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What is Auto Binary Signals' most valuable feature?
Every time one places a trade, the thrill of potential profits, coupled with the expertise that goes into the move, make it all worthwhile. Ideally, every time a trade is placed and then ends up in the money (or even out of it), the trader also learns something. This learning experience is what carries the real value in the long-run. This explains why Auto Binary Signals is focused on this very aspect of the trading experience.
Binary options have always been hailed as an easy path for beginners into the world of trading and profits. While a simple Put/Call binary option equation is indeed simple enough, and while it's wholly transparent as well, its strategic implications are almost infinitely convoluted. Because of the payout rates (which are in the 70-89% range), one has to win far more than half of his/her trades just to break even. What this means is that in order to be successful with binary options, one needs to find a consistent way to come out ahead. This can be accomplished through proper technical analysis, to which the fundamentals have to be added as well. Such a task obviously exceeds the abilities and means of most rookie traders.
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Binary trading signals come in a number of different forms these days, or rather, from a number of different sources. There are good and bad signal providers. All auto trading scams are based on trading signal generation, and indeed, most auto traders do in fact carry a manual trading option too. This option is essentially a signals service, based on signals generated by the software. These are obviously bad signals. Then there are the expert alerts: these supposedly originate from flesh-and-blood traders, who are successful at what they do and who are willing to share "pointers".
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The builders of Auto Binary Signals understand that some traders are interested in trading certain assets over blindly applying all the trading signals that pop up. Therefore, they have made the filtering of their signals based on certain criteria as well. ABS generates plenty of signals too. It won't have traders sitting around idly, awaiting a trading opportunity. It will have them busy, it will have them profitable, and it will educate them on the go. Those are the reasons why ABS is truly revolutionary!


The giant leered, the props holding up his eye-lids dripped tears so salty the tides of a dead sea flowed across his cheeks , washed the spittle on his chin and dried in a dawn that left his age behind, a residue on an arid shore.
And Culhwch to accompany her into the living day of their new age.
Gleaning from a jealous stepmother sending her stepson to certain death, an heroic ride to Arthur's court and the hunting of a boar of power as condition for a marriage.
Were dragons slain? Or arrangements made to preserve appearances?


So good and so easy! I get compliments every time I make it. I usually substitute neufchantel for the cream cheese and am very pleased with the results.
I made this to go with chocolate cupcakes. I halved the recipe but had to add the full amount of icing sugar and twice the vanilla before my kids would even touch it. Only one of my kids would eat it - my husband and other daughter would not even eat it (and you have to know my daughter to understand how bad this icing would have to be for her to not eat it). Too sour, the consistency was not like frosting it tasted exactly like cream cheese with sugar, not frosting. I think it needs a lot more butter vs. cream cheese? I will not make again.
yuuumm! This is my new go-to cream cheese frosting recipe. I love how I could taste the cream cheese over any other ingredient.
I made a 3 layer cake, so the amount of frosting was perfect for what I needed. I liked the flavor, and a friend of mine that HATES cream cheese frosting loved this one! My only issue with the recipe is that the frosting was too soft for my liking. I would add more powdered sugar next time.
Very good consistency and taste. I like alot of cream cheese frosting,so I didn't feel like I was skimping on quantity. Will be my new recipe.
This is such a great recipe. I use it on cupcakes instead of regular frosting which is often too sweet and it works great. Easy and delicious!
Not only was this delicious, but it made a perfect consistency for piping.
I've made this recipe several times now, and I love it. It's perfect with almost any cake and the recipe is wonderful as-is. Others are right about the quantity this produces, though. You'll never use this much frosting on a normal-size cake. Halve the recipe.
A great recipe and a good substitute for traditional buttercream. Easy to make and tastes great!
This is delicious and so easy! I made it on short notice for a carrot cake given to me by a friend. I only used about half the sugar, and everybody in my family loves it. Definitely will make it again.
Good, solid but creamy, stays on cake well; made with banana bread in a bundt pan. I bet you could swap in one or two blocks of fruit-flavoured cream cheese & reduce sugar just a bit for a neat effect. Makes plenty to frost a two layer cake, middle, top and outside. You can beat by hand with a bit of elbow grease and a sturdy whisk, you don't need an eletric mixer.
I made this to go with red velvet cupcakes. It was fantastic. I changed the method a little bit because I didn't have a mixer on hand: instead I threw everything in the food processor and whirled it around until it was thoroughly blended. It worked fine that way.
I substituted neufchantel cheese for the cream cheese and it tastes great and has lower fat. Fantastic with 2 ingredient pumpkin cake.
I made this last night to top a carrot cake. I only had two packages of cream cheese so cut the recipe to two thirds. Good thing I did. It still made tons of frosting. I had no unsalted butter so used salted. I won't make that mistake again. This is my new favorite.
This is great frosting. Made it to go with the Spiced Pumpkin Bread. I used only 2 cups sugar and 16 oz of cream cheese so not too sweet. The frosting and spiced pumkin bread is going to my child's class tomorrow. The kids are gonna love it!
Loved this frosting. Went very well with carrot cake. I don't think I'll ever try another cc frosting recipe!
This is exactly like the cream cheese frosting on fancy cakes. Exactly what I wanted. Delicious! It was even worth the massive struggle to blend it together by hand. If I only had a mixer...This recipe makes a TON of frosting. I cut it in half and still had plenty to frost a 9x13 cake. This is officially my cream cheese frosting recipe.
The perfect cream cheese frosting recipe!
Finally a cream cheese frosting for the cream cheese lover! I have searched and experimented for a long time trying to find the right balance. Most recipes have way too much powder sugar and butter and you loose the cream cheese taste. This has it and I love it. I don't know what is wrong with Atlanta but if they don't like cream cheese just what were they expecting? A cream cheese frosting to tast like boiled peanuts?
I made this becuase I had all of the ingredients on hand. It was delicious!
Good grief -- Overkill on the cream cheese.
Very good and very easy!


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For this post I will be using the following schema with some automatically generated data. As you can see there are 4 tables, Example.Customers being the one the other tables are linked to.
These tables are part of the Example database we provide to our developers, we have designed and created following our defined best practices. But enough about that, let's get started with the joins!
The very professional looking drawing below (did it all by myself!) is an attempt to display the Inner Join graphically.
There are two different syntax for writing the Inner Joins, old one and the new one. In my query examples, I will be using only the new one (and so should you) because, at least from my point of view it's easier to see what you are actually joining. Also the INNER keyword is optional, but at least I feel that using it makes the code easier to read.
Our first example is the most basic type of join, we print out rows of customers and the cities they live in. There is absolutely no need to include the RID columns that we use in the example queries as join predicates, but I have done that so you can better see how tables are linked together.
The example above is the simplest Inner Join query you can write, but very often you have more than two tables to get data from, and equally often you need to perform some filtering on the results, rather than fetching everything. In the next example we want to find all the customers, who live in a specific city and who receive their orders by specific shipping method.
Again the RID columns are left only for the purpose of displaying the join predicate.
Let's look at the results then, for the first 10 rows.
And with that example, we wrap up this post about the Inner Joins. In my next post, we'll look at the Outer Joins with similar examples.


When I first heard about this summery europop song buzzing overseas, I thought, please not an ABBA or Mayra Veronica cover. Luckily, it is neither, but an original song by Romanian pop singer Elena Gheorghe – best known for her Eurovision entry "The Balkan Girls" and the hit singles "Disco Romancing" and "Midnight Sun." For Mamma Mia, she moves away from the traditional Romanian pop sound and incorporates an Italian flavor both in the music and blatantly stereotypical lyrics. Hey if Inna can morph into a Latin singer, why can't Elena become Italian? All this is said in good fun as the song is light, airy, and so catchy that you can't help but sing along. For club consumption, the Bodybangers have toughened up the beats while keeping the pop vibe intact. For some reason, this sounds like a song that you hear on cruise ships with a dance routine, à la "Macarena" or "Saturday Night." I thought for sure I would find a clip on YouTube with the official choreography but the colorful and playful video works just as well.
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A Cost Analysis of a Validated Screening Tool for Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma
Austin C. Cohrs, Edeanya Agbese, Douglas Leslie, Kent Hymel
Division of Health Services and Behavioral Research
Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
Doctors who treat young victims of trauma are required to make important decisions to launch or forgo child abuse evaluations in their acutely head-injured patients. To improve the accuracy of these decisions, Pediatric Brain Injury Research Network (PediBIRN) investigators derived and validated a 4-variable clinical prediction rule (CPR) that improves the detection of abusive head trauma (AHT) in pediatric intensive care units. Our objective was to estimate and compare medical costs from the health system perspective of AHT screening guided by the CPR vs. screening as usual (SAU). Cost estimates for child abuse evaluations, emergency department (ED)/pediatrician visits, and hospital admissions for AHT were combined with published data on service use and re-injury rates in children with missed or unrecognized AHT. Applying published estimates of the CPR's potential screening performance, the cost per correctly identified child with AHT was calculated and compared for AHT screening guided by the CPR vs. SAU, and the potential medical cost savings associated with CPR application was estimated. Applied accurately and consistently, the CPR could reduce the cost per correctly identified child with AHT by 15.1%, and reduce health system costs resulting from missed AHT by 72.4%.
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Craniocerebral Trauma
Pediatric Intensive Care Units
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Cohrs, A. C., Agbese, E., Leslie, D., & Hymel, K. (2018). A Cost Analysis of a Validated Screening Tool for Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27(3), 750-755. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0925-z
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Political power reputations haunt TV trio
Cash at the heart of political donors' broadcast agenda?
Matt Potter
After the veracity of his identity was questioned, former DeMaio staffer Justin Harper presented I.D. for a KPBS correspondent.
The federal broadcast licenses of San Diego's three most politically controversial television stations are up for renewal soon, but despite the complaints of angry partisans, it's unlikely that the wealthy owners and patrons will be forced off the air anytime soon.
Elisabeth Kimmel
The license of CBS affiliate KFMB, operated by La Jollan Elisabeth Kimmel, is set to expire December 1. The station filed for renewal on July 1.
Kimmel, a backer of Carl DeMaio's political career, first came under fire during the primary race for Congressional District 52 when supporters of DeMaio's fellow Republican Kirk Jorgensen accused KFMB and its talk-show host Roger Hedgecock of working against their candidate.
"I would like to have a complaint put [into] KFMB's Public File. I would like to complain about Roger Hedgecock and the blatant campaigning he is doing for Carl DeMaio," said an email sent by Brian Kyd to the so-called public file, maintained for review by the Federal Communications Commission during license-renewal time.
"I have a favor to ask," said an email bearing KFMB's return address dispatched by Hedgecock, who was forced from office as San Diego mayor during a 1980s political money laundering scandal.
"I have committed to get five contributions for Carl DeMaio's event this Thursday evening. I'm hoping you can attend, but at the least, can you agree to contribute to make the event a success? Here's the link — please write 'Roger' in the event code."
An heir to Augie Meyer, an Illinois banker who bought the stations in 1960s, Kimmel sits on the board of the Meyer Charitable Foundation, which has made six-figure contributions to the Illinois-based Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, both linked to the conservative billionaire Koch brothers.
More questions regarding KFMB's public-interest stewardship were raised in the runoff election between DeMaio and Democratic incumbent Scott Peters after it came to light that station talk-show host Mike Slater taped an interview with DeMaio accuser Todd Bosnich that never aired.
In its license application, KFMB has acknowledged it has encountered issues regarding making its public file available on the web, as required by law.
"Due to an administrative oversight, licensee failed to timely upload all required files to the station's online public file," according to the application.
"Immediately upon discovering the oversight, the licensee uploaded the missing documents to the station's online public file. Since discovering the issue, the problem was corrected and licensee has timely filed all subsequent documents to the Station's online public file."
Mike McKinnon (and wife)
KUSI, the non-network-affiliated television station owned by Mike McKinnon, another DeMaio backer, is also set for routine extension next month.
Like Kimmel, McKinnon is a longtime financial backer of local GOP causes and accused by critics of using the station to promote his personal political agenda.
Earlier this year he gave $5000 each to the Neighborhood Coalition Supporting Chris Cate for Council 2014 and Neighbors United for a Better City Government Supporting Lorie Zapf for Council 2014. He also gave $5000 to the exclusive inaugural party for GOP mayor Kevin Faulconer. Records show he gave $2600 to DeMaio's congressional campaign last year.
Irwin Jacobs
Meanwhile, KPBS, the public television station run by San Diego State University and financially backed by Qualcomm billionaire Democrat Irwin Jacobs, — for whom the station's newsroom is named —is up for renewal at the same time as its two commercial cousins.
In light of its heavy financing by Jacobs, a staunch Peters supporter, the operation has been criticized by DeMaio forces, who have asserted that a last-minute attack on their candidate aired by the station didn't meet the smell test.
According to a report by Inewsource.org, a non-profit website that has a news partnership with KPBS, DeMaio campaign consultant Dave McCulloch questioned whether the accuser, ex-DeMaio staffer Justin Harper, "was someone pretending to be Harper who wanted to smear DeMaio."
The station fired back by arranging an online video hookup with Harper, said to be currently in Ohio, who held up a driver's license as proof of his identity.
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Leah DeVun
Associate Professor of History; and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education
Degree: Ph.D. Columbia University, 2004
Rutgers : At Rutgers since 2011
Specialty: Medieval Europe: Women's and Gender History
Email: leah.devun@rutgers.edu
Office: 007A Van Dyck Hall
Leah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, and science and medicine in pre-modern Europe, as well as on contemporary queer and feminist studies. Her new book, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press (in late 2020). She is also the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time, winner of the 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize, and co-editor (with Zeb Tortorici) of Trans*historicities, a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (2018) devoted to transgender history before the advent of current categories and terminologies of gender. She has also written articles for GLQ, WSQ, Osiris, Journal of the History of Ideas, postmedieval, and Radical History Review, among other publications. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, Huntington Library, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, American Philosophical Society, and Stanford Humanities Center.
DeVun is also a multi-media artist and curator whose work explores the legacy of queer and feminist history. Her artwork has been featured in Artforum, People, Huffington Post, Slate, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and Modern Painters, and at venues including the ONE Archives Gallery and Museum at the University of Southern California, Houston Center for Photography, Blanton Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, and Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. She has curated exhibitions and programs at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections, and other venues.
CLASSES TAUGHT
510:101 Development of Europe I
506:401:01 Science, Sex, and Society
506:401:15 The Body and Society
510:211 Harvest of the Middle Ages
510:560:01 Readings in Women's and Gender History
510:539:01 Colloquium in Women's and Gender History: The Body
510:539:02 Colloquium in Women's and Gender History: Queer History
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Trans*historicities, special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly
Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (Columbia University
Press; projected publication date is Dec. 2020).
Trans*historicities, special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 5:4 (2018) (co-editor,
with Zeb Tortorici).
Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).
*Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize for Prophecy, Alchemy and the End of Time, 2013 (Best Book from Medieval Academy of America)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
"Mapping the Boundaries of Sex in Marvels of the East," in Trans Before Trans, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov and Anna Klosowska (forthcoming).
"Heavenly Hermaphrodites: Sexual Difference at the Beginning and End of Time," postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 9 (2018): 132-146.
"I Object," ASAP/Journal: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 1:2 (2016): 201-6.
"Erecting Sex: Hermaphrodites and the Medieval Science of Surgery," Scientific Masculinities, ed. Erika Lorraine Milam and Robert A. Nye, Osiris 30:1 (2015): 17-37.
"Images from the Hannah Montana Series," WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 43:1-2 (2015): 83-6.
"Archives Behaving Badly," (with Michael Jay McClure) Radical History Review 120 (2014): 121-30.
"Friendship Books," in Public Collectors, ed. Marc Fischer (New York: Inventory Press, 2014), 101-12.
"The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Science and Sex Difference in Premodern Europe," Journal of the History of Ideas 69:2 (2008): 193-218.
"'Human Heaven': John of Rupescissa's Alchemy at the End of the World," in History in the Comic Mode, ed. Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007): 251-261. (Peer reviewed.) *Winner of the 2006 Jerry Stannard International Memorial Award for the Best Article of the Year
Multiple entries, Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Multiple entries, LGBTQ America Today, ed. John Hawley (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008).
"Hermaphrodites," in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus et al. (New York: Routledge, 2006): 362-363.
John Nicholas Brown Prize for Prophecy, Alchemy and the End of Time, 2013 (Best Book from Medieval Academy of America)
Faculty Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2011-2012
Charles Donald O'Malley Fellowship, David Geffen School of Medicine and Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collection for the Sciences, UCLA, 2010-2011
Visiting Scholar Fellowship, University of Texas Medical Branch, 2008
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2008
Solmsen Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006-2007
Jerry Stannard International Memorial Award for the Best Article of the Year (in the History of Materia medica, Medicinal Botany, Pharmacy, and Folklore of Drug Therapy before 1700), 2006, for "'Human Heaven': John of Rupescissa's Alchemy at the End of the World"
Summer Fellowship, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005
Francis Bacon Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2004
Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic


Santa María de Taüll is part of the set of Romanesque churches in Vall de Boí, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in the year 2000.
The church of Santa Maria de Taüll, built in the 11th and 12th centuries, is an excellent example of Catalan Romanesque architecture. It was consecrated at the same time as the church of Sant Climent, in 1123. It had a basilica floor-plan and three naves separated by columns, but was later remodelled to have a single nave. It has three apses and a 12th-century bell tower, five storeys tall, with blind arches and Lombard-style decoration. The interior wall paintings (scenes of hell and the Final Judgement) are copies of the originals, which are now preserved in the Catalan National Art Museum (MNAC).


What is the Best Furniture to use in a Conservatory?
When it comes to decking out your conservatory in furniture, there are a few factors you should consider before you decide to splash out. Firstly, because your new furniture will see a lot of sun, it's advisable to opt for a set that will withstand this.
Fading from the sun can make furniture look tired and worn, even if it's a few months old. What's more, because the temperature in a conservatory is often higher than in the rest of the house, you'll need to factor in buying furniture that will withstand humidity.
Taking into consideration these factors, the best furniture to use in a conservatory must be of the rattan variety - be that natural rattan or synthetic. In this blog, we'll look at the different types of rattan and how they will add aesthetic value to your new room.
What Type of Rattan Furniture is Suitable for My New Conservatory?
Natural rattan is easily maintained. Simply wipe over with a damp cloth to remove dust and dirt. Updating the look of your rattan furniture is also easy - simply replace or reupholster cushions, or add a throw to keep the look soft and inviting. Natural rattan also gives any conservatory a calm, natural look while adding to the feel of bringing the outdoors in.
Synthetic rattan is designed to look just like natural rattan - although it is possible to get a greater range of colours in synthetic rattan. Furthermore, if you want to create a unique look in your conservatory, it is possible to spray paint synthetic rattan to achieve your own colour scheme. This is a great idea for modern conservatories. Like natural rattan, the synthetic version requires a quick wipe down to get rid of dust.
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You will likely never meet the team managing your server.
Patient data will be controlled by the EMR company, not you.
If the EMR company fails, you risks losing all patient data.
Because data transfer doesn't rely on an Internet connection, it's fast and reliable.
You—not the EMR company—control patient data.
The EMR integrates better with your other devices, such as printers and scanners.
The EMR better supports integrated voice recognition technology.
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'Lucky' transferred at request of spy agencies
On this date in 1942...
The Mafia boss widely known as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was transferred between prisons in New York State at the extremely curious request of representatives from the United States Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Salvatore "Charlie" Lucania, whose surname was mangled by police and press through the years to become "Luciano," was moved on May 12, 1942, from Clinton Prison at Dannemora to Great Meadow Prison in the hamlet of Comstock, New York.
Lucania was serving a 30- to 50-year sentence imposed June 18, 1936, eleven days after his conviction on state compulsory prostitution charges.
Following sentencing, his first stop in the New York State prison system was Sing Sing Prison in the Westchester County village of Ossining. He was admitted there on June 19, 1936. Within a week, prison Assistant Physician James A. Kearney made an issue of Lucania's past history with narcotics. Kearney recommended that Lucania be transferred to Clinton State Prison in the northern New York village of Dannemora (Clinton County), a facility better able to handle inmates with addiction and psychiatric problems.
Lucania arrived at Clinton Prison on July 2, 1936. He spent most of the next six years in a desperately humdrum existence within the Clinton Prison walls. He was largely out of touch with his underworld associates. While his brother Bert regulary made the difficult journey to remote Dannemora to visit with him, Lucania saw other visitors, including his own attorneys, far less frequently.
Lucania's situation improved following a Feb. 9, 1942, ship fire at a North River pier in New York City. The recent Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor had brought the U.S. into World War II, and authorities were concerned about the presence and activities of enemy agents within America's borders. The fire, which destroyed a former French ocean liner the Navy was converting into a U.S. military troop transport, was initially thought to be the result of sabotage. Though the fire was later determined to be accidental, the incident caused the Navy ONI to resort to unconventional means to secure U.S. ports.
Gurfein
Understanding organized crime's control of dock unions, ONI Captain Roscoe C. MacFall, Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden and Lieutenant James. O'Malley, Jr., sought underworld assistance. They approached Frank Hogan, Manhattan district attorney, and Murray I. Gurfein, assistant D.A. in charge of the Rackets Bureau, seeking an introduction to the Mafia. Gurfein and Haffenden became the primary contacts between the D.A.'s office and ONI as the government established a relationship with racketeers.
Gurfein put Haffenden in touch with Joseph "Socks" Lanza, who controlled unions at the giant Fulton Fish Market, then located at the east end of Manhattan's Fulton Street (moved late in 2005 to its current location in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx). Lanza, a member of Lucania's crime family, suggested that ONI involve Lucania in its security arrangements.
Haffenden called on former Lucania defense attorney Moses Polakoff to open discussions with the Mafia boss. Apparently uncomfortable with the idea - Polakoff had not spoken with Lucania since an August 1939 visit to Clinton Prison - the attorney suggested using Lucania's close associate Meyer Lansky as an intermediary.
Lansky was brought in on the discussions in April. He agreed to assist but noted that it would be a problem to travel the great distance to Dannemora. In the same month, Commander Haffenden submitted a written request for Lucania to be transferred to a more easily reached institution. The request was sent through Lieutenant Commander Lawrence Cowen of ONI in Albany to New York State Corrections Commissioner John A. Lyons. Cowen refused to leave the document with Lyons. After Lyons read it, Cowens took it back and destroyed it.
Commissioner Lyons met with Murray Gurfein to discuss the matter on April 29, 1942. Gurfein recently gave up his position as assistant district attorney to join the Army's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) - the wartime precursor of today's CIA. On May 6, Lyons issued an order to transfer Lucania to Great Meadow Prison. While still some distance from New York City, Great Meadow was easily accessible and sat only a short drive from the underworld's summer playground in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Lyons then met directly with Great Meadow Prison Warden Vernon A. Morhous to discuss the extraordinary bending of prison rules relating to visits to Lucania. Lyons said the rules regarding visitor logs and visitor fingerprinting were to be waived and visitors were to be allowed to speak in complete privacy with Lucania. Morhous was told that the only records should be separate memos he submitted to the corrections commissioner recording the date and length of the visits.
To keep the arrangements with ONI secret, Lyons called for a number of other prisoner to be moved between Clinton and Great Meadow at the same time as Lucania's May 12, 1942, transfer.
Great Meadow Prison
The impact of this U.S. intelligence program is uncertain. It is probable that some measure of labor peace on the docks was achieved through cooperation with the underworld. There is reason to believe that ONI interests were discussed - if not enhanced - by Lucania, Lansky, Lanza, Frank Costello, Brooklyn underworld powers Joe "Adonis" Doto and Albert Anastasia, West Side underworld leader John "Cockeye" Dunn and others. Some of those crime figures met directly with Haffenden.
As Haffenden's role at ONI changed, the focus of his relationship with crime bosses also changed. During 1942, Haffenden was removed from the ONI's security-oriented B-3 Section to its "Target Section," responsible for collecting strategic intelligence on possible Allied invasion sites. After the transfer, Haffenden sought to acquire information from Lucania and his Mafia colleagues that might be helpful in the planned invasion of Sicily. Michele "Mike" Miranda and Vincent Mangano became participants in that discussion.
It seems unlikely that any significant contribution to the Allied war effort was made by Lucania during this phase - records relating to the secret project were destroyed following the Allied victory. But Lucania remained at Great Meadow Prison and continued his private visits with mob colleagues through the end of the war. Later visitors included Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Guarino "Willie Moore" Moretti, The final known visit - last of twenty-two outlined in records pieced together by state authorities and the FBI - occurred with Meyer Lansky and another visitor who was not named on Nov. 29, 1945, more than three months after the final Japanese surrender.
Four days later after that visit, the Board of Parole issued a favorable recommendation on a plan to commute the remainder of Lucania's prison sentence and deport him to Italy. On Jan. 3, 1946, Governor Thomas E. Dewey officially commuted the remainder of the sentence upon the condition of deportation. Lucania was transferred back to Sing Sing Prison on Jan. 9. A parole was granted on Feb. 2, and Lucania was transferred to Ellis Island. On Feb. 8, he was placed aboard the S.S. Laura Keene at Pier 7, Bush Terminal in Brooklyn. The ship left harbor on Feb. 10 and reached Italy seventeen days later.
Haffenden's connections to Lucania and his associates were later criticized by U.S. officials. Exposure of the favors he granted the crime boss resulted in a Navy censure. On May 31, 1946, evidence of corruption caused Haffenden to lose his postwar job as New York City commissioner of Marine and Aviation.
For more on this subject:
"When Lucky was locked up," American Mafia history website.
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Labels: Adonis, Anastasia, Costello, Dunn, Great Meadow Prison, Gurfein, Haffenden, Lansky, Lanza, Lucania, Luciano, Mangano, May 12, ONI, OSS, Polakoff, Thomas Hunt, WWII
Eddie McGrath and West Side's waterfront racketeers
In his first book-length project, Neil Clark takes aim at the mobsters of New York's West Side waterfront. This selection of subject puts Clark in the footsteps of giants.
An early journalistic account of waterfront corruption and racketeering by Malcolm Johnson of the New York Sun won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. On the Waterfont, a fictional film handling of gangster rule along the wharves, won a trunkload of 1954 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Writing. More recently, historian Nathan Ward revisited the Hudson River docks for his 2010 book, Dark Harbor, examining Malcolm Johnson's groundbreaking effort to bring waterfront organized crime to light.
While much of the material in Dock Boss is familiar, Clark expands on previous coverage with information drawn from court and prison files, FBI archives and other state and federal agency records. He delivers an informative and intriguing history. The Greater Toronto Area resident strays just a bit from the beaten path and approaches the subject through the life and career of a real-world "Johnny Friendly," Eddie McGrath.
An altar boy in his youth, McGrath became a clever, charming and resourceful criminal on his way to the leadership of an influential and largely Irish-American underworld organization. McGrath attained official recognition from the International Longshoremen's Association and the American Federation of Labor and proved himself useful to corrupt union officials and national racketeering networks.
McGrath's life story is a virtual Who's Who of Gotham outlaws. On his way to boss status, he benefited from alliances with such figures as "Big Joe" Butler, "Peck" Hughes, "Red" McCrossin, "Farmer" Sullivan, Andrew "Squint" Sheridan, John "Cockeye" Dunn and James "Ding-Dong" Bell. The résumés of his associates and his underworld rivals featured service with some of New York's most notorious gang chieftains, including Dutch Schultz, "Legs" Diamond, "Mag Dog" Coll and Owney Madden. Working relationships with Joey Rao, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo and Giuseppe "Joe Adonis" Doto, eventually brought McGrath into contact with syndicate bosses like Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello.
Due to a (perhaps fortunate) stay in Sing Sing Prison, McGrath played a relatively minor role in the most exciting portion of Dock Boss, the mid-1930s conflict between the Butler and Yanowsky gangs for control of the West Side dock rackets. It was a true gangland war. Clark's description of the bloody one-and-a-half-year conflict, from late December 1934 to summer of 1936, moves rapidly from one shooting to the next and still manages to consume about forty pages of the book.
The war set the stage perfectly for McGrath. With allies and rivals eliminated through bullets or courtroom convictions, McGrath and his partners, John Dunn and Georgie Daggett, assumed control of the former rackets of the Butler Gang and quickly established control along the docks.
Clark takes the time to explain the atypical workings and the special economic and historic value of New York City's docks, as well as the rackets used by gangsters, union leaders and politicians to profit from them. He notes and explains the strong Irish influence on the West Side piers and the surrounding neighborhoods. He explores the corruption-encouraging "public loader" system unique to the Big Apple, which significantly increased the cost of goods moved off of ships in New York harbor. The "shape-up" method of rewarding cooperative longshoremen with work - illustrated in the movie On the Waterfront - is also detailed. The author even describes the competitive pressures on labor leaders that drove them to support the McGrath outfit. Clark is well-versed in this field, proof of his extensive research.
This reviewer can manage only a few minor complaints about Clark's work (in addition to his insistence on using the "Oxford comma"):
Chapters are unusually short. With about 270 pages of text divided up into forty chapters, the average chapter length is less than seven pages. Some chapters are only about three pages long. It is likely that many readers will view this as a positive thing. But I found the chapter interruptions annoying, as they often occurred where there was no logical break in the story. The Butler-Yanowsky War, for example, is a single logical event occurring over a fairly short period of time. However, it is broken up among five or six chapters.
While the text is generally well written, it would have benefited from an editor's attention. There are occasional misspellings, a bit of indecision over whether to use U.S.- or Canada-preferred spellings for terms ("cheque," "offense"/"offence," for example) and some incorrect dates and figures (passage of Volstead Act, percentage of alcohol in beverages permitted by the Harrison Act, date of the police raid of Tully house...).
There is also a frequent and annoying use of the name "Greenwich" to refer to the Manhattan neighborhood of "Greenwich Village." In this reviewer's experience, the name "Greenwich" on its own refers to a district in London, the base for worldwide timekeeping, a town in southwestern Connecticut and a town and village in upstate New York. When a shortened name for "Greenwich Village" is needed, it generally takes the form of "The Village."
The author may have been overly accepting of earlier histories, including the Pulitzer-winning articles by Malcolm Johnson. Some small Dock Boss flaws (these turned up when this reviewer closely examined newspaper records of early McGrath arrests) can be traced to Johnson's work and reports based on Johnson's articles.
Dock Boss provides a bibliography and an index - useful tools for researchers - but does not include notes. The absence of source citations for statements of fact in the text appears to have been the result of publisher policy. This may be mildly frustrating for some researchers, but it should not be interpreted as a lack of documentary support. Clark has proved to this reviewer's satisfaction that he has command of the available sources in this subject area.
Nitpicking aside, Neil Clark has produced a solid history and an enjoyable read. With luck, he will soon set to work on additional crime-history projects.
Dock Boss; Eddie McGrath and the West Side Waterfront (Barricade) by Neil G. Clark is scheduled for a July 1 release. An excerpt from Dock Boss can be found in the summer 2017 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement.
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Labels: Adonis, Alo, Barricade, book review, Butler, Cockeye Dunn, Ding-Dong Bell, Dock Boss, Eddie McGrath, Neil Clark, New York, On the Waterfront, Squint Sheridan, Thomas Hunt, Waterfront
Mafia leader's corpse found at Brooklyn marsh
Philip Mangano murdered, Vincent Mangano missing
On the morning of April 19, 1951, Mrs. Mary Gooch of 7501 Avenue X in Brooklyn, was walking through the tall grass of a marshy area in her Bergen Beach neighborhood when she discovered a man's dead body.
Brooklyn Eagle, April 20, 1951.
For Mrs. Gooch the discovery may not have been quite as startling as it would have been for others. It was said that two years earlier, she stumbled across another dead body in the same location - south of Avenue Y near the foot of East 72nd Street. Mrs. Gooch summoned the police.
The partly dressed corpse was lying face-down in the dirt. It was wearing no pants, shoes or coat but had on a white shirt, white shorts and undershirt, black socks, black tie and gold tie clip. The tie clip was still fastened neatly in place.
Police noted three close-range bullet wounds to the man's head - one at the top rear of the neck, one in the right cheek and one in the left cheek. Time of death was estimated at 10 to 20 hours earlier. There were no identifying papers on the body. Through an examination of fingerprint records, police identified the victim as Philip Mangano, 50.
A resident of 1126 84th Street in Brooklyn, Philip Mangano was known to be a waterfront racketeer and political manipulator; a top aide to his brother, Brooklyn-based Mafia boss Vincent Mangano (some sources indicate that Philip was his brother's underboss); and an associate of Mafia leader Joe Adonis. There was a short police file on Philip Mangano. He was arrested twice, once in 1923 for homicide, but never convicted.
Finding no dirt on the bottoms of Philip's socks, detectives concluded that he was murdered at another location and carried to the Bergen Beach marsh for disposal. They surmised that a ten-foot length of rope found near the body was used in its transport.
Philip's wife Agatha, 46, told police that she last saw her husband at a Brooklyn accountant's office on the morning of April 17.
Authorities were unable to locate Vincent Mangano. Investigators of the Kefauver Committee had been having the same trouble for several months. (Though initially believed to be in hiding, Vincent Mangano was eventually presumed dead. He was ruled dead by a Brooklyn court in October 1961. His remains were never found.)
The Kings County District Attorney's Office interviewed seventy-five people, including Mafia big shots like Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis - over the course of the next two days, but learned nothing of value to the murder investigation. Adonis reportedly suggested that Philip Mangano was killed because of an affair with a woman. No evidence could be found to support that theory. And prosecutors also dismissed reports that Philip Mangano had been targeted for mob discipline after secretly meeting with federal investigators.
Philip's 22-year-old son told prosecutors that he believed Philip was killed because he was trying to pull away from the Mafia. He said his father had made two recent trips to Virginia to purchase a construction firm.
Philip was buried quietly on April 23, 1951, at Holy Cross Cemetery. His hearse left the Boyertown Chapel, 38 Lafayette Avenue, a half-hour before its scheduled time in order to avoid reporters. There were no church services. Three empty limousines were sent from the chapel to pick up family members at other locations.
Years later, Albert Anastasia was revealed to be the killer of both Philip and Vincent Mangano. Anastasia seized control of the former Mangano Crime Family and remained its boss until his own bloody end in 1957.
Bonanno, Joseph, with Sergio Lalli, A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983, p. 170-171.
Gale, J.H., "Criminal Intelligence Digest," FBI memorandum, file no. 92-6054-955, NARA no. 124-10223-10411, Feb. 11, 1965, p. 3.
SAC New York, "La Cosa Nostra," FBI memorandum, file no. 92-6054-669, NARA no. 124-10287-10234, July 2, 1964.
"Mafia purge seen as probe figure is taken for ride," Brooklyn Eagle, April 20, 1951, p. 1.
"Aide of Joe Adonis is found shot dead," New York Times, April 20, 1951, p. 18.
"Raiders seized coat in inspector's home," Brooklyn Eagle, April 22, 1951, p. 3.
"No clue in Mangano case," New York Times, April 22, 1951, p. 66.
"Mangano burial hour shifted to forestall public," Brooklyn Eagle, April 23, 1951, p. 9.
"Adonis, Anastasia queried in murder," New York Times, April 28, 1951, p. 21.
"Seek 'passion crime' in Mangano killing," Brooklyn Eagle, April 29, 1951, p. 2.
"Mangano killing motive," New York Times, April 29, 1951, p. 60.
Reid, Ed, "Mafia leader Mangano's killer known," Brooklyn Eagle, June 26, 1951, p. 1.
Gage, Nicholas, "Carlo Gambino, a Mafia leader, dies in his Long Island home at 74," New York Times, Oct. 16, 1976, p. 28.
DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime, Vol. 2
by Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona
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Labels: Adonis, Anastasia, April 19, Brooklyn, Costello, Gambino Crime Family, Gooch, Mafia, Mangano, Murder, This Date in History, Thomas Hunt
Joe Adonis deports himself
On this date in 1956:
Giuseppe "Joe Adonis" Doto settled into a luxurious $740 suite aboard the ocean liner S.S. Conte Biancamano. At noon on January 3, 1956, the liner sailed from New York harbor bound for Genoa, Italy, and Doto's self-imposed exile from the United States began.
U.S. authorities found that Doto had reentered the country illegally after a visit to Cuba in the 1940s. Upon reentry, he claimed a U.S. citizenship that was not rightfully his. In interviews and documents, Doto claimed that he had been born in the United States. Authorities learned that he was born at Montemarano, near Naples, Italy. His parents brought him into the U.S. as a young boy.
In November of 1955, federal Judge Walter M. Bastian agreed to suspend a perjury sentence against Doto if he left the country. Doto also faced a two-year perjury sentence in New Jersey and owed the IRS back taxes for the years 1946 through 1951.
Doto left his wife and four children behind in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Before his departure, journalists clamored for interviews with the reputed Mafia bigshot. Doto eventually agreed to speak to one reporter. Asked how he felt about being forced to leave his family, the longtime rackets boss replied, "I don't feel too good and I don't feel too bad... I'm not bitter. I'm just sorry for them that they have to take this shock."
He said he genuinely believed he had been born in America.
Adonis remained in Italy for the remainder of his life. He died November 26, 1971, at the age of sixty-nine, days after suffering a massive heart attack. He was a resident of the village of Serra de Conti near Ancona at the time.
Arizona Republic, Jan. 4, 1956.
"Adonis arrives in Italy," New York Times, Jan. 16, 1956, p. 23.
"Adonis to pay $66,859," New York Times, Feb. 14, 1956.
"Gangdom chief Joe Adonis goes into voluntary exile," Arizona Republic, Jan. 4, 1956, p. 7.
"Il 'boss' Joe Adonis è morto in ospedale," La Stampa, Nov. 27, 1971, p. 8.
"Joe Adonis quits U.S. voluntarily," New York Times, Jan. 4, 1956, p. 28.
"Joe Adonis, morto ad Ancona era il re di un impero mafioso," La Stampa, Nov. 27, 1971, p. 11.
"Joe Adonis, underworld gambling king, dies," New York Times, Nov. 27, 1971, p. 34.
"L'italiano Joe Adonis è sbarcato a Genova," La Stampa, Jan. 17, 1956, p. 5.
"Ritorno di Joe Adonis dall'America a Napoli," La Stampa, Jan. 4, 1956, p. 5.
Labels: Adonis, Doto, Fort Lee, January 3, Mafia, Perjury, Thomas Hunt


There are certainly sections of the Bible that when stripped of context and read in a lifeless vacuum can lead a mind to extremes. Like Jacobs, it is easy to conclude that religion and religiousness are completely ridiculous; or like his uncle, it is possible to assume complete literalism and run in ridiculous directions. The practice of making and wearing tassels on the corners of one's garment, for instance, commanded in Numbers 15:37, is one such peculiar biblical decree easily dismissed in the name of reason or disemboweled in the name of faithfulness. Yet neither response truly yields an honest view of the command.
In fact, what seems an entirely curious fashion tip for the people of Israel was a common sight in many ancient Near Eastern cultures. Fringed garments were considered ornamental and illustrative of the owner; they were also were thought to hold certain spiritual significances.(2) In Assyria and Babylonia, for instance, fringes were believed to assure the wearer of the protection of the gods. Thus, God's command of the Israelites to "make fringes on the corners of their garments throughout their generations" took something familiar to the nations and gave it new significance for the nation God called his own. "39You will have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them, and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes" (Numbers 15:39). Like many of the commands and rituals described in Jewish and Christian Scriptures, the instruction of tassels is about remembrance. The perpetual presence of fringe and tassel was a tangible reminder that all of life, not only moments of piety or prayer, was an opportunity to be in the presence of God. To miss the rich substance of this divine petition is to miss it—and its petitioner—entirely.
But along with authority, importance, and personhood, holiness was also expressed in antiquity by the fringes and hems of one's garment. The length of a priest's or rabbi's fringes was symbolic of piety, respect, and authority. And this message is perhaps no clearer than in the vision of Isaiah when the very hem of the robe of the LORD filled everything before the prophet's eyes. "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Isaiah envisions the God described in Scripture as one whose person is larger than anything we can imagine, one who comes near to us within a specific context, and fills the world with even the fringes of Himself.
(1) A. J. Jacobs, A Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 6.
(2) "Fringes," in J. Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902), 68-70.
(3) Cf. Matthew 14:36, Matthew 9:20, Luke 8:44, Mark 6:56.


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BENITEZ QUESTIONED ON NEWCASTLE'S TRANFER PLAN
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Newcastle United manager, Rafa Benitez has admitted the club would have to reassess their transfer plans following the loss of three key players to injury in Saturday's 2-1 win over Brentford.
Dwight Gayle, Isaac Hayden and Vurnon Anita all suffered injuries during the game, but Gayle's injury seems to give the coach much concern with Daryl Murphy left as the only fit striker. The 23 year old who opened scoring at Griffin Park with his 20th goal of the season- limped off the pitch with a hamstring problem. The club's medical team is accessing the severity of the injuries suffered by the trio this week.
Asked if Gayle's problem could mean the club has to sign another striker in the ongoing transfer market, Rafa said: "At the moment, I think we have to wait and speak to the doctors to analyze what we are faced with and see what we can do." Benitez was already looking to sign a midfielder, either on loan or on a permanent deal, before he lost Hayden (groin) and Anita (ankle) against Brentford.
Responding to questions on the club's effort in the transfer market, Benitez added: "We are working on that. The ideal situation would be to get the right players. We are working and seeing if we can do something this week."
With rumours linking former club winger, Andros Townsend to a return to the Toon, Benitez must cobble together a team for Wednesday night FA cup replay against Birmingham City. Townsend, sold to Crystal Palace last summer for £13 million, has struggled for form at Selhurst Park.
Meanwhile reports claim that club owner, Mike Ashely wanted a more hands on role in the club's recruitment. Ashely reinstated the controversial transfer policy, overseen by chief scout, Graham Carr, that was ditched after the arrival of Benitez, who oversaw last summer's profitable trading.
The billionaire reportedly made the move after a series of meetings with the club's hierarchy. Benitez however, was promised control of transfers when he committed himself to the club in the wake of relegation.
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Q: Vector Loop not functioning properly I'm trying to write a program that takes 10 people who ate pancakes, and returns the person who ate the most pancakes, I'm using vectors in order to create new elements as the user enters it and return them later, I tried using an array but I was having a harder time.
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
using namespace std ;

int main()
{
    int  lnum , input ;
    int temp = 0;
    vector <int> persons(10) ;

    cout << "This program takes input for 10 people who ate pancakes, \
        then checks who   ate the most pancakes " << endl;

    cout << "Enter the amount of pancakes each person ate: " << endl ;
    cout << "Person 1: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 2: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 3: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 4: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 5: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 6: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 7: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 8: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 9: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << "Person 10: " ;
    cin >> input ;
    persons.push_back(input);
    cout << endl ;

    for(int i = 0 ; i < 11; i++){
        if(persons.at(i) > temp){
            temp == persons.at(i) ;
        }
    }

    cout << temp << endl ;
    return 0 ;
}

Mostly everything runs fine, except when I run the program, it returns temp as 0, instead of what the actual number should be. Also when I call commands like
person.at(1) ;

it returns the incorrect value, what I am doing wrong, is this a logical error or syntax?

A: You can replace this entire section:
for(int i = 0; i < persons.size(); i++) // note the non-hard-coded conditional
{
    if(persons.at(i) > temp)
    {
        temp = persons.at(i); // note fixed to assignment!
    }
}

with
temp = std::max_element(persons.begin(), persons.end());

A: First, you're initializing your vector incorrectly:
vector <int> persons; // Vector will resize automatically

Then, try = instead of ==, and change the limits of your loop:
for(int i = 0 ; i < persons.size(); i++){
    if(persons.at(i) > temp){
        temp = persons.at(i); // Assignment, not comparison
    }
}

See @ZacHowland's answer for a much easier way to find the maximum element of a vector.

A: This line:
temp == persons.at(i) ;

does not assign the value of persons[i] to temp. It compares the two values, then the boolean result is dropped.
You probably meant a single =.

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John Loftus talks about intelligence matters on For The Record with Dave Emory
Publié le 23 juillet 2013 par Lys d'Or
Dave Emory has gone through a dental surgery and his voice suffers from it. But the subjects he is talking with John Loftus in this interview don't. The great John Loftus recaps here some of the most important matters regarding the world of politics and intelligence that have occured in the last century. Don't miss it:
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Publié dans Fascisme, Mondialisation, Nazisme	| Marqué avec Arab Spring, Bush Family, CIA, Democrats, Dick Sullivan, Edward Snowden, Egypt, Grover Norquist, James Bulger, John McIntyre Jr, Justice Department, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, Mykola Lebed, Nazis, OPC, OUN/B, Republicans, Sami al-Arian, State Department, Stepan Bandera	| Laisser un commentaire
Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin on the new Islamic Republic of America
Publié le 22 mai 2013 par Lys d'Or
Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin on Secure Freedom Radio
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John Loftus on the secret war against the Jews
This is a short interview with John Loftus, ex-U.S. Justice Department attorney. At the beginning of his career he worked on the Belarus file, which led him to uncover some inconvenient truths about the holocaust, the Jews, WWII, the Nazis and the involvement of the Allies in all these matters. At the peril of his own security and the one of his family, Mr Loftus published several astounding books, such as America's Nazi Secret, The Secret War Against the Jews, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks, among others. His efforts in trying to educate the public about the dark corners of our history are priceless. We owe him a great debt of gratitude. That's why I am encouraging you, after you watch that clip, to read his books. If you want to know more about him, and to continue listening to what he has to say about these very important issues, I suggest a recent interview he gave to Dave Emory for his weekly show « For The Record ». Have a good listening and above all, a good reading.
FTR# 731: Interview with John Loftus on America's Nazi Secret
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The Libyan operation: another piggy back coup?
Publié le 20 mars 2011 par Lys d'Or
In Dave Emory's FTR #735, we have seen that the « uprisings » in the Middle East are probably to a large extent the results of a vaste operation conducted by the intelligence agencies of the West in order to change the leadership in that area of the Earth. Although there is nobody more convinced than me that these regimes need to be changed for democratic ones, I have been, as Dave Emory and other observers of the geo-political scene, more than skeptical about the « democratic » nature of the so-called revolutions. And with reason. When you have been deceived more than once, as it is the case with several events that happened since WWII, you develop a certain apprehension, prudence and carefulness when dealing with sudden changes.
Now, is the Libyan operation a piggy back coup on the Egyptian one, which was in itself a piggy back coup on the Tunisian operation? It is possible. In an earlier post, I have already said that Khadafi should remain in power for the moment, at least temporarily, to fight back against Islamists forces, because the risks of such a takeover is too great in case of an overthrow. First, let me ask you this: where do the rebels get their weapons to fight Khadafi forces? Well…I guess that is one information that we don't have but it is definitely important. In effect, in order to have weapons the rebels must buy or obtain them from a source that is ready to provide such weapons to that group, knowing very well that they will serve to try to overthrow Khadafi. So who is selling these weapons to the rebels? I don't know. It is the job of the journalists to find out anyway but nobody does a particularly good job at this for the moment.
Second, haven't you noticed that Libya shares a border with Sudan? The last time I checked, the north part of the country was controlled by Islamists and terrorists, while the south part has recently voted in favour of its secession from the north, its citizens being tired of the incessant harassment, killings, tortures, rapes, etc, brought so « generously » by the Islamic Jihad of the northmen. Maybe the weapons with which the « rebels » of Libya are fighting against Khadafi are coming in fact from the Islamists of North Sudan. That would be logical. And from whom these North Sudan Islamic Jihad warriors get their weapons? Again, and I don't want to be patronizing, but it is the journalists's job to bring these facts to the light of day. The operation launched by the Coalition Forces against Khadafi, although maybe sincere, might prove fatal in the long run for western civilization. Khadafi is definitely the strongest man in the area and if he falls, I don't see who could be able to stand against the Islamists and their western sponsors.
According to Dave Emory, this vaste operation launched in the Middle East has got the approval of both branches of the CIA/State Department, the Democrat branch and the Republican branch (for that matter, see the interview with John Loftus FTR #731). It is probably the truth. However, I fail to see how the Democrat branch would be able to recuperate those messy countries and bring them to democratic parlementary or presidential governments after such violent and improvised overthrows. Democratic life is not like flipping a switch. It doesn't take on immediately. It takes time, during which any totalitarian mafia can organise itself and seize power. It will be interesting to see what measures the Democrat branch of the CIA/State Department will put in places to make sure that these countries really get on the path of democracy. But it will certainly have to counteract first the machinations of the Republican branch, and that is not small stuff.
Also, and Emory alluded to it in its last show FTR #736, one possibility that is certainly foreseeable, is that a plan is under implementation to create a wall between the western world and an Eastern Block of nations that may form in the near future or already in formation, that may comprise China, Russia, India, Pakistan and satellite nations such as Vietnam, North Korea, maybe Japan, etc. Is the West trying to secure oil reserves in anticipation for a takeover of these by entities created by or under control of a number of states of such an Eastern Block? It is certainly possible. If one takes China alone, just by the growing demand in energy of its population of 1.5 billion people, that's enough to make anyone envision the worst scenarios. And I am even not mentioning here the fact that China is still a communist regime and that we don't know for sure to what extent Russia has really succeeded in extinguishing the soviet flame or its imperialistic ambitions. That certainly doesn't help the situation either.
I will cease here the speculation. Just keep your eyes open and question everything you are told. I think that is the best attitude. I have attached two news. The first concerns the latest « facts » about the Libyan « uprising » and the next covers sudden investments made by the Saudis in the Middle East. According to you, are the Saudis trying to calm down the population by injecting money into the economy or are they securing their earlier investments because they know very well that they will become even more profitable in the near future? I will let you decide.
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Karl Rove and the Piggy back Coup
« Things don't happen. They are made to happen » – JFK
This quote from JFK sums up very well the events in North Africa. As we can see here with Dave Emory's last show and post, these events were in preparation since at least a couple of years, and they are now implemented according to the calendar that had been set up from the start. The Third Reich of today is simply continuing the agenda set forth by the Robber Barons of Wall Street in the 1910's and 1920's. Following the implementation of the Webb-Pomerene Act of 1918 that created loopholes in earlier anti-trust laws, such as the Sherman Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914, the Robber Barons created three mafias, the Nazis, the Bolsheviks and Islamic fanatic organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood to be able to create and maintain cartels overseas (see John Loftus' America Nazi's Secret). The Robber Barons' successors probably want now to unite Africa under Islam to be able to syphon off all of its wealth. It is incredible the naivety with which people let themselves be duped by the machinations of the operatives of these transnational corporations. People don't use their brain. They let themselves be carried away by emotions engineered and manufactured in the labs of the Third Reich. They forget to reflect on events to see who will profit from them.
I am sorry to say that, unfortunately, Obama has probably been set up to play the role of the ship's fool. Just seeing the other day when he decorated G.H.W. Bush with the Medal of Freedom was surreal. I couldn't believe my eyes. Either he is in fact in league with these people or, as Emory suggests, he has been badjacketed to a point where he is completely discredited and turned into derision.
The fascism/fascination with which crowds are ousting Presidents one after the other in Africa gives me the impression that the Third Reich has probably reconsidered its links to catholicism, among others. Traditionaly, power has always been shared, and it is universal in evolved societies, with a bicephalous structure: secular power on one side and religious power on the other, whatever it is. I wonder if a decision hasn't not been made to replace christian faiths, which have taken a more center-left approach since the '60, with Islam, which is definitely more traditional. The fact that Christians are massacred throughout the world today by Muslim supporters could be seen as an indication of that. Religion is opium for the people and as Emory says, the first refuge of a scoundrel. Religion serves the interests of the people running the show on the global theater, if it presents an agenda compatible with theirs. Listen to this great radio show by Dave Emory, leading expert on fascism:
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Ontologies, taxonomies, and other semantic resources, are used in a variety of sectors to facilitate knowledge reuse and information exchange between people and applications. In recent years, the need to access multiple semantic resources has led to the development of a variety of projects and tools aiming at integrating existing resources. This paper describes the methodology used during the FUNSIEC project, to develop an open infrastructure for the European Construction sector (OSIECS). This infrastructure aims towards facilitating integration among Construction related semantic resources, providing a base for the development of a new generation of e-services for the domain.


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Q: StringIndexOutOfBounds by -3 I have inherited a project that should work. However, the original coder is unavailable.
I'm getting StringIndexOutOfBoundsException.
The stack trace goes to this line:
int lserver_num = Integer.parseInt(MOTD.substring(MOTD.indexOf("-") + 1, MOTD.indexOf(" ")));

Suggestions?

A: You are trying to substring by a value greater than the string's length or less than 0. If you provide more code, it would be easier to diagnose your problem exactly. But as you haven't, I have to assume.
Here is an example:
String test = "123-2 ";
int i = Integer.parseInt(test.substring(test.indexOf("-") + 1, test.indexOf(" ")));
System.out.println(i);

When I run it, it prints out 2, no problem. If I remove the space from the string, it gives me an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -5 I dont know how it arrives at -5, but I can see that the string is 5 characters long without the space, so I guess it defaults to the strings length if it cant find the character, maybe?
From this, I have to ask: are you sure that the string contains a blank space or a hyphen ?
Check with
if (MOTD.contains(" ") && MOTD.contains("-")

Also it would be good to do a null check to see if MOTD is null first.