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Letter: Praise inevitable for START-UP
Published 10:55 pm, Thursday, July 4, 2013
Casey Seiler's article on the new START-UP NY law ("Company jumps START-UP gun," June 25) underscored the unbridled enthusiasm some entrepreneurs have about reinvesting in the tax-free zones near public colleges and select related sites. This is remnant of the ardor that Gov. De Witt Clinton and the canal commissioners had in the early 19th century, despite harsh skepticism of "Clinton's Folly'' in the popular press of the day. The Erie Canal made New York the Empire State.
When START-UP NY revives upstate communities from Albany to Buffalo, including depressed Utica and Rome, a decade from now, both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature will reap praise.
The writer is curator of the Lewis Henry Morgan Institute, SUNY-IT.

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Unemployment remained at 6.7 percent of the workforce in the Capital Region in October, unchanged from year-earlier levels. This was despite a gain of 2,800 jobs in the private sector over the past year, according to figures from the state Department of Labor.
While the private sector was growing, government continued to contract, shedding 4,700 jobs over the past year. State government employment fell by 3,700 jobs.
The picture is expected to get worse, with hundreds of additional layoffs planned by state government before the end of the calendar year.
The 6.7 percent unemployment rate is a 10-year high for the Capital Region.
In the metropolitan area, unemployment was highest in Schoharie County, at 7.6 percent, followed by Schenectady County at 7.1 percent, Rensselaer County at 6.9 percent, and Albany County at 6.6 percent. Saratoga County's 6.1 percent was the lowest in the five-county metro.
Among the region's so-called job super-sectors, only government and the trade, transportation and utilities category, which includes retailers, showed declines over the year. All other sectors grew, with professional and business services showing the biggest gain, adding 2,500 jobs. That category includes science and technology jobs.


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|Charlie Hunter / Leon Parker - Duo
|Music Disc Reviews Audio CD
|Written by Brian Kahn
|Tuesday, 23 March 1999
| Performance 8 | Sound 8 |
Hunter and Parker have teamed up to produce a truly enjoyable jazz instrumental album. The album opens with an entrancing, powerful cut "Mean Streak." This latin influenced piece draws you in with a powerful beat that will get you moving to the beat. The rest of the album mixes a variety of tempos from slow and mellow to upbeat and powerful.
Hunter demonstrates his mastery of the eight string guitar throughout the album, any of the tracks will astonish you with his skill with this unique instrument. Parker does not disappoint either, it is great skills as a percussionist that keeps the beat alive, both in your ears and in your soul. With these two masters together you have a gripping and involving duo. From the slow paced "Don't talk" to the upbeat "The Spin Seekers" the jazz lover will find himself enjoying every minute. The album ends with a island inspired upbeat piece, "Calypso For Grandpa."
The sonics are well above average on this album. Great care has gone into the recording and it shows. The timbre of the instruments is full and natural. The soundstaging, imaging, the "air" around the instruments are all there and should keep most audiophiles happy.


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I don't know if this "devil made me do it" excuse is becoming a real trend or just an interesting spin for media coverage. I think perhaps both. I feel a bit bad posting this story but the devil and worshipping NASCAR, I couldn't pass it by without showing it to someone.
Hawkins Co. woman blames devil after allegedly stabbing husband.
A Hawkins County woman was arrested Sunday after allegedly crashing her car into a church and stabbing her husband with a kitchen knife, saying the devil told her to do it.
The victim, Steven Hamman, said his wife Stephanie Hamman had left their apartment and wrecked her vehicle at Providence Church, across the street.
Mr. Hamman said he went to check on his wife and discovered she drove the car through the front doors of the church. He said his wife was lying in front of the altar. As he checked on her, he said she stated, "The devil is in me," and stabbed him on the right side of the chest with a large kitchen knife.
She obviously had SERIOUS issues. Her sense of religiosity played a part, noting that God spoke to her as well as the devil, when those compelling voices could be a sign of schizophrenia instead.
She told officers she had decided to live for God and had been baptized at the church earlier that morning, but Pastor Joel Trigg said she was not baptized there.
She also told police that God had commented to her about smoking marijuana. But she also felt her husband was worshipping the NASCAR race at Bristol. (Haven't many women felt that way about their husband's obsessive sports addictions.)
God told her to go into the church but the doors were locked, so she drove the car through the doors. Ouch.
When arrested, she didn't know if her husband was dead or not; she asked police. She admitted to smoking a lot of pot.
There is no mention of her mental health issues.
What happened here? We don't know from a media report but what are we to think about this? Will people believe she is possessed? What affect did the drugs have? If she were a nun and claimed God spoke to her, would we think differently? Did her religious talk mask mental health trouble?
One of the main uses of gods and demons are to be scapegoats for bad behavior. She's a really troubled soul.
I blame NASCAR. Jesus, take the wheel!


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AU Press Releases
Princeton Review: AU's among Best in Business
"We recommend the Alfred University College of Business to readers of our book and users of our website, www.PrincetonReview.com, as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn a Master of Business Administration degree," said Robert Franek, senior vice president and publisher. "We chose the 294 business schools in this book based on our high opinion of their academic programs and offerings, as well as our review of institutional data we collect from the schools. We also strongly consider the candid opinions of students attending the schools who rate and report on their campus experiences in our survey for the book."
"Once again, we are pleased to be included in The Princeton Review's guide to the best business schools," said Nancy Evangelista, associate provost and acting dean of the College of Business. "It is one thing for us to tell prospective students how good we think our program is, but it's even better when affirmation comes from an outside source that impartially looks at hundreds of programs across the country."
Both the graduate and undergraduate programs at Alfred University's College of Business are accredited by the AACSB, a distinction only a small percentage of business programs in the world achieve.
"If you are looking for an 'intimate environment' for your MBA experience, Alfred University is well worth a look," according to The Princeton Review.
One student told reviewers, "The greatest strength of Alfred University is its size." Classes are small, and "the interaction is incredible." Professors, students said, "Work hard to make sure you understand what they are teaching, but they also expect you to do your share of the work." Students also appreciate the diversity of the faculty, who "have a lot of experience in the business world."
Another strength of Alfred University's MBA program is its 100 percent placement rate for graduates.
"The Best 294 Business Schools: 2012 Edition" features two-page profiles of each school, focusing on academics, student life, and admissions, plus ratings for academics, selectivity, and career placement services.
For more about Alfred University's College of Business: http://business.alfred.ed...


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Driver in Ryan Franklin Tragedy Describes What it's Like to Be the Person Who Takes a Life
It is a tragedy to lose a family member for any reason. But, what about the driver who is responsible for taking a life in a distracted driving tragedy? This is the story of one Magic Valley woman who knows all too well the pain of being that person.


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Want to watch the Derby from space? That 9 million pixel board could make you want to try.
The Kentucky Derby is a spectacle. There are fancy hats and fancy drinks and fancy celebrities. There are big bets and there is big buzz. And amid the revelry — and the 150,000 people — one important element is sometimes lost in the shuffle.
"One of the complaints people would always make," Churchill Downs President Kevin Flanery said, "was that they went to the Derby and never saw a horse."
For the thousands of fans in the infield or in other awkward viewing spots, that has been a fundamental frustration. But it will not be an issue anymore.
For the opening of the spring meet Saturday, a week before the Derby, Churchill Downs will officially turn on its $12 million, 4K ultra-high-definition video board — the first of its kind in the world.
They're calling it "The Big Board," and it is an apt moniker. The screen, positioned on the backstretch, is so large that it has cut a spot on the edge of the city's skyline, visible from several downtown buildings. Fans in all corners of Churchill Downs will now have an up-close view as the action unfolds — as will people in nearby homes.
Trainer Bob Baffert usually watches the Derby from the paddock, but this year he plans to buy a box now that there will be such a crystal-clear vista.
"The board is awesome," he said. "I saw that board and thought, 'I can finally watch the race on the front now.'"
Added trainer Todd Pletcher: "It's pretty impressive to look at. It's not quite what Jerry Jones has, but."
Pletcher was referring to the Dallas Cowboys' owner and his absurdly large video screen at AT&T Stadium. (College basketball fans might also remember it from this season's Final Four.) But the Big Board is actually about 30 percent larger than Jones' board, proving that not everything is actually bigger in Texas.
The screen at Churchill Downs is 170 feet wide and 90 feet tall. It sits 80 feet above the ground, putting it 50 feet higher than the grandstand's famed Twin Spires. According to the manufacturer, Panasonic, the board will have 2,160 vertical lines and more than 4,000 horizontal lines of resolution for a total of more than 9 million pixels.
And if that is all Greek to you, Panasonic public relations spokesman Alejandro Verduzco put it more simply:
"This is the biggest 4K display board in the world," he said. "There's really nothing that even comes close to this thing."
The Big Board will become a storytelling mechanism, showing everything from betting trends to candid jockey interviews to tutorials on how to make the perfect mint julep.
All eyes will be on it during the Derby, but its glow will linger beyond next weekend. In addition to use during meets, the Churchill Downs brass is discussing out-of-season options. There have been preliminary talks about movie screenings, concerts, football watch parties and even video game tournaments.
"It's going to be like a free in-flight movie for people who are landing at the airport," said Darren Rogers, senior director of communications at Churchill Downs. "I can't wait to hook a PlayStation up to it."
To complement the dazzling visual display, 750 new speakers have been installed throughout the track, including in the infield. Also, 2,400 grandstand seats have been added near a refurbished terrace area.
Still, the board is the attraction that everyone is talking about and gawking at.
Hall of fame jockey Calvin Borel said the screen's position high above the track will keep it from being a distraction to horses. Some have suggested that jockeys could use the board to monitor oncoming challengers. Borel dismissed that notion, saying jockeys will keep their eyes trained on the track, but that doesn't mean he's not as intrigued as everyone else.
"It's nice. It's real nice," he said. "It's beautiful. I can't wait until they turn her on."


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Are the dittoheads taking over The Straight Dope too? Cecil makes a factual error
In the column Was Bush's great grandfather a Nazi? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030214.html , Cecil not only sounds like a mindless dittohead but gets his facts wrong.
The questioner was right, and Cecil was wrong: The crimes concerned Bush's great grandfather, George Herbert, and grandfather Prescott Bush, not "misdeeds by George W.'s father, George H.W., and his grandfather, Prescott Bush". Cecil is a George off.
Cecil dismisses the rather serious crime of Trading With The Enemy while we were at war with Nazi Germany by evading with "Some of the most distinguished names in American business had investments or subsidiaries in prewar Germany" (empahsis mine) which in no way excuses the Bushes unpatriotic dealings.
Cecil apologizes for them, saying that Prescott only had one share of stock of one of the subsidiaries (without a cite) while sliding over the fact that he was a director of the corporation and was called "Hitler's Angel" by the press at the time. An account here: http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr991216.htm . And here: http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm . And for good measure, here: http://www.rememberjohn.com/Nazis.html .
Further, the Harriman connection is unexplored, but Prescott's connection to the eugenics movement can be found here http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibi...nics/Bush.html , and Harriman's founding of the Eugenics Records Office in London in 1910 can be found here http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap12.html .
One of the ways you can tell a dittohead (or worse, a freeper) is that every comment about the Bushes starts off with a dig at Clinton. In fact, the attempt to uncover the Bushes involvement with the Nazis and the bin Ladens isn't even remotely like the massively financed hatemongering lies about Bill Clinton. The whole first paragraph should have been edited out. But that's another column; lets stick to the facts about the Bush family.
I used to respect Cecil, but instead of aging into the grand master of truth seekers, he's sunk to the level of spin control and rumormongering of Drudge and Rush. Sad.
Can I comment on the irony that the OP considers Cecil a "dittohead (or worse, a freeper)" when one of his own sites (the geocities one) alleges that Prescott Bush was a Nazi for his 1950 involvement with Planned Parenthood?
For we all know that Planned Parenthood is anathema to any good liberal cause.
Re: Are the dittoheads taking over The Straight Dope too? Cecil makes a factual error
trading with the enemy
If you read Charles Higham's book, Trading with the Enemy, you will find out that it was not illegal to trade with the enemy, you just had to get a permit from the treasury department. Amazing, eh? In this book you can find out more amazing facts about how Ford and GM refused to help the American war effort and instead built trucks for Hitler. Andrew Mellon of Alcoa sold his aluminum to the Nazis, so we had to recycle toothpaste tubes! Standard Oil had oil tankers sail from Venezuela (so it technically was not illegal) to the Canary Islands to refuel Nazi U-Boats.
But the one story that is NOT in Higham's book is the story about Prescott Bush's business dealings with Hitler. Thus I questioned the veracity of this story and am glad that Cecil, who is usually a right-wing apologist, vetted the story. Interestingly, Trading with the Enemy was published in 1983, when George Bush Sr. was president (technically he ws VP, but after he tried to assassinate Reagan, the old gipper (I am not president, but I play one on TV!) wasn't really in charge anymore.
So I wonder, did Bush Sr. censor the story somehow? Incidentally, Higham came across his info while researching the Nazi loyalties of Errol Flynn. It seems like everybody who was anybody back then was pro-Nazi, including Joe Kennedy, Sr.
I'm sad to see that nobody has mentioned IBM's role with the Holocaust. IBM invented a census punchcard system that the Nazi's used to determine who got exterminated, put to work, etc.
IBM was sued by holocaust survivors for this, but IBM won the case. General Motors was also sued by holocaust survivors for being used as slave labor in GM's Nazi factories. GM denied the claims but settled out of court for $3.3 BILLION. Wow! That's a lot of money for being innocent!
Everything in life is merely relative.
(Sorry, december). You were just a convenient boogeyman. At least december doesn't say things "quite" this rediculous. Most of the time.
Hello samclem,
You are obviously a right-wing apologist too (and don't spell very well). GM was obviously guilty of using slave labor, after all, it is a historical fact. They settled for the paltry sum of $3.3 billion to avoid more bad publicity. As for the cite for Prescott Bush being called Hitler's Angel, don't be so lazy, do your own google search. Here is one cite:
There are dozens more.
Now, do you have anything intelligent to contribute?
I didn't think so.
If I may be so naive as to ask, what's a freeper? I know what a dittohead is.
That said, a Google search wouldn't have helped much in this case. Using "Bush" and "Hitler's Angel" does indeed throw up dozens of pages, but virtually all of these are recycling the same piece of text and others are clearly garbling the story. The first page is the one you chose to cite. In it, the relevant passage is:
Now one would have to see the original article (it doesn't appear to be online) to be sure, but the headline does make far more sense as a reference to Thyssen.
I reiterate, none of this lets Prescott Bush off the hook. But you'll find it far easier to make a case on the SMDB if you get your facts straight.
John Corrado:
While I'm glad you take the time to read the cites (perhaps you could help samclem; see below), I find it ironic that you completely slide by the evidence of the Bushes helping the Nazis while we were at war to comment on a later charge of Prescott Bush being called a Nazi. To have a leading Republican aiding and abetting a dangerous potential enemy of the US back in the 30s and 40s would be as bad as having the current Vice President illegally doing business with Iraq in the 90s and lying about it under oath... there's irony for you, eh?
APB: The question was about Herbert Walker, and Cecil doesn't dig that far, only going back to Poppy Bush and Prescott. There's certainly enough evidence about George Herbert -- some official court records, some commentary at the time (see the cites I made) -- that's not mentioned. It's a common rhetorical trick to answer a serious charge by pooh-poohing a lesser charge. Cecil's reply was lazy at best and disengenous at least.
mystic/akrako: While doing business with Hitler in the 30s may be morally unjustified, Germany was a sovereign nation and it was not illegal to deal with them until we were at war. Then the Bushes were not merely morally repugnant but engaging in criminal acts, for which they were punished.
samclem: Thanks to mystic and bonzer for further elaboration, but if you'd bothered check out the cites I made, you'd have found references to Prescott Bush as Hitler's Angel, possibly more than once as you follow links. Please don't demand cites until you've checked out the ones already there.
AskNott: A "freeper" is someone who posts regularly to freerepublic.com (no, I'm not going to check to see if the url is valid; I just took a shower and don't want to get slime all over me). The slimy, hatemongering, barely literate great unwashed but web-enabled right wingers stroke their egos by tightening their collectived sphincters. Dittoheads are at a KKK rally; freepers are writing the graffiti in the porta-potties of a KKK rally...
DRomm writes:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill...8/vesting.html. UBC had been established long before the war (according to Loftus, it "began trading in 1924"), when trade with Germany was legal. The Trading with the Enemy Act permitted continued operation of the assets under the supervision of the Alien Property Custodian. After the war control of UBC was returned to its owners and the company was liquidated in 1951. Seizure of an asset was not tantamount to a charge of treason, contrary to what some people think today.
Good answer, Cece!
Without seeing the original news articles, it is impossible to know who was originally referred to as Hitler's angel, and the waters certainly have been muddied since then by writers referring to both Thyssen and Prescott Bush as "Hitler's angel." For example, this article independently dubs Prescott Bush "Hitler's angel" without referring to any other source:
I admit that the original cite I gave from the Metareligion website is ambiguous at best as to who the original Hitler's angel was.
We can only conclude, then, that they were both Hitler's angels. After all, a false god surely can have more than one angle in his celestial sphere.
Let's put this to rest. Here are the first three paragraphs of Michael Kranish's story in the April 23, 2001 Boston Globe:
It seems to me that going after Bush by going after something his grandpappy did is a remarkably roundabout technique of political smearing, especially considering that we have serious allegations, and some evidence that Resident Bush:
1) Stole a U.S. Presidential election
2) Is a former cocaine abuser
3) Is (and may still be) an alcohol abuser
4) Was involved in fraudlent financial dealings (Harken)
5) Was AWOL for a prolonged period during wartime
6) Has close ties to the Enron criminals
It seems to me that a much more productive avenue for anyone interested in bringing Bush down would be a thorough examination of these charges, rather than a dubious guilt by association charge. Maybe Granpappy Bush crossed the line in his dealings with the Nazis, maybe he didn't. Any amount of debate on this topic will probably not change a lot of opinions about the current President, because Dubya undoubtedly had precious little ability to control Granpa's business dealings as a child.
Who cares about his granddad, the man himself is a nazi from what I can tell
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I'm just mildly stunned that Cecil works Saturdays. Fighting ignorance is clearly a 24/7 business after all.
more treasonous associations of bush
I agree with Evil Captor and Bibbouk. Quibbling over who was the real Hitler's Angel is distracting us from the really incriminating stuff, like W's ties to Wahhabi terrorists, through his "field marshall," Grover Norquist, and how higher-ups in the FBI suppressed and sabotaged the investigation of terrorists before 9-11. Bush has more ties to Al-Qaeda than Saddam Hussein does, which might explain why he allowed 9-11 to happen, thus tightening the grip of Judeo-Christian-Islamic Fascism on the American people. Check out these links:
Grover Norquist's strange alliance with radical Islam:
The FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit:
Wahhabis in the Old Dominion:
mystic said
And to take this discussion into a criticism of the current president by linking to rather controversial sites is merely taking this away from the original column.
Moderator's Note: I have no idea where that link in bibbouk's post was supposed to go, but as it was, it wasn't going anywhere, and it was making the whole thread look funny, so I killed it.
Gosh, a direct reply from Cecil himself! I'm honored. And he'll "amend" his column due to my comments! Gosh!
Let me address your reponse, Cece: I was a Walker off, but you were a George off. You may conclude that George Herbert Walker, father in law to Prescott Bush, wasn't the Bush progenitor being asked about, but you still should have done more to answer the question about "Bush's great-grandfather". The Loftus book might go on about Poppy Bush, but in he wasn't active in the 30s and 40s and so couldn't have directly supported Nazi Germany, whereas great-grand could have and did. It's a legitimate question, and you didn't answer it.
Not long after WWII, having been to a Communist party meeting as a teen 20 years earlier could have ruined your career. Today, not being sufficiently angry at Saddam Hussein has the far right raising doubts about your patriotism. Actually trading with Hitler while we were in a declared war with him may not be treason in the legal sense, but it's sure morally bankrupt and deserves more of a prominent place in the family history of George W. This is a guy who's running away from his past as fast as he can, where his own birthplace isn't mentioned in his official bio, where he's trying to hide the official papers from the Reagan/Bush administration and his time as Texas governor. You could have shed some light, instead you continued the obfuscation. Not the exemplary job fighting ignorance I've come to expect from you.
In the article you cited (thanks!) from the Federal Registry, http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill...8/vesting.html , the Trading With The Enemies Act is established for "the national interest". It strikes me that breaking this law comes fairly close to the definition of treason in the moral sense. Roland Harriman and Prescott Bush were active supporters of Adolph Hitler; 1 share or 3,991. This may not mean that they supported death camps or wanted Nazis to attack the US, but it does mean that they placed their economic interests above the interests of US national security.
As I mentioned in my original comment, it was morally reprehensible to do business with morally reprehensible governments such as the Nazis in the 30s, but it wasn't illegal to do so until we were at war and the Trading With The Enemies Act was signed six days after Pearl Harbor. After that, it was slimy AND illegal.
George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush's ties to Nazi German go beyond owning one share of an American company doing business with them in times of war. See http://www.clamormagazine.org/featur...feature.3.html for charges ranging from "A portion of the slave labor force in Poland was "managed by Prescott Bush," according to a Dutch intelligence agent. In 1941...." and "Prescott Bush continued with business as usual, aiding the Nazi invasion of Europe and supplying resources for weaponry that would eventually be turned on American solders in combat against Germany." Shades of Dick Cheney's Haliburton doing business with Saddam Hussein!
Cece (and bonzer): Okay, I'll give you that "Hitler's Angel" referred to Thyssen and not Prescott Bush. Still, to have Bush's associate and long-time business partner be labelled such doesn't particularly reflect well on the family. Thyssen and Bush get linked a lot, more than just a nickname as reported in the press. Would you accept "Hitler's Angel's Partner" as a nick for Prescott?
But no, Cece, I won't give you your comparison to the people pointing out the real history of the Bush family with the "rabid EOBs". There is, quite simply, no comparison with the Sciafes and American Spectators who monomaniacally pursued a sitting president for their own political agenda (see David Brock's book, Blinded By the Right) to the people who are legitimately asking questions about subjects long under the media radar. The whole first paragraph was not merely unnecessary, it was wrong.
The real comparison (which would have made a better introductory paragraph, in my rarely humble opinion), would be to address the lack of such questions raised under the Poppy Bush administration. All these cites are a matter of public record and, as you say, more directly involve GHW Bush than GW. As Bob Dole once asked, "Where is the outrage?" Of course, he WAS an EOB...
Good answer, DRomm. There are interesting parallels between corporate treason during WWII and our present administration's incestuous relationship with Saddam. So much so that I wrote this comparison, Is Saddam Another Hitler? (I trust that you will pick up on the subtle satire.)
There are several ways that Hitler and Saddam are alike:
1. Both were put in power, armed, and financed by the Anglo-American
establishment, for the purpose of attacking an enemy of said establishment.
Hitler was armed and financed by the West to attack Russia, Hussein was
armed and financed by the West to attack Iran.
2. Both were given the green light to invade said enemy, Hitler was given
the green light to invade Russia by Neville Chamberlain, Hussein was
given the green light by April Glaspie.
3. After doing the bidding of their masters, the countries of both Hitler and Hussein were destroyed by their masters after they got uppity (the Noriega syndrome).
4. Both Germany and Iraq were rebuilt by Anglo-American corporations,
resulting in great profits for these corporations. The purpose of the
Marshall plan was to ensure that formerly self-sufficient European countries
became consumers of American goods. In the case of Iraq, Cheney's
Halliburton profited from rebuilding Iraq's oil infrastructure.
5. Both Hitler and Hussein killed American troops using weapons and materiel that were manufactured and sold by Western corporations. Hitler would have gotten nowhere without oil from Standard Oil, trucks from Ford, aluminum from Alcoa and bearings from SKF. Iraqi weapons were manufactured and supplied by a web of Western arms manufacturers and dealers.
Hussein's biological weapons came from the American Type Culture Collection. The Iraqis massacred Shiites with American-supplied helicopters and the pilots were trained in Florida.
6. Both Hitler and Hussein were financed by Bushes: Hitler by Prescott Bush
(W's granddaddy) and Hussein by GHW Bush.
7. Both Hitler and Hussein have goofy mustaches.
Some mean people are comparing George Bush to Hitler. I think that is ridiculous. Bush and Hitler are completely different. Hitler was democratically elected. (OK, I stole that from Boondocks).
Trading With the Enemy, Charled Higham.
Saving Private Power, Michael Zezima.
John Macarthur, Second Front.
DRomm, I have always felt that cece has a right-wing bias. I am glad that you concur. Check out those cites I posted about Bush, Norquist, and Wahhabis. If Gore had been president when 9-11 happened, and it came out he had extensive ties to Islamic terrorists, he would have been lynched already. Incidentally, Grover Norquist has a large portrait of Lenin hanging in his living room (according to David Brock in Blinded by the Right). Who are these people....shades of The Manchurian Candidate....communists disguised as fascists.
samclemm...The cites I contributed about W's links to terrorists are a logical extension of the story of his family's ties to fascists. Remember when Bush Sr. got in trouble during his campaign for his ethnic heritage groups that were linked to European fascism? (Russ Bellant, Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party). Now W is in league with Islamic fascists. The stories are not controversial in terms of their factual veracity. They are only controversial in the sense that for some reason we are not allowed to question Herr Bush, the worst criminal ever to squat in the white house. And that by itself is a sure sign that we under the thumb of a fascist government. Certainly I am not the only one who is concerned by this?
Also, samclemm, I have noticed you don't post anything of substance...you just snipe at other people's contributions. Please try to contribute something constructive.
So when YOU do it, it is merely asking legitimate questions, but when THEY do it it is monomaniacally pursuing a sitting president for their own political agenda. Nothing partisan about YOUR stance, nope. I mean, your accusations that Bush knew about 9/11 in advance doesn't reveal a pathological (and confused) political agenda does it?
Not to nitpick, but Cecils last comment is kinda puzzling:
"--but the idea that his German holdings increased in value despite being obliterated by Allied bombs is ridiculous. "
From my reading, I get the impression that our bombing mainly hurt the cities, and industry largely dispersed to the countryside. IIRC German industrial production actually increased thruout the war years, even with the bombing and oil shortages.
It's hard to reconcile "obliterated" with a graph of increasing production....
bonzer: I probably should have said "samclem and others", but in any event, you (plural) were correct and Prescott Bush did not have a supervillian cognomen. Not that any of this removes the stigma of the Bush's financial support for Hitler...
Lemur: You're kidding, I hope. There is, simply, no parallel. Please, do some research on the rabid hatemongering attacks from the right. If you have any shame, you'll blanch.
Errata: I probably should have said that Cecil was "a Bush off" (and not "a George off"). Frankly, I think he made a rather serious mistake and responded about the wrong guy: George Herbert Walker Bush, not the person being asked about: George Herbert Walker. This is not like Cecil. Was the column ghost written by Matt Drudge?
mystic: Interestingly, I just wrote an article where I point out that the parallels between Saddam and Hitler are wrong. Saddam Hussein's closest parallel is Manuel Noriega... but that's another thread.
mystic. You're right. I quite often snipe in columns other than GQ. Of course, you could go back and read the Mad Hatter thread. I did more than snipe.
But when you ramble on by saying
There. Was that more constructive?
samclem: nope, you are still sniping. My comments have everything to do with cecil's column, you just lack the sense of historical continuity.
lemur: I thought it was ridiculous that we impeached Clinton for having sex and lying about it. Why didn't we impeach him for smuggling drugs into the Mena airport and laundering the funds through Whitewater? The answer is simple, because the trail for the CIA drug smuggling led all the way to GHW Bush. As one operative put it, "Whitewater was a rope bridge of democratic wrongdoing over a raging river of Republican crime." I am running a bipartisan truth commission. No rational person can doubt that Bush had foreknowledge of 9-11. We still have to have a commission investigate whether he had complicity or not. He is clearly a traitor regardless of which conclusion we reach, so why do you support a treasonous squatting (not sitting) pResident?
bonzer: Apology for what? Our interpretation differs from yours. So what?
I guess you, like the Busheviks, have no tolerance for dissent.
DRomm: Exactly! Saddam and Noriega are perfect parallels. The point I was making in that comparison is that Hitler was just Noriega/Saddam writ large. Think about it. I am not comparing Saddam to Hitler in the usual sense. It is much more subtle than that, and so far I don't think anybody has got it yet. Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. We need to start our own column, something like "The Real Straight Dope." Of course, cecil would sue us, so we have to have a different name like maybe the curvaceous dope. The real truth, like The Peoples History of the US, but with more dirt thrown in.
When you say
"Hitler was given the green light to invade Russia by Neville Chamberlain"
Neville Chamberlain was DEAD when Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941. You can't seem to get your own lies right, can you?
*rolls his eyes*
I actually tried to discuss this possibility once http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...hreadid=127177
and was berated by the Bush supporters for doing so. Perhaps my inexperience with the folks here justified their rudeness. I felt like they just didn't want to even consider the possibility of their beloved President's family having such a corrupt history.
It's been several months since I started the thread, but in retrospect maybe they should have dug a little deeper into the Bush family closet.
I wonder if they're in love with him now?
As far as Cecil's mistake goes...well, there's a lot of room for error when it comes to reliable and accurate sources regarding the Bush dynasty. I think we can understand how someone might have a hard time getting the Straightdope on that bunch.
grg88 writes:
DRomm writes:
We are in agreement that the hysterical right-wing attacks against Clinton and his family were odious. Where we disagree is over your belief that what you are doing with respect to Bush and his family is somehow different.
RobbieFal: Chamberlain gave Hitler the green light to invade Russia in 1938, when he was still alive and kicking. This analysis is from Pat Buchanan:
"For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have disparaged British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
He was the man with the umbrella who sought to appease Adolf Hitler by trading a chunk of Czechoslovakia for what Chamberlain called "peace in our time." Even the location of the talks -- Munich -- is a modern epithet for cowardice and betrayal.
But with conservative presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan now insisting that the Western powers were wrong when they belatedly tried to stop Hitler in Poland, Chamberlain's appeasement strategy might deserve another look.
According to Buchanan's analysis, Hitlers imperial ambitions were to the East, not to the West, giving Chamberlain no reason to obstruct Nazi land grabs. After Hitlers conquests and extermination campaigns, Buchanan says, the West could have decided whether or not to intervene.
If the revealed horrors of Nazism in the East mandated a war, the Allies could have chosen the time and the place to strike, Buchanan writes in his new book, A Republic, Not an Empire."
Try to do some research before you call somebody a liar.
waitaminnit....Chamberlain the man with the umbrella...was he the one at Dealey plaza? jus kidding...
t-keela: don't let the freepers get you down!
"Chamberlain gave Hitler the green light to invade Russia in 1938"
and your source is Pat "We shouldn't have gone to war with Hitler" Buchanan.
Really reliable source there.
I bet you believe that Ambassador Glaspie told Saddam to invade all of Kuwait also.
Ladies and gentlemen and the rest of you:
Can we agree that it is possible to investigate the deeds and misdeeds of a President's family without the need to descend to malicious, childish name-calling (on the one side) or blind, servile loyalty (on the other side)? The man is a human being, and his family is all made up of human beings. They are neither perfect nor satanic.
To the anti-Bush faction: You can be critical of their actions without thinking that they are evil incarnate, on a par with Hitler or Stalin or bin-Laden.
To the pro-Bush faction: You can be supportive of them politically without thinking that they are holy or divine or perfect and completely without flaw.
Now, can we limit the discussion here to the specific accusations and evidence, please? If you want to call the family by nasty names, or if you want to pledge your blind loyalty, do it in another forum. We're lucky enough to be getting Cecil to respond to specifics, let's not chase him off with rants or irrelevancies (on either side), eh?
At any rate, a chunk of Czechoslovakia is not the same thing as Russia. And it's only Buchanan's interpretation that agreeing to give him a chunk of Czhechoslovakia was a 'wink-wink-nudge-nudge' go-ahead for Hitler to invade whatever he wanted to the east.
Indeed, it's illogical - why would a man come home proclaiming 'peace in our time' when he's just OK'd Hitler's invasion of Russia? I sure wouldn't wanna ride into a re-election with a quote like that hanging around my neck, when I've told Hitler to keep on keepin' on.
Ah, I found it - by putting a part of the quote in google:
You should give Robert Parry credit if you're going to quote him.
April Glaspie did not tell Saddam to invade all of Kuwait. It clearly was a set-up though.
Excerpts from an article by David Figrut titled: Operation Desert Storm: Outright Disinformation Scheme
This is what April Glaspie told Saddam before he invaded Kuwait:
"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."
On July 31st, two days before the Iraqi invasion, John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs, testified to Congress that the
"United States has no commitment to defend Kuwait and the U.S. has no intention of defending Kuwait if it is attacked by Iraq."
When confronted with details fo the transcript after the invasion, this is what April Glaspie said,
"Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait."
She did not specify exactly what percentage of annexation they anticipated.
Iraq's annexation of Kuwait was no different than the US annexation of Texas.
(The message board hiccups when I try to use the quote button, so forgive the formatting.)
DRomm writes:
"... whereas great-grand could have and did. It's a legitimate question, and you didn't answer it."
Cecil Adams replies:
"Don't hassle me about this. Prescott Bush is the subject of interest. The accusations against Walker by comparison are penny ante."
Geeze, Cece, the QUESTION was, and I quote from the amended column head still at http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030214.html : "Was President Bush's great-grandfather a Nazi?" That's George Herbert Walker, not Prescott, not GHWBush, not W.
And the "accusations against Walker" ARE pretty serious. Quote from http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm : "Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler's infant Nazi party. As mentioned in earlier chapters, there were American contributors as well." Indeed, it would make a fine column if you were to get The Straight Dope on many of Hitler's supporters between the wars. This transcends party affiliation, though tends to concentrate in the isolationist Republicans like Harriman.
See also http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm . Google is such a wonderful thing...
Cecil writes: "We are in agreement that the hysterical right-wing attacks against Clinton and his family were odious. Where we disagree is over your belief that what you are doing with respect to Bush and his family is somehow different."
Hang on a second. I haven't said anything about how this affects George W's morals or fitness for office, or his daughters or anyone living. I think he's been a terrible president, but not because his great-grand- and grand-dad helped finance Hitler. I'm not "doing" anything to W here (and have defended GHWB, who fought for the US in the Pacific Theater in WWII), just quoted the record from sixty years ago. W is notoriously reticent to talk about his past or that of his family, and we can see why. Perhaps he thinks that the sins of the great-grandfather pass through to the great -grandson. I dunno. This doesn't, in and of itself, prove anything about the current Bush, and claiming that finding The Straight Dope about the Trading With The Enemies Act is somehow equivalent to The Arkansas Project only serves to obfuscate matters.
The "everybody does it" defense simply doesn't wash. The Straight Dope is that George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush were linked to the Nazis, even while we were at war, and for long before that.
I've been an admirer of your columns for a long time, Cecil, and own several of your books and even quote you on my radio show now and again, but I think you blew this one.
Gah--forgot which forum/thread this was in. Apologies for continuing a hijack.
You are aware that Iraq and Kuwait were undergoing a border dispute before the invasion, right? And the dispute was very important, since underneath that worthless desert was a whole lake of oil. Move the boundary a few miles one way or the other, and one country or the other would have millions and millions of dollars in oil reserves.
April Glaspie's comment was refering to that border dispute. The US, in fact, had no opinion about where the boundary should lie. She was NOT saying that the US wouldn't care if Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait.
And citing Pat Buchanan as a historical reference is kind of...kind of...well, let's just say it is kind of sad.
Can we please keep this thread on topic? Comments about Iraq, Kuwait, W.C. Fields, and Czechoslovakia are not on topic.
Dear Administrator:
Please delineate the boundaries and future direction of this topic. Can the topic evolve, or does it have to stay within the strict confines of the original column. If the latter, then this topic is dead. DRomm and I have clearly established that the Bush crime family has for 3 or 4 generations armed, financed, and supported dictators such as Hitler, Noriega, and Hussein, and then attacked them using tax payer money, at great profit to the Bush criminal organization. What else is there to talk about?
Please advise.
Lemur: I am kinda puzzled. The freepers on this list clearly defend the Bush crime family despite their Nazi links, yet you despise Pat Buchanan for his apparent Nazi sympathies. Tell me, are there good Nazis and bad Nazis? Perhaps Buchanan is a good Nazi, after all, thousands of Jews in Florida voted for him.
Please advise.
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For some reason, lots of people from the search engine optimization industry have always associated link building with the country India. According to Google, all these people are right…
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For some reason, lots of people from the search engine optimization industry have always associated link building with the country India. According to Google, all these people are right…
I've also experienced that "quality" and Indian link building just won't match.
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Like Rebecca says, link builders from India typically work for wages that are *much* lower than those charged by their colleagues in Western Europe and the U.S., so there is *very* little incentive for them to do serious research and provide top quality work…
In addition, they may well use automated tools that keep pushing (spammy) links with identical descriptions to the same set of spammy directories (etc.) over and again, thereby further reducing the remaining value (if any) of those directories.
IMO, things *really* tend to go amiss when they do link building for sites in (non-Indian) languages other than English.
Still, it is hard to explain to potential customers that they should expect to pay up to several hundred euro for a single link, when our Indian friends offer "packages" of a few hundred links for a dozen bucks… :-O


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Make sure you don't leave any room of the house un-beautified, that you don't leave any of those pieces of furniture and decoration objects unscanned by your well trained eye as an interior designer! Start this lovelyhouse decoration gameby turning the living room into a modern, cozy place top hang out in, picking a stylish sofa, paying great attention to the selection of the TV and decorating the walls with nice, lovely painting. Too. Speaking of walls, exercise your talent as a fine artist, too, and have them painted in your top favorite color! Next room that will receive your beautifying "treatment"? How about Barbie's bedroom? A nice, comfy bed, covered in some pretty bed sheets, a chic bed lamp are just a few of the items you could pick for styling up your doll's bedroom and help her take her beauty naps in great style. See what you can do with her kitchen and her bathroom, too, scroll down the tool bar you have there, in the doll house decoration game, on the left side of the screen, select the chicest times from the ones you have in this lovely room decoration game and come up with the most original combinations to give them the looks that would leave Barbie mouth-opened when she comes back from her vacation.
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Prior to Pilotwings Resort, Monster Games never made a game for one of Nintendo's portables. Now the studio may be sticking with the 3DS for its next project.
One staffer from Nintendo's QA department lists "Nintendo 3DS Software Testing directly with developers (Monster Games)" on his LinkedIn profile. That seems to suggest that Monster's next project is indeed for the 3DS.
We're having a bit of a tough time tracking down the profile for this one, so take this update with a grain of salt for now. Nintendo has yet to unveil Monster Games' new game in any case.


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from Lance Hornby of the Toronto Sun,
After practice at the MasterCard Centre. Kessel took the unusual step of sitting in full equipment waiting for reporters at his stall to talk about his woes. Separation from his good pal Bozak is clearly gnawing at him.
"Maybe it's just not working out here I guess, I can't get anything going," Kessel said. "Maybe it's time for a change or something. I'm not sure if that (putting him with Boyce) is it. Who knows? I'm trying."
When asked if he and Wilson have discussed the skid off the ice, Kessel replied "me and Ron don't really talk…that's all I have to say about that."
Wilson replied that Kessel is not one to share many thoughts on scoring.
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Wilson replied that Kessel is not one to share many thoughts on scoring.
Pretty sure that's not what Kessel was saying…
And seeing video of those words coming out of my mouth makes it look like Kessel wants out of Toronto…
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The second annual Trailer Fest Film Festival celebrates the art of the fake film trailer.
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- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 2 cups Mom's Meatloaf Starter (available at Sweet Gourmet)
- USA Pans Meatloaf Pan (available at Sweet Gourmet)
In a large bowl, combine the beef and pork. Crack the egg into a measuring cup and stir in the panko breadcrumbs. Pour into the meat along with 1 1/2 cups of the meatloaf sauce. Using your hands, gently work the sauce throughout the meat. Form the meat into a large ball and press into the meatloaf pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Use an instant meat thermometer to make sure the internal temperature of the meat has reached 165 degrees. Once the meat has reached 155 degrees, baste the top of the meatloaf with the remaining 1/2 cup of meatloaf sauce.
When meatloaf has reached desired temperature, remove from the oven and let cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Lift the meatloaf out of the pan and use a spatula to slide the meatloaf onto a serving plate. Discard fat from the bottom of the meatloaf pan.


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Most mornings, I wake up and make a smoothie for my kids. It sounds like a simple and quick breakfast, but in my house, nothing is that simple. My kids don't consider a smoothie to be a meal. Once I hand them their smoothies, they ask me what else I'm making.
The smoothie, in their minds, is just a drink—an accompaniment to their meal, and not a meal on its own. So, each morning, I make smoothies along with scrambled eggs or pancakes or something else that they consider to be a real meal.
BUT, if I placed all of the smoothie ingredients onto the table and announced that breakfast was served, I bet that my kids would laugh in disbelief at the quantity of food before them. Look at the ingredients in this morning's smoothie: nut milk, blueberries, a whole banana, a whole peach, and a quarter cup of strawberry yogurt. They would say that they couldn't eat all of that food in one sitting. It doesn't cross their minds that they DO eat all of that food in one sitting (in addition to the "real" meal that I've prepared).
This got me thinking…
How many adults go through the motions of either buying a smoothie or blending one at home each day without any appreciation for the significant quantity of food that they are consuming? Perhaps some adults realize it. My husband happens to be one of those people, which is why you'll never see him eating plates of fruit and yogurt and milk. He's not a big breakfast eater, and the thought of eating plates of food first thing in the morning is just too much for him. A smoothie, which hides all of the bulky volume of fruit, is a perfect solution for someone like him, who would otherwise not eat breakfast at all. He knows he's getting all of the benefits of fruits, vegetables, nut butters, etc., without actually having to sit down and eat all of that food with utensils.
I happen to be on the other end of the spectrum. If I choose to drink a smoothie for breakfast, I am looking for snacks within an hour, even if I'm not actually hungry. I am like my children, and my brain interprets the smoothie as a drink, not a meal. I would much rather see an abundant breakfast in front of me—a breakfast that I can chew and savor, rather than gulp down. I don't care about the convenience of having a smoothie in a cup that can travel from the home to the car. I'd much rather sit down with multiple plates and bowls of food to taste. Eating the individual ingredients of the smoothie would be a much more satisfying experience than drinking the blended version of those same ingredients.
If you are working towards healthier eating habits, it's SO important to understand your thought processes surrounding food so that you can tailor your meals and snacks to complement your tendencies.
Eating mindfully is key.
If you are wondering whether smoothies are a good breakfast option, ask yourself these questions:
-Am I a volume eater? Do I like having lots of food in front of me?
-Do I need various textures of food to feel satisfied?
-Can I be satisfied with a liquid meal?
-Am I better off eating the unblended ingredients of a smoothie in whole form? Do I prefer liquid meals? If so, why? Does convenience and portability have anything to do with my preference for smoothies?
If you answer each of these questions and really consider how and why you think the way you do, you can begin to understand why you eat the way you do. Once you get a handle on why you eat the way you do, you will become more mindful of your food choices and begin to develop healthier eating habits.
In the past, I've touched upon the subject of different eating habits. Not everyone has the same approach to eating, and that's okay. Just becoming more mindful of your own approach and your own inclinations can help you figure out how to create healthy habits that will work for you.
I've found that while I do not like drinking my meals, I enjoy smoothie bowls because it makes ne feel like I'm eating, and I know I'm getting all of the nutritious veggies and fruits in that bowl, rather than eat many plates or types of food early in the morning, which does not appeal to me.00votes
I love all of your articles! You bring up a really great point about eating styles and how to be mindful of different volumes of food. What you pointed out – there have actually been many scientific studies about, which basically points to the fact that we are ALL volume eaters.
They've shown that eating off of small plates (which makes the food like like more in comparison) leads us to eat less, and vice versa with large plates. They've done the same thing with drinking glasses.
I'm glad you wrote this article because it's a great reminder for us to slow down and pay attention to how much we have REALLY eaten vs what it just looks like.00votes
This is an interesting thought, many think smoothies are a 'drink" I like to chew a lot & eat mostly raw, my smoothies are far more veg than fruit, although I use some berries & mango so they end up being a bit chewy which I like! Lots of greens, celery, cucs, & spinach/kale/lettuce/arugula, lime & avocado. The less sweetness the better for me especially in the morning, I find it sets me up for a healthier day. I don't have them every day either, too boring!00votes


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The ADMT Migration Steps Document (the one I used most recently)
- Restart the workstation before migrating
- Domain\ADMTadmin must be added to the local administrators group
- All firewalls must be turned off.
- Users must be logged off.
- Ensure that the Password Export Server Service is started on (your domain controller)
- Ensure that the workstation appends domainA.com and domainB.com ( the source domain FQDN and the target domain FQDN) in the TCP/IP "DNS properties"
- Ensure that the source and target user account names match. Otherwise, rename the source (DomainA) account to match the target (DomainB) account
- The following command pings all systems in a list: for /f %i in (c:\computerpinglist.txt) do ping %i -n 2
- The following command restarts all systems in a list: for /f %i in (c:\computerlist.txt) do shutdown /r /t 5 /f /m
When editing more than a few accounts, use ADModify if possible. This will speed things up.
User Migration Using ADMT located on the DomainB domain controller (which I will call DC1 from now on), steps are as follows:
1. Log onto DC1 as ADMTadmin
2. Migrate user account (s) using user account migration wizard
3. Ensure that the target OU is ldap://domainB.com/OU=Users,DC=domainB,DC=com
4. Select the following options:
5. *** Optional Step *** Re-synch groups using the include file: C:\Documents and Settings\admtadmin\Desktop\ADMT Stuff\groups.csv
6. Go into the properties for the migrated user account and disable the change password at next login option.
Computer Migration
1. Migrate computer account (s) using the computer account migration wizard
2. Place the following target OU: LDAP://domainB.com/OU=Computers,DC=domainB,DC=com
3. Ensure that the following options are selected:
4. Click "close"
5. Click Start to begin the migration
Mail Migration Steps
1. Go to domainus.com ADUC and delete the DomainA contact. This will disable forwarding on the users account.
2. log onto mailserver.domainB.com as domainB\domain-admin
3. On mailserver run the Exchange Server Migration Wizard
4. Reference Database chart (see your exchange database layout)
Active Directory Object Modifications
Go to the user account associated with the migrated mailbox and do the following:
1. In DomainB.com, change the display name to the (last name, first name) standard.
2. In the DomainA domain ADUC, Create an SMTP address for "username"@domaina.com on the user account and set it to primary
3. Delete the domainb.com address in the DomainA domain user account
4. In the DoaminA domain, create a new Contact in "Migration Contacts" OU with "domainb.com" address manually or using my contact tool as shown below.
5. In the DomainA domain, Enable forwarding to this new Contact
This is the interface to my utility:
6. In DomainB.com, on the migrated user accounts, custom attribute 15, add some kind of marker so you can sort or search migrated accounts easily as well as create custom address books. It can be something like €œMC€ for Migrated Contact or MU for Migrated User, etc.
7. That's it! You may have other things you need to complete after the migration like Voip phone setup or Smart phone or blackberry migration. Every environment will be different. This has been meant to give you a skeleton you can modify for your own needs.


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Step 1 – Go to the Oklahoma Secretary of State.
Step 2 – Click inside the white box and enter the keywords to lookup the corporation you are trying to find. Make sure to be as exact as possible as the system is going to search all the entities located at the Secretary of State. If your keywords are broad, chances are you will be sifting through hundreds on listings in your results.
You may also use this tool if you are seeking to incorporate and you want to make sure the name you select is not on file.
Step 3 – When reviewing your search results, you will see the corporation's name, filing number, entity type, registered agent, and name type & status. When you have found your selection, click on the blue link in the column of the filing number.
Step 4 – On the corporation information page, you are able to view all the data located with the Secretary of State including: filing number, name type, status, entity type, State of incorporation, date of incorporation, registered agent name, registered agent address, and the option to view and order previously filed documents.
Reserve a Corporate Name
If you are looking to apply to have a entity name be put on hold for you for sixty (60) days then you will want to follow the instructions below:
Step 1 – Download and complete the name application. Or you may file online.
Step 2 – Enclose a check for $10 and mail with the form to:
2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. Room 101, State Capitol, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105-4897.


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Boeing Must Add 787 Line After Union Retaliation, U.S. SaysSusanna Ray
Boeing Co. should be forced to open a Washington state assembly line after violating workers' rights by building a 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina, away from its Seattle-area union labor force, the U.S. government said.
The National Labor Relations Board said in a complaint today that the planemaker was "motivated by a desire to retaliate for past strikes and chill future strike activity" when it decided in 2009 to construct the new factory. The company said it will "vigorously contest" the complaint.
"This is a very critical, precedent-setting situation," said Harley Shaiken, a labor professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "This would have been unusual at any moment, but it's especially unusual with the backdrop where collective bargaining is literally being unwound for public-sector workers in Wisconsin and Ohio."
Boeing's choice of South Carolina marked its first departure from the Puget Sound hub where it has built all its commercial jets. Relations with the Machinists union have been strained by four strikes since 1989, including the most recent, two-month walkout at the end of 2008.
A hearing on the labor board's recommendation, which was issued by its acting general counsel, was scheduled for June 14 before an administrative law judge in Seattle.
Boeing's Response
Boeing said it has the right to build factories outside the Seattle area. The plant in North Charleston is almost done and employs 1,000 workers, who will begin final assembly of their first 787 in July, Chicago-based Boeing said in a statement.
The company's shares gained $1.92, or 2.6 percent, to $75.07 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, extending the gain for 2011 to 15 percent.
Boeing said in October 2009 that the new assembly line would replicate the one in Everett, Washington, making the company more competitive as it tries to recover from a three-year delay to the Dreamliner's entry into service. The jet has been slowed by redesigns, parts shortages and incomplete work by suppliers who struggled with a new manufacturing system.
Politicians, Union
South Carolina politicians condemned the labor board complaint, with Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican, denouncing it as "an absolute assault on a great corporate citizen and on South Carolina's right-to-work status."
The Machinists union, which filed the original complaint in March 2010 that led to today's ruling, hailed the finding.
"This is a huge victory for all American workers," Tom Wroblewski, president of Seattle-based Local 751, said in an interview. "It's about a worker's legal right to be in a union without retaliation. They broke the law."
The NLRB cited statements by company executives and spokesmen that the "overriding" factor in Boeing's decision to open the South Carolina factory was difficulty in reaching contracts with Seattle-area union workers. The move had the effect of "discouraging membership in a labor organization," which federal law forbids, the labor board said.
Washington Plant
Boeing doesn't have to shut the South Carolina plant as long as it opens another one in Washington, according to the remedy outlined by the board. Such a factory should use supply lines maintained by Machinists in the Seattle and Portland, Oregon, areas, according to the complaint.
In negotiations with Boeing as the planemaker considered the South Carolina factory before its 2009 decision, the union said it would extend its four-year contract by eight years, ensuring no strikes through at least 2020, to keep the work.
Boeing said it wouldn't accede to the union's demand that it not communicate with employees if the labor group tried to organize in any non-union plants.
Unlike workers in Washington, those in South Carolina can't be forced to join unions. The state is among the least-unionized, with 6.2 percent of workers covered by collective bargaining in 2010, compared with 21.3 percent in Washington, according to U.S. Census data. The national average is 11.9 percent.
Workers at a parts factory Boeing bought in South Carolina, adjacent to where the new 787 plant is being built, dropped their membership in the Machinists union in 2009.
"The new governor of South Carolina has made it very clear that unions are unwelcome in the state, and the Boeing plant is the centerpiece of a non-union industrial development strategy for South Carolina," said Shaiken, the professor.
Public-sector union employees have been under pressure this year from moves by legislators in Ohio and Wisconsin to restrict collective bargaining by state and municipal workers.
About 36 percent of Boeing's 157,000-person global workforce belongs to unions. The Machinists' contract in the Seattle area expires in September 2012.
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