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Maj. Nidal Hasan: A Murderer or Martyr ? The Barbershop guys talk about the trial of Major Nidal Hasan. He's on trial for a mass shooting at an Army base in 2009 and decided to represent himself. Some have wondered whether that is a wise move. The Barbershop guys weigh in.
Maj. Nidal Hasan: A Murderer or Martyr ?
August 9, 201312:00 PM ET
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The Barbershop guys talk about the trial of Major Nidal Hasan. He's on trial for a mass shooting at an Army base in 2009 and decided to represent himself. Some have wondered whether that is a wise move. The Barbershop guys weigh in.
I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Later in the program today, we'll talk about immigration, but not in the way you might expect. Most often, we seem to hear about immigrants who are desperate to stay in the U.S. Later, we'll hear from a woman who said life was not what she'd hoped for here, so she packed up and went back to Trinidad. We'll hear from her in just a few minutes. But we are going to start the program today with a visit to the Barbershop.
That's where the guys talk about what's in the news and what's on their minds. Sitting in the chairs for a shape-up this week are writer and culture critic Jimi Izrael, with us from Chicago. In Louisville, Kentucky, the Muslim guy Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor of The Islamic Monthly. Neil Minkoff is a healthcare consultant and contributor to National Review, with us from Boston. And here in Washington, D.C., Paul Butler, law professor at Georgetown University. Take it away, Jimi.
JIMI IZRAEL: Thanks, Michel. Hey, fellas. Welcome to the shop. How we doing?
PAUL BUTLER: What's up?
ARSALAN IFTIKHAR: Hey, hey, hey. What's happening?
NEIL MINKOFF: We're doing good, Jimi.
IZRAEL: Hey, hey. It's good to - hey, Arsalan, man, tell John Lamaggie (ph) I said what's up. So...
IFTIKHAR: I will do that.
IZRAEL: Do that. All right, so...
MARTIN: And how about best wishes for the end of Ramadan, for Eid, Jimi. Hello.
IZRAEL: As I...
MARTIN: Eid Mubarak, Arsalan...
IFTIKHAR: Thank you...
MARTIN: ...For the rest of us.
IFTIKHAR: I get to have my morning caffeine now.
MARTIN: Exactly.
IZRAEL: Yeah, what she said. OK. Let's get started. Another big week, another big court case. Nidal Hasan is being tried in a military court for a 2009 shooting rampage, and he's front-and-center representing himself, Michel.
MARTIN: And not only that, he has admitted everything at this point. He has now admitted that he killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others - a number of them quite seriously. He has a team of legal advisers who argued that Hasan was basically aiding the prosecution. And then they asked to be taken off the case or to take over, but the judge ordered them to continue as advisers. I mean, that was the news this week. He's essentially asking to be put to death.
IZRAEL: Thanks for that, Michel. You know, he kind of joins a proud tradition of nut-jobs like the Colin Ferguson, the Long Island Railroad mass murderer who killed six and wounded 19 - not 90 - 19 others and then tried to convince a judge he wasn't even there.
He even wanted to question himself. You know Ferguson was a business major, not a lawyer or Mensa candidate, just like Hasan. Paul Butler. Professor Paul. Despite pleading guilty, he called himself the shooter in opening statements. What's up with that?
BUTLER: You know, if I were a defense attorney, I would refuse to represent Hasan, even if that meant I got in trouble with the judge. If he wants to get the death penalty, he has the right to make that choice. The judge wants the process to look fair, but capital punishment is just fundamentally flawed.
It kind of reminds me of these situations in which people on death row get life-threatening illnesses while they're awaiting execution. And then the prisons go through all these measures to keep them alive just so they can be killed by the government. What one Supreme Court Justice says we can't tinker anymore with the machinery of death. So Hasan is a murderer, not a martyr. But he's exposing a big flaw in our criminal justice system.
MARTIN: So your argument that he is so fundamentally mentally compromised that, what? Is that your argument?
BUTLER: No. I think he's admitting that he did it and he's saying go ahead, United States, kill me. And so...
MARTIN: And so you're saying they should accommodate him?
BUTLER: Well, I'm saying he has the right to make that decision. It's not a decision that I would advise a client, but it's his choice, at the end of the day.
IZRAEL: Well, you know his attorneys said they find it morally - quote-unquote, morally repugnant to represent him since they say he wants the death penalty. Do you, Andre, do you think they should be forced to serve?
BUTLER: You know, the judge, again, is trying to force them just to make the system look fair. But, no, I don't think that anybody, any lawyer, should be forced to represent someone who she doesn't want to represent.
IZRAEL: Doctor Neil, critics say people around Hasan didn't speak up about his strange behavior because of a sensitivity to Muslims beliefs. What do you think?
MINKOFF: Well, I mean, that would involve getting very deep into, you know, military HR and policies around that. I mean, I certainly - it certainly sounds from some of the things that have come out, as if people were concerned about being seen as equating being religious with being violent, which is certainly a distinction we should all make.
I mean, the big open question I have and, you know, maybe some people here can enlighten me, is, you know, there's been the argument whether or not this was murder, workplace violence, or terrorism. Was it beyond that? Was it treason to have a member of the armed forces kill other members of the armed forces in order to change the way a war is being fought?
MARTIN: Yeah. Well, what about that, Arsalan? I mean, Arsalan, you know, I'm glad you're here to talk about this because this is one of the controversies here. The Army decided not to classify this as an act of terrorism, calling it workplace violence. And some of the people who were wounded are particularly angry about that. And I wanted to ask you how you feel about this? I mean.
IFTIKHAR: Well, I mean, I think that in this case, it's quite clear that what Nidal Hasan did at Fort Hood was an act of terrorism. You know, during his statements he said that he was doing it based on a political ideology. Investigators found that he had contact with a radical AQAP Al-Quaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al-Awlaki, - that he did this, you know, because of what was going on abroad. Now, I think that, in terms of whether or not he felt that this was going to have any change in American policy in those wars, I think could be argued. I think, in terms of what's going on in the case right now, in terms of him representing himself, we all know the famous adage that a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client.
And in this case, you know, representing yourself or pro se, which is the legal term, you know, really is a challenge to his defense attorneys because, essentially, you know, like you said, Jimi, he said during his opening statement, I am the shooter. And what's interesting to note in military capital cases, there is no guilty plea. You know, so you either say I didn't do it or I did it with a reason. And so it's going to be interesting to see how Nidal Hasan justifies what he did, and I do agree that he is trying to get himself a death sentence. And I think that outside of the legal, ethical dilemma, I also think that it poses a greater sociopolitical risk also, because we don't want Nidal Hasan to get the, quote-unquote, martyr that he seeks, like Paul said. And so I think that it's really important, whether or not you agree with the death penalty or not, what sort of political message this sends to the greater public as well.
MARTIN: So what are you saying should happen here?
IFTIKHAR: Well, I think it's tough, you know. It's like hiring a basketball coach for your team and the team is throwing the game, and you really have no power to change what's going on. I think the judge has to allow - ultimately, I think lawyers should be allowed to recuse themselves from cases where they know that their client is going to lose. You know, our job as lawyers is to zealously advocate for our clients and if our clients are representing ourselves and we're sitting, you know, essentially with our hands tied behind our back while our client puts a noose around his neck, you know, I think that makes for good cause to remove yourself.
MARTIN: Yeah, I wanted to ask Neil this question, 'cause Neil you're trained as a doctor. I know that you're not a psychiatrist, you're not currently practicing, but one of the questions I have is, I know a lot of people are saying that attention was not drawn to his increasingly bizarre behavior. And a lot of people think it's because the Army was being politically correct.
I wonder if it's in part because he was so expensively trained. I mean, he had an expensive training, he was in a specialty that they particularly needed since there's a tremendous pressure to offer mental health support to service members coming back. And I wonder, do you think that that could have been part of the reason that he wasn't dealt with? Is that they didn't want to lose somebody that they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars training even though he seemed to be increasingly unfit?
MINKOFF: Well, I mean, that could certainly weigh into it. And I'm not going to say that that's not a reason. I would say that there does seem to be, in all walks of medicine, a great deal of latitude for odd behavior for those who specialize in behavioral health. And psychiatrists, in general, are often seen as the odd ducks of medicine. And so I wonder whether or not - it's easy to talk about where the behavior ended up. What I haven't been clear about is level of eccentricity in the behavior at the baseline to know just how far this had really gone based on where he had started.
MARTIN: Well, so, it's interesting. Well, obviously this is - poses some very difficult dilemmas, you know, for all involved. And I think, you know, once again, our hearts have to go out to the people who were victimized here. Particularly the people - I mean, obviously the loss of life, but people who continue to live with grievous injuries and who also feel they are very much hard done by this process, and are not getting the sense of closure that I think they were hoping for. Well, can we move on to another topic, Jimi? I understand that you wanted to talk about - well, you tell us.
IZRAEL: Well, yeah, let's move on from the court house to the big house, where it goes down. Lawmakers are saying that people spent a little too much time in prison for some crimes. Oh my God, clutch the pearls. But apparently, there's some reform on the horizon, right Michel?
MARTIN: Well, congressional leaders on both sides are working on legislation to give judges more power to impose lower sentences for lesser crimes, particularly nonviolent crimes. And at the top, they have the support of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. He's reportedly had lawyers working on his own proposal, and this is what he said last spring about the old ways of thinking about this.
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US ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: The war on drugs is now 30, 40 years old. There've been a lot of unintended consequences. There's been kind of a decimation of certain communities, in particular communities of color.
MARTIN: We need to take a short break in a minute. So Paul, why don't we go to first you on this? As a former federal prosecutor, how do you react to this?
BUTLER: Love it. It's why Eric Holder is my favorite person in the Obama administration. Other than Michelle of course. So it's mainly symbolic, 'cause 90 percent of inmates are in state prisons and Holder doesn't have any control over those. But he can tell federal prosecutors to chill out with all those drug cases.
When I was a federal prosecutor, we were bringing those cases and judges would hate them. They're not federal cases. But usually, the man or woman who's the attorney general wants to show how tough on crime they are by announcing all these harsh new laws or giving more money to the police to lock people up. Eric Holder is actually saying prosecutors should give up some of their power and judges should stop putting so many people, especially black people, in jail. That's huge.
MARTIN: Jimi, you want to weigh in on this before we need to take a short break. What do you think?
IZRAEL: I think the time should fit the crime. And be uniformly applied. But also the thing is - too long is too - it's too subjective for me. I'm kind of a crime and punishment kind of guy. And if you do it, and you know what the time is going in, then, you know, you took your destiny - well, of course, you took your destiny into your own hands. So there you go. You got to - you know, you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
BUTLER: Even if the result is one-in-three young black men in jail, Jimi?
IZRAEL: You know what, you that going in though. I mean, you get in the drug game, you know that the courts are stacked against you. So who's the fool, the court or you?
MARTIN: I just want...
IFTIKHAR: ...Jimi...
MARTIN: ...To know how much choices - go ahead, Arsalan.
IFTIKHAR: ...Well, you know, Jimi, you talked about, you know, the sentences being, quote unquote, uniformly applied but it hasn't been uniformly applied. You know, we've had reports from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which shows that there are 20 percent higher sentences for black men than white men. So, you know, obviously, these mandatory minimums are not being uniformly applied. They're disparately impacting young black man as opposed to young white men.
MINKOFF: And our drug laws are based on...
MINKOFF: ...On myth.
MARTIN: Go ahead, Neil.
MINKOFF: Our drug laws are based on myths. Our drug laws are draconian and make very little sense from a socioeconomic point of view, from a medical point of view, from an addiction point of view. That, you know, I - look two things. One, I wholeheartedly applaud this effort and the fact that it's getting Durbin and Leahy on the Democratic side of the aisle and Rand Paul and Mike Lee from the Republican side of the aisle just shows how unbelievably widespread it is - the idea that we're doing this poorly. But not only should we be affecting the sentencing, I believe that the drug laws need to be loosened dramatically. So that we're not even getting to sentencing...
MARTIN: ...Neil, we have to take a short break. We're coming back to you. Don't worry.
MINKOFF: OK.
MARTIN: We're listening to our weekly barbershop roundtable. We're joined by culture critic Jimi Izrael, commentator Arsalan Iftikhar, National Review contributor Neil Minkoff, and law professor Paul Butler. Please stay with us, more barbershop buzz. We'll be right back.


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In the last ten years French company Focal has progressed from making specialists drivers for other companies to designing and manufacturing its own line-up of speakers. These range from the Dome sub/sat system to the flagship Grand Utopia EM. These weigh 260 kilos each, stand two metres tall, cost $269,000 and are packed with the latest advances in driver design.
Adjustable Focus Time, for instance, allows you to tilt the section of the cabinet holding the top speakers towards the listener via a small crank, depending on your listening position. More innovative, however, is the replacement of the conventional magnet on the 15 inch bass driver with an electro-magnetic (EM) motor. This allows the magnet force to become endless – or flexible – according to the importer, Len Wallis Audio. The electro-magnet power supply is external of the speaker cabinet, and can be adjusted, allowing you to tailor the bass according to room conditions, and to listening preferences.
The budget offering in the Utopia range is the Diablo bookshelf, costing $17,000 a pair.


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Dattus (sau Datto) (d. 1020) a fost un conducător longobard din Bari, cumnatul lui Melus din Bari

Dattus s-a raliat cumnatului său Melus din Bari în anul 1009, atunci cînd acesta s-a răsculat împotriva autorității bizantine din sudul Italiei.

În 1010, rosculații au ocupat Ascoli și Troina. În martie 1011, catepanul bizantin Vasile Mesardonites și generalul Leon Tornikios Kontoleon, strategos de Cefalonia, au debarcat cu puternice întăriri de trupe sosite de la Constantinopol, Vasile trecând imediat la asedierea răsculaților din Bari. Cetățenii greci din oraș au negociat cu Mesardonites și i-au alungat pe conducătorii normanzi, Melus și Dattus. Catepanul a pătruns astfel în oraș în data de 11 iunie 1011, restabilind autoritatea bizantină. Totuși, el nu și-a însoțit victoria cu măsuri represive severe, rezumându-se la a trimite familia lui Melus, inclusiv pe fiul acestuia, Argyrus, la Constantinopol.

În vreme ce Melus a găsit refugiu la contele Guaimar al III-lea de Salerno, Dattus a căutat protecție la abatele de Montecassino, unde a găsit sprijin în rândul cplugărilor latini și la papa Benedict al VIII-lea, care i-a acordat cu îmrumut trupele papale pentru a se putea baricada și a rezista în turnul de laGarigliano, aflat pe teritoriul ducatului de Duchy of Gaeta, pe atunci guvernat de către ducesa Emilia, cunoscută pentru politica sa antibizantină.

În 1016, a revenit alături de Melus și de mercenarii normanzi din Apulia. La început, răsculații au înregistrat unele mici succese asupra bizantinilor, însă au fost înfrânți categoric în bătălia de la Cannae din 1018, drept pentru care Dattus s-a refugiat din nou în vechiul turn de la Montecassino.

În 1020, în vreme ce Melus avea întrevederi cu regele german la Bamberg, noul catepan Vasile Boioannes, sprijinit de către principele Pandulf al IV-lea de Capua, a început atacul asupra turnului și, la 15 iunie, Dattus a fost legat într-un sac alături de o maimuță, un cocoș și un șarpe și aruncat în mare. Actul a atras după sine un răspuns rapid al occidentalilor, o uriașă armată condusă de împăratul Henric al II-lea pornind în marș pentru a asedia noua fortăreață ridicată de bizantini la Troia, în regiunea Foggia.

Bibliografie
John Julius Norwich, The Normans in the South 1016-1130, Londra, Longmans, 1967.
Amato de Montecassino, History of the Normans Book I . (trad. Prescott N. Dunbar), Boydell, 2004. ISBN 1-84383-078-7

Decese în 1020
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Italia bizantină

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Lawyer: Archdiocese moved assets before bankruptcy filing
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A creditors committee of clergy abuse survivors believes the Archdiocese of Santa Fe moved assets to hinder creditors before it filed for bankruptcy protection, a lawyer said.
Attorney James Stang told a federal judge Monday that the committee may seek standing in the case to challenge the movement of assets, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
"The committee is ready to move forward on standing motions to avoid fraudulent conveyances that we believe occurred when the archdiocese corporately reorganized," Stang said. "We believe there's a basis for us bringing those fraudulent conveyance actions."
The contention came as parties in the Chapter 11 case were in court updating a federal Bankruptcy Court judge on the status of mediation. Around 400 people have filed notices with U.S. Bankruptcy Court alleging they were harmed and are owed damages tied to abuse by priests and other clergy working in the archdiocese, which has acknowledged that abuse occurred.
In court filings, the committee says offers and counteroffers have been exchanged, but the archdiocese and creditors have not been able to reach an agreement on terms of a reorganization plan. A third mediation session is scheduled for next week.
The committee says one impediment has been a move by the archdiocese before filing for bankruptcy to incorporate all of its parishes and to transfer substantial property to a real estate trust of which the archdiocese and parishes are beneficiaries. A substantial amount of money was also moved into a trust, the panel says.
Ford Elsaesser, an attorney representing the archdiocese, said good faith mediation continues and he was hopeful litigation involving church assets could be avoided.
He declined to comment on the details of the negotiations.
Archbishop John C. Wester has said in the past that he decided to file for reorganization to ensure that all claims of child abuse survivors, including those who come forwa...

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The Eternal release new video clip for 'Don't Believe Anymore'
Australian progressive doom metal band The Eternal have released a new music video for the song 'Don't Believe Anymore' from their critically acclaimed album 'Waiting For The Endless Dawn'.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/POE1m3cl6ew
'Don't Believe Anymore' was originally recorded by Australian band Icehouse on their 1984 album 'Sidewalk'. On why The Eternal chose this song to be the bands first recorded cover song, Singer / Guitarist Mark Kelson elaborates: 'Icehouse and frontman Iva Davies are firmly cemented in Australian music history and are a huge part of the sound of Australian music in the 80's. I felt this song would sit so well amongst our other material and would also be a homage to our Australian heritage. I think this can bring to a wider audience, that Australians have been making dark and emotive music for a very long time'.
The video for 'Don't Believe Anymore' has been beautifully put together by long time collaborators Red Tape Pictures in Brisbane, Australia and can now be viewed on theInverse Records Youtube channel.
The Eternal have released their 6th full length studio album 'Waiting For The Endless Dawn' through Finnish label Inverse Records in August 2018. Featuring 75 minutes of dark melancholic progressive influenced Doom Metal including the epic 20 minute single 'The Wound'. The band spent over 3 years writing and recording what can be best described as the bands darkest & heaviest album to date.
The album has been receiving rave reviews internationally and also finished in several 'Top 10 albums of 2018' lists on major metal sites around the world. 'Waiting For The Endless Dawn' is now available on all major online services such as Spotify, iTunes & Apple Music through Inverse Records.
The current incarnation of the band featuring Mark Kelson (Alternative 4, Insomnius Dei, Cryptal Darkness), Martin Powell (My Dying Bride, Cradle of Filth, Anathema), Marty O'Shea (Dreadnaught) & Dave Langlands alongside the addition of renowned Australian guitarist Richie Poate (Dreadnaught).
'Waiting For The Endless Dawn' proves to be a heavy hearted, dark statement in the bands diverse and long career, which will see the band endeavouring to tour extensively and performing the album in it's entirety in 2018 and beyond.
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Preorder links of the CD version of 'Waiting For The Endless Dawn'
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"If you're looking for something to blow you away, look no further than Waiting For The Endless Dawn. This is a truly exceptional piece of work." 10/10 Soundscape Magazine (UK)
"Doom metal hasn't sounded so very intriguing and adventurous for a long time, actually I see that rare are the bands in todays doom metal scene who have the guts to create something that transcends the genre and at a certain point reinvents it." – 9.5/10Terra Relicta (SI)
" 'Waiting For The Endless Dawn' is a genuine album that goes beyond genres and manifests pure beauty." – 94/100 Lords of Metal (NL)
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"Waiting for the Endless Dawn" is worth it for "The Wound" alone. That track is absolutely incredible." – 8/10 Progressive Music Planet
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"…With their ability to safeguard innocence in a maelstrom of misery is what should truly be applauded in Waiting for the Endless Dawn." – 8.5/10 RTMB Music
"Waiting for the Endless Dawn" is an album that cuts deep inside the body and remains a long, painful scar. It's of great splendor.' – 10/10 Obscure (CZ)
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'The Eternal have proved once more with Waiting… that they have the confidence in their own abilities that allows a band to make their music unrestrained by the need to meet industry mores or listener peccadilloes halfway. They stand or fall by the music they create, willingly, and on this record they stand in triumph. This album is hard work, yes, but it's work worth doing.' – Sentineld Daily (AU)
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Keeping car brakes in good condition is a way to keeping yourself away from road accidents. Regular brake inspection should be done before you face major brake repair issues.
Still, it is recommended by professionals that you do not wait for these signs to occur before you check up on your braking system. Do a visual inspection every now and then. Visual brake inspection consists of checking brake pads, rotors, brake lines, and callipers. While this may sound intimidating to a new car owner, inspecting brakes is as easy as one, two, three.
Begin the brake inspection by lifting your vehicle off of the ground. Expose the brake hardware by removing the lug nuts and pulling your wheel off its axle. Afterwards, clean your brakes with any brake cleaner you have. This is important so that you have a clear picture of the state of your brakes.
Check if there are rust formations on the callipers. You can remove small amounts of rust on the surface by using a wire brush or by taking a short drive and applying your brakes. However, if there are huge amounts of rust in there, you need to replace your rotor.
Next step when inspecting brakes is to check whether the brake pads are already worn out. You need to replace these pads if they are less than 1mm in thickness. Uneven wearing also happens to brake pads so be observant. Remove the pads and check them for uneven wear. You can do this by first removing the calliper attached from the brake rotor. Uneven wear causes problems with the brakes which can lead to brake repair and you surely do not want that.
After that, the next thing to do when inspecting brakes is to check the rotors. There are three things that you should watch out for this part of the brake hardware: excess grooves, warping, and discoloration. Appearance of any of these three require a rotor replacement as soon as possible. Problematic rotors also lead to bigger brake problems that can make your head ache in the future.
Last thing to do for a visual brake inspection is to check the brake hose, also known as the brake flex hose. Signs that may lead to a break repair include aging, wearing, and cracking in the hose's rubber lining. The flexibility of the brake flex hose is crucial. If there are stains of brake fluid on this hose, then there is a leak and you may want to go to an auto mechanic. You may also want to check for corrosion and rust on your brake lines as these greatly affect the performance of your brakes.


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Pakistan: 2 New Polio Cases, One in a Vaccinated Child
March 8, 2016 March 8, 2016 Ernest Dempsey
On February 27, media reported two new cases of polio virus infection in Pakistan, both from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. One of the two is a baby girl who was vaccinated multiple times for polio.
The male patient diagnosed with polio infection is a boy named Jareer, aged 21 months, in Peshawar. He is said to belong to a religious family and his parents refused vaccination on religious grounds.
But the second child – a seven-month-old girl named Noureen – from Ganjyano Kaley in Hangu district had been vaccinated multiple times. The media story says she received at 3 doses during "routine immunization" and then additional dose(s) during "Supplementary Immunization Activity". Yet she contracted polio.
The question arising is of course what is the use of this vaccine when it can't protect a child from the disease it targets. A "health expert" whose name or credentials were not specified in the story was quoted thus:
"The campaign quality was satisfactory, but immunity of the child was not very good to resist against the poliovirus."
This statement is a direct indicator of the vaccine's failure because the very rationale of vaccination is to boost immunity to fight infection. A child with a strong immune system wouldn't need a vaccine to fight an infection. And if the vaccine can't boost immunity, it is useless.
The matter goes beyond polio vaccine effectiveness. The orally administered polio vaccine is known to cause outbreaks of polio – called vaccine associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) – which is polio caused by the virus derived from the polio vaccine. Currently, Laos is seeing such an outbreak. Could both these cases be VAPP cases?
The media has nothing to say on it. Media in Pakistan is infamously unprofessional and creates sketchy reports on many issues, vaccine and diseases being one of those. But the lack of precise information does serve the vaccine industry's goal – to avoid any negative publicity.
By asking more questions and demanding the right to know all side and adverse effects and reactions of a vaccine, people can prevent a lot of damage, including life-threatening risks, that children and adults suffer due to risky vaccinations.
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1/19/2006 – Brana Malobabic-Giancristofaro doesn't just have an interesting name, she is also the mastermind behind an electronic scoresheet device. In her capacity as the CEO of the company MonRoi she has travelled the world – Turkey, Singapore, England, United States, Bulgaria and China. Her report concentrates on chess playing children.
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Part I Canada, Turkey, Bulgaria, USA, Singapore
By the MonRoi team
Brana Malobabic-Giancristofaro
Once upon a time in Montreal – or precisely Saint-Laurent – our mastemind ur mastermind, Brana Malobabic-Giancristofaro invented a hand-held wireless tournament management system called MonRoi. The enterprise is a remarkable success. We traveled the globe to meet people involved in promoting the game. And the stars of chess. And young people who are in the process of discovering the fascination of this ancient game.
First Steps, E-Tournament in Canada: Patricia Demers, Dmitry Jakovenko, Susan Polgar, Mayor Alan De Sousa, Florencio Campomanes, Eric Lawson, Brana
Did you know? More than 5,700 places in Canada (towns, rivers, lakes) have the word "Saint" in their names. The following were invented in Canada: the telephone, the gramophone, television, the snowmobile, the IMAX movie system, JAVA programming, the toboggan, the anti-gravity suit, the zipper, the heart pacemaker, the quartz clock and the compound steam engine. Not chess? Well, no one is perfect. However, at least they have built a wireless portable Chess Manager.
World Championship for Boys and Girls Under 20, Turkey
Our recent world tour started in Istanbul , Turkey. This is a country full of historic treasures, stemming from 13 successive civilizations spanning 10,000 years. Its territory blends two continents: Europe and Asia. Over two-thirds of the Turkish population is under thirty years old. Due to its varied landscape and climate, Turkey is rich with flora. The country's soil is home to approximately 9,000 species of flowers, of which 3,000 are native. In Europe there are only 11,500 species. Moreover, Turkey provides 70% of the world's hazelnuts; the nut in your chocolate bar was probably grown in Turkey .
Ankara 's subway system was built by a Canadian consortium. It was a joint Turkish-Canadian venture that constructed the Almaty subway in Kazahkstan. Gens Una Sumus. Ali Nihat Yazici, President of the Turkish Chess Federation is clearly one of the most accomplished Chess Federation Presidents in the world.
Ali took us to dinner at a Turkish restaurant, where we had a wonderful fish dish. Boris Kutin, President of the European Chess Union from Slovenia , took our CEO to have Turkish baklava a few days later. A note to tournament organizers: if you want our team to work for you, be sure to present a generous amount of Local Delights.
Ali Nihat (right) and Brana celebrate a successful tournament
Of course the Internet connection never works the first day. Our patient friend Ahmed, a future recipient of a Masters degree in engineering (at least this is what he promised), changed the cables five times, while the hotel manager tried to remember what the Ethernet switch looks like. People should not try to plug the network cable in the telephone plug. Of course, most players skipped the Technical Commission and did not attend training (rules are made to be broken), while arbiters tried to figure out who can get assigned to the new technology section. We had this new "computer stuff," like a strange alien with five heads and a trillion eyes. However, these kinds of monsters are found in many video games, so perhaps that is why the boys and girls took to the Chess Managers with ease.
Chess Arbiters
The Boys Section
The sweetest chess players you've ever seen
Ali Made some Right Moves
When Ali made some Right Moves, everything got under control and soon all the electronic score sheets were grabbed up by many players, even the back-up ones. We were running on no spares, and luckily no player smashed their device, even after a few heated tie arguments. We were assured by the happy faces on the bulletin team, after they received the clean PGN files, that we were doing something right. As for the rest of the games, the bulletin team stayed all night trying to decode some paper score sheets. Prehistoric cave carvings are more legible.
The bulletin team, hard at work at 2 a.m.
Jianjun Zhou, our lead engineer, experienced an epiphany in Istanbul , after discovering a heavenly meal called Adana kebab. Do not be surprised if you see software subroutines named "Adana1," "Adana2" or similar, because Adana is all that Jianjun dreams about. On this tournament was proven an old saying "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."
Jianjun Zhou
Ahmed – the Adana Man
In every chess tournament, the champions are stars. We often forget how much work went into tournament organization to attract sponsors, take care of safety, as well as thousands of other little details. This is all done with the hope that chess players will recognize and appreciate it. The charming and hospitable organizer team, directed by Ali and his group: Koral, Ozan, enthusiastic photo-reporter Fatma, technical support Ahmed, Cem, and the nick-named "Kokorech brothers" were ready to entertain guests at any time, whether it was playing pool, going out dancing, sight-seeing, or a walk to the specialty food places.
A note to readers: Kokorech is a Turkish delicacy-sandwich filled with spicy lamb intestine (much better than it sounds). The organizers, arbiters, players, and Jianjun became inseparable by the end of the tournament. We discovered Sava Kizova, a blond (quite a phenomenon) FIDE International Arbiter, who was computer literate. Sava was trained by Geurt Gijssen, FIDE Chairman Rules and Regulations from Netherlands who was proud to watch his student's progress in Istanbul .
Sava Kizova , International FIDE Arbiter
World Tour Continues! Bulgaria
Enthusiasm is contagious. Sava took the system to Sofia, Bulgaria . You might know that Bulgaria currently has three FIDE World Champions. Veselin Topalov is the reigning men's champion, Antoaneta Stefanova wears the woman's crown, and Liuben Spassov holds the Seniors' scepter. Many thanks to Mr. Nikolay Velchev, Executive Director of the Bulgarian Chess Federation.
Visit in Bulgaria
Stojanovic Marija and Kosana from Serbia , Chess Players and Future Arbiters
Many chess players suffer from smartness, good looks and good senses of humor. Hop on the train, it is never too late.
World Tour Continues! USA
We also recently visited the National Scholastic Event in Houston, Texas. Imagine over 1500 kids with their parents running towards pairings boards. Watch your step. "I like to try new things," Aaron Reyes from Texas explained, "Your Chess Manager is a lot faster than paper notation. I enjoyed using it." Fellow Texan Steven Watson tried it and said, "it's a neat idea to see the games over the Internet, and not to have to keep track of scorebooks anymore." Parents were particularly excited about the possibility of following their kids' games in real time on the net. Many thanks to the fantastic team from Crossville, Tennessee: USCF President Bill Hall, Jerry Nash, Diane Reese, Robert Tanner and Carol Jarecki.
Aaron Reyes
2nd Singapore International Chess Convention
Singapore consists only of one main island and 63 other tiny islands. Although English is the official working language, the national anthem 'Majulah Singapura' is actually sung in Malay. The Supreme Court of Singapore is British-influenced. And guess what? Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Canada's official head of state. So, there we are; Singapore was our next destination.
The world's first night zoo, the Night Safari, is located in Singapore.
Eight out of ten people in Singapore own cell phones. This is good news for any hi-tech technology company. In Singapore Internet cafés and computer game places are packed from early morning. The weather is fantastic. The town was full of Christmas decorations. Restaurants were packed. There were people laughing wherever you looked, and kids running around having fun.
Asian Chess School Festival
The Asian Schools Chess Festival for age groups U-9, U-11, U-13 and U-15, which was organized by Ignatius Leong, FIDE General Secretary and the Singapore Chess Federation attracted 145 players representing Mongolia, South Korea, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, India, Sri-Lanka, Philippines, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
Ignatius Leong
By the time we got to Singapore, all bogymen were gone, and running a fully automated tournament was a piece of cake. The Internet connection was up. Exemplary Ignatius runs a Training Academy . He organized precisely the training of players and arbiters, and we established one of the most effective technology implementation collaborations. All tournament games were broadcast using our technology, and tournament bulletins were produced immediately after each round ended. This was a dream team. Chess players aged seven to fifteen years old quickly replaced paper with electronics. This is no wonder; Singapore kids use computers as soon as they are born. Besides being friendly, computer savvy, respectful and adorable, chess players in Asia can also sing and dance.
A must visit is one of the Karaoke bars in Singapore. Even Brana sang (singing is not part of her repertoire of talents). Polina Tsedenova from the FIDE Secretariat who sat next to Brana, got ear blockage, which kept coming back for the rest of her holidays. Or, perhaps this was because the private Karaoke lounge was colder than Khanty-Mansiysk and Northern Quebec combined.
Ignatius Leong singing, right FIDE Vice Preisdent Zurab Azmaiparashvili
The Chairman of FIDE Arbiter's Council, Panagiotis Nikolopoulos from Greece invited Brana to present the new solution to the Arbiters, which were in training. The Chairman of Training Commission Yuri Razuvaev from Russia and the ex trainer of a former world champion, Anatoly Karpov, was holding one the training seminars at the Chess Academy. Singapore is an example of a true International Chess Convention.
Following is one of our loveliest photo reports. The kids melted our hearts.
Brana with the Children Champions
Sri Lanka team training
Having fun with the kids
Somebody here really likes kids!
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The public interest litigation demanding constitutional ben¬e¬fits for Muslim and Christian Dalits has been pending before the Supreme Court for the past decade and a half. But while the UPA government failed to act on the recommendations made by both the Sachar committee and the Ranganath Mishra committee, the Modi regime has made it clear that it is opposed to the proposal: the unspoken rationale is that it would 'weaken' Hinduism and pave the way for more conversions to Islam and Christianity.
But the crude logic does not stand up to scrutiny. If caste were determined by the work that people did, then reservation could not have been given on religious grounds. And if Muslims and Christians do the same work as Hindu cobblers and scavengers, the Constitution that promises liberty and equality cannot deny them the guarantees given to Hindu Dalits.
The difficulty is that the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, pertaining to Article 341, did provide religion-based reservation. Initially, the order only recognised SCs among the Hindus. This was amended twice ther¬eafter in 1956 and 1990 to include Sikhs and Buddhists respectively. The PIL arg¬ues that Sikhs and Buddhists do not consider themselves to be Hindus either. And these ¬religions too do not preach casteism. But in practice there are Mazhabi Sikhs and Navbodh Buddhists similar to Dalit Muslims and Christians.
Former Chief Justice of India V.N. Khare says, "As the matter is still in court, we have to wait for the final order, but the PIL has certainly raised strong legal points. The apex court would certainly be looking at the issue from the perspective of equality and justice." But the case has been pending since the turn of the century and there's nothing to suggest that the court will conclude the hearing in a hurry. A despondent advocate, Mustaque Ahmed, feels this is an open-and-shut case of injustice and wishes the Supreme Court had not been so slow.
The petition claimed that there are app¬roximately two-and-a-half million Dalit Christians and one-and-a-half million Dalit Muslims. The petitioners explain that among Muslims, the proportion of Dalits is much smaller compared to the Christians. These are insignificant numbers compared to an estimated 20 crore Dalits who are claimed to be part of the Hindus. But the fear of the RSS and the BJP is clear: that granting reservation and other benefits to Muslims and Christians would open the floodgates.
Dalit Muslims and Christians are also denied protection under the SC-ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. Although they are also victims of caste-based violence, they cannot file any complaint under the Act against perpetrators.
In India, he explains, Muslims have three layers of caste: the Ashraf (upper caste), the Ajlaf (OBC) and the Arzal (SC; the word itself meaning the lowest). The demand is simple enough, he says. Give SC status to those who are doing the same menial jobs as Dalit Hindus are forced to do.
"My great grand-parents embraced Christianity when they were prevented from entering a temple. But in my village Anna Samudram (Andhra Pradesh) eve¬rybody calls me with my caste name. My parents were teachers in the village but nobody would rent them a house. In Andhra Pradesh, if you are a Christian, the majority would conclude that you are from the Mala or Madiga community—both Dalit castes," narrates S.D.M.Prasad, coo¬rdinator of the Scheduled Caste cell of the Indian National Congress.