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John Tisdale
Brandon, MS
As a consultant I consult on crime foreseeability and preventability as it relates to security and premises issues relating to crime victimization, criminal acts, private security and police policies, training and practices. I have fourteen years of extensive federal and state court trial and deposition experience.
Curtis J. Cope Consulting, Inc
Curtis J. Cope
Huntington Beach, CA
California POST Master Instructor, Federal/State court-recognized expert. Some areas include: Use of Force, Training, Supervision, Police Practices, DUI, SWAT expertise. 29 years Law Enforcement experience; 42 years of law enforcement teaching and over 15,000 personnel trained.
Michael Levine, Consulting
Michael Levine, Trial Consultant/Expert Witness
Stone Ridge, NY
Retired DEA Supervisory Officer. 45 years exp. Court-qualified expert in Federal and State courts in 17 states 8 foreign countries. Use-of-force, Police Involved Shootings, Undercover & Informant-handling tactics, blind mule defense, Interrogations, Title III, RICO, Narcotic enforcement all facets. Http://www.policetrialexpert.com for details
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Benedict Tisa
San Francisco, CA
Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent-Retired. 24 years of experience involving investigations, law enforcement training, special operations tactics, undercover and security assignments. Expert Witness with 25 years of consultation, deposition and court room testimony experience with police litigation cases involving use of force, officer involved shootings, firearms, threat assessment, arrest and control procedures, security/vulnerability assessments, SWAT and sniper team operations, defensive tactics, tactical operations command, patrol and plain clothes officer tactics, bullet trajectory ballistics, undercover operations, law enforcement training, warrant service, less lethal and impact munitions, distraction devices, breaching tactics and equipment, critical incident command and control, force management accountability, active shooter response procedures.
Law Enforcement Policy And Practices Consultant
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson is a retired Lieutenant Colonel - Illinois State Police. Johnson continues to serve as a private consultant and expert witness regarding law enforcement policies and practices. He has been retained in over 100 cases and has been qualified in state & federal courts. He also conducts sensitive internal investigations. Johnson currently serves as an Assessor for the C.A.L.E.A. and has reviewed the operations of approximately thirty law enforcement agencies nationwide seeking accreditation.
J.A. Williams, LLC, Police Consultant
James A. Williams, Ph.D.
Cherry Hill, NJ
James A. Williams, Ph.D. Retired DEA Chief of Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. Internationally recognized for high profile drug investigations. Served as DEA Chief of International Training, Senior Drug Policy Advisor to the CIA.
R. Paul McCauley, PhD, FACFE
Police & Security Expert
Indiana, PA
Assist Plaintiff/Defense attorneys. Police and Security Policies, Practices, and Operations. Senior University Professor, former Security Manager, Police Trainer, Fulbright Scholar, Australia. Board-certified.
Roland Park Security Consulting
Gerard Busnuk, CPP
Baltimore, MD
Jerry "Buz" Busnuk has spent more than 30 years in law enforcement and security positions and now consults in those and other security related areas. He retired as a captain from the Baltimore City Police force, where he oversaw field operations in a high-crime district of about 200 personnel. He has a Master's in Public Administration.
Adam Bercovici-Titan National
Port Hueneme, CA
I am a retired 30 year LAPD lieutenant and Expert for criminal defense, plaintiff, security, and premise liability cases. During my career I was directly responsible for managing officer-involved shooting scenes, investigations and undercover operations. I helped create and write the updated LAPD policy on undercover and plain clothes tactics.
Gilbertson Investigations
Gregory Gilbertson
Olympia, WA
Professor Gregory Gilbertson provides attorneys with expert witness analysis and opinions on topics including excessive force, false arrest, police misconduct, self-defense, and police practices and procedures. He has been found competent to testify in US District Court. He has consulted with lawyers and law firms on nearly 60 cases in 14 states. A complete listing of his casework can be found at gilbertson-investigations.com.
Taylor Law Enforcement Consulting Group
Roy Taylor
Raleigh, NC
The Taylor Law Enforcement Consulting Group offers expert witness consultants specializing in law enforcement operations. We provide consulting and expert witness consultation to attorneys, insurance industry, and facilities involved in litigation. When you need a law enforcement expert, we specialize in police policies, use of force to include deadly force, electronic control devices, less than lethal weapons, high speed vehicle pursuits, failure to train, negligent retention, K-9 utilization, and failure to supervise.
On-Target Solutions Group, Inc.
Gregory Anderson
Yorkville, IL
I served as an executive/chief of police for three different law enforcement agencies, with the unique opportunity to start a police department from inception. I am the president and founder of the On-Target Solutions Group which provides consulting and training to law enforcement and government organizations. Our offerings are on a wide range of law enforcement practice topics including leadership and supervision, internal affairs investigations, use of force, best practices, and recruiting and applicant background investigations. Our training is approved by a state authorities with thousands of government personnel trained nationwide.
Daniel Bowman, Mr.
Daniel Bowman, Mr.
Blacklick, OH
Daniel J. Bowman is recognized as one of the countrys foremost experts in the training and deployment of Police Service and Detector Dogs. His thirty four (34) years of experience as a Canine Trainer, has resulted in the placement of over four hundred (400) Police Service Dogs who have been deployed with Federal, State and Local law enforcement agencies in the United States.
Brewer And Associates
Brian Brewer
Jacksonville, OR
Mr. Brewer has 26 years of law enforcement experience through the rank of Assistant Chief with the California Highway Patrol. His subject matter expertise is in police practices use of force and shooting incidents pursuits criminal civil and administrative investigations traffic enforcement and traffic management.
On-Scene Consulting, LLC
Scott A. DeFoe
Huntington Beach, CA
Expert for both Defense and Plaintiff on police practices, use of force and private security throughout the United States. Retired LAPD SWAT Sergeant II+1. During 26 year-career worked numerous specialized assignments such as: K9, SWAT, Patrol, Training, Jail Operations and VICE. Presently an Executive Director of Security in the private sector.
ECJM Consultants Inc.
Edward Mamet
New York, NY
Retired NYPD Captain of Detectives, with 40+ years experience in all phases of Police Work. Expert in Investigations, Tactics, Operations, Conduct, Training, Use of Force, High-Speed Chases, Death in Custody, and Shootings. Plaintiff and Defense.
McMahon & Associates
James McMahon CPP, CISSP
Morgan Hill, CA
Juries like our explanations of concepts and activities. Qualified expertise in multiple fields of endeavor. Prior law enforcement, intelligence collection, security (people, Information, data systems, asset protection).
RRB Systems International
Roy Bedard
Tallahassee, FL
Roy Bedard specializes in national and international police standards regarding law enforcement training curriculum, policy development and actual application of police and public safety use of force. Bedard has been qualified in Federal Court as a defensive tactics, use of force and combat stress expert. He evaluates incidents to determine grounds for excessive force claims and reviews criteria for establishing the legal use of force and deadly force.
David W. OLaughlin
Director of Training & Use of Force Consultant
Hingham, MA
I am an experienced, innovative leader in the world of law enforcement training.Having been directly involved in the training of police officers for more than thirty years, I have obtained certification in a multitude of disciplines and have become a Master Instructor and Force Science Analyst. As an expert witness I have provided expert incident analysis and testified in both court and deposition in matters of police use of force, up to and including deadly force..
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Roger Goodell probably gets lots of letters. Written mostly in blood. Mostly others' blood. Sometimes in others' spinal fluid. They go unanswered. But young Dante Cano of Marlboro, N.J. wrote Goodell a respectful letter in presumably impeccable penmanship, and he got results. Cano's letter read,
"My name is Dante Cano. I am 11 years old and I am from Marlboro, New Jersey. I wanted to know if you could use my idea of pink penalty flags in October for breast cancer awareness. Please write back."
Goodell dug it. Cano and the commissioner will meet on Sunday before Dolphins-Jets, and the boy'll give the flags to the refs. Aside from the whole NFL campaign against breast cancer being a scam, it's quite a nice thing!

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Letting it fall apart….in our culture we try to "keep it together." Looking good on the outside is overrated. Rather than admit we need help, many of us put on a good front…that is until we can't fake it anymore. That's where I was back in 2001. Everything in my life was falling apart and I couldn't keep it together any more. Please see last weeks post so you will understand what's going on in this post. I'm in the middle of a conversation with God.
So I say to god, "I'm not ready for this" and she says "Yes you are." "She" you ask? Yes, my new god had a female voice. Actually she had my voice. The voice didn't come from somewhere outside of me, rather, it came from deep inside of me. This very mature, sensible, complete and perfectly evolved part of me. She wasn't going to let me go backward into ignorant bliss. Each time I began to panic, she would calm me down with a voice of reason. My thoughts were racing!!!
Who are you? "I am who you need me to be." What about my belief as a Jehovah's Witness? "That was what you needed at the time." This means you could also be some malicious punishing god that burns people forever. "Why does fire scare you, is that the worst thing you can think of? You are eternal and fire cannot harm you. You are energy."
Ok, so you think that's weird? Then, (because I'm completely narcissistic) I say to god "I know things other people don't know…" and god says "Yes you do know things others don't. And they know things you don't, you all need each other." Why do I have to be an artist, I don't want to be an artist. Why can't I be a rich business person? "You chose this path." No I didn't, I didn't ask to be born….long uncomfortable pause on god's part, leaving me to fill in the blanks. I don't like what she's implying! Interpretation is open here. At the time I went through this conversation I understood this to mean that I had a pre-human existence, chose to be born and be on this journey. In fact, I still believe that. As a matter of fact god said "you came here to learn about love and jealousy." Clearly I have a long way to go in that regard! As I review this very radical experience, as I write this post and see my words, and god's words, I see possibility.
Well, let's just say I continued to freak out with all of this new information. It took a good while to assimilate and digest this new concept of god. It was so foreign to my previous beliefs, yet so undeniably authentic. I continue to try and maintain an open mind and be tolerant of others beliefs. I realize that whatever concept another may have of god, though it may be completely different from my understanding, it is exactly how they need to understand god. It's not my job to convert people into thinking like me. Still, I do hope what I've shared has resonated with some, and perhaps rattled a few cages. If you're going through a spiritual crisis, you can survive. You may need help. So get help. It may be terrifying to let it fall apart, but sometimes it's actually falling together. We all need each other…
Peace and Love,


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The 53rd Annual Ag Technology Contest was held last Saturday, April 6th! CAFES welcomed more than 1,000 high school and middle school students from 69 schools across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Students competed in 16 team events, a crop show, and power tool drag race.
In honor of this event, enjoy these photos from the 1979 Ag Tech Contest, depicting high school and middle school students with faculty members Phil George, Charlie Jones, Jerry Nolte, and Bob Tomesh. Also take a look at photos from the 2013 Ag Tech Contest.


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The Media/Outreach Center includes a brief explanation about the importance of plant pathology, current and past news releases, fact sheets on recent hot topics in plant pathology, and an invitation to join the news release list. Many OPRO-generated news releases have been published by the media. A press conference is typically held at the APS Annual Meeting to increase the visibility of the importance of plant pathology.
Below are samples of media coverage for various plant pathology issues. To stay up to date on the latest news coverage follow APS's Twitter site.
Italy: New Program Looks at BiosecurityBoston.com, February 24, 2011
Curbs on Pathogens Pose Dilemma for Scientists NPR, January 20, 2011
Scientists Complete First Citrus Gene Sequencing The U.S. Daily, January 18, 2011
Budget Crisis Threatens Future of U.S. ScienceYahoo! News, December 30, 2010
Ravenous Foreign Pests Threaten U.S. National ForestsScienceDaily, December 7, 2010
How Pathogens Hijack Host PlantsCarnegie Institution, November 24, 2010
Univ of Western Australia Study Reveals How Plants Solve ProblemsSeedQuest, November 9, 2010
Bananas Get Pepper PowerDiscovery News, August 23, 2010
Latest "Green" Packing Material? MushroomsScienceDaily, July 28, 2010
Getting a Step Ahead of Pathogense! Science News, July 27, 2010
Climate Change Complicates Plant Diseases of the FutureScienceDaily, June 26, 2010
Scientists Decipher Structure of Nature's "Light Switch"ScienceDaily, June 1, 2010
Virus Ravages Cassava Plants in AfricaThe New York Times, May 31, 2010
From Trees and Grass, Bacteria That Cause Snow and RainThe New York Times, May 24, 2010
Genomes of Citrus Canker Pathogens DecodedVirginia Tech News, May 19, 2010
Corn Smut? Tastes Great and Good for You, TooMSNBC, April 27, 2010DNA Boost in Battle Against Bleeding CankerBBC, April 21, 2010NAS: Engineered Oranges Needed to Resist DiseaseThe New York Times, March 23, 2010The Pros and Cons of GM SeedsWall Street Journal, March 15, 2010Armed and Dangerous Science, February 2010
A New Decade for Soy Rust Ag Web, February 23, 2010
Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st CenturyScience, February 12, 2010First Member of the Wheat and Barley Group of Grasses SequencedScienceDaily, February 10, 2010The Past Matters to PlantsUniversity of Michigan News Service, December 21, 2009Vilsack Launches National Institute of Food and Ag (NIFA)USDA, October 8, 2009
Late Blight Up CloseNPR Science Friday with Ira Flatow, September 18, 2009
You Say Tomato, I Say Agricultural DisasterThe New York Times, Op-Ed Contributor, August 8, 2009
Red Alert on Lethal YellowingSan Pedro Sun, Belize, January 24, 2008


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Plan B appeal angers W.H. allies
President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday angered allies in women's groups by appealing a judge's ruling that the morning-after pill must be available over the counter to girls of all ages.
The administration has argued that the pill should not be readily available to young teens, so the appeal is consistent with that position.
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But the legal move is certain to reignite controversy over emergency contraception at a time when Obama is trying to focus on other aspects of his agenda, including a sweeping overhaul of immigration laws
It also puts the president at odds with parts of his base.
( Also on POLITICO: Morning-after pill to be over the counter)
When Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in December 2011 that teens under 17 would need a prescription, the action enraged some Democrats, abortion rights advocates and medical groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The medical groups argue that girls of all ages should have access to the drug, which is most effective if taken quickly after unprotected sex.
In addition, the appeal puts the Obama administration in the unusual position of siding with anti-abortion rights groups, at least on this one issue. The Susan B. Anthony List for instance praised the administration for pursuing the court challenge — although it faulted the administration for making the pill available to girls as young as 15.
In the appeal filed Wednesday, the Department of Justice asked for a delay on the judge's order that the pills be available within 30 days. That deadline is Monday, May 6.
( Also on POLITICO: Women's groups decry appeal on morning-after pill)
The Obama administration argued that the court did not have jurisdiction over such prescription drug policy decisions. The administration may avoid criticism that it was allowing a single judge in Brooklyn to dictate rules for distributing a medication across the country.
But Judge Edward R. Korman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York had ruled that the policy was based on politics, not on science.
The appeal comes a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved an application from a manufacturer to make the pill — known as Plan B One-Step — available to women and girls age 15 and older without a prescription. The FDA said that decision to drop the age from 17 had nothing to do with the pending court case. But once the FDA announced that middle ground position, an appeal seemed all but inevitable.
The appeal could also undercut arguments that the 2011 decision was a transparent, pre-election ploy that the president and his administration were willing to quickly step away from at the first obvious opportunity.
In a court filing, the federal government argued that Korman did not have the authority to control the administration's decision.
"This court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to review any aspect of [the manufacturer's application], including the HHS secretary's December 2011 directive to the FDA commissioner to issue a complete response letter that rejected [the request to sell over the counter]. A district court does not have jurisdiction to review such agency action," the DOJ wrote.
Several women's groups that advocate for reproductive rights and generally support the Obama administration policies were critical of the administration.


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Scientology, officially known as The Church of Scientology, was founded in 1953 by L. Ron Hubbard (1912-1986), and popularized through his 1950 book, DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health (over ten million copies sold). Dianetics was originally intended to be Hubbard's psychotherapeutic answer to the techniques of modern psychiatry. (The word "Dianetics" means "through the soul," and promises to reveal "the single source of all man's insanities, psychosomatic illnesses, and neuroses.") In addition to Dianetics, Scientology produces scores of other publications. A short list includes Source, The Delphian, Advance!, and The Auditor.
The history of Scientology actually begins much earlier than 1953. Hubbard had become a well known science fiction writer in the 1930s. In fact, some of his ideas which are "common to Scientology first appeared in his 1938 manuscript titled Excalibur" (Kingdom of the Cults, p. 345), more than a decade before its official founding. Wild claims have been made about Hubbard's earlier life by Scientology publications. For example, they have claimed that he "graduated in civil engineering from George Washington University as a nuclear physicist, although the university records show that he attended for two short years, during the second of which he was on academic probation, and failed physics. Hubbard's Ph.D. was said to be from a Sequoia University in California, although there is no proof of the existence of any accredited institution in California by that name that grants doctorates" (Podiatry Today, March 1990).
Gerry Armstrong, a devout Scientologist assigned by the Church to write an authorized biography of Hubbard, discovered other inconsistencies in Hubbard's history. Armstrong, who has now left Scientology, states: "Nor was Hubbard a World War II hero who miraculously cured himself of nearly fatal combat wounds, as he claimed. Hubbard never saw combat. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he was granted 40% disability pay for arthritis, bursitis and conjunctivitis. He continued to collect this pay long after he claimed to have discovered the secret of how to cure such ailments" (Another Gospel, Ruth Tucker, p. 301). Hubbard's reputation as an explorer, prolific science fiction writer, and parabotanist (he was one of the first to expound the idea of "communicating" with plants) enlarged to make him the worldwide spokesman for this fast-growing cult.
Biographers have also uncovered Hubbard's involvement with the Occult, which probably influenced his writings. Hubbard claimed to have had a near-death experience where he learned everything that ever puzzled the mind of man. The notorious Satanist, Aleister Crowley, was Hubbard's mentor and he lived with Crowley prot�g� John Parsons, engaging in sex magic at their black magic mansion hospice (Los Angeles Times, 24 June 1990, p. A1).
Despite the inconsistencies in his history, Hubbard would become one of the wealthiest and most well known leaders of a religious movement in only a few years. Scientology currently holds assets of nearly $500 million, including a 440-foot cruise ship used as a "seagoing religious retreat." Assets also include two publishing houses, a 2,845-acre California ranch used as a school for the children of church staffers, and more than 45 buildings on 500 acres in Riverside County, California. Other assets include reinforced vaults designed to preserve the church's teachings in case of earthquake or nuclear attack. (These teachings include 500,000 pages of Hubbard's writings, 6,500 reels of tape, and 42 films.)
Scientology's methodology and beliefs have also led some members into a long history of criminal and civil actions and convictions. Both the U.S. Federal and Canadian courts have found top Scientology officials and the church guilty of charges such as burglarizing, wiretapping, and conspiracy against government agencies (Time, 6 May 1991, p. 50). In 1980, for example, eleven of Scientology's top leaders, including Hubbard's wife, were jailed for bugging and burglarizing the U.S. Justice Department and other federal agencies in the 1970s.
Within the church, there have been widespread purges and defections. Some
former members have filed lawsuits accusing the church of intimidating its
critics, breaking up families, and using high-pressure sales techniques to
separate large sums of money from its followers. In
1986, Scientology paid an estimated $5 million to settle more than 20 of the
suits, without admitting wrongdoing. In exchange, the plaintiffs agreed never
again to criticize Scientology or Hubbard and to have their lawsuits forever
sealed from public view.
Hubbard formalized his theories into a religion in order to obtain tax-exempt status and freedom from governmental interference for some of his organizations. Scientology currently claims to have more than eight million members in more than 3,000 "churches, mission-related organizations, and groups" in more than 133 countries. (Source: 11/2001, Scientology official Internet web site.) Closer to the truth is that there are only about 50,000 active members.
The cult claims "Celebrity Centers" (a chain of clubhouses that offer expensive counseling and career guidance) in more than 100 cities in more than 15 countries. The cult appeals strongly to intellectuals and the "gifted," relying extensively on endorsements from celebrities and corporations that employ Dianetics. Various world locations for Scientology include Washington, D.C.; Clearwater, Florida (a Scientology Training Center); Sussex, England (where it operates a thirty-room mansion and a fifty-seven acre estate); and Los Angeles (claiming such movie stars and entertainers as John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Karen Black, Jennifer Aspen, Isaac Hayes, Priscilla Presley, Kristie Alley, and the late Sonny Bono -- Scientology's "representative" in the U.S. Congress).
There are numerous front organizations in the Church of Scientology used as vehicles for their objectives. Some of the more prominent would include Advanced Organization of Los Angeles, Religious Technology Center, and FLAG. Some of the more clandestine vehicles for recruitment and dissemination of Scientology are its affiliated agencies and business programs, most of which are part of W.I.S.E. (Worldwide Institute of Scientology Enterprises). There are groups like Sterling Management Systems; Steller Management; Singer Consultants; Uptrends; Owl Management; Applied Scholastics; Citizens Commission on Human Rights; Citizens Against Taxes; The Way to Happiness Foundation; Hollander Consultants; Irons, Marcus & Valko; and Uptrends (Podiatry Today, March 1990; Watchman Expositor, 1997). They also work through Concerned Businessmen of America, and through The Way to Happiness and Set a Good Example Contest, the latter two aimed at school children, and through Narconon (meaning "non-narcosis" or "no drugs"), an alleged drug rehab program consisting of 50 alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in 21 countries, operating in 750 prisons under the name "Criminon" (Criminon, meaning "no crime," is a volunteer criminal rehabilitation program which utilizes technologies developed by Hubbard to help convicts recover pride and self-esteem). Narconon is a classic vehicle for drawing addicts into the cult.
Hubbard was a best-selling author for more than 50 years, with over 589 published works to his credit. His fiction sales total over 25 million copies, and his non-fiction works have sold more than 23 million. Many may have first come in contact with Scientology through a clean-cut young man or woman at the door offering a "free personality analysis." But the 200 questions posed are part of the recruiting program for the Church of Scientology, which is nothing but an applied religious philosophy offering "a clear, bright insight to help you blaze toward your mind's full potential."
In a nutshell, Scientology teaches that all humans descended from a race of uncreated, omnipotent gods called Thetans, who gave up their powers to enter the Material-Energy-Space-Time (MEST) world of Earth. [Hubbard's Dianetics and Scientology: Technical Dictionary explains, "The Thetan is immortal and is possessed of capabilities well in excess of those hitherto predicted for man. In the final analysis what is this thing called Thetan? It is simply you before you mocked yourself up and that is the handiest definition I know of" (p. 432). The Thetan is thus that part of each individual which is immortal and which has become contaminated or debased by the influences of MEST.] Gradually, they evolved upward by reincarnation to become humans who could not remember their deified state. Scientologists are encouraged to awaken their dormant Thetan potential by removing all mental blocks called engrams. By doing so, they can realize their true personhood, achieving total power and control over MEST. Scientology offers a psychotherapeutic process for breaking through the engrams "picked up from traumas in prior lives," to "realize" once again one's true identity as an "operating Thetan" (God) beyond the limitations of MEST.
Scientology, thereby, does nothing more than incorporate certain aspects of New Age pseudoscience, psychotherapy, and various occult practices into the ancient lie of promised godhood. Below are the highlights of what Scientology believes and practices concerning its source of authority, roots, tactics, sin and salvation, Christ, and spiritual practice:
1. Source of Authority. The official Scientology Internet web site says: "The writings and recorded spoken words of L. Ron Hubbard on the subject of Scientology collectively constitute the Scripture of the religion. He set forth the Scientology philosophy and technologies in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books, and more than 2,000 tape-recorded lectures." Principally, Hubbard and his 1950 book, Dianetics, is the authority for Scientology. [The Church of Scientology's current Church president is Heber T. Jentzsch, but the real authority is David Miscavige.] Scientology has even found it necessary to publish a dictionary with 7,000 definitions for the use of over 3,000 Dianetic words. In 1951, Hubbard released his findings on the spirit of Man, which served as the foundation of the religion of Scientology, dealing with what Hubbard considered the fundamental truths concerning the essence of life, what came before, and the hereafter. This was later followed by another basic book, SCIENTOLOGY: The Fundamentals of Thought. Hubbard's own definition of Scientology is "Knowing how to know ... Know thyself ... and the truth shall set you free" -- an obvious twisting of the words of Jesus Christ in John 8:32 -- "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
2. Its Roots. Even though Hubbard himself declared Dianetics to be "the spiritual heir of Buddhism in the Western world," there is evidence of even darker roots. Hubbard was at one time closely linked with British Satanist and New Ager Aleister Crowley, and there are strong indications that the word Dianetics had its origins in the worship of the goddess Diana.
3. Its Tactics. Scientology attempts to give the appearance that it is both a science and a religion. Fifty hours of Scientology counseling can cost $2,350. Some former members say they invested up to $80,000, which may explain some claims that the organization's total take is over $3 million per day. ["Auditing" is by far Scientology's most expensive service. Auditing is purchased in 12 1/2-hour chunks, costing the Scientologist anywhere between $3,000 and $11,000 each, depending on where it is bought.] Members are usually well-scrubbed, respectable, middle-class types. Church "ministers" wear the conventional black priest-suit and white collar, and even sport crosses, though they point out it isn't representative of Christ's crucifix. When their teachings and tactics are questioned, Scientologists are not prone to turn the other cheek. Hubbard says, "you only get hurt when you duck." Scientology's alleged tactics of harassment, intimidation, and defamation of critics are well-known -- once an FBI raid on church quarters revealed a "hit list" of enemies. [The elite of Scientology's workers, at least 5,000 of them, belong to a zealous faction known as the Sea Organization and are given room, board, and a small weekly allowance. (Scientology web site: "Today, more than 5,000 members of this religious order occupy staff positions in upper level Scientology church organizations around the world.") They sign contracts to serve Scientology in this and future lifetimes -- for a billion years. Their motto is: "We come back." Dressed in mock navy uniforms adorned with ribbons, they bark orders with a clipped, military cadence. They hold ranks such as captain, lieutenant, and ensign. Officers, including women, are addressed as "Sir."]
4. Sin and Salvation. A major creed of L. Ron Hubbard states that "man is good," an immortal Thetan, able to create MEST. This tenet is consistent with the Dianetic belief that man is descended from the gods and may someday evolve to reclaim his Thetan potential. "Salvation" involves a process of working through levels of self-knowledge and knowledge of past lives (reincarnation) to awaken the pre-existent deity within and regain total godhood. As would be expected, the existence of an eternal heaven and hell is denied.
5. Christ. Christ is deemed merely a "cleared" individual (see #6 below), i.e., "just a man."
6. Spiritual Practice. Other doctrines and practices of Scientology include astral travel, regression to past lives, and the "urge toward existence as spirits." Through the use of a Scientology "E-meter" (something like a lie detector) in an "auditing" session, members undergo exercises and counseling to eliminate negative mental images from past lives and achieve a state of "clear." (Hubbard believed all illnesses were psychosomatic and could be cured by eliminating these past experiences from the brain.) Scientology promises members higher intelligence and greater business success through Scientology courses that cost thousands of dollars. "Upper-level" or "OT6" ("OT" stands for "Operating Thetan") teachings of Scientology are available only to members who graduate through preliminary Church of Scientology programs. Scientologists tell their members that if they get into Level 6 before going through the preliminary levels, they could "dematerialize or develop [fatal] illnesses." Scientology is creating a powerful group of brainwashed robots who believe they have found a solution for their own problems as well as a master plan for every person and nation in the world, now and forever.
7. Summary of Scientology Theology. In the beginning were the Thetans. These were to eventually create the MEST, which in actuality would not be the best thing they could have done. For when the Thetan, who inhabits the MEST, comes into conflict with other MEST, an engram is recorded in the reactive mind. This engram, whether it be remembered or not, due to unconsciousness which accompanies every engram, is stored in the reactive mind and causes the Thetan to believe false data [erroneous ideas]. It is the purpose of Scientology, through its auditing efforts, to rid the Thetan of all engrams so that in turn that Thetan, who now possesses a new educational perspective on reality, as a result of the auditing, may advance to a higher state of being or Clear. Once one reaches "Clear" (a 38-step process), there are 20 more steps before one reaches "OT," when one supposedly doesn't need a body to exist and is clear of all "engrams."
MEST -- As Scientology endeavors to render this MEST mess intelligible they write, "An engram comes about when the individual organism suffers an intense impact with MEST. Every moment of physical pain contains with it a partial or major shutdown of the analytical function of the mind" (Science of Survival, Book Two, p. 28). Thus, an engram is a memory which is caused when any accidental event (be it major or minor) is experienced. However, at the instant that the engram is formed, often the person is unaware of the event. How is this possible?
In a series of lectures given during August and September 1950, Hubbard explained the process: "An engram is a moment of pain and unconsciousness which contains perceptics. Actually there are thousands of moments of pain with just a little unconsciousness. Even a little thing such as someone burning his finger still causes a flick of attenuation of the analytical mind. The engram has one common denominator above all else, unconsciousness. But unconsciousness is common to every single engram, because unconsciousness does just one thing; it closes down the analytical mind. So, we have coined the word anaten. It is a contraction of the two words analytical attenuation (Attenuation means shutting or closing down)" (Research and Discovery Series: A Running Record of Research into the Mind and Life, Vol. 3, pp. 114-115).
This engram is thus that "mental picture" which "contains, as part of its content, unconsciousness and physical pain" and is stored in the individual's mind (Dianetics and Scientology: Technical Dictionary, p. 114). But which mind?
As Hubbard explained, every person has two minds -- the analytical mind and the reactive mind. Both have very specific functions, though not necessarily beneficial functions. In the booklet, Basic Dictionary of Dianetics and Scientology, the two minds are defined in the following ways: "analytical mind: In Dianetics and Scientology the analytical mind is the one which is alert and aware and the reactive mind simply reacts without analysis." It continues with, "reactive mind: the portion of the mind which works on a stimulus-response basis. It consists of locks, secondaries, engrams and chains of them and is the single source of human aberrations and psychosomatic ills" (pp. 2, 23).
Thus, Man in his true nature is an immortal Thetan. However, the Thetan is responsible for the creation of MEST. Though the Thetan created the MEST, sometimes the MEST collides with the Thetan resulting in the acquisition of an engram. Because every engram is accompanied by unconsciousness to a greater or lesser degree, not all engrams are known to exist by the Thetan's analytical mind. As a result of the build-up of thousands of known and unknown engrams, stored in his reactive mind, man seems to experience problems throughout his life. These engrams have accumulated not only in this life but in many past lives as well through reincarnation. Thus, it is Scientology's purpose to rid the Thetan of these unwanted engrams. How is this accomplished? By becoming Clear. [Return to Text]
Clear State -- In defining Clear, Hubbard used an interesting analogy. Clear is "The name of a button on an adding machine. When you push it, all the hidden answers in the machine clear and the machine can be used for a proper computation. So long as the button is not pressed the machine adds all old answers to all new efforts to compute and wrong answers result. Really, that's all a Clear is. Clears are beings who have been Cleared of wrong answers or useless answers which keep them from living or thinking." The Clear "can create energy at will, and can handle and control, erase or re-create an analytical mind or reactive mind. The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated to throw out the correctness of computations by entering hidden and false data in it" (Dianetics and Scientology: Technical Dictionary, pp. 75-76).
Hence, the Thetan who has reached the desired state of Clear has, in actuality, become a blank slate simply waiting for new data to be entered. As Hubbard explained in a lecture series, "you have to have a new education if you are going to change a Clear's viewpoint" (Research and Discovery Series, Vol. 2, p. 408). Thus, the new data given by Scientology is not merely a rearrangement of already existing beliefs and ideas. Rather, it is completely "new" material, which is precisely what is needed for the "new education." The "Clear" is now free to start working towards immortality again by practicing higher disciplines that will re-educate him about his archaic origins in space. (As he learns more and more about his past, he will become an "Operating Thetan," or OT. There are six levels ranging from OT-1 to OT-6, the highest of Scientology disciplines. Hubbard, however, was said to be working on OT-7 or OT-8 a few years before his disappearance.) Without this new education it is impossible to reach the state of Clear. But if Clear is a higher state of being to which all should desire to evolve, then how is this to be accomplished? By the Scientology practice of Auditing. [Return to Text]
Auditing -- Since the reactive mind consists of "locks" and chains of engrams, in order for the Thetan to be declared Clear, the reactive mind with its engrams must be removed by auditing. "The reactive mind is removed by 'returning' the pre-clear to the engram, and laying its contents before the scrutiny of the analytical mind" (Dianetics: The Original Thesis, p. 54).
Once the engram is openly expressed by the pre-clear [Scientology student], then "Auditing gets rid of unwanted barriers that inhibit, stop or blunt a person's natural abilities as well as gradiently increasing the abilities a person has so that he becomes more able and his survival, happiness and intelligence increase enormously. An activity of an auditor taking over the control of and shepherding the attention of a pc [pre-clear] so as to bring about a higher level of confront ability" (Dianetics and Scientology: Technical Dictionary, p. 28). After the Thetan has remembered the engram, it is then removed from the reactive mind during the auditing session with the aid of the Scientology E-Meter. This device, similar in function to a lie-detector, is said to be "An electronic instrument for measuring mental state and change of state in individuals, as an aid to precision and speed in auditing" (Basic Dictionary of Dianetics and Scientology, p. 11). [Return to Text]
Note on Science Fiction: Hubbard first gained notoriety in the minds of Americans as the author of numerous science fiction novels. He would later use his skills to tightly weave the web of science fiction and religion. His theology, which is today accepted by millions, eventually leads to tales of preincarnate souls trapped in ice cubes from the planet Mars: "One preclear (student of Scientology) said that this Thetan (somewhat similar to 'soul' or 'spirit') had inhabited the body of a doll on the planet Mars 469,476,600 years ago. Martians seized the doll and took it to a temple, where it was zapped by a bishop's gun while the congregation chanted 'God is Love.' The Thetan was then put in an ice cube, placed aboard a flying saucer, and dropped off at Planet ZX 432, where it was given a robot body, then put to work unloading flying saucers. Being a bit unruly, it zapped another robot to death and was shipped off in a flying saucer to be punished. But the flying saucer exploded, and the Thetan fell into space" (story as reprinted in Kingdom of the Cults, p. 346, 1985 ed.). While this may be where the theology of the Church of Scientology eventually leads, it is not explained to the initiate in these precise words. Rather, it is touted to the world as the cure for all man's problems and a way to gain every desire. [Return to Text]
on Religion: In
1967, the Church of Scientology of California was stripped of its tax-exempt
status by the IRS (deeming
Scientology a for-profit
business that enriched church officials),
an action the church considered unlawful and thus ignored. (The
church also
replied with more than 2,000 lawsuits against the IRS.)
The IRS, in turn, undertook a mammoth audit of the church for the years 1970
through 1974. A federal court ruled in 1971 that Hubbard's medical claims were
bogus and that E-meter auditing could no longer be called a scientific
treatment. Hubbard responded by going fully religious, seeking First Amendment
protection for Scientology's strange rites. Scientology ministers (formerly
"counselors") started to wear white collars, dark suits, and silver
crosses. Sunday services were mandated, chapels were erected in Scientology
buildings, franchises became "missions," fees became "fixed
donations," and Hubbard's comic-book cosmology became "sacred
scriptures." It was made a punishable offense for a staffer to omit from
church literature the notation that Scientology is a "religious
philosophy." Many of the changes flowed from a flurry of "religious
image" directives issued by high-level Scientology executives. One policy
put it bluntly: "Visual evidences that Scientology is a religion are
IRS-conducted audits proved that Hubbard was skimming millions of dollars from the church, laundering the money through dummy corporations in Panama, and stashing it in Swiss bank accounts. Moreover, church members stole IRS documents, filed false tax returns, and harassed the agency's employees. By late 1985, with high-level defectors accusing Hubbard of having stolen as much as $200 million from the church, the IRS was seeking an indictment of Hubbard for tax fraud. Scientology members "worked day and night" shredding documents the IRS sought, according to a defector who took part in the scheme. (Hubbard, who had been in hiding for five years, died before the criminal case could be prosecuted.) None of this, however, convinced the IRS, which assessed the church more than $1 million in back taxes for the years 1970 through 1972. Scientology appealed to the U.S. Tax Court, where, in 1984, it was handed one of the worst financial and public relations disasters in its history. The battle with the Internal Revenue Service was finally resolved on October 1, 1993. On that day, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the IRS issued letters recognizing the Church of Scientology and its related churches and organizations as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. In return, the Church of Scientology paid the IRS $12.5 million to settle any tax assessments prior to 1993, and dropped all its lawsuits against the IRS. The IRS also agreed to drop any outstanding audits of Scientology organizations and declared several related Scientology organizations as tax-exempt, including a trust that oversees the church's 440-foot cruise ship, Freewinds. Also, church members were permitted to henceforth deduct from their personal income taxes the fees they pay for "auditing." [Return to Text]
Note on Tactics: Frequently, a person's first contact with Scientology comes when he is approached by a staff member on the street and offered a free personality test, or receives a lengthy questionnaire in the mail. Using charts and graphs, the idea is to convince a person that he has some problem, or "ruin," that Scientology can fix, while assuaging concerns he may have about the church. According to Hubbard, "if the job has been done well, the person should be worried." With that accomplished, the customer is pushed to buy services he is told will improve his sorry condition and perhaps give him such powers as being able to spiritually travel outside his body -- or, in Scientology jargon, to "exteriorize." Church members are then required to write testimonials -- "success stories" -- as they progress from one level to the next.
Scientology organization uses sophisticated sales tactics to sell a seemingly
endless progression of expensive courses, each serving as a prerequisite for the
next. Known collectively as "The Bridge," the courses promise
salvation, higher intelligence, superhuman powers, and even possible survival
from nuclear fallout -- for those who can pay. Church
tenets mandate that parishioners purchase Scientology goods and services under
Hubbard's "doctrine of exchange." A person must learn to give, he
said, as well as receive. For its
programs and books, the church charges "fixed donations" that range
from $50 for an elementary course in improving communication skills to more than
$13,000 for Hubbard's secret teachings on the origins of the universe and the
genesis of mankind's ills.
From time to time, the church offers "limited time
only" deals on a select package of Hubbard courses, which represent a small
portion of The Bridge. One such offer packaged courses that if bought
individually would supposedly cost $55,455; the sale price was $33,399.50. To
complete Hubbard's progression of courses, a Scientologist could conceivably
spend a lifetime and more than $400,000. The Scientology Bridge is always under
construction, keeping the Supreme Answer one step away from church members -- a
potent sales strategy devised by Hubbard to keep the money flowing, critics
New courses continually are added, each of which is said to be crucial for spiritual progress, each heavily promoted. Church members are warned that unless they keep purchasing Scientology services, misery and sickness may befall them. For the true believer, this is a powerful incentive to keep buying whatever the group is selling. Through the mail, Scientologists are bombarded with glossy, colorful brochures announcing the latest courses and discounts. Letters and postcards sound the dire warning, "Urgent! Urgent! Your future is at risk! ... It is time to ACT! NOW! ... You must buy now!"
Scientology staffers who sell Hubbard's courses are called
"registrars." They earn commissions on their sales and are skilled at
eliciting every facet of an individual's finances, including bank accounts,
stocks, cars, houses, whatever can be converted to cash. Like
all Scientology staffers, a registrar's productivity is evaluated each week.
Performance is judged by how much money he or she brings in by each Thursday
afternoon. And, in Scientology, declining or stagnant productivity is not viewed
favorably. (Source: "The Scientology Story, Pt.2," L.A. Times,
6/25/90.) [Return to Text]
Note on David Miscavige: To the public, Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, is portrayed as Scientology's top official. He appears regularly at news conferences and on talk shows, appearing to be chiefly responsible for church public relations. The real power is consolidated among a handful of Scientologists who keep low public profiles. The Church of Scientology serves as the mother church and is responsible for the overall ecclesiastical management, dissemination, and propagation of Scientology and the various churches of Scientology, but the Religious Technology Center (RTC) serves as "protector of the religion." And, more importantly, RTC is Scientology's final arbiter of orthodoxy.
David Miscavige (41) (a high school drop out) has served as RTC's Chairman of the Board, its most senior position, since 1987. Miscavige has been an active Scientologist for most of his life, and has been involved with nearly every aspect of the Church's activities, closely working with Hubbard. Miscavige wields power with the iron-fisted approach of his mentor. RTC owns the trademarks that Scientology churches need to operate, including the words Scientology and Dianetics. RTC licenses the churches to use the trademarks and can revoke permission if a church fails to perform properly. Therein rests much, but not all, of Miscavige's power. He is the man in control, charting a direction for the organization that is at once expansionist and combative -- in keeping with the dictates and personality of Hubbard, his role model. [Return to Text]
Detail on Scientology�s Wide Array of Front Groups and Financial Scams
(Source: 5/6/91, Time Magazine):
Sterling Management Systems, formed in 1983, has been ranked in recent years by Inc.
magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies (estimated 1988
revenues of $20 million). Sterling regularly mails a free newsletter to more
than 300,000 health-care professionals, mostly dentists, promising to increase
their incomes dramatically. The firm offers seminars and courses that typically
cost $10,000. But Sterling's true aim is to hook customers for Scientology.
Sterling's founder, dentist Gregory Hughes, is now under investigation by
California's Board of Dental Examiners for incompetence. Nine lawsuits are
pending against him for malpractice (seven others have been settled), mostly for
orthodontic work on children.
INFLUENCE. One front, the Way to Happiness Foundation, has distributed to
children in thousands of the nation's public schools more than 3.5 million
copies of a booklet Hubbard wrote on morality. The church calls the scheme
"the largest dissemination project in Scientology history."
Applied Scholastics is the name of still another front, which is attempting to
install a Hubbard tutorial program in public schools, primarily those populated
by minorities. The group also plans a 1,000-acre campus, where it will train
educators to teach various Hubbard methods. The disingenuously named Citizens
Commission on Human Rights is a Scientology group at war with psychiatry, its
primary competitor. The commission typically issues reports aimed at
discrediting particular psychiatrists and the field in general [not a bad goal].
The CCHR is also behind an all-out war against Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac,
the nation's top-selling anti-depression drug, claiming that Prozac drives
people to murder or suicide. Another Scientology-linked group, the Concerned
Businessmen's Association of America, holds anti-drug contests and awards $5,000
grants to schools as a way to recruit students and curry favor with education
HEALTH CARE. HealthMed, a chain of clinics run by
Scientologists, promotes a grueling and excessive system of saunas, exercise,
and vitamins designed by Hubbard to purify the body. Experts denounce the regime
as quackery and potentially harmful, yet HealthMed solicits unions and public
agencies for contracts. The chain is plugged heavily in a book, Diet for a
Poisoned Planet, by journalist David Steinman, who concludes that scores of
common foods (among them: peanuts, bluefish, peaches and cottage cheese) are
dangerous. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop labeled the book
"trash," and the Food and Drug Administration issued a paper in
October [of 1990] that claims Steinman distorts his facts. "HealthMed is a gateway to
Scientology, and Steinman's book is a sorting mechanism," says physician
William Jarvis, who is head of the National Council Against Health Fraud.
TREATMENT. Hubbard's purification treatments are the mainstay of Narconon, a
Scientology-run chain of [50] alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers -- some in
prisons under the name "Criminon."
FINANCIAL SCAMS. Three Florida Scientologists, including
Ronald Bernstein, a big contributor to the church's international "war
chest," pleaded guilty in March of 1991 to using their rare-coin dealership
as a money laundry. Other notorious activities by Scientologists include making
the shady Vancouver stock exchange even shadier, and plotting to plant
operatives in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Export-Import
Bank. The alleged purpose of this scheme: to gain inside information on which
countries are going to be denied credit so that Scientology-linked traders can
make illicit profits by taking "short" positions in those countries'
BOOK PUBLISHING. Scientology mischief-making has even moved to the book industry. Since 1985, at least a dozen Hubbard books, printed by a church company, have made best-seller lists. They range from a 5,000-page sci-fi decology (Black Genesis, The Enemy Within, An Alien Affair, etc.) to the [50]-year-old Dianetics. Critics pan most of Hubbard's books as unreadable, while defectors claim that church insiders are sometimes the real authors. Even so, Scientology has sent out armies of its followers to buy the group's books at such major chains as B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks to sustain the illusion of a best-selling author. A former Dalton's manager says that some books arrived in his store with the chain's price stickers already on them, suggesting that copies are being recycled. Scientology claims that sales of Hubbard books now top [100] million worldwide. [Back to Text]
* Unless otherwise cited, this report has been excerpted and/or adapted from the following sources: (1) "Church of Scientology," Rick Branch (Watchman Fellowship Profile, 1996); (2) "Scientology: Science or Science Fiction," G. Richard Fisher, PFO Quarterly Journal, Vol.17 No.3; (3) "Lafayette Ronald Hubbard and the Theology of the Church of Scientology," The Discerner, and (4) "Church of Scientology: A Religious Mafia?," The Watchman Expositor (Vol. 15, No. 1, 1998, p. 5). [Christian books on the cults also have chapters or sections on Scientology. For example, The Kingdom of the Cults, 1997; Ruth A. Tucker, Another Gospel, 1989; William Watson, A Concise Dictionary of Cults and Religions, 1991; and J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, 1986. Two works by secular writers are Bent Coryden's L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, 1992; and Russell Miller's Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, 1987. One is advised that in both of these works Hubbard frequently is quoted verbatim and any Christian will find his words vulgar, obscene, and offensive.]


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When I was a young lad, I dreamily imagined that in California there were mini-ramps in everyone's back yard. Midwestern youth, I'll let you in on a little secret, there's not. At least, not in San Francisco.
But, there is no shortage of sunshine, ocean, and blue skies. That part was true.
And in San Francisco, we don't really have much of that Bay Watch bikini babe thing going on. Plenty of babes, they just don't wear bikinis. Often times, they opt for wearing yoga pants ...and that's okay too. Personally, I'm a fan of the Yoga Pant.
The magic of San Francisco lies in the mundane. Take the normal occurrence of house show, a common urban experience. Now put that house on a dead end street, a dead end only because there's no way a road could extend any further up the 70º face of this mountain. Find yourself in this venue that upon closer examination more resembles an enchanted tree house than home - complete with 360 degree views of the bay.
It's here, that Pale Hoarse plays to a room filled with good friends and posi-vibes.
Monica Canilao and new arrival Becca seated in front of the the bearded shaman deep in a Pale Hoarse induced meditative trance.
a complete happening in progress.
Daniel Arcus Incus Ululat Higgs takes the stage.
Squeezing the bellows of the curious sound box.
tales of the Starship Enterprise.
and enraging future generations.
Acolytes and SECA award recipients look on.
Monica's work ethic is kind of nuts. Got time to lean, you got time to clean ...or finish sewing a patch between songs.
as the bearded man chants the songs of universal truth.
Kyle, Monica, and Becca once again. This show was great. Thanks to Eve and Kim for making it happen.
I pulled out an old camera and when I developed the roll, found this photo I took in Argentina 4 years ago. ...A bed full of words and a story that was later scrapped.
Have you noticed, sometimes in downtown San Francisco the light shines just right...
Kyle Ranson is working on a secret collaborative project with Daniel Higgs. Drawings are mailed back and forth across America.
This one is Higg's.
Hate, Greed Lust, Fear.
No Creed, No Party, No Sectional Issues.
Around the same time, Orion Shepherd was a Green Beret. He'll be the first to tell you, war is hell and nature is cruel. (...or maybe not, I actually just made that up).
Remember that great warehouse show a few weeks ago that the Ohsees and Ebonics played at? That was also a great show. (Ebonic underpants).
On this same old roll of film there was evidence of Jenny, who came from London two years ago to incite drunken late night dance parties in the Lower Haight. And then two years later Orion Shepherd burst onto the scene with a his aforementioned debut solo show at Adobe Books.
He caused quite a stir amongst the prestigious gallery owners of our fair city. Frantic studio visits ensued. ...Who will cash in on the fresh and uninhibited talent of youth?
Will it be you?
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SINGLE REVIEW - "Easy" (Taste of Country)
'Easy' isn't as catchy as some of Crow's biggest pop hits. The melody is sort of lazy, but a perfect match for her no-hurry message.
"But you make it easy, easy / Easy to get away / Sit in the sun and drink beer all day / Because it's easy, easy / Easier here anyway / Who needs Mexico / Baby let's stay home," Crow sings during each chorus.
Beginning with the second verse she really begins to tie the emotions of her stay-cation with someone sweet into the portrait she's painting with each line. "We'll play Jack Johnson, he's the new Don Ho," she says in one of the more clever quips. That precedes a bridge which works as the song's climax (pun not intended — OK, maybe a little).
"Drink margaritas and take in the sunset / Later on we'll slip up to our king sized bed / And make love / Love sweet love," she shouts, showing off her range and vocal talents.
Aside from a few traditionally country instruments, there's little to distinguish 'Easy' as something more country than anything she's recorded in recent years. Crow has always been on that pop/folk/country edge, so 'Easy' could be an easy fit for country radio. More than anything, Crow's voice feels like summer. Her timing is perfect.


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Leader, Labour Party
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Born in London, Miliband graduated from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, becoming first a television journalist and then a Labour Party researcher, before rising to become one of Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants and Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers.
As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown appointed Miliband as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 28 June 2007. He was subsequently promoted to the new post of Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, a position he held from 3 October 2008 to 12 May 2010. On 25 September 2010, he was elected Leader of the Labour Party.


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I've recently been experimenting with implementing a gaussian blur which samples half texels in attempt to retrieve the data of both texels. However I'm slightly skeptical of my results so I'm going to post my methods here and an output of the image.
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There's little doubt that graphene is set to be the next big thing in materials technology. At a mere one atom thick, it is incredibly flexible, eternally stretchy, conductive, and self-cooling. And as time passes, we are truly getting a better sense of the possibilities, including such things as video screens as thin and flexible as paper, super-thin cybernetic devices that can be grafted onto living tissue, and electrically conductive transmitters that can repair damaged spinal columns.
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Chinese New Year is just around the corner, I thought I'd share something red(dish) with you since its the colour at this time of year . I'm not a big fan of Chinese New Year but I am quite a big fan of red....especially when paired with black and white
Layout Title: "The Best Little Girl in the World....No Contest"
Incidentally, Beth snapped this photo of herself.
Happy Chinese New Year you guys!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
5 comments:
- Edleen said...
what an adorable layout! nice self portrait shot too :D
Happy Chinese New Year Sharon!
- February 11, 2010 at 11:33 PM
- teacher jessy said...
I love the title, the red & orange with the black & white, that cute little girl and lastly the flowers are just pretty!! Well, I love this layout to bits :)
- February 12, 2010 at 7:16 AM
- Wati Basri said...
great dash of colours!
- February 12, 2010 at 10:17 PM
- feli said...
love how the embellishments just popped, sharon!
have a happy chinese new year! :)
- February 13, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Blue Banana said...
Love the cheery colours on this one!
A short note to wish you and your family good health and happiness cum properity in the year of Tiger!!
- February 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM
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Bill to protect patient care has 86 co-sponsors in the Assembly
Seven senators from across the state and across party lines are standing together for better patient care for New Yorkers. They have just signed on to the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act (A6571/S3691-A), a bill that would limit the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time.
The seven new supporters in the senate are George Maziarz (R-C, Newfane), Jose Peralta (D-Bronx), Cecilia Tkaczyk (D-Albany), David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester), Martin Malave Dilan (D-Kings) and Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan), bringing the total number of Senate sponsors to 23.
More than 1,500 nurses from across the state took part in the Safe Staffing Day of Action - the largest lobbying effort to date to pass the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act.
"This bill is aimed at maintaining a high standard of patient care, from admission to discharge. When nurses are spread too thin, there is just too much risk," Maziarz said.
"Emergency rooms and residential health care facilities must be places where patients get the timely attention and care they need," Krueger said. "Allowing nurses at these critical facilities to be spread too thin is penny-wise but pound-foolish, and will result in worsened health outcomes and ultimately higher costs."
"I am proud to co-sponsor the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act," Peralta said. "This commonsense legislation is necessary to ensure that the most sick and vulnerable New Yorkers have the care they need when they need it. With this measure, we can improve patient outcomes and experience while avoiding unnecessary health care costs caused by readmissions and avoidable malpractice suits."
"I've been shocked to see New York emergency room nurses who are being forced to take on 15, 16 and even more patients at a time. That's not safe," said Jill Furillo, RN, executive director of the New York State Nurses Association. "In California, the law says that a hospital cannot assign more than four patients at a time to an ER nurse - and sets minimum safe staffing levels for all hospital units. There's no reason New York patients can't have that same protection. Patients and caregivers are counting on our lawmakers to pass the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act this session."
The Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act, similar to a bill that has already been enacted in California, will require all acute care facilities to comply with safe minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios. The bill would also require all residential health care facilities to comply with minimum care hours for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nurse aides.
Safe staffing levels, the association said, will cut health care system costs, reduce the occurrence of avoidable patient deaths, decrease incidents of hospital-acquired infections, shorten hospital stays, and decrease readmissions.
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I did not intend for the meltdown at SOE to be the only thing to read about here for a week, but RL sort of snuck up on me. I was actually in NYC most of last weekend. On the subject of the SOE meltdown, it is now starting to seem that all SOE games are going to be down at least until June. As Wilhelm notes, this does not bode very well at all for their future. I can't help but think most of SOEs stable will have lost a decent hunk of customers by the time the servers go live again.
Sunday afternoon I made it to the ripe old age of 31 in Rift, an Elementalist with a dash of Dominator and a few points in Stormcalling to get my crit rating up with air spells. I have to say that the Elementalist only seems to get better the longer you play it. Whether due to me sucking less or due to my build coming together, I have had very few "close calls" recently.
Speaking of MMOs that don't get enough credit for small innovations, I'm still playing a good bit of LoTRO. Due to the generosity of one of my kinmates last night, I finally got my first level 65 second age bow. I promptly disassembled all of the LIs I was leveling, which gave me a good number of legacy replacement scrolls and numerous assorted slot-ables for it. I'll need to level it a bit more before it will be able to fully replace my maxed out first age bow, but it already has a slightly higher top end damage.
I've also been having a lot of fun in skirmishes. Lately the system has been clicking for me in a way it previously didn't. My skirmish warrior is becoming a force to recon with, he's almost hit max level and is fully traited out (though many of his traits are still in the teens). I decided to make him a dwarf (a purely cosmetic choice), because dwarves are tough and know how to party ;-)
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- AnonymousMay 10, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Yes, the elementalist only gets stronger over time. I see that you have your greater earth elemental...I remember when I played a mage, my pet was my lifesaver. I just kept pouring points into the tree to make my earth elemental stronger as I leveled and improved my pet heals, and it was like I could survive anything as long as I sicced my pet on it first and the mobs didn't touch me!ReplyDelete
I really enjoy my Elementalist, though I went Chloro to help keep my little buddy alive. I should try out some other souls to see what else I can do with them.ReplyDelete
And one of these days I need to get back to LotRO. I've never played a skirmish or wielded an legendary. I'm sure there will be time some day, right?
@mmogamerchick: I too have been putting points mainly into making the pet stronger. Lately even his snap aggro has gotten to be quite good, I can open with a spell that hits for almost half the health of a mob and he'll still run up and grab aggro. Haven't had a lot of need for the other pets so far though, even though I think the other elementals are really cool looking.ReplyDelete
@Anjin: I considered that too, it's interesting how many really different combinations are viable. My alternate build is a chloromancer/ warlock/ something else that has really good buffs (spacing). But I've barely used that alternate build, heaven help any party that needs me to do serious healing on it.
I think SOEs F2P offerings are the ones that will be affected most in terms of dropout; for subscribers it may depend on when thetý are up for paying the subscription fee and if they have been onthe fence of cancelling before.ReplyDelete
A subscription-based game has a rather easy way to compensate customers that most people will be happy with - just give some free game time.
Even through they lose revenue on that that may still keep some for the long run anyway.
@Sente: I'd tend to agree, I think EQ2X is potentially the one that stands to lose the most from this. However, I also worry a lot about their less popular titles, EQOA, Vanguard, and PoTBS. All three of them were essentially on life support as far as I know, I hope they make it through the crisis.ReplyDelete
Grats on 31! I agree that Elementalist is a great soul for soloing, but you're really missing out by not putting more points into Stormcaller. Lightning Storm is my all time favorite spell.ReplyDelete
@Blue kae: oooh! I will definitely take that into consideration :-)ReplyDelete


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Joshua Hayworth, 23, and Timothy E. Chudley, 35, both of Lenoir City, Tenn., were charged on Feb. 5, 2014, with federal Hobbs Act violations for their roles in the Jan. 30, 2014, robbery of a Lenoir City Burger King restaurant.
Chudley was arrested in Knoxville on Feb. 5, 2014, without incident, and appeared in federal court the same day. Hayworth was arrested on state charges on Feb. 3, 2014, following a series of events which also resulted in federal carjacking charges against Hayworth. He will appear in federal court at a later date.
The criminal complaint on file with the U.S. District Court charges both men with federal Hobbs Act violations, while Hayworth is also charged with carjacking. The complaint alleges that Hayworth, with the assistance of Chudley, planned the robbery of the Lenoir City Burger King, which was carried out on Jan. 30, 2014. According to the complaint, on Feb. 3, 2014, Hayworth was observed driving a stolen vehicle in Knoxville, which Hayworth abandoned in a trailer park on Bob Gray Road, as law enforcement pursued.
Later the same day, Hayworth is accused of carjacking another vehicle from a pregnant female on Doubletree Lane in Knoxville, which he wrecked on Bob Gray Road. After fleeing on foot, it is alleged that Hayworth broke into a residence, where he was apprehended by law enforcement. Follow-up investigation by the multiple agencies involved uncovered Chudley's role in the robbery scheme.
The arrests are the result of joint efforts by multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI Safe Streets Task Force (SSTF), composed of the FBI, Knoxville Police Department (KPD), and Knox County Sheriff's Department (KCSO), the Lenoir City Police Department, KPD, KCSO, Loudon County Sheriff's Office, and the Clinton Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Norris will represent the United States.
Members of the public are reminded that the complaint constitutes only charges and that every person is presumed innocent until their guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.


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Search Engine Marketing: You're Selling It Wrong
ABC (Always Be Closing) Your SEM
The past couple weeks I've been thinking about how most groups, firms, and independents sell their SEM services. They are always talking about RESULTS. You see it in slides. You hear it as you walk past conference rooms:
"I've helped so-and-so double their website traffic in the last 6 months", or "We've moved Client X to the first page of results for Keyword A and Keyword B", and, finally, "We've increased lead generation and conversions 200% in the last year".
The problem is simple. It's something we've all known since high school physics: Newton's 2nd Law of Motion: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction (i.e. the ripple). The way you've been selling your SEM is backwards; you're expecting a reverse ripple of action.
The Traditional SEM Sell
Here's how the majority have been selling search engine marketing services:
No, I'm not implying there is an issue with results-based selling. The issue arises when that's all you're selling. Phantom numbers. Mysterious statistics of success.
There's no doubt that your prospective is more than likely impressed with the numbers. Probably even made a face at you too that went something like this: *Raises eyebrow* and *Eyes-Get-A-Bit-Wider* –> *Pensive Facial Grab* and *Leaning Forward*
Right. It's that last part that should worry you. That last part is what you don't want to see: THIS PERSON THINKS YOU'VE JUST BULLSHIT THEM.
They don't really believe you made those results happen and/or you did it once, with one client, and probably haven't repeated it since. That's how far results-based selling will get you: just far enough to get a "thanks for your time" and "we'll talk this over and get back to you".
It's a weak footprint to leave behind. Every other agency/firm/group is doing the exact same thing: blowing hot-air results. And, what that leaves the decision-maker with is a battle over price, personality, and brand-fashionista-ism.
Company X charges $$$, promised incredible results, very nice guys and seemed knowledgeable, but haven't heard of them around town. Company Y charges $$, also promised great results, nice too, and I've heard the name before. Budgets are tight: Company Y it is.
This method expects RESULTS to produce ACTION. And, in some cases, this method can be to your advantage, but we know from living our lives that ACTION produces RESULTS. So, why would the opposite be true when your pitching SEM?
How You Actually Should Be Selling SEM
Here's how you should be selling search engine marketing services:
Telling the prospective client what it is you do to produce results, is what sells your SEM services. Results, in any fashion, are always an aftershock, a ripple or after-effect, of any action. For better or worse.
Using this, in combination with a result, makes the logic simple to follow and the results tangible. You can imply the results are attainable and not just phantom numbers on a slide.
You make think this method leads to giving away the "secret sauce" and "demystifying" the SEM process, but it doesn't. You don't have to give intimate details away at the pitch, you present a 30,000 ft. view of the process, stratifying larger tasks. In a marketplace that most people already think is related to the "dark arts" or "snake oil salesman", this is an instant route to earning trust with the prospect, and retaining leverage as the authority.
The only pitfall here is the tendency to overwhelm with process. And, while on occasion this can work to your advantage, especially with prospects that are familiar with search engine marketing, in the end it may dizzy them up and leave them action-less.
The next time you walk into a pitch sell using ACTIONS, what you WILL DO to improve their online efforts. Then tell them the results. ABC, people. Always Be Closing.
Oct 25 2009
I think you make a good point here.
However, I have a question. Why you haven't shared these thoughts with me and the team? This is exactly the kind of constructive input I am looking for.
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Amityville Woman's Club holding philanthropies luncheon May 4th
The Amityville woman's Club will be holding its philanthropies luncheon and fashion show on May 4. This year the Wounded Warrior Project, as well as a senior from Amityville High School, will be the recipients of the money raised. The Club encourages donations from local businesses and individuals for this endeavor. Checks may be sent to the AWC, PO Box 443 before May 1.
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