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Steve Martin's Monologue
.....Steve Martin
Don Pardo V/O: Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Martin!
[Martin enters, runs down stairs to home base where he
stands between his banjo and a stool upon which are
some props. He basks in applause, wearing his
trademark white suit with black shoes and red
Steve Martin: [arms in the air] Thank you very much.
Thank you, this is too much, thank you, thank you!
[bows] Okay! Well, I didn't expect this.
[bows] Thank you very much. Okay. We're havin' some
fun now, eh, folks? Okay, it's, uh, great to be here
in New York. Um, I know that sounds phony 'cause every
entertainer in the world comes out no matter where
they are and they always go "HEY! IT'S REALLY GREAT TO
BE HERE!" And it really sounds fake. But, believe me,
I am sincere when I say, "HEY! IT'S REALLY
GREAT TO BE HERE!" Okay, no, seriously, it is great to
be here. And, um, well, actually, it's great to be ...
here. [steps one pace to his right] Okay, so-- No!
It's great to be here! [a few steps to his left] This
is where it's great to be. [walks upstage] No! It's
great to be here, too! [turns, heads back downstage]
Well, I'll never forget how great it was to be over
there. [back where he started] Okay, we're movin' now.
[takes a glass of water from stool] 'Scuse me. [sips
water through straw, puts glass back on stool, spits
out a mouthful of water to his left] All right.
We on? [waves hands in mock protest] Okay, okay, okay,
okay. To, uh, open the show, I always like to do one
thing that IS impossible. [holds up straw from water
glass] So right now I'm going to suck this stool into
my lungs. [bends over stool and tries to suck stool
through straw - nothing happens, of course -
straightens up, with mock disappointment] Oh, darn.
[throws straw away] Okay! Well, here's something you
don't often see. [jumps up and down twice, grunting,
wild-eyed, while stretching corners of mouth with
fingers] Okay, um. You know, a lot of people come to
me - they say, Steve, how can you be so damn
funny? Well, uh, I'm kinda gettin' out of the comedy
thing now, uh, gettin' more into the music so I'd like
to do a banjo tune for ya right now. Here we go.
[picks up banjo, applause] Thank you very much. Thank
you. [straps on banjo, pauses] I don't deserve it. All
right. Was it free to get in? [audience says "yes"]
It's free? Okay. Get your money's worth on this. Okay,
doesn't matter if it's free to get in, whatever, uh,
we're on network, uh, big show. You're expecting to
see a professional show so let's not waste any more
time! Here we go with ... PROFESSIONAL SHOW BUSINESS!
Let's go, hey! [picks a note or two on banjo, then
immediately backs away and starts tuning it]
Here we go. [plays a steady rhythmic riff] Hey, this
guy's good. [sings] "Well, I'm ramblin', ramblin'
'round, I'm a ramblin' guy, I'm ramblin', oh, yes, oh,
yes!" [whistles poorly, shrugs, speaks] Free to get
in. [sings] "I'm a ramblin' guy - R-A-M-B-L-I-N
apostrophe, oh yes, I'm ramblin' -- Ramblin' to New
York City, N-Y-C! Rent a car, get a hotel, for only
two hundred dollars a day. Oh, yes." [speaks] Okay,
everybody! "I'm a ram--" Come on! Sing with me!
Come on, have some fun, come on! "Ramblin' ..." Are
you people uptight or somethin'? You can't sing
along--? Oh, I forgot... New York. [applause, keeps
playing] Okay! All right, ladies only! "Oh, look! A
ramblin' guy!" Come on! Okay, this half of the room!
Beautiful! Now this half! Good, good! All right, two
fifths! Now, three-fifths! Good. Seven-ninths!
Two-ninths. All right, in Chinese now! [sings Chinese
gibberish, then sings in English:] "Well, I'm
ramblin', ramblin', ramblin', ramblin', ramblin',
ramblin', ramblin', ramblin'! Ram! Mah! BLINNNN!"
[suddenly launches into a long, snappy, complex banjo
instrumental, smiles and raises eyebrows at audience,
stops, takes a fake arrow-through-the-head prop from
the stool and puts it on] I like to keep the laughs
rolling even while I'm playing. [finishes banjo tune
triumphantly] Heyyyy! [applause]
[sings without banjo] "Oh, I'm a neat guy!" [speaks]
Excuse me, excuse me. All right, um, you know, uh, the
banjo's such a happy instrument, it really is. It's a
good thing for a comedian, like me, and, uh, it's just
a happy thing, you know. [plays a happy melody] Isn't
that happy? You just can't sing a depressing song when
you're playing the banjo. You can't go-- [grins, plays
and sings] "Oh, murder and death and grief and
sorrow!" [pauses, holds up his hand] Really, when
you're with me, it's like being at Shakey's Pizza, you
know? It's just... [plays "Ain't She Sweet?"] Hey!
[keeps playing "Ain't She Sweet?" but sings "Swanee
River"] "Way down upon the Swanee River..." [gets
confused, peers at banjo, stops playing, waves
Okay, I wanna do this, uh, last banjo tune and, uh,
we'll move on with the show. Could I get, like, a
tight shot, maybe, on the fingers, on this, okay?
Dave? Dave Wilson, the director. I'd like to start off
with a tight shot, okay? [no tight shot appears, gets
annoyed] I did this thing in dress. I thought we had
it worked out. I'm sorry. [clears throat, gets
increasingly upset] Okay, I'll do something else then.
I can go with it, all right? You know what I'm saying?
It's just, uh, um, you know, you ask for something,
you think you're gonna get it, throws you off, when
you're a performer, a professional like I am, and uh,
I'm sorry if I look a little angry but, uh, I guess I
am, because, uh, you know, it hurts you. You
know what I'm saying? It hurts the people who are
watching the show when me, the artist, comes out here
and I can't get, what, a little cooperation, you know
what I mean? I mean, I can't get a little help from
the backstage crew? EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEEEE!
[applause, still upset] I'm sorry! I'm angry! [plays
banjo tune, suddenly breaks out into a happy grin,
apologetic] I'm sorry! We'll be back after this
commercial! [tight shot on the fingers playing the
banjo as we fade out]
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Transcript: Opening Statement Of Former Representative Robert Drinan (D)
House Judiciary Committee hearing, December 8, 1998
HYDE: Father Drinan.
DRINAN: Mr. Chairman and members of this venerable committee, the situation before the House Judiciary Committee today is entirely different from the scene that I and my co-partners here experienced in 1974. At that time, the country knew there was extensive lawlessness in the White House. The documentation of appalling crimes was known by everyone. Abuse of power and criminality were apparent to the American people.
There is a well-documented evidence put forth in the report of that committee in 1974 about the plumbers, the break in of Dr. Elberg's office and the cover-up of the burglary at the Watergate Hotel.
The procedure followed by the House Judiciary Committee at that time was, however, even-handed. Months of hearings took place with the president's lawyer, Mr. Jim St. Clair, always present in this room and free to make any comments and ask questions.
Today the scene is startlingly different. No investigation has been made by the House Judiciary Committee nor have any fact-finding hearings been held.
The 21 Republicans have no support whatsoever from the 16 Democrats. And in addition, two-thirds of the nation or more are opposed to impeachment.
In 1974, the members of the Democratic majority had constant conversation and dialogue with the Republican members. And I remember intimately going to the Republicans and sharing with them the destiny of this committee and the awesome task that had come to us.
The Democrats were aware of the intense problems that the Republicans had with the impeachment of a Republican president. But eventually, through the sheer force of the evidence, six or seven of the Republicans voted for one or more articles of impeachment.
That was not a happy day when we voted for impeachment. And I remember well that Chairman Rodino said to the press afterwards, when asked what was first thing that he did, he said, "I went to my office and cried."
Another difference -- the House Judiciary Committee in 1998, unlike its predecessor where (ph) we served, has allowed its agenda to be dictated by the calendar. Strategy has been determined not by the need for thoroughness and fairness but by the convenience of ending this process by Christmas of this year.
The House Judiciary Committee in 1974, furthermore, did not vote for all of the proposed articles of impeachment. A serious charge was made that Mr. Nixon had backdated his taxes in an effort to take advantage of an exemption that had been repealed. And only 12 members of the body voted for the proposition that this was an impeachable offense.
Twenty-four members, including myself, voted that this misconduct -- almost certainly a felony -- was not impeachable.
The dignity and the majesty of the Rodino committee was not out to embarrass or humiliate President Nixon. What we were required to do was painful. But we worked, heard, listened, debated and finally voted. And the people of America, then and now, saw that the process was deliberate, bipartisan and measured.
The only time in American history that has seen anything like the process this fall before the House Judiciary Committee occurred in 1868 (sic) when President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House. The consensus of history is that the Johnson impeachment was partisan and was a mistake. Its failure in the Senate did not prevent a weakening of the independence of the presidency.
And I hope, ladies and gentlemen, that history will not decree that the House Judiciary Committee made a profound mistake in 1998 and that this body will go down in the history books as one that was dominated by vindictiveness and by vengeance and by partisanship.
The American people who are so overwhelmingly opposed to impeachment may be coming aware of the dreadful consequences that would happen to America if the House approved of impeachment and sent articles to the Senate. The entire nation knows that there are under no consideration 67 votes for that proposition in the Senate.
But what the nation doesn't realize yet is that the country could be paralyzed for some six months. The workings of the Supreme Court would be harmed because the chief justice, under the Constitution, must preside each day at the trial.
The sentence program would be held up and the whole country would be immobilized. The House cannot pretend it has only to act like a grand jury and send the articles to the Senate for trial.
There is no historical or constitutional or legal justification for that program (ph) that you act as a grand jury. The House has a unique role in impeachment. The votes cast by each member will be the most important vote cast by that person as a member of Congress, and history will discover and record and remember whether that vote was done for partisan reasons.
A vote to impeach in this case would have dire consequences for years and even decades to come. Almost 70 percent of the nation and virtually every Democrat in the Congress are opposed to impeachment.
These groups believe firmly that even if all the allegations in the Starr report are true, there are no impeachable offenses. And I would anticipate, members of the committee, an explosion of anger like that -- like occurred after the Saturday Night Massacre could happen in this country.
When people realize what you people anticipate you will do this Saturday, and when it goes to the whole House, an explosion of anger just like happened 24 years ago when Mr. Richardson and Mr. Cox did some brave things.
Let me conclude, Mr. Chairman, by thanking you for the opportunity and urging you and the committee to recognize that the American people and the Democrats in Congress have a right to be listened to.
They have not agreed with any reasons for impeachment set forth by the Starr report and the Republican leadership in the Congress.
This nation has a right to demand that an impeachment effort with no bipartisan support whatsoever should be reconsidered and postponed.
Thank you very much.
HYDE: Thank you, Father. Mr. Owens.
Tuesday, December 8, 1998
Poll: Most Americans do not think Clinton will be impeached
White House offers a 184-page defense report
Hearing transcripts from day one of Clinton's defense
As it happens: The president's defense, day 1
New York Republican gave campaign money to two Democrats
Rep. LaHood may preside over House impeachment debate
A primer on impeachment
Would a House vote carry over to new Senate?
New Hampshire seeks to protect its primary
Grand jury orders Tripp attorney to produce tapes
Let independent counsel statute expire, panel says
IRS sets guidelines for new 'innocent spouse' tax relief
Federal workers to see pay increase beginning next month

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Steak Preferences
Alright. Recently I went to dinner with a good friend of mine to an amazinggggg portuguese restaurant in the area. I decided to order a steak (which was somewhat comical, due to the fact that I was with a 6ft 4 bulky man eating a tiny salad).
I ordered mine rareeee. I mean, heated through but barely cooked at all. I like mine twitching ;)
This totally disgusted him (and don't worry, this wasn't a date. I could be as disgusting as I wished) because he eats his well done.
How do you guys like your steak?


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Archives for: November 2011, 17
Don't be swai-edNovember 17th, 2011 , by Suzanne
My Wal-Mart has a big frozen fish section. I like it because they have wild caught* salmon for a very reasonable price. I began looking at the other types of fish they carry. I found tilapia – which I order in restaurants, but do not cook at home**. Sometimes Wal-Mart has whiting. This is a good choice for my family, so when it is available I stock up.
I also found swai. The package had a glowing description of a delicious and nutritious fish. It was not on the BTD food list I carry in my purse. That usually means a food is neutral, but I decided to do a little checking.
It turns out that swai is a river catfish that is native to Southeast Asia. Since catfish is avoid for both Type As and Type Os, I have was glad I hadn't bought any.
Interesting that the GTD says catfish is beneficial for Gatherers***. I don't quite understand that, but since I default to the BTD, I'll not be swai-ed.
* I wrote a blog a year or so ago after talking to the manager of a local fish market. He says that the legal definition of wild caught is tricky. It can mean that the fish are raised in a netted area in a river or ocean. They are sort of wild, but not free to escape. More important, they can be fed whatever the farmer wants to feed them in order to plump them up for market. So while I buy wild caught when I can afford it, I don't really know it's wild unless I catch it myself.
** Tilapia seems to always farm raised, which means lower than expected Omega 3s. That's why I eat it in restaurants, but cook something else at home.
*** Grilled catfish is often on the menu in restaurants. Perhaps this would be a reasonable choice for the Gatherer half of me. However, I won't be cooking catfish at home, either.


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EL MONTE >> She worked for the city for nearly half a century in the Parks and Recreation Department, served on the local school board and City Council for a combined 16 years and started some of the most popular citywide events.
Emily Ishigaki, whose gregarious personality and penchant for perfectionism propelled her extensive career in community service, died Friday. She was 69.
Among a lengthy list of activities, Ishigaki started the Children's Day Parade now in its 20th year, started the Holiday House event and campaigned for the 1999 El Monte City School District's Measure K, a $40 million bond measure used to repair and upgrade aging elementary schools in the low-income district from 2000 to 2014.
"She was a part of everything good that happened in our city," said friend and colleague Ken Weldon, the city's former police chief. "She had an impact like few before her or few ever will."
Ishigaki became seriously ill several months ago, Weldon said. Her condition worsened this past week and she passed away at 1:30 a.m., he said. She is survived by her husband, Ron Ishigaki, 73; her daughter, Natalie Ishigaki Saenz, and son-in-law Arturo Saenz, an officer with the El Monte Police Department.
Many community leaders interviewed for this story remember Ishigaki during her time as parks and recreation manager. In 1989, she won Woman of the Year for the 26th state Senate District for her work in the community and with young people.
She worked for the city for 43 years before being forced to retire after winning a seat on the City Council in 2003.
"I've known her since I was a seventh grader at Frank Wright School," said El Monte Mayor Andre Quintero, who shared the dais with her from 2009 to 2011. "I went to a school board meeting and remember she was asking for resources so we wouldn't have to cut our music programs."
The news of her death was a blow to this working class community. Her family was grieving and did not give out details, said Sheila Crippen, City Council liaison Friday. Services have not yet been planned, said Natalie Ishigaki Saenz.
Ishigaki took at job with the city's Parks and Recreation Department summer program at age 19. It launched her 43-year career training young recreation aides and planning park events.
"She had hundreds of employees and all were very close to her. She gave them parties at Christmas time and gifts but was on their butts when they were working," Weldon remembered.
He first got to know Ishigaki during a ride-along she took in his patrol car in 1973. He received a call of shots fired and told her to get down. Instead, she kept peaking over the dashboard, he said.
"When this guy fired his shotgun in the air, she finally got down but ended up between the gas pedal and the brake. I had a hard time driving the patrol car. I told her 'stay back' but Emily always did what she wanted to do," Weldon recalled.
During the drive for Measure K, Ishigaki invited a reporter to tour the schools after hours. Following a long day of campaigning, she showed up with a flashlight to show the leaking pipes and worn-out carpets. The measure passed with 74 percent of the vote.
In November 1999, she was more happy about the bond measure's success than her own re-election. "The people really believe in their children and they believe in us. And Measure K is the biggest win. This is the biggest victory for the city," she told San Gabriel Valley Tribune reporter Karen Rubin.
EMCSD Superintendent Jeff Seymour recalled that as one of the district's greatest triumphs. "People knew that she really believed in kids so they listened to her," he said. Seymour, who retired last year, said the last campus is being remodeled this year with Measure K funds.
The only thing bigger than her passion for helping kids was her perfectionism, he said. "She didn't like it when stuff wasn't right. She wanted everything to be high quality," he said.
Ishigaki even tried to remain in her city position after being elected to the City Council in 2003. She was forced to retire and then sued the city, claiming she was losing $108,000 in retirement money. The city later settled the lawsuit.
In a YouTube clip of a June 3, 2008 City Council meeting, Ishigaki eloquently supported the proposed Rivers and Mountains Conservancy's Discovery Center, a water museum and interpretive center planned for the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area. She mentioned other cities such as Arcadia and Monrovia with nature centers visited by El Monte children as part of the Parks and Recreation Program.
She supported the motion, saying: "Our children do come first."


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Good morning. It is a pleasure to welcome you to the SEC. And it is a particular honor to have such distinguished panelists and guests joining us today.
When the SEC was founded nearly 75 years ago, a fundamental purpose was to restore investor confidence in our capital markets by providing investors and the markets with more reliable information. Today, we are continuing to build on that essential premise: that investors have a right to know the truth — and the risks — about the securities that trade in our public markets. Never in this agency's history has this fundamental mission been more relevant, and more urgent. The current credit crisis has shown the importance of transparency to a healthy marketplace — and how costly hidden risk can be.
The SEC's 21st Century Disclosure Initiative is making a rigorous and disciplined examination of how we can better fulfill our mission and help investors understand the detailed financial reports and complex financial instruments of today's markets.
It will not only evaluate how well we are using our current system, but also guide our planning in addressing the insufficient transparency that is at the heart of today's market problems.
The panelists today will delve deeply into these topics. But to help put today's discussion into perspective, I'd like to describe some of the most important recent actions the Commission has taken to maintain orderly markets and to protect investors, as well as some of the most significant new challenges that we will face in the days ahead.
If I could, I'd like to acknowledge by name every one of the SEC's nearly 4,000 staff who are fighting to protect investors. What I can do is ask every member of SEC staff in this room to please stand. To you, and to all of our colleagues here in Washington and across the country — please accept our appreciation for your dedication, your patriotism, and your public service. [Applause]
Above all in the current turmoil, the markets and investors need transparency. From the moment that the collapse of lending standards created billions in worthless mortgage paper — and billions more in hidden risk — market participants have had enormous difficulty discovering and pricing that risk. Illiquid instruments that were not long ago rated AAA for credit quality were hidden in off-balance sheet vehicles and elaborately structured securities.
We have worked on a number of fronts to improve transparency, including using our new authority under the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act to expose weaknesses in the ratings process and develop strong new rules. We have broadened disclosure by financial institutions, particularly with respect to hard-to-value assets. We have worked closely with the Financial Accounting Standards Board to deal with such issues as consolidation of off-balance sheet liabilities, the application of fair value standards to inactive markets, and the accounting treatment of bank support for money market funds. And we have initiated examinations of the effectiveness of broker-dealers' controls on preventing the spread of false information. The Commission has also required new disclosures of short positions to the SEC, complementing the existing requirements for reporting of long positions.
But beyond all of these actions to increase transparency, the SEC is first and foremost a law enforcement agency. During the market turmoil of the last several months, the professional men and women of the SEC have been working around the clock, seven days a week, to bring accountability to the marketplace and to see to it that the rules against fraud and unfair dealing are rigorously enforced.
In the fiscal year just ended, the SEC's Enforcement Division brought the second-highest number of cases in the agency's history. For the second year in a row, the Commission returned approximately $1 billion to injured investors. And the preliminary settlements in principle that have been reached with major sellers of auction rate securities will allow investors to receive over $28 billion. When they are finalized, these will be by far the largest settlements in the history of the SEC.
The agency has been especially aggressive at combating fraud that has contributed to the subprime crisis and the loss of confidence in our markets. We have over 50 pending law enforcement investigations in the subprime area. Just this week the Commission charged five California brokers with securities fraud for pushing homeowners into risky and unsustainable subprime mortgages, and then fraudulently selling them securities that were paid for with the mortgage proceeds.
In recent weeks, the Division of Enforcement has undertaken a nationwide investigation of potential fraud by issuers of securities in financial institutions, and manipulation of those securities through means including abusive short selling and the intentional spreading of false information. As part of this aggressive law enforcement, on September 19 the Commission approved orders under the Securities Exchange Act requiring certain hedge funds, broker-dealers and institutional investors to file statements under oath regarding trading and market activity in the securities of financial firms.
The sworn responses to the Commission's orders were due on Monday. The orders cover not only equities but also credit default swaps.
To assist in analyzing this information, the SEC's Office of Information Technology is working with the Enforcement Division to create a common database of trading information, of audit trail data, and of credit default swaps clearing data. Our Office of Economic Analysis is also supporting this effort by helping to analyze the data across markets for possible manipulative patterns in both equity securities and derivatives.
The reason for this aggressive enforcement investigation into credit default swaps is the significant opportunity that exists for manipulation in the $58 trillion credit default swaps market. It is a market that is completely lacking in transparency, and virtually unregulated.
The regulatory black hole for credit default swaps is one of the most significant issues we are confronting in the current credit crisis, and it requires immediate legislative action.
The over-the-counter market in credit default swaps has experienced explosive growth in recent years. One reason is that the total amount of credit default swaps outstanding far exceeds the total value of what the swaps are meant to insure. So when entire asset classes fall in value, the exponentially larger losses on credit default swaps can work to amplify the risk to the financial system.
To put into context this $58 trillion of value that credit default swaps insure: $58 trillion is more than the gross domestic product of every country on earth, combined.
The market for CDS is barely 10 years old. It has doubled in size since just two years ago. It has grown between the gaps and seams of the current regulatory system, where neither the Commission nor any other government agency can reach it. No one has regulatory authority over credit default swaps — not even to require basic reporting or disclosure.
The over-the-counter credit default swaps market has drawn the world's major financial institutions and others into a tangled web of interconnections where the failure of any one institution might jeopardize the entire financial system. This is an unacceptable situation for a free market economy.
These complex interconnections pose risk to the financial system precisely because of the complete lack of information about who is exposed to whom. They have created a situation that is ripe not only for rumor and misinformation, but potentially fraud. This is of even greater concern because the over-the-counter market for credit default swaps has given rise to a new phenomenon: the rise or fall of prices in the swaps market has begun to serve as a signal to the markets about the pricing of the underlying debt and equity securities.
In recent days we have witnessed how the rise and fall of the costs of credit default swaps on the debt of a financial institution appears to correlate with changes in its stock price. Manipulation in this completely unregulated and hidden space can drive prices in the regulated market for securities. That is why I believe it is important for Congress to act now to provide for regulatory oversight of the credit default swaps market.
Credit default swaps serve important purposes. They can't be trivialized as inherently good or evil. They are simply contracts that have grown in a very short span of time to such size that they matter enormously to the overall economy. But in today's market conditions, where uncertainty is the enemy, their invisibility undermines investor confidence. Transparency is a powerful antidote for what ails our capital markets. When investors have clear and accurate information, and when they can make informed decisions about where to put their resources, money and credit will begin to flow again. That's why what all of you are working on here today is so important.
But today, the Commission's only authority with respect to over-the-counter credit default swaps is limited to enforcing the antifraud laws, such as those against insider trading. In fact, federal securities law specifically prohibits the Commission from regulation of credit default swaps — even as a preventative measure against fraud. That state of affairs simply cannot remain. We have seen the costs of other regulatory gaps in the last few months. There is no longer any excuse for failing to act.
Legislation is needed to require trade and position reporting by dealers in over-the-counter credit default swaps. Public reports of over-the-counter transactions would provide transparency and ensure better pricing.
Position reporting for over-the-counter credit default swaps could be required from market participants with significant positions. This would provide regulators with the information they need to uncover manipulation and monitor risk.
Basic recordkeeping is also necessary for over-the-counter credit default swaps transactions. It would be a valuable tool in enforcing antifraud requirements.
Both the SEC and the CFTC should be given authority to issue anti-fraud rules. This authority could be used to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, or manipulative acts and practices.
Because of the truly global nature of the over-the-counter derivatives market, we will have to work closely with governments and parliaments in other major market centers. The climate for such cooperation is good, because the cross-border impacts of the current market problems are quickly becoming obvious to all.
Notwithstanding the significant limitations on any regulator's authority over credit default swaps, the Commission is doing what it can under its existing statutory authorities to address concerns in this market. We are working with the Federal Reserve, the CFTC, and industry participants to create one or more central counterparties for the credit default swaps market. This is an important step toward preventing the failure of a single market participant from having a disproportionate effect on the overall market. We are also working toward the establishment of one or more organized markets for credit default swaps, such as one or more electronic trading systems.
But under almost any circumstances, despite the potential for an organized and regulated credit default swaps market, the over-the-counter market will continue to be substantial. And for that reason, the lack of regulation in the over-the-counter market will continue to be a growing cause for concern. The solution is to provide in statute the authority to regulate these products to enhance investor protection and ensure the operation of fair and orderly markets.
I hope these highlights of some of the issues facing investors and the Commission helps put today's discussion into perspective. And I hope that these are some of the issues that all of you today will have uppermost in mind as you thoroughly scrub today's disclosure system, and search for better ways for investors to unwind the complexity and hidden risk in our markets. I know how committed each of you is to improving disclosure and transparency, and I thank you for it.
So now it is time for our panelists to take center stage. Thank you once again for being here today, and thank you for your work in behalf of America's investors.


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College Independents: BYU Is Not Notre DameSeptember 2, 2010
BYU is not trying to become the Notre Dame of the West.
Its vision is much larger than that.
Getting out from underneath the television contract of the Mountain West Conference and gaining control over the distribution of all its sporting events, allows BYU to now deliver its games to a worldwide audience.
As has been mentioned in the national media, all BYU athletic teams will now be able to utilize the reach of BYUtv which is available in 55 million homes in the United States.
However, the opportunity to deliver games throughout the world via BYUtv International may represents an even greater opportunity.
BYUtv International is currently available in over 150 countries in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
In several countries it is available much as it is the U.S., airing on both cable systems and direct broadcast satellite. In most parts of the world it is also available to "back yard" dish owners, which is not an insignificant number, and online television viewers through Move Networks.
Imagine the opportunity for BYU to eventually carry its brand to a worldwide audience. Many of the Olympic sports that BYU participates in are more popular in other parts of the world than they are here at home. The Cougars can also take advantage of the growing interest in American football in many areas around the globe.
During the 1970's and 1980's BYU football and basketball games were often carried on the LDS Church satellite system. Some of those games were picked up and aired in South America. BYU basketball in particular was well received and the Cougar program became instrumental in the popularity of basketball there.
Its not hard to fathom BYU eventually being recognized around the world as the "American brand" when it comes to college athletics. Think about the impact that could have on both recruiting and marketing.
This new arrangement may also create a greater opportunity for BYU athletic teams to serve as emissaries of the school's sponsoring institution, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to millions of people throughout the world, much as BYU's performing arts and dance companies have made BYU a near-household name in countries such as China. Sometimes sports teams can get in doors that missionaries can't.
Wednesday's events were bigger than most media members or even BYU fans realize.


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If you're feeling like the spark is on its way out, don't panic. We're here to help you get it back.
One thing that helps to create chemistry is that element of the unknown that comes with meeting and getting to know someone new. Every day is an adventure in learning about this new person you're spending time with. Once you've been together for a while, there's less and less to learn. Or at least that's how it seems. Keep chemistry going strong by staying curious about each other. Continue asking questions and making an effort to find out new things about one another.
Relationships have a tendency to shift and change, but resisting that change and trying to keep things the same can be an instant chemistry-killer. Nothing is meant to stay the same (that can lead to a rut. See below), so the best thing you can do to avoid seeing your spark disappear is to go with the flow. Be open to new directions your relationship might head in or different sides of your significant other that are only now just appearing. You never know; those changes might lead to something even better.
Relationship ruts are like kryptonite to chemistry. One little rut has the power to take down chemistry with a single swipe, which isn't good for anyone. Protect your passion by doing what you can to avoid falling into the dreaded rut. Try new things, set goals together, travel as a twosome, and forgo routine for spontaneity whenever possible.
When you meet someone new, it's easy to only focus on their positive points because that's all you see. Once some time has passed, you start seeing some not-so-positive traits pop up. The key here is to find a balance. No one is perfect, but the sooner you start focusing on the things that bug you about your guy, the faster that chemistry is going to fade. We're not suggesting letting large issues slide (like he never pulls his weight or helps out), but if there are little things that irk you, don't make those your focal point. Instead, think about what you love about him and what drew you to him in the first place.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — One Cape Fear Community College student got a jump start on his career thanks to a new grant for student veterans who are preparing for jobs in the auto repair industry.
U.S. Air Force veteran Kevin Young, who is studying collision repair, received $2,500 in tools from the "Hire Our Heroes" program.
Young says tools usually cost about $2,000 so this grant will really help him rev up his education.
"For me it was great because even though I've been buying tools on my own, this will probably take care of most of the tools that I'll need at least to start off my career," Young said.
Young also encourages other veterans to learn auto body because his instructors say there are many jobs in the industry.
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Michael Ball insists Manchester City can be happy with their campaign this season - despite their slide since Christmas.
"Maybe we needed to change a bit, and we showed against Chelsea that we can do, but the lads that came in before & during the season have done well overall. This is a very tough league, and it's a long season - there's no winter break for the lads who have come here from overseas, but they have applied themselves really well.
"It's the first season here for many of the squad, and they have performed better than the original expectations. If you look at our position in the league, we have done well and it can only get better next season."


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Double digestion with BamHI and BglII
Posted 30 June 2013 - 11:55 PM
I need your help.
I am trying to study a putative promoter in rice and therefore I intend to use pCAMBIA1305.1 plasmid.
I will replace the 35S promoter from the plasmid and replace it with my putative promoter.
I've tried to use 2X Tango buffer as recommended by online tools from Fermentas.
I used both enzymes from Fermentas.
However, I never get any good result.
Can anyone give any suggestion?
Best regards
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Posted 30 July 2013 - 09:00 AM
I've done a double digest with BamHI and BglII using NEB buffer 3.1 100X overnight at 37C. It worked out well for me - however according to my PI due to STAR activity it is better to perform a single digest with BamHI for 3hours at 37C, then continue to digest with BglII for 3 hours at 37C increasing the volume / buffers / water appropriately.
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Double Digest Finder
Edited by memari, 30 July 2013 - 02:57 PM.
Posted 31 July 2013 - 12:06 AM
Are you aware that BglII and BamHI produce compatible ends? So if you digest your vector with these two enzymes, the vector can self-ligate without taking up an insert and it will do so much more frequently than desired.
If you don't use too much enzyme, combining them in buffer 3.1 should not give you any problem.
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1 September 2006
CENSORED: The NY Times "Terror Plot" Expose They Don't Want You to Read
On 28th August 2006, the New York Times printed an investigative story on that month's 10/8 "terror plot", undermining the claims of US and British government officials, and suggesting that details had been exaggerated beyond all proportion for political reasons. The article was also published online.
But interested British readers quickly discovered that they had been denied access to the article. Instead they discovered the following web message:
"This Article Is Unavailable
On advice of legal counsel, this article is unavailable to readers of nytimes.com in Britain. This arises from the requirement in British law that prohibits publication of prejudicial information about the defendants prior to trial."
Even printed copies of the newspaper destined for the UK were scrubbed. Apparently for strictly legal reasons.
In fact, the New York Times' decision to self-censor its own expose from the British readership is, like the "terror plot" itself, more likely to have been based on reasons of political expedience.
Consider, for instance, the confident declaration of Paul Stephenson, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police in London, that the goal of the apprehended suspects in plotting the attack was "mass murder on an unimaginable scale." Prejudicial to the case Mr. Stephenson? In similar vein, on the very day of the arrests, other officials estimated that as many as 10 planes were to be blown up, possibly over American cities. In Britain, the threat level was raised to its highest, "critical", signalling an imminent terrorist attack, while Home Secretary Dr. John Reid talked repeatedly of the likelihood of an immediate strike. Such pronouncements were repeated in the US. Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said that the plot was "getting really quite close to the execution stage."
Let's be clear on this. These were not qualified, tentative descriptions of suspicions about a possible plot. These were definitive, unqualified proclamations about having detected and successfully foiled an imminent al-Qaeda strike to blow up about 10 civilian planes using liquid explosives to be manufactured on board. So much so that Dr. Reid was rebuked by the Attorney-General for possibly prejudicing the trial of the arrested individuals.
My own research of public record sources published Monday 21st August, "The Truth about the 'Terror Plot'… and the new pseudo-terrorism", fundamentally undermines the official narrative. My findings, like that of the NY Times article, do not prejudice any trial -- but they do prejudice the standards of political convenience adopted by British and American officials, whereby their repeated distortions, exaggerations and outright fabrications about the "terror plot" have been used to justify government attempts to push for suspension of sections of the Human Rights Act 1998, and to drastically increase draconian anti-terror powers.
For this reason, publication of the latest evidence undermining the government's prejudicial claims serves not to create further prejudice, but to correct the lies and distortions that have already been widely disseminated and swallowed whole by an increasingly pathetic and subservient media, that remains unable to learn from the pattern of deceit long established in examples like the non-existent "Ricin Plot" (as former British Ambassador Craig Murray says, "there was no ricin; and there was no plot"). What the new evidence, indeed, demonstrates quite clearly, is that the British government, deliberately, consciously, pretended that there was an imminent threat from a plot which, it knew all too well, barely existed.
Therefore, for reasons of urgent public interest and in order to help correct the prejudicial distortions printed and aired repeatedly by the media on the basis of the false statements of our purported political representatives, I am posting the New York Times article in full, online, for the first time (see Annex below). And I would urge you all to re-post everywhere you can.
A number of points within the article, however, are worth highlighting. The New York Times points out, for instance, that according to "five senior British officials… the suspects were not prepared to strike immediately. Instead, the reactions of Britain and the United States in the wake of the arrests of 21 people on Aug. 10 were driven less by information about a specific, imminent attack than fear that other, unknown terrorists might strike."
Unfortunately, this "fear" also had little basis in actual evidence. Consider the fact that "British officials said the suspects still had a lot of work to do. Two of the suspects did not have passports, but had applied for expedited approval." One of the men had apparently looked up airline schedules for flights from London to the US (a crime for any British Muslim?), but investigators confirmed that "the suspects had neither made reservations nor purchased plane tickets." Supposed "bomb-making equipment" described blandly as "chemicals" and "electrical components" (meaning household products and MP3 players) was found "five days after the
arrests," not before.
"In fact," continues the NY Times, "two and a half weeks since the inquiry became public, British investigators have still not determined whether there was a target date for the attacks or how many planes were to be involved. They say the estimate of 10 planes was speculative and exaggerated."
Speculative and exaggerated is a rather polite term, some might say. "In his first public statement after the arrests, Peter Clarke, chief of counterterrorism for the Metropolitan Police, acknowledged that the police were still investigating the basics: 'the number, destination and timing of the flights that might be attacked.'" So what did they know about this alleged plot?
Not very much really. Here we get to the really "prejudicial" part. "Despite the charges, officials said they were still unsure of one critical question: whether any of the suspects was technically capable of assembling and detonating liquid explosives while airborne."
In my 21st August analysis, I had already raised fatal questions about the technical viability of the "terror plot" scenario. So did, apparently, "a chemist involved in that part of the inquiry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was sworn to confidentiality." Thus while officials and experts are cited as generally agreeing that "the investigation points to a serious and determined group of plotters", they also add that "questions about the immediacy and difficulty of the suspected bombing plot cast doubt on the accuracy of some of the public statements made at the time." So perhaps some of these people were extremists, possibly involved in criminal activity, possibly up to no good -- but the "terror plot" scenario remains fundamentally questionable.
As Michael A. Sheehan, the former deputy commissioner of counterterrorism in the New York Police Department told America's newspaper of record: "In retrospect, there may have been too much hyperventilating going on."
Hyperventilating is not quite the word I would use. "Bullshitting", appears to be a more fitting, if less polite, description.
Also consistent with what I wrote more than a week ago, the NY Times quoted British officials saying "many of the questions about the suspected plot remained unanswered because they were forced to make the arrests before Scotland Yard was ready." I had already noted that the Brits didn't want to move on the suspects due to the paucity of evidence. "The trigger was the arrest in Pakistan of Rashid Rauf, a 25-year-old British citizen with dual Pakistani citizenship, whom Pakistani investigators have described as a 'key figure' in the plot."
But Rauf had been tortured by Pakistani interrogators, according to the Pakistani Human Rights Commission. Which means the central source for the details about the plot are inadmissible by law. "Several senior British officials said the Pakistanis arrested Rashid Rauf without informing them first". What the Times doesn't mention is that the impetus for the Pakistanis to move came from the Americans. "The arrest surprised and frustrated investigators here who had wanted to monitor the suspects longer, primarily to gather more evidence and to determine whether they had identified all the people involved in the suspected plot."
Our boys in the police and intelligence services, in other words, saw no reason to do anything. But the Americans did. And in doing so, they compromised an ongoing intelligence operation, just so they could manufacture a false "intelligence success". It seems, moreover, that our government didn't only lie to its people. It also lied to its friends. "The plotters received a very short message to 'Go now,' " Franco Frattini, the European Union's security commissioner, told the NY Times. He had been briefed by Dr. Reid. "I was convinced by British authorities that this message exists", he said.
The message, folks, didn't exist. "A senior British official said the message from Pakistan was not that explicit", reported the NY Times. In other words, it didn't say 'Go now'. It said something else, far more ambiguous. But that didn't stop Dr. Reid from telling everybody the opposite. Meanwhile, "Mr. Reid and Mr. Clarke declined repeated requests for interviews." What a surprise. Two weeks after they had chorused a story of an imminent strike creating death on an unprecedented scale even worse than 9/11, "senior officials here [in the US] characterized the remarks as unfortunate."
Most people, I fear, would characterise those remarks in more damning terms.
Has anyone, by the way, noted the frequency with which anonymous British officials have been sourced for this story? Are they all in contempt of court for showing that the government's claims were untrue, for attempting to correct the public record? I don't think so.
And that's why I post the entire story for you. Read at your peril….
August 28, 2006 -- The New York Times
Details Emerge in British Terror Case
By DON VAN NATTA Jr., ELAINE SCIOLINO and STEPHEN GREYLONDON, Aug. 27 — On Aug. 9, in a small second-floor apartment in East London, two young Muslim men recorded a video justifying what the police say was their suicide plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes: revenge against the United States and its "accomplices," Britain and the Jews.
"As you bomb, you will be bombed; as you kill, you will be killed," said one of the men on a "martyrdom" videotape, whose contents were described by a senior British official and a person briefed about the case. The young man added that he hoped God would be "pleased with us and accepts our deed."
As it happened, the police had been monitoring the apartment with hidden video and audio equipment. Not long after the tape was recorded that day, Scotland Yard decided to shut down what they suspected was a terrorist cell. That action set off a chain of events that raised the terror threat levels in Britain and the United States, barred passengers from taking liquids on airplanes and plunged air traffic into chaos around the world.
The ominous language of seven recovered martyrdom videotapes is among new details that emerged from interviews with high-ranking British, European and American officials last week, demonstrating that the suspects had made considerable progress toward planning a terrorist attack.
Those details include fresh evidence from Britain's most wide-ranging terror investigation: receipts for cash transfers from abroad, a handwritten diary that appears to sketch out elements of a plot, and, on martyrdom tapes, several suspects' statements of their motives.But at the same time, five senior British officials said, the suspects were not prepared to strike immediately.
Instead, the reactions of Britain and the United States in the wake of the arrests of 21 people on Aug. 10 were driven less by information about a specific, imminent attack than fear that other, unknown terrorists might strike.
The suspects had been working for months out of an apartment that investigators called the "bomb factory," where the police watched as the suspects experimented with chemicals, according to British officials and others briefed on the evidence, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, citing British rules on confidentiality regarding criminal prosecutions.
In searches during raids, the police discovered what they said were the necessary components to make a highly volatile liquid explosive known as HMTD, jihadist materials, receipts of Western Union money transfers, seven martyrdom videos made by six suspects and the last will and testament of a would-be bomber, senior British officials said. One of the suspects said on his martyrdom video that the "war against Muslims" in Iraq and Afghanistan had motivated him to act.
Investigators say they believe that one of the leaders of the group, an unemployed man in his 20's who was living in a modest apartment on government benefits, kept the key to the alleged "bomb factory" and helped others record martyrdom videos, the officials said.Hours after the police arrested the 21 suspects, police and government officials in both countries said they had intended to carry out the deadliest terrorist attack since Sept. 11.
Later that day, Paul Stephenson, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police in London, said the goal of the people suspected of plotting the attack was "mass murder on an unimaginable scale." On the day of the arrests, some officials estimated that as many as 10 planes were to be blown up, possibly over American cities. Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, described the suspected plot as "getting really quite close to the execution stage."
But British officials said the suspects still had a lot of work to do. Two of the suspects did not have passports, but had applied for expedited approval. One official said the people suspected of leading the plot were still recruiting and radicalizing would-be bombers.
While investigators found evidence on a computer memory stick indicating that one of the men had looked up airline schedules for flights from London to cities in the United States, the suspects had neither made reservations nor purchased plane tickets, a British official said. Some of their suspected bomb-making equipment was found five days after the arrests in a suitcase buried under leaves in the woods near High Wycombe, a town 30 miles northwest of London.
Another British official stressed that martyrdom videos were often made well in advance of an attack. In fact, two and a half weeks since the inquiry became public, British investigators have still not determined whether there was a target date for the attacks or how many planes were to be involved. They say the estimate of 10 planes was speculative and exaggerated.
In his first public statement after the arrests, Peter Clarke, chief of counterterrorism for the Metropolitan Police, acknowledged that the police were still investigating the basics: "the number, destination and timing of the flights that might be attacked."
A total of 25 people have been arrested in connection with the suspected plot. Twelve of them have been charged. Eight people were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and preparing acts of terrorism. Three people were charged with failing to disclose information that could help prevent a terrorist act, and a 17-year-old male suspect was charged with possession of articles that could be used to prepare a terrorist act. Eight people still in custody have not been charged. Five have been released. All the suspects arrested are British citizens ranging in age from 17 to 35.Despite the charges, officials said they were still unsure of one critical question: whether any of the suspects was technically capable of assembling and detonating liquid explosives while airborne.
A chemist involved in that part of the inquiry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was sworn to confidentiality, said HMTD, which can be prepared by combining hydrogen peroxide with other chemicals, "in theory is dangerous," but whether the suspects "had the brights to pull it off remains to be seen."While officials and experts familiar with the case say the investigation points to a serious and determined group of plotters, they add that questions about the immediacy and difficulty of the suspected bombing plot cast doubt on the accuracy of some of the public statements made at the time."In retrospect,'' said Michael A. Sheehan, the former deputy commissioner of counterterrorism in the New York Police Department, "there may have been too much hyperventilating going on."
Some of the suspects came to the attention of Scotland Yard more than a year ago, shortly after four suicide bombers attacked three subway trains and a double-decker bus in London on July 7, 2005, a coordinated attack that killed 56 people and wounded more than 700. The investigation was dubbed "Operation Overt.''
The Police Are Tipped OffThe police were apparently tipped off by informers. One former British counterterrorism official, who was working for the government at the time, said several people living in Walthamstow, a working-class neighborhood in East London, alerted the police in July 2005 about the intentions of a small group of angry young Muslim men.
Walthamstow is best known for its faded greyhound track and the borough of Waltham Forest, where more than 17,000 Pakistani immigrants live in the largest Pakistani enclave in London.
Armed with the tips, MI5, Britain's domestic security services, began an around-the-clock surveillance operation of a dozen young men living in Walthamstow — bugging their apartments, tapping their phones, monitoring their bank transactions, eavesdropping on their Internet traffic and e-mail messages, even watching where they traveled, shopped and took their laundry, according to senior British officials.
The initial focus of the investigation was not about possible terrorism aboard planes, but an effort to see whether there were any links between the dozen men and the July 7 subway bombers, or terrorist cells in Pakistan, the officials said.
The authorities quickly learned the identity of the man believed to have been the leader of the cell, the unemployed man in his mid-20's, who traveled at least twice within the past year to Pakistan, where his activities are still being investigated.
Last June, a 22-year-old Walthamstow resident, who is among the suspects arrested Aug. 10, paid $260,000 cash for a second-floor apartment in a house on Forest Road, according to official property records. The authorities noticed that six men were regularly visiting the second-floor apartment that came to be known as the "bomb factory," according to a British official and the person briefed about the case.Two of the men, who were likely the bomb-makers, were conducting a series of experiments with chemicals, said the person briefed on the case.
MI5 agents secretly installed video and audio recording equipment inside the apartment, two senior British officials said. In a secret search conducted before the Aug. 10 raids, agents had discovered that the inside of batteries had been scooped out, and that it appeared several suspects were doing chemical experiments with a sports drink named Lucozade and syringes, the person with knowledge of the case said. Investigators have said they believe that the suspects intended to bring explosive chemicals aboard planes inside sports drink bottles.
In that apartment, according to a British official, one of the leaders and a man in his late 20's met at least twice to discuss the suspected plot, as MI5 agents secretly watched and listened. On Aug. 9, just hours before the police raids occurred in 50 locations from East London to Birmingham, the two men met again to discuss the suspected plot and record a martyrdom video.As one of the men read from a script before a videocamera, he recited a quotation from the Koran and ticked off his reasons for the "action that I am going to undertake," according to the person briefed on the case. The man said he was seeking revenge for the foreign policy of the United States, and "their accomplices, the U.K. and the Jews." The man said he wanted to show that the enemies of Islam would never win this "war."
Beseeching other Muslims to join jihad, he justified the killing of innocent civilians in America and other Western countries because they supported the war against Muslims through their tax dollars. They were too busy enjoying their Western lifestyles to protest the policies, he added. Though British officials usually release little information about continuing investigations, Scotland Yard took the unusual step of disclosing some detailed information about the investigation last Monday, when the suspects were charged.
A Trove of Evidence
"There have been 69 searches," Mr. Clarke, the chief antiterrorist police official from Scotland Yard, said Monday. "These have been in houses, flats and business premises, vehicles and open spaces."Investigators also seized more than 400 computers, 200 mobile phones and 8,000 items like memory sticks, CD's and DVD's. "The scale is immense," Mr. Clarke said. "Inquiries will span the globe."
He said those searches revealed a trove of evidence, and officials and others last week provided additional details.
Four of the law firms that are defending suspects declined to comment.When police officers knocked down the door to the second-floor apartment on Forest Road, they found a plastic bin filled with liquid, batteries, nearly a dozen empty drink bottles, rubber gloves, digital scales and a disposable camera that was leaking liquid, the person with knowledge of the case said. The camera might have been a prototype for a device to smuggle chemicals on the plane.
In the pocket of one of the suspects, the police found the computer memory stick that showed he had looked up airline schedules for flights from London to the United States, a British official said. The man is said to have had a diary that included a list that the police interpreted as a step-by-step plan for an attack. The items included batteries and Lucozade bottles. It also included a reminder to select a date.
In the homes of a number of the suspects, the police found jihadist literature and DVD's about "genocide" in Iraq and Palestine, according to British officials. In one house searched by the police in Walthamstow, the authorities found a copy of a book called "Defense of the Muslim Lands."A "last will and testament" for one of the accused was said to have been found at his brother's home. Dated Sept. 24, 2005, the will concludes, "What should I worry when I die a Muslim, in the manner in which I am to die, I go to my death for the sake of my maker." God, he added, can if he wants "bless limbs torn away!!!"
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In addition, the British authorities are scouring the evidence for clues to whether there is a global dimension to the suspected plot, particularly the extent to which it was planned, financed or supported in Pakistan, and whether there is a connection to remnants of Al Qaeda.
They are still trying to determine who provided the cash for the apartment and the computer equipment and telephones, officials said.
Several of the suspects had traveled to Pakistan within weeks of the arrests, according to an American counterterrorism official.
At a minimum, investigators say at least one of the suspects' inspiration was drawn from Al Qaeda. One of the suspects' "kill-as-they-kill" martyrdom video was taken from a November 2002 fatwa by Osama bin Laden. British officials said many of the questions about the suspected plot remained unanswered because they were forced to make the arrests before Scotland Yard was ready.The trigger was the arrest in Pakistan of Rashid Rauf, a 25-year-old British citizen with dual Pakistani citizenship, whom Pakistani investigators have described as a "key figure" in the plot.
In 2000, Mr. Rauf's father founded Crescent Relief London, a charity that sent money to victims of last October's earthquake in Pakistan. Several suspects met through their involvement in the charity, a friend of one of them said. Last week, Britain froze the charity's bank accounts and opened an investigation into possible "terrorist abuse of charitable funds." Leaders of the charity have denied the allegations.Several senior British officials said the Pakistanis arrested Rashid Rauf without informing them first. The arrest surprised and frustrated investigators here who had wanted to monitor the suspects longer, primarily to gather more evidence and to determine whether they had identified all the people involved in the suspected plot.
But within hours of Mr. Rauf's arrest on Aug. 9 in Pakistan, British officials heard from intelligence sources that someone connected to him had tried to contact some of the suspects in East London. The message was interpreted by investigators as a possible signal to move forward with the plot, officials said."The plotters received a very short message to 'Go now,' " said Franco Frattini, the European Union security commissioner, who was briefed by the British home secretary, John Reid, in London. "I was convinced by British authorities that this message exists."
A senior British official said the message from Pakistan was not that explicit. But, nonetheless, investigators here had to change their strategy quickly.
"The aim was to keep this operation going for much longer," said a senior British security official who requested anonymity because of confidentiality rules. "It ended much sooner than we had hoped." From then on, the British government was driven by worst-case scenarios based on a minimum-risk strategy.
British investigators worried that word of Mr. Rauf's arrest could push the London suspects to destroy evidence and to disperse, raising the possibility they would not be able to arrest them all. But investigators also could not rule out that there could be an unknown second cell that would try to carry out a similar plan, officials said.Mr. Clarke, as the country's top antiterrorism police official in London with authority over police decisions, ordered the arrests.
But it was left to Mr. Reid, who has been home secretary since May and is a former defense secretary, to decide at emergency meetings of police, national security and transport leaders, what else needed to be done. Mr. Reid and Mr. Clarke declined repeated requests for interviews.Prime Minister Tony Blair was on vacation in Barbados, where he was said to have monitored events in London; Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott did not attend the meeting.
"While the arrests were unfolding, the Home Office raised Britain's terror alert level to "critical," as the police continued their raids of suspects' homes and cars. All liquids were banned from carry-on bags, and some public officials in Britain and the United States said an attack appeared to be imminent. In addition to Mr. Stephenson's remark that the attack would have been "mass murder on an unimaginable scale," Mr. Reid said that attacks were "highly likely" and predicted that the loss of life would have been on an "unprecedented scale."Two weeks later, senior officials here characterized the remarks as unfortunate. As more information was analyzed and the British government decided that the attack was not imminent, Mr. Reid sought to calm the country by backing off from his dire predictions, while defending the decision to raise the alert level to its highest level as a precaution.
In lowering the threat level from critical to severe on Aug. 14, Mr. Reid acknowledged: "Threat level assessments are intelligence-led. It is not a process where scientific precision is possible. They involve judgments."
Reporting for this article was contributed by William J. Broad from New York, Carlotta Gall from Pakistan, David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti from Washington.
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- Anonymous1 September 2006 at 21:56:00 GMT
Thank you.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2 September 2006 at 17:01:00 GMT
The NYTimes have blocked many of the well known proxies from receiving this article. But provacy.com is still to be added to their list...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2 September 2006 at 17:01:00 GMT
The NYTimes have blocked many of the well known proxies from receiving this article. But provacy.com is still to be added to their list...ReplyDelete
Personally I don't believe a word that either of the Blairs say.ReplyDelete
I remember before the invasion of Iraq when Blair stood up in parliament and said he had seen certain documents which proved we were in imminent danger - he couldn't share those documents with anyone and we would have to take his word that they proved blah blah blah. For some reason I instinctively knew he was lying. Some people say he truly believed what he was saying. Well, he's a trained lawyer, highly educated etc and I'm a middle aged housewife, but if I knew it was a load of **** why didn't he?
I remember the day Jean Charles de Menezes was shot. I clearly remember the newsreader on SKY saying "this is the first time a shot has been fired by British police in the war on terrorism. I had a very strong feeling that they had shot an innocent man. And when the news started to filter out that he had been challenged by the police, bolted over a ticket barrier, etc I knew again it was lies. We also had the ricin plot (no ricin, no plot) and who knows what else. More and more of us know, we just know, that we are constantly being lied to by this blasted man Blair and his supporters. And we know why they are doing it. It's all to justify Blair's insane foreign policy and Blair's mindless support for Bush and his sociopath neocon accomplices.
Thanks for posting the article. I had already read it on another blog but it needs to be posted everywhere.
And no, having read it will not prejudice me if I have to sit on a jury - I am already severely prejudiced by the lies I have been told by the two Blairs and the disgust I feel towards them.
And by the way, about Urban75, I wouldn't bother. It was an excellent website once upon a time but it's gone way downhill recently.ReplyDelete
The "editor" doesn't allow anything remotely intelligent to be posted any more. It used to be a edgy and dynamic - now it's garbage. In fact, all of the decent posters left a while back and started their own website and Urban75 is now left with what sounds like a bunch of fourth graders who have great fun swearing at each other.
- Anonymous2 September 2006 at 23:51:00 GMT
Well done Nafeez, this article has helped me on an 'unimaginable scale'.ReplyDelete
I might be 'hyperventilating' a bit!
- Anonymous3 September 2006 at 09:00:00 GMT
Thank You for helping me to read this article. You have done the British public a service and it's appreciated.ReplyDelete
An excellent article. Should be on the pages of every national paper in the U.K. The majority of people in Britain just seem to accept whatever propaganda the government cares to give out.They need to start to question everything that has been said.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6 September 2006 at 00:02:00 GMT
Did you see this?ReplyDelete
Hi NafeezReplyDelete
I was talking with a Gatwick pilot today, who was telling me security confiscated his glasses cleaning solution before a flight last week!
Why are the security measures so extreme in the UK, in the light of the analysis in the New York Times article (and yr own) when continental flights into the country have the same minimal levels as they had before the plot revelations? To claim that its because of the threat applying only to UK and US makes little sense to me - even if it is true, surely any destination into the UK is at as much potential risk? Or am I missing something vital?
- Anonymous9 September 2006 at 07:06:00 GMT
looks like the brit authorities are scared of looking like the US's whipping boys!! Well done NafeezReplyDelete
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Hi guys, doing research on server populations lately, and the way many of the best servers polarize strongly to either Horde or Alliance made me start thinking about this.
I guess it makes sense that servers polarize — the more faction-biased a server is, the more players are actually available to play with, instead of splitting your population with an invisible wall that effectively "halves" (give or take) the number of people available to you.
EverQuest 2 was a little before my time, but from my understanding it had a system where the two factions were strongly separated in terms of their factions, homelands, cities, and stuff (as in, unfriendly guards, uncooperative merchants, etc), but they could still group up together in 'neutral territory' like PvE dungeon & raid content.
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