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Two people died in the collapsed section of a parking garage at Miami Dade College's west campus in Doral, and another person remained trapped after being located, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said Wednesday.
Authorities said one other person was still missing. Donovan Budhoo was holding out hope for his 53-year-old brother Robert, who he believed was somewhere beneath the rubble.
"He was missing, but I'm figuring he's trapped under there because he was working there," he said.
Search and rescue dogs were trying to find the missing worker Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, the person authorities had found was pinned inside a vehicle, receiving oxygen, had an IV inserted into his body and was being treated by a physician and a paramedic. Workers were using a crane to try to free him.
"The way he's pinned, we are unable to determine the full extent of his injuries," Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesman Lt. Arnold Piedrahita Jr. said.
He said the trapped worker is "not in a good predicament. But he's talking."
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Capt. Louie Fernandez said earlier that the rescue would be "a long, tedious effort."
Tons of debris would have to be removed from around the trapped victim.
"The person cannot be moved. We literally have to lift and remove tons of debris around him," Fernandez said.
Another person who had been trapped earlier was rescued.
Nine people were injured in the collapse. Authorities said one injured person was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital, four people were taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center, two went to the hospital on their own power, and one was treated at the scene and released.
VIDEO: Watch as authorities rescue a worker from the garage.
About 96 rescue units and 300 fire rescue personnel were on the scene.
"We've brought out everything for this. This is vital for us to reach that last victim as quickly as possible, to take him out (of) there," Fernandez said.
VIDEO: Aerial footage of the collapsed garage
A portion of the five-story parking garage gave way around 11:40 a.m. in what authorities call a "pancake-style collapse." The garage is located at 3800 NW 115th Avenue.
"It was a floor upon floor, collapsing all the way down to the ground floor," Fernandez said.
Police said it appeared as if the garage was occupied by construction workers only.
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No students were in danger, said college spokesman Juan Mendieta. He added that it was a garage under construction. The college will be closed for the rest of the week.
"One of the big needs of this campus was parking. Around noon today that parking structure unexpectedly collapsed inuring several workers. Fortunately for the college community, there were no students, no employees were injured. In fact we immediately evacuated the building," Mendieta said.
William P. Byrne, president and chief executive officer of the garage contractor, Ajax Building Corp. said in a statement that an internal review was being launched to determine the cause.
"While we do not yet know the cause of this tragic collapse, we are committed to working actively and cooperatively with our design and construction partners and local, state and federal authorities to determine the exact cause of this accident," the statement said.
The statement also said safety was a priority for the company.
"Safety on the job site is the overarching priority of Ajax all through the company's 54-year history. Even as we work to determine the cause of this accident, we are committed to embracing any additional protocols, policies and procedures that will enhance and ensure the continued priority of safety," the statement said.
RAW video of aerial footage of the garage collapse
One construction worker told NBC 6 that he was on the top floor during the collapse, and he started running. He described the floors as pancakes stacked on top of each other.
The debris was about 20 feet high and a crane and heavy truck were inside the work area when the garage collapsed. Street around the garage were completely blocked off.
Aerial footage showed firefighters escorting a man, who appeared to be a construction worker, out of the garage. While firefighters apparently searched through the debris.
Victoria Buczynski of Miami said she saw the collapse while she was working at Gurkha Cigars directly across the street from the construction site.
"It fell to the ground like a house of cards," Buczynski said. "The construction workers started running out, screaming. It was loud. Our entire building shook."
The identity of the people who died were not immediately released.
"I was in the middle of my warehouse and I had my headphones on and everything, and then I just heard like a really loud, like a domino effect kind of falling kind of noise," said Chris Morel, who works across the street.
"The building started shaking really hard and after we heard alarms and everyone crazy," said Luis Arvelo, a student.
The construction of the 1,855-space garage was nearly complete. Ground was broken on the $22.5 million project in February, and it was to be finished in December, according to the website of the contractor, Ajax Building Corp.
The first floor was to have classroom and office space. The structure is nestled closely near to other buildings at the college, which serves about 8,000 students and is one of several campuses in the Miami-Dade College system. This campus opened in 2006.
The rescue operation was set to continue through the night as Wednesday ended. Piedrahita called the effort to remove the man trapped inside the vehicle "a very tedious, intricate, delicate operation."
"You don't want to shift debris, further entrapping the victim or potentially causing a secondary collapse," he said.


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Hub bearing unit 3
A more compact new wave in the '80s
Driven and non-driven wheel applications for medium-big size carsIn the most common HBU3 application, the brake disc or drum and wheel are mounted to the rotating flange. This rotating flange is in many cases machined after bearing assembly, to achieve very low tolerances of lateral run-out, to contribute in lowering vibrations and noise during braking.
A fully integrated wheel bearing systemHub Unit 3 features a double row angular contact ball bearing with matched rings and ball-sets to provide the required axial clearance or preload. Contact angles are optimized to provide specific preload and withstand specific wheel load condition
For the most recent HBU3 designs units, a post-assembly orbital forming provides the required axial preload when mounted on the vehicle – independently from the final vehicle assembly conditions.
Key features
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- Outer ring raceways are induction-hardened for bearing performance
- Sealed with high performance, application-specific grease
- Robust fixed and rotating flanges feature threaded holes or studs and a spigot to centre and mount brakes and wheels
- Flanges can be coated to avoid galvanic corrosion with the mating components
- Alternative designs are available for driven wheel applications
- Available with ABS impulse ring mounted on the rotating ring

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Saman Mohammadi
The Excavator
December 4, 2011
It is amazing just how big and influential the 9/11 truth and justice movement has become. The New York Times, ABC, CNN, Time magazine, and other dinosaur media outlets cannot push back the political tsunami of truth and accountability that is heading towards Washington.
The official media organs of the totalitarian state are collapsing left and right. Newspaper circulation is declining across the West which is a highly positive development for freedom and democracy because that means less government propaganda is entering the minds of the people. And TV viewership is declining, too, as more people turn to the Internet for their news and entertainment.
Aaron Barnhart writes in The Kansas City Star that "For first time in 20 years, TV ownership declines." Does that mean TV is dying? No. There are many great television shows and programs that teach, inspire, and entertain. As the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Newton Minow said in his 1961 "vast wasteland" speech:
"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines, or newspapers — nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse."
Fifty years later, the cross-generational crusade to destroy TV as a mind control and cultural brainwashing tool continues. Reformers are aided with a more conscious and accountable tool – the Internet.
In September 2011, Minow and others participated in an event called "News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast Wasteland Revisited," to discus the failure of the official media to serve the public interest and "to reflect upon the changed landscape of television and dramatic shifts in the broader media ecosystem, and identify lessons learned that may help to offer insight into the next 50 years of media and public discourse." Watch the talk here. The event was covered by Katie Koch of the Harvard Gazette, who wrote:
Now, Minow acknowledged, his grandchildren don't even own TV sets. The public has nearly limitless access to news and entertainment between cable television and the Internet. But the debate over what's in the public's best interest rages on, and reform is still needed, he said.
"Today's politics are dominated by money," Minow said. Candidates spend most of their time raising money "so they can buy radio and television ads. They're raising money from the public to get access to something the public owns, the airwaves. That's a crazy system."
Compounding the problem today, said panelist Jonathan Alter, a historian and columnist for Bloomberg View, is the fact that struggling news outlets increasingly do not want to foot the costs of investigative reporting.
"Talk is cheap, and reporting is expensive," Alter said. "The 'vast wasteland' now has this big 'Tower of Babble' on top of it."
Other panelists were more optimistic about the new bottom-up model of news. Ethan Zuckerman, founder of the international blog network Global Voices, pointed out a recent hypothesis in the Columbia Journalism Review that says that cheaply produced, easy-to-distribute video is fast becoming "a universal human language."
It is a great and beautiful thing that TV news is no longer trusted and watched by the vast majority of the public in North America. The cover up of 9/11 truth by television parrots and pundits has led to the unjust deaths of one million people, four trillions dollars wasted, the breakdown of the rule of law in the world, the transformation of America and other Western nations into a police state, and a world on the brink of world war III. As I wrote in the article, "The Misuse of The Power of Television In Wartime Is Itself A War Crime":
Television has created a second dark age in Western civilization and undermined the freedom of thought, which is the basis for a free and open society.
Whereas traditional, arrogant, and obnoxious journalists have failed to challenge power-seeking traitors and psychopaths, new media journalists are serving the global public interest by telling the truth about 9/11 and raising the reality of state terrorism in the United States, Israel and the West to public consciousness.
The editors of the website the Daily Bell have popularized the idea of an "Internet Reformation," and how it is changing power dynamics across the planet. Here is an excerpt from their larger article called "Internet Reformation":
"The Internet Reformation is the culmination of the power and glory of Western civil society and free-market thinking. It is the apogee of all that is best in a sweep of history that began with the ancient Greeks and has culminated in the hearts and minds of millions of young men and women who industriously add to its impact every day via additional code, non-mainstream newsor fundamental scientific commentary.
It is NOT an "Internet Revolution." The Internet Revolution is a standard "pat" phrase of the powers-that-be about the so-called empowering effects of technology. The Internet Reformation is a much more deeply disruptive concept. It is truly a revolutionary one, affecting every aspect of human society and human relationships with modern elites. It is focused around the insights generated by the Internet itself.
This concept is based on what happened during the era of theGutenberg press. Almost from the beginning, the Gutenberg press was a revolutionary technology. As soon as people used the press to print Bibles, readers began to discover that the Holy Word differed considerably from what they'd been taught by the Catholic Church.
Until then, Bibles had been fairly rare. They were printed in Latin or Greek, and copied down by hand with elaborate engravings. The Catholic Church and its important functionaries and bureaucrats possessed Bibles. Priests performed Mass with their back to the congregation. The ceremony was a highly Romanized one, as the West had come to conceive of Rome within its most corrupt and centralizing phase, and highly controlled.
But printing Bibles in moveable type changed the power relationship entirely. Now, anyone could own a Bible and they were easily reproduced and increasingly inexpensive. Almost immediately, then Bibles began to be translated into "vulgate" and eventually the King James Version (English) would become a dominant variant. But in the meantime, the damage was done. First came the Renaissance and then the Reformation and finally the Age of Enlightenment, three powerful rolling waves of free-thinking that transformed the face of human society, first in the West and then around the world.
The changes ushered in by the Gutenberg press were fundamental. The Renaissance began the reconfiguration by allowing for the rediscovery of the scientific orientation of Greece and Rome. This set in motion a series of events that has not yet ceased to reverberate."
What the Internet has done for modern scholarship and learning cannot be fully grasped yet, as the editors of the Daily Bell point out. But we can already foresee major new works of history that will turn the conventional history of the 20th century on its head and change how we understand the political and economic developments of the last hundred years.
The positive consequences of truth-telling on the Internet for human society and global political affairs are limitless. An entire world of government psyops and corporate treason has been kept hidden from the global public. Matter of fact, entire advanced civilizations that exist beyond our planet have been shielded from public light by the U.S. shadow state, world governments and the world press.
Historian Richard Dolan, author of the widely acclaimed books, "UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973," and, "The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991 (UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. 2)" has uncovered the secret history of the last sixty five years in American history and world history without sounding either paranoid or conspiratorial, which tends to happen to a lot of people because of the nature of the dark era in which we live.
In an article written on January 20, 2011, called, "JFK, Secrecy, and UFOs," Dolan acknowledged the murder of President John F. Kennedy by the shadow terrorists in the CIA as a critical step towards the construction and consolidation of totalitarian power inside Washington. Dolan wrote:
"Like many people who have reviewed the life and Presidency of JFK, it's my feeling that we lost something very important on that dark day of his assassination. What we lost was the implicit bond of trust that existed between the American people and their government.The system that had been evolved for a century and a half, which despite all imperfections had moved in fits and starts toward greater power to the people, had made a great transformation during the Second World War. That was when the American republican system government became increasingly swallowed up by a "national security state." It did not take new boss very long before it decided to remove the President in what became for all intents and purposes a silentcoup d'etat.
Thus for good reason are we unable to look back at JFK, at the era of Camelot, and avoid that feeling in the pit of our stomachs. That feeling of loss, and the conviction that his assassination was a criminal action yet to be punished, or even acknowledged."
In his classic speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961, President Kennedy appealed to the better natures of journalists, and pleaded them to defend the public interest even at the cost of their careers. He called the press the keeper of mankind's conscience, saying:
"It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.
And so it is to the printing press–to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news–that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
After Kennedy's assassination, American journalists turned mute. They not only let down their President, but their country and their readers. And this is understandable. Journalists in the United States who tell the truth about U.S. government policies like Gary Webb are killed.
A dark cloud of fear and death hangs over the journalism profession in the West. But that's not the whole story. Most journalists just flat out don't care about the common good, freedom, truth, or justice.
And so it is to the Internet – "to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news–that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with" the help of conspiracy theorists, truthers, birthers, and deathers, "man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
The corrupt gatekeepers who bought all the printing presses and used their god-like power over the media to cover up state crimes against the American people, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the world by secret intelligence agencies cannot repress the big truths of modern history forever.
A global political reformation of shadow governments and criminal media institutions is inevitable.
"It is decentralization that the modern power elite fears most," writethe editors of the Daily Bell, "because decentralized spheres of influence are impossible to control. Unfortunately the Renaissance and Reformation were all about the decentralization of control built on the availability of real knowledge and a return to primary sources that undermined the "experts" of church and state." They add: "The darkness is lifting as it lifted long ago during the Renaissance. An Internet Reformation is coming. It will have numerous unpredictable ramifications. In fact, its dawn is already here."
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Gluten-free eaters: the Girl Scout cookie season is underway and you're (finally) welcome to indulge.
The group known for its delicious and much-anticipated treats is joining the gluten-free movement, testing the grain-free goodies in select test markets, two of which are in Southern California.
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Gluten intolerance can cause digestive problems, abdominal pain and even depression and irritability, a symptom most common in children, according to the Celiac Disease Center.
The newest addition to the Girl Scout cookie line-up is a gluten-free chocolate chip shortbread cookie (pictured below), according to ABC Bakers, which makes the treats.
Twenty Girl Scout councils are testing the gluten-free cookies, including those in San Bernardino and Orange counties.
If there's a hunger for them, the celiac-friendly treat soon could be available nationwide.
It's estimated about 1 in 133 Americans have celiac disease, an inherited autoimmune disorder that affects the digestive process of the small intestine and the cure for which is a gluten-free diet, according to the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center.
A protein found in wheat, rye and barley, gluten can cause digestive problems in people with celiac disease or gluten intolerance.
Another group that may opt to go gluten-free could have "non-celiac gluten sensitivity," which often results in symptoms affecting the gastrointestinal tract but is not the same as the immunological response that occurs in eaters with celiac disease.
Introducing a gluten-free cookie isn't the first time the Girl Scouts took into consideration alternative diets when baking up their signature snacks. Four of the Scouts' cookies –Thin Mints and Peanut Butter Patties among them – are vegan.
If you don't know a Girl Scout, you can download the Girl Scout Cookie Finder app for iPhone or Android to find a sale near you.


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PC Perrins necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 118 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
We're a pre-launch Mobile Dating service, initially offering date planning funcationality to people on dates who are looking for something fun and adventurous to do, instead of the same old dinner date/movie/bar hopping experience.
Our app is a cross between Foursquare and the Amazing Race, a mobile social game and itinerary planner... Essentially, we provide the "recipe for love", so couples can concentrate on getting to know each other.
Our target market initially is anyone on a date looking for something new and interesting to do off the beaten path, or in an unfamiliar location (on vacation, just moved to town, etc). Once we add beta matching engine functionality, we'll also focus specifically on unpaired fun-loving singles
Our product is not for the extremely timid, or those afraid of social media technologies.
Essentially, I'd like to keep the design process as open as possible. We would like imagery to be "icon friendly" - to be able to maintain design consistency with the app icons, website/favicon, business cards, twitter avatar, etc down the line.
We want to be highly differentiated from existing dating site logos (match.com, eharmony.com, okcupid.com, plentyoffish.com, chemistry.com, zoosk.com), while still evoking the ideas of love and romance. Colors should be warmer, not necessarily bright, but avoid pastels/softer colors. We don't want to fade into the background!
We're still playing with taglines at this point, but the name NaviDate comes from the ideas of "navigating through a date", or even "a gps navigation system for dating". Something that incorporated these themes (but NOT the exact wording) would be ideal, but I don't initially want to limit things too much.
Thanks, and look forward to seeing some initial designs to help guide us to that perfect contest winner!
UPDATE - 1/21/2010: Attached a quick set of sketches for additional design ideas based on what I'm seeing. Not requirements per se, but hopefully helpful?
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This is the island my fiancé built, which houses both our recycling center and the cage our dog, Alex, sleeps in.
I am a "light green."
Growing up I always assumed being green meant joining Captain Planet's crew and wearing one of those element rings ("Earth, fire, wind, water, heart!"). But ever since I became an intern for Natural Home magazine I've learned that it's not a corny cause—it's important. We need to realize that the earth around us has to be cared for and that we are responsible for our actions.
I'm sure many of our Natural Home readers recycle on a regular basis, but not too long ago my fiancé and I finally set up our own at-home-recycling center. Figuring out where to hide the recycling bins strategically in my tiny kitchen was a challenge, but a little bit easier seeing as how I have a construction-savvy fiancé who built this island. (Maybe I'd be greener if we used salvaged wood, but one step at a time.).
The island was built to house the center perfectly, fitting it neatly between the wall and Alex's cage so that it can easily slide out for proper disposal.
The island covers four bins that are stacked on top of each other. Sliding out horizontally, I labeled each accordingly: paper, plastic, glass and aluminum.
Now, every other week my fiancé and I take a trip to our local recycling center (I like snooping through the magazine/catalog bin to see what magazines I can take for free), and I have to say, recycling makes me feel a little bit better about myself.
Setting up this system made me curious. How do you recycle? Where have you set up your recycling center in your home? Do you use a pick-up service or do you take your own trash to your local center? Do you think pick-up services should be included in our garbage-pick-up fees? I want to know what you think!


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Day-um! We just zipped through another year and it's time again for our annual gushing about the Wines of Love.
But this year we begin with an adventure, a journey into the Hundred Valleys carved by the various forks and myriad creeks of the winding, wilding Umpqua River.
Three of us packed into Kevin Cayfez's micro-sedan, then rolled 60-plus miles south. Kevin drove. Larry Malmgren, a close friend and certified pinot-nut, took the back seat. I rode shotgun so I could quiz Kevin about himself and his new wine-gig, a guided-tour business called Wine 2 Vine. Kevin is young, 30s, dynamic, former teacher of math and science and, like so many talented people in Oregon wine, a former King Estater (three-plus years in Papa King's Pinot Passion Pit, aka Tasting Room), now employed at Sabai, the super Thai restaurant in Oakway Center. Kevin proposed to take us to two of his Umpqua tour destinations, wineries where his guests will encounter people who bring passion and personality to their wines.
The Umpqua Valley possesses a dizzyingly complex topography where a form of love — the love of wine, particularly Riesling — drew the late Richard Sommer to revive (in 1961) Oregon's romance with the vine in the post-Prohibition era. Note: Early pioneers had planted grapevines and made their wines as early as the mid-1800s. Prohibition, begun in Oregon in 1916, so effectively erased their early successes that Sommer, decades later, had to overcome the academic "wisdom" that Oregon was too cool, too wet — too something — ever to become a wine region. The state now has around 400 wineries and is still growing, with wine contributing a couple billion bux to our economy yearly. Sommer's HillCrest Vineyards still thrives, as do such viticultural enterprises as the Henry family's Henry Estate (1978) and Girardet family's Girardet Vineyards (1971). Today, the Umpqua is home to more than 20 wineries, including some of Oregon's best, and growing rapidly.
We exited I-5 just past Sutherlin, the southern boundary of the Umpqua viticultural area. We skirted HillCrest and Henry Estate but turned north, motoring through softly undulating hills and along the banks of the winter-roiling river. We turned into a gravel drive marked Reustle-Prayer Rock, twisted through trees, glimpsed recently planted vineyards, arriving at sculpted gardens and the crafted "caves" of the winery. Since 2001, Stephen and Gloria Reustle (rhymes with hustle) have transformed their 40 acres into a showplace for their zeal for wines (they make a dozen or so) and their fervent faith.
Never seen their distinctive orange label? That's 'cause they don't sell retail, except at the winery; all their production goes to their 2,200-member wine club (easy to join, with attractive discounts). Kevin's tourers are going to feel enchanted here. The tasting area has been constructed to look and feel like Old-World cloisters or catacombs, but the wines are most attractive, including 2011 Gruner Veltliner ($24), a dry white cultivated mainly in Austria but thriving here, yielding heady scents/flavors of citrus and white pepper, with bracing acidity. R-PR 2009 Pinot Noir ($31) is ripe, round and ready to drink. R-PR's syrah and tempranillo are prize-winners, but we really liked their dry-style 2010 Riesling with its yummy pear/mineral notes. Tasting in the cave is more than cool.
Next stop, down the winding road: Delfino Vineyards, a transformed 160-acre ranch (18 acres now planted in grapes), modest tasting room, artisanal, estate-grown wines, excellent 2011 Muller Thurgau ($16) — crisply dry, flavors of flowers and citrus — and especially notable 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon ($24), rich, complex and delish. Jim Delfino has the thick shoulders of a farmer and the quick smile of a salesman. Terri, his wife, was abed, recovering from a nasty surgery. It's clear, though, that there's a lotta love in the Delfino air — and the Delfino wines.
Passion in winemaking inspires the ardor stirred in wine-drinking, and those devotions contribute to a life worth living. Seeking love leads to adventures, journeys into the embrace of the vines. Love might not be all we need, but it's a swell place to launch — or end — this journey.
Wishing you a fine Valentine.


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The decorators of this red dining room played up a feeling of classic romance with wall sconces that offer warm and inviting low light. The crisp white tablecloth, red roses, crystal glasses, and china look elegant but not too stuffy, thanks to the black-and-white Breakfast at Tiffany's art print, which infuses an element of playful passion.
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Chicken Meal, Chicken, Ground Whole Brown Rice, Ground Whole Oats, Ground Whole Barley, Herring Meal, Chicken Fat (stabilized with mixed tocopherols), Whole Eggs, Dehydrated Alfalfa, Monosodium Phosphate, Whole Apples, Whole Carrots, Dehydrated Spinach, Whole Blueberries, Dehydrated Kelp, Brewer's Yeast, Lecithin, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Methylsulfonylmethane, Sea Salt, Glucosamine Sulphate, Chicory Root Extract (Prebiotic), Choline Chloride, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Whole Garlic, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Probiotics (Lactobacillis Acidophilus Fermentation Product Dehydrated, bacilis Ground Whole Flaxseed, Calcium Propionate, Zinc Proteinate (Source of Chelated Zinc), Choline Chloride, Iron Proteinate (Source of Chelated Iron), Vitamin E Supplement, Manganese Proteinate (Source of Chelated Manganese), Copper Proteinate (Source of Chelated Copper), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Acetate, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Cobalt Proteinate (Source of Chelated Cobalt), Potassium Iodide, Sodium Selenite, Rosemary Extract.
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First two ingredients are named meat products, good quality ingredients
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The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product, in meal form. The second ingredient is also a named meat product, but this one is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once that is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus likely that this dry ingredient may be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list than its wet form (ingredients are listed in order of weight). Since the ingredient list is still headed by a meat meal ingredient, this does not cause considerable loss of confidence in the likely meat content of the food. There is one further meat meal ingredient 6th on the ingredient list, but this starts to be too far down the listing to make a significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food.
The main grains in the food are rice, oats and barley. These are good quality whole grains. We appreciate the inclusion of whole eggs and a range of frutis and vegetables in the food. There is a good range of probiotics.
Overall, this product appears to use good quality ingredients. We would have some concern that the grain ingredients, albeit good quality, appear to be much more plentiful than meat ingredients. Users might consider supplementing this diet with real meat.
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Traces the history of the CIA from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the organization for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the violence it has unleashed, and its undermining of American politics.
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Excerpt: Legacy Of Ashes
Legacy of Ashes is the record of the first sixty years of the Central Intelligence Agency. It describes how the most powerful country in the history of Western civilization has failed to create a first-rate spy service. That failure constitutes a danger to the national security of the United States. Intelligence is secret action aimed at understanding or changing what goes on abroad. President Dwight D. Eisenhower called it "a distasteful but vital necessity." A nation that wants to project its power beyond its borders needs to see over the horizon, to know what is coming, to prevent attacks against its people. It must anticipate surprise. Without a strong, smart, sharp intelligence service, presidents and generals alike can become blind and crippled. But throughout its history as a superpower, the United States has not had such a service.
History, Edward Gibbon wrote in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is "little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." The annals of the Central Intelligence Agency are filled with folly and misfortune, along with acts of bravery and cunning. They are replete with fleeting successes and long–lasting failures abroad. They are marked by political battles and power struggles at home. The agency's triumphs have saved some blood and treasure. Its mistakes have squandered both. They have proved fatal for legions of American soldiers and foreign agents; some three thousand Americans who died in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001; and three thousand more who have died since then in Iraq and Afghanistan. The one crime of lasting consequence has been the CIA's inability to carry out its central mission: informing the president of what is happening in the world.
The United States had no intelligence to speak of when World War II began, and next to none a few weeks after the war ended. A mad rush to demobilize left behind a few hundred men who had a few years' experience in the world of secrets and the will to go on fighting a new enemy. "All major powers except the United States have had for a long time past permanent worldwide intelligence services, reporting directly to the highest echelons of their Government," General William J. Donovan, the commander of the wartime Office of Strategic Services, warned President Truman in August 1945. "Prior to the present war, the United States had no foreign secret intelligence service. It never has had and does not now have a coordinated intelligence system." Tragically, it still does not have one.
The CIA was supposed to become that system. But the blueprint for the agency was a hasty sketch. It was no cure for a chronic American weakness: secrecy and deception were not our strengths. The collapse of the British Empire left the United States as the sole force able to oppose Soviet communism, and America desperately needed to know those enemies, to provide foresight to presidents, and to fight fire with fire when called upon to light the fuse. The mission of the CIA, above all, was to keep the president forewarned against surprise attack, a second Pearl Harbor.
The agency's ranks were filled with thousands of patriotic Americans in the 1950s. Many were brave and battle–hardened. Some had wisdom. Few really knew the enemy. Where understanding failed, presidents ordered the CIA to change the course of history through covert action. "The conduct of political and psychological warfare in peacetime was a new art," wrote Gerald Miller, then the CIA's covert–operations chief for Western Europe. "Some of the techniques were known but doctrine and experience were lacking." The CIA's covert operations were by and large blind stabs in the dark. The agency's only course was to learn by doing—by making mistakes in battle. The CIA then concealed its failures abroad, lying to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It told those lies to preserve its standing in Washington. The truth, said Don Gregg, a skilled cold-war station chief, was that the agency at the height of its powers had a great reputation and a terrible record.
Like the American public, the agency dissented at its peril during the Vietnam War. Like the American press, it discovered that its reporting was rejected if it did not fit the preconceptions of presidents. The CIA was rebuked and scorned by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter. None of them understood how the agency worked. They took office "with the expectation that intelligence could solve every problem, or that it could not do anything right, and then moved to the opposite view," notes a former deputy director of central intelligence, Richard J. Kerr. "Then they settled down and vacillated from one extreme to the other."
To survive as an institution in Washington, the agency above all had to have the president's ear. But it soon learned that it was dangerous to tell him what he did not want to hear. The CIA's analysts learned to march in lockstep, conforming to conventional wisdom. They misapprehended the intentions and capabilities of our enemies, miscalculated the strength of communism, and misjudged the threat of terrorism.
The supreme goal of the CIA during the cold war was to steal Soviet secrets by recruiting spies, but the CIA never possessed a single one who had deep insight into the workings of the Kremlin. The number of Soviet spies with important information to reveal–all of them volunteers, not recruits—could be counted on the fingers of two hands. And all of them died, captured and executed by Moscow. Almost all had been betrayed by officers of the CIA's Soviet division who were spying for the other side, under Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Under Reagan, the CIA set off on misconceived third–world missions, selling arms to Iran's Revolutionary Guards to finance a war in Central America, breaking the law and squandering what trust remained reposed in it. More grievously, it missed the fatal weakness of its main enemy.
It fell to machines, not men, to understand the other side. As the technology of espionage expanded its horizons, the CIA's vision grew more and more myopic. Spy satellites enabled it to count Soviet weapons. They did not deliver the crucial information that communism was crumbling. The CIA's foremost experts never saw the enemy until after the cold war was over. The agency had bled the Soviets by pouring billions of dollars of weapons into Afghanistan to help fight the Red Army's occupying forces. That was an epic success. But it failed to see that the Islamic warriors it supported would soon take aim at the United States, and when that understanding came, the agency failed to act. That was an epochal failure.
The unity of purpose that held the CIA together during the cold war came undone in the 1990s, under President Clinton. The agency still had people who strove to understand the world, but their ranks were far too thin. There were still talented officers who dedicated themselves to serving the United States abroad, but their numbers were far too few. The FBI had more agents in New York than the CIA had officers abroad. By the end of the century, the agency was no longer a fully functioning and independent intelligence service. It was becoming a second–echelon field office for the Pentagon, weighing tactics for battles that never came, not strategies for the struggle ahead. It was powerless to prevent the second Pearl Harbor.
After the attacks on New York and Washington, the agency sent a small skilled cadre of covert operators into Afghanistan and Pakistan to hunt down the leaders of al Qaeda. It then forfeited its role as a reliable source of secret information when it handed the White House false reports on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It had delivered a ton of reportage based on an ounce of intelligence. President George W. Bush and his administration in turn misused the agency once proudly run by his father, turning it into a paramilitary police force abroad and a paralyzed bureaucracy at headquarters. Bush casually pronounced a political death sentence upon the CIA in 2004 when he said that the agency was "just guessing" about the course of the war in Iraq. No president had ever publicly dismissed the CIA that way.
Its centrality in the American government ended with the dissolution of the office of director of central intelligence in 2005. Now the CIA must be rebuilt if it is to survive. That task will take years. The challenge of understanding the world as it is has overwhelmed three generations of CIA officers. Few among the new generation have mastered the intricacies of foreign lands, much less the political culture of Washington. In turn, almost every president, almost every Congress, and almost every director of central intelligence since the 1960s has proved incapable of grasping the mechanics of the CIA. Most have left the agency in worse shape than they found it. Their failures have handed future generations, in the words of President Eisenhower, "a legacy of ashes." We are back where we began sixty years ago, in a state of disarray.
Legacy of Ashes sets out to show how it has come to pass that the United States now lacks the intelligence it will need in the years ahead. It is drawn from the words, the ideas, and the deeds set forth in the files of the American national-security establishment. They record what our leaders really said, really wanted, and really did when they projected power abroad. This book is based on my reading of more than fifty thousand documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA, the White House, and the State Department; more than two thousand oral histories of American intelligence officers, soldiers, and diplomats; and more than three hundred interviews conducted since 1987 with CIA officers and veterans, including ten directors of central intelligence. Extensive endnotes amplify the text.
This book is on the record—no anonymous sources, no blind quotations, no hearsay. It is the first history of the CIA compiled entirely from firsthand reporting and primary documents. It is, by its nature, incomplete: no president, no director of central intelligence, and certainly no outsider can know everything about the agency. What I have written here is not the whole truth, but to the best of my ability, it is nothing but the truth.
I hope it may serve as a warning. No republic in history has lasted longer than three hundred years, and this nation may not long endure as a great power unless it finds the eyes to see things as they are in the world. That once was the mission of the Central Intelligence Agency.


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It is D+5, 24 February 1945, and the rugged, bloody, savage battle for Iwo Jima, the world's highest-priced piece of real estate, continues with an unrelenting fury. Probably never before in any war's history has there been such an enormous concentration of arms and fighting men to capture such a small area.
Iwo Jima offers indication that the Japanese have assembled fortifications here for the past 20 years. Mount Suribachi, a 550-foot peak at the southern end, is one solid mass of pillboxes, and from its hundreds of caves have poured hell-ripping mortar fire down onto the beaches where Marines and shore and beach parties have landed. Suribachi is a mammoth anthill in which were garrisoned possibly thousands of enemy troops to man the innumerable guns that swept the beaches.
Even to stand offshore and view the island of Iwo is nigh on conducive to fright itself. Its volcanic, rugged terrain; its sharp, twisting ridges; and its pockmarked, bomb-gutted holes give it a great similarity to the moon or some alien planet.
Told to me by a pharmacist's mate was the statement of an early Marine casualty. A veteran of South Pacific warfare, he stated after being wounded and brought back to this ship from the Iwo beach: "Give me jungle fighting. To hell with this open terrain."
About the second day the story got around that Iwo was worse than Saipan, than Tarawa, and it was confirmed when Lieutenant General Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith gave out the statement that Iwo was the hardest fighting the Marines had seen in 168 years.
We accuse the Japs of fanaticism in fighting, but to conquer such a foe and an island as Iwo, it is necessary that our own Marines even employ fanaticism in their tactics. Capturing Iwo is a matter of moving and crawling inch by inch, of the immediate aim to kill a single damned Jap, not ten, and of the nerve-wracking and backbreaking job of digging a Jap from a cave after you have been lucky enough to find it.
Now it's D+8 and I have made no headway in setting down these notes; consequently, the continuity must be lacking.
American forces on Iwo are meeting their stiffest opposition yet, and there is no doubt that the Jap is resisting with all the cruel fierceness he can muster.
Yesterday and last night, after lying to off the Iwo shore for a solid week, this ship began to make progress in unloading. In this operation, though all the world may never know, we have done it the hard way. Confusion has been rampant. In such an enormous undertaking as we have entered into, a percentage of confusion and misunderstanding is unavoidable, but in this case the supply seems to have been overabundant. Still, in the picture given the world, that part is whitewashed. The scene will be glorified; it will be toned up as a brilliant operation, and naturally, in the end, no matter what the cost, our side will meet success in removing the enemy from Iwo.
That may be the only payoff—the final outcome. I am unable to decide this in my mind. Maybe it matters not what the confusion, what the mistakes. Still, foregoing entirely the cost in American lives, considering only the landing beaches strewn with wreckage—landing craft ripped, broached, wrecked, and sunk, vehicles of all types bogged in volcanic ash, resting at insane angles and later blasted to hell by our own demolition squads—all of this is deathly sickening to behold. Back in the States such implements had to be forged, many shipped across the nation on overcrowded transportation systems, then placed deep in the holds of ships and sent some 5,000 miles across the ocean. With the consumption of all that time, of all that effort, millions of dollars worth of equipment never got into the fight. "The high cost of war" is the mildest phrase ever uttered.
The cost of American lives at Iwo Jima is a thought to be reckoned with by any man who considers himself worthy to draw a breath of life. Even though one entertains the simple philosophy that in wartime there are two categories—the lucky and the unlucky—anyone who can fail to take a determining note at the consequences of Iwo Jima is the filthiest SOB who ever lived. The tearful, pitiful part of it all is the millions who will benefit from the hell faced by American invaders at Iwo Jima, and yet the beneficiaries will not be conscious of a spark of appreciation or gratitude. It is one of the hardest of all laws of life to understand—that only those at the battlefronts know the story—and most men who've been through the grinding, roaring mill don't understand the law, and bitterness and feeling and mild hatred are spawned, and brothers become divided.
Openly I have always damned the U.S. Marines for the unjust reason that I have never been able to get past a sentry when he had orders not to allow anyone to pass. Recently I was told the true story of a Marine sentry who replied to a persistent general whose car had been stopped that "I don't give a damned who you are sir, I have orders not to let anyone pass." Right on the spot, the general commended the sentry, and such is typical of the Marines.
Some of the many casualties brought back to this ship have been ghastly, but in practically all cases, when a man was conscious, he was cheerful. Last night a kid on a stretcher was being logged in, and he discovered his buddy also coming in. His eyes lit up, and he yelled loudly: "Hey hey. Hey you bastard. Where did they get you? Look, look!" he exclaimed, wildly waving a hand. "That's my buddy. Ole buddy buddy. You people got to put me with my buddy!"
Another kid came in with a head wound, one that had creased his skull deeply after the bullet or shrapnel went through his steel helmet. The officer logging him in inquired as to the island battle. Replied the Marine: "It's been the damndest eight days I've ever seen in my life. I never dreamed anything could be like that."
Also last night a young captain was brought in who had been right up in the front lines since the battle began. He had been hit in the buttocks, and the steel ripped through and came out his groin. Perfectly cheerful, he choked up when he began to tell of his men. Out of 150 in his original outfit, he could account for only about 50 remaining in the fight. He seemed to want to give them all the glory, which can be said of a man in battle, and from the way he talked, one sensed it was not something he was repeating from a storybook.
It may seem strange but probably no other such tumultuous event exposes everything in a man like the Iwo battle. All that is in a man comes to the surface under such stress—simultaneously, all that is good, all that is bad; courage and cowardice; purity and the vulgar. Almost at the same instant he can be sympathetic, feel pity, yet be utterly stoic. It is not hard to understand why men who face battle fire can age so rapidly. In one swift minute they have to deal with powerful emotions that some are permitted to spread over a lifetime.
On D+4, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, for the benefit of news and movie cameramen, went ashore at Iwo from Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner's flagship offshore. All of the necessary effects were staged for the proper pictures. Forrestal had joined the invading fleet at Saipan just prior to its shoving north to Iwo. Why he elected to be present on this particular invasion is not quite clear (to myself), except I can trace it to one rumor which has tabbed the Iwo invasion as the last "all Navy" affair in the Pacific.
The secretary of the Navy's presence at Iwo Jima is basis for one helluva story, and the American public will down it gloriously. And although the little men in this war, the ones under fire, are normally resentful of such intrusions, from the overall standpoint, Forrestal's presence may prove beneficial. It can be one of those necessary mechanics used to sustain a people on a higher plane than the one beastly war is conducted upon. My main hope is that the pictures in the newspapers and movie houses back in the States, the ones showing Forrestal ashore at Iwo, will not be such a gross misrepresentation to the American public that it will exclaim: "It couldn't have been so tough. Why there's the secretary of the Navy."
Whether it be wholly imaginary or a probability, I can visualize a state of utter disgust felt by Japanese war lords on learning that the secretary of the United States Navy, without harm to a single hair of his head, had been present at the invasion of Iwo Jima, a mere 660 miles south of Tokyo. To me, I see American leaders and policy makers spitting right in the Jap's eye and practically calling him an SOB and daring him to do anything about it. From an international standpoint, Forrestal's presence at Iwo Jima was staged, among other things, for tremendous prestige.
It was about noon on D-day just outside the radio shack that I met one of the landing boat officers. I didn't have to ask him where he had been or how he felt. He looked at me, smiled broadly, and said, "Hi chief," as if I were a true friend he hadn't seen for 50 years. Twice he had carried troops onto the beach that morning, and a thousand times in those few hours he had failed to understand why he was still alive. His nerves were resting on the outside of his skin.
A couple of days later one of the boat radiomen returned to the ship after some 48 straight hours of working the beaches, directing traffic and pulling off broached boats. Never before under fire and now having witnessed some, and possibly the greatest, murderous fire seen in the Pacific, he couldn't quite comprehend the terrible sights he had seen. He had seen it, but still the horror didn't register easily. He told of seeing two corpsmen bringing a litter down the hillside, and then suddenly they weren't there anymore. He told of a man in a burial and evacuation squad pulling along the beach a half body, from the waist down. At least for two days after D-day the blood-soaked beaches were littered with American bodies, and thousands of Marines scrambling ashore had to hurtle their own dead.
In discussing the situation with an associate on board, remarking of how tough the opposition was in spite of constant pounding, my friend stated one had to give the Japs credit for their resistance. I retorted I gave them no credit, that I could find no admiration. My attitude is based on the fact that the enemy had years and years to defend this island, and my admiration was for the man who had guts enough to invade and go in and face head-on the fire that the enemy poured out.
Fabulous Suribachi, which has stirred the imagination of every man who has stood and watched thousands and thousands of tons of American red-hot steel blasting almost vainly at its steep slopes, has proved a bastion of caves and connecting tunnels in which are garrisoned innumerable Japanese forces. Possibly no other spot in the world has taken such a pounding as Suribachi, whose code name in the operation was "Hotrocks," and still stood to offer just as much opposition as if it had never been touched. Ceasing of enemy fire from Suribachi has been promoted only by the direct penetration of U. S. Marines.
After landing on Iwo, inch by inch, one regiment of Marines crawled toward Suribachi, and on D+4, a combat patrol from one its companies scaled the heights and raised the American flag at the highest point on the volcanic peak. By all standards, it was recorded as a point in American history, for three minutes later the word was being radioed from Admiral Turner's flagship offshore to Pacific Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz's headquarters on Guam. Over the loudspeakers of my ship, the word was passed of the American flag now flying atop Suribachi, and from the topside decks and from deep in the holds, from my position on the bridge, I heard cheers arise into the air.
It has been my observation that the U. S. Marine Corps is founded and lives on an esprit de corps excelled by no other organization in the world. From my own personal standpoint, I have no yearning to be immersed in the atmosphere, but I can stand off and find great admiration. Many of the casualties brought back to this ship were bitter because of being out of the fight. They wanted to get back and be in on the kill. My analysis of the mood is that when you harm the hair of a single Marine, you must answer to every damned one of them.
Jim Adams, his son, was an underwater archaeologist with the National Park Service assigned to the USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, and is coauthor of USS Arizona: The Ship, the Men, the Pearl Harbor Attack, and the Symbol that Aroused America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001).