this and previous bienniums, including background information, is available through the page "IA Meetings and Events" when selecting "Industrial Accidents" as the area of activity and "Assistance Programme" as the type of meeting.


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June 12 was the day the Virginia Declaration of Rights, penned by George Mason, was ratified by the Fifth Virginia Convention in 1776. And it has pride of place as the first of several declarations of rights in the era.
Government policy often lumps together many people it shouldn't — assuming that everyone in the group labeled "poor" or "low-income" will all benefit equally.
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After 15 fights, four fight-night bonuses, a spot on the organization's reality series, former welterweight title contention, and a handful of high-profile international fights, Marcus Davis (17-8 MMA, 9-6 UFC) received his UFC walking papers following a UFC 125 loss to Jeremy Stephens.
Davis' manager, Joe Cavallaro, today confirmed the release with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
The 37-year-old will continue fighting in MMA professionally, and he'll do so at 155 pounds with the hopes of getting back to the UFC.
Davis, fighting for the first time since a drop from welterweight to lightweight, met fellow striker Stephens on the ION Television preliminary card of the Jan. 1 UFC 125 card. Davis wobbled his opponent in the first round and was positioned for a close decision victory, but Stephens connected on a perfectly placed right hook that set up his KO win in the third round.
Davis, a former pro boxer (16-1-1) who went 13-1 from 2006 to 2009 in MMA, now has lost four of his past five fights. The other losses, though, came to notables Nate Diaz, Dan Hardy and Ben Saunders.
"He felt real strong at 155 (pounds)," Cavallaro said. "He made a mistake. The guy's been fighting forever, and he has no plans of retiring. Between all the 'Fight of the Night,' 'Knockout of the Night,' and 'Submission of the Night' bonuses, he's showed that he's a very exciting fighter to watch. Now, it's just a matter of figuring out the next move. We're talking to a few people right now."
Cavallaro said the comfortable weight cut and otherwise solid performance convinced Davis he should keep fighting.
"If he'd taken a sustained beating and didn't look good or didn't look sharp, maybe we'd be having a different conversation," he said.
But he did none of those things. His weight cut was perfect. He felt healthy. Like he said, he thought he was winning that fight, and he just got caught. Jeremy Stephens is a very tough kid, and that's what his bread and butter is. He can stop you at any time. But hats off to Jeremy. He stayed in the fight until the last second."
Davis first joined the UFC in 2005 as a cast member on "The Ultimate Fighter 2," but as a fairly one-dimension striker, he lost an opening-round matchup to eventual show winner Joe Stevenson. He then dropped a TKO (due to cuts) to Melvin Guillard at the show's live finale and was released for the first time.
Davis, though, dedicated himself to the sport and specifically jiu-jitsu improvement. He won 13 of his next 14 fights, including seven via submission, which included a return to the UFC in 2006. Over the past few years, he's been a fixture on the UFC's international cards. Eight of his past 11 UFC fights came in overseas markets.
In the meantime, he and Cavallaro are preparing to field offers.
"I'm open talking to anybody who's interested," Cavallaro said.


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Gamma-ray detectives close in on 30-year-old mystery
Cold War intrigue, international politics, and hi-tech astronomy were the key ingredients for one of the most amazing and mysterious scientific discoveries of all time, which took place exactly 30 years ago.
Discovered in 1973, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the Universe and, even today, astronomers have still not found out what is triggering them. However, the situation is not exactly the same as it was three decades ago - ESA's space missions Integral and XMM-Newton are closing in on the answers.
In 1963, the world's superpowers signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prevented the tests of nuclear weapons underwater, in the atmosphere or in outer space. To make sure the Treaty was not being violated, the United States launched a series of military satellites, called Vela, equipped with X-ray, gamma-ray and neutron detectors. All three types of emission are expected from a nuclear blast.
The Vela satellites did not detect any violations, but they did detect something unexpected — sixteen blasts in the gamma-ray range, but without the characteristics of a nuclear weapon. Registered between 1969 and 1972, they did not even come from the Earth's surface. This puzzled the scientists, as these 'bursts' must either be very close or very powerful. In 1973, Ray W. Klebesadel and his colleagues published the famous 'discovery paper', Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin, but without a convincing explanation for the events.
The mystery excited astronomers as over 200 distinct theories were soon proposed to explain the bursts. However, there was an obvious lack of data — it was not even possible to determine whether the blasts happened in our own Galaxy, or thousands of millions of light-years away.
Only when more gamma-ray satellites were launched did things begin to improve. NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was launched in 1991, to which European scientific institutes and ESA contributed with the Imaging Compton Telescope. Since then, this satellite has discovered one GRB happening randomly almost every day, coming from any direction in space and lasting for a few seconds. The uniform distribution of GRBs across the sky convinced astronomers that they most likely occur outside the Milky Way. If they were inside it, they should be seen mainly near the spiral arms, where stars are more numerous.
This idea was supported in the late 1990s when apparent counterparts to these GRBs were identified in distant galaxies. If GRBs are so far away, however, their energy release must be gigantic, with the intensity of millions and millions of Suns. Thus the core mystery is not yet solved: what kind of astronomical object could explode so catastrophically?
Thanks to missions like ESA's telescopes Integral and XMM-Newton, the solution is now closer. Integral, launched in October 2002, is today the best-prepared telescope for an in- depth study of GRBs. When a GRB occurs in the centre of Integral's field of view about once a month, four different instruments 'dissect' the event simultaneously. XMM-Newton complements Integral's work by aiming at the 'scene of the crime' as quickly as possible, to analyse the afterglow of the burst in X-ray wavelengths.
These and other observations have recently helped astronomers to select two favourite hypotheses for GRBs. They could be generated by colliding neutron stars (ultra-dense dead stars) or they could be caused by the explosions of supermassive stars at the end of their lives, so-called 'hypernovae'. Recent results provide further evidence that at least some GRBs are associated with hypernovae explosions.
Christoph Winkler, ESA's Integral Project Scientist, said, "The hypernova model sounds convincing, but others cannot still be ruled out. Of course the situation of GRB research has changed dramatically in the last decade, but we still need many more measurements to reach a final answer to what is causing these events."
Fred Jansen, ESA's XMM Project Scientist, agrees on the need for both more statistics and cooperative work and said, "We try to follow Integral announcements as quickly as we can, because we know that the solution to the mystery will come from observations with different telescopes."
With such detectives on this case, no doubt the depths of space won't be able to keep their secret for long. It's just a matter of time…


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"Berkshire pigs have the most wonderful flavor of all the pork I've ever tried," says Maria Hines of Tilth in Seattle. She buys her excellent, pasture-raised Berkshire pork from Skagit River Ranch in Sedro Woolley, Washington. $9.50 per lb; 360-856-0722.
How to Make It
In a large bowl, cover the pork chops with the buttermilk and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
Preheat the oven to 425°. Drain the chops, pat them dry and season with salt and pepper. In a very large ovenproof skillet, heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add the pork chops and cook over high heat until browned on the bottom, about 4 minutes. Turn the chops, transfer the skillet to the oven and roast for 10 minutes, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the center of the chops registers 135°. Let the chops rest for 5 minutes, then serve.


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More maps! This time around, we have generated historical maps for regional presidential election results. We think this provides a better understanding of regional voting patterns over the years. For each of the presidential elections held between 1991 and 2016, we visualise the final regional (READ: provincial) outcomes and, additionally, results by electoral administrative boundaries (READ: constituencies).
You will notice that the recently created Muchinga Province only comes into the picture in 2015. Also, the boundaries for Eastern Province and Northern Province reduce in size beginning 2015, since Muchinga Province was created from the two provinces.
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Copperbelt Province: 1991 Presidential Election Results by Constituency
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On a September afternoon, about 60 prominent Christians assembled in the library of the Metropolitan Club on the east side of Central Park. It was a gathering of unusual diversity and power. Many in attendance were conservative evangelicals like the born-again Watergate felon Chuck Colson, who helped initiate the meeting. Metropolitan Jonah, the primate of the Orthodox Church in America, was there as well. And so were more than half a dozen of this country's most influential Roman Catholic bishops, including Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, Archbishop John Myers of Newark and Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia.
At the center of the event was Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence and a Roman Catholic who is this country's most influential conservative Christian thinker. Dressed in his usual uniform of three-piece suit, New College, Oxford cuff links and rimless glasses, George convened the meeting with a note of thanks and a reminder of its purpose. Alarmed at the liberal takeover of Washington and an apparent leadership vacuum among the Christian right, the group had come together to warn the country's secular powers that the culture wars had not ended. As a starting point, George had drafted a 4,700-word manifesto that promised resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same-sex marriage.
Two months later, at a Washington press conference to present the group's "Manhattan Declaration," George stepped aside to let Cardinal Rigali sum up just what made the statement, and much of George's work, distinctive. These principles did not belong to the Christian faith alone, the cardinal declared; they rested on a foundation of universal reason. "They are principles that can be known and honored by men and women of good will even apart from divine revelation," Rigali said. "They are principles of right reason and natural law."
Even marriage between a man and a woman, Rigali continued, was grounded not just in religion and tradition but in logic. "The true great goods of marriage — the unitive and the procreative goods — are inextricably bound together such that the complementarity of husband and wife is of the very essence of marital communion," the cardinal continued, ascending into philosophical abstractions surely lost on most in the room. "Sexual relations outside the marital bond are contrary not only to the will of God but to the good of man. Indeed, they are contrary to the will of God precisely because they are against the good of man."
George looked on with arms crossed and lips sealed. But he was obviously pleased. To anyone who knew George's work, the cardinal's words sounded very much as if George had written them, and when I asked him about it later, he acknowledged providing assistance. Rigali's remarks were a summation of the distinctive moral philosophy that is the foundation of George's power.
He has parlayed a 13th-century Catholic philosophy into real political influence. Glenn Beck, the Fox News talker and a big George fan, likes to introduce him as "one of the biggest brains in America," or, on one broadcast, "Superman of the Earth." Karl Rove told me he considers George a rising star on the right and a leading voice in persuading President George W. Bush to restrict embryonic stem-cell research. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told me he numbers George among the most-talked-about thinkers in conservative legal circles. And Newt Gingrich called him "an important and growing influence" on the conservative movement, especially on matters like abortion and marriage.
"If there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy," the conservative Catholic journal Crisis concluded a few years ago, "its leaders probably meet in George's kitchen."
FOR 20 YEARS, George has operated largely out of public view at the intersection of academia, religion and politics. In the past 12 months, however, he has stepped into a more prominent role. With the death of the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Lutheran minister turned Roman Catholic priest who helped bring evangelicals and Catholics together into a political movement, George has assumed his mantle as the reigning brain of the Christian right. And he is in many ways the public face of the conservative side in the most urgent culture-war battle of the day. The National Organization for Marriage, the advocacy group fighting same-sex marriage in Albany and Trenton, Maine and California, has made him its chairman. Before the 2004 election, he helped a coalition of Christian conservative groups write their proposed amendment to the federal Constitution defining marriage as heterosexual. More than any other scholar, George has staked his reputation on the claim that same-sex marriage violates not only tradition but also human reason.
It's part of a philosophy that has found support among a group of Catholic bishops who have become some of the most persistent critics of President Obama and the Congressional Democrats. George serves as their intellectual point man. In the past few years, many of the evangelical Protestants who once defined the religious right have turned inward after their disappointment with President George W. Bush. In their place, George's friends among the Catholic bishops have stepped to the fore, hammering Obama for his pro-choice Catholic cabinet nominees, for being invited to speak at Notre Dame's commencement, for his stem-cell research policies and most recently for his health care proposals.
As Democrats have stepped up their explicitly religious appeals to Catholic voters, these bishops have pushed back against the intrusion on their turf. While Democrats talked of finding common ground on abortion, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, the informal leader of this side of the American church, gave a much-publicized speech denouncing Obama as "the most committed abortion rights candidate in history." Chaput chose to publish his remarks on the Web site of a think tank co-founded by George — the man who had himself argued in an essay disseminated widely last fall through conservative circles, Fox News and Christian radio that Barack Obama was "the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek" the presidency.
George's role as an adviser to these bishops began more than 20 years ago, when he was a young professor and recent Ph.D. A mutual friend introduced him to the Rev. John Myers, then a bishop in Peoria, Ill., who was working on a pastoral letter about the moral obligations of Catholic voters and politicians. With George's assistance, Myers wrote a letter laying out the case that abortion, as the taking of a life, was a crime against the natural law of human reason, not merely a violation of Catholic theology. Therefore, Myers and George argued, Catholic politicians and voters were wrong to write off the church's teachings as a matter of personal faith. What's more, the letter warned, voting for a candidate or a law upholding abortion rights would almost invariably put a Catholic so far outside church teachings that he should not receive communion. As the first systematic rebuttal to Mario Cuomo and other Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, the letter kicked off a now-familiar debate inside the church. "Whenever I venture out into the public square, I would almost invariably check it out with Robby first," Myers, now the archbishop of Newark, told me. Many of the bishops, Myers says, rely on George as "a touchstone" and "the pre-eminent Catholic intellectual."
Last spring, George was invited to address an audience that included many bishops at a conference in Washington. He told them with typical bluntness that they should stop talking so much about the many policy issues they have taken up in the name of social justice. They should concentrate their authority on "the moral social" issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, where, he argued, the natural law and Gospel principles were clear. To be sure, he said, he had no objections to bishops' "making utter nuisances of themselves" about poverty and injustice, like the Old Testament prophets, as long as they did not advocate specific remedies. They should stop lobbying for detailed economic policies like progressive tax rates, higher minimum wage and, presumably, the expansion of health care — "matters of public policy upon which Gospel principles by themselves do not resolve differences of opinion among reasonable and well-informed people of good will," as George put it.
A few months later, in a July 17 letter to Congress, the bishops did something close to that in the health care debate. Setting aside decades of calls for universal coverage, the bishops pledged to fight any bill that failed to block the use of federal subsidies for insurance covering abortion. "Stalin famously asked, 'How many divisions has the pope?' " George wrote to me in an e-mail message after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed a vote on an amendment that satisfied the bishops' demands. "I guess Pelosi now knows."
In the American culture wars, George wants to redraw the lines. It is the liberals, he argues, who are slaves to a faith-based "secularist orthodoxy" of "feminism, multiculturalism, gay liberationism and lifestyle liberalism." Conservatives, in contrast, speak from the high ground of nonsectarian public reason. George is the leading voice for a group of Catholic scholars known as the new natural lawyers. He argues for the enforcement of a moral code as strictly traditional as that of a religious fundamentalist. What makes his natural law "new" is that it disavows dependence on divine revelation or biblical Scripture — or even history and anthropology. Instead, George rests his ethics on a foundation of "practical reason": "invoking no authority beyond the authority of reason itself," as he put it in one essay.
George's admirers say he is revitalizing a strain of Catholic natural-law thinking that goes back to St. Thomas Aquinas. His scholarship has earned him accolades from religious and secular institutions alike. In one notable week two years ago, he received invitations to deliver prestigious lectures at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Harvard Law School. His critics, including many of his fellow Catholic scholars, argue that he is turning the church into a tool of Republican Party. They say he is too focused on the mechanics of sex and morality, neglecting the other sides of the Christian message: the corruption of human reason through original sin, the need for forgiveness and charity and the chance for redemption. Citing George's comparison of Catholic scholars who support abortion rights to defenders of chattel slavery, Cathleen Kaveny of the Notre Dame Law School, another scholar of law and theology in the Thomistic tradition, has called George and his allies "Rambo Catholics" and "ecclesiastical bullies."
I met George 20 years ago, when I was a Princeton student and he was praying for tenure. The next time I saw him was in 2005, when he invited me back for a postelection conference on the future of the conservative movement. Rove spoke at lunch. To a movement still stinging from decades of condescension, George brings gleaming Ivory Tower credentials: degrees in law and theology from Harvard; a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford; a Supreme Court fellowship; and the endowed chair at Princeton that Woodrow Wilson once held.
In late August I returned to Princeton, where George was striding around a seminar room at the Princeton Theological Seminary — "John Paul II style," as he put it, a reference to the pontiff's habit of strolling as he spoke. At 54, George has thick gray-brown hair, bright blue eyes and a certain boyishness. Seemingly everyone from Rove to Cardinal Rigali calls him, simply, Robby. A few dozen graduate and star-undergraduate students had traveled from as far away as Cambridge and Poland for a seminar on the new natural law. He is by all accounts a terrific teacher. ("Awesome," several undergraduates said in a stack of glowing evaluations he showed me.) Part of the reason may be that he brings almost every philosophical question back to a central debate about the nature of the self, a battle between reason and the passions. Moral philosophy, as George describes it, is a contest between the Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Scottish enlightenment thinker David Hume.
Aristotelians, like St. Thomas Aquinas, hold that there is an objective moral order. Human reason can see it. And we have the free will to follow or not. "In a well-ordered soul, reason's got the whip hand over emotion," George told the seminar, in a favorite formulation borrowed from Plato. Humeans — and in George's view, modern liberals are usually Humeans — disagree. Against Aristotle, Hume argued that the universe includes facts but not values. You cannot derive moral conclusions from studying the world, an "ought" from an "is." There is no built-in, objective reason for me to choose one goal over another — the goals of Mother Teresa over the goals of Adolf Hitler, in George's hypothetical. Reason, then, is merely a tool of whatever desire strikes my fancy. "Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions and may pretend to no office other than to serve and obey them," George said, paraphrasing Hume, just as he does in seemingly every essay or lecture he writes.
In George's view, if I have no rational basis for picking one goal over another, then I have no free choice, only predetermined "passions" — the result of genetics, a blow to the head, whatever made me prefer either curing the sick or killing the Jews. We have reason and free choice, he teaches, or we have amorality and determinism.
George's thinking draws on a system of ethics first developed against the backdrop of the 1960s debate inside the Catholic Church over contraception. In the tradition of Aquinas, Catholic thinkers had for centuries tried to establish moral laws of nature by studying biology, anthropology and history. When it came to sex, the church taught the idea of a "perverted faculty." Sex was intended for the dual purpose of procreation and marital unity, so deliberate ejaculation in any other context — oral or anal sex, artificial contraception, masturbation, premarital sex, adultery — demeaned sex and contravened the natural law. (Female orgasms, incidental to conception, were not an issue.)
But by the late 1960s, most secular philosophers had abandoned the project of finding moral norms in nature. Amid the openness of the Second Vatican Council, some of their Catholic counterparts began to wonder if they should give up, too. Then came the pill. Some Catholic scholars, all the way up to the level of papal advisers, questioned whether a form of birth control that did not put a physical barrier between the partners might be permissible. Some began to suggest that the church should shift its focus from the act of sex to the totality of marriage, as Protestants did, and stop worrying as much about ejaculation and contraception. Wasn't it marital love that was meant to be fruitful and that gave sex its meaning?
An orthodox-minded Georgetown University philosopher named Germain Grisez mounted a novel defense of the birth-control ban. Instead of beginning with science or history, he started by listing certain basic human goods that he believed anyone could see were "integral to human flourishing," like friendship, knowledge, excellence in work and play, religion, life and procreation. Each was an end in itself, not a means to anything else. You could never prove each's value by referring to other values — only assert and defend each one on its own.
Grisez argued that contraception violated the "basic good" of "the handing on of new life." For George and the new natural lawyers, Grisez's tactic of starting from self-evident human goods gave "the whip hand" back to reason.
In practice, George and his allies have usually found the rules of sexuality quite absolute, while the church's teachings about social justice come out more contingent. That may be why he is almost uniformly popular among evangelicals but controversial among many of his fellow Catholics, particularly those who prefer the church's peace-and-justice liberalism to its conservative bioethics.
On the question of capital punishment, George says he is against it but he considers it a matter of interpretation about which Catholics can disagree. The intentional killing of innocent civilians in war is as grave a moral crime as abortion, George says, but what constitutes a "just war" is a more complicated judgment call. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he wrote an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal arguing that the attack was not necessarily unjust and might even be a moral obligation. "On the evidence that Hillary Clinton voted for the war on and George Bush went to war on, I thought it was justified," he told me.
The "rights" to education and health care are another matter, George told his seminar. "Who is supposed to provide education or health care to whom?" George asked. "Health care and education are things that you have to pay for. Resources are always finite," he went on. "Is it better for education and health care to be provided by governments under socialized systems or by private providers in markets or by some combination?" Those questions, George said, "go beyond the application of moral principles. You can get all the moral principles dead right and not have an answer to any of those questions."
But the argument for banning abortion and embryo-destructive research is "straightforward," George told me several times. In his most recent book, "Embryo," written with Christopher Tollefsen, George tells the story of Noah Benton Markham, rescued from Hurricane Katrina by a team of policemen in boats. Noah was an embryo frozen in liquid nitrogen on a hospital shelf. Later implanted in the womb of his biological mother, he will turn 3 next month. Science shows that you remain the same human with the same DNA as a teenager, a toddler and an embryo, George argues. The only moral debate, he says, is whether you deserve legal protection at each stage of your life.
George grew up in Morgantown, W.Va., the oldest of five brothers. All served as altar boys. Four attended Oxford and became lawyers. His father was a liquor broker, and George is a wine connoisseur. His mother, the daughter of Italian immigrants, taught her children "some pretty firm ideas about sexual morality," George told me, and then he begged me not to repeat some of his more recent arguments on the subject. "Mom, I have got to explain!" George said, raising his voice to imitate first himself and then his mother: " 'George's opposition to sodomy! What are you doing talking about sodomy? You shouldn't even know what that is! Why do people have to know your views about that?'
"The Roman Stoic Musonius Rufus said, Look, there are some things you just shouldn't have to talk about, and I think sex is one," George said. "But in the circumstances we are in, what can you do? I can't possibly make the case — to people on my own side or on the other side — about what I think marriage is and why it is so important unless we get into the earthy stuff."
The same-sex marriage debate, George argues, illuminates an error in our understanding that he blames for most of the ills afflicting modern marriage — infidelity, divorce, out-of-wedlock births. Marriage is not just for procreation, love or sexual pleasure. "People have lost their grip on the true reasons for marrying, so they are unwilling to make all the sacrifices real marriage requires," he said.
He admits the argument for marriage between a man and a woman can require "somewhat technical philosophical analysis." It is a two-step case that starts with marriage and works its way back to sex. First, he contends that marriage is a uniquely "comprehensive" union, meaning that it is shared at several different levels at once — emotional, spiritual and bodily. "And the really interesting evidence that it is comprehensive is that it is anchored in bodily sharing," he says.
"Ordinary friendships wouldn't be friendships anymore if they involved bodily sharing," he explained to me. "If I, despite being a married man, had this female friend of mine and I said, 'Well, gosh, why don't we do some bodily sharing,' and we had straightforward sexual intercourse, well, that wouldn't be friendship or marriage. It is bodily, O.K., but it is not part of a comprehensive sharing of life. My comprehensive sharing of life is with my wife, which I just now violated." But just as friendships with sex are not friendships, marriage without sex is not marriage. Sex, George said, is the key to this "comprehensive unity." He then imagined himself as a man with no interest in sex who proposed to seal a romance by committing to play tennis only with his beloved. Breaking that promise, he said, would not be adultery.
The second step is more complicated, and more graphic. George argues that only vaginal intercourse — "procreative-type" sex acts, as George puts it — can consummate this "multilevel" mind-body union. Only in reproduction, unlike digestion, circulation, respiration or any other bodily function, do two individuals perform a single function and thus become, in effect, "one organism." Each opposite-sex partner is incomplete for the task; yet together they create a "one-flesh union," in the language of Scripture. "Their bodies become one (they are biologically united, and do not merely rub together) in coitus (and only in coitus), similarly to the way in which one's heart, lungs and other organs form a unity by coordinating for the biological good of the whole," George writes in a draft of his latest essay on the subject. Unloving sex between married partners does not perform the same multilevel function, he argues, nor does oral or anal sex — even between loving spouses.
Infertile couples, too, are performing this uniquely shared reproductive function, George says, even if they know their sperm and ovum cannot complete it. Marriage is designed in part for procreation in the way a baseball team is designed for winning games, he says, but "people who can practice baseball can be teammates without victories on the field."
George argues that reason alone shows that heterosexual sodomy and homosexual sex are morally wrong, just as the Catholic Church, classical philosophers and other religious traditions have historically taught. Unlike marital union in his special sense, he contends, such acts treat the body as an instrument of the mind's pleasure. As both a practical and a philosophical matter, he argues, the law should not necessarily police such things. But the need for the state to establish a proper definition of marriage is a different matter, he says, because the law has always regulated it in the interest of parenthood and community. "Marriage in principle is a public institution," he said. "I don't think it can be like bar mitzvahs or baptisms or the Elks Club."
It is safe to say that not many contemporary philosophers — whether secular or Catholic — agree with George's marriage argument. Many balk at the mystical "unitive and procreative" qualities George ascribes to sexual intercourse. The idea of "one flesh" union seems far less obviously intelligible than other "basic goods" like friendship, knowledge or religion. Even fellow Catholic Thomists who oppose same-sex marriage question the esoteric quality of George's argument. Why not just begin with the fact that humans are sexual and ask how best to channel that sexuality? Liberals, on the other hand, generally argue that the meaning of marriage is in the partners' love, not their loins. (To which George counters that they offer no definition that would exclude polygamy.)
GEORGE ONCE WON two terms as governor of the West Virginia Democratic Youth Conference in high school and even served as an alternate delegate to the 1976 Democratic convention. He moved right in the 1980s, initially over the issue of abortion, which eventually took him back to politics. On the day of the Pennsylvania primary in the 1992 presidential campaign, Bob Casey, then the state's governor (and the father of the current Senator Casey) surprised George with a phone call to talk about George's criticisms of Mario Cuomo. Later that year, when Bill Clinton denied Casey a chance to speak about abortion at the 1992 Democratic convention, it was George who had helped to write Casey's speech. Two years later, George represented Mother Teresa before the Supreme Court in an amicus brief seeking the overturning of Roe v. Wade. When George W. Bush became president in 2001, George was an active player in weekly White House conference calls for Catholic allies. Bush later awarded George a Presidential Citizens Medal. During the 2008 campaign, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain each sought George's counsel.
At Princeton, George founded an independently financed center, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Conservatives celebrate it for bringing conservative thinking to the campus and for adding "Princeton" to the résumés of young scholars. In the decade since its founding, George has helped scholars and foundations use it as a template for similar outfits at Georgetown, New York University and Williams College. Last spring, he joined a group of undergraduates in their call for a new university Center for Chastity and Abstinence. (He suggested they might have better luck with the name "Center for Love and Fidelity.")
George's left-leaning colleagues say he is unfailingly polite and even helpful. He co-teaches a great-books seminar with the African-American scholar Cornel West, who told me he thinks of George as "just a nice brother." George and his wife, Cindy, who is Jewish, socialize with liberal professors. But his relationships with other Catholic scholars are sometimes more contentious, especially about politics.
Shortly after the last presidential election, John Haldane, an eminent Thomist who is a friend of George's and an adviser to the Vatican, sent an open "Letter to America" to a Web site of the Witherspoon Institute, a conservative think tank that George helped found. Citing issues like the Iraq war and the Wall Street debacle, Haldane argued that Obama won in part because American voters "took moral exception to some of the policies pursued by the Bush administration, and I believe that in this their judgment was correct."
Haldane, an orthodox Catholic opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage, argued that his fellow "moral conservatives" like George risked their own credibility if they continued attacking Obama as morally inferior. When I reached him by phone in Scotland, where he lives, Haldane told me that he could not have recommended voting for either candidate in America's 2008 election. "If you were going to vote for John McCain, how are you going to square that with these discussions about social justice — about the running sore of structural deprivation running through American society, or the prosecution of an unjust war?" he asked. "There has been a tendency of social conservatives to either hold their noses because they are more concerned about abortion, or just not to notice the smell."
When I asked George about the letter, he was derisive. "John, thanks for the advice!" he said sarcastically. "Gosh, I wish we would have taken it. We would have the strong and vibrant social conservative movement that you guys have in Great Britain!"
George instead is plunging deeper into partisan politics. Alarmed at signs that the Republican Party was moving away from cultural issues, he recently founded a new group called the American Principles Project, which aims to build a grass-roots movement around his ideas. "His new venture will make him a major political player," the conservative writer Fred Barnes predicted in The Weekly Standard. Among the group's first endeavors has been to call for the ouster of Kevin Jennings, an Obama education official who previously founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Jennings, George says, wants to "use our elementary schools in defiance of the wishes of parents, to use our elementary schools to teach pro-sexual-liberationist, pro-homosexualist propaganda."
I asked George several times if he was really hoping to ground a mass movement in abstract principles of reason so at odds with the prevailing culture. It was a bet, he said, on his conviction about the innate human gift for reason. Still, he said, if there was one critique of his work that worried him, it was the charge that he puts too much faith in the power of reason, overlooking what Christians describe as original sin and what secular pessimists call history.
It is a debate at least as old as the Reformation, when Martin Luther broke with the Catholic Church and insisted that reason was so corrupted that faith in the divine was humanity's only hope of salvation. (Until relatively recently, contemporary evangelicals routinely leveled the same charge at modern Catholics.) "This is a serious issue, and if I am wrong, this is where I am wrong," George acknowledges.
Over lunch last month at the Princeton faculty club, George noted that many evangelicals had signed the Manhattan Declaration despite the traditional Protestant skepticism about the corruption of human reason. "I sold my view about reason!" he declared. He was especially pleased that, by signing onto the text, so many Catholic bishops had endorsed his new natural-law argument about marriage. "It really is the top leadership of the American church," he said.
"Obviously, I am gratified that view appears to have attracted a very strong following among the bishops," he went on. "I just hope I am right. If they are going to buy my arguments, I don't want to mislead the whole church."


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Hangover 2 is having all sorts of trademark issues! After being sued by a tattoo artist over a fake Mike Tyson tattoo, now they're being sued by Louis Vuitton for using fake luggage and claiming it's the real thing. What are they going to sue every tourist who has ever been to Chinatown too?
I think this has to be karmic retribution for making so much damn money from a shitty movie. Louis Vuitton wants a share of those profits and wants Warner Bros., who produced the movie, to alter the luggage in the DVD. They already changed the tattoo for the tattoo artist and gave him some hush money, but they're not budging on this.
A trademark suit against Warner Bros, which was filed yesterday in a New York federal court, suggests the firm has been damaged after Galifianakis's line, "careful, that is a Louis Vuitton", became a catchphrase. According to the complaint, rather than sourcing a real Louis Vuitton, producers apparently utilised a knock-off made by the Diophy group of companies, who Vuitton is also suing to prevent it selling its goods in the US. In short, the company claims trademark dilution, false designation of origin and unfair competition.
"Careful, that is a Louis Vuitton" is not a catch phrase. Is it? Nothing from that awful piece of shit movie should be a catch phrase except, "How can I get a refund for sitting through this?" Maybe that's what the Hangover 2 should do. Just refund everyone! That way there's no profit to share for all those trademarks they ripped off.


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The Sony DVDirect VRD-MC3 takes the pain out of transferring video and photos from your camcorder, VCR, or media cards onto DVDs that are playable on a PC or DVD player. At $250, it's far more expensive than a run-of-the-mill DVD burner, but it also offers more features. And for anyone who has piles of old VHS tapes, it may be well worth the expense, as the Sony DVDirect makes digitizing the video child's play. It also functions as a standard external DVD burner for use with your PC. Be forewarned, though, that unless you have a relatively new Sony camcorder, your options are somewhat limited. We really like this multifeatured burner and appreciate the ease with which we were able to complete several projects. If you intend to edit your videos before burning, though, the Sony DVDirect isn't the right choice for you; you're better off using your PC to accomplish your tasks.
The Sony DVDirect is bulky, even for an external burner, though that's not surprising given the drive's many features and connection options. The left edge is covered with connectors, including a USB port for connecting to a PC or PictBridge printer; a USB port for connecting a recent Sony Handycam; a DV-in port for MiniDV or Digital 8mm camcorders; and S-Video ports, Composite Video, and standard RCA audio inputs for analog camcorders (or other video electronics). The right edge houses three media card slots that accept Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, SD, xD-Picture, and CompactFlash cards. The disc tray slides out from the front edge, and the top face houses the menu navigation units, Record and Pause buttons, and a 3-inch color display window on which you can peruse the menu or preview videos and images (the VRD-MC1--the predecessor to this model--had a 2.5-inch display). Our only design quibble is that we wish the display window was hinged so that we could prop it up for improved visibility. Even sitting next to it, we had to crane to read the menu. Having said that, the menu is clear and easy to decipher, as all the options are laid out in plain English.
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Ghanaian Ex-Delta Employee Whistleblower Alleges Retaliation And Coverup After He Exposed JFK Security Breach
An ex-Delta Airlines employee says he was fired Tuesday after he complained to the company's CEO that his supervisor ordered him to breach security at JFK International Airport.
The ex-employee says he was ordered by a supervisor on January 2 to evade customs officials and deliver a mysterious suitcase to ramps where it was to be loaded on containers for out-bound flights.
The ex-employee says the supervisor feared that Delta would have been fined had the suitcase gone through proper inspection process. "We are not doing anything illegal," another supervisor later told the employee.
The former Delta Airlines employee, Eric Amankwah, 28, who is of Ghanaian ancestry, says the company may not have learned anything from the near tragedy of Detroit-bound flight 253 when a Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab tried to blow up the plane on Christmas Day.
(Abdulmutallab was indicted on six charges Wednesday, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder. Abdulmatallab used cash to purchase his ticket in Ghana. He then travelled to his native Nigeria and boarded the U.S. -bound flight from Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on to Amsterdam then to Detroit.)
But even as U.S. security and aviation officials demand for more beefed up airport security overseas, these officials should also investigate transgression and breaches at domestic airports, including JFK, says Amankwah, the axed Delta employee.
Amankwah says on January 2, just one week after the near disaster in Detroit, he was ordered by his supervisor, Yvonne Green, to evade customs officials and to deliver an unattended suitcase to other airport employees to have it loaded on an out-going flight without inspection.
He said his supervisor told him Delta would be fined if the luggage was sent through normal channels.
Amankwah says when he complained in an e-mail message to top Delta executives, including CEO Richard H. Anderson, about the apparent security breach allegedly commissioned by his supervisor he was suspended on Tuesday--since it was his second suspension within a month, it was an automatic termination.
Amankwah says he wants his job back. He says he has experienced emotional suffering resulting from the retaliation. "How can they fire me when I am the one who is exposing the security breach? If I don't do it who knows what could have been in that suitcase after Flight 253?"
Amankwah says the suitcase may have been bound to the Bahamas, judging by its tag, "NAS," which stands for Nassau. He says he didn't know where the suitcase was from or whether it was from a flight that had arrived from overseas for connection at JFK.
Typically, when passengers arrive from International flights, immigration officials stamp their passports, they then pick up their luggage, and have the luggage cleared by customs, before they exit if it's their final destination.
Passengers with connecting flights are guided by agents like Amankwah through a designated door.
Amankwah says while at his post on January 2 monitoring the West Re-Check door, Green, a supervisor, approached him at around 3:30 PM and said she had a "special assignment" for him.
"She directs me to this luggage," he says. "It was adjacent to the carousel. It was a suitcase. Bluish color," he recalls. "She said 'this luggage was brought here by mistake. She did not say who brought it or what was in it."
He said Green directed another Delta agent to watch his post while he was sent on the "assignment."
Amankwah says he was extremely bothered by the odd assignment.
"Everyone has to go through customs," he says. "Even if something is found on an inbound international flight that item has to be through customs."
Yet, he says, he had no choice but to follow Green's instructions. "She assured me that that's what's normally done," he said.
He swiped his Port Authority ID card through a side door indicated by Green and punched in his security code for access. The door was opposite from the carousel and out of view of customs officials.
He said he went through the door to the floor where another Delta employee told him to take the suitcase to a specific ramp, Pier 12.
"The agent on Pier 12 asked me why I was coming from International Arrivals and bringing the luggage up. I said Yvonne Green said it's okay. That they did it all the time" Amankwah recalls.
Amankwah said when he returned downstairs Green was waiting for him on the other side of the door with Mohammed Taj, the supervisor, who had suspended him earlier in an unrelated incident.
"She said to him 'Eric completed the job.' Then Taj said 'good' and left," Amankwah says.
Amankwah says when he mentioned the incident to co-workers he was told it was a security breach. Some even told him that in 2007 some Delta employees were arrested on drug smuggling charges.
Worried, he says he paged Green at 7 PM. "I said I was uncomfortable and asked her to give me an e-mail," confirming that she had sent him on the assignment.
"She said 'don't worry nobody is going to know about it.' I said 'you guys are trying to set me up.'" He said he then sent Green an e-mail message insisting that she provide him with a written confirmation about the assignment.
When he still had nothing in writing the following day, Amankwah then called both Green and Taj, separately, and tape-recorded the conversations in order to protect himself. He also e-mailed an account of the incident to the Delta senior officials, including CEO Richardson.
Black Star News reporters have heard the taped conversations and reviewed the e-mail messages which describe the sequence of the alleged incident. In the lengthy and detailed message to CEO Richardson, Amankwah says he complied with Green's instructions because "Yvonne is a lead agent, and I did not want to be accused of being insubordinate to my superior."
He also wrote that Green "further explained to me that Delta Airlines would get a fine if I took it through the normal channel."
In his e-mail message Amankwah says when he had persisted in demanding for written explanation of the "assignment" from Green, "She even went as far as to say I need to stop being paranoid. I explained to her SECURITY at JFK is a Serious issue and I do not feel comfortable Breaching Security and I need an email."
Amankwah says he has also forwarded the messages to the Department of Homeland Security and to an FBI official.
The conversations with his supervisors were tape recorded on January 3, Amankwah says. "I don't know why you're panicking like this," the person who answered the phone as Yvonne Green is heard telling Amankwah, in one conversation. "You didn't do anything wrong."
The conversation Amankwah subsequently had with Taj was more heated with Amankwah insisting that his superiors had used him as a scapegoat.
Taj is heard telling Amankwah that Green had made a wrongful judgment call by instructing him to evade custom and deliver the suitcase to the loading ramp. He said Green was trying to "save money for Delta" by avoiding a fine for the mysterious suitcase.
"Nothing is going to happen to anybody," Taj is heard assuring Amankwah. "I give you a guarantee for that." Elsewhere, Taj says, "Don't go out of your mind that you're going to get penalized."
Amankwah insisted that Taj should have reported the incident to security for investigation and also ordered him to go back and retrieve the suitcase after Green told him about the incident.
"Breaching security for what?" Taj asked, at one point. "We are not doing anything illegal...What you are talking about security?"
Taj also said he himself as well as Green wouldn't get in trouble for the incident and at another point said: "I know she made a wrong call....I did advise her...But bringing that bag back would have been wrong...."
Remarkably, in the recording Taj is also heard asking Amankwah if he knew what the suitcase had contained.
Amankwah says he was off on Sunday and Monday. Tuesday, January 5, before reporting back to work, Amankwah says he sent out the e-mail messages to top Delta officials. When he arrived at work he also reported the incident to his immediate supervisor Ralph Albanese.
When other Delta managers insisted on speaking with him alone without the presence of Albanese, he said he would not be comfortable.
Stephanie Baker, Delta's Director at JFK then said she was suspending him for insubordination. He had already been told that a second suspension would be a termination from the $10 an hour job.
Amankwah says he was suspended for the first time on the unrelated matter on December 12. He had given carry on item to a relative of his to take to Ghana on a Delta flight.
He says shortly before he gave his cousin the luggage with gifts, a Delta manager, Debra Cepada had sent some gifts to a Delta station manager in Ghana, who was getting married, Amankwah says.
"She gave it to me and I gave it to a flight attendant and that went unaccompanied on the plane," Amankwah says.
Cepada later acknowledged sending the gifts when Taj and other Delta supervisors questioned her in front of Amankwah, he says. Also present at that meeting that led to his first suspension was Vanessa Womble, Delta's Station Manager for JFK.
"At that meeting, Cepada says she got approval from station manager Ronica Mitchum," Amankwah said. "But I was basically suspended for doing the same thing."
"Cepada was never suspended; nothing happened to her," Amankwah said, noting that Cepada was a White employee.
When contacted by The Black Star News today, a Delta spokesperson said both Green and Taj were off today. Delta corporate communications did not return with an explanation after The Black Star News provided detailed information about Amankwah's allegations.
Albanese, declined to comment when reached by telephone except to confirm that he was indeed Amankwah's immediate supervisor. "I have no comment about the situation," he said.
Delta flies a non-stop flight from JFK to Ghana five times a week.
Amankwah says he was Delta's only Ghanaian ticketing employee and also helped with translation sometimes. He says he has a degree in Business Management from Stone Hill College, in Massachusetts.
A profile of Amankwah on a popular website for Diaspora Ghanaians called Ghanaweb.com says, "Eric is a proven entrepreneur, down to earth and always willing to take advice from the well experienced, he blends in wherever he goes and feels proud about the community. He has also taken upon himself to update Delta Airlines about the community's concerns that has to be dealt with immediately.
He always promotes Delta Airlines at any event he attends."
EDITOR'S NOTE: Employees of Delta or any other airline with stories about similar breaches or transgressions please call (212) 481-7745 in the strictest confidence
ADDITION TO ORIGINAL REPORT, Jan. 8, 2010: Delta's new position is that Amankwah has not been terminated and that the company had been trying to contact him, The Black Star News has learned. Amankwah says he was stripped of his company ID and that his Delta e-mail account was disabled.
April 7, 2010 Update: Amankwah says he kept insisting that Delta take corrective measures to ensure that security didn't occur again. He says the company kept insisting that he surrender copies of his taperecording. He was subsequently terminated.
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Sir Alex Ferguson accused Roberto Mancini of "haranguing" the match officials throughout the 1-0 defeat for Manchester United which the Scot admitted has put his team's neighbours in pole position to win the Premier League title.
The managers rowed on the touchline during the second half after a foul by Manchester City's Nigel de Jong on Danny Welbeck, who left on crutches. The fourth official, Mike Jones, helped to separate the pair, who were pulled part by members of their backroom staffs.
"He refereed the game," Ferguson said of Mancini. "He was out on that touchline the whole game haranguing the referee, the fourth official and the linesmen. The minute I come off the bench for a bad tackle by De Jong on Welbeck, he was out again. He can't have it both ways. He's been complaining about referees this season but he won't be complaining tonight that's for sure."
When this was put to Mancini, City's manager said: "Who said this? Him, no? He doesn't talk with the referee or the fourth official? No, never. I didn't speak with him, he came towards me, but I can understand. I said nothing against him, only spoke to the fourth official."
The Italian attempted to play down the incident. "I don't know because I was talking with the fourth official after the foul and he [Ferguson] told me some kind words and I don't know why. I answered him but afterwards it was finished. I can understand because at this moment the tension is high." The pair shook hands after the final whistle.
Mancini conceded for the first time in recent weeks that City have a "chance in our hands" of the title after their win by Vincent Kompany's header to go top on goal difference. Although Ferguson said his side's defeat put City in the "driving seat", Mancini still claims United are favourites due to the clubs' respective final two games. City play Newcastle United, then host Queens Park Rangers; United face Swansea City at home and Sunderland away.
Asked who are favourites, City's manager said: "United. They have the easier games. They play against Swansea and Sunderland. At this moment it will be easier for United. We have two strong games against Newcastle and QPR. One plays for [the] Champions League and one plays [to avoid] relegation.
"It is important we are top now but it is more important to be top on 13 May. This changes nothing. We are top but we need to win the next two games. It is an option for them to win the title – we have 83 points, so us and United can win the title."
City have beaten United home and away in the league this season so do they deserve to be champions? "No, it doesn't change things," Mancini said. "Anything can happen and we still have big respect for United because we know they have a strong team. Football is crazy, but it is important to believe in yourself when you have a bad moment. We were on top for 28 games and I think we deserve another chance. But it is not finished and if we think it is finished, it will be a big mistake. I don't know if, four weeks ago, we believe in this, but we have a big chance. We do have two tough games, though, and they have two easy games."
Of City's hopes of winning the title Ferguson said: "Yes, I think they are in the driving seat now. They only need to win two games of football. It is not over yet. As long as there are games to play it is not over. But they have an eight-goal advantage [goal difference] and that is a big advantage at this stage of the season."
Ferguson chose to field a 4-5-1 formation that created little but Mancini was reluctant to accept the Scot had been negative. "No, I think that every manager can choose his team and that for them it was important to play for a draw. With a draw, they knew the championship was finished. We played better and deserved to win but it was difficult because they had so many behind the ball."
Ferguson admitted United's had been a disappointing display in which they managed few chances. "We never tested their keeper and our crossing was poor. I thought they were more threat because they had more action around the edge of our box. We had some control of the game but not enough."
City have now clawed back an eight-point deficit and Mancini hopes his team can remain calm as they try and secure a first title since 1968. "The players – it is enough they remember six weeks ago when we had three or four points than United and then we lost everything," he said.
Vincent Kompany, captain and scorer, said: "We want it so bad. Everybody in the team wants it so bad. A lot has been said about us but it comes down to football. A lot comes down to the dreams we had as children and winning things.
"Someone texted me today to say that I would score the winning goal and I thought they were a lunatic. I am getting man of the match but for me it's all of the players. The chairman came in to talk to us today and said no matter the result, we are proud of you guys, the progress we've made and we're building for the future."
Mancini also hinted that Carlos Tevez who stated earlier in the day he wants to stay, could have a future at the club. "I'm happy with this," he said. "I told you on Saturday that Carlos needs a pre-season to find top form after six months. He is a top striker and I don't change my opinion of him."


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4th Joint WHO/Europe–ECDC Annual European Influenza Surveillance Meeting 2014
WHO/Europe has been holding annual influenza surveillance meetings jointly with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) since 2011. This meeting brought together epidemiologists and virologists – the national influenza surveillance focal points – from 50 Member States to discuss national, regional and global surveillance related to seasonal influenza and novel influenza viruses, such as avian influenza A(H7N9).
Avian Influenza Preparedness Workshop
This workshop focused on the protection of human health during avian influenza outbreaks.
Options IX for the Control of Influenza Conference
Options IX was the largest international conference exclusively devoted to influenza prevention, control and treatment.
ECDC Annual Influenza Meeting, 2017
The annual influenza meeting focused on new developments in influenza surveillance at the country and regional level, seasonal influenza vaccination programmes, provided an update on the global situation with regard to outbreaks of avian influenza and other emerging respiratory pathogens, and provided a forum for exchanging experiences from the past influenza season.
Cross-species avian influenza among mammalians - report of fatal avian influenza in New England harbour sealsArchived
This academic article describes virological findings and pathological consequences of a strain of influenza A(H3N8) recently identified as part of the investigations of an outbreak of pneumonia among harbour seals in New England in the autumn.
Influenza A(H7N9) virus gains neuraminidase inhibitor resistance without loss of in vivo virulence or transmissibility
Without baseline human immunity to the emergent avian influenza A(H7N9) virus, neuraminidase inhibitors are vital for controlling viral replication in severe infections.
FLURISK project proposes a model to rank animal influenza strains by their potential to infect humans
The final report of the FLURISK project by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) proposes a risk assessment framework to rank animal influenza strains according to their potential to infect humans.
Circulating Avian Influenza viruses closely rlated to the 1918 virus Have pandemic potential
A recent article by Watanabe et al. in the Cell Host & Microbe journal describes an attempt to assess the risk of emergence of pandemic influenza viruses closely related to the 1918 influenza virus.
Mutation of avian influenza A(H7N9): now highly pathogenic for poultry but risk of human-to-human transmission remains low
The upsurge of human cases in China during the winter 2016-2017 due to A(H7N9) gives cause for concern.
Epidemiological update: A(H7N9) influenza virus, China, 19 December 2013
In March 2013, Chinese authorities announced the identification of a novel reassortant A(H7N9) avian influenza virus in patients in eastern China.


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Gamesta.com reports on Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. The expansion will not be available without the full game, despite attempts to make it so for original owners. Capcom said they're sorry, but they want consumers to know they've packed in some goodies for those that already own the original Dragon's Dogma.
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HighTower Partnership, which serves high-net-worth families and individuals, has opened up its fourth office in Fort Meyers, Florida.
The newly formed team, comprising Pamela Lynn Abraham, Jack E. Thomas and Trevor R. Swartz, will be the 44th to join the HighTower Partnership, according to a press release.
Abraham spent 33 years at Merrill Lynch leading Pamela Lynn Abraham & Associates. The other two partners, Thomas and Schwartz, were leaders in Merrill Lynch's Thomas & Swartz Global Wealth Management. The two teams have a total of $800 million in assets under management.
The new partners will also be bringing a few familiar faces with them, former colleagues Mathew Verrengia, director, senior wealth management advisor; Benita Alstatt, senior registered associate; and Tiffany Likness, client services associate.
"HighTower gives us access to the top research and capital markets products without sacrificing our independence," said Thomas, in a press release. "At a time when many people have lost trust and confidence in the traditional financial services system, HighTower provides the freedom and transparency we need to deliver advice and service that truly benefits our clients."
Thomas Michael Parker, HighTower's national director of enterprise development, told ThinkAdvisor that these partners were handpicked. "We look for the country's top quality advisors," Parker said. "However, they are top quality human beings first. They are committed, they care for their clients, and they exhibit the same qualities that we look for when searching for the best in the industry."
Parker and his team are responsible for doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting the best advisors for every area of expertise, such as wealth management, asset allocation, multigenerational strategy, tax strategy and others.
"Pamela, Jack and Trevor will maintain their entrepreneurial culture as members of the HighTower Partnership, while benefiting from a unique service and technology platform that is engineered to meet the evolving needs of investors," Parker said in a statement.
Parker added that the company's vetting process was not only about finding highly successful advisors, but guiding them once they've made it onto the team. "There are two ventricle forces, one for business development professionals solely focused on alliance opportunities with the company, and the other is an incumbent team, which focuses helping them [new advisors] grow and move forward."
The second part of this process relates to an intercompany program set up by the advisors, for the advisors, called Blueprint for Growth.
HighTower's Blueprint for Growth system might be a salient attraction for many impressionable advisors, especially these three partners. "It's authored by our advisors, from how to care for clients and how to grow a business," Parker said.
"I remember sharing this information with them [Abraham, Thomas and Schwartz] and they were intrigued because they had never heard of anything like this before," Parker said.
Said Abraham in the statement: "Joining HighTower is like 'coming home' to a firm where everyone is dedicated solely to acting in the best interests of clients. We believe HighTower's innovative approach to delivering unobstructed financial advice and providing teams like ours with the resources they need to flourish is the way of the future."
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