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Bring music to life in your classroom! Created by teachers, for teachers
Classroom 200 is a free online resource for school teachers working with students up to the age of 14, worldwide. It is featured in the National Plan for Music Education.
Featuring 200 recordings of inspiring music in a range of styles, plus accompanying lesson plans, Classroom 200 is all about bringing music to life in the classroom. From Berlioz to Bob Marley, Rutter to Rag'n'Bone Man, there's so music to discover. Classroom 200 celebrates the diverse musical worlds of folk, classical, jazz, world, rock, pop, musicals, film and TV, and more! It's about what links music together, not what sets it apart.
Classroom 200 and the curriculum
The lesson plans that accompany each piece cover the themes of performing, listening, musical skills or appraising, which link directly with music curriculums across the UK.
Classroom 200 can be used to meet the National Curriculum's Key Stage 1 Attainment Target: 'to listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music'.
At Key Stage 2, it can also be used to 'appreciate and understand a wide range of high-quality live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians' and 'develop an understanding of the history of music'.
At Key Stage 3, the lesson plans feature a wide range of activities, allowing teachers to have a variety of the national curriculum covered by using only one resource. In particular, the pieces in the resource can be used to 'identify and use the inter-related dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices.'
Classroom 200 can be used to demonstrate learners' control, use and understanding of musical elements, provide many opportunities to perform, compose, listen and appraise their work and the work of others.
Classroom 200 can be used to meet some of the First-level outcomes of Curriculum for Excellence, being an appropriate resource particularly for EXA 1-19a: 'I have listened to a range of music and can respond by discussing my thoughts and feelings'.
Classroom 200 can also be used to meet a range of the Expressive Arts experiences and outcomes from Early to Second level, particularly for EXA 0-18a, EXA 1-18a, EXA 2-18a, 'Inspired by a range of stimuli, and working on their own and/or with others, students can express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings through a range of musical activities.'
Lesson Plans for older learners also meet a range of the experiences and outcomes in Third and Fourth levels, particularly EXA 3-16a, EXA 4-17a, EXA 4-17b and ECA 3-19a.
In Key Stages 1 and 2, Classroom 200 lesson plans will enable pupils to work creatively with sound, by investigating, experimenting selecting and combining sound to express feelings, ideas, mood and atmosphere, and listen and response to their own and others' music-making, thinking and talking about sounds, effects and musical features in music that they create, perform or listen to.
At Key Stage 3, lesson plans promote developing thinking skills and personal capabilities, as well as specific areas of musical development, including but not limited to; improvising, composing and performing music in a range of styles, performing individually and in groups and discussing points of interpretation, listening and appraising their own music and that of others.
Classroom 200 is a collaboration between ABRSM, Universal Music Group, and ClassicFM with support from the English Folk Dance and Song Society, NYJO, NYO, Berlioz 150, Trac Cymru and Bristol Beacon.


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Capenhurst History, Family Crest & Coats of ArmsEarly Origins of the Capenhurst familyThe surname Capenhurst was first found in Cheshire where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having prevailed over King Harold, granted most of Britain to his many victorious Barons. It was not uncommon to find a Baron, or a Bishop, with 60 or more Lordships scattered throughout the country. These he gave to his sons, nephews and other junior lines of his family and they became known as under-tenants. They adopted the Norman system of surnames which identified the under-tenant with his holdings so as to distinguish him from the senior stem of the family. After many rebellious wars between his Barons, Duke William, commissioned a census of all England to determine in 1086, settling once and for all, who held which land. He called the census the Domesday Book, [1] indicating that those holders registered would hold the land until the end of time. Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands of Capenhurst, held by David from William FitzNigel, a Norman noble, who was recorded in the Domesday Book census of 1086. Early History of the Capenhurst familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Capenhurst research. Another 142 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1510, 1535 and 1600 are included under the topic Early Capenhurst History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Capenhurst Spelling VariationsEndless spelling variations are a prevailing characteristic of Norman surnames. Old and Middle English lacked any definite spelling rules, and the introduction of Norman French added an unfamiliar ingredient to the English linguistic stew. French and Latin, the languages of the court, also influenced spellings. Finally, Medieval scribes generally spelled words according to how they sounded, so one person was often referred to by different spellings in different documents. The name has been spelled Capenhurst, Capponhurst, Caponhurst, Cappenhurst, Caponhirst, Caponhearst, Capponhearst, Cappenhirst, Caphurst, Caphirst, Capherst and many more. Early Notables of the Capenhurst familyOutstanding amongst the family at this time was
Migration of the Capenhurst familyTo escape the political and religious persecution within England at the time, many English families left for the various British colonies abroad. The voyage was extremely difficult, though, and the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving. But for those who made it, the trip was most often worth it. Many of the families who arrived went on to make valuable contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families reveals a number of immigrants bearing the name Capenhurst or a variant listed above: settlers were recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Florida, and to the islands..

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Christian Leaders Remember Their Hero Chuck Colson Amid Media Skepticism
While the still skeptical secular media chose to describe Chuck Colson as a "mastermind of dirty tricks" in obituary columns, Christian leaders focused on his life and work after his transformation and remembered him as a great friend, mentor, apologist and witness for Christ.
"I'm saddened by Chuck Colson's passing yet rejoicing that he is now in the presence of the Lord he loves so much," Lee Strobel, author and Christian apologist, told The Christian Post.
"Chuck once asked me to succeed him as head of Prison Fellowship, but I knew I could never fill his shoes," Strobel recalled. "The world has lost a passionate, brilliant, persuasive and humble witness for Christ. Those of us who remain should redouble our efforts to define and defend the truth of Christianity to an often hostile and skeptical world, as Chuck urged us so often to do," Strobel said after Colson's death Saturday.
Strobel, like numerous other Christians, focused on Colson's life after his born-again experience amid the Watergate scandal in the 1970s and his advocacy for the spiritual transformation of prisoners. But for The New York Times, Colson was still "a political saboteur for President Richard M. Nixon," who "masterminded some of the dirty tricks that led to the president's downfall." The newspaper suggested that Colson "then emerged from prison to become an important evangelical leader, saying he had been 'born again.'"
As the GetReligion.org blog pointed out, "there's a hint that there might be some problems with the timeline the Times is working with." The Times went on to say that Colson was sent to prison after pleading guilty to obstructing justice in the Watergate affair. "After having what he called his religious awakening behind bars, he spent much of the rest of his life ministering to prisoners, preaching the Gospels and helping to forge a coalition among Republican politicians, evangelical church leaders and Roman Catholic conservatives, helping to change the dynamics of American politics."
But Colson became a born-again Christian "prior to going to prison. He was converted in a bipartisan Bible study group," the blog stated.
Apologist Ravi Zacharias, who called Colson "a prophet for our times," said his "dramatic conversion after the dark Watergate days was almost Paul-like." "His courage," Zacharias said in a statement, "to share the Gospel with clarity and his deep concern for our deteriorating society were ever at the heart of his thinking. Truly, Chuck was a bold witness for our Lord."
Colson became a committed Christian while the Watergates charges were still pending against him and after a friend gave him a copy of the C.S. Lewis book Mere Christianity. His conversion led him to plead guilty to obstruction of justice while a judge was considering dismissing the case against him. He served seven months of a one- to three-year prison sentence.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called Colson "a fine man whose life proved that there is such a thing as redemption."
Evangelist Billy Graham acknowledged Colson's "tremendous ministry reaching into prisons and jails with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ" for three and a half decades. "When I get to Heaven and see Chuck again, I believe I will also see many, many people there whose lives have been transformed because of the message he shared with them," Graham said in a statement, adding, "I count it a privilege to have called him friend."
One Andrew Mullins from Georgia tweeted to testify of Colson's ministry. "The man changed my life in High School. His prison ministry changed other lives, as well," he said.
Ron Luce, founder of Teen Mania Ministries, said he considerd Colson a close friend and confidant, and the two collaborated on several projects to develop the Christian worldview of teens.
"He was a statesman and very generous with his wisdom and encouragement toward our ministry," said Luce in a statement. "He gave his best to reach this generation, and I am forever grateful for his heart for the Great Commission. Chuck will be greatly missed in this world, but we have the promise of Jesus: 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies: and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.' I look forward to seeing Chuck again one day."
Family Research Council also paid tribute to Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries, Justice Fellowship and the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. "I have long admired Chuck Colson, because of his commitment to showing both the truth and the love of Jesus Christ. By his example, he taught Christians how to fully integrate one's Christian faith with a role in the public realm," FRC President Tony Perkins said in a statement.
Colson founded the prison ministry in 1976 and it now operates in 113 countries around the globe. Colson personally visited 600 prisons in the U.S. and 40 other countries over the last four decades of his life.
Focus on the Family President Jim Daly remembered Colson as "a gentleman and statesman of the highest integrity and character."
Carl Moeller, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, likened Colson's influence to that of a "giant sequoia... Like a sequoia, Chuck Colson has seeded many of us on the issues of human dignity and religious liberty."
Alan Sears, president of Christian law firm Alliance Defense Fund, called him "a true mentor and friend."
Mark Driscoll, author and pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Wash., recalled his one-on-one luncheon meeting with Colson about a year ago. "He gave me a wealth of insight about where he sees the church and culture heading and what his encouragement was to be ready for future gospel ministry. To be honest, it was among the most encouraging and clarifying discussions I've ever had," he said on his website.
Musician Slater Armstrong called Colson "a man of faith, courage, wisdom, conviction, and especially, compassion! Hero to many, servant of God."
David Platt, pastor at The Church at Brook Hills, tweeted what many others also said of Colson. "I have to believe Chuck Colson just heard a Galilean voice say, 'I was in prison and you visited me.'"
Chuck Swindoll, pastor, author and radio preacher, saluted his "friend, brother, and fellow Marine." His tweet perhaps summed up Colson's life, saying he "fought the good fight, finished the course, and kept the faith."


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I have been working on this portable family tree magnetic game, and finished it just in time for the 33rd Annual Florida State Genealogical Society Conference.
The family tree mat was created with a 8.5x11 page and the family face pieces using a 5x7 invitation.
I then cropped and glued them on 1 inch wood tassels, completing them by sticking a magnet behind each piece.
As a finishing touch, I applied a shiny layer of a clear gloss medium.
I was doing this while in the hotel room the night before the conference, and could hardly keep my kids away from them while the coating dried.
When they woke up this morning, the first thing they wanted to do was playing with their family tree.
They were still in their pajamas, not even caring about breakfast. They HAD to play...
I had to establish turns, as they started fighting on who was putting this or that picture on the tree.
Little by little, they started putting the faces in the right places.
My heart melted each time they would tell me who that person was, and even more when they got to the point that they would remember and just tell me "this is Nana's mom, my great grandma", "This is nonno Oreste!" and so on.
They didn't like it when I had to take the game to display at the genealogical conference, but I promised them they would play more tonight.
I am thinking to make more copies of this game, maybe personalizing it for each of my children, so there will be no more fighting, and I will be able to just enjoy seeing them playing while impressing the faces and names of their ancestors in their mind, and hopefully their heart too.


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- It is useful for students to see not only the data they have collected but also data from other students or groups. Sometimes it might not be practical to compile the data in class. Think about whether it makes more sense to present the compiled data in the following class or to present it using a course website.
- Think about how students will interact with the data. In some cases it is most helpful for the instructor to organize the data into graphs or charts for the students - for more advanced students, dealing with the data can be part of the experience.
- Ask the students to interpret the results rather than presenting them the way you might in a seminar.
- Guide a discussion of how the experiment relates to course material using leading questions.
- Near the end of the discussion of the experiment, ask your students "What would happen if we changed some aspect of the experiment?"
- Ask your students how to modify the experiment in which they participated to test a new hypothesis. This is a good strategy later in the semester when you encounter related course topics.


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But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Matthew 14:30-31
If there's any way the devil can get your eyes away from the Word, he'll do it. He'll cause trouble. He'll make the circumstances around you pitch and roll like a rowboat in a hurricane. He'll do anything he can to get you to concentrate on the realm of the physical senses and the situation around you instead of on the promise of God—because he knows that if he doesn't, you'll take that promise and beat his brains out with it.
That's what he did to Peter. When Peter first jumped out of the boat that day in response to Jesus' word, what happened? He walked right across that water without a problem. His whole being was fastened on that word Jesus had spoken to him, "Come!"
But when he took his eyes off that word, he started looking at the storm. He started looking at the impossible thing he was doing. After all, he was a fisherman. All his training and experience told him when the waves were that high, you were going under. He started to focus on what he knew in the natural instead of what Jesus said. When he did that, his faith slipped out of gear and he started to sink.
Don't let that happen to you. Once you get a revelation from the Word of God, hang on to it. Don't focus on anything else.
The devil will do everything he can to get you to turn loose of it. He'll stir up things around you. He'll try to get you into fear. He'll push every button he can from the past to get you back into your old way of thinking.
But don't let go. Keep your eyes on the Word of God until it's more real inside you than anything else. If you do, you'll be able to walk your way across the water just fine.
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1992 College Basketball Recap
Duke's fifth straight trip to the Final Four featured a semifinal round game with Kentucky that will be remembered forever as one of college basketball's best, and a final round game against one of the sport's most heralded freshmen starting five ever.
Underdog Kentucky overcame double-digit leads in the second half to force the game to overtime, and led 103-102 with 2.1 seconds left. Inbounding under his own net, Duke's Grant Hill heaved a pass to teammate Christian Laettner who hit a fade-away foul-line jump shot as the buzzer sounded, giving the Blue Devils (34-2) a chance to defend it's national title.
Michigan's "Fab Five", ranked sixth in the Midwest, shook first-year jitters and challenged for the school's second national title in three years. That is, until the fourth quarter of the championship game when the Wolverines shot a less than fabulous 29 percent from the field and watched the Blue Devils turn a one-point halftime deficit into a 71-51 victory.
The season was also the last for UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian who bolted the PR-challenged Running Rebels to coach the NBA's Spurs.


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It's been awhile. A long while. Yet here sits this crappy website on Page 1 of Google. But no longer in the top spot so let's see if a post after many years. Especially if we use the words purple widget one time here in this extensive post.
Don't be alarmed – yes, you are seeing this correctly – a new post on Purple Widget!
I'd like to say that the lack of posts recently (okay, in the last 3 years) is part of the experiment – testing the concept and theory of needing fresh content. Clearly as this blog proves fresh content is not a must for keeping a #1 ranking – at least for an obscure, pointless keyword. Of course most of us in the SEO world are looking to rank for keywords that do actually get searched (even if clients don't always get that key point) so do we need fresh content to rank for more popular keywords? Probably. But as always in SEO, there is no absolute right answer on this one. Certainly, amazing evergreen content has value – potentially a lot of value. But more often than not fresh content is a necessary element of a quality website that wants to establish good search engine visibility. Ideally you'd have a nice balance of both great evergreen content and a constant flow of new stuff that also kicks ass. (more…)
Believe it or not purplewidget.com is still here. And it still appears we are ranked #1 for the search term purple widget. Which, nobody still searches.
Are you kidding me Bing?
You launch a Scroogled campaign and I get this on your search engine?
I search "Minecraft Lego" on Bing. I get these results on the main SERP, they are barely decent but do include what I'm looking for (the 2 products on the left)
So I click the shop for minecraft lego link to get the fuller picture:
So I click the first box, shows the product I want – $18 and up is a nice price.
I get this, not bad but things are about to very bad. I'm about to get Scroogled by Bing! Bingled? Scringed? Bait and Switch.
I (more…)
Yes, PurpleWidget.com is still here! I know, it's a been a while. I've been busy with my real job. That, and lazy.
Interestingly, or not so since it makes the entire original point of this blog – it's easy to rank #1 for worthless keywords, we still rank #1 for purple widget. Despite no new content in almost 10 months. Either makes my case or speaks poorly of all Google's freshness related updates. Probably a bit of both.
But I'm not back simply to remind everyone that we still rank – that's getting old. I am aware.
I'm here to share the SEO slide that wasn't. For my real job I was working on a PPT on the evolution of search. More specifically the Evolution Personalization Socialization of Search and part of this deck was to talk about the history of search, how search engines started, how they've changed, etc… Part of that history was the many pre-Google years when search engines were simply bad. The results they returned provided little to no value. In other words (more…)
I know the first thing you're thinking – "he's not dead"
No, I am not dead I'm just really bad at posting to my blog. I think I covered that in some of my early posts – you must stay committed to your blog and post regularly for it to have any value. Do as I say, not as I do.
Now on to the title of this long overdue post. What is SEO?
And I don't really mean what is SEO – I mean it more like how do you explain to people what you do when they have that strange look on their face following the question "what do you do for a living" and you answer "SEO". Many people are just polite enough to smile and nod like they have any idea what I just said. And in reality I rarely answer with just "SEO", I usually answer something more like "I'm in search marketing", or "digital marketing". Unfortunately that gets the same bewildered look most of the time so I'm not sure my clever plan of spinning my job to make it easily understandable is not working. Or I'm just not that clever – this (more…)
Google is well known for annual their April Fool's Jokes – usually more than one and usually pretty funny. Learn more as Wikipedia has chronicled Google Hoax's over the years.
In 2011 one of a series of videos, and of course a website, was chromercise – workout your fingers to better use the Google browser Chrome. As a big fan of Chrome this exercise regimen was a must for me. So although it seemed that it was nothing more than part of the joke when Google offered a sign up for free finger sweatbands at Chromercise.com I signed up. I had completely forgotten about it, but yesterday in the mail look what I got:
Did you get your Google Chromercise Finger Sweatbands? Are you ready to get your workout on?
What time does the Super Bowl start?
What time is the SuperBowl?
What time does Super Bowl XLV start?
Super Bowl Kickoff Time
When does the Super Bowl start?
What times does the Super Bowl start in 2011?
Why is this a question being asked on an SEO blog – simple, it's asked many ways and MANY TIMES on search engines in the days leading up to the big game.
For the past few years, and I'd expect another one this year, Search Engine Land has had an article identifying the huge spike in this term each year. More importantly the fact that nobody was capitalizing on the potential to attract a lot of traffic. That was before Google caught on last year and started showing the answer above the search results. It remains to be seen if Google repeats this practice in 2011.
Now I don't know about you but for as long as I can remember the game has started at the same time. Certainly it hasn't always started at 6:20pm ET but in recent memory, it has. But I'm a football fan. (more…)
A googlegasm is unusual excitement and joy from anything Google.
I think I invented this word. I may not have, but I'm pretty sure I never heard it before I started using it. Urban Dictionary disagrees with me.
A few examples:
T-Mobile G1
The first so called "Google Phone" that ran Android – I pre-order site unseen and loved that phone! Googlegasm.
Nexus One
This true "Google Phone" blew away the N1 that I loved. I loved my Nexus One. Googlegasm.
Google Voice
I bought a local number on eBay months before Google released numbers to the public. Googlegasm. Google Voice kicks ass!
Google Maps
Think back 15 years ago to your options for a map. Now thank Google. Googlegasm.
Google Street View
Are you serious. Googlegasm.
Google Earth
How cool is Google Earth! Googlegasm.
Google Analytics
I don't care what my good friends and respected professional web analysts colleagues say, Google Analytics is awesome for a FREE tool! Googlegasm.
Google Goggles
I'm (more…)
This question was recently posed to me:
If I were to ask you the question "What drives SEO success", not specific to any client, and I was a CEO, how would you answer me?
Here's my response:
If you steal it, at least give me some credit 🙂
SEO success is driven by several factors that evolve over time, most of which are well guarded secrets by the search engines. Through years of experience, testing and research search marketers have identified key areas that lead to improved organic search engine visibility. It's nearly impossible to simplify a very complex puzzle but the corner pieces to the pentagon shaped puzzle are quality keyword research; optimized page titles, meta data, and site navigation; fully optimized images, videos and social media strategies; a well built (search friendly) site with high quality, focused, fresh content – all helping to attract inbound links to a variety of pages throughout the site.


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Lone hacker theory in Wikileaks DDoS attack
Well obviously it was TEH GOVERNMENTS etc
Updated A denial of service attack against Wikileaks that brought the whistleblower site to its knees on Sunday night, in the run up to its publication of classified State Department documents, may turn out to be the work of a lone hacker.
The attack, which rendered the site inaccessible for several hours, might be blamed on an application level assault targeting a vulnerability in Wikileak's Apache web server, according to internet reports.
A patriot-hacker called The Jester has previously used the XerXeS attack tool to attack jihadist sites. Now, if rumours are to be believed this tool was turned against Wikileaks on Sunday, making the site unavailable at a critical time.
Hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables were still published by The Guardian, with extracts run by other high-profile media publications, so the attack failed to block access to the diplomatically and politically embarrassing information, always an unrealistic goal.
"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attic," Wikileaks said on Sunday night, via updates to its Twitter feed. "El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down," it added.
Rather than a purely conventional packet flood, it seems probable that the site was also hit by the XerXeS tool. A video showing how the tool works and an interview with the Jester (@th3j35t3r) can be found via Infosec Island here.
The Jester claimed responsibility for an attack on Wikileaks via a Twitter update on Sunday: "www.wikileaks.org - TANGO DOWN - for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations," he said.
The Obama administration strongly condemned the leak of the diplomatic cables in similar terms arguing that the release puts lives at risk, damages US relations with its allies and undermines counterterrorism operations.
Claims by the Jester could, of course, just be hacker braggadocio and it may turn out that a more significant conventional packet flood attack was actually the main culprit in bringing Wikileaks to its knees. Analysis of the attack remains far from complete.
The release of the diplomatic cables on Sunday was Wikileaks's biggest release to date, and follows the controversial release of the Iraqi War Logs.
In related news, Wikileaks websites have been moving around hosting providers a great deal over the last month or so, most recently in response to the denial of service attack launched against the main site on Sunday. The DNS configurations over the warless.wikileaks.org site were changed over the previous week so that the site is served solely by French hosting provider Octopuce.
But after the denial of service attacks WikiLeaks moved their IP address back to Amazon Ireland. The CableGate site is on the same Amazon US server systems that previously hosted the Iraqi War logs, technology blogger Alex Norcliffe reports. ®


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A former North Carolina probation officer was sentenced on Thursday, April 25, 2013, in U.S. District Court to serve 17 months in prison for extortion and drug trafficking offenses involving persons under his supervision, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. James David Franklin, 46, of Lenoir, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release following his prison term.
U.S. Attorney Tompkins is joined in making today's announcement by John A. Strong, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Charlotte Division, and Director Gregory McLeod of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations (NC SBI).According to court documents and court proceedings, from April 2001 through July 2010, Franklin, was employed as a Surveillance Officer by the North Carolina Department of Correction's Division of Community Corrections (DCC) and supervised probationers on intensive supervision in Burke and Caldwell Counties. According to filed documents, Franklin primarily conducted curfew checks and compliances searches and had arrest power over probationers and parolees. Court records indicate that from in or about July 2009 to in or about July 2010, Franklin used his position on multiple occasions to extort drugs from an individual who had been under Franklin's supervision ("Probationer #2"). Specifically, court records show that Franklin, via text messages and other communications, repeatedly asked Probationer #2 to supply him with narcotics, including methamphetamine and hydrocodone.
Court records show that Franklin would arrange to retrieve the narcotics from Probationer #2's driveway in exchange for cash. Law enforcement officers were alerted to Franklin's conduct when Probationer #2 complained to his federal probation officer and to his primary North Carolina probation officer. Subsequently, Franklin was placed on desk duty. While on desk duty, Franklin sent a text message to Probationer #2 asking him to sell hydrocodone pills in exchange for a portion of the proceeds from the sale. Specifically, Franklin told Probationer #2 he would pay him "3 dollars a piece" for 125 hydrocodone pills. According to court records, Franklin was apprehended by law enforcement officers when he went to Probationer #2's house to deliver the hydrocodone pills in exchange for $375 in cash.
In December 2011, Franklin pleaded guilty to one count of extortion under color of official right and one count of possession with intent to distribute hydrocodone.
vWhen announcing the sentence, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger noted that the sentence imposed was more than minimally required under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines because the defendant was "A person who by reason of his position had taken actions that undermine the integrity of the legal system."Franklin has been in custody since April 2011. He will be transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility. All federal sentences are served without the possibility of parole.
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UPDATE: Exciting news! We are proud to announce that Mantissa Ltd. is bringing Cryptozookeeper to the Google Play Store!
You have found a cryptozoology game! Cryptozookeeper is a character-driven graphical text adventure. Features include over 60 cryptids to create and train, over 200 characters to find total, over 12 hours of gameplay and a soundtrack of over 60 songs. I created Cryptozookeeper between 2006 and 2011. I wanted to make a full-length graphical adventure game that had funny characters in off-beat situations, all within an alternate future. The central premise of the game is that you play a guy named Vest that discovers machinery that allows him to build cryptids from the DNA of normal animals. Sprinkle in some unwilling accomplices, a grim and gritty city to explore and some fun dialogue and you've got an idea what's in store for you.
Cryptozookeeper also attempts an "episodic" take on adventure games. I wanted to make the game seem like the best season of television you've ever played.
REVIEWS! Review by Paul O'Brian and IF-Review
Review by Adam Smith, of Rock, Paper Shotgun
Review at Interactive Friction.
Article at The Retroist
There are a couple reviews of the game posted to the Interactive Fiction Database at tads.org.
Review by Rob O'Hara.
The DVD set is no longer available, but here is what it contained:
* 2-Disc set in a dual amray package. * Disc One is a DVD featuring the game and extras. * Disc Two is a music compact disc featuring new and in-game music by Bachelor Machines. * From Robb Sherwin, creator of the XYZZY-winning games Fallacy of Dawn and Necrotic Drift. * DVD includes a Kindle-formatted foreword by Alex Gray and game prologue story by Robb Sherwin. (HTML-formatting also included.) * DVD also includes the game's source code, a file with all the game's art assets and interpreters for Windows, Linux and OS-X. * DVD also includes the actual game, natch. Looking for reviews? See further down the page.
Track Listing for the music disc by Bachelor Machines. * Speak Softly (4:25) * Clairvoyant by The Ambient Society, Bachelor Machines Edit (7:19) * Method Function, DJ Beatloaf Edit (4:54) * Posture Photos #4 – Counts Are Better (6:31) * Take My Picture (6:50) * The Zeroes (28:26) * Counts Are Better – Cryptozoology Mix (6:31)
NEW! I am proud to announce that Cryptozookeeper has won five XYZZY awards for 2011, for outstanding work in interactive fiction / text adventures: Best Game Best Writing Best Setting Best Non-Player Characters Best Individual Non-Player Character
The complete list of winners is here at xyzzyawards.org.
TECHNICAL HELP: Sometimes the graphics can look incorrect when playing, especially if you've used Hugo to play other games before. To make the graphics look right in Cryptozookeeper, pick a Fixed Width font size of 8. To do that, do the following in your interpreter: Options (or Edit)->Fonts->Fixed Width-> and then any font, with a size of 8. The spacing on the top windows will then be good.
(The Fixed Width font will only affect the top status line text — in other words, this doesn't force you to play the entire game with a small font size.)
If you have other questions getting the game to run, please write me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you want to play on Windows: This zip file has everything you need. Launch hewin.exe and choose czk.hex as the "Filename to run." If you want to play on Linux, download the same zip file and then download the Hugor interpreter. Check Hugor's readme to ensure you have all required libraries. If you want to play on Macintosh OS-X, download the zip file and the the Hugor interpreter for Intel Macs (10.5+) or Power PC (10.5+).
Cryptozookeeper made an appearance at the 2011 Oklahoma Video Game Expo in Tulsa. Oklahoma is a fine state for cryptozoology. I got a table with fellow text game author Rob O'Hara and we had many text adventures on display for the show. More info here.
People have been very generous in announcing the game. Please allow me to thank them with the Internet's currency, links: Announcement by Emily Short Announcement by Isxek Announcement by Rob O'Hara Blues News Indie Game News LinuxGames.com Mobygames mac.softpedia.com Gnome's Lair Gamasutra
I did an interview with Jason Dyer back in 2008, when I was still working on the game, which you can read here.
Windows * OSX * Linux
Cryptozookeeper is for sale on Steam for Windows but can also be played on OSX and Linux. It has been released via Creative Commons. It is not possible to "pirate" Cryptozookeeper. For OSX and Linux play, click on the icon above to get the Windows version no matter what system you have or buy the game through Steam. The OSX and Linux icons lead to interpreters. Just start the interpreters and load czk.hex from the Windows download to play on OSX and Linux.
The Twitter feed for Cryptozookeeper!
Testing by Marshall Abbott, Bananadine, James Bernoski, Jonathan Blask, Greg D'Avis, Ben Davis, Michael Fransioli, Alex Gray, Juhana Leinonen, Rob O'Hara, George Oliver, Drew Mochak, Marius Mueller, Ben Parrish, Brian Rapp, Johnny Rivera, Paul Robinson, Sorrel and Mike Sousa.
Acting by Gerrit Hamilton, Jonathan Blask, Alex Gray, Dayna Rich, Dustin Godec, Alana Short, Randy McLellan, Adam Thornton, Golem, Robbie McLellan, Jennifer Nicol, James Bernoski, Steve Davis, Ben Parrish, Matt Randall, Michael Sherwin, Marshall Abbott, and Stephen Granade.
Music by Bachelor Machines, Aliaspharow, Arthur Loves Plastic, Beatloaf, Ben Parrish, Brokenkites, Butterworth, Conor McCauley, Darkangel, Dejersey, Ezek1el, Fireproof Babies, FM-RA, Four Tet, I Have A Box, I2B5K0, Inkraktare, J. Lang, Joao Picoito, Jonathan Coulton, Kabukiman, Kaer Trouz, Liquid Stranger, Mana Junkie, Mika featuring Colab, Minimal States, Nebula Nerd, Perrgynt Lobogris, Per, Planet Boelex, Psychadelik Pedestrian, Robin Smith, Rudeboys, sdery31, Sinerider, Smoke & Mirrors, Soundprank, The Ambient Society, The Echoed, The Long Mouth Castle, X|K, Xtrngr and Ytrebygdaflyveklubb.
Original Art by Steve Davis, Jeffrey Olson, Robb Sherwin and J. Robinson Wheeler.
Photography by Greg D'Avis, Amanda Gardner, Gerrit Hamilton, Kathy Harter, Randy McLellan, Rob O'Hara, Ben Parrish, Quentinbec, Dayna Rich, Anneli Salo, Jason Scott and Robb Sherwin.
Greetz to the music label FWONK and the Internet Archive.
Cryptozookeeper is released via the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license. Special thanks to Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster, the fur-bearing trout, the talking dog and the Mongolian Death Worm.
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My CNN column honors President George HW Bush.
George H.W. Bush marked his 80th and 85th birthdays with parachute jumps. He said after the second jump: "Just because you're an old guy, you don't have to sit around drooling in the corner. Get out and do something. Get out and enjoy life."
Now 88, Bush has been struggling with serious health concerns, including bronchitis. We need him to recover, to set an example for the world of how a man can mark his 90th.
The son of a U.S. senator, Bush has been a naval aviator hero, oil millionaire, member of Congress, ambassador to China, CIA director, vice president of the United States and then the president who managed the end of the Cold War. He has lived more life than seems possible for any single human being.
The achievements of that remarkable life are overshadowed by one negative fact: Along with Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush is only one of three 20th-century presidents to have lost re-election. Yet while Hoover's presidency and Carter's are largely regarded as failures by posterity, the judgment on Bush's has become more forgiving over time.Eighteen months ago, former President Bill Clinton paid this tribute to his predecessor in office:
"George W. Bush did me one of the great favors of my life. He asked me, not once, but twice, to work with his father to help people in need: first in South Asia in the tsunami and then in the Gulf Coast after Katrina. All told, we took seven trips together. It was an amazing experience. This man, whom I'd always liked and respected and then run against in a painful campaign in some ways, I literally came to love."
In the years ahead, we will hear more such tributes -- tributes that may at last do justice to a president whose most important accomplishment has been persistently undervalued and misattributed.
In the summer of 1987, President Ronald Reagan visited divided Berlin and urged, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
It was a stirring moment, a stunning speech. In documentaries about the end of the Cold War, that speech always gets prominent attention, as it should. Yet it is also true that after Reagan spoke his words ... nothing much happened. Nothing much happened for a year. Nothing much happened for a second year. Not until deep in 1989, two years later, did the communist system in central Europe begin its implosion: first in Poland, then in Hungary and only in November of 1989 in eastern Germany.


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Retail distributors and fulfillment facilities are seeking ways to improve traceability from the inbound dock door to the outbound dock door. To achieve "zero loss" of goods as they travel into and through a facility, management teams are becoming increasingly focused on quality of operations and asset management (minimizing loss) so verifying what goes on the outbound truck is more important than ever. In many organizations, operational methods rely on ship sorter accuracy to ensure the right products are loaded on trucks. However, this approach does not always meet loss objectives. Packages get lost, stolen, or get put on the wrong ship lane. For products that make it through the sorter, incorrect sorting can occur due to poor code quality and the scanning system's inability to read the codes. It is not uncommon for distribution centers to lose several dozen packages per day and tens of thousands over a year. In addition to internal costs, customer expectation and brand reputation are negatively impacted when products are not delivered on time or at all.
Many companies use hand scanners as a basic point of traceability or nothing at all at the dock door. This causes unwanted delays as operators need to take extra time to pick up a scanner, scan a box, put the scanner down, and load the box onto the truck.
There are a few ways Cognex improves traceability at the outbound dock door. Solutions range based on factors including how many operators your facility requires as part of the outbound logistics process as well as throughput requirements. Adding touch points (operators) can add time and cost to the operation, so figuring out the right balance of automation and operator resources is key.
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I have started a Zumba class. Zumba is the new craze which recently arrived in Germany. It is a mixture of dance and aerobics. There are Salsa elements, hip hop, line dancing and some parts that even resemble Irish dancing. It's surprisingly good fun and a really good workout! You will be covered in sweat by the end of the one hour class. My Zumba teacher is a mad German woman who whoops and cheers the whole time and gets really into it. She told us that one of the women in her classes lost 7 kilos in one month from doing Zumba twice a week! 7 Kilos is over one stone!
We also had visitors. Family and a friend from Ireland. The weather was lovely and sunny and everyone had a great time. By this stage, nearly two years living here I also know all the best places to show people- beautiful lakes for swimming, great views, restaurants with delicious food and of course the best pubs!
I also have a busy (and expensive!) Summer ahead of me with lots of weekend trips planed back to Ireland- for two hen parties, for a wedding, for my Dad's 60th birthday, and then of course I'll also go back for Christmas. The GerMann and I are also hoping to go away together for a sun holiday at some stage. Probably to Mallorca, also known as Germany's 17th federal state, as so many Germans holiday there! I guess we'll have to get up really early and put our beach towels on all the pool chairs just to keep the stereotype going!
Everyone has been going European cup crazy here. Or Europa-Meisterschaft as it's called. It's impossible not to get sucked into the excitement a little! All over the place, there are these so called "public viewings" where a big screen or TV is put up and you can watch the game with lots of other people. Whenever Germany were playing and when they scored, people blew horns and cheered, and when Germany won a match there were fireworks and people doing an "autokorso".
When some Germans first explained the term to me, I actually thought they were talking about joy riding! But actually there is nothing illegal about auto-kursing, it's basically when they get into their cars and drive around blowing the horn at passers by and waving the German flag and generally celebrating. In the car.
Unfortunately Ireland lost all our matches and got knocked out of the tournament fairly early. During the match against Italy, I was flying home. When the plane landed the pilot told us all that we were "2 nil" down. It took me only a few minutes to leave the airport and get to the bus area where the aircoach ticket seller told me the score was then "4-nil". So that was disappointing!
The football is over now and in case you are living in a cave and didn't hear, Spain won. The next big football competition will be the World Cup n 2014. Hopefully Thierry Henry's hand won't prevent Ireland from qualifying for the World Cup next time around! By that stage maybe we'll have a car, and if Ireland win a match I can go "autokorson" around the neighbourhood!


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One of the biggest phenomena of last year was Formspring, a social site that lets you invite your friends to "Ask you anything". The site launched in November 2009 and rose from obscurity to some 40 million monthly uniques at its peak (it's currently at around 22.2 million monthly uniques according to Quantcast).
Today, the company is announcing a $11.5 million funding round led by Redpoint Ventures (Geoff Yang) with participation from Baseline Ventures (Steve Anderson). This confirms a report from November when GigaOm reported that the site had raised $10 million (obviously they added a bit more to the round since then). In addition to today's funding, Formspring is also announcing a new feature: the 'Respond Button'.
The feature lets publishers integrate some Q&A functionality into their own sites. Hit one of these 'Respond' buttons, which generally appear next to Twitter and Facebook 'Like' widgets on publisher sites, and a window will pop up prompting you to answer a question related to the article (the question could be vague like "What do you think", or it can be more specific). Once the user submits the form, their answer appears on their Formspring profile along with a link to the publisher site. This doesn't seem to have the same viral potential as, say, a tweet, though you can tweet out your response automatically.
One thing I don't really like: there's apparently no way to see all of the responses that other users have submitted using the Respond button (i.e. you can't see everyone's reaction to a given article). I'm also not sure why users wouldn't rather leave their comment on the article and also syndicate that to their Formspring profile, as opposed to putting it on their Formspring profile alone.
Formspring's traffic has dipped since last spring, but it seems to have stabilized at around 22 million uniques per month, which still puts it as the 157th biggest site in the US according to Quantcast. The site is also about to hit a big milestone: users have submitted 2 billion responses (and the site sees 10 million per day).


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Cochran and Woodhouse continue to climb the restaurant chain's corporate ladder.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBRL) announced that Sandra Cochran will become the company's president and chief executive officer, effective Sept. 12. At that time she will also join the restaurant chain's board of directors.
Cochran has been Cracker Barrel's president and chief operating officer since Nov. 2010. She joined the company in April 2009 as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Michael Woodhouse, Cracker Barrel's current chairman and CEO, will become executive chairman once Cochran becomes CEO. Woodhouse has been chairman of the board since Nov. 2004 and CEO since Aug. 2001. He joined the restaurant chain in 1995 as a senior vice president and CFO.
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With the next Batman film in production now, and people already getting whipped into viral frenzies over it, I thought I'd point you guys towards a Christopher Nolan film that you probably haven't seen — "Doodlebug" is a creepy short film made by Nolan while a student at university. I'm not sure you can call it a student film if the filmmaker wasn't a film student, but whatever you call it, it's very well done for such a small film. "Doodlebug" stars Jeremy Theobald, who also starred in Nolan's debut feature, Following (which is worth seeing, if you're a fan of Nolan's).
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BY Katy Young | 17 April 2013
"It's no longer taboo for men to wear make-up and skincare products," says world renowned make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury .
As cynical as a man can be when it comes to cosmetics, we think Charlotte may be on to something. To prove her point, she made her first male make-over how to video showing how men too can benefit from the power of beauty products.
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This how-to is for any man looking a "bit knackered in the winter". Still listening?
While you may feel like a man in a woman's world, this isn't all girly compacts, pretty palettes and airy-fairy brushes. Charlotte has used what she calls a "hybrid between skincare and make-up products," for a man-friendly get the look.
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Included in what she describes as "the healthy glow kit" are Visene eye drops (to order from the US), Elemis Deep Cleanse Facial Wash, £18.50 , Sensai Bronzing Gel, £30 , Elemis Time Defence Eye Reviver, £38 , and even a YSL Touche L'Eclat For Men, £25.50 - and absolutely "no technique" at all she explains.
Ultimately this modern make-over for a man is designed to put back a "little bit of healthy glow when you're feeling a bit peaky, or after a late night...or if you're knackered looking," says Charlotte, without taking away any of your masculinity whatsoever.


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Nucleic Nutrition
By Anthony Almada
In addition to coding our genetic makeup—no small order—ribonucleic acid (RNA) from food sources may also be a power-packed nutrient, said to enhance immune function.
RNA is abundant in cow (bovine) colostrum and yeast, along with organ meats. Recent research has shown that when the body is under stress—recovering from infection, trauma or surgery—the rapidly dividing cells of the immune system and intestines have a greater need for nucleotides, like those contained in RNA.
Although numerous products incorporate RNA, usually from yeast, to date there have been no clinical studies on adults that show improved immune function or reduction of inflammation following RNA administration alone.
Yeast RNA is a component of a medical food (Impact®) designed to boost the immune system in patients before or after surgery, but it also contains omega-3 fatty acids derived from fish oil and the amino acid L-arginine. A recent study with patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery and at high risk for infection showed that ingestion of this product improved immune function and reduced a blood marker of inflammation following surgery.
Nutrition and exercise biochemist Anthony Almada, MS, has collaborated on more than 45 university-based studies, is cofounder of Experimental and Applied Sciences (EAS), and founder and chief scientific officer of IMAGINutrition (www.imaginutrition.com).


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Are you superstitious? Do you cross the street to avoid a black cat, walk around ladders and refuse to step on a sidewalk crack? How do you feel about the number 13? Or, even worse, Friday the 13th, a day that strikes fear into the hearts of people across the globe? A fear so prevalent that it even has its own name: Triskaidekaphobia. Try saying that three times!
Athletes are well known for their superstitions. You've probably seen baseball pitchers who refuse to shave while on a winning streak. They have lucky shirts, lucky socks, even lucky underwear. I do have to chuckle though when superstition has them refusing to wash said items. Must be an aromatic experience for the poor guy using the locker next to them!
My late husband was not a fan of Friday the 13th. Several years before we met he had surgery on Friday the 13th. What was supposed to be an easy surgery turned terrifying when he contracted a rare staph infection, came close to dying and ended up spending six months in the hospital. Needless to say, the entire twenty-five years we were married he never, never, left the house on Friday the 13th!
Luck (good and bad) has been the topic of many lively discussions over the years. Some people believe that luck happens, regardless of what we do and we all know that sometimes bad things happen to good people. I believe that many things in life are out of our control and that, yes, sometimes bad things happen regardless of the precautions we take but I also believe that we can have a positive impact on the type of luck we experience. I believe that, to a certain degree, we are able to make our own luck. I choose to surround myself with good energy, positive thoughts and the belief that good things will happen. It's a simple thing to do but the results are astounding.
All things considered, I don't really consider myself to be a superstitious person. Oh sure, I knock on wood but I don't toss spilled salt over my shoulder. I live alone. Do you think fairies are going to come in at night and clean it up for me? No, they are not. I do, however, have a shamrock hanging from the mirror in my car. It's been with me for twenty-four years and has graced four vehicles. Has it brought me good luck? Maybe. I can't say for certain that it's been the cause behind the good luck in my life. I can say that it surrounds me with positive energy and that it makes me smile each time I enter my car and that is a very, very good thing.
Are you superstitious?
Do you have any particular superstitions?
Do you have a good luck charm? What is it?
Do you fear Friday the 13th?
What will you be doing today?
Do you believe that surrounding yourself with positive thoughts will enhance the good luck in your life?
Do you believe that leaving a comment today will earn you a package of books? It could!
I have two more packages of books to give away so let's get those comments rolling. For two of you, Friday the 13th is going to be a very lucky day! (U.S. addresses only)


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Gimme Some Truth: John Lennon Tells It Like It Is
John W. Whitehead, Guest
Waking Times
"You gotta remember, establishment, it's just a name for evil. The monster doesn't care whether it kills all the students or whether there's a revolution. It's not thinking logically, it's out of control."—John Lennon (1969)
Long before Bette Midler was roundly condemned for tweeting "Women, are the n-word of the world," John Lennon—never one to pull his punches—proclaimed in song "Woman Is the Nigger of the World."
Unlike Midler and the rest of the politically correct world, which refuses to say, let alone print, the word "nigger" lest they be accused of racism, Lennon didn't just use the "n" word—he wrote a whole song about it and included it on his 1972 album Some Time In New York City.
Titled "Woman Is the Nigger of the World," the song—with lyrics inspired and co-written by Yoko Ono—has Lennon's brand of truth-telling stamped all over it:
Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is, think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it, do something about it
We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us
Woman is the nigger of the world, yes she is
If you don't believe me take a look to the one you're with
Woman is the slave to the slaves
Ah yeah, better scream about it.
Blackballed by most radio stations, the controversial song was widely condemned as racist and anti-woman.
The song was neither.
Initially released as a single in April 1972, a month after Congress voted to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" was Lennon's way of calling out the hypocrisy of a world that claimed to recognized women as equals while treating them as less worthy of equal rights.
That hypocrisy is still playing out today.
As African-American civil rights activist Congressman Ron Dellums noted in his defense of the song, "If you define 'nigger' as someone whose lifestyle is defined by others, whose opportunities are defined by others, whose role in society is defined by others, the good news is that you don't have to be black to be a nigger in this society. Most of the people in America are niggers."
All these years later, not much has changed.
Women are still treated like the niggers of the world: used, abused and conveniently discarded.
And in the eyes of the American police state, most of the citizenry—black, white, brown and every shade in between—are still treated like slaves: brutalized, dehumanized, branded, chained, bought and sold like chattel, and stripped of their basic rights and human dignity.
Truth is rarely comfortable. Nor is it palatable, or polite, or politically correct.
For that matter, John Lennon, born on October 9, 1940, was rarely polite or politically correct.
Lennon was a musical genius and pop cultural icon who also happened to be a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.
Lennon never shied away from telling it like it is, and neither should we.
Lennon dared to speak truth to power about the government's warmongering, and as a result, he became enemy number one in the eyes of the U.S. government, his phone calls monitored and data files collected on his activities and associations.
Until the day he died, Lennon continued to speak up and speak out.
In honor of what would have been Lennon's 78th birthday, here are some uncomfortable truths about life in the American police state:
- The government is not our friend. Nor does it work for "we the people."
- We no longer have a government that is "of the people, for the people and by the people." For that matter, our so-called government representatives do not actually represent us, the citizenry. We are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests whose main interest is in perpetuating power and control.
- The U.S. is on the brink of bankruptcy, as many economists have been warning for some time now, with more than $21 trillion in debt owned by foreign nationals and corporations.
- Elections are not exercises in self-government. They are merely manufactured illusions conjured up in order to keep the populace compliant and convinced that their vote counts and that they still have some influence over the political process. No matter which party is in control, the police state will continue to grow. In other words, it will win and "we the people" will lose.
- Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: "What's the difference between a politician and a psychopath?" The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is virtually no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
- Far from being a benevolent entity concerned with the well-being of its citizens, whether in matters of health, safety or security, the government is concerned with three things only: power, control and money.
- More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, the U.S. government has become a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.
- Not only does the U.S. government perpetrate organized, systematic violence on its own citizens, especially those who challenge its authority nonviolently, in the form of SWAT team raids, militarized police, and roaming VIPR checkpoints, but it gets away with these clear violations of the Fourth Amendment because the courts grant them immunity from wrongdoing.
- America's shadow government—which is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes right now and operates beyond the reach of the Constitution with no real accountability to the citizenry—is the real reason why "we the people" have no control over our government.
- You no longer have to be poor, black or guilty to be treated like a criminal in America. All that is required is that you belong to the suspect class—that is, the citizenry—of the American police state. As a de facto member of this so-called criminal class, every U.S. citizen is now guilty until proven innocent.
- By gradually whittling away at our freedoms—free speech, assembly, due process, privacy, etc.—the government has, in effect, liberated itself from its contractual agreement to respect our constitutional rights while resetting the calendar back to a time when we had no Bill of Rights to protect us from the long arm of the government.
- Private property means nothing if the government can take your home, car or money under the flimsiest of pretexts, whether it be asset forfeiture schemes, eminent domain or overdue property taxes. Likewise, private property means little at a time when SWAT teams and other government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, wound or kill you, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family.
- If there is an absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off.
- Americans are powerless in the face of militarized police.
- Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—continue to be choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation.
- The U.S. is following the Nazi blueprint to a "t," whether through its storm trooper-like police in the form of heavily armed government agents to its erection of an electronic concentration camp that not only threatens to engulf America but the rest of the world as well.
- The United States of America has become the new battlefield. In fact, the only real war being fought by the U.S. government today is the war on the American people, and it is being waged with deadly weapons, militarized police, surveillance technology, laws that criminalize otherwise lawful behavior, private prisons that operate on quota systems, and government officials who are no longer accountable to the rule of law.
- And finally, as Lennon shared in a 1968 interview: "I think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives… I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal means. If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government and the Russian… Chinese… what they are actually trying to do, and what they think they're doing, I'd be very pleased to know what they think they're doing. I think they're all insane. But I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
These are truths about looming problems that cannot be glibly dismissed by political spin.
These problems will continue to plague our nation unless and until Americans wake up to the fact that we're the only ones who can change things for the better and then do something about it.
After all, the Constitution opens with those three vital words, "We the people."
What this means is there is no government without us—our sheer numbers, our muscle, our economy, our physical presence in this land. There can also be no police state—no tyranny—no routine violations of our rights without our complicity and collusion—without our turning a blind eye, shrugging our shoulders, allowing ourselves to be distracted and our civic awareness diluted.
While Lennon believed in the power of the people, he also understood the danger of a power-hungry government. "The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people," observed Lennon. "It controls them."
Stop being controlled.
For the moment, the power, as Lennon recognized, is still in our hands.
"The people have the power, all we have to do is awaken that power in the people," concluded Lennon. "The people are unaware. They're not educated to realize that they have power. The system is so geared that everyone believes the government will fix everything. We are the government."
For the moment, the choice is still ours: slavery or freedom, war or peace, death or life.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the point at which we no longer have any choice is the point at which the monsters—the maniacs, the powers-that-be, the establishment, the Police State, the Deep State—win.
About the Author
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, where this article (Gimme Some Truth: John Lennon Tells It Like It Is) was originally published. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.


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Description of Goloka
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam we find descriptions of Lord Krishna's eternal home, such as this one:
"Goloka, also called Vrindavana, is always full of cows. There are many waterfalls, which are always pouring water, and the sound is so sweet that it covers the sound of the crickets. And because water flows all over, the forest always looks very green and beautiful.
"The inhabitants of Vrindavana are never disturbed by the scorching heat of the sun or high summer temperatures. The lakes of Vrindavana are surrounded by green grasses, and various kinds of lotus flowers bloom there. The air blowing in Vrindavana carries the aromatic pollen of those lotus flowers. When the particles of water from the waves of the Yamuna River, the lakes, and the waterfalls touch the bodies of the inhabitants of Vrindavana, they automatically feel a cooling effect.
"Vrindavana is such a nice place. Flowers are always blooming, and there are even various kinds of decorated deer. Birds are chirping, peacocks are crowing and dancing, and bees are humming. The cuckoos there sing nicely in five kinds of tunes.
"Krishna, the reservoir of pleasure, blowing His flute, accompanied by His elder brother Balarama and the other cowherd boys and the cows, enters the beautiful forest of Vrindavana to enjoy the atmosphere. They walk into the midst of newly grown leaves of trees whose flowers resembled peacock feathers. They are garlanded by those flowers and decorated with saffron chalk. Sometimes they are dancing and singing and sometimes wrestling with one another. While Krishna dances, some of the cowherd boys sing and others play on flutes; some bugle on buffalo horns or clap their hands, praising Krishna, 'Dear brother, You are dancing very nicely.' "
"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending cows yielding all desires in abodes built with spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of purpose trees. He is always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune." –Sri Brahma-samhita 5.29


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The building official will conduct the following inspections for all building permits issued on or after February 3, 2014
For more information please contact the Planning and Zoning department.
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A building permit is required for any new construction or relocation of buildings, including mobile homes and any structures such as sheds or buildings 200 square feet or greater. Building permits will also be required for interior construction or reconstruction.
A stop work order will be issued until a building permit is issued and the building permit fee will be twice the cost of the permit had it been issued prior to the start of construction.
Any lot under forty acres must be platted before a building permit can be issued.
When applying for a building permit you must
In most cases, if all the required information is supplied, a building permit can be issued on the same day. However, the permit issuance may be delayed for receipt of information or on-site inspection.
If the work described in any building permit has not been commenced within 180 days from issuance of the building permit, the building permit will then expire.
Yes, the building official is authorized to grant in writing, extensions that do not exceed 180 days per extension. The requestion for an extension will need to be requested in writing and have a justifiable cause demonstrated.
The 2012 IRC Residential Code, 2012 International Property Maintenance Code, 2012 International Mechanical Code, 2012 Fire Code, and all appropriate amendments and additions to those codes are all codes that have been adopted by Lawrence County.
There is a 24 hour notice required to set an appointment for inspection.
Yes, a stop work order will be issued, a fine may be imposed, construction may have to be removed or exposed in order to rectify the inspection and a no occupancy permit will be issued.
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This is what medicine has become in the eyes of our regulators:
Federal health officials are seeking physicians and other health professionals for a program to develop leaders in health care innovation.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Oct. 17 announced the Innovation Advisors Program, which will accept up to 200 people in its first year. Advisers will develop projects and processes in their home regions that achieve the goals of bettering population health, improving health care delivery and lowering costs through continuous improvement. They will focus on Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Continuous. Never-ending. Infinite.
As if money had no limits.
More. More. More.
More doctors-turned-administrators. More "projects" and more "processes" like Pay for Performance and Quality Measures. More keyboard entry time.
But note that this is continuous improvement but is limited to government programs: a fact that contradicts the word "continuous."
The implications to policy makers who use such trendy buzz phrases like "continuous improvement" is that doctors and current public policy workers aren't already working to constantly improve our patients' health. Instead, we are messy, doing expensive things that involve too much time and too much money.
So new programs must be developed and their processes measured to see if they work.
Isn't this the point of "continuous improvement?"
So the government's answer for continuous improvement is to acquire 200 more Anointed Ones woven from the same cloth to help us all "improve." (Well, at least for the first year. No doubt more will be needed in the future. "Continuous," remember?)
But there's another, better way.
It's a way that will save (literally) billions upon billions of dollars for our health care system and taxpayers of this great country. Best of all, it's simple, effective, and guaranteed to work:
Stop continuously improving projects and processes that don't exist.