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NSA debate shifts in favor of surveillance limits
WASHINGTON - In a sharp and unexpected shift, the national debate over U.S. government surveillance seems to be turning in favor of reining in the National Security Agency's expansive spying powers at home and abroad.
It's happened suddenly, over a span of just three days. First, a federal judge ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of telephone records was unconstitutional, and then a presidential advisory panel recommended sweeping changes to the agency. Together, the developments are ratcheting up the pressure on President Barack Obama to scale back the controversial surveillance programs.
Even Russian President Vladimir Putin chimed in on Thursday. He said U.S. surveillance efforts are necessary to fight terrorism and "not a cause for repentance," but he, too, said they should be limited by clear rules.
Obama is in no way obligated to make substantial changes. And, countering the public criticism he faces, he hears internal appeals from intelligence officials who insist the collection of phone and Internet data is necessary to protect the U.S. from terror attacks.
But even that argument has been undermined in the course of an extraordinary week. Federal Judge Richard Leon said in a ruling on Monday - its effect stayed, pending appeal - that even if the phone data collection is constitutional, there is little evidence that it has prevented terror attacks. The intelligence advisory panel, which had access to significant amounts of classified information and counted as a member a former acting director of the CIA, came to the same conclusion in its 300-page report.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a fierce critic of the NSA programs, concluded, "What this says to the millions of Americans who have been concerned that the government knows who they called and when they called and for how long, this says it wasn't essential for preventing attacks."
The White House has already rejected one proposal from the task force, which would have allowed for a civilian to head the NSA. While Obama spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that the president was open to each of the panel's other 45 recommendations, a U.S. official familiar with the deliberations said that Obama rejected a handful of the proposals out of hand when he met with the panel members this week.
The president indicated he was comfortable with about half of the recommendations but thinks some others need further study, according to the official. That official commented only on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the process by name. Obama is expected to announce his decisions in January.
Congress has been jarred by the new focus on government surveillance. For years, lawmakers had shown little interest in curtailing the programs, but an unusual coalition of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats has now taken up the issue.
However, Capitol Hill appears stuck over how to proceed. A broad bipartisan coalition in the House is backing legislation that would prohibit the NSA from collecting hundreds of millions of telephone records every day from U.S. phone companies. But congressional leaders, who have been briefed for years on the classified terrorist-tracking programs, generally support more modest changes to the surveillance systems and have sidelined the House measure.
The chairs of both the House and Senate intelligence committees have also championed more-limited legislation that would call for greater court and congressional oversight of the NSA.
At least before the review group's report, the Obama administration was backing the intelligence committees' bill. However, the review group's recommendations - if Obama accepts some of them - could change the dynamic once again.
The mere consideration of rolling back the government's vast surveillance powers marks a psychological shift for a nation that was set on edge by the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. President George W. Bush faced little resistance from Congress when he implemented the USA Patriot Act, the law Congress approved that covers the surveillance programs. And opinion polling at the time indicated Americans were broadly willing to give up privacy for the sake of security.
But in the 12 years following the attacks, there has been no comparable large-scale terror incident in the U.S. The public has also learned much more about the government's surveillance activities, most recently in a wave of disclosures from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
"The further out we are from 9/11, the more the American public begins to ask the tough questions about the basics of liberties and civil rights," said Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The question for the president is whether he gets in front of the reform effort, shapes it, directs it and owns it, or whether he gets dragged along."
NSA supporters worry that curtailing the surveillance programs would leave the country vulnerable to threats.
"Any intelligence collection reforms must be careful to preserve important national security capabilities," said Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
Obama - who ran for the White House in part on promises to curtail government powers that expanded after Sept. 11 - has said he welcomes the public debate. Yet it's all but certain he would not have launched that debate on his own had Snowden not leaked his trove of secret documents.
Snowden's most explosive disclosures focused on the NSA's bulk collections of Americans' phone and internet records. The agency says it does not listen to the content of the calls, nor does it read Internet messages without specific court approval to do so on a case-by-cases basis. It says it does, however, collect and store records of the time and date calls are made, how long they last and the phone numbers that are used.
It was also revealed in recent months that the U.S. was monitoring the communications of friendly foreign leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The disclosures incensed allies, and Obama's advisers say they have negatively impacted the president's relations with some world leaders.


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Well, if you've been reading our posts you'll remember a discussion we were having about the back deck roof being angled or just a standard gable. We got quite a bit of feedback saying the angle would look great, and from a design perspective I liked how it would mimic the tapered roof we have going on over the gooseneck. So. Angling the roof added about two days of work (one day discussing it, and one day building it) but I really like the look.
Here's the construction progression in three stages:
And a close-up of the angles (compound angles too…)
We spent all day today running errands, making phone calls, and attaching steel fenders / wheel wells. The ones on the used trailer we bought were totally mangled. Turns out that was a bigger bummer than we thought. These fenders cost $155 plus a days worth of work welding them onto the trailer. Here is an overall view of our tiny house on wheels showing the new front porch roof (the porch will be attached later):
The fenders:
TGIF… and we're going away for our anniversary (our FIRST anniversary ever!) Sunday thru Tuesday so that's exciting. We're both torn about leaving in the middle of this project. But it'd probably be good to get away from it all and relax and celebrate for a few days. All work and no play… you know how that adage goes.

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Top rope climbing is a style of climbing in which the climbing rope passes through an anchor at the top of the climb and back down to the belayer. This is the most common and user-friendly type of climbing around, and is usually what people think of when they hear "rock climbing." Top rope climbing requires a harness and belay device. (We also recommend climbing shoes for any climbing activity!) All the necessary gear can be rented from the front desk.
Anyone planning to belay in our gyms must pass our belay test. Belay tests are free to take and are offered throughout the day. Our gyms are not equipped with permanent grigris or auto belays, but not to worry—if you didn't come with a partner, just let the front desk know and we'd be happy to find a new friend for you to climb with in the gym!
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- This class is required for anyone who has not belayed before or who cannot pass our belay test without assistance.
- All participants must be 14 or older to sign up for Intro to Climbing Class.
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Lead climbing is a style of climbing in which the climber (also called the leader) ties into the climbing rope on the ground without a pre-attached anchor point. The leader protects their fall by clipping the climbing rope to hanging draws as they move up the route. Falls are generally much longer than those taken on top rope. Lead climbing requires special expertise of both the leader and the belayer.
In order to lead climb in our gyms, you must pass our lead test and agree to follow our lead rules. You will need to provide your own rope (40m or longer) and a partner. All of our tests are given on routes 5.10b or harder. You may not have received any instruction on the day you take your test.
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- Professor and Acting Dean
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The degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) is offered in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and may be obtained either through full-time or part-time studies. The Ph.D. degree can be obtained through programs in Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering, and Oil and Gas Engineering.
Admission to the Ph.D. program is limited and competitive. All applicants must meet the minimum qualifications described in the General Regulations for the School of Graduate Studies. Admission is normally restricted to candidates holding a Master's Degree in Engineering or a related area. Decisions on admission, however, will also take into account such things as the applicant's rank in class, referees' assessments, general performance throughout the applicant's previous academic programs, and the availability of supervisors in the area of the applicant's interest. In cases of demonstrated ability, a student enrolled in the M.Eng. program may be allowed to transfer to the Ph.D. program without the completion of all the M.Eng. Degree requirements. As well, in exceptional cases, direct entry to the Ph.D. program, after completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related area, is possible.
Normally, applicants will be considered in January for admission for the following September. In special cases, applicants may also be considered in April and August. Applications should be made sufficiently far in advance to permit the University to obtain all relevant documents and review the application.
A Ph.D. program shall normally consist of three components:
a minimum of 6 credit hours consisting of graduate courses recommended by the student's supervisory committee
a comprehensive examination as detailed in Regulations for Ph.D Comprehensive Examination.
a thesis satisfying the requirements of the General Regulations for the School of Graduate Studies.
In cases of direct entry after a Bachelor's Degree or promotion from a Master's program before fulfilment of the Master's course requirements, it is likely that the student will be required to take more credit hours than the normally required minimum. In such cases, the requirements for the course component of the student's program will be reviewed on an individual basis by the student's supervisory committee and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.
The Comprehensive Examination for Ph.D. candidates in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science shall be conducted in two parts: I) General Examination and II) Examination of the Research Proposal. A candidate registered full-time in the Ph.D. Program shall normally take Part I of the exam within four semesters of the start of their program and Part II within six semesters. Part-time students will normally take Part I of the exam within four semesters of the start of their program and Part II within seven semesters. Students transferring from a Master of Engineering program will normally complete both parts within seven semesters of the start of their Master of Engineering program.
The Examination Committee shall be appointed by the Dean of Graduate Studies on the recommendation of the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, normally within three semesters of the start of the student's program.
Examination Procedure
Part I General Examination is an oral examination of the candidate's mastery of selected sub-disciplines of Engineering and Applied Science related to their area of research. The candidate will be apprised of the sub-disciplines in writing no later than three months prior to the examination. The examination is open to the University community; however, only members of the Committee are permitted to ask questions. The Committee may make four recommendations following this examination: I) the candidate may proceed to Part II of the Comprehensive Examination, ii) the candidate may proceed to Part II but will be assigned additional course work to their program of study, iii) the candidate will be assigned additional study materials and redo Part I in 2 to 8 weeks, iv) the candidate fails. Part I may only be redone once and failing Part I means that the Comprehensive Examination is failed without proceeding to Part II.
Part II Examination of the Research Proposal shall consist of I) a research proposal, normally of no more than 10,000 words, that should clearly define the research problem, survey literature, present the research method or experimental design, and may include a summary of results already obtained, and ii) a 20 to 30 minute presentation. The candidate should submit the written proposal at least one month prior to the presentation which is open to the University community and will be followed by questions from the Committee and the audience.
Committee Recommendations
Following Part II, the Examination Committee will meet in camera to decide a final recommendation for the Committee Chair to forward to the Dean of Graduate Studies. The possible recommendations in accordance with General Regulation Comprehensive Examinations, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination are "pass with distinction", "pass", "re-examination" or "fail".
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Kitten named Precious survives being thrown from 3rd-floor window during NY domestic dispute
YONKERS, N.Y. – A 5-week-old kitten named Precious has survived being tossed out a suburban New York third-floor window during a domestic argument.
Westchester County SPCA enforcement director Ernest Lungaro says the 1-pound female kitten suffered a mouth injury but no broken bones. He says the kitten apparently landed on all fours.
He says the kitten was thrown from the window in a Yonkers apartment building on Sunday and hit the sidewalk. At the time, the kitten's owner was having a dispute with her ex-boyfriend.
Lungaro says the man fled and a warrant has been issued for him, alleging assault and animal abuse.
Lungaro said Tuesday he has seen many instances of animal cruelty during domestic violence.
The fuzzy, white kitten with brown and black markings is now back with her owner.


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Coach Bob Huggins Makes Midnight Appearance at CONSOL Energy's Robinson Run mine for a Good Cause
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (CNX) is pleased to announce a $5,000 donation to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment. Coach Bob Huggins of the WVU Men's Basketball Team accepted the donation at CONSOL Energy
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (CNX) is pleased to announce a $5,000 donation to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment. Coach Bob Huggins of the WVU Men's Basketball Team accepted the donation at CONSOL Energy's Robinson Run Camp Run Portal in Mannington, W.Va. during their midnight shift change on February 22, 2013.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130227/NE67831 )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120416/NE87957LOGO )
"Each day, we have employees working in our coal operations wearing hard hats decaled with the 'Flying WV.' On behalf of them, and the company-wide Mountaineer fan base, we are extremely grateful that Coach Huggins was able to make this special visit," stated Chuck Shaynak, senior vice president of CONSOL Energy's northern West Virginia operations.
The $5,000 donation was made possible through CONSOL Energy's Working Safely for a Cause Program, an initiative that affords each participating mine within the company the opportunity to choose a philanthropic cause for each quarter worked without injury. Through this program, CONSOL Energy's northern West Virginia mines -- Blacksville No. 2 in Monongalia County and Loveridge and Robinson Run in Marion County - together have raised more than $50,000 for charitable causes in the past year.
"Much camaraderie is created within each shift when employees can band together to work with the goal of safety, and giving back to those in need," commented Shaynak.
The $5,000 donation will go to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Fund directly contributing to the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Research Center located at West Virginia University Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va.
"Many thanks to the great people at CONSOL Energy's Robinson Run midnight shift for their generous donation to the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment. We had a great time interacting with West Virginia's finest. Thanks again for your support!" commented Huggins.
About CONSOL Energy CONSOL Energy Inc. is a Pittsburgh-based producer of coal and natural gas. It has 12 bituminous coal mining complexes in four states and reports proven and probable coal reserves of 4.2 billion tons. The company's premium Appalachian coals are sold worldwide to electricity generators and steelmakers. In natural gas, CONSOL Energy has transformed itself from a pure-play coalbed methane producer to a full-fledged exploration and production company. The company is a leading producer in the Marcellus Shale and is transitioning its active exploration program into development mode in the Utica Shale. CONSOL Energy has proved natural gas reserves of 4.0 trillion cubic feet. Operational safety is the company's top core value and CONSOL Energy boasts a record of almost two times better than the industry average for underground bituminous coal mines. CONSOL Energy is a member of the Standard & Poor's 500 Equity Index and the Fortune 500. Additional information about CONSOL Energy can be found at its Web site: www.consolenergy.com.


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Batman Map and Disasters
The Batman movie Dark Knight Rises seems to have predictive clues in it for severe situations, according to some sources, and thinkers.
**Note: This is just an academic exercise, since it is speculation about a fictional map from a movie.
This is because Sandy Hook was pointed to on the Gotham City map, and then the attack on the Sandy Hook school took place in December 2012.
I had been working on this post and was not going to publish it, thinking it was just academic speculation.
I had also not thought past the shootings / bombs prediction I had read about on the internet until I saw the winter storm along interstate 65, and the tornadoes hit Mobile, Alabama.
The reason for that is given below.
So, in this academic exercise, I am thinking that the "strikes" noted on the Batman map from the movie may be "emergency" or severe situations, which are not limited to shootings, but to "natural" disasters, like severe weather, earthquakes, tornadoes, geophysical issues in general , or maybe terror attacks of any nature.
The "strikes" would then be anything that would disable an area, and create an issue for government intervention.
Batman maps -note: discovered on Jan 26,2014 that links to maps are now gone! pages missing!
So I am replacing those links with this one:
Some believe that the Illuminati place clues in movies as to their plans, before they act.
I am going to follow this train of thought and see where it takes me.
Note: Sandy Hook is considered a lone gunman attack, although there is some indications that it was a team of 6. Not confirmed.
Careful examination of the Dark Knight map, along with the original Batman map, indicates some elements to be considered:
1. Gotham city map is a composite map, made of several cites, indicated by area names, and highways
2. Some city blocks are repeated with identical names, such as Apple St, Flora St.
3. City map seems to be patterned after New York area – especially Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, with changes added to make it a different city. For example, there really is a Sandy Hook area in New York City. So is Red Hook (Brooklyn), Chelsea (NYC) , Ft. Clinton (Manhattan), and Cobble Hill (Brooklyn), and "the Narrows" a waterway region between Brooklyn and Staten Island. Newark, NJ may also be represented. Other cities as well?
4. China basin is located in San Francisco
5. Highway 278 through the NYC map is replaced with Interstate HWY 35, which runs north to south from Loredo, Texas, to Duluth, Minnesota.
6. Brooklyn Bridge and road is replaced with Interstate Hwy 65, which runs north to south from Mobile, Alabama to Chicago, Illinois.
7. Attacks seem to be near water – oceans, bays, or rivers.
8. There are 5 attacks, and the first one is Sandy Hook.
9. Two seem to be in or near parks.
10. At least one "downtown" area is attacked.
11. The nature of attack (Bomb, shooting, disaster, severe weather, etc. ) is not given
12. One "park area" seems to be named St Mary's, near the Narrows?
13. One "park area" seems to be named Killer Park (Spelling?), near Interstate Hwy 35
14. Check points at bridges and tunnels
15. Strike zone 2 is the largest area, and covers the downtown sector, and a natural (park) area identified as Saint Mary's , and the Narrows , This appears to be the New York area, or maybe the area between Interstate 65 and Interstate 35.
16. Strikes 3 and 5 affect dock areas, or areas directly on the water's edge (rivers, bay?) near Interstate 65
17. Strike 4 affects what looks like a park, or natural area near Interstate 35, in a city area where 35 is entering in and exiting in a north – south direction, but traverses across town in an east –west direction.
18. Strike zone numbers may, or may not, indicate the order in which events unfold.
Mobile, Alabama is at the bottom of the "trouble" batman map, and its location matches the batman map details.
News story: coincidence?
Tornado that hit Mobile Alabama was one of 40 reported on Christmas Day across the South
"The EF-2 tornado that tore across Midtown Mobile and Prichard on Christmas Day was one of 40 reported across the South, according to The Weather Channel."
"Fourty tornadoes were reported in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama during the outbreak Tuesday, the Storm Prediction Center said."
The tornado went through mid town Mobile near Interstate 65, just as predicted on the map
The tornadoes spanned the corridor from interstate 65 to interstate 35, just as predicted on the map.
So which geographical areas would be hit next?
Maybe Kansas city or Oklahoma city?
So many possibilities……….
News story 2: Snow storm 12/27/2012
"Mississippi and Alabama declared a state of emergency after 200,000 people were left without power.
More than 1,600 flights have been cancelled.
According to the BBC, seven inches of snow caused a 21 vehicle pile-up on an Oklahoma City highway."
New York City and Pittsburg also affected by snow storm.
The entire Midwest seems to have been affected, but this would seem to be normal for this area?
"The storm made travel difficult from Kansas to Wisconsin, forcing road closures, including a 120-mile stretch of Interstate 35 from Ames, Iowa through Albert Lea, Minn. Iowa and Wisconsin activated National Guard troops to help rescue stranded drivers.
Winds were gusting up to 39 mph in Rochester, Minn., at 4 p.m. The National Weather Service said 7 inches of snow had fallen in Rochester as of noon. The weather service was predicting a storm total of 5 to 10 inches of snow across southeastern Minnesota.
In Iowa, two people were killed and seven injured in a 25-vehicle pileup. Drivers were blinded by blowing snow and didn't see vehicles that had slowed or stopped on I-35 about 60 miles north of Des Moines, state police said. A chain reaction of crashes involving semitrailers and passenger cars closed down a section of the highway."
Interstate 35 curves west to east going through these cities:
Kansas city
Oklahoma city
None really, because this is speculation, and possibly coincidence, so far.
But in the meanwhile, just to be safe, keep an eye on the area between interstate 65 and interstate 35.
Note that the new Madrid Fault area is between these two highways.
Also, the Mississippi River
Also, note that China Basin is in San Francisco, so that could also be a target.
Added note on 3-15-13
There is a blurred third interstate route on the map. At first, I thought was also 35, but looking closer, it may be 15 or 25. I added one more map to show locations. Also truck routes are in green on map.
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118 Responses to "Batman Map and Disasters"
Very interesting to read and think. over.
There are many that think that Iowa will become a safe haven: along I-35, west of the Madrid Fault, away from Metropolitan large urban centers. I live here now, thankful to be out of Metro Phoenix, thank you Lord.
Movies/commercials are produced by those with a hidden agenda (deeper meaning).
So, watch the subtle message at the end commercial. Funny, because they did not know what would become of Twinkies a few months after this was broadcast during the Superbowl 2012. Coincidence?
The end of the age is upon us.
did you notice that the words twinkie and Chevy were backwards in the clip?
Haaaa! LOL.
Funny about the backward spelled words. I found videos on youtube of the same commercial that had the correct spelling & a reversal of what was stage left or stage right..wonder why that one released backwards…. 🙂
Latest map – Ukraine and X-Men.
They are disclosing their plans. Hello? Is anybody awake?
Psalm 27
Awesome correlation!
Oh there are many insights in Park Avenue marketing, Hollywood, TV and music, if you know what to look/listen for in their productions, realizing there are others (darkness) working their craft. Some of these folks express themselves to amuse/entertain their cohort.
Just listen to the Hits of rock/roll from the 80s through today.
Oh my! Worshiping,praising demonic oppression and darkness (lust, night witches, witchcraft, rejection, fear etc). I listen (did) to this stuff and it did sink in. Today, I pick it apart and rebuke the demons associated with the worship.
Did you know that the voice Daniel Day-Lewis used was developed from hours of meditation? He worked at it for days!
When Daniel Day-Lewis finally found his "Lincoln voice", he sent a recording of it to Spielberg with a skull and cross bones on the envelope!
So, where do you think Daniel got his voice?
The Joker? "Why are you so serious?" "Introduce some chaos", was another classic line. I once enjoyed that character. That guy was full of his character, and many realize it when he killed himself before the movie was released.
"Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul" (1st Peter 2:11, AMP).
Marianne and all,
Subliminal messages can be within art, music, movies and architecture.
This is a summary of messages related to 9/11. This video fits with the "theme" of this page.
I could conclude after watching this video that a new, modern Tower of Babel is constructed in a "mighty city" (Rev. 18:10), and the merchants of the world (Rev. 18:11-17) will stand afar off when the "great city is destroyed" and "shall not be found anymore" (Rev. 18:21).
I think this link also relates to your recent page on the fall of Babylon.
"He who overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But, the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death" (Rev. 21:7-8, NKJV).
"And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death" (Rev. 12:11, NKJV).
thank you . I did not know about the spire
Well clearly the Illuminati not only control Hollywood but the weather as well. Be prepared for them to take over the planet as leaders of the New World Order.
Run for the hills, we're all DOOMED!!!
James, please return to Noah and the Rapture. She need you to reply to her daily rapture predictions, which are disturbing on many levels.
You belong there James, not here. It's not save for you (or us) anywhere but where you reply within Noah and the Rapture.
James need to reply to Jan's rapture date setting comments – he belongs there.
Dear, James
The NWO = THE UNITED NATIONS. A dysfunctional, despotic, expensive, political body. The USA out of the UN & the UN out of the USA. Isaias. ch,25, ver3. "Therefore shall a strong people praise thee,
the city of MIGHTY NATIONS shall fear thee."
Thanks for the reply. My post disappeared somewhere. But yeah the movement in the world has seemed to really pick up, things are going downhill faster and faster, and I really don't like to see it that way.
An I know some don't believe in secret societies or the NWO, but at the moment it is the only thing I can think of that was sadly lead the open path for Satan to arrive. Wether that is true or not I can't fully say but if it is, people need to wake up and see what's going on.
I can only imagine what this Obama term will bring for the next 4 years and I've always believed he would be the last president of the US. Don't know why
they are testing the sandy hook shooters dna for mutations according to yahoo news,,,,,,,,
what do they expect to find from the dna testing?
Hopefully you received the links. More government control? We are moving the 19th of January back to Kansas, Wichita, so all I can say is "Father give me discernment, enlighten and quicken me for Your kingdoms sake, all glory be to You." I knew we were leaving Cali but did not think it was the proverbial frying pan to fire move. I will trust in His will. No faith=Know fear. Know faith=No fear, eh?
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/, this site might be too far fetched for some and too conspiracy theory for others. If it offends or lacks in anyway you may remove it with out offending me in the least. I look in some non-christian, unorthodox venues just to try to get the full picture and put the pieces together my self. Your site has my full respect for giving full pictures to the best of your ability. Shalom
http://usahitman.com/sspbcda/ try this again, if not working will try email
Let me try to explain how I put together the illuminati, new world order, and the like with what we read in Scripture. These are just thoughts based on observations and what I understand from doing a little spiritual warfare (individual and within groups) – this is on the edge of the envelop. Just trying to work out my thinking a little bit.
Satan has his kingdom (principalities and powers), which "govern" and "administrate" his strategic plan (steal, kill, destroy God's creation and work of righteousness – His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven).
Satan is a fallen angle – can't be everywhere at one time. His kingdom (demonic spirits) use/work through people (individuals in "strategic" positions) and organizations (all), to accomplish his strategy.
Some people are clueless as to the influence of demonic oppression or to the level of physical possession for those that worship him. A whole lot of Christians are clueless about wolves in sheep 's clothing – in their own church. Paul told the Ephesians the wolves would come.
God is in charge. He knows what is going on. His ways and thoughts are not like ours. His "strategic plan" is "In the beginning…" big.
God's plan already (through Christ) overcomes Satan. His righteousness, Glory, is victorious. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil (1st John 3:8). A key verse and Satan is really upset when you quote it (too bad looser).
So here is the deal. These guys (many unbelievers, including wolves), with power, money, positions of great influence in "strategic" positions are inside all human institution.
They work together (strategic little plans or large plans). Some don't know why they are doing what they do when they do what they do (demonic influences).
Some are under Satan's control (via a principality or power), some are under the influence of drugs/alcohol (addiction), anger/rage, hate/murder. Those in high places take advantage of disasters, killings, destruction to advance his agenda and strategic plans (knowingly or unknowingly depending on "spiritual alignment").
For the Antichrist to assume "global" power he must have institutions, systems and key structures in place long, long before he walks onto the world stage. We're talking a very long range strategic plan by Satan.
Illuminati is real as a club (association), serving Satan's long range strategic plans. People born into or placed within systems, associations (local, regional, national, international) advancing an agenda that supports his kingdom and the final conflict that Satan knows is coming. His pride is so big that he thinks he wins! His buddies do to! They buy the lie and live that life (carnal for the pleasures of the world).
So, walk in the Light as He is in the Light (righteousness), put on the full Armor of God, and cover your mind and soul with the blood of Jesus, washing yourself with the Word.
The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Spirit (Romans 14:16-17).
Who is the King of righteousness? Jesus.
Who is the Prince of peace? Jesus.
"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?" (1 Corinthians 3:19, NKJV).
The Kingdom of God is within you, Amen! You are the light in a fallen world.
The Apostles likewise spoke of "children of darkness" and "children of light" (Eph. 5:8; Col. 1:13, 1 Thess. 5:5, etc.). The children of light are called to be am kadosh – a holy people – separate from the evil engendered by the fallen world and its forces, just as the very first creative expression of God was the separation of light from darkness (Gen. 1:3-4). The children of light "hate evil and love the good," and conversely, the children of darkness "hate the good and love evil" (Psalm 34:21, Prov. 8:13, Amos 5:15).
We put our Trust in God the Father, through Christ our Lord, (Psalm 27), not in institutions, governments, clubs or fraternities, lodges, or a church.
So, JFK? Yup, they got him too. It was more about the Federal Reserve (money and military rules the world), more than anything else. Just listen to JFK's speech on monitory policy.
Psalm 23
Marianne, Thnx for this incredible post & information. I don't watch or follow these movies because they seem evil. I am so greatful to you & others who sort these things out..I don't believe these are coincidences, when we need an answer we can ask, what does God/Bible say? There is no mention of the word "coincidence" in the bible that I am aware of. Infact it would be right above the word "confidence" in the bible dictionary!! Have confidence in discerning the spirits. It IS satan's game of doubt, etc. that can keep christians from His truth. I remember my 1st "gut" reaction about the "Sandy" Hook shootings before
(Oops..reply sent before I was finished!) cont…. I saw the news…I said to my friend, "this is evil, the work of the devil"…I really agree with the observations made here & DJ, you have said it well enough, no need to go on more, really. There is soo much history & current events that are happening here on earth, satan's kingdom, that It will consume us if we dwell! Afterall, conceptually, he is designed to destroy himself, not US(!!) right?! So our job is of the watchdog/discerning of the spirits as scripture directs us. If anyone is unable to understand the scriptures & how to discern the spirits there is info out there to gain the knowledge. Please, no one underestimate the wiles of the devil & his army, earthly beings of all types, ages, intelligence, from poor to rich, powerful to common, scientists, doctors, the establishment & non-establishment …Satan's not going down w/out a vicious fight…God created the "Full Armor of God" for a very good reason….suit up we must! BTW, the suit of armor has no back plate for protection because God doesn't expect us to "run'!! We are full on warriors,God's army…what a privilege. Thank you, Marianne, for making us aware of these things…I pray for all God's people & we must pray for our enemies ..blessings, love & peace to all this new year. I am remembering to sit @ the feet of Jesus, like Mary, He has so much to tell….shalom!
Wow, DJ, you broke this down so amazingly! My mom was there to see the Japanese or Chinese top dog say we will invade your homes through patience and product, she also was the only person growing up that saw the Kennedy head shot go back and forward and said they were not telling the truth. She was Mormon which is sad to me, because she put a desire in me to seek the behind surface truth. I can not sell my kids the bright picture. I have to follow the Holy Spirit and hide upon their hearts the right picture. This note to me helps in so many ways and will continue to do so. Thank you again for this eternal blessing. what do I look for to find the Kennedy speech?
mind control of perpetrators of events.
The first link is JFK's economic/fiscal policy speech to the NYC Economic club. JFK took on the Fed Reserve Bank. The story goes like this:
"On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to compete with the Federal Reserve Bank of to loan money to the government at interest. On that day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110, returning authority/power to the U.S. government in regards to printing and enter into the currency market without going to or through the Federal Reserve Bank (private bank).
JFK's order gave the Treasury the power "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This meant that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. I held one of these bills back in the 60's.
This was a major shift in the banking/loan system. The Federal Reserve Bank system (established in the early 1900's) is a " private organization" with significant shareholders coming from a small circle of industrialist and stock/commodity brokers.
If those silver notes entered circulation in large numbers, they would have brought competition in the US dollar currency market. The Federal Reserve would not be the only "bank" to print US currency and loan it to banks. This is because the silver certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not backed by anything but "good credit" and a promise.
Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the Federal Government the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money.
Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own money backed by silver.
With that background, here is JFK's famous speech on free markets. I think this is an excellent speech with clearly stated fiscal policy.
This next link gives evidence that the head of the Secret Service called off, removed protection of the President moments before shots were fired. We are distracted by "how many shots by how many gunmen" when this video evidence brings more questions about conspiracy.
Please, don't get to deep into this subject. It is not important anymore. As you know, preparing for the end of the age and His soon return (Matthew 24 and 25), is far more important. I believe a great revival is coming soon (Joel 2:23-24) soon. Please read James chapter 5, "preparing our hearts".
I suggest applying Paul's prayer "daily", fervently.
Father God, in the name of Jesus, I ask that I may be filled with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
I ask that I may walk worthy of my Lord and Savior, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge Father God.
Father, strengthened me with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.
I give thanks to You, Father God, because You qualified me to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
Jesus, you have delivered me from the power of darkness and given unto me the kingdom of Your love. In You Jesus, I have redemption through Your blood, the forgiveness of all my sins.
Father God, thank you for hearing and answering this prayer that comes from Your word as written by Paul.
In Jesus name I pray, Amen. (Colossians 1:9-14, NKJV)
Psalm 27
sandy hook a trick?
another hit between 35 and 65, as predicted on the batman map
Lone Star College Shooting: 4 Injured In Texas College Shooting, 2 Persons Of Interest Detained
quake east texas
Power outage at superbowl in new Orleans, with San francisco as one of the teams. Ravens…Isaiah 34:11, Not sure what it means, but a lot of coincidences.
well it is between hwy 65 and 35….like the map says.
let us pray all goes well here…..
Interstate 25 also on map.
not included as strike area
sandy hook was predicted on internet forum 2 years before it happened…not by name, by by action.
In approximate 2 years from today there will be mass school shooting in Connecticut. A lone gunman will kill many children. That's a trick of propaganda. Step by step, they make it a totalitarian country.
They have a false flag attack on December 2012 to justify their war on 2nd Amendment. The responsible gunowner is wronged as terrorist.
The real mastermind of the shootings grins at the soap opera they directed. They treat you like fools. Do not have a logic confuse.
CHICAGO=GOTHAM CITY………..nuff said
Y'a by way of KENYA,INDONESIA &HAWII…!!!
This one has pieces of some of the other vids, though it seems to be more complete.
Here is the most recent updates that I could find on the Louisiana sinkhole.
It is now 9 acres, and it could grow to be an "underground collapsed Mt. Everest"
this whole thing is so awful…..may God protect the righteous in this geographical area. and may the true believers stand up and help others when the time comes.
sandy hook "disaster" officially on december 14, 2012
announced as early as september 2012, 2 months before
another tweet from jun 2012…6 months prior, includes adam lanza and others
Boston Marathon Bombing
planned by officials
Are you saying this was planned? If you look at the video I posted above, Around the 28:25 Mark, and compare this with the map of boston, which you will have to turn and mirror, you will see they are very similar. Notice especially the bend in I93 in boston and the Bridge and tunnels coming off of that bend. As well as the "arrows" pointing between the two highways going by a large "park". Now not how Boylston St. eventually runs adjacent to boston common. I am Looking at strikezone 4 on the map above. Here is a map I found online to look at of boston. I wonder how many bombs were planned??
Something to consider
I thought it looked like strike zone 4 also….!
But i was looking at the finish line area…not other areas, and had not matched up the location with the batman map more correctly.
I had not thought of the mirror.
I had also said above that at least one strike would be in a downtown area. hmmm
To the North of boston common, is the Beacon hill section of Boston which is famous for its cobblestone streets, and old buildings. To the North of that park on the Batman map is "Cobble hill" which is where the two way arrow is pointing to? Copley square was also near where the bombings took place, and I wonder if this is the "circles turning to squares in zone four?
coincidence? inside 35 corridor… WACO texas…..anniversery?
explosion…lots of damage
boston bombing…..message from Egypt
Amazing how little coverage on this chemical plant in texas. Watch video to see the scope of the blast. only video I could find of it.
In one article I read, 75 homes, a 50 unit Apartment complex, and a school were all destroyed by the blast
Boston shutdown, Watertown under marshall law. One suspect dead. from Chechnya. Expect More second ammendment attacks, calls for internet censorship, warrantless searches. etc.
ALL of Boston now under marshall law, for One suspect….really? I wonder what is really going on?A bit of an over reaction? A trial run?
Note the date on this is 2011
there is a plan and people are following it.
I just heard one of the news ladies botch the name of the suspect still on the loose.
Dzhokhar= The Joker
problem with waco fertilizer plant now?
I wonder if that is why all the other vids are cropped at the time of the explosion. I think we may have just seen that "Rods from God" weapon
more videos of missile hitting ferilizer plant
matches a JDAM strike
2 brothers were innocent….planned event, but not by them….boston
The following are the start times of the race.
9:17 wheelchairs
9:30 Elite Women
10:00 elite men.
Time of first explosion on race clock 4:09:44 which started at 10:00 am
The blast occured at 2:09 EST (correct me if I am wrong on this)
I do not "tweet", but is the clock on the above comment at the Boston Globe on EST. If so, then this tweet came 1 hour and 16 minutes before the actual blast. See 15 second mark of video above.
What this may prove is:
A. that somebody notified the Boston PD of a suspicious bag at those sites an hour before, but may have been reluctant to interrupt the race???
B. The Boston PD was planning on conducting a test to set off a controlled explosion/ test during the Boston Marathon at the finish line?? Less likely
C. The Media was tipped off that an explosion would occur there by someone, so as to get maximum media attention??? This gets really conspiratorial?
D. The tweet was doctored??? Time and or date altered by videographer.
E. Someone at the Boston globe rsent a tweet regarding the JFK controlled explosion, but Go the address wrong, thinking it was at the Public Library. The probability of an actual explosion then at the wrong address is ridiculous.
Any way you slice it it does not look good. I know watching news reports of the event they had said something on tests occurring days before by the bomb squads, but I do not know if this was a CYA attempt after the fact. Then there was the PD saying that there was a controlled blast at the JFK library earlier that day? Again, possible CYA story. I guess the big question is, how reliable are these Tweets??
Either way, the Boston Globe needs to be called to testify to explain these tweets in court, or congress. Followed by the Boston Police department explaining what "controlled explosion" was conducted that day , and this needs to occur before the trial of the suspected Bomber. There is way too much coincidence, and a whole lot of CYA going on here.
injured amputee staged.
Link above does not work?
website blocked due to controversial content?
boy is a victim, not a criminal?
4 explosions in Mobile, Alabama……on fuel barges…right on Hwy 65, as in map
bennington, ok tornado…inside 35 / 65 corridor
The highest potential for severe thunderstorms will be on Wednesday and Thursday. Here's Wednesday's Severe Threat Level. Supercells are expected to develop across western OK tomorrow afternoon, and track east into central and northern portions of the state during the late afternoon and early evening hours. Conditions will be favorable for any dominate supercells to produce baseball-sized hail, thunderstorm wind gusts up to 70 mph and tornadoes. A strong tornado can not be ruled out within the High risk area. At this time, the High risk area does include western parts of the OKC metro.
Oklahoma may 31 2013
HAARP status is 100% over Oklahoma city today
Tornadoes in St Louis , MO
inside hwy 35 / 65 corridor
seems like des moines, and milwakee are next
more oklahoma tornadoes….this one oklahoma city area , which i predicted as a target region of some sort of disaster
DErecho for ohio river valley….????
Marianne, after reading over this thread, have you seen this?
US Navy Map of Future America:
The very first map you posted here, looks an awful lot like the area you mentioned…..a lot like it! Almost to the tee…
Where do you live? No specifics, but what state?
Hi. As I looked at the map of Gotham, I noticed the red-dashed triangle resting on its point. If Gotham is a map of a warped US, it bears an amazing similarity to blue lines on the US map in "US is mapped for a problem".
What an amazing site. Thanks for all your hard work. Will bookmark and return when Q has finished the clean up.


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Two reasons to use your official author name on Twitter
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Book marketing, The writing business on June 29, 2017
Are you using Twitter to build your online presence? If so, what's your handle? Is it your author name or a readily recognisable variant? If it's not, you could be wasting your time.
I love Twitter. For discovering lovely distractions, uniting in the face of shocking news, tripping over quips that restore faith in the human spirit – and, in a professional capacity, for networking. I've had numerous good opportunities that started with a humble tweet. And when I meet a writer I might get on with, I naturally seek them out on Twitter.
But sometimes that's not straightforward. Eventually after a bit of a hunt and a beakful of guesswork I might track them down and discover they have a name that's many species away from the name they write under.
Forgive my blue-faced cheek, but this seems to be a mistake.
1 It makes you hard to find
On Twitter, you really want to be found. That's how the Twitter world revolves. Somebody shares your blogposts, or talks about your work. They use your name, which brings others to you.
So you want to make sure that any stranger could find the 'right you'. And thus you can be introduced to a new and eager flock. This is incredibly powerful – unlike other social networks, you don't have to already be friends with a person to start tweeting to them.
It's as easy as calling their name.
Here's how it goes. I'll look up Jane Austen and find @JaneAusten – but she's an estate agent, unlikely to be my author. I 'll look down the list at the other users whose real names are all Jane Austen. Which one is mine?
I squint at the avatars and the biographies. If I'm lucky she might be @AuthorJaneAusten or @JaneAustenAuthor, in which case, all is good. But she might be @Bonnetgirl5, or @InventorofElizabeth. Or @WriterInFarthingaleLane.
Finding her handle has now proved quite the expedition – which is not ideal in our attention-deficit world, and especially not in the 140-character-squeezed bird-brain world of Twitter. If I'm on a slow connection, or using a fiddly device that won't tolerate a lot of searching and footling, I might not persevere any further because Jane Austen has made it too hard.
2 The much more important reason to use your name
You know how comedians traditionally sign off a set with their name? 'Thanks for being a great audience, I'm Joe Bloggs.' It's the last thing they do before they leave the stage – make sure you remember their name.
They're not going to trust that you'll look in the programme, or the sign outside the pub, or that you'll remember how they introduced themselves at the start. Their last task before they leave you for the night is to TEACH YOU THEIR NAME.
This is one of the reasons you're putting yourself about on social media, talking to strangers. To teach them you exist. To teach them your name as it appears on your book covers.
So why teach them @WordHoarder, @PagesBeforeBreakfastAtHelens, or @ToastAt10am? You may laugh, but these are name-forms that I see used by otherwise respectable authors on Twitter. Every day.
So can you change your Twitter name?
Yes, it's easy. Just open your profile, type the new name in and see if you're allowed to take it. Start at your profile page and look for your icon at the top. Hover over it and you'll see 'Profile and settings' appear. Then look for 'account'.
What if your name is taken? Yep, I have that problem. Read on.
Can't use your actual name? Good solutions and not-so-good
Here are some of the tactics authors use to convert their name for Twitter.
By far the easiest thing to do is to put an underline in the middle. It's as close to your real name as possible and doesn't eat up many extra characters. That's why I'm @Roz_Morris. Out there on the wires there's another @RozMorris – who is actually rather quiet, but that's another story.
Underlines in other places – beginning or end, or a double underline in the middle – are trickier for users to spot. A double-underline is hard to type reliably on some devices. If the underline option is already taken, you might be better adding something that makes it clear you're the writer Jane Austen, not the vet or whatever. You could also preface with 'author' – @AuthorJaneAusten. Or put it afterwards @JaneAustenAuthor.
Initials – if you use initials I think you're becoming harder to remember, but @AuthorJAusten at least looks professional. However, an initial is straying away from the name on the book cover (is she Jane, Jean or Josephine?). @JaneRRAusten gets both elements of the name in, but might be tricky to pick out from search results and autofills, or difficult to remember if typing from memory.
(Scenario: 'oh darn, she's JaneRR, not Jane like she is everywhere else – I always forget that'.)
Reverse your names – @AustenJane – Just my personal opinion, but I find this is easier to recognise at a glance, and have no problem remembering it the proper way round. Maybe that's just the way my brain works. Your grey matter may differ. But – another point in favour of this format – Hootsuite seems to include swapped names in search results quite readily.
Numbers – you could add a discreet number – @JaneAusten1. Again, this is a personal view, but I find this to be a good solution that doesn't interfere with the readability or memorability of the name, and it doesn't cause search problems.
Character names or book titles – I don't think this is such a good idea. Certainly it's useful for people to know your books. But social media are about people, not products. Readers would rather connect with a person, not a figment, although @MrDarcy would probably be a notable exception, especially if tweeted from @RealJaneAusten's brain.
(That's another option if you have the chops for it: Real. Or Himself.). Back to book or character names, think long term – do you want to build a presence for one work when you might one day something completely different? For instance, if, like me, you swerve into a completely different bookwriting lane with a travel diary (which is coming along quite nicely, now you ask). But build your platform in your name, and you can use it for anything.
Abbreviations – @JaneAstn. The other day I came across an author who dropped some characters from her name to make a Twitter handle. It was infernally difficult to find her. What's more, the result was so unintuitive that I kept mistyping – had she dropped the second r, or the vowels ….?
The abbreviations were probably logical, but people in the rush of Twitter don't have time to learn the rules you used to create your name. Copying letter by letter is laborious and squinty. And anything that creates an obstacle might be enough to make a person lose heart in trying to contact you. Although Twitter and Hootsuite has an autofill option, you only have to misremember the contracted version to be tweeting the wrong person.
Cutesy or oblique versions of your name or anything that makes sense only to people who know you or your books – these are the most difficult of all. They're fine if you only want to be found by your personal friends – and that's how some people use Twitter. But it's not ideal if you want to be visible to the wider public.
Once again: it's easy to change your name! Red-faced relief…
And yes, I've flirted with less suitable Twitter names. For a while I was @NailYourNovel, because I was dividing my teaching side from my fiction-writing side. For my fiction I had a separate account, @ByRozMorris – more here about that, and why I stopped it).
My first Twitter name, though, was the epitome of unsuitable, and if you've been with me for a long time you can enjoy an in-jokish kind of chuckle. We live and learn.
Other tips to help good Twitizens
Anyone who mentions you on Twitter is doing you a favour. Help them to help you.
- Make sure your description includes as much identifiable stuff about your writing as possible, not just who you read or how you take your tea. Make it absolutely obvious – if you put 'changing the world, one word at a time' people might think you're just a sweet teenager, not an author.
- Use a consistent headshot so that people who know you from your blog or Facebook recognise you instantly on the list of possibles.
- Put your Twitter handle prominently on your blog and in the byline of your blogposts – change it in your blog settings). Like this:
But most of all, make us remember your name.
Thanks for the peacock pic Jamain. And, update, in case you're curious about Not Quite Lost, you can now get it at your favourite book outlet.
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New generation challenging blacks in Congress
DALLAS -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf.
Now the first black woman to represent North Texas in Congress faces serious opposition in the May 29 primary election, and the effort to unseat her is just one of several challenges against some of the longest-serving black members of Congress.
"I will always be ever more grateful for the trails that she has blazed," said Eva Jones, owner of a barbeque restaurant who was chairwoman of Johnson's first House campaign in 1992. But "there has come a time where we need new leadership, like in any business, like with anything."
Longtime black incumbents in Dallas, Detroit and New York City are being challenged by a younger generation of black office-seekers who aren't waiting for retirements by the old guard, including nationally known figures whose activism dates to the civil rights movement.
In Michigan, 82-year-old Rep. John Conyers, the oldest black member of the House, has several challengers. In New York, longtime Rep. Charles Rangel, 81 and a political fixture in Harlem, also has multiple challengers.
One of Conyers' rivals, Michigan state Sen. Bert Johnson, said voters who supported the congressman for decades in his Detroit district recognize that "perhaps we're not trying to integrate lunch counters so much" as work to prevent foreclosures in struggling neighborhoods.
"Those people know that there is a nexus between their experience and the youthful vigor and zeal that I bring to the table," said Johnson, who at 38 was born eight years after Conyers took office in 1965 following his work with civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.
Eddie Bernice Johnson's two challengers are careful not to criticize her directly, but say they hear increasing doubts from voters in south Dallas, where neighborhoods have struggled long before the recession.
"North Texas has seen a lot of economic growth. Unfortunately, this district and our community hasn't really shared in that economic development," said Taj Clayton, one of the congresswoman's opponents.
Johnson, 76, grew up in Waco and moved to Dallas after college and took a job as a VA nurse. She got into politics after a trip to buy a new hat.
"I learned in just a very stark shock that I could not try the hat on," she told the Dallas Morning News in 1987. "I never experienced that in Waco. We could try on clothes. I found that black women (in Dallas) could not try on shoes. People tried them on for you, or they would measure your foot and guess your size."
She didn't buy the hat. Instead, she organized a boycott and took her first step into politics. More than a decade later, local leaders encouraged her to run for Texas state representative, and she won.
In 1986, she was elected to the state Senate. Six years later, she ran for the U.S. House from a district she helped draw as a state senator.
She's won 100 percent of the vote in every primary since. Johnson, who declined to be interviewed for this report, has won federal funding for new mass transit and other local projects. She's also fought against a Republican-backed voter ID law that she says would disenfranchise minority voters.
Supporters said the congresswoman's district needs her experienced hand.
"This election is too important ... to hand everything to a novice that's going to help shape the policies for (President Barack Obama's) second term," said David Henderson Jr., a pastor and president of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Dallas. "We need someone with her stature, with her status."
One of Johnson's challengers, Texas state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, worked for Johnson when she was a state senator before Johnson fired her. Caraway, 56, is married to a Dallas city councilman and is well-known for defeating incumbents in two previous races. She spends much of every day walking the district to talk to voters.
"Twenty years is a long time to be in one elected office. Now's the time. It's time for new leadership," Caraway said.
Clayton, 35, the second of Eddie Bernice Johnson's challengers, is a Harvard-educated lawyer and son of local glass factory workers. His campaign staff includes a former national field director for Obama's 2008 campaign.
Redistricting has expanded the district into majority Latino areas where voters are less familiar with all three candidates. The primary is also being held later than expected, on the day after Memorial Day, which could affect turnout.
Johnson has not debated her opponents and has held relatively few campaign events. She dismissed both in a radio interview last month.
"If you want to know my honest opinion, I don't think anybody who's running against me is ready to come to this job," Johnson said.
She has a coveted endorsement from Obama, who rarely intervenes in Democratic primaries. Johnson's campaign says she remains focused on the district by holding weekend events and working hard in Washington during the week.
"The way she has always approached it is, 'I'll run on my record, so the best thing I can do is continue to extend my record,'" spokesman Eddie Reeves said.
Johnson is a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, an influential group that once counted Obama as a member. She's one of the oldest members of the CBC, which has at least two other members in tough re-election fights — Conyers and Rangel, who has been a political mainstay in Harlem since 1971.
Rangel, who was convicted on House ethics charges in 2010, faces two black Democrats in his bid for a 22nd term — local district leader Joyce Johnson and former Democratic National Committee official Clyde Williams, as well as Latino state Sen. Adriano Espaillat. Latinos make up more than half the population in Rangel's newly redrawn district. The primary is June 26.
Another longtime New York congressman, Edolphus Towns, declined not to seek a 16th term. Towns, 77, would have faced a tough primary fight against two black Democrats; new areas also were added to his Brooklyn district after redistricting.
"People are challenging at every level, and I think it's not the worst thing in the world," said former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor. "Seniority is good to the extent that it produces, and in the absence of that, the question then becomes, what have you done for me today?"


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For the past nine years, I've been an instructor, a Ph.D. student, adjunct professor, and post-doctoral fellow in humanities departments at several different universities. During this time, many students have asked me to write recommendations for Teach for America. My students generally have little to no experience or training as teachers, but they are lured by TFA's promises that they can help close the education gap for children in low-income communities. For humanities majors, TFA is a clear path to a job that both pays a living wage and provides a stepping stone to leadership positions in a cause of national importance.
I understand why my students find so much hope in TFA. I empathize with them. In fact, I'm a former Teach for America corps member myself. But unless they are education majors—and most of them aren't—I no longer write Teach for America letters of recommendation for my students. I urge my higher-ed colleagues to do the same.
There is a movement rising in every city of this country that seeks true education reform—not the kind funded by billionaires, corporations, and hedge funds, and organized around their values. This movement consists of public school parents and students, veteran teachers, and ex-TFA corps members. It also consists of a national network of college students, such as those in Students United for Public Education, who talk about the damage TFA is inflicting on communities and public schools. These groups and others also acknowledge the relationship between the corporatization of higher education and the vast impact of corporate reform on our youngest and most needy children. It is these children who are harmed by the never-ending cycle of under-trained, uncertified, first- and second-year teachers that now populates disadvantaged schools, and by the data-obsessed approach to education that is enabled by these inexperienced teachers.
Every year, TFA installs thousands of unprepared 22-year-olds, the majority of whom are from economically and culturally privileged backgrounds, into disadvantaged public schools. They are given a class of their own after only five to six weeks of training and a scant number of hours co-teaching summer school (in a different city, frequently in a different subject, and with students in a different age group than the one they end up teaching in the fall). College and university faculty allow these well-meaning young people to become pawns in a massive game to deprofessionalize teaching. TFA may look good on their resumés and allow them to attain social capital for their bright futures in consulting firms, law schools, and graduate schools. But in exchange for this social capital, our students have to take part in essentially privatizing public schools.
The simple fact is that students who apply to TFA are not trained to be teachers. So by refusing to write TFA letters of recommendation, we're merely telling our students that we can't recommend them for a job they're not qualified for. An increasing amount of research shows that TFA recruits perform at best no better, and often worse, than their trained and certified counterparts. What's more, they tend to leave after just a few years in the classroom. Would a biology professor write a recommendation to medical school for an English major who's never taken any core science courses? That would be strange. It would be even stranger if the professor knew the English major was just going into medicine for a few years, as a way to boost his resume, before ultimately going on to a career in public relations.
So competence is one core issue here. Another one is race. Rooted in the corporate discourse around reform, charter schools, and "urban revitalization" is the hope that the (mostly white) elite class and free-market ideologies will combine to solve every social ill. Meanwhile, whole communities of African-American and Latino men and women are being warehoused in prisons, the racial income gap is widening, and urban communities of color are being gentrified out of their neighborhoods. TFA—and the charter schools that function as TFA's biggest partners—perform a similar kind of gentrification by ridding cities of veteran teachers of color. Despite what you might hear, there is no teaching shortage. Schools and districts fire their unionized, more expensive professional staff in order to make slots for the cheaper, eternally revolving wheel of TFA and other nontraditionally certified recruits, who quickly burn out.
When I joined TFA in 1998, I was placed into a public high school in Oakland, Calif., with three other TFA teachers and dozens of veteran teachers. I quickly realized that I wasn't even remotely prepared for my job. Luckily, the unionized "lifers" at my school swooped in to help me, and over the course of four years, they trained me to be a decent teacher. I also enrolled in education classes at a California state university where I got the guidance and mentorship that TFA didn't provide.
Back then, the corporate reform movement wasn't a whisper of what it is now—and the more TFA has become aligned with that movement, the more it has also become a union-busting organization. The unionized teachers at my school were the opposite of everything TFA told me they would be—they were profoundly skilled, committed to their students, deeply knowledgeable about and respectful to our school's surrounding community, efficient, hard-working. The best teachers I knew left at 3:30 p.m. to take care of their own kids and families. But because they had deep experience and strong collaborative partnerships, they were able to plan classes and grade papers in ways that put the efforts of my own 70-hour workweeks to shame. Unlike me, they had practice.
Our results were not 100 percent determined by how hard or long we worked—there were also the conditions in which we worked. We had classes with 35-plus students. Some teachers didn't have their own classrooms. We often didn't have books. Our students faced every challenge imaginable. We needed smaller class sizes, money for books and materials, money to renovate the crumbling school building. We needed more professional development, more time to collaborate, more support staff. We needed our students to have safe communities, nice homes, and food on their tables. Our students' parents needed jobs that paid a living wage. We needed the police to stop profiling and imprisoning the young men in our community. We needed the War on Drugs to come to an end. We needed all these problems addressed. Corporate reform of public schools, as Diane Ravitch has tirelessly pointed out, seeks to address exactly none of these problems.
In contrast to my TFA experience, more and more TFA recruits are now being placed in charter schools, where they are isolated from communities of experienced local teachers who can help train and ground them. "Veteran" teachers at charter schools administered by TFA alumni tend to have only three to four years of experience under their belts. The principals often have just a year's or two years' more experience than the teachers.
This summer in Chicago, where the closing of neighborhood schools in low-income communities of color inspired massive resistance, the public school movement suspected that the shuttered schools would soon be replaced by charters. They were correct in their suspicions: As Ravitch noted on her blog last month, Chicago has "plans for 52 new privately-managed charters that will open over the next five years," to be "staffed by TFA's young recruits, with five weeks of training." Former TFA member Jay Saper, who taught in Philadelphia, recently wrote a blog post that may be a preview of the Chicago TFA experience: "They use a fresh batch of inexperienced, well-intentioned 22-year-old bodies to enact their recipe: close schools, ignore parents, lay off teachers, get rid of counselors, shut down libraries, break the union, and then hold a bake sale for school supplies."
Instead of writing letters of recommendation for TFA, I encourage my students to apply to graduate programs in education. (For the rare education major who might ask for a recommendation, it is a different story, because at least I'll know that the student has the benefit of professional educators and mentors who go above and beyond TFA's crash course. Still, I'd listen carefully to their reasons for wanting to apply before writing the letter, and I'd make sure to explain my objections to TFA.)
If TFA changes course and becomes a recruitment agency for talented, certified teachers who are committed to teaching as a career, it will become an entirely different and better organization. If they do as Diane Ravitch suggests and begin placing students as paid teachers' aides instead of teachers of record, I would support them in this work. But for now, TFA exists to support the corporate education reform agenda, and that agenda is grounded not in creating better teachers but in the de-professionalization of teaching.
TFA applicants are among the most well-intentioned young people that I know. They tend to be deeply critical of social inequities and passionate about committing themselves to the struggle for social justice in this country. And I'm certainly not trying to argue that all TFA teachers are bad teachers. After a couple of years in TFA—I stayed for four —I believe that I became a good teacher. But TFA members do not work in service of public education. They work in service of a corporate reform agenda that rids communities of veteran teachers, privatizes public schools, and forces a corporatized, data-driven culture upon unique low-income communities with unique dynamics and unique challenges.
This piece is adapted from a longer essay on Michna's blog.


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From the National Institute of Mental Health
One of the ways that scientists have searched for the causes of mental illness is by studying the development of the brain from birth to adulthood. Powerful new technologies have enabled them to track the growth of the brain and to investigate the connections between brain function, development, and behavior.
The research has turned up some surprises, among them the discovery of striking changes taking place during the teen years. These findings have altered long-held assumptions about the timing of brain maturation. In key ways, the brain doesn't look like that of an adult until the early 20s.
An understanding of how the brain of an adolescent is changing may help explain a puzzling contradiction of adolescence: young people at this age are close to a lifelong peak of physical health, strength, and mental capacity, and yet, for some, this can be a hazardous age. Mortality rates jump between early and late adolescence. Rates of death by injury between ages 15 to 19 are about six times that of the rate between ages 10 and 14. Crime rates are highest among young males and rates of alcohol abuse are high relative to other ages. Even though most adolescents come through this transitional age well, it's important to understand the risk factors for behavior that can have serious consequences. Genes, childhood experience, and the environment in which a young person reaches adolescence all shape behavior. Adding to this complex picture, research is revealing how all these factors act in the context of a brain that is changing, with its own impact on behavior.
The more we learn, the better we may be able to understand the abilities and vulnerabilities of teens, and the significance of this stage for life-long mental health.
The fact that so much change is taking place beneath the surface may be something for parents to keep in mind during the ups and downs of adolescence.
The "Visible" Brain
A clue to the degree of change taking place in the teen brain came from studies in which scientists did brain scans of children as they grew from early childhood through age 20. The scans revealed unexpectedly late changes in the volume of gray matter, which forms the thin, folding outer layer or cortex of the brain. The cortex is where the processes of thought and memory are based. Over the course of childhood, the volume of gray matter in the cortex increases and then declines. A decline in volume is normal at this age and is in fact a necessary part of maturation.
The assumption for many years had been that the volume of gray matter was highest in very early childhood, and gradually fell as a child grew. The more recent scans, however, revealed that the high point of the volume of gray matter occurs during early adolescence.
While the details behind the changes in volume on scans are not completely clear, the results push the timeline of brain maturation into adolescence and young adulthood. In terms of the volume of gray matter seen in brain images, the brain does not begin to resemble that of an adult until the early 20s.
The scans also suggest that different parts of the cortex mature at different rates. Areas involved in more basic functions mature first: those involved, for example, in the processing of information from the senses, and in controlling movement. The parts of the brain responsible for more "top-down" control, controlling impulses, and planning ahead—the hallmarks of adult behavior—are among the last to mature.
What's Gray Matter?
The details of what is behind the increase and decline in gray matter are still not completely clear. Gray matter is made up of the cell bodies of neurons, the nerve fibers that project from them, and support cells. One of the features of the brain's growth in early life is that there is an early blooming of synapses—the connections between brain cells or neurons—followed by pruning as the brain matures. Synapses are the relays over which neurons communicate with each other and are the basis of the working circuitry of the brain. Already more numerous than an adult's at birth, synapses multiply rapidly in the first months of life. A 2-year-old has about half again as many synapses as an adult. (For an idea of the complexity of the brain: a cube of brain matter, 1 millimeter on each side, can contain between 35 and 70 million neurons and an estimated 500 billion synapses.)
Scientists believe that the loss of synapses as a child matures is part of the process by which the brain becomes more efficient. Although genes play a role in the decline in synapses, animal research has shown that experience also shapes the decline. Synapses "exercised" by experience survive and are strengthened, while others are pruned away. Scientists are working to determine to what extent the changes in gray matter on brain scans during the teen years reflect growth and pruning of synapses.
A Spectrum of Change
Research using many different approaches is showing that more than gray matter is changing:
- Connections between different parts of the brain increase throughout childhood and well into adulthood. As the brain develops, the fibers connecting nerve cells are wrapped in a protein that greatly increases the speed with which they can transmit impulses from cell to cell. The resulting increase in connectivity—a little like providing a growing city with a fast, integrated communication system—shapes how well different parts of the brain work in tandem. Research is finding that the extent of connectivity is related to growth in intellectual capacities such as memory and reading ability.
- Several lines of evidence suggest that the brain circuitry involved in emotional responses is changing during the teen years. Functional brain imaging studies, for example, suggest that the responses of teens to emotionally loaded images and situations are heightened relative to younger children and adults. The brain changes underlying these patterns involve brain centers and signaling molecules that are part of the reward system with which the brain motivates behavior. These age-related changes shape how much different parts of the brain are activated in response to experience, and in terms of behavior, the urgency and intensity of emotional reactions.
- Enormous hormonal changes take place during adolescence. Reproductive hormones shape not only sex-related growth and behavior, but overall social behavior. Hormone systems involved in the brain's response to stress are also changing during the teens. As with reproductive hormones, stress hormones can have complex effects on the brain, and as a result, behavior.
- In terms of sheer intellectual power, the brain of an adolescent is a match for an adult's. The capacity of a person to learn will never be greater than during adolescence. At the same time, behavioral tests, sometimes combined with functional brain imaging, suggest differences in how adolescents and adults carry out mental tasks. Adolescents and adults seem to engage different parts of the brain to different extents during tests requiring calculation and impulse control, or in reaction to emotional content.
- Research suggests that adolescence brings with it brain-based changes in the regulation of sleep that may contribute to teens' tendency to stay up late at night. Along with the obvious effects of sleep deprivation, such as fatigue and difficulty maintaining attention, inadequate sleep is a powerful contributor to irritability and depression. Studies of children and adolescents have found that sleep deprivation can increase impulsive behavior; some researchers report finding that it is a factor in delinquency. Adequate sleep is central to physical and emotional health.
The Changing Brain and Behavior in Teens
One interpretation of all these findings is that in teens, the parts of the brain involved in emotional responses are fully online, or even more active than in adults, while the parts of the brain involved in keeping emotional, impulsive responses in check are still reaching maturity. Such a changing balance might provide clues to a youthful appetite for novelty, and a tendency to act on impulse—without regard for risk.
While much is being learned about the teen brain, it is not yet possible to know to what extent a particular behavior or ability is the result of a feature of brain structure—or a change in brain structure. Changes in the brain take place in the context of many other factors, among them, inborn traits, personal history, family, friends, community, and culture.
Teens and the Brain: More Questions for Research
Scientists continue to investigate the development of the brain and the relationship between the changes taking place, behavior, and health. The following questions are among the important ones that are targets of research:
- How do experience and environment interact with genetic preprogramming to shape the maturing brain, and as a result, future abilities and behavior? In other words, to what extent does what a teen does and learns shape his or her brain over the rest of a lifetime?
- In what ways do features unique to the teen brain play a role in the high rates of illicit substance use and alcohol abuse in the late teen to young adult years? Does the adolescent capacity for learning make this a stage of particular vulnerability to addiction?
- Why is it so often the case that, for many mental disorders, symptoms first emerge during adolescence and young adulthood?
This last question has been the central reason to study brain development from infancy to adulthood. Scientists increasingly view mental illnesses as developmental disorders that have their roots in the processes involved in how the brain matures. By studying how the circuitry of the brain develops, scientists hope to identify when and for what reasons development goes off track. Brain imaging studies have revealed distinctive variations in growth patterns of brain tissue in youth who show signs of conditions affecting mental health. Ongoing research is providing information on how genetic factors increase or reduce vulnerability to mental illness; and how experiences during infancy, childhood, and adolescence can increase the risk of mental illness or protect against it.
The Adolescent and Adult Brain
It is not surprising that the behavior of adolescents would be a study in change, since the brain itself is changing in such striking ways. Scientists emphasize that the fact that the teen brain is in transition doesn't mean it is somehow not up to par. It is different from both a child's and an adult's in ways that may equip youth to make the transition from dependence to independence. The capacity for learning at this age, an expanding social life, and a taste for exploration and limit testing may all, to some extent, be reflections of age-related biology.
Understanding the changes taking place in the brain at this age presents an opportunity to intervene early in mental illnesses that have their onset at this age. Research findings on the brain may also serve to help adults understand the importance of creating an environment in which teens can explore and experiment while helping them avoid behavior that is destructive to themselves and others.
Alcohol and the Teen Brain
Adults drink more frequently than teens, but when teens drink they tend to drink larger quantities than adults. There is evidence to suggest that the adolescent brain responds to alcohol differently than the adult brain, perhaps helping to explain the elevated risk of binge drinking in youth. Drinking in youth, and intense drinking are both risk factors for later alcohol dependence. Findings on the developing brain should help clarify the role of the changing brain in youthful drinking, and the relationship between youth drinking and the risk of addiction later in life.


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