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US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Sean P Carson killed in Afghanistan Black Hawk Crash
Seattle Associated Press August 20, 2012
The Defense Department says a 32-year-old sailor from Des Moines was among seven Americans killed last week when a U.S. military helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of southern Afghanistan.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Petty Officer Technician 1st Class Sean P. Carson died Aug. 16 in the crash northeast of Kandahar.
He was assigned to an explosive ordnance disposal mobile unit in San Diego.
Navy officials say Carson enlisted in May 1999 and graduated from boot camp at recruit training command in Great Lakes, Ill. in August 1999.
His awards and decorations include the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon, Battle Efficiency Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon.
August 21, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| Afghanistan, Black Hawk crash, EOD, EOD Casualty, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Casualty, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Petty Officer First Class Sean P Carson, Sean P Carson | Leave a comment
On Post Shooting at Ft Bragg, Officer shot during formation, more casualties of Untreated PTSD
The Shooter- Ricky Elder, Ranger- PTSD
Stars and Stripes July 15, 2012
In October 2006, Elder deployed to Iraq. Nine months later, medical records show, he was working as a gunner on a Humvee when it was hit by a roadside bomb. The explosion threw Elder out of the turret, causing him to lose consciousness momentarily. His buddy died in the blast.
According to medical documents, the doctors who examined the then 22-year-old Elder shortly after the blast found that he suffered from post-concussion amnesia, as well as "irritability, dizziness, visual disturbance and ringing in his ears."
Afterward, at Elder's request, he was allowed to go to the morgue to see the body of his friend who had died.
"Patient crying heavily. Heard saying in heavy tears, 'I don't want to live anymore,' " a doctor wrote in a narrative summary.
After he was returned to his room, the summary says, Elder became "instantly agitated after crying on bed" and struck a bulletproof window so hard that it shattered the glass.
Updated 6 pm
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (WTVD) — One soldier from the 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade is dead and two others are wounded following a shooting incident June 28, 2012.
During a unit safety brief a Soldier shot another member of the unit and then turned the weapon on himself. The shooter was injured and is in custody. A third Soldier who was in the area was also slightly wounded in the shooting.
"This is a tragedy for our community. We don't yet know the reasons for the shooting, but are working with the unit and the affected Families to help them through this difficult period," said Col. Kevin Arata, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg Public Affairs Officer.
ABC News June 28, 2012
FORT BRAGG, NC (WTVD) — Fort Bragg law enforcement said it is responding to a shooting incident on-post that occurred at about 3:30 p.m.
Officials urged drivers and pedestrians to avoid the historic district of Fort Bragg until further notice.
The historic district is an area near Knox Street close to the 18th Airborne Headquarters and FORSCOM near the heart of Fort Bragg.
Officials did not immediately release more information. Sources told ABC11 that an officer was shot during a formation. The officer's condition was not known.
June 28, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| 18th Airborne Headquarters, Formation, Ft. Bragg, Officer Shot, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Ranger, Ricky Elder, Shooting, Untreated PTSD | 1 Comment
Internal U.S. report: Syrian military violating ceasefire, attacking aid workers
Josh Rogin Foreign Policy
Syrian government forces continue to attack opposition forces, civilians, and aid volunteers, preventing the international community from getting emergency aid to the Syrian people, USAID has detailed in a series of internal reports obtained by The Cable.
In its latest "humanitarian update," written at the end of April, USAID reported in detail the extensive attacks perpetrated by Syrian Arab Republic Government (SARG) troops, despite an ongoing U.N. monitoring mission and in direct violation of the "cease-fire" there. The USAID report, marked "sensitive but unclassified," sourced its findings to U.N. representatives in Syria as well as representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), and other aid groups on the ground.
"U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Kofi Annan expressed concerns regarding reports of SARG reprisal attacks in areas where Syrian civilians met with U.N. observers, including in Hamah and Damascus governorates," the report stated. "The observers report that SARG forces have not withdrawn heavy weapons from urban centers — a condition of the U.N. and Arab League supported ceasefire and peace plan that went into effect on April 12."
Although the U.N. Security Council has authorized the deployment of 300 monitors, the report could only confirm that "at least 11" U.N. monitors had arrived in Syria as of April 24. (Additional monitors have reportedly arrived since then.)
Please go to Foreign Policy and read the entire article here
May 15, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| Aid Volunteers, Attacking Aid Workers, Civilian Contractors, Civilians, Emergency Aid, ICRC, Syrian Military, UN, UN Arab League, USAID, violating ceasfire | Leave a comment
SIGIR Audit Finds Some U.S. CERP Funds Went to Insurgents in Iraq
Funds from a $4 billion program intended to improve relations between the two countries were siphoned off by the enemy, a new audit finds. Eli Lake reports on why CERP was still called a success.
A translator for the 3-89 Cavalry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division (R) takes money from a U.S. soldier to give to the Sons of Iraq, a security group that was funded by the United States, on May 11, 2008 in Baghdad, Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Eli Lake at The Daily Beast April 29, 2012
During the war in Iraq, battalion commanders were allocated packets of $100 bills and authorized to use them for anything from repairing a schoolhouse to paying off ex-rebels and paying blood money to the families of innocents killed by U.S. forces. But a new audit finds that in some cases that cash made its way to the pockets of the very insurgents the United States was trying to fight.
The money was part of the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP), and from 2004 to 2011 the U.S. government poured $4 billion into it in Iraq. And because the Pentagon gauged CERP a success, a similar initiative is under way in Afghanistan. "We think CERP is an absolutely critical and flexible counterinsurgency tool," Michele Flournoy, who was then undersecretary of defense for policy, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2010.
But was CERP really a success in Iraq? A 2012 audit conducted by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) and released to the public on Monday found that 76 percent of the battalion commanders surveyed believed at least some of the CERP funds had been lost to fraud and corruption. "Commanders sometimes perceived the corruption as simply a price of doing business in Iraqi culture and others perceived it as presenting a significant impediment to U.S. goals," the report says. "Several asserted that reconstruction money may have ended up in the hands of insurgents."
Please see the original and read the entire article here
April 30, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| CERP, Commander's Emergency Response Program, Insurgents, Iraq, Sigir, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction | Leave a comment
Navy Jet F/A-18 crashes in Virginia Beach
Navy F-18 crashes in Va. Beach
I-264 shut down in both directions at Laskin
Updated: Friday, 06 Apr 2012, 1:24 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 06 Apr 2012, 12:28 PM EDT
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – The Navy confirms to WAVY.com that an F-18 jet has crashed in Virginia Beach Friday afternoon.
Grazia Moyers, spokeswoman for the Virginia Beach Police Department, told WAVY.com just before 12:30 p.m. what police believe is a military aircraft has gone down.
Cmdr. Phil Rosi with Naval Air Forces Atlantic told WAVY.com the plane was an F-18 with Strike Fighter Squadron 106. Rosi added two aircrew safely ejected from the plane that was based at Naval Air Station Oceana.
Sentara Healthcare says one pilot is at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital.
Further information is not available at this time.
Police are responding to the scene at this time and will assist the military and the State Police, Moyer added.
Virginia State Police have shut down Interstate 264 at Laskin Road in both directions, Sgt. Anaya with the VSP said.
Virginia Department of Transportation traffic cameras showed thick, black smoke rising from the Birdneck Road area Friday afternoon around 12:30 p.m.
WAVY.com has a crew on the scene and will have more as soon as it comes in.
Navy jet crashes into apartments in Virginia Beach April 6, 2012
[Updated at 1:14 p.m. ET] A Navy jet crashed Friday into some apartments near Virginia Beach, Virginia, sending flames and thick black smoke into the air, a military spokesman and a witness said.
Two apartment buildings were on fire, CNN affiliate WTKR reported, citing witnesses.
The jet was from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The crew of the two-seater F/A-18 safely ejected, but their condition wasn't known, a Navy spokesman said.
The plane is from a training squadron, the Navy said.
George Pilkington, an eye witness to the crash, said he was the plane flying low, with its nose up and tail down, ejecting fuel – which struck him as unusual. The engine was straining, he said.
"It came over the top of my truck emptying fuel," Pilkington said.
"That it didn't cause more damage to the apartment buildings was a blessing," he said.
The plane crashed in an area of apartment complexes and homes in a resort area a half mile from the waterfront, Pilkington said.
"When the initial impact happened, there was debris and pieces of the airplane flying everywhere," hitting other buildings, Pilkington said. "There's damage to different parts of the buildings all around it."
Black smoke and flames rose from the crash site.
At least one building was damaged, according to video footage from CNN affiliate WTKR. A charred section of the jet wreckage was on the ground nearby.
April 6, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| Navy Jet Crashes, Oceana, Virginia Beach | Leave a comment
IRS Targets US ExPats
Updates to our ExPat Tax Page
For years companies like Blackwater and Ronco Consulting have Misrepresented their employees as Consultants or Independent Contractors to the IRS to escape having to pay Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes.
Thank you Blackwater and Ronco Consulting
At the same time these same companies represented these same consultants and Independent Contractors to be employees for the purpose of purchasing the mandated Defense Base Act Worker's Comp Insurance. Even going so far as to have contractors sign new backdated employment contracts AFTER they were injured.
Fraudulent activity of this nature has garnered the full attention of the IRS to the Contract Employee much more so than it has the Contract Company. Blackwater even continued to do this after the IRS busted them.
Bob Powers of Power Tax sends us this and asks that we warn all ExPats to be prepared.
Pursuant to an IRS internal memo Memorandum Number: AM2009-0003
This link IRS has an important note regarding the definition of a foreign tax home (which is necessary to claim the Sec 911 benefit).
The IRS has been using this in somewhat of a distorted way to deny the FEIE to contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan,, not only those who have families in the U.S., but also single people who left home, joined the military and then were hired as contractors.
If they did not plan in advance and take all the steps necessary to show that their abode was in a foreign country and not in the U.S. they are disallowing the exclusion.
Many have had inexperienced tax preparers or did their own tax return and the case dragged on so long that they lost their administrative appeals rights and facing a substantial tax bill plus penalties cannot afford a good tax attorney to take it to Tax Court.
As a result, the IRS is using their muscle to claim that these workers were living on a base and had no contact with the local community and therefore their "abode-which is not clearly defined anywhere) was in the U.S.
This is the quote from the IRS page:
Your tax home is the general area of your main place of business, employment, or post of duty, regardless of where you maintain your family home.
Your tax home is the place where you are permanently or indefinitely engaged to work as an employee or self-employed individual. Having a "tax home" in a given location does not necessarily mean that the given location is your residence or domicile for tax purposes.
If you do not have a regular or main place of business because of the nature of your work, your tax home may be the place where you regularly live. If you have neither a regular or main place of business nor a place where you regularly live, you are considered an itinerant and your tax home is wherever you work.
You are not considered to have a tax home in a foreign country for any period in which your abode is in the United States . However, your abode is not necessarily in the States while you are temporarily in the United States .
Your abode is also not necessarily in the United States merely because you maintain a dwelling in the United
States , whether or not your spouse or dependents use the dwelling.
"Abode" has been variously defined as one's home, habitation, residence, domicile, or place of dwelling. It does not mean your principal place of business. "Abode" has a domestic rather than a vocational meaning and does not mean the same as "tax home."
The location of your abode often will depend on where you maintain your economic,
family, and personal ties.
Example 1.
You are employed on an offshore oil rig in the territorial waters of a foreign country and work a 28-day on/28-day off schedule. You return to your family residence in the United States during your off periods. You are considered to have an abode in the United States and do not satisfy the tax home test in the foreign country. You cannot claim
either of the exclusions or the housing deduction.
For several years, you were a marketing executive with a producer of machine tools in Toledo , Ohio . In November of last year, your employer transferred you to London , England , for a minimum of 18 months to set up a sales operation for Europe . Before you left, you distributed business cards showing your business and home addresses in London .
You kept ownership of your home in Toledo but rented it to another family. You placed your car in storage. In November of last year, you moved your spouse, children, furniture, and family pets to a home your employer rented for you in London .
Shortly after moving, you leased a car and you and your spouse got British driving licenses. Your entire family got library cards for the local public library. You and your spouse opened bank accounts with a London bank and secured consumer credit. You joined a local business league and both you and your spouse became active in the
neighborhood civic association and worked with a local charity.
Your abode is in London for the time you live there. You satisfy the tax home test in the foreign country.
Note that the IRS agents examining these returns are not seasoned international agents and their internal directive is to disallow the exclusion regardless of the taxpayer's defenses and force it to go to Tax Court.
We recommend you check out Power Taxes pages before you deploy.
U.S. Expatriate Tax & Business Solutions
January 12, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, Defense Base Act, ExPats, Follow the Money, Legal Jurisdictions, Ronco, Ronco Consulting Corporation, Taxes, Uncategorized, War Hazards Act	| 2011 ExPat Taxes, AM2009-0003, Blackwater, Civilian Contractors, ExPats, FEIE, Foreign Earned Income Exemption, Foreign Tax Home, IRS Sec 911, IRS Targets ExPats, Ronco Consulting, Tax Misclassification | 2 Comments
Ronco Consulting settles Fantham Lawsuit before bothering to respond
What a disappointment that this lawsuit never made it to discovery.
The history of how this contract was managed deserved to be exposed.
Another day…..
Ronco made this lawsuit go away, but this United Nations Board of Inquiries Report and others stand.
And no matter how big a settlement, Stephan will not be growing any body parts back
Substantial Settlement Achieved in Personal Injury Suit:
In August 2011, Blake Hannafan and Jim McGuinness settled a Personal Injury lawsuit on behalf of Stephen Fantham, arising from a traumatic leg amputation as a result of a land mine explosion in Sudan, Africa, against Ronco Consulting Corporation pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
In addition, the settlement also included claims for loss of consortium to Mr. Fantham's wife. The settlement was reached before Ronco even responded to the complaint.
The terms of the settlement agreement are confidential.
Ronco Consulting Sued for Negligence by United Nations Mine Action Employee
Fantham vs Ronco Consulting
January 10, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Africa, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Casualties, Contractor Oversight, Demining, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Explosive Remnants of War, Follow the Money, Landmines, Lawsuits, Legal Jurisdictions, Mine Clearance, Ronco, Ronco Consulting Corporation, Safety and Security Issues, Sudan, Uncategorized, United Nations, United Nations Board of Inquiry	| ArmorGroup, Blake Hannafan, Bomb Disposal, Fantham vs Ronco Consulting, G4S, Jim McGuiness, land mine explosion, Landmines, Lawsuit, MInes, Ronco, Ronco Consulting, Ronco Consulting Corporation, Ronco settles lawsuit, traumatic leg amputation, United Nations Mine Action, United Nations Mine Action Employee, Wackenhut | 1 Comment
Contractors waste billions awaiting clearances
If the INSA report's estimates are accurate that 10 percent to 20 percent of contractors are awaiting security clearances at any given time, the cost of wasted contractor man-hours to the government would be roughly between $900 million and $1.8 billion a month
by Sarah Chocko Federal Times January 8, 2012
Federal delays in granting security clearances keep 10 percent to 20 percent of federal intelligence contractors from doing their intended work, wasting billions of dollars, a new report says.
Contractors — many of whom are former federal employees who held clearances in the past — can wait weeks to months for a security clearance when they take on a new assignment with a different federal agency, according to the report by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), a nonprofit group representing federal intelligence and military officials, as well as federal contractors.
Agencies typically do not honor security clearances granted by other federal agencies, even though they are supposed to.
"If the person holds the clearances … you shouldn't have to go through a lot of process," said Charlie Allen, former Homeland Security undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, who led the INSA Security Clearance Reform task force. "We think the processes could be greatly improved. Significant savings can be incurred."
While new employees wait, they still draw the plum salaries reserved for those with security clearances — doing nothing or work that doesn't require special access.
Please see the original and read more here
January 9, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| Civilian Contractors, federal intelligence contractors, INSA, INSA Security Clearance Reform task force, Intelligence and National Security Alliance, Security Clearances | Leave a comment
Navy SEAL Foundation announces $1 million donation
By Kate Wiltrout The Virginian-Pilot October 11, 2011
The Navy SEAL Foundation announced Tuesday that a Virginia Beach-based business has donated $1 million to a new fund dedicated to helping the children of commandos killed or wounded in combat – and the foundation is challenging donors to give twice that amount.
ADS Inc. sells tactical and medical equipment to military and other federal agencies. The family-owned company got its start as an arm of the Lynnhaven Dive Center, which does lots of business with members of the special warfare community.
"We are blessed to serve these brave warfighters," Luke Hillier, CEO of ADS, said in a news release. "Their sacrifices are no less than extraordinary. Supporting these special families … is both an honor and a privilege."
Jim Smith, the foundation's executive director, said there was an outpouring of support from individuals and companies after the death of 22 Navy special warfare personnel when a helicopter was downed in Afghanistan in August. But there also were a lot of upfront expenses to cover as families coped with loss.
The foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2000, wants to address the ongoing needs of affected families, and it has learned they often need more assistance for a longer stretch than military benefits provide, Smith said.
For instance, he said, SEAL wives who lost husbands in recent years told him their children often needed more than two years of grief counseling. Many rely on financial counseling arranged by the foundation as they plot new futures for their families. Some, surviving spouses need help covering expenses as they prepare to sell a house or complete a home renovation that their husband intended to finish.
Please read more here
October 11, 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| ADS Inc., Lynnhaven Dive Center, Navy SEAL Foundation, SEAL Wives, Virginia Beach | Leave a comment
Armor Group North America and Its Affiliates Pay $7.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
WASHINGTON – Armor Group North America Inc. (AGNA) and its affiliates have paid the United States $7.5 million to resolve allegations that AGNA submitted false claims for payment on a State Department contract to provide armed guard services at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced today.
The settlement resolves U.S. claims that in 2007 and 2008, AGNA guards violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) by visiting brothels in Kabul, and that AGNA's management knew about the guards' activities.
The settlement also resolves allegations that AGNA misrepresented the prior work experience of 38 third country national guards it had hired to guard the Embassy, and that AGNA failed to comply with certain Foreign Ownership, Control and Influence mitigation requirements on the embassy contract, and on a separate contract to provide guard services at a Naval Support Facility in Bahrain.
The settlement resolves a whistleblower suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit was initially filed under seal by James Gordon against AGNA, ArmorGroup International plc, G4S plc and Wackenhut Services Inc. under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act, which permit private individuals, called "relators", to bring lawsuits on behalf of the United States and receive a portion of the proceeds of a settlement or judgment awarded against a defendant. Mr. Gordon will receive $1.35 million of the settlement proceeds. During 2007 and early 2008, Mr. Gordon was employed by AGNA, as its director of operations.
The case remained under seal to permit the United States to investigate the allegations and determine whether it would join the lawsuit. Under the False Claims Act, the United States may recover three times the amount of its losses, plus civil penalties. On April 29, 2011, the
United States joined the suit.
"These contracts are put in place to provide essential support to personnel who are serving in our missions overseas," said Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. "The Department of Justice will actively pursue its legal remedies where contractors falsely claim taxpayer dollars for services that fall short of material requirements in their government contracts."
"Americans deserve to know that their tax dollars are being spent wisely and consistent with our values," said U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. "Our office has targeted government contractors who fail to meet their obligations to the American people. With this settlement, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has now recovered more than $140 million in False Claims Act cases so far this year."
"The Department of State appreciates the work done by the Department of Justice and the Office of the Inspector General in bringing this case to resolution. The Department of State takes any allegation of contractor misconduct seriously and works as part of the inter-agency community to ensure it is adjudicated properly," said Ambassador Eric J. Boswell, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security.
The Deputy Inspector General for the Department of State, Harold Geisel, said, "We're pleased with the successful resolution of this case, and I commend the dedication of our OIG investigators. Our efforts should reinforce to American taxpayers that oversight of their tax dollars is taken seriously."
Assistant Attorney General West and U.S. Attorney Machen thanked the joint investigation team, which includes Special Agents with the Department of State Office of Inspector General, and representatives from the Department of State and the Department of the Navy, for their efforts in the investigation of this matter.
See the original at the Dept of Justice
July 7, 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| AGNA, Armor Group North America, ArmorGroup International, False Claims Act, G4S, James Gordon, Michael O'Connell, Wackenhut Services, Whictleblower | 1 Comment
Press Democrat.com July 3, 2011
As the sun blazed on a rocky southern Afghanistan hillside, Air Force Staff Sgt. Mark Badger watched his bomb squad teammate get blown up by a buried explosive device.
Moments earlier, Badger, 30, who was born and raised in Santa Rosa, had stepped away from Senior Airman Daniel Johnson along the road where they were clearing bombs in the violence-prone Kandahar province, a Taliban stronghold.
Johnson took a single step in exactly the same direction Badger had just walked, and 40 pounds of chemicals packed in a plastic jug exploded beneath his feet.
"I remember it like it happened yesterday," said Badger, now stationed at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. He lives near the base with his wife, Trisha, and their 8-month-old daughter, Scarlet, and still suffers headaches, confusion, sleep loss and other symptoms of brain injury from two bomb blasts in the span of three days last October.
There are about 5,500 bomb techs in the four branches of the service, and their job is probably the most dangerous one in Afghanistan. Unable to match American firepower on the ground or in the air, the Taliban plant roads, fields and some buildings with IEDs (improvised explosive devices), most of them buried and triggered by pressure plates or by command wires up to a half-mile long.
"Anywhere you step could be an IED that will blow off your legs or kill you," Badger said.
Please read the entire story at the Press Democrat
July 3, 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Traumatic Brain Injury, Uncategorized	| Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Senior Ariman Daniel Johnson, Staff Sft Mark Badger, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury | Leave a comment
The Bulletproof Dog That Stormed Bin Laden's Lair
If you see this dog coming for you, run. Thanks to his extensive training–and customized body armor that can cost upwards of $30,000–he's bulletproof, can hear through concrete, and can record high-def video of missions, even in the dead of night.
The Fast Company
The moment it was revealed that the "nation's most courageous dog" served alongside the 80 Navy SEALs who took out Osama bin Laden, America's fascination with war dogs has hit a fevered pitch. And while the heart-tugging photos of these four-legged heroes are worth a look, so is the high-tech gear that helps them do their job.
Last year, the military spent $86,000 on four tactical vests to outfit Navy Seal dogs. The SEALs hired Winnipeg, Canada-based contractor K9 Storm to gear up their four-legged, canine partners, which it has used in battle since World War I. K9 Storm's flagship product is the $20,000-$30,000 Intruder, an upgradeable version of their doggie armor (you can check out the full catalogue here). The tactical body armor is wired with a collapsible video arm, two-way audio, and other attachable gadgets.
"Various special ops units use the vest, including those in current headlines," says Mike Herstik, a consultant with International K-9, who has trained dogs from Israeli bomb-sniffing units to the Navy SEALSs. "It is much more than just body armor."
The big idea behind the armor add-ons boils down to a simple one: the key to any healthy relationship is communication. Each dog is assigned one human handler. To operate efficiently in a tactical situation, they need to be connected.
So how much high-tech connectivity does a dog get for $30,000 anyway?
Please read the rest here
May 16, 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| Canines, K9 Storm, Special Ops Dogs, US SEALS | Leave a comment
More UN plane crash victims named as investigation into cause continues
7 April 2011 – The United Nations has released the names of another 24 victims from Monday's deadly plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which only one of 33 people aboard a UN plane survived.
The UN investigation into the crash – which occurred as the plane was attempting to land in heavy rain and high winds at the main airport in the capital, Kinshasa, after a flight from Kisangani – is continuing.
The General Assembly held a minute's silence today in honour of the victims of the crash, as well as UN staff recently killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan, Côte d'Ivoire and Haiti.
UN officials have been notifying the next of kin of the Kinshasa victims after identifying all the bodies. All four crew members and 28 out of 29 passengers died in the crash.
The UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) lost 14 staff members, while staff working for the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) also lost their lives.
The death toll also includes non-UN staff, including employees of the DRC Government, the Congolese electoral commission, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and contractor Pacific Architects and Engineers (PAE).
Three UN Volunteers (UNVs) working for MONUSCO were among the victims: Carlos Manuel Bastos de Barros of São Tomé and Principe, who served as an electoral logistics officer; Jeroen Bervoets, a management assistant from Belgium; and Esinam Safo, an air operations assistant from Ghana.
The mission lost two military personnel from Bangladesh – Major K.M. Ziaul Haque and Corporal Md Younus Meah – and an Ivorian UN Police (UNPOL) officer, Hyacinthe Die Vany.
The other MONUSCO staff named included: Kadiatouo Thiero, an administrative assistant from Mali; Gracia Jonas Maforikan, an electoral officer from Benin.
Five national staff working for various UN entities died: driver Alain Kipala Bangila (MONUSCO); nurse John Shebitu Mbembo (MONUSCO); database assistant Henri Badila Diangituka (OCHA); human resources assistant Numbi Kabange (OCHA); and logistics assistant Augustin Kasonga (WFP).
Two members of UNDP's electoral team did not survive – Blé Kacouchia, a chief technical advisor from Côte d'Ivoire, and Oumar Dia, an operations manager from Mauritania.
UNOPS lost Jonas Somé, a physical security and stockpile management adviser from Burkina Faso, and Petrus Van Vuuren, a senior medical coordinator from South Africa.
The Independent National Electoral Commission of the DRC lost two staff members, named as Lubacha Gustave Bianumba and Mwanaomba Shabani. Mendes Masudi, an adviser to the Congolese Foreign Minister, was also killed.
The non-UN staff who died included two contractors with PAE – Jaco Dorfling and Randall Quickfall. Also killed were Boubacar Toure, a senior reproductive health adviser for the IRC; and Alain Lubamba Kongolo, a field operations liaison coordinator for the ICC.
April 8, 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Uncategorized	| Alain Kipala Bangila, Alain Lubamba Kongolo, Augustin Kasonga, Ble Kacouchia, Boubacar Toure, Carlos Manuel Bastos de Barros, Corporal MD Younus Meah, Esinam Safo, Gracia Jonas Maforikan, Henri Badila Biangituka, Hyacinth Die Thiero, Jaco Dorfling, Jeroen Bervoets, John Shebitu Mbembo, Jonas some, Lubacha Gustave Bianumba, Major KM Ziaul Hawue, Mendes Masudi, Mwanaomba Shabani, Numbi Kabange, Oumar Dia, Petrus van Vuuren, Randall Quickfall, UN Plane Crash, UN Plane Crash Victims | Leave a comment
According to Pakistani Media, The Nation, 400 Indian, Israeli agents infiltrate CIA operating in Pakistan
The NationPakistan March 2, 2011
LAHORE – Hundreds of especially-trained CIA contractors who worked closely with Indian intelligence agency RAW and Israel's Mossad in the Middle East, Asia and Africa over the last two decades are covertly operating across Pakistan these days, The Nation reliably learnt on Tuesday.
Well-informed sources revealed that the Obama administration deployed more than 400 pro-India and pro-Israel CIA agents in 2010 in the big cities of the nuclear-armed country, including in Quetta, Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.
Sources believed that the American spies with pro-India mindset had been deployed in Quetta to fuel militancy in the largest but poor province of Balochistan while the US operatives who worked with Israeli agents before 9/11 had been sent to the country's insurgency-hit region bordering war-torn Afghanistan.
The Foreign Intelligence Estimates (FIE) cell of the CIA, which is responsible for training, brainwashing and recruiting individuals to launch intelligence networks outside the United States, had awarded special contracts to those security companies where the Indian and Israeli lobby is very strong.
Please see this story here
March 2, 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Blackwater, CIA, Civilian Contractors, Pakistan, State Department, Uncategorized, Xe	| CIA, FIE, Mossad, Pakistan, RAW | Leave a comment
Who killed Jack Wheeler?
NEW CASTLE, Del. — Someone's been in here, Robert Dill thought as he walked through his neighbor's house on the morning of Dec. 30.
Reporting by Peter Eisler, USA TODAY
That much seemed obvious even then — one day before his neighbor Jack Wheeler turned up dead at a landfill 7 miles away.
Dill, 73, had gone to check the Wheeler house after noticing an upstairs window open. He remembered locking all of them when he and his wife had tidied Wheeler's aged brick duplex a few days earlier.
A former Pentagon official and a driving force behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Wheeler traveled often — mostly by train between Washington, New York and New Castle. Dill sometimes watched the house when Wheeler was away.
Speaking publicly for the first time about what he saw the day Wheeler vanished, Dill told USA TODAY that he wondered whether he had stumbled onto a crime scene. A side door to the house was open — not much, just a crack. Chairs had been knocked over, and the radios were silent. Dill had left them on a few days before. That's how Wheeler liked it when he was gone: radios on and tuned to NPR. As he once told Dill, the sound made it seem as though someone was home.
In the kitchen, broken plates sat in the sink. A tall plant had been overturned. And Wheeler's cadet sword from West Point lay on the floor, unsheathed. Dill remembers a heavy dusting of Comet cleanser on the kitchen's wood plank floor — and what he believes was the print of a bare foot in the powder.
Had Wheeler, who battled bipolar disorder, simply become unhinged, trashed his house and left? That wasn't the Jack Wheeler he knew, Dill says. If Wheeler's home had been robbed, nothing seemed to be missing — not the sculptures nor the paintings Wheeler's wife, Katherine Klyce, collected. Not the TV or the stereo.
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Under certain circumstances, hiring a dentist will become crucial. First and foremost, those experiencing severe pain should look for a dentist. When painkillers are not effective with the pain, seeing a dentist is necessary. When the mouth of a person is bleeding, looking for a dentist is the most practical decision to take. A competent dentist is necessary for those who have experienced trauma before. An accident might be responsible for the trauma that the patient is suffering from.
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Rumors are swirling around long time FaZe Clan Call of Duty pro Dillon 'Attach' Price, as a number of hints suggest he has found a new team - in the CWL Pro League.
Attach, along with the rest of the (now former) FaZe Clan lineup, narrowly missed out on the 2019 CWL Pro League, after losing to French team, Overtime Esports (now Denial).
It meant that veteran pro players like Attach, Tommy 'ZooMaa' Paparatto and James 'Crowder' Crowder, would all be missing out on professional play in Black Ops 4 - at least under the FaZe banner.
Crowder moved to a coaching position with 100 Thieves, and Preston 'Priestahh' Greiner joined alongside him in a playing role, while ZooMaa filled in for OpTic Gaming as Brandon 'Dashy' Otell was out due to VISA complications.
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Attach meanwhile, was completely sidelined - but perhaps not for long. Rumors have spread suggesting that he has joined Evil Geniuses, possibly in place of Brice 'Faccento' Faccento.
These rumors first stem from Attach being spotted in a scrim lobby with the EG lineup, while Faccento was conspicuously missing.
Of course, this was far from concrete evidence, as Attach could have simply been filling in, so not everyone was convinced.
However, an updated roster for upcoming qualifiers for the 2019 Black Ops 4 World Gaming tournament, all but confirms that Attach is playing with the EG lineup - at least for this event.
Thanks to @INTELCallofDuty for spotting this one.
Nothing is official yet, and roster changes for the CWL Pro League cannot be made (officially) until the roster lock is temporarily removed in March.
If Attach has in fact taken Faccento's spot on the Evil Geniuses lineup, he will need to make an instant impact, as the team is currently wallowing in last place in Division A, with a 1-6 series record.


If you're heading out on vacation to a specific city, it's just natural that you'd want to fully explore your chosen destination. However, most major cities in the world have some wonderful neighbours that aren't too far away. These nearby towns are ideal for day trips while you're on vacation and these are some of the best to visit.
If you head about 60 miles out of Houston you'll hit the huge Big Thicket National Preserve. It's a very popular place with nature lovers, especially bird watchers who flock the place during April and May. This is because the park is located in the path of many migratory birds. There are numerous bayous and lakes for canoeing and kayaking as well as about 40 miles of hiking trails. When it comes to the park's flora, there are 85 different species of trees living there along with close to 1,000 different kinds offlowering plants.
Tivoli as a very attractive hill town that's home to a pair of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: One of these is the Villa de Este, which dates back to the Renaissance era and the other is the ruins of an ancient villa that was constructed by Emperor Hadrian. There's a beautiful hillside garden at Villa de Este that's decorated with dozens of sculptured fountains. A few of these fountains actually produce noises such as hooting owls. Hadrian's Villa is just three miles from the Villa and was created by Hadrian.
He based his design on buildings that he had seen in Egypt and Greece. Tivoli is only about 20 miles to the east of Rome.
Oxford's charming cobbled streets have centuries of stories to tell. It's famous of course for its 39 colleges and you'll see plenty of robed students enjoying themselves in this pretty town. The River Isis is a wonderful place to set and watch the row boats go by. If you'd like to see some of the town's culture and learn its history you can head to the Ashmoleon Museum. The architecture is magnificent, especially at the colleges.
You can also take a tour of Christ Church College which featured in the Harry Potter films as Hogwarts. If you head northwest from London you'll find Oxford just 60 miles up the road or train track.
The chateau was used as a residence for royalty for over seven centuries. Many tourists prefer Chateau de Fontainebleau to Versailles as they feel it's more impressive. Much of the chateau was actually restored by Napoleon. He used the site to entertain visiting foreign dignitaries and even held some of them in the chateau's jail, including Pope Pius VII. You'll be able to walk the historic halls and see the fancy stucco and carved woodwork.
The royal apartments are also on show and decked out with period furniture. The beautiful formal gardens are also a delight for the eyes. To reach the chateau you just have to take a 45-minute train trip from Paris.
Millions of visitors to Las Vegas take a day trip to the famous Grand Canyon even though it's about 250 miles away. It's such an impressive site that nobody wants to get that close to it and miss out. It's such an amazing place that you might actually want to stay more than a day though. This natural wonderwas formed over 14 million years ago. Most people head to the South or West Rim from Las Vegas.


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David Ross on Job Prospects After Interview: 'Either Way, Whatever They Say'
Evan AltmanOctober 10, 2019
David Ross only spent about half as long with the Cubs brass as fellow broadcaster Joe Girardi, but he probably didn't need those extra four hours to make his case. While the garrulous Grandpa Rossy had little time for the media afterwards, he did make a public appearance alongside his old (and new?) bosses for a quick Starbucks run.
David Ross gets an all-expenses-paid trip to Starbucks during Thursday's interview for the Cubs manager job. pic.twitter.com/X2H7RwLhMT
— Gordon Wittenmyer (@GDubCub) October 11, 2019
Gordon Wittenmyer was there to snap some pics and get the scoop on the interview, but Ross was understandably tight-lipped about the proceedings. He did say that the process was "good" and played coy when asked about popular opinion that he's the favorite for the gig.
"I don't know what a lot of people mean," Ross quipped.
You can't go by pictures alone, but the trio of Starbucks patrons seemed to be in very good spirits even before they'd been caffeinated. Girardi, on the other hand, appeared to be all business when he bolted Wednesday evening. Maybe that's just a display of the two men's respective demeanors.
One thing we know for certain from Ross's presence at the Cubs' offices is that he's ready to get back into the game on a permanent basis after taking more time with his young family since retiring as a player. The Cubs have said before that there would be a bigger role for the World Series hero and de facto team captain when he was ready, and rival execs have believed for at least a year that Ross would eventually replace Joe Maddon in Chicago.
Though many on the outside saw him through the media lens as kind of a fun-loving goofball, Ross was the guy holding teammates accountable in the clubhouse. Gee, that sounds like something we've heard about as being missing over the past season or two. Rather than being part of the "winner's trap" Epstein has said the Cubs are trying to escape, Ross is an example of something they need to get back.
Even if he is the preferred candidate, though, he's not the last one with whom the Cubs need to speak. They've still got Astros bench coach Joe Espada and Yankees special assistant Carlos Beltrán on the list and may not be able to speak with either until much later in the month depending on how the playoffs proceed.


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News > International > New Heriot-Watt University campus to open in Dubai in 2021
New Heriot-Watt University campus to open in Dubai in 2021
Heriot-Watt University's 4,000 students in Dubai will move to a state-of-the-art new campus in 2021
Tuesday 19th November 2019
The university has agreed a 10-year lease for a 218,000 square foot campus in the Dubai Knowledge Park, located in the heart of one of the world's most modern city destinations. The futuristic seven-storey campus building will deliver the latest innovations in business education, teaching and research, such as advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.
The new campus will enable Heriot-Watt University, which also has campuses in Scotland and Malaysia, to capitalise on its current five-star status in one of the world's most competitive higher education markets.
Our new campus signifies our commitment to Dubai as well as our investment in our students
– professor Richard A Williams, principal and vice-chancellor, Heriot-Watt University
The principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Professor Richard A Williams, said: "I am incredibly proud Heriot-Watt University has built the largest, most comprehensive and successful international university in the United Arab Emirates. Our new campus signifies our commitment to Dubai as well as our investment in our students.
"Our Dubai campus already plays a vital part in the financial sustainability of the university and is a major part of our future through our globally-integrated Strategy 2025. This includes our vision to build on our reputation as a leading higher education institution in the Middle East, creating a centre for excellence in both teaching and research, which is renowned for the value and impact of our contribution to the local economy and society.
"This new campus will play a vital role in our future and, by utilising our distinctive strengths, we will continue to build a global university that pioneers innovation in education, research and enterprise."
Five-star ranking
Heriot-Watt first launched its Dubai campus in 2005 and has enjoyed notable success ever since. Earlier this year, the university received a prestigious five-star ranking from the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), the body responsible for the quality of private education in Dubai. It also currently holds the title 'Best University in the Middle East', awarded by Forbes.
Artist's impression of the new Heriot-Watt University to open in Dubai
News of the relocation has been welcomed today by the Scottish Government's Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science Richard Lochhead MSP, who said: "This project is hugely ambitious and a wonderful example of how Scotland continues to punch above its weight in terms of research, innovation and academic strength.
"I applaud Heriot-Watt for its vision to continue expanding what it offers to even more people and places – yet another demonstration to the world that Scotland is an open, welcoming and inclusive nation."
Transforming the student experience
Staff and students will move to the new campus in January 2021 – the same year Heriot-Watt celebrates its founding bicentenary. The new campus sits in Dubai's bustling centre and promises to transform the student experience with a digitally enabled learning environment. This will support the delivery of the university's portfolio of programmes including in Data Science, Computing and artificial intelligence, robotics, business, accounting and finance, psychology, architecture and design, construction and engineering.
In keeping with university's pioneering outlook, the campus will continue to deliver business courses run by Scotland's largest provider of business education, Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh Business School. The new campus will also house the recently-launched Centre of Excellence in Smart Construction (CESC), providing a creative environment for collaboration between multi-disciplinary research teams, industry and the UAE government to solve challenges facing the construction sector.
This project is hugely ambitious and a wonderful example of how Scotland continues to punch above its weight in terms of research, innovation and academic strength
– Richard Lochhead, Scottish Government's Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science
Students are set to benefit from an enhanced library and social learning spaces, as well as a wide range of digitally enhanced classrooms, seminar rooms, studios, and laboratories. The university's in-house recording studios will allow the creation of high-quality digital materials for a more engaging and interactive learning experience. Furthermore, the central location of the new campus means increased opportunities for students to engage directly with business and industry, providing graduates with unique learning experiences.
The Dubai Knowledge Park sits adjacent to the Dubai Media City as well as the Dubai Internet City and boasts excellent transport links such as the Dubai Metro and Tramway. It holds more than 500 businesses and has established itself as a centre of excellence for higher education and professional development.
Mohammad Abdullah, managing director of Dubai Knowledge Park, said: "This partnership, which is in line with the UAE's growing knowledge economy, is an important addition to Dubai's robust academic scene. By supporting our partners within our vibrant education community, we enable them to offer world-class academic programmes. We value our longstanding partnership with the university and their investment in developing talent in line with the needs of the future economy."
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Every day, we've asked you to show up, ready to go. Ready to put in the work, trust the process, and focus on your goals. Each one of you has stepped up to that challenge, and you've made us proud. While we post about your victories, whether they are large or small, we relish in your success with you, and can't wait for the next time around.
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University of Georgia campus, at the southwest corner of Sanford Stadium. Follow the steps down toward Gate 9; the mausoleum crypts and statue are in a small outdoor patio area. For parking it's best to visit during times when there are no classes or students.
Tombs of the Ugas
Dead Uga the Bulldog mascots are gradually filling up a wall mausoleum outside the football stadium at the University of Georgia. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
Visitor Tips and News About Tombs of the Ugas
The actual mausoleum is located inside the stadium according to what the maintenance workers told me, so if the gates are closed you won't be able to access the site.
[David, 09/17/2019]
A nice maintenance man walked us over the bridge to try and get a picture. We could only see the corner of the wall. He told us that years ago LSU got in and tried to spray paint the wall and it's been locked down every since!
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Arts & Culture, Korean cinema
The Subjectivity of Film Criticism
Noir-thriller 'Real' critically panned, but not everyone agrees
The release in June of Lee Sa-rang's "Real" starring Kim Soo-hyun about a tenacious trouble-shooter set in a city controlled by the criminal underworld sparked off a critical bashing of sorts. It was so fierce that even to suggest anything on the contrary seemed like an audacious move.
I saw the film after its opening weekend having read much of the reaction and saw the disastrous box office figures. I, therefore, walked into the screen at an early morning showing with some trepidation, but was also aware there were a small number of enthusiastic supporters of the film. Where was I going to stand on this film,
I asked myself.
'Real' is flawed but unique
I came out understanding its criticisms: It has little narrative cohesion, and the portrayal of female characters in the film is unashamedly problematic. Yet, the visual aesthetic is so alluring and the ostensibly vibrant but bleak Seoul backdrop pulled me right in. It reminded me of watching Lee Myung-se's films for the first time, especially "M," which focuses on innovative visuals rather than a traditional narrative structure to tell a story, which also bombed at the box office. Both films are daring, singular and visually enticing.
It is too early to say whether it will turn into a cult classic, but it is important that supporters of the film are vocal in its praise rather than allowing the film to be quickly dismissed as garbage. Going against the tide in film criticism takes courage, but like a functioning democracy, every opinion counts.
Korea's cinematic icons ignored
Going back in Korean cinema, it is apparent that even some of the masters
were not initially given proper recognition. The cinematic mastery of Kim Ki-young ("The Housemaid," 1960) wasn't fully acknowledged until the Busan Film Festival did a retrospective of his work in 1997. Rather tellingly, a number of his films were also invited to the Berlin Film Festival just months afterwards. But he tragically died in a house fire just days before his departure.
Interestingly, he was and remains a huge influence on directors Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook. And both Bong and Park were largely ignored following their feature debuts. Bong's "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (2000) even received an apology from Korea's leading film magazine Cine 21 through a later article admitting they were wrong in their initial reaction.
Subjectivity and honesty at heart of film criticism
This is certainly not to say Lee Sa-rang is to become Korea's next revered auteur, but it is important to highlight films that are noteworthy, even if the critical consensus would suggest otherwise. Subjectivity is indeed at the heart of criticism, but I think so is honesty. Sometimes it is easy to pan a film everyone else has dismissed or praise a feature that has been acclaimed, but as a critic one loses all integrity when simply siding with popular opinion if it actually runs counter to this.
Audiences have become vocal critics
With the widespread use of social networks, audiences too have in many ways become critics themselves, and their opinion certainly counts – even more so than professional critics. In Korea, netizen scores, although not an accurate reading of the critical reaction to a film, are a strong indicator of whether word-of-mouth will help or hinder a film's performance. The message here: Don't be afraid to praise or criticize a film even if it means going up against the overall consensus.
Written by Jason Bechervaise
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Q: Mac OS X Terminal: Run Song when Computer is Asleep? How should one write the
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A: You can't. Most of the computer's hardware is shut down during sleep, including both the CPU and audio hardware.


Despite the overall decline of juvenile crime in the last decade, arrest rates for girls have been static as compared to boys. Due to the overall higher arrest rates for boys, more resources have been deployed towards their diversion from the juvenile justice system. While pockets of effective programming for girls have been created, the juvenile justice system as a whole has yet to develop consistent gender-specific strategies that will address the critical needs of adolescent girls. In 2006, Delaware drafted a Blue Print for Change through the Delaware Girls Initiative to begin to address the gender disparities and needs in our Juvenile Justice system.
Research on the adolescent brain provides new insights about juvenile behavior that objectively shows how female brain development differs from that of the male brain. It is increasingly clear that some juvenile justice approaches geared towards boys are not as effective for girls and in many instances such programming triggers girls' prior traumatic experiences.
Recent studies show that there are several factors that professionals should understand and address when dealing with girls at all stages of the juvenile justice process. Girls are far more likely to have a history of abuse or other form of trauma than boys, which was revealed in the gender brief Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Adolescent Girls. The report contained staggering numbers. 70% of girls in juvenile justice have been exposed to trauma; 60% report have been raped or are in danger of being raped; 65% have had Post Traumatic Stress symptoms at some point in their life; 76% report having witnessed someone killed or severely injured; 74% report having been in danger of being hurt or having suffered physical injury.
In response to girls' disparate treatment, the Delaware Girls Initiative conducted trainings, drafted a training manual and produced a video titled You Can't Just Paint It Pink, for system partners; including judges, lawyers, and case managers, in order that they might explore better tools to address the complex needs girls bring to the system. The Delaware Girls Initiative addresses the fact that the juvenile justice system was originally designed to deal with the problems of boys and young men and in doing so neglected the gender-specific programming and treatment needs of girls and young women. These differences require separate research and planning to meet the needs of girls enmeshed in a system designed to manage and serve a predominately male population.
Chief Judge Kuhn served as a Judge in the Family Court of the State of Delaware from 1998 until her appointment to Chief Judge of Family Court in 2003. Prior to her appointment to Family Court, Chief Judge Kuhn completed a judicial clerkship with the Delaware Supreme Court and practiced in the areas of corporate and commercial litigation and family law from 1989 to 1998. She is active in the areas of juvenile justice, domestic violence prevention and the prevention of child abuse. She has implemented many successful programs within the Family Court during her tenure as Chief Judge. She founded the Delaware Girls Initiative, which is now a self-funded organization focused on addressing gender specific programming for Delaware's at-risk girls. In 2009 Chief Judge Kuhn initiated Gun Court in Delaware's Family Court with the support and cooperation of the Attorney General's Office, the Public Defenders' Office and the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. More recently, Chief Judge Kuhn worked with Delaware's Attorney General and Child Advocate in bringing the Stewards of Children training program to all Delaware Family Court employees.


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'use strict';

jest.mock('react-dom-bindings/src/events/isEventSupported');

describe('InvalidEventListeners', () => {
  let React;
  let ReactDOM;
  let container;

  beforeEach(() => {
    jest.resetModules();
    React = require('react');
    ReactDOM = require('react-dom');

    container = document.createElement('div');
    document.body.appendChild(container);
  });

  afterEach(() => {
    document.body.removeChild(container);
    container = null;
  });

  it('should prevent non-function listeners, at dispatch', () => {
    let node;
    expect(() => {
      node = ReactDOM.render(
, container);
    }).toErrorDev(
      'Expected `onClick` listener to be a function, instead got a value of `string` type.',
    );

    spyOnProd(console, 'error');

    const uncaughtErrors = [];
    function handleWindowError(e) {
      uncaughtErrors.push(e.error);
    }
    window.addEventListener('error', handleWindowError);
    try {
      node.dispatchEvent(
        new MouseEvent('click', {
          bubbles: true,
        }),
      );
    } finally {
      window.removeEventListener('error', handleWindowError);
    }
    expect(uncaughtErrors.length).toBe(1);
    expect(uncaughtErrors[0]).toEqual(
      expect.objectContaining({
        message:
          'Expected `onClick` listener to be a function, ' +
          'instead got a value of `string` type.',
      }),
    );

    if (!__DEV__) {
      expect(console.error).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
      expect(console.error.calls.argsFor(0)[0]).toMatch(
        'Expected `onClick` listener to be a function, ' +
          'instead got a value of `string` type.',
      );
    }
  });

  it('should not prevent null listeners, at dispatch', () => {
    const node = ReactDOM.render(
, container);
    node.dispatchEvent(
      new MouseEvent('click', {
        bubbles: true,
      }),
    );
  });
});

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There are 349 Cheddar recipes on Very Good Recipes.
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The Groninger Museum is a museum of art in the city of Groningen (the Netherlands). It exhibits modern and contemporary art by national and international artists. The museum has 200,000 visitors per year.
Before Mijksenaar's intervention, visitors often missed a large part of the museum. The main reason for this is the connecting hallway (at level -1), where visitors enter the complex. The brief, therefore, read as follows: create a single visual style of signage for the entire museum, one that both attracts attention and is in harmony with all of the spaces.
To make the size and complexity of the museum clear at a glance, Mijksenaar designed a straight-line diagram and situated it at the entrance to the museum. Straight-line diagrams are usually employed to represent subway lines and highway and road systems.


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The Dovekeepers Novel by Alice Hoffman + Upcoming Broadcast on CBS
THE DOVEKEEPERS (a four-hour limited event series from executive producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett) will be broadcast Tuesday, March 31 and Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT).
When I first heard about The Dovekeepers, I had no idea about the characters or storyline. I received a copy of the novel (written by Alice Hoffman) and absolutely I fell in love with it. The history and the story about the lives of these courageous women is amazing and really inspiring. I just had to read on to learn more about the characters. I am also thrilled about watching the series based on the novel. Don't forget to tune in March 31st on CBS. You don't want to miss it!
Click on the video below to watch the preview.
Based on Alice Hoffman's Bestselling Historical Novel About a Group of Extraordinary Women Whose Lives Intersect In a Fight for Survival at the Siege of Masada in 70 C.E.
The project stars Cote de Pablo, Rachel Brosnahan and Kathryn Prescott in the title dovekeeper roles, Sam Neill as first-century Jewish scholar and historian Josephus, and Diego Boneta as a star warrior of the Jewish army at Masada. The series is based on Alice Hoffman's bestselling, critically acclaimed historical novel about a group of extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada.
Set in ancient Israel, The Dovekeepers is based on the true events at Masada in 70 C.E. After being forced out of their home in Jerusalem by the Romans, 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Besieged at Masada, the Jews held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The project will recount the events from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique backstories, but a common bond for survival. Additionally, these women, who work together daily as dovekeepers, are all concealing substantial secrets.
Hoffman's novel was published in 2011 by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, earning the New York Times' bestseller status and widespread critical acclaim, including being hailed by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison as "a major contribution to 21st century literature."
The Dovekeepers will be brought to television from executive producers Roma Downey and multiple Emmy Award winner Mark Burnett (SURVIVOR, "The Voice"), the production team behind the Emmy-nominated 10-hour miniseries "The Bible," which scored big ratings for the History Channel in March 2013, and the feature "Son of God."
Frank Siracusa, John Weber and Yves Simoneau also serve as executive producers, with Simoneau directing. Ann Peacock adapted the novel for the screen.
The Dovekeepers is the first project from CBS Entertainment and CBS Television Studios' Limited Series and Event Programming unit. It is a co-production between CBS Television Studios and LightWorkers Media, a division of United Artists Media Group.
Alice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she attended in 1973 and 74, receiving an MA in creative writing. She currently lives in Boston and New York.
Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of the novel book and DVD from the PR Company/Publisher in exchange for my review. Thanks to Ulysses Press. The opinions expressed in my review are my own personal and honest thoughts. No other compensation was given.
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Hoffman is a genius at portraying the many shades of grey. And that's the power and persuasion of The Dovekeepers in a nutshell. While the circumstances may differ in the details from our own, it's immensely easy to relate to all of these characters and the loves and losses of all their days.
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National Corvette Museum Announces One-of-a-Kind Corvette Up for Grabs at 15th Anniversary Celebration
By Auction News on July 23, 2009 in News
Bowling Green, KY — Automotive enthusiasts have the chance to win a true "one of a kind" sports car, a completely custom designed 2010 Corvette Grand Sport Coupe. The Arctic White beauty celebrates the 15th Anniversary of the National Corvette Museum with a unique Black Jake stripe encompassed by a red stripe and matching red fender striping. What's even more unique is the car comes with a National Corvette Museum logo on the B-pillar making it a true collector car.
The 6-speed manual transmission, chrome wheels, headlamps and ZR1 rear spoiler polish off the flawless racing design. Other classic options included are red two-tone leather seating surfaces, audio system with touch-screen navigation and dual-mode exhaust. "You can summarize the car this way," Tadge Juechter, Chief Engineer of the Corvette said, "Zero to sixty in four seconds; 26 miles a gallon."
"This special 'one off' NCM Corvette Grand Sport coupe was created and inspired by the hard work and dedication of the people who work at the National Corvette Museum," said Kirk Bennion, Corvette Designer. "The chosen colors of white, black, and red were based on the NCM logo. The stripe design embodies the true 'passion for competition' that the Museum has for Corvette's long racing heritage. The Corvette Museum not only displays Corvette's history but is also dedicated to presenting Corvette's latest offerings. This is why we chose the new for 2010 Corvette Grand Sport for NCM's 15th Anniversary!"
The Corvette will be raffled off on Sunday, September 6 at 10:00 am C.S.T. as part of the finale of the National Corvette Museum's 15th Anniversary Celebration. Only 2009 tickets are available at $150 each. Tickets not only give participants the chance to win the collector Corvette, but cash prizes will also be awarded. 2nd prize claims $10,000 while 3rd prize scores $5,000.
The Celebration activities begin on Thursday, September 3 when over 5,000 Corvettes will convene in Bowling Green, Kentucky… caravanning from all 48 continental United States to gather for the love of America's Sports Car. The 4-day event includes seminars, road tours, special displays, parades, autocross, auctions, a live concert, and the main event – the official grand opening of the Museum expansion.
"This year's event offers something for everyone and is packed with non-stop activities from a free concert by the #1 Beatles Show in the World , '1964 The Tribute' to a talk by head of Chevrolet Ed Peper to a Women's Oasis and much more," said Wendell Strode, Executive Director of the Museum. "The 4-day event is only $10 for museum members, and $50 for non-members which includes a 1-year Museum membership," added Strode.
The National Corvette Museum is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky at I-65 exit 28 and is open daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. C.S.T. For more information about the Museum, 15th Anniversary Celebration and raffle opportunities, visit www.corvettemuseum.org or call (800) 53-VETTE (83883).
Written by Auction News


Classical music is not dying–if you believe Fred Child, that is.
Fred, who hosts American Public Media's "Performance Today," gave a talk Monday entitled "The Death of the Death of Classical Music," part of WDAV's 30th Anniversary Celebration this week. He listed many successful orchestras, stunning classical CD sales figures, and the like, all the while encouraging his audience that classical music was very much alive.
Now this is a risky proposition, but I say we could use a few modifications in concert audience protocol for the sake of keeping classical music alive. First thing to go would be those awkward silences between movements. Yes, yes, sometimes those quiet moments are appropriate, but haven't you ever felt desperate to clap at the end of an exciting movement? And isn't it terrible when that thrilling music is met with deafening silence, at least until someone in the back coughs or there's a smattering of creaking music stands?
Perhaps an outlandish suggestion such as this will touch on a nerve (and feel free to comment!), but it's one change concert audiences can afford to make. Bernstein's Mambo was meant to break silence in half–not to be received by it. Let's apply that rule to other music, too.


Wednesday saw both KLCI & FKLI rebounded to close the day on high note.
Price is trapped between two support levels of 1,616 & 1,634. Basically running sideways flat within 1630-32 range whole afternoon session.
Given the low momentum price movement throughout the day, I will take the bullish engufling candle by close with a pinch of salt.
I'm more inclined to believe its some short covering & technical rebound rather than buyers eagerly finishing the bottom.
Two consecutive days of failing to breach the overhead resistance of 1,634 also indicates the bears are still in control of the game.
Besides, momentum indicators continue their weakness, while volume lacks big time, below its 5d average.
All in all, an up day with no essence of bullishness.
The overnight bullish close on US market saw major indices at their 5year high.
Good news from the U.S. House approval on a suspension of the debt ceiling until May 19 help lifted the DJI.
The suspension will allow the US government to continue to pay its bills and temporarily putting off a bigger fight over taxes and spending.
A two-month window will give the two parties more time to seek a long-term deal that has proven elusive.
This may help lift our KLCI tomorrow, or not.
Anyway, let's see if volume shall pick up tomorrow & confirms the bullish engulfing candle with a higher close. Nonetheless, the long weekend ahead shall deter trading activities tomorrow.
CPO price continued its way up along the short-term uptrend line.
Did a healthy pullback to 2,450 in the morning, then zoomed back up to high of 2,484 right after the afternoon session opens. Price then settled at 2,479 with mild profit-taking to avoid holding positions over the exchange holiday on Jan24.
Volume is seen picking up over the past few days, which works out well for the upward price movement.
Overhead resistance still lies at 2,500-2,520 level, followed by 2,600 psychological level.
Support shall comes in at 2,470 | 2,440-50 level.
Today (Jan 24) saw SoyOil price dropping sharply, covered the gap on Jan22 at 51.70cents.
As of writing (Jan 24, 2045h), price has dropped below 51.70cents, with immediate support seen around 51.40cents.
When BMD CPO futures market closed yesterday, SoyOil was near its recent high of 52.65cents/lb. That works out to about 1cents difference from current price.
This drop does not augurs well on the CPO uptrend. We'll have to see if SoyOil will reverse its drop overnight, before CPO opens for Friday's trading.


Trade show events are a really great opportunity for businesses to promote their new products and services to their targeted customers. Not only do they get to promote their products and services to consumers, but also to other companies, thus gaining greater success. In many cases, trade shows are very competitive and how you approach them will determine how well you will do. To make your trade show booth stand out and gain as much attention as possible, the following are some tips you can use to increase your chances of winning.
The first thing you need to do is to grab the attention of people, and the best way to accomplish this is by having a show-stopping trade show booth. Rather than using a second hand display, you can invest in a custom trade display made by ExpoMarketing. A custom display can attract the attention of many people if it is colorful and tells people who you are and what you do.
It is highly likely that with such intense competition from other brands, you will only have one chance to wow potential customers. To achieve just that, you need to bring the right team with you. Choose not only your most learned staff members, but also those who are skilled at selling. At a trade show you want to get your brand name out there, and also to actually sell your products and services. Having a highly-skilled salesperson in your team will help you attain good sales.
If you plan to demonstrate any of your products, you need to ensure that you have put in all the effort required before the D-day, to ensure everything will go on well without a hitch. You do not want to be embarrassed by a demonstration that does not work. This will ruin your company's image significantly. Always plan for the worst and thoroughly test all your products, and think about having a backup just in case.
The notion of giveaways is not a customary thing that you have to do during a trade show event, but rather a way to market your business, and leave a lasting mark in the minds of your visitors. For this reason, you should not fall into the trap of purchasing ordinary items like pens or lanyards to give as giveaways. The ideal way to approach giveaways at a trade show event is to think out of the box. For example, handing out branded reusable water bottles is a creative marketing tool.
Without a doubt, industry trade shows tend to boring and full of repetition. Visitors view the same kind of products from most of the booths, without any fun thing. At a show, you have a few seconds to grab the attention of potential customers, so you should at least try to be playful rather than too serious. A trade show booth with just one person who is using a laptop may not be as impressive as a booth that offers visitors virtual reality games or other fun tech things. Use something fun like a sport game to engage as many customers as possible.


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Adam Rickwood inquest jury returns suicide verdict
By Simeon Brody on June 1, 2007 in Youth justice
Campaign group Inquest has raised deep concerns about the "appropriateness and legality" of the force used against Adam Rickwood at a secure training centre before he killed himself, after a jury yesterday returned a suicide verdict on the 14-year-old yesterday.
Rickwood was found hanging in his room in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in August 2004 while on remand. An inquest into his death heard evidence about how he had been identified as a vulnerable child with a history of self harm. On the day of his death he had been forcibly restrained by four male staff for refusing to go to his room and had the painful "nose distraction" restraint technique used on him.
Inquest co-director Deborah Coles said: "The state failed appallingly to protect a damaged and vulnerable boy with a long history of self harm and disturbed behaviour. Inquest is deeply concerned about the appropriateness and legality of the force used against Adam which included the nose distraction technique designed to inflict pain. The government must review this dangerous practice that amounts to institutional child abuse to ensure it is never used again."
Adam's mother Carole Pounder said she was "disgusted" that the inquest did not consider the lawfulness of the restraint used on Adam and urged the government to ensure that the private companies that run STCs are properly monitored so the children in their custody are treated lawfully.
Inquest begins into the case of Adam Rickwood, the youngest child ever to die in custody
Case worker failed to pass on Rickwood information
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Stereotype of women as carers driving low pay and high turnover in social care, Equal Opportunities Commission says
Former chef wins Recruitment and Employment Confederation's agency care worker crown


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Weakness with cookie encryption
A pair of vulnerabilities were found affecting the way cookies are stored.
The decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. The can allow an attacker who has access to a user's browser cookie file to decrypt the username and password.
A vulnerability was found where the same initialization vector (IV) is used to hash the username and password stored in the phpMyAdmin cookie. If a user has the same password as their username, an attacker who examines the browser cookie can see that they are the same — but the attacker can not directly decode these values from the cookie as it is still hashed.
We consider this to be critical.
All 4.6.x versions (prior to 4.6.4), 4.4.x versions (prior to 4.4.15.8), and 4.0.x versions (prior to 4.0.10.17) are affected
Upgrade to phpMyAdmin 4.6.4, 4.4.15.8, 4.0.10.17, or newer or apply patch listed below.
Thanks to Emanuel Bronshtein @e3amn2l for reporting this vulnerability.
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Etimoni "Reme" Timuani (Funafuti, 14 de outubro de 1991) é um esportista tuvaluano. Representou Tuvalu nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016 no Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), na prova de 100 m masculino. Foi o único atleta da delegação do país.

Atua também como futebolista, como zagueiro do Tofaga, clube onde joga desde 2008 (exceção a uma rápida passagem pelo Lakena United em 2011).

Velocistas de Tuvalu
Atletas olímpicos de Tuvalu
Atletas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016
Futebolistas de Tuvalu


Interop is an annual information technology exhibition and trade fair that takes place in five locations around the world, this month's event is in New York.
HP this month announced its HP SDN App Store, launching what the firm claims to be 'a new wave' of open software-defined networking (SDN). So what is an SDN App Store?
Okay so we called out (now ex-) Eucalyptus CEO Mårten Mickos for changing his stance on OpenStack and his move to join HP as senior vice president and general manager of its cloud business reporting to Meg Whitman -- but what did Mickos have to say for himself?


Seachem Prime is a complete and concentrated conditioner for both fresh and salt water. Prime removes chlorine, chloramine, and ammonia. Prime converts ammonia into a safe, non-toxic form that is readily removed by the tanks biofilter. Prime may be used during tank cycling to alleviate ammonia/nitrite toxicity. Prime detoxifies nitrite and nitrate, allowing the biofilter to more efficiently remove them. Prime also promotes the production and regeneration of the natural slime coat. Prime is non-acidic and will not impact pH. Prime will not over activate skimmers. Use at start-up and whenever adding or replacing water. CAS recommends premixing this conditioner in a fish only use-bucket with fresh water before adding water to your tank.


Observation - A wasp? - UK and Ireland. Description: I found this when I was doing some gardening. It seems to be a very small wasp but I have never seen anything similar so I thought I would post it here to see if anyone can let me know.
I found this when I was doing some gardening. It seems to be a very small wasp but I have never seen anything similar so I thought I would post it here to see if anyone can let me know.