…as opposed to recruiting illegals. From a letter by Senator Boxer sent to Francis J. Harvey, Secretary of the Army on November 3rd:
According to an ABC News report, nearly half of the recruiters profiled in an undercover investigation knowingly provided misleading information to potential recruits about the risks of enlisting in the U.S. Army. In one particularly shocking clip of the investigation, a recruiter is seen telling a recruit that the United States is “not at war,� and that the “war ended a long time ago.� Another is seen telling a recruit that “we are bringing people back� from Iraq.
The war ended a long time ago? I have not seen the report, but the only thing worse that I can imagine is a recruiter telling a recruit “don’t worry, we’re only at alert level orange”.
Sorry I do not have more details to point to online, but all I have is a copy of the letter sent to me via email.
Kakvi to glasovi cuju se u mraku,
Nad nocnim poljem, visoko u zraku?
Ko li to pjeva? Ah, nista, sitnica:
Jedna u letu poludjela ptica.
Nadlijece sebe i oblake trome,
S vjetrom se igra i pjeva o tome.
Svu svoju vjeru u krilima noseci,
Kuda to leti, sto bi htjela doseci?
Nije li vrijeme da gnijezdo vije?
Kad bude hladno da se u njem grije.
Ko li te posla pjevati u tminu?
Sleti u nizu, u bolju sudbinu.
Ne mari za to poludjela ptica.
Pjeva o vjetru sto je svu golica.
A kad je umor jednom bude srvo,
Nece za odmor nac nijedno drvo.
Who is it that sings in the night
Above the dark fields, high out of sight?
Who is it calling? Ah, it’s nothing,
Just a crazy bird flying.
It soars above lazy clouds,
Playing with the wind, so loud.
All its faith in a wing,
Where does it go, what will it bring?
Should not it be in its nest now?
Wintertime is for settling down.
Who allowed you out into the gloom?
Return to earth now, safe from doom.
It worries not, this crazy bird aflight.
It still sings as it soars through the night.
When it tires from flying, that will be it,
Not a single tree, nothing left upon to sit.
CSO online has posted some detail on the state of online banking and two-factor authentication in America:
More than 90 percent of the participants in several focus groups said they didn’t want to use a token to access accounts online or by phone.
“The response we got was, ‘Don’t tell me I have to carry something to get access to my money. It’s your job to protect my money, and if you don’t do your job I’ll find someone who will,'” says Cullinane, who is CISO of Washington Mutual, the nation’s largest savings bank. “It was rather startling to get that from them.”
I’ll say. They already carry a credit card that gives them “access” to their money, so perhaps Cullinane is not accurately processing the feedback. In fact, many people apparently refused to carry credit cards in their early days so perhaps what is needed is a phased approach. If WaMu gave me the option to use a token to access my accounts, I would not only adopt it, I would try to switch my family and friends to their services.
This paper published in the Arab Journal for the Arts looks interesting:
“Tribal belonging in Pre-Islamic poetry (Between kinship and the awareness of kinship)” by Ali Asha, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Science and Arts, Al Hashimia University, Zarqa, Jordan.
The study looks at tribal belonging in Pre-Islamic poetry through studying some selected models of this poetry. In addition, considering poetry as the prominent factor for the cultural identity for Pre-Islamic community, the study investigates the social structure of the Arabic Pre-Islamic community and its integration in Pre-Islamic poem.
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This kinship awareness made the poetic self try to create balance between power and truth, seeking “compliment� and “praise� and at the same time to resist the crumbling situation of the community that was exhausted by tribal conflict and dispute.