Ya'll know Alexandra Daddario from True Detective season 1 (and many other shows/movies), but did you know about her war hero warrior grandfather? He was OSS, military intelligence AND a democrat Congressman for Connecticut - Emilio Quincy Daddario (September 24, 1918 – July 7, 2010).

Quote:The months of January and February of 1945 saw Allied aerial resupply reach its maximum point in preparation for the spring campaign, and the large cities of northern Italy were impatient for liberation. In order to better coordinate the clandestine movement in northern Italy, Lt. Emilio Daddario, assistant operations officer of SI Italy, was sent to Lugano, Switzerland, to help Allen Dulles to coordinate activities on the Italian frontier. Daddario established radio contact with Company D so his activities could better be coordinated with 15th Army Group plans.

To closely collaborate with other branches of the OSS, SI planned a series of joint operations with the Morale Operations Branch (MO), which was engaged in carrying out a psychological warfare program of disinformation among the German troops in Italy, and the reported results of this collaboration were excellent. A program of close collaboration between X-2 and SI was worked out with Jim Angleton, whose Counter Intelligence (CI) intelligence files benefited from the intelligence gleaned from our CLNAI sources and through a playback transmitter that had fallen into the hands of the Abwehr and which we had code-named MARIA GIOVANNA.*

Daddario moved into Italy and captured Marshall Graziani and a number of outstanding Fascist personalities.

The Secrets War The Office of Strategic Services in World War II by George C. Chalou; Pages 191-92.

Quote:Emilio Q. Daddario's career has spanned the fields of politics, law, and science. After obtaining his B.A. from Wesleyan University, he graduated from the University of Connecticut Law School and practiced law. He put his career on hold to fight in World War II, but upon returning home he became mayor and, then, judge in Middleton, Connecticut. He returned to active duty during the Korean conflict, resumed the practice of law, and served five consecutive terms in Congress. He has been director of the Office of Technology Assessment, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-chair of the American Bar Association.
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Quote:In Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Story of OSS (Random House, New York, 1946) Corey Ford and Alistair MacBain describe his exploit. "[T]his one man task-force, Captain Emilio Q. Daddario of Boston, Mass., maneuvered single-handed the surrender of the Nazi S.S. Headquarters . . . arranged with the German General in command at Como to confine his troops to the barracks . . .[and] made a prisoner of Marshal Graziani, Chief of the Italian Facist Army.

Captain Daddario had orders from Allied Headquarters to bring Graziani back alive. Somehow he managed to spirit his prized prisoner out of Milan. Several times the OSS party was under fire from excited Italian partisans; the car which was assigned to the Marshal was dynamited and an OSS lieutenant badly wounded, but Graziani was delivered intact." Captain Daddario was awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit and the Italian Medaglio d'Argento.

Emilio Q. Daddario, President-Elect (Science Journal, April 16, 1976)

Quote:The Daddarios: From Intelligence to Hollywood

Today the names of Alexandra and Matthew Daddario appear in the titles of Hollywood's greatest cinematic successes. Few, however, associate their name with a story that has united Abruzzo to America since the end of the 19th century. That of the Daddarios is in fact an important name in American history even if it has lost its originality of roots, and was born in the mountains of Abruzzo.

On Ellis Island the D'Addarios lost, despite themselves, the apostrophe becoming Daddario for the Americans, and settled in Newton, Massachusetts. On September 24, 1918, the fourth of their six children was born there, Emilio Quincy Daddario, who after attending public schools in Boston and the Tilton Academy in Newton, graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) in 1939.

Emilio then attended the Boston University Law School from 1939 to 1941, to then obtain his specialization at the University of Connecticut in 1942. In his youth Emilio distinguished himself not only for his excellent results in his studies, but also for his sporting performances, becoming one of the protagonists of university sport. While attending Wesleyan University, he was a star athlete and captained the football team in 1938 to receive the Major Valuable Player Award (better known as the MVP award) for both football and baseball.

emilio daddario at wesleyanThe war did not leave the son of the Ofena immigrants indifferent. Married to Berenice Carbo in 1940, Emilio in fact enlisted, like many others, in February 1943 and was immediately contacted by Max Biagio Corvo, the very young head of operations in Italy of the Oss, originally from Melilli, who already from the end of 1942 planned, with a detailed intelligence plan, the occupation of Sicily in the summer of 1943 and the subsequent total liberation of Italy from the Nazi-fascist yoke.

Corvo, who knew Daddario from having lived in the same city (Middletown) decided he wanted to have the young American football star, acclaimed champion in the Wesleyan University team, on his "intelligence" team. Emilio also knew perfectly different languages and integrated well with the Sicilians, consolidating a lifelong friendship with Corvo himself.

Joined the secret service with the code name of Mim (774 the identification number), Emilio participated in all phases of the Italian campaign. Arrived in Palermo in December 1943, he spent a short time in the offices of the Sicilian OSS before being transferred to the new operational command of Brindisi with the position of Corvo's deputy and the rank of captain. In April 1945, when the fate of the Republic of Salò was now sealed, Captain Daddario was in Switzerland under the direct dependency of Allen Dulles, director of the OSS for Europe and future head of the CIA.

However, he was recalled to Italy by Corvo for a task of the utmost delicacy: the capture of Mussolini and some ministers of the Social Republic of Salò fleeing to the Piedmontese mountains. The Italian-American officer arrived in Italy without revealing his true purpose and tried to guess the moves of the partisans who used the best strategy to divert any clues that could lead the Allies to track down the Duce. In the terrible last days of the Fascist era, Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce. Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce. Daddario tried to anticipate the partisans in every way to capture Mussolini alive but unfortunately this mission failed. Walter Aulisio's identification documents had been signed by Daddario himself, unaware of the orders that the CLN had given to "Colonel Valerio" to kill the Duce.

However, Daddario redeemed himself immediately afterwards, subtracting the generals of the RRS Rodolfo Graziani, Ruggero Bonomi and Rosario Sorrentino from the justice of the partisans. Graziani would later be imprisoned in a prison camp in Algiers and testify to Daddario's action, thanking him for saving his life.

Awarded the "Legion of Merit" and the American bronze star and the Italian silver medal, once back home Emilio Daddario resumed his profession as a lawyer and became a member of the Connecticut National Guard; served as mayor of Middletown, Conn., 1946-1948, 1946-1948; and judge of the Municipal Court of the same city until 1950 . In fact, in that year he returned to active duty again in the 43rd Division of the Connecticut National Guard to fight in Korea. Daddario worked as a major and at the end of the conflict was sent to Japan, before returning home definitively in 1952. The Italian-American decided to continue his political commitment and was elected deputy (among the ranks of the Democrats) in 1958, working in that capacity until 1971.


Richard (married to Christina) prosecutor and former head of the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism unit, is the father of Alexandra Anna, Matthew and Catherine, with the first two children destined to become Hollywood stars.


Born in New York on March 16, 1986, Alexandra decided to become an actress after seeing the Broadway musical "Les Miserables". Keeping faith with the family tradition, she successfully practiced various sports, including swimming and she studied the piano for years, attending the prestigious Brearley girls' high school in New York . . It was precisely in the boarding school that she carried out her first theatrical activities, playing the role of Hortensio in "The Taming of the Shrew". In her second year of high school she decided to enroll in the Professional Children's School, designed for students engaged in the world of entertainment, then continuing her studies at Marymount Manhattan College.

After making her television debut at the age of twelve in a Barbie commercial, Alexandra began her film career in 2002 working in Jim Bernfield's short film Best Thanksgiving Ever, presented at the 15th Columbia University Film Festival.

I have family members and friends with children that are autistic. I thought that I was fairly knowledgeable about autism, but I was wrong. When I looked at autism globally, I realized how wrong I was.

I always thought America had the largest population of autistic children. I never thought past America. I am looking at autism with a new set of eyes.

Quote:In recent years, cases of autism have risen. The Center for Disease Control announced in 2021 that the rate of autism in the U.S. during 2018 was 1 child in 44. This is a notable rise from rates given in Scientific American, for 2016 (1 in 68, though other sources claim an even-higher 1 in 54 by age 8), 2008 (1 in 88) and 2000 (1 in 150). Moreover, this trend of rising autism, which dates back to the early 1990s, is a global occurrence not confined to the United States. Prevailing theories suggest that the rise is largely due to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism rather than a massive increase in overall occurrences of autism. However, autism is more likely in babies with older parents, who are more common in today's world, and in babies born prematurely, who survive more often now than in previous eras.

Well, this is awkward for the police officer as it was caught on video.

Sure, we have no idea "what happened" prior to the video but we can see the cop appears to have lost it on something our new "millionaire" said and went to town. Our future "millionaire" was smart enough NOT to fight back or resist and took it for the $$$$$.

End Qualified Immunity.

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Anyone remember Wangari Maathai? Me neither. She was the first African Nobel Peace Prize winner, first woman PhD out of east/central Africa, an outspoken voice against neocapital-colonialism, intellectual and activist, also happened to have choice words regarding a certain immune compromising virus:

Quote:HIV ‘Created by Scientist’ for Biological Warfare, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Says

Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai -- who on Friday became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize -- on Saturday repeated her previous claims that HIV was "created by a scientist for biological warfare," AFP/Yahoo! News reports. In August, Kenya's East African Standard quoted Maathai as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists "for the purpose of mass extermination," according to AFP/Yahoo! News. "We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to primitive people. They have the resources to do this," the Standard quoted Maathai as saying during a workshop on Aug. 30 in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri, according to AFP/Yahoo! News. "AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did," she added, according to the Standard, AFP/Yahoo! News reports (AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/9) Saturday, Maathai repeated her belief that HIV was deliberately "devised to destroy black people," according to Reuters. She added that her comments published in the Standard were "intended to promote an inquiring attitude" toward HIV/AIDS among Africans and "combat the fatalistic notion that it was a curse from God," Reuters reports. "Would you solve the problem if you believed it was a curse from God?" Maathai asked, adding that she was "encouraging people to ask questions." Although Maathai said she never indicated that a specific region or nation was responsible for creating HIV/AIDS, she is "suspicious" about the "secrecy surrounding the origin of the virus," according to Reuters. "Some people say it came from the monkeys, and I doubt it. ... But I say it cannot be that only black people are cursed because we are dying more than any other people on this planet, and that's a fact" (Kanina, Reuters, 10/9).

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Although the United States "congratulated" Maathai on Friday for winning the Nobel Prize, officials also "tempered [their] praise" about her claims that HIV/AIDS was created as a biological weapon, according to South Africa's Star. "She's had many long years of environmental activism," Department of State spokesperson Richard Boucher said, adding, "We're delighted to see that she's the first African woman to have been selected for this unique honor." However, an unnamed State Department senior official said that the department "vehemently" objected to Maathai's comments concerning the origin of HIV, the Star reports. "She said HIV/AIDS was invented as a bioweapon in some laboratory in the West," the official said, adding, "We don't agree with that" (Star, 10/9). Maathai -- Kenya's assistant minister of the environment and founder of the country's Green Belt movement that aims to promote biodiversity and gender equity -- was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for standing at the "front of the fight to promote ecologically viable social, economic and cultural development in Kenya and in Africa," according to AFP/Yahoo! News (AFP/Yahoo! News, 10/9).

Morning Briefing (Oct 12,2004)

Quote:Maathai and her husband, Mwangi Mathai, separated in 1977. After a lengthy separation, Mwangi filed for divorce in 1979. He was said to have believed that Wangari was "too strong-minded for a woman" and that he was "unable to control her". In addition to naming her as "cruel" in court filings, he publicly accused her of adultery with another Member of Parliament, which in turn was thought to cause his high blood pressure and the judge ruled in Mwangi's favour. Shortly after the trial, in an interview with Viva magazine, Maathai referred to the judge as either incompetent or corrupt. The interview later led the judge to charge Maathai with contempt of court. She was found guilty and sentenced to six months in jail. After three days in Lang'ata Women's Prison in Nairobi, her lawyer formulated a statement that the court found sufficient for her release. Shortly after the divorce, her former husband sent a letter via his lawyer demanding that Maathai drop his surname. She chose to add an extra "a" instead of changing her name.
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Just a public service announcement (more food contamination): 

More strawberries sold at Walmart, Costco, HEB recalled over possible hepatitis A contamination!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/mo...tamination

Quote:Oregon-based Willamette Valley Fruit Co. issued a recall for packages of frozen fruit sold at Walmart, Costco and HEB stores around the nation – the latest company to do so amid an outbreak of hepatitis A infections. 


The select packages Great Value and Radar Farms frozen fruit contain strawberries that were grown in Mexico and have the potential to be contained with hepatitis A, according to a recall notice posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

The notice came just after California-based Wawona Frozen Foods issued a recall for year-old bags of frozen fruit that were shipped to Costco stores. 

The FDA has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as with other state public health and regulatory officials, to investigate the multi-state outbreak of infections that started in November 2022 and have been linked to frozen organic strawberries imported from certain farms in Baja California, Mexico. 


To date, nine people have fallen ill in three states, including three people who have been hospitalized. 

The hepatitis A virus strain in this outbreak is genetically identical to the strain that caused the hepatitis A outbreak in 2022 that left over a dozen people hospitalized, according to the CDC.

I am writing another thread about "The Weather". The most boring topic on the internet.

Yet, I am totally fascinated with what most people just pushes off as normal, everyday, cyclical, nothing new under the sun, info.

I find it interesting that though most want to push weather anomalies off as normal and every day, the first thing that comes out of the mouth of those that are interviewed after a catastrophe is, "This has never happened before, and I have never heard of anything like this ever happening here before."

I have to go with the person living the catastrophe, if the town had been standing for 200 years or more, and they are doing the interview in the middle of the rubble of the wiped out town.

I could post a million or more videos of these occurrences, but I am not. I am just posting because I think something else just may be happening. Something as old as before the days of Noah. Something we today maybe should be paying a little more attention to.

Who works a crap job and wants what I would call "Least Resistance Career Opportunity"? 

The least work or investment for a good paying career?

Today, I am going to give you my opinion on that and maybe I can help someone in need with career advice.


Go to a job board. I like to use www.simplyhired.com as they post the pay on many of postings.

Search for "Scrum Master" in your area. Now "Project Manager"


Once you do this, you will have an idea of what the career field pays. Now, the fun part.

Do you know how EASY it is to get PM and Scrum certifications? What if I told you that you can get PM certs for FREE?
All it costs is your time to learn and pass them. Better ones are low cost, a couple hundred bucks. 

The job itself is easy if you have basic to moderate computer skills and can coherently talk on a phone and type an email outline summary of notes about topics reviewed on the conference, follow-up with people who are responsible for action items and drive results. It is pretty easy day to day.

Scrum is a secondary / add on generally to PM. It is easy as shit as well and I still do not understand why they pay so much for a SCRUM Master as you can get the certification within a couple of months easy. (yes, you are reading this right... free training, low cost scrum certification, big money and yes you are reading the job postings correctly, you can make 70-120K or more a year doing this after a couple of years of experience.

OK, where do I start?

Get the easy / fast / overview foundation stuff first so you have an understanding of the basics:

https://www.msicertified.com/project-man...certified/

https://www.scrumstudy.com/certification...-certified

https://www.goskills.com/Course/Project-...ent-Basics 

Quote:For anyone who needs a free project management course for beginners, GoSkills offers a certification that is respected by project management professionals. The Project Management Basics course takes a little under eight hours to complete. It covers the fundamentals of project management principles, along with how to project boundaries using the W questions, how to create a schedule and allocate resources, risk projection, team building, and essential communication skills.


At the end of the course, you'll receive a certificate that has been approved by the Project Management Institute. Though GoSkills is a paid membership site, they offer a seven-day free trial, which can allow you to complete the Basics course for free.

Quote:The Google Project Management Professional Certificate is a good certification for those who want to work as a project manager. In just four months and for less than $200, you can build the skills needed to start a career in project management. The course material is easy to follow and the quality of the instructors is very good making this one of the best entry-level project management certifications.

The Google Project Management Professional Certificate is an entry-level project management certification prepared by Google and offered through Coursera. It helps students build the skills needed to work as project managers in various industries with a starting salary of more than $59K per year.

This Google career certificate is a great first step if you want to start a career as a project manager. It will also give you more than 100 hours of project management education to pursue the CAPM certificate, which is a globally recognized certification in project management.

Quote:What is CAPM Certification?

The Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM) is a globally recognized credential that opens the door to opportunities at every stage of your career in the field of project management.
The current CAPM certification involves taking a 150-question exam that tests your aptitude in:

• Fundamentals of project management and the role of project managers
  
• Project management environment, and project integration management
  
• Project scope, schedule, cost, quality and resource management.
  
• Project procurement, communication, stakeholder and risk management
  

The CAPM certification is an essential first step in building a career as a project manager. It can also aid you in pursuing many of our major certifications including the gold standard PM certification, the Project Management Professional (PMP).

Cost: 300 bucks and maybe a couple of $15 UDEMY courses if you can't find free study materials.

Quote:Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

The Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course is widely considered the epitome of certification in the industry. It provides an interactive and stimulating learning experience delivered by some of the most skilled and enthusiastic agile trainers globally. Each CSM class can be tailored to the individual needs of each student, ensuring they receive the best possible education.

By participating in CSM training, individuals acquire practical skills that they can immediately apply in the workplace and open up new career opportunities. Upon completing the course, your skills will enable you to take the CSM exam confidently.

You must complete a minimum of fourteen hours of training and pass a test after the course to become a CSM.

What could possibly go wrong?

I am sharing this with RN for just a little thought, and because I know of a person that did this and that was the question I asked her, while taking to her in the hospital.

Disclaimer: What happened to her really was not directly related to rental agreements she had with several migrants. But I want to see if anyone comes up with something that I missed.

This guy came up with a couple good points, but he was just preaching to the choir, he came up with nothing new for me. I can see nothing good coming out of this, but that may just be my conformation bias talking.

Dont be so....destructive Be responsible! Stop jerking around with your penis






Want to save the planet? Don't have children! Study finds bringing new life into the world is the most destructive thing you can do to the environment


Is Having Kids Eco Friendly?

Kids Are Cute But They Are Not Really Eco-Friendly



There was that one child policy in China ,  this climate change ideology goes even further -


Imagine if you will------World without kids to save our planet

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I spent my youth on horse back in the sticks of Texas, hunting and fishing with my trusty horse and dog; a childhood I would not want to trade with anyone for anything.

I have always had a great deal of respect for Genghis the great Khan of the steps for what he accomplished and the barriers he faced on his rise to power.

Something like 0ne in eight people today have some Genghis genes in their makeup. I have heard in Asia that number is something like one in three.  I realize few think they have time to listen to this story but if you do enjoy.

Quote:The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols’ “Great Taboo”—Genghis Khan’s homeland and forbidden burial site—tracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation of the world. Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.