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Q: PHPUnit does not open files without ".php" suffix I decided to use PHPUnit in my project for testing purposes. In order to do that, I installed Composer from Composer's official site(it is Composer of the latest version; I am mentioning that a bit ahead of time so that you can understand that updating Composer will not solve the problem) and installed PHPUnit with the help of Composer in command line. My composer.json looks like this:
{
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            ""
        ]
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "^9"
    }
}

I also have phpunit.xml.dist. It looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit bootstrap="vendor/autoload.php">
    <testsuites>
        <testsuite name="Components">
            <directory suffix="Test.php">./tests/components/</directory>
        </testsuite>
    </testsuites>
</phpunit>

As you can see from this piece of code, my code in organised in the following manner:
--folderForClasses
--anotherFolderForClasses
--OneMoreFolder
--vendor
   `--autoload.php
--tests
   `--components
         `--TokenGeneratorTest.php
--composer.json
--phpunit.xml.dist

I CAN execute commands like:

*

*vendor\bin\phpunit tests

*vendor\bin\phpunit tests/components

*vendor\bin\phpunit tests/components/TokenGeneratorTest.php

*vendor\bin\phpunit --testsuite Components
Because there is only one test file, all of that results in the following:
PHPUnit 9.0.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

...                                                                 3 / 3 (100%)

Time: 00:00.066, Memory: 4.00 MB

OK (3 tests, 3 assertions)

However, I CANNOT execute command like:

*

*vendor\bin\phpunit TokenGeneratorTest

*vendor\bin\phpunit tests/components/TokenGeneratorTest
These two commands result in:
PHPUnit 9.0.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Cannot open file "TokenGeneratorTest".

And:
PHPUnit 9.0.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Cannot open file "tests/components/TokenGeneratorTest".

I have seen in several tutorials that commands like the last two should be working, but for some reason they do not work. What could be the reason for that and how to make it work?
Thanks a lot in advance.

A: I'm not sure why you're getting v9.0.0 (you should be getting v9.3.8 with that require today) but it appears that the ability to provide a test file name without the extension was removed in v9.0.0. You're seeing older tutorials.
Help from 8.5.8:
PHPUnit 8.5.8 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Usage:
  phpunit [options] UnitTest [UnitTest.php]
  phpunit [options] <directory>

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PHPUnit 9.0.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Usage:
  phpunit [options] UnitTest.php
  phpunit [options] <directory>


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General Sir William Slim's Biography
Frank Owen
by Frank Owen
Field Marshall Viscount Slim was referred to by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, who was Supreme Allied Commander of Southeast Asia, as "the finest general World War II produced". After the war he was head of the Imperial General Staff, Britain's top military post, from 1948 to 1952, and was governor general of Australia from 1952 to 1960. This article is reprinted from a 1945 issue of Phoenix. the South East Asia Command magazine.
The General stood on an ammunition box. Facing him in a green amphitheatre of the low hills that ring Palel Plain, sat or squatted the British officers and sergeants of the 11th East African Division. They were then new to the Burma Front and were moving into the line the next day. The General removed his battered slouch hat, which the Gurkhas wear and which has become the headgear of the 14th Army. "Take a good look at my mug," he advised. "Not that I consider it to be an oil painting. But I am the Army Commander and you had better be able to recognize me - if only to say "Look out, the old b . . . . is coming round".
Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim, KCB, CB, DSO, MC ("Bill") is 53, burly, grey and going a bit bald. His mug is large and weatherbeaten, with a broad nose, jutting jaw, and twinkling hazel eyes. He looks like a well-to-do West Country farmer, and could be one. For he has energy and patience and, above all, the man has common sense. However, so far Slim has not farmed. He started life as a junior clerk, once he was a school teacher, and then he became the foreman of a testing gang in a Midland engineering works. For the next 30 years Slim was a soldier.
He began at the bottom of the ladder as a Territorial private. August 4, 1914, found him at Summer camp with his regiment. The Territorials were at once embodied in the Regular Army, and Slim got his first stripe as lance-corporal. A few weeks later he was a private again, the only demotion that this Lieutenant-General has suffered.
It was a sweltering, dusty day and the regiment plodded on its twenty-mile route march down an endless Yorkshire lane. At that time British troops still marched in fours, so that Lance-Corporal Slim, as he swung along by the side of his men, made the fifth in the file, which brought him very close to the roadside. There were cottages there and an old lady stood at the garden gate.
"I can see her yet," Slim reminisces. "she was a beautiful old lady with her hair neatly parted in the middle and wearing a black print dress. In her hand she held a beautiful jug, and on the top of that jug was a beautiful foam, indicating that it contained beer. She was offering it to the soldier boys."
The Lance-Corporal took one pace to the side and grasped the jug. As he did, the column was halted with a roar. The Colonel, who rode a horse at its head, had glanced back. Slim was hailed before him and "busted" on the spot. The Colonel bellowed "Had we been in France you would have been shot." Slim confides, "I thought he was a damned old fool - and he was. I lost my stripe, but he lost his army." In truth he did, in France in March 1918. Bill soon got his stripe back.
Now in this corner of Palel Plain, one of India's bloodiest battlefields and the scene of one of his greatest victories, Slim tells the officers and men of the 11th Division, "I have commanded every kind of formation from a section upwards to this army, which happens to be the largest single one in the world." (At that time, Slim had under his command half a million troops.) "I tell you this simply that you shall realize I know what I am talking about. I understand the British soldier because I have been one, and I have learned about the Japanese soldier because I have been beaten by him. I have been kicked by this enemy in the place where it hurts, and all the way from Rangoon to India where I had to dust-off my pants. Now, gentlemen, we are kicking our Japanese neighbors back to Rangoon."
Slim commanded the rearguard of the army that retreated from Burma in 1942. He is proud of that. His men marched and fought for a hundred days and nights and across a thousand miles. But this retreat was no Dunkirk. Says Slim "We brought our weapons out with us, and we carried our wounded, too. Dog-tired soldiers, hardly able to put one foot in front of another, would stagger along for hours carrying or holding up a wounded comrade. When at last they reached India over those terrible jungle mountains they did not go back to an island fortress and to their own people where they could rest and refit. The Army of Burma sank down on the frontier of India, dead beat and in rags. But, they fought here all through the downpour of the monsoon, and they saved India until a great new Army - which is this one - could be built up to take the offensive once again. In those days, if anyone had gone to me with a single piece of good news I would have burst out crying. Nobody ever did."
He tells another story. One day he entered a jungle glade in a tank. In front of him stood a group of soldiers, in their midst the eternal Tommy. Assuming an optimism which he did not feel, Slim jumped out of the tank and approached them. "Gentlemen!" he said (which is the nice way that British generals sometimes address their troops) "Things might be worse!"
"'Ow could they be worse?" inquired the Tommy.
"Well, it could rain" said Slim, lightly. He adds "And within quarter of an hour it did."
The General who had been fighting the Japanese for more than three years tells this young division what the enemy soldier is like, and how to beat him. He dissects the anatomy of the Japanese Army, its strategy, tactics, and supply. He explains its strength and puts a sure finger on its weakness. He analyses, also, the British soldier. "Of course, at root he is no better than any other soldier. Almost all soldiers are fundamentally the same. Germans, Russians, Frenchmen, perhaps even Italians. But the British Tommy generally manages to go on five minutes longer than his opposite number. You have to get that minutes overtime out of your men. And, the only way to get it is by giving them the whole of your own time and thought and care. If you do this. they will never let you down."
Officers are there to lead
Then Slim relates at one critical point in the retreat in a jungle clearing he came across a unit which was in a bad way. "I took one look at them and thought "My God, they're worse than I supposed." then I saw why. I walked round the corner of that clearing and I saw officers making themselves a bivouac. They were just as exhausted as their men, but that isn't my point. Officers are there to lead. I tell you, therefore, as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you."
The General stepped down from the ammunition box and replaced his hat. The division rose as one man, and cheered him. A few weeks later, these troops were to cross the frontier river at the point Slim had led his indomitable, ragged rearguard three years before. They dug up the tank guns which the old army had buried there when they abandoned their tanks, and they used those guns to blast open the road to Mandalay.
The spirit which Slim breathed into that division, on that blue, sunny morning in Palel inspires the whole of the 14th Army. His victorious host has now marched back a thousand miles, planted its battle flags on the citadel of Manadalay and above the capitol city of Rangoon, killing 100,00 Japanese on the way. Their achievement must be attributed in large degree to the character of their Commander. Slim does not court popularity, and he hates publicity. But he inspires trust. The man cares deeply for his troops, and they are well aware that their well-being is his permanent priority. The 14th Army has never been out of his mind since that day nearly two years ago when Mountbatten appointed him to the command. Of the Mountbatten-Slim partnership history will record that it was one of the rock foundations of our Jungle Victory.
Slim talks little and swears less, but one day at Army Headquarters the roof lifted when he received a demand that mules should be installed in concrete floor stables in a training camp, well in the rear. "My men are sleeping on earth, and often on something worse. What's good enough for British soldiers is good enough for mules of any nationality." Slim set his Army hard tasks, but none have been beyond their power. After the great battles of Imphal and Kohima, where five Japanese divisions were destroyed, Slim called on his exhausted soldiers to carry on relentless, final pursuit. "So great were the dividends that could accrue," he confesses, "that I asked for the impossible - and got it!"
Slim affirms "that the fighting capacity of every unit is based upon the faith of soldiers in their leaders; that discipline begins with the officer and spreads downward from him to the soldier; that genuine comradeship in arms is achieved when all ranks do more than is required of them. "There are no bad soldiers, only bad officers," is what Napoleon said, and though that great man uttered some foolish phrases, this is not one."
"What has a soldier got? asks Slim, and answers it himself. "He has got his country, but that is far away. In battle, the soldier has only his sense of duty, and his sense of shame. These are the things which make men go on fighting even though terror grips their heart. Every soldier, therefore, must be instilled with pride in his unit and in himself, and to do this he must be treated with justice and respect."
Slim says that when he was in civvie street he saw men who were fathers of families cringing before a deputy-assistant-under-manager who had the power to throw them out of their jobs without any other reason than their own ill-temper or personal dislike. "That, at any rate, can't happen in the Army," he declares. "You don't have to cringe in the Army, though it's true some incorrigible cringers do. In the Army you don't have to go out to dinner with a man if you can't stand the sight of him."
This soldier looks at the poor Indian coolie, and he feels and expresses a sincere pity for him. He would like to give that fellow a square meal and after that a square deal, but above all to create in him the manhood to stand up and get it for himself. "You see people pushing these poor Indian coolies around," he says grimly, "Well, they wouldn't push around the fighting soldiers of the Indian Army. Nobody would shove them off the pavement without getting hurt."
A soldier "by mistake"
Slim's military career was accidental. He fought as an officer in the Royal Warwicks at the Dardanelles, where he was severely wounded leading his company. He was discharged from the Army as being unfit for further service, but by some undivulged method he reappeared in the battle line in Mespotamia a year later. There he gained his Military Cross for gallantry in action. When the war ended it was by a toss of the coin that he decided to remain in the Army. He wanted to be a journalist. He thinks it is harder to be a good journalist than to be a good general.
It seems probable, however, that Slim is both, for the 14th Army know that he writes either poems, short stories or Who-Dun-It murder serials. The latter bet is the favourite, for the general is a great reader of murder thrillers. They take his mind off the war. Slim writes under a pseudonym, though nobody has ever been able to discover which one. Questioned, he answers with a grin that he agrees with Dr. Johnson's remark, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
For 20 years between the wars he was a Gurkha officer, as so many of the 14th Army's fighting generals were. Indeed, for a time, they were known on the front as the "Mongol Conspiracy." Slim loves the Gurkhas, whose language he speaks. His favourite stories are of Gurkhas. He tells of the paratroopers who were to jump at 300 feet. As they had never jumped before, their havildar asked if they might go a little nearer the ground for their first jump. He was told that this was impossible because the parachutes would not have time to open. "Oh," said the Gurkha, "so we get parachutes, eh?"
One day at Delhi under the walls of the Red Fort drums beat, Punjabi pipes skirled and the flags fluttered proudly from the mast-head. A great body of troops was on parade and the Viceroy had come to present Victoria Crosses to four Gurkhas - or to their widows. One of these Gurkha heroes had no widow, so his father trudged to Delhi from the far State of Nepal in the northern mountains where the Gurkhas live, to receive his dead son's supreme honour.
This Gurkha was himself a veteran of Slim's old regiment, and promptly on meeting his old comrades he had got himself full of rum. He could hardly stand up when Slim ran him to earth. "Be a good soldier, Johnny" Slim urged him. "Don't get dead drunk before the big show tomorrow." The Gurkha promised, but to make the matter secure the general had him locked up for the night. Somebody thought it would be a good idea if he ate a few mints, and put a large bottle of these in his cell. Morning came, and the Gurkha had recovered. Also he had swallowed every mint in a faithful effort to do the right thing.
Slim says "I'm not sure the rum didn't smell sweeter. However, the old Gurkha proudly paraded and was awarded his boy's Victoria Cross by the Viceroy. Half an hour after the show was over he was chock full of rum again."
Favourite of Slim's tales of these wonderful little fighters from the Himalayas is that of the Gurkha who met a Japanese in No Man's Land. Jap and Gurkha decided to have it out in a duel, each using his own chosen steel. The Jap swiped at his opponent with his two handed sword, which the Gurkha avoided. Then, the Gurkha slashed with his kukri, the broad, curved knife which is his traditional weapon. "So, you missed, eh?" jeered the Jap. "You just sneeze," said the Gurkha, "and see what happens to your head."
"I want to keep a few friends"
Slim has an animosity towards the Japanese based on an intense dislike of all their society stands for. "The Jap is not an animal," he says, "there is nothing splendid in him. He is part of an insect horde with all its power and horror." Slim also dislikes airplanes, and cats, which he believes give him asthma. (But he is perhaps the most air-minded, and certainly one of the most air-using generals in the British Army. His light aircraft takes him everywhere through fire and storm and darkness over his vast jungle front.) He is a modest man. He does not consider himself to be a Napoleon. "A general's job is simply to make fewer mistakes than the other fellow. I try hard not to make too many mistakes." Asked why he would not project his own personality upon the 14th Army in the flamboyant way that some modern generals have practiced, Slim replied briefly, "I want to keep a few friends in the Army after the war. I don't think it's necessary for me to shout the odds about the Fourteenth. Its own deeds will surely get its glory."
The fact is that Slim is a commander of superb perception and foresight. He backed Wingate at the time when that romantic and now almost legendary figure was very far from being accepted in official quarters. With Mountbatten, Slim saw that in Wingate's theory of having no line of communication winding along the jungle path and of bringing in supplies instead through the roof of the sky, lay the real key to mobility in the Jungle War.
Of Wingate himself he wrote in a penetrating tribute when he had been killed. "He was truly dynamic. When Wingate was around, something had to shift." On Wingate's experimental raids which set down columns of troops far in the Japanese rear, Slim built up a technique of air-land supply which has revolutionized the campaign in Burma, enabling whole armies to march through trackless terrain entirely provisioned and munitioned by aircraft. On this pattern, Slim has won his victories. It will be the model of future wars wherever vast spaces pose the problem of logistics, which is the science of moving and supplying armies.
Slim talks in a frank, direct manner and with insight into men's motives. Though his personal attractiveness and transparent honesty of purpose induces goodwill, it is probable that he never unburdened his heart to any man on earth. That belongs only to his beautiful wife.
Probably the central pillars in this rock-like character are his own determined honesty and a loathing of humbug in any shape. In the decisive battles of Imphal and Kohima (1944) Slim deliberately chose to let the Japanese cross the frontier and invade Imphal plain. Thus, the enemy would be fighting at the end of a long and tenuous line of communication across mountain jungle and with a flooded river at his back; nor did he possess an air supply such as ours. In the plain itself Slim had massed artillery, armour, and infantry to receive the invaders. He had stocked it up with food and ammunition, flown out 30,000 non-combatants and flown in 30,000 combat troops, a decisive item which the Mountbatten-Slim firm insisted on in face of every difficulty. Slim ordered his outpost divisions also to concentrate there for the coming battle.
He won a smashing victory. But in a factual memoir of the campaign he pointed out himself that he had made two mistakes. (1) He recalled his forward troops rather late, so that they had to fight their way in. (2) He miscalculated both the speed and strength of the Japanese attack on Kohima. Neither error was fatal to his main strategical plan, and in both cases was covered by the hard-fighting quality of his troops. One of his officers asked, therefore, "Why bring these things up?" Slim replied, "Because that is the truth, and the men who fought there know it."
He demands of his officers absolute loyalty to the Army and duty. Placed himself in difficult or painful circumstances, he has faithfully asked not what is smart or expedient, but what is right? And, then, he has it done without flinching, and without regret. He applies only one test to those who serve the 14th Army and that is: does this man do his job? If so, he is OK with the general, whether he likes him or not. If the man does not do his job, he goes!
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A special committee established to review the proposal also recommended that future proposals be rejected unless there is evidence of secured financing
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Solar module manufacturer, Canadian Solar has announced that its chief executive officer Dr. Shawn Qu has withdrawn his bid to take the company private after a special committee established by the company's board recommended rejecting his bid.
On December 9, 2017, Dr. Qu had filed a proposal to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of the company not already beneficially owned by Dr. Qu and his wife, Ms. Hanbing Zhang, in a "going-private" transaction for cash a consideration of $18.47 per common share.
According to the company's release, the special committee has recommended the board cease its review of the proposed transaction, and not undertake any additional such reviews of transactions proposed by Dr. Qu unless the board receives "reasonable evidence" that the proposed transaction is fully financed. The committee has made these recommendations citing significant changes in the solar industry since the announcement of the offer.
In addition, the special committee has recommended that the company undertake an audit of its business and look at other 'strategic alternatives' that may be available, as the company did not support a "going-private" transaction.
According to the Mercom Solar Funding and M&A Reports, the exodus of Chinese public solar companies from U.S. stock markets started in 2017 as many felt they were undervalued. Most Chinese companies have struggled in the U.S. stock markets for years due to the constant boom-and-bust cycles in the industry. Trina was the first company to go private followed by JA Solar and Renesola, which took its manufacturing unit private.
Recently, Hanwha Q CELLS, announced its plans to go private. The company stated that it has received a preliminary non-binding proposal letter from Hanwha Solar Holdings (HSH), a subsidiary of Hanwha Chemical Corporation incorporated in the Republic of Korea. Under the proposal, HSH will acquire all outstanding shares of HQCL not already owned by it in a "going private" transaction for a cash consideration of $9 per American Depositary Share (ADS, with each ADS represents fifty ordinary shares), or $0.18 per ordinary share.
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Q: Unable to add Raspbian image to Vagrant-libvirt Virtual machine Am trying to create a virtual machine for Raspbian using Vagrant-libvirt plugin. However I failed find out how to add '2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite.img' image.
Am able to boot the image using qemu.
qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel-qemu-4.4.34-jessie -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -machine versatilepb -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw vga=normal console=ttyAMA0" -drive "file=./2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw" -no-reboot -serial stdio -curses
Here is my incomplete Vagrantfile:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
ENV['VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER'] = 'libvirt'
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box_url = File.join(Dir.pwd, "2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite.img")
  config.vm.box = "Raspbian"
  config.vm.provider :libvirt do |libvirt|
    libvirt.driver = "qemu"
    #config.vm.box = "arm"
    # vagrant issues #1673..fixes hang with configure_networks
    config.ssh.shell = "bash -c 'BASH_ENV=/etc/profile exec bash'"
    libvirt.uri = 'qemu+unix:///system'
    libvirt.host = 'virtualized'
    libvirt.kernel = File.join(Dir.pwd, "OS/kernel-qemu-4.4.34-jessie")
    #libvirt.kernel = File.join(Dir.pwd, "Ovmlinuz")
    #libvirt.initrd = File.join(Dir.pwd, "initrd")
    #libvirt.storage :file, :size => '20G', :path => "./OS/2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite.img", :allow_existing => true, :shareable => true, :type => 'raw'
    libvirt.emulator_path = '/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm'
    libvirt.cmd_line = 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 devtmpfs.mount=0 rw'
    libvirt.memory = 256
    libvirt.cpu_model = 'arm1176'
    libvirt.cpu_fallback = 'allow'
    libvirt.graphics_type = 'none'
  end

end

A: I've committed support to vagrant-libvirt for precisely this. This is a working config:
config.vm.define "rpi" do |rpi|
   # Create rpi.vm
   rpi.vm.hostname = "rpi"
   rpi.vm.box = "raspbian-jessie-lite-2016-02-26"
   rpi.vm.provider :libvirt do |v|
         v.driver = 'qemu'
         v.random_hostname = true
         v.connect_via_ssh = false
         v.memory = 1024
         v.cpus = 1
         v.volume_cache = 'none'
         v.storage_pool_name = "vagrant"
         v.kernel = File.join(Dir.pwd, "kernel")
         v.initrd = File.join(Dir.pwd, "initrd")
         v.machine_type = 'virt'
         v.machine_arch = 'armv7l'
         v.cpu_mode = 'custom'
         v.cpu_model = 'cortex-a15'
         v.cpu_fallback = 'allow'
         v.cmd_line = 'rw earlyprintk loglevel=8 console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 rootwait root=/dev/vda2'
         v.graphics_type = 'none'
         v.disk_bus = 'virtio'
         v.nic_model_type = 'virtio'
         v.features = ["apic","gic version='2'"]
   end

However, you will need to find or build a kernel and accompanying initrd that supports the virt machine type. You can take a look here for some background on that.

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Newly Released Documents Further Detail Obama's Collusion with 9/11 Sponsors
The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), the highest declassification authority in the Executive Branch of the U.S. Federal Government, housed at the National Archives, has declassified 29 new documents relating to the government's investigations into the 9/11 attacks, and they reveal new damning details about the Saudi Royal Family's deep involvement in those Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
From the time of his first campaign for President in 2008, Obama has promised the families of the 9/11 victims that he would declassify the 28 pages from the original Joint Congressional Inquiry, which detail the Saudi involvement in those heinous attacks. He not only broke that promise. He has consistently protected the Saudis from justice over their role in 9/11, and is now openly showing his hand by pledging to veto the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), now before the Congress, just prior to Obama's now-ongoing visit to Saudi Arabia. The President has sold out the American people to his slavish loyalty to the Saudis and their British patrons. This is a crime that demands, at minimum, President Obama's immediate impeachment from office.
The 29 documents, most recently declassified, contain work sheets, interview notes, and other documents from the 9/11 Commission, that make clear that the Federal investigators probing the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks had compiled massive amounts of evidence of direct involvement by agents of the Saudi Royal Family, the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, and the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation. They provide a backdrop to the suppressed 28-page chapter from the earlier Joint Inquiry, which merely summarized the volumes of evidence compiled—and covered up—about the direct Saudi government complicity in 9/11.
Perhaps the single most damning document, declassified last year, is a 47-page memorandum by Dana Leseman and Michael Jacobson, detailing all of the Saudi government officials who were implicated in the 9/11 attacks. Leseman was a Justice Department attorney and Jacobson was an FBI Special Agent. Both had served as key investigators for the Joint Inquiry, and had authored the 28-page chapter that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have suppressed. They went on to work for the 9/11 Commission, where their efforts to pursue the Saudi leads from their earlier work were stymied by Commission director Philip Zelikow. Leseman was ultimately fired by Zelikow for refusing to obey his orders to stop the probe of Saudi Royals' ties to 9/11.
The 47-page document identified a total of 21 confirmed and suspected Saudi government employees who abetted the San Diego hijackers cell during the year-and-a-half that they were in the United States preceding the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The document detailed all of their roles in supporting the two West Coast hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. It also called for a thorough investigation of the FBI, which had an informant in San Diego who housed the two 9/11 hijackers in his home for months before the attacks.
One of the central figures linking the Saudi regime to the 9/11 plotters was Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi intelligence agent who was the main financier of al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar during their entire time in the United States. In addition to his no-show job, with a sizeable expense account from a Saudi Ministry of Defense and aviation contractor, Dallah Aviation, al-Bayoumi earlier received $400,000 from the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs during the 1990s, ostensibly to build a mosque in the San Diego area. Investigators believed that those funds may have been used to build up terrorist cells in the area. These beliefs were buttressed by the fact that the San Diego mosque was run by Anwar Al-Awlaki, a spiritual leader of al-Qaeda, who was ultimately killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen—and who may have also been an FBI informant.
The evidence of deep Saudi involvement is almost matched in the 47-page document by evidence of FBI coverup of the 9/11 story. One segment of the recently declassified "Document 17" featured a series of questions about FBI stonewalling and coverup.
The document posed the following two questions: "1. Did the FBI intentionally withhold from the Joint Inquiry information about the informant's relationship with the hijackers and subsequently attempt to obstruct the Joint Inquiry's investigation of the matter?
"2. If the FBI did withhold information and obstruct the Joint Inquiry's investigation, were the FBI's actions indicative of a larger pattern of FBI non-compliance with Congressional oversight? What changes would therefore be needed to ensure more effective Congressional oversight of the FBI?"
A thorough review of all of the newly released documents is now underway. But sufficient evidence is already reviewed, proving the deep Saudi role in 9/11 and the ongoing coverup by President Obama and top officials of the FBI.
The evidence of President Obama's witting role in this coverup already meets and passes the Constitutional standards of "high crimes and misdemeanors" requiring impeachment proceedings. There are credible reports circulating in Washington that President Obama is using his current visit to Saudi Arabia to solicit funds from the Saudi Royals for his post-presidential library and career—perhaps in return for guarantees that the 9/11 story will continued to be covered up at the top. Is there any justification for delaying one moment more the launching of those long-overdue impeachment proceedings?


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Thomas Paine is often employed by the political left as justification for their false claim that America was established as a secular nation. The facts, however, completely expose their uninformed argument. Click to read the entire article… While Thomas Paine is remembered positively for his contribution to American independence through his book, Common Sense, his contemporary defenders overstate his influence when they credit him as beingRead more...
Samuel Huntington (July 16, 1731 – January 5, 1796) was a jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.Read more...
Leaving the deism of his youth and the immorality it produced, Benjamin Franklin came to realize that the Calvinism of his youth was closer to reality than he had previously imagined.[1] Though never fully returning to this theological tradition in which he was raised, he realized that human government must reflect God's government of the world, and for this reason, secularists, atheists, agnostics, and the irreligious falsely attempt to lay clRead more...
Francis Lightfoot Lee (October 14, 1734 – January 11, 1797) was a member of the House of Burgesses in the Colony of Virginia. As an active protester of issues such as the Stamp Act, Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain. Lee was a delegate to the Virginia Conventions and the Continental Congress. He was a signer of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Virginia.Read more...
A growing number in America have suggested that religion or Christianity should have no place in the political life of the nation. The Founding Fathers, however, never believed nor advocated irreligion. In fact, secularists cannot demonstrate a single occasion in any of the original Thirteen Colonies and subsequent Thirteen United States that irreligion or deism had any impact upon the political life of those individual states or the nation as a Read more...
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New York AG: 'Significant evidence' of Trump Org fraud
Senate candidate smokes a joint to highlight disparity
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Woman sues Southwest, says airline ejected her for removing mask to drink water
Southwest Airlines Co was sued for $10 million on Tuesday by a 68-year-old Florida woman who said the carrier ejected her from a flight because she periodically needed to remove her mask to drink water. Medora Clai Reading said she was wrongly removed from a Jan. 7, 2021, flight to Palm Beach, Florida, from Washington, D.C. after a hostile flight attendant kept demanding that she keep her mask on despite medical issues, including a heart condition and low blood sugar, requiring that she stay hydrated. Southwest had no immediate comment, having yet to review the complaint.
Los Angeles officials are offering a reward of more than $200,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man suspected of fatally stabbing a 24-year-old UCLA graduate student while she worked alone at a furniture store. Brianna Kupfer was found dead on the floor of the store by a customer on Thursday not long after she had sent an ominous text message to a friend, police said. Police say Kupfer was the only employee at Croft House on La Brea Avenue when someone came into the store last Thursday afternoon and fatally stabbed her.
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A UK man has pleaded guilty to enslaving a worker for 40 years. A man in England admitted to enslaving a worker in a tiny shed without light or heating for 40 years. Peter Swailes, 56, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to keeping a man in a wooden shed in his garden for four decades, according to a press release from the UK's Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority.
Suspended professor threatens to sue if he's not reinstated
A Michigan professor who was suspended after making a profanity-filled video for his students is threatening to file a lawsuit if Ferris State University doesn't quickly lift the sanction. An attorney for Barry Mehler warned the school in a letter Tuesday, saying the history teacher is protected by the First Amendment and a contract between Ferris State and its faculty. "The university should be celebrating and defending Dr. Mehler, not summarily disciplining him," attorney Matthew Hoffer wrote.
Trump told banks his 11,000-square-foot Trump Tower triplex was triple that size, New York AG says
New York Attorney General Letitia James took legal action Tuesday night to compel former President Donald Trump and two of his children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, to appear for sworn testimony as part of her office's ongoing civil investigation of the Trump Organization's financial dealings. James had subpoenaed Trump in December and Don Jr. and Ivanka earlier in January, and Tuesday's motion was in opposition to attempts by the Trumps to quash those subpoenas. "Thus far in our investigation, we have uncovered significant evidence that suggests Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization falsely and fraudulently valued multiple assets and misrepresented those values to financial institutions for economic benefit," James said in a statement.
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Non-Americans Are Calling Out Things Americans Say That Scream, "I'm An American," And Wow, I Guess I'm Gonna Stop Talking For A While
A while ago, Reddit user TheOmnipotentKoi asked the internet, "Non-Americans of Reddit, what's something someone can say that indirectly screams 'I'm an American?'" Non-Americans shared tons of hilarious things Americans say all the time — and it's so accurate, it hurts. Let us know in the comments below!
Dementia warning signs: The early symptom that's often overlooked
While memory loss could be the result of infection, depression or anxiety or other medical conditions, it may also be due to dementia. A recent study by the University of Exeter highlighted an early symptom of dementia that tends to be overlooked: apathy. Apathy or the loss of interest, enthusiasm or concern, is the "leading neuropsychiatric symptom of dementia" however it often goes unnoticed by families and in care.
But revelations in the news media that Juror 50 and a second juror each disclosed personal histories of childhood sexual abuse to their fellow jurors during deliberations have clouded the verdict and led to a flurry of new court filings focused on jury impartiality. Maxwell's lawyers, citing Juror 50's comments in the news media, have said they will seek a new trial. The judge, Alison J. Nathan of U.S. District Court, has asked both sides for their views on whether a court inquiry is appropriate, and, if so, what its nature should be.
San Francisco 49ers Nick Bosa says he has the lowest body fat percentage on his whole team. Bosa says his high-protein diet that emphasizes lean fish and chicken is the reason why. Other sports stars like Tom Brady and Kevin Love have also spoken about the benefits of a fish-heavy diet.
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Norwegian killer begins hearing with Nazi salute
Breivik, a far-right extremist, killed 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp. With a shaven head and dressed in a dark suit, Breivik made a white supremacist sign with his fingers before raising his right arm in a Nazi salute to signal his far-right ideology as he entered the court.
Dozens of former Trump staffers had a conference call to figure out how to thwart him, CNN reports. The call was said to have included John Kelly, Anthony Scaramucci, and Alyssa Farah Griffin. Stephanie Grisham had said the goal was to "do some things to try and stop" the ex-president.
White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks at 'tens of thousands' of locations starting next week
The Biden administration will distribute 400 million high-quality N95 masks through "tens of thousands" of pharmacies, community clinics, and other locations starting next week, a White House official told reporters ahead of an official announcement Wednesday. The masks will be shipped around the U.S. from the federal Strategic National Stockpile at the end of the week. The White House, which launched a website for ordering free COVID-19 tests on Tuesday, is stepping up the federal response to the flood of cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
U.S. to make 400 million N95 masks available for free to fight COVID-19 pandemic -official
A health official who has helped lead central Florida's response to the pandemic has been put on administrative leave as state officials investigate whether he tried to compel employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in violation of state law. The state health agency is conducting an inquiry into Raul Pino, director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, "to determine if any laws were broken in this case," Florida Department of Health press secretary Jeremy Redfern said in an email. A measure Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last fall prohibits government agencies from implementing vaccine mandates and restricts private businesses from having vaccine requirements unless they allow workers to opt out for medical reasons, religious beliefs, immunity based on a previous infection, regular testing or an agreement to wear protective gear.
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This historic estate is on brink of destruction in Virginia — unless a buyer steps up
An estate in Great Falls, Virginia, with a rich history is set to be destroyed if a buyer doesn't step up to save it. Cornwell Farm, an estate that's listed on the National Register of Historic Places, according to the farm's website, is on the market for $3.7 million. The farm's historic roots can be traced to the 1800s when the Jackson family accumulated hundreds of acres of land in the area, GeorgetownPike.org said.
Dan Crenshaw, the acerbic congressman from Texas desperately trying to brand himself as an unnatural chimera of Donald Trump and John McCain, is in hot water today for a video recorded at a Montgomery County Tea Party fundraiser in which he snaps at a young woman for asking him a pointed question about Jesus. Crenshaw was confronted at a Tea Party fundraiser by a young woman questioner, who challenged him to defend statements that he made likening Jesus to a fictional superhero while on former Navy SEAL Jocko Willink's podcast. The video of the confrontation was shared by Scott T. Parkinson, the VP of Government Affairs for Club4Growth, a conservative PAC that recently endorsed Illinois Rep. Mary Miller, who achieved brief online prominence after she said "Hitler was right about one thing" during a speech the day before the Jan. 6 insurrection.
NICU mom's heartbreaking TikTok shows the frustrating reality of maternity leave in the US: 'This. Is. America.'
When Rebecca Shumard posted to TikTok about going back to work 12 days after giving birth, she was feeling frustrated, fearful, guilty and spent. While those feelings can happen to any mom, and do, Shumard's case wasn't exactly typical. The 26-year-old medical assistant/exercise physiologist had recorded herself sitting at her desk at work, crying because not only was she not with her baby, her daughter was being treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after being born at 27 weeks — a mere three weeks past viability.
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Trump 'is done'
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is predicting the end of Donald Trump's hegemony in the GOP, saying the former president "is done." "Trump is done," Coulter, a onetime Trump booster turned critic, wrote in an email to The New York Times. Coulter's comments came in an article published in the Times on Sunday about the mounting tensions between Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) amid speculation of a potential showdown for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, BGR may receive an affiliate commission. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (or DESI for short) has created the largest 3D map of the universe we've ever seen. DESI created the map over the course of seven months.
Hundreds of mourners turned out Tuesday in Ireland for the funeral Mass of a 23-year-old elementary school teacher whose slaying has reignited debate about how to tackle violence against women. Police said Tuesday they arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of murder in the case of Ashling Murphy, a musician and teacher whose body was found on the banks of a canal near the town of Tullamore in central Ireland on Jan. 12. The killing has touched a nerve with many women in Ireland and beyond, because media reports suggested that Murphy was targeted when she was out jogging in the afternoon.
Irish mourn slain elementary school teacher
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If you test positive for COVID-19, you can end your isolation after just five days if you never developed symptoms, according to the latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Or, if you did develop symptoms, you can leave isolation after you've been without a fever for 24 hours (without using fever-reducing medication), provided your other symptoms are resolving as well. The CDC also amended its guidelines to add that, if you have access to a rapid antigen test, you can take the test at the end of day five of your isolation (as long as you've been fever-free for at least 24 hours).
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Xi Jinping forced 10,000 people who fled overseas to return to China through an operation called 'Sky Net,' says human rights NGO
China forcefully retrieved around 10,000 fugitives from overseas in the last decade, a report says. NGO Safeguard Defenders said Beijing has been sending agents overseas to illegally intimidate targets. Its report on "Operation Sky Net" shows the extent of China's clandestine operations in other countries.
Donald Trump plans to build 2,300 luxury homes at his Doral golf resort in the Miami area, part of a flurry of recent moves to revive a family business suffering from the one-two punch of a divisive presidency and coronavirus shutdowns. In a news release Monday, the 45th president called the plans for his sprawling Trump National Doral resort "perhaps the most exciting development in the country" but was short on details such as the size of the homes and what they may cost. The Doral, the biggest revenue generator among Trump's 17 golf properties, has been a drain on the business in recent years.
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Letters: Our beloved pediatrician's brutal takedown by York police K-9 was appalling
Supporting our local police officers (and other first line responders) is something we believe in. Two years ago, we learned of Dr. Stephen Brennan's unfortunate encounter with officer Jonathan Rogers and heard what transpired for him thereafter. Dr. Brennan was a terrific pediatrician for our children, there from the get-go for all of them, from their births at York Hospital on up through their teenage years.
Trump lawyers to Supreme Court: Jan. 6 committee 'will not be harmed by delay'
Former President Trump's lawyers told the Supreme Court that the House committee probing the Jan. 6 attack would suffer no harm if the justices delayed the transfer of Trump administration records to congressional investigators. The bold assertion came amid an ongoing legal clash between Trump and the House panel over whether a trove of records that investigators say would shed light on the deadly Capitol riot is covered by the former president's assertion of executive privilege. Trump's attorneys, in their latest filing, pushed back on the committee's claim that a protracted legal fight threatens to undermine its work.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has submitted a proposal to reshape the state's congressional map and carve up districts held by Black Democrats, as the Republican takes the unusual step of inserting himself into the redistricting process. The proposed congressional map, submitted Sunday on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, signaled the governor's priorities as the state moves to redraw political maps in the coming months. Governors typically do not submit map proposals but can veto district plans after they pass in the statehouse.
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The campaign to ban gas stoves heats up
"Cooking is the No. 1 way you're polluting your home … You're basically living in this toxic soup."
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"It's time to start making new buildings all-electric and switching out all those existing gas appliances, including gas stoves."
"If you're looking for personal ways to protect the environment and your health right now, you have much bigger fish to fry."
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Jon Lord, ex-Deep Purple, has written a classical tribute to his friend, the late Sir John Mortimer.
By Adam Sweeting 25 March 2010 • 9:10am
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Although Deep Purple's former keyboard ace Jon Lord featured in BBC Four's recent documentary Heavy Metal Britannia, he didn't quite fit. While members of Black Sabbath and Saxon discussed steel mills and Satanism, Lord offered scholarly aperçus about vocal technique and instrumental arrangements. A musical score lay open on the grand piano behind him, next to a bust of Beethoven.
That's because Lord, 68, is now in the middle of a flourishing second career as a classical composer, even if some will always associate him with Deep Purple epics like Smoke on the Water.
His Durham Concerto has been a smash hit in Classic FM's Hall of Fame, hotly pursued by his piano concerto Boom of the Tingling Strings. His latest composition, To Notice Such Things, is a six-part suite in memory of Sir John Mortimer, the barrister, playwright and raconteur who died in January last year.
"He was a huge pal of mine, and I wanted to extol him and paint a positive picture of him in the music," Lord explains. "My wife adored him, my daughters adored him, and he certainly had an aura about him. John could be cantankerous, of course, but he had the ability to take people's legs from under them with wit rather than with a cudgel."
Lord and Mortimer first met in 1987, when they were both protesting against the demolition of the old Regal cinema in Henley-on-Thames. "John told me at the time that the only real reason for saving it was that it always had an interval in the film, in which they opened the bar for 20 minutes," Lord recalls. "We both took part in a fund-raising revue at the Kenton Theatre in Henley a few weeks later. We said hello to each other on various occasions after that, including a memorable encounter in the frozen food aisle at Waitrose – built over the demolished remains of the Regal cinema."
Their friendship blossomed when Mortimer invited Lord to play piano in his Mortimer's Miscellany performances, theatrical evenings which afforded Mortimer scope to expatiate upon "life, love and the law". The juxtaposition of the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey with that bloke out of Deep Purple must have been disorientating for audiences, surely?
"People usually didn't realise," chortles Lord. "I was just some guy with a ponytail playing piano. But every now and again, someone would come up and say 'You're… aren't you? What on earth are you doing here?' I'd say, 'Well I love the man, I love the show, and I wasn't doing anything tonight'."
Three of the six pieces in To Notice Such Things were originally written for the Miscellany shows, though they've been expanded and orchestrated. Lord studied classical music from the age of five and taught himself orchestration from Cecil Forsyth's book on the topic, and his composing style leans towards a melodic, wistful pastoralism.
"I had four or five minutes of music written, and I added an extra 23 minutes to complete the suite as it now is," he explains. "If I hadn't had those three little pieces I would have been far too daunted by the short time frame, because I was asked in February 2009 for a piece to be played at the beginning of July."
The piece was commissioned by the Shipley Arts Festival, where it premiered last July with Mortimer's widow Penelope and daughter Rosie in the audience.
The original plan called for a flute concerto, but Lord settled on "a suite of music based on chapters in John's life as I saw them. The flute would be his voice, because John had quite a light tenor voice, he wasn't a great booming baritone. Having only just lost him, he felt very close by while I was composing, and the music came very quickly."
The pieces loosely cover Mortimer's life, from the aspiring young lawyer depicted in As I Walked Out One Evening, through his professional heyday at the Old Bailey, his home life in the Chilterns, and his decline into old age. The elegiac concluding section, Afterwards, takes its title from Thomas Hardy's poem (which is also the source of the line "to notice such things").
Lord found the trickiest segment to write was The Winter of a Dormouse, an evocation of Mortimer's final illness. "I was able to visit him a few times during that period, and I didn't want to come over as some sort of musical voyeur. I'm happy with the result, I don't think it's too overwrought. I was tremendously moved by being part of his passing."
Looking forward, Lord has a pile of composing projects on his plate, including a cello concerto for Matthew Barley and a concerto for Hammond organ for the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He's even contemplating another concerto for rock group and orchestra, like the one he wrote for Deep Purple in 1969.
"It would be fascinating, but that's a little way down the list of priorities at the moment," he admits. "There just aren't enough hours in the day."
'To Notice Such Things' is released on Avie on Monday.
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We're used to living up a Christmas and New Years in Australia by the beach or in the sun, but celebs show us how it's done in the cold.
There have been fabulous skiing holidays, cosy holidays by the fire, and some have even escaped to more exotic locations.
Bella spent Christmas at the snow while she spent New Years partying with her model friends Kendall Jenner, Jordyn Woods and Hailey Baldwin.
Kate Hudson also spent the Christmas holidays at the snow with her family, taking adorable group pics.
Elsa Pataky said that she got the best present of all for Christmas - 'a kiss from Chris Hemsworth'! For New Years, there was a glitzy party and the whole family got involved!
The famous on-again off-again couple had a very cute Christmas...with lots of sweet couple photos!
There was a lot of time spent with baby Luna, and we can't get enough!
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In Diversity•May 26, 2010•6 Minutes
Retail Revenue and Workplace Gender Diversity: Best Buy's WOLF Program
It's no secret that women control a large share of purchasing power. For example, as noted at the 2009 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, women control over 80% of consumer spending. And, as HDTV magazine recently reported, women's spending on consumer electronics is increasing. This year, the article reveals, "Women spent, on average, $631 on consumer electronics, up $73 from 2009."
Yet, the consumer electronic retail market has always been a bit male-centric (think man-cave versus family room). In 2005, Julie Gilbert, then a Best Buy vice president, set out to improve the company's revenue by bringing in more female staff. The success of her WOLF program shows the valuable link between the retention of women employees and the spending power of women consumers.
Best Buy: The Situation
In 2005, an analysis of Best Buy's customer data revealed that the company was missing out female technology spending – and analysis of store staffing showed a connection. A case study on the program explains:
"Women spent $90 billion on technology in 2005 (approximately 45% of consumer electronics purchases) – but only comprised 36% of Best Buy revenue. In addition, there was data showing that comparative store profits were higher in stores that employed more women: Where the staff was comprised of 5 men for every woman, the comparative store profits were on average 5% higher; when the ratio was 4 to 1, profits were up 7%, and when the ratio was 3 to 1, store profits increased by 10%."
Stores with more female employees produced more profit. The solution seemed simple – put more women in the stores. But it wasn't that simple. The case study explains Gilbert's findings:
"…there was a higher turnover of women than of men in every department. In some cases, the rate of women leaving was more than 200% higher than that of men. Lastly, she looked at the recruitment of women. She noticed that 91% of the women were at ranks below supervisor. No female executives existed in the retail field and the highest ranking woman was a district manager."
With high female turnover, low female retention, and few women in leadership positions, getting more women into Best Buy stores (both to work and to shop) was going to require more than a simple hiring push.
The WOLF Program
Inspired by the loyalty, cooperation, and collaboration of wolves in the wild, Gilbert named her three part plan WOLF. She explained:
"I built the business plan the next day, focusing on building this innovation movement and targeting three business metrics that would remain valid: (1) female revenue, (2) internal female retention, and (3) internal female recruitment. I knew that there was something there. …As any entrepreneur would, I just went ahead and started talking about my vision of a new day – inside the company – and the architecture I was building to make it happen for women."
The first part of her program was the organization of WOLF Packs. According to the case study, "Each pack consisted of 25 female and 2 male Best Buy employees with an 80% representation from retail and 20% from corporate." This would enable members of the retail and corporate environments to gain better understanding of each others the motivations and requirements.
As the program grew, Gilbert introduced WOLF Omega teams: "women who did not work for the company (in effect, female consumers) – to help reinvent the company in partnership with the company's female employees." The teams also collaborated with Best Buy staff to create community outreach programs and events.
Measuring WOLF Results
By all accounts the WOLF program has been a success for Best Buy. In addition to increasing female leadership, the case study explains, "Revenue generated by females increased by more than $4.4 billion in less than five years; female market share increased from Q1 2006: 14.7% to Q1 2008: 17.1%" and "Female turnover was reduced company-wide by over 5% each year, female recruits increased by more than 37% in areas where WOLF Packs existed and the number of women in the company grew by more than 18%."
The program shows the link between employee engagement and revenue – by better connecting with female employees, Best Buy was better able to reach its female customers, tapping into this important segment of consumer shoppers.