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New chapbook with Kimiko Hahn!
October 08, 2017 / Tamiko Beyer
"In the States, the front door opens right into the living room. I don't know where to shed the outside, how to come inside."
— from "Genkan"
I'm thrilled to announce the release of Dovetail: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation, a chapbook I co-authored with Kimiko Hahn and published by Slapering Hol Press.
Dovetail is a sequence of poems germinated from words Kimiko and I traded back and forth -- words from our childhood, words with meanings that echo and resound across decades and cultures: between the U.S. and Japan, across childhood and adulthood, between writer and reader.
And more than anything, it's a chapbook driven by a playful spirit of experimentation and collaboration. As I say in the "Conversation" at the end of the book, it was a "practice in letting go of control, a way to stay curious and open, and a way to surprise myself."
It's available for order here. Check it out, let me know what you think, and tell me how you approach collaborations!
Poetry and the body workshop: What the body knows
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Dominique lectures in Stage and Screen Acting at Charles Sturt University. He is a performer, creator and film-maker specialising in documenting performance practice. In particular he researches and documents traditional Aboriginal public performances and works with how to best manage digital archives with Traditional Owners.
Dominique taught acting at Griffith, ANU, UWS, Macquarie and Sydney Universities and at the St.Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy. He taught and directed at Sydney Theatre School. His education included two years in Paris at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. His performance work has been on stages, screen and other locations throughout Australia and internationally. Dominique is a core member and chair of the board of Theatre Kantanka, a company that specialise in site specific performance (www.kantanka.com.au). He also works with Fine Line, a Lecoq based ensemble.
In Far North Queensland Dominique grew up on a cattle farm and now has two sons. He project managed the AFTRS and Fred Hollows drupal website builds and worked as an Environmental Education Ranger in Centennial Park, Sydney working with Bush School. In 2012 Dominique devised and applied a drama program for autistic and multiple disability students at Wairoa School in Bondi. For a number of years he played viola and sang in the band "The Rails".
Dominique has a B.Ed in drama/dance/philosophy from Deakin University (Rusden) and his Ph.D. is in Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Research from ANU. His Ph.D. thesis and film is entitled "masked corroborees of the northwest" which has been seen at International Film Festivals in Amsterdam, Moscow and Koper. The thesis is grounded in Northwest Australia looking at a range of corroborees that incorporate the use of masks connecting bodies to country, cultural knowledge and ancestors.


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Category Archives: Obama
Three Years Ago This Week: A Symbol of a Failed Presidency
1 AprpmSun, 09 Apr 2017 12:12:23 -06002017-04-09T12:12:23-06:0012 2009 – 12:12
by Christopher W. Holton
Can there be anything more symbolic of the Obama administration's failure to combat the global Jihad than Boko Haram's kidnapping of hundreds of Christian school girls in Nigeria three years ago? Especially given the fact that Boko Haram subsequently became an Islamic State affiliate.
That's right, one side-effect of the Obama administration allowing the Islamic State to form and metastasize was the joining of forces with the organization that then-first lady Michelle Obama so infamously "attacked" with her hashtag counterterrorism program.
This week marks the third anniversary of the mass abduction…
The BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) group on Friday began its Global Week of Action at the Unity Fountain, Abuja.
There was a low turnout of its members at the opening session of the scheduled seven day of activities to mark three years of the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls.
About 195 of the girls are still believed to be in the custody of the Boko Haram.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/228253-three-years-chibok-kidnap-bringbackourgirls-begins-seven-day-global-week-action.html
By terrortrends | Also posted in Africa, Boko Haram, Hostage taking, Islamic State, Jihad, Kidnapping & Hostage-taking, Nigeria, Uncategorized | Tagged #BringBackOurGirls, Boko Haram, Chibok, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Nigeria | Comments (0)
Moronic Analysis of the Islamic State from Bloomberg News
1 AugamWed, 10 Aug 2016 08:11:20 -06002016-08-10T08:11:20-06:0008 2009 – 08:11
Linked below is a video from Bloomberg News about the expanding global threat from the Islamic State.
While the video acknowledges that attacks attributed to supporters of the Islamic State or Islamic State Jihadis themselves have accelerated and expanded around the world, it totally ignores Islamic doctrine in drawing a conclusion based upon the spin of the Obama administration.
That spin, echoed by the video, maintains that the reason the Islamic State is carrying out attacks in places like San Bernardino, California and Paris is because the Islamic State is losing in Iraq and Syria. So, the absurd narrative goes, the more attacks around the world that occur, the closer we are to victory.
This is but the latest miscalculation from the Obama administration in failing to deal with the threat of the Islamic State since June 2014 and we hear it all the time from Obama's hapless Secretary of State, John Kerry.
Numerous and frequent attacks in the West are far from a sign of weakness. They aren't being carried out because the Islamic State is on the cusp of defeat. These are not acts of desperation.
What the attacks in places like Nice, Stuttgart and Orlando reflect is the growing and expanding influence of the Islamic State caliphate. Individual Muslims are rising up and committing acts of Jihad in the name of the Islamic State and in response to calls from the Islamic State.
Before the caliphate was declared in June of 2014, such calls for Jihad went mostly ignored. Osama Bin Laden, for all his notoriety and fame in the Islamic world in the wake of 9/11, was not able to inspire Muslims to rise up and commit acts of Jihad.
Today, the once obscure Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has proclaimed himself the caliph and in so doing has, by Islamic law, been able to inspire individual Muslims to commit horrible acts of violent Jihad.
It has nothing to do with what is going on in Iraq and Syria. They mean to bring the war to us and they are doing so. That is not a sign of defeat and no matter how much Obama, Kerry and Bloomberg News try to spin current events, the truth shows up in the form of another Jihadi attack somewhere in the West every 3 days or so–an unprecedented pace.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-08-09/the-widening-threat-of-islamic-state
By terrortrends | Also posted in Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Caliphate, ISIS, Islamic State, Jihad, Osama Bin Laden, Paris Jihadi attack, San Bernardino terror attack, Sharia, Shariah | Tagged Bloomberg News, ISIL, Islamic State, Jihad | Comments (0)
The Pope–and virtually ALL Western leaders are Wrong about the War
1 JulamThu, 28 Jul 2016 06:38:57 -06002016-07-28T06:38:57-06:0006 2009 – 06:38
In the wake of the horrific Jihadist attack on a Catholic church in Normandy, France, Pope Francis' latest statements that the world war we are in is not a religious war shows a lack of knowledge of Islamic doctrine. The Pope is not alone in this view. Every major Western political leader from George W. Bush through to Barack Obama has maintained the same belief.
When the Islamic State caliphate was declared in 2014, their media arm issued a slick, 10-page document announcing the establishment of the caliphate. In those 10 pages, they cited Islamic scripture 26 times–scripture from the Quran and scripture from the Sunna of Mohammed. The entire document was dominated by Islamic scripture and associated commentary.
So whether the Pope thinks that the Jihadists are waging a religious war or not is irrelevant. The Islamic State Jihadists believe they are waging a religious war. And they justify it with Islamic doctrine.
In warfare the enemy's reality becomes your reality. We can't wish this all away and we can't simply deny the nature of our enemies. In 1943, no one tried to make the case that the Nazis had misinterpreted Mein Kampf. No one tried to make the case that the Japanese had perverted the Shinto religion.
The West must pivot toward making an honest, objective analysis of what our enemies believe, not what we think they should believe.
The Pope's unfortunate statement is not unique. Western leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are fiddling and Rome may literally be burning soon.
It is long past time to wake up!
By terrortrends | Also posted in Catholic church, France, ISIS, Islamic State, Pope Francis | Tagged global Jihad movement, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Jihad, Pope Francis | Comments (7)
Two Years Ago Today: Boko Haram Seizes 276 Christian Schoolgirls
1 ApramThu, 14 Apr 2016 06:02:20 -06002016-04-14T06:02:20-06:0006 2009 – 06:02
Two years ago today the savage barbarians of Boko Haram, an Islamic jihadist organization, kidnapped 276 Christian schoolgirls in Nigeria.
At the time, this was but the latest example of Boko Haram's reign of terror. Up to that point, Boko Haram specifically targeted and slaughtered Christians–especially Christian worshippers on Christian Holy Days, such as Christmas, Palm Sunday and Easter.
In fact, Boko Haram is said to be directly responsible for more deaths than the Islamic State (ISIS).
But it wasn't until they kidnapped these hundreds of schoolgirls that the world was finally awoken to the danger that Boko Haram posed. And, in fact, since then, Boko Haram has officially joined the Islamic State, meaning that the caliphate now controls territory in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Nigeria and has branches and affiliates among some 35 jihadist organizations in as many as 19 nations stretching from the Philippines to west Africa, in addition to supporters and sympathizers across western Europe and in North America.
Despite the fact that the world was awoken to the danger from Boko Haram two years ago today, the world's response has been feeble, mainly because the so-called leader of the Free World, Barack Obama, doesn't view Jihad as a global threat, but rather a collection of local, unrelated conflicts in which he doesn't want to get involved.
Nothing better symbolizes the Obama administration's cavalier recalcitrance to the threat from Jihad than Michelle Obama's hashtag Twitter response to the kidnapping of the 276 Christian schoolgirls in Nigeria.
The fact is, it's so easy to ignore something like this happening in Africa, because no one really cares about Africa all that much. That isn't just a shame, it's criminally negligent because the facts point to Boko Haram being part of the global Jihadist movement, not just a local gang of thugs.
Can there be any doubt that were these 276 American, French, British, or even Saudi, schoolgirls, someone would be raining hot lead and hell down on Boko Haram by now?
But we all know that isn't going to happen because our leaders refuse to recognize that we are in a global war and that the Jihadists have one goal in mind: a worldwide caliphate ruling by Shariah.
The U.S. has been especially slow to recognize the threat posed by Boko Haram in particular. We can thank Hillary Clinton for that. Despite dishonest attempts at revisionist history by Soros-funded Socialist front groups like Think Progress to spin the details, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blocked efforts to have Boko Haram designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization for more than two years.
She did so because someone had convinced her that designating Boko Haram as terrorists might anger the group to the point that they might target Americans. If that reminds you of appeasement in Europe in the 1930s, that's because it IS just like appeasement in Europe in the 1930s.
In Hillary Clinton's world, if the Jihadists want to slaughter thousands of Christians in churches in Africa every Christmas and Easter, that's okay, as long as they don't attack us.
I guess Black Lives Really Don't Matter to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
By terrortrends | Also posted in Africa, appeasement, Boko Haram, Hillary Clinton, Hostage taking, ISIS, Islamic State, Jihad, Kidnapping & Hostage-taking | Tagged Boko Haram, Hillary Clinton, Obama | Comments (0)
Obama to address America on Guantanamo Prison
1 FebamTue, 23 Feb 2016 06:59:20 -06002016-02-23T06:59:20-06:0006 2009 – 06:59
As President Obama prepares to speak about his plans for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, there are some things to keep in mind:
1. Credible estimates indicate that between 20% and 30% of those who were held and then released from Guantanamo returned to violent Jihad. This included Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders and some who have joined the Islamic State.
2. Despite what Obama will say, the enemy does NOT use Guantanamo as a recruiting tool. It is completely absent from their recruiting propaganda. What they actually use are their successes, not their failures. The Left, led by Obama, have given aid and comfort to the Jihadists by promoting the meme that Guantanamo is a recruiting tool for the enemy. When Leftists in America were first airing this myth, what the Jihadists were REALLY using to recruit was the September 11th attacks. To this day, they use attacks such as San Bernardino and Chattanooga, as well as attacks around the world, to recruit.
There is no good reason to close Guantanamo.
Obama is lying.
By terrortrends | Also posted in 5th Column, Guantanomo | Tagged Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Jihad, Obama, President Obama | Comments (1)
America Scores "Own Goal" on Jihadis Released from Gitmo
1 FebpmMon, 15 Feb 2016 15:06:17 -06002016-02-15T15:06:17-06:0003 2009 – 15:06
posted by Christopher W. Holton
This is absolutely revolting. The Obama administration has been careening head-long to shut down the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, even if it means replenishing the leadership of sworn Jihadist enemies of the United States.
And that isn't at all lost on those enemies. Whereas the Left in the West has been promoting the outright lie that Guantanamo is used by the Jihadists to recruit, here we have a bit of stark reality.
Far from using imprisoned Jihadists to recruit, Al Qaeda is using a monster that Obama released from the prison as the centerpiece of their propaganda. Had Ibrahim al Qosi not been released, would anyone have heard of him? Would Al Qaeda be featuring him in its video releases?
We are being lied to and our enemies are using those lies to capitalize on the weakness of our leaders.
Ex-Guantanamo detainee prominently featured in al Qaeda propaganda:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/02/ex-guantanamo-detainee-prominently-featured-al-qaeda-propaganda.php?
By terrortrends | Also posted in Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), appeasement, Guantanomo, Ibrahim al-Qosi | Tagged Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Ibrahim al-Qosi | Comments (1)
Lies about Guantanamo…
1 JanamFri, 01 Jan 2016 06:06:20 -06002016-01-01T06:06:20-06:0006 2009 – 06:06
Ibrahim al-Qosi, shown here in U.S. custody…before Obama released him to become a leader of the global Jihad movement.
There is so much disinformation spreading around about the facility housing Jihadist terrorists at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that one hardly knows where to begin.
The most widespread lie is the myth that Guantanamo is a key recruiting tool for the global Jihad movement.
That was NEVER true and it is not true today.
This is a classic example of the "Big Lie," in which government officials repeat a preposterous lie often enough and loud enough that it eventually becomes taken for granted as truth, first by the corrupt, recalcitrant media, and eventually by the ignorant populous as a whole.
Jihadists recruit based on their successes, not their failures. Guantanamo is not a Jihadi success story.
Examples of the things that Jihadists actually have used to recruit are:
• The defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
• The September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
• The withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and the subsequent rise of the Islamic State.
• Successful attacks, especially IED and sniper attacks, on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Brutal torture and executions of captives by the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and other Jihadist organizations.
• The 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Aden harbor in Yemen.
• Attacks on transportation facilities in Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
• The Paris terror attacks of 2015.
• The re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, made possible by the withdrawal from the battlefield of NATO and U.S. forces.
All of these themes can be seen in Jihadi videos released over and over by Jihadi groups around the world. What is distinctly absent is any use of Gitmo in Jihadist propaganda videos.
Despite this, as recently as two weeks ago, President Obama called the closing of the Gitmo facility as the key component of his counterterrorism plan.
What this means is that Obama HAS NO COUNTERTERRORISM PLAN. And the reason he has no counterterrorism plan is that his heart is simply not in this fight. His passionless, delayed, plodding response to events in Garland, Chattanooga and San Bernardino make this painfully clear.
Saying that closing Gitmo is counterterrorism strategy is similar to saying that Jihadist terrorism from the Philippines to Scandinavia, and from California to Nigeria is caused by global warming…er…climate change…or whatever they're calling it du jour.
Perhaps the starkest example, however, of Obama's outright lies about Guantanamo are those told about Ibrahim al-Qosi.
Ibrahim al-Qosi is a former Guantanamo inmate who was released by Obama in 2012 who has now emerged as a leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Obama claimed that only "low-level" terrorists were being released from Gitmo, but al-Qosi is anything but. AQAP is focused on attacking the West and just days ago al-Qosi, who we had in our custody, appeared on a video urging followers to attack the U.S. and France, particularly New York and Paris.
Releasing barbaric savages from Gitmo is a bad idea. Closing Gitmo is a worse idea. Telling lies for years in support of such dubious objectives is outrageous.
More on Ibrahim al-Qosi from Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/31/ibrahim-al-qosi-released-from-guantanamo-emerges-a/?
By terrortrends | Also posted in Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), France, Guantanomo, Ibrahim al-Qosi, Jihad | Tagged Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP, Gitmo, global Jihad movement, Guantanamo, Ibrahim al-Qosi, Jihad, Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times | Comments (2)
David Cameron is coming around–ALMOST
1 OctpmThu, 01 Oct 2015 14:37:09 -06002015-10-01T14:37:09-06:0002 2009 – 14:37
Over the past couple of days Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom has stood in sharp contrast to President Barack Obama of the United States in terms of both his messaging with regard to Islamic jihad and his country's stance against global jihad.
But that doesn't mean he "gets it," at least not yet anyway.
It's easy to look strong when you're compared to Barack Obama, especially when it comes to fighting against jihad.
This week at the UN, not exactly the den of strength, Cameron appeared to confront Obama on his messaging on terrorism.
British Prime Minister David Cameron challenged President Obama with some blunt talk on Islamist extremism Tuesday during a gathering of world leaders at the United Nations to develop an international strategy for defeating the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.
Well aware that Mr. Obama shuns the term "Islamist extremists," the Conservative British prime minister reacted strongly at the meeting when the president, who chaired the session, advised the assembled foreign leaders to avoid profiling Muslims because "violent extremism is not unique to any one faith."
"Barack, you said it and you're right — every religion has its extremists," Mr. Cameron said. "But we have to be frank that the biggest problem we have today is the Islamist extremist violence that has given birth to ISIL, to al-Shabab, to al-Nusra, al Qaeda and so many other groups."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/29/david-cameron-confronts-obama-roots-islamist-extre/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
The thin-skinned Obama does not take kindly to being confronted with disagreement so we can probably count on some form of retaliation from the Obama administration for this perceived slight–something ranging from a breaking of protocol down the road to leaked criticism of Cameron with the lapdog media in the US.
While we welcome Cameron's admonishment of Obama, we must point out that his messaging still leaves a great deal to be desired and has since he became Prime Minister.
As regular readers of TTB no doubt know, we are not at all fond of making up names for our enemies. Just as "violent extremist" is a meaningless term coined by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Left in America, the term "Islamist extremist" is inadequate to say the least. We draw attention to our previous essay on the subject:
It is true that you can't defeat an enemy you don't identify.
These calls are invariably followed up by naming the enemy. Only the names assigned to our enemies seem to always be wrong. A few of the wrong names:
• Radical Islam
• Islamic extremism
• Radical Islamic extremism
• Islamist extremism
• Radical Islamist extremism
The problem with all these names is that they are names that we in the West have made up to describe our enemies. They don't use any of them. No member of the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Lashkar e Taiba, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab or Abu Sayyef ever refers to himself as "radical" or "extremist." No where in their communications will you see the modifiers "radical" or "extremist."
They don't subscribe to radical Islam or Islamist extremism.
Read the entire posting here:
https://terrortrendsbulletin.com/2015/02/03/a-few-words-on-radical-extremist-ideology-and-doctrine/
In addition to confronting President Obama on the issue of jihad, Cameron also announced this week that the UK would be sending British troops into Somalia to support efforts to battle Al Shabaab. This announcement has been overshadowed by other news this week, but it represents a step toward confronting the threat of global jihad head on. Now, if only Cameron would do the same in the British Isles themselves…
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/somalia-david-cameron-deploy-british-074345480.html#L6ESFHN
By terrortrends | Also posted in Africa, al Shabaab, Al Shahab, Great Britain, Jihad, Somalia, United Kingdom | Tagged David Cameron | Comments (1)
World Leaders Point Out Urgency of Islamic State Threat, Obama Administration Covers It Up
1 SeppmSun, 27 Sep 2015 19:17:35 -06002015-09-27T19:17:35-06:0007 2009 – 19:17
At the very best, President Obama is out of touch when it comes to the threat posed by the Islamic State. From the time he called them the "JV" to his comments a few months ago when he admitted that he still had not developed a strategy to confront them, President Obama has, for one reason or another, neglected the threat from the Islamic State.
As is often the case, the president's neglect has influenced those serving underneath him as they take cues from the "commander's intent." So, what we now have is a brewing scandal in which an unprecedented number of Pentagon intelligence analysts have decided to blow the whistle on what they see as Obama administration political appointees watering down their analyses to make it seem that the threat from the Islamic State is not as serious as it actually is.
Multiple investigations have been launched into allegations that senior officials altered intelligence estimates about the Islamic State to indicate a more favorable impression of progress:
In addition to the Pentagon inspector general's investigation into allegations by dozens of intelligence analysts, other inspectors general inside the intelligence community and two oversight committees in Congress have begun their own probes, according to senior lawmakers and intelligence officials. The Congressional investigations will expand the scope of the existing inquiry by examining allegations of intelligence tampering that predate the war against the Islamic State, some dating back years.
http://onlineheraldnews.com/multiple-investigations-launched-into-skewed-islamic-state-intelligence-allegations/
The roots of the intelligence scandal go back to July when the New York Times reported that the Pentagon's inspector general had launched an investigation into allegations that intelligence products had been distorted by CentCom's top intelligence officer. The Daily Beast earlier this month reported that 50 CentCom analysts backed up the allegations in the initial complaint, an almost unprecedented revolt inside military intelligence.
U.S. intelligence officials tell us the objections began when an analyst in charge of Iraq intelligence at CentCom for more than 13 years complained through intelligence community whistleblower processes that the assessments produced by his unit were being rejected or distorted before they reached decision makers.
Top officials like Secretary of State John Kerry have used isolated statistics to show progress, but those figures often do not stand up to scrutiny. Ret. Gen. John Allen, who will resign this fall as the president's envoy to the collation against the Islamic State, used to say that half of the group's leaders in Iraq had been killed. That was an exaggeration.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-declassified24-20150924-story.html
Interestingly, while the Obama administration has sought to downplay the threat from the Islamic State and exaggerate the effectiveness of the pinprick US-led air campaign, other world leaders are sounding the alarm, painting quite a different picture of the threat than the rosy scenario that Barack Obama and John Kerry would have us believe.
This week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India called the Islamic State among the "greatest challenges facing the international community." Modi met with King Abdullah of Jordan, a leader who has taken a particularly strong stand against the Islamic State, to the point he was personally flying sorties against Islamic State forces.
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/islamic-state-greatest-challenge-facing-international-community-pm-narendra-modi-1223101
Czech President Miloš Zema will be in New York this week where he will be continuing to "call for a joint struggle against Islamic State, now dominating a large part of Iraq and Syria during his speech in the United Nations."
Zema is expected to call for the creation of an anti-terrorist unit under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council and for the cooperation of the international community in the struggle against Islamic terrorism.
http://www.praguepost.com/czech-news/49957-zeman-to-speak-against-islamic-state-in-un
We're not crazy about his call for a UN-led anti-terrorism unit under the Security Council due to the UN's atrocious track record of putting barbarians, savages and despots in charge of things like human rights, but we do agree that there needs to be a greater cooperation between world powers in the West to destroy the Islamic State.
That might mean cooperating closely with Russia and Putin in their campaign against the Islamic State, which is commencing largely because Obama has been so inept in attacking the Islamic State…
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/putin-to-un-let-us-help-you-crush-isis/story-fnb64oi6-1227546261952
If Putin is successful in leading a coalition absent the US in "crushing" the Islamic State, it will have certainly fulfilled one of President Obama's goals of cutting American influence in the world down to size. That will be a terrible legacy for the next and future presidents to live down.
By terrortrends | Also posted in Caliphate, India, ISIS, Islamic State, Jihad, Putin, Russia, Syria, United Nations | Tagged CentCom, Czech Republic, Gen. John Allen, John Kerry, Jordan, King Abdullah, Miloš Zema, Narendra Modi, The Daily Beast | Comments (0)
The Gitmo Insanity Continues
1 SepamWed, 23 Sep 2015 07:52:41 -06002015-09-23T07:52:41-06:0007 2009 – 07:52
The US government just released another Al Qaeda Jihadist to the custody of Saudi Arabia.
The United States said on Tuesday it had transferred Abdul Shalabi, a longtime hunger striker at the Guantanamo Bay prison and described as a bodyguard for former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, to his home country of Saudi Arabia.
Note that there are no doubts whatsoever about who and what Abdul Shalabi is. He is a hardened Jihadi, a member of Al Qaeda and a close associate of Osama Bin Laden.
This was no case of mistaken identity. Shalabi was no innocent pilgrim taken prisoner because he happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. He is a member of a terrorist organization that formally declared war on the United States and which is still at war with the United States.
And Obama, in his misguided desire to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, has released him to a country whose role in the formation and support of Al Qaeda, including the September 11 attacks, has been concealed from the American people, most likely because Al Qaeda could not exist without money from wealthy Saudis and numerous Saudi recruits–including former members of the Saudi military and national guard–throughout its ranks.
No wonder the recidivism rate among former Gitmo prisoners is on the order of 20% to 30%.
Instead of closing Gitmo, we should be opening more such facilities in places like Midway Island, Wake Island and other isolated spots, so that we can lock away more Jihadis and throw away the key.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/23/pentagon-frees-guantanamo-detainee-to-saudi-arabia/?
By terrortrends | Also posted in Al Qaeda, Guantanomo, Jihad, Saudi Arabia | Tagged Abdul Shalabi, Al Qaeda, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Saudi Arabia | Comments (1)
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Palmerbet Sports Team have A-League tips for every game from Week 17, culminating in a Sunday showdown between Sydney FC and Melbourne City.
Final Thoughts: Two out-of-form teams lock horns as Week 17 gets underway – but Western Sydney Wanderers and Newcastle Jets have likely dipped out of the finals race already.
WSW have picked up just two points from their last nine games. They snapped a six-game losing streak with a 2-2 draw in Brisbane, but they should have won, inexplicably conceding two stoppage-time goals. The Jets have won just one of their last seven games. A 1-0 win over the bottom-placed Mariners fed into a 2-0 loss to the Glory.
Newcastle are unbeaten in their last four against WSW, winning two. The Jets prevailed 2-0 in Sydney in Week 5.
Tipping a winner is near-impossible given what both sides have produced lately, but there looks a big chance of plenty of goals being scored.
Final Thoughts: Melbourne Victory are aiming to keep the Premiers Plate race alive, while the Central Coast Mariners' main motivation is finding a way to avoid another wooden spoon.
Since their drought-breaking win over Melbourne City and follow-up draw against Brisbane, the Mariners have lost back-to-back away games against the Jets (1-0) and Adelaide (2-1). But there's no question the Mariners are in far better shape than they were during their 10-match losing streak.
The Victory have lost just one of their last 14 games and carved out a huge 2-1 Australia Day win over Sydney FC. Ola Toivonen has scored in each of the defending champs' last three games, while James Troisi has bagged three in the Victory's last four outings.
The Victory are unbeaten in their last 16 clashes with the Mariners, winning 12. The Victory have scored nine goals in their last two against the Mariners, including a 4-1 drubbing in Melbourne in Week 4.
The Mariners' defence has tightened up significantly in recent weeks but they will struggle to contain a Victory outfit that has scored a league-high 36 goals in 16 games.
Final Thoughts: Gritty Adelaide United have solidified their top-six standing and quietly become one of the toughest teams to beat in the A-League. The Reds have lost just one of their last eight games, following up their scoreless draw away to the Glory with a 2-1 home win over the Mariners. They had to come from behind in the latter, however, and only banked the three points via a stoppage-time goal to George Blackwood.
The Brisbane Roar need a minor miracle to make the finals, winning just one and drawing six of their 16 games. Doing enough to avoid the wooden spoon is sure to become their focus within a few weeks. The Roar are winless in their last 10, though they produced a miraculous comeback to draw 2-2 with Wanderers last Friday, scoring two stoppage-time goals.
Adelaide have won three and drawn one of their last five at home against Brisbane – including a 2-1 victory in Week 6.
Piling on goals isn't Adelaide's strong suit, but they've won their last two at home and should get it done against the hapless Roar.
Final Thoughts: Perth Glory's spot at the top of the A-League ladder looked slightly shakier after back-to-back scoreless draws against City and United. But they broke the attacking shackles with a 2-0 win over the Jets last Sunday, while maintaining their status as the competition's defensive benchmark.
Meanwhile, it's time to admit the Wellington Phoenix are something like the real deal. They have lost just one of their last 11, bouncing back from a 1-0 loss to Sydney FC by downing Melbourne City 1-0 last weekend. Giving Roy Krishna a break from dominating the scoresheet, David Williams goaled for the third time in four games to seal the three points.
The Phoenix have managed two wins and two draws in their last five clashes with the Glory; the teams drew 1-1 in Wellington last month.
The Phoenix are on a three-match losing streak in Perth but have shown enough over the past couple of months to prove they can match it with the league's best.
Final Thoughts: Sydney FC will be hell-bent on bouncing back from a blockbuster defeat, while top-four regulars Melbourne City are in danger of being leapfrogged by a couple of clubs.
Sydney went down 2-1 in a disappointing performance against the Victory, who jumped them into second spot. The Sky Blues had won seven of their previous eight games.
City have won only one of their last four, bookending a disappointing couple of weeks with losses to Central Coast (2-1) and Wellington (1-0). Their stall during the second half of January has allowed the Phoenix and United to claw to within one point.
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Q: What is antonym of "update"? The antonym of "upgrade" is "downgrade", quite broadly used.
What is the antonym of "update"?
Update:
Though, I hoped for something like "un-update" because reverting or uninstalling updates are much lengthier.
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After having further answers about "Restore", et al, I decided to restore the phrase from my original update.

Yes, I can revert updates (uninstall
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A: If you don't update it, you leave it as it is, fail to maintain it, or simply ignore it. There is no "downdate" you can perform.
You could, however, "revert" it, as we do for edits on this site.

A: I think "date" could be seen as an antonym for "update." To date something can mean to assign to a particular time. If something is dated, in this sense, it is not, or no longer, updated. Similarly, something "outdated" could be considered the opposite of something updated.

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Mostly used in database management, I often hear/read about rollback of driver updates or program installs.

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Cox laments below-par display
Back row Matt Cox revealed the Sixways side are sharing the frustration of the Warriors faithful.
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WARRIORS back row forward Matt Cox admitted the Sixways side share the frustration of their supporters after Sunday's 17-6 defeat at Gallagher Premiership bottom club Newcastle Falcons.
Cox came on as a replacement midway through the second half after Marco Mama suffered a head injury and, despite a hardworking and committed performance, he was unable to inspire Warriors to just their second away league win of the season.
Warriors' players and supporters made the long trip home without a bonus point as consolation from a frustrating afternoon in the wind and rain.
The disappointing performance came 24 hours after Bristol Bears beat Gloucester 28-24 and the win, together with Warriors' defeat, relegates Alan Solomons' men back to 11th place ahead of the visit of leaders Exeter Chiefs to Sixways on Saturday (3pm).
"A lot of it was down to our errors so there a lot of things that we can correct ourselves," Cox said.
"The lads were looking forward to this game but it didn't go to our plan."
All the points in an error-riddled contest came in the first half and this time there was no second half fightback from Warriors against committed opponents.
All Warriors had to show from an error-ridden display were two first half penalties from fly-half Duncan Weir and all the second half pressure was not enough to secure the consolation of a losing bonus point.
The scoreline might have been worse as Newcastle had two tries disallowed in the first half but the result was just as painful for Warriors who saw Newcastle close the gap at the bottom to five points.
"We want to be looking up the table and chasing things and going for our ambitions," Cox said.
"This club has higher expectations and ambitions and we want to be aiming for them, not dealing with 80 minutes when things don't go our way. We will go back review what we have done and try to put it right.
"It was a frustrating afternoon and it's a massive shame for the fans who travelled up to support us. It would have been great to send those people back with a win," he added.
The visit of the Chiefs could also see Chris Pennell start his 150th Premiership game for the club and reach 400 points in a Warriors shirt on what will be the club legend's testimonial day.
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The Open Letter To the Top Honchos of Hyundai Cars. That never ever got a response , seems as though the Dealer Back Up is matched and equaled to the High Level Management !!
Here is a extract on video of the message to Hyundai regarding the brakes and customer service etc, also a collection of the initial dealer encounter and how from experience, i know that all other car dealers would have never !! NEVER !! let a customer drive away knowing the Car has a Dangerous brake fault !!
Open Letter To the Top Honchos of Hyundai Cars and WHY Hyundai Owners should be worried.


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Arsene Wenger has made deadline-day deals a speciality in the past and Arsenal's move for Julian Draxler will also go to the wire with his club Schalke insisting they are confident of keeping the 20-year-old.
Draxler has a £37million buy-out clause and, although Wenger insisted on Thursday there was no imminent deal, he added: "In any hour, anything can happen."
Schalke sporting director Horst Heldt, however, said he was "very convinced" Draxler would remain at the Gelsenkirchen club.
Arsenal have also been linked with Montenegro international Mirko Vucinic, but his agent insists he is set to stay at Juventus.
Another Germany international, Lewis Holtby, looks set to move on loan from Tottenham to Fulham, who have also completed the loan signing of Stuttgart's Danish midfielder William Kvist.
Chelsea were on Thursday night reportedly closing in on the £12.5million signing of 19-year-old St Etienne defender Kurt Zouma, with a view to loaning him back to the Ligue 1 club for the rest of the campaign.
Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is hopeful a deadline-day swoop for Lyon midfielder Clement Grenier will prove successful as the Magpies look for a replacement for Yohan Cabaye.
Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has admitted Italy international Dani Osvaldo may be on his way out of the club.
Osvaldo is currently serving a two-week club suspension for an altercation with Jose Fonte in training and looks all-but certain to leave before Friday's transfer deadline, with Juventus front-runners ahead of Inter Milan and Seville.
Pochettino said "anything is possible" when asked about a move before the transfer deadline.
West Ham have signed former Manchester City midfielder Abdul Razak on a short-term deal.
The 21-year-old Ivory Coast international came through the ranks at City and Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala signed him on a permanent deal in October.
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Sunderland midfielder Alfred N'Diaye has joined Spanish club Real Betis on loan for the rest of the season.
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Sunderland boss Gus Poyet has strengthened his squad further with Argentina striker Ignacio Scocco.
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In 15 months, more than two billion TV viewers will focus in on the 2002 Olympic downhill at Snowbasin, Utah¿and, to a lesser degree, on the resort's billionaire owner, Earl Holding, an enigmatic 73-year-old who has amassed a fortune in oil, real estate and hotels. In the course of negotiating a land swap with the U.S. Forest Service at the base of Snowbasin¿a process he confesses "has been the most difficult of my life"¿Holding has been accused of influence peddling and pilloried in the national press.
At the same time, Holding is arguably one of skiing's greatest benefactors, having spent more than $100 million for on-mountain improvements at Sun Valley, Idaho, and close to that at the once tiny Snowbasin¿all without a substantial return on investment. While many contend if it weren't for Holding the Olympics would not be coming to Utah, critics have lashed out at the land trade and the famously media-shy businessman's long-term plans to develop Snowbasin.
But what's his side of the story? Can he pull off hosting the Olympics' most exciting event and help save face for the embattled Salt Lake Olympic Committee, which is fighting its own bribery scandal? What legacy does Holding hope to leave for skiers in Utah? How does he manage to oversee such a vast empire, yet still find time to personally sign his employees' payroll checks? And does he really want to change Snowbasin's name to Sun Valley, Utah?
In a rare, exclusive interview with SKI contributing editor Andrew E. Slough, Earl Holding speaks¿at last.
Earl Holding is sitting with his wife of 51 years, Carol, in the living room of their Sun Valley home, looking out at spectacular views of Bald Mountain. We are an hour into what is only the third interview Holding has granted in the past 15 years.
With all the time and energy invested at Snowbasin¿and still no end in sight¿the question you have to ask is: If Holding had known that the Olympic downhill and super G at Snowbasin would cost so much financially and emotionally, would he have agreed with SLOC to host the event? "I think I might have said, 'You're welcome to use the mountain, you can put in whatever you need, but you do it,'" Holding answers.
How Holding acquired Snowbasin¿and how Snowbasin acquired the Olympic speed events¿is a lengthy and controversial tale. Before purchasing Snowbasin in 1984, Holding knew the ski area lacked the necessary acreage for a viable base area. He approached the U.S. Forest Service about a land exchange¿a proposition that ultimately led to a bitter battle, the scars of which are still not healed. The Utah environmental group Save Our Canyons strongly opposed the land swap and any subsequent development. After 16 years of negotiations, Holding traded more than 11,000 acres near the Wasatch Cache National Forest for 1,377 acres of federal land at the base of Snowbasin.
"As much as I liked Snowbasin," Holding now reflects, "I wouldn't have bought the resort if I didn't honestly believe we would be able to buy land for a base area." When the issue comes up, his wife Carol buries her head in her hands. "We've had more than enough controversy over this subject," she quietly admits.
But the land swap paved the way for development to begin at Snowbasin¿and for the Olympics to come to Utah. And now, time is of the essence if Snowbasin is to accommodate tens of thousands of international guests. Holding must still build a 41,000-square-foot base lodge and a 26,000-square-foot skier services building, finish two on-mountain restaurants, complete the 3.5-mile Trappers Loop road connecting Snowbasin to Highway 167 (a task that will cut the trip from Salt Lake City from 53 miles on a windy road to a much-more-direct 40 miles) and sign off on a hundred other details. Given Holding's track record as a perfectionist, you can rest assured Snowbasin will be ready.
An erect 5-foot-11 with white hair, a slim build and firm but not overpowering handshake, Earl Holding could be mistaken for a college professor. His glacial blue eyes betray a restless intellect and an unwavering will. It's not surprising to learn that Holding has accumulated a vast fortune of roughly $1 billion while managing a variety of successful businesses: Sinclair Oil, Little America Hotels, enormous ranches in Wyoming and Montana and his two resorts.
Holding has a reputation as a tough negotiator who demands much from his employees. But when the Sun Valley Ski Patrol wanted to renegotiate its wages and benefits, Holding sat down with patrollers and agreed to several concessions, including providing free season passes for spouses. He is notorious for micro-managing his empire, from reviewing architectural plans and interior décor to inspecting snowmaking lines and cat-track grades. There is no decision too small to escape his attention: Two seasons ago, a Snowbasin season passholder tore her ACL on the first day of skiing. She later limped into the ticket office and asked if she could possibly get a refund. Four months later, a check for the full amount arrived in the mail. It was hand-signed by Holding.
Ski resorts routinely send out press releases touting the millions they've spent in capital improvements, and some have been accused of overstating the numbers. But if you call Sun Valley to inquire how much has been invested on the mountain, the media relations department simply doesn't know. And while other resorts have made millions on real estate sales, Holding has instead focused the majority of his efforts on on-mountain improvements, including snowmaking systems, new lifts and other less-than-glamorous infrastructure.
Holding, a Salt Lake City native, is no stranger to public scrutiny, which he first experienced after purchasing Sun Valley. It was 1978, the winter after the most severe drought in the resort's history, and Disney Inc. was negotiating to purchase Sun Valley from Bill Janss. Earl and Carol had visited the resort the summer before. "I liked it a lot," Holding remembers. "We thought it was a nice place, well run. But I didn't think a thing about buying it." He did though, and subsequently spent millions to bring the resort into the 21st century, a commitment that has since led many Wood River Valley locals to conclude that Holding is the best thing that's ever happened to Sun Valley¿a radical change of heart from the late-Seventies, when residents greeted Holding with bumper stickers that read: "Earl Is A Four Letter Word."
The criticism did not scare Holding away from the ski industry¿or the then little-known Utah resort called Snowbasin. Though skiers were climbing the high ridgeline that overlooks the small city of Ogden as far back as the Thirties, Alta founder Alf Engen officially discovered Snowbasin in 1940. At that time the high, sunny basin was used for cattle range, but it was so overgrazed that eroded topsoil and bloated carcasses of dead cows were tainting Ogden's water supply. Working with the U.S. Forest Service, Ogden's town fathers decided that a ski resort would provide income and recreation while also safeguarding the water supply. A deal was struck with the ranch owner, and Snowbasin opened for business.
In the 60 years since, the resort has struggled under five owners, including Vail-founder Pete Seibert, who owned it in the mid-Eighties. The problem was a lack of lodging. Snowbasin was too far from Salt Lake City to attract out-of-state skiers and too far from Ogden to use the city's aging railroad center as a resort base. Successive owners realized that to succeed, Snowbasin needed a base village, but building one from scratch is a costly proposition. So for half a century, the resort has remained the private powder stash of Ogden locals and the few lucky skiers who have followed rumors of deep snow and empty lifts up Ogden Canyon.
Enter Holding. "I was working at the Sinclair Oil offices one day and Pete Seibert called and said, 'I'd like to sell Snowbasin, and I'd like for you to come up and look at it.'" At first, Holding wasn't interested. Remembering the millions he had sunk into Sun Valley, he told Seibert, "Pete, one ski area is enough, I'm not going to even come look at it." But Seibert persisted. "Earl, just come up and hike it with me. I'm not going to twist your arm."
He finally agreed and made the trip with his youngest daughter Kathleen, who was 23 at the time. Like many first-time visitors who climb Snowbasin's crumbling access road to Inspiration Point, he was stunned by the beauty of Mt. Ogden, where rock pinnacles rise above open meadows studded with islands of dark fir, aspens and scrub oak.
Guided by Seibert, Earl and Kathleen traversed the upper bowls. "We hiked down through Strawberry Bowl, where the chaparral was clear up to my arm pits," he remembers. "Pete was going like a mountain goat¿he was in great shape¿and on the way down we were hiking down Penny Lane. My daughter was on one side of me and Pete was on the other, and she tugged at my sleeve and when I leaned over, she whispered in my ear, 'Dad, you ought to buy this.' When I asked her why, she said, 'Because it's so unspoiled.'"
Though Holding had the resources to buy Snowbasin, he quickly realized a base area was needed. Before he purchased the roughly 7,000 acres of rolling hills, he asked the U.S. Forest Service about a land exchange, a request he says he was given assurances would be a priority for approval. In the intervening 16 years, it is difficult to sort out who said or promised what, but the fact remains that Holding's efforts to solve Snowbasin's lack of a base area were subsequently colored by accusations of influence peddling and mismanagement of both public funds and lands. In early 1999, Holding, along with several other members, resigned from his seat on the Salt Lake Organizing Committee board to avert any suggestion of conflict of interest.
Critics claim that Holding used the approaching Salt Lake Olympics as a way to push the land swap through Congress. As part of its Olympic bid, SLOC agreed that Little and Big Cottonwood canyons¿in other words, Snowbird, Alta, Solitude and Brighton¿would be off limits. But Snowbasin's 3,400 feet of vertical, consistent snow and a downhill course that had been scaring the bejeesus out of college racers since the mid-Sixties offered what appeared to be a perfect venue.
Snowbasin General Manager Gray Reynolds, whose position at the resort has drawn even more criticism, points out, "The problem was the public had been involved and expected to be involved in each step. But if you allowed everyone to challenge each phase, then there was no chance of getting approval before the Olympics. Congress decided that given the repeated challenges, the Olympic development would never succeed. So it enacted special legislation."
Despite the fact that Reynolds was the former deputy chief of the U.S. Forest Service who served as an expert witness in the land trade negotiations with Snowbasin, Holding offered him the job of general manager, which he finally accepted in 1997. "Gray Reynolds had been a ski racer, a downhiller at Sun Valley and Jackson," Holding says. "He loved the sport, loved the skiing, loved the mountains, and I think following his separation from the Forest Service, it fit me and it fit Snowbasin. I saw Gray one day and asked him if he'd have any interest in being the manager of Snowbasin."
As a newly retired senior executive with the U.S. Forest Service, Reynolds was required to wait a year before considering any offers that might even hint at a conflict of interest. "People cast aspersions about collusion between Gray and I," Holding says. "But there is absolutely nothing to it. He's as straight an arrow as you'll find. I've heard it said that we hoped he'd get the trade for us but I'll tell you, I think hiring him probably delayed the trade two Pete Seibert called and said, 'I'd like to sell Snowbasin, and I'd like for you to come up and look at it.'" At first, Holding wasn't interested. Remembering the millions he had sunk into Sun Valley, he told Seibert, "Pete, one ski area is enough, I'm not going to even come look at it." But Seibert persisted. "Earl, just come up and hike it with me. I'm not going to twist your arm."
As a newly retired senior executive with the U.S. Forest Service, Reynolds was required to wait a year before considering any offers that might even hint at a conflict of interest. "People cast aspersions about collusion between Gray and I," Holding says. "But there is absolutely nothing to it. He's as straight an arrow as you'll find. I've heard it said that we hoped he'd get the trade for us but I'll tell you, I think hiring him probably delayed the trade two or three more years."
Despite owning the perfect Olympic venue, Holding remains an intermediate skier who's never been much of a fan of ski racing. After purchasing Sun Valley, he declined to host the resort's famed Harriman Cup, thereby costing the U.S. Ski Team one of its few World Cup stops. Along with the cost, Holding felt that hosting the races excluded guests from too large a percentage of Bald Mountain's terrain. Yet when SLOC asked him to host the Olympic downhill, then offered $13.8 million to help upgrade the facilities (at best a small percentage of the total investment), Holding agreed.
In the past two seasons Holding has added two gondolas, one jig-back tram, four triple chairs and one high-speed quad to access Snowbasin's 3,200 acres of trails, bowls and glades. No one argues that Snowbasin has always offered excellent terrain and superb snow. But despite the recent addition of a modern lifts, it has still failed to attract more than 100,000 skier visits the past two seasons, partly due to late openings and the fact that the Olympics, not today's lift ticket revenue, is the management's priority. At any rate, Reynolds and Holding are betting that the major improvements and Olympic publicity will dramatically increase business.
The new lifts, lodges and snowmaking have helped bring Snowbasin into the 21st century, but the truth is the Olympic downhill will put Mt. Ogden on the map. Designed by 1972 Olympic gold medalist Bernhard Russi, it is extremely fast, plummeting 2,770 feet through a series of steep faces, abrupt jumps, off-camber corners and gut-check compressions.
The one thing GM Reynolds can't control is weather. While riding the new John Paul Express detachable quad to the Olympic Tram that climbs to the start of the downhill course, he confesses having nightmares about snow. The problem (or the blessing during any February besides 2002) is that Snowbasin gets 400 inches per year¿a natural snow machine that could dump 2 feet on the day of the downhill.
The ideal situation would be to receive early-season snow for a base, then use the snowmaking to finish the process. "If the weather is cold and clear and we don't get snow the first week of February, everyone will look so damned smart," Reynolds says. "But if it storms, we're going to pull our guts out trying to get the course prepped."
By prepped he means groomed by winch cats, then iced down till it shines like stainless steel. Consistent, fast, hard and challenging, it will be a course that the world's best downhillers can depend on to spread the field. And yet, the Great Salt Lake's microclimate has bit Snowbasin more than once. Last February, the resort was scheduled to hold a World Cup women's downhill. However, 10 days before the race was scheduled to run it was canceled due to lack of snow. "We could have run the downhill," Reynolds claims. "It would have been tough, but no tougher than Bormio, Italy, where the finish was ankle-deep mud."
The cancellation proved costly. As it stands, the Olympic men will have but one visit to the course, for a World Cup downhill and super G slated for Feb. 24-25, before the training runs of the main event in 2002.
When skiers think of Earl Holding and Sun Valley, they do not picture a white-haired businessman in his early 70s. Instead they see massive log-and-stone lodges filled with leather chairs, beautiful carpets and granite countertops. Or they think of high-speed Doppelmayr lifts, York computerized snowmaking and fleets of new groomers. With the same quality slated for Snowbasin, it can be argued that Holding is doing more for skiing than anyone else in the country.
There is no doubt Holding could build it cheaper, but that's not his style. "It's like that first snowmaking system in Sun Valley," he says. "We reworked that first snowmaking system and added this and that, but for it to work, to really be of some value, you have to do it right in the first place.... Everything I've done and done well in the long run has paid its way. I think things that aren't done well are a waste of money."