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Title: TEEN MURDERERS IN LITTLETON, COLORADO, WERE SATAN WORSHIPPERS, MEMBERS OF THE TRENCH COAT MAFIA
Subtitle: Nationwide, Trench Coat Mafia members are heavily into Satanism and a revival of Nazism. Once again, we are presented with the horrible truth that our children are so heavily into forms of Satanism that we are seeing a truly radical Satanic fringe that is willing to take Satan's core beliefs to the extreme. This is an extremely powerful "Sign of the End Times" we cannot ignore.
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NEWS BRIEF: " 'Outcasts' were deeply into death: Students say the members of the 'Trench Coat Mafia' were a target of derision for at least four years", by Marc Fisher, The Washington Post, reported in The Providence Journal, Massachusetts Edition, Wednesday, April 21, 1999, p. A-1, 13.
"The shooters who turned Columbine High School into an unspeakable landscape of carnage yesterday were members of a small clique of outcasts who always wore black trench coats and spent their entire adolescence deep inside the morose subculture of Gothic fantasy, their fellow students said."
Wait a minute! These murderers were members of a Gothic [read Satanic, Medieval] cult who wore trench coats? I checked the news stories of a past shooting, in Thurston High School, Springfield, Oregon, on May 21, 1998. Listen to the newspaper account of this school murder: "Witnesses said the 15-year-old suspect, dressed in a trench coat, ran through the cafeteria firing his rifle from the hip." This guy was wearing a trench coat, too! My Christian Webmaster, related that he and his daughter saw a couple of guys wearing trench coats standing outside a Fundamentalist Revival in South Carolina, about 10 years ago. They were pacing up and down as they stood outside the tent, listening to the message. The local school children told him these guys were Satanists, and they always wore the trench coat.
Therefore, these murderers in Littleton, Colorado, were members of the same Satanic cult, and the trench coat was one of their major calling cards. We will devote more time and space to this cult in another article, but now let us return to this story.
" 'They're basically outcasts, Gothic people', said Peter Maher , a junior who had a confrontation last July 4 with the shooters and several of their fellow members of the 'Trench Coat Mafia', the black-clad teens' name for their clique. 'They're into anarchy. They're white supremacists and they're into Nostradamus stuff and Doomsday.' " Once again, people who are into the occult seem to always hate non-whites, and they have read much of the occult parallel to Bible prophecy, notably from Nostradamus. The other major parallel is that these occultists generally worship Adolf Hitler and Nazism, since the coming New World Order of The New Age Christ is simply revived Nazism.
"Several students said the shooters ... were deeply into death -- talking, reading, and dreaming about it." As I said in the previous article, people worshipping Satan are deeply obsessed with death and Hell. They view physical death as the doorway into which they can enter Hell and be with Lord Satan for eternity. They believe they will wield great power and experience great pleasure in Hell for eternity. Before you think this obsession with death and Hell is too great of a stretch, remind yourself how often you have prayed that Jesus Christ take you to Heaven, out of this terrible world, and into His presence for eternity?! Most fervent Christians have prayed this type of prayer at one time or another in their lives. People who worship Lord Satan possess the same type of desire to be with him for eternity! They WANT death, and they seek it. When those two teens were finished with their murdering, they gladly turned their guns to their own heads, so they could instantly go to Satan and get their reward! You must understand this about Satanists, or you will never comprehend what is occurring in our society today.
If you will not believe me, then believe Anton LaVey, writing in his best-selling book, The Satanic Bible . "Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there." [p. 47]
Now, let us return to this article.
"Black trench coats are a consistent theme in the Gothic subculture that has attracted many teenagers to the poetry, music, and costumes of a scene that ranges from benign fantasy to violent reality. Inspired by fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons , Gothic has become a fascination of many American high schoolers, some of whom simply dress and paint their fingernails black while others immerse themselves in a pseudo-medieval world of dark images ... trench coats serve as a symbol for everything from Hitler and the Nazis to mass murder to suicidal fantasies. Yesterday was Hitler's birthday, an occasion for demonstrations, mock funerals, and other macabre commemorations among Neo-Nazis and parts of the Gothic scene." [The Providence Journal, Ibid.]
I bring your attention to the words in the above paragraphs, "Gothic has become a fascination of many American high schoolers". As we contended in the previous article, this mass murder is much more worrisome than the Mass Media and other Liberals would have you think. This tragedy represents just the radical fringe of a much larger segment of our young population who is deeply into the occult. Historians now know that Hitler could not have carried out either his world war to attain all the power in the world, or his Holocaust, which killed 18 million people, including 6 million Jews, had he not many millions of young German soldiers willing to pull the trigger for him. Yet, prior to the onset of World War II, no one recognized these millions of German soldiers for the true threat they represented. Every one just thought of them as normal, decent German young men; but, Hitler knew these men would pull the trigger for him, because he knew they had been prepared in their formative years to love the occult!
We are in the same situation in America today! Rock Music, fantasy games, violent and occult cartoons and magazines, and violent and sexually laden movies and TV shows, have similarly prepared American youth to "pull the trigger" for the Adolf Hitler type of leader almost ready to explode on the global stage, i.e., Antichrist! This is the real story of this tragedy and one you will never hear in the Mainstream Press.
Now, let us return to this newspaper article.
"Several students described the Trench Coat Mafia in similar terms: They wore their trench coats every day, no matter the weather, even in class. Under the coats, they dressed in black from head to toe -- military berets, T-shirts, jeans, combat boots ... Pollack and other students described the Trench Coat Mafia as a group of perhaps 6 to 10 other students who were constantly being ribbed by the school's athletes and other, more popular cliques. 'The athletes and stuff and really popular [with the rest of the student body] ... they'd make fun of the Trench Coat Mafia. They'd say, 'White trash', and 'Why don't you comb your hair'?"
People who do not know the tenets of Satanism wrongly discount the element of revenge and vengeance by the Satanist. Once again, listen to Anton LaVey, writing in his Satanic Bible . "The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins', as they all lead to physical mental, or emotional gratification ... The strongest instinct in every living thing is self-preservation, which brings us to the last of the seven deadly sins -- anger. Is it not our instinct for self-preservation that is aroused when someone harms us, when we become angry enough to protect ourselves from further attack? A Satanist practices the motto, 'If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!' Let no wrong go unredressed. Be as a lion in the path -- be dangerous, even in defeat!" [p. 46-47; emphasis was in the original]
In my imagination, I can see this philosophy driving these murderous shooters to kill in Columbine High School, can't you? They were talked down to by many people, especially the athlete jocks. Most of the student body avoided them like the plague. I can imagine that the girls especially avoided them, making it hard for these guys to get dates. Thus, you have the story coming out that these shooters targeted jocks and girls, and people of color, whom all Satanists hate! This shooting was simply and only the outward manifestation of the Satanist, as described above by The Satanic Bible, to "smash him on the cheek" who first wronged you!
Further, as they were killing within the high school, they knew overwhelming police and paramilitary forces were being readied against them outside. But, true to the Satanic premise of being as "a lion in the path", and being "dangerous, even in defeat", they murdered, and they booby-trapped the place and some of the dead bodies so as delay the SWAT teams coming against them, until they had accomplished their Satanic goals. Then, with all the carnage around them, they lifted their guns to their own heads, to join Lord Satan in Hell, for an eternity of pleasure and power!
Now, let us examine some other quotes from The Satanic Bible on this subject of wreaking revenge on their enemies.
"Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: 'Do unto others as they do unto you'; because if you 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you', and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve ." [p. 51; Emphasis added]
The Satanic Bible continues:
"During white magical ceremonies, the practitioners stand within a pentagram to protect themselves from the 'evil' forces which they call upon for help. To the Satanist, it seems a bit two-faced to call on these forces for help, while at the same time protecting yourself from the very powers you have asked for assistance. The Satanist realizes that only by putting himself in league with these forces can he fully and unhypocritically utilize the Power of Darkness to his best advantage." [p. 52; emphasis added].
Notice LaVey's assertion that the true Satanist puts himself in league with the Power of Darkness! Not only is this understanding essential for you to truly comprehend the tragedy unfolding in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, but it is essential for you to understand the true scope of world events swirling about you. All members of the Illuminati have put themselves "in league with the Power of Darkness". President Bill Clinton has put himself in league with the Power of Darkness long, long ago. In NEWS1257, we demonstrated that Clinton had deliberately gone to Haiti to put himself in league with the Satanic gods of Voodoo in order to ensure his re-election and his exoneration from all the legal investigations being leveled at him. In fact, we have devoted an entire series entitled "Clinton's Fatal Leadership", to which you can easily gain access by clicking on the link on the left-hand side of our Home Page entitled, Clinton's Scandals". These articles will demonstrate the many ways in which we know that Clinton has brought himself into league with the Power of Darkness, exactly in line with Biblical End of the Age prophecies!
Now, let us return to The Satanic Bible to see how much of a part vengeance plays in the psychic makeup of the Satanist.
"An indication of the cowardice of 'magicians' of the right-hand path [White Magic] is the practice of calling upon a particular demon ... to do his bidding. The assumption is that the demon, being only a flunky of the devil, is easier to control. Occult lore states that only the most formidably 'protected' or insanely foolhardy sorcerer would try to call forth the Devil himself. The Satanist does not furtively call upon these 'lesser' devils, but brazenly invokes those who people that infernal army of long-standing outrage -- the Devils themselves!" [p. 57, emphasis in the original]
When these Trench Coat Mafia members plotted this school attack, and when they carried it out, did they brazenly invoke and call upon the Devils themselves to aid them? Doubt it not! Is this entire tragic episode beginning to make sense? No one who does not understand the existence, power, and doctrines of Satanism can ever comprehend events swirling around us, both in Littleton, Colorado, and around the world.
The Satanic Bible continues:
"... the Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy. Love is one of the most intense emotions felt by man; another is hate ... Repressed hatred can lead to many physical and emotional ailments. By learning to release your hatred towards those who deserve it, you cleanse yourself of these malignant emotions and need not take your pent-out hatred out on your loved ones." [p. 64] Folks, this is exactly what these two members of the Satanic cult -- Trench Coat Mafia -- were doing! They were "releasing" their "hatred towards those who deserve it"!
"Just because the Satanist admits he is capable of both love and hate, he is considered hateful. On the contrary, because he is able to give vent to his hatred through ritualized expression, he is far more capable of love -- the deepest kind of love. By honestly recognizing and admitting to both the hate and the love he feels, there is no confusing one emotion with the other.. Without being able to experience one of these emotions, you cannot fully experiencing the other." [p. 65; Emphasis in the original] The Bible teaches that we are to control hatred, both in emotions and in the mind, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Nowhere does the Bible teach us that we are to give full vent to our hatreds! This teaching is pure Satanism.
"Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires." [p. 81] The Bible correctly states that the heart of a man is so inherently evil no one can know its depth. Listen to the manner in which the Bible describes the natural heart of mankind.
"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." [Genesis 6:5]
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind?" [Jeremiah 17:9, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary ] You see, the great danger in current psychology is to teach that no absolute truth exists, so that every person must do what they think is right for them! This thinking is, first, a revival of the thinking that man utilized 4,000 years ago, and led directly to God's physical annihilation of mankind. 1). "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes" [Proverbs 12:15] 2). "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." [Proverbs 14:12]
Secondly, this kind of thinking is the standard New Age line today, replacing the old Biblical definition of right and wrong. Who is to say that these two murderers were not following the "right" as they perceived it in their own minds? When you remember that the first sin recorded after Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden was Cain's murder of his brother, Abel, it can truly be said that murder resides in the heart and inner mind of every individual. When a person is encouraged to give full vent to his murderous anger, a tragedy like this one is inevitable! When people today are placing blame for this kind of tragedy, they must look within themselves, to their own anti-Christian values and attitudes, for the primary cause.
Now, The Satanic Bible turns to the subject of human sacrifice. It does NOT deny that human sacrifice occurs, but simply states whom the victim must be. The selection of the title for this chapter is most revealing: "ON THE CHOICE OF A HUMAN SACRIFICE". Thus, the title tells us that Satanists do perform human sacrifices, and that they carefully "choose" their victims. When you read this paragraph, please keep this tragedy in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, firmly entrenched in your mind.
"Contrary to all established magical theory, the release of this force is not effected in the actual spilling of blood, but in the death throes of the living creature! This discharge of bio-electrical energy is the very same phenomenon which occurs during any profound heightening of the emotions, such as: sexual orgasm, blind anger, mortal terror, consuming grief, etc ... The use of a human sacrifice in a Satanic ritual does not imply that the sacrifice is slaughtered to 'appease the gods' ... The only time a Satanist would perform a human sacrifice would be if it were to serve a two-fold purpose; that being to release the magician's wrath in the throwing of a curse, and more importantly, to dispose of a totally obnoxious and deserving individual." [p. 87-88]
There you have it, my friend, the REAL reason these two young shooters murdered all these people! They were getting rid of "totally obnoxious and deserving" people! Witnesses have reported that they sought out certain people whom they hated, most notably athletic jocks, people of color, and girls. These were the people who had looked down upon members of the Trench Coat Mafia, and who had verbalized that opinion. To make sure we get the message on whom the Satanist will look to sacrifice, The Satanic Bible reiterates the criteria.
"The question arises, 'Who, then, would be considered a fit and proper human sacrifice, and how is one qualified to pass judgment on such a person'? The answer is brutally simple. Anyone who has unjustly wronged you -- one who has 'gone out of his way' to hurt you -- to deliberately cause trouble and hardship for you or those dear to you. In short, a person asking to be cursed by their very actions. When a person, by his reprehensible behavior, practically cries out to be destroyed, it is truly your moral obligation to indulge them their wish ... They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices ... Therefore, you have every right to symbolically destroy them, and if your curse provokes their actual annihilation, rejoice that you have been instrumental in ridding the world of a pest." [p. 89-90]
Notice the awful words used to justify the physical murder of victims: 1) "Fit and proper human sacrifice"; 2) "cursed by their very actions'; 3) "practically cries out to be destroyed"; 4) "It is truly your moral obligation to indulge them their wish"; 5) "You have every right to destroy them"; 6) "Rejoice".
Now we have the full truth of the reason these practicing Satanists annihilated so many lives: they were acting under obligation to rid the world of a pest. Whenever you hear someone pining away as to the "reason" for this tragedy, you now have the truth. How you choose to tell them is your own decision.
The world stands at the precipice of the appearance of the Antichrist [New Age Christ]. He will be accompanied by all occult, Satanic power, and will be performing all sorts of signs and miracles in order to deceive the world into declaring him to be God and worshipping him as such. Bible prophecy states that the reign of Antichrist will begin with rosy promises of finally achieving "Peace and Safety", but will quickly deteriorate into the greatest Holocaust the world has ever seen, as two-thirds of the current population of the world will die.
In order to achieve this Holocaust, Satan needs millions of young men who will be willing to pull the trigger for Antichrist. While Antichrist will get some of his leaders from members of Satanic cults, he will get his rank and file from the average teenager in schools today. Some day soon, some of the teens who survived this horror, will be pulling the trigger for Antichrist? Why? Because their values and attitudes are in the same vein as those of the overt Satanist in the Trench Coat Mafia. Their lives are also ruled by the fundamental Satanic maxim of teaching indulgence in all manner of the flesh -- sex, gluttony, anger, pride, envy, greed, and laziness. After all, these are the values of TV shows and movies today, not to mention computer games and role playing games.
This tragedy shows that enough teens are afflicted with the disease of Satanic values that a fanatic fringe has developed that carries these values out to their extreme. I am not terrified of these few teens that would actually murder in this way; rather, I am terrified of the huge numbers of teens who are similarly infected with Satanic values, but not now to the degree of the Trench Coat Mafia. When you look at the pictures of the teens that escaped the school, as they are hugging their friends and family, notice the numbers of times you see pierced faces, tattoos, weird haircuts and hair colors, skimpy clothes, and other evidences of non-Christian values. These are the teens who will be tapped by Antichrist tomorrow.
Finally, Alice Bailey and other occult writers love to say that, when Antichrist arises, he will "restore the practice of the Mysteries to outer expression". This obscure passage literally means that, when Antichrist arises, he will restore Satanism to public worship. You will be able to go to a Church of Satan just as openly as we go to a Baptist church today. The time this event will actually occur is rapidly approaching.
Time is truly short. All evidences are piling up that these truly are the End of the Age. These murders -- human sacrifices getting rid of people who were "pests" -- is just one more graphic example of an End of the Age prophecy unfolding before our very eyes, and in our Daily News. Remember, if the appearance of Antichrist is this close, the Rapture of the Church is even closer.
Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
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Tracy C. Miller
Tracy C. Miller is an associate professor of economics at Grove City College and contributing scholar with the Center for Vision and Values. This article is republished from V & V, a website of the Center for Vision & Values.
An Indian government official recently criticized the Bush administration for blaming the growing middle classes of developing countries, such as India and China, for rising food prices. Although he may have misinterpreted the president's remarks, his and other Indian critics' responses are worth thinking about. They argue that the United States is the real culprit behind high food prices. Has the United States played an important role in contributing to rising food prices and, if so, what should be done to correct the problem?
Growing world demand for food is part of the explanation for recent food price increases. Higher incomes of people in developing countries have enabled them to consume more calories and more meat, which has had an impact on food prices. The fact that many people in the world can afford better diets is something we should be thankful for, even if it results in higher food prices for us. What should concern us, however, is how the U.S. government has contributed to the recent run-up in world food prices by subsidizing the production of bio-fuels.
While a variety of factors have contributed to food price increases, the actions of the U.S. government to promote the production of corn for ethanol cannot be ignored. Joseph Glauber, the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, predicts that 31 percent of the entire U.S. corn crop in 2008 and 2009 will be devoted to ethanol production. This growth in ethanol production is the result of the combination of a government mandate, a 51 cents per gallon tax credit for ethanol production, various other subsidies, and a 54 cents per gallon tariff on ethanol imports.
U.S. government mandates for increased ethanol production ignore economic reality, diverting a growing portion of U.S. cropland from food production without taking account of the cost of doing so. As more land is used to produce corn, production of other crops has declined to the point where the United States has actually had to import wheat. Because the United States is a major producer and exporter of food and feed grains, reductions in U.S. output have a major impact on world food and feed prices. As more corn is diverted to ethanol production from feeding livestock, meat prices have risen as well.
Corn is a very expensive source of fuel, not just because of its value in feeding livestock, but because of the resources involved in converting it to fuel. The amount of energy required to produce a gallon of ethanol is almost as much as the energy that results from burning the ethanol. When factoring in the other costs of using corn to produce ethanol, it should be evident why it is a waste of resources.
There is nothing inherently wrong with growing crops to produce fuel, even if doing so causes food prices to rise. Rather, the extent to which corn and other crops are used for fuel should be determined by the choices of consumers and producers in response to market prices that are unhampered by government intervention like those mentioned above -- this is also known as free market prices. Because free market prices reflect people's voluntary preferences, market prices serve as indicators of relative scarcity, reflecting the priorities of all who could potentially benefit from what could be produced from the land. Competition for resources in the market will result in those resources being used for purposes that consumers value the most. Without market prices, government officials lack the ability to estimate accurately the net benefits of additional ethanol production for society. Unlike consumers who bear the costs of their decisions through the prices they pay in the market, government officials do not bear the full costs associated with their decision to subsidize ethanol.
Ethanol subsidies and mandates also contribute to environmental degradation as more land is plowed and more pesticides are used to increase yields. They contribute to rising government deficits as well. The only reason for politicians to continue these policies is that farmers and residents of rural communities, whose incomes increase as a result, will reward them with more votes. If more Americans can become informed about how much this is costing the rest of us, perhaps our elected representatives will see that they might actually lose votes by continuing to support this waste of taxpayers' money. *
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts." --Henry Louis Mencken

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On his new LP, Respect The Architect, Columbus emcee Blueprint comes up with one of the best underground contributions to the 2014 discography so far. This is because Blueprint's artistic purpose on the album is crystal clear, and he executes it perfectly. He crafts a sound world made up of different beats of all types, and then effortlessly inserts himself into it by knowing what he's talented at and capitalizing on it. He marries a solid lyrical approach to a storytelling ability that stands out in a crowded underground, and it really does force the listener to respect the architect.
If Blueprint wanted to prove his underground credentials and emphasize his old school roots on Respect The Architect, then he was certainly successful, as the sounds chosen for the record prove. The Soul samples on "Perspective," "True Vision," and "Oh Word?" are straight out of '90s Hip Hop. The background shouts on the track "Respect The Architect" sound like they came from a classic M.O.P hype track, but they're taken somewhere new when they're combined with the electronic synths in the background that shoot around like photon blasters. The vocal sample of a line from Common's 1999 track "Car Horn" drives this home for good on Blueprint's "Once Again." But these classic sounds are balanced by innovative ones, such as the swirling, echoing world of the song "Respect The Architect," or the new funk sound of "Bulletproof Resume." When these beats are combined together, the entire album feels like it happens in the same artistic world—a unified approach that is unfortunately rarely found in albums today.
Blueprint, instead of being pigeonholed, proudly carries his label as an underground rapper. "Hit the underground like a seismic event," "The brightest rap star's not in my constellation," "You got a platinum plaque, but I say you suck," and "I'm the foundation for the underground you standing on" are only a few of the examples that show just where Blueprint places himself in the Rap world. Although that narrative might be a little played out, this album stands out lyrically because of the fact that Blueprint appears to so clearly love Rap. This is epitomized in the track "Silver Lining," an autobiography of sorts that tells of BP's past problems, such as when his sister passed away. "Found a sampler, put it on layaway / Spent my Christmas break makin' beats every day…But my love for the music never gon' fade away" are just a few lines that show this.
Blue also emphasizes every advantage that comes with being an underground rapper, such as by adding topics to his arsenal in forms that he might not have been able to make fit otherwise on smash-hit singles. For instance, an emcee probably couldn't end many multi-platinum records with an extended sample of a speech from critically acclaimed Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry discussing the artistic process when it gets difficult, as Blueprint does on "The Climb." They also might not have a hook-free, straight freestyle like "Bulletproof Resume," or a track with a barebones vocal mix like "True Vision." And it'd probably be hard to get away with a beat that has no drumbeat, as "Overdosin'" does, a chemistry experiment from Blueprint that shines here. Another advantage of being underground is the ability to put together a roster of collaborations and cameos that work well together as a whole, where everyone's style compliments the next guy's, and not just a list that reads like the top of the Billboard "Hot 100" chart. Blueprint's team includes Count Bass D, Illogic and MidaZ the Beast, who delivers the best guest verse on the album. MidaZ' ability to know exactly what the beat needs at what time in his rhymes and sentences should make a listener want to check out his other work, like the album AU: Another Universe.
As for his own rapping style, Blueprint holds it down. Blue uses mostly one or two-syllable external rhymes at the end of sentence that serve to support his poetry. He doesn't allow the rhymes to dominate and determine the story he tells, as some lesser talented emcees might. Of course, there are technically complex lines that make you sit up straight and listen more closely, especially on the opening track "Oh Word?" "I live among fans and naysayers / Macks and fake players / Lovers and player haters / Brothers that trade gators / Cats copycat because they want the same flavor," is just one example, with its long, three-syllable rhymes. Blueprint's chosen style focuses on larger, more involved narratives, like his tale of personal tribulations on "Silver Lining," or the how-to guide "Perspective," which gives instructions for loving what you have, not what you don't. He also succeeds by bringing some pretty clever double entendres and puns to the mix. A perfect marriage of delivery, rhymes, and wordplay comes across in gems like, "It seems I got styles bursting outta the seams, bars tight / like Pat Benatar's jeans" from the track "True Vision."
Other underground artists might do well to take note and listen to this album. It's a sign of what you can achieve if you go into the booth knowing exactly what it is you want to do, and then doing it.


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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Tesla Motor Inc.'s
Chief Executive Elon Musk is reportedly visiting China this month for talks with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. -- better known as Sinopec
-- one of China's largest refiners, to build charging units in Sinopec's nationwide service-station network, according to a Chinese media report Monday. The Chinese refiner would build charging facilities in its gas stations in Beijing at first, and then spread them to the surrounding areas of the port city of Tianjin and Hebei province, said 163.com, an online news portal owned by Internet giant NetEase Inc. Tesla set an attractive price for its Model S in China in January, generating a powerful buzz on Chinese social media (See more in another MarketWatch story here). The electric-car maker was scheduled to start delivering Model S cars to its Chinese customers this month, with Musk visiting the country to kick off sales "personally," according to a Bloomberg News report last week. China has been encouraging a wider use of clean-energy cars, partly due to increasingly worse air pollution, but progress so far has been limited due to a lack of a nationwide charging network.
The latest data on gross domestic product and employment offered encouragement to investors following Wednesday's plunge.


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Cheers to The Valiant Dead By: Michael Xavier Ortiz
A cold, unyielding and paralyzing fear can trickle down your neck and engulf your spine to overwhelm you with indecision and internal chaos. It is the actions you take at this point that portray you in that unflattering light most of us avoid. These choices and the people you affect are the only memories you can hope to take with you when you pass. How you react to this fear is undetermined, so you have to own it and seed a positive experience. For me, losing the people I love is terrifying, and in combat, losing my friends by an unseen enemy can unsettle an anger in me with a gullet forever parched and longing. My transgressions and accomplishments used to be the only aspects of myself I would address whenever I felt introspective. As I continue on to these devastating brushes with fear, I can only watch as I change for the better, or worse.
The first time I came home from a long absence, I noticed that the smells had changed and the colors seemed more vivid. After I had enough rest, I realized; I was the one who had changed and seemed dull. Nothing would ever taste quite the same and sounds would never carry the same depth as they used to. In November; I had returned home from fifteen months of hell on earth, feet sore, skin worn, and emotion misplaced. It was cold in Kentucky when we landed. Fort Campbell never looked so gloomily beautiful. I was tired and starving, yet in seconds, my tears welled up and the scorched soles of my feet rushed me over to my overwrought mother. I knew the son she once sent away never came home per se, instead I did, a shell of a man. I always wondered how hard I would have laughed if she asked, " How did it go?" "Did you have fun?" As we drove away to annihilate the first Big Mac we spotted, I looked back at the airplane that brought me home, full of sand-covered seats, wishing we could have left this new "me" behind. It was just the rush of enjoyment and relief that harbored my pain. I never fully understood how much the extra recognitive baggage I carried with me weighed.
It is too easy to slump into a deep dejection from this experience, but not fair to the friends I made and the good times I had, even with those who never made it home. There was Steven Christofferson, a small, determined man and a good friend. Then there was Adam Kohlhaas, my best friend, nothing more and never less. Both Steven and Adam were killed in action during an attack in northern Iraq on a dusty April morning. Sorry, it seems too easy to focus on the affliction. Every time I try to forget, I remember Steven's mangled body, or Adam's fading breath as we hopelessly struggled to revive him. I thought that in the moments after the helicopters snatched them from us it would be done with and I would never feel this gaping, deep and painful sadness. Fear had an effect on me that I could not recognize right away. I always had too much pride to allow proper sensibility. When this much emotion needed to be processed, I just filed it away with the lesser of my issues, like not shaving or leaving the toilet seat up. I have had my entire life to create a void in my subconscious. Now I have these calamitous memories to repress and with great success… at first, I did.
Lo and behold, I could not help but feel guilt and remorse, anger and sadness whenever I relive that day, even now. You see, that day started off innocently enough, although it never entirely ended for some of us. We had a mission in a nearly desolate sector of the desert to clean house and simmer down any potential threats to the safety of allied military forces in our area. Naturally, none of us really cared about some crude village full of goats and dried up farmland. However, there was always that chance we might see some action and that always seemed to get our blood pumping something fierce. So we suited up and strapped down to drive out south to this barren oasis. We arrived early in the day to find some questionable males attempting to elude us in our stealthy 17-ton armored vehicles, so we swiftly questioned and detained them. With "enemies of the state" in our trucks and the rest of the day ahead of us, we headed east toward the main road to sneak up on some more goats and small children. Silence, then an explosion with such a force I could not react quickly enough to catch my footing and turn to see that one of our trucks was engulfed in smoke and dust.
There was not even time for a full sentence when I jumped out of the truck and ran toward the dust. Out of the smoke came the driver of the tossed truck, distraught and crying for help, he settled at the rear of another vehicle. I made it to the first body I could see, Steven, and he was the furthest from everything, surrounded by tons of twisted metal and kicked up sand. He rested there, eyes opened, dead and honestly, that is all I really care to recall. Almost immediately I ran into our platoon sergeant, limping out of the smoke and leaning on the truck. It seemed he had been severely wounded on one entire side of his body, so I walked him over to sit and had the driver tend to his wounds. Then I rushed over to help with an interpreter whose calves were torn from his legs. Even our medic, hemorrhaging and fingers broken, still tried to help with the wounded until we had to relocate him to a safer area. I stopped, turned and saw that
Adam was laying about fifteen feet from me; so I rushed over, leaving the interpreter with his handler. I slid my hand under Adam's head to only feel fragments of sand and blood. All I can really choose to remember is trying to find a sign, if any at all, that he was alive. Adam's lip would quiver, his chest would rise, and the attack helicopters, that could not land, hovered over us teasing with hope. Never in my life have I ever wanted someone to just say one word to me than when I cradled Adam in my hands. Fear birthed a new value to me that was not worth the cost. Time slowed as we carried him to the helicopter and felt the wind scrape our backs as it took off with the injured, and Adam. Then there was a silence; it was the most painful silence ever heard and I could not scream loud enough to extinguish it. Adam died; Steven was bagged and tagged along with the interpreter. There were ceremonies and condolences whispered. Then we prepared for the next ten months of our deployment. It was fear that created the silence that day. The same fear kept us alive the rest of our time there.
I always assumed good people go to a better place when they die, and the lesser go to some version of hell. Well, I doubt it matters what we do if everyone is going to die at some point, right? If I was going to find a purpose in what men like Adam and Steven died for, maybe I could sleep at night, but even sleepless, I reap this blessing; The fear that once ruled over me subsided and although the memories etch at my heart, it means I get to keep these men alive. Sometimes the hard choices are easy because we ignore the possibility of other options. No one ever "finds themselves,"What you really mean to ask is what it is everyone else wants you to be. "The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, Their courage nerves a thousand living men". (Minot J. Savage).


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Not much else going on in the region it seems, so anyone else excited about the shot tower and Crazy Sub coming to Knoebels?
I think they'll both fit in nice and it's good to see them add something new almost every year.
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I miss the 'high speed thrill coaster' that used to be over the motorboats. That was a really intense little coaster.
As to developments this year.. I know they ran a few test trains (in house built) on Flying Turns last year, and I honestly think that's their big goal for this year. Getting that running.
Black Diamond is not a bad coaster, in the old school vein of a Bill Tracy dark ride.
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Cycling as a sport and leisure activity is booming in Britain. Our riders are having elite level success at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Tour de France and the world championships and in Team Sky we have a leading team in the professional peloton.
Despite this, we have a problem with road racing in this country that threatens the development of the next generation of top cyclists. Put simply race organisers in this country face significant obstacles meaning that promising young riders have to travel to mainland Europe for the high quality racing exposure they need.
Securing the future of road racing would be a fitting legacy to the success of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and British Cycling has been working hard to Keep Racing on the Road.
Our campaign has sought to address the key challenges:
- Redraft outdated legislation
- Empower volunteer race marshals
- Reduce police charging
Redraft outdated legislation
We have submitted draft regulations to the Department for Transport who are now working on the implementation. The DfT is supportive of the change so now its about getting the new regulations on the statute books.
Cycle racing on the road is governed by the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Cycle Racing on the Highway Regulations, 1960. Race organisers and cycle clubs find this outdated legislation difficult to deal with because it is overly complex, arbitrary and appears to allow cycle racing only grudgingly.
The discretionary nature of the legislation leads to large disparities in how road races are treated between regions and over time. Police forces also have the ability to impose any further conditions they deem appropriate which can place arbitrary and unreasonable demands on a race organiser meaning that it allows forces that are not supportive of road racing to effectively "condition" racing off the road.
The legislation needs to be made fit for purpose and start from the presumption that races will be authorised provided they follow a set of clear guidelines. The Department for Transport is, from a policy perspective, in agreement with the changes we've proposed and our task now is to get this work prioritised.
British Cycling has received valuable Parliamentary support on this issue and others from British Cycling member Ian Austin MP and Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson.
Empower volunteer race marshals
British Cycling is now working with regional police forces to roll out marshal training and equipment. Download story about our new road marshalling programme
Police resources would be saved and the task of road race organisers would be much more straightforward if volunteer marshals were legally empowered to slow and briefly stop traffic to let a cycle race pass junctions. Currently it is a legal grey area, with marshals effectively "advising" traffic to stop. There are two main options:
(i) Traffic signs for volunteer marshals
British Cycling continues to pilot the signage scheme that empowers volunteer marshals with the ability to halt traffic at junctions during cycle road races.
Developed between the DfT and British Cycling, the 'Stop – Cycle Race' signs give marshals the legal authority and confidence to do their job and is seen as one of the key developments to help protect the future of road racing in this country and secure an Olympic legacy for cycling.
Each marshal must undertake a training session on positioning and timing before they are allowed to marshal at races with the sign. The scheme has been piloted in Oxfordshire, Thames Valley, Bedfordshire and Essex and we continue to receive positive feedback from the trained marshals, race organisers, riders and police. We look forward to engaging with other constabularies with a view to rolling out the signs more widely.
(ii) Expand the use of the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (CSAS)
This is the same scheme through which the police delegate some of their powers to Community Safety Officers and by which they can delegate powers to stop and control traffic to suitably trained individuals. British Cycling has piloted this method in Essex and Wales and it works.
The weakness is that the legislation governing CSAS requires the marshal to be employed and furthermore about half of police forces do not currently operate CSAS. Potential solutions we have explored with the Home Office are (a) relaxing the employment condition to enable race marshals to benefit from the delegated powers and (b) making the powers applicable in all areas of the UK. All of which would require amending the Police Reform Act 2002.
Reduce police charging
High and inconsistent charges for police presence at some higher level cycle races have placed a costly burden on race organisers. British Cycling has worked hard to address this problem and made significant progress.
The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) took this issue up for us and British Cycling was the only national governing body to make representations to the senior police officers redrafting the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) guidance for police charging.
We worked closely with the DCMS and ACPO on the redrafting of sections of the guidance and the new version is now being applied by police forces around the country - Download PDF Copy
The guidance includes specific references to cycle racing and makes it clear that the majority of cycle races - volunteer supported, largely non-commercial - should not attract anything near to full cost recovery. This should enable race organisers who have been hit with high levels of cost recovery in the past to put together a persuasive case that they should be charged less than 50% of the policing costs. The guidance also states that many road races should attract no charge at all.
The guidance is now much clearer on the fact that non-commercial events need to be considered in the context of community policing and includes a section establishing that most cycle races are non-commercial events that generate revenue only to cover organisational costs are therefore should not be treated in the same way as commercial events.


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Residents, businesses cope with power outage
Electrical vault explodes in downtown Omaha
Hundreds in downtown Omaha were fighting off the darkness and cold as Omaha Public Power District crews continued to restore power Monday after an outage Sunday night.
Officials said a cable failure in a network vault at 17th Street & St. Mary's Avenue caused a fire and subsequent explosion in the manhole and another manhole a block east around 5:45 p.m. Sunday. The outage, which affected about 2,000 customers at its peak, is now isolated to mainly businesses in the area of 11th to 20th streets between Leavenworth and Farnam streets.
The outage caused elevators to shut down, forcing Central Park Tower Apartment residents, like Ken Williams, to use the stairwell.
"They have to walk all the way down, most of them are disabled and can't come down," Williams said.
Williams said with the power out and the heat not working, he checked on his neighbors, one of whom relies on power for her health.
"I take a nebulizer treatment every four hours, and I had to call an ambulance squad to come and give me a treatment," Debbie Ross said.
Businesses, like Ted and Wally's Ice Cream, turned to generators to keep business afloat on Monday.
"The nice thing about the heat not working is it's a little chilly in here," said owner Joe Pittack.
"Key thing is we got to get our faxes going and our phones going because we do business nationwide," said John Cooke with JP Cooke Company.
The United Way of the Midlands set up a system to keep its 211 program, which helps hundreds of needy families, somewhat operational.
"We do have the capability of transferring calls out to the call center specialists at homes, but we need electricity to do that switch as well," said Kathy O'Hara with United Way of the Midlands.


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< Features
- 1 New Features of IPA v3
New Features of IPA v3
The new major release of IPA will have a number of new features like trusts to Active Directory domains, please add more
- Name: Rob Crittenden
- Email: email@example.com
- Name: Sumit Bose
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- please add more, if needed
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17
- Last updated: 2012-01-20
- Percentage of completion: 50%
Detailed Description
Trust to Active Directory Domains
Currently FreeIPA uses winsync to allow users from an Active Directory domain to access resources in the IPA domain. To achieve this winsync replicates the user and group data from an Active Directory server to the local server and tries to keep them in sync.
With the new trust feature the user and group data is read from the Active Directory server as it is needed. Additionally Kerberos cross realm trust is set up which allows Single-Sign-On between the Active Directory and the IPA domain. I.e. a user from the Active Directory Domain can access kerberized resources from the IPA domain without being asked for a password.
Benefit to Fedora
- Trust to Active Directory Domains will have the following benefits
- Single-Sign-On between the Active Directory and IPA domain
- Allow users from the IPA domain (Linux users) to access resources from the Active Directory domain
- No need to set POSIX attributes in the Active Directory domain
- Trust to Active Directory Domains requires the following changes:
- FreeIPA have to be extended to store the needed data to maintain the trust to the Active Directory domain and have to provide tools to set up the trust
- SSSD needs to be able to query the IPA server to resolve users and groups from the Active Directory domain
- Samba4 have to be updated to a recent version to allow FreeIPA to use libraries and binaries to set up and maintain the trust to an Active Directory domain
How To Test
- Detailed information about how to set up and test Trusts to Active Directory domains can be found at IPAv3 testing AD Trust
User Experience
- If a trust is created between an Active Directory and an IPA domain
- Users from the Active Directory Domain can access resources of the IPA domain and the other way round
- For kerberized services single-sign-on is possilbe
- for Trust to Active Directory domains a recent and extended version of the package is needed.
Contingency Plan
None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.
- IPAv3 testing AD Trust describes the steps how to set up a trust relationship to an Active Directory domain and how to use it.
Release Notes
- With Fedora 17 it would be possible to create a trust relationship between an IPA and an Active Directory domain which would allow users from one domain to access resource of the other domain.


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Putting an Object in a Safe State
This is the ninth installment in a series of articles about fundamental object-oriented (OO) concepts. The Object-Oriented Thought Process is intended for anyone who needs to understand the basic object-oriented concepts before jumping into the code. Click here to start at the beginning of the series.
In keeping with the code examples used in the previous articles, Java will be the language used to implement the concepts in code. One of the reasons that I like to use Java is because you can download the Java compiler for personal use at the Sun Microsystems Web site http://java.sun.com/. You can download the J2SE 1.4.2 SDK (software development kit) to compile and execute these applications and will provide the code listings for all examples in this article. I have the SDK 1.4.0 loaded on my machine. I will provide figures and the output (when appropriate) for these examples. See the previous articles in this series for detailed descriptions for compiling and running all the code examples in this series.
In the last column we continued our discussion on data hiding, as in data protection. When designed properly, encapsulation provides a built-in way to enforce certain levels of data protection. Yet, protecting the integrity of the data does not ensure the integrity of the object itself.
A goal of every object-oriented design is to put the object into what is called a safe-state. By this we mean that the object is in a state that will not cause the system to be unstable. There are several mechanisms that are provided to assist in the construction of safe objects. In this article we explore some of the topics.
Constructors are a new concept for people doing structured programming. Constructors do not normally exist in non-O-O languages such as C and Basic. Earlier we spoke about special methods that are used to construct objects. In Java and C++, as well as other O-O languages, constructors are methods that share the same name as the class and have no return type. For example, a constructor for the Cabbie class would look like this:
public Cabbie(){ /* code to construct the object */}
The compiler will recognize that the method name is identical to the class name and consider the method a constructor.
Return Value
Note again that a constructor does not have a return value. If you provide a return value, the compiler will not treat the method as a constructor.
When Is a Constructor Called?
When a new object is created, one of the first things that happens is that the constructor is called. Check out the following code:
Cabbie myCabbie = new Cabbie();
The new keyword creates a new instance of the Cabbie class, thus allocating the required memory. Then the constructor is called, passing the arguments in the parameter list. The developer must do the appropriate initialization within the constructor.
Thus, the code new Cabbie() will instantiate a Cabbie object and call the Cabbie method, which is the constructor.
What's Inside a Constructor?
The most important function of a constructor is to initialize the memory allocated when the new keyword is encountered. In short, code included inside a constructor should set the newly created object to its initial, stable state.For example, if you have a counter object with an attribute called count, you need to set count to zero in the constructor:
count = 0;
Initializing Attributes
Initializing attributes is a common function performed within a constructor.
The Default Constructor
If you write a class and do not include a constructor, the class will still compile and you can still use it. If the class provides no explicit constructor, such as in C++ and Java, a default constructor will be provided.
The default constructor calls only the constructor of the superclass. For example, if a constructor is not provided for the Cabbie class, the following default constructor is inserted:
public Cabbie(){ super();}
Perhaps the default constructor may be sufficient in some cases; however, in most cases some sort of memory initialization should be performed. Regardless of the situation, it is good programming practice to always include at least one constructor in a class. In any case, if there are attributes in the class, they should be initialized in a constructor.
Providing a Constructor
The rule of thumb is that you should always provide a constructor, even if you do not plan on doing anything inside it. You can provide a constructor with nothing in it and then add to it later. While there is technically nothing wrong with using the default constructor provided by the compiler, it is always nice to know exactly what your code looks like.
Using Multiple Constructors
In many cases, an object can be constructed in more than one way. To accommodate this situation you need to provide more than one constructor. For example, let's consider the Count class presented below.
public class Count { int count; public Count(){ count = 0; }}
On the one hand we simply want to initialize the attribute count to count to zero: We can easily accomplish this by having a constructor initialize count to zero as follows:
public Count(){ count = 0;}
On the other hand, we might want to pass an initialization parameter that allows count to be set to various numbers:
public Count (int number){ count = number;}
This is called overloading a method (overloading pertains to all methods, not just constructors). Most O-O languages provide functionality for overloading a method.
Overloading Methods
Overloading allows a programmer to use the same method name over and over, as long as the signature of the method is different each time. The signature consists of the method name and a parameter list (see Figure 1).
Thus, the following methods all have different signatures:
public void getCab();// different parameter listpublic void getCab (String cabbieName);// different parameter listpublic void getCab (int numberOfPassengers);
Figure 1: The components of a signature.
By using different signatures, you can construct objects differently depending on the constructor used.
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text: News & Events / News print News View All Faculty Alumni Students General RSS Feeds YEAR 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 « Back 05.23.13 Professor Mark Noferi and BLS Students Advocate for National Reform for Immigrants' Rights Immigrants detained in deportation proceedings deserve legal representation, writes Professor Mark Noferi in a new Slate op-ed—a right that "criminal defendants have received for 50 years." While other elements of immigration reform spark controversy, providing lawyers to detainees "would be a surprisingly easy sell politically," he writes. Professor Noferi adds that lawyers "pay for themselves" by increasing efficiency, reducing detention, and lowering societal costs of caring for abandoned children. The Slate op-ed is one of several recently published pieces in which Professor Noferi gives voice to immigrants' rights, including a Michigan Journal of Race & Law article, "Cascading Constitutional Deprivation: The Right To Appointed Counsel For Mandatorily Detained Immigrants Pending Removal Proceedings" (2012), and several Crimmigration.com guest blog posts on appointed counsel and detention reform. In an interview with CNBC today, Professor Noferi also singled out pending immigration legislation provisions on border security. "The bill doesn't say it clear out, but in my opinion it creates a DMZ like North and South Korea, except [it's] between the U.S. and Mexico—our third largest trading partner," he told CNBC. Policymakers have taken notice of Professor Noferi's expertise as well. After the Senate introduced its new immigration bill, the New York City Bar Association cited Professor Noferi's work in their materials supporting appointed counsel and reduced detention. He later met with Congressional staff as part of the City Bar Immigration and Nationality Committee, which the Senate Judiciary Committee then solicited to help analyze more than 300 proposed amendments. Within hours, Professor Noferi and the City Bar's rapid-response team, assisted by BLS students Heather Oh '13, Timothy Poodiack '14, Erin Ryan '15, Jared Brenner '15, and Jonathan Myers '15, drafted analyses for the Senate staff's use in the next day's hearing. This emphasis on student involvement has defined Professor Noferi's teaching at BLS. In his Constitutional Civil Rights & Immigration Seminar, he discusses cutting-edge immigrants' rights issues—and then students can take action. Most recently, Mary Bruch '14, Beile Lindner '13, Alexandra Olsen '13, and Alex O'Sullivan-Pierce '13 assisted in filing Freedom of Information Act requests regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) new computerized tool to assess risk and make detention decisions. The FOIA requests are timely: immigration detention—a.k.a. "immcarceration"—will affect nearly 429,000 immigrants this year, Professor Noferi noted. And as he co-wrote in a Newark Star-Ledger op-ed, ICE's "computers now determine immigrants' liberty based on secret algorithms, which ICE officers must presumptively follow." This method raises serious transparency and civil liberties concerns, Professor Noferi said, which he and his students will analyze using ICE's responses. "Brooklyn gives students a great opportunity to advocate for change on issues they care about," he added. Professor Noferi has also taken students to City Bar meetings, where they can discuss immigration reform with practitioners, professors, and advocates working in the field. The visits "open doors not only to professional contacts, but also incredible learning experiences for students," he said. Among those students was Rebecca McBride '13, head of BLS' Immigration Court Observation Project, whose City Bar visit coincided with President Obama's unveiling of his comprehensive immigration reform plan. "At the City Bar meeting, I not only witnessed how practicing immigration lawyers analyzed potential changes in the law, but also how they organized to actively participate in shaping these laws," McBride said. "They did not sit silently and wait for change to befall them. Rather, they pressed for change in the most problematic areas." Professor Noferi's work adds a new dimension to BLS's award-winning immigration programs. The Safe Harbor Clinic, headed by Professor Stacy Caplow, Director of the Law School's Clinical Education Program, and Associate Professor Dan Smulian, received an award from the New York City Council last summer for its decades of helping persecuted immigrants find refuge in America. Professor Maryellen Fullerton, recipient of a Fulbright Scholar's award, is currently researching EU and U.S. legal responses to refugee forced migration, her field of specialty. And Lauren Burke, creator of BLS's new Immigrant Youth Law Clinic, was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list of lawyers making an impact. Before joining Brooklyn Law School's legal writing faculty in 2010, Professor Noferi was a Public Interest Fellow at the Seton Hall Center for Social Justice, where he supervised law students on immigrants' rights litigation such as constitutional challenges to ICE home raids and day laborers' wage and hour claims. Professor Noferi clerked for the Hon. Harold Baer, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, he served as a speechwriter for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington, D.C. Email this article Share Read the latest issue of Brooklyn Law Notes


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Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Are Dating & Clearly Into Each Other Says Body Language Expert!
By the looks of their cozy walks and pancake date, we're thinking these two are a couple — aren't you?
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez keep denying that their an item, but photos snapped over the weekend reveal quite the opposite! HollywoodLife.com spoke to Beverly Hills based body language expert and author of Toxic Men Dr. Lillian Glass, and she reveals that Justin and Selena might be more than friends! The popstar and Disney beauty were snapped taking a stroll around Miami Beach and in Justin's tour bus Dec. 18, and Dr. Glass says these photos tell it all!
"They are in step literally which means they are like minded," she says. "They even bow their heads at the same time. In one photo she's holding on to him which means she's looking to Justin for support. They are flirting and in the dating stage, but this could be the beginning of a big romance."
We told you that his manager told Justin to keep his relationship with Selena a secret, because it could ultimately hurt his record sales.
"Everyone wants to be [Justin's] girlfriend … and it angers young teens that he's being seen out with Selena," a source told HollywoodLife.com. "It's so obvious, though, and kind of cute. … There is no way Justin is like a brother to Selena. He's so much more."
- Photo one: In step, both like minded, she's flirting with Justin.
- Photo two: Selena is holding onto Justin for support and they both have their heads bowed down, which means they are like minded again … a cute little couple.
- Photo three: The fact that Justin's holding her at her waist means he is guiding her, but not low enough to have too much sexuality. But it's kind of on the verge of it, it shows he's attracted to her, and he's guiding her in a manly way, he has pressure on her back.
- Photo four: Justin is self conscious around Selena and she is too. Nothing sexual going on right now, they are still in the flirting and dating stage.


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Google has announced they are halting the sales of Google Glass, the highly experimental, highly controversial eye-gear that looks like something straight out of Star Trek. (See "The Game" from Season 5 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.) Synonymous with "Wearable Tech" Glass promised a future seen only in video games: personal heads-up displays (or HUDs) for its users—sorry, wearers. Since its introduction in 2012, Glass won attention for its groundbreaking technology and application; but since then, popularity for the technology turned. Restaurant and movie theatre bans and certain infamous endorsements did little to raise its popularity; and with this recent announcement, tech experts are speculating as to why Glass did not take off:
The cost. Let's see, I can either buy a new computer, or get a pair of Glass.
The aesthetic. Seriously, I look like I feel. Awkward, but empowered.
Privacy. When wearing Glass, I'm sharing my experience with the world…and that doesn't need your consent.
I have an idea why: Glass isn't all that. [Read more…] about Google Glass: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time


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Wanda gives the Jackson name a lot of class
West Hollywood, Cal., The Knitting Factory, Jan. 17, 2004
By Dan MacIntosh
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - The unending battle of the pop chart divas is one of the more annoying aspects of today's music scene. Who is graduating from teen star to pop adulthood this week, and who last kissed Madonna? The media loves this sort of trash, but the folks gathered at The Knitting Factory probably couldn't have cared less.
This is because Wanda Jackson - at least in the eyes of the in-the-know - was Queen For A Day (of rockabilly, that is) during her late night Hollywood club appearance.
Backed by the three-piece Cadillac Angels, Jackson acted the kind and generous hostess throughout this roots rock celebration, in stark contrast to so many of today's overtly self-centered and overpaid attention whores. This adoring crowd sang along with every hit, as Jackson danced to the beat. So by the time Jackson got to "Let's Have A Party," her wish was this audience's command.
It mattered not if her selections were obscure or familiar ("I Gotta Know"), because this was one overwhelming - and especially knowledgeable - rock and roll audience. Jackson, who wore a red-fringed top, rocked like no 50-year recording veteran really has a right to do.
And all the while, she filled the between-song time with stories about dating Elvis and touring with Jerry Lee Lewis. Who could ask for more?
She also drew liberally from last year's outstanding "Heart Trouble" album, and even without that album's celebrity guest list on hand (such as The Cramps and Elvis Costello) to help her out in person, these recent repertoire additions mostly went off without a hitch. Well, she did forget a few of the words to the album's title track. But as she put it, that only made the song that much longer.
Toward the end of the show, Jackson took a few moments to share about her conversion to Christianity with the crowd. This brief statement of faith was followed by a rousing version of Hank Williams' "I Saw The Light." Nevertheless, it didn't seem to matter if she was singing gospel, country (The Louvin Brothers "Cash on the Barrel Head," for instance) or one of her many rockabilly favs because nothing tonight looked out of place in this queen's court. She no longer sounds like the teenager she was in the 50s, yet her voice still retains a surprising amount of spunk.
Best of all, this show was all Wanda, all the time. Instead of boring the crowd with an introductory instrumental medley of hits by her backing band - as far too many 'musical legends' are apt to do in concert nowadays - Jackson came out swinging and singing from get-go. This is one performer that gives the last name of Jackson a whole lot of class - unlike that disgraced king of pop. So long live the queen!
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Blake Shelton dropped a fiery video for his new single, "God's Country," on April 12.
The new tune is the first sample of music from Blake's upcoming 12th studio album. Penned by Michael Hardy, Jordan Schmidt and Devin Dawson, "God's Country" follows Blake's previous Top 10 single, "Turnin' Me On," which was featured on his 2017 album, Texoma Shore.
"'God's Country' is a song that has a strong and deep meaningful lyric, but at the same time it leaves it up to the listeners interpretation," Blake said. "But no matter where you are from or where you're standing it is my belief that you're standing in God's Country. It's really about a state of mind. Wherever you're from and how you feel about that place. For me it's about being from Oklahoma—where I was born, raised and still live today."
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Miley Cyrus is coming back to the small screen this fall with a two-episode guest spot on Two and a Half Men.
The actress will play Missi, an old family friend of Ashton Kutcher's character, Walden, who comes to visit his house for a week. Since it's a comedy, we all know it can't be that simple so it seems Miley will develop a relationship with Jake (Angus T. Jones).
Before even announcing she'd be appearing on the show, ex-Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen was complimenting the young star on her new haircut, Us Weekly reported.
The Twitter buddies exchanged compliments, with Miley telling Sheen she loved his new show, Anger Management. The actor immediately let the Hannah Montana star know how much he liked her platinum blond pixie cut and invited her over to his house for a viewing party.
Wonder if that invitation still stands?
The tenth season of Two and Half Men premieres Thursday, September 27 on CBS.
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TOWNER, N.D. — I've always tried to do my part when it comes to benevolent causes in my community and around the region. I work hard to raise money for student scholarships through our Dollars for Scholars chapter, I've donated a little of my time as an entertainer to help people fight cancer at Relay For Life events, I agree to donate blood whenever I can and I always buy raffle tickets, popcorn, candy bars, fruit and most anything else kids sell to support their FFA chapter, 4H club, scout troop or church group.
But I've never been asked to be the target at a dunking booth ... until last week. As the country song says, everyone's kind of famous in a small town. I guess I was the closest thing to a local celebrity they could think of in my nearby town of Rugby, N.D., when the Lutheran church was recruiting victims/honorees for their dunking booth at the Pierce County Fair.
I'm an old church council president at our family's church, so I understand the need to fund-raise for special projects, missions and congregational youth groups. When one of the Sunday School and youth leaders at Bethany Lutheran asked if I would sit in their honored dunking chair for a couple hours, all I could do was smile and say, "sure, I'd be happy to."
Luckily, it was a hot, muggy evening and the typically chilly water in the dunking tank had all day to moderate to a tolerably tepid temperature. I wore my good, dunking hat, a wettable palm leaf straw, so the passersby would recognize me as the locally "famous" author who'd written this Cowboy Logic column for 20 years and had traveled the after-dinner speaking circuit for nearly as long.
"Step right up, and dunk the cowboy. Help Ryan Taylor make a big splash, a real impact right here at your Pierce County Fair!" The church leader turned carnival barker did well in her transformation. "Aw, come on," I'd add from my seat, "It's just a buck a ball ... and it's for the kids!" as I tried to separate our booth from the nearby ventures that gave you a chance to spend $5 on three darts to possibly win a $2 toy.
The money was going toward the Sunday School program and the church youth who were planning a mission trip to serve others less fortunate.
It was a fun perch from which to watch the activities of a good, old fashioned small town county fair. Families partook in the fun of the midway, music, exhibits and livestock that came to the fairgrounds.
Since I got to reload my own seat after each dunking I got to admire the high tech handiwork and elementary engineering of the seat dropping apparatus. They had welded a Vise-Grip locking plier in place that would spring the seat loose each time the softball hit the target attached to the rod that was positioned between the handles of the Vise-Grip. Ingenious, or, well, practical.
And, I learned who my friends were as people wound up their throwing arm to put me into the drink. I always thought my wife kind of liked me, and we had just celebrated our 11-year anniversary. But, even she had a gleam in her eye as she handed her cash over to the church carnie barker for the volume discount of six balls for $3.
I knew I had married a softball player of some skill and renown from her days of farmball, college and league softball team play. My wife throws "like a girl," and by that I mean darn good, highly accurate and with gusto.
She smiled with satisfaction as my head went under and my hat floated on the surface. She looked my way and said, "remember, it's for the kids." It was, but I think she still enjoys the sport, too.


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Dick Trickle (C), with granddaughter Courtney and Charlotte promoter Humpy Wheeler (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
Dick Trickle could strike such an iconic pose -- cup of coffee in one hand, cigarette in the other.
In a sport filled with legends, this man was a classic.
How many racers had a cigarette lighter installed in their cars?
He was an ironman, seemingly indefatigable, running short track races around the country, and winning them at a truly prodigious rate in his prime. Then establishing himself on the NASCAR Cup tour
Now one of stock car racing's biggest winners ever, and one of the sport's most famous Midwesterners, is dead, at 71.
Trickle apparently killing himself at a cemetery not far from Charlotte Motor Speedway. He's lived in this area for the past 20 years, west of the track, in Iron Station.
The Wisconsin-to-NASCAR connection is a famous one, with stars like Alan Kulwicki. And Trickle was one of the first, and one of the biggest, when Charlotte promoters Richard Howard and Humpy Wheeler first began inviting him to the spring 600 in the early 1970s.
Trickle finally turned from journeyman to full-timer when the Stavola brothers hired him in 1989, pairing him with crew chief Jimmy Fennig (an eventual Hall of Famer himself, now working with Carl Edwards and Jack Roush). Trickle's reputation was so solid that the Stavolas picked him to take Bobby Allison's ride, after the 1988 Daytona 500 winner's career-ending crash at Pocono. Trickle went on to win rookie of the year on the major league tour, at age 48.
Though Trickle never won a Cup race in his 24 seasons, he was always a player, driving for an assortment of owners, including Bud Moore, Butch Mock, Junie Donlavey, Larry Hedrick, Dave Marcis and Cale Yarborough. His last Cup start was in the spring of 2002.
And the death of Dick Trickle has hit men in this sport hard.
Not just the usual sympathies and all that.
In part because Dick Trickle was a classic NASCAR journeyman, a true stock car racing Everyman.
And one of America's winningest drivers in his prime, with well over 1,000 feature wins.
"Man, Dick was a legend, especially up in Wisconsin short track racing where I grew up," Matt Kenseth was saying Friday morning, as practice began for Saturday night's All-Star race.
"Dick Trickle... to Midwestern short track racing, and to the sport in his era, he was the guy," Brad Keselowski adds. "He was the most significant racer in that era. And his loss, in a way, is a symbol of the end of that era, that genre.
"It's very sad to see."
Trickle died Thursday, just as Charlotte Motor Speedway opened for the All-Star weekend, at 71.
He never won a Cup event, but he was a fixture on the stock car tour for years.
And Dick Trickle was quite a character...
"Really, that era of stock car racing up in that area died with him," Kenseth said. "It's just crazy, surprising news. I don't really know all the circumstances.
"Last time I saw him was at Slinger Speedway (in Wisconsin) last year. He always went up there for years and years. He actually created the Slinger Nationals with Wayne Erickson, the guy that owned the track.
"I talked to him for awhile; it was right after the news came out that I was moving to Joe Gibbs Racing. He peeked in the trailer, and of course he asked if we had any beer in there. And he came in.
"Man, we sat in there for two hours last July... and that was the last time I saw him.
"We talked for two hours. He always had a unique way of looking at things. He had a ton of common sense, and he was really smart, and always had a really funny way of putting things.
"He went on for about an hour just about my move and what he thought was great about it, and just a lot of other interesting things that made me feel good.
"Ninety percent of the stuff he told me through all the years I raced with him proved to be right.
"That's the last time I saw him. I'm still in shock. I don't really get it."
Kenseth, at 41, came up in a different generation from Trickle.
"By the time I started racing short track stuff (in the Midwest), Dick was down here running Cup," Kenseth recalled. "He was gone (from the Wisconsin scene) for probably five or six years before I started.
"Being a little kid in the stands I used to watch him a lot. And, man, there was some great races up there.
"I remember the first time we went to Madison (Wis.); there was an ASA (American Speed Association) race, and it was Trickle and Mark Martin and Ted Musgrave and Bobby Dotter... and I mean it was just like you couldn't believe all the people who were in that race, like Alan Kulwicki.
"Dick is a legend, and for a lot things: For the way he raced... for the way he conducted himself after the races... for all his different formulas for how much sleep he needed...
"He just was a racer's racer. That's all he cared about, and all he worked on, and all he did."
And just why should Wisconsin have produced such a disproportionate number of really great racers?
"When I started racing short tracks, there were still a lot of places you could race up there," Kenseth said. "The season is relatively short; from middle of April or beginning of May until October 1st. So the season was short... but you could run five nights a week at weekly shows. The only nights that you couldn't race was Mondays and Tuesdays.
"So there were a lot of tracks, and a lot of race cars.
"And they had a different way of racing. If you had fast time (in qualifying), you always had to start in the back; so you had to learn how to work traffic and pass cars.
"Now certainly there's been a fair amount of time passed since he raced a lot, and things change over the years. But at Slinger, he would always come back up there and just sign autographs and be the grand marshal and wave the flag.
"Anybody that knew Dick -- when you'd talk to him about stuff, I don't know that I ever talked to him about anything except for racing.... so I'm not really sure what he did outside of racing once he retired. You'd ask him something, and he'd give you a three or four word answer, and then he'd go off into a racing story.
"Almost every conversation I ever had with him was about racing. Either current events or going forward, or he'd be telling me what he thought about something, or stories from the past...because he had a whole bunch of them."
Dick Trickle at the wheel, 1989 (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
mike, dick was recently diagnosed w/cancer,recently had a hip replacement and was having heart troubles.makes sense, going out with a bang instead of fizzle.
He was a great racer and a hell of a guy. Brad K. is right, when he died it was the end of an era. Back in the golden days of NASCAR and short track racing. I had wondered what he was up to lately. There weren't any articles about him. I'd like to see more articles about guys like Dick, Dave Marcus, etc. Let the newer fans of the sport know about it's history and legendary drivers. RIP Dick.
I added this column to the earlier one for two reasons:
1.) Matt Kenseth saying that all he and Trickle talked about were racing and current events.
2.) The two posters here mentioned the pain Trickle was in the last couple of years - pain that the doctors he saw couldn't pinpoint.
Please add 3.) fr. the last poster - "I wonder what he was up to lately."
I wasn't around his circuit enough to know if he partook of the Motor Racing Outreach services - or if he was more private and went to church at his Wis. &/or N.C. homes.
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Tom Glocer is CEO of Reuters and he is also a blogger. Where better for him to publish an article called "Trust in the Age of Citizen Journalism" than on his blog?
The article is the text of a speech Glocer gave at "Globes Media Conference in Tel Aviv on Monday 11 December 2006." About the talk he says: "It's about trust in media today, taking into account the growing
popularity of blogging and all other types of citizen journalism."
Reminds me that when I met Lobsang Wangyal, the Reuters reporter amongst exiled Tibetans, he was most interesting in talking about his newly formed Association of Tibetan Journalists. The Association's biggest task, he told me, is preparing citizens to be journalists by educating them about strong and respected news practices — values, ethics and skills.
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Under this agreement E.ON will migrate and host the infrastructure in a private cloud using IBM SmartCloud, at one of IBM's Data Centers in Germany. At the same time, the new platform will be upgraded with new analytics and management tools based on IBM Software that will allow E.ON to provide higher-value-added data services for customers. For example, customers will have the ability to view their usage profiles for information about time-of-use-rates and changes in use patterns that can be compared with historical data.
Additionally, the platform's scalability and low start-up and operation costs will provide the flexibility for future growth. Besides the first target markets Germany, Austria and Switzerland, both companies aim to further market the new platform jointly in other international markets.
"We now have the tools to make much more comprehensive use of the technical possibilities that smart metering opens up both for the customers and for the business," said Robert Pflugl, Managing Director, E.ON Metering GmbH. "The two companies are combining their competencies in energy management and data processing in order to offer the best solutions to the future challenges of the energy turnaround."
This collaboration is aimed at developing a new and innovative system that will lay important foundations for future business decisions and individual service offerings for E.ON customers and for the further development of business models. Yet the scalable service-oriented architecture works exclusively with standard components and also supports third party integration.
"Real-time data evaluation in a smart grid is growing increasingly important for energy enterprises due mainly to the rising use of renewable energy," said Martin Hauske, Head of the Energy Business at IBM Germany. "Continued focus on data analysis and process optimization will lead to more growth and greater efficiency in the industry."
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Munich-based E.ON Metering is a provider of products and solutions in the field of Smart Metering, Smart Grid, Smart Home and Demand Side Management. The company's portfolio covers all relevant aspects concerning Smart Metering -- from consultation, providing and operating the devices to an individual real-time energy management. E.ON Metering is part of the E.ON Group, one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies. At facilities across Europe, Russia, and North America, more than 72,000 employees generated approximately EUR132 billion in sales in 2012. In addition, there are businesses in Brazil and Turkey, managed jointly with partners. E.ON's diversified business consists of renewables, conventional and decentralized power generation with almost 68 GW of generation capacity, natural gas, energy trading, retail and distribution. The Group supplies around 26 million customers with energy.
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