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Rendezvous with Mozart
Rendezvous with Mozart at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna includes a visit to the Palace, a nice dinner in a restaurant on the Palace premises and a classical concert with Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra Vienna. Book your tickets to Rendezvous with Mozart in Vienna here!
Enjoy an evening of royal pleasures by walking through the sumptuous palace, eat a nice dinner and end with a grand finale at Schönbrunn Palace Orangery, embarking on a musical journey with the Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra Vienna.
Start your journey with a visit to the ceremonial rooms of world-famous Schönbrunn Palace, the most popular tourist attraction in Austria. Guests will receive an audioguide and may take the Palace tour anytime during the Palace's official opening hours, however, we recommend that our guests start the audioguide palace tour no later than 4:00 p.m
At 6.30 PM: Dinner will be served at in a restaurant on the Palace premises. Here an elegant three-course dinner awaits you, incl. dishes typical of Mozart's time. (Drinks are not incl. in the price).
At 8.30 PM (the doors open at 8:00 PM): The concert takes place at the elaborately restored Orangery Schönbrunn, which played an important role throughout Mozart's career (he performed at the Orangery on several occasions). The musical performance is by the renowned Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra Vienna, accompanied by vocalists and ballet dancers. The program is by J. Strauss and W.A. Mozart. Our guest will be served an alcoholic beverage at the Orangery bar, and will also receive a program for the concert, a "Best of Mozart CD", performed by the Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra Vienna. Furthermore, we have reserved seats in the two front rows. During the intermission, please join us for a glass of sparkling wine and delicious "Mozartkugeln" (multilayered chocolate truffles) at the bar.
You find the Schönbrunn Palace Orangery's seating plan here. You can choose between four categories of tickets: VIP, A, B or C, referring to the front, middle and back of the auditorium respectively.
Important Information:
- Shortly after your booking is complete, you will receive your e-tickets via e-mail. Please print out your ticket and bring it with you to the Orangery, where you have to exchange it for your tickets. You can exchange your e-tickets from 9:00 AM only on your booked tour date.
- The concert duration incl. intermission is 1½ to 2 hours and ends approximately 10.15 PM.
- On selected days, concerts may take place in the Great Gallery or the White Gold Room located inside Schoenbrunn Palace or in other concert halls in Vienna. You will, of course, be advised if a change of concert venue happens.
- After the Schönbrunn Palace Concerts, taxis will be available right outside Schoenbrunn Palace Orangery. The subway runs until midnight at five-eight minute intervals.
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Rendezvous with Mozart
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Rendezvous with Mozart
You can collect your e-tickets from 09.00AM and start your palace visit at the same time if you like, however we recommend that you start the audioguide Palace tour no later than 4:00 p.m. Dinner is served at 06.30PM and concert starts at 08.30PM.
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I do indeed remember exactly was I was 10 years ago at this very moment -- sitting at my desk (not this one, a different one, many convoluted financial transactions and one bankruptcy ago), watching a newsroom TV out of one eye and waiting for the Bush White House to go ahead and finally unleash the shock and awe they'd been promising for months. The news of air strikes on Baghdad came in the evening, as I'd expected (dawn over Iraq, after all) and when it did, it came wrapped in something that I -- and virtually no one else -- remembers a decade later. It was a head fake, at best, or maybe even a lie. Probably a lie...because there were so many of them,
That's the Daily News front page from March 20, 2003 up top of this post. Confusing? Why dies it show Saddam Hussein AND Osama bin Laden? Right when the bombers were on their flight path to the Iraq, the Pentagon leaked out a separate report that troops were also involved in an operation in Pakistan aimed at getting bin Laden, who'd been on the lam from the 9/11 attacks at that point for 18 months.
Most newsrooms didn't take the bait out of Pakistan, when the big news was over Baghdad. But the Daily News was run by Zack Stalberg, a great newspaperman who did have his obsessions, as we all do. He didn't seem to have great interest in the nuances of foreign policy, but he knew one thing: He wanted bin Laden dead -- DEAD -- for what he had done on 9/11 ("Revenge -- hold that thought," the DN wrote on 9/12/2001, behind a front page that screamed "Blood for Blood.") So there is bin Laden, joined for eterniity with Saddam on my newspaper's start of the Iraq War front page, muddling the mission of the war between the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and a different dictator who had nothing to do with it. All because of Pentagon misinformation that was immediately tossed down the memory hole, in a fog of a never-ending war. How fitting! So much of what was reported that night -- and in the months running up to March 19, 2003 -- was a lie. Even the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News.
A lie.
If you'd asked me a few years back what I'd be doing tonight -- on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War -- I would have predicted that I'd be writing a long, long screed, cataloguing each and every fib, falsehood and outright whopper told by Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, et cetera. But now that it's here...I'm not going to do that. If you don't know about most of the falsehoods by now, then a) you're new here or b) I'm not a very good blogger. And frankly, it's exhausting enough dealing with the sorry state of affairs in 2013.
It's also hard to know how to properly express the horror of so many lives that were lost or badly damaged, all for no good reason. Earlier today, the writer/blogger Alex Pareene made "fun" on Twitter of the popular meme when he wrote: "10 years ago we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, and Steve Jobs. Now 120,000 Iraqis are dead." Not to mention more than 4,000 Americans. Those facts kind of dwarf anything else one could say.
For what little it's worth, I can state with a fair amount of certainty that the blog you're reading now wouldn't exist had there not been an Iraq War. In the months that immediately followed the shock and awe of March 2003, I questioned why the craft of journalism had failed so miserably to prevent something that was clearly so wrong from the start. I began to question a lot of things that night -- and I haven't stopped, 3,653 days later. I doubt I'm alone in that regard.
That's the weird thing about the Iraq War. Our leaders told us so many lies in such a short time that it started to put a lot of hidden truths into sharp focus -- about rampant militarism first abroad and then in what we came to call "the homeland," about a surveillance state that had placed all the chips on the top 1 Percent while the other 99 Percent fought for the table scraps.
The last combat troops finally came home from Baghdad nearly two years ago. But we're still fighting the Iraq War every day.

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The Seizure: During a celebrity softball game in Washington, D.C. in August, the Basketball Wives star pulled a hamstring. When she went to go and sit down, she reportedly suffered from a seizure and passed out.
What Went Wrong? Royce did not go to the hospital after the episode. However, she later admitted that a combination of exhaustion, stress, the heat, and her diet were to blame for what happened.


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The weird, wacky, viral and cool—these were the parenting stories that defined 2012.
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- WKBTBeating the Bullies
Jennifer Livingston, a morning anchor with WKBT-TV in La Crosse, Wisconsin, started a national conversation by calling out a viewer on the air after he wrote her an email criticizing her weight. Her editorial went super-viral, touching a nerve that launched a national conversation about bullying, weight and what it means to be a role model. When the dust settled, she shared her thoughts on the experience exclusively with Parenting.com.
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Royally Good News
More than a year and a half after their royal wedding, Prince William and Kate Middleton announced they are expecting their first child. Boy or girl, the royal spawn will be third in line for the throne. The happy news had a worrisome caveat: Kate has been diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a severe form of nausea and vomiting, much more serious than regular morning sickness.
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Alana Thompson, better known to us all as "Honey Boo Boo," had a stellar 2012. The Southern child beauty pageant contestant was an instant sensation for her campy turn on TLC's "Toddlers & Tiaras" reality show—earning her a showof her own, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." Described as a "car crash" by the Hollywood Reporter and a "horror story" by The Onion's AV Club, the show highlights the less-than-urbane lifestyle of Honey and her extended family. Whether the Thompson clan is being exploited or not is open for debate. But Honey Boo Boo, who was one of the top search terms in 2012, is cackling all the way to the bank.
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Revising its policy on circumcision for the first time in 13 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced in August that the preventative health benefits of infant circumcision clearly outweigh the risks. The AAP's previous policy statement, published in 1999 and affirmed in 2005, took a more neutral stance on circumcision, noting "potential medical benefits," but saying it's "not essential to the child's current well-being." To help parents make the decision, we presented viewpoints from parents who had chosen to circumcise, and those who had opted out.
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"A Sad Day for Sesame Street"
Kevin Clash, the longtime voice and puppeteer behind Sesame Street's Elmo character, resigned in the wake of multiple allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior with a minor—some of which had been recanted. Without the magic that Clash brought to him, Elmo's long-term future is now uncertain, although pre-taped episodes will continue to run through the spring.
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The Internet Bites Back
When a foursome of seventh-grade boys ruthlessly bullied their elderly bus monitor, Karen Klein, a cell phone video of the incident went massively viral. Shocked by the incident, authorities handed the quartet a one-year suspension from school plus community service. Klein used her YouTube notoriety and donations from well-wishers to start an anti-bullying foundation.
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A Whopping Year for Whooping Cough
In 2012, the U.S. experienced its worst epidemic of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in more than 50 years. Nationwide, the outbreak is startling: 32,000 cases reported as of Oct. 24, along with 16 deaths, most of them infants. Experts now recommend that all healthy children and adults (especially those caring for a baby) and pregnant women should receive the vaccine or a booster.
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Birthrate Blues
The birth rate fell to its lowest point since 1920, the first year the National Center for Health Statistics started keeping track. Analysis by the Pew Research Center closely ties the decline to the downturn in the economy, starting around 2008. The birth rate is the annual number of births per 1,000 women in the prime childbearing ages of 15 to 44. It was 63.2 in 2011, a dip of 8% since 2007.
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A Gold for Toughing it Out
And you thought you were awesome for making it through prenatal yoga. At this year's London Olympics, volleyball star Kerri Walsh-Jennings played her way to her third gold medal while unknowingly pregnant with her third child.
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Pole Dancing: Not Just for Moms!
Pole dancing fitness classes are nothing new, but this year certain schools and gyms began offering pole dancing classes created specifically for children. And not only were parents signing their kids up; in some cases, the classes were their idea in the first place.
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The Bigotry of Boy Scouts
Jennifer Tyrrell, a Bridgeport, OH, mom and Den Mother for her son's local Tiger Scout pack, was dropped from the Boy Scouts in April because she is gay. Although local leaders were aware she is a lesbian and pledged to support her, the national office decided to uphold its ban on openly gay parents, despite an online petition signed by more than 300,000 people.
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To Have it All … Or Not to Have it All?
Anne Marie Slaughter touched off a firestorm of debate about working mothers when she wrote a cover story for The Atlantic magazine titled, provocatively, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All". It's a story that both resonated with and rankled readers of every stripe in its assertion that women cannot flourish at the highest level in their careers and still be present for their children.
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Rally 'Round the Bird
At the first presidential debate (remember those?) this fall, Mitt Romney volunteered that, if elected, he would end government funding for public broadcasting. "I like PBS. I love Big Bird...But I'm not going to—I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it," he said, ruffling more than a few feathers. Big Bird went viral with dozens of memes, making him an unlikely centerpiece of the campaign.
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Notorious B.I.C.
In January 2012, hip-hop's royal couple Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter, into the world. In his heartfelt tribute song, "Glory," released two days after Blue Ivy's birth, Jay-Z revealed for the first time that the superstar mega-couple had previously suffered a miscarriage. In March, Beyonce was spotted breastfeeding in public, lending some mainstream, glam validation to nursing moms everywhere.


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(Updated: CORRECTS Helton's career homers to 369 in GAME NOTEBOOK ADDS "to reach 100 RBIs for the seventh season" in 4th graph)
Red Sox 15, Rockies 5: Will Middlebrooks drove in a career-high seven runs with a grand slam and a three-run homer as Boston spoiled the final home game in the 17-year career of Colorado's Todd Helton.
Shane Victorino added a three-run shot while Jarrod Saltalamacchia also drove in three runs for the Red Sox, who increased their lead over Oakland to two games for the best record in the American League. Jake Peavy (12-5) improved to 3-0 over his last seven starts after allowing five runs and eight hits in six innings.
Helton, who was honored in a pregame ceremony and received a standing ovation prior to each at-bat, hit a solo home run in the first inning and finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Michael Cuddyer went 1-for-3 and is hitting .335, 10 points ahead of Atlanta's Chris Johnson in the National League batting title race.
The Red Sox took a 3-0 lead in the first inning when David Ortiz hit a two-run double to right to reach 100 RBIs for the seventh season and scored on Saltalamacchia's two-out single. The Rockies tied it 4-4 with two runs in the third as Helton hit a sacrifice fly and Nolan Arenado followed with a ground-rule double.
Peavy doubled with one out and, after Jacoby Ellsbury walked, Victorino homered off Jhoulys Chacin (14-10), who allowed seven runs and nine hits in four innings. Middlebrooks took Rob Scahill deep with a three-run shot to give Boston a 10-4 lead in the fifth and his grand slam off Roy Oswalt made it 15-5 in the eighth.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Ellsbury, who hasn't played since Sept. 5 because of a foot injury, went 1-for-2 with a walk and scored twice before being replaced by Jackie Bradley Jr. in the fourth inning. ... The Red Sox haven't lost in their last 12 interleague series (9-0-3). ... Helton, a career .317 hitter, finishes with a .345 average at Coors Field while hitting 227 of his 369 career homers and 321 of his 592 doubles there.


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March 21st, 2012
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In Special Reports, this week's files cover: Secret Air Force Evaluation of Flying Discs, 1639 UFO Reports, Navajo Rangers UFO Reports, General Bermúdez Chilean UFO Cases, and Moon's Cabeus Crater Bombed in 2009 has Strange Structures.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, and Washington.
Sightings of UFOs also occurred in Armenia, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Serbia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force. Under Project Blue Book, the US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years; and we continue this research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO's are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Several military personnel have given sworn testimony that a UFO that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in June 1947 was taken to Wright Field the home of the Air Material Command. I have been informed that General Twinning personally saw the captured aliens and their craft. This is a transcription of General Nathan Twinning's letter as Commander Air Material Command to higher headquarters. He indicates his best engineers and scientists examined the craft.
Later General Twining was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Air Force and o n August 15, 1957, General Twining was formally sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the highest military position in the U.S. by President Eisenhower in the Cabinet Room of the White House. This is a transcription of General Nathan Twinning's letter as Commander Air Material Command, dated September 23, 1947.
SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning "Flying Discs"
To: Commanding General Army Air Force
Washington 25, D.C.
ATTENTION: Brig. General George Schulgen AC/AS-2'
1. As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called "Flying Discs." This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.
2. It is the opinion that:
e. The apparent common description is as follows:
a. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft.
c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.
d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled manually, automatically or remotely.
(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface.
(2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances where the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions.
(3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top.
(4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.
(5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted.
(6) Level flight speeds normally above 300 knots are estimated.
f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge -- provided extensive detailed development is undertaken -- to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in sub- paragraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 7000 miles at subsonic speeds.
g. Any development in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects.
h. Due consideration must be given the following:
(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin - the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command.
(2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these subjects.
(3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.
3. It is recommended that:- Headquarters, Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and Code name for a detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army, Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDB, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investigation develops. A complete interchange of data should be affected.
Note: General Twining flying discs are real and not visionary or fictitious. He suggests it is possible within the present U.S. knowledge -- provided extensive detailed development is undertaken -- to construct a similar piloted aircraft. His later positions of leadership would provide the authority to build copies of the alien craft.
Boston – Founder and Governor John Winthrop stated "We shall be as a City upon a Hill; the eyes of all people are upon us." He made a peculiar entry in his journal in 1639 documenting the first UFO sighting in American history.
"In this year, one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton [Charlestown], and so up and down [for] about two or three hours. They were come down in their lighter about a mile, and, when it was over, they found themselves carried quite back against the tide to the place they came from. Diverse and other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place."
Boston also holds the title for first USO (Unidentified Submerged/Submarine Object) sighting in the U.S.
In 1644, a tragedy befell the crew of Captain John Chaddock's ship. The vessel exploded for unknown reasons, and all five aboard lost their lives. Shortly thereafter, people of the town started seeing strange lights in the air and other unexplainable phenomena, which caused many to presume that a curse of some sort had been placed on the ship, or even worse, that maybe a distraught family member of one of the fallen had attempted to conjure the spirit of their loved one. Then, reports began to come in of unexplainable objects rising out of the water.
In his journal, Governor Winthrop detailed the "unholy" affair, and is detailed as follows from CelebrateBoston.com:
"Exactly 16 days after the blowing up of Capt. Chaddock's ill-fated ship and crew, and just at 'the witching hour of midnight,' as Shakespeare calls it, 'when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes forth contagion in the air,' three men in a boat, coming toward Boston?a strange hour for reputable puritans to be out?saw two bright lights rise out of the water, at the place where the vessel had been blown up, just off the North Ferry slip. They made the still more inexplicable [observation] that the two lights assumed the form of a man, and sailed leisurely off over the water to the south, keeping but a short distance from the shore, till it reached Rowe's Wharf, where it vanished as suddenly as it had appeared just 15 minutes before."
The story was told and retold about the town, for the next few days, till the whole population had reached a mental condition that made them capable of seeing the ghosts of Chaddock's buccaneers, if given any kind of chance. A week after the event just described, the old records say, 'the twin lights were seen again by many,' but this time they arose off Castle Island, and after traveling through the air just 12 minutes, vanished at the spot where the remains of the ship were resting. The restless spirits of the deep continued to make things satisfactorily terrifying for those who were 'out late 'o night' along the waterfront.
On one occasion, the story was, that at 8 o'clock, a light resembling the moon rose from the water at the wreck, sailed through the air till it was over the highest point of 'Nottle's Island,' now East Boston?but then uninhabited, and an ideal place for ghostly gambols?and there it was met by its twin light, the two suddenly merging into one, then parting, and thus continuing uniting and separating, as if in playful mood, many times, all the while 'shooting out sometimes flames and sometimes sparkles.' Finally, uniting permanently, the big illuminated disc floated off behind the hill on 'Nottle's Island,' disappearing from sight of the wondering eyes of Bostonians.
So what do we have here? Clearly something was being witnessed by the various residents, While we can certainly call these UFO and USO reports by definition, there does appear to be a spiritual side to what was observed. Thanks to Extraordinary Intelligence. http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/7609/the-unexplained/first-american-ufo-sightings-1639-1644/
Antonio Huneeus writes, "In a historical first for UFO conferences in the USA, the just held 21st 2012 International UFO Congress in Fountain Hills, Arizona, counted with the participation of a government official who runs a project to investigate UFOs. Retired Chilean Air Force General Ricardo Bermúdez is the director of CEFAA (Committee of Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena), which is part of Chile's Civil Aviation Agency equivalent to our FAA." General Bermúdez revealed a number of highly interesting cases involving commercial and military pilots, as well as an extraordinary daytime multiple video case showing a clear metallic-looking object during an important Chilean Air Force ceremony in 2010. The message throughout his lecture was unmistakably clear: some UFOs are real and may pose a threat to air safety operations, that's why they should be investigated officially not only in Chile but throughout the world.
The bulk of the general's presentation at Open Minds Conference dealt with the aeronautical cases. He discussed in some detail a total of seven aeronautical UFO cases between 1978 and 2011, which remain unexplained to this day, playing excerpts of the radio communications between the pilots and the ATC (Air Traffic Control). The audio tapes are obviously in Spanish (some of them are posted in CEFAA's website) but the lecture included English translations in big letters in the power point slides, so the cases are easy to follow.
Some of the sightings like a multiple-witness and near collision case at Puerto Montt airport in the south in 1988, or one at Chacalluta Airport in Arica in the north in 1997, were directly linked to the creation of the Committee. In the Arica case, for instance, after the Eco Inca army aircraft reports a UFO to the ATC, one can hear the control operator saying, "we've had several calls saying in that sector there is probably a UFO . . . We are on alert for any report . . . He [Eco Inca army plane] reports at 3 o'clock an object that's moving at 'incredible speed' . . . textual [pilot's] expression . . ."
In another case involving three different aircraft approaching Santiago's International Pudahuel Airport, one of the pilots can be heard clearly in the tape saying, "it [UFO] gives the impression of being a train with many windows and it can be seen perfectly well . . ." Commenting on this case, Bermúdez said: "We have here three airplanes in different frequencies describing the same situation, one crew saw windows like a train, now if there are windows we may think somebody is looking out, we never know."
Yet another incident known as the Pelican case occurred on June 24, 2010 and it involved again three different aircraft?two airliners and a navy plane called Pelican. As put by Gen. Bermúdez, "three airplanes witnessed the same phenomenon, two commercial planes are approaching Santiago, the military plane is coming 300 miles from the north, and an object is cruising his airway. The pilot reports something he sees camouflaged in erratic motion." In the audio communication, one hears the pilot saying, "ROGER . . . At this moment I can't see it anymore . . . I could see a traffic loud and clear . . . it looked like a cloud . . . Camouflaged as a cloud but with erratic motion."
Here is the excerpt from Gen. Bermúdez's presentation at the 2012 IUFOC dealing with this particular incident:
"This case, as well as another one in Punta Arenas detected by primary radar in 2011, is important because you have different professional pilots reporting the same object," as explained by Gen. Bermúdez:
Think for a moment, if one experienced commercial pilot reports to me that something flew across in front of his airplane, I pay careful attention; but now if a second commercial pilot reports the same a few seconds later, I become interested; but if a third pilot, a military one, confirms the same fact, I tend to believe it. In this case, do we have one UFO close to the airplanes, or we have two UFOs? If we have one, its incredible speed doesn't correspond to anything we have now. Thanks to Antonio Huneeus http://www.openminds.tv/ufo-disclosure-chilean-style-896/
PHOENIX -- CBS 5 Paranormal Task Force - Arizona's Navajo Nation Rangers say that a lot of UFO and Paranormal reports they receive are real events and they take the reports seriously.
An interesting TV report claims the Navajo Rangers a Federal government police force investigates UFOs and the paranormal. People who are considered good enough to testify in a homicide trial are seeing UFOs, Bigfoot, ghosts and other paranormal activity.
Thanks to Chuck Kinney [email@example.com]
A member of Above Top Secret allegedly got an email from Anthony Colaprete of NASA Ames Research Center, concerning the image of the Moon structures photograph on his desk claiming the structure is simply a marker placed on the photograph and not alien structures. He and a colleague were conducting analysis of the LRO/LCROSS mission when this image was taken.
Colaprete says that the object seen in the Cabeus crater is just a "digital marking grid" and the picture is not real, but a computer simulation. However, the two annex pictures used to demonstrate the alleged "grid" are not similar to the artificial structures in the crater.
The mission objectives of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) were to advance the Vision for Space Exploration by confirming the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at either the moon's North or South Pole. The identification of water is very important for human activities on the moon. Northrop-Grumman built the spacecraft and NASA/Ames Research Lab shifted the target crater from Cabeus 'A' to Cabeus (proper at 84.90°S 35.50°W) just before the bombing. The general consensus of lunar experts was that Cabeus showed the highest hydrogen concentrations at the South Pole. LCROSS blasted into Cabeus with two heavy impactors with a rocket weighing some 2.2 tons, carrying the destructive force equivalent that of 1.5 tons of dynamite to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there.
This is an enlargement of the Cabeus crater image, so perhaps the impact was designed to provide water for a Moon base already there. The photo reveals more than one structure and is evidence for a huge base built by large numbers of intelligent life forms on our Moon. Perhaps NASA wanted to send a warning to the inhabitants of the structures, or to provide water for those already there.
The mission was publicized as a fast-paced, low-cost, mission that will leverage some existing NASA systems, expertise, and Ames' Lunar Prospector spacecraft experience. The LCROSS Satellite crashed into the 60 miles wide Cabeus crater on October 9, 2009, and carved out a hole about 80 feet wide and kicked up at least 26 gallons of water. The impact caused an explosion of material from the crater's surface to create a plume that was shone on national TV. The plume was difficult to see and video of the impact showed little more than a fuzzy white flash, but specialized instruments discovered the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated materials. You can view the crash at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZ483ztduE
You can hear the NASA Mission team stating, "We can see very small craters within the large crater." Women's voice states, "We confirm a Thermal signature of the craters with our cameras; over." This thermal image was taken minutes before impact on October 9, 2009, with red indicating heat coming from the crater edges and possible structures on the moon.
Those red areas to the right and center are indicating heat closest to the impact point just below center of image. Somebody Else may be on the Moon, maybe it is us.
Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for Northrop-Grumman spacecraft NASA's LCROSS mission said after impact, "And we didn't find just a little bit. We found a significant amount of water." Anthony says we saw the crater, we saw the impact, and we have measurements of what we needed; we have the data to answer the questions we set out to address. These findings tend to confirm there is ice that when melted is water that has accumulated over billions of years.
Ben Rich the former head of the Lockheed Skunk works stated that, "UFO's are indeed very real and from other planets....We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity� Anything you can imagine we already know how to do." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0TqG0EWkNU
Credit: NASA, LCROSS AST Mission Team.
GILBERT -- I was taking images of the Nebula M78 on March 2, 2012, and noticed a bright light in frame 9 that was not in the other images. The Electronic shutter was open for two minutes and a satellite goes to the right of the object.
I did not observe the actual object but only the result of the capture later.
Sedona -- On Thursday, March 1, 2012, at about 8:30 PM, I was looking west toward Cottonwood and heard a sound like a propeller-driven aircraft that increased in intensity to become much louder and lower pitch than any aircraft sound. I saw three non blinking red lights moving south at 2000 feet high. Then I noticed they were all in exact linear alignment, equally spaced, and moving south as one unit. The stars were blacked out in the entire area between the lights, but it was completely invisible. The craft continued moving slowly south, toward Phoenix. The length of the craft was one to two miles. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
FOUNTAIN HILLS -- At about 8:40 pm on March 14, 2012, my wife was on our patio and saw a large triangle with three lights move silently and slowly eastbound. I also witnessed the object. She went in to get our camera and I witnessed the object "rotate" as the three lights stayed uniform and the "front" light was now towards the top. She returned with the camera just as the lights seemed to almost "break" formation and then they moved slowly and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
LANCASTER -- My son a foreman for his company, while waiting for his co worker to come outside spotted a disk like lite traveling at almost eye level stopping, moving, stopping, until gone out of site over a ridge on March 9, 2012. He took a picture with his cell phone of a small yellow and blue area object without wings. Thanks to MUFON CMS
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY – During the opening ceremony flyover by two F-18 jets a UFO flies across the screen as seen on YouTube February 25, 2012.
Note: The witness apparently discovered the anomalous object while viewing a replay of the race on his DVR.
He made a video of his TV screen which is posted on YouTube. I am going to try to obtain a copy of the airing of the race which I hope contains the air show. The footage certainly shows an object flying across the path of the two F-18 jets from Oceana Naval Air Station. UFOs have been "buzzing" a lot of aircraft lately! http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite/february-25-2012-daytona-beach-florida-2-pm-est/
CHIEFLAND -- I took my camera out to photograph some ominous looking clouds on March 14, 2012, this object dropped out of the clouds just as I was snapping the photo.
By the time I looked at the picture on my camera and looked back at the sky it was gone.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tallahassee – The photo was taken around 7 pm on March 14, 2012, during a sever t-storm that produced heavy winds, huge hail, and extreme rain. I never saw the object and only when I downloaded the photo could I see it. It was not the moon and no dust or debris on my lens.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
TROY – I saw two bright stationary lights in the West on March 13, 2012. They looked to be at the same altitude and looked like bright stars side by side. I got my camera with 30x zoom, and took the photo through a screen.
Note: Probably bright planets. Thanks to MUFON CMS
DARTMOUTH -- I was standing at the kitchen window, peeling potatoes in the sink and noticed a small black object on the western horizon across marshland. I was astonished to see a black disk moving straight towards my house. It had no visible features, and it was quite large. It did once turn over - which really startled me. It flew overhead moving southeast and heard no noise. My impression is that from the moment I first saw the object until it passed overhead, its altitude lowered. Thanks to MUFON CMS
FENTON – I took this photo of an orange object pulsating and moving faster than a balloon. No sound. Other people said they seen the same object on Coast To Coast website. I downloaded a picture of the object that was posted online last July 2011. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Novi – I exited Walsh College Campus at 10:05 pm, on March 13, 2012, and noticed two bright lights due west that were too bright and too close to be stars. The light was glimmering far too rapidly and reminded me of previous experiences. Once stationary in my vehicle, I confirmed they were both in motion. I filmed with both my cell phone and my iPad where I could see other lights in the sky that were invisible to the naked eye.
The sphere appeared as a green ball that maneuvered with abrupt stops and sometimes hovered. The smaller glimmering entity also moved around, but did not make abrupt motions but rapidly flashed red, yellow, green, and blue. There was also a very large entity that seemed to serve as the mothership (left center) for the orbs. My iPad was picking up lights and other shiny, iridescent or metallic characteristics three stories by two stories in width. In several pictures and video, a string of red lights are visible on the craft, but not visible to naked eye. UFOs were going in and out of the large craft in the video clips on the iPad.
I asked a classmate if she noticed anything. She replied, "What, you mean the stars?" I noticed she was frightened by their movement and left. We met again at a nearby gas station and she watched as I filmed a clip. Thanks to MUFON CMS
I had a sighting with a friend on Saturday, March 17, 2012, at 9:29 PM. We were walking down the street when out of nowhere we saw a blue disc looking object in the sky. I instantly told my friend to start videotaping.
The object was moving in a very funny pattern and direction so our videos are not the best, but we did our best. We ended up getting two videos and a picture. Here they are. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
LEWISTON -- Driving west between Jordan and Lewiston on MT. Highway 200 for two hours we saw bright lights very close and flying too low. In that area there's no major airports or towers with lights. For the first hour the light was flying on the right side of us about a mile away. Later, the lights start dimming and then off, bright dimming and off. We stopped at the rest area and the lights gained speed towards the horizon. One kept straight and the other one went to the right. They were too bright and too low to be stars. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
Sicklerville -- At 11:57 pm, on March 14, 2012, I was walking up the stairs and through the window I saw a bright star for five minutes. This light was not flying straight across like 99% of all planes do but was traveling vertically and raising velocity, it looked like a pyramid that had four lights under it. It was a pyramid like craft with red, yellow, and white lights. It accelerated going faster and higher than a jet fighter towards three stars aligned in the sky that shifted to the left. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
Wainscott--- This was a bright orange colored orb that sped across the sky at 6:23 AM, on March 29, 3012. It appeared from the tree line from the west, and went over my head heading east, before disappearing over the tree line. I saw several other orbs earlier this evening, but could not capture them on film. It did not flash, or make any noise. I am so happy to finally have filmed one. From 5 to 6:30 AM, I look up into the sky, and often see them over East Hampton Beach or Wainscott Beach on the southeast shore of Long Island. Thanks to MUFON CMS
CINCINNATI --I am a professional videographer and on February 26, 2012, I was shooting footage when something moving very fast came in front of my lens. I ended up following it briefly until it disappeared. It was flying quickly condensing the air around it. When I put a magenta filter over the video and slowed it down 500%, there are other objects moving that you cannot see with the naked eye. I shot it on a Sony EX HD camera. I have the original footage with the original time stamp. There is no denying there is definitely something there. The timestamp of the video is at 17:54:40. The object first appeared towards the Greater Cincinnati Airport located in Northern Kentucky.
Note: The witness's background is in electrical engineering but is now a Professional Videographer and avid environmentalist. He was taking a video of a "normal aircraft" contrail when he saw a strange object when he shifted the camera in an attempt to follow the object. He feels some contrails are chemical (chemtrails) and feels that there is a difference. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.ufosnw.com
Mount Joy -- After leaving a bar on March 13, 2012, my cousin and I went to take some pictures of his BMW. I am an amateur photographer and when we got home, I threw the images onto my PC and saw the object in the sky. This picture was part of a three image bracketed exposure with different exposure values +2, 0, -2. This picture was exposure value (0). None of the others had this object in them. I used a slow shutter speed of 4 seconds. Any movement will become a blurred line, but when you zoom in, you will see six distinct red lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Manchester -- When I read your story of "lightning bugs" the size of a Coke cans my hair stood up because we have seen the very same thing off in the woods on March 14, 2012. It looked like someone was up in a tree swinging light bulbs around with an insect type movement. We see two and sometimes three. They would light up and then go out, they were huge! My husband said it looked like a lightning bugs on steroids. We had three people in the car that will back your story 110%! We went back tonight and sure enough they were there lighting up again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
East Millcreek -- On March 17, 2012, my friends came to my house to the movie "Pandorum." Shortly after we started the movie, my friend walked to the window and stated since 11 PM, he had seen two orange lights moving north. It wasn't long until he exclaimed "There it is! I jumped up to see orange light flying in the distance. We ran out without our shoes on to a church parking lot nearby to get a better look. The object was glowing bright orange traveling straight north twice the speed of normal planes. The light disappeared into the clouds after one minute. Thanks to MUFON CMS
VANCOUVER -- I driving east on Mill Plain Road around 9:45 pm on March 13, 2012, when I saw a cross shaped flying object in the sky traveling about 40 MPH and was able to keep up with the object. It appeared sort of flat, then turned sideways which is when I noticed it looked like a cross or plus sign. It had blinking lights on the shape. I was I pulled into the Best Buy parking lot to get a better view. It continued flying and I followed. It turned north and then west and I arrived home a few minutes later and asked my wife to come outside, but by then she couldn't see the lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
YEREVAN -- My wife, daughter, and I saw the object in the distance descending quite quickly towards the earth. After ten minutes it disappeared behind the nearby building. The witness states, "The object was of yellow color and with the red light inside, which was sparkling when I took this photo."
Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Gippsland – On March 4, 2911, about 11 PM, my husband and I saw a slow moving large yellow/golden rectangular object with lights around it for ten seconds. Then it just vanished. It was definitely not an aircraft! Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
South Porcupine, ONTARIO -- My grandson and I were chatting on our cell phone when I told him to look at the night sky, and he saw it too. We both took images and sent them to YouTube Dog barks throughout video of two objects in the sky.
((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of planets? PD))
Amsterdam Airport Schipol -- An air passenger on a KLM flight believes he may have filmed a UFO through his window as the plane took off on March 17, 2012, The video was filmed on an iPhone, and the passenger reportedly did not notice the object in the background until the next day.
Belgrade – A triangular UFO with lights near its corners flew over Belgrade from south to north on March 3, 2011. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
JOHANNESBERG -- At 9 pm, I observed a flash of light in the sky in a SE direction on March 3, 1976. I saw satellites pass directly overhead. The light that caught my attention was like a flare of plasma or when a gas (like methane) ignites. It was bright and reddish white color to it. What was interesting is that this plasma looked to have flames only at the edges. At this stage the object was very high and my first reaction was that it was a meteorite entering the atmosphere. I realized pretty fast that this was not the case as I heard no tell tale sonic booms or streaking tail of an object burning up on entry. Instead the object "drifted down" like a leaf to the left and to the right again. Whilst falling in this manner the object became more visible as a disc and glowing like hot metal out of a furnace.
The glow from this heat like effect was making the object stand out nicely against the dark night sky. It had descended about 25 km in altitude to roughly a kilometer above the ground. At this stage it stopped the falling motion and moved in an arc towards the west and my position. It continued to move towards me until it passed directly overhead. At this stage it was 800 meters above me and had a diameter of 90 meters. This plasma flare with fire at the edges would occasionally occur looking like hot metal the entire time. It made sound and had no navigation lights. IT WAS too big to be a terrestrial aircraft. Two friends and I who work for the government saw but they refuse to talk about it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Benidorm – On March 14, 2012, around 11 pm, I was looking out my window when this big light appears not moving. So I quickly rushed to get my Sony H70 digital camera zooming in using 72x special zoom. I managed to take a photograph of the light and then it completely disappeared. I have attached two enhanced versions along with the original photograph to give you the best quality possible with vivid color. I am the original owner of the photo and am therefore my Copyright... Thanks to MUFON CMS
Chawton -- I came out of my parent's house and saw a very bright white light in the night sky about a thousand feet from the ground on February 2, 2012, I assumed was a helicopter. The ground light increased in brightness, faded and increased. After ten minutes it has not moved and is still there now as I write this. I have just been outside and it is now emitting a particularly scarlet/bright red beam like light like a genuine alien craft that I saw almost ten years ago in June and July 1st 2002. To be precise I have very close up footage on video cassette of a pure milk white disc/saucer shaped craft. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Norwich – We were looking at an object, larger than any star, traveling horizontal north to east on March 3, 2012. To me this looked like a very large comet with a tail. I have been stargazing for some time now but this eludes me, only thing that comes near it would be military jet with after burner on, but no noise. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com/
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Up Before Your Words Kill Again!
Page One
Violence Tied to Pro-Life
Advocates, But Not to Green Groups
murder of Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian topped all the evening
news shows on October 26, and ABC and CBS didnt wither from blaming the
pro-life movement for inciting the violence with its rhetoric. That
didnt happen to liberal environmentalists when all the networks devoted
full stories four days earlier to the "Earth Liberation Front" burning
buildings in Colorado.
Dan Rather announced Slepian "was just
the latest abortion provider to be targeted by a violent, sometimes
murderous, section of the pro-life movement." ABCs John Miller noted:
"Activists on the most radical end of the pro-life camp make no
apologies for the sniper."
CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger
suggested the whole movement was to blame: "Abortion rights activists
now believe some leaders of the mainstream anti-abortion movement are
inciting supporters on the fringe to violence." Schlesinger underlined
the election: "It might be hard for voters to remember that the vast
majority of anti-abortion protests are peaceful so soon after a doctor
was shot to death in his own home."
Connecting the abortion procedure itself
to death was anathema: "What theyve got to stop doing is saying these
people are murderers," abortion advocate Kelli Conlin told CBS. ABCs
Bill Redeker even put a priest on the defensive: "Today a Catholic
priest defended the provocative mock cemetery marking hundreds of
abortions performed in New York state this year."
But the arson of ski resort buildings in
Colorado was reported differently. ABCs Tom Foreman did not place the
"Earth Liberation Front" on "the most radical end of the
environmentalist camp." He declared "militant environmental groups such
as Earth First say its fair game to attack property" and suggested
sympathetically: "many environmentalists in Vail...are afraid their
cause will be tainted by the violence."
On CBS, Bob McNamara didnt go out to
find that "property rights activists now believe leaders of mainstream
environmental groups are inciting supporters to violence." He read a
press release: "Urging a skier boycott of Vail, the group threatened
more trouble, saying putting profits ahead of Colorados wildlife will
not be tolerated."
But perhaps the best measure of the
medias ideology on these stories is the overall trend: while the
networks have devoted more than 500 news stories since 1993 to violence
and threats against abortion clinics, only a handful of stories have
touched on hundreds of cases of organized eco-terrorism in the West.
Walts Love Boat
Walter Cronkite refuses to discuss the details of his chat with Bill
Clinton when he had the President on his boat in Marthas Vineyard. He
isnt so reticent with his disgust for Ken Starr.
On October 13, Cronkite told CBS This
Mornings Mark McEwen that unless "peccadilloes got in the way of
performing the job" we should ignore it since "I dont think we should
be digging into other peoples private lives." Despite Monicas favors
occurring in work areas and during official phone calls, Cronkite
maintained it met his "private affair" standard.
Hours later at a luncheon with reporters,
Cronkite called Starrs investigation "more divisive" to the country
than Vietnam, Peter Johnson reported in the October 14 USA Today.
After accusing Starr of "considerable excessive zeal," Johnson relayed
that Cronkite "says hed like to get Kenneth Starr out on the boat,
presumably to give him a piece of his mind."
Feingolds Medal
In a fawning October 22 World News Tonight piece, Dean Reynolds
portrayed Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) as an idealistic iconoclast for
his fight for "campaign finance reform." While grousing about how
Feingold was a casualty of outside soft money interests, Reynolds
neglected to tell viewers that the AFL-CIO and the League of
Conservation Voters have run ads against his Republican opponent Mark
Neumann and that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee would the
next day launch ads attacking Neumann as "too extreme." (The ads ran for
a few days until Feingold requested that the Committee pull the ads from
local stations.)
An indignant Reynolds averred that
Feingolds troubles stemmed only from his decision to support campaign
finance reform. Reynolds insisted that it was GOP-funded anti-Feingold
commercials, not Feingolds record, that was causing his support to
erode: "The reality on the ground is that hes being outspent with the
very kind of money hes tried in the Senate to regulate. And with his
self-imposed spending limit, Feingold lacks the funds to adequately
rebut the attacks suggesting he favors things like late-term abortions
or flag burning."
If the viewer had not grasped Reynolds
point of view by now, there was the not so subtle suggestion of
Feingolds political martyrdom. After a reporter for the Wisconsin
State Journal stated "What he preached may be his own fire and
brimstone. It really could damn him to the Hell of losing a re-election
race," Reynolds sighed: "That would say a lot about the way campaigns
are run and whether fighting to change that way is political death."
Hawks Shut Out
After the House and Senate passed the latest budget bill on October 21
and 22 none of the broadcast networks mentioned that some fiscally
restrained Democrats and Republicans voted against the legislation,
instead examining silly pork projects. A week before, NBC and CNN raised
conservative criticism of the bill, but ABC and CBS viewers never
learned that conservatives opposed the deal.
ABCs Linda Douglass on the October 15
World News Tonight advanced the pork line and concluded by hitting
both parties, but without citing conservative criticism, saying spending
came from the surplus, "the one the Democrats wanted to save only for
Social Security and Republicans tried to dip into for a tax cut."
That night CNNs Jonathan Karl at least
briefly raised the conservative stance on the budget. Leading into a
soundbite from Representative David McIntosh of Indiana, Karl relayed:
"Even before the deal was announced conservative Republicans complained
their leaders caved into the White House, citing nearly $20 billion in
so-called emergency spending not covered by last years balanced budget
Over on NBC Nightly News David
Bloom relayed how the White House is "euphoric" over the budget deal and
"triumphant Democrats were not shy about proclaiming victory." Bloom
noted, "Republican leaders insisted both sides deserved credit. But
Democrats were less magnanimous, pointing to the $1.1 billion dollars
for 100,000 new teachers." Bloom continued,"The White House boasted that
Republicans had turned quote, Democrats for a day and conservatives
Page Four
Is Sex the
Only Scandal?
TV Still AWOL on Missile Technology
In a front-page story for
the October 19 New York Times, reporters Jeff Gerth and Eric
Schmitt followed up on the controversial sale of missile technology to
China with a story on how Clintons decision to relax export rules, made
after he met high-tech executives who later contributed to the DNC,
"enabled Chinese companies to obtain a wide range of sophisticated
technology, some of which has already been diverted to military uses."
So did the networks jump at the chance to
cover a story involving something other than Monica Lewinsky? No. After
spending months lamenting their obsession with sex scandals, the
networks did not devote a single word that night, the following morning
or rest of the week to the substantive issue of China diverting U.S.
technology for military use. While all the networks focused on Clintons
role in negotiating a new Middle East peace accord, none have aired a
single story on the missile technology diversion story since early June.
Gerth and Schmitt reported: "The
President delivered, personally presiding over what industry executives
and government officials agree was one of the most sweeping relaxations
of export restrictions in American history....the new rules helped
Clinton fulfill his vision of a centrist Democratic Party with close
ties to American business. Grateful high-technology companies showered
the Democratic Party with campaign contributions, cementing a new
financial base for a party that has historically struggled to raise
money from corporate America."
Gerth and Schmitt also reported that
"critics, including Republicans in Congress and some former Clinton
administration officials, argue that the high-technology exports had a
serious side effect, strengthening countries like China, which some view
as a potential adversary....House and Senate committees are examining
whether China took advantage of the looser rules on exports to enhance
its military and to obtain technology that it passed on to rogue states,
including North Korea." Like so many other angles of the fundraising
scandal, the networks have ignored ongoing congressional investigations.
Even the Times seemed uninterested
in their own scoop: It was absent from the front page of their Web site
on the day it was published. So much for the media shucking the sex
scandal to focus on "real issues."
Promote Gay Lefts Guilt by Association
Shepards Mudbath Memorial
vicious pistol-whipping of gay college student Matthew Shepard and the
vivid imagery of its aftermath insured the attention of the national
media. (Newsweek wrote the killers "left him tied like a fallen
scarecrow or a savior to the bottom of a cross-hatched fence.")
Liberal gay activist groups were quick to use the tragedy for political
gain. First came a flurry of stories on the need for "hate crime"
legislation. Then came guilt by association: the gay left charged
Shepard had been killed not by two men, but by a climate by
conservative arguments that homosexuality was wrong and could be cured.
When conservatives have connected social
outrages to an opponents beliefs or rhetoric, the media quickly
denounced the conservative, tried to refute the argument, or both. But
in the wake of Shepards death, several media outlets were guilty of a
double standard, promoting without skepticism on the left what they
denounced on the right.
On October 12, Today co-host Katie Couric asked Wyoming Gov. Jim
Geringer: "Some gay rights activists have said that some conservative
political organizations like the Christian Coalition, the Family
Research Council and Focus on Family are contributing to this
anti-homosexual atmosphere by having an ad campaign saying if you are a
homosexual you can change your orientation. That prompts people to say,
if I meet someone whos homosexual, Im going to take action and try to
convince them or try to harm them. Do you believe that such groups are
contributing to this climate?"
Today repeated the charge the next
day. Reporter David Gregory declared: "Gay rights groups rushed to
condemn the killing, portraying Shepard as a casualty of a new cultural
war against gays and lesbians. A war declared this summer by a coalition
of religious-right groups, including the Christian Coalition, which
funded advertisements in major newspapers and commercials on TV
promoting a campaign to convert homosexuals to heterosexuality...And the
campaign followed the divisive comments of Senate Majority Leader Trent
Lott, who said in an interview that homosexuals should be helped like
alcoholics, sex addicts, and kleptomaniacs. Have the ads fostered a
climate of anti-gay hate that leads to incidents like the killing of
Matthew Shepard?" Couric interviewed gay-left activist Elizabeth Birch,
but didnt question whether her tone was uncivil, or even a "stretch."
Compare that to NBCs tsk-tsking of Newt
Gingrich. In a hostile November 15, 1994 Dateline profile, Tom
Brokaw announced: "When Democrats tried to reform lobbyists recently, he
called their efforts Stalinist." Brokaw asked Gingrich: "Stalin is the
man who, after all, created the Gulag, who killed hundreds of millions
of people, one of the great tyrants of the 20th century. Dont you see
how people react to you?" After reeling off other Gingrich statements he
felt were inappropriate, Brokaw asked: "I get the impression that youre
so pugnacious that what you say is hard for you to reel it back right
On May 7, 1995, Meet the Press
host Tim Russert asked Gingrich: "When you were asked after the bombing
whether it was appropriate to link your anti-government/bureaucratic
language creating the climate of the bombing, you said that was
grotesque. In retrospect, do you think your comments about Woody Allen
sleeping with his companions daughter, or Susan Smith driving her car
into the water, which you linked to the Democratic Party, is also
grotesque?" He added: "When you suggest that Woody Allen sleeping with
the daughter of his companion is covered under the Democratic Party
platform, that's a stretch." Russert demanded: "You suggested that the
Democratic Party is the enemy of normal Americans. Shouldnt that
rhetoric be lowered?"
In the October 19 issue, Time Assistant Managing Editor Howard
Chua-Eoan connected the dots: "The brutal assault came at a time when
the U.S. is buzzing with a dissonant debate over sexual orientation. It
is a controversy fueled by reports of increased violence against
homosexuals and a new campaign by religious conservatives touting the
power of faith to overcome what they proclaim to be a sinful
In the October 26 issue, Time
underlined guilt by association again with a graphic headlined "Can
Politics Cause Hate? Gay activists linked recent conservative
pronouncements (like ads saying gays can be cured) to the Shepard
murder, saying such talk nurtures bigotry."
But Time didnt take the same
approach to the left. In April 1996, when Ted Kaczynski was identified
as the Unabomber, ABCs Brian Ross reported the FBI found his name in
connection with the radical-left group Earth First. Would Time
note the connection? No. Time claimed no one recalled the
Unabomber having contact "with the leftists he would later excoriate in
his manifesto." Time reporter Elaine Shannon praised Kaczynski on
C-SPAN, noting "he wasnt a hypocrite, he lived as he wrote. His
manifesto and there are a lot of things in it that I would agree with
and a lot of other people would, that industrialization and pollution
are terrible things, but he carried it to an extreme."
In an October 26 essay titled "Trickle-Down Hate," Jonathan Alter
suggested: "At first, it seems unfair to link the anti-gay remarks of
political leaders to a heinous crime they dont condone...But just as
white racists created a climate for lynching blacks, just as hate radio
created a climate for militias, so the constant degrading of homosexuals
is exacting a toll in blood." In his unbylined "Conventional Wisdom
Watch" feature, Alter gave the Christian Right a down arrow: "Old: In
touch with moral America. New: Paves way for gay-lynchers."
In the July 10, 1995 issue, Alter had a
different take on the validity of less-than-modern ideas when the
Unabomber demanded the publication of his manifesto in major newspapers.
Alter found him to be a "twisted neo-Luddite," but not all bad, and
perhaps the papers ought to excerpt the good parts: "The [New York]Times
described the statement as closely reasoned, which is a better review
than many authors receive in the paper. Whoever he is, this man is
clearly expressing an anger at the modern world that is not only
well-articulated but representative of the anxieties of lots of other
Newsweek also distanced the
Unabomber from the left in 1996, quoting a source claiming Kaczynski was
"disgusted with the widespread drug use and liberal politics at
Berkeley. Maybe so: the Unabomer [sic] manifesto is harshly critical of
the Bright Side
FNC Corrects Hit on Starr
No Prying
About Limo Talk
In July, Ken Starrs subpoena of Larry
Cockell, the head of the Presidents Secret Service detail, drew the ire
of many TV reporters and legal analysts, who accused Starr of using him
and other agents to circumvent attorney-client privilege between Clinton
and his lawyers. Three months later, only David Shuster on FNCs Fox
Report corrected the error, discovering it in evidence released by
the House Judiciary Committee.
Dan Rathers opening to the July 17
CBS Evening News typified the media reaction: "At least three
active-duty Secret Service employees were forced today to appear before
special prosecutor Ken Starrs grand jury to give testimony. This
happened after Chief Justice William Rehnquist cleared the way for
Starrs unprecedented push to make the Secret Service tell him at least
some of what it knows about the Presidents personal life."
A day later on ABCs World News
Tonight, Mike von Fremd got specific: "The White House fears that
Ken Starr wants to know what Cockell overheard during this limousine
ride, when the President was with his attorney immediately after giving
his deposition in the Paula Jones case." Not one TV story on either
night included Starr spokesman Charles Bakalys assurance from the July
18 Washington Post: "We have never intended to question Secret
Service agents about privileged conversations they may have overheard
between the President and his private lawyers."
But on the October 15 FNC Fox Report,
Shuster explained how grand jury transcripts and subpoenaed records
revealed that Starrs team didnt even know Cockell was Clintons top
protector. He was only called in because of his role as a supervisor, to
explain Secret Service procedures. Shuster also found prosecutors never
asked Cockell about what he overheard in the limo on the way back from
the Jones deposition. Shuster reported: "Restricted by grand jury rules
of secrecy, prosecutors were powerless as the Clinton team went into
battle mode," and the media presumption about Starrs motives "was
driven in part by some speculation at the White House, speculation
that...the White House liked to see out there because it was highly
critical of Ken Starr."
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AUSTIN, TX -- Texas students become progressively less fit as they age, according to recently performed tests on 2.6 million Texas children.
The test, called Fitnessgram, was created by The Cooper Institute of Dallas and was given to Texas children in grades 3-12 this spring. The test measured body composition, aerobic capacity, strength, endurance and flexibility. The test was ordered by the Texas state legislature but was funded by $2.5 million in private donations, headed up by Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of The Cooper Institute.
Preliminary results show that about 32 percent of third-grade girls and almost 28 percent of third-grade boys reached the Health Fitness Zone, which means they achieved a certain level on six tests with performance targets tied to a student's age and gender. The tests include activities such as a one-mile run, curl-ups, push-ups, trunk lift, shoulder stretches and a skin-fold test.
By seventh grade, 21 percent of the girls and 17 percent of the boys met this achievement level. By 12th grade, 8 percent of the girls and about 9 percent of the boys met the health standards in all six tests.
The declining fitness levels correspond with the decreasing emphasis on physical education in upper grades, according to Cooper.
"I hope these results shock the state into reality and into action," Cooper says. "We must immunize children against obesity while in elementary schools so that as they age, they are more likely to stay healthy and fit. By the time students graduate, they should be ready mentally and physically to achieve their dreams."
Cooper says that governors from at least 12 other states have contacted him about doing the testing in their states. The tests were performed by teachers at each school who completed training in how to perform the tests.


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President's Page
Nicholas J.
is entitled an inaugural address. My only substantive
experiences with such addresses are those that are presented by
presidents of the
I would like first to thank the membership of ASIS&T for having made it possible for me to be standing here now. Ill do all that I can over the next year to justify the trust youve placed in me and to live up to the fine example set by our immediate past president, Sam Hastings.
The coming year for the Society brings great promise with a host of new member services and new delivery methods of member services. It also brings challenges, financial and other, as well as new opportunities. Today, Sam described some of the hard decisions that have had to be made and also some of the new initiatives that will be implemented during this year. Id like to offer her my heartfelt personal thanks for having volunteered to take the heat (hit) associated with announcing the dues increases for members; but she also got to announce the establishment of a lot of new benefits for members, as did Dick Hill in his remarks. In this talk, Id like to give you an indication of my priorities and plans for this coming year, both as they relate to these existing initiatives and to new ones.
ASIS&T, or ASIS and T (one priority will be deciding on a common pronunciation) is more than the American Society for Information Science and Technology; it is a truly international society, as we can see from the large number of countries represented at this Annual Meeting. During the coming year, I hope to build on this solid foundation, and to increase ASIS&Ts international presence. Well do this with the help of Julian Warner and Michel Menou, our International Liaison to the Board, and SIG/III in three specific ways:
continue and expand our collaboration with related
conferences and organizations outside of
· support and expand regional chapters throughout the world; and
· identify leaders in our organization in the various countries and regions of the world who will act as information disseminators about and membership recruiters for ASIS&T.
Speaking of membership, I have asked the Membership Committee to develop plans for recruiting new members to the Society from two specific populations: students in the undergraduate programs offered by schools and departments of information science; and graduate students in these schools and departments. Although we already have a healthy representation of the latter in ASIS&T, I believe that we can certainly do even better. As for the former group, I believe they represent an entirely new constituency, which is not well served by organizations such as the ACM or information systems organizations, but for which ASIS&T is a natural home. Making the relevance of ASIS&T clear to students will also require some new incentives. As an initial step in this direction, Im pleased to announce that we will encourage greater student participation at next years Annual Meeting by including a ticket to the Awards Luncheon in the discounted student registration fee.
I wish to concentrate our recruitment efforts on students this year for two reasons. One is that I strongly believe that ASIS&T offers services of great value to these groups, services that many may not yet appreciate, and that it is our responsibility to make these services known to them. The other is that students do not remain students. Their early experiences with ASIS&T will, I believe, encourage them to not only maintain their membership, but to take on the volunteer leadership activities that are necessary for a vital and relevant professional society.
Most of the new services that will be introduced during the coming year are centered around ASIS&Ts really going digital, with our new website and its associated enhanced modes of communication; with the establishment of the ASIS&T digital library; and with the publication of the proceedings of the Annual Meeting in electronic form. My goals in this area are to support the timely implementation of these initiatives and to develop plans for enhancing them in ways that will provide even more benefit to our members and to society at large. Since these efforts have largely to do with access to and dissemination of our publications, I have asked our Publications Task Force, chaired by President-Elect Michael Leach, to develop an integrated publications plan for the society, considering such issues as:
· balance between print and electronic publications;
· publication of the Bulletin solely in electronic form;
· open access publication; and
· collaboration with other organizations and other digital libraries.
Another issue that I will address during the coming year is that of communication between the national leadership and the members at large, and between the national headquarters and the chapters and SIGs. We have had problems in this area in the recent past, primarily due to difficulties with the membership database system. I pledge (theres an inaugural address word, for sure) to have those difficulties resolved during this year, so that our membership directory and the associated information will be correct and up-to-date. Essential communication between headquarters and the chapters and SIGs has suffered. I will ask the chapters to help us decide what information, in what form and by what mode of delivery is required for effective and efficient operations, and will ask headquarters to implement the appropriate systems. I believe that the new website will also go a long way toward enhancing communication amongst us all, and I will work with the design team to make sure that we take advantage of this opportunity to implement the wishes of the membership in this regard.
As Sam mentioned, well also be doing something more about placement. This last year, Abby Goodrum did a wonderful job in getting our online placement service going. This year, well put together a more formal placement service at the Annual Meeting, which we hope will help job-seekers and employers to find one another.
There is, of course, plenty of other stuff that I think will need to be done during the coming year, but Ive already made more than the requisite number of pledges for an inaugural address. Let me finish by saying how humbled I am by this office and by your placing me in it. I hope that you all will be open and proactive in expressing your desires and priorities for ASIS&T, that I will be effective in my response to you and that the priorities that Ive discussed here today are indeed consonant with your desires and, again, that I will justify your trust.
Thank you.
Nicholas J.
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Bill pre-filed to authorize capital bonding
The pre-filing of proposed legislation for the 2013 legislative session began on December 1, and Senator Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) has filed a resolution to authorize the issuance of bonds for state capital projects. Senate Joint Resolution 3 [1] would amend the state constitution to provide the authority for a Fifth State Building Bond issue. If approved by the voters, the Board of Fund Commissioners would be authorized to issue bonds up to $950 million. Of the total amount, up to $250 million would provide funds for state projects, with at least $40 million of the $250 million being allocated to the maintenance of park and park facilities. The remainder of the bonds would provide funds for the construction, renovation, and rebuilding of capital projects at public institutions of higher education. At least 15 percent of the bond proceeds would have to be allocated to community colleges.
Freshman legislators visit UM campuses
Newly-elected legislators toured the state over the last two weeks to learn about departments, institutions, and businesses commonly impacted by lawmakers' decisions. On December 4, the group had the opportunity to hear from Chancellor Leo Morton and visit the UMKC campus. The legislators then headed to Columbia for a men's basketball game at Mizzou Arena and watched the tigers defeat Southeast Missouri State. On December 5, the group traveled to St. Louis and visited UMSL for a short presentation from Chancellor Tom George. While in St. Louis, the group also toured the Old North Grocery cooperative, which is affiliated with MU Extension. Freshman legislators will be sworn in on January 9, 2013, the first day of the legislative session.
November revenue numbers announced
The state Office of Administration announced November revenue numbers last week. Budget Director Linda Luebbering noted that year-to-date revenue collections for FY 2013 increased by 7.2 percent compared to last year at this time. Collections for November increased by 6 percent compared to November 2011. The current fiscal year budget was based on a consensus revenue estimate, or projected increase, of 3.9 percent. While these numbers are encouraging, FY 2013 year-to-date revenue collections are still approximately $600 million below collections in pre-recession FY 2008. Budget leaders are currently working on the FY 2014 budget, and they will collectively determine a new consensus revenue.
Joint Committee on Education considers new funding model
During the previous legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill requiring the Joint Committee on Education [3] to develop components for a new funding formula for higher education institutions by the end of 2013. The Joint Committee on Education, chaired by Senator David Pearce (R-Warrensburg), conducted hearings across the state this fall to gather input from higher education institutions. University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe testified at the committee's November 14 meeting on the Missouri S&T campus. President Wolfe's testimony can be found here [4]. At its most recent meeting on Monday, December 10, the committee received recommendations from its Executive Director, Stacey Preis, on initial concepts to be considered in such a formula. See the following links for the Model Proposal [5] and Power Point Presentation [6] used by Executive Director Preis in her report.
The new concept includes taking a percentage of core funding and applying a performance measure. It also provides comparative data to other states and institutions and differentiates Missouri institutions based on mission. The committee has asked the higher education community for feedback by the end of December.
President Wolfe testifies at the November 14 hearing of the Joint Committee on Education.
Extension districting proposal on legislative agenda for 2013
MU's State Extension Council is again seeking support from lawmakers in its attempts to make statutory changes allowing the formation of single- or multi-county Extension districts. This would streamline operations and provide more efficiencies in the delivery of Extension programming in the state's 114 counties. Currently, Extension's local organization is structured through county government, making multi-county operations difficult.
Senate Bill 9 [7], sponsored by Senator David Pearce (R-Warrensburg), is identical to legislation filed last year in the Senate and would make the necessary changes to allow the organization of Extension districts. Moreover, SB 9 also provides the option of local funding initiatives to support local programming. Similar legislation is expected to be pre-filed in the House.
Congressman Trent Franks visits MU
Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) visited MU on December 7. Franks is a member of the Armed Services Committee, and was invited to visit by Dr. Paul Pevsner, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences. Franks toured the College of Engineering, MU's Research Reactor, and the College of Veterinary Medicine, focusing on research about electromagnetic pulses and how that research relates to national security.
Fiscal cliff talks continue on Capitol Hill
Negotiations between Congress and the White House regarding how to avoid what is being called the "fiscal cliff" are continuing. The discussion has centered around extending the Bush-era tax cuts, extending the Social Security payroll tax cut, avoiding sequestration spending cuts that would take effect on January 2, and extending other provisions set to expire on December 30. In July, President Wolfe and all four UM Chancellors signed a letter [8] with the Association of American Universities (AAU) and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to encourage a bipartisan fiscal agreement. More recently, MU Chancellor Brady Deaton teamed up with Bernadette Gray-Little, Chancellor of the University of Kansas, to publish a joint op-ed [9] encouraging Congress to reach a balanced deal.
More than 70 Missouri public officials and public officials-elect hold degrees from UM
As Congress and the state legislature prepare to convene in January, more than 70 members will have alumni status from one of the UM system campuses. Of the total 49 are alumni of the University of Missouri, 12 are alumni of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2 are alumni of Missouri University of Science and Technology, and 13 are alumni of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
The following Missouri public officials are alumni of the University of Missouri:
United States Congress: U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D), Congressman Sam Graves (R), Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R), Congressman Billy Long (R), and Congresswoman-Elect Ann Wagner (R).
Statewide Officeholders: Governor Jay Nixon (D), Lt. Governor Peter Kinder (R), and Attorney General Chris Koster (D).
Missouri State Senate: Senator Dan Brown (R), Senator Shalonn "Kiki" Curls (D), Senator-Elect Jason Holsman (D), Senator Brian Munzlinger (R), Senator David Pearce (R), Senator Scott Rupp (R), and Senator Kurt Schaefer (R).
Missouri House of Representatives: Rep. Sue Allen (R), Rep.-Elect Kevin Austin, Rep. Jason Barnes (R), Rep.-Elect Michael Butler (D), Rep.-Elect Robert Cornejo (R), Rep. Stanley Cox (R), Rep.-Elect Courtney Curtis (D), Rep. John Diehl (R), Rep. Rory Ellinger (D), Rep.-Elect Scott Fitzpatrick (R), Rep. Tom Flanigan (R), Rep. Keith Frederick (R), Rep. Don Gosen (R), Rep.-Elect Elijah Haahr (R), Rep. Marsha Haefner (R), Rep. Steve Hodges (D), Rep. Jay Houghton (R), Rep.-Elect Tom Hurst (R), Rep. Caleb Jones (R), Rep. Chris Kelly (D), Rep.-Elect Glen Kolkmeyer (R), Rep. Bart Korman (R), Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R), Rep.-Elect Joe Don McGaugh (R), Rep. Chris Molendorp (R), Rep.-Elect Jim Neely (R), Rep. Jeanie Riddle (R), Rep.-Elect Caleb Rowden (R), Rep. Lyle Rowland (R), Rep. Jill Schupp (D), Rep.-Elect Noel Shull (R), Rep. Jason Smith (R), Rep.-Elect Nate Walker (R), Rep. Stephen Webber (D), and Rep. Paul Wieland (R).
The following Missouri public officials are alumni of the University of Missouri-Kansas City:
Missouri State Senate: Senator Jolie Justus (D) and Senator-Elect David Sater (R).
Missouri House of Representatives: Rep. Mike Cierpiot (R), Rep.-Elect Dean Dohrman (R), Rep.-Elect Randy Dunn (D), Rep. Rory Ellinger (D), Rep. Brandon Ellington (D), Rep. Kevin Elmer (R), Rep. Nick Marshall (R), Rep.-Elect Joe Don McGaugh (R), Rep. Judy Morgan (D), and Rep.-Elect Lynn Morris (R).
The following Missouri public officials are alumni of Missouri University of Science and Technology:
Missouri House of Representatives: Rep.-Elect Rocky Miller (R).
Missouri State Senate: Senator-Elect Ed Emery (R).
The following Missouri public officials are alumni of the University of Missouri-St. Louis:
Statewide Officeholders: Treasurer Clint Zweifel (D).
Missouri State Senate: Senator Joseph Keaveny (D).
Missouri House of Representatives: Rep. Paul Curtman (R), Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger (R), Rep.-Elect Gina Mitten (D), Rep. Genise Montecillo (D), Rep.-Elect Jeff Roorda (D), Rep. Jill Schupp (D), Rep. Chrissy Sommer (R), Rep.-Elect Bryan Spencer (R), Rep. Rick Stream (R), Rep. Rochelle Walton-Gray (D), and Rep. Paul Wieland (R).