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The Rovegate Controversy; What It Really Means
By Congressman John Conyers
As I have considered the case of the President's top advisor, Karl Rove, disclosing to the press that Ambassador Wilson's wife was a CIA operative in order to discredit and/or seek retribution against the Ambassador, it has become increasingly clear that we need to focus beyond the specific facts of that case -- as important and damaging as they are.
Properly understood, the outing of Valerie Plame appears to be just another facet of the deceptions evident in the Downing Street Minutes, and the overall marketing and disinformation of the Iraq war itself. As I have been putting together the chronology of the events and statements leading up to the war and subsequent to the war itself, the pattern becomes more and more obvious -- the Administration emphasizes and overstates facts needed to justify the war; seeks to discredit or punish anyone or thing who dares to challenge its assertions; and when the original justificiation no longer works, comes up with a new after-the-fact set of justifications. Then the cycle of deception and retribution begins over and over again.
Obviously, there are echoes of Vietnam here, but in many respects today's events are more dangerous. We have a press that is far too compliant, and a Majority Party all to willing to support the Administration and its deceptions at any cost.
Anyway, those are my lastest thoughts. I hope to have more news for you on Rovegate in the coming days, and I plan to stay very busy in the lead up to the nationwide town hall meetings on DSM and other deceptions to be held next weekend.
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This also illustrates the repeated pattern of engaging in ad hominem attacks when they cannot engage in logical debate. Rather than attempt to defend an untenable position, they seek to discredit their opponent. It happened with the Swifties, Rather, Richard Clarke, et al.
Well said!
The Diane Rehm Show featured the Rove controversy today.
Here guests were:
David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union
John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton
Keene twisted everything around, repeatedly portrayed
Rove as the VICTIM of "ad hominem attacks".
He said that is ALL this controversy is about.
A woman called in and spoke well about how it is his
actions that are appalling. She mentioned the long
history of similar actions through out his "career".
Keene's response to her call was, "See what I mean?
People just don't like Karl Rove."
Is that an "Ad Hominem Attack Turned Inside Out" ?
These peope are psychopaths!
Its very likely Rove is either intentionally, or opportunistically spinning this scandal in the administration's favor (as he always does). By changing the focus from Bush (DSM) to himself (Plame outing), he gives Bush breathing room hoping the growing chorus demanding an answer to Chairman Conyers petition will cool down.
By maintaining attention to both the Rove scandal AND a steady march toward DSM hearings for Bush, we can kill two birds with one stone.. and defeat Rove in his diversionary game. This is a desperation play, its only a matter of time before their misdeeds bring them down - unless "good men do nothing"..
In other words, he's feeding himself to the lions to save Bush-not likely. These people really aren't that clever. Don't show them so much respect that you grow cautious.
The Republicans can't stop the momentum even though they will keep trying. The door is open and the light keeps shining in and in the days, weeks, months ahead information will keep pouring out and more brave souls will open up and tell the truth. This website and others that tell the truth are blessings!
I suppose it is the nature of people who are have such power through the manipulation of propaganda, like the Bush Administration, to become so arrogant that they do something really stupid. It could very well have ignored Wilson. The media was behind this war. The Democratic party had supported sanctions and bombings of Iraq for years, resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians. Very few, with the exception of people like Conyers, could be expected to seriously oppose the war in Iraq. But it was not enough.
That is their fatal mistake. We know that Rove will be sacrificed, the question is when. Click here:
http://www.tomjoad.org/rovedeathwatch.htm and make your guess. Whenever it happens, billions on this planet will rejoice. Where will that leave Bush? With much less power. Much more vulnerable.
Don't the Rovegate investigation and the Downing Street Minutes take the focus off the 8.8 billion missing under Bremer? Scandals can be very helpful to cover up monetary crimes.
In all the partisan and international wrangling that has been occurring recently, it's become clear to some of us that there may well be a secretive level of interactions happening, and that the goals of people in special positions -- and how they conflict with the welfare of humanity at large -- have become the most important conflict of our time. Given events over recent decades, and how so many chances for the betterment of the human race have been squashed, it's not hard to surmise that there is an internationally powerful group of people that actually enjoy pitting political parties, and countries, against each other. No matter what may happen, this group has placed themselves in positions where they will gain more power and wealth.
Sure there have been small things (probably inevitable anyway) that seemed hopeful, the fall of a (sort of) communist imperialistic state, for example. But the continued submergence of small, independent states, and now the rise of the US imperialist state, stand in stark contrast.
No doubt, the US is now the focus of this group's attention: The US spends as much on its military as the whole rest of the world combined. The US also currently uses 40% of the world's energy and creates 40% of the world's pollution. The US also has numerous huge agencies that operate with little or no oversight, in complete disregard for the guidelines set out in the US Constitution. These institutions are fair game for the "overseers." The cost of their US backed endeavors could well be the future of life on Planet Earth.
With the rise of technology, the paths of these international "overseers' " (read: multi-national corporate leaders+) journey towards wealth have so far only become less encumbered. But these people do not have superhuman powers -- they live and die like the rest of us, though their estates may live on. Fortunately technology also holds the seeds of their eventual demurring to the people, as has happened so many times in the past, perhaps starting with the Magna Charta.
Time, though, is of the essence at this point in history.
I hate to think it, but I think we better not take our eyes off of a possible
PNAC - CIA - Al Qaeda connection.
Last week I would've thunk only an X-filist would say that.
Now a "normal" person is saying it - me !
Hey, we found out stranger things than me...
France and Saddam were both right about Bush.
How about PNAC as a UK-USA-ISRAEL Triumvirate?
Then reduce "al Qaeda" as a marketing tool "boogie man."
A creation that began as a ruse and became a reality(?)
The "old Crowned Empire", the "Sole SuperPower full of wage slaves that you can tax to death and they'll still wave your flag", and the "perpetual sympathy VICTIM that can reduce any criticism to
Now take AIDS as a germ warfare system that targetted
Africa, the Liberal counter culture, and the homosexual population.
Now take the "Drug War" that targetted the poor and middle
class as well as middle class Liberal Activists. Added benefit
of putting para-military troops in both the UK and the USA
and suspending civil liberties. Also justified propping up
foreign fascist governments and financed suppression of
Marxist or Socialist reforms. . . "We aren't fighting Communists,
we are fighting drug dealers."
Now take the demise of the 7-7-7 Rule of Media Ownership by the
1996 Telecommunications Act. How to market "the big Lie"
by using corporate monopoly pressure on the free press. . .
nobody but "Liberals" listens to NPR anyway. . .
Now take the demise of US Interstate Banking Laws in the 1980-90s
which destroyed the local Savings & Loan Industries and set up
bank empires in the USA.
Now take the infiltration and mobilization of the poor and
ignorant through the Moral Majority Fundamentalist Christian
movement into an obedient and fierce political force.
How's that for an X-File script that will make you sleep with
the lights on. . . ;-)
Read the Kristol history, father and son
That was a bumper sticker I saw yesterday... strong message to Christian "Right" sitting at redlights.
But I think he's going to skate again. This administration is all too teflon to catch.
Why isn't more attention being paid to the second top authority that Novak talked about. Is that person even higher up? Or is that who Judy is hiding?
To quote Joe Wilson................I want to see them all frog marched our of the whitehouse.
We have got to take back congress in 2006 if we are really going to get anything done. Then watch the fun begin.
There should be a ban on all felonious racketeers from running for President (or dog-catcher for that matter)...ban Mafia, street gangs, PNAC members, etc. How do you ban them? Book 'em with RICO and put them in jail for one, give them a convicted felon record for another.
I agree that Rove in his arrogance got stupid and the tide really seems to have turned against this administration. They're slippery because of the ass-kissing corporate media but there has to be a limit even to what these weasals can get away with.
We all know the ass-kissing corporate media is in Bush's pocket, or the other way around, or both, and Bushco and corp media are bought.
But the journalists are not (ok, the exceptions are out there true),
but the journalists have families, kids, mortgages, bills, high gas prices like you and me. They probably want to do investigative reporting, but are told not to. So journalists do the right thing by their families, and put their heads down and run after Brad Pitt and his "new" family.
July 15, 2005
Rove-gate: Who Leaked
to the Leakers?
This isn't about Karl Rove
by Justin Raimondo
What if Karl Rove isn't guilty of knowingly leaking Valerie Plame's name as a covert CIA agent involved in nuclear proliferation issues? What if Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, is correct when he says that he's been assured by prosecutors that his client is not a target of the ongoing investigation into Plame-gate? I'm going to swim against the tide, here, and against the expectations of my readers, by suggesting that this investigation isn't about Rove – and, furthermore, that Rove is a victim, in an important sense, someone who was used and abused by the real culprits. And who are these mysterious culprits? We'll get to that in a moment, but first some background…
One thing that has always struck me as odd about this whole affair – and I wasn't the only one – is a seemingly minor detail: why did Novak's original column, which started all this brouhaha, identify Valerie Plame by her maiden name? After all, most married women – even in this era of Women's Liberation – defer to the tradition of taking their husband's name, but I have to admit that, even after wondering about it for a brief moment, I shrugged and moved on. As it turns out, however, this is an important detail, because now we have Rove's lawyer saying that he at no time gave out Valerie Plame's name: but if Rove identified her as Joe Wilson's wife, what the heck is the difference?
The difference is that, as Valerie Plame, Mrs. Wilson was affiliated with a CIA front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, engaged in tracking and stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons. As soon as her name was made public, the implications for U.S. national security amounted to a grave breach – far more of a crime than merely violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which has only had a single prosecution since its passage in 1982. As the Washington Post reported when the Plame scandal broke:
"A former diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity said yesterday that every foreign intelligence service would run Plame's name through its databases within hours of its publication to determine if she had visited their country and to reconstruct her activities. 'That's why the agency is so sensitive about just publishing her name,' the former diplomat said."
The publication of her maiden name not only endangered Valerie Wilson, but also blew the cover of a CIA front and imperiled anyone she might have come in contact with during her stint overseas. This isn't just a matter of of violating a statute that, at most, entails a 10-year jail sentence and a fine – this is a question of possible espionage.
What also seems fairly clear is that Karl Rove would not have had direct knowledge of Plame-Wilson's covert activities on behalf of the CIA, and that only a very few people high up in the national security bureaucracy had the clearance to get access to her name. So who was it? If Rove leaked to Novak, and half a dozen Washington reporters, then who leaked to the leakers?
This isn't about Rove.
It's about a cabal of war hawks inside the administration who passed on this information to others without telling them about Plame-Wilson's deep cover status, perhaps suggesting that she was just an analyst working at a desk rather than a covert operative involved in a vitally important overseas operation, the knowledge of which was highly compartmentalized and only dispensed on a need-to-know basis. When Rove and his shills blabbed to reporters and anyone who would listen, they didn't realize that they were aiding and abetting an elaborate ploy to stick it to the CIA.
Seen against the backdrop of the fierce intra-bureaucratic war that broke out in the administration in the run-up to the Iraq war – with the CIA and the mainline intelligence and diplomatic communities pitted against civilian neoconservatives in the upper echelons of the Pentagon and the Office of the Vice President – the outing of Plame and her colleagues amounts to an act of espionage committed out of a desire to exact revenge. The leakers meant to retaliate not just against Joe Wilson, through his wife, but against the "old guard" that was resisting the campaign to lie us into war. When the CIA wouldn't go along with the neocon program and "spice up" their analyses with Ahmed Chalabi's tall tales and the outright forgery of the Niger uranium documents, the War Party struck back at them with the sort of viciousness for which the neocons are rightly renowned.
The neocons had a fix on their target; now the question was how to get someone else to pull the trigger. The leakers, in order to protect themselves, "laundered" the leak through journalists (Judith Miller, one of their favorite conduits) and Bush operatives – Rove. In his book, The Politics of Truth, Joe Wilson says as much:
"Apparently, according to two journalist sources of mine, when Rove learned that he might have violated the law, he turned on Cheney and Libby and made it clear that he held them responsible for the problem they had created for the administration. The protracted silence on this topic from the White House masks considerable tension between the Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President.
"The rumors swirling around Rove, Libby, and Abrams were so pervasive in Washington that the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, was obliged to address them in an October 2003 briefing, saying of Rove: 'The president knows he wasn't involved. … It's simply not true.' McClellan refused to be drawn into a similar direct denial of Libby's or Abrams's possible involvement, however."
Suddenly, the complacent – and often complicit – American media seems to be waking up. Reporters are now publicly pillorying White House spokesman Scott McClellan:
"QUESTION: You're in a bad spot here, Scott…
"… because after the investigation began – after the criminal investigation was under way – you said, October 10th, 2003, 'I spoke with those individuals, Rove, Abrams and Libby. As I pointed out, those individuals assured me they were not involved in this,' from that podium. That's after the criminal investigation began. Now that Rove has essentially been caught red-handed peddling this information, all of a sudden you have respect for the sanctity of the criminal investigation.
"MCCLELLAN: No, that's not a correct characterization. And I think you are well aware of that."
Reporters who heard McClellan's assurances back in October 2003 weren't being deceived so much as lulled to sleep, and that really didn't take much of an effort on the part of the administration, now did it? They were basically asleep anyway, and weren't really listening to what was being said. Some people were paying attention, however, and taking notes, Joshua Marshall for one:
"So, when McClellan was asked to be more clear, he opted for a meaninglessly vague statement and then fell back on the 'leaking of classified information' dodge. Can we all take note of this now? That denial wasn't what it seemed to be. In fact, I doubt it was a real denial at all.
"There's more there. Why not find it?"
Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald is now in the process of finding it – and Rove is not his real quarry, although he and some others in the White House could wind up as collateral damage. By all indications, Bulldog's real target points more in the direction of the Office of the Vice President. Ambassador Wilson knows who his enemies are, and he pointed to them in his book and in an interview with Joe Conason in Salon:
"Gleaned from all those crosscurrents of information, the most plausible scenario, and the one that I've heard most frequently from different sources, has been that there was a meeting in the middle of March 2003, chaired by either [Cheney's chief of staff] Scooter Libby or the vice president – but more frequently I've heard chaired by Scooter – at which a decision was made to get a 'work-up' on me. That meant getting as much information about me as they could: about my past, about my life, about my family. This, in and of itself, is abominable. Then that information was passed at the appropriate time to the White House Communications Office, and at some point a decision was made to go ahead and start to smear me, after my opinion piece appeared in the New York Times."
"Salon: You mention two other names: John Hannah, who works in the Office of the Vice President, and David Wurmser, who is a special assistant to John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control and national security. Last Wednesday, their names both appeared on a chart that accompanied an article in the New York Times about the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and the war cabal within the Bush administration. Did these people run an intelligence operation against you?"
"Wilson: I don't know if it's the same unit, but it's very clear, from what I've heard, that the meeting in March 2003 led to an intelligence operation against my family and me. That's what a work-up is – to try to find everything you can about an American citizen."
After the War Party met in solemn conclave, and the command went out from Cheney: "Bring me the head of Joe Wilson!", there was only one logical place for Cheney's minions to go. Who in the administration would've had access to the specific information regarding Plame-Wilson's role in a deep-cover CIA operation involving nuclear proliferation? Why, the man who was the State Department deputy secretary in charge of "weapons of mass destruction" – the somewhat irritable if not downright reckless John Bolton, would-be ambassador to the UN, who played a central role in promulgating the Niger Uranium Myth.
Conveniently, two of Bolton's assistants, David Wurmser and John Hannah, also worked in Cheney's office. A story by UPI's Richard Sale, published last year, points at Cheney's office and specifically at Hannah as having played a key role in all this:
"Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.
"According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, were the two Cheney employees. 'We believe that Hannah was the major player in this,' one federal law-enforcement officer said. … The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah 'that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time' as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said."
Hannah is Cheney's Middle East policy point-man, and before that was director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). Middle East expert Juan Cole shines his reportorial flashlight on what's under that particular rock:
"Libby and Hannah form part of a 13-man vice presidential advisory team, sort of a veep NSC [National Security Council], which helps underpin Cheney's dominance in the US foreign policy area. Hannah is a neoconservative and old cold warrior who is really more of a Soviet expert than a Middle East expert. But in the 90s he for a while headed up the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a think tank that represents the interests of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC). Hannah is said to have been behind Cheney's and consequently Bush's support for refusing to deal with Yasser Arafat. But he was also deeply involved in getting up the Iraq war.…"
The AIPAC connection should raise a red flag: AIPAC is already at the center of a case involving espionage conducted by Israel against the United States, with Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin indicted [.pdf] for passing classified information on to longtime AIPAC leader Steve Rosen and his aide Keith Weissman, with an Israeli embassy official, chief political officer Naor Gilon, directly involved. In both cases, which involve the unlawful dissemination of sensitive U.S. secrets, the defense is claiming that "everyone does it" and that the classified information they're accused of leaking – or, in AIPAC's case, directly handing over to the Israeli government – is supposedly "common knowledge."
Treason is nothing to these people, because their real allegiance is not to the U.S., but to their own cause, which is perpetual war. Libby and Hannah were the enforcers who made sure that the lies put out by this administration to bamboozle us into war with Iraq were strictly adhered to within the government. Libby was a frequent visitor over at CIA headquarters, along with his boss, and, as Juan Cole writes:
"[H]annah had fingers in all three rotten pies from which the worst intel came – Sharon's office in Israel, the Pentagon Office of Special Plans (for which Hannah served as a liaison to Cheney), and fraudster Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. Hannah had probably been the one who fed Cheney the Niger uranium story, triggering a Cheney request to the CIA to verify it and thence Joe Wilson's trip to Niamey in spring of 2002, where he found the story to be an absurd falsehood on the face of it."
In short, Hannah was at the center of that vortex of deception that swept us into a disastrous war. When Ambassador Wilson came out with his famous debunking of the infamous "16 words," Hannah was well positioned to go after the heretic.
If we look at the passing of this leak as we would a ball game, as "super smart commenter Sara" pointed out on Digby's blog, the probable trajectory of the ball as it makes its way to the goal goes something like this: "Bolton to Wurmser and Hannah, to Cheney (and/or Libby) to Rove."
In this case, however, unlike soccer or basketball, possession of the ball is not an asset: according to the rules of this game, the last man holding it loses.
I do not believe for a moment that this lengthy and increasingly controversial investigation is centered around alleged violations of a rarely invoked statute, incurring a penalty that hardly seems proportionate to the energy expended to get a conviction. It is extremely hard to prove that someone has violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act; there are all sorts of conditions and sub-clauses that provide a legal escape route for anyone so charged: that can't be what all this is about.
If, however, Fitzgerald can prove there was a conspiracy inside the government to collect and selectively reveal classified information in order to crush political opponents, and shape U.S. policy, then the charges could be much more serious. By all accounts, the Plame investigation is said to be widening, and I would venture to say that by this time it is wide enough to include charges of espionage. The mere existence of a highly placed cabal that was engaged in collecting and utilizing highly sensitive information – a kind of intelligence bank that existed outside of normal governmental channels – would be of great interest to the FBI's counterintelligence unit, and word is out that they've been plenty busy lately. Who made withdrawals from this Intelligence Bank, and did any of these account holders include foreign governments – such as Iran, which received an intelligence treasure trove from neocon poster boy Ahmed Chalabi, and Israel, which is already under suspicion because of the Franklin affair, and has close links to several of the suspects in the Plame-gate investigation?
And then there is the question of the Niger uranium forgeries themselves: who forged the documents that fooled a president? Wilson's exposure of the Niger uranium ploy angered whoever introduced those documents into the U.S. intelligence stream – it was Hannah and Libby, by all accounts, who fought to keep these allegations in the president's speech, in spite of opposition from the CIA and the State Department. The same crowd that pushed this phony intelligence must have known something about the murky origins of what turned out to be a crude forgery.
Forging "evidence" that helped get us into a war – what are the penalties for that?
The fast developing scandal seemingly centered around Rove and a few journalists has only begun to unfold. By the time it is over, we'll have the War Party – or, at the very least, a few high profile representatives – in the dock, and then the fun will really begin. So forget "Rove-gate" and get ready for "Cheney-gate." I'll gladly forgo the pleasure of seeing the president's chief political advisor frog-marched out of the White House for the prospect of seeing our vice president, along with his top staffers, led out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in handcuffs.
– Justin Raimondo
"Bush hates press conferences because he can't speak extemporaneously and can't form a complete sentence without mashing up the language like a 5-year-old on Ritalin and can't express a nuanced multifaceted idea to save his life and somewhere deep down in his bowels, he knows it, and he knows we know it, and it makes him mumble and stutter and secretly pray every moment to his angry righteous God he could be somewhere else, anywhere else, like sittin' on the back porch in Texas eatin' ribs and dreamin' 'bout baseball." -- SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, June 3.
But his "extemporaneous" speech right after the London bombing was organized, fluent, and polished, like it had been written for him and practiced! (You can see a clip of it on the Web.) This suggests he may have had advance knowledge. The bombing also came at a convenient time, when his approval ratings and support for the war are plummeting.
I don't think it's inconceivable that this most dishonest and bloodthirsty administration could arrange to have an Islamic group stage a bombing in an attempt to whip up patriotic support for Bush and his war. Since it didn't have the desired effect, watch for them to stage a bombing in the US, closer to home for a more dramatic effect.


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- - Missed a nice buck..... (http://www.deerhuntersclub.com/forums/lodge/2891-missed-nice-buck.html)
Missed a nice buck.....
Well today was a great day for hunting. It fell a monsoon all night. This morning i saw a few does feeding. But after they came thru it was quite. This evening was one of those picture perfect evenings we all look for. So I was sitting in my stand pre-occupied watching some squirrels chasing each other around(it was very amusing). I hear a little twig snap behind me, when i looked heres a brute standing 20 yards away. After waiting about ten minutes to be able to stand up and draw my bow back without spooking him i shot..... my arrow caught the smallest little twig and sent it square into a pine tree:crybaby:..anyway that hunting. he jumped into some thick cover and started feeding again...i couldnt get another shot....My question is how long should i wait to try hunting this spot again?. I waited about an hour after dark to climb down out of my stand to hopefully not spook him more..
Personally, If you shot at him and he only went a short distance and started feeding again - like nothing happend, and you didn't spook him when exiting the stand....I'd hunt it again whenever you want...
ditto's on that.
the sooner the better, given those things mentioned, before he's off chasing does all over the countryside.
As soon as possible!!:ibtl:
agreed get back in there
:goodposting: Yep head on back in there.. He probably thinks a limb fell out of a tree or something since he barely spooked. You know he's there now so be ready..
i would go back right now.... dont wait go now... what are you still doing reading this lol.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h1...7/101_2147.jpgi had the same issue except i missed a buck with my rifle wednesday evening. Went back the next night sat in the same place and at about the same time a bigger deer walked out and this time i didnt miss. i was nervous about over hunting this area but it seemed not to phase the deer that i had just shot there the day before
Cool man you got him, great pic!!!!!!
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The mouth is a source of pleasure and the maker of speech. My work occupies a space of oral fixation and accepts the challenge of capturing the ephemeral, if only for a moment. I tend to use humour as a point of entrance to my work and strive to break down the invisible wall between the artist and audience. Dualities also interest me: comfort/discomfort, attraction/repulsion, and how these ideas can be contained in a single object or be conjured by an event.


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The Evolution of the Microprocessor [Infographic]
While the burly CPU gets the press releases and the glory, the tiny microprocessor is the unsung hero of the technological revolution.
The first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was born in 40 years ago in 1971. Since then it's made appearances in everything from washing machines to children's toys; scarcely a single facet of our technology-saturated lives would look the same without that original microprocessor and its descendants. Check out the infographic above to see some of the milestones in the history of microprocessor usage or hit up the link below to read more.
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Attendance For NBA Western Conference Franchises Remains Flat
NBA Western Conference teams are averaging 17,080 fans per home game this season, relatively flat compared to the same period a year ago. The Trail Blazers remain tops in the conference at 20,468 fans per contest at the Rose Garden, which is flat with last year. Despite remaining near the bottom of the conference standings, the T'Wolves and Kings are seeing a 9% and 8% bump, respectively. After finishing last season with a 20% jump in home gate, the Hornets' disappointing on-court performance this season has contributed to a 13% decline at New Orleans Arena, marking the sharpest drop among Western Conference teams. Below is team-by-team attendance for the NBA Western Conference through January 13, with comparisons to the same period a year ago. See yesterday's Back of the Book section for Eastern Conference figures (THE DAILY).NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE THROUGH JANUARY 13HOME TEAMGMSTOTALAVG.% CAP.PREV.% +/-GMS ('08-09)Trail Blazers22450,30020,468102.4%20,541-0.4%18Mavericks19378,86619,940103.9%20,008-0.3%18
Lakers24455,92818,997100.0%18,9970.0%22 Jazz20378,85318,94395.1%19,896-4.8%20 Warriors16291,13318,19692.9%18,808-3.3%15 Thunder20358,14317,90798.4%18,575-3.6%20 Spurs23410,48917,84796.1%17,8450.0%21 Nuggets20347,87717,39490.8%16,6414.5%20 Suns19328,57517,29393.9%18,422-6.1%19 Rockets16270,12416,88393.6%17,664-4.4%17 Clippers20314,79515,74082.6%15,1553.9%18 Hornets18267,20114,84586.4%16,961-12.5%17 T'Wolves20291,04914,55275.2%13,3748.8%19 Kings21279,73113,32176.9%12,3078.2%20 Grizzlies17215,51612,67770.0%12,4881.5%21 W.C. Totals2955,038,58017,08091.0%17,126-0.3%285 NBA Totals5689,652,19516,99388.8%17,202-1.2%565
NOTES: Teams can exceed 100% capacity because of standing-room-only ticket sales. All attendance figures are based on totals posted immediately following games. It may not reflect any subsequent adjustments made by teams or the league.


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Minority hiring, never much of an issue in Britain, may come under more scrutiny. A survey released Jan. 18 by the government's Commission for Racial Equality concludes most big companies do little to assure equal opportunity in employment beyond verbal support for the idea. Many said they have no policy to spur minority hiring and no plans to create one. British law bans race bias but sets no affirmative-action criteria. The minority jobless rate is more than twice that for whites.
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Need some help removing my nav monitor to install an aux kit. I've searched and nothing I've found covers my car. 2005 330ci vert. Some say just pull the ring around the unit while the CD is open but that's not working. Some say take off the trim over the glove box and center. Anybody have a clue? Thanks
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Remove the trim pieces. Remove the vents (just pull up/hard). You may not HAVE to do that IIRC, but it does allow you to reach in behind the NAV to slide it out once you do the steps below.
To remove the NAV, there are two clips on each side that hold the NAV in that you have to push in. Open the CD. Use something flat like a metal nail file... slide them into each side near the bottom, and it will release (push in) the clips for the NAV. You have to hold the files there. Slide the NAV out. There are guides online as to where the clips are. Hope that helps.
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October 2011 // Volume 49 // Number 5 // Tools of the Trade // 5TOT6
Basic Training: A 1-Day Education Module for New Clientele in the Turf Industry
It is important that Extension education programs be directed at clientele new to the turfgrass industry. A 1-day Basic Training: Turf Management seminar was created in 2006 to provide education to those new to the turfgrass industry. The seminar covered the basics of turfgrass management including growth, physiology, fertilization, cultural practices, and pest management. Education was provided to 537 clientele with this program during its first 4 years, indicating the popularity of this 1-day training module. Ninety-five percent of attendees indicated that they felt better equipped to do their job after attending the seminar.
The use of face-to-face workshops and seminars to teach clientele and transfer technology is common among turfgrass Extension specialists (Patton, Trenholm, & Waltz, 2011), but training opportunities are limited for new employees entering the turfgrass industry. Within the turfgrass industry, the majority of new employees come from lawn care/grounds maintenance (Fidanza, Sanford, Guiser, & Borger, 2009), indicating the importance of developing programs specific for lawn care and grounds maintenance. Although the exact turnover among employees of the turf industry is unknown, it is known that 51% of nursery and landscape industry employees leave their positions less than 5 years after starting (Mathers et al., 2010).
Due to employee turnover and the need to provide introductory level training, it is important that some extension education programs be directed at clientele new to the turfgrass industry. A one-day "Basic Training: Turf Management" seminar was created in 2006 at Purdue University to provide education to clientele new to the turfgrass industry. The seminar was then implemented in Arkansas through the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and in Indiana through Purdue University and the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation (MRTF) <http://mrtf.org>.
The primary objective of the seminar was to provide basic turfgrass knowledge and application for new turfgrass industry employees in an efficient 1-day program. The seminar covered the basics of plant growth and physiology; turfgrass establishment, including soil preparation, species selection, planting date, and post-planting care; cultural practices such as mowing, irrigation, aerification, and thatch control; fertilization, including rates, timing, and nutrient sources; common turf weed, insect and disease identification, biology, and control; and, last, the practical and legal aspects of using pesticides.
A secondary objective was to provide additionally training and pesticide recertification credits. The final objective of the seminar was to make a small profit after recovery of programmatic costs. Extension programs should recover costs at a minimum or make a small profit (Voigt & Reicher, 2005) that can be used to fund other Extension activities, professional advancement, equipment, or applied research. Furthermore, paying for education increases the perceived value (Comer, Birkenholz, & Stewart, 2004). In Indiana the cost was $60 for members of the MRTF and $90 for non-members. The cost was $65 in Arkansas. The average profit for these events was $1,042, with an average attendance of 34.
This Basic Training: Turf Management seminar was offered in two states at multiple geographic locations in each state to facilitate greater participation (Figure 1, Table 1). Additionally, the seminar was offered in December through February during a period of inactivity for turf professionals. Locations were selected based upon population and collaboration with county Extension educators. The seminar was advertised to turf clientele in each state using mailing and email lists. The seminars typically had an attendee cap of 50 attendees based on location, which was typically at a county or state Extension office, fairgrounds, community college, or convention center. Preregistration was encouraged for attendees so that binders with handouts could be prepared in advance. The seminar began in the morning and ran for 6 hours total with a break for lunch. Topics were covered by the turfgrass Extension specialist using discussion and lecture.
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|Evansville (2008), Fort Wayne (2007,2009), Indianapolis (2007, 2008, 2009), New Albany (2007), Plymouth (2008), Sellersburg (2008), Valparaiso (2006)
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Population Map Showing Basic Training Seminar Locations in Indiana and Arkansas (2006-2009)
Attendee Learning
Pretests/posttests were used to help measure attendee learning. Starting in 2007, a pretest and posttest were given to each participant at the start and end of the seminar, respectively. The questions were based on the content covered during the seminar. Additional data on the turf industry work experience of attendees was collected in 2009.
The data reflect that attendees learned during this seminar, with a modest improvement of 15% from pretest to posttest (Table 2). This improvement was less than expected and less than reported at a week-long turfgrass short course in Illinois and Indiana (Voigt & Reicher, 2005). All experience levels improved from the pretest to posttest, with posttest scores highest among the most experienced. Unexpectedly, improvement was higher (>14%) for those with 5-20 years of experience and lower (<12%) for those with <6 years of experience (Table 3). We are unsure as to why this occurred, but it could be due to 1) the questions we selected for the exam, 2) participants unaccustomed to taking tests, 3) greater recall of previously learned information among advanced participants from pretest to posttest, 4) inaccuracies from guessed answers (La Barge, 2007) or 5) greater interest and attention among those with more turf experience.
Though this seminar was primarily targeted at beginning level turf professionals, 57% of attendees had >5 years of work experience in turf. This suggest that experienced professionals appreciate "refresher" courses, especially when pesticide certification credits are offered, but also indicates that instructors need to be flexible in tailoring each course to the experience level of the attendees.
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Attendee Evaluations
At the conclusion of each seminar, each attendee was given a seminar evaluation form to help gather information and document impact. Ninety-two percent of the surveys were completed and returned. The evaluation form included questions on the venue/classroom, most and least favorite topics, suggestions for improvement, five questions about the seminar (Table 4), and an overall seminar quality rating.
The responses (>94%) indicated that attendees would recommend others attend the seminar in the future. Despite pretest and posttest data showing only modest improvement, 95% of attendees felt better equipped to do their job following the seminar (Table 4). Ninety-eight percent of the respondents increased their knowledge of pesticide, nutrient, and water inputs, and 95% increased their understanding of environmental stewardship. Although not a primary objective of this seminar, 72% of attendees felt the seminar would help them save money for their business. These responses are similar to responses in a survey of a week-long turfgrass short course in Illinois and Indiana (Voigt & Reicher, 2005). Attendees rated the overall quality of this seminar as 4.4 on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5=excellent, 4=good, 3=fair, 2=poor, and 1=very poor.
|Would you consider attending this seminar next year, or recommending that others attend?
|From discussions at this seminar, do you feel better equipped to do your job more effectively and efficiently?
|Has this or other Midwest Regional Turf Foundation (or University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service) events helped to increase your knowledge of pesticides, nutrients, and water inputs for maintaining turf?
|From discussions at this seminar, do you feel you will be able to manage turf in a more environmentally conscious manner?
|From discussions at this seminar, do you feel you will be able save money for your company/organization?
There are opportunities to provide education to new employees of the turfgrass and green industries. A 1-day seminar covering basic principles of turf management was successful at improving attendee knowledge. Despite the economy, these seminars were well-attended, profitable, and highly rated by those who attended. This seminar can serve as a template and encouragement for those wishing to reach clientele through new educational outreach programs.
The authors want to express their gratefulness to Jon Trappe and Jennifer Biehl for their grading tests and compiling survey responses, and to the Midwest Regional Turf Foundation, Purdue University, and the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service for co-sponsoring these seminars.
Comer, M. M., Birkenholz, R. J., & Stewart, B. R. (2004). The role of the Cooperative Extension Service as perceived by North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service administrators. Journal of Southern Agricultural Education Research, 54(1) Retrieved from: http://www.jsaer.org/pdf/Vol54/54-01-156.pdf
Fidanza, M. A., Sanford, D. L., Guiser, S. D., & Borger, J. A. (2009). Turfgrass industry practitioners and the pesticide label. Journal of Extension [On-line], 47(6) Article 6IAW4. Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2009december/iw4.php
La Barge, G. (2007). Pre- and post-testing with more impact. Journal of Extension [On-line], 45(6) Article 6IAW1. Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2007december/iw1.php
Mathers, H. M., Acuna, A. A., Long, D. R., Behe, B. K., Hodges, A. W., Haydu, J. J., Schuch, U. K., Barton, S. S., Dennis, J. H., Maynard, B. K., Hall, C. R., McNeil, R., & Archer, T. 2010. Nursery worker turnover and language proficiency. HortScience 45(1):71-77.
Patton, A. J., Trenholm, L. E., & Waltz, F. C. (2011). Turfgrass Extension and outreach programming. In J. Stier et al. (eds). Turfgrass. Agronomy Monograph XX. ASA, CSSA, SSSA, Madison, WI. In press.
Voigt, T. B., & Reicher, Z. J. (2005.) The Indiana-Illinois turfgrass short course—10 years of cooperative outreach. International Turfgrass Research Journal 10:718-712.


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Three British soldiers were killed yesterday by gunmen in the southern port of Basra, further destabilising the country even as the United Nations returned to work for the first time since the bombing of its Baghdad headquarters.
The attack was bound to cast a pall over a new US effort to convince reluctant UN members to send foreign troops to Iraq as it seeks relief for its beleaguered troops, bogged down in a low-level war with a host of guerrilla fighters, ranging from radical Islamists to loyalists of Saddam Hussein.
"A serious incident took place in central Basra at 8:30 this morning (1430 AEST). We can confirm that three British servicemen have been killed and one seriously injured," a coalition spokesman said.
"The casualty has been taken to the hospital for treatment."
Witnesses and a British major earlier said that three British soldiers and as many as four Iraqi civilians had been wounded when coalition troops came under fire.
The soldiers, driving a Ford four-wheel drive, were ambushed by gunmen in a white Toyota flatbed truck near the old British cemetery, said street seller Sabir Naama, 48.
"The driver was hit and lost control of the vehicle, hitting an Iraqi woman and two children. He then slammed into a building," said Naama.
The soldiers came under a hail of bullets, with only the driver still alive when British troops pulled them out of the smashed-up, blood-stained vehicle, Naama said.
His body had been cushioned by the vehicle's airbag when the Ford collided into the building, he said.
Another man caught in the crossfire between the soldiers and the gunmen was hit and taken to hospital, he added.
The deaths brought to 10 the number of British soldiers killed in Iraq since Washington declared major combat over on May 1.
The killings came only nine days after a remote-controlled bomb exploded in Basra, leaving one British soldier dead. The spate of violence and two days of rioting in Basra this month have shattered the British-controlled region's reputation as a peaceful oasis.
Neither were the British safe in Baghdad where its diplomats were evacuated from their embassy compound the day after the bombing of the United Nations headquarters amid rumours of an attack.
It is not clear when they will move back as staff re-evaluate security in the wake of this month's bombings against the UN headquarters and the Jordanian mission, an embassy staffer said.
"We're conducting a security review. This is a precautionary measure," he said.
"We're evaluating the threat as part of the security assessment."
The embassy, housed in the former Ottoman governor's residence in central Baghdad, is in a section of the city where coalition forces regularly come under fire and criminal activity is rampant.
Looking to restore order to the city, police in Baghdad arrested 10 people, two of them former intelligence officers of Saddam's regime, in dawn raids that netted dozens of assault rifles and three grenade launchers, said Iraq's police chief Brigadier General Ahmed Ibrahim.
Around 200 UN workers returned to work in Baghdad yesterday, four days after a suicide bomber sped into the world body's headquarters in Iraq and detonated 700 pounds of old Soviet munitions, killing 23 people and wounding more than 100.
The body of UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, killed in the blast, was flown out of Baghdad yesterday as his staff vowed not to run away from Iraq in the face of the worst attack in UN history.
Picking up the pieces, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday named Ramiro Lopes da Silva as interim top United Nations official in Iraq.
The interim appointment is a formality, for Lopes da Siva, a Brazilian as was Vieira de Mello, is already the UN number two in Iraq.
In the aftermath of the truck bombing, the US administration re-evaluated its decision not to seek a new UN Security Council resolution to clear the way for the sending of additional troops, possibly from India, France and Germany, to relieve its own beleaguered soldiers.
However, Annan warned it would be difficult to pass such a new resolution unless Washington eased its opposition to ceding any control over the security operation.
The United States is convinced Tuesday's bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad has fundamentally altered debate over the conflict, making it easier to convince other countries to send troops to Iraq under US terms.
"We think we have an environment to do this now and we think that anyone that would want to stand in the way of the reconstruction of Iraq and stand in the way of supporting the Iraqi people and the United Nations should be held to account," a senior State Department official said.
Four days after the attack, US military personnel were still clearing the rubble. Although the military have conceded there is little chance of finding survivors, the rescue effort has not officially been called off.
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Here's what I'll look like at my rehearsal dinner.*
And here's me on our honeymoon.
These cartoon renderings of me are brought to you by DesignHerGals, a fabulous design-a-gal site. I've already made ecards for some friends and am seriously considering the print-at-home option so I can make lots of fun little stationery items at home. Go design your own gal now!
*If I could find that cherry dress (and bag), I'd sooo wear it. Alas, I'm not really wearing that exact cute outfit.
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CANADIAN weather can seem a bit unpredictable: one minute it's sunny and warm and the next thing you know we're hit with a snowstorm.
Don't let the occasional spring-like day fool you -- we are still in the middle of winter. And when you consider insurance claims for damages related to winter storms can run into the thousands of dollars, knowing how to deal with ice and snow around your house is just smart.
One of the first things I tell homeowners is to keep snow away from foundation walls. The moisture from snow melting can slowly seep in. Remember, concrete is porous, so when you shovel your driveway, walkways and sidewalks, shovel snow away from the perimeter of your home. And don't forget to make sure fire hydrants, gas meters and dryer vents aren't covered by snow.
Enough snow on the wrong roof could cause it to collapse, but the funny thing is you want your roof to have snow. If the snow doesn't melt, your attic insulation is doing its job, but if there's too much snow and ice the roof can collapse. Flat roofs are especially vulnerable. Some municipalities even ask homeowners to remove snow from flat rooftops, overhangs and gutters, especially if the area has been hit with a few snow and ice storms.
Some homeowners will use roof snow shovels to remove the snow. These shovels are designed reach the roof from the ground so you're not climbing up on the roof and risking a fall. But shovelling your roof from the ground also has its risks: One, you could damage your shingles, and two, the snow could come down on top of you.
If you need to remove snow or an ice dam from your roof and don't want to do it yourself, call a professional contractor who regularly deals with these kinds of problems.
Most people worry about injuries happening on their property -- and they should. You're responsible for taking the proper precautions because if someone gets hurt as a result of your negligence -- say from falling icicles or slips and falls -- you're in trouble. These injuries are so common there's even an insurance category called "slip and fall" cases.
And if you think you're off the hook because you're a renter, you're not. In some Canadian jurisdictions there's legislation that includes "duty of care." What that means is that the occupier of a home -- it doesn't matter if they're just renting -- needs to make sure the property is safe for anyone who has to enter it, such as the mailman or utility service representatives.
Snow and ice are slipping hazards as everyone knows, but shovelling might not be enough -- you also need to think ahead. If the temperature drops below freezing or you know a storm is headed your way, apply a de-icer on your driveway, walkway and sidewalk. Spread as much as your property's size requires. After the storm, apply more, along with some sand to add traction.
The most common de-icer is sodium chloride, what many people call road or rock salt. It's the most inexpensive, but there's also calcium chloride, urea, potassium chloride and magnesium chloride to consider. Calcium chloride and magnesium chloride melt ice faster than salt, but they cost more. And calcium chloride is corrosive; it destroys grass roots. Urea and potassium chloride can be found in fertilizer, so they're safe for your lawn -- the problem is that urea can be corrosive, and potassium chloride damages concrete, and that's not good.
I'm not a big fan of salt, and there are a number of reasons. One, it destroys your grass. Have you ever seen brown patches of grass at the end of driveways and along the sides? That's because melted snow with salt in it got into the soil. Two, it can make your pet sick. When I take my dog, Charlie, out for a walk, sometimes he gets salt on his paws. Then, when he's back inside, he starts licking them. The next day he's throwing up.
The third reason is that salt works best only when the ground temperature is above -9 C. Plus, salt is sensitive to temperature changes: The colder the ground temperature, the less effective it is.
And fourth, salt eats away at brick mortar. I've seen brick homes where every year the salt eats away more at the mortar, the voids climbing up from the ground with every passing winter.
I'd rather use sand or gravel over salt because they're safer natural alternatives, but no matter what de-icer you decide to go with, make sure you read the package and follow instructions.
If you think about the risks, taking care of ice and snow is a no-brainer. Save yourself the trouble and stop any potential injuries Old Man Winter might bring to your doorstep.
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Thought i'd show you what i did for my sister
As some of you will know Sharron (Combat Girl) will soon be joining us as a costumed character, Padme' with two choices of costume, so i have decided to convert toy blaster to a B1 batle droid blaster rifle for her to screen spec to go with her Padme batle costume.
Here is some info about the rifle and the droids who used them.
So[/URL] i started by removing all starwars stickers and wrighting that was on the blaster.
Then i dismantled the whole blaster to gain acess to the inners.
I used a Dremel to cut away the rear stabilizer.
With some sanding left it looking like this,
I also cut away the Power cell facia ready for lengthening.
Next step was to use transparrent sheeting, this was cut to size then fixed into position, into the cooler part of the blaster.
I cut small pieces of card and used bluetac to secure to the hollows on the front grip as this is what screen spec sujests, also the front part of the stabizer had to be cut whereby i used small card again to hide the holes.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A retired Northern California man has claimed a $425.3 million national Powerball prize, more than a month after the sixth-highest jackpot drawing in U.S. history was announced, lottery officials said on Wednesday.
Raymond Buxton turned up at the Sacramento office of the California Lottery on Tuesday with the winning ticket from the February 19 drawing, California Lottery spokeswoman Melissa Villarin said.
Buxton, whose age was not released, wore a faded T-shirt with an image of the "Star Wars" character Yoda, wearing leprechaun attire, emblazoned with the words "Luck of the Jedi I have," lottery officials said in a written statement.
Buxton purchased his ticket for $2 at a Chevron gas station, in the Northern California city of Milpitas, about 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, where he went to buy a sandwich for lunch, lottery officials said. It was the second ticket he bought for the drawing.
After learning that he hit the largest jackpot ever won in California with the numbers - 17, 49, 54, 35, 1 and 34 - Buxton said he could barely speak.
"'Unbelievable!' is all I could muster," Buxton told lottery officials, according to the statement. "I sat in front of the computer for hours in disbelief, frequently checking and rechecking the numbers across multiple sources. Once the initial shock passed I couldn't sleep for days," he said.
Buxton, the lone recipient of the massive prize, opted for the lump sum of $242.2 million before federal taxes, lottery officials said. Before claiming the money, he waited to assemble a legal and financial team and spoke little about his winnings.
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Yoon (Korean surname)
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Yoon (윤) is the eighth most common family name in Korea. The name is sometimes also transliterated as Yun, Yune, or Youn. The Hanja character 尹 is defined as "eldest" in Korean which is different from the Chinese definition. The use of Hanja for personal names has become less common in Korea.
The Chinese character 尹 is also used by the following families: Yǐn (surname) in China and Doãn in Vietnam. The Korean surname Yun or Youn has no relations with the Doãn surname of Vietnam. Recent studies have shown that the Papyeong (파평/坡平) Yoon 윤(尹) surname is linked to the same Yin 尹 Yin surname in China, whose ancestors originated from Tianshui in Gangsu Province (甘肃 天水) in northern China.
Clans and Notable History[edit]
The Papyeong (파평/坡平) Yoon 윤(尹)clan , which has its seat in Papyeong-myeon, Paju City, is the most well-known and largest Yun clan. Papyeong (파평/坡平) Yoon clan ancestors originated from Tianshui in Gangsu Province (甘肃 天水)and moved to Korea during the late Tang and Song dynasties. The clan's founding ancestor is General Yun Sin-dal, who assisted Wanggeon in founding the Goryeo Dynasty.
Yoon Gwan was a renowned general in the Goryeo Dynasty. He helped form the Byeolmuban forces to fight and defeat the Jurchen tribes in 1107.
Several Papyeong Yoon women became queens during the early Joseon Dynasty, they include Queen Munjeong and Queen Janggyeong.
Last ruling Empress, Empress Sunjeong of the Korean Empire, was from another Yoon clan, Haepyeong Yoon. The Haepyeong Yoon clan was originally part of the Papyeong clan but broke away forming their own clan.
"Empress Sunjeong was born Lady Yun of Haepyeong in Seoul and her father was Marquis Yun Taek-yeong, the Lord of Haepung."
Yun Bo-seon the second president of South Korea is a distant relative of Empress Sunjeong of the Korean Empire.
In 2002 a mummified woman with an unborn fetus was discovered in the Tomb of Yun Jeong-jeong.[1] It is believed she is the granddaughter of Yun Won-hyung the brother of Queen Munjeong.
The 2000 South Korean census found 221,433 households claiming membership in the Papyeong clan, with a total population of 713,947.
Family feud[edit]
When the tomb of Yoon Gwan was rediscovered in the 18th century, it sparked a 300-year-old family Feud between the Yoon and Shim Clan.[2][3][4][5] The reason for the feud was because a member of the Shim clan was buried uphill from Yoon Gwan's tomb.
List of notable Yoons[edit]
- Yoon Bit-Garam, football player
- Yoon Bomi, singer, member of South Korean girl group Apink
- Yun Bong-gil, Korean independence activist
- Yoon Bora, a member of girl group SISTAR
- Yun Bo-seon, second president of South Korea
- Yoon Chaekyung, singer, member of South Korean girl group April (band)
- Yoon Da-gyeong, South Korean actress
- Yoon Do-hyun, rock singer/songwriter
- Yun Dong-ju, poet active during the period of Japanese rule
- Yoon Doo-joon, singer, leader of boy band Highlight (band), formerly known as Beast
- Yoon Eun-hye, actress and singer (Princess Hours, Coffee Prince)
- Yun Gwan, military general during the Goryeo dynasty.
- Isang Yun, composer
- James Yun, professional wrestler, better known under the stage name Jimmy Wang Yang.
- Jean Yoon, Canadian actress and writer
- Yoon Je-kyoon, film director and producer (Sex Is Zero, Haeundae)
- Yoon Jeong-han, member of South Korean boy group Seventeen (band)
- Johnny Yune, comedian/actor (They Call Me Bruce?, The Cannonball Run)
- Yoon Do-woon, drummer of South Korean rock band Day6
- Yoon Jong-hwan, football player
- Yoon Jong-shin, singer and songwriter
- Karl Yune, actor (Memoirs of a Geisha, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid)
- Yoon Kyung-shin, Olympic athlete and international handball player
- Yun Mi-jin, archer and Olympic gold medalist
- Yoon Mi-rae (born Natasha Shanta Reid), hip hop/R&B singer and rapper
- Rick Yune, model and actor (The Fast and the Furious, Die Another Day)
- Sang Yoon, Korean-American restaurateur, chef and founder of Father's Office
- Yoon Sang-hyun, actor and singer (Queen of Housewives, Secret Garden)
- Yoon San-ha, member of Astro (South Korean band)
- Yun Seon-do, notable poet in the Joseon Dynasty
- Yoon Shi-yoon, actor (King of Baking, Kim Takgu, Flower Boys Next Door)
- Yoon Kyun-sang, actor (Doctor Crush)
- Yoon So-hee, actress
- Yoon Son-ha, actress (Did We Really Love?)
- Suk-min Yoon baseball player
- Yun Suk-young, footballer for South Korea and Queens Park Rangers
- Tommy Yune, writer/artist (Speed Racer) and director (Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles)
- Yun Yea-ji, figure skater
- Youn Yuh-jung, actress (Woman of Fire, The Housemaid)
See also[edit]
- ^ http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2002110725488&path_dir=20021107
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/19/news/feud.php
- ^ http://www.cracked.com/article_19452_5-unstoppable-forces-vs.-immovable-objects_p2.html
- ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/12/24/us-korea-feud-idUSSEO21530920071224
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/world/asia/19iht-feud.2238466.html?_r=0
External links[edit]
- Quest for perfect grave keeps Korean feud alive
- The 5 Most Epic Battles of Will That Would Not End
- 400-Year-Old Mummy Found to be Granddaughter of Queen Munjeong
- Quest for perfect grave keeps Korean feud alive - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
- Feuding Korean clans end 400-year fight over graves
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About 40 years ago, a young advertising copywriter named Dick Wolf set out to write screenplays. He had three movies produced, then shifted to television, where he wrote for "Hill Street Blues" and "Miami Vice," among other shows. In 1990, he created a police drama called "Law & Order," which proceeded to run for 20 years, spawn numerous spinoffs, win countless prizes and earn him a fortune estimated at $250 million. He makes his home these days in Montecito, Calif., which is, as the saying goes, where God would live if he had the money.
Now, at 66, Wolf is publishing his first novel, and you can be sure that all across America, struggling novelists will devoutly hope and pray that this interloping TV tycoon falls on his face. No such luck. Wolf's "The Intercept," wherein al-Qaeda attempts another major attack on New York, is a smart, suspenseful, highly professional piece of work that should rank with the best of this year's thrillers.
In an early scene, Osama bin Laden, not long before his death, is plotting a new assault on the United States. He tells his lieutenants that he wants "a strike that will break the soul of the Western demon." Then it's July 1, 2011, and we're aboard a Swedish airliner headed for the United States. A young Muslim, armed with a knife and a fake bomb, tries to force his way into the cockpit but is overpowered by five passengers and a member of the flight crew. Among those who interrogate the hijacker is Detective Jeremy Fisk of the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division; he's Wolf's hero for this novel and a projected series.
As news of the failed hijacking reaches the nation, the five passengers and the flight attendant — The Six, they are soon dubbed — are hailed as heroes who saved hundreds of lives by stopping the terrorist from crashing the airliner in Manhattan, his admitted target. But Fisk is not so sure. He thinks the man is not very smart, had little chance of seizing control of the plane and might be a diversion from a more serious assault planned by al-Qaeda.
The immediate need is to find another suspect, supposedly a Saudi art dealer, who was on the plane. As this search develops, "The Intercept" becomes a first-rate police procedural. Wolf clearly has access to senior police officials, and he provides state-of-the art detail about how federal and local police would seek one man in a city of 8 million. They have pictures of the man, and their search for him is supported by hundreds of surveillance cameras poised around the city and computers that can scan for a particular face. Other computers monitor key words — like "bomb" or "explode" — spoken in Arabic on cellphones.
Wolf is good with characters, too. Fisk is a smart, tough detective who's also independently wealthy, has a swanky two-bedroom apartment on Sutton Place and is conveniently unmarried. My heart sank when he met cute with a sexy young detective who joined him on the case. But meeting cute is a hallowed pop-culture tradition, and the relationship soon becomes more interesting. The scene when they consummate their flirtation is quite nicely done. He's equally good with a triangle that arises among The Six, as two women compete for the favors of a handsome young Swede. Wolf has a sophisticated understanding of the games grown-ups play, even amid terrorist attacks.
He's also good on the terrorists themselves. We meet four who are part of an intricate Fourth of July plot to inflict spectacular damage at a dedication ceremony at Ground Zero. The terrorists' plan is a bit fanciful, but its telling is fascinating, and we are swept along. Wolf's terrorists are not monsters or madmen but real people whose religious beliefs make them eager to die a martyr's death. In our fiction, of course, the terrorists tend to lose, but Wolf raises disturbing questions about just how, in the real world, you win wars, at home or abroad, against people who aren't afraid to die.
Wolf's tale gallops to an exciting, disturbing conclusion. The storytelling skills he brought to our television screens prove quite transferable to the printed page, which is not to say "The Intercept" couldn't become a first-rate movie. It probably will.
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Aug. 5, 2012
LONDON -- The USA women tied their team record for most points in an Olympic basketball game, dominating China, 114-66, in the final contest of preliminary round action Sunday at Olympic Park Basketball Arena.
The Americans, who completed their run through Group A with a 5-0 record, won their 38th-straight contest at the Olympic Games with a point total that matched their 1992 count vs. Spain. They now will turn their focus to the quarterfinal round, where a match-up with Canada (2-3) awaits on Tuesday. The time for that meeting has not been set. China, meanwhile, fell to 3-2.
Team USA had six players score in double figures, led by Diana Taurasi's 22. Former Lady Vol Candace Parker was another of those six Americans, finishing with 10 points on five-of-nine accuracy and adding six rebounds, four assists and a steal in 14 minutes. Another UT alum, Tamika Catchings, made her presence felt with seven assists and also chipped in three rebounds, two points and a blocked shot in 19 minutes.
Parker thought the entire team came ready to play today.
"I think everybody came out with a lot of energy," Parker said. "I think that's the key is that we're going to come at people in waves. I think we did a good job.
"Everybody came out and was ready to play. That's what's special about this team, we come at people in waves."
Catchings said the team is starting to come together and get into an offensive flow.
"Just gotta keep it rolling from there," Catchings said. "It felt like tonight we moved the ball really well. When we move the ball, you know from person to person, we get wide open shots. And when we're knocking down those shots, I mean it's really hard to guard."
After a 31-28 offensive shootout in the opening quarter, Team USA outscored China, 30-8 in the second stanza to take a 61-36 halftime lead and never looked back. The Americans shot 65 percent from the floor for the game, pummeling China 82-18 in the paint and holding a 30-2 advantage in fast break points. USA also out-rebounded their opponent by a 46-20 margin.
For access to bios for Catchings and Parker and a game schedule, please go to the UT Olympics Website.


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Canada ministers meet as CNOOC-Nexen deadline looms
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A powerful Canadian cabinet committee which has been studying CNOOC Ltd's $15.1 billion bid for domestic oil producer Nexen Inc met on Friday as the deadline loomed for Canada's ruling on the proposed Chinese takeover.
Ministers who attended the morning meeting offered no clues on their agenda, or on whether CNOOC had been under discussion. But the government has until the end of December 10 to deliver its verdict on a bid that triggered a rare divide inside the ruling Conservative Party, where some legislators are wary of letting a Chinese state-owned enterprise buy Canadian energy assets.
If the deal is approved, it will be the largest successful foreign takeover by a Chinese firm.
Although the Canadian cabinet has no formal role in approving the deal, a powerful subcommittee chaired by Prime Minister Stephen Harper is following the affair closely.
Asked what topics were on the agenda, Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan replied: "There's only one."
Ministers were tight-lipped as they left the meeting. Industry Minister Christian Paradis is in nominal charge of deciding whether to approve the bid, but political officials and observers have no doubt that Harper will have a very large say.
Rejecting the deal could be embarrassing for Harper, who went to China in February to promote the idea of China buying Canadian oil and to press the message that Canada was open for business.
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Back when I first started blogging, there were two websites that directed 90% of my traffic here. They were also the way I found almost every blog on my blog roll. Those two websites were blogmad.net and blogexplosion.com. Both have seemingly went out of business.
Blogmad's page no longer exists. Blogexplosion exists, but the FAQs page is dead and I don't know what my username is anymore. An email seeking help went unanswered, so I assume that's just a ghost ship.
I'm looking for something similar. I don't particularly care about driving traffic to my blog at this point, but I'd like to find some blogs that are updated almost daily. How the hell do people find interesting blogs these days?
First I tried stumbleupon.com. I find it to be awkward and clunky. To make matters worse, it seems like every blog I stumbled to was last updated two years ago. How hard is it to add a god damn filter to only stumble to blogs updated in the last two weeks?
Since then, I've been to a myriad of other sites: blogtoplist.com, blogflux.com, blogcatalog.com, and I don't even know who else. The end result is always the same.
Doesn't anyone know how to search for recent, interesting blogs anymore?
Saturday, January 28, 2012
ISO: Daily Reads
Posted by Ben at Saturday, January 28, 2012
Labels: Blog Maintenance
3 comments:
- Betty said...
I find it almost impossible to find new blogs, too. You'd think there would be a directory of some kind, somewhere, wouldn't you. If you find one, let us know.
- Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:32:00 AM
- Ben said...
@Betty--All of those places I listed are blog directories, but it is sort of like searching through the world's biggest phone book. To make matters worse, it's only organized by popularity. And I think it still tracks dead blogs.
There has to be a better way...
- Sunday, January 29, 2012 7:25:00 AM
- YELLOWDOG GRANNY said...
you can check out blogs on your own blog at top of the page..
- Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:52:00 PM
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New Year's resolutions often include "do better, be better, learn more, improve skills" and other self improvement goals. Yet, we don't all have the time and money to go back to school. The good news is that you don't have to.
- Join a professional society in your field or job category. Attend the professional seminars offered that are often free or low cost. This is an insightful and personally useful learning experience. It can also be a networking wonder for those who also have the "get a better job" entry on their resolutions list.
- Attend continuing education opportunities offered by your employer.
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LIZZIE arrived at the Anacostia Playhouse on January 12, and the press took notice! You've got two more weekends to rock out with the show everyone's raving about. Get your tickets now, and don't miss out on the bloody-good fun!
"By the end of Lizzie, there was a sense of victory, as the girls roared out their last notes, having shared their tale of revenge, murder, and passion." — DC Theatre Scene
"Featuring an ensemble of gifted performers and musicians, LIZZIE: The Musical is a riotous, feminist retelling of one of the most sensational crimes in American history." — DC Metro Theater Arts"Given the temper of the times, it's a comfort to know that the theatre remains a place where we can commune in our rage, and live vicariously through villains we love, but whom we'd rather not meet. Lizzie should be a great way to celebrate resistance, of the familial or political kind." — BroadwayWorld
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On an August morning in 1892, in a small town in Massachusetts, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their home with an axe. Their daughter, Lizzie, was tried and acquitted for the crime and in the process captured the morbid fascination of the entire nation. Created by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt, LIZZIE is a tale of sex, rage, and murder told by Lizzie, her sister Emma, her friend Alice Russell, and her maid Bridget Sullivan — all set to a pounding riot grrrl beat.
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No Boss, No Office and My Peers Decide My Pay… What?
"Imagine a company where everyone is equal and managers don't exist. A place where employees sit where they want, choose what to work on and decide each other's pay. Then, once a year, everyone goes on holiday together."
There is such a company, it's called Valve.
For those of you who think this is: stupid, could never work, is just an experiment and could only work in a handful of cases, perhaps you are correct. I'm not here to argue with you. The point of this post is to challenge our ideas of what is 'necessary' in the work environment.
You can read the Valve Employee Handbook here. It is titled: "A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when there's no one telling you what to do."
If you are in any kind of leadership role in ANY organization… I encourage you to browse their handbook.
… if you are a 10 year old company that has worked hard "to recruit the most intelligent, innovative, talented people on Earth, telling, them to sit at a desk and do what they're told obliterates 99 percent of their value."
The handbook goes on to outline what to expect and how a new employee can find their way through this new way of working.
Check this out: "While people occasionally choose to push themselves to work some extra hours, at times when something big is going out the door, for the most part working overtime for extended periods indicates a fundamental failure in planning or communication. If this happens at Valve, it's a sign that something needs to be reevaluated and corrected." And then they give you guidance as to how to get help to resolve the problem.
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By Carl Hoffman, November 6, 2013 @ 11:26 am
I read the "Valve Handbook" that is circulating the Internet. As I was reading it I was reminded that some people can embrace ambiguity and others can not. I always add the real world is ambiguous. The most valuable parts of this work IMHO were the Epilogue and Glossary.
A recent article in "Wired Magazine" quoted a former possibly disgruntled employee. It reads: "It is a pseudo-flat structure where, at least in small groups, you're all peers and make decisions together," she said. But the one thing I found out the hard way is that there is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company and it felt a lot like high school. There are popular kids that have acquired power in the company, then there are trouble makers, and everyone in between." http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ellsworth/
However you said, "The point of this post is to challenge our ideas of what is 'necessary' in the work environment." I agree we need to question the status-quo. I work in religion which is an old field. Many think this field should should go away because they classify it as a superstition. I admit we have not done intellectually well since The Enlightenment. Many religious leaders have changed the subject and embrace culture wars and politics in their conversation. These subjects increase exposure but I have resisted the temptation. I personally think we need to develop new metaphors that are compatible with scientific discovery and pragmatic philosophy. Presently, I am working on that task. One example is, Jesus acts as the interface between us and God. I hope my work is valuable.
I would not like to work in a corporation because they want you to show up for meetings for the sake of meetings.
By Deborah, November 9, 2013 @ 8:24 am
Carl, you are leading the way because you are embracing the technology that helps people communicate and share. Like religion, many people think that technology is unnecessary or makes us dependent or many other criticisms. I understand them and accept these perspectives.
The reality is that many people need, like and respect religion – and the same can be said for technology. I am with you that we need new metaphors and paradigms that bring science, philosophy and humanity together in a pragmatic way.
Albert Einstein said – "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." Whatever one believes, it is in all of our best interests to listen, be open to each other and strive to find our common humanity while respecting each others rituals and traditions. I am very happy to be on this journey with you.
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