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In recent months, those who have been studying Guantánamo closely have come to the disturbing conclusion that the biggest obstacle to President Obama's pledge to close Guantánamo by January 2010 comes not from the fear-mongering and opportunistic politicians who recently voted to prohibit the use of any funds to release or to transfer prisoners to the United States, and who also authorized legislation that "requires the President to report periodically to Congress on the status of Guantánamo Bay detainees and plans for their transfer," but from the administration's own Justice Department.
Echoing the position taken by the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department is pursuing patently indefensible cases that should have been dropped before being presented to a judge, and is also engaged in what appears to be a systematic policy of delays when it comes to providing exculpatory material to the prisoners' defense teams (in other words, material that tends to disprove the government's case), or, in fact, any other material that is vital to mounting a proper defense. Moreover, when given the option to defend a judge's right to order the release of prisoners against whom no case could be proved, the Justice Department sided with a notoriously pro-Bush judge in the Court of Appeals, who ruled that, although a District Court judge could demolish the government's case against a Guantánamo prisoner, he or she was powerless to actually order the prisoner's release.
When Barack Obama came to power, one of his first acts was to issue a number of executive orders to tackle some of the worst excesses of the Bush administration's "war on terror." The new president banned the use of torture and promised to close Guantánamo within a year, and to this end established an inter-departmental Guantánamo Task Force to review the prisoners' cases and to work out what to do with them. While it was understandable that the Obama administration wanted to conduct its own review, to understand who was actually being held at Guantánamo, I had misgivings from the beginning about how this would mesh with the ongoing district court reviews of the prisoners' cases, which had been triggered last June when the Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the prisoners had habeas corpus rights.
In the months since, I have not been reassured that two layers of review — one by the executive and one by the judiciary — is the most effective way of dealing with the prisoners' cases, and these misgivings have been exacerbated by the Justice Department's obstruction, delays, and imitation of Bush-era policies outlined above, to the extent that I can only conclude that the administration is either attempting to sideline the courts, and believes that the only valid review process is the one being undertaken by its own inter-departmental Guantánamo Task Force, or that Eric Holder is not in charge of his own staff.
Both conclusions are disturbing; the first because sidelining the judiciary in favor of an essentially secretive executive review is so uncomfortably reminiscent of the ways in which the Bush administration operated, and the second because, on a topic as important as Guantánamo, the attorney general's seeming inability to direct the operations of those working on the Guantánamo habeas cases reveals that the DOJ is still full of employees who maintain allegiance to Bush-era policies, that Holder himself holds those views, or, as above, that he is concerned only with the findings of the Guantánamo Task Force and is unconcerned by the prisoners' long legal struggle to test the basis of the allegations against them in a court of law.
With the Justice Department recently humiliated in two habeas reviews — of Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a Yemeni, and of Abdul Rahim al-Ginco, a Syrian who was tortured by al-Qaeda before he ended up in U.S. custody — and almost certainly about to face another humiliation in the case of Mohamed Jawad, an Afghan whose story I have been reporting since October 2007 (see here, here, here and here), I have decided to take this opportunity to present a three-part overview of the habeas cases over the last 13 months.
In this first part, I examine the history of the habeas cases under the Bush administration, and in the second and third parts I bring the story up to date by looking in detail at the many failures of the Obama administration, as outlined above. Bear in mind throughout that, of the 31 cases decided by the courts, 26 have ended in defeat for the government, an 84 percent success rate for the prisoners that both justifies campaigners' claims that the prison has largely held men (and boys) with no connection to al-Qaeda or any other terrorist group, and shows up the prison's defenders (former Vice President Dick Cheney and the politicians mentioned above) as, at best, deluded, and, at worst, outright liars.
The Guantánamo prisoners' long struggle to secure rights
Thirteen months ago, the long quest of the men held at Guantánamo to secure the most fundamental right of a prisoner — to be brought before a judge to ask why he is being held — was granted by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush (named after the Algerian prisoner, Lakhdar Boumediene, who was finally released from Guantánamo in May).
It was not the first time that the Guantánamo prisoners had been granted habeas corpus rights. Four years before, on June 29, 2004, the Supreme Court had ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that they had habeas corpus rights, after concluding that Guantánamo — which was chosen as the location for the prison because it was presumed to be beyond the reach of the U.S. courts — was "in every practical respect a United States territory" and that therefore the 800-year old "Great Writ," first conceived in England in the reign of King John, applied to the prisoners. As Justice John Paul Stevens declared,
Executive imprisonment has been considered oppressive and lawless since John, at Runnymede, pledged that no free man should be imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed or exiled save by the judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. The judges of England developed the writ of habeas corpus largely to preserve these immunities from executive restraint.
The Supreme Court had been stirred to this unusual ruling, granting habeas rights to foreigners detained in wartime, because of its grave concerns that the prisoners, held, uniquely, as "enemy combatants" — in other words, neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions nor as criminal suspects, who would face a trial in federal courts — had never been adequately screened to determine whether they should be held, and were, literally, outside the law.
The ruling in Rasul shattered the secrecy necessary for Guantánamo's existence as a lawless experiment in coercive interrogations to continue as it had for two and a half years, because lawyers began arriving at the prison, to draw up habeas petitions, and to hear — and then to transmit to the outside world — some of the prisoners' horrendous stories of the abuse and torture to which they had been subjected.
In terms of the law, however, little else changed. The Bush administration ignored the thrust of the Supreme Court's ruling — that the prisoners should be able to challenge their detention in federal courts — and instead introduced military review boards (the combatant status review tribunals) to review their cases. Drawing on classified evidence that was not disclosed to the prisoners, who were prevented from having legal representation, these were dreadfully one-sided affairs, designed primarily to rubberstamp the prisoners' automatic designation, on capture, as "enemy combatants," as Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, a veteran of U.S. intelligence who served on the tribunals, explained in a series of shocking and deeply damaging revelations in 2007.
Nevertheless, the administration behaved at the time as though the tribunals were legitimate, and, moreover, set about gutting Rasul by persuading Congress to pass two hideously flawed pieces of legislation — the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (PDF) — which, amongst other provisions, purported to strip the prisoners of the habeas rights granted in Rasul.
These laws never prevented lawyers from visiting their clients in Guantánamo (although the Pentagon did all it could to be obstructive), but they did freeze the habeas cases, leaving the men to stew in a legal limbo that became all the more intolerable as the years dragged by.
This, then, was the main reason why Boumediene was so important, as, four years on from its first ruling, the Supreme Court was obliged to stamp its authority by ruling that Congress had acted unconstitutionally when it passed the habeas-stripping provisions in the DTA and the MCA, and to rule that this time around the prisoners' habeas rights were constitutionally guaranteed, meaning that they could not once more be tampered with by somnambulant or otherwise incapacitated politicians, bent into unconstitutional shape by a bullying executive branch.
A stunning early victory, followed by Justice Department obstruction
Two weeks after Boumediene, one of the cases that had been frozen for years was resuscitated in the Court of Appeals, with dire results for the government. The case, Parhat v. Gates, was brought by Huzaifa Parhat, one of the Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province) who were finally freed from Guantánamo a month ago, and allowed to settle in Bermuda, and when the judges — two conservatives and a liberal, it should be noted — were free to act, they duly ruled that Parhat's four-year old designation as an "enemy combatant" was "invalid."
The court was unconvinced by the government's claims that Parhat, who had fled Chinese oppression and had been living in a run-down settlement in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains that was unconnected to either al-Qaeda or the Taliban, was part of a Uighur separatist group, and lambasted the quality of the government's evidence — in which an attempt to make a case was conjured up by citing from three separate classified government reports — as being akin to a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. "Lewis Carroll notwithstanding," the judges wrote, "the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make an allegation true."
Despite this early victory, the District Court's attempt to swiftly implement habeas reviews, which was driven, in particular, by the Supreme Court's admonition that, "While some delay in fashioning new procedures is unavoidable, the costs of delay can no longer be borne by those who are held in custody," and its demand that "The detainees in these cases are entitled to a prompt habeas corpus hearing," was stymied when the Justice Department almost immediately began dragging its heels.
On July 2, 2008, the District Court's Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth announced that Senior Judge Thomas F. Hogan had been assigned "to coordinate and manage proceedings in all Guantánamo Bay cases so that these cases can be addressed as expeditiously as possible," but when lawyers for the prisoners and DOJ representatives met Judge Hogan two weeks later, Assistant Attorney General Gregory Katsas "asked for two months to recruit lawyers and at least another two months to amend the existing returns [roughly 100 in total] and file 100 new ones." He claimed, additionally, that the effort would strain the Justice Department's resources "almost to the breaking point."
As the Miami Herald explained in a pointed editorial, "the court was skeptical, to say the least. Judge Hogan said he could not fathom why evidence would suddenly have to be changed if it had been considered strong enough to warrant holding the detainees for periods of up to six years." In Hogan's own words, "If it wasn't sufficient, then they shouldn't have been picked up."
In addition, as I explained in Reuters described it, that he "would not allow the Department of Defense or the CIA to delay the cases while reviewing classified information used to hold the prisoners as enemy combatants." "Let there be no doubt that the Department of Defense and the CIA must be prepared to come to the courtroom and defend their decisions if we get any sense that there is an effort by those agencies to slow down the proceedings," he said.
Judge Leon added that he wanted to decide the cases before the next president takes office in January 2009, and, although this was rather optimistic, the dogged determination with which he obeyed the Supreme Court's order meant that he did indeed manage to review a number of cases before his self-imposed deadline, while other judges had not even gotten off the starting blocks.
To do this, however, he had to overcome more delaying tactics. As I reported last September, although judges had been appointed to review the 250 habeas cases in July, and the District Court "ordered the government to file factual returns at a rate of fifty per month, with the first fifty due by August 29, 2008," the Justice Department waited until just before the deadline, and then, with only 22 returns filed, filed an "instant motion" begging for more time, pleading that it "simply did not appreciate the full extent of the challenges posed by the extensive need for classified information in these cases when [it] proposed to complete the first set of factual returns by the end of August," and asking for an extension of 30 days.
Senior officials, including Daniel Dell'Orto, the acting general counsel for the Department of Defense, and Gen. Michael Hayden, the director of the CIA, described "the substantial resources and efforts the government has devoted to preparing factual returns and the risk of harm to the national security involved in releasing classified information to persons outside the Executive Branch."
Judge Hogan agreed to grant the government's motion, noting that the cases were "not run of the mill; they involve significant amounts of sensitive, classified information concerning individuals whom the government alleges were part of or supporting the Taliban or al-Qaeda or other organizations against which the United States is engaged in armed conflict." However, he added that he only agreed "reluctantly," and was "disappointed in the government's failure to meet the schedule the Court adopted based in part on the government's assurances." Citing statements in which the government claimed that it had "attempt[ed] to meet its goal" and that it would "continue to strive to meet the 50-per-month requirement," Judge Hogan added, pointedly, that the court was "not merely setting a 'goal' for which the government is to 'strive,'" but was, rather, "ordering the government to produce at least fifty factual returns by month's end, followed by at least another fifty more each month thereafter until production is complete."
As I also explained in September,
In conclusion, while Judge Hogan recognized the government's explanation that, since the Supreme Court ruling, its "[a]ttorneys and others from multiple agencies have worked long and hard, nights and weekends," he reminded the executive that "the government has detained many of these petitioners for more than six years, and the time has come to provide them with the opportunity to fully test the legality of such detention in a prompt, meaningful manner."
He added, with a hint of irritation about the administration's sidelining of the judiciary, that the decision to grant the prisoners habeas rights was "no bolt out of the blue," as the government contended, because the Supreme Court had ruled, four years before (in Rasul v. Bush), that they had this right.
Court victories for the Uighurs and five Bosnian Algerians
In October, when, after Parhat, the government conceded defeat in the case of the Uighurs and abandoned all pretense that any of the 17 men were "enemy combatants," Judge Ricardo Urbina, reviewing their habeas cases in the District Court in Washington D.C., ordered all 17 men to be released to the care of communities in the capital, and in Tallahassee, Florida, who had prepared detailed plans for their resettlement, because it was unsafe for them to return to China, because no other country had been found that would accept them, and because their continued detention was unconstitutional.
"I think the moment has arrived for the court to shine the light of constitutionality on the reasons for detention," Judge Urbina stated in his landmark decision, adding, "Because the Constitution prohibits indefinite detentions without cause, the continued detention is unlawful. Because separation-of-powers concerns do not trump the very principle upon which this nation was founded — the unalienable right to liberty — the court orders the government to release the [men] into the United States."
Sadly for the Uighurs (and for the cause of justice, so shamefully disdained at Guantánamo), the government fought back, launching an immediate appeal to prevent a judge from actually ordering the release of men into the United States against the wishes of the executive. Shamelessly resuscitating its own long-discredited claims that the Uighurs were "a danger to the public," who had "admitted receiving weapons training at a military training camp" (even though it had failed to challenge the Uighurs' cases before Judge Urbina), the government requested a stay on Judge Urbina's ruling, and this was granted by a three-judge panel in the Court of Appeals, which included Judge A. Raymond Randolph, who, notoriously, voted for every piece of Guantánamo-related legislation that was subsequently overturned by the Supreme Court.
This was an enormous disappointment, of course, but while the Uighurs awaited a full ruling by the Court of Appeals, Judge Leon then hit his stride, launching the first full habeas reviews since Guantánamo opened six years and ten months previously by demolishing the cases against five out of six Algerians who had been kidnapped in Bosnia (where they had been living and working for many years) and flown to Guantánamo in January 2002.
Notoriously, the men had been seized in connection with an alleged plot to blow up the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo, but the plot had never been mentioned during their detention at Guantánamo, and when the habeas reviews came round, five of the six men were, instead, accused of intending to travel to Afghanistan to take up arms against U.S. forces.
In his ruling, on November 20, when he was called upon to determine whether the prisoners could continue to be held as "enemy combatants" because they were "part of or supporting Taliban or al-Qaeda forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners" — or because they had "committed a belligerent act or ha[d] directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces" — Judge Leon authorized the habeas claims of five of the six men, explaining that the government had relied "exclusively on the information contained in a classified document from an unnamed source," but stressing that this information — "the only evidence in the record directly supporting each detainee's alleged knowledge of, or commitment to, this supposed plan" — was inadequate, because, although the government had "provided some information about the source's credibility and reliability," it had not "provided the Court with enough information to adequately evaluate the credibility and reliability of this source's information."
Three disturbing victories for the government
There was some consolation for the government, in that Judge Leon ruled that the sixth man, Belkacem Bansayah, could continue to be held as an "enemy combatant," because the government had provided "credible and reliable evidence," from a number of sources, "linking Bensayah to al-Qaeda and, more specifically, to a senior al-Qaeda facilitator." Leon also stated, "There can be no question that facilitating the travel of others to join the fight against the United States in Afghanistan constitutes direct support to al-Qaeda in furtherance of its objectives and that this amounts to 'support' within the meaning of the 'enemy combatant' definition governing this case."
Judge Leon's ruling in Bensayah's case raised a new set of problems for lawyers, as did his ruling in two further cases on December 30, when he turned down the habeas petitions of two other prisoners — Muaz al-Alawi, a Yemeni, and Hisham Sliti, a Tunisian — on the basis that Sliti was associated with al-Qaeda, and al-Alawi "was part of or supporting Taliban or al-Qaeda forces," because he "stayed at guest houses associated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda … received military training at two separate camps closely associated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban and supported Taliban fighting forces on two different fronts in the Taliban's war against the Northern Alliance."
As I explained in an article at the time, the problem with all these decisions was that the Supreme Court had not empowered the lower courts to question whether the very definition of an "enemy combatant" was sufficient to hold prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial if a plausible case was established that they had somehow been involved with al-Qaeda or the Taliban. The most fundamental difficulty was with rulings relating to involvement with the Taliban, as this harked back to the initial mistakes that were made when the Taliban (a government, however despised) was equated with al-Qaeda (a small terrorist group), and this was made clear in the case of Muaz al-Alawi.
Although al-Alawi was in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks and was fighting with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance, Judge Leon ruled that he was an "enemy combatant" because he endorsed the government's claim that, "rather than leave his Taliban unit in the aftermath of September 11, 2001," al-Alawi "stayed with it until after the United States initiated Operation Enduring Freedom on October 7, 2001; fleeing to Khowst and then to Pakistan only after his unit was subjected to two-to-three U.S. bombing runs." As I put it at the time,
In other words, Judge Leon ruled that Muaz al-Alawi can be held indefinitely without charge or trial because, despite traveling to Afghanistan to fight other Muslims before September 11, 2001, "contend[ing] that he had no association with al-Qaeda," and stating that "his support for and association with the Taliban was minimal and not directed at U.S. or coalition forces," he was still in Afghanistan when that conflict morphed into a different war following the U.S.-led invasion in October 2001. As Leon admitted in his ruling, "Although there is no evidence of petitioner actually using arms against U.S. or coalition forces, the Government does not need to prove such facts in order for petitioner to be classified as an enemy combatant under the definition adopted by the Court."
While this suggests to me that Muaz al-Alawi should, at best, have been held as a prisoner of war according to the Geneva Conventions (so that we would now be discussing whether it was appropriate to hold POWs forever, when the specific conflict in which they were seized — toppling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan — was achieved seven years ago), the cases of Belkacem Bensayah and Hisham Sliti are rather more complicated. In Bensayah's case, the problem is that his alleged involvement with al-Qaeda centered on his purported relationship with Abu Zubaydah, the supposed "high-value detainee," who, as has been demonstrated in detail over the last few years, was not actually a member of al-Qaeda at all, and in Sliti's case, Judge Leon's ruling essentially involved guilt by association. As I explained in January,
He may well have been connected with others who were involved in or interested in terrorism, but his own trajectory is that of a junkie rather than a jihadist, or, if you prefer, a tourist rather than a terrorist. Judge Leon disregarded Sliti's own claim that he went to Afghanistan "to kick a long-standing drug habit and to find a wife," but it was certainly true that he had been a drug addict in Europe (where he had been imprisoned in various countries on several occasions), and, as his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has explained, he has a worldly cynicism that is fundamentally at odds with the fanatical rigor of al-Qaeda.
Victory for Guantánamo's youngest prisoner
As the Bush administration left office, these fundamental problems had not been addressed, leading me to conclude that, although Judge Leon was observing the law, it was both cruel and unjust, "as the three men in question continue to be held with less rights than those afforded to the most murderous individuals imprisoned on the U.S. mainland, even though none of them is alleged to have harmed a single U.S. citizen."
However, the tally of verdicts — 22 habeas appeals granted in 25 cases — indicated that the habeas reviews had triumphantly demonstrated the necessity of providing the Guantánamo prisoners with a means to challenge the basis of their detention, and these odds improved on January 14, when Judge Leon delivered his final ruling under the Bush administration, delivering a last resounding blow to Guantánamo's credibility by granting the habeas petition of Mohammed El-Gharani, a Saudi resident (and Chadian national) who was just 14 years old when he was seized in a random raid on a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, where he had traveled in the hope of furthering his education.
In spite of this, the government claimed that El-Gharani "arrived in Afghanistan at some unspecified time in 2001," and was "part of or supporting Taliban or al-Qaeda forces," for a variety of reasons, including claims that he received military training at an al-Qaeda-affiliated military training camp, fought against U.S. and allied forces at the battle of Tora Bora, and was a member of an al-Qaeda cell based in London.
Noting that the government's supposed evidence against El-Gharani consisted of statements made by two other prisoners at Guantánamo, and that, moreover, these statements were "either exclusively, or jointly, the only evidence offered by the Government to substantiate the majority of their allegations," Judge Leon stated that "the credibility and reliability of the detainees being relied upon by the Government has either been directly called into question by Government personnel or has been characterized by Government personnel as undermined," and dismissed all the claims, reserving particular criticism for the claim that El-Gharani had been a member of a London-based al-Qaeda cell. As I wrote in January,
This was, indeed, the most extraordinary allegation, as El-Gharani was just 11 years old at the time, and, as his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, explained in his book The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay, "he must have been beamed over to the al-Qaeda meetings by the Starship Enterprise, since he never left Saudi Arabia by conventional means."
Leon's verdict was marginally less colorful, but no less devastating. "Putting aside the obvious and unanswered questions as to how a Saudi minor from a very poor family could have even become a member of a London-based cell," he wrote, "the Government simply advances no corroborating evidence for these statements it believes to be reliable from a fellow detainee, the basis of whose knowledge is — at best — unknown."
This was a high point in the litigation on behalf of the Guantánamo prisoners, and as Barack Obama swept into office, there was a widespread anticipation that the obstruction of the Bush years would come to an end, and that Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder would move swiftly to facilitate the swift passage of the remaining habeas cases.
As I demonstrate in Parts Two and Three of this article, however, in its first six months in office, the Obama administration has behaved as though George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are still in the White House, pressing ahead with cases that are as worthless and unprincipled as those against the Uighurs, the Bosnian Algerians and Mohammed El-Gharani, indulging in the same obstruction that disappointed Judge Hogan last August, and refusing — ever — to tell the American public what it really needs to know: that the Bush administration's "war on terror" was such a disaster that, when the Guantánamo prisoners have had an opportunity to challenge the basis of their detention in a US court, 84 percent of the cases considered have led to a humiliating defeat for the government, whether that government was led by George W. Bush, or by Barack Obama.


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We have some exciting news to share today that we think is going to make the experience on MerchantCircle even more valuable for our users. We've reached an agreement with Ask.com to assume control of the RSS reader site Bloglines in order to rejuvenate and integrate it with the MerchantCircle experience.
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Ask.com, which has owned the property for the last few years, had decided to retire the service to focus more on its core offerings. This provided a wonderful opportunity for MerchantCircle to acquire the operations to reinvest in the platform and enhance it for its 2.7 million users.
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There's so much potential and we are excited about the next steps. For now, please see our press release and news story on TechCrunch about the changing hands of Bloglines.
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Obviously Disney's keen on the fact that most of us can't make up our minds about what we want to try in their restaurants! They've slowly, but surely, started introducing ways for us to sample a little bit of everything — even when we're not at a buffet.
Trios of dishes — small portions of three menu items served together as one dish — are popping up everywhere, from casual to signature dining. And while these used to be relegated to the dessert menu, we're now seeing trios pop up in the appetizer and entree sections of the menu. Here are a few examples…
Appetizer Trios
Epcot's Le Cellier put a trio of appetizers front and center on its menu a while ago, giving guests an opportunity to sample three of their most beloved apps: Cheddar Cheese Soup, Lump Crab, and the Tomato Stack.
Sanaa, in Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, has followed suit with trios of salads and appetizers. The one below includes carrot, orange, and mint on the left; roasted beets in the center; and chickpeas with cucumber and tomato on the right.
Entree Trios
While several restaurants are sampling how entree trios are selling, our favorite is one we reported on a couple of weeks ago — the Tasting Plate at 50's Prime Time Cafe in Disney's Hollywood Studios. Once again, thanks to Mandy Jansen for the photo and heads up!
Dessert Trios
And the Wave over in Disney's Contemporary Resort has been playing with dessert trios in a new and different way since it opened a few years ago.
When I visited recently with our DFB columnist Erin Foster, we couldn't resist ordering all three trios on the menu! One of my favorites of the new options? The popcorn gelato! It did taste more like caramel corn, though, so don't expect any buttery saltiness coming through…
Other options included in these trios: peanut butter and jelly gelato and olive oil infused chocolate truffle mousse. Fancy!
Have you seen any interesting trios around in your travels in Disney parks and resorts? Any you want to sample? Let us know in the comments section below!
Sanaa Photo copyright Disney
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Mexican food can mean something different to everyone here in North Texas. Don't worry, I'm far too fearful of the comments that would ensue if I spent anytime discussing the differences between "Mexican food" and Tex-Mex, so we'll save that for another day. It seems that we all have a different way to judge the quality of Mexican food. I'd like to say I am able to tell pretty quickly how I'll get along with a new spot by their salsa, while others claim it's the house margarita or even the enchiladas that set the tone. If you score a table at Meso Maya in the near future get ready to taste Mexican food differently, the Southern Mexican cuisine is a welcomed addition to the McKinney Avenue landscape. Continue reading


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Publication Acceptance Date: 11/3/2006
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Citation: Harris, G.K., Baer, D.J. 2007. Gender Differences in Body Fat Utilization During Weight Gain, Loss, or Maintenance. In: Preuss, H. G. , Bagchi, D., editors. Phytopharmaceuticals for Obesity Treatment. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 239-244.
Interpretive Summary: This chapter describes how men and women are different when it comes to gaining, losing or maintaining body fat. Men and women store fat in different places and use it in different ways as an energy source. Men tend to store fat in the stomach area, while women tend to store it in the thigh area. Men burn more calories than women, even when they are resting. During exercise, women burn more fat than men, but men burn more fat than women at rest. Eating too many calories can cause anyone to become fatter, but the type of food eaten may be especially important for women. The more fat women eat, the more likely they are to have too much body fat. On the other hand, the more carbohydrates women eat, the less likely they are to have too much body fat. Exercise by itself seems to be a good way of maintaining or losing body fat in men, but not in women. In fact, women who burn more total calories (calories burned at rest + calories burned during exercise) also have higher body fat levels. Some scientists believe that women eat more when they exercise, while men do not. This has not been proven, however. Overall, the data suggest that women gain and retain body fat more readily than men, independent of physical activity level. This chapter will be of interest to scientists and health professionals interested in weight control and weight loss.
Technical Abstract: This chapter outlines the known gender differences in fat gain, loss, and maintenance, and perhaps more importantly, highlights how little is known about the subject. The effects of gender differences on body fat distribution, fat use as an energy source, and exercise-related fat loss are discussed. Gender differences in fat distribution result from region-specific differences in fat accumulation and mobilization. Due to these differences, men tend to retain visceral and upper body fat, while women tend to store subcutaneous lower body fat. Due to a higher percentage of fat free mass, men have higher metabolic rates than women. Women burn more fat than men during exercise, but burn less at rest or in a fasted state. Although total calories consumed is important to body fat changes in both genders, macronutrient ratios may also be important in women. For women, dietary fat is positively associated with percent body fat, while dietary carbohydrate is negatively associated with body fat. Exercise alone seems to be an effective way of maintaining or reducing body fat in men, but not in women. In fact, total energy expenditure is positively associated with body fat percentage in women. Some scientists have suggested that women tend to compensate for exercise by consuming more calories, but this has not been proven. Overall, the data suggests that women gain and retain body fat more readily than men, independent of physical activity level.


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NEW YORK -- It's the one of the best episodes of the season, hometown dates! Arie visited the hometowns of Kendall, Tia, Becca and Lauren. We're down to our final four! Arie drove in a Mercedes to meet up with Kendall in Los Angeles! She wasted no time with taking Arie to a creepy shed where it was filled with taxidermy. Arie was totally creeped out and said it wasn't his thing. He thinks she is really fun and "interesting." Kendall surprised Arie by telling him that they would be mounting their own taxidermy. They started off with some dead white rats. They took the skins and stuffed them, then dressed them and posed them. They were little rat dolls that they put on a puppet play of sorts with - a boy rat and a girl rat on a date in Paris. Arie was very accepting of her odd hobby overall. Kendall told him that when they head to her parents' house later, her twin sister will be a tough cookie to crack. Arie told her that he's falling for her and then they kissed as they sat outside sipping lemonades. Kendall did not say it back however!
That evening, Arie walked into Kendall's family's house with a gigantic flower basket and bouquet in tow. Arie met her parents, sister and brother. As they all sat around the table and told her family about their day, her dad looked on with a disapproving look and said, "Yeah, this is a different type of courtship." Her mom, on the other hand, was very approving of Kendall and Arie and just wants her to be happy. Kendall's sister said that she picked up some "space" between Kendall and Arie. Arie told her that he doesn't know how to feel about that and revealed to her sister that he's falling for Kendall. She asked Arie if he sees himself proposing in the end and he said yes of course. Her sister told her that she doesn't think that this is her "undeniable love." Ouch. Meantime, Arie told her dad that he's falling for Kendall and sees a "great potential." Her dad said that he wouldn't give a blessing unless Kendall thought she was ready for that and if she did, they would support her 100%. Kendall said at this point she's not ready for a proposal, but she might be able to get there by the end. Might. Still, she doesn't want to lose Arie, and at her sister's urging, she told him that she sees herself falling for him too.
Next stop, Weiner, Arkansas! Arie met up with Tia and she took him racing! He was super excited and lit up when he saw the cars. They got fast and furious in Weiner! They talked about how he would be meeting up with her parents, brother, aunt and cousin. She warned him that her brother may give him a bit of a hard time.
Her brother seemed quite tough, but her dad actually seemed really sweet. She comes from a really nice family. Tia cried when she hugged her mom. Aw! They all sat down and talked all about where they had traveled and about how he gave roses to other women. Her brother just stared Arie down. He sat down with Arie first and he told him that he had some questions. He asked him about the rumors of him being "The Kissing Bandit." Arie said that he isn't like that anymore and he's ready to settle down and he really is looking for a wife. He told Tia's brother that he's falling for her and loves her spirit. While talking to her father, Tia said she wanted to know where she stood in comparison to the other ladies. Her dad said that he'd try to figure that out for her. Arie told her dad that he would take care of her and that he's falling for her. Her dad said he would give his blessing if that's what Tia wants. Overall, it seemed like a great talk. Tia confided in her mom about how deep her feelings are for Arie and added that she's learned a lot about herself in the process. As they said goodbye, Tia told Arie that she's "in love" with him. Arie told her that he's had an amazing day and that he won't forget this. He feels like the relationship has really progressed.
Arie's third visit was to Minneapolis to visit Becca. They met up in an apple orchid to pick some apples together. They made some amazingly delicious caramel apples. They sat outside the shed to talk about who she would meet. Arie will meet her mom and Uncle Gary, who is like a father-figure to her ever since her dad died when she was 19, and several others.
That evening, her large family was waiting skeptically to meet Arie. Right off the bat, Gary introduced himself to Arie and he was raring to go. He had a lot of questions for him. They asked him some questions about the difference between being on "The Bachelorette" and "The Bachelor." He said that it's very different, but beautiful, and Gary looked perplexed. He pulled Arie aside for a talk and said that Steve, Becca's dad, was a great guy and a great hunter. He said that he did his funeral, as he's a pastor. He started to cry and said that, "It should be him sitting here, not me." Gary asked Arie straight up, "Are we wasting time here, or is she the real deal to you?" Arie said, "She is." Becca told her mother that she's falling for him, but her mother said she's not ready to give a blessing on a marriage yet. They are a pretty religious family, and Gary asked Arie if he would go to church with Becca and he said he's open to it. During Arie's talk with Becca's mother and told her that he adores her, she'd be a wonderful wife, and that he's falling for her. He asked for Becca's mother's blessing and she said she would honor whatever her choice is because she trusts her daughter. Becca told Arie at the end of the night that she's falling for him and he said that he loved that.
Last but not least, Arie traveled to Lauren in Virginia Beach. They saddled up on some horses and rode along the beach. After that, they climbed a lighthouse to admire the view of the beautiful beach and do some kissing! Arie said that he's very worried about meeting her family because he knows they will be skeptical of their relationship based on what Lauren said during their lunch on the beach.
Arie approached with a giant basket and a bunch of roses, again, and he was freaking out. He was so nervous! Just like their dates, dinner was silent. They barely spoke to him! Her dad asked him some questions though thankfully. Then it turned into 20 questions. It was so awkward! He said his nerves are worse than when he was in the Indy 500! He was sweating bullets! During a mother-daughter chat, Lauren's mom said that she would give them her blessing. Lauren's dad took Arie outside and they talked about his experience in the Navy, and Arie impressed him with the fact that he flew a plane on a Goodwill tour in Iraq. He was so impressed by him and gave him a "cheers" with wine for showing the soldiers and service members appreciation like that. Her dad said that he's not worried about Lauren picking the wrong guy, and said that if Lauren likes him, he likes him. They got along really well. It was actually a really special interaction. During his time with Lauren's mother, Arie revealed that he is still compartmentalizing the relationships and not comparing them and it makes her mother very nervous. She was a tougher critic than the dad! Lauren confidently told her mother that she thinks their relationship could last a lifetime. Lauren cried because she's so deeply in love with Arie.
Back in LA, the ladies returned for the rose ceremony where Arie would choose the three woman he would take on fantasy dates and into the fantasy suites! Arie revealed that he is falling for all of the remaining women. Chris Harrison tried to calm his nerves, but was shocked that Arie didn't really know what he wanted to do. As he walked out to the women, he had a freak out where he had to walk away and try to pull himself together in the hallway. He was still confused so he pulled Kendall aside to talk. He asked her if she felt like she could get engaged in the end and be comfortable with it. She said she wasn't expecting to have that conversation this minute, but she doesn't feel ready just yet, but she isn't ready to say goodbye and she doesn't know what he needs from her. They returned and in the end, Arie gave roses to Becca, Lauren and Kendall. Wow, that meant Tia was going home. Arie cried as Tia did her best to keep it together, but as she approached him, her eyes had tears in them. As they hugged, she let out a sob. Arie walked her out and she asked him right away, "What did I do wrong?" He didn't hesitate a beat as he said, "You didn't do anything wrong!" He looked like he was about to throw up he felt so bad. The poor guy, it's not easy at this stage in the game. Feelings get hurt and there's no way around it.
Coming up on Sunday, it's "The Women Tell All!" Monday, we will get to see the fantasy dates in Peru and learn which women will be Arie's final two! And, an ex-boyfriend shows up! Whose ex is he? We'll have to wait to find out!


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Coming off the success of Bridesmaids last year, Hollywood is experiencing a Funny Girl revival. Bridesmaids brought empirical proof that women being funny in a female-oriented movie can appeal to men as well (which, duh, because funny is funny is funny, regardless of your gender, but Hollywood tends not to believe even obvious things until there's box office data to back it up), and so now we're being treated to a slew of female-driven comedies, led by Bachelorette and For a Good Time, Call.
Hollywood wants a new Funny Girl almost as much as they want a Leading Man, but I wish they would focus more on the Funny/Girls. What's the difference? Put it this way: Olivia Munn is a Funny Girl. Emma Stone is a Funny/Girl.
A Funny/Girl is a girl who is funny. "Funny" is not her qualifier, it's a trait, a TALENT she possesses. But Funny/Girls can be difficult. They're more independent. They're smarter, sharper; they're not going to want to do the rom-coms and the pining best friends. They want to write their own material and often that involves subverting everything typically thought of as "funny girl behavior". Funny/Girls don't play by boy rules. They play by Funny Rules. That's the difference. A Funny Girl is going to try to make boys laugh by being cute and reaffirming everything boys already think is laughable about girls. A Funny/Girl is trying to make the whole room laugh and she won't stoop to do it.
What's promising, though, is that as Hollywood is pushing for a new Funny Girl, the Funny/Girls are quietly separating themselves from the pack and establishing a base of power. Take Rebel Wilson, Bridesmaids' one-off weirdo, who is now poised to break out. Wilson has killer timing and delivery and she's got the physical chops to back it up. She should be a star, and I anticipate her making the difference between "so-so musical comedy" and "dude you've gotta see it" comedy for Pitch Perfect. Wilson will end up calling her own shots and she'll do it by proving her worth with talent and accomplishment, not by adhering to an arbitrary standard of behavior for funny girls. She's writing her own script.
Another one setting herself apart is Parks & Rec's Aubrey Plaza. Everything about her flies directly in the face of the Funny Girl label, yet she is emerging as one of the most in-demand comedic actresses under 30. Ditto for Lizzy Caplan (Party Down forever), who could so easily slip into rom-com after rom-com, playing a string of ditzy but endearing bakers/gallery managers/marketing-wonks-who-secretly-do-art, but instead she is making her name playing complicated, often unlikeable but very funny women. They're two of the sharpest Funny/Girls working right now.
But it's not all smooth sailing for Funny/Girls. A friend—a Funny/Girl herself—recently told me about a casting director who keeps a drawer full of files on female comedians in their twenties but has nowhere to use them. Funny/Girls are making up a lot of ground these days but there's still a gap (it's the "that's not cute, stop it" gap). So they have to go out and make their own work, which is why the Funny/Girl is rising to prominence in independent film even as Hollywood is trying to make Ari Graynor the new Funny Girl.
I'm for the Funny/Girls. I'm for Wilson, Plaza, Caplan, and every other girl who wants to make people laugh but doesn't think she should have to be cute to do it. I'm for the movies that aren't afraid to mine humor from the crass and mean sides of femininity without condescending to it. I'm for every female comedian, like my friend, who stares down a long hall of closed doors and starts knocking down the wall instead. They want us to buy the Funny Girl. We should demand more Funny/Girls.
Attached - Caplan at the Bachelorette premiere in New York.


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Could BofA Still Toss Countrywide into Bankruptcy?
Two years after reaching a landmark $8.5 billion legal settlement, Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) once again threatened this week to put its litigation-riddled mortgage division Countrywide Financial into bankruptcy.
The threat highlights the level of legal headaches still surrounding the purchase of Countrywide, which had been teetering on the brink of collapse during the 2008 financial crisis before BofA swooped in with a rescue.
At a New York state court hearing on Monday, BofA Chief Risk Officer Terrence Laughlin said the banking giant could put Countrywide into bankruptcy if it fails to win court approval for the $8.5 billion settlement with mortgage investors who claim the company misrepresented mortgages at the heart of bond deals, Reuters reported.
BofA similarly threatened to have Countrywide file for bankruptcy as the bank hammered out the settlement in June 2011 with institutional investors like BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) and MetLife (NYSE:MET).
Now American International Group (NYSE:AIG) and others are challenging that $8.5 billion settlement as inadequate.
"One of the options that was available to us and continues to be available to us was to put Countrywide into bankruptcy," Laughlin said at the hearing, the wire service reported.
The BofA exec denied that he or anyone else at the lender had talked to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, BofA's regulator, about a Countrywide bankruptcy.
Shares of Charlotte-based BofA retreated 1.05% to $13.15 Tuesday morning amid a 1% drop on the S&P 500.


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This last week has been busy with quite the list of mods to go over. So have a listen and see if anything takes your fancy!
- Slipstream: The Price of Freedom
- World of Padman CTF
- Warzone 2100
- Desert Region Final Sector
- Welcome to the Wasteland
- MINERVA Lang Pack
- Starship Troopers - Escape from Outpost 22
- PsychoPhobia
- Expanded Wars Federation Rising
- Plastic Mod
- Half-Life: DS
- Final Act: UT3 (plus video)
- Zero
- Half-Life: Zombie Edition
- Median XL
- Teddy Wars
- Operation Peacekeeper 2
- Ashura: Dark Reign (plus video)
- New Universe
- Circle of Eight
- FOJ Community Mod
So that's it for this week modders, but don't fear we will be back next week with more mods and goss for you all to enjoy! Don't forget to send your modding/gaming questions to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will answer the questions on the show!


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The Saint Is the Only True Revolutionary
By Douglas Cramer
The siren song of our culture is that we should devote our best energies to serve ourselves and see to our own needs before thinking of others. We should avoid entangling ourselves in commitments, relationships and groups that might make demands of us. The great invitation of the Church, which calls us to join with the visible Body of Christ in this world, is a radical invitation. It is a revolutionary alternative to the extreme individualism of our culture.
Sadly, this cult of individualism is not restricted only to unbelievers. Many people who consider themselves Christian have signed on as well. There is a book out by a well-known religious writer named George Barna, titled Revolution. Barna identifies a growing trend among Christians, a movement that centers on a rejection of community and an embrace of individualism. Many of our neighbors have come to believe that the best way to live a Christian life is in isolation from any parish or church, figuring out for themselves how they should pray, act, and understand their faith.
"There is a new breed of Christ-follower in America today," Barna says, "These are people who are more interested in being the Church than in going to church." His research has "discovered and described a growing national population of more than twenty million adults who are committed to living their faith and making God the top priority in their life. Some are doing so through the ministries of a local church, but many are not. The emphasis is upon allowing God to transform them in every aspect of their life."
Now, what is wrong with this? Don't we all believe that we should allow God to transform us in every aspect of our lives? Of course we do. The problem is that these Christ-followers, perhaps with the best of intentions, have asked a false question, set up a false choice. As Orthodox Christians, we understand that we cannot choose between "being the Church" and "going to church." The Church is not only an invisible, mystical union. It is a physical body of believers, who are bound together as a holy community in communion with God and His saints.
While this trend saddens me, it does not surprise me. The temptation of individualism has a long history, and as we know it is supported in countless ways by our culture. But the true calling of Christ and His Church offers us a very different path.
There is a Greek word that contains the essence of this truth. That word is koinonia. Koinonia means community, in its most profound and mysterious sense, and it is in community that we find the truth of who we are and how we should live. It is in God's community, in koinonia, that we find our life as persons.
Orthodox Christianity offers us an alternative to the isolation of individualism – it offers us true personhood. What does this mean? What is the difference between individualism and personhood? The great Orthodox teacher Bishop Kallistos Ware gives us an eloquent answer: "The human person is created for relationship." True personhood is not found in individuals – it is found in community.
At the heart of this teaching is our affirmation that we are created in the image of God. And as Christians, we proclaim that when we say "God," we mean the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We understand that God Himself is not in isolation. "God is love," we read in 1 John 4:8. God is love because God Himself is community. Bishop Kallistos goes on to say, "God is not a unit, but a union. God is love in the sense of shared love, the mutual love of three Persons in one. God is shared love, not self-love. God is openness, exchange, solidarity, self-giving."
Brothers and sisters, we can only truly understand ourselves, we can only lay claim to the image of God within us, when we recognize that like God the truth of our identities are centered in community. The truth of our very nature demands that we fully embrace our relationships with others. This is the key to personhood according to the Trinitarian image. Not isolated self-awareness, but relationship in mutual love.
Remember the words of Christ in His prayer to the Father at the Last Supper: "That they all may be one, as you, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us." The mutual love of the Holy Trinity is the model for our human personhood. We are here on earth to reproduce within time the love that passes in eternity between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
How different this understanding of life is from the thin gruel offered by the cult of individualism. But still, we all feel the call of selfishness, of putting ourselves first. This shouldn't surprise us. Like I said, the temptation of individualism has a long history—in fact, it goes all the way back to our beginnings. The essence of the fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise was the rejection of relationship. When God asked Adam if he had eaten the fruit of the tree, what did he say? "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." And what did Eve say? "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." Adam and Eve each chose to think only of themselves, of their own needs. They each chose selfishly, and sought to place the blame for their act on someone else.
But we have received a different invitation. God is asking us to join with others, and with himself, in holy fellowship—to come alongside our fellow believers and dedicate ourselves to training in the life of Christ.
Of course, there is one great challenge in living as part of a community. Can you guess what it is? That's right—other people! Why is it so tempting for us to isolate ourselves, to avoid church, to want to flee from any relationship that might make demands on us? Because when we become involved with others, we will be hurt. There's no getting away from it. Relationship means pain. It means people will hurt us, and we will hurt them.
C. S. Lewis put it well:
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is Hell.
If you believe you can protect yourself from pain by holding back, by not engaging with others, you are lying to yourself. We must engage, we must commit, we must come together. We must love. And we will all suffer for it, and cause suffering to others. If you want to live, there is no other way.
We can begin by getting anything that might hinder this bonding out in the open. Forgiveness isn't just about saying the words, or going through the motions. And it isn't about excusing or justifying someone's actions, pretending that they didn't really cause you pain. True forgiveness means recognizing that someone has sinned against you, and choosing to love that person anyway.
This is our goal – bringing about the breakthrough of the Kingdom of Heaven in to our world. This is what God is calling you to be part of. This is why He wants you to choose to be part of His Church, of this holy community. Remember the saying: "The only thing we can do alone is go to hell." But together, we can transform our lives by transforming our relationships. We can become more than individuals – we can become true persons in the image of God. We can become saints. Fr. Alexander Schmemann once said, "The saint is the only true revolutionary in this world."
This reflection is adapted from a speech originally written for Fr. Christopher Metropulos of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and SCOBA's Orthodox Christian Network. Learn more about the powerful ministries of OCN on their website, www.myocn.net.


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LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Miranda Lambert was the big winner at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards, but it was Luke Bryan who pulled off the upset of the night.
Bryan snagged the entertainer of the year award, beating out two-time winner Taylor Swift and last year's favorite Blake Shelton for the fan-voted award.
"Thank you so much fans for doing this to me," a clearly emotional
Bryan said at the Last Vegas show. "Thank you so much for making my life what it is. What I always wanted to be was just a country singer who got to ride on a tour bus and show up on a new stage and play music every night."
"This is the defining moment of my life, and it means the world to me," he added. "I will never take it for granted."
Byran's star has been on the up and up in recent months.
At the American Country Awards in December, the "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" singer picked up nine awards, including artist of the year, album of the year for "Tailgates and Tanlines" and single of the year for "I Don't Want This Night To End."
Lambert had a pretty great night as well Sunday.
"Over You," a ballad she co-wrote with her husband Blake Shelton, netted Lambert three awards: record of the year, single record of the year (which goes to the performer) and song of the year (which goes to the composer).
The song is about the death of Shelton's brother in a car wreck.
Lambert also won her fourth straight female vocalist of the year.
In all, she swept the show with four awards — the most of the night.
"As a songwriter, having your songs and your lyrics be recognized by your peers is pretty much as good as it gets," Lambert said.
The following is a list of winners:
Entertainer of the year
Luke Bryan
Male vocalist of the year
Jason Aldean
Female vocalist of the year
Miranda Lambert
Vocal duo of the year
Thompson Square
Vocal group of the year
Little Big Town
New artist of the year
Florida Georgia Line
Album of the year
Chief — Eric Church
Single record of the year
Over You — Miranda Lambert
Song of the year
Over You — Miranda Lambert
Video of the year
Tornado — Little Big Town
Vocal event of the year
The Only Way I Know — Jason Aldean With Luke Bryan & Eric Church
New male vocalist of the year
Brantley Gilbert
New female vocalist of the year
Jana Kramer
New vocal duo or group of the year
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As it turned out, the illicit rifle was not only cheaper and easier to obtain than the legal pistol, but the seller was much more pleasant to deal with than the cops administering the official process. The police officers at New York City's One Police Plaza, once I actually got into the place, were flat-out rude. They weren't abusive as much as surly in a special bureaucratic way, backed up by the implied threat that they could punish back-talk with a simple nudge of your papers into the trash can. I bit my tongue, but everybody has their own limit. A "customer" at an adjoining desk in the cramped warren stood up, announced loudly that rather than put up with this treatment he'd buy his gun on the street, then stalked from the room.
Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. I'll never know if that guy went to the black market. But plenty of New Yorkers have chosen to own guns outside the official system. In a city that, as I write, has roughly 37,000 licensed handgun owners and about 21,000 rifle and shotgun licenses, the running guesstimate of illegal firearms stands at two million, give or take a bit. That's the number the U.S. Department of Justice has used in its official publications in recent years.
Basically, far more guns are owned illegally within the boundaries of New York City than are held legally. Government officials wanted tight restrictions on firearms, and they got them—but that doesn't seem to have deterred many people from owning the things.


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A null-pointer dereference takes place when a pointer with a value of NULL is used as though it pointed to a valid memory area.
- Availability: Null-pointer dereferences invariably result in the failure of the process.
Exposure period
- Requirements specification: The choice could be made to use a language that is not susceptible to these issues.
- Implementation: Proper sanity checks at implementation time can serve to prevent null-pointer dereferences
- Languages: C, C++, Assembly
- Platforms: All
Required resources
Likelihood of exploit
Avoidance and mitigation
- Requirements specification: The choice could be made to use a language that is not susceptible to these issues.
- Implementation: If all pointers that could have been modified are sanity-checked previous to use, nearly all null-pointer dereferences can be prevented.
Null-pointer dereferences, while common, can generally be found and corrected in a simply way. They will always result in the crash of the process - unless exception handling (on some platforms) in invoked, and even then, little can be done to salvage the process.
Null-pointer dereference issue can occur through a number of flaws, including race conditions, and simple programming omissions. While there are no complete fixes aside from contentious programming, the following steps will go a long way to ensure that null-pointer dereferences do not occur.
Before using a pointer, ensure that it is not equal to NULL:
if (pointer1 != NULL) { /* make use of pointer1 */ /* ... */ }
When freeing pointers, ensure they are not set to NULL, and be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed:
if (pointer1 != NULL) { free(pointer1); pointer1 = NULL; }
If you are working with a multi-threaded or otherwise asynchronous environment, ensure that proper locking APIs are used to lock before the if statement; and unlock when it has finished.


text: Timing is everything, especially when it comes to a rally. One of the largest protests of the suffrage movement happened the day before Woodrow Wilson was to be inaugurated as President in 1913. Between 5,000 to 8,000 suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House and hundreds of thousands of onlookers. Organizers Alice Paul and Lucy Burns had secured a permit to march, however, many protesters were assaulted by those in the crowd who opposed the women's right-to-vote campaign. Attacks ranged from spitting and throwing of objects to all-out physical assaults. While many women were injured, public outrage at the violence translated to wider support for the suffrage movement.


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Thank you SaLuSa and Mike!
*** gavin
In the heavy vibrations of Duality your physical bodies easily tire, and as each day ends you need to recuperate by taking a period of sleep. Everything is very conveniently arranged so that you have night and day, that fits in with your needs to re-energise yourselves. Consequently you spend around a third of your lifetime sleeping, and you know that it is necessary; as if you are deprived of sleep you become ill. As you rise up so that all changes as you begin to absorb the energy that is around you. Eventually you need little but a short rest period, and no longer require your present intake of solid food to re-fuel your body. In fact your life is no longer ruled by night and day, as you will be in a dimension that has constant light. With your new bodies of crystalline cells, you will find that the conditions in which you live are exactly right for your needs. Be assured when you do not have a heavy physical body, there are no pangs of hunger or tiredness as you experience now.
Many aspects of your lives will change with Ascension, and all to the good. Life will no longer be a chore or a burden. The most noticeable changes will be where your freedom to travel is concerned. In your less dense body you will be able to move instantaneously to wherever you desire, and that means you are always able to contact your loved ones whenever you wish. There is however a provision that requires each souls privacy be protected, and you would first make telepathic contact to gain permission. So in fact, in the higher dimensions you have far greater freedom, and your loved ones and friends are always within contact.
Life on Earth has its high points, but it will never match the advantages of living in the higher dimensions. Perhaps you will find that the most acceptable change is in respect of your use of your time. Where on Earth you often find it difficult to fit everything in, you will experience the exact opposite having all the time you need to follow your pursuits. More so, if you were keen to develop you artistic talent, you could for example "call back" Rembrandt and benefit from his experience. It has to be pointed out that with the higher vibrations you will use your increased powers of thought, and will tend to be more creative with them.
Your lives will bear little resemblance to how they are now, and the benefits will be almost unimaginable. The path to these changes is about to start on Earth, by returning to you your sovereignty and freedom. With it shall come your release from being dependant on out dated methods of travel, medicine and food production. What you have been denied is being enjoyed by the selected few who are part of the covert operations of the Illuminati. You have been deliberately held back, to maintain the old system that feeds the bank balances of those families that are in power. The few control the masses but that is all about to change, and our allies have progressed to the point where the changes can begin. The realisation that you can be lifted up and experience a far better quality of life, will re-invigorate people's desires and interest in their future. That future is Ascension with all of the changes we have been regularly discussing.
Most important is of course your spiritual upliftment, which is the key to whether you ascend. That is determined by your level of vibration and it must be similar to those of the higher dimensions, if you are to move out of your present one which is the third dimension. As we have often mentioned, there is the Law of Attraction that determines which souls rise up and that applies automatically. It is how your progress or otherwise takes place, and you cannot be in a level other than the one that is consistent with your vibrations. That alone ensures that the different dimensions are always in harmony and balance. On Earth you do have Higher Beings, but they have had to drop their vibrations to be on it. Usually that is for the purpose of serving the Light, and you do in fact have thousands of them with you now, working to raise your vibrations.
We of the Galactic Federation are also part of the Light working teams, and like them we have a specific role to play. As you should know by now, it is to protect you and ensure that the path to Ascension is kept open for all of you that have chosen it. With our presence also comes knowledge of the higher states of being, and glimpses of what your future holds. We are One, and quite naturally there is a mutual attraction between us. You are also genetically connected with us, which is why you will see many humanlike Beings amongst us. We are so much like you that we could easily walk amongst you with hardly being noticed. Soon that will in fact become quite normal, and Disclosure is becoming much nearer to being announced.
In the midst of escalating Earth changes, we pick up a more calming energy that seems to come from the general upliftment of your mass consciousness. We would expect it to continue to rise in view of the ever-increasing levels of Light being sent to you. It is welcomed as there is inevitably going to be a period of some confusion and uncertainty when major changes are thrust upon you. They will of course be understood by those of you who keep abreast of events, and you can do much to share your understanding with others. Fear of the unknown is still very much a problem, but we will quickly explain what is happening as soon as we can. Your support for us is clearly essential, as we desire to involve you in the activities that are our top priority.
Once it is clear where everything is heading, we expect to have your full co-operation and indeed why not, as the plan is for your ultimate well-being. We have the answers to all of your problems, and the inconvenience to you while the changes occur will be minimal. We would say that they will be wide spread and you will be aware of the purpose through each stage of development.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and as ever pleased to confirm our willingness to work with you, and you will certainly not be excluded from any of our plans. Be patient now that events are coming to a head, as you must surely realise that we are so near to meeting you.
Thank you SaLuSa.
Mike Quinsey
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Once It Is Clear Where Everything Is Heading, We Expect To Have Your Full Cooperation and Indeed Why Not, As The Plan Is For Your Ultimate Well-being
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Laura Benanti on Turning Pandemic Panic into Productivity with Homeschool Musical and More on Show People
Laura Benanti is putting pandemic panic to good use. In addition to releasing the book M Is for Mama and Also Merlot: A Modern Moms Abcs and shooting both Younger and Gossip Girl, the Tony winner has put out a self-titled album and taken on the role of executive producer for HBO Max's Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020.
"The way I deal with stress is to be proactive. It's not, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!'" Benanti said. "If I weren't doing this, I would not be OK. For me, work and being of service through my work is how I function. With every single action that I take, I want to be putting good into the world." On the latest episode of Show People, available now on Broadway.com, Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek spoke with Benanti about doing just that with her new projects.
What started as a tweet encouraging students to share theirschool performances with the hashtage #SunshineSongs as a result of productions being canceled due to COVID-19. The project has become a full-fledged documentary on HBO Max. "I hope that people watch with their families," she said of Homeschool Musical, which features performances and stories from seven students whose musicals were canceled. "This generation of kids—I find them to be really, really inspiring. I feel like their generation takes a lot of flack. I'm very moved by them. When I watch these kids, I'm like, 'We're going to be OK.'"
Her self-titled album is also intended to sooth spirits. "I've been in this business since I was 18, and I've never done a studio album," she said. Benanti's hesitation came from her eclectic taste in music. Collaborating with producer Matt Pierson and arranger Gil Goldstein, Benanti was able to create a record that spans over 100 years worth of music but still sounds cohesive. "I'm really proud of it," she said. "It feels like self-care to me in this time when our ears are constantly absorbing the tension of the times."
Despite her success with several projects, Benanti considers Broadway to be her home. "I want to keep doing theater because I love it. It is the one place in the world where I feel like, 'OK, I know what I'm doing here, and I know you, and I know you,'" she said. "It's like when Dorothy comes back from the Emerald City, and she's in Kansas. Broadway is my Kansas,"
Watch the full Show People interview below!