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When a dapper young bank teller in Ottawa made off with hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars and slipped across the border in 1958, he instigated an international manhunt.
A wanted poster circulated by the authorities showed a young man, grinning in a white tuxedo and black bow tie. The description included his height, weight and personality: "neat dresser, nightclub habitué, a champagne drinker, enjoys female companionship."
Sixty years later, the bank teller, Boyne Lester Johnston, known by some as the "champagne kid," returned to the scene of the crime. Mr. Johnston is now in his 80s, and the old bank is now a hip downtown restaurant, Riviera.
During a lunch at Riviera, on Aug. 10, Mr. Johnston drank Champagne cocktails and visited the wine cellar, which was formerly the bank vault, said Alex McMahon, the restaurant's wine director.
"The atmosphere we've set up here really is reminiscent of that time and era," Mr. McMahon said. "To have the guy come back and share the stories with us, it was such a cool cinematic experience."
Riviera posted a photo of the visit on Instagram, stirring a sense of nostalgia in some and leading others to question the celebration of a man who once stole 260,000 Canadian dollars, which today would be worth about $1.7 million in United States currency.
Mr. Johnston eventually returned the money, served time in prison and appears to have long ago put the heist behind him. He could not be reached for comment on Sunday.
His friend Mait Ainsaar, who accompanied him to the restaurant, said the visit was simply supposed to be a "bucket list moment" for Mr. Johnston, a chance for an older man to reminisce about an exhilarating, if fleeting, time in his life.
The attention, Mr. Ainsaar said, has been unexpected and overwhelming. But he said he thought he understood why people were intrigued by the decades-old theft, which would be nearly impossible to pull off in today's digital world.
"Who wouldn't want to pretend, say 'I don't care,' just go nuts and have a blast?" Mr. Ainsaar said. "It's sort of everyone's secret dream to do something like that."
In 1958, a 25-year-old Mr. Johnston was working as a chief teller at Imperial Bank of Canada in Ottawa when he stole 260,000 Canadian dollars from the bank, according to newspaper reports at the time.
He put aside the money in a canvas bag on a Friday, and returned for it later that night with his personal key, he told The Ottawa Citizen in 2013. He took his wife and mother out for dinner on Saturday night, and by Sunday, he was gone, the newspaper reported.
He enjoyed a two-week jaunt until the wanted poster advertising his flamboyant style and a reward of 10,000 dollars did him in. Someone told the police that a man fitting Mr. Johnston's description had been drinking Champagne at a Denver nightclub, where the police arrested him, according to a 1958 Associated Press article.
"I wondered what it would be like to have all that money," Mr. Johnston told the authorities at the time. "Now I know."
The authorities recovered about 200,000 Canadian dollars. Mr. Johnston, his father and other family members paid back the missing money, according to newspaper reports at the time.
He was sentenced to four years in prison but was released early on parole in 1960, according to The Citizen. After that, the newspaper reported, he got another job — in the financial industry.
Today he is retired and lives in Renfrew, a small town about an hour west of Ottawa, where he has said people still offer to buy him beers because of his brief moment of fame. "I didn't shoot anybody," Mr. Johnston told The Citizen in 2013, adding, "Who likes banks?"
Recently, Mr. Johnston mentioned that he wanted to go back to the site of the bank, Mr. Ainsaar said. While making an online reservation for Riviera, Mr. Ainsaar noted that he planned to bring his friend, who had absconded from the bank long ago.
Mr. McMahon, the wine director, thought: "Oh my God, it's got to be the guy."
When Mr. Johnston came in for lunch with a small group of friends and family, the restaurant offered them special cocktails that it called "The Bank Job," Mr. Ainsaar said. They were invited to the wine cellar, where Mr. Johnston sipped Champagne and told old stories.
"I did ask him at one point, 'Was it worth it? Would you do it again?'" Mr. McMahon said.
Mr. Johnston told the group that he was glad he had done the crime — so that he could do the time.
"He said, 'There's nothing that makes you appreciate your life and freedom more than having that freedom taken away,'" Mr. McMahon recalled.
When Mr. Johnston left the bank 60 years ago, he took much with him. This time, he left something behind: On the brick cellar wall, he scribbled his name — and his prisoner number.
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Fantasia Report: Asian Horror So Not Dead
Anyone who tells you that Asian horror is on its way out obviously isn't attending Fantasia this year.
I caught Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective and the Thai film The Victim and am happy to report that even most of the Asian genre directors have recognized that Asian horror films have started to look a bit alike and need to do something different.
I would love to site The Victim's
big twist that occurs halfway through as an example, but to do so would
give away its charms. Prior to that the film seems like it's going to
follow along many of the Asian horror guidelines of an innocent girl
(an aspiring actress hired by police to play the victim in crime scene
re-creations) mixed up with ghosts. Then something really interesting happens,
something that says, these guys have watched a lot of Thai horror
films, too, and are looking to stand out. What they do takes a lot of chutzpah and I
applaud them for it. But then Victim becomes two ghost stories
in one, neither quite satisfying enough to make the cut.
What's different with Nightmare Detective (and what makes it a better film) is simply the talent behind it, Tsukamoto himself, one of the pioneers in Asian horror. His Tetsuo films were among the standouts of the early 90s video trading boom and remain classics to this day, and he's provided such intriguing films as Gemini (which screened at Fantasia in 2000) in the years since. Nightmare Detective is about someone who can enter the nightmares of others to capture a serial killer (played by the director) who is making his victim all look like suicides.
The nightmare scenes are crazed and disoriented and unsettling. Outside the nightmare world, however, the movie becomes a somewhat routine cop movie — with Tsukamoto's crazed touches.Read More

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I'm in the shower, wrapped in Samson's arms, when my husband walks in. He doesn't scream, he doesn't yell. In fact, he smiles. He smiles because Samson is not a hunky man, but a 300-year-old banyan tree in Tiavi, in Samoa's Upolu hinterland, who for the past two years has been playing host to the only treehouse in the South Pacific.
From a distance you can barely see it, what with Samson dripping his roots all over it like a messy candle. But step a little closer and there it is, the two-storey light-green timber house with a palm-thatch roof, suspended 12 metres above the ground. It's a truly magical sight, like something straight out of Middle Earth or Walt Disney's Fantasia.
Inside, there's a living room and two bedrooms, one of which has a ceiling fan. There's running hot water, a flushing toilet, and a kitchenette with a refrigerator and coffee maker.
More impressive than fitting all these mod cons inside a tree, however, is the extent to which the house has been integrated into the tree itself. The interior walls are made from ifilele, a Samoan hardwood, and each piece has been cut especially to fit around Samson like a jigsaw puzzle. The aforementioned shower could possibly be the world's coolest, using Samson's strong, aerial roots as its walls.
After our showers, we walk over to the main house, about 100 metres behind Samson, and are wrapped in another stranger's arms. We're not strangers for long, however, as owner Carol Batchelor, clad in a floral sundress and with flour inexplicably dusting her bronzed arms and smiling face, immediately starts telling us her and her husband Jack's tragedy-tinged story.
Originally from Oregon, Carol and Jack fell in love with Samoa during their travels, and in 2008 decided to move there. They bought an old resort on the south coast, and Jack, a builder, had just finished renovating it when the tsunami hit in 2009. The resort was swept away and Jack almost lost his life. Then they found Samson.
"Jack looked at this massive tree and said, 'I'm going to build a treehouse'," says Carol, who was understandably dubious at first. But then their 27-year-old son, Brad, came over from the US to help, and seven months later Lupe Sina was born.
Tragedy struck again, however, just one month later, when Brad was killed in a car accident. One month after that, Cyclone Evans hit. The cyclone toppled seven Banyan trees in the surrounding area and virtually razed Jack and Carol's house, but Samson and the treehouse miraculously weren't affected.
"We've been through a lot, but this feels like home," says Carol, tears glistening in her eyes. "And when you're inside the treehouse, I hope you see why."
We certainly do. Samson, the giant, wise old wizard that he is, seems to be the custodian of the property and generously accepts everyone into the warmth of his arms, much like Jack and Carol. He's not only incredibly handsome, he's also kind. In the middle of the lounge room, for example, he has reached up through the floorboards, graciously offering up a natural love seat. What a guy.
Before dinner we sit on the treehouse balcony, taking in the 180-degree views of the jungle and the ocean beyond, over a couple of frosty Vailima beers and some books about treehouses. Banyan trees are a keystone species, meaning they're ecologically critical for the maintenance of Samoa's biodiversity. This means we have a soundtrack of the songs of birds, cicadas and bats playing over the soft roar of the ocean, as we watch twists of cloud turn from yellow to blood orange, from violet to baby pink. Eventually, the sun drops below the surrounding jungle, signalling a wander back to the main house. In the undercover al fresco dining area, Carol serves up a delectable home-cooked meal of moon fish with honeyed carrots and creamy, garlic-laden mash, accompanied by a glass of chardonnay, followed by a slice of her freshly baked chocolate cake (so that was what the flour was about).
As a soft breeze blows, we head back over to Samson. Within minutes, we're in our comfy mosquito net-covered bed, being lulled to sleep by the sound of the wind whispering through the leaves , and vowing to come back for another cuddle from Samson very soon.
The writer stayed courtesy of Lupe Sina Treesort.
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The Lupe Sina Treesort's Samson Suite is $350 per night, including breakfast (additional adults, including children over 8, are $50 each). Star Gazer, its second treehouse that was completed in April, is built around an ava tree. The bedroom has a glass ceiling and it costs $250 a night. Discounts available in both treehouses for stays over three nights. See lupesinatreesort.com.
The Pupu Pu'e National Park's coastal walk, which weaves through a seaside pandanus forest and emerges at an expansive field of wrinkly lava created when a nearby volcano erupted 3000 years ago, is a 15-minute drive away.
A few minutes' walk away from the Le Pupu Pu'e National Park, Togitogiga Waterfall is essentially a series of swimming holes separated by small waterfalls surrounded by lush, tropical gardens. Great for a picnic, and most impressive during the wet season (November to April).
The otherworldly To Sua trench is about a 30-minute drive from Lupe Sina, but it's worth every minute of the journey. Sunken 30 metres into the earth and surrounded by vibrant green grasses, it's actually a giant tidal hole that formed when the roof of a lava tube collapsed. A natural wonder. Entry is 15 tala ($7).


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Is Pam Still Hot?
Pam Anderson slipped back into the red lifeguard bathing suit that made her a star on Baywatch (maybe for a commercial, but we're not quite sure). You guys were pretty certain that Cindy Crawford has still got it, so now we want to know - do you think Pam is still hot?


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Grand jury reform bill alive again, passes House
AUSTIN - Legislation to reform Texas' method for selecting grand jurors was approved by the Texas House late Thursday , inserted into another bill that will keep alive hopes of ditching the so-called "pick-a-pal" system.
Just hours before a midnight deadline for passing bills, the reform wording was tacked onto House Bill 2150 by Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, that dealt with other aspects of forming grand juries.
The amendment would require grand juries in counties of more than 500,000 people to be selected from a general jury pool from which other civil and criminal juries are selected. The smaller counties could still use the old system, officially known as the "key man" system.
Under the 'key man' system, judges can assemble grand juries of their friends. All other states and the federal government years ago quit using the 'key man' system because of pervasive issues regarding favoritism and improprieties.
The reform bill is the result of coverage by the Houston Chronicle that revealed that police officers were selected to serve on grand juries investigating police improprieties, among other problems.
Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, who on Monday withdrew his own bill for the reforms, sponsored the amendment to Alvarado's bill. There was little debate.
Rep. Ed Thompson, R-Pearland, added the amendment exempting smaller counties from the new grand-jury selection system. On Monday, he had amended Dutton's bill the same way - and Dutton then agreed to allow courts in Texas to use either system, before he withdrew his bill from consideration, a rare move.
Alvarado's bill had to pass in the House by the end of the day Thursday midnight Monday to stay alive.
The Senate had earlier approved the reform for courts statewide with unanimous bipartisan support. That bill by Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, has not been brought up before the full House for a vote.


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Attack Weekend!
This weekend, Spike returns with a new strategy – he has decided to start picking off the Webosaurs one-by-one. He chose Stretch as his first victim and announced that there will be attacks every two hours this weekend as follows:
- Friday: 17:00; 19:00 & 21:00 WST
- Saturday: Between 09:00 & 16:00 WST
- Sunday: 08:00; 10:00 & 12:00 WST
Also, on Sunday, we'll all gonna welcome Stretch back from captivity at 13:00 WST.
In addition to that, the five dinos that make it onto the Monster Board the most times this weekend, will receive this limited edition Dead Stretch Cave Item!
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Webosaurs' Second Anniversary!
Hello Dinos!
This Saturday (October 22nd) will be a BIG day for Webo, because it's Webosaurs' Second Anniversary! That's right! And what's even cooler is that we will be celebrating this event for two whole days! Join us all this Saturday at 12:00 WST and Sunday at 14:00 WST in Rumble Rocks Cave (Prairie Pool)!
Everyone who attend either day, will get the awesome new Anniversary Cake!
In addition to that, we're expecting some special "old-school" guests to attend the Anniversary parties!
If that's not enough, we'll all get the chance to win loads of XP by hitting Spike with a pumpkin and taking a picture. Dinos can make as many pictures as they want, as long as they're in different rooms. Then, you can send the pictures as a comment on the blog, or as a reply here. The reward is 500XP per picture.
Who do you think the guests will be? Do you like the cake? Share with us what you think! 🙂
Happy Anniversary Webo!
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Experience From Games Is Back!
Heya Dinos!
A while ago, getting XP from games was added to Webo, but it got due to many glitches. Now, this function has been added once more, but doesn't give out as much XP as it used to. The amount you get depends on your score and the game you're playing. IF you encounter a glitch in any of the games, be sure to tell the Mods or Mio, because they're still working on the games.
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Russian military are believed to have dropped the 'father of all bombs' on top ISIS commanders. Reports claim Vladimir Putin's armed forces have dropped the biggest ever non-nuclear bomb on ISIS leaders in Deir ez-Zor in Syria. The Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP) is believed to have been deployed on September 7. This is the same day the Russian Defence Ministry claimed in a Facebook
post to have killed several top ISIS leaders. The post said: "As a result of a precision air strike of the Russian air forces in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city, a command post, communication centre and some 40 ISIS fighters have been killed." Those said to have died in the air strike include Gulmurod Khalimov, who was trained in the US and is known as the 'minister of war'. READ MORE


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No matter how convenient and bulky the virtual reality headset looks and feels currently, tech companies are leaving no stones unturned to bring them into the mainstream. Google is doing the same with your favourite browser Google Chrome. Soon you will be able to view every website that you view on Google Chrome, in virtual reality.
In this Road to VR update, you can read that Google is adding a virtual reality shell to the Chrome browser to let you browse the entire Internet in virtual reality.
There are some websites specifically built for virtual reality, but if you use Google Chrome with a virtual reality shell built in, even if a particular website is not optimized for virtual reality, you will be able to browse it in VR.
Websites built according to "WebVR" can show their content directly through virtual reality headsets. So currently, according to the situation in which the Chrome browser does not have the built in virtual reality shell, while browsing the Internet, you repeatedly have to take your VR headset off in order to view websites that are not VR-compatible.
The virtual reality feature of Google Chrome is going to solve this problem. No matter what website you are viewing, you're going to be able to view it in VR, wearing your headset.
The VR capabilities in Google Chrome are going to be available in Google Chrome Beta and Google Chrome Dev on Android. Google Chrome Beta has now WebVR which you can enable to surf the Internet in virtual reality. Doesn't matter if a particular website is virtual reality-ready or not.


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PhD candidate Bella Kim receives Carlin GTA Award
The KU Aerospace Engineering Department congratulates PhD candidate Bella Kim, who is the recipient of the Carlin Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for the 2017-18 academic year, the first recipient from the KU School of Engineering in over fifteen years. The award recognizes excellence in teaching by graduate students at the University of Kansas.
The award will be presented at the 2018 Graduate Student Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 3:30pm in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.


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Netball Gems: Pivot and Win by B. Hellard & L. Gibbs
Published by Random House Australia
Lily loves netball and she is a great player. She plays for the Marrang Gems and her mum is the coach. Lily dreams that one day she will play for the Australian Diamonds, just like her favourite player Julie Corletto. Lily fears that she will be too small to make the team.
Lily is a joyful netball player who does believe in herself. She is smart, happy, funny and determined. Can Lily's long arms, strong super pivots and great skills help her to be the best netball player ever?
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In a recent lengthy post in The Atlantic, Mandy Len Catron probes her personal doubts about the institution of marriage and wonders: "What is lost by making marriage the most central relationship in our culture?" For her, there is a kind of "greediness" about marriage, contracting people's lives and diminishing their connections to wider kin and social circles.
"Social alienation is so fully integrated into the American ideology of marriage that it's easy to overlook," she bemoans.
In addition to her own ongoing question about whether to tie the knot with her committed cohabiting partner, Catron's primary basis for handwringing is a 2016 study published in the Journal of Personal and Social Relationships. The study suggests that being married can diminish social connections; the unmarried, meanwhile, tend to exhibit greater social ties and reciprocal support with kin, neighbors, and friends (and this is even more so for men).
But this is a single study in a long and large body of research documenting how married individuals are more connected to and involved with civic life, even if they tend to be home-bodies in their immediate social connections. Catron glosses over the authors' careful tracking of how research on this topic has sometimes found mixed results on the ways marriage and singleness impact social integration. And unlike the study's careful authors, Catron fails to clarify that this study focused on immediate social ties, rather than on more formal forms of integration into civic life and other social institutions. Indeed, a large and sustained body of research documents how married individuals are in fact more connected and involved civically in a number of important arenas (schools, religion, etc.).
In short, Catron takes a single study and stretches its implications to indict marriage and to call for a retreat from cultural and policy efforts that place marriage (straight or gay) in a priority position.
"Love is the marrow of life," she writes, "and yet, so often people attempt to funnel it into narrow channels prescribed by marriage and the nuclear family. … Energy striving to prop up the insular institution of marriage could instead be spent working to support family stability whatever form it takes."
Here, Catron's discussion on marriage and childrearing is particularly worrisome. Stability, not marriage, she contends, is the key factor for children. But in the United States, stability and marriage are powerfully correlated. Isabel Sawhill, a prominent progressive policy analyst and advocate for more than 30 years, has made this point strongly. Although she (fatalistically) accepts the modern separation of marriage and parenting, she is clear-headed about what is best for children: "Children are poorly served by adults who drift into parenthood, rather than planning and preparing for it," she argues. "They deserve to be born to parents who have made good decisions, created a stable family environment, and made a commitment to their welfare for the duration of their childhoods and beyond." She doesn't insist that this environment be a legal marriage. But she doesn't sugarcoat the empirical reality that in the United States the best shorthand term for this environment is marriage. And marriage matters at the macro level for children. Utah, for example, has the highest rates of marriage and of children raised in a two-parent household. According to research conducted by Stanford's Raj Chetty and colleagues, Utah also has the highest rate of upward mobility.
Perhaps, these same effects would occur with committed cohabiting partners who stay together for decades (a rare occurrence in the United States). But ultimately the kind of committed cohabiting partnership that would produce these kinds of macro-social results would ultimately be a relationship tantamount to, well, marriage. So why not call it what it is and give it the support and special social standing it deserves? After all, if "marriage" were eliminated today, society would still value, as Catron surely does, loyalty, sexual fidelity, partnerships of reciprocal support, and stable parenting. Once again, what might we call partnerships that strive to live up to said virtues? Marriages.
Ultimately, Catron must confront the empirical reality of unmarried parenting in the United States. She would no doubt benefit from reading (if she hasn't already) Sarah Halpern-Meekin's new in-depth work on low-income cohabiting parents: Social Poverty. She finds that low-income cohabiting couples often face a persistent lack of close and trusted relationships that they can rely on. They see social poverty all around them and live perilously on the edge of it. Far from Catron's rich social network, the networks for these couples are generally weak and consistently resource-poor. They often long for the powerful, reliable connection signaled by marriage, even while they doubt their readiness for it.
So, unlike Catron, these disadvantaged unmarried couples don't question the social good of marriage. They seem to grasp, almost inherently, how marriage and committed childrearing — the kind of stability they may not have enjoyed themselves while growing up — could help their own families.
Catron could have profitably constrained her critique to concerns with stigmatizing single life and to some weaknesses of modern marriage in America. The unmarried, on average, are socially engaged, not isolated and alone. And the fragility (and quality) of marital unions these days certainly is no guarantee of escaping social poverty. Not everyone can or should fit comfortably in the institution of marriage. There is and must be room for all good people — single or married — in a pluralistic society.
To her credit, Catron appropriately brings up Eli Finkel's book, The All-or-Nothing Marriage, which explores the problems associated with a version of modern marriage that focuses too much energy and unrealistic aspirations on a connubial apex. The soulmate version of marriage quickly disappoints when laden with expectations of marriage as primarily a passionate romance and perpetual personal-growth machine. But even as scholars welcome the careful inspection and critique of modern marriage culture, we would all do well to pause before dismissing marriage — and married childrearing — as social goods. Catron trumpets the value of stability for children and families but can't hear the evidence that marriage is optimally situated to achieve it.
If we're not careful, if we're not grounded in a more complete picture of the best research on marriage and childrearing, we may not just tarnish the moniker of "marriage" but the vital social virtues of commitment, fidelity, support, and stability that marriage has come to embody.
I've been reading a lot these days about arguments challenging the social good of another social institution: religion. Faith, the thinking goes, is fine when confined to personal belief and private practice, but it deserves no special treatment outside homes or houses of worship, especially when it conflicts with more progressive ideals. Marriage, Catron seems to say is, like religion, also merely a personal choice that should not shape behavior or receive special social or policy priority.
But marriage is both a reflection of and an effective tool to promote powerful commitment to one's partner and close kin, and, by extension, the communities and environments they inhabit. In this sense, these choices are as much public as they are personal, and we should be careful before chipping away at the relational virtues toward which society must continue to aspire.


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Back when, the entire family used to gather at my uncle's place on Sundays. Over a cup of tea, we'd chat, laugh and pick on each other. We'd boo at cricket scores (those were dark days) and hiss at the politics. We'd dig out old stories and laugh even louder. The old stories were never new. We knew exactly what came next, but it didn't matter, they were always just as funny as the first time, possibly even more, enhanced as they were with every telling. I don't know when those Sunday visits died out. It happened gradually, and it happened for a number of reasons: college, work, relocations, squabbles, new priorities, stuff. I didn't realize when and how those Sundays dropped out of my routine; I didn't realize how much I missed them, not till my last visit home.
One of my cousin's, back home after years, was clearing out the loft space above the kitchen when he rediscovered some old family photos – photos of us as kids, in pigtails, braces and terrible clothes; photos of our parents, slimmer, younger, elegant and chic; photos of uncles and aunts when they were just kids, eyes sparkling with excitement for things to come; photos of all our histories – the conversations practically come wafting out; photos that are real, that tell the whole truth, untouched as they are by the alternative world of post processing and airbrushing. He decided to put together an album, a family project in time for Diwali.
The whole family is here – well almost. Whoever is in town, and back home from work, is here. In Mumbai, that's more than you can ask for on a week day. My aunt is in the kitchen, stirring a ladle in a large aluminium pot, declining any help because 'everything is done'. Tumblers of hot ginger tea are passed around. The rain hits against the living room windows, and inside the laugher fills up around the album. The album's heavy cover feels as light as a feather as we go back to those days in the old apartments, reliving them over and over again. One memory leads to another and that leads us to what happened yesterday, which takes us back thirty odd years, which reminds someone of what happen much before that, which brings us back to my cousin's living room, laughing and arguing and laughing even harder. It feels like the old days again.


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Newt Gingrich Attacked By Digital Vandals
In the latest act of online political sabotage, individuals who type newtgingrich.com into their browsers will be directed to one of a number of sites that are embarrassing to Republican primary candidate Newt Gingrich.
Instead of finding a homepage for Gingrich's campaign, which is hosted at newt.org, visitors are redirected to sites like Tiffany & Co. (where Gingrich has a six-figure tab) or Freddie Mac (where Gingrich's role as "historian" has been called into question), or to news articles and YouTube videos that make conservative voters cringe, like this ad for former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. In the ad, Gingrich appears cozying up next to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to talk about climate change.
It's uncertain who's behind the mischief, which is the digital equivalent of supporters of one politician vandalizing the lawn signs of an opponent in the dark of night. The newtgingrich.com domain is privately registered, so the owner's information is not readily accessible.
Gingrich's campaign wasn't immediately available for comment.
Two weeks ago, rickperry.com was redirecting to Ron Paul's campaign website. That domain no longer redirects and is now up for sale, but the current owner's information is also private.
Both of these campaigns have been caught with their digital pants around their ankles. Many Internet users still consider the ".com" suffix to be standard. By failing to acquire these domains, Gingrich and Perry left themselves vulnerable to attack by digital vandals, who are taking advantage of anyone making the assumption that a candidate's homepage will be their name followed by ".com."
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I ran setup (CV11SP10) and choose "Exchange Mailbox". In the CommCell Console I now see Exchange Mailbox (Classic). Which Agent did I install? I want to backup and archive using the best and latest.
You should configure the Exchange Mailbox client as outlined here: http://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=products/exchange_onepass_agent/c_exopa_overview.htm
The Mailbox agent you installed will server as a 'proxy' for the Exchange Mailbox 'psuedo client' you create. You can configure the Exchange Mailbox Classic agent, but as you noted you want the best and latest which would be the newer Exchange Mailbox client that I referenced in the link above. Here is the documentation for Exchange Mailbox (classic): http://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=prod_overview/c_exchange_agents_backup_exmbc.htm


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I witnessed an exorcism.
Here's how I'd describe the experience:
- Person being exorcised was a small college girl, no more than 110lbs.
- She started talking in a deep, throaty, menacing voice lower than a typical man's.
- Her eyes kept rolling to the back of her head.
- The girl had crazy brute strength. She threw a big football player 6 feet. After that, it took six strong men to hold her down.
- She was talking in a glossolalia
Apparently, this episode was triggered by traumatic childhood events. Honestly, it could be she was just dealing with mental health issues. That kind of thing, though cannot account for what I saw this girl do.
I don't know how someone who's never exhibited any athleticism in her life could magically start contorting herself like a circus freak, nor do I understand how someone so tiny could suddenly become a championship power lifter.
Here's what I do know, though. She seemed better for it. That year, she met her future husband. They've been together for 11 years, and now have two lovely daughters.


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Using Embodied Cognition to Create the Next Generations of Body-based User Interfaces
PURPOSE: the aim of this project is to establish the scientific foundation for creating the next generations of body-based user interfaces. The project seeks to understand how using the body to control computers changes the way users think and to demonstrate body-based user interfaces that offer new and better forms of interaction with computers. The long-term vision is to establish a device-less, body-based paradigm for using computers.
METHOD: two methodologies are followed. (1) Empirical studies of body-based UIs to understand their effects on thinking. The research team will use qualitative research approaches (notable, think aloud studies) as well as controlled experiments. (2) The team will also prototype body-based UIs to test particular principles of design, explore ideas for particular body-based UIs, and replicate earlier systems.
PARTICIPANTS: University of Copenhagen.
FUNDING: the project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to Kasper Hornbæk.
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On April 15, 2015 the Office of the Commercial Attaché of the Turkish Consulate General to New England, International Economic Alliance (IEA), and MUSIAD USA organized the Second Turkish Investment Symposium at the Harvard Faculty Club in Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of this event was to highlight Turkey and its role in the world and to continue to strengthen the business ties between the United States and Turkey.
MUSIAD is currently one of the biggest business NGO's in Turkey with 11,000 members representing 45,000 companies, 85 branch offices in Turkey as well as 159 liaison offices in 63 countries, including DC, NYC and Boston in the near future. MUSIAD expressed its interest and desire to play a key role in creating a global network and contributing to the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Turkey.
MUSIAD USA President Mustafa TUNCER made opening remarks and presented keynote speaker, MUSIAD President Mr. Nail OLPAK. Participants included CEOs from top US corporations and Institutional Investors with interests in Turkey, Harvard Business School Professor Richard H.K. VIETOR, businessmen from Turkey, John T. McCarthy, Chairman of the Management Board of INGBank, Omur BUDAK, Consul General of Boston, Alperen KACAR, Commercial Attaché of the Turkish Consulate General in Boston were amongst the participants of the symposium.
MUSIAD's President Mr. Nail OLPAK, stated the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, and said "the crisis hasn't been easy to overcome."
According to Mr. OLPAK, since the 2008 crisis many countries experienced negative growth, while other countries displayed economic stagnation in the Euro zone. There was practically zero growth last year, and unemployment levels are still high and the risk of deflation is still valid.
Looking from the perspective of the power centers; US is still the largest economy in strategic power in the world. China is the fastest growing power and has been described recently as the "authoritarian capitalist'. China and the US seem to be the dominant actors in "a bi-polar global economic system."
Prior to Mr. OLPAK's remarks about Turkey, Mr. OLPAK encouraged the distinguished participants to examine the neighboring countries of Turkey. "Syria and Iraq are two countries with the highest number of death from the conflicts of the world. Greece struggling with a major economic crisis, surviving through rescue packages from EU and IMF. Ukraine is dealing with a civil war, and the occupation of Crimea. Iran is a country which has not been able to take its place in the global economic system. If we examine a bit further, we may go up to other problematic regions such as North Africa, Yemen, Israel-Palestine."
His speech was holistic of the region and it enabled participants to identify the challenges within the region. Mr. OLPAK stated "Turkey is a country which is surrounded with crisis from all sides, yet Turkey has surprisingly removed it self from the surrounding problems. Turkey is managing to move forward with positive stability. Mr. OLPAK encouraged participants to examine the figures of the last decade. He noted that last year, even though progress is less than what it used to be before- Turkey's economy increased 2.9 % while the European Union was satisfied with 0 % growth since this meant their economy would no longer decline."
Mr. OLPAK discussed Turkey's ambitious 2023 vision for Turkey becoming one of the top 10 economies in the world and raising the GDP to 2 trillion dollars, achieving 25,000 dollars per capita income, attaining 500 billion annual export level, raising the share of high technology product exports to 20%, and decreasing the unemployment rate to 5 %. Current progress demonstrates that Turkey is well on her way to making their 2023 vision happen.
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A Blog called Pak Tea House recalls memories of the great hotel Bristol in Karachi - built by a Welshman in 1910 and soon famous under the Raj for its parties. In 1960 the owner's son sold it to the politician Rizvi Sahab who ran it with continuing fame until he 1994. Still standing, it is now a "home", though for what is unclear..
Hotel Bristol for sale in Wales
Well, we hadn't heard of this Hotel Bristol before – a B&B in Burry Port, South Wales, which has just come up for sale. It has 2 en-suite family rooms, 1 en-suite double room, a single room with shower. licensed bar, and beer garden, and 28-cover restaurant. It also has a 2-bedroom studio flat, which could be used for owner accommodation. "Rooms need some modernaisation"the ad says, but the public areas were modernised n 2007. It's on the market for £230,000. See BuyMyBusiness.co.uk
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 9 -- His Holiness
the 14th Dalai Lama will soon make a historic
fourth visit to UC Santa Barbara for two sold-out
public lectures on Friday, April 24, at the UCSB Events Center.
A news conference with him in the same building is also planned.
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Reporters seeking to cover a lecture will be
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Shame, Shame
"Shame! Shame! Everybody knows your name!" I remember being taunted as a kid for some word or act that went against the accepted norms of the "in" group. Shame doesn't lose its power as we move into adulthood. A coach can be accused of sexual misconduct with a student, and with the light-speed flash of social media, they are shamed and often fired. Few wait for the evidence or a fair hearing.
Dare to suggest that some contemporary quest for personal identity might not be healthy or redemptive, and the simple question is shouted down by angry protests on Twitter, Facebook, and TV talk shows. "How dare someone question our personal freedom to reinvent or transform ourselves!" There is little rational argument or careful evaluation of evidence and potential outcomes.
Shame is the powerful weapon of the immediate present in the hand of the shapers of today's culture and values. In the end I'm not worried about being shamed by these priests and priestesses of popular culture. I am concerned about the pride that causes us to lose any guilt and shame when it comes to disobeying our Creator's moral instructions.
In the Yodh section of Psalm 119 the psalmist reveals that he faced enemies who displayed ruthless arrogance and told lies against those who continued to trust in God's life-giving commands. In Psalm 119:78 he asked God to deal with his opposition.
"Let the arrogant be put to shame for the lies they deceitfully spread about me. As for me, I will continue to meditate on your instructions." Psalm 119: 78
Then he closes this section of Psalm 119 with a prayer. He recognizes that he could face true shame and guilt, so he cries out to the LORD to enable him to live with integrity as he trusts and obeys.
"May my heart be true and solid to its core following Your statutes that I might not be put to shame." Psalm 119:80
LORD, I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because it's still your power to conquer our pride so that we won't have to face your judgment and shame in the end. I pray for those who believe that they can find life and meaning in their own quest for their true self. Help them realize before it's too late that the only true identity is found in Jesus. Help me not to be prideful as I confront others with your Word realizing that I need to walk in integrity by depending upon your Spirit today.
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Regency Style Gilt Wood Mirror
An Edwardian carved gilt wood oval wall mirror in a Regency style.
The central oval mirror plate has a bevelled edge and is surrounded by eight mirrored panels separated by gilt stucco oval patera.
The outer frame of the mirror has a carved wood and gilded gadrooned edge.
The mirror is in good condition, the mirror plates show signs of spotting. (Circa 1910)
Height 60.5cm (23.8 inches)
Width 86.5cm (34 inches)
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You Shall Not Bear False Witness
July 22, 2011 11 Comments
As a conservative Republican, I get sent a lot of email from like-minded friends attempting to expose the foibles and failings of the current presidential administration. As the 2012 election campaign heats up, the mail volume has increased, even including various virals that have been around for a couple of years now. These get passed on and on and on as if they are the Gospel truth.
It appears that a reckless disregard for the truth is okay as long as it is against the other side. The ends justify the means. In some of the hundreds of blogs and forums where these virals have been reproduced, any challenge to them is met with venom.
While I may disagree with President Obama on most issues and will undoubtedly vote for his opponent in the next general election, I cannot condone the rampant behavior of sending emails and posting any combination of personal attacks and false information. No Christian should condone it either.
If you feel so opposed to President Obama that you consider him an enemy, then you are to love your enemies. That love is described in I Corinthians 13. It sound wonderful when being read in a wedding service, doesn't it? Loving your enemies is when it is actually put to the test.
You are to pray for those in authority over you. It is difficult to hate someone for whom you are praying, unless you are just using your prayers to vent your feelings, like those people who try to preach sermons with their prayers if called upon during a church service. God isn't impressed in either case.
And let's not forget the Ninth Commandment: you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You must not lie about other people. Even Democrats. Even President Obama. Even if you think he has lied to you from time to time. There's no quid pro quo when it comes obeying God. Even if you are a hard core theonomist and you wanted to invoke the lex talionis, an eye for an eye isn't a lie for a lie.
To demonstrate just how bad the problem is, I am going to reproduce the contents of a viral unleashed with renewed vigor recently. However, I independently researched each claim made. This is the list of all of Obama's "czars" – heads of policy areas that report directly to the President. If you care about the truth, read on.
Here's the email in it's original format (as best as can be reproduced in WordPress). I apologise for the small type, but that is the only way to keep it in the original table. At the end are the facts, which I have independently researched and verified.
Richard Holbrooke
Afghanistan Czar
Ultra liberal anti-gun former Gov. Of New Mexico. Pro Abortion and legal drug use. Dissolve the 2nd Amendment
Ed Montgomery
Auto recovery Czar
Black radical anti-business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ. of Maryland Business School Deanteaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.
Jeffrey Crowley
AIDS Czar
Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, includingcomplete free health care for gays.
Alan Bersin
Border Czar
The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno – to keep borders open to illegals without interference from US
David J. Hayes
California Water Czar
Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, "Progress Policy". No training or experience in water management whatsoever.
Ron Bloom
Car Czar
Auto Union worker. Anti-business & anti-nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?
Dennis Ross
Central Region Czar
Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti-gun and completely pro-abortion.
Lynn Rosenthal
Domestic Violence Czar
Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration. Imagine?
Gil Kerlikowske
Drug Czar
Devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs
Paul Volcker
Economic Czar
Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which.engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy. Member of anti-business "Progressive Policy" organization
Carol Brower
Energy and Environment Czar
Political Radical Former head of EPA – known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.
Joshua DuBois
Faith Based Czar
Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti-gun ownership lobbyist. WHAT THE HELL DOES A FAITH BASED CZAR DO???????????
Cameron Davis
Great Lakes Czar
Chicago radical anti-business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for "Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink." No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)
Van Jones
Green Jobs Czar
(Since resigned). Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views.
Daniel Fried
Guantanamo Closure Czar
Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.
Nancy-Ann DeParle.
Health Czar
Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.
Vivek Kundra
Information Czar
Born in New Delhi , India . Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (Hello?)
Todd Stern
International Climate Czar
Anti-business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supporter of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.
Dennis Blair
Intelligence Czar
Ret. Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as "provocative". Chair of ultra-liberal "Council on Foreign Relations" which blames American organizations for regional wars.
George Mitchell
Mideast Peace Czar
Fmr. Sen. from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into "2 or 3 " smaller more manageable plots". (God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual "special rights" advocate
Kenneth Feinberg
Pay Czar
Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs. (horribly true)
Cass Sunstein
Regulatory Czar
Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the "common good". Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times like private gun ownership and right to free speech. This guy has to be run out of Washington !!
John Holdren
Science Czar
Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti-business activist. Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.
Earl Devaney
Stimulus Accountability Czar
Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico . Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .
J. Scott Gration
Sudan Czar
Native of Democratic Republic of Congo . Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations
Herb Allison
TARP Czar
Fannie Mae CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.
John Brennan
Terrorism Czar
Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or Gov. affairs.Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military A TOTAL MORON !!!!!
Aneesh Chopra
Technology Czar
No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti-doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan
Adolfo Carrion Jr.
Urban Affairs Czar
Puerto Rican born Anti American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire "slum lord" of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from "sweetheart" deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care
Ashton Carter
Weapons Czar
Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America .. No Other "policy"
Gary Samore
WMD Policy Czar
Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other "policy".
And now the truth:
Richard Holbrooke was never a governor of New Mexico. It seems the author of this piece is somehow trying to morph him with Bill Richardson, though how exactly I don't know, because Richardson is very pro-gun, backing and signing NM's concealed carry handgun law. He applied for and got a permit himself. Holbrooke was a diplomat who does not seem to be on the record regarding gun control. I'm not sure how his views on gun control, whatever they were, are relevant. He died last year.
Ed Montgomery was at one time dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Maryland, not the Business School. He was Deputy Labor Secretary under Clinton, and given that Clinton was quite pro-business, it is unlikely that the #2 man in that department would be anti-business.
Jeffrey Crowley is homosexual. He has worked for years in the area of promoting access for those with HIV/AIDS, so that would make him something of a gay rights activist. It seems likely that he is in favor of gay marriage, though I have seen no evidence of the other allegations made in the email.
Alan Bersin did coordinate border law enforcement during three years of the Clinton administration, though it is a bit of a leap from that to say that it was Clinton Administration policy to keep the borders open. I don't know how he was a failed superintendent of San Diego schools, as while he was in that job he was picked by Arnie to become California Education Secretary.
David Hayes is not a czar of any kind. He is a Deputy Secretary of the Interior. He was also Deputy Secretary of the Interior during the Clinton Administration. He was involved with lots of water management issues during his first stint at Interior. He is certainly on the environmental Left, but who exactly expects a right-winger in the second tier of the Obama administration?
Ron Brown is just a bit mischaracterized. He is a Harvard Business School MBA and former investment banker. Since 1990 he has specialized in bankruptcies and employee-based turnarounds and restructurings. He did the United Airlines deal that turned it into the largest employee-owned company in the US. He was a key player in the Bethlehem Steel, ISG, and Goodyear turnarounds.
Dennis Ross worked in both the GHW Bush (Director of Public Policy Planning at the State Dept) and Clinton (special Middle East Coordinator) adminstrations. Again, he's not a czar of anything. He works for the National Security Council with overall responsibility for Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, and the Middle East. I don't know anything about his views on either gun control or abortion, or even why they would be known or relevant to his job. He became a religious Jew as a result of the Six Day War, so you can guess his views on Israel.
Lynn Rosenthal – I can't find anything on her being an vicious anti-male feminist. She was Executive Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence from 2000 to 2006. I'm not sure how this is a bad thing. I can't find anything about her support for male castration, though support for chemical castration as a treatment for rapists has had support from both men and women. It would not be unlikely that someone who is very active in working against domestic violence would support this view, though her support is undocumented.
Gil Kerlikowske does support gun control. A lot of Democrats, especially from big cities, do. Not a big surprise there. However, he is very opposed to drug legalization and is very clearly on the record in this regard. He is even opposed to the use of medical marijuana until more scientific evidence has been compiled to demonstrate whether or not it is beneficial and effective.
Paul Volcker became head of the Federal Reserve at the end of Carter administration and stayed in that role though almost the entire Reagan administration. He actually played a major role in turning the economy around in the early 80s. He is not a member of the Progressive Policy Institute.
Carol Brower is actually Carol Browner, who was the "Energy Czar" from 2009 til early 2011. The office has been abolished. I haven't seen anything on her views about gun control, but I also can't see how it is at all relevant with the job she used to have.
Joshua DuBois does not have a degree in Black Nationalism. He has a degree in political science from Boston University and a Master's in public affairs from Princeton. He is affiliated with the United Pentecostal Council of the Assemblies of God. I can't find anything on his views regarding gun ownership, other than pages of search results with blogs that have repeated this information. And I don't know how the author of the email doesn't know "what the hell a Faith Based Czar" does. It was an office created by GW Bush to support church efforts particularly in community revitalization and charity work generally.
Cameron Davis is an environmental lawyer. I can't find anything about him being anti-business. I can't find any reference to the quote about George Bush or anything about being an ACORN board member, other than in copies of the Obama's Czars list email on thousands of blogs. He does not appear to have any interests that are related to the mission of ACORN.
Van Jones – as noted, he resigned. Back in 2009. Lots of media coverage. Nothing we don't already know.
Daniel Freid is a career diplomat who was Ambassador to Poland at the end of Clinton administration, Special Assistant to the President and on the National Security Council under GW Bush until he became Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (the top diplomat in Europe) in 2005, a position he held through the first year of the Obama administration, when he was tapped for the Gitmo closure role. There is no evidence to support any of the comments made about him in the Obama Czars email.
Nancy-Ann Deparle is now a Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House. She was the Medicare administrator in the Clinton administration. Can't find her views on health care rationing. Not sure why it matters to whom she is married.
Vivek Kundra was born in India. So what? He moved to Tanzania when he was a year old. He moved to Washington DC when he was 11. What's most silly about this is the complete misrepresentation of what the "Information Czar" or his office does. It does does not control public information and has absolutely nothing to do with monitoring the web or email activity.
Todd Stern was never the White House Chief of Staff under any president. He was a supporter of Kyoto in that he was the chief US negotiator. He does favor cap-and-trade. I can find no statements where he is opposed to US business prosperity. This seems to be inferred from his support of cap-and-trade.
Dennis Blair is not chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR does not have a chairman. It has a president, who is Richard Haass. Blair is not even on the board of directors, nor is there any information that he is even a member. Blair is also not the Intelligence Czar. He hasn't be Director of National Intelligence since May 2010. He did not stop the guided missile program, nor was he ever in a position to do so at any point in his career.
George Mitchell is no longer the Middle East Peace Envoy. His record as an envoy is well known, as he was instrumental in the successful Northern Ireland peace process. I can't find any reference to his views about Israel being split up. He does support the two-state solution, which does not seem to be supported by the author of the email. I don't know what his anti-nuclear, anti-gun, pro-homosexual views have to do with his work as a diplomat. He is a liberal Democrat who was working for a liberal Democratic administration. Where's the shock in that?
Kenneth Feinberg was chief of staff to Ted Kennedy in the late 1970s. However, the statement that he got rich off the victims of 9/11 is about the worst lie in this whole thing. He worked pro bono for 33 months as the Special Master of the 9/11 compensation fund appointed by John Ashcroft.
Cass Sunstein has never been a judge, so he hasn't ruled on anything. He has odd views on the First Amendment, but they have nothing to do with his job. He is a law professor. He is a judicial minimalist and supported John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court.
John Holdren has a bachelor's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT and a PhD in theoretical plasma physics from Stanford. Seems like he has some science training. He is a member or fellow of lots of organizations, but the Sierra Club doesn't seem to be one of them. The label "anti-business activist" seems to stem from his incorrect predictions of environmental and resource troubles resulting from economic and population growth early in his career in the 1970s.
Earl Devaney hasn't ever been in a position to try to take guns away from Americans. He is an expert in white-collar crime as a former Special Agent in Charge of the Fraud Division of the Secret Service. He was Inspector General in the Department of the Interior from 1999 to 2009 – throughout the entire GW Bush adminstration. The information about his positions on the Mexican border and his "statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico" appear to exist only in the mind of the author of this email. Of course even if they did exist, they would irrelevant to his current job, or in fact, any other job he has ever held.
J. Scott Gration, Maj. Gen. (retired), was born in St. Charles, Illinois. He grew up in the Congo, because his parents were missionaries there. Again, there is no evidence that believes the US does little to help third world countries or that he supports higher taxes to support the UN. He is not a member of the CFR. He was the Special Envoy to Sudan (which makes him a "czar" in the mind of email author) but he is now the Ambassador to Kenya.
Herb Allison was appointed to head Fannie Mae in September 2008 by GW Bush after it was placed in conservatorship. He was called in to help clean up the mess and had nothing to do with creating it.
John Brennan is the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center under GW Bush. Rather than being an "Anti CIA activist", he worked at the top levels of the CIA, including as chief of staff to George Tenet when he was CIA director, then appointed deputy executive director of the CIA in March 2001 under Bush. He then became director of the CIA's Terrorist Threat Integration Center. He has a BA in political science from Fordham and an MA in government from the University of Texas. How is this "no training in diplomatic or Gov. affairs"? For the last decade he has been the top expert in government at the job he is now doing. The stuff about open borders with Mexico and disbanding the military is simply made up.
Aneesh Chopra was the Virginia Secretary of Technology. Does "No Techonology training" mean that he doesn't have a computer science degree? Since the role has to do promoting technological innovation, it doesn't seem relevant what his views on health care are. However, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of that he is an anti-doctor activist or supports doctors working exclusively for a government health care program. If anything, the Advisory Board Company, of which he was Managing Director is very pro-doctor and works to help doctors have more of a voice in hospital management.
Adolfo Carrion, Jr. was not born in Puerto Rico – not that it should matter – but was born in New York City. He's a former member of the the New York City Council and Borough President of the Bronx. Before that he was an associate pastor and a school teacher with a degree in urban planning. He's not a slum lord and does not own lavish homes and condos. I can't find any quotes or information on wanting higher taxes to pay for minority housing or health care.
Ashton Carter has not said anything about wanting private weapons in the US destroyed or supporting a ban on gun ownership. He is a veteran of both the Clinton and GW Bush administrations. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy under the former and a member of the International Security Advisory Board under the latter. He's been a member of member of the Defense Science Board and the Defense Policy Board through both of the previous administrations. Rather than having "no other policy", his whole career has been involved in shaping Defense Policy when he's not been teaching it at Harvard.
Gary Samore – there is no evidence whatsoever that he is a former communist. There's no evidence he's suggested the US destroy all Weapons of Mass Destruction unilaterally. This is all just made up.
So there you have it, if you have managed to read all the way to the end. I don't like having to even appear to defend the current administration, but standing up for the truth sometimes means having to do things we don't like.


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