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Hubertus Hoffmann
Founder and President
Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann is a German geo-strategist, investor, internet-pioneer based in Berlin.
His three main focuses as a philanthropist are:
- 'Networking a Safer World', with the largest global elite network in foreign affairs, the independent World Security Network Foundation (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com).
- The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect - promoting understanding and concrete actions for tolerance towards other religions, races and minorities (www.codesoftolerance.com).
- The promotion of a responsible elite which takes over special obligations and duties in societies around the world (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer).
Dr. Hoffmann worked as an advisor in the European Parliament (Office of Prof. Hans-Gert Poettering, former President of the European Parliament), the German Bundestag (State Secretary of Defense Peter Kurt Wuerzbach, MP) and the U.S. Senate (Sam Nunn, Gary Hart) in defense and foreign affairs for many years.
He was Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University. Dr. Hoffmann holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with "summa cum laude" (Prof. Karl Dietrich Bracher, University of Bonn, Germany) and is a lawyer as well. He is a reserve officer in the German Army (Field Artillery).
For 13 years he has worked as a successful entrepreneur and investor in different funds. Co-founder of GCG which invested from 2005-2007 Euro 3,3 bn in companies like Volkswagen, BASF, ThyssenKrupp, Lanxess and Siemens. From 1996-2000 he was founder and CEO of InternetMediaHouse AG and a large investor and member of the Executive Board at Loewe TV company, increasing the value of both companies by 24 times in two years to a peak of €600m. Now international investor in different internet companies. Before he worked as a journalist in the White House Press Corps, as an editor for ZDF, the largest TV station in Europe, and as managing director of large German media companies.
Dr. Hoffmann supported NATO's Two Track Decision from 1979 to 1983 to deploy medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe combined with mutual arms reductions on the Russian side, putting him on the target list of the RAF, the German terrorist organization. In 1978 he founded a popular German appeal (Dattelner Appell) to dismantle the new Russian SS-20 missiles and to combine it with the non-deployment of NATO Pershing II and Cruise Missiles, which was signed by more than 100 members of the German Bundestag, U.S. Senators like Edward Kennedy, and others, and on December 12, 1979 was successfully integrated into NATO's Two Track Decision and later into the INF Treaty.
In 1980 he initiated a CDU/CSU resolution and Federal Law of the Bundestag for an Annual Report on Arms Control and Disarmament, which since then has been published by the German Government.
For ten years Dr. Hoffmann was Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Committee for Foreign, Defense, European and Inner-German Affairs in his home state of Lower Saxony in Germany and active in promoting German re-unification and a strong NATO. Elected CDU-Member of the City Council in his home town Goslar (Harz).
In 1984 Dr. Hoffmann organized the exchange program for young reserve officers from the U.S.A. and Germany with the support of then-State Secretary of Defense Peter Kurt Wuerzbach with more than 1000 reserve officers involved from both sides of the Atlantic. He was a German member of the Executive Committee of the NATO Reserve Officers Association CIOR.
He supported the Mujaheddin from 1985-1990 against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, visiting them in the mountains in 1985 and writing the Afghanistan Report for the European Parliament.
In 1989 - during the visit of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl - he initiated and helped to finance the first "Farmers Association of Silesia" - former German homeland of his expelled parents in Poland - which now has more than 3,000 Polish and German members and its own dairy.
In 1992 he was Chairman of the Eesti Committee Report (requested by Estonian President Tunne Kelam) about the Future of the "Baltic Hanseatic Region" (Oblast Kaliningrad; Lithuania; Latvia, and Estonia), which helped to create stable democratic states in the Baltic and the fundament to join the EU and NATO.
In 1981 his home town of Goslar/Harz awarded him its "Förderpreis" for journalistic merits (Laudatio: General (Ret.) Johannes Steinhoff, former Chairman of NATOs Military Committee).
Schitag Ernst & Young, SAP and Manager magazine honored Dr. Hoffmann as "Finalist German Entrepreneur of the Year 1998" for growth and innovation as member of the Board and co-owner of Loewe Opta Holding TV company.
In October 2000 he was awarded the "Federal Cross of Merit" for "innovative business ideas" by German President Johannes Rau in Schloss Bellevue (Berlin).
In 2002 at Friedrichsruh Palace near Hamburg, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck bestowed upon Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann the "Bismarck Medal in Silver with Golden Oak Leaves" for his "patriotic faithfulness and proven Prussian national consciousness".
In 2010 he initiated the first official Progress Report Afghanistan of the German Government supported by the SPD opposition and the CDU/CSU and FDP groups in the Bundestag.
150 poor boys and girls from the tribal areas (FATA) in Pakistan received a WSN FATA Scholarship to visit schools in Karachi (Pakistan) in 2010 with the support of the German Foreign Office. Promoting the development of FATA with two international WSN workshops in London (RCDS) and Berlin (Hotel Adlon).
Dr. Hoffmann is the author of two standard books about nuclear weapons ("Atomkrieg, Atomfrieden: Technik, Strategie, Abrüstung" 1980; "Die Atompartner: Washington - Bonn und die Modernisierung der taktischen Kernwaffen", 1986).
In 2004 he published a book about his mentor of 25 years "Fritz Kraemer On Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist " (with Contributions from Alexander M. Haig Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine Kraemer Bryant; Sven Kraemer, Wilhelm-Karl von Preussen, Edward L. Rowny and Donald Rumsfeld) and in 2012 a second biography "True Keeper of the Holy Flame. The Legacy of Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr. Fritz Kraemer" (see www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer).
One of his main activities in WSN is The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect Project, promoting universal rules for parents, educators, journalists, religious leaders and politicians on how to promote respect for other religions, races and ethnic minorities, as important soft factors of peacemaking including best practices from all over the world and the roots of respect and tolerance in the life of the Prophet and Islam (see www.codesoftolerance.com).
In 2014 he published his book Codes der Toleranz in Herder Verlag with an Arabic (Al Arabi Publishing Cairo) and Polish version. He works on the art and video project The Champions and the Art of Tolerance with portraits including The Dalai Lama, Pope Franciscus , Malala , Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) and Shimon Peres and hidden Champions of Tolerance from all over the world.
Dr. Hoffmann is a frequent speaker and had spoken in the White House Situation Room (Briefing for National Security Advisor Bob McFarlane and his NSC Directors), West Point U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Congress, CSIS in Washington DC, YPO Europe in Krakow (Poland), MedDays in Tanger (Morocco), Global Women Leader Conference of Zayed University in Dubai (UAE), Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Tallinn (Estonia), EU- Russia- Congress in Sankt Petersburg, Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London, the Planning Staff of the German Foreign Office, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown Universities, Trinity College (Dublin), the Cambridge Union (UK), or the Arab-German Association in Doha (Qatar).
Member of YPO (Rhine Chapter)
Scholar Konrad Adenauer and Thyssen Foundation
Young Atlantic Leader 1992 (Atlantik-Brücke)
More can be found in www.worldsecuritynetwork.com and www.codesoftolerance.com and Facebook
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Articles by Hubertus Hoffmann
- Ukraine: Give Peace a Chance!
- Juncker defeats Merkel in EU
- Israel needs a fresh Reconciliation Policy now
- World 3.0: Elemente fuer eine wirksamere Aussen-und Sicherheitspolitik
- The Ukraine Crisis and the Need for Codes of Tolerance
- Ukraine needs Codes of Tolerance to cool down
- Russia, NATO and the EU: A Plea for a True Partnership
- The Christian Message of Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance
- Hiroshima Bomb Effects
- Turks suspicious towards German Government
- Habib Malik Orakzai: "Education is key for development of FATA in Pakistan"
- Einstein's Lessons for Today's Foreign Policy: "Imagination Is More Important than Knowledge." Therefore We Need a New Creative Strategy for More Freedom in the World
- Inside Jordan: Hubertus Hoffmann meets the Islamic Rose and a Prince of Wisdom and Tolerance
- India: Hubertus Hoffmann Meets a Miracle of Tolerance and an Economic Boom
- The Germans to the Front?
- What to do about the Ukrainian Crisis?
- Pope Francis' Wisdom for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014
- Two ISAF-Generals: Good Progress in Afghanistan
- Dalai Lama-Tibet-China: Re-set Buddhist Harmony with Soft Autonomy vs. Cultural Nihilism
- The Holy Land: Fresh Peace & Reconciliation Strategies Needed in 2013
- Blue Mosque Spokesman Ansari: "Islam is Peace"
- Pope Francis and his Jesuit Easter Message
- Field Marshal Lord Inge: Afghanistan's Long Way
- Strengthening the "Soul of Europe" in Europe 3.0 through Radical Reforms
- Good-bye to three fallen Bundeswehr comrades in Afghanistan in Mazar-e-Sharif
- Field Marshal Lord Inge: Libya needs Wise Men
- Adenauer Chairman Hans-Gert Poettering: Germany should reconsider its policies vis-a-vis Egypt
- Hiroshima: Hubertus Hoffmann meets the only U.S. Officer on both A-Missions and one of his Victims
- A Soldier's Christmas Surprise in World War I, 1914
- U.S. Foreign Policy: Dangerous - Destructive? Hubertus Hoffmann speech at Trinity College Dublin
- The Pope and Beijing
- ESTONIA: Alice in Foreign Affairs Wonderland
- Dr Georg Kraemer - Patriot, Prosecutor and Father of the German-American Geostrategist Dr Fritz Kraemer
- The Globalization of Foreign Policy
- General David Petraeus Commander ISAF on progress in RC North
- Individuals Have the Natural Right to Resist Dictatorships
- China: The new Policy of Harmony and Moral Appeal must prevail
- General David Petraeus Commander ISAF on German soldiers killed
- Otto von Habsburg: A Noble European with Christian Values
- Saudi TV Journalist Nadine Al Bedair Respect and Religion
- Dr. Reinhard Eroes: Tolerance, respect and pride in Afghanistan
- Tibetan Monk Geshe Jampel Senge: Resistance is against unjust Chinese occupation
- Brazil Superstar?
- Field Marshal Lord Inge: Kashmir on Radar
- Japan & Globalization: Hubertus Hoffmann reports from Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima
- Obama's 20 Secrets of Success and what you can learn from him
- Iraqi Kurdistan: Hubertus Hoffmann on the Heaven for Christians and Tolerance Near Hell
- Iraqi Kurdistan: Hubertus Hoffmann meets Fear and a Lighthouse of Hope
- Nobel Peace Prize: Who deserves it ?
- Change Palestine! Movement and a Double Strategy top priority now
- Thank you General David Petraeus!
- Israel-Palestine: Hubertus Hoffmann on a New Peace Strategy combining Hawk & Dove, Uzi & Olive Branch
- Ethnic Displacements: Suggestions for Containment and Proscription
- Progressive Patriotism or "I Love My Country!"
- Moral Relativism
- Field Marshal Lord Inge: Pakistan Important
- General David Petraeus Commander ISAF on progress and troops needed after 2014
- General David Petraeus Commander ISAF on Taliban reversed - economics grown
- Kurdish Intelligence Boss Barzani on Strategy for Iraq
- General David Petraeus Commander ISAF on the importance of North Afghanistan
- Iraqi Kurdistan as Golden Key for Peace and the U.S. in Iraq
- Libya: Action Plan needed
- Saudi King must impeach his Grand Mufti who demanded the destruction of all Churches
- Prophet Mohammed Movie: What should be done?
- WSN Action Plan No. 2 for Syria: New Democratic Constitution, Cut Diplomatic Relations, Sea-Blockade
- Habib Malik Orakzai from FATA: "Peace negotiations with the Taliban must include Pakistan."
- Fritz Kraemer's World of Values, Principles, and Ideals
- Good bye, Col. Dr. Fritz Kraemer !
- Hussein Ibish, Director Hala Salam Maksoud Foundation for Arab American Leadership: Rebellion in Egypt and Syria
- Lorna Fitzsimons, Chief Executive BICOM: British Jews and Israel
- Ron Skolnik, Director Meretz USA: American Jews and Israel
- Zaki Chehab, Editor-in-Chief ArabsToday.net: Different Uprisings in Arab World and Palestine
- Michael Young, Editor Daily Star Lebanon: New Media in New Middle East
- Malik Abdeh, Founder of the Movement for Justice and Development in Syria: Revolution with Skype, YouTube, Sat TV
- Mahmoud Salem, Blogger at sandmonkey.org: Internet, Facebook and Twitter, Smartphones tools in Arabellion
- Talia Gorodess, Israeli Social Protest Leader: Young people fed up
- Talia Gorodess, Israeli Social Protest Leader: Social Protest about Domestic Issues
- Talia Gorodess, Israeli Social Protest Leader: Redefinition of Israeli Citizenship
- Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Representative to UK: Palestine Two State Solution - no Occupation
- Hussein Ibish, Director Hala Salam Maksoud Foundation for Arab American Leadership: Peace in Palestine and Israel - US view
- Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Representative to UK: Frustration about slow Peace Process
- Field Marshal Lord Inge: Arab World different
- Field Marshal Lord Inge: Libya unique
- Tibetan Monk Geshe Jampel Senge: Rich China needs spiritual buddhism
- The Dalai Lama: The world belongs to humanity
- Estonian Defense Minister Mart Laar on Open Russian Archives
- Estonian Defense Minister Mart Laar on Estonia and Russia
- Estonian MEP Tunne Kelam on Estonia's Success Story
- Former EU Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering MEP on progress in Libya and the Israel/Palestine conflict
- Former EU Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering MEP on Democracy in the Arab World
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: US troops under German command in RC North
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: Improved civilian structure in ISAF and projects
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: Who are the insurgents? Taliban? Criminals?
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: Different insurgent groups in Afghanistan
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: Afghan National and Local Police are key
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: Civilians support ISAF against insurgents
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: Elements of success in Afghanistan
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: ISAF Improvements RC North 2010-2011
- Lt Gen. Rainer Glatz: Bundeswehr in Afghanistan 2002-2011
- Afghan Corps Commander BrigGen Zalmai Wesa on his 209th ANA Corps
- German MajGen Fritz, Commander ISAF RC North, Bundeswehr in Afghanistan
- German MajGen Fritz, Commander ISAF RC North, civilian coop improved
- German MajGen Fritz, Commander ISAF RC North, continue training after 2014
- German MajGen Fritz, Commander ISAF RC North, peace and education needed
- German MajGen Fritz, Commander ISAF RC North, on reintegration of Taliban
- German MajGen Fritz, Commander ISAF RC North, on progress
- US BrigGen Mulholland ISAF RC North: Americans and Germans one team
- US BrigGen Mulholland ISAF RC North about Vision 2014
- US BrigGen Mulholland ISAF RC North about insurgents
- Signing of new START Agreement in Munich 2011
- Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann: Afghanistan needs peace talks
- Gabriela von Habsburg: Dangers in the Caucasus
- Helmut Königshaus: Current and future challenges
- Roderich Kiesewetter: Cooperation between NATO and the EU
- Prof Joseph S.Nye: Future of Power and Afghanistan
- Prof. Werner Weidenfeld: Europe is missing a strategic culture
- Dr. Ursula Plassnik: New challenges â?? new responses
- John C. Kornblum: Stability in a globalized world
- Kurt Volker: Fight for democracy
- Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann: Progress in Egypt
- Prof. Volker Perthes: The Future of Egypt
- Prof. Horst Teltschik: Egypt and failure of the EU
- Farwick on relations between China and United States of America
- Hauenstein: Cyber war and cyber crime
- Said: Challenges for Indonesia
- Farwick: Afghanistan - who are the stakeholders ?
- Prof. Dr. Bagci: The future role of Turkey
- Solana: Europe is a permanent power
- Amb. Amorin: Brazil - an emerging power
- Ambassador Prasad: Afghanistan - a view from India
- Corneliu Pivariu on the significance of the Black Sea Region
- Amb. Lodhi: Afghanistan - a view from Pakistan
- Makeda Landmines A Young Directors Project
- Dieter Farwick: The need for a regional approach for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Werner Weidenfeld: Power architecture of the European Union
- U.S. Ambassador Kurt Volker on NATO
- Afghanistan Advisor Dr. Spanta: The need for cooperation
- General ret Joseph Ralston on transatlantic relations
- NATO General Ramms: On a civilian surge in Afghanistan
- U.S. Senator Sam Nunn: On global solutions
- General Klaus Naumann: Nuclear weapons and NATO-Strategy
- German MP Philipp Missfelder on the situation in Iran
- French Minister Pierre Lellouche: On global challenges
- Proposals for innovative Actions in Syria
- London Olympics: Thanks to Her Majesty's Great People
- Field Marshal Lord Inge on Libya, Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Christmas and Holiday Season 2011: Freedom is a Date Palm Emerging from the Sand
- Col. Gaddafi killed: What's next in Libya?
- Norway Continue!
- Estonia: From Soviet Occupation to EU Role Model
- Riaz Khokhar, former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, on Extremism, Terror, Afghanistan, and India
- Former EU Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering MEP on Democracy in Libya and the Arab World
- Former Pakistani ISI Director Gen. Hamid Gul on Negotiations with the Taliban
- EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on the future of European Energy Security
- Progress in Afghanistan: Two German Generals analyse
- U.S. General David Petraeus ISAF Commander about Progress in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Why the UN via ISAF will win
- Afghanistan: Germans at the Front
- Good News from Afghanistan
- Former Pakistani Chief of Staff and ISI Director Gen. Ehsan ul Haq on Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Implosion in Egypt: What to do now?
- Werner Weidenfeld: "EU needs minimum of five Years for Economic Government"
- Muslims & killing Christians: Defend the Prophet & Punish the Sinners!
- Christmas & Holiday Season 2010: Wall Street between greed and values
- First German 'Progress Report Afghanistan': A Successful Initiative of the World Security Network Foundation
- Punish terrorists according to Sharia as they offend the Prophet and Allah
- Assassination Attempt on Pope Benedict XVI?
- Hubertus Hoffmann Cambridge Union Address about Rules of Soft Power
- Support the Proposals of the Afghanistan Peace Jirga!
- Get Karzai out of the line of fire in Afghanistan now!
- Israel needs reconciliation with the Palestinians or will lose the battle for its existence
- Alexander Haig Obituary: A great American General and Patriot
- Afghanistan & Pakistan: A new and comprehensive NATO Double-Track Decision is needed
- Christmas & Holiday Season 2009: Moral Relativism greatest danger for true peace
- China & the U.S.: from containment to a harmonious partnership
- Afghanistan: Negotiations with the Taliban as the Path to Peace
- Germany: Wind of change with Angela Merkel and the Liberals
- Greater Efforts for Human Codes of Tolerance Needed
- FATA - Pakistan - Afghanistan: Fresh Proposals and Action Plan
- Christmas & Holiday Season 2008: A Story of Reconciliation from the Holy Land
- Obama: Paradigm Change for Russia needed
- Mumbai: Hubertus Hoffmann's Lessons Learned
- Obama's new Foreign Policy needs a Double Strategy of Power and Diplomacy - a mix of creativity, imagination, excellency, brilliant strategies & power - to be better than Bush
- Poland: Hubertus Hoffmann Meets Two Icons of Moral Values
- Nelson Mandela at 90 - Soweto and South Africa - Hubertus Hoffmann on a Tour of Africa's Values and Chances
- Israel at 60: Hubertus Hoffmann on a new Double Strategy of Power and Reconciliation
- Tribal Areas (FATA): U.S. Air Strikes Counterproductive - Smart Power is better than Hard Power
- Let us promote the Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect now !
- Obituary Hans Janitschek: An Austrian Idealist and Journalist in New York
- Christmas 2007: More hope and light than fear and darkness
- World Security Network: Why you should join as a prominent supporter now !
- Iraq: U.S. Senate supports Sen. Joe Biden Plan for a Federal System
- Letter from Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann to U.S. Senator Joe Biden on the bipartisan vote promoting a Federal Structure for Iraq
- Iraq: Hubertus Hoffmann on Plan B for the U.S. and stabilizing the region
- Bosnia – Hubertus Hoffmann on building bridges between Moslems, Serbs and Croats and Reconciliation in The Balkans
- Russia & Putin: A Grand Strategy for a Better Partnership with the EU and the U.S.
- Afghanistan: A new Grand Strategy for NATO, EU and the U.S.
- Christmas Newsletter 2006 - "Let Us Share a Dream of Peace on Earth!"
- The Misleading Iraq Study Group Report and What President Bush Should Do Now
- The New Art of Peacemaking: Let's Make Friends First — Use Arms only as an Ultima Ratio Regis
- Three Strong Federal States Comprised of Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis Are Needed Now in Iraq with a Division of Oil Income – or a Bloody Civil War Is Unavoidable
- Pakistan: Land in the Line of Fire
- Afghanistan & NATO's Mission Impossible:A Radical New Grand Design Needed or Defeat is Guaranteed
- Is Islam tolerant ?
- Darfur: Stop the Genocide in Sudan now!
- Injustice Indonesian Style: Christians Executed – but Mildness toward Islamic Bali Bombers – Support their families with a donation now !
- Indonesia: Save the Catholics sentenced to death!
- Hubertus Hoffmann, President and Founder, World Security Network Foundation: "The execution of the three Catholics would be a slap in the face to all those who have helped Indonesia after the tsunami!"
- Israel, Lebanon and Palestine: Cornerstones for Peace
- Former NATO General Klaus Naumann: Impressions from Afghanistan and What NATO Should Do Now
- Dalai Lama WSN Exclusive: Thoughts of Tibet's Spiritual Leader
- Christmas Newsletter 2005: Christian Peace Policy is needed now!
- Islamic Renaissance Is Needed!
- Pope John Paul II. : Thank you for your contributions for a better world !
- Nuclear Arms in Iran, Wolfowitz, Stürmer and "Provocative Weakness"
- A New NATO Double-Track Decision Against TerrorOnly a new combination of containment and dialog can defeat terrorism
- Christmas Newsletter 2004
- Fritz Kraemer book parties in Washington and New York: Wolfowitz, Schmitz, Rowny and more
- Fritz Kraemer bookparties in Berlin and Munich
- WSN Scholarship Program for young men and women of excellence
- Islam and Totalitarianism
- 9/11 could have been avoided, but only very soon starting 1998 !
- Sheikh Yassin, Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler: Appeasement and Provocative Weakness
- President Putin, let us start a Common Vision for a democratic Future of Russia in the EU now !
- Support the WSN "Education for Tolerance in the Islamic World Report" !
- The West needs Holistic Formulas for Peace on the basis of Diplomacy plus Power plus Reconciliation
- Christmas Newsletter 2003
- CDU-Pflüger: Global Responsibilities for Europe
- Fidel! It's time to say "Goodbye!"
- Palestine's young elite should have a look at German history
- No Hate for Children, please !
- European intelligence chief believes Osama Bin Laden harboured by Pakistan's ISI -World Exclusive for the www.worldsecuritynetwork.com-
- 7 Bullet Point Plan to defend our Free World
- Kremlin security adviser is as strong as he is weak


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Researchers Link Gulf War Illness to Physical Changes in Brain Fibers that Process Pain
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WASHINGTON — Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have found what they say is evidence that veterans who suffer from "Gulf War Illness" have physical changes in their brains not seen in unaffected individuals. Brain scans of 31 veterans with the illness, compared to 20 control subjects, revealed anomalies in the bundles of nerve fibers that connect brain areas involved in the processing and perception of pain and fatigue.
The discovery, published online March 20 in PLOS ONE, could provide insight into the mysterious medical symptoms reported by more than one-fourth of the 697,000 veterans deployed to the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, the researchers say. These symptoms, termed Gulf War Illness, range from mild to debilitating and can include widespread pain, fatigue, and headache, as well as cognitive and gastrointestinal dysfunctions.
Although these veterans were exposed to nerve agents, pesticides and herbicides, among other toxic chemicals, no one has definitively linked any single exposure or underlying mechanism to Gulf War Illness according to the scientists.
This is the first study to show veterans, compared to unaffected subjects, have significant axonal damage. Bundles of axons, which form the brain white matter, are akin to telephone wires that carry nerve impulses between different parts of the gray matter in the brain. The researchers found that damage to the right inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus was significantly correlated with the severity of pain, fatigue, and tenderness.
"This tract of axons links cortical gray matter regions involved in fatigue, pain, emotional and reward processing. This bundle also supports activity in the ventral attention network, which searches for unexpected signals in the surrounding environment that may be inappropriately interpreted as causing pain or being dangerous. Altered function in this tract may explain the increased vigilance and distractibility observed in veterans." says lead author Rakib Rayhan, MS, a researcher in the lab of the study's senior investigator, James Baraniuk, MD, a professor of medicine at GUMC.
In this Department of Defense-funded study, the research team used a form of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) called diffusion tensor imaging. This imaging method examines patterns of water diffusion in the brain to look for changes in the integrity of white matter, which is not seen on regular MRI scans. "This provides a completely new perspective on Gulf War Illness," says Baraniuk. "While we can't exactly tell how this tract is affected at the molecular level — the scans tell us these axons are not working in a normal fashion."
Although preliminary, "the changes appear distinct from multiple sclerosis, major depression, Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases," says Rayhan. "These novel findings are really exciting because they provide validation for many veterans who have long said that no one believes them."
The results must be replicated, say its authors, but for the first time a potential biomarker for Gulf War Illness may be on the horizon as well as a possible target for therapy aimed at regenerating these neurons.
"Pain and fatigue are perceptions, just like other sensory input, and Gulf War Illness could be due to extensive damage to the structures that facilitate them," says Rayhan. "Some of the veterans we studied feel pain when doing something as simple as putting on a shirt. Now we have something to tell them about why their lives have been so greatly affected."
Other study co-authors include Georgetown University Medical Center researchers Benson W. Stevens, Christian R. Timbol, Oluwatoyin Adewuyi, Brian Walitt, MD, and John W. VanMeter, PhD.
Support was provided by a Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program award W81-XWH-09-1-0526. This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds (grant # UL1TR000101, previously UL1RR031975) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program.
About Georgetown University Medical Center?Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC's mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis — or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical Translation and Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.

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We'll keep track of tonight's minor moves here..
- The Yankees signed veteran catcher Bobby Wilson to a minor league deal, according to Matt Eddy of Baseball America (on Twitter). Wilson will vie for playing time with Chris Stewart, Francisco Cervelli, and rookie Austin Romine this spring. The backstop hit .208/.272/.321 in five seasons with the Angels.
- The Mets announced that they have signed catcher Landon Powell to a minor league contract with an invite to major league Spring Training. The former first-round pick hit .207/.284/.328 in three seasons with the A's.
- The Yankees inked second baseman Reegie Corona, who was once a well-regarded prospect in their system, Eddy tweets. He was playing in Venezuela and has been out of affiliated ball since 2010.
- The White Sox signed shortstop turned right-handed pitcher Tony Pena Jr. to a minor league deal, tweets Eddy. Pena switched positiions back in 2009.
- The Brewers signed catcher Robinzon Diaz to a minor league deal with an invitation to early minor league camp, tweets Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Diaz spent time in theRangers and Angels systems last year.


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Pemberton, John S
Pemberton, John S.
American pharmacist
John Stith Pemberton was born in Knoxville, Georgia, and spent his childhood in Rome, Georgia. He graduated from Southern Botanico Medical College of Georgia in 1850. Pemberton briefly practiced as a traditional Thomsonian "steam doctor," modeled after Samuel Thomson's Complete System of Practice as outlined in his book New Guide to Health. Steam doctors used steam baths, herbs, and other products to induce sweating, which they believed would restore the body to proper health. Pemberton later obtained a degree in pharmacy from a school in Philadelphia. In 1855, Pemberton moved to Columbus, Georgia, with his wife, Anna Eliza Clifford Lewis, and their only son, Charles Ney Pemberton. Here, he practiced primarily as a druggist for fourteen years, though he also performed other medical procedures. Pemberton was a member of the first licensing agency for pharmacists in Georgia.
In May 1862, Pemberton enlisted as a first lieutenant in the Confederate Army, and he organized Pemberton's Calvary to guard the town. In Pemberton's last battle he was shot and cut with a saber across the chest. He used morphine for his pain, and eventually became a morphine addict.
For five years after the war, Pemberton worked as a partner with Dr. Austin Walker, a local and wealthy physician. During this time, Pemberton invested all of his money in researching and developing a line of proprietary items, which included perfumes and botanical medicines. During this time, there was a large demand for home remedies and tonics in the United States, especially in large cities. In 1869, Pemberton moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to start a lucrative business—he developed, and successfully sold, a drink he called "French Wine Coca." Based on a similar European product called "Vin Mariana," Pemberton's tonic combined wine and the extract from coca leaves, the source of cocaine. Coca extract was commonly used at the time in medicines and "temperance drinks" to increase sexual drive, treat digestive problems, calm nerves, and extend longevity. It also was used to "cure" addictions to morphine, nicotine, and alcohol. This was Pemberton's first well-known and widely sold drink. Pemberton himself endorsed his "wine" as a cure for morphine addiction.
In 1885, with talk of Prohibition, Pemberton developed a drink without alcohol. Pemberton added the extract from cola nuts, a strong stimulant containing caffeine, along with the coca, and he replaced the wine with sugar syrup. On May 18, 1886, Pemberton decided on a final formula for his new drink, and Frank Robinson, one of Pemberton's partners and a part owner of his company, came up with the name Coca-Cola and the trademark logo. On June 28, 1887, the Coca-Cola trademark patent was granted. Jacobs Pharmacy, in Atlanta, Georgia, was the first place to serve Coca-Cola from a soda fountain. The cocaine was eventually removed from the drink in 1905.
Pemberton's financial troubles, along with his morphine addiction, led him to sell, trade, and give away portions of his company to various individuals. Coca-Cola eventually became one of the most prosperous businesses in the United States. Pemberton died on August 16, 1888, of stomach cancer , leaving behind many unfinished formulas. Pemberton also developed the first state-run laboratory to conduct tests on soil and crop chemicals. The facility is currently run by the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
Delores C. S. James
Pendergrast, Mark (2000). For God, Country, and Coca-Cola. New York: Basic Books.
Internet Resources
Britannica.com (2001). "The Coca-Cola Company." Available from <http://www.britannica.com>
Business Heroes Newsletter. "John Pemberton, Inventor of Coca Cola." Available from <http://www.businessheroes.com>
Hayes, Jack (1996). "Dr. John S. Pemberton (Inventor of Coca-Cola)." Nation's Restaurant News 30 (February):120–121. Available from <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colainvnt.html>


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It's not fair. I write a rant on Google robots taking over the world, and two weeks later Chaotic Moon shows off a "drone" that's really a $499 remote-controlled Brookstone copter carrying a duct-taped Taser and known as the Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone, aka CUPID. That's really funny -- so funny I want to be there when a few hundred specimens out of Harvard's self-building robot hive chase Chaotic Moon's founders down the street toward the Mandatory Dotcom Ubergeek Meat Plant (MANDUMP).
But at the other end of that spectrum are the pseudo-Luddites, like those people still using Windows XP and desperately protesting its April 8 support death knell. For them, this will be a hard one to hear.
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Basically, these folks are saying they'll hold their breath like 8-year-olds until Microsoft agrees to keep supporting XP. But aside from oceans of blue faces, their main argument is that allegedly a little more than 32 percent of the computers on the planet are still running XP, so Microsoft's stellar security reputation will suffer if all those machines are suddenly compromised like nuns in a biker bar.
Security? You're barking up the wrong OS
First, I didn't realize Microsoft had a stellar reputation in security. I must have missed that memo somewhere in the endless stream of IE root-grabbing exploit emails I keep getting. Second, only people who believe in Santa Claus and OJ's innocence also believe their 12-year-old XP machine hasn't been compromised in some way by now. Some apparently think new hardware will save them as XP's user share inexplicably grew by 0.3 percent last month. It's like people want to get hacked.
Let's say your XP machine has not had its firewall popped and Microsoft really is the leader in secure PC software and the sky is green and the grass is blue. How does coming out and clearly stating -- for years -- that you're stopping support on a specific date hurt your future security reputation if customers are ignoring you? If millions of users get pwned because, despite being warned years in advance, they decide to stay in the '90s with the "Fresh Prince" reruns and Marky Mark underwear ads, that doesn't make Microsoft look insecure today.
Microsoft Security Essentials missing almost 40 percent of existing malware as recently as last month -- that makes Microsoft look insecure today. Selfishly, I'd like Microsoft to concentrate on not continually applying Band-Aids to an XP codebase that must look as beat up as Dad's old slippers. This conflict really isn't about security; like everything else, it's about money.
It all comes down to cash
Microsoft doesn't want to spend more funds on the impossible mission of maintaining a secure XP, and customers don't want to spend it on Windows 8 -- or if they're lucky and smart, some downgraded licenses of Windows 7. I give Microsoft a lot of grief over a lot of issues for a lot of reasons because -- well, it's fun and the company tends to deserve it. But I can't disagree with Redmond on this count.
Yes, certain segments of Windows XP customers, including schools or other low-budget organizations, justifiably claim they can't afford the massive investment it would take to upgrade their PCs. But they didn't even try. Microsoft announced the exact date of XP's end of life in 2008. That's six years of ignoring a deadline everyone knew was coming. Do we not understand the concept of upgrading a little at a time? Waiting until the last minute to upgrade, then complaining about unaffordable costs is weak sauce.


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As demand rose after the last two recessions, in the early 1990s and in 2001, employers moved more quickly. They added temps for only two or three months before stepping up the hiring of permanent workers. Now temp hiring has risen for four months, the economy is growing, and still corporate managers have been reluctant to shift to hiring permanent workers, relying instead on temps and other casual labor easily shed if demand slows again.
"When a job comes open now, our members fill it with a temp, or they extend a part-timer's hours, or they bring in a freelancer — and then they wait to see what will happen next," said William J. Dennis Jr., director of research for the National Federation of Independent Business.
The rising employment of temp workers is not all bad. However uncertain their status, they do count in government statistics as wage-earning workers, adding to the employment rolls and helping to bring down the monthly job loss to just 11,000 in November. Indeed, the unemployment rate fell in 36 states in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, partly because of the growing use of temps.
The bureau, which issues the monthly employment reports, does not distinguish between permanent and casual employment, with one exception: it has a special category for temp workers, the men and women supplied by Manpower, Kelly Services, Adecco and other agencies.
Last month 52,000 temps were added, greater than the number of new workers in any other category. Not even health care and government, stalwarts through the long recession, did better.
"Sometimes we're asked by a company to bring back ex-employees as temps," said Joanie Ruge, a senior vice president of Adecco. Some are even ex-employees who have been laid off. "That does happen," she said.
In the past, temps who do well have often been offered regular employment, with higher pay and benefits. Given the uncertainties about this recovery, companies are not doing that now, and temps, as a result, are less likely to spend as freely as regular employees or to qualify for credit, generating less demand than permanent employment would.
Adding to this undertow, corporate America is investing very little in expansion at a moment when current capacity — the machinery and floor space now available — is underused. And pressure is rising on the Obama administration and Congress to offset the shortfalls by authorizing more stimulus spending — enough to bring the national unemployment rate down from the present 10 percent.
"Depression has been forestalled only because major government borrowing and spending is filling the gap," Albert M. Wojnilower, a Wall Street economist and consultant at Craig Drill Capital, said in a newsletter last week.
Managers weigh costs, order backlogCaution in hiring is certainly the watchword at Eggrock, which makes prefabricated bathrooms in Littleton, Mass. During the summer, Eggrock received its first new order since the recession began: 462 units for a hospital project in Canada.
The order caught the company with only 10 workers on the factory floor, down from 45 early last year. But rather than recall those who had been laid off, Eggrock arranged for 40 temps from Manpower: plumbers, electricians, assemblers and the like.
"The biggest factor in prompting us to shift from temps to permanent employees would be a solid order backlog," said Phillip Littlefield, a vice president at the company. So far a backlog has not materialized, or even a second order, although there is an "uptick in interest," as Mr. Littlefield put it. "We are optimistic," he said.
Halfway across the country, in Burlington, Iowa, the recession bypassed the Winegard Company. That is perhaps because Winegard makes television antennas and satellite receivers, and in hard times people watch more television, said Denise Baker, Winegard's director of human resources. Whatever the case, to keep up with new orders, the company has added 70 workers in the last two years — all of them temps.
"An actual employee with benefits costs more than a temp or a contract worker," Ms. Baker said, "and as long as I can still get highly skilled temps, I'll go that route. It gives me more room to reverse course if the economy weakens again and sales do finally sink."
Economy is recovering, for nowGiven the nature of the upturn, that could happen. After 18 months of contraction, the economy expanded from July through September at a 2.8 percent annual rate, and many economists expect the expansion to be even stronger in the fourth quarter, approaching 4 percent. The rebound is robust mainly because of a "turnaround in inventory policies from breakneck liquidation to slow accumulation," Mr. Wojnilower said.
If this restocking of shelves and warehouses were to stop or slow next year, a possibility that concerns Mr. Littlefield and Ms. Baker, then the temps, freelancers and contract workers they and many other employers now use would have a harder time moving from casual to regular employment.
The temp agencies often promote themselves as employment agencies — skilled at quickly finding qualified workers whom companies can convert to regular employment after using them initially as temps.
That mechanism works well in good times, but not these days, certainly not for Walter Latham of Coram, Long Island, who lost his job 14 months ago as a project manager at the Reserve, a money market fund based in New York.
His wife, Marjorie, works for Kelly Services as a temp at a health insurance company's call center, and Mr. Latham, 56, finally joined her two weeks ago after hunting for months for higher-paying, permanent work. The temp assignment pays him less than $25 an hour — "a long way down from the $135,000 a year I once made," Mr. Latham said.
The Lathams have gone through the more than $200,000 in savings that he accumulated during 20 years in the financial services industry. The call center assignment ends on March 31, and neither Mr. Latham nor his wife have gotten any hint that the insurance company would convert them to permanent employment with benefits like health insurance, which neither has today.
"My future is Latham Golf," he said, describing a Web site that he and some partners started 15 days ago to teach subscribers how to swing golf clubs. Until Latham Golf pays off, if it ever does, Mr. Latham says that he and his wife, who sells jewelry on the side, will continue to work as temps.
"I've never seen the job market this horrible," he said, "when you couldn't get a job or even an offer of a job at a decent pay level."
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ESDU Toolbox
ESDU provides essential design methods and software for the aerospace, defence, transportation, energy and related industries. These methods and software are produced and rigorously validated in concert with the collective knowledge of hundreds of engineers from around the world.
Listed below are the ESDU 'Toolbox Apps'. These provide user friendly web-based interfaces to some ESDU programs. Some Toolbox Apps are only available to subscribers, others are freely available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike.
Subscriber Toolbox Apps
From Data Item ESDU 95009.
This app implements the method of ESDU 95009, in ESDUpac A9509, for estimating the change in lift and aerodynamic centre position resulting from moving a wing from a centrally-mounted position to one above (or below) the centre line of a forebody-cylinder combination.
The method generally applies to a plane wing with sweptback leading edge, local span increasing (and then possibly constant) streamwise, and an unswept trailing edge. The body has a constant diameter circular section over the wing root chord and the wing may be set at an angle to the body centre line. The particular case of a rectangular wing is also considered.Run app
See ESDU ASTEROID
Utilising Data Items ESDU 75031, ESDU 75028 and ESDU 74036.
The ASTEROID program brings together the various ESDU methods for the calculation of excrescence drag due to steps, ridges, grooves and cavities on the external surfaces of aircraft. The app provides a simple interface that enables users to define the excrescences and then calculate the drag increments within a few minutes.
ASTEROID integrates the programs associated with ESDU 75031, ESDU 75028 and ESDU 74036 within the context of a specified and predetermined aircraft flow field. Multiple excrescence geometries can be specified on selected aircraft major components (i.e. a wing upper or lower surface, fuselage, nacelle, horizontal tail or fin). The app first asks the user to select an aircraft type (e.g. single-aisle transonic airliner, low-speed commuter airliner, etc) from a list and to choose an appropriate cruise Mach number for consideration. The app then allocates the appropriate pre-generated local flow field so that typical flow conditions (including flow direction) at each excrescence can be determined. The flow data for the single-aisle and low-speed commuter aircraft are presented for the whole airframe, together with a range of wings representative of short-, medium- and long- range jet transports, and a blended-wing body design.
Excrescence geometries are then specified either as circular cavities or as multi-node excrescences, which can be closed (e.g. to model a repair plate or cover) or open (e.g. to model a control surface gap). The edges of the excrescence can be characterised as steps (with or without edge treatments), rectangular or square ridges, grooves or gaps (with or without sealing).
When the excrescences have been defined, the app automatically selects the method from the appropriate Data Item and calculates the drag coefficients based on both the excrescence and aircraft reference areas. The aircraft drag coefficient penalty summed for all excrescences is also calculated.Run ASTEROID
ASTEROID fp
ASTEROID fp (flat plate) is a version of the ASTEROID drag prediction tool that uses the graphical and calculation modules (and data management capabilities) offered by the original program, but the user is freed from having to select one of the flow-fields for specific aircraft or generic wings in the current database. Instead, all flow conditions are specified by the user, thereby extending ASTEROID's applicability, not only to aircraft whose airframes or components are not presently represented within the flow-field library, but also missiles, rockets, drones and non-aeronautical applications such as rail and road transports and wind engineering.
The designation 'fp' relates to the 'flat plate' condition, which is that addressed in all the excrescence drag calculation methods in the Aerodynamics Series' Data Items relating to specific excrescence types. Most of the wind-tunnel data were indeed for excrescence models mounted on flat plates but, in the wider context of applying such data to drag prediction, this should be interpreted as the drag in the absence of a pressure gradient. Therefore, no allowance is made in ASTEROID fp for any drag magnification that may be present, so that, in effect, the drag magnification factor is set to unity. The subject of excrescence drag magnification is discussed in detail in ESDU 90029.
Note that the use of ASTEROID fp is, in most respects, identical to ASTEROID, so the help files and instructional videos are applicable; the exception, of course, being references to the flow-field data library.Run ASTEROID fp
From Data Item ESDU Aero A.02.03.02.
This app determines the optimum area distribution and corresponding minimum theoretical transonic drag-rise at zero lift. The program implements the method of ESDU Aero A.02.03.02, accessing the graphical data by use of the equations provided in the Data Item.Run app
From Data Item ESDU 74036.
This app implements ESDUpac A7436, which, in turn, is based correlations of experimental results obtained on a plate at zero incidence, for predicting the increment in drag for Mach numbers less than 3. The methods apply to a cavity with sharp edges, walls normal to the plate, flat bottom and no through-flow; no information is available on rounding or chamfering of the corners, but such edge modifications should not be assumed to be beneficial. The depth/diameter ratio varied from 0.04 to 1.5 but a method of dealing with a cavity in which the ratio is less than 0.04 and based on the method of ESDU 75031 is utilised. The data apply strictly in zero pressure gradient flows, but guidance on their use where there is a pressure gradient is given in the Data Item.Run app
From Data Item ESDU 75028.
ESDU 75028 is derived from a correlation of experimental data that enable the drag increment to be predicted due to a groove of planform aspect ratio greater than 8 normal to the flow. For grooves inclined at angles to the flow exceeding 60 degrees the data for the grooves normal to the flow apply, while for grooves inclined between 0 degrees (parallel to the flow) and 60 degrees a method for obtaining the maximum increment is suggested based on the use of ESDU 75031 to predict the increments due to the forward- and rearward-facing steps together with an appropriate skin friction allowance.Run app
From Data Item ESDU 75031.
ESDU 75031 gives an empirical method for the prediction of the drag increment due to a variety of two-dimensional excrescences, each mounted normal to the flow direction on a flat plate, and immersed in a turbulent boundary layer for Mach numbers up to 3. The excrescence types are (1) a forward-facing step, ramp (chamfered step), or a radiused step, (2) a rearward-facing step, ramp (chamfered step), or a radiused step, and (3) a square section ridge or a rectangular section ridge (of height/length ratio 2), with or without radii to the top corners.Run app
From Data Item ESDU 20003.
ESDU 20003 provides crack resistance curves (R-curves) for several aluminium, steel and titanium aerospace sheet materials in SI and British (lbf, in) units. The curves are indexed by alloy specification, details of which are given, together with relevant test conditions, in the Data Item. The Data Item includes a full description of the resistance curve concept, its application, advantages and limitations. The use of data determined from wide panel specimens is discussed. Two fully worked examples illustrate the use of the data to determine the onset of fast fracture. This Item supersedes ESDU 85031.
This Toolbox App is provided to interrogate the database of R-curves according to material type, specification, heat treatment, orientation and additional criteria such as thickness and width. The output from the Toolbox App consists of a summary of the input data and a plot of the chosen R-curve. The Δa' versus KR co-ordinates of the R-curve may be saved as either a CSV or a JSON file.Run app
Free Toolbox Apps
This app determines, at a specified pressure altitude in the International Standard Atmosphere (ISA), absolute and relative values of pressure, temperature and density together with the absolute values of the speed of sound, kinematic and dynamic viscosity and thermal conductivity. It also determines VTAS, VEAS, kinetic pressure and unit Reynolds number for a specified Mach number at the given pressure altitude. Calculations are limited to the troposphere and stratosphere.
Section 4, of the ESDU Aerodynamics Series contains additional information on Atmospheres. In particular, for calculations at greater altitudes and for further details of the ISA consult ESDU 77021. A range of 'design' atmospheres that differ from the ISA is given in ESDU 78008.Run app
This app employs a modified version of the Helmbold-Diederich equation (described in ESDU TM 169) to estimate the lift-curve slope of a wing of trapezoidal planform. In order for the method to be applicable the wing must be thin and employ only moderate camber and twist, and the flow must remain both attached and wholly subcritical. Compressibility effects are catered for by means of the classic Prantl-Glauert factor. The original Helmbold-Diederich equation was often used before there was general access to more soundly based methods such as the lifting-surface theory (which is the basis of ESDU 70011). However, the improved and modified version of the equation used in this app provides estimates accurate to within a few per cent of those obtained by ESDU 70011, which itself has been assessed as providing estimates to within around 5% of wind-tunnel test data. The limits of applicability in terms of flow and geometric parameters for which the app produces results have been restricted to those cited for the method from ESDU 70011.
The full background to this method, and that of ESDU 70011, is given in ESDU TM 169 in the ESDU Aerodynamics Series.Run app
This app uses the semi-empirical method of Spalding and Chi to obtain the local and mean skin friction coefficients for a turbulent boundary layer on a smooth flat plate with zero pressure gradient and zero heat transfer.
The data are applicable to flows with Reynolds numbers based on streamwise distance over the range 100 thousand to 1000 million and for Mach numbers up to 5.
The equations used are taken from Appendix A of ESDU 78019, which itself is based on the method described in ESDU 68020. Both of these Items are to be found in the Aerodynamics Series.Run app
This app provides a method of estimating the stress-strain behaviour of a metallic material within the assumptions that this behaviour may be represented by a smooth continuous generalised curve. The method is valid for both tensile and compressive stress-strain data.
The curve is derived using the Young's modulus and two data points in the inelastic region (the tensile strength is used solely to limit the extent of the curve). The curve follows the modulus in the elastic region and in the inelastic region the greatest accuracy is in the region of the two data points used to derive the curve.
The two data points in the inelastic region may be given as either (a) two proof stresses and the corresponding permanent strains, or (b) two stresses and the corresponding total strains.
The theoretical basis for the generalised stress-strain form used by the app is detailed in ESDU 89052, 'Construction of inelastic stress-strain curves from minimal materials data', and ESDU 76016, 'Generalisation of smooth continuous stress-strain curves for metallic materials'.Run app


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Inez McCormack, the internationally renowned human rights activist, has died (Monday 21 January 2013) following a short illness.
Inez was the founder and adviser to the pioneering, highly commended Participation and the Practice of Rights organization (PPR). PPR provides support to local disadvantaged communities and groups in using a rights based approach to change the social and economic inequalities and deprivation they face.
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Human Rights Commissioner, has described PPR's work as "groundbreaking."
Last year (2011), Inez, along with Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Meryl Streep and Mu Sochua (the Nobel Peace Prize nominee from Cambodia), was named by US publication Newsweek as one of '150 Women Who Shake the World.' She was recognized for her work in enabling women to improve the quality of their lives through spreading the values of human rights.
Inez was the first female President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and an unrelenting activist for the equality provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. In the 1980s, she was a signatory to the historic MacBride Principles, a corporate code of conduct for US companies investing in Northern Ireland which demanded outcomes to address religious inequality in employment.
Nicola Browne, Director (Policy) of PPR said, "We are devastated by the death of Inez, our founder, adviser and dear friend. Inez believed in, and struggled for, the dignity of people at the hardest end of society, and this conviction fuelled her life's work. In the trade union movement she supported the lowest paid women cleaners, and as a human rights campaigner, Inez used her formidable intelligence and warmth to bring about change on the ground for communities and groups that needed it most.
Read more: Newsweek name Inez McCormack as one of the women who shake the world
"During her time as Regional Secretary of UNISON, Inez spearheaded campaigns for equal pay for low paid women workers. Local or international, the focus was always on supporting those who were disadvantaged. From families in north Belfast who were experiencing housing inequality, to street traders in Durban, South Africa who had been forced out of work by the Olympic games, right through to undervalued domestic workers in New York and many, many more."
Nicola Browne continued, "Inez was driven by her conviction that challenging the status quo and working for change was a vital part of a healthy democracy. Thanks to Inez's visionary and tireless leadership, the Participation and the Practice of Rights organization is a thriving movement supporting a wide range of marginalized groups in order to create positive change and hold government to account."
Award winning actress Meryl Streep chose to portray Inez's life in a reading of a documentary play "SEVEN" in New York in 2010. SEVEN tells the personal stories of Inez and six other women who triumphed over enormous obstacles to create major positive change in their home countries.
Nicola Browne added, "Following the production of Seven in New York, Inez was asked by Meryl Streep why she did her work - Inez replied saying: 'At the heart of everything, I desire to see the glint in a woman's eye who thought she was nobody, when she realizes that she is somebody.'
"Inez's life revolved around recognizing the dignity of those who were more accustomed to being sidelined and ignored. It is because of this, that her death will be equally mourned by those with power and those without. It will come as no surprise to those who knew and loved her that her conversations in her last weeks were marked by warmth and much laughter."
President Michael D Higgins, Hillary Clinton, Meryl Streep and Mary Robinson were among the many friends and colleagues who contacted Inez in recent weeks.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about Inez McCormack during her visit to Belfast on Friday 6 December 2012: "One person who is not here is Inez McCormack. Inez stands out amongst the extraordinary people I have worked with over the last 17 years. She inspired and motivated me, challenged me often."
Discussing her recent conversation with Inez, Hillary said: "She wanted to talk about how we had to keep working to bring people together so that they would recognize the common humanity and experience in the other; the fact that they want to be part of a family and a community; have a good job and a livelihood; a chance to learn and try to make sense of the world; to seek meaning and fulfillment in their choice of religious faith and practice.
"One of Inez's comments will always remain with me: There are so many more ties that bind us than divide us."
Meryl Streep said: "Inez is such a great inspiration to thousands of women around the world. We are so grateful for the model of her life as a call to action for others, and I send love from so many people in the US who are aware of the difference she has made, actually, and by the example she sets."
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Human Rights Commissioner said: "Inez was a remarkable woman with a remarkable capacity for friendship. She would want us to remember the positive issues she embraced with a combination of lateral thinking and supportive warmth: the McBride Principles; her leadership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and her own Union, Unison; her championing of women's rights and combating gender based violence, at home and in countries of conflict.
"It was from Inez I learned that you can achieve much more if you don't need the credit. Her support to me as a close advisor when I served as President was invaluable, but she never appeared in photographs or in the front row.
"Inez had unique qualities of listening and affirming. They enabled her to encourage local communities - in Belfast initially, then throughout the island- to engage with the International Human Rights System and use it as a tool to empower them in addressing the quality and fairness of local authority services. This work was recognized recently by the Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights as a great example for other communities to follow.
"A life well lived. May she rest in peace."
Among the honors awarded to Inez in her lifetime were the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from New York City (1997); an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University Belfast (2000); and Aisling Person of the Year Community Award (2001). Her writing has been widely published and was selected for inclusion in "The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing" (2002). More recently she published opinion editorials and articles on themes of peace building and social and economic progress.
Inez was married for over 40 years to Vincent (Vinny) and they have a daughter Anne, son-in-law Mark and grandchildren Maisie and Jamie. Originally from Belfast, Inez lived in Derry for the past 12 years. She had a deep and abiding affection for Derry and Donegal where her mother's family originated and for the people of both places.
Northern Irish human rights activist Inez McCormack dies
Inez McCormack, the internationally renowned human rights activist, has died (Monday 21 January 2013) following ...
Inez McCormack, the internationally renowned human rights activist, has died (Monday 21 January 2013) following a short illness.


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Spam today and spam tomorrow
Admittedly you have to be not really paying enough attention to do this, but in the last couple of weeks I've discovered torrent spam. Here's how it works: you download a file you think is something you want, and discovered it's been RAR-compressed. When you uncompress the file, you get a second RAR file that requires a password and a Readme file. The Readme advises you that to get the password you need to go to a Web site and enter an email address – any email address. I'm not quite demented enough to do this, even with the venerable black-hole address firstname.lastname@example.com. Who knows what evils might be lurking on that Web site?
This is the more or less harmless kind. Other stories say that there are more dangerous types of torrent spam, where to play the file you are required to download a new video player that is typically infected with malware.
For once, this seems not to be an RIAA/MPAA initiative. It's just spam, reflecting the reality that any time anything on the Net gets sufficiently popular someone tries to turn it into a vehicle for unwanted crap. And you know they know it's unwanted, because otherwise they wouldn't be trying so hard to trick you into reading it. At one time – oh, say, a year ago – a lawyers' mailing list agreed that at the threshold of around 10,000 readers you have to turn off or moderate comments because the comment spam got too heavy. Page rank can do it, too: the pelicancrossing.net site that hosts one version of this column gets something like 1,000 comment spams a week – and hardly any real ones. (Moveable Type, which powers that blog, does have anti-spam settings, which trap most, but not all, of the junk. Unfortunately, the price is that for some reason it rejects all comments I make myself, which means that people who do comment don't get responses from me. Despite a lot of trawling through settings, I have yet to find a solution to this.)
Appropriately diligent research shows that torrent spam isn't new; it was first reported in 2004, and by 2005 there were efforts to create a reporting service. That service now has very little traffic in its forums, and that makes it hard to tell from its stats whether this is a growing problem. Despite the egocentric desire to see it as one – hey, I noticed it! It must be big! – it's probably just a footnote to the great tide of spam that washes over us in so many other ways. A modest amount of attention paid to checking the torrent you're downloading defeats it.
Still, it's arguably yet another reason why the *AAs should have fought back by creating their own cheap, reliable, widely available services. They may pick up some short-term advantage by being able to campaign semi-truthfully on the idea that using P2P to download copyrighted material is risky. But long-term the educational task they'll face in trying to explain to ordinary consumers why we should trust that their systems are safer will be a bigger disadvantage.
On the wider Internet, of course, spam continues to be a relentless flood. Google broke ranks this week to claim that the amount of spam reaching its network is declining. I find it hard to believe this. It's certainly true that spam does move on if a particular technology goes out of favor – the areas of Usenet I frequent are now almost completely spam-free though not, unfortunately, devoid of single-idea-obsessed idiots with a trigger-finger on the abusive adjectives.
But if email spam does start to die because too many people have moved their real communications to IM, Skype, Facebook, and other newer, more carefully gated media it seems unlikely that any one service provider will be singled out. Given that the single biggest reason email spam is popular is that it costs next to nothing to send, I really can't see botnet designers sitting around their labs going, "Oh, listen, this time let's not bother sending anything to gmail addresses; they just bounce it." If there's one thing we know about spammers it's that they don't care about targeting. I find Facebook, LinkedIn, and the other social network platforms painfully irritating to use for communications compared to email; but for a lot of people they work as an elaborate form of white-listing.
But others do not. "I'm more likely to have Facebook open these days than Outlook," one such correspondent wrote just this morning when I suggested taking it to email.
The longer-term prospects, though, are for much more "legitimate" marketing email. Spamhaus has a really interesting article up about a recent flood of sales messages it's received from one of the lifetime menaces on its ROKSO list advertising cheap home delivery of the New York Times. That same article talks about the many ways email addresses find their way onto marketing lists: sharing with third-party companies and database-matching being the most significant. Then, also this week, Adobe and Yahoo! announced that we can have – oh, joy! – ads in PDFs downloaded dynamically while we try to read.
Doesn't anyone get it? The difference between marketing and spam is user choice. Take that away, and it's all just spam.
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WP LinkedIn Auto Publish lets you publish posts, custom posts and pages automatically from WordPress to your personal LinkedIn profile and/or company pages that you are an administrator of.
The plugin is simple, lightweight and free. It does have a couple of options which includes choosing who you want to share your LinkedIn posts with and whether you want to enable simple text-based sharing or more advanced sharing where you can tell LinkedIn to use your posts feature image. You can also setup a default share message format using time saving dynamic shortcodes for all your posts which you can over-ride on the post meta box settings. You can also filter items to be published based on categories selected on the plugin settings page. You can choose whether you want to share posts, custom posts and pages. You can select the default profile and/or companies you want to share with as well.
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There are a couple of methods for installing and setting up this plugin.
Upload Manually
- Download and unzip the plugin
- Upload the 'wp-linkedin-autopublish' folder into the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
- Go to the Plugins admin page and activate the plugin
Install via the Admin Area
- In the admin area go to Plugins > Add New and search for "WP LinkedIn Auto Publish"
- Click install and then click activate
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Frequently asked questions can be found under the help tab on the plugin settings page.
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"WP LinkedIn Auto Publish" là mã nguồn mở. Những người sau đã đóng góp vào plugin này.Những người đóng góp
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- Respect of original characters using littletext format
- Better parsing of share message before share to better comply with LinkedIn littetext format
- New and improved logging functionality so I can better diagnose errors with LinkedIn posts
- PHP error fix
- Bug fixes
- Fix to show title in link box
- Small bug fix for the name that is shown in the share log
- Small fix where it would say the post didn't share when it was actually successful
- Update to facilitate new version of LinkedIn API
- Minor PHP error fix
- Better error checking
- Compatibility Update
- Further bug fixes
- Better handling of excerpt
- Fixing of PHP error around test authentication
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- Updated messaging for AutoSocial – now we post to Instagram
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- Support for more custom post types
- Fixed line break issue
- Restoration of don't share by default feature
- Updated to the latest version of the LinkedIn API – important after updating please re-authenticate the plugin
- Update to advanced mode so if you don't share an image the grey box won't appear
- Tested with WordPress 5.1.1
- Further bug fix
- Fixes test authentication bug
- Tested with WordPress 5
- Only shows re-authentication warning to admins
- Announcing AutoSocial our new premium version of WP LinkedIn Auto Publish
- Compatibility improvements with other NBW plugins
- Updates to messaging in plugin FAQ and testing with WordPress 4.9.8
- Image fix for some WordPress sites in advanced mode
- Unresolved issues from 6.8
- Unresolved issues from 6.8
- Small fix if someone doesn't have a LinkedIn company
- Bug fix
- Fixed compatibility issue with my other plugin WP Google My Business Auto Publish
- If you try and share a post with no profile selected we will now display an error message so you know the post hasn't been shared to LinkedIn and you need to select a profile
- More diagnostic information collection, better error reporting
- Fixed content length bug which was solved in version 5.10 but re-appeared somehow. This was causing some users authentication issues
- Update to redirect URL with better HTTPS/http determination
- Removed temporary error when authenticating for the first time
- A new authentication system so you don't need to create your own app anymore!
- You can now share to multiple companies and a profile at the same time and selectively choose what profile you want to share to!
- Heaps of bug fixes and code improvements
- now loads all styles/scripts locally
- new SSL mode to assist people with forced SSL backends – please see this new setting under additional options
- minor bug fix around admin notice message showing error
- issue with company selection not showing correctly in the plugin settings
- Better feedback in the plugin settings of the current authentication status of the plugin.
- A bug caused by LinkedIn is bringing back a share URL which doesn't work. This update resolves this so the link to your shared post actually works
- Fixed issue where it appeared as if there was an authentication error when there wasn't
- Fixed issue with authorisation code not working due to version 5.18
- Better debugging or authorisation
- Removed HTTPS from the redirect URL displayed in the 'Authorisation Instructions' to show an HTTP address instead as LinkedIn wasn't accepting an HTTPS redirect URL.
- Added new option to not share posts by default in the plugin settings. Thanks Alexander.
- Fixed diagnostic error message
- Added diagnostic information to the help tab
- Added a loading message when clicking a button to prevent people double clicking a button. Thanks skinner009!
- Enabled the instant share options i.e. the LinkedIn meta box share button and the 'share now' link on post listings to share a post even though the category or post type has been blocked in the plugin settings. This enables you to over-ride default actions if necessary
- Made the plugin translatable and provided some translations
- Removed shortcodes and HTML tags from post content
- Fixed plural of day on admin notice
- Fixed authentication issue some users might have experienced due to LinkedIn requesting a content length in POST requests
- Fixed admin notice so it now tells you a more accurate message once the authentication has expired
- Fixed donation link
- Fixed the way the Redirect URI (which is used in the initial plugin setup/authorisation process) is created and deployed. Now if you change website addresses or go from an HTTP to an HTTPS website the redirect URI will be dynamically created instead of being saved in the plugin settings which was causing some headaches for people. Thanks to Jack Welch for the inspiration to do this fix
- Tested with WordPress version 4.7.4
- Limited share message to 700 characters to allow long posts to still be shared
- Resolved special characters showing incorrectly on advanced share message
- Resolved fully special characters showing incorrectly
- Fixes issue with website name and post title showing special characters incorrectly
- New getting started video which is viewable from the plugin settings
- Minor change to 'Share Now' button
- Implemented new 'Share Now' button on posts page meta box so posts can be shared without having to update/publish the page
- New smart AJAX post option saving which will give more predictable results when choosing to share, not share or change the custom message of a post
- Now the 'Share Now' button on the All Posts page will actually share the post to LinkedIn rather than taking you to the post edit page to then share the post to LinkedIn
- Made it easier to reshare previously published posts as you don't need to make them draft and then publish them again
- Fixes issue with custom post types being shared to LinkedIn
- Now works with scheduled posts
- New help tab to help people with common issues particular as to why posts aren't being shared on LinkedIn
- Tested with WordPress version 4.7.2
- Added notice regarding scheduled posts not working
- Fixed PHP warning if setting not set
- Removed 'Share With' option because when set to 'Connections Only' posts weren't being shared on LinkedIn – I couldn't find a solution to this so just removed the option
- Removed error message created by expiry message if the user hasn't saved settings yet
- Fix of advanced option share where the pulling of the title was triggering an error message
- Added quick settings link on plugin page
- Now you can share custom post types and pages – check out the new setting in the sharing options tab
- There are now more more shortcodes to use for the default share message which include the posts excerpt, content, author and the website title
- Fixed numbering error
- Updated screenshots
- Now displays whether a post has been shared with LinkedIn or not on the main posts listing – this can be turned off with a new setting as well
- Improved logic so that once a post has been sent to LinkedIn the post will default to not sending the post again if updated
- Added a share history section at the bottom of the meta box on the posts page so you can see if the post has been sent to linkedin before
- Added clipboard functionality to make it easier to copy redirect url
- Added admin warning when access token is about to expire
- Updated links and messaging
- Updated file names
- Reconfigured plugin setting arrangement to follow WordPress best practice
- Updated settings interface
- You can now choose particular categories not to share on LinkedIn
- Initial launch of the plugin


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'Kashmir should get Azadi from bhookhe-nange Hindustan' – advice Suzanne Arundhati
Arundhati promotes secession
Deepak K Jha | New Delhi – Daily Pioneer
Kashmir should get Azadi from bhookhe-nange Hindustan,†said Arundhati Roy at a seminar where the Maoists hosted Kashmir secessionist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, which witnessed large scale protests by Kashmiri Pandits. A large number of protesters were detained at the behest of Parliament House attack accused SAR Gilani, who moderated the seminar promoting secession in the heart of the national Capital on Thursday.
The seminar was disrupted many a time when author-activist Arundhati Roy, a known Maoist sympathiser, openly preached secession while expressing her views and urging the audience comprising Kashmiri youth, students from AMU and also from DU to stand up and fight for the cause of a separate Kashmir and to get a fair play in the name of "Idea of Justiceâ€.
"India needs Azadi from Kashmir and Kashmir from India. It is a good debate that has started. We must deepen this conversation and am happy that young people are getting involved for this cause which is their future. Indian Government is a hollow super power and I disassociate with it,†Roy said amid great applause from separatists. "Earlier we used to talk about our head held high and now we lay prostrate to the US,†she added. Referring to one of her earlier writings, Roy mentioned that Kashmiris have to decide whether they want to be with or get separated from "bhookhe-nange Hindustan where more than 830 million people live on Rs 20 per day onlyâ€.
Espousing the separatist cause, Roy also said that in the early 90s India opened two gates – one for the Babri Masjid issue and the other for the economy. "We ushered in two kinds of totalitarianism. One the Hindu totalitarians and the other economic totalitarian,†she said.
The convention on 'Azadi — The Only Way' organised by Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP), was being attended by a number of sympathisers of Kashmiri separatists and Naxalites. The moment Geelani arrived to speak, the protesters numbering around 70 shouted slogans asking him to leave along with those demanding separate Kashmir. Amid pandemonium inside the LTG Auditorium, the protesters shouted slogans like 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and 'Vande Mataram' several times when various speakers expressed their views and opinions driving towards a separate Kashmir.
At least 50 of the protesters, including those from Roots to Kashmir and Panun Kashmir were detained by the police and released late in the evening. At the time of the protest, SAR Geelani, a lecturer in Delhi University who was accused in the Parliament attack case but later set free, was speaking on the topic. Besides Geelani, other participants in the seminar included writer and activist Arundhati Roy, senior journalist Najeeb Mubaraki, Telangana activist Varvara Rao, president of the CRPP Gursharan Singh (represented by his daughter due to Singh's ill health), media critic Shuddabrata Sengupta, and separatists from Manipur and Nagaland in the six-hour-long programme.
"This is atrocious. It is happening right in the Capital of the country when a few people are talking to break the secular ethos of the country. We stand for united India. I do not know why the country's administration is pampering them in the name of Islam. Kashmir belongs to all, including the Kashmiri Pandits and we will do all to safeguard that interest,†said Aditya Raj Kaul, one of the protesters who led a group of young students and professionals condemning the seminar called and moderated by Gilani and a group of Naxal sympathisers.
Emotions erupted and tempers ran high amid a group of Kashmiri Pandits there to listen to the opinion when Roy said that: "I am also aware of the stories about Kashmiri Pandits. I must tell you that Panun Kashmir is a false groupâ€. Taken aback by this statement, 65-year-old Nancy Kaul stood up and questioned the sanctity of Roy's statement. Kaul was joined by a few others echoing the sentiments of Kashmiri Pandits and other displaced persons from Jammu and Kashmir. Nancy was also attacked by a young person, probably from the north-east who also misbehaved with her and threw the paper material Kaul was carrying with her. "Jis thali mein kha rahey hain usi thali eein ched kar rahey hain yain yes log,†Kaul and others shouted pointing towards Roy and other speakers. The police had to be called again to pacify the small group of protesters and a large group of members advocating Azadi.
While urging Kashmiris to boycott interlocutors, Syed Ali Shah Geelani rejected the eight-point agenda rolled out by the Centre for defusing crisis in the Valley. Though saying that the people of Kashmir are not against any dialogue, the Hurriyat leader said the talks should be on the core issue and Pakistan should also be involved in the discussions. "The dialogue should not be bilateral. India, Pakistan and representatives of people of Jammu and Kashmir should sit together with the reference of sacrifices made by Kashmiris during the last 63 years. Indian Government has to accept our five-point agenda, then only we will initiate talks with interlocutors, otherwise I ask Kashmiris to boycott them,†said the separatist leader.
The hardline leader added that since 1947, 150 such dialogues have been held but without any result, we will not participate in any discussions until our five-point agenda is accepted by India. "Our five points are — first Indian security forces should be withdrawn from J&K under UN supervision. Political prisoners be released, cases should be registered against the killers of 111 innocent people, who had been killed during the last four months. Remember, we are not against Indian or India, we want the rights to self-determination,†said Geelani.
SAR Geelani, who moderated the session, said the demand of Kashmir Azadi not only meant the Kashmir Valley but the entire Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Muzzafarabad, Baltistan and Mirpur.
Dal Khalsa leader Kanwar Pal Singh used the occasion to criticise the Government, including Prime Minister Manmohan whom he labeled is anti-Sikh. He also took the opportunity to criticise the Indian judiciary and the audience yelled "Shame Shame India, Shame Shame Courts Hereâ€. "The Supreme Court and High Courts are for the bahu-betis only. What a ridiculous judgement was given by the Supreme Court regarding the Parliament attack case and observations made on Afzal Guru. The recent Ayodhya case is a stupid judgement in which facts were not taken into account but only faith ka khaas khayal rakha gaya.â€
The Naga and Manipuri leaders said that like Manipur and Nagaland, Kashmir was also never part of India. "To be a part during freedom struggle does not mean that we express solidarity to be united with India. We also need freedom as we were free before 1947. What is the problem to India when we say we want freedom,†said a speaker from Naga People's Movement for Human Rights and Justice.
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