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Here's the launch and separation of Akatsuki from the launch vehicle (2 min 46 seconds)
The next clip runs about 12 minutes and details (with English subtitles) the Akatsuki spacecraft and mission. It's quite impressive and if all goes well, will provide a wealth of information about the climate of Venus, which in turn may help us to better understand our own planet.
As a sailor, I was curious about the Ikaros mission. Particularly, how one could use sunlight to "tack" "upwind" in space to a planet closer to the Sun. Essentially, the sail is set so that the spacecraft's orbital velocity around the sun is slowed by the wind (charged particles thrown off by the Sun). In other words, the sail is used as a brake. As the velocity drops, the craft's orbit gets smaller - closer and closer to Venus. I found a website at Cal Tech with an excellent explanation of this - Tacking Solar Sails .
The Ikaros space craft (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) carries a sail that is just 0.0075mm thick wound around its core. Ikaros will spin and unwind the sail using centrifugal force. When deployed, the square sail will measure 46 feet on a side. This clip is in Japanese, but you can get the (ahem) drift by watching the animation. There are thin film solar cells and dust counters attached to the sail. In addition to testing the sailing concept, the development of this craft and a much large one later on, will lead to lower cost solar cells - an important element of Japan's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Fair winds Ikaros and Akatsuki.
JAXA website is here: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency


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HONOLULU (AP) — The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific is hosting Japan's most senior uniformed officer this week for talks on regional security and strengthening the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Adm. Samuel Locklear from U.S. Pacific Command and Japan Self Defense Forces' joint chief, Gen. Shigeru Iwasaki, are meeting in Hawaii on Thursday and Friday.
The meetings are a regularly scheduled consultation between the two allies, said Staff Sgt. Carl Hudson, a Pacific Command spokesman. He said the meetings are similar to regular discussions the U.S. also holds with allies the Philippines and Australia.
The dialogue "offers these leaders an opportunity to discuss ways to deepen operational cooperation and to improve the effectiveness of bilateral operations," Hudson said in an email Thursday.
Kyodo News reported Locklear and Iwasaki were to discuss joint operation plans for any contingency involving islands claimed by both Japan and China, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. Kyodo said Locklear and Iwasaki were expected to agree to accelerate the drafting of the plans.
Asked whether Locklear and Iwasaki would discuss how their two countries would respond to any contingency over the islands, Hudson said the U.S. doesn't take sides in territorial disputes and encourages all parties to find a peaceful resolution.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Thursday that China was "seriously concerned" about Japanese media reports saying Japan and the U.S. were updating their military defense plans involving the disputed islands.
"Diaoyu is an inherent part of Chinese territory," Hong said. "The Chinese government is resolved and able to defend national sovereignty and no external force can weaken the will and resolve of the Chinese government and the Chinese people to defend national sovereignty."
The islands are the focus of a decades-long dispute that reignited in September, when the Japanese government purchased three of the islands from their private owners. Japan aimed to prevent the islands from being bought by Tokyo's former nationalist mayor, who wanted to build a dock there for Japanese fishing boats and backed sending experts to the islands to study the wildlife and terrain.
The purchase prompted anti-Japanese protests in China, and Beijing has regularly sent ships to confront the Japanese coast guard in the area.
Associated Press writer Christopher Bodeen contributed from Beijing.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Lily Bee Sketch and Layout in Honor of Mother's Day
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love seeing two different layouts like this! your work is so amazing!!!!ReplyDelete
Amazing layouts!ReplyDelete
And I love how you framed your mother on the first :)
Wow I love them. So beautiful!ReplyDelete
I LOVE the frame you used for your mother, as well as the die cut behind those pretty girls!ReplyDelete
love both layouts!i seriously love the die frames in your moms layout!!ReplyDelete
The contrast between the black and white pict and the colored layout is very interesting.ReplyDelete
You've done a great atwork on it.
And your mother looks like and actress, she is so class !
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Central girls take another giant stepBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 28. 2012 10:31PM
MANCHESTER - Manchester Central girls' basketball coach Mike Wenners had to wait longer than he expected for his team to collect its first victory of the season, but that wait is over.
The Little Green capped the first night of the Central Girls' Basketball Christmas Tournament by posting a 52-48 victory over Coe-Brown of Northwood on Friday.
Central entered the game with an 0-4 record in Division I. Four sophomores and two freshmen were among the nine players who played for Central.
"Being so young we have to learn how to win, how to finish games off," Wenners said. "We play well in spurts. We took a step forward even though we lost to Dover by one (39-38), and this was another nice step."
The key stretch in the game came late in the fourth quarter, when sophomore Angelina Marazzi and freshman Amanda Gaudreault each made a 3-pointer on consecutive possessions for Central. Marazzi's 3-pointer gave the Little Green a 44-42 lead, and Gaudreault's shot increased the lead to five with 2:45 to play.
"They were both good shots," Wenners said. "We encourage them to take good shots when they're there. Those are shots they can make."
Coe-Brown, which spit its first four Division II games, missed 13 of its 24 free throw attempts.
"That was our downfall," Coe-Brown coach Dave Hartnett said "You can't win any games shooting like that."
Central led 18-11 after one quarter, but trailed 26-24 at halftime and 34-31 after three quarters.
Gaudreault led all scorers with 13. Sarah Michaud tossed in 10, and was the only other Central player to score in double figures.
Jenny Schim scored a team-high 11 for Coe-Brown, which has seven sophomores on its roster.
"I know Central was 0-4, but they're a better basketball team than their record," Hartnett said. "I'm not saying we're going to win the championship, but I think our team in February will be a lot different than the team we saw tonight."
The tournament will continue with four games today: Manchester West vs. Plymouth at 2:30 p.m.; Hollis/Brookline vs. Coe-Brown at 4 p.m.; Lebanon vs. Manchester Memorial at 5:30; and Trinity of Manchester vs. Central at 7 p.m.
The two unbeaten teams after today's action will meet in Sunday night's championship game, which is scheduled to start at 7.
Trinity 61, Hollis/Brookline 59: Trinity entered Friday night's game shooting just above 40 percent from the free throw line, but you wouldn't have known it by how the Pioneers shot free throws in the final eight minutes.
After missing 14 of their first 20 free throws, the Pioneers made 12 of 19 in the fourth quarter and rallied to post a two-point victory.
"One of the areas we've been working on is pressure defense," Trinity coach Matt Courchesne said. "In the fourth quarter we got some calls and took advantage at the line. Twelve for 19 is going to get it done. Six for 20 isn't going to get it done."
Trinity trailed 59-55 with less than a minute to play, but senior center Jillian Gilman scored down low and was fouled on the play. Her free throw cut Trinity's deficit to one point with 42.3 seconds left. After a steal, Hope Willard was fouled and her two free throws gave the Pioneers a 60-59 lead - their first lead since early in the second quarter - with 15.6 seconds to play.
The Cavaliers turned the ball over trying to inbound the ball, and didn't attempt another field goal.
Trinity's Meredith Farrell, a senior guard, led all scorers with 19 points. Gilman added 16 for the Pioneers, who improved to 3-3.
Guard Jenn Vachon led H/B with 15. She scored nine points in the final 4:23. Kellie Messier added 13 points for the Cavs, who entered the contest with a 4-1 record.
"The effort is always there, now we're looking more for execution," Courchesne said. "There's always room for improvement."
Memorial 62, Plymouth 32: The Crusaders outscored the Bobcats, 41-12, in the first half and raised their overall record to 3-3.
Memorial's Amelia Imamovic scored a game-high 16 points. The Crusaders received nine points from both Danielle Fletcher and McKenah Grisson, and eight from Allie Hartford.
Kenady Kelly led Plymouth with 10 points. The Bobcats are winless after five games.
Lebanon 68, West 10: Claudia Boutin tossed in a game-high 12 points, and Emily Kehoe and Sam MacDonald each finished with 10 as Lebanon improved its record to 6-0.
Lebanon led 19-2 after one quarter and 33-5 at halftime.
Natasha Boisvert and Alexandra Ricard each scored four points for West, which fell to 0-4.


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For Immediate Release
Jane Bray Nelson Honored for Outstanding Service to AAPT with a Distinguished Service Citation
College Park, MD September 30, 2010—The American Association of Physics Teachers has announced the selection of Jane Bray Nelson as a recipient of the AAPT Distinguished Service Citation. These prestigious awards are presented to AAPT members in recognition of their exceptional contributions to AAPT at the national, sectional or local level.
Nelson received a BS in chemistry from Florida State University and MS in Science Teaching from Memphis State University. She has taught Advanced Placement Chemistry, Advanced Placement Physics, Physical Science, Biology, Geometry, or Anatomy-Physiology. From 1998 – 2005 Nelson was Teacher-Director of University High School at Research Park, a Science and Technology magnet high school in Orange County Florida. She was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2002.
She has been active in AAPT since 1987, serving as a member of Physics in High School and Minorities in Physics committees. Additionally, Nelson served as President of the Florida Section of AAPT from 2008 – 2010, and as Secretary-Treasurer of Florida Section from 1992 to 2007. Since 1987 Jane has been a National Physics Teacher Resource Agent. She has lead nearly 100 PTRA workshops impacting more than 800 teachers, and has brought $16,414 to the PTRA continuation fund.
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Nylon and Blanket Distribution for families in Beit-Lahia, Gaza Strip
Severe floods hit the Gaza Strip last December and provoked the emergency evacuation of over 4000 people. On Saturday 14 December, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) stated that "large swathes of northern Gaza are a disaster area with water as far as the eye can see," after the Gaza Strip witnessed four severe days of torrential rain.
Active in the Palestinian Territories (http://www.tdh.ch/en/countries/palestinian-territories) since 1973, the delegation of Terre des hommes (Tdh) immediately communicated with Beit-Lahia Development Association (BLDA, our implementing partner in Gaza North) to enquire about the most-gravely damaged areas in Beit-Lahia, the flood-damaged homes, and the poorly built homes deeming its residents vulnerable to rainfall. Three areas were identified as the mostly damaged: Al Aslan, Al Manshiyya and Khazzan. A total of 264 families have been affected by the storm in Beit-Lahia. Among them, 22 families were found very vulnerable and in need of emergency help. Tdh provided them with plastic nylon to cover the ceiling of their roof-less houses in order to prevent water leaks during upcoming rainfall.
Emergency assessment
Our Tdh team visited the houses of these 22 families in need to evaluate the conditions of the houses, the level of damage caused by the storm, and to measure the amount of the nylon required for fixing each house. After this first assessment, the team proceeded with the purchase of the required materials to help the families. The Tdh team along with a team from BLDA headed to the houses of the families to help with the setting of the nylon in order to recover their ceilings.
Helping the minorities
Besides, Tdh also helped 86 other families living in the marginalized areas of Beit-Lahia by providing them with winter blankets, to protect them from the unprecedented cold which has hit the Gaza Strip this winter. Providing such emergency aid for the families in one of the most marginalized areas in the Gaza Strip makes it more likely that those families won't have to evacuate their houses in case of any similar future condition.
Every year, Terre des hommes offers sustainable solutions and a better future for over two million children and their relatives. Learn more about our projects in the Palestinian territories (http://www.tdh.ch/en/countries/palestinian-territories).


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BOSTON -- Mark Streit was in the right place at the right time.
But did the Flyers agree to terms with the former Islanders defenseman at the right price?
It would be easy to look at Streit's new deal - a 4-year, $21 million pact - and say that the Flyers overpaid for the aging blue liner at first glance.
But $5.25 million is actually near the market price for savvy veteran defensemen these days, if you look at the contracts recently signed by Sergei Gonchar and Lubomir Visonovsky.
While Streit isn't comparable in playing style to either of those players, all three are in the same age range and will be making comparable dollars in 2013-14 and beyond.
Consider these recent contracts:
Team: Philadelphia
Age: 35
Contract type: 35-plus
Terms: 4 years, $21 million
Average salary: $5.25 million
Known clauses: Limited no-trade clause (may provide list of teams to Flyers)
Previous deal: 5 years, $20.5 million (Islanders)
Team: Dallas
Age: 39
Contract type: 35-plus
Terms: 2 years, $10 million
Average salary: $5 million
Known clauses: Modified no-movement clause (trade window from Jan. 2015 through trade deadline)
Previous deal: 3 years, $16.5 million (Senators)
Team: N.Y. Islanders
Age: 36
Contract type: 35-plus
Terms: 2 years, $9.5 million
Average salary: $4.75 million
Known clauses: No-movement clause (with trade provision at 2015 deadline)
Previous deal: 5 years, $28 million (Oilers)
Visnovsky signed on March 30. Gonchar signed on June 8. Streit agreed to terms on Monday, according to sources.
Yes, Streit's deal may pay him the most per-season of any of those players, but he also is likely the best player heading into the 2013-14 season.
Visnovsky played with Streit on Long Island last season. He isn't as mobile as Streit and he wasn't even interested in fulfilling his deal with the Islanders, choosing to come over from Russia after the lockout had ended.
Gonchar was still a power play specialist in Ottawa, but he is nearing the end of the rope in his career.
Many believe Streit has quite a bit more tread on the tires than his age might indicate. He wasn't drafted until he was 26. And he missed an entire season (2010-11) because of a torn rotator cuff, which required surgery. He's played just 491 games, compared to Visnovsky's 771 and Gonchar's 991 at the same age.
For my money, though, it's not necessarily Streit's salary that could be as potentially damaging as it is the term. Four years is a long time for an 35-year-old to continue playing. Streit will turn 40 halfway through the final year of the deal.
Since it is an "over 35" contract, Streit will count against the salary cap even if he chooses to retire before the deal is finished. There's risk in any contract, though.
In the meantime, Streit was paid the going rate, something he definitely would have gotten in one of the NHL's scarcest free agent markets ever.
Streit landed in the right place at the right time. Whether he's the right player or not, we won't begin to have any sort of clue until October.
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Lukas Podolski says that he is happy to sacrifice himself for the greater good at Arsenal, even though he knows that he would score more goals if he played in his favoured central striking position. The Germany international, who has been used by Arsène Wenger off the left flank since his summer arrival from Köln, scored with a screaming 25-yard drive in Wednesday's 5-1 home win over West Ham United, his seventh goal of the Premier League season and 11th in all competitions.
Podolski has not made a secret of his desire to play in a central area and Wenger joked after the West Ham game, which lifted Arsenal to within four points of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur, that he had "plenty of candidates" within the squad to play through the middle. Wenger believes, though, that Podolski's best position is on the left and the player himself said that his priority was simply to help Arsenal to a Champions League finish.
"I think when I play No10 or as a striker I am in this position to score more goals and I can shoot more," Podolski said. "But with the style of the game at Arsenal I do it well on the left side and I am happy to play there. I have played on the left for Köln sometimes and the national team, it is not something special. I've scored seven goals now and have nine assists. It's OK but it's important for me at the end of the season to be in the Champions League."
Podolski took a similar view on the issue of his being substituted: he has lasted the 90 minutes only twice in 26 starts for the club in all competitions. He was slightly defensive when he was asked why Wenger routinely withdrew him. "Ask the boss, I don't know," he said but he argued that it was nothing to do with his fitness. Wenger did say in early November that Podolski was not "used to working at that level of intensity [in the Premier League]" but he predicted he would adapt.
"When you are a footballer, you will not always play 90 minutes," Podolski said. "Sometimes you are not happy but this is not important for me. I fight for Arsenal. There are a lot of great players on the bench and in the squad. The coaches don't change the full-back or centre-back; you change always the positions in the front who create something. You have great players and for me it is not a problem when I am substituted."
The victory over West Ham was a tonic for Arsenal after the league defeats by Manchester City and Chelsea but Podolski, who is finding the competition towards the top of the English league tougher when compared with Germany, maintained that, while the points were welcome, the team needed to find greater consistency.
"It was one game and we have three points, which is important, but we have 15 more games to play," Podolski said. "It is not about saying 'today, Arsenal are back,' because we need more of these games and more of these points. When that happens, I think we will be back in the top four. We must fight. There is enough time to get back in the top four.
"I think it is harder here [in England]. You have tough games and you see in Germany that there is only one team at the front and that is Bayern Munich. The German league quality is very good now, not like five years ago, but I think the Premier League is a little bit better."
Podolski's focus has switched to Saturday's FA Cup tie at Brighton, who knocked Newcastle United out in the third round and are chasing promotion from the Championship. "You always have pressure in the cup. It's the same in Germany," Podolski said. "When you are a big team and you play away against a second- or third-tier team, there is always pressure. We believe in ourselves. It will be tough but, if we play like we did against West Ham, we can beat them."


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Ted Siefer's City Hall: Gatsas challenger adds issue of crime to campaign debateTED SIEFER
August 24. 2013 11:00PM
Is crime in Manchester on the decline or is it surging? The answer depends on whom you ask, especially during election season.
Alderman and mayoral candidate Patrick Arnold made crime one of the focal points of the campaign speech he delivered at City Hall last week. In a preview of the speech, he referred to the city's "skyrocketing violent crime." Arnold has been plenty critical of the state of the schools and economic development, but crime is a fairly new plank that he's used to hammer Mayor Ted Gatsas.
In his speech, Arnold said, "According to the FBI, violent crimes have increased in our city annually over the last four years. Robberies have increased 20 percent from where they were in 2009."
It's notable that Arnold's source is the FBI and not the Manchester Police Department's recently released 2012 annual report. In the section on crime statistics, the MPD report shows that violent crime held steady from the previous year, while property crime declined 8.6 percent.
A story in the New Hampshire Union Leader last week used the MPD's stats to report that crime overall was down in the city. When asked about Arnold's rhetoric on the subject, Gatsas referenced the story. "I'll stand behind your article," he said.
It turns out both Gatsas and Arnold have valid points. The crime numbers published by the Manchester police and the FBI are different, even though the MPD states that it "reported the following Part 1 Crimes to the FBI," and the eight crime categories are identical to those used by the FBI in its Uniform Crime Reporting system.
In most categories, the differences are slight, but they're significant in others. In its annual report, the MPD states there were 312 cases of aggravated assault in 2012. The FBI's data show there were 346 such incidents. The difference is enough to change the narrative.
According to the FBI's numbers, violent crime in Manchester rose 1.1 percent from 2011. The MPD report states that violent crime held steady, with exactly 593 incidents in both years. The FBI numbers show property crime declined in the city, but by 8.2, not the 8.6 percent reported by the MPD.
The statistics in the MPD's annual report in 2010 also differ from those posted by the FBI that year, with the MPD reporting lower violent crime rates than the agency.
Police spokeswoman Lt. Maureen Tessier said the difference stems from the fact that the MPD uses the National Incident-Based Reporting System, or NIBRS. State police convert that data using the UCR system, and then forward it to the FBI, she said.
So is there a difference in the two sets of numbers because the MPD produces its own stats that it "reports to the FBI," in the words of the annual report, that are separate from the ones processed by the state police? Tessier replied in an email, "I am not sure we can offer further explanation," and she said the question would best be directed to the state police, "since they actually do the conversion."
Regardless of what set of numbers one considers, Gatsas acknowledged that crime was a concern in the city. "I think one crime is one too many," he said, adding, "I stand behind the chief one hundred percent."
Referring to Arnold's statements, Gatsas said, "Anybody can make any statement, but somebody needs to tell us what the solutions are."
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On Tuesday, Gatsas was joined by the governor and members of the state's congressional delegation in what was a historic event: the groundbreaking for the Job Corps center in Manchester. It's been a decade since state leaders first proposed the project, which became ensnared in a bitter battle between labor unions and nonunion contractors. At long last, New Hampshire became the 49th state to start work on one of the federally funded Job Corps centers, part of a program that dates back to the Johnson administration.
New Hampshire generally isn't the most hospitable place for large federal projects - this one has a price tag of about $35 million - and the Job Corps program, with its $1.6 billion budget, has been criticized as wasteful.
In light of all of this, it was somewhat surprising to learn that Ward 10 Alderman Phil Greazzo, a staunch fiscal conservative, was not only a supporter of Job Corps, but also a graduate.
"I thought it was a good program," he said.
Greazzo went through the program in Phoenix after he got out of the Army in his early 20s.
"I still keep in touch with the students and my instructor. It helped me learn the building trades," he said.
Greazzo said it was fair to assess the "cost-benefit" of the program and whether it was a good use of tax dollars.
But, he said, "there were a lot people who fought to bring it here. Now we might as well put it to the best use. It will definitely help kids who didn't get a good high school education and help them get into the job field."
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Ward 4 school board member Roy Shoults is continuing his one-man campaign to improve city schools. Shoults has long since given up on change happening through the school board, a body he considers thoroughly "dysfunctional."
Earlier this year, Shoults organized and raised funds to send high school students to the opera. He now wants to support a range of student enrichment activities, a project he calls "Expanding Students' Horizons."
His latest effort is a scholarship fund for needy students who want to take Advanced Placement tests. The idea came about when he learned that the Manchester district "was among the few in the state that did not fund the $89 cost per AP pupil for those taking the exam for college credits," Shoults said in an email about the project.
Donations for the fund would go to the Expanding Students' Horizons account he's set up with the district. For more information, Shoults can be reached at: email@example.com.
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Bounty Hunters (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus watches yet another bounty hunter movie that isn't about Boba...
Throwing us straight into the action, we meet Jules Taylor (WWE wrestler Trish Stratus) as she's caught in a stand off with a gun pointed at her head. We then switch to ten hours earlier and discover what led to this bounty hunt gone wrong.
Having a WWE star in a movie about bounty hunting it comes as little surprise that there are three fight scenes within the first nine minutes of this low rent actioner. What does come as a surprise however is that despite the iffy acting, the cheap visuals and everyone fighting like they are wrestlers, most of the fights are actually pretty well done. The big opener that has Jules fighting a big, fairly typical looking wrestler type in a gym has plenty of Black Widow style thigh twists, lots of holds and punches and while a lot of it feels a little too choreographed for its own good sometimes, it still packs quite a punch.
The set up here is pretty darn cliche. Three bounty hunters doing their day to day job when they get an inside tip of a bounty that could make them some real cash. Of course, our lead, Jules, is a single mum and yes, of course she also works in a strip club (this suddenly feels like a project Pam Anderson would have done in her prime, right). It's all very low budget and not at all subtle in its intentions (hot girls, plenty of swearing, guns and kick ass fights) and while this shows nothing in regards to future promise on the big screen from anyone involved it's quite fun in places.
Boomer Phillips plays Chase (the joke cracker in the team) and is quite a funny guy here. His wise cracks actually hit a lot of the time and despite my instincts telling me otherwise, I actually quite liked Trish Stratus and her ability to kick serious ass. The middle of the film gets a little repetitive and the pace really slows down to fill out the short seventy six minute runtime beyond the forty minutes this tale could have fit into but the end has our lead ass kicker going head to head with an Asian killer so it all picks up again before the 'nothing like the movies style but still pretty funky' credits roll around.
Bounty Hunters comes with a soft digital look, with darker backgrounds and brightly lit actors. The camera loves Stratus's midriff, bust and ass and there are many over fetishised shots of all three. The movie is generally dark in tone with plenty of blues in the primarily nightime setting. Colours can be little washy but skin tones hold up well throughout. Generally speaking, the visuals here are akin to many low budget actioners and indeed run of the mill modern porn.
The Dolby Digital track provides crisp central dialogue with a pretty generic low rent action flick score dotting around the rear speakers. The odd punch has a good thump to it bass wise and there's the occasional bit of rockier score that spreads itself out a bit more but this all feels very much like all the other low budget, straight to dvd action flicks on the market and keeps everything fairly routine.
There's nothing on here features wise beyond the disc opening with trailers for Blood Out, The Next Three Days and Screwed.
Bounty Hunters is another typical straight to DVD actioner with a wrestler in it however it does have some solid fight scenes (when they don't feel so staged) and there's generally a fun, playful mood to it, making it an easy seventy odd minute watch even if you'll take nothing away from the experience. Video and audio are good but do nothing beyond the basics and there's no extras, so the excitement ends for anyone who might be a fan of WWE star Trish Stratus.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 20th February 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: None
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Patrick McBrearty
Cast: Trish Stratus, Frank J. Zupancic, Boomer Phillips,
Genre: Action
Length: 76 minutes
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Blah blah blah Top 100 blah blah blah too many good games to list. Blah blah blah, games that weren't good enough for my list but still excellent nonetheless.
So I did my Top 100 last year, and this year, I'm focusing on a few entries that didn't make the cut for one reason or another. I'll start off by saying that most of the games mentioned in this blog series are all worth playing, they simply just haven't enraptured me enough to place them on my List. I started with Demon's Souls, and i have about 24 more entries to go. I know I said it would be like four or five, but giving myself some time to think about it made me realize how many great games I
So as many people know, last year I did my Top 100 Games list, but as usual, there were a lot of games I loved that just didn't make the mark for one reason or another. I didn't really want to make a thread about it though, and figured the Blog would suit it better because there is likely only five or six games I wish to highlight here. I also feel annoyed I never use the Blog feature as much since it feels like a better platform for these types of discussions. In addition to these blogs, I do plan
A few days ago, I went to a midnight showing of Princess Mononoke at the Esquire Theater downtown. The very same theater I went to watch it the first time back in 1999 during it's initial release in the States. At that time, I was an avid anime fan who would consume whatever I could find as the medium was only in the beginning phases of it's explosive popularity in the 2000s, so the prospect of being able to watch an anime flick in an actual movie


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Basel, Switzerland -- Syngenta today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to establish and operationalize the Soil Leadership Academy.
The Academy aims to address the soil conservation challenge globally. It will engage research institutes, universities, and on-the-ground practitioners to share knowledge and expertise in soil conservation and sustainable land management. Policy makers and land users worldwide will have access to critical information and interactive training approaches such as simulation exercises, practical case studies, field demonstrations, videos, and smartphone apps.
Mike Mack, CEO Syngenta, said, 'The partnership with UNCCD is a strong signal that we can and must move from dialogue to collective action to address the acute global challenges we face. The Soil Leadership Academy will not only increase understanding of soil erosion and desertification, but promote the wide adoption of simple and pragmatic practices to protect and improve soil health at scale.'
Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), commented: 'The Soil Leadership Academy is an innovative public-private partnership that will help train and inspire decision makers to make smart choices about how to manage land and soil.'
The UNCCD estimates that globally, at least, 24 percent of usable land is already degraded. On average, every year we lose 24 billion tons of fertile soil to degradation. As a result, more than 12 million hectares of productive land becomes barren due to desertification and drought processes.
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cherries anyone?Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Can you tell I just got a new camera?
I did a little sewing this past weekend. After seeing gobs of gals (this one in particular) on their blogs, wearing their aprons, it gave me the urge to make one!
Years ago I bought yards of this cherry fabric to make Libby a duvet cover and never got around to it. We both also lost interest in decorating her room with cherries. My sister got me The Apron Book and I decided to break it out.
It really was sew easy!
I just had to post this picture. It cracks me up! Me,in my Uggs, wearing a cherry apron! HA!
Now it is time for me to get acquainted with my new little friend.
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I am a HUGE cherries fan. I love to eat them and I love anything with cherries on them!ReplyDelete
Email me at graphicdesignchick at hotmail dot com, so when you comment on my blog, I can respond to you via email. I hate leaving comments on people's blogs to respond to a comment they've left on my blog - that pertains nothing to their blog post! :)
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Your apron is AWESOME! Did you see the movie The Hours? Meryl Streep wears an apron in that movie that I covet - Is there a pattern like that apron in your book?!ReplyDelete


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Great Woodshops: Country Workshops
This sylvan school offers a wide variety of classes in woodworking and more.
By Stuart Page
Pages: 58-59
From the June 2010 issue #183
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Country Workshops began when Drew Langsner and his wife, Louise, moved from California to the Smoky Mountains. On their farm, a 15-minute drive from the nearest tarmac, they've built a two-story cabin by hand, which took two years (and an infinite amount of patience) to build.
As I drive the path to the Langsner farm, I marvel at their beautiful buildings: the old tobacco drying barn used as a workshop and guest quarters; and Drew and Louise's cabin farther up the hill, which looks out over the valley below. Nestled in the trees of the surrounding woodlan is a second guest lodge. And just when you think things can't get better, you eat some of Louise's home-cooked food (picked from the garden) and watch the sun set over the valley.
I stayed above the workshop in student accommodations, where it is pleasantly cool even in the summer heat. The rooms are Spartan but comfortable, with plenty of craft books for bedtime reading. I found myself diving into tomes about knife-making before falling asleep to the sounds of the forest.
If you're looking for a five-star hotel, look elsewhere. But if you want simple comforts, healthy food in workingman's portions, warm fires and good company then Country Workshops is what you're looking for.
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When Jeffrey Howarth died after a fire at his West Utica apartment building nearly one year ago, he took with him the truth behind what caused the deadly blaze, city officials said.
When Jeffrey Howarth died after a fire at his West Utica apartment building nearly one year ago, he took with him the truth behind what caused the deadly blaze, city officials said.
Since the 50-year-old man died from severe burns suffered in the Jan. 23 fire at 914 Columbia St., Utica fire officials have been trying to determine how the early morning fire started.
But no such luck, Utica Fire Marshal Gerald Foster said this week.
"The cause is undetermined after investigation, because I couldn't interview the gentleman and I can't determine that he started the fire," Foster said. "No one can vouch that the fire was started by him, so by law I can't accuse a man without an interview stating that he started the fire."
Six other people lived in the second-floor apartment, and witnesses said he was the only there when it caught fire, Foster said. But because nobody knows for certain if Howarth left the apartment for a few minutes, it can't be ruled out that the fire might have been started by another person or tenant, he said.
All investigators know is that Howarth made an ambiguous comment to police when he first came out of the burning building, Foster said.
"I made a mistake," Howarth reportedly said. But, Foster explained, "I can't assume what he meant by that, because he didn't admit to starting the fire. That could mean anything."
Inside Howarth's apartment, investigators were able to locate several points of origin where flames started, but it's unclear what actually caused the fire to ignite at those various spots, Foster said.
"I don't know how the fire started or what ignition source was used, because I didn't find anything like that in the room, like candles, matches, cigarettes, or anything that would indicate an accelerant was used," Foster said.
So without talking to the victim, those answers most likely will never be known, Foster said.
In the meantime, the condemned structure is waiting to be demolished by a new owner, Foster said.
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Question: We're configuring database mirroring for high availability for some of our databases and we're trying to decide whether to configure automatic failover. We know why automatic failover may be desirable but can you tell me if there are any drawbacks to having automatic failover configured?
Answer: There are a few reasons why you may choose not to configure automatic failover – I'll touch on the major ones here.
Firstly, you may find that the available bandwidth and latency between the principal and mirror servers does not allow synchronous mirroring to be configured without having a detrimental effect on your workload performance. This is because synchronous mirroring means that transactions cannot commit on the principal until all transaction log records up to and including the commit log record have been sent across to the mirror and written to the mirror's log drive. If this has a noticeable effect on the transaction time on the principal, you may not be able to use synchronous mirroring and so cannot use automatic failover.
Related: An Overview of SQL Server High Availability Options
Secondly, if the "application ecosystem" is more than one database, and all the databases are required to be available for the application to work properly, automatic failover should not be configured. If it was, one of the databases could fail over to the mirror and then application connections to either the principal or mirror servers would not permit the application to work correctly. When there are multiple databases involved I usually tell my clients to shy away from using database mirroring and use failover clustering with SAN replication – that's a long discussion that's beyond the scope of this blog though.
Thirdly, if a failover occurs, that entails application downtime (from very minimal to potentially a lot, if the mirror is significantly behind the principal in replaying transaction log records). Once the failover occurs, at some point you usually want to fail back to the original principal again, which entails more application downtime. Care must be taken to account for this when deciding whether to use automatic failover or not – especially if you have very stringent uptime requirements.
Related: Should You Choose Database Mirroring?
Lastly, depending on your customer base and the kind of workload you have, you may find that having customers connect to the mirror server after an automatic failover gives them a poor experience – for example, if the mirror server cannot cope with the same workload as the principal, or the public network links to the mirror are slower than those to the principal.
As you can see, you need to carefully consider the pros and cons of allowing automatic failover to occur when configuring database mirroring. And above all else, test your solution once it's in production to make sure that the application continues to work after a failover – automatic or otherwise.


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Wildfire Smoke a Concern for Missoula Health Department [AUDIO]
With wildfires burning both east and west of Missoula, it was inevitable that smoke would settle in the valley. Early Thursday morning the smoke veiled the mountains, but began to dissipate as the weather warmed.
Air quality specialist with the Missoula City County Health Department Sarah Coefield checked areas of the Missoula valley Thursday morning and said the smoke was definitely bad enough to cause problems with certain at-risk groups,
"Around midnight last night, a fairly significant amount of smoke rolled into the Missoula valley, primarily from the West Mullan fire," Coefield said. "I pulled up smoke imaging modeling last night when I noticed smoke from the Superior fire headed our way. When the temperatures cooled overnight, the smoke came down to the lower elevations."
Wildfire smoke can be problematic for people with certain health conditions.
"People who are sensitive to smoke like children, or those with heart of lung problems might want to curtail their activities a little bit," Coefield said. "The smoke has lifted due to the warm temperatures, but it will fall back down to the valley floor when it cools off later tonight. People should really pay attention to how they are feeling and reacting to the smoke and take measures to limit their exposure."
The National Weather Service said Thursday morning that this high pressure system will be situated over the Missoula valley for the next week or so, and until a weather system moves through the area, the smoke will stay in the valley.
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My cosplay debut was in February of 2010: My friend Ellie was extremely fond of cosplay and talked about it often. I was immediately curious. Though a bit intimidated by the people I had seen cosplaying online, I started with a simple costume. I had some experience sewing, but there were gaps in my knowledge. I also did not have access to a sewing machine. Since I did not get the chance to use a sewing machine for a while, I would make my costumes by hand. When I moved from Texas to Chicago for school, I started taking the Costume Construction classes offered in the theater department of my College. They have improved my sewing ability and given me confidence to take on bigger projects.
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A lot of athletes get hooked before they know the facts about dip and chew.
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A modern motorcycle created by the Triumph motorcycle company. It is a sportbike that captures the "cafe racer" era of the 60's and 70's. It has a 900 cc parallel twin not unlike the engine in the Triumph Bonneville (the Thruxton is more powerful however). Triumph Thruxtons are purchased by those motorcycle riders who want a sportbike in its most raw form. If you want to pretend that you are a racer riding a race replica, then buy an R1, Gixxer, or CBR. If you want to get a bike that will hold its own and then some in the urban jungle -get a Triumph Thruxton.
Wow, did you see that Thruxton? It looks like it is straight from the 60's - and it just blew away my Harley!
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In June 2005, the APA published their report on Psychological Ethics and National Security (thePENS report). APA, stung by criticism that psychologists had been involved in torture at Guantanamo and elsewhere, nevertheless stacked the panel hastily assembled that Spring with over fifty percent military and/or military connected members.
These were not just any military individuals, but included the former Chief of Psychology at Guantanamo, a SERE psychologist who supported use of SERE techniques in interrogations, and a Special Forces top psychologist who, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, had actually trained interrogators in use of SERE torture techniques in interrogations.
Reposted below is a letter from the Coalition for Ethical Psychology (CEP), responding to an October 26 letter from the President of the American Psychological Association's Division 42, Psychologists in Independent Practice, who had written a reply to CEP's request for support for their call for annulment of the APA's PENS report.
The original petition to annul the PENS report was posted at CEP's website in October 2011. The petition called PENS "the defining document endorsing psychologists' engagement in detainee interrogations."
The petition continued: "Despite evidence that psychologists were involved in abusive interrogations, the PENS Task Force concluded that psychologists play a critical role in keeping interrogations 'safe, legal, ethical and effective.' With this stance, the APA, the largest association of psychologists worldwide, became the sole major professional healthcare organization to support practices contrary to the international human rights standards that ought to be the benchmark against which professional codes of ethics are judged."
The political heat around the anti-PENS petition increased noticeably when CEP came out publicly against a so-called "member-initiated task force" to "reconcile policies related to psychologists' involvement in national security settings." This task force, actually established with APA Board and staff support, was opposed to the annulment petition, and likely was formed to blunt the impact of CEP's call for annulment, which was gaining much support. One of the prominent members of this new "task force" is William Strickland, the president and CEO of the long-time military contractor-research group, Human Resource Research Organization (HumRRO),
A number of APA divisions have signed onto CEP's petition, including Div. 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience & Comparative Psychology), Div. 27 (Society for Community Research and Action), Div. 39 (Psychoanalysis), and others. The CEP petition also gained the support of the ACLU, Center for Constitutional Rights, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Physicians for Human Rights, and other organizations, as well as prominent individuals, including past APA President Philip Zimbardo, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, and Nobel Prize winning geneticist Richard Lewontin, among many others.
"Harming our practice of psychology"
The Div. 42 letter was written by Jeffrey Younggren, a psychologist who has long presented himself or been recognized as an expert in psychological ethics, and who has a long-time association with military psychology, including a posting as Colonel in the United States Army Reserve to the Office of the Surgeon General, 1999 – 2002, and four medals for service to the Department of Defense.
Readers interested in Dr. Younggren and the Division 42 board's point of view on PENS are encouraged to read their letter.
Quoted directly below is a portion of Younggren's letter, wherein he describes the response of Div. 42′s Board to CEP's original request to them for support of PENS annulment. Dr. Younggren concludes Div. 42 "will not introduce or sign onto any resolution about recalling or annulling the PENS report," but his discussion goes farther than a mere statement of position on annulment. He lambasted CEP itself (bold emphases are added for emphasis):
We request that your Coalition stop using the press to spread all negative informationabout its dissatisfaction with APA. You are harming our practice of psychology by giving false and biased information and therefore, impacting negatively on the ability of people who need psychological services to receive them from ethical and competent psychologists in independent practice….
[The PENS report] was properly vetted at the APA COR [Council of Representatives] meeting that voted to accept it. It is not APA policy. Rather COR merely accepted the information that may or may not be used in formulation of formal APA policies. Annulment [of PENS] would disenfranchise the COR members who voted to accept the report in 2005 and further would be disrespectful to the work done by members whose contribution may have helped the report be more honest than if only members who agreed with the Coalition's were represented on it….
By distributing copies of this letter, we will ask APA to maintain a vigorous response to any further complaints publicized by the Coalition in the media that may damage our members' independent practice of psychology. We believe that only by giving a partial story to the media, the Coalition is damaging the entire field of psychology.
PENS, Younggren, and APA's Council of Representatives
Describing anti-torture psychologists as providing "false and biased information" and "harming our practice of psychology" — even unto "impacting negatively" the ability of individuals to receive psychological services — Younggren and the Division 42 board make serious charges. I do not believe they can back them up.
Younggren does not indicate what he or his board consider "false or biased information," leaving one with only ad hominem assertions. (CEP also makes this point in their response to Younggren.) He also does not provide any empirical data for his assertion that people are unable to receive psychological services from clinicians in independent practice because of CEP's statements or policies.
On the contrary, it was APA's own Board of Directors who, in a June 2009 letter to its membership, admitted the participation of some psychologists in torture. Regarding the impact of such behavior on the field of psychology, the Board wrote, "The involvement of psychologists, no matter how small the number, in the torture of detainees is reprehensible and casts a shadow over our entire profession."
Younggren's position that anti-torture psychologists are "damaging the entire field of psychology" is bizarre hyperbole, and appears aimed at vilifying an entire group of professionals. Nowhere in Younggren's letter is there any indication that APA members engaged in unethical behavior when they participated in interrogations that even Guantanamo authorities labelled as "torture," i.e. John Leso's participation in the interrogation of Mohammed Al Qahtani, nor how that might have damaged the field.
Nor is there any mention of the role that psychologists played in the construction of the "enhanced interrogation techniques," i.e., the SERE-derived torture program during the George W. Bush administration, as reported by both the mainstream media and in Congressional investigations.
Moreover, Younggren appears to be confused about how PENS was integrated into APA policy. At first he claims APA's COR "voted to accept" the report. Then he says "it is not APA policy." But demonstrating either confusion or a return to a mistaken narrative, he follows this statement with the assertion, "Annulment [of PENS] would disenfranchise the COR members who voted to accept the report in 2005…."
But APA's COR never voted on PENS! Even so, APA officials first tried to present their ethics and national security report as something that went through normal organizational channels. Yet this story wasn't true, and ultimately APA had to admit that.
Here is what Mark Benjamin reported on the subject at Salon.com in Aug. 2006 (bold emphasis added):
In its original six-point response to Salon, the APA took exception to the use of the words "internal revolt" to describe the push against the association's interrogation principles. It suggested the [PENS] policy had been formally embraced by the elected members of the APA's council, who have broad authority to develop APA policy. "The reality is that APA's Council of Representatives endorsed the current policy at its last meeting," the association leadership said in the response.
That raised some eyebrows among some members, who pointed out the claim was incorrect. In a relatively unusual move, they said, the interrogation report bypassed the council (described on the APA Web site as the "most important governance body of the association") and became policy through the imprimatur of APA's smaller 12-person board of directors. "Council was not asked to endorse or approve the PENS task force report," said council member Bernice Lott.
Farberman, the APA spokeswoman, acknowledged that the original APA statement on the council's endorsement was technically incorrect. She said that members of the council had made "laudatory" statements about the report at a council meeting last February. When called on this issue last week by her own members, Farberman admitted to the council in an e-mail, obtained by Salon, that "Council took no official action on the report."
Younggren's confusion does not stop with the issue of PENS and COR. At one point in his letter, he declares that APA has "clear policies enumerating exactly what is meant by torture, so that there can be no confusion or loopholes should a psychologist be asked to participate in such unethical behavior."
Yet towards the close of the letter, Younggren suggests that more study on the issue is needed. He writes, "We see a need for defining where the line crosses from interview to gain necessary information to assess and create treatment plans to being a part of torture. We have asked our forensic committee to begin discussing the issue."
But what is the need for discussion if APA's policies are so clear? And what exactly is Younggren getting at by conflating psychological interview for the purposes of treatment planning and psychological interview to facilitate torture? Frankly, either Dr. Younggren or Division 42′s Board (or both) appear to be confused about the entire issue here. Such confusion does not bode well for those who would advocate that psychologists act as safety monitors in interrogation settings.
Psychologists and the National Security State
The Younggren letter amounts to a polemical declaration of war against APA's opponents on interrogation policy. At the bottom of all this acrimony is a battle for the soul of the psychology profession, especially as it relates to services to the national security state.
Younggren maintains, "There is a role for psychologists to play in counterintelligence and counterterrorism provided it is done responsibly." But psychologists have no special training or unique skills to provide to interrogation functions that generations of police and military interrogators haven't already developed.
Instead, the presence of doctors and psychologists in interrogation settings has only served to legitimize inhumane practices, such as indefinite detention, isolation, and other coercive interrogation techniques. Despite assurances by the Obama administration to the contrary, abusive interrogations amounting to torture, or at least cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment continues under provisions of the current Army Field Manual, which includes provisions for manipulation of fears, sleep deprivation, use of isolation, sensory deprivation, and use of drugs, among other dubious or harmful procedures on prisoners and detainees, while "behavioral consultants" are still used to monitor and otherwise consult to interrogators on the use of such abusive techniques.
APA has deliberately played an adjunct role to the Pentagon and CIA in the "war on terror." As an example, even to the present day the APA has refused to call for the closure of Guantanamo Bay's prison.
CEP Responds to Div. 42 President's Letter
What follows is CEP's own response to Younggren's letter, reposted here to assist the public in understanding the basic issues involved in this discussion:
October 31, 2012
Dear Dr. Younggren and Members of the APA Division 42 Board:
Thank you for your recent letter in which you share your views with the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology and with leaders of the American Psychological Association. We are hopeful that your criticisms of the Coalition's efforts to encourage accountability and reform within the APA will be an important step toward a long overdue, broad-based, transparent, and urgently needed discussion of psychological ethics in national security settings.
These ethics-based deliberations have not taken place within the APA, largely because the 2005 Presidential Task Force Report on Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS Report) – produced after a single weekend meeting – rubber-stamped the Bush Administration's claim that psychologists serve to keep detention and interrogation operations safe, legal, ethical, and effective. We therefore regret your position to "vehemently oppose" annulment of the PENS Report, and we hope that in reaching this stance the Board was not unduly influenced by those members of your division who, as you note in your letter, were directly involved in the PENS process.
At the same time, we are concerned that your letter misrepresents our work and our purpose. You emphasize that the APA does not condone "psychologist's use of behavior defined as torture." But the Coalition's critique of APA leadership with regard to policies related to national security operations goes far beyond matters of "torture." That a psychologist should not engage in torture is obvious; to highlight this precept alone is to present an exceedingly low bar for our profession. Professional ethics in psychology – based as it is on broad "do no harm" principles – expects much more of us. In violation of these standards, post-9/11 "war on terror" health professionals were given responsibility for overseeing and directing detention conditions and interrogation practices that were coercive, often abusive, and sometimes even torturous.
While recognizing and acknowledging the good work and dedication to public safety that characterizes so many of our colleagues in military and national security positions, the Coalition believes that greater awareness, engagement, and guidance are urgently needed in order to prevent ethically fraught aspects of national security psychology from undermining our profession's most noble aspirations. In the long run, the public's respect for psychology depends upon preserving our profession's commitment to improving the lives of others and refraining from harmful actions. We believe that it does not serve psychology or psychologists for our profession to stand alone among the health professions in permitting our licensed professionals to join in abusive or coercive practices.
That is why, over the past year, a centerpiece of the Coalition's efforts has been our Call for Annulment of the PENS Report. Annulment of the Report is essential, both as a matter of accountability and in order to provide the foundation for a fresh and uncompromised examination of the ethics underlying psychologist involvement in national security operations. Our annulment initiative has received substantial and wide-ranging support from highly respected organizations and individuals. Thirty-three groups have endorsed our online petition, including Physicians for Human Rights, the ACLU, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and the executive committees of eight APA divisions. The petition has also been signed by over 2,000 individuals, including current and former APA division presidents and former members of the APA Ethics Committee; non-psychologists such as psychiatrists Robert Jay Lifton and Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis (ret.) and bioethicist Steven Miles; scholar-activists such as Daniel Ellsberg; attorneys who have represented Guantanamo detainees; military and intelligence veterans; and many psychologists and human rights advocates (signers are listed at www.ethicalpsychology.org/pens). Given the diversity of your own membership within Division 42, it is very likely that some of your own members – perhaps many of them – also support annulment of the PENS Report.
We understand that, for a variety of reasons, not everyone will agree with our position regarding the importance of annulling the PENS Report. But we hope that no one will disagree about the value of presenting the issues accurately. It is therefore a matter of concern to us that your letter overlooks or minimizes key considerations and evidence that have been presented in support of PENS annulment. In this regard, please consider the bullet points below (further documentation is available on the Coalition website).
• APA leadership has had a long and problematic relationship with sectors of the national security establishment involved in detainee torture and abuse. For example, in 2003 the APA conducted a joint conference with the CIA and the Rand Corporation on the "Science of Deception." This conference was attended by psychologists who designed and implemented the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" torture program. Conference funding was arranged by the CIA psychologist who was instrumental in implementing this torture program. The conference report and journalist accounts also indicate that "enhanced interrogation" techniques were on the conference agenda.
• In 2002, soon after 9/11, the APA implemented a revised ethics code. Changes were made in the code that permitted psychologists, for the first time, to override ethical standards when they conflicted with "law, regulations, or other governing legal authority." These changes, incorporated into the PENS Report, served to immunize psychologists from potential ethical accountability for detention, interrogation, and other activities that previously would have been considered unethical. APA leadership resisted numerous calls over the next eight years – from Council and others – to correct deficiencies in the code.
• As early as 2004, reliable reports circulated that psychologists – including APA members – acted as planners, consultants, researchers, and overseers of abusive and sometimes torturous interrogations at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center, Bagram Air Base, and CIA "black sites." The PENS Task Force refused to evaluate the adequacy of APA's response to these specific public reports.
• Six of the nine voting members of the PENS Task Force were on the payroll of U.S. military or intelligence agencies – presenting clear conflicts of interest – and several of them were drawn from the very chains of command accused of prisoner abuses. In consequence, the Task Force: (a) presumed, rather than deliberated, the legitimacy of psychologists as interrogation consultants; (b) tied the PENS Report to the permissive definition of torture in U.S. law rather than to international human rights law, even though the APA is an accredited NGO to the United Nations; (c) incorporated language from military behavioral science consultation protocols directly into PENS policy; and (d) voted to require confidentiality of Task Force proceedings.
• Undisclosed high-level APA representatives who attended the PENS Task Force meeting engaged in lobbying for Department of Defense and CIA funding and had a vested interest in a PENS Report compatible with then-current administration policy. A significant conflict of interest existed for the director of the APA Practice Directorate, who steered the Task Force meeting toward supporting the role of psychologists as interrogation consultants while emphasizing the need to put out the fires of public controversy surrounding such psychologist involvement. Furthermore, this director did not disclose to the non-military members of the Task Force that his wife was an active duty SERE-trained psychologist, who had served at Guantanamo. Along with two Task Force members, she also worked with the Army Surgeon General to revise instructions for psychologists participating in national security detention and interrogation activities based on the PENS Report.
• The PENS Task Force presumed, without deliberation, that the current APA Ethics Code adequately addressed complex ethical issues associated with psychologist involvement in national security operations, that no new ethical standards were needed, and that national security concerns justified subordinating individual welfare to government interests. The Task Force declined to consider the challenges in adapting the Ethics Code to operational psychologists working under military authority and military exigencies, including the difficulty or impossibility of ethical oversight or of obtaining independent ethics consultation in classified settings.
• The PENS process and Report departed from standard APA procedures in numerous ways for which adequate explanation has never been provided: the Ethics Office director produced a full draft report immediately at the close of the weekend meeting and Task Force members were given only 24 hours to accept or reject the report; the APA Board invoked its emergency powers to endorse the PENS Report, preempting a standard review and vote by the Council of Representatives; the identities of the PENS Task Force members were not included in the Report, were not posted on the APA website, and were withheld from members of the APA and members of the press requesting them; the Task Force chair designated two APA staff members as the sole spokespersons for the Task Force; and, by majority vote, Task Force members agreed not to speak about the PENS process or PENS Report with others.
Despite these and other serious grounds for concern, the PENS Report has been widely used to promote and expand operational roles for psychologists in national security settings, and the document continues to be used in this capacity. The Report is cited in current DoD policy memos to support psychologists' involvement in detention, interrogation, and debriefing operations, including in the assessment and exploitation of individual detainee "vulnerabilities" for intelligence purposes. The Report is also being used to legitimize "operational psychology" in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and anti-terrorism operations – which sometimes involve psychological interventions that directly harm those identified as potential adversaries – as an official APA area of specialization. And the PENS Report is repeatedly cited as a resource for ethical decision-making in the APA Ethics Committee's recent – and widely criticized – draft "casebook" on National Security Commentary.
In sum, the PENS Report has facilitated harm to vulnerable populations by supporting policies that lack adequate protection against abusive treatment; has badly damaged the reputation of U.S. psychology both domestically and internationally; has diminished the APA's commitment to advance psychology "as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare;" has compromised the integrity of the relationship between professional psychology and the security sector; and, as emphasized by some senior interrogators and intelligence professionals, has undermined national security.
In our work over the past several years, we have closely collaborated with and benefited from the guidance of military interrogators, counterintelligence professionals, military attorneys (JAGs) and ethicists, and military health professionals. The preponderance of psychologists whose work supports the U.S. military and other defense-related agencies – including the many clinical psychologists providing valuable services to soldiers and veterans in VA hospitals and other medical facilities – are not engaged in ethically fraught areas of operational psychology typified by behavioral science consultations to interrogations and conditions of detention. Our efforts are, in part, an attempt to protect psychologists in the military and in national security who strive to practice in accordance with psychological ethics and international law and are asked or ordered to be purveyors of harm. To the extent that these psychologists can point to clear guidance from the APA and state licensing boards, they are better positioned to refuse such orders.
As a final consideration, we have already heard from several colleagues who are concerned by what they perceive as your letter's threatening and intimidating tone. We are disinclined to focus on that aspect of your correspondence because we believe there is much good that can come from greater engagement over the ethical issues at hand for the profession we share, especially among groups and individuals with differing perspectives. Toward that end, the Coalition will continue its efforts to bring wider recognition among fellow psychologists, national leaders, and the general public to the urgent need to examine psychological ethics in national security settings. We would like to respond to your claim that we are harming your "practice of psychology by giving false and biased information," but your letter does not provide any specific examples of inaccuracies in any official Coalition statements or related communications. We welcome your bringing such instances to our attention, and we will try to respond with documentation and clarification in a timely manner.
We especially welcome what might appear to be your admonishment to us: "Please understand that your behavior needs to be honest and demonstrate what you state are your core values." As a Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, our core values are indeed honesty, transparency, and ethical practice, and we hope that we share these values with the members of your division. Thus, our priority has been for the APA to acknowledge grave breaches of ethical principles, to hold those responsible for those breaches accountable, and to change misguided policies and institutional processes so that our profession is protected from similar harmful and discrediting actions in the future.
APA leadership has supported psychologists' participation in what were known to be abusive and coercive detention and interrogation practices; certain APA members have been directly implicated in these abuses in public documents, including congressional testimony and military investigations; and the APA Board put its ethics policy for national security settings in the hands of psychologists who were part of the very commands accused of detainee mistreatment. The Coalition believes these are very serious matters, and we hope you agree. We flatly disagree with any suggestion that the threat to the APA comes from publicizing these concerns and not from the unethical activities themselves.
Again, we extend our thanks to you for bringing greater attention to the call for annulment of the PENS Report. We welcome the opportunity to continue and to extend this important discussion. Please share this response to your letter with the full membership of Division 42.
Roy Eidelson
Stephen Soldz
Steven Reisner
Brad Olson
Trudy Bond
Jean Maria Arrigo
Cc: APA Board of Directors
APA Council of Representatives
APA Division Leadership
[Full disclosure: the author of this article resigned from APA in January 2008. I am not currently, a member of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, some of whose leading members have been active in Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, though I have been a member in the past. I have never been a member of CEP, but have openly supported their positions, including PENS annulment. I also once took a Continuing Education class on Ethics from Dr. Younggren.
I'd note that Dr. Younggren, though not writing for publication, failed to notify the recipients of his letter that a prominent member of Div. 42's Board, Treasurer Gerald Koocher (who in 2005 was APA President-elect), served as official liaison from APA to the PENS panel, itself made up of an overwhelming majority of military-linked psychologists. Younggren also did not mention his own long-time military connections, which might have biased his position.]
Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist living in Northern California, writes regularly on torture and other subjects for Truthout, The Public Record and Firedoglake. He also maintains a personal blog, Invictus. His email address is sfpsych at gmail dot com.
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