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SEE ALSO: BYU Runner's Epic Steeplechase Fail Is Even Funnier In A Frame-By-Frame Photo Gallery


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Everton defender Bryan Oviedo has undergone a successful operation on the double fracture to his left leg.
The Costa Rica international broke his tibia and fibula during Saturday's FA Cup fourth-round victory at Stevenage.
"Bryan's surgery was a big success and he is in a comfortable and stable condition," the club's head of medical services Danny Donachie told evertonfc.com.
"He fractured his tibia and his fibula and they were displaced, so we weren't able to put them back into place until Monday.
"He had surgery (on Monday) night when a rod was put through his tibia, which means he will come back stronger than before.
"It was a clean break and that means that there are no pieces of bone.
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OPELOUSAS, La. – LSU AgCenter experts urged farmers who experienced harvest problems caused by the white sugarcane aphid in grain sorghum to report their difficulties to state agriculture officials to help obtain approval for a pesticide to control the insect.
Josh Lofton, LSU AgCenter agronomist, said grain sorghum yields were good last year, but the residue left by the aphids in many fields created a gummy mess in combines.
He said an application for a Section 18 permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is being made for Transform pesticide by the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Kurt Guidry, LSU AgCenter economist, urged farmers to provide details about problems caused by the aphid last year to convince the EPA that it should approve the use of Transform in Louisiana grain sorghum.
Guidry said grain sorghum prices are likely to be close to corn prices in 2014. He said corn demand is down because less ethanol is being produced. But, he said, cheaper fertilizer prices will allow many farmers to continue growing corn, which probably will be priced from $4 to $5.50 a bushel.
He said soybean stocks are tight with continued demand, but that could be offset by a large South American soybean crop. He said soybean prices should remain in the range of $11 to $12.50 per bushel for the next few months.
"We hope we'll have demand for corn, but we pretty much know we'll have demand for soybeans," he said.
He said wheat prices have not increased but should reach $6 to $7 a bushel.
Lofton said this year's Louisiana's wheat crop was not damaged by the mid-January cold snap, but last year's crop had significant damage from freezing spring temperatures. "We had some with entire fields of aborted seed heads," he said.
Trey Price, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist, said more fungicide-resistant diseases will be found in soybean and corn crops. He said 85 percent of frogeye leafspot disease samples showed resistance to strobilurin fungicides in 21 of 27 parishes. "I saw more frogeye last year than I did Cercospora," he said.
Ron Levy, LSU AgCenter soybean specialist, said he expects soybean acreage to increase in 2014 because of good prices. Last year's crop exceeded 1 million acres and yielded an average of 48 bushels, a one bushel increase from 2012, he said.
The average yield would have been higher, but the crop in south Louisiana was hurt by moisture problems, he said.
Levy said more farmers are using Liberty Link soybeans. He said research has shown that the Liberty herbicide is more effective if application is made two hours after sunrise. The difference can be as much as 40 percent to 50 percent control, he said.
Dan Fromme, LSU AgCenter cotton and corn specialist, said the window for corn planting is approaching, with the recommended time frame of Feb. 25 to March 20 in south Louisiana and March 10 to April 1 in north Louisiana.
He said yields were good last year, and weather played a big factor in that outcome. "Temperatures have a big impact on what that corn plant can do," Fromme said.
He said cooler night temperatures and consistent sunlight result in better yields and complete grain filling, while warm nights and cloudy days reduce yield potential.
Daniel Stephenson, LSU AgCenter weed scientist, said farmers should be controlling weeds in fields that will be planted soon. He advised that glyphosate should include a surfactant to make sure the chemical penetrates the waxy leaves of growing weeds.
He said herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth weeds have been confirmed in St. Landry Parish. "This is the best time to kill it," Stephenson said.
J Cheston Stevens, LSU AgCenter soils specialist, advised farmers to have their soils tested. He compared planting a crop in untested soil with starting a trip without a road map.
Stevens said nutrient deficiency leaves clues in a plant's appearance. For example, he said, nitrogen deficiency will show up in the form of yellowed lower leaves, while a deficiency of sulfur affects the top leaves.
Don Reed, LSU AgCenter wildlife specialist, said wild hogs are becoming more of a problem statewide. He said state law allows night hunting for wild hogs between March and August to avoid conflicting with the regular hunting season.
Reed said trapping is the most effective control method if a large trap can be used to catch an entire group. Catching only one hog at a time teaches other hogs to avoid traps, he said.
Vince Deshotel, LSU AgCenter agent in St. Landry Parish, said sweet potato farming has fallen to fewer than 200 acres in the parish, compared to 40,000 acres a few decades ago. He said the sweet potato associations in St. Landry and Evangeline parishes were dissolved last year because of the decline.
Most of the sweet potato acreage is in northeast Louisiana, he said.
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MOSCOW - A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled in favor of a flight attendant who said Russia's flagship airline stopped assigning her to work long-haul international flights because of her weight.
The Moscow City Court overturned a ruling by a district court that had rejected Yevgeniya Magurina's contention that she was sidelined as part of Aeroflot's drive to make its cabin crews younger and more physically attractive.
The flight attendant's lawsuit put a spotlight on how women in Russia are still often judged by their looks, not their skills.
Magurina, 42, had submitted pay slips showing that she had stopped receiving bonus pay, which comprised 20 percent of her income, after she asked for a larger-sized uniform. She also says she no longer was assigned the role of senior steward after asking for a bigger uniform.
Magurina had requested 500,000 rubles ($8,700) in damages and for the court to rule that Aeroflot's regulations on clothing sizes is discriminatory. The court on Wednesday upheld Magurina's discrimination claim, ordered Aeroflot to pay her the missing bonus pay but awarded her just 5,000 rubles ($87) in damages.
Her attorney welcomed the ruling, calling it "definitely a victory."
"We were not suing for money. We wanted the court to acknowledge that you cannot treat people like that," lawyer Ksenia Michaylichenko said.
Russia courts do not normally award major damages even if they do uphold a claim in full.
Aeroflot's press office did not have any immediate comment on the lawsuit.
Magurina said a sympathetic manager leaked her documents showing that some 600 of Aeroflot's 7,000 cabin crew employees, most of them women, were reassigned to shorter flights without bonus pay because they were considered too "old, fat and ugly."
Aeroflot in court denied the claims of discrimination, arguing that the company had no obligation to pay bonuses.
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Abobe art gallery exhibition: Looking forward, the future of art
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But one thing in life that never changes…is that sooner or later things change."
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Undoubtedly there is an amazing message to young readers…people and families come in all shapes and sizes and colours and types and this definitely is something to be celebrated and normalized, but the author packed in WAY too much which really bogged the story down. In contrast, her portrayal of a five year old boy in Room was so much more simply authentic and well fleshed out–these characters just felt like silly caricatures, which then kinda defeats the purpose. I think unfortunately, she had more fun writing it than anyone will have reading it–a book with a great premise but a lost opportunity in the end.
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Imperial Schism? The Firing of Bruce Bartlett as a Lesson for HistoriansNews at Home
Two economists were in the news this week, with respect to having been, in effect, fired!
One of them, Lawrence Summers, is the President of Harvard University. He is resigning, effective in June, rather than face a long period of nasty confrontation with a part of the faculty. He can, however, salve his wounds with the long-term financial remuneration of a tenured senior professorship, and on the lecture circuit, should he choose not to go into either the business world or return to a career in government.
The other is Bruce Bartlett, whose book, Imposter: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, is due out today, February 28 th. Bartlett, of course, was fired last October from a conservative think-tank in Dallas, Texas, The National Center for Policy Analysis. The reason? His book hit too close to President Bush's responsibility for the policies of his administration. The president, directors and some donors to NCPA, apparently believe policies can somehow be divorced from those who make them. What a novel view!
Both firings open up some interesting questions about the intellectual establishment in this country, ranging from universities to think-tanks. For now, let's focus on the example of Bruce Bartlett's.
There are three reasons for me to do so. First, Bruce has been my friend for some thirty years; second, despite all of his work in economics and taxation policy, he was trained as an historian, and third, his career choices may have some relevance for historians, especially younger ones, today.
I first met Bruce early in 1976 when, as a Liberty Fund Junior Fellow working on his MA in History at Georgetown, after an AB at Rutgers, he visited the Institute for Humane Studies (then in Menlo Park, CA, now at George Mason University) to do some research at the Hoover Institution. Since all of the Summer Fellows had returned home, he stayed with me in the Institute's townhouse, where I resided as the Liberty Fund Senior Research Scholar. I was flattered he had read several of my writings, and the evenings together for a number of weeks, really gave us opportunity to discuss our historical worldviews.
His thesis was later published as Cover-up: The Politics of Pearl Harbor, 1941-1946 (Arlington House, 1978). That alone, would be enough to alienate him from the foreign policies of George W. Bush, because it is clear Bruce, was, and is, a non-interventionist, in both foreign and domestic policies. "Imperial George" hates that kind of "Isolationist" opposition to unilateral imperialism, blasting it no less than four times in his recent speech before the Congress.
What impressed me most, however, was that Bruce was one of among a handful of students I have known in my career who, was not only a generalist, but interested in the philosophy of history as well. To demonstrate how out of place that is in today's university, once, when I offered to exchange positions with someone at Northern Arizona University, so she could be nearer her ill mother in Florida, a "colleague" at FAU wrote to warn them that I was, "a generalist, an entrepreneur (I headed a modest Const. Co. on the side) and a dilettante." Fortunately, the Honors Program offered me an even better deal than did the "worried" History Department. Narrow specialization today is the game of the game!
I had corresponded with Carroll Quigley, the noted lecturer at the Foreign Service School at Georgetown, who had made some suggestions on my essay Egalitarianism and Empire. I envied Bruce for having had the opportunity to sit in on a number of Quigley's lectures even though he was not enrolled in his large courses. Quigley had been Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown, and the latter mentioned his writings in the speech accepting the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1992.
Bruce hoped the Liberty Fund would support his work toward a doctorate in History, but the board of the Fund decided against such a general policy. Had it done so, Bruce might have stuck it out to obtain the terminal degree in History. Enrolled, for same, later at Georgetown, and contemplating in the late 1970s, as a white male trying to get a job in an American university, as he has recounted it, one day he left a doctoral History class in mid-lecture, took Incompletes in all his courses, and was able to secure a job in Washington. His career is nicely described here.
Given Bruce's conservative worldview, and the specialization that has occurred in American universities during these years, he certainly made the correct career choice. His experience with NCPA indicates also the parameters of the freedom of expression in such obviously biased "think-tanks," whether of the left or the right.
He is free now to do the interdisciplinary research that has always been his orientation. I would urge him to return to the broader parameters of the philosophy of History that interested him years ago, and that is not given much shrift in today's universities.
Quigley died in 1977. As I was completing my stay with Liberty Fund, I suggested the Liberty Press reprint what I considered his most important work, The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis (1961), and was honored to contribute the "Selective Bibliography" short commentary when it was published in 1979.
I hope to be reviewing Bruce's new book at length in several places. I would suggest to Bruce here, however, that the most important passage in the book has little, if anything, to do with Bush's economic policies, or comparing them to Reagan's, but rather to Quigley's whole analysis of History.
On page 41, Bruce notes the journalist Ron Suskind, in an article that was much quoted, including by this writer, when it was published late in 2004, citing an unnamed Bush White House aide, "We're an empire now, . . . and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do."
Well, Bruce, now that you are, so to speak, unemployed, I suggest you take a member of the Bush administration at his word, and continue to study what the Empire is doing, of which domestic economic policies are only a part.
What better place to begin that than to return to Quigley, whose book was focused around the concept of Empire and Universal Empire, in my view a much sounder framework of analysis than anything that has been done by the many writers quoting Spengler or Toynbee in the last decade since the Neocons proclaimed the "new" American Empire that increasingly looks like the "old" Empire of a century ago.
Certainly, the specialists in the universities are not going to do so in any great numbers. Their protests against the New Empire are miniscule, or even pathetic, compared to those in 1898, or even against the Vietnam War. I warn you, though, your idol, Ronald Reagan, was advancing the Empire during his watch, and men like John Negroponte first earned their spurs developing a strategy of killing the peasants in Central America.
To get you back to the insights of Quigley as a starting point, let me mention him on two issues which even George W. Bush believes are paramount today, Energy and the Weaponry now available to Global Insurgents in the "Long War."
Writing in 1961 Quigley noted that a fourth great Age of Expansion in Global Civilization might come about by our learning to efficiently harness the energy given us by the Sun, since all other sources on our planet were finite, or cause other problems in their development.
Apropos of what has been going on in Iraq and elsewhere, he observed, as quoted at the beginning of my own, "Weapons, Technology and Legitimacy" that we were in a new age of warfare, which a few military planners are now calling "Fourth Generation Warfare," seemingly in ignorance that Quigley wrote another whole book on weapons in history.
As several historians have noted, History seeks to answer both the "How" and the "Why" of human action. The first great question is "Why, if we are a Democracy, have the American People, certainly including historians and other intellectuals, allowed their political leaders to change a nation created in the name of Liberty and Self-Determination, into becoming the world's great bastion of Empire and Counter-Revolution?" Secondly, "How do we restore our nation toward a quest for those lost ideals?"
Bruce, you have shown you have the intellectual courage to take on a Republican administration of great power, in the certain knowledge it would cost you your rather comfortable position. Hopefully, yours in the first salvo that will open further a great Fissure or Schism in the Republican Party and in American History over the question of Empire.
I can think of no one better armed and equipped to take on the great issue of Empire, and I am proud to see you returning to your roots in History.
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Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
"overseas war against those who are aching to wage it on U.S. soil"
is, for example, pure regurgitated Rovian fearmongering bologna, suitable for couch-potato phony Christians and other American halfwits.
At last count, zero Iraqis ever tried to invade the U.S.. Not on 9-11-01 or before or since. Nor will you find a factual statement about this pretend Iraqi war threat to America being the reason for the Washington D.C. Chickenhawk's bungled occupation of Iraq in 2003 either. The talk at the time was of ridding Saddam of his vast stockpile of nuclear weapons. Recycling Rove's lies won't change that reality.
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
Okay Mr. Purportedly Original Thinker, here is what your treasonous political favorites were saying in September, 2002, to try to dupe the country:
CNN September 8, 2002 Posted: 8:46 PM EDT (0046 GMT
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Vice President Dick Cheney accused Saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past 14 months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms.
White House sources also tell CNN that Saddam has in recent months met several times with Iraq's top nuclear scientists and encouraged them to continue their work.
Sources say Iraqi defectors who used to work for Iraq's nuclear weapons "industry" tell administration officials Iraq's top priority is acquiring nuclear arms.
Rice acknowledged that "there will always be some uncertainty" in determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon but said, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
That took about 20 seconds on Google to find. There are tons more of this kind of thing and it won't take weapons inspectors years to find.
Now, may we have your statement from a top level Junior Frat Boy Bush administration official, in the run-up to the Baghdad Cakewalk invasion of March 2003 to the effect that America needs to bog down its military for years in Iraq in order to fight an
"an overseas war against those who are aching to wage it on U.S. soil" ?
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
This interesting but meandering piece of thought-detritus leads ultimately only to the intellectually lazy and historically untenable notion of America being a "Great Empire" under the "Great Imperialist" George W. Bush.
Let us recall a bit of real history here. G.W. ran for president and was nearly elected in 2000 based on a consistently unworkable program of slashing taxes, dumbing down government and civic discourse, and being "humble" overseas. True to form, this "born-again" ex-alcoholic truly wants to "stay the course" on that "straight and narrow" path notwithstanding constant spin-doctoring about doing great things with foreign policy. Like ridding Saddam of WMD. Or containing the "axis of evil." Or waging an oxymoronic "war on terror".
If one must relied on hackneyed clichés, Marina would be closer to reality with this analogy:
George W. Bush is to the great world leaders and empire-builders of the past as Nero was to Caesar.
This is a "president" could barely find New Orleans on the map, and who has achieved nothing of consequence domestically except foolish record budget deficits that are utterly unsustainable.
We do have a huge portion of our military bogged down in Iraq. But we don't really run the place. It would be fairer to say it runs (or ruins) our foreign policy. North Korea and Iran, the only two of the trilateral axis of Orwellian BS who had credible nuclear prospects, are running circles around the inept bunglers in Washington D.C., and laughing their way to nuclear power status.
America's real power, prestige and security internationally are weaker than at any time since the end of the Cold War. A reputation based on half century of American global leadership has been trashed, and there is no credible vision for the future beyond mindless decadent "shopping" at home and empty hypocritical hot air abroad.
This is an "empire" of willfully ignorant, short-sighted, doomed fools.
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
You are wasting your own time, Mr, W., nitpicking my answer to your question but childishly refusing to answer my question to you. I suppose the reason for this refusal might be that your propaganda recitation is even further from the historical documentary record than my memory was. I wonder though if the book which was the original topic of this page refers to the rah rah high school football-like never-concede-an-error quality of Rove and his dupes.
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
1. The question of whether the U.S. is weaker internationally due to G.W. Bush's presidency is partly a matter of semantics. But consider this example: In 1999 the U.S. successfully intervened in the Balkans to prevent tremendous massacres approaching a genocide. We are evidently not in a position to similarly intervene in Sudan today.
2. "Where the U.S. might have been with his Presidency sans 9/11" is inseparable from "where the U.S. might have been sans G.W. International Neophyte Bush" in the White House. 9-11 would probably not have happened had Bush's administration not been the most inept in many decades. I am not saying that other administrations could not have made some of his mistakes, nor that Al Qaeda might not still have managed some kind of serious attack even if the Bushies taken all reasonable precautions possible to prevent it, and certainly not that they had any prior knowledge of the specific attack. Nevertheless, that specific attack happened in no small part because of a conjunction of blunders small and large at the levels of the local, state, and especially the executive branch of the federal government during the first nine months of 2001, whatever BS the whitewashing 9-11 commission said about this brazen act of heinous terrorism being some kind of "war." (As if war and terrorism are the same, and all our ancestors who died at Saratoga and Chateau Thierry and Normandy were no better than Bin Laden and his murderous fiends.) I am sick and tired of George Chickenhawk Bush apologists trotting out 9-11 as some kind of badge of honor for the Frat and his bungling crooked cronies. It was one of the greatest disasters in American history and it happened on his watch, and partly due to his incompetence, and real historians will not fail to realize and report this reality. It is measurable of his unending cascade of pitiful failures, that evidently the only way to make him look good is to mythologize a great disaster into some act of noble courage on the part of those whose screw-ups allowed it to happen.
Peter K. Clarke - 10/9/2007
Propagandists, in this case wannabe Karl Rove clones, also make lousy historians, and vice versa
Rob Willis - 3/5/2006
Thank you for making my point. You stated that the administration accused Iraq of having a vast stockpile of nuclear weapons. You are incorrect. Developing a nuclear program is very different, isn't it?
While you are "Googling", check the 400 nuclear scientists working for Iraq and given up by their hosts, the Libyans.
You are wasting my time.
Rob Willis - 3/4/2006
I'm delighted to see you running to the base name-calling level so quickly.
If you can find a quote by the American president stating that Iraq had vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and can confirm its source, I will be happy to continue a conversation on the subject. With someone who is interested in fact, not politic.
Rob Willis
Rob Willis - 3/4/2006
Propaganda? When did fact become propaganda?
Oh, and Rove can pound salt.
Rob Willis,
Who enjoys facts.
Rob Willis - 3/2/2006
--The first great question is "Why, if we are a Democracy, have the American People, certainly including historians and other intellectuals, allowed their political leaders to change a nation created in the name of Liberty and Self-Determination, into becoming the world's great bastion of Empire and Counter-Revolution?"--
The last time I looked, the U.S was a representative republic, not a true democracy. It follows then, that we have elected representatives to act generally as they have. You seem upset that more folks agree with Bush's understanding of the peril we face than your own isolationist leanings.
A true empire would have acted in vastly different ways than we have since 2001. If we are becoming isolated in the world community it is because many of our old (and new) allies have been deeply tied to many of the elements who are now our enemies (see: Oil+Food+U.N. corruption.
If there is a vast drain on the economy, we need to examine where to cut expenses: An overseas war against those who are aching to wage it on U.S. soil; or, a bloated and inefficient government budget domestically.
I will wait to read your friend's book, but I somehow think it will be a bit heavy on opinion. Historians, generally, make lousy analysts, and vice versa.
Rob Willis
William Marina - 3/2/2006
It is a book publsihed in 1938 & reprinted in 1943,
Haskell was a journalist well read in ancient History.
What is interesting is that not only did the Roman welfare state parallel the New Deal, even the names
were similar in various programs.
Jason KEuter - 3/1/2006
Let me jump in here with an innocent questionfor Mr. Marina: Is "The NEw Deal in Old Rome" a book? Is it available. Can you post a copy if it's an article. I'd like to read it.
Thank you
Charles Edward Heisler - 2/28/2006
Shifting the ground to laying blame for 9/11 does not, of course, answer the question I proposed about the economy post 9/11 but that is ok, Peter, I do understand the real problem my question presented you--quickly deflecting was your only option.
As to Clinton and Kosovo, that is a very weak analogy given the sniveling and begging of the vile Europeans for the United States intervention. Obviously following their penchant for action only under extreme self interest, Europe brought us into this thing and, fortunately for them, we were able to stop the slaughter with ease. Would that the Europeans return the favor but.....?
I do notice how effective the "Western Democracies" have been in prosecuting the war criminals identified with the genocide in the Balkans--giving us all a fine lesson in how secular nations are unable, even after all their immediate history of being victims of genocide,
of dispensing justice to monsters.
But, since they hate Bush as well, I suspect you admire them for whatever few qualities remain on that Continent.
Charles Edward Heisler - 2/28/2006
Despite your continued casting of aspersions to cover up any solid rhetoric that might be involved in your comments Peter, a couple of matters need be mentioned. One is your claim that the United States is "...weaker than at any time since the Cold War." which you do not and cannot support.
The other is the caveat that overides both your comments and the eulogy for Professor Bartlett--in considering the alleged Bush "failing fiscal policies" one has to consider where the United States might have been with his Presidency sans 9/11 and must consider the rather happy, chugging along, disaster surviving economy we now enjoy post 9/11!
Lisa Kazmier - 2/28/2006
Even a dumb empire is an empire and a dumb imperialist still an imperialist, no? Lots of people liked the goals of being world policeman, among other things, but that doesn't mean they would endore how this administration has conducted its foreign policy.
William Marina - 2/28/2006
Dear Mr. Clarke,
If you were familiar with Quigley, you would understand he differentiated, as I noted, between, Empire and Universal Empire.
What you have noted by way of failure, is our effort over the past half century or so, at Universal Empire, employing economic, political and military tools. In making that attempt, we have certainly weakened our overall position as an Empire, which includes our massive, centralized regulated state at home as well.
See, for exampe, Haskell's classic, The New Deal in Old Rome, if you wish to make comparisons.
It was the military-industrial complex there which backed the Caesars. Perhaps George II/43 is nearer to Caligula, or his horse, than to Nero.
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USA '08 Verizon and AT&T have both located temporary cell sites near presidential-candidate John McCain's Arizona ranch, to better connect the good Senator, his supporters and security staff.
The news comes from the Washington Post, which established that Cindy McCain, the senator's wife, offered some land on the ranch to Verizon early last year in the hope that it would put a cell there. Verizon got pretty far with that request, but ended up deciding the planning requirements were too onerous, and the return on investment too nebulous.
But come June the operator was wheeling in a temporary base station to provide coverage, apparently responding to a request from the security services.
In July AT&T noticed, and figured it'd better get in there too, so brought in its own temporary base station. So both networks now provide superb coverage to the McCain ranch.
These base stations are essentially towers on trailers, powered by a generator and connected to the rest of the world via microwave link. Where household mains electricity is available the generator isn't necessary, but the company will normally sling a fence around the trailer once it's deployed to stop children climbing the antenna to fit pirate radio transmitters.
Mike Pratt has a nice photograph of a mobile base station, for anyone having trouble visualising it.
None of this would matter if McCain wasn't so closely involved with both Verizon, AT&T, and US regulator the FCC. Five of his campaign officials have worked as lobbyists for Verizon, and Verizon employees have stumped up $155K to help fund the campaign as well as $1.3m raised by the chief executive and company lobbyists. AT&T is even more McCain-centric, with the executive vice president raising $2.3m with the help of AT&T lobbyists, and staff chucking $325K of their own money into the pot.
McCain himself is member of the Senate commerce committee, which oversees the FCC.
But despite all this a campaign spokesman told the Post "Mrs McCain's staff went through the website as any member of the general public would - no string-pulling, no phone calls, no involvement of Senate staff ... Just because she is married to a senator doesn't mean she forfeits her right to ask for cell service as any other Verizon customer can." Apparently he said all this with a straight face.
AT&T was less obtuse: "You can't have a presidential nominee in an area where there is no cell coverage." Which makes more sense to us.
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The head of the Diocese of Harrisburg died May 2 in Philadelphia.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Church and public officials from Pennsylvania are saddened by the unexpected death of Bishop Joseph McFadden, who shepherded the Diocese of Harrisburg.
"I was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Bishop Joseph McFadden," Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said.
"I am grateful that I had the opportunity to be with him over the last few days at the annual spring meeting of the Pennsylvania bishops and spend time in conversation with him."
Bishop McFadden died on May 2 at the age of 65 while in a series of weeklong meetings with his fellow bishops of Pennsylvania, which were being held in Philadelphia. He awoke feeling ill and was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead that morning, according to the Harrisburg Diocese.
His cause of death has not yet been announced.
The governance of the Diocese of Harrisburg has passed to the College of Consultors, who must elect a diocesan administrator who will serve the diocese until Pope Francis appoints the 11th bishop of Harrisburg.
Bishop McFadden's body will lie in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Harrisburg beginning Sunday evening. Solemn Evening Prayer will be said there in the body's presence on May 5 and 6. It will be transferred to Holy Name of Jesus Parish on the afternoon of May 7, where Evening Prayer will again be said.
A solemn funeral Mass will be said for Bishop McFadden at Holy Name the morning of May 8.
Bishop McFadden was born in 1947 in Philadelphia. He studied political science at St. Joseph University and was a high-school teacher for seven years before entering St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia.
In 1981, he was ordained a priest for the Philadelphia Archdiocese. While a priest, he served as a pastor, secretary to the archbishop and a high-school president.
He was appointed an auxiliary bishop for the archdiocese in 2004 and became bishop of Harrisburg in 2010. He served as pastor of the 248,000 Catholics in south-central Pennsylvania from his installation on Aug. 18, 2010, until his death.
Archbishop Chaput, who is metropolitan archbishop over Harrisburg, said that Philadelphia "was always close" to Bishop McFadden's heart, as he was a native.
"His love for the priesthood was evident in everything that he did. He worked diligently to promote vocations to the priesthood and advance the mission of Catholic education."
"Although he served as the bishop of Harrisburg for only a short time, he effectively embraced the call of our former Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, to use new forms of media to proclaim the message of the Gospel," Archbishop Chaput said.
Bob Casey Jr., U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, said that Bishop McFadden was "a forceful advocate, an effective leader and a much beloved shepherd for the people of Harrisburg, Philadelphia and all of Pennsylvania. I join the Diocese of Harrisburg in mourning the passing of a good man."
Tom Corbett, the governor of Pennsylvania, said Bishop McFadden brought "a compassion and understanding of the value of every human person" to his ministry and that he set "an example for all people of all faiths."
Archbishop Chaput concluded by extending the "prayerful sympathy" of the Philadelphia Church to that of Harrisburg.


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Peanut worms are annelids
The phylum Annelida has just gained a new member / Peanut worm is no longer recognized as separate group
02.03.2011Recent molecular phylogenetic analysis has shown that the marine animals known as peanut worms are not a separate phylum, but are definitely part of the family of annelids, also known as segmented worms. This is a classification that seemed questionable in the past in view of the fact that peanut worms – or the Sipunculidae, to give them their scientific name – have neither segments nor bristles. The latter are considered typical characteristics of annelids, which include more than 16,500 identified species and to which our common earthworm belongs. "Our molecular data clearly demonstrates that there is no doubt anymore that the Sipunculidae should be classified as members of these segmented worms," explains Dr. Bernhard Lieb of the Institute of Zoology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The results were obtained as part of a broad study in which the phylogenetic development and relationships within the phylum Annelida were analyzed in terms of basic molecular biology to be then re-evaluated. Participating in the project are the universities of Osnabrück, Potsdam, Mainz, and Leipzig, together with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin. The results have now been published online in the journal Nature.
"The relationships between the various annelids with regard to both morphological and molecular biological aspects have been a matter of dispute," states Lieb. Segmented worms are the most prevalent of marine macrofauna – their habitat ranges from tidal zones to the deep oceans. Usually, they have been divided into two main classes: the Clitellata, which have few bristles, e.g. earthworms, and leeches on the one hand and the Polychaeta, literally the 'many bristled', on the other hand. The evolutionary and deep branching patterns of annelid lineage are still the subject of on-going scientific debate, although it has become increasingly clear that other groups that had previously been classified separately, such as peanut worms and beard worms, are actually members of this phylum. By means of identifying some 48,000 amino acid positions in 34 different representatives of the phylum Annelida, the research group headed by the universities of Osnabrück and Potsdam has put together the hitherto most detailed database for the family of segmented worms. This has enabled the group to re-evaluate and reconstruct the phylogenetic interrelationships and evolution of this extensive and highly diverse group of animals.
The molecular data on Sipunculus nudus – the peanut worm – gathered by the team in Mainz led by Bernhard Lieb shows that the genetic characteristics of the worm, which lives in sand and silt at the bottom of the sea, clearly indicates that it is a member of the annelid family. In evolutionary terms the peanut worm is likely to be a basal group that diverged very early during evolution. It is conjectured on the basis of the sparse fossil record that the annelids first appeared in the Cambrian Period, roughly 550-490 million years ago. "We assume that segmentation was a very early characteristic of the annelids and that the peanut worm has lost its segmentation during the course of evolution," clarifies Lieb.
Primarily, new DNA sequencing technologies, so-called next-generation sequencing (NGS), made such comprehensive genetic investigations become possible. The Illumina Hiseq2000 sequencer recently acquired by the Institute of Genetics at JGU can analyze vast amounts of data, and sequence up to 200 gigabases of DNA per run within a single week. This means that whole genomes can be sequenced in a relatively short time, opening up completely new avenues for wide-ranging research.


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Several dozen protesters briefly blocked a Google bus Friday morning near San Francisco's Dolores Park in order to raise awareness about a Google executive they say is evicting multiple tenants from a Mission District apartment.
Protesters gathered around 8:30 a.m. and marched to 18th and Dolores streets, where the group stood in front of a bus with banners before being cleared away by San Francisco police.
The group then marched several blocks to the home of Jack Halprin, an attorney and Google's head of e-discovery, who activists said bought and moved into an apartment building at 812 Guerrero two years ago and is evicting all its tenants to clear the building.
Activists linked Halprin's employment at Google with his ability to buy a house and evict tenants.
"This is the smoking gun — we've been waiting for a direct link to Google for a long time," said Amanda Ream, an organizer. "It's clear that Google is more directly implicated in the housing crisis than they want to say."
Halprin declined to give details about his plans for the building.
"I do not intend to turn this into condos," Halprin told Mission Local earlier Friday morning as he let construction workers into the building. "You can talk to my attorney."
Protesters block a #Googlebus at 18th/Dolores. They say a Google atty is evicting residents. pic.twitter.com/wrdjLINopO
— Ellen Huet (@ellenhuet) April 11, 2014
"Google is actually evicting people," said protester Erin McElroy of google atty. #googlebus pic.twitter.com/LGalEr3xDn
— Ellen Huet (@ellenhuet) April 11, 2014
Two tenants at the building, both teachers, talked to the crowd about being forced out of their home.
"He's taking seven units out of the rental market all for himself," said Claudia Tirado, a teacher at Fairmount Elementary in San Francisco. "Why doesn't he just buy a house and leave us alone?"
"Google will not stop. We need to stop this because you are next," tenant tells crowd at #googlebus protest pic.twitter.com/tlOycRugiZ
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Also, Rebecca Solnit spotted at this #googlebus protest.
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I spent the past week in Honduras with Uncommon Grounds visiting the farmers who grow some of our coffees! It was a super exciting opportunity; seeing the growing, processing and exporting systems has been a goal of mine for a while. In addition to it being educational and informative, it was also amazing from a traveler's perspective. The beautiful mountains, wonderful people, and cultural differences all made it an epic experience. We did so much on this trip I could seriously ramble forever.
This is the park in La Union Lempira, the town we stayed in for the trip. I loved the pink and sea foam paint in the park.
Most of the kids in La Union go to school, there are public schools and then a few kids go to the bilingual school. We met a few of the teachers from the bilingual school (one of their teachers hosted us).
Chickens, roosters, dogs, and cats roam freely around La Union. Most of the chickens and dogs "belong" to someone, but they hang out wherever they please.
We met with a few different farmers whose coffees we have bought in past years (and we plan to again). The trip was organized by Union Micro Finanza, a micro finance organization that helps farmers improve their crops. Improved handling of crops = better quality coffee = more money for the farmers. Coffee processing has historically been handled in a pretty non-scientific way, so new discoveries are always being made on better ways to process and handle coffees. The picture above is the view from Rigoberto Pas' farm.
Some nice looking red and yellow catuai that we picked.
After the coffee is ripe and picked (a tedious process in itself- good coffees are carefully picked by hand) it is taken to the beneficio. Some farmers have their own beneficio (processing center), depending on how large their farms are. At the processing center, coffee first gets a quick bath. While in the water any leaves or floating cherries are filtered out. Floating cherries usually indicate that the shell is hollow, but also the skin of overripe cherries tends to float. The coffee is sent through a de-pulping machine, which removes the beans from the cherries. Coffees then sit in fermentation tanks with water for a few days, which helps remove the sticky layer around the bean (mucilage). After they are done fermenting, they are rinsed a few times and set in solar dryers (or on patios) to dry. Above you can see a child sorting defects out of a fermentation tank.
The beneficio we spent our time at is operated by Union Micro Finanza. In addition to their micro loans, they run this beneficio to experiment with coffee processing. They are constantly improving their facility, and are always aiming to do so with minimal materials, so that farmers could then learn about processing from them and apply what they learn to their own production. Above you can see Patrick and Gilberto of UMF talking about how coffee in the solar dryers is regularly flipped for even drying. At this stage coffees also go through another close inspection, where defects (chipped beans, skins, etc.) are all picked out by hand. Keep in mind that different countries, regions and farmers may process coffees differently! This style of processing is usually referred to as fully washed, or wet-processed. In the other 2 "styles" of processing the order in which they dry and de-pulp the coffees is different. After all of this processing coffees are sent to the exporter, who then puts all coffees through more vigorous quality assurance standards (quality when it arrives/desired quality and price determine how many defects they allow and how throughly they sort). The exporter will have a huge warehouse with lots of different sorting equipment, which will sort beans by density and also remove any defects missed in the initial processing. THEN it finally is put into bags and shipped off to the roaster! (WHEW)
Above is a picture of one of our coffee farmers Bernardo Ponce. He has an infectious laugh and incredible charisma. Even the kids flock to him!
While we were there we did do a few non-coffee related things. One of the greatest highlights of the trip was our hike to the waterfall at El Naranjo. Here you can see Maggie is enjoying prancing through the mountains.
The waterfall! The last of the hike was straight down a huge hill. Nestled between the hills was this beautiful spot. We climbed around on the rocks and gawked at the waterfalls magnitude before a delicious lunch which we ate on the river. We had these amazing empanadas prepared by one of our gracious hosts, Alicia. A man and his toddler son were collecting fire wood near us on this patch of incredibly steep land, and he definitely got a kick out of all the gringos frolicking in the water. Charlie offered them a few empanadas which the man readily accepted, and we all ate on the river together. Sitting there was one of the most pleasant parts of the entire trip.
The wildflowers were also amazing! The soil there is incredibly rich so plants that we work hard to cultivate grow like weeds.
Somehow I feel like I've rambled here but only scratched the surface. I learned so much on this trip! If there is one final subject that I feel is really important to mention it's Roya, or Coffee Leaf Rust. Seeing how the effects of this disease have decimated crops on so many prolific farms is heartbreaking. Farmers we spoke to said that this year was the worst outbreak of Roya that they have ever seen, due to climate change. A depressing note to end on, but let it serve as your daily reminder of the importance of pushing for sustainability.


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Dating in Hollywood can be hard, so it's no surprise some stars find love (or lust) outside the seemingly small celebrity bubble. In fact, Heidi Klum's recent divorce from Seal and subsequent relationship with her bodyguard is just one of the many instances of the famous dating the... well, not-so-famous. From bodyguards to agents and publicists, oftentimes our favorite stars find themselves falling for their closest confidantes.
Here are five celebs who believe in mixing business with pleasure!
1. Heidi Klum
The Project Runway host recently separated from her hubby of seven years, Seal and started seeing her buff bodyguard, Martin Kirsten, soon after. "I'm very happy," she told Ellen DeGeneres of her new relationship, to which Ellen joked, "I was just wondering if you've seen the movie The Bodyguard, because I love that movie." Answer: she has!
2. Britney Spears
Poor Brit had a rough couple of years before finding love with her agent at the time, Jason Trawick. But not only does he seem really good for her, it's clear these two are head over heels in love. And, as much as we all secretly loved seeing our favorite pop princess in the tabloids, happy looks way better on Brit!
3. Ethan Hawke
Apparently, Ethan was secretly hooking up his children's nanny, Ryan Shawhughes, while he was still married to Uma Thurman. (I wouldn't recommend this EVER.) Still, it seems his decision to divorce proved a good one as he now has two kids with her. Sometimes moving on from a failing marriage is the best choice. I just really wish he went about it a different way...
4. Reese Witherspoon
Reese kicked her hubby Ryan Phillippe to the curb after he was allegedly caught cheating with a costar. Single Reese played the field for a few years with hotties like Jake Gyllenhaal until she finally fell for agent (and current beau) Jim Toth. "It happened out of the blue," she said about falling in love with him. Now they have a new baby! (And lived happily ever after.)
5. Johnny Depp
After splitting from his longtime girlfriend and mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis, Johnny was seen dating a lot. So much so that he even had a rumored tryst with his publicist, Robin Baum. They spent so much time traveling together, I suppose it was bound to happen! And I say, good for them! I know I couldn't resist him!
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PLOTT - Using an AR/VR Appcessory to turn a Creative Idea into Reality in your Home
Saw a really useful measuring device and Smartphone App which lets you spend less time thinking and more time creating your home improvements projects and in decorating your house. Met with Plott Founder and CEO David Xing at CES who demonstrated how the tool allows you to design "virtually" so you can change your design easily without marking up your walls. The Plott brings your design to life by guiding you to points like a GPS so you can then make the change or addition in the real world without any need for measurements or use of math. This reduces the time spent on DIY projects (and risk of error).
Plott takes the real world into the virtual world using AR where you can edit and perfect your idea before bringing it back into the real world. Use Plott to import objects and arrange it the way you want it. Then shows you the hanging points for perfectly level and eye-pleasing finished projects.
And you can then share your projects with the Plott community and also import and use projects from others or download from a product brand.
Connected Pacifier from BlueMaestro
Pacif-I basically tracks temperature and proximity.
From your smartphone you can conveniently and accurately take your baby's temperature without disturbing them. With accompanied App, you can monitor their temperature even while they are in another room.
You can record any medication you give your baby thereby keeping a convenient record in times of illness.
You can find Pacif-i with your smartphone and be alerted when you leave it behind.
Complies with European, U.S. and Canadian child safety and pacifier standards.
360º photography - Giroptic 360CAM
Another innovation that is paving the way to to 360º virtual reality is GIROPTIC's 360cam. It produces content that can be played back on any screen and device without any processing. It instantly captures your greatest moments from all angles using three cameras (185º lenses) it records full spherical photos and videos as a .jpg still or .mp4 file video.
The rugged rubberised unit can be mounted on a selfie mono/tripod or with an accessory, screwed into a light socket to be powered and capture all that is happening 24/7.
Carry it to take with you anywhere.
olloclip Studio, another simple, but great Innovation
Just a few very cleverly designed bits of plastic, but turns an iPhone into a full function camera rig. You don't even need a camera bag for this one, just a pocket or two.
olloclip Studio is the combination of an all-new, more protective case design that incorporates an integrated rail mounting solution and a series of mobile photography accessories. Great for the explorer/adventurer in you that wants to capture the scene and sounds wherever you go but also potentially, all one needs to become a full fledged blogger or news reporter. Great for interviews with a mike and wide angle lens on board your iphone. Case and accessories work together the moment you pick them up so you can focus on capturing the opportunity in front of you and not on building a rig.
olloclip Studio is comprised of the new protective Studio Case to withstand most accidental drops. It also includes an innovative mounting system for standard accessories - mono/tripods, lighting/flash, microphones, plus a portfolio of olloclip macro, wide angle, fisheye and telephoto lenses.
Nice one olloclip. You Caught My Eye again this year!
AromaCare Connected Wellbeing
AromaCare claims this device to be the world's first connected essential oils diffuser. It allows you to program personalized aromatherapy sessions. Uses organic essential oil blends to improve health and wellbeing in six areas. nice move, but seems a bit restrictive to have to replace the oil reservoir for each type of treatment. Hopefully soon programmable so you could move smoothly from sleep to waking up therepy. Could wearable scent dispensing which reacts to the sensing of conditions be far off? Watch this space!
Is Virtual Reality producing Swivel Chair Potatoes?
Couch potatoes are a dying breed. People are just not sitting in one place long enough to view content these days.
At the Innovation City exhibition at Mobile World Congress this year there certainly were a lot of Swivel Chairs and there was a queue to sit in them. Mostly to view 3D360º content of all types. Everything from games, roller coaster rides to real live video content shot in 3D360º.
An unbelievable Interactive Entertainment experience!
The technology is now with us and very cheap if you add your own Smartphone as the screen.
Unlike couch potatoes and movie goers, they were not all looking in the same direction! Up, down and all around. The swivel chair is a must as without it, a sore neck results!
So my new term for viewers of virtual and real 3D360º content is "Swivel Chair Potatoes".
Pay attention Broadcast, TV and movie industry players! This is a new kind of compelling content for you to monetise. Think news, sports, travel, documentaries, reality shows and lots more...
Augmenting Reality - Add Smell to the Sensory Experience!
13 March 2015 - I have been an outspoken advocate of Augmented Reality needing to be a Five Senses experience simply because our 'reality' experience involves all five, 24/7. I have been working with a stealth start up in the process of bringing context driven fragrance and scent dispensing into the wearable technology space. More on that sometime soon :-)
As a followup to the Wearable Technology Show this past week, I met with Adrian David Cheok, Professor of Pervasive Computing at City University London and Founder and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore.
He introduced me to Scentee, a scent spraying APPessory to iOS and Android Smartphones. A bit large to fit in your pocket, but not bad for a first pass at producing smells on demand or remotely over long distances.
Scentee also is the technology for an Oscar Meyer Bacon campaign that made the technology and an APP called "Wake Up and Smell the Bacon" available to lucky contest winners.
Basically when your alarm on your phone goes off, it makes the sizzling sound and produces a puff of the smell of Bacon to get you interested in actually getting up and cooking some!
This all Caught My Eye and my Olfactories!
It's a start...
More to come! Watch this space!
The Premium Watch Brands Make their Move
Starting now (March 2015), the "Connected Watch" (aka, Smart Watch) sector will be dominated by existing watch brands that know their customers well and they will now add appropriate features and applications in their next models. Partly because it's the next value add they can make to their products and simply because they can - the electronics fit in without changing the profile of their products, they know what features would turn on their brand fans next and their consumer base all have smartphones.
These brands, plus a precious few - Apple, Pebble, Martian and a few other "Smart Watch" pioneers will be the dominant players in this category going forward. (R.I.P. to most of the others)
Other notable evidence - Guess Watches with Martian inside. Swarovski Shine with Misfit Shine hiding inside their latest jewellery collection.
GUESS CONNECT, Powered by Martian
Another example of a Fashion Brand with a strong market following partnering with one of the leading wearable technology companies. I wrote this up last year as the Martian Notifier because of it's styling and functionality and have been wearing it for quite a while because it looks like a normal watch, but has valuable functionality hiding inside.
Adding the Guess styling and brand to the equation could be a winner.
GUESS CONNECT, Powered by Martian. Looking forward to trying one of these!
A Wearable with a Mission - OhMiBod
It was inevitable - connected marital aids. I can't really expand on this too much, but I think if I describe some of the functions, you will be able to take it from there. I must admit, the person at the booth certainly understood the use cases!
Stimulation in cadence to heart rate, music, various settings, etc. etc. etc.
Plus remote control stimulation. The world is your oyster! This is definitely a notable step up from the CuteCircuit Hug Shirt!


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Paramilitary Secret Police Kidnap, Detain, Torture Bilderberg Investigators
Interrogators threatened to "cut off arms" during 6 hour marathon of hell
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 29 2006
Three Canadian citizens who visited the Brookestreet Hotel in Ottawa to observe members of the Bilderberg Group earlier this month were kidnapped, detained without charge and suffered the ordeal of a marathon interrogation session and psychological torture – including threats to "cut off the arms" of one of the victims.The nightmare began on June 9th, the second day of the Bilderberg conference. After being warned to leave the previous day, Joe Burd's party of three left the site of the Brookestreet Hotel at 2pm where he and Crystal Slack headed for a local bar, while Burd's friend electrician Don McCormick rested in their rented vehicle which was parked on a downtown street.
What happened next should chill the core of anyone who thinks that westerners still live in a free society.
Joe Burd picks up the story.
"A military-grade task force involving local police, RCMP and members of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team descended around the rental vehicle with weapons pointed at Mr. McCormick. He was abruptly and forcibly taken into custody from his vehicle, thrown to the ground and kicked in head."
After approaching the vehicle, Burd and his friend Crystal Slack were also grabbed and kidnapped, taken to a RCMP holding facility, detained without charges, harassed and interrogated for hours about their connections to the "insurgent" and "threat to national security" Alex Jones, who himself had been detained and interrogated for 15 hours at the hands of Canadian immigration the previous day.
They were the lucky ones…..
McCormick was taken to a secret high security facility where he was brutally interrogated without charge and mentally tortured for six hours. He was accused of wanting to blow up the Brookestreet Hotel, as the interrogators threatened to "cut off his arms" warning him that they also "had his friends" in custody. This is the very definition of psychological torture, the threat of physical harm and dismemberment.
One of the dictionary definitions of torture is, "dismemberment, taking apart — the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces." The threat of extreme physical pain is a method used on suspected terrorists and was also inflicted upon innocent prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
McCormick's anguish at the hands of the Canadian Gestapo didn't end there.
Interrogators told McCormick that he would never be alone again and to watch his back — as he began to fear he would become the latest victim of the worldwide rendition policy, and be taken to an Eastern European gulag for further torture.
McCormick was so stricken by the horror of his nightmare that many of the details of what happened remained bottled up, partly from threatened fear of reprisals if he told anyone what had occurred.
Finally being released and returning home the next day, McCormick became delirious and had to be rushed to hospital after he collapsed. He was diagnosed with severe dehydration and mental fatigue due to his experiences in Ottawa. McCormick had to be sedated to help him sleep as he babbled about having his arms cut off and interrogators threatening to harm his friends.
From the experiences of Alex Jones during his 15 hour ordeal with Canadian immigration officials, it was learned that the order to impede Jones' party came directly from the Bilderberg Group itself. With this knowledge in hand, it is by no means a stretch to assume that the hellish treatment of Burd, McCormick and Slack was also a mandate of the Bilderberg elitists.
These are the pleasures of the global elite and their security thug enforcers — repression of free speech, intimidation, kidnapping, grabbing people off the streets and treating them as terrorists, and psychological torture — all carried out under the willful arrogance that they are protecting the nation from harm.
The real terrorists are the perverted bullies that kidnapped three peaceful citizens and subjected them to a marathon of hell — and they represent a threat to the freedom and way of life of all Canadians.


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It's great to be a kid! At least, it should be, and that's the idea behind International Children's Day. In 1925, delegates at the World Conference for the Well-being of Children proclaimed June 1 as a day dedicated to promoting the rights, health, and happiness of kids everywhere. Why not celebrate the day by doing something special with a child in your life—and let your own inner child have some fun as well!
Well-known inspirational author, Sark, offers some ideas on:
How to Really Love a Child
Be there. Say yes as often as possible…If they're unlovable, love yourself… Giggle a lot. Surprise them. Say no when necessary. Teach feelings…Hug trees together. Make loving safe. Bake a cake and eat it with no hands… Imagine yourself magic…Reveal your own dreams. Search out the positive. Keep the gleam in your eye…Encourage silly. Plant licorice in your garden. Open up. Stop yelling. Express your love. A lot. Speak kindly. Handle with caring.
If you're playing with young children, remember:
The Toddler's Creed
- If I want it, it's mine.
- If I give it to you and change my mind later, it's mine.
- If I can take it away from you, it's mine.
- If it's mine, it will never belong to anyone else, no matter what.
- If we are building something together, all the pieces are mine.
- If it looks just like mine, it's mine.
Want to do something great with your kids or grandkids? Make it extra fun for them today, or any day! Here are some ways to connect with the youngsters in your life and channel your own "inner child".
- Jump rope to a song
- Listen to their dreams
- Blow giant bubbles
- Follow butterflies
- Make a train of chairs and go for a ride
- Play hide and seek in the house
- Read their favorite story
- Create a sidewalk chalk art exhibit
- Write a poem together
- Make sock puppets
- Visit the zoo
- Twirl
- Throw a tea party
- Above all, enjoy your children. The days are long, but the years are short. Share a
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As we've seen, using paint schemes to honor cars of the past is a hit-or-miss proposition. As such, slapping the Ferrari 512 Boxer's famed red-and-black on a new 458 Italia just doesn't land. The lines are too intricate, and the effect is jarring.
I'm not a Ferrari nerd, although the Berlinetta Boxer indeed occupies a spotlit corner of my Fantasy Garage. And to be fair, this painted 458 isn't entirely a 512 BB knockoff — note the off-script black roof. Still, the negative space in those dark parts have a reductive effect on the 458's already controversial styling, giving it the appearance of a jigsaw puzzle with pieces removed. That or the aftermath of a dust-up with a light pole.
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Man's record cleared after license mix-up
Officials are apologizing to a suburban Des Moines man who was arrested after errant information showed he was driving on a revoked license.
Quan Tong, of Urbandale, is an ordained Catholic deacon who was delivering food to a homebound man on Monday when an officer asked to see Tong's license.
A computer report showed the license had been revoked, so the officer arrested Tong.
Tong spent six hours in jail before his wife could have him freed on a $1,000 bond.
"Good people don't deserve to be put in prison or to be handcuffed and put in jail," said Tong.
Officials later learned that someone else's record mistakenly had been entered into Tong's.
"There's a form that officers send in when they cite somebody for operating while intoxicated. It's called an implied consent form," said Mark Lowe, director of the Motor Vehicle Division.
In September, one of those forms was filed incorrectly by the Department of Transportation. Two numbers on the offender's license were switched around, so the offense went to Tong's record.
"Thankfully it's very rare. We process about 180,000 records a year, over 3,500 a week, and from the officer's perspective, they can generally rely on what we put on the record as correct. But unfortunately this time we did make a mistake," said Lowe.
It's a mistake the DOT and Des Moines police have apologized for. All charges have been dropped, his money has been reimbursed, and his record has been corrected.
Tong said he has also accepted the apologies, but it hasn't fixed all of the damage.
"For us now, the big problem is the Vietnamese community," said Tong
Tong said he is getting calls from people who don't speak much English. When they saw his mug shot on the news, they snapped to judgment.
Tong tells them it was a mistake by the DOT and police, and that he has not done anything wrong.


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I am currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Commerce where I am doing a double major in HRM and economics and am just about to start my final semester. I have been given the option to change my degree to a Bachelor of Economics with a major in HR. My academic chair recommended going with the Economics degree since it would make me stick out, but would it look less relevant for recruiters?
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text: New data suggests that Mercury has undergone much more dynamic processes than previously believed and that its core is unlike any of the other rocky planets in our solar system. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which has been in orbit around the solar system's smallest and innermost planet for just over a year, has beamed back plenty of surprises for scientists here on Earth. "I thought the surface of Mercury would turn out to be complex and the interior simple," said planetary scientist Maria Zuber of MIT, who is a member of the MESSENGER team and co-author of two new papers on the planet that appear March 21 in Science. "Instead, our data has been such a surprise that we kept thinking we were interpreting it wrong." Mercury's tiny size and heavily cratered surface suggested that the planet cooled into an inert lump soon after its formation 4.5 billion years ago. The two new papers show that the planet had active geologic and tectonic processes occurring until at least the planet's middle age, around 2 billion years ago. Here, Wired takes a look at some of the weirdest new findings of what is turning out to be a strange little world. Above: Surface Heights MESSENGER has measured the height of surface features over much of Mercury. This image shows off altimetry data from ancient volcanic plains in the planet's northern high latitudes. These smooth plains were created at the earliest stages of the planet's history and have been subsequently deformed. The large white feature in the lower left is an enormous rise in the plains that was created through active geologic processes. Image: NASA/JHUAPL/CIW-DTM/GSFC/MIT/Brown University. Rendering by James Dickson and Jim HeadBasin Rising This view shows the topography of many craters around Mercury's North Pole. The largest is Caloris Basin, a giant impact crater more than 900 miles across that likely formed during the heavy bombardment period of our solar system's history, around 4 billion years ago. If Mercury were a dead planet, with no active geology, the crater is expected to have remained mostly unchanged since then. By measuring the height of surface features on Mercury, MESSENGER was able to show that some process caused the floor of Caloris Basin to expand upward, so that it now rises higher than the crater's rim. "We've never seen anything like it on the planet," said planetary scientist Maria Zuber. The findings suggest that an active interior on Mercury pushed the floor up, and that this process occurred later in the planet's history than previously thought possible. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of WashingtonActive Geology This detailed map of Caloris Basin show that its floor has long been shaped by active tectonic processes. Complex folds and ridges deform the surface while parallel sunken ditches known as graben are present nearly everywhere. Image: Byrne et al. (2012). A tectonic survey of the Caloris basin, Mercury. 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, abstract #1722.Odd Tilt Many craters on Mercury show evidence of lively geologic processes. The northward tilt of Atget crater's floor suggests that the ground was still active after its formation. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of WashingtonStrange Core Gravitational measurements from MESSENGER suggest that Mercury's dense iron core is enormous, taking up about 85 percent of its interior (Earth's core, in contrast, occupies half its interior). Researchers have also discovered that the area above the iron core is much denser than rock, though not as dense as iron. The best interpretation for this finding is that a layer of iron sulfide 124 miles thick exists around the central core. This means that the crust and mantle of Mercury are only 186 miles thick "It's an extremely unusual structure," said planetary scientist Maria Zuber. "If Mercury was an orange, the core plus the iron sulfide would be the orange flesh, while the crust and mantle would be the peel." Image: A comparison of the various interiors of Earth and Mercury. Case Western Reserve University.Thin Mantle On Earth, the convection of magma in the mantle causes many geologic processes, such as mountain ranges and tectonic faults. But if Mercury's mantle is so thin, there isn't much room for convection to occur, leaving researchers wondering how such features could have formed on the tiny planet. "We understand mantle dynamics on Earth, but our understanding doesn't translate to Mercury," said planetary scientist Maria Zuber. "We need to go back to the drawing board." Image: Gravitational measurements of Mercury reveal at its interior is stranger than previously believed. David Smith, et al, Gravity Field and Internal Structure of Mercury from MESSENGER, Science, 21 March 2012/ 10.1126/science.1218809