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In the West of England county of Dorset, four miles North of Dorchester, the old Roman town of Durnovaria, lies the village of Charlton Down. This has developed from what was the site of Herrison Hospital, a Victorian Mental Hospital, closed down in 1997.
The new village now consists of three large apartment blocks, about 400 houses, Herrison Hall (the village hall), a shop and a Fitness Centre.
There is now also Chestnut House Nursing Home and Chestnut Court, a block of 39 retirement apartments.
See also Herrison Hospital By Hugh Jaques • County Archivist
The N.H.S. pulled out of Herrison in 1992 and Bellway Homes bought the plot and later sold off the 3 large buildings for conversion into apartments by a private developer.
Each of these buildings, Redwood built in 1864, Greenwood built in 1895 and Herrison built in 1904 now have about 70 high quality apartments
Herrison Hospital, was self contained with all facilities including a church, sports facilities, allotments for growing their own food, radio station, Gothic Chapel, and social centre.
The Herrison Hospital bus was an unusual but frequent daily service, unusual in that it was not operated under a road service licence and neither were the buses PSV-licenced.
Instead the buses displayed official discs indicating that they were exempt from road tax. Strictly sp eaking the service was for patients, staff and visitors to the hospital, but there was a lively local trade between Dorchester and the housing estates at Charminster.
The hospital was eventually a 400 acre site. Now cottage style terrace houses, semi-detached and detached 3, 4, and 5 bed roomed house with all modern services fill the old site. The original cricket ground has http://www.charltondowncc.co.uk/ and there is a thriving cricket club in the summer.
The Charlton Down Village Central Shop has been a boon to the residents of the new village as it carries a large array of groceries, newspapers, National Lottery, and off licence and even a hole in the wall for cash. As and from 28th August 2018 the Post Office counter is up and running.
The BBC Dorset website has a very interesting article on Herrison Hospital. Click here to read it.
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BRIEF HISTORY OF HERRISON HOSPITAL
The name Herrison can be traced back to the time of Henry ll (1154 to 1189) when the tract of land on which the hospital now stands came into the possession of one Terri Haereng, as part of his wife's dowry. It later appeared as Herengston, Herringstone, and then Herrison.
The first mental hospital in this area was at Forston, about a mile from here, where, in 1827 Francis John Browne of Frampton offered the county authorities his mansion and seven acres of land as "an asylum for the benefit of pauper lunatics", together with the sum of £4000 for its endowment. Prior to this date no provision was made by the county for the mentally afflicted. For those whose relatives could afford it, licensed madhouses existed, run by private persons. The offer was gladly accepted and after modification, the Forston House Asylum was opened in 1832 with 65 patients.
At this period asylums existed in various parts of the country and on the continent, but conditions inside them were often extremely harsh. It was however, a period of enlightenment, and humane treatment of the inmates was being pioneered in many places, notably by Pinel on France, and Samuel Tuke of The Retreat, York. Forston Asylum was well to the fore in this respect.
In 1860, after various extensions, Forston was considered unsuitable for further expansion, and 55 acres of land were acquired at Herrison for a new asylum.
In 1863 the new County Asylum at Herrison was, after some difficulty (the first builder having gone bankrupt), ready for occupation with 300 beds. The first 15 patients moved in from Forston in October of that year. These presumably had the job of preparing for the others. Much of the furniture, including iron and wooden beds, was made by the male patients at Forston in readiness for the move. The building was compact and well designed, with the entrance and working departments to the north, and the main wards jutting out to the south on either side of the communal recreation room and chapel, with an open view across the country towards Dorchester. The female wards were in the eastern half of the building and the male wards on the west, while the central area contained the kitchen and the stores. A corridor connected the west wing with the superintendent's house.
Inside the central part of the building is the well, 520 feet deep. Legend has it that while the well was being dug there was a sudden flooding and the workmen had to run for their lives, leaving implements and tools behind that remain there to this day.
Early pictures of the hospital show it sitting on a bleak, bare hillside. The first avenue of trees which we see today were planted by this first generation of patients, who, under the direction of Dr Symes, the then Superintendent, also laid out the first terraces of gardens. Records show that at this time some three-quarters of all patients were fully employed. This was not slave labour, but had a definite therapeutic purpose, although admittedly it helped to relieve the burden on the local rates. An honest attempt was made to employ patients in jobs which they preferred, or which would appear to be of benefit to them. Many of the men, being farm labourers, were employed in the farm and garden. Others made boots, shoes and clogs for the asylum, Dorset County Hospital, and the local gaol, and carried out all footwear repairs for these three institutions. The women were mainly employed in the laundry, in cooking and cleaning, and making and repairing the men's underclothing and almost the whole of their own clothing and household linen. They also made dolls and woven straw articles. The hospital at this time was lit by gas from its own plant below the lodge at the corner. It is interesting to note that the laundry was equipped with a new-fangled kind of spin dryer, operated by a heavy fly-wheel.
1866 is the first year for which records of staff can be found – 14 attendants, 10 nurses, 3 laundry maids, 3 kitchen maids, but no night duty staff. The unmarried staff were, in those days, only allowed out for so many evenings a week, and slept in the vicinity of the wards so they were on hand if required. It is recorded that a number of a visiting committee suggested that the nurses should sleep actually in the dormitories, but the Medical Superintendent pointed out that they might be expected to be tired the next day. It appears that difficult cases were often handcuffed at night to their beds. Although a superintendent has recorded destroying all means of mechanical restraint, these seemed to have crept in again. Restraints were, of course, in use outside of the hospital. Records tell of a patient being brought to the hospital chained to the bottom of a farm cart, and another who was chained up at her home after being discharged.
Profits made on the farm and by sales of work provided small sums of pocket money for the workers, and small cash payments for discharged patients to tide them over until they could find employment. Life was hard for many on the outside, and the superintendent's report of the many patients admitted suffering from the effects of poverty and malnutrition, who improved on the hospital diet, poor as it was by the present day standards. Others had been weakened by well-meaning efforts of their friends to improve their conditions by a drastic course of bleeding, blistering, and purging.
In 1873 the first "night-watchers" were appointed to visit the patients 4 times a night. Later staff were issued with clocks which were automatically stamped at various points in the hospital at the stated hours.
In 1890 the farm was extended by 200 acres. In the same year the first comprehensive Lunacy Act was passed., the staff were issued with uniforms and regular nurse training was instituted.
Further expansion was now necessary, and in 1895 the present female wing was completed, and the remaining patients transferred from Forston House. In 1895 too, it is reported that Dr MacDonald introduced the "open door" system and extended it until, excepting for the door that divided the male and female wing, no ward doors were locked, and patients had free access to other wards and to the grounds.
In was in the same year that the hospital showed advance in other respects. Electric Light was introduced – one of the first installations in the country. The same plant continued in operation until about 1955, when it was removed to a place of honour in the Science Museum of South Kensington. Steam heating was also installed in 1895, and a new church built with seating for 400.
In 1896 additions were made to the farm buildings, from old bricks brought from Forston, and the old gas house was converted into a cottage, now the residence of a member of staff. In the next year four further pairs of staff cottages were built.
Further expansion was now again necessary. In 1899 another 139 acres of land was acquired for the erection of separate building for private patients, and in 1904 Herrison House was completed with accommodation for 102 patients. The Superintendent at that time, Dr MacDonald, who appears to have had very advanced ideas, expressed his wish to the authorities that the doors of the bedrooms should open normally, that the baths should have ordinary taps, and that the system of the time clock should not be introduced. The authorities remarked that they did not anticipate that any obstacle would be placed in the way of Dr MacDonald's wishes to conduct his establishment on the lines, which if unusual, are not without their advantages in the treatment of the insane.
Between 1904 and 1914 further expansions took place, mainly on the female wing. During the First World War patients were received from other districts and the numbers rose to 1,165 .. This over-crowding took its toll with a high death rate from typhoid, dysentery, tuberculosis, and influenza. The percentage of accidental fractures also increased considerably, possibly due to the reduced diet.
In 1938 the present Nurses Home was erected, with accommodation for some 99 staff.
In the early 1950's the whole hospital, as others throughout the western world, underwent an internal revolution, consequent upon the introduction of the new synthetic drugs, which while aiding other forms of active treatment, mean, we hope, the final abandonment for ever of all forms of mechanical restraint. What would not some of our great pioneers have given for such aids?
During 1958 in anticipation of the forward -looking Mental Health Act of 1959, the last great expansion of the hospital took place with the new building, light, airy, and comfortable, set in wide open lawns, its many doors opening directly on to the free world, and named appropriately after its famous forerunner, The Forston Clinic.
Mention must be made of the Blackdown Hospital at Weymouth, with 12 beds, under Herrison control, and St Ann's Hospital at Canford Cliffs, Poole with 71 beds.
These in 1963 , together with Herrison proper formed the Herrison Hospital Group with a total of 1,288 beds and a staff of some 600 covering the whole of the Dorset and Bournemouth population.
In May 1973, the wards of Herrison Hospital were re-organised and some 900 patients were moved into three therapeutic team areas, based on geographical areas of Dorset. At the same time an integrated resettled scheme was commenced where groups of patients were encouraged to live semi- independently for a period before leaving hospital to live in the community in a group home or other selected accommodation.
The 31st March 1974 saw the end of another chapter of Herrison' s history when the Health Service Re-organisation brought about the end of the Herrison Group Management Committee, and on 1st April, Herrison and Blackdown Hospital's became incorporated into the West Dorset Health Care District. St Ann's hospital joined the East Dorset District.
Since 1974 many changes have taken place and today Herrison Hospital provides for 540 in-patients and Blackdown Hospital now has 11 beds. The Community Service in West Dorset is continually expanded and the Travelling Day Hospital regularly visits Blandford, Bridport, Dorchester, Shaftesbury, and Sherborn. In addition, a Community Psycho geriatric Service is being built up and it is hoped to open two day centres, one in the Dorchester area and the other in Weymouth during 1980/81.
A FINAL UPDATE The Hospital finally closed it's doors on 10th January 1992 and the whole site was left empty until in July 1996 when outline planning permission was granted for re-development. In October 1998, Bellway were appointed as the approved developers and work started the following year on what is now the village of Charlton Down. Applications to demolish the Village Hall (Herrison Hall) were turned down and the Charlton Down Community Association was formed in November 2000. In April 2002, a Feasibility Study was carried out regarding the viability of The Hall and partly as a result of this, a final application for demolition was refused in August 2002. A major refurbishment then took place and finally in May 2004 the Hall was handed over to the Village. The Official opening was performed by (then) Julian Fellowes. The CDCA morphed into Charlton Down Village Hall. A Committee of Trustees was formed and became registered with the Charity Commission. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Damon Owens international speaker and evangelist, is the founder and executive director of joytob "Joy To Be" a 501(c)(3) non-profit ministry of Stewardship: A Mission of Faith. Following four-years as the first executive director of the Theology of the Body Institute and serving as Chairman of the 2016 International Theology of the Body Congress, Damon founded joytob to encourage and educate couples to understand and live marriage and family life with joy through St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. He previously founded Joy-Filled Marriage New Jersey and New Jersey Natural Family Planning Association, served as Natural Family Planning Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Newark NJ, and taught NFP for 14 years with his wife Melanie.
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Organised by Mint Communications, the fair aims to provide the ideal platform for schools to meet with parents, and for parents to find a suitable school for their children. Visitors will be able to learn more about the various curricula offered and the advantages of an international education through talks by education experts that will be held over the 2-day event. Visitors can also find out more about learning opportunities by speaking to the various preschools and learning centres that will also be exhibiting.
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Everything You Need to Know About Woodpeckers in Utah
There are 11 species of woodpecker in Utah that have been spotted. Of these, 8 species are recognized on state checklists as regularly occurring, and 3 additional species are considered rare or accidental.
Going out birding in the woods and forest is the best way of seeing woodpeckers in Utah. However, some such as Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Hairy Woodpeckers, Downy Woodpeckers, and Northern Flickers can regularly be seen on backyard feeders.
This guide will help you identify the species of woodpecker in Utah according to avibase.
You can print out a free bird identification photo guide for Utah to help you identify all birds that visit your backyard.
The most common woodpecker in both summer and winter in Utah is the Northern Flicker. The Hairy Woodpecker is more commonly spotted in summer, while the Downy Woodpecker and several other species are more commonly spotted in winter in Utah.
Read on to find out all about the woodpeckers in Utah, with pictures, videos, and what sounds they make.
The 11 Types of Woodpecker in Utah
Northern Flickers are the most common woodpeckers in Utah all year. Their numbers increase here in winter, with birds migrating from northern breeding grounds in Canada.
They are spotted in 13% of checklists submitted by bird watchers for the state in summer and 26% in winter.
According to checklists submitted by bird watchers, Downy Woodpeckers are found all year in Utah, and they are the second most frequently spotted woodpecker.
They are often spotted here in winter and appear in 10% of checklists at this time of year and 6% in summer.
In summer and winter, Hairy Woodpeckers are the third most frequently spotted woodpecker in Utah. They are spotted in Utah, mostly in national forests in the state.
They are spotted here a little more regularly in winter, but they do not migrate.
4. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpeckers are not very common in Utah, and they can only be spotted in the southwest of the state.
Ladder-backed Woodpeckers are small with a black and white ladder pattern on their backs and a checkered pattern on their wings. They are whiteish-gray underneath with faint black markings. Males have a red crown, and females have a black crown.
Deserts and thorn forests, across dry southern states from California to Texas, up to southeastern Colorado, and down through Mexico, are the usual habitats of Ladder-backed Woodpeckers. Ladder-backed Woodpeckers do not migrate.
Mainly feeding on insect larvae and some adult insects such as ants and caterpillars and occasionally Ladder-backed Woodpeckers will also eat cactus fruit.
Where to spot Ladder-backed Woodpeckers:
Early morning in February and March is the best time to spot Ladder-backed Woodpeckers as they are out defending their territories in preparation for breeding. Look for them in dry areas with Joshua trees, Juniper, willow, or honey mesquite.
How to attract more Ladder-backed Woodpeckers to your yard:
Ladder-backed Woodpeckers love mealworms, and they will also visit black oil sunflower seed feeders and eat peanut butter.
Lewis's Woodpeckers are rare in Utah, but they can be found in forests in the south and in the mountains in the north of the state.
6. American Three-toed Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpeckers are most likely to be spotted during summer in Utah. They are more commonly seen in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Ashley National Forest, and the mountains in between.
Although rare in Utah, Williamson's Sapsuckers have been spotted during summer in national forests like Dixie National Forest and Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
Acorn Woodpeckers are very rare in Utah, but they have been spotted in Zion National Park in the southwest. They are more common south and west of Utah.
9. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are considered a rare or accidental species in Utah, but the last recorded sighting was in 2021 in Bonneville Golf Course, Salt Lake City. They have been spotted in winter in Utah between October and mid-March.
Although not usually found at bird feeders, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers sometimes come for suet.
10. Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-breasted Sapsuckers are considered an accidental species in Utah, but they were spotted last 2020 in Chuckwalla & Paradise Canyon Trails. They are usually spotted in winter here.
Red-breasted Sapsuckers are medium-sized woodpeckers with dark red heads and breasts. They have a white line down the wing when folded and a white spot in front of their eye. Males and females look the same, but juveniles are darker and without bright red heads. Red-breasted Sapsuckers are redder on the head in northern areas than those in California.
Red-breasted Sapsuckers can be found in Canada along the Pacific Coast in British Columbia and in the southwestern corner of Alberta.
Red-breasted Sapsuckers migrate towards the coast from inland breeding areas in British Columbia and California, but they remain all year along the whole Pacific Coast from the British Columbia to Baja Califonia.
Red-headed Woodpeckers are considered an accidental species in Utah, and according to records, they were last spotted in Clark's Pecan Orchard back in 2015.
How Frequently Woodpeckers are Spotted in Utah in Summer and Winter
Checklists for the state are a great resource to find out which birds are commonly spotted. These lists show which woodpeckers are most commonly recorded on checklists for Utah on ebird in summer and winter.
Woodpeckers in Utah in Summer:
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 0.6%
Acorn Woodpecker <0.1%
Woodpeckers in Utah in Winter:
Red-breasted Sapsucker <0.1%
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Come and walk the woodland trail and experience the delights of one of Wales,s oldest documented woodlands and enjoy the wealth of rare plants and wild flowers.
In the early part of the 14th century Bachygraig was the royal hunting forest of Edward the Black Prince, such forests were important to the prince as a source of revenue, timber, game and recreation and his interest were jealously guarded by a forester.
Much timber from Bachygraig went to the castle at Rhuddlan for construction works and as firewood,and no part was wasted. The foilage of elm, lime, and ash was sold as fodder for cattle and the bark of the oak, with its high tannic acid content was used for tanning leather. Even the honey from the wild bees of the woodland was collected and sold.
There are several earthbanks here which were constructed during this period to both denote a boundary and preserve the covert, herbage and deer within, they would have been topped by a planted hedge or wooden pale fence, materials for the latter being obtained from the woods themselves. The long documented history of the woodlands at Bach y Graigrsuggests they may be indirectly derived from the primeval woodland which once covered much of Wales. Such continuity makes the woods of high value for nature conservation. Over 90 species of plant have been recorded at Bachygraig including the Broadleaved Helleborine (a member of the orchid family) and there are 21 species of tree and shrub alone.
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Today, I would like to share with you what I've been recently eating because, well, why not. I wanted to make this What I Eat in a Day as festive as possible because it's December, Christmas lights are already up in the streets, Christmas carols are being played in every single shop I set my feet into, and I love it. I more excited for Christmas than ever. However, my diet doesn't change based on the season. Let's just get into it, shall we?
I've been recently loving a nice hearty and warm breakfast, such as pancakes. It requires getting up a bit earlier, I know, but when it's something as delicious as my 3-ingredient protein pancakes, it's worth it. To be honest, it's not exactly precise to say "my" pancakes, because I found the recipe on Pinterest, but who cares, right?
I mashed the banana in a bowl, added the protein powder (I used the Vega's vanilla flavoured Lean Protein), cracked the eggs into it and mixed it. Then I created small pancake-like shapes with the batter in my pan and fried it on a bit of coconut oil. And that's it! I know that pancakes are usually eaten with maple syrup, but I topped mine with the Pip&Nut's coconut almond butter.
Since the breakfast was really filling, I wanted just something simple and light for lunch. Something like an avocado toast. I took two slices of wholemeal bread, put some mashed avocado on top and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Unfortunately, you can't see them in the picture.
I tend to prepare my dinner preferably the day before because when I come home from school or work hungry, I don't feel like cooking anything. At the moment, I've got some quinoa with beans prepared in the fridge. And what can you do with this mixture? For example, a Buddha bowl!
A Buddha bowl is usually a vegan dish consisting of, leafy greens, veggies, grains, beans and topped with some kind of dressing.
Apparently, the base of the Buddha bowl is supposed to be the leafy greens, but since I want to make it filling, my base is the quinoa mixed with beans. I bake a small sweet potato in the microwave and then cut it into smaller pieces. I also cut the cucumber and add it all alongside the spinach on the top of the quinoa. Instead of a dressing, I would usually add some hummus but not this time. Today I topped it with the coconut almond butter I used for my breakfast. It sounds pretty random but I promise it's really delicious. The subtle sweetness of the almond butter compliments the taste of the sweet potato. Well, I probably shouldn't say that I top it with the almond butter because, in reality, I keep adding more as I go through the bowl.
And the final version looks like this. Yeah, I know, you can't see the quinoa there because it's buried under the rest of the ingredients, but it's there.
Thank you for reading this blog post, and see you soon!


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OSSIPEE— The plan to hire a labor attorney to investigate apparent allegations of a hostile work environment will move forward despite one commissioner changing her vote that had been in favor of the idea.
At the June 8 commissioner's meeting, Commissioner Asha Kenney stated she had an announcement to make about the previous week's vote to hire the attorney. "I don't get any information in public or non-public. I don't know what it is all about. I can't support something if I have no information. I want to reconsider my vote and vote no to the labor attorney," she said.
Despite attempts by members of the audience to get more information about the cause for hiring the attorney, no new information was released. When questioned directly, Commissioner Dorothy Solomon said she did not know any more details than Kenney does. She said apparently there is an issue that needs to be investigated and that caused Commission Chair David Sorensen to make the motion at the June 1 meeting. Sorensen, on vacation, did not attend the June 8 meeting. When asked why Primex, the county's insurance carrier, is not investigating the alleged claims, Solomon said the commissioners were advised by Primex to hire an independent labor attorney to first find out if there is substance to the allegations.
Effingham resident Henry Spencer, a regular at meetings but who did not attend the June 1 meeting, questioned another vote taken. At the June 1 meeting, commissioners voted to update the policy regarding access to county employee personnel files. The new policy will be that no one except the human resources director has permission to access employee files unless by vote of the commissioners. Spencer questioned the necessity of the vote and asked if there had been a breach in confidentiality or of the existing policy. "I get no information. I have no idea. I don't know what is going on in the complex," said Kenney in response to Spencer's question. Kenney abstained from voting on the personnel policy change. Solomon told Spencer that indeed there is a current policy in place and the vote was taken to clarify the policy but did not answer whether there had been any sort of breach of policy.
Former commissioner Chip Albee, also a regular at meetings, reminded the commissioners that while there are certain protections that employees have during investigations, these same rules do not extend to public officials.
The June 8 meeting was a quick one that might have been half as long if figuring out previous meeting minutes hadn't take up so much time. Of the hour-and-a-half meeting, about 40 minutes of it was used throughout the meeting to make corrections in content and grammar, by Solomon and by attendees. As the commissioners struggled to get the minutes of previous meetings approved, department heads waiting to give their weekly reports were left to wait.
Meeting attendees were obviously frustrated at receiving the minutes from the previous week during the June 8 meeting, having been accustomed in the past to having them available on the county's Web site or in the office days in advance of the next meeting. As the commission clerk who is ultimately charged with timely release of meeting minutes, Kenney said the public can continue to expect the minutes to not be available until the day of the meeting.
Legally, the minutes do not have to be available before the next week's meeting so apparently earlier release of minutes in the past was simply a courtesy to county residents.
The commissioners have voted to enter into an agreement with Virtual Town Hall for managing the county Web site, a move that Solomon said hopefully will give the public better access to the minutes and happenings in the county complex.
Weekly commissioner's meeting continue to be videotaped and full-length videos can be found at www.governmentoversite.com.


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Driveability isn't too much of a concern, I honestly only take the truck out a couple times a year for fun. If it was making more power I would consider racing it, as the truck sits though our track in Portland would be a little boring. 92 octane is about the easiest to find around here and E85 is readily availible although I haven't heard of anyone using it on a datsun, I ran it in my Mitsubishi evolution with a few couple bolt ons and a day tuning at English racing and made around 400whp and 370tq.


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Percy Jackson är en serie äventyrsböcker av Rick Riordan om en pojke som upptäcker att han är son till Poseidon, havets gud och lär sig att de grekiska gudarna, Olymperna (på svenska vanligtvis "de olympiska gudarna"), fortfarande finns. Han förs till "Halvblodslägret" där andra halvgudar som han får träning för att bli hjältar. Percy och hans vänner träffar många monster och varelser från den grekiska mytologin, såsom titaner, cykloper och empusor.

Halvblodslägret
Halvblodslägret är ett ställe där halvgudar som Percy får skydd och träning för att bli hjältar och lyckas besegra monstren.  Halvblodslägrets ledare är den mytomspunna kentauren Keiron som bland annat tränade den grekiska mytologins hjältar som Herakles och Jason.

En tidigare dotter av Zeus vid namn Thalia blev mördad av en cyklop när hon offrade sig för att rädda sina vänner, Grover, Luke och Annabeth. När hon dog lät hennes far Zeus henne att få ett annat sätt att leva på. Dottern Thalia blev till en stor tall och med trädet bildades en skyddande barriär mot monster och dödliga runt Halvblodslägret.

De olika stugorna i halvblodslägret är uppdelade efter de 12 olympiska gudarna, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Athena, Hermes, Afrodite, Demeter, Dionysus, Artemis, Apollon, Hefaistos, och Ares. De olika gudarnas halvt dödliga barn bor i den stuga som är döpt efter deras gudomliga förälder.

Böckerna om Percy Jackson & Olympierna

Percy Jackson - Född till hjälte
Percy har ADHD samt dyslexi och har inte kunnat stanna på samma skola i mer än ett år. En sommar åker han och hans mamma till havet. Där kommer plötsligt Grover, Percys vän, och knackar på. Alla tre blir jagade av en minotaur och Percy hamnar i halvblodslägret, en sommarkoloni för halvblod, det vill säga personer med en mänsklig förälder och en gud till förälder. När Percy får veta vem hans ditintills okända far är får han förfrågan om han vill ut på ett uppdrag, ett uppdrag som kan ha betydelse för huruvida det blir krig om en halv månad eller inte.

Percy Jackson och Monsterhavet
Percy har nästan klarat av ett helt år utan att bli relegerad, som han alltid blir. Han har också haft drömmar om att hans kompis Grover (en satyr) har försvunnit. Han har också fått en kompis som heter Tyson. Men den allra sista dagen anklagade skolans mobbare Matt Sloan honom för att ha eldat upp skolans gymnastiksal. Och så dyker Annabeth (en av Percys vänner) upp och berättar att halvblodslägret har problem. De åker till halvblodslägret i en vansinnig taxi. Percy upptäcker att Tyson är en cyklop(en jätte med ett öga).Och efter det väntar ett spännande äventyr som Percy måste ge sig ut på för att rädda lägret och sin kompis.

Percy Jackson och Titanens förbannelse
Percy, Annabeth och Thalia åker till Westover Hall för att hjälpa satyren Grover, som har hittat två nya halvblod. Men Percy tappar bort sina vänner, och innan han har hittat dem får han se att de två nya halvbloden (Bianca och Nico di Angelo) är borta! När han hittar dem blir han, Bianca och Nico anfallna av den biträdande rektorn Doktor Thorn som visar sig vara ett monster. Sedan kommer också Percys vänner dit, och jaktens gudinna Artemis. Men när de "besegrat" Doktor Thorn har han redan kidnappat Annabeth. Artemis säger till Percy att hon inte längre går att rädda, men Percy tror fortfarande att hon är vid liv, men kanske inte så länge till om inte Percy räddar henne. Han gör allt för att rädda Annabeth, och det straffar sig.

Percy Jackson och Kampen om labyrinten
Percy har börjat i en ny skola, där han stöter på en irriterande flicka, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, och två empusas (självutnämnda vampyrprototyper). Efter en kamp med dem tar Annabeth med Percy till deras träningsläger halvblodslägret, där den unge satyren Grover ges ett sista datum för att ta hitta den sedan länge förlorade guden Pan. På jakt efter Pan och sanningen bakom ryktena om en plan att attackera halvblodslägret via en underjordisk labyrint skapad av Daidalos, så ger sig Percy, Annabeth, Grover, och Percys halvbror Tyson av ned i denna labyrint och börjar sökandet. Under resan möter de många grekiska myter och får reda på oroväckande nyheter på en allt mer spänd konflikt mellan olika andar och odödliga. I slutet av boken, utkämpas ett slag mellan halvblodslägrets tränade halvgudar och angriparna som stöder den nu uppståndna titanen Kronos.

Percy Jackson och Striden om Olympen
Striden om Olympiern är den femte och sista delen i serien om Percy Jackson. Den kom ut på engelska den 5 maj 2009.

I den här boken har Percy och tidigare nämnda "dödliga" Rachel Elizabeth Dare oväntat nog blivit vänner efter att de tillsammans med Annabeth, Tyson och Grover varit med och utkämpat "Kampen om labyrinten."

I den femte och sista delen utkämpar halvblodslägrets elever striden om Olympen alldeles själva medan gudarna är upptagna med att slåss mot den enorma jätten "Tyfon" som är på väg att förstöra hela Amerika om han inte stoppas. Då lämnas halvgudarna kvar i New York för att tillsammans med Artemis jägare ta sig an Kronos armé och skydda Olympen. Percy tvingas att ta ett dopp i floden Styx som rinner igenom Hades, han får då förbannelsen "Akilles häl", vilket gör det nästan omöjligt för hans fiender att döda honom, och det ger honom också kraft och energi för att orka strida oavbrutet. Akilles häl har också en nackdel. Under badet i Styx var Percy tvungen att välja en punkt på hans kropp som han skulle låta sitt dödliga liv hänga på, om någon skulle träffa den punkten med ett slag som i vanliga fall inte hade varit dödligt skulle då leda till hans död.

Filmerna om Percy Jackson & Olympierna
Den 24 februari 2010 hade första filmen om Percy Jackson premiär. Den är regisserad av Chris Columbus. Det har bekräftas att Logan Lerman spelar som Percy Jackson, Brandon T. Jackson som Grover Underwood och Alexandra Daddario som Annabeth Chase i filmen Percy Jackson och kampen om åskviggen. Den 16 augusti 2013 kom senare den andra filmen ut "Sea Of Monsters", eller som det svenska namnet på filmen är "Percy Jackson och Monsterhavet".

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This song concerns a man who realizes the real task of true love is to accept the 'harness' of loving his lover, in that everything he does, he does for her.
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By Stephen J. Cannell
Narrated by Paul Michael / 5 hours 49 minutes
The New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning writer/producer sets his next action-packed thriller in the high stakes world he knows best: Hollywood
Back on the LAPD and hailed as a hero after taking down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral, Shane Scully finds himself unwittingly involved in a criminal scheme to take over the movie business. Soon, he will have to go deep undercover to take down a Hollywood conspiracy.
At a glamorous party with his new wife, Alexandra, Shane hears a world famous director make an ominous remark about the strange deaths of his ex-wives. This is more than police business, it's personal: Alexandra's closest friend is engaged to the producer.
When he looks closer, Scully discovers that the director's mysterious past may hide deadly secrets. To uncover them, he must work alongside a former down-and-outer-turned-Hollywood impresario to infiltrate the movie business's violent dark side, a world where deals are settled with handshakes but broken with the spilling of blood, and where the danger to Shane's loved ones is all too real.
Shane Scully Novels Series
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By: Stephen J. Cannell
Narrated by: Paul Michael
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Back on the LAPD and hailed as a hero after taking down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral, Shane Scully finds himself unwittingly involved in a criminal scheme to take... Read More »
Abridged: Yes
Vertical Coffin
Narrated by: Scott Brick
The Edgar and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer delivers a high-concept thriller of inter-bureau conspiracy and betrayal
A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down... Read More »
Vertical Coffin - Abridged
Cold Hit
Cannell delivers non-stop action and intrigue in the latest installment of his New York Times bestselling Shane Scully series
Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"—a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back... Read More »
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Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"—a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back... Read More »
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Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home in one hour. Shane gets there; Alexa doesn't. In the middle of the night, he's called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive: The African-American victim, who appears to be a Crip gangbanger, has been executed gangland style. Shockingly, the body is in Alexa's... Read More »
White Sister - Abridged
Author Stephen J. Cannell
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Length 5 hours 49 minutes
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Publication Date March 1, 2003
Edition Abridged
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He was the composer and the music director for all the six songs of Susima tele drama. Mary's College, Nawalpitiya. It was vocalized by the Ananda Perera who was the leader of the Siha Shakthi music band. It was one of many songs capturing the Christmas spirit and the birth of Jesus.
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Help fill a shoebox with small gifts to spread God's love to a child affected by poverty, war, famine or disaster. Shoebox gifts from the UK are sent to 13 countries worldwide in Eastern Europe, Africa and Central Asia.
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Please put any gifts/donations in the plastic box marked Operation Christmas Child at the back of church. Remember to try to keep the gifts small in size. Certain items are excluded so please check the noticeboard at the back of church or the information on the Operation Christmas Child web-site. Knitting and crochet patterns for hats, scarves and bags are also available. No items relating to war or religion, no liquids or aerosols. Soft toys must have the CE mark.
Items need to be brought to church by the end of October please as the shoe boxes must be packed and ready to go by mid-November. Or you are welcome to take a box from church and pack it with your own gifts. Don't forget the postage charge!
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The Ronde van Vlaanderen cyclo is held the day before the pro's race and it seems the whole of Belgium either turns out to ride it or to shout encouragement to those that do.
Flanders is regarded as one of the toughest of the one day classics and the cyclo is no different. It has everything you'd expect from a classic; dodgy pot-holed ridden roads, cobbles, monster climbs, super-technical descents, gripless off-cambered surfaces and an abundance of street furniture, excitement and atmosphere.
Dave Whitt, Bob Cabot and myself were down for the 140 kilometre route and Dianne entered the 75 kilometre event. After a nourishing, all we could eat breakfast we set off the 13 kilometres from our hotel in Aalst to Ninove for the start.
There was some debate of riding to the start, but as we weren't sure if we'd all finish at the same time it was decided it's best to go in the cars. After sitting in a 30 minute traffic jam it began to look like a bad idea. With a long day ahead of us and here to enjoy ourselves; what's the rush? So we chilled and enjoyed the ambience Just after nine, we left the cars for the start line. A quick comfort break and we were off.
First things first, grab the freebee glucose tablets from under the start banner, then dodge the rider lying on the floor who'd already come a cropper in the first ten metres! Out on to the main road and join the 15,000 others all heading for Oudenaarde. A Belgian asked me which route we were doing, I replied I wasn't sure but the Molenberg was the first climb. Last time I rode it the Reikelberg was first but it wasn't on this years route. "It must be the red route" he informed me. Dave looked at the sky and wanted to put his rain jacket on. But he didn't.
We said goodbye to Dianne and jumped in to a fast moving group. Heading off the 38 kilometres to the Molenberg. We try not to get in to race mode but as you all know it only takes two to make a race. We begin jumping from group to group and pick up the pace. Dave once more mentions the dark clouds but we press on.
Then it rains. Luckily we get separated at a junction, myself and Dave wait for Bob and it gives Dave a chance to get his jacket on. Better late than never, was a pretty stupid thing for me to say. But it's never stopped me before. Dave put his rain cape on over his wet clothes and was surprisingly calm about it all. We re-group and crack on in classical Flanders weather; horizontal rain. Could the day get any better?
A succession of rises begin to sting the legs. Normally you'd call them hills but in Belgium they don't even register. Then, from nowhere it appears; the Molenberg. The 460 metre, loose-cobbled climb is narrow, wet and steep. With sections of 14% it requires skill, determination and luck to get to the top in one piece. People have been walking up it all day, but we all manage to climb it successfully. The day has truly started.
I could never tire of cobbled climbs, I get tired on them but I could never tire of the ultimate challenge. Like an excited parent at Christmas I wanted someone to share them with. For Dave and Bob the reality lived up to all my hype and gushing through the winter. They'd experience the first one and now it was a race to the next.
Before that there was the first feed at Oudenaarde, which we bypassed. Too many people, too long to wait and we've a race to run. Then we got stopped at the village to let a funeral procession past. I managed to be at the front when the policeman set us off. Which was nice in a way because it gave me a clear view. But I still managed to take us past the turn off for the Wolvenberg.
To be honest it was the marshal's fault. I think I was going that fast he thought I was a pro and didn't need directions. Still, a 50 metre detour saw us back on track. At least now we were in the pack again and getting some shelter. Which was nice, because the 666 metre Wolvenberg is a devil of a climb (see what I did there?). No cobbles but 17% sections gave Cabot the ammunition he needed to show who's boss on the hills. Not wanting to peak too soon me and Dave held back. Yeah, right!
Before we got to the Oude Kwaremont there were the cobbles to tackle at Kluisbergen. These were a 3200 metre section of slightly rising cobbles that you flew over the first 200 metres. Then it just felt like you were riding with your brakes on. Every single cobble saps a little of your energy and you fight desperately to keep up your speed. But human bodies weren't designed for such torture, unless your name's Boonen. You get a hammering that's almost impossible to describe. And like a scary fairground ride, when you get to the end you feel so happy you just want to turn around and have another go.
The Oude Kwaremont on paper appears easy, 2,2k at 5%, however in reality it's a killer. I've ridden it a few times (it's included in Het Volk) and had a plan. Get to the front for the first 600 metres of tarmac then hang on for the 1600 metres of cobbles that followed. Once more Cabot had other ideas and screamed past when the cobbles started. Dave, playing the long game, held his pace on my wheel and climbed steadily to the top. It was at this point that he mentioned a comfort break might be appreciated. Something at breakfast hadn't agreed with him.
No time for that Dave, the Paterberg is just down the road. The Paterberg used to be tarmac. Then the farmer who owns it had it cobbled, providing they use it for Flanders! This would be our first walk of the day.
I thought at last I was going to be first to the top but at the steepest bit (20%) someone in front of me went down. I moved to the side of him and grabbed the fence. I stayed up but now couldn't get going again. I looked behind and everyone was off thier bikes. It didn't help that there was an ambulance blocking the road. Bob said a few uncharitable things until I pointed out there was a bloke with his collar bone at a funny angle sitting in the road. Bob, having had the odd clavicle incident, then felt a little sheepish. Not that there were any sheep involved, you understand!
Then came the infamous Koppenberg. And just like the pro's on Sunday, we had to walk the last 100 metres. If you want a laugh go and find a steep, wet, greasy hill and try to walk up it in cleats! The sheer volume of riders, wet cobbles, gravity and tiredness (the others not us) all cumulated in slight disappointment. But with another 16 classic climbs and heaven knows how many kilometres of cobbles to tackle, you soon get over it.
After climbing the last three monsters in just three miles you get a slight 12k respite before the 820 metre, 8% cobbled Steenbeekdries. This isn't too bad compared to the next one, a climb where experience really does count. Again it's one I've ridden a few times before and knew well.
The 800 metre Taaienberg may only be 7% overall but it has bits at 18% in it and the cobbles are atrocious. However there is a massive gutter on the left hand side. I intended to get to the hill at the front of whatever group we were in and get to the gutter first. And for once the plan worked.
Despite two riders, from the same club, falling off in front of me I managed to get round them and maintain momentum. If Cabot wanted this one he was going to have to go the long way round. Never saw him. My work is complete. I can now sleep easy knowing I "won" at least one climb. How sad am I?
We regrouped at the top and headed for the next feed. Which wasn't there! We cleared the level crossings at Maarkedal and headed back towards Oudenaard. Then to Dave's relief, literally, we found a building site with a chemical facility. He did what he had to do (sorry Dave but it's part of the story) while me and Bob restocked the fuel tanks and looked at the leadening sky.
In no time at all we were back on the road with Dave firing on all cylinders again. We found a roadside pub and I went in to get our bottles filled and some Mars bars. A quick blast down the road and some more cobbles; downhill ones at that. It was at this point that my saddle bag and me parted company. It bounced past Bob at fifty mile an hour but there was little he could do. Once he'd caught me and told me about it, it was too risky to head back up the road against the flow of traffic. So we left it, it wasn't for another few miles till I realised the spare car keys were in it.
The other bergs passed without too much incident, apart from pain and happiness in equal measure. We all began to climb strongly and to be honest without too many people passing us. Maybe all that winter training was paying off. As the ride went on we seemed to be getting stronger. Bl**dy tired mind but not as tired as those around us. Then my phone went, a text from Dianne. We carried on for a while then found an opportunity for Bob to have a comfort break. I phoned Dianne, it wasn't good.
She's managed to get to within 10 metres of the top of the Muur when a big German stalled on the hill and fell off landing on her and her bike. The rear mech was bent in to her wheel and the bike's immobilized. She was okay, a little bruised, but more annoyed at not being able to get to the very top! The fact she even made it to the Muur was an achievement in itself. Unless you've actually been there you can't imagine it. The TV just doesn't give the impression of how steep or hard it is, As you approach the Muur you can see the chapel nestled on the top. "That's where we're going" points out Dave. It's still about 3k away and looks as though it's just as high. You get a sore neck just looking up at it.
As you can see from above, I was quite comfortable climbing the Muur. It seemed, we'd contained ourselves rather well and had enough energy left at the end to "enjoy" the challenge and the climb. We'd already decided we'd stop at the top and find Dianne. After threading our way through the masses and attacking the last two hundred metres, there she was. Holding her bike at her side. As we looked down there were still hundreds of riders coming up the climb.
A quick shuftie at the bike and we reckoned we could bend the mech back in to place without breaking the drop out. A brave decision but it worked. We could now all ride on together. Luckily it's all down hill to the Bosberg. Unfortunately, the Bosberg itself is anything but. The first 900 metres are tarmac then for the last 350 it gets steep and it gets cobbled. Knowing it's the last climb you find that little bit extra and give it all you've got. There's no greater feeling than flying over cobbles and overtaking riders. We get to the top and regroup for the last time.
It's 17k to the finish so we agree that Dave and Bob should finish with a flourish, while I hold back and finish with a floozie. With Dianne's bike stuck in a rear gear and with only the front changer to select, we ride in at a nice comfortable pace. The boys have other ideas and get a second wind. They latch on to a group heading for the finish and begin to work them over. Dave now feels "comfortable", or is that safe, getting out the saddle and making and effort and Bob was just Bob. If it ain't hurtin' it ain't riding.
I "slacked" back to the finish with my wife where we had a nice picture taken to go with our Alpe D'Huez one. We all met at the finish line, congratulated each other on a good job, well done, then headed for the car. Thanking our lucky stars we didn't have to ride to the hotel. I drove my car and chatted with Dianne, while Dave drove his and sat in silence because Bob had fallen asleep! How ironic is that?
After our evening meal and a replay of the day's events we had a good nights sleep and an even better breakfast. Myself and Dianne left for home, while Dave and Bob headed for the Flanders Museum, the start of the ladies' race and to watch the men's race on the Muur. If you want a laugh ask to see his photo's. They even got me a Flanders Flag for my wall. All in all a fantastic weekend, you really should try it sometime.
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Documents Indicate Policy Plan That Fueled Iraqi Insurgency Was Compartmentalized in Rumsfeld's Pentagon by Jeremy R. Hammond
by Jeremy R. Hammond
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at the very least informed in May 2003 by the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, that the Iraqi army would be disbanded, a decision that was instrumental in helping to spur the Iraqi insurgency, and one that former Bush administration officials to this day have refused to take responsibility for.
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Senate Report Finds Rumsfeld Directly Responsible for US Torture of Prisoners
A bipartisan Senate report has accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials of being directly responsible for the abuse and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other US prisons. We speak with the man who sued Donald Rumsfeld in Berlin, German, attorney Wolfgang Kaleck. [includes rush transcript]
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"Continuity of Government" (COG) Provisions activated in 2001
Ten months before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved an updated version of the U.S. Army's secret operational Continuity of Government (COG) plans.
A draft document published by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks entitled, "Army Regulation 500-3, Emergency Employment of Army and Other Resources. Army Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program," dated 19 January 2001, spells out changes in Army doctrine.
Issued by Headquarters, Department of the Army and signed off by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Secretary of the Army, the document is affixed with a warning: "Destruction Notice: Destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document." The restricted document as published by Wikileaks states:
History. This regulation is a revision of the original regulation that was effective on 10 July 1989. Since that time, no changes have been published to amend the original.
Summary. This regulation on the Army Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program has been revised to update Army COOP policy and extend the requirement for all-hazards COOP planning to all Army organizations. Classified information contained in the 1989 version of this AR has been removed and placed in a classified HQDA Operations Plan (OPLAN).
Applicability. This regulation applies to the Active Army, the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR), and when federalized to the Army National Guard (ARNG). In the event of conflict between this regulation and approved OSD or JCS publications, the provisions of the latter will apply. ("Army Regulation 500-3, Emergency Employment of Army and Other Resources. Army Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program," 19 January 2001, p. 3) [emphasis added]
"All-hazards COOP planning" is described as the means by which "the Army remains capable of continuing mission-essential operations during any situation, including military attack, terrorist activities, and natural or man-made disasters." While the Army stresses the updates described in AR 500-3 relate to chemical, biological, nuclear attacks, "natural disasters" and "technical or man-made disasters or accidents," current Army doctrine is also heavily weighted towards contingency planning for "civil disturbances."
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Torture Endorsed, Torture Denied by Prof. Marjorie Cohn
by Prof. Marjorie Cohn
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the Bush administration's repeated insistence that it has not endorsed the torture of prisoners rings hollow in light of newly-disclosed US Department of Justice memos supporting the harshest techniques the CIA has ever used…
The April 2004 publication of grotesque photographs of naked Iraqis piled on top of each other, forced to masturbate, and led around on leashes like dogs, sent shock waves around the world. George W. Bush declared, "I shared a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated." Yet less than a year later, his Justice Department issued a secret opinion endorsing the harshest techniques the CIA has ever used, according to a report in the New York Times. These include head slapping, frigid temperatures, and water boarding, in which the subject is made to feel he is drowning. Water boarding is widely considered a torture technique. Once again, Bush is compelled to issue a denial. "This government does not torture people," he insisted.
This was not the first time the Bush administration had officially endorsed torture, however. John Yoo, writing for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, penned an August 2002 memorandum that rewrote the legal definition of torture to require the equivalent of organ failure. This memo violated the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, a treaty the United States ratified, and therefore part of U.S. law under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.
In December 2002, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved interrogation methods that included the use of dogs, hooding, stress positions, isolation for up to 30 days, 20-hour interrogations, deprivation of light and sound, and water boarding. U.S. Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora told William Haynes, the Pentagon's general counsel, that Rumsfeld's "authorized interrogation techniques could rise to the level of torture." As a result, Rumsfeld rescinded some methods but reserved the right to approve others, including water boarding, on a case-by-case basis.
When Bush maintained last week that his government doesn't torture prisoners, he stressed the necessity of interrogation to "protect the American people." Notwithstanding the myth perpetuated by shows like "24," however, torture doesn't work. Experts agree that people who are tortured will say anything to make the torture stop.
One of the first victims of the Bush administration's 2002 torture policy was Abu Zubaydah, whom they called "chief of operations" for al Qaeda and bin Laden's "number three man." He was repeatedly tortured at the secret CIA "black sites." They water boarded him, withheld his medication, threatened him with impending death, and bombarded him with continuous deafening noise and harsh lights.
But Zubaydah wasn't a top al Qaeda leader. Dan Coleman, one of the FBI's leading experts on al Qaeda, said of Zubaydah, "He knew very little about real operations, or strategy … He was expendable, you know, the greeter . . . Joe Louis in the lobby of Caeser's Palace, shaking hands." Moreover, Zubaydah was schizophrenic; according to Coleman, "This guy is insane, certifiable split personality." Coleman's views were echoed at the top levels of the CIA and were communicated to Bush and Cheney. But Bush scolded CIA director George Tenet, saying, "I said [Zubaydah] was important. You're not going to let me lose face on this, are you?" Zubaydah's minor role in al Qaeda and his apparent insanity were kept secret.
In response to the torture, Zubaydah told his interrogators about myriad terrorist targets al Qaeda had in its sights: the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statute of Liberty, shopping malls, banks, supermarkets, water systems, nuclear plants, and apartment buildings. Al Qaeda was close to building a crude nuclear bomb, Zubaydah reported. None of this was corroborated but the Bush gang reacted to each report zealously.
Moreover, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, was tortured so severely – including by water boarding – that the information he provided is virtually worthless. A potentially rich source of intelligence was lost as a result of the torture.
Bush's insistence that his administration doesn't torture rings hollow. He lied about weapons of mass destruction and a Saddam-al Qaeda connection in Iraq. He lied when he assured us his officials would not wiretap without warrants. As evidence of secret memos detailing harsh interrogation policies continues to emerge, we can't believe Bush's denials about torture.
Democrats in Congress have demanded they be allowed to see the memos, but Bush said the interrogation methods have been "fully disclosed to appropriate members of Congress." Senator John D. Rockefeller IV was unmoved. "I'm tired of these games," he said. "They can't say that Congress has been fully briefed while refusing to turn over key documents used to justify the legality of the program."
It is incumbent upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to vigorously interrogate Michael Mukasey during his attorney general confirmation hearing. As AG, Mukasey would oversee the department that writes interrogation policy. Mukasey should know that the Convention Against Torture prohibits torture in all circumstances, even in times of war.
Torture is a war crime. Those who commit or order torture can be convicted under the U.S. War Crimes Statute. Techniques that don't rise to the level of torture but constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment also violate U.S. law. Congress should provide for the appointment of a special independent counsel to fully investigate and prosecute all who are complicit in the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody.
Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is the author of Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law. Her articles are archived at http://www.marjoriecohn.com/
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Bush's torturers follow where the Nazis led By Andrew Sullivan
By Andrew Sullivan
I remember that my first response to the reports of abuse and torture at Guantanamo Bay was to accuse the accusers of exaggeration or deliberate deception. I didn't believe America would ever do those things. I'd also supported George W Bush in 2000, believed it necessary to give the president the benefit of the doubt in wartime, and knew Donald Rumsfeld as a friend.
It struck me as a no-brainer that this stuff was being invented by the far left or was part of Al-Qaeda propaganda. After all, they train captives to lie about this stuff, don't they? Bottom line: I trusted the president in a time of war to obey the rule of law that we were and are defending. And then I was forced to confront the evidence.
From almost the beginning of the war, it is now indisputable, the Bush administration made a strong and formative decision: in the absence of good intelligence on the Islamist terror threat after 9/11, it would do what no American administration had done before. It would torture detainees to get information.
This decision was and is illegal, and violates America's treaty obligations, the military code of justice, the United Nations convention against torture, and US law. Although America has allied itself over the decades with some unsavoury regimes around the world and has come close to acquiescing to torture, it has never itself tortured. It has also, in liberating the world from the evils of Nazism and communism, and in crafting the Geneva conventions, done more than any other nation to banish torture from the world. George Washington himself vowed that it would be a defining mark of the new nation that such tactics, used by the British in his day, would be anathema to Americans.
But Bush decided that 9/11 changed all that. Islamists were apparently more dangerous than the Nazis or the Soviets, whom Americans fought and defeated without resorting to torture. The decision to enter what Dick Cheney called "the dark side" was made, moreover, in secret; interrogators who had no idea how to do these things were asked to replicate some of the methods US soldiers had been trained to resist if captured by the Soviets or Vietcong.
Classic torture techniques, such as waterboarding, hypothermia, beatings, excruciating stress positions, days and days of sleep deprivation, and threats to family members (even the children of terror suspects), were approved by Bush and inflicted on an unknown number of terror suspects by American officials, CIA agents and, in the chaos of Iraq, incompetents and sadists at Abu Ghraib. And when the horror came to light, they denied all of it and prosecuted a few grunts at the lowest level. The official reports were barred from investigating fully up the chain of command.
Legally, the White House knew from the start that it was on extremely shaky ground. And so officials told pliant in-house lawyers to concoct memos to make what was illegal legal. Their irritation with the rule of law, and their belief that the president had the constitutional authority to waive it, became a hallmark of their work.
They redefined torture solely as something that would be equivalent to the loss of major organs or leading to imminent death. Everything else was what was first called "coercive interrogation", subsequently amended to "enhanced interrogation". These terms were deployed in order for the president to be able to say that he didn't support "torture". We were through the looking glass.
After Abu Ghraib, some progress was made in restraining these torture policies. The memo defining torture out of existence was rescinded. The Military Commissions Act was crafted to prevent the military itself from being forced to violate its own code of justice. But the administration clung to its torture policies, and tried every legal manoeuvre to keep it going and keep it secret. Much of this stemmed from the vice-president's office.
Last week The New York Times revealed more. We now know that long after Abu Ghraib was exposed, the administration issued internal legal memos that asserted the legality of many of the techniques exposed there. The memos not only gave legal cover to waterboarding, hypothermia and beating but allowed them in combination to intensify the effect.
The argument was that stripping a chained detainee naked, pouring water over him while keeping room temperatures cold enough to induce repeated episodes of dangerous hypothermia, was not "cruel, inhuman or degrading". We have a log of such a technique being used at Guantanamo. The victim had to be rushed to hospital, brought back from death, then submitted once again to "enhanced interrogation".
George Orwell would have been impressed by the phrase "enhanced interrogation technique". By relying on it, the White House spokesman last week was able to say with a straight face that the administration strongly opposed torture and that "any procedures they use are tough, safe, necessary and lawful".
So is "enhanced interrogation" torture? One way to answer this question is to examine history. The phrase has a lineage. Verschärfte Verneh-mung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the "third degree". It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation.
The United States prosecuted it as a war crime in Norway in 1948. The victims were not in uniform – they were part of the Norwegian insurgency against the German occupation – and the Nazis argued, just as Cheney has done, that this put them outside base-line protections (subsequently formalised by the Geneva conventions).
The Nazis even argued that "the acts of torture in no case resulted in death. Most of the injuries inflicted were slight and did not result in permanent disablement". This argument is almost verbatim that made by John Yoo, the Bush administration's house lawyer, who now sits comfortably at the Washington think tank, the American Enterprise Institute.
The US-run court at the time clearly rejected Cheney's arguments. Base-line protections against torture applied, the court argued, to all detainees, including those out of uniform. They didn't qualify for full POW status, but they couldn't be abused either. The court also relied on the plain meaning of torture as defined under US and international law: "The court found it decisive that the defendants had inflicted serious physical and mental suffering on their victims, and did not find sufficient reason for a mitigation of the punishment . . ."
The definition of torture remains the infliction of "severe mental or physical pain or suffering" with the intent of procuring intelligence. In 1948, in other words, America rejected the semantics of the current president and his aides. The penalty for those who were found guilty was death. This is how far we've come. And this fateful, profound decision to change what America stands for was made in secret. The president kept it from Congress and from many parts of his own administration.
Ever since, the United States has been struggling to figure out what to do about this, if anything. So far Congress has been extremely passive, although last week's leaks about the secret pro-torture memos after Abu Ghraib forced Arlen Specter, a Republican senator, to proclaim that the memos "are more than surprising. I think they are shocking". Yet the public, by and large, remains indifferent; and all the Republican candidates, bar John McCain and Ron Paul, endorse continuing the use of torture.
One day America will come back– the America that defends human rights, the America that would never torture detainees, the America that leads the world in barring the inhuman and barbaric. But not until this president leaves office. And maybe not even then.
Andrew Sullivan is an author, academic and journalist. He holds a PhD from Harvard in political science, and is a former editor of The New Republic. His 1995 book, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality, became one of the best-selling books on gay rights. He has been a regular columnist for The Sunday Times since the 1990s, and also writes for Time and other publications.
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