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Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
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Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
New York Times, October 28, 1993
Posted: 2007-04-12 22:50:44
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center. The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used. The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. The transcript quotes Mr. Salem as saying that he wanted to complain to F.B.I. headquarters in Washington about the bureau's failure to stop the bombing, but was dissuaded by an agent identified as John Anticev. "He said, I don't think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York office to go to Washington, D.C." Another agent ... does not dispute Mr. Salem's account, but rather, appears to agree with it. Other Salem tapes and transcripts were being withheld pending Government review, of "security and other issues." William M. Kunstler, a defense lawyer in the case, accused the Government this week of improper delay in handing over all the material. The transcripts he had seen, he said, "were filled with all sorts of Government misconduct." But citing the judge's order, he said he could not provide any details.
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
Note: Why was ABC the only major news source to report on this highly revealing story? Read the shocking declassified documents on Operation Northwoods. Many military and political leaders look at the world as a grand chessboard. Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the queen. Explore revealing news articles on military corruption. Then check out eye-opening 9/11 news articles.
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
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[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2001-09-23, BBC News
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the [9/11] suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: The deceptions in the 9/11 official story are clearly shown in this key story. The FBI never revised its list of alleged hijackers. These four are all listed in the official 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more, see this webpage. Explore also concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles with evidence of a 9/11 cover-up from reliable major media sources. Then examine an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up.
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Global banks seek to contain damage over $2 trillion of suspicious transfers
2020-09-21, MSN News/Reuters
Global banks faced a fresh scandal about dirty money on Monday as they sought to limit the fallout from a cache of leaked documents showing they transferred more than $2 trillion in suspect funds over nearly two decades. Britain-based HSBC Holdings Plc, Standard Chartered Plc and Barclays Plc, Germany's Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG, and U.S.-headquartered JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of New York Mellon Corp were among the lenders named in the report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and based on leaked documents. The report was based on 2,100 leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs), covering transactions between 1999 and 2017, filed by banks and other financial firms with the U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Banks are required to file an SAR whenever handling funds that cause grounds for suspicion of criminal activity. The reports revealed broader problems with the monitoring system at the heart of global policing of money laundering and other criminal activity. Investors worried about the potential fallout for global banks, many of which have faced hefty fines in the past for lapses in controls and spent billions of dollars to bolster compliance. "It confirms what we already knew: that there are huge amounts of SARs being filed with relatively low numbers of cases brought through to prosecution," said Etelka Bogardi, a Hong Kong-based financial services partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. "It also brings out the point that managing financial crime risk goes beyond making SARs," Bogardi said.
Note: The original ICIJ report is titled "Global banks defy U.S. crackdowns by serving oligarchs, criminals and terrorists." Compare with the title of the New York Times article on this, "Banks Suspected Illegal Activity, but Processed Big Transactions Anyway." A search on this topic shows that headlines of almost all major media have watered this down, likely to not upset the big banks. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on financial industry corruption from reliable major media sources.
More than half of all wrongful criminal convictions are caused by government misconduct
2020-09-16, Washington Post
A new study digs into the reasons people are wrongly convicted, and it has found that 54 percent of those defendants are victimized by official misconduct, with police involved in 34 percent of cases, prosecutors in 30 percent, and some cases involving both police and prosecutors. The study by the National Registry of Exonerations reviewed 2,400 exonerations it has logged between 1989 and 2019, nearly 80 percent of which were for violent felonies. Of the 2,400, 93 innocent defendants were sentenced to death and later cleared before they were executed. The study also found that police and prosecutors are rarely disciplined for actions that lead to a wrongful conviction. Researchers found that 4 percent of prosecutors involved in those convictions were disciplined, but the penalties were "comparatively mild" and only three were disbarred. Police officers were disciplined in 19 percent of cases leading to wrongful convictions, and in 80 percent of those cases officers were convicted of crimes, such as Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts, who led a group of officers who planted drug or gun evidence leading to 66 false convictions. The 2,400 cases are far from a comprehensive count, since there is no centralized national database of criminal cases at the state and local levels. So an estimate of how often wrongful convictions occur, as a percentage of overall cases, is not possible. The study acknowledges there are other areas to examine, including quantifying ineffective assistance by defense attorneys.
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Hunger in America, Especially for Children, Has "Skyrocketed" During Covid-19, Data Shows
2020-09-23, The Intercept
The level of hunger in U.S. households almost tripled between 2019 and August of this year, according to an analysis of new data from the Census Bureau and the Department of Agriculture. Even more alarming, the proportion of American children who sometimes do not have enough to eat is now as much as 14 times higher than it was last year. The Agriculture Department conducts yearly studies on food insecurity in the U.S., with its report on 2019 released this month. The Census Bureau began frequent household surveys in April in response to Covid-19 that include questions about hunger. The analysis, by the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, found that 3.7 percent of U.S. households reported they sometimes or often had "not enough to eat" during 2019. Meanwhile, the most recent Census data from the end of August of this year showed that 10 percent of households said they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat within the past seven days. Levels of food insecurity in Black and Latino households are significantly higher, at 19 percent and 17 percent, respectively, compared to 7 percent in white households. Remarkably, this increase in hunger has nothing to do with any actual shortage of food. It is purely the result of political decisions.
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AMD announced that XFX is now an official AMD technology partner, joining the group of AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners. XFX plans to provide new products based on the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 4000 series GPUs to consumers, beginning in 2009.
"In the world of PC gaming, XFX is synonymous with the extreme performance that enthusiasts crave," said Ramkumar Subramanian, sales & marketing vice president, AMD India. "Their decision to partner with AMD and launch AMD GPU-based XFX graphics cards, including the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, widely regarded as the world's fastest graphics card by technology enthusiasts, speaks about the level of excellence achieved by the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series."
"With the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series, AMD redefined the graphics market and delivered graphics cards for gamers in every segment," said Sunny Narain, vice president, regional sales, XFX. "It wasn't just AMD gaming prowess that caught our attention; the company's technology leadership in multimedia performance, including video transcoding, HD content playback and surround sound audio, made it clear that AMD was and continues to be a great fit for users everywhere. We are excited with this partnership as it allows us to incorporate current and future ATI graphics technology into our graphics card designs, enabling our R&D teams to develop an even wider range of XFX graphics products for consumers in every region and every segment."
"India is a very important market for us. The graphics card space in India is growing exponentially and we do see a lot of potential for our graphics portfolio here. We are extremely proud that XFX has chosen us as their partner as this will help provide ATI and XFX die-hard fans a whole new level of experience," said Patrick Wong, director -- graphic sales, Asia-Pacific, AMD.
ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards were first introduced in June 2008 with the arrival of ATI Radeon HD 4850 and ATI Radeon HD 4870. The two products reportedly represent the world's first graphics cards to deliver one TeraFLOPS or more of compute power, quickly establishing both as cards of choice for gamers in the performance and enthusiast segments.

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Senior Home-based Business Travel Consultant
- Recruiter
- Succeed Recruitment Solutions
- Location
- North West
- Salary
- Up to £28,0000, bonus & benefits
- Posted
- 14 May 2019
- Closes
- 14 Jun 2019
- Sector
- Business Travel
- Job function
- Home Working
- Contract Type
- Permanent
We're looking for experienced Business Travel Consultants across the UK, as our client recruits for a number of Senior Business Travel Consultants to join their growing team. Offering after-hours travel support to corporate travellers and with a Worldwide presence and varied portfolio of accounts, our client are well-established and have an excellent reputation within the Business Travel sector.
Working from the comfort of your own home and utilising your extensive corporate travel experience and in-depth GDS skills, you'll handle a variety of corporate travel bookings including complex itineraries, amendments and re-issues while also delivering the highest levels of customer service.
On offer is an attractive package worth up to £28k including a competitive basic salary, a generous & achievable bonus scheme, all equipment including laptop and other excellent benefits. With both full and part time hours available, this is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy the flexibility and autonomy of a homeworking position, developing your career within a fast-growing Business Travel company.
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- Recent experience as a business travel consultant – minimum three years
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- Experience with ticketing, fare calculations, ticket reissues (including nett fare ticketing)
- Knowledge of online booking tools - i.e. Conferma and Evolvi - would be advantageous, however training can be provided.
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Itsy Bitsy Spider
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Itsy bitsy spider is a web game in every sense of the word. Try to ensnare insects and avoid the wasps and beetles to make the largest and prettiest web of them all.The spider will follow your mouse pointer when possible. Click once to make him leave the web outline, and again if you want him to turn. Cover areas in your web by encircling them with your spider. The encircled area will be marked as cleared, and your clearing percentage will go up. Watch out for the wasps and beetles. They have different behaviours, but they share a common goal: to stop you from making your web.
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Beyonce: National Anthem Live at Super Bowl Press Conference! (Video)
Beyonce stuns the crowd with an amazing live rendition of the National Anthem at a press conference on Thursday (January 31) in New Orleans, La.
The 31-year-old entertainer took questions from the crowd, saying she is "so anxious" for her half-time show at the upcoming 2013 Super Bowl.
"Well I am a perfectionist and one thing about me is I've practiced till my feet bleed. And I did not have time to practice with the orchestra," Bey explained during the conference about lip syncing during the 2013 Presidential Inauguration.
"I will absolutely be singing live. I am well rehearsed and I will be singing live.. this is what I was born to do," Beyonce added about her half-time show.
FYI: Beyonce is wearing an Olcay Gulden dress and Jimmy Choo shoes.
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In the time it takes you to read this sentence, millions of payment transactions will have occurred.
Speed, throughput and decision accuracy are everything in the payment industry. The typical payment transaction authorizes within 50 milliseconds. This means that shifting customer demographics and new payment products and channels -- mobile devices, among others -- create significant challenges for the IT organizations at major payment networks such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
Unfortunately, the large legacy of IT infrastructure and networks stands as a potentially immovable object before the bullet train of ever-changing customer needs. A transformational business model is required to service customer requests consistently in their channels of choice.
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Crossing Mexico On Aspen's 10,000 Mile Tour
By Ron Parker
An Aspen Power Catamaran C120 continues an enterprising cruise of over 10,000 miles. David and Sue Ellen Jenkins the proud owners of Knot Wafflen', a new 40' Aspen Cat, have teamed up with Captain Blake Eder and Larry Graf founder of Aspen Power Catamarans to take their boat on a shake-down cruise like no other. They are delivering their boat over water (and land) from Seattle Washington to Annapolis, Maryland.
This episode details the transport of Aspen's 10,000-mile tour boat from Guaymas, Mexico, overland, to Galveston Texas. The team, after having explored Alaska last summer, ran her down the West Coast to Cabo San Lucas and then up to La Paz for some wonderful winter exploration in the Sea of Cortez. After 7,000 miles in the Pacific, it was time to cross over to the Gulf of Mexico and on to the Atlantic for the final run to Annapolis.
This overland phase of the trip involves more than charts and navigation typical of a water adventure. Crossing Mexico requires a full-sized Semi truck with a special boat hauling trailer. To meet highway height requirements, the flybridge of the boat must be removed. Aspen designed the flybridge to be detachable to accomplish this portage.
Larry and his associates from Aspen Power Catamarans drove a pick-up truck towing a trailer with a custom rack to help cradle the boat and hold the flybridge during transit. Their journey lead them 1,600 miles from Washington State to the Mexican border crossing at Nogales, AZ. Once across the Mexican border they traveled another 250 miles and discovered that the road to Guaymas, where the boat lay waiting, was undergoing major reconstruction. A temporary bridge built over a river only 15-16 ft wide was passable with the pickup and trailer, but normal semis were having trouble there. This clearly could not serve as a route for the 14-foot-wide truck and oversized 75'trailer that would be carrying the boat.
Upon arrival in Guaymas Larry consulted Jose, the owner of Takata Trucking to see if he knew about the bridge problem. Jose had found out when he got his permits and quickly developed an alternate path for our wide load. His alternate route ran South into central Mexico then turned North East and back up to Laredo, a huge but necessary detour.
As Knott Wafflen' was blocked for transport, Larry arranged for crane service to lift the flybridge and began the necessary disassembly. It is a modular design, but nearly every system in the boat has a connection to the flybridge including engine controls, navigation lights, hydraulic steering, chart plotters, NMEA 2000 bus, and even the stereo. All these had to be disconnected, capped, and secured for the overland journey. Six bolts that attach the flybridge were removed and 20 feet of bonding adhesive carefully cut. Aspen uses a cross-linked urethane that is very strong. In some areas it is accessible to cut, in others, small holes are drilled, a piano wire passed through, and two men saw on either side to release the hold on the flybridge.
The next morning the truck arrived, a newer Kenworth with a custom extendable trailer. With the trailer stretched 10', pre-made steel cross beam sockets, 4" box tube cross beams and rubber padded hull grip fixtures at all four corners were mounted on the trailer and prepared to hold the boat. Knot Wafflen' was carefully hauled on the travel lift and set down on the cradle with her bows near the trailer gooseneck.
With the hulls resting comfortably forward, a raised steel support was erected at the aft end of the trailer, and wood flybridge support fixtures were secured in the cockpit and swim platform so that the flybridge could be lowered down onto these supports.
The crane slowly raised the flybridge, and with control lines, we worked it aft despite the wind gusts trying to turn this 600-pound 22 ft x 10 ft piece into a kite. The bridge was flying now 16-18 ft off the ground creating a bit of excitement but after a few close calls, and a bit of radical swinging, we got her over the fixture and managed a touchdown.
We now strapped the boat to the trailer and secured the flybridge to both the boat and trailer. Aspen hulls have high strength bow and stern eyes through bolted through strong points laminated into the hull (some 3" thick) creating solid points of attachment that helped keep the boat from moving in any direction. Jose our trucker told us that in 20 years of hauling hundreds of boats he had never seen a such a well-engineered easy-to-use system to support a hull for transport. Knot Wafflen' was prepped and ready for land transport and would soon be underway. After 7,000 miles cruising at sea from Alaska to Mexico, she would now travel over 1,500 miles overland from Guaymas to Galveston, Texas.
Follow along the rest of this story at http://aspenpowercatamarans.com/10000-mile-tour/
Re-entering the U.S. and re-assembly in Galveston, Texas
Larry and the guys hard returned to Washington State, and six days and 1,600 miles later our trucker was at the border in Laredo, Texas. He had been stuck on the Mexican side of the border due to a trailer tail light that was found inoperable on his exit inspection (it was a special part not easy to find netting a 10-hr. delay). Then 200 feet farther along he was quarantined at the US side of the border. US customs would not allow Mexican wood into the US without a "green tag sticker" proving it was bug-free. Our wood did not have such a sticker, and it was supporting the fwd. 2/3rd of the flybridge.
They wanted him to turn around. Then what? How is he supposed to fix this problem with the 600-pound flybridge sitting on the wood structure 10 feet in the air? He called, surprisingly calm, wondering if we had any ideas. The wood was from Home Depot in Burlington, WA and we had a photo of the truck and trailer at the top of Snoqualmie pass in the snow showing the fixtures. We texted him the photo and went to the factory after hours to try to find the paperwork. With some help from Aspen's materials manager, who helped us by working into the night, we were able to find and send an electronic copy of the receipt, showing the US origin of the wood. Twenty minutes after forwarding the information to the driver he was in the USA, but a massive thunderstorm was in progress that would delay things further.
The next day Larry flew to Galveston, Texas and called Jose, the driver, only to find he had been slowed again by weather. Texas has rules about traveling with oversized loads in bad conditions forcing him to wait out the storms. Brandon and Rick from Aspen had flown in the day before to meet the boat and to begin rigging the flybridge. Since the boat had yet to arrive, they had done some sight-seeing in Galveston for a day. Now along with Larry, they had another half day to kill waiting for the boat and then two days to make up in what was supposed to be a 3-day re-assembly plan. We would have only about a day to get the boat ready for a scheduled departure with the senior editor of one of the nation's largest magazines.
We decided to go check out Pier 77 Marina. We met Robbie and Gary and talked about our schedule problems and asked if they could lend a hand when the boat arrives. They were awesome! Open, welcoming, and very flexible. They don't get many trans-continental boats traveling through the marina and were interested in the trip and the boat. In minutes we bonded in the way that boaters do. This marina is BIG in a Texas way and services all kinds of boats from 22′ sailboats all the way up to 120'oil industry crew boats. It has a huge travel lift, cranes, metalworking shops, engine rebuild shops, and woodworking shops. Pier 77 is a full-service marina/yard, and for our trip, they agreed to take on the boat's bottom paintwork as well as the detailing and cleaning to make her ship shape again. Team Aspen would handle all the electrical, mechanical, re-assembly items.
That afternoon our trucker finally arrived. Knot Wafflen' was undamaged but incredibly dirty from the long slog through Mexico and the highway trip from the border! She had seen a lot of weather, miles, mud, and bugs along the way. Robbie of Pier 77 offered us their 5,000 PSI pressure washer to get the first round of mud and bugs off and warned us to hold on, "It has a Kick." This was a pressure washer like no other, you had to lean into it, or it would knock you over. We had to be careful not to be blown off the boat while also not damaging caulk or gaskets, but boy did it clean.
We unstrapped the flybridge while simultaneously cleaning the bonding surfaces. Our plan was to crane it in place before the whole boat was lifted off the truck. Pier 77's crane operator had the right touch, but again we had 15-20 Knots of wind to make things exciting as we maneuvered the flybridge in place. After 30 minutes and three tries, we had landed the bridge and secured the bolts in place.
We still had to unload the boat off the trailer, but it was getting dark, and the marina team was already on overtime. We discussed the situation with our friendly trucker and asked if he would mind staying in the marina for the night.
He agreed, and we bought him dinner before going back to work. After dinner, we set up work lights and ladders, to better access the boat. It was a little before midnight when we decided to call it a day. We are sweaty, dirty, and tired but have caught up at least one of the two days we are behind.
The next morning, we are on the boat and working again at 7 am. Our trucker needs to go, and the travel lift schedule is tight as Pier 77 is squeezing us into a completely booked schedule. The offload goes smooth as silk, and we are blocked and ready to continue working in the yard by 9 am. We move on through our rigging details and work through the owner's punch list, zincs, swim ladder tune-up, cockpit lights and other details. One pier 77 team starts detailing while another takes on the bottom paint. This is the third bottom paint for Knot Wafflen' in 10 months. The first failed from a batch problem and the second looks to have worn a little thin from thousands and thousands of miles at higher speeds. This time we are switching to SeaHawk Biocop which is a blend of Copper and aggressive Biocides to keep slime and grass from growing. The team at Pier 77 says it is more expensive than some other paints but works well with higher speed boats which is just what we need.
By 8 pm things are beginning to look ship shape and the team at Pier 77 agrees to come in at 7 am Sunday morning to splash Knot Wafflen' so she can continue her 10,000-mile tour to Annapolis. The next leg will lead us from Galveston to New Orleans with Captain Bill Pike, a top marine journalist from POWER & MOTORYACHT magazine. (look for his upcoming story of that adventure.) The staff at Pier 77 clearly has gone above and beyond the call of duty working alongside the Aspen team, and we are grateful to them and to Jose at Takata Trucking for being such supportive partners.
Larry heads to the store for provisions as he will be heading out on the boat to New Orleans. We are back on schedule!
To follow Larry and his team as well as Knot Wafflen' owners David and Sue Ellen Jenkins and Captain Blake Eder on the 10,000-mile tour watch for stories in your favorite marine publications and blogs and go to http://aspenpowercatamarans.com/10000-mile-tour/
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Mar. 22, 2013 — The prevalence of obesity within the military is currently 13 percent. This rising epidemic, also rampant throughout the general population, could result in military career setbacks, negatively impact operational readiness, and jeopardize Department of Defense operations. To combat the epidemic, a team of researchers chose the military cafeteria as the venue to observe and evaluate eating behavior and the positive impact of modest changes to promote healthy eating and food selection.
This is digital photography of a study participant's tray before consuming the test meal. Digital photography was used as a tool for visual estimation of diner intakes. (Credit: Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
The results are captured in a new report published by the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
"Many studies have tested the effect of dietary, informational, and environmental interventions on the eating behaviors of customers in civilian worksite and university cafeterias," says lead investigator Major Aaron Crombie, PhD, RD, Military Nutrition Division, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA. "However, studies to date testing such interventions in military dining facilities (DFACs) have been very limited and inconclusive. Our study aimed to address that information gap." Nearly three-quarters of military personnel eat at least one meal a day in garrison dining facilities.
The study team from the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center staged an intervention within five dining facilities on Fort Bragg, NC, that included the following actions consistent with 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans:
Five other dining facilities served as a control during the first half of this year-long study. Researchers collected data using a combination of survey questionnaires and digital photography of the diners' plates before and after meals were consumed.
Over time, investigators observed that minimal changes in food service practices and menus in DFACs produced significant improvement in soldiers' nutritional intake, including decreases in fat. Customer satisfaction increased on four criteria — flavor and taste, available choices, low-fat food availability, and appropriate portion sizes. More favorable results were observed the longer the intervention lasted, indicating that the positive changes are sustainable over time.
Says Major Crombie, "The results of this study give credence to the idea that DFAC food service interventions can promote a healthy lifestyle and, in turn, optimize the health profile of warfighters. Although intakes of fruit, vegetables, and whole grains continue to be problematic, reductions in energy and fat intake may prove effective over the long term in combating the obesity problem."
While the study was performed in army dining facilities, it has implications for the entire military family, since many meals are not taken in the DFAC, but at home. Further, the study team advocates that results can be easily applied to civilian settings.


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The credit card is a commonly used financial tool and its use forms an important part of personal finance. A credit card though simple to use has a networked system and structure that enables payment through a plastic card with minimal chances of misuse and fraud.
The credit card industry mainly comprises of:
- Card Provider: Cards providers are very few in numbers. Some of the known credit card providers are: VISA, MasterCard, JCB, American Express etc. The logos of these card providers are what we very often see on entry to a store.
- Card Issuers: financial institutions such as banks issue a MasterCard or VISA or any other card to card holders. This card will have logos of both the financial institution and the card provider.
- Card Acquirer: The card acquirer processes the cards accepted by any store and this service is known as credit card processing or merchant account services.
- Merchant Account: The merchant or stores have an account with a credit card processing service to enable credit card payments in their store.
Every credit card transaction initiates a flow of information and exchange of money between the credit card processing organization, card issuer and the merchant account authorized and conducted by the credit card provider.
Credit card processing services do not limit their services to acceptance of credit cards alone but also enable the processing of various payment mediums such as: debit cards, electronic cheques, gift cards and other forms of payment.
The credit card processing organization performs the key task of authorizing the credit card when presented to the merchant instantly. The credit card processing organization then debits the card issuers account and credits their account with the amount of purchase made by the card holder.This implies that the card issuer pays the card processing services for the transaction. The card services organization then makes the payment to the merchant after deducting a transaction processing fee.
This is the procedure followed for every credit card transaction and it is made easy for you due to the efficiency of various parties that are involved in making credit card transaction an easy process.


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Brooks: Gritty Webb Eager To Compete With CU's QBs
BOULDER - Ask Jordan Webb for a quick rundown on what he brings to his position on the football field and chances are extraordinarily good that he'll top his list with toughness.
Leadership ability, athleticism and awareness are on his resume, too, but here's a kid who prides himself in, as a long-ago wristwatch commercial boasted, being able to take a licking and keep on ticking. (He far too frequently was given the opportunity to demonstrate that at his last stop, which we'll get to shortly.)
A couple of years ago Webb and some of his buds on the Kansas football team were playing an NCAA Football video game - and that always offers the potential for smack talk and a semi-controlled melee. When the smack and friendly wrestling erupted, Webb found himself squared off against Duane Zlatnik.
The pertinent stats here: Webb pushes hard to reach 6-1 and 210 pounds. Zlatnik easily stands 6-4 and weighs 311.
"We were always kind of roughhousing," Webb said the other day after completing the preliminary round of signing on to enroll and play this fall at Colorado. "I think it he really wanted to make it hard on me, he could have. But he didn't want to hurt his quarterback."
For an outsider that could be a debatable point, considering the number of KU games over the past two seasons when Webb found himself being chased, caught and buried by guys of Zlatnik's stature. Two weeks before CU visited KU in 2010 (do I really need to revisit that outcome and what happened two days later?) Webb was sacked six times by Texas A&M in a 45-10 loss.
One of the sacks was particularly hard on Webb's shoulder; he missed the next two games, the second of which was against CU. And that allowed junior college transfer Quinn Mecham (it's OK to say who?) his four quarters of football fame against the defenseless Buffs.
Webb watched the Jayhawks rally and score the game's final 35 points, unaware that he was seeing his future team at perhaps the program's all-time low. But change occurs with alarming regularity in college football; by the end of the next season CU and KU had new coaches and the Jayhawks' new guy (Charlie Weis) made it very clear that Webb wasn't in the master plan. Weis will go with transfers Dane Crist (now) and Jake Heaps (later).
Being left out after the coaching shuffle only mildly surprised Webb. He had committed to KU in his junior year at Union (Mo.) High School, and this was at a time when Jayhawks football was amazingly successful under former coach Mark Mangino. KU's starting QB was Todd Reesing, its offensive coordinator was Ed Warner. Webb was so impressed by all three and what was going on in Lawrence that, "I kind of took myself off the market, I guess you could say. I talked to other schools, but KU fitted me as a quarterback and I really respected the coaching staff.
"At the time of my commitment, it was three months after they won the Orange Bowl (capping a 12-1 2007 season), Reesing was having a great career and they were throwing the ball 40 times a game. It just seemed like the perfect fit."
Fits sometimes fall apart. After Webb spent a redshirt season (2009) at KU soaking up as much as possible from Reesing, Warner and Mangino before all three were gone. Turner Gill replaced Mangino the next season and at the conclusion of the season after that Gill was gone, too, replaced by Weis.
The Jayhawks recruited Webb as the heir apparent to the magical Reesing, who burned a redshirt season (and the 2006 Buffs) in his KU debut. Early on, Webb said he was compared with Reesing: "Yeah, kind of in the way we played the game and both of us being kind of short. That's always the first thing that people compared us by. But he was a great player. It was fun to work under a guy like that."
What did he learn from Reesing?
"Not so much X's and O's or playbook stuff, but how to carry yourself, be a leader," Webb said. "He's the type of guy when it comes to crunch time you can really count on him making a play. That's a quarterback, really the definition of a quarterback."
Webb's first college start was in 2010 against No. 15 Georgia Tech. That game followed a 6-3 home loss to North Dakota State in Gill's dismal KU debut. Webb came off the bench in the fourth quarter, then was named the starter for the Yellow Jackets. He responded by throwing three touchdown passes (18-of-29 for 179 yards, with one interception) in KU's 28-25 upset win.
"I definitely managed the game as well as I could have," he recalled. "It was my first start and we were the big underdogs playing against No. 15 in the nation. It was a real exciting day; we were glad to get that victory."
He finished his KU career with so-so stats: 3,079 passing yards, 20 TD passes vs. 20 interceptions. His completion percentage rose from 56.5 in 2010 to 63.7 in 2011. But the Jayhawks finished 2-10 last season and were winless in the Big 12 Conference, costing Gill his job.
Graduating early from high school allowed Webb to be an early enrollee at KU, and that led to an early graduation (31/2 years) in Lawrence. NCAA rules allow a graduate to transfer and not sit out the usual transfer season. Thus, after enrolling in graduate school (education) at CU, he can play immediately and has two seasons of eligibility remaining.
The initial courtship by CU was sparked by Webb sending emails "to some schools that I knew had graduated quarterbacks, places I knew I'd like to go," he said. "Coach (Rip) Scherer (QB coach) was able to get back in touch with me and we kind of kicked it off. I had a really good time talking to him and we kind of hit it off from the beginning. I'm lucky it all worked out."
Before Webb met Scherer's boss - Jon Embree - he was somewhat familiar with CU's second-year head coach through Embree's youngest son, Connor, a KU receiver who transferred from UNLV. Webb said he had "always heard really good things about (Jon Embree) and when I finally got to meet him I definitely got the feel he was a people person."
Wisconsin also took an interest in Webb, but he committed to CU the week before he was scheduled to visit the Badgers. That trip might not have made a difference; Webb said CU's coaches were "up front and honest with me. They told me they couldn't guarantee anything, that the best player was going to play. I respect coaches that have that mentality.
"Coach Scherer has been around the business for a long, long time. I really look forward to playing for someone with such a great knowledge of the game."
Webb's knowledge of the game will be under the microscope the first time he steps onto the field in Boulder. Two seasons of experience in the Big 12 give him a leg (maybe an arm) up on CU's returning quarterbacks - Connor Wood, Nick Hirschman, John Schrock, Stevie Joe Dorman - and incoming freshman Shane Dillon. None of that group has a wealth of game-day experience, but the key for Webb will be how quickly he can absorb Scherer's system and apply it. He also is coming from a primarily spread offense at KU to a pro-style, QB-under-center scheme at CU.
"I'm really confident in my ability to pick it up," he said. "I think I can do it pretty fast . . . I've learned a few offenses in my career and a lot of it's the same stuff - just switching terminology and maybe some different responsibilities at the quarterback position."
He conceded his game experience could be beneficial, but added the emergence of a starter is "going to come down to who plays the best in practice and who has the best grasp of the playbook and who has the best handle on the team and the most respect from his teammates."
That might be where his grit enters the equation. "I think that's really important, especially at the quarterback position," Webb said. "It's easy for guys to look at the quarterback and say they're not always taking the hits like they are (at other positions). When you bounce right back up I think you earn the respect of your teammates.
"I pride myself on being tough, but I also try to be a leader. I'm not the loudest or most talkative guy during workouts or practice, but I try to lead by example. I played in over 20 ball games against some pretty good competition, so the experience is there."
No question the Buffs could use it, but it will be up to Webb to apply it. His chance is only a month away.
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whoa, so that's what 2017 was like!? verified first official inaugural 2018 post, TENI TENI TENIMYU TENI TAISOU!
whoa, so that's what 2017 was like!? verified first official inaugural 2018 post, TENI TENI TENIMYU TENI TAISOU!
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on top of last year we heralded a new year by a group radio calisthenics http://forum.solidstatesquad.com/index.php?showtopic=8250 .in that manner, did you tag along? just in case, there's a brief refresher. it's radio exercise, each and everyone can join in http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7960417 .it's instant to see, even newcomers can enjoy in it by each and every person no matter the time schedule . you are spruced-up by expensive suit to always in a conference, board meeting etc, and big money bags salary? are you scullion? arcade cashier? mariachi band? from former to any conceivable, radio calisthenics can fit whatever you answer . OK!
introduction is over, so what about 2017? it's 2018 which means we have to quick year-in-review comments.2017 was always chock-full to truly supply curveballs down to the very clock.for a sum-up, maybe a one-word-describe of 2017.I'll think.hm.how about : you know of "祭り込む" (matsurikomu)? from dictionary in english translated : "To place an obnoxious person in an out-of-the-way post to be rid of him or her." hmm.there doesn't yet exist dead-ringer word for suitable crackshot precise antonym, I think it would be : "To place an obnoxious person in #1 eye-catching post to suffer him or her." lightheartedly, therefore if someone invents it, that would be my 2017 word!
but I guess time really does move forward.
well, it's only 12 months, anyway.with strong bodies and keen minds, let's keep going and see how to improve.by-the-by, let's apply ourselves to utilize extra shrewd mindset to attack this year !! so , let's do our best again in 2018 and everyone have a good one
thank you. happy new year !
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This post is for saying this fucking words:
That year sux
That year were the worst bullshit i can see, and that were not my friend, and you,
2018 people, better not a motherfuckers, not be bigh motherfuckers
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so far 2018's comparable or worse in many ways
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Why I Serve
by Toni Romano
I'm curious about what motivates people to volunteer; to give their time, their talents, and their money to this Work. What motivates us to serve, besides the greatness of the Edgar Cayce readings? I'd like to share an account of how I came to this service, and would love to hear your story as well.
I was brought up in an evangelical Christian church that emphasized giving one's ALL to the Lord. That meant our time, our talents and our tithe—and more if there was a building campaign or project that needed additional funds! This was not questioned in our home. If the church doors were open, we were there! We had to take a city bus, transfer in the middle of town, and take a second bus to the church. And when the paycheck was cashed, the tithe went into the envelope for Sunday morning offering. This was during WW II, and our father was in the South Pacific defending our country! So the "we" was my mother, maternal grandmother, and sister.
At the tender age of seven, I found my way to the altar to give my heart to the Lord. I knew from a young age that I was to dedicate my life in service to God. I taught Sunday school in my teens, held offices in our Youth Fellowship, attended our church college, majored in Christian Education, and married a ministerial student. Church activities and church members made up most of my life until I was in my thirties.
While my husband was co-pastor of a church after seminary, the civil rights movement was born, and we became very active. The church "fathers" determined that being active in civil rights was not an acceptable expression of the ministry and took the credentials away from three of the activist ministers, including my husband.
You might take away credentials, and you might change where you work, but a life of service doesn't change. It didn't matter whether I was volunteering at my children's school, teaching in a public school classroom, working in a community program, or working in a state bureaucracy. The same sense of dedication and commitment motivated me to give my all in service. However, what I experienced at this time in my life was that service in itself was not enough. My soul was hungry. I began searching for more meaning in my life.
One door after another began opening—a weekend of yoga with my sister, an interest in astrology (learning about the blueprint I was born with), learning to meditate with a co-worker, and, as fate would have it, connecting with someone at a state government meeting that became my first spiritual teacher and counselor!
That relationship brought me to the Edgar Cayce material and the A.R.E in 1983. I was making a major life change, leaving a 26-year marriage, a comfortable home, and striking out on my own for the first time in my life! And here's this "little girl" from the cornfields of Illinois moving to the big city of Chicago. I knew only two people where I found my first job, and that was it! My counselor told me to find an Edgar Cayce study group. Who was this Edgar Cayce? What would I be getting myself into? If she said it, I trusted it!
I searched and searched the papers until one day I found an A.R.E. program announcement: Finding Your Soul's Purpose, with Mark Thurston. I went to the program, became a member, and found an "A Search for God" study group four blocks from where I was living and working! I put my foot on the path right then and there!
The Cayce principles have opened me to more understanding of "a life of service" that began when I was seven years old. I now see that this choice was actually my IDEAL. Each time a group exercise focused on discovering ones Ideal, I would come up with Service—no surprise. Looking at the Ideal from a spiritual, mental, and physical perspective gave much more meaning to Service. I found myself at one point, honing the Ideal by adding Loving Service. That made me more aware of "how" I was giving service.
When I became so engrossed in the busyness of doing the work, I found myself neglecting the spiritual practices to keep me centered. I didn't like how my life was going! The next time I worked with my Ideal, I added Joyous to Loving Service to remind me that it is not the doing that is as important as the way we are being when we are serving. So that has brought me to an Ideal to Be Love, Be Joy, and Be Peace.
And that's my story… so far! If you are inspired to share your story of what motivates you to give your time, your talents, and your financial support to this Work, I would love to hear from you. Love and blessings!
Toni Romano holds an MS degree in Human Development Counseling from the University of Illinois. An A.R.E. Life Member, she has been a member of a study group for 30 years. She worked as the Coordinator of the Midwest Heartland Region and Chicago Center for 9 years before moving to Virginia Beach where she worked as Outreach Coordinator for A.R.E. headquarters for 9 years. She is presently a facilitator for the Personal Transformation and Courage Institute, Inc. online at TransformationandCourage.org. She volunteers for the A.R.E. Call Center and is an active member of Glad Helpers Healing Prayer Group. Please send her your stories at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Three blue men went out to entertain the world is the simple formula behind the BLUE MAN GROUP's success. They started in New York then took their unusual show to cities including Boston, Chicago, Orlando, Tokyo and Las Vegas. Their unique mix of music, comedy, art and science was something that the happening hotspot of Berlin simply had to have.
Nine times a week the three bald BLUE MEN take audiences on a one-off musical journey that is entertaining, thrilling and hilarious. The show moves along at a fast tempo with infectious beats and is a visual as much as an aural delight. Supported by four other musicians, the BLUE MEN constantly communicate with the audience via their drumming skills and their instruments specially created for the production. They engage with the 600 audience members and get them involved in the entertainment. The blue men communicate through gestures, glances and music, rather than words, so you can enjoy the show to the full even if you don't understand any German. Without speaking, the blue men's loud, crazy, colourful performance will leave you speechless.
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[completed and published at Lulu on 22 February 2011: 222 pages]
[cover design by Dave and Judy Armstrong. Christ of St. John of the Cross, by Salvador Dali (1951): from the Salvador Dali Society website]
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Dedication (p. 3)
Introduction (p. 5)
1. Biblical Analogical Evidence for the Special Presence of God in Physical Objects Prior to the Incarnation (p. 9) [70 Bible passages]
2. Is the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit Intrinsically Opposed to the Real, Physical Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist? (p. 21) [21 Bible passages]
3. Sacraments: Moral Responsibility and Spiritual Benefits (p. 29) [read online]
4. John 6 and Lack of Faith in the Physical Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist as a Parallel to Doubting Disciples (p. 33) [read online]
5. Questions and Answers on the Holy Eucharist (p. 45)
6. The Philosophical Theology Behind the Eucharist (p. 55)
7. Biblical Evidence for One Species in Holy Communion (p. 59)
8. Exclusion of Non-Catholic Christians from Communion (p. 65)
9. Protestant Use of Grape Juice in Holy Communion (p. 75)
10. Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue on Corpus Christi: Eucharistic Processions and Adoration (p. 79)
11. Catholic-Protestant Disputes Regarding Transubstantiation and Church History (p. 83)
12. The Protestant Sacramentarian Controversies: Calvin vs. Luther vs. Zwingli (p. 95)
13. John Calvin's Mystical Eucharist vs. Logic, the Church Fathers, and Holy Scripture (p. 101)
14. The Simultaneous Assertion of Realism and Symbolism in St. Augustine's Eucharistic Doctrine (p. 121)
15. The Church Fathers and the Sacrifice of the Mass (p. 133)
16. St. Paul's Reference to Himself as a Priest and Use of Sacerdotal Categories (p. 153) [16 Bible passages]
17. The Timeless, Miraculous, Transcendent Nature of the Sacrifice of the Mass (p. 161) [35 Bible passages]
18. Biblical Analogies Related to Eucharistic Adoration and the Sacrifice of the Mass (p. 171) [54 Bible passages]
19. Arguments for the Permissibility and Plausibility of the Sacrifice of the Mass from Scripture Alone and Analogy (p. 183) [34 Bible passages]
20. Biblical Evidence for Congregational Participation in Offering and Re-Presenting Jesus' Sacrifice on the Cross (p. 191)
21. The Mass: Is It Idolatry Like That of Jeroboam? (p. 195)
22. Biblical Evidence for Wholehearted Formal Worship (p. 207) [read online: part one / part two] [23 Bible passages]
23. Biblical Evidence for Holy Days (p. 215) [13 Bible passages]
Bibliography (p. 219)
This volume consists of a collection of articles originally posted on my website and blog (both named Biblical Evidence for Catholicism): written between 1996 and 2010, oftentimes as a result of questions received, or debate challenges. These have been edited, revised, and combined in various ways, in order to crystallize the thought and to maximize the impact of the arguments.
Most of the queries came from our Protestant brethren in Christ. These occurrences afforded me the opportunity to defend and clarify what Catholics believe with regard to the Holy Eucharist, and to demonstrate that Catholic beliefs are – as we believe — in line with both Holy Scripture and the eucharistic doctrine of the early Church. It is my sincere hope and prayer that my own ruminations along these lines may be of some benefit to others.
I have written extensively on the "basics" of Catholic eucharistic doctrine and its grounding in the Bible in several of my books: A Biblical Defense of Catholicism (pp. 77-100), The Catholic Verses (pp. 113-126), The One-Minute Apologist (pp. 58-65), and Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths (pp. 255-270).
I won't be reiterating those aspects; this work can, therefore, be considered a slightly higher-level course, so to speak (Catholic Eucharist 0201, if you will).
Chapters 3 and 12 are reminiscent of the format of earlier books, since they were originally intended to be included, but were casualties of the editor's red pen. Chapter One, written shortly after Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths, would have fit very well into its structure and goal of showing how Catholic doctrine is entirely harmonious with the Bible.
Among the topics covered are: 1) the special presence of God in physical objects prior to the incarnation, 2) comparison of the indwelling and the Real Presence, 3) doubting disciples in the eucharistic discourse of John 6, 4) exclusion of non-Catholics from Catholic communion, 5) St. Augustine's and John Calvin's views, 6) the Church fathers on the Sacrifice of the Mass, 7) St. Paul's "priestly" references, 8) biblical, analogical arguments for the Sacrifice of the Mass, 9) the Protestant "idolatry" accusation, and 10) biblical evidence for wholehearted formal, liturgical worship.
The facts of Church history are also examined in depth, with much corroboration from Protestant scholarly sources.
Armstrong's explanations help to make Catholic teachings on the Holy Eucharist and the Mass understandable, plausible, and easily harmonized with the teaching of the Bible.