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by Kevin Ryan
Learning about self-deception is important for all people today. That's because many of our problems, both as individuals and as a society, are rooted in self-deception, and many of the ways in which others abuse us relate to our inherent tendency to self-deceive. We can overcome these problems, and have a decent chance at long-term survival as a species, only if we learn about such limitations, and strive to control them. One great way to rapidly learn about self-deception, and other forms of deception, is to learn about the events of September 11th.
It's easy to see widespread self-deception with regard to 9/11. For one thing, most people don't know the actual official story, given by the 9/11 Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This is despite the fact that everyone, at least in the US, has invested essentially their entire future in that story, whether they know it or not.
Some have gone beyond simple avoidance of the facts, in an attempt to prevent themselves and others from looking closely at 9/11. These folks have gone to the extent of changing the definitions of common words, engaging in wild speculation and exaggerations, and suggesting that long strings of unprecedented events, including violations of the laws of nature, were possible on just that one day. These painful self-deceptions help some people dodge the emotional stress that accompanies careful examination of the events of 9/11.
In order to understand the extreme self-deception surrounding… Continue reading
On October 27, 2008, WeAreChangeLA's Jeremy Rothe-Kushel was on hand to cover an event with William Bratton, the Chief of the LAPD. Bratton was at a Townhall LA event at the Omni Hotel in Downtown LA to give a talk entitled "Crime and Your Bottom Line." Although Bratton was there to focus on the future of the LAPD in relationship to development and crime-prevention, there was still a media buzz humming about an article Bratton had penned a week earlier with 'terrorism expert' R.P. Eddy in the NY Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/10/21/2008-10-21_osama_bin_lade…
The article, entitled "Osama Bin Laden wants a vote, so beware a late October surprise," warned that if "Bin Laden wants to engineer a late-October surprise in 2008, an attack on a significant American economic target may be one of the most tempting opportunities he has had in recent years." In addition to asserting that "U.S. intelligence is worried" because a "2007 National Intelligence Estimate said that Al Qaeda has reconstituted and may again be capable of hitting the U.S. mainland," the article also claimed that "Bin Laden may have already begun to weigh in on our coming elections," because in September, "Al Qaeda launched an assault against the American Embassy in Yemen."
Bratton, who had worked under Rudolph Giuliani at the helm of NYPD in the 90's pursuing the "broken windows" policy, became LAPD Police Chief in 2002. He came to the LAPD directly out of a strong working relationship with Kroll Inc. (see: http://fluxrostrum.blogspot.com/2007/05/who-killed-john-oneil.html… Continue reading
Organic Consumers Association
November 12, 2008
* Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack's support of genetically engineered pharmaceutical crops, especially pharmaceutical corn:
* The biggest biotechnology industry group, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, named Vilsack Governor of the Year. He was also the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership. http://www.bio.org/news/pressreleases/newsitem.asp?id=200…
* When Vilsack created the Iowa Values Fund, his first poster child of economic development potential was Trans Ova and their pursuit of cloning dairy cows.
* Vilsack was the origin of the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, which many people here in Iowa fought because it took away local government's possibility of ever having a regulation on seeds- where GE would be grown, having GE-free buffers, banning pharma corn locally, etc. Representative Sandy Greiner, the Republican sponsor of the bill, bragged on the House Floor that Vilsack put her up to it right after his state of the state address.
* Vilsack has a glowing reputation as being a schill for agribusiness biotech giants like Monsanto. Sustainable ag advocated across the country were spreading the word of Vilsack's history as he was attempting to appeal to voters in his presidential bid. An activist from the west coast even made this youtube animation about Vilsack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmoc4Qgcm4s). The airplane in this animation is a referral to the controversy that Vilsack often traveled in Monsanto's jet.
*Vilsack is an ardent support of corn and soy based biofuels, which use as much or more fossil energy to produce them as they generate, while driving up world food prices and literally starving the poor.…Continue reading
By Thomas A. Schweich
Sunday, December 21, 2008
We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian government. Our Constitution is at risk.
President-elect Barack Obama's selections of James L. Jones, a retired four-star Marine general, to be his national security adviser and, it appears, retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair to be his director of national intelligence present the incoming administration with an important opportunity — and a major risk. These appointments could pave the way for these respected military officers to reverse the current trend of Pentagon encroachment upon civilian government functions, or they could complete the silent military coup d'etat that has been steadily gaining ground below the radar screen of most Americans and the media.
While serving the State Department in several senior capacities over the past four years, I witnessed firsthand the quiet, de facto military takeover of much of the U.S. government. The first assault on civilian government occurred in faraway places — Iraq and Afghanistan — and was, in theory, justified by the exigencies of war.
The White House, which basically let the Defense Department call the budgetary shots, vastly underfunded efforts by the State Department, the Justice Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to train civilian police forces, build… Continue reading
by Peter Dale Scott
January 7, 2009
Paulson's Financial Bailout
It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
The excuse for bypassing normal legislative procedures was the existence of an emergency. But one of the most reprehensible features of the legislation, that it allowed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to permit bailed-out institutions to use public money for exorbitant salaries and bonuses, was inserted by Paulson after the immediate crisis had passed.
According to Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vermont) the bailout bill originally called for a cap on executive salaries, but Paulson changed the requirement at the last minute. Welch and other members of Congress were enraged by "news that banks getting taxpayer-funded bailouts are still paying exorbitant salaries, bonuses, and other benefits."1 In addition, as AP reported in October, "Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. questioned allowing banks that accept bailout bucks to continue paying dividends on their common stock. `There are far better uses of taxpayer dollars than continuing dividend payments to shareholders," he said."2
Even more reprehensible is the fact that since the bailouts, Paulson and the Treasury Department have refused to provide details of the Troubled Assets Relief Program spending of hundreds of billions of dollars, while the New York Federal Reserve has… Continue reading
Originally published at Solari.com/blog by Catherine Austin Fitts on January 9, 2009
In fiscal 1999, the Department of Defense was "missing" $2.3 trillion dollars. To put that amount of money in perspective, it is approximately 3X what President-elect Obama is proposing to spend to revitalize America.
In fiscal 2000, the Department of Defense was "missing" $1.1 trillion, about 1.5X what President-elect Obama wants to invest in America.
So between October 1998 and September 2000, the Department of Defense was "missing" $3.3 trillion. Because the amount of money disappearing is so enormous, years ago we started a archive of articles on the "missing money" to try to keep up with the trillions sliding out of the federal accounts.
From 1997 to March 2001, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) who served as the chief financial officer for the Department of Defense was William J. Lynn III. In that position, he was the chief financial officer for the Department of Defense and was the principal advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense for all budgetary and fiscal matters. That means he was the person responsible to make sure no money went missing and that the Department of Defense published audited financial statements — which it failed to do in those years and every year since.
When Mr. Lynn left Defense in 2001, he joined DFI International and then in 2005 became the chief lobbyist for Raytheon. He was replaced at Defense by Dov Zakheim.
Kevin Fenton
January 14, 2009
Posted at History Commons Groups
The National Archives today released a set of records the 9/11 Commission gave it. It did so today because the commission told it it had to wait until 2009 to do so, presumably on the off chance that people would have forgotten about it all by then. The records are in two groups, Memorandums for the Record (MFR), which are available online, and other records, which are not available online.
Editor's Note: The National Archives 9/11 Commission Records URL's have been updated.
Kevin Fenton, who wrote this blog entry today, is one of the great researchers working with Paul Thompson and so many other fine people at HistoryCommons.org (formerly known to most of us as CooperativeResearch.org) to document our history. Not just about 9/11, but about aspects of our lives so appallingly rewritten by media and textbooks. The work underway at HistoryCommons is absolutely invaluable, and we encourage readers to get involved and otherwise support that work.
I have been trawling through the ones that are available online and I have learned a few things of interest.
(1) Stacks of the MFR are not actually available. Either they have not been reviewed yet (pending), or have been withdrawn because they are very classified, or they have been made available, but have had the bejesus redacted out of them.
(2) Two of the two key MFR, of interviews of Tom Wilshire, a CIA officer involved in just about everything… Continue reading
By Peter Phillips
The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world–albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face. While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of the Guantánamo prison are in evidence, a unilateral military dominance policy, expanding military budget, and wars of occupation and aggression will likely continue unabated.
The military expansionists from within the Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, G. W. Bush administrations put into place solid support for increased military spending. Clinton's model of supporting the US military industrial complex held steady defense spending and increased foreign weapons sales from 16% of global orders to over 63% by the end of his administration.
The neo-conservatives, who dominated the most recent Bush administration, amplified this trend of increased military spending. The neo-cons laid out their agenda for military global dominance in the 2000 Project for a New American Century (PNAC) report Rebuilding America's Defenses . The report called for the protection of the American Homeland, the ability to wage simultaneous theater wars, to perform global constabulary roles, and to control space and cyberspace. The report claimed that in order to maintain a Pax Americana , potential rivals–such as China, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea–needed to be held in check. This military global dominance agenda required forward deployment of US forces worldwide and increasing defense/war spending well into the 21st century. The result was a doubling of the US military budget to… Continue reading
April 23, 2009
Let Sibel Edmonds Speak
Sibel gave a 75-min interview to Electric Politics on April 10. You can listen to it here. Mizgin has an overview of the interview here.
A partial transcript follows:
Sibel Edmonds: First of all, it has been documented in the past several decades, the importance of narcotics in the Turkish economy, but also the role of Turkish MIT – that is Turkish Intelligence – and the military having an active role. But you're also looking at the increased role of certain Central Asian countries and the Caucuses, and if you look at some of these regimes, these are the regimes that we have been supporting. Their economies also have become dependent on narcotics, because they have become a major transit – and in some places, for certain countries such as Azerbaijan, they have become major production centers.
After they shut down the casinos in Turkey – around 1998 – many of the large casinos in Turkey which were used to launder a lot of money, that also had to do with the narcotics, they actually moved and relocated to Azerbaijan, and there were several that went to Kazakhstan. So if you go through some of those Central Asian countries and you look at the list of the casinos, and you look at the ownership, you will see mainly Turkish ownership, and these are Turkish holding companies that relocated in 1998 to those countries.
George Kenney:… Continue reading
by Fred Burks
May 21, 2009
Remember Star Wars? Do you remember the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative to build a massive missile defense system that raised so much controversy during the Reagan and first Bush years? 130 billion of our tax dollars were poured into developing that system. It was designed to detect and intercept missiles fired from an unknown destination traveling at well over 10 times the speed of a commercial airliner, and to shoot them down in 15 minutes or less, before they reached their US targets.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) website, "a defensive system may need to hit a warhead smaller than an oil drum that is traveling above the atmosphere at speeds greater than 13,000 miles per hour." The CBO report states that missile defense and intercept systems must take down an ICBM in a matter of minutes or it is all over.
You may remember that before 9/11, there were a number of tests of the Pentagon's missile defense systems. Some tests failed, while others succeeded. But there is an important question here. If these sophisticated military systems were designed to detect missiles fired from unknown locations at over 13,000 mph and shoot them down in mere minutes, why on 9/11 could they not detect any one of the four large airliners traveling at a mere 600 mph, especially when two of them were known to be lost for over 40 minutes before they crashed?
This question applies especially to… Continue reading
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Ventura: I question my government on 9/11 because–for most lay people out there they accept what they hear on TV, they accept the government's explanation–but once you start getting in and studying what actually happened that day, there are a lot of problems.
Stern: Bottom line, what are you saying?
Ventura: I believe if our government didn't actually participate in it they certainly knew it was going to happen and allowed it to happen.
Stern: That's mind blowing. And you're going to write a book backing that up?
Woman co-host: What would be the purpose of letting it happen?
Ventura: We're in two wars, aren't we, that we wouldn't have been in? How much money has Halliburton made in the war? How much money has Blackwater made in the war? People fail to realize there are war profiteers out there.
Stern: So you're talking about treason. Who are you accuse them of treason in your next book.
Ventura: Mass murder. I'm simply writing about the questions I have about it.
Stern: Is this the reason you called Bush administration the worst administration ever?
Ventura: Yeah.
[Continues, with Ventura answering a caller by discussing building collapses…]
Waterboarding was 'well done,' Cheney says
Source: rawstory.com
Published: June 1, 2009
On Iraq and 9/11: 'That's not something I made up'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is usually very careful at choosing his words.
Perhaps not so today. In a speech Monday at the National Press Club, continuing along familiar themes of terrorism, Guantánamo and his hatred for The New York Times, Cheney spoke defensively of the administration's practice of water-boarding detainees.
"I don't believe we tortured," Cheney remarked, noting that the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration were vetted by White House lawyers. They didn't cross a "red line," he said.
And then he delivered the whopper: "There were three people who were water-boarded…. It was well-done."
The former vice president also made an odd comment about detainees being held at Guantánamo Bay.
He framed their detention as a choice between two options: either we imprison them, or we kill them.
"We need Guantánamo… If we didn't have it, we'd need to (invent) it," Cheney remarked. "If you don't have a place to hold these people, the only other option is to kill them."
"We don't operate that way," he added.
Cheney's comments were transcribed by The Swamp, the blog of the Chicago Tribune.
"If I had it to do all over again, I would do exactly the same thing," he continued. "I don't have much tolerance or patience for those who have the benefit of hindsight eight years later and have forgotten what happened on 9/11….…Continue reading
The provocative new film and book about the untold story of the 2001 U.S. Anthrax Attacks and the dark secrets of the shadowy world of modern day germ weapons research.
"Fear and Terror on The Anthrax Trail" – Anthrax War Trailer:
When the 2001 anthrax attacks hit the USA in the days following 9/11, it was like a one-two punch against the Republic. Workers in New York's media center who had seen the planes swoop too low over their heads en route to the Twin Tower were now terrified of their mail. In Washington, Capitol Hill was evacuated and White House staffers were chewing CIPRO tablets.
It was our scariest collective nightmare come to life – the attack of deadly invisible bugs. It seemed like a self-fulfilling prophecy, the preceding years filled as they were with scores of films, best-selling books, TV shows and articles on the coming of "Bio-Terror." Indeed, for the first time in history, national leaders and the military actually acted out high-tech "germ attack" war games, one of which had a scenario shockingly close to the actual events.
So after the government pledged the most thorough investigation it could muster, we hoped the feds would get to the bottom of it all. Thus, we were saddened but not really surprised when the attacks disappeared from public discourse – unmentioned, for example, by any major candidate during the 2008 election contest. And when the FBI announced suddenly last summer that the cold case was red-hot, identified… Continue reading
by Kevin R. Ryan
Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire
Note: The author is indebted to a few particularly useful sources of information and inspiration, including Russ Baker's book "Family of Secrets", the websites nndb.com, sourcewatch.org and secinfo.com, and Richard Gage.
On occasion, the public has been asked by George W. Bush to refrain from considering certain conspiracy theories. Bush has made such requests when people were looking into crimes in which he might be culpable. For example, when in 1994 Bush's former company Harken Energy was linked to the fraudulent Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) through several investors, Bush's spokeswoman, Karen Hughes, shut down the inquiry by telling the Associated Press — "We have no response to silly conspiracy theories." On another occasion, Bush said in a televised speech — "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th."
But paradoxically, we have also been asked to believe Bush's own outrageous conspiracy theory about 9/11, one that has proven to be false in many ways. One important way to see the false nature of Bush's conspiracy theory is to note the fact that the World Trade Center buildings could only have fallen as they did through the use of explosives. A number of independent scientific studies have pointed out this fact [1, 2, 3, 4], but it was Bush's own scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through their inability to provide a convincing defense of… Continue reading
July 15, 2009
For eight years I have lobbied and supported investigations and litigation in an effort to learn the whole truth behind the death of my son Joseph and the murder of so many others. I've always been hopeful we'd get the answers we deserve and that we'd see accountability exacted within the halls of Congress, the White House, DoD, CIA, FBI, State and Justice Departments.
However, there are still too few answers to too many questions even as promotions and medals are handed out rather than pink slips or prosecutions. Excessive secrecy and redactions still cover-up the truth and leave us in the dark about: terrorist financing from still unnamed foreign nations, suspicious pre-9/11 stock market activity, pre-9/11 warnings to the President, the Attorney General and others, the infamous 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Report, The Holy Land Trial, Riggs Bank wire transfers, faulty NYFD radios that didn't work in '93, Ground zero toxins breathed by thousands, a 9/11 narrative derived from torture induced testimony, etc., etc. I could go on and on.
No American who believes in his country should settle for being in the dark about all this over seven years after the event. I won't and I can't for the sake of my son and for the country. For this reason I feel compelled to support a new investigation in NYC led by family members and others who will produce an accounting we can be proud of.
Three thousand dead civilians. A President… Continue reading
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
17 July, 2009
Government sources immediately began blaming North Korea for the recent cyberterror attacks on South Korea and the U.S., despite having no evidence to back up those claims. Now, an examination of the evidence by independent computer experts show that the attack seems to have been coordinated from the UK. The hysterical media coverage in the attack's wake, however, echoing the government line that it was likely the work of North Korea, served to cement in the minds of many that this was an act of cyberwarfare.
The idea that this surprisingly unsophisticated attack could have come from a well-organized, hostile state or terrorist group comes as a blessing in disguise to those groups, agencies and advisors who have been calling for greater and greater federal snooping powers in the name of stopping a "cyber 9/11″ from happening.
The "cyber 9/11″ meme stretches back almost to 9/11 itself. Back in 2003, Mike McConnell, the ex-director of the National Security Agency (NSA), was fearmongering over the possibility of a cyber attack "equivalent to the attack on the World Trade Center" if a new institution were not created to oversee cyber security. Since then, report after report has continued to use the horror of 9/11 as a way of raising public hysteria over "cyber terrorism," a subject more often associated with juvenile hackers and lone misfits than radical terrorist organizations.
The real reason behind the invocation of 9/11 in the context of "cyber terror"… Continue reading
Paul Zarembka will be interviewed today on his excellent 9/11 book, The Hidden History of 9/11 . The one-hour broadcast will aired on Bonnie Faulkner's KPFA program 'Guns and Butter: The Economics of Politics', where she has given considerable attention to 9-11 on her program for many years.
The interview can be heard at 4 p.m. Eastern/1 p.m. Pacific, available at http://www.kpfa.org/
It will also be available as an archive thereafter at http://www.kpfa.org/node/34
UPDATE 7/25/09 Paul Zarembka will be a guest on John Rodger's blogtalk radio show tomorrow, Sunday, July 26, at 5pm PST. Listen here. UPDATE 7/23/09
Audio of this interview is now available online: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23122.htm
How much insider trading occurred in the days leading up to 9/11? How compromised is the evidence against alleged hijackers because of serious authentication problems with a key Dulles Airport videotape?…
By Erik Larson
Sibel Edmonds gave a sworn deposition in which she testified to her knowledge of treasonous crimes and corruption involving current and former members of Congress and State and Defense Dept. officials. Given the nature of the deposition, the lines of questioning focused on Turkish espionage and services obtained through bribery and blackmail by Turkish officials and proxies. However, Edmonds has previously disclosed that the corruption involving U.S. officials also includes money laundering, trafficking in drugs, arms and nuclear secrets, U.S. support for Bin Laden/Al Qaeda, and obstruction of FBI investigations related to 9/11, before and after the attacks; she said these things came up "briefly" during the deposition. Edmonds learned of these things from wiretaps she listened to while working as a translator for the FBI in 2001-2002.
Video shot by me of Q&A sessions outside the deposition — Sibel Edmonds, Stephen Michael Kohn of NWC, Bruce Fein of TALDF and TACA (formerly w/ ATAA) and Davikorian, at Edmonds' Aug 8, 2009 deposition
Video coverage from VelvetRevolution.us and BradBlog.com
Edmonds' Aug 8 testimony was subpoenaed by David Krikorian (Democratic 2010 Congressional candidate- OH) to support his defense against a lawsuit brought by Jean Schmidt, R-OH. Krikorian had circulated a flier in his 2008 campaign in which he alleged that Schmidt had accepted "blood money" from Turkish interests in exchange for opposing a Congressional resolution acknowledging the Turkish genocide of Armenians in World War I. The deposition took place in Washington, DC at the headquarters… Continue reading


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5 SEX-iest Quotes From Secret Life Season 3, Episode 20
Sex was once again a hot button topic in last night's Secret Life of The American Teenager episode, and the SEX-y talk was at a all-time high! Seriously, Madison and Jack need to decide whether or not their going to do it, otherwise the Secret Life sex count will be off the charts!
We've recounted the SEX-iest lines from last night's hot n' heavy eppy. You're gonna need protection just reading this bad boy.
1. Adrian calls Grace out: "It's me. I can tell you had sex."
Adrian can smell sex on other people, and Grace and Grant's sex reeks of flat irons and hairspray.
2. We want to know where Lauren went to Sunday school: "I heard that religious people get all filled with the spirit and have crazy sex."
Wow, that's all kinds of offensive. And all kinds of true.
3. Anne dares to question Ricky's skillz: "Did you have sex when you spent the night with Ricky last weekend? Was it uncomfortable, or awkward or disappointing in some way?"
Bitch, please! Don't insult Ricky. He could have sex half asleep and it would be amazing.
4. Ricky plants one on Amy: "We're gonna like having sex with each other."
This stud's like a fornication fortune teller. His kisses predict great sex.
5. Ben reassures Henry and Alice: "I'm happy not having sex with my soon-to-be wife who's having our baby. It's all good."
Someone seriously needs to tattoo "Virgin 4 Life" across Ben's forehead.
Plus: Read the recap for "Moving In and Out" (Ricky finally says the magic three words to Amy!) or watch the full episode below!

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 25: Paul Capdeville of Chile hits a return to Rageev Ram during day three of the Farmers Classic Presented By Mercedes-Benz at LA Tennis Center at the University of California, Los Angeles on July 25, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Ram won 6-3, 6-1. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)


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Chris Hoke might be 15-1 as a starter, but we're 2-0 since firing up the Steelers Lounge podcast. Just sayin'. Anyway, we're back to talk about one of our favorite regular-season wins in some time. And before you listen, a post-game quote from Mike Tomlin to set the tone:
"Regardless of what our demise is being reported, we expect to win. We're pleased that we're 2-0 but we're not astounded by it, okay? We're capable. We're a little bit annoyed, to be quite honest."
Makes you want to run through a wall.
Steelers Lounge Podcast #3: Steelers-Titans Recap
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Miles Harrison says Leinster and Clermont are heading towards another epic encounter.
Last Updated: 14/12/12 2:44pm
Leinster's dream of making it three European titles in a row hang in the balance as they get ready for another epic clash against Clermont.
They are five points behind the French giants and know that a win at the Aviva Stadium will drastically improve their chances of automatically qualifying for the knock-out stages.
Clermont revenged their recent losses against Leinster with a 15-12 win last weekend, however Leinster will take heart from their tactical nous that almost saw them ending Clermont's 50 home match-winning streak. Miles Harrison will be at the Aviva Stadium for round two of this heavyweight clash and is expecting another epic encounter.
Last week Clermont won and kept their impressive home record but Leinster did come away with a crucial bonus point - who will be the happier heading into this game?
MILES REPLIES: Anyone who goes to and gets a bonus point from Clermont has done very well, so Leinster are not going to be unhappy with that. They had to come away with something and they did. But, there's no doubt that Clermont will be reasonably happy too - not just with the fact that they won the game. They needed to beat Leinster to get over the recent history between the two teams - Clermont had a monkey to get off their back and they looked pretty pleased at the end on Sunday having done that. Now, heading into this weekend, Leinster know that they simply have to win this game while Clermont could afford to lose it. Also, if it is the same scenario as last week and Leinster win but the away side get a bonus point, then the French side will end round four in a much better position than Leinster. So, when it comes to happiness going into this match, Clermont will be the more content with the five point cushion that they currently have over Leinster at the top of the table.
Yes, there has been a lot of talk about the five points separating them, will Leinster be targeting that or will they be just targeting the win?
MILES REPLIES: They will be mindful of it; it will never leave their thought process but it will be right at the back of the mind. Leinster have played very well at the Aviva Stadium in the past, it is a ground that has encouraged some fine performances from them. But, they have only scored one try in three games in the Heineken Cup so far this season and let's not forget they are playing Clermont, who are realistic contenders for the title. Can they score four tries against them? That will be extremely difficult even for Leinster. So, they need to win the game first and foremost. But, say they are three tries scored with ten minutes to go, I am sure they will be very mindful of getting that fourth score then! However, it is not a day to get carried away by what might not be possible anyway.
Leinster are still missing a few key players, how will that affect them at home?
MILES REPLIES: Of course it has impact but they were missing those players last week and did very well. The guys who came in were excellent - Ian Madigan at fullback, Andrew Goodman at 12 and I thought Gordon D'Arcy responded very well to the big leadership role in the backline. I'm not saying that the loss of Brian O'Driscoll, Luke Fitzgerland and Rob Kearney is not important because they are key players but I thought Leinster did extremely well without them and there is no reason why they should not do that again this weekend. Just whilst we are talking about individuals, Sean O'Brien was magnificent on his return and I think the Lions' selectors would have had a good look at him last weekend and purred with satisfaction. He is going to be a big player for Leinster this weekend, for Ireland in the Six Nations and, I think, for the Lions in the summer as well.
How will Clermont approach this game - will not having to win affect their mind-set?
MILES REPLIES: Good question - perhaps the telling one. In days gone by, I think it would definitely have been a factor but I am not so sure now. Clermont could be starting to show that they are ready. You may say that if that is the case, then why did they not deny Leinster the bonus point last week? But, I think Clermont still have a lot of Leinster baggage to deal with and just getting that win against a side that has beaten them in very tight situations in the last two knock-out games that they have played, was a psychological barrier for them. We will only find out what that win has done for them when we see them play this weekend but I would argue that they are in a better place than they have ever been before going to play Leinster in Dublin, both on the table and in their minds. Whether that is enough is a totally different matter because Leinster again showed just what they are made of. The champions should go into this match in confident mood themselves. And, at a packed out Aviva Stadium they are going to be about as tough to beat as any other team in this competition on their own patch - even, dare I say, as tough to beat as Clermont are at home!


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UML Deployment Diagrams
Deployment diagram shows execution architecture of systems that represent the assignment (deployment) of software artifacts to deployment targets (usually nodes).
Nodes represent either hardware devices or software execution environments. They could be connected through communication paths to create network systems of arbitrary complexity. Artifacts represent concrete elements in the physical world that are the result of a development process and are deployed on nodes.
Note, that components were directly deployed to nodes in UML 1.x deployment diagrams. In UML 2.x artifacts are deployed to nodes, and artifacts could manifest (implement) components. So components are now deployed to nodes indirectly through artifacts.
The following nodes and edges are typically drawn in a UML deployment diagram: deployment, artifact, association between artifacts, dependency between artifacts, component, manifestation, node, device, execution environment, composition of nodes, communication path, deployment specification, deployment specification dependency, deployment specification association.
You can find some deployment diagrams examples here:
- Web application deployment
- Web application manifestation
- Multilayered load balancing
- Clustered deployment of J2EE web application
- Apple iTunes deployment
- Android application deployment
An artifact is a classifier that represents some physical entity, a piece of information that is used or is produced by a software development process, or by deployment and operation of a system. Artifact is a source of a deployment to a node. A particular instance (or "copy") of an artifact is deployed to a node instance.
UML 2.4 definition of Artifact
Note, that in UML 2.4 artifact is also a subclass of deployed artifact. It is a weird, upside down relationship, which is most likely a mistake. Deployed artifact is described by UML 2.4 as an artifact or artifact instance that has been deployed to a deployment target. Common sense assumes that deployed artifact should be a subclass of artifact and it should be allowed for some artifacts not to be deployed.
Artifacts may have properties that represent features of the artifact, and operations that can be performed on its instances. Artifacts have fileName attribute - a concrete name that is used to refer to the artifact in a physical context - e.g. file name or URI. Artifact could have nested artifacts.
Some real life examples of artifacts are:
- text document
- source file
- script
- binary executable file
- archive file
- table in a database
The UML Standard Profile defines several standard stereotypes that apply to artifacts:
|A physical file in the context of the system developed.
Standard stereotypes - subclasses of «file»:
|A generic file that is not a «source» file or «executable».
|A source file that can be compiled into an executable file.
|A static or dynamic library file.
|A program file that can be executed on a computer system.
|A script file that can be interpreted by a computer system.
Standard UML 1.x stereotype that is now obsolete:
|Table in database.
Standard stereotypes can be further specialized into implementation and platform specific stereotypes in profiles. For example, Java profile might define «jar» as a subclass of «executable» for executable Java archives. Specific profiles are expected to provide some stereotype for artifact representing sets of files.
Artifacts are deployed to a deployment target. Instance specification was extended in UML to allow instances of artifacts to be deployed artifacts in a deployment relationship.
An artifact is presented using an ordinary class rectangle with the keyword «artifact». Examples in UML specification also show document icon in upper right corner.
Artifact web-app.war
C# source file artifact UserServices.cs
Library commons.dll
Alternatively, artifact may be depicted by an icon.
Artifact web-tools-lib.jar
Optionally, the underlining of the name of an artifact instance may be omitted, as the context is assumed to be known to users.
Associations between Artifacts
Artifacts can be involved in associations to other artifacts, e.g. composition associations. For instance, a deployment descriptor artifact for a component may be contained within the artifact that manifests that component. In that way, the component and its descriptor are deployed to a node instance as one artifact instance.
Application book-club.ear artifact contains EJB user-service.jar artifact and deployment descriptor.
Dependency between Artifacts
Artifacts can be involved in dependency relationship with other artifacts.
Dependency between artifacts is notated in the same way as general dependency, i.e. as a general dashed line with an open arrow head directed from client artifact to supplier artifact.
The book-club.war artifact depends on web-tools-lib.jar artifact.
Manifestation is an abstraction relationship which represents concrete physical rendering (implementation) of one or more model elements by an artifact or utilization of the model elements in the construction or generation of the artifact. An artifact manifests one or more model elements.
Note, that since UML 2.0 artifacts can manifest any packageable elements, not just components as it was in previous versions of UML.
The artifact owns the manifestations, each representing the utilization of a packageable element.
Specific profiles are expected to stereotype the manifestation relationship to indicate particular forms of manifestation. For example, «tool generated» and «custom code» might be two manifestations for different classes embodied in an artifact.
A manifestation is notated in the same way as abstraction, i.e. as a dashed line with an open arrow head directed from artifact to packageable element, (e.g. to component or package) and is labeled with the keyword «manifest».
EJB component UserService and skeleton of web services
are manifested (implemented) by EJB module user-service.jar artifact
In UML 1.x, the concept of manifestation was referred to as implementation and annotated as «implement». Since this was one of the many uses of the word "implementation" this has been replaced in UML 2.x by «manifest».
Deployment Target
Artifacts are deployed to deployment targets. Deployment target is the location for a deployed artifact.
UML 2.4 definition of deployment target
Instance specification was extended in UML 2.0 to allow instance of a node to be deployment target in a deployment relationship.
Property was also extended in UML 2.0 with the capability of being a deployment target in a deployment relationship. This enables modeling the deployment to hierarchical nodes that have properties functioning as internal parts.
Deployment target owns the set of deployments that target it.
Deployment target has no specific notation by itself, see notations for subclasses.
Node is a deployment target which represents computational resource upon which artifacts may be deployed for execution.
Node is shown as a perspective, 3-dimensional view of a cube.
Application Server Node
Node is associated with deployments of artifacts and indirectly with packageable elements that are involved in the manifestations by the artifact that is deployed on the node.
Nodes can be interconnected with communication paths. Communication paths can be defined between nodes such as application server and database server to define the possible communication paths between the nodes. Specific network topologies can then be defined through links between node instances.
Node is specialized by:
Hierarchical Node
Hierarchical nodes can be modeled using composition or by defining an internal structure. Internal structure of the node is defined in terms of parts and connectors. Parts of the node could be only nodes.
Application server box runs several web servers and J2EE servers
Execution environment is usually part of a general node or «device» which represents the physical hardware environment on which this execution environment resides. Execution environments can be nested (e.g., a database execution environment may be nested in an operating system execution environment).
Several execution environments nested into server device
Execution environment instances are assigned to node instances by using composite associations between nodes and execution environments, where the execution environment plays the role of the part.
A device is a node which represents a physical computational resource with processing capability upon which artifacts may be deployed for execution.
A device is rendered as a node (perspective, 3-dimensional view of a cube) annotated with keyword «device».
Application Server device
UML provides no standard stereotypes for devices. Examples of non-normative stereotypes for devices are:
- «application server»
- «client workstation»
- «mobile device»
- «embedded device»
Device may be depicted using custom icon. Profiles, stereotypes, and tagged values could be used to provide custom icons and properties for the devices.
Application Server device depicted using custom icon
Computer stereotype with tags applied to Device class.
Database Server device depicted using custom icon
Mobile smartphone device depicted using custom icon
Devices may be complex (i.e., they may consist of other devices) where a physical machine is decomposed into its elements, either through namespace ownership or through attributes that are typed by devices.
Execution Environment
An execution environment is a (software) node that offers an execution environment for specific types of components that are deployed on it in the form of executable artifacts. Components of the appropriate type are deployed to specific execution environments.
Execution environment implements a standard set of services that components require at execution time (at the modeling level these services are usually implicit). For each deployment of component, aspects of these services may be determined by properties in a deployment specification for a particular kind of execution environment.
Execution environment is notated the same way as a node (perspective, 3-dimensional view of a cube), annotated with the standard UML stereotype «executionEnvironment».
Execution environment - J2EE Container
This «executionEnvironment» is pesky sesquipedalian to use. UML provides no other standard stereotypes for execution environments. Examples of reasonable non-normative stereotypes are:
- «workflow engine»
- «database system»
- «J2EE container»
- «web server»
- «web browser»
Linux Operating System Execution Environment
Oracle 10g DBMS Execution Environment
An execution environment can optionally have an explicit interface of system level services that can be used by the deployed elements, in those cases where the modeler wants to make the execution environment software execution environment services explicit.
Communication Path
A communication path is association between two deployment targets, through which they are able to exchange signals and messages.
Communication path is notated as association, and it has no additional notation compared to association.
Communication path between several application servers and database servers.
Note, that when deployment targets are some physical devices, communication path will typically represent a physical connection between the nodes.
Gigabit Ethernet as communication path between application and database servers.
When deployment targets are execution environments, communication path will typically represent some protocol.
TCP/IP protocol as communication path between J2EE server and database system.
A deployment is a dependency relationship which describes allocation (deployment) of an artifact to a deployment target. Deployment could be also defined at instance level - as allocation of specific artifact instance to the specific instance of deployment target.
A component deployment is deployment of one or more artifacts or artifact instances, optionally parameterized by a deployment specification.
It is not very clear why UML defines deployment as a dependency, and not as an association or just a directed relationship. The major contradiction is that dependency in UML does not have any runtime implications, and is defined in terms of the model elements, not in terms of their instances. At the same time UML 2.4 allows and shows examples of instances of artifacts deployed to instances of nodes.
Deployment could be shown as a dependency that is drawn from the artifact (supplier) to the deployment target (client) and is labeled with «deploy». Note, that dependency usually points from the client to the supplier, i.e. in the direction opposite to what is recommended by UML 2.4 for deployment. On the other hand, UML specification allows to change direction for a dependency based on user's stipulations.
J2EE web application archive portfolio.war
deployed on Apache Tomcat JSP server.
At the "instance level" instances of artifacts could be deployed to specific instances of the deployment target. The underlining of the name of artifact instance may be omitted.
J2EE web application archive portfolio.war deployed
on two instances of Apache Tomcat JSP server - psrv_023 and psrv_037.
For modeling complex deployment target models consisting of nodes with a composite structure defined through "parts," a property (that functions as a part) may also be the target of a deployment.
Deployment could be shown with deployed artifacts contained by a deployment target.
The portfolio.ear artifact deployed on application server.
Deployment could be shown using textual list of deployed artifacts within a deployment target.
The portfolio.ear, stocks.ear, weather.ear artifacts deployed in J2EE 1.4 container.
Deployment could be shown within a rectangular frame with deployment name in a compartment in the upper left corner. The long form name for the diagram heading is deployment and abbreviated form is dep.
User Services deployment shown in the diagram frame.
Deployment Specification
A deployment specification is an artifact that specifies a set of deployment properties that determine execution parameters of a component artifact that is deployed on a node. A deployment specification can be aimed at a specific type of container for components.
A deployment specification is a general mechanism to parameterize a deployment relationship, as is common in various hardware and software technologies. The deployment specification element is expected to be extended in specific component profiles. Non-normative examples of the standard stereotypes that a profile might add to deployment specification are, for example, «concurrencyMode» with tagged values {thread, process, none}, or «transactionMode» with tagged values {transaction, nestedTransaction, none}.
A deployment specification at specification level is rendered as a classifier rectangle with optional deployment properties in a compartment.
The ejb-jar.xml deployment specification
An artifact that reifies or implements deployment specification properties at instance level is a deployment descriptor. A deployment descriptor is rendered as a classifier rectangle with the name underlined and with deployment properties having specific values in a compartment.
The ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor
An instance of a deployment specification with specific values for deployment properties may be contained in a complex artifact.
Deployment Specification Dependency
A deployment specification could be displayed as a classifier rectangle attached to a component artifact using a regular dependency arrow pointing to deployed artifact.
The ejb-jar.xml deployment specification for user-service.ejb artifact.
Deployment Specification Association
Deployment specification could be associated with the deployment of a component artifact on a node. In this case deployment specification could be shown as a classifier rectangle attached to the deployment.
Note, that UML 2.4 specification shows this association as a dashed line (while association is normally displayed as solid line.)
The ejb-jar.xml deployment specification attached to deployment.


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Obama Speech Draws Strong Reactions
Analysts and leading evangelicals are reacting pretty strongly to specific concerns about President Obama's "speech to the Muslim world" in Cairo on Thursday, including his definition of democracy, persecution by Muslims, support of Israel, and use of religion to support his goals.
National Review Online asked religious freedom activist Nina Shea, "Is there an 'Arab world' approach to religious freedom?"
She responded:
None of the Arab countries is ranked as "free" in the Center for Religious Freedom survey, though the degree of repression varies. Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are the worst, while Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, and Oman are relatively better. All restrict minorities in varying degrees, and virtually all officially sponsor anti-Semitism. And all are intolerant of and punish apostates, heretics, blasphemers, and those who "insult" Islam. This has resulted in repressing converts from and critics of Islam as well as writers, scholars, artists, journalists, democracy activists, reformers, women's rights proponents, and others who exercise the right to free speech. This has contributed to the political, intellectual, and economic stagnation of this part of the world, as observed in the U.N.'s Arab Development Report.
Freedom House issued a statement applauding Obama's commitment to democracy. However, American Values President Gary Bauer, writing for Human Events, thought that Obama's stance for universal values was too broad:
Somewhere lost in all of the hype over Obama's outreach to the world is a sense that he stands most proudly as the American President. It's time for the president's soaring rhetoric to be applied in support of this great nation and its Judeo-Christian heritage.
Bauer also criticized Obama for neglecting to mention persecution by Muslims. Prior to the speech, Bauer had hoped that Obama would address the persecution of Christians in many Muslim countries. Bauer noted Obama singled out Saudi Arabia as a good example of "interfaith dialogue" even though last March the State Department placed the country on its list of severe violators of religious freedom. Bauer was disappointed that Obama worked harder to "ingratiate himself to Muslim leaders" than to criticize their faults:
[T]he president could have said so much more. The suppression of basic human rights is a fact of life throughout much of the Islamic world, and Muslim nations make up a large percentage of the State Department's list of the world's most severe violators of religious freedom. That list includes Saudi Arabia, and its dictator, King Abdullah, whose "counsel" Obama sought earlier this week in a trip to Riyadh.
Some in mainline Protestant circles found much to like in the Obama speech.
Reverand Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), specifically praised Obama's use of the phrase "interfaith dialogue." The ECLA press release noted "the president's acknowledgment of the difficulty Palestinians - including Palestinian Christians - face because of the Israeli occupation. He said Obama challenged those who deny the Holocaust and called for Hamas to recognize Israel."
At Israel's Jerusalem Post, David Horovitz analyzed Obama's speech, and the applause he garnered, as a hopeful sign for Obama's goal for "a new beginning," but was less encouraged by Obama's repetition of his goal for peace through a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.
Watching from here, his even-handed attribution of blame for the failure of peace efforts to date was jarring indeed. "For more than 60 years," the president declared, the Palestinian people "have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead."
To which most Israelis, having now witnessed even Ehud Olmert's ultra-generous two-state terms being derisively brushed aside by Mahmoud Abbas, would retort: "And whose fault is that?"
Horovitz also expressed concern regarding the president's "strikingly brief" discussion of Iran. In the speech, Obama repeated the stance he indicated on Tuesday to The Washington Post that Iran has "legitimate" use for nuclear power, so long as it's meant for energy not weapons. The issue is of particular concern for Israelis - who consider Iran's quest for nuclear power an heightened threat to their survival - and Gary Bauer has frequently raised the alarm in the conservative community regarding both Iran's and North Korea's intentions, saying that "it will take more than eloquent words to compel America's enemies to behave." The Christian Science Monitor has questioned whether Obama's hands-off stance toward North Korea's nuclear ambition could embolden Iran.
Finally, Obama's use of quotes from the Quran, along with his frequent references over the past week - and in the speech itself - to his personal experience with the Muslim faith, has also attracted attention. From the CatholicPRWire, columnist Chris Benguhe observed that compared to the way Obama "unequivocally supported Islam and the Muslim faith" in his speech in Cairo, his support of Christianity at Notre Dame last month was less apparent. Benguhe appreciated that the president acknowledged the importance of religious freedom, and added:
But now I wish our president would show the same respect and consideration for the religious convictions and sensitivities of us Christians here at home in his own country, and I really wish he would acknowledge how important Christianity is to this nation.


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'RHOBH' cast cameo in Lady Gaga 'G.U.Y.' video revealed: WatchAdd to Favorites | The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Ever since it was rumored to exist, fans have been salivating for proof that the ladies of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" filmed a cameo in an upcoming Lady Gaga music video. Well, that proof is finally here.
In a preview of Mother Monster's newest video, for her latest single "G.U.Y.," shown on the "Today" show on Friday (March 21), the ladies (namely, Lisa Vanderpump, Kyle Richards, Kim Richards, Yolanda Foster and Carlton Gebbia) rock pink dresses and play guitars, a harp, a cello and the tambourine. That's right: Gaga's recruited the reality queens as her band.
In the brief behind-the-scenes clip, the ladies can be seen reviewing their footage with Gaga and "playing" their instruments while some truly insane dancing happens around them.
Our only question? Where are Brandi Glanville and Joyce Giraud de Ohoven? Is Gaga not a fan?
Check out the preview above and be sure to tune in the the video's premiere on Saturday, March 22 on NBC's "Dateline," which airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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Food Farm Storage Facility
Food Farm is a 200-acre community-supported agriculture farm located in Wrenshall, Minnesota. It has 100 summer vegetable shares, 36 winter vegetable shares, pastured poultry, and egg shares. The farm is run by John Fisher-Merritt and his family according to the biodynamic philosophy. The farm also wholesales certified organic vegetables to the Whole Foods Co-op in Duluth.
Food Farm installed automatic temperature control and a monitoring system in their rootcellar.
Food Farm received a sustainable agriculture grant from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) to fund this project. Read about this on the MDA website starting on page 34 in the 2004 Greenbook .
RIGHT PHOTO: John (with black cap) and Jane Fisher-Merritt (on right with back to camera) held a tour of their rootcellar on August 5, 2001.
PHOTO LEFT: This box is hooked up to to the computer that monitors, records, and adjusts temperatures in the storage areas.
PHOTO LEFT: When necessary, this vent opens to increase air flow to a storage bin or room.
There are 3 storage rooms kept at different temperatures - one room for rutabagas, parsnips, and carrots, another room for squash, and a third room for onions and potatoes.
How well did the
rootcellar perform in the 2001-2002 season? Here's the data taken at the
beginning of March:
Carrots from Food Farm had an average brix of 8.52 (5 carrots sampled) in late October. In early March, the average brix was 7.96 (5 carrots sampled).
At harvest in 2003, Food Farm carrots had an average brix of 7.35 (10 carrots sampled). The brix did not change with storage. The average brix of Food Farm carrots in February 2004 was 7.5 (10 carrots sampled).
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Wikipedia wrote:When the Dallas area was being settled by American pioneers, many of the settlers traveled by wagon trains along the old Shawnee Trail. This trail was also used for cattle drives north from Austin. With all of this activity, the community of Lebanon was founded along this trail and granted a U.S. post office in 1860. In 1902, a line of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway was being built through the area, and periodic watering holes were needed along the rails for the steam engines. The current settlement of Lebanon was on the Preston Ridge and was thus too high in elevation, so the watering hole was placed about four miles (6 km) to the west on lower ground. A community grew around this train stop. Residents of Lebanon actually moved their houses to the new community on logs. The new town was originally named Emerson, but that name was rejected by the U.S. Postal Service as being too similar to another town in Texas. In 1904, the residents chose Frisco City in honor of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway on which the town was founded, later shortened to its present name.
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Just gotta say that I'm now watching the new season (to us Brits - series) of Dallas, and am quite loving it.
As I used to. Many years ago!
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- One of the more remote and peaceful parts of the Dominican Republic, Samaná is known for putting up the first violent opposition to the Spanish conquistadors as native Taino warriors greeted Christopher Columbus with arrows and spears on January 12, 1493. With a protected bay and peninsula, the province is now fast becoming a major eco-tourism destination.
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Here's the Nyjah highlight edit from the entire 2012 SLS DC Pro Tour, including what he put down at the final stop in New Jersey to claim this year's Championship trophy. Enjoy.
First up in our recap from Agenda Long Beach 2012 is the Mike Mo Capaldi signature shoe from DC. WIth a clean streamline look and Mike Mo stamp of approval on the tongue this shoe is definitely on point. Look for it to hit your local skate shop soon and click the jump to peep the black & grey colorways.
DC's latest clip features Mikey Taylor as he breaks down why this is the best time he's had skateboarding. Peep Mikey rip it up and explain how it feels to have a signature shoe.
Ken Block is back with the latest and raddest edition of DC's Gymkhana series. In Gymkhana FIVE, Ken takes over the streets of San Francisco turning them into his personal playground. Peep the madness above and look for cameos from Travis Pastrana and Jake Phelps.
As a teamrider for almost 15 years, Josh Kalis' DC heritage runs deep. His latest signature shoe, the Centric S Kalis takes his influences from the past, and with a modern design speaks to where DC has evolved to today.
Not sure what the release plan on these are, but it looks like DC has produced a mega ramp specific shoe for Danny Way. He's been spotted wearing it at "Waiting for Lightning" premieres and Josh Kalis just Instagramed this image. Stay tuned for more info.
Danny Way's ten-year-old dream of building his very own Mega ramp in his Kauai backyard, has finally become a reality. Get a look at how it came to be in this edit that features Danny Way, Colin McKay, Brian Harper, Christian Hosoi, Skin Philips, Jacob Rosenberg, J. Grant Brittian, and Jake Phelps.
After two years of tours, road trips, great times and intense skateboarding DC Europe is proud to announce the first ever DC Europe full length video. Here is a small trailer of what's coming.
DC introduces Mike Mo Capaldi and Nyjah Huston to the DC skate team with a brand new campaign for 2012, Rediscover DC. For the first time in nearly a decade, this video presents the entire DC skate team together including newest skaters Mike Mo and Nyjah.
DC has a quick trailer up for their Rediscover video. Expect the full unveiling in January 2012.


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South Paris Library drawing, ca. 1925
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Landscape drawing for the South Paris Library in South Paris, created by the John Calvin Stevens architectural firm in Portland.
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- Title: South Paris Library drawing, ca. 1925
- Creator: Stevens, John Calvin
- Creation Date: circa 1925
- Subject Date: circa 1925
- Town: South Paris
- County: Oxford
- State: ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: 2-C-2, JCS0084-1-1925; Coll. 209
- Collection: John Calvin Stevens
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Australia's floods threaten Great Barrier ReefEmily Kirkland, mongabay.com
January 18, 2011
The floods ransacking the Queensland coast have cost 31 lives and $30 billion worth of property damage. Now, huge volumes of water are pouring into the ocean, threatening the Great Barrier Reef, which extends for thousands of kilometers off the coast. Although it may take years to know the full consequences of the flooding, Australian scientists are already warning of serious damage. For now, the biggest problems are concentrated on the southern part of the reef, where three overflowing rivers—the Burdekin, the Fitzroy, and the Burnett—have released millions of gallons of heavily polluted water into the sea. So far, prevailing winds have confined the majority of the floodwaters to within 65 kilometers of shore. But in time, the damage may grow to affect the entire reef system.
|Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
The floods are yet another piece of bad news for the already vulnerable reef, which was damaged by a different set floods that occurred in 2008-2009, and which is already threatened by coastal development, climate change and ocean acidification.
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Some twelve million EPF members are in for a windfall as the huge profit stream from Plus will directly boost yearly interest payout to exceed the current average of five percent, though earlier MMC Corp and Asas Serba proposals to buyout Plus are rejected.
The government has given the nod for the Employees Provided Fund to acquire Malaysia's largest tolled highway operator, Plus Expressways Bhd, putting an end to the attempts of two private companies to take over the Khazanah-owned entity.
EPF's late-entry acquisition pips the proposals made separately by Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary's MMC Corporation Bhd and Tan Sri Halim Saad's Asas Serba Sdn Bhd to buyout Plus through Khazanah Nasional Bhd, which directly owns 16.74% of Plus and has an indirect stake of 38.51% via UEM Group.
Raising the roughly RM11 to RM12 billion to pay for the 55% of Plus shares now in Khazanah's hands is considered as "loose change" as EPF has RM402 billion in total asset allocation as at March this year and would not require the pension fund to resort to the debt market.
The shifting of a large chunk of a government controlled asset from one institution to another, is seen as the end of strategic assets being placed in the hands of individuals and ushering a new era of compliance on public accountability.
At a stroke, some 12.7 million EPF members will enjoy a windfall, as analysts compute the added cash flow from Plus to EPF will see its members gaining an extra one or two percent in annual interest payout from the present average of 5 percent.
In recent weeks there has been an unprecedented surge in the share price of Plus, touching its all-time high recently of RM4.32 on September 1 from its 52 week low of RM3.20.
Commenting on the government's move to shift a strategic asset from one institution to another as it matures, in this case transferring Plus from Khazanah to EPF, a senior local banker said, "It really is a way of sharing corporate profits directly with the public so people can gain from well run business operations within the government stable."
A stock analyst familiar with the deal adds that the government has taken a lot of brickbats in the past for awarding contracts to individuals and this move marks the end of an era of placing strategic assets in the hands of individuals.
"Almost all the past corporate debacles stemmed from individuals being trusted to manage national assets or assets of strategic importance. However, a mix of over-gearing and perhaps, over-ambition, led to their eventual failure which saw the government being forced to bail them out.
"In fact, Plus was once under the Renong Group and Khazanah was asked to take it over, rehabilitate the company and put in place a strict code of corporate governance.
Plus today is a really top-notch operation that is rated one of the world's top five tolled highway operators.
"From Putrajaya's viewpoint, it makes sense to transfer Plus to another state institution that pays out dividends directly to millions of Malaysians. We have to see this as a signal from the present administration that they are using a fresh approach to pass on profits generated by state-controlled companies to the man-in-the-street.
At the same time, the old practice of awarding large-scale state assets to individuals has come to an end," he said.
The Plus purchase caps an acquisition spree by EPF which saw it take control of property developer MRCB and bank holding company RHB Capital, as a means of controlling large-scale profit generators to pay out a steady dividend pipeline to its members.


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analysisBy Ranjeni Munusamy
It is always unsettling to the middle classes to be confronted with images that show the naked truth about the indignity of poverty. Statistics and relayed news from a world far removed from us is the preferred manner of dealing with the poverty crisis. Having it displayed starkly on the front pages of newspapers is another matter altogether. It penetrates our comfort zones and makes us squirm.
The image of a woman standing on a roadside bare bottomed with her pants around her knees is a shock to the system. But how else would we know that this woman, Nomathemba Hlongwane, a South African like us, is subjected to inexcusable indignity? It seems to take desperate measures to make those in power pay attention.
Had the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) not embarked on the strike in the platinum sector, which ground operations at three giant mining companies Lonmin, Impala Platinum and Anglo American Platinum to a halt, would South African society have paid any heed to the meagre wages and appalling living conditions of mineworkers? Even with the strike having stretched for close to six months, leaving workers and their families without an income...


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Last month was the 50th anniversary of "the pill." In the 1960's the pill was heralded as a development that would liberate women from male dominance and lead to fewer divorces, fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer abortions. It is now clear, however, that things did not turn out that way.
As the pill became more widespread, the number of divorces and abortions soared. We saw a lowering of moral standards and a rise in infidelity and promiscuity. In addition, the well-being of children declined by a variety of measures, from depression to diet to the number living in poverty and the number experiencing child abuse or neglect.


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On another note, that KDE4 is slow, but other desktop environments perform well, is that not a clue that maybe it is Qt and KDE, not the drivers?
Might be that other DEs do not use advanced graphics, and these advanced operations are poorly implemented by the driver.
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As far as features go:
1) NVIDIA control panel makes it a breeze to rotate the screen, change resolutions, setup multiple monitors, etc. In fact, I have found it much easier than Windows 7 interface.
The thing about xrandr is that it can be setup mostly *automatically*.
I have a very simple setup: a laptop that is used either at work with an external display, or at home with just the internal display. At work, the external display should be the primary. At home, the laptop display needs to be the primary of course, as there is no other display.
I use suspend to disk/ram when moving between home and office, and keep all my applications (Lotus Notes, Eclipse, lots of browsers, editors, terminal window, ...) open all the time, because it would take a lot of time to restore all that.
When moving from home to office, KDE4 detects the new external display and allows to automatically enable it and make it the primary screen. When moving back home, the external display is no longer available, so the primary screen is switched back to the internal display. The panel and all windows are immediately visible on the laptop display.
Sounds pretty normal to me, but that *only works* with my old ATI Radeon Mobility card.
Now what happes with my NViDIA card? The dual monitor is set up to one big non-xrandr screen. I *have* to run nvidia-settings in order to enable/disable the screens. I have to manually use nvidia-settings in order to change the primary screen. As this is just one big screen, the desktop environment does not get notified about the change, and as such, the panel and all other windows will stay on the unavailable screen. In other words, my DE shows a blank screen without a panel; all applications are still running, but invisible.
So: please, please add xrandr support!
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