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Protect Elections, Prosecute Rove
UPDATE: 10/25/10: Calling All Hackers And IT Specialists: $20,000 Reward For Information About Vote Tabulation
Manipulation In 2010 Election
Today, we announced a $20,000 reward for any hacker, computer scientist or IT specialist
who can provide evidence that vote tabulation results were manipulated in such a way that the
results changed the legitimate winner. The information must result in an arrest and conviction.
Our announcement is posted on this Reward Poster. In short, evidence from past elections
has pointed to tabulation manipulation by Karl Rove and GOP controlled operatives
that may have changed the results of elections such as Ohio 2004 and Alabama 2002.
See www.RoveCyberGate.com.
In fact, in 2004, the Ohio Secretary of State election servers were suddenly re-routed
to the GOP controlled servers at Smartech in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the results
flipped from John Kerry to George Bush. Bush's IT guru Mike Connell was responsible
for setting up that manipulation with the assistance of Ken Blackwell, and Connell
was later killed in a mysterious plane crash after he indicated he was ready to talk
about the matter.
In September of 2010, a team of computer scientists hacked into the Washington, DC
computer servers and took
control of the election results. These "good guy" scientists watched as hackers
from Iran and China attempted to hack the servers. This shows how easy it is for
election servers to be hacked.
Tipsters have indicated to us that there will be attempts to manipulate the tabulation
results in the upcoming election. If so, we want these illegal intrusions to be detected,
monitored in real time and reported. Send your tips to
UPDATE: 1/20/10: Mainstream Press Finally Publishes Explosive Article About Connell And His Death
It has been years that we have been trying to convince the MSM that
yes there is a real story underlying the supposed Bush win of Ohio in 2004. Now more than five years
later, and only after the strange death of Bush IT guru Michael Connell, has the MSM finally had
the courage to allow this story to be published. But no, it wasn't the New York Times,
Washington Post or 60 Minutes but rather, Maxim, a widely read magazine targeting men. We
urge everyone to pick up a copy of the February issue of Maxim to read the full 3500 word expose'.
But this story will inevitably lead to greater coverage of
the facts outlined by author/journalist Simon Worrall. There are new twists to the story that
have previously gone unreported including the fact that Connell's Blackberry with lots of
Bush/Rove info on it disappeared at the crash site; that the site was cleaned up under
the cover of night after a lockdown on information about the crash; that the "after
action report" detailing the sabotage of Connell's plane has been received by the
NTSB and reviewed by intelligence officials who have indicated that it is genuine;
that Connell's last words were captured on tape and showed extreme surprise at
something that happened in the cockpit; that a contract between Connell and the OH
SOS shows that they had a subcontract with Smartech to reroute the 2004 election
results through GOP servers with remote access, mirroring capabilities, and a Virtual
Private Network accessible by anyone with a password; and that Robert Kennedy Jr. calls
this case bigger than Watergate. More details can be found at The BradBlog.
Connell's Family Speaks Out, Warns Of Wrongful Death Suit Against Rove, Assassination Jackal Tipster Talks Of Sabotage
NTSB Report on Connell's crash cannot determine a cause.
UPDATE: 12/20/08: Michael Connell Killed: VR Demands Full
State And Federal Investigation
Michael Connell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly
implicated in the rigging of George Bush's 2000 and 2004 elections, was
killed last night when his single engine plane crashed three miles short of the
Akron airport. Velvet Revolution ("VR"), a non-profit that
has been investigating Mr. Connell's activities for the past two years,
can now reveal that a person close to Mr. Connell has recently been discussing
with a VR investigator how Mr. Connell can tell all about his work for George
Bush. Mr. Connell told a close associate that he was afraid that
the George Bush and Dick Cheney would "throw [[him] under the bus."
A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR in
July that Mr. Connell's life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had
threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR's attorney, Cliff
Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement
and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be
placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr.
Connell's not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane
could be sabotaged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to
abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious
problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to
a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his
return flight the next day that he crashed.
On October 31, Mr. Connell appeared before a federal judge
in Ohio after being subpoenaed in a federal lawsuit investigating the rigging
of the 2004 election under the direction of Karl Rove. The judge ordered
Mr. Connell to testify under oath at a deposition on November 3rd,
the day before the presidential election. Velvet Revolution
received confidential information that the White House was extremely concerned
about Mr. Connell talking about his illegal work for the White House and two
Bush/Cheney 04 attorneys were dispatched to represent him.
An associate of Mr. Connell's told VR that Mr. Connell
was involved with the destruction of the White House emails and the setting up
of the off-grid White House email system.
Mr. Connell handled all of John McCain's computer work
in the recent presidential campaign. VR has received direct evidence that the
McCain campaign kept abreast of the legal developments against Mr. Connell by
reading the VR dedicated website, www.rovecybergate.com.
VR demands that the Ohio Attorney General and the United
States Justice Department conduct a complete investigation into the activities
of Mr. Connell and determine whether there was any foul play in his
death. VR demands that federal law enforcement officials place the
following people under protective custody pending this investigation.
Heather Connell who is the owner of GovTech Solutions, Randy Cole, the
former President of GovTech Solutions, and Jeff Averbeck, the CEO of SmartTech
in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Both GovTech and SmartTech have been
implicated in the rigging of the 2000 and 2004 elections and the White House
email scandal. Our prior request to have Mr. Connell protected went
unheeded and now he is dead.
UPDATE: 11/4/08: Connell Stonewalls At Deposition: Attorney
Instructs Him Not To Answer Key Questions
The first deposition of Michael Connell took place yesterday in
Cleveland. Connell was put on notice that he was being questioned about election fraud.
Connell quickly adopted the posture of many Bush staffers who have been questioned about wrongdoing, such
as Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Stephen Hadley, Donald
Rumsfeld and others. Attorney Cliff Arnebeck said that Connell is a classic "Bush/Rove
Team player" who was schooled on how to not answer.
Connell's attorney helped
Connell by telling him not to answer many questions including, "Who
directed you to set up the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth IT
The only admission of substance
was, after an initial denial, Connell said that he brought Triad and SmartTech
into the Ohio election game. Of course, these are the two companies
identified by Spoonamore as rigging the election, Triad by pulling hard drives
prior to the recount and SmartTech by running the election results
through its GOP servers in Chattanooga before they got to the Ohio election
Mr. Arnebeck said that Connell
denied that there were "any" problems at all with any voting
systems and he never heard of any fraud. He said he did not "know
of any vulnerabilities" to voting systems in Ohio. In other
words, he said that everything's fine, no one did anything wrong, and
everyone should trust people like him to count their votes.
Mr. Arnebeck "Connell has
just ensured that he is Exhibit A of the soon to be filed RICO lawsuit against
Karl Rove et al for manipulating elections." Arnebeck also said
that Connell demonstrates the epitome of unethical conflicts of interest for
running George Bush's election IT network while counting the votes in the
key state of Ohio.
The silver lining to all
of this is that Connell and his handlers know that their gig is up. They
should not believe for a minute that Connell's two hour performance
yesterday will do anything to slow down our investigation. Once the dust
clears from today's election, the attorneys will go full force to charge
Connell and others with Racketeering and Corrupt Practices.
UPDATE: 11/1/08: Late yesterday, a Federal Judge in
Akron, Ohio ordered Mike Connell to submit to a deposition hours before the presidential
election to talk about possible election manipulations.
The full story is
here. Mr. Connell, it's time to tell
the truth and get with the new dynamic, the one called accountability. Yours is the
first of many depositions to get to the bottom of this shameful chapter in American democracy. You
have a unique opportunity to do the right thing now. The Bush family is not going to protect you
or cover for you any longer.
UPDATE: 10/28/08: Attorneys filed a motion to compel testimony of
Connell to interrogate him about his knowledge of the inter-workings of the GOP computer systems.
See Memo here.
They included an affidavit of Spoonamore stating that the Ohio 2004 election was manipulated by a inside Man
in the Middle King Pin attack. See
Affidavit here.
UPDATE: 10/23/08: VR Calls For DOJ Investigation Into
Why Bush/Rove IT Expert Mike Connell Asked How to Destroy White House Emails
Reporter Rebecca Abrahams wrote this week at Huffington Post that
on October 11, 2006, longtime Bush/Rove IT expert Michael Connell met with
cyber security expert Stephen Spoonamore
learn how to destroy data on White House computer hard drives
This was during the height of the United States Attorney scandal and during the
tenure of Connell's former employee, David Almacy, as director of the White
House Internet and E-Communications Director.
Abrahams quotes from Spoonamore's emails which reference notes
taken at the time of the meeting. Connell was accompanied at the meeting by
Randy Cole, the former President of Connell's company, GovTech Solutions, now
running for Ohio Congressional seat 41. When Spoonamore realized that Connell
and Cole were asking how to destroy White House data, he terminated the
conversation and told them that what they were asking about was illegal.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently appointed prosecutor
Nora Dannehy to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against
those involved in the US Attorney scandal. Today, in a press release, VR called
for that investigation to include what role and knowledge Michael Connell and
Randy Cole have regarding the destruction of White House computer data, and, as
Abrahams suggests, whether Connell knows where the White House email backup is
UPDATE: 10/7/08: Velvet Revolution Calls On John McCain To
Fire Michael Connell For Covering Up For Karl Rove In Federal Election Manipulation Lawsuit
Velvet Revolution today issued a press release calling for
Republican candidate John McCain to fire computer expert Michael Connell from
his campaign for covering up alleged election manipulations of Karl Rove and
others. Mr. Connell, the GOP's top computer expert, was
subpoenaed based on a September 19th court order to testify under
oath in an Ohio federal lawsuit looking into serious allegations that Mr. Rove
has directed a strategy to illegally manipulate elections through the use of
computer technology. Rather than cooperate in the investigation,
Mr. Connell hired attorneys close to the Bush/Cheney Administration and
refused to appear for the deposition arguing client (GOP)
confidentiality. Those attorneys have said that they will do everything
possible to keep Mr. Connell from testifying before the November general
election. See press release pdf.
UPDATE: 10/3/08: VR Offers 100K Reward In RoveCyberGate Case
Today, VR offered a $100,000 reward for information from whistleblowers who have
knowledge of election related criminal activity by Michael Connell, Randy Cole, Karl Rove and others. You
can see the full ad here.
The information must result in a conviction.
UPDATE: 10/1/08: VR Calls for Special Prosecutor to
Investigate Connell and Rove
In light of Mike Connell's stonewalling of the
subpoena in this case, Velvet Revolution today called for Attorney General
Mukasey to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the conduct, actions and knowledge
of Michael Connell and his confidential work for Karl Rove and George Bush vis
a vis election manipulations and destruction of data. VR also called on Congress
to hold hearings and place Mr. Connell under oath to testify about election
rigging, destruction of White House emails, and spying on Congress.
See PDF news release.
UPDATE: 9/30/08: Stay Lifted, Depositions Ordered,
Connell Subpoenaed, Connell Stonewalls
Many new turns in this case the past few days. On
September 22, the federal court lifted the stay in this case and ordered depositions
to begin, starting with Bush IT Expert Michael Connell.
(See Order in PDF) A few days later,
Connell was subpoenaed and ordered to produce documents. He hired three
high powered GOP-connected attorneys and filed a Motion to Quash
(See Motion in PDF) and an
affidavit stating that his information is confidential.(See Affidavit in PDF) His attorneys
have refused to make him available for deposition and have indicated that they
will not let him testify unless forced to by the court. Attorney Arnebeck
intends to secure a court order to enforce the subpoena.
UPDATE 9/18/08: Ohio Attorneys File Papers To Take
Deposition Of Bush IT Expert Michael Connell And Others-Includes Spoonamore
Yesterday, Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck asked the federal
court in Columbus to allow him to place Bush IT guru
Michael Connell under oath to ask him about his 20 year work for the Bush
family, including his work for Jeb Bush in Florida 2000 and for Ken Blackwell
in Ohio 2004. "The public has a need
and right to know, before the next presidential election, that the top Republican
IT expert shares a concern about the vulnerability of electronic voting systems
to fraudulent manipulation, and that this is not just "conspiracy theory,"
Arnebeck wrote. Arnebeck also advised the court that he would
seeking depositions from others, including Karl Rove.
See Court filing.
Attached to the filing are two affidavits, one from cyber security expert Stephen Spoonamore
and the other from analyst Richard Hayes Phillips. The Spoonamore affidavit
asserts that the election computer setup used by Ken Blackwell in 2004 provided
the means and opportunity for the manipulation of the election results. "
The vote tabulation and reporting system, as modified
at the direction of Mr. Blackwell, allowed the introduction of a single
computer in the middle of the pathway. This computer located at a company
principally managing IT Systems for GOP campaign and political operations
(Computer C) received all information from each county computer (Computer A)
BEFORE it was sent onward to Computer B. This centralized collection of all
incoming statewide tabulations would make it extremely easy for a single
operator, or a preprogrammed single "force balancing computer" to
change the results in any way desired by the team controlling Computer C. In
this case GOP partisan operatives. Again, if this out of state system had ANY
digital access to the Secretary of State's system it would be cause for
immediate investigation by any of my banking clients."
See Spoonamore
The Hayes affidavit asserts that after reviewing hundreds of thousands of
documents, ballots and other election records, "it is my conclusion that
there is so much evidence of ballot alteration, ballot substitution, ballot box
stuffing, ballot destruction, vote switching, tabulator rigging, and old fashioned
voter suppression, that the results of the 2004 presidential election, would
have been reversed" had there been a real investigation.
See Hayes
Affidavit. He insists that the time is now to take depositions from those
implicated in the theft of that election.
Tell Congress to investigate
Karl Rove's cyber strategy to illegally manipulate elections. Click here
to send an email to your Congress Members demanding immediate public hearings
on whistleblower allegations that Rove architected and directed illegal attacks
on Democratic candidates through the improper use of corporate funds channeled
through fake Web-based front organizations, the improper political use of the
Justice Department to prosecute opposition candidates, and the use of Internet
based IT networks to alter election results.
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We are working with Ohio election attorneys, Cliff Arnebeck,
Bob Fitrakis and Henry Eckhart to find out the truth about recent information indicating that
Karl Rove architected and directed a strategy to manipulate elections through the use of computers. Rove's
Cyber Guru, Michael Connell, has worked for the Bush family for over 20 years
and helped Bush Sr., Jeb and Bush Jr. "win" their elections using
his computer skills. Whistleblowers,
including Republicans, say that several of these and other national elections
have been rigged through various invisible and illegal means, including vote
tabulation manipulation, improper partisan use of the Justice Department to
target Democrats and uncooperative US Attorneys, and the laundering of hundreds
of millions of corporate dollars funneled into fake advocacy groups directed
against Democratic candidates running for public office. Ex-Alabama Governor Don
Siegelman has stated publicly that Rove was the person who directed the rigging of
the governor's race and the criminal prosecution of Siegleman.
Here GOP cyber
sleuth Stephen Spoonamore has stated publicly that the leadership of the GOP
has been "lying and stealing elections" http://www.velvetrevolution.us/prosecute_rove/images/Spoon_Full.wmv
and doing so through computers. http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Video/SpoonPC-2.wmv
According to the attorneys, Rove's goal with this
strategy is to establish a unitary Executive Branch with a supportive
judiciary, a weak legislature and a fearful press. Corporate sponsors of this
strategy, such as tobacco, energy, telecom, and pharmaceutical companies are
rewarded with hands off government: deregulated oversight, stringent limits on
class-action damages, the stacking of high courts with
pro-business/anti-consumer Justices etc. http://www.velvetrevolution.us/images/Mukasey.pdf
VR's campaign is in support of the Ohio attorneys'
use of a federal civil lawsuit in a new
legal strategy of taking targeted discovery and depositions of those who have
been identified as being involved with or having knowledge of Rove's
CyberGate, including Rove, Michael Connell, Jack Abramoff, Michael Scanlon, Bob
Ney, Brett Rapp, Ken Blackwell and others. The attorneys intend to file a
racketeering RICO lawsuit against those identified in this case and will refer any proof of
criminal activity to both state and federal authorities for criminal prosecution.
This legal strategy will require significant resources for
lawyers, expert witnesses, videotaped depositions, public relations, and
investigators. The attorneys will need to go toe to toe with the top lobbyist law firms
which will be hired to represent these targets. One of our targets is the US
Chamber of Commerce which has spent close to a half billion dollars on lobbying
since George Bush was inaugurated. The attorneys assert that Rove has used the Chamber to bankroll many
of the illegal attacks using fake front groups posing as advocacy
organizations. http://www.velvetrevolution.us/images/KAIRIS.doc.
The attorneys will need to respond immediately to what we expect to be a smear campaign by those
implicated in this attack on democracy. Press and FEC reports show that Rove and Connell are now working for
the McCain presidential campaign.
Our job does not stop with
simply exposing the truth. We need to make sure that these same
people are not able to manipulate the upcoming presidential election. Why are these people now working for John McCain?
Is it because they have
promised him a win no matter what? We want to make sure that McCain knows exactly what these
people have done and hold him to his promise of a clean election.
Growing evidence suggests
that, together, they've delivered many times in the last decade.
We need your help.
PROSECUTE ROVE" CAMPAIGN. Let's get to the bottom of this scandal
before it's too late.
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GOP Cyber Expert-2008 Will Be Stolen
Voting Machines Are National Security Threat
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Highlights from the video
It's a network, people.
Electronic voting machines are a national security threat.
The genie is out of the bottle….
Fifty ways to steal an election.
Mike Connell: Bush IT Guru
The Rapp Family: Ohio election cover-up.
Evangelicals and voting machines.
Paper ballots please.
McCain/Palin will win by theft.
People should doubt the vote, it's being stolen.
GOP Cyber Expert-How To Steal Elections
Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbmiGCSHQ1c
Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoPUZvaoyqw
Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_PjPsteoqk
Segment 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti3MlNgeCRQ
Segment 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-sHsfze_Xo
Segment 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUx0lyijXg
Segment 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_JdUZzgu9I
Segment 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIZLizSnGc
Rove Cyber Ops Target
GOP CyberSleuth
Says Elections Rigged
Interview transcript (HTML) (WORD)
Highlights from the Spoonamore Interview
Segment 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAyEfovA404
Segment 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTBLfgos5b8
Segment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzKbigGoMoo
Segment 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNvweInGFs
Segment 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8fRwsTpoQ
Segment 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Kq4dxPwY8
Segment 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgY4_BB2lo
Segment 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy1sz-xBxf8
Ohio Attorneys Accuse Rove Of
Directing Election Theft
News Accounts About
Rove's Illegal Election Strategy And Our Campaign
New Proof 2004 Ohio Election Stolen By GOP
New Court Filing Shows How 2004 Ohio Election Was Hacked
Karl Rove Subpoenaed
Rove Subpoenaed Re Vote Rigging
Behind the firewall: Bush loyalist Mike Connell controls Congressional secrets as his email sites serve Karl Rove
Que RICO? - Rove's Contempt of Congress and Connell's Indicted Elite
Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not 'Take the Fall' for Election Fraud
in Ohio
http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/node/2164 Ohio Attorneys Seek Protection for Mike Connell and his Family against Alleged Threats from Karl Rove
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189 OH Election Case Reignited, Cites Massive Evidence of Fraud
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6206 GOP
High Tech Guru At The Scene Of Every Election Crime
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/...theft-of-2004-election Ohio Attorneys to Assert RICO Claim Against Karl Rove for Orchestrating Theft of 2004 Election
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/.../140-bush-wackers-now-wacking-for-mccain Bush Wackers Now Wacking For McCain
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/features/1-latest-news/137-connell Connell, Rove and the GOP Boys, Positioned for McCain?
http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/Tidewater-Roy-Cales Who Is Roy Cales and What Is His Connection To Mike Connell?
Explosive Events Happening In King-Lincoln v. Blackwell Case
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/170-can-obama-win-and-loose-ohio-at-the-same-time Experts' Affidavits Filed on Ohio 2004 Lawsuit Say Republican Cyber Operatives Could Heist 2008 Election in Replay of 2004
How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win
Republican IT consultant subpoenaed in case alleging tampering with 2004 election
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/176-bush-mccain-computer-expert-may-avoid-testifying-on-cyber-rigging-of-2004-election-until-after-november Will Mike Connell Avoid Testifying on Cyber Rigging Until after the 2008 Election?
Stay Lifted in '04 Election Fraud Case, GOP 'Tech Guru' Subpoenaed
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Nonprofit_offers_100k_reward_for_info_1003.html Non-profit offers $100k reward for info tying Rove to election rigging
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-abrahams/white-house-emails-the-mi_b_136653.html White House Emails: The Missing Link?
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/200-ohio-cyber-security-expert-says-2004-kingpin-attack-benefited-bush-kingpin-attack-benefited-bush Ohio Cyber Security Expert Says 2004 KingPin Attack Benefited Bush
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6600 Federal Judge Compels GOP IT Guru Mike Connell To Give Deposition in Ohio '04 Election Case
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/34-ohio-news/208-mike-connell-qno-magic-bulletq-for-2004-or-2008-elections-attorney-says Michael Connell: No Magic Bullet for 2004 and 2008 Elections
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/President_of_GOP_IT_gurus_firm_1223.html Disputes Rise IN Connell Death
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Local_TV_news_Connell_crash_accident_1223.html Connell Death Accident Or Foul Play
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Karl_Roves_IT_guru_Mike_Connell_1220.html Connell Killed in Plane Crash
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-abrahams/white-house-email-trail-g_b_15296 White House Emails And Connell's Death
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6765 Ohio Attorney Reacts To Connell Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24TCUbKFnh0 Was Connell Death Sabotage
http://www.ohio.com/news/36521859.html Connell Remembered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFIWwjkSV4E Footage Of Connell Crash Site
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3885913/George-Bush-aide-dies-in-plane-crash.html Bush Aide Dies In Plane Crash
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/23/cbsnews_investigates/main4684431.shtml GOP IT Guru Dies In Plane Crash
http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/mike_connell_a_trail_of_questions_at_the_end_of_the_road Connell: A Trail Of Questions
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/12/hbc-90004069 A Troubling Black Box Death
http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/news/press_release.asp?docKey=600-200812201124PR_NEWS_USPR_____DC54094-477UNBF8U5NRSARMF39355DDGV&provider=PR%20Newswire&docDate=December%2020%2C%202008&press_symbol=undefined&scp=8&sq=Michael%20Connell&st=cse&scp=5&sq=michael%20connell&st=cse Non Profit Demands Investigation Into Connell Death
Burning Wreckage Of Connell Crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxjyofPN2pY Channel 19 Tease About Connell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl51vtElmj8 Channell 19 Story On VR's Connell Allegations
http://www.archive.org/details/ElectionFraudInOhioCourtCase Press Conference About Federal Lawsuit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvdeMeVrQNE&feature=related Bush Adviser's Strange Death
Connell's Sister Now Doubts Plane Crash Was Accident MyDD, Ralph Lopez, 4/3/09
Rove Must Answer For Death Of Michael Connell Pajaronian Register, Don Monkerud, 5/7/09
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla – The Florida Highway Patrol just released dashcam video from a trooper in pursuit of a mother driving recklessly and accused of trying to kill herself and her children.
FHP said the driver, Angela Estrella, and said her two children were inside the SUV as it sped through Osceola County, rammed into a van, skidded out of control, and then slammed into the pursuing trooper's car.
Video shows Estrella weaving past two school buses, speeding through stop lights, and troopers said at one point, the SUV hit 112 miles per hour. Troopers even opened fire on the SUV when they said the driver threatened to run over one trooper. The firing officer never knew two innocent children were inside.
The woman's daughter told authorities that her mom was trying to kill herself, that she even threw a knife out the window and kept driving even when her kids begged for their lives.
Despite causing several wrecks, the driver only stopped when the SUV slammed into a truck.
Estrella's 18-year-old daughter told authorities what happened after she and her 6-year-old brother were taken to safety.
TROOPER: Did you hear the shots fired?
DAUGHTER: Yes. I did. And I'm like, I saw blood. I though it was me, but I'm like, 'No, that's my mother.' And I'm like, 'Yo, they're shooting at you. Stop.'
TROOPER: Were you in the front seat?
DAUGHTER: Yes.
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DAUGHTER: I was trying to make her stop, but should wouldn't listen to me.
TROOPER: Was she under the influence of anything?
DAUGHTER: She hasn't drinken or nothing, except she...
TROOPER: Was she on a suicide mission or something. Did she want to die? Did she mention anything like that?
DAUGHTER: Yes. She did. But the thing is, she has nervous breakdowns or something. I don't know what it's called, but she has something.
TROOPER: And she takes medication for that?
DAUGHTER: She's supposed to.
Estrella is in jail and faces numerous charges after the August incident.


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Fast forward to 2013 and the first national GMC conference on 'Medical professionalism : whose job is it anyway?' is held today in Manchester with 400 attendees- over 50% of them medical students and jobbing doctors, but with other stakeholders including patients well represented. There is an official conference hashtag #gmcconf and it is used more than 1500 times today. Throughout the day there is reference to taking questions from tweets and no-one seems to be in any way surprised.
I make about 1/2 the tweets I do at the last event, in part because this time I was giving a lunch-time seminar with Gareth Williams from the GMC office in Cardiff on the social media in practice. A strong conference theme is the nature of professionalism in a post Berwick and Francis report world and so my part of the session focussed on how social media is being used to drive improvement and ensure patient safety by doctors in the UK today.
I concentrated on a few stories - Elin Roddy's experiences of learning and reflecting in social media which lead to her taking on the role of lead for End of Life care in her trust ; raising patient safety through openness and transparency of sharing the #Wrongfooted storify ; NHS Change Day ; the FOAMed initiatives of ECGClass, Gasclass and TeamHaem ; and Kate Granger's #HelloMyNameIs campaign.
A few years ago I was not confident that I could justify urging every doctor to explore social media. But it is now beyond doubt that some of the most innovative, creative and transformative conversations about improving the care of and with our patients are happening within social media.
We must ask ourselves what we can do to help our colleagues and students be part of these conversations.


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Dr. Gregory D. Hess was inaugurated as the 16th president of Wabash College Friday in a celebration on the campus in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
In keeping with the theme for the weekend, President Hess spoke about the "simple gifts" of a liberal arts education during his inaugural address, acknowledging the fast pace of change in higher education and Wabash's steadfast commitment to its historic roots.
"Our true academic mission — to liberally educate each and every student — is a timeless reminder of the lives we change here at Wabash College, one young man at a time," President Hess said. "For while the problems facing higher education and the world are complex, the solutions need not be. Amidst the jostle and the fray and the haranguing static and noise that often surround our academic endeavor, stands our foundation: the simple gifts of the liberal arts.
"These profound gifts — the ability to act, to see, and to speak — are the bedrock that underpin teaching and learning at Wabash College."
More than 600 people attended the inaugural convocation held in the Pioneer Chapel, including trustees, delegates from more than two-dozen colleges and universities, alumni, parents, friends, and guests of the Hess family.
Stephen Bowen, Chairman of the Wabash College Board of Trustees, presented Dr. Hess the College's original charter as a symbol of the trust the Board has in its new president.
"Wabash may be a small college, but it is independent, resourceful, hardworking, and strategic," Chairman Bowen said. "It has a rich history of accomplishment. It will rise to any challenge.
"What [matters] is that we go forward from this place with a renewed commitment to our mission, that we put to good use the power of this community, and that we dare to believe that the best days of this great College are yet to come. Gregory D. Hess, my fellow Trustees and I have faith in your ability to lead our College. You have the strength of mind, the depth of wisdom, and the greatness of heart essential for this task, and we pledge to you our full support."
A native of San Francisco, President Hess earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California-Davis and his master's and Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University. He came to Wabash from Claremont McKenna College, where he had served as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty since 2006.
"There is a story here at Wabash that spans lives and generations, and I won't ever forget that fact, or the sacrifices and generosity of those who have made this College great," President Hess said with a nod to the students and alumni. "I will be a steward of the love and the joy that you hold for this great institution, and I will, by my efforts, be worthy of the trust that you place in me."
Hess, who began his tenure at Wabash on July 1, was welcomed to the College by Student Body President Jeremy Wentzel, Economics Professor Kealoha Widdows, and National Association of Wabash Men President R. Gregory Estell.
President Hess spoke to students in a Chapel Talk on the first day of classes. While he did not articulate his vision for the College at that early juncture of his tenure, he told the men of the College that under his leadership Wabash would become known as the liberal arts college for men.
Speaking for the students, Wentzel pledged his support to the new president, too.
"Gregory Hess is a scholar, an economist," Wentzel said. "He's a man with a pointed and precise focus on holistically shepherding Wabash College to become the liberal arts college for men. I couldn't be any happier to speak louder, to speak clearer, and to speak more directly to the mission, the duty, of what we've always been: an institution that educates young men in the most excellent tradition of the liberal arts."
The president's message also resonated with the faculty and staff. In her remarks, Dr. Widdows, the John H. Schroeder Interdisciplinary Chair in Economics, said that Wabash has in President Hess a leader with "the vision, experience, courage, and creativity to guide us in finding solutions to the problems that challenge Wabash at this critical juncture in our history."
"The sweep of this ambition tells us that after only three months, you understand not only who we are, but what we can become," Dr. Widdows said. "You challenge us to extend even further the boundaries of the liberal arts classroom to include new and relevant curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities, as well as horizon-expanding off-campus and international experiences. You invite us to imagine a more capacious physical campus with new structures in which our students live, learn, work, and play. You have, in short, called us to seize our opportunities now and in so doing create at Wabash a model liberal arts education for the men of the 21st century."
Representing the Board of Directors of the National Association of Wabash Men, its president, Greg Estell, noted in his remarks how much Wabash has changed over the course of 50, 25, and even 10 years. But he also acknowledged the timelessness of the liberal arts.
"As much as its surroundings and worldly opportunities may have changed, Wabash's fundamental culture remains steadfast," Estell said. "For this we are grateful. Today's tradition of teaching — intense, immersive efforts which sometimes spread across the globe — is simply an extension of our history, where lessons were and continue to be learned in faculty living rooms, fraternity houses and residence halls.
"With that good work in mind, President and Mrs. Hess, Wabash alumni today rise as one, with our broad strengths and varied perspectives, offering our heartfelt gratitude and full support as our College, with your leadership, sets a global standard as THE liberal arts college for men."
In his closing, President Hess promised to safeguard the College and quoted the late Wabash Professor William C. Placher, who spoke eloquently about Wabash's purpose throughout his lifetime.
"At this time in its history, Wabash College has the unique opportunity to leverage its standing and to help shape the course for the importance of liberal arts education for men. I am honored and excited to lead the College in this endeavor," President Hess said.
"I believe in Wabash. I believe in the mission of this great College. I believe, as Bill Placher did, that uncommon good can come from a few good men willing to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely. These are the simple gifts of a Wabash liberal arts education. And these are the gifts I pledge to safeguard and proclaim 'from the Hills of Maine to the Western plain' and 'to the light of the southern seas.'"


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The Arctic is becoming a greener and warmer place, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The study, NOAAs 2012 State of the Arctic report card, said that the cold region at the top of the world continued to break records, including loss of summer sea ice, lack of spring snow cover, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet.
The Arctic is changing in both predictable and unpredictable ways, so we must expect surprises, said NOAA head Jane Lubchenco during a media briefing at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco.
What was unusual about the Arctic this year was that, with few exceptions, air temperatures werent all that high, yet there were continuing changes to the ice and snow across the region, said Martin Jeffries, co-editor of the report and science adviser at the Office of Naval Research.
Some of the highlights of the report included:
Snow cover: A new record low snow extent for the Northern Hemisphere was set in June 2012, and a new record low was reached in May over Eurasia.
Sea ice: Minimum Arctic sea ice extent in September 2012 set a new all-time record low, as measured by satellite since 1979.
Greenland ice sheet: There was a rare, nearly ice sheet-wide melt event on the Greenland ice sheet in July, covering about 97 percent of the ice sheet on a single day.
Vegetation: The tundra is getting greener and theres more above-ground growth. During the period of 2003-10, the length of the growing season increased through much of the Arctic.
Wildlife and food chain: In northernmost Europe, the Arctic fox is close to extinction. Also, measurements of phytoplankton blooms below the summer sea ice suggest earlier estimates of biological production at the bottom of the marine food chain may have been 10 times lower than was occurring.
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Most of the ghost towns I visit have been written about by Philip Varney in his New Mexico's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide. The problem is that this guide was first published in 1981 and thus many of his photographs and descriptions date from the late 1970's. When I go to check out one of these towns I usually find MUCH LESS than he did. Well, what do I expect? We're talking at least an additional three decades of exposure to elements both natural and manmade. One exception to this rule might be Chloride, currently pop. 11, which, after nearly disappearing totally, has been resurrected as a charming slice of history wwaaayy out in southwestern New Mexico. At some point I'll do a post on Chloride. On the other end of the spectrum is Yeso, a ghost town which actually looks pretty similar to how it must have when Varney stopped by. Although Yeso is not entirely a ghost town; a few people do live there and a functioning post office sits right across the street from the abandoned one.
Yeso sprang up along Yeso Creek, but the water was not fit for consumption. Yeso translates as "gypsum" or "chalk" in Spanish and you can't really drink a glass of dissolved gypsum without running into problems. But Yeso also had readily accessible groundwater which could be pumped for livestock and locomotive engines traveling the brand new Belen Cutoff. The cutoff re-routed trains through east-central New Mexico, away from the steep grades toward Colorado. One of the first frame train depots was built in Yeso, which was officially established in 1906, a year before completion of the Belen Cutoff.
The town did alright for awhile. A post office was constructed in 1909 and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (ATSF) railroad kept things going despite a lingering regional drought. Yeso quickly became a gathering place for the ranchers and handful of farmers in the area. Things got rough after WWII, when diesel locomotives were introduced and trains no longer had to stop in town to take on water. That was also about the time it finally became clear that the land around Yeso was really not very good for farming and might not be suited for much beyond grazing sheep. It had been an awfully dry few decades, too.
By the mid-1960's, the school, which was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1940, closed as the last steam locomotives were retired. The old frame train depot now became one of the last of its kind to fold, shutting its doors for good in 1968. Most everyone packed up and moved to Fort Sumner, 22 miles to the east. Apparently four families opted to stay in Yeso and I have to wonder if their descendents occupy the few well-maintained homes abutting U.S. 60. Incidentally, Billy the Kid was killed in Fort Sumner and I'll eventually do a post on that infamous town, as well.
Finally (and oddly), the spelling of Yeso was changed to a misspelling--Yesso--between 1912 and 1913. Anyone know why?
Info for this post came from Philip Varney (of course) and this little write-up on Ghosttowns.com. I also grabbed one fact from Dixie Boyle's cool (and now hilariously expensive) book on U.S. Highway 60.
Happy holidays! There's plenty of ground to cover in 2012.


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Durlston Pastoral Care Centre is a member of the Micah Network
08 February 2012
By Lawrence Temfe, Jubilee Centre, Zambia
I just returned from Zimbabwe. I was invited to attend a workshop on climate change and environmental degradation. One highlight of the trip was a visit to a settlement of 167 families just outside Harare. Four of us from Zambia were tasked with discussing the effects of climate and environmental change with these families. One area they pointed out was erratic rainfall. When we asked them the reasons for this change of rain pattern a young woman responded, "Previously, we used to invoke ancestral spirits for rainfall and they answered by giving us adequate rain, today we pray to the Christian God and because most church leaders are insincere God is not answering our prayers."
What touched me most was her understanding of the comprehensive nature of genuine Christianity. Genuine Christianity is a way to see and comprehend reality. This young woman understands that scripture is intended to be the basis for all of life. She has a point. In the creation account we are told that God created everything and therefore everything is subject to him. The implication is that every subject we explore, from ethics to politics, economics to climate or environmental science, the truth is found only in relationship to God. God created the earth and everything in it and delegated some of His authority to man. He expected us to take responsibility for the environment. God was careful how he made the earth and the young lady in her naivety is making an appeal to Christians not to be careless about how we take care of it.
The emphasis on a personal relationship is the evangelicals' greatest strength. I am one of millions who had an encounter with Christ and received assurance of my salvation when in the midst of crisis in a prison cell I cried out to God, "Save me Lord." But through my spiritual journey I have come to learn that authentic Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus expressed in personal piety and church attendance. Christianity is a total life system. Understood this way we are in position to help the young lady with practical reasons for erratic rainfall in her community.
The two Zambian ladies I was with did discuss the likely reasons for the erratic rainfall. They told the community that when God created the earth He also ensured that it bears in itself a law for self existence. They further stated that God has given wisdom to man to rule the earth, but man has perverted his God-given role and as a result we have these unpleasant consequences of erratic rainfall. We then invited the community to pray with us basing our prayers on 2 Chron. 7:14. As the women were praying the Lord opened the heavens and rains came. There was much celebration and I am sure we left the community with renewed faith and hope for a better future.
The lesson here is that our calling is not only to personal piety but also to understand the divine ordinances that God gave the earth for self-existence. These ordinances contain environmental care principles that affect our daily lives. If we observe these principles we will be effective in evangelizing our nation and in transforming it to bear the beauty of the Garden of Eden. God help us.
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Improved screening means new targets for pediatric neuroblastoma therapies
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common and lethal types of childhood cancers. In a paper published online today in OncoTarget, a researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio unveils the important role of microRNAs in regulating neuroblastoma development, pointing to new therapeutic possibilities.
Neuroblastomas, which account for 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths, happen when some cells do not differentiate and grow as they should. A promising type of therapy called differentiation therapy targets these malignant cells so that they can resume the process of differentiating into mature cells.
Unlike conventional chemotherapies, this new approach to cancer therapy has fewer toxic side effects, and gives hope for a cancer treatment that is gentler on young bodies. But so far only a few differentiation agents have been successfully used to treat neuroblastoma, and more than half of the young patients treated with such agents still see their cancer return.
To find new treatments, researchers needed improved laboratory screening techniques, and now one has been developed by Liqin Du, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, and her team at the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at the UT Health Science Center.
MicroRNAs are small RNA molecules involved in gene expression, and play an important role in cell development. This screening approach revealed several microRNA molecules that induce the process of cell differentiation, and those are key to developing new drugs.
"Development of new agents for treating neuroblastoma has been greatly hampered by the lack of efficient high-throughput screening approaches," Dr. Du said. "In our study, we applied a novel high-content screening approach that we recently developed to investigate the role of microRNAs in neuroblastoma differentiation.
"We identified a set of novel microRNAs that are potent inducers of neuroblastoma cell differentiation and found that mimics (synthetic fragments of nucleic acid used to raise microRNA levels in cells) of some of the identified microRNAs are much more potent in inducing neuroblastoma cell differentiation than the current differentiation treatments.
"These mimics are promising new drugs for neuroblastoma differentiation therapy," Dr. Du said. "We look forward to investigating this further in the future."
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Looks like someones just as worried about the "gathering" power of the Storm Worm as I have been.
I've posted previously on this topic:
Here's a small excerpt from a recent article in The Observer:
In millions of Windows, the perfect Storm is gathering
John Naughton
Sunday October 21, 2007
The Observer
A spectre is haunting the net but, outside of techie circles, nobody seems to be talking about it. The threat it represents to our security and wellbeing may be less dramatic than anything posed by global terrorism, but it has the potential to wreak much more havoc. And so far, nobody has come up with a good idea on how to counter it.
It's called the Storm worm.
The article goes on to say pretty much what I have been saying since July of 06!!
Anyway, hope somebody is starting to get the whole scope of the situation that is only continuing to grow.
In other words, HAAAALP!!11!!1!!!!11!!


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Sgt. maj. Andrew Krom came home to his family in Tillson after being deployed in Afghanistan for 10 months with the 411th Engineer Brigade.
Command Sgt. Maj. Andrew Krom came home to his family in Tillson after being deployed in Afghanistan for 10 months with the 411th Engineer Brigade.
"It's only been a few days, so it's kind of hard to tell yet," he said last month about being home. "(I'm) just trying to catch up on getting yourself back into the normal routine of life."
Krom is going back to his job at Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch. He is more fortunate than many of his fellow post-9/11 veterans, who are more likely to be unemployed than the general population.
"We're seeing improvements, but there's a lot more work that needs to be done," said Maura McCarthy, spokeswoman for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "Too many veterans are coming home to unemployment, and that's unacceptable."
Some returning veterans have made the best of it by using their benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill to go to college — almost 1 million have, and those who work with veterans locally said the number is doubtless as high as it is because both the benefits and the tight job market have led people to choose to go to school who might not otherwise.
However, hundreds of veterans in Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties eat at food pantries or are homeless, according to local services agencies. Orange County's veterans' food pantry is feeding 190 families now, ranging from World War II veterans to recent Iraq vets, said Tony Zippo, the head of the county's Veterans Services Agency.
"It's not easy out there," Zippo said. "I don't know if it's getting better. It seems like it's getting worse. We're feeding more and more people."
Tim Hallock, a Monticello resident who was in the Army from 1979 to 1981, said he is worried he may become homeless in a couple of months when his mother moves to Tennessee. His doctor has told him he shouldn't work, because of nerve problems in his back and leg; he has applied for Supplemental Security Income, but it hasn't come through yet. He's frustrated with what he sees as inadequate social services help. So, Hallock, who works in construction, has been looking for work anyway. He said he has applied at 18 places but so far nobody's hiring.
"There's not that many jobs in Monticello," he said. "If you do apply for a job, already 120 people applied for the same job."
Paul Stolz, who manages homeless programs for the Hudson Valley VA, estimated that 500 to 600 veterans are homeless in the region on any given night. Many, he said, are "couch-surfers," staying with family and friends, which can make it difficult to know the true number of homeless.
The bulk are Vietnam era veterans, Stolz said, but they are starting to see more Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, too.
"We're seeing more returning vets, and women with children," said Lisa Curcio, coordinator of health care for homeless veterans for the Hudson Valley VA.
Many of today's veterans are coming home with more disabilities than veterans of previous wars, said Zippo, who is himself a Vietnam veteran.
"It's a different war, and the disabilities are different," he said. "One guy had 34 different things wrong with him, from post-traumatic stress to gunshot wounds. It could be a million different things."
John Crotty, the head of Sullivan County's agency, attributed it to a variety of factors, one of the primary being the longer tours of duty and, compared to previous wars, the higher percentage of time today's veterans spent in a combat environment.
"Today's warfare, by comparison, is like science fiction," he said. "Everything is done at such a high pace. ... Many of today's troops practically never got a day off. There was never a time when they were away from the front line, because the front line was everywhere."
Jane Wagner, team leader at the Middletown Vet Center, said many of the veterans they see have PTSD and trouble readjusting. She said the high adrenaline and constant alertness that become instinct and help you to survive in the war environment can lead to problems when you come home.
"You've aged considerably," she said. "You've seen the worst of what people can do to each other. You're never really the same after that."
Jane Wagner, team leader at the Middletown Vet Center, said many of the veterans they see have trouble readjusting to civilian life.Photo: DOMINICK FIORILLE/ Times Herald-Record
She said they try to counsel veterans to focus on the positive contributions their experiences have made to becoming the person they are, and to dial back their stress-induced responses to situations in the civilian world. Veterans often get told to forget about their traumatic experiences, which, Wagner said, is not something other trauma victims — 9/11 survivors, for example — get asked to do.
"No matter how well you're trained as a soldier, nothing can prepare you for having your friend blown up next to you, or seeing a dead child. ... Those are images that are never really going to get out of your head."
McCarthy said veterans sometimes have trouble translating the skills they learned in the military into civilian life. For example, someone who was a medic or truck driver might not have the right certifications to do those things in the U.S. Also, she said, many employers don't understand the skills they bring to the table, such as leadership or ability to perform under extreme pressure.
"Hiring a veteran isn't a charity case," she said. "It makes really good business sense."
Christine Schiff, vice president of the Committee for Families of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans, a group based in White Lake that offers a variety of programs to help veterans in need, said finding jobs is a challenge for many younger veterans. Many of them need to either retrain for a job in their area — which can take money — or relocate.
"You come back from (war) not geared to get a normal job," she said.
Crotty said many returning veterans have trouble marketing the skills they've acquired to employers.
"If you have a fellow who's spent four or five years in the military, the likelihood is he's a (non-commissioned officer), he has a certain level of personnel management experience," he said. "He can lead men; he can make things happen."
However, given how few jobs are available in Sullivan County, oftentimes veterans end up in jobs for which they are overqualified. "There's nothing wrong with McDonald's, but it is McDonald's," Crotty said. "How far up the ladder can you go?"
Some corporations have made a point of hiring veterans — Wal-Mart recently pledged a job to every honorably discharged returning veteran. Sears has made a point of hiring veterans for years, and employs about 30,000 of them now, said Tom Aiello, division vice president of Sears Holdings.
"It's not a fad for us," he said. "It's literally part of the fabric of this company."
Aiello said they try to place as many veterans as they can in salaried managerial positions, which they are often good fits for because of their experience.


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DescriptionSwords and Soldiers takes the classic real-time strategy formula and refurbishes it into a side-scrolling game.
The game features three scenarios: Vikings, Aztec and Chinese, each with a different difficulty level. Each "race" features its own specific units, a building and spells. Throughout the story campaign the player unlocks these for use. In skirmishes everything is available, but the player must research them in the game using a simple tech tree. There are also challenges available and multi-player.
The game mechanics are remarkably similar to a RTS game. The player harvests gold from gold mines using a non-combat unit, researches technology to build better units and spells, and uses those to gain map control. Units will automatically walk towards the enemy camp once created, so a steady flow of units will stream from both sides of the map and will clash somewhere in the middle. The aim for the player is to tilt those melees into his advantage by creating the right units to counter enemy units and cast spells to buff friendly units or maim enemy units.
There's a large variety in units per race, giving each race its own tactics. Vikings are strong, can be healed, can quickly regenerate mana, and their largest unit, the catapult, is far-ranged. Aztecs, on the other hand, have less health and regenerate mana slowly, but they can sacrifice units to regain mana, as well as poison, imprison or dominate enemy units. The Chinese use explosives which make their ranged units more powerful and in addition they have a monkey that can skip past enemy units to attack the rear guard.
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1001 Video GamesThe Wii version of Swords & Soldiers appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
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