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Just a thought, well, maybe lol
An Iraqi Official's Better Home and Garden
Snippets of American Pop Culture on Display at Aziz's Mansion
Jonathan Finer is a financial reporter for the Post. He is traveling with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
• More Reports From the Field
By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 11, 2003; Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 10 -- A bulletin board in the kitchen of former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz is plastered with snapshots that reveal a man who led a rich and varied life. There he is ballroom dancing with his wife. In another frame he poses surrounded by children in front of the family Christmas tree. Naturally, for the man who represented former President Saddam Hussein for years, he is also depicted locked in a warm embrace with the now-fallen Iraqi leader.
With his big-framed glasses and gray mustache, Aziz is widely recognized abroad because of his career as foreign minister and longtime defender of Hussein's rule. A fluent English speaker educated at the University of Baghdad, he was the only Christian among the senior leaders of the Baath Party. One rumor had him defecting last month as the Bush administration gathered forces for war, but Aziz popped up on television two days later to publicize his continued loyalty. Since U.S. troops closed in on Baghdad, he has dropped out of sight, with Hussein and all the country's other top leaders.
Aziz, born Mikhail Yuhanna in 1936 near Mosul in northern Iraq, left behind a riverfront home full of personal effects that shed light on the grandeur and the normality of his everyday life. The contents indicate that, with all his denunciations of the United States, he had a vivid interest in American authors and popular culture, from political memoirs to the personality profiles of Vanity Fair.
The four-story home sits on an oxbow of the Tigris River, near a highway overpass. Outside the front door is a worn woven mat that reads "welcome." Throughout the home are understated pieces of Christian iconography: a small portrait of Christ, a Virgin Mary figurine in the kitchen and a wallet-sized photo of an Eastern Orthodox priest attached to a mirror in the bedroom.
Aziz's study is an airy room on the ground floor, its shelves heaving with writings by and about his adversaries, such as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and former president George H.W. Bush, as well as dozens of volumes of works attributed to Hussein. He owns several histories of the Iran-Iraq war and a collection of works on the Central Intelligence Agency, including Bob Woodward's "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987." He also owns several Western works on politics in the region, including Judith Miller's "God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East," and Daniel Yergin's "The Prize," about the politics of oil.
True to his role as a former foreign minister, Aziz owns two major works by former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger: "Diplomacy" and "White House Years." And tucked away on the top of one shelf is "The Greatest Threat," by Richard Butler, who led a U.N. weapons inspection team in Iraq in the 1990s.
His collection also includes an autobiography of Moshe Dayan, an Israeli general and statesman, and several works on the subject of Zionism. He owns "Saddam's War," an account of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the international response to it, written by John Bulloch and Harvey Morris, and "Hitler's War," by David Irving, about the German dictator to whom the Iraqi leader has sometimes been compared.
Alongside the his collection of books are dozens of Vanity Fair magazines and a large glass cabinet overflowing with more than 50 American movies on DVD. The titles include dramas, such as "The Godfather" series, lighter fare, such as "Sleepless in Seattle," and action films, such as "Dragon," the story of martial arts expert Bruce Lee.
As for Aziz's official reading, U.S. Marines blew open several safes when they arrived at the abandoned house Wednesday night and removed reams of documents, which will be analyzed by intelligence experts.
In a ground floor office are photographs of a man in his forties who appears to be Aziz's son. White business cards bearing the name Ziad Tariq Aziz are on a large oak desk. On the floor is a box of cigars, a backgammon set and a bottle of Cartier cologne. Brochures advertising Smith & Wesson and Remington firearms are scattered on the office floor. A Princeton Review test preparation book, titled "Cracking the GMAT," is marked with notes in the margins.
On the second floor of the house is a master bedroom with dressers stacked high with unopened bottles of cologne: Drakkar Noir and Obsession for men. The attached bathroom is filled with American magazines: Vogue, Cosmopolitan and GQ, along with a few dog-eared novels by Danielle Steel.
Just a few blocks away on the same riverbank stands one of Hussein's residences, a five-building compound that is larger and more opulent than Aziz's home. It is unclear how much time Hussein spent at the home, because he tried to obscure his whereabouts as a security precaution.
Hussein's palace, covered in scaffolding and apparently under construction, was struck by a 2,000-pound bomb less than two weeks ago. Scattered throughout the now-shabby backyard that leads to the river are Romanesque statues of nude figures and ceramic lions coated in gold leaf.
A tour of the grounds reveals many trappings of wealth: a swimming pool, an empty four-car garage and elaborate flower gardens. The vaulted ceiling in a colonnaded mansion at the southern end of the compound is painted in a style reminiscent of the Sistine Chapel, with dozens of cherubs floating on clouds in a blue sky.
The mansions are adorned with dozens of large mirrors and images of the Iraqi leader. In the front yard of one building is a sculpture of Hussein riding a horse and carrying a sword, as well as a marble bust of his head. Hussein's profile is carved into the stone facade of another. Alongside one marble staircase is a wall-sized mural of the Hussein family in formal wear: Saddam and his wife and daughter, two sons, and their wives.
Based on the contents of the rooms, it appears that this palace housed mostly women and children. Inside are several walk-in closets full of hundreds of dresses and pairs of women's dress shoes. Toys are strewn all over the main living spaces, including at least three metal scooters.
A fully equipped dentist's office occupies one room of a large stone mansion that has neoclassical columns. Nearby are a beauty salon, its floors covered with fashion magazines, and a doctor's office, with an eye chart on one wall. A cassette recording of "The Sound of Music" sits by a tape player in an upstairs office. The master bathroom is stocked with Christian Dior towels, and a treadmill and several workout videos are in an adjoining exercise room.
Upstairs in a child's room with a small wooden bed is a cluttered collection of American toys and pop culture trinkets: stuffed animals and cartoon characters such as the Tasmanian Devil, Popeye and Sylvester the cat. The walls are decorated with posters of Snoopy and photographs of Disney World, along with photos of the pop singer Britney Spears, apparently torn from magazines.
An Advent calendar sits on a desk, next to a host of plastic figurines: Spiderman, Batman and the dwarfs from Snow White.
© 2003 The Washington Post Company
LOL!
THE ANNOUNCEMENT, from Michael Eisner, chairman and chief executive, marks an aggressive move to embrace digital technology in the home, which had been seen by many in Hollywood as more of a threat than an opportunity.
It is also a significant departure from the business model of Movielink, an internet-based service backed by five other leading studios, which allows viewers to download and watch films on their personal computers.
The Disney service, dubbed Movie Beam, will use a portion of the digital broadcasting spectrum used by its ABC over-the-air network, to feed up to 10 films a week into domestic television set-top boxes with a storage capacity of 100 full-length features.
It will be tested this autumn in Salt Lake City and two other centres, Mr. Eisner told an audience at the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual convention in Las Vegas.
“If we don’t provide consumers with with our products in a timely manner, pirates will,” he said.
At an investment conference later, he said the new technology could provide a windfall similar to that which came from the introduction of the video cassette recorder which changed the economics of the film industry.
Since then explosive growth in the five-year-old DVD business — which many studios accepted only reluctantly — has helped further dissipate Hollywood’s long-standing technophobia which was first manifested in resistance to the introduction of the soundtrack, colour television, and the VCR.
The industry was still conflicted, Mr. Eisner said. It spent enormous sums encouraging people to watch its films and then spent even more devising ways to “control and limit” how people saw them.
Disney was well aware of the perils of piracy in the digital environment, but would not allow fear to stifle innovation in production and distribution, he said.
The initiative follows an industry-wide commitment to press ahead quickly with the digital distribution of new movies via satellite or disc to servers in cinemas equipped with new-generation digital projectors.
Only a handful of U.S. theatres are currently equipped with the system, which will cut costs by obviating the need for thousands of hand-delivered film prints, but industry officials said last month that a full-scale roll-out would start next year.
© The Financial Times Ltd 2003. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/897423.asp
“THIS IS WITHIN striking distance of being the third major broadband pipe into the home,” said Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell, who visited the house Wednesday to get a preview of the technology.
The home is part of a trial project run by Current Technologies, a company based in Germantown, Md. The company, working with the Potomac Electric Power Co., is providing broadband over power lines to about 70 homes in Maryland. Another trial offers the service in suburban Cincinnati.
Utility companies including PPL Corp. in Allentown, Pa., and Ameren Corp. in St. Louis also are conducting test programs with consumers.
Broadband can be up to hundreds of times faster than dial-up service and can deliver a wider range of services, including high-quality video.
Powell said the FCC is excited about the power line technology and is studying whether it needs regulation. No current rules prohibit the technology, but the FCC is concerned that Internet transmissions carried over power lines could emit signals inside and outside the home that cause interference.
Companies have struggled for years to make the technology work. Only recently have they overcome technical hurdles such as interference on the power lines and getting around electrical transformers that block broadband signals.
“Power lines are a very difficult medium to send communications signals on,” said Bill Blair, a utilities project manager with the Electric Power Research Institute. He said the technology is still unproven as a broadband competitor.
“It is potentially a huge business — if it works,” he said.
Jay Birnbaum, president of Current Technologies, said his company will offer the power line broadband this year, but he didn’t know where the service would be available.
He said the cost will begin around $30 for an always-on connection more than four times faster than a dial-up modem, he said. Faster services that can match cable modems would cost more.
Cable modems and telephone digital subscriber lines, or DSL, typically cost about $50 a month.
NO WIRING UPGRADE NEEDED
Powell has said he wants more broadband competition to lower consumer prices and bring high-speed communications services to more people.
In the Maryland test program, the company uses a fiber-optic line to inject an Internet signal into a power line after it has left a power station. The signal then moves to neighborhoods, using equipment on power poles to leapfrog transformers and flow into homes.
“Every outlet in the house becomes a broadband outlet,” Birnbaum said.
The only extra equipment a consumer needs is a modem that plugs into an electric outlet and connects to a computer or Internet gadget. About the size of a deck of cards and costing less than $70, the power line modems are already in stores for use in home computer networks that use electric wiring.
The wiring in the test home is more than 40 years old and required no changes besides the modems, Birnbaum said.
Powell watched as a Current Technologies employee simultaneously used a special stereo to listen to an Internet radio station, showed a high-quality video of a movie streamed from the Web and played a motorcycle video game in live competition with others online. All the services flowed through a single power outlet.
“I love this stuff,” said Powell, who described himself as a “techno-ecstatic geek.”
Asked if he would put the power line service in his home, Powell said: “Yes, I would. I’m a little bummed it’s not in my area yet.”
© 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed
http://www.msnbc.com/news/898048.asp?cp1=1
Gas in my town is 29¢ a gallon but add on the tax and other fees its $1.65 a gallon.
Iraqi Town Names
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> > 1. Wherz-Myroof
> > 2. Mykamel-Izded
> > 3. Oshit-Disisbad
> > 4. Waddi-El Izgowinon
> > 5. Pleez-Ztopdishit
> > 6. Kiz-Yeraz-Goodbi
> > 7. Ikanstan-Disnomore
> > 8. Wha-Dafuk-Whazi-Tinkin
> > 9. Myturbin-Izburnin
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Casting a vastly different picture than the U.S. military, Iraq's Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Saturday denied reports that U.S. Army and Marine forces were in the Iraqi capital, saying the Americans were playing tricks.
A U.S. Central Command spokesman said Saturday that U.S. forces had moved into the heart of Baghdad from the south and the southeast, a day after securing the airport west of the Iraqi capital.
Sahaf denied that report, saying the Republican Guard has control of Saddam International Airport, following a fierce battle.
"Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport," Sahaf said. "The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed."
Capt. Frank Thorp, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, called the claim "groundless," saying "there is sporadic fighting at the airport."
"We have heard these reports from the minister of information which are quite frankly groundless," he said. "This is the same minister of information who yesterday was saying that coalition forces were approximately 100 kilometers away from the city."
Centcom said U.S. forces Friday secured the airport, about 11 miles southwest of the city center, and renamed it Baghdad International Airport.
Calling them "miserable villains" and "racist mercenaries," Sahaf painted a bleak picture of the fate of American troops at the airport.
"Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed," he said. "They are still trying to bomb with artillery and RPGs to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport."
Sahaf said he would take reporters to the airport later in the day, after it was cleaned up.
US begins the process of 'regime change'
Ed Vulliamy in New York and Kamal Ahmed
Sunday April 6, 2003
The Observer
The US is ready to install the first leg of an interim government for the new Iraq as early as Tuesday, even while fighting still rages in Baghdad, officials said yesterday.
America's readiness to establish the first stages of a civil administration to run post-war Iraq comes at lightning speed and constitutes a rebuff to European ambitions to stall on the process until some kind of role for the United Nations is agreed.
It was reported yesterday that the National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has also ruled out any key role for the UN.
The decision to proceed with an embryonic government comes in response to memoranda written by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week, urging that the US begin to entrench its authority in areas under its control before the war is over.
Pentagon officials told The Observer that the administration is determined to impose the Rumsfeld plan and sees no use for a UN role, describing the international body as 'irrelevant'.
The proposal is due to be discussed by George Bush and his closest security officials when he returns from this week's Northern Ireland war council with Tony Blair.
But according to US offi cials in Doha, elements of an embryonic new government will be established in the southern port of Umm Qasr, taken by coalition forces during the first days of the war.
It will be installed by the Pentagon's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, under the former US army Lieutenant General Jay Garner, and answerable to the Pentagon.
'What we are going to start trying to do, even before the fighting is over in Iraq, is to move to the areas in Iraq that are relatively peaceful, places like Umm Qasr, and to start moving [the office of reconstruction] into Iraq,' the official said. 'It is a fair assessment to say that this is the first step to set up a civil administration in Iraq.'
The decision is a rebuff to European diplomats who pleaded with US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday to allow for a UN role.
By brushing the UN aside at such an early stage, the move also places Tony Blair - whose own preference is for a UN role - in a difficult situation ahead of his meeting with Bush this week.
Rumsfeld presented two memoranda to the White House last week, urging the President to begin setting up government institutions in areas under US control. He said the new organs could install Iraqis returning from exile under the tutelage of American civilians answerable to General Garner.
But his plan has been opposed even within the administration. Colin Powell is known to favour a military government established after victory is assured, prepared to nurture an Iraqi government centred around citizens resident in Iraq, rather than exiles sponsored by neo-conservatives in the Pentagon.
General Garner is already set to make his media debut in Kuwait tomorrow as the man whom the US has named to be Iraq's temporary post-war civilian administrator.
The US viceroy of the Southern region will be retired General Buck Walters; one of three governors slated to minister the new Iraqi provinces.
The others are General Bruce Moore in the largely Kurdish north and former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine based in Baghdad, governing the central region.
Abandoned warehouse is a tomb for hundreds of tortured and executed Iraqis
From Paul Harris in Al Zubayr, Southern Iraq
THE coffins are laid out in neat rows in an abandoned warehouse. In each lies a crumpled bag of bones, old and dusty but still recognisably human. Out of the open end of one sack, a skull can be seen buried in the fragments of skeleton.
Its eye sockets are empty. Its teeth are smashed. Two ribs point out like accusing fingers.
Something terrible happened here. Something murderous. Something evil.
The proof lies in a cargo container nearby. Its metal door hangs open and inside are pages and pages of files. Each sheaf of notes contains a picture of a man or woman. Each and every one has been shot in the head. Their wounds are mangled and gaping. Many of them barely look human any more as the anonymous photographer chronicled their dead faces. It is a horror almost beyond words.
It is hard not to look at the black-and-white photographs -- two for each victim -- and wince. Yet each was a brother, a father or a son; or a mother, a daughter or a sister. Each had a past and hopes for a future, yet each ended here, in this dry and dusty hall of the dead. There must be at least 200 of them in the plywood coffins, roughly hammered together by a hurried carpenter. All of them are in bags, jumbled together in sad piles of remains.
'Whoever they are, they have been desecrated in their death. No one should ever treat the dead like this,' said Sgt Simon Brain, a veteran of tours in Bosnia, who has seen places in the Balkans that look similar to this. 'That is in two countries now that I have seen mass graves,' he added with a shake of his head.
There are signs of torture too. Outside the warehouse stands a wall. It is dotted in the centre with a spray of bullet holes. Nearly all of them are at head height. There is a ditch behind it. If anyone was shot against the wall, their blood would have drained cleanly away. In another warehouse, a dozen tiny concrete cells have been built of breeze blocks inside the hangar. In some of them, portraits of Saddam Hussein stare from the grey walls. In several, an iron pole has been hung from the roof. Dangling from it are cruel, rusting metal hooks. They are ideal torture chambers.
'We can't speculate on what this is until an investigation,' a British military spokesman said. But one officer, speaking privately and looking in shock at the warehouse, was more blunt. 'Just look at those photos. Look at this place.
'People were being tortured and executed here,' he said.
The warehouse has now been declared off limits after being discovered by British soldiers of the Third Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery yesterday morning. An investigation is now to be launched into exactly who lies in the coffins. War crimes investigators have been alerted to the discovery and the building sealed off and guarded.
Though it is hard to imagine who would want to go inside. The warehouse lies on a sprawling and abandoned military base on the outskirts of Az Zubayr, a small town near Basra. Nobody lives nearby. It can only be reached by travelling on rough and pitted mud causeways that traverse a lunar landscape contaminated by oil leaks from nearby refineries. Multi-coloured slicks soak into the dust of the drained salt marshes as they bake in the midday sun. There is no sign of life apart from the stray dogs that swarm over this part of Iraq.
The base itself is a mess. Most of the buildings have been trashed or looted and destroyed over the previous decade or so of war and sanctions. There are holes in many of the buildings and roofs missing from some of the barrack huts, yet the warehouse of bones was locked and intact.
There is little doubt that the bones are at least several years old. No flesh remains on the long brown leg and arm bones or bits of rib. Only a few tufts of tough black hair lie scattered on the floor, where dogs have tugged at a few of the bags and spilled their grim contents on the unforgiving concrete.
But there is no doubt the base was inhabited until only a few weeks ago. Among the buildings are Iraqi army shirts still in their bags, new gas mask respirators, signal huts for an artillery unit and maps with military drawings upon them. Yet the Iraqi soldiers who were living here were literally living beside the corpses of hundreds of people.
Exactly who they were is so far a mystery. But there are a few clues. Some of the bags are made of plastic and inside them can be seen a few pieces of military equipment. The green belt of the Iraqi army is plainly visible in several of the sacks.
Were they soldiers suspected of disloyalty in recent years? Were they Shia rebels from 1991, many of whom were in the army? More than 50,000 Shia were killed by the forces of Saddam Hussein in their doomed revolt. Are these some of their corpses? In most of the bags there is no trace of clothing. Just bones.
In one sack a single photo lies. It is a simple ID card. On it a middle-aged man stares out. He has black hair, a long face and a drooping moustache. In life he would perhaps have looked pensive. But lying, half-covered by his own dusty remains, the man pictured within looks sad and forlorn. He looks regretful for the life stolen from him. A splotch of bloodstain on the corner of the card is reminder enough of the brutality of how all his hopes died.
It is hard to stay in the warehouse long. In one corner, empty coffins are stacked four or five high. Whoever was doing this grim work was stopped before they finished their task. That is a small mercy but no respite for those already dead.
Inside the hangar, the air is still and thick with dust. It hangs close around the clothes and almost makes one retch to think what is being breathed into the lungs of those who have ventured inside. It is a relief to leave such a charnel house. Outside, the sun is shining over southern Iraq. There is a stiff breeze that blows some of the bone dust away. But inside the horrors remain, testimony to the crimes of a regime that is itself now being killed.
Yet these are not isolated horrors. Last night allegations of the torture and murder of dozens of children by Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party also came to light, with bodies discovered hanging from street lighting.
The killings were carried out after the party headquarters in Basra was bombed last week, said some Iraqi women, one of whom's niece had been killed. Families believed to have been aiding coalition forces were targeted.
Interpreter Vanessa Lough, formerly attached to the UN and based in Basra said: 'In one street alone they said three children could be seen hanging from the lamp posts, and around the corner one child lay burnt on the ground.
'The women said some of the children's bodies are now being held in the city's hospital mortuary.'
I think we should be shopping more at Sears
IT IS ALL ABOUT HOW YOU TREAT THE PROTECTORS OF OUR LAND.
I assume you have all seen the reports about how Sears is treating
its reservist employees who are called up? By law, they are required to
hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people
take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called up...
Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining
all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all
called up reservist employees for up to two years. I submit that Sears is
an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its
contribution.
I suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to
tell them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement
it
well deserves.
Pass it on.
Advent Networks is frustrated that it can’t announce two U.S. cable deals for its 40 Mbps .
Gee, sounds like some other company we know? lol
Advent Claims U.S. Cable Deals for 40 Mbps Tech
Austin, TX-based start-up Advent Networks is frustrated that it can’t announce two U.S. cable deals for its 40 Mbps Ultraband tech. The operators’ goal in the U.S.: replace T1s. [Article ID: 4067]
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Excerpt from 'The Savage Nation'
Chapter 4: 'RATS VS. EAGLES, Page 44
"Who are the Eagles?
They're the men, women, boys, and girls who love America. They would die if necessary, to preserve the endless freedoms this nation enjoys. These patriots stand behind the brave soldiers who, without hesitation, are taking up arms to defend America. Eagles resonate with the words spoken by former President Ronald Reagan: "Double---no triple---our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth."
The Eagles know there's never been a civilization as great, as creative, as inventive, as generous, as benevolent, nor as committed to justice as the United States of America. The Eagles soar bravely into the future because they never lose sight of the history, the values, and the people who laid the foundation for their country."
Excerpt from 'The Savage Nation'
Chapter 4: 'RATS VS. EAGLES, Pages 53-55
IT'S A WAR, STUPID!
Now that Islam-O-Fascists have declared war against America and spilled blood in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, the president of the United States has declared war on the Axis of Evil. Going beyond the original stars of that list, it is a fact, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, and Libya are accomplices in the threat against the United States. Our intelligence agencies have identified them as sponsoring, supporting, or harboring terrorists.
The Eagles know we are battling for the future of our country and for our freedom. We are facing a battle of civilization versus one thousand years of darkness. Our very survival depends upon this. This is our Pearl Harbor.
Still, the peacenik movement has gone into high gear, having received their marching orders from Commu-Nazi Central Command.
You should know that the "peace movement" is nothing but a collaborationist movement and, like the Rats they are, they're weakening the resolve of our troops, they're undermining the public confidence in the war effort, and they should be detained for investigation of sedition.
These protesters all have one line. They're all saying that war does not bring peace. These programmed sheeple say, "while we have great sympathy for the tragedy of September 11, additional deaths will not bring peace. War does not bring peace."
Gee maybe the passengers on the airplanes heading for the Twin Towers should have joined hands and sung, "All you need is love." Personally, I think shouting, "let's roll!" and then tackling the scum would be more effective.
But peaceniks aren't known for their clear thinking. For example, a large group of mostly college students from Brown University turned out for an antiwar rally in downtown Providence. Listen to these fools:
Our parents taught us not to hit when we were young, not to hit back, and that's exactly what we're doing. Violence will only beget more violence.
Excuse me? "My parents taught me not to hit back"? Oh, this is great. I can't believe this.
There's no actual released evidence that links Osama bin Laden to this. There's innocent people that are being killed and I think there are other ways to take care of things.
Do you hear these morons?
These people present a clear and present danger to themselves. They're dangerous. Can't these dimwits see that if they were alive in 1940 and their pacifism had ruled, they would be speaking German or they'd be a lampshade?
Well, the peaceniks might as well get in the boxcars now. The fact of the matter is, war does bring peace. Look at World War II. The idiots don't even know their own history. Hitler was killed. That was the end of the war.
And war brought fifty years of peace, more or less.
So ladies and gentlemen, watch out for the big lies coming out of the big liars on the left. They will bury all of us if we don't stop them before they stop us.
Don't listen to the antiwar protesters.
And don't be fooled. These Rats are nothing more than a new form of the virulence called Communism, socialism, or fascism.
In the past, they came out under the guise of antiglobalists. They've shifted gears to antiwar. They're the same plague and pox that almost destroyed this country from within in the 1960s. They need to be constrained until the war effort is over. They can be detained for aiding and abetting the enemy under the laws governing sedition.
Yes, sedition exists. It's time we constrained them. Save America. Bomb the five capitals of terror if they don't stop their reign of murder and get this dirty war over with. And I'm not sorry if that sounds intolerant.
Any idea why we are not listed?
Yup that's him fun show also
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.50AE Magnum with an extra barrel and magazine to switch it to a .44 when I need to fire cheeper rounds lol
Here is a great Desert Eagle site
check out the cool videos
enjoy!
http://www.guntotingozzie.com/
Am I addicted to the war coverage?
Lets see, from the command center at my home I have two computers with the right war coverage. On the left I have CNN on the TV, WRKO on the am radio dial and my Israeli made hand cannon on my lap top.
addicted maybe lol
Signed,
The Angry American
All Walmart and K-Mart stores in Iraq will be closing
on or before March 15th.
After that, they will all become Targets.
SHORTEST JOKE OF 2003
When does a boy become a man in Iraq?
When his diaper moves from his ass to his head
Boots & Coots soars on eye-popping volume (WEL) By Michael Baron
Boots & Coots International Well Control (WEL) shares are soaring 83 cents, or 140.7 percent, to $1.42, on volume of 54.2 million shares. Earlier in the session, the stock hit a 52-week high of $1.97. The Houston, Texas-based firm specializes in responding to oil and gas well emergencies. With war with Iraq looking more and more like a certainty, investors appear to be theorizing that the company could benefit greatly if Saddam Hussein opts to set his country's oil fields on fire.
I will be shopping for guns and ammo this afternoon. .50 AE is expensive, about $1.20 a round .357 is not too bad .223 Rem , 30-06 will do the job
The wait......
I was looking for more info on this story.
said story
Creator of 'COPS' feared dead in fall from Oregon Coast cliff
By JULIA SILVERMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND -- The creator of the long-running reality television series "COPS" fell 300 feet from an Oregon cliff into the Pacific Ocean and was feared dead, police and the Coast Guard said today.
Paul Stojanovich, 47, and his fiancee Kim Srowel were hiking yesteray at Treasures Cove, a bluff overlooking the ocean, when he slipped while stopping to pose for a picture, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Jamie Desanno.
Stojanovich grabbed a tree limb to break his fall but plummeted into the surf below, said Sgt. Mike Zimmerman of the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office. The waves were 14 to 16 feet at the time, and rain over the past week had left the trail slippery and wet.
Officers searched for three hours after Srowel called 911, but they didn't find any sign of Stojanovich, Desanno said. He said today that authorities had ended their search, though no body had been found.
"COPS" premiered on March 11, 1989, and aired its 500th episode last season.
Stojanovich, the executive producer whose home is in Portland, was also an honorary Special Reserve Officer for the Beaverton Police Department, said Beaverton Officer Mark Hyde.
"Paul was probably the first one to bring real police officers into your home and give people a real look at the stresses and strains that the street-level people come across, day after day, night after night," Hyde said. "He made police officers more alive."
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Something strange I came across in a search for something else lol
ELIZABETH (LIZ, LISA) BRADY CABOT WINSLOW, A PRODIGY IN MANY FIELDS. Perhaps I rank historically among the 50 or 100 most intelligent and talented people in the most fields ever. More high abilities in more different fields than anyone in last 50 years. Fair, beautiful face and figure, blond, brunette, redhead, green eyes, 5'8", American.
100'S OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF SALES OF NEW PRODUCTS BASED DIRECTLY EITHER ON MY ACTIVITIES, WRITINGS, OR TALK OTHERS ILLEGALLY OR COVERTLY OBSERVED OR LISTENED TO OR ON MY WRITINGS OTHERS ILLEGALLY OBTAINED OR READ.
Former child prodigy in many fields. More high abilities in more different fields than anyone in last 50 years. IQ perhaps c 180. Based on amazing abilities suitable for international competition in and impact on and work in numerous fields from an early age, I should be rich and in Who's Who and the Social Register and have many known major credits. In early 1982 I told a classmate of my father in Virginia that I had been described as a genius at large in the early 1970's. I have never known anyone as intelligent as I am. I have by far the best memory of anyone I ever encountered. I have intellectually one upped experts in fields I have never studied, had little interest in, and had little knowledge of; I have done this since an early age. I think I comprehend high intelligence better than anyone.
I am currently unemployed, impecunious; all of my invaluable unique possessions including several thousand pounds of personal effects plus two cars, my writings, files, my parents' files, press clippings about me, my modeling books, c 1000 books; my address book listing well known, important, relatives, acquaintances, business connections; my records, etc. were stolen by others, most of whom are listed in the Crime and Malice section below. The New York City government, the crooked New York City Police Department, New York State agencies, the FBI, the DOJ in Washington, DC, etc., have never replied to my many bitter complaints. All of the people named as crooks below directly illegally maliciously schemed against me, some for many years. Anyone who is willing to state that they know who committed the thousands of illegalities against me in New York City primarily but also in the DC area 1982 on, will state where my possessions are, who stole them, who was illegally eavesdropping on my resident phone, who was illegally calling behind my back people they illegally heard me talking to on my residence phone and without my permission or knowledge from 1982 on in New York City, who set up the malicious and nasty incidents with others and persuaded others to go along with their malicious schemes, including the absurb bs at Allen, White & Case, with Gunnar Theel, Jack Macidull, etc., 1989-1990, contact me.
Photos below of Elizabeth Brady Cabot Winslow. 5/23/02
Last Revised: 9/29/02, bold faced, toward the end New York, NY
Contact Information:E-mail: elizabethbcwinslow_99@yahoo.com; elizabethbcwinslow@eudoramail.com; Homepage URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/rainer/index.html, through Altavista type: Elizabeth Brady Cabot Winslow, hit enter.
Emergency Contact: Mr. Roger Hugh, London, England; born in England, Oxford University graduate, c 1966, Wharton School of Business student c 1969-1970, investment banker at Loeb Rhoades c 1973.
GENERAL INFORMATION: Exceptional memory and mental abilities including paranormal; autodidact; independent projects on many topics; activities include singing, dancing, piano, creative writing, acting, art work. Creative polymath, very high IQ, tested and performed exceptionally brilliantly off and on from an early age and was told from an early age by brilliant and professionals that I had a brilliant future ahead of me due to my looks and talents and brains. Ingenious, inventive, original, analytical. As child interviewed by media (not in USA). Due to my looks I threw a major sports event when I walked in (18 years old). I am the basis of a lead in several films in late 1970's (one with Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes) due to nefarious scheming by crooked relatives and my then agent Paul Kohner; I was never credited. I was a major force re and basis of and influential in around seven years of major stories in a major newspaper (not in New York City) c1970's to early 1980's; I was never credited. Before 1982 I had read more classics of world literature than anyone ever by far and was one of the best read ever. I am formerly rich, a millionaire. Primarily from 1982 on (due to the death of my father in early 1982), original intellectual property of mine mostly from my pre-1982 projects in education, intelligence testing, medicine, law, office procedures, acting, comparative literature, nonfiction prose, fiction, and many topics was stolen from me and management, medicine, law, office procedures, personnel, acting, comparative literature, nonfiction prose, fiction, and other topics marketed by the crooks for millions of dollars. The crooks never credited me or paid me for anything. The material that was stolen was NOT INTERACTIVE AND WAS SOLO WORK OF MINE. I was on the star track in modeling and acting repeatedly from the early 1960's until 1982. I was close to being famous and very successful more than once.
WRITING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES: 1940's-1982. 1940's-1970's, autodidact, dance, ballet, operatic quality singing, classical piano, acting, art. Inventions. Often plagiarized. Solo independent original publishable projects, research and notes on very many topics, including literature, arts, sciences, humanities, business, psychology, mythology, medicine, law, economics, physics, military, philosophy, genealogy, education. Horseback riding, tennis, ice skating, fishing, water skiing, skiing, swimming. Author:(1950's-1982) poetry (some published), nonfiction, nonfiction book on international man, short stories, fiction; (1983-1987) a novel which I wrote as a vehicle for me as an actress for a major film; crooks around me in New York City did not want me to be successful or rich, and they illegally prevented me from publishing anything from 1983 on. 1970's-1982 until return to New York City 10/1982--experience in legal procedures and court appearances, conservatorship, power of attorney, matrimonial matters, wills, hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, convalescent hospitals, medical insurance, retirement homes, pensions. After 1982 due to crooked meddlers almost all my intellectual productivity halted. Late 1990's-2002 several nonfiction works including Directory of Geniuses; Directory of Prodigies, http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/rainer/Directory_of_Geniuses_Directory_of_Prodigies.html. This is a variation of Directory of Living Prodigies, Living Prodigy Directory, International Directory of Living Prodigies, Directory of Prodigies, Prodigy Directory, International Directory of Prodigies, http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/rainer/Directory_of_Living_Prodigies_Living_Prodigy_Directory.html.
BACKGROUND: I have lived in beautiful, lavish, costly places and had and owned rare and valuable possessions. I am an Army brat, a debutante in New York City 1960; I was invited to be a debutante at an international ball in Rome, summer 1959. I have lived c 7 years in Japan and Western Europe. I have belonged to the DAR, Daughters of the Cincinnati (c 1968 on), Mensa (1982-1983, 2000-2001), Episcopal Church, St. Bartholomew's Community Club 1967-1974. I was the heiress of Elita and Lowell Wadmond, former president of ABA, senior partner of White & Case, on board of Metropolitan Opera, in Who Was Who.
FAMILY: I am the descendent of and related to historical, famous and prominent individuals and families that go back perhaps several thousand years. Father: Col. Hugh Whitaker Winslow, career Army officer; mother: Elizabeth (Libby) Brady Ferguson Winslow; brother: Hugh Whitaker Winslow, Jr. Relatives and ancestors: Irish kings, European nobility, Oliver Cromwell, Pres. Andrew Jackson, Nathan Hale, Zane Grey, Jane Addams; families: Cabot (Boston), Zane, Davenport. Alexander, Caldwell, Strong, McCulloch, Clark, Whitaker, Winslow, Brockunier, Brady, Putnam, Ferguson. Generals, US Congressmen, pilgrams, patriots, pioneers, landowners, judges, lawyers, manufacturers, writers, doctors, clergymen, corporate executives, educators, clerymen. In Who Was Who recently: cousin, high executive in Standard Oil of NJ; cousin, Dean of Harvard Medical School; godfather, investment banker; godfather, high ranking military officer; uncle, publishing; uncle, founded largest engineering firm in world in its field at one time.
ASSOCIATES, ACQUAINTANCES or CONNECTED TO: I have been the associate or acquaintance of many famous, rich, prominent, and brilliant people from an early age- including a Watson of IBM, an Agnelli, middle eastern royals, high ranking US military including Air Force Chief of Staff and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, famous movie stars and their spouses, famous opera stars, famous Hollywood personalities, prominent international economists, governor of NY Stock Exchange, investment bankers, film producers, agents for famous film directors and writers and movie stars, prominent lawyers, prominent US Senators and Representatives including Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee, prominent businessmen. 1960-1964 roommates included female Foreign Service Officers, National Security Analyst, International Economist.
Secret Security Clearance, 1961-1962.
EDUCATION: Columbia, late 1940's.
Japanese School, Japan, early 1950's.
Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT, 1955.
Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, CT, Honor Roll, 1955-1958.
Coral Gables SHS, Coral Gables, FL, Honor Roll, Swimming Team, top 15% of class, 1958-1959, HS Diploma, 1959.
The George Washington University, Washington, DC, Major: International Relations, Minor: International Economics, Dean's List, 1959-1961, 1962-1964, BA, 1964.
University of Paris, Paris, France, French Language, summer 1964-1965
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, German language and literature, 1965-1966, 1 on final exam.
University of Poitiers, Tours, France, French language, summer 1966.
Columbia University, New York, NY, English literature, spring 1968.
New York University, doctoral candidate, comparative literature, 2/3 courses, GPA 3.5, Dean's List, Scholarships, 1968-1970.
Lee Strasberg, 1970.
HB, 1970-1974.
Weist-Barron, 1970.
Other studies: piano, singing, speech, acting, riding, tennis, Japanese dancing
Languages: French, German, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian
EMPLOYMENT: US Department of State, Medical Division, Washington, DC, receptionist, recommended by US Representative Dante Fascell, summer 1960.
US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, clerk typist, secretary, spring 1961.
University of California LRL, Nevada Test Site, NV, sole secretary/administrative assistant for the Mechanical and the Electrical Engineering Departments during resumption of nuclear testing, 1961-1961.
Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, showgirl, summer 1963.
Model agents for me: Dorian Leigh Parker, Paris, France, 1964-1965. Wilhelmina, New York, NY, 1971-1972. Talents, Milan, 1972-1973. Gavin Robinson, London, 1973; and other model agents in Europe and US.
Acting agents: Mort Schwarz, Ann Wright, Jane Broder, New York, NY; ICM, Rome, 1973; Dale Garrick, LA, 1975-1977; Paul Kohner, 1976-1977, LA
McKinsey & Company, New York, NY, associate editor-line and structural editing and rewriting of management consultants' reports and presentations, 1967-1968.
World Book Encyclopaedia, New York, NY, updater and editor on previous articles on countries and sole researcher and sole writer on new articles on additional countries, 1968.
IBM World Trade, New York, NY, solo outside consultant to top IBM World Trade management and solo researcher and writer on assigned large international topics, the results reviewed by the Director of IBM World Trade (I was 27 to 28 years old), 1969, 1970.
Other employment: actress, spokewoman, voiceovers, conventions, demonstrations, promotions, reservationist for airlines, Las Vegas, NV and New York, NY, 1961-1972.
Secretarial, word processing, administrative support, proofreader, typist, encoder, typesetter, fax, telex, data entry, dictaphone, fast long hand, technical writing, financial research, legal secretary, paralegal, as a temporary and part time employee often through temporary agencies, New York, NY, 1984-1989, Chemical Bank, American Express Co., Morgan Stanley, Editor & Publisher, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, Finley Kumble Wagner, Kelley Drye & Warren, Merrill Lynch & Co., Lehman Bros., Allen & Company, other law offices and banks.
Computer programs used at work and in my apartment: Wang, Atari, Displaywrite, Word Perfect, MS Office, and data entry systems, 1984 on.
Crooks illegally tapped my residence and office phones, illegally cut off my mail, watched me with concealed surveillance that I could not locate in my apartment, and illegally read my private non-published material in my apartment, and stole and plagiarized and assaulted, tailed, poisoned, and plagued me 1982 on in New York City.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: AEA, SAG, AFTRA, AGVA.
12/6/01
JOB SEARCH
Think tanks, research organizations, intellectually high level organizations or companies or similar entities would be appropriate, such as the Princeton Institute, Watson Research Center, Rand.
I am probably one of the most intelligent and talented ever. I should have spent my entire life among the most brilliant living; most of my life I have been surrounded by people very inferior to me. My careers have been maliciously and criminally ruined by people around me repeatedly. I have an idea for a new measurement of intelligence. I have never taken a course on this topic, but it is one of my many life long interests. Both my parents were exceptionally brilliant, imaginative, creative, and artistic.
I wrote a brief book late 2000 and copyrighted it but cannot publish it; it is very relevant to the current environment and should have been published. 2/2/2002
My resume is currently on America's Job Bank; it was on Nevada, but I am changing it to New York. Since the US Dept of Labor and state departments of labor provide the site and the IRS perhaps has records of many of my jobs and dates, I think I am validating my statements by putting my resume on there.3/1/2002
I have not been hired when the workers and the applicants were all or nearly all inferior to me intellectually. According to the Encyclopaedia of Human Intelligence in the charts for US Army testing for WWI and WWII and the US Dept. of Labor statistics for c 1970, the mean IQ and range of IQ's for most of the jobs I did in New York City 1984-1993 were much lower than my IQ; due to the fact that it has been very hard if not impossible for me to get any job for about 11 years I wonder what the explanation for this is. In addition, the people who considered me for jobs did not ask important questions and did not do adequate fact checking when considering me for employment. I mean, what is going on? It appears that the public and employers deliberately refuse to hire me because they do not want me to have any money and want to steal all my possessions and to force themselves on me and that they want me to be defenseless and they want to put me through the hoops and through their contrived illegal often situations in order to pick my mind for free.
CRIME AND MALICE VS ELIZABETH "LIZ" BRADY CABOT WINSLOW
Photo of Elizabeth Brady Cabot Winslow below
Current Emergency: 2/19/02 12:37pm, Las Vegas, NV. Recently my car was illegally seized and towed by crooks who do not want me to have any money; they were tracking me and knew I wanted to sell the car to pay for storage and to leave Las Vegas and return to New York City. They want to seize for nothing my possessions now in storage here. Las Vegas is a hostile, terrible, crooked environment; most of the residents are blue collar; they have been overcharging me since I got here and they do not want to hire me or pay me for anything although I am smarter than most of those they are hiring; they want me to be a cripple and for me to receive Federal payments and Federal housing payments so that I bring in money from outside the state; they do not want to pay me any money. I do not want to be a cripple or to be ripped off here and I want to return to New York City immediately for urgent medical problems and other reasons. I returned to New York City.
Pre 10/82
1958 Knappens caused my teenage brother to run away from home. 1960 theft of my clothes by Ruth Timberlake Prokop and Daryll Quinn both of whom were my guests at my debut in NYC. 1960 Ruth Timberlake got me thrown out of dormitory for no good reason and through malicious false talk got me thrown out of sorority by same tactics. 1962 - 1963 Giuseppe Morra made me severely ill for a long time and bedridden, and I missed college classes which hurt my academic career and I was not back to normal for several years. C 1968 Aunt Gorgianna Knappen almost killed me in a car accident when she was driving and was unharmed. Late 1960's on Knappens engaged in severe defamation vs. me and behind my back legal actions against me based on deliberate lies; they maliciously caused severe trouble and financial losses for my parents, contributed to divorce and trouble between my parents. I had been the heir of the Wadmonds off and on since the late 1960's.
1970 on models, model agents, theatrical agents and others stole material from me. 1970 on Aunt Georgianna, Erwin Schaeffer, States Coyle, Cousin Ted and Aunt Georgianna Knappen, and Katherine Laurelle illegally ruined my career in different fields- modeling and acting; Erwin Schaeffer attempted to completely end my career in a field through illegal and nefarious means. 1970-1974 I was deliberately forced out of housing due to Wadmonds, McCrareys and their friend, Goddell, Leslie Feldman. Walter Scholz, Elita, and others deliberately defamed me and conspired to get me disinherited. Erwin Schaeffer, John Moore, and Don Goddell set me up with harmful bums. Erwin Schaeffer, John Howell, and States Coyle illegally tailed me, and they and Walter Scholz illegally got confidential information regarding me and spread it around, lied, and defamed my character to have me disinherited. Those illegally meddling in my careers and setting me up for robberies and squeezing me out of housing illegally caused me to lose property I could not replace or afford to lose. My cousin Polly Knappen accused me as did her mother c 1970 that I blacklisted her with McKinsey in Washington so she was not hired; all completely lies. The Knappens were so jealous of me and resentful of my superior brains, looks, glamorous life, TV appearances, beautiful pictures, etc, and were so vicious tongued that I had to completely stop speaking to them or having anything to do with them. Aunt Georgianna and my cousins Ted and Nat and Polly Knappen worked on my mother behind my back and were instrumental in brainwashing her with Christian Science lies and encouraged her to divorce my father and live with them and pay them room and board out of her money from my father in the early 1970's. And the Knappens got money out of mother for witch doctor Christian Science practitioners, which money came from my father. Aunt Georgianna and Ted and Polly wrote vicious hysterical letters and made similar phone calls to me and my father. From the early 1970's on Aunt Georgianna, Polly, Nat, and Ted Knappen wrote hostile, crazy, completely untrue and vicious letters and made similar phone calls for years to my father and to me and some to my brother. In the summer of 1970 the Wadmonds pressured me to leave my furnished studio apartment, 138 E 37 St, to stay in their Park Ave apartment in the tiny maid's room; I had to get someone in my apartment to pay the rent on it, and I then could not move back into my furnished apartment and lost it. Then I was maliciously booted around by a woman Dennis McCrarey referred me to; I helped her paint her apartment, I moved my furniture into her bare apartment and paid for the move in 1970; with no warning or excuse she suddenly forced me to move out; I had to pay for another costly move and put my possessions in storage, find another apartment, move again, and it cost a lot, took a lot of time, and it disrupted my acting and modeling career and caused financial losses and harm to my career as an actress plus worsened my life style. I moved into a smaller apartment that necessitated my keeping most of my things in storage. C 1972 Don Goddell set me up with a woman sleaze to live in my furnished apartment while I was modeling in Europe; she wrote me in Europe that she had left the apartment, and I had to break modeling assignments to come back to New York City to pack my possessions in my apartment, store them, and I lost a lot of money, and this was very costly, and I gave up the apartment before I returned to Europe for modeling. C 1973 robbery in Milan of my modeling book and all my 1000 pounds of property including irreplaceable writings and jewelry severely disrupted my very successful modeling and acting career; probably this robbery was set up by States Coyle or Erwin Schaeffer in New York City. C 1974 Seth Baker in New York City in a financially ruinous, devastating, severely damaging theft for me stole a very valuable irreplaceable heirloom from me. In Los Angeles in 1974 on, a shady jerk, Walter Rosen Scholz referred to material in my nonpublished notes I kept in my apartment and that I never showed anyone and that he could only have known about by having someone illegally get them and copy them and read them; Walter also defamed my character and lied maliciously about my past and contacted the Wadmonds in New York City and lied to them; he also set me up illegally in a sleazy attempt to extort funds from me; he also approached my father and tried to pump him when my father was not with me (c 1974-1978). When I was in Los Angeles from c 1975 on the Knappens went behind my back to my agents and employers and got me thrown out and tried to get me thrown out and fired in LA, and they maliciously contacted mother's nursing homes and lied about us and caused trouble for me and my father. Around 1975 when I and my parents were in Los Angeles and the Knappens were still in Northern Virginia, the Knappens without my knowledge or consent contacted a Christian Science practitioner in Los Angeles, Katherine Laurelle, who wanted my father to pay her, which he would not; she called without my consent my acting agent and caused trouble for me with him because she was a former agent and she wanted me to leave the agency; I ended up leaving the agency due to her poisoning of my agent's mind. Also, Laurelle was conspiring to have a film made about me and my parents, a fil made with the Kohner agency, which was my agency; she did this behind my back in order to keep me out of the film, which I did not know about until it was aired on TV. My Aunt Georgianna Knappen flew out to Los Angeles, went into my mother's hospital, poisoned the minds of the staff, and conspired against me and my father. Col. Robert Kreuter became a co-conspirator, and he lied ("I have cancer of the prostate") to me and my father, and he maliciously set up my father in my presence in Los Angeles. The Knappens were threatening to the lives of my parents; I told the Knappens to leave us alone, and I changed our nonpublished number again, and I took other steps to defend us against them. In Los Angeles Walter Scholz from 1975 on repeatedly set me up without my knowledge or consent and tried to make me pay him for services I had not agreed to. He also called behind my back my agents and told them malicious lies about me and infuriated them and one of them threw me out. He also called the Wadmonds in New York and dumped malicious lies about me and my parents on them. He told me that he was rich and would be inheriting a lot more soon. In Los Angeles from 1975 on I was wrongly sued, falsely accused by a court in LA, against which false charges I cleared myself, probably due to the Knappens (Ted and Nat are lawyers) who went behind my back and complained about me. c 1976 Georgianna Knappen flew out to LA to land on my sick mother's bed and to pump her and the nursing home staff and then pass it on to my agent behind my back and to contribute to films based on me and my parents, which films were contrived behind my back and without my knowledge or consent. Georgianne's, other Knappens', and Katherine Laurelle's direct approach to my agent (Kohner) caused me trouble and resulted in my leaving the agency c 1977. C 1978 in LA I was assaulted from behind and knocked down on my lawn where the assailant beat me, this was probably set up by a member of the LAPD living in my apartment complex or someone else who knew I was an actress. An LAPD cop who was a lookalike for someone I knew in LA knocked on the door of my apartment. LAPD officers knocked on my door with another hoax sending me on a false goose chase about a fake medical alert pertaining to me.
Names of Malicious and Criminal Before 1982 (Dates of Acquaintanceship and of Criminal Activities)
Baker, Seth H., international playboy, c 1974 owner manager Manor Care, Towson, MD, c 1974-? managing ed Los Angeles Magazine, New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs;
Coyle, States Wm., Cornell Univ., BA, c1963, MBA Columbia U, c 1969, marketing with Standard Brands, c 1970-1972, NYC, London c 1973, c 1974 New York City and Los Angeles;
Ferguson, Uncle Wilson, insurance, Pinkerton investigator, Penn State grad, NYC, died c 1977;
Fortucci, Paola, George Washington University graduate c 1962, Johns Hopkins post grad student, c1962, economist IFC, Washington, DC, c 1963-1964?;
Godell, Donald, lawyer, Columbia University Law School graduate, ITT, Community Club, St Bartholomew's, c1968-early 1970's, NYC;
Howell, John D., Life Mag., advertising, sales, c 1967-1968, NYC;
Knappen, Georgianne, Aunt, Christian Scientist, married to Theodore Knappen who was founder of TAMS, lived in No. VA, 1960's on;
Knappen, Cousin Nathaniel, Vassar, BA and U of VA LLB, lawyer, worked in NYC and Ithaca, NYC, late 1960's on;
Knappen, Cousin Theodore, lawyer, U of VA BA and LLB, lives in VA, vice president of Greyhound in Washington, DC in 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, Christian Scientist, late 1960's on;
Knappen, Cousin Polly Knappen (married Randy Barnes), Christian Scientist, BA Univ. of Penn., lived in MD, worked in restaurants, retired, lived on a boat in Baltimore, late 1960's on;
Kohner, Walter, Paul Kohner Agency, Los Angeles, CA., c1975-1978;
LAPD c1977-1981;
Laurelle, Katherine, Christian Science practictioner, Los Angeles, CA., c 1977-1978;
Moore, John S,. lawyer, Harvard BA, LLB Stanford, Park Sheraton, NYC, brother of Robin Moore, 1973 on;
Morra, Giuseppe, c1960-1964, editor in World Bank, Washington, DC, GWU grad., 1960's on;
Prokop, Ruth Timberlake, c 1959-1964, BA & LLB GWU, lawyer, Washington, DC;
Quinn, Daryll, student, GWU, Washington, DC, engaged to Russell Jones who was an Annapolis student, c 1959-1960, 1960's on;
Schaeffer, Erwin, Schaeffer & Assoc, salesman KMart & Italian sunglasses, NYC & Montreal, c 1967-1990's;
Scholz, Walter Rosen, BA Boston U, actor, producer, heir and relative of founder of Caramoor, NYC & Los Angeles, c 1969-1990's;
Wadmond, Elita, wife of Lowell Wadmond, NYC, c 1967-1990's;
Wadmond, Lowell, lawyer, White & Case, NYC, c 1967-1990's;
Wilhelmina, model agent, NYC, c 1969-1974.
After 1/82 (when my father died)
The new technology was already creating dangerous crooked meddlers in Washington, DC, area in 1982 when crooked meddlers with PCÂ’s in their homes, university computer staff, and others were doing strange illegal things with the phone networking; 1982 in No. Virginia I was set me up deliberately with physical assaults including with deadly weapons, small boulders thrown at my head by someone (probably set up by Knappens or Gary Lynn Jordan). In 1982 when I was living in an apartment in Arlington, VA, a roommate set up a crooked racket on my phone; I had to go to court as a consequence; I threw him out; I won in court; but I think that someone else I knew had a hand in setting up the phone rackets.
10/82- I fully owned all the possessions; I had a major credit card, cash in the bank, excellent health, youthful looks, a lot of credits and original intellectual property, and ambitious plans. 10/82 When I moved from Washington, DC, back to New York City, and drove a rented truck full of my possessions (several thousand pounds) and towed my car behind the truck and was driving alone, Beth Buchter, Cy Charas, Charles Parl, and probably Vance Jordan ganged up on me behind my back and cut the brakes on my truck, had my car sideswiped while I was towing it and driving the truck alone, and set me up in a bogus apartment in Queens that I had paid for but could not move into, and Beth suggested I move into her house in New Rochelle, which house was a booby trap of set up references to personal facts regarding me and my past, which I had not told her about; she was illegally scheming against me with other trash; her motive was financial; I brushed off and refused to acknowledge or comment on her sly suggestions and insinuations. She was my former classmate at Rosemary Hall for three years ,and she had never acted illegally against me before, and I was not expecting her illegal trap. After 1982 in New York City I got very strange phone calls, and people I called on my home phone were saying strange things, e.g. Margaret Ferguson Hansen; they alluded to illegalities I had not told anyone about, personal references about material they had no legal or known access to. 1983 Gunnar Theel set me up to deliberately wreck the motor and engine of my car so he would split the costly repair bill with crooked mechanics in the location he did this. 1983 I was set up with a premeditated purse snatching in Queens. In 1982-1984 the Wadmonds wanted to meet prominent relatives and friends I had in others fields and they illegally eavesdropped on my phone calls and called without my consent relatives and others and caused trouble for me and poisoned their minds. I was illegally and deliberately cut off from superior relatives and others starting in 10/82 in NYC. Walter Scholz, the Wadmonds, and others illegally tapping my home phones and illegally tailing me from 1983 on prevented me from getting or keeping employment and illegally cut off my career plans for years. 1983 on malicious crooked scheming against me including direct quotes to information about me they had illegally acquired through eavesdropping on the phone and illegally reading my nonpublished personal letters, journals, files, etc. that I kept in my apartment and never showed anyone; Elita Wadmond, Walter Scholz, Gail Lloyd, my brother, Betty Foster, and others maliciously did this to bait me and upset me. In 1983 I was set up with a conniving crooked Hungarian mathematician in Mensa, Attila Mate. Staff in mother’s nursing home had obviously been approached by someone other than myself from 1983 on and said and did hostile and odd things and referred to and alluded to things they had been told about me or my family. From 1983-1987 Walter Scholz continued to illegally call my employers behind my back cause trouble for me. Also, the Wadmonds interfered behind my back with my employment and told the employment agents and personnel in the jobs things about me that they should not have told them and I never gave them consent to do that. They leaked important and financially valuable and relevant information behind my back at work, causing me to lose control over my own life and assets and story; they went behind my back and called people in DC and elsewhere and called around and asked strangers to them questions about me and believed everything they heard; Walter Scholz also did this, also illegally eavesdropped, called around, and asked strangers to them questions about me and told them malicious lies. In 1984 Wadmonds, Gail Lloyd, Walter Scholz, Dorothy Booraem, crooked NYPD and others colluded in stealing my car. By 11/84 all the cash I had had and the major credit card, were also gone. In 1984 the Wadmonds and Booraem specifically told me to finish writing the novel I was working on; I did; then the Wadmonds dumped the book and dismissed it without reading a sentence of it. They caused me to get into a bad spot financially, risking being thrown out of the apartment, making it impossible to replace the car they stole or to move out of the apartment; I was down to zero cash as a result. They illegally ended my social life; I was illegally cut off from important friends, relatives, and occasions. They cut me out of acting, modeling, temp work through interference with my phone calls and hostile tails. Crooked employers and employees in offices 1984 on maliciously caused trouble for me at work and fired me. They cut me out of acting, modeling, temp work illegally through interference with my phone calls and hostile tails. Crooked Employers employees in offices 1984 on in NYC they planted hostile crooked coworkers in offices with me and illegally cut off my employment and fired me deliberately. 1983 - 1984 I was swindled out of money by the Wadmonds who said I was going to have a lot of money from them, going to have a new car from them, they made a lot of other promises including publishing my book; none of which they did, but they urged me to spend my money. The Wadmonds swindled me out of my money and deliberately put me in a financial bind and gloated maliciously (1982-1984); also, Walter Rose Scholz was in on that; the Wadmonds reneged on their promises regarding finding and/or replacing my car they stole in 1984, buying my book for $1,000,000, making me their heir, leaving me their apartment, etc. Walter Scholz and others in NYC illegally prevented me from 1984 on from publishing a novel I wrote c 1983 - 1987. I could not write or publish in New York City after 1984 due to the crooked circumstances imposed on me. All employers I worked for from 1984 on were themselves crooked schemers against me and or had such as coworkers; taxi limo drivers illegally meddled with me. Employment agencies illegally set me up in bad jobs where I had illegal trouble aimed at me. 1983 gas sabotage caused me to miss important funeral of a relative. I could not write or publish in New York City after 1984 due to the crooked circumstances imposed on me. I was told often 1984 on that I was being sued, was going to be taken to court for multiple charges, etc.
My phone calls had been intercepted by others pretending to be the person I was calling; the first incident I noticed was in 1984 when I phoned out on my home phone. In many of the law offices I worked in the attorneys were acting strangely and deliberately talking strangely; making many references to personal details I had not told them about, including about activities inside my apartment when I was there alone and there was no one else visible in the apartment. I was being followed by strange people, including every time I left NYC for DC or VA I was tailed by strangers who accosted me in line, sat next to me in the bus, tried to pump me, gave me unsolicited advice, etc. I was being maliciously hazed by insulting and hostile and crooked people since I returned to NYC in 10/82. My social life was ended due to illegal phone taps, concealed surveillance other criminal acts. Michael McGehee 1985 tried to scare me into leaving NYC where I was living and not to return to my apartment and to move to Atlanta immediately, and he poisoned me. May 1985 when I was illegally forced out of the apartment by Zuckermanns, Betty Foster, Walter Scholz, Jack Lynch others illegally meddling with my premeditated actions primarily because of those who did it.
May 1985 I was illegally forced out of a crooked apartment into a worse and more crooked apartment in Queens. From May 1985 when I moved into 41-15 75 St, Apt. 6, Elmhurst, NY 11373 because I was illegally forced out of the previous apartment I was living in, crooked cops and others including fire dept. wired my apt. with concealed cameras and bugs and cut off my job searches and phone calls, and my mail was illegally disrupted crooks in the local post office. 1985 on many plagiarized and stole nonpublished material I kept in my apartment and they marketed it. others including lawyers 1987 on referred to and apparently were in on crooked interference in my mail including forgery, bogus letters, bogus invitations, attempts to set me up on booby traps in others states where I would be isolated and surrounded by crooks, etc. Walter and others including Betty Foster ganged up against me behind my back with my crooked landlords Zuckerman and Chin Su Ling and illegally forced me to move out in May 1985 when Jack Lynch and others steered me to an apartment in Elmhurst that they said would be better but was worse. It had more concealed cameras and bugs I could never get rid of. In 1985 Walter Scholz lied to Episcopalian clergy about me and convinced them I was paranoid about the phone tap and the clergy and Walter said I had no tap, although Walter knew I did have a tap. Crooked employment agencies and agents included: 1985 Sloan, 1985 Mr. Kaye, 1984 Essex, 1984 Georgie Girls, 1986 Personnel Pool. Among the crooked employers or offices where I was followed to the job by crooked new employees and others from outside the office and where crooked occurrences against me were staged: Feurstein, through Sloan temps on a project for Cadwallader in 1985-1986 1985 Editor& Publisher, Marion Larson, Bill, Rachel In and others. In 1986 Allen & Company- Lin Illusorio, Naomi Johnson. 1987- Finley Kumble Wagner- many word processors, Tab Rosenfeld, and other lawyers; Kraver & Parker, 1988; 1988, Kelly Drye- word processors, lawyers connected to FKW, to a firebombed taxi in front of me across from Tiffany's, 2 jackknifed semi trailers blocking traffic on the highway near my exit when I was in a limo on the way back to my apartment in Queens. They illegally contributed to the horrific death of my mother in 1987. C 1988 someone set up a snare in the street near my apartment; this snare was intended to cause me to fall and cause a serious permanent injury; I fell, was severely injured, was slated for surgery, but luckily escaped it. All this was apparently worse suddenly around 1988 when either someone I had known got new equipment, or the NYPD got new tracking and surveillance equipment, or surveillance equipment became used more by truck drivers, and taxi drivers were also linking through their radios, city employees were being linked and contacted about me; people in offices I entered were apparently being contacted or had just been contacted about me by people outside; strangers apparently linked to illegally acquired information about me were following me; coworkers were doing the same, and my entire life drastically deteriorated and worsened. Tthe behavior was hostile, crooked, harmful; they were obviously baiting and hazing and threatening me. Generally, I ignored all of them and never said anything or acknowledged. Also, people including NYPD needled me with information. In late 1980's I was deliberately given an irregular very fast pulse by a pharmacist. I was maliciously threatened in and out of offices. In the late 1980's a Haitian deliberately caused a large hematoma in my arm. In late 1989 TM Lipscomb set me up with a Walker, Esq., a blind date Lipscomb introduced me to, and they put something m my drink that caused me to suddenly be unable to walk well, and I thought I would fall down in the street; they were working with a cop outside who apparently was hoping I was going to fall down in the street, and my crooked date Walker Esq. suggested I go to his house in Westchester with him; of course I did not. In the late 1980's the Barclay's Bank in Queens where I had my account was bombed out in the front, a set up blew out the window at the time I usually went there and someone tried to link me to this. My phone calls in my apartment, outside public phones, and in the offices where I worked were being cut off. At Birnbaum & Birnbaum c 1989 when I phoned Haliburton Fales at White & Case the phone line went dead and I was fired from the job. In 1989 I was probably deliberately given a heart attack in a crooked law office, Virag. Others deliberately overdosed and drugged me to cause heart problems (in a NYC hospital). The following crooked lawyers colluded illegally against me: Birnbaum, Cadwallader, Kanter & Bergman, Finley Kumble, Mangiatorde, Jennings & Grimble, Robt McKay, Nat and Ted Knappen, John Moore, Virag, Kelley Drye, White & Case-Rutherford, Edgerton, Fales, Wadmond; GL Jordon. After 10/82 -several tried to scare me into leaving New York City where I was living, illegally prevented me from publishing, illegally prevented me from getting and/or keeping employment, illegally cut off my career plans for years. The town of Elmhurst near my former address there in the late 1980's, 1989, blitzed me illegally inside and outside my apartment and illegally cut off my communications and my income and illegally forced me to spend all my savings; they set me up with hoaxes through illegal means; they drugged me illegally; they illegally got into my apartment and deliberately broke my furniture and irreplaceable art objects.
After 7/90 when I was illegally forced out of my apartment (my crooked landlord and others illegally cut off my phone and mail employment search) my address books, all my possessions (insert 9/10/02)including several thousand pounds of personal effects, writing, a thousand or so unusual and many irreplaceable books, my brilliant and original and exceptional files and notes and writings including poetry, a novel, short stories, my modeling books, pictures of my family and relatives; photos of my mother, one of the most beautiful women who ever lived; photos of my father, one of the handsomest men who ever lived; geneological data including material pertaining to eminent relatives, records of employment and education, special awards and honors, recommendations, medical records of mine and of my father and of my mother, special events and invitations, press clippings, my letters and letters sent to me by others, my legal files, my address book containing names and addresses of important people and relatives and acquaintances and business connections) were stolen or seized by crooks who premeditated it; they wanted notoriety for themselves and to use me as an unpaid PR agent and billboard for their favored schemes, and they counted on getting attention due to the fact that I was related to and had known many famous and well known people previously. I have not gotten anything out of this period 10/82 on and have had only losses due to crooked schemes against me, 1982 on by Parl, etc, then Wadmond, Scholz, then many others. I was maliciously bombarded and mobbed; people illegally bugged and kept concealed cameras in my apartment and tapped and interfered with my phone calls and mail; they plagiarized and stole nonpublished material I kept in my apartment and did not show to anyone. Also, they set up theft, robbery, poison, malicious crooked tails, physical assaults and fall; illegally meddled with my mail. They caused severe illness and injury. The Wadmonds, Walter Scholz, Gail Lloyd, Betty Foster, and others dragged all of this out for many years and kept needling me and baiting me; also, they lied and defamed my character and tried to cause trouble with the Wadmonds so I would have no money; they said I had had an affair with Lowell, which is completely untrue but certain to annoy Elita, which is why they said it; Walter Scholz, Betty Foster, and others were repeating the same theme, and were needling me on the phone, apparently hoping that Elita Wadmond was eavesdropping and would hear it. Hostile tails followed me on my job searches and deliberately through illegal interference caused me not to get jobs I had to stop using my phone. I thought I was still the Wadmonds heir. Malicious and crooked trash including cops followed me to my jobs and got jobs wherever I worked after I got the job and deliberately caused trouble for me at work or tried to get me fired or did get me fired for no good reason. Walter Scholz, Marion Larson, and others maliciously behind my back axed me with literary agents about my book and tried to persuade me my book was terrible. I did not believe them. I got from 1985 on letters and invitations from and meetings with relatives and former acquaintances perhaps and forged letters and invitations to visits and meetings, bum steers, including Gary Lynn Jordan, Jean Shepard Martin, Mrs. Wm. Brown, Capt. Harry H. Caldwell, Col. Bob Kreuter, Col. Samouce, Ted Knappen, my brother, Nat Knappen, Ted and Robin Withington. I could never get rid of the phone or mail interferences from 1982 on. Rodents were deliberately placed in my apartments repeatedly. People in the apartment buildings deliberately screamed through the floors and in the hall and outside the window to upset and worry me. My apartment was apparently wired with cameras and bugs that were broadcasting outside my apartment. People that had illegally caused trouble for me and cut me off from my more agreeable and important and successful relatives and friends blitzed me with new illegal high tech networks against which I have no chance. on a sadistic spree of robbery, freeloading, empire building, publicity making malicious dangerous stunts. Hostile women in historical societies set me up with malicious hoaxes. In late 1989-1990 apparently new equipment, high tech, worsened my position drastically. I could not get any job and was being tailed, pursued, cut off from employers and employment and hired by boguses: Jennings & Grimble 1990 and Mangiatorde 1993. In early 1990's on E 53 St a Negro murderously premeditatedly slammed my head with a very heavy object. The public has continued with the cooperation of cops and others in government to pursue, accost, rob, assault, and push me down illegally.
There is no remedy for this and I specifically oppose a further build up of high tech as a realistic solution.
Since 1982 when I returned to New York City former acquaintances and new acquaintances have been illegally conspiring against me including NYPD, NYNEX employees, people in the apartment houses where I was living, the landlords, new people I met at Mensa gatherings, at invitation only gatherings of other groups I belonged to and at social gatherings at St Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, at job interviews, on jobs, at functions advertised in the papers. The situation became much worse in NYC. High tech has blitzed me out, often illegally and deliberately. Since 1990 all my property has been stolen from me or seized by crooks. A wagon full of my writings was stolen by crooks from me in Washington, DC, in 1990's.
They wanted to abuse me, at the same time steal intellectual property from me, get access to prominent, successful, high ranking, well known people I had known; they obviously misunderstood my background, my life, my personality; they thought they could lie, bully, and confuse me into introducing them to people I would never introduce trash like that to. Crooked freeloaders and jerks including cops got the wrong notion that they could quickly get access to Hollywood stars, rich people, producers, famous actors, high ranking generals and others through me. This is not true. Jerks have been following me around to steal and freeload for many years. The new technology made the entire situation for me much worse. Obviously people have been illegally cutting me off from my rich, prominent, correct relatives, friends, and acquaintances for many years now; they have done it through the phone, the mail, personal in person interception, and other tactics. They also wanted to use me as an unpaid beggar and PR person and fundraiser for themselves or their pet project. I am not an unpaid fundraiser for anyone; I am not an unpaid file cabinet for unsolicited material; I am not an unpaid servant or errand boy or teacher, coach, guidance counselor, advisor. I do not introduce people merely because they want to meet someone I know. I dislike social climbers. This entire period 1982 on has been a disaster for me. I do not like the interferences, illegal meddling, or unreasonable pressures on me for years by strangers and unwelcome acquaintances. People illegally moved in on me in my apartments and used them as a lab for their crooked experiments on me. 1982 on people have stolen all my possessions and they stole all my intellectual property through illegal means including stealing the papers they were written on, physically seizing the papers, illegally getting access to the papers when I was not in my apartment or room, illegally keeping concealed visual surveillance of me and illegally eavesdropping on my phone conversations, intercepting my mail, illegally tailing me, illegally keeping surveillance on me at work. They prevented me illegally from marketing my own intellectual property and they deliberately illegally ruined my careers and all my endeavors in all fields. They illegally cut off my social life. The intellectual property they stole from me has been used as the basis for much of the software and computer programs that have come out since 1982; also they stole other material that has been used in politics, advertising, publishing, movies, and other fields. They destroyed my peace of mind, my pleasure and have made every day an affliction. They did this through fraud and lies also, to pin me down under their thumb, and keep me in a weak, poor, inferior position, away from more successful, smarter, nicer people I have known. They did this primarily because they knew my father had died and they wanted to take advantage of me and clean me out illegally. They impoverished me, destroyed my income, and some want me to work on increasing income for impoverished people, themselves; I will not do this; the trash that illegally did this to me wanted to force me to be their unpaid servant; I think they should be exterminated, not paid.
I have been illegally run over by inferior trash since my father died 1/82.
Much worse in NYC since I returned has been a gross and vulgar and crooked invasion illegally of my apartments and continuous illegal surveillance of me visually and orally and tailing of me by inferior very frightening and dangerous assaultive trash including large number of African Americans and mulattos-- none of whom I know. I have attempted to reach successful smart honest and honorable people I have known but the crooked trash on my tail has been illegally cutting off my mail and phone calls and other communications still. In haste below are some of the names and incidents of this crooked garbage that I can identify somewhat: 1990 spring a crooked set up in No. Virginia involving Jack Macidull; crooks who stole my footlocker containing valuable writings of mine and other invaluable property while I was in the DC Greyhound bus station; my cousin Ted Knappen, a Greyhound employee; Kuchera near capital hill in DC in the 1990's and the disgusting crooks in his house; the mailmen and the workers in the post offices that handled mail addressed to me at my residences and post office boxes and general delivery stations in New York City from 1982 on; thieves who stole my cell phone, stole several luggage carriers, 12/15/99 stole my luggage carrier and large bag on it with many personal papers including many ID's (NYPD and African Americans and others in the neighborhood did this); set up vicious assaults on me; massive plagiarism of what I do in the NYC public library and elsewhere; no replies to my job search although I am more qualified than most of the applicants and the employed. Chin Su Ling; Queens court; in the 1990 summer. C 1992 Citibank guards stole my address book from the lower level where I was sitting and put the names in my address book on their crooked list and deleted them from directories and contacted them and caused trouble for me; 1985 Editor & Publisher; 1985 on Elmhurst Hospital staff; 1988 Kraver & Parker; 1983-85 Jamaica Hospital. 1982 McCrarey. 1985 McGehee. 1982 Ned O'Gorman. Greyhound bus station personnel; DC cops; riffraff who followed me to DC from NYC in; in 1990 Greyhound personel stole my suitcase with my original solo literary writings and other valuable property; they are crooked very low grade sadists including very dumb Afro-Americans; I never recovered any of my property. In 1999 I was set up with an assault by crooked NYPD and others in the 47th St area. My computer was deliberately broken repeated in 1999-2000 by library personnel and repair people. Other crooks: the Maddoxes in Greenwich, Christ Episcopal Church in Greenwich, Lydia Stevens Justin, John Moore, Peter Braun in Greenwich in the 1990's; in the 1990's Dick Hochman, 1985 -1990 Pakistani newsmen on the corner near my Elmhurst apt; Korean, Chinese, Phillipine, Irish, Peruvian, Afganistan neighbors in Elmhurst; my mail was stolen from me and read by others; forged replies were sent to me including attempts to set me up with dangerous bogus meetings with hoaxes; owners of nearby pay phones; crooked cops; others impersonated people I was calling and cut off my phone calls. Unidentified strangers tailed me to work and job searches; to social functions I attended; others illegally snooped into my private business for years and maliciously illegally caused trouble for me there. Someone in NYC in 1982 on behind my back illegally contacted previous acquaintances, persuaded them to do hostile crooked things to me, to scheme against me, to lie to me and to others; to try to do numbers on me. I was tailed by unidentified hostile undesirable oddballs and accosted by them. Someone behind my back contacted staff in mother's location and caused malicious trouble there with the staff. In 1985 crooked NYPD came into my apartment when I asked for a security check; they illegally colluded against me in setting up illegal concealed surveillance against me in the apartments. They illegally deliberately ruined me financially and forced me due to their crooked moves to spend all my savings. I was set up with false arrest in Manhattan in 1990 and have had pests and thieves on me tailing me back and forth across the US. I have been repeated robbed, including thefts of a lot of my personal papers and documents in Washington, DC. in the mid-1990's. Early 1990's theft again of my address book, 1990 on illegal seizure several times of all my possessions that were in storage by criminals colluding; collusion and fraud against me regarding my possessions in storage 1990 on, forced sale of valuable irreplaceable family jewelry and silver. The people who did all this are bums and trash, and there is no excuse for it. I will never deal with or have anything to do with low class people (including cops) or crooked schemers below my normal and usual levels. I have been illegally cut off for about 20 years from some people I knew, including some that have died (according to the newspapers) with conditions that are just unbelievable. The public has gone on a crooked crime spree targeting me for many years; they are cowards and bullies acting in packs; they have previous information that I am in a weak position, so they gang up against me. I avoid all of them and have not kept contact with any of those I am convinced are part of the crooked packs. One way I am getting out of this is to avoid all those I know are or were crooked and scheming against me, and I avoid any involvments or meetings or conversations with crooks I have identified including crooked groups such as the NYPD. I am leery about reporting crimes to the cops because they are crooked schemers who are apt to make things worse. I was set up (I think) with an assault in a Catholic shelter in the early 1990's during which I was assaulted and slammed to the floor and hurled across the room into table legs that injured my head.
After 10/82 - return to NYC- Names of Criminals (Dates of Criminal Activities against Me, most were in spring 1990 actions)
After 10/82 - return to NYC- Names of Criminals (Dates of Criminal Activities against Me, most were in spring 1990 actions)
Afghanistan neighbors in my apartment building in Elmhurst, c 1985-1990, spring 1990;
Allen & Company, employer 1986, 1986-1990's, spring 1990;
Allen, Herbert, investment banker, Allen & Company, c 1987-1990;
Barclay's Bank, Queens, near Elmhurst, c 1988;
Barnes, Polly, (Knappen, Georgianne, below);
Biehl, Fred, lawyer, spring 1990;
Bill, editor at Editor & Publisher, 1985;
Bilsky, Pauline, former editor at McKinsey c 1967-1968, part of crooked network 1990's;
Birnbaum & Birnbaum, law firm, employer, c 2 weeks, c 1988;
Bolivian woman, tenant in my Elmhurst apartment building, 1989-1990;
Booraem, Dorothy, 1983-1985, (in Greenwich) early 1990's ;
Bowman, Suzanne, wife of US Navy captain, VA, 1982, c 1988;
Brockunier, Barbara, cousin, Boston, 1982, c 1990-1995;
Brockunier, Jane, cousin, Boston and Cape Cod, spring 1990, 1990’s;
Brockunier, Nicholas, cousin, Amtrak employee in 1982, Maryland resident, hoaxes, knew re theft of my footlocker, 1982, spring 1990-1990’s;
Brown, Mrs. Wm, Fort Collins, CO, cousin, 1985-1990's;
Buchter, Beth (Sis Hibbard), Rosemary Hall grad 1959, in New Rochelle, NY and a social worker 1982-1990's, spring 1990;
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft, employer, 1985-1986;
Caldwell, Capt. Harry H., USN Ret, c 1988-1990's;
Caldwell, Harry H. Mrs, 1990's;
Cantor & Berkman, lawyers, employers, 11-12/89;
Carey, former Gov Hugh, 1987, spring 1990;
Chase, Ned, Esq., New York, NY, Chevy Chase's brother, spring 1990;
Chin Su Ling, my landlord, Elmhurst, Chinese immigrant, 1985-1990;
Christ Episcopal Church in Greenwich, c 1990-1995;
Clements, Robert, Chairman Comparative Literature Dept. New York University, Spring 1983, early 1980’s, spring 1990;
Crooked employment agencies and agents in New York City 1984-1990's;
Crump, Juliette Taft, classmate class of 1959 Rosemary Hall, 1980’s, 2001;
Edgerton, Barbara, Rosemary Hall classmate, resident of VA, spring 1990, c early 1990’s;
Edgerton, Malcolm, Esq, at White & Case, c 1990, spring 1990;
Edgerton, son of Barbara, resident of VA, early 1990’s;
Editor & Publisher, employer, 1985;
Epstein, Ira, Mensa member, 1983, US Post Office employee at 34th St, 1983-1990's;
Essex employment agency, c 1984-1985;
Fales, Haliburton, Esq., at White & Case, c 1985-1990's;
Feldman, Leslie, Esq, spring 1990, early 1990’s;
Feurstein, computer encoders in New Jersey and working for Cadwalader in 1985-1986, employer;
Finley Kumble Wagner, many word processors and some lawyers, employer, 1987;
Foster, Mrs. Thomas “Betty”, a president of Daughters of Cincinnati, c 1984-1990;
Freedman, Gerald, Esq, early 1990’s;
Georgie Girls, Jamaican employment agency, 1984-1985;
Gleason, Fred, Choate graduate c 1958, U of Pennsylvania, BA, Wharton student, with Ladenburg Thalman, investment banker c 1983-1984, with crooked networks into 1990's;
Gluck, Fred, managing partner of McKinsey, married to Sue Lehmann, 1983-1990;
Goddell, Donald, ITT lawyer, Columbia University LLB, St. Bartholomew's Community Club member, c 1968-1974;
Hansen, Margaret Ferguson, cousin, in Park Ave. apartment, c 1982-1987;
Harper, Helen, Daughters of Cincinnatti member, 1984, spring 1990;
Harper, Mai D, a president of Daughters of Cincinnatti, spring 1990;
Hellman, John, (former head of Editing Dept. at McKinsey c 1967-1968), in early 1980’s;
Hochman, Dick, photographer, c early 1990's;
Holle, Mrs., (wife of Maj Gen Charles Holle), resident of Washington, DC, late 1980’s, 1990’s;
Horowitz, Seth, Mensa 1983-1984, c1985- spring 1990, 1991;
Ilusorio, Erlinda, immigrant from Phillipines, Columbia University MBA, Allen & Company, investment banker, c 1986-1990's, spring 1990;
In, Rachel, Chinese, supervisor at Editor & Publisher, 1985;
Irishmen, many, in basement apartment in my apartment building in Elmhurst, c 1986-1990;
Jennings & Grimble, law firm, employer, c 1 week spring 1990;
Johnson, Naomi, employee at Allen & Company, 1986, spring 1990;
Jordan, Ann Marie, Mrs. Gary, Swedish, 1990's;
Jordan, Gary Lynn, BS Electrical engineering, patent atty, Phd in business, GWU grad, VA, 1982-1990's, spring 1990;
Jordan, Jason, son of Gary Lynn Jordan, Vassar student, 1985-1989;
Jordan, Vance, student at Hunter College in 1960's, theatrical agent (Joe Jordan) 1960's-1980's, art dealer at Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, NY, 1982, spring 1990;
Justin, Lydia Stevens, Rosemary Hall, 1959 grad., married, never a friend, c 1983-1990's, spring 1990;
Kaye, Mr., employment agency worker, 1984-1985, spring 1990;
Kelly Drye Warren, lawyers, employer, c 1 week 1988;
Knappen, Aunt Georgianna, N VA, 1980's, 1990's;
Knappen, Nat, Esq., Vassar grad, admitted to New York State bar, grad of U of Virginia law school, attorney for collections of debts in New York City, Ithaca, general practice, 1984-spring 1990;
Knappen,Ted, Esq, expelled from Principia then taken back, graduate of U of Virginia undergraduate and law school, vice president of Greyhound in Washington, DC, married to Panamanian, 1982-spring 1990;
Koreans with apartments in my apartment building in Elmhurst, 1989-spring 1990;
Kraus, Marianne, (maiden name) Rosemary Hall classmate, Kraus Books, 1980’s, spring 1990;
Kraver & Parker, law firm, employer, 3 months, 1988;
Kreuter, Col. Robert, USA Ret, 1920 West Point grad, classmate of my father, in Santa Monica, CA, 1975-1990’s;
Kucera, Eugene, Czech, in house near Capital Hill in Washington, DC, 1990's;
Larson, Marion, employee at Editor & Publisher, 1985;
Lehmann, Sue, (former editor at McKinsey when I worked there), married to Fred Gluck, 1983-1990’s, spring 1990;
Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman, daughter of, resident of Washington, DC, early 1990’s;
Lindsay, John, former mayor of New York City, spring 1989, early 1990’s;
Lipscomb, Tom and Christine, met at Daughters of the Cincinnati, New York City, 1983- spring 1990;
Lloyd, Gail, MA NYU Art History, Daughters of Cincinnati, with Frick Museum, in art field, 1983-1990’s, spring 1990;
Lynch, John J, Queens, NYU PhD comp lit, Eng prof, CUNY, LaGuardia, 1983-1990;
Lynch, Mrs, John Lynch’s mother, c 1983-1990;
Macidull, John C., Jack, Annapolis grad, Mensa, FAA, Washington, DC, 1982, 1984, spring 1990;
Macy, Lisa, roommate in my apartment in VA in 1982, 1990’s;
Maddox, John Davies “Dave”, Yale, BA, Harvard MBA, (advertising in 1970’s), 1983, 1990’s;
Mangiatorde, Esq., employer, law firm, 1 week 1993;
Marble Collegiate Church, hoax in spring 1990;
Martin, Jean Shepard, cousin, hoax re, 1983, 1987, early 1990's;
Mate, Attila, Hungarian immigrant, prof of math, CUNY, Brooklyn; Mensa, NYC, malicious liar and schemer, 1983-2002, spring 1990;
McCrareys, Dennis and Eugenia, American Express, 1982, spring 1990, early 1990’s;
McGehee, Michael, Choate grad, private investigator, 1985;
McKay, Robt, Esq., at Brown & Wood; U of VA LLB, spring 1990;
McKinsey, New York, NY, spring 1990, early 1990’s;
Meyer, Jon, Mensa, New York, in personnel field, Queens resident, 1983-1990’s, spring 1990;
Miller, Cy, partner of Erwin Schaeffer, fall 1984, spring 1990;
Moore, John S, Esq., formerly with Sheraton Hotel, resident of Greenwich, CT, 1980’s, early 1990’s;
Morgan, Howard, Bard College BA, MBA Harvard, (with Allen & Company 1986), spring 1990.
Morra, Guiseppe, spring 1990;
Negro gangs unidentifed, hundreds of them in New York City 1982 on, then everywhere else I went 1982 on;
Negro who moved into apartment above mine in Elmhurst, c 1988-1989;
NYNEX employees;
NYPD;
O'Connor, Carol, the actor, c 1987-1990;
O'Gorman, Ned, party attender, c 1983, spring 1990
Pakistani newsmen on the corner near my Elmhurst apt, 1985-1990;
Paolucci, Robert, Mensa member, partier, c 1983- spring 1990;
Parl, Chas., Princeton Univ., BA, MBA Columbia U.,( Salomon Bros., bonds, 1970’s), long time Bayside resident, parents immigrants, 1982-1990’s, spring 1990;
Parl, Mrs. Chas, 1982-1990’s;
Personnel Pool, employment agency;
Peruvians next door to my Elmhurst apartment, worked for Fedex, c 1985-1990;
Phillipines in several apartments in my Elmhurst apartment building, 1985-1990;
Pritchard, Hugh, Mensa member, Univ of Maryland computer center employee, 1982, 1990’s, Washington, DC area;
Prokop, Ruth, Esq, Washington, DC, lawyer, spring 1990, 1990’s;
Reed/Read/Reid, John, New York University MBA, Metropolitan Opera Guild member, financial analyst at Spencer Trask c 1974, Queens landlord, NYC, spring 1990;
Roblin, Linda (maiden name), Rosemary Hall classmate, Greenwich, early 1990’s;
Rosenfeld, Tab, attorney, Finley Kumble, 1987, spring 1990;
Rutherford, lawyer, White & Case, spring 1990;
Samouce, Col. USA Ret, classmate of my father, spring 1990;
Samouce, Mrs. James, resident of VA, 1990’s;
Sansbury, Ralph, Mensa member, former doctoral candidate in mathmatics at New York University, partier, 1983-1984, spring 1990;
Savalas, Telly, the actor, Elmhurst, c 1987-1990;
Schaeffer, Erwin, Hungarian origin, Canadian citizen, New York, NY, 1983-1990’s, spring 1990;
Scholz, Walter Rosen, actor, producer, New York, NY, 1983-1987, spring 1990, 19990’s;
Schwebel, Stephen, President of International Court of Justice, Hague, c 1990, early 1990’s;
Shepard, David Allan, Jr,, cousin, son of oil company executive, 1983;
Shepard, Marie, c 1997
Sibley, Maj Gen Alden, 1983, spring 1990;
Sipe, Barbara, (Mrs. Harry Sipe), resident of VA, c early 1990’s;
Sipe, Lt. Cmdr. Harry Sipe, resident of VA, c early 1990’s;
Slater, Patrick, Queens resident, banker, retired, loitered near my Elmhurst apartment, c 1985-spring 1990;
Sloan temps, employment agency, late 1985-early 1986;
St Bartholomew’s Church, 1984- spring 1990;
St. James Church, Rev Rockwell Hayes, c 1988- spring 1990;
Stoddards, Dudley and Helen, Daughters of Cincinnati, spring 1990, early 1990’s;
Theel, Gunnar, artist, German citizen, NYC, 1983, spring 1990;
Virag & Virag, lawyers, Virag, Esq, New York, NY, employer, 1989, spring 1990, 1990’s;
Wadmond, Elita and Wadmond, Lowell, New York City and Palm Beach, 1982-1990’s;
Walker, John, Esq, lawyer, Simpson T&B, NYC, 11-12 1989;
Watson, Thomas, IBM executive, early 1990’s;
Watts, Huntington, hoax at Colonial Wars, c1984-1985;
Weist-Barron, TV commercial teachers, Bob Barron, c 1990;
White & Case, New York City office, several attorneys there, c 1987-1990's;
White, Dorset, Manhattan, private businessman, spring 1990, 1990's;
Whitman, Janet, married to Charles Whitman, c 1982-1990's, Daughters of the Cincinnatti Christmas Party 1989, spring 1990;
Winslow, Hugh Whitaker, Jr, my brother, 1987-1990's;
Withington, Robin and Frederick, cousins, NYC and Boston, former consultant with Arthur D. Little, 1987-2002, spring 1990;
Wolsfelt, Vicky, classmate class of 1959 Rosemary Hall, resident of Gainesville, FL;
Zuckerman, Harry and Lily, Rumanian immigrants, Queens landlords of my apartment in Briarwood, 1982-1985.
Hoaxes, fraud, impersonations regarding identity aimed at me began in New York City in the spring of 1968 at a job where I was working, (I did not tell anyone this nor was it written down; it was probably set up by my mother's siblings in New York City), then they occurred in Los Angeles in late 1970’s; this pattern followed me to Virginia area in 1982, to New York City 10/82 on ,and expanded in late 1980’s and 1990’s into hundreds of illegal hoaxes. Also, people have gotten illegally into my files kept in my apartment since the 1960's in New York City; I did not tell anyone this nor was it written down anywhere; I know who probably did it. Updated 10/9/02
Hoaxes, fraud, impersonations regarding identity aimed at me began in New York City in the spring of 1968 at a job where I was working, (I did not tell anyone this nor was it written down; it was probably set up by my mother's siblings in New York City), then they occurred in Los Angeles in late 1970’s; this pattern followed me to Virginia area in 1982, to New York City 10/82 on ,and expanded in late 1980’s and 1990’s into hundreds of illegal hoaxes. Also, people have gotten illegally into my files kept in my apartment since the 1960's in New York City; I did not tell anyone this nor was it written down anywhere; I know who probably did it. Updated 10/8/02
Updates 10/24/01 8/01 -- Electrocuted in left ear at a public telephone. Assaulted by a pervert who had premeditated the crime and was colluding with county sheriff, local police, local EMS, local hospital, and local workers near the site of assault. I refuse to be a sucker for criminal colluders or to identify the assailant who was probably persuaded by others to do it. 9/01 very severe trip and fall due to a visible object and lack of sleep. A very severe slip and fall several days later due to a large greasy patch (probably deliberately) planted behind some objects in the station of a well known bus company. End of 10/24/01 updates.
By Elizabeth Brady Cabot Winslow, last revised 10/08/2002 12:40 pm
A little traveling music for saddam please.........
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Al Qaeda’s leadership ‘ready to fall’
Mohammed’s arrest, data breed optimism, U.S. says
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A memorial to Saddam’s victims
15 years after chemical attack on civilians, tragedy lives on
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"The most spectacular of our new educational toys was the Gilbert Atomic Energy Laboratory. This was a top job, the result of much experimentation and hard work. We were unofficially encouraged by the government, who thought that our set would aid in public understanding of atomic energy and stress its constructive side. We had the great help of some of the country's best nuclear physicists and worked closely with M.I.T. in it's development.
There was nothing phony about our Atomic Energy laboratory. It was genuine, and it was also safe. We used radioactive materials in the set, but none that might conceivably prove dangerous. There was a Geiger-Mueller Counter. It was accurate; a carefully designed and manufactured instrument that could actually be used in prospecting for radioactive materials. The Atomic Energy lab also contained a cloud chamber in which the paths of alpha particles traveling at 12,000 miles a second could be seen; a spinthariscope showing the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen; an electroscope that measured the radioactivity of different substances.
It caused quite a sensation at the Toy Fair and received a great deal of publicity. But there were difficulties. It had to be priced very high--$50.00--and even at that price we managed to lose a little money on every one sold. The Atomic Energy Lab was also the most thoroughly scientific toy we had ever produced, and only boys with a great deal of education could understand it. It was not suitable for the same age groups as our simpler chemistry and microscope sets, for instance, and you could not manufacture such a thing as a beginner's atomic energy lab. So we had to drop this wonderful new addition to our line of educational toys--and toy has never seemed to me to be the right word to apply to such things. We adapted some of its features so that they could be added to our largest chemistry set--using the spinthariscope, some radioactive ore, and the atomic energy manual."
The preceding text is
an excerpt from A. C. Gilbert's autobiography:
"The Man Who Lives In Paradise"
Rinehard & Company
1954
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PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (March 14) - With war looming in Iraq, 32-year-old Nicole Kyger and her 30-year-old husband quit their motorcycle shop jobs, went through rigorous basic training with recruits years younger, and became Marines.
The Denver couple say they were motivated by the opportunities and challenges of the Marines - and wanted to join the war on terror.
''Terrorism is a horrible thing,'' said Robert Kyger, an Albuquerque, N.M., native. ''Not being able to go out in the morning with a cup of coffee and a newspaper and being comfortable on my front porch - it would be a whole lot different if you weren't able to do that.''
His wife, born in Toronto and raised in Denver, was also attracted by job security, travel, and the mystique of the corps.
''I knew they were pretty tough with the training and I wasn't too sure about it at first,'' she said. ''But then there was the thinking: 'They are the elite of the military forces.'''
It's unusual for married couples to undergo basic training at the same time, and even more rare for those as old as the Kygers, who needed age waivers to enlist. Recruits between 28 and 34, the maximum age for new Marines, must have such waivers.
For 13 weeks, the couple endured training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, where male and females train separately. For 13 weeks, they couldn't speak to each other as they left their old lives behind.
The Parris Island depot trains all female Marine recruits as well as male recruits from east of the Mississippi River - in all more than 17,000 a year. Married couples occasionally pass through at the same time.
''It's definitely not a common, everyday occurrence,'' said Lt. Tammy Megow, a spokeswoman for the depot.
How did the Kygers keep in touch during the rigors of basic training?
''A lot of letter-writing,'' Nicole Kyger said. ''It took three days. (The letter) would go to Charleston or Savannah before it came back.''
''I knew it was going to be hard for me and it was going to be hard for Nicole,'' said her husband, who needed a second Marine waiver to train at Parris Island rather than on the West Coast. ''I got a little bit of comfort knowing Nicole was just across the island on the rough days.''
The couple, married three years, worked out together before reporting for basic in December.
''Once I got it in my head that I had a chance, it was stand up and go,'' Robert Kyger said.
Nicole Kyger said the other recruits looked to her ''like a mother'' and one of the youngest sought her out as a bunk mate because she was older.
Her age, she said, was not a problem physically.
''She was a pretty good recruit,'' said Staff Sgt. Lecia Tienda, who was Nicole Kyger's drill instructor. ''She was one of our better runners. She was a little slow in the squad bay, I'm not going to deny that. She doesn't move fast.''
And she said the older recruit got no consideration because of her age.
''It doesn't matter to me. I train them all the same. I could care less if they are 18 or 50,'' Tienda said.
Advanced infantry training is next for Robert Kyger. His wife plans to get advanced training in meteorology.
He said there's a good chance he could be sent to Iraq if the United States goes to war, but that didn't discourage him from enlisting.
''Marines are always going some place all the time,'' he said. ''That's what happens.''
For the future, he's thinking of perhaps working at an embassy or teaching in the Corps. Would he want to become a drill instructor at Parris Island?
''Quite possibly. I'm not going to rule that out,'' he said. ''They are strong, hard men and women, and hopefully I would have that as an option.''
His wife, fresh out of basic, grimaced.
''I just couldn't do it,'' she said.
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The French did fight side by side with the US some time ago..
General Washington agreed to attempt to save Newport in the spring of 1778. It was to be a coordinated attack General John Sullivan, moving in from Massachusetts with 8,000 soldiers, and Lafayette, moving in from New York with 2,000, were to attack the island from the north, while a French fleet under Comte Jean Baptiste d'Estaing, with 2,800 marines, would attack from the southwest. Because of a violent storm, the fleet had to withdraw to Boston for repairs. Sullivan had pushed the enemy to the barricades of Newport, but, lacking reinforcements, he was forced to retreat. The British stayed on until October 1779, when they themselves decided to leave.
In July 1780, a French fleet of ten war vessels and 6,000 men under Comte de Rochambeau arrived in Newport, and the people warmly welcomed them as friends and allies. They stayed on through the winter, but could not provide aid to General Washington because British reinforcements had them bottled up in the Bay. In March 1781, Rochambeau entertained General Washington in his quarters at Vernon House. The French fleet left shortly afterward, and the island saw no more military action.
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
--Norman Schwartzkopf
Is NV moving to OR???
Correction
In early versions of yesterday’s Broadband Daily, we incorrectly stated that Microsoft entered the IPG market two years ago. Microsoft launched its IPG in 2002. We also incorrectly stated that Microsoft’s deal with Mexican cable operator Cablevision Monterrey was the first such deal for the IPG. Microsoft has two other previous deals with small cable operators in the Portland, OR area. [Article ID: 4033]
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Next Level Demos Equipment That Delivers TV-Over-DSL/Broadband
Next Level's new Broadband Services Access Multiplexer - Single Shelf Enclosure (BSAM-SSE) will make it cheaper and easier than ever for telephone companies to deliver television services over their existing networks, without discarding existing equipment. The BSAM-SSE is a simple overlay to existing equipment telcos use to deliver local phone service that allows delivery of television and high-speed Internet services. This addition to Next Level's platform is expected to be particularly appealing to U.S. incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) like the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), who, because of the FCC's rulings last week, are no longer required to share hybrid copper-fiber networks used to deliver broadband services with other service providers. Under the FCC's rule changes, telephone companies will be able to use the BSAM-SSE to deliver a voice, video and data bundle more cost-effectively than was previously possible.
"The BSAM-SSE is a significant innovation, and a timely one," said Michelle Abraham, senior analyst, converging markets and technologies for In-Stat/MDR. "This extension to the Next Level platform enables telephone companies to overlay television and high-speed Internet services on top of their existing networks in densely populated areas without buying new land or throwing out old equipment. Next Level is demonstrating the product at a time when new FCC restrictions on local phone service should make TV and broadband far more attractive revenue opportunities for telcos."
Next Level will introduce the BSAM-SSE at the last meeting of the FS-VDSL committee before the expected issuance of full service standards by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) this summer. The meeting will be attended by representatives from SBC, Qwest, Bell Canada, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, Telenor, Telecom Italia and others.
"The FCC's ruling and the FS-VDSL's standardization effort should be significant catalysts for `telco TV'," said Elroy Jopling, principal analyst, public services worldwide for Gartner. "As voice revenues plateau, an increasing number of major telephone companies will turn to digital television for both additional revenue and as the most effective means to defend their subscribers from cable competition. The technology that will allow telephone companies to deliver cable-competitive video services over their own networks is available and proven, they need only deploy it."
The BSAM-SSE is a compact device that can be attached directly to the remote cabinets that telcos place throughout their service areas to provide telephone services. The Yankee Group estimates that 28 million U.S. telco subscribers receive voice services delivered through these remote cabinets, often called Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) cabinets. The Yankee Group also estimates that nearly 21 million of these subscribers, or 75 percent, do not yet have access to broadband services. Thus, a unique opportunity exists for the BSAM-SSE as the only proven broadband overlay device that allows telcos to deliver high-speed Internet and cable-competitive broadcast and on-demand digital television services quickly, simply, and cost effectively.
"The BSAM-SSE, as part of the Next Level Full Service Access System, can serve six to seven times as many homes as equipment from vendors who claim that they can deliver television services-each of our remote cabinets can serve 144 homes with cable-competitive digital TV and high-speed Internet services," said Bill Weeks, chief technology officer of Next Level. "This equipment allows large phone companies who previously only delivered DSL out of their central offices to extend digital television and high-speed Internet services out into suburban neighborhoods, where demand for them is greatest. For telephone companies, the BSAM-SSE significantly extends the reach and increases the potential scale of bundled TV and broadband deployments."
Manitoba Telecom Services will be one of the first telcos to deploy the BSAM-SSE. The product will contribute to the rollout of its large-scale deployment of the Next Level Full Service Access Platform in Winnipeg.
"The BSAM-SSE is an efficient, high-density method for TV-over-DSL delivery," said Roy Sherbo, vice president of MTS TV Services. "It will be particularly effective for delivery of television and broadband services in Winnipeg, and should help to enhance the cost-to-revenue ratio of our deployment."
The BSAM-SSE's compact size-it measures approximately 1 foot long, 2 feet wide and 3.5 feet high-also allows telephone companies to save considerable costs on new TV and broadband service deployments, because the equipment can be bolted onto their existing cabinets. Instead of incurring additional "right-of-way" (ROW) costs, which include the expenses associated with getting municipal approval and actually acquiring the space to build new neighborhood facilities to deliver these services, the BSAM-SSE allows telcos to utilize already existing facilities. Often, the costs of fiber and power required to serve new equipment are dwarfed by the ROW-associated costs that telcos must assume for new deployments. The BSAM's small size also makes it a perfect fit for the smaller equipment cabinets characteristic of European telephone networks.
http://www.tmcnet.com/enews/031203c.htm
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Broadband trials continue
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Dog food cans as broadband antennae
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London, Mar 7 (ANI): Ever heard of dog food cans being used as broadband antennae? Well, a British businessman had done precisely that to connect his home wireless to the Internet.
David Taylor, an information technology manager with Derbyshire-based consultancy Equation, set up the initial connection through a wireless transmitter to carry the signal the two and a half kilometres to his office.
The new superfast connection impressed him so much that Taylor decided to boost the signal even further to his nearby home.
He tried a milk powder tin, but this, as well as subsequent tin trials, ended up rusting.
Eventually, he hit upon the idea of dog food cans, reports BBC.
"The dog food tin has worked very well. Now not only do the 20 staff in the office have internet connectivity, but I also have full access from my home even with the entire area lying off the broadband grid," Taylor told Computing magazine. (ANI)
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