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René Descartes' parents were Joachim Descartes (1563-1640) and Jeanne Brochard (1566-1597). Joachim, the son of the medical doctor Pierre Descartes (1515-1566), studied law and was a counsellor in the Parliament of Brittany which sat at Rennes. Jeanne was the daughter of the military man René Brochard who formed part of the garrison stationed at Poitiers. One of Jeanne's brothers, also named René Brochard, became one of René Descartes' two godfathers; René Descartes was named after his godfather René Brochard. Jeanne's widowed mother, Jeanne Sain Brochard, lived at La Haye, near Tours, and it was in her home that René was born. Joachim and Jeanne Descartes were married on 15 January 1589 and lived at Châtellerault. They had two surviving children older than René, a girl named Jeanne (born 1590) and a boy named Pierre (born 1591). René was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church of Saint George in La Haye when he was four days old. His mother died in childbirth a year after he was born and the boy, born at the time of her death, also died. At this time, René was sent back to his grandmother's home in La Haye where he was cared for by Jeanne Sain Brochard. Joachim Descartes remarried in 1600 to Anne Morin and they had a boy named Joachim (born 1602) and a girl named Anne (born 1611). René therefore had a older brother and an older sister, as well as a younger half-brother and younger half-sister. He did not return to live with his father and step-mother, however, but continued living with his grandmother at La Haye. Now René's health was poor when he was a child. Throughout his childhood, up to his twenties, he was pale and had a persistent cough which was probably due to tuberculosis. It seems likely that he inherited these health problems from his mother.
Descartes was educated at the Jesuit college of La Flèche in Anjou. He entered the college at Easter 1607 at the age of eleven years where he became a boarder. [There is some uncertainty here, with some biographers claiming that he entered the College two years earlier.] The college had opened in January 1604 so was a comparatively new school. He studied there taking courses in classics, logic and traditional Aristotelian philosophy. He also learnt mathematics from the books of Clavius, while studying all the branches of mathematics, namely arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. While in the school his health was poor and, instead of rising at 5 a.m. like the other boys, he was granted permission to remain in bed until 11 o'clock in the morning, a custom he maintained until the year of his death. In his final years at the school he studied natural philosophy, metaphysics and ethics. He left the La Flèche College in 1614. School had made Descartes understand how little he knew, the only subject which was satisfactory in his eyes was mathematics. This idea became the foundation for his way of thinking, and was to form the basis for all his works.
See Descartes' own words describing his schooling at THIS LINK.
Comparatively little is known of Descartes' life between 1614 and 1618. He spent a while in Paris, apparently keeping very much to himself, and some have speculated that he might have suffered some sort of a breakdown at this time. Then he studied at the University of Poitiers, receiving a law degree from Poitiers in 1616. He took the law degree to comply with his father's wishes but he quickly decided that this was not the path he wanted to follow. He wrote in Discourse on the Method:-
I entirely abandoned the study of letters, resolving to seek no knowledge other than that which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world. I spent the rest of my youth travelling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting on whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.He may have returned to Paris before he enlisted in the military school at Breda in 1618, becoming a volunteer in the army of Maurice of Nassau. While in Breda his formal study was of military engineering but he started studying mathematics and mechanics under the Dutch scientist Isaac Beeckman, and began to seek a unified science of nature. Advised by Beeckman, he began considering mechanical problems. While in Holland, he wrote to Beeckman in March 1619 about his new ideas:-
[I want to promote a] completely new science by which all questions in general may be solved that can be proposed about any kind of quantity, continuous as well as discrete. But each according to its own nature. ... In arithmetic, for instance, some questions can be solved by rational numbers, some by surd numbers, and others can be imagined but not solved. For continuous quantity I hope to prove that, similarly, certain problems can be solved by using only straight or circular lines, that some problems require other curves for their solution, but still curves which arise from one single motion and which therefore can be traced by the new compasses, which I consider to be no less certain and geometrical than the usual compasses by which circles are traced; and, finally, that other problems can be solved by curved lines generated by separate motions not subordinate to one another.After this time in Holland he left the service of Maurice of Nassau and travelled through Europe with the plan to join the army of Maximilian of Bavaria. In 1619 he joined the Bavarian army and was stationed in Ulm. An important event in his life was three dreams he had in November 1619. These he believed were sent by a divine spirit with the intention of revealing to him a new approach to philosophy. The ideas from these dreams would dominate much of his work from that time on.
For Descartes' own description of the ideas that he developed at this time see THIS LINK.
While serving Maximilian of Bavaria, Descartes was present as an official observer with the Catholic League at the Battle of the White Mountain near Prague in November 1620. After this he left the army but since the plague was ravaging in Paris he could not return there but instead began a period of travel.
From 1620 to 1628 Descartes travelled through Europe, spending time in Bohemia (1620), Hungary (1621), Germany, Holland and France (1622-23). He spent time in 1623 in Paris where he made contact with Marin Mersenne, an important contact which kept him in touch with the scientific world for many years, and with Claude Mydorge. From Paris he travelled through Switzerland to Italy where he spent some time in Venice and in Rome, then he returned to France again (1625). He renewed his acquaintance with Mersenne and Mydorge, and met Girard Desargues. His Paris home became a meeting place for philosophers and mathematicians and steadily became more and more busy. By 1628 Descartes, tired of the bustle of Paris, the house full of people, and of the life of travelling he had before, decided to settle down where he could work in solitude. He gave much thought to choosing a country suited to his nature and he chose Holland. What he longed for was somewhere peaceful where he could work away from the distractions of a city such as Paris yet still have access to the facilities of a city. It was a good decision which he did not seem to regret over the next twenty years. He told Mersenne where he was living so that he might keep in touch with the mathematical world, but otherwise he kept his place of residence a secret.
Soon after he settled in Holland, Descartes began work on his first major treatise on physics, Le Monde, ou Traité de la Lumière. He wrote to Mersenne in October 1629:-
[The foundations of physics] is the topic which I have studied more than any other and in which, thank God, I have not altogether wasted my time. At least I think that I have found how to prove metaphysical truths in a manner which is more evident than the proofs of geometry - in my opinion, that is: I do not know if I shall be able to convince others of it. During my first nine months in this country I worked on nothing else.This work was near completion when news that Galileo was condemned to house arrest reached him. He, perhaps wisely, decided not to risk publication and the work was published, only in part, after his death. He explained later his change of direction saying:-
... in order to express my judgement more freely, without being called upon to assent to, or to refute the opinions of the learned, I resolved to leave all this world to them and to speak solely of what would happen in a new world, if God were now to create ... and allow her to act in accordance with the laws He had established.For Descartes' own description of the contents of Le Monde, ou Traité de la Lumière see THIS LINK.
In Holland, Descartes had a number of scientific friends as well as continued contact with Mersenne. His friendship with Beeckman continued and he also had contact with Mydorge, Hortensius, Huygens and Frans van Schooten (the elder). Langer [112] describes Descartes' life in Holland:-
As throughout his life he continued to do his work abed in the mornings. His evenings he generally devoted to the consideration of his correspondence, which was mainly scientific, rarely personal, and of which he was painstakingly careful, while the intermediate part of the day he gave to relaxation. In matters of money he was neither extravagant nor parsimonious, showing himself in this respect a true philosopher. He always did some entertaining, now more, now less, professing to find considerable enjoyment in conversation, though he was himself rather taciturn.Descartes was pressed by his friends to publish his ideas and, although he was adamant in not publishing Le Monde, he wrote a treatise on science under the title Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Three appendices to this work were La Dioptrique, Les Météores, and La Géométrie. The treatise was published at Leiden in 1637 and Descartes wrote to Mersenne saying:-
I have tried in my "Dioptrique" and my "Météores" to show that my Méthode is better than the vulgar, and in my "Géométrie" to have demonstrated it.The work describes what Descartes considers is a more satisfactory means of acquiring knowledge than that presented by Aristotle's logic. Only mathematics, Descartes feels, is certain, so all must be based on mathematics.
La Dioptrique is a work on optics and, although Descartes does not cite previous scientists for the ideas he puts forward, in fact there is little new. However his approach through experiment was an important contribution.
Les Météores is a work on meteorology and is important in being the first work which attempts to put the study of weather on a scientific basis. However many of Descartes' claims are not only wrong but could have easily been seen to be wrong if he had done some easy experiments. For example Roger Bacon had demonstrated the error in the commonly held belief that water which has been boiled freezes more quickly. However Descartes claims:-
... and we see by experience that water which has been kept on a fire for some time freezes more quickly than otherwise, the reason being that those of its parts which can be most easily folded and bent are driven off during the heating, leaving only those which are rigid.Despite its many faults, the subject of meteorology was set on course after publication of Les Météores particularly through the work of Boyle, Hooke and Halley.
La Géométrie is by far the most important part of this work. In [22] Scott summarises the importance of this work in four points:-
- He makes the first step towards a theory of invariants, which at later stages derelativises the system of reference and removes arbitrariness.
- Algebra makes it possible to recognise the typical problems in geometry and to bring together problems which in geometrical dress would not appear to be related at all.
- Algebra imports into geometry the most natural principles of division and the most natural hierarchy of method.
- Not only can questions of solvability and geometrical possibility be decided elegantly, quickly and fully from the parallel algebra, without it they cannot be decided at all.
Some extracts from Descartes' La Géométrie are at THIS LINK.
Some ideas in La Géométrie may have come from earlier work of Oresme but in Oresme's work there is no evidence of linking algebra and geometry. Wallis in Algebra (1685) strongly argues that the ideas of La Géométrie were copied from Harriot. Wallis writes:-
... the Praxis was read by Descartes, and every line of Descartes' analysis bears token of the impression.There seems little to justify Wallis's claim, which was probably made partly through patriotism but also through his just desires to give Harriot more credit for his work. Harriot's work on equations, however, may indeed have influenced Descartes who always claimed, clearly falsely, that nothing in his work was influenced by the work of others.
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, was published in 1641, designed for the philosopher and for the theologian. It consists of six meditations, Of the Things that we may doubt, Of the Nature of the Human Mind, Of God: that He exists, Of Truth and Error, Of the Essence of Material Things, Of the Existence of Material Things and of the Real Distinction between the Mind and the Body of Man. However many scientists were opposed to Descartes' ideas including Arnauld, Hobbes and Gassendi.
The most comprehensive of Descartes' works, Principia Philosophiae was published in Amsterdam in 1644. In four parts, The Principles of Human Knowledge, The Principles of Material Things, Of the Visible World and The Earth, it attempts to put the whole universe on a mathematical foundation reducing the study to one of mechanics. This is an important point of view and was to point the way forward. Descartes did not believe in action at a distance. Therefore, given this, there could be no vacuum around the Earth otherwise there was no way that forces could be transferred. In many ways Descartes' theory, where forces work through contact, is more satisfactory than the mysterious effect of gravity acting at a distance. However Descartes' mechanics leaves much to be desired. He assumes that the universe is filled with matter which, due to some initial motion, has settled down into a system of vortices which carry the sun, the stars, the planets and comets in their paths. Despite the problems with the vortex theory it was championed in France for nearly one hundred years even after Newton showed it was impossible as a dynamical system. As Brewster, one of Newton's 19th century biographers, puts it:-
Thus entrenched as the Cartesian system was ... it was not to be wondered at that the pure and sublime doctrines of the 'Principia' were distrustfully received ... The uninstructed mind could not readily admit the idea that the great masses of the planets were suspended in empty space, and retained their orbits by an invisible influence ...Pleasing as Descartes' theory was, even the supporters of his natural philosophy such as the Cambridge metaphysical theologian Henry More, found objections. Certainly More admired Descartes, writing:-
I should look upon Des-Cartes as a man most truly inspired in the knowledge of Nature, than any that have professed themselves so these sixteen hundred years...However between 1648 and 1649 they exchanged a number of letters in which More made some telling objections. Descartes however in his replies makes no concessions to More's points. More went on to ask:-
Why are not your vortices in the form of columns or cylinders rather than ellipses, since any point of the axis of a vortex is as it were a centre from which the celestial matter recedes with, as far as I can see, a wholly constant impetus? ... Who causes all the planets not to revolve in one plane (the plane of the ecliptic)? ... And the Moon itself, neither in the plane of the Earth's equator nor in a plane parallel to this?In 1644, the year his Meditations were published, Descartes visited France. He returned again in 1647, when he met Pascal and argued with him that a vacuum could not exist, and then again in 1648.
In 1649 Queen Christina of Sweden persuaded Descartes to go to Stockholm. However the Queen wanted to draw tangents at 5 a.m. and Descartes broke the habit of his lifetime of getting up at 11 o'clock. After only a few months in the cold northern climate, walking to the palace for 5 o'clock every morning, he died of pneumonia.
After his death an unfinished manuscript entitled Regulae ad directionem ingenii was found in his papers. Only the first 21 of the Rules were presented, the last three being only given by their intended titles. Sadly, the original manuscript has been lost and only copies remain. Here is a short extract from the manuscript:-
I would not value these Rules so highly if they were good only for solving those pointless problems with which arithmeticians and geometers are inclined to while away their time, for in that case all I could credit myself with achieving would be to dabble in trifles with greater subtlety than they. I shall have much to say below about figures and numbers, for no other disciplines can yield illustrations as evident and certain as these. But if one attends closely to my meaning, one will readily see that ordinary mathematics is far from my mind here, that it is quite another discipline I am expounding, and that these illustrations are more its outer garments than its inner parts. This discipline should contain the primary rudiments of human reason and extend to the discovery of truths in any field whatever. Frankly speaking, I am convinced that it is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other with which human beings are endowed, as it is the source of all the rest.We should end this biography by saying a little more about Descartes as a person. In [112] Langer describes Descartes' appearance and personality:-
In appearance Descartes was a small man of rather slight figure with a large head. His nose was prominent, his lower lip somewhat protruding, his beard and moustache of a semi-military type, and his hair growing down upon his forehead almost to his eyebrows. He wore a wig of natural colour to which he always gave fastidious attention, as he did also to his clothes which were now invariably of black cloth. In demeanour he was generally cheerful, rarely gay. His manners were always refined, gentle, and polite, and his temper tranquil and easy. As a personality he was proud, somewhat aristocratically reserved, sensitive, a bit angular, and, though a shade domineering, was pre-eminently obliging.Bertrand Russell writes [150]:-
He always was well dressed, and wore a sword. He was not industrious; he worked short hours, and read little. When he went to Holland he took few books with him, but among them were the Bible and Thomas Aquinas. His work seems to have been done with great concentration during short periods; but perhaps, to keep up the appearance of a gentlemanly amateur, he may have pretended to work less than in fact he did, for otherwise his achievements seem scarcely credible.
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Every pick'em pool shows you who pickers are picking in the NCAA Tournament. But keep in mind those numbers include oblivious office drones choosing teams based on best mascot or uniform color. The smart bracket-filler-outer pays attention to the folks who really have something on the line: their cash.
Hoopism has put together a bracket that shows, in real-time, what percentage of the action each team is getting ATS in Vegas. The data is compiled from seven sports books and updated every 30 minutes, and if you're looking for a 5 seed to struggle, you could do a lot worse than New Mexico.
March Madness – Who is the Public Betting on to Win? [Hoopism]


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TORONTO (AP) — Canada's top military commander has ordered an internal review of programs and policies to combat sexual violence after an investigation by two magazines uncovered allegations of rampant sexual violence within the armed forces.
Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's chief of defense staff, described the allegations in the latest edition of Maclean's magazine as "disturbing."
The year-long investigation, conducted by Maclean's and its French-language sister publication L'Actualite, also suggests that some assaults may have been covered up.
The report in Maclean's published this week contains interviews with alleged victims, and uses access-to-information records to track military police investigations over a decade.
The reporters also attended court martial proceedings. The victims in the report included a woman in her 50s who allegedly endured 30 years of abuse during her time in the military and a woman in her 40s who was allegedly raped in Afghanistan.
According to statistics obtained through Canada's Access to Information Act, five individuals in the Canadian military community become victims of sexual assault every day. The numbers show military police have received between 134 and 201 complaints of sexual assaults every year since 2000, which averages out to 178 per year.
Victims say their cases are ignored and that going public jeopardizes their career.
"I do not accept from any quarter that this is merely a part of military culture; it is not," Lawson said in response to the report. "Sexual misconduct of any kind is not and will not be tolerated within the CAF (Canadian Armed Forces), and this is a message that I reinforce throughout the chain of command."
Lawson did not acknowledge specific cases, but says the military will pursue all allegations of sexual misconduct while protecting complainants from reprisals.
Defense Minister Rob Nicholson also issued a statement after the report was published saying that he was "deeply angered to learn of the sexual assault allegations in the military." He said he's ordered Lawson to get to the bottom of the matter.
"Since 2006, our government has continuously fought on behalf of victims and enhanced the laws in this country to combat sexual assault," said Nicholson..
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The dust has finally settled after v2 launch and I'd like to take a moment and share our future plans.
First and foremost, we are still working on fixing bugs - we realize that XtGem is a huge project with a very complicated code base and there will be issues popping up occasionally. Please report them via XtGem contact form and we will get on it as soon as possible.
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I held off on writing about this because I was trying to figure it out.
An Army Training Manual designated Catholicism and Evangelical Christianity as terrorist organizations, alongside the Ku Klux Klan, Hamas and al-Queda. Reports say that the manual was used (presumably as a teaching device) during an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief on religious extremism. You can find the entire training manual here. This is a screen shot I took of the slide in question:
Fox News said that Army spokesman George Wright told them that this training manual "is not condoned" by the US Army and was an isolated incident. "This slide was not produced by the Arny and certainly does not reflect our policy or doctrine … It was produced by an individual without anyone in the chain of command's knowledge or permission," he said.
I held back on writing about this because the Army was claiming the manual was the product on one wacko soldier and that they had corrected the situation. I didn't exactly buy that, but I also didn't know enough to have an opinion about what was happening.
Enter Lt Col Jack Rich who appears to be on active duty and is stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. Lt Col Rich is reported to have sent an email to his subordinates listing the American Family Association and the Family Research Council as "domestic hate groups."
The email said in part:
"Just want to ensure everyone is somewhat educated on some of the groups out there that do not share our Army Values," the note read, according to Starnes' report. "When we see behaviors that are inconsistent with Army Values — don't just walk by — do the right thing and address the concern before it becomes a problem."The email ran on for 14 pages and listed The Southern Poverty Law Center as a source for its material. According to Fox News, it documented groups the "military considers to be anti-gay" among other things.
A Yahoo News article made this comment:
Some cultural warriors would likely look at this, teamed with some of the other incidents unfolding of late, and assume that there's a war on Christianity — one that has worked its way into the U.S. military. Of course, others would dismiss such a notion as silly and unfounded. While Tony Perkins, who heads FRC, called the e-mail evidence that the military has become anti-Christian in nature, a Pentagon spokesperson denied such allegations.
I guess I'm one of those "culture warriors" the article talks about, because I am beginning to see a pattern here and it's a twin to the pattern that's formed in our universities. Those in authority are twisting the original intent of phrases such as "equal opportunity" to legitimize overt prejudice and hazing of Christians and Christian groups who support traditional Christian morality.
I know full well that sounds simplistic. But when we see one university after another attempting to kick Christian groups off their campuses under the guise of "inclusiveness," it begins to form a pattern. When the United States Army experiences a similar rash of anti-Christian rhetoric in training manuals and now from a high-ranking officer, it does point in that direction.
These incidents with the Army are also certainly not the only ones that have occurred. They are just the ones we have learned about. It appears that the Army is breaking out with a case of Christian-bashing measles.
The point I want to make is these two incidents were not private, off-the-cuff incidents between a couple of individuals. One was an Army Training Manual used at an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity Training Session and the other was an officer sending instructions to his subordinates.
The United States Army is easily one of the most efficient killing machines on the planet. This kind of behavior coming from inside its ranks is not something to be taken lightly or dismissed.
It is ironic to me that things like equal opportunity training sessions are being used to foment discrimination. But that corruption of the original intent of these things appears to be widespread.
It seems that the Archdiocese for Military Services, which knows a lot more about these things than I do, reacted to the training manual in a similar, "I dunno for sure" way. Their official statement about it said they were "astounded" by a training manual that
… expressly listed "Catholicism," "Evangelical Christianity" and other religious groups as examples of "religious extremism" alongside groups such as "Al Qaeda", "Hamas" and the "KKK."
I am wondering how they will react now that another shoe has dropped.
Other recent incidents against Christians in the United States Military include:
- A War Games scenario at Fort Leavenworth that identified Christian groups and Evangelical groups as being potential threats;
- A 2009 Dept. of Homeland Security memorandum that identified future threats to national security coming from Evangelicals and pro-life groups;
- A West Point study released by the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center that linked pro-lifers to terrorism;
- Evangelical leader Franklin Graham was uninvited from the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer service because of his comments about Islam;
- Christian prayers were banned at the funeral services for veterans at Houston's National Cemetery;
- Bibles were banned at Walter Reed Army Medical Center – a decision that was later rescinded;
- Christian crosses and a steeple were removed from a chapel in Afghanistan because the military said the icons disrespected other religions;
- Catholic chaplains were told not to read a letter to parishioners from their archbishop related to Obamcare mandates. The Secretary of the Army feared the letter could be viewed as a call for civil disobedience.
Military Says Crosses Disrespect Other Faiths
Army Silences Catholic Chaplains
Army Removes Steeple, Crosses, From Chapel


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The Unraveling: How Obama's Syria Policy Fell Apart
How Obama's Syria policy fell apart.
It's hard to pinpoint just when, exactly, Barack Obama's Syria policy fell apart. Was it in December, when Islamists humiliated U.S.-backed rebels by seizing what limited supplies America had given them? Was it back in September, when Obama telegraphed his reluctance to enforce his own "red line" after the Syrian regime used chemical weapons on its own people? Was it in the months beforehand, when the administration quietly and mysteriously failed to make good on its pledge to directly arm the rebels? Or did it collapse in August 2011, when Obama called on Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to go, only to do almost nothing to make it happen?
But collapse it has, and more than 130,000 deaths later, the White House is now pinning its hopes on a peace conference in Switzerland later this month that is being billed as the last, best hope for a negotiated solution to a conflict that has displaced a staggering 40 percent of Syria's total population, some 23 million people, in what the United Nations says is fast becoming the worst and most expensive humanitarian catastrophe in modern history.
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Thirty countries, the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab League are all sending representatives to the Jan. 22 conference, where they are expecting to broker a peace accord between Syria's two warring sides. As it now stands, however, the meeting, known as Geneva II, is already a fiasco. None of Washington's affiliated rebels has any significance on the ground in Syria any longer, and the rebels who do matter on the battlefield want absolutely nothing to do with the conference; they will not talk with Assad or his state sponsors Russia and Iran, the arms dealers and militia builders who are after all underwriting Assad's war machine. In the months since Obama's decision to cancel military retribution for the regime's Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in Damascus, we have witnessed the near-total collapse of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), and with it the last shred of U.S. influence on the trajectory of the conflict.
The president's indecision played a major role in the FSA's eclipse. First, Obama deferred the decision on whether to wage punitive airstrikes to Congress. Then he sent high-ranking officials to Capitol Hill to sell this unloved policy of military intervention in a halfhearted and nothing-to-see-here manner, downplaying the effect that the mooted "unbelievably small" airstrikes, as Secretary of State John Kerry termed them, would have on the regime's war-making ability. Finally, with the votes not forthcoming, the president scrapped the idea altogether in favor of an 11th-hour plan offered by Russian President Vladimir Putin to decommission Assad's chemical stockpiles. From there, what remained of the FSA quickly disintegrated.
But the seeds were sown months earlier. About a week after Kerry gave two rousing war speeches and compared Assad to Adolf Hitler, and just days after Obama announced that he'd be seeking congressional authorization for airstrikes, the Wall Street Journal reported what every Syrian already knew: The light arms that the White House had licensed the CIA to deliver the FSA's coordinating body , the Supreme Military Council (SMC), way back in June—when earlier evidence of the regime's repeated use of chemical weapons had become internationally known—had yet to arrive, owing to the difficulty of securing delivery "pipelines."
The Journal account suggested what now seems clear: The administration didn't want the rebels to actually win (this was "somebody else's civil war," as Obama would later phrase it) or for any direct U.S. intervention to fundamentally alter the balance of power on the ground. It only wanted to run arms to persuade the FSA to buy into its negotiating strategy. "When we have more skin in the game," one unnamed senior administration official told the Journal, "it just puts us in a position to have deeper relationships with the opposition but also work more effectively with other countries who are doing a lot in terms of support." Instead, the White House took all its skin out of the game; and those other countries, chiefly Saudi Arabia, turned ferociously against the United States, with potentially dangerous consequences to come.
So while historians can debate the exact expiration date on Obama's Syria policy for posterity, the last four months should be remembered for what they were: a series of crisis points, botched responses and missed opportunities. This is the story of what happened inside Syria after Obama changed his mind and made Assad and Putin his peace partners, while the world looked away.
It did not take long for al Qaeda to smell an opportunity.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the group's successor to Osama bin Laden, was the first to sense most keenly Obama's wobbliness on Syria and the deleterious impact that a deferred U.S. attack on Assad would have on FSA morale and credibility. In his address on the 12th anniversary of 9/11, Zawahiri denounced the FSA for the first time as "enemies of Islam" and agents of a U.S.-backed program for fomenting a Sunni "awakening," or sahwa, which he defined as a hearts-and-minds strategy designed to isolate and defeat al Qaeda, just as tribal leaders and coalition forces had done half a decade ago in Iraq.
But in Syria, there are now two al Qaeda affiliates or offshoots. The strongest is the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), by far the more brutal and uncompromising of the two. The man in charge of ISIS is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi who claims to be a direct descendant from the Prophet Mohamed and is clearly running one of the most expansive and successful jihadist campaigns in the Middle East. Baghdadi sent operatives into Syria in the summer of 2011 who created Jabhat al-Nusra, which began carrying out suicide bombings throughout the country and was blacklisted by the United States in late 2012. However, Nusra split with ISIS last year owing to tensions between Baghdadi and Nusra's own leader, Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani. (Zawahiri sided with Jawlani and tried in vain to rein in Baghdadi, now relocated from Iraq to Syria.) In the last several months, ISIS has emerged as the more powerful faction, having absorbed a great deal of Nusra's fighters. According to an intelligence briefing prepared by the SMC, the "most dangerous and most important" section of the organization "consists of approximately 5,500 foreign fighters."
It was ISIS that went to war with the FSA. A day after Zawahiri's communiqué, on Sept. 12, it launched a campaign known evocatively as "Expunging Filth" and aimed at the U.S.-backed al-Farouq and al-Nasr brigades in northern Syria. ISIS had already killed Kamal Hamami, an SMC commander, in July after a dispute at one of the group's checkpoints in Latakia, but now it took to executing another SMC rebel on charges of trying to precipitate sahwa. But the starkest expression of this internecine warfare came about a week later, on Sept. 18, when ISIS violently raided the northern town of Azaz, which lies strategically south of a main border crossing between Syria and Turkey through which "non-lethal" Western aid had been delivered to SMC groups.
One of these groups, the Northern Storm Brigade, which hosted Sen. John McCain in Syria last May, was expelled from Azaz by the jihadists. Panicked and outmatched, Northern Storm called on Liwa al-Tawhid, a nominally SMC-aligned Islamist "super-brigade" in Aleppo, to come to its rescue. Tawhid is, or was, a pragmatic Islamist militia known for being open to greater Western support, if only such had ever been forthcoming, and also one of the largest rebel formations in Syria, with an estimated 12,000 fighters. Tawhid heeded Northern Storm's call for help and dispatched forces to Azaz to try to calm a chaotic situation. Meanwhile, an intense debate broke out among Tawhid's commanders, as several rebels informed me at the time, about whether or not to use the Azaz takeover as an opportunity to declare all-out war on ISIS or to mediate the crisis through negotiations.
In the end, the border crossing was returned to the FSA, but Azaz wasn't. And the damage was done. After this incident, and following further ISIS gains throughout northern and eastern Syria, more and more FSA-aligned fighters, sometimes even whole brigades, began defecting to the al Qaeda franchise. Areas where the FSA had once had strong presences, such as Binnish, Dana and al-Bab — a town I visited in late July 2012 under FSA escort, days after it had been liberated from regime control — now fell to ISIS.
By this time, too, many rebels were coming to the realization that by allowing foreign extremists into Syria in the absence of Western intervention, they had inadvertently laid the groundwork for a totalitarian counterpart to the regime, one that tolerates no dissent and has kidnapped journalists, activists and a popular Jesuit priest, and staged public beheadings of its enemies. When I interviewed FSA fighters, including Islamists, in southern Turkey in mid-September, their common refrain was that they now faced two mortal enemies. "Bashar al-Assad is beautiful compared to the Islamic State," one rebel aligned with the SMC told me at the time.


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E-ZPass to ID Theft?
By Sid Kirchheimer , July 18, 2014 07:30 AM
Perfectly timed to the busy travel season, scammers are behind phony emails supposedly sent by the "E-ZPass Service Center" or "E-ZPass Collection Agency."
So beware. Whether or not you have an E-ZPass account, the bogus message may make its way into your inbox, prompting you to click a link.
Don't take the bait. Not only will you be asked to provide sensitive personal and financial information, but clicking that link may also install malware onto your computer that could give cybercrooks remote access to your online files and accounts, or enlist it as a spam-sending botnet.
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Popping up this month, this phishing scam has already prompted warnings from officials in most of the 15 states where E-ZPass is used on toll roads. We couldn't confirm if anyone had fallen victim. But this email, sent en masse, isn't the most convincing con.
Usually with the subject line "In arrears from driving on toll road," it claims to the unnamed "Dear customer" that "You have not paid for driving on a toll road" and you need to click on an embedded link to pay the phony invoice.
In addition to not addressing recipients by name or E-ZPass account number, other telltale signs that the message isn't authentic include:
- The purple E-ZPass logo is a close match but lacks the distinct white lines that go through the word "Pass."
- There's no reference to any of the 25 toll agencies or state transportation offices that participate in the E-ZPass program.
- The "from" line only says "E-ZPass Info" and includes an address associated with WordPress, a publicly available website-creation service.
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Yann LeCun, a professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been named the recipient of the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, which is given by the Computational Intelligence Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The award, which recognizes contributions to the field at least 15-year prior to the award, will be given to LeCun during the institute's 2014 World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Beijing in July.
LeCun is a pioneer in the field of machine learning, artificial neural networks, and pattern recognition. In the 1980s, LeCun proposed one of the early versions of the back-propagation algorithm, the most popular method for training artificial neural networks. In the late 1980s and early 1990s at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he developed the convolutional network model--a pattern- recognition model whose architecture mimics, in part, the visual cortex of animals and humans. AT&T eventually deployed a check-reading system--based on this breakthrough--that by the late 1990s was reading about 20 percent of all the checks written in the U.S.
LeCun is one of the leading scientists behind the recent surge of interest in "deep learning"-- the latest development in artificial intelligence in which researchers aim to emulate humans' auditory and visual systems. Deep learning methods, particularly convolutional networks, are used for a wide variety of applications--including speech and image recognition--by companies such as Google, NEC, Microsoft, IBM, and Baidu.
While at AT&T, LeCun made a series of breakthroughs in the area of machine learning, VLSI design, and image processing, including the co-creation of the DjVu system, a technology and computer file format designed to distribute scanned documents over the Internet.
LeCun's recent research projects include the application of deep learning methods to visual scene understanding, visual navigation for autonomous ground robot, driverless cars, and small flying robots, speech recognition, and applications in biology and medicine.
Earlier this year, LeCun became the founding director of NYU's Center for Data Science, a research and education institution focused on the automatic extraction of the knowledge from data, and on the application of massive data analysis to science, medicine, business, and government.


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Sprawled Out in Atlanta
What happens when poverty spreads to a place that wasn't built for poor people?
Cobb Parkway winds past the base of Kennesaw Mountain, where 150 years ago 4,000 soldiers died in one of the first, and bloodiest, battles of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. The mountain looms over business parks and industrial sites and, at certain times of day, casts a literal shadow over the roaring lanes of traffic. Thickets of signs for gas stations and fast food places line the parkway, but for the most part the tall Georgia pines and lush undergrowth still dominate the drive.
When you reach White Circle, you can turn east to get to Hamilton Grove, a relatively new subdivision of three- and four-bedroom two-story homes with high-ceilinged great rooms and luxurious master baths that sell in the $300,000s. Or you can turn west on White Circle until you get to a steep driveway that passes a retaining wall on which elegant brass letters read "The Foothills at Kennesaw Mountain." That sign is for what was intended to be an upscale shopping center, constructed in 2006 of stacked-stone walls and neutrally tasteful taupe stucco. Stores never opened here, and this little strip mall, like dozens scattered throughout Atlanta's suburbs, remained vacant, a victim of enthusiastic speculation and abandoned ambitions.
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In an apt metaphor for how the 2008 recession played out, the shopping center today does have a tenant, but it is not the upscale boutiques and restaurants envisioned by its developer; it's the offices of MUST Ministries, a full-service nonprofit catering to the surprising hidden crisis unfolding in Cobb County, which for decades has been synonymous with Atlanta's suburban affluence but now finds itself facing an epidemic of the very poverty its residents were determined to avoid when they moved out of the city. There's a food pantry, a free clinic, a thrift shop and classrooms where people who never thought they would ask for help are working on résumés, scouring electronic job boards and strategizing about how to avoid foreclosure. MUST was founded 43 years ago, initially to serve teens and college kids in Marietta, the Cobb County seat. From its origins as a coffee house aimed at urban youth, MUST mushroomed to offices in eight counties in the northern Atlanta suburbs. Demand for its services has never been higher.
"People went to suburbia for the American dream, and it became a nightmare," says Rev. Dwight "Ike" Reighard, MUST's president and CEO. "People have such little margin in their lives, it's staggering."
To fill in those margins, MUST provides services more often seen, or at least imagined, in the inner city: a "work recovery" shelter for the homeless and unemployed; veterans housing; rental assistance; job training; computer labs; health care. Last year its food pantry distributed $1.25 million in groceries. And over the summer MUST volunteers delivered 247,087 lunches to kids who usually rely on school to provide their one meal of the day. That's more than double what it was just four years ago.
There are a number of reasons you might know Cobb County. It is the birthplace of Julia Roberts, the former home of Newt Gingrich and the once—and possibly future—political province of Bob Barr, the former congressman best remembered for leading the impeachment fight against President Bill Clinton. Cobb is known for its good schools, lovely houses, rolling hills, wide-open spaces near the Chattahoochee River, and broad and winding parkways and highways. It is the future home of the Atlanta Braves, the successful suburban suitor that lured the team from its home in the heart of downtown Atlanta. "Low on taxes, big on business," trumpets the Cobb County government homepage.
Long considered the epitome of red-state suburban comfort, a quintessentially middle-class kind of place where the median income is $65,000 and people pride themselves on owning their own homes, Cobb County now has other superlatives attached to its name. Between 2000 and 2010, the county's poverty rate doubled to 12 percent. Just last month, the Urban Institute reported that of all counties in the United States, Cobb is where low-income people have the least chance of finding affordable places to live.
This is not an indictment of Cobb County in particular. Rather, what's happening in Cobb is a microcosm of the dilemma facing suburbs nationwide: a rapid spike in the number of poor people in what once were the sprawling beacons of American prosperity. Think of it as the flip side of the national urban boom: The poverty rate across all U.S. suburbs doubled in the first decade of the millennium—even as America's cities are transforming in the other direction, toward rising affluence and hipster reinvention. If the old story of poverty in America was crumbling inner cities and drug-addled housing projects, the new story is increasingly one of downscale strip malls and long bus rides in search of ever-scarcer jobs. We can't understand what's working in America's cities unless we also look at what's not working in the vast suburbs that surround them.
And there's a lot about Atlanta's suburbs that isn't working. Suburban poverty exploded here between 2000 and 2011, rising by 159 percent. Now, 88 percent of the region's poor people live in suburbs. On its face, there is nothing remarkable about that statistic; after all, metro Atlanta is huge (8,300 square-miles, about the size of Massachusetts), and its population keeps rising (it's now almost 6 million, equivalent to the population of Missouri). But fewer than 10 percent of us live in the city of Atlanta itself. So it would stand to reason that most poor people are suburbanites; most metro Atlantans are suburbanites, period.
In fact, however, the shift is remarkable. In the 1950s and 1960s, as suburbs like Cobb County sprung up in the pine forests and red clay of the farmland that used to surround Atlanta, it was wealthier people who fled the city while the poor stayed behind. By the 1970s, the poverty rate was about evenly split between the city of Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs. But over the past half-century, the urban poverty rate has held steady as the city's population continued to grow, drawing millennials and empty nesters, while in the suburbs it has ticked ever upward.
Poor and stranded in suburban Atlanta
This video installment of POLITICO Magazine What Works highlights a growing epidemic of suburban poverty in Atlanta, where notorious traffic has gridlock social mobility. Filmed by Mark Peterson. Produced by Michael Schwab. Narrated by Rebecca Burns.
For suburban Atlanta, as in suburbia nationwide, this shift presents some vexing problems. Designed around a car-centric culture of single-family homes clustered in cul-de-sacs served by strip centers and shopping malls, and fueled by jobs reached by commuting to downtown or suburban office parks, suburbs like Cobb County have struggled to respond to denser populations, increased congestion and, as a result of the 2008 recession, a decline in the middle-class jobs that made it all possible. Suburban Atlanta voters, including in Cobb County, have consistently rejected mass transit that might relieve their car dependency. And county zoning ordinances have continued to favor single-family housing over denser development, exacerbating the problem for the poor who are clustered there in ever greater numbers.


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Turkish officials are backtracking on an earlier statement that the suicide bomber who attacked a wedding ceremony was a child.
The prime minister says authorities are still trying to determine who carried out the attack, which killed at least 54 people, saying authorities didn't know if the perpetrator was a "child or a grown-up."
Speaking after a Cabinet meeting on Monday, Premier Binali Yildirim said "a clue hasn't yet been found concerning the perpetrator of the attack."
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had announced Sunday that the bomber was between 12 and 14.


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Cycling BC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 124 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
Cycling BC find us at http://www.cyclingbc.net
We want to rebrand our sport association with a modern, cutting edge logo. We want the graphic image to represent the cycling disciplines for British Columbia in Canada. Our old logo showed the mountains, the cyclist and the waves, but was staid, boring and static. We want a dynamic, 21st century logo that may or may not include the following element(s): cog, wheel, rider, mountains, ocean, symbols of western Canada cycling. The sport of cycling includes bmx, cyclo-cross, cross country and downhill mountain bike, track and road riding! The logo will be used for our website, print materials and clothing (fabric) and about 3-4 colours maximum, we're thinking that a silver/blue/green theme might be best to represent the roads and trails (silver), mountains and water (blue), and trees and eco-friendly sport (green).
Our target audience is cycling enthusiasts of all ages 4-80. Those who embrace the west coast, active lifestyle. Those who engage in new adventures and like a good challenge. We want to stand out, be professional, yet simple and bold.
The files we require are:
Print file format: .ai (CMYK)
Web file format: .jpg
Photoshop document: layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo!
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The '''2010 National Scout Jamboree''' Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting in the U.S.A.
The '''2010 National Scout Jamboree''' Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting in the U.S.A. place from July 25th - August 4th, 2010.
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The 2010 National Scout Jamboree Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting in the U.S.A. took place from July 25th - August 4th, 2010.
Fort A. P. Hill, located in the rolling hills of Caroline County, Virginia, near the towns of Fredericksburg and Bowling Green is an ideal facility to hold this major national Scout jamboree.
This 76,000-acre U.S. Army facility has served as the permanent site for the national Scout jamboree since 1981. The Boy Scouts of America uses approximately 3,000 acres of land to support a city of more than 40,000 Scouts and leaders.
Program features reflect the skills of Scouting, our national heritage, physical fitness, environmental conservation, and the true spirit of Scouting. Daily activities include archery, bikathlon, buckskin games, confidence course, conservation programs, scuba, kayak fun, racing shell run, and raft encounters. Regional action centers with rappelling towers are truly popular, as are trap shooting, an American Indian village, and the opening and closing arena shows, not to mention daily stage shows and many other activities. It's Scouting and American history at their very best!
Amid the thousands of colorful tents that will house participants and provide program and support services, there is an infrastructure that provides a safe and secure environment at Fort A. P. Hill. Everything from bus and telephone systems to a hospital and first-aid stations, police and fire departments, post offices, food warehouses, a daily newspaper, and retail stores (trading posts) provide all the support and program services needed for an outstanding event.
How To Attend the 2010 Jamboree
There are three ways to come to Fort A.P.Hill, Virginia for this event: as a participant in your local council contingent troops, or as a staffer, or as a visitor. Each way will have it's own set of rules that must be followed.
- Participant: Each council will establish a committee to manage their contingents for Jambo 2010, so you need to find out who your Council Chairman is. Only four adult slots are availabe per contingent troop, so apply early.
- Staff: To be on the national jamboree staff, you need to apply through your local council, be approved by your region, and be chosen by an area. You will be able to list what areas you prefer, but there is no guarantee.
- Visitor: To visit the jamboree, you can come as a group or individually, but the general rule is that you are suppossed to visit for only one day overall. (Reminder: Scout "units" visiting the Jamboree must file a National Tour Permit, regardless of distance.)
- Quote from Official 2010 National Scout Jamboree – Visitor page...
- "Every visitor to this year's Jamboree will be asked to become an 'Official Centennial Jamboree Supporter'.
- As an Official Centennial Jamboree Supporter, you will be asked at the gates to the visitor parking area for a $10 donation per person per day. This donation will help us to aid in the restoration of the site, as well as recover the expenses of visitor support (perform grounds clean-up, provide additional portable restrooms and sanitation stations, and enhance the many amenities and services provided for the visitors to the Jamboree). All visitors will receive a distinctive Visitor's Patch." — All information is subject to change, please check back frequently for updates.
- Note: For vehicles carrying eight or more persons, see the above referenced Visitor page for instructions.
External links
Official BSA websites
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- 2010 National Scout Jamboree information — Additional information from Hennings Scouters' Pages
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Obama: 'Still time' to resolve Iran nuke dispute
President Barack Obama says there is still time for the United States and Iran to resolve an impasse over Iran's nuclear program.
Obama said at a news conference Wednesday that there should be a way for Iran to enjoy "peaceful nuclear power" while still meeting international obligations and providing assurances that they are not developing nuclear weapons.
Obama said he "can't promise that Iran will walk through the door they need to walk through," but he wants to see a diplomatic solution.
Iran is weighing a more confrontational strategy over its nuclear program, threatening to boost levels of uranium enrichment unless the West agrees to ease sanctions that have harmed Iran's economy.
The White House has indicated willingness to pursue one-on-one talks with Iran, but no deal has been reached.


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Who is Rick Ross? Shoot-'em-up raises new questions
Rick Ross has always styled himself as a tough guy who grew up in Miami's cocaine cowboy-like underworld, mingling with drug traffickers and armed outlaws. The successful rapper has powered his way to the top of the hip-hop world with rhymes about his rags-to-riches life, scraping for food while his mother worked three jobs.
His critics and fellow rappers, however, have been relentless over the years, accusing the self-proclaimed "Boss" of rap of letting his thirst for riches get in the way of the facts of his life.
So when he was caught in a fusillade of bullets on Las Olas Boulevard earlier this week — all of them missing the 300-pound rapper, his girlfriend and the Rolls-Royce they were riding in — it resurrected questions about the real Rick Ross.
Some, including fellow rapper and nemesis 50 Cent, have said it's difficult to believe that anyone firing that many shots would miss such a large target. They essentially accused Ross of staging the shooting to boost his larger-than-life image.
They have good reason to wonder, since Ross has not always adhered to literal truth in his self-portrayals. He was outed in 2008 as once having a respectable career as a Florida prison guard. At first, he denied the notion, but was forced to come clean when The Smoking Gun website printed his Florida Department of Corrections personnel record, which included a citation for perfect attendance. Then a former drug trafficker named "Freeway" Rick Ross sued him for stealing his moniker, which Ross claimed was morphed from his many high school nicknames. The lawsuit further dented Ross' credibility in the rap world.
Fort Lauderdale police are investigating this week's gunfire, and have released few details and have no suspects. But Ross does have his enemies, chief among them a gang named the Gangster Disciples, who have demanded The Boss pay them for using one of their leader's names in his songs. In November, the Florida branch of the gang posted a video threatening to kill him if he doesn't pay up. But the shoot-'em-up has not been tied to the gang.
After the incident, Ross beefed-up his security, but has yet to publicly comment. His lawyer, Allan Zamren, declined to address the matter. His publicist has not returned phone calls.
So who is Rick Ross?
Ross, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, came from a middle-class family with educated parents, earned average grades in high school and was a standout football lineman his senior year. He won a football scholarship, became a prison guard, then, suddenly, completely changed gears.
By 2006, Ross at the age of 30 was on the verge of rap mega-stardom. His first two albums debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart. His second single, Push It, was an homage to the movie Scarface. His first album went gold.
Last year, Ross seemed to make it to the pinnacle of his fame as both a rapper and the founder of Maybach Music Group, despite the furor over his past. He made the cover of Rolling Stone, unabashedly shirtless, pants hanging low, wearing his signature dark shades. The headline: "Gangster of Love.''
Ross has been nominated for a Grammy Award this year for best rap album, for his fifth studio album, God Forgives, I Don't.
He is not the only rapper to embellish his image for financial gain. Street cred is part of the theater of rap, an element woven into the fabric of the genre's culture. In fact, rap is often fiction layered with characters. Rappers taking on personas — the kingpin, the baller, the epic lover, are as old as the music genre itself, no different in some ways than movie roles played by actors, said author and scholar Todd Boyd, a University of Southern California professor who specializes in the study of race and popular culture.
William Leonard Roberts II was born in Mississippi, but moved to Carol City when he was young. His mother was a nurse and his father, whom she divorced, had earned several educational degrees. Until Ross was 14, he lived in a tidy corner house in a hard-scrabble neighborhood around the corner from Carol City High, where he later played football under legendary coach Walter Frazier.
"He wasn't an angel. We used to get on him about missing practices, especially when it was hot," Frazier recalls. "Football was important to him, and he hung with a special group of guys — fun-loving guys who all went out together.''
One of them was Ross' lifelong best friend, Alfonzo Morgan, who, like Ross, played football and had hopes of going to the NFL. They both won scholarships to Albany State University in Georgia. Ross dropped out after one semester in which he majored in criminal justice, according to a university spokesman.
Two years later, Morgan also left, homesick and tired of the academic rigors.
"He was cool, and we were together practically every day," Morgan said. He said they pretty much stayed out of trouble, other than an occasional shoplifting or stiffing a cab driver. The friends were both hefty and called each other "Fat Boy" from the time they were kids.
Frazier said Ross' nickname in high school was "Big Bill," and he was far from the thug or gangster that he writes about.
They were typical teenage boys, Frazier said. They were part of community programs, and his mother participated in the team's booster program, he said. "He was no different from the other kids, an average student, well liked.''
His neighborhood, now part of Miami Gardens, is cleaned up. The house at 17th Avenue and 181st Street is pink, with three bedrooms and one bath. If Ross initially grew up in a rough neighborhood, he didn't stay. In 1992, when Ross was 16, county records show that his mother, Tommie Roberts, purchased a 2,300 square foot home in Rolling Oaks Estates, an upscale cul-de-sac community in Miami Gardens. Ross was always tinkering with cars, and drove a blue and white Chevy Impala to school, Frazier recalled.
"What I most remember is he used to remove the steering wheel and carry it with him so that the car wouldn't be stolen.''
He always wore flashy threads and was popular with the ladies.
Morgan said Ross always talked about music and never was without a notepad, upon which he would scribble lyrics incessantly.
"He wrote on that pad so much that it was actually aggravating,'' Morgan said. "He always had headphones on, listening to rap.''
But after dropping out of college, Ross' mother pressured him to go to work so that he would stay away from the grittier realities of street life, Morgan said..
In 1995, at the age of 19, he graduated from the training academy and was hired as an officer at the South Florida Reception Center, a prison facility. When he resigned two years later, he was earning $25,000 a year.
Morgan said Ross had bigger dreams. He and Morgan had long envied the prestige and cash that the drug dealers were earning on the streets of Carol City, so they began to drift on the other side of the law. Ross changed his appearance, covering himself in tattoos, growing a scruffy beard and flaunting a new streetwise, dangerous persona.
Morgan ended up serving time in jail for drug dealing, but Ross, whose fourth album was titled Teflon Don, seemed to avoid anything more serious than a couple of arrests for marijuana.
Morgan, who now works at a Publix warehouse, was with Ross at his birthday bash at LIV club in the Fontainebleau Sunday. He said he spoke with Ross on Thursday, but they didn't talk about the shooting.
"He's pretty much seen what I'd seen growing up,'' Morgan said. "We would be playing outside and seeing drugs and other bad stuff.''
Rapping about that "bad stuff" made Ross rich. He claims to have earned $40 million.
Frazier said he was shocked when he learned who "Ross" was. He happened to see him on television and was taken aback by some of the language in his music.
When he saw Ross a few years later, the rapper told him, "Hey coach, I have to make a dollar.''
"I guess you have to do what you have to do to be popular and sell records,'' Frazier said.
But he praised Ross for remembering where he came from by supporting the school and its football program. At one appearance in Carol City, he warned young kids who look up to him against being fixated on the money and fast life he portrays.
Florida rapper Haitian Fresh, who has known Ross for years and has worked with him, called him "a perfect example of an artist that has never given up. He's constantly reinventing himself and went against all odds."
Fresh dismissed talk of Ross's middle class upbringing and past as "he-say, she-say" speculation.
"The only person who knows Rick Ross is Rick Ross," he said.
Miami herald staff writers Jacqueline Charles and Nadege Green contributed to this story.


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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Michael Douglas says he and his estranged wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, are working toward a reconciliation.
The couple have been married for 13 years and are the parents of two children, but they have been living apart for several months after their marriage underwent the strain of Douglas' battle with throat cancer and Zeta-Jones' treatment for bipolar disorder.
Douglas thanked his wife in his Emmy Award acceptance speech in Los Angeles Sunday night, even though Zeta-Jones did not attend the event with him.
"We're working things out, talking, and we'll see how she goes," Douglas told People.com before the ceremony.
Douglas, 68, won the Emmy for his portrayal of entertainer Liberace in the TV movie "Behind the Candelabra."


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FREMONT — Three people suffered minor injuries after a car slammed into a utility pole and caught fire just before noon Thursday in the Cherry-Guardino neighborhood, police said.
Police and fire crews were dispatched at 11:56 a.m. to Walnut Avenue, just off Mission Boulevard near Overacker Avenue, after the car reportedly crashed into the wooden pole and almost knocked it over, police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said.
Witnesses told dispatchers that the pole caught fire, and the vehicle was engulfed in flames.
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The impact shut down several signal lights on Walnut Avenue, and some residents in the area lost power.
PG&E crews responded to restore power, and Bear Electric has responded to the scene to address the pole, Bosques said.
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