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The World Today
Dealing with customers and service users can be wearying and time-consuming. This is true in every sector of UK business (except transformation consultancy, where every customer is a joy), but particularly true in the UK public and not-for-profit sectors where, generally, organisations are not free to pick and choose their service users. If someone presents to A&E they have to be dealt with (if only to persuade them to go somewhere else). If someone moves into a property, the council has to engage with respect to Council Tax, anti-social behaviour and provision of school places, no matter how difficult the person is to contact. Police services generally see themselves as the back-stop for the public sector; if all other services pass-up the opportunity to engage with a member of the public, the police may well have to get involved.
What this means is that, unlike the private sector – where business can, to a degree, choose their customers – public and not-for profit organisations have to engage with all service users, irrespective of their ability or willingness to speak to you. However, with the pressure to reduce costs and improve service levels, these same organisations are seeking to standardise or automate customer interactions. Whether it is a housing association handling tenancy issues, or council Adult Social Care teams managing demand, there is pressure to speed up interactions, move to self-service, self-directed support, self-something else, or automation of actions.
From a Lean perspective, this is a good thing and bad thing. On the one hand, making processes faster, slicker and more customer-focused is clearly a good thing for both the service user and the organisation. On the other hand, introducing another barrier to get through before speaking to someone who can actually help you is not good. Equally, using a slicker front-end, with the implicit promise that the back- end is also slicker, is less effective if all we have done is find a way of getting things into a queue faster, rather than getting things done and out of the queue faster.
There is much discussion amongst Lean experts in the public sector about whether contact centres are actually a 'good idea' or not. In one sense, for the simpler customer demands, the ability to be dealt with quickly and have an issue resolved at first point of contact is clearly of benefit for everyone. As a customer however, if the first person I speak to is not able to resolve my issue, then contact centres can just present an extra wait whilst the person who has answered my call is trying to speak to the person I actually wanted to answer my call. Call lengths rise and messages are left with a promise to the customer that 'Mrs AN Other will phone you back as soon as she is free'. How often that happens I will leave to your own imagination.
However, even contact centres are proving expensive when dealing with those pesky customers. The procurement of premises, equipment, staff, etc. means that the cost of a single contact centre interaction can be 20 times higher than the same customer achieving the same aim through web access and self-service.
The language of transformation is now digital, with the need for web portals, mobile technology, digital strategy and digital inclusion resounding across many organisations. However, as anyone who has completed the Ad Esse paper plane exercise will know (and if you haven't, then get yourself onto one of our seminars), just improving a bit of the process makes no sense unless it means more output, or a better quality output, from the end of the process. Our Lean terminology talks about Value Streams (from customer demand to the satisfactory meeting of the customer need). Value Stream Mapping looks at all the activities along the whole end-to-end process, mapping the steps, the resources required to complete the steps, the capacity of each step, the queues at each step and the management of flow between each step. We know that getting work through the first half of a process faster, just so it can sit in front of the bottleneck longer, is actually worse than having a slow process to get things to the bottleneck. If your new digital strategy is not looking at the end-to-end provision of a service then you may make things worse rather than better.
Equally, the use of mobile technology means that clients often make a bad process faster rather then producing a good process. In our social housing clients, many of them currently have mobile-working strategies, introducing tablets and PDAs to digitise the work previously done with a paper and pen.
Unfortunately, without a Lean review of the end-to-end process, they can end up automating steps that a proper Lean review would have removed anyway. One example involves the use of surveyors for pre-inspection of work by a contractor, post-inspection of work by a contractor, and even mid-work inspection. Some housing providers have spent lots of cash finding ways of replacing these inspection forms with complex web documents updated via mobile phone networks, whereas others have removed the need for the inspections by relying on contractors' inspections or just trusting a contractor to get on with the work and do it well. All too often, mobile technology is a solution looking for a problem rather than the solution to a specific process problem that cannot be resolved any other way.
So What Does All This Mean?
Our view of improvement is very simple. Define value for the customer. Work out the most efficient way of delivering that value to the customer. Then look at the technology (if any) that most reliably delivers that value. If I want to renew my library book, then why not let me log in to the 'My Account' web portal at midnight (which is when I usually stop writing articles for Actuality) and renew it. This is low cost for the council and faster for me.
However, if the whole process is not automated or digital, it is imperative to map the complete process from need to fulfilment of need and to understand the value stream from end to end. If most of the work required to meet the need is real people, doing real work in a real office then our experience is that there is more benefit to be gained from applying your transformation skills and Lean Thinking to this element of the process than just getting the customer need to the office faster. Once there are hand-offs between different functions, and decisions to be made, processes can slow down dramatically. The Value Add Ratio (the amount of value adding work to complete a single customer need divided by the complete end-to-end cycle time to deliver the output) of most processes is less than 1%. Most things spend a lot longer waiting to be worked on than being worked on. Because of this, doing the doing faster is pointless if we don't address the waiting. Getting information from a surveyor in 15 minutes rather than half a day is pointless if the current process means it then sits in a queue for a week. Equally, using a mobile device to automate a non-value adding step (like getting authorisation) is of less value than challenging why we need to wait for someone to authorise something that happens every day and always ends up being authorised. Addressing these other wastes will save you money and deliver a speedier, more predictable process.
Customers and service users may be frustrating, but our processes add to that frustration. If you want to improve, then review and challenge your end-to-end process and the value it adds rather than looking for simple digital solutions that may promise, but not deliver. At the end of the day, it may be that hands and brains can still solve more of your problems than can digital.


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Scripture: "As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe." – Mark 5:36
The story behind the beautiful music above. "I'm really grateful that we are playing this arrangement on this concert. I just played the cello and piano version at my father's funeral last month." (Read the full story here.)
"And that is when my middle child, a boy of 6 years old, came over to ask me a very important question. His voice was worried. He tugged at my sleeve and asked, "Mom, what is adultery?" I paused. I had no answer. Where did this come from?" (Read the full story here.)
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FaZe Clan has the largest target on its back of any CS:GO team right now. This team dominated its runs at ESL One New York and the ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier and has done it with an all-star cast of players no one sane could have believed would work as no one had ever done this before in the history of CS:GO.
But you have to give props to Finn "karrigan" Andersen for both pulling the trigger on the lineup change and making it work to such a crazy extent.
I've now seen two tournaments from this team and so far the team itself doesn't have obvious holes beyond anti-ecos. But that's covered up by the fact that FaZe's pistol rounds, ecos, and forcebuys are all unreal. This team can use both tactics and firepower. The teamwork is surprisingly good for an all international mix from different cultures, too.
Anyway, I'll focus on what I think have been the general patterns of the CT-side as we have the most information on how they play it thus far. It seems to me they've set it up so that there are three primary playmakers: Rain, olofmeister and GuardiaN. They are loose in the sense that they can all make plays on their own. The dangerous thing about this is a few things. They have good simple setups that allow them to trade if one of them loses the duel. Second, even in a 4-v-5 or 3-v-5, the remaining players (including karrigan) have all proven they can playmake from down-man positions to get the round anyway, which only bolsters the confidence of the first wave of attackers. Finally, they don't always go on the attack. It's their primary option, but they can also play standard, simple, smart CS when they want creating a sense of real unease for the T-side.
This comes to my second point: North at ELEAGUE Game 1 on Mirage. North's T-side looked to be the most effective we've seen from any team, at least in terms of theory. (Though Liquid's 14-16 on Overpass worked in a similar fashion, but I'll focus on this game as it's more recent and on FaZe's better map, I think). If you take into account how the CT-side of FaZe works, long defaults will naturally favor FaZe because one of two things happen. Either they make the early plays and are now in a power play position, or their early plays don't work and someone else on the other side of the map will make a play or will play off of the information gained from the earlier play. So even in down-man situations, FaZe is never out because each concurrent play may be a worse position for them, but the information gained and any remaining player that's left knows how to use it to take back the round.
So what was MSL's answer from North? Here is how the gun rounds played out.
R5: Fast map control into an A split.
R6: Fast A execute.
R8: Fast B split
R9: Same round run as R5.
R12: A slower paced R5.
R13: Fast A execute again.
In almost every round, MSL is relying on well-coordinated fast hits. This denies the time FaZe has to make plays and allows MSL to maximize the strength of his own team, which is the strength of their coordinated executes and hits. At the same time, he varies up the hits so that FaZe cannot get used to or adapt to what he is doing. This could be a potential blueprint for how teams in the future deal with the FaZe CT-side on all maps as the theme of this is similar to Liquid's own 14-16 map against FaZe on Overpass. We'll have to see how it unfolds.


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SANTA CLARA (KCBS) — A new report by the Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury calls for more oversight of food truck operations and finds their regulations to be insufficient.
While trucks are required to sanitize their kitchens, there is no check-list for compliance.
The report reveals there are 350 food trucks operating in the county, and recommends that a better way to track those trucks be implemented in order for them to be subject to the random inspections.
Kim, of Kim's Catering, spoke to KCBS after Wednesday's lunch rush while dressed in hip waders to hose down her pots and pans.
She serves customers by the county jail, and hadn't heard of the grand jury report. Kim said the county shouldn't be too intrusive.
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2019-03-25 - Last week, POSSESSED revealed the title of their first album in over 3 decades, »Revelations Of Oblivion« which will be released on May 10th via Nuclear Blast Records.
Today the band releases the first trailer for »Revelations Of Oblivion«. Watch as they discuss the creation of Death Metal, here: https://youtu.be/Sd-fjO6uuzE
The band comments, "Right from the get go, we wanted to create the heaviest music that we possibly could - in the world - something that represented what we wanted to hear rather than what was being sold as metal back then."
To celebrate their return, the band offer fans a visualizer for the first single, 'No More Room In Hell' which can be seen here: https://youtu.be/Ixk00N1W78c
Stream or download the song here: http://nblast.de/PossessedNoRoomInHell
After recently announcing the first European tour dates, the band now added several shows in Spain, England and Norway - more to follow:
POSSESSED - Devils Over Europe 2019
06.06. UK London - Underworld
07.06. NL Rotterdam - Baroeg (w/ NORDJEVEL)
08.06. NL Enschede - Metropool (w/ NORDJEVEL)
09.06. D Gelsenkirchen - Rock Hard Festival
12.06. CH Langenthal - OldCapitol (w/ NORDJEVEL)
14.06. I Rome - Traffic Live Club (w/ NORDJEVEL)
15.06. I Paderno Dugnano (MI) - Slaughter Club (w/ NORDJEVEL)
16.06. E Barcelona - Boveda
17.06. E Madrid - Caracol
18.06. P Lisbon - RCA Club (w/ NORDJEVEL)
19.06. P Porto - Hard Club (w/ NORDJEVEL)
21.06. F Clisson - Hellfest
23.06. B Dessel - Graspop Metal Meeting
25.06. PL Krakow - Mystic Festival
28.06. N Oslo - Tons Of Rock
13./14.09. CDN Montréal, QC - Québec Deathfest
Pre-order »Revelations Of Oblivion« in the format of our choice as well as brand new merchandise, here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/possessed-revelations
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Today has got us dreaming about the weekend, which is why we're currently listening to songs that make us feel all warm and happy inside. One song that we can't get enough of is "The Moon Song," a dreamy duet by Karen O of the legendary Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend.
Karen's and Ezra's voices blend together perfectly, and the addition of Ezra's piano bits makes this already addicting track repeat worthy.
"We're lying on the moon/it's a perfect afternoon/you're shadow follows me all day/making sure that I'm okay and we're a million miles away," Karen O and Ezra Koenig sing in sweet harmony, proving that kicking back on the moon is hardly possible unless you are out of this world in love.
The recently released song was featured in the critically acclaimed Spike Jonze-directed film "Her" and is also nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. And if you're planning to catch the Oscars this Sunday (we certainly will be watching), stay tuned for Karen O's performance. Rumor has it she will be performing "The Moon Song" live on the Oscar stage.
So go ahead, press play and repeat as many times as you'd like. We promise, visions of all things lovely will start dancing in your head.
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2019 Dodge Durango User Manual - The Durango carries over into 2019 mostly unchanged, however Dodge are offering a variety of new alternatives for this year including a 825-watt 19-speaker Harman/Kardon speakers, powerful Brembo brakes for the SRT and a blind-spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert, which is available on any trim level. The 2019 Dodge Durango is defined to obtain a few updates both inside and out. For now, we've confirmed that the inbound auto shares the same platform with the Grand Cherokee, though it would bear some visual deviations. Big visual modifications are evident at the front. Nevertheless, these changes are rather smaller with minor tweaks only put on specific areas.
When it comes to dimensions, the 2019 Dodge Durango measures 201.2 inches long, 77.1 inches wide, and 71.9 inches high. It includes a wheelbase around 119.8 inches. Also, it'll introduce updated bumpers, restyled grille along with tuned lighting, like the rear lights. The trunk lamps resemble that of the incumbent model but will receive LED technology that sets the difference. Plenty of choices are coming for the new 2019 Dodge Durango. And others, the company introduces a couple of new paintjobs. New shades of green, blue and grey will fit perfectly with larger wheels from higher trim levels. Across these versions, we will have a way to get numerous unique features and upgrades. Customizing the Durango is much like a gaming – each trim has special parts that you won't manage to use on other levels.
2019 Durango Interior
These are the interior , the Dodge plots on introducing a fresh infotainment system comprising updated voice control function. The typical safety equipment and toys will allegedly become available. These encompass the Bluetooth, Blind Spot Monitoring and Smartphone Integration, including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. You may also expect Anti-collision warning and Rearview camera in every trims. When we take apart from the infotainment, we may find 2019 Durango very functional. It's spacious for passengers while leaving enough room for third row option or a huge cargo area. With it, the crossover could be more competitive in this segment with Toyota Highlander and Honda Pilot. optional packages can come with integrated trailer brake for better convenience and balance.
Lifting Dodge Durango with Lift Kit
Many buyers of previous editions of SUV asked how exactly to lift Dodge Durango. The crossover shared lift kit using its sibling, Dodge Dakota in 1998 and 1999. With one of these features, this vehicle surely could use 33-inch tires. The same package will be available for 2019 Dodge Durango. Obviously, buyers will have to look for new rims and extend shocks.
2019 Dodge Durango MoPar Accessories At the most recent auto show in Chicago, MoPar presented lots of accessories for the existing Durango. Obviously, the upcoming model may also take advantage of it. The 2019 Dodge Durango could easily get performance 4-inch exhaust tips manufactured from stainless steel. However, only SRT and R/T version are entitled to tuning. Lowering springs makes a journey lower for around 0.6 inches. With it, Durango will boost overall agility, even for SRT version. When we arrived at the styling, we will see dual stripe over the vehicle's hood, roof, and tail. Buyers could have a selection of five colors.
2019 Durango Pursuit
The past although not the smallest amount of important model will be Pursuit SUV. Police force will utilize it for chases. With performance 2019 Dodge Durango can provide, we give small chances to criminals to escape. Obviously, the beds base model is heavily upgraded to serve police officers. Exterior updates include parts that may boost performance and durability. Also, new suspension pack improves stability, which really is a crucial part during pursuits. The authorities are receiving merely a Pentastar V-6, while the larger V-8 from SRT is available with Charger. It can also be a the main police squad now. AWD, an eight-speed automatic transmission with the two-speed transfer case and great off-road capability are highlights of the SUV.
2019 Durango GT
The FCA doesn't stop here. While we're judging about the better model, they prepare another one. It is a Durango GT. Nevertheless, in line with the first images, this version will be very similar to the SRT. At the least exterior. Well, we are able to say it as a result of 20-inch wheels and design of the hood. Also, you will find rumors this version will be one of the very acoustic in the lineup, by having an 18-speaker audio system. On another hand, the Durango GT isn't planning to borrow big drivetrain from SRT. The Pentastar unit will deliver enough power because of this trim level.
2019 Durango Towing Capacity
Towing capacity of the new Dodge Durango is determined by models buyers choose. We believe that entry-level model can keep its rating of around 6,200 pounds. This number is the same for AWD and RWD configurations. Boost includes the R/T model. The 5.7-liter V-8 unit raises the quantity to 7,500 pounds with 2WD. The AWD model can tow 200 pounds less. Once more, the SRT version is most importantly others in this segment. Its towing capacity will go up in 2019. This beast will be on par with some trucks with the ability to tow 9,000 lbs.
2019 Dodge Durango Engine Specs
The word around has it that the 2019 Dodge Durango continues with the same two engine options we've seen on the business's new releases. The automaker will present a 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine that may power the basic model. The supposed motor flaunts a maximum output of 293 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. It includes the eight-speed automatic transmission. An optional motor will come in the proper execution of a big 5.7-liter Hemi unit. It's whatever it will take to spit out as much as 360 horses and 390 lb-ft of torque. The past one and powerful comes with a 6.4-liter V8 engine that produces 475 horsepower. The EPA city/highway fuel economy because of this model is about 13/19 mpg. The engine will come in a set by having an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
Form SRT, new 2019 Dodge Durango can look in many other trim levels. Definitely, fans of the SUV might find no match to SRT. But, the upcoming season could bring the lighter version, the RT model. It absolutely was the flagship crossover with the output of 360 hp. Now, its position holds the Durango SRT. In 2017 we will also see a special edition of the SUV. Next season could restore the 2019 Dodge Durango Citadel. This model is the reaction to Jeep Grand Cherokee.
So, let's conclude. If you are the performance-thirsty driver, then SRT is a model for you. If you are limited with the budget, then a few of the standard trim levels will be enough to feel all advantages of Dodge vehicle. Finally, if you will want cozy interior and strong appearance in conjunction with high outputs and still affordable price , Citadel or R/T will be good solutions.
2019 Durango SRT Hellcat
The top of class model would be the 2019 Dodge Durango SRT. This version will be different in many ways, so some contemplate it as a separated model. It's not about the performance-boosted engine. The look is following high outputs with aggressive styling. So, we will see unique bumper, skid plates, and tail on this SUV. The engine that powers this beast is a 6.4-liter unit prepared to crunch 475 horses and 470 lb-ft of torque. Another highlight is a low air intake, and some fans hope that 2019 Durango SRT will certainly match the performance of Toyota Rubicon Tail.
2019 Durango Citadel Platinum
The 2019 Dodge Durango Citadel Anodized Platinum is the special version of the upcoming SUV. It won't be the hot performer as its SRT sibling. But, this version will add more luxurious impression to all or any occupants in the cabin. The highlight is 48 cubic-feet of space behind the trunk row. Well, the Citadel is utilizing a smaller displacement, therefore it won't manage to tow as the most effective Durango in the lineup. But 7,200 pounds of towing capacity will be enough for a lot of equipment.
2019 Durango Release Date and Price
Based on the information we've catered up to now, the 2019 Dodge Durango will make an official debut at the New York Auto Show in the next 50% of next year. It probably will hit the auto showrooms around July next year. The Dodge hasn't said anything concerning the pricing information on the following SUV.
However, we are able to make our judgments on the basis of the current base edition. The incumbent Dodge Durango model sells at $32,000. But given the updated tech features and inflation, we expect the automaker to improve the price only a little bit. Therefore, the following generation Dodge Durango might have its value in the region of $33,000 to $34,000 for the beds base trims.
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Washington, D.C. (TFC) – By the early 1970s, as the Watergate scandal was unfolding in the headlines, trust in government disappeared as quickly as support for the Vietnam War had. When reports pertaining to a covert program known as COINTELPRO started to surface within the press, some members of Congress realized they had dropped the ball and had been too trusting for far too long. COINTELPRO was an FBI program designed to infiltrate, neutralize, and undermine civil rights, anti-war and political dissident groups, and it authorized intelligence agencies to collect information on the personal and political activities of U.S citizens through secret surveillance techniques, including warrant-less wiretaps.
In 1975, a United States Senate Committee was formed to study government operations with respect to intelligence activities (commonly known as the "Church Committee"), for its Chairman Senator Frank Church (D-ID) convened to investigate the lawlessness of the CIA's and FBI's intelligence gathering techniques. In its 14th report, the Church committee documented more than five hundred thousand intelligence files containing information on American citizens and domestic organizations obtained through illegal wiretapping, interception of private email, and infiltration of groups by informants.
The report provided evidence that showed that every administration from F.D.R. to Nixon had authorized wiretaps that provided the White House with political or personal information unrelated to national security. Some of the targets included journalists, Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, Senators, Congressional staff members, law firms, lobbyists, and members of the public who were critical of White House policy.
The Church Committee reported that as far back as 1946, the FBI used wiretaps and bugs to collect intelligence against citizens and foreigners, without a warrant. Finding the invasiveness of these techniques to be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the Church committee advised implementation of strict controls on their use. The N.S.A. must not have received the memo.
Six years after his resignation, President Nixon famously told reporter David Frost, "When the President does it; it means it's not illegal." 40 years and 7 Presidents later, the corruption of the Nixon Administration is a memory that many Americans hoped would recede into the abyss of history. Nixon's legacy of political treachery, his lack of ethical integrity, his failure to adhere to the Constitution, and his rejection of natural rights, have been resurrected like Christ almighty. George W. Bush reached well beyond the limits of his authority and launched a full on assault of the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. President Obama has continued with this assault. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Over the last decade nearly every Constitutional right has been strangled and pick-pocketed. The Separation of powers that subjects each branch to the checks and balances of the others has been rejected entirely and replaced by an above the law mentality that allows the president to authorize torture of prisoners despite international treaties and federal laws prohibiting torture under all circumstances.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a United States federal law specifying the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. Each year's act also includes other provisions. The U.S. Congress oversees the defense budget primarily through two yearly bills: The National Defense Authorization Act, and defense appropriations bills. The Authorization Bill determines the agencies responsible for defense, establishes funding levels, and sets the policies under which money will be spent. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Pub.L. 112–8, contains several controversial sections, the chief being §§ 1021-1022, which affirm provisions authorizing the indefinite military detention of civilians, including U.S. citizens, without habeas corpus or due process, contained in the Authorization for Use of Military Force. Repeating the mistakes of WWII, when we detained 120,000 Japanese-Americans for race alone, this law authorizes the indefinite military detention of any person suspected of an affiliation with terrorist groups. This law applies to American citizens in America, non-citizens in America, and American citizens abroad. It doesn't matter. No charge. No trial. No day in court.
The government has redefined what a "terrorist" is. It's not someone convicted of blowing up buildings anymore. It's everyone. According to multiple documents from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies, its people who are "reverent of individual liberty," "suspicious of centralized authority," and "anti-federalists." It's people who carry cash instead of credit. It's people who are against fracking. It's Constitutionalists, Ron Paul supporters, Democrats, Republicans, tea partiers and occupiers. Essentially, it's everyone.
The NDAA violates the following inherent rights codified by the Constitution: 1st amendment/free speech, 2nd amendment-right to bear arms, 4th amendment- secure in persons and papers, 5th amendment- due process, 6th amendment- speedy trial , and 8th amendment- cruel and unusual punishment.
The NDAA doesn't discriminate according to race, solely by species. If you are human, the US government can imprison you, torture you, and ultimately murder you without any proof of guilt or judicial oversight.
Not only are police militarizing, and looking at non-police as enemies, now the Pentagon is suddenly turning its eyes stateside and looking at people who exercise their Constitutional right to protest as enemy combatants, too. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and many others were treated this way by the FBI; but, during the 70s that sort of thing came under Congress' approbation. Now, it seems, the Pentagon is vying for the right of abuse the FBI once had, but with the ability to attack with much greater severity. It's as though police want to be a military force and the armed forces want to be police forces. Is this what things have come to? People gathering to unify themselves in protest is seen by the government as terrorism? It's completely backwards and their mind control dialectics inflame what it is they're trying to abate. It lets them legitimize their own actions in accord against forces that stand to change their consolidation of power and the matrix it draws from. They in effect are the creators of terror, by definition, and are abusing the mind to mine their powers of greed.
Being passionate enough to say something out loud, in today's world, makes us terrorists. What happened to individuality, the right to free speech and free thinking? What happened to creating a world full of people who have the ability to use their own cognitive thinking skills to choose where they stand based on factors not controlled by someone else's definition of understanding? The government causes mass hysteria over fears that have existed for centuries, only now with exploitative media coverage and the design of the blame and shame game. We have all become victims of scrutiny based upon our individual ability to create a movement of passionate opinion and individual thought.
There is a legitimate fear factor here, but in its own design these fears have become the driving force behind the shaping of our nation. Stop letting fear and manipulation by government entities, their opinions and propaganda seduce you into becoming a mindless, controlled individual with no desire or ability to possess an idea of differentiation between a real terrorist and a person who is practicing their individual right to be passionate about something.
Terrorism is based on the idea that the persons, organizations or entities involved will do whatever it takes including harming others and using extreme force to follow through with the realization of their objective. Protest is based on the ability to peacefully yet firmly voice opinions and share information in a manner which occupies a time and space for the purpose of public awareness. Exercising a guaranteed right that is the basis of the first stated amendment to the original written legal structure of our entire society is now being referred to as terrorism by men and women sworn to protect and defend this very principle? These bastard thugs have no compunction whatsoever about seeking billions of dollars to invade other nations and overthrow governments that do not share our belief in social freedom. They order young people to their deaths and to scar their psyches permanently by killing innocent civilians in the Middle East, whom have never known the freedoms we supposedly possess. Yet, it is now revealed that all of those speeches about protecting our rights and freedoms and spreading our ideals to foster a better and liberated world is all nonsense.
If our own citizens demonstrate their rights; they are insurgents. We the people need to tear down these walls of oppression. The claims of terrorism threats put forth by the Military Industrial Complex are what justify the massive budget for the Pentagon. This is where all the money is going. This is why we have so much debt. Whenever someone cries about the "illegals." Whenever someone denigrates recipients of welfare. Whenever someone says we need to slash "entitlements." Remember where and to whom all the money is actually flowing. They aren't here to protect us. They aren't here to defend our freedom. They are here to suck up as much money as they can while stifling what rights we still have.
From the government's point of view, a terrorist is anyone who is critical or voices contrary views, ie, someone who likes any of the following: Linux, Bitcoin, Libertarianism, home-schooling, living off-grid, storing large amounts of food, being too loud about the national debt, complaining about never-ending war or being anti-war, trying to avoid taxes, being overly religious, pointing out criminal action by politicians or government figures, and I could go on for quite some time.
We have a massive government infrastructure specifically designed to justify its existence via vigorous, cannibalistic growth. Meanwhile, the number of U.S. deaths due to terrorist attacks is marginal compared to even the most improbable causes of death. A concerted effort has been afoot for some time to merge local police with federal authorities to respond to the implementation of citizen spy "snitch" programs. This has been best illustrated by the role of threat fusion centers, which are integrating data from public and private sources alike — even universities. Suppose that the United States Government, or more likely an unaccountable privatized intelligence colossus empowered by the reaction to the 9/11 attacks and fueled by the rampant cronyism of a system long ago gone rotten had a surveillance tool capable of peering into the most private aspects of American lives on a whim. Now suppose that the new growth industry of a previously unthinkable futuristic police state was already in place, fully operational and had been online and actively being utilized for domestic spying for years before those two airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center.
The 'terrorist' attacks were used as the justification for every unconstitutional reigning in of civil liberties ever since that heinous September morning, when the reset button was hit on two and a quarter centuries of American history and we all stepped forth into the brave new world of perpetual war, fear, suspicion and vengeance into a parallel reality in a place that would come to be known as The Homeland.
What if this surveillance industrial complex was in possession of a database that was so large and so powerful that not only could it instantly process and retrieve the most minute or intimate aspects of a citizen's life, but was also able to utilize extremely sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities to actually predict likely patterns of future behavior?
Such a huge database would be able to use cutting edge technology funded with taxpayer dollars and awarded to unaccountable private corporations largely through 'business as usual' no bid contracts to create the most invasive tool of oppression this country has ever seen. This database would rely on software that was capable of performing social network analysis based on block modeling technology to monitor all forms of electronic communications, all internet searches, all debit and credit card transactions, all travel arrangements, all library records, all bank activity and all telephone records. It would then be able to use the data to not only find links between persons who already know and interact with each other, but to categorize each individual into a particular group that possess similar behavioral and purchasing habits. These groups could then be further divided into subgroups and further analyzed in order to determine under some loosely defined and largely unknown guidelines whether they could potentially represent a threat. This data base exists and goes by the name of MAIN CORE.
Main Core has received attention in two 2008 articles; a piece by investigative journalist Christopher Ketcham entitled The Last Roundup, which also looks at Continuity of Government, and Tim Shorrock entitled Exposing Bush's Historic Abuse of Power. Both articles tie Main Core to the now legendary PROMIS software, an extremely advanced program designed to aid federal prosecutors in case management tracking. PROMIS could pull and put together a wide range of data from disparate sources into a single record. The PROMIS software was created by INSLAW Inc., a company owned by a former NSA intelligence officer named William Hamilton.
Mr. Shorock's piece goes into the relationship between PROMIS and Main Core in some detail:
According to William Hamilton, a former NSA intelligence officer who left the agency, who is the president of Inslaw Inc., a computer services firm with many clients in government and the private sector, says there are strong indications that the National Security Administration's domestic surveillance operations use Main Core. Hamilton's company Inslaw is widely respected in the law enforcement community for creating a program called the Prosecutors' Management Information System, or PROMIS. It keeps track of criminal investigations through a powerful search engine that can quickly access all stored data components of a case, from the name of the initial investigators to the telephone numbers of key suspects. PROMIS, also widely used in the insurance industry, can also sort through other databases fast, with results showing up almost instantly. It operates just like Google.
Excerpts from Ketcham's story are chilling:
According to a senior government official who served with high-level security clearances in five administrations, "There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously." He and other sources tell Radar that the database is sometimes referred to by the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention. Since the late 1980s, Inslaw has been involved in a legal dispute over its claim that Justice Department officials in the Reagan administration appropriated the PROMIS software. Hamilton claims that Reagan officials gave PROMIS to the NSA and the CIA, which then adapted the software — and its outstanding ability to search other databases.
Let's imagine a harrowing scenario: coordinated bombings in several American cities culminating in a major blast—say, a suitcase nuke—in New York City. Thousands of civilians are dead. Commerce is paralyzed. A state of emergency is declared by the president. Continuity of Governance plans that were developed during the Cold War and aggressively revised since 9/11 go into effect. Surviving government officials are shuttled to protected underground complexes carved into the hills of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Power shifts to a "parallel government" that consists of scores of secretly pre-selected officials. The executive branch is the sole and absolute seat of authority, with Congress and the judiciary relegated to advisory roles at best. The country becomes, within a matter of hours, a police state. Under law, during a national emergency, FEMA and its parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security, would be empowered to seize private and public property, all forms of transport, and all food supplies. The agency could dispatch military commanders to run state and local governments, and it could order the arrest of citizens without a warrant, holding them without trial for as long as the acting government deems necessary.
A long trail of federal documents indicates that the possibility of large-scale detention has never quite been abandoned by federal authorities. In the late 1980s, the Austin American-Statesman and other publications reported the existence of 10 detention camp sites on military facilities nationwide, where hundreds of thousands of people could be held in the event of domestic political upheaval. Additional facilities were commissioned in 2006, when Kellogg Brown & Root—then a subsidiary of Halliburton—was handed a $385 million contract to establish "temporary detention and processing capabilities" for the Department of Homeland Security. The contract is short on details, stating only that the facilities would be used for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs."
In the days after our hypothetical terror attack, events might play out like this: With the population gripped by fear and anger, authorities undertake unprecedented actions in the name of public safety. Officials at the Department of Homeland Security begin actively scrutinizing people who—for a tremendously broad set of reasons—have been flagged in Main Core as potential domestic threats. Some of these individuals might receive a letter or a phone call, others a request to register with local authorities. Still others might hear a knock on the door and find police or armed soldiers outside. In some instances, the authorities might just ask a few questions. Other suspects might be arrested and escorted to federal holding facilities, where they could be detained without counsel until the state of emergency is no longer in effect.
That Main Core and PROMIS are linked raises some extremely provocative questions in regards to intent on the subversion of the Constitution and the overthrow of the legitimate government by a shadow government using the Continuity of Government infrastructure. Ketcham also references a massive 1993 piece for Wired Magazine entitled The INSLAW Octopus that none other than the infamous rogue operative Lt. Col. Oliver North was using PROMIS for illegal surveillance purposes:
Lt. Col. Oliver North also may have been using the program. According to several intelligence community sources, PROMIS was in use at a 6,100-square-foot command center built on the sixth floor of the Justice Department. According to both a contractor who helped design the center and information disclosed during the Iran-Contra hearings, Oliver North had a similar, but smaller, White House operations room that was connected by computer link to the DOJ's command center. Using the computers in his command center, North tracked dissidents and potential troublemakers within the United States as part of a domestic emergency preparedness program, commissioned under Reagan's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to sources and published reports. Using PROMIS, sources point out, North could have drawn up lists of anyone ever arrested for a political protest, for example, or anyone who had ever refused to pay their taxes. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon's enemy list looks like a love letter scribbled on a napkin. This operation was so sensitive that when Rep. Jack Brooks asked North about it during the Iran-Contra hearings, the hearing was immediately suspended pending an executive (secret) conference. When the hearings were reconvened, the issue of North's FEMA dealings was dropped. North's involvement with Continuity of Government programs including REX 84 has long been known and while Col. North is no longer active in such programs (at least not to the knowledge of anyone) a larger part of the C.O.G./shadow government infrastructure continued to breed in darkness and secrecy and on that most glorious day for American fascism, 9/11/2001 went live under the guidance of one of its most ardent and longtime architects, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney.
The secrets of Main Core, PROMIS and other variations of the monstrous tools of an out of control shadow government are the veritable crown jewels of the police state. Now if PROMIS was being used by Colonel North as a part of Rex 84 back in the 1980s when the Continuity of Government plans were being tweaked, FEMA being set up for the eventual incorporation into the Department of Homeland Security, and financial transactions as well as communications were already being monitored, what does that say about the current state in which we all find ourselves in?
Every new police state measure has been implemented largely after being conceived in secrecy under the premise of 'national security" allowed for the executive branch to issue a declaration of martial law under which the roundup of dissidents for detention (or worse) will be conducted. And this has all been non-reviewable by Congress, a supposedly (at least according to the Constitution) a co-equal branch of government. None of this is about terrorism at all, it never has been. It is all about the implementation of a fascist style dictatorship in America.
It is imperative that it be brought to light now that the police state and the illegal surveillance system must be dismantled and our intelligence system be put under honest and principled oversight. We have to accept personal responsibility for how much further this slide toward tyranny is going to take us; and that starts by getting informed, and informing others of the extent of the plan. It is the utmost duty of individuals to speak out against unsubstantiated fear mongering and the usurpation of power based upon exaggerated threats. These exaggerated threats are often designed to lead to a paranoid culture that can be easily swayed by manipulated emotions instead of critical thinking.
Furthermore, violence, coercion, and threats of consequences for non-cooperation with State dictates are the hallmarks of historical tyranny. Stop letting fear and manipulation by government entities, their opinions and propaganda seduce you into becoming a mindless, controlled, individual with no desire or ability to possess an idea of differentiation between a real terrorist and a person who is practicing their individual right to be passionate about something. This is an injustice placed upon you. Only the slave has a master that makes his choices for him. He willingly kowtows to the master. We have a moral guidance system for a reason. For example, watching an innocent person be tortured, or seeing animals being abused will naturally evoke anger in a morally sound individual. This anger is not to be mistaken for something that needs to be shut out, but something that should be channeled productively. Righteous indignation, a form of anger when one senses injustice— can be a major motivation to create positive change in the world and should not be condemned or suppressed. Every single injustice you see or think of is created by man. None of it is natural. If it is created by man, it can be gotten rid of by man. All it takes is enough willing people to stand up, recognize the injustice and work together to end it. Injustice must be ended immediately, not a gradual rendition that slowly eats it away but an instantaneous infiltration in to the belly of the beast. If society does not know of injustice the knowing should feel obliged to speak up and show them.


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2016 Heritage Merlot
92 pts - Wine Advocate
Winegrowing and farming are challenging, and always have been. The rewards though continue to propel us forward. In the early years of America's founding, President Thomas Jefferson planted grapes at Monticello and cultivated his vineyard. Today, the Jefferson Merlot Clone is revered for its strength, ability to adapt to its surroundings, and spice. Our oldest Merlot blocks on the Ranch's north side are planted to this clone and it is this connection to our past that we honor with the name Heritage. The area where the grapes are sourced is a hilly, upper slope with heavy clay soil. This steep, shallow soiled terrain limits vine vigor and gives us our lowest yields on the ranch. But the fruit produced has intense flavor and tannin and typically requires an extra year of aging prior to release.
The 2016 Heritage offers ample fruit on the nose and with each sip blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and baked strawberries jump out of the glass. On the palate, a combination of dark and milk chocolate, vanilla and crème caramel with toasted notes. Fresh, well-framed acid, and chewy tannins resolve into a long caramel finish. This powerhouse of a wine shows that Merlot in its truest form can be elegant, powerful, refined and expressive.
The 2016 vintage began with a warm spring and some late rains that gave us an early budbreak and enough water to provide good early season vine growth despite being in the tail end of a severe drought. June and July were warmer than usual, but when we approached the key ripening months of August and September, the weather cooled significantly, allowing a slow approach to maturity. These conditions favor good fruit development without excessively high alcohol. Exactly the kind of wine we love to make.


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Native Garden with Ferricrete garden paths, bench and mulch
garden beds.
Ferricrete Driveway
Native Garden with gravel paths weaving through the garden with
mulch and rock boulders.
Lawn Ramp to meet the path.
Native Garden with gravel paths and mulch.
Front Native Garden with Ferricrete Gravel and Granite Cobble,
mulch and plants.
Alfresco Platform with compacted Ferricrete gravel and Natural
Earth block surround.
Ferricrete Gravel compacted to form a alfresco platform area
with Natural Earth blocks surrounding the area.
Mulch Garden Beds and Gravel Pathways with Wooden Bench.
Ferricrete Gravel with pea pebbles in the clothesline area
Gravel Circular Paths and surrounding mulch.
Pea Decorative Pebbles
Native Garden with Ferricrete Gravel Path and circle, edged with
a granite cobble cube.
Native Garden with natural pond edged pond and mulch garden beds
with gravel pathways.
Garden Bed with mulch and paving path to the front door.
Granite Wall and Mulch with paths
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Lansing Stadium Subsidy: Big Promises, Little Information
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The ranks of Michigan professional sports teams — and taxpayer subsidies to support them — will grow by one next month as the minor league soccer franchise Lansing Ignite kicks off its inaugural season.
The Ignite will have a 15-game home schedule in 2019, to be played at Cooley Law School Stadium, which is owned by the city of Lansing and is home to minor league baseball's Lansing Lugnuts.
Under an agreement signed between the soccer franchise and the city last year, Lansing will bankroll costs for marketing the new team. It will also pay for turf equipment to prepare the baseball field for soccer and annual maintenance. Local news reports suggest the cost to taxpayers will run up to $3 million or more over the 16-year life of the agreement.
Scott Keith, CEO of the Lansing Entertainment and Public Facilities Authority, the stadium's de facto landlord, said this week he believes that figure is overstated and doesn't factor in revenue the city will gain from ticket sales and concession revenue.
But the question remains: Why is a cash-strapped city with crumbling roads and $700 million in unfunded retiree debt subsidizing a privately owned professional sports team?
The answer provided by Mayor Andy Schor and City Council — which approved the deal unanimously — is that thousands of new fans will flock to Lansing. According to the Lansing City Pulse, Schor claimed they will spend at a rate of $100 per person, contributing to the city's prosperity.
That optimism is almost certainly unfounded, said University of Michigan-Flint economics professor Chris Douglas, who has reviewed academic analyses of sports and stadium subsidies around the country.
"I think there is zero evidence that these subsidies pay for themselves," Douglas said.
Politicians and sports fans are energized by the excitement (at least for some teams) they get on game day, Douglas said. But there are many more days, especially for an open-air stadium in a northern climate, when the facility sits empty, he said.
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Facilities Authority CEO Keith said the city's agreement with the soccer team is modeled on one that's been in place with the Lugnuts for 24 years. He said he believes subsidies to the baseball team are now completely offset by the city's cut of revenues but could not provide precise figures. The city also shoulders capital costs for the stadium, he said.
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