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July 27th, 2007, 19:25 #41
Sean Osborne
Re: Terrorism here in the US
There are multiple dozens of terrorist probes or dry runs occuring all over the country.
There are ongoing MULTIPLE HAZMAT events at five different Washington DC metro stations this afternoon. This report is via HUMINT source in DC. A person spread the unknown agent at the five stations, which the source identifies as: College Park, Greenbelt, Naylor Rd, Anacostia, and Takoma Park. Dead birds have been found at those locations as well. A black truck was observed to be common to all stations prior to the HAZMAT event for those locations.
Mistake by Metro Contractor Prompts FBI Investigation
Dozens of Dead Birds, Poison Found at Six Metrorail Stations
By Lena H. Sun
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 29, 2007; 6:40 PM
A mistake by a Metro contractor led to the shutdown of three Metrorail stations today and prompted an investigation by the FBI and local hazardous-materials crews after the contractor spread commercial pest poison at the wrong time of day, a transit agency spokeswoman said.
At least 60 birds that apparently ingested the poison, mostly sparrows and starlings, were found dead at six Metrorail stations before the transit agency discovered that its contractor was responsible for putting out the poison and failing to remove the dead birds as part of the clean-up.
By 4:45 p.m., all three stations had re-opened. But earlier in the day, as reports of dead birds increased through the afternoon, officials from the FBI's joint terrorism task force and the National Institutes of Health joined in the investigation. The FBI's task force was sent to Branch Avenue to investigate a report of 15 dead birds there, and the Takoma station, where 16 birds were found, was not allowed to open until receiving final clearance from NIH.
"We believe the birds ingested some sort of poison," said Metro spokeswoman Cathy Asato. "The public was never in danger. We do believe it was a mistake on the part of our contractor."
Asato said the agency was "tremendously grateful" to the prompt federal and local response from emergency responders. All agencies took precautionary measures to ensure the safety of customers and passengers, she said.
The transit agency uses the contractor for pest and rodent control, and the contractor is supposed to work late at night or early in the morning. The contractor was supposed to be treating the stations for pigeons, Asator said. The pest abatement "doesn't typically happen on Sunday at 12 noon," said Asato, referring to when Metro began receiving reports of dead birds at stations. Most of the birds were found in the "Kiss and Ride" parking area outside the stations.
The contractor is also supposed to "stick around to clear the area of dead birds" or other animals, she said. "Clearly this did not happen," she said. Asato said she did not know the contractor's name, but said the agency was "following up."
Dead birds were found at the Anacostia, Branch Avenue, Greenbelt, Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood, Naylor Road and Takoma stations. The Greenbelt station was closed for about an hour shortly after noon after about 20 dead birds were found. Authorities found pellets of d-CON, a commercial rat poison at Greenbelt, according to D.C. fire spokesman Alan Etter. Rhode Island Avenue station was closed for about two hours after four dead birds were found. (An earlier report had indicated that dead birds had been found at seven stations.)
The Takoma station on the Red Line was closed for nearly four hours, from about 12:50 to 4:45 p.m. after 16 dead birds were found in areas outside the station.
Metro ran shuttle buses around the affected stations, but the emergency situations added to already-long delays that normally affect riders on weekends when track and other maintenance work must be done.
The rain and wind made it difficult for D.C. authorities to determine what kind of poison the birds had eaten at the District stations. The D.C. Department of Health was planning to do a necropsy on several dead birds found at the Anacostia station Monday, tter said.
Metro spokeswoman Asato said transit police were able to determine that the agency contractor put out the poison after witnesses reported seeing a man in a black pickup truck spreading material at some stations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews
Warfarin (a/k/a d-Con or Rodex, among other brand names) is rat poison and takes about a week to work its deadly task of inducing internal hemorrhaging in the victim rodent.
The many dead birds at these stations died nearly instantaneously, which is to say, they never got the chance to fly off and die elsewhere.
This smells of a bad cover story.
Repeatedly Redundant...Again
I can't find anything as related to the above event involving any human illnesses/injuries.
Which makes me that much more curious.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org...php?id=1193902
Exclusive: 'Possible Attack on the U.S. Within Ninety Days
FSM Editors
Author: The Editors
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Veteran Israeli Intelligence expert, Juval Aviv, said in recent media interviews that his sources on terror plots directed at the United States indicate that multiple attacks on our homeland are in the final stages of preparation. Read the details.<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O />
'Possible Attack on the <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />U.S. Within Ninety Days'
By FSM Editors
Counterterrorism expert Juval Aviv met recently with reporters at Fox News and revealed information, which he believes is accurate, concerning an imminent Al Qaeda attack on five to seven American cities simultaneously.
"I predict, based primarily on information that is floating in Europe and the Middle East, that an event is imminent and around the corner here in the United States. It could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could happen in the next few months. Ninety days at the most,� said Mr. Aviv.
Mr. Aviv knows of that which he speaks. He is a former Israeli Counterterrorism Intelligence Officer and has also served as a special consultant to the U.S. Congress on issues of terrorism and security. He is best known as the source of the 1984 book, Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas, on which Steven Spielberg's film Munich was based. He is also the author of The Complete Terrorism Survival Guide: How to Travel, Work and Live in Safety (2003); and Staying Safe: The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business (2004).
Currently, Aviv is the president of Interfor, Inc., a corporate investigations firm in New York City.
So it is clear that Aviv has the background and experience in global terror and its operating methods to warrant taking his current warnings seriously. It would be foolish to ignore or minimize this counterterrorism veteran's expert prognosis. Mr. Aviv told Fox that, from what his sources have been relating, sleeper cells that already have been placed inside the continental United States are on the verge of carrying out major attacks.
"What they're going to do," he explained, "is hit six, seven or eight cities simultaneously to show sophistication and really hit the public. This time, which is the message of the day, it will not only be big cities. They're going to try to hit rural America. They want to send a message to rural America: "You're not protected. If you figured out that if you just move out of New York and move to Montana or to Pittsburgh, you're not immune. We're going [to] get you wherever we can and it's easier there than in New York."
While this prediction leaves most Americans feeling helpless, fearful and frustrated, Juval Aviv recommends that we at least do what we can. He suggests that for the next few months, if we are traveling by public transportation, we should equip ourselves with a bottle of water, a hand towel and a flashlight. He reminds us that many fatalities in the London tube and Madrid train attacks occurred from victims who breathed in the lethal fumes from bomb components and burning gasoline. Had these people had wet towels to cover their mouths and noses, they would have had a much better chance of survival.
Mr. Aviv is a very strong proponent of "If you See Something – Say Something� school of preparedness. He stated that a great number of potentially lethal terror attacks in Israel have been – and still are – thwarted by the intelligent actions on the part of alert, aware and watchful citizens.
Americans must do the same, he advises. The global war on terror is not "somewhere over there in the Middle East.� It is here on our own soil. If ever there were a time to be especially vigilant, the time is now.
Let us hope and pray that these vicious enemies and their depraved plans against our citizens and our country, which come out of a wicked ideological brew, will be forestalled and prevented, and the perpetrators apprehended. So far, our law enforcement, military, counter-terrorism and intelligence personnel have done a stellar job. At the same time, and as we all know, we have to be lucky 100% of the time, and the terrorists have to be lucky only once.
So stay alert…stay away from crowds…and if you see something, say something! You could save hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.
U.S. Terror Attack — 'Ninety Days at Most'
Counterterrorism expert Juval Aviv spoke with FOX Fan Central about what Americans can do to protect themselves in case of a terror attack.
Do you believe another terrorist attack is likely on American soil?
I predict, based primarily on information that is floating in Europe and the Middle East, that an event is imminent and around the corner here in the United States. It could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could happen in the next few months. Ninety days at the most.
What advice do you have for individuals that have the misfortune of finding themselves in the middle of a terror attack?
Since mass transportation is the next attack, when you travel to work have with you, a bottle of water, a small towel and a flashlight. What happened in London is exactly a point to look at. Those people who were close to the bombs died, then others were injured or died from inhaling the toxic fumes or getting trampled. The reason you take a bottle of water and a towel is that if you wet the towel and put it over your face, you can protect yourself against the fumes and get yourself out of there.
Don't be bashful. If your gut feeling tells you when you walk onto a bus there is something unusual or suspicious, get out and walk away. You may do it 10 times for no reason, but there will be one time that saves your life. Let your sixth sense direct you.
Try to break your routine. If you travel during rush hour every day, try to get up a little earlier and drive to work or take the train when it's still not full. Don't find yourself every day in the midst of rush hour. Terrorists are not going to waste a bomb on a half-empty train.
What portion of the American infrastructure do you believe is at the greatest risk for a terror attack?
We have put all of our emphasis, right or wrong, on the aviation area. What has happened, in the last two to three years, based on information we have, is the terrorists have realized that they cannot hijack a plane in America soon because the passengers are going to fight back. So they realize what they have been very successful with over the last 50 years in Madrid, London, Iraq, Israel: demoralizing the public when they go to work and when they come back from work.
What they're going to do is hit six, seven or eight cities simultaneously to show sophistication and really hit the public. This time, which is the message of the day, it will not only be big cities. They're going to try to hit rural America. They want to send a message to rural America: "You're not protected. If you figured out that if you just move out of New York and move to Montana or to Pittsburgh, you're not immune. We're going [to] get you wherever we can and it's easier there than in New York."
What more do you think the government can do to protect the public?
Number one, and this is the beef I've had with Homeland Security for the last four years, is educating the public on how to deal with those types of events. There's no education. We're raising the color code alert and that means nothing to anyone. Whether it's green, yellow, pink, no one ever educated the public how to identify suspicious items or people.
In Israel, so many of them [terrorists] have been apprehended just because people have phoned in. We don't have that training on campuses, schools or kindergarten.
In Israel, it's very popular right now [amongst terrorists] to put one device to explode and time another one for five minutes later when it's all calm, people are getting up and the rescue teams have responded. You need to know all those things and think about those things. The government must pursue that. Law enforcement will never have enough people on the street to detect things. We don't have that kind of manpower. That's why the government must enlist the public.
Juval Aviv is a former Israeli Counterterrorism Intelligence Officer and President and CEO of Interfor, Inc. Mr. Aviv has also served as a special consultant to the U.S. Congress on issues of terrorism and security and is the author of "Staying Safe : The Complete Guide to Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Business.�
And my oh-so-crude response:
Bring it, dirtbags. Just f*cking bring it.
July 31st, 2007, 01:59 #47
RavenLyke
Well Backstop, after this and everything else I am seeing from Sean and others, it just makes my trip to Fleet Week in Seattle seem more interesting. Oh well, can't live in fear and like we used to say in the Navy, F#$K em if they can't take a joke.
And on a side note, I have always loved that song by the Boss.
Well look what was found by an ARFCOMer:
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/07/08/...in_90_days.php
Well Raven, looks like you'll have less on your mind during your Seattle trip.
I'm trying to find more info...hopefully Sean et al will be along shortly.
Regardless, enjoy the tour.
Yep, The Boss - as are so many others - is under rated.
Last edited by Backstop; July 31st, 2007 at 02:55.
A Banana Republic, Central America
We're all hearing the same things, throughout the various agencies.
"Heads Up" is all I can say at this point.
I'd like to point out Sean posted he was "leaving the site" cuz he "can't be trusted" to edit his posts.
There were issues about editing, and he is taking it personally, so I doubt you will see him posting much more except to make trite or smart assed comments to anything I say now. So, dont hold your breath, Backstop.
Raven, enjoy your trip and don't let them bother you. Just pay attention to your surroundings. Your job in an emergency is to SURVIVE first. Don't ever forget that - any of you.
Libertatem Prius!
Now I know this thread is Terrorisim here in the U.S. but a lot of the intelligence everyone was follwing showed that it would come around the same time as events in Israel, two things out today that are interesting
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/888338.html
The summer season will be calmer than some people think, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday, countering persistent reports predicting a new war.
Olmert, speaking at a graduation ceremony in Jerusalem for the Israel Defense Forces' command college, said people on both sides of Israel's borders want peace, not war.
"I firmly believe that the coming summer and fall will not be too hot," Olmert said. "There is no place for creating an atmosphere of 'the eve of war.'"
And from Debka http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4458
This piece of intelligence was behind the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's comment Tuesday, July 31: "I think this summer and fall will be less hot than we expected.�
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the latest intelligence update on Syria's intentions reached Jerusalem via Washington in the last few days. It indicated that Syria's political and military leaders had rescheduled the start of hostilities against Israel on the Golan for the second two weeks of November, 2007, postponing their original planning by more than two months.
August 5th, 2007, 12:13 #52
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/
Goose Creek South Carolina - Police Discover Explosives During Stop
By Homeland Security NTARC News | August 4, 2007
Authorities closed a highway outside Charleston for more than five hours Saturday night after police found explosives in the trunk of a car, a newspaper reported, citing an FBI agent. The vehicle with Florida tags was driven by two men of Middle Eastern descent.
Julie Johnson, assistant special agent-in-charge for the FBI in Columbia, said there was "no immediate threat,� according to The (Charleston) Post and Courier.
Law enforcement officials closed the road about 7 p.m. after the traffic stop in Goose Creek, home to the Naval Weapons Station. The station houses the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held.
Johnson said the FBI was still trying to determine whether a crime had been committed but that there was "no immediate threat� related to the traffic stop.
South Carolina law enforcement Chief Robert Stewart told The Associated Press that his officers were on the scene, but that the FBI was handling the case and he did not elaborate.
According to Lt. Vince Lombardo, deputies discovered the suspicious items in the trunk during a traffic stop. The two men inside the vehicle are detained at the scene. Lombardo also said information from an investigation in another jurisdiction raised the suspicions of the deputies.
Goose Creek, with a population of about 30,000, is located about 20 miles north of Charleston.
Two Arrested with Explosives Near Charleston
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...&only&headline
It happened last night, but there's still very little information out there; two men of "Middle Eastern descent" were arrested after police discovered explosives in the trunk of their car.
Goose Creek - Berkeley County police pulled over a vehicle in a routine traffic stop near Meyers Road and Highway 176 around 6 p.m.Saturday.
The vehicle with Florida tags was driven by two men of Middle Eastern descent.
Some type of explosives were found in the trunk. Those explosives were detonated after three o'clock this morning.
Two men were arrested, and charges of possession of unlawful explosives are being prepared.
Officials are not at this time releasing any additional information on the number of charges or types of explosive devices they found.
The Associated Press report omits the fact that the suspects are Middle Eastern, with a headline that could not possibly be any more innocuous and unnoticeable: S.C. police detain 2 for suspicious item.
Last edited by American Patriot; August 6th, 2007 at 15:25.
Click....
Two puzzle pieces? SC and FL? Hmm... Sounds East Coastish to me, how about the rest of you?
Ryan Ruck
Creepy Ass Cracka & Site Owner
I had a sneaking suspicion the two arrested were of "questionable background" when the article failed to mention any profile of the drivers. After all, if it had been two white men, it would have been all over the story.
Al Qaeda Cell in US?
The only good thing about this news is that if they're connected to the failed London/Glasgow bombers, they may be too incompetent to pull off a serious attack: Al Qaeda Cell May Be Loose in U.S., British Plot Hints.
WASHINGTON — As an American-born spokesman for Al Qaeda threatens to blow up American embassies abroad, intelligence gleaned from last month's British "doctors plot" of car bombers suggests that a Qaeda cell is on the loose in the American homeland.
E-mail addresses for American individuals were found on the same password-protected e-mail chains used by the United Kingdom plotters to communicate with Qaeda handlers in Europe, a counterterrorism official told The New York Sun yesterday. The American and German intelligence community now believe the secure e-mail chains used in the United Kingdom plot have provided a window into an operational Qaeda network in several countries.
"Because of the London and Glasgow plot, we now know communications have been made from Al Qaeda to operatives in the United States," the counterterrorism official said on condition of anonymity. "This plot helps to connect a lot of stuff. We have seen money moving a lot through hawala networks and other illicit finance as well." But this source was careful to say that at this point no specific information, such as names, targets or a timeline, was known about any particular plot on American soil.
No... no frickin' terrorism HERE....
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/p...Y&pageId=3.2.1
Two USF students say they had fireworks, not bombs
Last Edited: Tuesday, 07 Aug 2007, 12:29 PM EDT
Created: Tuesday, 07 Aug 2007, 6:05 AM EDT
Photos courtesy Berkeley County (S.C.) Sheriff's Office.
USF confirms bomb suspects are students
USF students charged with possession of explosives
USF students' S.C. arrest report
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. - They claim they were just on a road trip and traveling with fireworks, but prosecutors in Berkeley County South Carolina say two University of South Florida students were caught carrying much more than that.
Ahmed Sherif Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed ere headed through the area over the weekend when they were stopped for speeding. A deputy claims that's when he found explosives in the trunk of the car they were riding in.
The deputy called in an FBI agent, and shut down the road.
"He was in possession of pipe bombs and materials that could have been used to make more bombs," said prosecutor Scarlett Wilson. "There were other materials in the car that are currently being tested - we don't have the results of those tests as of yet."
According to authorities, the suspicious item found in the car made a loud bang similar to a firecracker when it was demolished by deputies.
Megahed and Mohamed were arrested, and they face explosives charges for carrying what authorities determined to be pipe bombs. Still the two men continue to defend themselves, saying what they had weren't bombs.
"These things you guys call "bomb tubes" is nothing but fireworks – fireworks," said Mohamed.
Friends back in the Tampa area say they don't believe the accusations against the two men.
"All I know when it comes to acts of terrorism or weapons or explosives or anything of that kind I have a full confidence that he's not guilty," said Jaffim Aldeen, a friend of the two men who lives here in the Bay Area.
Meghed's family says he has been living here in the Bay Area with them for several years. His father says he believes his son has been unfairly targeted, and he's been unable to speak with him since his arrest.
FOX 13 has also learned that Megahed's family is being cooperative in the investigation, and they allowed the FBI to search their Tampa home yesterday.
For now, Megahed and Mohamed both remain in a South Carolina jail. Their next court date has been set for early October. A judge set bond at $300,000 for Megahed and $500,000 for Mohamed.
If the pair manages to bond out of jail, they still won't be returning to the Bay Area. They will be forced to stay in South Carolina and be monitored by satellite until their trial.
According to USF, Megahed is a 21-year-old civil engineering grad student who studied as an undergraduate in Cairo. Mohamed -- who turned 26 on Sunday -- is a permanent U.S. resident who has been at the school since 2004 but has not declared a major.
A USF spokesman told FOX 13 that the school was reserving judgment until the two men have had their day in court.
"We're going to let the judicial process run its course. If it does, and they are eligible to be students here, we would naturally welcome them back," Ken Gullette stated.
Both Mohamed and Megahed have had contact with the campus police before, but nothing that -- on the surface -- appears suspicious.
Twice last school year, Megahed reported a theft of a book bag from the library, police said. Mohamed also reported being the victim of a fraud.
In May, police found the pair together in a vehicle parked at the Sun Dome just before 11 p.m. Police reported "contact" with the two about the incident, but did not add any details.
2 Charged With Pipe Bombs Near Navy Base
2 Men Charged With Possession of Pipe Bombs Near Navy Base in South Carolina
By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press Writer
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. Aug 7, 2007 (AP)
Two men found with several pipe bombs in their car near a Navy base were charged Monday with possession of an explosive device, authorities said.
A joint state-federal investigation was under way to see whether there was any terrorism connection, said FBI spokeswoman Denise Taiste, but no link had been found. The Navy base is the site of a brig where enemy combatants have been held.
Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed, 24, and Yousef Samir Megahed, 21, both students at the University of South Florida in Tampa, were driving through the area on Saturday to vacation at a North Carolina beach for Mohamed's birthday, their defense attorney said.
"They admitted to having what they said were fireworks. Based on the officer's judgment at hand, based on what he had seen, we judged it to be other than fireworks," Berkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt said.
Mohamed, 24, said he made devices from items he bought at Wal-Mart, according to an affidavit with his arrest warrant.
Defense attorney Dennis Rhoad said the men have a reason for having the devices and it would become clear in later court hearings.
"The defendants deny the allegations the state and the sheriff have made against them," Rhoad said.
Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson asked for high bond, which was set at $500,000 for Mohamed and $300,000 for Megahed, because she said the men were dangerous and a risk to flee.
Mohamed is a native of Kuwait and Megahed is Egyptian, the sheriff said. Both are in the country legally.
The executive director of a civil rights organization for Muslims in Tampa criticized the arrest as racial profiling, an accusation South Carolina police denied. It's not clear if the item found in the vehicle is actually a bomb, said Ahmed Bedier of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"If it's clearly a pipe bomb that's a different story. Then there is cause for concern," said Bedier.
Megahed lives with his family and they voluntarily allowed the FBI to search their home in Tampa on Monday, Bedier said.
"They're so confident that they don't have anything in their home that they gave the keys to some agents. The father voluntarily allowed them to go search the home unsupervised," Bedier said.
The two men were stopped for speeding Saturday night on U.S. Highway 176 near Goose Creek, which is the site of the Naval Weapons Station and houses the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held.
They were heading west, away from Goose Creek, when they were pulled over about seven miles from the sprawling Navy facility, police said.
Officers became suspicious because the men quickly put away a laptop computer and couldn't immediately say what they were doing in the area or where they were going, DeWitt said.
A deputy then found what he thought were explosives in the 2000 Toyota Camry and called the bomb squad. Technicians confirmed the devices were pipe bombs and destroyed them, according to sworn statements in the arrest warrants.
Authorities closed a mile-long stretch of the highway Saturday night and didn't reopen it until about 4 a.m. Sunday.
University spokesman Ken Gullette said Mohamed is a civil engineering graduate student who came to the school in January. He earned his undergraduate degree in Cairo and was in the country on a student visa.
Megahed, who has permanent resident status in the United States, is an undergraduate and has been at the university since 2004, but has not declared a major, Gullette said.
Neither has ever been arrested by campus police or disciplined by the university, Gullette said. Both were enrolled in classes this summer. Gullette said the university is cooperating with authorities.
If convicted of the felony charge, the men would face from two to 15 years in prison.
Goose Creek, with a population of about 30,000, is about 20 miles north of Charleston.
Associated Press writers Katrina A. Goggins in Columbia and Mitch Stacy in Tampa contributed to this report.
(This version CORRECTS that affidavit said devices, not pipe bombs.)
Road trip, 'pipe bombs,' speeding, then arrests
Did two USF students in S.C. have a plan?
By ABBIE VANSICKLE, Times Staff Writer
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Lt. Meg Ross, PIO for the USF University Police takes questions during a press conference at USF concerning the arrest of two men, accused of having explosives in their car in Goose Creek, near Charleston, South Carolina.
Jassim Aldeen, 22, President of the USF Muslim Student Association, right, talks to local media after a press conference at CAIR Tampa about the arrest of two men, accused of having explosives in their car in Goose Creek, near Charleston, South Carolina. Both Ahmed Bedier, Executive Director of the Tampa Chapter of CAIR, left, and Aldeen believe race was a factor in the arrests.
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TAMPA - The arrest of two University of South Florida students found with several suspected pipe bombs near a South Carolina naval base raised more questions than it answered.
The two men in their twenties -- Ahmed Abda Mohamed, an engineering graduate student, and Yousef Samir Megahed, an undergraduate -- were arrested Saturday in rural Goose Creek, S.C., accused of possession of an explosive device.
By Monday, much about the pair's motives remained a mystery. State and federal agents teamed up to determine whether there might be terrorism ties. Goose Creek is the site of the Naval Weapons Station, the home of a military prison that has housed enemy combatants.
Local Muslims leaders wondered whether it was a case of racial profiling:
Mohamed is from Kuwait; Megahed's family is from Egypt. Both are in the country legally.
"Had they been two white kids, nobody would be asking those questions," said Ahmed Bedier, executive director of Tampa's chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
On Saturday afternoon, a Berkeley County sheriff's deputy clocked a Toyota Camry going 60 mph in a 45 mph zone. The deputy pulled over the car, driven by Mohamed, on U.S. 176, about 7 miles from the Navy base.
Deputy Lamar Blakley wrote a citation, but he became suspicious when the men quickly put away a laptop computer, investigators said.
The deputy asked to search the car, according to an incident report.
Initial news reports said the men told investigators they had fireworks in the car. In the trunk, Blakley found what appeared to be "several pipe bombs," according to a Sheriff's Office report.
The deputy called for backup and asked two bomb technicians what they thought. They confirmed his suspicions, according to the report.
Deputies read the pair their rights, and Mohamed said he made the devices from components he bought at Wal-Mart, according to the report. Wal-Mart did not respond to a reporter's inquiry.
The men were booked into jail, where they were held on charges of possession of an explosive device, a felony that carried a punishment of up to 15 years, the report states. A judge set bail for Mohamed at $500,000; bail for Megahed at $300,000.
A prosecutor asked for a high bond, saying the men were dangerous and a flight risk.
Those accusations don't square with what Bedier heard from their family and friends.
Mohamed, of 2107 E Nedro Road, moved to Tampa in January to pursue a graduate degree in engineering after studying at a university in Egypt, according to USF officials. Bedier said that Mohamed graduated at the top of his class from a prestigious program in civil and environmental engineering and that he served as a research and teaching assistant at USF.
Megahed, of 4959 Anniston Circle, is known in the local Muslim community as a kind man with a good sense of humor, Bedier said, and his family has lived in Tampa for several years. As a student at USF, he took engineering classes, although he has yet to declare a major, according to Bedier and university officials.
Jail and arrest records show Megahed is 21. They list two dates of birth for Mohamed, making him 24 or 26. Records also conflict over spelling of his second middle name, either Sherf or Sherif. Neither man has a Florida criminal record, state records show.
Bedier heard of the arrests Sunday evening, when Megahed's family, who live in Tampa, called after seeing his photograph on the television news.
Here's what the family knows, Bedier says:
Megahed had hatched a plan for a road trip. He wanted to see the coast, see the Carolinas, Bedier said.
He asked his friends to come along, said it would only cost $30 to $40 per person in gas money, Bedier said. Mohamed took him up on the offer, and the two left Tampa on Friday night, sometime around midnight. Megahed's family isn't sure where the men went or whether they had a destination, Bedier said.
The next thing they heard, Megahed was in jail. Megahed's brother and a CAIR staffer flew to South Carolina on Monday morning, where Megahed's family hired defense attorney Dennis Rhoad to represent the men at a bail hearing. Rhoad did not return a call for comment.
Bedier said he had problems with the accusations.
"We're really concerned about the lack of evidence in this case," he said.
Jassim Aldeen, the 22-year-old president of USF's Muslim Student Association, said he was stunned to learn of the arrests. He knows Megahed and said he doesn't believe there's any truth to the accusations.
"I wanted to hear the facts," he said. "He's very friendly. Every time he speaks he tells a joke."
Staff writer Kevin Graham and news researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report, which used information from the Associated Press and the Charleston Post and Courier. Abbie VanSickle can be reached (813) 226-3373 or vansickle@sptimes.com.
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This is a case of a couple of CAUGHT ones, that didn't get their bombs off. Well, tough shit, it's TERRORISM in my book.
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5 COVID-19 Patients Killed In Gujarat Hospital Fire
Nov 28, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau
Firefighters inside the ICU of a designated Covid-19 hospital where a fire broke out, in Rajkot on November 27, 2020
Five patients were killed in Gujarat on Friday in a fire that broke out in a COVID-19 ward, the fourth blaze in a novel coronavirus hospital since the outbreak began, which drew angry questions from the Supreme Court.
The early morning blaze in Rajkot gutted the intensive care unit (ICU) of the private hospital, television footage showed. The most likely cause was an electrical short circuit, said government official Udit Agarwal.
"Three of the patients in the ICU died on the spot, and two others succumbed on way to hospital. The two other patients in the ICU were unhurt," Agarwal told Reuters.
India has recorded 9.3 million infections, the second-highest in the world after the United States, and more 135,00 deaths. On Friday, the Health Ministry said it reported 43,082 new cases and 492 deaths in the past 24 hours.
The latest fire angered India's top court, which asked both the federal and state governments to submit a detailed reply on recurring fires in COVID-19 hospitals.
In August, eight COVID-19 patients were killed in a fire in the ICU ward of a hospital in Ahmedabad, the largest city of Gujarat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hails from the state, said on Twitter that he was pained by the loss of lives on Friday.
Modi will visit three companies working on coronavirus vaccines, including one in Gujarat, on Saturday, his office said in a post on Twitter.
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RT @LetGrowOrg: How can we prevent a generation of pandemic-isolated misfits? "Play is precisely what children need to normalize this peri… 10 hours ago
The sex offense registry rules are draconian, and yet they do not make kids safer. They are based on fear, not rese… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 10 hours ago
Outrage #3 (& Then I'll Stop!): Arrest G.I. For Pix of 4-Year-Old in Bathing Suit
Hi Readers — I am so sick of the endless, misguided, helping-no-one suspicion going on these days that I can barely write about this story, that was just in The Washington Post. Suffice to say a National Guard soldier in Afghanistan finds himself facing a possible 10 years in prison on charges of possession of kiddie porn. What he actually seems to be in possession of are pictures of his friend's 4-year-old daughter taken at the girl's birthday party, at which she was wearing a bathing suit. The soldier became close to the girl when her dad was in training abroad and the girl was diagnosed with a serious illness.
That'll teach him to cheer up a sick kid.
Anyway, the photos were taken by the girl's mom and by the G.I.'s mom (both hard core pornographers, I'm sure, cleverly staging birthday parties for their own nefarious reasons). And who was it that sent these evil images to the guy? HIS MOM, who wanted to ease his homesickness.
You know what? It probably worked. If I were in Afghanistan being charged with kiddie porn for possessing birthday party pix sent to me by my mom, I just wouldn't feel very homesick for America. — Lenore
Filed under: Bad Laws, Rules and Verdicts, Sex Offender Issues, Uncategorized | Tagged: Afghanistan, bathing suit, G.I., kiddie, Outrage, porn |
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AirborneVet, on January 19, 2010 at 22:41 said:
I read about this in my paper as well. I can't believe the military is even considering this charge! What is the Status of Forces Agreement with Afghanistan say about this? The article did not mention if the accusations were from the Afghan side of the house, but it didn't seem like they were.
Kashmir, on January 19, 2010 at 22:45 said:
I can't even put words to my feelings about this. Outrage really doesn't come close. Unbelievable is more in the neighborhood but I find myself using that word more and more often these days. For right now, this sums it up:
* boggle *
brian, on January 19, 2010 at 23:11 said:
I think the saddest part, is that I read the rest of the soldiers unit has come back home, he is still sitting in a brig in Afghanistan, waiting for a court martial. They could at least send him home to try him, so his family could visit..
Joette, on January 19, 2010 at 23:25 said:
Thank goodness no one sent him pictures of a family member bathing an infant!
SKL, on January 19, 2010 at 23:27 said:
Something about this story sounds pretty fishy. I could believe that one whack job might have viewed this type of photo as kiddy porn, but wouldn't they seek some kind of sanity check (have another lawyer review the photos) before formally charging the man? Or could it be there is something the parents don't know (did the guy have other, less innocent photos)? It just seems almost too crazy to believe this story as reported.
Nicola, on January 19, 2010 at 23:29 said:
This is pretty disgusting. What the hell is wrong with our country??? Well, I have multiple guesses but don't want to get so offensive with my post I have to be deleted! >_<
I'm telling you… we should just sterilize the entire human race and let ourselves die out. Apparently we'd be doing ourselves a giant favor since every male is a sex offender in waiting anyway.
Robin, on January 19, 2010 at 23:37 said:
Is this the same military that seems to have such difficulty preventing and punishing actual rape?
aDad, on January 19, 2010 at 23:56 said:
Wait a minute, wait a minute. From the Washington Post story, we have absolutely NO IDEA what the evidence in this case is. The headline says it all, "soldier's family says pictures aren't porn" because, well, because he told them so. Undoubtedly, the pictures his mom sent him are not pornographic and are probably pretty cute. HOWEVER we have only the accused's statement, to his mother (for god's sake) that those images are what the case is about. Does anyone seriously think than someone who's denying accusations of anything, but even more so child pornography, would tell his MOTHER that he's guilty.
Lenore, I'm disappointed in you here. The story seems to be: Accused possessor of child pornography denies charge, prosecutor disagrees. Is that such an outrage? Without knowing what the evidence is, who can tell. Let's save our outrage for really outrageous things like BA treating men badly.
Kerrie, on January 19, 2010 at 23:57 said:
I think this actually has to do with General Order #1 regarding prohibited items, including:
"e. The introduction, possession, transfer, sale, creation, or display of any sexually explicit photograph, videotape, movie, drawing, book, or magazine. For purposes of this order, "sexually explicit" means any medium displaying the human anatomy in any unclothed or semi-clothed manner and which displays portions of the human torso (i.e., the area below the neck, above the knees and inside the shoulder). By way of example, but not limitation, are body building magazines, swim-suit editions of periodicals, lingerie or underwear advertisements and catalogues, as well as visual mediums which infer but do not directly show human genitalia, women's breasts, or human sexual acts."
http://www.3ad.com/history/gulf.war/general.order.1.htm
Not "kiddie porn" but probably a rule so as to avoid any conflict with cultural taboo, swimsuit images in general are not allowed.
somekindofmuffin, on January 20, 2010 at 00:15 said:
"Lenore, I'm disappointed in you here"
Me too. How dare you presume innocence until this guy is proven guilty!
@somekindofmuffin
Um, I'm not sure what to do with that. Of course this guy is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and thus, I presume he's innocent. However, it's hardly an outrage to charge someone with, well, anything, even if he tells his mom that he didn't do it. Seriously, there are lots of outrageous things going on out there and it's possible that this may even be one of them, but there's nowhere near enough information in the Post article for anyone to get outraged.
I also find it strange that, because they won't comment on an ongoing case (of a man who is presumed innocent), some people seem to be eager to accuse the military prosecutors and judges of either stupidity or base motives. In the absence of evidence, let's not assume that they stupid or evil either.
Thus, unless she has information beyond what's in the article, I remain disappointed with Lenore for bringing this up as an outrage. There's a limited supply of outrage in the world, let's use it for important things.
helenquine, on January 20, 2010 at 00:54 said:
On reading the story I find it hard to believe all the facts are as the report implies. As aDad points out above – the report is a third hand account from people who, when trying to get details from the army are being told "more or less that it's none of our business" (which is generally true of the criminal prosecution of an adult, even if they are related to you).
Certainly if that really is the full story it seems pretty outrageous (despite General Order no. 1).
Jim, on January 20, 2010 at 01:11 said:
Turns out it's adult porn which does violate general order #1
http://www.galesburg.com/news/x745465699/Army-Miller-had-adult-porn-on-computer
jerm, on January 20, 2010 at 01:33 said:
Sounds like there is more to this story:
While we're all aware that people do overreact sometimes, I also hope that the child porn charge is not over a kid in a swimsuit.
Donna, on January 20, 2010 at 01:37 said:
If I had a dime for every time a family member of a criminal defendant called me demanding to know why their sweet little baby was in jail based on the completely bogus facts said defendant was feeding them, I'd be ranked higher than Oprah on the richest Americans list. While this guy may be telling the truth about what pictures or investigation are at issue, I'll wait to see some facts.
Frankly, even if the pictures at issue are exactly as described in the article, I'm not remotely outraged at this time. Contrary to the parent's assertions, he hasn't at this time been charged with any crime. This guy is simply being kept in a country pending the completion of an investigation. He's on active duty. He's not in the brig. He's getting paid. He's working at headquarters so not on the front lines. AND HE CLEARLY BROKE GENERAL ORDER # 1 so he's not completely innocent of improper (as the military terms it) behavior and can be prosecuted as such.
If he's charged with kiddie porn based on pictures as described, then I'll be outraged but I think you've jumped the gun on outrage here.
phaedo, on January 20, 2010 at 01:44 said:
Jerm and Jim,
there is nothing more to the story. as someone currently in Afghanistan, i can tell you that there is more adult pornography floating around here then a person could hope to watch in a lifetime. all that has happened is that the military fucked up with the child porn charge, and in the process of looking for evidence found the same pornography that almost every other soldier has on their laptop, and in true bureaucratic fashion is trying to cover their own ass by hammering this guy with something they would normally turn a blind eye to.
and with the wheels of military justice being as slow as they are, this poor mope who is simply doing his job is going to be stuck here in afghanistan for 2 years plus for doing exactly what the vast majority of his fellow soldiers do.
The parents of the soldier are clearly anti-free range, helicopter parents. I understand that they are worried for their offspring but he is an adult, old enough to join the military and go to war. The Army doesn't have to tell them anything. They are not being "kept in the dark." The army has no duty to give them any information whatsoever. If their son isnt telling them what is going on or giving them the correct information, that's his fault.
As a public defender, I will attest that the result would be exactly the same in the states. The prosecutor will not talk to families of defendants at all other than to give them court dates. I will not talk to my client's family about the facts of any case. If the family calls me, they are told that I will not even return their phone calls. The only information about the facts of the case that the family will obtain is through the defendant himself.
Blake, on January 20, 2010 at 02:18 said:
I don't know about the homesick part, Lenore. I know quite a few military guys and they say that Afghanistan and Iraq can both fall off the face of the earth (I am censoring their language dramatically ^^).
As immortalized by Cpl. Josh Ray Person, "Why can't we ever invade a cool country with, like, chicks in bikinis?!" It's not exactly a weekend trip over there. These men are getting mortared pretty much daily, along with ambushes and small skirmishes very often. These men always have girlfriends and family they've left behind to serve their country, and are in the company of a mass majority of men until the end of their deployment. Let them have their adult porn and their family photos.
As a disclaimer, considering the sudden change in the charges, I'm pretty sure the "child porn" charge was very much related to the pictures of the niece and the brass were looking for something else to pin on him without becoming a laughing stock. Of course, 99% of soldiers in Afghanistan have porn, so that's an easy charge to make.
Tameson O'Brien, on January 20, 2010 at 02:41 said:
Totally off-topic, but Lenore got a shout out from Treehugger. This appeared on facebook today:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/babies_below_zero.php?smid=FBTRH-FBS-ART
Lafe, on January 20, 2010 at 03:11 said:
I suspect phaedo has hit the nail on the head in this case. Regardless of the details of this man's case, though, there's no need to be disappointed in Lenore. She throws out discussion-starters, and we discuss. If you don't agree that this case is outrageous (yet), then thanks for saying so and I for one respect your opinion whether I agree with it or not.
The discussion on this topic, in my opinion, should explore why/how these foolish accusations come up in the first place. They ruin people's lives and reputations almost as soon as they are first mentioned, and since the person accused is almost always male, there is a presumption of guilt. You never read in the paper that the accuser got it wrong; just the sensational accusation and lurid speculation.
The root of this problem (or so it seems to me) is that the authorities never clearly define what child porn is, and what it is not. Kids in the tub, in swimwear, even in artistic photography (think Miley Cyrus and Annie Liebowitz), etc. are not. Kids doing something sexual that only adults should do – yes.
Do they keep it vague on purpose? Why? It makes the overly-sensitive Puritan at the photo shop call the Feds if they see a snapshot of Timmy getting his hair washed by Daddy. How ridiculous.
It is another example of "child safety" trumping everything else, especially common sense.
Dino, on January 20, 2010 at 03:20 said:
This brings to mind a few related things.
What if the soldier had a copy of Norman Rockwell's ol' swimmin' hole painting?
When I was in the Army, those who wanted to could go to the Stars & Stripes news stand and purchase some awful stuff. One publication, famous for "ladies" attired questionably was often referred to as "Oversexed Weekly".
My editor once received an irate telephone call protesting "pornography" on Page One of the local beauty queen, a 17-year-old teenager whom I had photographed in school clothes, including a skirt that revealed that she had knees. This editor listened to the ranting for about a minute and then told the caller, "We don't have pornography here. None of us makes enough money to afford a 'pornograph'." Y'know, the complainer hung up on him.
@ Lafe – The problem with defining kiddie porn is that any naked picture of a kid is erotic to the pedophile. To a parent, grandparent, friend, or any nonpedophile, a kid-in-the-tub shot is just a cute picture. To a pedophile, that's akin to a Playboy centerfold. Nobody wants to think about a pedophile getting his rocks off to a picture of their kid, no matter how innocent the picture was when taken.
So how do you define kiddie porn? Do you make all naked kids pictures illegal such that parents can't take bath shots? Do you use prosecutorial discretion and only prosecute people who have no defined reason to have such pictures (i.e. don't even know the kid in the shot)?
And why do we even want to say that it's okay for parents to take naked pictures of kids (I do have some of my kid)? Most of us would not appreciate it if our sig others were taking pictures of us in the bath or shower and passing them around to anyone who wants to look as if they were our latest vacation pictures?
saying that any naked picture of a kid is erotic to a pedophile is ridiculous. that is like saying any naked picture of a woman is erotic to a straight man or lesbian or any naked picture of a man is erotic to a woman or gay man.
@phaedo – HUH? Penthouse, Playboy, Hustler, Playgirl and the countless other magazines dedicated pretty much exclusively to looking at naked people for sexual pleasure pretty much prove the point that many people do find looking at pictures of naked people erotic. Why exactly do you think people buy these magazines? Would most prefer a good porno? Probably but that doesn't mean that they are not turned on by seeing a picture of an attractive girl or guy lying in the tub.
So, yes, pedophiles – people who derive sexual pleasure from children – do find pictures of naked kids erotic even if it is just naked kids taking a bath. As someone who represents pedophiles, I have yet to have a kiddie porn case with some mundane naked kid pictures mixd in with the sexualized stuff. There are actually websites that specialize in nothing but routine photos of kids – some naked, some not – so as to convince themselves that no children are actually being injured in the process of making the kiddie porn.
that should be "yet to have a kiddie porn case without some mundane naked kid pictures…"
Angie, on January 20, 2010 at 07:31 said:
If I were in Afghanistan being charged with kiddie porn for possessing birthday party pix sent to me by my mom, I just wouldn't feel very homesick for America.
No kidding. It starts to make a religious dictatorship look pretty normal, huh? 😦
Jesse, on January 20, 2010 at 07:33 said:
I can understand the military being concerned about pictures which could be construed as being of a sexual nature. To be fair they don't know anything about the sort of relationship he has with this girl or that they were sent by the girls mom. But certainly all that can be solved by a simple phone call! Have they overdrawn their budget this year and can't afford the long distance charges?
Donna-
I've seen some photos of women in bikinis (mostly Asian models, but I digress) that I find very erotic. Does that make them porn? No. Just because someone finds something erotic, that doesn't make it porn, at least not in any realistic legal sense. If that was the definition, then everyone would have to take photos of themselves in no more than potato sacks to avoid breaking the law. Even then, I think there's a fetish involved even there…
amy, on January 20, 2010 at 10:26 said:
Not too dissimilar is a story in our local paper today about a mural that is being painted in our small down town. Several people have complained that the picture– that of a man, his son and his daughter (who is wearing overalls without a shirt– is pornographic. The artist's response is that she is trying to depict a simpler time… a family, enjoying one another's company after a day working in the orchard. To her it represents a time of simplicity, of a lack of self-consciousness, and of innocence. The complaints being filed show how far from that we ahve come.
RobC, on January 20, 2010 at 16:41 said:
Who's the bigger pervert – the homesick soldier who has a picture of a four-year-old friend of the family in her bathing suit, or the jumped-up, self-important petty bureaucrat who sees that picture as inherently pornographic?
Donna – so what if pedos find pics of kids in their bathers erotic? What do we do – stop taking our kids to the beach? Change our entire way of life, constantly live in fear, just on the off chance that some perv may see our kids and think nasty thoughts? Surely you've got enough to do without defending hundreds of parents who are guilty of nothing more than taking innocent snapshots of their kids.
LGW, on January 20, 2010 at 19:51 said:
Here is an interview with the father on America's Reality Check (ARC) on the 18th.
Amazing interview
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=29521&cmd=tc
@Donna,
First, let me say that I have a lot of respect for what you do. I'm sure it's often a thankless job, and one that puts you into contact with the dregs of society more than most of us could stand.
I disagree strongly, though, with the automatic thought process of most westerners, that if a few people abuse a thing or have no self-control in a certain area, then everyone should give up that thing completely.
We saw this with Prohibition (some people abuse alcohol, so it should be illegal for all).
We see it with this issue (some people get naughty thoughts when they see a child, so anyone with a picture of a child should be suspected of evil, or we should all keep our children under house arrest, and not take photos of them that might be misconstrued).
We see it with firearms (some people do bad things with a useful tool, so we need to restrict everyone's access to them).
We see it everytime a risk of terror or violence, no matter how small, takes away the rights of ordinary people to live ordinary lives (some people build dangerous bombs, so the 11-year- old with the empty Gatorade bottle motion detector must be stopped).
It's a stretch, and it defies reason, but that concept pops up again and again in these cultures.
It makes about as much sense to me as saying, "Every time we prosecute a guy with child porn, he also has ordinary pictures of people, and many of them have shoes on. We must outlaw shoes and photos of shoes."
And, as another commenter has already pointed out (in a way), even if a guy takes a photo of my shoes and has a twisted desire to do naughty things with that picture in his private life, how am I or my shoes harmed? If we say "children" instead of "shoes", it becomes an emotional hot topic, but logically, they aren't very different things.
On pornography, I think that societies in which it flourishes are the same ones I'm talking about, that have unhealthy, illogical fears about nudity, and tell people that it's a bad thing in and of itself, in all situations. Banning something is the quickest way to assign great value to it and cause many to seek it more fervently.
Jacqui, on January 21, 2010 at 08:05 said:
I'm really disgusted at the people who are actually supportive of the decision to call a picture of a four year old in a bathing suit porn…I think that you are sickos.
@Jacqui,
Huh? I don't think one person on this comment thread agreed that it was. You might need to read a little more closely . . .
kradcliffe, on January 22, 2010 at 07:37 said:
"Miller's father, Rodney, said the Army won't discuss the case with the family. But he said his son has told him the charges stem from a handful of photos of the girl that the soldier's mother e-mailed to ease his homesickness."
When I was in the Navy, I knew a sailor who went to court martial over child pornography. In the weeks leading up to the trial, he told us that his evil ex had tried to get him framed for totally innocent pictures of a little girl in a swimsuit on his computer. After his conviction, we found out that he actually had downloaded genuine porn onto a DOD computer.
I believed him when he told me it was just innocent and a misunderstanding due to his evil ex. That was all the info I had to go on.
If the only images are the ones of the family friend, then that will come out and I really doubt he'll be convicted of anything. If not, that will also come out.
Rich Demanowski, on January 22, 2010 at 10:11 said:
@Lafe:
Do they keep it vague on purpose? Why?
You betcha. Vague laws with rubber meanings let prosecutors manufacture criminals out of anyone they want to.
Harvey Silverglate wrote an excellent treatise on the subject:
Three Felonies a Day
@donna
The problem with defining kiddie porn is that any naked picture of a kid is erotic to the pedophile.
Not just naked pictures. To someone with that sort of perversion in their mind, pictures of children in swimsuits, underwear, athletic gear, and "Sunday Best" will be just as titillating, if not more so.
Most of what makes an image (of anything) arousing to one but not to another has less to do with what's actually in the image than what is in the mind of the viewer.
To me, the deeper tragedy is that in 2010, centuries after the Italian Renaissance and the Dutch Enlightenment began sweeping away superstition and replacing it with reason, so many people in the "free" world still find their minds fettered by hypocritical double standards based not on fact or research, but dogma.
The American attitude toward nudity is a prime example. What, exactly, makes seeing naked people harmful to a child, but not to an adult? What makes the pictures of naked women in Playboy or Penthouse "pornographic", but not the cover of Cosmo? You can't tell me that those Cosmo cover models aren't intended to be alluring, titillating and sexually provocative. Why is a woman's naked breast "obscene", but it's just fine to cover it with a piece of Spandex or a string bikini, through which all the same contours can be seen?
No, it's nothing inherent in the naked human body. It's all in the artifices of our culture – the dogmatic emotional baggage that we insist on carrying around in our minds.
Peter Brülls, on January 23, 2010 at 23:53 said:
@Donna you wrote "@phaedo – HUH? Penthouse, Playboy, Hustler, Playgirl and the countless other magazines dedicated pretty much exclusively to looking at naked people for sexual pleasure pretty much prove the point that many people do find looking at pictures of naked people erotic. Why exactly do you think people buy these magazines?"
You confuse two issues: Nakedness and eroticism. That's something very common in anglo cultures and certainly not limited to those countries, but it's not even the norm in Western cultures. Northern Europeans for example usually view this quite differently – naked people are just naked people and most people don't want to see them everywhere, but it's more a issue of taste than hysterics over here. Yes, they do sell and buy the same magazines you mentioned, but note that the poses and facial expression of those magazines often imply sexual availabilty – fetish situations (half naked in the gym, lingerie in class), placement of legs, half-opened mouth, etc. You can shoot the same kind of pictures with women in bikini and you'd get the same kind of reaction, esp in Middle European countries or 60 years ago in the west, before Playboy and Hustler upped the limit.
mudmama, on January 25, 2010 at 04:31 said:
Meanwhile our soldiers are being told not to interfere with the cultural practice of sexually assaulting little boys – even on our own bases in Afghanistan.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/2009/09/24/afghan-boy-rape-rampant
If you think I'm being over dramatic
Skjaldmeyja, on January 28, 2010 at 13:16 said:
I went looking for more articles, hoping to find more information about this case. I agree with those who have already said that there's something fishy here – innocent or guilty, we're not getting the full story.
I found this article to be particularly interesting:
http://www.galesburg.com/features/x1560343350/Galesburg-soldier-held-overseas-on-child-porn-charge#comments
If you look in the left hand column you'll see several photos of the family, the soldier, and two of the photos of the little girl that were sent to him.
The first photo shows the girl in a bikini laying on the hood of a sports car. The second photo shows her in the same out fit with her hands on a bed looking back over her shoulder.
While the pose on the hood of the car may not be the most appropriate for a girl that age, I'd say it still falls far, far short of any kind of 'pornographic' image.
The one with her standing next to the bed is even milder.
Looks like normal play-acting for me. If suspicious at all, only if those were the only photos he had of that kid.
Brett Hayes, on March 10, 2010 at 10:11 said:
Generally I do not make comments on blogs, but I have to mention that this post really forced me to do so. Really nice post


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Gulf Monetary Union to Launch Currency – What Does It Mean?
Posted by Mish | December 17, 2009 1:21:00 | Uncategorized
After years of threats, four of six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) finally agreed to a monetary union with a single currency and central bank.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar opted in. The UAE and Oman opted out of the agreement.
So what does it mean?
For Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's opinion, please consider Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony.
"The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect," said Kuwait's finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit in Kuwait.
The move will give the hyper-rich club of oil exporters a petro-currency of their own, greatly increasing their influence in the global exchange and capital markets and potentially displacing the US dollar as the pricing currency for oil contracts.
The Gulf states remain divided over the wisdom of anchoring their economies to the US dollar. The Gulf currency – dubbed "Gulfo" – is likely to track a global exchange basket and may ultimately float as a regional reserve currency in its own right. "The US dollar has failed. We need to delink," said Nahed Taher, chief executive of Bahrain's Gulf One Investment Bank.
Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Kalifa, Bahrain's foreign minister, told the FIKR Arab Thought summit in Kuwait that the project would not work unless the Gulf countries first break down basic barriers to trade and capital flows.
At the moment, trucks sit paralysed at border posts for days awaiting entry clearance. Labour mobility between states is almost zero.
Yet hurdles are formidable even for the tight-knit group of Gulf states. While the eurozone is a club of rough equals – with Germany, France, Italy, and Spain each holding two votes on the ECB council – the Gulf currency will be dominated by Saudi Arabia. The risk is that other countries will feel like satellites. Monetary policy will inevitably be set for Riyadh's needs.
Hans Redeker, currency chief at BNP Paraibas, said the Gulf states may have romanticised Europe's achievement and need to move with great care to avoid making the same errors.
"The Greek crisis has exposed the weak foundations on which the euro is built. The gap in competitiveness between core Europe and the periphery has grown wider and wider. The obvious mistake was to launch EMU without a central fiscal authority and political union, as the Bundesbank warned in the 1990s," he said.
"The euro was created for political reasons after the fall of the Berlin Wall to lock Germany irrevocably into Europe. It was not done for economic reasons," he said.
The GCC also agreed to create a joint military strike force – akin to the EU's rapid reaction force – to tackle threats such as the incursion of Yemeni Shiite rebels into Saudi territory earlier this year.
This is a major breakthrough after years of deadlock on defence cooperation.
The Sunni Gulf states are deeply concerned about the great power ambitions of Shiite Iran and its quest for nuclear weapons, to the point where the theme of a possible war between Iran and a Saudi-led constellation of states has crept into the media debate.
The Gulfo Threat?
Inquiring minds are asking if the Gulfo is a threat to dollar hegemony. First off, let's see if and when the monetary union actually gets off the ground, and with what currency when it does.
For the sake of argument, let's assume it gets off the ground right away, with the Gulfo, and let's further assume that the UAE and Oman quickly decide to opt in.
Will that end US dollar hegemony?
Let's answer that question with a question: Did the Euro end US dollar hegemony?
Here's a hint: The answer is the same.
This will finally put an end to speculation this is some major threat to the dollar. It will also put an end (hopefully), to the ridiculous notion that the US attacked Iraq because Iraq was about to price oil in Euros.
It will not matter one iota if they price crude in Gulfos given that currencies are fungible. Rest assured, US dollar hegemony will end, but it will not be on account of the Gulfo.
Military Significance
In terms of US policy, the military significance of the union is likely greater than the economic significance.
For starters, the Gulf Pact union will make US bullying of individual countries in the region that much harder. Moreover, the US sure will not like it, if those countries all tell the US to remove its bases (something I actually hope happens given that US bases destabilize the region).
Remember, the primary reason cited by Bin Laden for attacking the US on 911 was US troops were on sacred Arab soil.
Finally, the defense cooperation agreement takes on significance given various sabre rattling between the US and Iran, and Israel and Iran.
Consider this statement by Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah, Kuwait's foreign minister, as reported by Al Jazeera in Gulf nations sign monetary pact: "We do not accept any military action against Iran. Any tension in the region will reflect on our situation. We have many problems already and we don't want any more"
I wholeheartedly endorse that statement. We do not need another war in the region.


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Amongst by far the most popular electrical wiring questions is regarding how to wire a change. Although using switches in your own home is very uncomplicated, wiring a single might not be that effortless for everybody. An ON-OFF switch is really quite simple to wire. There are several types of switches, but for this example, let's say you might be putting in a single-pole toggle switch, a really widespread swap (plus the easiest).
There are actually a few shades of wires in a normal single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and environmentally friendly. Splice the black wire in two and connect them to the terminal screws - just one on leading plus the other about the base screw from the swap. The white wire serves to be a resource of uninterrupted electric power and is normally linked to the light colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Hook up the green wire for the ground screw of your switch.
These techniques would commonly be sufficient to help make a typical change perform with no difficulty. On the other hand, if you usually are not confident that you can execute the undertaking appropriately and safely and securely you much better let the professionals get it done as an alternative. Right after all, you will find a explanation why this undertaking is one of the most common electrical wiring issues questioned by plenty of people.
For some motive, the best way to wire a ceiling fan is likewise considered one of by far the most common electrical wiring thoughts. To simplify this task, you should use an individual swap for a single ceiling fan. To wire the lover, it really is only a make any difference of connecting the black wire with the ceiling fan to your black wire with the switch. If there is a lightweight, the blue wire really should be linked for the black wire from the change at the same time.
You can find causes why these are the most usually questioned electrical wiring issues. A single, lots of assume it is easy to complete, and two, these are the typical electrical responsibilities in your own home. But then you must not put your protection at risk in the goal to save cash. The stakes could even be much larger when you try to save cash and do an electrical wiring task devoid of sufficient awareness or working experience.


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I am working on a 30 paintings in 30 days challenge this month doing them as 10 minute paintings. This painting is of a Hawian sunset, along with some palm trees which are always a treat to paint. Photo reference by Jan Russ. This is an original painting , painted with acrylics on 5" x 7" canvas board, completed with a coat of varnish. Signed by the Artist Gloria Ester, and comes with an Authentication Certificate. (C)ARTstraussa watermark does not appear on actual painting.All rights reserved.


As you know by now, we stay looking for new music and new artists to rock with. Recently we were put on to Tallahassee native, Atlanta resident FOREVER ANTi PoP who drops off a new track today, as well as a new video and an EP. Today FOREVER ANTi PoP provides us with a new effort called 'FINESSIN' THE RHYTHM,' a six track EP that shows off his unique and infectious sounds.
The project comes from the ANTI Society Collective, in association with Interscope Records and is something worth rocking with. The FINESSIN' THE RHYTHM EP delves into the true emotions of a young millennial man. The track ""Kylie Jenner" is a social commentary on the lengths some young women will go to to try to be like reality stars, while other tracks explore topics of fame, sacrifice and much more. Check out the new EP below, as well as the video for the title track. Let us know your thoughts on it all after the jump and keep it locked for much more from the rising star coming soon!


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Site «World 1900-1917 in color»: http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/Russian/index.shtml.
People's project of digital restoration of Prokudin-Gorsky's images (initiated by Oleg Polyakov): http://www.museum.ru/1812/Memorial/PG/.
Belorussian site «Russian Empire in color» (by Veiniks): http://www.veinik.by/ .
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PLAYBACK. "This is not like TV, only better. This is life. It's a piece of somebody's life. It's pure and uncut, straight from the cerebral cortex." Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) is explaining what it means to be wired. The technology is called SQUID: superconducting quantum interference device. It's a kind of tape player, plugged directly into the brain. It records and plays back actual lived experience. Such is the premise of Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 film Strange Days. Being wired is like being in someone else's body. You see exactly what they see, feel exactly what they feel. You can have hot sex, without the risk of AIDS. You can get the thrill of pulling an armed robbery, without so much as leaving your chair. Bigelow presents SQUID playbacks as first-person shots. Events unfold in real time, in a single take, from a single point of view. These sequences are more tactile than visual. The subjective camera doesn't just look at a scene. It moves actively through space. It gets jostled, it stops and starts, it pans and tilts, it lurches forward and back. It follows the rhythms of the whole body, not just that of the eyes. Bigelow omits the reverse shots that usually anchor film narrative. Except in the mirror, we never see the person through whose eyes we are looking. He or she is so close, the intimacy is so extreme, that all sense of self is lost. It could be anyone. Any experience can be exchanged for any other. Instead of having reverse shots, the SQUID sequences are intercut with reaction shots of whoever plays them back. Usually it's Lenny. He sits with a metal mesh fit over his skull. His eyes are closed. His face is strained in ecstasy or horror. His arms flail about, as he mimes the action in empty air. It's an uncanny sight. The passion is real, but it has been divorced from any context. The non-SQUID portions of the film have a very different style. The camera weaves through a crush of traffic and crowds. Its movements are fluid, dreamlike, and nearly disembodied. Nighttime Los Angeles glimmers in subtle gradations of light. The city is a battleground. Cops stand by in riot gear. Tanks sit on street corners. Surveillance helicopters buzz overhead. Fires burn in garbage cans. Teenagers throw rocks at the cops, or smash the windows of cars. Some drag queens mug a Santa Claus, as the camera glides by in a long tracking shot. Visual clutter is everywhere. The Retinal Fetish nightclub is a three-dimensional maze of stages, catwalks, multi-level dance floors, alcoves, corridors, and pulsating lights. The New Year's Eve celebration that closes the film is packed with crowds, confetti, and fireworks. Huge video screens magnify the scenes in front of them. Objects of the most varied sizes and scales co-exist in the widescreen frame. Heads are posed, in close-up, against a swirling background of street life and neon lights. Claustrophobic views from ground level alternate with extreme long shots from above. The camera floats free of any personal viewpoint. Instead, it explores the nooks and crannies of social space. Its restless movements and unexpected cuts trace the invisible workings of power. Its images express the rage of crowds, the tensions of class and racial conflict, the dynamics of police control. The public scenes extend anonymously beyond the self, even as the SQUID sequences stop anonymously before it. Plot and character only exist at the point where these two regimes meet. The film is both a love story and a political thriller. Lenny is the center of a triangle. He still yearns after his one-time lover, the punk singer Faith (Juliette Lewis), even though she wants him out of her life. In turn, Mace (Angela Bassett) pines after Lenny. She comes when he calls, and gets him out of one jam after another. But Lenny refuses Mace's love, just as Faith refuses his. At the same time, Jeriko-One (Glenn Plummer), a rapper and black political activist, is murdered by racist cops. The two plot strands converge when Lenny gets hold of a SQUID tape that reveals the identity of Jeriko-One's killers. The personal and the political are inescapably intertwined. When Lenny kisses Mace, at the very end of the film, he finally accepts the love that she has offered him all along. But the poignancy of this kiss also comes from the fact that Mace is black, and Lenny is white. Miscegenation is the only hope the film has to offer. We get a happy ending, on the personal level at least. But we also know how fragile that personal level is. The camera lingers, for a long moment, on the kiss. Lenny and Mace share the screen in close-up. Then there's a cut, to a long shot from above. For a moment we can still make them out amidst the crowd. But the camera pans upward, and they are lost in the anonymous distance.
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In an attempt to tamp down the escalating controversy over his comments on the arrest last week of Henry Louis Gates Jr. by the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department, President Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room and placed calls to both Gates and Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley, who arrested the Harvard professor.
Taking the briefing-room podium just hours after Cambridge police union officials called on Obama to apologize for saying the officers involved in the incident with Gates behaved "stupidly," Obama conceded that he erred in his "choice of words."
Obama said he spoke to James Crowley, the sergeant who arrested Gates, "and I have to tell you that, as I said yesterday, my impression of him is that he was an outstanding police officer...and that was confirmed in the phone conversation."
"In my choice of words, I unfortunately gave the impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically," Obama said, walking back his sharpest criticism.
But, the president said: "I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Prof. Gates out of his home and to the station. I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Prof. Gates probably overreacted as well."
At 3:15 p.m., shortly after phoning Crowley and speaking to the press, Obama also placed a call to Gates and had a "positive discussion," according to the White House.
In a release, the White House said Obama extended an invitation to Gates to appear at the White House with Crowley "in the near future."
Obama's conciliatory moves marked an abrupt shift from Friday morning, when White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed a suggestion that the backlash from police groups could be distressing to the White House, given that Obama has enjoyed a positive relationship with the law enforcement community.
"I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain," Gibbs fired back at reporters, referring to Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election. "If I'm not mistaken."
At a Cambridge press conference Friday morning featuring Crowley, union leaders said Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick had both gone after Cambridge officers' performance without having full information about the incident involving Gates.
Steve Killian, the president of the Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association took exception to the president's charge that Cambridge police handled the incident "stupidly."
"Cambridge police are not stupid. I am proud to represent the officers of the Cambridge Police Department," Killian said. "I think the president should make an apology to all law enforcement personnel throughout the entire country."
And Alan J. McDonald, an attorney for the police unions, stopped short of calling for an apology, but said he was hopeful both the president and Patrick would issue one.
"We're not demanding an apology from anyone…hopeful that upon reflection, they will realize that their statements were misguided and will take the appropriate action in the form of an apology," McDonald said.
While Obama backtracked on the most controversial part of his remarks on Gates's arrest, he stopped short of a direct apology. And the president said he did not regret having commented in the first place.
Noting that some critics suggested it was inappropriate for the president to comment on a local law enforcement matter, Obama told reporters: "I have to tell you, that part of it I disagree with. Race is still a troubling aspect of our society."
"Because of our history," Obama explained, "African Americans are sensitive to these issues."
Obama's appearance in the briefing room signaled a quick reversal in the White House's communications strategy and seemed to reflect a recognition that the growing dispute over Gates's arrest required a more direct response from the administration.
Just a few hours before Obama took the briefing-room podium, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama had already "said what he's going to say on this."
After Obama left the briefing room Friday afternoon, Gibbs took a different line from the podium, telling the press that the president's remarks reflected an ongoing "conversation" about race.
"These are important issues that play out in our daily lives," he said.


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Q: Service for sending SMS notifications or Push Notifications I have an application developed in Angular 7 that is in the final stage of development. This application makes use of the Firebase services, one of them is the Cloud Firestore.
I'm looking for a way to have a service that runs daily without stopping, that identifies when to send an SMS alerting the user of an appointment that he even has it closed, or send a Push Notification using Cloud Messaging if possible.
How can I send a reminder SMS by taking an appointment saved in Firestore, checking the time and day and sending an SMS or Push Notification without the user having to be logged in to the system?
I believe that I would have to have a service on a server running daily without stopping doing the readings in the database, but is there something on the Internet that does this for me without having to have a server of my own?

A: With cloud functions from firebase you would be able to look in your database and detect if something needs to be done. Click here to read more about firebase cloud functions.
You will hover need something to trigger your firebase cloud function (something like a cron job). This sadly is not yet supported by cloud functions. I think this blogpost describes quite well what you want to do and how to do it (using another google service).
Sending an SMS however is not something firebase supports. You will have to use an external service for this.

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The year 1830 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy
 March 16 – Great Comet of 1830 (C/1830 F1, 1830 I) first observed in Mauritius.
 Johann Heinrich Mädler and Wilhelm Beer produce the first map of the surface of Mars.

Biology

 Charles Bell publishes his Nervous System of the Human Body.
 William Jackson Hooker commences publication of The British Flora.

Exploration
 October 14 –  returns to England from her first voyage, a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
 Southern Ocean Expedition – John Biscoe sets out from England on an expedition to find new seal-hunting grounds in the Southern Ocean.

Geology
 Charles Lyell publishes the first volume of his Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation.

Medicine
 Thomas Southwood Smith publishes the standard textbook A Treatise on Fever in London.
 Approximate date – The chain osteotome, a form of chainsaw, is invented by German orthopaedist Bernhard Heine.

Technology
 July 13 – John Ruggles is granted United States patent No. 1, for applying rack railway equipment to the "Locomotive steam-engine for rail and other roads".
 August 31 – Edwin Budding is granted a United Kingdom patent for the lawnmower.
 Aeneas Coffey is granted a United Kingdom patent for an improved column still.
 Eaton Hodgkinson publishes his pioneering paper on the optimum cross section for cast iron structural beams.
 Stephen H. Long designs the Long truss wooden bridge.

Institutions
 Geographical Society of London established.

Publications
 Charles Babbage publishes Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes.

Awards
 Copley Medal: not awarded

Births
 March 5  – Étienne-Jules Marey (died 1904), French physiologist.
 March 5 – Charles Wyville Thomson (died 1882), Scottish marine biologist.
 April 21 – Clémence Royer (died 1902), French anthropologist.
 May 10 – François-Marie Raoult (died 1901), French chemist.
 May 11 (April 29 O.S.) – Emanoil Bacaloglu (died 1891), Romanian polymath.
 August 19 – Lothar Meyer (died 1895), German chemist.
 October 24 – Marianne North (died 1890), English botanist.
 November 20 – Sigismond Jaccoud (died 1913), Swiss physician.

Deaths
 March 2 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (born 1755), German physician, anatomist, paleontologist and inventor.
 March 29 – James Rennell (born 1742), English cartographer and oceanographer.
 May 16 – Joseph Fourier (born 1768), French mathematician.
 August 24 – Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (born 1748), French ornithologist.
 Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi (born 1760), Italian botanist.

References

19th century in science
1830s in science

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Hello everyone, lately healthy is the new trend among young people (including me). Many people concern about their health and started a healthy lifestyle by consuming more fruit and vegetables, going to the gym, trying yoga (acro-yoga is quite popular these days), etc. For me, I rarely do sports after I graduated from high school (which is longgg time ago) and I don't really like vegetable, and only eat some kind of fruits (which is also very rare). During my yearly check up last year, my result isn't very good at some points, that's why I started to eat vegetable more, since then. Few weeks ago, a friend of mine (she is also a blogger) contacted me and told me about her new bussiness. She is a vegetarian and she started an online shop that sell cold pressed juice called Juice Doctor. She offered me few bottles to try and I happily choose 4 varians from 10 varians that available.
My juices come with a green bag and a little tag with my name and address.
Look at my colourful juice!
This is my favourite among the others. The most flavour I can taste is the water melon and I like to munch the chia seed because it brings a crunchy effect for the juice. Also I can taste something tingling like soda (I don't know if it contains soda or not because only the main ingredients are written on the bottle). I like the fresh (watermelon and lemon is a great combination for morning juice) and tingling sensation from this juice and it is really suits its name as a Morning Call.
Number 2 of my favourite (and also mom and sis's favourite). It taste sweet and a little bit sour but very fresh and makes me addicted. My sis call it a "koloke" juice because of its ingredients hahaha. I can't really taste the carrot, maybe because it was mixed with tomato and apple. It's like drinking an apple juice but it is more sweet because of the tomato and carrot.
The taste somehow similar with Dazzling, only the energizer has a strong celery scent and taste. Some people maybe don't like the scent (BF is also the one, he complaints about the scent hahaha). It's a little bit sour than dazzling and the carrot taste also more strong than dazzling.
Unfortunately this is my least favourite. The beet scent is quite disturbing for me. It smells like the scent of soil. The taste actually just okay. It is quite sour because of the lemon but again all I can focus is the beet because it's very strong. I prefer the celery taste than this one hehehe.
As you can see, I make an order of the popularity of the juices based on my family taste (Yes, I made the whole family tried it, including BF and also my yoga instructor hahaha, except my dad, who can't eat any vegetable at all). The other three (morning call, dazzling, energizer) are almost hit the bottom for only couple of hours. As for the ABC is still a lot wkwkwk.
PS: The juice must keep refrigerated and The seller told me to finish it within 2 days. In fact I finish it after 3-4 hours hahaha.


Hollis is an artist, bookbinder and printmaker who teaches regionally and resides in Asheville, NC. She has been developing her art since grade school and has worked as a full time studio artist for the past 15 years. While honoring traditional skills and craftsmanship, Hollis seeks an element of contemporary expression by pushing the boundaries of her media. She's innately curious and does the research to answer the 'what if' questions. With this combination of convention and exploration Hollis strives to achieve her fullest potential for expression.
In her former life Hollis held an Executive level consultative sales position. She has her MBA and was known for the depth of her knowledge and ability to successfully consult at all levels. These skills, coupled with her enthusiasm and joy in student learning, create a dynamic class environment. She is caring and supportive while sharing her tremendous depth and breadth of knowledge. Students consistently remark on the incredible amount of learning accomplished, how classes exceed their every expectation and how much fun they had throughout. "Inspired" and 'excited" are the constants, which further inspires Hollis to continue growing and sharing.
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Jail for man who attacked his victim with a tyre iron
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A Retford man who attacked a van driver with a tyre iron, leaving him with serious head injuries, has been jailed for 22 months.
The victim was driving in the area of Albert Road and London Road in Retford, on the afternoon of 26 June 2018.
He was approached by 24-year-old Colin Fairweather who jumped out of a car before hitting him to the head with the weapon.
Fairweather, of Carolgate, then ran back to the car which was driven off.
The victim managed to drive home before collapsing. The next thing he was aware of was waking up in hospital.
He required surgery for a depressed skull fracture which caused swelling to his brain and which required part of his skull to be removed.
As well as his 22-month prison term, Fairweather was made subject of a five-year restraining order when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing on 22 January 2019.
He pleaded guilty to charges of Section 20 wounding/inflicting GBH and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.
Detective Inspector Neil Humphris said: "This was a vicious and unprovoked attack which left the victim with very serious injuries.
"This sort of violent behaviour will not be tolerated on Nottinghamshire's streets and Nottinghamshire Police will always deal robustly with those involved in violent crime."