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Military and Politics29 Jul 2014 at 21:36 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Hannah Arendt weights in on Israeli siege mentality
"And even if the Jews were to win the war, its end would find the unique possibilities and the unique achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed. The land that would come into being would be something quite other than the dream of world Jewry, Zionist and non-Zionist. The 'victorious' Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded into ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy…. And all this would be the fate of a nation that — no matter how many immigrants it could still absorb and how far it extended its boundaries (the whole of Palestine and Transjordan is the insane Revisionist demand)–would still remain a very small people greatly outnumbered by hostile neighbors.
Under such circumstances… the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta. Their relations with world Jewry would become problematical, since their defense interests might clash at any moment with those of other countries where large number of Jews lived. Palestine Jewry would eventually separate itself from the larger body of world Jewry and in its isolation develop into an entirely new people"
"The Jewish Writings' by Hannah Arendt is a book of collected works published in 2007 – in this extract she referred to the war of independence in 1948 but the moral degenerateness of living by the sword excluding any other mean is still fresh in the current context.
France and Military and Politics and Security05 Jul 2013 at 12:06 by Jean-Marc Liotier
« Ce n'est pas illégal, c'est a-légal » – The state of democratic control over surveillance in France
Remember when I was writing about 'hypocrisy all around' a few days ago ? This is what it was about… As if on cue, Le Monde revealed from unnamed sources that France operates its own mass interception infrastructure (for non-French speaking readers here is the Guardian's paraphrasing of The World).
Le Monde's article was of course published on the Fourth of July in honor of our American friends, thought leaders in mass surveillance.
That France had such capability at that scale had long been guessed by anyone with even a slight interest in surveillance technologies, especially since we make brisk business peddling that sort of stuff we to splendid chaps all around the world (no questions asked – don't forget to wash your hands afterwards)… Now it is not just guesses and rumors anymore.
But, in spite of the amusingly conflicted public reactions, that is not where the real substance of Le Monde's revelations lies : the problem with surveillance is not the capability but how it is used… And used it is : not only external intelligence but also internal intelligence and a host of other agencies who happily dip their fingers into the jam with an utter lack of adult supervision.
Is that so bad ? What about the children ? What about tax-evading Nazi terrorist pedophiles music sharers ?
Lets first remind ourselves about a basic principle : the distinct nature of external and internal intelligence. Like military and police, they handle different businesses : while the military exists to dominate designated external enemies by force, the role of police is to keep our society in working order by enforcing the law. One is only subject to the law of the strongest and whatever can be gotten away with diplomatically, the other operates encumbered by strict rules that sacrifice efficiency and sometimes even the officer's own security for the sake of lawfulness. Again, war and law enforcement are not the same – bad things happen when cops play soldiers, as the militarization of the police forces in the USA shows.
So spying is not the activity that requires attention – as long as we manage to get away with it diplomatically… Don't get caught ! Spying on allies will certainly complicate relationships, but managing that is what diplomacy is for. Ignorance and hypocritical reactions will be plenty but the professionals will keep balancing themselves on the tightropes of international relations, in ways perfected during thousand of years of practice. This is not what I find disquieting – don't let the cruel world of state to state relationships distract you from the actual scandal: mass surveillance of one's own citizen in a democratic state.
We don't yet know the extent of the communications surveillance apparatus revealed by Le Monde – but we already know what matters most : it operates outside of any legal framework. Some would say that it makes them illegal – but no law forbids it so an unnamed boss of a French intelligence agency declared them "a-légal" instead. Isn't that cute ? Of course, nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali – but those activities may actually fall under existing law:
Code Pénal, Article 226-15 (official English translation) :
Maliciously opening, destroying, delaying or diverting of correspondence sent to a third party, whether or not it arrives at its destination, or fraudulently gaining knowledge of it, is punished by one year's imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
The same penalty applies to the malicious interception, diversion, use or disclosure of correspondence sent, transmitted or received by means of telecommunication, or the setting up of a device designed to produce such interceptions.
The collection of personal data by fraudulent, unfair or unlawful means is punished by five years' imprisonment and a fine of €300,000
Now, The French People vs. The French State – wouldn't that make an interesting case ?
But anyway, whether past misdeeds are prosecuted or not is not the most important point. What is essential is that we now demand proper democratic oversight. The extraordinary privileges granted for security reasons require equally extraordinary control. Secrecy matters of course, but secrecy is no reason for lack of accountability. Secrecy is not even incompatible with a strong framework of laws and regulations consistent with human rights and ensuring adequate protection of the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
The political divide about surveillance is about whether or not the ends justify the means. I believe they don't, or rather that those who focus on the immediate benefits of surveillance are myopic to its other effects on society. Those people by the way are well meaning – always keep Hanlon's Razor in mind : never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. What it means about surveillance is that we don't need to have intent to create a fascist regime – we can just sleepwalk into it. Let's wake up a few people !
Military and Politics and Security01 Jul 2013 at 11:24 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Hypocrisy all around and why industrial espionage is not comparable to mass surveillance
While I happily keep giving the USA the bashing they deserve about mass surveillance of citizens, you won't hear me cast the first stone about industrial espionage – for well-known reasons.
While direct evidence of my own country's industrial espionage activities rarely surfaces, we sometimes hear echoes of what goes on under the tables – take for example the testimony of Orbital High-Technology Bremen (OHB) CEO, Berry Smutny to the US Embassy in Berlin on 2009-11-20 :
Smutny frankly said "France is the evil empire stealing technology and Germany knows this", but Germany´s decentralized government is not willing to do much about it. Going on at length of his despise of the French, Smutny said French IPR espionage is so bad that the total damage done to the German economy is greater the that inflicted by China or Russia.
Sure, this quote being in the context of sales by OHB to the US government, it is likely to be biased toward exaggeration – but such open expression of defiance from very close allies of France is nevertheless a strong hint that righteous outrage from French sources about industrial espionage is laughably hypocritical.
In addition, industrial espionage should be kept in perspective : it is not even comparable to mass surveillance – let's not dilute the evil of mass surveillance by amalgamating them ! While corporate actors are strong enough to thrive on their own in a state of information warfare, citizens are not – they need political diligence toward a strong framework of laws and regulations consistent with human rights and ensuring adequate protection of the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Remember : the reason for rule of law is to protect the weak – the strong already take good care of themselves, though the European Union might want to upgrade its defense to a level more compatible with its international status…
Military and Security and Systems administration15 Jun 2013 at 9:28 by Jean-Marc Liotier
German intelligence agencies claim PGP & SSH deciphering capability, depending on the type and quality of the encryption
In a message I got through Glyn Moody, Mikko Hypponen noticed this claim from German intelligence agencies :
"Ist die eingesetzte Technik auch in der Lage, verschlüsselte Kommunikation (etwa per SSH oder PGP) zumindest teilweise zu entschlüsseln und/oder auszuwerten?"
"Ja, die eingesetzte Technik ist grundsätzlich hierzu in der Lage, je nach Art und Qualität der Verschlüsselung"
My rough translation of these sentences of the article he linked :
"Are the current techniques capable of at least partially deciphering encrypted communications such as SSH or PGP ?"
"Yes, the current techniques are basically capable of that, depending on the type and quality of the encryption"
Of course, the weakness of weak keys is not exactly news… But it is always interesting when major threats brag about it openly – so this is nevertheless a pretty good refresher to remind users to choose the most current algorithms at decent key length and expire old keys in due time.
It is also a reminder that today's cyphers will be broken tomorrow: encryption is ephemeral protection… Secret communications require forward secrecy & anonymity – for example, XMPP chat may use a server available as a Tor hidden service, with the clients using Off The Record messaging.
Military and Politics and Security14 Jun 2013 at 11:11 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Revealed in 2008, a database of eight million Americans listed as possible threats, often for trivial reasons – probably still exists
Main Core is the code name of a database maintained since the 1980s by the federal government of the United States. Main Core contains personal and financial data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats to national security.
The existence of the database was first reported on in May 2008 :
According to a senior government official… "There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously" … One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect.
Putting this level of paranoia in perspective, Stalin's Great Purge hit 1% of the population. 8 million is 2.5% of the USA's population – or about 3% if you exclude children under 15 year old. If you think that 3% of the adult population may be out to get you, then you should probably be very carefully considering the possibility that the problem is actually you.
Dating back to the 1980s and known to government insiders as "Main Core", the database reportedly collects and stores — without warrants or court orders — the names and detailed data of Americans considered to be threats to national security.
One former intelligence official described Main Core as "an emergency internal security database system" designed for use by the military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law.
Putting aside the question of what actions are appropriate in catastrophic circumstances, should anyone believe that such a database will never be misused ? Secrecy trebles the probability of abuse.
Since 2008, no news has surfaced about Main Core – there is no reason to believe that it is not still maintained, probably under a new code name.
Military and Politics13 Jun 2013 at 17:00 by Jean-Marc Liotier
NSA corruption is just another avatar of the military–industrial complex Eisenhower warned against in 1961
Remember Eisenhower's 1961 warning against the military–industrial complex in his farewell speech ?
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist"
It is still valid today – and in current news in the guise of the intelligence-contractors complex where the consequences of financial corruption also go much beyond mere massive waste of public funds.
The challenge that faces us is not an arms race in communications privacy – hardening helps but it is a tactical countermeasure that does not address the problem systemically.
The way forward is political : democratic control must be reasserted over those entrusted with exceptional means. It is easier said than done, considering the entrenched interests that will obstruct the path ahead – but ignoring the political nature of the challenge will only ensure the continuation of a state of information warfare between the people and the state that used to represent them. A better way exists !
Military and Networking & telecommunications and Politics and Social networking06 Jun 2013 at 22:40 by Jean-Marc Liotier
UN special report highlights how countries that engage in bulk warrantless communications surveillance violate human rights
By now you are probably already participating in the fireworks triggered by the leak of a secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data to the NSA. Mass surveillance was a well known threat – but now we have proof that the USA do it… Will that be the wake-up call for increased political awareness ? I'm not holding my breath…
US Senators don't seem to have realized the extent of public outrage – witness comments such as "This is nothing particularly new… Every member of the United States Senate has been advised of this"… Mass surveillance ? Yes we can ! All that would not have happened if Obama had been elected.
Anyway, a couple of months ago, Frank La Rue, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion, has reported to the UN Human Rights Council, making a connection between surveillance and free expression. It establishes the principle that countries that engage in bulk, warrantless Internet surveillance are violating their human rights obligations to ensure freedom of expression. Was that report prescient ? Is it part of a new trend at the UN ? Here are a few choice morsels from the conclusions of this extensive piece of research:
79. States cannot ensure that individuals are able to freely seek and receive information or express themselves without respecting, protecting and promoting their right to privacy. Privacy and freedom of expression are interlinked and mutually dependent; an infringement upon one can be both the cause and consequence of an infringement upon the other.
80. In order to meet their human rights obligations, States must ensure that the rights to freedom of expression and privacy are at the heart of their communications surveillance frameworks.
81. Communications surveillance should be regarded as a highly intrusive act that potentially interferes with the rights to freedom of expression and privacy and threatens the foundations of a democratic society.
Clear enough for y'all ? The report was in no way aiming at the US of A but today's revelations makes it difficult to read it without thinking about them…
Mass surveillance is like searching every single home in the whole country because some of them might hide something illegal. With such massive indiscriminate intrusion in private lives, secrecy isn't kept to avoid "tipping off the target" – it is about avoiding legitimate public outrage at misguided actions outside of any effective control, that undermine the very foundations of what we strive for.
Africa and Military11 Jan 2013 at 17:47 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Which French helicopters struck Islamists in Mali last night ?
Koaci.com (usually not a bad source in Côte d'Ivoire) reports having learned from Malian military sources that two French helicopters formerly based in Burkina Faso have struck Islamist positions in Konna and Douentza during the night of Thursday to Friday, letting the Malian forces take back some of the lost ground.
An Eurocopter Tigre illustrates the article, but there is no reason to believe that Tigres are currently deployed around Mali.
I have attempted to find out the type of the two helicopters mentioned by Koaci.com, but I found no current information. That said, Algérie1.com mentioned last September that two Gazelles, arrived in a military base near Ouagadougou last September, to be assembled on site after shipping disassembled for more discretion. In October, Le Parisien confirmed the presence of two French Gazelles in Burkina. So odds are that those are the two that struck last night.
If they were Gazelle, which variant ? In Libya, even with NVG, Gazelles with a 20mm gun have soon been sidelined in reserve aboard Tonnerre and Mistral : most of the Gazelle missions have been performed by the HOT variant with the Viviane infrared sights – 425 HOT missiles have been shot in Libya. I would guess that given a similar environment, the same mode of operation has been adopted in Mali – so let's say that at least one of the two is a Gazelle Viviane.
Côte d'Ivoire, Libya, Mali… The old Gazelles still follow an impressive tempo ! ALAT does not seem in a hurry to retire them.
In Mali anyway, rugged and mature platforms such as the Gazelle are much better suited to the light expeditionary logistical support available locally – the precious Tiger might be able to sleep rough, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Update 20130111 18:48 – @AbouDjaffar guesses the mystery helos are Tigre. I stand by my Gazelle bet… We'll know sooner or later !
Update 20130112 12:13 – Opex360 confirms that strikes have occured yesterday at 16:00, performed by 4ème Régiment d'Hélicoptères des Forces spéciales (RHFS) with Gazelles (HOT and 20mm)… So I guessed right !
Military and Politics11 Mar 2011 at 19:00 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Sarkozy's big talk about air strikes in Libya – and the state of France's SEAD capability
In his usual grandstanding style, Nicolas Sarkozy has made bold statements about limited air strikes against Libyan targets which include Gaddafi's Bab al-Azizia command headquarters in Tripoli, an important airbase in Sirte and the key Sebha military complex in the south.
Apart from the slight diplomatic problem that this theatrical gesture has little support across Europe and the ethical problem of banking on emotional reaction to jockey for post-revolutionary oil contracts, there is the technical problem of how to proceed against the Libyan air defense network – here are a few extracts from Sean O'Connor's excellent analysis in May 2010 :
Libya possesses one of the most robust air defense networks on the African continent, falling second only to Egypt in terms of coverage and operational systems. Libyan strategic SAM assets are primarily arrayed along the coastline, ostensibly defending the bulk of the Libyan population and preventing foreign incursion into Libyan airspace.
Part of the current problem stems from international sanctions placed on Libya during the 1980s which effectively stifled any serious chances of upgrading or replacing obsolete systems. The rest of the problem lies in the systems themselves. All three strategic SAM types operated by Libya have been thoroughly exploited by Western intelligence agencies, and many Western nations have faced these same systems in combat at various times, allowing for continued refinement of ECM systems designed to defeat these weapons electronically. Also, no strategic SAM system operated by Libya possesses a multi-target engagement capability. The only SAM sites representing a threat to multiple aircraft are the S-200 locations, as they possess multiple 5N62 (SQUARE PAIR) engagement radars. As such, even though Libyan strategic SAM sites are arrayed to provide overlapping fields of fire while defending a given area, the relatively small number of sites represents a threat to only a small number of targets. As a result, the overall network is easily susceptible to oversaturation.
The second drawback to Libya's strategic SAM network is one of layout. If it is accepted that older Soviet-era systems may still be reliable against regional aggressors lacking modern, sophisticated EW or ECM suites, the system still has a significant number of gaps that could be exploited. The S-200 represents the only significant over water threat, but is constrained by having a minimum engagement altitude of 300 meters. Any terrain-hugging aircraft or cruise missiles would easily be able to exploit this weakness to approach the Libyan coastline. Once the coastline has been reached, the most obvious point of ingress would be the area adjacent to the Gulf of Sidra, which is devoid of deployed strategic SAM assets. Furthermore, as evidenced in the image seen previously, there are gaps between areas covered by S-75 and S-125 batteries which could also be exploited. This does not of course take into account the presence or performance of interceptors, AAA, or tactical SAM units, as these systems are outside the scope of this analysis.
At the end of the day, the Libyan strategic SAM network requires a massive infusion of new technology to remain viable in the twenty first century. It was not capable of repelling an attack over twenty years ago, and there is no reason to suspect that it will be capable of such action today.
The article overall dismisses an aging system with gaping deficiencies, but expressions such as "easily susceptible to oversaturation" betray the bias of USian abundance : few nations can casually assemble a strike package of 45 aircraft and send it over Libya like the USA did in 1986. And it is not just quantity – few nations have anywhere near the SEAD capability of the USA… Certainly not France in any case.
Unlike Tornado ECR users who still operate AGM-88 HARM, France has not had anti-radar missiles since it removed the AS37 Martel from service in the early 1990s. France has no dedicated SEAD assets left… Is maintenance of law and order in the colonies the only ambition of independent action that France can afford nowadays ? Of course, even when a consensus is beyond European diplomatic means, France is supposed to cooperate with its close allies for a semblance of international credibility… But the ally that holds the critical assets still has considerably more influence over how the decisions of the coalition. In Europe, Germany and Italy are the only nations left to operate specialized SEAD aircraft. Is France doomed ? Not yet : there is more to this story than just anti-radiation missiles…
You remember that the AGM-88 HARM did not produce very good results during the1999 NATO campaign in Yugoslavia. According to one senior serving aircrew officer, US and German aircrew fired around 100 HARMs at a particular Yugoslavian target without success. It may be exaggeration, but word on the Web is that the HARM is nowadays quite easy to spoof. The ALARM did much better, but it may have been compromised as one has been captured intact after having failed to self-destruct. Times are tough for anti-radar missiles…
Just because anti-radar missiles are nowadays easy to spoof and still expensive to boot, doesn't mean that the need for SEAD has gone away. So how is the French air force going to handle that problem ? The answer might lie in the AASM, a French precision-guided munition developed by Sagem and combined with Spectra, the very underrated integrated defensive aids suite developed by Thales for the Dassault Rafale. I just learned about that combination today and what I read on page seven of this November 2009 electronic warfare newsletter is impressive… But since it is in French I'm going to translate and adapt the relevant part for you :
The proposed concept is based on :
– Identification of the approximate coordinates of the fire control vehicles, using previous reconnaissance or on-board sensors such as the Rafale's Spectra
– Automated target acquisition in terminal phase: even with imprecise initial designation, the IR sensor aboard the AASM enables precise impact on a non-moving vehicle.
Two engagement methods are available, according to range :
– Against short and medium range systems, the scenario that takes best advantage of the AASM's capabilities is to locate it approximately using the Spectra. Then, as soon as sufficient location precision has been obtained, an AASM may be fired and forgotten – even at off-boresight angles.
– Against long range systems, low altitude long distance approach using terrain masking is preferred and initial target acquisition by a third party is necessary. The launch sequence is then identical to the other scenario.
No costly and spoofable seeker is required. With a 250 kg munition, the AASM carries three to five times as much explosives as dedicated anti-radar missiles, and airburst makes the most of the fragmentation pattern.
Near-vertical terminal course enhances precision by making errors in the estimation of target altitude much less relevant – an important factor since radio-goniometry's altitude estimates are much less precise than its measurements in the horizontal plane.
In the future, the IR seeker may transmit terminal target acquisition images to the launching aircraft, thus providing instant improvement in battle damage assessment.
Exploiting mostly existing capabilities of the Rafale and of the AASM, the SEAD mission would once more demonstrate the system's flexibility.
Now, that article was written by someone from the AASM program at Sagem, so the careful reader might want to discount part of the performance boasts as infomercial propaganda… But if even is just some of it is true, then France is actually taking the lead in a new generation of SEAD capabilities. Nevertheless, this wonderful piece of kit has never been involved in anything more taxing than gunboat diplomacy and neo-colonial policing on the coattails of the USA… No one will believe it works until it is proven in combat against more substantial adversaries. And most important, I have not found confirmation that the SEAD capability of the Rafale+AASM combo has reach operational status.
The AASM itself though has seen action in Afghanistan – so we know it works. Considering that each AASM costs 143k€ and that each Rafale flight hour costs 37k€, the critics humorously calculated that it won't take that many insurgents for the French state to go broke on bombing budget alone… But we suspect that the real point of using fancy pants Rafale with AASM instead of plain old Mirage 2000 with laser guided bombs is that someone wanted to put the "combat proven" sticker on it to flog it on the international market. With that perspective and Nicolas Sarkozy's track record of colluding with powerful commercial players, it is easy to imagine a Libyan campaign as a sales demonstration – but of course that would be gross oversimplification : Sarkozy's diplomatic bet on the protesters for post-revolutionary benefits if not innocent either, but it is a much more serious matter… Though it mostly caters to the same interests.
YGTBSM you say ? We may now need a French word for that undomesticated carnivorous furry little mustelidae…
Military and Politics and Social networking03 Feb 2011 at 19:03 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Re-purposing existing apolitical institutions for clandestine action – the case of football clubs
In troubled times and under pressure from a government with powerful social networking analysis capabilities, the mere preliminary act of searching for co-conspirators and linking with them carries a lot of risk. Care in maintaining a anonymity reduces that risk, but the proper use of secure online communication tools is cumbersome, their use itself hints at subversive activity and the anonymous procurement of devices and mobile telephony accounts is yet another drag on the enthusiastic would-be clandestine operator.
In summary, proper risk mitigation techniques are beyond the casual level acceptable for fomenting mass action. As a result, frustrated citizens rising up fall back on existing social networks that were not designed for that purpose. The use of family relationships is the archetypal example though a dangerous one: even if your government does not emulate Stalin by deporting your entire family after suspecting a single member, it makes tracing very easy using genealogy software as was the case during the USian occupation of Iraq. What is needed is an organization which is more distributed and capable of achieving critical mass fast.
This week, Algeria's Football Federation has called off a planned friendly with neighbours Tunisia under the rather difficult to believe pretext that "the only two stadiums capable of hosting the match are both unavailable". The real reason is actually the wave of massive protests that is currently rocking the Middle East. But what does football have to do with it ?
Paul Woodward reports an interview by the prominent Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah on Al Jazeera in which he made the interesting observation that the uprising's most effective organizational strength comes from a quarter that has been ignored by most of the media: soccer fans known as ultras :
"The ultras — the football fan associations — have played a more significant role than any political group on the ground at this moment," Alaa said. "Maybe we should get the ultras to rule the country," he joked.
Cited by Paul Woodward, James M. Dorsey, an expert on soccer in the Middle East, writes:
Established in 2007, the ultras—modelled on Italy's autonomous, often violent fan clubs—have proven their mettle in confrontations with the Egyptian police, who charge that criminals and terrorists populate their ranks.
"There is no competition in politics, so competition moved to the soccer pitch. We do what we have to do against the rules and regulations when we think they are wrong," said an El Ahly ultra last year after his group overran a police barricade trying to prevent it from bringing flares, fireworks and banners into the stadium. "You don't change things in Egypt talking about politics. We're not political, the government knows that and has to deal with us," he adds.
The involvement of organized soccer fans in Egypt's anti-government protests constitutes every Arab government's worst nightmare. Soccer, alongside Islam, offers a rare platform in the Middle East, a region populated by authoritarian regimes that control all public spaces, for the venting of pent-up anger and frustration.
This has not escaped Libya either, as this Google Translation excerpt of an Al Jazeera article mentioned by Zero Hedge attests : among other measures that are part of the state of emergency and security alert imposed since the outbreak of the revolution in Tunisia, the Libyan government abolished the league matches of Libyan Football Association which was to be organized during the following month.
When political organizations are crushed and political life driven underground and dispersed, only apolitical organizations remain – and they end up being politically involved because in the end, everything is political.
Military10 Dec 2009 at 11:18 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Impressions of American troops by a French soldier still sparking interest a year later
The October 2008 article "American troops in Afghanistan through the eyes of a French OMLT infantryman" gathered more than two hundred comments and will be past a hundred thousand visits by most reasonable accounts before the year ends (see 2008 traffic and 2009 traffic). I though that translating this piece would surely raise some interest, but I never expected it to be that much. More than one year later it is still sparking interest among citizens of the United States. During the Bush era, the image of France among the right wing in the United States seems to have suffered a lot, and as a result a lot of people have been genuinely surprised to read an article that showed that in spite of the politics we actually manage to work together with cordial relationships.
One year later, I am still receiving mail asking about the source of the article, from readers who enquire about its authenticity. Considering the unofficial reactions from members of the French armed forces and from readers with interests in the defense community, I have a rather good certitude about the authenticity of the original essay. With the source blog defunct and having lost touch with the original author who was not seeking public exposure and only made a couple of fleeting comments before disappearing from the media landscape, I am unable to prove anything. The author went by the pseudonym of "Merlin" and his blog was called "Le Blog de Merlin" at http://omlt3-kdk3.over-blog.com. The disappearance of the original article's page is also a pity because that is where I exchanged comments with the author.
I do not believe that the author ever thought that his blog would get noticed significantly, even in France. It was featured in a well known blog by Jean-Dominique Merchet, a military journalist at the French daily "Liberation" who has an excellent reputation for reliability – it is his post that got the ball rolling. The original author probably does not even realize now how many American blogs and forums have been discussing his article.
Since then I have lost track of him and I do not know his real name : though military blogging is rather common in the United States, it is still quite alien to the more conservative culture of the French defense community, so it seems that most military-related people in France prefer the pseudonymous discussions in forums to the more public exposure of blogs and even there they won't take much risks in expressing themselves – the French army is not nicknamed "la grande muette" ("the great silent") for nothing. This rarity may be one of the reasons why this humble piece of French first hand account of recent events won such attention. But no one here expected this – to us cheese-eating surrender monkeys, the United States of America are always full of surprises !
Of course, as it benefits our relationship and the image of France in the United States, the original article and even my translation could have been an elaborate psyop by the French government. Or it could be the work of shadowy pro-French non-governmental propaganda outfits. Or a fake by someone who wants everyone to believe in one of those two hypothesis in order to later appear as exposing the evil scheming French. At that point, we enter the realm of conspiracy theories and I'm sure that some will have a great time speculating about it. But from where I sit, there is coherent case for this story to be just what it appears to be : a simple account of good working relationships.
Books and Military18 Oct 2009 at 11:58 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Book review : Danger Close – Commanding 3 PARA in Afghanistan Danger Close: commanding 3 Para in Afghanistan
Danger Close is a candid commander's point of view of 3 Para's deployment in Afghanistan in the early phases of the British commitment. This is an entirely subjective account, so don't expect insight into the great game – but do expect a rare insight into the relationship between a commander and his men, in the dirt among the sangars under rocket and mortar fire. The loneliness at the top comes through very clearly.
I was stunned to discover how little means were available and how rapidly those means have been stretched almost to breaking point. As a result, during most of its time in Afghanistan, 3 Para was reduced to holding hastily fortified besieged positions in politically important towns – which is not how might expect this sort of unit to be employed.
This books is a quick read but it provides a valuable vignette of the Afghanistan conflict. It is also a story of the fortitude of the British troops in the face of highly challenging odds. 479 000 rounds fired in six months is a level of sustained combat not seen by the British Army since the end of the Korean war.
Military and Photography and The media08 Jan 2009 at 20:19 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Israel in Gaza shows incompetence at media warfare
The latest issue of the excellent The Big Picture at the Boston Globe, is about the Israeli assault on Hamas in the Gaza strip. While I was looking at the pictures, it dawned on me that the Israeli have a severe media problem. We only see the mighty war machine, the pyrotechnics and the unlucky hapless civilians caught in the middle. This is Hamas propaganda material served on a platter. Why are the Israeli letting the images sway public opinion against them ?
It is not the first time that Israel has to deal with adverse public opinion. Let's take this example from 1982 by Jonathan F. Keiler in "Who Won the Battle of Fallujah ?" (January 2005 issue of Proceedings) :
"Dating from the siege of Beirut in 1982, Israel has practiced a complex and limited form of urban warfare. In Beirut, this involved a cordon around the city, accompanied by limited attacks with artillery, ground, and air forces to put pressure on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Syrian forces inside. The IDF did not launch a general assault on the city; it awaited a political solution that resulted in evacuation of enemy forces under the auspices of outside powers. Despite the IDF's restraint, it was depicted as little short of barbaric by much of the international media. The PLO's evacuation was treated as a victory parade, rather than the retreat it was, and the PLO lived to fight another day. The battle was a tactical victory for Israel, but a strategic defeat.
The Beirut experience and ongoing domestic and international pressures color Israeli doctrine. Throughout the current struggle, the IDF generally has not occupied Palestinian cities, a notable exception being seizure of the Jenin refugee camp. The Jenin operation is the exception that proves the rule: the IDF was castigated for its assault on Jenin and falsely accused of perpetrating a massacre".
Palestinian civilian deaths cost Israel a lot of international support – it is in Israel's best interests to avoid them. With the hypothesis that Israel is a more or less rational player, we can posit that they are taking precautions against them – and that is what has been historically shown. But whatever the precautions, striking targets embedded within urban zones and with no no prior evacuation of civilians causes significant collateral damage, especially if the presence of civilian near targets is not entirely incidental. So the Palestinian civilian death toll should not come as a surprise to anyone. Israel had enough experience to know that it was going to have a major media crisis on its hands. So why has Israel let adverse news leak so easily ? They are obviously trying to control the media by banning journalists from Gaza, but this action actually has an adverse effect : the result is that Palestinian voices are dominating the media.
Other players have shown that keeping a lid over ongoing politically sensitive military and twisting them in a favorable way is practically possible, even in the age of ubiquitous satellite communications. In "Grozny 2000: Urban Combat Lessons Learned" by Timothy L. Thomas of the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, we read that the information war was successfully made a priority by the Russians :
"In 1995 the Russian government lost the propaganda war by default. This time it made every effort to control the media and ensure that its view of the war dominated public opinion. Russia won this information war from day one of the fighting and is still winning. The government and military control access to combatants and censor reporting that could undermine support for the war. Reports of Russian military successes have fueled support for military activities among the populace. However, some military spokesmen have altered the facts and limited independent reporting so much that it is difficult to separate fact from fiction.
With few exceptions, Russian journalists have not complained about the media management, and instead have picked up much of the military's jargon, such as references to "working" in the city instead of bombing or assaulting. Media control was formalized in December 1999 through the mechanism of Resolution Number 1538. The President of the Russian Federation created the Russian Information Center whose job it was to filter information before providing it to the mass media and to control the dissemination of foreign information. Such tight media control was absent in the first fight for Grozny, and it cost the Russians dearly. One analyst noted that after the first Chechen war, the Russian military came to the conclusion that they had to first play out the information war against the Chechen resistance, as in their opinion the Chechens had succeeded in morally disarming public opinion in Russia".
In Gaza, this battle is being won by Hamas and Israel does not seem to be performing information warfare any better than Russia in 1995. Considering how sophisticated the Israeli intelligence apparatus is reputed to be, one can only wonder at such poor performance. Hamas on the other hand can happily stand back and watch Israel do all the work for them.
Recently, the United States did a much better media control job at Fallujah. Media coverage was quite tame and few images leaked outside of the United States military approval. It may be because the United States took care of cordonning off Fallujah and emptying it of its population as much as possible before assaulting. At the time, Rory McCarthy estimated that "many of Falluja's 200,000 to 300,000 residents fled the city before the assault, between 30,000 and 50,000 are believed to have remained during the fighting". Israeli precipitation precluded such evacuation in Gaza, and it is dubious that they could have afforded that luxury either given the lack of destination for potential evacuees. But they could have emulated some practices such as embedding journalists. The newly published "Tactique Générale" manual (FT-02) of the French Armée de Terre mentions that in every Marine company in Fallujah there were four or five embedded journalists. With empathy toward the troops they are following, the embedded journalists can provide a semblance of counterweight to the insurgent's natural propaganda support.
Hamas ruthlessly censors how Gaza is painted in the media – journalists don't seem to mind too much and the public does not seem to even notice. Maybe Israel could have done a better job of suppressing information channels, but it cannot operate the same way as Hamas : letting reporters roam with relative freedom is one of the costs of operating as a democracy. The problem is that the free flow of information is antinomic to media warfare. States such as Israel are left with a difficult dilemma : protecting a free society with authoritarian methods is the path toward corruption, and the United States have sufficiently illustrated that fact. But after all, maybe the target audience of Israel's actions is in Gaza, not in the rest of the world.
Books and Military and Politics05 Nov 2008 at 2:26 by Jean-Marc Liotier
Book review : The Strongest Tribe – War, Politics and the Endgame in Iraq
I just finished reading "The Strongest Tribe – War, Politics and the Endgame in Iraq" by Bing West. Once the author's own ideas about the relationship between the nation, the media and the armed forces are set aside, what remains is an account of reference on the civil war in Iraq from 2003 to 2008.
Bing West's military experience gave the author an excellent relationship with the troops, and that granted him access to a variety of sources in theater throughout the whole period. He provides a comprehensive view from the bottom to top about what the US forces experienced in Iraq and how they adapted to overcome the challenges of counter-insurgency in a very muddy political environment.
Communicating the complexity of this conflict is incompatible with the mass-media formats. This book offers the volume necessary to describe how the invaders went through the messy process of stumbling upon new problems, trying solutions, gaining understanding and then building doctrine from the ground up. Bing West's work is the first one to my knowledge that exposes the whole process and articulates it into a coherent narrative.
We follow the troops as they are dealing with duplicitous Iraqi politicians, struggling to build trust in a lawless society, sustaining morale while working with thankless partners, sticking to western due process standards in a country with no reliable judiciary, overcoming the impulse to stick to search and destroy, living among the locals to stop commuting to work from large bases, learning how to seize and hold sectors in a sustainable way, turning a population terrorized by campaigns of murder and intimidation, and finally getting it all together to find how to get the local potentates to stand for themselves. With the authors eyes, these problems are seen through the prism of the Vietnam war, and we discover what connects to the historical lessons learned in Vietnam and elsewhere, and how the Iraqi mix created original challenges.
The Strongest Tribe stops almost entirely short of the political territory of why the United States went to war in Iraq – and that is a good thing. Bing West does an outstanding job of explaining how the military in Iraq and its chain of command dealt with the fighting, and I extend my praise to him for sticking within that perimeter, apart from a handful of gratuitous mentions of Senator John McCain.
All in all, a recommended read for making sense of Iraq from the local point of view – provided you understand the bias of an author strongly connected to the culture of the US armed forces. Hats off to Bing West for his in-depth work, and hats off to the ingenuity, flexibility and sheer dedication of the troops who navigate in the dangerous unknown.
Identity management and Jabber and Knowledge management and Military and Mobile computing and Networking & telecommunications and Social networking and Technology and The Web23 Oct 2008 at 14:42 by Jean-Marc Liotier
XMPP geographic presence for local social networks
I have become a user of Brightkite, a service that provides situational awareness in the geographical context. Once its relationship to user location information sources such as Fire Eagle improve, it may become a very nice tool, especially in mobile use cases where location reporting may be partly automated.
But even if they add technical value in the growing world of geographically aware applications, theses services are actually not innovative at the functional level. For example, in the ham radio universe, APRS is already a great system for real time tactical digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area – which includes among other things the position of the participating stations. And there is also TCAS, which interrogates surrounding aircrafts about their positions, and AIS which broadcasts ship positions and enables the entertaining Vessel Traffic Services such as the one provided by MarineTraffic. All these radio based systems broadcast in the clear and are not satisfying the privacy requirements of a personal eventing service. But that problem has also been solved by the Blue Force Tracker which even though it is still a work in progress has already changed how a chaotic battlefield is perceived by its participants.
"Where am I, and where are my friends ?" is not only the soldier's critical information – it is also an important component of our social lives, witness the thriving landscape of geosocial networking. Geographic location is a fundamental enabler : we are physically embodied and the perimeter of location based services actually encompasses anything concerning our physical presence. So we can't let physical location services escape our control. Fire Eagle may be practical for now, but we need to make geographical information part of the basic infrastructure under our control and available on a standardized, open and decentralized basis. The good news is that much thoughts have already been invested into that problem.
Physical location is part of our presence, and as you may have guessed by now, this means XMPP comes to the rescue ! We have XEP-0080 – User Location, an XMPP extension which is currently a XMPP Foundation Draft Standard (implementations are encouraged and the protocol is appropriate for deployment in production systems, but some changes to the protocol are possible before it becomes a Final Standard – as good as a draft standard RFC and therefore good enough for early adopter use). It is meant to be communicated and transported by means of Publish-Subscribe or the subset thereof specified in Personal Eventing via Pubsub. It may also be provided as an extension of plain vanilla <presence/> but that is quite a crude way to do it compared to the Publish-Subscribe goodness.
The rest of the work is left to the XMPP client. Of course, the client can show them on a map, just as Brightkite currently does. But I can also easily imagine an instant messaging contact list on my PDA where one of the contact groups is "contacts near me". I would love to have Psi do that…
Africa and Books and Military14 Oct 2008 at 1:55 by Jean-Marc Liotier
The Chopper Boys: Helicopter Warfare in Africa
I just finished reading "The Chopper Boys: Helicopter Warfare in Africa" by Al J. Venter, Neal Ellis and Richard Wood. The contextual introductions will feel like fluff if you are already familiar with Cold War era conflicts in Africa, but it does not matter as the core of this book's value more than makes up for it : the chapters covering operations in Rhodesia's and South-Western Africa are gems. First hand testimonies paint captivating tactical vignettes with a substantial level of technical detail. This book provides unique insight in those pivotal development of heliborne operational doctrine in the countrer-insurgency role.
From my French perspective the Chadian and Algerian conflicts seem skimmed over, but I don't mind as enough French sources have them well explored. On the contrary, I had seldom found such impacting accounts of the airmobile units that operated alongside such legendary troops as the Koevoet or the Selous Scouts – so the Southern African bias is more than welcome. After a read, jargon such as G-car, K-Car, dakadaka, paradak, fire force, Golf bomb and reaction force will feel familiar, along with impressive pieces of hardware such the Puma, the Alouette or the 20 mm Matra MG151 among others whose specific scope of employement is unveiled.
The use of helicopters to emplace small units as blocking forces ("stop groups" in South African parlance) reminded me of "Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan" edited by Lester Grau. The contrast between the swiftness of Southern African operations and the blunt Soviet air assaults that most often occured in Afghanistan is not without interest.
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Chat functions allow objects and agents to communicate with each other and among themselves.
Chat in Second Life uses channels. Channel 0 is the public chat channel all users see as chat text. There is no way for users to listen to any channel other than channel 0 directly, though users can send messages on other channels using llDialog or by specifiying a channel in the chat text-entry field itself.
Users can send messages to other channels by typing "/num message", where "num" is the number of the channel and "message" is the desired chat text. So, "/10 Hello, script!" will say "Hello, script!" on channel 10. Additionally, "//message" can be used to send "message" to the last-used chat channel.
Channels are stored as signed integers, so the possible chat channels range from -2147483648 to 2147483647. Scripts can both listen and talk on all channels, whilst users listen on channel 0 only and are unable to send messages on negative channels.
A script can only have up to 64 listens open at a time (if it goes over its limit, it crashes with a "Too Many Listens" run-time error). The functions listed at the bottom help manage situations where this error may occur.
If the string passed to the chat function is greater then 1023 bytes long, it is truncated (chopped off) at its 1023th byte.
Prims that output chat never receive their own output back in listen events. This applies to all scripts in that primitive, not just the one that called the chat function. This is a good thing–trust us. To communicate between scripts in the same primitive, use llMessageLinked. Prims in the same link-set can use chat to communicate with one another, but this practice is discouraged (the use of llMessageLinked is recommended instead).
Q: Is there a way to specify an arbitrary chat radius? What if I want to chat in a bigger range than 20m, but less than 100? Better yet, is there a way to limit or extend chat to cover a given parcel of land?
A: Unfortunately, no. You could do something with attachments and llOwnerSay, but there's no way to do it by default.


Custom city bikes are quickly becoming a must-have at hotels across North America.
Exploring the exciting possibilities of a new city while zipping around on a bicycle is a joy, but when your hotel provides you with a two wheeled cruiser, now that's luxury. Across North America, boutique hotels are providing guests with stylish city bikes allowing them to explore city streets. Along with pools, spas, and fine dining, bicycles are becoming the new amenity norm aimed at enhancing customer experience.
If you spot a shutter-happy rider on the saddle of a powder blue cruiser in Palm Springs, CA, they are most likely a guest at the Saguaro Hotel. The recently renovated Saguaro Hotel prides itself for "uncomplicated fun with some 1950s Technicolor." Delivering on this style promise, the hotel teamed with Republic bikes, outfitting their Palm Springs and Scottsdale, AZ, hotels with branded Plato Dutch cruisers. From sunrise to sunset, guests are encouraged to take the bikes out, free of charge, and experience sun-kissed sights around town.
Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, a franchise of over 60 hotels in 26 US cities, has recently equipped all of its properties with fleets of high-quality, red PUBLIC bikes. "As a bike enthusiast commuter myself, I could not be more excited to bring this complimentary perk to our guests," said Mike DeFrino, Kimpton's newly appointed chief operating officer. The hotel franchise's partnership with San Francisco-based bicycle company PUBLIC extends the hotel's brand through design-focused, customized, European-inspired city bikes.
Quiet, affordable, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing, bikes are becoming a way for hotels to distinguish themselves and attract active guests looking for new experiences. From conceptually designed rooms to excursions on customized city bikes, these boutique hotels aim to immerse guests and provide an experiential stay. Vacationers and visitors alike can get around on two wheels and gain a unique understanding of a city's culture. There is no longer a need to haul your bike with you as a stylish city cruiser is waiting for you at your next hotel.
rents bikes to hotel guests. they are nice Made in USA beach cruisers! Great bike paths along the beach too!
The bikes are nice, but we sure could use secure bikelockers.


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Government holiday on 08.08.2018 as a mark of respect to the late Thiru M. Karunanidhi, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu — Orders Issued
DEATH – Death of High Dignitaries — Government holiday on 08.08.2018 as a mark of respect to the late Thiru M. Karunanidhi, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu — Orders Issued.
PUBLIC (PROTOCOL-I) DEPARTMENT
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The following notification will be Published in an extra-ordinary issue the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette dated the 7th August, 2018.
The Government of Tamil Nadu declares 08.08.2018 as a holiday for all educational institutions, offices of the State Government, offices of the State Public Sector Undertakings and the Government controlled bodies as a mark of respect to the late Thiru M. Karunanidhi, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The Treasuries will work with skeleton staff.
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You'd think that after such a terrible 2016 for the music world, it couldn't get any worse. James Blunt has other ideas. Dom Atkins caught up with James for a chat.
If you thought 2016 was bad - I'm releasing an album in 2017.


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 Daniel Pfeiff (1618–1662), deutscher evangelischer Theologe, Pastor und Professor in Kopenhagen
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Instant Analysis: UAB earns bowl eligibility; McBride feasts on LA Tech run defense
Updated: Nov. 26, 2022, 10:37 p.m. |
UAB football vs. Louisiana Tech -- Nov. 26, 2022, at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, La.
Evan Dudley
The road woes for the UAB football team have come to an end.
After suffering four losses on the road by a combined 21 points, the Blazers took to the ground and bullied their way to a 37-27 rain-soaked victory over LA Tech, Saturday, Nov. 26, at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, Louisiana.
UAB improves to 6-6 overall and achieves bowl eligibility for a seventh consecutive season, dating back to former head coach Bill Clark's inaugural season in 2014.
Dylan Hopkins finished 7-of-14 passing for 91 yards, including a touchdown and interception, and was sacked only once in the game.
The rushing attack reasserted its dominance after a paltry performance last week, totaling 406 yards on 43 carries for an average of 9.4 yards per rush. DeWayne McBride finished with 16 attempts for 272 yards and a score, while Jermaine Brown Jr. had 22 carries for 119 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Trea Shropshire led the receiving effort, hauling in a single catch for a 74-yard touchdown, and Dexter Boykin had 3 receptions for 17 yards.
Defensively, UAB allowed the Bulldogs to gain 467 yards of total offense but collected 9 tackles for loss, 3 sacks and held LA Tech to 2-of-14 on third-down conversions. Reynard Ellis led the defense with a career-high 18 tackles (1.5 for loss), including 1/2 sack, and Jackson Bratton finished with a career-high 9 tackles.
McBride feasts on LA Tech run defense
McBride had one of his best games of the season, finishing with a career-high 272 yards off 16 carries (17.0 avg), breaking UAB's single-game and single-season rushing records -- previously held by Jordan Howard -- in the process. The junior running concludes the regular season with 1,713 yards and 19 touchdowns, leading the NCAA in yards per game (155.7) and rushes of more than 20 yards (23).
Against LA Tech, McBride's most impressive feat was four runs of more than 20 yards on the first play of UAB possessions, including two additional runs of 20-plus yards not on drive-starting plays. He led off the Blazers with a 24-yard run on their first offensive play from scrimmage and followed it up with a 31-yard run on the initial play of UAB's second drive.
UAB went three-and-out on its third possession of the first half trailing 3-0, but McBride broke loose for a 60-yard run on the first play of the Blazers' next drive, carrying the offense onto the LA Tech side of the field and setting the UAB single-season rushing record on a 3-yard run following his long scamper down the field. He also had a 30-yard run on the first play of UAB's third scoring drive, ending with a 39-yard field goal by Matt Quinn.
McBride scored his first touchdown of the game on UAB'S initial drive of the second half, keeping his balance off a missed tackle and bulldozing his way through a defender into the end zone to give the Blazers a 24-6 lead. He had a 45-yard run on the third play of the drive to set UAB up inside the LA Tech red zone.
Bookending the season on special teams
Reserve linebacker Charlie Goode has played in all but one game this season and bookended his season with a blocked punt against LA Tech. The redshirt freshman opened the season with a blocked punt against Alabama A&M with Damien Miller recovering in the end zone for a first-quarter touchdown.
In the regular-season finale, after going up 7-3 and forcing a punt from the Bulldogs on their second possession of the second quarter, Goode barreled his way through the protective block and got a hand on the ball as it left the foot of LA Tech punter Austin McCready. The ball spurted out sideways to the left boundary, where reserve receiver Luke Percer picked the ball up at the 14-yard line and ran untouched into the end zone for a 14-3 lead midway through the second frame.
The Blazers added a 39-yard field goal from Matt Quinn but also allowed LA Tech to creep back into the game on two solid punt returns in the final quarter. Only one possession resulted in points for the Bulldogs.


Wipfli LLP (Wipfli), through the combination with Wipfli/JOSEPH EVE, welcomes three Tribal casinos — Muckleshoot Casino, Cliff Castle Casino and Kaw Nation Gaming — as new clients of the industry-leading CasinoEdge Intacct Cloud Accounting software. One of the largest casinos in the Northwest, Muckleshoot Casino is located in Auburn, Washington and hosts the largest slot tournament in the world. Cliff Castle Casino is based in the Phoenix area, and Kaw Nation Gaming hails throughout North Central Oklahoma.
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Kāneʻohe Pali to Loʻi
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Cascading from the mountain peaks of the Koʻolau down to fertile soils, the life-giving lands that make up Kāneʻohe Pali (cliffs) to Loʻi (wetland taro fields), formed one of the largest traditional Hawaiian agricultural complexes on Oʻahu. The Trust for Public Land is assisting the Kāne'ohe community, local farming nonprofits, and the State to protect approximately 1,000 acres in Kāne'ohe, O'ahu.
The lands, though desecrated by the construction of two highways through the area, are still replete with ancient Hawaiian cultural sites and have some of the last open arable lands in Kāneʻohe. The Kāneʻohe Pali to Loʻi lands include freshwater springs, famous waterfalls, at least 11 streams and tributaries, native forest which comprises priority watershed, critical habitat for 53 species, remnants of the historic Luluku banana patches, heiau (places of worship), ahu (altars), historic trails, burials, 'auwai (irrigation ditches), birthing stones, mountain peaks and other geological formations famed in Hawaiian mo'olelo (stories), mele (songs), and oli (chants).
Once acquired, The Trust for Public Land will transfer the lands to the State of Hawai'i Division of Forestry and Wildlife and local nonprofits focused on traditional Hawaiian farming and education. Government and community will work collaboratively to care for this irreplaceable cultural landscape.
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Q: Regex to remove external links with out text I've situation where I've the following content like this
This is a test1. This is test2. This is test3. This is a test4. This is a test5.

nct.com is my website. I don't want to remove that link and text wrapped inside a tag. So is /node/1.
The output I'm expecting is
This is a test1. This is test2. This is test3. This is a test4. This is a test5.

Where as for external websites like test.com, I would like a tag contents without removing the text wrapped inside a tag.
Th regex I'm using is
#]*\bhref=(['"])http.?://((?<!mywebsite)[^'"])+\1 *.*?#i

This will remove the a tag content as well as the text inside the a tag.

A: I created a regex that does what i think you need:
/]*\bhref=(['"])((https?:\/\/|www.)((?!nct\.com).)(.*?))['"]*\b<\/a>/

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A: You can try this:
import re
s = 'This is a test1. This is test2. This is test3. This is a test4. This is a test5.'
final_list = [re.findall("^[a-zA-Z\s]+", i)[0]+re.findall('com">(.*?)', i)[0] if "nct.com" not in i and "node" not in i else i for i in re.split("\.\s(?=This)", s)]

Output:
['This is a test1', 'This is test2', 'This is test3', 'This is a test4', 'This is a test5']

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"So many of us feel the weight of our pasts. Nasty wounds, either imposed on us or self-inflicted, can often blur our vision of who God is. This is the story of the family of a man named Korah, and the struggle of Korah's family can help to shine light on our understanding of God's heart and mercy."


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Liverpool Reject Opening Offer for Prolific Forward
By: Dale Ventham, Editor | June 6, 2022
Sadio Mané is open to a summer move to Bayern Munich but an opening bid of £21 million plus £4 million in bonuses has seen Liverpool reject the offer, according to Paul Joyce.
Liverpool Reject Bayern Munich Bid for Sadio Mané
Liverpool Reject Bid Because Offer Too Low
According to Joyce, the offer for Mané is below their valuation of the Senegal international, despite only having one year remaining on his current deal.
It is believed that the bonus would be paid should Bayern win the Champions League – a competition they last won in 2020 with victory over Paris Saint-Germain.
However, Fabrizio Romano reports that Mané is happy with a move to Munich and adds that talks between the two clubs will continue in the coming days.
Sadio Mané would be ready to reach an agreement with FC Bayern on personal terms, not an issue – but there's still no agreement with Liverpool on the potential fee. 🔴🇸🇳 #LFC
Talks between the two clubs will continue in the next days. #FCBayern pic.twitter.com/NYROoM2kDJ
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 6, 2022
Interest From Bayern
It was reported last month that Bayern Munich wanted to sign Sadio Mané and the club's sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic had met with his agent.
At the time, there had been no negotiations between the two clubs but interest in the 30-year-old remains high from the German champions, as has been highlighted in those meetings.
This move will become all the more important for the Bundesliga champions should Robert Lewandowski leave the Allianz Arena this summer.
The Poland international has requested a move away with Barcelona a likely destination for the 33-year-old.
Do Liverpool Need to Sell?
Although he only has 12 months remaining on his current deal, Liverpool should hold out for a higher bid from the German club if they are willing to allow the Senegal international to depart.
His productivity for the Premier League club cannot be ignored following his arrival from Southampton in 2016.
If, or when, Mané does leave Anfield, it will begin the task of a major rebuild for Reds manager Jurgen Klopp. The German may also be resigned to losing Mohamed Salah next summer, meaning keeping a core of players could be vital.
Although Klopp has seen several players depart since his arrival in 2015, replacing Mané and Salah could be the most daunting task yet.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — The crew of two Egyptian fishing vessels wielding machetes and tools attacked Somali pirates who had held them hostage for four months, killing at least two of them, according to a pirate and businessman Friday.
The Egyptian crew overpowered the pirates, seizing some of their guns before sailing away from Somalia's coast, said Miraa, who was one of the pirates on board the fishing vessels.
Miraa, who gave only his nom de guerre, said the fight took place near the northern Somalia coastal town of Las Qorey. The town is off the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest waterways where Somali pirates carry out most of their attacks.
Said Jama Hussein, a businessman in the small town of Las Qorey, said fishermen told him the Egyptian ships left Thursday. He said the crew, who number up to 24, apparently took some of the pirates hostage.
Miraa said "they attacked us with machetes and other tools, seized some of our guns and then fought with us.
"I could see two dead bodies of my colleagues lying on the ship," Miraa told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "I do not know the fate of the nine others."
The most prominent case of a hijacked crew fighting back pirates was in April when an American crew fought their Somali captors until their crew's captain offered himself as a hostage in a bid to save their lives.
The captain was later released after U.S. navy snipers shot his captors and captured one of them.
Somali pirates seized the two Egyptian vessels in mid-April and at the time some Egyptian officials suggested the ships may have been targeted for illegally fishing off Somalia's coast.
Somalia's coast is rich with fish including red snapper, barracuda and tuna and rampant illegal fishing triggered piracy attacks years ago with the pirates saying they were seeking to protect the livelihoods of local fishermen.
Somali pirates hold less than 10 vessels.


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iCLU unites wizards and muggles alike
For more than five years fans of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books and movie adaptations have been waiting patiently for Universal Studios Hollywood to open the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Sophomore, Emily Yoshida showed off her Harry Potter apparel on Saturday, April 9th, at iCLU Radio's Potterfest, a Harry Potter party. Emily expressed that her love for Harry Potter began as a child. "When I was a kid I really enjoyed Harry Potter. I think it was the first movie I saw in theaters. It was my first memory as a kid and I really enjoyed it," said Yoshida.
Photo by Kamehanaokala Lee – Staff Photographer
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is an entirely new branch of the theme park that boasts rides, buildings, restaurants and shops based solely on the Harry Potter series. This unique experience immerses fans into the Harry Potter universe and on April 7 the wait was officially over as the gates to this new world were finally opened to the public.
Meanwhile at California Lutheran University, the campus radio station iCLU was looking for a way to get students excited about this new local attraction.
"We thought it would be fun to do something cool to celebrate Harry Potter because a lot of people like Harry Potter and are excited for the new addition to Universal Studios," Alexis Wallace sophomore and iCLU promotions coordinator said.
According to fellow iCLU promotions coordinator Caleb Solberg, the timing of this new park opening could not have been more ideal.
"We wanted to take iCLU events to the next level and we had a lot of great ideas but there were a lot of obstacles," Solberg said. "Harry Potter World was opening the same time we were wanting to plan an event, so we planned Potterfest for it and started advertising about a month ago."
The Potterfest celebration attracted students by offering various Harry Potter themed activities, as well as a chance to win season passes to Universal Studios. The event was advertised through a Facebook event page, promotions around campus and on the radio.
"I saw a lot of my friends checked that they were interested in the event on Facebook, so I found the page on my newsfeed," sophomore Mikayla Dobson said. "I wasn't really sure what to expect, I mean I was hoping for an all out quidditch match, but Harry Potter games and the chance to go Harry Potter World at Universal Studios whenever I want are great too."
The event was laid out as a scavenger hunt. Students could go to four different stations around the Student Union Building to complete various activities in order to fill up a punch card that would allow participants to enter the raffle for the Universal Studios season tickets.
"I was expecting more games than there were but this was still pretty cool," junior Jack Hagen said. "I've been a fan of the books since I was 5 years old, so I thought I would check it out."
Students entering the Student Union Building for Potterfest were handed the punch card at the first station. From there students could go to the Sorting Hat to see what house they belong to, take pictures in a photo booth with a cutout of Professor Dumbledore partake in Harry Potter trivia with the chance of winning smaller prizes.
"My favorite part was definitely the selfies with Dumbledore, I thought that was really funny and the picture actually came out really good," Dobson said.
On Saturday, April 9th, iCLU Radio hosted Potterfest, a Harry Potter party. Students were able to dress up in their favorite Harry Potter apparel and take Harry Potter themed photos.
Photo by Kamehana Lee – Staff Photographer
Even though the event was catered to Harry Potter fans, students did not have to be fans to attend.
"I'm not really a fan of the books or the movies and I had a lot of fun. I think they did a good job planning this so that fans of the series were not the only ones included," freshman Stephanie Rolfson said.
Even though Potterfest may have been a one-time event, iCLU has many more events planned to help promote the radio station.
"We are giving away prizes at the Sage the Gemini concert that's coming up and we are also hosts of the Locals Only Show, which brings on local musicians and is sort of like Cal Lu Palooza but a radio show so we're planning something to promote that as well," Wallace said.
Future events from the radio station will not be hard to miss, as they have a multitude of methods for spreading the word.
"Definitely check out the iCLU Facebook and Instagram pages and also just listen to iCLU radio itself because when we have an upcoming event we record all different sweepers that we play on shows in between songs and shows," Solberg said.
iCLU tables every Tuesday from 12 – 2 p.m.
"We're out on the Spine spreading the word about the station and sometimes handing out prizes," Wallace said.
Evan Underwood
Published April 13th, 2016
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President Ivan Duque said Tuesday that indigenous protests in southwest Colombia are receiving the support of illegal armed groups after alleged guerrillas attacked riot police.
The indigenous groups in the Cauca province have been protesting for a more than week and closed the highway connecting central Colombia to Ecuador to force the president to talk about ongoing state neglect and violence perpetrated by illegal armed groups in their reservations.
I profoundly reject what happened today with a member of the security forces. This shows that there are infiltrations by armed groups.
Security forces told local media that dissident guerrillas of the demobilized FARC group ambushed police, killing one official and injuring six others.
But the local community said that following the murder of the official, police opened fire on civilians, injuring six.
We mourn the death of patrolman Boris Alexander Benitez under circumstances that are subject to investigation. We share the pain of the family of the deceased patrolman, just as we sympathize with the cry of despair that moves the country for the many victims and social leaders who have been killed as a result of the escalation of violence that Colombians have experienced in recent months, the product of a government policy that does not prioritize peace, and is in charge of stigmatizing legitimate expressions of protest, sowing hatred and blurring the already agreed peace agreements, giving way to the convulsed state that the country presents today, in the midst of the reactivation of paramilitarism and the dissident groups of the FARC.
The alleged guerrilla attack on alleged violent police attack on protesters followed days of brutal repression of the protests that began 10 days ago. According to the protest organizers, multiple participants in the protests had already been injured in the protests.
Indigenous leaders, who categorically reject any armed action in their territories, additionally claimed that they have received death threats since the beginning of the protests.
The locals rose up early this month to demand talks with Duque over his administration's chronic failure to implement peace policies in the troubled Cauca regions and seek solutions for ongoing land disputes between indigenous peoples and large landowners.


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An updated guide to events happening on Sanibel island and Captiva Island
Sanibel Formation
Calusa
Pre-Causeway
After Causeway
Seagrape beach-Sanibel
Buttonwood Beach-Sanibel
Seashell Formation
The Calusa
Calusa Indians
The first settlers to inhabit the Islands were what the historians refer to as the "Mound People" or the "Pile Dwellers." Dating back to around 1200 A.D., these people later became known as the Calusa Indians. There is significant evidence that suggests there were extensive tribes residing on Sanibel and Captiva.
The Calusa Indians were renowned for building large shell mounds, thus referring to the name "Mound People." In fact, shell mounds still exist in some locations today. There is a shell mound trail towards the end of Ding Darling wildlife refuge. The Calusa used the mounds for protection from weather and high tides during storms, as well as for worship, rituals and burying their deceased. Lodgings were built atop the mounds to prevent flooding. Some of these lodgings grew so large that they developed into actual cities.
Calusa Indians made great use of the water ways around the island, especially for trade. There was an abundance of shells that were made into tools necessary for survival. They were also well known for producing healthy plants and crops thanks to the convenience of the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, the Calusa became one of the most highly evolved and dominating tribes in South West Florida. They were resourceful people creating jewelry and tools from shells and using the native plants for food, as well as for clothing, fishing nets, and shelter. Most of the native vegetation, such as Sea Grape and Coconut Palms, are still abundant on Sanibel and Captiva today.
As time went on, the Calusa became a community with highly regarded and civilized social structures incorporated with religion and rituals. There were a strong tribe, so other civilizations had difficulty defeating them to gain control of the land. Consequently, they were able to survive on Sanibel and Captiva for hundreds of years, however, not without threat. As the Europeans came, they brought with them Yellow Fever, Tuberculosis and measles, among others. After the introduction of these diseases, in addition to being forced to move into enemy Indian Territory from Sanibel, the Calusa were nearly extinct by the late 1700's.


A constant battle for peace is taking place. France proposed another peace initiative and immediately gained the full support of the Arab League. The League's Secretary-General gave this support during a meeting of Arab foreign affairs ministers in Cairo where he stated, inter alia, that "Israel is the last bastion of fascism, colonialism and racial discrimination in the world".
Interesting. You could say that the Arab League, established in 1954, has become very much more humanitarian and diplomatic than it was in the beginning. The first Secretary-General of this organization, Azzam Pasha, in an interview in October 1947 for the Egyptian daily Akhbar al-Yom, said that the war with the Jews will be "a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades." When an immediate massacre failed to materialize the Arab League decided to divide it into installments.
But before that, on the day of the proclamation of Israel's independence, the Arab League announced that its forces had invaded Israel. Egypt's Foreign Minister had sent a telegram to the UN Security Council: "Egyptian armed forces have started to enter Palestine to establish security and order". The Arab League then had six members, and the armies of all the members jointly took part in this aggression.
Nabil al-Arabi is the sixth Secretary-General of the Arab League. He is deeply committed to the traditions of this organization which today has 22 member states with a total population of 350 million. Looking at the history of the Arab League (older than the European Union) it's difficult not to get an impression that the fight with Jews is practically the only aim of this organization. All its other achievements are modest, to put it mildly, but in this field three full-blown wars (lost) and a constant hybrid warfare are genuine organizational successes.
The current Secretary-General of the Arab League is a lawyer, educated in Cairo and the U.S., and he was the legal adviser to the Egyptian delegation at Camp David. He was Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Vice-President of the UN General Assembly, and he has held important and honorable posts in diverse international bodies. He was (after Mubarak was deposed) the Foreign Minister of Egypt.
Since 2011 he has been the Secretary-General of the Arab League. He started his work in this capacity with a statement that the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 was not sacred and could be annulled if one of the sides breached the treaty. Remember that those were the first months of the Arab Spring. Mubarak's government was overthrown in January. The importance of the Muslim Brotherhood grew rapidly, and it had never accepted the treaty concluded by President Sadat (and was responsible for his assassination).
The Arab League has had a long tradition based on a central credo that the existence of Israel was a threat to the existence of the Arab nation. This conviction was at the bottom of a decision voted for at a summit of the Arab League's states in January 1964 to reverse the course of the Jordan's tributaries in Syria and Lebanon and thereby radically reduce the amount of water available for the Israelis (as well as Arabs living on the both sides of the Jordan River).
Also the 1967 war was prepared by the Arab League. The dramatic defeat of the joint Arab armies was acknowledged at the famous Arab summit in August 1967 in Khartoum in the resolution of three "No's" – no to peace with Israel; no to the right of Israel to exist; no to negotiations with Israel. The resolution recognized the Palestinians' right to all of Palestine (which by then meant the area of the former British Mandate minus Jordan).
After Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the peace treaty with Israel, Egypt was excluded from the Arab League for eight years and its readmission didn't mean recognition of Israel or acceptance of any efforts towards peace with Israel.
In February 2016 the current Secretary-General, after a few months of "knife Intifada", called Palestinians to "civil disobedience" and to support the BDS movement. The former (in spite of its grotesque reference to Gandhi in this context) is difficult to treat as anything else than a call to terrorism; the latter is interesting insofar as Al-Arabi had repeatedly said that peace negotiations were a road to nowhere.
The Secretary-General knows very well that his words will not be met with any protests or even interest from the western world. The Arab League not only never protested against successive intifadas but, like now, consistently presents killed or wounded terrorists as victims and never condemns the acts of Palestinian terror. In the same speech Al-Arabi talked about "indiscriminate killing of civilians" which started with the attack on the King David Hotel, committed by a clandestine Jewish organization.
In the opinion of this former judge of the International Court of Justice, Israel is the last bastion of fascism, colonialism and racial discrimination. The facts that Mein Kampf is a longstanding best seller in Arab countries, that Israeli Arabs have more rights than Arabs in any of the Arab League's member states, and that Israeli "colonies" consist of a few thousand houses on the disputed territory which was retaken in a war of defense after the aggression by the Arab League, do not seem an argument for this internationally famous lawyer.
From the political viewpoint he is probably right. After all, the Secretary-General of the Arab League has behind him not only 22 Arab states and the other Muslim states but also the rest of the world as well. The policy this organization is conducting is also financed by the United Nations. Palestinian terrorism starts in schools run by UNRWA.
In an excellent book by Piotr Ibrahim Kalwas, Egipt – haram, halal, an elderly Egyptian professor tells about the long history of the Arab love affair with Nazism and about the contemporary Arab obsession with anti-Semitism, about envy and the inability to get out of the vicious circle when irrational hatred dominates the mentality of the ruling class and the people.
In an interview in November 2015 Abaut Dandachi explained why he was convinced that it was impossible to eliminate extremism exclusively by police operations. This struggle requires daily confrontations with extremism, and extremism invariably starts with anti-Semitism.
Today ISIS is the source of the greatest fears, but according to Dandachi even if ISIS were vanquished today its ideology has already poisoned minds, and the idea of a world caliphate is popular - like Nazism, which was finally vanquished, but its ideology persists and still has many followers.
The British actress doesn't find the answer to the question "Why?". Indirectly (and earlier in time) the answer was given by a compatriot of the Secretary-General of the Arab League, an Egyptian dissident living in Germany, Hamed Abdel-Samad, a writer an political scientist who in March 2016 gave a lecture entitled "Islamic Fascism and the Jews". He says that there were two books he encountered everywhere Mein Kampf and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Nabil Al-Arabi, claims that "Israel is the last bastion of fascism, colonialism and racial discrimination". He is a highly respected politician; many in Europe and America listen carefully to what he says. Millions fervently want to believe that he is speaking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.


How do we deal with adherents of other religions?
Of course there's a place and time for speculating on the fate of people of various religions and no religion. (Where and when – and for how long – is another question in itself.) But my sense, after spending quite a few years on the path of following Jesus, is that my primary duty is to look in the mirror and focus, not on the failures or deficits of "the other," but on my own. My identity as a disciple prompts me to ask what it would mean for me to love my neighbor of another religion as myself, to do for my neighbor of another religion as I would have her do for me, to be willing to sacrifice and suffer (and even die) on her behalf, to take the Christ-like posture of a servant toward my neighbors of other religions – washing their feet, showing them true respect, considering them as better than myself and not looking out for my own interests only, but also theirs.
And this line of thinking raises still more questions: would I want my neighbor of another religion to be preoccupied with my status as an outsider – as "other"? Would I want him constantly seeing me either as a potential convert or as a threat and competitor in the religious market? Would I be happy for her to minimize any common ground we might share and instead, repeatedly and habitually maximize our differences? If my answer to these questions is no, then how can I justify doing these things to my neighbor?
Hmm. When Jesus told us to treat others the way we want to be treated, I think he might have meant it.
It's important to live as God's would have you live. Conversion in others comes from within and initiated by the Holy Spirit. We are just vessels to be used.
But you probably know that anyway.


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Q: sending parameters with ajax I am trying to send parameters that I get from a table in my jsp  to other JSP using ajax.
I am using the followinf function to send all values to JSP: ajaxForm but I don't know why the send failed every time I run it:
Here is the javascript function:
function editarow() {
    var xhr = getXhr();
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {
            selects = xhr.responseText;
            // On se sert de innerHTML pour rajouter les options a la liste
            document.getElementById('prjsel').innerHTML = selects;
        }
    };

    var row, firstNameCell, lastNameCell;
    var table = document.getElementById("sheet");
    var buttons = table.getElementsByTagName("button");
    for (var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
        if (buttons[i].name == "edit") {
            buttons[i].onclick = function() {
                row = this.parentNode.parentNode;

                // The first name cell is the first child
                NameCell1 = findElement(row.firstChild);
                NameCell2 = findElement(NameCell1.nextSibling);
                NameCell3 = findElement(NameCell2.nextSibling);
                NameCell4 = findElement(NameCell3.nextSibling);
                NameCell5 = findElement(NameCell4.nextSibling);
                NameCell6 = findElement(NameCell5.nextSibling);
                NameCell7 = findElement(NameCell6.nextSibling);

                // `innerHTML` pour obtenir la valeur
                /*alert("name 1  is " + NameCell1.innerHTML);
                alert("name 2  is " + NameCell2.innerHTML);
                alert("name 3  is " + NameCell3.innerHTML);
                alert("name 4  is " + NameCell4.innerHTML);
                alert("name 5  is " + NameCell5.innerHTML);
                alert("name 6  is " + NameCell6.innerHTML);
                alert("name 7 is " + NameCell7.innerHTML);*/

            }
        }
    }

    xhr.open("POST", "ajaxForm.jsp", true);
    xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    xhr.send("NameCell1="+NameCell1,"NameCell2="+NameCell2,"NameCell3="+NameCell3,"NameCell4="+NameCell4,"NameCell5="+NameCell5,"NameCell6="+NameCell6,"NameCell7="+NameCell7 );
}

After I get the value from the table I want to send all of them to the ajaxForm.jsp.

A: From the last line:
xhr.send("NameCell1="+NameCell1,"NameCell2="+NameCell2,"NameCell3="+NameCell3,"NameCell4="+NameCell4,"NameCell5="+NameCell5,"NameCell6="+NameCell6,"NameCell7="+NameCell7 );

This isn't the way to concatenate a String in JavaScript.
Since you're using JSP, you should know Java as well. You should concatenate the String in JavaScript the same way as you would do in Java:
xhr.send("NameCell1=" + NameCell1 + ",NameCell2=" + NameCell2 + "etc...");

That said, this should however have errored in the JavaScript console. Did you pay attention to this? Anyway, for better JavaScript debugging I suggest you to grab Firebug and for less verbose/opaque and more crossbrowser compatible Ajax handling and HTML DOM traversal, I strongly recommend you to have a look at jQuery. With jQuery and the Ajax Form Plugin you would have been ready with only the following lines:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#formId').ajaxForm(function(response) {
        $('#prjsel').html(response);
    });
});

This way you don't need to worry about browser specific details and how to send the request properly.

A: The send method only takes one argument. You are failing to convert your data so it is a application/x-www-form-urlencoded string.
i.e. a set of keys and values (where the keys and values are all processed with encodeURIComponent separated by ampersands.


The overall rating for Niles Nursing & Rehab Center is above average. The facility has 304 certified beds. It participates in both Medicare and Medicaid. The ownership of Niles Nursing & Rehab Center is a for-profit corporation. It is not in a Continuing Care Retirement Community. Niles Nursing & Rehab Center has a resident council only. Niles, Illinois, where this facility is located, is a northwestern suburb to the city of Chicago.
Resident and family councils are important to encourage communications with the nursing home staff. The law requires nursing homes to allow councils to be set up by residents and their families. These councils are important for communication between residents, families and loved ones. A resident and family council are able to facilitate answers to questions through the nursing home's administrators.
The Illinois Department of Health and Human Services regularly inspects Illinois nursing homes on average every 18 months. The last health inspection report was filed on November 20, 2015. There were no complaint inspections between November 1, 2015 through October 31, 2016. The total number of health inspections found in this inspection was three. The average number of deficiencies in Illinois is 7.8. The average number of health deficiencies in the U.S. is 7.2. The health deficiencies for Niles Nursing & Rehab Center were one in nutrition and dietary and two were in pharmacy services. There were no fire safety deficiencies on inspection for Niles Nursing & Rehab Center.
The staffing rating at Niles Nursing & Rehab Center is below average. The registered nurse staffing rating is above average. The total number of licensed nurse staff hours per resident per day at Niles Nursing & Rehab Center is 1 hour and 24 minutes. This is slightly below the Illinois average of 1 hour and 34 minutes and the national average of 1 hour and 41 minutes. The registered nurse hours per resident per day at Niles Nursing & Rehab Center is 1 hour and 15 minutes which is higher than the Illinois average of 57 minutes and the national average of 50 minutes. The CNA hours per resident per day at Niles Nursing & Rehab Center was just 1 hour and 40 minutes compared to 2 hours and 16 minutes for the Illinois and 2 hours and 28 minutes, which is the U.S. average. The physical therapy staff hours per resident per day at Niles Nursing & Rehab Center is 3 minutes compared to 6 minutes for both the Illinois and national averages.
In quality measures, Niles Nursing & Rehab Center is rated much above average. 67.1% of the facility's short-stay residents made improvements in function. This percentage was higher than both the Illinois and national averages. 26.3% of Niles Nursing & Rehab Center's short-stay residents were re-hospitalized after a nursing home admission. The Illinois average were assessed and given the appropriate pneumococcal vaccine. This percentage was higher than the Illinois average of 76.7% and the national average which was 81.5%.
17% of Niles Nursing & Rehab Center's long-stay high-risk residents had a worsened ability to move independently compared to 17.5% for the Illinois average and 18.2% for the national average. 11.1% of Niles Nursing & Rehab Center's long-stay residents had an increase need for help with daily activities. This percentage was lower than both the Illinois and national averages which were 15.4% and 15.3%, respectively. 35.4% of Niles Nursing & Rehab Center's long-stay residents had depressive symptoms. This percentage was significantly higher than the Illinois average of 18.2% and the national average which is just 5.4%. 100% of Niles Nursing & Rehab Center's long-stay residents were assessed and given the appropriate pneumococcal vaccine. The Illinois average is 91.8% and the U.S. average is 93.4%.
Niles Nursing & Rehab Center has not received any federal fines in the last 3 years. It is possible that Illinois may have imposed a penalty under state law, but none are listed. To search for the Illinois state penalties, there is a separate website that would allow for an independent viewing of any such fines.