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After strong pre-draft process, Maryland Terrapins forward Aaron Wiggins to remain in NBA draft
Jonathan GivonyESPN
Aaron Wiggins is keeping his name in the 2021 NBA draft and will forgo his remaining eligibility at Maryland, he told ESPN on Monday.
"The last couple of weeks, being able to go through team workouts, the G League Elite Camp and the NBA combine, being able to play my game has been beneficial for me," Wiggins said. "I've shown teams things they've never seen before. Teams have been surprised by what I showed. I've loved the information and feedback I've received and didn't want to wait until the last minute with my decision. I'm ready to take the next step. At the end of the day, you have to make the best decision and the one that will benefit you the most."
The 6-foot-6 Wiggins, the No. 64 prospect in the ESPN 100, has had a strong pre-draft process that has elevated his standing in the eyes of NBA teams. He was one of four players selected to be elevated from the G League Elite Camp to the NBA combine in Chicago last week and had a positive final showing in his last scrimmage there, scoring 14 points in 21 minutes while shooting 6-of-7 from the field.
He says he has conducted seven private workouts with NBA teams and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from executives he's met. Wiggins is scheduled to attend the Minnesota group workout on Thursday, which all 30 NBA teams are invited to, and will conduct at least another six private workouts after that.
"Teams have told me they were surprised by some of the things I have to offer -- that I could create my shot with that type of ease and that I am that good of a passer," Wiggins said. "They've told me they simply didn't realize I was as good a player as I've shown. The feedback is that we'd like to have you on our team. I've loved hearing it all. I'm looking forward to showcasing my talent and demonstrating that I belong in the NBA."
Wiggins was named All-Big Ten honorable mention last season after averaging 14.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 33 minutes per game. His best outing of the season came in what ended up being his final game in a Maryland uniform, posting 27 points, six rebounds and three assists in an NCAA tournament loss to No. 2 seed and SEC champion Alabama.
The 22-year-old wing is intriguing to NBA teams due to his combination of size, length, explosiveness and scoring instincts. He measured a 6-foot-10 wingspan at the NBA combine and has shown impressive flashes of shot-making prowess and two-way versatility.
"I'm a guy who can bring a lot of spacing with my ability to shoot, create my own shot and get others involved," he said. "I can guard multiple positions with my length and athleticism. Can help a team defensively with my communication. I'm a high-spirit guy off the court who brings a ton of energy. I can bring a lot to an NBA team."
Jonathan Givony is an NBA draft expert and the founder and co-owner of DraftExpress.com, a private scouting and analytics service utilized by NBA, NCAA and International teams.


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Early 1983-Late 1984: Afghan Arab Purchases Equipment for Mujaheddin in US and Britain
After being recruited by Abdullah Azzam, an Arab Afghan leader and Osama bin Laden's mentor, Essam al Ridi travels to Pakistan to join the mujaheddin fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. He works for the mujaheddin for about 18 months, mostly as a purchaser of equipment abroad. He buys two sets of scuba diving equipment and six range finders in Britain, as well as night vision goggles and six night vision scopes from the US. He also purchases video equipment and batteries, and acquires equipment in Japan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. Al Ridi will later say, as a witness in a US trial, that he travels "extensively almost every 15 days to 20 days" and that he has so many stamps his passport is nearly full by 1985. Al Ridi leaves Asia to return to the US in late 1984 or early 1985, apparently due to an argument about Osama bin Laden's role in the jihad, but he will continue to send equipment to the mujaheddin. For example, he will later purchase assassination rifles for the jihad, apparently with the CIA's knowledge, but it is unclear whether the CIA knows about these earlier transactions (see Early 1989). [United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1/14/2001]
Entity Tags: Abdullah Azzam, Essam al Ridi
1987 or 1988: Arab Afghans Purchase Night Vision Goggles in US
Afghan Arab Essam al Ridi purchases more equipment in the US for the mujaheddin fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan. He had previously worked as a buyer for the mujaheddin, traveling the world to acquire items for the anti-Soviet jihad (see Early 1983-Late 1984). However, in 1985 he fell out with the others over Osama bin Laden's influence in the movement, which he thought was excessive, and returned to the US to work as a flight instructor. Al Ridi buys eleven pairs of night vision goggles and gives them to Wadih El-Hage, who will later become Osama bin Laden's personal secretary (see October 1995). El-Hage takes them to Pakistan for use in his passenger luggage. [United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1/14/2001] Al Ridi will later purchase assassination rifles for the fighters linked to bin Laden, apparently with the CIA's knowledge, but it is unclear whether the CIA knows about this transaction (see Early 1989).
Entity Tags: Essam al Ridi, Wadih El-Hage
Early 1989: US Supplies Sniper Rifles to Bin Laden's Mentor
The US government sends 25 high-powered sniper rifles to a group of fighters in Afghanistan that includes bin Laden. The armor-piercing weapons have range-finding equipment and night-vision scopes. In an early 2001 US court trial, Essam al Ridi, a pilot for bin Laden in the early 1990s (see Early 1993), will recall that he helped ship the weapons to Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden's mentor. Azzam and bin Laden are close to each other at this time, and al Ridi will later testify he sometimes saw the two of them together. The president of the US company that made the rifles will later state that the rifles "were picked up by US government trucks, shipped to US government bases, and shipped to those Afghan freedom fighters." The rifles are considered ideal for assassination. [Associated Press, 10/16/2001] The order, worth about $150,000 at the time, is a significant one for the manufacturer, accounting for 15-25% of its annual turnover on the guns. Their export would usually require an end user certificate from the US Department of State, but the circumstances of the sale are unknown, as al Ridi is not asked how he manages to purchase such a large number of rifles. [New York Times, 10/7/2001; Sunday Tribune, 10/15/2001] The CIA will deny being involved in the transfer. [Central Intelligence Agency, 3/7/2002] However, al Ridi will say that the CIA was aware that bin Laden ended up with some of the guns. [New York Times, 6/3/2002] This shipment is especially significant because there was a protracted debate within the Reagan administration about sending sniper rifles to Afghanistan due to worries that it could violate a US law against assassinations and put US officials in legal jeopardy. In the end, the US gave less than 100 of such rifles without night-vision scopes to the government of Pakistan to pass on to mujaheddin, but the ones sent to Azzam had night-vision scopes. The timing is also significant since the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 1988 and complete the pull out in February 1989, around when these rifles are sent. The rifles given to Pakistan appear to have arrived before 1987. [Washington Post, 7/20/1992]
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, United States, Abdullah Azzam, Essam al Ridi
February 1991- July 1992: CIA Already Spying on Bin Laden in Sudan
Billy Waugh. [Source: Billy Waugh]The CIA monitors bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, where he has just moved (see Summer 1991). Billy Waugh, an independent contractor working for the CIA, moves to Khartoum and is given the task of spying on him. Waugh is a legendary fighter already in his sixties who has performed special operations for the US Army and CIA for many years and will continue to do so until he is in his seventies. The Associated Press will later report that Waugh "played a typecast role as an aging American fitness enthusiast and would regularly jog past bin Laden's home. He said he often came face-to-face with bin Laden, who undoubtedly knew the CIA was tailing him. Neither said anything, but Waugh recalled exchanging pleasantries with bin Laden's Afghan guards." [Waugh and Keown, 2004, pp. 121; Associated Press, 6/4/2005] Waugh will later recall, "I was on a tracking team in Sudan keeping track of [bin Laden] in his early days as a possible terrorist network leader. Our CIA Chief of Station there told me upon arrival that [he] was one of our targets, that he was a wealthy Saudi financier and possible supporter of the terrorist outfit called al-Qaeda. He ran companies there and even owned an entire street block in the al-Riyadh section of the city.… At the time of our surveillance operations against him in 1991-92, [he] was not a particularly high priority, though evidence was gathering about him. At the time, it would have been very easy to take him out." Waugh also claims that he saw bin Laden "in the mountains of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the late 1980's when we were training the [mujaheddin] resistance." [Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, 6/2005]
Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Billy Waugh, Osama bin Laden
Early 1990s: US Intelligence Monitoring Bin Laden in Sudan
Bin Laden's house in Khartoum, Sudan. [Source: PBS]It has not been revealed when US intelligence begins monitoring bin Laden exactly, though the CIA was tailing him in Sudan by the end of 1991 (see February 1991- July 1992). But in late 1995 the FBI is given forty thick files on bin Laden from the CIA and NSA, mostly communications intercepts (see October 1995). The sheer amount of material suggests the surveillance had been going on for several years. Dan Coleman, an FBI agent working with the CIA's bin Laden unit, will begin examining these files and finds that many of them are transcripts from wiretapped phones tied to bin Laden's businesses in Khartoum, Sudan, where bin Laden lives from 1991 to 1996. [Miller, Stone, and Mitchell, 2002, pp. 148-149; Wright, 2006, pp. 242-244] CIA Director George Tenet will later comment, "The then-obscure name 'Osama bin Laden' kept cropping up in the intelligence traffic.… [The CIA] spotted bin Laden's tracts in the early 1990s in connection with funding other terrorist movements. They didn't know exactly what this Saudi exile living in Sudan was up to, but they knew it was not good." [Tenet, 2007, pp. 100] The London Times will later report that in Sudan, "bin Laden used an $80,000 satellite phone and al-Qaeda members used radios to avoid being bugged…" [London Times, 10/7/2001] Bin Laden is mistaken in his belief that satellite phones cannot be monitored; a satellite phone he buys in 1996 will be monitored as well (see November 1996-Late August 1998).
Entity Tags: Wadih El-Hage, Osama bin Laden, Dan Coleman, Central Intelligence Agency, Alec Station, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency
August 1992-1993: El-Hage and US Associate Discuss Purchase of Aircraft for Bin Laden; Stingers Discussed Openly on Phone
The airplane that will be bought for bin Laden. [Source: Fox News]High-ranking al-Qaeda operative Wadih El-Hage contacts Essam al Ridi, a militant who had previously helped the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan (see Early 1983-Late 1984), to discuss buying a jet plane for Osama bin Laden. El Hage is at bin Laden's base in Sudan, and al Ridi is in Texas, where he works as a flight instructor. The two men know each other from the 1980s, when they shipped equipment from the US to the mujaheddin in Afghanistan (see 1987 or 1988). The FBI has been aware of El-Hage's terrorist connections for some time (see March 1991), and the CIA is monitoring bin Laden in Sudan (see February 1991- July 1992). There are "quite a few" communications, in which the two men discuss the price of the aircraft, the fact that the plane is for bin Laden, and the plane's range. El-Hage says that the plane has to be able to fly 2,000 miles, as he and bin Laden want to use it to ship Stinger missiles from Peshawar, Pakistan, to Khartoum, Sudan, and al Ridi and El-Hage discuss the technicalities of shipping the missiles. [United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1/14/2001] Bin Laden sends money for the plane to al Ridi in the US (see Between August 1992 and 1993), and al Ridi then buys the plane and flies it to Sudan (see Early 1993). It is unclear if these calls are monitored, although bin Laden is under surveillance by the US at this time (see Early 1990s and Early 1990s).
Entity Tags: Wadih El-Hage, Essam al Ridi
Before October 1993: Al-Qaeda Leaders Travel to Somalia from Monitored Base in Sudan
Al-Qaeda leaders travel from Khartoum, Sudan, to Mogadishu, Somalia, while US forces are present there. These forces will be attacked shortly afterwards in the infamous "Black Hawk Down" incident (see October 3-4, 1993). This is only one of several trips to Somalia at this time (see Late 1992-October 1993).
Details of Trip - The names of all five operatives who travel are not known, but one of them is Mohammed Atef (a.k.a. Abu Hafs), who will later become al-Qaeda's military commander. According to Essam al Ridi, the pilot who flies them on the first leg of the journey to Nairobi, Kenya, they are dressed in Saudi, Western, and Yemeni outfits. The trip from Khartoum to Nairobi is arranged by an associate of Osama bin Laden's named Wadih El-Hage, and the five men continue from Nairobi to Mogadishu in a different aircraft. [United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1/14/2001; United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 5/8/2001] Al Ridi will later say that at some time after the flight he heard the men had gone to Somalia to stir up tribal leaders against American peacekeeping forces. [New York Times, 6/3/2002]
Surveillance - Bin Laden and his associates are under surveillance in Sudan at this time, by the CIA and Egyptian intelligence (see February 1991- July 1992 and Early 1990s), and the plane used to make the trip to Nairobi is well-known at Khartoum airport and is associated with bin Laden (see (1994-1995)), so the CIA and Egyptians may learn of this trip. However, what action they take, if any, is not known. [United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1/14/2001; United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 5/8/2001] In addition, Sudanese intelligence will later say that only a handful of al-Qaeda operatives travel to Somalia at this time, although it is not known when and how the Sudanese obtain this information. [Wright, 2006, pp. 188]
Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Al-Qaeda, Mohammed Atef, Essam al Ridi
(1994-1995): Crash of Bin Laden's Plane in Khartoum Is Major Local Event
Bin Laden's crashed airplane. [Source: Fox News]Essam al Ridi, an associate of Osama bin Laden who previously purchased an aircraft for him (see Early 1993), is asked to sell the aircraft by Wadih El-Hage, another bin Laden associate. Al Ridi, who obtains US citizenship in 1994, agrees to check the plane out and try to sell it in Egypt, where he is living at the moment. Al Ridi goes to examine the plane, which is in Khartoum, Sudan. He travels through Nairobi, Kenya, because he is worried about surveillance by Egyptian intelligence, and meets El-Hage, who is now living in Nairobi. Upon arrival in Khartoum, El-Hage is met by Ihab Ali Nawawi, another bin Laden operative and US-trained pilot. They find that the plane is in poor condition, and try to repair it. However, both sets of brakes fail upon landing after a test flight and the plane crashes into a sandbank near the runway. The accident is noticed by the tower and "everybody else," and is a major event because, as al Ridi will later say in court: "[T]his aircraft was very unique to Khartoum. There is no such private jet aircraft at Khartoum International Airport." Al Ridi is extremely concerned because of bin Laden's notoriety and because "[e]verybody knows that it is Osama bin Laden's aircraft." He knows Egyptian intelligence in Khartoum will soon find out about the incident and will then come looking for him, so he is "very concerned to leave," and he takes the first plane out of the country. [United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1/14/2001] The CIA has been monitoring bin Laden in Sudan since he moved there in 1991 (see February 1991- July 1992 and Early 1990s), and it would make sense that the CIA would learn of the accident due to the plane's known ownership by bin Laden. However, it is unclear if they do so and what action they take based on it, if any. During the Soviet-Afghan War, al Ridi had supplied bin Laden with assassination rifles in Afghanistan, and later said that the CIA was aware of this transaction (see Early 1989).
Entity Tags: Wadih El-Hage, Ihab Ali Nawawi, Essam al Ridi
October 1995: FBI Begins Investigating Bin Laden; CIA Already Monitoring Him
The FBI opens a case on Osama bin Laden. Dan Coleman and John Ligouri, members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), are sent to the CIA Counterterrorist Center (CTC) to see what the CIA knows about bin Laden. "They were amazed by the amount of material - some forty thick files' worth - that they found.… Most of the information consisted of raw, unfocused data: itineraries, phone records, associates lists, investment holdings, bank transfers." The vast majority of the data comes from NSA electronic eavesdropping and most of it has not been properly analyzed (see Early 1990s). They find that the CTC has been conducting a vigorous investigation on Wadih El-Hage, bin Laden's personal secretary. [Miller, Stone, and Mitchell, 2002, pp. 148-149] Coleman will go on to become the FBI's biggest expert on bin Laden and will help start the bureau's bin Laden unit. [Suskind, 2006, pp. 90] It is not known when the CIA or NSA began monitoring bin Laden or El-Hage.
Entity Tags: Wadih El-Hage, Osama bin Laden, John Ligouri, Central Intelligence Agency, Counterterrorist Center, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dan Coleman
Late April 1996: US Monitors Al-Qaeda Canceling Singapore Plot
According to counterterrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna, US intelligence monitoring al-Qaeda communications learn that al-Qaeda is canceling an attack on Western targets in Singapore. On April 18, 1996, 108 Lebanese civilians seeking refuge at a UN camp in Qana, Lebanon, are killed by mortars fired by Israeli forces. Bin Laden "was keen not to dissipate what he envisaged as widespread revulsion against Israel's action and hence called off the strike in Southeast Asia. Al-Qaeda's team in question was very determined to go ahead, having spent years preparing the attack, and according to the intercepts it proved difficult for Osama to convince it otherwise." Gunaratna claims the US learned this through the NSA's Echelon satellite network (see Before September 11, 2001) "and other technical monitoring of their communications traffic." [Gunaratna, 2003, pp. 133-134] If true, this case supports other evidence that the US was successfully monitoring bin Laden's communications from an early date (see Early 1990s) and that al-Qaeda's Southeast Asia operations were penetrated years before an important al-Qaeda summit in Malaysia discussing the 9/11 plot (see January 5-8, 2000).
Entity Tags: Echelon, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, National Security Agency
June 27, 1996: US Monitors Bin Laden Taking Credit for Khobar Towers Bombing
In 1999, a retired CIA official will claim that two days after the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia (see June 25, 1996), bin Laden is congratulated by colleagues about the bombing. Both Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda's number two leader, and Ashra Hadi, head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, are monitored by the NSA as they call bin Laden. This helps confirm that bin Laden was being monitored while using his first satellite phone (see Early 1990s). It will be widely reported that he was monitored after he started using his second satellite phone later in 1996 (see November 1996-Late August 1998). Bin Laden does not exactly publicly take credit for the bombing, but later in the year he will say, "When I got the news about these blasts, I was very happy. This was a noble act. This was a great honor but, unfortunately, I did not conduct these explosions personally." [Reeve, 1999, pp. 187; New Yorker, 9/9/2002]
Entity Tags: Ayman al-Zawahiri, National Security Agency, Osama bin Laden, Ashra Hadi
November 1996-Late August 1998: US Tracks Bin Laden's Satellite Phone Calls
An Inmarsat Compact M satellite phone, the type used by bin Laden. [Source: Inmarsat]During this period, Osama bin Laden uses a satellite phone to direct al-Qaeda's operations. The phone—a Compact M satellite phone, about the size of a laptop computer—was purchased by a student in Virginia named Ziyad Khaleel for $7,500 using the credit card of a British man named Saad al-Fagih. After purchasing the phone, Khaleel sent it to Khalid al-Fawwaz, al-Qaeda's unofficial press secretary in London (see Early 1994-September 23, 1998). Al-Fawwaz then shipped it to bin Laden in Afghanistan. [CNN, 4/16/2001] It appears US intelligence actually tracks the purchase as it occurs (see November 1996-Late December 1999), probably because an older model satellite phone bin Laden has is already being monitored (see Early 1990s). Bin Laden's phone (873682505331) is believed to be used by other top al-Qaeda leaders as well, including Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mohammad Atef. Al-Fawwaz also buys satellite phones for other top al-Qaeda leaders around the same time. Though the calls made on these phones are encrypted, the NSA is able to intercept and decrypt them. As one US official will put it in early 2001, "codes were broken." [United Press International, 2/13/2001; Newsweek, 2/18/2002] The Los Angeles Times will report that the monitoring of these phones "produced tens of thousands of pages of transcripts over two years." [Los Angeles Times, 10/14/2001] Bin Laden's satellite phone replaces an older model he used in Sudan that apparently was also monitored by the NSA (see Early 1990s). Billing records for his new phone are eventually released to the media in early 2002. Newsweek will note, "A country-by-country analysis of the bills provided US authorities with a virtual road map to important al-Qaeda cells around the world." [Sunday Times (London), 3/24/2002] The countries called are:
Britain (238 or 260). Twenty-seven different phone numbers are called in Britain. Accounts differ on the exact number of calls. Khalid al-Fawwaz, who helps publish statements by bin Laden, receives 143 of the calls, including the very first one bin Laden makes with this phone. Apparently most of the remaining calls are made to pay phones near him or to his associates. He also frequently calls Ibrahim Eidarous, who works with al-Fawwaz and lives near him. [CNN, 4/16/2001; Newsweek, 2/18/2002; Sunday Times (London), 3/24/2002; O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 111]
Yemen (221). Dozens of calls go to an al-Qaeda communications hub in Sana'a, Yemen, which is run by the father-in-law of 9/11 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar (see Late August 1998). [Newsweek, 2/18/2002; Los Angeles Times, 9/1/2002; Bamford, 2008, pp. 8]
Sudan (131). Bin Laden lived in Sudan until 1996 (see May 18, 1996), and some important al-Qaeda operatives remained there after he left (see February 5, 1998). [Sunday Times (London), 3/24/2002]
Iran (106). Newsweek will later report: "US officials had little explanation for the calls to Iran. A Bush administration official said that US intelligence has believed for years that hard-line anti-American factions inside Iran helped bin Laden's organization operate an 'underground railroad' smuggling Islamic militants to al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan." [Newsweek, 2/18/2002; Sunday Times (London), 3/24/2002]
Azerbaijan (67). An important al-Qaeda operative appears to be based in Baku, Azerbaijan. [Washington Post, 5/2/2001] This is most likely Ahmad Salama Mabruk, who is very close to al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri and is said to be the head of the al-Qaeda cell there. He kidnapped by the CIA in Baku in late August 1998 (see Late August 1998).
Kenya (at least 56). In the embassy bombings trial, prosecutors introduce evidence showing 16 calls are made on this phone to some of the embassy bombers in Kenya (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998), apparently all before a raid in August 1997 (see August 21, 1997). The defense introduces evidence showing at least 40 more calls are made after that time (see Late 1996-August 1998). [CNN, 4/16/2001]
Pakistan (59).
Saudi Arabia (57).
A ship in the Indian Ocean (13).
The US (6).
Italy (6).
Malaysia (4).
Senegal (2). [Sunday Times (London), 3/24/2002]
Egypt (unknown). Newsweek reports that calls are made to Egypt but doesn't say how many. [Newsweek, 2/18/2002]
Iraq (0). Press reports note that the records indicate zero calls were made to Iraq. [Newsweek, 2/18/2002; Sunday Times (London), 3/24/2002] 1,100 total calls are made on this phone. Adding up the above numbers means that the destination of over 100 calls is still unaccounted for. [Newsweek, 2/18/2002] The use of this phone stops two months after the August 1998 embassy bombings in Africa. However, it appears bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders continue to use other satellite phones occasionally after this time. Shortly after 9/11, James Bamford, an expert authority on the agency, says "About a year or so ago the NSA lost all track of him.… He may still use [satellite phones] occasionally to talk about something mundane, but he discovered that the transmitters can be used for honing." [CNN, 9/21/2001] According to a different account, bin Laden will attempt to use a different phone communication method, but US intelligence will soon discover it and continue monitoring his calls (see Late 1998 and After).
Entity Tags: Ziyad Khaleel, Saad al-Fagih, Osama bin Laden, Ibrahim Eidarous, Khalid al-Fawwaz, Mohammed Atef, Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ahmad Salama Mabruk
August 21, 1997: US Raids Al-Qaeda Cell Member's House but Fails to Stop Embassy Bombing Plot
The outside and inside of El-Hage's house in Nairobi. These pictures were apparently taken during the 1997 raid and were used as evidence in El-Hage's trial. [Source: FBI]Dan Coleman, an FBI agent working with Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, has been examining transcripts from wiretapped phones connected to bin Laden's businesses in Sudan (see Early 1990s). One frequently called number belongs to Wadih El-Hage, a US citizen who is later revealed to be bin Laden's personal secretary. El-Hage often makes obvious and clumsy attempts to speak in code. The CIA comes to believe that El-Hage might be recruited as an agent. On this day, Coleman, two CIA agents, and a Kenyan police officer enter El-Hage's house in Nairobi, Kenya, with a search warrant. The investigators interview El-Hage (who returned that day from visiting bin Laden in Afghanistan) and confiscate his computer. [Los Angeles Times, 10/14/2001; Wright, 2006, pp. 242-244] A large amount of incriminating evidence is discovered in El-Hage's documents and computer files (see Shortly After August 21, 1997 and Shortly After August 21, 1997). El-Hage moves to the US, where he is interviewed by a grand jury, then let go (see September 24, 1997). He will be arrested shortly after al-Qaeda bombs the US embassy in Nairobi (see September 15, 1998). He will be sentenced to life in prison for his role in that attack. State Department officials will later strongly assert that while staffers at the US embassy in Kenya were told about the raid at the time, they were not told about any potential connection to al-Qaeda. However, US intelligence officials strongly assert that the embassy staff was frequently briefed about the bin Laden connection. [New York Times, 1/9/1999]
Entity Tags: Wadih El-Hage, US Department of State, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Central Intelligence Agency, Dan Coleman, Alec Station
February 5, 1998: US Rejects Sudanese Al-Qaeda Files that Could Stop Embassy Bombings
A photocopy of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed's Comoros passport in Sudan's intelligence files. [Source: Richard Miniter]Gutbi al-Mahdi, head of Sudan's intelligence agency, sends a letter to David Williams, an FBI station chief. It reads, "I would like to express my sincere desire to start contacts and cooperation between our service and the FBI. I would like to take this opportunity with pleasure to invite you to visit our country. Otherwise, we could meet somewhere else." Apparently the FBI is very eager to accept the offer and gain access to Sudan's files on bin Laden and his associates. The US had been offered the files before (see March 8, 1996-April 1996; April 5, 1997), but the US position was that Sudan's offers were not serious since Sudanese leader Hassan al-Turabi was ideologically close to bin Laden. But al-Turabi has lost power to moderates by this time, and in fact he is placed under arrest in 1998. There is a political battle between US agencies over the Sudanese offer, and in the end the State Department forbids any contact with al-Mahdi. On June 24, 1998, Williams is obliged to reply, "I am not currently in a position to accept your kind invitation." Al-Madhi later will complain, "If they had taken up my offer in February 1998, they could have prevented the [US embassy] bombings." Tim Carney, US ambassador to Sudan until 1997, will say, "The US failed to reciprocate Sudan's willingness to engage us on serious questions of terrorism. We can speculate that this failure had serious implications - at the least for what happened at the US Embassies in 1998. In any case, the US lost access to a mine of material on bin Laden and his organization." One of the plotters in the bombings is Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (a.k.a. Haroun Fazul), who is living in Sudan but making trips to Kenya to participate in the bombing preparations. Sudan has files on him and continues to monitor him. Sudan also has files on Saif al-Adel, another embassy bomber who has yet to be captured. Sudan also has files on Wadih El-Hage and Mamdouh Mahmoud Salim, both of whom have contact with members of the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell (see September 16, 1998; Late 1998; 1993). Salim even attends the same small Hamburg mosque as 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi. Vanity Fair magazine will suggest that if al-Madhi's offer had been properly followed up, both the embassy bombings and the 9/11 attacks could have been foiled. [Vanity Fair, 1/2002] It is later revealed that the US was wiretapping bin Laden in Sudan on their own (see Early 1990s).
Entity Tags: Wadih El-Hage, Saif al-Adel, Tim Carney, US Department of State, Gutbi Al-Mahdi, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, David Williams, Al-Qaeda, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Sudan, Osama bin Laden, Hassan al-Turabi, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim

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La Samaritaine is temporarily losing her finery – following the removal of the glass dome, it's now the turn of the colourful enamelled ceramic panels decorating the Art Deco facades to be taken down one by one, numbered and sent to specialist restoration workshops outside Paris. The same process will be repeated for the large peacock fresco running along the 5th floor, the frieze and the handrails of the grand staircase under the glass roof – and then, like a jigsaw, all the refurbished items will be replaced in situ once the building is renovated. Meanwhile the large glass roof will be completely remade, following the original 1905 design. Go behind the scenes with these photos for a glimpse of the painstaking work involved in dismantling each element for restoration.


With poets poets Sarah Howe, Daljit Nagra, Ros Barber, Patience Agbabi and Alan Jenkins, critic Sarah Crown and exam expert Esther Menon, plus performance poet Harry Baker to end the day.
Readings and performances by poets set for the EDEXCEL AS and AL.
Discussion of poems and aspects of contemporary poems by poets and poetry writers.
Looking ahead to A Level – responding to an unseen poem and a set poem.
A great balance between the recognition that there is an examination which must be prepared for and a joyful celebration of poetry for poetry's sake.
As with all events and resources offered by EMC, I thought the conference was outstanding…The perfect balance of practicality and inspiration.
An excellent day and incredible value for money!
An excellent variety of speakers and subjects!
Loved seeing and hearing the poets talk about their poems!
Really good speakers and very interesting and helpful content.
Presented in a fun way, leaving us to feel both educated and entertained!
Come and be inspired by hearing poets reading and discussing their own work, develop your critical understanding of contemporary poetry and enjoy spoken word performance! Ideal for AS students going on to AL and for students doing a two year linear AL.
Paying close attention to a selection of the set anthology poems, Sarah Howe will share her critical insights, relating them to wider currents in contemporary poetry.
Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia (Tall-lighthouse, 2009), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She has performed her work at festivals internationally and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She is a Lecturer in Poetry at King's College London.
Ros Barber is a poet, novelist, and academic. Her critically-acclaimed verse novel The Marlowe Papers (2012) won the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Author's Club Best First Novel Award. Her poetry collections include How Things Are on Thursday (2004) and Material (2008), a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Alan Jenkins has won several awards for his collections of poems, the most recent of which are A Shorter Life, Revenants and Marine (in collaboration with John Kinsella). He is Deputy Editor and Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, has taught creative writing in London, Paris and the United States, and until recently was Poet in Residence at St. John's College, Cambridge.
Poetry Critic Sarah Crown Tackles the Unseen!
Exam style, Sarah will be prepared to discuss one of the poems set for study from the Poems of the Decade collection. But exam style, the poem she compares it with will not be known to her in advance – the student audience will select the poem on the day!
In her discussion, Sarah will show how a comparative reading of known and unknown poems can be handled, giving insights into the process as well as offering a fresh reading of the texts.
Sarah Crown is Director of Literature at the Arts Council England. She edited the Guardian's books website for many years, and regularly reviews fiction and poetry for the Guardian, the Telegraph and the TLS.
This session will consider the skills students should employ to read and respond to unseen and contemporary poetry in the A Level examination. It will address ways students can develop confidence and competence in writing a good analytical response, as well as how to avoid common pitfalls in writing about poetry in exam conditions.
Esther Menon is an English consultant, teacher and educational author. She was the external English specialist who led the development of the Edexcel 2015 A Level Literature specification and now works alongside the English team at Edexcel to support centres delivering this specification. Esther is a Lead Adviser for the Russell Education Trust and continues to teach A level and GCSE students. Before this she worked as an English consultant in two local authorities and in London Challenge schools.
Poets will be available for signing at the bookstall in the East Corridor.
Daljit Nagra introduces the Forward/emagazine Creative Critics Competition and then reads and discusses his poem 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!'.
Patience Agbabi reads and discusses her poem 'Eat Me'.
Patience Agbabi read English Language and Literature at Oxford and has an MA in Creative Writing from Sussex. From schools to universities, the Prague Metro to Flamin' Eight tattoo and piercing studio in North London, she has taught, created and delivered poetry. Her four collections include Telling Tales, a 21st century, multicultural retelling of The Canterbury Tales. She was Writer-in-Residence at Bronte Parsonage in 2018.
From creating Jay-Z maths parodies to forming bilingual falafel-based tongue twisters, the love and craft of language has always been at the heart of Harry's work. See him perform a combination of old and new poems that have taken him all over the world.
World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker published his debut anthology The Sunshine Kid with Burning Eye in December 2014. The subsequent show of the same name was voted 'Best Spoken Word show' of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015. Now a fully fledged maths graduate and full time poet/adventurer, his work has been shared on TED.com and viewed millions of times worldwide, as well as being translated into 15 different languages. He regularly gives performances and workshops all around the world and as well as being one half of Comedy-Rap-Jazz-Duo 'Harry and Chris' he is working up poems for a new collection.
Emma Barker closes the Conference.
The emagazine Poems of the Decade Conference is being held at Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ – directly opposite Euston Station.
The closest train stations are Euston and Kings Cross.
Tube stations within a 5 to 15-minute walk include: Euston, Euston Square, Kings Cross, Goodge Street, Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street. The closest tubes are Euston and Euston Square.
Numbers 10, 18, 30, 73, 205 and 390 pass the door whilst 59, 68, 91, 168, and 253 stop nearby.
Travelling by Minibus or Car?
Friends House is within a meter parking zone. Charges must be paid Monday to Friday 08:30 - 18:30 and Saturday 09:00 - 13:30. Please note that Friends House is within the congestion charge zone. For details of how to pay here.
Coaches may stop outside Friends House to drop students off.
For additional teachers, or teachers attending without students, for their own interest or CPD, the charge is £50 each.
Book online and choose to pay by invoice.
Conference places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Please note: we are unable to take provisional bookings.
Please do not make final travel arrangements until your final booking has been confirmed and we have contacted you to let you know that you have definitely been allocated places.
Cancellations or amendments can be made without charge until 5pm on Thursday 23rd May 2019.
Please note: We will be unable to make refunds in the case of weather, transport difficulties or other circumstances beyond our control.
We expect all students to be accompanied by a teacher. There should be a minimum of 1 teacher per 20 students.
We request that teachers meet their students in advance, register as a group and sit with their groups of students. Teachers are responsible for ensuring that their own students maintain acceptable standards of behaviour in the auditorium and in the Friends House building.
The cafe at Friends House is open from 8am.
You and your students will be responsible for providing your own lunches. There are sandwich shops in the area immediately behind Friends House and plenty of food outlets across the road at Euston Station.
There are spaces outside for students to eat their packed lunch but no indoor spaces.
Book online and opt to pay by invoice on the checkout page.


Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit Paperback – January 23, First Special Forces Operational Detachment-D—Delta Force, America's supersecret counterterrorist unit. Eric L. Haney, Command Sergeant Major, USA (ret.), served for more than. Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit is a memoir written by Eric L. Haney about his experiences as a founding special. Eric L. Haney (born August 22, ) is a retired member of the United States Army Haney is the author of Inside Delta Force, a memoir of his time in the elite .
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Canberra's McCarthyism reaches new heights in 'loyalty test' for Chinese Australians
Source: Global Times Published: 2020/10/16 19:23:40
The fact that a Senate Committee hearing on Wednesday turned into a "loyalty test" for multiple Chinese Australians has truly laid bare the rising McCarthyism in the land Down Under. During the important inquiry - which was actually investigating issues affecting diaspora communities in Australia - three Australian citizens (of Chinese ethnicity) were repeatedly quizzed about whether or not they would condemn the Communist Party of China.
The Liberal Senator for Tasmania, Eric Abetz, better known for his hawkish views on China, asked the three Chinese Australians during the hearing to tell him, "whether they are willing to unconditionally condemn the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship," according to Reuters. The episode has caused a storm of outrage with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, among others, calling the incident "repugnant," and saying the Australian government should refrain from using "race-based panic" in its defense of national interest.
Although he is faced with increasing ire for launching a "race-baiting McCarthyism" campaign, Abetz has refused to make an apology for his line of questioning.
The outrageous incident unambiguously demonstrates the severity of anti-China sentiment in Australia, and showed how it has spilled out of the media and become a part of the country's political process. The hostility toward China has been blatantly pronounced in Australia's parliament, showing an entrenched hatred of China by some of Australia's highest politicians and policymakers.
For those politicians, China has now become the target of their hatred and denunciation. They stoke up fear and resentment among their country's population, and then cunningly manipulate the populist sentiment to reinforce their anti-China crusades.
It's now obvious that in order for Australian citizens to demonstrate their loyalty to their country, they must first denounce China. This should not only outrage China, but also Australian citizens in general, especially those with a Chinese background. What it means is that now anyone with Chinese ancestry is seen in the eyes of some Australian politicians as suspicious and of potential or blatant risk to Australia's security.
Since the 1970s, Australia slowly installed multiculturalism as its national policy, characterizing the country as open, tolerant and embracing of all races, colors and creeds. Its policy suggests a readiness to acknowledge differences and a confidence to allow diversity. It has been this policy that has steered Australia toward political, social and cultural maturity and sophistication.
However, nowadays, hate-driven parochialism is distracting Australia from its path toward real maturity, independence and confidence. Canberra has shown that it is constantly suspicious of imaginary threats, ceaselessly pointing an accusatory finger at China and the Chinese community in Australia.
Such acts are in every way senseless as race is now cited as appropriate grounds for suspicion. This will ultimately "boomerang" to shoot Australia in its own foot, because it will no doubt spread disquieting seeds of fear and anxiety among Chinese Australians.
Ideological preoccupation is now fixated in Canberra's mentality. McCarthyism is motivating a kind of political cleansing to eradicate affinity or connections with China and the Chinese community. This will ultimately propel Australia's currently deteriorating bilateral relations with China in a spiral further downward.
The article was compiled by Global Times reporter Yu Jincui based on an interview with Chen Hong, a professor and director of the Australian Studies Centre, East China Normal University. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
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Tuesday, Nov 28, 2006, 08:04
EU seeks tax compromises on beer, liquor, downloads
The European Union is pushing to end an impasse on tax laws including beer and liquor levies, value-added tax on internet downloads and limits on the products travelers can bring into the 25-nation area.
The European Commission, the EU's executive agency, has offered to scale back a proposed increase in taxes on beer, to soothe German and Czech concerns ahead a meeting of finance ministers in Brussels today. The Czech government will object to any boost, a newswire in the country reported today. The commission is also seeking a compromise between the UK and Eastern European countries on the value of products that people can carry into the EU, and on how VAT is applied across borders.
"After the proposal was sent, then I had some higher expectations," Taxation and Customs Commissioner László Kovács said to reporters yesterday. "But I don't know, I have to wait for the reaction." The commission September 8 proposed to lift the minimum levels that all EU countries much charge on beer, spirits and intermediate-strength products such as fortified wine, to reflect 31% inflation since the law took effect in 1993. There's no minimum on wine.
The Czech Republic and Germany -- the world's top two beer drinking countries by per capita consumption -- on November 7 rejected the initiative, which would have added about 1 euro cent to the price of a half-liter of lager. Most countries weren't affected because they already charge more than the minimum level. The EU can't pass tax laws without unanimous agreement, giving any single member a veto. Kovács is pushing a compromise 4.5% increase, reflecting inflation since 2004, when the Czech Republic and nine other countries joined the EU.
He said yesterday that would put Germany in the clear, without the need to raise its tax. The Czech Republic still opposes the plan, the Czech newswire CTK reported today, without citing anyone. Excise tax remains an issue on other alcoholic beverages. Finland, which holds the EU's rotating presidency until the end of the year, is pushing to raise the floor the full 31% on liquor, while the commission favors moving all categories together, Kovács said.
The smaller adjustment for intermediate products also would spare countries including Spain, the birthplace of sherry, and Portugal, the home of port, from having to raise taxes. On customs rules, the commission is seeking to find a compromise between the UK, which is seeking a higher allowance for travelers bringing in goods, and Eastern European countries, pushing to limit what people can bring in from cheaper shops in neighboring areas.
Kovács supports a proposal by Finnish mediators of €430 ($564) for airline passengers, and €300 for travelers over land. He said today that UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, in a private conversation, "reacted in a rather positive way" to the differentiated limits. The commission will also seek an agreement to extend by two years the rules for charging value-added tax, or VAT, on software and other downloaded products from abroad, such as music from Apple Computer Inc's iTunes Web site. The current law requiring sellers to collect the tax on software and other goods delivered via the internet to individuals is scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
An attempt to make the electronic-commerce tax permanent failed earlier this year as finance ministers disagreed over a broader overhaul of VAT rules, which is still being debated. VAT is levied at 15% to 25% on most goods and services within the EU. The tax is payable in the country of consumption, leaving it to sellers to determine what rate to charge in some circumstances. (Bloomberg)
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At a recent meetup, Kim Ho and Alan Caudill of Salesforce.com described how they used Rundeck as part of a custom operations automation solution.
One of their initial use cases for Rundeck was around improving the repeatability and reliability of system provisioning. In the past, their operators often had to run through complex run lists where there could be 12 or more steps, each with lots of sub-steps. They needed a way to remove the manual process and allow operators to push a button and get a fully provisioned host that is consistent and correct every time.
Beyond that use case, the team had a variety of situations where they needed to automate processes across the various tools used in their environments. Those tools needed to be orchestrated and they needed a way to create repeatable and reusable jobs that can be shared across the organization.
To do this at scale (tens of thousands of nodes; thousands of jobs), the Salesforce.com team took a toolchain approach that features Rundeck, SaltStack, and a custom internal tool called Kingpin. The solution's code name? Gigantor.
Below are two videos of Kim's and Alan's public presentations that describe in more depth the use of Rundeck within their Gigantor solution. Here at the Rundeck project, we think it's a great example of the flexibility and utility of Rundeck. You can use Rundeck as a primary interface for operations or you can bake it into your own solution. It's all up to what your requirements are.
Big thanks to the entire Salesforce team for their support and contributions to the Rundeck project!


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HomeSportsNo. 3 Texans move to 10-0 behind school-record 682 yards of offense in 58-3 rout of William Jewell
No. 3 Texans move to 10-0 behind school-record 682 yards of offense in 58-3 rout of William Jewell
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LIBERTY, Missouri – No. 3 Tarleton moved to 10-0 on the season behind a school-record 682 yards of offense in a 58-3 rout on the road against William Jewell.
On an afternoon where numerous school records were tied and broken, the Texans have now won 10 games in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history. It's also the 20th straight regular season win and ninth straight regular season road win for the Texans dating back to last season.
The Texans, who came into today's game ranked No. 2 nationally in offense with 538 yards per game, have now broken the school record for total yards in a game twice this season. After putting up a then-record 673 yards at Stephen F. Austin in week 1, the Texans topped that mark this afternoon with 682 yards – the fourth 600-yard offensive output this season.
The fast-start Texans were at it again in the first quarter as Ben Holmes threw his first of four touchdowns to Camron Lewis for the game's first points. Holmes has now tied Cliff Watkins' school record for touchdown passes in a season with 29, which was set back in 2003. Holmes finished the game with 318 yards on 18-of-29 passing and four touchdowns.
With a 14-0 lead after one quarter, Tarleton has now outscored opponents 157-20 in the first quarter this season and hasn't allowed an opening-quarter touchdown since week 1 at SFA.
Daniel McCants followed with an 84-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, which was the start of a record-setting game for the senior running back from Killeen. McCants finished the game with 225 yards on 15 carries and two touchdowns – the second score on a 64-yard touchdown run to open the second half. McCants is the first player in school history to run for 200 yards in three straight games and now has 1,445 yards on the season. McCants will go into next week just 115 yards away from the single-season rushing record and 185 yards from the Tarleton career rushing record.
After setting the single season and career receiving touchdown record last week, Zimari Manning etched his name in another milestone category. With 109 yards on just six catches and two touchdowns, Manning is now the school's all-time leader in receiving yards in a season with 1,179 yards – passing Will Moody's 2003 record of 1,140 yards. Manning, the NCAA leader in touchdown receptions, has a jaw-dropping 19 touchdowns on the season.
Six different Texans scored a touchdown today, with Ryheem Skinner punching in his first touchdown as a Texan late in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard run. J.F. Thomas also caught a touchdown from Holmes to go with 61 yards on three receptions.
As great as the Texan offense was, the defense had its best performance statistically this season. The Texans held William Jewell to -4 rushing yards and only 163 passing yards for a total of 159 yards.
Benjie Franklin recorded his second interception return for a touchdown this season on an 83-yard pick six – just five yards away from the longest return in school history. It's the fourth INT of the season for Franklin, who ties Prince Robinson for the team lead.
B.J. Jefferson came up with his first-career interception as the three-time Lone Star Conference Defensive Player of the Week continued to build his stats with a team-leading seven tackles, three tackles for a loss, and a sack. Jefferson now has an LSC-leading 21.5 tackles for loss and 7.5 sacks on the year.
Erick Willis and Jordan Wells each had a career-high three sacks, as part of a 10-sack game by the Texan defense. Tavaris Owens, Jordan Phillips, Tank Morgan and Dariet McDuff also had sacks in the game.
Tarleton will travel to Silver City, New Mexico to take on Western New Mexico on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. CST looking to clinch its second straight outright Lone Star Conference championship.
Texans take care of Kingsville in straight sets to move into second place in LSC division
Hailey's double-double lifts Texans to win over Colorado Mesa


Over the course of one shift working the window of his father's drive-through urinal, our sixteen-year-old Flushboy will have to not only juggle gallons of warm pee and deal with the worst flood ever (it's not water), but he'll also have to fend off the urine mafia, solve the citywide mystery of Chickenstein, and win his girlfriend back.
Stephen Graham Jones now has, counting Seven Spanish Angels, eight novels and two collections, and around a hundred and thirty stories published, from Alaska Quarterly Review to Weird Tales, many of which have been selected for year's best annuals and anthologies. Jones has been an NEA Fellow, a Texas Writer's League Fellow, won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, and has been a finalist for a Colorado Book Award, a Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award.


Benjamin Macklowe joined Macklowe Gallery in 1994, was appointed Managing Director in 2002 and became its President in 2012. Under his leadership, Macklowe Gallery has become the world's most respected dealer of Antique and Estate Jewelry, French Art Nouveau decorative arts and the entire oeuvre of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Macklowe has appeared on television to discuss Tiffany lamps with Martha Stewart, lectured on the lamps and glassware of Louis Comfort Tiffany at Winterthur Museum and taught about Art Nouveau jewelry at Christie's auction house and the 92nd Street Y. He has helped expand the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum, The Newark Museum and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, selling important decorative works of art and jewelry to add to these important collections.
LBR PR has worked closely with Macklowe to define his target audience and research organizations, institutions, clubs and individuals who can connect him to a wider array of these affluent and aspirational collectors. Simultaneously, we have leveraged his thought leadership to create and refine four expert lectures exploring the breadth and depth of Maclowe's expertise on topics ranging from Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gilded Age New York to the Art Deco and Art Nouveau periods as well an exploration of the question "Why Collect?" As a result, LBR PR has booked dozens of events leading to greater awareness for Macklowe and the gallery, new client relationships, and direct sales.


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Q: Mobile Fu gem not working on ruby 1.8.7 / rails 2.3.14 Installing the gem following the instructions on http://rubygems.org/gems/mobile-fu ("Simply add gem 'mobile-fu' to your Gemfile and run bundle install") works OK, and the gem is listed as installed and all needed dependencies are also in place AFAIK, below is the relevant part of the projects Gemfile:
source :gemcutter
source 'http://gems.github.com'

gem 'rails', '~> 2.3.14'
gem 'aslakjo-comatose', '2.0.5.12', :require => 'comatose'
gem 'adamwiggins-rest-client', '1.0.4'
gem 'ruby-hmac', '0.4', :require => 'hmac'
gem 'ruby-net-ldap', '0.0.4', :require => 'net/ldap'
gem 'will_paginate', '2.3.11'
gem 'hpricot', '0.8.2'
gem 'oauth', '0.3.6'
gem 'sanitize', '1.1.0'
gem 'sunspot_rails', '1.1.0', :require => 'sunspot/rails'
gem 'htmlentities'
gem 'rdoc', :require => 'rdoc'
gem 'to_xls'
gem 'pusher'
gem 'jammit'
gem 'rabl', '~>0.6'
gem 'paperclip', '~> 2.7'
gem 'aws-sdk', '~> 1.3.4'
gem 'mobile-fu', '~> 1.1.0'
...

Here is the resulting error message/log when starting the server: "no such file to load -- mobile/fu (MissingSourceFile)" being the main problem (IMHO):
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.14 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.source_index called from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rails-2.3.14/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:21.
/home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:74:in `require': no such file to load -- mobile/fu (MissingSourceFile)
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:74:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `each'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler.rb:128:in `require'
    from /home/work/web/srv/config/boot.rb:116:in `load_gems'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rails-2.3.14/lib/initializer.rb:164:in `process'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rails-2.3.14/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `send'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rails-2.3.14/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `run'
    from ./config/environment.rb:7
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:547:in `new_constants_in'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
    from /home/work/web/srv/config.ru:1
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rack-1.1.3/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `instance_eval'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rack-1.1.3/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `initialize'
    from /home/work/web/srv/config.ru:1:in `new'
    from /home/work/web/srv/config.ru:1
    from ./script/server:3:in `eval'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rails-2.3.14/lib/commands/server.rb:78
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Update 1
Using the solution described by Ben Langfeld ("You can fix this using the following in your Gemfile: gem 'mobile-fu', '~> 1.1.0', :require => 'mobile-fu'") only produces a new error shown below:
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.14 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
NOTE: Gem.source_index is deprecated, use Specification. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem.source_index called from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/rails-2.3.14/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:21.
/home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require': no such file to load -- rails (MissingSourceFile)
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:547:in `new_constants_in'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:182:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/mobile-fu-1.1.0/lib/mobile-fu.rb:1
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `each'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `each'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `require'
    from /home/work/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-head@srv/gems/bundler-1.2.1/lib/bundler.rb:128:in `require'
    from /home/work/web/srv/config/boot.rb:116:in `load_gems'
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There are no minimum versions of ruby or rails listed for this gem, but I suspect the problem is caused by the old versions we are running. However, upgrading ruby or rails is not an option, because this is a maintenance project.
If any replacement gems for Mobile Fu with similar capabilities exists that is know to work on our ruby & rails version/config, that is an alternate option we are willing to look into if this issue cannot be resolved.

A: You can fix this using the following in your Gemfile:
gem 'mobile-fu', '~> 1.1.0', :require => 'mobile-fu'

A: Since the Mobile Fu gem is not compatible with ruby 1.8.x / rails 2.3.x, we ended up creating our own similar functionality based on the following article: http://erniemiller.org/2011/01/05/mobile-devices-and-rails-maintaining-your-sanity/

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Posted February 7th, 2019 by Andrew Pickett & filed under Crowdfunding.
Godwin Finance have launched a new crowdfunding website using ShareIn White Label Crowdfunding Software and our Appointed Representative service.
Godwin Finance Ltd operates their investment platform on behalf of Godwin Capital Ltd, the fund-raising arm of Godwin Developments, and also for other property developers and businesses seeking funds. Their investment platform matches investors wanting good returns with businesses looking to raise funding.


Make people aware of international conflicts and security risks caused by climate change!
Help us to make the world a better place by raising awareness of the risk of conflicts due to climate change.
The OSCE would like to express its gratitude to all those who entered the competition, and to eYeka for facilitating it. The entries will help us reach new audiences, and explain how climate change will have an impact on a wide variety of security concerns for all of us.
Congratulations Alvion - this highly-original image strongly shows the link between security and climate change.
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We've done a lot of Arcanas showing the sketches that artists send to the Magic Creative Team before working on the finished card art. And it's neat to see the artistic process in action.
But the truth is that these sketches usually aren't the first thing the artist works on. They're just the thing that they've sent in for approval. To demonstrate this, artist Noah Bradley has kindly shared a few pictures of the notebook (one of which may have been previous seen on Reddit, which is where the idea for this Arcana came from) where he does a lot of preliminary sketches before getting to the stage we've been calling "sketches." Let's look!


Looks like these crooks are going all out to get people swindled.
They sent an email to our company in Tanzania as well...immediately I got it, I knew its a scam.
They need to explain what we have done to deserve the GOLD award they are offering us and how they choose us.
A well deserved award, is awarded to you, you don't pay up to get an award; Say I cant make it, will they send through my gold award to me? Think not!
Others worldwide think so too!
let's bring such scammers down!


Dopamine (DA) signaling depends upon the coordination of multiple presynaptic processes, including those supporting DA biosynthesis, packaging, release and reuptake. The presynaptic dopamine transporter (DAT-1) is of particular importance in regulating both the exposure of pre- and postsynaptic DA receptors as well as supporting recycling of DA for further rounds of release. Using Caenorhabditis elegans, our lab demonstrated that loss of DAT (dat-1) elicits a DA-dependent, locomotory phenotype termed Swimming Induced Paralysis (SWIP) (Mcdonald et al., 2007). Whereas wild-type (N2) L4 stage worms swim at a continuous rate for ~20 min., dat-1 worms initiate normal swimming, but then paralyze over the next six minutes. SWIP can be rescued by pretreatment with the vesicular DA transporter (CAT-1) inhibitor reserpine, loss of DA biosynthesis (cat-2) or loss of the DA receptor DOP-3 (dop-3). In our initial studies, dat-1 SWIP was thought to be evident in either water or M9 buffer. Recently, however, we tested N2 and dat-1 worms for SWIP in both media, as well as three sucrose-supplemented water solutions. As shown in Fig. 1, as the osmolarity of the aqueous media increases, dat-1 SWIP penetrance decreases significantly. In contrast, swimming of wild-type worms is unaffected by media osmolarity. Although the effects of osmolarity on neural activity in worms have been well documented, here we show that media composition modulates a DA-modulated C. elegans motor behavior by DA and possibly other biogenic amines like serotonin. Candidate, reverse or forward genetic manipulations of SWIP in water vs. M9 may provide an opportunity to further dissect DA signaling in the nematode in vivo.
Figure 1: dat-1 SWIP decreases as a function of increasing osmolarity of aqueous media. L4 animals were picked using an eyelash pick into 80 µl of the indicated media, incubated for 10 min, and then scored for paralysis. Each trial contained at least 10 worms, and each point is represents 17 trials.
Mcdonald PW, Hardie SL, Jessen T, Carvelli L, Matthies DS, Blakely RD. (2007). Vigorous motor activity in Caenorhabditis elegans requires efficient clearance of dopamine mediated by synaptic localization of the dopamine transporter DAT-1. J. Neurosci. 27, 14216-14227.


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Box is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Arts and entertainment
Betty Box (1915–1999), British film producer
C. J. Box (born 1958), American author
David Box (1943–1964), American rock musician
Edgar Box, pseudonym used by writer Gore Vidal
John Box (1920–2005), British film designer
Mick Box (born 1947), British guitarist
Muriel Box (1905–1991), British writer
Steve Box (born 1967), British animator
Sydney Box (1907–1983), British film producer

Science and technology
Charles Richard Box (1866–1951), English physician and anatomist
Don Box, Microsoft employee
George E. P. Box (1919–2013), British statistician
Jason Box, American glaciologist

Sports
Ab Box (1909–2000), Canadian football player
Cloyce Box (1923–1993), American football player
George Box (ice hockey) (1892–1962), Canadian ice hockey player
Harold Box, rugby league player of the 1970s–1980s
Kenneth Box (born 1930), British track and field sprinter
Peter Box (1932–2018), Australian rules footballer

Other
George Herbert Box (1869-1933), British Old Testament scholar, father of Pelham, uncle of George E.P.
Godfrey Box, 16th century British entrepreneur
Henry "Box" Brown (1815  after 1889), American slave who had himself mailed in a box to freedom
John C. Box (1871–1941), American politician
Pelham Horton Box (1898-1937), British historian

See also
Pandora Boxx (born 1972), American drag queen, comedian, and reality television personality
Shannon Boxx (born 1977), American soccer player

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Wärtsilä inaugurates new modern facilities for the Delivery Centre Trieste in Italy
12 September 2007 at 3:00 PM E. Europe Standard Time
New manufacturing concept will increase capacity and flexibility
The Wärtsilä investment project, which started last year at the Delivery Centre Trieste in Italy, is now complete. Wärtsilä has invested EUR 18 million in a modern manufacturing concept to deliver higher quality, raise efficiency and to increase capacity for engine assembly and testing in Trieste, Italy.
The new engine production facilities and new Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy Training Centre were inaugurated today in Trieste, in the presence of the Finnish ambassador in Italy, Pauli Mäkelä, Wärtsilä's President & CEO, Ole Johansson, and Wärtsilä management.
The investment will raise the capacity of Delivery Centre Trieste to a level that meets future market requirements and flexibility needs and that supports the growth targets. "The new facilities will allow us to increase delivery volumes and obtain considerably higher quality and delivery accuracy. This in turn will be reflected in a more competitive cost structure," says Mr Sergio Razeto, Vice President, Delivery Centre Trieste & President of Wärtsilä Italia.
"The competitiveness of European industry requires us to develop our manufacturing processes to improve efficiency and flexibility. An essential aspect of the supply chain is a close co-operation with our partners. This is also a logistical challenge. The aim of our investment was to design a factory that meets these challenges while also improving customer service," says Mr Ole Johansson, President & CEO of Wärtsilä Corporation.
Further investments in Trieste
Wärtsilä is making further investments in the Delivery Centre Trieste in order to meet demand and optimize production and subcontracting activities. At the same time the investments ensure that production technology remains up to date.
A new portal machining centre (PMC) is being planned in order to increase the production volume of engine blocks. There will also be a new technology building with an auditorium in Trieste. The value of these investments is EUR 15 million. The PMC and technology building will be taken into use next year.
Wärtsilä has already forecast that the total value of investments world wide in 2007 will be approximately EUR 200 million. The Trieste investments are included in this estimate.
Italian operations
The Italian operations of Wärtsilä currently employ about 1 380 people, located in Trieste and in the service centres of the more important Italian ports. This year Wärtsilä has increased the workforce in Italy by over 100 people.
In Trieste, Wärtsilä today has suitable facilities able to host several types of 4-stroke medium- and large-sized engines with a power range from 1.7 MW to roughly 25 MW. Its product portfolio currently lists the following Wärtsilä engines: 26, 38, 46, 46F, 50DF and 64.
For further information, please call Mr Sergio Razeto, Vice President, Delivery Centre Trieste and President, Wärtsilä Italia, tel. +39 356 412 516.
Notes to the editor:
Wärtsilä enhances the business of its customers by providing them with complete lifecycle power solutions. When creating better and environmentally compatible technologies, Wärtsilä focuses on the marine and energy markets with products and solutions as well as services. Through innovative products and services, Wärtsilä sets out to be the most valued business partner of all its customers. This is achieved by the dedication of more than 15,000 professionals manning 130 Wärtsilä locations in close to 70 countries around the world.
www.wartsila.com


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## Due For This Class

## Grids & Positioning

This lesson will introduce you to using a grid system for positioning content.  We have already done this in previous lessons - remember the activity we did in lesson 17 ([layout activity](/lessons/2014-10-03-advancedhtmlcss.html)) - using columns to lay out our content and creating sidebars and main content areas.

To design with a grid, you need to consider that your content can be broken up into rows and columns.  Every row can have any number of columns, but it looks nice if your columns are of predictable width.

## Resources

- http://www.thegridsystem.org/
- http://jordanlev.github.io/grid/

### Grid Systems

There are probably over a hundred grid systems out there. Here are some that I have used and liked.

- [960 Grid System](http://960.gs/) (Note - this is NOT responsive)
- [Skeleton Grid](http://www.getskeleton.com/) (This is one of the simplest frameworks - and one of the first responsive grid systems I encountered!)
- [Base CSS]() (another framework, a bit more complicated to get set up but really simple code-wise)
- [Unsemantic Grid](http://unsemantic.com/) (The successor to 960 grid).
- [Gridism](http://cobyism.com/gridism/) (Very different, but simple!)

## Homework

- Read [CSS Layouts - Fixed vs Fluid](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/02/fixed-vs-fluid-vs-elastic-layout-whats-the-right-one-for-you/)
- Read [All About Grid Systems](http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/all-about-grid-systems--webdesign-14471) and [Choosing a Grid System](http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/choosing-a-grid-system--webdesign-14490)

### Content Planning Homework - due Monday, November 3

- Sitemap
- Initial content planning documents (answer the first two sets of questions from Monday's lesson)

  **Content**

  - What content will you need to have?
  - What content is already created?  What will you need to create?

  **Navigation**

  - What will your menu items be?
  - What pages will you need?
  - What content will go on each page?
  - How will people navigate through your website?

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Games, Gadgets & Makerspaces: Bingo Night!
A101: Super Searcher Shares Tips!
B105: Website Design Winners & Losers!
C101: Robotics & AI in Libraries: It's Happening!
C104/C105: Collections, Partnerships, & Engagement: Tips & Ideas!
D103: Design, Smart Communities & Engagement!
C203: ROI & Value: Measuring & Talking About What Matters!
E202: Preparing Students for Academic Success: Gamified Strategy!
New Tech: Where is our Future?
Digital Youth: Savvy But Not Literate?
E303: Will IoT & Our Citizens Make Our Communities Smarter?
Life Long Learning: Skills Expansion!


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Can Switch Automation's Web-Based Energy Software Break Through the Cloud?
An emerging Australian company tries to stand out amidst the flurry of activity in the cloud-based energy management sector.
Stephen Lacey February 14, 2013
Stephen Lacey
Stephen Lacey is a contributing editor with Greentech Media. He is also the founder and executive producer of Post Script Media. Lacey produces and hosts The Energy Gang and Interchange podcasts, two of the most popular podcasts on energy and cleantech.
In 2009, Switch Automation started developing an energy monitoring device for apartments in Australia. But the company eventually decided the hardware model wouldn't scale.
"You could see the writing was on the wall," explained Deb Noller, Switch's CEO. "It was too complex."
In 2011, Switch reinvented itself, moving into a space with fewer deployment barriers and almost no capital barrier: up into the cloud.
"There was a giant shift in the way companies were going to make money," said Noller. "Everything was going to the cloud."
Indeed, the shift is well underway in the energy efficiency and smart grid space. Most of the major companies in the building controls sector are developing energy-management software for the cloud. EnerNOC, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and many others have developed their own software-as-a-service products. And emerging companies like Hara, FirstFuel, Noesis and Retroficiency have also developed web-based monitoring tools for building efficiency.
It's starting to get mighty crowded up there in the cloud with all those fancy dashboards.
After deploying its software at five apartment buildings and three dozen commercial sites in Australia, Switch Automation is now trying to break into the U.S. market.
So how is the company trying to differentiate itself amidst the flurry of activity in the U.S.? Green buildings.
"There's a heap of companies developing dashboards, mostly based on utility data reporting. But we've really honed our market focus. For now, we're focusing on green buildings and companies that need to do regulatory reporting," said Noller.
Below are some screen shots of the company's web-based software, built on HTML-5, which monitors all types of building management systems and utility meters:
As it moves into the U.S., Switch is targeting building managers who are specifically focused on sustainability -- either through managing an already "greened" facility or helping meet regulatory requirements for sustainability. (This is partly why the company is making progress in Australia, where there's a carbon tax). The software monitors electricity, heating, water, carbon emissions, and spits out a range of other data. The software also sends out reports to different groups of people within a building (apartment tenants or office workers, for example) with any alerts or messages on how well their area is performing.
But green buildings are only the start for the U.S. market. Switch wants to eventually focus on any type of building where the product makes sense.
"Ultimately, I don't care about regulation; I care about saving energy and saving money," said Noller. "If we can't make a difference, then what are we doing?"
Software might have been easier for Switch to develop than a piece of hardware. But there are still major barriers to deployment. Finding the right ally -- electrical contractors, building managers, or companies with large building portfolios -- is the most difficult piece of establishing a business channel in the U.S.
"There's a giant leap from old school to new school in this area," said Noller. "We just have to find the right person or company to get those initial projects off the ground."
Which is why focusing on green buildings -- facilities where management is more likely to be progressive about energy efficiency -- makes a lot of sense for now.
The other barrier is competition. With so many corporate heavyweights developing similar cloud-based products, Switch will need to prove it has a unique offering.


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Until Emacs 26.1, I used Flycheck. Now I use Flymake.
Not all of it. I steel had some personnal data in it.
Some peoples advise me to use anaconda instead of jedi.el. More complete and more user friendly.


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Port of Seattle shifts direction, picks retired military commander as new leader
Originally published December 19, 2017 at 2:19 pm Updated December 20, 2017 at 3:39 pm
Stephen Metruck, a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral, will take over as executive director of the Port of Seattle in February. (Port of Seattle)
Stephen Metruck, a former rear admiral and chief financial officer at the U.S. Coast Guard, will take over at the Port on Feb. 1 with a $350,000 salary. His selection is a shift away from the private sector, where the port's former leader came from.
Seattle Times business reporter
Plagued by public-trust issues that led to the ouster of its former leader who came from the private sector, the Port of Seattle on Tuesday went in a new direction and selected a retired military commander to lead the agency.
Stephen Metruck, a former rear admiral and chief financial officer at the U.S. Coast Guard, will take over as executive director at the Port in February following a unanimous vote from the five-member Port commission.
During his 34-year career, Metruck has overseen 3,600 military and civilian personnel as the commander of the Coast Guard's mid-Atlantic region, helped plan the Coast Guard's $10 billion budget and served on the board for the Coast Guard's academy for new recruits.
In the middle of the last decade, he spent four years as commander of Sector Puget Sound, where he helped lead safety operations at the Port of Seattle. He has a master's in public administration from Harvard University.
The 57-year-old D.C. resident, who retired from the military last year, will be relocating back to Seattle with his wife. He'll make $350,000 a year, the same as his predecessor, and is expected to sign a three-year contract.
Commissioner Courtney Gregoire, who co-chaired the search for a new executive director, said the agency got about 35 candidates and interviewed nearly a dozen before bringing in Metruck for two rounds of interviews. She said they mostly focused on government employees like city managers with Pacific Northwest experience but did get some candidates from the private sector and from inside the Port.
In an interview after the vote, Metruck said he'll be focusing on growth at the airport, improving relationships with other government agencies and protecting the environment.
He said he won't be bringing to the Port the "Do it this way because I said so" mentality from the military. Metruck said he will spend the beginning of his run listening to Port workers, and those who deal with the Port.
"I feel so lucky to be here," he said.
It's an abrupt about-face for the Port, which had previously been led by former private-sector executive Ted Fick, who was given the title of CEO. The hire was meant to stimulate business activity at the Port, which oversees Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, local maritime operations and other real estate. It also manages about 2,000 employees and spends about $1.3 billion annually.
Fick was arrested on suspicion of a DUI in 2016. Then a scathing internal review in February found he had secretly given himself a $24,500 bonus that also enriched other top staff at the Port — a move that the state auditor found to be illegal.
The review also found Fick had steered business toward his father's company and taken tickets and other gifts from Port customers like airlines. Fick resigned in February as the internal review was released.
In response, Port commissioners said they needed to hire someone with a proven track record of integrity and public-sector experience. They also changed the job title from CEO, commonly used at companies, to executive director, a typical government job title, to help reflect the shift.
"We wanted to hire somebody who knew who he really worked for, and that's the citizens of the region," said Commissioner Fred Felleman, the other co-chair of the search process.
Former Chief Operating Officer Dave Soike had been leading the agency in the interim since Fick left and will return to his old job. The Port, with the help of an outside executive-search firm, launched a nationwide job search for a permanent replacement in July.
About 500 Port employees and local residents responded to a survey about the search this summer, and backed up what commissioners said they were looking for in a candidate. About 79 percent of survey respondents said it was important for the new executive director to have experience in the public sector, and "integrity" easily won out as the attribute respondents were looking for most in a new leader.
Still, Metruck does not list any airport experience on his résumé, a significant portion of the job at the Port, particularly as Sea-Tac bursts at the seams (though he has overseen military-aviation commands).
Felleman said while Metruck is "not an airport guy," they weren't going to find a "Superman" with experience in all the areas the Port oversees. He noted the Port has several other administrators with airport experience.
And while Metruck has lots of military experience, he hasn't led a local government agency before. He does say he's worked with Congress and other public agencies in the past.
His career has taken him from the State Department in his native New York to Coast Guard posts in San Diego; Seattle; Alameda, California; D.C.; and Portsmouth, Virginia.
The vote happened at the last meeting of the current commission before the new board, with two new members, takes over Jan. 1. Board President Tom Albro is retiring while longtime commissioner John Creighton was voted out of office in November.
The selection of a new executive director was an issue in the Port campaigns this election season, though all the candidates generally agreed that the new leader needed to have public-sector experience and a strong resume of integrity.
The two incoming port commissioners, Peter Steinbrueck and Ryan Calkins, got to weigh in on the selection. Both said Tuesday that they supported Metruck's appointment.
Steinbrueck said he did not participate in the vetting process for the other candidates or get to interview any other contenders but was "very happy" with the selection of Metruck.
"The record hasn't been so good in the recent past" on hiring a leader, Steinbrueck said Tuesday. With Metruck, "I think it will be a new day."
Calkins said he was also impressed by Metruck when the two met during the selection process.
Felleman said the board wanted to vote on a new director now because current board members have been inside the Port for years, while it will take some time for new commissioners to get up to speed.
"No new commissioner is in a position to make that judgment call," Felleman said.
Mike Rosenberg: mrosenberg@seattletimes.com or 206-464-2266


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