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Find out where we grit, where others are responsible for gritting, when and how often we grit and how we make that decision.
In an ideal world our gritters would treat every road in Lancashire but in reality this is not possible due to cost and resources. Instead, we have identified the priority road network that helps keep Lancashire moving.
The priority roads for gritting and snow clearing include:
We have also identified the second most important roads which we will treat during periods of continuous ice and snow, but only during daylight hours and after the higher priority roads have been cleared.
As well as our 58 gritters, we also have 50 hand gritters which we use to treat footpaths in severe weather conditions.
When we get a period of persistent ice and snow, we will treat those footpaths with the higher levels of use. These usually serve main shopping and employment areas, those adjacent to main hospitals and those that provide access to public transport interchanges.
Once these have been treated, the remaining footpaths and cycle routes will be prioritised and treated if we have the resources available. In icy and snowy weather consider if your journey is necessary and wear appropriate footwear with good grip.
Schools are classed as private grounds and gritting them is not a county council function. We do however give schools in Lancashire the opportunity to purchase grit from us at the start of the winter season.
We are not responsible for gritting unadopted roads. If the road is on a housing scheme you should contact the housing office. You can also contact the district council for further clarification.
Highways England is responsible for gritting the M6, M55, M58, M61 and M65 to Junction 10, the A56 between the M66 and M65 and the A585 between the M55 and Fleetwood.
During the winter months – October to April – we have up to 150 drivers on standby for a 24/7 response. We can mobilise up to 58 gritters and drivers at anytime during the winter. However, it can take our gritters up to four hours to grit one route and even longer in severe weather conditions. This means sometimes we can't grit as often as we would like.
Of the 4,300 miles of roads of which we are responsible for, around a third (approximately 1,800 miles) are part of our priority road network for gritting and snow clearing. In severe weather conditions, we rotate our drivers so we can keep the gritters on the road 24/7 if needs be.
When low temperatures and icy conditions are forecast we grit the roads as a precaution before the frost forms, usually during the evening or early hours of the morning. Please remember weather forecasts are only a guide and our local knowledge and expertise is vital in deciding what to do.
It can take our gritters up to four hours to grit a route and therefore, it will take this length of time before some roads are treated. Despite our efforts, winter weather can still make the roads treacherous so never assume a road has been gritted and always drive with extra care.
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America's Next Top Model contestants learn to dance BTOB's "Beep Beep"
America's Next Top Model is currently in its 21st season. This cycle's destination for the contestants was Seoul, South Korea. The most recent episode of ANTM featured the top 7 contestants learning the dance moves to BTOB's "Beep Beep" and performing for a crowd. BTOB, the super popular K-pop boy group, taught the contestants the dance moves personally.
Before explaining the moves Peniel, the American member of BTOB, explained to the contestants, "While we're performing we always have to focus on what we look like and we always have to be aware of our expressions. We always have to look good for our fans. And make sure you guys look good for your fans today too." After teaching the models all the dance moves, the BTOB members were also featured as judges to see who had done the best job in embodying K-pop style! The models can be seen below trying to learn the moves!
To catch up on this season of America's Next Top Model, you can check out The CW website HERE! The upcoming episodes will also take place in South Korea which will also raise awareness in the United States about Korean culture as well! Will you be watching?

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Congratulations to these Marquette students who scored 30 or better on the ACT test. A perfect score is 36. Only 5% of all students nationally earn a 30 or higher.
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Congratulations to the Marquette students that received a 30 or higher in one or more ACT subject areas (English, Math, Science, Reading).
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Back Row: Alex Prickett, Emily Carter, Brianna Klatch, Rachel Grimaud, Claire Chappee, Duncan McLain, Konnor Morrissey, Maddie Wiemers, Grace Schwarte, Mary Wilton, Ginny Schranck, Emma Mattix-Wand
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The idea to form the Anaheim Bolts in order to bring back indoor soccer to the city was an idea conceived by the legendary Bernie Lilavois. In a career that spanned over two decades Lilavois established himself to be among the biggest names in indoor soccer. He has been around the block for a long time and seen his share of teams struggle to find the right balance and go bust. It was the folding of one of Lilavois's former team Anaheim Splash in the year 1997 that made him sit up and devise a plan to give the city a new franchise.
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We want to know what you think. Stakeholder engagement enables us to listen, learn and exchange ideas on topics that impact our business and industry as well as issues that impact public health and our planet. We prioritize our activities based on issues that are most relevant to our business and on which we can have a meaningful impact.
In the immediate future (3-5 years), based on internal and external stakeholder surveys, interviews and assessments of all facets of our business, we'll continue focusing on issues that align with our corporate responsibility strategy and commitments:
Governance: Achieving success with transparency, strong governance and corporate responsibility embedded into our operations.
Innovation: Focusing on delivering superior value to consumers, with a particular emphasis on products that provide solutions for public health, more natural/plant-based options and more sustainable products.
Product Responsibility: Delivering responsible products made responsibly and increased transparency of ingredients, safety guidelines and assessments.
Diversity and Inclusion: Promoting diversity, opportunity and respectful treatment for everyone who touches our business.
Environmental sustainability: Reducing the footprint of our products, operations, and upstream supply chain while growing the business.
Health and Wellness: Supporting the well-being of our internal and external stakeholders through our involvement in public health, education and wellness issues.
Here's a snapshot of how we engage with stakeholders:
- We inform our stockholders and the broader investment community about our company strategy, financial and corporate responsibility performance and business growth objectives through quarterly conference calls, analyst meetings, stockholder annual meeting, our annual report and 10-K, Climate Disclosure Project Report, and the investor and corporate responsibility sections of our company website.
- We conduct regular employee engagement surveys to help gauge how committed our employees are relative to prior years and benchmark our scores against other leading companies. We also hold quarterly global town halls to share company information and invite employees to ask questions and share their thoughts.
- We talk to consumers through in-home studies, online focus groups and surveys to better understand how we can continue to deliver high-quality products that address their needs.
- We meet with nongovernmental organizations on a variety of issues, including sustainability and product safety.
- We participate in a number of public health organizations because we believe our disinfecting capabilities can help make a positive difference in issues such as infection control.
- We engage with our industry and business partners on sustainable business practices and responsible sourcing strategies to learn from each other and collaborate on solutions that help protect the planet and respect human rights.
- We make a positive impact on our communities through The Clorox Company Foundation's support of K-12 education and through employee volunteerism. We also provide financial aid and donate trash bags, bleach and other disinfecting products to help with clean-up efforts and sanitization needs in times of disaster. Learn more
Clorox is also a member of organizations that are related to our business and priority issues, including:
- Public Health: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc., Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, American Society for Healthcare and Environmental Services
- Industry: Consumer Specialty Products Association, American Cleaning Institute, Grocery Manufacturers Association
- Environmental Sustainability: U.N. Global Compact, , the Sustainability Consortium, Corporate Eco Forum, Green Biz Executive Network, Safer Choice, WasteWise and SmartWay Programs; Sustainable Packaging Coalition; American Cleaning Institute Sustainability Committee,
- Diversity/Inclusion: Executive Leadership Council, Hispanic Advisory Council, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, National Minority Supplier Development Council
- Responsible Sourcing: AIM Progress
- Community: Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council, Entrepreneur's Foundation, Northern California Grantmakers
Key Corporate Responsibility Topics and Matrix
Some companies use the term "materiality" in referencing important corporate responsibility or sustainability priorities. In the U.S., the term "materiality" is more often related to key financial information that can impact investment decisions. Since we're a U.S.-based company, we don't want to confuse matters. That's why we refer to the most important corporate responsibility issues as "corporate responsibility priorities" or "strategic priorities."
Recently, we worked with a third party on assessing our corporate responsibility priorities — capturing key inputs from 2020 Strategy, which includes corporate responsibility commitments, as well as feedback from employees and external stakeholders. Starting with a broad set of about 200 relevant corporate responsibility topics from resources including DJSI, GRI G4, SASB and Clorox-specific strategy documents, our team conducted working sessions as well as employee and external stakeholder interviews during an eight-month period to streamline the 200 topics even further. Eventually we got to a list of 17 corporate responsibility priorities that we and our stakeholders believe are right for Clorox.


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I've been playing a lot of MW2 lately. The sixth release in the popular series has struck a great balance for multiplayer that makes it very compelling. I can jump in and have fun for half an hour even though I'm someone relatively new to the online part of the game. There is a definite advantage to be gained by playing the game and learning the maps but it is not so overwhelming as to make the game unapproachable for newbies.
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The game rewards online play by allowing your character to gain levels. Playing games and fulfilling certain challenges grants you experience, which in turn causes you to level up. With each new level and completed challenge you can gain access to new guns, perks, and attachments. These allow you to customize your character and play style as well as forcing you to specialize. You are restricted to using only three perks at a time and selecting one primary and one secondary weapon. Tuning your load-out to fit your play style is one of the most challenging and rewarding parts of the game. It took me until level 50 to really figure out which gun, attachments, and combination of perks most suited my play. I'll probably change things up again in another ten levels or so. The ability to fill different roles brings a lot of new life to the conflicts.
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The game offers a large number of game modes from a free-for-all style to capture the flag games and king of the hill style objectives. So far I have found that "team deathmatch" has kept my interest sufficiently and that the load-out and customization options provide more than enough flexibility to avoid the need to try new game modes. I'm comfortable with the 5v5 style of the team deathmatch modes (it's anywhere from 4v4 to 7v7 I think, depending upon available players) and may try the others only once the team version has lost appeal. I have tried the other modes at least once each and so far haven't found any that I don't like. The "hardcore" versions are not really my style as they introduce friendly fire penalties. I'm not yet ready to play a mode that allows me to injure my fellow team-mates. That would quickly lead to my being unpopular.
Playing with Friends
Without doubt the most compelling aspect of Modern Warfare 2 is the ability to play online with a group of friends. In the team deathmatch variant the match organization system will keep you and your friends on the same team, allowing for tactics and strategy to be applied. Most team matches just devolve into individuals running around and killing ad hoc while contributing to a team total rather than a coordinated team assault. However, by introducing your friends into the equation you can tip the balance by organizing your squad and taking advantage of group firepower. Chris and I had fun doing this over the valentines day weekend and I had the opportunity to play with a friend from work one night last week. I'm looking forward to more friend matches in the coming months.
I've been playing the XBox 360 version of the game. As someone who classically played first person shooter games on the PC I still find the thumb-stick controls to be very cumbersome. My aiming is far better with a keyboard and mouse and I don't think that will truly ever change. However, I am now getting competent enough with the thumb-sticks to provide a competent challenge. I'm generally able to score more kills than deaths (my only real goal!) and have several times finished at the top of the scoreboard for a particular match. Learning the maps garners a much larger advantage than quick and accurate controller movement in my opinion, so some of the fears about input/output disadvantages are mitigated by strategy and position. I'm still much slower at aiming than many people who play online and if we meet on even terms I'm probably dead. Where I do gain an advantage is in tactics and strategy. Many of the teens who play the game simply run around wildly gunning everything that moves, relying more upon their quick reflexes than anything else. With some knowledge of the maps and popular high-traffic areas I can usually lay in wait and pick them off before they even know I'm there. After listening to them trash-talk you in the pre-game lobby there is certainly something very satisfying about creeping up on them and applying wisdom over reflexes to edge out a win. Be warned though, if you are a PC mouse/keyboard fan of the Quake/UT days then the same control problems that haunted your Halo experience will almost certainly exist here.
I'd give Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 a 9.0 out of 10. There are some niggles that detract from a perfect score. The single player game is very short. Even without ninja skills I was able to complete the entire campaign on the "hard" setting (one down from the hardest available; Veteran) in a little over five hours. There is some replay value as the story was done superbly. However, for many people this may be far too short. There is a "special ops" mode that asks you to fulfill certain challenges in limited scenarios. These modes are great for honing your skills in certain areas, however the online play is a far more compelling option once the single player campaign is finished. The bulk of the game's value comes from its outstanding multiplayer. A few more multiplayer maps would be very welcome as the ten or so that are included can quickly become repetitive. Fortunately there is a map pack expansion that is expected to launch this spring. Overall a superb package and definitely one I would recommend adding to your collection. I'll see you online!


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Okay I have to admit, even after deciding to go cruelty-free and vegetarian, I didn't give much thought to the sorts of products I was using to dye my hair. I still continued to dye my hair either at the salon or by buying a box of dye from the supermarket, when my funds were low. If you have read my post on the evolution of my hair you will know I have had many different hair colours and never once did I use a natural or cruelty-free hair dye.
It wasn't until a few months ago that I actually considered using henna to dye my hair. As you know I visit my local Lush store almost weekly. Normally I stick to bath products but over the last couple of I have branched out and tried out new products like the American Cream conditioner, the Trichomania Solid shampoo and the Breath of Fresh Air Toner. As I had spent a bit of time in the hair care section deciding which shampoo and conditioner to purchase I happened to notice the range of henna hair dyes Lush has to offer. Most of the henna dyes have a reddy base so I was a bit apprehensive in using it to dye my hair as I have never gone redder than a chocolate-brown. Another thing that made me really cautious when deciding whether to buy it or not was the fact that henna leaves a kind of permanent stain on your hair and cannot be dyed over easily. I don't know what finally printed me to buy it, maybe it was the phone call to say that it was back in stock. It's a really popular product and sells out almost as fast as it comes into store. I bought one block of the Caca Marron Henna dye for $31.90 when it came into stock and kept it in my Lush shelf until a rainy day when I worked up the guts to just use it.
A few weeks ago I finally decided to go for it and use the Caca Marron hair dye. I gave the henna some time to completely develop so I could show you the true colour on my new hair. These photos are taken approximately 48 hours apart. I actually am loving the colour vibrancy and how shiny my hair looks. I just have to make sure I do my eyebrows every day or I'll look sick!
Now I know one of the main things you really want to hear about is the process. I have to say up front that this is one messy process and is best accomplished in the bathroom with newspaper everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Seriously you need to cover your whole floor which at least a double layer of newspaper. (I guess it didn't help me that my bathroom doesn't have a tiled floor but a carpeted one.) it also helps to have a mirror handy so you can see what you are doing, a hot water kettle, a Pyrex jug, an old wooden spoon, some thick gloves (and a spare pair for back up), a ton of shampoo and conditioner, some clips,some cream like Vaseline or Ultrabalm to put around your hairline and some cling wrap to cover your hair. Below you can see the instructions Lush provide when you buy your henna block. I personally used 4 pieces for my hair length but almost could have gotten away with using 3.
I kept the jug of hot water handy with me in the bathroom to keep the henna hot and at an easy consistency to work with. It took me a good 30 minutes to apply the henna and unkept it on for the full 4 hours keeping the cling wrap on for 2 hours to keep some of the redness coming through, and then left it unwrapped for the last 2 hours to bring out the browns. This is the point where I mention the smell.. If you know any Spanish you may have realised by now that Caca Marron translate to brown poo… And unfortunately you will have put up with quite a similarly unpleasant smell. Washing out the henna was also s bit of a mission. I went through half a bottle each of cheap shampoo and conditioner just trying to wash it out, plus at least 15 minutes in the shower! In the end my hair did end up super soft and shiny.
BUT in the end it is all worth it! I really love the new colour! It has faded a quite a bit since I dyed it and I think I am probably due to dye it again. This time I might even try to dye it twice as the Lush instructions say this will help the colour last longer and make it more vibrant.
So what do you think? Have you ever used henna before on your hair? How did your experience go?


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Chinese recruiting websites - Need help (Shenzhen)
Hello everyone,
I'm currently planning on changing my job, so it would be great to get a piece of advise from the members of this community on how to search for a job in Shenzhen.
I'm using now 51job.com, ganji.com, 58.com and Linkedin.com. Do you have any other suggestions? I have a decent knowledge of Mandarin, so both English and Chinese recruiting sites will work fine for me.
I'm sure this info will also be useful to other folks looking for a job.
Also, if anyone have job offers, please let me know. I'm thinking of doing international sales for foreign or Chinese companies specilalized in electronic devices, machinery etc.
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Administration of Law and Justice in Brunei before the British Part I
Administration of Law, Justice in Brunei Darussalam before coming of the BritshB A Hussainmiya, Borneo Bulletin 9 November 2013
IN VIEW of my involvement with Brunei historical topics, many people have been asking me to furnish some ideas about the historical antecedents of legal system and practice in Brunei in the ancient and medieval periods. With some trepidation, I have taken courage in this series to fulfil my obligation as a historian to delve into a grey area with the hope that other scholars will be able to add or amend my observations on the implementation of Adat (Customary), Kanun and Syariah laws in Brunei in the olden times. At the outset I must reiterate that fact that I claim no expertise in any aspect of Syariah Law whatsoever, and this paper is not going to focus on the intricacies of Islamic Laws as such. This is going to be an exercise in historical outline to what went on in the area of legal practice in the old kingdom of Brunei since its legendary founding in the 14th Century CE.
In fact, I am not a historian of ancient Brunei which is another problematic subject in view of paucity of critical source materials. Brunei's History Centre has produced several books dealing with this period and a few foreign scholars, especially late Robert Nicholl have also conducted research and written works to explain many salient facts about pre-colonial Brunei History. This series of articles is a reproduction of a paper I read at a Seminar on Social and Economic History of Brunei, organised by the Department of History, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Nov 14-15, 2006, which was later published in the 'Journal of Southeast Asian Studies' in UBD.
My specialisation is in modern Brunei history, especially the period after the accession to the throne of Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien III (r1950-1967) whose political biography I dealt with in my 1995 book published by the Oxford University Press. As the readers of this newspaper may be aware that I have written extensively on the background politics and circumstances leading to the making of the 1959 Brunei Constitution, first in a series of weekly articles published in the Weekend Borneo Bulletin a decade ago which were later compiled and published as a separate book in two editions by the Brunei Press (Sdn) Bhd in 2000.
Like many other aspects of Brunei's past, a comprehensive study of the Sultanate's legal history is yet to be undertaken. Given the importance of the Brunei kingdom as the foremost sultanate in the Borneo Island, it is to be anticipated that a firm foundation for a legal system had had been laid reinforcing other characteristics of a strong state. In fact, few incidental references to Brunei in the medieval Portuguese and Spanish records point in that direction because the kingdom seemed to have practised a reasonably well-entrenched legal system. For instance, Ludovico Varthema of Bologna, one of the early visitors to Brunei in about the year 1505 mentioned that justice was well administered in the island of Borneo/Brunei (cited in Robert Nicholl 1975: 3). Similarly Tome Pires, a resident in Melaka from 1512 until 1515 and a supervisor of spice trade referred to the Borneans as seemed to be peaceable men. Antonio Pigafetta who visited Brunei in 1521 and wrote a comprehensive and authentic account of Brunei, although did not go into details of legal matters, yet referred to adherence of Islamic practices including not eating pork, ritual killing of animals, aspects of personal cleanliness, circumcision etc., (Robert Nicholl 1975: 8-13). Apparently Brunei's emergence as an Islamic power in South China Sea in the medieval period was an important factor that transformed a minor port polity into a strong state. The ascendancy of the state as an economic power as well as an Islamic missionary state required a good legal foundation. The official history of Brunei generally traces the foundations of Islam from the middle of the 14th century when a local tribal leader known as Alak Betatar became a Muslim and assumed the name of Sultan Muhammad (Pehin Mohd Jamil al Sufri 2000: 72-74) . The third Sultan in the official Brunei genealogy was a foreigner Syarif Ali presumed to have hailed from Taif in Arabia and was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) nephew and son-in-law, Ali, the fourth Caliph in the Islamic history. The Brunei chronicles ie (Silsilah Raja-raja Berunai) refers to the introduction of Islamic Syariah law during his period. The 9th Sultan of Brunei, Sultan Hassan is credited with other achievements in writing down the legal texts in Brunei such as the Hukum Kanun.
Without getting into controversies about the dates or the names of the early rulers of Brunei, it is safe to conclude that by the early 16th century, Brunei emerged as a rich, prosperous and stable Sultanate in the region, a fact well illustrated by the writings of Antonio Pigafetta in 1521. Another Spanish document, referred to as the Boxer Codex, written in 1599 by a Spanish official who had been resident in Brunei highlights an elaborate and organised form of a state and government of Brunei (John S Carroll 1982) Apart from many authentic observations by the writer of the Boxer codex, his description of the legal system in Brunei is quite stunning. It indicated above all a very systematic administration of justice in the kingdom. The document also delineates details of court proceedings, law of evidence, and various forms of punishments including the capital punishment meted out for wrong doers. The 19th century foreign references, particularly by the British observers, also help in understanding the practice of law in Brunei. However, it appears the system was not as ideal as it was during the 17th century, the glorious days of Brunei.
The 19th century witnessed a decline in Brunei's power and status. This seemed to have resulted in a corresponding laxity in the way justice was administered. At any rate, law is not a static subject; it mutes into various forms in keeping with the needs of the time and exigencies. As might be expected the Brunei laws must have undergone changes throughout the period of under study until the arrival of the British in the scene. By that time Brunei was on the verge of extinction. M S H McArthur, a British official who was sent to Brunei in 1904 to report on the conditions of state and government in Brunei, for instance, highlighted the impotence of the Brunei legal system when the authorities were dilatory in punishing the wrong doers. McArthur concluded that (in Brunei) there is the semblance of a judicature, but little justice. (McArthur's Report of 1904, A V M Horton Ed; 1987: 128).
This article intends to highlight features of the pre-colonial legal system and practice in Brunei based on references from foreign sources. Original Brunei was comprised a much larger territory including most parts of the present day Sarawak, and Sabah which are now Malaysian territories. After 1890, when Charles Brooke annexed the Limbang territory, the Brunei kingdom was reduced to the present borders of two separated enclaves of Brunei, Muara and Tutong on the one end, and Temburong on the other end covering about 5,000km in extent. Much of the discussion in this article is relevant to the practice of law close to the centre of power in Brunei, ie; Brunei (city) proper where the Sultan held court. It is obvious that in the outlying provinces courts, if any were, held under his authority by especially nominated officials. In fact, as the Boxer Codex mentions that the indigenous tribes such as Visayas who lived inland submitted themselves to the law of the Sultan, though not always voluntarily.
(To be continued)
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"Not Ready to Make Nice": Indigenous Music Video and Lessons of History
by Michelle Raheja — University of California, Riverside
May 05, 2009 – 00:58
Curator's Note
Missy Whiteman's music video "Indigenous Holocaust" (2008), featuring the work of hip hop artist Wahwahtay Benais and the Dixie Chicks ("Not Ready to Make Nice"), exemplifies how Indigenous media creates "virtual reservations." These spaces open up imaginative sites where Indigenous people can contest, reconfigure, and revisit media representations. The clip opens with a blurry, ghostly figure that gradually focuses to reveal Benais, an Anishinabe musician. This shot reverses the dominant trope of the "vanishing Indian." Benais emerges out of the shadows to narrate the story of Indigenous genocide and survival at federal boarding school in the U.S. and residential schools in Canada, a traumatic history that shapes contemporary Native American existence.
Benais utilizes the idioms of hip hop to Indigenous ends—his bling is an oversized handmade beaded and fringed medallion that features a black bear paw and his name against a white background and he's accompanied by young men and women jogging in First Nations United t-shirts rather than in skimpy outfits. The lyrics of the song narrate the history of forcibly removing Native American children from the homes from the 18th through the 20th centuries and the kinds of physical, sexual, cultural, and spiritual violence they endured (what Benais and Whiteman, an Arapaho/Kickapoo filmmaker and visual artist, refer to as an "Indigenous holocaust"). Contemporary, vibrant mages of Benais are juxtaposed with archival photographs of children at schools such as Hampton and Carlisle, demonstrating how events that took place a hundred or more years ago still affect Native communities.
As virtual reservation, this video invites the spectator to participate in the process of healing from this genocide, using the Dixie Chicks' lyrics as a prompt: "Forgive, sounds good. Forget, I'm not sure I could. They say time heals everything, but I'm still waiting." The video transforms the lyrics from an individual's grief and alienation to a community's process of grievance and use of media as activism. Yet I also wonder about issues of African American/Native American (re)appropriations in this video compared to, say, OutKast's Grammy performance a few years ago.
Hip Hop and the virtual reservation
by Daniel Fisher — Cornell University
May 05, 2009 – 11:50
Thanks to Faye for kicking off the week of Indigenous media posts, and to Michelle for sharing this great piece of music and video! I am so excited to see this and will be forwarding it to friends in Australia, where both country and hip hop are extremely important genres for forms of future-oriented culture making, activism, and for a whole range of affecting, powerful Indigenous media. Both share the same media space, and are crucial expressive pillars of what Michelle has figured here as a 'virtual reservation.'
Just a note about the sample: It's probably worth noting that the recording 'Not Ready to Make Nice' (2006) came after the Dixie Chicks were roundly critiqued in the US for their on stage, off-the-cuff criticism of the GW Bush. After several years of media scandal, hate mail, and even death threats, the Dixie Chicks recording 'Not Ready To Make Nice' was received as a nuanced affirmation of the propriety of their comments. This was their return to recording, but one that explicitly did so in their own terms - with little retreat from a controversial position.
Although I don't want to attribute the Dixie Chick's politics to Benais in any simple way, or to suggest that this song and video — with their explicit references to Indigenous history and an 'Indigenous holocaust' — are about this other, media drama, the sharp overtones of the sample do lend this track another range of potential significance, redeployed brilliantly here by Wahwahtay Benais to speak to these pressing, tough aspects of Native history and their continued resonance in the present.
Thanks again to Michelle for bringing this to us here, and to Benais and Missy Whiteman for such a moving, sharp production! Can't wait to see more…
Michelle, thanks for sharing
by Pam Wilson — Reinhardt University
May 05, 2009 – 12:06
Michelle, thanks for sharing this very moving and powerful music video. What a fascinating reappropriation and redeployment (thanks, Daniel, for contributing this perfect term) of images, lyrics, styles and genres that have circulated in mass culture, each with its own multilayered, accumulated trails of signification, in this new formation united by Benais' narrative and Whiteman's vision.
The interweaving and inter-referencing of all of these signifiers speaks the historical loss—and the continuing need for healing—into a new text that is both familiar and jarring, since it reminds us that even the youngest generations are still enmeshed in the legacy of the "indigenous holocaust." And it speaks these messages in a cultural language that not only is addressed to the young Anishinabe and Native Americans but which also, as Daniel points out, interpellates the youth of oppressed groups globally who have adopted hip hop and rap as a vital form of cultural and personal expression.
The importance of multiple approaches
by Naomi Angel — NYU
May 05, 2009 – 12:47
Thanks for the post, Michelle. The music video highlights the ways in which indigenous cultural producers can reflect on their traumatic histories in relation to their present realities. I think this video is particularly relevant given that a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established last year in Canada that focuses specifically on the treatment of Aboriginal children in Indian Residential Schools. (See - http://www.trc-cvr.ca/). The music video draws attention to the fact that awareness about this history happens on several levels and through different approaches. National commissions are one way, but cultural production is another important avenue, especially in reaching younger generations.
Thanks again for bringing attention to this music video. Naomi Angel
Screen Memories and Cultural Futures
by Faye Ginsburg — New York University
May 05, 2009 – 21:45
Thanks to Michelle for presenting and interpreting "Indigenous Holocaust" to us, such a provocative and poignant work. I love the idea of "virtual reservations" in both its possible senses, as in an indigenously constituted universe in cyberspace, reclaiming what has been defined by colonial contours. A second reading of "virtual reservations" could invoke the sense of actual hesitation or concern — in this case about the too easy erasure of a particularly horrific historical experience — of colonial boarding schools — as it is passed down to the next generation, as they re-craft this experience into their own cultural futures, like watching DNA rearrange certain basic structures in new forms. This is resonant with the remarkable work made by indigenous cultural activists in Australia with the revelations of the realities of the Stolen Generations in the 1990s.
I think about such projects as "screen memories", inverting Freud's use of the term to describe how people cover over memories of unbearable traumatic events; instead, we see how Benais and others use screen media — in this case, music video — to recuperate their own collective histories — many of them traumatic — that have been erased in dominant national narratives, an erasure that renders them doubly traumatic.
Thanks to Danny, Pam and Naomi for their further insights on the political, aesthetic, and historical nuances of this text, and the ways it resonates across borders.
Faye Ginsburg Director, Center for Media, Culture & History, NYU
Remixing in the Wallmapu (Mapuche Territory)
by Amalia Cordova — New York University/Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
May 06, 2009 – 08:38
Thank you Michelle.
In the Southern Andes, Mapuche videos have merged with hip-hop movements and independent media blogs. Our colleague Juan Salazar (University of Western Sydney) has done extensive work covering the flows of Mapuche media from radio and video to the Internet. One recent work has become one of my personal favorites, "Newen/Life-Force" (2005) a music video made by a young hip-hop Mapuche artist JAAS (see her profile at http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/rose/aguilera_silva_j.htm and the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IUmSA-tdc).
This video is also linked to her MySpace page at www.myspace.com/mcjaas. The "Newen" music track has been appropriated by the Chilean independent media collective Sindicato Audiovisual Ojos de la Calle (which translates as "Eyes of the Street Audiovisual Syndicate") for an experimental video on Mapuche repression posted in January 2008 at http://ojosdelacalle.entodaspartes.net/2008/01/26/represion-protestas/. This period was marked by ongoing protests against the processing of Mapuche political prisoners under anti-terrorist law, and demonstrations of support for the prisoners who were carrying out an extended hunger strike (with outrageously scant news coverage). The video acts as a stream of denouncement and the lyrics turn more pointedly political with the newsreel-style imagery used in this version.
Similarly, "La Sangre Vengada… La Tierra Recuperada!" ("Avenged Blood…Land Recovered" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO9sNVqpC44) relives the shooting of young activist Matías Catrileo on January 3, 2008. Catrileo, then 22 years old and a student in Santiago, was participating in a peaceful protest that involved a symbolic land occupation in the community of Vilcún, in southern Chile. He was unarmed and was shot from the back by police. Audio was recorded immediately during the shooting, captured through a live cellphone link with Mapuche radio program Wixage Anai. Video was also being shot at the site. Sindicato Audiovisual Ojos de la Calle mixed both audio and video images with a rock music background in an audiovisual tribute to his death in the Mapuche struggle, and the resulting video clip was uploaded short after the events. No other language versions are posted however. More Mapuche hip-hop has followed: "Newen Peñi (Fuerza Hermano)" was uploaded on Oct 7, 2008 onto YouTube and serves as newsreel while calling for the reclaiming of cultural identity.
Amalia Córdova
Media Reservations and Virtual Reservations
by Lorna Roth — Concordia University, Montreal
May 07, 2009 – 01:00
• This is a powerful video in terms of how it has reclaimed and transformed politicized memory images and re-presented them in a popular media/musical form. I wonder how and if it will stimulate current youth to engage with a culturally and psychologically traumatic period in indigenous history in a new way, perhaps in a way that will enable a rememory healing process to begin.
• Michelle, I love your notion of "virtual reservations" which in many ways speaks to my notion of "media reservations," as I apply it to the indigenous broadcasting sector. I mean by this that much of First Peoples television is located on the margins of the electronic grid, so distant from the mainstream channels that many people do not become aware of its existence without explicit publicity. I call this remote geographical location on the channel grid a media reservation because it parallels the sociocultural, political, and economic location of First Peoples on the edge of urban, metropolitan, centres of power. Media reservations, too, reserve a space for indigenous peoples to reconfigure their own representations, but because of their location so distant from the electronic grid's centre, they tend to recede into a more remote region of mediaspace.
Lorna Roth, Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Concordia University - Loyola Campus 7141 Sherbrooke Street West - CJ 4.325 Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6 514-848-2424 Ext. 2545 email@example.com
soundtracking memory -
by Lisa Stefanoff — NYU PhD 2009
May 07, 2009 – 11:06
the second clause of my subject line is 'trauma, identification and new songs of survival'…
Thank you Michelle for kicking of a lively discussion, and to Daniel, Pam, Naomi, Faye, Amalia and Lorna for weaving the thread in the ways you have.
Wahwahtay Benais' story is one that is burning similarly in the hearts and minds of many young Indigenous people in Australia. His genre of choice - hip hop rhyme and mix - likewise echoes across many new cultural spaces including live festivals (www.thedreamingfestival.com), NITV (www.nitv.org.au), and online zones like Vibe (www.vibe.com.au). In Alice Springs, Central Australia, where I live and work, there are several young crews telling stories of cultural trauma and survival in their lyrics. In the outlying remote communities, hip hop workshops are regular and popular activities - delivered by mostly (but not all) non-Aboriginal crews from town or the cities (see http://inciteya.org.au/?section=gallery&category=7&subcategory=24 for some photographic record of one example of these). Other young musicians who work in desert guitar styles (country, reggae, desert metal) tell stories about connectedness to country, the costs of grog and petrol sniffing, love, and the oscillation of senses of intimacy and distance with/from the traditions of their ancestors.
Easily available new media tools are enabling other small personalized Indigenous music video storytelling projects to grow in the hands of older producers. I have a little story to tell. Last year, as I was writing one of my PhD chapters on the stolen generations media made by CAAMA (the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, www.caama.com.au) at the start of this century I discovered an arresting clip that articulates a transnational Indigenous identification around parallel historical traumas without mobilizing the bling and rhymes, or imprints of mega-celebrity artists, that are the dominant lines of global youth identification.
A Canadian Aboriginal woman had posted through her daughter's YouTube account a clip made out of old black and white still photographs and pictorial graphics overlaid with text that she had composed as a visualization of Australian Aboriginal singer Archie Roach's deeply emotive anthemic stolen generations ballad 'Took The Children Away'. See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNSrqsU1eI . Perhaps you already know it. The clip has now had over 16000 views and is evidently being used as a highschool classroom teaching text. It is the first clip that shows up if you enter 'Took The Children Away' as a search term (dig a bit deeper for a classic low-fi early video clip of the song being performed by a very young Archie Roach). As the creator of this new work explained to me in a conversation we had through YouTube mail about the genesis of her work, she first came to hear Archie Roach when she was attending an International Residential School Forum in Vancouver in the mid 1990s:
"His music played during and after the workshops. The cd's were being sold during intermission and at the end of the workshops. At that time I purchased two copies of his CD knowing I wanted the music to last. During the height of Canada's IRS Awareness workshops this past year, I decided to make this video. I had been to a few sites of friends' and saw the pictures which they had gotten of residential school, and government sites, so I began collecting them to put them together with Archie's song. I thought his singing to be so beautiful and fitting for the video. :( … I have not been to residential school, but my older siblings have…"
She went on to speak about the healing that many First Nations people must undertake in the face of intergenerational trauma spiked by experiences like the child removals.
This piece is a striking example of the emergence of a new kind of transcultural Indigenous 'screen memory', to use Faye's term, facilitated by new media production tools and social networking technologies. I'd be very interested to know about any other examples of this kind of work and look forward to a future for these kinds of discussions.
Transcultural Experiences of the Stolen Generation
by Pam Wilson — Reinhardt University
May 07, 2009 – 12:01
Hi, Lisa—and thank you for your wonderful post with such rich examples. Wow. The creative transcultural juxtaposition by "GiskaastWoman" of British Columbia of archival photos from the boarding school era in Western Canada with the hauntingly beautiful song by Australian Aboriginal singer Archie Roach is a testament to the power of the ability of pan-indigenous networking to bridge some of the common experiences of indigenous peoples who, although on different sides of the earth, have shared similar experiences of colonial oppression and suppression by the settler states and their hegemonic cultures.
Interestingly, I've just been talking this week to a friend who is Eastern Cherokee about his parents' experiences in boarding schools; his mother was sent from western NC to Haskell in Kansas; his father ran away repeatedly from boarding school and managed to return home to Cherokee. Not only their generation, but their children and grandchildren, are still affected by those experiences of forced removal. And of course, for the Cherokee, this was yet another forced removal, a half century and more after the devastating Trail of Tears, the pain and injustice of which is still a central part of my friend's narrative of identity.
Pamela Wilson
Reinhardt College


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Nashville Season 2 Episode 4
You're No Angel Yourself
Rayna and the family attend a gala for her late mother. Maddie gets upset when Teddy shows up with Peggy wearing an engagement ring around her neck. She runs away and they all search for her. Maddie called Juliette to pick her up, and Juliette eventually calls Rayna to get Maddie.
Deacon goes on a date with his court appointed lawyer, and later acts fatherly in calling to make sure Maddie is okay.
Will wants to cut Gunnar's song as a single, but after getting advice from Avery, Gunnar decides to say no to Will.
Scarlett has trouble adjusting to singing for a living, but Zoey helps her take the edge off by going out on the town.
Tandy looks into her mother's death and is certain her father was responsible. She turns over evidence of his dirty work in politics.
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•100 Years Ago - March, 1911•
Together in life, joined in death
Eslie Alonzo Griffin, 53, of North Bolton, died March 11, 1911 after an illness lasting two of apoplexy, on the stroke of midnight at the home of his father, Benjamin Griffin of Bolton Landing. His wife, the former Clementine Truesdale, died two days before he did at the Utica Hospital. Because of his illness, he was never told of her passing.
The couple was married in 1880 and they lived in Glens Falls where Griffin conducted a well known livery stable on Park Street. He is survived by his father and two sisters, Mrs. Leonard Lane and Mrs. Chauncey Murch. Eslie Griffin was buried in Huddle Cemetery, Bolton.
Aged minister succumbs
Rev. Cicero Barber, of Fort Edward died on his 101st birthday, March 10, 1911. He was perhaps the oldest minister in the country and preached right up to the time of his death. He was born in Schoharie on March 10, 1810, the son of the late Dr. Isaac Barber who was born in 1781 in Albany County and practiced medicine in Schoharie. Dr. Barber was associated with and was an advisor to the late Governor DeWitt Clinton.
(Note...DeWitt Clinton was elected mayor of New York City in 1802 and served 10 one-year terms. He was the nephew of George Clinton who was US vice president from 1805 to 1812. DeWitt Clinton was governor of New York off and on from 1817 until he died in 1828. In 1825 the Erie Canal was popularly called "Clinton's Ditch."
In the Aug. 22, 2009 Journal I told the story of Dr. Arthur Barber, the 29-year-old dentist who fell overboard from his boat on Lake George near Diamond Point and drowned. He was the son of Rev. Cicero Barber.
It is normal to think that no one who was alive 100 years ago could have survived to our modern day but this is not true. Henriette Bullard Luke of Eagle Bridge was 100 years and three months old when she died Feb. 23, 2011. Frank Buckles of Morgantown, West Virginia, the last veteran of World War 1, was 110 years old when he died Feb. 27, 2011.
Fearful choice for death
Condemned men in Nevada have their choice of death by hanging, shooting or poison and there has been much discussion lately of having the same law in New York State. One drop of hydro cyanide acid on the end of the tongue is sufficient to produce instant death and by law is given by a physician of the prison who is instructed in its use.
Woolen Mill dam gives way
The brackets on the Woolen Mill Dam over the Schroon River were carried away at 5 o'clock on the morning of March 9, 1911 by the weight of ice and water resting upon them. They cannot be replaced until the water goes down in the spring . In the meantime, the woolen Mill plant on Milton Avenue and the Hudson Valley power station in Warrensburgh are deprived of power from that source. The mill is running with steam power. There is a loss of 250 to 275 horsepower from wires of the trolley line.
Wedding bells
Fred Graves and Clara Tripp, both of Warrensburgh, were married Saturday, Feb. 25, 1911 by the Rev. W.S. Warren. Attendants were Isabel Bidwell and Bernice J. Howard.
Allen P. Russell and Miss Ferna A. Walsh, both of Warrensburgh, were married by the Rev. W.S. Warren Saturday evening, March 4, 1911 at the Baptist parsonage.
News roundabout
Four inches of snow fell in Bakers Mills on Sunday morning. The thermometer registered 18 below zero the next Thursday, March 16, 1911 at Sanford Kenyon's store in Kenyontown, Thurman.
The population of Warrensburgh is now 2,385 and there are 805 people in Thurman. Stony Creek has 858 and Lake George has 1,482 citizens.
Workmen are now digging and blasting for the cellar of the store to be erected in the spring by T.P. Braley and Dr. D.L. Rogers, just north of the Baptist Church in Bolton Landing and fronting on the river road.
The Owens family have decided to build an addition to The Palisades Hotel at Brant Lake this spring and have commenced cutting logs for the lumber. The hotel has had a full house every season and is very popular among their city guests.
Miss Edith Swan has commenced her spring term of school at Darrowsville, near Chestertown. Martin Hill of Riverbank has the measles and Frank Smith's two little daughters are having whooping cough. Mrs. Ann Lynn fell on the ice near her home in Olmstedville and broke her wrist. Her daughter, Mrs. John Clifford is caring for her.
Lenitt May Barber of South Johnsburgh, died Monday, Feb. 27, 1911 of pneumonia. She was eight months old.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Everts, of Lake George, formerly of Thurman, brought the body of their infant child, three weeks old, to Warrensburgh on Feb. 28, 1911 for burial.
Nig, a little black pug dog owned by Scott Ross on River St., Warrensburgh, died at the ripe old age of 16 years.
Old Dan, a horse driven by his owner, Mrs. Mary Davis for twelve years before surrendering up his life, is finally gone. He was well loved and one of the handsomest horses in Warrensburgh.
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text: Charles and Dorothy Zellers, Orlando, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary with a weekend at the Grand Cypress Resort July 6. They were married July 6, 1945, in Tampa. Their children are Donald Zellers, Dunellon, and Steve Zellers, Orlando. They have two grandchildren. He is a lithographer with Executive Press and she is a teacher's aide at Robinswood Junior High.


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Hospital incidents: Student photographed dead patient
Hundreds of serious incidents have been reported in hospitals across the South, including a student who took pictures of a dead patient, the BBC can reveal.
A patient also had a limb amputated without consent and a care assistant complained about a patient on Facebook.
Many of the 823 incidents between January 2009 and October 2010 related to the region's 11 hospitals.
NHS South Central would not comment on individual cases but said patient safety was its highest priority.
The incidents were released to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act.
The health authority, which covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Oxfordshire, refused to reveal where the incidents happened due to patient confidentiality.
Many of the incidents related to patients catching infections.
But there were more unusual cases such as the student who took photographs of a dead patient during a visit to the mortuary, and the healthcare assistant reported for using her mobile phone to put "malicious and inappropriate" comments about a patient on Facebook.
NHS South Central said it encouraged staff to log all incidents and many of the 827 resulted in no action being taken.
Jill Pellett, from the authority, said: "Patient safety in this region is given the highest priority.
"We expect all NHS organisations to report all incidents.
"Two years ago we became the only NHS region to have established a Patient Safety Federation, designed to improve patient safety in all healthcare organisations in the region.
"We have used incident reporting to drive this improvement."


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Thanks to the brilliance of technology, communication has been taken to a whole other level with the ingenuity of social apps. Skout, one of the world's largest social networking app, was founded in 2007. It provides a platform that is engaging and secure for users to interact and make new friends. It tries to meet all communication needs whether it be for business purposes, chatting with friends, making new friends or even online dating. Sending photos, notes and even virtual gifts are just a few samplings of enabled features within the app.
With over million of users from all across the globe, the world has been turned into a global village. Communication has been eased from the era of telegrams to sending a message a thousand miles away in just a matter of seconds. With people from different places coming together via the internet, there comes an integration of culture, ideas and experiences. Networking plays a key role in culture assimilation of various parties that help promote peace among countries. People, despite them coming from different backgrounds, vary in a way of thinking. Skout, provides a platform for exchange of ideas that help create a more developed world. From the proverbial two heads are better than one, integration of ideas helps bring brilliant creations for a consistently growing world.
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While social apps create a buzz, especially with teenagers, there needs to be caution and insight on cyber etiquette. Parents need to open up communication lines with their children, on the appropriate use of social apps. Other than that, skout creates a safe environment for kids to interact. It allows for the users to sign in as a teen or an adult, and then each is placed in the appropriate peer group.
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Skip to comments.Post Here Evidence that Some in Muslim Community Had Prior Knowledge of 9-11 Attack
Posted on 10/17/2001 10:48:30 AM PDT by honway
Police: Student spoke of attacks before Sept. 11...
News/Current Events
Source: The Journal News
Published: 10-11-01 Author: JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO
Posted on 10/11/01 10:37 AM Pacific by Demian
BROOKLYN Authorities are tracking numerous leads that some people, including members of the Arab-American community, heard rumors of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington in the days leading up to the hijackings, law enforcement sources say. "There have been leads where someone has alleged to have heard someone else boasting about how the attack was going to happen before it happened," said Jim Margolin, a spokesman for the FBI in Manhattan.
In Brooklyn, a high school freshman who recently immigrated from Pakistan was investigated by federal agents after his teacher reported that he had predicted the Trade Center's collapse a week before the towers were attacked.
The student pointed out a third-story window of New Utrecht High School toward the Trade Center and said, "Do you see those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week," according to three police sources and a city official familiar with the investigation. They said the comment came in the midst of a heated political discussion the student was having with his teacher in an English class for Arab-American students.
New York City Board of Education spokeswoman Catie Marshall confirmed that school officials reported the matter to police within minutes of the Sept. 11 attack.
The boy's teacher, Antoinette DeLorenzo, declined to comment, but students said that FBI agents and NYPD detectives descended on the school on Sept. 13 to interrogate the student and others in his class.
Brooke Lillman, a 15-year-old sophomore, said that when the news of the attack began circulating in the school, DeLorenzo locked her classroom door, fearing her students could be attacked by their peers.
A veteran city police detective familiar with the case said investigators have been learning that many people in New York's Arab-American community had heard rumors about the Sept. 11 attacks before they occurred.
The officer said the story "had been out on the street," and the number of leads turning up was so "overwhelming" that it was difficult to tell who had heard about the attacks from second-hand sources and who had heard it from someone who may have been a participant.
For example, since Sept. 11, various leads have been investigated regarding Middle Eastern employees who may not have shown up for work at the World Trade Center that morning.
One detective conducting such investigations in Brooklyn said they had become "a serious and major priority."
According to a recent report on the Sept. 11 attacks issued by the British government, intelligence sources have found that Osama bin Laden himself made comments before Sept. 11 that "he was preparing a major attack on America," and warned many of his associates to return to Afghanistan by Sept. 10. The report further states that known associates of bin Laden were naming Sept. 11 as a date of action.
Federal agents who visited the New Utrecht school questioned the student and his older brother, who also attends there, the sources said. Afterward, the agents tried to question their father, who chastised them for harassing his children, they said.
Police sources said that, after the interviews, the boy's father left for Pakistan. After his departure, investigators conducted a second interview with the boy and his mother, who told them that her son was having psychological problems.
The boy and his brother have returned to school, but police said the FBI discussed keeping them under surveillance.
School officials closed the school on Sept. 12, but FBI agents and city police combed the building the following day. They searched the backpacks and lockers of various students with Middle Eastern backgrounds, and spent several hours interviewing them in a locked room.
"There were cops all over the building," said Julian Sulaj, a 17-year old senior at the school. "It was security to the max."
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., said Brooklyn has the largest population of Arab-Americans in New York City.
According to a federal indictment against bin Laden, FBI agents have linked the former Alkifah Refugee Center on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue to the Saudi fugitive-exile's terrorist network, al-Qaida.
| Sept. 19, 2001, 9:26PM
Boy in Dallas suburb predicts start of WW III day before attacks
By R.G. RATCLIFFE Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle
Boy in Dallas suburb predicts start of WW III day before attacks
The day before terrorists attacked New York and Washington, a fifth-grader in a Dallas suburb told his teacher World War III would begin the next day, school officials have told the FBI.
The boy was absent from school the day of the attacks, Sept. 11, and the following day, but has been at school since then, said Rhonda Lucich, a director of elementary education for the Garland Independent School District.
Lucich said the boy approached his teacher on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and casually told her:
"Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose."
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A source or first hand experience to confirm this would be appreciated.
The plane story is true, but it's unclear as to whether it was an actual adavnce warning of the Sept. 11 attacks.
They showed a picture of the calendar page in question. The actual copies of the calendar were found in a Muslim school in Belgium or something like that.
This is not a question of fortune telling.
The question is did the planners of 9-11 warn members of the Muslim community to prevent harm to fellow Muslims. The massive short selling of United and American Airlines indicate many knew before hand. The purpose here is to try to determine how widespread that warning was and why the information was not provided to the proper authorities.
There seems to be considerable evidence that many members of the Muslim community knew in advance of the attack. My wife works in an office building and a Muslim co-worker sits behind her. The Muslim lady rarely misses work and she was there on 9-10 and 9-12, but absent on 9-11. When asked why she missed work she said she had something to do. I wonder how common this is for Muslims working in office buildings
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Wake up coughing and stumble to the kitchen for some ice water. Fight the urge to look at the clock on the microwave. Fail miserably. It's 6:13 am.
6:38 am Woken up by text from friend informing me that she has been up all night with a puking husband and won't be walking today. Don't respond and fight the urge to calculate how many more minutes of sleep I will get if I fall asleep instantly. Fail miserably.
6:43 am Receive numerous text from others about walking and puking husbands and come to the realization that I won't be getting any more sleep.
6:45 am Unload dishwasher. Rummage through two backpacks in search of lunchboxes.
7:00 am Wake up two remaining children. Reheat pancakes in microwave. Check dryer and discover clothes are still sopping wet. Toss in two additional dryer sheets and hope for the best.
7:15 am Pack three lunches. Provide verbal encouragement for minions to get dressed. And brush hair. And brush teeth.
7:31 am Listen to disgruntled tween who is irritated that his favorite shorts are still in the dryer. Tell him to wear another pair but they are all in the dryer & far from dry. Teach him the trick of taking everything else out, tossing in 2 dry towels and damp shorts.
7:40 am-7:51 am Load three offspring into minivan and deposit them at two different schools while discussing my superior drop off skills and providing helpful hints to all the
7:51-8:14 am Decide to go to HelMart even after realizing that I opted out of donning my over the shoulder boulder holder for school drop off. Write a clever status update in my head about my appearance on the People of Walmart website. Buy shredded cheese, granola bars, chicken and 20 oz of pure joy aka Coca-Cola.
8:15 am-8:30 am Log onto
8:30-8:45 am Make bed, toss dry clothes on freshly made bed. Start another load of laundry. Fold one towel. Load dishes.
8:45-9:04 am Log onto work laptop to check & respond to emails. See email from supervisor I should have responded to yesterday.
9:05-10:13 am Shower and make myself presentable. Wipe off kitchen counter. Search Pinterest for breakfast casserole recipe to make for Mom's Group Brunch on Friday. Realize that I'm not using my time wisely so make various work related phone calls & texts.
10:14-11:45 am Home visit for work which includes conversations and activities about language development, social-emotional needs, breastfeeding and playing with their new kitten. Forget that I don't even like cats.
12:00-2:47 pm Arrive at office just in time to go to lunch with visiting supervisor and co-worker. Case management meeting, file reviews and VERY IMPORTANT work stuff.
2:48-3:30 pm En route to elementary school coordinate after school play date. Arrive at school and wait impatiently outside while resisting the urge to hurl due to overly amorous parents on the playground. Load up extra kid and head to Middle school where tween is impatiently waiting.
3:31-5:20 pm Open mail, text soccer coach, provide an assortment of
5:20-7:00 pm Load soccer player, friend, soccer ball, water bottles, & book into van. Grow increasingly annoyed at soccer parents on my own team. Send rant texts to several friends regarding annoying soccer parents. Cheer wildly at game where StinkBug scores an AMAZING goal.
7:01-7:37 pm Call house and take dinner orders while instructing children to attend to their hygiene needs. Initiate call to grandparents so StinkBug can share his soccer glory. Go to Wendy's for one and Panda for three.
7:38-8:47 pm Eat dinner together, assist with
mindnumbingly repetitive first grade homework, sweep up excess Apple Jacks, tortilla chips and unidentifiable objects on kitchen floor.watch Youtube video at urging of tween son, call Big Yankee who is out of state so kids can say goodnight.
8:48-9:37 pm Tuck kids into bed and lay down with StinkBug because who can say no to those big brown eyes? Make a mental checklist of all the crap I have to do once they go to bed. Suddenly remember the name of the cookbook which has my favorite breakfast casserole recipe. Realize said cookbook is collecting dust in a storage unit in Kansas. Google Tidewater on the Half Shell in hopes of discovering favorite recipe is available online. Try to overcome my disappointment and find the courage to find another recipe.
9:38-11:18 pm Search for phone after numerous text alerts. Find it on kitchen counter next to jar of Nutella. Rationalize my need to consume a spoonful or four of Nutella. Transfer load of clothes to dryer. Seriously consider sleeping on couch to avoid pile of unfolded laundry on bed. Spend an inordinate amount of time writing a blog post detailing the excruciating details of my life.