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She Art Workshop no.3 is a 3 week e-course where each week you will receive new content, new ideas, new techniques and especially new room to grown, heal and celebrate your beautiful life as a human being!
This workshop contains ALL new materials.. and honestly not too much overlapping from She Art one, and She Art Two. Many have asked me already.. do I need to take SHe Art one before I take this workshop. The answer is NO. However I will tell you the techniques we use in this workshop are more .. whats the word.. developed.. than in She Art one. In she Art one.. maybe it might take you 1-2 hours to complete a girl. Make a background, Cut some paper out, add a little paint, doodle, shade with Faber Pens, and then add a few more details and walla! But in She Art 3.. I HOPE that the development of each girl you create comes from time reflecting about who you are, or who the girl (or boy) is that you plan to create. I know the techniques I share will also take more time, and not because they are hard.. but because they are important and they come from the heart. There isn't a right or wrong way or order to do them.. but there is a method to it and it comes not only from paint on the fingers (yes I said fingers).. but from passion and perspective on WHAT and WHO you are painting.
in week one we will reflect on our unique individual and perfectly imperfect lives. We will spend time researching who it is we are wanting to paint. What story does she have to tell and what mark does she want to leave in this world. We will spend time finding inspiration to create these wonderful sweet girls as well. Then we will begin sketching through a series of techniques, what comes from all of that reflection.
Beautiful wonderful sweet women who have a story to tell..
This week we will also get our hands messy a bit, and start creating unique backgrounds, MEANINGFUL backgrounds, that tell a story that is wanting to be told.
I know this sounds a little goofy.. but sweet friends... if there is ONE thing I have learned over the last year.. it's that what I create and the heart I put into the background.. is often times the most meaningful thing of the entire finished canvas. Because I KNOW what is there, it might not always end up being seen or noticed.. but the more one takes time to look at.. and THROUGH.. the layers on the canvas.. they will understand the message she is trying to share.
It's been one of the most HEALING things for me this past 6 months. SO we will spend a fair amount of time on this in week 1 as well as sketching what we will begin painting in week 2!
Week 2 is about emerging from this beautiful reflection and starting to create! Many times in the past, when I am creating girls, I think about so many things that really aren't that important. Like what cute patterned paper I could use for the dress, or fun rubons I could use around the neckline. THIS class we will break it down and start from raw. Canvas and paint. In week 2 I will teach you three different ways to create a girl. From start to finish. Creating a unique and meaningful background, then letting a girl emerge on top of the painting using pencil, paints, and my fingers.
Lets shadows fall and lines be drawn to tell her story. I will show you how to create "facial" features without a face there at all. How to create depth and a defined space without a pen or marker. also adding details.. from earrings, to head-wear that will also speak to who she is, help tell the story that is trying to emerge.
Next creating a background and letting the background become apart of the girl, Let it form the shape of her hair, the dress she is wearing.. and then "fill in" around it to create what is left behind.
Going from THIS...
To This..
Seriously a fun way to REALLy let go. To be willing to give up some.. okay a LOT.. of that beautiful and meaningful background so that a even more beautiful soul can emerge through. Again the details, detail details.. ones you may not notice right away.. but as you take time to really look, you will find them and it will help share her story.
And last in this week I will walk you through step by step how to create a girl on a completely blank canvas..
adding details that start to form thought and ideas..
then creating a background that completes the story.
This is actually one of the processes i am most excited about to teach you. Because it's soo opposite of what I have taught in the past, but it actually PUSHES you to make the girl speak for herself.. as she really is finished before any of the beautiful fun details that usually come before, in the background, is even created.
Get ready TO STRETCH YOUR WINGS.. and be PUSHED in a whole new way!!
Week 3 we will finish off by going even more in depth to creating facial details. Not just a "blank" face anymore. SO many times people ask my why I don't put faces on my girls. Is it because I don't know how to or I don't like to or what? And the answer is always the same. The reason I don't often times.. or MOST times put faces on my girls is because when there is no face, the observer of the art is left to determine the mood, the soul of the girl. Sometimes just by adding even shading in certain places or adding details down her neck, or in her hair..
tell more about her, than a set of eyes do.. staring at you from the canvas. So usually leave the girls faceless, so that whoever is enjoying her, can decided for themselves what she is trying to say.. the story she has to tell. HOWEVER.. there are times that I think there is a definite story to be told.
That we need to SPEAK UP and let it be known what lies within our soul. SO there is no question as to what her story is or what she is emerging from.
I will show you very doable techniques to create eyes, noses, mouths and ears. I will show you different ways to create these features without having to make it perfect. In fact it's perfect only it's in imperfections.
Even if you have taken She Art two.. where I also teach you how to create these.. I have developed and grown as an artist ALOT in the last 18 months, since filming that class, and the techniques, products and even end results we are trying to achieve is new and different. We will also talk about face shapes, head positions and side profiles. Which I know for many of you will be a LOT of fun. to finally start to create something TOTALLY new.. from the girl always looking straight on. This will be a really great week to stretch and fly as well!
This class is not only jammed packed with techniques but TRULY i have put my heart and soul into this. Not just creating, there will be many many other things too. Lots of sharing, reflecting and emerging going on in this workshop! lol.. and you know it will be fun with me.. because hello. it's me! :) I can't help but laugh and cry all in the same setting! But if you know me.. it's usually laughing and squeals of delight.. saying "oh sweet I loved how that accident turned out.. or "she's adorable! " It will be me.. but also a very PERSONAL side of me. And I hope you will join me and let me share that with you.
Supplies.. okay as a rule of thumb, if you have taken ANY of my other classes, you know I only put the supply lists in the workshop. and WhY? that's right.. because I teach you SOO SOO many different techniques, and way to get the SAME look using very different products. I want you to watch and look and get a feel first for what it is that YOU like and what it is YOU want to try. You could spend hundreds of dollars before the class even begins and not use half of the supplies in the end. Waiting is a good thing. But I will tell you. the First week we will be using a small sketchbook.. a pocket size one, and a mechanical pencil. Of course MANY MANY more things, like paints, glues, mediums, pastels, pencils, stencils, you name it.. but just gather this to start. Get one small enough to fit into your purse. I say no bigger than 3"x5".
As a fun bonus, I will also be sharing throughout the class, interviews with other artist who also create "girls" but have a totally different style and method than I do. I want you to get to know these beautiful women who create other beautiful women.. get behind their mind as to why they create girls, what draws them too it. What some of their favorite must haves are and so on. I really REALLY encourage you this year.. if you are wanting to take your "she art" to the next level.. to take more than just MY She Art 3 workshop. I have a few in mind, I will be sharing with in the course.. but even if you think the STYLE of the girl that is being presented isn't yours.. I PROMISE YOU.. you will learn so much in just the perspective and process.
SO.. want to join me?? I SOO hope you will! For me.. this workshop and the Behind the Art Workshop (which I will debut tomorrow).. I have to honestly say, will be two of my most PERSONAL workshops I have ever done. Not just personal in what I share.. but personal in really showing you HOW i create, WHY i use one color over another, WHY i completely cover something up.. or leave it even when it seems I shouldn't. THese two classes will truly be the most in depth look at how I create and why. Hope you will join me for BOTH!
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The Israeli far-right always the best indicator of Israel's true intentions is quite outspoken: its aim is to make Palestinian life unbearable to a point that they would rather get up and go. Asked about his conception of "voluntary transfer" of Palestinians, Minister of Tourism (Rabbi) Benny Eylon compared the "voluntary" element to that of a Jewish husband who refused a rabbinical order to divorce his wife. Since rabbinical court cannot undo the marriage without the husband's consent, it should use force excommunicate the obstinate husband, slash him, jail him etc. until he "voluntarily" agrees to divorce. This is how the Palestinians should be "voluntarily" made to leave. And obviously, as long as they do not leave because they cannot or will not they should be struggling to survive rather than resist their oppression.
A New Draconian Measure
Analysing the Israeli oppression is a like playing chess with the devil: the evil minds behind the occupation are always two steps ahead of you. What was the real aim of "Operation Defence Shield"?
The official pretext "dismantling the infrastructure of terrorism" cannot be taken too seriously. Now that resumed suicide bombings have to be explained, military experts suddenly claim that the simple equipment of the suicide bombers hardly needs any infrastructure at all. The further expansion of the settlements, mentioned in my previous column, is always an aim; "Defence Shield" has undoubtedly given it a great push, with Palestinians too weak and too frightened by the extent of Israeli terror to resist their on-going dispossession.
But Ha'aretz journalist Amira Hass has now reported a new draconian measure imposed on West Bank Palestinians, which may be a real break-through that "Defence Shield" was aiming at:
"The Israeli army has been tightening its grip on movement of Palestinians in cities and towns in the West Bank by insisting that they obtain new freedom-of-movement permits from the regional administration to travel from one city to another. […] Pedestrians, as well as drivers, have been left with one entrance into the area which can be crossed only after receiving the proper freedom-of-movement permit. […] [T]he new measures have divided up the area into eight population regions, effectively isolated from one another, with traffic and movement control exercised by the Israel Defence Forces. The eight regions are Jenin, Nablus, Tul Karm, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Jericho, Bethlehem and Hebron."
East Jerusalem, once the economic heart of the West Bank, annexed by Israel and cut off from the rest of the West Bank, can be added as a ninth sealed-off enclave. And whoever believes Gaza is the tenth enclave, is too optimistic: the Strip itself has also been split in two, with the 200.000 residents of Raffah ordered to get a permit to go north.
From Closure to Siege
Curtailing Palestinian freedom of movement has been a central feature of Israeli occupation during the last decade. "Terrorism" has always served as a good excuse for this premeditated policy (and was served by it in turn). Up to 1991, Palestinians were free to move both within the occupied territories and to Israel; in fact, they formed the basis, in terms of cheap labour force, of Israeli economy. It was during the Gulf War that Israel for the first time closed its territory to Palestinians. The 1990's, especially the Oslo period since 1994, saw a gradual routinisation of this measure, for which the euphemistic term "closure" was introduced. At the same time, massive import of cheap labour force from Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa replaced Palestinian workers. In 1996, the notorious "internal closure" was introduced, later known by the Hebrew euphemism "keter" (original meaning: "crown"!), correctly translated as "siege": cutting Palestinian towns and villages from each other. Since October 2000, Palestinians are no longer given permits to enter Israel, and the closure policy has turned into a strangling siege.
Thus, step by step, Palestinians have been dispossessed and surrounded by settlements, military camps, by-pass roads and checkpoints, squeezed into sealed-off enclaves. Palestinian towns are besieged by tanks and armed vehicles blocking all access roads. West Bank villages too are surrounded by road blocks, preventing the movement of vehicles in and out: three successive mounds of rubble and earth, approximately 6 feet high, with 100 metre gaps between them. All residents wishing to move in an out of the village old or young, sick or well, pregnant or not have to climb over the slippery mounds.
At present, this policy seems to have been perfected to an extent that it can be further institutionalised by long-term bureaucracy: a permit system, considerably worse than the "pass laws" imposed on blacks in Apartheid South Africa.
The severity with which the restrictions on movement are imposed was demonstrated again this week, when, in two different incidents, Israeli soldiers shot dead innocent Palestinians in the vicinity of road blocks. Since both Palestinians were Israeli citizens, the army "regretted" their killing; otherwise the incidents might have been dismissed as "self defence" or whatever. But the army made its point: movement in the occupied territories is an exclusive privilege of Jewish settlers. All other people the local residents and their visitors may pay for it with their lives. "Regret" or not, Israeli terror prevails.
Impoverishing the Palestinians
The damage to the Palestinians as a nation is obvious. Nation building often means political unification of territory: think of Italy or Germany. Israel is imposing on the Palestinians the very reversed process, hoping to reduce them into numerous separate groups with no collective interests, consciousness and institutions. The human catastrophy too is not hard to imagine: any movement outside your enclave becomes a tedious project, to say the least: going to school or university in a neighbouring town, moving patients or medical staff, not to mention "luxuries" like visiting friends or family.
But the economic side is just as essential. While travelling thousands of miles in the United States and in united Europe is free, Israel is putting towns and villages individually under siege, dividing the West Bank into nine separate "cantons" (Swiss tranquillity aside). The entire West Bank is about 130 km long, never more than 50 km wide, its eastern third a desert. Jenin is just 25 km away from Nablus; Tul Karm is 15km away from Qalqilya; and Bethlehem is just a few hundred metres away from East-Jerusalem. The Gaza Strip is about 50 km long and just a few km wide, and has been cut in two. The Israeli travel permits are valid from 5:00 A.M. until 7:00 P.M., and must be renewed every month.
Amira Hass adds:
"Under the new system, goods can be transported within the territories only using a 'back-to-back system' in which a truck goes to a certain location where goods are unloaded to another awaiting truck, which then carries the merchandise further."
Imagine doing business (or just providing for a village) under such circumstances. There are reports of big price differences between towns: one town is flooded with cheap vegetables, in the other town vegetables are rare and expensive.
Real income pro capita in the occupied territories has been proved inversely proportional to the number of closure days. Compared to 1994, income per capita was dropping 15% up to 1996, while closure periods were rising towards 80 days a year. In the relatively quiet Netanyahu years, 1996-1999, days of closure were declining towards zero in 1999, with income per capita on the rise, almost reaching the 1994-level. With Barak elected in 1999 and provoking the Intifada a year later, the tide turned once again. 2001 saw a record of 210 days of closure; Palestinian income level now lost 30% on its 1994-level. 2002 will be worse.
In September 2000, 600.000 of about 3 million Palestinians were defined as poor, living on less than $2 a day. At the end of 2001, the number of poor reached 1.5 million half the population. After "Operation Defence Shield", it is estimated that 75% of the Palestinians have reached poverty.
So the main measure to subjugate Palestinians is not war, but closure and siege. This is why Israel is so anxious to institutionalise it. World Bank experts estimate the damage caused to Palestinian economy by Israeli military attacks at $305 million in the first 15 months of the present Intifada (up to "Defence Shield"). The damage caused by closure and siege during the same time is estimated at $2,4 billion. (Ha'aretz, 19.5.02.)
To Sum Up
Having pushed the Palestinians out of its labour market, Israel is now institutionalising their long-term seal-off in besieged enclaves by a system of "permits". It counts on the world community "the donor states" to finance the intentionally impoverished people through the Palestinian Authority. This dirty game must be exposed. As the "permit system" demonstratees, Israel is clearly the effective force ruling the occupied territories, and thus solely responsible for their welfare. It must stop the systematic destruction of Palestinian economy and society. Freedom of movement is a basic right; due to its disastrous human, political and economic implications, Israel's policy of curtailing this freedom should be fought against at top priority.


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Cecil Woolf Publishers' new monographs usually come out in June to coincide with the Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, but publication of the 2012 monographs was delayed. Now, the long-awaited list of new volumes in his two series, the Bloomsbury Heritage and The War Poets, is here.
Bloomsbury Heritage Series
- Virginia Woolf and the Spanish Civil War: Texts, Contexts & Women's Narratives by Lolly Ockerstrom
- Walking in the Footsteps of Michel de Montaigne by Judith Allen
- Virginia Woolf as a 'Cubist Writer' by Sarah Latham Phillips
- How Should One Read a Marriage?: Private Writings, Public Readings, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf by Drew Patrick Shannon
- The Best of Blogging Woolf, Five Years On by Paula Maggio
- Virginia Woolf's Likes and Dislikes, Collected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Paula Maggio
The War Poets Series
- Isaac Rosenberg, War Poet as Painter by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
- T.E. Hulme: 'One of the War Poets' by David Worthington
- Apollinaire: Poet of War and Peace by Jacqueline Peltier
- Alan Seeger: the American Rupert Brooke? by Phil Carradice
- Soldier Songs of the Second World War, selected and edited with an Introduction and Notes by Roger Press
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14 kidnapped Central American migrants found in Mexico
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MEXICO CITY -- As a group of mothers from Honduras, Guatemala and other countries travels across Mexico in search of missing relatives, the Mexican navy on Monday announced that it had freed 14 Central Americans kidnapped by suspected drug traffickers. Thousands of migrants from Central America go missing every year as they attempt to reach the United States through Mexico. They are often kidnapped by Mexican gangsters, held for ransom, forced to work for cartels or on marijuana farms, or killed. Many turn up in hidden mass graves.
Naval marines acting on what they described as an anonymous tip over the weekend discovered 14 migrants being held against their will in a shack in the town of Altamira, in the violent border state of Tamaulipas (link in Spanish). The state has been the scene of several massacres of Central American and Mexican migrants. The rescued men and women looked for the most part young and skinny, judging by a video released by the navy. They told authorities they had been kidnapped in different places in Tamaulipas and were from Central America, the navy said. The navy did not offer a breakdown of nationalities and said their 'migratory status' would be corroborated. They stand a good chance of being deported.
Two men who apparently were holding the migrants were arrested, the navy said.
Monday's announcement from the navy gives hope to groups searching for the missing that more victims may still be alive.
A caravan of mothers this month embarked on a 19-day, 14-state journey through Mexico. All 40 or so mothers are looking for children, spouses or other relatives who vanished on their way north. Through the efforts of the organizers -- they've staged a caravan every of the last several years -- and other migrant-rights activists, a few missing relatives have been found and reunited with mothers.
Human rights groups say government neglect and refusal to recognize the problem of the missing result in families left with the task of searching on their own, sometimes going state to state to offer DNA evidence when bodies turn up.
Sifting for answers in a mass grave in Tapachula, Mexico
Two-thirds of most-wanted Mexican drug lords are in custody, dead
Mexico's drug war disappearances leave families in anguish
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How to Play Beyond Compare
Stop wondering whether your tone is as "good" as Bonamassa's or Eddie's or Joe Pass' or whoever's.
If you spend any amount of time on a computer, mobile phone, or tablet thingy these days, chances are you're inundated with links to videos of someone doing something amazing or face-slappingly unexpected. As awesome as it can be to waste time on these things, in this ol' bastard's opinion there are also downsides.
Don't get me wrong—I'm not saying I don't dig a lot of the crap digital circuits enable us to do. But sometimes it's worth stopping to think a little deeper about how they affect us. To me, one of the biggest downsides of technology's instant gratification is that it exponentially increases our already unhealthy tendencies to see the "best" of what's out there in the world—whether it's music, sports, or whatever—and then immediately measure our own worth relative to it.
For instance, how many millions of people have seen a YouTube video of someone who's freakishly good at something—like a pre-teen shredding "Eruption," sinking 30 three-pointers in a row, or dancing better than Justin Timberlake—and then immediately thought, "There's no way I'm ever going to be that good, so why even try?"
This video of a 14-year-old girl playing "Eruption" went viral in May, causing widespread self-hatred
amongst older guitar players.
Maybe those with fewer years on the planet and less context to generalize from are more prone to fatalist reactions like that, but I bet it still happens plenty with those of us who've been around for a few decades, too. I'm not saying we're all gullible, powerless, self-loathing idiots—I think most of us, young or old, get that viral videos are usually outside the norm.
But I also think it can be easy to maybe subconsciously let the daily deluge of sensationalized content streaming in from all over the planet permanently warp our perception of life and of ourselves—our conception of who we are, what we may become, and why our quirks shouldn't necessarily be ironed out. Even when we put things in proper context and don't let someone else's apparent badassness deter us, too many of us still see it as an impossibly high resetting of the bar for what's satisfactory or laudable in a given pursuit. Because let's face it, everything is being done faster, more precisely, and younger these days (we'll leave the soullessness of much of it for another discussion, though). In a word, this is all totally skewed—it's a bogus lens on life.
Now, before you accuse me of whining about the growing pains of cultural evolution like a dinosaur ignorant that the choking smoke and increasing temperatures aren't from a meager forest fire but are impending desolation from YouTube's Comet, let me remind you that when it comes to guitar and music, we're talking about Art. Yeah, that's a capital "A" there, my friend—and you best hearken, for it be Ye Olde English signifier of something special, hallowed, sacred, holy, etc. In other words—don't fuck with it!
Though some people seem perpetually hell-bent on making anything and everything competitive, the cynic in me believes that's usually somehow tied to monetary gain rather than love and concern for the arts and inner enlightenment. I mean, is there a subject that a TV exec, film studio, or click-hungry social-media entity hasn't tried to cravenly twist into a cash cow?
Obviously the web, mobile devices, and social-media networks didn't create humanity's greed, insecurities, or copycat tendencies. But I contend that, in a lot of ways, they act as a giant magnifying glass, amplifying the heat we already put on ourselves. At their core, these tendencies are actually a good thing. They're engraved on our DNA, a Darwinian key to our survival. They're integral to accomplishing things and adjusting and adapting to everything from how to act at a funeral to what sort of line to play over a funky vamp. But when fanned too much, these innate tendencies rage out of control and cause us to take something that should be inspiring and turn it into something either contrived or crippling.
So if you really want to play beyond compare—in the best, truest sense, in the way that will be infinitely more meaningful to you as an artist and to us, your fellow beings—then the answer is simple: Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop wondering whether your tone is as "good" as Bonamassa's or Eddie's or Joe Pass' or whoever's. Stop worrying about whether your licks are fast enough to impress or humble other players in the crowd. Stop caring about whether your pedalboard or amp or headstock logo pass muster with snobs in the room. Stop trying to make someone else's creations yours—make your own mark, dammit!
Plotting your playing around what someone else does or thinks is as fruitless, unfulfilling, and silly as deciding to wear your hair, clothes, and miscellaneous personal accoutrements the way someone else does. Just think what people would say if you went around wearing leather pants, sleeveless shirts, a nose ring, and a long, curly mop of hair with a conch-bedecked top hat. Chances are, your physique—your height, weight, body and head shape, etc.—is better suited to something you discover on your own than trying to conform to someone else's style.
So learn to freaking celebrate the fact that your freckles, wrinkles, nose, ears, and that weird cowlick you've got going on the back of your head are a combo that no one else has got. Same goes for your guitar playing. Learn to combat the downsides of the daily digital deluge and our built-in, self-preserving insecurities by taking inspiration from exceptional feats.
Just keep reminding yourself that players who've gone down in history took what came before and made it their own, while slavish copycats have always been forgotten.
Shawn Hammond


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CRS: German Foreign and Security Policy: Trends and Transatlantic Implications, July 21, 2008
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Title: German Foreign and Security Policy: Trends and Transatlantic Implications
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Author(s): Paul Belkin, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: July 21, 2008
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- German Chancellor Angela Merkel took office in November 2005 promising a foreign policy anchored in a revitalized transatlantic partnership. Most observers agree that since reaching a low-point in the lead-up to the Iraq war in 2003, relations between the United States and Germany have improved. With recent leadership changes in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, U.S. officials view Germany under Chancellor Merkel as a key U.S. ally in Europe. Despite continuing areas of divergence, President Bush and many Members of Congress have welcomed German leadership in Europe and have voiced expectations for increased U.S.-German cooperation on the international stage.
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Anaïs Mitchell On World Cafe
Vermont folk singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's confessional ballads and strong, emotive singing have earned her comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Gillian Welch. Since her 2002 debut, she's added five more albums to her discography and collaborated with the likes of Ani DiFranco, Justin Vernon and Ben Knox Miller of The Low Anthem.
Mitchell shuttles deftly between genres, displaying a penchant for narrative poetry and a deep reverence for the expressiveness of folk. Her latest record, the operatic Young Man In America, is woven with a theme of social responsibility. It is also one of her most critically acclaimed albums. Inspired by scenes of struggle in our economic crisis, Mitchell has evolved her protest music into something more allegorical and applicable to any time period.
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Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents.I've seen the right try to spin this as the mother only saying she supports the Marines, not the war necessarily. If that's indeed what she meant, though, then her t-shirt and flags outside are sending a mixed message to many people. And for the right to suggest that such a distinction is possible, well...let's just say, that's progress, I guess.
It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect's mom greeted him wearing an American flag T-shirt.
"I want you to know we support you," she gushed.
Rivera soon reached the limits of her support.
"Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she told him.
Bottom line is, this disconnect afflicting the nation, where folks equate supporting the war with bumper stickers and patriotic t-shirts, has been enabled if not right out encouraged by Bush's refusal to insist the nation sacrifice anything more than their civil liberties for the effort. When shopping with your tax cuts cash (providing you were rich to start with) is all he can think to ask Americans to do for their country, it's no small wonder Americans like this mother think they're doing their part.
Don't get me wrong. I don't blame any American for not wanting to send their children to Iraq. The war is being led by historically incompetent fools or was never winnable in the first place (the primary consideration for a pre-emptive war, btw), so it's understandable to discourage one's children from signing up, but the naked hypocrisy, not to mention repulsive classism, of this woman's statement warrants a sharply delivered smack upside her head.
UPDATE: Oy vey! I've turned comments off for this post (they're still on for other posts). I don't want this blog to become the red vs. blue free-for-all other blogs are. I'll continue to post on politics from time to time, but think it's best to take Basil's advice and not mention the war. Happy weekend all.


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The deadline is upon us, and people across the country are finishing up an estimated 3.18 billion hours figuring out and filing their tax returns.
That's 24.2 hours per taxpayer.
If it's any consolation, most people get a two-day reprieve this year, until midnight Tuesday night. April 15 fell on a Sunday and April 16 is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia.
Some people need all the time they can get to cope with a system that every year, with changes in tax law, becomes more complicated.
The National Taxpayers Union, an advocacy group, came up with its estimate of 3.18 billion hours for individual compliance based on an IRS report on forms submitted. The group did not have an estimate for past years, but the Tax Foundation, using similar means of calculation, said the figure for the previous year was 2.8 billion hours.
The figures are much higher if you count businesses such as General Electric Co., which may have set a record last year by filing a return that, had it been printed on paper, would have totaled more than 24,000 pages.
The NTU calculated that the average taxpayer spent 24.2 hours in record keeping, boning up on tax law and preparing their 2006 returns. With some 60 percent of people now using paid preparers, the group said the average cost of paying taxes is $207.
Corporations spent an estimated $156.5 billion working on their taxes, nearly half the $354 billion in corporate income taxes the U.S. collected last year, NTU said.
"This spring you have people spending more on tax preparation than our government is spending on higher education," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who is sponsoring a tax simplification bill with a one-page 1040 form for most taxpayers. "It shouldn't have to be bureaucratic water torture to fill out all these forms."
Despite the obstacles, most Americans make an honest effort to pay their taxes on time. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mark Everson said the agency expects to process 136 million returns this year. As of April 7, they had received 88.1 million. For most the effort is rewarded: As of April 7 the IRS had issued 73.6 million refunds totaling $174 billion. The average refund was $2,366.
So far, the IRS said, 61 million returns had been filed electronically, up 6.2 percent from last year. Of those, 44 million came from tax professionals and 17 million from people using software on their home computers. The agency said its Web site — http://www.irs.gov/ — had received 111 million visits from people seeking help or information.
Things are tough for the IRS as well. Everson told a Senate committee last week that the agency was anticipating "the most difficult filing season in a number of years."
Congress late last year complicated matters when it failed to revive — until after the IRS had gone to print with its forms for the 2006 filing season — expired tax breaks for college tuition, teacher expenses and state taxes.
The IRS has also had difficulty making taxpayers aware that they are entitled to a one-time tax refund, worth $30 to $60 in most cases, for a long-distance phone tax that was eliminated last year. Almost one-third of returns coming in so far have not sought the rebate, and there have been scattered problems with taxpayers and unscrupulous preparers claiming refunds of thousands of dollars.
Everson said there has been only "minimal interest" in a new program allowing taxpayers to deposit refunds in separate accounts. Another new program of contracting out debt retrieval to private collection agencies continues to be closely scrutinized by critics in Congress.
The IRS also is also under pressure from Congress, hungry for new revenue sources, to narrow the tax gap, the difference between taxes owed and taxes paid. The IRS estimates that amount at $290 billion a year.
About 84 percent of taxpayers voluntarily comply with the law on what they owe. Raising that by just one percentage point "will yield an additional $25 billion each year to pay for priorities like children's health care and energy independence," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.
Everson said enforcement revenue was up from $34 billion in fiscal 2002 to almost $49 billion last year. Most taxpayers had a less than 1 percent chance of getting audited last year, but the rate rises to 6.3 percent for millionaires and 35.3 percent for the largest corporations.
For those who find this all too daunting, the IRS does accept extensions from 30 to 120 days, depending on circumstances. The tax agency urges those seeking extensions to set up an installment agreement, for a fee of up to $105, that will result in lower penalties and interest.


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Games legend Will Wright says Xbox and PS3 are old hat
The Nintendo Wii is the only truly next generation games console and the Xbox 360 and PS3 are just improved versions of old concepts. That's the view of games developer Will Wright, who created the super-selling Sims franchise.
"Somebody asked me what I thought 'next generation' meant and whether the PlayStation 3 was next generation," he told The Guardian.
"The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.
"But the Wii feels like a major jump - not that the graphics are more powerful, but it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that's happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while."
PC is still best, says Spore creator
Wright also told The Guardian that he thinks the PC is still the best all-round gaming platform and that we shouldn't underestimate the impact of the humble computer mouse.
"We've got an Xbox 360 collecting dust in the background, a Wii hooked up that we use quite a bit. I don't have a PS3. I still, for the most part, prefer playing games on the computer - to me the mouse is the best input device ever," he said.
"Every generation it's like "the PC's dead! The PC's dead!". But it carries on growing when consoles are flat for five years. At the moment I can get better graphics on my PC than I can on the PS3."
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Top junior cyclists to participate at 2011 Junior Pan-American Championships
The Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent Canada at the 2011 Junior Pan American Championships to be held April 11 through 17 in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.
Ten of Canada's top junior cyclists, including five returning athletes, will participate at this large event for the nations of the Americas.
The list notably includes Canadian Junior Champions Alex Cataford of Ottawa, ON (M Individual Pursuit) and Allison Beveridge of Calgary, AB (W Keirin, Ind. Pursuit, Scratch, Points) amongst others.
For a second straight year, Rob Good of Ontario will be leading the team to Argentina as the head coach and team leader.
"In the spring of 2010, after seeing a surge in participation in track cycling in Canada a group of coach's wanted to give Junior athletes a better build up to International competition. The Junior Pan Am Championships were viewed as a stepping stone to encourage young athletes in Canada to be able to compete internationally at the highest level," said Good about the event.
"We came home with two Gold medals and a total of ten medals. This was very encouraging and showed that if we can take the time to give juniors a chance to compete they will perform," added Good..
"The team has set realistic goals for 2011. We are entering competition with a better understanding of how the racing takes shape and the athletes will have a game plan going into each event. The 5 returning athletes on the team know what it will take to podium and that is the goal of all members of the team."
At the same event in 2010, Canadian cyclists placed third in the medal ranking with 10 medals, including five medals by Beveridge.
The track events will be held on a 250-metre concrete track in an outdoor velodrome.
Canadian Team 2011 for the Junior Pan American Championships
Allison Beveridge (Calgary, AB) – Omnium, Points Race, Scratch Race, Individual Pursuit, Road Race
Nina Nesdoly (Ottawa, ON) – Individual Pursuit, Points Race, Scratch Race, Road Race
Audrey Labrie (Prévost, QC) – Sprint, 500m TT, Keirin
Alex Cataford (Ottawa, ON) – Individual Pursuit, Team Pursuit, Points race, Omnium, Road Race
Emile Jean (Trois-Rivières, QC) – Individual Pursuit, Team Pursuit, Scratch Race, Road Race
Kyle Buckosky (Surrey, BC) – Team Pursuit, Points Race, Madison, Road Race
Aiden Caves (Vancouver, BC) –Team Pursuit, Scratch race, Road Race
Kristopher Ovsenek (London, ON) – Sprint, Kilo, Team Sprint
Jesse Marans (Los Angeles, CA) – Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint
Daniel McKenzie-Picot (London, ON) – Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint
April 11 – M/W Time Trial (Road)
April 12 – M Team Sprint; W Individual Pursuit; M Points Race (Track)
April 13 – M Scratch; W Team Sprint; M Individual Pursuit; W Team Pursuit; M Keirin (Track)
April 14 – M Kilo; W Scratch, M Team Pursuit (Track)
April 15 – M Madison; W Sprint; M/W Omnium Day 1 (Track)
April 16 – M Sprint; W Keirin; W Points Race; M/W Omnium Day 2 (Track)
April 17 – M/W Road Race (Road)
CCA press release
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He's a hunkier Chuck with the mad fighting skills, reckless bravado — and propensity toward angst — of Alias's Sydney Bristow. Meet TV's new Six Billion Dollar Man, Gabriel Vaughn, who you'll recognize as Sawyer from Lost. And Josh Holloway is very much the main reason to tune into CBS's Intelligence (Tuesday, 9/8c), a proficient if initially perfunctory action thriller that benefits immeasurably from its star's gruff, bluff machismo. Although a little less brooding (over a long-missing wife who might be a terrorist) would make Gabriel, and Intelligence, a lot more fun.
He's a hunkier Chuck with the mad fighting skills, reckless bravado -- and propensity toward angst -- of Alias's Sydney Bristow. Meet TV's new Six Billion Dollar Man, Gabriel Vaughn, who you'll recognize as Sawyer from Lost. And Josh Holloway is very much the main reason to tune into CBS's Intelligence (Tuesday, 9/8c), a proficient if initially perfunctory action thriller that benefits immeasurably from its star's gruff, bluff machismo. Although a little less brooding (over a long-missing wife who might be a terrorist) would make Gabriel, and Intelligence, a lot more fun.
The first episodes -- it moves to Mondays at 10/9c next week after getting an NCIS lead-in to ensure sampling -- force us to endure reams of clumsy exposition from frosty boss lady Lillian Strand (Marg Helgenberger), droning on about how Gabriel is "the most valuable piece of technology this country has ever created," a reckless Delta Force maverick equipped with a computer chip that makes him a virtual know (and often see) it all. "We've spent billions of dollars creating something that every nation on Earth would go to war to possess," Lillian informs Gabriel's new Secret Service sidekick/babysitter Riley Neal (Meghan Ory), who naturally takes her sweet time warming up to her arrogant client. No wonder, given that he has a way of throwing himself into harm's way, regardless of the government's investment.
I won't insult your intelligence by making grand claims for Intelligence's ambitions beyond displaying Gabriel's killer apps and Holloway's killer abs. You probably already know if this one's for you.
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The eye candy is even more abundant on Parker, Texas Ranger -- better known as ABC's Killer Women (10/9c), starring willowy TV siren Tricia Helfer as Molly Parker, part of a new generation of female gunslingers. She's a knockout as a defiantly sexy lone ranger, whose gene pool is something to behold (her rancher brother is played by fellow Battlestar Galactica alum Michael Trucco). Wish I could say the same for her uneven star vehicle, exec produced by Sofia Vergara. The show veers from brazen to banal, often within a scene. Her first case (all that was available for preview), which begins with the shooting of a bride at the altar, takes a too maudlin turn, as does Molly's backstory as the victim of an abusive marriage. On the job, fighting sexism and turf wars between shoot-outs and car chases, she's on more solid and robustly entertaining ground. Same goes for her hot fling with a DEA agent (Marc Blucas). When they strip, guns come off before clothes. This is Texas, y'all. And you may very well feel like you've been to this rodeo before.
JUSTIFIABLY ACCLAIMED: Cutting through the clutter of an overstuffed night of TV with originality, unpredictability and wry licks of mordant humor that serve as an homage to the late, great Elmore Leonard -- who created the character of laconic but lethal Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens -- FX's Justified (10/9c) goes way beyond its Kentucky roots in a fifth-season opener that wracks up quite a bloody body count before it's over.
"Think of it like a family trip," Chief Deputy Art Mullen (Nick Searcy) tells Raylan (the subtly sublime Timothy Olyphant) as he sends the reluctant marshal back down to his old Florida stomping grounds to rattle the cage of the infamous Crowes, the sort of deadly backwoods clan that is a Justified specialty. We already know dim bulb Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman), who has found a way to cash in on his enmity with the law. "The Crowes are a terrible family," grouses Raylan -- who has his own family connection in the Sunshine State. That's where Winona (Natalie Zea) has gone with their offspring. Will Raylan be able to mix personal with professional duty? That's a spoiler, but he surely has his hands full with new foils among the murder of Crowes he encounters down south, including the savage Darryl Jr. (Michael Rapaport, an odd but so far effective casting) and the alluring Wendy (Alicia Witt), who appears to be the sharpest legal mind of the bunch.
Meanwhile, in an even darker subplot, Raylan's nemesis Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) heads north to Detroit with his fractious partner in crime Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) for a macabre sojourn in the dying city with local and Canadian mobsters and drug dealers, including a startling cameo by two guest stars better known for their comic chops.
All roads eventually lead back to Kentucky, where the blend of mirth and mayhem promises to be as irresistible as ever.
"SO MUCH STUPID!" In the woozy-on-wine world of Cougar Town, which is kicking off an improbable fifth season on TBS, these words from cynical Ellie (Christa Miller) are almost a compliment. The silliness at least has a focus in the giddy premiere (10/9c), as Jules (Courteney Cox) and her blotto tribe are understandably squirmy in the presence of newly minted lovebirds Travis (Dan Byrd) and Laurie (Busy Phillips), whose PDAs earn the description -- coined by Ellie, of course -- "Awww-blech!" Which is a perfect expression of this show's mastery of undercutting sentiment with snark, as in the episode's best subplot, which involves Bobby (Brian Van Holt) rolling in dough after Penny Cam goes global, prompting Grayson (Josh Hopkins) to try to get the barfly to pay his staggering bar tab.
THE TUESDAY GUIDE: And these highlights are just the tip of Tuesday's TV iceberg. Other options: Arrow's Susanna Thompson returns to CBS's NCIS (8/7c) as Gibbs' ex, Hollis Mann, who helps the team look for a deadly stolen drone. ... Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) makes a discovery about the nature of his "death" on ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.(8/7c). ... We've now met the sinister Control (Camryn Manheim), who's heading up the government's search for The Machine on CBS's Person of Interest (10:01/9:01c). But as last month's cliffhanger concludes, can the team fend off multiple enemies without the help of still-MIA Reese (Jim Caviezel)? ... ABC Family's hit Pretty Little Liars(8/7c) resumes the intrigue with the Liars club reeling from the knowledge that Alison is alive, followed by the return of spinoff Ravenswood (9/8c). ... A double bill of intriguing documentaries on PBS, starting with the always compelling history series American Experience turning back the clock to the dawn of forensic science in 1918 New York City in The Poisoner's Handbook (check tvguide.com listings). A more contemporary crime story unfolds in Frontline's investigative report To Catch a Trader (check tvguide.com listings), which goes inside the government crackdown on hedge fund SAC Capital that led to the largest insider trading case in U.S. history. Now that's what I call intelligence.


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By Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Michael Johnson, Jim Johnson, Len Krimerman, and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo
The GEO Collective recognizes a great deal of untapped potential for collaboration and solidarity between organizations using different models to develop worker co-ops. Not only has interest in the development of worker cooperatives increased over the past couple of years in particular, but so has discussion about what are the best models to use and for whom. We hope to contribute to this dialogue by describing (and categorizing) some of the major models in use, and briefly discussing their strengths and weaknesses. We hope that our readers, and members of the forum and July 8, 2011, conference on "Advancing Worker Cooperative Development" (ADWC), will come out with a clearer understanding of the variety of models used to develop worker co-ops, their major components and assumptions behind them. We hope that the conversations and dialogues that are inspired from our summary and the other articles in this issue, and that occur through the ADWC forum and conference, will help us all to gain more clarity about the benefits, advantages, basic accomplishments, limitations and challenges of their particular approaches to worker cooperative development. It is also important to know what is gained and what is given up when certain models or types of approaches are chosen.
Behind all of this is a desire to contribute to developing worker cooperatives that:
- Are accessible to all populations regardless of race, gender, class, etc.;
- Are fiscally-sustainable;
- Are democratically-governed;
- Exhibit organizational self-reliance;
- Engage with other worker co-ops and start-up efforts; and
- Develop an authentic, organic ownership culture among the worker owners.
The ways to measure effectiveness can be connected to existing co-op principles such as the International Cooperative Alliance's seven co-operative principles and co-op values, the ten Mondragon principles and corporate values, the Madison Principles , and the Cooperative Index's eight principles.
What do we mean by "models of worker co-op development?" We mean identifying and categorizing development strategies according to elements about how and why, by whom a co-op was initiated, original ownership culture and funding sources. Established approaches for starting worker co-ops include self-organized groups, worker co-op-led efforts, federation support, retiring founders selling to employees, non-profit/community economic development incubators, union initiated, worker buyouts of closing factories/recovered businesses, and government-initiated. Key allies for those starting worker co-ops may be other co-ops, cooperative development centers, employee ownership centers, federations, trade associations, advocacy organizations, loan funds, community development credit unions and foundations. We can categorize worker co-op development models along those dimensions.
Worker Co-op Development Categories by Origination
A. Bottom Up - self initiated by:i. Community of interest (people with existing connection, church members, union, workplace, solidarity group)B. Top Down " initiated by:
ii. Charismatic Leader (founder or organizer catalyzes a group of people)
iii. Original Owner Succession or Conversion (government supported "tax incentives")
iv. Existing Worker Co-op initiates and supports new or branch/franchise
v. Union initiates or supports (to help members or satisfy a grievance)i. Cooperative Development Agencya. government supportedii. Not-for-profit community organization or community development corporation or incubator; social service center
b. university supported
c. loan fund supported
d. co-op supporteda.Government supported
b.Foundation grant support
A.Tipping point (union activity not successful enough or unsuccessful; high unemployment and/or poverty; market failure, lack of goods or services)
B.Community development and social mission
C.Management dispute, more shop floor control wanted, worker dissatisfaction
A. Bottom Upi. Self-financed equity drive, loans from membersB. Top down
ii. Worker Co-op Funds from surplus set aside for development
iii. Co-op Community revolving loan fundsi. Credit Union loans and development funds
ii. Social Investment loans, under market-rate loans, grants
iii. Grants: foundation or government or both
iv. Bank loans
The following types of questions help to identify or understand how a co-op fits into any of these models:
- Who initiates the development effort?
- What are the values that they (developers or founders) bring to the development effort (consciously and unconsciously)?
- What is the ownership model at start-up? In the long run? Is ownership an important initial component?
- What is the management/workplace culture model at start-up? In the long run? Is creating a worker-owner culture considered secondary or only important after establishing tight, break even operations; or is it viewed as a start-up advantage and essential from the beginning?
- How long does it takes for full ownership culture/long-term self-determination to take hold? Does this ever fail to happen? If so, why?
- What are the keys to actually developing a worker-ownership culture?
- What are the development missions: economic development and job creation through worker co-ops, or creating high quality jobs, democratic workplaces, and ownership culture.
These are by no means simple, uni-dimensional relationships, and answering the above questions can reveal important complexities. We have already noted tensions between "bottom up" and "outside agency/top down" approaches to worker cooperative development. It will be important to discuss these more fully. Some of the sponsor-initiated cases might well have different missions than the "pure" worker co-op-initiated efforts, but nonetheless support the worker co-op mission, or include it as part of their mission. "Different" does not have to mean conflicting, however. This is important to recognize. Also, some "bottom-up-initiated" cases might have no other goal than the well-being of a single enterprise, owned by its members, rather than also seeking to provide opportunities and resources for developing a cooperative economy accessible to all, or even all in a given region or sector, who need high quality employment. So who initiates does not always answer the question of whether or not the development is part of a larger workplace democracy and cooperative commonwealth movement. We are therefore not satisfied with the taxonomy we have developed, but offer it as a starting point for understanding worker co-op development models.
As a footer we provide some quotes from people who have contributed to our online forum in early 2011. We hope that this discussion of worker cooperative development will not only continue at our conference in Baltimore, but also on our website. Let us honestly and thoroughly discuss these issues in constructive and supportive ways.
Ashley Hernandez,
Ohio Employee Ownership Center
The primary goals are to
1) Stabilize the low-income (area median income is $18,500) neighborhoods in East Cleveland neighborhoods (Greater University Circle).
2) Build wealth for individuals and the community..
3) Create jobs and ownership for community members in an "employment desert."
4) Have a favorable environmental impact.
5) Redirect the purchasing stream of area institutions so that they bring needed resources into low-income communities."
Steve Dubb
The Democracy Collaborative
Erin Rice
Baton Rouge Community College
Joe Marraffino
The permanent link to this issue is http://geo.coop/node/627.
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So, which jumble o' jargon would you rip off the wall first?
Exhibit A?
or Exhibit B?
Coincidentally, both of these notes come to us from Colorado, apparently the least creative state in the union.
Go ahead and post those speculative explanations regarding The Centennial State's staggering dearth of originality in the comments below. Then we'll circle back to brainstorm some synergistic solutions. ("The Centennial State?" Really? It's like you're not even trying, Colorado!)
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ENGLISH SONS (aka Endless Nights)
One, Two, Three, Four
Girl, on the edge flippin' off the lamp
There'll be an end darling to your endless night
On the other side of the street.
Yea, the light on your portrait and the light in your face
And you'll be looking for another pretty place
Baby, this side of the street.
Well, keep dreaming baby that your desire brings and girl
I know the sadness that you find in things, it's true
Well, baby if you can't take the heat, what can I do?
Well, you and your poetry and your kookoo world
Behind the face you hide the face of a modern girl
On the other side of the street.
Yea, you've got the look as if you owe the world
Therefore, you go out there and say what you can earn
On the wrong side of the street.
Well, you tire of every day bringing the same and so you
Go out looking for some strange new games
Well, pretty soon you don't know the score anymore.
All right now........... (Guitar Break)
I know the danger that your desire brings
And I know the strangeness that you'll find
Wait and it will seem straighter for you and for me.
Well, turn on the end and baby turn off the lamps
There'll be an end darling to this endless night
On the other side of the street.
Yea, and everyday - well- it just brings the same
You started looking for some very strange new games
On the wrong side of the street.
Well, you and your desires lead to confusion
Well, walk away as I don't follow your illusions
And see, open your eyes and see, girl.
All right..........


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DETROIT (REUTERS) - A Saudi Arabian man was arrested in Detroit and charged with making a false statement about why he brought a pressure cooker with him on a flight from Amsterdam, according to a criminal complaint filled on Monday.
Hussain al-Khawahir, 33, arrived at the Detroit airport on Saturday and was questioned about why he had brought a pressure cooker with him.
The man's name was spelled al-Khawahir in the criminal complaint, while a spokesman at the United States (US) attorney's office had earlier said it was al-Kwawahir.
He initially said the pressure cooker was for his nephew, a university student in Toledo, Ohio.
"The Defendant then changed his story and admitted his nephew had purchased a pressure cooker in America before but it'was cheap' and broke after the first use," the complaint said.
Pressure cookers packed with explosive powder and shrapnel were set off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, where they killed three people and injured 264.
The bombs, left on the ground, caused gruesome injuries with more than 10 people losing limbs, either directly from the blasts or when doctors had to amputate the badly-mangled limbs.
Al-Khawahir was also charged with altering his passport because a page was torn out of the document, the complaint said.
A hearing was held on Monday in federal court in Detroit on the case but no action was taken in order to give prosecutors more time to investigate al-Khawahir, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office said.


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About an hour into Southern Illinois after watching St. Louis' Gateway Arch recede from our rear-view mirrors, we were met along Interstate 70 by an even more surreal giant totem: a white cross, rising oddly out of a field next to the highway and behind a bunch of industrial buildings. So we shot a bunch of pictures of it and kept on trucking. Later I looked up giant cross 70 illinois and found Effingham, Illinois – Giant Cross, at RoadsideAmerica.com:
In case a nearly 200-foot cross isn't surreal enough for you, this site is enhanced by ten rock-shaped (as in "Rock of Ages", natch) speakers next to the stone tablets for each Commandment, blasting out what sounds like the stuttering instrumental break from Pink Floyd's "One Of These Days." Press a button by each station and hear a bit of wisdom appropriate to the given Commandment. [Aqua Larva, 10/28/2006]
Now I'm sorry we didn't stop.
(By the way, I'm posting this from the passenger seat of our car, heading toward Cleveland just past Columbus in Ohio on Interstate 71. Gotta hand it to Verizon: EvDO actually works here. It's the first stretch on the whole trip where the connection has stayed up.)


text: Other | 11. May 2011 Inuvik Ground Station in Use for PRISMA The DLR ground station Inuvik is used for the PRISMA flight operations since April 18th 2011. The technical and administrative preparations were pushed forward for the last two months in order to provide a favorable alternative for the project. The antenna in Inuvik in the Canadian North West Territories is operated by the German Remote Sensing Data Center DFD as part of German-Canadian cooperation. Since its inauguration in August last year, it is used as data reception station for the TanDEM-X mission. The station is located beyond the polar circle at 67.9° north und 21.0° east, which is a favorable station location for polar satellite missions. For PRISMA it allows to have at least 10 contacts per day. In addition it is an interesting alternative to the Kiruna ground station. Compared to the Swedish station, the contacts over Inuvik for European operators will take place during day times. At the start of flight operations by GSOC at mid of March this year, PRISMA was operated via the station of the Swedish Space Coorperation SSC in Kiruna in north Sweden which allowed having contacts with the two satellites starting in the late afternoon through the night until early morning. After implementation of the GSOC station Weilheim 3 weeks later, Kiruna passes were replaced by Weilheim but the working hours were still the same. With Inuvik, it was now possible to contact PRISMA during normal office hours, so the operations were changed to day times shortly before Easter. The daily flight operations are organized like that: 1-2 passes with Weilheim in the morning: for the download of recorded data (history data dump) from the satellites and for telemetry checkouts, i.e. operational status, temperatures, power system etc. 7 passes with Weilheim and Inuvik during office hours: for active flight operations with sending commands 1-2 passes with Weilheim in the late afternoon: again for history data dumping and for telemetry monitoring of both satellites The main flight operations shift consisting of a flight director, a guidance, navigation and control specialist and an operator are present at the control center only during the 7 active passes. During the remaining contacts and on weekends the GSOC operators are only monitoring the satellites' functions without sending commands. During the night no station contacts will be used any more. Of course this can be changed on request.


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This is brilliant. The Foundry team at Mint Digital got a MacBook Pro, disassembled it and created this perfect portrait of Steve Jobs as a tribute: "Rest in peace Mr. Steve and thank you very very much."
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The portrait was created this afternoon in honor of the man.
You can watch other visual tributes to Steve Jobs here, but this was so awesome that it needed its own article. [Mint Digital]
You can keep up with Jesus Diaz the author of this post, on Twitter or Facebook.


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