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as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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Yeah . . . I just went to my sister's to print out a listing of hte mallam collection with collection ID numbers . . . and just as i got there, 134 YRD pulled up to the house next door, and looped around . . . as in unlucky for [Harvard] Y[a]rd? I would think so - the experiments on humans without their coinsent and against their will. . . for it passed again on the way back - and this is the thing. . . I seem to recall the first sighting the plate being on a grey pickup truck; it was on a white one the second sighting. . . admissions to HUMF plate games? I;ve been writing of that for a year, especially with the concern for hte general public . . .
oy . . .
see previous entires. . .
as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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atop that. . . 7468 LK as in me for the robo(narc)human live trial?
how about L38 477 - as in the libe robohuman for church committee evasion. . .
and the e-mail thanking me for being a veteran volunteer? but i never ever would have joined the american military that so disses its verterans . . . see previous entries - for this tactic by an Eric was played up at the salvation army in central square . . .
HR 80 . . .as in harvard on me since 1980, the move to sharon, mass? that after RW 14LU - as in from 1980 a research workshop (or a Bush League! research workshop! - Bush Sr./ the reagan years and CIA . . . ) live university? or just plain ol' live me - a kid of 1966?
how about J32147? that's records deleted since 1998 fo hte robohuman project. . .
and 334 NXO at the gas station? that's the robohuman hypersurveillance for a victim of neurobiological operations. . .
and how about 65318 at the town hall (not htere on the walk back). . . as in 6/8 (the robohuman oproject) for hte orwellian thing form 1984? see preivous entries. . .
and look at the HU HR postings thus far todfay:
35680 F-T 057 Systems Administrator
Graduate School of Education Learning Technologies Center 10/23/2008
35679 F-T 056 Writer/ Editor
Graduate School of Education Center on the Developing Child 10/23/2008
35677 F-T 061 Librarian of Lamont Library
Harvard College Library Harvard College Library 10/23/2008
35673 P-T 059 Project Director
Graduate School of Education The Forgotten Half Project 10/23/2008
35668 F-T 057 Reports Business Analyst
Alumni Affairs and Development CAADS 10/23/2008
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a harvard development project - the forgotten half (those that died and are diminished by the experimentees) for harvard digital project captuire and research - long term tracking of hte victims a la the child project for grad school teaching?
teaching how to by lysenkian mengelevs . . .
got an e-mail on the sen gig that completely shot the credibility of university professors (as if that was not in the works anyway) and those who support them . . . and i responded kindly with a perspective provided me by hte former mentor - it's a class thing, a haughty sense that one deemed beneath cannot better themselves . . . and this is true, for look at the HUMF's need to keep me down . . .
this AM i sent some washington post stories to myself to post here - so here they are. . .
washingtonpost.com:
U.S. Pressed to Turn Over Detainee Papers
British Court Blasts Inaction, Says Documents Are Vital to Guantanamo Case
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 23, 2008; A14
The British High Court yesterday condemned the U.S. government's failure to turn over intelligence documents that could support the claims of a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who has argued that statements he made confessing to terrorism resulted from torture and are, therefore, worthless.
In a judgment, the British jurists hinted that unless the 42 documents are handed over quickly to the defense counsel as part of a habeas corpus proceeding in U.S. District Court, the London court might take that step itself, despite the threat of damage to ties between the two countries.
The court noted that the United States has said "it will reconsider the intelligence relationship with its oldest and closest ally if we, as a court in England and Wales, order the documents be provided . . . to enable justice to be done."
"This matter must be brought to a just conclusion as soon as possible, given the delays and unexplained changes of course which have taken place on the part of the United States Government," wrote Lord Justice Thomas and Justice Lloyd Jones, adding that they hope the matter will be resolved at a federal court hearing in Washington on Oct. 30.
"We are pleased that the High Court has stayed proceedings in the U.K. and has deferred to the process in U.S. federal court," a Bush administration official said.
"We do have concerns," the official added, "that a U.K. court might order the disclosure of U.S.-provided intelligence without our permission, just as one would expect the U.K. to have concerns if a U.S. court were to order the disclosure of U.K.-provided intelligence without the U.K.'s permission."
Binyam Mohammed, a 30-year-old native of Ethiopia, was arrested in Pakistan in April 2002. He says he was tortured while in Pakistani custody before being secretly transferred by the United States to Morocco, where, he says, he was again tortured, including having his penis cut with a razor blade. In January 2004, Mohammed was transferred to Afghanistan. He was sent to Guantanamo that May. The U.S. government has said there is no basis for his allegations of torture.
Shortly before he was taken to Morocco, Mohammed was interviewed by a British security service officer. In May of this year, after learning of that meeting, Mohammed's attorneys sought any information that the British government might have that could assist in their client's defense. The British government said it found 42 potentially relevant documents.
In a series of rulings, one of them classified, the British High Court said Mohammed's attorneys were entitled to the material, although it could not be released to the public.
The documents, which include communications between U.S. and British intelligence agencies, are "essential to his defense as they provide the only independent evidence that is potentially capable of helping him undermine the case against him," the court wrote. The judges said the United States and Britain share the principle that "involuntary confessions obtained by torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are inadmissible at trial."
The British government said that although there was an "arguable case" that Mohammed had been tortured, turning over the documents in London would damage relations with Washington. In a written statement to the court, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that the material should be handed over within the American judicial system and that U.S. officials had agreed in writing to do so if charges against Mohammed were referred by the Pentagon to a military court.
"The United Kingdom Government will continue to engage with the relevant U.S. authorities to ensure that such disclosure does indeed take place," Miliband wrote.
Military prosecutors swore out charges against Mohammed in May, including the accusation that he was involved in plans to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," among other attacks inside the United States. The charges, however, were not approved by the Pentagon official in charge of military commissions. On Tuesday, the charges were dismissed. Earlier this month, the Justice Department withdrew the most serious allegations against Mohammed in a habeas corpus proceeding in Washington.
U.S. officials then allowed Mohammed's attorneys to see seven redacted documents, but the British court said that is insufficient.
"All of the documents need to be read in sequence to see the proper context," the court wrote yesterday, noting that the British government had acknowledged that "all are relevant and potentially exculpatory."
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in detainees, the HUMF and its ilk has human fodder to destroy. . .
washingtonpost.com:
Government to Take Over Airline Passenger Vetting
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 23, 2008; A05
The Department of Homeland Security will take over responsibility for checking airline passenger names against government watch lists beginning in January, and will require travelers for the first time to provide their full name, birth date and gender as a condition for boarding commercial flights, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Security officials say the additional personal information -- which will be given to airlines to forward to the federal agency in charge -- will dramatically cut down on cases of mistaken identity, in which people with names similar to those on watch lists are wrongly barred or delayed from flights.
The changes, to be phased in next year, will apply to 2 million daily passengers aboard all domestic flights and international flights to, from or over the United States. By transferring the screening duty from the airlines to the federal government, the Secure Flight program marks the Bush administration's long-delayed fulfillment of a top aviation security priority after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley said yesterday that, except in rare situations, passengers who do not provide the additional information will not be given boarding passes.
"If you don't provide the data, then you are going to put yourself in a position where you are probably going to be a selectee," subject at a minimum to greater future security scrutiny, Chertoff said in remarks announcing the program at Reagan National Airport.
"We know that threats to our aviation system persist," he said. Secure Flight "will increase security and efficiency, it'll protect passengers' privacy, and it will reduce the number of false-positive misidentifications."
Over the years, watch-list mismatches have frustrated countless passengers whose names are similar to those on the agency's no-fly list, or on a second list of "selectees" identified for added questioning. The passengers have included infants and toddlers; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.); and the wife of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Catherine, whose name is similar to Cat Stevens, the former name of the watch-listed Britain-based pop singer who converted to Islam.
Details about why certain passengers are stopped are normally not shared with travelers, who often endure long delays and pointed questions. DHS has received more than 43,500 requests for redress since February 2007 and has completed 24,000 of them, with the rest under review or awaiting more documentation, TSA spokesman Christopher White said.
But the number of people who actually match the names on the watch lists is minuscule, officials acknowledged. On average, DHS screeners discover a person who is actually on the no-fly list about once a month, usually overseas, and actual selectees daily, Hawley said.
To bolster their case for the new program, U.S. officials for their first time disclosed that the no-fly list includes fewer than 2,500 individuals and the selectee list fewer than 16,000. Ten percent of those named on the no-fly list and fewer than half on the selectee list are U.S. citizens, Chertoff said.
By taking over watch-list vetting from industry, the officials said, the government will consistently apply the most up-to-date list information and more sophisticated computer programs to catch name variations, and will avoid the risk of giving sensitive data to foreign air carriers, Chertoff said.
They estimated that adding identity details will allow "99 percent" of travelers to avoid delays -- all but 2,000 passengers a day.
Many details of Secure Flight -- which cost $200 million and five years to develop, and will cost an estimated $80 million a year to operate -- remain unclear. Final regulations will be published by early next month, officials said, and after that, airlines can begin requesting information after 60 days and must be ready to send data to the federal government after 270 days.
The TSA will phase in domestic airlines first and foreign flights and over-flights starting later next year. The officials offered no deadline for completing the process.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and subcommittee head Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) said they are disappointed and troubled that full implementation may not occur for several months or years.
Air carriers, particularly foreign airlines, say the changes duplicate other security measures. They complain that retooling data systems will cost some of them millions of dollars and take several months.
Steve Lott, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association, which represents most foreign airlines, said the group's 230 members "are disappointed that the TSA did not accept many of our detailed recommendations on how to improve the Secure Flight program. . . . We look forward to working with the next Congress and Administration to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of these programs."
Privacy experts welcomed changes to Secure Flight but said problems remain. Two earlier versions were scrapped after civil libertarians warned that the vast new databases planned would violate Americans' privacy.
U.S. officials said Secure Flight will not tap commercial data, conduct "data-mining" or generate risk scores on passengers. Information on most passengers will be destroyed after seven days.
But the American Civil Liberties Union said the government still lacks adequate redress procedures for people mistakenly matched to secret watch lists based on the government's master terrorist database, which identifies about 400,000 individuals and includes roughly 1 million name records and aliases.
DHS's redress program "has proven to be a black hole that sucks in documents and information from those misidentified but never emits a final resolution to help affected travelers get off the lists and stay off the lists," said Caroline Fredrickson, head of the ACLU Washington legislative office.
"Until we fix the watch lists, reengineering Secure Flight is not enough," said Timothy Sparapani, ACLU senior legislative counsel.
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see previous entries . . .
washingtonpost.com:
Food Allergies Increasing in U.S. Kids, Study Says
By MIKE STOBBE
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 23, 2008; 1:10 AM
ATLANTA -- Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise, now affecting about 3 million kids, according to the first federal study of the problem.
Experts said that might be because parents are more aware and quicker to have their kids checked out by a doctor.
About 1 in 26 children had food allergies last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. That's up from 1 in 30 kids in 1997.
The 18 percent increase is significant enough to be considered more than a statistical blip, said Amy Branum of the CDC, the study's lead author.
Nobody knows for sure what's driving the increase. A doubling in peanut allergies _ noted in earlier studies _ is one factor, some experts said. Also, children seems to be taking longer to outgrow milk and egg allergies than they did in decades past.
But also figuring into the equation are parents and doctors who are more likely to consider food as the trigger for symptoms like vomiting, skin rashes and breathing problems.
"A couple of decades ago, it was not uncommon to have kids sick all the time and we just said 'They have a weak stomach' or 'They're sickly,'" said Anne Munoz-Furlong, chief executive of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, a Virginia-based advocacy organization.
Parents today are quicker to take their kids to specialists to check out the possibility of food allergies, said Munoz-Furlong, who founded the nonprofit in 1991.
The CDC results came from an in-person, door-to-door survey in 2007 of the households of 9,500 U.S. children under age 18.
When asked if a child in the house had any kind of food allergy in the previous 12 months, about 4 percent said yes. The parents were not asked if a doctor had made the diagnosis, and no medical records were checked. Some parents may not know the difference between immune system-based food allergies and digestive disorders like lactose intolerance, so it's possible the study's findings are a bit off, Branum said.
However, the study's results mirror older national estimates that were extrapolated from smaller, more intensive studies, said Dr. Hugh Sampson, a food allergy researcher at the Mount Sinai School of medicine.
"This tells us those earlier extrapolations were fairly close," Sampson said.
The CDC study did not give a breakdown of which foods were to blame for the allergies. Other research suggests that about 1 in 40 Americans will have a milk allergy at some point in their lives, and 1 in 50 percent will be allergic to eggs. Most people outgrow these allergies in childhood.
About 1 in 50 are allergic to shellfish and nearly 1 in 100 react to peanuts, allergies that generally persist for a lifetime, according to Sampson.
Some people have more than one food allergy, he said, explaining why the overall food allergy prevalence is about 4 percent.
Children with food allergies also were more likely to have asthma, eczema and respiratory problems than kids without food allergies, the CDC study found, confirming previous research.
The study also found that the number of children hospitalized for food allergies was up. The number of hospital discharges jumped from about 2,600 a year in the late 1990s to more than 9,500 annually in recent years, the CDC results showed.
Also, Hispanic children had lower rates of food allergies than white or black children _ the first such racial/ethnic breakdown in a national study.
The reason for that last finding may not be genetics, said Munoz-Furlong. She is Hispanic and said people in her own family have been unwilling to consider food allergies as the reason for children's illnesses. "It's a question of awareness," she said.
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On the Net:
The CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
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why? because the planet is poisoned far more than we think . . . natural economy would have explained this. . .
washingtonpost.com:
Audits Obtained by Parents Show More Misspent Funds
By Daniel de Vise
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 23, 2008; GZ06
For a second consecutive year, parent activists are calling attention to a pattern of accounting problems in the use of student funds at some Montgomery County high schools.
Periodic audits of student activity funds find that school administrators frequently fail to follow protocol in recording how money is spent. In some cases, thousands of dollars intended to be spent on students are instead spent on teachers. In other cases, schools appear to be making a profit from course or test fees that are supposed to cover -- but not exceed -- the school's costs. Some schools are running five-figure deficits.
The audits, obtained by leaders of the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County through public records requests this year and last, portray mostly poor record-keeping, and a tendency of some schools to use their Independent Activity Funds as personal pocketbooks. The money is collected from student fees, ticket proceeds and fundraisers, and is supposed to be spent for students' benefit.
Attention is heightened this year because of an ongoing dispute over course fees. Montgomery secondary schools collect fees for a wide variety of course materials. Leaders of the parent advocacy group have assailed the practice, saying all course materials should be part of the free public education guaranteed by law. School system officials contend that many fees are proper but concede that they are inconsistent from school to school and that reform is necessary.
"The important thing is that we conduct these audits on ourselves," said Brian Edwards, chief of staff to School Superintendent Jerry D. Weast. "We do this because it's good fiduciary responsibility."
School system leaders and principals pledged to improve their record-keeping after a round of negative publicity surrounding audits last fall. Several recent audits suggest that there has been improvement but that glaring problems remain. Parent leaders contend all audits should be posted on the school system's Web site, a concept with which a few school system leaders agree.
"I have no problem with putting that material out there," said Stephen Abrams, the school board member who represents Rockville and Potomac.
The most critical audit unearthed by parents this fall concerns Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville. There, according to a July audit, at least $15,000 in student funds was spent on food, lodging, jackets, shirts, flowers and gift cards for teachers and other adults. The expenses include $9,372 for a "leadership retreat" in Cambridge, $5,148 for restaurant meals, $1,142 for jackets and $383 for shirts.
Abrams characterized the audit findings on Richard Montgomery and other high schools as "more fuss and sloppiness" than malfeasance. "We had very little trouble tracing money," he said.
But some parents say they are outraged at what appears to be a lax attitude toward the student funds at several schools.
Seneca Valley High School, for instance, was found to be charging excessive course fees and then allowing the funds to accumulate, rather than spending them to benefit the students from whom they were collected, which is their proper use.
"We recommend care be exercised," wrote auditor Roger Pisha in the May document, to ensure "all fees charged are approved and used to benefit students currently enrolled."
At Poolesville High School, a cash advance of $2,000 was given to an unidentified person to purchase musical instruments, but subsequent documentation showed only $882 was spent.
Einstein High School in Kensington used $4,300 in student funds for movie passes, gift cards, meals and T-shirts, with many of the goods going to staff members rather than students.
Wootton High School in Rockville collected $5,000 from an outside group for renting school facilities. Although the incident has no bearing on student fees, the school broke county rules that require an independent agency to handle rental of school buildings.
Parent leaders said they found numerous examples of schools reporting an end-of-year balance in accounts fed by student fees, indicating that the course or exam fees are not being spent on the students from whom they were collected.
They also cited instances of schools reporting thousands of dollars in cellphone expenses. "Haven't they heard of a family plan?" one parent noted in an Internet posting.
Einstein Fair Attracts 100 Colleges' Recruiters
Einstein High School's college fair, held Oct. 13, is one of the largest such events in the region, a noteworthy feat for a school where more than one-third of students are economically disadvantaged.
Alies Muskin, a former school board candidate, started the fair a decade ago by inviting some colleges to send admissions staff to the school. The event has since grown from about 20 colleges and universities to 100.
"Each year, a few more came," Cynthia Frank, a parent organizer, said in an e-mail.
Muskin said the fair was created "with the hope that colleges would consider students at Einstein, since few schools at that time came to Einstein for interviews."
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yeah . . . school systems and money . . . see pr3evious entries . . .
nytimes.com:
October 23, 2008
Air Force Creates New Pilot Programs for Drones
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:04 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scrambling to meet commanders' insatiable demands for unmanned aircraft, the Air Force is launching two new training programs, including an experimental one that would churn out up to 1,100 desperately needed pilots to fly the drones over Iraq and Afghanistan.
As many as 700 Air Force personnel have expressed some interest in the test program, which will create a new brand of pilot for the drones, which are flown by remote control from a base in Nevada. That new drone operator will learn the basics of flying a small manned plane, but will not go through the longer, more rigorous training that their fighter jet brethren receive.
A senior Air Force officer told The Associated Press that by the end of September 2011, the goal is to have 50 unmanned combat air patrols operating 24 hours a day, largely over Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently there are 30.
To generate the pilots for the increased flights, the Air Force hopes to create separate pilot pipelines for its manned and unmanned aircraft, said Col. Curt Sheldon, assistant to the director of air operations for unmanned aircraft issues.
''I don't know that you could ever get (a drone) to everybody who wants one,'' Sheldon said. ''I believe it is virtually insatiable. We are pedaling fast, we are working hard to meet that need.''
Besides the new test program, Sheldon said the Air Force is planning to shift about 100 manned-aircraft pilots directly from training into jobs flying the drones. The unmanned aircraft are mostly Predators -- hunter-killer planes that fly in the war zone but are operated by pilots sitting at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
Until now, Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) pilots have had to complete at least one tour of flight duty before moving to the drone jobs.
The urgent push for more drone pilots has been spurred by blunt demands from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He has criticized the Air Force's failure to move more quickly to meet war commanders' needs. And he set up a task force in April to find more innovative ways to get the aircraft to the battlefield more quickly.
Predators are playing a crucial role on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing real-time surveillance video to troops on the ground, targeting and firing Hellfire anti-tank missiles at militants, and homing in on enemy efforts to plant roadside bombs.
Earlier this year, for example, a Predator -- probably one operated by the CIA -- fired on a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan's north Waziristan region, killing Abu Laith al-Libi, a key al-Qaida leader.
To date, the Air Force has been using experienced fighter pilots to operate the drones. But as the demand has skyrocketed, the service has struggled to find enough pilots to fill both the manned and unmanned jobs.
''The pipeline that produces manned operators is full,'' said Sheldon. ''We're pushing them through there as fast as we can.''
The two new programs are just beginning.
Two pilots have just been selected to go directly from training to the unmanned program. Once there they will get an additional four to six weeks of schooling on how to operate the drone, how the weapons systems work, and how to coordinate with troops on the ground.
Eventually that will expand, sending as many as 100 a year through the drone program for the next three years.
Meanwhile, the test program for non-pilots is aimed at Air Force captains who have four to six years of experience, but no flight training. Their schooling would take up to nine months, and they would not have to meet all of the more stringent standards that jet fighter pilots must.
Unmanned pilots, for example, will not have to meet certain height or vision requirements, and also would not be eliminated due to physical conditions that might prevent them from flying at high altitudes.
In pressing the Air Force to be more aggressive getting drones to the war, Gates hinted at such a plan, calling for ''bold'' thinking.
''All this may require rethinking long-standing service assumptions and priorities about which missions require certified pilots and which do not,'' Gates said in April.
Under the fledgling program, the drone pilots would go to Pueblo, Colo., for about six weeks of flight training. Sheldon said they would learn to fly a small Mitsubishi single-engine propeller plane, probably do a solo flight and get a handle on basic aircraft controls.
They would also train on flight simulators, and then go through the unmanned aircraft training.
Officials quickly reject temptations to compare the drone pilots to video gamers who have a far easier job at their computer screens than pilots sitting in cockpits.
An F-16 fighter jet, said Sheldon is easy enough to fly from one spot to another. The harder part, he said, is deploying the weapons.
The same is true for the drones.
''It's not particularly difficult to fly a (drone) from point A to point B,'' said Sheldon. ''It is challenging to fly it in a combat environment, coordinating with a guy on the ground who wants you to hit a target over here that's got (friendly) folks only 50 meters from it.''
Air Force captains have until Nov. 3 to apply for the new program. They will be screened and tested, and the first 10 will begin classes Jan. 5. A second class of 10 will begin in April.
The test program will also get reviewed by the Federal Aviation Administration in the coming months. Officials could not provide any cost estimates for the new training programs.
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On the Net:
Defense Department: http://www.defenselink.mil
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see previous entries USAF and addiction studies, andrew "buster" howard of ht3e phone company and CA(org), and recall that assimilated borg are known as drones. . .
read the journal form the beginning . . .
as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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yeah - and check out MIT's latest - right up the HUMF line:
SAIS Technical Architect mit-00006006 Information Services and Technology Cambridge MA Full Time
Project Manager, Genetic Analysis Platform mit-00006018 Broad Institute Cambridge MA Full Time
Research Scientist mit-00006017 Dept Of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences Cambridge MA Full Time
Research Scientist, Assay Development mit-00006016 Broad Institute Cambridge MA Full Time
Pharmacist mit-00006015 Medical Department Cambridge MA Full Time
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see previous erntries . . . it;s an ugly, ugly thing i have fallen victim to. . .
ah . . .and this from the yahoo account (generic - $ spam):
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THANKS DENIS.
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so freaking sad . . . denis franz of NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues (Ken Cowhey's favorite TV show - then the detectoive. . . ) . . . and it was the nephew in iraq (killed, i thin - see previous entries) . . .
ah - i have not yet posted and verizon just called . . . thank you andrew. . . are you still preying on people at hte cocaine anonymous meeting in cambridge massachusetts?
and consider this one was well - to the spam account:
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so freaking sad . . . Grady played up the government greant thing in maine in 2004, and this is interesting, for he also said i could have a dunkin donuts franchise (too much trash) - and i hope the hUMF is not figuring the same of me now with the program assimilated of hte place i worked at today. . .
so freaking sad . . .
you see - when management backed out today instead of gving me the handbook for employeres (so like the diss of the orientation at HLS by kathy long thurman - see previous entries) and then called in and e-texted in to the hal of hls named (and zien and underwood's beauxs the name of hte other manager there) . . well - it reminded me of sperions attempts to use me with such disrespect, which is why i gave up on the radcliffe posting . . . see previous entries . . .
i was told to go in at 8 AM tomorrow with the store manager relaying the message through the phone, and then an e-text came in to the same relayer to say i ought show up at 9 AM . . .
and only 5'34" today . . .
a robohuman number . . .
not good, not good . . .
but it also keeps me from going back in town to see hte not for hte public to see postings of HU HR - for atop the plates . . .well . . .
maple trees were taken out by the nixon maned recently, and i wonder at the gadfly comment yesterday and recalled the social worker house on maple street in rockland, maine - especially the mapquest search for 91 pleasant and hte computer fragged misdirect where nearly all points form 94 pleasant pointed to the maple street social worker house - see previous ent5ries . . .
ads if hte HUMNF is trying to distoryt a reality upon which the reactions to will verify its persecutive profile - hence the six years of hte ear rinting atop the placement time and time again in "staged" houses and workplaces woth actors and actresses, some of which i touched upon in my earlier entry today . . .
and this after signing off the confidentiality thing . . . but is it a breach of confidentiality to state that it seems fake there too?
well . . .
then they can let me go - ah: but not giving me the manual, perhaps like harvard law school in 2002 there is no real intent to hire. . .
a full recount of hte names and situations et al would be damning to the HUMF, especially in the contrived setting of hte mansfield complex truman show seahaven complex . . .
but we shall see . . . mom will tell me i have an attiutude, but she;s running from her guilt (and potential criminal prosecution - for the HUNF'd hang her out to dry) when she plays her psyxchologically oppressive role (like steve long of hte harvard square homeless shelter, who had a locker wven when he was not there). . .
so freaking sad . . .
more, i am sure, later. . .
and no response yet form the economics department of hte faculty of arts and sciences at harvard - but see previous entries on harvard econoists . . .
and just think - when i got up to get off the train last night, a kid had next to him on a train seat a copy of atlas shrugged . . . and recall that title appearing at hte salvation army . . . oy . . .
oh - i got my $4 massachusetts state check topday - again, like maine, even though i conscientiously objected the death of hte fallen nephew and did not file until the anniversary of his death - nearly seven months late - no fees . . .
so freaking sad -
a trainer today looked so much like the uncle of mine from INdianna - the one who like the mom unit oppresses - last we spoke he set ot to demonstrate i was looking at the workd from left field . . . he;s a program dweeb too . . .
oy . . .
ah - and a no thank you form HU HR:
Requisition: 35249
Title: Development Associate, International Advancement
School/Unit: Alumni Affairs and Development
Department: University Development Office
Location: Cambridge
Full or Part Time: Full-Time
Salary Grade: 056
Date Posted: 09/12/2008
Date Removed from consideration: 10/23/2008
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35249? that's 2001 sex games - see previous entries . . .it;s crap like that which is why FAS needs a new research coordinator . . .
but we know this by now, eh?
as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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help one another if you can. . .
be well . . .
as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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Yeah . . . I just went to my sister's to print out a listing of hte mallam collection with collection ID numbers . . . and just as i got there, 134 YRD pulled up to the house next door, and looped around . . . as in unlucky for [Harvard] Y[a]rd? I would think so - the experiments on humans without their coinsent and against their will. . . for it passed again on the way back - and this is the thing. . . I seem to recall the first sighting the plate being on a grey pickup truck; it was on a white one the second sighting. . . admissions to HUMF plate games? I;ve been writing of that for a year, especially with the concern for hte general public . . .
oy . . .
see previous entires. . .
as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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atop that. . . 7468 LK as in me for the robo(narc)human live trial?
how about L38 477 - as in the libe robohuman for church committee evasion. . .
and the e-mail thanking me for being a veteran volunteer? but i never ever would have joined the american military that so disses its verterans . . . see previous entries - for this tactic by an Eric was played up at the salvation army in central square . . .
HR 80 . . .as in harvard on me since 1980, the move to sharon, mass? that after RW 14LU - as in from 1980 a research workshop (or a Bush League! research workshop! - Bush Sr./ the reagan years and CIA . . . ) live university? or just plain ol' live me - a kid of 1966?
how about J32147? that's records deleted since 1998 fo hte robohuman project. . .
and 334 NXO at the gas station? that's the robohuman hypersurveillance for a victim of neurobiological operations. . .
and how about 65318 at the town hall (not htere on the walk back). . . as in 6/8 (the robohuman oproject) for hte orwellian thing form 1984? see preivous entries. . .
and look at the HU HR postings thus far todfay:
35680 F-T 057 Systems Administrator
Graduate School of Education Learning Technologies Center 10/23/2008
35679 F-T 056 Writer/ Editor
Graduate School of Education Center on the Developing Child 10/23/2008
35677 F-T 061 Librarian of Lamont Library
Harvard College Library Harvard College Library 10/23/2008
35673 P-T 059 Project Director
Graduate School of Education The Forgotten Half Project 10/23/2008
35668 F-T 057 Reports Business Analyst
Alumni Affairs and Development CAADS 10/23/2008
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a harvard development project - the forgotten half (those that died and are diminished by the experimentees) for harvard digital project captuire and research - long term tracking of hte victims a la the child project for grad school teaching?
teaching how to by lysenkian mengelevs . . .
got an e-mail on the sen gig that completely shot the credibility of university professors (as if that was not in the works anyway) and those who support them . . . and i responded kindly with a perspective provided me by hte former mentor - it's a class thing, a haughty sense that one deemed beneath cannot better themselves . . . and this is true, for look at the HUMF's need to keep me down . . .
this AM i sent some washington post stories to myself to post here - so here they are. . .
washingtonpost.com:
U.S. Pressed to Turn Over Detainee Papers
British Court Blasts Inaction, Says Documents Are Vital to Guantanamo Case
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 23, 2008; A14
The British High Court yesterday condemned the U.S. government's failure to turn over intelligence documents that could support the claims of a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who has argued that statements he made confessing to terrorism resulted from torture and are, therefore, worthless.
In a judgment, the British jurists hinted that unless the 42 documents are handed over quickly to the defense counsel as part of a habeas corpus proceeding in U.S. District Court, the London court might take that step itself, despite the threat of damage to ties between the two countries.
The court noted that the United States has said "it will reconsider the intelligence relationship with its oldest and closest ally if we, as a court in England and Wales, order the documents be provided . . . to enable justice to be done."
"This matter must be brought to a just conclusion as soon as possible, given the delays and unexplained changes of course which have taken place on the part of the United States Government," wrote Lord Justice Thomas and Justice Lloyd Jones, adding that they hope the matter will be resolved at a federal court hearing in Washington on Oct. 30.
"We are pleased that the High Court has stayed proceedings in the U.K. and has deferred to the process in U.S. federal court," a Bush administration official said.
"We do have concerns," the official added, "that a U.K. court might order the disclosure of U.S.-provided intelligence without our permission, just as one would expect the U.K. to have concerns if a U.S. court were to order the disclosure of U.K.-provided intelligence without the U.K.'s permission."
Binyam Mohammed, a 30-year-old native of Ethiopia, was arrested in Pakistan in April 2002. He says he was tortured while in Pakistani custody before being secretly transferred by the United States to Morocco, where, he says, he was again tortured, including having his penis cut with a razor blade. In January 2004, Mohammed was transferred to Afghanistan. He was sent to Guantanamo that May. The U.S. government has said there is no basis for his allegations of torture.
Shortly before he was taken to Morocco, Mohammed was interviewed by a British security service officer. In May of this year, after learning of that meeting, Mohammed's attorneys sought any information that the British government might have that could assist in their client's defense. The British government said it found 42 potentially relevant documents.
In a series of rulings, one of them classified, the British High Court said Mohammed's attorneys were entitled to the material, although it could not be released to the public.
The documents, which include communications between U.S. and British intelligence agencies, are "essential to his defense as they provide the only independent evidence that is potentially capable of helping him undermine the case against him," the court wrote. The judges said the United States and Britain share the principle that "involuntary confessions obtained by torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are inadmissible at trial."
The British government said that although there was an "arguable case" that Mohammed had been tortured, turning over the documents in London would damage relations with Washington. In a written statement to the court, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that the material should be handed over within the American judicial system and that U.S. officials had agreed in writing to do so if charges against Mohammed were referred by the Pentagon to a military court.
"The United Kingdom Government will continue to engage with the relevant U.S. authorities to ensure that such disclosure does indeed take place," Miliband wrote.
Military prosecutors swore out charges against Mohammed in May, including the accusation that he was involved in plans to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," among other attacks inside the United States. The charges, however, were not approved by the Pentagon official in charge of military commissions. On Tuesday, the charges were dismissed. Earlier this month, the Justice Department withdrew the most serious allegations against Mohammed in a habeas corpus proceeding in Washington.
U.S. officials then allowed Mohammed's attorneys to see seven redacted documents, but the British court said that is insufficient.
"All of the documents need to be read in sequence to see the proper context," the court wrote yesterday, noting that the British government had acknowledged that "all are relevant and potentially exculpatory."
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in detainees, the HUMF and its ilk has human fodder to destroy. . .
washingtonpost.com:
Government to Take Over Airline Passenger Vetting
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 23, 2008; A05
The Department of Homeland Security will take over responsibility for checking airline passenger names against government watch lists beginning in January, and will require travelers for the first time to provide their full name, birth date and gender as a condition for boarding commercial flights, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Security officials say the additional personal information -- which will be given to airlines to forward to the federal agency in charge -- will dramatically cut down on cases of mistaken identity, in which people with names similar to those on watch lists are wrongly barred or delayed from flights.
The changes, to be phased in next year, will apply to 2 million daily passengers aboard all domestic flights and international flights to, from or over the United States. By transferring the screening duty from the airlines to the federal government, the Secure Flight program marks the Bush administration's long-delayed fulfillment of a top aviation security priority after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley said yesterday that, except in rare situations, passengers who do not provide the additional information will not be given boarding passes.
"If you don't provide the data, then you are going to put yourself in a position where you are probably going to be a selectee," subject at a minimum to greater future security scrutiny, Chertoff said in remarks announcing the program at Reagan National Airport.
"We know that threats to our aviation system persist," he said. Secure Flight "will increase security and efficiency, it'll protect passengers' privacy, and it will reduce the number of false-positive misidentifications."
Over the years, watch-list mismatches have frustrated countless passengers whose names are similar to those on the agency's no-fly list, or on a second list of "selectees" identified for added questioning. The passengers have included infants and toddlers; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.); and the wife of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Catherine, whose name is similar to Cat Stevens, the former name of the watch-listed Britain-based pop singer who converted to Islam.
Details about why certain passengers are stopped are normally not shared with travelers, who often endure long delays and pointed questions. DHS has received more than 43,500 requests for redress since February 2007 and has completed 24,000 of them, with the rest under review or awaiting more documentation, TSA spokesman Christopher White said.
But the number of people who actually match the names on the watch lists is minuscule, officials acknowledged. On average, DHS screeners discover a person who is actually on the no-fly list about once a month, usually overseas, and actual selectees daily, Hawley said.
To bolster their case for the new program, U.S. officials for their first time disclosed that the no-fly list includes fewer than 2,500 individuals and the selectee list fewer than 16,000. Ten percent of those named on the no-fly list and fewer than half on the selectee list are U.S. citizens, Chertoff said.
By taking over watch-list vetting from industry, the officials said, the government will consistently apply the most up-to-date list information and more sophisticated computer programs to catch name variations, and will avoid the risk of giving sensitive data to foreign air carriers, Chertoff said.
They estimated that adding identity details will allow "99 percent" of travelers to avoid delays -- all but 2,000 passengers a day.
Many details of Secure Flight -- which cost $200 million and five years to develop, and will cost an estimated $80 million a year to operate -- remain unclear. Final regulations will be published by early next month, officials said, and after that, airlines can begin requesting information after 60 days and must be ready to send data to the federal government after 270 days.
The TSA will phase in domestic airlines first and foreign flights and over-flights starting later next year. The officials offered no deadline for completing the process.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and subcommittee head Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) said they are disappointed and troubled that full implementation may not occur for several months or years.
Air carriers, particularly foreign airlines, say the changes duplicate other security measures. They complain that retooling data systems will cost some of them millions of dollars and take several months.
Steve Lott, spokesman for the International Air Transport Association, which represents most foreign airlines, said the group's 230 members "are disappointed that the TSA did not accept many of our detailed recommendations on how to improve the Secure Flight program. . . . We look forward to working with the next Congress and Administration to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of these programs."
Privacy experts welcomed changes to Secure Flight but said problems remain. Two earlier versions were scrapped after civil libertarians warned that the vast new databases planned would violate Americans' privacy.
U.S. officials said Secure Flight will not tap commercial data, conduct "data-mining" or generate risk scores on passengers. Information on most passengers will be destroyed after seven days.
But the American Civil Liberties Union said the government still lacks adequate redress procedures for people mistakenly matched to secret watch lists based on the government's master terrorist database, which identifies about 400,000 individuals and includes roughly 1 million name records and aliases.
DHS's redress program "has proven to be a black hole that sucks in documents and information from those misidentified but never emits a final resolution to help affected travelers get off the lists and stay off the lists," said Caroline Fredrickson, head of the ACLU Washington legislative office.
"Until we fix the watch lists, reengineering Secure Flight is not enough," said Timothy Sparapani, ACLU senior legislative counsel.
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see previous entries . . .
washingtonpost.com:
Food Allergies Increasing in U.S. Kids, Study Says
By MIKE STOBBE
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 23, 2008; 1:10 AM
ATLANTA -- Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise, now affecting about 3 million kids, according to the first federal study of the problem.
Experts said that might be because parents are more aware and quicker to have their kids checked out by a doctor.
About 1 in 26 children had food allergies last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. That's up from 1 in 30 kids in 1997.
The 18 percent increase is significant enough to be considered more than a statistical blip, said Amy Branum of the CDC, the study's lead author.
Nobody knows for sure what's driving the increase. A doubling in peanut allergies _ noted in earlier studies _ is one factor, some experts said. Also, children seems to be taking longer to outgrow milk and egg allergies than they did in decades past.
But also figuring into the equation are parents and doctors who are more likely to consider food as the trigger for symptoms like vomiting, skin rashes and breathing problems.
"A couple of decades ago, it was not uncommon to have kids sick all the time and we just said 'They have a weak stomach' or 'They're sickly,'" said Anne Munoz-Furlong, chief executive of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, a Virginia-based advocacy organization.
Parents today are quicker to take their kids to specialists to check out the possibility of food allergies, said Munoz-Furlong, who founded the nonprofit in 1991.
The CDC results came from an in-person, door-to-door survey in 2007 of the households of 9,500 U.S. children under age 18.
When asked if a child in the house had any kind of food allergy in the previous 12 months, about 4 percent said yes. The parents were not asked if a doctor had made the diagnosis, and no medical records were checked. Some parents may not know the difference between immune system-based food allergies and digestive disorders like lactose intolerance, so it's possible the study's findings are a bit off, Branum said.
However, the study's results mirror older national estimates that were extrapolated from smaller, more intensive studies, said Dr. Hugh Sampson, a food allergy researcher at the Mount Sinai School of medicine.
"This tells us those earlier extrapolations were fairly close," Sampson said.
The CDC study did not give a breakdown of which foods were to blame for the allergies. Other research suggests that about 1 in 40 Americans will have a milk allergy at some point in their lives, and 1 in 50 percent will be allergic to eggs. Most people outgrow these allergies in childhood.
About 1 in 50 are allergic to shellfish and nearly 1 in 100 react to peanuts, allergies that generally persist for a lifetime, according to Sampson.
Some people have more than one food allergy, he said, explaining why the overall food allergy prevalence is about 4 percent.
Children with food allergies also were more likely to have asthma, eczema and respiratory problems than kids without food allergies, the CDC study found, confirming previous research.
The study also found that the number of children hospitalized for food allergies was up. The number of hospital discharges jumped from about 2,600 a year in the late 1990s to more than 9,500 annually in recent years, the CDC results showed.
Also, Hispanic children had lower rates of food allergies than white or black children _ the first such racial/ethnic breakdown in a national study.
The reason for that last finding may not be genetics, said Munoz-Furlong. She is Hispanic and said people in her own family have been unwilling to consider food allergies as the reason for children's illnesses. "It's a question of awareness," she said.
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On the Net:
The CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
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why? because the planet is poisoned far more than we think . . . natural economy would have explained this. . .
washingtonpost.com:
Audits Obtained by Parents Show More Misspent Funds
By Daniel de Vise
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 23, 2008; GZ06
For a second consecutive year, parent activists are calling attention to a pattern of accounting problems in the use of student funds at some Montgomery County high schools.
Periodic audits of student activity funds find that school administrators frequently fail to follow protocol in recording how money is spent. In some cases, thousands of dollars intended to be spent on students are instead spent on teachers. In other cases, schools appear to be making a profit from course or test fees that are supposed to cover -- but not exceed -- the school's costs. Some schools are running five-figure deficits.
The audits, obtained by leaders of the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County through public records requests this year and last, portray mostly poor record-keeping, and a tendency of some schools to use their Independent Activity Funds as personal pocketbooks. The money is collected from student fees, ticket proceeds and fundraisers, and is supposed to be spent for students' benefit.
Attention is heightened this year because of an ongoing dispute over course fees. Montgomery secondary schools collect fees for a wide variety of course materials. Leaders of the parent advocacy group have assailed the practice, saying all course materials should be part of the free public education guaranteed by law. School system officials contend that many fees are proper but concede that they are inconsistent from school to school and that reform is necessary.
"The important thing is that we conduct these audits on ourselves," said Brian Edwards, chief of staff to School Superintendent Jerry D. Weast. "We do this because it's good fiduciary responsibility."
School system leaders and principals pledged to improve their record-keeping after a round of negative publicity surrounding audits last fall. Several recent audits suggest that there has been improvement but that glaring problems remain. Parent leaders contend all audits should be posted on the school system's Web site, a concept with which a few school system leaders agree.
"I have no problem with putting that material out there," said Stephen Abrams, the school board member who represents Rockville and Potomac.
The most critical audit unearthed by parents this fall concerns Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville. There, according to a July audit, at least $15,000 in student funds was spent on food, lodging, jackets, shirts, flowers and gift cards for teachers and other adults. The expenses include $9,372 for a "leadership retreat" in Cambridge, $5,148 for restaurant meals, $1,142 for jackets and $383 for shirts.
Abrams characterized the audit findings on Richard Montgomery and other high schools as "more fuss and sloppiness" than malfeasance. "We had very little trouble tracing money," he said.
But some parents say they are outraged at what appears to be a lax attitude toward the student funds at several schools.
Seneca Valley High School, for instance, was found to be charging excessive course fees and then allowing the funds to accumulate, rather than spending them to benefit the students from whom they were collected, which is their proper use.
"We recommend care be exercised," wrote auditor Roger Pisha in the May document, to ensure "all fees charged are approved and used to benefit students currently enrolled."
At Poolesville High School, a cash advance of $2,000 was given to an unidentified person to purchase musical instruments, but subsequent documentation showed only $882 was spent.
Einstein High School in Kensington used $4,300 in student funds for movie passes, gift cards, meals and T-shirts, with many of the goods going to staff members rather than students.
Wootton High School in Rockville collected $5,000 from an outside group for renting school facilities. Although the incident has no bearing on student fees, the school broke county rules that require an independent agency to handle rental of school buildings.
Parent leaders said they found numerous examples of schools reporting an end-of-year balance in accounts fed by student fees, indicating that the course or exam fees are not being spent on the students from whom they were collected.
They also cited instances of schools reporting thousands of dollars in cellphone expenses. "Haven't they heard of a family plan?" one parent noted in an Internet posting.
Einstein Fair Attracts 100 Colleges' Recruiters
Einstein High School's college fair, held Oct. 13, is one of the largest such events in the region, a noteworthy feat for a school where more than one-third of students are economically disadvantaged.
Alies Muskin, a former school board candidate, started the fair a decade ago by inviting some colleges to send admissions staff to the school. The event has since grown from about 20 colleges and universities to 100.
"Each year, a few more came," Cynthia Frank, a parent organizer, said in an e-mail.
Muskin said the fair was created "with the hope that colleges would consider students at Einstein, since few schools at that time came to Einstein for interviews."
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yeah . . . school systems and money . . . see pr3evious entries . . .
nytimes.com:
October 23, 2008
Air Force Creates New Pilot Programs for Drones
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:04 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scrambling to meet commanders' insatiable demands for unmanned aircraft, the Air Force is launching two new training programs, including an experimental one that would churn out up to 1,100 desperately needed pilots to fly the drones over Iraq and Afghanistan.
As many as 700 Air Force personnel have expressed some interest in the test program, which will create a new brand of pilot for the drones, which are flown by remote control from a base in Nevada. That new drone operator will learn the basics of flying a small manned plane, but will not go through the longer, more rigorous training that their fighter jet brethren receive.
A senior Air Force officer told The Associated Press that by the end of September 2011, the goal is to have 50 unmanned combat air patrols operating 24 hours a day, largely over Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently there are 30.
To generate the pilots for the increased flights, the Air Force hopes to create separate pilot pipelines for its manned and unmanned aircraft, said Col. Curt Sheldon, assistant to the director of air operations for unmanned aircraft issues.
''I don't know that you could ever get (a drone) to everybody who wants one,'' Sheldon said. ''I believe it is virtually insatiable. We are pedaling fast, we are working hard to meet that need.''
Besides the new test program, Sheldon said the Air Force is planning to shift about 100 manned-aircraft pilots directly from training into jobs flying the drones. The unmanned aircraft are mostly Predators -- hunter-killer planes that fly in the war zone but are operated by pilots sitting at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
Until now, Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) pilots have had to complete at least one tour of flight duty before moving to the drone jobs.
The urgent push for more drone pilots has been spurred by blunt demands from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He has criticized the Air Force's failure to move more quickly to meet war commanders' needs. And he set up a task force in April to find more innovative ways to get the aircraft to the battlefield more quickly.
Predators are playing a crucial role on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing real-time surveillance video to troops on the ground, targeting and firing Hellfire anti-tank missiles at militants, and homing in on enemy efforts to plant roadside bombs.
Earlier this year, for example, a Predator -- probably one operated by the CIA -- fired on a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan's north Waziristan region, killing Abu Laith al-Libi, a key al-Qaida leader.
To date, the Air Force has been using experienced fighter pilots to operate the drones. But as the demand has skyrocketed, the service has struggled to find enough pilots to fill both the manned and unmanned jobs.
''The pipeline that produces manned operators is full,'' said Sheldon. ''We're pushing them through there as fast as we can.''
The two new programs are just beginning.
Two pilots have just been selected to go directly from training to the unmanned program. Once there they will get an additional four to six weeks of schooling on how to operate the drone, how the weapons systems work, and how to coordinate with troops on the ground.
Eventually that will expand, sending as many as 100 a year through the drone program for the next three years.
Meanwhile, the test program for non-pilots is aimed at Air Force captains who have four to six years of experience, but no flight training. Their schooling would take up to nine months, and they would not have to meet all of the more stringent standards that jet fighter pilots must.
Unmanned pilots, for example, will not have to meet certain height or vision requirements, and also would not be eliminated due to physical conditions that might prevent them from flying at high altitudes.
In pressing the Air Force to be more aggressive getting drones to the war, Gates hinted at such a plan, calling for ''bold'' thinking.
''All this may require rethinking long-standing service assumptions and priorities about which missions require certified pilots and which do not,'' Gates said in April.
Under the fledgling program, the drone pilots would go to Pueblo, Colo., for about six weeks of flight training. Sheldon said they would learn to fly a small Mitsubishi single-engine propeller plane, probably do a solo flight and get a handle on basic aircraft controls.
They would also train on flight simulators, and then go through the unmanned aircraft training.
Officials quickly reject temptations to compare the drone pilots to video gamers who have a far easier job at their computer screens than pilots sitting in cockpits.
An F-16 fighter jet, said Sheldon is easy enough to fly from one spot to another. The harder part, he said, is deploying the weapons.
The same is true for the drones.
''It's not particularly difficult to fly a (drone) from point A to point B,'' said Sheldon. ''It is challenging to fly it in a combat environment, coordinating with a guy on the ground who wants you to hit a target over here that's got (friendly) folks only 50 meters from it.''
Air Force captains have until Nov. 3 to apply for the new program. They will be screened and tested, and the first 10 will begin classes Jan. 5. A second class of 10 will begin in April.
The test program will also get reviewed by the Federal Aviation Administration in the coming months. Officials could not provide any cost estimates for the new training programs.
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On the Net:
Defense Department: http://www.defenselink.mil
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see previous entries USAF and addiction studies, andrew "buster" howard of ht3e phone company and CA(org), and recall that assimilated borg are known as drones. . .
read the journal form the beginning . . .
as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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yeah - and check out MIT's latest - right up the HUMF line:
SAIS Technical Architect mit-00006006 Information Services and Technology Cambridge MA Full Time
Project Manager, Genetic Analysis Platform mit-00006018 Broad Institute Cambridge MA Full Time
Research Scientist mit-00006017 Dept Of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences Cambridge MA Full Time
Research Scientist, Assay Development mit-00006016 Broad Institute Cambridge MA Full Time
Pharmacist mit-00006015 Medical Department Cambridge MA Full Time
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see previous erntries . . . it;s an ugly, ugly thing i have fallen victim to. . .
ah . . .and this from the yahoo account (generic - $ spam):
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so freaking sad . . . denis franz of NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues (Ken Cowhey's favorite TV show - then the detectoive. . . ) . . . and it was the nephew in iraq (killed, i thin - see previous entries) . . .
ah - i have not yet posted and verizon just called . . . thank you andrew. . . are you still preying on people at hte cocaine anonymous meeting in cambridge massachusetts?
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so freaking sad . . . Grady played up the government greant thing in maine in 2004, and this is interesting, for he also said i could have a dunkin donuts franchise (too much trash) - and i hope the hUMF is not figuring the same of me now with the program assimilated of hte place i worked at today. . .
so freaking sad . . .
you see - when management backed out today instead of gving me the handbook for employeres (so like the diss of the orientation at HLS by kathy long thurman - see previous entries) and then called in and e-texted in to the hal of hls named (and zien and underwood's beauxs the name of hte other manager there) . . well - it reminded me of sperions attempts to use me with such disrespect, which is why i gave up on the radcliffe posting . . . see previous entries . . .
i was told to go in at 8 AM tomorrow with the store manager relaying the message through the phone, and then an e-text came in to the same relayer to say i ought show up at 9 AM . . .
and only 5'34" today . . .
a robohuman number . . .
not good, not good . . .
but it also keeps me from going back in town to see hte not for hte public to see postings of HU HR - for atop the plates . . .well . . .
maple trees were taken out by the nixon maned recently, and i wonder at the gadfly comment yesterday and recalled the social worker house on maple street in rockland, maine - especially the mapquest search for 91 pleasant and hte computer fragged misdirect where nearly all points form 94 pleasant pointed to the maple street social worker house - see previous ent5ries . . .
ads if hte HUMNF is trying to distoryt a reality upon which the reactions to will verify its persecutive profile - hence the six years of hte ear rinting atop the placement time and time again in "staged" houses and workplaces woth actors and actresses, some of which i touched upon in my earlier entry today . . .
and this after signing off the confidentiality thing . . . but is it a breach of confidentiality to state that it seems fake there too?
well . . .
then they can let me go - ah: but not giving me the manual, perhaps like harvard law school in 2002 there is no real intent to hire. . .
a full recount of hte names and situations et al would be damning to the HUMF, especially in the contrived setting of hte mansfield complex truman show seahaven complex . . .
but we shall see . . . mom will tell me i have an attiutude, but she;s running from her guilt (and potential criminal prosecution - for the HUNF'd hang her out to dry) when she plays her psyxchologically oppressive role (like steve long of hte harvard square homeless shelter, who had a locker wven when he was not there). . .
so freaking sad . . .
more, i am sure, later. . .
and no response yet form the economics department of hte faculty of arts and sciences at harvard - but see previous entries on harvard econoists . . .
and just think - when i got up to get off the train last night, a kid had next to him on a train seat a copy of atlas shrugged . . . and recall that title appearing at hte salvation army . . . oy . . .
oh - i got my $4 massachusetts state check topday - again, like maine, even though i conscientiously objected the death of hte fallen nephew and did not file until the anniversary of his death - nearly seven months late - no fees . . .
so freaking sad -
a trainer today looked so much like the uncle of mine from INdianna - the one who like the mom unit oppresses - last we spoke he set ot to demonstrate i was looking at the workd from left field . . . he;s a program dweeb too . . .
oy . . .
ah - and a no thank you form HU HR:
Requisition: 35249
Title: Development Associate, International Advancement
School/Unit: Alumni Affairs and Development
Department: University Development Office
Location: Cambridge
Full or Part Time: Full-Time
Salary Grade: 056
Date Posted: 09/12/2008
Date Removed from consideration: 10/23/2008
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35249? that's 2001 sex games - see previous entries . . .it;s crap like that which is why FAS needs a new research coordinator . . .
but we know this by now, eh?
as always:
It is best to read this journal from the beginning. . .
<http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2006/02/08/>
it makes more sense then. ....
or just explore the journal at: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/>
may i recommend: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/01/04/>
and a follow up to that: <http://theurbanhermit.livejournal.com/2008/10/12/>
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help one another if you can. . .
be well . . .
