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When working on a new job, thinking of how to dispose of the garbage you'll produce is likely the last thing on your mind, but it's just as important as deciding which approach you're going to take on your task. Whether you're a homeowner looking to do some remodeling or simply seeking to do some spring cleaning, there's always an affordable dumpster option that will work for you in Clementon. Picking the right dumpster may seem like a simple task, but there are often weight and regulation considerations that must be taken in order to make sure you don't spend more money than you need to.
When renting a dumpster in Clementon it's vital that you think about your budget and the costs involved in your garbage disposal. The main costs in your rental will include size, weight and the composition of your garbage. Possible permit fees in Clementon are another consideration in your waste disposal project. Always check with your rental company and ask certain questions before moving forward.
Your roll-off dumpster rental can come in a range of different sizes, but the most common is the 20 cubic yard option. If you are unsure of the size you need, it's better to overestimate than underestimate, since if you go over your weight capacity you'll be charged a premium. Generally most home improvement jobs in Clementon can be finished with a 20 cubic yard dumpster, unless you have large materials you're working with. If you're remodeling a home or getting a roof replaced, you're probably better off going with a 40 cubic yard dumpster, as it's always better to have more space than less. It never hurts to have a little leftover space for garbage in your dumpster, and if you find yourself having an area leftover, you can always get rid of of any junk you've got laying around.
Another point you'll want to consider when choosing your dumpster is weight restrictions and capacities. Even if you have space to spare in your dumpster, you may still go over your weight limit depending on the materials disposed of. Almost all dumpster rental companies will have weight capacities on each load, and will charge a premium if the customer goes over that limit. Depending on the material you're disposing of you may have to pay landfill fees as well. Be careful not to over fill your dumpster, as it could actually damage our property or crack your driveway. It's always better to overestimate your weight rather than underestimate it, so be sure to talk about your job with the dumpster rental company beforehand.
It's a good idea to make a short list of objects that you're going to be disposing of before making a dumpster rental decision. This is because certain dumpster rental companies in Clementon will have prohibited items that they don'tdo not dispose of. Your company may ban items like pain cans, oil containers, chemicals or refrigerators, which are often times items people are looking to get rid of. Writing down a list of items you intend on disposing of can also help you decide on the size of dumpster that you'll want to rent. As a rule of thumb, a 10 or 20 cubic yard dumpster will be ideal for garage cleanups and yard debris disposals.
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Cheryl Harding (Halifax, NS). Proofreading for all types of documents. Clients have especially requested my assistance on résumés, cover letters, and science documents. Other Editing tasks as well - e.g.: ensuring all points and compliance are covered to Requests for Proposals; decreasing no. of words to fit a given limit. Experience: I have provided Proofreading and Editing services (since 1984).
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Facebook has changed the way friendship works. Before Zuckerberg stole Harvard's student list, people had a group of four or five friends that usually met face to face to do the whole "friendship" thing. Now, we connect with people around the world, meeting and talking with people we'd otherwise never have met, and having more "friends" than would normally be possible.
This slovenly, unintelligent looking comedy writer, for example, has, at present, 468 Facebook friends. Which is, I might add, 468 more than he has in real life.
"Friends" is in air quotes because while some of your Internet posse may in fact be a real friend, most of them are people you friend as part of a list, and otherwise never communicate with them again. But there are some "friends" you make through Facebook that, for one reason or another, is a Goddamn HUGE mistake. Here are some classic stereotypes of "friends" you don't want on your Wall:
1. The Farmville Spammer
We all know at least one person like this. He plays every game, clicks on every link, answers every stupid personality quiz, and falls for every scam involving penis enlarging pills. The Farmville Spammer is seemingly the ideal Internet consumer, the kind of person marketing companies drool over. And it wouldn't bother you that much, except that because of the way Facebook works, you have to know EVERYTHING this person does.
Your Wall turns into an advertisement of this person's disturbing proclivities. You make an attempt to block the stuff, but for every program you erase, three more pop up, like some digital hydra with pixilated tomato fields for heads. You even have thoughts that some of your other friends will look at your Wall and mistake YOU for the Spammer, and things get terrifying. You eventually have no choice but to unfriend the guy for the sake of your sanity.
2. The Bitcher
Also known as the Goth, the Emo, the Whiner, and sometimes, the Glenn Beck, the Bitcher has Wall posts that look like this:
Everything is so dark, and cold. No one understands me, sometimes I think if I died, no one would miss me.
Or this:
Pain is the order of the day. Just, so much pain. Sweet beautiful, innocent pain.
Or this:
WHY?! Why did Derek Jeter have to get married! I don't want to LIVE anymore!
This person acts like everything in their life sucks, and they have to tell you about it via bad poetry. It's annoying because you don't know this person, and you couldn't possibly give less than a shit about the ongoing love triangle between your boss, you, and Alejandro the janitor. But sometimes this "friend" gives you a moral dilemma:
I think I'm going to drive out to the GW bridge tonight, and jump off the side after taking some cyanide capsules, while on the way down stabbing myself repeatedly with a cobra fang and then shooting myself with silver bullets just in case I'm a werewolf.
Not only is that one of the most elaborate suicide schemes ever thought out (really, allowing for being a werewolf, THAT's foresight) but now he's just dumped this right in your lap. What do you do? Do you try to stop them? You don't know him, why's he going to listen to you? Should you call the authorities? What if it's a joke, or he doesn't really mean it? What if you do nothing, and this nut DOES manage to off himself? Now you feel bad. Probably at least as bad as Hair Gel Guy up there.
3. The Excessive Partier
You probably work hard at your job. Obviously not at hard as you could be, because otherwise you wouldn't be reading this article while at work. I already know you are, stop trying to deny it. When not slacking off, you work hard. You look forward to your weekends off, when you can cut loose. Needless to say, it probably irritates you when you open your Facebook profile (while at work, of course) and see pictures like this:
Every. Single. Day. This chick has somehow found a way to spend all night out at the club scene and yet still make enough money to afford the cover charge. How does she manage to find time to work in between Jell-o shots? How is she contributing to society by grinding up against a stranger on a Tuesday night? Besides the obvious, that is. The point is, you're probably jealous. You're a slave to the Man 40 hours a week just so you can spend a few days off watching a Law and Order marathon while this person has managed to get out and enjoy life (and Johnny Walker) every evening. It gets especially weird when you throw in the fact that the Wild Partier is your Mother.
4. The Crazy Foreigner
Thanks to Facebook, we get to meet people from faraway lands, like Canada, and even farther away places like other countries. Canada is part of the US right? There is no way that qualifies as a legitimate country.
But, Maple Leaf bashing aside, you do meet people from other countries. However, this isn't always necessarily a good thing. When you start getting comments on things you say that look like this:
Haha, you fill me up with very much a sense of joy at the things that you speak of!
Things….get weird. Broken English typed up on the Internet is like watching that scene from The Empire Strikes Back where Leia kisses Luke. You feel uncomfortable because you know it's wrong, but the participants have no idea and there's nothing you can do to let them in on the shame. And it gets even weirder when they start commenting in their native Portugreek or whatever foreign tongue they speak that isn't American, and you have to utilize a translator to understand what they're saying, which of course does it badly and you wind up with MORE broken English, and……well, let's just say you won't be looking him up if you ever make a trip to Mongolia.
5. The Stalker
You normally don't notice this friend at first. Perhaps you notice a comment here or there, or the odd Wall post by the guy, but he seems quiet, so you don't mind. Then maybe you get a little creeped out when he posts a comment telling you how sexy you look in your new profile picture.
You get more freaked out when you check out his Wall again and notice the picture shrine he's dedicated to you, including pictures taken of you walking the streets around your hometown, which you are fairly sure no one you know took. Then you start getting private messages from the guy professing his love to you and enclosing pictures of his ass for some reason. If you're stupid enough to post your email address, you may get penis pics several times a day, as well as letters telling you how much he wants your bod. Maybe you even call the police, but they can't do anything until one day when you answer the door to a dude with clown makeup on armed with flowers and a kitchen knife. Well, after you pepper spray the clown murderer, you probably unfriend him at this point, because clearly this is taking things a bit too far.
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Interim managers are highly skilled professionals who can come into an organisation, complete a specific project, task or cover for a fixed period of time have proved they are valuable business assets.
Although the concept of interim managers is a fairly recent one, they provide a beneficial service that many companies find essential, especially during a period of crisis or transition. The UK has wholeheartedly embraced the concept of interim management, and as a result, the system we enjoy here is one of the most widespread and effective in Europe. This means that a wide range of roles are covered by experienced interim staff in a variety of sectors and positions.
The overwhelming success enjoyed by accomplished interim managers has gone a long way to cementing the idea that effective use of their services can prove invaluable to a business. The Institute of Directors has endorsed the practice and promotes the idea that an interim manager can provide a huge amount of assistance to a company in need.
If a business identifies a need for an interim manager, they will usually specify a time period for which they will need their services, or a specific assignment that they want completed. The costs and objectives are usually agreed up front, ensuring that the business in question is able to make the most of the manager's experience and expertise. Having someone who is dedicated to the task in hand can limit the number of distractions and potentially time consuming distractions involved.
As an interim manager you will be strategic, outcome focused and strive for improvement. These admiral business qualities are one of a number of reasons why a company may wish to hire an interim manager, others include:
One of the most important things about working for yourself is ensuring that you have enough work to meet your financial obligations. There are plenty of dedicated recruiters who specialise in matching skilled individuals in interim management vacancies and headhunting candidates for roles which come onto their books. Odgers Interim, Veredus and Marble Hill Partners are three examples of recruitment agencies that specialise in interim management.
The Institute of Interim Management, which is the UK's professional body for independent professionals working as interim managers is a good first point of call when looking for your next position as new assignments are posted online regularly. The website also has advisory pages and is a good way to keep up with industry news and events.
It is a good idea to keep your CV up to date so that you are always ready to apply for a promising sounding opportunity when it arises. You can also often upload your CV to websites where potential recruiters will be able to view it and contact you about any roles they have to fill.
It is also worth having business cards printed and carrying them with you at all times to ensure that you don't miss out on any opportunities which could occur in your day-to-day life. Networking can be important, and many interim managers find that previous colleagues and contacts may know of vacancies in your industry. It is therefore worth maintaining your network and staying in touch with anyone who might help you to find work.
Interim Managers work with a company for a fixed period of time and are expected to implement change and development in that period. Therefore interim managers can often command high rates of pay in return for the results they are expected to yield.
As with all contracts your rates of pay will depend on the role, your experience, qualifications and the company that you are working for. The contract rates below are designed to give you a rough idea of the amount you could expect to earn as an interim manager (based on 2014 availability).
Interim Corporate Property Manager: £400 – £450 per day
Interim HR Change Manager: £400-£450 per day
Interim Finance Director: £600 per day
Interim Customer Service Manager: £700 per day
Interim Programme Manager: £800 – £900 per day
If you are considering a career in interim management then you are likely to operate on a contracting basis. As a contractor the two most common ways to operate are through employing the services of an umbrella company or by forming a limited company. It is worth noting that industry figures indicate that around 89% of interim managers work as directors of their own limited company. This allows them to benefit from tax planning opportunities and make savings in a number of different areas.
Setting up a limited company is a relatively simple process, which can often be completed the same day. If you choose to operate as a limited company then you will need to ensure that you have all the relevant insurance in place to allow you to minimise the risks you will be exposed to, such as professional indemnity insurance.
If you choose to become an interim manager, then there are a number of things you will need to consider as you set up your business, such as:
For most interim managers, hiring an accountant is one of the most important things they can do to ensure that they make a success of their career. A specialist accountant will be able to help you negotiate the legislation surrounding self-employment and help you to make the important decisions enabling you to maximise your earnings. Using an accountant who has experience in your field means that they understand the unique challenges that you could face while you are establishing yourself as an interim manager.
Choosing a suitable accountancy firm may sound like a daunting task given the number of options available to you. To help narrow it down it may help to look at the kind of relationship you are looking for, you may find it beneficial to have a dedicated accountant who is familiar with your situation and that you can contact directly whenever you need to. Specialist advice is another important element as the regulations governing self-employment and limited companies can change quickly, so having an expert who is up to date with the latest changes to the law and the tax system can save you money and help you avoid some of the potential pitfalls you could face.
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Hillary Clinton, speaking on behalf of the Obama Administration reversed nine months of Obama policy statements on Israeli settlement activity by calling Netanyahu's concessions on restricting settlement activity "unprecedented" even as settlement expansion continues.
The Palestinians reacted angrily accusing Obama of killing the peace process and accusing him of "back pedaling" on his previous policy.
Only a few months ago, the issue of settlement expansion was called "unacceptable" by Obama and at that time Obama demanded Israel freeze its settlement activity. It was a demand that Netanyahu ignored and settlement expansion continued.
The new U.S policy, far from demanding Israel stop expanding its settlements, is now applauding Netanyahu for, in Clinton's words, "his unprecedented concessions" to the Palestinians for making voluntary restrictions on settlement expansion.
Clinton also pointed out in a joint press conference with Netanyahu that never before had the Palestinians demanded a settlement freeze as a precondition for peace talks. At the same press conference Netanyahu said he was willing to resume peace talks "without precondition".
The Palestinians are demanding that Israel stop building settlements on land in the West Bank they claim is for a Palestinian state, and in East Jerusalem where the Palestinians hope to have a capitol.
This major shift by Obama shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Obama has made a life long habit of making unequivocal statements of policy only to completely reverse himself when its resisted or ignored, In 2008 while running for the Democratic nomination for president he told a gathering of 7,000 American Jews in Miami that he unqequivocally supported a unified Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel. When the Palestinians reacted harshly to his speech he reversed himself the next day claiming he was misunderstood.
Obama's sudden change in US policy in all probability was initiated by Clinton as both an acceptance of reality that Netanyahu is not about to accept any demands made by Obama and that Obama's stance was clearly not working and represented an erosion of influence since it was clearly and publicly refuted and ignored by Netanyahu.
Clinton now wants Abbas to agree to allow the completion of 3000 housing units in the West Bank and more construction for government offices in East Jerusalem. According to the AP, Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian negotiator said that was a "non-starter" for resuming peace talks and Abbas has rejected it . Abbas has already been heavily criticized for being to ready to give up Palestinian demands and make concessions to the United States. And so there are no real prospects for peace talks to resume at all much less see any progress, which tarnishes Obama's Peace Prize.
Earlier last month the Israeli foreign minister had said that coming to a peace agreement with the Palestinians was a "fantasy", and that everyone should simply learn to live with it and make small agreements to the benefit of both sides. He said there is no real prospect of any negotiation leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state within the next few years.


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Prince Edward and King George V doing official duties during 1920s and 1910s.
Short Summary
Prince Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor) at various events in USA (United States of America) and in Britain.
Tracking shot from other boat of passenger liner. Crowd of journalists climbing from one craft to the other. Smaller American boat passing to left. Prince of Wales and others go ashore, walking up ramp & meeting fashionable couple on pier. Aerial shot over white palatial house.
Prince walking with group of men at racecourse in the USA. They walk behind seating stands and go up back entrance. Aerial shot 3 biplanes flying. Prince & crowd looking upwards, watching biplanes in the sky. Planes landing. Crowd. Prince on high platform. Horse race in progress.
Prince touring factory or possibly cotton mill. Prince being presented with textiles manufactured as factory by woman. Prince visiting mine. He walks with group of men. Good shot of lift cables moving down into shaft. Small lift containing a few miners descends out of sight. Exterior shots of mine, Prince walking with dignitaries and miners.
King George V and Prince of Wales with British Army, probably during World War One. King inspecting troops. King with Generals in field, he is looking through binoculars. Bombs on battlefield. King watches biplane take off. King with French army officers, they watch French soldiers march past. King meets Russian soldiers, amongst them is a young boy wearing Russian army uniform. King & Prince with British officers, they inspect a dugout and then watch tank drive over it, knocking down trees as it comes crashing down.
Intertitle reads: "HRH the Prince of Wales with Lord Cavan visits a battery" (blurred).
Prince & Lord Cavan (Frederic Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan) and other officers visit the front, shot of group walking. King, Prince & officers walk down hill of rocks & rubble, part of battlefield? More shots of group walking. Group of soldiers putting on their packs, ready to resume march after rest break? High angled shot Prince exiting building with officers, he walks to car. Prince inspects Australian troops. King and Prince watch as aeroplane takes off. Repeated footage of tank. Prince and others on quayside, seen from ship moving away.
- Film ID:
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- Media URN:
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- Old negatives
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 1910 - 1929
- Sound:
- Silent
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:12:12:00
- Time in/Out:
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Following the 34th Ludum Dare 48hr game programming competition, Crashteroids has hit the scene and already received high praise.
Therefore, to ensure maximum availability it has been ported to DarkBASICProfessional from the original Java code and is now available to anyone with Windows over DirectX9.0c or with Java7+ installed.
Head on over to the Crashteroids page for your copy.
(Stay tuned, an Android port and a sequel are planned)
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Yorkshire food brand Henderson's Relish has chosen Hastings Freight as its main logistics provider.
Hastings, part of Palletways, will be responsible for timed next-day deliveries of the product to Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Wetherspoons across Manchester, Skegness, York and Birmingham.
Debbie Raynes, business administrator at Henderson's Relish, said: "Hastings Freight put together a financially competitive logistics package. This, combined with the fact that Hastings is part of Palletways, which is famed for its industry-leading IT developments, made their appointment an easy one."
Henderson's Relish was invented by Harry Henderson in Sheffield in 1885, and recently was named a Great Icon of Yorkshire by the Dalesman magazine.


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Here's to all the moms out there!! Hope you get out and enjoy a fun weekend with your kiddos. There's lots to do for the whole family this weekend from country fairs to mother's day brunches and everything in between! So get out, celebrate Mom and have a fun weekend in Philly this weekend!
Season Kick-Off Carnival
Friday May 9 – Sunday May 11
Elmwood Park Zoo
1661 Harding Blvd
Norristown, PA
Celebrate the season kick-off at Elmwood Park Zoo this weekend with their Season Kick-Off Carnival featuring rides, games, food and fun right in the zoo parking lot! Carnival is separate from Zoo admission. Rides and games require separate tickets.
40 Hour Opening
Friday May 9th – Saturday May 10th
The Clay Studio
137-139 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA
The Clay Studio is celebrating its 40th birthday with a free 40 Hours Opening Celebration with programing and fun including activities for kids, too! Kids can make instruments and enjoy a family jam session on Saturday May 10th from 10am – 1pm and then enjoy an Ice Cream Social and Bowl Decorating from 2-4pm. Free.
St. Denis Family Fun Fair
St. Denis Parish
2401 St. Denis Lane
Havertown, PA
The annual St. Denis Family Fun Fair is happening this weekend Friday May 9th – Saturday May 10th with games, food, rides and lots of family fun. Plus adults ages 21 and older will enjoy the beer garden and can take part in the "casino" with table games and great prizes. Entrance is free. All activities and food are ticketed.
National Train Day
Saturday May 10th
30th Street Station
Philadelphia PA
Happy National Train Day! Head to 30th Street Station on Saturday May 10th for the 7th annual National Train Day event from 10am – 3pm. Come out to view train equipment displays, local exhibitors, model train displays and lots of kid friendly activities from Chuggington and more! Free.
Junior Jazz Jamboree
Saturday May 10th
9am – 5pm
Please Touch Museum
4231 Avenue of the Republic
Philadelphia, PA
The only annual festival of its kind in the Philadelphia region, the Junior Jazz Festival at the Please Touch Museum happening Saturday May 10th from 9am – 5pm will introduce young children to the wonderful world of jazz through kid-friendly performances, theater, and activities that focus on musical expression, improve and creativity. Tickets $17.
LOVE Your Park Crafts Day
Washington Ave Green
Washington Ave. and Columbus Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA
Hosted by the Friends of Washington Ave Green and part of Fairmount Park Conservancy's Love Your Park Week, LOVE Your Park Crafts Day, a free family-friendly event will have kids creating Mother's Day gifts inspired by nature and will include free crafts, family activities, lunch and more! Free.
Disney Junior Live! On Tour Pirate & Princess Adventure
Saturday May 10th
Liacouras Center
1776 N. Broad St
Philadelphia, PA
Coming to Philly for one day only – don't miss Disney Junior Live On Tour! Pirate & Princess Adventure! at the Liacouras Center this Saturday May 10th with shows at 1pm, 4pm and 7pm. Catch your favorite Disney Junior pals like Sofia the first and her royal family as well as Jake, Izzy and the crew and of course Minnie and Mickey and other surprise guests too! Tickets $40-$95.
WB Saul Fair Country Fair Day
Saturday May 10th
11am – 4pm
WB Saul High School
7100 Henry Ave
Philadelphia PA
The Free WB Saul Country Fair Day will take place again at WB Saul Agricultural High School Saturday May 10th from 11am – 4pm. Families will enjoy free fun including a petting zoo, food trucks, a moon bounce, plant sale, silent auction, craft sale and cow plop bingo too!! Free.
Free Admission on Sunday Mornings
Sunday May 11th
Brandywine River Museum
1 Hoffman's Mill Road & Route 1
Chadds Ford, PA
Enjoy free admission to the beautiful Brandywine River Museum on Sunday mornings including this Sunday May 11th between 9:30am – 12pm. Free.
Mother's Day Brunch
Sunday May 11th
Franklin Square
200 N. 6th Street
Philadelphia PA
The annual Franklin Square Mother's Day Brunch happening at Franklin Square on Sunday May 11th from 11am – 1pm will feature food, a flower craft activity and tickets to enjoy the Philly Mini Golf and Parx Liberty Carousel, too! Tickets $25.


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A comic twist on the classic Sherlock Holmes story. Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. Watson scripts all of Holmes' solutions, having discovered that while people would believe in Holmes, no one was ready to accept, "Dr. Watson, Crime Doctor." A great comedy starring Michael Caine as Sherlock Holms, and Ben Kingsley as Dr.Watson
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The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD), warning operators that there is a risk of the Airbus A350 hydraulic engine driven pump (EDP) overheating and causing a fire.
EASA issued the AD because the A350's hydraulic fluid cooling system is located in the fuel tanks.
An Airbus spokeswoman said the A350 fleet is still flying normally, despite the AD which took effect on Aug. 24 affecting all A350s.
"Recently, an overheat failure mode of the A350 hydraulic engine driven pump (EDP) has been found. Such EDP failure may cause a fast temperature rise of the hydraulic fluid. This condition, if not detected and corrected, combined with an inoperative fuel tank inerting system (FTIS), could lead to an uncontrolled overheat of the hydraulic fluid, possibly resulting in ignition of the fuel-air mixture in the affected fuel tank," EASA said in the AD.
EASA said the alert was an interim measure and a further AD may follow. In response, Airbus has revised the A350 master minimum equipment list (MMEL) to avoid an uncontrolled overheat of the hydraulic system.
"Airbus found the issue on one of the A350s and brought it to the attention of operators and the authorities," the Airbus spokeswoman said. She was unable to immediate specify whether problem was spotted on the A350 test fleet, or an in-service aircraft.
She said Airbus is working on "an easy retrofit software fix for the monitoring and control systems," which should be ready over the coming weeks. This fix is already available for test on simulators.
"Airlines have to apply the AD and monitor the situation, but there is no other specific action required. It is business as usual and all operations are going ahead as planned," she said.


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What to Consider when Choosing Hvac Expert
In most cases, your hvac services won't go as expected if you don't find a qualified hvac expert for your installation repair and maintenance services. Because of this, you must choose your hvac expert carefully if you want exceptional services. Failure to do this leads to regrets, wasted resources and time. However, when you find a suitable hvac expert, you're guaranteed exceptional services, and the service will be done within your budget. There are different strategies people use to find the best hvac expert. Keep reading, and you will find the top factors to consider when choosing a qualified hvac expert.
The process may not be easy because there are many hvac expert in the market. So you have to evaluate them differently to find the most qualified one that will meet your needs.
Skills and expertise. This is one of the essential aspects to consider before finding the right expert. An experienced hvac expert will have the expertise and the ability to deliver exceptional services yet handle every challenge they encounter. So before picking your hvac expert, make this a priority. It takes time before a qualified hvac expert gains sufficient experience. Therefore, if you find a hvac expert that has been in the field for many years, such a provider is the right one to work for you. They will use their skills to deliver exceptional services.
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New York adopted the millionaires' tax in 2009. Shortly afterward, Paychex Inc. founder Thomas Golisano told Albany what he thought of it: He said he would move to Florida.
Nearly a decade later, New York's "temporary" surtax on high earners is still in place. And though it is scheduled to expire on Dec. 31, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others are campaigning hard to make sure that does not happen.
Those who favor the higher rates for filers with big incomes often argue that the concern about the wealthy fleeing New York is overblown. IRS data appear to back them up: From 2010 to 2014, the number of tax filers in this state earning $1 million or more jumped more than 32 percent.
If the surtax is chasing wealthy filers from the state, why are their ranks in New York growing?
The answer, in part, is that the period from 2010 to 2014 was marked by a strengthening economy and especially by a surging stock market.
But the full answer is more complicated. As E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy explained last week in testimony in Albany, the number of nonresidents among New York taxpayers with annual incomes exceeding $1 million now accounts for nearly half of all filers subject to the surtax.
Why does that matter? Because, he noted, nonresidents pay tax "only on their New York source income, mainly salaries and profit shares from New York businesses, and not on their capital gains, dividends and interest that make up the bulk of their personal income."
By his calculation, even if only 10 percent of nonresident filers moved their main residence to New York, it would generate more than $1.5 billion in additional revenue—without the surtax.
There are other strong arguments against the surtax: It is anti-competitive because most other states have lower personal income tax rates and it discourages expansion by owners of small firms who report their business income on their personal returns.
But the notion that New York's high earners will simply stay and pay does not hold up under scrutiny.
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Our reports on the oral arguments of the Illinois Supreme Court's September term continue with Ferguson v. Patton. Ferguson involves a potentially important issue for the growing field of government ethics law: can the ethics officer sue another official of the same government entity to enforce his or her subpoenas? To watch the video of the argument, click here.
Our in-depth summary of the facts and lower court rulings appears here. In Ferguson, the Inspector General of the City of Chicago opened an investigation of how a former City employee had been awarded a sole-source contract, in apparent violation of city rules. He sent a document request to the Corporation Counsel, but the law department claimed attorney-client and work product privileges as to several. So the IG sent the Corporation Counsel a subpoena. The Corporation Counsel objected, the IG responded, and the Corporation Counsel refused to comply.
So the IG sued the Corporation Counsel. The Circuit Court dismissed, but the Appellate Court reversed.
The case presents two questions: (1) can the IG hire a private lawyer when City ordinances provide that the Corporation Counsel is the sole lawyer for the city? and (2) can the Corporation Counsel assert privilege against the IG?
Before the Supreme Court, the City made the interesting decision to take a hard-line view; the Court seemed highly skeptical. Counsel argued that the City was a single entity; an appointed official of the City could not bypass the elected senior executive officer — the Mayor — to sue another appointed official. The dispute at bar, counsel insisted, was internal to the municipal corporation. Justice Theis referred counsel to the IG's ordinance, providing that the IG "shall take no action" to enforce his or her subpoena for seven days. The ordinance seemed to recognize some relationship between the IG and the Corporation Counsel, according to Justice Theis. Counsel answered that the ordinance required that the IG spend seven days trying to work out disputes, but said nothing about what happened next. Justice Theis asked what would happen after seven days. What would happen if the IG subpoenaed an officer of the Water Department, and he or she refused to cooperate? Counsel answered that no court would have jurisdiction over a lawsuit to enforce the subpoena, but the IG would have other options, such as seeking disciplinary action against an uncooperative target. In any case, even the Corporation Counsel could not sue another officer of the City, even to enforce an IG subpoena. Justice Thomas wondered whether it was problematic to ask the IG to go to the mayor if he or she was investigating the mayor's awarding of a contract. Counsel responded that the complaint didn't allege any involvement by the mayor. Nevertheless, the IG had options available short of suing. Justice Thomas followed up, pressing counsel to admit that there was something problematic about asking the mayor to enforce a subpoena in an investigation of the mayor's conduct. Counsel answered that the IG had options available if the mayor refused to cooperate, including sharing the investigation with outside law enforcement.
Counsel for the IG led off by arguing that a municipality could confer independent power to sue on whoever it wants, and in fact, in the IG ordinance, the City has conferred such power. Counsel found significance in the City's admission that the IG could acquire power to sue by referendum, since that must mean that there is nothing inherently disqualifying about suing another officer of the same municipal entity. After all, if the IG is forbidden from moving to enforce his or her subpoena for seven days, it must necessarily follow that the IG may enforce after that time; otherwise, why is the time limit necessary? Counsel also pointed out that according to a settled rule of construction, a specific provision — here, the IG ordinance — prevailed over general ordinances such as the Corporation Counsel's general authority. Counsel concluded by dealing with the cross-appeal on privilege, arguing that the duty to cooperate and disclose material to the IG eliminates any expectation of confidentiality necessary for the existence of the privilege. The Court had no questions at all for the IG (never a good sign for counsel for the appellant).
The City began its rebuttal by pointing out that the IG cited not a single case of one officer of a municipal entity suing another. Justice Karmeier asked whether the City could authorize capacity to sue by ordinance. Once again, the City took a hard-line view, arguing that a voter referendum would be necessary to bestow separate corporate status on the IG, thus authorizing a separate suit.
Turning to the cross-appeal, counsel argued that the privilege is critical to government work. Government officials seek legal advice nearly every day, and according to counsel, it makes no sense that the City Council would have wanted to abrogate the privilege in the IG ordinance. Justice Garman asked whether it made any difference what the purpose of the IG office was. Counsel responded that the IG was an internal watchdog. He or she has many tools at hand if a party refuses to cooperate with a subpoena, including going public with an investigation. Justice Garman asked whether a department head or other officer could shield documents from disclosure by conferring with Corporation Counsel. Counsel answered that given that the Corporation Counsel is an attorney governed by the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Corporation Counsel would be required to act to protect the City if an officer confessed wrongdoing.


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We took delivery of our new American Tug 395 Esmeralde on April 1st, 2017, so she will forever be our April Fool's Girl. (This year, she was also our Easter Girl.) In order to celebrate, Bruce got her winter cover off on Saturday so on Sunday April 1st, her birthday, we could have a little celebration on-board and herald the start of her second season. It turned into a bright sunny day, perfect to enjoy being aboard again. Continue reading Happy 1st Birthday Esmeralde!
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Seven days and five hours after she rolled into New England Boatworks on a truck, Esmeralde headed out onto Narragansett Bay for the first time. We were joined by my brother Charlie, his wife Maria and son Bret, all seasoned sailors. This trawler business is new for all of us, but we're adaptable! Best of all, they arrived with a lovely bottle of Veuve Cliquot, which we stashed in the fridge until we were organized and under way. Continue reading ♬…on The
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Most people, who own a dog, love their dog; that pretty well goes without saying, although a lot of people do like to say it. 'We love Fido. He's been part of our family now for fifteen years. Ever since the kids were little.' Etc etc. We've all heard it before. But I have to question just how much you love Fido. Enough to kill him or pet euthanasia?
Most people, who own a dog, love their dog; that pretty well goes without saying, although a lot of people do like to say it. 'We love Fido. He's been part of our family now for fifteen years. Ever since the kids were little.' Etc etc. We've all heard it before. But I have to question just how much you love Fido. Enough to kill him or pet euthanasia?
I know that sounds terrible but I get so frustrated when speaking to dog owners who will not do the right thing when their dog is old and in pain. You see them out walking, urging Fido to 'C'mon, keep up', as Fido struggles along ten yards behind, his tongue lolling from his mouth, his stiff old legs lacking the flexibility they used to have. They seem to be forgetting the old 'dog years' rule. If old Fido has been around for fifteen years or so, he's an OLD DOG. Give him a break. I'll bet you can't jog around the block like a spring chicken when you are a hundred years old.
But worse than this is when I hear people telling me stories of the trouble old Fido has just lying down; how he turns and shuffles as he prepares for splashdown. And the little whimpers and yelps he emits when he summons up the energy to get up from a lying position? Those are just the bits you hear. Do you think that all the time he isn't making a sound that everything is hunky dory? If he's in pain getting up or lying down or negotiating stairs that he used to bound up and down, then there's a good chance he's in at least some discomfort just laying still, especially on a hard floor.
I recently heard from a friend that his dog that had gone almost completely blind and was possibly suffering some kind of canine dementia (the owners diagnosis), and those ailments combined with the arthritis and skin problems meant that this pooch was in a lot of discomfort whether he was moving or lying down. The owner had only the best intentions. He loved and cared for his dog, carrying him when he could, bathing him with special lotions and potions etc, but could not bring himself to do the kindest possible thing and have him put down. Whenever this suggestion was put to him he would get very defensive. "I've had him since he was a puppy." He would say. "I couldn't bear to lose him."
Well never mind what you could or couldn't bear. Think about what poor Fido has to bear every day, simply because you don't want to lose him.
Of course I am not suggesting for a moment that you ship old Fido out at the first sign of slowing down. On the contrary; there are some great products out there today that can be of enormous benefit to a dog showing signs of arthritis or the like. But when even these remedies no longer help him, let him go. He's loved you as long as he's known you. Return the compliment and let him rest in peace.
Accepting Euthanasia for Your Dog
Facing the Possibility of Pet Loss
Dogs, no matter how strong they may seem, are actually very vulnerable creatures because of the several diseases that can affect them. A lot of canine diseases can lead to death of the animal or, if not, can mar the dog for life. For example, a cancer in your dog can still be treated by, say, chemotherapy, but the procedure can practically take the life and energy out of the dog completely. There are also diseases that can still be cured, but are causing a huge amount of pain to your dog that even death seemed more favorable. In similar cases, your dog's life really is in your hands, and so are its comfort and its suffering as well. When dogs get sick with severe diseases, their owners are suddenly faced with the difficult decision concerning euthanasia or putting a dog to sleep.
When Euthanasia Would Be the Better Option
Some dog owners rule out euthanasia, thinking that it is such a cruel thing to do to a pet that has been loyal and loving for several years. However, there are cases that euthanasia would be the better option. Since you are the only person who knows your pet very well, you are the only one who could possibly tell if your dog is in too much suffering already. As a guide, consider euthanasia when the very essence of your dog's life has diminished, and even its daily survival is marred with visits to the vet, painful medications, and difficulty in getting up or moving around. Check for the following signs to see whether euthanasia would be the better option for your pet. Your pet should be able to get sleep, to breathe easily, and to move without intense pain. Your pet also needs a continuous bowel and urine movement, and should still have enough strength to care about what's going on around it. If the disease is not so severe, or does not cause much pain, don't consider euthanasia yet. But if your dog is suffering from severe pain, and chances of saving it are pretty slim already despite the soaring medical costs, then you may want to relieve your dog of its suffering earlier.
How to Handle Post-Euthanasia Grief
The grief that follows a euthanasia procedure may be one coupled with feelings of guilt and regret, in addition to the painful feeling of losing a pet to a disease that you could have prevented in the first place. Although euthanasia is also referred to as putting a dog down or putting a dog to sleep, which implies its painless nature, some dog owners feel as if they betrayed their pets and caused them pain. The best way to balance your emotions and relieve the guilty feeling after a euthanasia procedure is to provide a fitting burial place for your beloved pet. It will help you feel that you've done your pet the justice it deserves by burying it properly. You can bury your beloved companion complete with a casket in a cemetery, or have it cremated and take the ashes home with you. After the burial, give yourself time to grieve and cry for the loss of your pet.


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Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Session Title: 5T101: Clinical Aspects & Outcomes Research (2792–2797)
Session Type: ARP Abstract Session
Session Time: 2:30PM-4:00PM
Background/Purpose: Omega-3 supplementation is one of a few complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies that has shown promise in improving RA symptoms through small, randomized control trials. However, there is little research looking at the association of disease activity of RA patients and omega-3 supplementation. This study aims to identify the association between disease activity of RA patients who do and do not take omega-3 in an observational longitudinal cohort.
Methods: Data from a longitudinal RA registry was used for this study. Information concerning use of herbal medications, including omega-3 supplementation, was collected semi-annually. Subjects ever reporting use of fish oil, flaxseed, docosahexanoic acid (DHA), eicosapantaenoic acid (EPA), and alpha linolenic acid (ALA) at least once were identified as an omega-3 user. First, we compared demographic and clinical characteristics between omega-3 users and omega-3 non-users at the date of first supplementation for users and date of cohort enrollment for non-users. Then, a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) analyzed associations between subjects' omega-3 supplementation and the outcomes, Disease Activity Score (DAS28-CRP3), painful joint count, and swollen joint count one year later. The lagged model (Fig. 1) controlled for repeated measures and adjusted the outcomes for age, gender, education, seropositivity, steroid, NSAID, biologic and methotrexate use.
Results: Overall 1,557 subjects had a mean age of 56 years (± 14), with a median disease duration of 12 (8, 20) years. Subjects were 92% white, 82% female, and 57% had a college degree or higher. Of all participants, 640 indicated that they had taken an omega-3 supplement at least once. The average duration of omega-3 supplementation was 33 months. Omega-3 users were more likely to be female (p=0.02) with a higher education level (p=0.001) (Table 1). The lagged GLMM showed that omega-3 users were more likely to have a significantly lower DAS28-CRP3 (p< 0.0001), painful joint count (p=0.001), and swollen joint count (p=0.0009) 1 year later after adjustment for seropositivity, demographic and medication variables. (Table 2).
Conclusion: The data suggest that independent of clinical, demographic and medication variables, patients from an observational cohort who take omega-3 supplementation are more likely to have lower DAS28-CRP3 scores, less painful joints, and less swollen joints. These findings suggest the need for further study of omega-3 supplementation with particular attention to dosage and duration of use as an adjunct to conventional medicine for RA.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:Andemeskel A, Feathers V, Iannaccone C, Cui J, Shadick N. The Association Between Omega-3 Supplementation and Disease Activity in a Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Observational Cohort [abstract]. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019; 71 (suppl 10). https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/the-association-between-omega-3-supplementation-and-disease-activity-in-a-rheumatoid-arthritis-ra-observational-cohort/. Accessed December 2, 2022.
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VietNamNet Bridge – Mekong Delta provinces have taken measures to counteract drought and salinisation as weather forecasts say that the region could face shortages of water due to a serious drought early in 2017.
Up to 1,400 ha of rice paddy fields in Kien Binh Commune of Kien Giang Province have 100 per cent saline intrusion.
According to forecasts from the Central Hydrometeorology Station, rainfall in the southern region from March to July this year could be lower than the average rainfall of the last several years. During the dry season of 2016–17, the Mekong River is expected to be 15 to 30 per cent lower than the average flow of several years, equivalent to the dry season of 2014–15, and a bit higher than 2015–16.
Meanwhile, salinisation could intrude into the region earlier, lasting longer than intrusion in previous years, but not as serious as during the drought of the dry season of 2015–16.
Mekong provinces began taking measures to counteract drought and salinisation before the traditional Tet (at the end of 2016). The agriculture department in Hau Giang Province has recommended that farmers in drought-affected areas sow seeds of the winter-spring rice crop early, and thus be ready to cope with bad weather conditions caused by climate change.
Hau Giang Province People's Committee has also announced a plan to combat drought and salinisation intrusion in the province from late 2016 through 2017. According to forecasts from the provincial authorities, from 28,000ha to 34,000ha of land under the winter-spring and summer-autumn crops in the districts of Chau Thanh, Chau Thanh A, and Phung Hiep, and Nga Bay Town, and parts of Vi Thuy District and Long My Town will be affected by the drought.
In addition, from 12,000ha to 16,000ha of paddy fields are affected by salinisation intrusion. In some areas, local residents could suffer shortages of water for daily activities.
Hau Giang People's Committee has asked district authorities to use all facilities and utensils to store fresh water and thus to ensure enough water for daily activities during the dry season of 2016–17.
The provincial authorities have also checked and mapped out plans to repair facilities to supply fresh water to residents in drought-affected areas, and inspect embankment, dyke and pumping systems. They also mapped out plans to store water in the fields and prevent salt water from intruding into fields to better protect rice crops.
Tran Cong Chanh, secretary of Hau Giang Province Party Committee, said Hau Giang is one of the provinces that has encountered the most serious consequences of the drought and the salinisation intrusion last year.
He said all measures taken by Hau Giang residents were aimed at ensuring rice production and minimising damage that could be caused by the drought and salinisation.
According to figures from Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberạted Sai Gon) newspaper, the Mekong Delta suffered great losses caused by drought and salinisation in 2016. The region's farming sector faced damages of VND4.67 trillion (nearly US$210 million), including damage to 233ha of paddy fields, vegetables and other crops 6,561ha, and fruit and industrial trees 10,831ha. Nearly 227,000 households in the region faced water shortages.
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It's a story that has been framed many ways: the battle of an old-school journalist against a new media blogger; a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist now on the fringes of the journalistic community; and an American media that has again refused to buck the official White House line.
Last week, the London Review of Books published Seymour Hersh's second installment on the long-debated August 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria, a nearly 6,000-word piece titled "The Red Line and the Rat Line." Hersh uses primarily anonymous sources, most prominently a "former senior US intelligence official, who has access to current intelligence." The expose points to the possibility that the Turkish government had a hand in the attack — or maybe even directly orchestrated it by supplying al-Nusra Front rebels with sarin to frame the Assad regime as the culprit in order to push the United States into a war with Syria for crossing Obama's "red line."
This report follows "Whose Sarin?," published in December 2013, which asserts that when the Obama administration had evidence that al-Nusra Front rebels had sarin gas capabilities, it cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The earlier article declares, "Months before the [August sarin] attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports … citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity."
The American mainstream press is overwhelmingly refusing to even acknowledge these reports. The New Yorker passed on the first installment, as did The Washington Post. The London Review of Books picked it up and had it fact checked by a former New Yorker fact checker, LRB Senior Editor Christian Lorentzen told the Huffington Post. The second time around, Hersh went directly to the LRB.
An oft-cited British blogger, however, has attacked both of Hersh's articles in multiple posts, declaring his assertion that the U.S. government has been right all along.
We know, Eliot Higgins says, it was forces loyal to President Assad who fired the series of sarin gas attacks into the
Damascus suburbs. In an April 7 post titled "Seymour Hersh's Volcano Problem," Higgins shares photos of several rockets ostensibly fired by the Syrian army. These "volcano rockets" appear very similar to the ones shown in photos of the rockets he says were used in the chemical gas attack.
"In all incidents, the rockets have exactly the same design, down to the small nut and bolt, and in three of the four incidents they are described as being chemical weapons," he wrote.
It might have been a battle between a Pulitzer Prize winner and a data-collecting blogger if a team of rocket scientists and weapons experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hadn't taken issue with Higgins' analysis.
"It's clear and unambiguous this munition could not have come from Syrian government-controlled areas as the White House claimed," Theodore Postol told MintPress News.
Postol is a professor in the Science, Technology, and Global Security Working Group at MIT. He published "Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack of August 21st, 2013" in January along with Richard Lloyd, an analyst at the military contractor Tesla Laboratories who previously served as a United Nations weapons inspector and also boasts two books, 40 patents and more than 75 academic papers on weapons technology.
Higgins, Postol said, "has done a very nice job collecting information on a website. As far as his analysis, it's so lacking any analytical foundation it's clear he has no idea what he's talking about."
The Turkish connection
Hersh's initial assertion that neighboring Turkey has played a role in the Syrian civil war by supporting the al-Nusra rebels is known to those who are watching the events there. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan started providing significant material support to the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria — which later merged with al-Nusra — in the early stages of the Syrian Civil War, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood across the Middle East. Political analysts view this as Erdogan's attempt to re-assert Turkey's influence in the region as it did during the Ottoman Empire.
"Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the rebel opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups," Hersh writes in "The Red Line and the Rat Line." Such support has been well documented, as was Assad's declaration last year that Erdogan would "pay" a price for helping "terrorists."
Furthermore, according to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents cited by Hersh, "Turkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators were attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large scale production efforts in Syria."
A more bizarre incident took place in Turkey last year that raised more questions about Erdogan's relationship with the al-Nusra Front rebels. In May, Hersh notes, more than 10 members of the al-Nusra Front were arrested in southern Turkey with what local police told the press were "two kilograms of sarin."
According to media reports, including Hersh's "The Red Line and the Rat Line, in a "130-page indictment" the group was accused of attempting to purchase "fuses, piping for the construction of mortars, and chemical precursors for sarin."
Five of those arrested were freed after a brief detention. As hersh writes, the other rebels, including the ringleader, Haytham Qassab, for whom the prosecutor requested a prison sentence of 25 years, were released pending trial. (MintPress tried to contact Turkish press who covered this story and attempted to locate Qassab's whereabouts by also reaching out to embassies, but to no avail. We found no official record of Qassab's travels.)
Among the Turkish press, however, there has been widespread speculation that the Erdogan administration has been covering up the extent of its involvement with the al-Nusra rebels, especially after Aydin Sezgin, Turkey's ambassador to Moscow, dismissed the arrests and told reporters that the recovered "sarin" was just "anti-freeze," according to the National Journal.
Just last month, Erdogan suggested the possibility of war with Syrian President Assad. More recently, he also announced the downing of a fighter jet that he said strayed into Turkish airspace, a potential precursor to war.
Perhaps most startling, Reuters, the BBC, Al-Jazeera, the Los Angeles Times and others reported last month of a leaked audio recording of high-level Turkish officials — including the country's foreign minister, its intelligence chief and an undersecretary of foreign affairs — discussing staging attacks on Turkey from Syrian soil to justify waging a counter attack.
However, the idea presented in the Hersh report that Erdogan would or even could orchestrate a sarin gas attack in Ghouta in order to implicate Assad was quickly attacked by critics who called it implausible. Worse yet, according to Hersh's sources, the Obama administration knew of a potential Turkish connection and squelched that information.
No mainstream American press picked up the story and multiple outlets have refused to publish it. According to BuzzFeed, and Huffington Post, The Washington Post had originally planned on running Hersh's first story, "Whose Sarin?," but didn't.
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib to Syria
Hersh's reports are the kind of exposes that could make a career, maybe even earn a Pulitzer Prize, but the career journalist has already enjoyed both of those. He doesn't seem to mind being seen as a truth-teller who is ostracized by "the big boys," as he calls the mainstream media. That he has been so roundly ignored seems odd because he has legitimately broken more stories for many of "the big boy" publications than just about any other journalist could hope to do, starting with the revelation of the My Lai Massacre, which earned him that Pulitzer, and continuing with the U.S.-perpetrated torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
He has no interest in defending his work, apparently content to let it stand or fall on its own weight. "I wrote the article, it's out there," Hersh told MintPress.
When pressed, however, Hersh responds to some of the criticisms leveled against him and his work — including his use of anonymous sources. He argues that anonymous sources provide journalists — including "the big boys" — with information.
In the "The Red Line and the Rat Line," Hersh also mentions classified documents — which he claims he has — only revealing select content through the article.
"The only reason I mentioned the documents is because the White House said they couldn't find them," he explained. "We gave them the document numbers and they still said they couldn't find them."
Typical, he muses.
As for some bloggers' insinuations that Hersh's anonymous source is Michael Maloof, a former Pentagon official under the George W. Bush administration who now writes for the conspiratorial World News Daily website, Hersh says Maloof is a "crazy neocon whacko" that "no one would take seriously."
Then there's the Russian agent who provided samples of sarin to the British analysts at Porton Down. "Why would anyone trust a Russian agent?" some critics asked.
"Just because they are Russian, they are untrustworthy?" Hersh asked. "I could have left it out of that story but it would have been dishonest."
Laughing off the attacks on his credibility, Hersh appears far more interested in discussing the actual debate.
Hersh's point is that the U.S. didn't have the conclusive evidence it claimed it had that Syrian President Assad had crossed President Obama's previously stated "red line" by using chemical weapons — a move that would have forced the U.S. to intervene in the Syrian civil war. According to Hersh's sources, the U.S. did have evidence that it could have been other culprits — including Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan.
"No one is saying they know what happened," he said. "We don't know."
Enter: Brown Moses
However, one of Hersh's fiercest critics claims he does know and he publishes his assertions on his blog, Brown Moses.
"As more evidence has been gathered the case for the [Syrian] government being responsible has only strengthened, in my opinion," Eliott Higgins, author of the Brown Moses blog, wrote in an email exchange with MintPress.
Higgins, a stay-at-home blogger, has been aggregating YouTube videos, maps and images coming out of the Syrian conflict since March 2012. Given the dangers of reporting on the ground in the war-torn country as well as Assad's ban on foreign journalists due to fears of foreign meddling in Syria's civil war, Higgins' blog has become a go-to source of information provided by Syrians posting on social media.
Though some experts have called Higgins "unqualified," journalists have started to incorporate his personal analysis into their reports.
"Although Higgins has never been to Syria, and until recently had no connection to the country, he has become perhaps the foremost expert on the munitions used in the war," according to a profile of Higgins in the British newspaper The Telegraph.
He has also been described as ''an authoritative source" and has been lauded by C.J. Chivers, war correspondent for The New York Times and author of "The Gun," a history of the AK-47.
Higgins has amassed hundreds of images of the rockets from both video and still photographs. After studying these images, he is adamant that they must have come from Syrian government forces because, as he wrote in an email to MintPress, "they have the rockets, they have a chemical weapons programme [sic], they controlled the territory near by [sic], they were conducting military operations in the area."
On his blog, Higgins provides photos of the depleted rockets, video of the Syrian army allegedly firing similar rockets and maps of possible launch areas.
"It's possible to find the exact impact location of rockets using a combination of satellite map imagery,
photographs, and videos, and in some cases they show details that allow us to have an idea of the approximate location they come from," he said in the email. "In those examples, it appears to be from the northwest/north, where around 2km away we have areas controlled by the government."
On April 7, one day after Hersh published his "The Red Line and the Rat Line" expose once again asserting that al-Nusra Front rebels have realized nerve gas capabilities through the support of Turkey's Erdogan, Higgins countered the report by posting "Seymour Hersh's Volcano Problem." In his post, Higgins offers photos of several rockets allegedly fired by the Syrian army to support his previous claims that the Syrian government was behind the sarin gas attack in Ghouta on Aug. 21, 2013. These "volcano rockets" do appear similar to the ones shown in the photos of the rockets he says were used in the chemical gas attack. Higgins is adamant they are identical.
"In all incidents, the rockets have exactly the same design, down to the small nut and bolt, and in three of the four incidents they are described as being chemical weapons," Higgins wrote in the April 7 post.
In a later post, Higgins argues that the rockets likely came from between the Qaboun and Jobar areas. That industrial section of Damascus, he says, was controlled by Assad forces, pointing to a report by the Russian TV news outlet ANNA as evidence of this.
"I've spent the past 8 months collecting and analysing [sic] videos related to that area, and I now have what I strongly believe to be an accurate representation of the area controlled by the Syrian government on August 21st," he told MintPress in an email.
"Despite Hersh's dismissal of the Volcano rockets importance, these images do show the impact locations were in range of government controlled areas on August 21st."
To the layman, some of the rockets do look alike, but then, to the layman, many rockets look alike. One would also have to accept the validity of the sources providing the information to Higgins and Higgins' own analysis. In the end, one simply has to accept that Higgins knows what he's looking at, despite what some experts — including the professors behind the MIT report — have called his "lack of credentials."
Pushing the establishment line
Higgins' determination would seem to support the Obama administration's prior claim that Assad had crossed Obama's "red line."
In a speech on Aug. 30, nine days after the attack on Ghouta, Secretary of State John Kerry announced, "We know where the rockets were launched from and at what time. We know where they landed and when. We know rockets came only from regime-controlled areas…"
However, the maps provided by the State Department at the time put such "regime-controlled areas" out the rockets' range. Even Higgins now agrees the rockets probably had a range of about 2 kilometers.
Less than three weeks later, The New York Times ran "UN Data on Gas Attack Point to Assad's Top Forces," reporting on a U.N. report on the Syrian chemical weapons attack that supported Kerry's claims.
"Details buried in the United Nations report on the Syrian chemical weapons attack point directly at elite military formations loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, some of the strongest findings to date that suggest the government gassed its own people," wrote C.J. Chivers, the same war correspondent who, like many, has extolled the virtues of the work of the Brown Moses blog.
However, on Dec. 28, The New York Times published another article, "New Study Refines View of Sarin Attack in Syria," in which Chivers reported on the investigation by the weapons experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The investigation "raised questions about the American government's claims about the locations of launching points, and the technical intelligence behind them."
The report — which includes maps, photos, diagrams and analysis from a team of MIT scientists — would appear to be quite authoritative in its dismissal of the claims of both the U.S. government and the Brown Moses blogger.
"Whenever new information comes out it seems like people use it to support the idea that the Syrian government did it," said Postol, the MIT professor. "According to our analysis, I would not have a claim that I know who executed the attack, but it's very clear that John Kerry had very bad intelligence at best or, at worst, lied about the intelligence he had."
The Rocket Scientists
In addition to earning a doctorate at MIT and previously advising the Pentagon on missile technology, Postol's staff webpage notes that he "helped build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study developments in weapons technology of relevance to defense and arms control policy."
"The thing I find extremely disturbing is that the Secretary of State and the White House were very specific," Postol told MintPress. "They claimed that they had satellite positions of the launches of these rockets. That's a pretty specific claim. I know the satellites they're talking about and I also know they can't tell what rockets are carrying a chemical warhead and what rockets are carrying explosive warheads."
According to Postol, the chemical warhead — what he calls "the soup can" — would be larger, causing greater drag
and reducing the range. While some analysts have argued that the rocket motors might have been longer, with some of the engine embedded in the warhead, allowing for more fuel to propel it, Postol says such additional thrust would have a small, marginal effect. (Attempts to measure the motor sizes can be found on the Brown Moses blog.)
Postol likens it to smacking an inflated helium balloon: the balloon will stop suddenly, mid-air. If given a stronger whack, the balloon might move a little farther, but only slightly.
"We know the U.S. government intelligence claim is not compatible with the science and that should be of great concern to everyone," he said.
Shortly after the release of the MIT report this January, Higgins posted about it on his blog. The new findings, however, did not dissuade him from believing the attack still had to have been committed by Assad. Higgins is now pushing the theory that the Syrian army took over al-Qaboun, northwest of the target areas. Higgins also insists that the images showing the Syrian army with similar rockets mean it had to be them.
That still doesn't cut it, says Richard Lloyd, the other author of the MIT report, whose own calculations have led him to believe they came more directly from the north.
"To the north, what you have is an air force base and a variety of army bases about 3 kilometers away," Lloyd told MintPress. "In front of those [bases] are fields. I believe they were launched from these fields."
Lloyd says he came to this conclusion after he searched among the evidence from the "12 or 13 sites they hit," looking for rockets that hadn't been removed since landing. He then used Google Earth for reference and performed a "bearing analysis" to determine their trajectory.
Additionally, Lloyd points out that from looking at the target areas, the rockets would have had to originate from different launch sites, suggesting that they like came from more than just one location such as Qaboun.
"If you look at all the impact points, for one launcher to do all that, it would have had to launch a couple rockets, drive to another location, launch a few more rockets and then drive to another," he explained.
Both Postol and Lloyd are confounded by Higgins' contention that these "volcano rockets" could have only come from the Syrian army.
"They are well within the manufacturable range by a modest machine shop," Postol said. "The design is clever for what it's designed to do, but once you have the design, you can make it pretty easily. Are they identical? Did Eliot count every bolt? Is that possible?"
Lloyd points out that he has designed a course on the arms used in the Syrian conflict.
"I have a section all on the rebels," he explained. "They have factories. A production line. They have just as much capability as anyone else in building these weapons."
The MIT team actually gives Higgins a lot of credit for his work, noting that much of their study was made infinitely easier — and maybe even possible — by all of the information he has aggregated and posted on Brown Moses.
"I think he wants to do good and he's done a great amount of service in getting the world up to speed on what's going on in Syria," Lloyd said. "He's done a great job for what his ability is and I commend him. I know people like to see him as a weapons expert, but unless you crunch the numbers, you don't know what you're doing. Until you do the math, you're not an expert."
As for the work of Lloyd and Postol, Higgins says he accepts their findings, though he adds on his blog "with the greatest respect to the work of Lloyd and Postol I do not believe their calculations have been peer reviewed."
"And he's qualified to say that?" Postol asked incredulously.
"In the end, the government lied."
Despite their disagreements, one belief unites them: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presented faulty intelligence, at best.
"I agree with Lloyd, Postol, Hersh, and anyone else who thinks that the maps provided by the White House don't match the evidence gathered about the munitions," Higgins wrote in an email to MintPress.
However, Higgins still insists on the establishment perspective that, despite contradictory analysis, Assad was absolutely behind the attacks.
That the Obama administration presented information it knew or should have known was inaccurate as a reason to go to war reminds Postol of recent history in which American mainstream media proved complicit in perpetuating the official line that Saddam Hussein absolutely had "weapons of mass destruction."
"It's WMD all over again," Postol said. "It's the Gulf of Tonkin."
When asked why the magazine that he has published with since 1971 wouldn't pick up his latest reporting or why much of the mainstream press appears more interested in the "stay-at-home" blogger, Hersh demures, refusing to speak ill of his colleagues at The New Yorker or other reporters and editors at The Washington Post and The New York Times.
"They're doing their jobs," Hersh said.
Talking to Hersh, it's easy to remember he remains a respected member of the journalistic community. The last piece penned by Hersh, 77, was published by the New Yorker in March 2013, after all. Coincidentally, it was an editorial about the false flag that led us into the Iraq War, "Iraq Ten Years Later: What About the Constitution."
"How could a small group of hard-line conservatives around President Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and a few neoconservatives so quickly throw us over the cliff?" he asks in the editorial. "This included not only a war fought on false pretenses but also a system of torture and indefinite detention that, in far too many cases, ran against our laws and values…"
While Hersh won't criticize his American editors now, he had no compunction about it then.
"It's not enough to blame it on the fear, anger, and confusion brought on by the 9/11 attacks," the editorial continues. "What happened to our press corps with its alleged independence and its commitment to the First Amendment and the values of the rest of the Bill of Rights?"
Postol, on the other hand, does not hesitate to critique the state of mainstream media today.
"To me, the fact that people are not focused on how the administration lied is very disturbing and shows how far the community of journalists and the community of so-called security experts has strayed from their responsibility," Postol said.
"The government so specifically distorted the evidence that it presented a very real danger to the country and the world. I am concerned about the collapse of traditional journalism and the future of the country."
Feature photo | A marine officer of the Cape Ray, a ship equipped to neutralize Syrian chemicals, shows a chemical protection suits to reporters, during a tour around the ship docked at the naval base of Rota used by the U.S, in Spain's southwestern coast , April 10, 2014. Alfonso Perez | AP
Carmen Russell-Sluchansky is a multimedia and investigative journalist based in Washington, DC for MintPress, and several other news agencies including National Geographic.


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The list of collegiate Olympic athletes is a very, VERY long one. Unfortunately, Miami's history in the games is a short one, with only about 6 athletes appearing in the games up until this year. In light of Lauryn Williams, Zach Railey, and Brittany Viola competing in this year's Olympics, The 7th Floor is taking a look at the man who is easily the school's most decorated Olympian.
In 1978, a man by the name of Greg Louganis accepted a scholarship to dive at the University of Miami. He had already competed in the Olympics in 1976, where he placed second in the tower. He would only stay at Miami for 2 years before transferring to Cal-Irvine in 1981. He would have competed in the Olympic games in 1980 as a Miami student-athlete, but the United States boycotted those games due to a foreign war.
Four years later, Louganis not only won 2 gold medals in springboard and tower, he set world records. He would go on to double his medal total in the 1988 games in Seoul, although those games were tainted for him for a much different reason than just winning two more medals. While performing a particular dive in the preliminary rounds, Louganis struck his head on the springboard, sustaining a concussion. He continued on, winning both of his golds while suffering the after effects of the accident. While I won't post a video of his concussion (that's what Google and YouTube are for), I will post this video of his dives post-head meets board, and good lord was he great.
An unforgettable comeback - Greg Louganis - Seoul 1988 Olympic Games (via olympic)
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