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Nik #140220 - '95 R1100RSL | '88 K75C | '77 R100RS | '06 DL650
Maine Airhead A/M
Helmets don't save lives but loud pipes do?
I'm an MOA member currently living and working in Serbia. I bought an '85 K100RS with 82000Km on the clock in December and started riding in April. I've done about 6000Km since then and have had a nice time riding in Serbia and the neighboring countries. The attached picture is of me on my K bike up in the Fruska Gora mountains about an hour north of Belgrade.
My '85 K-Brick...I think this was heading East in Wyoming after coming down through the Tetons. Man, I just wanted to turn back around when I got home.
Here is my '87 K75C, waiting patiently for me to take her out for a ride
1987 K75C - sold
My 92 K75s... Acquired her not too long ago. She's just a baby with 28,000 on the odometer. She's got a long way to go!
Here is my '94 with ABS which I bought last year with 12,000 miles - I'm the 3rd owner. I installed a Rifle Superbike fairing professionally painted in Glasurit Mystic Red. This is my 2nd K75. I had a 93 for my first bike, sold it a couple of years ago, and regretted it ever since! Now I'm happy again...
Wally Gingerich
Shaker Heights, OH
^^ Great color. I really like that fairing. I'm also upset I got the K75C fairing instead of that one......almost.
Owner/Designer, LampOneDesigns.com
Love my LT
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Here is a picture of my K1 just freshly washed. Sad to say that it is now in the shop awaiting repairs for overheating and oil leaks. But I still would not give it up, truly one of a kind.
Allways stunning to see a K1. Even after almost 20 years. I still find it hard to believe that U could combine a tomato red and mustard yellow paint sceme to acheive that Look.
well, it isn't perfect, but it is damn well good enough for me! ... for now.
1993 k1100rs. it has the hard saddle bags but i've removed them for the time being.
i plan to take the bike to a shop this winter and have the paint on the fairings redone to remove the rash and chips from age. also may have the same shop redo the k1100rs decal as they claim on the website to be able to redo those kinds of things too. and will be getting a new seat as the 11yr old corbin has run out of borrowed time, and lost its last legs months ago.
MY girl and Big Mike in Teague , Tx


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This group is open to youth in Middle School (6th - 8th grade) and meets each Wednesday from 6:00 – 7:30 pm. This curriculum based group topics include self-identity, relating to others, building trust, relationships and friendships, and getting along in society. Parental permission is required for this group. For more information or to sign up for the group please contact Jess Cook.
Parents of Middle School youth are welcomed to join us for a parents' discussion group every Wednesday during group. This session allows for parents to ask questions, find resources, and connect with parents of other Middle School youth.

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Douglas J. Feith, who is the UnderSecretary of Defense for Policy, lives in one of the better Maryland suburbs, on a street of large and unhandsome Colonial homes. The interior of Feith's house has space and light, but it is furnished in a mostly expedient manner; Feith and his wife, Tatiana, have four children—ages eight to twenty-one—and the house feels very much theirs.
The exception is Feith's library. It is apparent that he has devoted considerable care and money to its design and, in particular, to its collection, which numbers at least five thousand volumes. The floors and shelves are dark oak, and the walls are covered in hunter-green wallpaper. The library is not in the style of the high-station Washington bureaucrat who wants to telegraph his indispensability; there are few photographs of Feith in the company of potentates and prime ministers and presidents. Instead, Feith has filled the room with images of figures who have earned his admiration. Busts of Washington and Lincoln sit on the shelves; Churchill scowls in the direction of Feith's desk. A black-and-white portrait of Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, hangs over a green leather couch. In his collection, history has displaced nearly every other subject; fiction—his favorite is Nabokov—has been exiled to the basement. The library is weighted disproportionately to the history of the British Empire, and Feith has spent many hours schooling himself in the schemes and follies of the British on the playing fields of the Middle East.
History serves another purpose, Feith suggests: it provides solace to leaders who are misunderstood by their peers. "When history looks back," he told me, "I want to be in the class of people who did the right thing, the sensible thing, and not necessarily the fashionable thing, the thing that met the aesthetic of the moment."
Feith, who announced earlier this year that he will be leaving his post by this summer—he said he hopes to write a book about his experiences—has not often met the reigning aesthetic of Washington. It has been Feith's job, as the top policy adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his departing deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, to help build the intellectual framework for the Bush Administration's campaign against terrorism. His detractors see him as an ideologue who manipulated intelligence to bring about the invasion of Iraq. His main nemesis on Capitol Hill, Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told me that Feith deceived not only the White House but Congress as well. Yet the criticism of Feith in Washington goes beyond his ideology, to his competence. Even some fellow-neoconservatives, who have been lacerating in their criticism of Rumsfeld for his management of postwar Iraq, have asked whether Feith is better at reading history than at shaping it. "I don't know whether Feith deserves more praise for supporting George W. Bush's foreign policy or more criticism for being an agent of Rumsfeld," William Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, said.
Fifteen hundred people report to Feith in the Pentagon, where he is known for the profligacy of his policy suggestions. Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, has been much quoted as calling Feith "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth," apparently for ideas he proposed to Franks and his planners.
Franks's view is not universally shared by the military. Marine General Peter Pace, who has just been nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says of Feith, "Early on, he didn't realize that the way he presented his positions, the way he was being perceived, put him in a bit of a hole. But he changed his ways." Apparently, he became more consultative, particularly with his counterparts on the Joint Chiefs. Pace, who calls Feith a "true American patriot," said he did not understand Franks's attack. "This is not directed at any individual," Pace said, "but the less secure an individual is in his thought processes and in his own capacities, the more prone they were to be intimidated by Doug, because he's so smart." (A spokesman for Franks, Michael Hayes, said in an e-mail that the General would not comment for this article: "What do you think he has to gain by talking about Feith?")
Feith's most prominent defender is Rumsfeld, who told me that Feith is "one of the brightest people you or I will ever come across. He's diligent, very well read, and insightful." Rumsfeld explained Feith's trouble with Franks this way: "If you're a combatant commander and you're in the area of operations and you're hearing from people in Washington, what you're hearing is frequently not on point to what you're worrying about at the moment, just as the reverse is also true."
In conversation, Feith is not often on point. The first time we met, I was prepared to ask about his role in the management of postwar Iraq. Feith, though, preferred to discuss the influence on his thinking of Edmund Burke, the political philosopher who feared instability as much as neoconservatives seem to embrace it. I asked Feith to imagine what Burke would have thought about the Bush Administration's experiment in Iraq. "Burke warns in his writings about the danger of political abstractions put forward as universal principles," Feith said. Burke, he continued, "wrote brilliantly and bitterly about the French Revolution and the danger to a society of a bunch of people thinking they could remake society rationally and get rid of all the institutions that have grown up over centuries and reflect the distilled wisdom of numerous people." But the Bush Administration, Feith added, did nothing of the sort.
To draft Burke into the Bush Cabinet is typical of Feith: counterintuitive and clever, maybe too clever. He rejected the idea that Bush was seeking to remake Iraq in America's image: "I believe that what makes President Bush's policy of democracy promotion better, wiser, more careful than what one could describe as starry-eyed Wilsonianism is precisely the recognition that we should not be taking the particulars of our political views and our institutions and trying to impose them in places where there is not fertile soil." He also said that the idea of "Shiite democracy," a system in which clerics would play a large role, does not frighten him. "In different parts of the world, clerics play a larger or smaller role in the political process. The idea that there may be a country where clerics play a larger role in the political process than they do in America is not inherently antidemocratic or alarming," he said. "What the President talks about is that it is the nature of man to want to be free. I don't think that violates Burke's warnings."
Feith says that he is confident of the Administration's ultimate vindication in Iraq. But he is not indifferent to his current reputation, and during three long interviews and several telephone conversations he was indefatigable in his own defense. "I'm not going to be making some Oprah-like confessions," he told me at the start.
Feith is fifty-one, but his face is unlined; his hair is partly gray, but thick and moppish. His glasses magnify his eyes, making him appear owlish, and his mouth is set in an expression of bemusement that can slip into impatient condescension when he hears something that he thinks is foolish, which is often. He has the capacity, however, for self-deprecation. He told me that when Franks's characterization of his brainpower became public he jokingly suggested to his staff that he call a press conference to deny that he was in fact the "fucking stupidest guy" on earth.
Feith's first job in government came shortly after he graduated from Harvard, as an intern to a subcommittee chaired by Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, whose office was a locus of neoconservative thought. Apart from tours at the National Security Council and the Pentagon during the Reagan Administration (he was a top aide to the neoconservative Richard Perle, who was then an assistant secretary of defense), he has spent his professional life in the private practice of law—he received a law degree from Georgetown University—and as an insistent advocate of neoconservative causes.
One day, Feith showed me around his library. We started at the shelves devoted to Churchill and the lesser occupants of 10 Downing Street in the years before the Second World War. He pulled down a volume about Stanley Baldwin, who served as Britain's Prime Minister in the mid-nineteen-thirties. "Baldwin was considered the most successful politician of his day," Feith explained. "But the only people who have heard of him today see him as a jerk"—because, Feith explained, he dithered while Germany re-armed. Like Neville Chamberlain, he said, Baldwin did not understand the nature of the Nazi enemy.
Feith detoured through Disraeli—"He was attacked by many people, the way the neocons get attacked, because he had this fascinating idea that, as he put it, the workingman is a natural conservative"—and then became absorbed in Elie Kedourie's "In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth." He looked up long enough to ask, "You've read the McMahon-Hussein correspondence of 1916, haven't you?"
Kedourie set out to prove, through a close reading of letters between Sir Henry McMahon, the British high commissioner in Egypt, and Sharif Hussein, the leader of the Arab Revolt, that the Arabs led guilt-ridden British officials into granting the Sharif vast territory, including Palestine. But what interested Feith especially is the story, embedded in the episode, of an intelligence failure: "British intelligence was told that there were going to be whole units of the Ottoman military ready to defect if the British would only give support to the Hashemites. Well, the Arab units of the Ottoman military didn't defect." Feith smiled. In the Iraq war, it was hoped that the C.I.A. would bring Iraqi Army divisions to the American side, but that did not happen. Feith, like others in Rumsfeld's circle, is disparaging of the C.I.A.
Feith has been, for decades, a prolific writer of op-eds and articles. In the late nineteen-seventies, he wrote about America's energy supply, arguing, against conventional wisdom, that oil embargoes could be more damaging to the economies of Arab oil exporters than to the United States. In the nineteen-eighties, as a deputy to Perle, Feith focussed his attention—and skepticism—on arms control and détente. In the early nineteen-nineties, he predicted that the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians would fail.
His interests are eclectic, but they are tied together by a single theme: a mistrust of any policy that resembles appeasement—of opec, the Kremlin, Yasir Arafat, or states that sponsor terrorism. He derides the usefulness of treaties struck between democratic and authoritarian states. "If we had mutual trust and real security, you wouldn't need these agreements," Feith said, "and if you need these agreements, then it is an illusion to say that you have mutual trust and security." In the nineteen-eighties, the neoconservatives believed that the Soviet Union could be defeated, not merely contained. "The so-called realist school said that the Soviet Union would never collapse, and that efforts to make it collapse are running the risk of instability," Feith said. "The Reagan, neocon view was considered lunacy. I pride myself that I was on the right side of that debate. The intellectual class was on the wrong side." The intellectual class—a synonym, in Feith's mind, for the liberal élite—misunderstood the Oslo peace process as well, he said, for the same essential reason: the belief that the authoritarian Arafat could be appeased.
Feith formed his views as a teen-ager in the Philadelphia suburbs during the Vietnam War. "I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot," he told me. "Chamberlain wasn't popular in my house." Feith's father lost his parents, three brothers, and four sisters in German death camps. "What I was hearing from the antiwar movement, with which I had a fair amount of sympathy . . . were thoughts about how the world works, how war is not the answer. I mean, the idea that we could have peace no matter what anybody else in the world does didn't make sense to me. It's a solipsism. When I took all these nice-sounding ideas and compared it to my own little personal 'Cogito, ergo sum,' which was my understanding that my family got wiped out by Hitler, and that all this stuff about working things out—well, talking to Hitler to resolve the problem didn't make any sense to me. The kind of people who put bumper stickers on their car that declare that 'war is not the answer,' are they making a serious comment? What's the answer to Pearl Harbor? What's the answer to the Holocaust?" He continued, "The surprising thing is not that there are so many Jews who are neocons but that there are so many who are not."
Feith's library includes a large selection of books on Zionism, but he did not linger there. "I'm not looking to aggravate a distortion about me," Feith said. The distortion, he said, is that his religion, or at least his longtime support for right-wing Israeli leaders, has affected his policy recommendations to Rumsfeld. Feith dismisses this criticism as a willful misunderstanding of his motives. "My interest in democratization predates the focus on the Middle East," he says. Rumsfeld, for his part, derides the idea that the Administration was manipulated by its sub-Cabinet-level Jewish officials. "I suppose the implication of that is that the President and the Vice-President and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs," he said.
One afternoon, I asked Feith what had gone wrong in Iraq.
"Your assumption is that everything went wrong," he replied.
I hadn't said that, but I spoke of the loss of American lives—more than fifteen hundred soldiers, most of whom died after the declared end of major combat operations. This number, I said, strikes many people as a large and terrible loss.
"Based on what?" Feith asked. "It's a large sacrifice. It's a serious loss. It's an absolute disaster for the families. Nobody can possibly deny how horrible the loss is for the families involved. But this was an operation to prevent the next, as it were, 9/11, the next major attack that could kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Americans, and Iraq is a country of twenty-five million people and it was a major enterprise."
Before the war, the Administration argued that the overthrow of the Baath regime would prevent a marriage of Al Qaeda terrorists to Saddam's chemical and biological weapons. But after the fall of Saddam the United States and its coalition partners discovered that Saddam had apparently destroyed his stockpiles of unconventional weapons, and the Administration has been unable to prove a close operational relationship between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi regime.
I asked Feith if he would have recommended the invasion of Iraq if he knew then what he knows now.
"The main rationale was not based on intelligence," Feith said. "It was known to anyone who read newspapers and knew history. Saddam had used nerve gas, he had invaded his neighbors more than once, he had attacked other neighbors, he was hostile to us, he supported numerous terrorist groups. It's true that he didn't have a link that we know of to 9/11. . . . But he did give safe haven to terrorists."
Feith went on, "Given the ease, as everybody knows, with which one can reconstitute stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons if you have the capabilities which he had, I don't think the rationale for the war hinged on the existence of stockpiles." The postmortem reports of C.I.A. weapons inspectors confirm the view that Saddam remained interested in one day reconstituting his weapons-of-mass-destruction programs, Feith said, and went on, "There's a certain revisionism in people looking back and identifying the main intelligence error"—the assumption of stockpiles—"and then saying that our entire policy was built on that error." The case against Iraq, he argues today, was only partly about W.M.D.s.
One day, I asked Feith to describe the importance to him of Lincoln. He admires Lincoln, he said, for many reasons, but in particular for the stalwart way that Lincoln confronted evil. When I suggested that Feith might also admire Lincoln because Lincoln shifted the rationale for his war in the middle of the fighting, Feith replied, with enthusiasm, "I never thought of that. That's right."
His answer surprised me. I had expected him to say something like "The Bush Administration has not changed the rationale for the war."
The next morning, Feith telephoned. He had evidently been thinking about his answer, because he had searched out a better one. He found it in an article by Nicholas Lemann, published in this magazine __shortly before the beginning of the war, in which Feith was quoted as saying: "When you can think that if we do things right, and if we help the Iraqis, and if the Iraqis show an ability to create a humane representative government for themselves—will that have beneficial spillover effects on the politics of the whole region? The answer, I think, is yes."
He read this to me and added, "I must say, I'm damn proud of that sentence. That was right on the nose."
Feith, though, had left out part of what he told Lemann. "Would anybody be thinking about using military power in Iraq in order to do a political experiment in Iraq in the hope that it would have positive political spillover effects throughout the region?" he asked Lemann. "The answer is no." He continued: "What we would be using military power for, if we have to, would be the goals the President has talked about, particularly the elimination of the chemical and biological weapons, and preventing Iraq from getting nuclear weapons."
The largest controversy of Feith's Pentagon career concerned his role in the lead-up to the war. Feith created two new units within his policy shop: the Office of Special Plans and the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group. Special Plans was the name given to a new subregional office focussed on Iraq. The Ian Fleming-like label was chosen, Feith said, to obscure its mission; at the time, the Bush Administration was publicly pursuing a diplomatic solution to the Iraq crisis, and the Pentagon did not want to advertise that it was engaged in planning for postwar Iraq. The eighteen members of the Special Plans staff prepared strategies on a range of issues that America would face after an invasion: repairing Iraq's economy and oil industry, the training of a new police force, war-crimes trials, the reorganization of the Iraqi government. The State Department, meanwhile, named its own planning program in a more straightforward way: its Future of Iraq project was also a study of problems anticipated in postwar Iraq. The two programs were not well coördinated; partisans of the State Department have accused the Pentagon of ignoring its planning effort. Feith told me he did not ignore the State Department effort, which he called "a bunch of concept papers."
The Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group was devoted to alternative intelligence analysis; it employed a rotating staff of two people who were asked to read intelligence data provided by the C.I.A. in order to find unexamined connections between state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist groups. Feith said, "I went to these two guys and said, 'Read the intelligence so you can tell me what I need to know about, so I can develop a strategy and policies for dealing with terror networks.' " Most of the work of this unit was soon focussed on looking for evidence of ties between Al Qaeda and Saddam. The analysts looked at data from old intelligence reports and concluded that the C.I.A. had overlooked or downplayed evidence of an operational relationship; they prepared a presentation for Feith.
Rumsfeld instructed Feith to offer the briefing to George Tenet, who was then the director of the C.I.A., and Feith's analysts made the presentation to C.I.A. officials in August of 2002. Several weeks later, the analysts made a more aggressive presentation to White House officials. They included the assertion that the leader of the September 11th hijackers, Mohamed Atta, met with an agent of Iraqi intelligence in Prague shortly before the attacks.
Feith's Democratic critics accused the counterterrorism group of providing the Administration with incorrect intelligence to buttress its case that Saddam and Al Qaeda were in league. "He was giving the Administration analysis that they wanted to hear," Senator Levin told me. "It was misleading, it was deceptive, it was based on feeble information." Feith's view is that the analysts were simply involved in alternative analysis—an idea that has become increasingly popular as Washington looks for ways to improve its ability to read intelligence.
Although the work of the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group has been a preoccupation for many opponents of the Bush Administration, Feith's work in Special Plans had far more significance. In his library, I asked Feith what the Office of Special Plans planned. He began by disagreeing with the prevailing wisdom in Washington: that the crises of the past two years—the insurgency, the embitterment of Iraqis toward the United States, the civilian and military casualties—were in many cases preventable. He even disagreed with the notion that they were as serious as many Americans believe them to be.
Feith said, "The common refrain that the postwar has been a disaster is only true if you had completely unrealistic expectations." The thesis of Administration critics, Feith continued "is that we were a bunch of people intent on going to war with Iraq no matter what. September 11th was a pretext. We believed that it would be easy, that we were linked up to Chalabi"—Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the pro-invasion Iraqi National Congress—"who was arguing that it would be easy and there would not be problems in the aftermath, and so for that reason nobody planned for anything hard, and when it turned out to be hard we were left without a plan." (Chalabi's chief sponsor in Washington has been Richard Perle, Feith's mentor. Chalabi's group told Senate staff members that it had passed intelligence to one of Feith's subordinates in Special Plans; the subordinate has denied it.)
Feith went on, "The Marshall Plan didn't get going until 1948. Here we are less than two years after the liberation of Baghdad, and an enormous amount of reconstruction has been done. If you say to me, 'Have errors been made in Iraq?,' I would say yes. Yes, I saw lots of things that I think I would have done—I saw lots of decisions made that I might have done differently. I would say there's not a single person in the United States government, probably including the President, who would not say the same thing."
When I asked Feith to describe some incorrect decisions, he said, "A lot of questions of that kind are going to take a little bit of distance and historical perspective to sort out."
Afghanistan, he said, is an object lesson in the dangers of premature judgment. He pulled out a packet of newspaper articles from late October, 2001, soon after American forces entered Afghanistan, and read from an October 28th column by Maureen Dowd in the Times: "The Northern Alliance was looking ever more feckless, even mocking the American air strikes to a reporter, saying the gazillion-dollar bombs had had no impact on Taliban troops, except to embolden them." She went on to suggest that a quagmire was in the offing. Feith put down the clippings and asked, "Where does she say, 'Oops, I guess I got it completely wrong'?"
There's a difference between Iraq and Afghanistan: it has been more than two years since the invasion of Iraq; Afghanistan was somewhat pacific a year after the overthrow of the Taliban. But Feith would not yield on that point. When I asked, for instance, if the Administration was too enamored of the idea that Iraqis would greet American troops with flowers, he argued that some Iraqis were still too intimidated by the remnants of Saddam's Baath Party to express their emotions openly. "But," Feith said, "they had flowers in their minds."
Feith said that the Pentagon carefully considered the possibility that the invasion and its aftermath could be disastrous. He mentioned what he called the "parade of horribles" memo, drafted by Rumsfeld in October, 2002, which listed all the things that could go wrong in the invasion. "Instead of saying, 'How can we conceal from the President those things that would make him reluctant?,' we decided we had to go to him before he makes such an important decision with a list of all those things that could possibly go wrong," Feith said.
Stephen Hadley, the national-security adviser, told me that Feith's office prepared the White House for the possibility of disaster: "We took seriously, and planned for, with the Department of Defense in the lead, a whole host of very chilling contingencies."
Feith said that one of those contingencies was the outbreak of looting. I asked him why, then, the military hadn't seemed more prepared. He replied that he had written a memo on this point, one month before the war, arguing that " 'we're going to have major law-and-order problems after the war.' " He went on to say, "We sent it to Central Command. We didn't send it through the Secretary. It wasn't a policy—just spotting problems. If you ask me, 'Did you anticipate problems or did you anticipate a rosy scenario?,' I'm telling you I wrote a memo anticipating problems." When I asked Feith if his memo's message was understood by Franks and his generals at centcom, Feith shook his head and seemed to shrug.
A centcom spokeswoman told me that it would be "inappropriate" to comment on communication between the Pentagon and Tommy Franks. In his autobiography, though, Franks wrote, "Rumsfeld never allowed Feith to interfere in my business. I was always thankful for that." General Pace said, "It's unfair to say that Doug was, quote, responsible, because the combatant commander"—Franks—"was responsible for drafting the plan."
Feith lost other battles as well. One was a plan to train five thousand Iraqi exiles to accompany American troops in the invasion. Feith and Perle, who supported the idea, claimed that centcom subverted the plan. "Central Command saw the training of Iraqis as a pain in the ass," Perle said. "They take a jaundiced view of the locals." In the end, only seventy Iraqis were suitably trained before the invasion.
Feith did not argue that a force of Iraqi exiles would be a panacea, but he said that they could have aided in translating, in guiding, and in vetting local officials. He suggested that the problems in postwar Iraq multiplied in part because the good ideas emanating from his policy operation were ignored. "My inclination was to transfer more responsibility to Iraqis early. The strategic thought was liberation, not occupation. When people say, 'You screwed up the postwar plan,' what people don't understand is that we had all kinds of plans. But when Bremer"—Paul Bremer, who was appointed by President Bush to oversee the rebuilding of Iraq—"went over there, he was given autonomy over all kinds of plans that he didn't implement. The Secretary didn't want to use the five-thousand-mile screwdriver."
Several shelves in Feith's library are taken up by authors whose understanding of the world Feith, I was sure, found lacking. These were books by the great British Arabists, men such as T. E. Lawrence, John Bagot Glubb, and Harry St. John Philby. Neoconservatives, by reputation, have a certain nostalgia for the era of British imperialism, and I asked Feith what he learned from the English Arabists.
"There's a paradox I've never been able to work out," he said. "It helps to be deeply knowledgeable about an area—to know the people, to know the language, to know the history, the culture, the literature. But it is not a guarantee that you will have the right strategy or policy as a matter of statecraft for dealing with that area. You see, the great experts in certain areas sometimes get it fundamentally wrong."
I asked Feith if he was talking about himself, and he said, "I am talking about myself in the following sense: expertise is a very good thing, but it is not the same thing as sound judgment regarding strategy and policy. George W. Bush has more insight, because of his knowledge of human beings and his sense of history, about the motive force, the craving for freedom and participation in self-rule, than do many of the language experts and history experts and culture experts."
History may one day judge the removal of Saddam Hussein as the spark that set off a democratic revolution across the Muslim world. But if Iraq disintegrates historians will deal harshly with the President and his tacticians, the men most directly responsible for taking a noble idea—the defeat of a tyrant and the introduction of liberty—and letting it fail. Feith, like his superiors in the Pentagon and the White House, is not given to public doubt, but in our last conversation he seemed uncharacteristically humble. "When I was in Vienna," Feith said, "I went to the Ringstrasse, these enormous buildings, most of which were built twenty, twenty-five years before World War One. These buildings were built as the headquarters of a world empire, and they were built for the ages—enormous, imperially scaled buildings. They were built to last. But these people were absolutely on the verge of destruction of their empire, and they didn't see it. And that was a humbling experience.
"What I don't believe in, I suppose, is certainty." ♦


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I don't know why I still watch this show, I guess I just secretly hope that it gets better… or maybe it's that Hawaii is a pretty place and it's nice to see in HD, or it could be about the Shrimp Truck owner and all his crazy schemes.
So you have an episode and you're going to cast someone as a sniper, but who has prosthetic mechanical hands capable of crushing people's throats. So who do you cast in that role? Peter Weller of course… you know Robocop… seriously?


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So in case you didn't hear, the Baltimore Ravens took the Super Bowl XLVII title, besting the San Francisco 49ers 34-31. Ray Lewis was emotional, Beyonce diva-ed it up, and there was a delightfully surprising break in play when the Super Dome lost power and everyone who cares about seeing the ads AND the game could take a nice breather and have a bathroom run. Since I didn't have any emotional investment in the game either way (minus my being at a very close friend's all Niners house), I'll leave bragging rights to our own Raven. I, however, have been very invested and particular about my Super Bowl advertisements over the years, especially after working at a job that entailed pitching songs to be considered for use in these hilarities. This fine Monday morning, I bring you a round up of what I thought deserved notice in a slew of what was otherwise overwhelmingly dull.
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Advent Calendar of Hotness Day 22: Daniel Conn
Yeah yeah, so I might be a little stuck on Australian rugby players. But can you blame me? After being introduced to Kayne Lawton, I ended up on a two hour long tangent that led me to several other um, delightful looking young fellows, and given that it's almost Christmas, I can't not share this. Meet Daniel Conn – model and second row forward for the Sydney Roosters. NSFW warning, though I'm hoping you're all on holiday break by now…
Advent Calendar of Hotness Day 15: Derrick Rose
Alright. I have a crush. I haven't really been a big NBA fan, but after attending my very first game on December 7th at the shiny new Barclay's Center to see the Golden State Warriors take the Brooklyn Nets down, I've decided that I both enjoy basketball and should pay closer attention. And after researching what basketball players are great AND hot, I discovered that I apparently have just a huge stupid little kid crush on Derrick Rose. I can't be alone here.
Hanukkah Hunks Night 7: Ilya Grad
Again. I reiterate. If there is a hot, shirtless Jewish male athlete, I will find him. Assuming you aren't a Muay Thai buff, meet Israeli champion fighter (and sometimes model) Ilya Grad.
Hanukkah Hunks Night 6: Merrill Moses
Water polo? Merrill who? Don't worry, you can always leave it to your girl buffalita to find hot, shirtless Jewish athletes no matter what sport they play. Mr. Moses is the goalkeeper for the US Olympic water polo team who won silver at the 2008 Beijing games. Call it cheating if you must, but it's too easy to find an unnecessary amount of half/mostly naked photos if an athlete plays a water sport. Just sayin'.
Hanukkah Hunks Night 4: David Beckham
Ok, ok – I know the Ladies… have already featured Becks as an Advent Calendar hottie back in 2009. But ever since my conversion and renewed interest in finding hot athletes that light the menorah with me, I was delighted to discover that Mr. Golden Balls has referred to himself as "half-Jewish" (grandfather was Jewish). So in honor of his recent final game with the LA Galaxy, I propose a compromise for re-featuring him for our other holiday special. I give you all shirtless David Beckham.
Hanukkah Hunks: Night 2
What would a Hanukkah Hunk post group be without some London olympic swimming eye candy? I give you champion freestyler Jason Lezak for night two.


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ISTANBUL—Washington and Ankara are on a collision course over Turkey's surging sales of gold to Iran, as the U.S. Congress and Treasury focus on cutting off a trade they believe is emerging as one of Tehran's primary conduits to export natural gas and evade Western sanctions.
The Senate on Friday approved a measure that would tighten sanctions against Iran, targeting suppliers of materials that could be used to build ships and taking further aim at the country's port and energy businesses. Among other provisions, the new legislation would ban the transfer of precious metals to Iran, including gold. The sanctions are expected to be approved by the House quickly.
The Senate's move comes after President Barack Obama quietly empowered the Treasury over the summer to sanction any foreign individual or firm that helps Tehran acquire U.S. dollars or precious metals, according to U.S. officials.
"At the end of July, the president issued an order that authorizes Treasury to impose sanctions on anyone who helps the government of Iran acquire U.S. dollars or precious metals, including gold," said John Sullivan, a Treasury spokesman. "We can't comment on any investigations that may be ongoing."
The president has the authority to issue executive orders on a wide range of activities. If the Treasury finds a company or individual working to help Iran get gold, it could sanction them immediately.
Data released Friday showed that Turkey's gold exports remained high in October, indicating Ankara still uses the commodity to pay for Iranian gas and circumvent sanctions.
According to data released by the Turkish statistics agency, Turkey's gold exports rose 14-fold on the year to $1.2 billion in October, versus in $1.3 billion in September. The expansion took this year's total gold exports to a record $12 billion; a tenfold rise on the $1.2 billion increase in 2011.
Turkey last week acknowledged that the rapid rise of gold exports was related to payments for imports of Iranian gas, spotlighting the most striking example of how Iran is using creative ways to sidestep Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, which have largely frozen it out of the global banking system.
The Senate bill tightening sanctions was passed 94-0 Friday, with six senators abstaining, as an amendment offered by Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) to the National Defense Authorization Act.
The Obama administration expressed concerns about the provisions but didn't explicitly threaten a veto over the sanctions language. Officials said the "comprehensive and unrelenting" sanctions implemented by the administration have been effective and that new measures "threaten to undercut these efforts."
The prospect of tighter sanctions on the gold trade could raise tensions between Washington and Ankara at a time of instability in the region, and take the shine off a trade which has flattered Turkey's economic performance this year, helping to speed a trade rebalancing which has boosted investor confidence and spurred investment, analysts said.
"The Turkish gold deal is providing Iran a lifeline and the U.S. now seems more eager to stop it," said Atilla Yesilada of Istanbul-based research consultancy Global Source Partners. "This trade definitely flatters our economic figures so we look better for investors, but it doesn't make Turks richer or create jobs," he said.
Turkey's relationship with the U.S. is under increased pressure: Ankara has asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to station Patriot missiles to defend its border with Syria after becoming increasingly frustrated by Washington's refusal to take a more hawkish line on the conflict. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in November strongly backed Hamas and labeled U.S.-ally Israel a "terrorist state" during the Gaza conflict.
Analysts say the U.S. has thus far been prepared to give a degree of flexibility to Ankara, which has become an increasingly important ally in the Middle East as the Arab uprisings have recalibrated the region's political geography and sent Washington scrambling to project its influence through regional partners.
Turkish policy makers have this week struck both defiant and conciliatory tones over gold exports to Iran. Economy minister Zafer Caglayan on Wednesday said Turkey would continue to export gold irrespective of U.S. action. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz on Thursday emphasized that Turkey and the U.S. were discussing the issue and he envisioned there would be "no conflict."
Turkey began to export large quantities of gold directly to Iran in March, the month Tehran was cut off from the Swift global payments network, effectively blocking the country from performing international financial transactions. Analysts said that although the trade with Iran wasn't illegal, Ankara wanted to keep details out of the public eye for fear of raising the ire of Washington, which is leading the international push against Tehran for its alleged plan to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes, including medical treatments.
Iran provides 18% of Turkey's natural gas and 51% of its oil. Since U.S. and European Union sanctions bar Tehran from receiving payments in dollars or euros, Ankara pays Iran for the gas in Turkish liras. The lira is of limited value for buying goods on international markets, but ideal for purchasing Turkish gold. The government hasn't specified how it pays for Iranian oil.
Tehran has sought alternative means of payment for energy exports—its main foreign-currency earner and economic lifeblood—including Chinese renminbi and Indian rupees, as well as gold, in an attempt to skirt international sanctions and pay for its soaring food costs.
Friday's data showed how the gold trade has become more diversified in recent months. Although direct gold exports to Iran declined to just over $13 million in October from about $18 million in September—and more than $1 billion a month in the summer—nearly $500 million in gold was sent to Dubai, continuing a trend that began in August. Gold traders and economists say much or all of this gold was bound for Iran. For the first time, the data suggested trade could also be being routed through Switzerland, which isn't a signatory to European Union-wide sanctions banning gold trading with Iran, traders and economists said. Turkish exports of gold to Switzerland rose to a record $460 million in October, marking a fourfold rise.
The gold-exports deal has offered a significant fillip for Turkey, helping Ankara to reduce its current account deficit—considered the weak point of the emerging economy. Moderating growth and tighter monetary policy have provided the prime drivers for a rebalancing which was rewarded in October as Turkey secured its first investment-grade credit rating for more than two decades. But economists stress that Turkey's gold trade has also helped, narrowing the current account deficit by 7%, or around $4 billion of the total $56 billion finance gap.
"Turkey has successfully navigated a soft landing, but market perceptions have been affected positively by the gold trade," said Nilufer Sezgin, chief Turkey economist at Erste Securities in Istanbul. "If gold exports suddenly stop or fall to lower numbers I would expect the current account deficit to increase towards the end of the year," she said.
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Karolina Zmarlak may have grown up in communist Poland, but she truly has a New York state of mind. After all, her critically acclaimed line has everything NYC women are looking for these days: Structured blazers, flattering trousers, and more than enough black to keep us looking sharp. So, when we got the chance to tour her studio and showroom, we couldn't get to the Garment District fast enough.
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Another six months has passed and another version of Ubuntu Linux has been released, right? Wrong. Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' arrived today and so did a new marketing direction from its parent company and principle sponsor, Canonical. And its flavour has a hint of Apple.
See the 11.04 release news here.
With the arrival of Natty, Canonical has switched on a concerted effort to raise awareness that Ubuntu now offers a lot more than just a desktop operating system – it's content and services as well.
The first thing to notice about the Natty release is the "dumbing down" of Ubuntu the product.
Ubuntu no longer has multiple desktop or netbook "editions", nor the pesky "Linux" label. It's Ubuntu the client, Ubuntu the server and Ubuntu the Cloud – plain and simple.
Also with Natty comes a new website for Ubuntu, the essential ingredient of any new marketing initiative.
See this blog from the Canonical design team for information on the project's new website.
The question is: With this marketing direction can Canonical dumb-down Linux enough with Ubuntu to make it appeal to the masses?
Those who have observed the Linux industry for any length of time will remember Corel's failed attempt at its own distribution.
The company wanted to make Linux as easy to use as Windows on the desktop with everything point and click, instead of an unfamiliar command line.
But so far, despite 20 years of history on the desktop, Linux and its distributors have failed to make anywhere near an impact on the desktop as Apple or Microsoft.
[Note: Okay, you can easily argue since they have strong control over the hardware supply chain people don't go out of their way to "buy" an Apple or Microsoft operating system for their desktop, people simply buy a computer with the OS pre-installed, but Linux is free to download and install on any computer. Is that the part that's held Linux back – the downloading and installing bit?]
Then along came Ubuntu.
Realising this gap in the Linux market remained unfulfilled, from its inception Ubuntu was designed to integrate "best of breed" open source components to make a user-friendly contender on the desktop.
It certainly succeeded in making a name for its self as a user-friendly Linux alongside OpenSUSE and Fedora, but has it really succeeded in living up to its full potential? Perhaps its new direction is set to up the game.
Now Ubuntu seems to be diverging quickly from its original charter of a friendly Linux desktop with the integration of Cloud services and content.
All this activity raises the question of whether Canonical will be the next Apple-like software and services company – all without selling one piece of hardware.
If there is one company that has successfully dumbed-down Unix it is Apple. After struggling for relevance a decade ago it released Mac OS X, a music player and the rest is history.
I won't argue some far-fetched theory that Canonical is trying to be the next Apple as they are world's apart when it comes to software freedom, but the two companies now have quite a few things in common.
- Both have a Unix-like operating systems. Apple has Mac OS X and iOS, Canonical has, well, Ubuntu for client PCs, not "Ubuntu Linux". Regardless of the name they're all built around Unix and open source foundations. Granted, Mac OS X has a lot of proprietary software in its stack and Ubuntu has always been open, but Ubuntu appears to be drifting away from its mainstream open source roots by moving to Unity on the desktop instead of GNOME. Sure, Unity is an open source project, but it's developed and managed by Canonical for Ubuntu and doesn't have much acceptance with other Linux distributions. In short, Unity is "Ubuntu's desktop" and unique to Canonical. At the end of the day both Apple and Canonical leverage a truck-load of software from the open source community.
- Both have app stores. Is anyone apart from Apple allowed to use the term "app store" (no caps). Ubuntu has the "Software Centre" and Apple has the "App Store" (caps) on iTunes. They essentially offer a convenient way of buying and downloading software. Ubuntu has used Debian's apt system since its inception so the Software Centre is just a nice glossy, one-click wrapper around what it has always had. Ubuntu won't discard its free apps, but it now makes a point of offering commercial, pay-for apps as well, just like the App Store.
- Both have music services. Much of Apple's success in recent years has been on the back of its iTunes music and content service, and now Ubuntu is after a piece of the action with the Ubuntu One Music Store. It's journey to a paid-for music service hasn't been all smooth sailing though, with many in the open source community crying foul over Canonical's decision to use Banshee for its own music service instead of the default Amazon MP3 service. For now, the first thing you'll see in the Ubuntu "What's new?" video is the integrated music support.
- Both have Cloud services. Interestingly, the big news from Apple this week (yeah, apart from a white iPhone 4) is the company has (reportedly) purchased the icloud.com domain for $4.5 million. This directs to cloudme.com which would fit in nicely with Apple's existing MobileMe online service. Ubuntu has the Ubuntu One Cloud service for remote storage and it works with Windows clients. So both Apple and Ubuntu are investing heavily in "personal Cloud" services. On the server Ubuntu's Cloud offerings are more mature than Apple's, but that could all change if Apple takes an interest in Amazon-style Cloud computing.
- Both have server operating systems. Ubuntu Server is the new brand for the "server edition" of Ubuntu. Apple has Mac OS X Server, which has seen limited success compared with its client offerings. OS X Server will be bundled with Mac OS X in future releases.
It's worth noting that Google is already offering a similar collection of software and services through Android. What Google doesn't have is a footprint on the desktop the way Apple and Ubuntu do. But with Chrome OS (which Canonical has contributed to) due to arrive pre-loaded on hardware sometime this year, who knows where it will end up.
So the only thing holding Ubuntu back from having as much success in the consumer software and content market as Apple is mind and market share.
And Canonical's marketing switch from Ubuntu the product to Ubuntu the ecosystem is a step towards achieving that market share.
On the new Ubuntu product description page the "Ubuntu operating system" is being directly pitched as an alternative to Windows and Mac OS X.
It will be interesting to see if Canonical can do what countless others have attempted and failed – bring Linux to the mainstream desktop – even if it ends up happening under an Ubuntu-only label.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday directed a Libyan militant charged in the 2012 Benghazi attacks to remain in U.S. custody after his own lawyer conceded that he had no reasonable chance of being released.
A lawyer for Ahmed Abu Khattala acknowledged that it was appropriate for her client to remain behind bars at the moment, given the nature of the charge he faces and his lack of ties to the United States.
But she said she had so far seen no evidence of any role by Khattala in the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
"What's been filed has shown, quite frankly, an utter lack of evidence of Mr. Khattala's involvement in the incident in Benghazi," said Michelle Peterson, an assistant federal public defender, adding, "We are left to glean from press reports what the government's evidence is."
Prosecutors provided some new details in a court filing Tuesday night, arguing that he was part of a group of roughly 20 militants who stormed the diplomatic compound on the night of the attacks. They say he was motivated to participate in the attacks by an extremist ideology.
Abu Khattala appeared briefly in federal court in Washington, wearing a green prison jumpsuit and a long, graying beard. He listened to the proceedings through headphones as an interpreter translated the conversation into Arabic. Peterson requested that he be served a halal diet and be provided with a copy of the Quran.
Abu Khattala was captured in Libya more than two weeks ago and then brought to the United States aboard a Navy ship, where he was interrogated by federal agents. He has pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide support to terrorists — a crime punishable by up to life in prison — but the Justice Department has said it expects additional charges soon.
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Ok cool, I like that idea. Now, looking at the Wire library, my question is this, say I had a master arduino, and then a servo attached to a slaved arduino. If i wanted to send a move command to the servo, does it have to be translated into binary or anything, or do i just pass the code as usual. Thanks again for the help and ideas
Passing the code from the master to slaved arduino, would i basically:- Send code to the master arduino to turn servo A to position 90- Have master arduino take that command and parse it into a simple string easily sent via serial (i.e., "a90")- send that command via the Wire library to the slaved arduino- slaved arduino acts- slaved arduino sends a "operation complete" codeI'm making this up as I go, i've never used the Wire or Serial libraries (apart from using serial to sent text to the debugger). Thanks!
Hello all-So I've been playing around with my Arduino for a few months now, and I love the thing. However, I think I'm ready to move onto bigger things. I want to learn how to basically wire my netbook to a roomba and drive it, or basically use a computer to replace the arduino. I guess I'm looking to head into more professional applications (by no means am I slighting the Arduino, I love them, and own 3). What is my next step? I've tried googling it, but I can't find what my next step should be. What's the programming language, whats the UI, whats the board that I'll plug into my computer to interface with servos? Can I use it with LabView? So many questions, any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I'm starting an education in the robotics industry, and would love to learn where I should focus, and where to start. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
AVR-GCC is embedded in the Arduino IDE. If you want to bypass the Arduino stuff, you might go over to the avrfreaks forum and ask there.


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Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) Program
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Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) can occur at all ages. The only treatment of SCA is defibrillation such as that provided by an automated external defibrillator (AED). In the United States more than 350,000 people die each year from SCA before reaching a hospital. In many cases SCA can be reversed with early defibrillation. Defibrillation involves shocking the heart with an electric current that allows the heart to reestablish its normal rhythm. To be most effective, defibrillation must occur as soon as possible after the onset of SCA. The chance of survival from sudden cardiac arrest decreases by 7-10 percent per minute until defibrillation. AEDs have been shown to be easy to use (by nonmedical personnel), are safe, and are effective in saving lives.
Ithaca College has implemented a Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) program following the American Heart Association and NYS Department of Health guidelines. These guidelines call for automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to be installed throughout campus to ensure greater public availability. The earlier someone in cardiac arrest receives treatment (i.e., CPR and/or AED shock), the greater his/her chance of survival. The PAD guidelines recommend that an AED be readily accessible for use within three minutes from anywhere on campus.
AED Operation and Training
Unlike manual defibrillators used in hospitals and by paramedics, the AEDs that are installed throughout the campus are extremely easy to operate. The devices use clear graphical and spoken instructions. The AEDs analyze the victim's condition and, only if warranted, deliver an electric shock to the heart to reverse SCA. The devices are extremely safe with no risk of inappropriate shock given to individuals who are not in SCA or to the person operating the AED.
Several hundred Ithaca College employees (e.g., public safety officers, athletic department coaches and trainers, Fitness Center employees, and health center employees) have completed the requirements to be CPR/AED certified. You do not need to be certified to use an AED: if you choose to assist someone you believe is in need of an AED, you will be covered under the Good Samaritan law. However, CPR certification can be very important to know when using an AED. If the AED delivers an electric shock, the device will then prompt you to administer CPR. Additionally, emergency medical personnel may not be able to arrive before the device prompts you to administer CPR.
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Currently the Office of Public Safety has one AED in each marked patrol car and in Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) truck #504. Dial 911 to report any and all medical emergencies and to report their location to public safety 24 hours a day.
AED Cabinet Security
To allow AED accessibility to anyone, the devices must be left loose in unlocked cabinets. Each cabinet is equipped with a high-pitched local alarm that sounds when the cabinet door is opened and is silenced upon securely closing the door.
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Throughout the month of October, we have been giving away Annual Meeting gear to our blog readers. Each day will be a different trivia question, so check back in daily for your chance to win. You have three more chances to win!
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On Thursday night (November 15, 2012), all meeting attendees are invited to an Opening Reception held from 5-7pm. Where will this reception be held?
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Mahsati Janan – Belly Dance Artist & Instructor
UPDATE July 2018: Mahsati is relocating to Burlington, Vermont! More information is coming soon.
Located in Asheville, North Carolina, Mahsati Janan is an instructor and performer of Middle Eastern dance, specializing in the dances of Egypt and North Africa. As an in-demand workshop instructor, Mahsati has traveled the United States to share her knowledge and skills, but always considers herself a lifelong student and annually attends multiple professional and teacher-level training sessions with top dancers and researchers in her field. Her soulful classical Egyptian style performances and lively folkloric dances are always exciting and a wonderful addition to any event.
With a teaching style that joins technique with cultural foundations, Mahsati's classes (in Asheville, NC) offer students an opportunity both to learn the necessary technique and understand the cultural context of this dance form. Mahsati's instructional dvds, Fabulous Fan VeilZZ I & II and Foundations of Raqs Sharqi Level 1, continue to be valuable resources for dancers around the world.
Mahsati began her journey in belly dance in 1996 and has studied and performed throughout the US. She specializes in classical and modern Egyptian style, but also enjoys many other modern belly dance forms. She is available to teach workshops as well as private or groups classes in Classical Egyptian, Middle Eastern Folkloric, Turkish, Lebanese and techniques that are common to all styles. Her instructional DVDs, Fabulous FanVeilZZ, Vol. 1 and II, have been valuable tools for many dancers looking to incorporate fan veils into their performances. Her newest instructional DVD, Foundations of Raqs Sharqi: Techniques and Isolations for Belly Dance Level 1, was released in 2010.
Mahsati's educational background focuses on cultural traditions. Her anthropology background and research emphases are also strongly represented in her classes and performances as you learn the history and traditions of this dance while enjoying yourself dancing.
She currently directs the Qamari Dance Collective and troupe Banat al-Qamar and was previously co-director of the successful Troupe Amani Dance Ensemble and Bal Fahjar Dance Ensemble for over 7 years. She was also a principal dancer in the El Oadhi Dancers and Drummers, Bal Yifte and Bal Tzigane previously.
As a student and performer of multiple styles of Middle Eastern dance, her influences range from the Middle East to US and around the world. Many dancers have influenced Mahsati over the years, but there are a few that hold a special place in her heart. A tremendous thank you to Yasmina Mahal, Sahra Saeeda Kent, Pepper Alexandria, Cassandra Shore, and Zhaleh Fereshteh for their teaching and sharing of this dance over the years. Mahmoud Reda, Farida Fahmy, Mohammed Kazafy, Soheir Zaki, Nagwa Fouad, Aziza of Cairo, Raqia Hassan, and Tito Seif are a few of Mahsati's favorite performers in the Middle East. An extra special thank you goes to all of Mahsati's dance peers and students. Without your joy and camaraderie, Mahsati may never have found her passion in this dance form.


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Now researchers, including a University of Washington biologist, have found hints that differing molecular processes in an area of the brain known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus might play a significant role in those jet lag differences.
Human circadian clocks operate on a period about 20 minutes longer than one day and so must be synchronized to the light-dark cycle of the solar day, delaying or advancing their time in response to light.
Someone whose clock runs faster than a solar day must delay it on a daily basis, and someone whose clock runs slower than a solar day must advance it. These daily adjustments happen naturally, and without our noticing, but the process is disrupted by sudden large shifts in the light-dark cycle because of a radically new geographic location.
Researchers previously learned that delaying the circadian clock happens through different pathways in the suprachiasmatic nucleus than advancing the clock does. The new research shows that, at a molecular level, the mechanisms responsible for resetting the expression of the "clock genes" are drastically different.
"We have known for decades that, in humans and other organisms, advances are always much harder to achieve than delays. For example, compare jet lag going to Europe with that coming back," said Horacio de la Iglesia, a UW associate professor of biology.
"One of the reasons may be that these two forms of resetting the clock involve different molecular mechanisms at the clock level," he said.
de la Iglesia and William Schwartz of the University of Massachusetts Medical School are corresponding authors of a paper detailing the research, published online recently (Oct. 3) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-authors are Mahboubeh Tavakoli-Nezhad, Christopher Lambert and David Weaver, also of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
The researchers exposed hamsters to two light-dark cycles, one of 23.33 hours and the other at 24.67 hours, to test the mechanisms that advance and delay the circadian clock. A one-hour light pulse in the shorter cycle acted as dawn, but in the longer cycle it acted as dusk. The scientists confirmed that the pulse of light at dawn advanced the animals' circadian clocks, while the light at dusk delayed the clocks.
The results suggest that different molecular mechanisms in the suprachiasmatic nucleus are at work when the circadian clocks are advanced than when the clocks are delayed, de la Iglesia said.
That could provide clues for understanding how circadian clocks work in nocturnal animals in natural conditions, and it could help in understanding potential remedies for jet lag.
The work was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
For more information, contact de la Iglesia at 206-616-4697, 206-616-3932 or email@example.com, or Schwartz at 508-856-5666 or email@example.com.
An abstract of the paper is available.


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January 18, 2012New Agent Selected for Branson License Office
JEFFERSON CITY - The Branson License Office will soon have a new management team.
Koester & Koester, LLC of Bowling Green, MO, will be the new agent for the license office. The company was chosen as part of a competitive bidding process that is used for all of Missouri's 182 local license offices.
Koester & Koester has previous experience running license offices, as it has been the agent of the Fulton and Mexico license offices since 2009 and the Bowling Green License Office since 2011. The company's winning bid for the Branson License Office was one of two submitted. The office will stay at its current location in Cedar Ridge Plaza at 1447-C State Highway 248.
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Lately I've been trying to make sense of Kelly Wearstler's latest Bravura Modern designs. They seem to be in every magazine this month, as part of the promotion for her new book Hue. While they are way too much for me, when I deconstruct them, I can appreciate the pieces and what she's getting at. Seeing how beautiful her line for SFERRA has helped me see this, as well as how much I love some of the wallpapers she's designed. She gets a lot of her current inspiration from the 1980s. The eighties usually make me think of shoulder pads, Miami Vice, too many florals, chintz, and peach.
This week, I decided to take down an old book from my shelf, The Decorator by Florence de Dampierre. It's fabulous. You'd never guess it was published in 1989, because the designs featured in it are so timeless and elegant. You can see how much the works of Sister Parish, Albert Hadley, David Hicks, Bunny Williams et. al. have influenced more classic designers like Michael S. Smith and Celerie Kemble today, as well as renegades like Wearstler. Here are just a few favorites from this must-have tome.
Mario Buatta mid-1970s bedroom. photographed by Richard Champion.
Garousle/Bonetti Design. photographs by Simon Kentish; sketch by Mattia Bonetti
2 preceding photos: Albert Hadley Design. Photographs by Antoine Bootz
Michael Krieger Design. Photograph by Antoine Bootz
Sandra Nunnerly Design for a Kip's Bay Show House. Photograph by Grand Mudford
Does this one scream Jonathan Adler/Kelly Wearstler or what?
Betty Sherrill Design. Photograph by Grisby and Michael Dunn
Right now The Decorator is available used at amazon for under $5.00. Buy it! You won't regret it! As for Hue, I haven't previewed it yet, so I can't recommend it, but I am heading over to pre-order it now and I'll let you know.
first image via mirror mirror via Vogue.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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With the Clips app, you can record video and add animated captions to your video while recording. You can also combine multiple video clips and still photos to make a single continuous video, and then add effects like filters, emoji, and music.
Record a new video clip
- Open the Clips app.*
- Tap in the upper-left corner, then tap .
- To start recording, hold . If you don't want to hold the button, swipe up on the record button to lock it.
- To stop recording, let go of the record button. If you locked the record button, tap it to stop recording. Find the new clip in the timeline at the bottom of the screen.
- To watch your recorded clips, tap a clip in the timeline, then tap .
* Can't find the Clips app? Swipe down from the middle of the Home screen, then type Clips in the Search bar. Still don't see the app? Download Clips from the App Store.
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You can keep recording new clips and then combine multiple clips to make a video. When you add a clip to a video, the new clip appears after the previous clip in the timeline. When you play back the video, it plays all the clips in the order they appear in the timeline.
You can also add existing still photos and videos from your library with these steps:
- Tap Library.
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- Hold for the amount of time that you want the photo or video to appear. For example, if you select a photo and hold for three seconds, the photo will appear in your video for three seconds. And if you select an existing video in your library and hold for five seconds, the first five seconds of action will appear in your video.
- After you add a clip, you can reorder clips or remove them.
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Selfie Scenes on iPhone X and later make Clips even more fun. The TrueDepth camera places you in beautifully animated landscapes, abstract art, and even onboard the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Each scene is a full 360-degree experience, so any way you move your iPhone, the scene surrounds you on all sides.
- Tap Scenes.
- Select a Scene that you want to use.
- Hold your iPhone X or later in front of your face.
- Hold to add the scene to your movie timeline.
Share videos
- If the video that you want to share isn't open, tap in the upper-left corner.
- If you don't see the one that you want, swipe left to see more of your video projects. Then tap a video to open it.
- Tap , then choose how you want to share. Along with the usual ways of sharing, Clips also has Smart Sharing — a quick selection of friends based on who appears in the video and whom you talk to most often. Just tap your friend's photo that appears with a small green Messages icon.
Delete a project
- Tap in the upper-left corner.
- Select the project that you want to delete.
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