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The Jabbok Encounter
Jabbok is a place of crossing. And it must be crossed alone.
Jabbok is a place of crossing. And it must be crossed alone.
How He ruthlessly perfects, Whom He royally elects!
How He hammers him and hurts him,
And with mighty blows converts him.
In my younger years, I have judged those whose fashion statement is different than mine — lalo na yung mga kabataang nakikisabay sa uso. I called them lovers of this world, hindi totoong Christians, and other judgmental thoughts that I will be too ashamed to say in public.
What would you do, what would you feel, if one day God told you to do something considered inappropriate in your Christian community?
Could it be that all these are happening because one Church declared a "Revolution of Righteousness", and the Devil was furious, and so he launched a full-scale attack to counter this revolution?
After posting my blog about my view on daily Christian struggles, this great blog post seem to echo the very words and cry of my heart. I would love to highlight a few words that struck me: We must realize that knowing we're messed up and knowing that we've failed God are tremendous blessings……
Perfection is not the goal. Knowledge of Jesus is.
When God takes us to a place to be alone, it is often the time we are painfully confronted by the realization of our own limitations, of our own imperfections — a time we see how our accomplishments fall short before God.
Pastor Paul Tripp shared his struggles: There are only two places to look. I will either get my identity vertically, from who I am in Christ, or I will shop for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of my daily life. This is true of everyone, but I am convinced that pastors are particularly tempted to seek their identity horizontally.
We cannot put God in a box; there's no assurance He would ALWAYS act in ways we expect or predict. Just because it happened to us, doesn't mean it will also happen to other people.


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07 Jul The Five Myths of American Foreign Policy
Let us begin by thanking Roger Alford and his colleagues here at Opinio Juris for hosting this conversation about America Between the Wars, as well as Ken Anderson and Matt Waxman, who so kindly agreed to help keep the discussion lively! Since the book was published a month ago we've been doing a lot of events and talks, but we really welcome this opportunity to have an in-depth discussion with such a fine group.
Our book tells the story of the struggle to define America's role in the world between two pivotal dates, which for us serve as bookends to what we describe as the modern interwar years: the day the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989 (or 11/9), and the day of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which will forever be known as 9/11. In the course of our research for this book, we talked to as many people as we could who had a role in the events of these years – a diverse group from Colin Powell and Newt Gingrich to Madeline Albright and Robert Rubin to Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader – and our narrative very much reflects the insights and stories that we gleaned from these revealing conversations.
In writing about America from 11/9 to 9/11, we tried to do several things. This book is an intellectual history of the debates between liberals and conservatives (and among factions inside both the political right and left) about the world after the Cold War and America's role in it. It is also diplomatic history, in that it is a narrative of the major events and key turning points in American foreign policy during these years. And finally, and perhaps most importantly for our readers during an election-year summer, it is a political history of how the politics of national security played out during these years, as liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, responded to the end of the Cold War and tried to reshape themselves to face the new global landscape. It is impossible to understand this era without seeing the interweaving of the ideas, events, and politics, which we argue very much shaped the history of the past eight years and continues to shape the foreign policy choices McCain and Obama will argue about in the months ahead.
As a way to get things rolling, and hopefully to provoke some debate, we'd like to offer five myths that we believe our story shatters.
Myth 1: When it comes to America's role in the world, 9/11 changed everything.
Reality: Describing the events of 9/11, President Bush asserted, "All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a different world." With these words, he reinforced a general perception that global politics had changed irrevocably on September 11, 2001. It was a day we will always remember and honor, but the president was articulating an emotional truth – not an analytical one. Just as history did not end in 1989, it did not begin on 9/11.
The tragedy of 9/11 and its aftermath had its origins twelve years earlier, when the world shifted in ways that were incomprehensible at the time. On 11/9 the Berlin Wall fell, and the Cold War was effectively over. That year, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, and the former superpower battleground was left unattended until Bill Clinton bombed Al Qaeda training camps there in August 1998 in retaliation for the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. As we show in the book, by 1998, the Clinton administration believed it was "at war" with Osama bin Laden and his followers, and Clinton told George W. Bush after the 2000 election was decided, "One of the great regrets of my presidency is that I didn't get him [bin Laden] for you, because I tried." Of course, conservatives at the time were hardly focused on the threat from Islamic extremism.
But it wasn't just terrorism. Other national security problems we face today – including failed states and civil wars, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea – all arose in the years after the collapse of communism.
Myth 2: Our problems began with George W. Bush, and will end when he leaves.
Reality: There is more continuity between Bill Clinton and George W. Bush than partisans on both sides care to admit: Clinton feared Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction and tried to bring about regime change in Iraq. Bush is now pursuing Clinton-type policies on Iran, North Korea and the Middle East Peace Process. Both bypassed the UN to take military action, and both saw America as "indispensable." There was continuity from George H.W. Bush to Clinton to George W. Bush – and there will be probably be a surprising degree of continuity after January 2009 regardless of who wins.
Myth 3: Democrats are incompetent at protecting America's national security.
Reality: While that's been the conventional wisdom conservatives have peddled for decades, especially at election time, we show that by the end of 2001, the charge rang pretty hollow. When Clinton left office, he had used military force in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Balkans, transformed NATO, and brought China into the World Trade Organization. Democrats used to get defensive when Republicans asserted they knew better how to conduct national security, but those days are over. Just look at how Obama is taking the fight to McCain on national security issues.
In fact, the shoe is on the other foot. Republicans are facing their own "best and the brightest" moment. Just as leading national security Democrats were tarnished by Vietnam, so are many leading Republicans today in the wake of the George Bush presidency. When the George W. Bush team came into office in 2001, many in the press and among the foreign policy elite believed that individuals such as Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz represented the "A-team" in American foreign policy after the seeming confusion of the Clinton years. But that was both a misreading of the latter years in the Clinton presidency and unwarranted optimism about the Bush team.
Myth 4: There is a strong Republican consensus about America's role in the world.
Reality: Since the end of the Cold War nearly 20 years ago, conservatives have been deeply divided about America's global role. Traditional pragmatists such as George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft hoped that America could lead through institutions like the United Nations. Isolationist Patrick Buchanan ran on the old George McGovern slogan, "Come Home, America" in 1992 and nearly won the New Hampshire primary against a sitting president. Many neo-conservatives believed with the end of the Cold War that America no longer needed a global mission, and the neo-conservative movement appeared dead by the mid-1990s. And on Capitol Hill, the "Contract Republicans" who swept to power in the 1994 elections combined neo-isolationism with strong nationalism and anti-Clintonism to focus their attention on missile defense, the rise of China, and UN bashing.
The aftermath of 9/11 created an illusion that conservatives were unified behind the "war on terror" as they had been against communism during the Cold War. But now we are seeing Republicans splitting into familiar factions, with neoconservatives, traditional realists, and neo-isolationists facing off against one another. This presents huge challenges for John McCain, whether as a candidate or, if he wins, as president.
Myth 5: America needs a simple foreign policy doctrine like "containment."
Reality: For twenty years people have been trying to come up with a replacement for the Cold War's "containment" policy. We tell the story of how Clinton himself was obsessed with coming up with a theory of the case, but was ultimately unsuccessful. George W. Bush thought he had found the new defining concept after 9/11 with the "war on terror."
But that concept has lost its luster – most senior military leaders don like the phrase, and even Colin Powell told us in an interview that the "war on terror" is a "bad phrase…it's a criminal problem." So we argue that the quest for defining a simple concept to guide American foreign policy is fruitless, overrated and even dangerous in the complex world of the 21st century. As the book recounts, in 1994, the Clinton team asked 90-year old George Kennan to come down from Princeton so they could get his advice on replacing the doctrine that he had articulated so successfully in 1947. The former diplomat's sage counsel: "forget about the bumper sticker; try to come up with a thoughtful paragraph or two."
Well, there's some food for thought. We look forward to your responses to this or any other aspect of the book. And again, thanks so much for having us here.

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Corey Parrish
( aka Mansion )
guitarist - drummer - composer
our loving son and brother
the piece playing in the background is Corey and dad playing "Wayo",
written by Corey and recorded using an RC-20 loopback
Hey hot dog man, I'll always remember this day,
and you will always take up my heart ! I Love you so much, Dad
Corey and Lauren
the most beautiful couple I know - love, dad
March 8
To Corey my son,
I want to tell you that somehow I believe you are making even the smallest moments that I need to get through easier for me somehow. I want you to know that it is your life and the gift of knowing you that has taught me what it is to truly love and be loved. There was never a single moment after carrying you in my arms that I did not hold you in my heart while we were apart.
Your smiles brought untold happiness to me, your Dad, sister and countless others. I want to thank you for "peek a-boo," for holding your hand, for letting me kiss your beautiful head, for the times I ran my fingers through the locks of your hair and for the comfort I had each and every time I held you in my arms.
If it were not for you I would not know that I CAN LOVE TREMENDOUSLY THROUGH TEARS
I will always love you - even more than ice cream!
XXO Always,
I still love this picture, Corey - love Dad
April 1 2008
Hi Corey,
I'm still going through your recorder. You recorded so much. I miss jamming with you. I miss watching your hands, they were magical Corey, they really were. I taught you early on, but you're teaching me now. Malandra is difficult for me to play but I'll never give up. I'm so sad when I hear you speak and laugh on the recordings. I want to get inside. I love you so much Corey, please visit me soon. - Love
April 3, 2008
Hi son,
Why do I get the feeling you're getting a kick out of the difficulty I'm having learning "Malandra"? That's ok, I'm laughing with you. It's such a beautiful song though, I have to learn it. The changes of moods and tempo within the song so describe the beautiful relationship between you and Lauren... the spontaneity.... two free spirits... not a care in the world as long as you had guitars and each other. How lucky you both were to have experienced that while here. Your music shined in Doylestown last Friday night ! You are gathering such a flock of loving fans... we are all so proud of you! - Love, dad
(about 5 years old)
Krista and Corey
April 4,
Oh the memories, Corey.... so, so many. I have a huge rip in my heart right now, but those beautiful memories you left behind will continue to stitch it up as the days slowly pass. Not a day goes by that I don't cry, then smile at the thought of you. I know you will eventually come through in a song, but my fingers continue to mourn and aren't quite ready. I can hear you through Lauren's guitar and that'll do just fine for now. - Love, dad
April 5,
We have tickets to see Kaki next Thursday in Philly. I know you will be with us Corey. It will be a great night. We love you. Lauren is writing the most amazing tap pieces. I know you're playing through her, I know it. Krista is also feeling you heavily while she also composes a tap piece of her own. They feel you, so keep it up, and if you wouldn't mind, play through me too :-). - Love, dad
April 6,
I have 1 minute and 40 seconds of Malandra down on guitar now, almost half done. Remember how frustrated I used to get that you didn't put in the time to learn how to read music?.... and that teaching you a classical piece was taking so much longer because you didn't read? Well, that extra time was time spent with you Corey and now I'm glad you never took the time to read. I miss that frustration and would give anything to have it back. I'm on the other side now, learning Malandra in the same fashion because it's not written out.... and it's like I'm watching you play it bar by bar and, then it's my turn to play those bars, but then you stop me when I miss a note.... I'm loving learning the piece this way because it's taking me so much longer.... thanks for spending the time with me this weekend Corey. I love you - dad.
April 7,
I was watching a trial on TV last night where some fellow received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. I didn't need the sound on, I knew by the expression on the defendant's face.... very similar to my reflection in the mirror these days. I miss you beyond words, Corey. Lauren and I spoke last night about how long this summer is going to be without you. Help us through it, Corey. Make us smile again. I love you - dad
April 8,
Found a lot more of your music, Mansion. "Zombie Girlfriend" has made it on your site. I'm still scratching my head on that one. I love your version of "Night After Sidewalk" ! Krista's working on that one too. Is it easier playing music now? I've heard you have much more to choose from. I read a good quote today, son... "healing is a journey, not a destination"... - I love you, Mansion. - dad
April 9,
I wasn't even sure how I'd spell "Mansion". It was your nickname since I can remember, but I rarely if ever wrote it. When I spoke about you, you were Corey, but when I spoke to you, it was always Mansion. I miss saying it. I retrieved so much music from your recorder today. Wow ! What a beautiful job you did on Kaki's song "Night After Sidewalk". We're gonna see Kaki tomorrow night in Philly and I know you'll be there with us. I wrote to her and asked her to play it tomorrow. I don't know if she will, maybe you can infuence her? I hear your playing through Lauren. You bring out the best in her, Mansion ! I love you - dad
we could be in this room with you forever, Corey. - love, dad
April 10,
Mansion, you amaze me with the music you recorded. I finished making copies of everything on your Tascam recorder at about 4am this morning. I couldn't stop listening. You left us with 11 solid hours of music and some conversation to cherish forever. And the icing on the cake was another take of "The Last Song" (titled by Krista) - the very last thing you recorded on your unit, and also on mine in January. I wonder what you would have named that song. Regardless, it's beautiful, just so dog gone beautful. I love you - dad
April 11,
Did you whisper in Kaki's ear? It wasn't on her set list, but she played "Night After Sidewalk" anyway!... Krista wished it heavily too.. could've been her. :-) Honestly, I like your nylon-string version better. Your presence was felt in Philly tonight, Mansion. And regardless of how good Kaki is, or ANY other performer, when I watched you and Krista play "Understand Me Please" anywhere, that was the happiest I would ever be this lifetime - Love you both so much, dad
April 13,
Rough one today, Mansion. There are some memories and stories that are told and re-told - the 3rd floor restroom, a classic. Those funny moments bring a smile early on, but after telling them or listening to them, I have to get away and it doesn't seem to matter who I'm with, I just gotta be alone and let it all out. I no longer have a fear of flying, so I'm gonna slip away for a bit in June. Be with me, Corey. I love you, son. - dad
April 15,
Oh my, Mice Parade listened to your music and complimented you, Mansion. I'll forever wonder how far you would've gone with your music. I hear it so differently now and I'd give anything to know that YOU know how proud I am. I wake up every day wanting to hear you play, talk, laugh, eat, and jam with you. My birthdays used to fly by..... everything's in slow motion now. Julie, your paino teacher, called yesterday. You left nice memories for her, too. You are so missed by all of us, Mansion. - I love you - dad
Excuse me, may we see some ID please?!!
April 21,
I find myself staring at your picture, still in disbelief. It hurts to love someone this much and not be able to touch them. You are my only son, Mansion, and I'd lose any and everyting to have you back. I made some killer chili for my dear friends yesterday. I'm so glad you met Susie. She mentioned how much fun it would have been to have you there with us yesterday... so true. And you did indeed arrive later in the evening.... when Lauren played her guitar... we hear you whenever your angel shares her incredible talent - I love you - dad
Arpil 21, (from Krista)
The words "I miss you" seem so redundant but I just do. I miss seeing your face and messin' up your hair. I miss you pulling my bandana off my head and me freaking out! I miss being startled and screaming when you'd jump out from behind a door. I miss hearing you gently play guitar. I miss how when I still lived at home, we'd hang out in my room, watching movies and playing guitar. I miss all your funny faces. I miss you showing me how to play a song. I miss showing you too. I miss your voice & your laugh. I miss you, Lauren, Steve and I chillun' at our place. I miss having someone in the world I could relate to on that level. I miss you tickling the hell out of me until I couldn't breathe. I miss you making me listen to music you liked in my car. I miss arguing over the front seat in dad's car. I miss you coming to me for advice & I miss giving it to you. I miss seeing your phone number on the caller ID. I miss "made". I miss everyday and every night I ever got to know, love and be around you. I miss you. - Love, your big sis
April 23,
The weather's warm, the aromas of spring are in the air, the sun's out, hardly a cloud in the sky.... yet, my eyes still rain every morning. I'm trying hard to stay positive, Mansion. Except for an ocassional primal scream from missing you, music you wrote or liked is about all that is heard in my car these days. I miss you so much, son. I love you - dad
April 26,
Oh Mansion, your sister Krista wrote to you the most beautiful song I've ever heard - Broken. And broken, we are. Every summer got better and better for us, watching you and Krista grow musically. But now there's a huge hole in the season. Not much matters to me anymore, except keeping your memory alive and watching those you've touched continue to blossom, in some ways, just because they knew you. - I love you forever - dad
April 27,
It's two months today since you left... those 4 hours while you were still warm... saturates my mind still - help me Corey. I watched Krista perform brilliantly yesterday in Stockton. But I glanced around the crowd, wishing so hard to see your face again. Hurt..... just plain hurt. I re-live your life daily, almost like a fast forwarded film. Sometimes, being in public is like watching TV with the volume down - I watch lips move and don't hear what anyone's saying to me, because I still only hear you. - I love you son, - dad
May 1,
What a week. The season misses you, but not as much as me. Lauren is playing a first friday event and can use your help. I know you'll be with her, Mansion. Your influence on Lauren and Krista is mesmerizing, as they share their new songs. Lauren's "deep in thought 4am" and Krista's "The Mind's I" - it is as if you're still here, I just can't see you. I love you so much and often feel like I'm holding on to saneness by a thread.... such a lonely summer this will be. I want to be with you so badly, Mansion. - love, dad
May 2,
I know its unusual to wish I was any older, but I can't help it, Mansion. If I was way older, it would mean less time to feel so empty. I remember the compassion you had for the 92 year-old woman when she told you that she hoped not to be around next Christmas. We all understood why she felt that way though, huh? Yes we did. And you sat and continued to talk with her. You were the finest son one could ever hope for. Mansion, help me look forward to weekends and warm sunny days again. - love you so much, dad
May 4,
I went to church this morning seeking comfort and missed most of the sermon because I can't get you off my mind, Corey. There's a song out there written by Bob Blinn and Jim Moore. Ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, the chorus will still play in my mind....
No matter how hard I try... I think of that perfect October day your sister got married, and how you so beautifully played "night after sidewalk" as your Mom and I walked Krista up the path... and your dog matty-mo and ella leading the way.... what a great day in life! Look at you Mansion... you were so happy... you made us all so proud. We miss you so much - - love, dad
No matter how many years go by
No matter how many tears I cry
I still can't say goodbye
Corey plays at Krista's wedding ceremony October 14, 2007
May 10,
Hi Mansion. It's Saturday morning for most, saturday mourning for me.... but you brought a lot of smiles and laughs this week. Lauren recorded another beautiful composition - "Into The Other Side" - and to listen to it is like listening to both of you. The 2nd guitar, it's you Corey, I know it is. Mother's Day is tomorrow, so please touch and be with Faith as she continues to miss and love you. Keep influencing Krista's and Lauren's playing and I'll eventually join in with the composing. I love you with all my heart, Corey - love, dad
May 10, later...
Oh Corey, you finally appeared in my dream!! You were only 2 or 3, and it felt so good to hold you in my arms. Keep coming back, please !!! I need you - love, dad
May 11,
Good morning Corey. You continue to influence and bring out the best in people musically and spritually. I have a huge favor to ask... that is, to use your influence and ask God to send an angel to walk closely with N.T., a beautiful girl your age who wrote me last night and has walked in your shoes. I long to be with you Corey, I miss you so much. Some funny memories are beginning to pierce through the sadness, bringing both smiles and laughter. The pranks you used to pull on Krista.... pissed her off then, but she would give anything to be on the end of your practical jokes and harassment again. - I love you, dad
May 14,
"this might sound weird, but I believe I lost the chance to get to know someone I'm beginning to love" - Hey Mansion, that was from my closest friend Susie, who spent one glorious afternoon with us and continues to hear stories about you. I'll never forget that day, a day spent with three people I love so much. You live on in the hearts of many. I hear things in your music I never noticed before, Mansion. I'm amazed. I miss shedding with you.... we had so much more music to cover. The last guitar you played hangs in my living room, missing you as much as I do. - love, dad
May 16,
Hi Mansion. I need your help more than ever.... please visit,... let me hear your voice in a dream. I listen to your music and your voice in my car and it often makes me want to drive forever. I hear your composition "Focus" and wonder what were you thinking?..... I was in the room when you recorded it, but where was my mind at the time? I love you and everything about you. - love, dad
May 20,
Mansion, you live so clearly in my heart and mind every day. Moments of your life long forgotten come back to me now. I was at a birthday party for an 11 year-old on Friday and the whole time I was there, I envisioned you when you were eleven. I can remember how you looked and how we'd make eye contact from across the room after someone did something dumb nearby - we knew what the other was thinking. Oh God, how I'd love to live each of your 21 years over again. The sadness within, Mansion..... there are so many dimensions of sadness I've never experienced. - I love you, dad.
May 25,
It's Memorial Day weekend, Mansion. Nothing's the same here without you. How often do I hear, "he's in a better place"? Too often, I guess, but I do believe it's true, thank God. At least you don't have text and email messages to compete with. How many Memorial Day weekends did we go to the PA State Fair? And we always would say on the way out, "never again". :-) yeah, right.... somehow we always made it fun though, Mansion. I miss it, and miss you more than anything. - I love you forever - dad
May 30,
I lost track of the tears last night, Mansion. Your absence hits me so hard sometimes. Other memories make me laugh, like your never-ending, no-punchline "hiney itches" joke that you told at Sesame Place when you were about 4 years old, which almost caused us to intentionally leave you there! (ha ha) I drove by Sesame Place this past week to meet a friend and relived most of that day when I saw Big Bird. We were so upset because you would not let up with that joke, yet the more we tried to be firm and tell you to stop, the more we'd eventually crack up, which only snowballed into you telling it again and again. - I miss you so much Mansion, I want to live all 21 years over again!! - love forever, dad
June 5
Hi Mansion. My head is in a place I never knew existed.... missing you, crying daily, in love with being in love, laying on your childhood blanket, always thinking that the next place I go or the next thing I try will ease the pain..... all so futile. There's no prescription for this, and even if there was, I'd probably O.D. on it. Your music may be played on WXPN this weekend ! Use your influence, son. I love you Mansion. - dad
June 12,
What a night, Mansion ! I know you were with us last night when Tommy dedicated "Still Can't Say Goodbye" to your memory. I was overwhelmed and lost it, Corey. I closed my wet eyes, envisioned you in my mind, and held the hand of my dearest friend. I'll never forget this night. Tommy knows you play guitar and said he'll be with you one day! I will too, Mansion. - I love you, dad
June 15, (fathers day)
I could cry today, Mansion.... but I got it all out yesterday. When I look at this precious gift you gave me as a young boy, because you knew I liked hot air balloons, I can smile today. No other gift from you touched me like this one. Yeah, the balloon's deflated now, but I still see and feel it as I did that wonderful fathers day in 1997 and I wouldn't trade it for a Mercedes! I am forever proud to be your father, Corey. Thank you for all the wonderful memories. - I love you - dad
June 24,
I saw you in a very short dream tonight, Mansion. I could not get back to sleep, I miss you so much. I try to stay positive but it's such an act. God bless those who endure this pain under even worse circumstances. You're in front of me every where I go, Mansion. - I love you - dad.
June 27,
Four months today since you've been gone, Mansion.... and still, no rock bottom in sight. You and I only went to a handful of baseball games in Philly, but I want so badly to be there in the left field stands with you once more. I love you and you were so much fun to be around. I don't think I can ever happily walk into that stadium again. Please be with me. - I love you, dad
June 30,
Thank you Corey, that was the best dream yet. I couldn't let you go, even while walking up the stairs with you to show Faith and Krista that you are with us. It felt so good to hug you again. I'm sorry I woke up. - I love and miss you, dad
July 5,
It's so boring on this side, Mansion. Holidays are meaningless, reality TV is enough to make anyone puke. I can play "Malandra" now, such a great song ! Fugue for Booth is next, son. I love you - dad
July 15,
I'm so blessed to have had a wonderful son like you, Mansion. Sometimes I feel like you're in the car with me when I'm driving. So many funny memories, the way we used to carry on. I ate with Krista and Steve this weekend. Though the void will remain forever, we can still chickle at the memories. I love you so much, son - love, dad
July 21 - from Mom
When I
find the time- I will remember what it
felt like to
hold your hand.
When I
find the time- I will reflect on the joy I
felt when
I heard you playing guitar and was
inspired by your gift.
When I
find the time- I will close my eyes and
remember how
beautiful your eyes were and how they lit
up my life.
When I
find the time- I will lay my head down and
remember our
noses touching for Eskimo kisses.
When I
find the time- I will think about the
times we played
thumb wars in church and cracked up.
When I
find the time- I will talk about the
dreams you had
and shared with me for your future.
When I
find the time I will cuddle with your
pillow and
flowers that you picked for me.
The jokes
you told to make me laugh.
The pride
I felt each time I saw you.
Love, Mom
July 27
August 8
Mansion, it just doesn't seem real.
When my day is done, time
stands still and I'm engrossed with you,
Krista, Lauren, and Steve in
the summer of 2007. I want it all
back, Mansion. All the
good in my life is over shadowed by this
void, yet, I still find time
to smile back at you when I envision your
smiling face in my
mind. I love you and look so forward
to wandering heaven with
you. - love and hugs, dad
August 13Keep coming through in the dreams Corey, I'm loving it, but awaking too soon. - I love you, dad
August 27
Gee Corey, it's 6 months today. Somehow, someway, I hope you know what I write and think. I miss you terribly. I miss you smiling at me, making me laugh, me making you laugh, jamming with you, eating meals with you, and hugging you. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of being with you again, and forever this time... and that thought often dries up the daily tears. I love you, Mansion - love dad
August 28
I think back to February 22, when I bought you your last guitar and the joy on your face when you knew we were leaving Sam Ash with it. I was so happy and knew you would continue to soar musically. You played it so beautifully, Corey, and now that Yamaha guitar leans quietly on my wall, sharing my loneliness. There have been no nicer gifts bestowed upon me than you and Krista. - I love you, dad
September 18
Mansion, the first summer without you.... it seemed to zip by fast in one sense.... drag forever in another... but a very sad summer regardless. I feel you at times and it is so comforting. I want a tour ! And I know you want to show me all that is new to you. I feel you pulling on me.... there probably isn't even a such thing as patience on your side, I still have to be though. I spent a beautiful evening at Steel City Coffee house last Saturday and I know you were there. Shannon's great, isn't she? She and Fionan are as lucky as you and Lauren. - loving and missing you, dad.
September 27
I'm so disappointed that I can't find a recording of "I'm Going Home", one of your last lyrical songs, but Krista has vowed to record it since you taught it to her. I feel and hear a merging of both spirits when I see Krista perform her instrumentals. What a blessing - thank you, Mansion. - I love you - dad
Dec 13,
the holidays there is a quiet and constant
for all of us without you here to make us
laugh while you, chased the
around the house, made ovaltine all over
the counter, ate the pumpkin
built a snowman and slid through the
kitchen on your socks.
though I wish it had been a lifetime with
you here I am
so grateful that God gave you to me. You
will always be my precious
son. Thank
you for the Christmas's that we were
together and for making them the
memories we will hold in our hearts.
Christmas Corey!
love you! Mom
January 3, 2009
Oh Mansion, the emptiness is almost too much to bare anymore. I re-live your life in my mind, page by page and I try to avoid the last page and just cannot, it keeps coming back and tears gush. I miss you more than ever and getting through December was so hard without you. I try hard to balance it out with the wonderful memories you've left behind and it certainly helps. I continue to listen with a new ear to your music and will always wonder how far you would have gone if you had given yourself the chance. I love you Corey - huggin you forever, dad
I have
been told by so many how you inspired
their life.
poured into the little chapel to pay their
respects to you.
One after
the other with a story of how they were
by you to play music and how inspired your
music made them feel.
you even
imagine the outpouring of love that we all
shared and that so many
would want
to say so-long and let me know how very
much you meant to them?
saying, no one will ever make me laugh as
much as Corey.
saying, he showed me everything I know on
He made
me feel like I was somebody and no one was
a better
friend to me.
I know
that for me it will be the times you gave
a friend a
place to stay or your new shirt to wear.
How you
tenderly reached over to tune the guitar
for someone
and humbly sat and listened to others
playing the song you just taught
There can
only be one explanation for our life here
as we
know it. I have lived enough years to know
enough people and watch life
and end but I have never known another
that has left as many smiles on
hearts of those left behind.
sister calls you her musical SOULMATE.
It is
said that all we have belongs to our
creator and that
we are only the caretakers for the time he
allows us here.
wonder if I took
the care with you that I would have if I
knew I would only have you a
short time.
I can
only say that my heart could not hold any
more love
then I have for you.
There are so many questions, but without hesitation I know that you will always be the part of my life that was blessed by having you in it.
Happy Birthday Corey!
On the
first day of your life I was overwhelmed
to meet you
and thought you are the most beautiful and
precious boy. The joy of
that day has
never left me. I will always be blessed
with the memory of each
birthday I was
able to share with you. Birthdays may not
be forever but LOVE is! The
time I laid my eyes on you I fell in love.
Always, Mom
January 20, 2009
Birthday, Corey ! I'll
forever miss
everything about you.
Though typing thru
tears, I have and hold onto the most
memories. I
think back to your birthday
last year at Dave and Busters and how the
noise level in that place
annoyed me
so. What I wouldn't do to have that day
back to replace the deafening
on this birthday. I
miss you so
much. Your
guitar stands lonely in my
living room. I
know I hugged you in a
recent dream and couldn't let go. I can't
let go Corey, I can't.
Please visit
again soon – love you forever, Dad
June 9, 2009
August 9,
October 3, 2009
Hey son, just missing you so much. You were in a dream last night but never long enough. I love you Corey and I feel you around me. Thanks for being !! - Love dad
October 11, 2009
Well Mansion, thanks to Krista and her ideas, your site got a facelift today. I enjoy working on it Corey. I only wish I had the wisdom to include all there is to describe the impact your soul made in such a short visit here on earth. - my love continues to grow for you son - love dad


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The Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program (IIC), chaired by Paul Volcker, released its Second Interim Report on March 29.[1] This Interim Report examines the UN's 1998 hiring of the Swiss company Cotecna to conduct inspections of humanitarian goods entering Iraq under the Oil-for-Food Program and any potential conflict of interest involving UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose son Kojo was employed by Cotecna.[2]
The Volcker Committee, appointed by Kofi Annan in April 2004, is one of several major investigations into the UN's management of the Oil-for-Food Program. Investigations are also being conducted by committees in the United States Senate and House of Representatives, as well as by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Treasury, and others.
The eagerly awaited Volcker Report was immediately greeted with cries of "exoneration" by the UN's senior leadership after Mr. Volcker controversially found "no evidence that the selection of Cotecna in 1998 was subject to any affirmative or improper influence of the Secretary General in the bidding or selection process." Asked if he was planning to resign anytime soon, Annan uncharacteristically responded with the bullish words "Hell no!"
However, a closer reading of the report reveals serious failures of leadership at the United Nations, the destruction of thousands of critically important documents by the UN Chief of Staff, and previously undisclosed meetings between Kofi Annan and Cotecna executives, all of which make a mockery of UN claims of vindication. It is hardly surprising that Mr. Volcker has struggled to find evidence of "improper influence" if a great deal of potential evidence has ended up in a shredder.
This latest report dramatically adds to the growing picture of mismanagement, incompetence, and unaccountability at the United Nations, a world body in deep crisis and in serious need of reform. And the report is not, as Annan has claimed, in any way a vindication for him or the UN. As lead IIC investigator Mark Pieth stated, "We did not exonerate Kofi Annan. We should not brush this off. A certain mea culpa would have been appropriate."[3]
The Interim Report raises a number of important issues that should be of major concern to congressional investigators.
Document Shredding
The most significant finding in the Volcker Report is the revelation that Kofi Annan's then Chief of Staff, Iqbal Riza, authorized the shredding between April and December 2004 of thousands of UN documents. Among these documents were the entire UN Chef de Cabinet chronological files for the years 1997, 1998, and 1999, many of which related to the Oil-for-Food Program.
Riza approved this destruction just ten days after he had personally written to the heads of nine UN-related agencies that administered the Oil for-Food Program in Northern Iraq, requesting that they "take all necessary steps to collect, preserve and secure all files, records and documents… relating to the Oil-for-Food Programme."[4] The destruction continued for more than seven months after the Secretary General's June 1, 2004, order to UN staff members "not to destroy or remove any documents related to the Oil-for-Food programme that are in their possession or under their control, and to not instruct or allow anyone else to destroy or remove such documents."[5]
Significantly, Kofi Annan announced the retirement of Mr. Riza on January 15, 2005, exactly the same day that Riza notified the Volcker Committee that he had destroyed the documents.[6] Riza was immediately replaced by UNDP chief Mark Malloch Brown.
Riza was Chief of Staff from 1997 to 2004, almost the entire period of the Oil-for-Food Program's operation, and would undoubtedly possess an intricate knowledge of the UN's management of it. He was a long-time colleague of Kofi Annan and served as Annan's deputy in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations from 1993 to 1996.
The UN document destruction scandal raises a number of serious questions:
Under whose instruction did Iqbal Riza authorize the destruction of UN documents?
To what extent was Kofi Annan himself aware of the shredding of the documents?
What role did Riza play in the UN's management of the Oil-for-Food Program?
How closely did Riza work with Benon Sevan, head of the Office of the Iraq Program, during his time as Chief of Staff?
Kofi Annan and Cotecna
The overall impression given in the Volcker Report is of a closer relationship between Kofi Annan and Cotecna officials than was previously known.
The Volcker Report states that Kofi Annan met twice with Elie Massey, the owner of Cotecna, before awarding it the Iraq inspection contract. Their first meeting took place in February 1997 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and the second in September 1998, arranged by his son Kojo. Significantly, when the Volcker Committee first interviewed Annan in November 2004, he denied that he had met with Mr. Massey before the awarding of the Cotecna contract. He retracted that statement when he was re-interviewed in January 2005, after "a review of the computer of the Secretary-General's assistant, (where) the Committee found information reflecting that the Secretary-General had met with Elie Massey on two occasions prior to the award of the inspection contract to Cotecna."[7] In addition, Annan met once with Elie Massey, in Geneva, after Cotecna was awarded the UN contract, in 1999.[8]
Kofi Annan's meetings with Cotecna executives should be subject to Congressional scrutiny, as they raise major conflict of interest issues. And Annan's initial unwillingness to disclose these meetings to the Independent Inquiry Committee clearly indicates that Mr. Annan has not been acting in a completely transparent manner regarding the Oil-for-Food investigation. This information should have been publicly disclosed far earlier by Annan, but it was revealed only after an investigation by the Financial Times and Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore.
The relationship between Kofi Annan and Michael Wilson, Cotecna's Vice President for Marketing Operations in Africa, is also of interest. The Volcker investigation reveals that the Secretary-General was "a long-standing friend of Mr. Wilson's father, who had been Ghana's ambassador to Switzerland." The Volcker report states that "Mr. Wilson also knows the Secretary-General well and, in the Ghanaian tradition, considers him like an 'uncle'. Shortly after Kojo Annan graduated from university, the Secretary-General and Mr. Wilson spoke about the possibility of Kojo Annan working at Cotecna."[9]
Aside from his contacts with Michael Wilson and Elie Massey, the Volcker Committee also notes that Kofi Annan "already was familiar with Cotecna and its prior interest in doing business with the United Nations. In 1991, while he served as the United Nations Controller and Assistant Secretary-General for Programme Planning, Budget and Finance, he had been involved in negotiations with Iraq about initial proposals for an
Oil -for-Food arrangement, and Cotecna had written to him, at that time, about its interests in the inspection services contract. He had passed the information on to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the department then in charge of the Iraq Programme."[10]
The Internal UN Inquiry Into Kojo Annan and Cotecna
The Volcker Report is highly critical of the UN's own inquiry into the conflict of interest arising from Cotecna's employment of Kojo Annan and his father's position as Secretary-General. By all accounts, the UN inquiry was a farce, lasting for just one day. The inquiry was prompted by an article published in The Sunday Telegraph on January 24, 1999, which revealed that the UN had awarded a major contract to a company (Cotecna) that employed the son of the UN Secretary-General. At the same time, as the Volcker Committee reports, "Cotecna was embroiled in a criminal investigation involving allegations that it had made illegal payments for the benefit of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto."[11]
The UN inquiry was headed by Joseph Connor, Under-Secretary for Management, "who failed to take any action beyond the one day inquiry that was conducted concerning the truth of the allegations and their ongoing impact on the fitness of Cotecna to remain as a United Nations contractor."[12] The Volcker Report asserts that the inquiry was "inadequate" and that the Secretary-General should have referred the matter to the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services or the Office of Legal Affairs. The Report concludes "had there been such an investigation of these allegations, it is unlikely that Cotecna would have been awarded renewals of its contract with the United Nations."[13] At the same time, the Report states "Kojo Annan actively participated in efforts by Cotecna to conceal the continuing relationship with him."[14]
While the Volcker Committee shies away from drawing the conclusion, it is clear that the Secretary-General's failure to order a comprehensive, independent inquiry into this matter, given his own conflict of interest, demonstrates at the very least a huge management failure at the helm of the UN, and possibly a deliberate attempt by Kofi Annan to avoid a thorough investigation of serious charges.
The destruction of highly sensitive documents by Kofi Annan's Chief of Staff is an obstruction of justice that demands congressional investigation. It gives the impression of a major cover-up at the very heart of the United Nations and casts a dark cloud over the credibility of the UN Secretary-General. It projects an image of impunity, arrogance, and unaccountability on the part of the leadership of the United Nations. Riza, who, like Benon Sevan, is retained on the UN payroll at a salary of $1 a year, should be made available for interview to congressional investigators and should give testimony before Congress explaining his actions.
Major questions also remain regarding the Secretary-General's meetings with a senior executive from Cotecna on three separate occasions and his failure to initially disclose these meetings to the Volcker Committee. In the interests of full transparency, the transcripts of Kofi Annan's interviews with the Independent Inquiry Committee should be released.
The failure of the Secretary-General to recognize and act upon the enormous conflict of interest regarding his son's involvement with Cotecna is an extremely serious matter that reflects poorly upon both his judgment and personal integrity. The UN's farcical internal inquiry into this matter demonstrates clearly that there is a need for effective external oversight of the United Nations. The overriding impression given is of an institution that is fundamentally broken and in dire need of major reform and new leadership.
In order to begin the process of restoring the reputation of the United Nations, Mr. Annan should step down. The fact that Annan remains in office despite growing evidence of UN mismanagement and corruption with regard to the Oil-for Food Program sets a poor precedent for future leaders of the UN, who will be encouraged to believe they will not be held to account for the organization's failures. Annan is increasingly a 'lame duck' Secretary-General who has become a severe liability to the effectiveness of the UN as a world body. Serious reform of the organization to make it more transparent, effective, and accountable will be impossible as long as he remains in power.
Nile Gardiner, Ph.D., is Fellow in Anglo-American Security Policy in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy of the Shelby and Kathryn Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Heritage intern Nicole Collins assisted with research for this paper.
[1] Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, Second Interim Report, March 29, 2005, at /static/reportimages/934D6AD60483790468465D01E63606C6.pdf
[2] Cotecna employed Annan's son Kojo in Nigeria from 1995 to 1997, and retained him as a consultant in 1998. From 1999 to 2004, Cotecna had a "non-compete" contract with Cotecna. In total, Kojo Annan received more than $300,000 from Cotecna. See Claudia Gatt, 'Cotecna Link to Kojo Annan Under Scrutiny', Financial Times, March 22, 2005.
[3] Quoted by Desmond Butler and Nick Wadhams, 'Oil-for-Food Investigator Condemns Company', Associated Press, March 30, 2005, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4901226,00.html
[4] IIC Second Interim Report, p.81.
[5] IIC Second Interim Report, p.82
[6] IIC Second Interim Report, p.82.
[7] IIC Second Interim Report, pp40- 42.
[8] IIC Second Interim Report, p.72
[9] IIC Second Interim Report, p.26
[10] IIC Second Interim Report, p.27
[11] IIC Second Interim Report, p.3
[12] IIC Second Interim Report, p.80
[13] IIC Second Interim Report, p.78
[14] IIC Second Interim Report, p.79


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Ike, you tried to tell us…we just will not listen.
Sunday, as you probably know, the New York Times published a very lengthy story of how several ostensibly "independent" military analysts employed by the news media turned out to be shills of the Department of Defense and their individual defense contractors who employed them.
If that was all there was, it was bad enough…except to the never surrendering war whore, like Max Boot. Funny how a man who has been making excuses for more than five years doesn't change his opinion for anything — especially it's profitable & safe to not change. But then Boot was bought and sold at least as long as these other gentlemen…and he likes it
…it's no secret that the Pentagon–and every other branch of government–routinely provides background briefings to journalists…and tries to influence their coverage by carefully doling out access. … All this is part and parcel of the daily grind of Washington journalism in which the Times is, of course, a leading participant.
Oh, don't be so modest, Max, you are at the pinnacle of the Pyramid when it comes to having your shilling doled out to you in easy cut & paste form.
But even more, Boot just plain ignores the heart of what the Times piece was all about, as Think Progress noted:
Hardly run-of-the-mill briefings, Rumsfeld and his staff planted friendly analysts into the media while expressly forbidding them from revealing their ties to the Pentagon and used lucrative defense contracts as their leverage.
The Times laid out some specifics:
* "It was them saying, 'We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you,' " Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News analyst, said…Bevelacqua, then a Fox analyst, was among those invited to a briefing in early 2003 about Iraq's purported stockpiles of illicit weapons. … Mr. [Robert] Maginnis said he concluded that the analysts were being 'manipulated' to convey a false sense of certainty about the evidence of the weapons. Yet he and Mr. Bevelacqua and the other analysts who attended the briefing did not share any misgivings with the American public.
* As conditions in Iraq deteriorated, [Kenneth] Allard recalled, he saw a yawning gap between what analysts were told in private briefings and what subsequent inquiries and books later revealed.
"Night and day," Mr. Allard said, "I felt we'd been hosed."
And my personal favorite for bad taste and outright assholery:
* Again and again, records show, the administration has enlisted analysts as a rapid reaction force to rebut what it viewed as critical news coverage, some of it by the networks' own Pentagon correspondents. For example, when news articles revealed that troops in Iraq were dying because of inadequate body armor, a senior Pentagon official wrote to his colleagues: "I think our analysts — properly armed — can push back in that arena."
Max Boot seriously needs to be visited by Smedley Butler's ghost.
So who is going to ask John McCain, who has long been pumping the same talking points, about this?


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Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2018, Page: 1-7
IDH1 Mutation in Gliomas in Baghdad by Immunohistochemical Study
Zahraa Marwan Shaban, Pathology Department and Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq
Salim Rasheed Al-Aubaidy, Pathology Department and Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Ameer Dhahir Hameedi, Pathology Department and Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Salim Rasheed Al-Aubaidy, Pathology Department and Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Ameer Dhahir Hameedi, Pathology Department and Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Received: Nov. 7, 2017; Accepted: Nov. 20, 2017; Published: Jan. 11, 2018
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IDH1 (isocitrate dehydrogenase 1) mutation might be encounter in the low-grade glioma occurs in early stages of development and directs the progression of the tumor to a higher grade. Aim of the study was to assess the frequency of IDH1 mutation in Iraqi patients with gliomas by immunohistochemical study, to correlate its immunoreactivity with some clinicopathological parameters. The study did on formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tumor tissue from 66 patients with different grades of intracranial gliomas of both gender and all age groups in the Baghdad city were collected in this retrospective and prospective randomized study. Ten normal brain tissue samples in form of paraffin blocks took from forensic medicine unit. New technique used, which is manual tissue microarray Immunohistochemical detection of IDH1 antibodies did by Dako autostainer link 48. Positive cytoplasmic IDH1 staining was found in 38 (57.6%) of cases of glioma. In adult gliomas, secondary glioblastoma multiforme, low grade astrocytoma and oligodendroglial tumors had the greatest values of IDH1 positivity (87%, 80% and 72.72% respectively) followed by anaplastic astrocytoma (42%), then primary glioblastoma multiforme (26%). Males and females expressed the IDH1 equally. The conclusions from the work were IDH1 mutation commonly existed in adult gliomas, low-grade gliomas and secondary glioblastoma, it had no role in pediatric gliomas, and it could be a diagnostic and prognostic marker.
IDH1, Adults, Pediatric, Manual Tissue Microarray, Glioma, Immunohistochemical Study
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Sam Rubin Will Not Be Censored By Ben Affleck's PR Team!
KTLA's Sam Rubin has been one of THEE premiere entertainment reporters on the Los Angeles local news scene for centuries and goddammit, he deserves some respect and doesn't need some PR person telling him to fast forward his mouth to the next question and to stay on topic. But that's exactly what a PR person did to him at the junket for Ben Affleck's new movie The Accountant. If you've seen the trailer for The Accountant, you probably thought it was just an H&R Block commercial where Ben does a parody of his bro-friend Matt Damon's old characters from The Bourne Identity and Good Will Hunting. But it's a real movie.
Sam Rubin is the wreck who mistook Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne, so he deserves some credit for not mistaking Ben Affleck for an Easter Island Statue. But the PR people at The Accountant junket in L.A. didn't give him any credit for that and instead told him to stick to the movie when he asked Ben about what it's like always being in the tabloids. Sam wasn't having that and instead of talking about the movie on Tuesday, he melodramatically ranted about the unprofessional and "shocking" treatment that went down during the junket.
Sam said that on top of a "PR dope" shutting down one of his questions, he spit out an, "AH NEVAH!", when he went to pick up a copy of the interview and watched studio people editing another reporter's interview.
"They were taking out a remark he had actually made of his own freewill and cutting it out of the interview they were giving to somebody, because they think you might not understand it, you might not get Ben's sense of humor, it might make him look bad."
Sam ended his rant by saying that The Accountant is dead, buried and decomposed to him:
"If you had told me ahead of time you were going to restrict my questions or if you told me ahead of time these interviews were subject to your editing and control even after the interview took place. I would never have gone to your junket. I would never have been involved with promoting a movie that's trying to censor reporters covering the movie.
You will never hear me mention this movie ever again."
The Accountant looks like something the head bitches at Warner Bros. gave the greenlight to after the accounting department told them that they need a major flop for tax purposes. Hmmm… Maybe that's why the movie's PR people pissed Sam Rubin off. They knew that if they piss Sam Rubin off, he'll publicly blacklist it and then NOBODY on earth will pay to see it and it'll be the biggest flop of the year. I see you, Warner Bros., and I'm giving you a standing ovation for that well played move.
And here's the other Beefy Ben struttin' his tits and ass in NYC this morning.
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MSP Recruitment Coordinator
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Job Number: 639
External Description:
What does work mean to you? Are you realizing your potential and helping others do the same?
At Randstad Sourceright, our people are our greatest innovation. We recognize the value of every individual and our clients, candidates and colleagues sit at the heart of everything we do. For us, this means making work meaningful every day.
We have ambition with a purpose so if you're not just looking for a job, but a purposeful, progressive and satisfying career, join us! Let's make work meaningful together.
We're looking for an Onsite MSP Recruitment Coordinator
your typical day includes
working as part of the Client Account Management team who are responsible for delivering a premium recruitment process to our client with their contingent / temporary and contract recruitment. Based onsite with our client who are a leading management consultancy based in central London, the key focus of this role is to forge relationships with all parties, including key stakeholders within the client and all suppliers as part of the contract recruitment supply chain.
your focus will be
- general administration and maintenance of systems, tracker tools and recruitment systems
- supporting Hiring Managers with system based queries, and other process or policy queries
- managing the timesheet and contract renewals process
- working with partner recruitment agencies to ensure a streamlined service to all parties (hiring managers and candidates)
- reporting
- building strong relationships with the contractor workforce
- processing contractor extensions
- dealing with contractor queries in a timely, professional and engaging manner
- ad hoc projects most likely around process implementation and improvement
what you will need
This role will suit someone who has worked onsite within professional services in a recruitment support capacity. Recruitment agency experience in the temporary recruitment sector will also be considered. Excellent attention to detail and ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and SLA's is key for this fast paced role. This is a key client facing role where excellent customer service and client management skills are also imperative.
why we love what we do and we think you will, too:
- we are recognized as an industry leader that invests in its people, solutions, innovation and capabilities to drive business and client success - this makes us a star performer on the Everest Group PEAK matrices
- we value open communication and feedback and are proud to be an Open Company on Glassdoor, consistently outperforming our competitors
- we embrace diversity and support our clients to achieve their own Diversity & Inclusion goals
- we offer a transparent career pathing framework, training opportunities and a recognition program to celebrate outperformance
- we work in modern and easily accessible offices in central London
A job description can only tell you so much...hear from our people on what work means to us.
about Randstad Sourceright
Randstad Sourceright is a global talent leader, providing solutions and expertise that help companies execute on strategy, improve business agility and place them in a position for growth. Randstad Sourceright's experience encompasses all facets of talent acquisition for permanent employees and the contingent and contractor workforce. Our solutions span recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), managed services programs (MSP) and integrated talent solutions. For more information, see https://www.randstadsourceright.com/
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The Federal Lawyer – December 2012
Access to digital technology is a new frontier in the enforcement of civil rights for persons with disabilities. In these cases, the analysis turns not on accommodations or architectural guidelines, but whether the person with a disability has equal access to a program or activity which, in the digital world, often centers on the need for effective communication. Dan Goldstein & Greg Care discuss how the inherent flexibility of digital information and the explosion in popularity of digital devices, software, and content in government, business, education, and social life should be a powerful engine for integration of people with disabilities through equal access.


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HOLLYWOOD - The producer of The Vampire Dairies Manolo Middlezuck has stated that three members of Great Britain's all-girl band Girls Aloud, Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, and Kimberly Walsh, have agreed to appear on the hit vampire show.
Middlezuck said that the other two Girls Aloud members Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts were asked to appear but declined due to personal family matters.
Harding said that she had to return to London for two reasons. Sarah said that her Aunt Dandelion Wannabirkin, who resides in Little Sandhurst, has just given birth to septuplets.
And Sarah's second reason is to attend a family wedding. She said that her 101-year-old great grandmother Bolivia Harding, who lives in Chigwell, is getting married to her long time sweetheart of 72 years Myron Butchersbroom, IV.
Roberts said that the reason she could not fly to Hollywood to appear in The Vampire Dairies was a personal one. When asked what the personal reason was, she smiled and said that it was personal.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: A quick phone call to Larry King revealed that the personal reason is that Nicola has been scheduled to have G-spot augmentation surgery back in London at Our Lady of The English Muffins Hospital.]


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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, along with multiple other agencies, were searching Wednesday for a suspect involved in the fraudulent use of a credit card.
The investigation began just before 10:30 a.m. when the personnel at a Dollar General in the Murabella area called deputies to report the incident.
Once on scene, deputies located and secured a female suspect identified as Shelita Shelton (pictured), according to the Sheriff's Office. Deputies said two male suspects fled on foot, and K-9 units responded. Deputies said one male was located and taken into custody.
Deputies said they were trying to identify him and working with out-of-state agencies, including the Secret Service, to determine the extent of the couple's activities.
One male suspect remains at large and is believed to be in the area of Interstate 95, north of County Road 214, deputies said. They said there is no information that the suspect is armed, but he is believed to have multiple out-of-state warrants. Deputies said that cannot be confirmed until he is taken into custody.
The suspect is described as a black man with a beard and was last seen wearing red pants or shorts and a purple shirt.
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What case drop? Ebola finds new hotspots outside Liberian capital – 'everybody could die in this town'
November 11, 2014
LIBERIA – A schoolteacher brought his sick daughter from Liberia's capital to this small town of 300 people. Soon he and his entire family were dead and buried in the forest nearby, along with an increasing number of residents. The community of Jenewonde has become a new hotspot for the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. With cases on the decline in the capital, officials must now turn their attention to hard-to-reach places where the disease is flaring. Jenewonde, in Grand Cape Mount County near the border with Sierra Leone, has reportedly lost about 10 percent of its population to Ebola since late September. Markets and farms nearby have been abandoned. Momo Sheriff, who lost his son to Ebola, said there is no health care in the community. No clinics could be seen along the road into town. "If the government does not take action, everybody will die in this town," Sheriff told an Associated Press journalist. "We are burying two dead bodies today. We don't know who it will be tomorrow. Every day we have to cry." Juma Mansaray lost her mother and grandmother on the same day. She said the community has been ostracized from neighboring ones. "Everywhere we go, the people will drive us away," she said. "We can't even go to the local market to buy pepper or food because people think we are cursed."
Ebola is also hitting the town of Gorzohn in Rivercess County, which lies on Liberia's central coast, said Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia's Ebola response. The international response must adapt to this new phase, Doctors Without Borders warned. As Jenewonde saw, just one case can ignite a chain of transmission that leads to a dozen more infections, said Fasil Tezera, head of operations for the charity in Liberia. Liberia has suffered the greatest death toll in the Ebola epidemic, with 2,766 deaths blamed on the first-ever Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The World Health Organization says that after months of aggressive efforts to isolate the sick and remove bodies of victims safely, Ebola appears to be declining in some parts of Liberia, including the capital where only about 50 of the 250 beds are filled at a Doctors Without Borders clinic. "In the cities, I think we have sufficient resources," Tezera said. "We cannot bring everybody to big ETU's," or Ebola treatment units. The outbreak now also needs a series of "rapid response teams" that can bring care to remote villages, rather than trying to get sick people out, the group says. Such teams would include medics, disinfection specialists and psychologists or social workers and could stamp out a budding outbreak in a village before it has a chance to spread. And they could work much faster than a treatment center can be built.
Tezera said that such mobile teams were frequently deployed in previous Ebola outbreaks, which typically hit remote areas of central or eastern Africa. The teams could travel by truck, boat or helicopter, if those assets are provided. "If you handle it at the small village level, then you can contain it," he said. Experts warn that the disease could flare again in Monrovia or other places where it seems to have subsided. As long as Ebola is circulating in this highly mobile region, no area is safe, said Tezera, and cases continue to rise in Guinea and Sierra Leone. There were 40 new Ebola cases in and around the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown in the preceding 24 hours, authorities there said late Sunday. –ABC News


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Maps in Layers
Engineering a better map.
Alina Zare takes her ideas where she finds them. On her first trip to Columbia in 2010, she found a great idea while trying to navigate the town. It landed her a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award.
"I use Google Maps for everything. But even with that and directions, I still had to circle a plaza several times before finding a restaurant," says Zare, assistant professor of engineering. "Google's street view, satellite imagery and maps should be fused to highlight what you are looking for in all three. I got pretty excited about global scene understanding. You could map the world. It would be so cool."
Zare's idea to fuse different information types with varying levels of accuracy to create a global scene understanding won the National Science Foundation award, which provides $454,077 over five years.


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WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
(early settler, sheriff, church leader)
BIOGRAPHYDavid H. Cannon was born 4/23/1838 in Liverpool, England. He was called to the Cotton Mission at the LDS Church General Conference on 10/6/1861. He and Wilhelmina left Salt Lake on 11/3/1861 and arrived at the St. George campground on 12/3/1861. They moved onto their town lot in January of 1862. David served at least two terms as Sheriff. He was a Bishop and then High Counselor before becoming a Counselor in one of the early St. George Stake Presidencies. When the St. George Temple was completed, David H. Cannon was called to be an assistant to the first two Temple Presidents, Wilford Woodruff and John D. T. McAllister. Then he served as President of the St. George Temple from 8/28/1893 until his death. He was one of the founders of the Dixie Stake Academy in 1911. He died in St. George on 12/27/1924 and is buried in the St. George City Cemetery.
Wives, Children, and Some Grandchildren: Wilhelmina L Mousley (born 1840, married 2/15/1859, died 1918) David Henry Jr (10/15/1860-3/20/1944) (married Camellia Ensign Mason) Ann Mousley (8/8/1864-8/20/1865) George Quayle (7/7/1866-8/28/1884) Elizabeth Munn (6/12/1869-6/12/1869) Amanda Mousley (6/10/1870-11/10/1889) Angus Mousley (5/12/1872-8/5/1948; maybe 1873-1849) (married Rachel Cunningham) Wilhelmina Mousley (11/29/1875-3/23/1927) (married William Thomas Morris) (married Charles C. Sullivan) Lewis Ray (5/28/1878-5/28/1963) (married Jennie Luemma Laub} Josephine M (8/22/1881-10/15/1944) (married Shadrach Harris Jones) Frank (9/17/1883-4/12/1961) (married Mary Susanna Bryner) Rulon Frank (4/7/1911-8/13/1993) Josephine L Crosgrove (born 1848, married 10/18/1867, died 1929) Charles Crossgrove (1869-1869) John (1871-1871) Mary Alice (1873-1873) Effie (1875-1875) Leonora (1876-1899) Erastus Snow (1878-1883) Bayard (1881-1968) Eugene (1883-1955) Theresa (1885-1979) Claude (1887-1976) Raymond (1890-1977) Rhoda Ann Knell (born 1858, married 6/20/1877, died 1945) Evelyn (1878-1959) Robert Knell (1879-1880) Wilford Woodruff (1880-1973) Clarence (1883-1883) Rhoda Knell (1885-1917) Walter (1888-1957) (married Leah Sullivan) Howard Walter (1912-2002) (married Dorothy Pace) Evelyn (1917-2008) (married George M. Jay) Ramona (1920-1975) (married Don Carlos Schmutz) Ellen (1922-1923) Clara (5/30/1891-10/31/1990) Vernon (1894-1970) Douglas (1897-1986) Earl (1900-1985) Harold (3/14/1903-3/15/1992) (aka "Bill") (married Fern Jones 1/3/1924) Harold Jr. Robert K. Fred J. Colleen (married James Pendleton)
Photos on the web:
Photo of the St. George LDS Stake Presidency: Erastus Snow, David Cannon, and David McArthur
REFERENCESDavid H. Cannon Website
David H. Cannon home in St. George
Story of the Sego Lilly
Story of the St. George Tabernacle Windows
Angus M. Cannon letter to David H. Cannon, October 14, 1905
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David H. Cannon letter to Angus M. Cannon, April 13, 1906
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Angus M. Cannon letter to David H. Cannon, July 19, 1906
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Angus M. Cannon letter to David H. Cannon, August 7, 1906
Angus M. Cannon letter to David H. Cannon, November 4, 1909
Angus M. Cannon letter to David H. Cannon, November 22, 1909
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Chiropractor Chad Cohle D.C.
Dr. Chad Cohle is the owner of Cohle Performance Chiropractic. His practice was established in the Harrisburg area on March 1, 2013. Dr. Cohle is a native Central Pennsylvania resident, growing up in the Harrisburg and Hummelstown area. He attended Lower Dauphin High School, where he played volleyball, football and basketball. Dr. Cohle's passion and dedication to athletics lead him to Susquehanna University, where he also played basketball and was nominated as a co-captain his senior year. After witnessing the frustration of injuries and the common nagging pains that athletes go through year after year, Dr. Cohle knew he wanted to be a part of a profession that could help athletes eliminate that pain and actually improve their performance.
During his years playing basketball at Lower Dauphin and getting knocked around, he began experiencing sharp pains between his shoulder blades that severely limited his training. This injury led him to a chiropractor who explained the benefits of good posture and chiropractic adjustments. After seeing incredible relief, Dr. Cohle knew this was the profession that could help him reach out to other athletes struggling with injuries.
Dr. Cohle attended Palmer College of Chiropractic – Florida and graduated Cum Laude in December 2012. Continuing his passion for treating athletes, he continued to seek out the best techniques for getting athletes healthy by becoming full-body certified in Active Release Technique, utilizing RockTape, Graston, cutting edge Erchonia Cold Light Laser technology that helps to regenerate and heal damaged cells and offering top of the line nutrition supplements and advice. He is currently the team chiropractor for the Harrisburg Heat.
Dr. Cohle currently resides in the Harrisburg area and continues to stay active at Crossfit, working out and playing recreational sports. When not in the office, he loves to watch college basketball (Go Tarheels!), attend music concerts, play golf, and eat and cook healthy foods.
Bucks Family Chiropractic
Introducing Dr.'s Dylan and Faith Bucks. A husband and wife team of chiropractors serving Palmyra and it's surrounding areas for over ten years. Dylan and Faith both received bachelor degrees from Penn State University and Doctor of Chiropractic degrees from Palmer College of Chiropractic.
Our goal is to help enhance health and physical performance through chiropractic adjustments. Since the brain and spinal cord control and coordinate all of the body's functions, one of the key aspects of performance, in all areas of life, is a nervous system free of interference from spinal misalignment.
Our office offers accommodating hours and appointments are never necessary. Stop in before or after your workout and see what an adjustment can do for you!
Clean Plate York
Our mission at Clean Plate Nutrition is to give you meals containing the best quality locally sourced ingredients to help you reach your fitness goals while aiding in maintaining a healthier lifestyle. We are committed to providing you with both outstanding quality and service.


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Tag Archives: Libertyville
Chicago Tribune Article on New Urbanism!
Yesterday's Chicago Tribune featured a fantastic article on the benefits of community planning in new urban developmehts:
Redeveloping "Redfields": New Life for Foreclosed Properties
Read the blog post by By Ann Dillemuth, AICP on the APA blog:
Check out Sarah Susanka's Minazine!
Sarah's first Minazine of of 2012 is a special edition titled The Not So Big Showhouse in Libertyville, IL.
This issue features numerous articles about the Not So Big Showhouse®, including a guest article by StreetScape's own David Pollard titled Redfields and the Beta Housing Model.
StreetScape and Libertyville to Speak at the American Planning Association
SchoolStreet's John McLinden, and Libertyville's John Spoden AICP, will give a talk at the APA, Tuesday February 21st at 5:30 pm.
John and John will be presenting the SchoolStreet project and discussing the benefits of its thoughtful planning for both the residents of SchoolStreet and Libertyville as a whole.
Learn more about the event and RSVP at:
See the Existing Spaces of SchoolStreet Lofts!
Interior Demolition has begun at the SchoolStreet Lofts School Building!
We have recorded the old classrooms as virtual tours so that you can see what they looked like before we begin transforming them into peoples' homes and lofts.
Click Here to see all of the SchoolStreet Lofts Spaces
For more information about the SchoolStreet Lofts Project, visit:
Not So Big® Showhouse Announced For Sale and Featured on ChicagoMag.com!
Deal Estate: The Blog is the online extension of Chicagomagazine's monthly "Deal Estate" column, which is written by Dennis Rodkin. On the blog, Rodkin—who has been covering the local housing scene for Chicago since 1991—provides timely updates on new homes to hit the market, recent high-end sales, and other residential real-estate news from the city and suburbs.
Read Dennis Rodkin's Deal Estate Article
See the Video Tour of The Not So Big® Showhouse by Sarah Susanka!
Entering The Home:
Living Area and Kitchen:
Away Room and Downstairs Bath:
Upstairs Bedrooms and Baths:
Not So Big® Showhouse in Realtor Mag
Our Sarah Susanka designed showhouse on SchoolStreet was recently featured in Realtor Mag! Make sure to check out the article and watch the video tour by Sarah herself.
Designing on a Human Scale
Not So Big® Showhouse Featured in the Daily Herald
Wasted living space expelled from SchoolStreet design
Sarah Susanka delivers. For more than a decade the architect has been designing "Not So Big Houses" and writing books about them.
Fans have studied the pictures, reread the texts and tried to imagine exactly what she had in mind.
For people in the Chicago suburbs, the wait is over. The first "tract" house designed by Susanka is built, decorated and open for tours.


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