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Part V of Raahe-Nijaat (the way out) series on Pakistan
Part-I, Part-II, Part-III, Part-IV, Part-V, Part-VI, Part-VII, Part-VIII, Part-IX, Part-X, Part-XI, Part-XII
In order to perceptively comprehend some of the dynamics behind the latter day Shia Killings in Pakistan, it is pertinent to read the very insightful report convened by the Government of Pakistan for the yesteryear Ahmadiya killings in 1953, titled: The Ahrar-Ahmadiya controversy Munir Report of the Court of Inquiry 1954 (https://tinyurl.com/Munir-Report-1954).
This report which came to be called the Munir Report, sheds a great deal of light on present matters pertaining to the movement toward Shia kafirdom in Pakistan. The methods used against the Ahmadiyas by the almost exactly 60 years ago is a mirror image of the methods being used today by the Tafriki-Lej-alphabet-acronym-soup (enumerated in my article: Some Context for What's Transpiring in Pakistan and What Not to do in the Upcoming 2013 Elections) against the largely defenseless and unarmed Shia Muslims of Pakistan.
The key difference to me between then and now is exactly one (apart from the palpable fact that it was Ahmadis then and Shias now):
- Then the government was incapacitated into taking no action against the Ahrar's terrorism due to political considerations in the fragile new Pakistan, and inadvertently let the conditions between 1948-1952 exacerbate by wavering in its determination to curb the politically motivated religious fanaticism of the Ahrar leading to the riots of 1953 in Punjab against the Ahmadis and the concomitant declaration of Pakistan's first martial law in Punjab. In other words, then, as is evident from the Munir Report, the situation was created due to political incompetence and political calculus of the political officialdom in the new Pakistan that the law and order deteriorated to that extent. Meaning, the officialdom did not want it, and the Ahmadiya killings occurred because of keeping political stability was deemed more important than immediately curbing the law and order situation with a just but unflinching hand and possibly exacerbating the situation.
- Whereas today, virtually all the power-wielders in Pakistan, some within the govt., both federal and state, I am sure also district down to the local thaana (police station) level, and some within the Military and nearly all of the intelligence apparatuses, and some within the media, I would say all the media both local and foreign, and also big businesses (including enterprises like Nestle Pakistan that has been supplying water to the occupation troops in Afghanistan for the past 12 years and part of officialdom in no less a measure than those officially drawing a salary from the national treasury), comprise the 'new Ahrar'. And, therefore, unlike what one sees in the Munir Report of repeated governmental officials writing memos to senior administrators and leaders to take stern action against the Ahrar, one will surely find no such memos in today's government as all the officialdom is together the 'new Ahrar'. I have already analyzed why I think the officialdom of Pakistan is the 'new Ahrar' under the title 'The New SAVAK in Pakistan'.
And all indications continue to pile up that the Shias are being goaded into militantly rising up (by killing a sufficient number of them) to create a full scale internecine war in Pakistan; Muslims killing Muslims once again to fertilize the "shia crescent". This is beyond any proxy warfare between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and while its seeds are surely planted in the deep seated shia-sunni differences, these spate of shia killings and the accompanying propaganda warfare upon the Shia Muslims of Pakistan is not due to Shia Sunni issue which is fourteen centuries old.
Both of those aforementioned factors that the media harps about, and the politicians variously draw upon with approaching elections in Pakistan, are misleading and calculated red herrings to disguise the real purpose behind this warfare. Unfortunately, due to the media participation in the New SAVAK project, more and more Shia and Sunni public are both getting confused about it.
Don't get confused ---- it is a fabricated war along the Hegelian Dialectic that I have by now surely explained to death on my website and have now stopped explaining altogether. It's like kicking an already dead dog to death.
But if you do not understand Hegel, you cannot possibly make sense of any of the apparent insanity in Pakistan. It is not insanity, but a calculated game-theory laced warfare being waged upon Pakistan to create a perpetual enemy for the West.
In the next five years, there will likely arise a "Hezbollah" Pakistan in reaction to the oppression by the New SAVAK in Pakistan, and that is more than arm chair prediction. It is an inevitability if the oppression upon the Shias of Pakistan continues.
One can see that the Shias of Pakistan have been the most docile of communities in Pakistan, largely self-obsessed in their rituals and silently minding their own business amidst all the war on terror being waged upon the world by the mightiest tyrants in the world despite their lofty principled sloganeering that has defined the shia ethos for fourteen centuries. One is forced to wonder why Shia militancy is being "tickled" into existence if not to bring to fruition the long awaited "shia crescent".
Two matched and armed to the teeth nemesis will paint Lahore to Karachi more red than Peshawar to Quetta have been painted thus far unilaterally by the "new Ahrar" and the "new SAVAK".
A smart self-respecting people will surely always rise to defend themselves --- but simultaneously, also refuse to be used as stooges and patsies by declining to become the West's perpetual enemy.
To not make the same national suicidal mistake as Iran takes a lot more wherewithal, national sha-oor, than has been publicly displayed by even the finest in Pakistan. For a nation not known for either the abundance of its intellectual prowess, or the superfluity of its noble integrity, it is not hard to perceive that Pakistan was stochastically designed to be DOA (dead on arrival) into this world.
I will end by quoting the last paragraph of the Munir Report, and if what it says was true then at the very inception of Pakistan, only the janaza (funeral) remains to be recited (I hope of course that I am wrong and persons of great commonsense will miraculously come to the forefront of national leadership to untie the Gordian knot so craftily tied on Pakistan's destiny on the Grand Chessboard):
"And it is our deep conviction that if the Ahrar had been treated as a pure question of law and order, without any political considerations, one District Magistrate and one Superintendent of Police could have dealt with them. Consequently, we are prompted by something that they call a human conscience to enquire whether, in our present state of political development, the administrative problem of law and order cannot be divorced from a democratic bed fellow called a Ministerial Government, which is so remorselessly haunted by political nightmares. But if democracy means the subordination of law and order to political ends—then Allah knoweth best and we end the report."
Source URL: http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2013/04/memo-ahrar-ahmadiya-controversy-of-1953.html
Faith-Politico URL: http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2013/04/memo-ahrar-ahmadiya-controversy-of-1953.html
Pak-Politico URL: http://pakistan-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2013/04/memo-ahrar-ahmadiya-controversy-of-1953.html
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Paul wrote yesterday that Mitt Romney is well positioned, politically, on Obamacare despite his campaign's supposed confusion during the last few days as to whether the mandate is or is not a tax. That is my view as well. Is the mandate a tax, or isn't it? I don't think the question poses a dilemma for Romney. Quizzed on the subject by CBS in an interview that will air tonight and tomorrow, he responded nicely:
JAN CRAWFORD: Let's talk about the law and whether the mandate is a tax because, of course, the court said it was a tax. Congress could pass this as part of its taxing power. The President disagrees with that. He said that it's a penalty, it's not a tax. Republicans across the country have seized on this saying he's secretly trying to raise taxes. Your senior adviser said that you believe that it's not a tax; that you agree with the President that the mandate is just a penalty. Why don't you think the mandate is a tax?
GOV. ROMNEY: Well, the Supreme Court has the final word and their final word is that Obamacare is a tax. So it's a tax. They decided it was constitutional. So it is a tax and it's constitutional. That's the final word—that's what it is. Now, I agreed with the dissent. I would have taken a different course, but the dissent wasn't the majority. The majority has ruled and their rule is final. It is a tax.
CRAWFORD: So you believe that—you would say that the mandate now is a tax?
ROMNEY: Well, that the law of the land. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the nation and it said that it's a tax, so it's a tax. That's what it is. And what I'd like to hear is how President Obama can say he doesn't think it's a tax. He disagrees with the court. He thinks the court is inaccurate. If that's the case, then he must think the bill is unconstitutional because, in order to find it constitutional, they had to find it a tax. And by the way, don't forget, it was his Solicitor General that went into the court and argued it was a tax. And the conclusion of the court that it's constitutional…
CRAWFORD: Are you [inaudible]?
ROMNEY: …the conclusion of the court was in order for them to find it constitutional, they had to find it was a tax. So it is a tax.
CRAWFORD: Have you changed your views on this? I mean, do you now believe that it is a tax, at the federal level, that the Supreme Court has said it is a tax, so it is a tax.
ROMNEY: Well, I said that I agreed with the dissent and the dissent made it very clear that they felt it was unconstitutional, but the dissent lost. It's in the minority. And so now, the Supreme Court has spoken, and, while I agreed with the dissent, that's taken over by the fact that the majority of the court said it's a tax and, therefore, it is a tax. They have spoken. There's no way around that. You can try and say you wished they had decided a different way, but they didn't. They concluded it was a tax. That's what it is and the American people know that President Obama has broken the pledge he made. He said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle-income Americans. Not only did he raise the $500 billion that was already in the bill, it's now clear that his mandate as described by the Supreme Court is a tax.
CRAWFORD: But does that mean that the mandate in the state of Massachusetts under your health care law also is a tax? I mean, you raised taxes as governor.
ROMNEY: Actually the chief justice in his opinion made it very clear that at the state level, states have the power to put in place mandates. They don't need to require them to be called taxes in order for them to be constitutional. And as a result, Massachusetts' mandate was a mandate, was a penalty, was described that way by the legislature and by me, and so it stays as it was.
CRAWFORD: So at the state level because of … you're saying the Supreme Court says that's different, that the federal government – the powers are different between the states and the federal government? Does that make sense to you?
ROMNEY: Just take a read of the opinion. The chief justice said that states have what's known as police power, and states can implement penalties and mandates and so forth under their constitutions, which is what Massachusetts did. But the federal government does not have those powers, and therefore for the Supreme Court to reach the conclusion it did – that the law was constitutional – they had to find it was a tax, and they did. And therefore Obamacare's a tax. Like it or not, it's a tax.
Romney is correct about the majority's discussion of the police power. Now, will most voters understand the difference between the states and the federal government with respect to their power to impose mandates, including a requirement to buy insurance? Probably not. They should, since their state government has long required them to buy automobile insurance, but they probably don't. Moreover, to the extent they understand the difference, most voters won't care; the point is relevant only from a constitutional, not from a policy, perspective. But it just doesn't matter. The Supreme Court has spoken: for Obamacare to be constitutional, the mandate must be a tax. The Democrats will get nowhere by talking about whether to call the mandate a tax or a penalty; on the contrary, the more they bring the subject up, the worse for them and the better for Republicans.
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A recent blog by Bhakti yoga experts Ed and Deb Shapiro contends that over-emphasis on the intellect in Western cultures inhibits spiritual growth. The Bhakti yoga tradition espouses the importance of love and devotion to the Divine through chant, prayer, storytelling, and meditation.
The Shapiros argue that traditional yoga teachings—texts, sutras, and vedas—can be easily used to obtain an intellectual understanding of yoga. In the absence of direct experience, however, the true meaning of yoga may be evasive, and a purely intellectual understanding "will never make us happy or set us free." They note that "Until we open our heart, look within and rejoice in the love that is our true nature, all the teachings are just words … we can quote the scriptures … but we are not true yogis until the intellect is no longer running the show." The Bhakti path is, however, only one of many yoga paths said to foster self-realization.
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Jnana yoga, for example, is the yoga of knowledge and wisdom, and refers to a theory/practice which "uses the intellect as a tool to understand that our True Self is beyond our mind." The Jnana yogi systematically asks "Who am I?" to bring to light the enduring nature of the true self, accomplished by non-identification with thoughts, feelings, ancestral heritage, class, belief system, or personality. Jnana yoga is said to be both a quick route to self-realization as well as one of the most treacherous, because "our rational mind is quite tricky" and can easily get in the way. Therefore while the intellect may awaken self-knowledge, it can also be a hindrance. This path "starts from direct experiences that anyone can have," thus combining direct experience with the intellect. Here the intellect is merely a transitional tool to facilitate ultimate knowledge of reality.
As the Shapiros comment, treatises and scriptures may inspire, but taken alone may be unlikely to endow liberation. Most yoga paths emphasize the importance of direct experience. Indeed, Bhakti and Jnana are not mutually exclusive; one can discover the absolute truth of reality and true self both through opening of the heart as well as systematically questioning "Who am I," through books, experience, and reasoning.
Kripalu and other yoga philosophies, such as the tantra rajanaka, emphasize the importance of using direct experience in all aspects of life as an opportunity for cultivating witness consciousness, the yogic equivalent of mindfulness. "Yoga off the mat"—meaning, yoga in life—is believed to be one of the most challenging and fruitful practices.
As an ancient Japanese saying stipulates, ""There are many paths up the Mountain, but the view of the moon from the top is the same."
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An elderly Inverness woman is blessed to be alive after her car careened off of MS-3 in Moorhead and ended up floating nose down in the bayou on Monday afternoon.
Seventy-two-year-old Josie McGrew said on Tuesday, "I am a walking miracle."
That is thanks to three men who just happened to be working in the area when they noticed her car in the water.
McGrew said that she was still a little shaky and explained that she had been several places on Monday to pay bills, including to Ruleville to pay her car insurance and back to Inverness.
She was then on her way to pick up one of her grandchildren from a daycare center in Moorhead when the incident happened.
She said that she left Inverness around 1:30 p.m., and after going to the post office, was on her way to the daycare center.
"I had my radio on, just praising the Lord," she said.
Recounting that everything happened so quickly, McGrew said when she realized what was going on, all she could see was water.
According to a sheriff's department report, McGrew was traveling north on the roadway in a black 2017 Nissan Rogue when she hit something in the road and lost control of the vehicle. It went across the southbound lane and into the bayou where it floated out to the center of the bayou due to high floodwaters and lodged under the bridge.
"I don't know what happened. It happened so fast. I started saying 'Lord, help me, send somebody to help me get out,'" she said.
Her prayers were definitely answered in the earthly form of three workers from KCI Powerline Construction Company of Brandon.
Nathan Sanders of Yazoo City, Sam Dillard of Pelahatchie and Mitchell Tagert of Carthage were in town working on Moorhead's new street lighting project when they spotted McGrew's car floating in the swollen waters.
Dillard said Tagert spotted the car first as they were turning left onto South Southern Avenue from MS-3 and asked if they saw it too.
They did not and responded in disbelief, but after they made a loop around onto Brookside Avenue they saw the car in the water and people running toward the bayou and figured there must be someone in it.
Once they got out and saw McGrew in the nearly submerged vehicle, they went to work.
"We just started taking actions to get the woman out," Dillard said.
They said the car was bobbing along, nose down in the muddy brook.
Reaching over the bridge railing, they tried to turn the car and get it close to the bridge where they attempted to break the front window, but couldn't fracture it.
Dillard said Sanders then leaned over the railing, and while holding on with one hand, took a hitch and broke the back window out.
They then called for McGrew to climb over the seat and with Sanders and Tagert holding on to Dillard he reached in and grab McGrew and his two co-workers pulled her out of the quickly sinking car.
"There was water coming in the car and she had water all of the way up to her waist," added Sanders.
"They are my heroes, they are my angels," McGrew said. The men said the other people, that were out there, were trying to extract McGrew from the car, but didn't have any tools to work with, but they did. "Soon as her feet got clear it bubbled out, it was about to be bad," Dillard said.
Moorhead Mayor George Holland said, "They literally saved her life. They are just heroes. That's all I can say."
McGrew said she had moved over to the passenger seat and tried to open the front door, but the water rushed in on her so swiftly that she had to quickly shut it.
Dillard then added, "As cold as that water was, it would have been dangerous. It would have shocked her body so fast."
Throughout the ordeal McGrew stressed her faith in God.
"I wasn't afraid of dying, because I'm not afraid of dying. Jesus is my help," she said, "I am so blessed. I know I am blessed and highly favored. For all that came to my aid and helped me, I am grateful."
McGrew stressed that she wasn't hurt at all.
"No broken bones and not a scratch on me," she added.
She was taken to the Greenwood Leflore Hospital by MedStat ambulance for treatment.
McGrew said now she just wants to see the men who saved her, thank them and bring them coffee and donuts.
"They saved my life," she shouted.
McGrew said once she was out she realized that she didn't have her purse, (it was on the floorboard of the vehicle) and one of the men told her, "Ma'am don't worry about your purse, you're alive."


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This message was just sent from a friend of ours to Heather, which she then forwarded to me.
The Most Holy Francis issued an Apostolic Letter on July 11 and effective September 1, 2013 that effectively stripped away the immunity of all judges, attorneys, government officials and all entities established under the Roman Curia [hint: All corporations are established under the Roman Curia]. All of these "persons" can now be held accountable for war crimes, crimes against humanity, [hint: Divine Spirit is humanity], for the unlawful restrictions of the liberties of the divine spirit incarnate; [we call that Eternal Essence Inbodied -AK] for failure to settle the accounts; for continued prosecution of claims already settled, etc.
3 wrap up Senate careers, guarding Obamacare legacy
Sens. Tom Harkin, Jay Rockefeller and Max Baucus are all retiring in 2014. | AP/Reuters Photos
Three Democratic senators have spent years of their Capitol Hill careers trying to pass a health care law that would cover millions of uninsured Americans. But by the time that crowning achievement, now known as Obamacare, gets through its first year, all three will have left office.
Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Max Baucus of Montana — Senate committee chairmen who helped write the law and push it through the Senate — are all retiring at the end of 2014. All are devoting at least a portion of their remaining time in office trying to protect the president's legacy legislation from political opponents — and make the law work.
The three departures will mark a unique, single-issue Senate brain drain, which also included the retirement of Chris Dodd of Connecticut in 2011 and the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009. And the generational change comes just as the health care law's major coverage expansion provisions — the state exchanges, Medicaid expansion and the individual mandate — are coming out of their infancy. The employer mandate, which the White House has delayed, will take effect as these lawmakers' replacements are sworn in.
"It will be a loss not to have them around," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who wrote much of the House's health bill.
Their departures, part of the rapid turnover the Senate has experienced in recent years, means there will be few Democrats in the Senate who played a central role in getting the Affordable Care Act written or enacted in 2009-10 other than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Their absence could be felt if the Senate tries to modify any pieces of the law, or when it comes to defending the law against critics.
There are several up-and-coming Democratic senators with an interest in health care, such as Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Al Franken of Minnesota and freshman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. Ron Wyden of Oregon is also in line to become chairman of the influential Senate Finance Committee if the Democrats hold the Senate.
But each of the three retiring lawmakers left a mark on Obamacare, the biggest expansion of health coverage in generations.
Baucus spent the spring and summer of 2009 trying to bring a small bipartisan group of lawmakers together. Any lingering chance of bipartisanship, though, was extinguished by the fiery August 2009 town halls. Baucus got a bill through his Finance Committee with one Republican vote — that of Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, a moderate who also retired last year.
Rockefeller, a senior member of the Finance Committee and chairman of the Commerce Committee, crafted several of the law's insurance reforms and a panel on Medicare spending that might not even have its members appointed until after his retirement.
Harkin, then a senior member and now chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, wrote the section on prevention and wellness.
Since the health care reform law passed in March 2010, all three, to varying degrees, have pushed the White House to implement the law aggressively. All have sometimes gone public with critiques when the White House hasn't done what Congress intended. But Baucus, Rockefeller and Harkin all stress that they back the law 100 percent; they want it to work.
In separate interviews with the lawmakers or their staffs, all three say that they're going to use the next 18 months to secure the law's legacy. They want to protect it from Republicans who would repeal or dismantle it, as well as from friendly fire from Democrats who, purposefully or not, could undermine the law.
Each holds frequent, private meetings with top officials at the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services. Rockefeller said the meetings are "not very pleasant."
Rockefeller is focused on shoring up Medicaid, which has been deeply important to him since his days as a VISTA volunteer in West Virginia.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/obamacare-senate-baucus-rockefeller-harkin-94845.html#ixzz2aSJ4KfNw


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In what might seem a wee bit familiar to fans of a certain city-building video game, the folks at ComiXology have had to apologize for offering a product that their servers can't handle. Two days after the leading digital seller of comics announced a short-time offer for 700 free, downloadable first issues of Marvel comic books, the company has had to pull and postpone the sale.
"We expected a high degree of excitement for the Marvel initiative–and had believed ourselves prepared–but unfortunately we became overwhelmed by the immense response," ComiXology CEO David Steinberger said on the company's blog yesterday. "We're still struggling to keep our systems up." Basically, their servers couldn't keep up.
He says the offer will return when ComiXology is better prepared.
One wonders exactly what kind of response they were expecting when offering 700 free Marvel comics for iOS, Android and web browsers.
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CHICAGO -- The Rays fashioned a different look for Sunday's '80s Day game against the Cubs.
The uniform's beltless pants and the jersey were light blue, complemented by yellow sleeves, trim and socks.
Stuart Sternberg, Rays principal owner, designed the threads, noting that the 1978 Padres uniform impacted his design. Sternberg designed the uniforms because the Rays didn't join MLB until 1998.
"Pure ripoff," Sternberg said. "With a little, you know, here and there."
Sternberg said he was pleased with the final result, an assessment shared by Joe Maddon. The Rays manager called the uniforms "interesting" before adding: "Of course I'm an advocate of anything weird or different like this."
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It would be nearly impossible to succinctly catalogue the number of documentary series' produced on wars in the 20th century; however, it's a much easier task to give craft a solid list of documentary series that are not only worth one's time, but more importantly, possess an inherent quality in their efforts of relaying facts that a viewer would want to invest their money for hopes of repeat viewings. I think few would argue that the 1973 26-episode, 22.5 hour series "The World at War" is not only the definitive World War II documentary series but one of the finest examples of the format (for the record, while I love Ken Burns' work, "The World at War" is so comprehensive, Burns' efforts feel like a primer in comparison). Sadly, I don't think I could list a single series, long or short, that adequately provides viewers insight into the Vietnam War, one of the most controversial wars in modern US history; not even after viewing the phenomenal but inherently flawed "Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War".
A Canadian production of 1980, "Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War" is a very straightforward, to a fault, 26-episode series that covers key events of the nearly 20 year conflict in 25-minute installments. Written by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Peter Arnett (who won his Pulitzer for his mid 60s coverage of that very war) and narrated with an old fashioned tone you don't get anymore by Richard Basehart, the series has one solitary, sometimes drolly executed agenda: present the facts. In historical context, the program is very much a product of its times, produced in an era where refreshingly (in modern context) all people wanted were the facts without any sly commentary from its producers. However, more often than not, the way the facts are presented in this program, interview subjects inherently build towards a viewpoint that would be fully justified by expert historian commentary. For a modern audience this bunt presentation may be unnerving at nearly 13-hours total in length, hard to digest in a short time frame.
What the series lacks in true polish it makes up for wit the very facts that somewhat bog it down. The various episodes cover early American involvement in the country, the French involvement in the early years all the way through key events as the Tet Offensive and Bombing of Hanoi. Additional episodes sometimes take a broader look at defining elements of the war, from the American method of war to the environment and cultural conditions that live on in infamy. Thankfully the late 70s to early 80s time frame nets the producers veterans with fresh memories and provide them an open platform to tell their tale (one that can be very chilling, as is the case in a late series episode on POWs). At only 25-minutes an episode, no viewer will walk away with any form of expert knowledge in one area of the war, but the production goes far beyond the basic facts. It's an incredibly solidly constructed piece of educational programming, but one that has aged in some aspects poorly and lacks that expert commentary we come to expect from the modern documentary.
The 1.33:1 original aspect ratio transfer is in rough shape, showing signs of its videotape origins. Stock footage varies all over the spectrum of quality from grainy black and white footage to some over saturated color footage. Detail levels are middling at best, while colors are in the semi-natural range but can be over saturated one moment or washed out the next. Compression artifacts are a mild but common element throughout.
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The English Stereo audio track is incredibly flat, with Basehart's commanding voice lacking the aural quality it deserves and interview subjects sounding like something you'd hear off a local in-studio news report of the era. The sound suffers from a minor tinny quality at times and overall, the age of the program is heard loud and clear.
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While not the definitive Vietnam War documentary series in the vein of "The World at War," "Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War" is one of the most comprehensive I've witnessed, even if focus is vast in breadth and shallow in depth. For it's age, it holds up remarkably well, if one can handle the dry presentation and haggard A/V quality. Recommended.


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As usual, the CAF Africa Cup of Nations was an entertaining event that delivered more than its fair share of shocks, but in the end it was a familiar face that came out on top as Nigeria won their third continental crown – and with it the right to play in this June's FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil. It was just 12 months since the last finals, with the short turnaround caused by the switch over to odd years, but it was all change in South Africa. The Super Eagles did not even qualify a year ago, and the team they beat in the final, Burkina Faso, failed to earn a point.
The championsNigeria came into the Cup of Nations with the spotlight's glare mostly away from them, but once the Super Eagles hit top form, they never looked like buckling under the pressure. Led by wily 'Big Boss' Stephen Keshi, the Nigerians were organised, balanced and motivated, and in the end they were worthy winners. They began slowly in Group C with draws against Burkina Faso and Zambia, but the most populous nation in Africa won their final four matches, impressively brushing aside both the first and third-ranked teams on the continent - Côte d'Ivoire and Mali – in the knockout rounds. Losing finalists on four occasions, the last time in 2000 against Cameroon, an excellent goal in the final against the Stallions was enough to send the green and white on many victory laps around Soccer City.
*The favourites *Defending champions Zambia were eliminated in the group stage, albeit from a section that included both finalists, but it was the first time qualifying holders had gone out that early since Algeria in 1992. The team the Chipolopolo beat in last year's finals, Côte d'Ivoire, were again pre-event picks for the fifth successive tournament, but the Elephants couldn't get into a higher gear when faced with a dogged Nigerian side. It was a sluggish event for the Ivorians in what is expected to be Didier Drobga's continental swansong. The captain and icon was seldom at his best, but the same could be said for the majority of the side's stars. Similarly, Ghana did not live up to expectations once out of the group stage, although they managed to reach the semi-finals for a fourth consecutive time. The Black Stars were very flattered by a 2-0 victory over impressive minnows Cape Verde Islands in the last eight, and they were outplayed by Burkina Faso in the last four even before going out on penalties. For the second consecutive event, they then lost to Mali in the third-place match.
The surprisesCertainly the Burkinabe were the big shocks, but they are no strangers to the finals having qualified for eight of the last 10 events. However, they had only ever once before escaped the group stage – when they hosted and reached the last four in 1998 – and inspirational coach Paul Put had them playing with bravery and flair. Otherwise, there was shock for an entire region as no north African team reached the knockout rounds for the first time since 1992 with Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco faltering at the first hurdle. In contrast, it was a fabulous event for west Africa. Not only were all of the semi-finalists from the region for the first time ever, but debutants Cape Verde and Togo reached the last eight for the first time.
The starsNigeria's Emmanuel Emenike scored four goals from open play to win the Golden Boot award, while Sunday Mba was an unlikely hero, scoring the winner against Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso in the final, both of which showed marvellous skill, body control and vision. In the Nigerian defence, goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama was again a stalwart in front of a promising young defensive group good enough to keep team captain Joseph Yobo out of the team. However, the real stars for Nigeria were the Chelsea pair of John Obi Mikel and Victor Moses, who provided leadership, solidity and athletic prowess in spades.
For the losing finalists, Jonathan Pitroipa was an inspiration on the wings, deservedly winning the player of the tournament award. Forward Alain Traore scored three goals in the first two matches before suffering a leg injury that sent him home, but his replacement, Aristide Bance of the spiky blonde haircut, proved to be a powerful and bold replacement. Ghana's 22-year-old Mubarak Wakaso scored four goals, three from the penalty spot, while Tunisian youngster Youssef Msakni claimed the goal of the tournament for a fantastic winner from the edge of the area against Algeria. Mali's Seydou Keita was playing in his sixth Cup of Nations, and the former Barcelona man had perhaps his best, marshalling a talented midfield with aplomb.
Did you know?Burkina Faso, who only won four points in their previous five AFCONs combined, are the lowest-ranked team to ever make the final of the tournament (92nd), and they only qualified because of a goal six minutes into second-half injury-time against Central African Republic.
The stat 2 – The number of men to have won the Cup of Nations as both a player and coach. Stephen Keshi, who was captain of Nigeria in 1994, joins Egypt's Mahmoud El Gohary.
Cup of Nations 'All Stars' TeamVincent Enyeama (NGR); Efe Ambrose (NGR), Bakary Kone (BUR), Nando (CPV); Jonathan Pitroipa (BUR), Siaka Tiene (CIV), John Obi Mikel (NGR), Seydou Keita (MLI), Victor Moses (NGR); Asamoah Gyan (GHA), Emmanuel Emenike (NGR)
What they said *"The sky is the limit for this team," *said Keshi about his young champions.


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The big winner in terms of TV ads this election cycle: Congressman Ed Perlmutter.
The Golden Democrat was praised for having one of the best ads this year, a spot featuring a retired Navy SEAL and his wife, who said of Perlmutter, "He's not a politician, he's a person first." A contributing editor to The Atlantic asked, "Is this the best political ad of the season?"
Meanwhile, an ad against Perlmutter was panned by USA Today as one of the five worst of the season. The spot, by Perlmutter's GOP opponent, Joe Coors, goes after Perlmutter's former wife, who lobbied for Solyndra. "Of thousands of commercials inflicted on voters, a handful stand out for their sheer awfulness," the newspaper's editorial board wrote.
USA Today awarded Coors first place in the "fake 'gotcha'" category."
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Haitian government official says up to 10 people have died in the northern part of the country following a night of heavy rainfall.
Jean Henry Petit of Haiti's Civil Protection Office said Friday most of the Haitians died in the port city of Cap-Haitien when flood waters crashed through their homes and swept them away. One person died after his house collapsed.
The fatal rains come just two weeks after Hurricane Sandy's outer bands led to widespread flooding. Officials said the storm killed 54 people and destroyed 70 percent of the crops along the southern coast.
Stormy weather in Haiti often brings catastrophic results. The impoverished country is heavily deforested, which causes flooding and deadly mudslides.


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You may not have noticed it because of a late Thanksgiving, but Christmas Eve is only four weeks away from Tuesday. And there is much to be done. There is shopping, and parties, and getting and decorating the tree.
In fact, Christmas at the Konrads � or is it the Kranks? � could have started two weeks ago. On Nov. 10, I said we should go tag a tree. �Too early,� I was told.
On Nov. 17, I started taping the cheesy Christmas TV movies. The first ones are on Lifetime, but all the other channels will be adding them in soon. �Too early,� I was told when I wanted to start watching them.
On Saturday morning, I finally put up the outdoor lights � at least the first round. They went up in the morning, without the knowledge of my son, and against the wishes of my daughter.
The boy had friends over Saturday night, and they saw the twinkling blue and white LEDs hanging from my gutter, and the multi-colored nets covering my raggedy hedges.
�Why do you have Christmas lights up already?� one of them asked the boy.
�I don�t know,� he replied.
Don�t know? Because they are awesome, that�s why.
�It�s ridiculous,� my daughter said of the lights.
No, it�s Christmas. And I am ready to go.
The yard still needs the candy canes, the penguins, the little trees and possibly even the lit 1970s-era plastic Santa � the one the children are convinced is evil itself and don�t want released from its confines in the basement. If we don�t start knocking off those cheesy Christmas movies soon, we will have to doubling up to get them all in. And if there is not a Black Thursday/Friday plan in place pronto, we could fall far behind in our shopping.
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Mark "IPO" Zuckerberg sure has a lot of friends—yesterday we saw him chomping sushi with some, and then there was that guy with the dog. But check him out now! Crushing a lemon Gatorade! Guys, it's party time.
Gizmodo creepy cat Colin spotted Zuck in late May at The Oasis beer garden in Menlo Park, CA—the perfect spot for a post-work bacchanal, right? It also jibes with Mr. NASDAQ's record of eating and drinking at modest places made for normal people, not isolationist trillionaires. But why is he drinking Gatorade? Could it be to stave off a hangover? From drinking beer? Colin says Zuck "had a few glasses" before this picture was snapped, which under Californian sun and inside a hoodie can lead directly to dehydration. At least he's not on his phone like four other people in his group.
Have you spotted Mark Zuckerberg drinking? Was it apple juice? Was it a trash bag filled with Everclear? Let us know!
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St. Germain is a French liquor made from the blossom of the elderberry bush. It's still gathered into sacks by old men on bicycles in the French countryside and it really does taste a bit like flower petals. A little drop of it adds a bright, herbal element to almost any drink, and I do kind of love it.
Once I found this delicate stitch pattern, I knew it had to be St Germain! The motif is a simple combination of twisted cables and seed stitch, but the effect is detailed and complex. It looks perfect in a pale color like this blue where the texture can really pop.
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I have wondered the problem in http://www.helsinki.fi/~hmkokko/Stuff/Esdale/index.html for over year without success. If we try to minimize the functional equation T(\theta ) = \int_0^L\frac {dx}{v_0\cos \theta(x)} in the set W = {\theta \in C^1 [0,L]|C(\theta) = y} where C(\theta) = \int_0^L\frac {v_0\sin \theta (x) + v(x)}{v_0\cos \theta (x)}dx, can the solution be represented in a closed form or not? A solution or a proof that no closed form solution exists would be nice.
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Here is some of your question properly translated.
$ T(\theta) = \int \frac{dx}{v_0\cos \theta(x)}dx $
$ W = {\theta \in C^1 [0,L]|C(\theta) = y} $
The definition of C(\theta) doesn't seem to want to work.
$\begingroup$ braces need help here, double the backslash... $W = \\{\theta \in C^1`[0,L] | C(\theta) = y\\}$ $\endgroup$ – Gerald Edgar Nov 11 '09 at 14:58
The straight line (with constant theta) given by:
y/x = (v0 sin(theta) + v)/(v0 cos(theta))
is the optimal solution. This can be readily seen from the question's formulation: The constrained functional:
int[0,L] dx/(v0 cos(theta)) + lambda int[0,L] dx(v0 sin(theta) + v)/(v0 cos(theta))
doesn't depend on the time derivative of theta, thus the Euler lagrange equation does not depend on the derivatives of theta, thus has a constant theta as a solution.
Another way to understand the solution is to describe it from the point of view of an observer moving with the current. In this case the problem reduces to the geodesic motion of a free particle on the two dimensional plane. It's solution is a straight line with constant velocity. The (Eucledian) inverse transformation to the original system transforms constant velocity straight lines to constant velocity straight lines.
Solutions of general dynamical problems of trajectory time minimization can be systematically formulated using Pontryagin's maximum principle (see the wikipedia article).
Sorry. The problem is that we start from the point $(0,0)$ and we swim to $(1,0)$. Now if you swim by straight line you won't necessary end to the point where you want to. Then you have to compute how the flow affects your swimming speed and the direction you are swimming to. I think this leads to the functional equation I got if I computed it correctly. Then you can probably find a solution curve which tells the direction you have to swim with respect to time.


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Darvin wrote:I wouldn't on Naga City - the reduced gold means you can't get as much in the way of cool items or conversion fodder topside (economy isn't too important below but it is above so if you really want to get the best out of a triling you have to put off using GG down below)
Use the black market. It pays for the Trisword and then some. You lose out on Patches, but that's not the end of the world.you can't get the parched warmonger
If that's important to you, then yes you definitely want to skip out on the Halfling. I don't see why it's important to get both of these at once, but if that's what you want to do then sure.Also, if you have Dragonshield or Avatar's Symbol I think the triling's a lot weaker than a shielded Orc
Against magic-damage enemies that's debatable. Against physical damage ones, Trilling is stronger.
Black Market's pretty decent... is trisword still 3 gold a hit? It's definitely an easier start having potions to throw around, once you've hit the downstairs I'm not really sure it's such a big deal.
Yeah, just thought the strat could get both at once so I was giving it a shot to show it had a load of room for error. Hm, I'd have said the other way round - 33% phys res, 43 with Tower Shield, 48 or 58% with Blood Shield, magic res is the same with both characters.
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A Shrewsbury woman's mug has gone viral after she found herself face-to-face with a queen ... the "Queen Bee", that is.
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Safer Internet programme 2009-201313 January 2010
by Ina Dimireva -- last modified 14 January 2010
The online environment is becoming more and more accessible and, together with bringing benefits, it exposes users to a wide range of risks. Minors are becoming increasingly active as users, but are also particularly vulnerable. The EU "Safer Internet" programme intends to improve the online safety of children by tackling not only illegal material, but also harmful conduct.
Decision 1351/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 establishing a multiannual Community programme on protecting children using the Internet and other communication technologies.
The "Safer Internet" Community programme is hereby established for the period 2009-13. It pursues the objectives of the "Safer Internet Plus" programme launched in 2005.
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- to identify and combat the risks to which they are exposed.
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- raising public awareness. Actions to raise awareness are particularly aimed at children, their parents and teachers. It is a matter of improving the distribution of sufficient information to the largest number of users regarding the risks and ways to prevent them. These actions comprise the development and dissemination of cost-effective awareness-raising tools and points of contact enabling people to obtain advice on these issues;
- combating illegal content and harmful conduct. These activities aim to reduce the volume of illegal content online and to tackle the distribution of child sexual abuse material, online bullying and grooming. The programme provides for publicly accessible contact points on a European scale to effectively report this type of abuse. It also aims to tackle harmful conduct by dealing with the psychological and sociological aspects, whilst favouring the application of technical solutions. Furthermore, the programme promotes cooperation at national, European and international level, encouraging relevant stakeholders to share information and best practices;
- promoting a safer online environment. These activities aim to encourage self- and co-regulatory initiatives amongst stakeholders. They are designed to encourage the participation of children to shape a safer online environment;
- establishing a knowledge base. This knowledge base will be made up of the known and emerging use of the online environment by children and of the risks and consequences inherent in such use. This knowledge base will be set up in cooperation with specialists in the area of online safety of children at European level.
The following legal entities may take part in the programme:
- European Union (EU) Member States;
- European Free Trade Association countries that are party to the European Economic Area Agreement;
- accession and candidate countries to the EU as well as countries of the western Balkans and the European neighbourhood in accordance with the agreements governing their participation in Community programmes;
- any third country that is party to an international agreement with the Community.
The Commission has responsibility for the overall implementation of the programme and for the preparation of the annual work programmes, for which it is assisted by a management committee.
The programme has been allocated an overall budget of 55 million euros for the period 2009-13.
The "Safer Internet" programme is consistent with and complements other policies, programmes and Community actions, particularly the "i2010 – A European information society for growth and employment" initiative, the Community programmes for technological research and development and the Daphne III programme.
Decision No 1351/2008/EC
Entry into force - Date of Expiry: 24.12.2008 - 31.12.2013
Official Journal: OJ L 348 of 24.12.2008


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The U.S. government on Tuesday announced that it was suspending operations for the Syrian embassy in Washington and two consulates in Texas and Michigan. All personnel who aren't U.S. citizens or legal residents were ordered to leave the United States.
The decision, which coincides with the third anniversary of the Syrian conflict, was announced by the newly appointed U.S. special envoy to Syria, Ambassador Daniel Rubinstein, who said in a statement that the move was made in part because the Syrians stopped offering consular services and in part out of protest at the Assad regime's atrocities. There's no working U.S. embassy in Damascus; the Obama administration shuttered it in 2012 to protest President Bashar Assad's use of force to put down the uprising against his rule.
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