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Iraq War – Remembering the Causes: Part III
Welcome to the series for Part I click here, for Part II click here.
Terrorist & al-Qaeda Connections to Iraq
Given all of this, WMDs is not the only reason we went to war in Iraq. Often the President's critics object to the war in Iraq being labeled as a part of the War on Terrorism. The London Telegraph has been the greatest source of journalism that has found links between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but there have been other sources as well.
- Documents have been found that have correspondence between an Iraqi Intelligence Chief and Saddam Hussein that place Mohamed Atta in Baghdad in 2001 for "training." A member of Iraq's Presidential Committee has verified the validity of this correspondence.
- Mohamed Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague in December 1994 and June 2000. There is a CIA memo and Czech intelligence that supports this.
- Ahmed Shakir, an Iraqi national:
- Hosted a 9/11 hijacker in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000
- Traveled and met with terrorists worldwide
- Was detained in September 2001 with contact information for '93 World Trade Center terrorists, '98 embassy bombers, '00 USS Cole plotters, and 9/11 hijackers (This dude had the hook-ups!). There are memos that this from our Defense Intelligence Agency and our National Security Agency.
- The CIA has phone records of Shakir receiving telephone calls from the house where the '93 WTC bombing was planned.
- Other CIA memos list at least 50 instances of contact between al-Qaeda and Iraq from 1990 to March 2003.
- The London Telegraph links Mohamed Atta to Iraq-based Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal. Ziad, another 9/11 pilot, also seems to have had connections to Nidal.
- During the 1999 "What do we do with Osama?" debacle hosted by the Sudan, Saddam offered bin Laden asylum in Iraq. He ended up in Afghanistan.
- Salmon Pak – It's hard to know where to start on this one.
Salmon Pak is a terrorist training camp south of Baghdad. Defectors say that men came from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco to train there. Here is the kicker. The unique item to Salmon Pak is an empty Boeing 707. There are aerial photos of this. Funny enough, the camp doesn't have a runway; the plane just sits there. Charles Duelfer testified that he saw the plane from a helicopter and that the Iraqis told it was for (get this) counter- terrorist training.
Salmon Pak opened in 1995. This is the same year that al-Qaeda members started plotting in the Philippines on how to hijack airliners and slam them into U.S. landmarks. Their drawn up plans show they wanted to get up to 15 airliners. November 2001, the NY Times quotes Saban Khodada (Do you know what these names are doing to my spell check?), an Iraqi defector, saying that there was a six month curriculum at Salmon Pak teaching terrorists how to hijack airplanes with small knives and their bare hands. The London Observer also has work on this. They quote a man in Iraqi Intelligence by the name of Mukhabarat.
- It's clear that Saddam paid between $15,000 and $25,000 to families of Palestinian suicide bombers for their services of ridding the world of Zionist devils, known commonly as Jewish women and children.
All of this information pushes Iraq from a perceived threat into an actual threat and certainly confirms that Iraq is a valid target in the War on Terror.
Iraq War – Remembering the Causes: Part II
If you need to catch up, Iraq War- Remebering the Causes: Part I can be found here.
David Kay rightly admits that somehow we made some decisions based on bad intelligence. But it was Saddam Hussein who put forth a great effort to make our bad intelligence on WMDs look good. UNSCOM was blocked from inspecting sites that they wanted access to in Iraq. Iraqi escorts forbid UNSCOM from taking any photographs during inspections. Various Iraqi personnel were not allowed to answer UNSCOM's questions. And worst yet, UNSCOM inspectors would be forced to wait outside of building, sometimes for up to twenty-four hours, while trucks would leave filled with who-knows-what. When they would finally be allowed in the buildings would be empty; no furniture or documents. Obviously weapons inspectors were never intended to find any evidence of WMDs. Most of this information is from the testimony of Charles Duelfer, the former vice-chair of UNSCOM. David Kay filled in this odd gap of "We can't find weapons" – "Saddam doesn't seem to have any, yet he acted like he did." God Bless him, Saddam thought he had WMDs. He was paying big money for materials and scientists and he was getting robbed blind. This means he had every intention of developing these weapons but only through his own dumb fault it didn't work out. That's the funniest thing I've heard happen to a tyrant since the seventy straight years of "bad weather" that prevented the Soviet Union from growing any food and being the workers' paradise it should have been. Meanwhile, during his testimony Kay made an observation that should have caught everyone's attention. Kay believes, "this may be one of those cases where it was even more dangerous than we thought. [When] we have the complete record, you're going to discover that after 1998 it became a regime that was totally corrupt. Individuals were out for their own protection. And in a world where we know others are seeking WMD, the likelihood… of a seller and a buyer meeting up would have made that a far more dangerous country than even we anticipated… We know that terrorists were passing through Iraq. And we now know that there was little control over Iraq's weapons capabilities. … Iraq was a very dangerous place."
It will be tempting for political enemies of George W. Bush to say that he lied and manipulated the American people to get us into a war with Iraq. But follow that through to its logical conclusion. To have lied, he would have had to know that the intelligence of the United States, Great Britain, Israel, France, Germany, Australia and the United Nations was false. George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the best decision they could with the information they had. Countless other people examined the same intelligence and came to the same conclusion. Bush and Blair had two choices, put their trust in their own and their allies' intelligence or in promises from Saddam Hussein, a warmongering madman, who has pursued nuclear weapons more than once and used chemical weapons on his own people. In the end, there was intelligence that was perfectly accurate – Hussein was hiding that he was actively pursuing WMDs.
Iraq War – Remembering the Causes: Part I
I know, I know… why am I rehashing this now? But with reports of the successful surge and pending troop withdrawls, it is important to remember what got us there in the first place. The Iraq War will define a portion of the history of the United States and nearly the entire history of George W. Bush's two term presidency. Enjoy…
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Here is what the free world knows about Iraq's weapons. In 1981, under the cover of night, Israeli forces destroyed a nuclear facility in Iraq. At the time Israel was the scourge of the world. In hindsight we know how valuable that attack was. Ask this question, "Given that Saddam was trying to build nukes in 1981, do you think he simply gave up and never recommitted himself to that goal because a bunch of Jews interfered with his plans?" Next, we discovered all kinds of WMDs in Iraq after Desert Storm. Under the surrender treaty Saddam was to openly and completely dispose of all of his banned weapons. There is no record to be found that he destroyed these weapons. This is why we sent in the UNSCOM inspectors in the first place. Where are all the weapons we knew he had few years prior? Further, as recently as 1998 he launched biological and chemical weapons against Kurds in the North. Saddam and his buddy Ali, fondly known as Chemical Ali, went so far as to video the effectiveness of their weapons after their attack on the Kurds. Sometime in between then and now Saddam must have gotten rid of his weapons to avoid being in material breach of his surrender resolution and numerous following resolutions. But he also had to get rid of the weapons openly. Obviously that never happened. David Kay offered the most likely solution to this problem to the London Daily Telegraph. Kay believes that Iraq moved some weapons to Syria before the war began. He sited interrogations of former Iraqi officials. Kay's story fits with reports during the war that convoys of trucks were moving along the highway connecting Baghdad to Baathist controlled Damascus, Syria. Jed Babbin reports that some of our Special Forces heaviest fighting occurred on this highway around Al Qaim, on the border into Syria.
In his speech to the nation on December 16, 1998 President Clinton made these points.
- His mission was to destroy "Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs."
- His decision to use force against Iraq due to their material breach was backed by the unanimous recommendation of his national security team.
- Saddam has used WMDs against Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the Kurds.
- "The international community has little doubt then that left unchecked Saddam Hussein will use these weapons again."
On September 26, 2002 Wesley Clark testified before a House Committee. "[Saddam Hussein] retains chemical and biological warfare capabilities and is actively pursuing nuclear capabilities… Saddam has been actively pursuing nuclear weapons for over twenty years."
Quoting President Clinton and General Clark is not point the finger and say, "Them too!" But more, to show that it is not reasonable to believe that it was the Bush White House that sat around and cooked this all up from scratch.
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Sigh. Columbia's New York Review of Magazines has a lengthy look at the "the short, happy, tragic life" of Play, the Times' much-beloved sports magazine and, for my money, sportswriting's last good shot.
If you never read Play, which folded in November after a three-year run, then you should begin posthaste with David Foster Wallace's essay about Roger Federer. It is as fine a piece of sports prose as you'll ever come across, and now almost too heartbreaking to read. According to the NYRM story (maddeningly unlinkable and unpastable), the piece came about after this amusingly brief exchange between Foster Wallace and Play editor Mark Bryant:
If the result seems toweringly high-minded for a sports outlet, that's because the magazine was born in opposition to everything else on the newsstand. Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati cooked up the idea for Play during a layover in Boston:
Maybe, if you squinted hard, you could imagine the Foster Wallace story in Sports Illustrated. Maybe. It's a sad state of affairs when a magazine premised on the idea that sportswriting is more than just a wordy ad campaign for whatever's on ESPN that week is too fragile and idealistic to live past the age of 3. RIP.
Game Over [NYRM]
Roger Federer As Religious Experience [New York Times]


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Bisons rally stopped short
An impressive Bisons' rally fell short in an absolute slugfest at Knights Stadium on Monday night. Charlotte pounded out 21 hits in a 13-12 victory of a very persistent Herd club.
Buffalo trailed most of the game, including by six runs in the seventh inning. The Bisons came all the way back to tie the game at 12, only to have Charlotte collect the 3-1 series win with a walk-off victory in the ninth inning.
The Bisons just couldn't find the answer to the top two hitters in the Charlotte's line-up. Designated hitter Alejandro De Aza and centerfielder Buck Coats combined to go 10-12 with five runs scored and nine RBI. It was Coats who sent the Knights to victory with a two-out RBI-single in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The game was tied at 12 apiece because the Herd rallied from an 11-5 deficit over the final three innings. Buffalo scored three in the seventh inning, two in the eight and two more in the ninth to pull even with the Knights in the 36-hit slugfest.
Every Bisons hitter in the lineup had at least one hit and one run scored. Fernando Martinez plated two of the three runs in the seventh with a two-out, bases-loaded single to centerfield.
Russ Adams hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning, his second blast of the game. Lucas Duda then singled home a pair of runs in the ninth inning to tie the game.
The Bisons hit five home runs in the contest. Adams led off the game with a homer and Duda hit a two-run shot, his second in Triple-A, in the second. Andy Green solo shot came in the third inning and Valentino Pascucci launched his 10th of the season in the sixth inning.
It was the first time the Bisons hit five home runs in the game in over five years. The Bisons hit five homers on June 10, 2005 against Syracuse.
Despite the homers, it was Charlotte that led for most of the game. The Knights scored nine runs in the first three innings off Bisons starter Ramon Ortiz (0-1). De Aza and Coats both had a hit in each of the first three frames to help Charlotte build the big lead.
The Bisons will now return home for a five-game homestand that starts with two against Syracuse on Tuesday and Wednesday.
BISONS NOTES:Russ Adam's multi-homer game was his first since 2005 with the Blue Jays. That year, Adams had a pair of two-homer games, both against Charlotte's parent club, the Chicago White Sox…Adams became the second Bisons hitter to lead off a game with a home run this year. Jason Pridie led off the Herd's contest against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on April 18 with a blast…Of Charlotte's 21 hits, only three went for extra-bases (all doubles).


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People in the News – September/October 2009
PSA-Dewberry promoted Jim Beight to senior principal at the firm's office in Fairfax, Va. Beight is director of courthouse design. The firm also promoted Don Wertzberger and Brad Hall to principal. Wertzberger is director of public safety architecture, overseeing needs assessments, planning and design phases for all PSA-Dewberry's public safety projects. Hall, who is a project manager, has 36 years of industry experience and specializes in correctional facilities. John Bisinger and Tim Kraft, LEED AP, were promoted to principal.
Norment Security Group hired Paul Parks as national director of marketing for service operations. Parks joins Norment from Otis Elevator, where he worked for the last seven years.
Merrick & Company, an architectural, engineering and construction management services firm based in Aurora, Colo., promoted Phil Voegtle to director of architectural and engineering technical services. Voegtle, who has been with the firm for 11 years, he will supervise architectural, engineering and technical operations and discipline leaders and manage the firm's technical resources. The company also hired Matt West, PLS, as director of surveying and Glenn Dal Collo as a field service coordinator for the firm's facilities commissioning service unit.
Cutler Associates, a design and construction firm headquartered in Massachusetts, appointed Ernest O'Brien as president. O'Brien joined the company as executive vice president in 2007. Frederic Mulligan, PE, DBIA, president for 25 years, will serve as chairman.
Ricci Greene Associates, a full-service architecture firm specializing in justice facilities, promoted Laura Maiello to associate principal. Maiello, who works out of the firm's New York headquarters, has more than 20 years of experience in the justice market.
Agus Rusli, AIA, LEED AP, joined Perkins+Will as associate principal and director of design. Rusli, who will lead design efforts in the Dallas and Houston offices, previously led his own Pittsburgh-based firm.
Brian A. Kite, AIA, was named corporate and commercial studio leader at the Los Angeles office of architectural firm Harley Ellis Devereaux.
Leo A Daly, an international architecture, planning and engineering firm, hired Jennifer Conrad as director of business development. The firm also hired Mark Griffith, NCARB, LEED AP, as vice president and managing principal for its Los Angeles office.
HDR Inc., an employee-owned architectural, engineering and consulting firm headquartered in Omaha, Neb., named Newton Chase managing principal of its San Francisco office.
International architectural, engineering and planning firm Cannon Design hired Kevin A. Spady, AIA, LEED AP, as principal. The firm also promoted Martha Ball to associate principal. Ball is science and technology leader at the firm's Los Angeles office.
International architectural firm Perkins Eastman announced the promotion of Jerry Walleck to principal at the firm's Chicago office. The firm also promoted Omar Calderon (Va.), Christine Albright (N.Y.), Christine Schlendor (N.Y.), David Hutchinson (Conn.) and Lynne Rizk (Conn.) to associate principal.
Shawmut Design and Construction, a Boston-based construction management firm, promoted Brian Stys to the newly created position of vice president of marketing and business development.
McCarthy Building Companies Inc., a construction company based in Newport Beach, Calif., hired James D. Madrid to serve as director of business development for its Southern California divisions.
Branch & Associates Inc., a Virginia-based general contracting, design-build and construction management firm, promoted Catherine Underwood to vice president of construction management.
Tishman Construction Corp., a New York-based construction company, hired Peter Marchetto as president of construction operations.
Matt Ambrose joined Projects and Construction Services Inc., a construction management firm based in Cleveland.
Former Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph joined the management team of Keith & Keith Corrections, a national provider of facility maintenance services based in Charlotte, N.C.
AECOM named Paul Garrison, PE, director of justice and public safety projects, vice president of the firm's office in Virginia Beach, Va. Director of engineering Brian Vodzak, PE, was named associate vice president. The company promoted architecture manager Wayne Mortimer, LEED AP, to associate principal. Construction services and administration manager Paul Correia, CCCA, was named senior associate.
High Concrete Group LLC, a manufacturer of architectural facades and precast structures, named Kevin Iddings general manager of Midwest operations with responsibility for the company's Springboro, Ohio, and Paxton, Ill., plants.
Marc Papillon was named technical services manager for the eastern region at Gerflor, a manufacturer of vinyl resilient floor coverings. Papillon has worked in the flooring industry since 1971.
Wausau Window and Wall Systems, a Wisconsin-based engineering firm specializing in institutional construction applications, named Tom Mifflin as market manager for government and military projects.
Sol Inc., a provider of LED lighting based in Florida, announced the appointment of Susan Schierwagen as vice president of worldwide sales.
Tremco Roofing, a provider of roofing and weatherproofing products based in Beachwood, Ohio, promoted Kurt Sosinski, RRC, CDT, to director of product management.
Activar Construction Products Group, headquartered in Bloomington, Minn., promoted Greg Kamman to national sales manager and Carl Coleman to Midwest regional sales representative.
Mestek Inc., a Massachusetts-based company specializing in HVAC technologies, hired Andrew Dirats as engineering manager for its hydronic HVAC product lines.
Krieger Specialty Products, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of security- and acoustic-enhanced custom doors and windows, named Bob Carpenter as national technical consultant.
Mohawk Group, a Georgia-based manufacturer of carpeting, named Keith Gray as director of technical marketing. He will focus on expanding the company's expertise in evidence-based research and design for all institutional market segments.
Vince Throckmorton joined St. Louis-based Control Technology and Solutions as an account executive security specialist. He has 25 years of experience in the electronic security industry.
GE Security promoted Bob Hood to the newly created position of national security specialist for the company's GE Homeland Protection division. The position expands his previous corrections-focused responsibilities to encompass all market sectors.
MTI hired Lee Attaway to manage the Columbia, S.C., office of its security electronics installation division Montgomery Technology Systems.
The U.S. Green Building Council named Christopher Pyke research director. Pyke, who previously worked for CTG Energetics, of Irvine, Calif., contributed technical support during the development of LEED v3.
The Design-Build Institute of America named Lisa Washington, CAE, executive director following the retirement of president and CEO Lee Evey.


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Editorial: Russian businesses win the real gold at Olympics
The Sochi Games have hardly begun, and they're already proving Hall of Fame basketball Coach John Wooden's axiom: "Sports don't build character. They reveal it."
The emergence of San Jose's 15-year-old Polina Edmunds as one of figure skating's fearless new faces of the Games is especially heartwarming. It may be too much to ask for Edmunds to break into the ranks of the world's top skaters in her first Olympics, but it will make for must-watch television.
Speaking of Wooden's quote about revealing character: Russian President's Vladimir Putin's production of the Olympics is the most corrupt in history, and that's saying something, given the financial boondoggles of the past. The Sochi Games will cost a staggering $51 billion - seven times the cost of the 2010 Vancouver Games and more than the combined cost of every Winter Olympics in history.
Russian businesses have no peers when it comes to grabbing Olympic gold, having snagged an estimated $20 billion through overcharges and outright embezzlement.
The International Olympic Committee has a nasty habit of letting the leaders of some of the world's most repressive regimes use the Olympics to portray their nations in the best light possible. It rationalizes this by marketing the games as an agent of change in the world.
Well, let's see. Has anyone seen lasting political effects in China as a legacy of the Beijing Games? How about Leonid Brezhnev's Moscow Games in 1980? Or Adolf Hitler's Berlin Games in 1936?
We'll rest our case.
The IOC demands that host countries adhere to the Olympic ideals of nonviolence, openness to the world and individual expression. Maybe Putin didn't think that included the gay community. More likely, he knew his Olympic history and figured the IOC would be gutless in enforcing that promise. And it is.
But the corruption should not stretch to the games themselves, or tarnish the sparkle of the finest athletes in the world. The contrast between their honest dedication and their host's craven ambition may turn out to be poetic justice.
And who knows. Perhaps the world will see a 21st-century version of the brave protest Tommie Smith and John Carlos made at the 1968 Mexico City Games, a milestone in the civil rights movement.
The beauty of the Olympics is that the world never knows what to expect from it. Let the Games begin.


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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
More than a decade behind the U.S., the first European fighter equipped with an active, electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been delivered to a customer.
Dassault delivered Rafale serial number C137, the first production aircraft equipped with a Thales RBE2 AESA, to French defense procurement agency DGA on Oct. 2.
The aircraft will be used by the French air force trials center CEAM at Mont-de-Marsan for operational evaluation of the new radar. Development flight testing is complete.
Production deliveries to operational units will not begin until mid-2013, Dassault says, as another five or six Rafales with mechanically scanned RBE radars remain to be delivered.
U.S. manufacturers, meanwhile, are moving to tap a potential 1,000-aircraft market to upgrade Lockheed Martin F-16s with AESAs, beginning with Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S. Air Force itself.
Spurred by the expectations of the export market, European fighter manufacturers are moving to catch up with their U.S. rivals on offering active-array radars. Availability of Thales' RBE2 AESA on the Rafale was a key element in Dassault's January victory in India's 126-fighter medium multi-role combat aircraft competition.
In July, the four European nations behind the Typhoon fighter, which lost in India, asked the Eurofighter consortium for firm proposals to develop an AESA for fielding in 2015. Eurofighter and the Selex Galileo-led Euroradar consortium already are working on an AESA on industry funds, but a formal development contract is expected early next year.
Eurofighter, meanwhile, has begun flight testing the final set of Phase 1 Enhancements (P1E) for the Typhoon. Accomplished through two separate software releases, the P1E "robust simultaneous multirole capability" upgrade will establish the aircraft baseline for the AESA upgrade, Eurofighter says.
P1E upgrades to Tranche 2 production aircraft and structural changes in Tranche 3a will introduce provisions for the electronically scanned radar, the consortium says. The wing and rear fuselage for the first Tranche 3a Typhoon were delivered by Alenia Aermacchi to BAE Systems in late September.
Availability of an AESA is key in South Korea, where Eurofighter is competing against the Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle and Lockheed Martin F-35 for a 60-aircraft order, with a decision expected as early as this month.
Korea plans to retrofit 134 F-16C/Ds with AESAs and has selected BAE Systems to lead the aircraft's upgrade, but is conducting a separate competition for the radar, with incumbent Northrop Grumman offering its Sabr AESA against Raytheon's Racr.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded the $1.85 billion contract to upgrade 145 Taiwanese F-16A/Bs, but Taiwan plans to use the AESA that the U.S. Air Force selects for its 300-aircraft F-16C/D Combat Aviation Programmed Extension Suite (Capes) upgrade.
"Taiwan has asked the U.S. government to select an AESA for them as part of the Air Force plan," says Jim Hvizd, who is leading Raytheon's Racr sales campaign. "Korea has a slightly different approach and is conducting its own competitive assessment."
"Korea is working loosely with the Air Force, but Taiwan is tightly coupled," says Joe Ensor, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems' intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting systems division.
USAF needs
A U.S. Air Force request for proposals for an AESA upgrade for domestic and international F-16s is expected "any day now," Ensor says, with award of a contract expected in the third or fourth quarter of next year.
Initial operational capability of the Air Force's Capes upgrade is planned for 2018, which will pace foreign military sales availability of an AESA for international F-16 operators. "The earliest Taiwan could get it is 2017," Ensor believes.
Both Northrop and Raytheon plan to offer a single baseline standard of AESA radar for both U.S. F-16C/Ds and Taiwanese F-16A/Bs, as well as subsequent customers, with Singapore in initial discussions to upgrade 60 F-16C/Ds.
For Europe, meanwhile, the availably of active-array radars in the Rafale and Saab Gripen NG could prove crucial in the Brazilian competition against the AESA-equipped Boeing F/A-18E/F for a 36-aircraft order, now expected to be decided by mid-2013.
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We have the eternal problem of me just drinking espresso and the wife just caps. Finding something that fits both bills isnt easy.
Because of an enforced 2 week spell in Manchester (doing my civic duty, apparently) I am getting a chance to explore. Went to a little place called Grindsmiths (they call it a pod, i'd call it a shack, but a very very nice one) and had an excellent espresso. I believe they use nude espresso beans. I think I enjoyed it more than North Tea Power, but they don't do food as such.
There is another one, called PKB which is within reach but I am unlikely to get to, and yet another called TAKK which is too far away from where I start. The coffee scene in Manchester is much much healthier than I expected.


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I still don't sit on committees. But I do attend the Executive meetings, the regular meetings when time allows, and am always in awe whenever I drop by the library. It is a beehive of activity. People working on projects: copying, cutting, pasting, entering info into a database, looking up information to satisfy a query or assisting a visitor with finding their ancestor in our vast collection.
For the Societies I belong to that are too far for me to assist on a regular basis, I don't have the same sense of affiliation, but the awe and admiration are certainly there. And I try to help if and when I can. Sometimes it is the offer to speak, or to submit an article for their newsletter. I know in my heart I am not helping them to the same capacity, but I also know that like any donation, even small amounts of time and assistance add up.
The genealogy community is an amazing place. It is open, friendly, helpful and caring. There is such an amazing sense of connection to people we barely know by sight, but are strongly associated with through social media, e-mails, sharing research. So why are we so reluctant to help our local societies? This one has always baffled me.
Most of us who belong to a church community are only too happy to give of our time and talents. If we belong to a club or association, we offer to help in instrumental ways like baking for sales or dinners, selling tickets, setting up for meetings. Parents sit on committees, run phone chains, fundraise. Why is it that genealogists don't help their Genealogy Societies in the same way?
My hope is the reason for not helping is because we don't feel we are "good enough" at genealogy. Ok, so speaking to a group ties us in knots and causes severe belly cramps. Probably not a good idea to volunteer as a speaker. But ANYone can copy newspaper pages, cut and paste obituaries, birth announcements, marriage announcements or other items of local or family history interest. ANYone can attend a meeting and perhaps leave a little smarter and more energized afterward. ANYone can buy a ticket to a raffle, a social event or some other fundraiser.
I hear so many people say, "well, they are a clique", "they are all so set in their ways", "its an old lady society" But let's put on our genealogy hats and analyze those thoughts for a minute:
"Its an old ladies club" Ok, so lots of us have grey hair. Trust me, we have earned it. We have raised kids and survived the constant worry of the teenage years. We have nursed sick husbands, and survived the overwhelming emptiness after we lose them. We have endured careers and are happy to be away from the daily grind, politics and, yes, grey hairs that came with those careers. Believe me when I say we weren't all grey when we started our interest in family history. In fact, most of us weren't grey when we started volunteering either. Don't let our life experience intimidate you or turn you away. We can't help that anymore than we can help our wrinkles, our belly bulge or our arthritic joints.
"They are all so set in their ways" Maybe. But that doesn't mean we aren't open to new ideas. After all, as a Society, we have been around for years. We have gone from paper research, to microfiche/microfilm to computers and the digitized world. We have managed to change with the times and still stay afloat. What we are opposed to is a new person coming in and trying to take over.
Don't get me wrong. It's not that we don't want to pass the torch - someday. After all, genealogists are all about handing the past over to the future. But we also want to make sure that all of our years of sweat, toil, and papercuts are not going to be for nought. Like any healthy relationship, it comes down to trust. We want to work with you. Get to know you. Discover that our past will be safe in your hands in the future.
"Well, they are a clique" This is a common one. Please don't confuse our friendship, developed over years of sharing time, stories and memories together with us being a clique.
The definition of a clique is pretty similar to a friendship circle, with one huge difference. A clique excludes others. Like a private club. Genealogy Societies don't. We are all about membership. Our doors and our resources are open to others. Sure we support each other. We have become friends, after all. We have learned how we work as a group or as individuals. But that doesn't mean we won't do the same for you.
Come. Spend time. Offer to help. Share your research stories and brick walls with us. I guarantee you will be rewarded for your efforts. Heck, you might just want to sit on a committee or take on an executive position so that one of us can step aside, pass the torch, and feel tremendous pride knowing our Society is going to be safe and secure in the future, thanks to your help.


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This series is not a repeat of Shawn Robertson's awesome and thorough talk on creating Elizabeth at this past GDC, but is something more along the lines of fleshing out her animation systems to bring systemic Liz to life. When I say systemic I mean any moment with Liz that doesn't involve a camera lock. The player has the freedom to look at Liz if the player decides to, and when the player does, the goal was to have Liz relate to the world and player at any moment, as well as obey her character arc through the game.
With that we'll start with her emotion system.
At the most basic layer, Liz will be feeling or thinking something depending on the environment, trial, or dialog at any given moment. It is important that this emotion be communicated to the player so that Liz and the player can start to build a relationship. So the first thing was to create an additive animation to throw on top of her idle base pose. Some examples are below. The first being her generic idle base pose, then angry, determined, and after combat pose.
As you can see, the main difference in the emotion besides the facial pose is her arms and head. Those were the restrictions we chose to adhere to in order to use the same transition animations across all of her emotions. Otherwise, the number of animations would jump tremendously.
The next thing was to add different fidgets to Liz. Fidgets acted as simple flavor animations that punctuated what emotion Liz was in. It could have been anything from looking at her fingernails in boredom to swinging her arms in excitement or looking around in fear. There were two different types of fidgets, upper body and full body, each having their own pros and cons. The upper body fidget was able to play while Liz was standing still, as well as walking around, but we were limited to only animating her arms and head. The full body fidget was only able to play while Liz was standing still. However, since it was a full body animation, we had the ability to make the fidget more expressive by allowing her to shift weight from one leg to another, move her feet, and animate her torso in addition to just the arms and head. The fidgets were weighted so that bigger ones played less but had a bigger impact and smaller ones played more to keep Liz engaged in the emotion she was supposed to be in. The more and longer Liz was in a particular emotion, we decided to add more fidgets than those that were only in small or short sections. The video below demonstrates these different fidgets working together on the beach in Boardwalk. Notice some of the fidgets are labeled generic, meaning they can be used across multiple emotions. Some are labeled pinky awareness. These were animations where we wanted the player to realize Liz was missing a pinky, for reasons explained at the end of the game. Some were labeled happy. In context of the game, Liz was freed from her tower and she now thinks she's heading to Paris, which she has always dreamed of.
There were two cool things that grew out of fidgets in the emotion system. The first was the ability to have Liz look exhausted or relieved, as a transition out of combat, which made it less jarring to go back to her emotion. For example, if Liz was happy before combat was initiated and she needed to be happy after combat was over, it would look weird after the last enemy was killed for Liz to go immediately to a happy state without some type of acknowledgement of what had just previously happened. The after combat emotion allowed Liz to have a stepping stone back to her intended emotion. The second thing was the ability to put a lantern in Liz's hand and use the fidgets as if she was using the lantern to look around Hall of Heroes in Boardwalk. The video below demonstrates the after combat emotion and Hall of Heroes emotion.
Keep in mind these emotional fidgets served as a subtle way to keep Liz alive and interesting, so that whenever the player happened to stumble upon them, they could appreciate her a little more and hopefully build an emotional connection with her.


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If there's one thing I dislike about growing up the daughter of a world-renowned pathologist and public health expert, it's not being taken seriously by my own doctors when I try to save them some work with the differential diagnosis when I show up sick in their offices. I know my symptoms, I've done the research, I've paid attention over the years, I know my body, heck, I even own a copy of the DSM-IV. I don't take medical care lightly when I am breastfeeding.
I digress.
Once, I presented with what I knew to be a secondary, bacterial infection. I was still breastfeeding one of my three children, two of whom were in the examination room with me. After a cursory examination, the doctor was just about to write a prescription for an antibiotic when he looked up and asked if I was by any chance nursing.
"Technically, yes." I said. "But not much. I can have Amoxicillin, Keflex, or Augmentin."
He looked at me skeptically and began to thumb through his little reference booklet.
"My OBGYN has prescribed all of those for me before, even while pregnant, so I am sure they would be fine this time." I could tell he didn't believe that I was capable of that kind of deduction.
"Um, how often do you nurse?"
"Not often."
"Well, what do they eat during the day?"
I looked down at my 2-year-old daughter and 3-1/2-year-old son and wondered what he was thinking. "Um, well, they are all old enough to eat anything they want. It's just a psychological tether and a bonding thing. And it's just the youngest."
"Oh, so you aren't nursing them all?"
"OK, I had to ask. We just had someone in here that nursed hers until they were 6."
"Ahahahahahaha. No."
All of this got me thinking. Aside from a 3-month break in 1997, during which time I was actively trying to conceive after a loss, I have been either pregnant or nursing pretty much continuously since December, 1996. Holy little green tomatoes.
Most of my friends' babies weaned themselves before 12 months, but I seem to be putting out either chocolate milk or crack cocaine, because my kids fight me tooth and nail for extended nursing rights.
To be fair, after my middle child suffered major heart damage with viral myocarditis as a newborn, my pediatrician encouraged us to go as long as we could both stand it to boost his immune system. All it took was for him to mention that it would only take one good, strong cold or flu to kill our son in the first year and I was right there with the program, fully and completely over whatever pressure I was feeling from those who looked askance at family beds, attachment parenting, and extended breastfeeding. They weren't the ones wearing my breasts, I was, and mine was the only opinion that mattered in the end.
Brief aside: I'm not kidding about the whole family bed thing. If I have to line up syringes on my nightstand for round-the-clock administration to a newborn, I am not walking down the hall to get the baby. Period. I want that little sucker right where I can hear him breathing.
For six months, I carried a clipboard charting out the various medications, dosages, and schedules; believe me, when you are already sleep deprived and suffering from postpartum depression, you do NOT want to confuse the blood pressure medication with the morphine with the steroids with the stuff that makes his heart beat strongly enough to keep him alive.
It seems to be true, though, that some children will want to go on longer than the most devoted attachment parenting devotees, and I actually found myself with tandem nurslings after I fell pregnant again when my second was just 9 months old. Yes, I just said that. Tandem. Nurslings.
Does this sound familiar to anyone else? What's your experience with illness and breastfeeding? Has an unexpected event or illness changed how you viewed whether to breastfeed or for how long?


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It's easy to forget about it since it came out so early, but for my money director Joe Carnahan's survival drama The Grey is still one of the best films of 2012. It was considerably more low-key than his last pic, The A-Team, but I felt that Carnahan and Liam Neeson crafted something really special. It looks as though the director may be sticking with "low-key" for his next project, as he's now set to direct Patrick Wilson in the low-budget actioner Stretch for IM Global and Blumhouse Pictures, the studio behind the Paranormal Activity series, Sinister, and Insidious.
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Carnahan has been a busy guy as of late, as he previously tried to get the Daredevil reboot off the ground before Fox realized it was too tight of a schedule to get the film made in time—they had to start production this fall in order to avoid the rights reverting to Marvel. He's also been writing a remake of Death Wish that he intends to direct, but just the other day he mused on Twitter about possibly tackling a low-budget film first:
Thinking if 'Death Wish' isn't next, I might knock out a 3 million dollar movie with my pal Jason Blum…stripped down, bare bones basics.
— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) October 29, 2012
News of Stretch comes in the form of an American Film Market deal (per Screen Daily), and as such details on the project are practically nonexistent. We don't know the screenwriter or the plot, but Carnahan generally writes all of his projects so I assume he'll have a hand in the script. Blumhouse Pictures is known for their "small budget, big profit" business model, so we'll likely see a similar model used for Stretch. As a big fan of The Grey, I'm excited to see another smaller scale project from Carnahan. Hopefully we hear more soon.


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Homotopy groups of Lie groups I asked it also there, and I still don't know the answer, so I try again.
I would like to know a closed manifold (possibly of low dimension) such that $\pi_2(Diff(M))\neq 0$.
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Homotopy groups of Lie groups I asked it also there, and I still don't know the answer, so I try again.
I would like to know a closed manifold (possibly of low dimension) such that $\pi_2(Diff(M))\neq 0$.
Probably the simplest such manifold is $S^1 \times S^2$, whose diffeomorphism group has the homotopy type of $O(2) \times O(3) \times \Omega SO(3)$. This has $\pi_2$ equal to $\pi_2\Omega SO(3)=\pi_3 SO(3) = {\mathbb Z}$. The $\Omega SO(3)$ term is realized by rotating the $S^2$ slices of $S^1\times S^2$ by an element of $SO(3)$ that varies as one goes around the $S^1$ factor of $S^1 \times S^2$. This calculation was originally done in a paper of mine in the 1981 AMS Proceedings. An updated version of this paper is posted on my webpage.
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In higher dimensions, spheres provide interesting examples. By an elementary argument there is a homotopy equivalence $Diff(S^n) \simeq O(n+1) \times Diff_\partial(D^n)$ for all $n$, where the subscript $\partial$ denotes diffeomorphisms that restrict to the identity on the boundary of $D^n$. The question is whether $Diff_\partial(D^n)$ is contractible. The status of this is: true for $n\le3$, unknown for $n=4$, and false for each $n\ge 5$. The noncontractibility can be deduced from the sequence $$\cdots\ \to \pi_2 Diff_\partial(D^{n-2})\to \pi_1 Diff_\partial(D^{n-1})\to \pi_0Diff_\partial(D^n) = \Theta_{n+1}$$ where $\Theta_{n+1}$ is the group of exotic (n+1)-spheres and the equality $\pi_0Diff_\partial(D^n) = \Theta_{n+1}$ is assuming $n\ge 5$. Usually $\pi_0Diff_\partial(D^n)$ is nonzero since exotic spheres exist in most dimensions greater than $6$, and in the rare dimensions in which they don't exist one can appeal to known results about how far some elements of $\Theta_{n+1}$ pull back in the sequence above. For example, Cerf's pseudoisotopy theorem says the map from $\pi_1 Diff_\partial(D^{n-1})$ to $ \pi_0Diff_\partial(D^n)$ is surjective for all $n\ge 6$, so in particular $\pi_1 Diff_\partial(D^5)$ is nonzero since it maps onto $\Theta_7={\mathbb Z}/28$. A paper of Crowley and Schick posted on the arXiv last month shows there is a nontrivial element of $\Theta_{8k+2}$ that pulls all the way back to $\pi_{8k-6}Diff_\partial (D^7)$, hence $Diff_\partial(D^n)$ has infinitely many nontrivial homotopy groups for all $n\ge 7$.
Since the groups $\Theta_{n+1}$ are finite (apart perhaps from the unknown $\Theta_4$), these constructions don't give nontrivial rational homotopy groups of $Diff_\partial(D^n)$, but there is another construction that does, coming from algebraic K-theory. Using Waldhausen's big machine, Farrell and Hsiang in 1978 computed $\pi_iDiff_\partial (D^n) \otimes{\mathbb Q}$ in a stable range $n>>i$ to be ${\mathbb Q}$ for $i\equiv 3$ mod $4$ and $n$ odd, and $0$ otherwise. (This is the result mentioned in Vitali Kapovitch's answer.)
Regarding the question about nontrivial $\pi_k(Diff(M))$ for $k>2$ there are plenty of such examples too. For example Farrell and Hsiang in "On the rational homotopy groups of the diffeomorphism groups of discs, spheres and aspherical manifolds." computed the rational homotopy groups of $Diff(S^n)$ in the stability range ($i\lt n/6-7$ ) which in particular gives that in the stability range $\pi_{4i-1}(Diff(S^n))\otimes \mathbb Q\ne 0$. They have some other computations there too. Those are hard results however and if you are not interested in computing the homotopy groups exactly and only want to prove that they are not trivial then much more elementary considerations are sufficient.
For example it's well known that for any odd $n$ the space $Aut(S^{n})$ (the identity component of space of self homotopy equivalences of $S^n$) is rationally equivalent to $S^{n}$ and moreover the obvious map $SO(n+1)\to Aut(S^n)$ is an epimorphism on $\pi_n \otimes \mathbb Q$. Since the map $SO(n+1)\to Aut(S^n)$ factors through $SO(n+1)\to Diff(S^n)\to Aut(S^n)$ it follows that $SO(n+1)\to Diff(S^n)$ is not zero on $\pi_n\otimes \mathbb Q$. This gives you lots of examples with nontrivial odd $\pi_i(Diff(M))$. If you want even ones too then one can use the same trick as in Allen Hatcher's example.
Pick an element in $\pi_n(SO(n+1))\otimes \mathbb Q$ which maps to the generator of $\pi_n(S^n)\otimes\mathbb Q$ under the evaluation map and let $\alpha: S^{n-1}\to \Omega SO(n+1)$ be the corresponding spheroid in $\pi_{n-1}(\Omega SO(n+1))\cong \pi_n(SO(n+1))$ . This gives you a map $\Phi: S^{n-1}\times S^n\times S^1\to S^n\times S^1$ given by $\Phi(x,y,t)=(\alpha(x)(t)(y),t)$. By construction, this is an (n-1)-spheroid in $Diff(S^n\times S^1)$. And it's clearly nontrivial because of the action of $\Phi$ on the cohomology. Therefore, $\pi_{n-1}(Diff(S^1\times S^n))\otimes \mathbb Q\ne 0$ for any odd $n>1$.


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Celular and tablet what would you choose? Physical terminal fair was held in Nanjing, today the first day of the calendar in a lot of new products. Samsung exhibition display of a smart phone, called the Tab Q it has a 7 inch screen, Samsung GALAXY than we know Mega 6.3 little more on the big screen. Below for ZOL mobile phone business reporter filming the scene real machine ahead, you can feel this kind of big screen Android smartphone in advance.
The Samsung GALAXY Tab Q overall modelling style is the same with the GALAXY series of products, in the front is equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen, level of resolution of HD, camera ways it has 2 million like element + 8 million pixels. Configuration of the machine with the Android 4.3 sistemit operativ, but also is equipped with a 1.2 GHz quad-core processors, with a 1.5 GB of RAM + 8 GB ROM memory combination, and the biggest can support 64 GB extension.
And the Samsung GALAXY Tab Q in terms of its network support CDMA and GSM, but also in the international roaming, can want to use standard, is a realization of three net cover product. It also have a 3200 mah battery, for it 7 inches big screen with this is a good supplement. As for the machine, for the moment, time to market and price is not clear, but now the Tab Q already available in South Korea, coming into the country should be it is not far from there.
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A bead loom is one of my favorite presents to give kids ages 6 or 7 and up. You can find them for around $10, and it's pretty much guaranteed that the birthday girl (or boy) doesn't already have one. It's also something good to have around the house as an indoor activity for cold winter weekends.
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Scotland Yard has been asked to look at allegations of fraud and financial mismanagement made against an elected mayor.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is also sending in inspectors into Tower Hamlets in east London to investigate the activities of Lutfur Rahman.
The Bangladeshi mayor is alleged to have more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities in an attempt to buy influence.
Mr Rahman has denied the accusations, which were made in a BBC Panorama documentary.
Mr Pickles said serious concerns had been raised and PricewaterhouseCoopers is now on site to carry out an inspection of the council. A file is being passed on to the Metropolitan Police today.
He said: "It is a matter of public record that I have long been concerned about a worrying pattern of divisive community politics and alleged mismanagement of public money by the mayoral administration in Tower Hamlets.
"Following the receipt of a number of documents, I am now taking legal steps, in the public interest, to appoint inspectors to look into the allegations in respect of Tower Hamlets.
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Mr Rahman was accused by Panorama of increasing public funding to Bangladeshi and Somali groups from £1.5 million to £3.6 million in the face of officer recommendations.
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Tower Hamlets Council insisted it had "seen no evidence" that its processes had been run inappropriately.
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Shadow communities secretary Hilary Benn said: " Given the allegations that have been made over several years, and the material submitted to the Communities and Local Government Secretary, some of which has now been passed on to the Metropolitan Police, about the running of Tower Hamlets, it is clearly in the public interest to establish the facts.
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The leader of the Labour group on Tower Hamlets council, Sirajul Islam, said: "Today is a sad day for Tower Hamlets. Whilst there are obviously serious questions to answer, no council wants to be the subject of scandal. Lutfur Rahman needs to reflect very carefully on the position he has put the council in.
"We have been warning about Rahman's style of leadership for a long time. It is clear, whatever else is happening, the only way to resolve this situation and restore our borough's reputation is to vote John Biggs in May's mayoral elections.
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I'm going to be talking here about the literary establishment. You know who I mean. Don't you? Well, even if you don't, you certainly know what I mean. You don't? Come to think of it, neither do I. It's one of those expressions and concepts whose rhetorical potency and convenience derive, imprecisely, from the fact that no one stops to think whether it means anything at all – any more than a squash player pauses to consider why there's a wall at the back of the court.
Here is a classic example, from a book of criticism published in 1986, in which we learn that "the literary establishment does not see its confusion" – about the status of the writer John Berger – "in these terms". The author of these lines detects a whiff of conspiracy without being able to say with any certainty – as is the case with all the best conspiracies – who the conspirators are or, for that matter, exactly what form the conspiracy takes or what it is intended to achieve. I say this with more than usual certainty because the author of these lines was my 27-year-old self.
Bringing things up to date, Jonathan Coe was one of a number of writers invited to pick their books of the year in these pages. He prefixed his choices by praising the Booker judges who "chose a diverse and challenging shortlist and then, having royally offended the literary establishment by excluding so many of their current favourites … "
Again, who and what, in an admittedly off-the-cuff aside, did Coe have in mind? He didn't mean himself, presumably, because that would have made no sense, though to be asked to contribute to these lists could be a sign of establishment membership. In fairness to Coe, although he won the Samuel Johnson prize for a lobbying biography of BS Johnson (who, as Coe puts it in the entirely on-the-cuff context of the book's introduction, "was always angry, and hurt, and unhappy at his treatment by the literary establishment"), he has since retired from book reviewing and critical reputation-making to concentrate on his own fiction (which could be taken as proof that someone has succeeded in ascending/absconding to the loftiest perches of the literary establishment). The important thing is the unspoken assumption that this literary establishment – whatever it is – is a bad thing.
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The Salisbury Mall Cinemas opened on December 13, 1985 as a first-run theatre by Premiere Theatres. Initially a 3-screen theatre, it is located in the Salisbury Mall Shopping Center, and was the first multiplex to open in all of Salisbury and Rowan County. Three other screens opened in 1986. Later taken over by Cinemark Cinemas, it last operated as a second-run theatre under Kleeburg Cinemas and closed in 2011. By 2013 it had reopened, but had closed by April 2014.
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Opened around Christmas of 1985 as a three screen operation,and by early 1986 expanded into six screens making one of Salisbury's largest multiplex cinemas,and the town's only multiplex theatre in all of Rowan County. Originally showing first-run features and family films,the Salisbury Mall Cinemas was the place to see a great movie until 2000 when Cinemark Theatres built a huge 14-screen megaplex that gave this theatre some competition. By 2000 it was reduced to a discount movie house.
Kleesburg Theatres owns and operated the Salisbury Mall Cinemas as a discount house by showing second-run films at bargain prices.
The third screen could not have opened on December 13th since OUT OF AFRICA hadn't yet been released.
Information: The Salisbury Mall Cinemas originally opened on December 13,1985 as a three screen cinema,replacing the Rowan Plaza Twin(which became a discount movie house). The Salisbury Mall Cinemas opened as a three screen,but it was really a multiplex six screener(the other three screens would open in late January or early-February of 1986).
Screen 1: Sylvester Stallone in "ROCKY IV"
Screen 2: Michael Douglas "JEWEL OF THE NILE"
Screen 3: Steve Guttenburg in "BAD MEDICINE"
Screens 4,5,and 6(Opened in January,1986)
THE COMING ATTRACTIONS: Robert Redford and Meryl Streep "OUT OF AFRICA"
Steven Spielburg's "YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES"
Coate: From the previous comment: The third screen could not have opened on December 13th since OUT OF AFRICA hadn't yet been released.
OUT OF AFRICA was generally released on December 18th.
The Salisbury Mall Cinemas wouldn't get the film until mid-January,so larger cities like Charlotte would get first venue,but Salisbury would get the film until later on.
Apparently, this theater is closed indefinitely right now. An article from the November 5, 2013 Salisbury Post that a main sewer line has backed up in the building repeatedly over the past month, and efforts to get the problem under control through owner Namdar Realty Group of NYC have been unsuccessful.
There's a sign supposedly on the cinema that says, "The Landlord has not responded to phone calls or letters, and there is no expectation that there will be any corrective action taken to resolve the sewage problems. So we have no choice but to CLOSE."
Hopefully, this can get worked out, would be a shame to lose another cinema for no good reason other than a lousy landlord.
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OUT OF AFRICA was generally released on December 18,1985 in the larger cities of North Carolina. Salisbury Mall Cinemas didn't get the film until mid-January of 1986.
Mmandarano: Cinemark's Tinseltown Cinemas is the only multiplex theater in Salisbury and the only operational one in all of Rowan County. Salisbury Mall Cinemas last operated as a second-run discount house before it closed in 2011.
raysson, they must have reopened at some point. Here's the article from just 10 days ago (sorry I don't know how to condense the link on this site): http://www.salisburypost.com/article/20131104/SP01/131109870/0/SEARCH&slId=2
Drove by this cinema the other day. Nothing was on the marquee, should be marked as closed.
Correction: it's Kleeberg Cinemas, not Kleesberg.
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The 'one-year teleserye club' has just inducted another member.
Last week, 'Doble Kara' celebrated its first anniversary with an Instagram post from lead star Julia Montes. The said post can be seen below.
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This day is the day nagsimula ang lahat sa teleserye sa hapon sa buhay naming mga DK family…. would like to grab this opportunity na magpasalamat sa lahat ng bumubuo ng DK…. First sa Abs-Cbn/ Dreamscape … sa taong laging naniniwala sa kakayanan ko simula't simula kay sir Deo @montie08 ….sa adprom na kasama namin sa pagpromote … sa buong Creative @rondellindayag , at sa writers @danix8 and the whole team kanila kuya dave and the rest na nagpapagod and nagiisip ng napakagandang kwento ng kambal …sa editing /scoring para sa mga eksena …sa mothership na nageedit ng kambal kanila kuya Carlo … Sa directors (direk Manny /Direk Trina) pati sila Direk spoonky … sa mga A.D namin …#ram stylist na isa peg ko sa kambal 😂 @nericbeltran Sa mga staff from original up to now PM @ericksalud … sa mga crew (ang aming love na mga boys sa set) sa bigrock/lights mga cameraman &utility men … mga talent na nainvolve at nakaeksena namin sa show … Mga cast from @mina_villarroel to tatay ariel @allentdizon tita Glo , Tita alicia @patriciajavier1 @korekkajohn @anjodamiles @zackwey @samuelmilby @ea_guzman @rayvercruz @maxenemagalona @missmylenedizon @unitednationsofalora And sa aking mga naging kakambal ss show …most specially i wanna say thank you @cjacleus my twin!! Ndi magiging possible ang twin without you …. MARAMING SALAMAT sa lahat na patuloy na nanunuod ng Doble Kara … 1 taon po ang pinagsamahan natin patuloy pang magsasama sama kaya marami pa po kayong dapat abangan …. #DobleKara1taon
Produced by Dreamscape, 'Doble Kara' first hit the small screen on August 24, 2015. The series, which starred Julia Montes as twin sisters Sara and Kara, became an immediate hit, and soon after, it overtook the equally long-running GMA series 'The Half-Sisters' as afternoon's must-watch teleserye.
'Doble Kara' maintained its dominant status even as GMA rolled out 'Wish I May', 'Hanggang Makita Kang Muli' and 'Sinungaling Mong Puso' to combat the said threat. And on Wednesday, August 24, 'Doble Kara' celebrated its first anniversary on television with this riveting confrontation between Sara and Kara.
'Doble Kara' joins 'Be Careful with My Heart' as the only ABS-CBN dramas of the current decade to last at least a year. Other 'one-year teleserye club' members from ABS-CBN include 'May Bukas Pa', 'Only You', Kaytagal Kang Hinintay', 'Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan' and the original 'Pangako Sa 'Yo', among others.
Meanwhile, Kapamilya Gold's other teleserye is wrapping up this week.
'Tubig at Langis', the series starring Cristine Reyes, Zanjoe Marudo and Isabelle Daza, will air its final episode this Friday, September 2. The immediate conclusion of 'Tubig at Langis' had been planned in advance, as Isabelle Daza's wedding with Adrien Semblat is set to take place eight days after the show's finale.
First airing on February 1, 'Tubig at Langis will have aired for a total of 152 episodes. The series was not without controversy, however, as it had to deal with the acrimonious departure of Vivian Velez one month into its run.
Despite that, 'Tubig at Langis' was able to win consistently in the national ratings. Along the way, it dominated past GMA rivals 'Buena Familia', 'Hanggang Makita Kang Muli', 'The Millionaire's Wife' and 'Sa Piling ni Nanay' during its long eight-month run.
The series was also a constant trending topic on social media. Viewers all over the world remain hooked to 'Tubig at Langis' thanks to some heart-wrenching confrontations involving Irene (Cristine) and Clara (Isabelle).
Now that 'Tubig at Langis' will end this week, ABS-CBN can only hope that a memorable finale is in store. For the viewers, production staff and the cast, this is going to be an ending to remember.


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|'Sectarian' attacks claim four lives 10 gunned down across city
|[Dawn] Four people, including three traders, were bumped off in 'sectarian' attacks in two different parts of the city on Monday, police said.
The police added that the three traders, including two brothers, were rubbed out in two successive 'sectarian' attacks in Nazimabad No 2 on Monday morning.
The police added that four gunnies riding two cycles of violence fired at a department store owner, Qamar Hussain, 45, and his elder brother, Hasnain Hussain, 50, who ran a neighbouring vegetables shop, before killing yet another trader, Hussain Ali, at his paper shop in the next street printing press market.
The drive-by shootings were carried out in Nazimabad No 2 near Inquiry Office within the remit of the Gulbahar cop shoppe.
The victims were rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where Hussain Ali, 40, was pronounced dead on arrival, while the maimed brothers died during treatment, the police said.
Police Sherlocks later collected seven spent bullet casings of 9mm pistol from the crime-scenes.
Both the brothers were area residents, the police Sherlocks said, adding that Hasnain had three children and Qamar was father of a child.
Hussain was also a resident of Nazimabad and father of five, the police said.
Following the medico-legal formalities, the bodies of the brothers were taken to the Imambargah Shah-e-Karbala in Rizvia Society, while the body of Hussain was shifted to the Mehfil-e-Khurasan where his funeral was held before his burial in the Mewashah graveyard.
The funeral of Hasnain and Qamar will be held on Tuesday after the arrival of their elder brother from Dubai, family members told Dawn.
Following the killings, tension gripped Nazimabad and Rizvia Society where shops and markets were closed, as protesters placed burning tyres on Golimar Road to suspend traffic.
A heavy police contingent was deployed in the area to tackle the situation.
DIG (west) Javed Odho said that the killings seemed to have sectarian motive. He added that 9mm pistol was used in all the three killings, he said. For the past couple of days, the pace of sectarian killings had picked up, he remarked.
Central deputy secretary general of the Majlis Wehdat-e-Mohammedaneen Maulana Amin Shaheedi condemned what he described as 'serial assassination' of Shias in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
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take immediate notice of the 'Shia genocide' in Bloody Karachi.
In a statement, he said more than five Shias were bumped off by gunnies of banned outfits over the past 36 hours in Bloody Karachi but the government and law-enforcement agencies had failed to arrest a single terrorist involved in the killings.
Prayer leader killed
Later during the day, a prayer leader was killed in another sectarian attack, this time in North Bloody Karachi, police said.
Mufti Muavia, son of Abdul Mateen, was bumped off as he was about to enter Sadequain mosque at Anda Morr within the remit of the Sir Syed cop shoppe, the police added.
The maimed Mufti was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital from where he was referred to the Liaquat National Hospital. He died during treatment on Monday night, the police added.
A front man for the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat confirmed the death of Mufti Muavia during treatment at the hospital.
His funeral was held in Madni Masjid, Sector 11-C, North Bloody Karachi.
The police described the killing as a sectarian attack. "Apparently the attack somewhat seemed a reaction to the Nazimabad killings," DIG west Javed Odho observed.
Student killed
A private medical university student was rubbed out during what police suspect was a botched kidnapping bid on the Northern Bypass on Monday morning.
Resident of DHA Khadda Market, 28-year-old Zohaib Ahmed was driving a car (ABX-849) when he was rubbed out within the remit of the Sohrab Goth cop shoppe, officials said.
Sohrab Goth DSP Qamar Ahmed the young man was student of third year MBBS student of Baqai Medical University. The bullet pierced through his shoulder and hit his neck casing his death, the officer said, adding that the victim rammed into the rocks after being shot at.
The police shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.
As a matter of routine, he used to pick up some friends from Sohrab Goth while heading to the university every morning, but it was not clear as to why he took a different route on Monday, said the DSP.
"The victim was not deprived of cash, an expensive cellphone and the car, indicating that it was not a snatching attempt," he added.
"It seems that the suspects wanted to kidnap the young man, but he attempted to speed away and the suspects opened fire," the officer conjectured.
Man killed, policeman maimed
A man was rubbed out and a policeman was maimed in an attack at a tea restaurant in the Ayub Goth area of Sohrab Goth, officials said.
Abdul Jabbar Barfat, 65, was killed and policeman Mohammad Rafique was maimed in the drive-by shooting, the police said.
They said the dear departed was father of four.
Man rubbed out in Saddar
A young man was rubbed out in the Preedy area late Monday night, police said.
The victim was identified as Mazhar, 23, son of Mohammad Zaheer, a resident of Rexer Lines, the police added.
Preedy DSP Zamir Abbasi said: "The victim was rubbed out in a street near Rafique Plaza, off the M.A. Jinnah Road. It seems that he had been kidnapped before being brought there and rubbed out," he said.
The victim sustained a single bullet in the head, causing his instant death, the police said.
A spent bullet casing of 9mm pistol was found from the scene, the police said.
They later shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for medico-legal formalities.
Any political affiliation of the victim was not clear immediately, said DSP Abbasi.
Young man rubbed out
A construction company employee was rubbed out within the remit of the Bilal Colony cop shoppe in New Bloody Karachi on Monday.
Nadeem Khursheed, 35, sustained a single bullet in the head, the police said.
They shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
Bodies found
The bodies of two young men were found in a garbage dump in the marshy area near Machhar Colony, police said.
Both the men, identified as Saeed Alam, 20 and Amir Hussain, 24, had been shot at multiple times, the police added.
The police said the two men had criminal background. They had been tossed in the clink
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My friend and colleague Johnny recently came up with some pretty cool tricks for using BDAG to help when reading the Apostolic Fathers in Greek.
The trick is pretty simple, but is involved to explain. So I made a video.
Think about other applications of this same technique:
- Maybe you're interested in where BDAG has cited a particular section of BDF? You could use this same trick. As an example, BDF §260 has to do with how the article is used with personal names. Want to know where BDAG cites or points to this section? Search BDAG for "bdf in 260".
- Maybe you want to see where BDF has referenced Ignatius to Polycarp. You can do the same search the video demonstrates, only do it in BDF: "af in ipol".
- You get the gist. I'm sure you can think of others.
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The Canadian Soccer Association announced on Saturday that Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite defender/midfielder Rachel Jones, and midfielders Simmrin Dhaliwal and Samantha Donald are among 24 players called up for an upcoming women's U-15 talent identification camp in Vaughan, ON. The seven-day camp, which will lay the groundwork for the next two-year women's U-17 cycle, runs December 14 to 20, 2012.
Jones and Dhaliwal previously played for Mountain United FC while Donald played for Surrey United SC. All three players also took part in the BC Soccer Provincial Team Program and the National Training Centre.
"We're very proud to see our young players benefit from playing in the Girls Elite program," said Jesse Symons, Whitecaps FC Girls Elite head coach. "Having trained daily with other top-level players who've represented Canada at the U-17 national team level has given them great knowledge and understanding of what it takes. Emphasis on developing these young players is paramount to ensuring long-term success for Canada's women's national team programs."
This marks the first project for 1997-born players, an age group that will be eligible for the women's U-17 international competitions in 2014. The camp will be led by Canada's Women's Excel Program U-20 director and coach Andrew Olivieri.
All 24 players are taking part in their first-ever national project.
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I was wondering if there was other people who ever wanted to have a light version of tvpaint: with even fewer features then the "standard" version.
Something like: 5 layers max, no effects, no camera, only RGB colors pencils, no layer modes, no cgt layers, only the basic tools, no flips, no rooms, no project or xsheet panel, no layer color, no bookmark, no image mark, no share manager,
Personnaly I noticed that 90% of time I use only the basics. The reason behind is simple for everything else there are more powerful alternatives out there. Except of course for simply doing 2D hand drawn animation, that is THE thing TVpaint is best at its fast and easy to use.
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