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Russian advice: More troops won't help in Afghanistan
MOSCOW — The old diplomat sighed as he recalled his years in Afghanistan, and then leaned forward and said in a booming voice that no escalation of troops would bring lasting peace.
As the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986, Fikryat Tabeyev saw the numbers rise to more than 100,000 troops without any possibility of victory against a growing insurgency.
Even with President Barack Obama's plan initially to send 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to that mountainous nation this year, the combined NATO-American force will be smaller than the Soviet contingent was. Moscow's failure to pacify Afghanistan, which broke the back of the Soviet Union, doesn't mean that the same fate awaits Obama's efforts, but ignoring a decade of experience there would be a mistake, former envoys and generals warn.
The Soviets rumbled into Afghanistan in 1979 to rescue a weak communist regime, a very different reason from the U.S.-led invasion of 2001, which sought to deny the 9-11 terrorists a haven. The seven years of war since the U.S. intervention, though, look familiar to the Russians.
Many challenges that bedeviled the Soviets confront the American operation today, the retired envoys and generals said. Among them are vicious tribal rivalries, a weak central government, radical Islamists, power-hungry warlords, incompetent or corrupt local military commanders, failing infrastructure and the complexity of fighting guerrilla groups. The former officials also cautioned that trying to bring democracy to Afghanistan, or anything resembling it, will be as fruitless as their attempts to install communism.
"You may elect a parliament, you may invite parliamentary delegations from Afghanistan to visit Europe, but it means nothing," said Boris Pastukhov, whose service as Soviet ambassador began in 1989, the year the Red Army withdrew. "The decisions by parliament cannot be compared with the decisions of a jirga," a tribal council.
Among the experts, there was gloating that the U.S. military is battling some of the same insurgents whom the CIA once funded to fight Moscow. All skated over the details of the brutal Soviet campaign to stomp out the Afghan resistance.
However, they also seemed to voice genuine concern about the U.S. troop buildup.
The Soviets also were convinced that superior numbers, firepower and training would make it possible to avoid the mistakes that the British and others had committed stretching back to Alexander the Great, former Ambassador Tabeyev said.
"History didn't listen to us," said Tabeyev, who's now 81. "All our efforts to restore peace in the country . . . this was a flop in the end."
The fundamental problem in Afghanistan is that it isn't a country in the way the West thinks of countries, said retired Lt. Gen. Ruslan Aushev, who did two tours there and left as a regimental commander.
"There has never been any real centralized state in Afghanistan. There is no such nation as Afghanistan," said Aushev, who's a former president of the Russian Caucasus republic of Ingushetia and now heads a veterans group in Moscow. "There are (ethnic groups of) Pashtuns, Uzbeks and Tajiks, and they all have different tribal policies."
As a result, any occupation force will spend much of its time propping up a government that has little relevance outside Kabul and trying to corral disparate ethnic groups and tribes into a national army that's often unwilling to fight, Aushev said.
"We made the same mistake when we put the weak Babrak Karmal as the head of state," Aushev said of a former Afghan president. "He was so weak that no one obeyed him. He was hiding behind the backs of Soviet soldiers. . . . Today the situation is the same; (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai is being protected by U.S. special forces."
Retired Gen. Pavel Grachev, who spent two tours in Afghanistan, including commanding an airborne division, had a tone somewhere between disbelief and shock when he discussed the news of Obama's troop buildup.
"I believed as sincerely as American officers do now that we were fighting there to help make our country safer," said Grachev, who later became defense minister and sent in Russian units to quell Chechnya during the 1990s, a campaign that also ended in disaster. "After the war, as a politician, I could see this war had been pointless."
That said, Grachev offered some advice: Post soldiers to guard road projects and irrigation systems, and send in an army of engineers, doctors, mining experts and construction advisers.
Pouring billions of dollars into infrastructure would be a lot more productive than firefights in far-flung villages, he said.
"You have to understand that in the economic sphere, Afghanistan is now at a stage lower than the Middle Ages," Grachev said.
Unlike Iraq, which has relatively large cities and highways, much of the Afghan population is dispersed across small villages of mud houses connected by dirt paths and crumbling roads. In many regions, there are no jobs other than tending poppy fields. Health care and education levels are among the worst in the world.
That, Grachev said, is a commander's nightmare; it gives insurgents and terrorists a population that sees little reason to support the Kabul government or its Western backers. The hardened military man insisted that instead of bombs, "It is urgently necessary to create a comprehensive road network!"
Retired Gen. Viktor Yermakov agreed. He led the Soviet Union's 40th Army in Afghanistan during the early 1980s, and he said that his staff officers came to realize that they simply weren't going to win the war by military means.
"But unfortunately it was too late," Yermakov said, adding later that, "We had to answer fire. When we were attacked, we attacked with all of our might."
His soldiers were in a battlefield, caught in a cycle of attack and counterattack with an enemy that usually slipped away by the time the artillery shells rained down. There was no military solution, but he had a war to fight.
For the Americans, Yermakov said, it probably will become a familiar story.
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Auto Repair For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Following some basic auto repair safety rules and a monthly maintenance schedule will keep you safe and prevent auto problems later. Disassembling auto parts and putting them back together is easier if you stay calm and avoid distractions.
Auto Repair Safety Rules
When you're repairing your car or doing basic maintenance, practice these safety methods to avoid injury to yourself and damage to your automobile and to be prepared in case of a mishap:
Don't smoke while you're working on your vehicle.
Never work on your vehicle unless the parking brake is on, the gearshift is in Park or Neutral, and the engine is shut off (unless it has to be running for you to do the work).
Be sure that the parts of the engine you're working on are cold so that you don't get burned.
Never jack up a car unless the wheels are properly blocked.
Use insulated tools for electrical work.
Before using a wrench or ratchet on a part that seems to be stuck, make sure that if it suddenly comes loose, your hand won't hit anything. To avoid the possibility of bruised knuckles, pull on wrenches rather than push them whenever possible.
Before working on your car, take off your rings, tie, long necklaces, and other jewelry, and tie back long hair.
If you're using toxic chemicals such as coolant, cleaners, and the like, keep them away from your mouth and eyes, wash your hands thoroughly after using them, and either store them safely away from pets and children or dispose of them in a way that's safe for the environment.
Know that gasoline is extremely dangerous to have around. Not only is it toxic and flammable, but the vapor in an empty can is explosive enough to take out a city block.
Work in a well-ventilated area. If possible, work outdoors in your driveway, your backyard, or a parking lot. If you must work in your garage, be sure to keep the garage door open and the vehicle as close to the door as possible.
Keep fire extinguishers handy. Place one in your garage and one under the front seat of your vehicle. (Be sure to secure it with a bracket that will prevent it from rolling under the pedals.)
Monthly Auto Maintenance Checklist
Taking the time for regular under-the-hood vehicle checks will help prevent problems later. Spending 15 minutes every month for an under-the-hood check may prevent 70% of problems that lead to highway breakdowns. Convinced? Then run through the following list once a month or every 1,000 miles:
|Check the air filter.
|Check the automatic transmission fluid level on the
|Check the accessory belts.
|Check the brake fluid.
|Check the battery.
|Check the power-steering fluid.
|Check the coolant.
|Check the windshield wipers and amount of windshield washer
|Check the hoses.
|Check the wiring.
|Check the oil level on the dipstick.
|Check the tires.
Tips for Easily Disassembling and Reassembling Auto Parts
The first rule of auto repair jobs is never hurry! If things get rough, take a break. You may get a whole new perspective when you go back to work. Keep distractions to a minimum, don't answer the phone, keep the kids and the dog away, and relax. Don't panic if you hit a snag — sit quietly and think about it. If the parts fit together before, they'll fit together again.
The following steps outline a process for disassembling and reassembling complex auto parts — or anything, for that matter:
Get a clean, lint-free rag and lay it down on a flat surface, near enough to reach without having to get up or walk to it.
After you remove each part, you'll lay it on the rag, which shouldn't be in an area where oil or dust or anything else can fall on it and foul the parts.
If you're going to use something that blasts air for cleaning purposes, leave enough of the rag uncluttered to flip it over the parts resting on it.
Before you remove each part, ask yourself the following questions:
What is this thing?
What does it do?
How does it do it?
Why is it made the way it is?
How tightly is it screwed on (or fastened down)?
As you remove each part, lay it on the rag in clockwise order, with each part pointing in the direction it lay in when it was in place.
When you're ready to reassemble things, the placement and direction of each part tells you when to put it back and how it went.
If you're making notes, assign each part a number indicating the order in which you removed it — part #1, part #2, and so on.
You can even put numbers on the parts with masking tape if you're afraid that the rag may be moved accidentally.
When you're ready to reassemble everything, begin with the last part you removed, and then proceed counterclockwise through the parts.

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Romance dominates Spirit Awards
The oddball romance Silver Linings Playbook has been named best picture at the Spirit Awards honouring independent films.
In Hollywood's last awards before the Oscars, Silver Linings Playbook led with four wins, including best actress for Jennifer Lawrence and director and screenplay for David O Russell.
Lawrence is the best-actress favourite at the Academy Awards for her role as a young widow in a shaky new relationship with a man fresh from a mental hospital.
The Sessions earned two acting prizes, for John Hawkes as a man in an iron lung hoping to lose his virginity and Helen Hunt as the sexual surrogate helping him through it.
The award for best supporting actor went to Matthew McConaughey as a flamboyant stripper in Magic Mike.
Silver Linings Playbook director Russell noted that his initial trip to the Spirit Awards was 19 years ago, when he won the prize for best first film for Spanking the Monkey. His son Matthew, an inspiration for Silver Linings because of his battle with bipolar disorder, was a year old at the time, and was in the crowd to watch his father claim his awards.
The film is up for best picture at the Oscars, where Russell is nominated for adapted screenplay and director and Cooper and Lawrence are in the running for the lead-acting honours.
The film's producers said they had expected fellow Oscar best-picture nominee Beasts Of The Southern Wild to win the top Spirit Award and that they have no expectations of winning the big prize at the Oscars, where Ben Affleck's CIA thriller Argo is the best-picture favourite.
Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke's old-age love story Amour won best international film, a possible prelude to the Oscars, where his film is the favourite to win the foreign-language prize and is nominated for best picture. "I have the impression I am the oldest man in the room," the 70-year-old Haneke joked in a room filled with young filmmakers.
The ceremony was hosted by Adam Samberg at the awards' usual venue, a tent along the beach in Santa Monica just west of Los Angeles.
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For example, I am going to run a job and measure its CPU usage afterwards. Also say that a virtual machine (Ubuntu Server 12.04) with only one core will be used.
root@ubuntu-server:~# nproc
root@ubuntu-server:~# while [ 1 ] ; do sleep 0.0001 ; done &
[1] 5605
Now let's show its performance by means of top, ps and pidstat (this command belongs to the sysstat package, which also provides the sar utility, used to collect, report, or save system activity information).
root@ubuntu-server:~# top -b -n 1 -p 5605 | grep bash | awk '{print $9}'
root@ubuntu-server:~# ps -eo pid,pcpu | grep '^ 5605' | awk '{print $2}'
root@ubuntu-server:~# pidstat -u -p 5605 1 1 | grep bash | head -n 1 | awk '{print $7}'
If you go over the definitions of these measures, you can read as follows:
- top (%CPU): the task's share of the elapsed CPU time since the last screen update, expressed as a percentage of total CPU time.
- ps (%CPU): cpu utilization of the process in "##.#" format. Currently, it is the CPU time used divided by the time the process has been running (cputime/realtime ratio), expressed as a percentage.
- pidstat (%CPU): total percentage of CPU time used by the task. In an SMP environment, the task's CPU usage will be divided by the total number of CPU's if option -I has been entered on the command line.
What is my opinion? All data turned out try to display the CPU utilization of a process during a period of time, but the key is that period of time taken to work out the result, and I think that for pidstat is different that for top and ps.
So my conclusion is that all aforementioned tools are correctly valid, and they will give back you a correct idea about the behaviour of a process in terms of CPU.


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By Doug Underhill When the term Miramichi is used, it is a multi-leveled concept. The
Miramichi is a river, a city, a community, a region and a state of mind. It is unique and special in its own way. When local
hockey broadcaster Hoppy Dunn began his radio telecasts, it was with "Hello, hockey fans from the headwaters of the Miramichi
to the farewell buoy." Dunn captures in spirit what the term Miramichi means. Located on the northeast coast of New
Brunswick, the Miramichi encompasses virtually all of Northumberland County, an area of 4, 720 square miles. Its main artery
is the Miramichi River itself which is the second longest in the province. The Miramichi River begins in Miramichi
Bay some 25 miles across at Escuminac about 30 miles below the former Town of Newcastle, and journeys inland making its first
branch at Beaubears Island about three miles above Newcastle, breaking into the Main Southwest which continues through Renous,
Blackville, Doaktown and well above Boiestown to its source near the village of Juniper, a distance of close to 75 miles.
The other branch, The Northwest Miramichi heads up into Red bank and Sunny Corner where it branches into the Little
Southwest and the Northwest Miramichi which continues beyond what was Heath Steele Mines. So much a part of the identity
of a Miramichier is the river that one could find himself on the North Branch of the Little Southwest Branch of the Northwest
Branch of the Main Miramichi and know exactly where he was. For a small community, Miramichi has left its mark on
the world, and will continue to do so. As local historian Manford Wasson has so aptly said: "The Miramichi is a microcosm
of the country. We encompass most of the founding ethnic groups of Canada. We have a strong traditional and cultural base
from the Native community, The French, the English, the Scottish and the Irish." Miramichi has had its boom times
and times of hardship, but it has always managed to rise above adversity, and continue to grow. Its best resource has always
been its people and the spirit they have shown. Perhaps it is this optimism and sense of enthusiasm which shows naturally
when any Miramichier greets another. The conversation will go something like this: "How she goin ?" The answer
is always "The very best." SELECTED passages from the Introduction to Doug Underhills book Miramichi Tales Tall and


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The NEC offensive player of the week, Central's Rob Hollomon, picked up another honor today. Tommy Meade is all over it in the following press release ...
Central Connecticut junior running back Rob Hollomon has earned another weekly award for his performance in Saturday's double overtime loss to #19/23 Lehigh. At a luncheon at Harvard University Hollomon was honored as the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston FCS Gold Helmet Award winner, becoming just the fifth CCSU player to ever receive the award (Stan House, Cory Harge, Justise Hairston, Gunnar Jespersen). The award is presented to the top FCS performer in New England each week at the group's weekly luncheon, which is also sponsored by the Greater Boston Gridiron Club.
Hollomon was named Northeast Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Monday.
"I am honored to be selected as the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston FCS Gold Helmet winner. Thank you for selecting me for this award, but I must give most of the credit to my teammates and coaches, particularly our offensive line. They are a great unit and lead the way for our offense every day. Thank you again for this honor, I am proud to be mentioned among such a select group of players," Hollomon said upon learning of the honor.
Hollomon posted 253 all-purpose yards for the Blue Devils in a thrilling 51-44 double overtime loss to #19/23 Lehigh on Saturday afternoon. Hollomon totaled 160 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. He also hauled in four passes for 69 yards.
His 44-yard catch and run, on a screen pass, on CCSU's opening drive set the offensive tone for the Blue Devils in the game. The play moved CCSU inside the Lehigh five yard line and two plays later Hollomon plunged into the end zone for his and his team's first touchdown of the game.
Hollomon added touchdown runs of 17 and 13 yards in the third quarter with his third score of the game giving CCSU a 34-17 lead with 7:06 left in the third quarter.
He rushed 35 times for 160 yards in the game and averaged 4.6 yards per rush.
As always, Hollomon was a big play threat in the game as he posted a 44 yard reception, a 35 yard rush and a 24 yard kickoff return.
Hollomon's three touchdowns matched his career-high.
On Sunday evening, the CFPA named Hollomon as an honorable mention for their National All-Purpose Performer of the Week award.


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War Crimes For Sudan President
"We condemn it in the strongest of terms. It will have far-reaching, bad implications for the entire country, and all options are open for our reactions," he told The Associated Press. "If you indict our head of state, the symbol of our country, the symbol of our dignity, then the sky's the limit for our reactions."
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U.N. officials and diplomats said the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday charging Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.
The court based in The Hague, Netherlands, said the prosecutor will present evidence of the war crimes in Darfur to judges Monday and one or more new suspects will be named. But court officials refused Friday to identify any of the potential new suspects.
The U.N. officials and diplomats said they expect lesser charges of helping orchestrate genocide and participating in crimes against humanity to be brought against Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
A spokesman for Sudan's president dismissed the investigation and said his government refuses to hand over any suspects.
Sudan's ambassador to the U.N., Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamed, warned that issuing arrest warrants for government leaders would be "a criminal move."
"We condemn it in the strongest of terms. It will have far-reaching, bad implications for the entire country, and all options are open for our reactions," he told The Associated Press. "If you indict our head of state, the symbol of our country, the symbol of our dignity, then the sky's the limit for our reactions."
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack warned the Sudanese government not to resort to violence. "Violence perpetrated by the government against those on the ground performing humanitarian missions, performing duties on behalf of their governments serves — certainly does not serve the purposes of the Sudanese government," he said.
The court's prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina, has earlier clearly indicated he is aiming for the top of the Sudanese government, accusing them of sponsoring the janjaweed militias who have unleashed a reign of terror on the country's Darfur region. Up to 300,000 people have died since the conflict began in early 2003.
The prosecutor has described the probe as relying on investigators based in neighboring Chad and more than 100 witnesses in 18 countries.
He told the U.N. Security Council in June that "evidence shows that the commission of such crimes on such a scale, over a period of five years, and throughout Darfur, has required the sustained mobilization of the entire Sudanese state apparatus."
The court in The Hague is the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal. An indictment of al-Bashir would mark the first time the tribunal has charged a sitting head of state with war crimes.
But there is precedent: Other U.N.-created international war crime tribunals charged Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Liberian President Charles Taylor with war crimes while they were still in office.
Milosevic died in his cell in March 2006, shortly before the end of his genocide trail. Taylor is currently on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.
The charges could bring a backlash from Sudan's government, which already has made it difficult for international aid workers and U.N.-African Union peacekeepers to do their work.
"If the procedure is going the way it seems it's going to go, of course we have to be aware of the effects it would have on the ground," France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert said Friday of the court's expected action.
Threats to the peacekeepers — currently about 9,000 soldiers and police officers — were underscored this week by an ambush that killed seven and injured 19, one of the deadliest attacks on U.N. forces in recent years.
But some court experts anticipating the charges against Sudan's leaders say the benefits outweigh the risks. "If the prosecutor requests an arrest warrant against the president of Sudan for genocide or crimes against humanity or both, it will a huge step in limiting the impunity for horrific acts committed against innocent people in Darfur," said Richard Dicker, director of the international justice program for Human Rights Watch, a research and advocacy group.
"It would send the message that no one is above the law for these kinds of crimes including a sitting president," he said.
Sudan does not recognize the court's authority and has for months refused to arrest and send for trial a government minister and rebel leader charged with atrocities by Moreno-Ocampo last year.
On Friday, a spokesman for the president, Mahjoub Fadul Badry, called the court's prosecutor a "terrorist" whose investigation is based on biased testimony from rebel leaders. Badry said the government would not hand over any suspects, even rebel leaders.
"Moreno-Ocampo's report depends on verbal testimony of rebel leaders and organizations that work under a humanitarian cover but in fact are branches of the intelligence apparatuses of other countries," Badry told The Associated Press.
"In the end, we don't really care what he says."
Associated Press reporters Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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Omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod, you guys, OMIGOD.
Eventually I'm going to come up with some more creative and literary descriptions for the emotions I'm feeling after that episode, but this deep sense of satisfaction mixed with horror and confusion and excitement and rapture and how-good-did-that-bird-pie-look-hunger can't be expressed much beyond the exclamation OMIGOD.
Darling Throners, this is an episode that will go down in the annals of great TV moments, so let's bust out our goblets, (Valyrian) steel our resolve and bleed ourselves dry on all the wonderful developments in Westeros this week.
Reminder: spoilers will be included below (AND HOW!), so only read on if you've seen the episode. We're discovering the storyline through the TV series (reading the books after each has finished), so no dropping important future plot points in the comments, or we'll bake you into delicious, delicious bird pie.
OK, so you've seen the spoiler warning? You're absolutely sure you watched the episode, all the way to the end?
You're not going to send me an angry email declaring YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON STOP SPOILING THIS SHOW?
Are we all good?
Then I've only got one thing to say:
Yeah! Yeah! Whooop! Whoooop! Punch the sky! High five a friend! Hell, high five an enemy! Chug a 2L bottle of homebrand cola! Shove a chocolate mud cake in your face! Run your pants up a flagpole! Make a sparkler bomb! (Actually don't do that, I don't have insurance to cover you when you blow a finger off).
It's happened. It's finally happened. He's dead. Dead, dead, dead. So dead. Dead like big fat dead stupid dead thing that's not alive anymore, but rather, dead.
Yes, after getting hitched and diverting himself at the reception with some of the cruellest, most abhorrent behaviour imaginable - bad even by his standards - we finally saw King Joffrey suffer the worst choke since Greg Norman's golf career and embrace the God of Death. Not today? Ha, sorry, bee-atch, no dice.
(I really can't overstate how much glee I'm feeling here, people.)
But let's take it back to the beginning, to properly enjoy all of this week's offerings.
For me, this episode was about crossroads, and to misquote Robert Frost, which road you choose - or don't choose - to travel.
The episode opened with Theon Greyjoy now on a road he could never have imagined in a gazillion years - a human hunt with the psychotic pusbucket Ramsay Snow and an equally bloodlusty lady. Her name is Miranda, but given their messed up relationship, we might just go with Myra Hindley at this point.
Theon, as the bastard Snow points out later to his father Roose Bolton (boo!), has become Reek, a tortured and drooling but loyal slave, who watches on even as Snow turns his horrendous hounds onto a poor young woman whose only crime appears to be not being able to run fast enough.
Ramsay is so confident in his new pet's obedience that he chooses to tell him about Robb Stark's demise while having Theon shave his neck. The blade hovers precariously over Ramsay's throat, and we watch on, hoping for him to do the obvious. But Reek shudders with despair, fear and realisation that has another master now. Now I'm no fan of Theon, but by holy Moses, seeing him like this is almost unbearable.
Bolton too has his misgivings; Greyjoy was more useful to him as a hostage if he had all his wits about him. But with the revelation that Bran and Rickon Stark are still alive, he has reason to believe his bastard son may yet prove himself worthy of becoming a "true" Bolton. Screw that, Bolton's the real bastard, and I hope he and Ramsay get a taste of their own flaying.
Is Stannis having second thoughts about the Lord of Light? His crazy-ass wife certainly isn't, happily turning her own brother into a spit roast for not going along with the whole cult thing happening on Dragonstone. Davos gets cranky at Stannis - but Stannis doesn't react as angrily as he has done in the past. And when the missus suggests their sweet little daughter Shireen needs the rod, he forbids it.
Shireen is obviously an intelligent and critical thinking pre-tween, which you can tell from the complete lack of One Direction posters on the stone walls of her tower cell. But will Melisandre convince her of the value of the LoL? Perhaps if she were to pull out some tricky magic to remove Shireen's scarring…
We touch base with Bran and his merry bunch up beyond the wall, where the young warg is spending too much time in his wolf Summer's head. Hungry for deer carcass, he seems to be trying to live on imaginary food, which has his companions Jojen and Meera Reed worried. For if Bran forgets his human self, everything will be lost. But exactly what would happen if Bran decides he'd prefer to live in the borrowed world of his wolf, where at least he can run?
The group come across a weirwood tree, glistening cream and red against the bleakness of the black and white surroundings. Bran lays a hand on it and immediately has visions of events in the past and - yikes - the future. I reckon I spied a Child of the Forest in there, the original residents of Westeros driven out by the First Men. "Look for me under the tree" said a disembodied voice, leading Bran to say that he now knows where they have to go. Now there's a path I imagine is brand new for everyone.
Jaime's still learning to live with his gilded steel hand, which has left him apparently almost unable to wipe his own backside. Now I've always thought that was a task that could be performed ambidextrously, but maybe I'm just gifted.
Tyrion has the wise advice that Jaime should focus on the commanding side of his duties, not the physical fighting. Jaime is reluctant to give that up without exploring all training options, but King's Landing is gossip central, and he doesn't want news of his handicap to get out.
This leads to the rather splendid sight of Jaime facing off against everyone's favourite sellsword, Bronn, on a platform overlooking the sea. Normally that's where Bronn spars with a different kind of sword, but here he's a sweaty Mr Miyagi getting the Kingslayer to wax on, wax off, swinging and thwacking away while the waves crash around them.
Just a quick survey - was anybody else just a teensy bit aroused by this scene? Or was that just me?
The final crossroad that was hurled up before action moved into the big royal wedding was Tyrion's break with Shae. Informed by Varys that Cersei and Tywin now knew about her, he resolved to put her on a ship to Pentos. In a heartbreaking scene Tyrion's two sides - the lion and the lover - battled with each other as he insisted that she leave him.
He had told her about the dangers of King's Landing so many times she had become complacent to it; now, to force her hand, he had to make the break personal, to use his marriage to the pure Sansa and Shae's past against her. I believe that was the first time we have ever seen Shae cry; Tyrion has never before caused such a wound.
And then. And then. It began.
Joffrey, as resplendent in a silver-tinged stag crown and opulent tunic, was out-glamoured by Kate Middleton in her glowing pale blue dress, with a mound of curls piled high on her head like a giant bunch of hairy silky grapes.
The ceremony was mercifully short, and I only threw up in my mouth a little bit when Joffrey kissed his new queen (imagine if there had been tongue!).
The reception, however, was the kind of painful, simpering, self-congratulatory circus you'd expect from a narcissistic bunghole like Joffrey (although paid for by the wonderful Olenna Redwyne-Tyrell). Lots of "look at me" faux sentiment, exemplary displayed by Kate Middleton's pronouncement that the leftovers would be given to the poor. Cersei, initially praising Margaery with a kiss, later rounded on Pycelle and demanded all the food be given to the dogs. That woman is colder than an ice cube slipped down the back of your shirt.
Joffrey has always been a right c-bomb and we saw that on display during the rehearsal dinner, when he named his new Valyrian sword "Widow's Wail" and chopped up the book that Tyrion gave him in the hope he might be interested in something beyond violence.
But it got so much worse at the reception. Drunk on power and a fair amount of Tyrell wine, Joffrey begins a humiliation of Tyrion so utterly contemptible that I almost punched the plasma screen just to try to get to his face.
In a scene so distressing I believe it will rival the Red Wedding in terms of its ability to disconcert, dismay and enrage, Joffrey releases five other little people from a giant lion's mouth, and has them act out the War of Five Kings, each dressed as one of the key combatants. Anyone with any sensitivity is dumbstruck, as appalled as a giggling Joffrey is delighted.
I'm sure I wasn't the only viewer to have a growing sense of dread about what was to come - "Joffrey's going to make Tyrion get involved, isn't he?"
BLESS Tyrion then for his almighty response - slamming it as a "poor imitation", challenging Joffrey to show off his own battle skills and then suggesting that Joffrey could be taken advantage of by one of the little people. In the silence that followed, all I wanted was a slow clap.
Instead, Joffrey ramped up the torment, tipping wine on Tyrion's head, making him cupbearer then kicking the cup out of his reach, insisting that he kneel before him … and well done Tyrion for standing firm, as Kate Middleton hails the arrival of a giant bird pie.
Turns out eating bird pie brings on quite a thirst, and so Joffrey reaches again for his wine.
Then the coughing begins. "He's choking!" cries Margaery, as Jaime and Cersei run to a stricken Joffrey to, as it turns out, watch him die.
While it was a victorious moment, it was also a real body horror. Joffrey's nose poured blood and his face turned the colour purple that we all thought just referred to the regal nature of the wedding. It was not a nice way to go, it was not a dignified way to go, and it even made us feel slightly sorry for this genetic freak show uber jerk.
Raising a shaking finger, Joffrey points accusingly at Tyrion, who had been the last person to touch his goblet, prompting Cersei to call for her brother to be captured.
The whole sequence was like all the feels from the Red Wedding bottled up, shaked around to reverse the polarity, then cannonballed into my gut. It was everything that's great about Game of Thrones - disbelief and thrill all at once.
While Tyrion was apprehended for the crime, surely we all know it mustn't be him. I mean, he has plenty of good reasons, and even said to Pod during the little people exploitation that "We shall have to find another way to reward the king." But Tyrion is too clever to be caught red-handed.
As the episode ended, I recalled hazily a quote about the use of poison as a weapon.
Then I realised - it was a line from way back in season one, regarding the mysterious death of Jon Arryn:
Ned Stark: I've heard it said that poison is a woman's weapon.
Grand Maester: Yes, women, cravens and eunuchs.
And so we can establish an initial, simplistic list of suspects from those who were near Joffrey and his wine goblet just moments before the fatal seizure:
Margaery - Joffrey dead would mean she wouldn't have to sleep with him. I'd seriously consider homicide in that situation as well.
Olenna - perhaps in partnership with her granddaughter; maybe a move on the throne itself? Although it's hard to imagine that getting past the Lannisters.
Sansa - she has 50 million good motives, and she's been so down and devastated, nobody would probably suspect her of being able to organise a sophisticated murder plot.
Varys - he does everything for the realm. Perhaps he decided Joffrey was too dangerously out of control?
But you know what? I'm going to lay my money on ... Cersei. Oh sure, she's always played up the fierce lioness mother persona, but even she's had to admit in the past that Joffrey was out of control. She could easily bump him off, feign her grief, accuse Tyrion of the murder and thus rid herself of an obstacle, then have her second-son Tommen installed as king. He's still young and much better tempered than Joffrey. Cersei goes back to being Queen Regent. Tywin stays Hand. It makes sense.
And so now the Seven Kingdoms are at a crossroads. Will the Lannister/Tyrell alliance hold? Will Tyrion talk his way out of a death sentence? Will this give Stannis impetus to make another move on King's Landing?
But is it true? Happy to hear your conspiracy theories, although if you are a book reader, don't spoil! We have so much more to look forward to!
Yay! Best Moments
Zing! Best Lines
It was good to see Slow Loras again, and he had a nice verbal reposte with the Kingslayer about Cersei.
Jaime: You'll never marry her.
Slow Lorus: Neither will you.
Take that, twincester!
Eww, gross
The whole sequence with the mock war of five kings was so supremely humiliating, awful and awkward that I realised afterwards my face was bleeding from where I'd been scratching my nails down my cheeks in pain.
We didn't see any skin this episode, but, you know, JOFFREY GOT DEAD so we'll just have to look up porn on the internet like normal people.
And now, if you'll excuse me, your humble recappespondent needs a Bex and a good lie down.


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Definition: A polytope has property X iff there is a function f:N+ → R+ such that for each pair of vertices vi, vj the following holds:
disteuclidean(vi, vj) = f(distcombinatorial(vi, vj))
with distcombinatorial(vi, vj) = shortest path of edges between vi and vj.
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Discussant's Response to Controlling Audit Quality: A Responsibility of the Profession? Gordon L. Murray Haskins & Sells While I have done a lot of speaking over the years, I have never participated in a meeting with this particular format. I assume that my comments are to be directed toward stimulating discussion during the period that will follow. In the interest of stimulating such discussion and to preserve my own integrity, my comments on this question will be strictly as I see it. I have studied Andy Marincovich's paper and it appears to me that the following points emerge: • The title is "Controlling Audit Quality: A Responsibiltiy of the Profession?" with a question mark. To me the question mark is the most significant item in that tide. • Andy's paper says ". . . it may be constructive to inquire whether the programs of the profession—either in being or under study—are adequate to discharge this responsibility." This statement appears to assume that the answer to the question is that controlling audit quality is a responsibility of the profession. Is that really so? • Reference is made to the Beamer Committee on the matter of continuing education requirement. While Mr. Beamer was a partner of mine before his retirement, it does not necessarily follow that I agree with him on continuing education. However, I also don't presume to be an expert in this particular area. Therefore, I will dispose of the continuing education matter by simply saying that what I have seen adopted so far is a very feeble, and perhaps unnecessary effort. I also have a bias that formal education for a practitioner has very definite limitations and that essentially a person's continuing education is what he does in connection with researching to find solutions to particular problems occurring in day-to-day practice. To show how far I am probably away from current thinking on this subject, my own firm now has a continuing education program that is required for all persons through the age of 50. The best part of this program, to me, is that I am now 56 and therefore I am not going to be involved. • The paper suggests that ". . . character checks on those entering the profession may be an important step in strengthening the standards of the accounting profession." My own experience has included work for two Big 8 accounting firms, three industrial firms as the chief financial officer, and a major firm of management consultants, all of which have involved extensive executive recruiting activities. I can only say that I believe there are very real limitations to what can be accomplished through any attempt to conduct "checks of char- 39
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DEA Not Only Gets Intelligence Data, But Then Is Instructed To Cover Up Where It Gets The Info
from the wow deptOkay, so we were just talking about other government agencies wanting data from the NSA. The NY Times story claimed that the NSA was regularly turning down such requests. Except... this morning Reuters broke the news that the NSA, along with the CIA, FBI, IRS and Homeland Security, are actually funneling data to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and (even worse) the DEA is then instructed to lie about where it gets the evidence.
The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence - information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.As the article notes, the DEA doesn't just hide the actual details from those they're prosecuting, but even from judges and US attorneys in the Justice Department. Basically, it looks like the NSA is illegally giving the DEA info, and then the DEA is figuring out ways to pretend it got that info from legal sources. That goes way, way, way beyond what is supposed to be happening.
"I have never heard of anything like this at all," said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011. Gertner and other legal experts said the program sounds more troubling than recent disclosures that the National Security Agency has been collecting domestic phone records. The NSA effort is geared toward stopping terrorists; the DEA program targets common criminals, primarily drug dealers.
"It is one thing to create special rules for national security," Gertner said. "Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations."
"Remember that the utilization of SOD cannot be revealed or discussed in any investigative function," a document presented to agents reads. The document specifically directs agents to omit the SOD's involvement from investigative reports, affidavits, discussions with prosecutors and courtroom testimony. Agents are instructed to then use "normal investigative techniques to recreate the information provided by SOD."And this isn't just for extreme cases either. Reuters says that two separate senior DEA officials said that this technique "is used almost daily." As the Reuters report explains, the info from the NSA might, for example, highlight a particular vehicle that may be involved in a drug effort (remember, the NSA isn't supposed to collect or look at info on things happening in the US), and then DEA officials will be told something like "look for this vehicle in this place." The DEA will then ask "state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle," leading to a search. Then they later claim that the arrest and finding drugs came because of a "routine traffic stop" rather than NSA surveillance dragnet efforts.
There's a lot more in the article, including a variety of DEA officials insisting that there's nothing wrong with this sort of thing... balanced out by a variety of defense attorneys pointing out that it's unconstitutional to hide where information for an investigation came from. It is a fundamental aspect of basic due process that those accused of crimes get the details of the evidence and the investigation that lead to their arrests. That the DEA appears to be actively covering up this information, and that it's been standard operating procedure for decades, is immensely troubling.
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Many studies have shown that placing a baby younger than 1 year old
to sleep on his or her back is the most important thing parents can do to
reduce the risk of
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Since 1992, the
number of babies who sleep on their back has gone up (due mostly to the
national "Back to Sleep" campaign), and there has been a steady drop in the
SIDS rate.1
Placing babies to sleep on their backs reduces the risk of SIDS. Side
sleeping was also recommended in the past, but it is much easier for babies to
roll to their stomachs from their sides than from their backs. Unless your
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In rare cases, a doctor may recommend a different sleeping position
if your baby has certain health problems.
As babies mature, they learn to roll from their backs to their
stomachs. Babies who roll onto their stomachs during sleep do not need to be
continually shifted onto their backs. But always initially place them to
sleep on their backs.
When your baby is awake and someone is watching, allow your baby to
spend some time on his or her stomach ("tummy time"). This is good for the
baby's development and may help prevent flat spots on the back part of the
CitationsAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (2011). SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths: Expansion of recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment. Pediatrics, 128(5): 1030–1039.
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Below are select rides from our Maui vacation. Note we're riding base here with the emphasis on time and not speed or mileage. Also the 3G network here is spotty, so there are dead spots. The hardest ride we do is Upcountry – harder than the volcano, cause of the relentless rollers with steep pitches.
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These rides are best enjoyed when you're in shape and with a compact or 39 x 26/27. Note that all of these rides are done with ever-present traffic and eventually you'll just tune out the rental cars like an overly chatty cyclist on a long ride. I'll take good roads with shoulders as a tradeoff for the annoyance of cars. When you get an hour or more out of town, the traffic drops off considerably.
I'm using the Reecharge using while here and the Bike Brain app.
We enjoy the Maui beaches too. Snorkel and body surf after riding, but Upcountry is special. A religious person would describe it as "God's Country." It fascinates us because in a few hours you pass multiple climate zones. Climb up the Volcano and see even more.…
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ANAHEIM — No bank robberies to report on today. But, on my flight down from Seattle, I did spy some of those California wild fires that are an annual summer occurance here. It was a bit, well, wild to see the smoke rising from the hills as my plane headed toward SoCal.
Happy Fourth of July to my fellow Americans. It's a lovely day here, too, bright and sunny with one little puff of what can hardly be considered a substantial cloud in the sky. Great night for some fireworks — too bad I'll probably be in the clubhouse for the display. Maybe I'll make it back to the pressbox for the grand finale.
Baseball? Well, Jeremy Accardo is in town with the Jays and scheduled to meet with Dr. Lewis Yocum — an arm specialist who doubles as an Angels team doctor — about his forearm injury. Accardo said he's throwing off a mound and he only feels a twinge in his arm when he drops his arm slot. He's hoping the visit with the doc is for peace of mind more than anything.
Casey Janssen is also with the team here, but it's status quo for the injured righty. Yocum was the doctor who performed shoulder surgery on Janssen back in March. Nothing much else going on with the Jays — unless you consider trade rumors to be something much.
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Marco Scutaro, SS
Joe Inglett, 2B
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Matt Stairs, DH
Scott Rolen, 3B
Rod Barajas, C
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Adam Lind, LF
PITCHING: RHP A.J. Burnett (8-7, 4.74)
Chone Figgins, 3B
Casey Kotchman, 1B
Maicer Izturis, SS
Vladimir Guerrero, RF
Torii Hunter, CF
Garret Anderson, DH
Gary Matthews Jr., LF
Howie Kendrick, 2B
Jeff Mathis, C
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Who thinks we will win tonight??????.
We have all said we need a shortstop who can hit the only problem is will we hurt the team via the trade route,Who can we afford to give up we have no prospects that they can afford to trade,anybody????.
I was sure it was Gibbons fault that the jays were not winning but I was wrong,This team just plain does not fit,
Trade Burnett Wells Esk. Stairs Wilkerson Tallet Camp Frasor Zaun,Bring up Wolfe and Dias Move Rios to center get a good right fielder and a good shortstop and lets play ball.
I have two wishes for ss which are Jed Lowrie from Pawtucket Red Sox and Alcides Escobar from the Huntsville Stars ( Milwaukee). I'd also like to get Mathew Gamel from Huntsville.
Trade Eckstein to Baltimore for whatever they offer.
Than you for that AJ, really helps your trade value.
JP shoudln't have done that…he says he is gonna trade AJ the day he is starting…would any pitcher even care now ( I doubt AJ will ever sign for JP after what JP did to him over the years)
ahh and this means JP threw in the towel, FINALLY. Now we can start rebuilding like raps did a few years ago or the leafs are.
Oh and we NEED a bryan colengalo of baseball for the Jays.
JP has a big mouth we all know that and he is a liar how can the players respect this guy how can Godfrey keep him on the Jays staff it makes no sense.
gsumner I was hoping to get a shortstop with some major league experience like 5 years and a good right fielder and both must be 300 hiters with power.
Harry-we need Pat Gillick
I would like to see Gillick come back too.
garry-If we do that we'll be like the Leafs. This team needs to be imploded and rebuilt, with a different President and GM in charge.
If any deals are done in the meantime, it had better not be for has beens like Eckstein, Wlikerson and Melch. We need top quality prospects. Lowrie can play ss right now. I would trade Rolen for Mathew Gamel right now. With Hill at second, Gamel at 3rd and Lowrie at SS, we have a tremendous infield with power.
I think the only guys we keep from the current roster are Lind, Rios, Hill, Marcum, Litsch, McGowan, Accardo and Janssen. I'd trade all others.
But I don't want JP to do the trading-he's the first to go right along with Godfrey.
gsumner you tell harry we need Gillick and I agree and you tell me we don't need him explain????.
Garry-I was responding to you post suggesting we need **** with 5 years experience and a good right fielder. lol
Lowrie would be a good choice and we have to keep doc he is the best bar none.
how old is doc?
Harry-Doc will be 32 next May 14th, which is the reason I'd trade him now. By the time this team seriously contends, he'll be 35-36 and not have much left.
BJ Ryan is the same issue, he's now 33 and turns 34 in December. Scott Rolen is 33 and turns 34 in April.
If we trade these guys now, we would get numerous superb prospects and contend much sooner. I'd expect we'd get 3-4 top quality prospects for Doc, 2-3 for Ryan and 1-2 for Rolen.
Would you guys trade Doc to Tampa Bay for Longria and David Price?
Man, all you guys are starting to sound a lot like me!
Go Tampa!
well burt-would you do that trade with Tampa?
Doc is one of those pitchers that will pitch the same at 40 as he does now if they trade him the Jays can go to HELL.
You can trade anyone but not Doc,I have been a Jays fan for ever but that will end it for me.
Garry, they have already gone to hell-they're 10 back in the wild card. THey have to implode this team and start over
I have to agree and disagree with you GSumner, no matter what anyone says DOC IS THE HEART OF THIS TEAM, HE IS THE FACE OF THIS FRANCHISE, HE IS THE LEADER AND HE IS A SUPERB MENTOR FOR THE YOUNG PLAYERS.
Ryan can go, Rolen can go, Wells can go (after 2 years), Rios can go but DOC JUST CANT GO.
Like garry said, Doc will be Doc, i think we can probably start contending in 2 years when is is 33-34 and i am sure he will still be good then.
I say 2 years iis good because Lind is doing what he was supposed to do, I see Snider coming up very soon, I aslo see brett Cecil coming up. Arecibia is gonna take over at Catcher in the near future also. Hill will be there and hopefully Rios' good hitting self will be there. Oh and we might as well take Wells also. Now seeing that if Cooper keeps this up he might be there in 2 years from now too at 1st base making this a fearful lineup. Keep Doc, Marcum and Mcgowan (improve him on the road though) and put Cecil in there and might as well go with Litsch at 5th spot and thats a solid rotation as well.
Now the thing is if I were offered Doc for Evan and Price then I would consider it but Tampa IS NOT WAY GOING TO DO THAT. i know i contradicted my self but that is too sweet of a deal.
However I might be able to see Rolen, Burnett, Thigpen and Tallet going to Tampa for Longoria and Price (i think tampa needs a LH reliever)
If Baltimore likes Eckstein, I would just give him over for cash considerations and Baltimore has to pay his salary.
Man don't we all wish that we traded Rios for Lincecum now?
Harry-well I'm sure everyone also wished we'd never signed Eckstein , Stewart, Mench orWilkerson and kept Johnson.
It will take us 3-4 years to rebuild, two is not realistic, which is why I'd trade Halliday. Snider is having a so-so year in AA, so his progress is delayed and Brett Cecil is ok-only at AA, Romero is a disaster this year, so I doubt any of these can really help in 1-2 years. although Cooper looks really good, he's only at A-, so he's 2-3 years away. Our real pitching strength is at Lansing and 2-3 years away from really helping us.
None of the Adhrens or right side of the infield prospects are performing well, so we need a strong boost there, via the trade rout and Halliday gets us the best. If we are so fortunate to get Longria for 3rd base-we might get an all-star. David Price, could become one of the very best starters in baseball, is LH and only a year or so away. In my view he'll be a fine replacement for Halliday.
The point is, we're in last place, 10 games out of the wild card-this team doesn't cut it and we can't fall in love with any veterans-they're all trade bait.
This team will never contend no matter who we trade and if JP thinks he is going to lose his job he will make a lot more bad trades just for revenge and like I said trade Doc and I'm out of here.


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