World Trade Center

World Trade Center, The agency that is building the new World Trade Center is “dysfunctional” and has let costs get out of control on the $14.8 billion project, auditors said Tuesday.

The projected cost of the complex has risen $3.8 billion since 2008, when it was estimated at $11 billion, Navigant Consulting, Inc., said in its audit of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Third parties have promised to reimburse the Port Authority for much of the construction, but the agency’s remaining bill is still expected to reach $7.7 billion, up 28 percent from the last estimate of $6 billion, auditors said.

The audit was ordered by the governors of New York and New Jersey. It strongly criticized the Port Authority, which also runs New York area airports, seaports and Hudson River crossings.

The Port Authority is “a challenged and dysfunctional organization suffering from a lack of consistent leadership, a siloed underlying bureaucracy, poorly coordinated capital planning processes, insufficient cost controls, and a lack of transparent and effective oversight of the World Trade Center program that has obscured full awareness of billions of dollars in exposure to the Port Authority,” auditors wrote.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called the increase “staggering” in a joint statement.

“This record of historic failure must be reversed,” they said.

September 11 2001

September 11 2001, Many teachers are putting aside their typical Friday classes to make the anniversary 9 / 11 meaningful for their students, if they remember the attacks, directly or not yet born.

Daniel Maley is bringing to the class of a simple device: a piece of yellow caution tape that found on the ground in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Where one of the hijacked planes crashed. The police tape in a movie is showing high school students, so it stops there and takes the tape, along with photos of his visit to the place one month after the 2001 attacks.

“Students are always more interesting when it was on a personal level,” says Mr. Maley, professor of Geopolitical Studies of the elderly in Hatboro-Horsham High School, near Philadelphia.

Start the discussion by asking what they remember about that day. The main issue tends to arise: Why attack us? So throughout the term that helps them think critically about the complicated history of t*rror*sm, the difference between Islamic terrorists and the vast Muslim community, and forms of U.S. actions is seen worldwide.

“My goal would ultimately they are diplomats, in the sense that they will seek solutions to these problems, instead of [Let’s initial response] ‘let’s just go bomb em’, ‘” he says.

For educators question the best way to make the anniversary of a teachable moment, a coalition of 9 / 11 organizations have created curricula appropriate to age in subjects ranging from art to social studies. They are available online at www.911dayofservice.org. More than 6,500 teachers have downloaded the plans so far.

A high school lesson on the site has students deepen the Committee Report 9 / 11. Middle school focuses on figurative language in 2002, Bruce Springsteen songs in response to 9 / 11. Elementary students read a poem illustrated on land near St. Paul’s Chapel zero, which became a home base for rescue workers.

In the videos on the website, students can learn first hand of a police officer in New York in service that day and a director who had to evacuate the school in the middle of the ash cloud.

Embedded in the lessons are ways that students can examine the acts of service to turn a tragedy into an opportunity. “Teaching about 9 / 11 and t*rror*sm can be scary stuff for teachers and students…. [But] the best way to combat that fear … is to train our youth to help them see they can do a difference, “said Maryellen Salamone, who lost her husband in 9 / 11 and co-founder of the Action Initiative in April, which helped develop the lessons.

The private school Rowland Hall in Salt Lake City is conducting a meeting on Friday, where students of English creative writing professor Joel Long submit poems that have been written after studying poetry forged in the wake of 9 / 11, as Galway Kinnell from “When the towers fell.”

“Maybe I’m idealistic of what art can do,” says Long, “but I think that poetry can contain the germ of what matters.”

Patriot Day

Patriot Day, In commemoration of the attacks of September 11 and the Patriot’s Day, Fort Collins residents are organizing a fundraiser Saturday to benefit several organizations that provide services to veterans.

Forgotten generation product Ceremony Concert and Veterans Appreciation Day will go to the American Disabled Veterans organization and direction to the proposed plaza of the city of Spring Creek Veterans Park, said Jerry Wolcott, a business owner who is helping organize the event.

“The most important thing is to get everybody to be patriotic,” said Wolcott, who owns The Hideout Patio Bar and Grill with his wife, Cathy.

Wolcott, himself a veteran, said it is important to support veterans who have risked their lives and well being for all Americans. After the ninth anniversary of 9 / 11 attacks fall into the same day as Patriot Day this year makes it a good time to pay tribute, Wolcott said.

The free event will include a brief speech by Mayor Doug Hutchinson, and a presentation of colors by an honor guard composed of men and women of all branches of the military. Throughout the day, several prizes will be raffled, and active or former military members with proper identification can receive a free meal, courtesy of The Lair, Wolcott said.

Jim Stoddard, one of the coordinators of the event, said the event also hopes to raise some awareness to the proposal from the Veterans Plaza, which he called one of the “best kept secrets in the area.”

“There is a group of us trying to meet and gather a crowd pretty well,” he said.

He said the organizers hope the fundraiser an annual event.

The Forgotten Generation Concert is one of several fundraising events in honor of 9 / 11 victims or members of the armed forces this weekend.

In Loveland, members of Wind and Fire Motorcycle Club will hold a bike ride to raise funds in honor of those who died during the attacks September 11, 2001,. The group consists of motorcycle enthusiasts firefighting, including one member who said he lost several friends that day who worked as firefighters in New York.

Registration for the event is from 8:30 to 10 pm and the cost of entry is $ 15. The trip will start shortly after the Moto Adventure, 6385 Byrd Drive in Loveland.

Fox 5 News

Fox 5 News:(The Huffington Post) — Pursuing the false illusion of New Black Panther, the conservative movement is rolling on the type of bait unapologetic racing generations incorporating the U.S. policy has seen in decades, if not.

But the press pretend otherwise.

Fox News (also known as the opposition party) openly and proudly dedicated to jaw-dropping episodes of demagogic race-rendered, and representing the President of the United States as an enemy of the whites who calmly progressive assembly of his army for a war of races “,” However, the press sits in silence, looking away, and decided uniformly that there is no story there.

Almost you can hear the justifications audible: “Well, it’s just that Fox Fox.” Or, “It’s just Rush being Rush.”

Sorry, but when the channel’s most-watched cable news relentlessly represents the president and his government of being the home of the racist get-whitey, is news. And having the most listened to radio talk show host in America claim that our first African-American president deliberately keeps the high unemployment in order to take revenge on white America – that is news too.

Period.

What Fox News, Limbaugh and the rest of the GOP machine noise are doing today in terms of race yielded no apology is a disgrace. How the press is handling the unfolding story is not much better.

Read the full Media Matters column, http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007150010