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Those are the words that Alex Barton has come to say repeatedly to himself. He screams in the car when his mother drops his sister off at school. He's refusing to eat and unable to sleep in his own room. Alex was recently kicked out of his school, by his classmates--after his teacher took a vote on it. Alex is thought to have Autism (currently being evaluated for Asperger's). He is also just five years old, in kindergarten at Morningside Elementary in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Remember Kindergarten? That time of our lives when we are supposed to be taught to be good citizens, to learn social skills, to learn how to "get along," and how to obey the school rules. We're also supposed to have fun, play, and make new friends. Kindergarten is supposed to be the foundation upon which our next 12+ years of education will rest upon.
And yet, in Alex's classroom, the lessons being taught by Wendy Portillo appear to be ones of prejudice, intolerance, and outright cruelty. Alex's peers learned from their teacher that if someone is different, and you have a hard time understanding their habits, actions, delays, etc., then you simply dismiss them. Get rid of them. Kick them out. Take a vote, and out the classroom they go.
And, before you do, you might as well tell that person what you think of them. Five year old obscenities like "disgusting" and "annoying." This is brutality, no doubt. Melissa Barton (Alex's mother) reports that Wendy Portillo confirmed that this indeed happened. If that is the case, this teacher is cruel and inhuman, a person who has no business being in the education sector. She is teaching innocent, naive five year olds a lesson of hatred. A lesson that these children will not soon forget. We can only hope that these kindergarteners' parents have enough sense (and compassion) to explain to their children how wrong this is. It's far better to teach their children tolerance, acceptance, and understanding, and it's my wish they realize that.
If these reports have been confirmed, I see no reason why this teacher still has a job. She should have immediately been fired, no questions asked. One can't help but wonder--if this child wasn't autistic, what steps would the district would have taken? Had this been any other child in that classroom, all hell would have broke lose. There would have been protests, and no doubt, due to massive political pressure, this teacher would have received her walking papers STAT.
We've all seen how autism continues to be portrayed on television--as children who are violent, angry, withdrawn, and out of control, who were "kidnapped" or "lost their soul." The parents desperate and depressed, their lives "spiraling out of control." So, when the public hears that this child has autism, and was having "behavioral issues," most say "well, I can understand why you wouldn't want a kid like that in the classroom." They presume to know Alex all because of what they've seen or heard, these biased reports in the media. Society doesn't want to understand (let alone accept) autism or autistics--at any age. They're being constantly fed these ideas about recovery or a cure, not ever about the dignity or acceptance of autistic individuals. The message that those lives are not worthy of our respect or our time is what the public hears.
So again, when an autistic child is kicked out of class, they don't much care how or why it was done. They think nothing of the ramifications, not only on the autistic child, but also of the other children in that classroom. We are living in a culture of un-acceptance. We all must fit into the public's cookie-cutter mold, or we are just not good enough to be an equal member. Our society likes to preach a lot about being diverse, and about supporting those with disabilities. Yet, when it comes down to it, in the real day to day stuff, society would rather look the other way.
When people ask me why I cringe at a celebrity bragging about her "recovered" child or a politician working to "prevent and cure anything along the Autism Spectrum" or a grandmother declaring that "Autism knocked on the wrong door," I don't need to look far for my reasons. The case of Alex Barton clearly shows us that this propaganda reaches far and wide, not only into our homes, but even into our schools and churches. I want the Barton family to know that they have my full support, along with many others. I was grateful to read this, and learn that Alex's mother, Melissa Barton is a very strong woman, who will not let this slide:
"He has many of the symptoms of Aspergers" says his mother. "The teacher knew that he was under evaluation even having a part-time assistant just for Alex, and she decided that the best way to handle him would be through humiliation from his peers. I cannot imagine how he must have felt as his teacher encouraged the other students to bully Alex by telling him he is disgusting and they do not like him among other things. This is abuse and discrimination among other things; I will not soon let this go" says Melissa Barton. "The moment he needed me the most, I was at work. I do not know if he will ever trust teachers again, I do not know if I will ever trust the Port St Lucie School District again. I know it will be a while before I can convince my little boy that learning is fun. I am deeply sorrowed by the pain my child suffered at the hands of his Port St Lucie school teacher."
Mrs.. Barton went on to say, "This is a sad day for parents of disabled children across the
. I am now seeking the help of a physiatrist for my son as he refuses to eat, sleep in his own room and other problems that arrived directly after the abuse." USA
Make your voice heard, tell the Port St. Lucie school district that this type of discrimination and hatred will not be tolerated.
Morningside Elementary School Principal:
Mrs. Marcia Cully
(772) 337-6730
St. Lucie County Schools Superintendent:
Michael J. Lannon
4204 Okeechobee Road
Ft. Pierce, FL 34947-5414
Phone: 772/429-3925
St. Lucie County School Board Chair:
Carol Hilson
Vice Chair:
Judith Miller
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is asking all those who write to express their outrage to cc: firstname.lastname@example.com so that ASAN can keep track of the strength and sources of the response. They also advise us to be mindful that abusive messages hurt our cause--please be respectful in your comments.
A special thanks to Bev at Asperger Square 8 for bringing this to my attention.
Others who have blogged on this:
Whose Planet Is It Anyway?
Whitterer on Autism
Maternal Instincts
The Joy of Autism
Action For Autism
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And if you're the statue there's not a whole lot you can do. In my case, being in the kitchen is not even helping, so I'm pulling out all the Dorie recipes I've made in the past little while and giving you those. To accompany these amazing goodies from my favourite book ever is a sampling of my current playlist. Be warned that although the baking is sweet, the songs are decidedly less happy.
Blueberry Kumquat Muffins, (
Nine Inch Nails, Right Where It Belongs. I never thought I'd listen to Nine Inch Nails. It turns out I was wrong. I'm wrong about a lot of things.
Blueberry Brown Sugar Plain Cake, (pg. 36). It's called a plain cake, but that certainly doesn't refer to the flavour. This cake was perfect as an afternoon snack with a cup of tea.
John Frusciante, The Past Recedes. Frusciante is the guitarist and back up singer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He's released quite a few solo albums. Some of them are a little odd, but I like his 2003 album Shadows Collide with People, I've been listening to a lot of it lately.
Coldplay, Fix You. Coldplay is another group I didn't think I liked. It grew on me and now it's stuck. Lead singer Chris Martin has been collaborating with all sorts of other artists lately including Jay Z and Kanye West but has also been working on a new Coldplay album which is due out in March of this year.
Nirvana, Where Did You Sleep Last Night. This song has been done by numerous artists and was first made popular by Lead Belly in 1944. You can't escape the past.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Desecration Smile. This song is off their double disc album Stadium Arcadium, which I like almost all of. I started off only listening to only a couple of the songs but was thankfully introduced to the entire playlist. It was a toss up deciding which song to pick, I think the runner up was Wetsand.
Apple Cheddar Scones, (pg. 32). I really enjoyed these. I love savoury and sweet combos so the sweet apple with salty cheddar was a big hit for me.
There you have it. A plethora of Dorie recipes, I'm slowly making my way through the entire book and slowly making my way through everything even if every mile I walk feels like five.
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Kant writes that there is no way of theoretically proving the existence of a god because religion is based on faith therefore beyond the realm of reason. If we can't prove the existence of a god why should we care if one exists. What's important is our moral compass and one does not have to have faith in god to be a moral person.
The existence of god has no bearing on whether I can or am good. Just now I am reading Sam Harris and thought this was such an appropriate group to join.
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A big boom shortly after the Big Bang
Back in September of 2005, the Swift space telescope picked up a gamma-ray burst, a sign that an extremely violent event had occurred somewhere in the universe. No surprise really—this is what the Swift was designed to do. Most such bursts tend to last about 10 seconds, after which the glow quickly drops into less energetic wavelengths. This one was quite different. The burst itself lasted nearly 500 seconds and, as it was tailing off, briefly flared back to higher energies several times. Other telescopes joined in on the observations as the energy of the explosion dissipated and the wavelengths dropped.
Researchers are now done with the first analyses of the data, and it's interesting stuff. Nature devotes three articles and a perspective to it, describing the burst itself, and its optical and infrared afterglows. The explosion was the second-most distant high energy object ever imaged, and it appears to have been produced by the formation of a black hole. But nicely behaved black hole formation these days results in a single, short burst. It's unclear how the content of the early galaxies altered black hole formation, but something was clearly different from current conditions. Analysis of the afterglow also revealed that many heavy elements were already present at this early stage of the universe's evolution.
My favorite aspect of the story, though, is how the incredible expansion of space-time since the explosion occurred affected the observations. Because the very fabric of space has expanded during the time the light travelled, the light itself stretched out with it. Although it took two minutes for Swift to move from sensing the burst to directing its focus on it, it didn't miss as much of the burst as that implies. In terms of time at the actual point of the explosion, it only missed 23 seconds worth of data.


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COVER- 'I'm incredibly competitive': How a once obscure law gave local women their turn
The two Ashlin Smiths get a smile from the younger's old lacrosse stick.
Osteen: "It's sort of like the military– you think you might die running, but you do it together."
"Player of the Week!" Hofstra University online news congratulated Maizie Osteen, a lacrosse player from Charlottesville, during this spring's season.
The gushing continued game after game: "Osteen made seven saves." "Osteen had a spectacular 4.15 goals against average." "Led by Osteen's strong play in net, Hofstra held William & Mary to just 2-10 shooting."
Later this month, after graduation caps this standout collegiate athletic career, the Charlottesville High School graduate heads across the ocean to join the Welsh national lacrosse team. A year from now, she will play in the World Cup in Prague.
As Osteen and many other talented young women make history for their respective college teams, the benefits of sports opportunities for women are obvious— now. But before and during the 1960s, most high schools and colleges had no varsity sports for women, and many simply didn't mind. Charlottesville's Lane High School had no girls' varsity sports, certainly not lacrosse.
"I really enjoyed sports and looked forward to P.E. class," says 1960s-era high-schooler and former Charlottesvillian Sandy Getlein, "but there were no teams for girls."
Betsy Cochran, an athletic California high school student in the '60s, now a psychotherapist in town, says, "That was so far out of my realm of thinking I didn't even consider it."
Millie Fife, today an administrator with Sojourners Christian Church, remembers, "There was an aura that any girl who did sports was gay."
When coach Brenda Langdon started track and field for girls in Dinwiddie County, her athletic director was humiliated. "We're going to be an embarrassment all over Virginia. Whoever heard of girls running track?" he allegedly said.
Even in the supposedly progressive atmosphere of the local newspaper office, there was resistance to covering the 1972 enactment of Title IX of the Education Amendments, which guaranteed educational equity for women. Mariflo Stephens was then a reporter at The Daily Progress.
"Doris VanDeCastle came to talk to the editor about the new law," Stephens remembers. "She was 5'11", wore pants, and had a booming voice. She went to the sports editor and tried to get him to write an article about it. He put her off on a columnist, who went blank on her, too. She argued with the news editor about the importance of the new law. He sat there scratching his head before sending her over to me.
"I had never heard of Title IX," says Stephens, "but I listened as this commanding woman talked about the changes that were coming. She said schools were going to have to put money into women's sports or lose their federal funding. Coaches would be hired, and new teams started."
VanDeCastle went on to spearhead the push for women's sports in Albemarle County schools.
Title IX has not been uncontroversial: some high school sports fans claim it has siphoned money from men's sports like wrestling, cross country, and swimming, making it harder for men to get scholarships in those sports or even to participate at the college level. [See sidebar "Cutting Men's Sports"–editor.]
Title IX was not just about sports, however. It required that educational opportunities of all kinds be equal for men and women. Athletics is one of 10 major areas the law addresses, including access to higher education, education for pregnant students, and sexual harassment.
The sponsor of the groundbreaking law, Congresswoman Patsy Mink of Hawaii, had grown up wanting to be a doctor. When she graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1948, she applied to 20 medical schools, and none accepted her.
Finally, Mink decided she would go to law school, hoping discrimination could be attacked through the courts. She was accepted by University of Chicago Law School, which had had the unusual policy of enrolling women since it opened in 1902.
Mink started her political career by getting elected president of the student body at her high school in Maui where in 1942, just after Pearl Harbor, her campaign had to overcome the fact that she was Japanese. In addition, it was unheard of for a girl to aspire to student office. Mink devised a strategy of impressing the various cliques, including the popular football team. Her strategy worked, and she was elected by a narrow margin. After graduating in 1944 as class valedictorian, she became the first female attorney in Hawaii and was elected a Representative of the Territory of Hawaii before it was a state.
In 1965, Mink was elected the first female minority member of Congress. She introduced the first Early Childhood Education Act and authored the Women's Educational Equity Act (1974). Most importantly, perhaps, along with Congresswoman Edith Greene of Oregon, she co-wrote Title IX.
Title IX brought Ashlin Smith, her husband, and their daughter, also named Ashlin, to a school board meeting at Charlottesville High School in 1981.
The younger Ashlin was a leading athlete, a member of the St. Anne's varsity lacrosse team. In tenth grade she transferred to CHS where she started a lacrosse club. But as a club sport with no coach and no uniforms, the female lacrosse players had to borrow uniforms from the field hockey club. Ashlin was infuriated by the disparity between her team and the varsity boy's lacrosse team.
"She was a fighter, and she was mad," her mother says.
Father Lloyd Smith went to talk to the school principal, Ron Hutchinson, who allegedly insisted there was no money in the budget for a girls' lacrosse team. After informing Hutchinson that the school was in violation of the law, Smith and his family headed directly to the School Board.
Former Mayor Nancy O'Brien has a vivid memory of the senior Ashlin's appearance that day.
"She was such a lady, gently insisting," O'Brien recalls. "She requested girls' teams in lacrosse and field hockey. She wanted them available to her daughter. Shoes and suits weren't necessary, she said— but probably the skirts were. She seemed to remove all the major obstructions, and you just did what she wanted you to do."
Lloyd Smith remembers telling the School Board, "In 1971 UVA tried to put off a woman applicant, and the federal judge said, 'You're taking women, and you're taking them this fall.'" He also recalls that after he spoke, a staff member from CHS came up to him and said, "The girls don't want this."
Obviously, that person didn't know that 40 girls had signed up for the lacrosse club.
Faced with the power of the new law, the School Board yielded to public pressure and voted to make girls lacrosse a varsity sport and hired current Fairview swim coach J. J. Bean as the first coach.
"Coach Bean would say, 'Come on down and let's talk about this team,'" recalls the younger Ashlin. "He would have everybody's name on index cards, and he'd be swapping them from one position to another. 'What do you think about this person as attackman?'"
"Lacrosse was very important to Ashlin," says the elder Ashlin. "She loved it. She would never have been happy if she couldn't do it." During Ashlin's senior year, she was chosen Most Valuable Player.
"I got a job a few months ago," Ashlin (now Ashlin Caravana) says, "and the employer looked at my resume and said, 'I know you're going to be a competitor.' That was because I was an athlete. There's an expectation of competing and being a team member."
Twenty-seven years after that school board meeting, lacrosse star Maizie Osteen is crossing the Atlantic to play in the lacrosse World Cup. After starting at CHS in 1999, she found herself on a weak team, losing games 0-28 and 2-30. But by her sophomore year, the team won as many games as it lost, finishing 6-6. And in her senior year, CHS won at the highest state level.
CHS had two great coaches when Osteen played: Peggy Boutilier, who was named NCAA Woman of the Year while at UVA, and Rebecca Tweel, who played lacrosse at James Madison University.
"They helped me get to collegiate level," Osteen says. "Recruiters didn't come into the south too much. The coaches talked to recruiters for me."
Osteen decided to attend New York's Hofstra University, with a Division 1 lacrosse program in the Colonial Athletic Association, the CAA, which includes many Virginia schools including William & Mary, James Madison, and Old Dominion.
"Sports gave me confidence," Osteen says. "Of course, as an only child, my parents gave me a lot of support, but the team gives you an extended family to fight for and work with. I'm a big, tall girl. In this society, that's not so acceptable. Sports let me use my size to my advantage. I'm incredibly competitive.
"Playing lacrosse in high school made me comfortable interacting with all kinds of people. I got to know many girls who are still close friends. It's sort of like the military– you think you might die running, but you do it together.
"I was captain my senior year in lacrosse as well as in basketball and volleyball. I learned how to get everybody on the same page, how to frame issues," Osteen says. "I also learned how to deal with defeat. A coach at Hofstra said, 'Champions are born from losses.' You figure out what you did wrong, you fix it and walk away from it."
In 2007, Hofstra won the CAA conference championship.
"I played against people from the Wales team two summers ago," she continues, "and my mother was proud of me because my grandfather was Welsh. I've been flying over to play with them once a month. I have a sponsor who pays my air fare."
Is Title IX still needed? Women's participation in organized sports has grown gradually over 35 years thanks to the hard work of parents, coaches, administrators, and enthusiastic girls.
Nationally, high school girls' athletic participation increased from 295,000 in 1971 to 2.8 million in 2003, according to the United States Sports Academy. College women's participation increased from 15 percent of college women in 1972 to 43 percent in 2001. The NCAA sponsors 40 women's championships, 38 men's, and three combined (rifle, skiing, and fencing) in all three of its divisions. The Virginia High School League, propelled by longtime assistant director Claudia Dodson (who retired in 2002 and died last August) has gone from just one state high school championship (gymnastics) in 1971 to 31 championships today.
The CHS yearbook of 1971 has no women's sports. By 1974, basketball, track, softball and tennis teams are pictured in the annual. The 1979 yearbook shows nine women's sports, with the addition of cross country, indoor track, swimming, field hockey, and volleyball.
"The social fabric would be so different without women's sports," says CHS athletic director Rick Lilly. "Our kids go on to be referees, agents, and athletic directors. Also, you have spectator sports and ethics in sports. Sports give kids something to think about."
Lilly says CHS offers 12 women's sports, and the coaching staff includes 22 women, nine of them head coaches.
Lawsuits were necessary to force changes in some athletic programs. In fact, it was only eight years ago that the parents of a young woman won a Title IX suit in Virginia. In 2000, the Federal District Court in Charlottesville found that the Virginia High School League violated Title IX and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by scheduling the athletic seasons of girls and boys differently.
The League scheduled girls' volleyball, basketball, and tennis in different seasons based on school size, while all boys' sports were aligned to the same season regardless of school size. As a result, girls attending smaller schools played sports in "non-traditional" seasons, such as fall basketball and winter volleyball. Some girls in Suffolk County had been forced to drop one or even two sports because they were offered in the same season. The jury granted each of the 11 girls involved in the suit $17,000 in damages, a generous sum for a Title IX case.
"We've made enormous progress in girls' sports," said Albemarle High School's Langdon, who was the first woman athletic director at a AAA school in Virginia. "Boys and girls programs at Albemarle and Charlottesville are about equal in salaries, practice space, and the number of sports," she added, "but we need to get more female coaches coaching females.
"We need," says Langdon, "to promote attendance at women's sports so girls will participate. Sports improves their grades because they must achieve a certain level to be allowed to play. The physical activity is healthy– good for the brain, too. Scholarships give them college opportunities, and the networking gives them job opportunities."
During the 1990s, Charlottesville resident and avid tennis player Virginia Daugherty operated a printing shop and served two terms on City Council, including a stint as the mayor.


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Visitors to Siesta Beach Saturday will see work beginning on a long-awaited renovation of facilities and parking. The heavy machines and work crews gathering at the east end of the park won't affect most beachgoers for months, but this work is only the beginning of a two-year, $21.5 million project meant to remodel facilities at what Sarasota County promotes as "America's Number One Beach."
What to expect now
Saturday, work crews will start gathering equipment and running earthmovers near the tennis courts at the east edge of Siesta Beach Park. The contractor, Jon F. Swift Inc., is preparing to start the first phase of construction, which includes a new tennis court and parking lot just east of those that exist now.
Sarasota County gave the contractor permission to work on Saturdays until March 1 to keep the project on schedule after rain delays earlier this year. A drainage project along Beach Road is continuing at the same time.
With some minor exceptions, construction should not affect beach parking until after July 4, said Brad Gaubatz, the project manager for Sarasota County Public Works. The plan calls for construction of a new lot on the east end of the park in time for the July 4 weekend, before later phases of construction begin in existing parking lots. At times over the next two months, work crews will occupy narrow sections of the parking lots as they bury cables needed for the project, Gaubatz said.
The construction plan is designed to provide new sections of parking and facilities before disrupting others. The project is supposed to add 143 parking spaces for beach visitors when it is complete.
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Talk of renovating the aging facilities at Siesta Beach started more than a decade ago. Parts of the beach have been open as a public park for nearly 60 years, and the historic pavilion was built in 1959.
The top priorities have long been more parking — always a headache during busy tourist seasons — and modernizing bathrooms that have seen better days. Supporters of the renovations said that, because the beach is often touted as the best in the country and draws millions of visitors each year, it should have worthy facilities.
After many public discussions, the county settled on a plan that would add parking, improve the bathrooms and revamp much more of the park. But even as county commissioners stressed the need for improvements, some criticized the price tag, which ballooned to nearly $27 million last year before parts of the plan were shelved to save money.
The cost
The county expects to pay $21.5 million for the project, including a $17.5 million construction contract. The money will come from a $12.5 million loan, tourist development taxes and a voter-approved penny sales tax for infrastructure.
County officials have said borrowing money while construction costs are cheap and interest rates are low will save money over the long term. However, the county budget director also has said it will reduce the county's ability to borrow money for other projects for several years.
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Once the project is complete in 2015, the historic pavilion will have been restored, a new pedestrian esplanade will be built and the park will have new and improved parking lots and bathrooms.
Access points will comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, some buildings will be relocated or rebuilt, and an upgraded and elevated concession area will be added, along with upgraded picnic tables and playground equipment. Some nuisance vegetation such as Australian Pines will be replaced with native plants.
County officials say the first phase of construction will be completed in July. They have not committed to an exact timeline for the following three phases.
A county website for updates on the project is expected to be available in about a month.
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An American-born terrorist-in-training learned how to shoot rockets and assault rifles and construct a suicide bomber's vest at al-Qaida camps in Pakistan, according to documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Bryant Neal Vinas took courses in plastic explosives and bomb theory, according to a statement he gave to investigators as part of a terrorism case in Belgium. The statement, provided to the AP on Thursday, was to be released after a hearing Friday, officials said.
Since the 26-year-old New York man's arrest in Pakistan in November 2008, Vinas has become one of the most valuable informants in the war on terrorism, giving investigators a fascinating and rare look into al-Qaida's day-to-day operations in a lawless region bordering Afghanistan.
He provided insights on many key members of Al-Qaida and how the organization recruited and indoctrinated people. Vinas also revealed the group gave lessons on assassination, poison, kidnapping, forgery and advanced bomb making, according to the statement.
Vinas told counterterrorism investigators about meetings with top al-Qaida members while staying at a network of hideouts on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where he trained from about March 2008 to August 2008.
Pakistani authorities nabbed the 26-year-old New Yorker after he returned to city of Peshawar near the border of Afghanistan to find a wife, according to his statement.
While he has been in custody in New York, the U.S. has made a series of successful unmanned Predator drone strikes on suspected al-Qaida locations in the difficult-to-penetrate border region, raising questions about whether Vinas provided the information that led to any of the deadly attacks.
One of those strikes took place in northwest Pakistan on Nov. 19, about the time of Vinas' capture. The strike killed al-Qaida member Abdullah Azzam al-Saudi, who was reportedly a recruiter for the terrorist organization.
Vinas told authorities that he knew of an Abdullah Azzam, a law enforcement official told the AP, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.
Vinas' attorney Len Kamdang declined comment Thursday.
Vinas, who grew up in the New York City suburbs on Long Island, was charged in court papers unsealed Wednesday with giving al-Qaida "expert advice and assistance" about New York's transit system and with a rocket attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan last year.
He pleaded guilty Jan. 28 to conspiring to murder U.S. nationals, supporting and receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization in a sealed courtroom in Brooklyn, according to a transcript of the hearing unsealed Thursday.
Vinas admitted to traveling to Pakistan in 2007 "with the intention of meeting and joining a jihadist group to fight American soldiers in Afghanistan," the transcript read.
He said he took part in two "missions" in September 2008 to attack a U.S. military base near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The first attack failed, Vinas said. A few days later, "I took part in firing rockets at an American military base. Although we intended to hit the military base and kill American soldiers, I was informed that the rockets missed and the attack failed."
After crossing back into Pakistan, Vinas accepted an invitation to become a suicide bomber. He eventually landed in the mountainous region of Waziristan where he came into contact with members of al-Qaida. Around March 2008, Vinas said he was accepted into al-Qaida and began intensive training.
Vinas said he told top al-Qaida officials about the New York commuter rail he traveled on frequently "to help plan a bottom attack of the Long Island Rail Road system." Law enforcement officials familiar with the case also said Vinas told investigators he heard discussions about targeting the Belgium metro system.
Vinas was interviewed this year in New York by Belgian prosecutors pursuing an anti-terror case against Malika El Aroud, Belgian prosecutors said.
El Aroud is the widow of a man involved in killing anti-Taliban warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud two days before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Vinas' testimony was being submitted to a closed court hearing on Friday in Belgium to evaluate whether El Aroud and five others should remain in custody. The six are charged with belonging to a terrorist organization, which Belgian officials say is part of an al-Qaida group plotting new attacks either in Europe or elsewhere.


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It was an ending speech, her March 20, 1970 farewell speech at the conclusion of her term as the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She was nearly 50. But Betty Friedan used what might have been a pro forma speech not to thank everyone and reflect backwards, but to make a call for action that astonished its hearers: She called for women to go on strike.
Friedan, the author of the 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, had already broken ground by saying "We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: "I want something more than my husband and my children and my home." But with this speech, she astonished the early leaders of the women's movement of her era. Sadly, I haven't been able to find a full text of the speech. But here's a compelling excerpt that described her vision of what would happen on the strike day
The women who are doing menial chores in the offices as secretaries put the covers on their typewriters and close their notebooks and the telephone operators unplug their switchboards, the waitresses stop waiting, cleaning women stop cleaning and everyone who is doing a job for which a man would be paid more stop…And when it begins to get dark, instead of cooking dinner or making love, we will assemble and we will carry candles alight in every city to converge the visible power of women at city hall…Women will occupy for the night the political decision-making arena and sacrifice a night of love to make the political meaning clear.Friedan wrote at length about the origins of the Women's Strike in her book It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement, in which she shared how this speech affected her, and shared the last line. She wrote:
I was told later I that talked for nearly two hours--"like Castro or some Communist commissar," Kay Clarenbach teased me. But the women of NOW listened. It was late in the afternoon, and intense. I was so tired when I finished that I held on to the lectern. I ended, knowing it was so--"I have led you into history. I leave you now--to make new history." They gave me a standing ovation, the members of NOW, and I was moved.In the speech, she called on women to muster on the 50th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, August 26, 1970, at the end of a workday -- an effort to make sure more of them would participate -- and envisioned this as a march and strike that would throw into high relief women's contributions to society. The strike had concrete goals for equality, from equal pay for equal work to abundant and accessible child care.
Ms. magazine recalled: "That was a tall order for a three-and-a-half-year-old organization like the National Organization for Women, with 3,033 members, 35 chapters and an annual budget of $38,000, to carry out." That's just one reason why no one thought it would work: Not her sisters in the women's movement, not the media (who made relentless fun of the march), not even her children. In this remembrance, her son recalls being cajoled by friends to go to the march, even though he, too, thought it would be a failure:
In the end, the speech she gave as a farewell to NOW wound up bringing some 50,000 women into the streets of New York City alone, with marches, rallies and other events in 90 cities and 42 states. It was the first major event to bring the late 20th century women's movement onto the front pages (the New York Times, covering her initial speech on the strike, called her a "militant leader"), and succeeded beyond anyone's expectations. In the end, her 2006 obituary in the Times said she "permanently transformed the social fabric of the United States and countries around the world."
So what can we learn from the speech that ignited this charge?
- Active verbs make a call to action: Read the verbs in the excerpt above: Put, close, unplug, stop, assemble, carry, converge, occupy, sacrifice, make. There is no waffling, no hesitation in an active verb. That means the audience was clear on what was wanted of it. Is your audience as clear on what you want them to do when they leave the hall? Passive verbs do not a call to action make.
- She used her (seemingly) last leadership platform to create something new: This could have been a true farewell speech. Instead, Friedan used it to push the group beyond what seemed possible and to propose a preposterous idea--but one she thought could happen. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, might be the lesson here. Why pull your punches? Why dial in a perfunctory farewell speech, when you can do this? Instead, she said, "I have led you into history. Now I leave you to make new history."
- She flew in the face of conventional wisdom. I have to believe Friedan knew that her listeners, committed as they were to the cause, would doubt that this could happen. And that thought was borne out by everyone from the news media to her family. The police reserved only one traffic lane on Fifth Avenue for the march, a sure sign their estimates said there'd be low turnout. But Friedan reinforced her message in many subsequent speeches and interviews. A persistent message and strong vision paid off, as did her instincts and research about the women she hoped would march.
- She drew a picture of what the strike would look like in terms of the lives of those whom she hoped would march. Instead of lecturing or cajoling, she envisioned in words the picture of what would happen on the day of the strike. Evoking secretaries covering their typewriters and waitresses and cleaning women stopping their tasks put the march in terms to which women could relate and respond. No platitudes, just a platform. By the time of the march, that simple language was translated into signs like "Don't iron while the strike is hot," a play on the old phrase, "Strike while the iron is hot."
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Thule CU-9 Easy-fit snow chains (pair) no. CU-9 070
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Thule's Easy-fit is a truly innovative tangle-free chain system which is easy, intuitive, clean and quick both to fit and, just as important, to remove. Click the image below to see it being fitted in less than 12 seconds:
Why buy Easy-fit? Thule's Easy-fit is a truly innovative tangle-free chain system which is easy, intuitive, clean and quick both to fit and to remove.
Who can use Easy-fit? First of all, please check your car handbook to find out whether snowchains may be used on your tyre size. If there is a "No fit for snowchains" then you need to look for the Thule K-Summit or another "ladder track" chain.
Please also note that these Easy-fit are not strong enough for use on SUVs and 4x4s, even if there is a set for your tyre size. A heavy-duty 4x4 version will be available in due course.
Fitting: No doubt about it, Thule has designed a winner with its Easy-fit chains:
You should have fitted them in approximately 12 seconds a side, without effort, and without getting your hands or clothes dirty. Fantastic!
It really is this easy! Check out the Fitting video tab for more information.
Technical stuff:
Easy-fit for rear wheel drives: Easy-fit chains are particularly suitable for vehicles with limited space between the wheel and the wheel arch. This is an important consideration, because when you come to fit and remove all other chain-link snow chains, and all snow socks, you need to be able to get your forearms into this space. Easy-fit are fitted from the front of the wheel and are therefore suitable for a number of rear wheel drive cars that currently have a very limited range of snowchain options.
Summary: The Easy-fit is a very clever development of the long-established RUD-matic concept, with the chain held on a sprung steel hoop that can easily be pushed into the narrow space between the top of a wheel and a wheel arch. But instead of taking up the slack with a single tensioning chain, the Easy-fit aluminium tensioning bars tighten in two directions at once, self-tensioning as the wheels starts to turn. Really clever stuff!
It can be more of an effort to remove snow chains than to fit them, but removing the Easy-fit is almost as quick, clean and easy as fitting them. Theyre superb! Just be sure that the aluminium tensioning bars are well away from the wheels before you drive off the chains. The carry bag doubles as a kneeler, with the instructions printed right in front of you a really nice touch.
Easy-fit won the Innovation of the Year Award at EquipAuto 2011, Paris.
We're also showing you a range of other winter motoring products which we're selling here at market leading prices, including a snow and ice windscreen protector, a telescopic snow shovel, and a snow brush - all of these items are almost essential kit for winter weather, especially we suggest the snow brush. Please click on the links to see pictures and more information.
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See below for our normal delivery arrangements:
We charge a contribution towards delivery costs, depending on what you order, where you live, and how quickly you want the goods.
For most UK addresses, the charge for our two to three day service is £5.50 (£9.50 for orders including a roof box) and our charge for Next Working Day deliveries is £8.50 (£12.50 for orders involving a roof box). AutoSock, shoe chains, RUD i-Sock, and small spare parts, are charged £3.95 (Royal Mail Tracked), £4.95 (Royal Mail Express Tracked) or £5.95 (express courier, usually Next Working Day).
There are different charges for any delivery including a sea crossing, and deliveries to Skye - we will contact you with a quote on receipt of order.
Orders for Next Working Day delivery need to be received by 4.00pm.
There are no deliveries on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays, except for postable items where Royal Mail has a Saturday delivery. Next Working Day orders placed on a Friday will be delivered on the Monday, Next Working Day orders placed on a Saturday will be delivered on the Tuesday.
We are very flexible with our deliveries and will aim to deliver on a day and at an address which suits you. Goods can usually be left without signature - we prefer this with roof boxes. There's a "Special Delivery Instructions" box in the checkout area where we'll ask you to choose a typical instruction and then amend it to suit your particular requirements.
No retailer or courier company can ever "guarantee" a Next Working Day delivery. All courier companies occasionally have the same transport problems as can happen to everyone else, including snow blocked roads, closed roads, traffic jams, mechanical breakdown, an inability to find the delivery address, or to gain access to it if, for example, it's in a block of flats. We work with some of the best couriers in the business, and overall they provide an outstanding service.
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There are three parts to our snow chains offer this year:
(1) Clearance prices on many top branded snow chains, including RUD and Thule - an amazing opportunity for those who are quick off the mark! Thule (who are the biggest brand in the car racks market) have sold their snow chains division; the same chains are now being sold under the König brand. Thule branded chains have the same specifications as the König branded versions - all that has changed is the name on the chain and the name on the box.
(2) A free UK mainland delivery option for any snow chain order except any orders including a roof box or a sea crossing.
(3) Multibuy discounts - significant discounts if you buy two pairs of snow chains at the same time, or one pair of chains and one pair of AutoSock: If you do either of these things, we will discount the snow chains as follows:
As usual, you change the quantities in the Shopping Basket.
Snow chain recommendations
We are snow chain specialists, so we stock a large number of brands, and many different types of chain. Regular chain users usually know what they're looking for, and we hope they find it on this site, but many customers ask for further guidance about what they should buy. So here goes:
(1) Please use the filters on the previous page to narrow your choice, and also check out the Basic snow chain information links at the top of the previous page. Note that this year we are aiming to clear our overstocks, offering premium brand chains, including Thule and RUD, at massive discounts, with some at less than cost price. Theres a Clearance filter its worth a look!
(2) The big differences between the European branded chains and most of the Chinese chains are (a) steel quality and (b) attention to manufacturing details. There is a market for cheaper chains than the ones we offer, but its not a market we want to be in, especially as the price differences between questionable and good are often only about £20.
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On Ponce, near the Kro-Zhay maybe. Walking from one place to another. The Clermont? The Concourse? Don't remember, but it was after a gig or show. But it was on Ponce. Late. Dangerous, in other words. You do not stop and open your purse to the first lowlife who stumbles within ten feet of you. That man is not a kindly hobo looking for charity. He may swipe your bag. Or he might just stab you for no reason. Crazy, I know. But this is Ponce. Where Crazy lives. Your dripping mawkishness in the face of potential peril would have been your undoing, save for the fact that your man was walking with you. And the daggers he was staring at you and your damn fool stunt. Hope he gave you an earful..."
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In each, an individual irresponsibly willing to put themselves in unnecessary danger. Is there a psychological disconnect between therapeutic wishcasting and the inability to weigh risk? Willful blindness? Or a darker, self-destructive tendency in the subconscious?
Dunno. Freud would probably go to town though.
Ultimately, Montaigne had it right, regardless. As well as James and John.
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Before the BBC began broadcasting casually racist automotive pornography to millions of television sets and laptop screens across the world, automotive videojournalism was about as sterile as an old plow mule. The host was vividly tepid and the film work displayed the same level of creativity as an act of Congress.
Thanks to Top Gear, those days are virtually over and a new standard has been set to a profound effect. If you plan on presenting, a booming baritone voice and keeping what's left of your hair well-kept isn't going to cut it with viewers if you aren't going to make a single witty off-color remark about someone's sainted mother. Equally as important, if you plan on working the camera, you had better have a knack for making even something as abhorring as a Lada Riva with plastic wheel covers melt viewers' eyeballs within the confines of their sockets.
Well-funded names in automotive videojournalism such as Fifth Gear, XCar, The Smoking Tire, and Drive all take some degree of influence from Top Gear, either in the way they present their films or how they approach making a film itself, if not both. However, it isn't just the big players who owe a portion of their soul to the Beeb's highly acclaimed motoring program. Smaller fish who are confined to swimming in the seas of white noise on YouTube also try to ape Top Gear's particular flavor, occasionally and impressively managing to come within very loud shouting distance on an atom-sized budget.
But never mind whatever cutesy prose they manage to vomit on screen all over the front of their white v-neck t-shirts, I've always found it very intriguing that these proletariat YouTubers can shoot good looking films without the use of a camera that costs more than a small hatchback. So I did a little research and discovered that most low-rent car-centric videos use budget to mid-range DSLR cameras, such as the Canon T3i, a few different lenses and a tripod, and a computer with basic movie editing software.
I personally own a T3i, a few lenses and a cheap tripod, and a Mac with iMovie. And for me, that was incentive enough to take a crack at it. After all, if some teenaged kid in a Smurf costume can do it, how hard can it actually be?
Now, I'll openly admit to you that I'm not a filmmaker by any stretch of the imagination. I know just as much about making a film as I do cooking or speaking Latin. Again, I just own a camera with a few lenses and a cheap tripod. Still, at least I had the gear needed to conduct my little experiment, so it wasn't like I was going in completely naked.
Or so I thought. When I began researching how to pan shots, I discovered my tripod wasn't exactly a Swiss army knife. While it was certainly capable of doing traditional 180 degree panning and therefore most of the work, linear panning — which is where the camera sort of stays in a static position as it moves along a track that goes from left to right — was out of the question. To do that, I needed a sliding dolly.
So I decided I would buy one... until I discovered the cheapest one you can order from the internet cost about $175 dollars. That sort of price tag for what is, essentially, a sliding door's track with a quarter-inch bolt through one end of it gave me a bad case of what I like to call cheap-ass-itis, so I decided I would save some dosh and build one instead. After a few hours of deliberate research, I chose to go with a different sort of design I could make for the cost of two Big Macs out of some pipe and Velcro, and three electrical conduit boxes.
With my new dolly built and added to my arsenal of gear, I didn't waste much time and set out to do a little film work. I decided that the urban decay of Detroit would make for an excellent backdrop and the car I wanted to film would be a black Dodge Charger SRT8. Unfortunately, I live hours away from Detroit and Dodge wouldn't return my phone calls for a press car. So an abandoned warehouse in Central Kentucky and my own base model Dodge Charger would have to suffice.
I arrived at the old warehouse at 5 pm, strategically parking my car in a small lot just in front of it. When I stepped out and started unloading my equipment, I was greeted by a brisk wind that wanted to flash freeze my nipples to my shirt. After I had sat everything up, that's when a steady outpouring of traffic started to roll through the area.
That meant that every shot I made had to be done tediously and monotonously over and over again to keep the many passers-by out. It was during this process I discovered my budget-friendly tripod wasn't exactly the most fluidly moving outfit my money could've bought. Much of my footage wound up being either shakier than the CIA's policy on public privacy or, at best, twitchier than Charlie Sheen. On the upside, the cobbled together dolly worked fairly well once I had managed to get the hang of it.
For an about an hour I persevered through the clammy wind, the irritating traffic and my lacking gear, making shot after shot, only pausing once to re-park my car. It was a lot of work, yes. But was it hard work? At the time, I didn't think it was really all that tough. Looking back on it, I'm not entirely sure.
See, here's the rub. Later that night, I sat through the various clips I had made, selecting the best ones to edit in iMovie (no headaches here; it's a straight shooting program). Of out an hour's work, do you want to make a guess how much usable footage I earned? If you guessed a little over a minute, you'd be right.
I suppose an experienced filmmaker would tell me that's just part of the game, though. Regardless, I think the finished product, which you can view below, turned out fairly well for a complete novice. And that makes me eager to see what my next attempt will turn out like.
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Cassidy is mayor in Mt. Oliver Boro, two new councilmen
August 2, 2011
James Cassidy is the new mayor of Mount Oliver, and Corey McGough and Darnell Sains are new council members, at a special meeting of council on July 27.
The appointments were by 5-0 votes, with Councilman Dennis Obeldobel absent. The men were then sworn in by District Judge Richard King.
Councilman Patrick Malloy is the new council president, replacing Mr. Cassidy in that role. Assuming Mr. Malloy's prior role as vice-president will be Councilman George Farneth.
The mayor's position opened on July 18 when Jeff Repasky announced his resignation after five years as mayor because he and his family are moving outside the borough. Mr. Cassidy became acting mayor while remaining president of council.
The lifelong borough resident was appointed mayor on his 54th birthday. He is a 40-year fire department member whose father and uncle were Mt. Oliver police officers.
Growing up in a public safety conscious family, and having worked with EMS, he said "I believe I can carry on the tradition of public safety as the top priority."
He also amassed knowledge of the borough and its everyday operations during his 12 years on council.
Mr. Cassidy is employed as a general foreman at Worldwide Refractories in Tarentum.
He plans to set up a "hotline" and email addressas Mr. Repasky had done in the past.
Mr. McGough assumed the seat previously held by Billie Michener. It was vacated by council in May after members accused her of missing too many meetings. She was appointed back into the seat after being the leading vote getter in the May primary election, but never accepted the appointment.
Mr. McGough, 33, grew up in South Side and has lived in Mr. Oliver for the past five years. He is a construction worker for Rich's Construction on South Side.
He was motivated to run for office while observing the borough's decline from a once-thriving community. He wants to help revitalize the business district and clean up the neighborhood.
Mr. Sains, 47, grew up in St. Clair Village. He has lived in the borough the past five years after residing there earlier for three years.
He is a senior warehouse man for Guardian Storage Solutions at its main site in Shadyside. Mr. Sains plans to be an advocate for youth, diversity, and seniors.
Both men were also winners in the May primary election.
Mr. Malloy, 67, said he plans to do some things differently as council president than did Mr. Cassidy. He was a councilman for 14 years beginning in the 1980s, and returned to council a few years ago.
His previous executive experience was as president of the Window Cleaners Local 16.
After the new council was seated, Mr. Malloy announced the new chairpersons and members of various committees.
The chairpersons are: Mr. McGough, Public Works; Mr. Sains, Economic Development/Planning/Zoning; John Smith, Recreation/Utilities/Ordinances; Christine Brendel, Administration and Related Office Equipment/Finance; Mr. Farneth, Public Safety/Risk Management.
The South Hills Area Council of Governments representative will be Mr. McGough, with Mr. Sains the alternate.
In other business, Mr. Farneth reiterated his call for the borough to cut very high grass at a Margaret St. residence. Although the borough does not as standard practice cut residential lawns, the grass is so high it may be concealing mice and rats, making it a hazard to the surrounding homes.
He said he has received numerous complaints about the condition of the property.
Mr. Malloy read a resignation letter, effective July 24, from part-time police Officer Christopher J. Kertis, who accepted a new job with the city police department.


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