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Fantastic four: meet the researchers changing the future of health
Technology is having a huge impact on our health. Here four RMIT researchers talk about the potential impact of their work as we live even longer lives.
Dr Wenyue Zou, Professor Vipul Bansal, Professor Madhu Bhaskaran and Associate Professor Kate Fox work in different fields but are working towards solutions for aging well.
Diamonds might be your body's best friend.
That's what Associate Professor Kate Fox is discovering as she creates 3D-printed diamond body implants in what's believed to be a world-first.
One in 25 people globally are expected to require an implant of some kind in their life and there were more than 115,000 joint replacements alone in Australia in 2016.
Implants are often made with titanium, which doesn't always interact with the body the way it needs to, increasing the risk of the implant moving or being rejected. One in 20 replacements need revision within nine years of surgery.
Diamond implants could be more compatible because carbon is a key element inside the human body.
A baby girl born in Australia today is expected to live to 84.6 years old, while a boy is expected to live to 80.5, according to latest available data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Compare that to life expectancy at birth in 1976, which was 76.4 years for women and 69.4 for men.
Fox said her work could offer a solution to the combination of living longer and putting our bodies through intense activities like riding motorbikes and playing football from a younger age.
"The consequences haven't quite been predicted and it's a massive problem," she said.
"While we have some temporary solutions – metal implants, titanium, stainless steel, cobalt chromium – they don't last.
"You hear about all these old footballers who are getting both hips and knees done at 40, 45. They've got a lot of life left in them, so if you've got an implant that's only going to last 15 or 20 years that's one, two replacements.
"Finding long-term solutions that will last 50, 60 years is the holy grail of bio-medical implant engineering."
Fox hopes her diamond-coated implants could be trialled within five years and predicted that the opportunities for new implants that haven't been thought of yet would grow as technology developed.
Better care for the elderly
Bedding products with contactless sensors to monitor movement could be the solution to improving the quality of care for elderly people in nursing homes.
Currently it's hard to get reliable, non-invasive data for the almost one million Australians in aged care so staff undertake nightly door checks to ensure residents are in bed.
With the number of Australians aged 65 and over expected to double to 8.8 million over the next 40 years, it's a growing challenge and Professor Madhu Bhaskaran is trying to solve it with manufacturer Sleeptite.
Governments spent about $17 billion on aged care in 2016-17, with more than two-thirds going towards residential facilities, according to Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data.
Indian-born Bhaskaran said the project was all about delivering better care and peace of mind.
"A door check is not always going to give you sufficient information about the person's health," she said.
"So, it's a question of can we have sensors that can non-invasively give you reliable data about the person being in bed verses not being in bed and, with time, can we actually establish if the person is breathing and establish their heartrate?"
Deloitte modelling found the project could save more than $1 billion a year if implemented in a third of aged care and hospital beds.
Sleeptite approached Bhaskaran about working together on a medical device after seeing her previous work developing wearable electronics that are bendable and stretchable.
She said applications for the contactless sensor technology could be widespread.
"If we can get this to work, it could benefit anyone where you need to have some kind of monitoring so newborn babies at risk of SIDS could be another area where the technology could be applied," she said.
Nanotechnology and sensors to detect disease early
Professor Vipul Bansal explores the power of nanotechnology to solve the big health issues facing our society and environment.
The Director of the Ian Potter NanoBiosensing Facility at RMIT University grew up in Chandausi, India before moving to Australia in 2006.
His team is focusing on developing highly selective, sensitive, ultra-fast and cheap biosensors to reliably detect the source of problems.
"A new nanoparticle we've developed combines the attributes of MRI and PET scans to allow early detection of cancer. MRI gives you an overall 3D image of the body but the resolution is very low. Alternatively, PET scans give you a sharp signal, but not the 3D picture. Our technology gives you the best of both.
"We're working on a nanosensor to predict diabetes in babies. Type 1 diabetes affects 542,000 children globally, with increasing numbers of adults also being diagnosed. Currently there's no early detection method and by the time people realise their sugar levels are high, more than 80% of damage to the insulin-producing cells is done. If we can detect diabetes before blood sugar starts to spike, we may in future even be able to treat diabetes.
"I have a personal interest in developing ultraviolet (UV) sensors for managing our exposure to sun as I've been Vitamin D deficient for many years. We want our wearable sensors to educate people on being sun safe by avoiding overexposure and help them manage their Vitamin D levels.
"A strong force keeping me awake is to keep hunting for new knowledge to benefit our societies and environment. And of course, some of my personal circumstances, such as diabetes and associated ongoing Vitamin D deficiency have given me a direction to focus."
Wearable sensors for sun safety
New research into photo-active materials and sensor technology is set to combat major health issues including antibiotic resistance and sun damage.
Dr Wenyue Zou is part of the team at RMIT that has developed low-cost personalised ultraviolet (UV) sensors that can be worn as a wrist-band or sticker to help reduce the risk of sun damage.
She began working in Professor Vipul Bansal's team after arriving in Australia from China in 2014 with a Master in Pharmaceutical Analysis, initially planning not to work but to support her husband who had moved to Melbourne to complete his PhD.
"I read about Professor Bansal's research into nanotechnology when I was browsing the RMIT website after we arrived and decided to contact him. This one email changed my life! I've now completed my PhD in Applied Chemistry and working as a postdoctoral researcher at RMIT.
"Across the globe, more than 40 people die from skin cancer each day and it's one of the most common cancers. But Vitamin D deficiency is also one of the most common medical conditions, affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide.
"The wearable sensors that we've developed contain UV active ink that changes colour when exposed to different UV types. They allow people to monitor their sun exposure throughout the day.
"Monitoring your personal exposure is important because people have different solar UV exposure needs. Those with lighter skin are more sensitive to sun damage, while those with darker skin need more sun exposure to produce Vitamin D.
"We are now working with designers to develop a kid-friendly design and looking to commercialise the product as early as 2020. Long-term, I want to apply more science and technology to solve the problems in our lives. This is a big motivation for me in my work."
Story: Amelia Harris and Kate Milkins
Nano & Microtechnology
Shooting for the moon with science and tech
When John F Kennedy announced we were sending man to the moon, he kicked off an age of innovation that underpins science and technology today – and the Moonshot podcast is exploring the sector's biggest ideas.
Engineers have mimicked the human brain with an electronic chip that uses light to create and modify memories.
Machine lullaby shows tech in bed can help you rest
Art meets technology for this immersive VR experience that can ease you into the right frame of mind for sleep.
One small step for man, a giant leap for space science
From why women are more efficient astronauts to how space tech can help with bushfire responses, RMIT experts share their insights on current and future space science.


Business and Administrative Studies courses at the senior (300/400) level. See recommendations below. Note: The courses selected may not include the two courses used as electives for the requirements of the UC:Accounting.
CGA: Those wishing to pursue a CGA designation should select ACCT 453 and course(s) from the PACE level options (ACCT 465 (in development), FNCE 371, TAXX 401).
CMA: Those wishing to pursue a CMA designation should select MKTG 396, MGSC 368 or MGSC 369, and ADMN 404.
*Note: CMIS 245 is a prerequisite to CMIS 351. If you have not already completed a course equivalent to one of these prerequisite courses you may need to take it extra to this certificate.
CA: Those wishing to pursue a CA designation should select FNCE 401, TAXX 401, and ACCT 453.
CPA (NEW): ADMN 404, TAXX 401, ACCT 465 (in development).


As early as 1971, the Sydney Caravan Camping Holiday Supershow has been putting on displays of vintage caravans so visitors can reminisce and wonder about how things were done in times past. At that show, the organisers gathered together an American covered wagon, a restored gypsy caravan, the very first Millard and a '30-year-old Chesney' (a terrific display, considering Chesney Caravans began in 1960). It was almost the beginning of a dedicated caravan museum, if you believe the news reports.
This year, we're continuing that fine tradition, but on a grand scale. As part of the 50th year celebrations we've curated a showcase of Australian caravan history, as told by a collection of caravans, motorhomes and camping gear, with a particular focus on that built in New South Wales. We really hope you can come and join us there as we tell this amazing story – maybe you can even help us fill in some blanks. To whet your appetite, here's just a sample of what we'll have on display and a little bit of its significance to Aussie camping.
The show runs from Tuesday April 24 to Sunday April 29 at Rosehill Racecourse. Buy your tickets online and save 10%!
It's hard to know, but R.J. Rankin, one of New South Wales' earliest caravan builders, may have influenced the Eicke & Provis Folding Flyproof Caravans. A patent for the design was applied for in 1930, two years after Rankin started Carapark.
Described at least once as a 'trundling, fly-screen-clad meat-safe on wheels', the holiday trailer is very typical of Australia's very first caravans. Early brochures claim the caravan can be set up in as little as five minutes and that only a perfect holiday can be had in a caravan, something we tend to agree with.
Designed and built by a former solicitor near Adelaide in South Australia, this version is a second-generation model, still with the timber spoked wheels, very basic accomodations and 'easy' set-up.
Carapark, which is one of Australia's earliest caravan brands, played a significant part in the development of modern caravanning as we know it today. Starting in a factory in Newtown, on the outskirts of Sydney, Carapark's founder, R.J. Rankin had a dream that every car would be fitted with a caravan. Always at the leading edge of comfort, even in the 1920s (the company could trace its history back to 1928), its vans were fitted with ice-boxes, water tanks and electric lighting. Carapark's most iconic model, colloqulally known as 'the toaster' was introduced in 1939, with a distinct square shape. As well as building for holiday makers, Carapark built models for the Snowy River Scheme, food vendors, mine offices and mobile army recruitment offices.
We'll have a 1947 Carapark Supurb on display, an all steel beauty owned by Richard Potter of ourtouringpast.com.au. It's one of the most intact examples of an early Carapark in existence with all original features – even that colour scheme.
The 1950s was significant as the decade we were introduced to Viscount, Sunliner and Coronet. It was also a time when caravans and caravan holidays were in boom, thanks to the rise of a middle-class in post-war Australia. Thousands of caravans were home-built using simple materials from designs drawn up from the imagination or taken from caravanning magazines and guides of the time.
Australia's first lightweight fibreglass van, and arguably one of our most recognisable, the Sunliner caravans were the vision of Bert Tickner and built in Forster, New South Wales, which back in the late 50s and 60s, was an eight-hour drive north of Sydney.
Much like the pioneering vision of R.J. Rankin of Carapark, Tickner wanted to build a caravan that any car could tow, even a Volkswagen Beetle. A man passionate about the decentralisation of industry, he tried hard to overcome the difficulties of running a manufacturing operation so far from a major centre, even employing the local bakery's oven at nights to temper the Perspex windows.
Early Sunliners are significant for the level of innovation they brought to caravans of the time. Tickner fitted them with independent suspension, fibreglass cabinets and interiors, and Perspex windows, rather than glass. However, as Tickner struggled with the cost of regional manufacturing, many of these features slowly disappeared from the vans. This van is one of the last three Sunliners ever built.
Bruce Binns is one of Australia's longest serving caravan and RV builders, having established Freeway back in 1965. Over more than 50 years, and some significant setbacks, his company is still building caravans and motorhomes today, under the Avida monika.
From his days building a single trayback camper and parking it out the front of his Hornsby factory until it was sold, Bruce's company has battled through a bank foreclosure and legal challenges over the name Winnebago, yet despite that has always been a trendsetter in the Aussie RV game.
This early Freeway, built on the back of an HQ Holden Kingswood, is a great example of how far the company, and the industry has come.
If Bruce Binns is the father of Aussie motorhoming, then Roger Fagan is the father of camper trailers. Responsible for the invention of soft-floor campers and the progression of hard-floor campers in Australia, arguably the company's greatest success through the 60s and 70s came from the Cub Drifter, a lifting-roof camper trailer with an off-road focus that's been responsible for many comfortable family laps of Australia. Amazingly, despite the fact it hasn't been on sale for nearly 20 years, it's still just as relevant today as it was in its heyday.
Also on display, although not pictures here, will be one of Jayco's first camper trailers, a mint-condition Viscount Grand tourer and a history of caravanning in Australia through the ages. Come and say hello, or help us fill in some historical gaps.


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Cumin is an aromatic plant widely used in North Africa.
Arabic cuisine, Indian, Mexican and also use cumin in the stew, and soups, rice, bread, taj ... In the countries of North Africa is found under the name Kamoun (Kammoun).
He has a taste that enhances the kitchen and sauces, this is a very fragrant spice used primarily in cooking fish.
Cumin sold by Oriental Souk comes directly from Tunisia, where the spice is ground and prepared the traditional way, by hand.


We had a restful day. We did a lot yesterday so today we were going to stay home and rest. I watered the flowers that are in pots. They dry out quickly. Then, I watered the flower bed where the glads are. There are two up now so hopefully the other 38 are going to make an appearance soon. I now have three hostas out of ten up. Only two asparagus plants though. dr wanted to go mail a letter so he asked me if the post office was open today. No, it wasn't. Our post office puts out mail but it doesn't open windows on Saturday. I think they don't do much mail either. So, since his letter needed to go out today we went up to Prescott Valley to their post office. I thought I knew where it was and the sign said Prescott Valley, Az post office. But he couldn't mail his letter because it was a commercial post office, what ever that is. Never heard there was a difference. But they told him where the retail post office was located. I know the corner but never knew there was a post office on that corner. When he came out of the commercial post office there was an outside mail box so he put his letter in it. It said mail went out at 4 pm today. Then, since we were so close we went to the flea market to just walk around. It was so crowded and there were so many cars that it was hard to see anything. I only wanted to buy one thing and the man must not have wanted to sell it very badly because the price was way too high for a flea market. I came home without it. We started to go to a yard sale but with traffic being so bad we just came home. Didn't need anything anyway. I read for awhile and dr was cleaning in the bedroom. I started putting bears in a big box to be stored until company goes home. dr came and moved the box. I put the two little white lawn chairs outside. I'm trying to decide if I want to leave them out. I've sat a plant on each chair and put the chairs by a table. I've moved this and that and now there is seating available in the living room. Still need to dust a bit and run the vaccum. Dining room needs vaccumed and the table needs cleaned off AGAIN. I think the table has a big magnet under it. It pulls everything in the house to it. How else can it be cluttered ten minutes after I clean it off? I read a bit this afternoon and worked on my quilting project. I've almost finished the monkey. I think I will have 9 out of 12 done. I think I will take one apart. I don't like the way I did it. I know it won't matter but I'll know it's not right. I did buy quilt batting for it yesterday. Couldn't find the right size and when I got home I noticed the store sold it by the yard. I didn't see it but maybe I didn't look very hard. I did find the prepackaged kind and it will work nicely. I went out and walked around with Chance and we took some pictures. I resized them and loaded them to photobucket and put some here on gardenstew. I made ahi tuna and rice and salad for supper. dr bought a small leg of lamb for tomorrow. It's called semiboneless. So does it have a bone or not. dr says there is a lamb out there with a semi-bone. I had to take a antihistamine tonight due to the mulberry tree pollen and the wind. It was quite windy this afternoon but not windy enough to blow the pollen away. It was forecast rain for tomorrow but now I see it's just going to be cloudy.
You ended up having an eventful day anyway Dooley.I hope your allergies are better todayYou did get lots achieved weather you intended to or not.I would love to see that lamb with the semi bone.What they want think of next.
I can not resist a flea market. end up buying something I never use. I guess that is why there are flea markets.
It is nearly 20:00 here, so I am off to bed too.


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Ormuzd lub Ahura Mazda (dosł. Pan Mądry, Pan Wszystkowiedzący; staroperski: Ahuramazda, średnioperski: Ohrmazd, Ormuzd, Hormuzd, Ohrmizd) – najwyższe bóstwo w religiach irańskich: mazdaizmie i zaratusztrianizmie. Bóg stworzyciel, walczący stale ze Złym Duchem Arymanem. Stwórca świata i ładu w kosmosie i praw nim rządzących, uosobienie ładu i absolutnej mądrości. Jego symbolem jest oczyszczający ogień. Wyobrażany był w postaci uskrzydlonej tarczy słonecznej.

Opowieść o Ormuździe i Arymanie
Na początku były dwa duchy: Ormuzd (Ahura Mazda) i Aryman (Angra Mainju). Ormuzd przebywał w górze, w nieskończonym blasku. Aryman w dole, w mroku nieprzeniknionym. Wszystko co dobre – mądrość, prawość, jasność, piękno – zawarte było w Ormuździe, wszystko co złe w Arymanie. I tak było od nieskończoności. Aż wydarzyło się, że promień blasku przeniknął mrok i Aryman poznał, że nie jest sam, że jest jeszcze coś innego. Przyciągnięty blaskiem podążył w górę i chciał ową jasność pochwycić. Ormuzd jednak przemądry rzucił w niego słowem modlitwy, które odebrało siły władcy ciemności, tak że spadł w przepaść i przebywał tam przez trzy tysiące lat.

Amszaspandowie
Ormuzd, pozostając jednością, posiada siedem emanacji, zwanych świetlistymi Istotami, które można też rozumieć jako atrybuty Ormuzda i nazwy cnót, którymi powinien cechować się wyznawca zaratusztrianizmu:
 Spenta Mainju – "Święty Duch", będący "podstawową substancją" Ormuzda
 Wohu Manah (Bahman) – "Dobra Myśl"
 Ardibeheszt (Asza Wahiszta, Arta Wahiszta) – "Najlepsza Prawość", "Ład Należyty"
 Spenta Aramaiti (Spandarmat) – "Święte Oddanie", "Pobożna Cierpliwość"
 Chszatra Wairja (Szachriwar) – "Panowanie nad pożądaniem", "Panowanie Zwycięskie"
 Haurwatat (Chordad) – "Zdrowie"
 Ameretat, Amuratat (Mordad) – "Długie Życie", "Nieśmiertelność"

Antropogonia
W jednej z wersji mitów z potu Ormuzda walczącego z Arymanem przyszedł na świat pierwszy człowiek, Kajomars. W innej wersji synem Ormuzda i Spandarmat był Gajomart.

Ormuzd w popkulturze
 W kaszubskiej epopei Aleksandra Majkowskiego Życie i przygody Remusa Ormuzd jest symbolem dobrych sił działających w dziejach Kaszub.
 W grze Prince of Persia z 2008 roku bohaterowie – Książę i księżniczka Elika, jedna z ostatnich z Ahurów – walczą z demonami służącymi Arymanowi, który niemalże uwolnił się z Drzewa Światła, w którym zamknięty został przez Ormuzda. Elika opowiada, że miało to miejsce ponad tysiąc lat wcześniej, zaś po tym wydarzeniu Ormuzd odszedł, nakazując Ahurom pilnowanie Drzewa. Bóstwo nie powróciło do krainy, którą spowił mrok Arymana, tak więc ponowne zapieczętowanie go w Drzewie staje się obowiązkiem bohaterów, wykorzystujących moce Ormuzda.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Maria Składankowa, Mitologia Iranu, seria: Mitologie Świata, Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, Warszawa 1989,
 Olmstead A. T., Dzieje imperium perskiego, PIW, Warszawa 1974, s. 105 - 116.

Bóstwa perskie
Zaratusztrianizm
Bóstwa stworzenia

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I'm trying to imagine the bureaucrat's desk piled high with three weeks of unopened mail. Or else maybe he's been sitting there for the last three weeks thinking "uh-oh, what excuse can I give this time?"
You would think he would just put the USB stick in his computer, attach the hard drive, copy and paste and be done with it.
I'll be curious as to how he responds and what the "normal" turnaround time is for these things.
Well, if we are to judge at all based on their first response, it is apparently 1 year before any sort of written message can get printed and put in an envelope.
So copying a hard drive - even if a blank hard drive and the envelope are provided? Uhh, let's see ... 100 years. Approximately.
Just got off the phone with Mister Paynter of the National Archives. The reason I called was because I finally received a response from him in the form of TWO giant envelopes of paper - hundreds of pages of single-sided printed papers with only lists of file folders and their contents by sorted physical file - scanned into PDF format. The documents themselves, undisclosed, are something like a couple terabytes of data - blocked by this wall of paper. Nice move.
I received a written response from my appeal to the NARA chief also - boss sez David Paynter is doing a great job - no need to appeal for a different helper. All I can say is it has been the most polite Kafka-esque bureaucracy I've ever encountered. Slick and decorated in clouds of politeness.
Apparently, how the FAA archive was brought/sent to them was in the form of a series of PDF images that had been scanned. Being impossible to release electronically, as the statement sent along with it goes, this is the only available method of them to clarify my research for me ... allegedly, I guess.
Now here is where the story gets a little interesting. The FAA, if you remember - if not, you can read above - said that NARA basically came and collected all the information they wanted in regards to 9/11 because that was how it was to be organized. However, in my phone call to Mister Paynter, he said the FAA essentially sent the information and NARA acquired it because it was deemed worthy of keeping. It was difficult to tell what exactly he was saying - and I'm certain U.S. citizens are not encouraged to record phone conversations as often as their government does with them, so unfortunately you'd have to take my word on this - but he gave me the impression that his was a rather timid organization, unable to do research or perform updates of their files, and unwilling because it wasn't their job anyway. This sounds great - we should prefer they remain as purely mechanical an organization as possible, no? They simply collected information deemed by the office as 'more permanently valuable' than other information. Yet - if the FAA is saying NARA took all the files and acted a bit powerless in the matter, but NARA itself is acting like their hands are tied on what is 'important' or 'unimportant' - who is making the decision to collect what information in the first place?
He hinted at, without saying, that the buck stops at NARA.
Curious about archive.org and its relationship to the 9/11 television archives and September Clues, I was corrected that archive.org has absolutely nothing to do with NARA and that if I was seeking further investigation, I might try looking at NARA's Commission Report web site. Again.
When it comes to the case of the missing load manifests, David simply said, "Have fun reading," to which I could only laugh and reply, "Well, I am a fast reader, so I'll be sure to come up with something if anything for my next response." They offer to print me more paper, if I identify a set of images I would like to see. I asked how I was going to find whether a document existed by searching through an ambiguous list of images of the text I need, based - not on any samples or text - but on curt item descriptions and file names of the images - with no ability to look at the images that they refer to. He said he didn't know - that was the reason he printed the whole thing.
Surely, this is a way of trying to say, "You cannot prove we don't have the document because you don't know what all this nonsense means," but to be fair to David's official personality traits he presented to me, he said - exasperatedly - that he couldn't find anything himself and he definitely didn't know why something didn't come up if it did exist.
We really failed to stop our government from doing this to us without any checks. I am starting to think it's mostly the people's fault for being so stupid about it all - myself included. Hollywood has really messed with our imaginations on how the world works. This is how they force their way. Walls of storytelling when they've spent their collective emotional citizen-acceptance of bombs.
P.S. - Fred, they sent me the thumb drive back - unopened.
The new system is not allowing me to post a reply on the appropriate thread for some reason.
I would say you are making progress. If there's 2 TB of data, and they're pdf files, that's good news because 1 TB drives are under $100.
One approach might be to break the stack of papers you received in to 3 piles (or 5, it doesn't matter so much).
Then send the the smaller stack (1/3 of the deck) and request all of the pdf files be transfered onto your 1TB drive.
You could repeat that 3 times and have the whole set of documents.
Another approach is flip through the stack and cherry pick say 15 interesting pages and ask that all files on that page be transfered to your USB device.
Lets say he sent you 1000 pages representing 2TB of data. 1024GB ~ 1TB, therefore you're looking at about 2 GB of scanned pdf per page in his data dump.
So, find 3 pages that look promising, and request that those be put on your USB stick while you raise a $300 for several terabyte sized drives. After you get the sample of the data set you might then request the 2 TB data set be copied over.
$89.99 gets you one 1.5 TB portable drive. Conservatively, that ought to hold the first third of the stack he sent you.
They can't really try the "we'll pay you in bags of pennies" approach because while the rent may be too damn high, storage is too damn cheap.
I still say grab it all. Send them 200 pages of their data dump and ask them to fill your 1.5 TB drive.
Anyone got $100 to buy hoi a drive and some postage stamps?
Sorry about that - you should be able to post again in 9/11 and 7/7 areas now.
Actually, the guy told me that I shouldn't expect a way to get all the information; they want me to select a few files where I think it should be and that's what they'll send me. I'd like to keep pushing but he was pretty slick on the topic - it doesn't seem they want such massive information being released at once. I expect if it was all subject to close scrutiny it wouldn't pass the smell test, but this way they can try to convince people that we don't have rightful reason to look.
Something called AAL Record "Passenger Name List Flight 11/September 11", undated. Probably having to do with American Airlines.
Something called "UAL report", which might have to do with United Airlines' "troubled" holding company UAL.
Yet in 2000, UAL's fortunes began to dim. In April 2000, the ESOP investment period ended for most US employees, prompting United's unions to fight for higher wages. Labor issues, air traffic congestion and poor weather forced UAL's United unit to implement widespread flight cancellations in the summer of 2000, harming the airline's reputation. Additionally, UAL Corporation announced its intent to merge with US Airways Group, Inc., the operator of American airline US Airways. The deal collapsed in mid-2001, due to lack of support from the U.S. government and employees. Then came the tragedy of September 11. The company ended 2001 with a record loss of $2.1 billion.
As losses continued in 2002, Glenn Tilton, a former Texaco CEO with experience operating a company in bankruptcy, was brought in by UAL's Board of Directors to try and prevent bankruptcy, or, if needed, successfully guide the company through a bankruptcy process. Tilton was appointed Chairman, President, and CEO of UAL Corporation and United Air Lines, Inc. in September 2002. Tilton sought wage cuts from employees and applied for a U.S. government loan guarantee to avoid filing for bankruptcy. By early December, the company had reached agreements with most of its unions for wage reductions, but its loan application was rejected Dec. 4. On Dec. 9, UAL and its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. UAL quickly received debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing to allow it to continue "business as usual" while it reorganized its debt, capital and cost structures. The year ended with UAL seeking immediate voluntary wage reductions from all employee groups or permission from the bankruptcy court to impose those reductions in order to meet the strict covenants established by the DIP lenders.
Now, one would presume the other holding corporation is AAL, right? Well ... maybe not. Apparently, American Airlines is actually owned by AMR Corporation, and American Airlines is only referred to as AAL when in some kind of lawful nickname. Did they sloppily put together the reference "AAL" because no such thing actually exists? I am having a hard time on this particular lead.
Who cares what NARA's or Mr Paynter want? He's a public servant--a bureaucrat.
Of course he wants you to give up and go away quietly.
How much money did NARA waste scanning 2 TB of FAA documents that nobody can see?
They have the documents you want in PDF format. NARA can't be bothered to search and find you the passenger manifests you asked for, so instead they sent you 500 pages of folder titles. The only way to get the flight manifests is to get all those folders on your computer and search for it yourself.
He's got a little more than $120 worth of data at today's hard disk prices. You're a US Citizen and you have every right to that data that the taxpayers paid to have archived.
I would send him a disk drive and the first third of the stack he sent you. Ask for all those files so you can look yourself for the missing passenger manifest. You can follow-up with your Congressman and Senator if they stonewall you.
I would send a follow-up FOIA asking for the dollar amount they spent on this big scanning project and asking for Mr Paynter's duties and annual salary and the number of public employees NARA have on their payroll.
If the National Archives can't fill up a measly $89 hard drive with files of THE WORST TERRORIST ATTACK IN WORLD HISTORY, what good are they?
He can fill up your disk with documents or he can get sued and ruin his government career.
He sent you 500 pages; you can send him 200 pages back and ask for the files associated with each one. That's perfectly reasonable. Let's see what's in these files.
If the manifest you're looking for isn't in the first 200 pages, it must be in the last 300 pages.
What possible justification can they have for not providing you with the files that have ALREADY BEEN SCANNED IN TO PDF FORMAT? Tell him to stop being lazy and copy the files you need. Next stop is the GAO, the head of NARA, and your elected officials.
Well, listen how about this - if you're a USA citizen or know a USA citizen, file another FOIA request for the entire contents. Let's get ten people all filing for them to be released.
That should speed things along rather nicely.
Absolutely no airport documentation outside that provided by the flight control towers such as airline-to-regulation organization documents, etc.?
So I have found some relevant information to the flight load manifests - perhaps 100 files. I sent the request today and I anxiously await their response.
Question 2: If the PIC becomes aware of an actual passenger count that differs from the manifest, must he resolve that difference before departing?
Response: Yes, to the extent that the miscount affects such safety issues as aircraft weight and balance calculations. See the discussion to Question No. 1.
Section 121.665, however, if the load manifest has the names of 100 passengers but the PIC notices that actually there are 110 passengers on board, then the air carrier, not the PIC, is in violation of the regulation. Likewise, if the PIC takes off and the load manifest only shows the names of 100 passengers although 110 are on board, the air carrier would be in violation of Section 121.693(e).
Question 3: If the PIC reports the discrepancy to the certificate holder prior to departure and is advised to nevertheless operate the flight by the certificate holder, may he (the PIC) do so?
accurate passenger information, including accurate weight information. See discussion in Response to Question No. 1.
Question 4: Does the PIC have any responsibility for a passenger count discrepancy other than reporting it to the certificate holder? If so, what is the responsibility?
Response: Yes. See response to Question No. 1.
Thank you for your inquiry. We hope this has been responsive to your request. This response was prepared by Carol Moors Toth, attorney, Operations Law Branch, and coordinated with the Air Transportation Division of the Flight Standards Service.
Just to be clear, it is a significant safety violation to take off without the passenger manifest. If the 9/11 airplanes were real, where is the evidence for the load manifests? I sincerely hope NARA responds to my latest message on the FOIA case.
...but did you know that the official take-off time ranges for these flights are - chronologically - in that very order?
HOW CONTRIVED CAN YOU GET?
It is extremely bad if a company doesn't answer the FAA requirement for a manifest for each and every flight. It is "more than frowned upon" according to my conversation with an FAA official. Combined with the idea that these very alleged flights somehow got into an accident that is supposed to have had weight play an integral part of the accident story (thin aluminum inexplicably barging through thick steel structures) the companies responsible would have to face some kind of negligence fees beyond any previously known. American Airlines and United Airlines would have to have copies of the manifests that the FAA don't. If not them, the NTSB.
However - a single office - NARA - collected all the 9/11 data in the country according to the FAA.
The facts that NARA cannot turn up any documents of the load manifests in the FAA, and that they don't have any 9/11 documents for American Airlines or United Airlines, and that they seem to be strongly delaying their response to my FOIA for the documents in the FAA archive that can lead to more clues ... all tell me there are no such documents in existence unless they are amongst the government Commission documents not subject to FOIA.
If they are in the government Commission documents, then why does the Commission cite four wildly varied sources other than flight manifests for their numbers?
AAL Record "Passenger Name List Flight 11/September 11", undated.
FAA report, "Executive Summary Chronology of a Multiple Hijacking Crisis, September 11, 2001," September 17, 2001; UAL report, Flight 175, Flight Data Recap; UAL response to Commission questions for the record, May 13, 2004.
email response from Christopher R. Christensen to Commission questions for the record, January 20, 2004.
UAL response to Commission questions for the record, April 5, 2004.
And why do the lists of supposed dead fail to produce consistent numbers? Of any of the names listed as passengers, why do their pictures resemble computer generated, fictional persons and why do only four of the names attached to such poor simulations of people actually connect to a Social Security number in the SSDI?
THE "HIJACKED" 9/11 AIRPLANES AND THEIR PASSENGERS ARE ENTIRELY FICTIONAL AND BARELY EXIST ON PAPER.
Now, ask yourself: why exactly would there have to be a vast international conspiracy to tell us all this after it took us 9 years to deduce? Those are some pretty ballsy psychic perps if we were "meant" to figure this out as some have alleged!
I am researching the alleged flights of 9/11 and I noticed your name in the U.S.A. government's Commission's findings as a name interviewed to get passenger information. Would you be willing to let me ask some questions about your experience with the Commission?
I am specifically trying to locate the flight load manifests that should have been filled out for the American Airlines and United Airlines aircraft that were apparently hijacked on that day. It may be of utmost national importance that the public finds these documents and any leads you could provide would be most beneficial to the United States citizenry, its government and the world at large.
NARA has responded to my FOIA request. They are compiling material but say they cannot wave the processing fee because they don't feel anyone's life is in immediate danger.
I don't suppose they count innocent Middle Eastern women and children as valuable life. It is clearly meant as an insult to peace lovers everywhere that my reason for investigating these topics - which I made explicitly clear was to identify traitorous factions within our government who are goosestepping with the war profiteers instead of serving the democratic system erected by the people - is dismissed as reason enough to waive the processing fees.
No life in danger, NARA? You mean, our brave men and women serving abroad in foreign wars of aggression with no strategic advantage to the United States and too much loss of life already? Our very soldiers are not valuable life? NARA - DO YOU NOT SUPPORT OUR TROOPS?
In my opinion, this is just cowardly bureaucracy afraid of their own people finding the truth and not an intelligent decision based on their own policy. It seems strongly that they care more about denying me my right to these documents to preserve American democracy and save lives from errant wars ... than they care about doing their job the way they themselves describe their own position. However, my only recourse - accorded in the letter - is to write that I feel I have been "denied" - a rather ridiculous "option" they have given - and/or wait for some extortionist price tag they would charge for these documents - documents that may amount to nothing that points to the flight manifests or anything I am seeking. Documents that may be useless paperwork left in the publicly accessible government archive so that no FOIA will ever release actually meaningful data.
To make matters more ridiculous, though I have been pursuing every avenue offered, the FAA claims the manifests should exist in a government archive related explicitly to 9/11. The trouble is, there are only two archives - the NARA files and the Commission Report.
If the NARA files do not contain any evidence of the load manifests, the only option for the public is to demand the entirety of the files of the Commission be released to the American public by special action. Pretty soon, we may have a very good case for millions of Americans to write their representatives to demand release of the Commission files. The case is already strong enough, but depending on what the FOIA provides, it may get even more obvious the time for this kind of grassroots movement is needed. I hope to uncover something of real documentary value on the 9/11 airplanes issue. The outlook is not great.
Still waiting for that list with an exorbitant pricetag they promised me. Well, NARA?


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A Greek default would be painful. It was for Argentina and still is in some ways. But Argentines adjusted.
The news this week has provided a portrait of remorseless murder and terror. But it has also offered the smallest glimpse of the reckoning that can come after.
The Supreme Court's upholding of a key part of the Affordable Care Act further entrenches the controversial – but increasingly durable – law.
Thorny issues surrounding Greece and Iran are coming down to the wire. What happens next will require wisdom and care.
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India to become a full member of MTCR) Missile Technology Control Regime :- After the sign the document of accession, India will become the member of Missile Technology Control Regime(MTCR) after three days it failed to get into NSG due to the opposition of China and four other countries. It is the India's first entry into any multilateral export control regime.
Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that India had applied for the membership of MTCR in the year of 2014 and India have been completed all the procedural formalities. Tomorrow, S Jaishankar, The Foreign Secretary, will sign the document of accession into MTCR in the presence of Ambassadors of France, Netherlands and Luxembourg.
China which oppose the India's entry in NSG is not the member of MTCR. China also applied for the membership of MTCR in 2004. But MTCR didnot offer the membership to China because of concerns about China's export control standard.
Last year Italy opposed the India's membership in MTCR over the marine disputes. Italy softened his opposition after India allowed to return the two marine of Italy. The two marine of Italy accused of murdering of two fishermen on the Kerala coast in 2012.
India also got a boost to get entry into MTCR after india agreed to join the Hague Code of Conduct which deals with the ballistic missile non-proliferation arrangements.
The membership of MTCR will help/enable India to increase its joint venture with Russia and to buy high end missile technologies.
MTCR established in April 1987 by the group of G7 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and USA. It was created in order to curb the spread of unmanned delivery systems for nuclear weapons, specifically delivery systems that could carry a minimum payload of 500 kg for a minimum of 300 km.
In the year of 2002, the MTCR was supplemented by the International Code of Conduct against Ballistic missile Proliferation, also known as the Hague Code of Conduct, which calls for restraint and care in the proliferation of ballistic missile systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
In November 2010, US President Barack Obama announced his nation's support for India's entry into the MTCR during his state visit to India. India applied for the membership of MTCR in year of 2014. India is the newest member of MTCR with consensus of the current 34 nations.
Aishwarya says NO to film with Emraan Hashmi! The reason will leave you JAW-DROPPED!


Richard Morgan is a British Science Fiction author whose first novel was 2001's "Altered Carbon", a science fiction murder mystery set on Earth several centuries in the future that quickly gained a reputation as a modern classic of the genre. Every science fiction universe tends to have a defining technological gimmick; in this case, it is the use of technology that allows a human mind to be digitised. A person's mind can be captured by equipment implanted in the base of their skull, retaining all of the person's memories up to the moment of death (assuming that the equipment itself isn't damaged in any fatal incident). It can then be scanned in from the corpse (or from a living person) and transferred or stored like any other form of computer data. If a recently deceased person has enough money he can have his personality re-implanted into a new clone. Rich people also have regular 'backups' taken so that even if their body's own storage is damaged beyond repair they still have a recent record of the state of their mind.
The concept makes for a murder mystery with a difference. When a rich and powerful Californian businessman named Bancroft is killed, the police investigation quickly decides that he committed suicide. After his digital backup is installed into a clone body he refuses to accept the decision – claiming that he would never commit suicide and that the police are prejudiced against him. The man he calls upon to investigate the cause of his death is Takeshi Kovacs – a mercenary and former member of the elite UN Envoy Corps, a military unit feared throughout the galaxy for their effectiveness and ruthlessness. Taken out of a virtual prison and beamed across light-years Kovacs finds himself on Earth for the first time. He is faced with the dual challenges of a puzzling mystery and culture shock from the huge differences between Earth and the colony worlds.
Kovacs is a very charismatic character, despite his abrasive personality, obvious serious personality flaws and tendency for excessive violence. Many of his actions may be quite well intentioned, but he is a former mercenary with a very murky background and he is quite willing to shoot first (and second, and third and…) and then ask questions later. His investigations soon manage to irritate some of the more powerful locals, and he finds himself the target of assassins. However, Kovacs has an aptitude for combat and anyone who gets in his way would be well advised to have had a digital backup made recently. The supporting characters – such as Bancroft, his scheming wife and the policewoman leading the investigation (who is both a help and a hindrance to Kovacs) – are often intriguing, and although the actions of various characters may sometimes be reprehensible Morgan does provide some explanations for why they act the way they do.
The futuristic background is convincing and interesting, and although it has been influenced by past dystopian science fiction and cyberpunk, there is also a fair amount of originality. Like all the best science fiction mysteries the explanation for the crime is inextricably linked to the futuristic technology and society – although it does take a long time for the reader to have any clue about what might be going on. The biggest criticism might be that the plot does seem to ramble a bit, not until the end is the structure of the plot revealed and until then it mainly consists of Kovacs collecting seemingly unconnected leads and engaging in occasional brutal action set-pieces. There's also a James Bond moment towards the end where Kovacs and the villain discuss the villain's evil plot for a few minutes instead of immediately trying to kill each other. Early on it is also a bit difficult to care too much about the outcome – the effects of the crime on Bancroft are purely temporary and he isn't particularly likeable anyway. However, as the plot progresses it becomes clear that Bancroft is far from being the biggest victim of the events leading up to his death. In addition to the investigation, we get more than a few flashbacks to earlier incidents in Kovacs' life – from his underprivileged upbringing on a squalid colony world to a disastrous military campaign on Innelin. These flashbacks are interesting, and help to explain Kovacs' unique character, but they do distract from the main plot to some extent.
The action sequences are possibly the most memorable part of the book – although anyone squeamish might want to consider reading something else. The action is violent, uncompromising, fast-moving, clearly-described and sometimes more than a bit unpleasant. Kovacs' occasional outbreaks of idealism mean that he ends up being more of a vigilante than an investigator and the fact that some of his opponents are truly despicable does make it easy for the reader to support him, even if Kovacs isn't necessarily a much better person than the people he is fighting against.
In summary, a fast-moving, intelligent, entertaining and ambitious science fiction novel whose only flaw is an occasional lack of focus.


I have included links to the websites that I frequently refer to that happen to be relevant to my work as a gospel preaching community activist and which I have found to be helpful in the past. In the main, much of the good stuff contained in these websites is freely accessible, is relatively easy to navigate and there is not too many irritating adverts that hinder one from getting what is wanted. I have also included some fun stuff relating to my other interests. I updated this page (07/11/14) to accommodate additional sites and no doubt there are many more worth visiting, but more than two years on (06/04/17) a further update has been undertaken (bringing the number up to 30 – plus a few extra that happens to relate for good measure) and now my latest update (01/02/18) to check links and make minor tweeks, although much of what I had prior to then still applies, even if certain links I don't go to much these days. The main stipulation is the website is free, anyone can access it (at least in the UK) and that stuff it contains is helpful and does not contain stuff I deem harmful or rude. I try to be balanced but recognise my selection not only reflects my interests but in cases my biases also.
The BBC website contains many strings to its bow. Besides being able to keep up to date with its good coverage of world news and a wide range of sports, I find here I can watch or listen to TV or radio, live and archived. I don't watch much TV and if I do it is usually from my desktop linked to the Internet. I watch some live sport and some favourites like "Strictly Come Dancing". I listen to radio more, usually Radio 4, and while doing other things. regularly listen to the Archers and Test Match Special podcasts and have found myself recently listening to past episodes of "Desert Island Discs" and "In Our Time", and occasionally radio drama, which is usually good.
Biblegateway is simply the best for providing a free online Bible (in most of the versions commonly used today) and Bible aids. As a preacher, I find this an indispensable resource e.g. word searches, and there are other resources e.g. commentaries and dictionaries that make life so much easier. I often read the Bible while listening to it being read same time. A recently discovered example of a free audio Internet Bible is the King James Version Audio Bible.
Brethrenhistory is one of a number of places I might go to pursue my interest in history, especially church history, of which a lot can be found on the Internet, and in this case the history of a group I belonged to for most of my life, albeit with mixed endorsement.
Chess.com is an online facility, which is free, where you can play chess, chat or use its many resources, although you can pay for some useful extras, and is one I use regularly to play games (around 12 at any one time), usually along 3 days per move correspondence lines, with people from all round the world (my tag is jrb136). I will accept challenges to play from readers who sign up. One of the helpful features of chess.com is being able to analyse moves. Another helpful site for analysing moves is chessnextmove.
Christian Concern is a great resource for alerting me to developments in our culture that ought to concern Christians, especially around culture war issues that we must not ignore. Other informative Christian sites that I find helpful are: Christian Institute, CARE and Evangelical Alliance, although I'm helped by getting weekly what's new type of bulletins from these organisations.
The Drudge Report is a recent discovery and an important weapon in my trying to find balanced reporting, even though Matt Drudge is more aligned to the alt right. While he is often maligned, his website is more popular than many mainstream outlets. While he gives more credence to alternative news sources, many of his links are to mainstream media. It is no frills and Drudge has a remarkable knack of reporting stuff that matters.
Facebook along with Twitter is a popular social networking site. I have a Twitter account but hardly use it as most of my friends and followers aren't avid twitterers. I do have my own Facebook account that I now find myself using this on a daily basis, and to notify friends of new blog posts on my website. It is useful for finding out what is going on in the world from a non mainstream media perspective, what some of my growing circle of "friends" are up to and are thinking and sometimes I have robust exchanges on some or other issue. I realise there is a danger of this causing us to escape from the real world and personal relationships, yet I acknowledge its power to get one's message across. I do have qualms about Facebook being a monopoly and it does censor and share personal info.
Fox News is a recent discovery from when I was following the Trump campaign, and since my liberal friends were often not keen I decided to go to, although these days it is more via You Tube, checking the latest from the likes of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro. There are other US mainstream news broadcasters of course, that suit less conservative tastes, which I go to for balance, but Fox is my preferred choice.
Freedictionary is just that – great when stuck for a word or when I have a posh word but need confirmation on its meaning.
Focus on the Family is decidedly American but I like it because it deals with one of the important issues of our day – the family as well as a number of other matters about modern culture that I care about, and provides some helpful resources. I particularly like some of the daily half hour radio broadcasts, especially those that relate to culture war matters. I have to confess these days I don't go there much but in the early days did so regularly.
The Guardian is a more radical source although still mainstream and it has now replaced the Daily Telegraph (affectionately referred to as the Torygraph for obvious reasons and once the newspaper I read each day) as the British newspaper I find my myself accessing online regularly for its helpful articles. Like most British newspapers it now has an online version. When it comes to blogging, I find I often refer here to articles, as I do the Times and Independent etc. While I regularly refer to these sources, I am often disappointed because of an inherent bias that fails to cover all that is pertinent or give credence to alternative views, some of which I hold. Bear in mind not everything on these news sites is free.
Google has been my preferred Internet search engine of choice for some time now. While not telepathic, more often than not it comes up trumps even for the most obscure searches. My concern is its near monopoly position, its shutting down of those whose views are deemed unacceptable and its complicity in spying on users.
The Huffington Post is an interesting daily online newspaper with an alternative, radical feel, that I find I am often drawn to, although it often annoys because of its liberal bias.
Info Wars is a recently discovered website hosted by charismatic, conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, who is in the forefront of providing an alternative to mainstream media and presenting breaking news you might not get elsewhere, and if you can get past the rant, anger and waffle, often has something important to say, which often you can't find out elsewhere or much later on. Unsurprisingly, Alex Jones is not popular with elements of the establishment. He does a four hour radio broadcast that can be accessed by YouTube.
Israel Today purports to be balanced but isn't, but then what is? Nothing I have come across yet provides a fully balanced account of what is happening in Israel and the Middle East. Notwithstanding, its Zionist position, it attempts to be fair and does provide helpful reporting on what is going on.
Mental Health Foundation is as good as anywhere for getting free resources and information about mental health.
The Mind Unleashed is a recent discovery but often comes up with some amazing and disturbing revelations that I find myself checking out. I get most of my notifications via Facebook. Of a similar ilk is The Free Thought Project. While I do not agree with everything, there is a lot of material to give food for thought and challenge the official narrative.
Pink News provides news that may interest gay folk in particular or those following developments around these issues. Its reporting is just about fair and balanced and it offers a lively reader comments section (and they do), but not one for the faint hearted, especially if you believe that to be gay is NOT ok.
Poetry Foundation is a great resource for finding out about poets and their poems. Most of my favorite poems are there.
Providence Baptist Church like a lot of websites (sadly) has not been maintained for a while, but it is the website of the church I belong to and still contains useful information, including sermons, a few of which I have preached.
SAVS is the website of an umbrella organisation for the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) in Southend and contains lots of up to date information to do with the local community.
Southend Borough Council offers something that these days is encouraged: electronic data sharing and provides lots of useful information and resources where the council are involved Add /SIWG2 to find out more about the Southend Interfaith Working Group, a group I happen to be involved with.
Southend Community-in-Harmony, Trust Links and Love Southend are three organisations I was involved with in my early days as a community activist and with which I still maintain links. Of the websites, the community-in-harmony has recently been removed as it is likely to wind down, although there are a number of other references on the web, including You Tube. Trust Links is fairly well maintained and Love Southend is sporadically maintained but contains lots of interesting historical data.
Southend Echo is the newspaper I read daily to be kept in touch with local news. This website is the electronic version of some of it. You can subscribe to free daily updates.
Thinkexist is about quotations.There are some amazing quotations around about many different subjects from a whole variety of people, past and present. This website contains a lot of them.
Time magazine is something that comes through my door every week. as it has ever since my college days, and it provides useful perspectives and reports on what is happening in the world, not always apparent in British media. Unfortunately, to get all the online content you have to pay. I mention this merely because I find Time magazine to be a helpful resource for news despite its globalist bias, although I have to resort to the paper version as unprepared to pay for online content. Strictly speaking, Time should not appear here given it charges but one thing is free are memes on its front cover, which I sometimes use as a starting point for my blogs.
Unblocked – not sure I should admit to this because of possible copyright implications, but I have discovered this resource where you can freely download old films. Anyway, last I checked, it is no longer there but I daresay there are replacements if I cared to look.
Wikipedia is sometimes wrong, shallow and misleading but other than that it is a great resource and normally comes in very handy for elaborating to sufficient depth on a huge variety of knowledge.
WordPress is where I went to produce this website. It is cheap (can even be free), easy to set up (although admittedly I needed the help of my then 15 year old son) and can easily be maintained. I like to think this website is a good example of what can be done!
Youtube, as I understand it, is where anyone can post audio-visual clips on any subject under the sun, within reasonable limits, and all sorts of people, some I know, frequently do. I often visit this site to listen to the music I like (I usually find what I want) or to view or listen to footage on some event or other and/or hear people talk about things that interest them and offer their perspectives (especially when at variance to my own). One venture was to watch all past episodes of "Highway to Heaven", one of my all time favorite television shows. It is also useful for catching up on debates e.g. ahead of political elections. I have also heard some inspirational preachers as well as some I might be tempted to shoot. One recent discovery has been David Suchet reading the whole Bible (which like many discoveries is now removed because you have to pay). I still find it a great source for hearing / watching individuals with something to say (even if I disagree), and music of course.


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HOUSE BILL REPORT
This analysis was prepared by non-partisan legislative staff for the use of legislative members in their deliberations. This analysis is not a part of the legislation nor does it constitute a statement of legislative intent.
As Reported by House Committee On:
Title: An act relating to clarifying the collection process for existing vehicle service transactions.
Brief Description: Clarifying the collection process for existing vehicle service transactions.
Sponsors: Representatives Fey and Harmsworth.
Committee Activity:
Transportation: 1/18/18, 1/24/18 [DPS].
Brief Summary of Substitute Bill
Allows the Department of Licensing, county auditor or other agent, or subagent to collect service fees for both a title and nontitle transaction when these are completed at the same time.
Clarifies the title transaction and nontitle transaction service fees are collected in addition to all other fees and taxes required at application.
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Majority Report: The substitute bill be substituted therefor and the substitute bill do pass. Signed by 23 members: Representatives Clibborn, Chair; Fey, Vice Chair; Wylie, Vice Chair; Orcutt, Ranking Minority Member; Hargrove, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Harmsworth, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Chapman, Gregerson, Irwin, Kloba, Lovick, McBride, Ortiz-Self, Pellicciotti, Pike, Riccelli, Rodne, Shea, Stambaugh, Tarleton, Valdez, Van Werven and Young.
Staff: Patricia Hasan (786-7292).
The Department of Licensing (DOL), county auditor or other agent, or subagent appointed by the Director of the DOL (Director) collects a service fee of:
$12 for changes in a certificate of vehicle title, with or without simultaneous registration renewal, or for verification of record and preparation of an affidavit of lost title (title transactions); and
$5 for a registration renewal, issuing a transit permit, accepting a vessel registration, accepting a report of sale, and accepting a transitional ownership record (nontitle transactions).
The service fees collected by the DOL, county auditor, or other agent must be deposited into the Capital Vessel Replacement Account, authorized under RCW 47.60.322 and created in 2011. The service fees collected by subagents are self-retained.
When the ownership of a vehicle changes, a new registration is required by the new vehicle owner. Exceptions to this include:
when adding or removing a lienholder from the certificate of title;
when transferring the vehicle from one spouse or domestic partner to another;
when removing a deceased spouse or domestic partner from the certificate of title;
when transferring the vehicle as a gift to a member of the registered owner's immediate family;
when a leaseholder buys out the leased vehicle; or
when a person changes his or her name.
Therefore, along with most title transactions required for a change of vehicle ownership, a new registration is required as well. Both of these transactions can be completed for a service fee of $12.
Summary of Substitute Bill:
The DOL, county auditor or other agent, or subagent appointed by the Director can collect a total service fee of $17 when a title transaction and a nontitle transaction are conducted simultaneously ($12 for the title transaction plus $5 for the nontitle transaction). Nontitle transactions are most often vehicle registration renewals. Language is provided to clarify that service fees are collected in addition to any other taxes and fees due at the time of application for a title transaction or a registration transaction.
Substitute Bill Compared to Original Bill:
The effective date is changed from 90 days after adjournment of this session to April 1, 2019.
Appropriation: None.
Fiscal Note: Available.
Effective Date of Substitute Bill: The bill takes effect on April 1, 2019.
Staff Summary of Public Testimony:
(In support) There are 139 subagent offices in Washington that collect over $600 million in revenue annually on behalf of the state. For this work, subagents are only allowed to retain $5 for registration renewal transactions and $12 for title transactions. This bill does not increase the amount of these service fees; it creates consistency with the language regarding filing fees that are collected by the DOL, county auditors and subagents, and then remitted to county treasurers. Since 2014 subagents have been collectively losing $8 million in revenue per year because of an oversight, but they have experienced increasing costs for rent, payroll, mandatory paid leave, and other business expenses. Subagents cannot raise rates to customers to cover these increasing costs because rates are legislatively set. The last increase in the service fees that subagents retain occurred eight years ago.
Before 2014 license plates had to be replaced every seven years because of wear and tear on the plates. During this time, a person who had purchased a vehicle from someone else (nondealership transaction) could apply for a transfer of title on the vehicle, and the registration tabs would still be valid until their expiration date, at which time that person would return to renew their vehicle registration. This equated to two transactions for subagents, allowing them to collect the $12 service fee for the title transfer transaction and $5 for the registration renewal transaction when the customer returned. Legislation passed in 2014 and implemented on January 1, 2015, required the license plate replacement and new tab registration to occur at the time of transfer of ownership of the vehicle. This means that customers conduct one transaction with subagents for both the title and registration and do not need to return for a second transaction months later. Because language in statute only allows a service fee of $12 collected for a title transaction, with or without registration renewal included, subagents are only able to collect $12 for both transactions when they used to be able to collect both the $12 and the $5 service fees because the transactions occurred at different times. This bill would rectify this situation and allow subagents to collect more revenue and be more successful in the state.
(Opposed) None.
Persons Testifying: Representative Harmsworth; Corry Cavin and Chester Baldwin, Washington Association of Vehicle Subagents; Kevin David, Package Express; and Thad Duvall, Washington State Association of County Auditors.
Persons Signed In To Testify But Not Testifying: None.

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Shemekia Copeland – Photo Mike White / Alligator Records
PRESS RELEASE (ALLIGATOR RECORDS) — NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday will air an interview and performance with singer Shemekia Copeland on October 10. Host Scott Simon talks to Copeland about her new CD,Outskirts Of Love, and her life as "a fresh, gripping roots music performer." (Wall Street Journal)
MOJO magazine says, "It is Copeland's thrilling voice, part Koko Taylor, part Mavis Staples and capable of incredible expression, that makes Outskirts Of Love so super-special. Spectacular, stirring, sanctified and sassy…at the crossroads where funk meets blues rock. Her band, led by producer Oliver Wood, and featuring guests Billy F Gibbons, Robert Randolph, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Will Kimbrough, is faultless throughout."
Copeland's return to Alligator Records with Outskirts Of Love (she recorded four albums for the label from 1998 through 2006) finds her at her most charismatic. She mixes freshly written material with thrilling reinventions of songs originally recorded by Solomon Burke, ZZ Top, Jesse Winchester, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jesse Mae Hemphill and her father, the late Johnny Clyde Copeland. The result is Copeland's most musically adventurous album of her still-evolving career.
With a voice that is alternately sultry, assertive and roaring, Copeland's wide-open vision of contemporary blues, Americana, roots and soul music showcases the evolution of a passionate artist with a modern musical and lyrical approach. Whether she's belting out a raucous blues-rocker, firing up a blistering soul-shouter, bringing the spirit to a gospel-fueled R&B rave-up or digging deep down into a subtle, country-tinged ballad, Shemekia Copeland sounds like no one else.
Copeland has performed thousands of gigs at clubs, festivals and concert halls all over the world and has appeared on national television, NPR, and in newspapers, films and magazines. She is a mainstay on countless commercial and non-commercial radio stations. She's sung with Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, James Cotton and many others. She opened for The Rolling Stones and entertained U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait. Jeff Beck calls her "f*cking amazing." Santana says, "She's incandescent…a diamond." In 2012, she performed at the White House for President and Mrs. Obama. Afterward, Jagger (with whom she sang) sent her a bottle of champagne.
With Outskirts Of Love and a packed tour schedule, Copeland has her eyes fixed firmly on the future as she continues to break new musical ground. "I want to keep growing, to be innovative," she says. "I'm a lifer, singing about things that are important to me, using my music to help people. My dad always said 'we're all connected.' I'm an old soul marching to the beat of my own drum," she continues, "and right now I'm making the most exciting music of my career."
Read the press release on Alligator Records.


Aker Solutions of Houston filed a lawsuit March 29 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against Shamrock Energy Solutions LLC and Samurai International Petroleum LLC, both of Houma, alleging breach of contract.
According to the complaint, Aker entered into a contract with Shamrock on Sept 14, 2014, to perform early phase field development engineering for Trident Field in the Gulf of Mexico. The suit says Aker performed the engineering services and submitted four invoices to the defendants from November 2014 to March 2015 that totaled $1,780,144.19.
The complaint states Aker has not been paid despite the president and manager of Shamrock stating it will pay at least $500,000 of the outstanding balance by the end of the 2015 calendar year. The defendants have yet to pay either amount, the suit says.
Aker seeks the full $1,780,144.19 as well as pre- and post-judgment interest, attorney fees, and any other amounts the court deems just. He is represented by attorney David S. Bland from Bland & Partners PLLC in New Orleans and Brian J. Comarda in Houston.


Having a top-notch PR/IR team is essential for any business – especially in the cannabis industry. As this new market continues to grow, entrepreneurs need to know that their brands will be well represented. KCSA Strategic Communications offers investor relations, public relations and social media all presented by an expert team of professionals with a proven track record of success. Their impressive client list includes Terra Tech Corp., Kush Bottles, iAnthus Capital and Medicine Man Technologies – just to name a few.
CFN Media recently spoke with Phil Carlson, Managing Director Investor Relations, Head of Cannabis Investor Relations at KCSA Strategic Communications, to discuss how the company is boosting not only their clients' images, but the cannabis industry as a whole.
RG: What is KCSA Strategic Communications and how was it formed?
Phil Carlson: KCSA Strategic Communications started off as a public relations firm when it was founded in 1969. Over the last 25-30 years, the Company has really built out our investor relations offerings to include non-deal road shows, analyst relations, conference call support, etc.
I've been with the company going on eight years. We got into the cannabis space nearly five years ago, when our PR team started working with Compassionate Care Center for New York. There were a few smaller cannabis companies we had been working with a couple years back but from an IR standpoint, we really dove headfirst into the space when we started working with Terra Tech Corp. a little over two years ago.
From there, we have immersed ourselves into this growing industry. We attend and speak at as many industry conferences as possible whether it's MJ Biz, Cannabis World Congress or New West Summit. Recognizing the immense potential of the cannabis space, KCSA has invested significantly in supporting this practice and built it into the premiere IR and PR cannabis focused practice in the strategic communications industry.
RG: What sets you apart from potential competitors in the space?
PC: While there are some firms that offer PR services and others that offer IR services to cannabis companies, to our knowledge, there are none that offer an integrated offering such as KCSA's. We view it as having the three legged stool, PR, IR and Social media – having each component necessary for a proactive and strategic communications program.
We have investor relations, public relations and social media teams all under one roof. This allows us to go to each department and throw ideas off one another which really sets us apart from our competitors as it's not something you see that often. If you were to break our company in half, you would have a successful investor relations agency and a successful public relations/social media agency as well.
RG: How does the KCSA team contribute to the firm's success?
PC: The most viable thing about working with our firm is the expertise that spans both general public and investor relations and, industry-specific knowledge related to the cannabis space. On the IR side, I work hand-in-hand with Elizabeth Barker and Steve Silver on our cannabis clients. We are a true team and collaborate on ideas for our clients, helping them with their proactive investor relations programs. We look at how we can help them grow with their business and create awareness among investors. We also like getting our clients to participate in conferences and try to get the management onto different panels to help create not just increased awareness on their company but also to increase their own brand.
We've worked with LD Micro, Marcum and the MicroCap Conference as we have helped put together their cannabis panels that they've had over the past few years. We've also been working with the Cannabis World Congress who asked us to help assist with their cannabis and capital markets panels at their three shows in 2017 in L.A., New York, and Boston. They have asked us to help them do the same thing in 2018 for the conferences in those same cities as well.
RG: Why should people partner with KCSA Strategic Communications?
PC: For any company working in cannabis space having an agency that understands the unique challenges that this industry brings to both companies and investors is of the utmost importance. Investor relations and public relations agencies are the keepers of our clients brands and the external advocate to their target audiences. KCSA has among the most experience in working with public cannabis companies in the United States and Canada.
Our roster of clients has provided us with the expertise necessary to craft and communicate stories that resonate with investors. If someone asks us about other clients that we're working with, we're able to go through that list of cannabis clients and educate them, not just on the clients that we're dealing with, but also on the industry. We work with Terra Tech, Kush Bottles, iAnthus Capital, Medicine Man Technologies, Solis Tek, Golden Leaf, and 4Front, just to name a few. With the teams we have for IR, PR and Social Media, we have weekly meetings just to discuss what's going on in the cannabis space. Lewis Goldberg, Managing Partner at KCSA and Anne Donohoe, Managing Director of Cannabis PR, recently started doing The Green Rush podcast in the second half of 2017. They have had numerous cannabis industry experts participate on the podcast including Alan Brochstein of New Cannabis Ventures, Aaron Smith of CNNMoney and Bruce Linton of Canopy Growth. The podcast is available on our website www.kcsa-cannabis.com as well as on iTunes.
We've really been able to utilize that on the IR front as well because when we're out there talking with investors, we can say, "Hey, we're not just representing these companies but we're immersing ourselves in the cannabis space and speaking with the right players and getting to know what's going on in that space and having our finger on the pulse." People ask, "What's the industry going to look like in 2025?" I tell them, "What's the industry going to look like in six months?" It's such a rapidly changing industry that we have to be on our toes at all times so that we're up to date with rules and law changes that are happening, not just at a state level but also in the local municipalities.
RG: How have you seen the Cannabis industry evolve over the past few years?
PC: A few years ago, some of the clients we were working with were trying to just do a few small real estate plays and say that they're not touching the plant. That they're going to be leasing out a facility or two to would-be dispensary owners and they're going to outfit these stores. Now you have these bigger players coming in such as Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR). They're leasing and doing real estate plays in the cannabis space on a much larger scale. They're acquiring and owning and managing multiple properties, which they are leasing to licensed operators that are in the space.
In terms of other growth aspects, it's really just seeing how the market itself has matured, especially with dispensaries. Previously, not all offered the right atmosphere, which when you look at the ones that are out there today with Terra Tech's Blüm and Golden Leaf's Chalice Farms, these guys really have impressive operations. When you go into these dispensaries, they have somebody there that's going to walk you through that whole process of "this is what we have to offer." I can't stress that enough that people that are experimenting or getting into this industry, it's certainly helpful to have those types of people that are there that can walk you through each individual product. That goes beyond the bud tenders but also to management teams that are putting these people out there and helping train them.
RG: Tell us about your virtual investor conferences?
PC: The Virtual Investor Conference is a monthly webcast that has been run by PRNewswire and BetterInvesting.com since 2010 that allows companies to virtually present towards a mainly retail investor crowd. We recently partnered with them on a cannabis specific one in August 2017. Previously, the August 2016 virtual investor conference, which was not cannabis specific, had been lightly attended. The cannabis one in August 2017 had a couple thousand people attend.
From the success of that one we have been asked to do another one, which we are hosting on January 18th. Currently, Terra Tech, Kush Bottles, iAnthus Capital, Medicine Man and Solis Tek are a few of the companies that are going to participate. I would say, it's 85% retail investors that dial into the conference and listen to the presentations. It certainly has helped out our clients in terms of liquidity and additional awareness and visibility as people are learning more about this industry. This goes out to a list of about 200,000 people and we've had a good audience. We had a great audience that listened in August and we're expecting double that for the event in January. We'd like to do a couple more throughout 2018.
Hosting these events certainly sets us apart among competitors. We have other companies that are reaching out to us and saying, "Hey, we would like to definitely be part of that group," because they understand the value from the retail side. Institutions are definitely coming into the space but it's taking them some time to get over that hump. They have to run it through their compliance departments and making sure everything is ok with their clearing firms. The industry is getting there and we're seeing that because we are receiving a lot of calls from institutional investors that are looking at potentially investing in the cannabis sector and have asked us for our help to point them in the right direction. We're able to speak to them about our list of clients and walk them through the process.


I got a package in the mail today with a mask inside, and like any sane, rational individual, my first reaction to receiving a mysterious tribal mask in the mail was to attempt to put it on. Sadly, my id didn't go on an uncontrollable rampage, and my skin is most decidedly not green. However, I did receive a few more clues about Aporia Cross-Media Entertainment's upcoming alternate reality game, codenamed the Aporia Agathon project.
Shortly after Aporia CME launched a puzzle trail for LagTV, the show's hosts released a video on YouTube asking for players to post YouTube videos about the Aporia Agathon Project. Along with a few others, I submitted a video. Yesterday, I received a rather large package in the mail containing a Philippine "dragon mask" and a letter from the puppetmasters. The letter noted that "[t]his game's development began in mid to late July of 2007 with a large portion of the development time dedicated to creating a back story as a basis for our narrative. We are trying to take familiar elements of stories and create a unique approach for our audience to enjoy." The letter finished with the poem We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
If you're kicking yourself for not submitting a video, it's not too late — according to ACME's blog, there is still time to enter, and while you may not receive a mask, "the message of appreciation will remain the same." If you're interested in receiving an innocuous mailing around the time of the game's launch, you can submit your contact information to Aporia's submission form. So keep your eyes peeled for completely normal looking mail, submit a video with your guesses, and be on the lookout for easter eggs. S…er, that is, the Aporia Agathon Project, is coming this summer.
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Boston's Red Shirts Improve City Image
By Elizabeth Ross Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
KEVIN JOHNSON, 16, takes a break from raking grass on the outskirts of Boston's Franklin Park Zoo on a hot summer afternoon.
He and his teenage co-workers, all attired in bright red T-shirts, stand out like beacons as they rake, cut, and bundle grass clippings along Seaver Street.
The "Red Shirts" work under Boston's youth employment program. City officials say it is one of the country's largest city summer job initiatives.
A resident of Dorchester, a Boston neighborhood, Kevin is glad he has found work, even if it gets hot in the sun.
"I'm trying to save some money up for myself and for my grandmother," says Kevin, who lives in a housing project with his grandmother.
The Red Shirts work under a variety of summer job programs in Boston.
Kevin works for the Boston Youth Cleanup Corps, which cleans up vacant lots, streets, parks and public facilities throughout Boston. Last summer, the Youth Corps employed 2,145 youngsters aged 14 to 17.
Red Shirt crews also participate in an Environmental Protection Agency Program at the zoo, a sports camp, and a park ranger program.
In the EPA program, kids learn about environmental career opportunities. Teens work on water and solid waste projects at the zoo four days a week.
On the fifth day, they explore career opportunities through field trips. Red Shirts also work as recreational assistants, day-care workers, day-camp counselors, and even photographers.
Sandra Lopez, who will be a junior at West Roxbury High School next year, takes photographs of other Red Shirt workers for the city's parks department.
She and three other teens are part of a new photography training program.
"We're learning about how to take pictures at the right aperture and shutter speed," she says.
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ABF The Soldiers' Charity needed to make sure they were front-of-mind with Army families who find themselves in times of need.
Ensuring that Army families are looked after is very important in the recruitment and retention of Forces personnel – which in turn is crucial to the defence of the nation. The UK Armed Forces Families Strategy 2016-2020 provides guidance for MOD officials in the areas that make up the offer to Service families, and The Soldiers' Charity needed to ensure that they were conveying a strong message of support in line with the key objectives of The Families Strategy.
We developed a highly compelling and direct campaign headline, strong messaging and emotive imagery designed to reach out to Army families living on bases across the UK. The campaign was made up of posters, information brochures and display banners that were strategically placed on Army bases, to ensure maximum exposure to the target audience. Social media and remarketing was employed to help push the message out further and to build a community of potential Army family beneficiaries.
The result? Army families living on bases across the UK were given a strong reminder that ABF The Soldiers' Charity cares as much about them as it does their loved ones who are serving in the Forces, and that they are there to help in times of need. And wider digital communications delivered 12,920 engagements across all social media in just two weeks #ArmyFamilyMatters.
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The FAA Protects the Civil Air Patrol from Negative Exposure
TOPICS:Abuse of AuthorityAircraft Safety
Posted By: AuxBeacon February 11, 2006
By Mike | AuxBeacon News Contributor
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To: Ms. Jamie Reese of Nashville, TV News Channel 5
Ms Reese, are you aware of how wrong your report of 7/14/05 was? http://www.newschannel5.com/content/specialreports/12900.asp
Look at it, especially your statement:
"The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) found no problems when it investigated, and now, the Inspector General of Civil Air Patrol Southeast Region is taking a hard look at the complaints."
The FAA of whom you speak was the "proverbial fox in the hen house" who doubles in his spare time as the Civil Air Patrol Tennessee Wing Inspector General, the same who in his role as FAA director endorsed the Judge's now endorsed by Tennessee Wing, Southeast Region and National CAP HQ policy.
The Southeast Region Inspection General who was charged to "… taking a hard look at the complaints." was suffering from a long fight against terminal cancer, was sequestered in his home for end-of-life care and subsequently succumbed to the deadly disease. Regrettably, he was in no condition to "… taking a hard look at the complaints."
But he was sorely used by what appears to be an unfeeling, unrepentant, opportunistic leadership in attempts to deflect attention from their own failing.
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Singapore authorities must act urgently to cut business links with terrorist Myanmar military
Oct. 25, 2021, Myanmar: As the military prepares to launch catastrophic clearance operations in north-western and upper Myanmar as part of the "Anawrahta" campaign, Singaporean radar engineer Lee Kar Heng is set to speak at the military's annual Conference on Science and Technology Development. The conference takes place in Pyin Oo Lwin from October 26-27.
Lee Kar Heng is the sole proprietor of TBSS Group, a Singapore company that has provided equipment, training and support for the Myanmar military to development its radar capabilities, in partnership with Myanmar military broker Life and Challenge Company Limited. TBSS Group has involved its international partners in supplying equipment and training to the Myanmar military, including Keysight Technologies (USA), SkyRadar (Luxembourg/Germany), Dspnor (Norway) and RFBeam (Switzerland).
Recent engagement with US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet shows Singapore is considering using its financial leverage over the illegal military junta. Justice For Myanmar calls for concrete action now to stop the trade in arms, related materiel, training and support.
Justice For Myanmar spokesperson Yadanar Maung says: "It is deplorable that Singapore businesses are aiding the Myanmar military, which is a terrorist entity. Singaporean authorities should take immediate steps to end the use of their territory as the Myanmar military's international business hub. This criminal military has been terrorising the people of Myanmar as they have continued to courageously resist the military's bloody and illegitimate coup attempt for nearly 9 months in the Spring Revolution. In response, the Myanmar military is attacking the people, committing inhumane acts, including deliberate killings, torture and rape. These crimes amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes. As of October 23, 1,196 people have been murdered, including children, and over 9,000 arrested. This is the backdrop in which Lee Kar Heng is speaking on radars and electronic warfare, continuing to pursue his business with war criminals. TBSS Group has also implicated businesses in Europe and the US, which have provided equipment and training. We demand an investigation into whether this training and supply of technology to Myanmar has breached EU or US arms controls. Myanmar arms dealers including Life and Challenge must be designated for targeted sanctions. The Myanmar military is about to commit a new wave of atrocity crimes against people of Chin State and Magway and Sagaing Regions. This yet again shows the urgency of a global arms embargo to end the international flow of arms to Myanmar military terrorists."
See Justice For Myanmar's investigation into Lee Kar Heng and TBSS Group's business with the Myanmar military here: www.justiceformyanmar.org/stories/singaporean-radar-engineer-to-speak-at-myanmar-military-science-and-tech-conference-as-military-set-to-launch-catastrophic-anawrahta-operation