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MONTEREY, Calif. (October 15, 2008) - At the final round of the 2008 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. on Saturday, October 18, the DHL Penske Porsche RS Spyder team aims to help the legendary manufacturer clinch the LMP2 class championships – still up for grabs after a stunning win at the Petit Le Mans earlier this month. With 25 points to the winners in each class, Porsche leads Acura by eight points in LMP2. Only the top finishing entry for each manufacturer receives points in the standings. .
"It would be a wonderful conclusion to a very successful season if we could win the manufacturers championship as well," said Hartmut Kristen, head of Porsche Motorsport worldwide. "Having already won the other titles, we can now concentrate totally on this goal."
The race, which starts at 5:45 p.m. EDT on Saturday, October 18 and runs for four hours, will be telecast on a delayed basis by NBC on Sunday, October 19, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The race will be covered live on the American Le Mans Radio web at www.americanlemans.com, which will also provide streaming video of qualifying sessions starting at 6:05 p.m. EDT on Friday, October 17.
On the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Laguna Seca Raceway, two hours' drive south of San Francisco on the Pacific coast, three 503 hp DHL Penske Porsche RS Spyder sports prototypes will be challenging for the manufacturers title.
Sharing the No. 7 DHL RS Spyder are the 2007 and 2008 driver champions Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France). Manning the cockpit of the No. 6 racer are Sascha Maassen (Germany), winner in the RS Spyder's debut at Laguna in 2005, and Patrick Long (USA), the only American Porsche factory driver. And returning to lend their support are Helio Castroneves (Brazil) and Ryan Briscoe (Australia), Team Penske IndyCar Series drivers. At their first race together in the No. 5 RS Spyder, the 2008 Petit Le Mans, they secured their first ALMS class victory.
The signature feature of the race track near Monterey, regarded as one of the most interesting and diverse in the North America, is Corkscrew corner. It snakes downwards like a corkscrew, with drivers approaching the crest at high speed virtually blind.
"You need a reliable car and a good dose of courage to keep your foot down and stay on the ideal line," said Bernhard, who with his teammate Dumas started the 2008 season with an impressive overall victory at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. On the way to successfully defending their title, the German-French duo followed up with class wins in St. Petersburg, Salt Lake City and Mid-Ohio.
Despite having already achieved their personal goal with the driver's title, Bernhard and Dumas will certainly not slow down in Laguna Seca. On the contrary – the pair are determined to help Porsche retain the manufacturers' title (engine and chassis) in the race series featuring the world's fastest sports cars. "We're a team," said Bernhard. "The most important thing is success for Porsche. We received such tremendous support this season that we want to do everything to give something back to the team. It would also be incredible to secure all the titles for Porsche again this year."
According to Dumas, it was much harder to defend the title this year against increased Acura competition than it was to win it the first time. "We are having to work as a team to help Porsche win the makes title," said Dumas.


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By By Ernie Stephens | September 1, 2013
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Months after its implementation, you still can't go more than a day without hearing about the effects of sequestration – the spanking the federal government took last March when politicians failed to agree upon less painful spending cuts. It was intended to be the same kind of over-the-top threat of punishment a parent makes to get their child to comply with something, while all along expecting that the outrageous consequence will sound so ominous, it will never have to be imposed. But like sometimes happens, the kid (or politicians, in this case) failed to do what was asked, and the crazy punishment that nobody thought would have to be imposed, had to be imposed. The result was "sequestration," the deep, one-size-fits-all, across-the-board spending cuts that hammered pretty much every U.S. government agency.
In the column that I wrote back when that happened (see "Sequestration Blues," May 2013), I mentioned that sequestration was forcing the FAA to reduce staffing in the towers of large airports, and close some smaller towers altogether. I promised you back then that I'd wait a few months to see how that would impact airborne law enforcement.
Well, as we already know, the air traffic control system's brush with sequestration lasted less than a month before it was restored to its former operating budget. (FAA money can return very quickly when enough members of Congress have to wait an hour on the tarmac to be squeezed into an overworked, undermanaged airspace system!) Thank goodness those cuts were so short-lived, police operations dodged any real problems.
But it ain't over, yet. Sequestration has a nasty, nameless, annoying little offspring.
After 9/11, Homeland Security money rained down on police agencies like so many kisses from your Aunt Martha. (In fact, I'll bet many of you are currently flying aircraft that federal grant money paid for.) But a dozen years later, the majority of that money is gone.
Next, the housing crash of 2008 and its ripple effects severely crippled the tax base that fuels the public safety machine. It left state and local governments struggling to make ends meet, including within public safety departments.
The latest budgetary blow now comes from the creepy little demon spawn of sequestration, which is the loss of federal support funding for state and local programs, such as road repair, education, and public safety.
With less money coming in, but the same amount of services that need to be provided, governors, county administrators and mayors are really under the gun to cut their budgets. And, as can be expected – and sometimes quite justified – they will be looking toward their police aviation unit for those cuts. So now, more than ever, it's time for public safety air units to work more efficiently and stretch those dollars as far as they will go before someone else swoops in and makes the same mistakes that sequestration made with the FAA March.
Granted, many police agencies are already running as lean as they possibly can. But that still might not be enough, which leaves just one other option for making the hangar look less appealing to the budget axe, and that is to show unit value. "Show unit value" means doing what the Washington, D.C.-based United States Park Police (USPP) has been doing, especially since last summer.
Chief Teresa Chambers has been singing the praises of her department to just about anyone will listen, and wants the public to know that USSP's two Bell 214s and Bell 206L carry out a superior job in their police, SAR and medevac roles. She is even hosting a 40th anniversary celebration for the Aviation Division that I'm sure she's hoping will be picked up by all of the media outlets.
Is publicizing an air unit's value trickery? Is it some sort of subversive maneuver to outflank public administrators by getting the support of the voting public, first? I don't think so. It's simply about educating everyone – citizenry and elected officials alike – about what police helicopters do, and how cost effective they can be at a time when more bang for the buck is needed. Once that message is out there, if the powers that be still feel the need to cut aviation funding, so be it.
Now, in all fairness, there are those who like the out-of-sight, out-of-mind approach to avoiding budget cutbacks. The logic is that if you don't advertise the existence of an aviation unit, the money vultures might fly right past the hangar en route to some other juicy target. I might be onboard with that if this were being discussed in the years prior to 2008. But I don't think any part of any level of government operation can hide from scrutiny with the money problems that we face now.
After having talking to a lot of Rotor & Wing readers, I think my position is going to remain the same: Assume that your unit will be closely scrutinized for cuts now and several more times over the next couple of years. Then protect it by documenting and publicizing the unit's worth. Over and over.


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Bartlett mother in child assault case reaches plea agreementBy LARISSA MULKERN
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March 22. 2013 12:58AM
OSSIPEE - The Carroll County Attorney's Office has reached a plea agreement with the mother of Strider Downs Skidgel, the 2-1/2-year-old who was assaulted by his mother's boyfriend so severely that he was in the hospital for several weeks and survived three surgeries.
Heather Downs, 33, of Bartlett, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of felony witness tampering and one count of endangering the welfare of a child during a brief hearing in Carroll County Superior Court in Ossipee. The county attorney's office dismissed three other counts of child endangerment, according to county attorney Robin Gordon.
Gordon said an hour-long sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 8 at 10:30 a.m.
Downs was living with Justin Roy, 34, at his mother's mobile home in Albany with her three children until the early morning hours of December 19, 2011, when, after a night of drinking, Roy took Strider out to the shed and caused life-threatening injuries to the boy's abdomen. Roy was also convicted on simple assault charges for sitting and jumping on Strider's older brother's legs, and for squirting the 11-month-old baby in the face with the contents of a baby bottle.
Roy, who faces more than 100 years in jail, will be sentenced April 2.
The witness-tampering indictment against Downs' alleged that she told her older son, Zander, then 7, to withhold testimony or information by asking him not to tell the police what he knew concerning what happened to Strider at the house.
The charge is a Class B felony punishable by up to a 3½- to 7-year jail term. The child-endangerment charge alleged that Downs did not bring Strider to the hospital in a timely fashion. Strider, who has since recovered from his injuries, and his younger brother, Gallagher, are in the care of their biological father and grandparents in Maine, with the older boy in the custody of Downs' parents.
Downs testified as a state's witness in the week-long Roy trial.


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LODI - Lodi's application for a third round of gang intervention funding has been denied, which could mean the end of the Police Department's increased patrol after 2014.
LODI - Lodi's application for a third round of gang intervention funding has been denied, which could mean the end of the Police Department's increased patrol after 2014.
Lodi Neighborhood Services manager Joseph Wood said the city has already received about $550,000 in Gang Reduction Intervention and Prevention grants that, with matching city money, has allowed police to crack down on gang activity - primarily in east Lodi - along with other programs.
The programs are funded through 2014, but the city's application for an additional $300,000 that would have carried funding through 2015 was not successful.
"I think more and more agencies are finding out about these funds, and it's getting more competitive," Wood said, adding that he hopes the city will be successful in applying for a grant that covers 2015 and 2016 next year, and that the programs would continue.
Lodi first applied for a GRIP grant in 2012 in response to an increase of violent gang-related crimes in east Lodi.
In 2013, gang crime has decreased by 37 percent over 2012 and represents less than a quarter of 2011's high-water mark of 200 gang-related incidents, police said.
Along with increased patrols, the city has hired two part-time counselors who work with young gang members at school, including a highly touted handball program at Lodi High School.
The city also hosted a gun buyback program with some of its GRIP grant funding and has planned to use some money to help pay for some gang members to cover up or remove their affiliated tattoos. Increased code enforcement in gang neighborhoods has also led to a decrease in crime, police said.
Wood said the youth outreach portion of the gang program will remain in place even if the city does not receive more grant money.
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A farewell note to Nik Lopoukhine
By Trevor Sandwith, Director Global Protected Areas Programme
Amid the build up to the World Conservation Congress, it might be easy to forget that it that this event is also marks the end of an era for WCPA. Nik Lopoukhine was elected as Chair of WCPA in Bangkok in 2004, and will hand over the reins to his successor in Jeju. I was fortunate enough to be nominated by Nik as Deputy Chair, and so have had a chance to experience his steady and calm leadership style over the past eight years.
Among his achievements has been to forge much stronger alignment between the WCPA regions and IUCN regional programmes, and so our annual meetings are characterised by a new synergy between Commission and staff which is a wonderful prelude to the new IUCN Programme that will be adopted in Jeju. Most significantly, he has encouraged a much greater awareness of the practice to policy linkage, enabling good case studies and innovation in the field, to be presented at a high level in the halls of power of the CBD and the Climate Change Convention.
WCPA's Natural Solutions ideas have reached every corner of the globe, and the concept is now strongly embedded as one of IUCN's three major programmatic priorities. WCPA members have also become key partners in the regional workshops convened by the CBD around the world, and our technical advice is sought after in both traditional areas of expertise, such as categories and management effectiveness, as well as new challenges, such as climate change, desertification and ecological restoration. The strong decisions on protected areas that emerged during the past eight years are testimony to these "behind the scenes" efforts.
Many will also recognise Nik for strongly supporting the strengthening of the Global Protected Areas Programme, championing this cause in Council, and for mobilizing support from the World Protected Area Leadership Forum to provide strategic and hands-on assistance. His support hasn't ended there and in particular, he has facilitated a much closer working relationship between the leadership of the Commission and the Secretariat programme. As the new Director of that Programme, I would like to thank him and his colleagues on the WCPA Steering Committee for his excellent work, knowing that he is handing over a very strong mandate and highly committed leadership to the incoming Chair. I know that you will all join me in thanking him and wishing him well in the future. Now's the chance for you to have your say.....


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Now that the 2012 NHL lockout is officially over, what can hockey fans expect in the 48-game NHL season?
The shortened season will be a cause for worry for some teams who rely on a longer season to remain in the running for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Getting off to a fast start is going to be imperative for any team that wants to remain a Stanley Cup contender.
1. Pittsburgh Penguins (51-25-6)
The Pens will come out on top with a healthy Sidney Crosby paired on a line with Evgeni Malkin, who more than proved his worth for the team in Crosby's absence.
2. New York Rangers (51-24-7)
Behind Vezina Trophy winner Henrik Lundqvist and newly-acquired Rick Nash the Rangers are sure to be near the top again this season. And the lockout allowed Marian Gaborik, who was scheduled to miss much of the first half of the season, to rehab a shoulder injury.
3. St. Louis Blues (49-22-11)
Ken Hitchcock stepped in for the fired Davis Payne in November and earned Coach of the Year honors in leading the Blues to the Central title. Center TJ Oshie could become a star this season and the goaltending duo of Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliot should keep St. Louis in most games.
4. Boston Bruins (49-29-4)
Without Tim Thomas (who is sitting out this season on his own accord), Tuukka Rask looks to prove he is more than capable in net. Backed by intimidating captain Zdeno Chara and balanced scoring led by Tyler Seguin, the Bruins should contend for a Cup again this season.
5. Nashville Predators (48-26-8)
The Predators lost Ryan Suter, but managed to keep Shea Weber away from the Flyers. They have solid goaltending in Pekka Rinne, but they'll need to look to the youth to fill the holes in their blueline.
6. Detroit Red Wings (48-28-6)
Henrik Zetterberg should continue to be dominant as the new team captain alongside Pavel Datsyuk. Both were a part of the team that retired ex-captain Nicklas Lidstrom led to a 23-game home winning streak last season.
7. Vancouver Canucks (51-22-9)
Goaltending will be questionable for the Canucks, especially with Roberto Luongo's fate still undecided. With Ryan Kesler out with shoulder surgery and David Booth now out for 4-6 weeks on a groin strain, they'll need the Sedins to provide a spark.
8. New Jersey Devils (48-28-6)
The last time the league ran an abbreviated season, Devils goaltender Marty Brodeur led New Jersey to a Stanley Cup title. Minus Zach Parise, who signed with the Wild, the Devils may run into trouble scoring, but Ilya Kovalchuk has finally returned from Russia and Travis Zajac will be looking to justify his just-signed eight-year deal.
The Flyers will look to new captain Claude Giroux and the Schenn brothers for success. If Scott Hartnell and Jakub Voracek join Giroux's line and mesh, the Flyers could legitimately contend. The biggest problem the team will face is the usual goaltending carousel.
10. Chicago Blackhawks (45-26-11)
Marian Hossa was cleared to play, so his return from the concussion he suffered in the playoffs is key as he, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane make the Blackhawks go. Corey Crawford will need to improve in net in order for Chicago to make a run this season.
11. Los Angeles Kings (40-27-15)
With every team gunning for them, the Kings will need to work hard to defend their championship. They'll start the season without Anze Kopitar, who is out with a knee injury. They will have an advantage against most teams with outstanding goaltender Jonathan Quick back in net.
12. San Jose Sharks (43-29-10)
The Sharks put up little fight in losing to the Blues in five games in the first round of the playoffs last year and will enter this season hurting on the blueline with Brent Burns, Jason Demers and Justin Braun all on the shelf.
13. Phoenix Coyotes (42-27-13)
The Coyotes won the Pacific Division last season and advanced to the conference final before falling to the eventual Cup-champion Kings. Behind solid goaltender Mike Smith and re-signed captain Shane Doan, the Coyotes will look to prove that last year wasn't a fluke.
14. Washington Capitals (42-32-8)
Alex Ovechkin had -- for him -- a poor season last year and the pressure will be on him to return to form under new head coach Adam Oates. The Caps will also need to fill the defense while Dmitry Orlov is out with an upper body injury.
15. Ottawa Senators (41-31-10)
Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson is dominant on the blueline, but he'll have his work cut out for him. Defenseman Jared Cowen is out for the season, while fellow blueliner Mike Lunden is also injured. Luckily team captain Daniel Alfredsson decided to return for another season.
16. Dallas Stars (42-35-5)
The Stars went for veterans this season by signing Jaromir Jagr and Ryan Whitney. If Jagr plays as well as he did in Philly, it will be a good way for the Stars to find playoff success.
17. Buffalo Sabres (39-32-11)
With talented goaltender Ryan Miller in net, the Sabres should be higher on this list, but they have fallen flat in recent years. Enigmatic forward Ville Leino could find himself a casuality of the league's new buyout option.
18. Florida Panthers (38-26-18)
The Panthers won the Southeast last season and will rely on goalie Jose Theodore to keep them atop the division this time around. They are hoping rookie Jonathan Huberdeau can add some much-needed extra attack.
19. Colorado Avalanche (41-35-6)
The Av's are a young team that need to develop before they can see a playoff run. New captain Gabriel Landeskog (at 20, the youngest in NHL history) showed his potential alongside Matt Duchene last season.
20. Tampa Bay Lightning (38-36-8)
Steven Stamkos led the league with 60 goals and Martin St. Louis is still dynamic, but the Lightning struggled with consistency last season. They added free agent Matt Carle to help on defense, but are likely to find out quickly why Flyers' fans refer to him as "Turnover Carle."
21. Minnesota Wild (35-36-11)
The additions of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter should make the Wild a better team, but it will be interesting to see if the team can mesh with all of the new bodies in a 48-game season.
22. Calgary Flames (37-29-16)
The Flames are attempting to make moves but they still are lacking a roster needed to make a playoff run. They did add defenseman Dennis Wideman and forward Roman Cervenka but it may not be enough.
23. Winnipeg Jets (37-35-10)
The Winnipeg Jets still play like the Atlanta Thrashers. They are without Zach Bogosian (wrist) so their blueline will likely suffer this season. They have some potential in Evander Kane and Mark Scheifele, but as with most teams, goaltending is going to be key for them.
24. Anaheim Ducks (34-36-12)
The Ducks main strength is their ability to keep veteran Teemu Selanne from retiring. They also have some key players like Bobby Ryan and Cory Perry and a decent goalie in Jonas Hiller, but their performance on the ice often doesn't match their potential.
25. Carolina Hurricanes (33-33-16)
Adding another Stahl (Jordan) to the team and signing Alexander Semin puts the Canes in a good position to improve but they also are relying on rookies which can be a risk.
26. Toronto Maple Leafs (35-37-10)
Toronto was expected to get somewhat of a break after trading Luke Schenn for James Van Riemsdyk, but JVR bruised his ankle so he may not get the start in the opener. The Leafs also surprised everyone around the league when they fired GM Brian Burke just after the lockout was lifted.
27. Edmonton Oilers (32-40-10)
The Oilers are a start-up team with potential in Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and No. 1-overall draft pick Nail Yakupov. They just need to get out of the "Wayne Gretzky Shadow" and the bottom of the Western Conference.
28. New York Islanders (34-37-11)
Mismanaged for many years, the team will be moving to Brooklyn in 2015 and that might be the only reason for excitement. John Tavares is a budding star, but he doesn't have a whole lot of help.
29. Montreal Canadiens (31-35-16)
It looks as if only bad news comes out of Montreal right now. Restricted free agent P.K. Subban's fate still hangs in the balance, as he has yet to re-sign with the Canadiens.
30. Columbus Blue Jackets (29-46-7)
The Blue Jackets have slowly replaced the Maple Leafs as the laughingstock of the NHL. They do have former Flyer Sergei Bobrovsky, who should play well in the abbreviated season, but losing Rick Nash to the Rangers is going to make a bad team even worse.


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The Debunking of Swiftdeer The Star WarriorThe Debunking of Swiftdeer The Star Warrior
The Reagans are notorious in Lubbock as storytellers. Local residents consider them among the best liars Lubbock has ever produced, which in itself is no small feat.
(Quote taken from Harley Reagans authorized biography)
Claude Harley Swiftdeer Reagan who also goes by the names ThunderStrikes, Swifthorse, Harley Tarantini, and his Indian name Unhua Oskenonton Anikawi is a martial arts teacher, Native American new age guru, and sex therapist who teaches a self created Native American style of martial arts called Chulukua-Ryu in Scottsdale Arizona. Reagan also teaches self-defense classes, wilderness survival, firearms training, rape prevention, and sexual assault counseling.
His parent organization the Deer Tribe Metis Medicine Society claims to have branches in The United States, Australia, Canada, Austria, England, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Acording to Swiftdeer, his organization has around seventy-five schools all across the globe and an estimated 5,000 followers. Reagan also claims a lengthy list of accomplishments and accolades. He states that he is a Vietnam War veteran, a Cherokee Indian, a former police officer, a world Jiu-Jitsu Champion (1967 to 1970), an alternate on the 1964 United States Olympic Judo Team (fourth place), a wizard, new age healer, rape survivor, shape shifter, and sorcerer.
With this many accomplishments, his time does not come cheap. His sexual education seminars, which he calls Quodoushka Workshops cost 1,200 dollars, and his five-day self-defense seminar cost 525 dollars, as do his firearms training seminars.
However little of what Reagan claims stands up to scrutiny.
Reagans Military Record
Harley Reagan claims that in May 1958 the United States Air Force Academy accepted him as a cadet. In June of the same year, he reported to the Air Force Academy but by May 1959, he left after problems with excessive masturbation. On 1 June 1959, he joined the United States Marine Corps. The Marines send him to Boot Camp in San Diego after which he did four tours in Vietnam starting in 1960. His first combat was in Taiwan against communist guerrillas. Now if you were reading carefully you noticed that Reagan claims that his first taste of action was not in Vietnam but in Taiwan. Reagans authorized biographer writes that in 1960 Reagan first saw combat while battling communist forces over control of a Taiwanese village. During the battle, Reagan uncovered this grisly scene, Someone had taken a pregnant Taiwanese woman, thirteen of fourteen years of age, and stripped her nude. They had stuck a sharpened stake in the ground and then shoved that stake up through her vaginal passage, all the way up through her bowels, and out the top of her head. The front of her was sliced open from chest to crotch, the child taken out and rammed down on the point of the stake at the top of her head. The cord was still connected. In response to this atrocity, Reagan charged out of the tent and promptly machined gunned four gook prisoners and assaulted a Taiwanese officer that tried to stop him. While not killing prisoners, Reagan found time to take a communist held strong point and earn a Bronze Star.
However, there was no communist insurgency in Taiwan in the early 1960s. Therefore, Reagan could not have been involved anything that approaches the level of carnage portrayed in his biography. Usually you need a war to have a war story
In 1964, Reagan claims that he returned to Vietnam for his third tour of duty. So at least we have the right country now. However, Reagan is as poor with places as he is with dates. A quick check of history will tells us that President Johnson first deployed the Marines to Vietnam in 1965 and nowhere does Reagan claim to have been an advisor to the South Vietnamese army nor do any of his war stories infer that he was anything but a Marine serving in an infantry unit.
The Battle of Bloody Heart/Operation Raincoat (spring 1967)
In the spring of 1967 during Reagans fourth tour of duty in Vietnam, he claims that he earned a Silver Star and at least one Purple Heart in an engagement he calls The Battle of Bloody Heart. Reagan states that a U.S. force of 270 solders was given the mission of attacking a communist held village that controlled a strategically important bridge. The task force was comprised of Marines, Navy Seals, and Army Special Forces. Also involved was a company of South Vietnamese Regulars and a small group of Laotian Natives troops. However, a battalion and a half of North Vietnamese Regulars ambushed the American/allied forces. In the ensuing battle, the fighting was so fierce that only seventeen American solders survived. In addition, the NVA whipped out an entire Navy Seal team sent down the river to secure the bridge. Of the survivors, three Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded, one Legion of Merit, five Silver Stars, and every other survivor received the Bronze Star. The North Vietnamese wounded Harley Reagan three times and he received the Silver Star for his actions that day.
One would assume that such a bloody battle, a battle in which a handful of tough marines survived a hopeless situation, a battle in which three solders earned the CMA, would be recorded in the pages of history. But you would be wrong. I could turn up no record of The Battle of Bloody Heart. After an extensive search, I did find one reference to an Operation Raincoat. However, this operation did not occur during the Vietnam War. In fact, Operation Raincoat was a battle in World War II. It occurred in Italy in late 1942 early 1943.
Therefore, it appears that the major battles in which Reagan received his awards are nothing more than the product of Reagans overactive imagination.
Final Action in Vietnam
Despite being wounded three times in the spring of 1967, Reagan was back in action by 14 June 1967. According to Reagans biographer, while on a mission to strike a target in Laos (Lang Vei) communist forces struck the helicopter Reagan was riding in with a surface to air missile. The Helicopter exploded in a violent fireball. Luckily, the explosion threw Reagan clear. He fell 300 feet to the jungle floor, landed on his feet, and then collapsed. To put this fall into perspective Kickcatcher created this image of Reagans fall from the sky.
After the fall, Reagan was in a comatose state for 21 days. He was first treated in Vietnam but was moved to Bethesda Naval Hospital on 10 July 1967. On 21 July, he awoke from his coma but remained at the hospital until his release on March of 1968. On 21 December 1969 Reagan was given an honorable discharge from the Marines. His final rank was Sergeant.
To help clear up matters I contacted Dr Richard Allen. Dr Allen has handled complaints for the Cherokee Nation about Harley Swiftdeer Reagan for more than a decade. He stated that the Marine Military Awards Branch had no record of ever awarding a Harley Reagan any commendations. I then contacted Mr. Jarrett an archivist at the National Personal Records Center (Military and Personal Records) about Harley Reagans military service. He informed me that they had no military record pertaining to a Harley Reagan. Upon further request, Mr. Jarrett ran a search with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The FBI turned up no record that Harley Reagan ever served in the military; to say nothing of active military service in Vietnam, multiple medals, or lengthy hospitals stays at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Martial Arts Claims
Harley Reagan makes many claims about his martial arts background. His claims include, but are not limited to
-He has studied martial arts since he was a boy
-Asked to join the Air Force Judo Team
-Taught hand-to-hand combat for the Marines
-An alternate member of the United States Olympic Judo Team in 1964
-World Jiu-Jitsu Champion 1967 - 1970
-Holds a black belt in 14 different martial art styles
-And is the creator of Chulukua-Ryu, a Native American martial arts system that looks surprisingly like Kodokan Judo
For a complete list of Reagans claims, see his website.
I began by checking Reagans judo claims. According to Reagan, he represented the United States in the 1964 Olympic Games as an alternate on the Judo team. Supposedly, he competed and placed fourth. However, a quick check of Judoinfo.org proves that Harley Reagan was not on the 1964 US Judo Team.
Keep in mind that according to his war stories, he spent 1964 in Vietnam.
Regan also claims that he received his Judo promotions, 2nd, 3rd and 4th degree Black Belts, directly through the United States Judo Association and the United States Judo Federation.
I wrote to both organizations to check the validity of these claims. The USJF stated that Harley Reagan has not received any promotions through their organization. The USJA told me that they do have a record of Harley Reagan who achieved the rank of Shodan in October of 1970. However, they have no record of him achieving a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, degree Black Belt in their organization.
Therefore, the information provided by the USJA and the USJF conflict with the claims made by Reagan.
Military Hand-to-Hand Combat Teacher
According to Reagan, between fighting communists in Taiwan, and falling out of helicopters, he found time to teach hand-to-hand combat for the United States Marine Corps. However, since the FBI and the National Personal Records Center have no record of a Harley Reagan then it is highly doubtful that he taught hand-to-hand combat for the armed forces
Jiu-Jitsu Champion 1967 1970
Oh, what a tangled web we weave
At this point, his own lies begin to trip him up. Reagans website states that he was a World Jiu Jitsu Champion from 1967 to 1970, but Reagans authorized biography states that Reagan spent 14 June 1967 to 21 July 1967 in a comatose state after falling 300 feet from an exploding helicopter. Moreover, according to his own biography, Reagan was released from Bethesda Naval Hospital in March of 1968. Therefore, Reagans stories begin to contradict each other. Either he was in the hospital recovering from wounds received in Vietnam or competing in Jiu Jitsu, he could not be doing both.
Education or lack thereof
To help bolster his authority to teach his new age Native American sexuality seminars Harley Reagan claims that he is in fact Dr. Reagan. Supposedly, sometime in the early 1970s Reagan received a PhD in psychology from The Pacific Cultural Institute for Advanced Studies in Hollywood. However according to the California Department of Postsecondary Education no such organization exists, or has ever existed.
Harley Reagan in the News
In November of 1988, the magazine Karate/Kung Fu Illustrated fell for Reagans lies and published an article about his Native American martial art.
Reagan was also the subject of an article entitled Sacred Organism, which appeared in the pages of the Phoenix New Times.
The Just Plain Weird
Harley Reagan makes many strange claims on his website and in his biography. In order to share with you the wild world that Swiftdeer Reagan inhabits I will include a few of his more outrageous claims.
Harley Reagan claims to be a wizard, and a shape shifter. While not shape shifting, Reagan found time to conduct Black Ops for the NSA and the CIA. He has claimed to be a former law enforcement officer and the reincarnation of Billy the Kid. In addition, Reagan has stated that Native Americans are really the decedents of aliens from the planet Oiricanwiyah.
Finally, that he is a member of an organization called the Twisted Hairs. Supposedly, this group meets every four years since 1254 B.C. Did I mention that they meet in the fifth dimension?
And last but not least
According to the Cherokee Nation, Harley Swiftdeer Reagan is not even a Native American. He is not on the roles and is not in any way a member of the Cherokee Nation. This helps explain why Reagan shows a shocking lack of knowledge about Cherokee history and tradition. The fact that Harley Reagan is in no way a Native American destroys his authority to teach his made up Native American Martial Arts or run his new age cult. Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller even considered suing Reagan for slandering the Cherokee Nation with his comments about Cherokee Fire Women.
Harley Reagan is a fraud on multiple levels. He is not a Cherokee, he has falsified much of his martial arts experience, his military record, and his educational background. Reagan uses this fabricated background to charges people over five hundred dollars to attend his martial arts seminars, and up to 1,200 dollars for his sexual workshops.
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Very well researched article, Olorin. Your research-jitsu is strong ^_^
Compelled to turn a phrase; the only good fake Indian is an exposed fake Indian.
Pitty you left out the really creepy sex stuff, particularly that he does rape counseling with well... his story.
Right, well it's been a good while coming and it's good to see it up.
Has this link been e-mailed to Swiftdeer and his compatriots?
2/03/2007 4:34am, #3Originally Posted by Bladesinger
Just try a Google search: +500 hits for Harley Reagan
Originally Posted by Die, Tenshi!
I will leave it to the Bullshido crowd to judge for themselves
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Great article, Olorin.
The 300ft drop image is particularly illustrative... perhaps the guy should be renamed Flying Squirrel?
What will happen first, do you think: A rebuttal by the man himself, or an invasion of students defending their teacher?Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
2/03/2007 10:58am, #5
Incidently, people don't survive such drops without a deacceleration mechanism. For example landing in a huge snow drift. (B-24 crewmember WWII) Landing in the sea with a half opened parachute. (American flyer in the pacific theater WWII) Such a mechanism was not in his book.
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On the fall front, I believe there was an aircraft crewman who survived by hitting some pine trees and they broke his fall.
As a former rock climber I find it impossible to believe that he fell 300ft AND landed on his feet. He might have done, but his knees would have come out of his chest......
If stats for falls are needed/wanted, first ports of call should be national climbing/skydiving and BASE jumping organisations. These people have some expertise with people falling to their deaths.
On the 'atrocity in Taiwan' issue, do you know Olorin when he stelling this tale? I don't know how widespread such an idea of death is, but I'd never heard it until I read a work of fiction, details of which I'm about to dig up, if we know a date it could be possible that he's lifted the idea directly from this book.
Regardless this is excellent work by Olorin."Listen to Iscariot you Vicchysoise ninja-fuckers!" - kohadril
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"I'll pray for you Iscariot." - Mas
"Iscariot, check your pulse and report back. We need to know if you are in fact, not alive." - Lu Tzu
"Iscariot is victorious!" - Dai Tenshi
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"Iscariot, despite our obvious doctrinal differences, I salute your exquisite bastardry, and take back half of all the bad things I ever said about you." - Zendetta
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the 3ooft fall is bunk. I'm a fairly experienced rock-climber, and when free-soloing, most people consider a fall from anything above thirty feet to be potentially fatal, or at least capable of producing massive injuries.
Now lovely Lucifer, in hell so stark
King, and lord of sin and pride
With some mist his wits make dark.
He send thee grace to be thy guide
2/03/2007 2:29pm, #9
Rumors are that he was training with Ed Parker at some time around 1964, Mr. Bishop, do you know Mike Stone or anyone else from that time period who confirm dates and whether Parker awarded him any rank?
2/03/2007 5:55pm, #10
Great stuff! Guys, if you saw the mountain of evidential research that went on behind the scenes to produce this investigation, you'd rightly declare Olorin as Master bullshit detective.
Something which seems to be missing from the expose is the bit where Mr Reagan claims to have murdered two "criminals" in "Justifiable homicide". He is incidentally, a gun nut with, allgedly, extreme anti-immigration and/or racist beliefs. He claims to often carry a gun (not hard to believe), hence I don't think anyone has ever called him on his **** for real - though how much of even those tales is true who knows....
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Pets at Risk is gearing up for Corn Day with a special promotion. The non-profit organization will sell tennis balls for $5 each. Of all tennis balls purchased, one winner will be drawn for a $250 cash prize at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 on the Corn Day Stage.
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In addition to the "Fido Fetch," Pets at Risk will have a table in downtown Carmi during Corn Day with several items available through a raffle. Items in the raffle include Disney blankets, items donated by Ann Hardy, a basket donated by Kathy Smith, a stuffed bulldog donated by Rhonda's Doll Emporium, gift certificates donated by Yellow Rose and The Courtyard, magnet animals donated by Merle Norman Cosmetics and Boutique and a framed 1975 limited edition sketch of the Saline County Courthouse by Barb Allen, renowned local artist.
The sketch will be displayed in the Old National Bank lobby until Corn Day. Bids on the item will be taken up to Corn Day Saturday, Oct. 13.
For more information about the event or to purchase a tennis ball, contact Susan at 383-6993.
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Over a decade ago, a few thousand Star Wars fans in New Zealand brought about the birth of the religion known as "Jediism." The belief system is based on the teachings of the mystic, lighsaber-wielding warriors in George Lucas' science fantasy saga. (It isn't endorsed by Lucas, who in fact once said in an interview that fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola suggested he start his own religion, but he eschewed the idea.) And after getting its start overseas, the faith is starting to gain traction in the United States.
But what does that say about traditional religious institutions? Does the trend of people turning away from the church or synagogue to follow a faith based on a motion picture series mean that traditional religion is threatened?
Guest author Eli Just offers his opinion on how "Jediism" impacts the nature of religion in our society:
Jediism: Why Religion Hasn't Jumped the Shark
Pop Culture's Cross-Pollination with Traditional Faith Make Both Stronger
For centuries, religion has influenced culture – the visual arts, music, theater and architecture. Where would society be without the Gutenberg printing press, created to make the Bible available to everyone? The press led to exponential growth in European literacy, kick-starting future intellectual discovery and accelerating the progress of civilization.
Gutenberg's press also lit the kindling for the Protestant Reformation. This combination of technology and culture led to a drastic new understanding of Christianity, fragmenting the continental reach of the Vatican, an institution that has mastered the use of branding via artistic expression. As most religious scholars would admit, culture and religion have always had a symbiotic relationship, promoting both purposes in a unified form.
The cultural-religious connection newest evolution is Jediism, a religious movement made official in 2000 and based on the ideas of characters in the "Star Wars" film series. Just as Protestantism did not destroy Christianity, neither will The Force – a religious tenet in Jediism – steal traditional religions' thunder. However, it may make religion again relevant to more than just a handful of geeks.
Data from the Gallup Organization and the Pew Research Center show organized religion trending downward:
- Since the 1970s, Americans' confidence in organized religion has steadily decreased.
- This year, the downward trend has hit its lowest point; only 44 percent of Americans have "a great deal" of confidence in organized religion.
- Pew polls indicate that while many young people identify less with the denominations they are born into, most teens and 20-somethings consider themselves "spiritual."
To put it in economic terms, there's a growing market of young and spiritual people who are hungry for direction. Is Jediism the answer?
Jediism incorporates ideas from Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Stoicism and Shintoism. Although the new religion is mostly based on George Lucas' vision, there is no founder or central structure. A common belief in Jediism is the Jedi Code, which reads:
- There is no emotion; there is peace.
- There is no ignorance; there is knowledge.
- There is no passion; there is serenity.
- There is no chaos; there is harmony.
- There is no death; there is The Force.
It is not just that more people are self identifying as nondenominational – the Pew Center also found that nearly one in five Americans, 19 percent, check the "nothing in particular" box, or atheist or agnostic, for religious belief. That's the highest percentage of nonreligious people ever surveyed in the country.
Just as culture and artistic expression have always informed religion, it is time for more religious people to embrace how science informs human understanding of the universe. Unlike the great American astronomer Carl Sagan, who said religious and scientific disagreements can be solved by understanding each as "non-overlapping magisterial" – many believe religion, culture and science are three peas in the same pod. They are three essential, distinctive yet related fields to the same end, which is the struggle to grasp truth.
Why not? Authorities on both sides are dipping their toes in the water with oddball, stranger-than-fiction scientific posits such as String Theory, which attempts to reconcile two seemingly incompatible theories: quantum mechanics and general relativity. The theory, studied by today's leading physicists, says that there are more dimensions to reality than we can perceive, and that there may be activity from another universe occurring right in front of us, but we simply are not "tuned in" for those dimensions.
We may have a doppelganger living right next to us, in a parallel universe. In a side-by-side comparison with Jediism, which is the stranger belief? I am reminded of a J.B.S. Haldane quote:
"Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose … I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy."
Learn more about Jediism at the Jedi Creed website.
About Eli Just
Eli Just (www.elijust.net) is the author of several books including the popular "Manny Jones" series of Supernatural thrillers and "The Eddy." He has a master's in history from Southeastern Louisiana University and is a self-taught student of physics, which he taught at the high school level. As a Christian, Just enjoys exploring themes involving physics and its relationship to religion. He lives in northern Georgia.


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Great-grandma of NY boy who saved kin in fire dies
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A fire that killed a 9-year-old boy as he rescued his family from their burning mobile home in upstate New York has claimed his great-grandmother as its fourth victim.
Barbara Beach was badly burned in the Jan. 20 fire in a trailer park in Penfield outside Rochester.
Her son tells the Democrat and Chronicle (http://on.rocne.ws/1krKXby ) that she died at around 5 a.m. Saturday at a hospital. She was 66.
The fire had already taken the lives of three other family members: 9-year-old Tyler Doohan, his grandfather and his stepgreat-grandfather.
Authorities and relatives say Tyler woke up first during the early morning blaze. They say he roused his family, then went back into the burning home to try and rescue an elderly relative who used a wheelchair.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly approved U.S. aid package of weapons to Syrian rebels may be too little, too late to reverse recent battlefield gains by President Bashar Assad's government — and few in Washington are enthusiastic about sending it.
But the White House is pushing ahead with the arms, which one official described as mostly light weapons, in the belief that doing something is better than doing nothing to help in the two-year Syrian civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people — even if the package is far less than rebels say they need.
Almost a year ago, during his re-election campaign, President Barack Obama warned that the use, deployment or transfer to terror groups of chemical weapons by Assad would amount to what he called a "red line" and bring "enormous consequences." U.S. intelligence officials concluded in June that Assad probably had used chemical weapons at least four times this year in attacks that killed up to 150 people.
That left Obama with little choice but to launch the minimal weapons plan, especially after congressional intelligence committees reluctantly approved it this week.
"There probably was a vigorous debate within the administration about what to do in Syria," said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House intelligence Committee who opposes arming the rebels. "I don't know that anyone is particularly enthusiastic with the approach that they are recommending. But they certainly feel it's the best they could come up with, and best they could reach their own consensus over."
Schiff would not discuss specifics of the classified package but signaled that it would neither directly neutralize the chemical weapons nor provide enough firepower to "tilt the battlefield" in the rebels' favor.
The Obama administration also wouldn't detail the plans or when weapons would be shipped. Two officials familiar with the aid said it is worth a few hundred million dollars, and Republican Sen. John McCain, who wants stronger U.S. involvement, this week described the package as "light weapons" — meaning mostly small arms, assault rifles and ammunition. Other U.S. officials have said anti-tank weaponry such as shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenades and other missiles could be included.
But the arms are likely to fall short of the heavy munitions the Syrian rebels have requested to stop Assad's tanks and other heavy weapons.
Schiff said Congress would review funding for the package at least annually, giving the White House "the opportunity to discuss other things that they can do, and are doing, rather than becoming an arms supplier."
Other House Intelligence members suggested the weapons plan was not robust enough. The committee "has very strong concerns about the strength of the administration's plans in Syria and its chances for success" but gave its approval after discussion and review, Chairman Mike Rogers said in a statement.
Beyond the ever-growing and casualty toll, the U.S. fears Syria's civil war could spill over its borders and destabilize the already-shaky Mideast, potentially isolating Israel and roiling global oil markets. Additionally, the U.N. estimates that at least 1.6 million Syrian refugees already have fled to Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt — all of which are struggling with their own economic and domestic troubles. Jordan's economy in particular is seen as in danger.
The sectarian nature of Syria's war — Assad is an Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and most of the opposition are Sunni Muslims — is a major security concern for the Mideast.
With help from Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops and Hezbollah militants from Lebanon, Assad's forces have resurged in key pockets across Syria over the past few months after giving up ground to the rebellion in the early stages of the war. Combined with tacit approval from Baghdad to let Iran ship aid to Syria through Iraqi airspace, the regional backing for Assad has effectively created a crescent of Shiite-led governments and forces. That presents a hostile front to Israel and to Mideast nations that are largely Sunni. Already, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have rushed to arm or otherwise help the rebels.
McCain said the meager U.S. weapons package will not be enough to give the rebel forces an advantage over Assad. He said the White House reluctance to do more "dramatically damages the credibility of the United States of America and its president."
"Do you think that this paucity of reaction to crossing the red line is lost on the ayatollah in Iran? Of course not," McCain said in an interview. "Do the Iranians think we're really serious about preventing them from achieving nuclear weapons after our reaction to the red line? We have no credibility and we have no leadership in the region."
Part of the White House reluctance comes from concern about where the U.S. weapons will end up once sent to Syria.
There are dozens of rebel groups — officials estimate at least 50 — fighting the Syrian government. But not all of the factions are allied, and some are even fighting each other to establish primacy and stake out turf in the deeply fractured country. The al-Qaida-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra has turned against mainstream rebel organizations with the intent of imposing strict Islamic law in the areas they want to control.
Syrian National Coalition President Ahmed al-Jarba and Free Syrian Army chief of staff Gen. Salim Idris hope to meet with Obama next month in Washington to press for the immediate release weapons, said Free Syrian Army spokesman Louay al-Mikdad. He said Syrian opposition leaders have taken strong steps to ensure the arms remain in the hands of credible rebels, and he renewed their call for anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles and a no-fly zone that would prevent airstrikes by Syrian jets.
Al-Jarba was also meeting with the United Nations Security Council to press the opposition's case.
"Those extremist groups, they don't care about the will of the people," al-Mikdad said. "And we will not allow them to hijack the Syrian revolution or steal the Syrian people's future."
"We are waiting for the President Obama to tell us officially they will start to send the weapons and the aid we need," he said. "We hope it will be quickly. Because every day, every hour that they do not arm us it will cost us more blood in Syria and it costs us another day from our future from the regime or the extremist groups."
Schiff said the U.S. "has a better sense of who the opposition is now," and that steps have been taken to make sure the aid package is sent the right rebel groups. "But that doesn't solve the problem of making sure that weapons that are given to vetted opposition stay in the hands of vetted opposition," he said.
Richard K. Betts, a national security expert at the Council of Foreign Relations, member of the 9/11 Commission and a former staffer on the Senate intelligence Committee, called it a mistake for the U.S. to forge ahead with little or no confidence that the limited level of weapons will help.
"It's probably a mistake to dip our toe in the water just in order to look like we're fulfilling a promise because that risks the worst of both worlds — getting involved without being able to affect the situation in a positive way," Betts said. "The damage from backing off from the apparent commitment to do something would not be trivial, but it's hard to be sure that the damage from going ahead with limited measures or even more wouldn't be greater."
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Many teens who attempt suicide do so because of a temporary problem, like the end of a romance. When guns are involved, teens can waste their lives and destroy the happiness of their friends and families in an instant. They are thinking of a passing problem, not the outcome!
Teens often see any change as a major life event. Adults and teens need to talk about things, like budding sexuality and taking responsibility for one's own actions, as they occur.
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Look Behind the Scenes of Uncharted: Golden Abyss With New Motion Capture Videos
Sony has put up a rare insight into the motion capture process for PlayStation Vita title Uncharted: Golden Abyss by showing Nolan North (Drake), Richard McGonagle (Sully), Christine Lakin (Marisa), and Jason Spisak (Dante) acting out scenes from the game.
John Garvin, Creative Director at Sony Bend, first shared some of his thoughts about the process of bringing Golden Abyss' plot to life:
I'm no stranger to writing, having written all the Syphon Filter games, but this title taught me some new tricks. By the time we started shooting in February 2011, I had gone through over 40 revisions, changing everything from setting, characters, names, dialogue and action. If we count all the in-game VO dialogue, we ended up with over 400 pages of script for Uncharted: Golden Abyss.
Of course, writing and performance capture was just beginning. What followed was an intense year of motion capture clean-up, animation, camera work, set building, lip-synching, prop building, editing, sound and music, by a team of over 50 artists working across five different studios.
Warning: The second video contains spoilers.
The first scene shows Nathan Drake and Sully rowing down a river and talking a bit, only to run into some trouble. To view "Uncharted: Golden Abyss Motion Capture Video 1," click on the video below:
The second scene shows a confrontation between Drake, Marisa, and Dante. To view "Uncharted: Golden Abyss Motion Capture Video 2," click on the video below:
Uncharted: Golden Abyss will release exclusively on PlayStation Vita when the console launches, and scored full marks in our review.
Are you planning to buy Uncharted: Golden Abyss? Let us know in the comments below.


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Letter on Library Internet Access and Computer Use Policy
April 21, 2009
This letter is in response to San José City Council April 21, 2009, Amended Agenda Item 5.2, "Library Internet Access and Computer Use Policy." My predecessor, Don Kassing, wrote you approximately one year ago to voice San José State University's opposition to Internet filters at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and all branches.
I am writing today to confirm SJSU's position remains unchanged; we oppose any filtering of Internet access at King Library and the branches.
Internet filters will violate the spirit of our joint operating agreement by restricting intellectual freedom. Compromising this core value will seriously erode the spirit of cooperation and mutual understanding underlying the city-university partnership that built King Library.
The SJSU Academic Senate, which represents more than 2,000 faculty members, affirmed that intellectual freedom shall not be infringed at King Library in a November 2007 resolution. The resolution states "San José State University shall continue its long-standing practice of making uncensored access to its materials available to faculty, staff, students, and all citizens of the State of California."
The concept of intellectual freedom is also deeply embedded in the King Library operating agreement. Section 5.4, entitled "Intellectual Freedom," states: "It is the intent of the University and the City to continue to honor the current policy of both the University and City to provide for unrestricted access to all Library Material within the Library Collections and services within the Joint Library for all Members of the General Public and the University Users."
SJSU believes information available on the Internet is Library Material within the Library Collections, given the city and university share the costs of Internet connectivity for King Library and all branches. Note that SJSU students use computers in branch libraries to access the Internet.
The city should confer with the university before amending the Library Internet Access and Computer Use Policy. In May 2008, Library Director Jane Light wrote: "The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library's Operating Agreement, by which the City and the University agree to operate the King Library jointly, addressed the possibility of a future change in City policy, requiring that any changes to the City's Internet access policy could not negatively impact the University's open access policy for its students, faculty, employees, and collections."
While we appreciate changes made to the original proposal, SJSU's opposition remains because any filtering of the Internet will negatively impact open access. The current policy was deliberately written to apply to all patrons; suggested changes would restrict access based on a person's age (minor or adult), location (branch or King) and affiliation (public or SJSU). Also, language for the proposed login page essentially threatens patrons with arrest each time they use library computers, a situation we feel could have a chilling affect on student and faculty research.
Consequently, we believe these proposals must be vetted by the university community, which because of our history of consensual decision making, will require input from administrators, faculty, staff and students. San José State may also need to seek advice from legal counsel to determine if the operating agreement must be amended. Remember, the agreement promises unrestricted access to all Library Materials in the Library Collection, including Internet connectivity.
Make no mistake; public safety is SJSU's top priority. But we believe Internet filtering proposals are misguided. The resources we would spend seeking input from the entire university community and legal counsel, amending the Internet access policy, possibly amending the operating agreement, and then implementing filtering technologies will do little to enhance security at King Library.
Such resources would be better spent on far more effective measures, such as a new security camera system, more security personnel, and more library staff members working and mingling with patrons throughout King Library. I would also like to remind you that the crime rate in King Library is remarkably low. Police responded to two reports of lewd behavior during fiscal year 2007-2008, representing .0003 percent of all computer sessions.
In closing, I quote the Academic Senate resolution, which notes that King Library's "success is demonstrated, in part, by 2.5 million patron visits and 700,000 Internet sessions a year. The great success of the joint library is predicated upon a robust level of cooperation between the city and the university. We invite the city to join us in renewing our commitment to the shared understandings that make the joint library possible."
San José State University is looking forward to working with you on this matter. I have asked Associate Vice President for Public Affairs Larry Carr to help me address your questions or concerns. Please feel free to contact him at 408-924-1166 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Jon Whitmore
Debra Figone, San José City Manager
Jane Light, San José Library Director


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Guest Monkey - George is almost as excited as Allie on her first day of school, but is ecstatic when she invites him to school the next day as a special guest monkey! He soon learns, though, that kindergarten has a lot of special rules that he's not used to - like not climbing on the furniture or standing in the sand table. Will George get extra credit for trying to follow the rules, or will his effort create one big mess? Charkie Goes to School - Charkie's building has a new rule - all dogs must have a good-behavior diploma from obedience school. After seeing Charkie struggle with the obstacle course, George recruits the academy's top alumni, Hundley, to help prepare Charkie for the final exam. D
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Insurgents fired two rockets Thursday toward a site where more than 2,000 Afghan elders are attending a national assembly to discuss the future of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, officials said. Both rockets missed their target, but one man was injured.
No one claimed responsibility for firing the rockets, but the Taliban had threatened to disrupt the gathering _ called a loya jirga, or grand council.
"Everybody knows that they are trying to hit the jirga, but instead innocent civilians were the victims," Mohammad Shafi said standing near where one rocket landed with a thud at about 8 a.m. "If the jirga weren't going on, there would have been no rockets. If the man loses his hand, who will feed his family?"
Security for the four-day jirga is tight. Much of Kabul went into a lockdown mode ahead of the meeting and some foreigners working in Kabul were not allowed to travel around the city. Roads were closed and intelligence agents swarmed the meeting hall on the outskirts of the capital.
At the last such meeting _ a "peace jirga" in June 2010 _ Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests fired at a tent holding some 1,500 dignitaries, lawmakers and civil society activists. The assault triggered a battle with security forces that killed at least two militants. President Hamid Karzai, who was delivering a speech at the time, brushed off the interruption and urged fighters to lay down their arms
Since then, a new hardened structure has been built at the jirga site.
Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles.
Karzai asked the elders to back negotiations for a new security pact, assuring them that he would demand an end to unpopular night raids in which troops swoop down from helicopters and search Afghan homes. He said U.S. troops should be allowed to stay, but that the night raids should end and that the Afghan government, not Americans, should be put in charge of detainees.
On Thursday, delegates to the jirga met in more than 40 committees to discuss the issue. Subghatullah Mujaddedi, the head of the jirga who briefly served as Afghanistan's president in 1992, said he hoped the talks will provide "useful guidance for us and for the Americans."
Lawmaker Sayed Jamal Faquri, a delegate from Bamiyan province, said a majority at the jirga were in favor of having a strategic partnership agreement with the United States, but a minority argued it would look as if Afghanistan was occupied by America.
Karzai doesn't need the elders' permission to broker a pact with the U.S., but he wants their stamp of approval to strengthen his negotiating position.
So far, Karzai's terms have been unacceptable to American officials. The U.S.-led coalition has given no indication that it is willing to stop the raids, and says the night operations, which are conducted with Afghan security forces, are an effective way to keep pressure on militants.
Kabul police criminal director Mohammad Zahir said one person was wounded in Thursday's attack.
One rocket landed on a hillside about half a mile (kilometer) from the meeting site. The other landed farther away in an open area, shattering a few windows in buildings near where merchants were selling vegetables and fruits.
"Me and my four friends were drinking tea and suddenly we heard an explosion," said Shafi, a 28-year-old taxi driver. "We didn't know if it was a bomb or a rocket."
Shafi said he helped a man whose left hand was bleeding find a ride to the hospital.
Ashmat Stanekzai, a spokesman for Kabul police, said police later arrested a man suspected of firing the rockets. He said the suspect was seen driving away from a place on a hillside where the rockets were launched.
Separately, Britain's military said two of its soldiers were killed Thursday in a roadside bombing in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand province in the south. The deaths bring to 388 the number of British military personnel killed in Afghanistan since the start of operations there in 2001.
So far this year, 507 NATO service members have been killed in Afghanistan, including at least 379 Americans.
The U.S.-led coalition also said more than 25 insurgents were killed after they attacked coalition and Afghan troops with guns and rocket-propelled grenades Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. The troops called in NATO aircraft, which killed the insurgents in Nazyan district of Nangarhar province.
Also in Nangarhar, an insurgent shot two government workers who were driving in a vehicle in Chaparhar district, said provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai. One died and the other was wounded, he said.


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Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
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New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2681
New Brunswick, N.J. – Eileen White, PhD, associate director for basic science at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and colleagues from Princeton University have been awarded a new five-year, $2.4 million dollar research grant (1R01CA 163591-01) from the National Cancer Institute. The funding will support research to identify metabolic vulnerabilities of particularly aggressive cancers – those with mutations in the Ras cancer gene. The Cancer Institute of New Jersey is a Center of Excellence of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS).
Led by principal investigators Dr. White and Joshua D. Rabinowitz, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, the project is an extension of a collaborative effort between their two laboratories. That work, which has examined cancer metabolism, was initially funded through a National Institutes of Health Challenge Grant.
For nearly half a century, it has been known that altered metabolism distinguishes cancer cells from normal cells. Only recently have scientists learned that activation of cancer genes and loss of tumor suppressor genes reprograms cell metabolism. With this altered metabolism, cancer cells acquire the ability to make building blocks for production of new cancer cells and produce the energy needed for cancer growth.
The current project aims to identify the 'Achilles heel' in the altered metabolism of cancer cells that are specifically fueled by mutations in the Ras gene. Cancer-causing mutations in Ras proteins activate Ras signaling that promotes cancer cell growth. Ras mutations cause the most deadly cancers such as pancreatic, lung and colon cancers. Targeting Ras proteins directly with intended therapeutics has been unsuccessful, thus prompting investigators to instead look at blocking the downstream consequences of Ras function. But in order to do that, they must first identify what Ras needs to convert normal cells into tumor cells, including how Ras alters metabolism in ways that are essential for tumor growth.
The White and Rabinowitz laboratories recently examined Ras activation and its impact on tumor cells. They found that Ras-driven cancers are dependent on a self-preservation process known as autophagy, in which cells cannibalize themselves in order to survive stressful conditions during tumor growth and in response to therapy. In this project, White and Rabinowitz aim to further explore metabolic dependence and autophagy addiction as metabolic vulnerabilities that can be exploited in the development of new cancer therapies.
White, who also is the program leader of the Cell Death and Survival Signaling Program at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and an adjunct professor of surgery at RWJMS, notes, "We have already shown that Ras-driven cancers are vulnerable to interference in specific metabolic pathways. By further examining these metabolic liabilities, we will be able to identify additional weaknesses that can be targeted therapeutically to provide new treatments for Ras-driven cancers."
The grant runs through June 2017.
About The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (www.cinj.org) is the state's first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicated to improving the detection, treatment and care of patients with cancer, and serving as an education resource for cancer prevention. Physician-scientists at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey engage in translational research, transforming their laboratory discoveries into clinical practice, quite literally bringing research to life. To make a tax-deductible gift to support The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, call 732-235-8614 or visit www.cinjfoundation.org. Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheCINJ.
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Network is comprised of hospitals throughout the state and provides the highest quality cancer care and rapid dissemination of important discoveries into the community. Flagship Hospital: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. System Partner: Meridian Health (Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Ocean Medical Center, Riverview Medical Center, Southern Ocean Medical Center, and Bayshore Community Hospital). Major Clinical Research Affiliate Hospitals: Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Medical Center, Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Overlook Medical Center, and Cooper University Hospital. Affiliate Hospitals: CentraState Healthcare System, JFK Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (CINJ Hamilton), Somerset Medical Center, The University Hospital/UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School*, and University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. *Academic Affiliate


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21 December is not the end of the world
The Mayan 'prophecy' is linked to the end of the Mayan Long-count calendar cycle of 5,126 years, which began in 3,114 BC and concludes on December 21 2012. An inscription in Mexico, suggests that Bolon Yokte - a mysterious god associated with war and the underworld - will descend from the sky on the equivalent of December 21, 2012.
It was in the 1970s that New Age groups, UFO watchers and conspiracy theorists, began to argue that the Mayan prophecy mapped out a cataclysmic end to humanity, even though there is no mention of this in traditional Mayan beliefs. Some Christians have also picked up these ideas.
Though many people, me included, pay little credence to this view, it is nevertheless important to understand why they hold these beliefs and how we should respond to them.
To help us do that, we can use the work of psychologist Leon Festinger, who studied a 1950s group which also believed the world would end in a great flood on, strangely enough, December 21, 1954.
Festinger's book When Prophecy Fails accounts for the psychological consequences of disconfirmed expectations. To onlookers, the prophecy failed, but to the group themselves, it did not.
When William Miller and his Adventists' prediction that 'Jesus Christ will come again to this earth' failed to materialise in October 1844, the "failed" prophecy was interpreted spiritually, and led some of his followers to form the Seventh Day Adventist church.
Like the groups predicting an end to the world this year, these groups' social structures were too well developed for them abandon their beliefs, so they merely reinterpreted their prophecies to survive.
Likewise, when we have safely made it to 22 December, many of those people predicting the end of the world as we know it will argue we have entered a new age of consciousness.
Or conversely, a natural disaster, a war or any other calamity, they will say, proves their predictions. For the group, their prophecies are therefore practically unfalsifiable.
It's quite easy to ridicule and dismiss their beliefs. But by doing that, we merely serve to reinforce them – and that can sometimes even lead to tragedy. For example, the US government's response to the Branch Davidian apocalyptic group in Waco in 1993 served to fulfil the group's own prophecies that they would be violently attacked.
Sometimes, elements of these group's critiques on issues such as the exploitation of workers and third world poverty might even have some relevance to the mainstream.
So when, as I fully expect, we make it to next year after all, let's make it our resolution to take a constructive approach to these groups the next time a prophecy comes around.
Dr Andrew Crome researches the history of modern Christianity and apocalyptic thought at The University of Manchester.


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High heels for Dolly at Glastonbury
Country queen Dolly Parton is planning to wear high heels when she makes her Glastonbury debut - despite the festival's famous mud.
The Jolene singer, 68, said her upbringing in a two-room wood cabin in rural Tennessee meant she would have no qualms wading through the mire to an outside toilet, like other festival-goers.
She also told of her excitement that Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant will be at Glasto when she follows in the footsteps of James Brown, Shirley Bassey and her friend Kenny Rogers to fill the early-evening Sunday legends' slot in June.
After being shown snaps of the Somerset event's habitual mud bath, she told the Mail on Sunday's Event supplement: "I am going to be wearing my high heels, but I just may stay in my bus until I have to get on stage."
But she added: "That's how I grew up. If I'm tramping to the toilet through mud, that's no big deal for me."
Having recorded her own version of Led Zeppelin's power ballad Stairway To Heaven, she shrieked with excitement when told that Plant will also be playing at the festival of festivals.
And the big-haired blonde explained how she recently left White Stripes' Jack White, who is also playing at the festival and has covered Jolene, to pick up a massive bill after a bout of gluttony.
"Jack was at the same restaurant as me recently," she said. " We thought we'd order everything so we'd know what to order next time we went.
"Jack was there and he picked up our tab. I never felt so bad in my life because that bill must have been outrageous."