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Guess who got to traumatize CNN Morning Express anchor Robin Meade? — crusty old Skull & Bonesman, SMOM Knight, George HW Bush Sr., celebrated 85th birthday by skydiving w/always sexed up news anchor-bot MK Kitty Robin Meade — another product of NSA-CIA MK-Ultra Monarch Program Multiple finishing school "Worldwide Pageant System" which is FULL of Monarch Slaves in training for pedophiles global elite — former Miss Ohio 1992 and Native American, voted "Sexiest Newscaster" by Playboy in 2004, has the most blatant BETA Prog'md Sex-Slave (Kitten) ALTERS in TV News today! – Robin's "amped up" cat/kitten alters were new prototypefor army of MK-Beta's "anchcor-bots" that infiltrated news studios, especially Rupert Murdoch' s FOX News. The cast of NewsCorp's FOX-I-FIED Blonde MK's are "fully functional in all rooms" — uniform is short-skirt, high-heels, big-hair, lips pouted, backs arched!
Robin suffers from a history of"anxiety attacks" — common trait among Mind Kontrolled Slaves…
Each show opens (6-10am) w/Robin's Occult sun-worshiping trademark shout out…
Note: "yellow brick road" in banner here:
George HW Bush Birthday Skydive — Aerial Trauma Reinforcement; his favorite according to Cathy O'Brien in "Tranceformation of America"
Bush MK Prog'mr Exposed Cathy states ole George loves to traumatize MK' Kittys by "throwing them from helicopters" and playing "The Most Dangerous Game"– involves setting MK'd BETA Slaves loose in California forest to run from degenerate Grove patrons, in deadly game of nude hide & seek — to the DEATH! The Grove locale for Annual Megalomaniac Summer PEDO-Fest @Bohemian Grove, Monte Rio, California. Cathy also witnessed Mr. ex-CIA Director, Knight of Malta GHWB whacked-out on heroin… sodomizing her underage daughter Kelly…during electroshock treatment — also exposed Mr. Halliburton (shoot your friends in the face) former VP Dick Cheney as regular visitor/abuser of MK's at the Grove, where Jesuit-controlled elite gather annually in California forest to: 1) pee on trees 2) worship a giant owl 3) don hooded cloaks and molest underage MK'd boys/girls, while having delusions of grandeur — just imagine the fun old George had w/MK Kitty-Beta trained sex-slave Robin Meade on his 85th birthday?
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Fr: "Trance Formation of America" – Cathy O'Brien MK Survivor (Victim)
pg. 157. "Bush…knelt on one knee in front of [Cathy's daughter] Kelly in order to talk to her on her level…using his best Mr. Rogers voice he said "Come here, little one. I want to ask you something…
The Most Dangerous Game
pg. 194-195"Hyper from drugs, Cheney and Bush were eager to hunt their human prey…they greeted me with the rules of the game, ordered me to strip naked despite the cold December winds…Kelly's life became the stakes, as usual, which resurrected my natural and exaggerated programmed maternal instincts. Tears silently ran down my cheeks as Bush told me, 'If we catch you, Kelly's mine. So run, run as fast as you can. I'll get you and your little girl, too…I will.' [a reference to Wiz of OZ fear codes "and your little "dog" too ]
[According to Cathy, he did. Brutally. Again.]
MK'd Beta Sex Kitten Robin Meade — MORNING SUNSHINE !
Blatant On-Screen Occult-Masonic Numerology
Forget the tongue; note Occult numerology (1+5) =(6); (6) leaves on necklace, last one is time 7:49 — IN YOUR FACE! (crawls on broadcasts often contain hidden messages for GMT)
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BUSH (SCHERFF) SYNDICATE: satellite family orbiting Rockefeller (Roggenfelder) Global Mgt. Team —13 Jesuit controlled-Illuminati Dynastic Bloodlines along w/ Jesuits, SMOM Knights of Malta, Roman Papacy (yes…who do you think helped smuggle satanic mind control Dr.'s, of Nazi officer core out of Germany at end WW2?) & British Order of Garter/ Order of Bath — ruling earth for centuries, grooming their inaudibility by parceling out crumbs — political power/immense wealth, to loyal servants in Bush Syndicate…
BUSH SYNDICATE Political Posts: UN Ambassador, Chmn GOP, Envoy to China, Dir. CIA (DCI), VPOTUS, Governor's Florida/Texas (sons); POTUS Bush Jr./Sr.,Chmn. Carlyle Group (major arms merchants)
BUSH SYNDICATE Corporate Assets: co-mingled w/Zionist Rothschild Dynasty Shell Oil Co through Pennzoil — the (Z) in Pennzoil is for Bush asset Zapata Oil Co., merged w/Penn Oil Co., and as Director of Carlyle Group, Bush Syndicate had holdings co-mingled w/ Bin-Laden Syndicate in Zapata Oil company
Prescott Bush Grandsons: Marvin Bush previous CEO/owner (now defunct) Securacom — contract holder for security of WTC complex, United Airlines & Dulles Intl. Airport; No wonder Bush Jr. shut down 9-11 Senate investigation — classic "fox in hen house". Neil Bush got millions in taxpayer funds via gov't Small Business Loan for risky oil & gas exploration, also linked to S&L scandal during Clinton regime — currently Chrmn/CEO Nexus Energy Jeb Bush oversaw election fraud as Gov. of Florida during 2000 installation of Idiot-In-Chief Bush, Jr by Masonic Supreme Court — more Bush Syndicate criminal hijinks…
Note: FASCES (=root world of FASCIST) IN YOUR FACE!
take a closer look…
I know you've seen this before…
Another angle…
Fasces as pillars
Third Reich Funded by Zionist Rothschild/Rockefeller Dynasties:w/help of Prescott Bush (aka George Scherff, Sr.), Managing Director Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) 140 Broadway, New York
Prescott Bush, Managing Dir. Brown Bros. Harriman partnered w/Hitler's banker, Fritz Thyssen to create shell company for American investment in profitable Nazi empire — many U.S. corporations lined their pockets w/Nazi loot via German subsidiaries – IBM manufacturer of "punch cards" used to count those subjected to abominable Sigmund Freud/Tavistock/ Himmler/ Mengele (Dr. Green a.k.a. Angel of Death) Mind Kontrolle experiments, in Nazi death camps, where Human Sacrificial Rites under Jesuit direction were performed. IBM, Ford Motor Corp, I.G. Farben & Standard Oil (Rockefeller Dynasty) among other American corporations, helped fuel Nazi War Machine…
Bush Syndicate Exposed: Union Bank Corp Indicted Under "Trading With The Enemy Act"
Senator Prescott Bush interview pt 1
Senator Prescott Bush interview pt 2
More on Bush Syndicate & Trading With Enemy Act
"Unauthorized Biography of George HW Bush"
by Webster Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Is George Herbert Walker Bush Even Who He Says He Is?
Poppy Bush flashes double Baphoment (devil horn) Sign in mid-air while skydiving (2:37)
Bush Family Fortunes: (6) Part Series
Bohemian Grove: 2,700 acre campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California 95462 — Global Management Team gathers annually to indulge in occult hedonistic antics under military guard — Jesuit planned wars (Crusades), population reduction (sustainable development ) global divide/conquer schemes, Big Oil-Arms-Narcotics mega profits always on agenda — more Bohemian Grove, Global Megalomaniac Camp Ground
George HW Bush (Scherff) MK'd BETA Sex Slave/Human Laptop
CNN Robin Meade On-Air Reactivation
(20 sec) " Trance"
— Co-host says "wipe the drool"
Another Singing BETA Prog'md Mind Control Slave Pageant Winner…
ITK7: MK's are pruned like roses from a garden (except "garden" is most likely a deep underground military installation D.U.M.B.) — most beautiful and talented are chosen as "change agents" for molding masses to Global Mgt Team social alchemy goal of One World Mind Control Order. CNN Robin Meade, yet another poor soul, subjected to years of electroshock torture, triggering "alters" to be commanded by sinister prog'mrs/handlers, and of course performing sex acts that would make hardcore pornstars blush. Private films are sold on underground porn market, shown "on-line" over "encrypted streams" — there are massive databases containing porn w/your favorite celebrities, athletes, political figures. MK's are shuttled between secure military bases, connected via deep underground tunnels, traveling on MagLev high-speed rail — built during 1950's w/ NSA-CIA "black budget" off-balance sheet funds…"national security" indeed!
"There's No Place Like Home" ( Wiz of OZ ="Dorothy Prog'mg")
(see banner top of screen @ 0:22)
Robin gives shout out to John Hughes MK Prog'mr and director of many children's films loaded w/MK prog'mg; died suddenly of heart attack, Aug-09, while walking in Manhattan, possibly self-destruct Omega Prog'rm (?)
MK-Ultra Monarch Prog'md BETA Sex Slave (Kitten) ROBIN MEADE
ANYTHING, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE w/ANYONE…
Robin Meade billboard Wiz of Oz "Dorothy" Prog'mg note: "Yellow Brick Road"
MUST SEE MK (Mind Kontrolle) Ultra Prog'mg Modes ID: "I Gotta See It"
more Morning Sunshine!
You Tube MK-Ultra Monarch Prog Survivors Cathy O'Brien & Brice Taylor
Global Mgt Team agenda for SMOM Knight George HW Bush's son, the Idiot-In-Chief was 1) usher in police state via false-flag 9-11 Fear-Based Trauma Op 2) set up apparatus for "soft dictatorship" (Homeland Security Dept [Vaderland in German] ) for Zbig Brzezinski 's MK'd multi-racial boy wonder Mr. Yes He Can! O-Man (controlled asset) to inherit, after handing trillions to Zionist Rothschild/Rockefeller banking cartel using Heinz (Henry) Kissinger's latest distraction tools, Mrs. Red Pumps & Palms, Alaskan Beta -Sex Slave Sarah-You Betcha Palin (& family) — stage managed by neo-Nazi twins Karl Rove & Roger Ailes, using Bilderberger Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire…
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*GEORGE H. SCHERFF (aka Prescott Sheldon Bush, Mgr. Dir. Brown Brothers Harriman, indicted under Trading With Enemies Act) & SON GEORGE H. SCHERFF Jr. (aka George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st POTUS)
Hey America…meet the SCHERFF'S and friends (circa 1938). Holding Mother Scherff's hand at left is MARTIN BORMANN. In front is REINHARDT GEHLEN. In back is JOSEPH MENGELE, to his right is SKORZENY as a young man. Center right (in German Navy uniform) is GEORGE H. SCHERFF JR. & father GEORGE H. SCHERFF, Sr. Bormann became Hitler's 2ND in command. Reinhardt Gehlen was a Chief SS Officer & assassin, smuggled out of Germany under Operation Paperclip via Vatican Ratlines. Skorzeny was Hitler's bodyguard and SS spy/assassin; came to U.S. after WW2 under Project Paperclip. Skorzeny and GHW Bush were instrumental in merging Nazi (SS) Intel w/ OSI to form CIA w/"Wild Bill" Donovan and Allen Dulles. These sadistic agents were part of CIA Mind Kontrolle Programming Project ULTRA. SS Officer/physician Joseph Mengele (sadistic "Angel of Death" aka Dr. Green of Auschwitz) escaped Germany to South America after WW2. George H. Scherff, Jr., installed as 41st POTUS George HW Bush & George H. Scherff, Sr., was Nicola Tesla's "trusted assistant."
(Otto Skorzeny Deathbed Confession)
Revelations of Otto Skorensky Pt. 2
Bush Family Fortunes (VIDEO)
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Additional Resources:
Thanks For The Memories – Brice Taylor (copyrighted) is MK-Ultra Monarch survivor (victim) was Henry Kissinger's Personal Beta Sex Slave & Human Laptop — written in narrative form, paints picture connecting dots between top-level players in Hollywood, Music Industry, Sports, Banking-Corp, Behavioral Sciences Industry, Military-Industrial-Apparatus, Political Realm, Religious leaders & Occult world engaging in abominable acts involving children for the sole purpose of creating DID (formerly MPD) human robots for elites. Brice Taylor "names, names" …WARNING! her account of "our leaders" off -camera behavior is shocking and revolting. I'm ex-military, well traveled and thought I'd been desensitized, at times I could barely get through a page! this material is NOT for children, and should be treated accordingly…
Bloodlines of The Illuminati – Fritz Springmeierbrilliant expose on (13) Ruling Bloodline Dynasties
Illuminati Formula Used To Create An Undetectable Total Illuminati Mind Controlled Slave Vol. 2– Cisco Wheeler (survivor) & Fritz Springmeier (now jailed on false charges) exhaustive treatise on horrors of NSA-CIA protected/Nazi inspired MK-Ultra Monarch Prog
Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula – Cisco Wheeler & Fritz Springmeier
Tranceformation of America – Cathy O'Brien & Mark Phillips (de-programmer)
Robin Meade Tandem Jump w/GHWB
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May His Countenance Always Shine Upon Thee
Be Well & Stay Vigilant


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Alright, final installment (2 weeks down the track) of Blogday gifts, where I asked for:
Gnome weekend that was
I bore you with my weekends adventures… Now it's your turn!
Go on, tell me. No topic is too big, or two small. Your level 12 Alt is just as important to me as your T8 raid slayer.
I got 3 responses to this question and one which while not on this topic, it was really a Gnomeshots, was told in such a way that I had to include it here instead… it wasn't just GnomeShots, it was much much more… the March of the Wonder Gnomes…
Thanks to Larisa, Prelimar, theerivs and Cathy for giving me their "Gnome" weekend that was.
Larisa Writes:
Sometimes things don't go quite as you want to. Last weekend was once of those occasions.
Friday night ended up without any playing whatsoever since the login servers were broken. Well, at least I got a decent amount of sleep for a change.
Saturday night I ended up in a failed Ulduar 10 man raid. We knew from the beginning that our chances were small with a strange setup that included offspecs and alts. We downed a boss, wiped a few times on another one and then decided to call it.
I went to ZD Arena and helped out a game friend to complete the quests. It was fun but lasted only 10 minutes or so.
And after that I couldn't come up with anything fun to do on my mage, so I went questing with my little alt druid, while spending a couple of midnight hours in the LFG channel.
It was all in vain.
It seems that people don't do the old world instances properly anymore.
Eventually I gave in and accepted the offers from the same friend that I had helped in ZD. He boosted me through Stockades and Gnomeaggedon (edit: I am sure Larisa meant Gnomeregan), where my biggest challenge was to keep up with his pace looting the corpses from quest items while managing my bags. It gave me a ton of XP with all the quests I could turn in later, but I wondered a bit worried if I'd ever be able to learn how to play my mage (edit: I know Larisa knows how to play her Mage… maybe she isn't so sure about her OP Druid).
And that's about it. I didn't get into the Sunday night raid, since it was about time that I spent a night with my family. Not much of a WoW weekend to remember, more like "meh", far from the glorious adventures of Gnomeaggedon, but all weekends can't be epic, can they?
I should add though, I got a beautiful upgrade, Sash of Ancient power, since I had won the exclusive orbs in a guild auction a few nights earlier, gathered the mats and now successfully managed to contact one of the few people on my realm who can craft it. It's a best-in slot item, apart from some belt that you only can get by doing exclusive hard modes so I expect to keep it for long.
That certainly brightened up my day!
Larisa and Out!
Looked pretty epic to me… we all have /fail nights, it's all about how you reccover from them.
- Some wipe and wipe again,
- Some face reality and find something else to do.
While a night of consistent raiding can be a rewarding experience, sometimes it's the "bitza" (bits of this, bits of that), that bring joy. Whether you realize it or not right now, your OP Druid (your bitza on the side) is slowly but surely becoming your new dual spec!
theerivs Writes:
Well I ate some pie, did my dailies like a good WoWite, then just logged.
In real life, I got piss drunk…I don't think I killed any gnomes.
Nope No Gnomes died last weekend.
theerivs and Out!
The Gnome weekend that didn't happen (or at least you didn't make your weekend out of Gnome corpses)
Pie… none of this fancy smancy sweet pie I hope… More like the good ol' Aussie meat pie (20% crust, 70% gravy, 5% rat, 5% real meat), served lukewarm!
I need more of the piss drunk in my WoW time… will work on that this weekend.
Premilar writes:
Older Content at Level 80 (A Cautionary Tale)
There once was a guild from Nazgrel
Who decided to run AQ Temple
"we're 80s! what a lark!
— A walk through the park!"
But then they met Vek'nilash & Vek'lor.
They tried some more
and again to be sure
And decided that Naxx has a softer floor.
Prelimar and Out!
Prelimar adds:
I feel mine is definitely not up to the standards of your regular posts, but since this was my first time at this sort of thing, I guess I can cut myself a bit of slack, haha. I wanted to spin the story so it had some epic mage action, but sadly, I'm not really an epic mage (yet!), and I spent most of each of those battles lying on the floor.
Whoah there… that was epic!
Not just an epic Old School spanking, but in prose rather than marathon Gnome essay.
I dare say when we hit AQ40 (in a month, maybe two), our experience will most likely be the same. If I get the chance I will fill you in on our BWL adventures from last week…
Cathy (Justamom here from Bleeding Hollow) writes:
What better way to honor our favorite Gnome blogger than to create some kin.
We began our journey with 6 new Gnomes..
Haappy, Blogday, Gnomeaggedon, Froom, Aculeus, Upon and Ordeum.
Stopping first for a photo shoot in our starting zone, we then made the trek on our Level 1 toons to Iron Forge. We fought together against dangerous creatures in brave Gnomeaggedon style to reach our destination. Every gnome protecting the other and defending ourselves from any hair damage.
Upon reaching Iron Forge, we formed the march that will go down in history as an Epic March of Gnomeness.
We marched proud in our Sunday best then paused to reflect upon all the clever, smart, funny blogs you have provided us with. People cheered and laughed as we made our way to the Forge, but we knew it had to be done as the message would self-destruct in 10 seconds.
And so, in courageous fashion, we threw ourselves into the lava of the Forge.
Death for us perhaps but a message that will live on forever.
Happy Blogday from friends and fellow bloggers at AUO on Bleeding Hollow.
Aculeus Upon Ordeum
"pain upon the horde"
Needless to say I was blown away by Cathy's submission…
How she managed to avoid hair damage I will never know…
Did you 6 box this, use your awesome powers of graphic manipulation, rope in 5 guildies (bloggers)…. or have you found a use for all those bored children in your childcare?
Looks like your Gnome Farming Army is ready to roll… I wonder if you would be reported for farming if this mob was out and about…
PS: I would also like to thank Cathy for her attempts to join me on Aman'Thul for a photoshoot… What I had forgotten, is the majority of you are behind us Aussies (time zone wise at least), so My Friday night is your working day. Sorry I couldn't swing a Saturday session Cathy!
What I have discovered since, and put to good use in my visit to Larisa, is that I am soooo far ahead of you folk, that if I log in on a Monday morning real early (I mean really, like 5am early), I can catch you folk while you have your Sunday session. We might just see another GnomeTransmute coming up over the next couple of weeks… I know it works, as I managed to surprise an all time favorite… just about synchronizing clocks in different time zones now…
What about Gnomeaggedon's Gnome weekend that was?
Yeah, well, been a bit slack on that front… will see if I can knock something up tomorrow…
Gnomer's Friends and Out!
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Andrew Luck and Peyton Manning will get a chance to be teammates after all - at Sunday's Pro Bowl.
Luck earned his way to the game when New England's Tom Brady pulled out with an undisclosed injury.
He'll be joined by teammates Reggie Wayne and Robert Mathis in Hawaii and Manning, the quarterback who preceded Luck in Indy.
Luck was the No. 1 overall pick in April's draft and set NFL rookie records for attempts, yards passing and 300-yard games. He fell just short of the league's rookie marks for completions and touchdowns.
Luck also won 11 games, the most by an No. 1 pick in the modern draft and tied an NFL mark by leading seven game-winning drives in the fourth quarter.
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2007 NISE Network Annual Meeting
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The 2007 Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco and hosted by the Exploratorium. The meeting featured a professional development sessions, scientist talks, showcase of programs and exhibits, concurrent sessions, and opportunities for NISE Network partners to meet and share their own work with others in the Network. Attendance at the Network-Wide Meeting was invitation-only due to space and budgetary limitations.


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Don't tell anyone, but Massachusetts is kind of a big nerd. We simply love science and nature. You could say it's in our nature, with scenic roads like the lovely Mohawk Trail, 1500 miles of postcard pretty coastline, and some of America's most brilliant fall foliage. The four Harvard Museums of Science & Culture have a new podcast, a virtual tour, online exhibitions, and closer looks at museum collections grouped by themes like "World in Color."We could spend hours at the Museum of Science, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and wish we could live at the Franklin Park Zoo or maybe the Butterfly Place, surrounded by colorful creatures. And don't even get us started on the New England Aquarium, fully renovated in 2013.
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Why must values always take a back seat to the headlong rush of developing technology? ("Md. sees a future in the rise of unmanned aircraft," Aug. 14.)
Sure, the creation of these new jobs in a sagging economy (1,050 jobs at AAI alone over the last decade) looks good to the state and to the nation. But look at the down sides: While drones have, over foreign turf (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, for example), killed targeted insurgents, they have also taken the lives of noncombatant men, women and children. Then there was the crash in June of an RQ-4A Global Hawk on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Now the push is on for unmanned aircraft to fly over the U.S. Uses for monitoring traffic, watching borders, tracking wildfires and observing weather are on the table. It's just a matter of time until law enforcement reveals plans to use the drones. Steven Reid of AAI says, "the technology almost drives itself into the marketplace." Mike Hayes, retired general and head of Maryland's office of military and federal affairs, says the industry will "grow exponentially." He goes on to state — and red flags should go up here — "then, as the [Federal Aviation Administration] comes to grips with aerospace issues and safety associated with unmanned systems, the potential for growth is even more dramatic."
Time out — you don't wait until the train is hurtling down the tracks to figure out how it's going to operate. The questions raised by this technology explosion had better be asked by Americans and dealt with now, before this train is a runaway.
First and most basic — do we even want unmanned aircraft flying across skies of the U.S., for whatever purposes? If so, and assuming the FAA would govern their use, how could that agency ensure that our citizens' rights to safety and privacy are protected? A thoughtful Sun essay by Jeffrey Ross ("Drones are different," June 20) asked questions we need to address as a nation: "What is acceptable, and what will never be? What are we willing to give up in order to be safe?" (I saw no public response to the article!)
The administration needs to establish and promote an open forum to hear public concerns about drones — both the opportunities and the considerable risks they present. It should also discuss the morality of continuing the use of them to assassinate insurgents overseas. Following this forum, the president should select a commission to investigate, summarize findings and draw up strict and specific guidelines as to whether and how unmanned aircraft may be used. Rather than submit this document to an intractable Congress, the president should simply make it law through an executive order. It's that important.
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Neurocomputing for Vision Research Neurocomputing techniques become more and more important in vision research. A great deal of problems in vision research are mitigated through the neurocomputing techniques, such as Bayesian inference, density modeling and clustering, latent variable models, manifold learning, neural networks, kernel machines, sampling techniques, semi-supervised learning, and subspace methods. The successes of the neurocomputing for vision research have been witnessed by the last five years. For example, the Markov chain Monte Carlo has been well applied for video tracking; the support vector machines combined with sampling technique and active learning have been demonstrated to improve the performance of relevance feedback in content based visual information retrieval significantly; the linear discriminant analysis and its variants have shown as the light to bright a way for face recognition; the graph cuts have been successfully employed in image segmentation; the supervised tensor learning has been utilized for image classification and biometric application; and the semi-supervised learning has boomed in image and video editing. There are just example evident parts of the combination of the two fields, neurocomputing and vision research. Elsevier Neurocomputing hunts for original research results for a Special Issue on Neurocomputing for Vision Research. The goals of this special issue are: 1) developing novel techniques in neurocomputing to target specific problems in vision research, 2) defining new vision research problems, which can be cleared up by techniques in neurocomputing, and 3) investigating new techniques in neurocomputing to enhance the performances of problems in vision research. Manuscripts are solicited to address a wide range of topics in neurocomputing for vision research, but not limit to the following: - Biometrics - Classification and clustering in vision - Emerging techniques for vision research - Motion analysis and recognition - New techniques in neurocomputing, such as subspace methods, kernel machines, semi supervised learning, manifold learning, etc. - Visual cognition - Visual information management - Visual surveillance - Industrial applications Manuscripts (8-30 pages in the Neurocomputing publishing format) should be submitted via the Electronic Editorial System, Elsevier: http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/ Guide for authors can be found: http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=505628&dc=GFA Important: when submitting your manuscript, at the step of "Selecting an Article Type is Required for Submission." please indicate: "Special Issue: Neurocomputing for Vision Research" Important Dates Manuscript submission: 10 April2007 Preliminary results: 10 July 2007 Revised version: 10 August 2007 Notification: 10 November 2007 Final manuscripts due: 10 December 2007 Anticipated publication: Spring 2008 Guest editors: Dacheng Tao University of London dacheng.tao At gmail.com Xuelong Li University of London xuelong_li At ieee.org -- Dacheng TAO Department of Computing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Office: PQ 704, Building P Phone: 00852 2766 7266 Fax: 00852 2764 2528 Home Page: http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csdct/


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We've finally made it: the Geopolitical World Cup Final is here! Our version of the quadrennial global soccer competition took a geopolitics-oriented view to determine which nation would come out on top in a no-holds-barred contest on all dimensions of power: economic, military, population, geography, development, and more.
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The Geopolitical World Cup: Semifinals
Welcome back to our recurring series on the Geopolitical World Cup! We're in the semifinal round now, after some eventful and hard-fought quarterfinal matches.
The Geopolitical World Cup: Quarterfinals
We've made it all the way to the Quarterfinal round of our 2018 Geopolitical World Cup! If you've missed any of the action to this point, be sure to check out our Group Stage (Part I, Part II) and Knockout Stage (Part I, Part II) rundowns to catch up with the Quarterfinal nations.
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The Geopolitical World Cup: Group Stage Part II
As we stated yesterday, we here at Rational Policy are putting together our own version of the 2018 World Cup, where instead of the nations battling it out on the soccer pitch, they battle it out in the realm of geopolitics. Imaginatively, we're calling this series 'The Geopolitical World Cup'! If you missed yesterday's introduction to the series and rundown of the first 3 groups in the Group Stage, be sure to read it here before continuing with this Part II.Read More »


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I have been so busy the past two weeks, I had hardly anytime to breathe. GIRLS WEEK OUT, me, my daughter and my sisters had a road trip and a good time.
Last week I attended the GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH. The biggest thing I learned is how much I have to learn. I took the class INTERMEDIATE GENEALOGY: TOOLS FOR DIGGING DEEPER. Paula Stuart Warren and D. Joshua Taylor both gave excellent lectures, and now my brain is full.
I have been sitting here going over my notes, highlighting links I wrote and books I may want to purchase that were mentioned in the lectures. I was successful in an attempt to follow their advice. Paula said to search all in your tree. One of my goals is to find the parents of my great grandfather Patrick O'Rourke. He has a sister Mary who married Daniel Rogan in about 1876. Sometime closer to 1890-1900 they moved to New Castle PA.
I found two of their children's Baptisms and one death on the Family Search site. My theory is that they were married in Pittsburgh and some of their children were Baptized there. The death was a infant daughter, Mary Rogan who died from diarrhea and is buried in ST. Mary's Cemetery. There were many St. Mary's cemeteries and now I have to find which one it was. If I find the marriage record, perhaps, it will name the parents. Irish Catholic records are sort of minimalistic but I do have a bit of hope for that.
If not there I will send for Mary's death certificate.


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Any parent with a colicky baby will tell you that dealing with colic is heartbreaking, aggravating and, well, pretty much your worst nightmare. Thankfully, a recent study shed some light on a possible cause of colic among newborns.
Researcher Dr. Abdelrazak Mansour Ali from Cairo studied 55 infants of varying age, sex and ethnicity that showed symptoms of colic. Of those chosen, 45 babies (81.8%) tested positive for Helicobacter pylori — a type of bacteria found in their stomachs. This bacterium can cause stomach discomfort, cramping and ulcers (ouch!). Dr. Ali noted that these infections may be considered the "etiologic pathogenic organism of infantile colic," meaning there may be a legitimate cause of baby's discomfort — it's not "just crying." Now if only researchers could fine a definitive cure!
Even though baby can't communicate what's wrong, there are some possible treatments to ease his pain. Dr. Ali recommends a daily dose of a probiotic to stimulate your baby's stomach — but discuss any treatment or medication with your doctor before giving it to baby.
How did you deal with your baby's colic? What do you recommend for other moms?
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1. One of my favorite travel blogs, Vagabond Journey, is run by Wade Shepard, an American who has been traveling the world for years, and is now doing so with his wife and young child. Shepard is smart, savvy and goes beyond typical tourist tips in so many ways. Here, for instance, is an incredible post called, "How to Engage and Appreciate All Places When Travelling." Or take a gander at this look at a repurposed pressure cooker being used on the streets of China, which is fascinating in its technical details and on what it says about cultural and economic change.
2. Another kind of change involves taking a new job. Maine's Dr. Noah Nesin is making the leap into new territory. After seeing his father work as a country doctor and considering a different direction, he became the same sort of physician. And now he's moving to an administrative position "to shape the delivery of medical care now to conform with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Nesin said he strongly supports."
Best of luck, Noah! Mazel Tov! And I look forward to chatting with you sometime about how changes in the health care system and health policy are affecting the delivery of care in our state.
3. With the impending arrival of the so-called "fiscal cliff," Republicans are calling for the sorts of changes in Medicare and Medicaid proposed by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Not only were these rejected at the polls, but, as Jonathan Cohn points out, it overlooks the cost-control elements in the Affordable Care Act.
It's arguably the most ambitious effort to reduce the cost of medical care in history. It captured some of the obvious sources of savings, such as overpayments to insurers that offer a private coverage alternative to Medicare beneficiaries, and it launched dozens of pilot programs, testing out schemes to make health care more efficient—everything from reducing payments to hospitals with high rates of inpatient infection to "bundling" payments so that Medicare isn't simply providing financial incentives to perform more tests and treatments.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that, on net, Obamacare will reduce the deficit [pdf]. And that's based on conservative assumptions: The CBO didn't assume huge savings from those pilot programs. If those pan out, the deficit reduction will be even greater.
4. Regarding that fiscal cliff, journalist Michael Grunwald asks his fellow reporters to pay attention to the vastly different things being said by Republicans during the campaign compared to what they're saying now.
It's really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama's opening offer in the fiscal cliff talks is just a recycled version of his old plan, when those same reporters spent the last year dutifully passing along Republican complaints that Obama had no plan. It's even more amazing to see them pass along Republican outrage that Obama isn't cutting Medicare enough, in the same matter-of-fact tone they used during the campaign to pass along Republican outrage that Obama was cutting Medicare.
Know of a similarly detailed discussion about Democrats? If so please post the link in comments.
5. Every campaign targets certain groups of voters. As William Saletan points out, Romney campaign strategists have been bragging about how well they did with the groups they targeted.
But it turns out, that wasn't very good strategy.
Romney won the groups he targeted, and his team continues to point out proudly that he won them. But mathematically, these groups no longer decide elections. In a Nov. 12 memo, Romney's polling firm asserted that "our research did what it is designed to do—provide strategic counsel to campaigns about key target groups and messages designed to help them win." But what happens when the "key target groups" aren't key? You can exclude blacks, Latinos, surplus Democrats, and people who earn less than $50,000 from your target groups and your poll analysis. But you can't exclude them from the election.
6. A lot has been written about how the Romney campaign, including its top candidates, were surprised that they lost. Internally, their pollsters were simply less sophisticated and competent than the Obama campaign's polling operation.
Moreover, given that Obama was consistently ahead in Ohio, they should have realized that Romney had no chance of winning.
If you're interested in campaign polling, give this piece a read.


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Sun-Kissed And Glowing?
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It was bad enough that I was busting out of all the bikinis I owned and couldn't keep down any food to save my life, but then to spend what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation sunburned?
I don't think so.
So I took the advice of vacationers everywhere to get my "base" tan, skipping over the health questionnaire form a little and sucking in my five-month-along belly as I chose the standing tanning booth.
But all it took was one session before my mommy guilt kicked in. And as it turns out, for once, that guilt was right on target.
The dangers of tanning during pregnancy
"Tanning during pregnancy is risky for a couple reasons," explains Katharine Taber, M.D., the director of the Women's Wellness Center at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown. First, she explains that the hormones pumped through a woman's body during pregnancy can cause different skin reactions; for example, women can get allergic reactions to the sun, burn more easily or get the "mask of pregnancy," the dark pigmentation of the cheeks, nose and forehead that is usually exacerbated by the sun. "Almost all women experience some kind of darkened pigmentation," she explains.
If you're considering a tanning bed, be warned that there's more danger lurking in those artificial sun-basking booths. "On top of the same effects as the regular sun, tanning beds can raise your body temperature to the point that most OB's would consider unsafe and could potentially cause birth defects, especially in the first trimester," she states. Additionally, in most tanning beds, you're lying on your back, so in the second and third trimesters, you can restrict blood flow to the baby.
Dr. Taber also warns against the risk of dehydration, which can cause contractions and premature labor, among other complications. And if that's not enough to deter you from basking in the rays of the sun or an artificial tanning bed, there's also one other major danger.
A risk to your baby
Unbeknownst to me, melanoma, which is one of those cancers often brushed to the wayside anyways, despite the fact that it actually kills 8,790 people annually in the U.S., is even more of a danger to pregnant women and their babies.
"Melanoma, which is the cancer caused by sun tanning," says Dr. Taber, "is one of the few cancers that can cross the placenta and damage the baby." About 8 percent of pregnant women with malignancies are diagnosed with melanoma each year and although it is very rare, the cancer can spread from the placenta directly to the fetus.
So by indulging in what you may think are a few harmless rays in the sun or a tanning bed, you may be placing your baby directly in danger. (Cue a thank-you to my mommy guilt here.)
What about sunless tanners?
Unfortunately, while sunless tanners might seem like the perfect solution for getting your glow on during pregnancy, there's still some risk, says Dr. Taber.
Sunless tanners and spray tanners have an ingredient called DHA, which Dr. Taber explains is not the same as the DHA found in prenatal vitamins. "It's a sugar that reacts that with the proteins in the skin surface to change the color," she explains. And while there's no published information that self-tanners cause birth defects or cause damage directly to the baby by absorption though your skin, there's also not enough evidence to prove their safety either.
And what about those professional spray booths? Even worse, says Dr. Taber. "With the spray, you are actually inhaling the ingredients and professional products have more DHA, up to 15 percent," she notes.
In general, she says that the lotion is probably safer than the spray tanner is, but for the safest glow, "I would recommend a light bronzing powder!" she says.
Practice safe sun care during pregnancy
As always, but especially during pregnancy, take care to brush up on your safe sun practices when you're outside this summer. Dr. Taber recommends the following tips for safely indulging in the sun during pregnancy:
- Use an umbrella for shade
- If you're out of the shade, limit sun exposure to less than 20 minutes
- Use at least SPF 30
- Drink plenty of water and have some healthy snacks on hand
More on pregnancy
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Culture & Language Acquisition at Sage (CLAS)
French: 74 million native speakers
German: 101 million native speakers
Italian: 59 million native speakers
Mandarin Chinese: 955 million native speakers
Arabic: 293 million native speakers
Portuguese: 220 million native speakers
Russian: 154 million native speakers
A New Approach to Learning a Second Language
The main goals of the Culture and Language Acquisition at Sage (CLAS) program are to promote communicative skills in different languages, to develop cultural understanding, to help students in becoming responsible global citizens, and to achieve global competencies. The program also mentors students as they gain functional proficiency in foreign languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Italian, German, Arabic, Portuguese and French. Moreover, the program prepares students to study or live abroad, enhance professional development, and pursue personal interests while working with native speakers and language acquisition specialists.
Program Goals
The CLAS Program is designed to:
- achieve an elementary/intermediate level in the following skills: conversational speaking, listening-comprehension, and basic reading and writing in the target language
- foster the use of cognitive strategies that will help students to compare and contrast the target language and its cultures with their own
- cultivate cultural awareness, valuing language diversity as a way to become responsible and committed citizens of the world
- enable students to become active participants of multilingual and multicultural communities
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the program will be able to:
- demonstrate communicative proficiency in the target language and the ability to comprehend texts and interact orally at the appropriate level according to the ACTFL Performance Guidelines
- analyze similarities and differences across languages and cultures to better understand and critically reflect on their own world view
- recognize and demonstrate an awareness of the social, artistic, historical, and cultural aspects of the peoples who speak the target language
- participate actively in extended learning experiences with native speakers from different multicultural communities
Benefits of Studying a Second Language
According to research by the National Security Education Program there are five primary reasons to include a foreign language in your education:
- Foreign language programs improve students' overall academic performance. As a result of their language studies, students have higher SAT-Verbal test scores, ACT test scores, math test scores, and English reading scores.
- Foreign language programs positively affect students' intellectual development. Those who have studied foreign languages retain the cognitive benefits well into adulthood and old age. Immersion programs in particular increase students' IQ.
- Foreign language programs help close the achievement gap for economically disadvantaged students, the learning disabled, and English as a second language learners. All students, regardless of intelligence or learning disability, can succeed in learning another language and culture.
- Foreign language programs enhance students' career opportunities. The global economy necessitates that students understand other languages and cultures in order to secure the most competitive careers.
- Foreign language programs provide students the opportunity to explore other cultures and more fully understand their own. As students learn another language and culture, they begin to evaluate their own ways of thinking and viewing the world. Students develop an appreciation for themselves and those who are different from them.
Personal Attention
Students are in regular contact with the language coordinator throughout the semester in addition to virtual meetings with Studio Coaches in Rosetta Stone's Studio sessions. Read this article from Russell Sage College's student newspaper, The Quill, to find out more about the program.
International House
CLAS students have the option of living in International House (aka French House).
Preference will be given to:
- students taking foreign language classes while living at International House
- students who will be studying abroad while living in International House
- students who are native speakers of a foreign language
- students who participate in language and cultural programs
- Please contact the Office of Residence Life at 518-244-2008 or [email protected] for more information.
For more information about Culture and Language Acquisition at Sage, please contact Dr. Kate Kagan, CLAS Coordinator, at [email protected].


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- Kang Kek Iew
Kang Kek Iew
Kang Kek Iew during his trial (2009)
Born 17 November 1942
Kampong Chen, Kampong Thom Province, French Indochina
Nationality Cambodian Other names Comrade D[e]uch
Hang Pin
Years active 1975–1979 Known for Director of the S-21 prison camp
Kang Kek Iew or Kaing Kek Iev, also romanized as Kaing Guek Eav (Khmer: កាំង ហ្គេកអ៊ាវ), nom de guerre Comrade Duch or Deuch (មិត្តឌុច); or Hang Pin, (born 17 November 1942)[1] is a former leader in the Khmer Rouge communist movement, which ruled Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979. He is best known for heading the Khmer Rouge special branch and running the infamous Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison camp in Phnom Penh. The first Khmer Rouge leader to be tried by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the crimes of the regime,[2] he was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder, and torture for his role during the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia and sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment.
Early years
Kang Kek Iew was born in Choyaot village, Kampong Chen subdistrict, Kampong Thom Province,[3] and is of Chinese-Khmer ancestry.[4][5] A star pupil in his school, he passed his Brevet d'Etudes Secondaire de Première in 1961 at the age of nineteen. He finished the first half of his Baccalaureate in 1962 at the Lycée Suravarman II in the town of Siem Reap. The same year he was offered a place in the prestigious Lycée Sisowath in Phnom Penh where he completed his Baccalaureate in mathematics, scoring second in the entire country.[6][page needed]
Induction into the Khmer Rouge
In 1964, Kek Iew began studying for his teaching certificate in Mathematics, a subject he loved, at the Institut de Pédagogie.[7] The Institute was a cradle of activism under the directorship of Son Sen who was later to emerge as the Defence Minister of the Khmer Rouge and Duch's immediate superior.
On August 28, 1966, Kek Iew got his teaching certificate and was posted to a lycée in Skoun, a small town in Kampong Cham Province. He was a good teacher, remembered as earnest and committed by his pupils.[6][page needed] He joined the Communist Party of Kampuchea in 1967. Following the arrest of three of his students, he fled to the Khmer Rouge base in Chamkar Leu District where he was accepted as a full member of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
A few months later, he was arrested and tortured at the Prey Sar prison[6][page needed] by Norodom Sihanouk's police for engaging in communist activities.[7] He was held without trial for the next two years. In 1970, when he was released following the amnesty granted to political prisoners by Lon Nol, he joined the Khmer Rouge rebels in the Cardamom Mountains bordering Thailand.
In the maquis
Communist groups in France's former colonies in Indochina borrowed the French World War II expression 'maquis' when referring to their resistance movements in the jungles.[8]
In the zone under the control of the Khmer Rouge, Kek Iew took on his nom de guerre Comrade Duch (IPA:[dojc]) and became a prison commandant. He was appointed the head of Special Security by his immediate superior Vorn Vet. In the forests of Amleang, Thpong District, Duch set up his first prison, code-named 'M-13'. Two years later, he also established a second prison 'M-99' in nearby Aoral District.
Assisted by his two deputies, Comrade Chan and Comrade Pon, Duch began perfecting his interrogation techniques and the purging of perceived enemies from the Khmer Rouge ranks. Prisoners at these camps, mostly from the ranks of the Khmer Rouge, were routinely starved and tortured to extract real and made-up confessions. Few prisoners left the camps alive.
While in the maquis, Duch married Chhim Sophal, aka Rom, a dressmaker from a nearby village.
Leading the Santebal and Tuol Sleng
After the Khmer Rouge victory in April 1975 Duch and his men set up prisons throughout the capital including the infamous Tuol Sleng prison. Duch's request for a transfer in May 1975[9] to the Industrial Sector of government was denied.[7] The Tuol Sleng prison camp was initially headed by In Lon aka Comrade Nath with Duch acting as deputy.[6][page needed] Subsequently, In Lon was transferred and Duch promoted to be the Director.[10] By May 1976 all the prisons in Phnom Penh were consolidated and relocated to Tuol Sleng. Prisons like Tuol Sleng were created to cleanse the ranks of the Khmer Rouge of suspected enemies of the revolution.
Duch ordered the execution of prisoners after their interrogation was completed. For example, on a list containing the names of 17 prisoners (eight teenagers and nine children), he wrote the order "Smash them to pieces." On a longer list of detainees, his annotation reads "smash: 115; keep: 44 persons." The text below this annotation reads "Comrade Duch proposed to Angkar; Angkar agreed." On a list of 20 female detainees, Duch wrote annotations for each of them, ordering: "take away for execution," "keep for interrogation" or "medical experiment". At least 100 detainees died after having their blood drawn for transfusions for wounded soldiers. Surgical operations were also performed on detainees in order to train medical staff.[11]
Duch impressed his superiors with his work and was appointed the head of Democratic Kampuchea's dreaded "special branch" – the Santebal.
As the party purges increased towards the end of the Democratic Kampuchea period, more and more people were brought to Duch, including many former colleagues including his predecessor at Tuol Sleng, In Lon. Throughout this period Duch built up a large archive of prison records, mug shots and extracted "confessions".
On 7 January 1979, Duch was amongst the last Khmer Rouge cadres to flee Phnom Penh after it fell to the Vietnamese army. Though he was unable to destroy much of the prison's extensive documents, he saw to the execution of several surviving prisoners before he fled the city.
After the fall
Duch reached the border with Thailand in May 1979. Details of his whereabouts at this time were sketchy. It is believed that he went to the forests of Samlaut where he was reunited with his family. Here Duch was demoted by Brother Number Two, Nuon Chea, for having failed to destroy the documents at Tuol Sleng. At the border, he learned to speak Thai and taught himself English. He later taught English and mathematics at a refugee camp in Borai just inside Thailand.[6][page needed]
In June 1986, Duch was sent to China to teach as a Khmer language expert at Beijing's Foreign Language Institute. He returned to the Thai-Cambodian border a year later and changed his name to Hang Pin. He worked as a senior bureaucrat just inside the Cambodian border at Pol Pot's secretariat at Camp 505. Shortly after the Paris agreement in October 1991, he moved with his family to a small isolated village called Phkoam close to the Thai border where he bought some land and began teaching in the local school. He was known as a good teacher, but one with a fiery temper.[6][page needed]
In 1995, following an attack on his home that killed his wife, Duch sold all his possessions, secured a transfer to Svay Chek College, and moved there with his children. Shortly after his wife's murder, Duch began attending the prayer meetings of the Golden West Cambodian Christian Church held in Battambang by Christopher LaPel, an evangelical Khmer-American. Duch was baptized by LaPel and eventually became a lay pastor.[6][page needed] LaPel was later to observe that although he did not know Duch's real identify at the time, there were clues. For example, before his conversion, Duch had said to Lapel that he had done a lot of bad things in his life. Later, Duch was to say, "I don't know if my brothers and sisters can forgive the sins I've committed against the people".[12]
Close to his identity being discovered, Duch accepted a transfer to Samlaut as Director of Education. When fighting broke out in 1996 following the split of the Khmer Rouge and the coup to oust Prince Rannaridh in 1997, he fled with his family to the Ban Ma Muang camp just inside Thailand. At the camp, he worked for the American Refugee Committee as the Community Health Supervisor. In late 1998, he returned to Cambodia when fighting subsided. He settled in the village of Andao Hep in Rattanak Mondul and worked closely with World Vision International, the Christian relief agency.
The photojournalist Nic Dunlop tracked down Duch to Samlaut. In 1999, Nate Thayer, who had previously interviewed Pol Pot and Ta Mok, and Dunlop interviewed Duch for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Duch surrendered to the authorities in Phnom Penh following the publication of his interview.[13]
On 31 July 2007, Duch was formally charged with crimes against humanity and detained by Cambodia's United Nations-backed Cambodia Tribunal. Duch, represented by Cambodian lawyer Kar Savuth and French lawyer Francois Roux, appealed against his provisional detention by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia based on the more than eight years he spent without trial in Cambodian military detention. The appeal was unsuccessful and on 14 August 2008, the tribunal issued its indictment after completing their investigation of Duch.[14]
In February 2008, as part of the judicial process, Duch was taken to the scene of his crimes. He reportedly collapsed in tears after stating, "I ask for your forgiveness – I know that you cannot forgive me, but I ask you to leave me the hope that you might."[15]
On 16 February 2009, the UN supervised trial of Duch began at a Phnom Penh court. Duch was prosecuted by international co-prosecutors William Smith and Anees Ahmed and was charged with "personally overseeing the systematic torture of more than 15,000 prisoners".[2] The presiding judge of the case was Nil Nonn. Duch was tried by a panel of five judges — three Cambodian, one French and one New Zealander — according to a 2003 pact between Cambodia and the United Nations establishing the tribunal.[14]
On 30 March 2009, Duch testified that US policies in the 1970s contributed to the brutal regime's rise to power.[16] "I think the Khmer Rouge would already have been demolished," he said of their status by 1970. "But Mr Kissinger (then US secretary of state) and Richard Nixon were quick [to back coup leader Gen Lon Nol], and then the Khmer Rouge noted the golden opportunity." "Because of this alliance, the Khmer Rouge were able to build up their power over the course of their 1970–75 war against the Lon Nol regime", Duch said.
On 31 March 2009, Duch, in a statement in front of the Cambodia tribunal, accepted responsibility for torturing and executing thousands of inmates, expressed "heartfelt sorrow" for his crimes and vowed to cooperate fully with the tribunal.[17]
Duch surprised the tribunal on 27 November 2009 with a plea to be released. In his final statement before the tribunal he acknowledged his involvement in Khmer Rouge-era crimes, including the execution of more than 12,000 Tuol Sleng prisoners, but said they were committed by a "criminal party". Duch also noted that he had served more than 10 years in detention, and stressed that he had been fully cooperative with the tribunal. There were also conflicting closing arguments from Duch's defense team. His Cambodian lawyer, Kar Savuth demanded his client's acquittal and release, while his international counterpart, François Roux pressed judges to hand down a lenient sentence.[18]
At the conclusion of the trial, prosecutors asked that Duch be given 40 years in prison if convicted.[19] On 26 July 2010, Duch was found guilty of crimes against humanity, torture, and murder; he was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment, with a pre-trial detention credit of 11 years being applied to his sentence and an additional controversial five year deduction because his period of pre-trial detention exceeded the maximum allowed under Cambodian law.[20][21] If he serves his entire sentence in prison, he will be released in 2029 at age 87.
See also
- Democratic Kampuchea
- The Killing Fields
- Tuol Sleng
- Chum Mey
- Vann Nath
- Enemies of the People (film)
- ^ Totten, Samuel; Bartrop, Paul Robert; Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide: A-L. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 82. ISBN 9780313346422. http://books.google.com/books?id=xWKjSc0ql3cC&pg=PA82. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ a b "Landmark Khmer Rouge trial starts". BBC News. 2009-02-17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7893138.stm. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
- ^ "CBIO Record of Comrade Duch". Yale Cambodian Genocide Program. http://research.yale.edu:8084/cgp/cbio/cbiorecorddetail.jsp?record_id=16393. Retrieved 2005-12-18.
- ^ David P. Chandler, Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot, Westview Press, 1999, ISBN 0813335108, pg 126
- ^ Notes from a slaughterhouse Khmer Rouge Atrocities, Bangkok Post Perspective May 30, 1999, Ben Kiernan, Yale University
- ^ a b c d e f g Nic Dunlop (2005)). The Lost Executioner – A Journey into the Heart of the Killing Fields. Walker & Company, New York. ISBN 0-8027-1472-2.
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- ^ Kamm, Henry (1998). Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land. Arcade Publishing. p. 140. ISBN 1-55970-433-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=wtBkD5CoIMkC&pg=PA140.
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- ^ "Tuol Sleng Organizational Chart". Yale Cambodian Genocide Program. http://www.yale.edu/cgp/tsorgchart.html. Retrieved 2005-12-18.
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- ^ Comrade Duch, from Khmer Rouge to Christian, alone to ask for forgiveness AsiaNews, 2 Aril 2009
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- ^ Robbie Corey Boulet (November 27, 2009). "Duch asks to be set free". Phnon Penh Post. http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009112729829/Online-Edition/duch-asks-to-be-set-free.html. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
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- ^ Miranda Leitsinger, "Cambodia's Duch sentenced to 35 years", cnn.com, 2010-07-26.
- ^ July 26, 2010. "International Law Prof Blog: First Sentence Issued by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia". Lawprofessors.typepad.com. http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/international_law/2010/07/first-eccc-sentence.html. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
External links
- Judgement of the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- "My Savior, Their Killer" New York Times Op-Ed by François Bizot – a (French) former prisoner of Duch's
- 1999 BBC article on Duch's capture
- A short review of Nic Dunlop's book about Duch – The Lost Executioner
- Case information at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- IT Conversations: Nic Dunlop Podcast interview of Nic Dunlop, Photojournalist, discussing how he found Kang Kek Iew
- Experience: I tracked down a man who killed 14,000 people Nic Dunlop talks about tracking down Duch
- The Killer and the Pastor Time magazine article about Duch's conversion to Christianity
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2008 Honda Accord Review
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- Powerful and fuel-efficient engines, ample passenger space, balanced approach to handling and ride comfort, striking coupe styling.
- Center stack's button-riddled design.
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The 2008 Honda Accord maintains and improves upon the aspects that have made past Accords so great. Plus, the sedan and coupe's eye-catching styling proves that reliable transportation doesn't have to be bland.
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My, how the little Honda Accord has grown. He used to be this cute, compact sedan and now look at him -- a large, strapping lad that's bigger and more powerful than ever before. Mommy and Daddy Honda must be very proud. And they should be, because the 2008 Accord raises the bar in arguably the most competitive automotive segment -- midsize family sedans -- by striking a brilliant balance of performance, value and efficiency into a package that no longer blends into a crowd. The Accord has always been good and now it's even better.
Still available in sedan and coupe body styles, the all-new 2008 Honda Accord is most obviously highlighted by its slick new styling. The two-door is particularly striking, as it's mostly unchanged from the Accord concept car that debuted at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show. The sedan, meanwhile, has an eye-catching elegance that sets it apart from past Accords, which were mostly understated to the point of anonymity. Although, once the first 100,000 2008 Accords hit the streets, the sedan may start to seem pretty anonymous, too.
The biggest news lies under the hood, where Honda has devoted its considerable engine expertise to perfecting three power plants that deliver both performance and fuel efficiency. Available on EX sedans and all coupes, the midlevel inline-four-cylinder produces a best-in-class 190 horsepower -- by comparison, the 1998 all-new Accord featured an optional V6 that produced 200 hp. All that power comes at no fuel economy expense, as it matches the fuel economy estimates of the previous model's four-cylinder.
A new 3.5-liter V6 debuts as well. This engine equals the hefty horsepower and torque ratings of the Toyota Camry's V6, but falls a wee bit short of the Altima 3.5. New to this segment is Honda's cylinder-deactivation technology, which allows the engine to run on six, four or three cylinders depending on driving conditions for maximum fuel economy. The result is an improvement of 3 highway mpg over the last V6, despite 24 more horses. As a matter of fact, all 2008 Accord engines get better highway fuel economy than the 125-hp 1990 Accord and even come close to the tiny 68-hp 1977 edition. Now that's progress.
The outgoing Honda Accord managed to hold its own against the recently redesigned Altima and Camry sedans, and the all-new Accord should make Toyota and Nissan sweat even more. Although each of these three class leaders offers a slightly different take on the midsize segment, the 2008 Honda Accord is perhaps the best execution in terms of appealing both to people who prioritize comfort and those who desire a little fun in their daily driver. Plus, it's bigger, more powerful and definitely more strapping than ever.
2008 Honda Accord models
The 2008 Honda Accord is available in sedan and coupe body styles. The sedan comes in LX, LX-P, EX and EX-L trim levels, while the coupe comes in LX-S, EX and EX-L trims. The sedan's base LX comes standard with 16-inch steel wheels, keyless entry, full power accessories, cruise control, a tilt-telescoping steering wheel, fold-down rear seats and a six-speaker stereo with a single CD/MP3 player and an auxiliary audio jack. The sedan's LX-P adds 16-inch alloy wheels, auto up-down front windows and a power driver seat. The coupe's base LX-S trim includes the LX-P's equipment (minus the passenger-side auto-up window and power driver seat) and adds an in-dash six-CD changer.
The EX adds 17-inch wheels and a sunroof to each body style's upgraded LX trim level. The EX sedan gains the in-dash six-CD changer, while the EX coupe gets a premium stereo system with subwoofer. The EX-L trim level adds leather upholstery, auto-on headlights, dual-zone automatic climate control, leather-wrapped steering wheel, heated front seats and satellite radio. The EX-L sedan gains the premium stereo system, while the EX-L coupe gains the power driver seat.
The lone option is a navigation system available on the EX-L trim level that includes voice-activated controls and Bluetooth.
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Performance & mpg
The 2008 Honda Accord comes with a choice of powerful and fuel-efficient engines. The LX and LX-P sedans come with a 2.4-liter four-cylinder that produces 177 hp and 161 pound-feet of torque. An upgraded version of that 2.4-liter engine that makes a class-leading 190 hp is standard on the EX sedans and all coupes. A five-speed manual is standard with the four-cylinder engines, with a five-speed automatic optional. Available on the EX trim levels is a 3.5-liter V6 that produces 268 hp and 248 lb-ft of torque. A five-speed automatic is typically standard with this engine, though the V6 coupe is available with a six-speed manual.
The Accord's fuel economy is very impressive. Both four-cylinder engines with automatic transmissions achieve 21 mpg city and 31 mpg highway, while the six-cylinder with the automatic gets 19 mpg city and 29 mpg highway. These numbers match the current mpg champ, the Toyota Camry, and better everything else in its class. The V6 coupe with the six-speed manual gets a 17/25 mpg rating, as it lacks the V6's otherwise standard cylinder-deactivation technology.
All Accords come standard with antilock disc brakes, stability and traction control, front side airbags and full-length curtain airbags.
The 2008 Honda Accord maintains the car's traditional mix of both sporty handling and comfort. Handling is very good, with excellent steering that provides a tremendous combination of just-right feel and weight. While other sporty midsize sedans tend to thrive on twisty roads or city streets, the Accord does the best job of remaining consistently competent no matter the driving condition. "Well-rounded" is an adjective that applies to most Honda models and the new Accord is no different. The wonderfully smooth and powerful 3.5-liter V6 is an excellent engine, producing strong acceleration and fuel economy; however, the 190-hp four-cylinder provides more than enough motivation. The new Accord is also quieter thanks to additional sound-deadening materials and body-stiffening measures.
The Honda Accord has always distinguished itself with interior quality that is a cut above the rest, and while the all-new 2008 edition hardly disappoints, the competition has largely caught up. Fit and finish remains very good. The overall design is simple, yet handsome -- even in lower trim levels. One of our few complaints with the Accord regards the center control stack, which is packed with buttons for the climate control, stereo and available navigation system. It's a setup you'll certainly get used to, but it looks cluttered.
This is the largest Accord ever made and as such, buyers can expect an ample supply of front and rear passenger room. The sedan in particular offers the most interior space available in the midsize segment (although the Altima, Camry and Sonata are awfully close). The sedan features 14 cubic feet of trunk space, which is at least a cube less than its major competitors. The coupe offers a respectable 11.9 cubes for similar two-door cars.
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Id have to say your vocals are much better here. You dipped in and out of key a couple times but when you really belted out the notes you sang fine. And I think that is only proving everyones point that you gotta put the effort and emotion in. It seems when you got slow and not as forceful you lost the key.dre wrote:
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Okay, Greedy Greg cannot coach — that is a fact underlined by his stranglehold on an ESPN Bottom 10 rung — but now he is laying claim also to expertise in architecture, bonding, and educational governance, in his latest demand that Rutgers proceed with the cockamamie stadium expansion plan.
As reported in the Star Ledger, Schiano wants it known that the decision to go ahead with the stadium is not President McCormick's, it's not the BoG's, it's Greedy Greg's: "We're going to get the expansion done,' Schiano said after Tuesday's practice."
That is interesting because the day before university officials told the press that they "would not be specific on the scope of stadium cuts — or if they were considering canceling the project's second phase — but said all options were on the table." No matter to Greedy Greg, he wants his seats, he wants them now, and he'll throw a tanrum to get them!
Greedy Greg did not force readers to wonder why we need to go forward with the stadium tout suite. Nope, he said: "People want to get in to our stadium to see us play," Schiano said. "We've got to build seats for them."
Are these the very same fans who are flooding StubHub and similar venues with Rutgers tickets they want to dump at any price? The same fans who are flooding message boards with vitriolic attacks on Schiano's competence? Those fans?
And this is at the very same university that in such perilous financial shape that it is about to impose another, deep round of cutting classes and firing teachers? As the Ledger reports in the same Schiano story: "Rutgers has seen its endowment value drop 10 percent recently and with potential budget cuts by the state, departments school-wide have been asked to delay or defer all non-essential spending." Yes, that same Rutgers.
Message board posters tear into Schiano at Nj.com:
* Posted by MineStreet on 10/14/08 at 7:35PM
All Schiano cares about is me-me-me. If he wants a stadium, why doesn't he lead the way by donating half his salary this year? He definitely isn't earning that $2 million he's paid, and a $1 million donation would shut up every critic.
* Posted by schianosucks on 10/14/08 at 7:59PM
Every time this idiot opens his mouth he digs another hole. If people can't find a seat, why have I been emailed asking if i could use more seats? The excuse is that these were turn-ins from the visiting teams left on the schedule. Maybe, maybe not. To even raise the issue of the stadium when neither he nor his staff nor his team have performed as if they care is the height of insult. Until we rid ourselves of the Schiano-Mulcahy connection, this program will go nowhere. Where are we ranked? 103, 104? Right, this program deserves a stadium upgrade-just like all the other schools ranked in the 100's.
* Posted by rottentruth on 10/14/08 at 8:03PM
Shouldnt Greg worry more about his lousy team then the building they 'play' in?
Somehow I don't think that a 1-5 coach should be demanding more seats. Get some wins then open your mouth coach.
The anti-Schiano posters just keep piling on — because, around about now, Greedy Greg has been unmasked as the coach destroyed by hubris. Had he any nobility, one would call it a tragedy — but the man is but a pig at the trough and in New Jersey there is nothing at all special about that.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
The Manager will use his magic powers to help you hit dingers
A barely-above-replacement level scrub goes out for extra batting practice in the midst of a slump which has only served to drag down an already lousy year. And then The Manager steps forth, with his knowledge of the grip-it-and-rip-it philosophy, and touches the player with his wisdom and insight.
And then, after but one session with The Manager, the player goes out and hammers the ball around the yard like he was Hank. Unbelievable.
We could go into a whole repudiation of the myth and the legend, and suggest that maybe anyone could have provided a healthy refresher for John Buck to help him pull his head out of his ass. And we could also point out how a couple of the swings that resulted in those dingers weren't exactly what you would call "pretty" or "textbook".
But really, who's to argue with those results? When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
A tribute to Windows Restaurant
We're not even sure that anyone would or could call it Windows anymore, given that it has sat as empty as Steve Simmons' head for much of the past three years. But seeing John Buck's third homer of the night rattle off the panes - now covered in advertising - reminded us of what a thrill it used to be when a Fred McGriff or Carlos Delgado moonshot would touch the glass, deep in centre field.
While we've advocated pulling the glass and creating some sort of douchebag party patio out there, seeing that homer bounce of it last night might have just convinced us that they ought to keep the structure out there. For oldtimey's sake.
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- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Tao, fucking awesome post. I'm laughing out loud on the bus to Philly like a Goddamn jackass. I love Cito. And I'm torn on Windows. Like you say, it's awesome when one of our boys rakes one off the glass. But, well, in my travels, I'm visiting many douchebag patio parties. And they're not all bad. The idea to get rid of the windows and make it a patio is honestly a good one. I'd go out there, sit and watch the game. And I like to think that I'm not a douchebag. Patio it up, and police the popped collars. Everybody wins.
Long live The Manager.
- April 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I'm a man who enjoys a patio party myself. I think having an open patio out there would be good, if only to create some sort of sense of the Dome being a happenin' place to be.
(Then again, the fact that I just used "happenin'" to describe the place that I thought might be cool shows you how ancient and out of touch I probably am.)
And you know that if the place ever got going, there's be some chick who goes to the patio and gets liquored up and doesn't stop talking the entire game and then takes a Travis Snider liner right in the melon.
Shit. I think I just sold myself on the idea!
Douchebag Patio Party! Popped collars for some! Tramp stamps for others!
- April 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM
- The Ack said...
You need to pitch this to the Beest IMMEDIATELY. Hell, I'd probably up my annual visitation from one to two.
(and I'm more excited about Snider's double off the lefty than Buck's explosion of homerrific goodness. But that's just me...)
- April 30, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- Aquamelli said...
Great post! Interesting suggestion you have of the Restaurant. It really hasn't occurred to me as to how empty it really is... not to mention how LONG it has been empty. If this organization does not see a new stadium until 2020/2024 (Olympics), then I wholeheartedly agree with you by turning it into some "spot" to hang out. Minute Maid Park has something called the Conoco Home Run Porch - always packed as you can see on television.
- April 30, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- JB said...
@Ack -- Agree with you.
I am more encouraged with the three walks from Hill than the three homers from Buck.
- April 30, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- SP said...
"douchebag party patio"
- April 30, 2010 at 5:29 PM
- William J. Tasker said...
I always love it when a homer banged off that glass. Thought it was so cool. They could put the patio behind the glass?
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Mapping Exotic Worlds
This animation shows the first-ever map of the surface of an exoplanet, or a planet beyond our solar system. The map, which shows temperature variations across the cloudy tops of a gas giant called HD 189733b, is made up of infrared data taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Everything else shown, for example the star and the lines, are artistic illustrations.
The movie begins by showing a two-dimensional view of the map. Hotter temperatures are represented in brighter colors. The map is then shown over the three-dimensional surface of the planet, and the movie spins around, revealing the planet's star. A line projecting from the star to the planet highlights where the planet is directly hit by starlight -- a point known as "high noon."
HD 189733b is what is known as a hot-Jupiter planet. These sizzling, gas planets practically hug their stars, orbiting at distances that are much closer than Mercury is to our sun. They whip around their stars quickly; for example, HD 189733b completes one orbit in just 2.2 days. Hot Jupiters are also thought to be tidally locked to their stars, just as our moon is to Earth. This means that one side of a hot Jupiter always faces its star.
As predicted, the map reveals that HD 189733b has a warm spot on its "sunlit" side, which is always pointed toward the star. But the map also shows that this spot is offset from the high-noon point by 30 degrees. According to scientists, ferocious winds traveling up to 6,000 miles per hour (nearly 9,700 kilometers per hour) are probably pushing the hot spot to the east.
In addition to the warm spot, the map tells astronomers that temperatures on HD 189733b are fairly even all around. While the dark side is about 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit (650 degrees Celsius), the sunlit side is just a bit hotter at about 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (930 degrees Celsius). This mild temperature variation is more evidence for strong winds, since winds would help spread the heat from the hot, sunlit side over to the dark side.
These data were collected by Spitzer's infrared array camera as the planet, a so-called transiting planet, passed in front of its star, then swung around and disappeared behind it. By observing the planet for half of its 2.2-day long orbit, Spitzer was able to measure the infrared light, or heat, coming from its entire surface. The infrared measurements, about a quarter of a million individual data points, were then assembled by scientists into pole-to-pole strips, and ultimately into the complete map shown here.
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