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EIN News: Party May Be Winding Down for Record Low Home Mortgage Rates
Jun 06, 2013, 08:55 ET from EIN News
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The home mortgage interest rate party isn't over, but signs that the hosts are eyeing the clock are making revelers anxious.
Interest rates for fixed rate 30-year loans are up 14% since May, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac, likely driven by signals from the Federal Reserve that it will taper off its policy of buying up to $85 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds. The Fed's actions are seen as the result of an improving U.S. economy, with the private market growing strong enough to support more of the housing market.
But without government guarantees, lenders will want higher returns, and that has moved interest rates on fixed-rate 30-year mortgages from 3.3% in early May to 3.81%., the current rate. Fifteen year loans have moved to an average 2.98.
Doug Lebda, chief executive of mortgage shopping site LendingTree believes rates will be volatile throughout 2013, moving both up and down, but with the interest rate trajectory definitely upward.
As for record low mortgage rates of recent years, "It's unlikely that rates will ever be that low again," said Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae's chief economist.
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N.Y. Jets Owner Leon Hess was asked after Sunday's loss if he has thought about selling the team. Hess: "Not at all. This is one of the few pleasures I get out of life, win or lose" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 11/21). Last night, the Jets were the butt of a Jay Leno joke. Leno was relating Beatles' songs to events or people of today. After "I'm a loser," a picture of a Jets helmet was flashed ("Tonight," NBC, 11/20)....Molson Cos. Ltd., owners of the Canadiens, the Montreal Forum and Molstar Communications, has replaced Bruce Pope as brewery president, with John Barnett, the brewer's top U.S. exec. The GLOBE & MAIL's Marina Strauss reports, "The shuffle was seen by some industry observers as a possible prelude to a larger shakeup at both the brewer and parent Molson Cos." (GLOBE & MAIL, 11/21)....ESPN reported the agent for Patriots CB Maurice Hurst would file a grievance against the team for releasing his client. Doug Sunseri contends the team should not be allowed to release Hurst because he was injured. He further contends that, at the request of the team, Hurst had been playing the entire season with a bulging disc in his neck ("SportsCenter," 11/21)....While Dodgers Owner Peter O'Malley is willing to build an NFL stadium near Dodger Stadium and Disney would like to do some "venture" with the NFL, John Clayton of the Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE writes, "Los Angeles is nothing like Baltimore and Nashville." Noting the lack of stadium construction in L.A., Clayton writes, "If you don't sell PSLs, you don't get the franchise." Until such a campaign is in place, no team, including the Seahawks, will move there (Tacoma NEWS TRIBUNE, 11/20)....Average attendance for the Blues is down 2,253 from last season (ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH, 11/19)....Tom Enlund writes that the Bucks' payroll is $19.5M this season, significantly below the NBA's $23M salary cap (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 11/18).....For the fourth time since '91, the Braves have announced they will raise ticket prices for next season (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 11/18)....The Panthers will edge the Lightning by just 200 miles as the NHL's most traveled team. Both teams are in the 51,000-mile range. The Panthers' travel budget is about $1M this year (MIAMI HERALD, 11/20)....Last night was the Blazers' first non-sellout since April '77. The team has moved from the 12,800-seat Memorial Coliseum into the 21,300-seat Rose Garden (L.A. TIMES, 11/21).
A committee studying the need for new sports venues in Houston "is not likely to put together a last-ditch effort to keep the Houston Oilers in town," according to group chairman Pete Coneway. This morning's HOUSTON CHRONICLE reports that Coneway said the group, appointed by Houston Mayor Bob Lanier and Harris County Judge Robert Eckels, "is looking at longer-term issues than the Oilers." Coneway, a managing partner at Goldman Sachs: "We were not formed to negotiate with [Oilers Owner] Bud Adams." Meanwhile, the Nashville Metro Council should approve the non-binding contract today (John Williams, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 11/21). ON THE TENNESSEE TRAIL: The WALL STREET JOURNAL's John Helyar examines the Oilers' move, writing, it shows "how differently two cities at different points in their life cycles can value a sports team." Agent Leigh Steinberg says the "deck is stacked against the more mature cities that have long hosted and supported NFL teams." Steinberg: "This process is pitting major urban areas with overwhelming budget constraints against smaller entrepreneurial cities willing to pay fabulous sums for the sake of their economic climate. The net effect of all this is to downsize the NFL." Gaylord Entertainment COO Richard Evans, head of the Nashville Sports Council, is seen along with Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen as driving the city's sports cause. Evans: "We're out to make the NHL and NBA aware that we're dead serious about bringing a sports team to Nashville." In fact, Oilers Exec VP Mike McClure said it was Nashville's wooing of the Devils that "caught [his] eye" in seeking a new home for the Oilers. Vanderbilt Law's John Costonis: "Nashville can't be Atlanta, but it would sure like to be on par with Charlotte" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/21).
Lawyers for the city of Cleveland argued yesterday that the Browns are "legally obligated to remain in town through 1998," according to this morning's Baltimore SUN. In opening statements before Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kenneth Callahan, the city displayed "poster-size blowups" of the team's Cleveland Stadium lease. But Browns attorney Dennis Kelly argued the lease was with the Art Modell-owned Cleveland Stadium Corp., not the city. The SUN's Jon Morgan notes the case "could delay but not stop the Browns' intended move" (Baltimore SUN, 11/21). Robert Weber, another attorney representing the Browns, said even if the team is forced to play in Cleveland, they will leave. Weber: "What's done is done" (USA TODAY, 11/21). The judge extended his order barring the Browns from leaving until the end of the hearing (WASHINGTON POST, 11/21). BALTIMORE'S CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM: "Thousands" of fans of the CFL Champion Stallions gathered at Baltimore's Inner Harbor yesterday to greet the team. Stallions Owner Jim Speros was cheered when he said, "We're Baltimore's team, and we want to be Baltimore's team" (Drake Whitam, Baltimore SUN, 11/21). But a SUN editorial previewing today's meeting between Speros and MD Gov. Parris Glendening, refers to the "gypsy-like" CFL. The SUN states: "The CFL Stallions represented Baltimore well, but given the business realities of professional sports these days, it may be time to seek greener pastures" (Baltimore SUN, 11/21).


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|Midnite Mixtape Massacre: Gaz E's Heartbreak Mixtape
|Written by Gaz E
|Sunday, 10 February 2013 02:30
Yes, unless you're in a relationship with/being lusted after by one of the saps who buy into this cheesy shit there's every chance that you'll spend Valentine's Day alone and, very likely, harbouring some brooding thoughts about love gone bad, or love that never came at all. It doesn't have to be this way, but it's human nature, we've all been there....or somewhere close. So, as you stand looking into the relationship abyss this coming week, dark thoughts crossing your troubled mind, you'll need a soundtrack.
Good Lord, what a coincidence that I have rustled up one of Uber Rock's fabled mixtapes and selected the ultimate 13 track Heartbreak Mixtape. There's something here for every one of your troubles: dumped, wanting out of a relationship, lusting after someone from afar, feeling sentimental for a lost love after a vino and power ballad too many - they're all here. Try to hold it together. Other publications will throw clichéd Valentine shite at you from every direction this weekend and in the coming days, looking to make money, not love - not Uber Rock. No, we will simply provide the soundtrack as you break down, punch the air, raise a glass, offer a knowing smile, or maybe even go for broke and go after that person who you've always wanted. Get ready for the shame of drunken texts and statuses come the morning after a rough night of heartbreak history...
"Let's get messed up and listen to probably the best mixtape I have..."
I loved the Marvelous 3, Butch Walker's band before he went solo, and I also loved that first solo record itself, 2002's 'Left Of Self- Centered'. Walker would, almost a decade later, talk of how he regretted making an album essentially for the M3 fans, even vowing to never play the album's lead track, 'My Way', live ever again. Cut to a gig by Amen in Newport, TJs. I'm talking to the band's guitarist Matt Montgomery (aka current Rob Zombie bassist Piggy D) about the show when I mention a photo shoot that Amen did where Matt/Piggy was wearing a Marvelous 3 shirt. Given that Casey Chaos would generally be wearing a shirt saying "Cocks" or similar the M3 shirt stood out a mile. Piggy told me that he'd heard Butch's then-unreleased new solo record and that it would blow me away - he wasn't wrong: 'Letters' is one of my favourite albums of all time and how could I start a mixtape feature without the classic song of the same title? Whether you're looking to get laid or crying about not getting laid, Butch Walker should provide the soundtrack.
2.) 'Don't Feel Bad' - The Havalinas (from the self-titled album)
"She let him go, had a liquidation of the heart..."
Never heard of The Havalinas? Change that immediately. I first heard the band on a British TV show (not sure which, could have been No Limits) and picked their 1990 self-titled album up for £1.99 in a HMV sale on the back of how impressed I was with the song I had heard via the cathode ray. Little did I know that the album would contain a real heartbreaker called 'Don't Feel Bad', a song that has remained with me for two decades now yet never grows old. "Everything has gotta change in time," spoke the simple yet incredible lyrics as they painted a picture of someone walking away from a relationship. "Don't feel bad, it's okay, we had something but it slipped away..." And that harmonica slays me every time.
3.) 'Nothing' - Nikka Costa (from the album 'Everybody Got Their Something')
"It's late in the evening, and you're breathing with someone else..."
Everyone has a guilty musical pleasure and Nikka Costa is mine. The former child star turned in a great record called 'Butterfly Rocket' which rocked out at times in an almost Black Crowes fashion, but it was her follow-up album, 2001's 'Everybody Got Their Something' that really grabbed the attention, much of it for her micstand flinging in the hot video for hit single 'Like A Feather'. It's the album track 'Nothing' that gets me though: we've had longing for someone and leaving someone in the first two tracks on my mixtape, now we're getting cheated on. "There was a light that shined on us, but now there's nothing at all." We've all been there. Breaks your fucking heart.
4.) 'Since I Fell For You' - Johnny Diesel and the Injectors (from the self-titled album)
"Love brings such misery and pain..."
All the talk of guitar strings as thick as chicken wire where Johnny Diesel was concerned as he was courted by the weekly rock press generally overshadowed the main reason why everyone should own the self-titled 1989 debut long player from Johnny and his Injectors: that voice! Yeah, the guitar playing was from the planet Incredible, but that voice just melted healthy hearts and mended broken ones; on this song it just about edges out the vocal on 'Make Some Noise' by Slave Raider for best of the '80s. "I get the blues most every night, since I fell for you." I get the chills every time this essential album hits my speakers. Johnny, of course, reverted back to his original name of Mark Lizotte and continues to release startling records that leave you willing to sell your soul to Satan for just half of a voice like his. The quiff is gone, but the voice has gotten even better with age.
5.) 'Empty World' - The Dogs D'Amour (from the album 'Straight')
"My world is empty, without you..."
The Dogs D'Amour remains one of my favourite bands of all time. How many of those other bands that I loved as a teenager in the late '80s can announce a reunion and get me so excited without a hint of irony? Not many. Classic Dogs certainly represents a certain time in my life and I'm transported back by something as simple as the opening chord of a song and, of course, with heartfelt lyrics pouring out of frontman Tyla like cheap plonk, the songs inevitably hark back to relationships of that era. There'd already been more than enough of that Heartbreak wine spilled song-wise to accompany any drunken tears over love gone bad, but when 1990's 'Straight' appeared the now-lauded 'Empty World' provided shock and awww. Listen to this and, in under two and a half minutes, you'll be staring into space thinking of someone who might not have troubled your thoughts for a long time - go on, I dare ya.
6.) 'Girl From A Pawnshop' - The Black Crowes (from the album 'Three Snakes And One Charm')
"There's a passion in being alone..."
It wouldn't be long after the aforementioned 'Straight' album that The Dogs D'Amour threatened to implode. I remember watching them struggle to follow an up-and-coming support band one night at the Astoria. That band, The Black Crowes, would themselves become a bloated shadow of their former selves but, before finally succumbing to full-on Deadhead status, at the beginning of their career were one of the finest bands on the planet. I guess you could say that around the time of fourth album, 'Three Snakes And One Charm', the wheels were really threatening to come off the Robinson Family bus. But, blessed with a voice as striking as Chris Robinson's, professionals still hit home runs when off-form. 'Girl From A Pawnshop', from that fourth album, was smeared in a subtlety that would quickly become replaced with complacency but, with a fantastic lyric and overblown guitar solo, provided one of the album's few great moments. There was once a time when The Black Crowes wrote heartbreakers, now they write stuff that breaks older fans' hearts...
7.) 'I'd Rather Go Blind' - Faces (from the album 'Coast To Coast: Overture And Beginners')
"Something told me it was over, when I saw you and him talking..."
With all due respect to the late, great Etta James, the Rod Stewart/Faces version of 'I'd Rather Go Blind' that features on the long out of print 1974 live album 'Coast To Coast: Overture And Beginners' is probably my favourite cover version of all time. Ever wondered why that beak-nosed former grave digger never went home alone? If was because of his vocal performances on heartbreakers like this. This live album hardly represents the Faces at their peak - Ronne Lane had already walked after feeling that he was now a member of the Rod Stewart backing band (his position filled on this recording by former Free bassist Tetsu Yamauchi) - and it's arguable as to if it's a Faces album at all, with half as many of the band's songs presented alongside a slew of solo Stewart tunes. Still, this version kills me. Takes me to a place near Heartache Quay and doesn't let me leave. Raw, loose, essential.
8.) 'Last Goodbye' - Jeff Buckley (from the album 'Grace')
"Just hear this and then I'll go..."
With Jeff Buckley's death in 1997 came a whole new way to look at his most commercially successful song at the time of release. The lyrics from 'Last Goodbye' quoted above don't help, do they? Edited like that they offer an almost prophetic statement from the celebrated musician. In reality, and with the lyric completed ("...you gave me more to live for, more than you'll ever know"), they detail a song that itself details the sad end of a relationship. Precede the lyric with "this is our last goodbye, I hate to feel the love between us die...but it's over," and the story suddenly becomes one of sadness and reflection. If ever a song stung the eyes for two reasons then it's this one. Song royalty.
9.) 'I Don't Love You Anymore' - The Quireboys (from the album 'A Bit Of What You Fancy')
"I could have cried, I could have cried, when she said..."
It was a funny old time be a Quireboys fan of...err...lengthier service as the band geared up to release their 1990 debut album, 'A Bit Of What You Fancy'. Fan favourites Coze and Ginger had been ousted from the band's quest for rock superstardom and with Rod Stewart's former guitarist Jim Cregan co-producing the album it appeared that the sound was going to be less 'A Nod's As Good...' and more 'Atlantic Crossing'. With re-recorded songs raising eyebrows amongst those of us who knew what a Queerboy was - I'll never get used to the chorus they added to '7 O'Clock' - the brightest new shining light on the long player was ballad 'I Don't Love You Anymore'. Every band needed a big, soppy ol' song back in those days and this was one of the best. Everyone has sung this into their hairbrush and imagined a load of exes staring back at them from the audience regretting ever walking away from the hunk of burning love in front of them, haven't they? Haven't they?
10.) 'Thrift Store Chair' - Everclear (from the album 'Songs From An American Movie, Vol.1: Learning How To Smile')
"I think we're heading for a big fall, we're heading for a bad time..."
Everclear frontman Art Alexakis remains one of my favourite lyricists: if an artist can paint pictures with their words, and write with such honesty, then they deserve to be recognised. I could have picked any number of Everclear songs for this mixtape, so wonderful is Art's...um...art. I've gone for the song 'Thrift Store Chair' from the first volume of the band's 'Songs From An American Movie' set simply because it does what few songs of its ilk dare - it pauses the heartache, stops the arguments, kicks back and, even though it knows what's coming, remains ultimately positive. And any song revolving around the listening to of a record by veteran country star John Prine deserves credit. Everclear could provide the entire soundtrack to a break-up.....but have you so positive that you'd be up and looking for the next heartbreaker within hours.
11.) 'Run Outta You' - Vintage Trouble (from the album 'The Bomb Shelter Sessions')
"Baby, you've been gone this time too long..."
The newest song on the list, but one that immediately felt like an old friend's shoulder as the tears fell into the bottom of the glass. The secret to many of the songs featured here is the voice behind the tale of sorrow - few, if any, are a match for that of Vintage Trouble vocalist Ty Taylor, a voice that could sing the lines on a bus timetable and still make you well up. If Vintage Trouble ain't already the greatest live band on the planet they soon will be. This is the kind of song that you can listen to as you hold your baby in your arms, or as you weep uncontrollably as you think of your baby once held in your arms. Heartbreak hurting bombs are around every corner when Vintage Trouble are in town.
12.) 'Earthquake' - The Used (from the album 'Lies For The Liars')
"I've murdered our love..."
Remember the lyrics to that Christina Aguilera song? We are beautiful, no matter what they say - good job really as that meant we could take greasy mess Bert McCracken, frontman of The Used, seriously when he broke a few hearts with this great song from the band's third album, 2007's 'Lies For The Liars'. Bert had a lucky relationship escape himself when he turned up on 'reality' TV series The Osbournes. Dating Kelly Osbourne, much to her subtle, humble mother's displeasure, Bert could well have found himself a member of a family that pretty much suffers catastrophe via serious illness or accident every other week. Thank the maker that McCracken murdered that love. 'Earthquake' though, with its flytrap of a hook, is a love letter filled with regret...and we've all written one of those, at least in our heads.
13.) 'Best Thing You Never Had' - Butch Walker (from the album 'Letters')
"Your ego got fatter, and I hope that you're flattered..."
Like I said at the start of this mixtape, whether you're looking to get laid or crying about not getting laid, Butch Walker should provide the soundtrack. I just had to start and finish this compilation with something from 'Letters'. Walker had, when debuting this song live prior to the album being released, described it as "every guy's official new break-up song" and he was right. He sings of waiting five years, but this shit hangs around in one shape or form forever. The live version of this song that I saw Butch perform with the Black Widows a few years ago, with each band member taking lead vocals at some point, remains the finest performance of a song that I have ever seen live. Incredible, in fact. Yes, the guys needed a song to get their feelings across and someone had to provide one devoid of the usual posturingand machismo - Butch Walker was that someone...
[Gaz E is happily married with two children, though you probably wouldn't believe it after reading that shit]


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SERANIAN MARILYN Beloved sister of Jack (Ruth) Seranian and Patricia (Denis) Borman. Loving aunt to nieces Catherine (Michael) Kaczmar and Merrily Seranian and nephew Christopher (Tracey) Seranian and the late Douglas (Sharon) Seranian. Dear great-aunt to Lillian Kaczmar, Angeline Seranian and Troy Batey. Visitation Tuesday 9:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. Funeral service at St. Johns Armenian Church, 22001 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, (248) 569-3405. Interment Evergreen Cemetery. Marilyn's family requests in lieu of flowers memorial donations be made to The Armenian EyeCare Project, P.O. Box 5630, Newport Beach, CA 92662. To send a personal condolence, visit www.ekfh.net. Arrangements entrusted to Edward Korkoian Funeral Home, (248) 541-8325.
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Kate on Today Show: "I can't sleep at night. I can't pay my bills"
Kate Gosselin went on The Today Show this morning to discuss the weekend's latest Jon-is-a-jerk news, that he emptied out a joint money market account the couple used for household expenses, leaving her with only $1,000. And it's not the first time he's taken food out of their kids' mouths. "A few days before I filed for divorce, he had [taken funds out of the joint account]," Kate said in an emotional interview. "He didn't empty it completely, but it was enough that I was afraid of not being able to pay my bills…. I have a stack of bills in my purse I can't put in the mail."
We still think it's pretty gross that the Gosselins are playing out every mud-slinging step of their divorce in the public eye, given how their kids will be learning to Google just about any day now, but this latest salvo of ugliness is quite clearly Jon's fault and we don't blame Kate for wanting to tell the world that the emotional five-year-old she married and spawned with is the kind of louse who'd rip off his own kids. (Are you listening, Hailey Glassman?)
Seriously, cleaning out your joint accounts and leaving your wife and kids broke? Who does that? Even if the majority of what Kate owes is her hairdresser's fees for that insane backwards mullet, it's pretty disgusting of Jon to drain the account she uses to, you know, feed their kids. Kate also referred to Jon's, how you say, profligate spending of late, saying that she had previously taken money out of the account because of his erratic purchasing, but was convinced by their divorce arbitrator put the funds back in the account. How To Minimize Kids' Anxiety During A Divorce
On the same episode of Today, Kate discussed setting aside her wedding rings, including the ring Jon gave her when the couple renewed their vows barely a year ago in Hawaii. "It's my Hawaii ring," she said of the discarded jewelry. "I'm changing [the rings] out. I'm switching them out." The conversation then took an unfortunate turn, given her previously stated flat-brokeness, when Kate mentioned that she and her daughters had discussed her acquiring some new bling: "We discussed a ring I might buy. It has eight little diamonds and a mother of pearl."
Yeah, we're sure that'll be adorable, if not knuckle-breakingly enormous. (Our mom has a ring with all her kids' birthstones on it, but for crying out loud, that's an aquamarine, a peridot, and one wee chip of diamond. Because our mom is not a crazy baby-hungry fame whore.) But Kate, maybe you should ix-nay on the iamond rings–day while pursuing the whole "Jon stole all the money and now the kids have to boil and eat their shoes...oh wait, didn't Jon leave his dogs here?" line of inquiry on national television, huh?
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The Portal of Paradise is the principal ceremonial entrance to the sacred space of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. For over half a century this central doorway was flanked with uncarved blocks of Indiana limestone waiting to take the forms of Biblical men and women who embody the history of the great monotheistic religions.
3) Isiah & Jerimiah (Below: NYC and World Trade Center portrayed under a mushroom cloud.)
Representing the prophets' prescience of the holy city's destruction, the World Trade Towers and Empire State are blown off their moorings in a vision of the final days.
The scene above might be unsettling for New York residents. We see the Brooklyn bridge crumbling with cars and buses falling into agitated waters. At the right is the Statue of Liberty, which seems to be sinking in the water. Beneath this horrifying prophecy is the New York Stock Exchange, with people trading goods around it.
A Bridge Under Scrutiny, by Plotters and the Police
Al Qaeda has long had a fascination with suspension bridges, especially the Brooklyn Bridge. New documents reveal that before Sept. 11, 2001, methods for bringing down bridges were being taught at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
An assessment of Mr. Zubaydah says he provided interrogators with a list of potential Qaeda targets, including "U.S. symbols" like the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations building and "major hanging bridges," the report says.
References to the Brooklyn Bridge were being picked up by intelligence officers in the Police Department before 9/11. Images of the bridge appeared, for example, in the backgrounds of pre-recorded memorial messages left behind by suicide attackers overseas.
His work is found in public and private collections around the world, including The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Chicago Botanic Gardens, Bellevue Hospital, and The American Academy in Rome, and includes commissions from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and Lord Rothschild.
In New York City, he worked extensively on the restorations of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Grand Central Station and Rockefeller Center, and has produced new work for the Jewish Museum and the Huffington Library in Ohio.
Many do not know of, or are supportive of, the Rockefeller's massive funding of population control through such groups as the Population Council and Planned Parenthood. One can view some of their donations through the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, which lists such recipients as:
Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies
Brookings Institution
Council on Foreign Relations
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Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Hudson Institute
Lehrman Institute
One of the more important connections was with the Temple of Understanding based in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Episcopal "mother" church.
"The Temple of Understanding collaborated with the Global Commission of Parliamentarian Leaders in 1985 and gave birth to the Global Forum."
"…New Age organizations behind the Global Forum just happen to be the Temple of Understanding, which is closely tied to the United Nations and is housed at Madeleine L'Engle's church, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine…The Temple's purpose…is to facilitate the one world religion, through the promoting both the acceptance and the embrace of all religions, beliefs and rituals."
Also in the same issue of The New American there is a list of donors to the Cathedral: Mr. and Ms. Steven Rockefeller is among them, along with Mr. Robert de Rothschild; David Rockefeller Jr.; Mrs. Mary C. Rockefeller; Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Spellman Rockefeller; Rockefeller Center Properties Inc.; The Rockefeller Group Inc. and many elite-of-the-elite organizations such as J.P. Morgan & Co.; Chase Manhattan Bank; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Hearst Corporation; CBS, Inc. and even, mysteriously, the Federal Emergency Managment Agency (FEMA), among others.
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Considering this was completed 4 years prior to 911, I find it very f'd up...now if Satori is correct and the detail above the towers are supposed to be waves, then 911 won't have meant a damn thing.
Someone knows...
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Obsession or Agenda...?
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
In 1887 Bishop Henry Codman Potter of the Episcopal Diocese of New York called for a cathedral to rival St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.[4] An 11.5-acre (4.7 ha) property, on which the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum had stood, was purchased by deed for the cathedral in 1891
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BUTT... U left out DArth Vaderr... Soo I guess they had stone carving-bots... twitter-monkey-bots now... Who knew whats Old is New World again... nothing to really Marvel at... move along citiZEN... Nothing to ALL SEE here again
Mr X-ULTRA-BOT... Giving U-ALL collectively a inside creation traders tip... we are what we digi-twit-think... As so you shall profit
The completion of the cathedral was such a prized accomplishment for the Freemasons that it was featured on the front page of "Masonic World" of March 1925.
The article states:
"It is particularly fitting that the Masons, who were the principal builders of cathedrals and churches during the greatest cathedral-building period, should now have a prominent part in the movement to build America's greatest cathedral (…) Little need be added to the story of Freemasonry during the cathedral-building period; its monuments are its best history, alike of its genius, its faith and its symbols."


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Kathem Al Saher Banned from Singing at Egyptian Opera Houses
Miffed Egyptian opera house managers have banned Iraqi singer Kathem Al Saher from singing on their stages in both Cairo and Alexandria, complaining that the star has skipped their music festivals, according to news agencies.
The head of the Egyptian national cultural center, which runs the opera houses, told the AFP that "the house's board of directors decided to put ban on the Iraqi singer Kathem Al Saher from singing on the stages of the opera house."
Samir Farag attributed the ban to what he called the unjustified regrets sent by Saher for his failure to participate in the Arab music festival organized by the opera house every November.
"Saher sent his regrets for not being able to participate in this year's festival due to his engagement in concerts in the US. This is, of course, untrue - particularly in view of the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York last September. We also discovered that he had held a concert on a princess' birthday," added Farag.
He called Saher's behavior an "incorrect evaluation of the status of an Egyptian national corporation and the most important Arab and African arts institution."
Saher, who is currently in Canada, is keen on pleasing his Egyptian audience. He performed two concerts, one for the song festival organized by the ministry of tourism, where the minister, Mamdouh Al Biltagi, knighted him in appreciation of his support for the festival. The second appearance was at the closing ceremony of the TV nights festival performed annually at the Roman stage in Marina, sources close to Saher in Amman told the Arabic daily Al Hayat.
They noted that Saher performed a free concert for the Arab music festival, and was honored by former Arab League secretary general Esmat Abdel Magid.
The paper said that Saher would meet with a number of officials at the opera house, but did not specify the agenda - Albawaba.com
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Series 9, Episode 6
Desperate for cash, Jackson agrees to help Shane Maguire rob a cigarette van at a supermarket.
Full synopsis
It doesn't go well and they barely escape the guards, but the unlikely pair may have hit upon a Freegan-inspired business idea for selling out-of-date food.
Gloria's brother Dominic, a whisky priest who's recently stepped away from the church, causes mayhem on the estate when he's threatened by the husbands of two of his conquests, neither of whom he can remember having sex with.
And there's upset all around when Chesney advises Carl that he can do much better than Clem, who Carl plans to move in with.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 7th February 2012
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
|Regular cast
|David Threlfall
|Frank Gallagher
|Elliott Tittensor
|Carl Gallagher
|Tina Malone
|Mimi Maguire
|Rebecca Atkinson
|Karen Maguire
|Nicky Evans
|Shane Maguire
|Aaron McCusker
|Jamie Maguire
|Sally Carman
|Kelly-Marie Ball
|Alice Barry
|Lillian Tyler
|Jack Deam
|Marty Fisher
|Qasim Akhtar
|Chesney Karib
|Valerie Lilley
|Patty Croker
|Karen Bryson
|Avril Powell
|Kira Martin
|Letitia Powell
|Emmanuel Ighodaro
|Jackson Powell
|Robbie Conway
|Aiden Croker
|Angeline Ball
|Gloria Meak
|Stephen Lord
|Dominic Meak
|Michael Taylor
|Billy Tutton
|Guest cast
|Amy Beth Hayes
|Jason Furnival
|Rebekah Hinds
|Matt Chapman
|Security Guard
|Writing team
|Mark Brotherhood
|Ben Newman
|Script Editor
|Loren McLaughlan
|Script Editor
|Production team
|Tim Whitby
|Jean Holdsworth
|Series Producer
|Ed McCardie
|George Faber
|Executive Producer
|Charles Pattinson
|Executive Producer
|Paul Abbott
|Executive Producer
|David Threlfall
|Executive Producer
|Claire Ingham
|Executive Producer
|Ben Drury
|Duncan Howell
|Production Designer
|Murray Gold
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Adoptive Moms in Business
La Chapina was featured on the Adoptive Moms in Business blog this week. If you are an adoptive mother with a business you'd like to talk about, feel free to contact the site and talk about listing your company in their directory!
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- Chiocciola said...
Great interview! Just a tiny correction - "nica" is used for both men and women from Nicaragua (not "nico".) :)
- April 19, 2009 at 6:18 PM
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Video Interview with SonicTremor
David Das and Michael Elsner are the composers behind SonicTremor, and the Darklight trailer music series. Their debut album, Symphonic Rock Trailers, was released in January, and I had the opportunity to meet David and Michael to learn a little more about the release. Darklight: Symphonic Rock Trailers blends the edginess of guitars with the drama of an orchestra to create a set of tracks perfect for movie trailers. Check out our short video interview from David Das' studio, featuring music from the release.
You can purchase Darklight on iTunes, or Amazon. For licensing info visit sonictremor.com. Below is a transcript of a longer chat that I had with the composers:
Trailer Music News: Tell us a little about yourselves. How did you get your start in music?
David Das: I am a composer and a music producer. I got my start in Nashville after I graduated college. My college degree is in classical piano and conducting, but I grew up with pop, rock and jazz in the fingers, and I've done tons of arranging and writing in those styles. So I'm equally comfortable in both arenas. I toured for a while, and I started finding more work as a music producer. Then, after I moved into Los Angeles 6 or 7 years ago, I found work as a film composer, in commercials, TV, trailers and stuff like that. That's what I love to do. As long as I'm making music and I'm being creative, I'm fulfilled.
Michael Elsner: Like David, my career started in Nashville back in 1998. That's actually where we met initially. My background is mainly in the pop/rock world as a guitar player and a writer. As with David, my career started gearing itself more towards producing. When I came into Los Angeles, I fell into the world of writing for various television shows. It was mainly pop/rock stuff, but that slowly evolved into a lot of other genres. Once David made his way out here, we started working together.
TMN: How did you both start working together?
David: We both had a lot of independent projects of our own that we would occasionally call each other on. "Hey, can you play keys on this? Can you play guitar on that? Can you help me mix this?" That kind of stuff. So we bounced stuff back and forth a lot. And then both of us independently were getting a lot of material licensed, and we were creating music that was specifically for TV, commercials, or films. So we've kind of been on this journey together over time.
Michael: Yeah, and I think that's just the nature of being in Los Angeles. There's just so much work in that world if you're heading that way. When I arrived here I was really focused on a lot of artist-driven stuff like going out and playing. Then we both started getting into the TV thing. And then it just morphed into writing together. We ended up working together on a number of shows over the few couple years together. It's one of those things where stylistically what we do complements each other well. Coming from a rock guitar background and adding the classical, orchestral stuff that he knows how to do – that's a nice marriage.
TMN: How did you make your way into trailers?
David: I had started scoring trailers 4 or 5 years ago through established trailer companies and got my feet wet there and saw a lot of success in that. It's a really fun genre to write for because there's so much animation to it, and so many different stylistic elements. From the epic rock stuff, to the orchestral side of it, and lot's of moody textures…. It's just so much fun because there's this very colorful palette.
TMN: So it covers a lot of different styles.
David: Yeah, for sure.
Michael: I think also, the styles are compressed into a very quick amount of time. When you write a pop song, you have 30 seconds of one thing, followed by 30 seconds of a chorus, etc. But with a lot of trailer stuff it's 4 bars of 'this' and a big swoosh into 7 seconds of 'that,' and it constantly moves.
David: About 10 years ago, I was called to work on a project of just radio ID's. They're really short things: sometimes 3, 4, or 5 seconds. They're all this 'whizz bang.. 94.9 woosh' and all that kind of stuff. The amount of time and attention that it took me to focus on 3-5 seconds of audio was actually roughly equivalent to how long it might take me to produce a 3 or 4 minute run-of-the-mill pop song. The pop song is simpler and you can work longways, letting a song unfold over time, but with those radio IDs you had to cram so many ideas in to make it interesting and captivate the listener. I learned a lot through that project, and now it's really applying well to the trailer stuff because it's similar. Keep the listener interested, work the "arcs" of the material, and craft the emotional journey.
Michael: You have to get a lot of ideas out in a short amount of time. It's fun!
TMN: How did Sonic Tremor start?
Michael: Well, the official start of Sonic Tremor was actually giving what we do together a name. We just decided 'we're doing a lot of music for other companies; it's time to start our own.' So Sonic Tremor was born out of that, but you could say it's gone on for a long time. We released Darklight, which is the trailer series that we're doing, at the end of 2011. Now that's released, and the second Darklight is coming out in spring 2012. It's mostly done already. Now it's just a matter of fine tuning.
TMN: What does Darklight focus on?
Michael: We're trying to stay cohesive with each release. This first one is Epic Symphonic Rock Trailers, and geared towards thrillers, dramas- it's obviously not romantic comedy music. It's high action, dark, suspenseful stuff.
David: Action, thriller, horror, suspense…
Michael: I think one of the things we're trying to do to separate Darklight from a lot of other releases, is how we're packaging it for editors. So when you get Darklight, you get the 16 full trailer pieces, as well as a number of alternate mixes. And then we break down folders of individual hits, swooshes, risers, and drones from each piece. Every individual element separated from the trailer that an editor could possibly need. That way an editor can use a hit that's sonically and level-wise the same as in the piece. So it will be cohesive, easy, and fast for them to make edits with.
TMN: That sounds like it will be really helpful.
Michael: I think a lot of that comes from working with other artists over the years; whether it be producing other artists, or mixing some of their projects, and getting files and ProTools sessions that are just a mess. To the point where it becomes more laborious for us to finish something than we initially expected. So our mindset is, let's just try to make it as easy as possible for other people, because when other people give us projects I like to be able to load up and just go. We offer the full library – trailers, alt mixes, stems, elements – as a download to editors and trailer houses, fully tag it in SoundMiner, and offer it in all the major audio formats.
TMN: Was there a lot of collaboration with this album?
David: Yes, the actual process of creation was a lot of bouncing things back and forth. One of us would usually come up with a skeleton for the piece – a tempo map and some rough sonic ideas: 'we're going to have a stop here and three measures of 3/4 here, and then change to this tempo here.' All the trailers are in the 2-minute range, but they have a lot of starts, stops and changes in momentum, so one of us would typically come up with that skeleton and maybe a guide track. When I write guide tracks I often do them on piano because that's my main instrument, while Michael's main instrument is guitar. So I would just dropbox Michael some files and say "alright, here's the tempo map, here's a guide track: let me hear what you're going to put on it". Because he's a tremendously creative musician, I knew he would come up with stuff that I would never have thought of. It's a lot like tennis – we're just bouncing these back and forth all the time. It turned out to be a very creative way of working, because if I'm here in my studio alone, I don't really inspire myself. I know what I sound like. I sit down at the keyboard, put my hands down- I know what that sounds like. But to have the input of someone else just constantly throwing new ideas in, is so much fun. So we would just keep bouncing the tracks back and forth until we felt – ok this is pretty complete now – and then we went to mix.
Michael: We've done this for a while, and the cool thing is, while David's a piano player, he also plays guitar and bass. I'm a guitar player, but I also play keyboards, and have a lot of virtual instruments in my rig. So maybe I'll throw in some weird drone on a keyboard. Then he'll get some ideas and throw in a high e-bow guitar thing. He'll add in elements that are guitar and bass oriented, and I'll add in elements that are keyboard oriented. So it isn't just "I play guitar and he plays piano".
David: There's a lot of overlap.
Michael: It is nice to have the knowledge of the other instruments, and the palette to work sonically from. It's nice because he'll come up with orchestral ideas that there's no way I would ever come up with.
David: I'd also say on a purely personal level, the collaboration process brings something out of each of us that neither of us could have done by themselves. I've done plenty of trailers by myself before, but these feel completely different and at a whole new level because I've actually had someone to share ideas with. There's a lot of satisfaction in doing that.
Michael: And it's fun. It gets boring just to sit by yourself and write music after while. It's fun to have input. We frequently have multiple trailers bouncing back and forth between each other.
TMN: So every time you get a file from David…
Michael:It's a surprise! It's like Christmas! You open up a present and go "wow, that was pretty cool." But then it's also inspiring. He does a lot of choral stuff. I'll get it back with a choral part on it and think, 'this is awesome', and that makes me think of a totally different style of guitar riff. I might go back and completely replace what I laid down before. Maybe I laid down something very boring, and then he adds this fire on top of it. So I'll go back and really make the thing shine in that section. It's a lot of back and forth, but it's fun.
David: Some of our alternate mixes take that into consideration too, because we did choir-less mixes, or drum-less mixes. A lot of those elements can come out in the alternate mixes, even though the main mixes are the primary we hear them. We know that a drum-less mix can have a lot of pent-up suspense that the full mix doesn't, so we're putting it all out there and giving editors a ton of material to work with.
TMN: Thanks guys!


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The other day I was reflecting on the amazing, glorious responsibility we have as worship leaders.
We get to stand before God's people and declare His greatness – to usher people into His presence with singing. But we also have the responsibility to do it well.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to waste the church's precious moments with God in corporate worship with mere performance, a disorganized team, and a lack of passion. I want to connect them to Jesus.
The best way I've found to do that is to get back to the basics. Corporate worship isn't simple. There's a lot of organization, both in leading your team and engaging a large room of people to sing in unison. I don't want to minimize that or paint a wrong portrait of what we do.
However, reminding ourselves about the basics can cause us to approach our complex task with simplicity – so the most important things are at the forefront of our minds.
Why Do We Gather?
While you have to pick out songs, schedule your band, rehearse your band, know your music, and lead in worship, don't forget these few truths about simple worship.
1. God is in the Room – To be the best worship leader you can be, you need to be preoccupied with God. You need a deep sense of His majesty as you lead. Not only are you singing "about" God, you are singing "to" Him. He is in the room. And that, my friend, changes everything.
2. Corporate Singing – If people aren't singing, you're not doing your job well. Either the music is too distracting, your songs are in bad keys, or people don't know the songs. Our goal is to unite the room in worship, encouraging everyone to lift their voice together. That's why I step away from the mic so often. I love to hear the people of God sing at the top of their lungs. Don't forget this.
3. People – I'm sorry, but worship isn't about your talent, your preferences, or scratching your creative itch. It's about the church. It's about serving people, making it easy for them to take steps towards God. It's not your job to worship for them. You need to create a context where they can get lost in His presence.
4. The Cross – Every gathering is a celebration of the cross. The cross of Christ isn't old news that we merely pay homage too. It's the very foundation of our worship and the centerpiece of our lives. Corporate worship is a reminder that we don't do life on our own. You were "bought with a price. So glorify God in your body" (I Corinthians 6:20).
Now, what do you think?
How have we made corporate worship too complicated?
How can we return to the basics and ensure it is pure, God-centered, and alive?
Share your thoughts in the comments.
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I figured this section of today's Jolt would bring more "you sound like one of those miserable feminists who hate men appreciating the beauty of women" e-mails, but the response has been pretty positive so far.
Why I'm Wary of Even Good-Natured Pundit Beauty Contests
John Hawkins and the guys at Right Wing News are running their annual contest selecting "The 20 Hottest Conservative Women In the New Media."
The guys who are doing this are not bad guys, but I don't think these sorts of contests are such a good idea.
On the one hand, we're fooling ourselves every time we deny the obvious, that attractiveness is a huge factor in human behavior. ("Really? And you let yourself go out of the house looking like that? And that haircut — what, did you put your head under a lawnmower?" Shut up, Jonah's couch! Your snark is supposed to stay in the Goldberg File!) And I'll bet a doughnut that the scales say I shouldn't eat that none of the women mentioned in this contest are offended about being nominated.
On the other hand . . .
I realize I shouldn't presume to speak on any of these women's behalf — some of them are friends, and they're more than capable of speaking for themselves! — but I'd note that none of them set out to be considered notable for their appearance. We can say they're beautiful enough to be models, but they didn't choose to be models — or actresses or any other profession in which your appearance is your primary purpose. I presume that if they had wanted to pursue those different fields, they would have done so, and they haven't. So I wonder how flattering it really is to assess a Michelle Malkin or a Mary Katharine Ham or Dana Perino and to respond . . . "Wow, you're HOT!"
Yes, but they have limited control over that, and again, at the risk of speaking on their behalf, that's not what they came here to do. Some of their attractiveness is genetics, and the rest is a sense of style and taking good care of themselves. They're writers, reporters, authors, activists and analysts and they do stuff, and it's probably more appropriate to view them and assess them based on their actions, not their attractiveness.
Of course, none of the guys running this contest would say we shouldn't appreciate their actions, and I'm sure they appreciate those actions. But notice the nomination list consists of the womens' names, affiliations . . . and then big photos of them. Not what they've accomplished, awards, and so on. And the contest isn't saying they're the best, having the most impact, most dedicated, or any other measure. It's the "hottest."
If you've ever checked out the comments section of just about any blog discussing a female conservative pundit, you know the usual vile comments are even more vile than usual, dissecting the woman's appearance in detail. (I'm sure all of those commenters are comparable to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.) I'm not saying this contest is quite like these repugnant comments, but if women in our industry have to endure being judged on their appearances every day, both overtly and subtly, it doesn't seem very empathetic to formalize the process, pick out 17 or so for particular praise, and then run a contest to see who is hottest. I mean, there are dozens of conservative women in new media out there who didn't get picked, and who have just been told, quietly, "yeah, apparently not enough people think you're not."
The other thing is . . . You've heard the phrase, "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people." (Origin of the cliché discussed here.) Permit me to stand up for "ugly people" for a moment.
Most of us came out of an appearance-obsessed and status-obsessed subculture called "high school." Maybe you're one of the lucky ones who always felt okay about how you looked; sometimes, you go through it looking like this:
Hopefully somewhere in high school, or maybe after high school, you find something you're good at and you thrive in it, and you realize your value as a person goes well beyond what other people think of your appearance. It's always a little sad when someone doesn't move beyond this measurement of self-worth, because our appearances change, no matter how hard we try.
Look, attractive people. "Washington" — the world of politics and policy that goes well beyond the District of Columbia's borders — was supposed to be our turf. As I discuss in my novel coming out next year, it's "Nerd-vana," where all of us geeks who had interests beyond video games and MTV get to play and be in charge and feel normal. It's an endangered species preserve for people who care enough about political issues to make a career out of them. You beautiful people got Hollywood, and most of New York, and almost every beach community along the Atlantic Coast from Virginia Beach to South Padre Island, Texas. Some would argue Nashville, too. This was supposed to be the place where how you looked didn't matter quite as much as what you knew.
Anyway, vote in the contest, don't vote in the contest, cheer it, boo it, do as you will . . . but let's at least try to see people beyond their appearances, okay?


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Method or tool name : MEHARI (MEthod for Harmonized Analysis of RIsk)
Originator name : CLUSIF (CLub for the Security of Information in France or CLub de la Sécurité de l'Information Français)
Country of origin : France
Level of reference of the product
Details about the type of initiator of the product
Private sector organisation / association : CLUSIF - Club de la Sécurité de l'Information Français
Specify the phases this method supports and a short description
MEHARI 2010 is an RA and RM method that also includes, directly in the knowledge bases, the formulas for the direct assessment of the risks and selection of the ways to reduce them. The knowledge bases are available as a workbook (for Excel or Open Office) capable to conduct the qualification and quantification of all the elements of risk. Associated documents are available from http://www.clusif.asso.fr/en/clusif/present/ and include http://www.clusif.asso.fr/fr/production/ouvrages/pdf/MEHARI-2010-Overview.pdf http://www.clusif.asso.fr/fr/production/ouvrages/pdf/MEHARI-2010-Processing-Guide.pdf
R.A. Method phases supported
Context establishment : MEHARI allows to cover either an entire organization or to select particular parts using specific scope and boundaries
Stakes analysis and assets classification : based on business consideration of consequences of dysfunctions and allowing to give a "value" to the assets (primary and secondary, according to ISO/IEC 27005) The types of assets considered are: services, data and compliance to regulations.
Risk identification : MEHARI gives indications for the business stakes identification and valuation, the resulting classification of assets (according to IS0 27005, e.g. services, data and compliance to regulations) for the Availability, Integrity and Confidentiality security criteria is effected. Also the likelihood of the various threats is identified and the evaluation of the security measures to reduce the risks may be collected from audit questionnaires. All the elements for risk evaluation are available for the next phases
Risk analysis : MEHARI provides a comprehensive list of risk scenarios associated with the assets and the various threats. The combination of stakes, threats and vulnerabilities included in the method allows analyzing the risks situations and preparing for the risk evaluation.
Risk evaluation : the evaluation of the risks is based on the quantification of these elements, and the seriousness for the organization is established on a scale with 4 levels. The most serious scenarios will have to be managed
R.M. Method phases supported
Risk assessment: the critical risks may be displayed and analyzed under various other forms: by asset criterion, type of threat, actor, etc
Risk treatment : The Risk managers or auditors have the capacity to select the treatment option (reduce, accept, transfer, avoid) and, in the case of a decision of reduction, MEHARI provides the capability to select the additional security measures for the reduction of likelihood and/or impact and to integrate them in additional projects depending on the level of the resources and types of organization
Risk acceptance : the capacity to indicate individually the acceptance of scenarios is provided. Further indications in the case of transfer (e.g. to insurance) is collectable
Risk communication : All the stakeholders are associated since the beginning (stakes analysis) and the operational staff (either IT, communications, etc.) contributes to the analysis. Inputs to the building or revision of the Information security policies are provided as well as directions for security projects. Once filled during the risk management cycle, the knowledge base file constitutes a folder for further work and communication..
Compliance to standard : MEHARI 2010 answers to ISO/IEC 27005:2008 guidelines, MEHARI assists and can be used to check the compliance of organizations for their ISMS process (like ISO 27001).
Brief description of the product
- provides a complete risk management model compliant to ISO 27005 requirements, description of modular components and processes.
- includes the classification of assets, the likelihood of the threats, measures the vulnerabilities through audit.
- analyzes a generic list of risk situations and provides seriousness levels for each scenario
- bases its analysis on formulas and parameters,
- allows an optimal selection of corrective actions,
- gives additional compliance scoring of the organization to ISO 27001-2005 controls and the ISMS process as well,
- can be considered also as an RA/RM tool by the automatic use of formulas.
Date of the first edition, date and number of actual version
Date of first release : 1998
Date and identification of the last version : MEHARI 2010 November 2010 (French and English)
Useful links
Link for further information
Official web site : http://www.clusif.asso.fr/en/clusif/present/ (English) or http://www.clusif.asso.fr (French)
Related user group web site : http://www.mehari.info/forum/ plus 2 independent linkedin groups for Mehari
Main relevant web site : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehari
List the available languages that the tool supports
Availability in European languages : French and English (full set of documents and knowledge bases) "Overview" document: Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Romanian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brasil) Other languages: Chinese, Arabic
Specify the price for the method
Free: the solution is delivered as Open Source, free of charge.
Target organisations
Defines the most appropriate type of organisations the product aims at
Government, agencies
Medium to Large companies
Commercial companies
Non-profit: NGOs, education, health sector, public services, etc.
Specific sector : Mehari applies to all sectors
Geographical spread
Information concerning the spread of this tool
Used in EU member states : downloaded to all EU states and to European Commission.
Used in non-EU countries : Probably world wide (More than 150 countries), including USA, Canada, Switzerland, South America, China, India, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, African countries.
Level of detail
Specify the target kind of users
Management level : top management, business line managers, ...
Operational level: CISO, Risk managers, auditors, CIO, ...
Technical level: systems, networks, application managers, general services, development teams, end users
License and certification scheme
Specify the licensing and certification schemes available for this method
Recognized licensing scheme : there is a recognized scheme for consultants/firms stating their mastering of a method.
Existing certification scheme : in France via CLUSIF. In progress for Canada (Quebec).
Users viewpoint
Skills needed
Specify the level of skills needed to use and maintain the solution
Risk Assessment and Management require in any case a good knowledge of the business internals and the handling of risk. The method exploits these skills and facilitates the processes for RA and RM.
To introduce : Standard level, CIO, CISO, RM, top management, business line managers
To use : Standard, auditors (internal or external), CISO, Risk Managers, simple use of Excel
To maintain : Standard, the documentation and the integrated tool are complete, first level of Excel knowledge
Consultancy support
Specify the kind of support available
Training and consultancy support are provided by CLUSIF with relays in Poland, North America (Quebec) and Africa.
Consultancy : Training and consultancy are available in various countries in Europe, North America, Africa and other places.
Regulatory compliance
There is a given compliance of the product with international regulations
Compliance of the method with international regulations (e.g. Basel II, Sarbanes Oxley Act) may be achieved when needed.
Compliance to IT standards
There is a compliance with a national or international standard
Originally built in accordance with ISO/IEC IS 13335-1
MEHARI has evolved to better deal with the evolutions of Information and Communication technologies and working changes, also MEHARI 2010 complies with ISO/IEC 27005:2008 requirements
MEHARI is applicable for ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS processing and certification, including Annex A (security controls)
Trial before purchase
Details regarding the evaluation period (if any) before purchase of the product.
Not needed, download and use are free (Open Source)
Availability : world wide
Maturity level of the Information system
The product gives maturity indications of the capability of the organization to manage information security under all its forms including information system security (e.g. through a reasoned best practice document).
It is possible to measure the I.S.S. maturity level : Yes, through several indicators (e.g. Efficiency, Resiliency, Continuity aspects)
Tools supporting the method
List of tools that support the product
Non commercial tools
A first level of tool is directly included in the knowledge base of the method, using Excel and Open Office formulas. A reference manual explains its use, which is free.
Commercial tools
Several independent efforts to develop additional tools are known to CLUSIF. The most compliant and complete one being RISICARE from BUC SA.
Technical integration of available tools
It is possible to integrate additional worksheets within the knowledge base.
Tools can be integrated with other tools : classical links between Excel and other types of programs may be used
Organisation processes integration
The method provides interfaces to existing processes within the organization (e.g. project management, procurement, etc.), e.g. through additional worksheets.
Method provides interfaces to other organisational processes : e.g. ISO 27001 ISMS
Flexible knowledge databases
It is easily possible to adapt the knowledge database specific to specific activity domain, maturity level, scope and size of the company.


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Johannesburg - South Africa's Olympic governing body SASCOC on Saturday moved quickly to dispel any athletes' fears of being denied the opportunity to compete internationally following the organisation's decision to suspend Athletics SA with immediate effect. President of SASCOC, Gideon Sam, whose organisation has come out strongly against ASA following an investigation of the federation's handling of the Caster Semenya saga, on Saturday assured track and field athletes that they wouldn't have their 2010 Commonwealth Games or 2012 Olympic Games dreams scuppered. In a statement, SASCOC said: "Given our decision as the SASCOC board to suspend ASA from SASCOC, we are cogniscent of the fact that this means that no officials or athletes can participate in any international activity of the (world governing body) IAAF. "However, we are negotiating with the IAAF to allow our officials and athletes in the interim to participate in IAAF activity under the jurisdiction of SASCOC. We want to assure the athletes that we will do everything possible to ensure that their participation in the multi sport events like Commonwealth Games, Youth Olympic Games, Olympic Games and IAAF and AAAC events will not be in jeopardy." On Friday, SASCOC had taken the decision to suspend ASA as a federation, after the athletics body had challenged SASCOC's authority to suspend the entire ASA board, including its president Leonard Chuene, over their handling of the Caster Semenya saga.In the letter to SASCOC, ASA claim the decisions taken by SASCOC were "unreasonable, procedurally and substantively unfair".Reacting to the letter the SASCOC executive wish to place on record that:SASCOC has jurisdiction in the Republic and over its Members, officials and athletes through SASCOC membership and that ASA is a member of SASCOC.Also, members (including ASA) are subordinate to SASCOC and must comply with the Constitution of SASCOC and any directives issued by SASCOC. Members Constitutions may not be in conflict with the Constitution of SASCOC.Furthermore, SASCOC, through its Board has the power to oversee, direct, control, administer and, if necessary, manage the activities of its Members.
What a joke!
Are they only suspended? If so, that means full salary, full bonuses for as long as they are at home!!! What about Mugabe's grandson Malema and Tyre Winnie Mandela? Why are they not suspended? They also shouted and screamed racist and hate speech that day. Poor old Malema, whenever someone stops him he does not even know who he is - always asking - do you know who I am???? Leonard is one of them according to Malema - will he now backtrack like he did with Nedbank and Bloemfontein Univ? My cousing is looking for a security job - can he please, please go and work for Malema???
Idi Malama has been given VIP protection so that he no longer needs to illegally place a blue light on his own car when he is speeding. The SA taxpayer is now funding the ANCYL directly. Pack, pack, pack.


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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters featured here. They belong to Jodi Picoult.
Note: I'll admit I didn't write this with the intention of posting it here. I wrote it for one of my tasks for the creative writing side of my course; we do little assignments like this every week or so. Anyway, the task was to write a 'lost paragraph' and try to emulate the original author's style. Well, I don't know how successfully that worked out, but it was fun to do! It's very brief, I know, and I'm not entirely happy with it... Still, I thought I'd post it up here, seeing as I've haven't uploaded anything in what feels like the longest time.
Confessions of the Broken
The aching loss of you beat beneath my breastbone, sharp as blade, setting the rhythm of our lives now. I always knew you were the real glue holding this family together, but now the feeling cuts me fresh. Mom drifted away from us, while Dad tried too hard to make things normal. I continued painting, like my therapist suggested, though it left me empty. For months, I ripped up every picture before it was finished; the torn pieces drifting like snow between my fingers. Without you, Willow, nothing worked. Without you we broke apart, bonelessly. The ultimate irony, I guess.
Anyway, what did it matter? I knew nothing I ever painted would be enough to fill a hole as great as you. Unlike mom, who swore she saw you in everything, I just couldn't find you, Willow, no matter how hard I looked. Remember those games of hide-and-seek in the backyard? You were never very good at it, even with that twenty second head start. I always found you too fast. It left me embarrassed for both of us, so I'd rocket in the opposite direction, count to ten – twice – and pretend you'd done better than you really had.
But now I couldn't see you anywhere. Mom insisted you were still with us: you were the glistening morning dew and the blood red sunset and everything that fell in between. That was how was how she got through her days, living from one hour to the next. As for me, I didn't think you were any of those things. You were simply Willow, my irritating, chatty, brave baby sister. You were unique. Everything physical that made you you was gone.
I learned, as time passed by, that though the pain would dull and fade it would never entirely leave. It comforted me, somehow, and I held that knowledge to my chest like a precious gift. You might think it strange, unhealthy even, to cling to a feeling so negative. Like any teenager, I knew better. For as long as I carried that final ache of separation along with me, I carried you.


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GTA union supporters rallied to urge KU officials to include health insurance in their new contract.
Estevan Harrera offered physical evidence Thursday of the financial pain he endures because Kansas University doesn't provide health insurance benefits to graduate teaching assistants.
Uninsured, Harrera broke his left arm recently and piled up more than $3,000 in medical bills. His annual GTA stipend for teaching Spanish at KU is $8,000.
"I procrastinated long enough!" he proclaimed at a rally sponsored by Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition, the union representing GTAs at KU.
Harrera joined GTAC on the spot. With his healthy arm, he waved a union card at 100 union supporters outside Wescoe Hall. Perhaps the $8 per month in GTAC dues will help the union acquire health insurance for GTAs, he said.
GTAC is negotiating with KU administrators on the first union contract for teaching assistants at the university. GTAs voted in 1995 to form a collective bargaining unit, but have yet to strike a labor deal with KU.
"We just want to send a message to KU that GTAC is not going to go away," said rally organizer Laura Senio.
GTAC representatives said a survey indicated that obtaining health insurance benefits was the top priority of graduate teaching assistants. Union leaders are also interested in increasing GTA stipends.
"We have a right to basic benefits like health care and basic cost-of-living increases," sociology GTA Marc Horowitz said at the rally.
Graduate teaching assistants teach an estimated 25 percent of the courses at the university, he said.
However, salaries and benefits for GTAs at other Midwest universities are superior.
For example, GTAs at the University of Wisconsin are paid $13,000 annually and have health insurance as an employee benefit. GTAs at KU make an average of $7,900 a year and are left to pay for insurance policies on their own.
"It goes without saying that everyone working should have health insurance," Cheryl Lester, KU associate professor of English and American studies, told union supporters.
KU undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for a private, individual health insurance policy that costs $815 annually.
University officials had no comment on the rally or union negotiations.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Abdel Jassim: I Hate CNN
A healthy hate of the enemy
In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma recounts his recent meeting with Iraq's Defense Minister:
In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma recounts his recent meeting with Iraq's Defense Minister:
HH: Let's talk a little bit about the new defense minister, Jassim, Senator Inhofe. How's he strike you? Is he middle aged? Is he experienced in military matters?Why?
JI: Yeah, he's very experienced. He's a general. He is a career military guy, and he's tough as he can be. And he came out with all kinds of wild things. I probably shouldn't tell you this...
HH: Oh, go ahead.
JI: But...and this is so funny when it happened. I was talking to him through an interpretor, and I didn't know whether he could speak English. And I finally got to the point where I said look, our big problem is the media, the media back in the United States, because they're lying to the people of America. All of a sudden, in clear English, he said I hate CNN.
Oh, he said all they do is talk about negative things, things that are bad, and we have nothing but successes over here. And then he start enumerating the successes, which I can verify, because I'm there all the time. The number, out of 112 battalions, they have 62 of them. That's over half of them that are either level 2 or level 1. That means they can conduct their own combat. He made the statement, and this is one of the things that he says that CNN and some of the media keeps saying, they keep saying that America is leading them, and we're in the rear. And he said that's not true at all. We are leading, and America is offering support.I wonder what Iraq's other cabinet ministers think about CNN in particular and the American media in general. Perhaps CNN could interview Mr Jassim or Prime Minister al-Maliki and ask them what they think is the biggest threat to the success of their government?
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Fort Worth's Q Cinema returns for its 14th weekend-long festival of gay film
ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor
Are you curious?" the theme for this year's Q Cinema International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (its 14th) asks. And of course, we are. The four-day celebration of queer filmmaking, which opens Thursday, features nearly 40 movies from shorts to features to documentaries and even some music videos and live performances — more than 18 hours of movie-related entertainment in all.
And there's something for everyone. Short film programs cater to women, youth and those interested in same-sex marriage (maybe Barack Obama will show up); documentaries are as personal as what happened three years ago at the Rainbow Lounge to what HIV-positive kids as far away as Vancouver do to cope and what role Vito Russo played in chronicling gay history (answer: A lot). There are comedies, dramas, a staged reading of a movie script (adapted for theater), plus special guest appearances and a party every night.
In short, a festival.
The diversity of this year's slate is its strong point, with no weak features in the lot. And best of all, there's always something new to try. So grab your popcorn and your boyfriend and get curious.
Q Cinema runs May 31—June 3 at the Rose Marine Theater and other venues around Fort Worth. Tickets range from $10 for single tickets to $100 for an all-festival pass. Visit AreYouCurious.org or QCinema.org for details.
With a name like Funkytown, you might expect snappy musical comedy, but from the somber opening, you know the title is meant at least slightly ironically. It's Montreal 1976, and disco is king, but there's more to it than grins and giggles. Disco culture was also drug culture, and you sense things aren't headed the right way for some of these people, like in a Scorsese film but with a French accent: Call it Boogie Nuits.
Comparisons to Scorsese are probably a little too generous, but Funkytown does have a slick look and a sense of the period. Justin Chatwin has his John Travolta moves perfected on the dance floor as he explores the gay underbelly of the city and takes us along. There's a voyeuristic appeal to it that's at times irresistible. It's the movie 54 needed to be. — Arnold Wayne Jones
May 31 at 7:30 p.m. In French and English. Screens with video Chow Down (at Chik-Fil-A).
Raid of the Rainbow Lounge
If you lived in North Texas three summers ago, and even if you lived farther away, you'll remember the news, arising on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, of the TABC and Fort Worth police raid of the newly opened Rainbow Lounge in Cowtown. For months, it remained a popular topic of conversation, and sparked a newfound activism in the gay community.
Filmmaker Robert L. Camina grabbed his camcorder that Sunday morning when the news broke, and has spent much of the last three years piecing together the story of what really happened, with dozens of interviews and by pouring over volumes of reports and testimonies and news reports. The result: Raid of the Rainbow Lounge is a comprehensive and occasionally eye-opening chronicle of events still important to many locals.
In addition to the exhaustive reportage, the film also serves as reminder of the emotions many of us experienced at the time, reminding us of Chief Jeffrey Halstead (a polarizing figure) and the apparent foot-dragging of the investigation into What Really Happened. In that way, it churns up feelings and images that may have drifted out of our consciousness, at once reigniting our passions but also reassuring us that change can happen — even if we have to make it so. — AWJ
June 1 at 8 p.m. Filmmaker in attendance.
When I was assigned to review a love story about a gay paraplegic, I felt as though I'd lost a bet. I mention this not to point out what an asshole I am, but so my fellow assholes will think twice before dismissing Morgan. Although it does lean too hard on melodrama to force a climax, it's not the pity party or tale of heroic struggle you might expect. In fact the heroes — Morgan and his paramour Dean — are such flawed individuals you may not always root for them to make it as a couple.
They meet after Morgan (Leo Minaya, strong in a complex role) loses the use of his legs in an accident in a bicycle race. He meets Dean, a fellow jock, and they fall in love. Morgan's stubbornness and fiercely independent spirit, while admirable in some respects, creates problems for himself and others that he's not willing to acknowledge. He insists on entering the bike race again, even though it could prove fatal for him and his new relationship. But while Morgan is a gay date movie, it's not a tearjerker. Chick flick be damned. — Steve Warren
June 2 at 2 p.m. Screens with the short Fallen Comrade.
Positive Youth
Charlie David is kind of a renaissance man of the modern gay culture, with experience as a TV host (Bump!), screenwriter (Mulligans), actor (Dante's Cove) and now documentary filmmaker. He shows adeptness at all of the above. He's also incredibly handsome. Thank God at least he's Canadian — there had to be something wrong with him.
His mini-feature Positive Youth takes just 45 minutes to introduce us to four young people, ages 18 to 27 who tell their stories of becoming HIV-positive matter-of-factly, without sentimentalization but with honesty. And in those stories, we see the panoply of experience common to so many, taking us from the testing (and shocking results) to coming out to parents and friends to developing sexual relationships and coping with medication (especially without insurance). It's remarkable how, in four brief segments, we see men and women, white and black, urban and suburban, club-kid and homebody and all ring true. If only David would fiddle with the tone, which has the fast-paced, pop-scored short-attention-span style of an episode of MTV's True Life. Then again, that might be the perfect venue for a film like this to reach its ideal audience. — AWJ
June 2 at 4 p.m. Screens with the shorts UB2 and Fucked.
A Perfect Ending
Showing as a work-in-progress though it's reportedly very close to its final form, this is the latest lesbian romance from Nicole Conn (Elena Undone, Claire of the Moon). John Heard and Morgan Fairchild have supporting roles in the story of a wife and mother who comes out in the arms of a high-priced escort. The physical and emotional girl-girl action won't interest most gay dudes, although the photos of Jessica Clark make me wonder if she has a brother. — SW
June 2 at 6 p.m.
Mulligans: A Staged Reading
Frequent Q Cinema guest Charlie David, whose Positive Youth screens this year, returns for the world premiere reading of a play drawn from his 2008 film, in which a young man spends the summer with the family of his best college friend and winds up bringing his friend's father out of the closet. "Mulligan" is a golf term for a do-over, "when a player gets a second chance to perform a certain move or action." This play is a mulligan for David, whose overall solid film script had a lot of minor inconsistencies that needed tweaking. Let's hope he's taken advantage of it. — SW
June 2 at 8 p.m.
Part of me has grown a little weary of documentaries about the early days of the gay rights movement (they started about three years ago around the anniversary of Stonewall). But when you do them well, you deserve the credit.
Vito starts like a lot of them, reminding us of the plight of the early days of modern American gay persecution. It feels a bit slapdash (we literally hop from 1954 to 1969 in 30 seconds) rushing to explain the circumstances by which Vito Russo became radicalized, but once it gets going, it's a different film: Not just about Russo's activism, but his unique place as the first historian of gay culture.
Russo — who dies of AIDS in 1990, at age 44 — was an early crusader, but gained his greatest fame as a media analyst and journalist, publishing celebrity interviews and even screening campy movies for all-gay audiences, incidentally discovering the hidden history of gay cinema, which turned out to be in plain sight if you just knew where to look for it. (It led to his seminal book, The Celluloid Closet.) More than that, though, Vito shows how Russo was the first person to treat the gay sub-culture as one worthy of rigorous study not from a political but an artistic and personal expression. "The essence of gay liberation is politics you can dance to," one commentator observes in the film. If so, Vito Russo wrote the soundtrack. — AWJ
June 3 at noon.
Kiss Me
Reviewed next week.
June 3 at 4 p.m.
Gayby is a bundle of joy. It's got the most crossover potential of any queer film since The Kids Are All Right, so take advantage of what might be your last chance to see it with "family."
Like Will & Grace with procreation, it's about straight woman Jenn who responds to the ticking of her biological clock by asking her gay best friend Matt to father a child "the old-fashioned way." They don't exactly have beginner's luck in conceiving but they keep trying, all the while having ups and downs in their individual searches for Mr. Right. The concept is serviceable, but it's the details that make Gayby work so well. There are the usual rom-com complications, but enough of them are fresh enough that you can excuse the few tired twists.
Writer-director Jonathan Lisecki heads a diverse group of supporting characters as an effeminate gay man who's decided to be a "bear." The little-known cast, mostly
New York stage actors, is augmented by Dulé Hill as a potential romance for Jenn and Sarita Choudhury as her pregnancy guru. — SW
June 3 at 7 p.m. Screening with the video The Vagina Song.
Q Cinema: The Schedule
All programs at the Rose Marine Theater, 1440 Main St., Fort Worth, unless noted
Funkytown. The disco era, as it happened in French-speaking Canada. 135 mins. Preceded by the video Chow Down (At Chik-Fil-A).
May 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Won't You Take Me to Funkytown Opening Night Party
At the T&P Tavern, May 31 at 10 p.m.
An Evolving Issue: Gay Marriage Shorts. Program includes: Always Again, The Defenders, Groom's Cake,Harvey & Peter, Homecoming, It's the law, A Wedding Dance. 60 mins.
June 1 at 6:30 p.m.
Raid of the Rainbow Lounge. Dallas filmmaker Robert L. Camina charts the historic events at the Cowtown gay club. 100 mins.
June 1 at 8 p.m.
The White Party. At The Where House,
June 1 at 10 p.m.
Ladies Shorts Are Showing. Program includes: Connected, Family Portrait, Ms. Thing, Prince's Sword, Pursuit, Republicans, Get In My Vagina!, The Plan, What Could Be. 90 mins.
June 2 at noon.
Morgan. (Southwest premiere.) A gay paraplegic enters a wheelchair race. Preceded by the short Fallen Comrade. 100 mins.
June 2 a 2 p.m.
Positive Youth. (Southwest premiere.) Doc about HIV-positive young people. Preceded by the shorts UB2 and Fucked. 60 mins.
June 2 at 4 p.m.
A Perfect Ending. A special "work in progress" screening of a film about a repressed socialite who reveals too much to an escort. 90 mins.
June 2 at 6 p.m.
Mulligans: A Staged Reading. (World premiere.) QLive! debuts this adaptation of the coming-of-age film set at a country club.
June 2 at 8 p.m.
The Nineteenth Hole After Party
At Wild About Food,
June 2 at 10 p.m.
Vito. Documentary about gay historian Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet). 90 mins.
June 3 at noon.
Youth Shorts. Program includes: The Art of Walking Through the Streets, Bosco the Orange, Cure(d), A Fairy Tale, Hold on Tight, The Next One, Spiral Transition Take It/Break It, The Violation. 100 mins.
June 3 at 2 p.m.
Kiss Me. (Southwest premiere.) A Swedish love story between two stepsisters. 105 mins.
June 3 at 4 p.m.
Gayby. Will & Grace-esque comedy about best friends who decide to have a love child.Preceded by the video The Vagina Song. 90 mins.
June 3 at 7 p.m.
The Q Awards/Closing Night Party
June 3 at 9 p.m.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition May 25, 2012.


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