2008! it's the year of the RAT! whaat?? rat!!
The year of the RAT promises money and good fortune.
Luckiest are those born in the year of the Dragon, wherein they can expect promotions from their job and also to those who were born in the year of the Snake, lucky for those who have their own business, or plans to start one. Goat and MOnkey will also be lucky this year but watch out for thieves. Rabbits are also lucky in terms of money!
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And of course, those born in the Year of the Rat are lucky when it comes to money. After all, it's their year huh? Unexpected winnings and surprises awaits those born in the year of the Rat. If you're one of them, better buy those lottery tickets!
Now, let's talk about the unlucky and not-so-lucky ones! OMG! I think that includes me.
Those born in the year of the Pig and Dog should always be health-conscious and avoid food and activities that may affect their health.
For those born in the year of the Rooster (now this one includes me), avoid having confrontations as you may be involved in fights. yikes! cockfights!
And the winner is.. for the unLuckiest this year of the Rat is none other than..
The Horse! For those born in the year of the Horse, this may be your unlucky year. Horse-people are prone to accidents so be always vigilant.
Oh well, if you do believe in feng shui or chinese zodiac, I think there's no harm in believing and it will be a great year for people specially born in 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 and 2008. So yeah, my baby is going to born in the year of the rat too! woooot! woooot!
I was born in the year of rooster but i sure hope that the year of the rat will be a good year for me too.
SO whats your year zodiac?
Hi Chelle! I miss you ;) hehe. I'm a Goat, lucky rin pala ako this year. Thanks for sharing this article.
Wishing you love, joy and peace. Happy New Year!
Hello Chelle! Thanks for answering my tag. Like Liza, I'm a Goat. Happy New Year!
hi liza! mishu 2 and happy new year to both of you! ui lucky kayo this year ah.. hehe Happy New Year!
wow mali! i'm done with the tag pala...muhahaha..wala talaga ako sa isip ko..
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![capa](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/.github/logo.png)

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capa detects capabilities in executable files.
You run it against a PE, ELF, .NET module, or shellcode file and it tells you what it thinks the program can do.
For example, it might suggest that the file is a backdoor, is capable of installing services, or relies on HTTP to communicate.

Check out:
- the overview in our first [capa blog post](https://www.mandiant.com/resources/capa-automatically-identify-malware-capabilities)
- the major version 2.0 updates described in our [second blog post](https://www.mandiant.com/resources/capa-2-better-stronger-faster)
- the major version 3.0 (ELF support) described in the [third blog post](https://www.mandiant.com/resources/elfant-in-the-room-capa-v3)
- the major version 4.0 (.NET support) described in the [fourth blog post](https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/capa-v4-casting-wider-net)

```
$ capa.exe suspicious.exe

+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ATT&CK Tactic          | ATT&CK Technique                                                               |
|------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| DEFENSE EVASION        | Obfuscated Files or Information [T1027]                                        |
| DISCOVERY              | Query Registry [T1012]                                                         |
|                        | System Information Discovery [T1082]                                           |
| EXECUTION              | Command and Scripting Interpreter::Windows Command Shell [T1059.003]           |
|                        | Shared Modules [T1129]                                                         |
| EXFILTRATION           | Exfiltration Over C2 Channel [T1041]                                           |
| PERSISTENCE            | Create or Modify System Process::Windows Service [T1543.003]                   |
+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+-------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| CAPABILITY                                            | NAMESPACE                                       |
|-------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------|
| check for OutputDebugString error                     | anti-analysis/anti-debugging/debugger-detection |
| read and send data from client to server              | c2/file-transfer                                |
| execute shell command and capture output              | c2/shell                                        |
| receive data (2 matches)                              | communication                                   |
| send data (6 matches)                                 | communication                                   |
| connect to HTTP server (3 matches)                    | communication/http/client                       |
| send HTTP request (3 matches)                         | communication/http/client                       |
| create pipe                                           | communication/named-pipe/create                 |
| get socket status (2 matches)                         | communication/socket                            |
| receive data on socket (2 matches)                    | communication/socket/receive                    |
| send data on socket (3 matches)                       | communication/socket/send                       |
| connect TCP socket                                    | communication/socket/tcp                        |
| encode data using Base64                              | data-manipulation/encoding/base64               |
| encode data using XOR (6 matches)                     | data-manipulation/encoding/xor                  |
| run as a service                                      | executable/pe                                   |
| get common file path (3 matches)                      | host-interaction/file-system                    |
| read file                                             | host-interaction/file-system/read               |
| write file (2 matches)                                | host-interaction/file-system/write              |
| print debug messages (2 matches)                      | host-interaction/log/debug/write-event          |
| resolve DNS                                           | host-interaction/network/dns/resolve            |
| get hostname                                          | host-interaction/os/hostname                    |
| create a process with modified I/O handles and window | host-interaction/process/create                 |
| create process                                        | host-interaction/process/create                 |
| create registry key                                   | host-interaction/registry/create                |
| create service                                        | host-interaction/service/create                 |
| create thread                                         | host-interaction/thread/create                  |
| persist via Windows service                           | persistence/service                             |
+-------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
```

# download and usage

Download stable releases of the standalone capa binaries [here](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/releases). You can run the standalone binaries without installation. capa is a command line tool that should be run from the terminal.

To use capa as a library or integrate with another tool, see [doc/installation.md](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/doc/installation.md) for further setup instructions.

For more information about how to use capa, see [doc/usage.md](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/doc/usage.md).

# example

In the above sample output, we ran capa against an unknown binary (`suspicious.exe`),
and the tool reported that the program can send HTTP requests, decode data via XOR and Base64,
install services, and spawn new processes.
Taken together, this makes us think that `suspicious.exe` could be a persistent backdoor.
Therefore, our next analysis step might be to run `suspicious.exe` in a sandbox and try to recover the command and control server.

By passing the `-vv` flag (for very verbose), capa reports exactly where it found evidence of these capabilities.
This is useful for at least two reasons:

  - it helps explain why we should trust the results, and enables us to verify the conclusions, and
  - it shows where within the binary an experienced analyst might study with IDA Pro

```
$ capa.exe suspicious.exe -vv
...
execute shell command and capture output
namespace   c2/shell
author      matthew.williams@mandiant.com
scope       function
att&ck      Execution::Command and Scripting Interpreter::Windows Command Shell [T1059.003]
references  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/ns-processthreadsapi-startupinfoa
function @ 0x4011C0
  and:
    match: create a process with modified I/O handles and window @ 0x4011C0
      and:
        number: 257 = STARTF_USESTDHANDLES | STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW @ 0x4012B8
        or:
          number: 68 = StartupInfo.cb (size) @ 0x401282
        or: = API functions that accept a pointer to a STARTUPINFO structure
          api: kernel32.CreateProcess @ 0x401343
    match: create pipe @ 0x4011C0
      or:
        api: kernel32.CreatePipe @ 0x40126F, 0x401280
    optional:
      match: create thread @ 0x40136A, 0x4013BA
        or:
          and:
            os: windows
            or:
              api: kernel32.CreateThread @ 0x4013D7
        or:
          and:
            os: windows
            or:
              api: kernel32.CreateThread @ 0x401395
    or:
      string: "cmd.exe" @ 0x4012FD
...
```

capa uses a collection of rules to identify capabilities within a program.
These rules are easy to write, even for those new to reverse engineering.
By authoring rules, you can extend the capabilities that capa recognizes.
In some regards, capa rules are a mixture of the OpenIOC, Yara, and YAML formats.

Here's an example rule used by capa:

```yaml
rule:
  meta:
    name: hash data with CRC32
    namespace: data-manipulation/checksum/crc32
    authors:
      - moritz.raabe@mandiant.com
    scope: function
    mbc:
      - Data::Checksum::CRC32 [C0032.001]
    examples:
      - 2D3EDC218A90F03089CC01715A9F047F:0x403CBD
      - 7D28CB106CB54876B2A5C111724A07CD:0x402350  # RtlComputeCrc32
      - 7EFF498DE13CC734262F87E6B3EF38AB:0x100084A6
  features:
    - or:
      - and:
        - mnemonic: shr
        - or:
          - number: 0xEDB88320
          - bytes: 00 00 00 00 96 30 07 77 2C 61 0E EE BA 51 09 99 19 C4 6D 07 8F F4 6A 70 35 A5 63 E9 A3 95 64 9E = crc32_tab
        - number: 8
        - characteristic: nzxor
      - and:
        - number: 0x8320
        - number: 0xEDB8
        - characteristic: nzxor
      - api: RtlComputeCrc32
```

The [github.com/mandiant/capa-rules](https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules) repository contains hundreds of standard library rules that are distributed with capa.
Please learn to write rules and contribute new entries as you find interesting techniques in malware.

If you use IDA Pro, then you can use the [capa explorer](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/tree/master/capa/ida/plugin) plugin.
capa explorer helps you identify interesting areas of a program and build new capa rules using features extracted directly from your IDA Pro database.

![capa + IDA Pro integration](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/doc/img/explorer_expanded.png)

# further information
## capa
- [Installation](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/doc/installation.md)
- [Usage](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/doc/usage.md)
- [Limitations](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/doc/limitations.md)
- [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)

## capa rules
- [capa-rules repository](https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules)
- [capa-rules rule format](https://github.com/mandiant/capa-rules/blob/master/doc/format.md)

## capa testfiles
The [capa-testfiles repository](https://github.com/mandiant/capa-testfiles) contains the data we use to test capa's code and rules


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Canadian play: Why does ZAKA prefer Jews over terrorists?
Israeli-Canadian play deals with ZAKA decision to ignore directive to treat terrorists in same way as Jews. 'Even morality has boundaries.'
Guy Cohen, 18/12/18 13:53
An Israeli-Canadian play called "The Runner" deals with the decision of the ZAKA organization in 2015 to ignore the Israel Medical Association's directive that the seriously wounded should be dealt with first at the scene of terrorist attacks, and only afterwards the lightly wounded - even if the seriously wounded are terrorists.
The Times of Israel reported that the play premiered on the stage in Toronto last month.
This is a one-man play. Throughout the play, the actor - who plays a ZAKA volunteer named Jacob - moves on a treadmill and talks directly to the audience, about the moral dilemma he is in.
Jacob recalls that he once chose to resuscitate an Arab girl who was shot after stabbing an IDF soldier. He does not know whether he did the right thing, and he suffers from the condemnations of his superiors at ZAKA, as well as his mother and "settler" brother.
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It's not the first time Nintendo has handed the reigns for one of their core franchises to an outside company – and, indeed, it's not the first time it's happened for Zelda. Four out of the seven unique handheld entries in the series were developed by Flagship, a Capcom division that originally teamed up with Nintendo for the project that evolved into what we now know as the Oracles games. And by and large these games were excellent – they may not have been the critical and commercial giants that the rest of the series was, but given their "secondary" nature compared to the 3D console titles and high focus on inter-connectivity (thus making them much more of an investment for potential players), this is to be expected.
Given that Ocarina of Time's engine appears to be left largely unaltered, aside from a few modifications to the menu interface to adapt it to the touch screen and the addition of gyro controls for first-person viewing, the former of which really poses no game-breaking threat and the latter of which is entirely optional, it's really a no-risk move for Nintendo. Graphically things seem to be based mostly on the old visuals, only with higher-resolution textures and some prerendered background elements like Death Mountain being replaced with actual 3D models. There are a lot of neat doodads, most notably the added material in the Bazaar that makes the game feel much fuller, but again, nothing even potentially harmful to the content of the original.
As for Grezzo, it's a fairly new company and as such doesn't have much credit to its name thus far, but its CEO, Koichi Ishii, was responsible for the Mana series, a legendary franchise very close to Zelda in terms of its roots and gameplay. Grezzo's most notable contribution thus far is Line Attack Heroes, a WiiWare game that proved to be popular in Japan. Obviously Ocarina of Time 3D has gotten favorable impressions so far, so their reputation, small as it is, seems to be pretty solid.
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Early life and university career
Eric Trevor Huddleston was born February 5, 1888, in Winchester, Indiana. He was educated in the local public schools and at Cornell University, graduating in 1910. He worked as a drafter for Postle & Fisher in Chicago and for Albert Pretzinger and Schenck & Williams in Dayton, Ohio. In 1914 he left to open his own architecture office, but before he was able to do so he was recruited by Edward Thomson Fairchild, president of the University of New Hampshire, to come to Durham to be head of the Department of Drawing and Design and to work as supervising architect of the university. In 1918 he expanded his department to include the only architectural school in northern New England. The first students of the architecture school graduated in 1920, and the last in 1943. In 1944, during World War II, the school was temporarily closed due to a lack of students. This was made permanent in 1946. As head of the Department of Drawing and Architecture, Huddleston educated some 120 students, many of which remained in New Hampshire to practice. These included Richard Koehler and Nicholas Isaak, partners in the leading local firm of Koehler & Isaak, and Irving W. Hersey, who was later Huddleston's business partner. He remained a member of the faculty until his retirement in 1958.

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As supervising architect, Huddleston was a vocal proponent of traditional architectural styles, especially the Colonial Revival style.

Private practice
In 1935, during the Great Depression, Huddleston realized his earlier plans to practice privately. In partnership with Irving W. Hersey, his former student, he established the firm of Huddleston & Hersey in Durham. They were responsible for a number of New Deal-funded projects, including the Rollinsford Grade School in New Hampshire and the Berwick Town Hall in Maine. During the 1930s, Huddleston & Hersey was the largest architecture firm in the state. Hersey left in 1942 to serve in World War II, and Huddleston temporarily retired from private practice in 1945. In 1948 he rejoined Hersey in his new firm, Irving W. Hersey Associates, as consulting architect. He remained with Hersey until his retirement in 1966.

Honors and legacy
Huddleston joined the American Institute of Architects in 1929, and was first president of the New Hampshire chapter when it was formed in 1948. In 1953 he was elected a Fellow, the first New Hampshire architect to receive the honor. In 1963 his first university building, the Commons, was rededicated in his honor as Huddleston Hall.

Personal life
In 1913 Huddleston was married to Mabel Sprague, and they had two children. During their residence in Durham the family lived in a house at 29 Mill Road, which Huddleston designed and had built in 1922. In 1966 Huddleston and his wife retired to Lancaster, New Hampshire, where he died June 23, 1977.

Architectural works

As supervising architect
 Huddleston Hall (1919)
 Congreve Hall (1920)
 Hetzel Hall (1927)
 Murkland Hall (1927)
 James Hall (1930)
 Hood House (1931–32)
 Scott Hall (1933)
 Field House (1937)
 Pettee Hall (1938)
 Thompson Hall remodeling (1940, NRHP 1996)
 Gibbs, Engelhardt and Hunter Halls (1946)

As private practitioner
 Rollinsford Grade School, 487 Locust St, Rollinsford, New Hampshire (1936–37, NRHP 2015)
 Berwick Town Hall, 11 Sullivan St, Berwick, Maine (1938–39)
 Ossipee Public Library, 74 Main St, Ossipee, New Hampshire (1938–39)
 Auburn Village School, 11 Eaton Hill Rd, Auburn, New Hampshire (1940)

Notes

References

Architects from Indiana
Architects from New Hampshire
20th-century American architects
Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni
University of New Hampshire faculty
1888 births
1977 deaths

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Some jokes are purely funny, and some tragedies are purely sad, but the best kinds of entertainment straddle the line between comedy and tragedy. The best jokes make us cry and laugh at the same time. This list contains twenty of the funniest saddest jokes on the internet.
Keep reading if you want to take a ride on an emotional roller coaster. Buckle your seatbelts, keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times, and away we go.
Wow. That is definitely a savage reply. Why does everybody have a vlog channel nowadays? I don't need to know how you're spending every minute of your day.
Especially if you have a boring life. Living my own life is boring enough, I don't need to watch you live yours too.
Why is this the cutest avocado frog I've ever seen? I don't know if I want to pick him up and hug him or if I want to turn him into guacamole.
I think when in doubt, it's always best to go for the hug. This is how I know that the universe is inherently good. It's because frogs like this exist.
They always ask "where's Waldo?" but they never ask "how's Waldo?" There are so many questions we didn't ask about Waldo. Now it's too late.
We'll never forget you, Waldo. We enjoyed your glasses and your striped shirt. See you on the other side— if we can find you.
This is funny in a very dark kind of way. I was going to make a witty comment about it but then I forgot what I was going to say.
Maybe something about how Google is going to be the first line of defense against degenerative brain diseases?
Ah, Cards Against Humanity, the game that's always there to create awkward moments and remind us of our own tragic future.
That white card sums up the millennial condition pretty well. Thanks, previous generation, for securing this fate for us. We really appreciate it.
HAHAHhaha ha. ha. Oh goodness, this is sad. But also hilarious. Of course you need friends to throw a party.
Dad knows what's up. Anybody who messes with people's phones probably doesn't have many friends left. Keep reading to see a guy who's taking "that feel when no gf" to the next level.
For those of you who weren't paying attention in third-grade biology, a caterpillar grows inside its egg for about four days.
Then it hatches, eats a lot and grows for two more weeks. It lives inside the chrysalis for ten days, and then its life as an adult butterfly lasts anywhere from two to six weeks.
This is an old joke, but it's a good joke. In all seriousness, though, it can take eight to sixteen weeks for a vasectomy to be completely effective.
You're still fertile for a good while, so be careful, unless you want to waste that expensive surgery.
I bet this guy waited fourteen years to make this joke. I respect that. I bet he actively avoided being in relationships just so he could be single and make this joke when the second movie finally came out.
This is what it really means to be committed.
That's harsh, Japan, very harsh. People over thirty-five, is that true? Do you just get used to your suffering?
I guess getting used to it is pretty close to actually being happy. Happiness is just a state of mind. Fake it till you make it.
Tupperware? That's some fancy stuff. This guy's got name brand plastic containers. All my containers are no-name hand-me-downs from my parents and grandparents.
Either that or they're empty hummus containers that I've washed out and filled with salad.
If you're looking to get a job driving a truck, call the number on the side of this vehicle. I have a feeling that there might be an opening.
Also, if you're a person who builds or fixes bridges, there might be some work coming your way soon.
He missed the punchline opportunity. The Office is comedy gold. We don't deserve Michael Scott.
I'm not even in my thirties yet and I already have way less than twelve close friends. Maintaining adult friendships is really difficult. Everybody is so busy all the time.
How are you supposed to make time to hang out when everybody has a job and kids and a significant other?
The sad thing is that this is very true. The funny thing is that this girl managed to get this quote in her actual high school yearbook.
I guess anything is possible. This girl's name also sounds pretty Caucasian, which is probably good news for her, unfortunately.
I wonder what would happen if there was a nationwide GoFundMe campaign for healthcare. Do you think Americans could raise more money if they were given the option to contribute versus if they were compelled to contribute because of tax laws?
Do we have this much faith in the citizens of our country?
Batman, like all superheroes, had a sad life. Some people think that you need to have a sad life to become someone as epic and impressive as Batman.
I disagree. I think Batman would have been an even better superhero if his parents were alive. Controversial opinion? Maybe.
I hope whoever took this picture picked Kevin up off the ground and gave him a second chance at life.
Now Kevin can keep fulfilling his life's purpose until this guy inevitably loses him and the cycle begins all over again. Once a pencil case, always a pencil case.
Why do dogs have such short lifespans? It really isn't fair. Dogs deserve to live twice as long as people. They have twice as much love in their hearts and they're twice as lovely.
I'm still going to get a dog, though. It's worth all of the eventual sadness.
Even if it's not real, it's still a pretty good joke. Whoever wrote it, I applaud you. Sam Jackson was probably too busy getting snakes off of a plane somewhere.


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First the good news: the Palestinian-led campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel has made considerable progress. Earlier this year, the Dutch pension fund PGGM announced that it had excluded five Israeli banks from its investment portfolio because they were financing Jewish-only settlements
First the good news: the Palestinian-led campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel has made considerable progress.
Earlier this year, the Dutch pension fund PGGM announced that it had excluded five Israeli banks from its investment portfolio because they were financing Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank. Soon afterwards, it was reported that the Copenhagen-based Danske Bank had taken similar action against Hapoalim, a leading Israeli bank.
Other victories have received less publicity.
The Swedish fund KPA Pension, for example, has published an exclusion list on its website featuring a number of Israeli banks and telecommunications firms, the weapons manufacturer Elbit and Alstom, a French corporation that has been involved in building a light rail system linking up Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
KPA manages the pensions of more than a million people working in local government.
Sweden's state pension fund AP7, meanwhile, has excluded the technology giant Hewlett-Packard because of its provision of surveillance technology to Israel, as well as Cemex, a Mexican company which has been quarrying in the West Bank in violation of international law.
Enabling war crimes
AP7 is not as clean as it would have us believe, however.
In August, the Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet complained that AP7 is continuing to invest in three Israeli banks. According to the paper, this was not compatible with the views of most Swedes, who wanted pension funds to respect ethical principles.
Similarly, the third largest Dutch pension fund ABP has a €51 million ($64 million) stake in three Israel banks: Leumi, Hapoalim and Mizrahi-Tefahot. All three of these banks finance settlements in the West Bank.
The construction of Israeli settlements breaches the Fourth Geneva Convention and amounts to war crimes.
ABP is under pressure to ditch these enablers of war crimes. Around 1.8 million people have signed a petition calling on it to do so.
Desmond Tutu, the South African archbishop, has written to ABP's board contending that investing in Israeli institutions that lend to repressive and illegal projects "helps perpetuate the cycle of violence."
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ABP could follow the example set by another Dutch pension fund, BPL. A listpublished by BPL for 2013 states that it has excluded the three aforementioned Israeli banks, along with Alstom and Veolia (the major player in the East Jerusalem tramway).
Gerard Roest, BPL's chairman, told me that the decisions to exclude these firms were taken because the fund is guided by international standards on human rights. "The UN is a kind of world government and we should respect its decisions," he said.
A UN fact finding mission on the Israeli occupation stated last year: "A number of banks provide mortgage loans for home buyers and special loans for building projects in settlements. They also provide financial services to businesses in settlements and, in some cases, are physically present there."
Richard Falk, a former UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, has warnedthat "financial institutions and real estate companies may be held criminally accountable for their involvement with illegal settlements in occupied Palestine."
Pension funds that keep on investing in Israel can be sure that they will come under pressure from people of conscience throughout the world. Support for war crimes will result in damage to their reputations.
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UNC's beginnings date back to 1923, when members of the Bethel Church opened a small settlement house in center city Scranton to serve the needs of the African American community. In 1924, another settlement house opened to serve the new immigrant populations living in the Lower West Side of Scranton. These two independent centers merged in 1970 to form United Neighborhood Services, later renamed United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania. UNC continues to embrace the settlement house vision to aid in the solution of problems at the neighborhood level.
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Risen movie review: when habeas corpus gets weird
Published April 6, 2016 · Updated April 5, 2016
Here's something we don't see often on the big screen: a detective story set in the ancient world. There are lots of novels, but I can't think of a single other movie in the mold of Risen, an initially intriguing mystery tale in which a politically ambitious Roman soldier, Clavius (Joseph Fiennes [Hercules, Running with Scissors], who is terrific here), is set to a policing task by Pilate (Peter Firth: Spooks: The Greater Good, Pearl Harbor), the Roman governor of the province of Judea in the Middle East. It seems that the followers of a local rabble-rousing preacher who was just executed believe that he is some sort of "messiah" and that he will somehow rise from the dead, so Pilate instructs Clavius to put a guard on the preacher's tomb, lest his followers steal the body and proclaim him arisen in fulfillment of their prophecy. And when Clavius's inept guards fail at their task and the body does indeed disappear from the tomb, the soldier now has to hunt down the preacher's followers in the hopes of finding the body and disproving the "prophecy." The whole situation is, you see, perceived to be politically embarrassing for the local religious authorities and for the Romans, all of whom obviously have no use for the antiestablishment attitude the dead preacher had been spreading.
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Joseph Nkaheza, a primary seven drop out who is known for locally making Uganda's first private chopper and Motorcycle is nursing injuries sustained during a crash while he tested the aircraft.
Nkaheza was trying to test the chopper after making a few more touches on it when it came back down crashing, injuring him in the process. The accident happened along Mbarara- Kabale highway.
The self taught engineer sustained injuries on the head and shoulders. When contacted, Nkaheza said he was recovering steadily. He had been admitted to a clinic in Ruti, Mbarara District.
"I have been discharged, I am now fine, doctors tell me I did not get any internal bleeding. The only problem is that now I am starting to get scared of technology, it may kill me before I accomplish my mission," Nkaheza told Nile Post.
Nkaheza has crashed a record three times before, once breaking his hands and on another occasion sustaining grave head injuries after the chopper failed him to land.
The inventor from Mwizi, Mbarara District however says he had rectified the landing problem and it was not the cause of the crash.
"The chopper has been flying and landing, it has actually flown for over 5km recently, but the machines are now old and they gave way while it was in the air," he said.
Nkaheza says he used steel to make his chopper after failing to purchase aluminium materials which were too expensive. This means that the Ugandan inventor is the first to make a plane without aluminium components fly.
He says the plane uses an engine of a maize mill and sprockets or cogs from motorcycles. Nkaheza also used wood to guard against short-circuits or lightning. He says the wood enables lights and the battery to operate without touching the steel that would in end cause a short-circuit.
However, Nkaheza still wonders why the government is not supporting his initiative. The inventor says that he met President Museveni who promised to support his initiatives but the help has never come.
"The President gave me someone called Afande Nalweiyso (Brig Proscovia Nalweyiso), but she has never picked my calls or reached out to me. She actually just dodges me. I wonder why no one is supporting me," he said.
He says city socialite and money bags Bryan White Kirumira gave him Shs5m to help finish the chopper but a lot more help is needed.
Nkaheza also made an aluminium motorcycle which he rides from Mbarara to Kampala to attend his parties. The Motorcycle does not use fuel.
"I don't have anyone to help me, only the media has marketed me. The other people just promise but never help," he said.
The inventor only ended in Primary Seven but says any technology training is highly appreciated.


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Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is a beneficiary of the EB-5 program. McAuliffe and Tony Rodham—Hillary Clinton's brother—raised about $46 million from EB-5 investors for their GreenTech Automotive electric-car company. Greentech filed for bankruptcy in February.
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Last year, I outlined some of the regulatory changes that might reform EB-5. Congress kicked the decision down the road, but a reform moment is upon us again. The EB-5 Regional Center Program expires September 30. The regional centers handle the vast majority of EB-5 visas, so killing the centers in effect kills the entire EB-5 program.
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Super powered humans started appearing 30 years ago. Now, they are everywhere. Bob Moore, Private Eye, dares to investigate those who could incinerate him with a thought. When he is called to help a super from his past, however, he'll be pushed to his limit. When supers and the police think there is no crime, can he get to the truth? Will he want to for the man that destroyed his marriage?
What People are saying about Bob Moore
"The most delicious "superhero" themed book I've read. The world is incredibly deep, believable, and realistic with it's own rules and terminology. The characters come alive and make you feel."
-Vitaly Alexius, Creator Romantically Apocalyptic
"This was quite an enjoyable read. When you cross a gritty gumshoe with spandex superheros, their two worlds collide in spectacular fashion."
-Jeffrey Hendricks, Author Seeking the Heavens
"The book is fast and keeps your interest. This was the first book that as I approached the end, I started getting a feeling of dread that the end was coming up and at the same time I had to find out the finale. What an enjoyable sensation."
-Greg Rose
Tom Andry
Tom Andry is the Associate Editor of Audioholics.com and host of the AV Rant podcast. He's been writing mostly reviews but has lately returned to his prose roots. He has written many unpublished short stories, poems, and a few screenplays that may still be produced. He's the father of three boys affectionately nicknamed Punkalicious, Captain Evil, and Neo. He's happily married and currently resides in Perth, Australia. His background is in drama, creative writing, and research psychology which basically means his kids are in for a pretty rough time. His wife, Tanel, doesn't have it so easy either.
Bob Moore: No Hero 4.1 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 98 reviews.
Willi_B More than 1 year ago
Please by the love of sweet baby buddha would Tom Andry write more Bob Moore novels! This was fantastic. I would pay for future installments.
Mizukage_Iruka More than 1 year ago
I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting much out of this book, being that my experiences with some of the free books hasn't been great, but I was more than pleasantly surprised by this gem. The title character, Bob Moore, is everything I expect in a PI, crabby, snarky and all too prone to fall back into his vice, drinking too much. He lives and works in a world of "Supers" (Superpowered beings) and had even been married to one. When one of the greatest of the "Supers," Doc Arts, a major medical hero, insists that some of his patients have gone missing, despite the lack of evidence turned up by the police and the bastion of Supers, he hires a reluctant Moore to look into the case. What Moore finds is... nothing, at first. But careless words speak volumes and suddenly, everything goes downhill fast. I confess to having my suspicions confirmed over the identity of the mysterious villain, but there were plenty of twists to keep me engaged and the ending surprised me with a darker note, but all in all, a terrific novella. I eagerly look forward to other works by Mr. Andry, and do hope he might write more in this world, one which is well thought-out and carefully crafted.
Like an adult version of the disney movie the incrediables
DrSlider More than 1 year ago
I wasn't sure what to expect, but this was a nice, tight, well crafted story with an interesting premise. The light attitude makes this most defintely a fun read. Bob Moore is sort of a Dirk Gently meets the Stainless Steel Rat kind of guy. Read this, and then send the author some money! :)
ClintGJ More than 1 year ago
The story shows what would happen if superheroes were real and how people would deal with the day to day issues. I enjoyed the ending it was not expected at all. I hope Tom Andry writes some more Bob Moore novels.
Dkartzinel More than 1 year ago
Really, quite fun. Definitely way better than I expected for a free book. Two semi-complaints: 1. It's too short. -This is really a compliment, because it means I want more! I enjoyed the characters, and I think there's a lot more he can do. Can't wait to see what happens next in this series. -if you go in thinking of this as sort of a prequel novella, I think you'll have the right idea about it. 2. I did predict the ending. -no, I won't tell you what it was. This is a semi-complaint because it's rare for me to be surprised by an ending in a novel. I'll definitely be reading more of his books in the future!
John D'Amico More than 1 year ago
Is there another story on the way....?
One great take on superheros. I want to read more of these tales. Very entertaining.
gamesguy1 More than 1 year ago
Well done, surprisingly, for a free read - I was not sure what to expect, but the story seemed to get better as it gathered steam and packed a finish I didn't see coming at all, innovative and imaginative. Definitely superior to more than a few books I've paid good money for. Will be happily paying for the sequel.
If your a fan of " old style" PI's this buds for you
N_M_K More than 1 year ago
Would love to read more of Bob Moore!! Excellent novel!
I reccomend this book.
Jonnothing More than 1 year ago
Well written & enjoyable.
Good read! Fast paced and hard to put down, but thought provoking. Bob's resourcefulness in dealing with those who have a great deal more power than he reminds me of Jim Butcher's character Tavi.
Lee Gray More than 1 year ago
I started this book with no expectations but was pleasantly surprised. For a short book, it has well developed characters and a fun, well developed world. I look forward to more from the author.
An interesting taste test, but I wanted more. I probably could have finished up a lot sooner if I had known how close to the end I was the last time I put the book down. It's a short book and it feels shorter still. It doesn't do much background world building. It covers a little bit of the changes to law enforcement and politics that the existence of numerous superheroes could possibly cause, but it doesn't do much to explain how super powered individuals came into existence. It also feels a little bit like a cheat that the ordinary main character has access to super tech, given how much he seems to dislike the super powered community in general. I'm curious to see if the series ever takes the time to flesh things out a little more, so I'm going to give it some more time.
The only disappointment with this book was that it was over so quickly. Great recreational reading, the action never quits and the characters become more than your acquantances in a short time.
Really enjoyed this story. Edgy humor and 1940's feel to a futuristic tale of a private-eye on a soul wrenching investigation.
If you like stupid, so-called thrilling stuff - this might be for you. It helps if you are less than fifteen years old...but not much.
A little choppy but interesting story
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Die Brocken-Challenge ist ein Ultramarathon von Göttingen auf den Brocken, ausgetragen jährlich am zweiten Samstag im Februar. Die Distanz kann abhängig von den Witterungsbedingungen (Schnee und Eis) variieren. Die reguläre Strecke ist 80 km lang, bei 1900 Höhenmetern. Im Jahr 2010 musste wegen erheblicher Schneemengen eine Strecke von 86 km bewältigt werden, 2019 waren es wegen einer Umleitung aufgrund Forstarbeiten 81 km.

Aufgrund seiner äußeren Gegebenheiten (Länge, zu bewältigende Höhenmeter und Witterung im Februar) zählt er zu den anspruchsvollsten Langdistanzläufen Deutschlands. Die Brocken-Challenge ist ein Wohltätigkeitslauf und wird von dem gemeinnützigen Verein ASFM (Ausdauersport für Menschlichkeit) e.V. Göttingen ausgerichtet. Sämtliche Einnahmen werden als Spenden weitergereicht, nach 18 Austragungen waren dies insgesamt 339.000 Euro.

Geschichte
Der Langstreckenlauf hatte seinen Ursprung darin, dass die beiden Göttinger Physiotherapeuten Nicolai Fleischer und Jörg Hammer am 4./5. Januar 2001 die Strecke vom Göttinger Kehr bis zum Brockengipfel wandernd in 34 Stunden bewältigten. Davon erfuhren die Göttinger Markus Ohlef und Thomas Sivander. Ohlef und Sivander (als Fahrradbegleiter) setzten sich zum Ziel, die Strecke in der Hälfte der Zeit zu bewältigen. Schließlich legte Ohlef die Strecke am 17. Februar 2001 als erster Läufer in 10:31 Stunden zurück.

Seit dem Jahr 2004 findet der Lauf jährlich im Februar statt. Bei der ersten Austragung erreichte von vier Teilnehmern mit Markus Ohlef nur ein Läufer das Ziel.

2005 wurde die Brocken-Challenge wegen Orkans bei km 72 abgebrochen.

2007 wurde auf der 81,5-km-Strecke bei frühlingshaften Temperaturen ein erster Streckenrekord durch Andreas Schneidewind und Frank Kleinsorg in 07:30 h aufgestellt.

2009 wurde aufgrund der Schneeverhältnisse im Hochharz ein Umweg von 1,5 km erforderlich. Im Jahr 2010 war wegen erheblicher Schneemengen ein Umweg von 6 km notwendig, der auch 300 zusätzliche Höhenmeter bedeutete.

2011 wurde sowohl bei den Frauen (Antje Müller in 08:45 Stunden) als auch bei den Männern (Lars Donath in 07:25 Stunden) ein neuer Streckenrekord aufgestellt.

2012 lagen die Temperaturen durchgängig im zweistelligen Minusbereich.

Nachdem im Jahr 2021 die Challenge wegen der Corona-Pandemie nur virtuell stattfand, wurde sie im Jahr 2022 auf der Strecke Schierke–Brocken–Göttingen mit 92 km Länge ausgetragen.

Die Teilnehmerzahlen entwickeln sich positiv. Während im Jahr 2005 elf "Teams" (bestehend aus Läufer und Radbegleiter) starteten, gab es 2006 schon 27, 2007 bereits 60 und 2008 80 Teilnehmer. 2009 nahmen erstmals über 100 Teilnehmer teil (103). 2010 gab es bei 145 Meldungen bereits 135 Starter. 2011 führten über 150 Anmeldungen zu einem Starterfeld von 133 Teilnehmern und 120 Finishern. 2012 meldeten sich 161 Teilnehmer an, von denen 140 an den Start gingen und 131 das Ziel auf dem Brocken erreichten.

Der Leitspruch der Brocken-Challenge lautet:
 "Von der Gewalt, die alle Wesen bindet, befreit der Mensch sich, der sich überwindet." (J. W. v. Goethe).

Strecke
Der Start der Brocken-Challenge befindet sich am Göttinger Kehr. Zunächst geht es durch den Göttinger Wald einige Höhenmeter hinab durch Mackenrode, bis nach Landolfshausen. Weiter geht es am Seeburger See vorbei Richtung Rollshausen. Der nächste Abschnitt ist gekennzeichnet durch einen kurzen Anstieg zur Tilly-Eiche. Es geht nun wellig durch Rüdershausen bis Rhumspringe, dem niedrigsten Punkt des Laufs. Weiter nur mit leichter Höhendifferenz geht es schließlich nach Barbis, bei Kilometer 42,5. Sodann geht es direkt einen steilen Anstieg hinauf, womit man sich endgültig im Harz befindet. Nun geht es durch das Steinaer Tal beständig bergauf bis zum Jagdkopf. Die nächsten Kilometer führen recht flach auf der Südharzloipe über den Pastorenweg und Kaiserweg zur Lausebuche. Nahezu stetig ansteigend führt die Strecke nach Königskrug und weiter nach Oderbrück. Die Passage bietet die letzte nennenswerte Bergabpassage. Schließlich geht es an der ehemaligen innerdeutschen Grenze vorbei über den Goetheweg bis zur Brockenstraße. Hier gilt es noch einen letzten Kilometer bis zum Brockengipfel zu laufen.

Streckenrekord
 Männer: Florian Reichert, 6:33 h, 2015
 Frauen: Sybille Mai, 8:14 h, 2020

Siegerliste

Männer

Frauen

Siehe auch
 Brockenlauf
 Harz-Gebirgslauf und Brocken-Marathon
 Harzquerung

Weblinks
 Offizielle Homepage des Veranstalters
 NDR Sportclub Reportage - Brocken Challenge 2012 auf YouTube
 Bericht im Göttinger Tageblatt vom 10. Februar 2010 (pdf; 564 kB)
 Bericht im Göttinger Tageblatt vom 21. Februar 2001

Einzelnachweise

Ultramarathon
Laufveranstaltung in Deutschland
Sportveranstaltung in Niedersachsen
Veranstaltung im Harz
Brocken
Erstveranstaltung 2001


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Where did the $1.5 trillion in Trump tax cuts go?
Andy Uhler May 29, 2019
https://www.marketplace.org/2019/05/29/where-did-trump-tax-cuts-go/
President Donald Trump at a signing event for the Tax Cut and Reform Bill in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 22, 2017. Brendan Smialowski
President Donald Trump has said his $1.5 trillion in tax cuts would be "rocket fuel" that would juice the economy and provide a windfall for taxpayers.
But according to a new report from the independent Congressional Research Service, they did no such thing.
Trump said the economy would grow at 4% to 4.5% after the tax cuts. It's grown at 2.9%, which is still pretty good, but nothing new, according to Joel Slemrod, an economics professor at the University of Michigan.
The economy "has been doing well since the tax cut. It was doing well for several years before the tax cut," he said.
Most of us are paying a little bit less in taxes, but Howard Gleckman at the Tax Policy Center said the real winners are corporations; they saw their tax rate cut almost in half. He said companies were all of a sudden sitting on piles of cash.
"They looked around to see what they could do with it, whether they could make productive investments in workers or productive investments in new capital, new equipment, and they decided that they couldn't," he said. "So what did they do with the money? They just gave it to the shareholders."
Not to their workers. The president said wages would grow substantially and quickly as a result of the tax cuts. But we're not seeing that.
What we are seeing is companies buying their stock back from shareholders. So if you have stock in your portfolio, you're a little bit richer.
"Anyone who has a substantial stock market investment portfolio has seen that portfolio probably having done better than it would have absent the legislation," said David Gamage, who teaches tax law at Indiana University.
Gleckman at the Tax Policy Center said we also need to keep in mind that the Trump tax cuts didn't happen in a vacuum.
"It may be that there were some economic benefits of this tax cut, but they were washed out by the economic downturns as a result of, for example, President Trump's trade policy," he said.
Gleckman said the tariffs on goods being paid by American consumers are basically equal to the amount of the tax cuts in the 2017 legislation.
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CBO: Tax cuts, spending to raise deficit to $1 trillion by 2019
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Walk 15: Alpage de l'Etoile from Evolène (Distance: 14.1 km and 925m ascent, max*)
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Route Description:
This is quite an ambitious walk, setting off from Evolène, though there are options to cut it short (noted with an * below). That said, it gives wonderful panoramic views across the valley and, in summer, there are a host of flowers and butterflies to be captured on camera.
From Evolène church, take the narrow roadway to the left of the Boulangerie. Cross over the Lannaz road and as the track bends to the left, veer off to the right, more or less continuing forward to the riverside. Cross over the bridge and turn right up a track. After only a short climb, a path goes off to the left. Follow this upwards, to the left of a raccard and walk directly up the slope towards the woods. After a very steep section, the path zig-zags to the left and enters the wood.
Follow the path diagonally up through the wood until it zig-zags and meets another path. Turn left here and follow what becomes a wide track to Les Giettes. (Look out for a herd of Yaks which live nearby). Continue along the track until you see a signpost at a small stream coming in from the right. Turn right here and very soon the path turns left and bends to the right. Continue climbing upwards until you meet a road at a U bend. Follow the road upwards for about 80 metres and take a path on the right hand side. (This simply cuts off the corner of the road). You will soon reach a few buildings at Mayens de la Cretta. (Here you may see many butterflies).
Mayens de la Cretta
Continue past the buildings and, just after you cross a small stream, the path goes diagonally up to the right and into the woods. Continue through the woods and, as it emerges, the path bends to the right and climbs up to Le Tsalè de la Cretta – an almost hidden hamlet in a small dip. Continue upwards to a track and signpost (@2,091m). *If legs are tired then you can descend from here. If not, then continue up the track to reach the farm at Les Chottes de L'Etoile (@2,190m).
Les Chottes de L'Etoile
Return the way you came and follow the track all the way down until, after a sharp right hand U bend, you will be approaching some buildings with some other buildings below and off to the left at Les Chlistes. Take the left hand path which goes down to and between the buildings at Les Chlistes, before zig-zagging down to the road to Arolla. Turn left here for about 50 metres then turn right down a path, which takes you all the way down to Les Haudères, again crossing (directly over) the Arolla road.
Les Haudères
Refreshments are available in Les Haudères, as is a regular bus service back to Evolène, if required.
Otherwise, or once refreshed, take the track on either side of the River Borgne, all the way back to Evolène.


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Over 50 Restaurants, Celebrity Chefs Join In Beverly Hills Culinary Week
Over 50 restaurants, hotels, and retail stores in Beverly Hills will offer culinary experiences and dining specials during 2016's Beverly Hills Culinary Week from Monday, April 4 to Friday, April 8.
Loosen your belts and open up your wallet – the much anticipated Beverly Hills Culinary Week is here.
More than 50 Beverly Hills restaurants, hotels, and retail stores will offer culinary experiences and food and beverage specials during Beverly Hills Culinary Week running today through Friday, April 8.
The 5-day event is an invitation to all Southern Californians and tourists to experience one of the most famous culinary destinations in the world. Avec Nous, the new contemporary French bistro located adjacent to L'Ermitage Beverly Hills with acclaimed Executive Chef Olivier Quignon at the helm, will host the official kick-off today at 7pm with a complimentary signature pork rillette and crostini for all guests who mention Culinary Week.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Officials say police have detained three former Bosnian Army soldiers suspected of war crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-95 conflict.
The prosecutor's office of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina says that Adil Ruznic, 41, Mehur Selimovic, 46, and Emir Mustafic, 47, were detained Tuesday in the western Bosnian town of Bihac on suspicion of having committed crimes against civilians and war prisoners in 1994 and 1995.
The Bosnian Army tried for more than three years to break the Serb siege of Bosniak-dominated Bihac before finally succeeding in 1995. Serbs have claimed the Bosnian Army committed crimes against the Serb population in surrounding villages during those attempts.
During the siege of Sarajevo it was not only the Muslim population that suffered. The Serbs who remained in Sarajevo and who were prevented from leaving not only were on the receiving end of the shelling and sniping but were also victims of retaliation by a hostile Muslim population. [Alija] Izetbegovic, the Muslim leader, decreed a policy of "self-organization" and this meant that local Muslim strongmen took command of certain neighborhoods and raised their own private armies. Many of them were former criminals and they adopted aliases such as: Juka, Caco, Celo, Puska etc. These local warlords broke into Serb homes, forced Serbs to leave their apartments, they looted and robbed and set up their own prisons for uncooperative Serbs, where many were killed and others simply "disappeared." Serbian shops and businesses were prime targets and Serbs were forced to dig trenches in areas of extreme danger. Sarajevo became one large prison for the Serbian population. Later when the Muslims and Croats fell out and began to fight each other, the Croats in Sarajevo suffered the same fate as the Serbs. Of course the international media reported none of this and [so] only Muslims were victims. It is also commonly known that the Muslims frequently fired on their own people to show visiting media representatives how the dreadful Serbs in the hills above shot innocent civilians.
You are of course aware of the tragic event that took place in the Sarajevo market place on Saturday. Ever since, there has been a torrent of world-wide accusations against the Serbs. The campaign has been unprecedented in its ferocity, the level of emotion involved, but most important in its blindness both to the wider circumstances of the incident in Sarajevo and to circumstances of [the] incident itself.
As you know, the UNPROFOR [UN Protection Force] report concluded that "the round could have been fired from either B&H [Bosnia-Herzegovina] or BSA [Bosnian-Serb Army] positions." Our own indications, from sources in Muslim-held Sarajevo, are that a shell reinforced with plastic explosive was hurled at the market place from a neighbouring building. In any event, although the culprit has not been identified, the world media and many politicians have declared the Serbs the perpetrators of the atrocity.
The day before yesterday we met the co-chairman of the ICFY [International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia] and agreed with them to start exploring the possibility of pacifying Sarajevo District in advance of an overall peace settlement. But we absolutely insist that the matter of the market place massacre be cleared up first. We demand a thorough and impartial investigation, to be carried out by UNPROFOR, with experts from the Serbian and Muslim sides taking part. Particular attention should be paid to ballistics and to pathological findings with regard to the victims. At stake here is the fate of a whole people as well as the fate of an entire region of Europe. I urge Your Excellency to exert your influence in order to allow the truth to emerge.
New York - For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Muslims for the February 1994 massacre of Muslims at a Sarajevo market.
An international outcry over the massacre, in which 68 civilians perished at Markale marketplace, led directly to a toughening of Western policy towards the Serbs, who were widely blamed for the incident.
But there have been persistent rumors at the United Nations ever since that a U.N. report clearly blamed the Muslims for firing on their own people in order to create international sympathy and get the West to fight on their side against the Serbs.
Until Thursday, U.N. officials strongly denied the report existed, even after it was quoted in press reports. Akashi told dpa that not only did the first report exist, but that some journalists already had a copy. He said the details were in a 1995 story by U.S. journalist David Binder, who quoted from the confidential report.
According to Binder, the report said U.N. peacekeepers were prevented by Muslim police from entering the site in the aftermath of the explosion. No doctors were allowed on the scene and the 197 victims were carried away to a hospital within 25 minutes.
After studying the crater left by the mortar shell and the distribution of the shrapnel, the report concluded that the shell was fired from behind Muslim lines. U.N. monitors reported no Serbian shelling that day from points near the marketplace.
The official U.N. report that was subsequently released said the evidence as to who fired the shell was inconclusive, since it originated from an area where Muslim and Serb lines were very close. The two reports represented divergent views, but the United Nations chose to publish the neutral report and keep the other secret.
The incident led to a NATO ultimatum to Bosnian Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo.
Indeed, it is precisely this prototype — perpetually in disbelief of reality — that seems to gravitate toward professions in policymaking, all such clones eventually finding their way to the State Department and its equivalent abroad. The "expert" who debated author John Schindler on Voice of America several months ago used exactly the same language as Albright (a paraphrase): I refuse to believe that Muslims would kill their own.
And this is after decades of examples of what Palestinian Muslims do to their own, including the youngest children. Since then, of course, the Iraq war has provided us with plenty more examples of this self-killing tactic.
Five doctors — three Serbs, a Jew and a Croat — were arrested by the Muslim authorities in Sarajevo, allegedly while trying to escape from the city. Several nurses were also arrested, on the same charge. [The doctors] had all worked in various Sarajevo hospitals throughout the present conflict, and saved many lives…The arrested doctors are being physically and [psychologically] mistreated. The representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the arrested doctors and communicated with their families. The Serb Republic was not given any information pertaining to the location where the doctors and nurses are being held. Muslim sources report that the father of one of the arrested doctors committed suicide. The Serb Republic informs that he was killed after he visited his son in the prison.
The Serb Republic regards this case as added proof that life for non-Muslims under Izetbegovic's Islamic regime is utterly unbearable. The fundamental question is why should people be stopped if they wish to leave? The Serb side regards free movement of civilians as a basic right and regrets that the Muslims in former Bosnia-Herzegovina treat non-Muslim under their control as hostages and prisoners…The Government of the Serb Republic does not accept that the arrested doctors and nurses be treated as POWs. They were targeted because of their ethnicity and religion. The fact that they include persons of Serb, Croat and Jewish background at least indicates that the Muslim regime in Sarajevo is indiscriminate in its persecution of non-Muslims.
In the current attempt by international mediators to effect confidence it is indeed imperative that the arrested medical personnel be set free and allowed to leave the Muslim sector of Sarajevo with their families. We also demand that all people, regardless of nationality, religion or profession, be allowed to leave areas under Muslim control if they so wish.
Finally, a rather graphic interview depicting life for Serbs in Sarajevo during the siege can be read here. (It appeared in the Serbian paper Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the interview subject is Milivoje Ivanisevic, Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Crimes Committed Against the Serbian People.
But judges repeatedly question testimony's relevance to the case.
The defence in the trial of Bosnian Serb Dragomir Milosevic this week attempted to paint a picture of the suffering that both sides went through during the conflict in and around Sarajevo.
Witnesses gave detailed, emotional testimony, but the judges on several occasions intervened to ask about the testimony's relevance to the case.
Milosevic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Sarajevo Romanija Corps, SRK, is charged with seven counts of crimes against humanity and violations of laws and customs of war for artillery and sniper attacks which are said to have terrorised the inhabitants of Sarajevo from August 1994 until November 1995.
Drazen Maunaga, a witness for the defence, testified about how the Serb population in the vicinity of Sarajevo lived in fear of Bosnian army guns - something the defence counsel called "a sure sign of sowing fear among one's people".
He said Serbs he encountered during his employment as head of the office for cooperation with UNPROFOR in the Ilidza municipality would ask him "since I had contact with foreigners, whether it was possible for me to get a visa for them so they could leave the area".
Maunaga said that he had himself been seriously wounded by a Bosnian shell.
"I was injured in the stomach. Basically, I had my intestines in my hand," he told the court.
The judges, who at one point enquired about the witness's current health, nonetheless said that it was not enough for the defence to argue that the Serbs were also suffering.
The defence, however, continued their theme on Wednesday with the testimony of Zoran Samardzic. He was originally under protection - known as "T-47″ - but the chamber granted his request for protective measures to be lifted.
Samardzic testified about how he went to visit a friend who had been hit by a shell while he was out in the streets, and returned to find that his son and his friend had been killed in a bombardment.
After giving the witness a few minutes to compose himself, the judges again asked how his testimony was relevant to the charges in the indictment, and encouraged the defence to move on.
It was the third time that judges enquired about the relevance of defence testimony that day.


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