text:
Jargon | School of Media and Journalism Alumni Newsletter
College of Communication & Information
Director's Note
Submit Alumni Updates
Support MDJ
Subscribe to Jargon
Welcome! Jargon is the digital alumni newsletter of the School of Media and Journalism (MDJ).
This page will be updated to include the most recent issue's highlighted stories. Our News & Events page is updated continuously with the School's most recent news.
Friends and Colleagues Remember Alumnus, Faculty Member Bobby Makar Through Scholarship
Bobby Makar, a name remembered fondly by students and faculty in the School of Media and Journalism (MDJ), was a storyteller, a compassionate friend and inspiring teacher.
He died unexpectedly in November 2020, and since then, more than 100 donations have been made to establish memorial scholarship in his name.
Makar earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from MDJ. He went on to become a cherished adjunct faculty member in the digital media production major and made significant contributions to the curriculum.
Media Diversity Lecture Honors Legacy of Trailblazer Robert McGruder
The annual Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Lecture and Awards Program celebrates diversity in the journalism field. This year, WKYC's Director of Advocacy and Community Initiatives Margaret Bernstein delivered the keynote speech.
Media and Journalism Student Reflects on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in PR Industry Following National Summit
Public relations major Kristyn Hibbett, '23, recently earned a scholarship to attend a national summit on diversity, equity and inclusion in public relations in Chicago.
The 2022 Plank Center Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Summit and Read More
Public Relations Student Group Wins Three National Awards
Kent State's Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA Kent) Chapter won three national awards, including the prestigious Dr. F.H. Teahan Award for University Service. The national award was announced during the Awards Ceremony Brunch at the International Public Relations Student Society Conference in Dallas on Nov. 14, 2022.
Public Relations Grad Talks Representation and Lessons Learned in Leadership, Business
Brandi Neloms, '09, is a senior business development manager in Amazon's Special Projects organization and Chief Strategy Officer and co-owner of Sipping Black Only, a business dedicated to driving equity for Black founders in the beverage industry.
2020 Grad Transforms Journalism Degree into Political Communications Career
When Caty Payette, '20, began working for Student Media, she didn't imagine she'd one day work for a member of Congress. Yet since graduation, the journalism major has worked for three different U.S. Representatives, representing Ohio, Wisconsin and Alabama.
Director's Note | December 2022
In our work lives we have the power to demonstrate leadership. In recent years it's been fashionable to lament the lack of grit among our students. Now that we're all living through difficult times, this is our opportunity to show students what perseverance looks like.
The School of Media and Journalism prepares its students with professional experiences, setting them up for successful futures. Here's how some alumni have taken that experience and made it their own after graduation.
Alumni Notes Submit Your Job Updates Submit a Story/Column Idea
"Kent State provided me with a world-class education that prepared me to be in the spaces I'm lucky to serve in now. The professors I had at Kent State became family to me. They saw something in me as a student that I didn't see in myself, and I'm grateful that they continue to be a part of my life."
On the White House communications team is a group of dedicated public servants working to craft messages from the President to the world, including one Kent State alumna – Brenna Parker, '17. Brenna oversees all digital strategy, content and partnerships for Vice President Ka
For recent journalism graduates, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped their entry into the news industry. Young MDJ alumni have focused much of their professional careers on the pandemic, mostly with a Northeast Ohio angle — not just on case numbers or other statistics, but also on the effects on the economy, businesses and the healthcare industry.
Public relations professionals are time and time again the backbone of communications and community building within their industries. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Kent State alumni in healthcare fields have been put to the test to deliver important and timely responses to their network through both internal and external communications.
Deborah (Pritchard) Less, '09, Communications Manager for the Cleveland Clinic, finds her role as an internal communications professional is to keep all caregivers (the term used to identify all employees) "informed, motivated, and inspi
A degree from Kent State's School of Media and Journalism can lead to opportunities to work across fields and businesses — and all over the world. Alumna Mary Jo Spletzer, '10, has used what she learned as a public relations major to make her mark at Atlantis Resorts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
When I walked into Taylor Hall as an 18-year-old freshman in 1983, I had no idea that the foundation for my professional and personal life would take place there.
While earning a bachelor's degree in Journalism in 1987, I was a section editor at the Daily Kent Stater — in a newsroom packed with future journalism giants whose achievements are too numerous to mention.
The opportunity given to Kent State Media and Journalism students to use real, up-to-date production technology leaves them with a great amount of knowledge and experience upon graduation. Jeff Johnson, '09, now a senior producer at MSNBC, saw Kent State Student Media, specifically TV2, as his first market to succeed in.
Johnson, a journalism major, began his TV2 career as a host on a campus-centered show called "College Corner" in early 2006, during his second semester. After that, he was a news anchor until graduation. His cohort was the last to experience the old newsroo
Beyond the magical experiences guests have at Walt Disney World every day, there's a communications and public affairs team spreading the magic all over the world. Kent State alumna Meghan Caprez, B.S. '15, M.A. '17, is part of that team.
Alumnus Mike Jackson created 2050 Marketing to help clients to navigate the changing demographics in America as they relate to advertising and brand building. By the year 2050, the minority will be the majority in this country. Jackson wants to guide entrepreneurs through this transition and ensure that these voices are heard from every rung of the ladder.
Jargon Archives
An archive of printed editions (2012-2019) can be found here.
Digital Issue Archive: October 2021 | December 2021 | January 2022 | March 2022 | June 2022 | September 2022


text:
New Nissan Murano Inventory Near Panama, CA
Discover the 2022 Nissan Murano for Sale in Bakersfield, CA
At Nissan of Bakersfield, we think it's important for everyone to have a capable, powerful, and safe SUV for their families. When you head over to our dealership near Panama, you're sure to find many new 2022 Nissan Murano models in stock and ready to purchase or lease. Take control of the 2022 Nissan Murano today to enjoy incredible performance, a spacious interior design, and great tech features in a head-turning package.
Taking control of a 2022 Nissan Murano for your drives around Lamont is a dream come true every time you hop behind the wheel. With a 2022 Nissan Murano, you can enjoy smooth, satisfying performance under the hood with the power of an efficient 260 horsepower engine. In addition to that, your 2022 Nissan Murano will adapt to road conditions and terrain with the help of the available Intelligent All-Wheel Drive feature for advanced traction for any adventure. This efficient crossover model also comes with great fuel economy, allowing you to take to the streets of Oildale to the tune of an EPA-estimated 28 miles per gallon highway.
With a 2022 Nissan Murano, comfort and luxury come standard. Take control of this dynamic SUV model to enjoy a spacious interior design built for comfort and flexibility in any driving situation around Bakersfield. No matter where you go in the state of California, you and your passengers will enjoy this five-seater SUV's impressive cabin with plush seating that takes coziness to the next level. The 2022 Nissan Murano can also come equipped with many optional comfort features, such as available climate-controlled front seats, a heated steering wheel, a driver's memory seat, and much more. In addition to that, this spacious SUV will come with an amazing cargo volume of up to 67 cubic feet.
When you're behind the wheel of a 2022 Nissan Murano, everything you'll need will be just one button press, finger swipe, or voice command away. Take to the streets of Arvin with the 2022 Nissan Murano to enjoy great features like Apple CarPlay®, Android Auto™, NissanConnect®, and more using the easy-to-use touchscreen system. With hands-free Bluetooth connectivity in the 2022 Nissan Murano, you can take your favorite playlists, podcasts, audiobooks, and more on the go in the Bakersfield area. The 2022 Nissan Murano can also come equipped with the available Advanced Drive-Assist® Display, which helps you get around town effectively with step-by-step directions, a compass, a Tire Pressure Monitoring System, and more.
Getting around town is easy when you're behind the wheel of the 2022 Nissan Murano. Your new 2022 Nissan Murano will come equipped with several advanced driver assistance features that will help you stay in command and confident in your drives around Bakersfield, CA. With a 2022 Nissan Murano, you can enjoy the benefits of the following advanced safety features as you drive around town:
Intelligent Lane InterventionIntelligent Forward Collision Warning
Experience the Benefits of the Dynamic 2022 Nissan Murano
Are you ready to take control of a new compact SUV model with the right performance, interior comfort, and technology for your drives around Bakersfield? Contact or visit Nissan of Bakersfield today to take a test drive of this impressive new Nissan SUV. Browse our current new Nissan financing offers to get a great deal on a new 2022 Nissan Murano. With our new vehicle financing specials, you can make our competitively priced new SUV models even more affordable.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


This Post has already been read 1102 times.
Samsung Electronics, a market leader and award-winning innovator in the electronics industry, has announced the first week winners of its smashing summer camping for valued customers.
The offer named "Samsung Smart Summer 2013" gives an unprecedented chance of winning loads of prizes on the purchase of Samsung Galaxy device. Amazingly, its mega prize include cruise for entire family. Following three simple steps can make customers; the lucky winners. Buy any Samsung Smartphone, register with purchased phone's IMEI and enter the lucky draw which will run for four consecutive weeks.
Samsung's Head of Mobile Division Farid Ullah Jan said, "Samsung has once again created a delightful offer for its customers. In just one week of the Samsung Smart 2013 campaign, we have received a tremendous interest from people nationwide, who just can't wait to be a part of it. Samsung will continue to add excitement and create value for its customer".
It was a perfect retreat not only for the winners, but all those who participated in the campaign, which kept the excitement alive till the last minute of the lucky draw results. With next three weeks to follow, it is expected that more people will participate in the campaign. The last date for registering in the campaign is August 6, 2013.


text:
Home Entertainment Celebrity Gossip Machine Gun Kelly Calls His Relationship With 'Soulmate' Megan Fox 'The Darkest...
Source: People
Machine Gun Kelly Calls His Relationship With 'Soulmate' Megan Fox 'The Darkest Fairytale'
1 Machine Gun Kelly Talks About His Relationship With Megan Fox
2 Megan Fox Talks About Meeting Her Soulmate Machine Gun Kelly
Machine Gun Kelly Talks About His Relationship With Megan Fox
Machine Gun Kelly talked about his relationship with Megan Fox in a candid interview with GQ Style. The couple has made it to the cover page for the upcoming edition. Kelly acknowledged that their relationship is not perfect and has its own ups and downs. He went to the extent of calling it the 'darkest fairy tale'. Furthermore, Kelly said, "It should be light, but also we go to hell with each other. It's ecstasy and agony for sure… I don't want people to think anything's perfect with us. I didn't say it was the darkest fairy tale for no reason."
Megan Fox Talks About Meeting Her Soulmate Machine Gun Kelly
Megan is convinced that Kelly is her soulmate. She was previously married to Brian Austin Green and shares three children with him. Previously she had revealed that she felt a deep connection with Kelly when she met him for the first time. Moreover, she said, "[I was] definitely open [to] love, but I did not anticipate walking right into my soulmate like that. I was obviously over the way I had been living, and those paths lined up, those doors opened. It was [as if] all the obstacles that had kept us apart all those years [had been removed] and we were able to finally intersect."
Previous articleGovernor Greg Abbott Bans Vaccine Mandates In Texas Including The Ones Imposed By Private Companies
Next articleKim Kardashian Jokes She Left Kanye West Because Of His Personality In SNL Debut
Gucci Mane Net Worth, Bio, Family, & Career [With Latest Updates]
Dua Lipa Net Worth, Age, Family, Career, Bio [With Latest Updates]
MrBeast Net Worth, Bio, Career, and Income [Latest Update 2023]
News Desk - September 7, 2022 0
Dua Lipa net worth is estimated to be $35 million as of 2023. This page contains information about Dua Lipa's net worth, biography, age,...


Primary school "Stevan Jakovljević" has been in the project "Razvionica" for four years, long enough to stand side by side with the best schools in the world. After a fundamental turn in the philosophy of teaching through the introduction of "self-regulation" as a new concept of metacognitive learning and modern information and communications technologies into regular and extracurricular classes, the school continues with its traditional dedication to the cooperation with parents as one of the key factors of the whole education and educational process.
The vision of our school exceeds the conditions and standards of this place and expands its horizons on other, just viewed geographically, far countries and continents where it finds a warm, stretched hand of friendship of the colleagues whose language and the colour of skin are different, but the problems in teaching are completely the same. There, in those well-known ghettos of the Edmodo million community, you can hear the most various problems of our colleagues and their students and good solutions and recommendations as well.
One of them refers to the cooperation with parents who want to regularly monitor the progress and achievements of their children at school and receive daily and weekly reports without going to the school. "How is that possible"?, you ask yourself. The most modern schools in the world use a web application named "CLASS DOJO" so as to send the parents the timely information about the students. The application itself is very simple and reminds us of a virtual classroom in which you can follow the notifications by the teacher, photos and videos from classes and also the attendance at the classes, discipline and achievement of the students on a daily basis. Moreover, it gives you the insight into the complete electronic portfolios of students, created jointly by students and the teacher. The application can be accessed via a desktop or laptop computer, tablet and an android phone. All you need for the log-in is the code which a parent receives from the teacher. Parents choose their own email address and the password. For each subsequent log-in it is necessary to enter only the e-mail and the password and the profile of the child is opened, containing all relevant and statistical data, something similar to an electronic attendance register.
From the point of view of the parents, "CLASS DOJO" application is the fastest way of finding out everything about their child without taking additional time and going to the school. Now the parents are in a direct contact with the teachers who teach their children and who follow the development of the children. They can see what the students have learnt at school, what they will have in the writing test, see the photos and videos from classes and also send a direct message to the teacher.
From the point of view of a teacher, the benefit is triple: the students will approach teaching with more attention and discipline because they know that their achievement and behaviour are continually monitored; the parents will be receiving timely information and will react when necessary and the teacher will bring together in one place all pedagogical files with statistical parameters of all students and the whole class/grade, which otherwise he has to do, but this time his job will be significantly eased and, by the way, he himself will have fun, won't he?
A good way to learn mathematics?


text:
Unter dem Begriff Fehlermanagement  wird einerseits in der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung ein menschlicher Ansatz zum Umgang mit Fehlern dargestellt. Andererseits werden unter diesem Begriff menschliche Tätigkeiten zusammengefasst, die mit denen der Mensch in einem Mensch-Maschine-System auf einen Fehler reagiert, um den Fehler endgültig zu beheben oder zunächst seine Auswirkungen zu begrenzen. Es bedeutet auch eine systematische Fehlerbewertung, -diagnose, -erkennung und -prävention wie auch die Einleitung und Evaluierung von Gegenmaßnahmen, um dadurch die Wahrscheinlichkeit von schwerwiegenden Folgen zu vermindern.

Bedeutung
Die Fähigkeit zum Fehlermanagement gehört zu den Non-Technical Skills und ist ein wesentlicher Grund, den Menschen mit hoher Verantwortlichkeit im technischen System zu belassen. Gutes Fehlermanagement kann darüber entscheiden, ob ein menschlicher Fehler oder technischer Defekt zur Katastrophe führt oder nicht.

Um professionell mit Fehlern umzugehen, bedarf es jedoch nicht nur einer hohen individuellen Fehlerkompetenz, sondern auch einer produktiven Fehlerkultur im Unternehmen. Schließlich benötigt es das "Wollen", "Können" und "Dürfen", damit die Organisationsmitglieder effizient und effektiv Fehler managen können.

Dazu muss dem Menschen die Gelegenheit zum Fehlermanagement gegeben werden: Die technischen Komponenten des Mensch-Maschine-Systems müssen so gestaltet sein, dass das Fehlermanagement in allen Phasen ermöglicht und unterstützt wird.

Einteilung
Üblicherweise wird Fehlermanagement in drei oder vier Phasen eingeteilt:
 Fehlerentdeckung,
 Fehlerdiagnose, dann eventuell
 Fehlerkompensation, und
 Fehlerkorrektur.

Die Fehlerentdeckung ist kein Ereignis, sondern eine Phase, da in Systemen mit großen Zeitkonstanten und sich langsam ändernden Werten die Abweichung vom Normalzustand nicht sofort eindeutig als Fehler erkannt werden kann.

Während der Fehlerdiagnose (etwa über ein Fahrzeugdiagnosesystem) wird versucht, mit Hilfe der an der Schnittstelle zwischen Mensch und technischem System erfahrbaren (sichtbaren, hörbaren, fühlbaren, …) Informationen den Fehler selbst zu bestimmen. Die Informationssammlung beschränkt sich dabei nicht auf die Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle an sich, sondern bezieht alle dem Bediener zugänglichen Teile des technischen Systems mit ein (bei einem Fehler am Kraftfahrzeug werden nicht nur Drehzahlmesser und Tankanzeige beobachtet, sondern auch die Motorhaube geöffnet und der Kühlerdeckel abgeschraubt; bei einem Fehler in einer Industrieanlage werden nicht nur die Bildschirme in der Leitwarte beobachtet, sondern auch Rohrleitungen und Behälter draußen in der Anlage begutachtet).

Vor der Fehlerkorrektur wird, wenn eine vollständige Korrektur nicht sofort möglich ist, der Betrieb aber aufrechterhalten werden muss, möglicherweise zunächst die Phase Fehlerkompensation eingefügt. Dadurch werden die Auswirkungen des Fehlers so abgemildert, dass ein sicherer Betrieb möglich ist, falls der Fehler nicht sofort behoben werden kann.

Mit der Fehlerkorrektur wird der Fehler behoben.

Forschungsergebnisse
In der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung stellt Fehlermanagement einen Ansatz im Umgang mit Fehlern dar. Fehlermanagement zielt dabei auf ein aktives Managen von auftretenden Fehlern ab, um die negativen Konsequenzen von Fehlern zu mindern (z. B. Stress, Qualitätsprobleme) und die positiven Konsequenzen zu stärken (z. B. Lernen, Innovationen). Der Fehlermanagementansatz steht teilweise im Gegensatz zum Fehlerpräventionsansatz. Der Fehlerpräventionsansatz versucht vor allem Fehler zu verhindern, um damit auch die negativen Konsequenzen von Fehlern zu verhindern.

Nach der Fehlermanagement-Theorie ist ein Fehlermanagement-Ansatz dem reinen Fehlerpräventions-Ansatz vorzuziehen. Der Fehlermanagement-Ansatz wird langfristig mit vorteilhaften Auswirkungen für Einzelpersonen und Organisationen in Verbindung gebracht. Vor allem werden positive Auswirkungen auf Lernen, Proaktivität sowie Innovativität postuliert. Einige empirische Studien zeigen einen positiven Effekt des Fehlermanagement-Ansatzes für das Lernen von Gründern, für die Profitabilität von Firmen, für die Innovativität in Unternehmen sowie für die Qualität von Dienstleistungen.

Der Ansatz im Umgang mit Fehlern hängt wesentlich von der jeweiligen Fehlerorientierung von Personen bzw. Unternehmen ab. Die Fehlerorientierung beschreibt eine Einstellung gegenüber Fehlern und einen damit zusammenhängenden Umgang mit ihnen. Es kann zwischen einer Fehlermanagementorientierung und einer Fehlerpräventionsorientierung unterschieden werden.

Eine Fehlermanagementorientierung zeichnet sich dadurch aus dass Fehler als ein normaler Teil des menschlichen Handelns angesehen werden und dass proaktiv und konstruktiv mit ihnen umgegangen wird. Ein gutes Fehlermanagement zeichnet sich durch ein Antizipieren von Fehlern, eine schnelle Fehlerkommunikation, ein lernen aus Fehlern, eine hohe Fehlerkompetenz, sowie eine Fehlerrisikobereitschaft aus.

Eine Fehlerpräventionsorientierung zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass Fehler als etwas stark negatives bewertet werden. Das dementsprechende Mindset ist, dass Fehler unbedingt vermieden werden müssen (Null Fehlertoleranz). Menschen mit einer Fehlerpräventionsorientierung sehen Fehler als Bedrohungen an und sind von ihnen frustriert. Sie neigen dazu, Fehler zu leugnen oder zu verbergen, wenn sie auftreten.

Studien deuten darauf hin, dass die Fehlerorientierung von Personen stark von zwei Eigenschaften beeinflusst wird: Demut und Selbstwirksamkeit. Demut bezeichnet dabei die Bereitschaft sich selbst akkurat einschätzen zu wollen, wertschätzend gegenüber anderen zu sein und eine Lernbereitschaft zu zeigen. Selbstwirksamkeit ist der Glaube an die eigene Kompetenz mit einer Reihe von Schwierigkeiten umgehen zu können.

Siehe auch
 Beschwerdemanagement
 Bugtracker
 Fehlerklassifizierung
 Fehlerkultur
 Störungsmanagement

Literatur
 Gunnar Johannsen: Mensch-Maschine-Systeme. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-540-56152-8.
 Maria Luisa Farnese, Roberta Fida, Michele Picoco: Error orientation at work: Dimensionality and relationships with errors and organizational cultural factors. In: Current Psychology, 2020, S. 1–20.
 Sebastian Fischer, Michael Frese, Jennifer Clarissa Mertins, Julia Verena Hardt-Gawron: The role of error management culture for firm and individual innovativeness. In: Applied Psychology, 67(3), 2018, S. 428–453.
 Michael Frese, Nina Keith: Action errors, error management, and learning in organizations. In: Annual Review of Psychology, 66(1), 2015, S. 661–687.
 Rebecca Funken, Michael Marcus Gielnik, Maw-Der Foo: How Can Problems Be Turned Into Something Good? The Role of Entrepreneurial Learning and Error Mastery Orientation. In: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2018, 1042258718801600.
 Bradley P. Owens, Michael D. Johnson, Terence R. Mitchell: Expressed humility in organizations: Implications for performance, teams, and leadership. In: Organization Science, 24(5), 2013, S. 1517–1538.
 James Reason: Menschliches Versagen: psychologische Risikofaktoren und moderne Technologien. Spektrum, Akad. Verlag, Heidelberg u. a. 1994, ISBN 3-86025-098-1.
 Volker Rybowiak, Harry Garst, Michael Frese, Bernad Batinic: Error orientation questionnaire (EOQ): Reliability, validity, and different language equivalence. In: Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20(4), 1999, S. 527–547.
 Elke M. Schüttelkopf: Erfolgsstrategie Fehlerkultur. Wie Organisationen durch einen professionellen Umgang mit Fehlern Ihre Performance steigern. In: Gabriele Ebner, Peter Heimerl, Elke M. Schüttelkopf: Fehler.Lernen.Unternehmen. Wie Sie die Fehlerkultur und Lernreife Ihrer Organisation wahrnehmen und gestalten. Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57744-8, S. 151–314.
 Elke M. Schüttelkopf: Lernen aus Fehlern: Wie man aus Schaden klug wird. Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-648-04595-4.
 Ralf Schwarzer, Matthias Jerusalem: Generalized self-efficacy scale. In: J. Weinman, S. Wright, M. Johnston (Hrsg.): Measures in health psychology: A user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs. NFER-Nelson, Windsor UK, 1995, S. 35–37.
 Christoph Seckler, Ulfert Gronewold, Markus Reihlen: An error management perspective on audit quality: Toward a multi-level model. In: Accounting, Organizations and Society, 62, 2017, S. 21–42.
 Christoph Seckler, Sebastian Fischer, Kathrin Rosing: Who Adopts an Error Management Orientation? Discovering the Role of Humility. In: Academy of Management Discoveries, 2021.
 Peter Hochreither: Erfolgsfaktor Fehler! Persönlicher Erfolg durch Fehler. businessvillage, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-934424-43-0.
 Cathy van Dyck, Michael Frese, Markus Baer, Sabine Sonnentag: Organizational error management culture and its impact on performance: A two-study replication. In: Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(6), 2005, S. 1228–1240.

Einzelnachweise

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Meijer gets ready to distribute COVID-19 vaccines
Permission granted by Meijer
Meijer is preparing a large-scale plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to people across the six states where it operates, the grocer announced Monday.
The grocer's pharmacy team is developing procedures to deliver vaccinations to a high volume of people and follow up with those patients to make sure they receive a second dose if necessary. Meijer said it is looking to use physical spaces — similar to what it did for its flu shot clinics — for large-scale, COVID-19 vaccine clinics, in addition to offering the shot inside of its stores.
Food retailers have emerged as key players in the nation's effort to immunize people in the United States against COVID-19, with several grocery chains, including Meijer, signing up with the federal government to make their staff and facilities available to administer the shots.
Meijer is in a unique position to distribute COVID-19 inoculations as the nation's effort to defeat the pandemic picks up steam. The retailer, which has 256 locations in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin, is known for its large stores, some of which exceed 200,000 square feet — several times the size of the typical U.S. grocery store.
Those extra-large spaces present Meijer with the ability to safely operate COVID-19 vaccination clinics indoors in dedicated store areas during the cold winter months.
Meijer is also laying the groundwork to inoculate people against the disease at locations separate from its stores, using the 98 flu-shot clinics it held in Michigan in October and November as a model. The retailer provided more than 3,000 flu vaccines at the mobile clinics, which were held at venues including universities, food pantries, churches, apartment communities and sports arena parking lots.
Pharmacies, including those within grocery stores, traditionally administer the annual influenza shots that public health experts recommend to guard against the seasonal respiratory ailment, making them natural choices for public health officials looking for efficient ways to rapidly distribute COVID-19 shots.
The "vast majority" of people in the United States live within 5 miles of a pharmacy, according to Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. That agency, along with the Department of Defense, is leading Operation Warp Speed, the government's effort to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines, medicines and tests to combat COVID-19. According to the Food Industry Association (FMI), supermarket pharmacies distribute 20% of the flu shots given out in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recommended that pharmacists be included in the first group of people who receive COVID-19 vaccines, drawing praise from FMI.
In addition, many retailers have trained people to associate vaccination with shopping trips by offering financial incentives to encourage their shoppers to get inoculated against the flu. Meijer, which offers credits in its prescription rewards program to customers who opt to get a flu shot at its pharmacies, said in September that it expected to administer 75% more flu shots this year than in the past amid what it attributed to "a higher awareness of the need to be protected."
Like Meijer, other grocers are getting ready to administer the shots. Hy-Vee said earlier this month that it wants to hire 1,000 full- and part-time pharmacy technicians to assist in its effort to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Other grocers participating in the government's coronavirus vaccine rollout include Kroger, Albertsons, H-E-B, Costco, Publix, Walmart and Winn-Dixie.


Our treatments are designed to help our patients reach a maximum state of wellness – Not just mask the pain. We use our industry leading knowledge and tools to heal and strengthen your body.
Community Health & Rehab Centre or "CHRC" is a comprehensive outpatient treatment facility offering a full array of cutting-edge services.
Have you ever been in a car accident? Most of us have, but were you ever treated for any sort of spinal ligament damage? Probably not, because this sort of damage was very hard to medically diagnose– leaving us with chronic pain stemming from these forgotten accidents. That is, until now.
Per the peer reviewed medical literature, Chiropractic care is the answer to the Opioid Epidemic. Encourage your "MD" to prescribe you a visit to your Chiro before they send you to the pharmacy.
Dr. Mark Lesko is dedicated to providing his patients with the best possible care. Armed with decades of experience, an unrelenting desire to bring you the most cutting-edge care regiments and a compassionate team, you'll find results through innovative therapies at Community Health and Rehab.


Posted: 3rd Mar 2009 For the last week or two I've been training balancing on one foot then working that into Poi, and it's starting to pay off pretty well.
I mean, I've been training 1 foot balance casually my entire life, as most people prone to dance probably did growing up, but only after training it specifically for Poi is it really becoming apparent in the dancing aspect of Poi, like I might go off from a leg shift and just not touch down on the other side because I simply don't need to.
From leg transitions, not touching down opens up a lot of possibilities for artistic leg transitions into shifts which need two feet.
I don't know, this is just my experience, what are yours?
Posted: 3rd Mar 2009 My experience with this is limited. I'm not very stable on my feets... but I do really love lifting a leg and placing it on or around my knee while doing up/down stalls in the middle, while 'pinning' my head to the Poi travelling up and slightly across so that the Poi appears to draw me into that position.
Posted: 31st Jul 2009 When you can balance in this way try to extend your leg and keep it straight for a little while, If you can hold this pose long enough you can do very nice weaves under the leg.
If you practice extending a leg to the back while leaning forward you can weave or butterfly behind your back to give a birdlike image.
Or you could learn how to make large jumps.
seriously, one foot balance is always a good thing to train when working with Poi. it can give you static poses that have a dramatic effect on the crowd and can give you some breathing time between dance routines.
What is life, without a little risk!
Using the keywords [crane style] we found the following similar topics.


text:
NSU QB Adkins receives honors
Northwestern State QB Adkins receives LSWA, College Sporting News All-Stars honors
NSU QB Adkins receives honors Northwestern State QB Adkins receives LSWA, College Sporting News All-Stars honors Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/sports/college/nsu/2014/09/15/northwestern-state-qb-adkins-receives-honors/15701719/
Louisiana Published 10:23 p.m. CT Sept. 15, 2014
Zach Adkins(Photo: Courtesy)
NATCHITOCHES – After threatening two NCAA FCS passing accuracy records Saturday night to spearhead a 51-27 win over Southern in Baton Rouge, Northwestern State senior quarterback Zach Adkins was among five players named College Sporting News All-Stars among the nation's FCS ranks Monday for remarkable performances in last week's football games.
Adkins was voted the Louisiana Sports Writers Association state offensive player of the week, with the selection made by 15 media members around Louisiana.
Adkins completed 30 of 35 passes, including a school-record 19 in a row, and had four touchdown throws as the Demons raced to a 48-7 lead less than four minutes into the second half.
He was 17 for 17 in the second quarter as NSU expanded a 17-7 lead to 34-7 at halftime. The 17 completions were just three shy of the NCAA mark for most in a quarter (20 by Joe Walland of Yale in 1999 against Harvard, when he tried 33 in the third quarter). His last two completions in the streak helped the Demons stretch their advantage to an insurmountable 41-point margin early in the third quarter.
His 30 of 35 aim (85.7 percent) was close to the NCAA FCS record for completion percentage (91.4 percent, 32-35 by Quinn Epperly of Princeton against Cornell last season).
Adkins moved up to second nationally with his 72.3 completion percentage this season, which also included a sparkling 31 of 42 in the season opener against Missouri State. He broke the single-game school mark for completions in that contest.
He is eighth nationally in completions per game (22.7) and ninth in passing touchdowns (9) in this week's NCAA statistics.
Game-tying layup propels Pineville past West Monroe
LC baseball looks to build on record-setting 2019
LSUA men stay perfect in RRAC play
Thaxton terrific from deep as LSUA women defeat LSUS
Avoyelles finds a spot in boys Top 10 rankings
Avoyelles Charter makes big moves in girls Top 10


Bloomberg's Health Legacy: Urban Innovator or Meddling Nanny?
Michael Bloomberg leaves the mayoralty of New York City, with his health legacy is bitterly contested. The public health community views him as an urban innovator—a rare political and business leader willing to fight for a built environment conducive to healthier, safer lifestyles. To his distractors, however, Bloomberg epitomizes a meddling nanny—an elitist dictating to largely poor and working class people about how they ought to lead their lives. His policies have sparked intense public, corporate, and political ire—critical of sweeping mayoral power to socially engineer the city and its inhabitants.
Here, I seek to show how Bloomberg has fundamentally changed public health policy and discourse. He has used the engine of government to make New York City a laboratory for innovation—raising the visibility of public health, testing policy effectiveness, and probing the boundaries of state power. The courts have blocked some of his boldest initiatives, but he offered a paradigm for the "new public health"—reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat. I also critically probe various arguments designed to derail his policies (e.g., questions of policy consistency, scientific evidence, First Amendment claims, and civil liberties) along with the overarching charge of unjustified paternalism.
The article discusses key Bloomberg policies, including those in the areas of diet and nutrition (e.g., menu labeling, trans fat ban, and the soda portion limit); physical activity (e.g., bike and walking paths, safe school routes, parks); and tobacco control (smoke free laws, cigarette taxes, and advertising restrictions). A graphic categorizing his major health policies appears at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/gostin_hcr_bloombergshealthlegacy.html.
Gostin, Lawrence O., "Bloomberg's Health Legacy: Urban Innovator or Meddling Nanny?" (2013). O'Neill Institute Papers. 56.


text:
9 Dec, 2021 16:00
HomeBusiness News
Bitcoin could surge by another $500,000 under this condition
The price of bitcoin could skyrocket to more than $500,000 as institutional investors begin to allocate to the relatively new crypto space, the CEO of Ark Invest Cathie Wood told CNBC on Thursday.
According to Wood, institutions are always in search of investments that are unrelated to traditional asset classes like stocks and bonds. "I think institutions are moving in [to crypto] right now," Wood said, noting that they currently prefer the two largest cryptocurrencies, bitcoin and ether.
The reason institutions are moving in "is to some extent this is a new asset class with correlations very different compared to other asset classes," she explained.
'Bitcoin inventor' claims multibillion-dollar victory
Ark Invest's study has found that the asset with the closest correlation to bitcoin is real estate.
Wood said that, "Institutional managers have to look at new asset classes that are evolving, that have low correlations, that's the key to diversification, and it's the holy grail in terms of asset allocation."
The chief executive noted if institutions move roughly 5% of their portfolio to bitcoin over time, it would add $500,000 to the current price of bitcoin.
Bitcoin was trading down more than 5% on Thursday, above $48,000 per token as of 15:10 GMT.
For more stories on economy & finance visit RT's business section
Trends:Bitcoin newsCryptocurrency news
Brazilian freestyle queens show off incredible chest control – and one of them is so good she's beaten Neymar (VIDEO)
75 years later: Newly-released wartime docs debunk myths about WWII's liberation of Warsaw


text:
Watch You Me At Six and Oli Sykes perform 'Bite My Tongue' in new live video
The footage in the official video was captured when YMAS supported Bring Me The Horizon in London back in September
By Will Lavin
You Me At Six and Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes. CREDIT: Press
You Me At Six have shared a video of them performing 'Bite My Tongue' live in London with Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes – watch it below.
READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: You Me At Six's Josh Franceschi
The Surrey band hit the road with Bring Me The Horizon back in September alongside Nova Twins, performing gigs in Glasgow, Cardiff, Sheffield, Hull, Birmingham and London.
The London date took place at The O2 on September 26, where You Me At Six brought out Sykes to perform their 2011 collaboration 'Bite My Tongue'.
"We have all been caged up like animals for the past two years. But live music is back and it's back in style," YMAS frontman Josh Franceschi can be seen telling the London crowd in the new clip.
"This next song goes out to anybody in the audience who feels misunderstood, who feels misrepresented, or quite simply is sick and fucking tired of people in power making very bad decisions for us."
Shot and directed by Thomas Coe-Brooker, you can take watch the O2 performance below:
Elsewhere during the O2 gig, Bring Me The Horizon brought out Yungblud during their headline set to perform their 2020 collaboration 'Obey', taken from BMTH's 'POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR' EP.
Performed as the first song of the encore, the electric team up was met with a rapturous screams and applause. Midway through the song, BMTH frontman Oli Sykes told the crowd to "open this pit up," before asking: "Are you ready to die?"
Once the song was over, Yungblud and Oli embraced as the latter laid motionless on the floor. "Make some noise for Bring Me The Horizon," Yungblud screamed to the crowd.
'Bite My Tongue' featured on You Me At Six's third album 'Sinners Never Sleep', which was released on October 11, 2011. To celebrate the album's 10th anniversary, the band will release the LP on vinyl for the first time in May.
The vinyl will include an expanded coloured vinyl 3LP set featuring the entire album, the 2012 'The Final Night Of Sin At Wembley Arena' album, and a third LP of unreleased rarities.
In addition, You Me At Six will also release the standard 12-track album on 1LP, a 3CD deluxe package, and previously unseen bonus material.
They will also play the album in full at two huge shows at Leeds Temple Newsam and Hatfield Park in June.
Oli sykes


text:
VIDEO ARCHIVESCHEDULETOPICSABOUT FRONTLINEBUY DVDSTEACHERS
(5:02) An accountant for the Medellin drug cartel explains how he was asked by the CIA to provide funding to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
Produced and Written by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn
Directed by Leslie Cockburn
Tonight, on FRONTLINE: An investigation of the CIA and its role in international drug dealing.
VICTOR MARCHETTI
The history of the CIA runs parallel to criminal and drug operations throughout the world, but it's coincidental.
Is the CIA using drug money to finance covert operations?
RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ
Narcotics proceeds were used to shore up the Contra effort.
Something's wrong, something is really wrong out there.
Tonight, "Guns, Drugs and the CIA."
JUDY WOODRUFF
Good evening.
Two of the most persistent offensives of the Reagan presidency have been the war against communism in Central America and the war on drugs here at home.
But investigations of America's secret war in Nicaragua have revealed mounting evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency has been fighting the Contra war with the help of international drug traffickers.
It is not a new story.
Tonight's FRONTLINE investigation traces the CIA's involvement with drug lords back to the agency's birth following World War II. It is a long history that asks this question: "In the war on drugs, which side is the CIA on?"
Our program was produced by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn. It is called Guns, Drugs, and the CIA and is reported by Leslie Cockburn.
Ronald Reagan:
Illegal drugs are one thing that no community in America can, should, or needs to tolerate. America's already started to take that message to heart. That's why I believe the tide of battle has turned and we're beginning to win the crusade for a drug-free America.
U.S. Senator John Kerry:
The subcommittee on narcotics, terrorism, international operations will come to order. From what we have learned these past months, our declaration on war against drugs seems to have produced a war of words and not action. Our drugs seem to have produced a war of words and not action. Our borders are inundated with more narcotics than in anytime ever before. It seems as though stopping drug trafficking in the United States has been a secondary U.S. foreign policy objective, sacrificed repeatedly for other political and institutional goals such as changing the government of Nicaragua, supporting the government of Panama, using drug-running organizations as intelligence assets, and protecting military and intelligence sources from possible compromise through involvement in drug trafficking.
RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ, Government Witness
If we start with the premise that drug trafficking is morally reprehensible, our government agencies are not supposed to do anything like that, but they live in a practical world.
SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS
John Kerry:
Would you raise your right hand please.
Ramon Milian Rodriguez saw that world as the chief accountant of the Colombian cocaine cartel responsible for managing eleven billion dollars in drug profits. Now serving a forty-three year sentence for money laundering, he has been a key witness for a senate investigation probing links between drugs and the CIA.
Say for instance, the drug group was involved in a war with a terrorist group, a communist terrorist group, well, it would behove the CIA to give that drug group as much help and advice as possible so they could win their little war.
Victor Marchetti came to know the world of covert operations as a long time CIA officer. He is the highest ranking agency official ever to go public about what he learned.
VICTOR MARCHETTI, Central Intelligence Agency
It goes all the way back to the predecessor organization OSS and its involvement with the Italian mafia, the Cosa Nostra in Sicily and Southern Italy. Later on when they were fighting communists in France and--that they got in tight with the Corsican brotherhood. The Corsican brotherhood of course were big dope dealers. As things changed in the world the CIA got involved with the Kuomintang types in Burma who were drug runners because they were resisting the drift towards communism there. The same thing happened in Southeast Asia, later in Latin America. Some of the very people who are the best sources of information, who are capable of accomplishing things and the like happen to be the criminal element.
WILLIAM COLBY, Former Director, CIA
CIA has had a solid rule against being involved in drug trafficking. That's not to say that some of the people who CIA has used or been in touch with over the years may well have themselves been involved in drug traffic, but not the CIA.
If the CIA is going to, if their job is to maintain the safety of our country and freedom by manipulating foreign powers to do what this country wants, and if the guy who's holding the power at that particular moment happens to be a drug lord, then you have to get involved with the drug lord.
As a result, we kept getting involved with these kinds of people, not for drug purposes and not for personal gain but to achieve a higher ideological goal.
In a refugee camp in Northeast Thailand, there live the remnants of one such involvement. They are the Hmong or Meo Tribe. While American troops were fighting in Vietnam, these people were the foot soldiers of a secret CIA army. They fought in undeclared war in Northern Laos, across the border from North Vietnam.
GENERAL RICHARD SECORD
They're hill people, they're little guys. Like most hill people they're pretty fierce. In Laos we were the guerrillas. The war in Laos was a textbook example of what can be done in unconventional warfare.
General Richard Secord is one of the many veterans of the CIA secret war in Laos. Because Laos was officially neutral, American troops could not be used. The CIA relied on massive air power and a tribal army to fight the local communists and the North Vietnamese.
On the ground in Northern Laos, a handful of CIA officers directed as many as eighty-five thousand soldiers drawn from the mountain tribes. But American officials did more than just send their allies into battle.
RON RICKENBACH, Former Official, U.S. Agency for International Development
Early on, I think that we all believed that what we were doing was in the best interests of America, that we were in fact perhaps involved in some not so desirable aspects of the drug traffic, however we believed strongly in the beginning that we were there for a just cause.
Ron Rickenbach served in Laos as an official for the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1962 to 1969. He was on the front lines.
RON RICKENBACH
These people were willing to take up arms. We needed to stop the Red threat and people believed that in that vein we made, you know, certain compromises or certain trade-offs for a larger good. Growing opium was a natural agricultural enterprise for these people and they had been doing it for many years before the Americans ever got there. When we got there they continued to do so.
RICHARD SECORD
When they would move from one place to another they would carry their little bags of opium, they smoked it in pipes. And opium could be bought in the streets of any village.
FRED PLATT, Former Pilot, Laos
When a farmer raised a crop of opium, what he got for his year's worth of work was the equivalent of thirty-five to forty U.S. dollars. That amount of opium, were it refined into morphine base, then into morphine, then into heroin and appeared on the streets of New York, that thirty-five dollar crop of opium would be worth fifty, sixty, a hundred thousand dollars in 1969 dollars--maybe a million dollars today.
The war isolated the Meo tribespeople in their remote villages. CIA-owned Air America planes became their only life line to the outside world. While Meo children came to believe that rice fell from the sky, Meo farmer witnesses could count on Air America to move their cash crop.
It was then the presence of these air support services in and out of the areas in question where the product, where the opium was grown that greatly facilitated an increase in production and an ease of transhipment from the point of agriculture to the point of processing. So, when I say the Americans greased the wheels, essentially what I'm saying is we did not create opium production. We did not create a situation where drug trafficking was happening. But because of the nature of our presence, this very intense American means that was made available to the situation it accelerated in proportion dramatically.
The possibility that Air America flew drugs is still hotly disputed by many former senior officers.
You can question any number of people who were there, who actually were there, not people who claim that they had some knowledge of rumors, you can question any number of people and I venture to say they will all support what I'm saying, and that is that there was no commercial trade in opium going on.
I was on the airstrip, that was my job, to move in and about and to go from place to place and my people were in charge of dispatching aircraft. I was in the areas where opium was transshipped, I personally was a witness to opium being placed on aircraft, American aircraft. I witnessed it being taken off smaller aircraft that were coming in from outlying sites.
NEIL HANSEN, Former Pilot, Air America
Yes I've seen the sticky bricks come on board and no one was challenging their right to carry it. It was their own property.
Neil Hansen is a former senior Air America pilot, now serving a sentence for smuggling cocaine.
NEIL HANSEN
We were some sort of a freebie airline in some respects there, whoever the customer or the local representative put on the airplane we flew.
Primarily it was transported on our smaller aircraft, the Helios, the Porters and the things like that would visit the little outlying villages. They would send their opium to market.
From the villages, the planes carried their cargo over the mountains to Long Chien, CIA headquarters for the war. It was a secret city. Unmarked on any map and carefully hidden from outsiders, Long Chien became one of the busiest airports in the world, with hundreds of landings and takeoffs a day.
ED DEARBORN, Former Pilot, Air America
At the height of the war when there were thousands of people in there, there were villages all over, there were landing pads up on what we called Skyline drive which was the ridge on the north side of Long Chien. T-28s were going in and out of there, C-130s were going in and out of there. It was an amazing place, just amazing.
Ed Dearborn is a veteran of Long Chien and Air America. A key figure in the covert air operation.
ED DEARBORN
From a sleepy little valley and village you know, surrounded by the mountains and the karst, this great war machine actually was working up there.
It was the heart and pulse of Laos at that time, more commonly referred to as the CIA's secret base you now, heh heh heh.
To lead their Meo army, the CIA selected Vang Pao, a former lieutenant in the French colonial army in Laos. The agency made very effort to boost his reputation.
CIA FILM
His name was Vang Pao, a charismatic, passionate and committed man. A patriot without a country.
Vang Pao, however, did more than just lead his people in war. According to observers he and his officers dominated the trade in the Meo farmers' cash crop. In 1968, one visitor got a first-hand look at this trade in the village called Long Pot.
JOHN EVERINGHAM, Photographer
I was given the guest bed in the village, in fact the district headman's house, and I ended up sharing it with a guy in military uniform who I later found out was an officer of the Vang Pao army and one morning I was awoken very early by this great confusion of people and noise at the bottom of the bed, just, literally people brushing against my feet with the packets of black sticky substance in bamboo tubes and wrapped up in leaves and bits and things and the military officer who was there was weighing it out and paying off a considerable amount of money to these people and this went on for most of the morning and it went on for several mornings he brought up a great deal of this substance which I then started to think about and asked and had it confirmed that this was in fact raw opium.
War photographer John Everingham has lived in Southeast Asia for over twenty years. He was one of the very few outsiders who dared to look for and photograph the secret army for himself.
John Everingham:
They all wore American supplied uniforms and the villagers very innocently and very openly told me, "oh they took it to Long Chien," and I asked them how they took it and they said, "oh well they took it on the helicopters as everything else that went to and from Long Chien went by helicopter and so did the opium."
Frontline:
And whose helicopters were they?
Well they were the Air America helicopters which were on contract to the CIA.
We did not go down to the embassy and be privy to their secret briefings or anything else. We flew the airplanes. If they put something on the airplanes and told you not to look at it you didn't look at it, because you'd no longer be employed.
JOHN EVERINGHAM
I know as a fact soon after the army was formed the military officers soon got control of the opium trade. It helped not only them make a lot of money and become good loyal officers to the CIA but it helped the villagers. The villagers needed their opium carried out and carried over the land in a war situation that was much more dangerous and more difficult, and the officers were obviously paying a good price 'cos the villagers were very eager to sell to the military people.
HARRY ADERHOLT, U.S. General
That's hogwash. No way and as far as the agency ever, ever advocating that is do you think I would be in an organization where I've devoted my life to my country--involved in a operation like that without blowing the whistle?--absolutely not.
For veterans like General Aderholt and General Secord the war in Laos is now commemorated at nostalgic reunions. Last fall they gathered at a Florida air base to talk over old times and current business.
While Vang Pao does not attend such functions, he is well remembered by his old comrades.
Was the agency responsible for people's salaries, were they paying Vang Pao?
Harry Aderholt:
Of course, they were a hundred percent responsible, because Vang Pao was responding to agency requirements, even though they may have come from the highest levels of the U.S. government, yes, of course.
He was in the chain of command.
Did you work with Vang Pao?
Richard Secord:
Sure, all the time.
What was your relationship?
I was his supplier of air, therefore he stayed in close contact with me.
Were you in charge of supplying Air America planes?
For the tactical air operations, yes.
The movement of Air America planes say witnesses were influenced by Vang Pao's business requirements.
Ron Rickenbach:
Vang Pao wanted control of the aircraft-- sure, he would do the work that needed to be done but it would give that much more freedom and that much more flexibility to use these aircraft to go out and pick up the opium that needed to be picked up at this site or that site and to bring it back to Long Chien, and there was quite a hassle and Vang Pao won. Not only did he get control of the aircraft, but there was also a question of the operational control of the airplanes that were leaving Long Chien to go south, even into Thailand, and there was an embarrassing situation where the Americans knew that this could be exposed and it would be a very compromising situation. The way they got around that was to concede, to create for Vang Pao his own local airline, and Xieng Kouang airlines came into reality as a direct result of this compromise that was worked out, and they brought in a C-47 from the states and they painted it up nice and put Xieng Kouang airlines on it and they gave it to Vang Pao, and that aircraft was largely used for the transshipment of opium from Long Chien to sites further south.
Air Opium?
Air opium.
Those airlines didn't really belong to General Vang Pao.
They belonged to the agency.
They belonged to the agency. They were maintained by the United States government in the form of Air America or Continental, so they didn't really own anything. It wasn't something he could take away with him, it was something that we controlled every iota of that operation, lock, stock and barrel.
You know what the nickname for that airline was?
Opium Air.
I've never heard that before.
Back in the old days the men who flew for Air America and drank in the Purple Porpoise Bar in Vientiane were less discreet.
Most of them are long gone and far away from Laos now but one legendary CIA officer still lives across the Mekong River close to his old mountain battleground.
The man that was in charge of that local operation was a man by the name of Tony Poe, and he was notorious. He had been involved with the agency from the OSS days he was a World War II combat veteran and he had been with the agency from its inception and he was the prototype operations officer. They made a movie about him when they made Apocalypses Now. He was the caricature of Marlon Brando.
Until now, Tony Poe has never talked publicly about the Laos operation. He saw it from beginning to end. one of Vang Pao's early case officers, Poe claims he was transferred from Long Chien because unlike his successors, he refused to tolerate the Meo leader's corruption.
TONY POE, Former CIA Officer
You don't let him run loose without a chain on him. You gotta control him just like any kind of an animal or a baby. You have to control him. Hey! He's the only guy that had a pair of shoes when I first met him--what are you talking about, why does he need Mercedes Benz, apartments and hotels and homes where he never had them in his life before. Why are you going to give it to him?
Plus he was making money on the side with his business?
Tony Poe:
Oh, he was making millions, 'cos he had his own source of, uh, avenue for his own, uh, heroin.
What did he do with the money?
What do you mean? U.S. bank accounts, Switzerland, wherever.
Didn't they know, when Vang Pao said 'I want some aircraft', didn't they know what he wanted that for?
I'm sure we all knew it, but we tried to monitor it, because we controlled most of the pilots you see. We're giving him freedom of navigation into Thailand, into the bases, and we don't want him to get involved in moving, you know, this illicit traffic--O.K., silver bars and gold, O.K., but not heroin. What they would do is, they weren't going into Thailand, they were flying it in a big wet wing airplane that could fly for thirteen hours, a DC-3, and all the wings were filled with gas. They fly down to Pakse, then they fly over to Da Nang, and then the number two guy to President Thieu would receive it.
Nguyen Van Thieu was president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. Reports at the time accused president Thieu of financing his election through the heroin trade. Like Vang Pao, he always denied it, remaining America's honored and indispensable ally.
They were all in a contractual relationship:Some of this goes to me, some of this goes to thee. And you know just the bookkeeping--we deliver you on a certain day; they had coded messages and di-di-di. That means so and so as this much comes back and goes into our Swiss bank account. Oh they had a wonderful relationship and every, maybe, six months they'd all come together, have a party somewhere and talk about their business:is it good or bad. It is like a mafia, yeah, a big organized mafia.
By the end of 1970, there were thirty thousand Americans in Vietnam addicted to heroin. GI's were dying from overdoses at the rate of two a day.
WILLIAM COLBY
When the drug traffic became a real problem to the American troops in Vietnam, then the CIA was asked by President to get involved in the program to limit that traffic and stop it.
But in 1972, a U.S. intelligence agent in Southeast Asia sent a secret field report to customs. It suggested a serious conflict of interest: quote--"It was ironic that the CIA should be given the responsibility of narcotics intelligence, particularly since they were supporting the prime movers. Even though the CIA was, in fact, facilitating the movement of opiates to the U.S., they steadfastly hid behind the shield of secrecy and said that all was done in the interest of national security." End quote.
I doubt that they had any strong deep understanding of what they were allowing to happen by turning their head the other way and letting Vang Pao ship his dope out which was made into heroin which was going to our troops, which was corrupting people throughout Southeast Asia and back here, the effect it had on crime, I doubt that any one of them really thought in those terms at the time.
While the heroin trade was flourishing by 1970, the war in Laos was going badly. As the communists steadily advanced, the civilian population faced a choice between evacuation to refugee camps or being bombed by the U.S. Air Force. These operations only added to the huge cost of feeding, training and supplying the secret army. For a war that did not officially exist, the CIA was spending heavily.
The money was always there. We had a program--In fact, that's the reason the agency supply system was so much better than the military supply system.
Cash?
Cash. They didn't have to go through a procurement system, a bureaucracy, that made everything cost three times as much.
Fred Platt:
On two different occasions I brought bags up that I knew was payroll. Wish I'd have crashed on those times, and been able to stick that somewhere in the jungle and go get it, 'cos it was unaccounted funds.
How much money would be in a bag?
Well I--you know, a bag would probably have a couple of hundred thousand dollars in it, depending on where you were going with it and who it was going to.
I was sitting up there in the Director's--on the Director's staff, and that's where it all came together.
The CIA Director's senior staff prepared the agency's official budget.
Victor Marchetti:
For Laos, I think it was around thirty million, perhaps forty million, but it was very small.
Was that enough to run this war?
Well, I don't think so. I would think the war was costing quite a big, probably--if all the costs were pulled together, I would imagine it would probably cost as much as the entire agency's budget.
How was the war in Laos financed?
U.S. appropriated funds.
Through which agency?
I think through the CIA and through the Defense Department both.
A secret Pentagon report put the Defense Department contribution to the war in Laos at a hundred and forty-six million dollars in 1970. But the report also showed that the CIA was spending up to sixty million dollars more than they were getting from Congress.
Well, there may have been other funds generated by Vang Pao himself through his dope operations. After all I mean they were poppy growers and opium smugglers, so I imagine there was money being earned that way that was Vang Pao's contribution to the war.
Is it conceivable that the CIA would fight a war with dope money?
Well, yes, in the sense that they would not sell dope to earn money to support an operation. But they would look the other way if the people they were supporting were financing themselves by selling dope.
General Vang Pao was financed by U.S. government funds.
How much was he getting?
I don't know what General Vang Pao was getting, but the Meo program, I'm sure, ran several hundred million dollars. At the end, to fight a war like we were fighting, and to have an airline...I don't know what the funding was, but I'm sure the Congressional Committees have access to those records.
As a former chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Narcotics, Joe Nellis did indeed have access to the records.
Joe Nellis:
Vang Pao had a heavy hand in the production of heroin in that area.
How much of the money that was going to pay these thousands and thousands of tribesmen to fight for us, for the CIA. Where was that money coming from?
From the trade.
From the opium trade?
Yes surely.
How would that work?
Well, money would be paid for the transportation, and the safe arrival of the merchandise to its proper destination, and that money would be paid to the carrier, the person transporting the merchandise and that money would be used to pay off the farmers. But as I told you, they got so little of it that there was an enormous amount left over, and it was that money was used to feed to the peasants in order to get them to continue not only fighting for us but also continuing to give us very important intelligence about the movement of the North Vietnamese.
We wouldn't have permitted it, it would have been too dangerous.
Because the American system wouldn't put up with it.
I have never revealed any classified information that I obtained when I was with the committee and I'm not going to start now, but I do know that that was verified.
That it was known here?
Well, without getting into classified information, was that at a high level or a low level?
Well, I can't discuss the level. Let's put it this way; you're familiar with the Iran-Contra business.
That was known at a very high level, it was known at all sorts of levels really--it's amazing that they could keep it secret as long as they did, and I guess that was the situation with Air America. People in CIA certainly knew it, and at that time Dick Helms I think was the head of the office, and I'm sure he must have reported it to Nixon.
Former CIA Director Richard Helms told us: "I knew nothing of this. It certainly was not policy."
It's patently impossible. There are thousands of people involved in the intelligence community in the United States who read the reports, who are intimately familiar with details of field activities, and no such operation could ever be kept secret from the authorities in Washington, and would never be tolerated, never, not for a minute.
How many people knew what was going on?
Oh I don't think it was very many at all--
Five?
--A handful--
Ten?
--A handful, maybe a hundred.
I personally did not complain, not at the time. I certainly complained after the fact, but that came as a result of my own awakening as to the rather horrible implications of what we were doing and I left working for the government rather abortively because I just could not tolerate myself-what was going on.
His disgust was not only at the drug trade, but at the human cost of a war in which the recruits were as young as eight years old.
These people were absolutely decimated. The war itself took its own toll. Thousands and thousands of these people were either maimed or killed or died of disease or malnutrition secondary to the effects of the war. Many were bombed, many were blown away by conflict and combat. What was left after the war was the exodus to the south or to the west.
These people have had their whole life destroyed for helping out in our war. For helping out in our war.
By 1981, six years after leaving Laos, the CIA was fighting another secret war, this time in Central America. The secret army were the Contras, fighting to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. Once again, they were trained and equipped by the CIA. It was time for the old hands to go to work again.
It's an irregular war in Central American, and there aren't a lot of people who have experience in irregular warfare, paramilitary warfare, so it would be natural to see people who are experienced in this kind of operation utilized again.
It's the old boy network as somebody called it one time. The call goes out and who's got the experience? It's the same war, different place and different names. We're not speaking Laotian, we're speaking Spanish now, but it's the same darn war, I don't care what anybody says.
Eugene Hasenfus was just one of a number of veterans from Laos who answered the call in Central America. When his plane was shot down over Nicaragua in October 1986, an Air America handbook turned up in the wreckage. Hasenfus had operated out of the Illopango Airbase in El Salvador, headquarters for the White House Contra resupply network. His commander there had been a veteran of another old CIA network. Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban American, had been sent down from Miami.
The feeling that I see now in the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, I know their experience, because I was left inside once, and I wanted to help them as much as I could.
Like Rodriguez, the Miami Cubans of Brigade 2506 are still ready to support the anti-communist cause, thirty years after their failed invasion of Cuba. They were willing recruits for the CIA's war against Nicaragua. The Brigade supplied soldiers in the field, commanders and fundraisers for the Contra cause.
The Brigade had been created and trained by the CIA for the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. After their defeat the CIA continued to maintain and use this skilled force of covert operators, wherever they were needed. Their numbers grew into the thousands. They had their own navy, as well as other assets provided by the CIA, including businesses and banks.
Manuel Artime:
I was in charge...
Manuel Artime was the agency's favorite Cuban, handpicked to command both the Bay of Pigs and the covert operations that followed. In 1972, he recruited and arranged CIA training for a brilliant young accountant called Ramon Milian Rodriguez.
Ramon Milian Rodriguez:
He ran covert operations out of Miami for the CIA.
So Artime had a whole group of people who were his people?
Milian Rodriguez:
Oh yes, Artime ran a very large operation, it was very large. It was very active, all over Central and South America.
A lot of Cubans go to work with the Central Intelligence Agency in foreign operations.
He was in charge of, among other things, the Watergate burglars and things like that.
Did you launder any money for the Watergate guys?
I made payments for the Watergate burglars, yes. I start out in life in one scandal and I've ended it in another, it seems. After Watergate, the group that Manuel Artime was running in Miami was disbanded. The fact that the burglars were Cuban really hurt in Miami, so you had a situation where people were laid off. They were just given the assets. For instance, if you were running a print shop, you kept the print shop. If you had a boat, as there were many boats for surveillance and intelligence, you just kept the boat. That was really the starting off point where you got some well trained people into the drug business.
Many, many Cubans worked for a time in that time. Some of them have become very successful good American citizens. Others have become gangsters.
But with a secret Contra was to fight, the agency was more interested in covert skills than good citizenship, particularly when it came to raising money. Ramon Milian Rodriguez was ideally placed. With access to the limitless resources of the Medellin cocaine cartel, he had no problem raising cash.
You've been a supporter living in the Cuban community, passionately anti-communist and anti-Castro. You've also been a supporter of the Contras. Is that accurate?
Are you aware whether or not narcotics proceeds at some time may or may not have supported Contra efforts?
Yes sir. Narcotics proceeds were used to shore up the Contra effort.
Did you personally play a role in some of the transfer of that money?
In 1984, when Congress cut off Contra funding, the White House turned to other sources for support. According to documents, Ramon Milian Rodriguez had been laundering foreign payments for the CIA up through 1982, at the same time as he was laundering cash for the cocaine cartel. He says the CIA turned to him again.
MILIAN RODRIGUEZ
To have people like me in place that can be used, is marvelous for them. The agency, and quite rightly so, has things that they have to do which they can never admit to an oversight committee, all right, and the only way they can fund these things is through drug money or through illicit money that they can get their hands on in some way.
KERRY HEARINGS
John Kerry (in hearings):
Was any of the money traceable to drugs or to drug related transactions?
The money that we--you're taIking about the money that we provided?
No sir.
And why was that?
Because we're experts at what we do.
JOSE BLANDON
Who is Ramon Milian Rodriguez?
Jose Blandon:
He worked for the Cartel.
So he was laundering money for the cartel?
And he worked with Noriega?
Until last year, Jose Blandon was General Manuel Noriega's head of political intelligence in Panama. He was a key U.S. government witness for the grand jury that indicted Noriega for drug trafficking.
General Noriega was more than ready to support the Reagan administration in the Contra war after Congress cut off funding.
How important was Noriega to the White House in the Contra resupply effort?
He play a key role in the supply of arms to the Contras.
So when various administration officials like Oliver North met with General Noriega, did they know that he was involved in narcotics trafficking?
I think that the United States had information that Noriega is involved in drugs since at least eight years.
Eight years?
Yes, so they knew about that.
Were they just looking the other way on his drug trafficking?
The problem is that for the white House, I mean for the administration, the Reagan administration, Nicaragua was so important. The focus of all the foreign policy of the United States in Central America was Nicaragua and the fight against the communists, so for them drugs was something in second place.
Drugs took second place?
Noriega's Contra support earned him powerful friends in Washington, including the CIA Director William Casey. Noriega was on his payroll at a reported two hundred thousand dollars a year.
That was a very special relationship.
What kind of special relationship?
Well, Noriega talked with Casey and they had at least, that I know, more than three meetings. And he always received the support of Casey.
What kind of support from Casey?
All kinds of support. Political support. So when somebody tried to investigate anything, Casey stopped it, look this is a very important person in this war
So Casey would actually stop investigations of Noriega?
Yes, he was a man that helped Noriega very much.
According to Blandon, Noriega was not the only drug trafficker to reap the rewards of Contra support. The cocaine cartel also saw the advantages of backing U.S. policy.
That's the reason why the Cartel of Medellin decided in 1983 to cooperate with the Contras.
So you're saying that in 1983 the Cartel started supporting the Contras?
And the reason was because they knew that they could therefore get protection?
How did they help them out? Was it arms, plus cash, or was it jut arms? How did that work?
They work in different ways. First, they established the network to supply arms, and also they pay in cash.
General Paul Gorman:
If one wants to organize an armed resistance or an armed undertaking for any purpose; the easy place to get the money, the easy places to get the guns are in the drug world.
General Paul Gorman was the commander of the U.S. southern command, based in Panama, from 1982 to 1985.
PAUL GORMAN
The most ready source of money, big money, easy money, fast money, sure money, cash money is the narcotics racket.
General Gorman was asked whether the Contras could have relied on drug cash.
Based on your knowledge of how it works and what you understood from your experience down there, it wouldn't surprise you?
Paul Gorman:
Not at all, particularly if they'd been on somebody's payroll and had their funds cut off. It would be the natural recourse of those people.
How much money was actually contributed by you or through you for the Contras, total?
It was a little under ten million dollars.
I presume it wasn't all sent in one suitcase.
Oh no no. It was delivered on a per need basis. You know, they'd say we need so much at such a location and we'd take care of the logistics of it.
Milian Rodriguez says he used a series of Cuban controlled front companies in Miami and Costa Rica to funnel the ten million dollars to the Contra cause. These fronts ranged from banks to obscure fish companies located in out of the way Miami shopping centers or in provincial port towns in Costa Rica. The route for the drug cash was carefully disguised.
Are you familiar with the name of a company called Frigirificos de Puntarenas.
Yes sir, I am.
What is that company?
Well it's a shrimp processing warehouse, but more importantly, was one of the fronts that we used.
Did you set it up? What role did you play in it?
I was the key person in setting up the interlocking chain of companies around Frigorificos de Puntarenas.
Were payments or arrangements made by which the Contras could receive money through Frigorificos?
If you add up what it cost to run the Contra operation and you get to a bottom line figure, and you deduct from that the known sources, you're going to have a tremendous deficit and I think the question has to be where...you know, how was the deficit taken care of?
There was a deficit?
they realized that.
And we took care of it.
IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS
Congressman Les Aspin:
I've been spending some time looking at the numbers here of the amount of aid that the Contras were getting at various time and I come to the conclusion that we're missing something, that there's got to be another source of funding for the Contras other than those which this committee has so far identified.
Last summer, the Iran Contra committees were aware that there had been an unacknowledged source of money from somewhere.
Congressman Aspin:
I think there's got to be some other source of funds that we, we meaning this committee has not yet uncovered.
Admiral Poindexter:
Well I don't think I can help you there, I don't know of anything else.
The war cost so much every day.
They were getting a certain amount, thanks to you, through Switzerland.
Any many others, yes.
And many others. But the war cost more than that.
Do you have any idea how much more it cost?
Well I think, uh--Director Casey asked me that, a similar question in the spring of '86 I think it was an I told him that I thought that the Contra effort would need a minimum of ten million dollars over the next three months over and above the monies that we could apply in order to hang in there through the summer months til the Congress would act. There was some expectation in the White House I guess, and in State, that the Congress would act much sooner than they acted. Things were going downhill rapidly.
Senator D'Amato:
Did the people who received this money, were they aware of the fact that this was drug money, the proceeds came from drug money?
I--let's put it like this, Senator D'Amato, the Contra peasant in the field did not but the men who made the contact with me did. At that time I was under indictment, I mean I was red hot.
His arrest was well publicized. The five million dollars seized with him brought Vice President Bush to Miami to pose with what the money launderer termed his petty cash.
Did Ramon Milian Rodriguez have any friends who were working in the Contra resupply network?
Who would that have been?
Felix Rodriguez.
Felix Rodriguez?
A veteran of the Artime organization and the CIA, Felix Rodriguez was a key member of the White House resupply network. The Senate was told by the money launderer that it was Felix Rodriguez who solicited the drug cash.
You have a fellow that's a tremendous patriot, like Felix Rodriguez, who has sacrificed his personal needs for the cause of fighting communism and all of a sudden he finds himself in a position where his troops are going to run out of money. They won't have money for bullets, for food, for medicine. I think in the case of Felix it might have been something done out of desperation, they had to get money and they were willing to get it from any source to continue their war.
When they go on the offense they burn up a lot of ammunition, weapons, they need a lot of air resupply, radios, uniforms, boots, food, and all this stuff. You know, the cost just goes up.
Well there were allegations that Felix Rodriguez was desperately trying to make up that deficit.
If he was it certainly didn't come to our attention.
So you have no knowledge of it?
No, not at all.
Well the allegations are that he tried to make up the deficit by soliciting money from drug traffickers.
Well I thought you were circling back to that but certainly we didn't hear anything like that at the time. As I said Felix is no friend of mine but I'd be astonished if he were involved with drug traffickers, I really would.
When General Noriega told you that Felix Rodriguez was friendly with Ramon Milian Rodriguez, were you surprised to hear that Felix Rodriguez would be involved with a drug traffickers?
Surprised? Why?
According to Blandon, while Felix Rodriguez was supplying the Contras from Illopango, he was receiving arms shipments with the help of this man: Mike Harare, a former Israeli intelligence agent and a key aide to General Noriega. Harare, says Blandon, was also in business for the cocaine cartel, using the same network to ship arms and drugs, all with the sanction of the CIA.
Did he get involved with narcotics trafficking in the course of helping to supply the Contras with weapons?
Yes, that was part of the business.
So he was moving cocaine --
--Yes--
--From Colombia to the United States?
No. They moved the cocaine from Colombia to Panama, to the airstrips in Costa Rica or Honduras to the United States.
At the same time as he was gathering up arms for the Contras?
Where were the arms coming from?
From Yugoslavia, and from the East bloc, the communist countries
From 1983 to 1985, says Blandon, this network, supported by Israeli and U.S. intelligence was a major source of arms for the Contras.
Harare, the Israeli, who was working with Noriega, was working with Felix Rodriguez?
And Harare at the same time was involved with drug trafficking?
Who was Felix Rodriguez working for, or with, when he approached you?
Well the only government mention he made was Vice President Bush.
And what was his relationship with Bush as you understood it?
He was reporting directly to Bush. I was led to believe he was reporting regularly to the Vice President.
He was in touch with the VP's office on a number of occasions. I really don't know, I've never understood that relationship.
The request for the contribution made a lot more sense because Felix was reporting to George Bush. If Felix had come to me and said I'm reporting to anyone else, let's say, you know, Oliver North, I might have been more skeptical, I didn't know who Oliver North was and I didn't know his background. But you know, if you have a...let's say we'll call him an ex-CIA operative, even though it's not true you know, he's a current operative...
Felix. You know, everyone says he's ex-CIA--
This is Felix Rodriguez--
--Yeah, there's nothing ex about him. But if you have a CIA, what you consider to be a CIA man coming to you saying 'I want to fight this war, we're out of funds, can you help us out. I'm reporting directly to Bush on it', I mean it's very real, very believable, here you have a CIA guy reporting to his old boss.
This February 1985 memo from General Paul Gorman confirms that Bush and the Cuban had known each other for years, and that Rodriguez' primary responsibility was Nicaragua and the Contra FDN forces.
Rodriguez quote "is operating as a private citizen, but his acquaintanceship with the Vice President is real enough, going back to the latter's days as Director of Central Intelligence. Rodriguez' primary commitment to the region is in Nicaragua, where he wants to assist the FDN."
Iran Contra investigator:
Did you say anything to Vice President Bush about your activities on behalf of this resupply operation?
Felix Rodriguez:
No sir, not to him or anyone on his staff.
But when Hasenfus was shot down, the first call that Rodriguez made from Central America was to a staffer of Vice President Bush. Questions about that call forced the Bush office to put out a summary, listing seventeen meetings with Rodriguez, including three with Bush himself. Nevertheless the Vice President has insisted that these contacts with Rodriguez concerned only El Salvador, not the Contras.
He wasn't selling drugs. We were, you know, he was just raising money, tainted money granted, but for a very good cause.
Felix Rodriguez claims he met with the cartel's money launderer only once, and never solicited cash.
We permitted narcotics we were complicitous as a country in narcotics traffic at the same time as we're spending countless dollars in this country to try to get rid of this problem. It's mind boggling.
Is the war on drugs a big priority in this country, really?
Oh no, no, it's largely a joke. There is no war on drugs. No president who's ever announced one has ever fought one, and no President who's ever announced one has ever given the soldiers the ammunition with which to fight one.
The intelligence agencies of this country by God should be involved in this battle instead of working with the scum of the earth, which they've been doing. They should be involved in this battle as a crusade for the survival of this country and this hemisphere.
I don't know if we've got the worst intelligence system in the world, I don't know if we've got the best and they knew it all and just overlooked it. But no matter how you look at it, something's wrong. Something is really wrong out there.
Now, you can deny U.S. government involvement in drugs all you wanted, but the patterns are there and the players are there popping up again and, you know, eventually somebody's going to realize what the truth is.
This summer, both Ramon Milian Rodriguez and Felix Rodriguez are expected to testify publicly in front of Senator Kerry's committee about the drug cartel's alleged 10 million dollar contribution to the Contras.
Vice President Bush declined to be interviewed for this program or to reply to FRONTLINE's written questions about his relationship with Felix Rodriguez.
Thank you for joining us. I'm Judy Woodruff. Good night.
home · drug warriors · $400bn business · buyers · symposium · special reports
npr reports · interviews · addiction · archive · video · quizzes · charts · timeline
teacher's guide · tapes & transcripts · press · credits
FRONTLINE · pbs online · wgbh
web site copyright 1995-2014 WGBH educational foundation.


text:
Q: Wiped data, and duplicated folders into files Something weird happened today, and I dont know how. Within a folder, all folders have a file by the same name, with a colon appended to it. And all the files from the most inner-most directory in my home, have been dumped to ~, with a size of 0 bytes.

I have not executed any scripts or anything. I was just checking out some easter eggs, namely the gegls from outer space and free the fish and was away from the computer and was logged because of the screensaver. I couldnt log-back in with my password, so I just reset the PC, and while booting, the PC went into a drive check. BUT, IIRC, i saw the duplicate "folder files" before I had logged out, so thats not the reason! All the files have a timestamp of 14 Jan. Also, the contents of my eclipse folder have been dumped into ~. Right down to the jars and ini files.
HELP!

A: You can delete all files ending with : with this command:
find -name *: | xargs rm

You should execute find -name *: first to check what will be removed.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
The Rafto Prize
The Prize Commitee
The Rafto Prize Fund
Partnership for Human Rights
Project Manager Women`s Network
Ingrid Breisteinslien Rosland
Tel: +47 928 88 542 | ingrid.rosland@rafto.no
Project Manager of Women`s Network and activities related to women Rafto laureates and human rights defenders.
Ingrid B. Rosland is the project manager of the Women´s Network and is also responsible for the follow up of, and collaboration with, Rafto prize laureates from MENA and Asia. She is engaged in the work for women´s human rights and has a special focus on women human rights defenders in MENA and Southeast Asia.
Rosland has an MA from University of Bergen in the Nordic Master program Religious Roots of Europe, where she focused on Islam and reinterpretation of Islamic law. She also has a BA in Arabic from the University of Bergen. Rosland started working in the Rafto Foundation upon finishing her studies and became part of the work on the initial phase of the Women´s Network.
The Rafto Foundation
The Rafto Foundation is a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to the global promotion of human rights.


On 2 September 2012, the pilot of a Cessna 172S aircraft, registered VH-EOP, was returning to Moorabbin Airport, Victoria, after having conducted a navigation training flight.
During the landing, the pilot attempted to initiate the hold-off by applying rearward pressure on the control column. The pilot reported that the column was 'stuck' and would not move. An excessive rate of sink occurred, resulting in a hard landing. After bouncing twice, the pilot applied left rudder and the aircraft veered off the runway, coming to rest on a grassed area. The aircraft sustained substantial damage.


text:
Gary Bettman Speaks Out in Favor of Sports Betting, But Only if the NHL Gets a Piece
Cort Smith Read More
Gary Bettman remains opposed to legalized sports betting, unless of course his league gets a piece of the action.
Gary Bettman is insisting that NHL get a piece of any sports betting action. (Source: The Star)
The NHL Commissioner made his most significant comments on the topic since the Supreme Court handed down a May ruling which allows states to create their own regulatory framework around sports betting.
Speaking on Podcast One Sports Now, Bettman made it clear that his attitude towards legal wagering on hockey games remains the same, while also acknowledging that things have changed.
"We've historically been opposed to extending sports betting on our game, and emotionally I don't think that's changed," he said to podcast host Larry Lage. "It is a fact of life in light of the Supreme Court's ruling, and it'll be up to states to decide whether or not they're going to enact sports betting.
It's not exactly a ringing endorsement of sports betting, but it does signal that Bettman is at least open to playing the game.
Beyond Integrity Fees
In the months leading up to the Supreme Court ruling, much was made over the issue of integrity fees. Sports leagues, both professional and amateur, insisted on securing a part of the profits from sports betting as a way to spot any suspicious betting patterns.
Lawmakers mostly laughed off the idea. New Jersey legislators called it "extortion" and refused to include such provisions when they passed new gambling legislation earlier this year.
The NBA has since discarded the notion, and so has the NHL. Instead, Bettman is putting aside any pretense of maintaining integrity and is being straightforward in what his league wants – a piece of the gambling action.
"From our standpoint, we believe that, whether it's our intellectual property, our data, whether its video of our game, we have important assets and if somebody is going to avail themselves or want to avail themselves of those assets in order to conduct their business, then we're going to need to have a negotiation."
It's noteworthy that Bettman is now talking tough on sports betting considering that his league was the first to put a franchise in Nevada, the only state where it was previously legal to bet on sports. The NHL's top man made no attempt to negotiate a piece of the sports betting take in that state before the Vegas Knights opened up shop in 2017.
It's possible that the Bettman has a different perspective in light the deal just signed by the NBA.
Match Made in Gambling Heaven
The issue of integrity fees wasn't mentioned when the NBA announced a new partnership deal with MGM Resorts International this week.
Instead of collecting a fee, the league is expected to pocket a reported $25 million over the course of the three-year deal. In a partnership that is the first of its kind in North America, the NBA will provide MGM's sports betting operations with real-time data.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver has long been one of the biggest proponents of legalized gambling among the four major leagues. Given that, it's possible that their deal will set the standard for how other leagues approach sports betting in the future.
NHL Executive Says Revenue from Sports Betting Could Hold Down Ticket Prices for Fans
British Soccer Team Arsenal Becomes First Major Sports Outfit to Promote Cryptocurrency
NHL Adds William Hill as League's Third Official Sports Betting Partner
Maryland Voters Support Sports Betting, But Their Voices Won't Be Heard Until 2020
Casino.org Staff Writer — November 9, 2018
Casino.org Staff Writer — March 29, 2019


Break boundaries in the Aero.01 Crop by LNDR. Designed with a high neckline and stripe detailing for a clean aesthetic, the crop features ridged panelling for optimum muscle movement and cool comfort fabrication to see you through your workout.
Our model is wearing a size extra-small/small crop. She usually takes a standard AU 8/Small, is 5'11" (180cm) tall, has an 81cm bust, 91cm hips and a 64cm waist.


This is a repost from my personal website Ulyaoth.
Threats don't follow templates. Neither should you. The Elastic Stack gives you the edge you need to keep pace with the attack vectors of today and tomorrow.
Security Onion is a free and open source Linux distribution for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Snort, Suricata, Bro, Wazuh, Sguil, Squert, CyberChef, NetworkMiner, and many other security tools. The easy-to-use Setup wizard allows you to build an army of distributed sensors for your enterprise in minutes!.
Cuckoo Sandbox is the leading open source automated malware analysis system. What does that mean? It simply means that you can throw any suspicious file at it and in a matter of seconds Cuckoo will provide you back some detailed results outlining what such file did when executed inside an isolated environment.
BeEF is short for The Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser. Amid growing concerns about web-borne attacks against clients, including mobile clients, BeEF allows the professional penetration tester to assess the actual security posture of a target environment by using client-side attack vectors. Unlike other security frameworks, BeEF looks past the hardened network perimeter and client system, and examines exploitability within the context of the one open door: the web browser. BeEF will hook one or more web browsers and use them as beachheads for launching directed command modules and further attacks against the system from within the browser context.


ISLAMABAD: Ruling out possibility of slashing down the FBR annual target from Rs4,398 billion, Finance Minister Asad Umar has plainly conveyed to the tax machinery to gear up efforts to achieve the desired target without seeking any downward revision prior to holding video conference with the IMF.
During the conference call with the IMF's mission chief Herald Finger on Thursday, Pakistan and the IMF explored the possibility of another Fund mission visiting Islamabad within next four to six weeks for renewed efforts to strike staff level agreement between the two sides.
However, both the Pakistani side and the IMF were tight-lipped and no one answered when this correspondent contacted them and requested them to say anything on record. Ahead of holding video conference with the IMF team in Washington DC, the finance minister told the FBR team that there was no possibility of any downward revision in the envisaged annual collection target at any cost. One official commented that it seemed that the government was seriously moving towards finalising agreement with the IMF.
So the minister advised them to gear up efforts and devise strategy to fulfil this challenge, one senior official said. In order to strike staff-level agreement with the IMF, the government has sought relaxation in the desired budget deficit target from 5.1 to 5.6 percent of GDP for the current fiscal year ending on June 30, 2019 arguing that the requirement of debt servicing had gone up after devaluation of exchange rate and hiking of discount rates but they assured the IMF team that the FBR would go close to its target of Rs4398 billion.
The FBR's provisional collection stands at Rs2,060 billion for first seven months (July-Jan) period of the current fiscal against the desired target of Rs2,251 billion, indicating revenue shortfall standing at Rs191 billion. In remaining five months (Feb-June) period of the ongoing fiscal year, the FBR will have to collect Rs2,338 billion for demonstrating the desired target of Rs4,398 billion on its board by end June 2019.
The FBR's dismal performance has exposed the country's vulnerability on fiscal front of the economy and it will remain a headache for the incumbent regime with IMF or without IMF programme.
The Ministry of Finance official spokesman Dr Khaqan Najeeb in his brief comments stated that productive discussions took place with the IMF on all areas including fiscal, energy, structural reforms and monetary policy.
"The two sides exchanged views on the data. The discussions were part of regular ongoing interaction with the IMF and will continue in coming weeks as well," he concluded.


This entry was posted in Live Events, Media, Video, Web 2.1 BrainJam by tagami. Bookmark the permalink.
Thanks for taking the time to capture and post this – very cool. I am very thankful for your contributions Ted, it was a better day because you were there.