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Why am I unable to access "Wiley online library" from home
Trying to access wiley online library databases from home and when i "log in" through UTS server it redirects me to wiley where i am still unable to access articles
Trying to access wiley online library databases from home and when i "log in" through UTS server it redirects me to wiley where i am still unable to access articles
Hi Ryan
I need a bit more information about what you are trying to access in Wiley online library. Can you give me the title of the book or journal so I can check for you?
Project Management Journal
Vol 43 issue 4
Project Management for development in africa
Project Management Journal
Vol 43 Issue 4
- Project Management for Development in Africa: Why Projects Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
I'm also unable to access this from Computer Lab: 2.6.48.
I'm assuming this isn't the only room it doesn't work...
There's no problem with Wiley Online Library. The problem lies with the tricky confusing world of academic databases. Although Wiley Online indexes Project Management Journal it doesn't provide the full text articles. To find out if UTS Library can provide you with the full text you can click on the SFX link in the record (look around the page for the letters SFX) which will link you to another database which does contain the full text article and/or to the library catalogue which will bring up the catalogue record for both database and print coverage for the journal.
Unfortunately UTS Library does not have access to the 2012 issues of Project Management Journal. Have a look at the catalogue record here:http://find.lib.uts.edu.au/search.do?R=OPAC_b1275240
If you're a postgrad or UTS staff member you can request the article via InterLibrary Loan: https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/borrow/interlibrary-loans
Hi Ryan,
UTS Library does not have a paid subscription to this journal. We do have access to this journal from Vol. 28, no. 2 (Jan. 1997) to Vol. 42, no. 5 (Sept. 2011) as a part of our EBSCO package subscription. But we don't have access to the most current 12 months as there is a 12-month embargo. In other workds, we will have access to Vol. 43, no. 4 from August 2013, which probably doesn't help you.
As Janice suggested, if you are a postgrad student, please request the article via Interlibrary loan.
Best regards,
Yu Lee


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Huevos Rancheros Breakfast Burrito Brings the Flavors of Mexico to Carl's Jr.
Dec 12, 2007
CARPINTERIA, Calif. – December 12, 2007 – If you can't give your friends and family a winter getaway to Mexico this holiday season, give them the next best thing – the Huevos Rancheros Breakfast Burrito™. Beginning today, Carl's Jr.® adds the authentic flavors of a classic Mexican dish to its breakfast line-up.The Huevos Rancheros Breakfast Burrito features refried beans, scrambled eggs, shredded jack and cheddar cheeses, and tasty Ranchero sauce, topped with corn tortilla strips, all wrapped in a warm flour tortilla.
"While originally starting out as a traditional Mexican breakfast, Huevos Rancheros has become a menu favorite at diners and sit-down eateries throughout the western states," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Carl's Jr. "However, eggs, beans, melted cheese and Ranchero sauce don't make for a very portable breakfast. At Carl's Jr., we rolled it all up in a flour tortilla so it can be eaten as a burrito when you're on the go. We also deliver the authentic taste of traditional Huevos Rancheros by adding crispy corn tortilla strips to add a little crunch when you bite into the burrito, just like you would get in a sit-down restaurant since the meal is usually served over fried corn tortillas."
The Huevos Rancheros Breakfast Burrito will sell for $2.39 at participating restaurants – or $3.89 as part of a breakfast combo meal.
Carl's Jr. is celebrating more than 65 years in the quick-service industry. What began as a lone hot dog cart in Los Angeles, Calif. in 1941 is today an international organization that employs nearly 30,000 people worldwide. Carl's Jr. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the second fiscal quarter ended August 13, 2007, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,020 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 43 states and in 13 countries, including 1,111 Carl's Jr. restaurants, and 1,909 Hardee's® restaurants. For more information, or to find a Carl's Jr. near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.carlsjr.com.
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Fungus Tantos Children's Table Set
Furniture Design Focus: Fungus Tantos Children's Table Set
A Good Furniture design example, the Fungus Tantos is a creative Children's Table Set design. Fungus Tantos was designed in 2010, and here is a how it is described by its designer: Fungus Tantos brings together a Fungus Magnificus and six Fungifungus, it gives the feeling of being in another place; in a fantasy world full of dreams and creativity.
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Attend this webinar to learn how you can perform topology optimization using ATOM. The powerful capabilities will be demonstrated on a laundry centrifuge example.
Attendees will be guided through the product development decision making process from the initial design, through finite element evaluation, optimization and re-design to the final, optimized shape. In a step-by-step analysis, we demonstrate how SIMULIA tools make it possible to smoothly integrate topology optimization into the design process.
Attendees will learn how the seamless integration of ATOM in Abaqus/CAE makes it possible to quickly perform an optimization run, which:
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We are truly privileged people to live in Central Oregon, where the evidences of God's creative handiwork are so wonderfully obvious. In addition to the scenic beauty, Central Oregon is a fun, casual, active environment with that "down home" feeling.
Redmond Community Church echoes this atmosphere as we gather together to worship and experience Jesus Christ in a deep and meaningful way.
If you are looking for a church home where you can learn from verse by verse teaching of the Bible, be inspired to worship, fellowship with enthusiastic fellow believers, use your gifts to serve the Lord, and love God and people, then RCC may be the place God has for you. We look forward to having you visit!
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How Old Are Your Ears? [VIDEO]
If you want to find out how old a tree is, simply count the number of rings inside and you'll have your answer.
Well, the human ear is a lot more complex than an oak tree, but it provides valuable insight into the age of a person.
It's all about what we can - and can't - hear as we get older and the processing mechanism of our ears deteriorates.
So how accurate was this video for you?
I just turned 50 this year, and sure enough, couldn't hear anything after the first tone.


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This big kerfuffle reflects poorly on both sides and reveals two interesting realities of Washington journalism as it's currently practiced, realities that coexist to some degree in tension with each other:
Reality 1 is that it's true that White House reporters as a rule are vain and whiny and focus on trivia and minutaie.
Reality 2 is that in a sense the above is understandable because it's a really monotonous job that does weird things to a person's brain.
I of course have never held the job, but it can't be so different from covering campaigns at close quarters, which I have done. It ain't the salt mines or a shoe factory, but it's deadly dull. You have no space, no privacy. You spend hours and hours sitting or standing around waiting for something to happen. You are reduced to following the story of the day, even if it's completely insipid, because that's what everyone else is following and it's what your editor will want. You quickly become bored by and contemptuous of everyone, up to the president himself.
In the present case, it would be my strong guess that what's driving the current complaints in emotional terms is that these reporters had a chance to alleviate the suffocating tedium of their jobs by laying their eyes on one of the world's most famous men, only to be denied that chance. I mean, wouldn't you be pissed if you'd had a shot at seeing Tiger Woods smash a drive 375 yards from up close and personal, but you weren't allowed? What's a press pass good for then?
Presidents don't let reporters watch them play golf for a very good reason. Golf is damn hard, and it's easy to look stupid. In just the short clip I saw yesterday of Obama at the driving range, I thought: Man, he is not staying down on the ball at all. Look at him yank those shoulders up. Do I look like that?
If I ran a big paper, I don't think I'd have anyone at the White House. Or I'd switch them out every six months before they went mad. The reporters covering the executive agencies as a rule are more substantive, less inclined toward gotcha! stuff. And if I ran the White House press operation, I would understand that if the Potus were hanging with someone truly world famous, I'd have to let the press meet that person, whether it's Tiger or McCartney or Ali or what have you.


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surveya research tool which is used to elicit information about respondents' attitudes, opinions and preferences. In MARKETING RESEARCH, surveys are employed to discover more about potential consumers' views and perceptions of existing and proposed new products, and more specifically about the buying intentions of customers.
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I feel very strongly that the aim of all educational organisations should be to model lifelong learning. This has the advantage of teaching students by example that learning is an enjoyable process that really is on-going. However, to create teaching and learning communities, proof must be made that the professional and personal development of each member of the group is taken very seriously indeed.
Nothing will happen if the only way of sharing is through monitoring. Sharing has to happen in all directions and this can be tricky as some of the group members' skills will be more visible than others. Every contribution that has the potential to move Learning and Teaching forward by making us consider a different way to do things should be valued. This should be considered regardless of experience or status within the organisation.
Within our Faculty, I have considered different ways of "growing together as a learning community":
· Providing opportunities to share ideas and resources through my bulletin and Faculty meetings -by asking for contributions and allocating meeting slots for sharing-"Bring and Brag"-example of a powerpoint by a colleague who wanted to reflect through educational reading on how students' concentration and listening skills could be developed ;
· Identifying niches of expertise that have a potential for positive impact in the classroom: cross-curricular, extra-curricular, pastoral, ICT integration… ;
· Constantly evaluating our practice as a group and providing opportunities for self-assessment. The evaluation needs to be honest and respected by the other members of the group if it is shared. The discussions started by the self-audit will also help support the more formal development plans linked with performance management;
· Providing resources and opportunities to find out more about a particular area of interest through our Faculty bulletin and its links to My Languages and Diigo /Del.icio.us . This would equate to developing our students' independent learning skills-provide scaffolding and opportunities for extension work!
Locally, ideas can be cross-fertilised through subject meetings and StrategicLearning Networks consisting of a number of local schools with very different profile.
Nationally, lists like Linguanet and mfl resources are also invaluable to refresh and exchange ideas, but participation will often depend on ICT skills and access at home. The same goes with the international professional connections now possible through networking sites like Twitter or Diigo .
To some extent, a number of Wikis have also been set up with that aim and I hear that Second Life is likely to be the next developmental tool, with an International Language Conference being scheduled for 23rd/ 24th May 2008…


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Insisting that everyone in the world should speak a language, the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2008 the International Year of Languages. Matsuura Koichiro, director-general of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will coordinate international efforts to stress the importance of languages and promote their study.
To D-G Matsuura, languages are essential both for individual identity and for peaceful coexistence. Education is also supported by languages through the development of literacy in first and additional languages. UNESCO also stresses the connection between cultural diversity and linguistic diversity, and with only about a quarter of all languages used in schools or in cyberspace, U.N. experts warn that up to half of the 7000 languages in the world are in danger of disappearing over the next few generations.
In conjunction with the International Year of Languages, UNESCO is encouraging government policies that support the use of first languages together with the learning of regional, national and international languages, to ensure that everyone can participate in a globalizing world.
UNESCO also encourages everyone to learn additional languages as a way to open up to other cultures and it sponsors the annual World Language Day that will take place on 21st February 2008, to celebrate everyone's right to use their native tongue in all aspects of their daily lives and to honor people who have died to preserve their linguistic rights.


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I'm shopping for a new racquet, what's you favorite and why?
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The best way to get a nice blend of power and control while achieving a very arm friendly racquet is to find a racquet that is flexible and choose strings that are elastic and keep the tension low. You can find a good list of the best of these racquets and strings along with a lot more information by visiting http://tenniselbowracquet.com/tennis-racquets
I use Blx 6.1 tour -90 head size.. for me i love this Raquet.. it took my game to the next level...This raquet will give you a good control for your shots, good for volleys .. if you can generate the head speed this will suit for you. only problem is that strung weight is 12.8 ounce( one of the heaviest in the tour)
what are you playing with now, what do you want to have & feel. I would suggest trying out the new Steam 99s it would give you a great advantage with the 10% spin increase.
Hi Danielle,
Did you get your new racket? If not it really depends on what kind of player you are. If you have a full swing do not go more than 98-100 sq inch head size and below 11 oz as you have better control and you can generate the power. If you are more of a shorter swing and need more power and less control then consider lighter frames with bigger head sizes
prince graphite. solid performer right from the get go. too bad they disco'd it.
they still make them. its not discontinued.
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|"The era of bending is over! A new era of equality has begun!"
|— Amon giving a speech during the "Revelation" rally.[1]
Amon, born as Noatak, was the charismatic and mysterious leader of an anti-bender revolutionary group known as the Equalists. Their ultimate goal was to introduce equality for all by permanently ridding the world of benders.[2] A nimble, agile, and stealthy fighter, Amon was fearless in facing his opponents, regardless of their powerful bending skills and abilities.[3]
Claiming to be an innocent nonbender to whom the spirits granted the ability to remove a person's bending permanently, a power previously demonstrated only by the Avatar, Amon gained the confidence and support of many people with the same ideals. However, when the complete conquest of Republic City by the Equalists became imminent, Amon's true identity was exposed to the public by Avatar Korra. In actuality, he was a prodigious Northern Water Tribe bloodbender, son of the escaped crime boss, Yakone. Alongside his younger brother, the former councilman, Tarrlok, Amon was unknowingly shaped by Yakone to be a tool for his revenge against the Avatar. With his identity exposed and his followers deserting him, Amon fled the city with Tarrlok, but the latter ignited the fuel tank of their speedboat, killing them both.[4]
Early life
Noatak was born in the Northern Water Tribe to Yakone and his wife, as the older brother of Tarrlok by three years. Growing up, he was a good-natured child who always looked out for his younger brother and wanted everyone to be treated fairly and equally.[5]
When Noatak and Tarrlok both discovered they were waterbenders, Yakone trained them ruthlessly to develop their skills. When Noatak was ten, Yakone took his sons on a supposed hunting trip far from their home, where he revealed his true identity as a Republic City criminal and explained to them the power of bloodbending. Claiming that their family had the strongest line of bloodbenders in history and with the intent of making his sons bloodbenders of the highest caliber to exact his revenge against Aang for stripping him of his bending, Yakone trained them secretly during every full moon to use their bloodbending on animals, such as yaks and wolves. Reveling in his newfound power, Noatak also mastered Yakone's unique psychic bloodbending technique by the time he was fourteen. As a bloodbending prodigy, he carried the burden of all his father's expectations and over the years, he became cold and detached.[5]
Eventually, Yakone ordered his sons to bloodbend each other, which Noatak did with great ease, ignoring his brother's screams of pain until Yakone ordered him to stop. When Tarrlok refused to bloodbend Noatak, Yakone became angry, calling him weak, and prepared to attack him as punishment. However, Noatak defended his brother by bloodbending his own father, stating that Yakone, having been stripped of his waterbending by the Avatar, was actually the weak one and that they were his children rather than his "tools of vengeance". He subsequently offered his brother to join him to start a new life away from Yakone, but Tarrlok declined, arguing that he was worried about their mother, thus causing Noatak to agree with their father's opinion of Tarrlok being weak. After flinging Yakone in the snow, Noatak ran off into the blizzard, prompting Yakone and Tarrlok to search for him in the following days; they eventually assumed that he had perished in the storm.[5]
At some point in his life, Noatak discovered that he could use his bloodbending skills to strip a bender of their ability. He assumed the alias of "Amon" and became the leader of the Equalists, an organization striving to rid the world of bending. To garner sympathy and hide that he was a bender himself, Amon claimed that he was born on a small farm to a poor family of nonbenders that was being extorted by a firebender. When his father had supposedly confronted the bender, he and the rest of his family were murdered and Amon's face was left scarred from the attack, forcing him to hide behind a mask ever since. He also claimed that he had been granted the power to remove bending by the spirits because they believed the Avatar had failed the world and wanted him to usher in an era of equality.[1][5]
Accelerating plans
After Avatar Korra announced her official relocation to Republic City during a press conference at City Hall, Amon told his second-in-command that the Avatar's arrival would force them to accelerate their plans.[6]
Later, at an Equalist assembly called "The Revelation", Amon revealed his plan to eradicate the world of benders, as they "had only brought suffering" and "were the cause of every war in every era". Amon rallied the sympathy of his followers with a false backstory, in which his family, all nonbenders, was extorted by a firebender and his face was left horribly scarred. He also claimed to have been chosen by the spirits to usher in a new era of balance to the world by permanently removing people's bending in order to make equality a reality.
As a demonstration of his abilities, Amon had his Equalist henchmen bring forward several captured Triple Threat Triad members, along with Bolin, and proceeded to remove their bending one by one, starting with the firebending of the notorious crime boss Lightning Bolt Zolt, whom he was able to defeat without the use of any offensive attacks. However, before he could finally purge Bolin of his earthbending, Korra orchestrated a distraction by releasing a cloud of steam into the room, allowing Mako to rescue Bolin in the resulting confusion and escape. As the brothers and Korra were riding away on Naga, tailed by several Equalists, Amon allowed them to escape, remarking that the Avatar would be the perfect individual to spread the word about his powerful new ability.[1]
Meeting Avatar Korra
Before officially meeting Korra, Amon had made a severe impression on her with his actions during the Revelation rally by unknowingly plaguing her with nightmares in which he removed her bending. After being proclaimed public enemy number one by the United Republic Council, he spread a message over the radio to his fellow Equalists, using the actions of the Council as proof of benders' oppressive nature.
After Councilman Tarrlok and Avatar Korra led a task force that successfully raided an Equalist training facility, Amon was publicly challenged by the Avatar to a midnight duel on Aang Memorial Island without the involvement of the task force or chi blockers. However, Amon did not arrive on time, nor did he come alone. Just as Korra began to leave the island, several hidden Equalists reeled her inside the island's museum, where she was quickly overpowered and incapacitated by chi blocking. Amon emerged from the shadows and revealed that he would allow her to keep her bending for the time being, stating that she would otherwise become a martyr and cause benders from every nation to rally behind her "untimely demise". However, he warned a terrified Korra that he would "save her for last" and finally "destroy her" in their inevitable showdown. With that final statement, he proceeded to knock her out and flee with his group.[7]
Attacking the Pro-bending Arena
On the eve of the Pro-bending Championship match, Amon demanded that the Council end the hero-worship of bending athletes by shutting down the Pro-bending Arena and canceling the tournament, threatening "severe consequences" should they refuse. The Council voted to keep the arena open, which Amon revealed to be in line with his plans for the situation. At the conclusion of the championship match, he entered the arena and stripped the victors, Tahno and the rest of the White Falls Wolfbats, of their bending powers.
While his Equalists overpowered members of the Metalbending Police Force in the stands with electrified gloves, the revolutionary leader gave a speech in which he condemned benders, using the cheating of the Wolfbats as an example of their typical abusive behavior toward their fellow nonbending citizens. Furthermore, he stated that the fate of the same pro-bending team served as a warning to all benders who dared to oppose his goals.
Later in his monologue, Amon mentioned that the current tyrannical bending regime would soon be replaced with "a fair minded, Equalist" government. To this end, he planned on disposing of the bending arts in Republic City, his idealized start to eventually equalize the entire world. Declaring the revolution to have begun, he devastated the central playing field with a timed explosion before leaving the arena through the roof on an airship. Boarding the zeppelin, he narrowly escaped Korra's firebending attack and disappeared altogether.[8]
A family reunion
Days later, Amon, accompanied by the Lieutenant and a group of Equalists, found Tarrlok in his hideout deep in the mountains surrounding Republic City. Upon being warned that it was his time to be "equalized", the Councilman defended himself by bloodbending his attackers. Although his henchmen were easily subdued by Tarrlok, Amon's skill in the practice allowed him to resist, much to the Councilman's shock. When asked what he was, referring to his ability to overcome the effects of bloodbending, Amon simply responded that he was "the solution" and proceeded to take Tarrlok's bending. He chose to handle the defeated Tarrlok on his own, as he was worried that people would find out that they were brothers.[9]
While taking care of Tarrlok, he ordered his fellow Equalists to retrieve Korra, who was trapped inside a metal box in the basement. He warned his men not to underestimate her and ordered them to electrify the box, which would leave her knocked out when they opened it. However, as he was putting Tarrlok in the truck in which they had arrived, Korra stormed out of the cabin, having overpowered the other Equalists. Noticing Amon, she shot several ice spears in his direction; the Equalist leader evaded them all and briefly gave chase, but stopped when Korra made her escape by swiftly gliding down the snowy slopes of the mountain. When the Lieutenant and the other Equalists joined him in watching the Avatar leave, he scolded them for having underestimated her.[10]
Attacking Republic City
Amon observed the start of the battle for Republic City from an airship floating above the metropolis. Eventually, his airship was in the vicinity of the police headquarters as Tenzin and Team Avatar were fighting the Equalists' mecha tanks. After Hiroshi Sato, who was present aboard the airship with Amon, expressed his disgust while watching his daughter fighting alongside benders, the revolutionary leader promised him that he would have his daughter back soon.
That evening, after the entire city had fallen, Amon arrived on Air Temple Island, where his followers brought a captured Lin Beifong to him. He offered her the chance to keep her bending in exchange for information regarding Korra's whereabouts, but at her defiant refusal, Amon proceeded to take away her bending.[11]
After the original inhabitants had fled, Amon re-purposed Air Temple Island into his base of operations and had his followers bring forth all captured benders in order to strip them of their powers. He had taken residence in the tower on the island and also used it as a makeshift prison for the captured Tarrlok. As he left the island in an airship for the Equalist victory rally at the Pro-bending Arena, Mako and Korra, disguised as Equalists, infiltrated the island and learned his backstory and true identity as Noatak.[5]
With the city under his control, Amon held a victory rally at the Pro-bending Arena. As he retold his fabricated story from the Revelation rally, he was interrupted by Korra, who addresses him by his true name and outed him as a waterbender who used bloodbending to take people's bending away rather than the alleged gift given to him by the spirits. Korra continued by revealing Amon was the son of former crime boss Yakone and Tarrlok's brother, much to the audience's shock. Though his family tree was revealed by the Avatar, Amon remained calm and confident and refuted Korra's accusations by taking off his mask, revealing the supposed scar on his face that was bestowed upon him by a firebender. Using convincing makeup to fool the audience, Amon managed to turn the tables and make Korra out to be the liar in the eyes of his supporters. When the Avatar and Mako were about to leave, Amon urged them to stay, directing their attention to Tenzin and his children whom he had captured. Aiming to "rid the world of airbending", he invited them to come down to the stage to try and stop him. Arrogantly turning his back to the duo to face Tenzin, he was forced to jump out of the path of Mako's lightning attack. Although he was able to easily avoid Mako's fire blasts, the air swipes that the freed Tenzin threw at him proved to be too much, and he was flung off the stage.
Amon recovered quickly and went after Korra and Mako, who were acting as a diversion to let Tenzin and his family escape. He found them in one of the arena's storage rooms and subdued them easily with his bloodbending, believing that they were alone with no witnesses. However, after taking away Korra's bending, Amon realized his distraught lieutenant had witnessed the whole thing. Being denounced as a traitor by his second-in-command, Amon was forced to defend himself, using his bloodbending to easily stop the attack and send his lieutenant flying into a pile of wooden boards. The distraction provided Mako with the time that he needed to charge a lightning attack, enabling him to immobilize Amon so he could grab a severely weakened Korra to escape. However, Amon caught up with them quickly and again used his bloodbending to effectively halt them.
He prepared to take away Mako's bending, musing over the fact that no one else had been able to get the better of him, and that it was almost a shame to take bending away from one so talented. With his attention drawn away from the downed and seemingly powerless Korra, Amon was completely caught off-guard when she, seeing Mako in danger, suddenly unlocked her airbending and used it to knock him away from the firebender. As she unleashed a barrage of air attacks upon him, flinging him through the hallway, he briefly regained the upper hand with bloodbending. Korra, however, managed to break his hold on her, blasting him out of a window into the harbor below with an air kick, where he began sinking rapidly into the sea after losing consciousness.
Unaware that the water had washed his fake scar away, he regained consciousness underwater and instinctively used his waterbending to emerge from the sea on a giant waterspout to avoid drowning, exposing his waterbending abilities to his followers that were outside. Realizing he had lost all of his leverage and followers, Amon quickly made his escape, dropping back into the water to avoid Mako's barrage of fire blasts. He managed to make his way back to Air Temple Island, where he released Tarrlok, expressing regret for what he had done to him and once more offering his younger brother a chance to leave with him so they could start a new life together, as he was all he had left in the world.
The two brothers acquired a speedboat and made their way out of Republic City, journeying across the Mo Ce Sea. Amon expressed his joy of being together with family again, though admitted he had almost forgotten the sound of the name he was born with and knew when he still had a loving family. As he drove the boat, the defeated revolutionary shed a tear upon hearing his brother assure him it would be like the old days, right before Tarrlok used one of the many electrified gloves kept in the boat to ignite its fuel tank, wanting to bring an end to what he referred to as their sad story. The resulting explosion formed a large cloud of smoke, visible from afar, killing them both.[4]
When Korra was administered a poison by the Red Lotus that would force her to enter the Avatar State, Amon appeared to her in a hallucination, telling her that the world did not need her anymore. Emphasizing the futility of her resistance, he urged her, together with hallucinations of Unalaq and Vaatu, to let go and enter the Avatar State.[12] He appeared to Korra again in a swamp-induced vision, in which she witnessed the Equalist leader removing her bending.[13]
Amon was later used by Varrick in his story of Bolin, Hero of the World, in which he was described as a zombie. He was added to the conference call Zaheer was having with Vaatu and although he expressed his willingness to help take out their common nemesis, Bolin, deeming him to be "way too powerful and awesome", he wanted to leave Unalaq out of the team, though soon found out the Chief of the North had been listening in on their conversation. Amon and his two other companions tried to get rid of Unalaq and eventually just hung up on him. Amon's plot line was ignored in the rest of the mover script.[14]
Noatak was once a caring boy who strove to protect his younger brother. However, having been corrupted by the use of bloodbending at a young age and having to endure the burden of all of Yakone's expectations due to his prowess, Amon became a calm and composed individual, more cold and detached from the world. He developed some sociopathic aspects and a desire for power, fueled by his intent for equality among everyone. Amon had somewhat idolized Avatar Aang's ability to remove an individual's bending, believing that skill to be more powerful than bloodbending. In time, Amon had eventually devised his own technique to remove one's bending by utilizing his bloodbending to sever the bender's connection with their bending ability.[5]
Amon had a severe abhorrence toward benders and was a staunch believer in what he viewed as equality, affectionately referring to his followers as "brothers and sisters".[1] Amon sincerely believed in his rhetoric, having striven to be fair and treat everyone equally since he was a child. Ultimately, it was a misguided desire for justice as well as latent lust for power that led him to start the Anti-bending Revolution.
He was clever and composed, as well as a convincing orator. He had a high command of the art of public speaking, knowing how to mystify and terrify his audiences and enemies alike, inspiring loyalty with each word and gaining widespread following for his cause. At the beginning of the revolution, he seemed to have plans for Korra and avoided fighting her, resorting to allowing her to escape and spread word of his abilities to the city.[1] Amon also chose not to take away her bending when he ambushed her after refusing to fight her, foreseeing that it would make her a martyr for benders and unite them globally against his cause.[7] His proactive and logical thinking typically put him "one step ahead".
Amon was a calculating and manipulative individual; his schemes were well planned and executed with great efficiency. He was also cautious, as he avoided direct conflict with benders, especially those with great power such as Korra, knowing that he risked exposure in facing them. He displayed utter fearlessness, which was exhibited when he was nearly blasted by Korra's firebending, overcoming Tarrlok's bloodbending, and chasing after Korra following her escape from Tarrlok's hideout. To support his pseudo backstory of a firebender scarring his face, Amon used makeup to make it appear that he had actually been scarred.[4]
He was a strong-willed individual in possession of a high level of self-control, making him an extremely formidable opponent. His calm composure never wavered; when Korra escaped her prison and fired large missiles of ice at him, Amon did not hesitate to chase after her, but he remained composed when he lightly scolded his subordinates for underestimating her, which he had warned against.[10] Mortal danger and his strong instinct to survive caused him to slip up once, revealing his true self. However, even in a distraught state, he regained his composure rather quickly, successfully enabling him to escape.
Drilled relentlessly by his father in waterbending, Amon displayed a natural talent for waterbending, quickly impressing Yakone and ultimately mastering the art under his father's tutelage. A true prodigy, his mastery of the art was immense; he was capable of launching himself out of a body of water on a gigantic waterspout and propelling himself over the surface at a speed exceeding that of Mako's fire blasts.[4]
Amon just as quickly mastered the rare and outlawed art of bloodbending, becoming exceptionally skilled and powerful at the ability. Under Yakone's tutelage, he mastered the technique to such an extent that he could perform it at anytime, without the aid of a full moon, by the age of fourteen. At the same time, he also learned his father's special skill of psychic bending, allowing him to perform his bending skills not only through physical movement, but also through sheer focus and strength of will. As the son of the infamous bloodbending criminal Yakone, Amon was also able to use more common bloodbending techniques, such as body manipulation and torture, to an extremely powerful degree while exerting minimal effort. He could also levitate his targets, throw them around, subdue them, and knock them unconscious. With his skill in psychic bending, he could also bloodbend one or multiple targets into submission while able to freely move in for other measures to finish his opponent. Additionally, he exhibited the ability to resist bloodbending with little effort, even against his brother, Tarrlok, who had also mastered the skill to a similar level.[10]
Despite growing fascinated by this skill, he ultimately desired more, wanting to have the power to remove people's bending, just as Avatar Aang had done to his father with the use of energybending. He eventually succeeded in this goal by using his mastery of bloodbending to "sever" an individual's bending connection by blocking their active chi paths, effectively achieving the same result as energybending.[15] No medical intervention was effective in reversing this effect, and even Katara, a world-renowned healer and bloodbending expert in her own right, was unable to reverse its effects. The only known way to reverse Amon's bending block is through the use of energybending, as demonstrated by Avatars Aang and Korra.[4]
Other skills
Amon epitomized versatility in many ways. He concealed his bending abilities through masterful hand-to-hand combat skills and the art of chi blocking. His prowess proved great enough to defeat even the most powerful of benders. He also demonstrated his agility as a nimble fighter, allowing him to maneuver gracefully and evade bending assaults with ease, even at close-range.[1] He also supplemented his hand-to-hand skills with minor applications of his bloodbending in order to better defend and redirect enemy assaults. Apart from his combat skills, Amon had extreme physical resilience that allowed him to recover from a point-blank lightning bolt shot by Mako in mere seconds and subdue him with bloodbending.
Aside from his combat abilities, Amon also possessed great intellect and charisma, making him a master manipulator. He effectively masqueraded his bloodbending technique, which he used to sever people's bending, as a mystical weapon given to him by the spirits. He was able to maintain this facade consistently even under the heat of battle. A gifted political strategist, he accurately portended that if he removed the Avatar's bending too early in his revolution, it would only end in Korra becoming a martyr, ensuring that benders across the globe would unite against his anti-bending agenda.[4] He took his charade to such heights that apart from wearing a mask, he even applied make-up to fake a large facial scar to legitimize his fabricated story of being mutilated by a firebender in order to further drive bending hate and sympathy for his cause.
As evidenced by the multiple attacks orchestrated by the Equalists, Amon was also a capable strategist and tactician, outmatching other organized forces such as the Metalbending Police Force and the United Forces armada on several occasions. He was also well-versed in terrorist tactics, subverting nonbenders by manipulating their hate and bestowing fear upon benders, always seeking a psychological edge against his opponents, and consistently using intimidation and threats against his numerous enemies.
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The Legend of Korra
Book One: Air (气)
Book Two: Spirits (神靈)
Book Three: Change (易)
Book Four: Balance (平衡)
- Amon's ability is called 死手 in the art of 點脈, which is roughly translated into "the death hand", referring to an individual who is skilled in killing but not curing.
- The 平 ideogram, present on his early character designs, has several meanings in Chinese, including "to equalize", matching the Equalists' name, and "peaceful", matching Amon's goals for a peaceful world that is rid of bending. In Urdu (امن) and Indonesian, "peaceful" translates to "Aman", pronounced as "Amon".
- The Chinese transliteration for Amon's name, 阿蒙, has several meanings, but the most appropriate is "to cover".
- The red disc featured on Amon's mask was also the symbol of the Egyptian sun god Amun, whose name can similarly be spelled as Amon.
- The mask that Amon wore was inspired by traditional Chinese and Korean designs.[16]
- Amon was the only known person who was not an Avatar to have had the ability to remove someone's bending.
- Amon was one of two known characters to be both a bender and a chi blocker, along with Hundun.
- He, along with Tarrlok, were the first two people to die on-screen in The Legend of Korra.[4]
- As a child, Amon had a darker skin color that was similar to Katara's, but as an adult, his skin was noticeably lighter.
- The creators did not realize until the animation came back for "Skeletons in the Closet" that fourteen year old Amon had been drawn with the same hairstyle as Korra. They ultimately decided to leave the style as it was, as it showed that despite their differences during the Anti-bending Revolution, they came from similar cultural backgrounds.[15]
- In Binsfeld's classification of demons, Amon is the name of one of the seven princes of Hell, who tempts people with the sin of wrath. This is similar to how Amon roused the frustration and hatred of the nonbending populace to further his goals.
- The Anonymous group, an internet movement or concept of anonymous activists who protest political injustice, often uses a Guy Fawkes mask as a symbol for the movement and as a disguise, which is similar to the mask Amon used. Amon sounds similar to "Anon", which is used as an abbreviation for "Anonymous".
- Amon bore similarities to the character "V" from the comic and movie V for Vendetta. Much like Amon, V was portrayed as a mysterious anarchist, vigilante, and freedom fighter who was easily recognizable by his Guy Fawkes mask and dark clothing. According to Alan Moore, one of the character's creators, V was designed to be morally ambiguous, similar to how Amon was perceived as a hero by some and a tyrant by others.
- Despite having been killed at the end of Book One: Air, Amon appeared to Korra in a vision in every subsequent book, making appearances in the final episodes of Books Two and Three and again in the fourth and eighth episode of Book Four; however, he only spoke in the Book Three finale and Book Four recap episode.
- Amon was the second known individual in the Avatar universe to die at the hands of a family member, the first being Azulon and the third Unalaq.


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A landmark legal case may finally put a stop to almost half a century of bizarre medical procedures in the United States, where children's genitals have been surgically altered to fit a standardized definition of the proper sizes for penises and clitorises.
South Carolina couple Mark and Pam Crawford adopted their son M.C. when he was 19 months old, after he had been the ward of the state for a few months. Before his adoption, M.C.'s doctors and social workers decided that the infant's penis was too small or ambiguous, and determined that the best course of action was plastic surgery that would make his genitals look female. There was absolutely no medical cause for the surgery. It was purely cosmetic. Now, M.C. is 8 years old and has told his parents that he wants to be a boy. But before he was able to make this decision, doctors had surgically altered him in a way that has already caused him grief and confusion.
The Crawfords are suing the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Greenville Hospital, and Medical University of South Carolina for gross negligence and medical malpractice. According to CNN:
The suit says the surgery violated the 14th Amendment, which says that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
The thing that's truly appalling about this case is that M.C.'s experiences are all too common.
According to many doctors during the twentieth century, a medically acceptable clitoris at birth measures .02 to .09 cm, while a medically acceptable penis at birth is 2.5 to 4.5 cm. But there are as many as 1 in 2,000 babies born every year whose genitals exist in that 1.0 to 2.4 cm gray area, or who have ambiguous testicles and labia. These babies are called intersexed. Their ambiguous genitals often result from the fact that clitorises and penises develop from the same tissues in the womb, as do labia and testicles. Plus, there is a lot of natural variation in size and shape anyway.
A note on terminology: Humans cannot be hermaphrodites, which are defined scientifically as animals that are capable of both impregnating and being impregnated.
When intersex babies are born, or when babies' genitals are injured, it has been common medical practice to treat these children as if they have a medical problem that needs fixing. But only a small number of intersex children have medical problems. Most are just slightly outside the range of the typical, no different from kids born with big noses or really short fingers. But in the mid-twentieth century, it became medical "common sense" that children would be traumatized by growing up with genitals that don't match the norm. As a result, girls with large clitorises were given clitoridectomies, and boys with small penises were given reconstructive surgery and raised as girls.
These days, the common sense is changing fast. Now, many doctors would tell parents of intersex children that the child will naturally choose a gender as they grow up (M.C., for example, seems to have chosen his before reaching the age of 8). Parents may choose a temporary gender for the child until he or she is old enough to choose. But mostly, the parents have to be patient and let the kid just be a kid without assigning them a "boy or girl" status — and certainly before giving them life-altering surgery. The Crawfords' lawsuit, if successful, will likely cement this treatment into standard medical practice.
These surgeries are an issue that intersex people have been dealing with for a long time. It has taken decades of activism to reach a point where parents were willing to sue medical professionals for altering their infants' genitals without any medical reason.
On Autostraddle, Claudia writes about why this case is important to intersex people:
Intersex isn't a medical condition . . . It's about bodies that have a combination of sex traits traditionally considered "male" or "female" in the same body. The clinical procedures in question are not those that track health or provide any sort of medical benefit for the child; the genital surgeries, (vaginal) dilation procedures, and other treatments that parents and clinicians give proxy consent to are cosmetic. They're performed to make their child's external genitals look "normal" (as though there is one way genitals should naturally look), to remove internal gonads kids assigned M/F "shouldn't" have, to sculpt intersex bodies into something that more closely approximates societal beauty standards as to what our most private of parts should look like.
This case is really important because it clearly argues that parents and doctors shouldn't get consent proxy to decide whether intersex children should have these cosmetic procedures. Since they're not medically relevant, only intersex persons themselves should decide what we want to do with our bodies.
You can read the tragic story of one boy who was given a sex-reassignment surgery at birth in the incredible book As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about the lawsuit, you can go to the Advocates for Informed Choice website. They are a legal organization that advocates for intersex children.


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Are you ready to track your ancestors?
It's time for another genealogy fair!
This time. I'm going to the fair which will be held Saturday, August 22nd in Stirling-Rawdon (near Trenton and Peterborough in Ontario) at the Stirling Senior School on St. James Street.
I knew that the fair was quite old and had been held a number of summers in this quaint little village, but this will be the first year that I am going.
It is an all-day affair, and will feature Fawne-Stratford Devai (who works on the television series, "Ancestors in the Attic") and her talk entitled, "Leaving Ontario: Resources of Tracking Ontario Migrants", as well as Dr. David R. Elliott's two lectures, "Digital Techniques for Reading Difficult Tombstones" and "Treasure in the Family Bible: Methodologies for Discovering Family History".
I can't wait to hear both of them because I have a few questions of my own that I would be love to get answers to.
The fee is very reasonable, and you can register online before August 1st by downloading the registration form at <www.stirling-rawdon.com/2009_files/genealogy_fair_form09.pdf> or you can register at the door on the day of the conference. But be there early because doors open at 8:30!
Also, visit <www.stirling-rawdon.com/stirling_rawdon_genealogy.html> and take a look at their historical society, where they keep a genealogy room.
The contact person to get in touch with, if you wish to register, is Pat Marshall of Stirling. Her email address is <email@example.com>.
If you come to the fair, please take a moment to say "Hi!" - I would love to meet you.


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The Guitar Ensemble is a select ensemble specializing in music for classical guitar quartet, as well as guitar ensembles of all sizes. The ensemble plays a wide variety of enjoyable music and generally gives two concerts a year. Admission is by audition only. Interested students should register for MUSC 240F for 0 or 1 credit.


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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: But then, Joe Webb couldn't really either.
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Christian Ponder joined KFAN in Minneapolis with Paul Allen to discuss leading the Minnesota Vikings to a playoff berth in the final game of the season, the amount of swelling there was in his right arm, not being able to throw more than 10 yards before last Saturday's playoff game, the decision behind not playing in that game against the Packers and feeling cheated he couldn't play because of his elbow injury.
Well at least you went out in style by leading the Minnesota Vikings to a playoff berth in Week 17 before being unable to play with the elbow injury:
"[Laughs] Yeah, obviously that game was important and a fun one to be a part of. I'm very disappointed I didn't get to play in the last one."
When I saw your right arm at Lambeau Field after the game it looked gross. It was unbelievable. How's all the bruising up and down the nine inches of your arm?
"When I got hit, that whole area swelled up. I don't know, those reports came out that said I had bursitis. The whole thing was so swollen and there was a pocket right above my elbow that was pretty swollen. Everyone was joking around that I was just doing bicep curls just with one arm, but I mean, it was all pretty swollen. All that swelling finally came to the surface and showed up as a bruise as the swelling went down."
The weird thing with this injury for you was that you were able to finish the game and make big throws in Week 17, but you couldn't throw the ball before the playoff game. Correct?
"Yeah, it was painful that whole game after it got hit. Basically I had to keep it loose. I had to keep throwing on the sidelines when we weren't in and even after the play, we took a timeout and I had to throw to make sure I stayed loose. It swelled up during the whole game, and even on that last throw to Michael Jenkins I didn't get a lot on the ball because the arm was hurting already. Adrenaline is a heck of a thing and it really got me through it, and afterwards it just kept swelling up and locked up on me. … That's what people don't understand. I've played through pain my whole career. I've played with broken ribs and banged knees and dislocated fingers … and I've played with an elbow issue my senior year at Florida State. It wasn't a thing about pain. There are obvious things you can do with pain. I couldn't throw the football. My triceps had shut down and when you get a thing like this, it doesn't function. The triceps are a pretty important muscle to throw the football and I couldn't throw the ball. I threw the ball 10 yards, and everyone makes jokes about you don't throw the ball 10 yards in a game anyway, but a 10-yard throw from the left hash to the right side of the field is more like a 25- to 30-yard throw in reality."
When you say 'people' don't understand your injury, do you mean the fans or the media?
"I've seen it everywhere. I haven't seen former players say anything, but just through tweets and stuff, but the hardest decision was the fact that was what was best for the team. Everybody says you gotta put the team first and go play, but I put the team first. I want to be out playing the game. I don't think anyone realized that. Why would I not want to be out playing? The things I would have been able to do this year, like play in my first playoff game against the rival in Green Bay. Obviously during the year I didn't play very well. Why wouldn't I want to be able to go and have that redemption, to be able to play and do the thing that I am able to do and have fun? I love playing the game and that's why I play the game. Why would I want to be sitting on the sideline? The decision was I put the team first and if I can't throw, what I am going to do in a 3rd-and-9 situation? Just hand the ball off to Adrian Peterson and hope we get it? That's not good for the team. Joe Webb was a lot more effective than I could have been."
Did you feel cheated that you couldn't play in the playoff game against the Packers?
"Yeah. It was very frustrating and disappointing to go through all those things and all the ups and downs throughout the whole season, but the way the whole team fought and finished those four games, it was kind of a new energy. Going into the playoffs, and what we went through last year to be able to be in the playoffs, and not be able to play, we're very disappointed to say the least."
This post, written by Steven Cuce, appears courtesy of Sports Radio Interviews. For the complete highlights of the interview, as well as audio, click here.
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What are "Barefoot" or Minimalist Shoes?
Some call them "barefoot shoes" ...
... While others prefer the term "minimalist footwear." As Vibram's "FiveFingers" kicked off the craze, many barefoot-alternative converts assume "barefoot shoes" must be "those toe shoes" — the eye-catchingly strange foot gloves or shoes that look like feet. But the barefoot/minimalist footwear category is much more than shoes that look like feet.
And 'round here, we sorta like the name "Birthday Shoes" — not just because of the "birthday suit" pun, but also because it's a reminder that you were born barefoot, that homo sapiens survived for eons without high-tech sneakers, and shoe design should consider the natural, biologically "nude" state of the foot. If bare feet got humanity through the stone age, do we really need a thickly cushioned pair of Nike's simply to play outside or go for a run?
What makes a good shoe should be grounded in the foot's natural, bare state. Thus, a basic understanding of the naked foot is the simplest guide as to what the ideal shoe should be. To wit:
- shoes should allow your feet to move dynamically as they would barefoot.
- shoes shouldn't support our feet — the need for "arch support" for a healthy foot makes little sense given arches are innately strong structures. Supports may actually undermine the natural function of the arches in our feet!
- shoes should transmit "ground feel" allowing you to feel the terrain even if that means discomfort — in fact, being able to feel the ground may be the most important facet of learning how to walk and run with low impact, thereby reducing the chance of injury.
- shoes should have little to no impact on how you would move if barefoot — shoes shouldn't change your natural bio-mechanics (and if you're accustomed to wearing conventional shoes, note that your barefooted bio-mechanics will need some reworking!).
- shoes should be as light and keep your feet low to the ground!
This isn't a comprehensive list, but it hits on some of the most important facets behind what makes a shoe "minimalist" or "barefoot" ("barefoot shoes" may be an unfortunate way to describe barefoot-styled footwear, but it's probably the most colloquial way to convey the category).
Why are minimalist/barefoot shoes so popular these days? Because these types of shoes let feet be feet, making for healthier and happier human beings. Our kids know what most of us have forgotten—barefooted (or close to it!) movement is fun whether that be running, walking, playing, or just a random trip to the grocery store.
It's time we abandoned the prevailing paradigms around footwear. We don't need these overbuilt, overcushioned, arch-supporting monstrosities strapped to our feet to function. Free your feet and rediscover the inner kid in you.


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Things you don't want to hear on the day of your move:
It's snowing.
Our truck was hit by a car.
The move ahead of you has the elevator and is running late. And you both must be out by 5 pm.
Luckily, everything went well and no one was injured in that snow-and-ice-induced fender bender.
I've mostly unpacked and am figuring out where everything goes in the kitchen. Also, how the oven – my first convection oven – works. I don't yet have a place to store my pots and pans, and most of them are piled on my desk which is actually in the kitchen. Which means I'm typing on the sofa. Cooking has been pretty simple. The first non-delivery dinner I "made" was defrosting some lentil soup I had made last month in my own place.
Soon, I hope to be cooking and baking for real. Until then, I give you kale apple salad. On my kitchen counter.
Kale apple salad with cheddar and pecans
Not really a recipe, but one of many variations on the kale/fruit/cheese/nut winning salad combo.
Serves 1
Tear several handfuls of kale (I used curly kale) into bite-sized pieces, discarding the thick ribs (or put them aside to sauté). Use your hands to toss the kale with olive oil and let sit for about an hour until the kale softens and wilts a bit. Lacinato kale will wilt faster. If you don't have time to wait, microwave the oil-slicked kale for 30 – 60 seconds until bright green. Slice half an apple into thick julienne slices. Cut aged cheddar into cubes. Toast a handful of chopped pecans. Mix the apple and cheddar with the kale. Add lemon juice (about half the amount of olive oil) and salt. You may need to add a bit more oil. Sprinkle with torn parsley leaves and pecans.


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While liberal news outlets such as MSNBC were cynically exploiting the April 19 anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by attempting to tie the terrorist attack to the anti-government sentiments of the modern-day Tea Party movement, investigative reporter Jayna Davis was setting the record straight in an exclusive interview on the AIM radio show, Take AIM. The Oklahoma City bombing was an Arab/Muslim terrorist attack on the United States, she says.
Davis, author of a blockbuster book on the attack, The Third Terrorist, has examined and presented the evidence showing that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was in fact a front man for Middle Eastern terrorists. The third terrorist, in addition to the two, McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who were convicted, was an Arab. This was the mysterious "John Doe" who was never found. But other members of an Arab terrorist network were involved, she says.
She says the evidence was ignored and dismissed because the Clinton Administration didn't want to go to war with Iraq, the likely culprit, and wanted to blame the attack on domestic right-wingers for political reasons.
The implications of what Davis has to say are that the case is still unsolved, that the FBI blew it, and that we may still be vulnerable to Arab terrorists infiltrating the U.S. and killing hundreds or thousands of innocent Americans.
Indeed, Davis suggested in her AIM interview that another attack on American soil may be coming, perhaps from the same networks which sponsored McVeigh.
Liberal media like MSNBC have peddled the false notion that McVeigh was motivated by domestic hatred of the government, and that the Tea Party movement is motivated by the same. Hence, by extension, the Tea Party movement will probably spawn anti-government fanatics who will kill people. This claim justifies government repression of anti-Obama political dissidents who may in fact be entirely peaceful and simply exercising their constitutional rights.
One of the problems with the MSNBC narrative is that Davis makes a convincing case that in fact McVeigh "was a handpicked dupe, set up to take the fall in order to save his Islamic collaborators from prosecution." She documents that he had expressed a desire to be a mercenary for Middle Eastern terrorists, and that the trail of evidence that both he and his accomplice Terry Nichols left behind points in the direction of an Arab/Muslim connection to the attack.
Indeed, Davis portrays Oklahoma City as one in a series of attacks engineered by foreign enemies of the United States that includes the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as well as the 9/11 attacks themselves.
Over the years, Accuracy in Media has run numerous stories about Davis, her evidence, and other reports indicating a Middle Eastern connection to the Oklahoma City bombing. Wes Vernon wrote a 2007 AIM Report on the obstacles confronted by Davis as she tried to tell the story in the media, including on television.
As Davis noted in her interview with me on Take AIM, her book, The Third Terrorist, outlines details of sworn affidavits from very credible witnesses who link the convicted bombers, McVeigh and Nichols, to former Iraqi soldiers who had managed to settle in the U.S. These individuals turned out to be anti-American infiltrators who wanted revenge on the U.S. for our Middle East policy.
Davis provided similar detail in an article she wrote for AmericanThinker.com on April 23. Her interview with me the day before can be heard here. The transcript of the interview is here.
This is not what the liberals in the media want to hear. They want to believe, as then-President Clinton claimed at the time, that McVeigh had no foreign connection and was motivated to kill innocent Americans because he hated federal authorities for staging a bloody raid on a religious compound in Waco, Texas. Clinton actually went further, blaming conservative talk radio for motivating McVeigh to kill.
Playing her part in this continuing version of events, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow narrated a show on the anniversary of the bombing that focused on 45 hours of taped audio interviews with McVeigh made by Lou Michel, a reporter from the Buffalo News who co-authored the book, American Terrorist, with Dan Herbeck.
In Maddow's introduction to the show, she made her dubious point loud and clear: "Nine years after his execution, we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh's voice from the grave echoes in a new rising tide of American anti-government extremism."
This has been a dominant MSNBC theme–that McVeigh was a right-wing anti-government zealot, similar to those in today's Tea Party movement–on the network's line-up of left-wing advocacy shows that air and re-air from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. ET on weekdays.
It is a theme that former President Bill Clinton revisited in a New York Times op-ed and in TV interviews leading up to the April 19th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Like Maddow, Clinton hinted that the Tea Party movement could motivate people to kill, in the same way that McVeigh did
Davis told me that Clinton actually got a political boost by claiming no foreign connection to the attack and blaming talk radio.
Davis said the government didn't pursue the evidence linking McVeigh to Middle Eastern terrorists because Clinton knew that the arrest of a foreign suspect on American soil "would cry out for a military response to take out Saddam Hussein." He didn't want to go to war with the Arabs. Instead, he decided to go to war with talk radio, a more convenient target.
For investigating a foreign connection, Davis said she was called a racist. "I'm an NBC affiliated reporter, I was from the mainstream media, but I was branded a racist, and politically incorrect, because I was pursuing legitimate leads and evidence that led to foreign involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing," she said. "So by virtue of securing his [1996] White House bid by blaming right-wing rhetoric for inciting Timothy McVeigh, Bill Clinton was able to seal the case. That was it. It was domestic, home-grown terrorism. And now, fifteen years later, he comes out with the temerity and absolute audacity to try to compare these Tea Party conservatives with a bloodthirsty terrorist. I mean, nothing could be further from the truth. "
The parts of the story that Maddow and the rest of the liberal media choose to leave out point overwhelmingly to Middle Eastern terrorists being in control of the plot. And because they want to discredit the Tea Party movement, which poses a threat to the Obama Administration and Democratic Party control of Congress, these elements of the story will continue to be ignored as long as the official authorities fail to prosecute the real culprits.
Jayna Davis's book, her investigation, and reporting methods have been endorsed by several authorities, including former CIA director Jim Woolsey and former congressional investigator David Schippers, who wrote the foreword for the book.
I asked Davis what it will take for the version of history that she has largely written to become the accepted narrative of what really happened. She said the people have to continue to press the authorities and the major media, even at this late date, for the truthful answers.
"Here's where I think it, it lies: It's going to have to be the peasants with the pitchforks," she said, referring to popular disgust with the official version of the story. "These people are going to have to rise up, just like the Tea Party movement is angry about Washington policies that affect their pocketbooks and the future of their children and the national deficit. They're going to have to rise up and demand that this record is corrected."
Otherwise, she said, the liberal left will continue to use their version of Oklahoma City to smear anybody critical of their control of the federal government.
She explained, "They're going to continue to label anybody who carries a placard or raises a voice of dissent in a peaceful protest as a 'Tim McVeigh wannabe.' And until The Third Terrorist, and this evidence embodied in my book, is actually proven, prosecuted, and validated in a courtroom setting, the label of 'Tim McVeigh wannabe' is going to continue to be attached to God-fearing Americans who dare to step forward and question and hold to account their elected officials."
She added, "My belief is, the best way to get this into a courtroom, and to finally seek justice for the slain of April 19th, 1995, is to pressure the District Attorney of Oklahoma County, who single-handedly holds the legal power to go out and arrest these Arab suspects and put them on trial. He does not need the permission of the federal government. He can act single-handedly, either put it before a grand jury and issue an indictment, or he can just issue arrest warrants based on the evidence and talk to the witnesses."
Davis disclosed that she recently wrote a letter to David Prater, the District Attorney, knowing this anniversary was coming up. "I offered the assistance of David Schippers, the seasoned litigator, who was responsible for prosecuting the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, who is intimately familiar with my evidence," she said. "He agreed to work side-by-side with him to put together a prosecution's case."
"It is time this is heard in a court of law," she concludes. "These men that have committed wholesale mass murder are walking free. One of those men had specific prior knowledge of 9/11. What does that Iraqi soldier now know about the next attack within our borders? Nobody's even questioned him."
- Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater's telephone number is 405-713-1600 and he can also be contacted here. Please ask respectfully that he act on the evidence presented by Jayna Davis.


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Hello, my first post here.
I picked up these two sporrans. I have very little knowledge when it comes to kit.
One is RHC, the other looks to be the 5th Royal Scots of Canada.
With the smaller one, Im trying to determine age and why there is no #5 under the badge. Why is this so small?
The service number in the RHC sporran leads to a soldier with previous militia experience before he signed up in 1916 with the 5th RHC. I assume both are correct and belonged to the same man.
Also there was some nice RPPC from the C13 and the RHC.


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Last week I did something that scared the hell out of me. I stood in front of nearly 200 financial planners and I talked to them about why financial blogs are a good thing....I've had enough feedback to understand that I'm an effective communicator — when I use the written word. I'm less confident as a speaker. I don't have time to pause to formulate my thoughts. I'm not able to edit. I'm afraid of being trapped in a corner without being able to talk my way out. Basically, I'm scared to speak.For the last two years, however, he has been saying "yes" to all media interviews and speaking opportunities, precisely because they scare him. Here's why:
To say "no" is to live in fear. My goal is to continually improve myself, to become better than I am today. One way to do that is to do the things that scare me, to take them on as challenges, and to learn from them — even if I fail.Roth urges you to try "the magic of thinking big" to do so, and this post is a long, thorough and thoughtful pep talk on just how to do so. He has 14 sound pieces of advice (I like "get off your 'but'" best) and a reading list if you want more guidance and inspiration. Would you try the approach of saying "yes," even if speaking scares you? Share your reactions in the comments, please.
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I just checked my DVR, and "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" doesn't play once between now and Christmas. I have something like 6,000 channels, which will probably feature "Home Alone 4" and "Santa Clause 3 — The Escape Clause" 100 times over the next week and a half. But no Emmet Otter, Frogtown Hollow or Riverbottom Nightmare Band. This is the kind of oversight that I'm hoping will get corrected in the Obama administration.
I'll have to buy the DVD online, and hope it arrives in time. Unfortunately, the newest version is heavily edited, and doesn't include the Kermit the Frog parts. (Disney holds the rights to Kermit and most of the other Muppets.) Like all things we're not supposed to see, these missing bits have shown up on YouTube. You can also buy the old version on EBay, assuming you still have a VCR.
One more random Emmet Otter note: Paul Williams, who wrote songs for the original (and "The Muppet Movie") helped create a musical theater version of "Emmet Otter," which premieres for the public tomorrow at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. Not sure what to think of that. If Williams still has the bowl haircut, then I'm definitely onboard.


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President Obama arrives in California this week for fundraising in the Bay Area and Beverly Hills -- on top of a week of fundraising here by his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
Both men are expected to be back again in California over the next few months, blocking traffic at inconvenient times.
You'll hear a lot about the politics and importance of fundraising. But let's look at it in a practical way.
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Both of these men -- whatever you think of their politics -- are hurting California, by taking tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of dollars out of our cash-strapped state.
Both candidates, after all, are going to do their campaign spending in battleground states, not California.
If that's not an argument for higher taxes on the richest Californians, I don't know what is. The state is strapped for cash, so why not grab that money before Obama and Romney grab it and take it away?
Of course, you shouldn't look for Gov. Jerry Brown or civil rights lawyer Molly Munger or other backers of tax hike to make this argument.
Why not, you ask?
Because they need political donations from those very same political givers to fund their own initiatives and campaigns.
But that shouldn't stop the rest of us.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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These days, animated movies are nearly all digital, and
we're not complaining. When we're being dazzled by the latest CG masterpiece, we don't miss hand-drawn cels, Claymation, or stop-motion. But then we saw ParaNorman and realized what we'd been missing. The darkly comic story of a boy trying to save his hometown from a centuries-old curse (screenwriter and codirector Chris Butler describes the film as "John Carpenter meets John Hughes"), ParaNorman is the first stop-motion movie to use a 3-D color printer to create its puppets' faces. It's also the first feature from Laika Entertainment since its Oscar-nominated 2009 hit Coraline. With tens of thousands of printed parts, millions of hours of work, and billions of pixels invested, the project represents unparalleled innovation in handmade storytelling—and a new future for a 100-year-old art form.
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Thanks to interchangeable 3-D-printed facial components, Norman is capable of 1.5 million expressions. For the 27 characters with 3-D-printed faces, the rapid-prototyping department output 31,000 parts, which they stored and cataloged in a face library. One 27-second shot required 250 different faces for a single character. Each face is marked by tiny fissures where the components fit together, so a "seam team" removes the fine lines in postproduction.
The 3-D printers build up each character's face by depositing hundreds of layers of fine white plaster-vinyl powder, which is then sprayed with ink. (Laika named its four 3D Systems ZPrinter 650 machines Trillian, Tron, Samus, and Lapidus.)
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Animation supervisor Brad Schiff adjusts the puppets for the next shot.
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Norman's eye rig, which allows him to look right, left, up, and down, is made of 40 parts — many of them 3-D-printed. Here, the animator manipulates Norman's eyelid with an X-Acto blade.
Norman's hairstyle consists of 275 individual goat-hair spikes, styled with glue, hair gel, thread, and wire. "We made ourselves a topography map to ensure that his spikes always have the same layout," says Jessica Lynn, Laika's head of hair.
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The studio's riggers design and build a three-axis apparatus called an X-Y-Z rig, which gives the animators the ability to move the characters around the stage and position them precisely. The figures must be able to move incrementally in space and hold each position for the camera. (Wires are also used to hold props in place, and the seam team erases them from the finished image.) One of the most complicated rigs was used for a scene in which zombies rise from the ground, sending dirt and rocks flying everywhere. Each individual pebble and dirt clod was attached to a wire.
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Each frame is shot with a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR—twice. After the first shot is captured, a specially constructed interocular slider shifts the camera a few millimeters and takes a second shot from a slightly different viewpoint. Knit the images together and voilà: 3-D feature film shot with a sub-$3,000 camera.
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The characters' bodies are built over an armature, a stainless- and tool-steel skeleton with articulated joints that allow for a wide range of motion.
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Laika's 35 animators each produced an average of 4.4 seconds of footage a day. Their work, plus that of 58 visual-effects artists in postproduction, created this finished frame—and 244,733 others.
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Shia LaBeouf is attached to star in the feature film adaptation of the Joe Hill novel Horns. LaBeouf will play Ig Perrish, a 26-year-old who drinks heavily on the first anniversary of his girlfriend's murder and awakes the next morning with horns growing from his head: "As his horns grow bigger, Ig sets out to investigate the unsolved murder of his girlfriend and the case's connection to his cursed fate."
Keith Bunin (In Treatment) will adapt the screenplay for Mandalay Pictures, who optioned Horns in 2009 shortly before the book was published. Hit the jump for the full synopsis, plus a look at the other projects Hill and LaBeouf have in development.
The book synopsis:
Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin's murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and horns growing from his temples. Ig possesses a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre gift he intends to use to find the monster who killed his lover. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. Now it's time for revenge . . . [Amazon]
Variety reports that Hill, the son of Stephen King, will executive produce Horns. Hill has two other literary works in the Hollywood development cycle. Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are developing Heart Shaped Box as a feature film starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan; Jesse McCartney, Miranda Otto, Sarah Bolger, Nick Stahl, and Skylar Gaertner star in the TV series adaptation of Hill's comic book Locke & Key produced by Steven Spielberg, Josh Friedman, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman.
LaBeouf has recently been linked to several roles:
- Pinkville – a Vietnam War drama based on a true story, directed by Oliver Stone (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
- College Repbulicans – a comedy/drama set in the university days of Karl Rove
- The Associate – an adaptation of the John Grisham novel about a young lawyer; Tony Scott (Unstoppable) is attached to direct
- The Wettest County in the World – a drama about bootleggers in the Prohibition era; Tom Hardy would co-star, John Hillcoat (The Road) will direct
I'm really keen on The Wettest County, and I'm counting on LaBeouf's star power to push the film through a prolonged development. But Horns sounds horrifically inviting. I wouldn't mind seeing a horned LaBeouf. The actor will next be seen in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which opens July 1.