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Notes From All Over Part IVJanuary 27, 2004
The 2004 SXSW awards finalists were announced this morning. The Zen Garden is up for 'Developer's Resource', with stiff competition from D. Keith Robinson's Asterisk, James Craig's Accessibility Internet Rally, Ian Lloyd et. al's Tools and Wizards at Accessify, and a new one to me, Jim Armstrong's 3D News and Tips.
Good luck to everyone nominated, and a huge, giant thanks to all who have participated in the Zen Garden. Be it with a design, translation, or even just good old link lovin', the Zen Garden wouldn't be what it is without everyone else's participation. This nomination is for all of us. §
Matt Mullenweg writes with word of a WordPress CSS competition. Like a Zen Garden for WordPress templates, submit your CSS-based design for a shot at three growing cash prizes. Better get a move on it, the competition closes February 6th. §
I've posted this twice elsewhere, so I may as well get it on here too:
I used to think [that you should develop first in IE, then test in Mozilla and the rest], but there's a good reason why my mindset shifted. If you develop in IE, what happens is that you create dependencies on its buggy rendering.
Since the other browsers don't use the same flawed rendering, you'll have to bend over backward to hack your layout into working properly with most of them. In fact, when I was developing in IE, I used to curse Mozilla quite frequently for rendering my code 'wrong'.
My experience has been that if you start out by developing in Mozilla or Safari, and then test in everything else afterward, you have to do much less hacking to make it work. The fringe browsers benefit; IE5/Mac gets a surprising number of my layouts right without any extra effort. Opera generally cooperates, although it can be a crapshoot at times. IE (per the general tone of this thread) is the big problem.
Can you get away with developing in IE? Of course. Is it easier? Generally not. If you don't care about the fringe browsers, then you'll get away with it. If you do care, then you'll have a far nicer time developing in Mozilla. §
Between the plethora of spam, Nigerian scams, and new virii going around these days, whitelists are starting to look mighty attractive. Ten times the regular volume of email came in overnight, thanks to the newest plague, MyDoom.
In a timely manner, Gates is calling for the end of spam by 2006. Unrelated, this is the same Gates whose company spent a full month cleaning house two years back, to squash security flaws in their products.
But are they really unrelated? Spam is a social problem, which somehow seems resistant to technological fixes. Email-based virii are a technical problem, which spread across social networks. If you manage to surpress one, have you surpressed the other?
The postage stamp idea sounds promising when applied to spam. When your email address is spoofed by the latest virus on thousands of messages beyond your control when you haven't done anything to initiate it, who's going to pay the bill? §
After being stung by theft recently, Josh Williams shares his thoughts on protecting your interests while working in a creative field. A logical extension of Jeffrey Zeldman's recent advice about designing on spec, Josh's tips are worth their weight in gold (you know, metaphorically speaking). §


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Yus neereth gassan, pheereth cha yevaano: morda che gassan zinde (Kashmiri saying)
Slumdog Soldiers
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LOL.....good one.. actually in my last post while replying to Liberal,I wanted to use the famous words "IDs go back" but then I thought it is not appropriate to use such words on this forum. I like the idea of using Slumdog Soldiers for the occupational army of India. I remember how 25 years back even before millitancy we used to shout during protest rallies IDs go back..We can have banners saying" Slumdog Soldiers go back" instead of IDs go back.ReplyDelete
- The Kashmir CenterApril 22, 2009 9:46 AM
Music to my ears. Slumdog Army can be another alternative. Soldier is generally attributed to a patriot defending and guarding his own country. Since they are occupying Kashmir, they are not Soldiers but only an army of occupation forces. And leaders like Far OK Abulla, Om. R . Abulla, Sajad the Loner, Mufti the Whisker, Meh Boob Ah the whore, Alley Sagar and all others be called Slumdog Puppets.ReplyDelete
I hope you liked the names which I distorted delibrately as a repect to the Muslim names which these monkeys do not deserve at all.
- AnonymousApril 22, 2009 10:07 AM
By refering to Indian soliders as slum dogs you are honouring them - since a slum dog means a person who is born with all odds especially poverty and yet rises above all to rule .ReplyDelete
Who is born poor but does not allow his poverty to stop him
My dear those who live in slums are humans who are just born poor and may take this as offense but who in world will listen to them - worldlistens to just money
SLUMDOG SOLDIERS IS REALLY THE BEST NAME FOR THEM.Also they come from Chambal valley ,a very prestigious place in India.Even some Politicians came from there.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2009 10:26 AM
At one point of time you were saying that american occupation would be better than Indian and the article about racist countries in world mentions clearly what america is but my dear leaving kashmir aside had india been involved in any kind of invasionReplyDelete
One side you say america is racist and other side you say come here you racist and save me and even there are people asking UK government to solve kashmir . and Uk everyone knows what they were and what they are - in all ways India is better than UK or USA
@ anonymous2ReplyDelete
You seem to have forgotten how India Invaded East Pakistan in 1971 on the pretext of Saving Bengalis.How India India entered into ceylon,How many women they raped.slumdog Army has a base in farkhor Tajikistan wherefrom they have waged a proxy war against Pakistan vis Afghanistan.
@Kashmir CenterReplyDelete
Well said.
Slumdog Army is better suited. Dont want to confuse people by what the true connotation is.
The logistics of maintaining an army in Kashmir is nothing for India. Just look at pure numbers. On defence, India spends only a reasonable portion of its budget, and most of it is not even meant for Kashmir. China spends a lot more of its budget (in terms of percentage) for defence and USA spends a humongous amount of money for its defence too. If you are talking about a military state where the army owns the lion's share of nation's resources and military spending accounts for the majority of the budget, you have to look over the border at Pakistan. Its defence spending is crippling its economy (which is already in a very poor state). India sure has poverty and there are a million reasons behind it, but excessive defence spending is not one of this.ReplyDelete
Well. Why don't you be open and admit that the feeling of some Kashmiris towards the rest of the "dark" Indians is "racist"
in nature ? It has nothing to do with religion, it has nothing to do with language, it has to do with some godforsaken feeling that the rest of the Indians are an inferior race, fit for nothing but living in slums.
The worst form of slavery is slavery to one's own darkest thoughts. If you cannot break out of these thoughts, you will never be free.
A disappointment hearing this from you.
You mean with skyrocketing fuel prices, the cost of transporting your million plus 'slumdog army' back and forth in dilapidated petrol-guzzling trucks is negligible! The cost of heating their bunkers, and occupied bases, with most of the fuel being transported in the same petrol guzzling trucks..
Most of these slumdog army receive a hefty allowance for serving in Kashmir.
What a dissapointment Indians are not able to see that instead of sending your slumdog army to occupy Kashmir that these same men could help their own people by various other ways. The same money that goes towards sustaining this occupation could perhaps be used for educating young slum dwellers, helping out farmers who are committing suicide because they had no crop insurance, or maybe even providing clean drinking water to some of your populace.
Comparing defence budgets with other countries is no argument. It is what India can afford and what it cannot. It is as if one of your neighbour owns a BMW, another owns a Pajero and yet another owns a Rolls Royce, and you reason that you are justified owning a Safari, when all you can afford truly is a maruti 800 or even a bicycle because other things in the house need better attention.
Kashmiris being racist - I dont think so. However Hindutva ideology which has crept into Indian government, and sees Israel as its ally and therefore are racist toward muslim Kashmiris, definitely.
- LiberalMApril 23, 2009 10:26 AM
India is a unique country indeed. Here the 'colonised' live far better lives than the people who are 'colonising' them. Only here can the rich 'colonised' and 'oppressed' people can pass snide remarks on their poor 'colonisers' and 'oppressors'.
See the irony in that ?
- LiberalM
USA's GDP is 13.8 Trillion Dollars, China's GDP is 3.3 Trillion Dollars and your India's GDP is only 1 Trillion. USA is 14 times richer than India in terms of GDP and 100 times better Socially and Infrastructurally. USA's Per Capita Income is 30 times more than India's per capita Income. So is Chian much more ahead than India in every sphere. You are competing with these countries in terms of defence spending and are forgetting other spheres. You better compete with them in social and infrastructral upliftment rather than defence.
Fact of the matter is that you want you big Slum dog army only to occupy Kashmir and establish your hegemony in the Sub - continent. Look around yourself. You have spoiled relationship with China, You are fighting with Pakistan, You have played your big brother role in Sri lanka and failed miserably, Your neferous creation Bangladesh is your latest enemy. You are subjecting Nepal to a worst kind of blackmail. You close the Roads leading to Nepal on minor and trival issues off and On. Thus the fault lies on you not your neighbours. You leave your hegemonistic aspirations and things will be peaceful in the sub-continent. Your forceful occupation of kashmir is bleeding you everywhere. Accept the realities and leave Kashmir for you personal good.
Racism: Kashmiris are not racist but are themselves subjected to religious vendetta. You Indians are complexed with your Mughul Past and now you are venting out you anger against your Muslim past on Kashmiri Muslims. You are killing you by thousand cuts. Raping of women, Killing our youth and destroying our properties.
- LiberalMApril 23, 2009 7:10 PM
@koshur,@kashmir Center,ReplyDelete
You all seem to suffer from having a rather exalted sense of yourself and your place in the world.
Here are some facts so you can put this in perspective. As always, you'll doubt the facts and call me a "Hindutva agent" or 'ID' or a "slum dog" or something else but I will let my arguments do the talking.
India's defence budget: $20 bil (2% of GDP)
Army's share of Def Budget: 40% (0.8% of GDP)
Total Army Corps: 13 (1.2 million troops)
Deployed in Kashmir area: 2 (170000 troops)(0.1% of GDP)
CRPF total strength: 200000
Deployed in Valley area: 58000 (700 companies until 2007, out of which 120 were moved out last year, leaving behind 580) (0.03% of GDP)
%age of India GDP allocated to security in Kashmir area equals 0.13% of GDP.
Out of this number (0.13%), only a fraction goes to maintaining the deployment in Kashmir Valley with the remaining going to other areas of the state that have nothing to do with the valley. Assuming half (erring on the higher side) is spent in the valley, it is only 0.065% of the Indian GDP.
That is what India spends (0.065% of GDP) in maintaining its deployment in Kashmir valley.
Hope this puts a more balanced picture out there for you to look at.
- LiberalM
I am not comparing India's defence budget in absolute terms of course, but in relativist terms.ReplyDelete
India spends 32.7 billion USD for defence out of a total GDP of 1209 billion USD. (2.7%)
Saudi Arabia spends 31.05 billion USD for defence out of a total GDP of 481 billion USD (6.4%). It also suffers a humongous US army presence in its territory.
Pakistan spends 7.8 billion USD on defence out of a total GDP of 167 billion USD (4.67%) It suffers drone attacks on its own citizens by American planes, apart from legally handing over vast regions of its own territory to terrorist groups.
China spends 70.24 billion USD out of a total GDP of 4401 billion USD (1.5%) USA spends 651.16 billion USD out of a total GDP of 14,264 billion USD (4.5%)
Everybody needs some defence spending, it doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor. I think India's defence spending should be drastically cut down, in order to place priorities on more important issues such as education and health. But we have to accept that 2.7% is not an abnormal amount on defence, something that would cripple the economy. The reasons for poverty in India are manifest. The continued dependence on the whims of OPEC for energy resources, and USA as a market to goods and services not being the least. The international currency trade is tilted hugely in favor of USA as the oil exports are always priced in US dollars, creating an artificial demand for dollars. Apart from external reasons like this, Indian polity is uneducated and the country is lacking in infrastructures such as roads and ports. This reality will not change overnight, but over several decades.
Koshur, you know that I am the first person to recommend demilitarizing the entire Kashmir valley. I hate to see military presence anywhere in India. This makes a mockery of democracy and I don't think Kashmiris deserve that, whatever their ideas of independence or sovereignty be.
But I am getting tired of thinly veiled racism that I am encountering on Kashmiri blogs, whatever sympathy I had for the Kashmiri cause evaporates very rapidly when I see this. If I reserve my deepest contempt for anything, that will be racism.
@The Kashmir Center,
There is hardly any Indian who gives a crap about the past. There are too many problems that we have to think about, right here in the present and in the immediate future. There is no hegemonistic plans for India. If there were any, tiny countries such as Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka would have long been absorbed. The current crisis in Tamil regions of Sri Lanka would have been utilized as the quintessential golden opportunity. But the fact is nobody in India wants to lose time and energy on hegemonistic plans. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying to preserve the integrity of our nation as it exists today.
Whether you feel Indian or not, there are a lot of Kashmiris who do. The very idea of India was conceived by Kashmiris. There are Kashmiri professors in every major Indian university, and there are Kashmiri musicians and artists who have made India proud. They might not be Kashmiris in your eyes, but they are Kashmiris nevertheless.
Liberal...Which Indian Country are you talking about?? India has long become In...DIE..ya. India is dieing day by day hour by hour.With the rising of Hindu Mahasaba in early twentieth century, you saw the first partition of In....DIE........Ya.With the rise of Saffron parties in the later part of twentieth century, you had to encounter terrorism.Now in the early 21st century with the rise of Hindu fanatics in your politics, you will see many partitions of In..DIE......Ya.ReplyDelete
Unless you provide some source to back up your numbers, it's your word against our's. No your numbers fizzled, they didnt do the talking.
The fact is that we are the underdogs, the colony, the race being occupied, the nation which suffered a quarter million of its citizens slaughtered by India. I think we have earned every right to use whatever words we can to show our despair. Thats all we can do because that is what non-violent protest is.
India's population in 1942 was 500 million, 1 lakh joined the quit India movement but 25 lakh Indians joined the British occupation army to quell the freedom struggle. (Click here for source)So your argument that some Kashmiris like India or prefer India is irrelevant. The only way to resolve this argument is through a plebiscite.
If Kashmiris would have succumbed and had Kashmiris been defeated so there were no freedom struggle, there is no doubt other little countries would be next. That is what hegemonies are all about.
For benefit of other readers:ReplyDelete
1 lakh = 1 00 000
25 lakh = 25 00 000
- The Kashmir CenterApril 24, 2009 6:23 PM
Your figures are fake. You have cooked up your figures. Whom do you want to fool. Army presence in Kashmir divsion is 5.7 lacs, Air force .70 lac, Navy .20 lacs, Para military like BSF and ITBP, ITBF 1.1 lac, CRP and CISF .70 lac. Total 7.9 lacs say 8 lacs. Population of Kashmir is 55 lacs means for every 7 Kashmiris there is 1 Slumdog armyman.
I have first time encountered figures given by liberal. Liberal is trying to count human heads in terms of GDP. He has put Indian Economy to a shame.
Laberal forgot to answer my later part of the argument. Indias aspiration for hegemony over the sub continent. Ray tried to answer but could not convince even himself, leave aside us.
- LiberalMApril 25, 2009 12:01 AM
In this day and age, it is impossible to hide the numbers. Just do a search on Google and you'll find all the numbers I quoted on any reputable source. India's defence budget is not hard to find, nor are the Indian military budgetary numbers and personnel strength. The corps locations are pretty well known. The corps strengths are pretty standard the world around.
If you open your eyes things will be visible to you otherwise you will see what you always see - dreams and nightmares but not reality. Reality is staring you in the face if you care to open your eyes and look.
@Kashmir Center,
My figures are fake ? They are all out there on the web in multiple locales on multiple sources every which way you look.
I have to admit that your numbers are much more interesting though. Out of 55000 total Navy personnel, according to you, nearly half of them are stationed in Kashmir !?! You probably forgot that Kashmir is nearly 2000 km away from the ocean which Navy desparately needs for its ships ! Dreaming again .. aren't you ?
Even if we take your super-exaggerated numbers (including the Naval ones .. might as well), the expenditure numbers come to barely 0.2% of Indian GDP. Those numbers can hardly bring India down - they are worth the annual revenues of a couple of IT companies.
It is good to get a sense of proportion. To you it must seem like India is crumbling around to save Kashmir from going to Pakistan or going independent. That's hardly the case. To 99% of the Indians, Kashmir is a non-issue. It has zero impact (good or bad) on their daily lives.
Hegemony ? Indian political leadership made a decision long time back that it is far better that Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka cook in their own broth, rather than be our headache. Good decision, I would say.
- LiberalM
Just goes to show what flimsy knowledge you have of Kashmir and the occupation forces here. When everyone with even the miniscule information about Kashmir knows the occupation force numbers are between 700,000 to 1 million. These numbers were disclosed during question hour, in the puppet assembly. Making it the highest density military occupation in the world.
Kashmir center's numbers are accurate. The Slumdog Navy people are stationed around wullar. Again, I am glad you are being educated here, but next time dont start throwing numbers around and pretend you know a subject
- LiberalMApril 25, 2009 12:53 AM
Yes, sure. You will disbelieve what the puppet assembly says 999 out of 1000 times but on this occasion you'll believe the puppet assembly numbers.
Yes, when you believe that half of Indian Navy is stationed in Kashmir on Lake Wullar, you can believe anything. You can also believe that almost the entire Indian military was made specially to oppress the Kashmiris. You can then further believe that the entire Indian economy is growing at a measly annual rate of 7% solely because of India's entire military being tied up in Kashmir valley.
You can believe what you want but who will believe anything you say when you say that nearly half of Indian Navy is stationed around Lake Wullar ?
- LiberalM
It boils down to citing sources and verifying numbers. As of now its your word against our's.
Yes I believe that Kashmir is taking up your slumdog army's majority of resources.
now that you believe there are your slumdog navy stationed in wullar. we are simply arguing about numbers. your word against ours!
7% increase coming from the slumdog economy is not impressive. It's like saying to a train wreck survivor with 80% second degree burns ("sir, good news is that you made a 7% improvement since yesterday)
- LiberalMApril 25, 2009 9:35 AM
Citing sources to you makes no difference. You'll question the motive of the sources and then the sources themselves. Telling you to look at the facts is pointless because you have closed your eyes. Telling you to hear the other side is pointless because you have closed your ears.
You are filled with blind hate of anything to do with India (including the tiny minority of Indians who come to blogs such as yours). You may elicit a few laughs from your cohorts by calling us names. But at the end of the day, all that name calling does is lower you not just in our eyes, but in the eyes of the truly wonderful and tolerant religion that you CLAIM to profess.
- LiberalM
- The Kashmir CenterApril 25, 2009 11:01 AM
If Indian Slumdog or Slurdog Army's deployment strength and placement info is so freely available on the net, then its a matter of yet another shame for India. This type information is not meant for public domain. All that which is published on the net is unofficial data. Liberal is only quoting the misinformation which he has has hand picked to mislead. He will never quote the most reliable data. He is only banking upon Indian propoganda tools on the internet. I fail to understand why he is counting human heads in terms of G.D.P. I have never stumbled upon such hilarious calculations anywhere. I have a degree in Economics and Management from a reputed European University but I think I need to re - educate myself. Maybe I should get admission in some Indian Slumdog University to learn more about Indian Fake Economy.
My figures are authentic. My source of information is neutral and it is World Armed Forces Journal 2007 which is available with me. I have not got my information from the net. Only information which I got from the net is about India Para Military forces, through Indian Web Portals.
In Kashmir Navy is usually deployed to man water bodies and as a commondo force. Naval Commondos are active in boder areas of J & K. They have usually an undercover mission. In JK they work under the command and control of Slumdog Army corps. I think this bit of information is enough to shutter down your propoganda shop. If you want further information on your Slumdogs, then request for it and stop spreading blunt lies. We possess lot of wits to expose your stupid agendas.
Check out my new post on Sajad Lone and Operation Clean up on my blog.ReplyDelete
- LiberalMApril 26, 2009 12:39 AM
@Kashmir Center,ReplyDelete
I wasn't counting human heads in terms of GDP. I was simply showing how the defence portion of the GDP (2%) first gets split into the three services then how the defence portion gets split over the many Corps the Army has. The aim being that in the end, you can see that the Army deployment in Kashmir consumes a tiny portion of the GDP. Even with your numbers, exaggerated as they are, the deployment doesn't amount to much in terms of percentage of the GDP. As I wrote earlier, what happens in Kashmir has zero impact (good or bad) on the lives of 99% of Indians.
It was simple ratios and proportion and anyone trained in 7th standard maths could figure it out. So no, an advanced management degree wasn't required to understand it. Just a bit of common sense. Perhaps you are reading too much into it ?
Naval commandos in Kashmir don't add up to half of the total naval personnel strength. One needs a bit more of the common sense to understand that a country's maximum naval power will be deployed on the ocean and not in a region that is 2000 kms away from one.
Assumption that you and your people possess all the wits in the world and everyone else is stupid is a dangerous assumption to make. People making such assumptions quickly hit the bell curve of intelligence distribution in any general population. If you haven't hit one yet already then perhaps you need to get out more ?
- LiberalM
- AnonymousApril 26, 2009 3:35 PM
Hi Guys,ReplyDelete
Sharing this editorial with you. May be Kashmiris need to take a leaf out of this noble thought process building in Pakistan.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2009 5:00 PM
i fully argee....muslims in kashmir should be left alone and should live under their own sharia law....they have enough of their own dogs which can deal with them really well!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2009 7:57 PM
has anyone of you been to wular - these days where is water in wular - all around it has been sedimented and converted into land .ReplyDelete
In 80's Wular used to be full of water - a magnificent lake - now it looks like Talab - like those in Jammu or may be in Bihar
- is navy not stationed on land
Anonymous...It has been my childhood dream to visit Wular Lake but have not been able to visit due to slumdog terrorists of India.They harass anyone, they can catch and Kill anyone due to special powers.ReplyDelete
Liberal.. I can understand ur feelings about "calling names" but would request to see the other perspective as well. Kashmiris can never forget the killings, rapes, toruture, occupation of our theatres, schools, colleges, houses, shops, govt buildings, playing files, children parks, roof tops etc. By calling them Slumdog army or Slumdog terrorist, we are only venting out our anger as we are a weak nation. However non one has and no one should call names to ordinary Indian citizens. That is not what Islam teaches us. email@example.com
- AnonymousApril 27, 2009 8:33 AM
Wular used to be much much bigger and clear lake than Dal but it is not army which are responsible for present wular - it is our own greed for acquiring land that people around wular have sedimented the lake and convert that to land and then raise vegetation. We have lost our love and respect for nature and hardly understand long term implications of sedimenting a water body like wularReplyDelete
- LiberalMApril 27, 2009 8:37 AM
Thank you your understanding on "name calling". Successive central governments have mishandled Kashmir. Successive Kashmiri politicians (starting with Sheikh Abdullah) also have not delivered. Art 370 managed to keep land mafia out of Kashmir (very good) but also left Kashmir without much outside investments (very bad).
I understand how you feel about the armed presence in your backyards. But there was no such pervasive presence before 1989. Presence of Badami Bagh cantt does not rise up to the level of oppression (there are 66 other cantts in the rest of Indian cities). Jailing of Sheikh Abdullah does not rise up to the level of oppresion. He broke the agreement (Defence, Communication, Ext Affairs to India, rest everything to Kashmir) and started acting in a dictatorial manner. Kashmir had tremendous autonomy - it lost almost all of it due to the machinations and attempts at power grab of a single man (Sheikh Abdullah). Successive politicians after him were weaklings bent on looking after their own interests than the interests of their constituents. All of this stayed in the political space until 1989 - everyone knows what happened after that and the response that followed. Both the action (armed militancy) and the reaction (armed counter-militancy) were unnecessary and ended up in tragedy for Kashmiri citizens.
There have been many states in India that have had weak political systems. However, problem of Kashmir's weak political history is compounded by the fact that it is also a strategically located area.
I firmly believe that Kashmiris have to get past the tragedies of the past and look forward. I firmly believe that a peaceful Kashmir's future is tied to India - all other possibilities (independence, US bases, merger with Pakistan) being far more dreadful and/or unrealistic. I believe that civil society in India is strong enough to slowly but surely ensure basic civic/human rights to Kashmiris if (a big if) there is no local violence. I believe that AFSPA must be repealed from all parts of India.
- LiberalM
- AnonymousApril 27, 2009 3:14 PM
The arguments based on Logic, Rationality, Simplicity, Pragmatism are generally not understood in this northern most state of India.
Everything is some how or the other tied to religion and that has been the reason for the turmoil.
The mindset is pretty similar to what the world is witnessing in Pakistan, the mindset which they cultivated in the laboratories of Afghanistan & Kashmir.
And now you don't need to be rocket scientist to understand the reasons for the affiliations of the commentators here.
If the thought process begins to build around taking religion off politics, economics etc, they would start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
The state of affairs in Kashmir is because of this mindset.And adding fuel to the fire is the total "Denial" of this facet. There is no other substantial reason for this state of affairs.
Those guys would never understand, Quote :"Kashmiris can never forget the killings, rapes, toruture, occupation of our theatres, schools, colleges, houses, shops, govt buildings, playing files, children parks, roof tops etc."
If all of this does happen or happened, it all started from 1989 onwards.
And neither will the world forget the ethnic cleansing of kashmiri pandits at the hands of the majority in the name of "who you know well."
Its just a matter of understanding the truth.
As long as this Denial continues, this state of Affairs will continue.
This mode of terrorism was crushed by a PROACTIVE Force and Diplomacy in Punjab and thats why it lasted only 10 years. And those guys were not even in Denial.
While in Kashmir,its just been predominantly Diplomacy and a REACTIVE Force and thats why this state of affairs is lingering on. And why do you think it is that way for Kashmir? I dont have to spell it.
Why do you think, India is globally know as a Soft Power? and not the one which knows how to be tough.
You may provide some very rational and pragmatic arguments, but its futile when the party you are discussing with is in a state of complete Denial.
Anonymous.... Killing of just 250 Kahsmiri pundits amounts to ethnic cleansing and killing of more than 90000 innocent Kahsmiri muslims is just a reaction to armed uprising..How logical and rational view???ReplyDelete
Liberal, please dont think freedom struggle just started in 1989. It only took a voilent phase after 45 years of denial of resolution by Indian govt. Article 370 is not in place.How many people in India know that Kashmir had its own Prime Minister till 1964 as per Article 370?? How can Indian govt unilaterally change Prime Minister to Chief Minister? We have given India many chances but they have always betrayed us from time to time. 1989 decided NO MORE TESTING. Kashmiris will never ever give up their freedom struggle. If you think everyting started in 1989, how do you explain the match between India and West Indies in Srinagar in early 80's during which India got zero support from Kashmiris. West Indies told the reports that they were overwhelmed by the kind of support they got from us. Dont think Kashmiris have become proindependent only after gun. It has been always in our hearts to get rid of Indian barbarism for the last 500 yrs since the days of Mughal occupation. email@example.com
- AnonymousApril 29, 2009 11:47 AM
Killings alone don't amount to ethnic cleansing.
The vendetta was to turn Kashmir valley into a single religion authoritarianism something on the lines of Pakistan. And which the majority, successfully was able to achieve thorough killings, torture and putting in a fear psychosis among the minority community.It followed the same pattern of cleansing as that of Pakistan during the course of its 60 year history, and which led to a hellish situation where they are now.
This can be defined as the days of 'Qayamat' for Pakistani Muslims and who to is blame except them.
What India want to avoid is a similar path for Kashmir.
I don't know which world you are living and I have mentioned, you guys are in denial.
You forget that your grandfathers fought with the India Army to thwart out Pakistanis in the Kabali raid, where Muslim kabalis (including regular Pakistani Muslim Army) executed un-mentionable atrocities which you accuse the Indian Army off now.
How can you forget the torture,rapes and killings of your immediate ancestors at the hands of your Muslim brothers from Pakistan/kabalis.
PM to CM, Article 370 and so many more, were all political tools which political parties including kashmiri politicians used to be in power at the expense of simple Kashmiri folk.
This article 370 provided local corrupt politicians the immunity of getting involved in real development work which the center could have done and which has been happening since 1990 in the rest of India.
It killed the entrepreneurial spirit of Kashmiris, it made kashmiri business men immune from the competition they could have faced from the rest of the country and the world at large, which would have resulted in a lot of betterment.
370 for kashmir can be compared to the license raj which existed in India prior to 1990.
the kind of Indian entrepreneurial spirit which was witnessed after 1990 in India has dumb founded every one around the globe and same could have been true in case of Kashmir too, had Kashmiri politician allowed opening up of Kashmir to India and in the process to the rest of the world.
If this would have happened, the back channel corruption done by kashmiri politicians would have stopped.
Kashmiri like you don't see this view of things. you all, as I mentioned see all things,only through a religious perspective which contributes to ur undoing.
As i have mentioned, you guys need to get your priorities and goals right. Get out of this denial and learn from history.
Regarding your 45 yr old so called struggle,here is answer:
Support for Pakistan and its fanatical ideology all started after 1971 when Pakistan got divided and Zia-ul-Haq came to power in Pakistan.It is a historical fact acknowledged by the world that he started fingering the religious aspect in Punjab and Kashmir to its advantage and who suffered Sikhs and Kashmiris, because they allowed this fingering (in Kashmiri "aunguj").
All of this self concocted history which has no background was taught to people like you since last 10 years by dillusional people like Gillani.
Don't you see the similarity how Pakistanis were taught extremism and a wrong history ever since Zia's time and see where they are now.
Pakistan is the new Afghanistan in the making and more or less 90% complete, where soon people who can afford will seek asylum in different countries and then the ones who would be left behind would be like the impoverished Afghanis in Afghanistan.
Don't follow that path in Kashmir.
- LiberalMApril 29, 2009 6:49 PM
I did not say Kashmiris became pro-independent after 1989. I only said that there was neither oppression nor pervasive military presence in Kashmir before 1989. The violent turn of events 1989 unfortunately resulted in tragedy for ordinary Kashmiri citizens for the next 20 years.
Sheikh Abdullah is the key to unravelling of Art 370.
Sheikh Abdullah met Adlai Stevenson in his capacity as Prime Minister. He also met the Chinese Prime minister in the same capacity. Art 370 specifically forbade such activities (Def, Foreign Affairs, Communications to India, rest everything to Kashmir). He was warned but he continued behaving contrary to Art 370, and had to be arrested for sedition. India did the right thing. Sheikh Abdullah took advantage of a soft state for many years and ruined the autonomy that Kashmir had and spoiled it for every one of you. India became extremely wary of such irresponsible leaders coming to power again and changed article 370 to remove Def, Foreign Aff and Comm from Kashmir's zone of responsibilities and changed "Prime Minister" to "Chief Minister". That's how you lost your autonomy - irresponsible leaders who had everything but still wanted more.
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It is easy to find excuses for occupying another land..... Birtishers, Hitler, George bush, Indian govt........all have excuses for oppressing weak people. But remember, God is the ulitmate judge. As you sow so shall you reap.... Time will decide the fate of Kashmir and India as welll.India will never remain in peace untill it keeps its promise of right of self determination for the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.. email@example.com
- LiberalMMay 01, 2009 7:56 AM
Governments and nations only have their self-interest at the center of their policy-making. There are no permanent enemies and no permenent friends - just pure and permanent self-interests. It is in India's self-interest to keep its territory (most Indians do think Kashmir is part of India) under its full sovereignty. It seems heartless but nations don't have physical hearts to worry about: just plain self-interest. India has the ability and willingness to pay the price of preserving its self-interests (one united country that includes Kashmir). Kashmiri nation has neither the ability nor the willingness to pay the price for preserving its self-interest (independence). Therein lies the rub.
- LiberalM
- AnonymousMay 01, 2009 7:56 AM
NOw that you have finally taken the solace of Time, so God be with you.
India is quite at peace irrespective of whether you are suffering or not.
You guys started it and you alone will decide what you want for your future.
If things normalize, Indian army would be back at borders as they were prior to 1989.
Once again, since you have left it to Time to decide the fate of Kashmir, so be it. Lets see!!!
At the same time, you also brought God in the scheme of things for Kashmir.So he would also judge what to do with the people who ethnically cleansed their own blood, just because they called Allah by a different name.Do they deserve what they are seeking?
why don't you write this into a book??
it can turn into a very good fiction.
you mean turn this post "slumdog army" into a book?
Anonymous....here u go on and on. Killing of about 200 pundits is ethnic cleansing and killing of thousands of Muslims is not....India will never ever be at peace untill promises are kept.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2009 6:19 PM
The atmosphere which led to exodus of kashmiri pandits is what is called as ethinic cleansing since after being forced to leave their homeland their ethnicity will gradually die and may be within next 30-40 years you will see pandit culture vanishing -with that oldest cuture ,inhabitants and even scholars of kashmir will die.ReplyDelete
Ilm ( word used In Holy Quran more than jihad)will die . May Allah help each and every kashmiri to see light of Ilm so that they understand what is right path and wrong path and kashmir may not even ged rid of present inhabitants if voilence and killings especially of younger generation goes on like this the day may not be far.
Hope that kashmiryat will Live
- AnonymousJuly 03, 2009 12:25 PM
@core kashmirReplyDelete
the book about the reality of atrocities committed on kashmiris by dogra kings and then indian mis rule seems fiction and the fiction written over years by kashmiri high caste hindus to supress low castes hindus and kashmiris be referred as text books,
those days are gone man
i thinks you seem to be ignorant of the fact that the time when kashmiri pandits had educational dominance by suppressing others education is gone forever,
light has returned to valley
now kashmiris are intellectually strong and informed about our history and culture.
you should also take some standard reading of english and french adventurers and writers for knowing kashmirs past and international human right organisation and UN for current status, and should stop reading biased pandit hindu self styled writers (probably your relatives).
and also when u watch news donot watch aajtak,ibn,lokmat, ndtv
Watch international unbiased channels BBC,CBS,F 24, CNN etc etc
it will add to your taste and will take you out of the blackhole of misinformations.

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LOS ANGELES – Robert Rizzo was sentenced to 33 months federal prison today for a tax evasion scheme designed to offset the $1.1 million he was illegally paying himself as Bell's city administrator.
Rizzo pleaded guilty in January to federal counts of conspiracy and filing a false federal income tax return.
Prosecutors had asked for a prison term of two years and nine months though Rizzo could have been sentenced to up to 8 years in prison.
Rizzo is also facing 10 to 12 years in state prison, plus restitution, for his role in the Bell corruption scandal, in which he and other city officials raided the small city's coffers through inflated salaries.
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"Defendant abused his position to fleece the city of Bell of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he paid to himself in excessive salary — monies that could have been spent for the benefit of the people he served," prosecutors wrote. "But not satisfied with betraying the trust placed in him by the city and its residents, in an extraordinary display of greed, defendant also found it necessary to cheat the IRS."
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Angela Spaccia, Rizzo's second-in-command in Bell, was convicted of 11 counts of corruption in Superior Court and sentenced to almost 12 years in state prison last week. She has not been charged federally. However, she is referred to in Rizzo's federal court documents as "A.S.,' along with her company, Sheffield Management Corp.
Rizzo's plea agreement says the two of them cost the IRS more than $300,000.
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The Story of "3.11 Surviving Japan" is a true story of the events that happened after the March 11th Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan as witness by American Volunteer Christopher Robert Noland.
Christopher Noland, a Seattle native, moved to Tokyo, Japan March 2010 and had lived in Japan almost on year to the day prior to the disaster. On the day of the earthquake, Christopher had been out the entire night filming a concert in Shimokitazawa, a popular Tokyo neighborhood. At 2:46 p.m., he was awakened by a life changing event, the Earthquake struck, and life changed forever. The next day the Fukushima nuclear power plant exploded, making life uncertain for everyone. Being in an unfamiliar place and situation was not new to Christopher, but the magnitude definitely was. Christopher opted to stay in Japan and stick it out, not knowing what would await him.
Fears of radiation fall-out kept him inside for the first two weeks, to minimize the exposure to the Iodine that had been released from the Fukushima Triple meltdown. Much of the power was off or at minimal use in Tokyo and it was plagued with hourly aftershocks, it was like living on a boat that you were unsure if it was going to sink or not, Christopher said, it was truly a test of one's patience.
As bad as the aftershocks were, the thought crossed his mind, he still had a place to live but other people had completely lost their homes in the Tsunami. Christopher immediately went online to search for volunteer opportunities in the disaster zone, but was rejected many times because he was not "fluent" in Japanese. Christopher started volunteering locally in Tokyo helping to package aid for the survivors and serving meals for refugees that had made it all the way down to Tokyo.
After two weeks, an e-mail finally came, inviting him to volunteer with a group in Ofunato City in the Iwate prefecture, that had been badly damaged by the Tsunami. Christopher cancelled all his freelance commitments and completed his last English lesson that day, went and bought supplies and made the plan to go to Ofunato.
The High-Speed train or Shinkansen was still not operating, so Christopher had to take a bus all the way up to Morioka and transfer to another bus to reach Ofunato. Christopher remembers how beautiful the Cherry blossoms and the mountains were as the bus made its descent. The thought started to occur, "where was this huge disaster?" and then.. the bus turned…
For miles you could see the damage. It looked like a war without weapons or people. Entire Buildings and house had been picked up and thrown against each other, it was unlike anything Christopher has ever seen in his entire life, especially with his own eyes.
The volunteer camp was inside a compromised building just outside the Tsunami zone. It was like camping indoors, there was no electricity, showers or bathrooms. The people of the town were so grateful to the volunteers they came every evening to make them dinner. Those who had working power and bathing rooms allowed the volunteers to come in groups to their homes to wash off. A bath came maybe once a week. Most of the emergency response work had been completed so it was a matter of sorting people's homes out to be torn down and possibly rebuilt. The Town at the time was still deciding what to do with the area that had been damaged by the Tsunami.
The nuclear issue was an elephant in the room. It existed but no one wanted to talk about it. No one meaning no pubic official or news media. They just insisted everything was ok, but that just made the worry grow amongst Christopher and the People. Then one day, a video surfaced on Youtube of Mayor Sakurai of Minami-Soma, pleading for help in a town near the crippled Fukushima power plant. Upon seeing the video, Christopher decided to start asking more questions for the people who were not getting answers, and that is what led him on the journey that ended up becoming "3.11 Surviving Japan".
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Ours is the first century in which most mass-produced letters can correctly be called "typography." Technically speaking, typography is the product of type, the individual, recombinable characters in a typeface that are designed for printing words on paper. A century ago, a book's pages contained typography, but its cover, spine, and illustrations featured lettering, each of the product of an artist working by hand in a different medium. Because letters made by hand had no obligation to resemble the look of printing types, different media evolved their own aesthetics: lithographed posters, engraved banknotes, and neon signs once enjoyed unique alphabetic styles.
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Between the two World Wars, a style of sans serif lettering emerged from outside of the typographic tradition. These straightforward, highly legible, no-nonsense letters were especially popular in architecture (perhaps because they satisfied the engineer's idea of "basic building lettering.") Nowhere were these letters more popular than in New York, which was undergoing a period of explosive growth, and giving rise to the modern skyscraper. The style of bronze numbers on New York office buildings was echoed in engraved cornerstones, cast iron plaques, and painted signs — and equally popular among less monumental architecture: judging by how often it appears in signs for pharmacies and liquor stores, this might well be the natural form once followed by neon-lit channel letters. Nothing suggests that the makers of these different kinds of letters ever consciously followed the same model, but the consistency with which the style appears in the American urban landscape suggests that these forms were once considered in some way elemental. The arrival of mechanical signmaking in the 1960s contributed to their disappearance, and with the ascendance of digital fonts that could drive both vinyl cutters and CNC routers, they completely vanished from production.
In 2000, a commission to design a signature sans serif for GQ afforded us the chance to explore this style. We began with a long-bookmarked piece of public lettering on one of the city's most mundane buildings: the Port Authority Bus Terminal on New York's Eighth Avenue. With the goal of allowing our typeface to exhibit the mathematical reasoning of a draftsman, rather than the instincts of a typeface designer, we allowed Gotham to escape the grid wherever necessary, giving the design an affability usually missing from geometric faces. Unlike the signage upon which it was based, Gotham includes a lowercase, an italic, a full range of weights, and an extended range of widths: a Narrow, an Extra Narrow, and a Condensed.


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Whether coaches have zone start trends is another question I find that I'm asking myself as I build my fantasy prediction model. We know, for instance, that Alain Vigneault uses a drastic zone start deployment, where his 3rd liners would yield virtually no value for fantasy hockey (though they certainly have real-life value) because they start so much of their time in the defensive zone. Why is this important for me? Well, having identified a pretty stable indicator of the amount of on-ice shots a player will take in %AttSh, and knowing that 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lines have typically different amounts of shots-for per 60 minutes, we also need to remember that a coach might affect those shots-for per 60 minutes by having drastically different zone deployments. After the jump, I'm going to look at this question and see what I can find (and potentially use).
Who gets the plum assignments?
Okay, so we have to keep in mind that the amount of zone starts a player takes in the offensive zone is typically measured as a percentage of offensive zone starts divided by the sum of offensive plus defensive zone starts (OZ Starts / [OZ Starts+DZ Starts]). Stronger possession teams will typically have more offensive zone starts, period, so to say that one team's top line sees 52% of their starts in the offensive zone and another sees 56% doesn't necessarily mean that the two coaches are applying different deployment schemes. What I like to do is to control to the first lines OZ St%, so that the first line is always considered 1, and the other two lines are identified by their values different from 1 (the first line's OZ St%). Thus, the typical 1st/2nd/3rd line deployment, instead of being 52.5%, 50%, and 48.5%, would be 1.000, 0.951, and 0.922. By using these data, I can do cross-team comparisons. Then, I took the cumulative data of coaches with 2+ seasons of coaching the last five years and took a look to see who was trending towards drastic Zone Start deployment. So yes, you know about Alain Vigneault, but did you know about Jack Capuano?
The furthest right column adds up the difference from 1st line over to 3rd line (Line 1 minus Line 2, then minus Line 3). Worth noting is that the differences across all the single-year performances had zero correlation with Fenwick Close, which is considered one of the best indicators of team quality. Intuitively this should make sense, as you see a smattering of good coaches/teams at the top and bottom of the list, right alongside the crappy ones. A few things are becoming clearer with all this information: for one, there's little doubt that team depth can have an effect on this. Even the least stats-inclined coach would give favorable zone starts to a top line considerably better than the remaining lines on his team (**cough** Islanders **cough**), in the same way that you wouldn't put Daniel Carcillo on your powerplay unit. Oh wait, somebody did do that? Nevermind. What's that? Gretzky did that? Well that explains things.
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Another thing that becomes clearer, and is somewhat related to the above reason, is that you'd ideally like to have more than, say, three or so years to determine whether a coach is really committing to a deployment scheme. Three years should be sufficient to turn around a team with little depth, unless you're Steve Tambellini or Garth Snow…in which case you'd need about seven years through which you'll cycle through too many coaches to get a good read on zone starts anyways.
So let's try an experiment, just to shake up the analysis a little; let's look at all the coaches who have undergone a coaching switch, and see who seems to stand pat on their deployment.
Like pinning Jello to a wall here. The drastic differences (the triangle denotes "delta", or "change") suggest that, when player personnel shifts drastically as it would in a team change, so do the zone start deployments. Only one coach changed less than the average change among the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lines (4%); while the shifts of Tortorella and Laviolette average out to low change, you'll note that's because the two larger shifts between 2nd and 3rd lines average out. I think we can pretty safely say that depth and perceived talent (be it offensive or defensive), along with a fair amount of randomness, guide these deployments more than coach preference. That only becomes more apparent when you compare coaches' 2nd line deployment to the next years' (controlled to 1, as above; r = 0.24) and when you do the same for the 3rd line (r = 0.12).
I guess this shouldn't be extraordinarily surprising, since there's still some resistance to the amount of control advanced stats should have over coaches' decisions. With perhaps Vigneault being the exception, there are not many incentives for straying from the averages among the forward player population, where the better offensive players tends to get more minutes, hence top 6 duty, and they tend to get a higher Zone Start %. For these reasons, I'll be sticking with the averages of the 1st line (52.5%), 2nd line (50%), 3rd line (48.5%).


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The European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) was launched on 30 November 2005 following a request made jointly to the European Commission by the presidents of the Republic Moldova and Ukraine. A range of illicit cross-border activity, including trafficking of human beings, smuggling and other illegal trade, was occurring along the 1,222km-long MD/UA border, a phenomenon not helped by the secessionist region of Transnistria in Moldova (which lies adjacent to 454km of the same border), over which the government of Moldova has no control. As a result both governments were losing substantial amounts in revenue to organised crime.
Fully funded by the European Union within the context of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument, and with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) acting as implementing partner, EUBAM is an advisory, technical body mandated to enhance the border-management capacities of our partners – the border guard and customs authorities and other law enforcement and State agencies of Moldova and Ukraine. By offering comprehensive support to our partners on EU best practice from its headquarters in Odessa and six field offices on either side of the Moldova/Ukraine common border, EUBAM envisages that border and customs procedures and standards in MD/UA will ultimately mirror those prevalent in the European Union.
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EUBAM has a budget of €21 million (2011-13) and a staff of approximately 100 seconded and contracted staff mostly from EU member States, and more than 120 national staff of Moldova and Ukraine. A Memorandum of Understanding signed by the European Commission, the government of Moldova, and the government of Ukraine in late 2005 is the legal basis for EUBAM, while an advisory board – which meets twice a year – acts as the Mission's governing body. The Mission's six cherished core values are neutrality, partnership, reliability, results, service and transparency. The mandate of the Mission has already been extended three times (in 2007, 2009 and 2011), with the current mandate expiring on 30 November, 2015.


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LCC believes that cyclists should be allowed to judge whether or not to use cycling facilities, including cycle lanes. This is because cyclists have the same entitlement to use the roads as motorists and cycle facilities may be poorly-designed or in bad condition.
What changes are being made?
Under the proposed changes, the code would state cyclists should "use cycle routes when practicable and cycle facilities….where they are provided." (Rule 58.)
What is the problem?
The new rule – if accepted – would have serious consequences for cyclists. It would give insurance companies the opportunity to try and reduce the awards paid to cyclists after an accident, if they had not been using a cycle lane or cycle facility.
The insurance company could argue a cyclist who was injured and not using a nearby "cycling facility" was guilty of "contributory negligence". Insurance companies have already tried to reduce awards paid to injured cyclist who were not wearing cycle helmets on similar grounds.
What is LCC campaigning for?
LCC wants the new code, due to be published early next year, to remove all words which could give insurances companies a possible legal justification for seeking unwarranted "contributory negligence" claims against cyclists.
The CTC – the national cyclists' organisation, is co-ordinating a national campaign to ensure the new Highway Code is fair for cyclists. It is also calling for clear advice to drivers on safe interactions with cyclists.
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In recent years, several experimental groups have reported measurements of the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of individual or small numbers of molecules. Even three-terminal measurements showing evidence of transistor action has been reported using carbon nanotubes [1, 2] as well as self-assembled monolayers of conjugated polymers. These developments have attracted much attention from the semiconductor industry and there is great interest from an applied point of view to model and understand the capabilities of molecular conductors.
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- M. Paulsson, F. Zahid, and S. Datta, "Resistance of a Molecule," chapter in Handbook of Nanotechnology, ed. S. Lyshevski, CRC Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-849312000.


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Theater shooting defendant's lawyers want public, media barred from hearing on his sanity
DENVER – Attorneys for Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes are asking the judge to bar the public and media from hearing pretrial testimony from the psychiatrist who evaluated Holmes' sanity.
A motion filed Friday says Holmes' right to an impartial jury would be harmed if the public hears the testimony.
The judge hasn't ruled on the request.
Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a suburban Denver movie theater in 2012. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Holmes underwent a mandatory sanity evaluation last summer. The conclusions haven't been made public, but prosecutors are asking for further evaluation.
The two sides are scheduled to argue the request at a hearing later this month. The defense wants that hearing held in secret.


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text: You may have a look at another queuingsystem: GridEngine from SUN, which offers better choices of the control of tasks on the slave nodes. It's no problem to shutdown just one of two jobs of the same user on a node. It will just kill the whole process group of one of the tasks, as they are started by a special implementation of rshd/sshd private to each task. This works for MPICH and also MPICH2 (forker and smpd startup method). - Reuti Chris Samuel wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:49 am, Jerry Xu wrote: > > >>Hi, William, Thank for your information. Just in case somebody still >>need it for openPBS configuration, here is my epilogue file.it shall be >>located in $pbshome/mom_priv/ for each node and it need to be set as >>executable and owned by root. Some others many have better epilogue >>scripts... > > > Hmm, the only thing that worries me about that is that for those of us with > SMP clusters it is possible for a user to have two different jobs running on > each of the CPUs, so an epilogue script that kills all a users processes on a > node would accidentally kill an innocent job. > > cheers, > Chris > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Less than a day after Apple released iOS 6 and unveiled its in-house maps, users have gone to Twitter and Tumblr to post their most ridiculous findings.
When using the 3D feature, some searches end up showing you an apocalyptic rendition of some of the world's most cherished monuments.
Here are a few of our favorites via The Amazing iOS 6 Maps and be sure to check out #ios6pocalypse on Twitter.


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Kelly overdose suspected, Chris Kelly's death may have been due to an overdose, it has been suspected, according to reports out Thursday.
According to a police report, the mother of the rapper – who was one-half of 1990s teen rap duo Kriss Kross – told authorities that her son became sick on the night before he died after taking cocaine and heroin.
Kelly was found dead on Wednesday, and now it has emerged that Kelly's mother, Donna Kelly Pratte, 54, and his uncle, Lamar Williams, 52, have reported to authorities that the music star had a history of drug abuse.
His family has said that Kelly has experienced similar episodes in the past, according to the Fulton County police report.
The 34 year old rap star was found by paramedics on his living room on a couch in Atlanta. He was given CPR, but was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Authorities have conducted a physical examination of the rapper's body, and toxicology tests will be carried out to confirm the cause of death, Betty Honey of the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office has said.
Music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri, who is credited with finding Kriss Kross, has released a written statement saying, "To the world Chris was Mac Daddy but to me, he was a son I never had ...,"
"When I think about it, I spent more time with Chris and Chris than damn near anybody in my whole life, so you can imagine how bad this hurts. I will always love you Chris, and I will never let the world forget you, may God bless your soul."
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Kelly overdose suspected, Chris Kelly's death may have been due to an overdose, it has been suspected, according to reports out Thursday.


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|ProMAX Pro-Cache and Power-Cache archive appliances are designed to provide a simple and reliable solution for creative professionals to backup and restore media from LTO tapes. Easy to install and operate, they have been engineered using the latest technology to provide years of fast and reliable archiving.
Pro-Cache is a quiet and compact desktop appliance that can be optionally rack-mounted in 3RU of rack space. It is best suited for low-medium volume archive workflows and is a complete all-in-one solution.
- Quiet and compact desktop appliance is powered by an Intel Core i7 Processor
- Built-in LTO 6 drive with expansion for one additional drive
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- Includes 3YR Warranty & 1YR SUAP Support Plan
Drag & Drop Archiving
|Pro-Cache and Power-Cache appliances provide their own network share containing a folder that you can simply drop content into and the system will move it onto tape. We call this folder the VTAPE and it shows up natively in the network file system on both Mac and PC. Map the archive share permanently for easy access.
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|ProMAX Archive Appliances include RAID storage and a share which can be used to organize your data in a way that will be most useful when you later need to restore it. This could mean gathering files such as scripts, graphics, source footage, project files etc. These assets can then be organized into appropriately named folders and even QC'd prior to archiving.
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Prolonged fructose consumption may contribute to the development of metabolic syndrome, a combination of medical disorders that, when occurring together, increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
The findings, just published online in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism, are derived from a UC Davis study that investigated the relative effects of fructose or glucose consumption on 32 older, overweight or obese men and women who consumed glucose- or fructose-sweetened beverages, which provided 25 percent of their energy requirements for 10 weeks.
Consumption of fructose, but not glucose, impacted various parameters associated with metabolic syndrome, including increased circulating concentrations of uric acid, which is known to be higher in people with metabolic syndrome, increased GGT activity, which is an indicator of liver dysfunction, and production of a type of protein known as RBP-4, associated with increased insulin resistance. No previous studies have investigated the effects of glucose or fructose consumption on circulating levels of RBP-4.
The study design involved three phases, including a two-week inpatient baseline period, an eight-week outpatient intervention period, and a two-week inpatient intervention period.
During baseline, subjects resided in the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center's Clinical Research Center (CCRC) for two weeks before beginning the outpatient intervention, consuming either fructose- or glucose-sweetened beverages. They returned to the CCRC for the final two weeks of intervention.
Fasting and 24-hour blood collections were performed at baseline and following 10 weeks of intervention for measurement of plasma concentrations of uric acid, RBP-4 and liver enzyme activities.
The study's first results, published in 2009, showed that visceral adipose volume (fat inside the abdominal cavity) was significantly increased only in subjects consuming fructose, along with increases in several circulating lipids and a decrease in insulin sensitivity, although both groups exhibited similar weight gain.
Senior author Peter Havel, a UC Davis professor with joint appointments in the Department of Molecular Biosciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Nutrition, is currently the principal investigator for a follow-up study comparing impacts of glucose, fructose and high-fructose corn syrup in younger patients. His colleague and collaborator, Kimber Stanhope, directed and coordinated the clinical research study.
Glucose and fructose are both simple sugars, and equal parts of each is the recipe for table sugar (sucrose). The pure glucose and fructose that were used to sweeten the beverages in this study are not found in nature. Most fruits and honey contain comparable amounts of glucose, fructose and sucrose. Grains such as wheat, oats, corn and barley contain large amounts of glucose (and negligible amounts of fructose), but the glucose is packaged as long chains that are called starch or complex carbohydrate.
Co-author Lars Berglund, director of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center, points out that fruit juices typically feature more concentrated forms of these sugars, while fruits and vegetable contain fiber and other beneficial components.
"It's healthier to eat apples than to drink apple juice," said Berglund.
Other authors include former graduate students Chad Cox, James Graham, Bonnie Hatcher, Steven Griffen and John McGahan, all of UC Davis; Jean Marc Schwarz of Touro University, Vallejo, Calif.; Andrew Bremer of Vanderbilt University, Nashville; and Nancy Keim of UC Davis and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Davis, Calif.
This research was supported with funding from National Institutes of Health (RO1 HL-075675), the NIH's National Center for Research Resources (UL1 RR024146), and the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Havel's laboratory receives support from the NIH (HL-091333, DK-097307, and DK-095980) and a Multicampus Award (#142691) from the University of California, Office of the President, and Keim's research is supported by intramural U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Current Research Information System (CRIS) grant 5306-51530-016-00D.


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Foreclosure Freeloaders?
October 17, 2011 - Sylvia Heldreth
Some delinquent mortgage holders are defying lenders and staying in their homes while living for free, sometimes for years. They have attorneys pleading their cases causing the lengthy foreclosure process to take even longer. Sometimes, banks are not pushing to go to foreclosure because they do not want to increase their inventory of repossessed homes. AARP recently reported, "Florida retiree C. Light is still holding on to his three-bedroom home in the scenic Gulf Coast community of Cape Coral, as well as a five-bedroom residence in the town of Bartow. It's been almost two years since he made a mortgage payment on either one."
There are mixed feelings about those who aren't paying. Some are sympathetic to their neighbors' financial plight. Others see them as freeloaders who are working the system, an insult to the millions who are working hard to pay their mortgages on time.
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< To: BIRT Project
This section of the BIRT Wiki contains a description of proposed functionality for future releases. The contents are organized by major projects. Each project is assigned a BIRT Project Specification (BPS) number and a name. Each BPS may have one or more features associated with it and may resolve one or more Bugzilla requests from the community.
A short, requirement-level description is given for each BPS, followed by a link to one or more pdf documents that describe the behavior of the proposed functionality in detail.
If you are interested in proposing another project that does not appear on the list, please send your suggestions to the BIRT PMC.
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Eric Church Thanks 'Pretty Special' Fans For Surprise CMA Nominations
No one was more surprised by Eric Church's leading five Country Music Awards nominations than the rising star from North Carolina. He didn't even know they were happening.
"The funny part of the story is I've been on vacation the last week and I lost my phone in the Gulf of Mexico when I was swimming," Church said in a recorded statement. "And I had no clue that even the CMA nominations were today and just laying on an airplane and really unplugged from the world."
When Church landed Wednesday morning, he was whisked to his management office in Nashville, Tenn., where he learned the news that not only had he received the first major CMA nominations of his career, but that he'd also broken through in the prestigious album, male vocalist and song of the year categories.
He was followed by married couple Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, who had four nominations apiece. Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Dierks Bentley and Little Big Town have three apiece.
"I think it's a testament to really fans that believed in the music and loved the music and told people about the music," Church said. "Otherwise we don't really have the track record to be the most nominated artist at this point in time in our career for the path we've taken. I think it's truly because of the fans and because they did something that's really going to be judged as pretty special and pretty unique to get this done."
Two-time winner Swift is up for another entertainer of the year award, the CMA's top honor. She's nominated along with previous winners Chesney and Brad Paisley and also Aldean and Shelton.
And Church wasn't the only surprised nominee. Luke Bryan was clearly taken aback when his name popped up among the nominees as he and good friend Aldean announced the first five categories Wednesday morning on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Previously, Church and Bryan received only best new artist nominations. Both made a splash - earning spots on the male vocalist and album of the year lists. They knocked longtime nominee and multiple winner Paisley off the list of male vocalist nominees, joining Aldean, Shelton and Keith Urban.
And they also shook up the album of the year list - Bryan for "Tailgates & Tanlines" and Church for "Chief." Other nominees in that category included Lambert's "Four the Record," Bentley's "Home" and Lady Antebellum's "Own the Night."
"Those are just really, really important categories and stuff that really anytime I get nominated and I look at the company that I'm in it's pretty amazing," Bryan said.
Kelly Clarkson broke through in the female vocalist category, joining previous nominees Swift, Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Martina McBride. It's Clarkson's first individual CMA nomination. She and Aldean won musical event last year for their duet "Don't You Wanna Stay."
Aldean said it was the surprise nomination of the day.
"I think that she kind of obviously opened up some eyes to some people and obviously they're taking notice of that and rewarding her for her contributions to country music over the last year, so I think it's great," Aldean said.
Lady Antebellum will go for their fourth straight vocal group of the year award against Zac Brown Band, The Band Perry, Little Big Town and Eli Young Band.
Church picked up two more nominations in the single and song of the year categories for his hit "Springsteen."
Vocal duo nominees include Sugarland, Big & Rich, Thompson Square and Love and Theft and The Civil Wars, which also scored a nomination with Swift for their "Safe & Sound" collaboration on "The Hunger Games" soundtrack.
New artist nominees are Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes, Love and Theft and Thompson Square.
The 46th annual CMA Awards will air live Nov. 1 on ABC from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. Underwood and Paisley will host.


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How can my husband keep his blood sugar down?
Q. My husband has just been told that if he can't get his blood sugar down with diet he will have to go on medication. He is on Warfarin blood thinner and can't eat many greens or salads. He has lymphedema so he doesn't get any exercise. At this point the doctor told him No Carbs. What CAN he eat? Thank you for your help. (He has been eating about 12-14 eggs a week and this can't be good, however he doesn't have high cholesterol)
A. Nobody should completely eliminate carbs. They key is to balance carbohydrates, fiber, fat, and proteins at eating occasions to prevent sharp peaks in blood sugar. Also, losing weight can help manage blood sugar. Given his other medications and lymphedema, I would ask your doctor to recommend a dietitian who can provide some suggestions for his individual situation. You can also find a dietitian in your area by visiting EatRight.org.


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Finally getting around to testing this out - enjoy the Android version and looking forward to playing this on Mac!
A few bugs/issues I've encountered so far (probably known but I'm not seeing a 'Known Issues' list or anything)
1) ESC only brings up option for 'Exit', no saving, no returning to main menu (assuming those options aren't available in the Alpha). 'Exit' is also a little confusing, thinking I'm exiting that menu and returning to game only to discover it quits the game.
2) Occasionally ESC does nothing and I have to Force Quit to leave the game (usually associated with problem #3)
3) On some playthroughs characters shoot at equipment/characters instead of interacting with them (teleporters, power generator)
4) When everyone dies on the surface the map goes grey and you can't return to the ship.
5) Teleporting to the surface and back to the ship causes the exterior of the ship to be shown.
6) I'd really like to talk to those funny alien guys instead of shooting them on sight...
7) When moving equipment on the ship (when that ability works) causes major graphical glitches - different versions of the equipment appear and permanantly overlap the play area, everything stays black and white after replacing the items.
8) Side note - Launching the 'Science' app causes Finder to crash
I'm excited to see this game get wrapped up and finalized - it's been a long haul!
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A popular home improvement store will pay $18.1 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the chain of environmental violations.
Lowe's Home Centers throughout the state of California were accused of illegally disposing of hazardous waste for more than six years.
Among the accusations – that the store collected recyclable materials from customers through kiosks in the store but then dumped the items into the trash.
The suit, filed in Alameda County, claimed employees tossed out materials such as pesticides, aerosols, paint and colorants solvents, adhesives, batteries, mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs, electronic waste and other toxic, ignitable and corrosive materials.
San Diego County District Attorney's office said "inspections revealed that Lowe's was routinely and systematically sending hazardous waste to local landfills throughout California."
Of the eight stores in San Diego County, officials said all were unlawfully disposing hazardous waste.
Prosecutors say Alameda County Superior Court Judge George C. Hernandez approved the settlement Tuesday.
The settlement payment by Lowe's, based in North Carolina, will be shared by 32 prosecutors from across the state and will help fund environmental enforcement and cleanup projects.
As a result of the investigation, the company has adjusted its store policies and procedures, according to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office. Hazardous waste will be collected and properly disposed of and accounted for, officials said.


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Erin Cordray
Erin Cordray is radiography program director at Community College of Baltimore County. What does a radiographer's job entail? Radiography uses X-ray radiation to create images of the tissues, organs, bones and vessels that make up the human body. Most people are familiar with chest x-rays and also know that x-rays are the best way to diagnose broken bones. The radiographer (x-ray technologist) produces x-ray images of human anatomy for the physician to read and make a diagnosis. What kind of schooling or training did you go through? Through a combination of classroom and clinical education, students learn to operate x-ray equipment, produce x-ray images of human anatomy, position patients for x-ray procedures, practice radiation safety and deliver patient care. The curriculum is designed to meet the accreditation standards of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology. Graduates of the Radiography program are eligible to apply to take the national certification exam administered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT). What inspired you to this career? As a patient myself at a young age, I realized that patients need the very best radiographic image in order for the doctor to make an accurate diagnosis. This is crucial, as the radiograph acts as the eyes of the doctor without having to do surgery. Everyone needs an x-ray at one time or another, and the image must be of the very best quality technically and the patient must be treated with the utmost respect mentally. The combination of excellent patient care and handling highly technical equipment drew me to this career. I wanted to help people. What do you like best about your job? Working in a healthcare setting, a radiographer is part of the healthcare team with a crucial function. Teamwork is mandatory for saving lives and helping people in general. What are the challenges? The biggest challenge to radiographers is keeping up with technology as it changes. Most every diagnostic x-ray room is now digital. Also, it is very important these days for a radiographer to have credentials in other modalities, such as Computed Tomography or MRI. Most employers want radiographers who can perform more than one modality. Median Salary? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average national salary for a radiographer is $56,760.
Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun
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Tonight at 10pm, Doc's Clock hosts a screening of Last Call, a short thriller about life, love and dive bars by filmmaker Kurt Weitzmann:
Last Call is the story of a "regular" who is trying to hang on as the last threads of his life unravel. A pathetic and desperate man is kicked out of his neighborhood bar at last call. He then pulls a gun and holds the young and ineffectual bartender hostage with the threat of his own suicide.
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