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National Hispanic University Foundation and Santa Clara University Announce Innovative Collaboration to Create Educational Opportunities for Hispanic Communities
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2014 --The NHU Foundation and Santa Clara University are pleased to announce new plans for the use of the former National Hispanic University (NHU) campus in East San Jose. The Foundation is moving forward with plans to establish the Institute for Hispanic Educational Advancement at the campus beginning June 16, 2014. The Institute will be the first collaboration of its kind to integrate research, policy, and practice to provide a national focus on advancing Hispanic students with a concentration on educational achievement, attainment, and advancement.
The first member of the collaboration is the Santa Clara University School of Education and Counseling Psychology. The Foundation and SCU have agreed to offer a premier graduate studies program for the development of culturally responsive educational leaders. The East San Jose satellite campus will allow graduate students the opportunity to earn an SCU master of arts in teaching and California single or multiple subject teaching credential.
"This collaboration is just one of many ways Santa Clara University demonstrates our values of social justice and education," said SCU President Michael Engh, S.J. "We are pleased to provide important resources that will assist students in their professional studies and strengthen communities with opportunities for a better education and brighter future for their children."
SCU has established a scholarship program to help students currently enrolled in the NHU teaching credential program complete their single or multiple subject teaching credential and earn their master of arts in teaching. Additional scholarships will be available to attract aspiring teachers who commit to teach in schools with predominantly underserved Hispanic populations and to ensure that the number of culturally-responsive teachers in Santa Clara County is increased to meet the needs of the student population.
"Our goal is to offer innovative and transformative programs for teachers, who in turn make the greatest impact on the children whom they teach," said Nicholas Ladany, dean of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. "It is critical that schools of education learn about what works best for engaging Hispanic students, and we are humbled by this opportunity."
Pew research predicts Hispanic children will make up 25 percent of the nation's youth (ages 0 to 8) by 2030. Today, Hispanic students lag behind Non-Hispanic Whites and Asian Americans on most measures of academic achievement including test scores and high school and college graduation rates.
The second component of the Institute will be the relocation of the Foundation's two charter high schools, Latino College Preparatory Academy and the Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy, to the former NHU campus. The relocation is scheduled for July 1, 2014. Latino College Prep and Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy will collaborate in a unique apprenticeship clinical model that includes its campus partners, and the SCU School of Education and Counseling Psychology graduate program. Future plans include additional K-8 partners.
The Latino College Preparatory Academy and SCU's satellite campus will be located in a section of Sobrato Hall, the building housing the former NHU campus. The space has been made available thanks to a generous donation from SCU trustee John A. Sobrato.
"Educating the growing Hispanic community has been a passion of mine for the past 15 years since I first joined the Board of NHU and LCPA," says Sobrato. "I am delighted that Santa Clara University is enhancing the teacher credential program commenced by NHU and I expect the program will grow over time."
The third component of the Institute is the Hispanic Education Research & Policy Center. Also scheduled to open this summer on the campus, the Center will be a data-driven source of advice on the design, testing, and evaluation of new or modified education strategies for raising Hispanic educational attainment and academic achievement. The Center will work closely with public and education policymakers to develop policies and practices that provide educational equity in school systems with large Hispanic populations.
"The Board of our Foundation is both proud and excited that a University as prestigious as Santa Clara has chosen to participate in this project," says President of the NHU Foundation and SCU trustee emeritus Ed Alvarez. "Their investment in the youth that are most in need of an improved education will have a significant and long lasting impact in the classrooms that serve our Hispanic community."
The Foundation is also pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David Lopez as Executive Director of the Institute. Dr. Lopez will direct the efforts of the collaboration partners as a comprehensive source of research and information on educational attainment and academic achievement for the underserved Hispanic population of the county, state, and nation.
About the NHU Foundation
The NHU Foundation was founded in 1982 as a public benefit, nonprofit corporation and has operated the Latino College Preparatory Academy (LCPA) charter high school since 2002. LCPA has successfully prepared its students for college with 50 percent admitted to UC and CSU schools and the other 50 percent to local community colleges.
Its curriculum is structured around the highly successful Reading and Writing Initiative developed by Stanford professor Dr. Guadalupe Valdes who serves as an advisor to the school. This summer the Foundation will open two new charter high schools, Luis Valdez Leadership Academy to be located in the Franklin McKinley School District and Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy to be located on the campus of NHU. All three of its schools will focus on preparing English learners for college.
In addition, Roberto Cruz Academy will also focus on preparing students to pursue the teaching profession as a college major. Luis Valdez, a nationally known playwright, will serve the school in his name on the incorporation of art and drama into the academic curriculum. All three schools will participate in a unique clinical model to be developed by the Institute in collaboration with SCU School of Education and Counseling Psychology.
About Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, theology, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.
About the School of Education and Counseling Psychology
Guided by strong dedication to academic excellence and service to society, the School of Education and Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University educates compassionate, competent, and ethical professionals committed to meaningful and supportive engagement with people, schools, and communities. The School offers master's degree, certificate, and professional credential programs in teacher preparation and advanced studies, educational leadership and administration, and counseling psychology. Its core values include academic excellence through engaged teaching and learning, educating the whole person, multiculturalism and social justice, and innovative educati


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Katy Grimes and Megan Barth image By Katy Grimes and Megan Barth January 5, 2017 CANADA FREE PRESS As Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán, we are a nationalist movement of Indigenous Gente that lay claim to the land that is ours by birthright. As a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land. Thus, the principle of nationalism serves to preserve the cultural traditions of La Familia de La Raza and promotes our identity as a Chicana/Chicano Gente. M.E.CH.A Immediately following the November election, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra (D) to replace State Attorney General Kamala Harris, who won election to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer. Many wonder why Xavier Becerra was chosen by Brown. But all anyone has to do is peek into the radical California Legislature, and fanatical Gov. Jerry Brown, to see the trend of militant Marxist, Socialist, Jesuit, Liberation Theology, Latino activism on the increase. The goal by these extremists in California is to push the state, and eventually the country to such a crisis, a reorganization is the only cure. That is what Communists do. Modern day Progressives as they like to be called, like Brown and Becerra, refer to themselves as Multiculturalists and Progressives. But as history very clearly demonstrates, using Marxism as the cure to anything in society is a very dark fairytale. The term progressive is simply another way of saying socialist or Marxist; But its as important to recognize how liberation theology factors into the radical Latino lawmakers:In Latin America, the big enemy is not Marxism, it is capitalism. And the main enemy of liberation theology, according to its founder, the Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez of Peru, and many of its adherents, is the United States, wrote Michael Novak, the author of the 1984 Freedom With Justice: Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Institutions. Novak describes liberation theology as gaining its excitement from flirting with Marxist thought and speech. Xavier Becerra As Fox News pointed out in a 2003 interview on the Sean Hannitty Show, Becerra has a devout relationship with MEChA, as well as The Fabian Society. But dont go looking for the clip; it is apparent Becerras people have been busy at work cleaning up his online reputation and record. According to a NewsMax account on Free Republic: I got to be the first in my family to go to college thanks to MEChA, Becerra said. Hannity repeatedly pressed Becerra on why he would belong to a group that preaches racial discrimination, prompting the Bustamente backer to complain, Are you calling me a racist? When the Fox host pointed out that MEChA favors the return of California to Mexico, Becerra still declined to criticize the group, saying, I got a lot of help from people in the organization who have promoted education for kids and who continue to do that. ... What I know is what they do. MEChA is a Hispanic separatist organization (400 chapters nationwide) that encourages anti-American activities, civil disobedience, and romanticizes Mexican claims to the lost Territories of California and the Southwestern United States, in a Chicano country called Aztlan. The official national symbol of MEChA is an eagle holding a machete-like weapon and a stick of dynamite. The Fabian Society and Fabian Socialism uses the teachings of John Maynard Keynes as their catechism of political economy. Like Marxism, it embraced the idea of a Communist Utopia, where the State owned everything and controlled every aspect of the publics lives. They have installed Fabian Socialism and Keynesism as the new faith, both in the universities and in government bureaucracy. Keynes supported statism and socialism, and managed and planning economies. U.S. President Barack Obama has long advocated the use of Keynesian economic conceptsdespite the fact that John Maynard Keynes was incompetent, a fraud, and accused of being a pedophile. These groups have worked diligently behind the scenes to implement their Socialist policies into our government, labor unions and throughout academia. They have infected the working class, demanding higher and higher wages, resulting often in welfare and other government handouts once their employers are ruined. They use illegal immigrants as messengers of their ideology, demeaning patriotism, and America. They have manipulated the political process so that only those candidates well-versed in Marxism receive the attention of the corporate Media. Continued below... News from idealmedia.com Illegal Immigration and Marxism Even though the law doesnt allow them to vote, illegal immigrants are changing the landscape of the U.S. government, especially in California, by impacting the census through mass migration. California allows illegal aliens to vote. Former Mechista Rep. Xavier Becerra, the U.S. congressman for Californias 31st District, says what all leftist Latino lawmakers say: their (illegal) constituents still pay taxes and contribute to society, therefore they should vote.An individual doesnt have to be a citizen to pay taxes - you pay taxes if you work in this country, you pay taxes if you purchase something, Becerra said. Led by Los Angeles County Federation of Labor head Maria Elena Durazo, a group of socialist and Communist California labor officials and Democrat Party operatives created a program to target Latinos and immigrants (illegal and legal) to permanently drive California politics far to the left, Democrat political consultant Richie Ross wrote in CalBuzz in 2010. Ross openly boasts of targeting the Latino communitys fear of anti-illegal immigration measures, to drive the community even further into the arms of the Democratic Party. In 1994, then-Governor Pete Wilson put Proposition 187 on the ballot. It was called the nations first anti-immigrant initiative, but in fact the goal of Proposition 187 was to make illegal aliens ineligible for public benefits including public social services, public health care services, and public school education. It came in the middle of a deep recession in California and was popular partly because the fiscal estimate from the California Legislative Analysts Office said that it would save the state about $200 million/year. Latinos and Communists The two most significant Marxist groups in the United States, the Communist Party USA and Democratic Socialists of America, are both committed to increasing the Latino vote in order to give Democrats a permanent electoral majority. Maria Elena Durazo, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor head, is closely associated with both groups. She is is also well connected to former LA Mayor and Gubernatorial hopeful Antonia Villaraigosa, as well as former California State Senator Gil Cedillo, both long time immigration activists. Durazo, Villaraigosa and Cedillo, all trained under legendary Los Angles Communist Party USA activist, Democratic Party activist and immigration reform pioneer Bert Corona, Trevor Loudon wrote in 2013. All three have long ties to both the Communist Party USA and Democratic Socialists of America, and coincidentally were all prominent California supporters of presidential candidate Barack Obama and long time ally of both the Communists and DSA. Villaraigosa has a long history with MEChA. As a student, he headed the UCLA chapter of MEChA, but left UCLA six weeks before graduation to become a full-time organizer with Coronas Centro de Action Social Autonoma. Another radical activist isRep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), a co-sponsor of the 2010 Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Gutierrez, a former member of the Marxist-Leninist Puerto Rican Socialist Party, chairs the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Longtime amnesty activists Gutierrez and Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), both members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, worked on the amnesty effort. Communists seek to use amnestied illegals to build a permanent progressive majority. Most thinking Americans know that Democrats only care about illegals for the winning voting bloc they can provide, but most are unaware that this idea was hatched and developed by the American Communist Party, which Richie Ross clearly explains in his op ed: The campaigns we developed broke new ground, organized new union workers, and increased the political impact Latino voters have had on California politicssimultaneously tripling their number of registered voters, increasing the Democratic share of that vote by 50%, and doubling the percentage of the total votes cast in California from Latinos. Through the rest of the 1990s our campaigns focused on legislative races in Los Angeles. We succeeded. But it was all small. In 2000, our message was controversial (until it worked). If you want to make a difference, voting isnt enough. Dont bother voting unless you sign our pledge to get 100% of your family to vote. Latino turnout rose and accounted for 14% of the votes cast according to the States voter registration and voting history records. The Enemies Within Trevor Loudons 2013 book, Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress, profiles fourteen Senators and more than fifty Representatives. Their ties to Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, Workers World Party, the Institute for Policy Studies, Council for a Livable World and other radical anti-American organizations. Loudon identifies Bert Corona, as the Communist Father of the ÄòImmigrants Rights movement in 1960. In 1964, Corona, Cesar Chavez and future Democratic Socialists of America member Dolores Huerta forced Congress to end the guest worker Bracero program. Later, Corona sought ways to address problems confronting Mexicans in the United States who had no visas or citizenship documentsin other words, illegal aliensincluding how to defend persons detained by immigration authorities and how to help immigrants acquire disability and unemployment insurance and welfare. Loudon writes: On March 11, 1998, Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America leader Steve Tarzynski wrote an email to another Los Angeles DSA leader Harold Meyerson. Tarzynski listed 25 people he thought should be on an A-list of 25 or so leaders/activists/intellectuals and/or eminent persons who would gather periodically to theorize/strategize about how to rebuild a progressive movement in our metropolitan area that could challenge for power. Tarzynski listed himself, Harold Meyerson, Karen Bass, Sylvia Castillo, Gary Phillips, Joe Hicks, Richard Rothstein, Steve Cancian, Larry Frank, Torie Osborn, Rudy Acuna, Aris Anagnos, Abby Arnold, Carl Boggs, Blase Bonpane, Rick Brown, Stanley Sheinbaum, Alice Callahan, Jim Conn, Peter Dreier, Maria Elena Durazo, Miguel Contreras, Mike Davis, Bill Gallegos, Bob Gottlieb, Kent Wong, Russell Jacoby, Bong Hwan Kim, Paula Litt (and Barry Litt, with a question mark), Peter Olney, Derek Shearer, Clancy Sigal and Anthony Thigpenn. Included in a suggested elected officials sub-group were Mark Ridley-Thomas, Gloria Romero, Jackie Goldberg, Gil Cedillo, Tom Hayden, Antonio Villaraigosa, Paul Rosenstein and Congressmen Xavier Becerra, Henry Waxman and Maxine Waters. In further preparation for battle, the California legislature just hired former Attorney General, Eric Holder. Having the former attorney general of the United States brings us a lot of firepower in order to prepare and safeguard the values of the people of California. Kevin de Leon, the Democratic leader of the Senate, said in an interview. This means we are very, very serious. Very serious, and very Marxist, indeed. Part 2 of this series will be published next week. |
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Alert alert!
sadTakara on May 3, 2008
Yeah.. Sorry if I made anyone think Friction's coming back by posting here.. I just want you all to see the new stuff.
I say you guys should give me another chance.
Stoic cat at 12:06PM, July 31, 2011
T_T Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
kingtidus390 at 2:28AM, Sept. 23, 2010
Sorry lilrewindgirl she said that Friction was a release for her, and that she's not going to update. Anyway I'm working on a Friction calender for my personal enjoyment, if anyone is interested, I might make more and ship them to people for free if they don't cost too much to make.
LilRewindGrl at 12:08PM, Feb. 22, 2010
PLEASE UPDATE D: This is my favorite girlxgirl comic ever... l:
Arvogel at 5:10PM, Nov. 15, 2009
This comic hella amuses me. My first girlfriend's name is Lexie. ;3
lee_o_mcdaddy at 9:42PM, Aug. 31, 2009
Yes please finish this!
TwilightRain 888 at 8:48PM, June 10, 2009
no more? *tears
MorbiddenFlower at 8:19AM, May 15, 2009
eventhough blue is great... still think you should keep drawing this one .... don't leave us behind!!!!! :'(
yarelui at 6:29PM, April 29, 2009
>.< aaaaaw I want more!!!~
Tokyseo at 5:52AM, Oct. 21, 2008
Hey, to anyone who liked this comic I sincerley recommend checking out her other comic Blue. It's a great comic so go read it! :-D
anonymous at 12:30PM, Oct. 6, 2008
Please finish this. >
EndlessD at 12:30PM, Oct. 6, 2008
Please finish this. >
kingtidus390 at 9:39PM, Aug. 23, 2008
This the sixteenth time I've reread this comic...no..wait 17th. It sucks how they never did really get together as a couple...Please do more art on devianart of Cass and Lex, I'll love you forever for it.
sword_dagger at 8:18PM, July 5, 2008
shino at 8:50AM, May 29, 2008
Dexter at 9:37AM, May 26, 2008
Oh, I see it's right on the first page of Blue! :-)
Dexter at 9:35AM, May 26, 2008
Love the painting, too bad the words are all over it. Do you think you can post it again sometime, but then without text?
kingtidus390 at 9:58AM, May 8, 2008
*cries* Patricia How...How could you? You make me cry!
Emeraldas at 10:03PM, May 4, 2008
Well, I guess I'll give you another chance... but only because you're really good... j/k :P
Foxy_Kitty_Girl at 8:45PM, May 4, 2008
I dont think you have a say in the matter at all. I looked for Friction updates everyday and it ones one of my most beloved comics that I read on here... I fully understand the aggrivation of losing interest in a comic , because i lose interest in my stories. I was thinking about checking out your new comic but How do I know your not going to abandon it... Non the less, I believe in second chances so I'll give it a try
DarkChibiShadow at 7:21PM, May 4, 2008
Yep. Don't worry, you'll still be popluar. (Unlike me, jeez. D:)
lilu at 5:25PM, May 4, 2008
Never mind, found it...(:
lilu at 5:24PM, May 4, 2008
I write it, but all i get is the dd main page ):


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HILLARY'S WARS (Pt. 2): Wikileaks Proves Syria about Iran & Israel
The following article by David Haggith was first published on The Great Recession Blog and is republished here under FAIR USE terms in the public interest, and with full acknowledgements to Mr. Haggith:
Hillary's War in Syria is another expensive American adventure in nation building as the US inserts itself into the Syrian Civil War ostensibly to restrain the United States' sworn enemy ISIS (or "ISIL" as the Obama Admin. prefers). Obama's manner of fighting this war consistently shows a different objective — regime change. While that's clear to everyone, Wikileaks' exposure of Hillary Clinton's emails makes it clear that US intrusion in the Syrian Civil War is really all about Iran and Israel.
Both the US and Russia want to defeat ISIS, but only the US wants to make sure Syria's President Bashar Assad is overthrown. The United State's ulterior motive of regime change is the reason it is ineffective against ISIS — because it wants ISIS to do its dirty work — and is the reason for the stalemate last week between Russia and the United States that resulted in a significant move back to cold-war status. I think everyone has generally observed that the US-Russian disagreement is not about how to fight ISIS but about regime change in Syria. What many might not know yet is how last week's eruption with Russia goes back to Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State.
Wikileaks archive of Clinton emails shows this is Hillary's War with Syria
The Syrian Civil War began in 2011 — the middle of Hillary Clinton's term as US Secretary of State. Unmarked NATO war planes began arriving in Turkey that same year, delivering weapons absconded from Libya where America participated in another war for regime change. The planes also transported volunteer Libyan soldiers. (In my view, a mission clearly outside of NATO's charter, which was to form an alliance under which all members would fight to protect any individual member if it was attacked, not to transform the world. No one in Syria was attacking any NATO member.) By December of 2011, the CIA and US special ops also began providing communication support to Syrian forces seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Having advised President Obama to enter the Libyan Civil War, Hillary Clinton assured the press at the start of the Syrian Civil War that the United States would not similarly involve itself in that conflict. However, some documents exposed recently by Wikileaks show that Hillary's advice to the president to enter the US into Libya's Civil War came with a clear and intentional connection to topple the Assad regime:
In one document labeled "CONFIDENTIAL," Sidney Blumenthal, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and long-time confidante to Hillary Clinton, wrote the following to Hillary:
Assad' s gestures at reform are delusional attempts to recreate the pattern of his own recent past when he gained a modicum of respect from the West. Likely the most important event that could alter the Syrian equation would be the fall of Qaddafi, providing an example of a successful rebellion. (Wikileaks)
Prior to the fall of Qaddafi in Libya, Clinton was being advised to overthrow Qaddafi in order to effect change in Syria. Blumenthal then quotes an article by David W. Lesch, whom he says is "the U.S. expert with the closest relationship with Bashar al- Assad":
One game-changer [in Syria] could be the fall of Col. Moammar Gadhafi in Libya…. If Gadhafi falls within the next few months, there will be another model for regime change: that of limited but targeted military support from the West combined with an identifiable rebellion. Not that this can be easily applied in Syria. It hasn't even been easily applied in Libya, and Syria would be a much harder nut to crack.Furthermore, the Syrian opposition is far from united or being able to establish a Benghazi-like refuge from which to launch a rebellion and to which aid can be sent. But if there is regime change in Libya … it would give the Syrian regime something to really think about…. The Syrian regime does not want, nor can it probably survive, long-term international pressure or isolation, but it is used to sanctions…. Success for the rebels in Libya might change that.
US involvement in Libya began at Hillary's urging shortly after Hillary received this advice from her confidante Sidney Blumenthal. Note that the advice that the overthrow of Qaddafi needed to be connected with "an identifiable rebellion" in Syria means that it needs to be connected with civil war in Syria. US involvement in Libya was, of course, coordinated out of Benghazi, as the advice to Hillary suggested.
Once the fall of Qaddafi was a fait accompli, Hillary's State Department advocated the overthrow of Bashar Assad as a critical component for calming Israel so that President Barrack Obama could accomplish his legacy nuclear pact with Iran without Israel blowing Iran up before the deal was sealed.
The next document obtained by Wikileaks in its acquisition of Clinton's emails is not advice to Hillary but subsequent advice from Hillary's state department to the White House:
Negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program will not solve Israel's security dilemma. Nor will they stop Iran from improving the crucial part of any nuclear weapons program…. Iran's nuclear program and Syria's civil war may seem unconnected, but they are….. It is the strategic relationship between Iran and the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria that makes it possible for Iran to undermine Israel's security … through its proxies in Lebanon, like Hezbollah, that are sustained, armed and trained by Iran via Syria. The end of the Assad regime would end this dangerous alliance. Israel's leadership understands well why defeating Assad is now in its interests…. Defense Minister Ehud Barak argued that "the toppling down of Assad will be a major blow to the radical axis, major blow to Iran…." Bringing down Assad would not only be a massive boon to Israel's security, it would also ease Israel's understandable fear of losing its nuclear monopoly. Then, Israel and the United States might be able to develop a common view of when the Iranian program is so dangerous that military action could be warranted. Right now, it is the combination of Iran's strategic alliance with Syria and the steady progress in Iran's nuclear enrichment program that has led Israeli leaders to contemplate a surprise attack — if necessary over the objections of Washington. With Assad gone, and Iran no longer able to threaten Israel through its, proxies, it is possible that the United States and Israel can agree on red lines for when Iran's program has crossed an unacceptable threshold. In short, the White House can ease the tension that has developed with Israel over Iran by doing the right thing in Syria…. Only the threat or use of force will change the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's mind…. (Wikileaks)
(Note if you look it up that the Wikileaks document shows dates that refer to when the document was unclassified, not when written. The date of the State Department's creation of this document can be determined by its content: "the talks between the world's major powers and Iran that began in Istanbul this April and will continue in Baghdad in May." The switch from past tense to future tense dates the document sometime between April, 2012, which is when the talks began in Istanbul, and May, 2012, when they continued in Baghdad.)
That same document provides evidence the connection between Hillary's War in Libya and the next war in Syria clearly became a part the Department of State's strategy under Hillary: (Note how it states that Libya was an easier case, following the wording in the advice Hillary had been given by Blumenthal about overthrowing Qaddafi as a way to make regime change in Syria more accomplishable.)
The Obama administration has been understandably wary of engaging in an air operation in Syria like the one conducted in Libya. Libya was an easier case…. Other than the laudable purpose of saving Libyan civilians from likely attacks by Qaddafi's regime, the Libyan operation had no long-lasting consequences for the region. Syria is harder. But success in Syria would be a transformative event for the Middle East…. using territory in Turkey and possibly Jordan, U.S. diplomats and Pentagon officials can start strengthening the opposition. It will take time…. The second step is to develop international support for a coalition air operation.Russia will never support such a mission, so there is no point operating through the UN Security Council. Some argue that U.S. involvement risks a wider war with Russia. But the Kosovo example shows otherwise. In that case, Russia had genuine ethnic and political ties to the Serbs, which don't exist between Russia and Syria, and even then Russia did little more than complain.
According to this massively revealing document pillaged from Hillary Clinton's email archives, Obama needed to bring down Assad's regime in order to calm Israel into accepting the eventual nuclear agreement he was working out with Iran. So, US involvement in the Syrian Civil War is even less about Assad than it is about Iran and Israel — at least in the State Department's strategizing.
Connect the dots: First, Hillary counseled the president to establish regime change in Libya, the easiest target for such change. Then, with that success weighing on Assad's fears, the State Department advised seeking regime change in Syria, emphasizing to the president that overthrowing the Assad regime would be essential to his establishment of a nuclear agreement with Iran. The theory was that Assad's newfound fears from the regime change in Libya coupled with US empowered opposition in his own country, would get him to step down. Underlying the whole plan for regime change in Syria is the motive of weakening Iran, calming Israel and transforming the entire Middle East.
So, Libya was the first hit in a planned one-two punch to Assad that would, in the scheming and collective mind of Hillary's state department, transform the Middle East. Gaining the presidency right now would put Hillary in office just in time to be the one to see through and reap the benefit of being the president who transformed the Middle East. When it becomes a big success she can tell all about how it was her plan from the beginning and how she saw it through to the end during her presidency.
Where does ISIS/ISIL fit into Hillary's Wars in Libya and Syria?
If you read the full document, you may be struck as I was by how there is no mention at allof concerns about ISIS/ISIL as a reason to engage in regime change in Syria. That leads me to believe concerns about ISIS were secondary at best in the State Departments advice for US engagement in Syria. Perhaps they were not much more than the necessary cover story for such engagement because many US citizens were already sick and tired of hearing about "regime change." Regime change was supposed to be the stuff of George Bush, not the center ambition of Hillary's reset.
The Wikileaks copy of the document from Hillary Clinton's email archives closes with the clearly ambitious and optimistic goal of resetting all of the Middle East:
Victory may not come quickly or easily, but it will come. And the payoff will be substantial. Iran would be strategically isolated, unable to exert its influence in the Middle East. The resulting regime in Syria will see the United States as a friend, not an enemy. Washington would gain substantial recognition as fighting for the people in the Arab world, not the corrupt regimes. For Israel, the rationale for a bolt from the blue attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be eased. And a new Syrian regime might well be open to early action on the frozen peace talks with Israel…. America can and should help them.
Wow! How much does the State Departments advice sound like the optimistic statements of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld that the US would be greeted as liberators in Iraq once the war was over (other than the the more realistic allowance that success in Syria will take a good deal of time and not be accomplished in a hundred days)?
Whether or not Hillary's War in Libya is scaring Bashar Assad or inspiring his opponents, it did also nicely provide arms for the follow-on war in Syria. The tidy thing about that arrangement is that it might not be seen as US armaments that were attacking Assad directly, especially if the area arrived with Libyan fighters.
Unfortunately, there were unintended negative consequences as so often happens with US-backed regime changes. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2013 assessed that Turkey had effectively transformed the secret US arms program that was shipping through Turkey from supporting "moderate rebels" (whatever a "moderate rebel" is) into supporting all elements of the Syrian opposition, including al-Nusra and ISIS.
As a result (?), The United States began direct involvement in the Syrian Civil War in September, 2014, by sending jets and Tomahawk missiles under its own command (as opposed to NATO's) to destroy ISIS targets. The need to actually take US planes in to fight ISIS in the Syrian Civil War became a great concern as soon as it appeared US support of Assad's opposition actually empowered ISIS. Since the Obama administration had claimed that Bush's War turned Iraq into an incubator for ISIS, it could hardly let Obama's covert attempt at regime change in Syria wind up empowering ISIS with US arms via Turkey.
The State Department document recommended an air operation in Syria to overthrow Assad, but it turned out that the US also needed to terminate what was happening with ISIS. Fighting ISIS (without mentioning that we had supplied them with weapons) was a much easier sell than air strikes to create regime change.
Have no fear, though, Hillary already has it all figured out, as the State Department document assures, that a regime friendly toward the US will fill the vacuum in Syria, not one constructed from ISIS. We can only hope that prediction turns out better than Clinton's prediction that Russia would never get directly involved in the Syrian conflict just because the US was supplying Assad's opponents.
In conclusion
The State Department document above reveals that regime change in Syria was the primary objective in a masterplan that goes as far back as the Libyan Civil War … just as much as regime-change was the overt objective in Iraq.
The fact that things were not turning out so well in the Iraqi-ISIS incubator meant that the US had to make its efforts in Syria look more about ISIS than about regime change. Even George Bush needed support for his regime-change goal in Iraq, which he found in the notion that he war in Iraq was largely about fighting al Qaeda in Iraq and getting rid of enriched uranium and weapons of mass destruction, not just about liberating the people from a dictator. He could never have sold regime-change as his primary goal, though it was.
This explains why US efforts against ISIS have appeared ineffective. The US has an ulterior motive that is at odds with destroying ISIS. ISIS is useful to the US for the time being because ISIS wants to destroy Bashar Assad as badly as the US does, though with a completely different intended outcome, which is that ISIS rules the Middle East.
The US appears to be running a strategy that is willing to use ISIS where it can to be successful in deposing Assad, but clearly the US does not want to strengthen ISIS to where it becomes the eventual new regime. That final result would completely counter Hillary's rosy goals of a transformed Middle East that becomes a region that is friendly to the US and safer for Israel.
It's hard to justify a war directly against Assad, but if ISIS does it, it is completely easy later on to justify a war against ISIS. The US just has to make sure ISIS doesn't get the upper hand against all of the rest of Assad's opponents so that they wind up being the ones to fill the power vacuum when Assad is deposed.
That conflict of interests explains why Russia has repeatedly ridiculed the US for being unable to separate the "moderate rebels" it seeks to back (in their attack against Assad) from terrorist groups (like ISIS and al Qaeda) that are also attacking Assad. Operating with mixed motives makes Obama appear inept compared to Putin, whose two motives of protecting Assad and killing ISIS are not in conflict with each other.
While Hillary's goals might seem (to some) to be worth the means she is taking to get there, these regime changes never turn out that rosy. As shown in the first article of this series, this strategy has already cost the US its nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia and has put the US on the edge of a hot war with Russia. Allowing ISIS to have as much victory against Assad as the US feels is safe in order to try to keep the United States' hands clean of directly overthrowing Assad is a dangerous strategy. Empowering the enemy of our enemy to fight a war has usually backfired on the US. I find it hard to think of a situation where that strategy hasn't gone bad for the US and everyone else or where nation-building has worked out well in the last fifty years.
The US would be a safer place and the world a better place if the US stopped trying to reform the world in its image — a grand globalist goal it scarcely can afford any longer.


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This document explains how to integrate various Cisco Service modules (supported by Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches) with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System 1440.
Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics:
Knowledge of Virtual Switching Systems (VSS) concepts. For more information, refer to Understanding Virtual Switching Systems. There is a brief description of VSS in this document, but it is not meant to be a comprehensive explanation.
The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions:
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System 1440 that runs Cisco IOS® Software Release 12.2(33)SXI or later
See the Table of the Service Module Integration section.
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.
The Virtual Switching System (VSS) is a new and innovative feature on Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches that effectively allows clustering of two physical chassis together into a single logical entity. Such a technology allows for new enhancements in all areas of enterprise campus and data center deployment, which includes High Availability, Scalability / Performance, Management and Maintenance.
Current implementation of VSS allows you to merge two physical Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches together into a single logically-managed entity. This figure provides a graphical representation of this concept where two 6509 chassis can be managed as a single 18-slot chassis once VSS is enabled:
The key enabler of the VSS technology is a special link that binds the two chassis together. This is called a Virtual Switch Link (VSL). VSL carries special control information as well as encapsulates every frame with a header that passes across this link. The VSS concept allows for the combination of two switches into a single logical network entity from the network control plane and management perspective. The VSS appears as a single logical switch or router to the neighboring devices. Within the VSS, one chassis is designated as the Virtual Switch Active and the other is designated as the Virtual Switch Standby.
All control plane functions, such as Management (SNMP, Telnet, SSH, etc.), Layer 2 Protocols (BPDUs, PDUs, LACP, etc.), Layer 3 Protocols (Routing Protocols, etc.), and Software Data path, are centrally managed by the Active Supervisor of the Active Virtual Switch chassis. The supervisor on the Virtual Switch Active is also responsible for programming the hardware forwarding information onto all the Distributed Forwarding Cards (DFCs) across the entire VSS as well as the Policy Feature Card (PFC) on the Virtual Switch Standby supervisor.
From a data plane and traffic forwarding perspective, both switches in the VSS actively forward traffic. The PFC on the Virtual Switch Active supervisor performs central forwarding lookups for all traffic that ingresses the Virtual Switch Active, whereas the PFC on the Virtual Switch Standby supervisor performs central forwarding lookups for all traffic that ingresses the Virtual Switch Standby. The service module integration with VSS is aimed to behave similarly to availability of the service module as if both chassis are a single logical chassis. Therefore, the user can access and activate the modules in either chassis in standalone mode as well as failover mode.
The first Cisco IOS Software Release [12.2(33)SXH1] of the VSS included support for the Network Access Module (NAM) service modules. The list of service modules that are supported in the second Cisco IOS Software Release [12.2(33)SXI] of the VSS are:
Application Control Engine (ACE)
Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
Wireless Services Module (WiSM)
Intrusion Detection System Services Module (IDSM-2)
Shared Port Adapters
Service Module | Minimum Cisco IOS Release | Minimum Module Release |
Network Analysis Module (NAM-1 and NAM-2) (WS-SVC-NAM-1 and WS-SVC-NAM-2) | 12.2(33)SXH1 | 3.6(1a) |
Application Control Engine (ACE10 and ACE20) (ACE10-6500-K9 and ACE20-MOD-K9) | 12.2(33)SXI | A2(1.3) |
Intrusion Detection System Services Module (IDSM-2) (WS-SVC-IDSM2-K9) | 12.2(33)SXI | 6.0(2)E1 |
Wireless Services Module (WiSM) (WS-SVC-WISM-1-K9) | 12.2(33)SXI | 188.8.131.52 |
Firewall Services Module (FWSM) (WS-SVC-FWM-1-K9) | 12.2(33)SXI | 4.0.4 |
Service modules can be placed in either of the physical chassis that comprise a VSS. For configuration with more than one service module of a given type, configure one in each physical switch for best availability. VSL will carry traffic under normal and failover scenarios, VSL bandwidth must be tuned accordingly.
VSS Active and Standby Supervisor roles are independent of the Service Module redundancy roles, for example an Active Service module can be contained in a VSS Standby chassis and vice-versa.
In Active-Standby Redundancy, one of the modules in a VSS system will be Active and second one will be Standby. Secure data traffic is required to be seen by active module.
Active-Active Redundancy, both service modules are active and act as a back up for each other.
Based on the neighbor device's load-balancing configuration, it is expected to have traffic transmitted across all interfaces that are part of MultiChassis EtherChannel (MEC).
Switch-2 ingress traffic will be redirected to the active service module in Switch-1. Therefore it is expected to have traffic destined to active service module traversing VSL link. It is recommended that the size of the VSL link should be based on expected bandwidth.
Flows that are arrived on Switch-1 and flows that are redirected from Switch-2 will be processed by active service module and forwarded to next hop device.
For egress traffic, locally connected interfaces are favored in MEC and Layer 3 (L3) Equal-Cost MultiPath (ECMP) interfaces.
Traffic Flow in a VSS System
WiSM in VSS works the same as in a standalone chassis. In standalone Catalyst 6500 chassis, when the supervisors go through a Stateful Switchover (SSO), the WiSM line cards are kept intact and packet forwarding resumes in two seconds. Cisco WiSM continues to operate as usual even if a SSO switch over occur. In the VSS, the SSO is in between the two switches. Hence if there is a Cisco WiSM module on the standby switch, packet forwarding can continue during the SSO switch over since the data plane of the standby switch is already fully functional and forwarding.
Multiple WiSMs are supported in a VSS system in Active state. Load-balance achieved by each WiSM serving different set of Access Points (APs). In case active WiSM fails, APs are configured for failover to available WiSMs. The APs leverage the existing LWAPP Discovery and Join process to detect backup controllers for which the APs are configured.
Based on the neighbor device's load-balancing configuration, it is expected to have traffic across all interfaces that are part of MEC. Therefore, traffic destined to a given WiSM will ingress both physical switches in the VSS.
VLAN Red Traffic and VLAN Yellow traffic that is arrived on Switch 1 or 2 will be redirected to Active Service Module of the VLAN. It is expected to see traffic destined to active Service Module traversing VSL link. It is recommended that the size of the VSL link should be based on expected bandwidth.
Egress traffic from the the Active WiSM module is forwarded to the next hop device. Locally connected interfaces are favored in MultiChassis EtherChannel and L3 ECMP interfaces.
For more information on how to configure a WiSM module in a VSS environment, refer to Cisco WiSM in a Cisco Virtual Switching System Environment.
Intrusion Detection System Service Module (IDSM2) does not support session failover mechanisms. However, more than one active IDSM2 is supported in a VSS. Traffic Load-balancing in VSS is similar to standalone containing multiple IDSMs in a single chassis, it is achieved using EtherChannel configuration.
Similar to IDSM support available in standalone Cisco Catalyst 6500 system, Promiscuous, In-Line and On-A-Stick modes of operations are supported with VSS as well. If more than one IDSM is installed in each chassis of a VSS system, EtherChannel configuration can be leveraged to load-balance traffic across IDSMs within a chassis.
With configuration of MEC traffic will be load-balanced across all uplink interfaces.
Traffic that needs special attention is copied to IDSMs in hardware using Catalyst features such as SPAN and VLAN capture.
Traffic further processed by IDSM and decision is made to either forward or drop the packets or generate TCP RST to break the connection.
In VSS, only POS and Gige Shared Port Adapters (SPAs) are supported on SIP400 compared to a standalone system on a Catalyst 6500.
Ethernet SPAs
POS SPAs
Note: SPA-5x1GE, SPA-5x1GE-V2 in coming release 12.2(33)SXJ.
Service Module HA modes, Active-Active, Active-Standby, will be supported in VSS. These are independent of the Supervisor HA roles.
EtherChannels favor locally attached interfaces. This has implications for Service Modules utilizing internal EtherChannel interface.
VSL will carry traffic under normal and failover scenarios, VSL bandwidth must be configured or tuned accordingly.
Multiple standalone Service Modules will be supported in VSS.
Revision | Publish Date | Comments |
1.0 |
01-Dec-2013 |
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Office of the Press Secretary
June 12, 2004
President Bush Salutes President Reagan in Radio Address
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, America mourned the passing of President Ronald Reagan. We remembered a gentle, decent man, and one of the greatest leaders our nation has known. He was a courageous patriot whose leadership transformed the country and the world he leaves behind.
In this time of sadness, we think especially of Nancy Reagan, a loyal, loving wife of 52 years; and the President's three children, and the rest of the Reagan family.
Ronald Wilson Reagan entered the world more than 93 years ago in an apartment above a local bank in Illinois. His life would include success in careers from sports broadcasting to film acting to public office. Along the way, his deepest convictions were formed. And through all the trials of life, those convictions never wavered.
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President Reagan brought those convictions to the White House in 1981, and he departed eight years later with achievements that have endured. With bold, persistent action, he restored the confidence of our nation, strengthened the spirit of free enterprise, challenged and shamed an oppressive empire, and inspired millions with his conviction and moral courage.
As he showed what a President should be, he also showed us what a man should be. Ronald Reagan carried himself with a decency and attention to the small kindnesses that also define a good life. He was a courtly, gentle, and considerate man, never known to slight or embarrass others. From the Oval Office, he took time to answer letters from schoolchildren and grandmothers and countless strangers curious about life in the White House.
Ronald Reagan deeply loved the United States of America. And that love is being returned. Over the past week, tens of thousands of mourners stood in line in California and in Washington, D.C. to pay their final respects. There were 21-gun salutes and dignified processions, and home-made memorials at a funeral home in Santa Monica.
Now that Nancy Reagan has taken her husband to his place of rest, we offer our gratitude. Our country is stronger and our world is freer for the brave leadership of this modest son of America. Ronald Reagan always told us that for America, our best was yet to come. We know that is true for him, too. His work is done. And now a shining city awaits him.
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Donald Eugene Nicholson – Bedford
Donald Eugene Nicholson of Bedford passed away on Sunday, May 30th at the age of 62. Born in 1947 in Bedford to Otis Nicholson and Frances Nicholson, she had been married to Kyu Son Cho since 1969, worked in the U.S. Army, at NWSC Crane, was a graduate of Oolitic High School and was of protestant faith. He is survived by his wife; one son, Donald Nicholson Jr.; one daughter, Nancy Nicholson; three brothers, Jim Nicholson, John Nicholson and Harold Nicholson; two sisters, Frances Barrett and Betty Jo East; as well as one half-sister, Beulah Helton and several grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Claude Nicholson and Melvin Nicholson; as well as four half-brothers, Bob, Bill, Frank and Otie. Funeral services will be held at 1:00PM on Monday, June 7th at Dive Christian Church with burial to follow in Dive Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2:00PM until 6:00PM on Sunday, June 6th at Ferguson – Lee Funeral Home. Military rites will be accorded graveside by members of the American Legion Gillen Post #33.


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Welcome Magnolia friends to our Ribbon winners post and brand new challenge for the month of May!
Stunning creations as always last month, what can I say....you are all sooooooo talented, it's awesome to feast the eyes on so many beautiful projects.
As ever unfortunately there can only be one winner, and Random.Org has chosen
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and here is Vicky's masterpiece.....
Congratulations Vicky! Grab the winners badge for your beautiful blog and contact me, Nicola at this address, so I can arrange your prize!
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'Button and Lace'
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Russ W. Moore of Bad Brothers Racing has an awesome project on his hands. The motorcycle frame is from a Yamaha YSR-50. Smaller than a standard street bike and larger than a pocket bike it comes with a 50cc engine and is street legal. The gas turbine is being constructed from a Cummins ST-50 usually found in large trucks. The documentation is pretty thorough and covers the build from the beginning. It's still in progress, the exhaust and pumps still need to be mounted, possibly a starter too. The ECU will be a Basic Stamp II. See, you don't need to be Jay Leno or have 150K to have your own jet bike.
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My Memory Garden
I created this garden summer 2005 In a side yard that enters into back yard. Wanted something over the gate so I made a gate arbor and planted a rose on it like my mom had done. This became a dedication garden to her memory as I planted roses and flowers she would have loved. I call this garden MY MEMORY GARDEN.
Flower Close-ups Flower Garden Front Yard Garden Large (5,000 - 10,000 sq ft.) Path / Walkway Side Yard
1 of 10: Entering memory garden from front yard. I added a flower pond drain runoff and put a bridge over it.
5 of 10: Path to memory garden and road.I added a weeping cherry tree spring 2008. The dogwood is dying and will have to be replaced. I have added to memory garden and made a fence line garden in front with roses, climbing roses and perennials this past fall. Hopefully in time the chain link fence will be covered.
6 of 10: Gate entrance to back yard. I hope to add a picket fence to cover chain link, a wood gate and finish side porch railing. When husband can get the time!
8 of 10: Memory garden blooms with knockout roses,Japanese iris,coreopsis, coneflower,speedwell, dianthus,catment,happy return daylily, sage and robin hood rosa,night owl rose,american cl rose and clematis on fence and bird house poles.
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What a beautiful tribute
Nice to hear from you. No I haven't started any seeds yet. I think I will start them the end of March, I have to check the seed packages. I always have trouble with them getting to leggy if I start them too early. Sam's club has a rolling rack about 7ft. high and about 6 adjustable shelves. I am using my Christmas money to buy it, $100.00 This way I can roll the young plants in and out of the garage. I think I might try covering the shelf unit up with plastic and make it like a portable greenhou
So you want to do some scrapbooking...sounds good. Just start! When you do your rose cuttings do you use rooting hormone? I wish I could grow roses like you...BEAUTIFUL! How is the weather by you? Ice? Snow?
Hi Deronda, I am just sitting down and having my first cup of coffee. I can't think of a better way to start my day than strolling through your BEAUTIFUL gardens. I love the very natural look to your paths and how your porch adds texture and warmth to the area.
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Press Release
More Saturnian Moons
26 October 2000
Four new moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, raising the number to twenty-two. This means that Saturn is now the planet in the Solar System with most known satellites. The previous record holder, Uranus, has twenty-one known satellites. Two of the new objects were first seen with the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) camera at the ESO La Silla Observatory (Chile). They have diameters of 10 to 50 km, and calculations have shown that they are almost certainly small satellites (moons) that accompany Saturn on irregular orbits.
Saturn takes the lead
Following the discovery of at least four additional moons of that planet, Saturn has again taken the lead as the planet with the greatest number of known natural satellites. A corresponding announcement was made today by an international team of astronomers [1] at a meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Pasadena (California, USA).
The four new faint bodies were spotted during observations in August-September 2000 at several astronomical telescopes around the world. Subsequent orbital calculations have indicated that these objects are almost certainly new satellites of the giant planet.
Two Saturnian moons found at La Silla
The observations of the first two objects are described on a Circular of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) that was issued today [2].
The images of these new moons were first registered on exposures made on August 7, 2000, with the Wide Field Imager (WFI), a 67-million pixel digital camera that is installed at the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory (Chile).
When analyzing the many images in a sky area near the location of the planet Saturn, Brett Gladman (who works for the "Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)", France) realized that two faint, moving objects seen near the brilliant glare of Saturn might well be hitherto unknown satellites of that planet.
Follow-up observations
On September 23 and 24, Brett Gladman and his colleague JJ Kavelaars were observing at the Canada-France-Hawaii 3.5-m telescope on Mauna Kea (Hawaii, USA). In a more extensive search, they were again able to image the two objects first discovered at La Silla. They also detected two more candidates, also announced on an IAU Circular today [2]. Working as fast as the images came off the telescope, they immediately alerted other teams of astronomers about these discoveries.
Additional, confirming observations soon came from (Rhiannon) Lynne Allen (University of Michigan, USA) at the 2.4-m MDM telescope (Arizona, USA), Carl W. Hergenrother and Steve Larson at the 1.5-m telescope of the Steward Observatory (Arizona, USA), as well as Alain Doressoundiram and Jorge Romon at the ESO 3.58-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) on La Silla.
The orbits
Orbital calculations by Brian Marsden (IAU Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observtory, USA) proved that these objects cannot be foreground asteroids (minor planets).
Although it is currently not yet possible to completely disprove that these are comets that happen to pass near Saturn, previous experience shows that this is extremely unlikely.
Several months of continued observations will still be required to compute highly accurate orbits of these objects. This must be accomplished before the planet disappears behind the Sun in March 2001 (as seen from the Earth).
Saturn's "irregular" moons
The computations show that these moons are of the type that is referred to by astronomers as 'irregular', as they revolve around the giant planet in somewhat unstable, changing (i.e., 'irregular') orbits. They are quite far from the planet and were most probably captured into their present orbits (long) after the planet was formed.
In contrast, the `regular' moons of the giant planets - of which most have nearly circular orbits close to the planet and near its equatorial plane - are thought to have formed out of a disk of dust and gas that surrounded the planet as it formed.
Saturn's only previously-known irregular satellite is Phoebe that was discovered in 1899 by the American astronomer William H. Pickering on photographic plates obtained at the Harvard University's observing station in Peru. In contrast, Jupiter has nine known irregular satellites, one of which was discovered last year, c.f. ESO Press Photos eso0025. Neptune has two and Uranus has five (also discovered by the present team, in 1997 and 1999).
Saturn's total count of 22 moons now surpasses that of Uranus (with 21). The new moons of Saturn have diameters ranging from 10 - 50 kilometres, in line with the sizes of other irregular moons. They are almost certainly "captured" minor planets.
Possibly more moons
The team has found several other satellite candidates that are now being followed by various telescopes. When sufficient accurate positions have been measured, it will also become possible to compute the orbits of those objects.
It certainly looks as if there is a rich system of small distant moons swarming around Saturn, the beautiful 'ringed planet' of our solar system.
[1] The team includes Brett Gladman , Jean-Marc Petit and Hans Scholl (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France), JJ Kavelaars (McMaster University, Canada), Matthew Holman and Brian Marsden (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA), Philip Nicholson and Joseph A. Burns (Cornell University, USA).
[2] The information about the discovery of the four Saturnian moons is published today on IAU Circulars 7512 and 7513, respectively.
More information
Press releases about the new Saturnian satellites are also being issued by other organisations and institutes:
- Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
- McMaster University
- Cornell University
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
More general information about the outer planets and their irregular satellites and some images are available on the web:
- Saturn
- Phoebe
- Uranus' Irregular Moons
- NASA's Planetary Photojournal
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Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur Department Cassini B.P. 4229
F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
Tel: +33-4-9200-3191
Cell: +1-626-403-7600 at the Marriott Hotel in Pasadena on October 26, 2000, from 15:30 to 16:30 hrs CEST = 13:30 to 14:30 UT
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
About the Release
Release No.: | eso0036 |
Legacy ID: | Photo 29a-c/00 |
Name: | Paaliaq, S/2000 S 1, S/2000 S 2, Saturn, Ymir |
Type: | Solar System Solar System : Planet : Satellite |
Facility: | MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope |
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Infernal Affairs, #41
Martin Scorsese used this movie as the framework for The Departed. And while Infernal Affairs has received high praise and dozens of awards, the feeling here is that Scorsese took an interesting plot and made it into a classic film.
Maybe that's cinematic jingoism.
But we like to think it's why Scorsese is Scorsese.
Think of Infernal Affairs as a beautifully detailed line drawing. Scorsese took that outline and turned it into a colorful and layered Impressionistic painting.
The tension and absorbing plot twists that made The Departed such a great film are all here. The action scenes and murders are recreated almost verbatim. The botched drug deal, the fall from the roof, the meeting in the movie theater and subsequent chase and the finale on and off the elevator play as virtual mirror images—one in Chinese and the other in Bostonian.
Because both films are so highly regarded among film fans, there is an ongoing—and sometimes bitter—debate about them. Go online and you'll find moviegoers backing one film over the other with an aggressive fanaticism normally associated with rival sports fans.
The makers of Infernal Affairs came away with dozens of prizes from the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2003, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Tony Leung) and Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Wong).
The film, released with a limited run in the United States in 2004, has been credited in many cinematic circles with reviving the then-floundering Hong Kong film industry by pumping new life and creativity into what had become a staid and predicable business.
A prequel and a sequel were subsequently made, with all three parts serving as scripture for an almost cult-like IA following in the United States and other countries.
But to argue over which is the better film is similar to debating whether Tom Brady or Peyton Manning is the better quarterback. Both play the game of football at the highest level; both movies are superior contemporary crime films.
Still, the argument doesn't stop.
While Wai-keung Lau seemed pleased with the success of The Departed after it won Best Picture at the 79th Academy Awards, his codirector Alan Mak helped fuel the controversy with comments he made at the time to the South China Morning Post.
On the one hand, Mak sounded snide when noting that since The Departed was almost a carbon copy of Infernal Affairs, he was pleased his film had won the top Academy Award. But in the same interview, he complained about changes that had been made in the script, particularly to its ending. Mak, according to the newspaper article, pointed out that in Infernal Affairs, the Triad mole inside the police department survives at the expense of the undercover cop.
"With the death of Matt Damon's character, the symbolism in the film is gone—it was designed so that the opportunist lives and has to face a life led on false pretenses," Mak said.
Two other changes jump out. While The Departed had the same love interest for the two undercover operatives, Infernal Affairs has the rogue cop living with a novelist and the undercover investigator falling in love with his psychiatrist. This made it easier to incorporate some introspection and foreshadowing, two developments that were implied, but not so obvious, in The Departed. The novelist at one point complains about character development in the book she is working on and asks her lover to help her sort it out. She says she doesn't know if she wants her character to be "a good guy or a bad guy" and wonders if, in real life, you get to choose between the two.
Ming (Andy Lau), the Triad member who has infiltrated the police department, finds himself facing the same dilemma—more so than Matt Damon's Colin Sullivan did in The Departed, Ming appears to believe he can wipe the slate clean and become a real police officer.
When Ming kills Hon Sam, the Triad leader, it's clearly with that in mind. When Sullivan takes out Frank Costello, it's because he believes Costello is cooperating and might expose him. Sullivan is driven by self-preservation, a theme that occurs again and again in The Departed. Ming has a more noble, albeit twisted, goal.
The other big differences between the films, in our opinion, are the importance of their respective mob bosses and the level of performance achieved by the actors playing those roles. Eric Tsang is effective as Sam, but doesn't get the screen time or bring the same presence as Jack Nicholson, who created one of the all-time gangster film bad guys with his portrayal of the diabolical, philosophical and homicidal Frank Costello.
There's just no comparison.
That being said, Infernal Affairs is a good movie. But if you've seen The Departed first, you probably won't be as impressed.
WHAT THEY WROTE AT THE TIME: "No wonder Martin Scorsese wants to remake it. . . . Co-director Andrew Lau, a onetime cinematographer . . . has time and again breathed life into the Hong Kong film industry with slickly produced yet irresistibly human and entertaining action films. With Infernal Affairs, which he codirected with writer Alan Mak, Lau has outdone himself. The directors walk a fluidly edited tightrope between character study and action tour de force."—G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
REPEATED WATCHING QUOTIENT: If you're into making comparisons between originals and remakes, then back-to-back screenings of Infernal Affairs and The Departed would be an interesting undertaking and a great way to fuel discussion on which of the two is better. If you just want to be entertained, either movie is worth revisiting.
PIVOTAL SCENE: Ming and Yan finally come face to face, but Yan still doesn't realize Ming is the mole within the police department he has been chasing. They have a discussion about Yan's undercover work and his desire to finally come in from the cold. Yan says he's been at it 10 years. Their exchange is ironic and sets the stage for the movie's blistering conclusion.
"I just want an identity, I want to be normal, man," says Yan.
"Getting tired?" Ming asks.
"You've never been a mole," Yan replies. "You won't understand. Too bad I still can't find the stooge. I'll take him down if I find him."
BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW: When The Departed won the Academy Award for Best Picture, there was a reference made to Infernal Affairs as the film on which it was based. However, IA, as its fans like to call it, was incorrectly identified as a Japanese film. This, no doubt, has added to the debate among film fans over real or perceived slights by those involved in making each film.
BEST LINE: "What thousands must die so that Caesar can become the great?" asks Triad leader Hon Sam as he initiates a young group of gangsters into his organization and lays out his plan to infiltrate the police department.
VIOLENCE LEVEL: Intense.
BODY COUNT: Seven.
Join us as we count down the greatest gangster movies of all time — a new entry every Thursday! Click here to see what you've missed so far.
[Reprinted from The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies by George Anastasia and Glen Macnow. Available from Running Press, a member of The Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2011.]
George Anastasia is a crime reporter for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and author of several books, including "Blood and Honor" which Jimmy Breslin called "the best gangster book ever written."
Glen Macnow was a writer for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and "Detroit Free Press." He is currently a talk-radio host on 610-WIP in Philadelphia.
George and Glen have co-authored "The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies."
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This elegant pavilion takes the tea ceremony to a new level—literally. The bronze and glass structure, hanging from steel beams like a Japanese lantern, is a metaphor for the mental attitude of mindfulness, and the meditative detachment from thought and time. David Jameson, FAIA, likes playing with the notion of in-between physical space, too. The path from main house to teahouse moves from rectangular stepping stones in the lawn to crushed gravel, where the stepping stones become irregular and wind between the pavilion and its steel superstructure. "Your mind begins to cleanse itself as you weave through the bamboo. The path is irregular, the gravel is crunchy, and the between space is activated," Jameson says.
Designed for use as a teahouse, meditation space, and family music stage, most of the building was shop-fabricated. Its details demonstrate Jameson's belief that the outside of a building should hint at what's inside. The superstructure's steel cross-bracing alludes to the dreidel-like quality of the roof and ceiling—thin at the edges and folding up on the outside, down on the inside. "Increasing the ceiling depth toward the center makes the space more intimate," he says, and enhances the acoustics.
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Paul Thurrott is reporting that Windows Phone 7 is getting its first update as soon as February (it might even be RTM this week). Codenamed NoDo, for 'No Donuts' (anti-Android?), the first update will bring copy & paste, a bunch of software fixes, support for Qualcomm 7×30 chipset and a CDMA location stack.
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The Houston Astros' Jon Singleton, among the top first-base prospects in baseball, is opening up publicly for the first time about his battle with marijuana addiction and his monthlong stay at a rehabilitation center.
"At this point, it's pretty evident to me that I'm a drug addict," Singleton told The Associated Press over breakfast on a recent day near the Astros' camp. "I don't openly tell everyone that, but it's pretty apparent to myself."
Vividly so.
"I know that I enjoy smoking weed, I enjoy being high, and I can't block that out of my mind that I enjoy that," he said. "So I have to work against that."
Hours after the AP published its story on Singleton, the Astros released a statement and commended the player.
"We applaud Jon for the courage he has shown in tackling this issue head-on," the team said. "He has displayed a great deal of maturity and commitment over the past year and has the full support of the Astros organization. He is on the right track for his baseball career and, more importantly, for his life. We are very proud of Jon."
Singleton had avoided discussing the subject for more than a year. But on that recent morning, he shared his story with candor and ease, never bristling at the increasingly prying questions. The 6-foot-2, 235-pound native of Harbor City, Calif., sat up straight in a small booth, adjusted the baseball cap he was wearing backward and filled in the details of his private struggle.
The 22-year-old said he's stopped using marijuana and is better now. He is determined to rebound from a season that was all but lost because of his addiction and to make his major league debut.
General manager Jeff Luhnow said Singleton could start the season with the Astros, but it's too early to know. Singleton, a dynamic left-handed hitter with power and composure who can use the entire field, has been playing in big league spring training games and went 0-for-2 on Monday in a 4-0 win over Miami.
"He's still young and still learning about baseball and about life," Luhnow said.
Singleton, acquired by Houston from the Phillies in the 2011 trade for Hunter Pence, was suspended for the first 50 games of last season for a second failed drug test. At the time, it was characterized as simply a mistake or "a lapse in judgment," as his statement said.
That wasn't the full story.
His first positive test came in June 2012, and he said he quit using marijuana for the rest of that season, his first in Double-A. He went on to hit .284 with 21 homers and 79 RBIs.
At season's end, he went to the Arizona Fall League and quickly fell back into old habits.
He knew his situation was dire when he failed a second test in December 2012, but he said he continued to get high every day.
The 50-game suspension came a month later, and he was summoned to Houston to meet with Astros manager Bo Porter and to see a therapist, who evaluated him for addiction. Singleton was then admitted for a monthlong stay at an inpatient rehabilitation center.
"I knew I had a problem," he said. "Even after I failed the second drug test, I couldn't stop smoking weed. It was really bad. Me going there was definitely the best move."
He didn't feel that way when he first entered. Fearing the unknown, he said, he didn't sleep for three days straight.
"They would turn off the lights at 11:30, and I would just sit there and stare at the ceiling because I couldn't go to sleep," he said. "My heart was beating too fast. I would get night sweats. It was bad. I legitimately went through withdrawal."
Singleton desperately wanted to leave and wasn't open to the recovery process.
"But after I was there for so long, it just grew on me," he said. "I was like, 'I'm going to be here for 30 days, so I might as well get the best out of it that I can.' I used it as a learning experience."
At a time when he should have been getting in shape for spring training and a chance to make Houston's major league roster, he instead spent his days attending classes and therapy sessions with other addicts in a program for young adults.
One thing he didn't do: dwell on his missed opportunity.
"Not so much, because I knew I got myself into the situation so I had to deal with it," he said. "It wasn't like, 'I got myself here; now I hate myself.' It was like, 'I got myself here so I can't be mad at anybody but myself.'"
Although just 21 when he entered rehab, he already had a long history with marijuana, having used the drug "on and off" since he was 14. He blamed his start on the culture growing up in the Long Beach area in Southern California, where he estimated 80 percent of his friends knew not only where to get marijuana but how to get it within an hour.
Singleton clearly described his first experience with the drug and how it made him feel. To put it simply, he fell in love with that feeling.
And that's what drove his addiction.
"I guess I just don't like being sober," he said. "I like to change the way I feel."
In rehab, he had to identify why he needed marijuana and how to alter his behavior to avoid its traps.
"I've got to the point now where I know what I am," he said.
His stint in rehab helped him to quit using marijuana, and he said he hasn't smoked since -- a span of more than a year -- even though he was moved to Houston's 40-man roster in October and can no longer be tested for the drug.
Last season, when he made his debut in Triple-A after stopovers in low Class A and Double-A following his suspension, he struggled. He hit just .220 in 73 games, and his demons resurfaced.
"I went through some slight anxiety, some depression because I wasn't being successful," he said. "That was definitely difficult, and that drove me to drink."
He admits to abusing alcohol as a substitute for marijuana, getting drunk almost every day and "waking up hung over every morning."
After the season, he regrouped and prepared for the Puerto Rican winter league.
"I made up my mind to be my best, so hopefully better things happen because I'm not going out drinking and partying and doing all that kind of crazy stuff," he said.
The changes seemed to pay immediate dividends. He hit a league-leading nine homers in Puerto Rico and batted .268.
Singleton reported to Astros camp in good shape and in a better place mentally than last spring, hoping to show he is ready to compete for Houston's first-base job.
The team has been supportive during his battle, but Singleton knows he will have to stay clean to reach his goals.
He isn't receiving treatment for his addiction, isn't in a program and doesn't have someone traveling with him to keep him on track.
Singleton is confident he can avoid further relapses by focusing on his opportunity, keeping better company and avoiding bad situations. He calls his life a work in progress and is focused on not being so hard on himself this season.
"Recently I've been more or less just sticking to myself and worrying about what I need to do to get better and become better as a person, not just a baseball player," he said.
If he's able to do that, the Astros foresee a big future.
"My expectation is that with everything that happened to him, we want to build up the positives from the end of last year," Luhnow said, "and get off to a real good start in Triple-A and then force his way onto the roster in Houston."
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Acadian Waltz
by Alexandrea Weis
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: World Castle Publishing
Date of Publication: 1/1/13
Number of pages: 270
Word Count: 82,000
Book Description:
At thirty, Nora Kehoe is feeling pressured to settle down. On a blind date, Nora unexpectedly ends up in the emergency room where she meets Dr. John Blessing. She hopes the pragmatic Dr. Blessing can make her life complete. Then, a passionate encounter with a childhood friend changes everything.
The charismatic Jean Marc Gaspard manages the family business, Gaspard Fisheries. But rumors abound that Jean Marc is running more than seafood through the waters around Manchac Louisiana. When a family crisis sends Nora to Manchac, she is thrown headlong into the dangerous world of smugglers and swindlers. And as Jean Marc tries to protect Nora from his past, he realizes he may lose her because of it.
The dark bayou waters run deep with secrets in Louisiana, and every Cajun knows how to dance the fine line between the right and wrong side of the law. But for strangers, learning the steps to staying alive in the swamps can be tricky. Life, and love, will be dependent on how well one can master the … Acadian Waltz.
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For many, the course of an entire lifetime could be summed up in a few defining moments, but moments do not choose your path. There was always an indescribable force lurking inside of us that shaped our destiny. Whether this motivation was the result of fear, longing, or in my case, guilt, it haunted our being and oversaw our every action. Like a constant voice inside our heads, this energy gave each of our lives direction.
My inner voice was hugely influenced by the city where I was born. Built at the bend in the Mississippi River and tucked behind protective levees, New Orleans nurtured a peculiar world infatuated with the Catholic rituals of sin and penance. Therefore, it should be no surprise that those of us who endured in this swamp-ridden land below the level of the sea had mastered the art of sin. In fact, we turned it into something of a tourist industry. It was the penance part that many of us had not quite gotten a handle on. But God, in his infinite wisdom, wanted to make sure that we were always reminded of our heavy feelings of culpability. That was why he created the greatest guilt-making machine of them all—the mother.
Mine was named Claire Mouton Gaspard Kehoe Schuller. My mother's first husband, Etienne Gaspard, had been her high school sweetheart. Etienne was known for running touchdowns, shrimp boats, and little else. Their marriage ended the day my mother first laid eyes on Clayton Kehoe at the criminal court house, where she had gone, yet again, to bail her drunk husband out of jail. Her second husband, the late Clayton Kehoe, had been a prominent attorney in the city of New Orleans. Mother's current husband was a Jewish jewelry maker named Lou Schuller. Lou was not as influential as Kehoe had been, but infinitely more skilled with gold and diamonds, which invariably pleased my mother to no end. But my mother had always insisted that it was Clayton Kehoe who had swept her off her feet from the first moment their eyes met.
"Your father," Mother would always say. "Had the sweetest way of talking, and he always knew how to treat a lady like a queen."
My mother was nineteen and my father was thirty-two when they married. It was a happy marriage, with lots of parties, many friends, and eventually the arrival of me, Nora Theresa Kehoe. I was named after my mother's favorite saint and my father's favorite movie star.
Marriage to my father must have agreed with Claire. She enjoyed being the wife of a well-connected New Orleans attorney, and thrived on the social circuit of parties and political gatherings. Even after my father died when I was fourteen, she would still meet with her old friends from the various political groups around the city, and pound the pavement for many of my father's former colleagues who were running for office. But that all ended when she married Lou Schuller.
At fifty-five, Lou was dumpy, chubby, bald, and had the personality of a matzo ball. But Lou had the money to keep Claire in the lifestyle to which she had made herself accustomed, even after all the insurance money my father had left ran out. In the beginning of their marriage, Lou tolerated my mother's love for the social scene, but he soon grew tired of the endless cocktail parties and political fundraisers, and reined in Claire's activities. Now, after fifteen years of marriage, middle-aged, and trying to cope with the passage of her youth, my mother had found a new venture in which to place all of her efforts; me. Or more to the point, my marriage to some man, preferably wealthy, in the hopes of attaining the beat all and end all of middle age—grandchildren.
About the Author :
Alexandrea Weis is an advanced practice registered nurse who was born and raised in New Orleans. Her first novel, To My Senses, introduced readers to the world of Nicci Beauvoir and garnered numerous awards and rave reviews. Her popular second Nicci Beauvoir novel, Recovery, won the Gold Medal for best romantic suspense from The Reader's Favorite Book Awards 2011, and was named best Romantic Suspense novel by the Spring 2011 NABE Pinnacle Book Awards. Her fourth novel, Broken Wings, won best Contemporary Romance by the NABE Pinnacle Book Awards in 2012, was a Silver Medal winner in the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards for Romance, as well as a finalist in the USA Book Awards for Romance in 2012, and a finalist in the Reader's Favorite Book Awards for Contemporary Romance for 2012. Diary of a One-Night Stand, was released in August 2012 and was named a Paranormal Romance Guild's Best Reviewed of 2012.
Her last novel, Acadian Waltz was a Readers' Favorite Book Awards honorable mention winner for Best Contemporary Romance, and finalist in Best Southern Fiction. A permitted wildlife rehabber with the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries, Weis rescues orphaned and injured wildlife. She lives with her husband and pets in New Orleans.
Website: http://www.alexandreaweis.com/index.html
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