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Canadian Military History Gateway
Subject > Wars, Battles and Conflicts > British Colonial Period, 1760-1867
This image of an aged Patriote of 1837 is famous in Quebec. It was created in 1887 as one of a series of 110 by Henri Julien as part of his work as staff illustrator for the "Montréal Star". Much later, the image became a symbol for the Quebec independence movement. Apart from its fame, it is also a good reconstruction of the appearance of a Patriote, agreeing with drawings made at the time. This man wears the everyday clothing of Lower Canadians of the period. The famous ceinture flèche, (literally 'arrow sash') around his waist is an item copied by the French Canadian voyageurs from the Amerindians. (Library and Archives Canada, C-017937)
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The leader of the Patriote movement is shown in this 1840 lithograph. At this time he was in France, having fled Canada at the start of the 1837 Rebellion. (Library and Archives Canada R9266-P2601)
The Sleigh Bay entrance to the Rideau Canal is a spectacular sequence of eight locks climbing 25.3 metres from the river to the plateau above. This watercolour of circa 1838 shows the entrance from the Quebec side of the Ottawa River. Construction work on the canal began here in 1827. Alongside the locks can be seen two stone buildings - the Commissariat on the west side (here, to the right) and the Ordnance (or Royal Engineers) Building on the east side. The former survives today as the Bytown Museum. Barracks Hill, just to the west of the locks, is now the site of the Canadian Parliament Buildings, built starting in 1859. (Library and Archives Canada, C-011864)
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer (1775-1850) is shown wearing the uniform for colonial governors. Governors and governor generals wore army general's uniforms until 1824 when assigned a special blue and scarlet military-style dress uniform last worn by Governor General Roland Michener in the early 1970s. Aylmer had a distinguished military record during the Napoleonic Wars. One interesting coincidence is that he served briefly in the Netherlands with the 49th (the Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot under command of Isaac Brock, future hero of the War of 1812. Not an experienced politician when he was sent to take up the governorship, Aylmer was caught in the middle of a bitter ethnic conflict in Lower Canada. In the end, despite wanting to convince French Canadians of his good intentions, the Governor had set in train events that would lead to the Rebellion of 1837. (Library and Archives Canada, C-004809)
Iron carriages were introduced in the British artillery in 1810. They were to be placed 'in such parts of fortifications as are least exposed to the enemy's fire' as it was feared they would shatter if hit by enemy artillery. The examples seen in this photograph are found at the Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site.
This 1824 silhouette of a trooper of the Royal Montreal Cavalry unit is one of the earliest known images of a Canadian unit. These militia light cavalry were dressed in the same style as British light dragoons. The uniform was blue faced with scarlet and trimmed with gold buttons and lace. The original silhouette is in the collection of the Musée d'Argenteuil, Carillon, Quebec. The Royal Montreal cavalry was recruited from the Anglophone middle class of Montreal, and was something of a military wing of the Montreal Hunt Club.
Fort Henry was the largest and most modern fort built by the British Army in Upper Canada and was nicknamed 'the citadel of Upper Canada'. This watercolour was made in April, 1839, during the aftermath of the 1837-1838 Rebellions in Canada. Restored in the 1930s, the Kingston, Ontario structure is now one of the major historic sites in Canada. (Library and Archives Canada, C-000510)
Louis Riel was born in Saint Boniface in 1844 and was educated in Montréal. When he returned to the Red River Settlement in 1868, he found the community anxious and divided over its political future.
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York Redoubt, built east of Halifax, was the first major fort guarding the harbour's entrance. The first batteries on the site were constructed in 1793. Over the years, the site was improved. Advances in weapons technology made the site obsolete in the 1860s, and a substantial rebuilding process began, incorporating rifled muzzle loading guns. This engraving shows the Redoubt in 1882. The site is now a National Historic Site.
A brief listing of books and articles about the armies, regiments, soldiers and uniforms of the War of 1812. Includes British and American publications, with references to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the Regiment de Watteville, the 104th Regiment of Foot, the New Brunswick Regiment, and the New Brunswick Fencibles. This bibliography is part of "From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History."
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Scotland The Brave
Posted by TravellingStrom on July 2, 2012
Mayan Prophecy Countdown
Well, I woke up a bit seedy this morning and that was thoroughly expected 😉 After a small breakfast around 9am I hit the road, it was raining of course, so I took a few photos of the pub and headed off north. I only had 280km to get to the ferry terminal and I had already checked out the ferry times, the boat leaves at 15.30 so I could take it easy, which I did.
Not much to spruike about for the next few hours, just some wet narrow roads to start with before I found the main highway to Dublin then Belfast. I got to the ferry port about 2pm well in time and had a chance for a rest and a snack at the passenger terminal. Here I was again surprised by the friendly locals, a security guard told me not to buy the over expensive coke from the machine, so instead I gave him 50 cents and he went down to the staff canteen and got me one from there, thanks m8 that was well appreciated 🙂
It had sort of stopped raining in the past hour but it was still very overcast and now that my ticket was booked I actually felt happier. I even found a bit of Irish logic, everyone laughs at the Irish sense of humour, well, check out the signs on the door of the passenger terminal.
Of course it was a manual door, I wonder how many people besides myself got sucked in and stood there waving their arms around trying to open the door 🙂 So, I arrived in Cairnryan in Scotland about two hours later after a very foggy run across the Irish Sea. I had spoken to some people near me on the boat and they had said a nice place to stay was Dumfries, about an hour or so inland. I was actually aiming for my friends place in Harrogate, Yorkshire. This was the home of Graham and Sue Whittington, we had met in Peru a few years back and rode for about a month together through parts of South America including the Atacama Desert. Anyway, after disembarking I headed off with only 74 miles to go to Dumfries.
I got to Dumfries after nearly running out of fuel. I was so used to getting better range on the higher octane, like 97,99 etc, but I have been using the 95 they have on offer and I am losing 50km at least in range! But, I did get to the birth town of Peter Pan and found, after much asking, a bed in a small hotel. All the B&Bs were full 😦 But, it was quite cheap and the best thing of all, they served food and beer 🙂 And funnily enough, up here in Scotland I had a great roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with vegies 🙂 Even more of a bonus, I asked the owner about a local garage, I wanted to make a wire brace for my chain oiler, if I could push the oil tube against the sprocket and hold it in place, I could stop worrying about it. I was also out of chain lube in a can anyway, so something had to be done until I could get to Holland. Anyway, he said he would show me a servo on a map later, but while I was eating he came back with a piece of wire and some cable ties and out of that I should be able to fashion something 🙂 Thanks heaps 🙂
I only had a couple of beers, as I needed to sort some stuff out, contact some people about the next few days ahead. It was not far to Graham's place and I planned on being there after lunch, maybe find a cache or two on the way. It depends on the rain, it was back again, not that it had left of course. The room was warm and comfortable and I got started on some blog entries before crashing out around midnight.
Cheers from Dumfries, Scotland
2 Responses to "Scotland The Brave"
July 6, 2012 at 11:49
it looks like you really need some sunshine,the origin game was a cracker,the blues are getting closer and closer
what maps are you using on the garmin

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Anne Sullivan was a gifted athlete filled with energy who came out of high school with a focus on being a firefighter. But about a month after graduating from the Houston Fire Department Academy, the 24-year-old was among four firefighters who died while searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston motel and restaurant.
'She had a lot of energy and had her heart set at that,' her father, Jack Sullivan, told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Also killed in the collapse during the Friday afternoon fire at the Southwest Inn were: Capt. Matthew Renaud, 35, who has been with department for 111/2 years; Engineer Operator Robert Bebee, 41, who joined the department almost 12 years ago; and Firefighter Robert Garner, 29, who joined the department 21/2 years ago.
The Houston Fire Department said 14 firefighters were taken to the hospital Friday. One remained in critical condition on Saturday and another was undergoing surgery. The rest were in stable condition and several have been released from the hospital.
The fire broke out just after noon at a restaurant connected to the Southwest Inn along a busy freeway and quickly spread to the section of the building housing the motel. About 150 firefighters responded and were able to get it under control within about two hours.
The fire was the deadliest in the 118-year history of the department.
Fire officials said they took a high risk in aggressively fighting the fire because they believed people were inside the motel. When a portion of the building collapsed, the firefighters were trapped.
Anne Sullivan, a soccer player and cross country runner in high school, joined the Wharton County Junior College Fire Academy after graduation. She graduated from the Houston Fire Department Academy in April.
Jack Sullivan said he was on his way home from work Friday when he heard about the fire and realized it was in his daughter's area.
'I'm thinking she could be involved, but maybe not,' he said.
About 10 minutes later he heard that four firefighters had died in the blaze and began crying in his car. As he approached his house, he saw an emergency vehicle parked outside and knew his daughter was among those who had died.
'I knew right that instant,' Sullivan said.
He said that while he'd tried to sway his daughter into a less dangerous line of work – such as an EMT – he knew that her heart was set on being a firefighter. At 5-foot-2, she had the 'grit and determination' to realize her dream, he said.
'There was no stopping her,' Sullivan said.
The father of Garner, Jerry Veuleman, told the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1aMsrEe ) that Garner was proud of his work and had set his sights on becoming a firefighter after leaving the military.
"Use your training. Don't be a hero. God will look after you," Veuleman recalled telling him. 'God chose it was time to take Robert and the other firefighters. We are sorry, but we are also blessed.'
The Houston Fire Department Arson Division is taking the lead in the investigation of the fire, with assistance from the State Fire Marshal's Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Houston Police Department.


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Luxembourg, GR5/E2 trail
Two years ago I wondered about bikepacking routes in Europe. After eight months of riding, researching, and blogging from Amsterdam to Sevastapol to Athens, this resource is the culmination of our efforts. Europe is a great place to explore by bike, off-pavement, and self-supported. Eat great food, visit fascinating cultural and historical places, and learn new languages, in between bike rides. In Europe, there are rides and routes for every interest and skill level. Use the search function or the archives on this page to learn more about our rides in Europe through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, and Greece. Read more about our adventures across Europe in the Bicycle Times article Bikepacking Europe: North Sea to the Black Sea.
This is an incomplete list of European bikepacking routes. These routes are either mapped, signed, and/or available as GPS tracks. Many routes originate as self-supported off-pavement endurance races, multi-day stage races, or challenging routes for solo ITT. Some are government tourism projects. Others are the creation of avid riders or cycling organizations to promote the riding in their home country. Lastly, some routes suggested here are repurposed walking routes, which may be done in sections or as a whole. One route is currently planned, but is incomplete. Additional rouetplanning resources include online retailers of maps and guides, or digital trail-finder resources. The basic concept of this project is to awaken the world to the breadth of bikepacking possibilities in Europe, despite the lack of a single superstar route such as the Great Divide Route, Colorado Trail, or the Arizona Trail. Bikepacking is a global phenomena, born of the passion to ride somewhere, off the beaten path, self-supported.
Use these links as a springboard to do your own research and riding. Some routes may be easy with significant paved sections, non-technical terrain, and uncomplicated logistics. Others are extremely challenging, with a large component of hike-a-bike.
Any assistance to improve the list is welcomed, including relevant comments about any of the listed routes and new route suggestions with links. When possible the routes are linked to the most informative or relevant webpage, which most often originates from the route organizer or creator. In a few cases, routes are listed without an official webpage or an official GPS route, such as The Red Trail in Poland, but the route is known to exist on the ground, is signed, and is indicated on Compass brand maps (and others). To keep this listing simple I have chosen not to indicate the distance, difficulty, or source of route guidance (map, GPS, signs). These features may come in the future, and if anyone wishes to host this list in further detail, contact me directly. Start dreaming and get riding!
Please use the comment form below and check back in the future as this page develops. Special assistance is needed to include routes from many countries, including: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary (The Countrywide Blue Tour?), Serbia, Kosovo, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belorus, Russia, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Israel is not in Europe, but is included due to a growing bikepacking scene. Surely, there are many more routes in the countries listed. Tell your friends. Share it online.
Spain: TransAndalus, Transpirinaica; Transiberia, Camino de Santiago, Camino del Norte, Transcantábrica, Via de la Plata, Camino del Cid; GR 48, Transnevada. Many Spanish route maps and guidebooks available from labiciteca.com.
Portugal: Rota Vicentina, Via Algarviana
France: Traversée du Massif Vosgien, Traversée du Jura (maps), Traversée du Massif Central, GR5/E2 trail; VTTrack.fr for interactive MTB trail map of France
Belgium: GR5/E2 walking trail (general info); also, some images and info about the section in the Ardennes Mountains
Germany: GST: Grenzsteintrophy
UK: Bearbones 200, England-Wales-England, Lakeland 200, Pennine Bridleway, Ridgeway Double, South Downs Double, Coast to Coast, Trans Cambrian, Welsh Coast to Coast; Devon Coast to Coast (Westcountry Way). All routes and links thanks to selfsupportedUK.net.
Scotland: Scotland Coast to Coast, Highland Trail 550, West Highland Way, Cairngorms Loop
Italy: Italy Coast to Coast, Tuscany Trail, San Remo-Monte Carlo, MyLand Non-Stop (Sardinia), Alto Adige-Südtirol Extreme Bike Trail, Dolomiti Trail, Italia Transmountains, The Fat River (fatbike route), Transardinia. Most routes courtesy of bikepacking.it.
Switzerland: Navad 1000; National Trails—Alpine Bike #1, Panorama Bike #2, Jura Bike #3; Alpencross; National website for Mountainbiking in Switzerland
Sweden: Kungsleden
Poland: The Red Trail (Sudecki and Beskidzka, basic info only). Compass brand maps show all hiking trails and cycling routes, including the long-distance red trails. Note, the red trail is not a single trail across Poland, but a series of trails with lesser trails marked with painted blazes of other colors. There is a route most of the way across the country E-W, mostly along red trails.
Czech/Slovakia: 1000 Miles Adventure
Croatia: Adriatic Crest
Montenegro: Top Biking Trail 3: Eastern Enchantment
Greece: Bike Odyssey
Israel: Holyland Bikepacking Challenge, Israel National Bike Trail (in progress), Israel National Trail (hiking)
Other resources: Footpaths provide the basis for many routes in Europe, most of which have developed over the past century. Generally, these routes allow bicycles, with local exclusions, but they do not exclusively travel singletrack trails across wild lands and will pass towns, farmland, and paved sections. The European Rambler's Association (ERA) aims to complete a long-distance international trail system of footpaths throughout Europe, with numbered routes from E1-E12 currently in various phases of completion. Most routes are assembled from pre-existing local and national trails. Each country may provide more detailed resources in the native tongue via dedicated websites or guides about national trail systems, such as the GR5 listed in France and Belgium, above. Most often, printed regional trail maps can be found at local touristic centers, and commercial maps and guides may also be available. Detailed roadmaps are also suitable for broad-scale navigation, and often show more detail than typical road maps in the USA.
Also worth mentioning is the EuroVelo network of cycling routes, fashioned much like the ERA, with international cross-continental routes numbered 1-12 in various stages of completion. EuroVelo routes are generally ridable on a trekking bike, hybrid, or rigid mountain bike, and in some places are not recommended for a tire less than about 40mm. Check out the EuroVelo6for the popular route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea.
If you wish to submit a route, please provide a link to the best source(s) of information and a brief description of your experience on that route, if any. To qualify a multi-day off-pavement route for this listing, consider that it must be documented in detail, like the routes listed on Pedaling Nowhere-Routes or Bikepacking.net.
Poland, The Red Trail
Czech, Sumava National Park
Ukraine, Polonina Borzhava
France, Traversée du Massif Vosgien, Château Bernstein
Slovakia, 1000 Miles Adventure
Greece, Bike Odyssey
France, TMV
Greece, Bike Odyssey
Luxembourg, GR5/E2 trail
Belgium, GR5/E2 trail
Guidebooks for routes in Spain.
Poland, The Red Trail: one of many PTTK resources for hikers and cyclists available in the mountains, often serving hot food and cold beer.
Maps in a Slovakian supermarket.
Belgium, GR5/E2 trailAlbania


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The 2012 Council recommendation on validation of non-formal and informal learning encourages Member States to put in place national arrangements for such validation by 2018. These will enable individuals to increase the visibility and value of their knowledge, skills and competences acquired outside formal education and training: at work, at home or in voluntary activities.
This synthesis report forms part of the 2016 update to the European inventory on validation of non-formal and informal learning. It is accompanied by 36 country reports and four thematic reports. The inventory provides a regularly updated overview of validation practices and arrangements in all Member States, EFTA countries and Turkey. The 2016 update is the sixth update (2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014).
Alongside the revised European guidelines on validation, the 2016 inventory serves as a tool to assist Member States in developing and implementing validation arrangements as well as identifying areas which need further attention in the coming years. This report summarises the current situation with regard to validation in all countries under study, and reports on progress towards the aims set out in the 2012 Council recommendation.


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Monday, August 07, 2017
Understanding the McMaster NSC Purge
The former Army colonel had made his reputation by learning the lay of the land. In Iraq that meant sleeping on mud floors and digging into documents to figure out where the threat was coming from.
It was hard to imagine anyone better qualified to serve as President Trump's top Middle East adviser at the National Security Council than a man who had been on the ground in Iraq and who had seen it all.
Just like in Iraq, Harvey began digging at the NSC. He came up with a list of Obama holdovers who were leaking to the press. McMaster, the new head of the NSC, refused to fire any of them.
McMaster had a different list of people he wanted to fire. It was easy to make the list. Harvey was on it.
All you had to do was name Islamic terrorism as the problem and oppose the Iran Deal. If you came in with Flynn, you would be out. If you were loyal to Trump, your days were numbered.
And if you warned about Obama holdovers undermining the new administration, you were a target.
One of McMaster's first acts at the NSC was to ban any mention of "Obama holdovers." Not only did the McMaster coup purge Harvey, who had assembled the holdover list, but his biggest target was Ezra Watnick-Cohen, who had exposed the eavesdropping on Trump officials by Obama personnel.
Ezra Watnick-Cohen had provided proof of the Obama surveillance to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. McMaster, however, was desperately working to fire him and replace him with Linda Weissgold. McMaster's choice to replace Watnick-Cohen was the woman who helped draft the Benghazi talking points which blamed the Islamic terrorist attack on a video protest.
After protests by Bannon and Kushner, President Trump overruled McMaster. Watnick-Cohen stayed. For a while. Now Ezra Watnick-Cohen has been fired anyway.
According to the media, Watnick-Cohen was guilty of "anti-Muslim fervor" and "hardline views." And there's no room for anyone telling the truth about Islamic terrorism at McMaster's NSC.
McMaster had even demanded that President Trump refrain from telling the truth about Islamic terrorism.
Another of his targets was Rich Higgins, who had written a memo warning of the role of the left in undermining counterterrorism. Higgins had served as a director for strategic planning at the NSC. He had warned in plain language about the threat of Islamic terrorism, of Sharia law, of the Hijrah colonization by Islamic migrants, of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of its alliance with the left as strategic threats.
Higgins had stood by Trump during the Khizr Khan attacks. And he had written a memo warning that "the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national, and international levels" and that "they operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies."
Like Harvey and Ezra Watnick-Cohen, Higgins had warned of an enemy within. And paid the price.
McMaster's cronies had allegedly used the NSC's email system to track down the source of the memo. The left and its useful idiots were indeed entrenched at the upper level of the bureaucracy.
Higgins was fired.
Like Harvey and Watnick-Cohen, Higgins had also become too dangerous to the Obama holdovers. Harvey had assembled a list of names and a plan to dismantle the Iranian nuclear deal. Watnick-Cohen had dug into the Obama surveillance of Trump officials. And Higgins had sought to declassify Presidential Study Directive 11. PSD-11 was the secret blueprint of Obama's support for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Pete Hoekstra, the former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, linked PSD-11 to the rise of ISIS and called for its declassification.
Replacing Harvey is Michael Bell. When the Washington Post needed someone to badmouth Dr. Gorka, they turned to Bell: the former chancellor of the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defense University. Bell suggested that Dr. Gorka was an uneven scholar. And Dr. Gorka was accused of failing to incorporate other perspectives on Islam.
The pattern has never been hard to spot.
McMaster forced out K.T. McFarland from her role as Deputy National Security Advisor. Slotted in was Dina Habib-Powell.
McFarland was an Oxford and Cambridge grad who had worked at the Pentagon for the Reagan administration. Dina Habib-Powell had no national security background. She was an Egyptian-American immigrant and former Bush gatekeeper whose pals included Huma Abedin and Valerie Jarrett.
Powell, who has been described as the Republican Huma, said that Abedin "feels a deep responsibility to encourage more mutual understanding between her beliefs and culture and American culture."
When visiting Egypt, Habib-Powell had assured the locals of how Bush, after September 11, "visited a mosque, took off his shoes and paid his respects." "I see the president talk of Islam as a religion of peace, I see him host an iftar every year," she gushed.
K.T. McFarland had written that "Global Islamist jihad is at war with all of Western civilization."
It's not hard to see why McMaster pushed out McFarland and elevated Habib-Powell.
Habib-Powell had attended the Iftar dinner with members of Muslim Brotherhood front groups. You can see her photographed at the American Task Force of Palestine gala. The ATFP was originally Rashid Khalidi's American Committee on Jerusalem. She was there as a presenter at the Middle East Institute after a speech by Hanan Ashrawi. Her achievements under Bush included cultural exchanges with Iran, as well as cash for the Palestinian Authority and for Lebanon after the Hezbollah war with Israel.
While President Trump fights to restrict Muslim immigration, at his side is the woman who had once bragged on CNN, "Over 90% of student visas are now issued in under a week, and that is in the Middle East."
But that is typical of the McMaster revamp of the NSC. It's populated by swamp creatures who oppose the positions that President Trump ran on. And who are doing everything possible to undermine them.
President Trump promised a reset from Obama's anti-Israel policies. McMaster picked Kris Bauman as the NSC's point man on Israel. Bauman had defended Islamic terrorists and blamed Israel for the violence. He had urged pressure on Israel as the solution. Ideas like that fit in at McMaster's NSC.
Meanwhile Derek Harvey, who had tried to halt Obama's $221 million terror funding prize to the Palestinian Authority, was forced out.
This too is part of the pattern. As Caroline Glick has pointed out, the personnel being purged in the McMaster coup "are pro-Israel and oppose the Iran nuclear deal."
When Adam Lovinger urged that "more attention be given to the threat of Iran and Islamic extremism," his security clearance was revoked. Robin Townley was forced out in the same way.
Meanwhile, McMaster sent a letter to Susan Rice, Obama's former National Security Adviser, assuring her that the NSC would work with her to "allow you access to classified information." He claimed that Rice's continued access to classified information is "consistent with the national security interests of the United States."
Why does Susan Rice, who is alleged to have participated in the Obama eavesdropping on Trump people, need access to classified information? What national security purpose is served by it?
The same national security purpose that is served by McMaster's purge of anyone at the NSC who dares to name Islamic terrorism, who wants a tougher stance on Iran, and who asks tough questions.
And the purge of reformers and original thinkers is only beginning.
The latest reports say that McMaster has a list of enemies who will be ousted from the NSC. And when that is done, the NSC will be a purely Obama-Bush operation. The consensus will be that the Iran Deal must stay, that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, that we need to find ways to work with the aspirations of the Muslim Brotherhood, and that Israel must make concessions to terrorists.
If you loved the foreign policy that brought us 9/11, ISIS, and billions in funding to terrorists from Syria to Libya to the West Bank, you won't be able to get enough of McMaster's brand new NSC.
And neither will America's enemies.
The swamp is overflowing. The National Security Council is becoming a national security threat.
35 comments:
- D.D.Mao7/8/17
There has been concern about the number of Generals being appointed to the current administration and the need for greater civilian control. Yet we have a President who has no military background and shows ignorance of the basic rules of government and military procedure. He has also shown he is out of his league in any knowledge of implementing any domestic and international policy initiatives. He has alienated the experienced foreign policy personnel that new administrations rely on and instead his major civilian advisors thus far have been his son in law Jared Kushner, daughter Ivanka, Paul Manafort and Steve Bannon. He gets his information through watching television, has the attention span of 15 seconds and his incisive tweets are counter productive to anything he did positive. His need to be loved forces him to go out on campaign style rallies to his base and has cabinet meetings that are reminiscent of dictators going around the table being praised. As witnessed by the current special prosecutor investigation he is neither making judicious decisions on his own nor getting sound advice. Not to mention even Republican members of Congress are distancing themselves from him.ReplyDelete
I am neither advocating nor defending Gen. McMasters nor any of the others mention in Daniels article. I'm only saying the President better get some veteran foreign and domestic policy experts that can give sound advice along with an experienced diplomatic corps. If he believes he was under pressure the pass six months just wait until that 3 a.m. phone call comes through.
Maybe this info should be sent to the President.ReplyDelete
Excellent article but needs some correction where you write 'the National Security Council is becoming a national security threat' because, the NSC is a national security threat.ReplyDelete
The only guy in the West Wing who gets it is Bannon.ReplyDelete
It is hard to believe that there are just so many traitors in high places. Please do a column Daniel to tell us why he can not see who is who . He needs people like Mueller so overtly traitorous and malicious, on an Aeroplane charter with a drop off in the Atlantic.ReplyDelete
I sent Trump two emails (via Whitehouse.gov) urging Trump to immediately fire H.R. McMaster, calling him the Deep State raptor who is denuding the NSC of any pro-American, anti-Islam personnel who could defend this country. I do not know if the emails ever made it to Trump's desk or to his attention. I received boilerplate acknowledgements that may mean nothing. We cannot be sure if the person who monitors public emails to the White House and is responsible for passing them on is an Obama holdover or a McMaster tool.ReplyDelete
Why? Why? Why? That is my ultimate question. Is it that McMaster and the Obama holdovers all believe that Islam is a religion of peace deep in their souls, and that America will be a better place once Islam is woven into our culture? What other explanation is there? Getting communists entrenched in our government had a singular & purposeful outcome..turning America into a Communist Country. The spies and those doing the entrenching were true believers. The conforming and cooperating bureaucrats were too stupid to see or believe this was so. It was not as easy to tell a communist from a non-communist. But with this situation? C'mon! How do they not realize what they are doing? I read tons of articles telling What is happening, but it is Why, that is what I want to know. (Aside from Anti-semitism. That I know is a belief system and a motivator for some. Take the Tillerson State Department statement made last month regarding Israel. Lies and facts that are blatantly backwards is what all of that is. When I heard it I was like Who wrote that bullsh-t? and anti-semite?) But are these people, some of whose ancestors helped build America, like McMaster and his ilk truly wanting to change the face of this country?ReplyDelete
First Cernovich, now you Daniel? I don't understand this recent McMaster smear campaign. Do you think he is anti Israel ?ReplyDelete
Then why aren't they removed all at once? Who is allowing them to stay if they against the Trump agenda?ReplyDelete
Man, seeing all of this in one place is making my ears spin. What in the world is Trump doing?ReplyDelete
- Just a common 'tater8/8/17
Based upon some rather interesting stuff I have come across over the years, there are a few long standing problems in DC that goes back many years, traceable to the FDR administration. Maybe even further?ReplyDelete
1. Discounting on the ground info in favor of high tech info. This may or may not be related to the State Department view of the world, but the Pentagon types have tended to disregard info from the people at the front. This happened in Viet Nam (TET), Korea (involvement of Chinese army near the Yalu, 1950-51), and very famously, Arnhem in Operation Market Garden. Summary: Front area Intelligence to High Level Planners, "Hey, the lower level people at the front and locals say that (fill in name of enemy formation) is located at (fill in location)and this will affect (fill in name of operation or units involved)." High level planners to front line Intell, "Our sources say that (fill in name of enemy formation) is located at (fill in name of a location farthest from actual location) so don't worry, continue as planned and directed."
2. FDR appointed many far left people, including admirers of Lenin and Stalin, in the State Department. Since then, the OSS, followed by CIA and other State Department functionaries have been in a world of their own. Anyone that tries to drain the swamp ends up in trouble or dead.
The only way Trump will be able to come out of this alive and the US better off is for him to start firing en mass, starting with the NSC and State Department. There is enough support in the military for that to get cleaned out after state, followed by DOJ, then Military. Trump needs to clean up by the end of the year or this administration will fail. Session has been compromised, possibly Tillerson. He needs big bulldozer to clean out the debris, not a broom and dustpan.
Great expose, Sultan, keep up the good work. Send a copy of your column to Mr. Trump and his close advisors.
I usually agree with your articles/opinions. And you may be right this time. However, I served with McMaster. He is a decorated soldier, and a patriot. I never saw any signs of personal ambition or a "me first" attitude that is seen in many career military officers. He struck me as intelligent and hard working, loyal to his friends, soldiers, unit and country. I saw him speak his mind, sometimes forcefully, to his superiors more than once. I don't think he would be awed by the president or swayed by political hacks.The man you describe in your article is not the man that I knew. I hope that he is still the man I knew back in the day.ReplyDelete
- D Leeper8/8/17
Tom Cotton recommended McMaster. What does he think of McMaster's behavior?ReplyDelete
One commentator asked: "The obvious question is; why Doesn't Trump get rid of him?" There's a notion going around that Trump's children have been threatened, or that McMaster or someone else has "something" on Trump that is saying his hand.ReplyDelete
SAD TO SAY, BUT TRUMPS DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND DID MORE DAMAGE, TO HIM THAN EVEN HIS GENERALS! THEY GOT RID OF LOYAL TRUMP SUPPORT, AND OPENED THE DOOR AND WELCOMED!!!! EVERY TRAITOR IN!!!! WHICH NOW LOOKS MORE LIKE A MILITARY COUP, TO BACK UP THE TRAITORS IN THE WH COUP!!!! WE PUT HIM IN OFFICE, AND GAVE HIM EVERY TOOL AND INFO HE NEEDED TO PROTECT HIMSELF. JARED AND IVANKA, HELPED HIS ENEMIES. VERYY VERY SAD.ReplyDelete
All during the Obama Administration, men who had solid security experience noted the removal of all references to Islamic terrorism from training manuals and exercises. Reading this makes me wonder what role McMasters played over the years. He gives me the creeps.ReplyDelete
Poor Trump doesn't know who to trust and has too many other things to do, such as deregs, to get to McMaster, whose stars T tends to trust. If he'd ever been in the Army he'd know better.ReplyDelete
- Gary Sack8/8/17
This bothers me so, so, much. Why does Trump keep McMaster? A bad guy who won't be loyal and carry out Trump's agenda...or is our view of Trump not correct?ReplyDelete
It does seem that Trump is being played for a fool. He needs to pay attention to advice from Ms Conway, sirs Bannon, J.Sekula, N Gingrich, J.Bolton and a few others.ReplyDelete
Trump has been under attack 24/7 since he announced he was running. Yet, everyone wants to act like he's helpless. Anyone who messes with him goes down. They are not going to get him out of office unless they have him killed. The media is terrified of him, and he has literally upset the big wheels in Hollywood. Even that nut owner of Facebook, who has walls and 25 bodyguards day and night, thinks he can run for President. As far as experienced foreign policy experts. Name one. They all suck. In Nam we knew TET was coming in 68, but the so called experts didn't know anything. There are no experts he can turn to. DC has been compromised for years. I defy anyone else to take what this man has taken for a solid year and remain standing. Still, everyone wants to say he's an idiot or a dummy. Yet, no one can imagine that what he wants people to think. Korea can't even kick its own butt. It's another side track to try to derail Trump. It won't work. He's done a lot of good that never gets reported. But medicated aging stars like Ashley Judd get news because someone at the airport didn't know who she was and called her sweetheart. So she had to make a selfie and tell the people at the airport who she was and how she was offended. Those are the people Trump is up against. Idiots and rich old creeps who are dug in like ticks and want to protect their money. He's not dumb. He's smarter than most people know. Generals...there are no generals with real combat experience. How many generals did you see in Nam? If we had any real war generals, they would wipe out our enemies to the last person. Too many restrictions. His tweets and outbursts. No one cares but the media. We needed someone who won't play ball with the DC Cartel and we got him. After the mid-terms there will be very few Democrats left and a lot of Republicans who won't help the people will be gone, too. Polls are all made up, or Hillary would be our President. This is great stuff.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/8/17
I'm speechless. As the other anonymous said, Deep State wins. I trust Trump's good intentions and his love of this country, but I'm beginning to wonder if he's now just a rudderless, beaten man. How can any of what Daniel outlines even be possible? Sigh.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/8/17
What did Mr. Greenfield write about traitors a while back?ReplyDelete
Why do traitors never prosper?
Because when traitors prosper none dare call it treason.
The US federal government is run by Moslem collaborating traitors.
"While opposition to President Trump manifests itself through political warfare memes centered on cultural Marxist narratives, this hardly means that opposition is limited to Marxists as conventionally understood. Having become the dominant cultural meme, some benefit from it while others are captured by it; including 'deep state' actors, globalists, bankers, Islamists, and establishment Republicans."ReplyDelete
Higgins committed D.C.'s Original Sin: He Told the Truth.
This is truly terrifying, and has all the usual Greenfield stamp of truth all throughout.ReplyDelete
Here In England, we turn to this site and others like it to get the truth-sure as hell we won`t get it from Europe or the BBC.
When McMaster replaced Flynn in February, I well remember the BBC praising this "sensible" appointment.And now I see why.
Bannon remains the canary in the marsh swamp. Hope to God that he can hold his breath long enough to deal with Obama reheats, rehashes and boil in the bag fakes.
Noted McMaster get glowing refernces in a Steve Hilton book-he is very much a Buddhist green kind of liberal rebel who can confuse and deceive as he did under Camerons UK government until a few years back...a wrong` un.
Come on Donald-get that marsh arab gas measured and drain the place before the Mosquitos bite...get the meaning eh?
- Anonymous16/8/17
Alisa, you comment was beyond informative... Thank you so much ! You have an excellent grasp on things. This helped me connect dots. Grateful cousin across the pond.ReplyDelete


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Before joining President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the theater, on Saturday, May 30th, Governor David Paterson stopped at The Lab in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to pay tribute to and publicly declare his support for Councilmember Al Vann who formally announced his run for re-election to his seat of Councilmember of the 36th District in Brooklyn. Joining the ceremony and committing their support of Councilmember Vann were State Senate Majority Leader, Malcolm Smith, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Councilmember, Bill de Blasio, City Council Member Letitia "Tish" James, State Assembly Member Hakeem Jeffriees, President of the New York City Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, Norman Seabrook, and a host of other elected officials, leaders, adoring constituents and friends.
In 1993 and 1996, New Yorkers voted to restrict local elected officials to no more than two terms in office. But in 2008, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, despite tremendous opposition, successfully campaigned for an amendment to the New York City term limits law in order to enable himself to run for a third term as Mayor, subsequently allowing Councilman Vann and others to run for another term.
A lifelong resident of the community he serves, Councilman Al Vann garnered countless amens and applause throughout the ceremony while receiving enthusiastic and unrelenting praise by his peers for his lifelong accomplishments in government including but not limited to establishing an economic development task force, vigilantly working with homeowners to prevent foreclosure due to predatory lenders and tax liens, allocating over $10 million for community mental health centers, hospitals and other activities promoting good health in the community, including the Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center, working to protect brownstone blocks from hi-rise development, and collaborating with the community and other leaders to establish Business Improved Districts which have provided valuable services to community businesses. Councilman Vann also chairs the Community Development Committee, overseeing the Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO), a program designed to reduce poverty among the working poor, young adults, and young children.
No stranger to change, Councilman Vann experienced the down side of change in the 1960s, as his world transformed before his very eyes and under his feet into what is now a failed urban aid initiative called "Model Cities," which was initiated by President Lyndon Johnson back in 1966. Model Cities was allegedly part of Johnson's "War on Poverty" which often used eminent domain to seize private property and use it for public service. The program was unsuccessful and eventually discontinued. But according to Councilman Vann, the negative aftermath continues even today in that all of the Black-owned businesses were eradicated as a result of the failed Model Cities project.
Back in 2007, Councilman Vann proposed the renaming of four blocks of Gates Ave to Sonny Abubadika Carson Avenue, which was initially approved by Community Board 3, but rejected soon after by City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn, pointing out criminal activity in Carson's history. Councilman Vann's office rebutted with a list of Bedford Stuyvesant streets which included biographies of the historical people they are named after, many of whom were slave traders and pedophiles. Today, the name, Sonny Abubadika Carson succeeds Gates Avenue for some blocks.
Further to his credit, Councilman Vann has injected approximately $24 million in community revitalization programs that include the renovation and expansion of the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, renovation and expansion of the Bed Stuy YMCA, complete renovation for the Bed Stuy Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, access to services to help and maintain community health initiatives, two recreation centers, community centers, cleanliness and safety in community parks and more. Councilman Vann oversees over $48 million of the President Obama Stimulus Package Funds.
In support of Councilman Vann's run for re-election, Governor Paterson stated, "Councilmember Al Vann has been the catalyst for the success of so many other people who have come into government. When some others in government sit and suck up the air, Al is the man who gives oxygen to other people. He is always thinking; always evolving. Al Vann has always maintained an ability to change and metamorphize but has never forgotten where he came from. So, when we honor Councilman Vann, we are not just honoring him. We are honoring all of our foreparents, and our ancestors who struggled and persevered so that all of us would be here today supporting this great man in his re-election campaign. We are also honoring the great communities that have struggled so long, and have finally begun to get what has been owed and desired for decades and centuries."
"But we do have to remember," Governor Paterson continued, "in these difficult times; in these periods of struggle, when the economy is down, that we have always been told that we could share in the worst of times, but never seem to have had a hand reach out to us when times were prosperous. But today, I want you to know that in State Government, even though we have a recession, we have increased the welfare allocation for those who live on the edge of poverty right here in New York State, that have not been changed in 18 years. We've implemented COBRA insurance legislation to help ensure that there will be Unemployment Insurance for a longer period of time since so many of our people have lost jobs. We've introduced food stamps at 30 percent higher rate than we had last year because there are people who had six figure salaries last year who are on the food lines and food pantries around New York today. We are remembering those who don't have a voice and who don't have millions of dollars to advertise on TV, but suffer just as much as we do during the recession," Governor Paterson garnering a thunderous standing ovation and lingering cheers when he announced, "AND we have fulfilled one of the dreams for which Councilman Vann has fought for 27 years in the legislature -- we have eradicated the Rockefeller Drug Laws."
The ceremony took place at The Lab, one of Bedford Stuyvesant's main event hot spots. Festivities began with exhilarating performances by The Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band, the Noel Pointer Foundation Youth Ensemble and the Mike Fritz Benjamin Trio.
The Brooklyn Steppers were one of 1,400 marching bands selected to participate in President Obama's Inauguration Parade in Washington, January 2009. The Brooklyn Steppers were the only group selected from New York City.
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Al Vann: "Read This List. Your Street May be Named After a Slave Holder"
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Earlier today, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) formally denied a request made in July by the United States Postal Service (USPS) for an average 5.6 percent rate increase.
PRC officials said that the request was turned down, because the USPS "failed to justify rate increases in excess of its statutory CPI price cap."
This proposal was part of the USPS's exigent price case to raise rates filed on July 6. This case was comprised of four-to-six percent price increases for various products, including its 18 Market Dominant products. Among the proposed USPS rates changes were:
-raising First Class Stamps to 46 cents, with a new Forever Stamp available in October;
-an 8 percent increase for Periodicals;
-a 5.6 percent increase for Standard Mail;
-6.7 percent increase for Package Services;
-a 5.2 percent increase for Special Services;
-a recommended increase for catalogs of 5.1 percent; and
-Standard Mail parcels increasing by about 23 percent.
These changes, had they been approved by the PRC, would have taken effect on January 2, 2011. When the USPS made this proposal, it said these price changes would generate $2.3 billion for the last three quarters of Fiscal Year 2011 and an estimated $3 billion for the full 12 months of Fiscal Year 2012.
"After careful consideration, the Commission agreed with the Postal Service that the recent severe recession, and the decline in mail volume experienced during the recession, do qualify as an extraordinary or exceptional circumstance under the law," said Ruth Y. Goldway, PRC Chairman, in a statement. "However, the Commission finds that the requested exigent rate adjustments are not due to the recent recession, or its impact on mail volume. Rather they represent and attempt to address long-term structural problems not caused by the recent recession. The Commission finds, therefore, that the Postal Service has failed to meet its burden under the law and the Commission is unanimous in denying its request for an exigent rate increase."
Due largely to an ongoing diversion to electronic alternatives, including e-mailing business documents and online purchasing orders, as well as other electronic mailing processes, the USPS has been under difficult circumstances for more than three years. It has seen mail volume drop by more than 25.6 billion pieces—or 12.7 percent—in the last fiscal year, with total volume currently at 177 billion pieces.
And the USPS also is working to restructure retiree health benefits for as many as 800,000 retirees, even though it only has an active work force of 596,000 career employees. Left uncorrected, that bill will reach $4 billion next year.
PRC officials said that the USPS may not be able to continue to meet a statutory 10-year payment schedule at an average of about $5.5 billion per year to create a fund to pay future retiree health benefit premiums. They added that the USPS has been unable to fund this obligation from operations and has used all of its retained earnings and drawn down from its $15 billion borrowing authority. And even with the requested increase, the USPS would not be able to meet this annual obligation in 2011 or subsequent years, said the PRC.
USPS officials have stated that due to this situation it is running the risk of insolvency, coupled with a massive drop in mail volume and the fact that the bulk of its costs are fixed by laws, contracts, or regulations. And Stephen M. Kearney, USPS senior vice president, Customer Relations, said during a media conference call earlier this year that the USPS' operating flexibility is severely limited right now.
"Our network is expanding by a million delivery points every year, and we are subject to a lot of legal requirements that limit our ability to reduce service commensurate with the decline in demand," he said.
USPS Postmaster General John Potter said in a statement that the USPS is disappointed to learn that the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has denied its price filing, but said the USPS is encouraged by the PRC's acknowledgment and understanding of the larger financial risk the USPS faces through the mandated prefunding of Retiree Health Benefits.
"We will need to take a much closer look at the ruling from the PRC in order to make an informed decision about what options we have and what may be the best course of action for our customers, our employees, our stakeholders and the American public," said Potter. "The Postal Service ends the current fiscal year with approximately $2 billion cash and available credit, meeting all our end-of-year financial obligations, including a $5.5 billion payment to the Retiree Health Benefit Fund as required by law. As we have stated repeatedly throughout the year, the Postal Service sought a deferral of this $5.5 billion payment to minimize the risk of defaulting on our financial obligations in Fiscal Year 2011. Unfortunately, no legislative action has been taken at this time."
Even though the PRC denied the USPS' request, it may not be a bad thing for the USPS as it somewhat helps its case in getting the $50-to-$75 billion overpayment issue with its retirement fund fixed, said Jerry Hempstead, principal of Orlando-based Hempstead Consulting. The reason for this, he said, is the denial by the PRC might force Congress to get the United States Office of Personnel Management to get something done.
And in terms of the rate hike not going through, Hempstead said "some of the parcel increases [proposed in July] approached 35 percent depending on how and where you inducted your standard parcels, so this is a big relief for shippers." This is particularly relevant for shippers, he said, given the proposed "enormous" increases for parcels weighing less than one pound.


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Eric@Elder Game reckons that CO has about a month to determine whether or not it will be able to survive for a couple of years or not. (It's worth reading his post partly because he's an insightful writer with some industry inside perspective but also because this one has a funny story about a profanity filter.)
I'm not a great fan of superheroes but even so, I had noticed that I've heard very little about CO in the blogosphere recently. There was an upsurge of interest when the game launched, with quite a few people picking up lifetime subscriptions and explaining what they enjoyed about the game. But I haven't heard much recently. I'd assumed that the people who played were settling down quietly to do just that, but Eric has a different view.
We know that CO was not a huge hit. We also knew that Cryptic were planning to launch a second AAA MMO within a few months – Star Trek Online, which is a much much bigger IP. Eric wonders if this will put more pressure on the CO team within the company.
This is very bad news for Champions players. Champions has been relegated to the role of red-headed stepchild… it's that crappy failure of a game that keeps stealing resources from Star Trek Online, which is the game that's going to save the company.
But here's the thing. There are certainly publishers who run several successful MMOs at once — mostly free to play type games like Aeria Games, or social games like Zynga (creators of Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc). But these are much less demanding games (in terms of artwork, music, coding support) than the lush top of the line subscription MMOs that Cryptic is producing.
Will they be able to sustain both CO and STO without one game losing out in the long run? Because if one does lose, it won't be Star Trek. How many people who took out lifetime subs for CO are still happy with their purchase, I wonder.


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A California startup revealed an aircraft on Wednesday evening built for an increasingly popular new kind of pilot—the weekend aviator with a jones for expensive toys.
Loaded with features like folding wings (so you can keep it in your garage) and seat belt-like parachutes (so you can ease the whole thing down to the ground), ICON Aircraft's new light sport airplane (LSA), dubbed the A5, might just be the ultimate joyride.
"We designed it so that people who don't know airplanes know that something has changed," Kirk Hawkins, ICON's chief executive officer, told Popular Mechanics.
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What's changed are federal regulations, which created a new form of airplane and a new kind of pilot licence that requires less training and no medical check to obtain. The Federal Aviation Administration created the Sport Pilot category in 2004, but only now are players large and small entering this virgin market. At the "Sun 'n Fun Fly-In," an aircraft festival held in Florida earlier this year, manufacturers showcased 75 LSAs, up from just 20 in 2006.
For ICON, reaching new customers meant a design that borrowed heavily from automobile marketing. "The product has to have sex appeal and be aesthetically inspirational," Hawkins says. "It not only has to perform well, it has to look like it performs well."
ICON faced another design hurdle in ensuring that aspiring pilots were not cowed by the risks of flight. The A5's cockpit gauges look like they belong on a sports-car's dashboard, while curved structures guard against accidental contact with the propeller whenever the plane is on the ground. Perhaps most crucial to this goal is that increasingly common parachute: no delicate maneuvers are necessary if the airplane is distressed—it can simply float to the ground.
Engineers at ICON also built the A5 to be a lot less of a hassle than other small aircraft, allowing owners to have a lot more fun. The wings can fold for storage in a large garage, and the airplane even comes with its own trailer. Amphibious models have platforms that connect to docks or piers. Versions of the A5 that can't land in water will have automatic, rather than manual, folding wings.
Hawkings isn't shy about his attempt to make flying small airplanes the luxury motor sport of the 21st century. "The passionate consumer will not use these to get to grandma's house quicker," he says.
UPDATE (July 15): We have liftoff!
Joe Pappalardo is a contributing writer at Popular Mechanics and author of the new book, Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight.


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High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens is the cover girl for the May 2009 issue of SELF Magazine. Not to ignore Van, but we fast-forwarded to the 10th annual list of Healthy Beauty Awards as selected by SELF readers.
Back in 1999... Bill Clinton was president, Britney Spears released her first hit, "...Baby One More Time," and SELF kicked off its first Healthy Beauty Awards, using only 100 testers to select 63 standouts.
In 2009... SELF tracked down each of the 1,443 beautifiers that debuted during the past year, then shipped them off to 1,370 readers. That dedicated team scored each product on scent, texture, ease of use, packaging and, most important, effectiveness.
Best Cleanser
C.O. Bigelow Vitamin Boost Cream Cleanser, $10
Readers raved about this wash, which is packed with nourishing vitamins A, C and E. "I usually have to put on moisturizer right after cleansing, but the rinse left my skin moist and glowing," one user praised.
Best Toner
Chanel Précision Lotion Douceur Gentle Hydrating Toner, $45
This dirt dissolver, which counts on protective wax from tulip trees to stave off damaging pollutants, won over testers: "My skin felt cleaner and immediately looked clearer."
Best Scrub
Huiles & Baumes Face Soft Exfoliating, $42
Rice powder gives this nonscratchy slougher the "ideal amount of grit" to wipe out dead skin cells. "It polished even the roughest zones, and it smells like fresh rose petals," one reviewer marveled.
Best All-Around Moisturizer
La Mer The Hydrating Infusion, $95
"The mist penetrated quickly and softened my dry skin without irritating oilier areas," one recruit said. The gellike formula uses algae and sea minerals to reveal more radiance.
Best Eye Cream
Roc Multi-Correxion Eye Treatment, $25
Retinol helps rev collagen, while vitamin C brightens dark circles. "After a few days, I could use less concealer and my eyes looked less tired," a user said.
Best Antiaging Eye Cream
Murad Intensive Wrinkle Reducer for Eyes, $90
With repairing peptides and plumping hyaluronic acid, it "reduced fine lines and wrinkles significantly in only a couple of days."
Best Depuffing Eye Cream
Bioré Enliven Cooling Eye Gel, $10
Testers gave high marks to this "espresso shot for eyes," which relies on sugar beets to deflate bags. "It's like a 10-minute eye lift," one cheered
Best Serum
Kinerase HydraBoost Intensive Treatment, $75"It left my skin bright and soft," one reader said of this hyaluronic acid gel, which you apply pre-moisturizer. "A tiny drop is all you need."
Best Night Cream
Elizabeth Arden Intervene Stress Recovery Night Cream, $50
Red clover extract helps firm skin in this "light, super potent moisturizer." A convert said, "I woke up, and my face felt like satin."
Best Antiaging Treatment
Garnier Nutritioniste Ultra-Lift Pro Deep Wrinkle Roller, $17
Testers loved the "easy to use" applicator, which delivers a "silky" blend that fights wrinkles with sugar from beech trees. "Lines faded in two weeks."
Best Mask
Ahava Intensive Hydration Mask, $28
"My winter skin was so dry it hurt, but this mask calmed it instantly," one tester said of this leave-on, which restores moisture with calcium and potassium. "Where can I get more?!"
Best Pore Minimizer
DDF Wrinkle Resist Plus Pore Minimizer, $85
This gel, loaded with a vitamin and peptide complex to increase cell turnover, impressed recruits by smoothing and softening skin. "It made my face look and feel younger and more refreshed."
Best At-Home Peel
Lierac Paris Comfort Peel, $52
Fans gave this exfoliant an A-plus for evening out skin tone. "My pores looked smaller, and I had zero irritation," one said of the treatment, which employs glycolic and salicylic acids to exfoliate. Another pro: "It wipes out wrinkles."
Best Acne Treatment
Kate Somerville Anti Bac Clearing Lotion, $39
Pimple erasers can be harsh, but this "nondrying" benzoyl peroxide–driven healer contains soothing sesame seed extract to ban inflammation. "Zits on my hairline were gone in three days," one user said.
Best Makeup Remover
Clean & Clear Makeup Dissolving Facial Cleansing Wipes, $6
"They thoroughly removed dirt and mascara in one 20-second step—without making my sensitive skin act up," one voter noted. "You get 25 per pack, so you can't beat the price!"
Pamper your skin below the neck with these winners that help create an allover glow.
Best Bar Soap
Caress Evenly Gorgeous Exfoliating Beauty Bar, $3
Testers loved this "easy to lather" soap for its buffing brown sugar and karite butter "that softened skin and left a fresh scent."
Best Body Wash
Burt's Bees Fabulously Fresh Peppermint & Rosemary Body Wash, $8
"It made my skin feel cool and clean," one voter said of this 99.24 percent natural sudser.
Best Exfoliating Body Wash
Suave Naturals Apricot Exfoliating Body Wash, $3
Ground coconut sloughs skin while cleansing, so "it saves time," one grateful multitasker said.
Best Bath Product
Avène Trixéra Selectiose Emollient Cleansing Bath, $24
Chock-full of ceramides and coconut oil, this milk reigned supreme for its hydrating capabilities: "Three capfuls gave my tight skin the moisture surge it needed."
Best Bath Oil
Dr. Andrew Weil for Origins Night Health Bedtime Bath Oil, $29
Voters admired this relaxing blend of lavender, mandarin orange and chamomile oils. "I added a couple of drops to my tub and emerged about 10 minutes later totally calm, conditioned and ready to sleep!"
Best Body Scrub
St. Ives Mineral Therapy In-Shower Exfoliating Body Polish, $7
Powered by fine sugar crystals, this scrub found a sweet spot with testers. "It's tough enough to target flakiness but still mild enough to use on delicate areas like my chest and hands."
Best Body Lotion
Johnson's Body Care 24 Hour Lotion, $4
Full of shea butter and sheen-infusing mica, "it penetrated quickly and left skin soft all day," one tester said.
Best Exfoliating Body Lotion
Eucerin Plus Smoothing Essentials, $12
Readers adored the alpha hydroxy cream's super sloughing, saying, "it polished skin in a way no other product has." Also: "My skin felt renewed within a few days."
Best Aromatherapy Treatment
The Body Shop Total Energy Pulse Point Balm, $16
The "uplifting" scent of ginger and bergamot plus skin-softening almond oil in the dab-on impressed readers. "I've worn it every day," one said.
Best Deodorant
Dove Clinical Protection Anti-Perspirant Deodorant Solid, $8
The aluminum zirconium formula was popular among athletes for its "unstoppable defense" against odor and wetness. "No matter how hard I worked, I stayed dry."
Best Foot Lotion
Sally Hansen Salon Hydrating Foot Crème, $8
This aloe-rich lotion's light scent and greaseless feel wowed voters. "My feet were softer in a day."
Best Foot Scrub
Avon Foot Works Thermal Exfoliating Scrub, $8
"It smoothed my calluses immediately," one tester said of the scrub, which heats up when wet.
Best Foot Treatment
Earth Therapeutics Intensive Heel Repair, $8
Mint in this balm "made my tired, achy toes tingle," a devotee said.
Best Hand Lotion
Sephora by OPI Restorative Hand Moisturizer, $10
This salve creamed the competition with four softening butters (almond, avocado, coconut and shea). "No more rough patches," a user said.
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Best Face Sunscreen
Aveeno Continuous Protection Active Sunblock Lotion SPF 50, $11
You don't have to be Little Miss No Sunshine. This shield relies on the Fort Knox–level blocker avobenzone. "I live in Arizona, and this nongreasy lotion was the best I've ever used," a voter said.
Best Body Sunscreen
Clarins Bright Plus Brightening Body Veil SPF 20, $40
This "rich yet non-oily" defender depends on vitamin C and chamomile to help erase existing spots, and its avobenzone prevents new marks from forming. "My freckles faded," one enthusiast found. "And the touch of shimmer made my skin look luminous."
Best Face Self-Tanner
Jergens Natural Glow Healthy Complexion Daily Moisturizer, $9
Readers admired how this SPF 20 cream guards skin with oxybenzone while delivering a subtle shade that flatters even snow-white skin. "It tanned gently without streaking or looking too orange, and the sunscreen is a fantastic bonus."
Best Body Self-Tanner
Lancaster Self-Tanning Fast Dry Bronze Water Spray, $27
The pineapple extract in this quick-developing tint acts as an exfoliant to smooth dry skin, guaranteeing an even application. And "the pump dispenser helps the product go on easily," one tan fan rejoiced. "My skin had a nice glow in fewer than four hours."
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Best Primer
Prescriptives Flawless Face Primer, $28
Testers loved the lightweight feel of this premakeup base, which uses vitamin C to fade spots over time and silicone to improve your tone immediately. "It controlled T-zone oiliness, kept my makeup on longer than usual and made my skin tone more even—all pluses!"
Best Tinted Moisturizer
Smashbox Cosmetics Sheer Focus Tinted Moisturizer, $30
Teeming with skin-protecting peptides and free radical–repelling antioxidants, this antiager got two thumbs-up. "I rarely find a base that provides enough color without feeling like a mask. This one does both." Tester tip: "Pat it on with a sponge to increase coverage."
Best All-Around Foundation
Lorac Natural Performance Foundation, $35
"It hid my flaws, felt ultra-silky and kept my skin hydrated," one user reported. The unscented foundation also scored high points for its twist-up pump—"no messiness and no lid to lose."
Best Foundation With SPF
Lancôme Paris Ageless Minérale SPF 21, $40
Fans fell for this makeup, which calms skin with aloe and vitamin E while concealing imperfections. "The powder was fine, not chalky," one reader said. "It took only a few swipes for a flattering shimmer that gave my skin radiance and hid wrinkles."
Best Antiaging Foundation
CoverGirl & Olay Simply Ageless Foundation, $14
Users' compliments resembled ads as they went on and on about this cream-to-liquid's "beautiful, smooth finish" and "flawless coverage." Collagen-enhancing niacinamides (from Olay's Regenerist serum) "moisturized skin and evened texture, too."
Best Mattifying Foundation
Rimmel London Stay Matte Clarifying Matte Foundation, $7
Accolades poured in for this blendable base, which controls oil with salicylic acid but doesn't clog pores and makes skin look "perfect." "The powdery finish kept my T-zone from getting shiny morning to night."
Best Loose Powder
DiorSkin Nude Fresh Glow Powder SPF 10, $45
This light-as-air mineral powder contains sericin, a silk-derived ingredient that regulates hydration. "Its cooling effect felt glorious on my dry skin," one tester said. "It filled in every pore instantly yet was still incredibly breathable."
Best Mattifying Powder
Jane Iredale Brush-Me Matte, $46
Made with rice starch, this chemical-free shine stopper "goes on creamy and light but doesn't cake at all," one voter said. The compact packaging (the brush is self-contained) "is great for tossing in your bag for quick, on-the-go touch-ups."
Best Concealer
Almay Smart Shade Concealer, $9
Readers cheered for the makeup's ability to become the color of their skin tone after applying it (rather than having to mix six shades to customize an ideal color). "The creamy lotion was dry to the touch, and it did not get flaky or goopy."
Best Bronzer
Edward Bess Ultra Luminous Bronzer, $48
With "tiny flecks of shimmer," this sheer powder in a sleek compact won over several followers, who touted its "natural, smooth bronzing results that aren't intense or streaky." No Oompa-Loompa stripes here!
Best Powder Blush
Bobbi Brown Shimmer Blush, $22
Testers appreciated that the hue packed a punch. "I used only a little, and the color was just right on skin. It gives you a healthy flush and has a believable amount of illuminators that look sexy, not seventh grade."
Best Cream Blush
Estée Lauder Signature Satin Creme Blush, $26
"The texture is like cashmere for your cheeks, and the pigments were rich and long-lasting but not too bright," one voter gushed. More? "It's simple to remove if you accidentally apply too much of it!"
Best Lipliner
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil, $16
Liners can feel stiff, but readers were impressed by the "chalk-free, no-smudge" option that counts on hydrating jojoba oil and vitamin E to condition lips. "The consistency was fabulous: smooth enough to almost feel like a balm, yet thick enough to keep my lipstick from disappearing on me."
Best Lip Stain
CoverGirl Outlast Lipstain, $7
Eating an apple or smooching your sweetie is no match for this tint. The water-based color in a felt-tip pen saturates lips for all-day coverage. "I want it in several shades," one satisfied tester said.
Best Lipstick
Shiseido The Makeup Perfect Rouge Lipstick, $25
With an "intensely creamy" color, the formula uses dimethicone to soften lips. "It went on so smoothly," a tester said.
Best Lip Gloss
JK Jemma Kidd Lip ID Colour Adapt Gloss, $20
Designed to develop gradually and create the ideal shade for your skin tone, this gloss won over skeptics. "I'm a lipstick girl, but it converted me."
Best Lip Balm
Nivea A Kiss of Moisture Hydrating Lip Care SPF 4, $3
Devotees liked that this shea butter–infused stick "hydrates lips, giving them shine."
Best Pencil Eyeliner
Benefit Bad Gal Liner Waterproof Pencil, $20
Reviewers touted the liner's jet-black shade and that "you can put it on thick or thin." One added: "I could cry through The Notebook without raccoon eyes!"
Best Liquid Eyeliner
MAC Penultimate Eye Liner, $17
Precise application earned points. "It has the same thin edge I like from pencils but in a liquid form that doesn't fade," one tester said.
Best Powder Eyeshadow
Neutrogena Nourishing Eye Quad, $10
This hybrid is half cream base, half color and full-on beautiful, readers swooned. It houses two shades with "goofproof instructions" so you know what to swipe where.
Best Cream Eyeshadow
CK Calvin Klein Beauty Tempting Glimmer Crème Eyeshadow, $18
This cream "covers lids evenly" and has color "that doesn't crease and remains vivid all day." Tester tip: "Sweep it on with a brush for a high-drama effect."
Best Brow Shaper
Revlon ColorStay Brow Enhancer, $9
Fans were hooked on this defining pen for its two ends (one tinted wax, one highlighter). "The thick formula hangs on."
Best Palette
Sonia Kashuk Smokey Eye Palette, $20
Scoring a glam-bam eye couldn't be easier with this kit's how-to cards. "I enjoyed the combo of sheer and opaque colors."
Best Thickening Mascara
Stila Convertible Mascara, $22
Voters applauded this "smudgeproof" mascara's two brushes for "fattening every lash."
Best Volumizing Mascara
Clinique High Impact Curling Mascara, $14
Surrender your eyelash curler: This wand "stretches lashes into a striking bend," one user said.
Best Eco-Friendly Mascara
Physicians Formula Organic Wear Mascara, $10
This paraben-free mascara "lifts lashes without clumping," one reviewer reported.
Best Lengthening Mascara
Maybelline New York Lash Stiletto Mascara, $9
"Two coats made my lashes appear longer than usual but not outrageously fake," one tester said.
Best Nail Polish
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Nail Color, $5
Voters dubbed this lacquer the quickest drying. "I could text again after two minutes."
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Best All-Around Shampoo
Herbal Essences Hydralicious Featherweight Shampoo, $3
Clear some real estate in your shower: "This shampoo rocks!" one tester declared. "It smells awesome, and my hair felt cleaner and silkier." Added another, "It's a quality rinse that I can afford during these lean times."
Best Smoothing Shampoo
Pantene Pro-V Nature Fusion Smooth Vitality Shampoo, $4
With blends of avocado and bamboo, this sudser garnered high praise for taming unruly hair. "It calmed down my crazy style without needing an extra rinse. I've already bought another bottle!" one gushed.
Best Volumizing Shampoo
Kérastase Bain Densitive GL Shampoo, $39
Flat-stranded voters adored the mineral-rich wash for "hydrating while adding body—a hard balance to achieve—without leaving my roots greasy."
Best Color-Treated Shampoo
Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Blonde Shampoo, $34
Readers were excited about how healthy their hair looked (spectacular and wonderful were words they used) after applying this sulfate-free cleanser. "It gave me lasting bounce. My day-after-washing was just as pretty."
Best Hydrating Shampoo
Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Lavender Mint Moisturizing Shampoo, $11
This shampoo's proteins quenched the thirsty styles of several recruits. One said, "It left hair feeling supple, even after I blow-dried it."
Best Antidandruff Shampoo
Biolage Scalpthérapie Anti Dandruff Shampoo, $14
Farewell, flakes! This rinse uses mallow to mop up oil and pyrithione zinc to treat dandruff. "I have an itchy scalp, and I haven't scratched my head once since using it."
Best All-Around Conditioner
Garnier Fructis Sleek & Shine Instant Melting Conditioner, $4
Frizz-prone fans were pleased by this hydrator's smoothing abilities, which come via avocado oil. "It was a breeze to work through my hair, it smelled great—like apple juice—and it left my style without snarls," one said. "I noticed a big difference in how well my hair behaved."
Best Smoothing Conditioner
Ojon Tunu Elastik Hair Smoothing Conditioner, $27
Laced with essential fatty acids, this quencher "leaves hair not only soft but bouncy and easy to comb, too," a tester said. More props: "My style was so free of flyaways that it looked as if I had used a flatiron."
Best Volumizing Conditioner
Esencía by Samy Volumizing Conditioner, $8
This fortifier drew kudos for elevating droopy roots to beauty-contestant-like heights (in a goodway!), thanks to lifting wheat proteins. "It made my hair look thicker and unknotted," one reader said. "The citrus smell got me going in the A.M."
Best Hydrating Conditioner
Aveda Dry Remedy Moisturizing Conditioner, $24
Users wanted to lather, rinse and repeat (and repeat) with this jojoba oil–laced blend, which nourished dehydrated styles. "It really filled my hair with moisture, and that sensation didn't stray all day. The longer I used it, the softer my hair became."
Best Antidandruff Conditioner
Head & Shoulders Ocean Lift Conditioner, $5
With fleck-zapping pyrithione zinc, this "lightweight" deflaker fends off scalp dryness and infuses strands with volume. "I noticed less dandruff right away, and it wasn't a drag on my baby-fine style."
Best Leave-In Conditioner
Nexxus Dualiste Color Protection + Intense Hydration Leave-In Spray, $12
Vitamin E, coconut oil and honey extract add an after-shower moisture surge "that sinks right in," one reader said. "It's all you need because it's thick enough for winter-dry hair but lightweight enough to battle frizz during summer months."
Best Mask
Redken Color Extend Sun After-Sun Mask, $15
The treatment has UV protection to shield against damage and ceramides to repair zones that have already been scorched. "My hair feels healthier, and it helped my color last longer," a tester cheered.
Best Detangler
John Frieda Root Awakening Detangling Spray, $7
Want to knock out kinks? Readers said they "didn't hit any snags while combing out long hair" with this vitamin-enriched leave-in mist.
Best Haircolor
Clairol Natural Instincts Champagne Indulgence Collection, $9
This kit, with a no-ammonia dye, soothing aloe and vitamins C and E, earned props for leaving hair "beautiful and healthy-feeling." Another user raved, "It's like a spa treatment for hair—it covers grays and deep-conditions."
Best Shine Serum
Nioxin Smoothing Reflectives Glossing Color Shield, $20
The "incredibly lightweight" product supplies "salon-caliber gleam" and features cuticle-repairing ingredients such as silk amino acids. One happy tester said, "Since I started using it, my hair looks tremendously healthy."
Best Shine Spray
Victoria's Secret So Sexy Brilliant Shine Mist, $13
The extra fine spray has a "light but effective" silicone formula that "made my dull, highlighted hair bouncy and luminous—even the split ends. Six coworkers mentioned how fab my style looked!"
Best Texturizer
David Babaii for WildAid Volcanic Ash Sculpting Clay, $10
Mold your strands into place with this paraben-free, "nonsticky" product, which one reviewer described as "a silky cream that, to my amazement, kept curls controlled for two days without a hint of frizz or stiffness!" It contains real volcanic ash (which volumizes) and mango (to add sheen).
Best Straightening Product
Living Proof Straight Making No Frizz Styling Cream, $24
Invented by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, this tamer has molecules that repel moisture. "My curls were totally smooth!" one reader enthused.
Best Heat Protectant
Dove Heat Defense Therapy Mist, $4
Like armor for your hair, this spray uses silicone to prevent heat damage. "It didn't pancake strands or feel stiff or heavy. Plus, my look had no static all day—something it never does!" one tester bragged.
Best Frizz Fighter
Wen Cucumber Aloe Styling Creme, $24
"This lotion acts as a styling cream, leave-in and sheen serum in one!" one excited user said. "I had accepted frizz as part of having long hair, but now I know that it doesn't have to be that way." Panthenol and aloe vera help this "clump-free" cream keep flyaways under control.
Best Mousse
Tresemmé 24 Hour Body Foaming Mousse, $5
With a blend of humidity-resistant polymers, the volumizer "kept my hair from falling flat, whether I wore it straight or curly," one said. Adds another, "It gave me soft hold even when I did an updo." Also nice: "Its easy-to-work-with texture didn't leave my strands tacky."
Best Gel
Aussie Opposites Attract Spray Gel, $3
A good gel controls without making hair crunchy, and this one delivers. "It kept my flyaways at bay but wasn't gunky," one voter found. Another complimented: "I love how the spray bottle works—you don't have to get your hands icky."
Best Volumizer
Logics Color DNA Aerial Liquid Volume, $22
Ready for liftoff? With ceramide and soy protein, the height-enhancing serum "has a weightless, nonrunny texture that held bounce in my style from morning to night, while still being brushable and free of goopiness."
Best Hairspray
L'Oréal Paris Elnett Satin Hairspray, $14
This cult favorite was once available only in Europe. Since its arrival across the pond, readers have discovered that the setter's "ultrafine mist adds body and all-day grip (even in the rain), and it doesn't build up after two days of use." More applause: "It has a strong hold that still feels light."
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Since the 1950s, Riverside has been negatively affected by the amount of pollutants in the air, primarily transported by wind patterns from Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Since the 1980s, Riverside and its community partners have actively and aggressively adopted programs focused on improving air quality through various strategies, including:
On November 19, 2002 the Riverside City Council approved a set of proposed strategic actions to make Riverside a Model Clean Air City. An advisory committee was formed of local community and business members, city employees, and other agencies concerned with air quality concerns. The committee meets three times a year to discuss projects funded by the city's AB 2766 Subvention Funds. These funds are state revenue from vehicle registration monies to be spent on air quality improvement projects.
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There is a monumental occasion coming up in the windsurfing calendar. It is that time where the fastest men in the world meet at a small canal in the depths of Namibia to see who can clock the fastest speed ever reached on a windsurfer.
For those who were hiding in a hole last year, the world record was smashed, smashed again and then smashed some more by not just one, two or three speed windsurfers, but in fact a whole host of them. The final record reached was in excess of 52 knots by the now PWA Slalom champion that is Antoine Albeau. Amongst the elite crew was Jurjen Van Der Noord, perhaps a name not quite so familiar as the PWA slalom riders like Antoine and Bjorn Dunkerbeck, but certainly a name you should set within your mind. This man has held third spot ever since the record breaking runs last year and what's more is that he tells Boardseeker that he thinks he has it in him to beat the outright record this time around…
We would enter the last past of the trench at almost 53 knots… kit was destroyed, completely obliterated… Zara Davies ended up with over 50 stitches
So what does Jurjen have to overcome? Well last year thousands and thousands of Euros worth of kit ended up completely disintegrated as the sailors made every effort to stop before the water ran out, on top of that more than 50 stitches were required amongst the crew and several broken ribs were covered up in an attempt to beat the guy in front. We caught up with Jurjen for a skype date to find out everything that the budding speedster needs to know about life in the canal.
However, before we speak with the man himself here is a quick Luderitz 2013 factfile.
Record Breaking period: 7th October – 17th November
Amateurs holding period (previous speed of 48 knots or less) dates: First two weeks
Professionals holding period (previous speed over 48 knots): Final four weeks
Number of people required to create the canal: 5
Canal setup time: 2 months
Canal season: 2 months
Canal length: A little over 500m
Canal depth: 30cm
Canal width: 5m
Entry fee: €1000 a week
Page 2: Training and preparations for Luderitz '13
Page 3: Luderitz changing
Page 4: Only 95% good last year, what could happen if it is 100% this year?
Page 5: 60 knots
Page 6: Jurjen and the PWA
Page 7: Speed for Dummies
Page 8: Jurjen the world speed champion
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Looks at worship and culture in the city across a calendar year. Scenes include Irish Channel St.Patrick's Day Parade; St. Joseph altars, Touro Synagogue's Jazz Fest Shabbat concert; local devotions to saints; All Saints' Day celebrations and more. Produced and narrated by Peggy Scott Laborde.
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CITY OF SPIRITS: RELIGIOUS CELEBRATION IN NEW ORLEANS looks at worship and culture in the city across a calendar year.
Discussing their religious upbringing during the one-hour program are such New Orleans notables as novelist Anne Rice, musicians Pete Fountain and Dr. John, Antoine's restauranteur Bernard Guste, and writer Jason Berry. Among the area religious leaders interviewed are former New Orleans Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, Fr. Harry Thompson and Fr. Jerome LeDoux, Episcopalian Rev. John Sennette and Rabbi David Brockman.
Scenes include the always lively Irish Channel St. Patrick's Day Parade; St. Joseph altars, festooned with flowers and a rainbow of decorated pastries; Touro Synagogue's Jazz Fest Shabbat concert and much more.
CITY OF SPIRITS looks at local devotions to saints, including a visit to a Black spiritual church whose congregation honors the spirit of Black Hawk, the legendary American Indian warrior.
New Orleanians of different faiths celebrate All Saints' Day, November 1st. Family graves are cleaned, repaired and decorated with fresh flowers. In Lacombe Louisiana, located on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, candles are lit on top of the tombs while families keep vigil in the graveyards, maintaining a tradition believed to have been introduced by several ethnic groups, including the Choctaw Indian tribe.
The documentary is narrated and produced by Peggy Scott Laborde; co-producer is Mary Lou Eichhorn.


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Inspired by characters from Justice League, this Joker wax seal stamp is perfect for superhero-themed party invitations and also makes a gift for comic book lovers or DC fans.
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