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Thursday, August 19, 2010
bento lunch: first Lock & Lock of 3rd grade
Clockwise from top left: pickles, wheat crackers with cheddar cheese stars, grapes, fishies.
I really love the convenience of this box. It's always packs up in a flash and holds just the right amount of food so that Ethan eats all the food completely and is perfectly satisfied. I've been using this "4 square" (as I call it) Lock & Lock since he was in Kindergarten and it is still one of my top choices. :)
Someone always asks "where did you get those little boxes that fit in there so perfectly?" and the answer is - they come with it! It's sold that way as a set. :) And though I most often to use all 4 inner boxes with this Lock & Lock, it is nice to have the option of removing a couple for more versatility in lunch packing. By leaving out two of the squares you can easily fit in a whole sandwich if you cut the sandwich in half and stack the halves!
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- Kelly Polizzi said... [Reply to comment]
Looking at your posts, I am starting to really like this box which i have never been keen on. Maybe I'll get me one!
- August 19, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Sherri said... [Reply to comment]
Great ideas! I have a 3 year old daughter I'd like to try Bento-type lunches with! Not sure where to start, though.
Also, how do you keep the meals cold until lunchtime? Do you just rely on the insulation in the lunch boxes?
Thanks and great ideas! :) Very creative!
- August 19, 2010 at 4:12 PM
- Kandi said... [Reply to comment]
yes, a great question from sherri about keeping the meals cold! you stick them in a lunch bag with a freezer pack?
- August 19, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Yes, I put the bento box in a lunch bag with an icepack (usually two!). They are nice and cold at lunchtime and usually pretty chilly still when they come home at the end of the day!
- August 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Ludicrous Mama said... [Reply to comment]
If you send them with cheese, meats, grapes, juice boxes, GoGurts, etc, you can always freeze them first as well. They thaw nicely by lunchtime!
- August 20, 2010 at 1:49 PM
- Kira said... [Reply to comment]
New to your blog, question for you. Do you think you could put dip in one of the sections and it would not leak out?
- August 31, 2010 at 9:23 PM
- Ausmerican Housewife said... [Reply to comment]
^Kira, you can put dips and things in the compartments but they do tend to spill over to the other compartments if the box is placed on its side in a backpack. If kept flat, no worries.
I have OODLES of Lock & Lock containers at home. You could use this one and take out 2 compartments to fit in a frozen juicebox to keep it cold. That's what I do.
- August 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM
If this is your 3rd grader lunch, than he must not eat much. My 3 year old eats this much. It certainly would not be enough for my 2nd grader. Am I missing something?
- August 19, 2012 at 1:43 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Nope, you're not missing anything. My oldest has never been a big eater at school. My two youngest eat much more than he does also.
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A member of the French men's gymnastics team suffered a horrific injury Saturday that ended his Olympic hopes in Rio.
Samir Ait Said broke his left leg below the knee during his dismount on the vault on Day 1 of the qualification round. His leg snapped in the wrong direction when he landed and the sound could be heard throughout the arena, The Associated Press reported.
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Actavis spokesman David Belian and Valeant spokes woman Laurie Little both declined to comment.
Canada's Valeant was seeking to buy smaller U.S. rival Actavis for more than $13 billion before the discussions started to unravel late this week because of disagreements on the proposed terms, the source said. It was not clear on Saturday if the merger could be revived.
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Cardinal DiNardo blogs as conclave for new pope begins
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo might be in Rome preparing to elect the new Pope, but he will be keeping in touch with local Catholics on the archdiocese's website.
A new page, archgh.org/conclave, launched this week with background information on the secret election process for a new pope, live updates from the Vatican's news office and a new blog about DiNardo's trip titled, "When in Rome."
"That will be updated as frequently as we get a post from the cardinal, whenever he has time available," said Jonah Dycus of the archdiocese's communications office. "Obviously, when the conclave starts there will be no transmissions."
On Monday, DiNardo reflected on the theological contributions of Pope Benedict XVI and the challenges he faced as pontiff in a post to his usual blog, Cardinal's Corner, which can be found at archgh.org/blog.
"The evaluation of his Papacy, like the evaluations of the Cardinals who will enter the Conclave in March, are marked frequently in the secular media, and even in some Catholic media, by an almost purely political and reductionist form of thinking," he wrote. "In some ways this is to be expected, but such analyses dilute more important spiritual and theological considerations that must be kept in mind as well."
Since the Pope announced his resignation Feb. 11, DiNardo often has described Benedict as one of the church's greatest thinkers and writers.
"If there were two concepts and realities that have been the focus of his teaching as Pope they would be: "Caritas" (Love) and "Logos" (Word)," he wrote.
DiNardo said the pope faced the continuing sex abuse scandal, problems within the Roman Curia and global issues such as war and religious freedom with as a humble worker.
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Trying to replace delicious, pinboard.in, and catch with diigo
I keep trying out one more cloud based task/time/knowledge management tool, hoping it will replace several of my too many others. While browsing around the Chrome store looking for tools that sync with android, I discovered diigo. The highlight feature is really slick! I've been hoping for that feature as far back as the Amaya papers and talks from 2000. Plus, it does bookmarking and note taking. But it's not as smooth as I'd like. I wonder if that's inherent in the attempt to do so many things.
A pleasant surprise from diigo: the chrome search bar
Chrome merged the address bar and the search field a while ago. The diigo chrome extension notifies you when you search for things that match items in your library, so you don't have to build a new habit.
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The original delicous bookmarklet clearly hit the sweet spot for bookmarking:
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- add some tags
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- It takes over the whole page (and takes too much time doing so). So you can't consult the page as you add your notes.
- When you hit save, it takes you to your library rather than back to the page you were on.
Diigo has a twitter archive feature, but
- It archives only favorites, not tweets I wrote, unless pay a monthly fee. (Pinboard isn't free, but the fee is one time.)
- It loses critical context, i.e. who wrote the tweet.
- It lumps tweets in with notes I wrote in places like their Quick Notes chrome application
Why Diigo hasn't replaced Catch for gtd-style collecting
Catch supports gtd-style collecting and processing really well:
- With their android widget or shortcut, touch to start adding a note.
- Type a few words to capture what's on my mind... or more often: hit the speech input button and say a few words.
- Hit save, knowing catch will sync with the cloud momentarily.
I hope the diigo Powernotes android app gets there. Both catch and diigo let me log in using my google apps accounts, but:
- Early releases required manual sync, which completely defeated the purpose of getting things off my mind, since I had to think about whether I had sync'd or not. I'm glad that's fixed.
- Catch has "pin note to homescreen," which is handy for journaling; PowerNote doesn't seem to have anything like that. "Pin list to home screen" would be handy.
- Saving a note without a title fails silently. This is particularly painful since the speech-to-text note taking feature defaults to an empty title. Throwing away the knowledge I just entrusted to it is pretty much the unforgivable sin for a knowledge management app. The feedback feature is really simple and the developer acknowledged my feedback right away, though, so perhaps I'll give it another chance.
- I can't find an easy way to list all (and only) the thoughts I collected. It supports filing notes into lists, and one of the options is "Recent notes," but that's a tease: there is no "Recent notes" when I go to view my lists. Diigo bookmarking supports the "read later" bit a la pinboard, but I don't see how to set that bit on notes. It would be handy to have a unified "read later" collection of notes/bookmarks/highlights.
Diigo for shopping? What was I thinking?
I sure wish Amazon helped me record why I'm adding to my wishlist, e.g. who recommended it, which features or review comments I'm particularly interested in. I can annotate items if I switch to viewing the whole list, but the first thing Amazon does after I hit "add to wishlist" is distract me from recording what's on my mind with offers for other products. So I did a little research on home theater systems using diigo. But while shopping does involve research, there's really a lot more to it, and Amazon is a huge machine finely tuned to help with the whole process. Amazon's universal wishlist button helps some. Besides, as we learn from gtd, the most important thing to do after capturing a thought is to put it in context where you will next act on it. And for online shopping, that place is Amazon more often than not.
Diigo community and tools
The diigo community and development team appeals to the hacker, the researcher, and the closet-librarian in me. I haven't found many familiar names/faces in the diigo community yet. The business model (freemium, with a focus on the education market) seems sensible to me, but I don't have much confidence in my ability to pick viable web businesses. (I've been involved in the web pretty much since it started; I wonder if I'd be ahead or behind if I'd invested in the web businesses I liked when I learned about them...) With a new owner for delicious, it may be time to take another look. The delicious crowd is large enough to display some wisdom in, for example, finding interesting new python programming resources. And I once discovered that a colleague subscribed to my family movie bookmarks.
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"After the acquisition, Sobeys will be a leading grocer in Western Canada and the largest grocer in Alberta, an attractive, high-growth market," president and chief executive Paul Sobey said Wednesday.
"This acquisition represents a unique and highly strategic opportunity for Sobeys to leverage its existing asset base, effectively creating a new platform for growth."
Empire Co. Ltd. (TSX:EMP.A), the Nova Scotia-based parent of the Sobeys chain, said the cash deal will give it $1.8 billion of real estate.
The transaction to buy Canada Safeway Ltd., which has 213 stores, will be completed through Empire's wholly-owned Sobeys Inc. subsidiary. Included in the transaction are 199 in-store pharmacies and 62 gas stations on the Safeway properties.
Empire Co. will also own 10 liquor stores, four distribution centres and 12 manufacturing facilities as part of the deal.
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Sobeys owns or franchises more than 1,300 stores across Canada under several banners that include Sobeys, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, and Thrifty Foods.
The company noted the acquisition positions it to compete more effectively within the changing and increasingly competitive grocery retail landscape in Canada.
In addition to traditional rivals like Loblaw (TSX:L) and Metro Inc.(TSX:MRU), major U.S. retail players like Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Target (NYSE:TGT) have been making inroads in Canada with a broad selection of food items in their stores.
Safeway Inc. chief executive Robert Edwards told analysts in a conference call that the offer to buy its Canadian operations came directly from Empire Co.
"An auction process was not run and this was an unsolicited offer," he said.
"We believe that this transaction maximized the value of our Canadian assets."
In its last financial year, Safeway delivered $6.7 billion in sales. The California-based company has some 1,400 stories in the U.S.
Safeway said the proceeds from the sale will go to paying down debt and buying back stock, and may also be used to invest in "growth opportunities."
However, an analyst at Gimme Credit labelled the transaction credit neutral for Safeway, noting the store's Canadian operations have earnings margins nearly twice as high as the overall company.
About 60 per cent of the properties are in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg.
Empire's spun out Crombie real estate investment trust will have the first opportunity to buy any of the $1 billion in real estate assets the company plans to sell.
Empire expects the transaction to close in the fourth-quarter and immediately add to adjusted net earnings per share.
Wayne Hanley, national president of UFCW Canada, which represents thousands of Canada Safeway and Sobeys workers, said the union has asked for talks with Sobeys to discuss the takeover.
"While the purchase of Canada Safeway by Sobeys is a significant change in the Canadian food retail landscape, what has not changed are the collective agreements in place with both employers," Hanley said.
"We do expect Sobeys to live up to the labour commitments in place at Canada Safeway and have no reason to doubt they will."
Stock in Empire, which made the announcement after markets closed, was down 97 cents, or 1.41 per cent, at $67.61 Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Weasel Returns to the Radio on WTMD - Saturday Programming Changes
Saturdays are back when Weasel spins the tunes on WTMD! Thousands of us
know just how important Weasel is to music and the Baltimore/Washington
region. We grew up with him introducing us to bands like REM and
singers like Alison Moyet, now we're thrilled a whole new generation of
mus...ic lovers will get know why their parents voices get a little softer when they remember the good old days of radio.
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Woo hoo! Welcome back! My memories of Weasel go way back before new bands like REM... ;->
- November 4, 2010 at 11:44:00 AM EDT
- Pogo said...
Congrats, Weas!
Though it was a pleasure when our shifts would be one after the other back in the WHFS days, I'm very pleased to see that you're doing what you were born to do!
- November 4, 2010 at 12:15:00 PM EDT
- timothy said...
welcome back weasel, fond memories of the old HFS days from downtown B-Town
- November 4, 2010 at 6:19:00 PM EDT
- Brian said...
Fantastic, we are looking forward to hearing your program. Play a the Monks!!
- November 4, 2010 at 8:24:00 PM EDT
- Artistlady said...
I am so thrilled to hear Weasel back on the airwaves! I was a longtime listener and it's such a treat to hear his voice and playing the songs I love!
I'm hooked and spreading the word!
Welcome back Weasel!! I hope you stick around for a long time!
- November 6, 2010 at 1:25:00 PM EDT
Fantastic to have Weasel back on the air, but no "Pop Goes the Weasel" intro? Come on -- don't short-change us!
- November 6, 2010 at 1:38:00 PM EDT
- Lenora said...
I was delighted when I tuned in this afternoon and recognized Weasel's voice. One of my favorite DJs ever. Love his background stories and especially love his Christmas song sets. Welcome back to the Balto metro airwaves Weasel!!
- November 6, 2010 at 1:47:00 PM EDT
- It's Uncle Jim said...
More than delighted to hear the return of my DJ hero Weasel, a constant companion throughout the 1980s! I'm in LA now, but hearing him back in form is like being back home in Washington, DC.
- November 6, 2010 at 2:00:00 PM EDT
Thank you Weasel and WTMD! So great to hear you live on the air again.
Andy Arbutus
- November 6, 2010 at 2:59:00 PM EDT
I am listening to TMD now because I grew up on Weasel and others back in 72 during my senior year of High School. Good job to TMD for knowing how to support popular music and for recognizing your own tradition from nearly 40 years ago. I don't listen at 1am as often as I used to.
- November 6, 2010 at 3:31:00 PM EDT
Thank you, WTMD, for snagging Weasel, a true walking encyclopedia of rock 'n' roll. I look forward to continuing my musical education (begun 30 years ago with WHFS), under the tutelage of Jedi Weasel.
- November 6, 2010 at 3:36:00 PM EDT
WHFS and Weasel! Imagine my surprise when I turned on WTMD and was knocked back into my youth. Kudos to WTMD for making such a good choice.
- November 6, 2010 at 4:33:00 PM EDT
- Mark said...
That photo is from when Weasel was telling me to go to Penguin Feathers because they held the records.
- November 7, 2010 at 12:30:00 PM EST
Glad to hear Weasel playing good music since he truly has an encyclopedia of information in his head. PLEASE, though, go easy on the endless cutesy talk as we outgrew that when a huge number of your listeners were in high school in the 70's,(WHFS, Bethesda). Stick to the great music, less talk model!
- November 10, 2010 at 8:45:00 AM EST
Welcome Back Weasel! This is yet another reason why I and so many other "music people" in this town love WTMD! Happy to hear you back on the air, and looking forward to your show and all the knowledge you provide as well! Way to go WTMD!
- November 11, 2010 at 8:48:00 AM EST
Yea! Weasel's back! Never thought when I was listening to you on HFS that in the future I'd listen to you online (what's that?) from Portland, OR.
Can you feature The Daily Feed, too?
What a great way to start my Saturday mornings!
KB - Portland, OR
- November 12, 2010 at 12:58:00 PM EST
Listened to the show yesterday for the first time and it was PERFECT radio...great song selection, smart and informative analysis between songs, artfully constructed set-lists -- BRAVO! Weasel is a first-rate talent who has forgotten more about Rock-and-Roll than most of us ever knew. BIG kudos to WTMD for getting him back on the air where he belongs!
- November 14, 2010 at 9:21:00 AM EST
I heard Weasel on Saturday and called my buddy who has a vast collection of Weasel tapes from HFS dating back to the '70's. This is the best thing to happen to a fantastic one-of-a-kind-thank-goodness radio station. Hope that Weasel can get "Bob" to do a guest appearance. Phew, thank you god!!!!!
- November 16, 2010 at 10:19:00 AM EST
- Ron said...
I was glad I didn't hear the same music I heard him play on "The Globe" morning show during my recent stint in N.VA in 2008. His first show was a nice mix. How about a guest appearance from Bob Here (sic) and even some of the old WGTB (Steve Lorebear sic- and Joe Sasafy of The Mystic Eyes Show.) DJ's?
- November 17, 2010 at 4:42:00 PM EST
- Robbie White said...
How do I get requests to Weasel on saturdays?
- December 2, 2010 at 10:35:00 AM EST
I left work on saturday and hit the dial and Lo and Behold my guru Weasel was back where he belongs. Called friends in Fla,Ca and North Beach.This man taught us so much. Thank you TMD!
- December 2, 2010 at 9:17:00 PM EST
the first time I heard Weasel was 30 years ago. I was waiting in the car for my Mom in the Route 140 shopping center parking lot in Westminster. I had just moved to Maryland and as teenager who loved music was really excited to find what I thought was a hip local college station in cow town. Who was this DJ without the DJ voice and where the heck was Beathesda? Great to hear you again Weasel!
- December 4, 2010 at 3:37:00 PM EST
- Rick said...
Welcome back, Weasel... WHFS fan from the mid-late seventies and found you during an unrelated search for one of my kids' school reports. You gotta love the interwebz. It's certainly fate and I am looking forward to Saturday!
- December 9, 2010 at 9:38:00 PM EST
I've heard Weasle's show a few times now and I'm still not sure what it is I'm supposed to be nostalgic for. I'm feeling left out of this 'welcome back Weasel' moment. Maybe describe what made the 'glory days of radio' so great to those of us who either weren't born or didn't live in the Baltimore/Washington metro during Weasel's day.
- December 13, 2010 at 2:50:00 PM EST
- dave said...
I tuned on 89.7 today while driving. Great music - then I heard the voice of the legenday Weasel. Unbelievable. It's been a long space trip since Cordell Avenue.
- December 18, 2010 at 5:08:00 PM EST
What a great holiday gift. Welcome back Weasel, and thanks to WTMD for streaming over the net so we can listen out here in the hills of Virginia.
- December 20, 2010 at 3:38:00 PM EST
- Peter said...
I guess I haven't been turning on the radio for Saturdays for a while, but there was a huge pile of dishes that would last longer than a CD. So, today TMD was on. I first noticed the voice, not the music, and thought "how distinctive", among other thoughts. But made no connection. It'd been too long.
Then, I flipped over the long "year" themed set, thinking "I love this DJ. What is this show?"
Then finally Weasel intro'd himself before digging into the great play by play of the set.
WELCOME BACK! I just saw Pirate Radio last weekend - you and Damian were the radio pirates of my life when I hit Baltimore in '88.
I am replaying fond memories of the great DJ's of my life going back to Alsion Steel the Night Bird and Zachery on NY radio. Radio heroes, like Weasel.
Thanks so much to WTMD for doing something so fine. Play on!
- January 8, 2011 at 1:38:00 PM EST
Weasel is the BEST DJ I have ever heard!! From my UofMD College Park WHFS days to now. Always amazed at the musical depth and interelated song groupings you play. And the artist knowledge you have is PHENOMENAL! Give me 100 more years!
Joe R.
- January 21, 2011 at 10:08:00 PM EST
Weasel is the BEST DJ I have ever heard!! From my UofMD College Park WHFS days to now. Always amazed at the musical depth and interelated song groupings you play. And the artist knowledge you have is PHENOMENAL! Give me 100 more years!
Joe R.
- January 21, 2011 at 10:15:00 PM EST
I live in NYC now, but loved listening to Weasel on WHFS when I was a Baltimoron! Rock on Weasel!!
- February 10, 2011 at 6:56:00 PM EST
Is Weasel still on there?
- February 11, 2011 at 2:46:00 AM EST
Rock goes the Weasel! You haven't lost a step. I've got tapes of WHFS (then W???, renamed WRNR) that go back to '83...Shouldn't you have aged by now???? Googling 'Bob Here,' maybe we can get him back.
John Here in Mt. Rainier, Md.
- March 12, 2011 at 4:54:00 AM EST
Weasel's "Sun" show last week was great. I love the trivia he throws in with the imaginative music programing. I was playing his show on a boom box on my deck, and the next thing I knew I was being joined by the whole neighborhood ! How do I see his play list ? It doesn't show up on WTMD's play list.
- March 22, 2011 at 12:27:00 PM EDT
Just saw the update about Weasel in The Washington Post magazine for Sunday, 4/9...so I am tuned in online to hear my favorite DJ of all time, from my youth growing up in Silver Spring!
- April 9, 2011 at 11:59:00 AM EDT
As one of the "frontmen" in Dusty's kitchen at the Psychedelly, and as one of Wease's BIGGEST fans - and sometimes "pain-in-the-ass" neighbors - it was great to read the Post's article about his return to radio in the area. This IS Wease's area! Play what you like bro', it's ALL GOOD!
Mike L.
- April 15, 2011 at 3:55:00 PM EDT
- Tom said...
I was trying to see how my truck video player was supposed to play over the lowest radio frequencies and I stumbled upon WTMD. Simply enough I began to listen, saw they had an iPhone app, downloaded it and continued listening. That was yesterday. Tonight we are getting ready for my 3 year old, Jacqueline McCarty, birthday tomorrow. The only thing cooler than that was hearing WEASEL this evening! iPods and iPhones are great, but nothing compares to the mix and knowledge of the Great Weasel. Please, please, please don't let him go! This is what I want to raise my kids on. Peace brother.
- April 15, 2011 at 9:19:00 PM EDT
- Tom said...
I was trying to see how my truck video player was supposed to play over the lowest radio frequencies and I stumbled upon WTMD. Simply enough I began to listen, saw they had an iPhone app, downloaded it and continued listening. That was yesterday. Tonight we are getting ready for my 3 year old, Jacqueline McCarty, birthday tomorrow. The only thing cooler than that was hearing WEASEL this evening! iPods and iPhones are great, but nothing compares to the mix and knowledge of the Great Weasel. Please, please, please don't let him go! This is what I want to raise my kids on. Peace brother.
- April 15, 2011 at 9:21:00 PM EDT
- Maryann said...
Where on the WTMD webpage can I find Weasel's playlists?
- April 23, 2011 at 6:13:00 PM EDT
Dean says...Many thanks to WTMD for bringing back Weasel to add to it's on-air talent! To understand Weasels relevance, read the essay "Remembering Those Frantic Fridays" at "Camarillo Brillo" (http://incaroads-wvkayaker.blogspot.com/). For all listeners (young and old), "It's A Party Weekend" as WTMD continues it's tradition of contemporary music for the hardcore listener...
- May 14, 2011 at 11:58:00 AM EDT


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Home treatment methods can help reduce the itchiness of the chickenpox rash. Try the following suggestions to make you or your child more comfortable and keep scratching under control.
Warm to cool baths can help relieve itching. Take baths for 20 to 30 minutes as often as needed to stay clean and soothe your itchy skin. Always stay with young children when they are in a bathtub.
You can apply cool compresses to itchy areas.
You can apply soothing lotions that can help dry chickenpox blisters. But talk to your doctor before using lotions that contain antihistamines. You could try lotions with:
Some general hygiene practices can help prevent skin irritation and scratching.
Lotions or creams that contain antihistamines should not be used for chickenpox. But sometimes antihistamines that are taken by mouth will help relieve itching.
It can be especially challenging to control a child's scratching. Try the following methods to help keep your child from itching the rash or help prevent skin infection that can result from scratching:
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The federal government will not require internet companies to store people's web browsing history as part of its new counter-terrorism plans, despite the prime minister suggesting it would.
Tony Abbott created confusion around the suite of measures today when he tried to explain what types of customer metadata telecommunications companies would be required to keep for two years.
While it's expected the information about Australians' calls, texts and emails will be included, Mr Abbott suggested web browser history could also be captured.
"It's not what you're doing on the internet, it's the sites you're visiting," he told the Nine Network on Wednesday morning.
"It's not the content, it's just where you've been, so to speak."
But the prime minister's office later clarified his statement, saying browser history was not metadata and government agencies would still need a warrant to access such information.
Defending the data-retention plans, Mr Abbott described metadata as not being the "content of the letter but what's on the envelope".
In relation to mobile phones, metadata includes information such as origin and destination phone numbers, the billing name and address of both parties, time and duration of the correspondence, and the telecommunications tower used.
It does not include the content of the correspondence.
Online metadata covers the user-specific internet identifier code, IP addresses visited and the time, duration and number of visits.
It does not include the content of web browsing.
Mr Abbott said telecommunications companies already kept such information, and the government was simply asking them to continue to do so.
"I have no doubt the civil libertarian brigade will do their best to stop this but my responsibility as prime minister is to keep our country safe," he said.
"All of the expert advice from every single counter-terrorist agency is that this information is absolutely essential if we are to maintain our vigilance against terrorist activity."
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Labor respected the fact that national security laws needed updating for the modern age.
"But we also have concerns that when you store so much information about so many Australians that this needs to be done very carefully and in a considered way ... so there is no risk that ordinary Australians are being treated as if they are criminals," he said.
Mr Shorten was also concerned that internet service providers might pass the cost of their data storage on to customers.
Attorney-General George Brandis said the electronic signature of websites could be recorded under the new laws, but clicks within a particular website would not.
"When you visit a website, people browse from one thing to the next (within the same site)," he told Sky News.
"That browsing history won't be retained and there won't be any capacity to access that."
However, the metadata being sought by agencies included the electronic addresses of visited websites, which computer accessed them, the time they were accessed and the durations, he said.


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My client is a hetero 40-something guy who does hair in Hollywood. He is very cool. Fit, tattooed, no piercings. He is equally comfortable with musicians, famous actors, and lawyers. He needs extra money because he's been paying for his dad's cancer treatments. He's so not a self-promoter and he is successful because he exudes cool. So, the challenge here is to make this feel like an insider's secret rather than a desperate attempt to drum up business.
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A lot of Hollywood people go there. It is a low profile place that's very high end and hip.
We are targeting people in their 20s-40s; 70% male/30% female. musicians, actors, lawyers, entertainment industry professionals. I guess we're trying to keep to the same demographic, but just get existing clients to pull in new, similar people. Brides fly in to get highlights and a cut with him, as much as dudes who are much less buffed and polished.
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BOSTON – A former Plymouth County prosecutor says he could call sitting judges, current and former district attorneys and defense lawyers as witnesses if his lawsuit against his former boss, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz, goes to trial.
A disclosure filed by John Bradley last week in U.S. District Court lists 42 people who he says could testify to his skill as a prosecutor, Cruz's alleged mishandling of his office and the treatment prosecutors have faced when they refused to support Cruz's campaign for re-election. Bradley has accused Cruz and his top staff of firing him because he refused to donate to the campaign and had raised questions about Cruz's handling of witnesses.
Attorneys hired to represent Cruz's office have repeatedly denied Bradley's claims, saying the prosecutor was an unhappy employee who was fired for his insubordination, not because he refused to support the district attorney's re-election. The two sides agreed in May to try to settle their dispute through mediation, but a magistrate judge determined after a meeting earlier this month that they were unlikely to reach an agreement and should prepare for trial instead.
The witnesses that could be called to testify at that trial include Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley, former Plymouth County District Attorney Michael Sullivan, and Judges Richard Chin and Frank Gaziano, according to the disclosure filed by Bradley last week. It also includes defense lawyers Bradley has faced in the courtroom.
Asked why the judges and district attorneys would be called to testify, Robert Sinsheimer, an attorney hired by Bradley to represent him in the lawsuit, said only that his client "is an extremely talented prosecutor and we would definitely call as witnesses people who know that."
Bradley was fired from Cruz's office in 2012 and has since taken a job prosecuting homicide cases for the Worcester County district attorney's office.
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Hollywood on course for biggest summer box office in 2013
Hollywood is on course for its biggest ever summer box office in the US despite several high profile flops.
Big budget films The Lone Ranger, Will Smith's After Earth and animation Turbo all hugely underperformed in America.
However figures show studio films have earned $4.1bn (£2.6bn), close to 2011's previous high of $4.4bn (£2.8bn).
Sci-fi Elysium, from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, topped this week's North American chart earning $30.5m (£19.7m) in its opening weekend.
Starring Matt Damon and South African actor Sharlto Copley, the film had a fairly modest debut after costing $115m (£74.3m) to make.
Elysium matched studio expectations but opened with a lower figure than director Blomkamp's surprise 2009 low-budget hit, which took $37.3m (£24.1m) in its first three days.
Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony, said Elysium would be "very profitable", adding "international is going to be the big, big win on this film for us".
In a crowded week for new releases, Jennifer Aniston's comedy We're The Millers took the second slot with $26.6m (£17.2m) while Disney animation Planes took $22.5m ($14.5m).
The weekend's takings brought 2013's total box office to $7bn (£4.5bn) so far.
Sci-fi Pacific Rim and Jeff Bridges' action comedy R.I.P.D were other high budget films which left studios disappointed at the box office over the summer.
Chris Aronson, the head of distribution for Fox, admitted 2013 had seen some "high-profile failures," but added, "the summer's been fantastic despite the gloom and doom some in the media have portrayed".
The summer flops have been offset by the success of films such as World War Z - which has crossed the $500m (£323m) global takings mark despite rumoured problems and reshoots - and the doomsday comedy This Is the End, which has made $96m (£62m) - three-times its budget.
Animations Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University also earned huge box office numbers worldwide, taking $746m (£482m) and $637m (£412m) respectively to date.


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Here is an amazing primer on the "terror gap" form The Center For American Progress, it's excellent. The problem: Suspected terrorists can easily buy guns Current federal law prohibits nine categories of dangerous people from purchasing or owning firearms. However, a significant gap allows suspected or known terrorists in the United States to legally buy guns. With the ever-present threat of…
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What do Alice Cooper, Anne Murray, Groucho Marx and Emeril Lagasse have in common? Bespectacled, good-natured talent manager Shep Gordon, whose ruthlessly inventive star-building acumen and easygoing, nurturing personality inspired comedian Mike Myers to direct the documentary "Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon."
Myers, also an on-camera interviewee, first encountered Gordon's deal-making know-how on "Wayne's World," and later, his healing friendship during an unspecified low point in Myers' life.
Light, frenetic and anecdote-rich, it's the kind of back-patting Hollywood toast to the guy behind the guy that's breezy good fun if you don't examine it too hard. Never mind that Myers' breathless editing of photographs, footage, reenactments, testimonials and explain-the-joke graphics more likely betrays his own attention-deficit comedic style than Gordon's Maui-residing JewBu (Jewish Buddhist) vibe.
The stories are what give "Supermensch" its peek-behind-the-curtain pizazz: the carefully orchestrated rock shock that catapulted Cooper, the proximity-to-cool photograph ploy to give Canadian country singer Murray instant cachet, and the hero-worship hole Gordon filled with the birth of the celebrity chef.
Less engaging is the attempt to make us feel sorry for a former skirt chaser's late-in-life loneliness, which smacks of manufactured third-act wistfulness, when at heart, Myers wants "Supermensch" to be the most admiring showbiz retirement-video ever.
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An In-Depth Journey into the Major Arcana - The Material World
Tarot Grandmaster Christiana Gaudet has developed a system for learning and understanding tarot that will help each tarot seeker use the cards not only as potent tools of divination, but also as tools for spiritual growth.
With this system, card meanings are easy to remember, and the lessons of each card are easy to understand.
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In this on-line presentation, students will develop an understanding of The Fool, and the first seven cards of The Major Arcana. These cards hold the secrets of career, relationships and personal mastery.
Students will learn the astrological, numerological and elemental associations for each card. Students will contemplate the Fool's Journey through these seven cards, and discuss how the lessons of each card apply to common experiences in modern life.
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Known for riding off the front of group rides only to be caught in the first mile, CJ got back on a road bike and realized he must win the Donut Derby at least once in his life. Regularly pledging he's "not a climber," he can be found as a regular attendee of Trexlertown's Thursday Night Training Criterium or sitting on the couch watching Paris-Roubaix reruns. CJ has been a constant rider of the Hell of Hunterdon in New Jersey and races the Tour of the Battenkill before going into seasonal hiding on cross-country ski trails.
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I have been enjoying the benefits of hardy lettuce all winter and still find myself astounded by the huge haul of greens I harvested for dinner on New Years Day 2012. Global warming may have a silver lining for those of us want to eat from our gardens all year around, but this should also remind us that we may soon need to revise what we mean by "winter" greens. One of the hardy winter lettuce varieties that has always done well for me, even under the snow, is Cracoviensis, which you can find in the Baker Creek catalog here.
This is actually a medieval lettuce that turns quite bronzy when grown in cold weather. The cold stunts its growth, so it stays close to the ground until spring rather than shooting up the way it does in warm weather. It was originally grown as a stem lettuce like Celtuce since its succulent stems could be cooked like asparagus, although without the asparagus flavor.
Mennonite horticulturist Jacob B. Garber (1800-1886), who lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, reported in 1855 that he had been growing this lettuce for a number of years and that his wife cooked it just like asparagus. Garber had gotten his seeds from a man with missionary connections in China and was thus growing it under the vague Chinese name hoo sung. This only goes to show that Cracoviensis probably originated in China, but moved west during the Middle Ages. By the 1350s it was growing in the royal gardens of king Casimir the Great of Poland, hence its name Cracoviensis in reference to Krakow where the royal castle was located. The castle is still there even though the royal gardens have long since disappeared. Just the same, we are left with a puzzle: how did the Poles cook the lettuce in the 1300s? Most likely it went into soup or it was poached in vinegar and served like an appetizer. Lettuce was considered "cold" in the medieval dietary system of humors, so it was always served with something "hot" like ginger, or with strong spices like cloves, cinnamon, or even garlic. Yes, one can easily imagine medieval Polish cooks preparing the stems with garlic sauce, in fact, I tried it and it is not too bad!
William Woys Weaver is a culinary historian living in Devon, Pennsylvania, were he maintains the Roughwood Seed Collection consisting of some 4000 varieties of food plants.
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Very interesting-has anyone tried it as salad or in a sandwich?
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Fort Mac LRA is poised to leverage unprecedented investment in the former Fort McPherson and surrounding communities thanks to extensive analysis and planning since the base was closed in 2005. We will continue to gather community input in upcoming planning activities.
Livable Centers Initiative
The Oakland City/Fort McPherson Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) study update and master plan is the result of extensive community outreach, market research, and other information gathering activities conducted by planners and consultants. It has been adopted by the Fort Mac LRA Board of Directors and the Atlanta City Council.
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Concept Plan, 2015
In June 2015, a Technical Assistance Panel from the Urban Land Institute began its study to recommend the best use of Fort Mac LRA's 145 acres. Below is a map of the proposed redevelopment districts:
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In 2010, MILRA made adjustments to the Master Plan based on market realities and with significant input from the surrounding communities. Below is one of the concept plans for Fort McPherson.


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The Force of Reason
Random House Incorporated, 2006 - Philosophy - 307 pages
Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later), which was intended as a brief appendix to the thirtieth edition of The Rage and the Pride (2002). Once Ms. Fallaci completed the postscript, she chose to expand it into a book, a continuation of her ideas set in motion in The Rage and the Pride.In The Force of Reason Fallaci takes aim at the many attacks and death threats she received after the publication of The Rage and the Pride. Ms. Fallaci begins by identifying herself with one Master Cecco, the author of a heretical book who was burnt at the stake during the Inquisition seven centuries ago on account of his beliefs, and proceeds with a rigorous analysis of the burning of Troy and the creation of a Europe that, to her judgment, is no longer her familiar homeland but rather a place best called Eurabia, a soon-to-be colony of Islam (with Italy as its stronghold). Ms. Fallaci explores her ideas in historical, philosophical, moral, and political terms, courageously addressing taboo topics with sharp logic.
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One of sports' most all-time captivating rags to riches stories, the rise of Jeremy Lin, is turning the page to its next chapter.
But it won't be set in New York.
The Knicks confirmed Tuesday night they have officially severed ties with the 23-year-old point guard who made Linsanity an international sensation, by declining to match Houston's 3-year, $25.1 million back-loaded offer sheet.
The Knicks had until 11:59 last night to inform the Rockets of their decision, but confirmed the move nearly two hours before the deadline.
"I can confirm we are not matching," a Knicks spokesman said via text message.
NYPost.com reported Saturday night and The Post reported Sunday the Knicks would not match Lin's offer and instead would make Raymond Felton the starting point guard after agreeing to reacquire him in a sign and trade with Portland.
Lin acknowledged the Knicks' decision on his Twitter account not long after the team's widely expected decision to part ways was made public. Lin was briefly with the Rockets last season before being cut and tweeted last night he was "Extremely excited and honored to be a Houston Rocket again!! #RedNation''.
He also expressed his gratitude toward the Knicks.
"Much love and thankfulness to the Knicks and New York for your support this past year … easily the best year of my life #ForeverGrateful."
Earlier, shortly after the Knicks' decision became official, a reporter from The Post knocked on the door of Lin's family home in Palo Alto, Calif.
"No, no, no, no," was the initial response from Lin who seemed genuinely surprised to see a reporter at the door before closing it while saying "sorry."
A second attempt to talk to Lin was met with his mother politely saying her son didn't want to talk. He is expected to participate in a conference call today.
Knicks fans had clung to the glimmer of hope their team would have a sudden change of heart and re-sign Lin so the one-time inhabitant of his friends' and relatives' couches would suit up at the Garden again next season. Didn't happen.
"U will be missed my friend," tweeted Knicks forward Steve Novak, who began his career with the Rockets. "As great a teammate as I've had. Wish u all the best in H-town!''
The Knicks were angered when the Rockets reworked their original offer, a four-year, $28.9 million proposal that was far more palatable to the Knicks. But in the revised deal the Rockets added a poison pill in the third year — worth $14.9 million — that would slam the Knicks for an estimated $43 million in luxury taxes. The Rockets were said to have reconfigured the deal after Lin advised them he had assurances from the Knicks they would match.
"Welcome to Houston @ JLin7!," tweeted Rockets general manager Daryl Morey. "We plan to hang on this time. You will love # RedNation".
When news of the decision to move forward without Lin became more public and more apparent — like with the Knicks re-acquiring Felton — the team felt repercussions in numerous ways.
Madison Square Garden stock saw a 64-cent drop on Monday that equaled a market capitalization loss of roughly $49 million — more than the luxury tax hit the Knicks would suffer — according to the Wall Street Journal. The website NetsDaily, an online treasure trove of all stories regarding the rival Brooklyn Nets, proposed fans exchange their Jeremy Lin Knicks gear for free Nets T-shirts. There were two online petitions to keep Lin. All were to no avail.
Ironically, the Knicks, long seen as the one team in the NBA universe with pockets deeper than the ocean, made what on the surface is a financial decision regarding Lin on the day the Nets re-signed Kris Humphries, bringing their offseason spending spree to more than $330 million.
The Knicks have made moves to bolster the point guard situation. They added veteran Hall-of-Famer-in-waiting Jason Kidd — a move that came with some repercussions after Kidd was arrested on a DWI rap on Long Island early Sunday.
And the Knicks on Monday reacquired Felton, who was dealt away in the Carmelo Anthony trade. Many saw Felton's arrival as the harbinger of Lin's departure.
League sources said Felton was told he would start for the Knicks which helped him readily accept the sign-and-trade to New York. Additionally, the Knicks plan to add Argentine point Pablo Prigioni after FIBA clears him from Spanish League commitments.
Lin became an international sensation — and the object of countless puns — after he helped revitalize the Knicks in February, starting with a superb game against, ironically, the Nets, who now threaten the Knicks for city supremacy from their Brooklyn perch.
Lin, on the verge of being waived, scored 25 points off the bench to lead a Knick victory over the Nets Feb. 4. The legend grew from there, exploding during a nationally televised victory over the Lakers on Feb. 10 at the Garden where he scored 38 points.
Lin played 35 games, starting 25, for the Knicks and averaged 14.6 points and 6.2 assists. He last played March 24 before injury shut down his season and caused him to miss the playoffs.
But even Lin's stunning success was not without controversy. There was speculation he could not thrive with Anthony in an isolation offense favored by Mike Woodson who replaced coach Mike D'Antoni, under whom Lin took off via the pick-and-roll.
Lin's best friend on the team, Landry Fields, is Toronto bound through another unmatched offer sheet, and J.R. Smith admitted there would be jealousy among teammates over Lin's contract, a deal Anthony publicly called "ridiculous."
— Additional reporting by Richard J. Marcus


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Gilmore v. Gonzales moves forward at SCOTUS
Supreme Court in the case of Gilmore v. Gonzales. It's a difficult case to explain. Although it's a simple complaint, a lot of people seem to see it as a frivilous matter. Folks don't get all exercised about having to show ID to travel, and I suppose it's not that unreasonable in terms of safety, but I think it strikes at the very root of the seeds of fascism the White House has planted in America.
Describing the government's opposition brief as "one part legal argument, and nine parts obfuscation", Gilmore's attorneys write that the "question is whether the government can – without any plausible explanation – enforce against the general public a law, the text of which it insists must be kept secret."That's the key. If we allow the government to make secret laws, even seemingly innocuous ones, it just sets the stage for further encroachments down the line. We're supposed to be a freaking democracy. Our government simply should not be making secret laws.
All the White House has to do to settle this case was to reveal the text of the law. Why should that be a problem? I think it very fishy that they're willing to take this to SCOTUS in order to avoid complying with Gilmore's more than reasonable request.
A copy of the brief in pdf is here from the complete index of filings.
In full disclosure, John is a friend of mine and I'd really like to see this case get more exposure. I'd appreciate any attention bloggers who read me could give the matter.


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Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida has ruled Obamacare unconstitutional and "must be declared void" in full.
The American Spectator reports:
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson on Monday became the second federal judge to declare the national health care law's individual mandate unconstitutional.
The decision concerns the lawsuit based in Florida and involving 26 states, and follows a similar decision last month in the suit based in Virginia.
But Vinson's decision went a step further than the Virginia ruling by not only declaring that the mandate was unconstitutional, but striking down the rest of the law as a result.
As enacted, the law did not include what's known as a "severability clause," which specifies that if one part of the law is struck down, the rest of the law stands. Those challenging the law have argued that as a result, the whole law should be struck down, too. While U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson of Richmond declined to do so, Vinson argued that, "because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."
The Obama administration has launched an appeal in the Virginia suit, and is expected to do so in the Florida-based suit as well, likely setting the stage for an eventual showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court.
You can read the ruling here.
VICTORY! This is a critical milestone, but the fight against Obamacare is far from over. There are over a dozen more lawsuits filed in different states and it will be the US Supreme Court who will ultimately make the final decision. Either way, today is a great day for our United States' Constitution.
My case of the Mondays is officially gone.


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Big Ten Week 6 rankings: Huge opportunity for Northwestern
Take advantage of the national spotlight.
That's the message for Ohio State and Northwestern heading into what could be the Big Ten's only showdown between undefeated teams in 2013.
Northwestern will channel its inner-2004; the last time the Wildcats beat Ohio State. That game also was in primetime at home. Pat Fitzgerald is 0-3 against Ohio State, however, and the Wildcats have been outscored 147-27 in those losses.
For Ohio State, it's the last chance to make a statement to AP voters before the season finale at Michigan. The Buckeyes are in a season-long beauty contest with Oregon, and right now Ohio State is behind.
MORE: Pre-snap read | Week 5 photos | Hayes: SEC falling back
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3. Northwestern
4. Nebraska
5. Michigan State
6. Wisconsin
7. Penn State
8. Iowa
9. Illinois
10. Minnesota
11. Indiana
12. Purdue
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RISING: Iowa. The season-opening loss to Northern Illinois is on the backburner. Iowa matched its win total from 2012, found stability at quarterback with Jake Rudock and allowed 21 points or less the last four weeks. Is that enough to pull out a make-it-ugly at home against Michigan State?
FALLING: Purdue. It's one thing to lose to a Mid-American Conference school. It's quite another to lose by 31 points. Boilermakers quarterbacks have combined for six TDs and eight interceptions, and Purdue won't be favored again. That's not the start first-year coach Darrell Hazell envisioned.
BOTTOM LINE: Wisconsin lost 31-24 to Ohio State, but Jared Abbrederis notched 10 catches for 207 yards and a TD, mostly against All-American cornerback Bradley Roby. Illinois made some waves by averaging 40.2 points per game through four weeks. The Illini should make it interesting against Nebraska. Michigan beat Minnesota 58-0 in the teams' last meeting at the Big House in 2011.


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Front page headlines scream that the S&P is sitting at 1500. Pundits insist the market is about make new records. Time to cash out?
Sometimes too much bullish sentiment is a sign of the top. And it appears there's a lot of bullish sentiment in the market right now.
Retail investors are rushing into the market with vigor. Over $22 billion flowed into long-term equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in the week ended Jan. 9, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. That was the second-highest amount on record after the $22.8 billion that went into all equity funds in September 2007.
That kind of inflow is often cited by contrarians as a sign of the top. Are these the clarion calls to sell?


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When a rash of explosions rocks Jakarta, they are the immediate suspects. When mysterious "ninja" killers execute dozens of Muslim scholars in East Java, senior politicians whisper their names. And when aid workers are killed in West Timor, United Nations officials point their way.
Every authoritarian regime seems to have them, a cross between Praetorian Guards and playground bullies. The Shah of pre-revolutionary Iran had his Savak. Baby Doc Duvalier relied on the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti.
In Indonesia's case, "they" are the Special Forces Command, known as Kopassus, a 6,000-strong unit that has forged a reputation as the toughest and most terrifying within a military known for its brutality.
Though it's virtually impossible for the unit to be guilty of all that the average Indonesian believes, Kopassus remains Indonesia's largest collective suspect for good reason. The Command's terror tactics it employed against insurgents in East Timor and Aceh are legendary.
When Indonesia began moving toward democracy at the end of Suharto's 32-year reign, many assumed the unit's position would fade. That view was bolstered when the reformist President Abdurrahman Wahid promised to punish rights abusers and push the military out of politics.
Instead, Kopassus has quietly begun to rehabilitate its reputation. While debate rages over whether soldiers should be tried for human rights abuses, the unit is winning back authority and respect.
"Their method was terror, and it was being employed in the service of Suharto," says Munir, a lawyer who runs the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence. "But efforts to find justice are running up against the tradition of military impunity."
The apparent success of Kopassus in putting its dark past behind it is a symbol of how little has changed within the Indonesian armed forces - and a measure of the challenges ahead.
It's a problem that plagues countries trying to make the transition from authoritarianism to democracy - and one that foreign powers like the US helped create. Indonesia's status as an anti-Communist bulwark during the cold war led to US training and support of the military, particularly Kopassus. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the US taught its soldiers intelligence gathering and counterinsurgency skills.
But the US and other Western powers strategically averted their eyes when those lessons were put to sometimes brutal effect at home. Like other parts of the relationship, Indonesia-US military ties have been pared down to almost nothing following the calculated brutality of Indonesia's retreat from East Timor in 1999.
Mugiyanto, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, understands the danger first hand. In March 1998, he was an unknown democracy activist. Then he was picked up by Kopassus, taken blindfolded to an interrogation center, and strapped to a table. Over two days, he was beaten and given electric shocks while being interrogated about his political beliefs and the whereabouts of his friends.
After Suharto's fall, 11 Kopassus operatives were found guilty of kidnapping and torturing Mugiyanto and eight other activists - and then sentenced to 22 months in jail. Their commanding officer, Prabowo Subianto, a son-in-law of Suharto's who admitted he ordered the abductions, was honorably discharged. He's now brokering oil-for-food deals in Iraq on behalf of Minister of Industry and Trade Luhut Pandjaitan - himself a former Kopassus officer. "The forces of democracy still have a hard fight ahead of us,'' says Mugiyanto.
Mugiyanto was one of the lucky ones. Human rights activists say the unit helped kidnap and kill 15 democracy activists in Suharto's final days. Munir believes that 900 more - mostly East Timorese and Acehnese independence activists - disappeared into Kopassus interrogation centers never to be seen again, "But the law makes it very difficult to prosecute unless we can produce a body."
Kopassus, for its part, doesn't dispute its past, but insists that it is gearing up for Indonesia's reformasi era by focusing on external defense rather than internal control. "What's the point in denying the past? There are plenty of open secrets now," says Major Herindra, a 13-year Kopassus veteran who now serves as the unit's public-information officer. "We're putting more emphasis on human rights training now. We're not gathering intelligence on our own citizens anymore."
Not only did Kopassus spy on civilians, but it also infiltrated other branches of the military. It operated as a sort of "army within the Army" that could short-circuit the chain of command and set up so-called "black operations" in places like East Timor.
With President Wahid complaining that elements of the armed forces are trying to foment instability to create an authoritarian backlash, Kopassus operatives are seen by the average citizen as the natural perpetrators.
Over the past six months, the capital has been rocked by mysterious bomb blasts - the most recent being last week. From the day the blasts began, suspicion fell on Kopassus, which grew when the police picked up a Kopassus private in connection with the deadly bombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange in September. But Herindra says the soldier had deserted his unit and was "acting alone."
Indonesia's military is chronically underfunded and soldiers traditionally take outside work to make ends meet. Military analysts say in that context, the unit's explanation could make sense. "Anyone with money could have paid for that," says one diplomat.
The best chance for accountability rests with the promised prosecution of senior officers for crimes against humanity in East Timor. When the former Indonesian province voted for independence in August 1999, pro-Jakarta militias, created and trained by Kopassus, went on a well-calculated rampage, killing dozens and driving 250,000 people from their homes.
Attorney General Marzuki Darusman says 22 officers implicated in abuses in East Timor will go on trial in January. Making that possible is a new human rights law, passed by parliament in early November and now awaiting only Wahid's signature.
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JACKSONVILLE � Thirty years in the Navy left Worth Hinnant with a plethora of memories � some good and some bad � but all of them made him the man he is today.
JACKSONVILLE � Thirty years in the Navy left Worth Hinnant with a plethora of memories � some good and some bad � but all of them made him the man he is today.
Serving in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, the Navy corpsman earned a Silver Star for gallantry, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals for valor and three Purple Hearts. By the end of his career, he would have spent 13 years at Field Medical School at Montford Point � now Camp Johnson � instructing the next generation of corpsmen. All of which, he said, he would do all over again if given the chance.
�I spent 23 of my 30 years wearing Marine Corps green,� he said �(Corpsmen) didn�t used to have our own uniforms so we wore the Marine Corps� and damn was I proud to wear it. Being called �Doc� by the Marines is a privilege. It�s prestigious, an honor and it�s something earned not given.�
Hinnant remembers that, in 1943, men had to register for the draft at 18 and within a month the Army grabbed them up and sent them off to Europe. But he didn�t want to go into the Army, he said, so he joined the Navy. It wasn�t until boot camp that they found out he had gone through a six-week first aid course back home. His superiors quickly decided that Hinnant would become a corpsman thanks to his training, he said.
The services, he said, were just �pumping� troops out and sending them to war because of how many casualties they were taking overseas, adding to his stress level.
Upon graduation, Hinnant was sent to a naval hospital in California for a medical indoctrination course, where he learned the ropes, he said. Once his indoctrination was complete, he was shipped out to a boat unit named Lion 8, where he lived in horse stables and sat through classes in the grandstands of a race track. For a year, he was trained by Marines in warfare tactics, by Navy Medicine in medical evacuations and by Navy SeaBees on how to operate the boats.
�Our job was going to be transporting the casualties from ashore to the ships and to bring supplies ashore to the Marines in the fight,� Hinnant said. �I went to Guam to evacuate casualties. I only had to fire one round during the war, and I hit my target. It was a guy sneaking into our camp one night.�
Hinnant has accepted his role during World War II, he said, and is very thankful he walked away from that war unscathed. He wouldn�t be as lucky in the next one.
�The main combat I saw was during Korea while I was with a Marine infantry unit,� he said. �I was still awfully young; I just went with the flow because I didn�t know any better. But they were entrenched around us pretty good. It was house-to-house fighting. It was pretty intense.�
During the Battle of Inchon, Hinnant earned his first Purple Heart when he was hit by shrapnel. The first day of the battle was �absolute hell,� he said. Pushing through Seoul �was quite an experience,� he said, but the Chosin Reservoir was the worst time of his life. During the battle, he was awarded two more Purple Hearts; and his heroism earned him a meritorious promotion to petty officer first class, he said.
�It was colder than hell and it seemed like there were a hundred thousand of them guys out there just trying to kill us,� Hinnant said. �I was lucky. I never got a broken bone. All of my wounds were through and through.�
Later in Vietnam, serving in Chu Lai with 1st Hospital Company as a senior chief petty officer, Hinnant was responsible for handling casualties that �came in by the thousands,� he said. Other than his service in the hospital, he said that he had an �uneventful� tour.
�I wouldn�t change a thing from my 30 years of service,� he said. �It�s the best thing that ever happened to me.
�I was a little farm boy with little plans for the future. The Navy gave me the purpose I was looking for in life and I still cherish it today.�


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The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller's On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times Magazine entitled "What It Means To Be a Homosexual" in response to a homophobic article published in Harper's Magazine . Described as "the most widely read and discussed essay of the decade," it carried the seed that would blossom into On Being Different —one of the earliest memoirs to affirm the importance of coming out.
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