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Kuki Gets Religionby Kuki, CruiseMates Cruise Director | September 19, 2005
Whatever they want to call me, I'm it…at least in terms of hotels for pre- or post-cruise stays. My personal moment of revelation came recently when I was standing in my guest room at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale. I looked at the rate card on the back of the door, and it said $540. I stood glowing with pride because I was going to be sleeping in this room and enjoying the facilities of this wonderful beachfront hotel for $105 per night, double occupancy.
I'm bright enough to know that even though the rate card stated $540, I could have booked this room for considerably less with a phone call to the Marriott Hotels toll-free number, or a visit to their web site, or a direct call to the hotel inquiring about manager's specials. In fact, I attempted all of those, and the best rate quote I could get was $249.
That's when I decided to venture forth in the world of Priceline.com. My only hesitancy in using Priceline previously was because I knew the name of the property you were bidding on wouldn't be revealed until your bid had been accepted, which meant you were already committed. You had to purchase the room before knowing which hotel you'd be staying in. I certainly had no interest in purchasing a hotel room 35 miles down the road, above a biker bar.
With the help of some online research at www.biddingfortravel.com, I noticed that the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort was the only "resort class" hotel in Priceline's downtown Ft. Lauderdale zone. Therefore I knew if my bid was accepted, I'd have purchased a room at my hotel of choice.
If you bid for a hotel on Priceline, and your bid is rejected, you can't bid again for 72 hours. However, there's even a way around this restriction. Priceline allows you to re-bid if you change other factors. You can add a different geographic zone to be included in your bid, or add different "star ratings" to the kind of accommodations that will be acceptable for your bid.
Again with assistance from www.biddingfortravel.com, I was able to discern other zones where Priceline does not offer "resort class hotels," and added them to my new bid. Therefore, even though I was technically changing a factor in my bid, allowing me to re-bid before the 72 hours, I knew I was still bidding on only the one hotel -- Marriott Harbor Beach. I placed my first bid of $50 and could almost hear the Priceline computers laughing at me, when I hit the Buy Button. Using the re-bid technique, I increased my bid several times before getting approval and confirmation at $105.
When my computer screen lit up, saying "Your bid has been accepted," I got down on my knees and said Hallelujah! Praise Priceline.com!
I then proceeded to get back online and bid for the four-star InterContinental Hotel in Miami for two months from now. Again taking advantage of the information available at www.biddingfortravel.com, I was able to book the Intercontinental in downtown Miami at $85 a night, for three nights. The best rate I could find elsewhere on this hotel was $225. Total savings to me for my Miami stay, using Priceline.com, was a very significant $420! Praise Priceline! I'm converted!


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13 March 2018Tweddle backs Tinkler to star at Commonwealth Games
Beth Tweddle would not be surprised to see Amy Tinkler follow in Claudia Fragapane's footsteps at next month's Commonwealth Games in Australia.
Fragapane won four gold medals in Glasgow four years ago as a 16-year-old, including the all-around title, to emerge as one of England's stars.
Fragapane will miss this year's edition in Gold Coast after tearing her Achilles, and established stars Ellie and Becky Downie are also absent, opening the door for other athletes.
Tinkler has already had her breakthrough moment having become the only British woman apart from Tweddle to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics when she took bronze on the floor in Rio aged 16.
Two years on, Tinkler remains at her best on the floor and will include her new tumble – a double twisting, double straight, described by Tweddle as "insanely hard" – having successfully landed it twice at last weekend's British championships.
But Tinkler will have her sights on more than one title, and Tweddle told Press Association Sport: "She's got the potential to do that and she's obviously working very hard.
"She had a tough year last year with injuries and came back ready for the World Championships. Then this year I think she'll just go from strength to strength.
"It will be different now. She went to the Olympics, not as an unknown, but she wasn't necessarily one of the ones to watch to get a medal. We were hoping obviously for a floor final but when you go to a championships as an Olympic medallist people will stop and watch you and see what skills you're performing. So it puts a very different pressure on you."
Tinkler, Max Whitlock and Nile Wilson will all be looking to follow up their Rio medal success at the Commonwealth Games, with Whitlock one of the stand-out performers from any sport as a two-time Olympic champion.
He won three gold medals in Glasgow four years ago while Wilson will be looking to defend his high bar title, but also has chances on parallel bars and rings. Georgia-Mae Fenton could be Tweddle's heir on the uneven bars and is joined in the team by another 17-year-old in Alice Kinsella.
"I think it shows the strength of the team," said Tweddle, who made her first appearance at a big multi-sport event at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002.
"Three of our Olympians are either injured or not quite in the preparation period they were hoping to be. We've got the Europeans in August then the World Championships in October so it's still very early in the season and they'll be back in the gym working hard ready to come back later in the year.
"But it does give a chance for those younger gymnasts to come through and the Commonwealth Games in general is a great stepping stone to any major championships.
"It was my first gold medal. I was only 17 and performing in front of a home crowd. It still stands there as one of my top memories."
Where Tweddle blazed a trail, others have just not followed but surpassed her achievements, making Britain an unlikely force in world gymnastics.
The 32-year-old, who now dedicates her time to training and inspiring the next generation, said: "We've not just got one or two gymnasts who might win medals, the whole team has medal potential. The way gymnastics has come on in the last 10 years is amazing."
– npower is proud to be an Official Partner of Team England and is encouraging the nation to show their support for the team in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia.
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Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: March 12, 2008
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Shape-changing nanotechnology phone
It's just a concept for now, but Nokia is projecting a future phone product that uses nanotechnology to be stretchable and flexible…
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Mathematical modeling in nanotechnology to optimize nanoparticle design for nanomedicine
Nanotech drug delivery vehicles may soon improve because it turns out that even those that appear to be promising are not well-designed. In a Nanowerk Spotlight Michael Berger reports work from nanomedicine pioneer Mauro Ferrari on how to improve the design of nanoparticles for drug delivery…
Decorated carbon nanotubes may improve fuel cells
Nanotechnology catalysts may enable more efficient fuel cells to power consumer electronics via the oxidation of methanol. From Michael Gross writing in Chemistry World…
Nanotechnology may provide a practical way to store hydrogen
Proponents of replacing gasoline with hydrogen for fueling cars have to find a practical way to store hydrogen. One potential nanotech-based solution is presented by the recent demonstration that hydrogen can form chemical bonds with most of the carbon atoms in single-walled carbon nanotubes of the appropriate diameter…
Nanotechnology uses two-stage vehicle to deliver drugs
As a follow-up to Monday's post on optimizing nanoparticle design for nanotech drug delivery, the same research group has also demonstrated the advantages of a multistage approach in which micrometer-sized mesoporous particles are used to deliver two different nanoparticles…
Ocean iron fuss is not about nanotechnology
We've written here before about the plan to put iron nanoparticles in the ocean as a way to increase growth of plankton, thereby absorbing carbon dioxide. Previously this was to be done by a company called Planktos; now a new company called Climos is making similar plans…
New theoretical framework for making nanocircuits with nanotechnology
The way in which fundamental electromagnetic properties scale with dimension determines what electronic circuits can be constructed using nanotechnology. A new theoretical framework for nanotech seeks to use specially designed nanoparticles to create circuits that could lead to optical information processing and optical communication between nanostructures…
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Thank you for your love, calls, messages & support. Please know that the loss of my campaign is disappointing – but we are OK.
Mike & I are excited about the new chapter in our lives with a bit more time for each other & the family. Truly, I feel like a bird let out of a cage because the political hostility has gotten so bad. I chose to run a clean campaign on facts & issues. Ameritex
My opponent chose deception, half truths & whole lies. But, negative seems to win – it just isn't my way of doing business. The real winners are the grandchildren getting more time, the kids getting more time & Mike & I having more time for romantic trips.
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Shore Shifted by Storm
N.J. Coast's Housing Could Change Dramatically Under New Building Codes
BRICK, N.J.—Like it or not, Jersey Shore residents are awakening to the reality that the beloved summer destination is undergoing a transformation never before seen.
Waterfront homes hoisted high in the air—a defining feature of hurricane-prone communities along the Gulf of Mexico and in the Southeast—will begin to spring up along New Jersey's Atlantic Ocean coast as homeowners rebuilding from superstorm Sandy must elevate their houses to comply with new state building codes.
Even thousands of inland homeowners who hadn't been seriously affected by storms before Sandy are now included in Federal Emergency Management Agency flood plains, meaning they must raise their houses or begin paying thousands of dollars in flood insurance.
As a result, the Jersey Shore is set to undergo a striking aesthetic shift from a landscape dominated by low-slung homes into one featuring modern, elevated structures. The change will be "dramatic," said John Miller, a water resources engineer who is the former chairman of the New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management, a trade group advocating for long-term planning for flood-prone areas.
"We can't forget people died [during Sandy]," Mr. Miller said. "We want a safe and prosperous shore area."
In January, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie adopted advisory flood maps issued by FEMA in December as the new standard for the state's building code. As a result, homeowners rebuilding a substantially damaged property must abide by the elevation guidelines outlined for 194 communities across 10 counties.
The most affected areas lie along New Jersey's 130 miles of ocean coast, the economic engine of four counties with a $16 billion tourism industry. In the highest-risk areas on the oceanfront, thousands of homeowners will need to elevate their properties to withstand waves of greater than 3 feet. Depending on how high their property sits, some homeowners would have to lift their property by 8 feet or more and suspend it on pilings. FEMA didn't provide the number of properties included in the flood-risk zones.
"I'm telling people to try not to panic," said Brick Mayor Steve Acropolis, who estimated that 2,300 properties in the Ocean County township were included the riskiest zones.
New Jersey's maps were last updated more than 20 years ago, as is the case with New York City residents who now face similar pressures to build higher, although Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken the same step as Mr. Christie and adopted the maps into building codes.
FEMA released advisory maps in January that put 35,000 more properties into the city's flood zones, doubling the prior total. Many property owners will have to lift their homes from 3 to 6 feet to comply with the initial guidelines released for Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and Westchester County. Mr. Cuomo hasn't officially adopted the maps, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed an executive order earlier this month allowing homeowners in flood-prone areas to build higher without violating zoning rules.
In New Jersey, the shore has long featured an eclectic mix of building styles, from early-20th-century bungalows packed in rows to sprawling mansions towering over the Atlantic Ocean. While the shore has suffered from past storms, New Jersey never elevated its properties on the scale of communities on the Gulf of Mexico.
Sandy damaged an estimated 346,000 homes and housing units in New Jersey, according to the Christie administration. Storm surges of 15 feet caused entire homes to be swept off their foundations when water couldn't flow underneath, as properties built on pilings allow.
Mitigation experts expect the use of pilings and other elevation techniques to creep north along the coast as FEMA guidelines respond to the increasing occurrence of severe weather.
"That is the future," said Gavin Smith, executive director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence. "I can guarantee that these event scenarios are not going to get better, they are going to get worse."
Additionally, the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 will require all federally backed mortgage holders in flood plains to abide by FEMA's guidelines in coming years—or face a phased-in insurance premium of up to $31,500 a year.
The new reality has unsettled many Jersey Shore residents and elected officials. In a letter to FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate last week, Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Bob Menendez asked for homeowners to be able to immediately challenge the accuracy of the maps.
"For many middle-class homeowners, especially those who just lost everything to Sandy, these additional costs will simply be too much to bear," they said in the Feb. 5 letter.
Elevating a home on pilings can cost more than $50,000, especially in densely populated areas with small lots for which more complicated relocation techniques are required. FEMA provides grants of up to $31,000 for such work, but some shore homeowners didn't think they could afford it.
"I can't conform to the new codes no matter how much money they throw at me," said Don Forgione, a 63-year-old retired Brick resident whose home was included in the riskiest zone. "They are putting homeowners in a position that they are absolutely suffocated."
Mr. Christie, who has made rebuilding the shore a signature campaign, defended the new building codes at a news conference Tuesday. "None of these decisions are easy, and none of them are pleasant," he said. "Living where we live, in the time we live in, is going to be more costly."
Many residents have disputed their inclusion in the highest-risk zones, arguing that FEMA's preliminary maps are too conservative. In Ocean County, an estimated 10,000 properties have been placed in flood zones for the first time, said Len Bundra, a mapping specialist working for Jersey Shore towns. Much of this area was flooded to some extent during Sandy, though residents said it was the first time.
"I think it's completely unfair," said Amy Lipput, a 44-year-old Brick financial adviser whose house was included in the highest-risk zone. She said her house had minimal flood damage, with water overtaking only a crawl space. "There's no way I am going to be hit by a 3-foot wave."
FEMA will release its final draft of the flood maps later the summer, whereupon the agency will allow for public testimony and appeals. The maps that constitute the basis for future final insurance premiums are slated to finish around 2015.
Bill McDonnell, FEMA deputy branch director of mitigation for New Jersey, said it is possible that some areas included in the riskiest zones could be removed as the plans are revised, but the agency has found that much of the work was "spot on" as it reviews its findings for the final draft.
"We are confident in the sound engineering of our maps," Mr. McDonnell said. "We obviously want people to build higher, safer, stronger and more resilient."
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, hard-hit Gulf Coast communities also pushed back against higher elevations stipulated in FEMA's revised flood maps. Steve Mitchell, operations manager for Pascagoula, Miss., said his "name was infamous" after he pressed for the Katrina-ravaged city to adopt the maps that compelled residents to build higher.
Homeowners came around, Mr. Mitchell said. After Hurricane Isaac in 2012, not one of the 400 homes that elevated was flooded by the 11-foot storm surge, Mr. Mitchell said.
"It improved the quality of our housing stock," Mr. Mitchell said about the rebuilding. "We have to understand that living in the environment we do in a coastal community, there's the possibility that storms may happen."
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Bad decisions costly in Week 1
Maybe the first week of the season is a time to get the kinks out. That theory can't sit too well with Greg Schiano, Tom Coughlin, Mike McCarthy and Doug Marrone, coaches whose teams all lost in great part because of undisciplined play.
Penalties ranging from silly to absurd (see Levonte David, LB, Tampa Bay). Turnovers. Poor routes by receivers. Missed blocks, most egregiously the ones that get quarterbacks blasted. Even poor decisions by those very coaches.
This is the NFL? It sure was in Week 1.
"I'm totally, totally disappointed and embarrassed by that kind of football," Giants coach Coughlin said after a six-turnover debacle at Dallas. "That's sloppy, sloppy football."
Not the kind of football a Coughlin team often plays, which might make the Giants the worst offenders. That perhaps makes such a pathetic performance even more annoying for the always red-faced Coughlin, whose emphasis on being protective of the ball never diminishes.
"It was a total disregard of the carelessness for the ball and lack of understanding of that's how you lose," Coughlin said. "You're not going to win anything with minus-5 in turnovers. There's just no way."
Teams also won't win very often by committing double-figure penalties, which Tampa Bay did at the Jets, 13 in all, nine in the first 19 minutes. Unlucky No. 13 was the most damaging because it cost the Bucs a victory.
New York trailed 17-15 and was desperately trying to move the ball downfield in the final moments when rookie quarterback Geno Smith scrambled for 10 yards to the Buccaneers 45 — way too far to expect Nick Folk to kick a field goal. But as Smith clearly stepped out-of-bounds, he was hit by David, drawing a 15-yard penalty, the Bucs' third of the game.
Folk then nailed the winning kick.
While Tampa Bay teammates rallied around the second-year player in support after the game, there really was no ignoring the impact of his out-of-control play.
"We've got to play on the edge. That's the way we play," Bucs coach Schiano said. "We've got to be smart about it. The strike zone is decreasing in the National Football League, and we've got to make sure we stay within the rules. It doesn't mean you can't be as physical, but we have to try to be better that way."
The Bills also had 13 flags thrown on them in their last-second loss to New England, with three penalties declined. Twice, they had 12 men on the field. On the Patriots' very first play from scrimmage, DT Marcell Dareus lined up offside.
"I think the No. 1 thing we're focusing on is, not to take anything away from those guys because they made plays, too, but we gave them a lot of help," rookie Bills coach Marrone said. "There's things that we did to hurt ourselves that put us in this situation. If we take care of those things, I think there's a different outcome."
The outcome in San Francisco wasn't decided by careless mistakes so much as by old-fashioned execution: The 49ers did more things right than the Packers did. A brutally physical game from the outset, as Packers linebacker Clay Matthews promised, it also was marred by a wild play in which Matthews seemed to be delivering a message.
Leading into the rematch of a January divisional playoff game won handily by San Francisco's rushing attack, Matthews promised Green Bay would target mobile 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick at every opportunity. Matthews, in particular, managed to do that for much of Sunday's game.
But he went way too far when he wrapped his right arm around Kaepernick's lower neck area well out of bounds in the second quarter. Matthews was flagged, as was Niners tackle Joe Staley for defending Kaepernick — a penalty the NFL said Monday was incorrect.
San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh still was angry about the play a day later.
"Like I said last week, usually a man will tell you his bad intentions if you just listen," Harbaugh said of Matthews. "That certainly was a cheap shot, launching, clotheslining to the neck-head area.
"Bad play."
One of many on an undisciplined Sunday for losing teams.
AP Sports Writer John Wawrow in Buffalo, Janie McCauley in San Francisco and Fred Goodall in Tampa contributed to this story.
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By CHRIS POWELL
MANCHESTER, Conn.
Government in the United States is a big place and no one really can be held terribly responsible for it -- not even presidents, governors and members of Congress. That's the problem: Government has gotten far bigger than the diminishing civic virtue available to manage it. And so it isn't managed very well -- sometimes not managed at all -- and even becomes incoherent.
This week the Federal Aviation Administration, citing the "sequestering" of some of its budget, implemented furloughs of air traffic controllers, and as a result air travel delays across the country got worse. Meanwhile, Connecticut U.S. Rep. John B. Larson was announcing a federal grant of $300,000 to the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, to support its traveling exhibition about Coney Island. Maybe the Coney Island exhibit could be placed at such busy airports as Kennedy, in New York, O'Hare in Chicago, and Sky Harbor, in Phoenix, so passengers might take some consolation from missing their connections.
Also this week the Hartford school system gave Gov. Dan Malloy its annual "State of the Schools Award" to recognize the governor's "significant efforts" on behalf of city students. Awards given by financial supplicants to their benefactors always ring a little hollow, but as this one was being bestowed, the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee was cutting almost in half the governor's "commissioner's network" program, under which the state Education Department is to take over especially unsuccessful urban schools around the state. The program, which was to take over 21 schools, is now down to 12, even as scores of schools, overwhelmed by students neglected at home, need such intensive therapy.
While the Malloy administration can't find the money to reform more than a few of the state's failing schools, it has found $115 million to subsidize a hedge fund in relocating its headquarters by a few miles, from Westport to Stamford, the governor's hometown. Hedge funds usually don't give awards but their extravagantly compensated executives and traders do make political contributions.
Another supplicant award to a benefactor in Connecticut had been announced a few days earlier. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus gave the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award to U.S. Rep. Joseph D. Courtney, whose 2nd Congressional District includes the Navy submarine base and the Electric Boat nuclear submarine factory in Groton. The primary political obligation of the 2nd District's congressman long has been thought to be to persuade Congress to keep Navy contracts for nuclear sub construction coming to Electric Boat, and Courtney has performed brilliantly in that respect, arranging appropriations so that EB is always working on two such subs. There is no "sequestering" here.
This is great for Connecticut in an employment sense and great for the military's empire building. But as a matter of national defense, does the country really need so many nuclear submarines, even if the definition of "defense" continues to be stretched so far that it covers even trying to civilize the barbarians in Afghanistan? (After all, that benighted country is landlocked and well inland and presents few targets for subs.)
And are there any capital projects for which the country might have greater need than more subs, like infrastructure improvements, road and bridge repairs, medical clinics, and the like?
Connecticut's decades-long failure to complete the 8 miles of the Route 11 expressway between Salem and New London in the 2nd District comes to mind.
There is no money and there are no awards for asking such questions, but if such questions are ever asked, the Navy and the submarine industry will be ready with an answer.
That is, it will be said that continuous construction of nuclear submarines is needed to keep sub construction capacity ready for the day when subs really are needed for more than employment.
Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer, in Manchester, Conn.


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Agents from the Department of Homeland Security posing as national "police" were deployed across the country this week to monitor and intimidate Tea Party activists, who were peacefully protesting the Obama administration and its abuse of the IRS to target conservative groups. The apparently unlawful spying and bullying has drawn outrage from analysts, experts, and commentators from across the political spectrum worried that the federal government is going off the rails.
From California to Florida and everywhere in between, armed DHS functionaries — part of the so-called "Federal Protective Service" (FPS) — intimidated and spied on peaceful activists, according to protesters in attendance. News reports were filled with pictures and videos of large Homeland Security trucks that said "police" in giant letters, along with armed DHS personnel dressed in "police" outfits. At a rally in Los Angeles, a DHS helicopter was even spotted flying overhead as federal "police" ordered protesters to get off of government property.
More than a few attendees at the rallies expressed fears about being spied on by authorities in the future — or even being targeted by the IRS. Some analysts said the federal show of force was probably an effort by the administration to intimidate Americans into remaining silent, while others speculated that the U.S. government was hoping to provoke a reaction out of the protesters that could be used to demonize activists concerned about lawless federal activities.
Among the most serious concerns cited by critics — aside from federal spying and intimidation of citizens exercising rights guaranteed under the First Amendment — were the giant letters reading "police" emblazoned on DHS vehicles and personnel. Of course, the Constitution does not grant the U.S. government any power to establish a national police force or anything even remotely resembling one.
Indeed, outside of a few federal crimes such as counterfeiting, treason, and piracy, law enforcement is supposed to be a function of state and local government. Analysts also noted that there was absolutely no reason for armed federal bureaucrats to be keeping tabs on a peaceful protest — especially when local police with legitimate jurisdiction could have secured the rallies if needed.
"If you have a police force and it's out of control, you go down to your mayor and you take care of it with your mayor," commented conservative pundit Glenn Beck about the latest DHS tactics aimed at Tea Party activists this week. "But if a national police force is out of control, who exactly do you have?"
Beck, who has a sizeable following and a growing media machine, also said Homeland Security was supposed to be for airports. "They were the guys with the really crappy uniforms that have the rubber gloves who were feeling you up at the airport and you're laughing at them," he continued. "This is a labor union police force, a federal labor union police force. This is not good."
A caller on the show who helped organize a 400-person rally targeted by DHS in Cincinnati, meanwhile, noted that it was not the first time he had seen federal functionaries sporting "police" outfits. "Congress needs to wake up," the caller said on the program. "Maybe they're part of it, I don't know, but they need to look into this. We are creating a national police force that's keeping an eye on us and intimidating us."
The Tea Party demonstrations against the U.S. tax agency at IRS offices across the country, held on May 22, were sparked by recent admissions from senior officials that conservative groups had been singled out for special scrutiny and inappropriate questioning by authorities. Outraged lawmakers in both political parties and much of the establishment press agreed that the IRS behavior was absolutely unacceptable. More than seven out of ten Americans thought so, too, and even President Obama publicly feigned concern about the scandal.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet "Big Sis" Napolitano and the increasingly intrusive domestic espionage apparatus, however, evidently did not see it that way. Under the Obama administration, multiple federal agencies and departments — including DHS — have issued absurd "intelligence" reports based on discredited sources claiming that the real threat to the "Homeland" is actually conservatives. Pro-life activists, Ron Paul supporters, constitutionalists, veterans, people who believe in individual liberty, and countless others are officially in the crosshairs.
Based on recent polls, that includes almost 70 percent of American voters, who in a survey released this week said they "feel like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans." Even among Democrats, almost half agree that Washington, D.C., is out of control — more than the number who disagreed. Left-wing organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union have also blasted Homeland Security's lawless spying on peaceful protesters.
"This type of government monitoring and tracking of lawful demonstrations and political speech can have a chilling effect on Americans' exercise of their rights to free speech and assembly," Robyn Greene with the ACLU Washington Legislative Office noted in 2011 after learning that DHS "police" were spying on activists, apparently under the false impression that such behavior was legal. "This is especially true when those demonstrations advocate positions that are in opposition to government policy…. No agency or department in government has the right to monitor the peaceful and lawful political activities and speech of Americans."
While only a tiny fraction of the growing number of Americans worried about lawless government attended rallies on Tuesday, Homeland Security made sure that its presence was felt. According to news reports, self-styled federal "police" were observed scoping out protests or intimidating activists all across California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and other states. Analysts lashed out at the perceived abuse of power.
"Why aren't DHS officers protecting the homeland against foreign enemies armed with explosives and hate? Perhaps because the Obama Administration is more worried about domestic 'enemies' armed with the Constitution and love of country," wrote Sally Zelikovsky about the scandal in the American Thinker. She also said the administration sending out DHS agents to spy on Tea Party protests was "further evidence of the Soviet-style 'War on Dissent.' "
"One would think they would be just a bit more circumspect and maybe even exercise a modicum of restraint before dispersing KGB, I mean, DHS agents to free speech rallies protected under the Constitution," Zelikovsky continued in her stinging criticism of the department's latest activities. "The fact that they did this so blatantly despite the scrutiny they are under is symptomatic of a government on the verge of a constitutional breakdown — a government that doesn't hesitate to bully the little guy while giving the Constitution the proverbial political finger."
The New American reached out to DHS with a series of questions: Why were the agents at these protests? How does DHS respond to critics of this who say it was spying, intimidation, unnecessary, and chilling? Why did the DHS vehicles and personnel have "police" written on them? Does DHS operate a federal police force now? If so, under what statutory or constitutional authority has DHS established a police force? Was permission for the DHS presence obtained from local authorities?
DHS Federal Protective Service Chief of Public Affairs Jacqueline C. Yost responded with a brief statement. "The Federal Protective Service (FPS) protects more than 9,000 federal buildings and 1.4 million federal employees and visitors who occupy them throughout the country every day," she said. "FPS is committed to carrying out this mission in a manner that protects the public's civil rights and civil liberties including freedom of speech and the right to peacefully protest."
Of course, along with the rest of the Obama administration, DHS has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years amid a wide assortment of scandals. Among the most outrageous: Spying on peaceful protesters, sealing contracts for massive amounts of ammunition, stockpiling "weapons of war," molesting air travelers, expanding its powers, defying court orders, issuing wild reports painting regular Americans as potential terrorists, squandering huge sums of money on extra-constitutional "fusion centers," training local authorities to become extensions of the federal government, and more.
Congress has held hearings and a few lawmakers have introduced legislation to rein in the department, which is perceived by critics as an out-of-control behemoth that could easily be abused. As the outcry among Americans continues to mount, calls for abolishing the DHS are growing as well. Unsurprisingly, the latest developments have already contributed to the furor. Whether any action will be taken by Congress, however, remains to be seen.
Photo source: Gateway Pundit
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Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Zaltzman, Cameron Esposito and Nadia Kamil join host Jesse Thorn and special guest Craig Brown for the pop-culture quiz show where land laws do not apply.
There's a lot of harking back to the Olympics, talk of various celeb's "outside the beltway" credentials and do you know which film features "Dennis Quaid as Steve Martin as Bill Clinton"?
Plus British Satirist Craig Brown calls in to talk about his new book which is either called One on One if you're British or Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings if you're American.
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Fire department responds to natural gas leak on E. Circuit
Workers and residents in Beaumont's West End were stopped cold after a work crew hit a gas main on E. Circuit Drive late Tuesday afternoon.
The sound of the gas spewing from the break could be heard down the street and at least one resident was evacuated.
According to a BPD press release, at about 2:50 p.m., Beaumont Fire and Rescue were dispatched to the leak at 198 E. Circuit Drive. A crew working on a city sewer line hit a two-inch gas main, but Beaumont's breezy afternoon helped to dissipate any danger of explosion.
Jennifer Phelan was on her way back to her E. Circuit Drive home when she came across a police road block preventing her from going any further.
"I guess I'll just keep running errands," she said.
Phelan said she was glad police were blocking the surrounding roads.
"Better safe than sorry," she said.
By 5:21, however, the mess was fixed. Crews repaired the leak and police allowed residents back into their home.


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Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren't true
WASHINGTON — President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top officials promoted the invasion of Iraq with public statements that weren't supported by intelligence or that concealed differences among intelligence agencies, the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Thursday in a report that was delayed by bitter partisan infighting.
A second report found that a special office set up under then-secretary of defense Donald H. Rumsfeld conducted "sensitive intelligence activities" that were inappropriate "without the knowledge of the Intelligence Community or the State Department." That report revealed that Pentagon counterintelligence officials suspected that Iran might have tried to use the group to influence administration policymakers.
Committee chairman John D. Rockefeller, D-W. Va., said the administration's actions went far beyond simply being misled by bad intelligence.
"There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence," Rockefeller said in a statement. "But, there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate."
"Before taking the country to war, this administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced," Rockefeller said. "Unfortunately, our committee has concluded that the administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence."
The White House dismissed the main report as a partisan rehash of what's already known about erroneous U.S. intelligence on Iraq.
"The majority report today is a selective view," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "The administration statements on Iraq were based on the very same intelligence that was given to the Congress. And they came to the same conclusion, as did other countries around the world. The issue . . . ultimately turned out to be false, and we have fully admitted that."
"The fact that the intelligence turned out to be wrong on WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) does not mean that anyone purposefully lied," Perino said.
Four Republicans on the committee — Orrin Hatch of Utah, Christopher Bond of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia — denounced the report as "inconclusive, misleading and incomplete."
However, two Republicans, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Olympia Snow of Maine, joined Democrats to approve the report on a 10-5 vote.
The Senate report, the first official examination of whether top officials knew that their public statements were unsubstantiated when they made them, reviewed five speeches by Bush, Cheney and former Secretary of State Colin Powell between August 2002 and February 2003. It also dissected key statements made by them and other top officials, including Rumsfeld and then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
The committee found that the administration's warnings that former dictator Saddam Hussein was in league with Osama bin Laden, a highly inflammatory assertion in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaida attacks, weren't substantiated by U.S. intelligence reports. In fact, it said, U.S. intelligence agencies were telling the White House that while there'd been sporadic contacts over a decade, there was no operational cooperation between Iraq and al Qaida, the report said.
The administration's repeated statements "suggesting that Iraq and al Qaida had a partnership, or that Iraq had provided al Qaida with weapons training, were not substantiated by intelligence," it said.
Contentions by Bush and Cheney that Saddam had to be removed because he could give terrorists weapons of mass destruction to strike the United States were "contradicted by available intelligence information" that found that the late Iraqi dictator was unlikely to make such transfers, the report said.
Cheney's assertions that Mohammad Atta, the chief Sept. 11 hijacker, had met months before the attack with an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Czech capital, Prague, were also unsubstantiated, the inquiry found.
The committee said that Bush and Cheney "failed to reflect concerns and uncertainties" expressed in intelligence analyses that questioned administration assertions that Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops as liberators and warned that American forces could face violent resistance.
Statements by Bush, Cheney and other top officials that Saddam had stockpiled chemical and biological weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions were "generally substantiated" by what turned out to be erroneous U.S. intelligence analyses, the report said.
However, while intelligence reports "generally substantiated" their claims that Iraq had secretly restarted a nuclear weapons program, the committee said, Bush and other officials failed to disclose that the State Department disputed that finding.
The administration's statements also failed to disclose that the Energy Department joined the State Department in rejecting allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa, the report said.
The reports released Thursday brought to an end a lengthy investigation into how U.S. intelligence appeared to be so wrong in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The first phase of that probe was released in July 2004 and excoriated the U.S. intelligence community for erroneous and problem-plagued analyses of Iraq's alleged illicit weapons programs. The second phase was repeatedly delayed by partisan arguments that lasted even after the Democrats won control of the Senate in 2006.
In their minority report, the dissenting Republicans called the investigation "a waste of committee time and resources." The Republicans documented pre-war assertions by Rockefeller and other leading Democrats that echoed the Bush administration's portrayal of the threat posed by Saddam.
The report didn't examine those statements, committee staffers said, because the administration's statements had a greater impact.
Committee staffers said that the Senate has learned from its mistakes and now has special groups dedicated to controversial topics such as Iran and China.
The Senate is "wary of wholesale acceptance" of intelligence reports and of statements made by intelligence officials, said a committee staffer who asked to remain unnamed so he could speak more freely.
(Nancy A. Youssef and Mark Seibel contributed to this report)


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Meet the Press hosted what David Gregory dubbed a "special economic roundtable" on December 2 that included "CNBC's dynamic duo," Maria Bartiromo and Jim Cramer. But Bartiromo's comments about tax increases for the wealthy needed a factcheck.
She started by making a familiar conservative point about the so-called "fiscal cliff"– that the White House talks about ending tax cuts for the wealthy, but will not talk about spending cuts:
And the fact is that I find it extraordinary that we are zeroing in on this discussion only about taxes, and we do not have this kind of elaborate discussion when it comes to spending cuts. Two points here. Number one, Americans realized that the three biggest drivers of our debt are Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We need structural change. We haven't heard that.
Let's step in here for a second: When did Americans "realize" any of this? When they're asked, thev tend to oppose cuts to these programs by substantial margins. There was an election last month; surely voters could have sent a message about their desire to cut these programs.
She went on:
Number two, on taxes, you really can't put all of the taxes into one category. Dividend taxes, for one, is probably the biggest threat to the markets and the economy right now, when you're just looking at taxes. And dividend taxes are not a rich tax, nor are capital gains. You're talking about pension funds, 401(k) plans, investments in companies that pay dividends. If you're expecting a dividend tax to go from 15 percent to 44 percent, that completely removes the opportunity or the incentive to buy dividend-paying companies. And that's going to hurt not just the rich. That's going to hurt everybody if, in fact, we were to see that. That's very dangerous, and it is going to create a massive selloff.
For starters, income from 401(k) retirement accounts is taxed as normal income when funds are withdrawn from those accounts, so it is hard to see how that would be relevant. It has been, however, a popular media talking point in discussions like this–like when then-CNBC host Erin Burnett declared that a capital gains rate cut meant that "the half of Americans that own stocks get a benefit there as well.")
The truth is that tax breaks on dividends and capital gains are most certainly a "rich tax." This chart from the Citizens for Tax Justice shows that the overwhelming share of these tax breaks goes to the top 1 percent:
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Or consider this chart from the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities:
The attempt to portray tax hikes on the wealthy as something else is mostly a misdirection; as the New York Times reported today (12/3/12):
Many economists agree than an increasing proportion of the entire equities market is now held by retirement investors whose holdings are not subject to current tax law; by foreign investors who don't pay American taxes, or by institutional investors like insurance companies and pension funds that are exempt from taxes.
Or, to put it another way: According to the Congressional Research Service, the most significant contributor to the growth in inequality from 1996 to 2006 was dividends and capital gains. That income has enjoyed a massive break over the past dozen years.
If it's important to have an "economic roundtable," then Meet the Press should book a guest who might challenge these very familiar, very misleading talking points–or find a host who can do the same.


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What shops and restaurants are available at the airport and what are their opening times?
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The NFLPA plans to use the three quarterback concussions from Week 10 to reiterate its desire to have independent neurologists on the sideline during games, according to union sources.
A four-part series on player health and safety with reporter Andrea Kremer aired Tuesday through Friday on NFL Network:
Tuesday: Football's safety issues
Wednesday: Virginia Tech's helmet technology, The "Hit System"
Thursday: Inside Darrelle Revis' rehab
Friday: The lack of common safety standards in youth football
» For more information on player health and safety, visit NFLEvolution.com.
The union has consistently asked to have a third-party on the sideline to assess whether or not a player should stay out of a game. And the union thinks that in the case of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler -- both of whom kept playing after taking their respective shots to the head -- players were left on the field in situations when an independent doctor likely would've pulled them from the game.
One union source said that "the system right now is not working. We thought we'd resolve it after the Colt McCoy issue. Then, not only was nothing done, but issues continue with detection."
McCoy remained in a Cleveland Browns game last December after taking a concussion-causing blow to the head from Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison.
Asked to respond to the idea of a third-party neurologist, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello referenced a recent comment from Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, co-chair of the NFL's head, neck and spine committee.
"Independent experts on the sidelines would make the situation worse, unless they had a baseline exam on each player," Ellenbogen said. "No one knows the players as well as the athletic trainers, period. Having said that, some teams already have neurosurgeons on the sidelines. Having a doc show up just for a game takes away the all-important baseline exam and continuity of care. It would be like getting operated upon by a surgeon who did not see you pre-operatively. Is that safer than having someone who saw you beforehand? The baseline is all-important in making an assessment if a player is OK after a hit."Follow Albert Breer on Twitter @AlbertBreer.


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In August, more than 3,000 suffered casualties
In August, more than 3,000 suffered casualties
KABUL (Pajhwok): More than 3,000 people were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in August, when 215 attacks took place, showing a 10 percent spike in casualties compared to the corresponding period last year.
Pajhwok Afghan News reports based on different sources show violent attacks took place in 30 provinces in August, including 105 face-to-face clashes, 41 targeted attacks, 33 blasts, 23 airstrikes and 13 suicide assaults.
During these attacks, 14 of every 22 people suffered casualties in direct engagements, two in suicide attacks, three in airstrikes and one each in targeted attacks and explosions.
Most of the attacks, , 82 occurred in Helmand, Nangarhar, Kandahar and Jawzjan provinces and the rest -- 133 -- in 26 other provinces. Pajhwok received no report regarding violence from Daikundi, Bamyan, Takhar and Panjsher provinces in August.
In July, Nangarhar, Faryab, Kandahar and Helmand witnessed most of the attacks while no security incidents were reported from Panjsher, Daikundi, Bamyan and Khost provinces.
On average, statistics show 27 people suffer casualties in each suicide attack, 19 in face-to-face clashes, 17 in airstrikes, six in blasts and three in targeted.
Lawmaker and political commentator Abdul Jabbar Qahraman said suicide attacks caused more casualties because they happened in crowded areas.
He said the conflict intensified last month and that was why people suffered more casualties in face-to-face fighting.
After suicide attacks and face-to-face clashes, airstrikes targeting both militants and civilians were the third biggest source of casualties, he explained.
"For example, 140 militants suffered casualties in airstrikes in the Nesh area of Kandahar province… civilians also suffer casualties in such attacks due to mistakes or negligence," Qahraman added.
Reports show 1,895 people were killed and 1,164 others injured in 215 attacks in August across Afghanistan. The victims included militants, Afghan forces and civilians.
But Pajhwok does not release exact casualty figures because different sources provide different accounts. August 28 saw the highest number of attacks, 14, but the deadliest day was August 2 when 220 people were killed and wounded.
More than half of the casualties happened in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Paktika, Ghazni and Sar-i-Pul provinces.
In July, most of casualties happed in Faryab, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Helmand, Baghlan, Nuristan, Uruzgan, Balkh and Paktia provinces. Qahraman said: "Intensity of attacks changes locations because it is a tactic of militants, who want to mount as much pressure on the government as possible."
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Radminsh, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), said: "Daesh or Islamic State (IS) militants were more active in Nangarhar, but they were subjected to brutal attacks. It's natural that when militants face severe attacks in an area, they switch locations."
He added the Afghan forces were fully ready to beat militants wherever they surfaced.
Pajhwok reports indicate casualties have increased each month -- from January to May this year. But the figures dropped by 46 percent in June before they increased again in the last two months.
Abdul Jabbar Qahraman said that the conflict in Afghanistan, having a global dimension, could intensify when world powers brought their rivalries to the conflict-crippled the country.
"Ever-since its creation, Pakistan -- our immediate neighbour -- has been intolerant of a powerful and stable Afghanistan. It has always hatched conspiracies against our country. Considering the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, the region and the world at large, I believe the war would intensify," he warned.
The MoD deputy spokesman acknowledged the number of attacks in 2017 had been higher than the previous year. Insurgents have been trying to showcase their strength because they want to tell the Brussels Conference that they can still create problems.
"Pakistan has been under intense pressure from the international community this year, so it pressed rebel outfits to find save havens inside Afghanistan and capture at least six provinces. But fortunately, the enemies have failed to realise their goals," he commented.
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Relatives of war victims say the decline in attacks is encouraging but durable peace and stability still remains elusive. Habibiullah, a resident of the Maiwand district of Kandahar, recently lost two brothers and a relative in a roadside bombing.
"It is a story of every family; you cannot find a household that hasn't not lost loved ones in this unfortunate war. How long will the Afghans lose their lives? It is no longer tolerable," he remarked.
He asked warier sides to stop fighting and join peace process and put an end to the Afghans bloodshed.
Abdul Ghani, 18, a resident of Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province who lost his mother in a suicide attack in front of the police headquarters last week, asked the warring sides to quit fighting -- or at least avoid conducting attacks in public places.
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Having trouble getting your patients motivated about smoking cessation? Learn the basics behind Motivational Interviewing, a skill you can utilize to help guide and empower your patients to quit smoking.
Re-Release Date
October 1, 2014
Expiration Date
September 30, 2015
Estimated Time to Complete Activity
Each of the ten videos will take between 15 and 20 minutes to complete.
Bruce Berger, PhD, RPh is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy Care Systems, Auburn University and currently President, Berger Consulting, LLC. Dr. Berger has been teaching health communication, health behavior change and motivational interviewing for over 30 years.
For questions or additional information, contact
Bruce A. Berger, PhD
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Professor Emeritus, Auburn University
1792 Overton Road
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Phone: (334) 444-3160
Who Should Participate
This activity is designed for a broad audience that includes physicians, nurses, pharmacists, case managers and any other clinician whose scope of practice includes helping patients quit smoking or make other health behavior changes.
Overview of Methods and Participation
This ten-video program is designed to introduce the concept of motivational interviewing (MI) and its value in helping patients who smoke consider a quit attempt, as well as being applicable to other areas of health behavior change. Key components and strategies of MI will be explained, and video demonstrations of successful MI will be shown. Participants will be encouraged to consider how to integrate MI into their practice setting. Videos can be viewed and credit can be provided separately, although participation in the entire program is recommended.
Each of the ten activities is eligible for 0.25 CME credit. To receive at least 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ or up to a maximum 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, you must view each of the videos, complete each post-test with a score of 70% or higher, and complete an evaluation form. You will then be able to print out your CME certificate.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of all ten videos, participants should be able to:
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The CS2day initiative is supported by an educational grant from Pfizer Inc.
As one of the collaboration's nine partners, the Physicians' Institute for Excellence in Medicine managed the development of this educational activity.
Cease Smoking Today is a collaboration between the following organizations:
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The Physicians' Institute is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Physicians' Institute for Excellence in Medicine designates this enduring educational activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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This presentation is not intended to define an exclusive course of patient management; the participant should use his/her clinical judgment, knowledge, experience and diagnostic skills in applying or adopting for professional use any of the information provided herein. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patients' conditions and possible contraindications or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer's product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
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Every time someone who starred in Jericho makes a public appearance, it's inevitable that they get asked if they're up for more Jericho, and in particular, a Jericho movie.
Sure, we'd love to see an actual project that is given its full due. After canceling the 2006 season show, CBS relented to a second season from fan pressure but barely gave it the attention it was due - It popped out a whole 7 episodes and was canceled again. Sometimes, a show may be a major fan favorite, but the impassioned fans are not as numerous as they need to be.
Some time ago, rumors started floating around that there might be a Jericho movie in the works.
In January of '09, executive producer Jon Turteltaub said they were "developing" a Jericho feature and that it would cover a broader scope of events - beyond the town of Jericho itself. He further teased us with the statement that the TV cast would return, but back then I was skeptical about the idea for many reasons.
More recently, a few ex-cast members were asked about their hopes for a Jericho movie.
Some still insist that producers are still developing a two-hour movie. This is now an 8 month old statement as far as I'm concerned. But Lennie James (who played Robert Hawkins), while promoting The Prisoner, pretty much said that producers are trying to come up with a story worth telling and that people are still interested.
Of course Hawkins would be excited to play the role of Hawkins again.
Even at Comic-Con in San Diego, Esai Morales said he'd love to participate in a movie if one is in the works and recapture the essence of Major Beck.
At one point in a Comic-Con panel, producers Jon Steinberg and Karim Zreik said that the ratings on the CW would help garner interest in the idea of a movie. That's a shame, since the CW barely even acknowledged that they were playing repeats on Sunday nights and the ratings reflected that. At one point, I was wondering if the ratings were going to be negative, with more people airing the show than were watching it!
But if you really need to get your fill of Jericho, there is one avenue of entertainment you can pursue: Comic books.
It's called "Season 3 of Jericho" and is being published by Devil's Due Publishing. They're creating a direct continuation of the show and it's being written by Jericho writing alumni Jon Steinberg, Karim Zreik, Dan Shotz, and Robert Levine.
As we know, at the end of season 2, society was looking at a civil war and they've embraced that premise in the comic book. It was also noted that without budget constraints, they can show more tanks and more action in a single comic panel than they ever could in an action sequence of the television show. Cool! The story will be told in a six issue series, starting in October and it will star all the original characters we know and love from the series.
The original cast all signed off on having the likeness of their images used for the comic so it will be easy to get back into their individual scenarios.
So for now, the idea of a Jericho movie seems to be only a room full of vapors that's waiting to take some sort of shape. I'd love to see this, but am I just deluding myself? Are you, the Screen Rant readers, being more realistic about the chances of a movie coming together? Would all the cast actually be available if this were to come together? I don't know. Very fortuitous timing on everything involved could make this possible, but for now, a comic book is all we get.
Screen Rant reader thoughts and opinions are always welcome. Let us know how you all feel.
Sources: Sci Fi Wire, CBR


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BLS (CPR) Skills Sign Off (6:00pm March 21st, 2019)
BLS (CPR) for Healthcare Providers Online Parts 2 and 3 Participants must have completed BLS for Healthcare Providers Online Part 1 prior to attending this session. You must bring the Part 1 Course completion certificate with you to this session. Students will learn single-rescuer and team basic life support for adults, children and infants through 5 interactive exercises, scenarios and a written test. Navigation controls allow students to move easily through content as they learn how to recognize life-threatening emergencies, provide high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilation and provide early use of an AED. Course also teaches relief of choking.This BRAND NEW course from the American Heart Association has been updated to reflect new science based on the 2010 AHA Guidelines for CPR and ECC.
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