The Castlehom Institute

Wall Charts

http://www.intelcenter.com/wc.html?gclid=CLL0-rGLj6MCFZsM2god-FoYWA

Afghan Taliban Organizational Link Analysis Wall Chart v1.1
NOW AVAILABLE

The Afghan Taliban Organizational Link Analysis Wall Chart v1.1 shows the organizational structure of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The upper portion of the chart displays the broad organizational structure which is comprised of 10 committees. The 10 committees address both logistical and operational aspects and provide support to the regional military commands.  The lower portion examines the four regional military Shuras which operate out of Pakistan, and direct operations throughout Afghanistan, depicting regional command structures. Following the Feb. 2010 arrest of Taliban Deputy Emir Mullah Baradar, Mullah Zakir was promoted from head a regional military Shura to head of all military operations. While there is likely further overlap between the committees on the upper portion, and those operating at the provincial level, it is unclear how these commanders fit into the overall structure of the Taliban. Networks within the Taliban, such as the Haqqani network, are depicted here as well. The chart is 44"x36" and costs US$29.95.

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks

“… could become as important a journalistic tool
as the Freedom of Information Act.” — Time Magazine

Stanley A. McChystal

“Service in this business is tough and often dangerous,” he said. “It extracts a price for participants, and that price can be high. It is tempting to protect yourself from the personal and professional cost of loss by limiting how much you commit, how much you believe and trust in people, and how deeply you care.”

In conclusion, he said: “If I had it to do over again, I’d do some things in my career differently, but not many. I believed in people and I still believe in them. I trusted and I still trust. I cared and I still care. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”

Then he added, “To the young leaders of today and tomorrow, it’s a great life.”

http://www.lougehrig.com/about/speech.htm

FAREWELL SPEECH Lou Gehrig

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I’m lucky.

"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that’s something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that’s something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that’s the finest I know.

"So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."

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THANK GOD WE CAN’T SEE THE FUTURE

IT IS BAD ENOUGH WE CAN’T FORGET THE PAST

WE ONLY HAVE NOW THIS MOMENT

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Beaumont Cup

http://shortlink.info/?0c0d9f04

Next to the Wilson Challenge Trophy the Beaumont Cup is one of the oldest athletics trophy awarded annually at the University of  Alberta.  I won it 50 years ago.

1960–1961
Richard Larratt

Google has changed everything.

One of my best friends -

Gordon Lucas Strategy Consultant

same story

goto google type in his name and there he is

It isn’t just kids telling their stories on Facebook.

If you’ve had a life it is out there – even a popular name like lucas won’t hide you – and what about google maps.

It’s a game-changer.  You’re on camera.  It’s not 15 minutes of fame.  It’s your life.

I was talking to Gordon the other day about this.  It’s a pride and a shame that while the past is gone the record is anything but…

tragedy then comedy

http://vimeo.com/8290990

As per the 1st link (sic: above) that was how i first heard Jacques Brel, Alive and well in Paris, ~forty year ago at the National Art Centre in Ottawa with Tiu.

Now according to the Citizen it’s a sequel but still the best of this year’s Stratford musicals says Jamie Portman, Canwest News Service June 24, 2010 as she gushes

. “Take a bare stage, four performers, a small orchestra in the background and 26 glorious songs celebrating a late 20th-century rebirth of the troubadour tradition —and what do you get?

“Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is a musically intense and emotionally involving celebration of a legendary Belgian cabaret artist who explored virtually every facet of the human experience through a group of remarkable contemporary art songs”.

http://shortlink.info/?562951c1

Somehow it reminds me of a kid telling me I was obsessing about wwii and then i realized he thought america had been allies with germany against russia and what was my problem with Arabs.  It’s so Lawrence of Arabia.

I have stopped crying.

Sometimes I laugh.

JCFROG is funny.

http://vimeo.com/3518906

He has ~2600 following his twitting. He is not a sequel.

Hubble

http://vimeo.com/13195191

Ben Hillman Bach of the Antarctica

http://vimeo.com/4915499

IBM

http://vimeo.com/2245119

Does God Exist

http://vimeo.com/7760377

her middle name is meta

http://www.ashleighlarratt.com/

“I am an artist as much as you are an artist.”

My best, my daugther, ashleigh meta larratt.

“I grew up a competitive equestrian, performing violinist, and gifted academic aggressively pursuing a career in the hard sciences. During my undergraduate degree I took a life changing life drawing class that introduced me to a beautiful world in which I felt a vulnerable baby but ultimately in awe and awakened for new growth and so, switched my major to Film. During my Directorial Honours Thesis I found Yoga and knew that now the camera must shoot inward. I traveled to California for Bikram Yoga teacher training and as I practiced being a body instead of seeing other bodies I was led back home to study jewelry design, energetic healing arts, Anusara Yoga and all things Taoist and Tantric.  I am currently breathing deeply in Toronto being a transformer, writing a book about it and realizing that making videos still has a sweet home in my heart – all with a rooted fire inside that I have never felt before. I don’t want to know what any of it means except that everything changes in the way that makes me love the most.”

Her custom jewelry line’s name is Armour.

It’s just incredible!  Here is a hint – one piece.

“A bit over 2 lbs of silver and a month of work went in to this sterling silver chainmail halter top. Each link was handmade, half were fused and hammered flat, and the other half were soldered to keep it all together. It fits anywhere from a size 2 to 6. Its not lined, so if you are really thinking about wearing it, a little something on the underneath might be nice, or not might be nice as well! It laces up the back with ribbon or cording, whatever you would like really, and kind of like shoelace fashion. You can lace through every hole, which is a bit time consuming, or you can lace every third one which is nice as well.

The last picture is a friend of mine wearing it at a show I had. You can check out my flickr page for a group photo of other outfits.”

http://vimeo.com/user1122200