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I've had some comfort at least, finally, from my trading during this sad time. My trading gave me great comfort whilst I was sick last year and it seems to be offering me similar support again now.
I've finally struck a decent trade! I'm up around 120 on my TS E/U signal
The E/U signal has given up to 135 pips!
The Swissie has yielded up to 110 pips
The USDX has finally tumbled
That Head and Shoulder pattern looks to be unfolding
The EURX has closed above my bullish 'inverse H&S' neck line:
The S&P500 also yielded a great 144 move and a possible 67% ROIC SPY trade today:
This TS signal came when the S&P500 was at $1392. Thus, I would have bought the $139 Nov Call Option.
This Option has increased by $1.05 to finish at $2.60. The Option opened at $1.55. The ROIC for this possible SPY trade was 67%
ROIC =($1.05/ $1.55) x 100 = 67%
That isn't all! Those bullish 'Cup and Handle' Patterns have delivered on the metals too!
Silver up now 110 pips!
I missed this move and 4hr signal on the Aussie yesterday as we were driving. My husband and I were having a discussion about this pair in light of Morgan & Stanley's bearish comments. I'm no economist, for sure, but from a technical view point, this pair has looked bullish for ages!
That blasted G/U trade that whipped me around at the beginning of the week has now given up to 140 pips!
The A/J is now up 220 pips from the 84 level broken earlier this week:
The E/J signal keeps going too!
That's all for now. I'll post my w/e reviews a bit later, maybe even on Monday.
Friday 23rd (9.30am)
I will not be updating this blog for the next few days. I am travelling interstate due to the death of my Father.
The USDX continues to slide and the EURX is up and sitting just under the neck line of my bullish inverse H&S pattern:
The USDX weekly bearish 'H&S' pattern is still printing:
The complementary bullish 'inverse H&S' pattern on the EURX is still printing at the moment too:
The E/U LONG signal is up but I'd have stop to entry here. It was up 50 pips at one point:
Ditto for the Swissie. It was up 45 points at one point:
The E/U and Swissie trades may end up chopping around and being further examples of short lived 4hr trend trades during Cloud divergence. That is why I'd have stops to entry ASAP.
The E/J is taking a breather
So too is the A/J
We have the situation where the Cloud charts are starting to set up for optimum 'risk on' conditions. I know what you're thinking........ I see, I can't believe it BUT I'll trade it!
Thursday 22nd (9.40 pm)
The EURX seems to be still marching upwards and on to my inverse H&S neckline. The USDX continues to look a bit weak:
The E/U is still looking strong
The Swissie too
The E/J has now moved 420 pips from the missed signal last week:
The A/J has now moved 180 pips this week; from the key 84 level:
Not much happening at the moment. Might continue to be quiet given the US holiday for Thanksgiving. Some EU data is due out later plus there is the EU summit meeting ongoing so these might shift the Euro pairs a bit.
The USDX continues to struggle, even with all the potentially bad news scenarios! The EURX keeps marching upwards. It is getting up near to my bullish inverse H&S neck line!
I've had a TS signal to LONG the E/U but it might be best to wait to clear the daily 200 EMA:
I've had a corresponding signal to short the Swissie BUT, of the two, I think the E/U looks better:
The G/U has slowed a bit again with the 4hr 200 EMA in its way:
No new TS signals just yet.
G/U: this is one pair that makes me rather cranky! I correctly spotted the bullish wedge breakout BUT got stopped out at entry earlier in the week when the trade bounced sideways for a few days. It has, slowly but surely, continued on without me and is now up around 45 pips! I'm having one of those weeks!
This chart kind of sums up recent trading but, if you can't work it out for your self then, it was choppy:
The USDX continues to chop around sideways but the EURX has clawed its way back above the monthly pivot:
My main trading frustration is due to those Yen pairs, the E/J and the A/J. The E/J is now up 350 pips after last week's signal and the A/J is up 140 pips from the key 84 level area I mentioned over the w/e:
The E/U is up again on the 4hr but I don't have a TS signal just yet. It has some big roads blocks in its path though; the 4hr and the daily 200 EMA:
The Swissie has now also closed below the daily 200 EMA and has broken the weekly support trend line. It looks quite bearish:
Silver looks to be unfolding into the 'Cup and Handle' pattern:
Gold is taking just a bit longer to start its 'Cup and Handle' breakout move. It might be waiting for more of a roll over with the USD:
S&P500: The S&P500 was choppy but gave a TS signal, of sorts, but is only up a little bit:
The daily chart of the S&P500 shows how the index is still trading within a trading channel. The upper boundary of this channel coincides with the 4hr 200 EMA and the key psychological 1400 level. This will be a critical level to watch:
The weekly chart of the S&P500 is interesting too. Note how the current flag pattern bears a lot of similarity to the pattern seen last May/June. One wonders, therefore, whether we might see another similar bull run from a breakout of the current channel????
FYI: No new TS signals anywhere; 'risk on' OR 'risk off'.
The failed Euro zone /IMF meeting sent currencies sharply back into 'risk off'. It has been a very choppy week but this was not unexpected. The Index Cloud charts suggested that this might be the case.
I'm going to wait until next week now given that the US Thanksgiving break will start to impact on trading volume.
We've just seen a massive swing back to 'risk off'. It seems failed Euro zone talks may be the cause.
Yen frustration!
I'd mentioned key levels on the E/J and A/J in posts over the w/e. The E/J had looked set to break a key resistance level in the monthly bear trend line. Price has broken this level and now moved up about 70 pips from the 104 level. All of this without a new TS signal though so, I left it! More fool me:
The A/J has also moved on about 80 pips from the key 84 level I mentioned. This move was also without a new TS signal so, again, I left it:
The EURX continues to hold above the monthly pivot area:
The bullish 'inverse H&S' pattern might unfold. I'll be looking for a break of a neck line area:
The USDX looks like it could still printing a bearish 'H&S' pattern:
The signal on the EUR/AUD has not formed yet.
Wednesday 21st (6am)
It continues to be very choppy across all markets. The USDX is a prime example of this:
The EURX has actually closed above the monthly pivot but any 'risk on' momentum seems to have been put of by the dour comments from US Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke.
There have been mixed results across the remaining TS signals:
~Still going: E/U 40, G/U 15, Silver 15, NZD/USD 10 (after being at 55) E/J 250 (from last week)
~Stopped out o'nite at entry: A/U, Loonie and Gold
There is still significant divergence across the Cloud charts for the indices so I have very low expectations of any 4hr signals at the moment.
The EUR/AUD is setting up to give a TS signal but I think I'd almost wait until it got past the 4hr 200 EMA. This might be a 'double top' if not navigated:
Both Gold and the Aussie are down and I'm not quite sure why. I can't see why the Euro would be up against the Aussie but, like I say, trade what you see and not what you think. So, I'll take the EUR/AUD trade IF I see a TS signal form here AND if it gets up over the 4hr 200 EMA!
Tuesday 20 (9.30 pm) S&P500 intra day trade gives possible 70% ROIC!
No real clues yet as to which way things will move. The S&P500 isn't giving away any clues:
The EURX is having another go at the monthly pivot just now though. It's going to have to make or break this level soon. It may do so in the US session tonight. That would be my luck! A clean break of this level might open a flood gate for 'risk on'
We are seeing some choppiness on the indices as key levels are approached. I am seeing the usual choppiness on the currency 4 hr charts again today. Cloud divergence suggested that this might be the case.
I will be on the lookout for better 30 min chart trading from the US session.
The monthly pivot is proving to be a challenge for the EURX:
I would want to see this level breached before being confident that any 'risk on' signals will continue to move. I'd have stops to entry if in any of them. The Swissie and the USD/SGD are down a bit and I'd be out of these for about a small loss (Swissie -15, USD/SGD -10). All the rest are still positive.
The EURX is making another push up at the resistance level of the monthly pivot and daily 200 EMA. This level needs to be broken otherwise I suspect it will help form a bearish 'double top':
TS Signal Re-cap: I've got 'risk off' signals across many pairs, metals and indices:
I've had TS signals on: G/U, NZD/USD, E/U, A/U, Loonie, Swissie, Gold, Silver and also the USD/SGD (the latter was overlooked earlier). The E/J is still going from last week as is the A/J. All signals are now in positive territory!
4 hr trading is likely to continue to be volatile though whilst we still have Cloud divergence. I am expecting that, as per usual, there might be good trades during the US session from the 30 min charts.Tuesday 20 (1pm) S&P500 intra day trade gives possible 70% ROIC!
I've been stopped out, at entry, from my G/U. It will probably take off now! I'm not the only one seeing choppy action on this pair though:
Not a whole lot has changed from earlier; just after the Moody's blip. Gold and Silver seem to be keeping up with their moves. The A/U is holding above thee 1.04 level too. All TS signals, except the G/U and Swissie, are still in profit. I'd have stops to entry on any trade ASAP still though. European markets might react badly to the Moody's news when they come on line later today.
The A/U and G/U are holding up for now.
Gold: Gold is holding above its breakout trend line but, if I was trading it, I'd wait for a close above the monthly pivot for added confidence & confluence:
The Euro pairs are getting hit due to the Moody's downgrade of France. The E/U is back to entry now and I'd be waiting to see how other pairs fare before trading further.
The S&P500 ended up yielding a maximum of 160 pips overnight. There was a TS signal to 'LONG" just before the US session. This signal came through when the index was at $1368.17:
Thus, if I was able to trade this, I would have bought the $137 Nov Call Option. This Option opened at $1.56 and closed up $1.11 to finish at $2.67:
This represents a return on invested capital of around 70%!
ROIC= ($1.11/$1.56) x 100 = 71%
This trade came with the added confluence that price had bounced of the bottom trend line from the daily chart trading channel:
Both Gold and Silver have closed up and out of their 'handle' patterns on their trading channels for the Cup and Handle pattern. This is on top of the 4hr TS 'LONG' signals both have given:
The USDX is having another push back up as I write. Moody's has just downgraded France and I suspect that this may be the cause. Fundamental news events like this can always undermine technical trading signals. Thus, these 4 hr TS signals may not hold.
Forgot to note earlier that there were 4hr TS signals on Gold and Silver as well. These signals came with the confluence of a trend line break as well. Most of the 4hr TS signals kicked in on my 1 am candle:
The USDX has continued to roll and has broken down from its trading channel:
The EURX has marched up to the key resistance level of the monthly pivot and daily 200 EMA. This level will be a key test for the EURX. It might mark a 'double top' for the index:
It has been a bit frustrating for me as I had two TS signals yesterday, the G/U and NZD/USD. The G/U, that I took, has gone nowhere but the NZD/USD has moved 40 pips:
I have had new signals overnight, as I thought might happen, on a number of pairs: E/U, A/U, Loonie and Swissie. I would want to see the EURX break the monthly pivot though beofre chasing these trades now:
Of significant note is that Gold and Silver look to have broken out from their 'handle' patterns. I will need to check the daily candle close here later though to confirm:
I had also suspected that there would be great trades from the 30 min charts and there were a few:
S&P500 30 min: 130 pips
A/J and E/J: Both of these pairs have continued to move up past key levels that I mentioned over the w/e. Unfortunately, neither of these moves produced new TS signals. The E/J is a continuation TS signal from last week though:
E/J: now up 190 pips!
My frustration is moderated though somewhat by the satisfaction I have in understanding the current market conditions and knowing what to expect. I had expected trends to most likely kick in during the US session given the Ichimoku Indices divergence I had seen. This has been, and continues to be, the case I see.
The G/U is down about 10 pips and the signal is fading. I have a small stop just below the weekly pivot but I'm not too confident with this trade. I almost have a TS signal on the A/U and I have one on the NZD/USD. I don't have any other new TS signals but this does not surprise me. I think we might be in for a repeat of the typical pattern I see when we have Cloud divergence. That is, choppy and few signals on the 4hr charts but signals on the 30 min charts during the US session. Time will tell.
The only new 4hr TS signal that I have is the G/U from the earlier 1pm candle close. The E/J signal is still valid from last week which is a problem for me. I like the look of this pair, especially if it closes and holds above the 104 level, but it does not seem likely that I will get a new TS signal to do so:
I'm in on the G/U though.Monday 19th (2.30 pm)
'Risk on' has held throughout the Asian session so far. The USDX is looking like it might roll over and the EURX has sort of filled its gap higher open:
The only real TS signal I have though so far is on the G/U. This had the confluence of a trend line break out of a bullish descending wedge pattern and a bounce off the daily 200 EMA support level:
Others that are close to forming TS signals include the E/U, A/U, A/J and NZD/USD. The E/J is actually still going from last week!
Gold and Silver: Both of these are pushing up to the upper trend line of the 'handle' in their cup and handle patterns:
I think a lot of caution is needed this week though with possibly much thinner trading due to the shorter trading Thanksgiving week. Also, I'm conscious that we are setting up for 'risk on' with the EURX index on its Cloud charts but also for 'risk off' possibilities on the USDX Cloud charts! Divergence = Be Careful!
My index charts haven't opened yet but there seems to be 'risk on' across many of the pairs. I expect some TS 4hr signals to form up by my 1pm candle close. I'm at Doctor appointments then and won't update until after that.


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This is the best time of day - when the air is clear and warm, clouds are few, the breeze is slowing, the shadows are long, and the light starts to turn golden as sunset nears.
Folks still enjoy the warm blue water until the last possible minute .........
.... and play in the white milky froth at the surf line.
The golden light just before sunset brings some folks to the seaside Omni hotel bar. Tables on the left of the bar are in water in case you want to drink while sitting in the pool.
.....and here's a different kind of golden light........Super Bowl leftovers.

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As the result of a perfect growing season, the summer harvest of fruits and vegetables is upon us with a vengeance. One sister reminded us that the residents in a nearby small town used to joke that everyone locks their doors and keeps the lights low at this time of year so that their gardening neighbors don't think they're home and come ladened with squash and tomatoes to share.
The Welch Company, the world's leading producer of juices, jams and jellies made from Concord and Niagara grapes, has two of its four plants just east of Erie--in North East, PA and Westfield, NY. An article in the Erie paper this week features local grape vineyard owners proclaiming this year's crop as excellent.
We have a small 30-40 foot grape arbor on our property and its Concord grapes are already delicious. The only slight tension we have is competition with the deer. You'd think that with the apple orchard, salt lick, bushes and everything else they seem to nibble they could leave us the grapes!


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!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News
This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event May 15, 2001: CIA Officer Again Accesses Cables about Hijackers' Travel in Asia and to US, Fails to Alert FBI or Check If They Are Still in US. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
Victims' family members Lorie Van Auken (right) and Kristen Breitweiser (left) are shocked to learn Tom Wilshire blocked a cable to the FBI about Khalid Almihdhar's visa. [Source: Banded Artists]Doug Miller, an FBI agent assigned to Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, reads CIA cables reporting that 9/11 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar has a US visa and drafts a cable to the FBI to inform it of this. The CIA obtained the information through a tap on Almihdhar's phone in Yemen (see December 29, 1999) and by monitoring him as he passed through Dubai (see January 2-5, 2000) on his way to an al-Qaeda summit in Malaysia (see January 5-8, 2000). Draft Cable - Miller writes that Almihdhar has a US visa (see April 3-7, 1999) and that the visa application states his destination is New York and he intends to stay for three months. The draft cable mentions the tap on Almihdhar's phone, his planned travel to Malaysia, and the links between his phone and the 1998 East African embassy bombings (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998 and October 4, 2001). It also says that the CIA has obtained photographs of Almihdhar and these will be sent separately. Miller asks the FBI for feedback resulting from an FBI investigation. Blocked - Another CIA officer named Michael Anne Casey accesses Miller's draft about an hour after he writes it. The cable is then blocked on the orders of the station's deputy chief, Tom Wilshire, as a few hours after Miller drafts the cable Casey attaches a message to it saying, "pls hold off on [cable] for now per [Tom Wilshire]." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 502; US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 240 ] Miller is also told, "This is not a matter for the FBI." [Wright, 2006, pp. 311] 'No Reason to Kill the Message' - Author James Bamford will later comment: "A potential terrorist and member of al-Qaeda was heading for the US, the FBI's jurisdiction—its turf—and he [Miller] was putting the FBI on notice so it could take action. There was no reason to kill the message." [Bamford, 2008, pp. 19] Miller will later say he has no "rational answer" as to why the cable was blocked, but will speculate that Alec Station officers were annoyed he had encroached on their territory. [Congressional Quarterly, 10/1/2008] Casey drafts a cable falsely saying that the information about Almihdhar's visa has been shared with the FBI (see Around 7:00 p.m. January 5, 2000) and there will be a discussion the next day about whether the cable should be sent (see January 6, 2000). The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General will later call the failure to pass the information to the FBI a "significant failure" but will be unable to determine why the information was not passed on. [US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 250 ] The 9/11 Commission will know of the incident, but will relegate it to an endnote in its final report, omitting Wilshire's role entirely. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 502] The CIA inspector general will falsely claim that the cable is not sent, "[a]pparently because it was in the wrong format or needed editing." [Central Intelligence Agency, 6/2005, pp. xv ]
Entity Tags: Michael Anne Casey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Khalid Almihdhar, Doug Miller, 9/11 Commission, Alec Station, Tom Wilshire, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Inspector General (CIA)
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
Mark Rossini. [Source: Fox News]Mark Rossini, an FBI agent on loan to Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, protests in vain against a decision to deliberately withhold information about one of the future 9/11 hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar, from the FBI (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000). One of his colleagues, Doug Miller, had tried to inform the FBI that Almihdhar had a US visa the day before, but had been blocked by a 29-year-old female CIA officer named Michael Anne Casey and the unit's deputy chief, Tom Wilshire. According to author James Bamford, Rossini was "perplexed and outraged that the CIA would forbid the bureau's notification on a matter so important." Rossini will later say: "So the next day I went to her and said: 'What's with Doug's cable? You've got to tell the bureau about this.' She put her hand on her hip and said: 'Look, the next attack is going to happen in Southeast Asia—it's not the bureau's jurisdiction. When we want the FBI to know about it, we'll let them know. But the next bin Laden attack's going to happen in Southeast Asia.'" [Bamford, 2008, pp. 19-20] Rossini protests, saying, "They're here!" and, "It is FBI business," but to no avail. Even though he is an FBI agent, he cannot pass on notification to the bureau without permission from his superiors at Alec Station. [Congressional Quarterly, 10/1/2008] Casey will be promoted after 9/11. [Mayer, 2008, pp. 16] In the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, Wilshire will write an e-mail expressing his fear of an al-Qaeda attack in Southeast Asia, specifically Malaysia (see July 5, 2001), and will give this as a reason he does not communicate information about Almihdhar and his partner Nawaf Alhazmi to the FBI in May 2001 (see May 15, 2001). It will be alleged after 9/11 that the notification may be withheld to stop the FBI interfering with an illegal CIA-linked operation to monitor the hijackers in the US (see 2006 and After).
Entity Tags: Tom Wilshire, Michael Anne Casey, Mark Rossini, Central Intelligence Agency, Doug Miller, Alec Station, Federal Bureau of Investigation
After being prompted by CIA colleagues in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to provide information about what happened to future 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar and al-Qaeda leader Khallad bin Attash after they flew from Malaysia to Thailand on January 8, 2000 (see January 8, 2000 and (February 25, 2000)), the CIA station in Bangkok, Thailand, sends out a cable saying that Alhazmi arrived in the US from Thailand with an apparently unnamed companion on January 15 (see January 15, 2000). This information was received from Thai intelligence, which watchlisted Almihdhar and Alhazmi after being asked to do so by the CIA (see January 13, 2000 and January 15, 2000). [New York Times, 10/17/2002; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 181, 502] Companion - The companion to whom the cable refers is presumably Almihdhar. According to later testimony of a senior FBI official, the CIA learns the companion is Almihdhar at this time: "In March 2000, the CIA received information concerning the entry of Almihdhar and Alhazmi into the United States." [US Congress, 9/20/2002] The CIA disputes this, however. [US Congress, 7/24/2003, pp. 157 ] If the companion the cable refers to is Almihdhar, then it is unclear why he would not be named, as the NSA has been intercepting his calls for at least a year (see Early 1999), he was under CIA surveillance earlier in January (see January 5-8, 2000), he is known to have a US visa (see January 2-5, 2000), he is associated with Alhazmi (see January 8-9, 2000), and this cable is prompted by another cable specifically asking where Almihdhar is (see February 11, 2000). Missed Opportunity - Later, CIA officials, including CIA Director George Tenet and Counterterrorist Center Director Cofer Black, will admit that this was one of the missed opportunities to watchlist the hijackers. Black will say: "I think that month we watchlisted about 150 people. [The watchlisting] should have been done. It wasn't." Almihdhar and Alhazmi will not be added to the US watchlist until August 2001 (see August 23, 2001). [New York Times, 10/17/2002; US Congress, 7/24/2003, pp. 157 ] Unclear Who Reads Cable - Although Tenet will tell the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry that nobody at CIA headquarters reads this cable at this time (see October 17, 2002), the CIA's inspector general will conclude that "numerous" officers access this cable and others about Almihdhar. [US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria District, 3/28/2006 ] These officers are not named, but Tom Wilshire, the CIA's deputy unit chief in charge of monitoring the two men at this time, will access it in May 2001 at the same time as he accesses other cables about Almihdhar from early 2000 (see May 15, 2001). The 9/11 Commission will say that the cables are "reexamined" at this time, suggesting that Wilshire may have read them before. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 267, 537] Wilshire certainly did access at least two of the cables in January 2000, indicating he may read the cable about the arrival of Alhazmi and the unnamed companion in the US in March 2000. [US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 240, 282 ] FBI Not Informed - The knowledge that Alhazmi has entered the US will be disseminated throughout the CIA, but not to the FBI or other US intelligence agencies (see March 6, 2000 and After). When asked about the failure by the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry, Wilshire will be unable to explain it, saying: "It's very difficult to understand what happened with that cable when it came in. I do not know exactly why it was missed. It would appear that it was missed completely." [US Congress, 9/20/2002]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Nawaf Alhazmi, CIA Bangkok Station, 9/11 Commission, 9/11 Congressional Inquiry, Alec Station, Tom Wilshire, Khalid Almihdhar, Malaysian Secret Service
Tom Wilshire, a former deputy chief of Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, is detailed to the FBI to help with its counterterrorism work. Wilshire was involved in the failure to watchlist 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar during the al-Qaeda Malaysia summit (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000), and will also be involved in the failed search for them in the summer of 2001 (see May 15, 2001, Late May, 2001, and July 13, 2001), as well as the failure to obtain a search warrant for Zacarias Moussaoui's belongings (see August 24, 2001). He acts as the CIA's chief intelligence representative to Michael Rolince, head of the Bureau's International Terrorism Operations Section. His primary role is apparently to help the FBI exploit information for intelligence purposes. [US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 282-348 ]
Entity Tags: Michael Rolince, Tom Wilshire, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Alec Station, International Terrorism Operations Section, Central Intelligence Agency
CIA officer Tom Wilshire, currently assigned to the FBI, discusses al-Qaeda's Malaysia summit with another CIA officer called Clark Shannon, who is assigned to the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and wrote a report on the USS Cole bombing (see January 2001). Shannon gives Wilshire a timeline of events related to the Cole attack and they discuss Fahad al-Quso, a member of the bombing team in custody at this point (see Early December 2000), and Khallad bin Attash. [US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 282 ] Around this time, Wilshire also accesses a March 2000 cable about travel to the US by 9/11 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi and a companion following the summit (see May 15, 2001). According to Margaret Gillespie, an FBI agent on loan to the CIA, Wilshire "had always been interested in the Malaysia summit and he was especially concerned about any potential ties between the USS Cole investigation and the Malaysia summit." [US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, 7/31/2006 ]
Entity Tags: Tom Wilshire, Nawaf Alhazmi, Clark Shannon, Khalid Almihdhar, Fahad al-Quso, Margaret Gillespie
Tom Wilshire, a former deputy chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit currently detailed to the FBI, accesses a number of cables about travel by 9/11 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi in 2000 (see March 5, 2000), but fails to draw the FBI's attention to this or ask the INS whether they are still in the US. The cables report on Khalid Almihdhar's travel to Malaysia in January 2000, his US visa, al-Qaeda's Malaysia summit, and Alhazmi's travel from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Bangkok, Thailand, with another person, and then to Los Angeles. Wilshire had previously blocked a notification to the FBI that Almihdhar had a US visa (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000). He writes to another CIA analyst about the travel (see May 15, 2001), but does not alert the FBI to the fact Alhazmi came to the US. Neither does he check with the INS to see whether Alhazmi and Almihdhar are in the country. When one of his colleagues finds these cables in late August, she will immediately check with the INS and become alarmed when she is told they are in the US (see August 21-22, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 266-8, 537; US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 283 ] The 9/11 Commission will explain his failure to alert the FBI by saying he was focused on a possible terrorist attack in Malaysia: "Despite the US links evident in this traffic, [Wilshire] made no effort to determine whether any of these individuals was in the United States. He did not raise the possibility with his FBI counterpart. He was focused on Malaysia." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 268]
Entity Tags: International Terrorism Operations Section, Tom Wilshire, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 9/11 Commission
An FBI agent detailed to the CIA's bin Laden unit locates CIA cables saying that future 9/11 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi entered the US in early 2000. The agent, Margaret Gillespie, then checks with the US Customs Service and discovers that another future 9/11 hijacker, Khalid Almihdhar, entered the US on July 4, 2001, and there is no record he has left the country. As there is "an imperative to find anyone affiliated with al-Qaeda if they [are] believed to be in the US," Gillespie immediately contacts Dina Corsi, an FBI agent in its bin Laden unit. Gillespie, who has been examining the USS Cole bombing and al-Qaeda's Malaysia summit for some time, will later say that when she learns of their arrival in the US, "it all clicks for me." The Justice Department's office of inspector general will find that Gillespie's "actions on receipt of the information clearly indicate that she understood the significance of this information when she received it. She took immediate steps to open an intelligence investigation." Gillespie and Corsi meet with Tom Wilshire, a CIA officer involved in the investigation (see August 22, 2001), and Almihdhar and Alhazmi are soon watchlisted (see August 23, 2001). [US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 300-301, 313 ; US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, 7/31/2006 ]
Entity Tags: Margaret Gillespie, Nawaf Alhazmi, Dina Corsi, Alec Station, Central Intelligence Agency, Khalid Almihdhar, Federal Bureau of Investigation
After FBI agents Margaret Gillespie and Dina Corsi learn that 9/11 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi may be in the US (see August 21-22, 2001), they call a meeting with Tom Wilshire, a CIA officer interested in the investigation who is on loan to the FBI. Although all three will later be unable to recall the specifics of the conversation, they agree that it is important to initiate an investigation to locate Almihdhar. However, Wilshire has been aware that Almihdhar has a US visa since January 2000, when he frustrated the passage of such information to the FBI (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000). He is also already aware that Alhazmi entered the US in January 2000 (see May 15, 2001) but again does not share this with the FBI. [US Department of Justice, 11/2004, pp. 301-2 ]
Entity Tags: Tom Wilshire, Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Dina Corsi, Margaret Gillespie, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Barbara Grewe. [Source: Barbara Grewe]Barbara Grewe, a key investigator on the Justice Department inspector general's investigation of the FBI's failures before 9/11, moves to the 9/11 Commission. [University of Michigan Law School, 3/7/2005] She was recommended to the Commission by a former colleague who worked at the office of inspector general at the Justice Department. [University Record Online, 3/14/2005] As special investigative counsel at the Justice Department's office of the inspector general between July and December 2002 she had investigated and reported on the FBI's handling of intelligence prior to 9/11, and directed part of the investigation into information sharing between the FBI and CIA, missed opportunities to locate the hijackers before 9/11, and earlier warnings about terrorists using airplanes as weapons. This is similar to the work she does on the 9/11 Commission. According to a press release for a lecture she will give in 2005, Grewe also "drafted and edited" the "relevant sections" of the Justice Department's final report. [University of Michigan Law School, 3/7/2005; Center for American Progress Action Fund, 4/16/2008] However, it is unclear how she could have done this, as she left the Justice Department's investigation in 2003. Although December 2002 is early on in the Justice Department inspector general's probe, the following important interviews have been conducted by this time: Tom Wilshire, a CIA officer later detailed to the FBI who was involved in many pre-9/11 intelligence failures (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000, March 5, 2000, May 15, 2001, Mid-May 2001, Late May, 2001, July 23, 2001, August 22, 2001, and August 24, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 502] "Michael," a female CIA officer who had blocked notification to the FBI saying that one of the hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar, had a US visa (see Around 7:00 p.m. January 5, 2000 and January 6, 2000); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 502] Dina Corsi, an FBI official who withheld intelligence information from criminal investigators in the summer of 2001 (see June 12-September 11, 2001, Before August 22, 2001, August 27-28, 2001, August 28, 2001, and August 28-29, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 474] Clark Shannon, a CIA officer who withheld information about Almihdhar from the FBI (see June 11, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 537] Margaret Gillespie, an FBI agent detailed to the FBI involved in information sharing problems (see (Late May-Early June) and August 21-22, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 538] Robert Fuller, an FBI agent who searched for Almihdhar in the US just before the 9/11 attacks, but failed to find him (see September 4, 2001, September 4-5, 2001, and September 4-5, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 539] Russell Fincher and Steve Bongardt, FBI agents from whom the CIA withheld information (see June 11, 2001, June 12-September 11, 2001, and August 29, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 537] Sherry Sabol, an attorney involved in errors in the Moussaoui and Almihdhar cases (see August 22-28, 2001 and August 28-29, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 538] An FBI official who handled an al-Qaeda informer in Pakistan (see January 4, 2001); [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 537] Harry Samit (see August 15-20, 2001), Greg Jones (see August 27, 2001), John Weess (see August 16, 2001), and Coleen Rowley (see May 21, 2002), FBI officials who worked on the Moussaoui case; [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 531, 540] Rodney Middleton, acting head of the FBI's bin Laden unit before 9/11 (see July 27, 2001 and after); and [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 538] Jennifer Maitner, an FBI official involved in the Phoenix memo and President Bush's August 6 presidential daily briefing (see July 10, 2001, July 27, 2001 and after, and (August 4-5, 2001)). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 536]
Entity Tags: 9/11 Commission, US Department of Justice, Barbara Grewe, Office of the Inspector General (DOJ)
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Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, will claim in a 2008 book that in early 2004, the 9/11 Commissioners indicate that they intend to name a junior CIA officer as the only official to be identified for a pre-9/11 failure. However, Scheuer writes: "A group of senior CIA officers… let it be known that if that officer was named, information about the pre-9/11 negligence of several very senior US officials would find its way into the media. The commissioners dropped the issue." [Scheuer, 2008, pp. 273] The name of the junior officer is not known, but some possibilities include: Tom Wilshire (referred to as "John" in the final 9/11 Commission report), who withheld information about 9/11 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi from the FBI (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000, May 15, 2001, Mid-May 2001, Mid-May 2001, Late May, 2001, August 22, 2001, and August 24, 2001); Clark Shannon ("Dave"), one of his associates who also failed to inform the FBI about Almihdhar and Alhazmi (see June 11, 2001); Richard Blee ("Richard"), Wilshire's boss, who apparently failed to pass on information about Almihdhar to his superiors (see August 22-September 10, 2001). The names of the CIA officers who threaten the Commission are not known, nor are the details of the alleged negligence by the senior officials.
Entity Tags: Tom Wilshire, Clark Shannon, Central Intelligence Agency, 9/11 Commission, Michael Scheuer, Richard Blee
Tom Wilshire, a CIA officer involved in the failed watchlisting of hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi (see 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. January 5, 2000 and May 15, 2001) and the failure to obtain a search warrant for Zacarias Moussaoui's belongings (see August 24, 2001), is interviewed by the 9/11 Commission. He tells them that nobody in the US intelligence community looked at the bigger picture and no analytic work foresaw the lightning that could connect the thundercloud [i.e. increased reporting that an al-Qaeda attack was imminent] to the ground [i.e. the cases that turned out to be connected to 9/11 such as the search for Almihdhar and Alhazmi, Zacarias Moussaoui, and the Phoenix memo]. The 9/11 Commission will agree with this and write in its final report: "Yet no one working on these late leads in the summer of 2001 connected the case in his or her in-box to the threat reports agitating senior officials and being briefed to the President. Thus, these individual cases did not become national priorities." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 277] However, Wilshire was receiving such threat reporting. For example, he received a report that al-Qaeda was planning an Hiroshima-like attack (see Summer 2001). [Wright, 2006, pp. 340] Wilshire also repeatedly suggested that Khalid Almihdhar may well be involved in the next big attack by al-Qaeda (see July 5, 2001, July 13, 2001, and July 23, 2001). For example, on July 23, 2001 he wrote: "When the next big op is carried out by [bin Laden] hardcore cadre, [al-Qaeda commander] Khallad [bin Attash] will be at or near the top of the command food chain—and probably nowhere near either the attack site or Afghanistan. That makes people who are available and who have direct access to him of very high interest. Khalid Almihdhar should be very high interest anyway, given his connection to the [redacted]." [US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, 7/31/2006 ]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, 9/11 Commission, Tom Wilshire
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I married a handsome man. Even though he's obsessed about losing his hair (which is odd, since he hasn't actually lost any, yet) and whitening his teeth (he could have made an extra house payment by now with the money he's spent on sham . . . er, effective teeth whitening treatments), the fact remains that he is, objectively, a handsome man. He's so handsome, in fact, that women tend to flock to him, even despite the pre-Andy Rooney state of his eyebrows and the fact that he grows black hairs on his earlobes. They just don't care.
He has gleaming, straight, white (obviously) teeth, jet-black, wavy hair, and super-broad shoulders. He can carry couches around on his head all by himself. He's always willing to go buy candy for me at 11 p.m. when I am working late and cursing/scowling at my computer screen—AND HE DOESN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. (If someone asked ME to go out and get candy at 11 p.m., I'd be like, "Bitch, please.") He can fry potatoes perfectly. (That is, frankly, all I care about.) He is, in a word, dreamy.
Sometimes, he's movie-star handsome.
Other times, he's homeless movie star handsome.
He's super handsome, but he's also extroverted and naturally gracious and kind, which means that, frequently, women who meet him fall in love with him. Sometimes, these women are normal women who appreciate his kind personality, and, other times, the women are slovenly sales clerks with giant teeth, usually from Ohio.
So what could possibly be the downside of marrying such a handsome man, you might be wondering? Surely, since such beauty resides here, the house is covered with glittering fairy dust, and angels feed me Twinkies while I work sitting atop a goose down mattress, swaddled in the silkiest of mink stoles. That is EXACTLY how it is at our house, except that I actually work atop a couch cushion that has a giant rip in it where our son worked on a tiny snag with his fingers and then stuck his entire foot through it. He has done this twice, so I can't switch cushions. I am living. the. dream.
However, in marrying a handsome man, I've learned an important life lesson: handsome men and ugly men have equally disgusting bathroom habits. Whether it's the dirty underwear left in the clean sink or the used dental floss left in the shower, my husband's handsome visage doesn't prevent him from acting like a hygiene-challenged, brown-toothed troll. He doesn't use washcloths when he showers . . . HOW DOES HE WASH HIS JUNK? WHERE DOES THAT BAR OF SOAP FIND ITSELF?
And, thus, pretty men will never be intimidating to me again. That super-handsome man you've always admired from afar takes 45 minutes to poop and likes to read in the bathroom. It's not the stuff stalker-infatuation dreams are made of.
By far, the most disturbing habit of my husband's disturbing bathroom habits is his tendency to USE MY TOWEL. Now, in the summer, I typically wash bath towels after a single use because the air in the house isn't dry enough to allow used towels to air-dry quickly, and damp towels freak me out. However, in the winter, when the air in the house is so dry that I wake up every morning looking this this:
the towels air-dry VERY quickly, so I like to use them more than once. What I don't enjoy is when other people use my already-used towel and get their body juices all over it. So. Gross. Why don't you just use my toothbrush? Or wear my socks? Or (and this is the worst sin any partner could ever commit) SLEEP ON MY PILLOW? (He would. He totally would and wouldn't think a thing about it. Keep your head juices to yourself, sir. Blech.)
So, how do I comfort myself under these dire circumstances? How do I ever enjoy a shower or a hot bath after a workout? How can I ever look at our bathroom sink in the eye again after seeing it defiled by a man's dirty underwear?
I'll tell you how: thick, heavy, fluffy, super-absorbent towels. As I've clarified before, I'm not a fancy-pants; however, there are two types of products that I'm willing to spend money on to help guarantee a quality consumer experience—sheets and towels. I usually buy sheet sets from Overstock.com or SmartBargains.com and, thus, can purchase 600-thread-count sateen sheets for around $50-60, which isn't a bad price at all for a thread count that isn't bad at all. So that's what I do.
Towels have been more hit-and-miss, but, a few years ago, I finally found towels that I love almost more than I love my child, and I found them at JCPenney. They were pricey at full price, but JCP frequently put them on sale and offered additional coupon codes for the online store. They recently discontinued my original favorite towels but replaced them with an equally impressive and almost-exactly-the-same choice: the Supima® Cotton 6-pc. Bath Towel Set.
I like buying sets of bath towels, hand towels, and washcloths. I want to buy two or three sets when they're on sale and be done with the process. (Have I mentioned that I'm lazy?)
I. Love. These. Towels. The bath towels are a couple inches longer than a typical bath towel, which is a small luxury that I quickly got used to, and the hand towels are a little bigger, too. They look fresh and extra full when I hang a clean one for people to use after washing their hands. The bath towels have a HEFT to them that most towels, even really expensive towels, don't have. They are heavy, soft, and absorbent on tender, freshly-washed skin. They are, in a word, beautiful.
The original version was offered in white instead of ivory, and that's the color I bought so that I could bleach them as needed, like when a juice-excreting man has been using my bath towel. I've had my sets for three years now—three years! That's CRAZY impressive. They've been washed, bleached, oxygen-brightened, and dried COUNTLESS times, and they have no snags or loose threads. If they ever start looking dingy (as all white laundry can and does), I just bleach them again.
I take towels very seriously, and this is my towel recommendation. I have a handsome husband, but, more importantly, I have handsome towels. Vanity is gross, but desiring a luxurious bath towel? Well, that's just good sense.


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According to the most recent Gallup opinion polling, President Obama's approval numbers for the people who elected him are tanking. I am not talking about the hard-left, they think that he is not progressive enough, they prefer even a little more Stalinism in their leaders. The people who are abandoning Obama are the people who added to the perennial collectivist vote to put him over the top.
Since July, his approval ratings have dropped sharply among the following groups:
Overall approval numbers slipped from 60% to 52%. -8%
Liberal-to-Moderate Republicans dropped from 46% 6o 31%. -15%
Hispanics dropped from 81% to 61%. -20%
People aged 18-29 dropped from 73% to 60%. -13%
Weekly attendees of church fell from 64% to 51%. -13%
People earning $60K-$90K fell from 59% to 47%. -12%
Given that Obama got elected by somehow securing the votes of independent and young and hispanic voters, he has to be quite worried about what this bodes for him.
I love that the hispanic voter approval dropped 20 percentage points, proving that the myth of the monolithic ignorant hispanic voting bloc is just that: a [bigoted] liberal myth.
Among liberals he is doing better but has still dropped a couple of points.
The moral: if you pretend to be a centrist when campaigning but subsequently show your true statist/collectivist colors once in office, people will notice. Even if you are The One.
America remains a center-right country, contrary to the quickly fading wet dreams of the American Left.
Hat Tip to Karl Rove for the pointer to this polling data. You can see his take on it here.


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One nominator notes Leznoff consistently receives a high score for teaching ability in the challenging CHEM 121 course. Students also heap praise in course evaluations, saying he shows tremendous enthusiasm, interest and passion, which makes class enjoyable, interactive and exciting.
"Dr. Leznoff displays a very contagious passion for teaching," says one nominator. "[He] has an ability to motivate his students and encourage them to think critically, such that they gain a stronger understanding of chemical properties and scientific concepts."
An important aspect of teaching is transferring knowledge to students and helping them understand concepts, but Leznoff says imparting an interest in the subject is most important.
"It doesn't matter if they are an A student or a C-minus student," says Leznoff. "If they leave my class thinking, 'This is tough stuff and I had to study really hard, but wow, this is really interesting and now I see how important it is,' that to me can be just as critical as understanding all the details."
He says seeing the students oozing with excitement after class is the most rewarding aspect of teaching—at least as much as witnessing the proverbial 'light bulbs' switching on in the classroom.
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Riff on MLK's Poor People's Campaign leads to local civil disobedience and arrests
Fifty years after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., led thousands to participate in a Poor People's Campaign to garner economic justice in America, hundreds more are answering the same call in Tennessee. Local activists say their involvement has come at a cost of being arrested and in some cases, hurt by law enforcement officers, a charge denied by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
Beth Foster, one of the Tennessee campaign's co-chairs and a member of the Tennessee Coordinating Committee for the Poor People's Campaign, says that participants have been working on the initiative for about four years. Six weeks of activism launched in May and capped with a march in Washington, D.C. on June 23.
"The reason this is the campaign I've chosen to put my energy into is there were no big name politicians or celebrities at the rallies," Foster says. "The speakers were workers and directly affected people. The campaign is about lifting from the bottom."
The current Poor People's Campaign is a recently launched national effort to bring about "moral revival." Demands include ensuring the wealthy and corporations pay their "fair share" of "urgent social needs;" protecting voting rights and prohibiting "racist gerrymandering, hiring, policing and sentencing policies;" end military aggression, banning the proliferation of guns and demilitarizing our communities on the border; and ensuring the right to a healthy environment and increased public investment in a transition to a green economy.
Foster, who has participated in many of the recent Nashville demonstrations, says that in the next phase of the campaign, participants will continue to march and participate in civil disobedience to make their voices heard.
"I think we'll see much of the same thing aimed at lifting up these issues and saying, 'We are going to fight against these issues until there's change,'" she says.
Foster says the very injustices that the campaign is fighting against can be seen through the response to acts of civil disobedience. "The arrests and the response to the demonstrations highlight what we are saying is the problem," Foster says. "This is particularly true of systemic racism."
Martin Hurley of Memphis, Tenn., says he was singled out due to his race. Hurley, who is black, was charged with resisting arrest twice during the campaign's first 40 days.
"He did nothing more than anybody else," Foster says. "But, because he was a black man, they threw resisting arrest at him."
On June 18, during the final week of the Tennessee campaign, Hurley joined others for a protest at Legislative Plaza. The participants gathered outside the War Memorial Building to burn ceremonial fires in three pits, which is illegal on the site. Protesters, including Hurley, then formed a circle around the fires, linking arms. Tennessee Highway Patrol officers then responded to the situation. Hurley and Foster claim that the troopers used unnecessary force during the protest.
Hurley was arrested for resisting arrest for the second time in as many months. He claims that when the THP officers arrived to break up the protest and put the fires out, one of the officers immediately buried his elbow in Hurley's back. The officers formed a barrier around the protesters' circle.
One of the officers then placed a pressure-point hold on Hurley, in which the officer covered Hurley's nostrils with two of his fingers and applied pressure. Hurley says that there were around 15 other people in the circle, and he believes that officers chose to take him down due to his race.
"Why would I be targeted to break the circle?" Hurley says. "For me to have my hand up saying, 'I don't resist,' they had at least five officers ordered to take me down, hitting me on my knees."
THP representatives, however, say that the officers did not act out of line.
"There were blatant disregards for legal, lawful orders given by our troopers," says Bill Miller, a THP public information officer. "No one can have any type of fire on the Memorial Plaza. Those orders were repeatedly disobeyed and disregarded by protesters. That puts people at risk."
Miller says that the officers were attempting to break through the circle to put the fires out and that the "infraorbital hold" is used by law enforcement across the country. Miller says this type of hold was warranted during the protest on the Legislative Plaza. He explained that the officer applied pressure to the nerve underneath Hurley's nose, causing no permanent damage.
"In those circumstances, officers have to take appropriate action, and that was the least intrusive method the officer could have used," Miller says.
Tennessee Poor People's Campaign Documentarian Megan Hollenbeck, an independent filmmaker from Chattanooga, says interviewing participants and capturing campaign events on film has opened her eyes to their struggles.
"It's been interesting going on this journey and talking to people," Hollenbeck says. "Organizing statewide isn't really something we've done in Tennessee before … It's been interesting to bring people together and to try to allow people to feel vulnerable and share their story."
"The campaign's been trying to really lift up these stories and lift up the people who really are having a hard time," Hollenbeck says. "In a way, I think that's empowering for us all." Foster adds, "The march in D.C. certainly wasn't the end."
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Maybe the one potential drawback, in case you're searching for a particular picture or thing, is that there's no inquiry usefulness inside the application. In any case, it's a strong decision to consider and it's all free. On the off chance that you have various wallpapers for android app introduced, you can view and dispatch them by means of the Wallpapers application as well.
Wallpaper HD – Pixels
Pixels is another very prescribed app for wallpapers for android and conveys a couple of progressively extra choices to the table. It doesn't offer a similarly programmed backdrop changing choice that Google's application has, yet it allows you to scan for a particular word or express, or investigate distinctive pictures by means of labels.
7Fon is the principal alternative in this rundown that gives the choice of marking into an application, yet it's not by any means essential just to utilize it. It's additionally a standout amongst other backdrop applications for separating through an enormous determination of various alternatives. And additionally separating every one of the pictures by class, you can likewise tap on the data catch on any individual picture to raise a shading palette from that shot.
Backdrops HD Wallpapers
Foundations HD is another on this rundown that gives clients a chance to submit pictures of their own (wallpapers for android) however it has fewer highlights than 7Fon above, which may engage a few people. And separating everything into various classifications and giving a pursuit alternative, pictures are additionally sorted out into Featured, Recent and Popular shots. Famous gives you a chance to look by day by day, week after week, month to month or unequaled.
In case you're cheerful to spend a minimal expenditure on your backdrop propensity, Backdrops is certainly justified regardless of a look and gets a shoutout for its considered UI and picture order, however, there are additionally a lot of free backdrops accessible.
And additionally the now-commonplace rundown of classifications you'd expect in a backdrop application. Backdrops give an 'Investigate' board, which is a slick method to unite both free and premium pictures. There's additionally a network tab for pictures transferred by different clients, and the application gives the capacity to rate and most loved pictures you need to come back to later.
Muzei adopts a marginally extraordinary strategy to backdrops, and how you explore the distinctive alternatives. To different applications in this rundown by making your own on-gadget pictures the need. In the event that you don't have any/numerous shots on your telephone. You can choose to utilize one of the included pieces every day.
if you do choose to utilize pictures in your 'My Pictures' envelope. You can likewise jump into the settings to set how frequently the pictures should change. Not at all like each other application in this rundown, Muzei doesn't leave your chose picture unaltered, which is shrewd. One of the potential drawbacks of utilizing a genuine photograph. As a foundation is that it can make the message hard to peruse and symbols hard to make out.
Wallrox Wallpapers
Wallrox Wallpapers has far fewer pictures accessible naturally than others here. However, it's for this curated approach and the general outline of the application that we've chosen to incorporate this rundown. Backdrops are separated into classes of picture compose (Blur, Christmas, Crystal, Geometric, and so forth). As opposed to what it's a photo of. You can choose what number of sections of pictures you need to show on the screen without a moment's delay.
Walli – HD Wallpapers and Backgrounds
The novel thing about Walli is that the backdrops are made by a network of craftsmen. They can procure cash for their manifestations. That implies each backdrop is hand-picked and every one of them has an imaginative and innovative vibe. Rather than the non-specific stock picture style, you can get from utilizing other backdrop applications.
AMOLED Wallpapers for Android
Cell phones with AMOLED shows are one of a kind. Since they give you the chance to spare a touch of additional battery life. There's no backdrop illumination on any dark pixels on AMOLED screens. So there's vitality reserve funds, as well as interminable complexity. In the event that your telephone doesn't have an AMOLED show. You can, in any case, utilize these backdrops, however, you won't improve battery life by utilizing them, unfortunately.


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Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birth weight infants
There is evidence to support the use of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) as an alternative to neonatal care in low-birth weight infants particularly, in resource limited settings in the reduction of mortality and morbidity rates. However, more evidence to assess efficacy and safety of early onset continuous KMC in unstabilized or relatively stabilized Low Birth Weight (LBW) infants, long term neurodevelopmental outcomes, and costs of care is needed.
Kangaroo mother care (KMC), promotes skin to skin contact between a mother and her new-born and has been proposed as an alternative to the conventional neonatal care of LBW infants which is often associated with high health care costs due to the need for highly skilled personnel and logistic support. The aim of this review was to determine whether there is evidence to support the use of KMC in LBW infants as an alternative to conventional neonatal care.
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What could Windsor do with the old jail?
The Grey Bar Motel. A museum. A live-in entrepreneurial hub.
What could Windsor do with the old jail in Sandwich? The big house features 20-foot cement walls, 197 beds and original artwork still hanging.
Think of the possibilities, says Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens.
He's asking for ideas through Facebook and has so far received more than a dozen. He would like many more.
"It may unlock some ideas and the interest of some developer who says yes I've been thinking about this and I'd like to have a conversation about this with the city about a hostel, a hotel, a student residence, a restaurant and cafe, whatever it is," Dilkens said this week.
The jail dates back to 1925, held three hangings inside its walls, connects with Mackenzie Hall through an underground tunnel and is an important piece of history, he said.
"It's absolutely a building worth saving. It's how do we do it?"
The province owns the building on Brock Street that was closed in 2014.
Even if the city got the jail for a dollar from the province, it would cost close to a million dollars to redo the roof and make the jail suitable for just tours, he estimated. Once the city has more ideas submitted, it would need a plan of how a new use would be feasible without the city spending millions to save it. Dilkens said interest from a private developer would be ideal and he's hoping for a new use that would make the jail a central element of Sandwich Town's revitalization.
A museum?
The Huron Historic Gaol in Goderich dates back to 1841 and has 12 cells. A Save the Gaol Society campaigned to save the building after it was closed in 1972. It opened as a museum in 1974, became a national historic site and is now run by the town with another museum. The bulk of the 34,260 visitors in 2016 were for the gaol museum where volunteers sometimes dress up and act as inmates and guards for special tours. The museum is open May to November and admission is $5 per adult and $18 for a family.
"The jail is the No. 1 attraction on Trip Advisor for Huron County so there's great interest in the jail," business development manager Erin Samuell said Tuesday.
Hotel or hostel?
There are hotels around the world in former jails and Ottawa has the Hostel International Ottawa Jail Hostel in the heart of its downtown in the former Carleton County Gaol. That jail opened in 1862 and closed in 1972. It took a few rounds of fundraising and grants to get the building up to code and paint it so it could be used as a hostel. Like Windsor's old jail, there are not a lot of windows and the cells are cramped. But if you want to spend a night in an old jail without committing a crime, prices range from about $36 for a bed in a dorm room to about $86 for a basic double bed private room.
Live-in entrepreneurial hub?
Colin McMahon, a 31-year-old who ran for council two terms ago and does custom software development with his brother, envisions the old jail as a makerspace, a live-in learning environment. It would be a spot where creative types and entrepreneurs could rent a room cheap, and use shared tech tools such as robotics programs to develop ideas. Windsor is losing its creativity because people either move away or have to take jobs that leave them no time to pursue their ideas, McMahon said.
"It would be nice to have a discussion," McMahon said. "We can use it for so much more than just a museum."
It's worth looking at if there's a way to make it feasible, Dilkens said.
More ideas needed
The Mayor's Minute video requesting ideas is at www.facebook.com/drewdilkens/videos.
Infrastructure Ontario is talking to the city about the potential sale and is encouraged the city is reaching out to "stakeholders to determine potential future uses for the property," said Infrastructure Ontario communications adviser Ian McConachie.


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What: This popular program with free community program offering courses on a drop-in basis is back in February and March 2019. Program sponsors include the Provincetown Schools, Library, Housing and Health Departments.
View Class Schedule.
Dates: Wednesdays, February 6 – March 27, 2019
Time: 6 – 8 pm
Where: Provincetown School, 12 Winslow St
- To enter the school building: Enter through the Grace Hall Parking Lot playground entrance (southeast corner). Parking is free.


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November 25, 2014
Members of the Law School Community,
Today, President Elmira Mangum of the Florida A & M University announced that Professor and Associate Dean Marcella David will join her leadership team as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. Provost David will begin her new role on February 2. The Florida A & M press release is available at: http://www.famunews.com/?p=2110.
This is a bittersweet moment for our community. I know you share my joy for Provost David as she takes on this new challenge, as well as my sadness as she leaves Iowa Law. We are proud of her, and we are grateful for all her contributions to the University of Iowa and the College of Law.
Provost David joined our faculty in 1995, spending five years of her tenure in central administration. She is an innovative teacher and an inspiration to her students. Both on central campus and at the law school, she has taken on a wide-range of leadership roles. As associate dean, she has led our international and comparative law programs and has taken responsibility for many special initiatives, including the Hubbard pipeline program and Bridging the Gap and the new SJD and the two-year, advanced standing JD program for international lawyers. She chaired last year's self-study and strategic planning process and is currently chairing our enrollment management committee. Provost David has brought her creativity, can-do attitude, and good judgment to the Dean' Leadership Group and to the Iowa Law School Foundation Board of Directors. We will miss her very much.
Please join me in congratulating Provost David and wishing her continued great success as she takes on new challenges.
Gail B. Agrawal
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Tahoe Donner board fires general manager
The Tahoe Donner Association board of directors has voted to dismiss the assocation's general manager, Bob Broyer.
The board voted Friday in a special meeting to terminate Broyer, who has been general manager for at least four years.
"What the board did is give him notice, and he has up to 90 days (to leave)," said Ron Wulff, president of the board.
Wulff said that he could not reveal who among the board voted to dismiss Broyer, or what the final vote was.
He also said that he could not say why Broyer was dismissed.
"It was a board decision that was made and it's pretty much internal to Tahoe Donner," Wulff said.
Wulff, along with board vice president H.R. "Dick" Halpin and Greg McDougall, were all elected to the board in July, following a campaign in which some candidates promised change and accountability in the association. The three new members joined incumbents Ted Langan and Herm Shaver.
Wulff said that dismissing the association's general manager was not a part of the new members' campaign platform.
"It wasn't part of running for the board," he said.
However, one former board member said that Broyer was not given a fair chance to work with the new board members.
"I don't feel (Broyer's) performance was lacking at all," said Bruce Cornell, a Tahoe Donner resident who also served on the board of directors for four years until termed out last summer. "I feel that in the last three months, this board never gave Mr. Broyer a chance to succeed by giving him attainable goals."
As of Tuesday morning, Wulff said that no formal notice had been given to the association's 6,000-plus members of Broyer's dismissal, but was planned soon.
"We will probably send an e-mail and will also include notice in the next (Tahoe Donner) newsletter," he said.
Cornell said he felt association members deserved to be kept in the loop.
"I think this affects the continuity in your homeowner's association," he said. "It affects homeowners who are jittery about the economy in general."
The board of directors had recently released 2001/2002 set goals, which were printed in the October issue of Tahoe Donner News. Goals for the general manager were scheduled to be completed by January.
When Broyer leaves, Wulff said that Dave Gravell, the association's assistant general manager and legal counsel, will become the interim general manager.
"We will be conducting a search for a new general manager," Wulff said.


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Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California was created by Walt Disney, who was a talented and highly skilled businessman, illustrator, animator, and filmmaker. The preview and dedication day was held on Sunday, July 17, 1955, and televised nationwide by ABC TV, a major investor in the project. The grand opening was on Monday, the 18th.
Today's lead image and the enlargeable version of it below shows a parking lot filled to capacity on one of the attractions first two days in operation. In the center foreground, is what appears to be a radio truck with a generator on a trailer behind it, apparently used by Disney personal or a subcontractor for communications. The rest of the lot is filled with 1940s to 1950s cars and trucks and a few from the pre-war era.
Tell us what you find of interest in this photograph courtesy of Tom Simpson.


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In this economy, it's many a day that I find myself wanting to kick my PC and crush it, when it suddenly crawls. As age kicks in on any piece of machinery, it tends to get less efficient. Silicon is no exception. However, before you show your old silicon the door, or bang it in anger, these few simple tips will help you get the most
out of your hardware.
Yes, run that windows update. This easily seems like the most trivial task on the list, and with data caps, updating isn't something that really comes to the mind of the average user. But updating will do your PC a lot more good than is apparent. Security vulnerabilities tend to degrade your systems's performance, and there are always performance improvements and bug fixes in newer drivers that hardware vendors release.
Do not install unnecessary software. Remove bloatware. Be wary of toolbars.
Extra software that is installed on a PC always impacts performance negatively. Unless a program is absolutely necessary, refrain from installing it. rather, open up Programs and Features, and pluck out all the software that is not used. Toolbars make a browser seem to take infinity to load, and for most people serve no real purpose at the same time. Uninstall all toolbars, and if a program asks to install one, just reject the offer.
Disable startup items
Windows 8 came with a new task manager which simplifies the disabling of startup programs. head over to the startup tab, and turn off startup for all unnecessary applications. Why would one need a networks manger application that auto-starts and run in the background, when Windows has a fully functional


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Julien De Salaberry, Chief Innovation Officer, The Propell Group provided the closing Interactive Workshop on, "Convergence of Technology and Contribution to Disruption," at the 3rd Annual CIO Leaders Summit Singapore.READ MORE
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What will the world look like when everything is connected, adding more than 50 billion devices to the Internet and generating more data than we ever have before. How do we use big data analytics to move from observations through to models and fact driven decisions?READ MORE


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To direct all business development efforts in the primary areas of membership marketing, sales, sponsorship, partnership and revenue sharing. Responsible for providing strategic leadership for marketing the organization's products and services. Spearheading the creation and execution of a robust marketing plan that brands the organization's products, services and programs as well as the needs of our members through digital and traditional efforts.
This position provides vision, leadership and direct management for the development, implementation, and evaluation of marketing plans and campaigns for our strategic and operational program initiatives.
Develop membership program and grow live and online event audiences:
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Master's Degree, Business, Marketing
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Ideal candidate will be highly motivated and self-directed with excellent writing and editing skills. He or she should have substantial marketing, social media and relationship building experience at a leadership level. Candidate should be accomplished at managing projects, people and working in teams.
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When I acquired Algorists.com a decade ago, it was already pushing past puberty. Registered in 1989, this remarkably aged domain name represents an era that predates both the commercial Internet, and the World Wide Web. Now at the ripe age of 29 years old, Algorists.com has never expired, and … [Read more...]
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Very rarely - if ever - do I post twice on the same day. But a "domains wanted" thread over at DNForum made me scramble enough material for yet another domain-related rant. What the heck, it's also Friday. So when a buyer posts about their budget being in the "$xx - low $xxx" range, one would … [Read more...]


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Well it is December 2015, how did you do on your weight loss resolution? Oh, you didn't keep it? Well, according to American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) it says the #1 trend will be body weight training. You know the old standbys, pushups, situps, and burpees! But what if you're not good at those exercises. Well there are always modifications for those but if you are not sure, retaining a Personal Trainer maybe the way to go. It is always better to get someone who is experienced an educated in this field in order to obtain optimal results.
Another suggestion would be to implement Yoga or Pilates in your training. This would be important to maintain flexibility and mobility. You'll find your body will be sore less and respond to the new resistance training regimen.
Whichever mode of fitness you try, please remember to be realistic with your goals.Be kind to your body by giving it the rest and proper nutrition it needs. Supplement to ensure you receive all of your nutrition. Are foods are so processed, it is simply impossible to receive everything it needs.
Until next time, Happy New Rear …er I mean Happy New Year.


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With help from our Friends
Published: 22 Apr 2013
The prestigious private bank Coutts and Co. opened the doors of its beautiful Garden Court to 150 of our most generous supporters on Thursday 18th April. Munificently sponsored by Michael Morley, Coutts' CEO, the evening provided a glorious occasion for us to offer our greatest thanks to the many individuals and organisations who enable us to make an impact on young people's lives worldwide by supporting the Award.
The Friends programme
Amongst guests in attendance were Bronze, Silver and Gold Friends of the Award. The Friends programme is our way of recognising and thanking all of our donors whose support is between £1,000 and £100,000 through grants, donations, gifts-in-kind or discounted services. Gifts of in-kind support saved the Award over £800,000 last year alone. Silver and Gold Friends were presented with certificates at the Reception, Gold Friends receiving theirs from HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO, and all guests were given an update of our work by our Secretary General, John May.
Welcoming our Global Benefactor
Further celebrations of the evening were in honour of our new Global Benefactor, Margaret Fountain, whose generous financial contribution will enable us to leave a lasting legacy with real and measurable impact on the communities the Award supports. Margaret was presented with a framed certificate by HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO, and gave a very touching speech about her personal feelings toward the Award:
"I am a fervent believer in the potential that exists within every young person. The Award programme equips young people for life and when they find their voice, they are able to change the world."
Following the reception, Michael Morley kindly sponsored an intimate dinner with sixteen guests in the directors' private dining room. Our Global Partners who attended this dinner were given a guided tour before sitting down to an exquisite three-course meal hosted by the Coutts and Co. CEO and attended by HRH The Earl of Wessex.
We would like to thank everybody who attended the Reception, our sponsor Michael Morley, as well as Grace Belgravia spa and G Collins & Sons jewellers and watchmakers for providing goody bags for our guests, and everybody who supports the Award.
Watch our film to see how support from our Friends helps young people around the world:


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Hiring Freelancers: Employment Practices Liability?
As the shift from a traditional 9-5 to a gig economy continues, it's important to recognize how it impacts both employers and workers alike. With this change comes more Employment Practices Liability for the employer in terms of classifying the worker and paying them properly. As such, heed the following advice for ensuring compliance with […] Read More


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#include <std_disclaimer.h> /* * Your warranty is now void. * * We are not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, * thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please * do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM * before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if * you point the finger at us for messing up your device, we will laugh at you. * */
All the source code for CyanogenMod is available in the CyanogenMod Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to CyanogenMod, please visit our Gerrit Code Review. Your changelog is whatever was merged into gerrit.
First time flashing CyanogenMod 14.1 on your device, or coming from another ROM?
Unlock Bootloader!
Download the zip(s).
Install Appropriate FW base (STOCK MM 4.21.40.xx base is required) simple FW update package is available at my download link
Install a compatible Recovery
Perform a NANDroid backup of your current ROM (Optional)
Wipe data & cache partitions of your device (required when coming from stock!).
Flash CyanogenMod.
Optional: Install the Google Apps addon package. Open Gapps x86 7.1
Broken Features / Known Issues
- VIDEO ENCODER/DECODER ISSUES: This results in green lines on videos/pictures taken using the Intel HW encoder/decoder and other playback issues dependent on video formats. See the list below:
- Snapchat: thin greeen line tends to appear on recorded videos for snapchat
- Asus Pixelmaster Camera App: Super resolution mode does not work. Turning off "Optimizations" from settings clears up any green line issues.
- Some video formats do not play as expected
- FM Radio is unsupported.
- audio is a little weird in Real Racing 3.
- sim 2 cannot be disabled (this is true for all CM builds on non qualcomm hardware)
- Other than Fugu (Nexus Player TV box) there are no Vendor released M x86/x86_64 builds in existance. You may experience some issues with GAPPS and some known apps not loading or working correctly. Below is a list of KNOWN apps that do not currently run on CM13 based x86 Zenfone 2 builds :
Polaris Office, Chase Mobile, Showbox...
- DRM content is currently broken
- Live Display (color calibration) not working yet
- Screen recording not working
- Chromecast screen mirroring not working, native casting works though.
- factory reset from setting menu has been reported to cause recovery boot loops.
- Battery life is horrible, numerous display wakelock issues
CM14 (not device specific issues)
No CMTE yet
Status bar icon changing broken
CM file manager has trouble accessing external sdcard
Battery profile is non functional/string errors
Other Issues?
Before posting on this thread, make sure of a few things:
You've utilized the search function of the forums. Nothing irritates me more than lazy people who do not search for an answer before asking or ask the same question over and over again.
If you are the only one having a problem. Boot into recovery, wipe data/factory reset, reflash the rom/gapps and nothing else. Boot up and see if the problem persists.
Make sure your post is relevant to this thread. "I'm having problems rooting/unlocking" is NOT relevant here.
LOGS LOGS LOGS!!!! Use this: SysLog by Tortel
As the Zenfone2 has multiple models from multiple countries please include the following information in your report:
model #
CPU Speed / RAM Size
device state when errors occur (BT/wifi/nfc on ? On a call ? sitting idle on shelf ? )
method to reproduce if you've found something consistent
Download Links
CyanogenMod for Z00A/ ze551ml: ROM
CyanogenMod for Z008/ ze550ml: ROM
Recovery Links
MM BL compatible TWRP: TWRP
MM BL compatible TWRP: TWRP
Google apps addon:
Recommend GAPPS for now as the updated x86 gapps.
Flashable Modem updates:
XDA:DevDB Information
CyanogenMod 14.1 Nightly Bulids (Z00A/Z008), ROM for the Asus ZenFone 2
jrior001, crpalmer, say99
Source Code: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/andro...sus_moorefield
ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
ROM Firmware Required: 4.21.40.xxx stock base
Version Information
Status: Beta
Beta Release Date: 2016-11-09
Created 2016-11-09
Last Updated 2016-11-22