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WTC Employee Discusses pre 9/11 Power Downs
Video of Trump on 9/11/01: Bombs blew up the WTC
Donald Trump was interviewed on WWOR 9 News in New York on 9/11/2001. Excerpt: "It wasn't architectural defect. The World Trade Center was always known as a very very strong building. Don't forget that took a big bomb in the basement (1993). Now, the basement is the most vulnerable place because that's your foundation and it withstood that and I got to see that area about three or four days after took place because one of my structural engineers actually took me for a tour because he did the building and I said "I can't believe it". The the building was standing solid and half of the columns were blown out. This was an unbelievably powerful building. If you don't know anything about structure it was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside. The steel, the reason the World Trade Center had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows, you had the steel on the outside, the steel on the outside of the building.
The 9/11 Commission was "set up to fail"
Improbable Collapse 9/11 - A Movie The Whole World Should See
THE 9/11 ANTHRAX FRAME-UP
In October [2001], press reports revealed that White House staff had been on a regimen of the powerful antibiotic Cipro since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Judicial Watch wants to know why White House workers, including President Bush, began taking the drug nearly a month before anthrax was detected on Capitol Hill.
War Games: The Key to a 9/11 USAF Stand Down
9/11 Commission Testimony
There was a young man who came in and said to the vice president "The plane [Flight 77] is 50 miles out" [from Washington], "The plane is 30 miles out", and when it got down to "The plane is 10 miles out" the young man also said to the vice president "Do the orders still stand?", and the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said "Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?"
It is obvious the above orders did not involve defending Washington.
The Pentagon Renovations Completed on 9/11/2001
Normally 5000 people work in [wedge 2], but by September 11 renovation of this second wedge was underway. Three months earlier most of the 5000 employees who work in wedge 2 were relocated to temporary offices elsewhere.
Hani Hanjour: 9/11 Pilot Extraordinaire
On 27 November 2009 PilotsFor911Truth.org published a simple fact about the flight of Flight 77 which makes a conventional hijacking scenario impossible - according to Flight Data provided by the NTSB the Flight Deck Door was never opened in flight. The status of the door was polled every 5 seconds from 12:18:05 GMT to 13:37:09 GMT, and each poll logged the door as closed.
No-one entered the cockpit of the plane during the flight, therefore it was not flown into the Pentagon by an Arab hijacker.
The FEMA WTC Collapse Analysis Farce
The BPAT team received $600,000 in FEMA funding - this is a drop in the ocean compared to the $50 million set aside by Congress and President Bush to help NASA pay for the investigation into the Columbia shuttle disaster.
The BPAT team was headed by the principal investigator in the FEMA study of the Oklahoma City bombing - this is not a good sign [also note that WTC debris was rapidly removed by CDI who also dealt with the Murrah building].
It took the BPAT team more than 3 weeks to initiate an analysis of WTC debris, and this allowed critical evidence to be removed. The only thing which prevented some of the evidence being destroyed was an independent researcher.
Last, but not least, the City of New York's recycling contract was deemed more important than finding out why 2,749 people died in the twin towers.
The words "cover-up" spring to mind.
BOMBSHELL! Larry Silverstein designed NEW WTC-7 in April of 2000
"We got the designs. And the first design meeting was in April of 2000. And construction began shortly thereafter, in 2002."
FLASHBACK - DUMBING US DOWN WITH BEX: The 9/11 Report A graphic adaptation
By Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
The 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is approaching. In 2006, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón published part of their graphic novel, The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, in Slate. The book interprets the 9/11 Commission Report with images. To mark the annivesary, Slate is reprinting the first chapter below.
Here is a primary example of the condescending mentality that infects the so called eatablishment!
Sometimes ... a building is surrounded by structures that must be preserved. In this case, the blasters proceed with a true implosion, demolishing the building so that it collapses straight down into its own footprint (the total area at the base of the building). This feat requires such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the world will attempt it.
Thermite and theWTC Collapses
In perfect conditions the maximum temperature that can be reached by hydrocarbons such as jet fuel burning in air is 1520° F (825° C). When the World Trade Center collapsed the deeply buried fires would have been deprived of oxygen and their temperatures would have significantly decreased.
Why was the temperature at the core of "the pile" nearly 500° F hotter than the maximum burning temperature of jet fuel a full seven days after the collapses? There were no infernos in either of the twin towers before they collapsed, so what caused the hot spots deep in the wreckage?
Remember that 9-11 was the most effective military op, ever
How Did the WTC Fires Burn for Months?
Conventional fires doused by millions of gallons of water over a 5 month period do not burn hot enough to melt steel.
The notion that the fires in the WTC wreckage were conventional defies rational belief.
Thermite provides an explanation for the duration and high temperatures of the fires:
Thermite contains its own supply of oxygen, and does not require any external source such as air. Consequently, it cannot be smothered and may ignite in any environment, given sufficient initial heat. It will burn just as well while underwater, for example, and cannot even be extinguished with water, as water sprayed on a thermite reaction will instantly be boiled into steam.
The "Truss Theory": A Fantasy Concocted to Conceal a Demolition
When Flight 11 flew into WTC 1, one of two things should have happened:
1) If the building had nothing more than steel trusses bolted between the inner core and perimeter walls there should have been an immediate "pancake collapse" of all floors (but the core should have remained intact).
2) If the building was solidly constructed it should have remained standing.
Neither of the above occurred.
The "truss theory" is a fantasy concocted to conceal a demolition.
Woman Waving From WTC 1 Impact Area
The 9/11 Reichstag Fire
The Reichstag fire was a disaster for Communists because they were blamed for starting it, but it was a dream come true for Hitler and his cohorts as it allowed them to transform Germany from a democracy into a dictatorship.
Did the Bush administration attempt the same power grab on September 11, 2001?
Fifteen Years Later, Physics Journal Concludes All Three WTC Towers Collapsed on 9/11 Due to Controlled Demolition
Over the past 15 years many highly respected academics and experts have come forward to challenge the official narrative on the collapse of the WTC towers forwarded by the U.S. government. The official government position holds that the collapse of all three towers was due to intense heat inside of the buildings.
But a new forensic investigation into the collapse of the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11, published in Europhysics News – a highly respected European physics magazine – claims that "the evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that all three buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition."
While many in the mainstream have attempted to label anyone questioning the official narrative as "tin foil hat" conspiracy theorist, many highly respected experts have come forward to lampoon the idea that the buildings collapsed due to the intense heat and fires following two terrorist-directed plane crashes.
#NeverForget ~~ 911 IN TOONS
It is a matter of public record that the Pentagon has had an Entertainment Liaison Office since 1948. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established a similar position in 1996. Although it was known that they sometimes request script changes in exchange for advice, permission to use locations, and equipment like aircraft carriers, each appeared to have passive, and largely apolitical roles.
Files we obtained, mainly through the US Freedom of Information Act, show that between 1911 and 2017, more than 800 feature films received support from the US government's Department of Defence (DoD), a significantly higher figure than previous estimates indicate. These included blockbuster franchises like Transformers, Iron Man, and The Terminator.
On television, we found over 1,100 titles received Pentagon backing – 900 of them since 2005, from Flight 93 to Ice Road Truckers to Army Wives.
9-11 Research: An Attempt to Uncover the Truth About September 11th, 2001
We all know the official story of September 11th: four jetliners were hijacked by groups of four and five Arabic men armed with box cutters, who proceeded to fly three of the four jets into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Subsequently the World Trade Center Towers, weakened by the impacts and fires, collapsed into piles of rubble. The FBI had compiled a list of hijackers within three days, and it was so obvious that Osama bin Laden had masterminded the operation from caves in Afghanistan, that there was no need to seriously investigate the crime or produce evidence. The "retaliatory" attack on the Taliban would soon commence.
The Bobby McIlvaine Act
Sixteen years after the fateful events of September 11, 2001, it is time once and for all for the U.S. Congress to open an unbiased investigation and use its subpoena power to uncover the full truth surrounding the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers.
The Bobby McIlvaine Act — named after a 26-year-old who was tragically killed entering the North Tower and whose father Bob has been an outspoken advocate for a new investigation — would empanel a select committee in either chamber to reinvestigate the disaster.
There will be a live stream at this page of the AE911Truth press conference at this link starting at 1PM Eastern Time.
The Israeli Spy Ring
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
-- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11
On the day of the 9-11 attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)"
The BBC's 'WTC 7 CollapsedAt 4:54 p.m.' Videos
At 21:54 GMT on 9/11/2001 the BBC announced that WTC 7 had collapsed. There was just one problem with this news: WTC 7 did not collapse until 22:20 GMT.
The "Pod People" And The PlaneThat Crashed Into the Pentagon
As we run up to yet another anniversary of the 9-11 false-flag attacks, the government's controlled assets on the web are once again pushing the "no plane at the Pentagon" hoax as hard as they can, to give the corporate media an easy means to discredit those who question the official story while avoiding the really tough questions like, "Why did the BBC announce the collapse of World Trade Center 7 twenty six minutes before it actually happened?" Or, "How did President Bush's Secret Service know he was not a target sitting in that school on Florida?"
The media cannot ask, let alone answer, those questions, so the propagandists gin up this "No plane" theory and plant it online to give the corporate media an easy handle with which to ridicule and dismiss the whole idea of doubting the official story of 9-11.
flashback: Trump: 'Elect Me And You'll Find Out Who Really Knocked Down The Twin Towers
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has promised to make public currently guarded secrets surrounding the 9/11 attacks, should he be elected President.
Speaking at a campaign event in Bluffton, SC, Trump continued his onslaught on the Bush presidency by once again raising the issue of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
Do you believe the official US Government story on 9-11?
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9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
Fox Banned News 9-11 The Israeli Connection, Mossad, AIPAC, Art Students Spy Ring
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THE CONTROLLED COLLAPSE OF WTC 7
Take a close look at the manner in which WTC 7 collapses straight down. For the building to collapse in this fashion, all of the load bearing supports would have had to fail at exactly the same time.
The claim that the collapse was the result of a fire requires the fire be equally distributed throughout the entire floor of the building, providing equal heat for an equal amount of time, so that all the load bearings members would fail at the exact same moment.
Do you find this plausible?
Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Collapses
Mueller was made Director of the FBI one week before 9/11
Then he proceeded to help cover it up
William Cooper : 9-11-2001 Radio Broadcast ( Full 8 Hours )
The Secret Service at Booker Elementary:The Dog That Did Not Bark
If the events of 9-11 were truly a surprise to the United States Government then there is no way the Secret Service could have known there wasn't a hijacked or stolen plane heading towards Booker Elementary School that very second.
The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.
The Secret Service should be in that video, but they are not. It is clear from their inaction that they KNEW FOR A FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT A TARGET THAT DAY. And the only way they could know that is that the Secret Service and the White House knew ahead of time what the targets were for the 9-11 aircraft!
The dog did not bark because the criminal was its master.
Quod Erat Demonstradum, the Bush administration was part of the 9-11 plot.
FEMA was in New Yorkthe Night Before 9/11
Truth behind 9/11 will annihilate Israel
Israel did 9/11 - ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD
911 Truth for Grown ups
9/11 WTC Explosions: The Official Collapse Theory Implodes
It is clear from the above videos that explosions occurred in the towers before and during the collapses. This begs the question as to why NIST is trying to deny the undeniable. Why doesn't their report correspond with the FBI's initial cover story and state truck bombs in the WTC basements initiated the collapses?
Inside 9/11 - Who diverted the fighter jets?
COMPARISON OF WTC COLLAPSE WITH OTHER BUILDINGS
Pyrocool: Evidence of a WTC Demolition
This begs a simple question: how could conventional fires in the upper floors of the twin towers create long lasting hot spots deep in the debris pile?
The 9/11 "Deep Mystery" and the Crazy Engineers
What REALLY sent it down? Shock report reveals 9/11 tower DID NOT collapse because of fire
The report, by a group of top engineers from the University of Alaska, insists the flames could not have brought the tower down.
Dr J Leroy Hulsey revealed the team's boss findings at the Justice In Focus Symposium in New York.
He said: "It is our preliminary conclusions based upon our work to date that fire did not produce the failure at this particular building."
President Trump Should Seek the Apprehension of 9-11 Perpetrators and Co-Conspirators
It did not take more than a few hours after jets flew into buildings in lower Manhattan on September 11 sixteen years ago for analytical and critical observers to conclude that the official narrative being propagated by television and print media, regarding what had happened and who was to blame for it, was a bold lie concocted to induce a shocked population to support an agenda of sacrificing US troops to wage a perpetual war against Israel's perceived adversaries in the Middle East, in order to create the preconditions for carrying out their long-term Oded Yinon Plan, published in 1982, in pursuit of the Zionist Utopia of a "Greater Israel".
The conspiracies that won't go away: Brother of 9/11 victim claim the US orchestrated the atrocity as new study shows it was impossible that the third tower collapsed from fire
He is not alone in his quest. A survey in U.S. magazine Live Science last year revealed that most Americans (53 per cent) believe the U.S. Government has concealed — and continues to conceal — vital information about the 9/11 attacks. Crucially, a team of engineers at the University of Alaska concluded this week, after two years of forensic research, that fire could not have caused the collapse of WTC7.
Indeed, though the official story is that WTC7 was weakened by fires caused by debris from the attack, it's the only steel skyscraper in the world ever to collapse purely as a result of a blaze.
FLASHBACK - Israeli False Flags and the Attack on Rev. Stephen Sizer
The counterfeit hoopla surrounding the Charlie Hebdo 'free speech' saga was further undermined this week when a prominent British vicar posted an article on Facebook linking Israel to the 9/11 attacks, for which he is now 'under investigation.'
Stephen Sizer, a well-known reverend of Christ Church, Virginia Water, posted the Wikispooks article "9/11: Israel Did It" on Facebook and subsequently asked, "Is this [research] anti-Semitic?"
"It raises so many questions," he added.
Sizer eventually removed the post under mounting pressure from his Diocese and Britain's Jewish lobby, but affirmed his right to freedom of speech and inquiry.
The horrors of 'the first 9/11' are routinely overlooked
On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende's democratic government in Chile was ousted by United States-backed forces in one of the Cold War's defining moments. Allende himself was killed during the coup while his presidential palace, La Moneda, was extensively bombed. Many thousands of Chileans were either murdered, "disappeared", imprisoned, and coerced to emigrate or enter exile. Allende's widow and family were forced to go into hiding in Mexico for many years.
COMING Bobby McIlvaine World Trade Center Investigation Act
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Zim Shipping: New Evidence suggestsSix Months Foreknowledge of the September 11th Attack Dateand Potential Involvement in the Israeli Deep Cover Operation
At the time of the 9/11 attacks Zim was one of two Israeli companies with lease contracts at the WTC. The other Israeli tenant, Clear Forest, had a small office of 18 employees on the 47th floor of WTC 1 (the North Tower). According to the Jerusalem Post, Clear Forest had only four or five employees at the WTC on 9/11 and all escaped uninjured.[3] Although there were some variances in the WTC 1 tenant rosters between various media organizations, the majority showed that Zim occupied all of the 16th floor (WTC floor space approximated 50,000 square feet), 10,000 square feet of the 17th floor, and some space of the 29th floor of WTC 1.[4] Zim had about 250 employees at the WTC before its move-out, which would require somewhere in the vicinity of 50,000 to 60,000 square feet of office space.[5]
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9/11 Suspects: The Dancing Israelis
GITMO JUDGE BLOCKS 9/11 DEFENSE ATTORNEYS FROM VIEWING 28 PAGES
A judge presiding over the trial of five Guanta accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks has denied a defense motion seeking full access to 28 pages on Saudi government links to the attacks found in the 2002 report of a joint congressional intelligence inquiry.
Though the 28 pages were declassified in July 2016, the public version has 97 redactions amounting to about three cumulative pages of material. Defense attorneys wanted to see what's still hidden from view.
Attorneys representing the accused 9/11 conspirators argued that evidence of other guilty parties, to include the possible complicity of the government of Saudi Arabia, could be useful to their defense during the guilt or innocence phase of the upcoming trial and, if necessary, during sentencing as well.
One has to wonder what so terrifies Judge Pohl about releasing this information to the attorneys for the defendants in this case.
The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade
Washington's Hidden Agenda: Restore the Drug Trade
A judge presiding over the trial of five Guanta accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks has denied a defense motion seeking full access to 28 pages on Saudi government links to the attacks found in the 2002 report of a joint congressional intelligence inquiry. Though the 28 pages were declassified in July 2016, the public version has 97 redactions amounting to about three cumulative pages of material. Defense attorneys wanted to see what's still hidden from view.
Trump Officials Trying to Finalize Legal Language to Expand Gitmo's Use
While President Trump has made clear he intends to not only keep Guantanamo Bay open, but refill it with a new round of detainees, the administration has been struggling with the legal obstacles surrounding a new influx of captives.
The goal is to come up with an executive order that not only reverses President Obama's 2009 pledge to eventually close the facility,but to provide some sort of basis for putting newly captured people into the facility, after years of trying to release most of those already there.
The initial executive order, which President Trump nearly signed back in late July, would've allowed ISIS and al-Qaeda members to be held there, despite warnings from legal officials about the consequences this would have for the broader ISIS war.
First, a little definition of who these "detainees" are; they are, by every international code of conduct, prisoners of war, and as such, deserve basic humanitarian treatment.
And President Trump, a word, please: Gitmo, as it currently exists, is a blot and stain on the American moral character, and should be closed down.
The torture done here; the force-feeding through NG tubing, when prisoners don't want to eat, is an affront to what we are supposed to be as a nation.
And we understand full well why COs at Guantanamo are so eager to keep their prisoners alive; because through an autopsy process, it would be discovered that water boarding, to get these people to falsely confess to crimes they may have never committed, wasn't the worst thing which had happened to them.
It not only happened at Gitmo; it happened at other facilities in places like Morocco and Pakistan, where torture was outsourced. As reported at the independent.co.uk, regarding the case of Binyam Mohamed:
He was arrested in Pakistan in April 2002 travelling on a false passport and handed over to US interrogators who he says turned nasty when he mentioned a website he had seen with instructions for building a nuclear bomb. The website included instructions such as refining uranium by whirling it in a bucket above an individual's head. What followed, he insists, was a catalogue of encounters with foreign intelligence agents in Pakistan and later Morocco while being subjected to tortures that included being chained to a gate for 22 hours and being cut on his genitals 20 or 30 times during interrogation sessions over two years. Last month, it emerged in a High Court judgment that an MI5 officer visited Morocco three times during the time Mr Mohamed was being held there. MI5 insists it was unaware of his rendition to Morocco in 2002.
When the US government tortures, or outsources torture, it broadcasts to the world that it doesn't care about the rule of law; human dignity, or human rights; it observes those values only in their breach, through the use of torture.
There are compelling reasons not to torture.
It is counterproductive in the extreme, and rarely produces actionable intelligence, because those tortured are saying whatever they can think of in order to get the torture to stop.
And lastly, it also gives carte blanche to countries which don't very much like the US to torture American military and civilians.
9/11 Survivors Blast May For Rejecting Request To Release Saudi Report
Survivors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have lambasted UK Prime Minister Theresa May for "shamefully" rejecting their request to publish a high-profile government report on Saudi Arabia's funding of terror groups, which they say might hold some clues into the 9/11 as well.
THERESA MAY REJECTS APPEAL FROM 9/11 SURVIVORS TO RELEASE SUPPRESSED SAUDI ARABIA TERROR REPORT
Theresa May has rejected an appeal from survivors of the 9/11 attacks to make public a suppressed report into the role of Saudi Arabia in funding Islamist extremism in the UK. Earlier this summer, the British government announced it had decided not to publish the information, citing national security reasons and the "vast amount of personal information" it contained.
The West Betrays U.S. Heroes Who Prevented Another 9/11
"Those who work as spies know the risks from America's enemies, but they shouldn't have to worry about politicized retribution from its friends" — The Wall Street Journal.
These officials should have never be prosecuted in a court; they should be protected from such actions. This prosecution is a betrayal of those who worked hard to prevent more massacres and to cripple the infrastructure of jihad.
Trump Evacuated From White House After Massive 9/11 Spy System Discovered
Video - Israel The Elephant In 911 - Willem Felderhof
By: mo
Gitmo Judge Lifts Stay On 9/11 Trial Hearing
A Guantanamo judge has lifted a ban on military commission hearings at the island after an agreement was worked out with the Pentagon. The stay was issued after the prison commander banned the use of a separate boat to transport the judge to the hearings.
For years, judges presiding over terrorism cases at Guantanamo traveled across the bay from an airstrip to the courthouse in a small Coast Guard speedboat, instead of a ferry used by other visitors including 9/11 families, prosecutors, defense lawyers and reporters. The use of the separate boat was designed to avoid compromising the trail by keeping the parties separate.
Yes, Virginia, there really were hijackers on the 9/11 planes—but not the ones we were told
I believe a far more correct rendering is:
9/11 was an outside job, done by Israeli operatives, but with consent and cooperation at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Israel designed 9/11 to spread Islamophobia: US scholar
The September 11, 2001 attacks were part of an Islamophobic project by Israel to replace communism with "Islamic terrorism" as a new global threat which would allow Tel Aviv and its allies to further their agenda, says an American scholar.
Israeli militarism predicated on 9/11 deception
No more than an hour after the World Trade Center Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001, Israel's leaders initiated a coordinated campaign to blame their enemies for the attacks.
FLASHBACK - Israel was prime force behind 9/11 attacks: American scholar
An American scholar and journalist in Wisconsin says not only was the Zionist regime the primary force behind the 9/11 attacks, it was Israeli spies working for Mossad – not Arab Muslims – who celebrated the burning Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday, a day after an international Jewish organization based in the US denounced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's claim that dozens of Arab Muslims cheered as the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11 as unsubstantiated.
The US Empire, the CIA, and the NGOs
The CIA recruited the Muslim Brotherhood to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, which led to the withdrawal of the Soviets from the Hindu Kush. Since then, the CIA used the mercenaries to fight more proxy wars in the Balkans, Chechnya, and Azerbaijan. Due to the wars of aggression against Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen the US and its vassal states created sectarian violence that led to civil wars. Right now, the CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood are present in the form of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Britain's Labour Party joins 9/11 survivors in demanding Theresa May release suppressed Saudi Arabia terrorism report
Saudi Arabia has always denied involvement in the 2001 attacks
FLASHBACK - Neocons confess: "We did 9/11-anthrax"
Every year at this time, the neocons orchestrate and hype a series of public relations stunts designed to magnify fears of "radical Islam" and reinforce their crumbling 9/11-Anthrax cover story. But this year's propaganda campaign is so extreme that it represents a tacit confession: The neocons know that the truth about the 9/11-Anthrax operation is slowly closing in on them; so they are over-reacting by desperately trying to stoke the dying embers of the so-called War on Terror, in order to maintain the myth that Muslims (rather than neoconservative Zionists) attacked America in the autumn of 2001.
I Can't Believe This! John Kerry Said 911 Tower Was Brought Down In A "Controlled Fashion."
C-SPAN Does NOT Like Building 7 Callers
By: newsguy76
Fmr. WH staffer confirms "thermonuclear device" detonated at WTC on 9/11
Former White House staffer Susan Lindauer said that she was told by a trusted contact of hers in the intelligence community that three suspicious white vans arrived at the World Trade Center just days before the Sept. 11 attack.
911 Research for Grown Ups
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theempireunmasked to get The Empire Unmasked
CIA Agent Confesses On Deathbed: 'We Blew Up WTC7 On 9/11'
79-year-old retired CIA agent, Malcom Howard, has made a series of astonishing claims since being released from hospital in New Jersey on Friday and told he has weeks to live. Mr. Howard claims he was involved in the "controlled demolition" of World Trade Center 7, the third building that was destroyed on 9/11.
Mr. Howard, who worked for the CIA for 36 years as an operative, claims he was tapped by senior CIA agents to work on the project due to his engineering background, and early career in the demolition business.
Trained as a civil engineer, Mr. Howard became an explosives expert after being headhunted by the CIA in early 1980s. Mr. Howard says has extensive experience in planting explosives in items as small as cigarette lighters and as large as "80 floor buildings."
AFTER TRUMP BOWS TO SAUDIS, DECISION TO RELEASE EVIDENCE OF SAUDIS FUNDING 9/11 GETS REVERSED
President Trump's change in attitude towards Saudi Arabia has apparently had a trickle-down effect, as a federal judge in Miami has reversed her decision to push for the release of crucial documents revealing information on the funding of the 9/11 attacks.
Judge Cecilia Altonaga is now ruling in favor of the FBI, granting the agency's request to keep large portions of a slide show titled "Overview of the 9/11 Investigation" secret from the public.
The presentation Altonaga is now helping to keep private, includes sections on "Funding of the 9/11 Attacks," "Early to Mid-2001 Additional Funding," "Early to Mid-2000: Pilots/Intended Pilots Arrive U.S.," "Investigative Findings" regarding hijacker "Identification," and "Financial: Ample Financing was provided."
I have just two words with which to describe Judge Altonaga's flip flop on this: it stinks!!
Two Years Before 9/11, Candidate Bush was Already Talking Privately About Attacking Iraq, According to His Former Ghost Writer
"He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999," said author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz. "It was on his mind. He said to me: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.' He said, 'If I have a chance to invade…if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it.
9/11 rescue worker says human skull turned to "powder and dust" on retrieval
A rescue worker assigned to the World Trade Center's South Tower's rubble pile after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, said that he found a burnt firefighter's skull which turned to "powder and dust" when he attempted to retrieve it.
A 'power-down' took place in the World Trade Center just days before 9/11 attacks
A highly unusual and out of the ordinary electrical system power-down took place in the World Trade Center's South Tower just days before the attacks which occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, possibly allowing for the placement of explosives in the building.
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UNCOVERS THE TRUE STORY OF A TERRORIST MONITORING SYSTEM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED IN THE WAKE OF THE FIRST WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK BUT DISCONTINUED JUST WEEKS BEFORE 9/11
Features NSA analyst-turned-whistleblower who was a leading expert on metadata responsible for the world's most sophisticated global monitoring effort: ThinThread
From Director Friedrich Moser • Executive Producer Oliver Stone
9/11 SECRETS: FBI CAN KEEP SENSITIVE REPORT DETAILS UNDER WRAP, JUDGE RULES
A South Florida judge ruled the FBI is not improperly withholding information about funding of the 9/11 attacks after journalists tried to uncover connections between the hijackers and Saudis living in Florida at the time. Florida Bulldog, an organization of investigative journalists, has been investigating connections between Saudis living in the US and the hijackers who crashed the planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon in 2011. In total, 15 of the 19 hijackers involved were Saudi Arabian.
Teenage Jihadist Jailed For Life Over London Bomb Attack Plot On 9/11 Anniversary
A 19-year-old has been sentenced to life in prison after previously pleading guilty to plotting terrorist acts in London last year.
Haroon Syed was arrested last year after he tried to purchase weapons online from an undercover agent with an intent to use them in an attack on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity. His target list, even though undecided, included a number of potentially busy gatherings in London, such as Oxford Circus, Buckingham Palace or an Elton John concert in Hyde Park.
House Panel Approves Repeal of U.S. Military Powers Enacted in Wake of 9/11
Washington Has Been At War For 16 Years: Why?
For sixteen years the US has been at war in the Middle East and North Africa, running up trillions of dollars in expenses, committing untold war crimes, and sending millions of war refugees to burden Europe, while simultaneously claiming that Washington cannot afford its Social Security and Medicare obligations or to fund a national health service like every civilized country has.
Considering the enormous social needs that cannot be met because of the massive cost of these orchestrated wars, one would think that the American people would be asking questions about the purpose of these wars. What is being achieved at such enormous costs? Domestic needs are neglected so that the military/security complex can grow fat on war profits.
The lack of curiousity on the part of the American people, the media, and Congress about the purpose of these wars, which have been proven to be based entirely on lies, is extraordinary.
FEMA Search & Rescue worker admits his Denver-based team arrived to Manhattan 1-day ahead of 9/11
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Task Force worker by the name of Tom Kenney admitted during a live broadcast of a Sept. 13, 2001 CBS News segment titled: "Attack On America" in which he admitted to journalist Dan Rather that his Denver-based Urban Search & Rescue team had arrived to Manhattan the night prior to the attacks and was able to quickly spring into action the following morning as scheduled.
Hillary Clinton's connection to 9/11... revealed?
Field McConnell is a career military and airline pilot who is closely linked to the flying events of 9/11. His Air National Guard unit had F16s over Wash
HOW THE CIA-OPERATED A "DRUG SMUGGLING AIRLINE" FOR HEROIN & THE 9/11 CONNECTION
The CIA wasn't just involved with the transportation of the drugs, however. The heroin was refined in a laboratory built at the CIA headquarters in Northern Laos. After about a decade of U.S. military intervention, SEA represented 70% of the world's opium supplier. Unfortunately, many of the operatives became addicted to the heroin themselves. At the same time, SEA also became the main supplier of raw materials for the U.S. heroin industry. Though Air America apparently stopped operations in 1976, the CIA's involvement in the opium and heroin industries continued in other parts of the world.
If you're familiar with the American war on drugs, then it may not surprise you to learn that the CIA represents one of the largest drug dealing organizations in history. The CIA originally designed LSD with the help of a Swiss manufacturer as a "mind control drug" as part of their MK Ultra program, hoping that it would allow patients under the influence to commit unspeakable acts commanded by the government and then forget they ever happened. Of course, this plan backfired, and then the CIA introduced LSD to the American population.
Peter Jennings on 9/11: "Where did all the rubble go?"
One day after the Twin Towers and Building 7 basically disintegrated into pillars of dust, leaving very little rubble behind, reporter George Stephanopoulos gave ABC News anchor Peter Jennings his explanation for the missing debris during a live newscast — an explanation that seemed irrational at the time.
Larry Silverstein said he redesigned WTC 7 a year before 9/11
The CEO of Silverstein Properties, Larry Silverstein himself who was the owner of the World Trade Center when it was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, gave a speech in which he admitted to attendees that the new 7 World Trade Center was already designed and planned for in 2000, over a year before the September attacks involving 'hijacked jet liners' ever took place.
Who Is Coleen Rowley? She Is A 9/11 Whistleblower Who Has More To Reveal Which Will Stun You.
At FBI, Mueller Oversaw Post-9/11 Abuses
The U.S. mainstream media gushes over Russia-gate special prosecutor Robert Mueller as an upright man of the Establishment, ignoring how he oversaw abuses of innocent Arabs after 9/11, reports Jonathan Marshall.
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US Healthcare: Consumes 80% of World's Opioid Prescriptions
(*And if The Experts Would Kindly Explain How That DOES NOT Trace Back To Former Republican President George W Bush' Illegal Premptive Invasion Of The Nation Of Afghanistan , And How A Good Patriot Would Never Seek Indictments Against Members Of That Administration's War Crimes , And Their Elongigated After Effects , It Would Be Appreciated )
How is London's Grenfell Tower Still Standing?
Yesterday's news about the Grenfell Tower in London going up in flames has me a bit confused.
On September 11th, 2001 the Twin Towers in New York City both sustained a great amount of fire damage and each building collapsed at near free fall speed. They disintegrated into dust!
It is interesting how this did not happen with Grenfell Tower in London despite the entire structure being engulfed in flames.
I guess the laws of physics were just suspended yesterday, because any time a building catches fire it should collapse at free fall speed. The Twin Towers proved this!


As most Americans grind away in an office, many of us daydream about what it would be like to drop off the grid and live a simpler life. Unplugged Nation viewers will follow a family who is looking to leave their city life behind and take the leap into off-grid living. In each episode, a new family will view three properties in the area they would like to live in and they will get to select one dream home try out the "unplugged" way of life for three days. Guided by off-the-grid expert, Jay Gruen, the families will learn what it takes to live this new lifestyle– from growing their own food, to running their own electricity to fending for themselves– then they will decide whether they can hack it off-grid or need to move back to the city.


What do you wish you had more time for? More moments with your best friends and the people you love? Take more trips and experience life more? Take care of yourself more?
Be inspired to make time for what matters most with the help of your trusty traveler's notebook like Nightwish.
Now in A6 size, this purple metallic, cruelty-free traveler's notebook with an oil edge finish is not just eye candy, but an efficient and versatile tool to help you identify your priorities, set your goals, and practice the amazing habit of being intentional with your time.


The awards for Distinguished Alumni, Distinguished Young Alumni and Distinguished Service are the highest honors that the Darla Moore School of Business bestows.
The Distinguished Alumni and Distinguished Young Alumni awards are presented to alumni of the Moore School with outstanding achievements in business, academia, government or not-for-profit organizations or outstanding service to the business school.
The Distinguished Young Alumni award recipients must be 40 years of age or younger in the year the award is presented.
The Distinguished Service award is presented to an individual who has rendered extraordinary service to the Moore School.
Nominations are accepted on a rolling basis; fields in bold are required. Our alumni office will contact you for more information after you submit a nomination. Nominations will be kept confidential.


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Singapore Airlines' budget offshoot now flies daily round-trips between the two cities.
Scoot is to expand its routemap with a flight to China's ancient capital beginning June 3.
The new route will be an extension of its Taipei service, with the first flight to the Japanese capital set to depart on October 29.
Singapore Airlines' new budget carrier, Scoot, is set to start thrice-weekly flights between Singapore and Taipei, Taiwan, on Sep.18.


Start-up Habana Labs has developed a chip architecture that promises to speed up the execution of machine-learning tasks.
The Israeli start-up came out of secrecy in September to announce two artificial intelligence (AI) processor chips. One, dubbed Gaudi, is designed to tackle the training of large-scale neural networks. The chip will be available in 2019.
Eitan MedinaGoya, the start-up's second device, is an inference processor that implements the optimised, trained neural network.
The Goya chip is already in prospective customers' labs undergoing evaluation, says Eitan Medina, Habana's chief business officer.
Habana has just raised $75 million in a second round of funding, led by Intel Capital. Overall, the start-up has raised a total of $120 million in funding.
Intel announced at ECOC that it is sampling a 10km extended temperature range 100-gigabit CWDM4 optical module for 5G fronthaul.
Another announced pluggable module pursued by Intel is the 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) parallel fibre DR4 standard.
Intel, a backer of the CWDM8 MSA, says the 8-wavelength 400-gigabit module will not be in production before 2020.
Intel has expanded its portfolio of silicon photonics-based optical modules to address 5G mobile fronthaul and 400GbE.
Robert BlumAt the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) being held in Rome this week, Intel announced it is sampling a 100-gigabit CWDM4 module in a QSFP form factor for wireless fronthaul applications.
The CWDM4 module has an extended temperature range, -20°C to +85°C, and a 10km reach.
"The final samples are available now and [the product] will go into production in the first quarter of 2019," says Robert Blum, director of strategic marketing and business development at Intel's silicon photonics product division.
Another multi-source agreement (MSA) group has been created to speed up the market introduction of 400-gigabit client-side optical interfaces.
The CWDM8 MSA is described by its founding members as a pragmatic approach to provide 400-gigabit modules in time for the emergence of next-generation switches next year. The CWDM8 MSA was announced at the ECOC show held in Gothenburg last week.
Robert BlumThe eight-wavelength coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM) MSA is being promoted as a low-cost alternative to the IEEE 803.3bs 400 Gigabit Ethernet Task Force's 400-gigabit eight-wavelength specifications, and less risky than the newly launched 100G Lambda MSA specifications based on four 100-gigabit wavelengths for 400 gigabit.
Mood, technologies, notable announcements - just what are the metrics to judge the OFC 2017 show held in Los Angeles last week?
It was the first show I had attended in several years and the most obvious changes were how natural the presence of the internet content providers now is alongside the telecom operators, as well as systems vendors exhibiting at the show. Chip companies, while also present, were fewer than before.
Another impression were the latest buzz terms: 5G, the Internet of Things and virtual reality-augmented reality. Certain of these technologies are more concrete than others, but their repeated mention suggests a consensus that the topics are real enough to impact optical components and networking.
August has been a notable month for John Bowers.
Juniper Networks announced its intention to acquire Aurrion, the US silicon photonics start-up that Bowers co-founded with Alexander Fang. And Intel, a company Bowers worked with on a hybrid integration laser-bonding technique, unveiled its first 100-gigabit silicon photonics transceivers.
Professor John BowersBower, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), first started working in photonics in 1981 while at AT&T Bell Labs.
When he became interested in silicon photonics, it still lacked a good modulator and laser. "If you don't have a laser and a modulator, or a directly modulated laser, it is not a very interesting chip," says Bowers. "So I started thinking how to do that."
Intel has unveiled two 100-gigabit optical modules for the data centre made using silicon photonics technology.
The PSM4 and CWDM4/CLR4 100-gigabit modules mark the first commercial application of a hybrid integration technique for silicon photonics, dubbed heterogeneous integration, that Intel has been developing for years.
Intel's 100-gigabit module announcement follows the news that Juniper Networks has entered into an agreement to acquire start-up, Aurrion, for $165 million. Aurrion is another silicon photonics player developing this hybrid integration technology for its products.
Talking about his time heading Intel's silicon photonics development programme, Mario Paniccia, spotlights a particularly creative period between 2002 and 2008.
During that time, his Intel team had six silicon photonics papers published in the science journals, Nature and Nature Photonics, and held several world records - for the fastest modulator, first at 1 gigabit, then 10 gigabit and finally 40 gigabit, the first pulsed and continuous-wave Raman silicon laser, the first hybrid silicon laser working with The University of California, Santa Barbara, and the fastest silicon germanium photo-detector operating at 40 gigabit.
"These [achievements] were all in one place, labs within 100 yards of each other; you had to pinch yourself sometimes," he says.


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Public servants learn reconciliation means relationship-building and action
PPF's reconciliation series didn't answer all the questions about reconciliation but offered context and impetus to act. By: Jocelyn Formsma
PPF's reconciliation series didn't answer all the questions about reconciliation but offered context and impetus to act
By: Jocelyn Formsma
The Public Policy Forum recently wrapped up its Putting Reconciliation into Practice: Inclusion and Action seminar series. More than 30 mid- to senior-level bureaucrats from a range of federal government departments heard that two important keys to reconciliation are relationship-building and action.
As the facilitator for this series, it was encouraging for me to experience the interest and enthusiasm that the participants demonstrated. Some of the speakers shared hard truths and the participants were challenged to defy the status quo in favour of building new realities in partnership with Indigenous peoples and communities. While many people could have resisted the challenges and defended the status quo, this group, by and large, embraced the lessons and opportunities.
Over the four sessions, the participants:
had a first-hand experience with some of the challenges that First Nations face by visiting the Mohawks of Akwesasne;
were given an in-depth overview of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the importance of using the report and its Calls to Action in their work from none other than Sen. Murray Sinclair, who chaired the TRC;
learned about the development of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from one of its drafters and advocates, Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, and the importance of its implementation;
learned about some examples of innovation and leadership in Indigenous economics; and
heard the voices of young Indigenous leaders who are taking unique approaches to reconciliation.
Throughout the series, leading Indigenous experts and thinkers were asked to share their knowledge and experiences. These speakers provided enlightening insight into the challenges that Indigenous communities are currently facing, as well as the solutions that they are proposing and implementing. The participants also heard from key senior decision-makers in the public service at the federal and provincial levels. These speakers spoke strongly and passionately about the need for the public service to adapt if it is to better serve all Canadians, especially Indigenous peoples living in Canada.
After the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report and the 94 Calls to Action, Canadians, and especially public servants, have become increasingly aware of reconciliation. However, there seems to be little consensus as to what reconciliation is, what it means and what needs to be done in its name. This PPF reconciliation series did not answer those questions, but it did provide some context and offered the opportunity for the participants to think through what reconciliation could mean within their circle(s) of influence.
To me, reconciliation has always meant an ongoing process guided by principles that results in systemic and meaningful change to the status quo. For these public servants, their journeys with reconciliation have taken important next steps. It is my hope that they implement the ideas that they developed and that they will continue to do their part to contribute to the reconciliation process.
Jocelyn Formsma is an Associate with Nahwegahbow Corbiere Genoodmagejig Barristers & Solicitors and a long-time advocate for Indigenous rights, especially the rights of Indigenous children and youth. She was the facilitator of the PPF reconciliation series.
Putting Reconciliation into Practice III: Session 1 - Understanding
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 4 - Building a nation-to-nation, government-to-government and Inuit-Crown relationship
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 3 - Working Together - Partnership and Co-development
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 1 - Understanding and applying the government's agenda
Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 2 - Visit to Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation
Putting Reconciliation into Practice: Session 4
Max FineDay's challenge to Canada's public servants: Embrace reconciliation or get out of the way
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Foreword: The future of Canada lies in the North
Tuesday July 9, 2019
"If Canada wants to retain its effective power to shape and influence decisions in its own backyard, it must make sure it clearly understands its interests in the Arctic and is prepared to back them with solid policies and strategic investments."
Learn moreabout Foreword: The future of Canada lies in the North
Executive Summary: The North's future is Canada's future, too
Is Canada squandering its Arctic advantage? This series of four experts' views on climate, resources, sovereignty and reconciliation show that the North's key issues are closely tied to Canada's strategic priorities

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Responsive mosaic grid that fills the window with content.
Plenty of editable settings that require no HTML experience. See edits immediately in live preview.
Optional introductory cover title for albums, sets, essays and pages.
Large individual photo pages with pagination, EXIF and social sharing.
Full screen slideshow template for publishing a splash front page of featured content.
Responsive design that works with all current and future mobile devices.
Regale is a mosaic grid theme designed for photostreams, collections and blogging. Regale's image grid is fluid and adapts itself to fit every screen size. Also includes super-sized content pages for individual photos and full screen splash slideshow pages for featured content and albums.
Regale takes "do more with less" to heart. Its layout and typography is super minimal and not over-designed so your content has the viewer's full attention. This theme is an excellent choice for photographers who need a clean, easy to navigate portfolio site of their work.
Completely rebuilt mosaic grid layout engine.
Smooth, dynamic page loading and browsing.
Large cover images and titles for collections, essays and pages.
Full screen "splash" slideshow for welcoming visitors with featured content or featured albums.
Customizable image loading spinner animations (color, size, etc).
Lightbox image viewing from within album and photostream pages.
Better scaling of portraits on content page so entire image is always visible.
Optional album title and description header on album pages.
Archive template for browsing albums and sets by tag/category.
Additional built-in color styles and typography options.
Responsive mosaic grid for content indexes and albums.
Easily configurable number of grid columns and spacing for a custom look.
Grid titles and captions that may appear on mouseover, underneath or none at all.
Images dynamically load as you scroll.
Like and Tweet buttons with option to link Facebook button to your Facebook page.
Compatible with all tablets and mobile devices.
Customizable background and text colors.
All 2.0 theme updates are free.
Lots of people use Regale right out-of-the-box without any customization. Nonetheless, we've include a wide range of editable settings for those who'd like to tweak the theme more to their liking. Like all Koken themes, edits to Regale's layout, typography, color and everything else is handled through an integrated settings panel that requires no coding or HTML experience.
Let's take a look at all the major settings you'll find in Regale.
Regale offers four simple color schemes that may be selected in the Style dropdown: "White" (the default), "Black", "Cool White" and "Warm White". These alter the background and type color of every page on your site.
The Layout section controls the proportions of every page. Header height and Footer height control the height of each area respectively, Inside pad controls the amount of space between header/footer text and the edge of the browser window, Inside spacing controls the amount of space between header/footer links, and Content offset pushes the content area away from the header. The latter is helpful for those applying separate colors to each area.
Regale's header will then display a recommended height for your site title image. This is calculated using the interior space of the header, times two. Why times two? Because in order for your logo to appear sharp on Retina/HiDPI screens it needs to be twice the size you'd normally create. Regale will scale the 2x image down to half its height using the Regular height (desktops, tablets) and Mobile height (smartphones) slider values, as indicated below.
For example, if Regale recommends a height of 44px, you may create a 44px tall image in Photoshop, Illustrator, or any other graphics editor. Width can be any value you want. Save the image (PNG recommended), then upload it to either a folder on your web server or anywhere the image file can be linked to directly. Copy the absolute (http://) URL to the image, then paste the URL into the Image URL field. Next, set Regular height to half the height of the image file height (e.g. 44px / 2 = 22px). You may then set Mobile height underneath to the same height or smaller if you'd prefer the image a bit smaller on smartphones.
Note that the recommended image height is only a recommendation. Feel free to create any height you want to suit your header design. Just remember to always create the image at twice the value of Regular height for the sharpest results on all screen sizes.
Desktop cols, Tablet cols and Mobile cols controls the number of grid columns used on each respective screen size. More columns equals smaller images, fewer columns equals larger images. By default, Regale presents albums and sets using fewer columns for larger images. The following table shows the values each template uses.
Spacing controls the amount of negative space, in pixels, between each grid item. Increase this for a looser grids with smaller images, decrease for tighter grids with larger images.
Variability assigns non-uniform column widths to make the grid a bit less predictable. When set to None (the default) every column is the same width (eg, 5 columns = 20% each). When Odd, Even or Random is selected an Amount slider appears underneath to control the degree of non-uniformity to apply. So for example if you picked Random and set Amount to 5%, the 5 columns would then have widths like 18.6%, 22.6%, 17.6%, 22.6%, and 18.6%. No matter what you choose, they'll always add up to 100%.
Album, image and video titles may be displayed in the grid. Their general properties are edited for every template through the Content info section of the Template view in settings. Here you can adjust their color, alignment, size and padding.
How content info appears depends on the template you're viewing. This is controlled through the Show titles option (see figure above). Its options include None, Mouseover and Fixed. The following table shows the default settings for each template.
Editing this for one template in the table above will apply the setting to all related templates too.
Note: When Mouseover is selected and a page is viewed on a mobile device the theme will automatically switch to Fixed because hover isn't supported.
For a closer look at images and videos you have two display options: the Lightbox or the Content template.
All content pages -- Album, Contents, Contents Archive, Favorites and Index -- share the same setting, so checking or unchecking the Launch lightbox when clicked setting will be applied to each template.
When unchecked (default), image clicks load the Content template. The Template area of the settings panel will then display these options. Check or uncheck the content properties you'd like the page to display.
You may choose between Black and White lightbox styles as well as control how large images are displayed. This is 1600 by default, but you may slide this up for larger images on big screens or down for images that don't obscure the page underneath.
View an album, set, essay or page and the Template panel will display options for Cover. This publishes a large preview image and title above the content grid. Albums and sets display their primary cover image, titles and descriptions while essays and pages display featured images, titles and excerpts. Note that enabling covers for an album, set, essay or page will enable covers for all related content appearing in the same template.
Type includes three options for albums/sets: None (the default), Text and Image. Text displays the collection's title, description, metadata and social share links using only text. Image displays the same but with the collection's primary cover image underneath and more typographic style.
When viewing an essay or page, Type includes options for None (the default) and Image. Image displays the essay/page featured image underneath its title, excerpt, metadata and social share links.
Align - Position of text above the image.
Background - Applies a color between the image and text.
Text - Color of the collection info text.
Title min size - Smallest possible point size for title (mobile).
Title max size - Largest possible point size for title (desktops).
Width - Width of collection info on desktops and tablets.
Padding vert - Applies padding above/below the collection info.
Padding Horiz - Applies padding left/right the collection info.
This concludes our overview of Regale's most notable settings. Hopefully it will provide some creative inspiration as you use the theme to create your site. If you have questions about the theme, post a question to our discussions page or contact Koken support directly.
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Fix footer social media icons from being clipped.
Fix album download to album template.
Move album download to album template.
Fix public page of password protected album.
Added support for Google reCAPTCHA.
Added support for site search.
Added support for Rating plugin.
Allow navigation to wrap beneath logo.
Add localized contact form messages.
Added language options for Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish.
Added language options for English, French or German.
Modified form styles for compliance with new contact form functionality.
Adding baseline form input styles.
Added login template for use with Password Protect plugin.
Updating gif spinner for retina screens.
Removed optimize legibility CSS property due to Windows/Chrome problem.
Added new "Light" theme style. Creates a more spacious content grid and smaller typography.
Added new settings to control whether current navigation links are underlined, a bold option for current links, plus case transforms for titles and links.
Added Droid Sans, Arvo, and Arimo as typeface options.
Fixed text wrap issue in the footer when viewed using Windows browsers.
Splitting padding adjustments for image titles into separate settings for mouseover / under display options.
Changing "Underneath" title option to "Fixed" in settings UI.
Now automatically hides footer on down scroll. Footer comes back on up scroll. Can toggle off in settings.
Caption layout fix for mobile.
Overlay settings now visible for featured essay images in the grid layout.
Extended image cropping to featured essay images in the grid layout.
2x Retina/HiDPI site title images are now supported. Note that this required changes to how site title images are handled, so if you currently have a site title image assigned, check it out after applying this update to ensure it looks okay!
Added feature albums splash template. Same as the "Splash" template in the current version of Regale except this one loads featured albums and loads album pages when albums are clicked.
Added "Inset" setting to control whether cover images extend to the left/right edges of the browser. Default is no inset.
Removed underlines from tags in cover images for in retrospect they didn't look so hot.
Cropping of images on the front (contents), album, contents and contents archive page now supported.
Added setting to hide lightbox share button.
Added letter-spacing setting for cover header text.
Changing minimum value of essay display limit to 1.
Better Firefox (OS X) font smoothing in black style.
Binding album cover image title and arrow to right key instead of down to prevent page scroll quirkiness.
Updating social share links for compatibility with Koken 0.18.
Factor top padding into album/set cover image height calculation.
Separate color settings for header and footer text and links. If you've made custom color changes check the theme after applying this update to see if additional edits are needed.
Fixed issue where splash footer display setting wasn't setting properly.
Fixed page scroll issue with cover image links in set template.
Fixed issue where the show content spinner setting was being applied.
Fixed issue where lightbox max width couldn't be set back to its default value.
Fixed navigation layout issue in the Splash template.
Making background of white lightbox style actually white.
Published dates now appear alongside essays on the essays index and archive page.
Spacing adjustments to social links on content pages.
Adding image loading spinner support to essays and pages.
Added setting to control visibility of album link on content page.
Column sizing touchups for mobile portrait view.
Added 'read more' link support to essays.
Added error.lens template for 404s, etc.
Fixed cover link scroll problem.
Resolving Twitter share link issue.
Spinner work with cover backgrounds.
New cover title element for album, set, essay and page templates. Displays a large background image (primary cover for albums and sets, featured image for essays and pages) behind the content title, description and social media links.
Dropping text/caption size down a bit.
Adding support for new koken:meta tag.
Mobile menu fixes on Android.
Fixed Twitter album share link in album.lens.
Fixed improperly scaled images on mobile devices.
Video thumbnail overlays now fade-in after the underlying image loads.
Increased the hit area of the mobile menu button for improved interactivity.
Fixed mobile menu button long press on some android devices.
Splash page fix for issue that could cause slideshow not to load when the content spinner was disabled.
Fixed grid layout on iPad iOS 6 and earlier.
Tweak to ensure images embedded in essays scale responsively.
Added "Nothing" option for the Splash template's slideshow link. Slideshow doesn't receive a hyperlink when set.
Simplifying padding by removing a setting that wasn't necessary.
Vertical alignment tweaks for custom site title images.
Social media buttons now appear in the splash template, if enabled.
Resolved settings issue that caused console errors when the "Cool White" style was selected.
Resolved content page issue where images were still linked (to themselves) when lightbox links were turned off.
Completely rebuilt mosaic grid for improved column balancing and control.
New customizable image loading spinner. Color, size speed and more.
New lightbox view when grid images are clicked.
Splash page template enhanced with additional settings and link options.
Titles and captions for content pages, similar to albums.
Alternate black theme style added.


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Splitting: is Divorce really only for the Wealthy?
The new BBC drama The Split has generated press attention focusing on the hourly rates, designer labels and celebrity clients of the 'top flight' London divorce lawyers. Mention of hourly rates of between £600-£900 would certainly seem to put these lawyers out of the normal person's price bracket.
Alongside this, the media has for some time headlined the eye watering costs incurred by some divorcing couples. These are often cases where the judges have been harshly critical of the money spent by parties fighting over an ever decreasing pot. In most of these cases, however, the available pot ran to a number of millions, so again, far removed from Mr and Mrs Average.
But Mr and Mrs Average can have significant wealth
Or is it? For some couples, it can very much depend on postcode, or area of business. Rising house prices in some parts of the country, even outside London, have given couples a greater wealth on paper than they might have imagined when they started married life. However, it doesn't turn into surplus funds when each person needs to rehouse in the same locality (for reasons of employment and schools). Realising a sale of a 5 bed-roomed house at £850,000 still doesn't give you enough if a 3 bed-roomed property costs £450,000, once you have factored in the costs of selling, buying and moving, not to mention replacement furnishings – not many couples have two cookers or washing machines!
Or there can be the unexpected windfall, such as employees of companies such as ARM who suddenly saw their shareholdings turn into large amounts of cash. For some families, the business that has been built up over the years and provided a comfortable level of income is valued or is of interest to a competitor and there is a very large capital figure in place of the (or sometimes as well as the) previous income stream.
Fear of legal costs
It does appear from the reported cases that large levels of legal costs are run up where there is a point of principle in dispute or where one party is not co-operating with the process, usually by not being honest about what is available for distribution. It is yet to be seen whether the lawyers in The Split are going to encounter cases like these or whether their clients, because of wealth or status, choose their lawyers as they would any other designer label.
Fear of legal costs is a reason frequently given for people not using a solicitor in a divorce. A number of people that I have met at first interview tell me they are expecting costs of upwards of £20,000. In reality, there are only a few cases each year that run up that level of costs. Mr and Mrs Average, if they each use a lawyer or mediator focused on a realistic outcome, could reasonably expect to spend a quarter of that sum.
Court staff are not legally trained
These are still big figures to come out of a family's resources so there remains the temptation to believe that DIY divorce, without a lawyer's help, is a sensible step. Some people believe that the court itself will check their paperwork and stop them making mistakes but given that court staff are not legally trained, that simply is not going to happen.
The press have recently reported a number of cases where people have been granted a divorce where the petition was issued in the first year of the marriage. Divorce is not legally permitted until a couple have been married a full year so these divorces are void meaning the parties remain married to each other, so any remarriage is also void – and bigamous.
Other common mistakes are:
Not ticking all the relevant boxes for financial claims in the petition so potentially losing the right to put claims before the court, even in a consent application
Starting a divorce petition relying on a ground of separation a day too early.
Not agreeing to the jurisdictional basis for the divorce in the Acknowledgement of service
Not providing a fresh issued set of papers to a process server to prove service
Relying on the grounds for the divorce as conduct in the financial proceedings.
A good lawyer can make for a good divorce and ultimately reduce the stress of the situation. To get the most out of your lawyer, I suggest the following:
As far as you can, have information about your financial situation and that of your husband / wife with supporting information
Leave the grounds of the divorce in the divorce itself – in all other areas (finances or children) focus on outcomes not retribution
Attend the Separated Parents Information Programme if you have children still at home
Be clear as early as you can what can be agreed with your wife/husband and what cannot.
I would also recommend reading the other family law articles on this site. They are there to help you, whether or not you are a client of this firm, covering matters such as collaborative law, rights in family breakdown, children, maintenance orders and more.
For more information please contact Karen Anker, Family Law & Divorce Solicitor
Disclaimer: While we do all that is possible in terms of ensuring its accuracy, this blog contains general information only. Nothing in these pages constitutes legal advice. You need to consult a suitably qualified lawyer from the firm on any specific legal problem or matter.
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Guide: How to Get a Divorce
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No Fault Divorce on its Way, Finally
No fault divorce appears to be finally on its way for those planning to divorce in England and Wales.
Protecting Marital Assets on Divorce
Where there is a real risk that an asset of value is going to be disposed of or in some other way removed beyond the reach of one spouse, then an application can be made [...]
Wealth Protection not just for the Rich
Couples need to know that a well-drafted nuptial agreement means they can have greater control over their futures.
Your Wealth, Your Future
Our Family Law and Trusts & Estates teams joined forces with Rathbones Cambridge during November to provide a wealth management seminar for our clients and partners.
Did you consider your spouse's pension when you divorced?
A recent discussion on Radio 4 disclosed that a number of women said they had divorced without realising that they could claim against their husbands' pension schemes.
Owens and Owens – Setback for Divorcing Couples
Contrary to popular belief there is only one basis for dissolving a marriage which is that it has irretrievably broken down. There are five available grounds for proving that irretrievable breakdown ...
Can Family Wealth be taken into Account upon Divorce?
This may be a case very much on its facts, but it shows the court being prepared to exclude a guaranteed inheritance.
Family Breakdown: What are my Rights?
What are my rights? This is the question most people caught up in family breakdown ask their solicitor. They are often quite frustrated at the answer!
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Online Psychology Degree Grad Listens To Her Heart
A desire to help others in the deaf community inspires 2016 graduate Nicole Fonner to complete Saint Leo's online psychology degree program.
7 April 2016 - By Saint Leo University
As far as she can tell, Nicole Fonner, a 2016 Saint Leo University graduate, believes she has been hearing-impaired since birth.
It's been a progressive hearing loss, she says, so she was not formally diagnosed until she was 5 years old. At that point, she was fitted with bilateral hearing aids and managed fairly well for a few years; however, the slightest bump to her head would cause her ears to swell shutting off all sound and rendering the hearing aids useless.
At 14, Nicole received her first cochlear implant (CI) in her right ear and four years later in her left. While she believes the implants are amazing, they have not been the instant miracle many people expect them to be.
"They can be a pain to deal with sometimes," says Nicole. "It took about a year for sound to be normal. And I get headaches every time I get my CIs remapped."
The key, she says, is patience.
And that's why Nicole's goal is to use her education and her personal experience to help other people in the deaf community transition successfully to cochlear implants.
"I'm still trying to work out exactly what I want as a career," she says, "but I'm confident that my background in psychology will help me achieve my ultimate goal."
And that's where another character trait of Nicole's comes to bear.
Perseverance.
Finding the right fit
After graduating from high school, Nicole knew she wanted a career helping people. She left Claysville, Pennsylvania for college in Tampa as a nursing major, but one term helped her see that nursing was not the right fit – neither was her first-choice university. Twice she needed to take a semester off due to vertigo issues stemming from her cochlear implants and challenges with the school's disability department that affected her studies.
Deciding to start fresh, she toured Saint Leo's University Campus.
Accessibility Services, Chris Georgallis. I had so much trouble previously, and she reassured me that I would not have any of those problems at Saint Leo. This school truly cares about their students and they aim to make sure that no one – no matter their disability – has any issue whatsoever. I knew Saint Leo was the right place for me."
Nicole transferred to Saint Leo as student at University Campus. She also decided to change her major to psychology.
"When I took my first college-level psychology course, it was love at first lecture," she says. "It reminded me of why I loved my high school psychology course so much."
After a year of taking courses on campus, however, further complications with her cochlear implants and a third implant-related surgery ensued. While Nicole needed to move back to Pennsylvania to be closer to family and to her audiologist, she wanted to remain a Saint Leo student.
"The solution," she says "was Saint Leo's awesome online courses."
Advantages of online degree program
In addition to enabling her to move home and continue with her studies at Saint Leo, becoming an online psychology degree student enabled Nicole to work full-time job as an office assistant and to travel.
"I was able to visit Alaska, Ireland and England all without missing a step with any of my classes," she says.
One thing Nicole says surprised her about online learning was how involved she could be even though she wasn't sitting in an actual classroom. Not only did she enjoy discussing course literation with her classmates and talking with professors, she appreciated the opportunity to work on a group project via email and text messaging.
"It was super easy to work together and we aced the project."
Nicole has also stayed involved in extra-curricular activities as an online student, becoming a member of the international psychology honors society, Psi Chi, and Saint Leo's Psychology Association, which she became president of during her senior year.
"The Psychology Association has been a great way to stay involved, hear fantastic presentations from faculty and connect with other students all around the world. I love that I was able to do an entire presentation on the film 'Inside Out.'* It was so cool to present on something that wasn't assigned by my professor. It was even cooler that I was able to speak to one of the psychologists who worked on the film."
With her online psychology degree in hand, Nicole is ready for the next step – whatever that may be.
*Click here to watch Nicole's online presentation to the Psychology Association on the film "Inside Out."
Image credits: Courtesy Nicole Fonner


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Susan's Style: Fashionable weekend wear for a beautiful Spring day! - Susan Said... WHAT?!
Susan's Style: Fashionable weekend wear for a beautiful Spring day!
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I love this "sailor" like outfit, this would be perfect to wear if you live near the ocean!