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Народный фронт освобождения Палестины — Главное командование или Основное командование (), сокращённо НФОП-ГК — небольшая палестинская националистическая военизированная организация, признанная террористической в ряде стран. Была основана в октябре 1968 года бывшим капитаном сирийской армии Ахмадом Джибрилем из-за разногласий с «марксистами» в руководстве НФОП. Джибрил являлся генеральным секретарём НФОП-ГК вплоть до своей смерти.

Численность организации составляют несколько сотен боевиков. Она имеет штаб-квартиру в Дамаске, ячейки — в Ливане и Европе; пользуется поддержкой Сирии и Ирана. У организации имеется собственное боевое крыло под названием «бригады Джихада Джибриля».

НФОП-ГК признана террористической организацией в Канаде, Европейском союзе и США.

При создании организации Джибрил провозгласил, что необходимо активнее заниматься вооружённой борьбой и меньше внимания уделять политике. НФОП-ГК находилась в оппозиции Народному фронту освобождения Палестины Наифа Хаватме и ФАТХ Ясира Арафата, хотя до 1974 года являлась членом ООП. Джибрил называл свою организацию «пионерами» в проведении терактов-самоубийств против Израиля, первым из которых он считал нападение на Кирьят-Шмону в 1974 году. Эти акции отличались от терактов-самоубийств 90-х и 2000-х годов с использованием поясов шахидов, боевики были вооружены огнестрельным и холодным оружием и убивали израильтян до тех пор, пока их самих не уничтожали. При этом боевик знал, что у него нет пути отступления.

НФОП-ГК крайне отрицательно отнеслась к соглашениям в Осло.

Террористы использовали разнообразные технические средства: воздушные шары, мотодельтапланы и т. п.

Среди наиболее громких терактов НФОП-ГК — взрыв швейцарского самолёта в 1970 году, в ходе которого погиб 41 человек, бойня в школьном автобусе из Авивим (12 убитых, в том числе 9 детей), убийство 19 израильских граждан в Кирьят-Шмона в 1974 году.

В мае 1985 года боевики НФОП-ГК захватили трех израильских солдат в Ливане, выдвинув требования их обмена на палестинских заключенных, представив список более чем в тысячу человек. Требования были выполнены: в числе освобожденных палестинских заключенных были такие известные люди как Джибриль Раджуб (в последующем ставший главой службы безопасности ПНА) и духовный лидер движения ХАМАС шейх Ахмед Ясин. В 1987 году двое диверсантов НФОП-ГК проникли на территорию Израиля (близ Кирьят-Шмона) на дельтаплане и убили шестерых израильских солдат.

С конца 80-х годов группировка не совершала крупных вооружённых акций против Израиля и в значительной степени была неактивна.

В настоящее время организация участвует в гражданской войне в Сирии на стороне правительства Башара Асада. 26 августа 2013 года группировка заявила о готовности нанести «ответный удар» в случае внешней агрессии против Сирии. «Региональные интересы тех, кто участвует в агрессии против Сирии, будут законной мишенью» — заявил пресс-секретарь организации Анвар Раджа агентству France-Presse в Дамаске.

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COVER STORY | STAGE DOOR | PREVIEW | THE HUM | CALENDAR
A highway runs through it
Manila residents, health advocates call for a walkability movement
Bush forest plan challenged
Owl concerns halt salvage sale in Six Rivers National Forest
STOEN TO LEAVE DA OFFICE: Deputy District Attorney Tim Stoen, the veteran Mendocino County prosecutor who DA Paul Gallegos hired to be his No. 2 in the office, announced last week that he would be leaving his job effective this Friday. He said that Mendocino County DA Norm Vroman had offered him his old job as that county's top white-collar crimes prosecutor a few weeks ago, and he thought that the time was ripe to take it. "It's because I'm a political liability to Paul," Stoen said from his office last week. "It's not justified, but it's real. Basically, the Peoples Temple past gets tagged on to my name every time I do something someone disagrees with." In the '70s, Stoen was attorney and advisor to cult leader Jim Jones, as well as a high-ranking member of his Peoples Temple church (see "Standing in the Shadows of Jonestown," July 31, 2003). Stoen said that local detractors never chose to look at the other side of the story -- the fact that he broke with the church and engaged in a desperate battle to draw the attention of U.S. officials to the dire situation of Temple members at Jonestown, the cult's commune in the South American nation of Guyana. In November 1978, over 900 people died in a mass suicide/murder at Jonestown, including Stoen's son, John Victor. Stoen made his name in Humboldt County as a prosecutor in a number of high-profile, politically charged cases -- including those against former Eureka Inn owner John Biord, Fortuna City Councilmember Debi August and, most prominently, the civil suit against the Pacific Lumber Co. (see this week's cover story.) But throughout his time here, there was nearly always something interesting coming from him, often unrelated to his official duties. In the last election cycle, he made an aborted run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate; despite withdrawing from the race a little over 24 hours after he entered it, he ended up finishing fifth in a field of 11 candidates, with 124,940 votes. Stoen said last week he was looking forward to getting back to Mendocino County and working for Vroman, who he said was "his own man," like Gallegos. He has no regrets about his time in Humboldt County, he said. "I would do everything like I did," he said, "I think, when the smoke clears in a couple of years -- five years -- people will say, hey, he did something really constructive for the county."
EVERGREEN GETS MORE TIME: After an all-day hearing that saw attendees booted from one venue to another as the day wore thin, the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District Hearing Board agreed to extend Evergreen Pulp, Inc.'s variance until Dec. 31. The pulp mill has been operating under a variance since it discovered it wasn't meeting emissions standards. It fixed one problem, but asked for more time to deal with the smelt dissolver scrubber, from which excess emissions have been spewing. Under the extended variance, the mill will be allowed to emit about 40 more tons of particulates than emissions standards allow, providing Evergreen meets a number of conditions designed to finally clean up the scrubber and bring the mill into compliance. Not all of the district's requests were met, however. "We were disappointed in the hearing board's decision not to require [Evergreen] to reimburse the district for the cost incurred in evaluating their proposal," said Lawrence Odle, the district's air pollution control officer. The evaluation cost the district $60,000. "We also were disappointed the board didn't require in-stack monitoring." Odle is peeved at how long Evergreen has drawn out the situation, especially since the mill has been in violation of emissions standards for years. Evergreen had to have known that a new scrubber was recommended by its own staff, said Odle. "When that pulp mill was bought, they bought the whole show, and that included the employees' knowledge," he said "The employees knew this mill was in violation. They knew they needed an additional scrubber. And that in itself is astonishing."
PRIEST ABUSE CASES REACHING CLOSURE: The Santa Rosa Roman Catholic Diocese reached a $7.3 million settlement last week that closes eight of nine lawsuits filed against it between 2002 and 2003 on behalf of victims of child sex abuse by three of the diocese's priests, according to a report in the June 30 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. Adding that amount to past settlements, the diocese has now paid $19.2 million over the past four decades to victims of sex abuse by priests. In all, the diocese reports that 16 of its priests were accused of abusing 59 children during that period. Two of the recently settled cases involved former Humboldt County priest Gary Timmons. As reported in past North Coast Journal coverage of the cases, Timmons was convicted of molesting boys at Camp St. Michael, which he founded in 1964, in northern Mendocino County. He also was accused in 1996 of molesting a Humboldt County boy while he served as a priest at St. Bernard's parish in Eureka. Timmons served four years of an eight-year sentence. He now lives in Sacramento, according to the Megan's Law website (www.meganslaw.ca.gov), which tracks registered sex offenders. The last of the nine cases also involved Timmons. It may go to trial, according to comments made by the alleged victim's attorney, Katherine Freberg, to the Press-Democrat.
LAKE COUNTY SPURNS BERG, CHESBRO: Lake County has officially lost its confidence in local-grown state legislators Patty Berg and Wes Chesbro, and last week sent miffed letters to the two telling them so. On June 28, the Lake County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 (a fifth supervisor was not at the meeting) to write a letter of "no confidence" to Sen. Chesbro (D-Arcata) and Assemblywoman Berg (D-Eureka) for their roles leading to the passage of Senate Bill 1049. The bill caused a 418 percent increase in the fee the county must pay to the state Division of Safety of Dams. "In return for the State's mandatory fee of $10,810, we receive two safety inspections per year," reads the supervisors' no-confidence letter, sent June 29 to Chesbro and Berg. (Lake County Assistant Clerk to the Board Georgine Hunt faxed the letter to the Journal.) "It places a significant burden on our small Flood Zone District, which must pay this fee. This District receives only $14,000 per year in property tax revenue and it's a disgrace that most of this revenue must now be used to pay the state fee, leaving almost no funding for the actual operation of these important facilities." The board chastises Berg for voting repeatedly for the bill, and Chesbro for not voting against it (he didn't vote on it at all, in the end).
BIG WATER SHOES TO FILL: The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District is searching for a new board director to take the place of Division 3 Director Lloyd Hecathorn, who died last week at St. Joseph's Hospital. Whoever applies for the position will not only be responsible for helping shape the Humboldt Bay region's water future -- not a sexy job, but essential -- but will have to step into the shoes of a man who served for almost half the lifetime of the 50-year-old district. Hecathorn, 84, served 24 and a half years, longer than any other director, during a time that saw the construction of a $10.5 million turbidity reduction facility in Eureka (dedicated two years ago to Hecathorn), a domestic water storage facility in Korblex, an industrial water diversion facility in Essex, and a hydroelectric plant at Ruth Lake, not to mention a myriad policy decisions, occasional leaks and, of course, the infamous Mad River water bag scheme. Harold Hunt, who served 12 years on the district before losing in last year's election to Randy Turner, says the most important role of the district in all that time was "paying the bills and keeping everybody happy." Hecathorn was good at that, he says. "Lloyd always had the best interest of the end user at heart," Hunt says. "He was very well liked. He'd been in business here, and he knew what it was like to meet payroll." Meeting payroll became a hot issue when one of the two pulp mills on Samoa closed. Up until then, 80 percent of the cost of running the district's water system was funded by industrial customers. That dropped to 45 percent with the mill's closure. Other users' rates rose. And the biggest, costliest issue facing the new director and cohorts will be maintaining the 50-year-old water system, says water district business analyst John Palmquist. So, it's a serious job. But who knows? Maybe the Mad River water bags scheme will resurface to spice things up. "Lloyd? Oh, he couldn't stand the thought of" bagged Mad River water floating south to quench other cities' thirst, says Hunt. "There's no way in hell we would've approved it. You'd have a war up here." The new director will join two other newcomers, elected last November, and two relative old-timers who've served since 1993 and 1995.
CORRECTIONS: Through no fault of the writer or the subject, Timber Heritage Association President Marcus Brown was mistakenly identified as "president of the North Coast Railroad Authority" in a photo caption in last week's cover story, "[t]rail" (June 30). Also, reader "Tugboat Annie" notes that the device referred to as a "winch" in "Port of Call" (June 23) is, in fact, a capstan. [corrected in the online version] The Journal regrets the errors.
story & photo by HELEN SANDERSON
AT A "WALKABILITY AUDIT" IN MANILA LAST WEEK, hosted by the Humboldt Partnership for Active Living (HumPAL), Manila residents, health advocates and local officials discussed what is preventing people from strolling the streets of their neighborhood.
In spite of the natural beauty that saturates the town, Manila is not a welcoming bastion for walkers -- there are no sidewalks and no bike lanes, loose dogs, flooded roadways, blind turns and a maze of dead ends that thwart non-motorized fun. But chief among the problems plaguing pedestrians is State Route 255, a two-lane, 55 mph highway that bisects the 1,000-person town from east to west, separating the dunes from the park, the community center from the market, neighbor from neighbor.
"Unless their environment is inviting, people have a hard time integrating physical activity into their daily routine," said Jen Rice, natural resources services project coordinator for the Redwood Community Action Agency, the umbrella agency and fiscal sponsor for HumPAL.
Part of the problem, aside from a perceived lack of time and laziness (which people admitted to in a survey), is that Humboldt County, being large and sparsely populated, is, in many ways, better suited for driving than walking or bicycling. On top of that, each town -- particularly the unincorporated ones like Manila -- has unique hurdles hampering the path to fitness friendliness. HumPAL's function is to assist communities in prioritizing repairs and to help local governments pursue grant funding for the fixes.
In small ways, Manilans have tried over the years to make a less-than-ideal situation more pleasant for pedestrians. Joy Dellas, a Manila Community Services District member and artist, has painted signs imploring motorists to "Slow Down in Our Town." To create a grassy sidewalk, one resident reliably mows a long, shoulderless stretch of Peninsula Drive, which runs parallel and cuts perpendicular to 255.
But so far, no amount of grassroots endeavoring has made the dash across the highway, where an average of 5,400 vehicles travel daily, any less frightening.
"It's scary to walk around here," said Salena Kahle, an 18-year Manila resident and member of the Traffic Safety Committee. "We haven't had a death yet and hopefully it won't take that to make changes."
The number of accidents on the road is too low -- six collisions a year on average and 2.5 injuries -- to justify changing the speed limit, unlike the accident-burdened, seven-mile stretch of Highway 101 between Eureka and Arcata that was ramped down from 65 mph to 50 mph in 2002.
But while the slower speeds reduced the accident rate on the safety corridor it simultaneously made the alternative route through Manila more dangerous. Within six months of the safety corridor's opening, State Route 255 saw a 30 percent swell in traffic, according to CalTrans. Accidents have risen too, from an annual average of 4.2 collisions to six.
Shortly after Highway 101 reduced its speed limit, the Humboldt County Association of Governments hired Santa Rosa firm Whitlock and Weinberger Transportation Inc. to look into the hazards on 255 and suggest improvements in a report called the Manila Community Traffic Safety Plan.
Phase II of the four-phase draft plan was initiated last month. The report notes that while the Manila highway does not fall within the accident rate parameters that merit a speed limit restriction, there is a "flexibility" provision where roads that have unique circumstances can qualify for a speed adjustment. Other recommendations made for quelling traffic include refuge medians for pedestrians, roundabouts and a gateway monument to remind motorists that they are driving through a neighborhood, not just zipping down another highway. Of the rejected traffic control possibilities were lighted signals and all-way stops, which could worsen traffic problems.
But while these projects look nice on paper, the chance that they will take shape anytime soon is slim, as the state faces a backlog of transportation work amid a budget shortfall.
"There won't be money available to implement those things for quite a long time,' said Dellas. "We are saying, `Just lower the speed limit.' It would be the simplest and least expensive way to solve our the problems."
by HEIDI WALTERS
CONSERVATIONISTS MAY HAVE HACKED A SIGNIFICANT cut into the Bush Administration's controversial Healthy Forests Initiative last week when a judge granted their request to stop (for now) the Forest Service from logging old growth trees in the Six Rivers National Forest that burned during the 2004 Sims fire.
Yes, spotted owls had something to do with it. That, and the Forest Service's dismissal of new evidence that shows that old growth forests might retain critical habitat value even after they've burned.
"The Forest Service got their biologist to say the burned forest is not one the owls can use," said Scott Greacen of the Environmental Protection Information Center. EPIC is one of several groups suing the Forest Service over the proposed Sims Fire salvage sale, saying it violates the National Environmental Policy Act and other federal laws. "So, they said there would be no significant impact. But there's a fairly significant chunk of evidence that shows spotted owls do use burned forests, even severely burned forests. They hunt in them, because there's a lot of life in them."
The Sims fire burned 4,039 acres of public and private forest. Six Rivers Forest Supervisor Jeff Walter in May approved the helicopter logging of 6.1 million board feet of timber from 169 acres of the burned forest in Humboldt County, including 124 acres within the Grouse Creek Late Successional Reserve and 57 acres of critical spotted owl habitat. Walter used a "categorical exclusion" rule under the Healthy Forests Initiative that allows up to 250 acres of burned forest to be logged and a half a mile of road to be built without environmental assessment, as long as no protected species are harmed. Walter's May 17 decision memo authorizing the salvage sale cited a need to "accelerate the development ... of old-growth conditions by setting the stage for reforestation of salvaged areas," and to "capture economic value" of salvaged trees.
The salvage sale went up for bid, and although the high bidder -- Sierra Pacific Industries, at $661,791 -- was identified, the bid has not been granted yet.
The conservation groups blasted the Forest Service decision. They pointed to a recent Oregon State University study of the Timbered Rock wildfire burn in Oregon, in which researchers tracked five spotted owls and observed them using the burned trees. They also noted University of Washington old-growth expert Jerry Franklin's work on the Biscuit Fire recovery project, in Oregon. The 2002 Biscuit Fire burned mostly in late-successional reserves, areas set aside by the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan as refugia for old-growth-dependent species such as the northern spotted owl. In his report on that project, Franklin wrote that these reserves were "designed to accommodate large, intense natural disturbances and allow for natural recovery processes." He said spotted owls depend on forest prey that live in snags and downed trees, and that "salvage of large snags and logs is absolutely antithetical to rapid recovery of late-successional forest habitat."
The groups noted that the area to be logged also contains critical habitat for two other species that, like the northern spotted owl, are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act: the coho salmon and the marbled murrelet. "And there's another species, the black-headed woodpecker, that seems to depend on burned forests," said Greacen.
The Forest Service's decision to log ignored the new evidence of the spotted owls' use of burned forests, said U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, in San Francisco. She found the evidence compelling enough to stop the salvage sale so she could study the case more closely. She also was unmoved by the Forest Service's plea for haste to allay financial loss from the declining value of the burned timber.
"On balance," wrote Illston in her June 27 order, "the Court finds that plaintiffs have demonstrated irreparable harm if the Court does not grant the motion for a preliminary injunction, based on the environmental value of the trees subject to logging and the irreversible nature of logging. Additionally, [the Forest Service]'s only harm is economic, which has been found to be of significantly less importance than environmental harm when courts determine irreparable harm."
If the judge later decides to permanently ban the proposed salvage, it will mark the first time old-growth salvage logging has been stopped since passage of the Healthy Forests Initiative in 2002. Greacen said he hopes such a decision would lead to an overhaul of the initiative itself.
"One of the things the Healthy Forests Initiative did was set up a series of regulatory loopholes [called categorical exclusions] under NEPA" that exclude certain projects from environmental review, Greacen said. The Forest Service already had some exclusionary leeway under previous law -- "like, to repaint the bathroom at the ranger station," says Greacen. But the Healthy Forests Initiative was passed amid a climate of fear following a storm of wildfires in the summer of 2002, blamed on years of fire suppression. It made it easier to log burned old-growth trees without public scrutiny first.
"It's a big loophole they've created, and they're inviting the Forest Service to drive as many logging trucks through it as they can," said Greacen. The particular category the Forest Service used to exclude the Sims salvage sale from environmental review is particularly egregious, he said. "This whole idea that you can presumably log 250 acres of burned forest without environmental effects -- we think that's too broad," said Greacen. "What we would really like is that the judge is going to say, `This whole category is a problem.'"
If the category isn't changed, said Greacen, old growth forests could be in danger of "death by a thousand cuts."
"String `em together -- over the next 20 years, there are going to be fires in late-successional old growth," he said. "And what's going to happen to all that old growth" if it can be logged? Worst case scenario? "The effect of salvage would be to create more plantations" which lack the biodiversity of old growth, Greacen said. "If you get more public forests into plantations, they won't be locked up in habitat."
Because the case is in litigation, Six Rivers National Forest officials declined to comment for this story.
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" CA-50 Contest Judge Actually Plans to Think! (updated)	"
CA-50 Contest Judge Actually Plans to Think! (updated)
Takes Constitutional and Jurisdictional Matters Under Advisement
Could Judge Hofmann Be Prying the NeoCon Boot Off His Neck?
By Emily Levy on 8/25/2006, 5:52pm PT
Guest bloged by Emily Levy
Judge Yuri Hofmann announced in his San Diego courtroom today that he will take the constitutional and jurisdictional matters of the CA-50 election challenge case under advisement and issue a ruling next Tuesday, August 29.
The first item up for consideration today in the election contest filed by Attorneys Paul Lehto and Ken Simpkins on behalf of two San Diego voters (and truly on behalf of all of us) was a defense motion for dismissal. Defense claimed that the San Diego court has no jurisdiction in this matter because the Constitution says, "Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members…" (Article I, Section 5). In other words, The House of Representatives gets to pick its members. (Who really needs elections, anyway?)
Lehto, in response, argued--as outlined here--that if the court has no jurisdiction, then Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas also had no jurisdiction to certify the election, given that certification happened after Bilbray was sworn in. (Yes, you heard that right.)
The defendants also argued that the court has no jurisdiction because plaintiffs had abandoned their recount efforts. According to Lehto, the request for a recount was filed properly within five days of certification of the election. Lehto says, "Jurisdiction was created by filing. That's all the statute says. There is no abandonment rule."
The judge is expected to rule on both the constitutional and jurisdictional issues on Tuesday.
From the courthouse by cell phone plaintiff Barbara Gail Jacobsen reported, "Paul Lehto and Ken Simpkins represented us very well today in court. Lehto said it's invading the sovereignty of the State if someone swoops in and swears the person in and then says there's nothing you can do. I thought he made some very good arguments about upholding checks and balances in our system and standing up for the right of the people to make sure that elections are accountable. We the People of this country decide on who is going to represent us, and it's through making sure that our elections are sound that we can know for sure that we have elected people that we want to transfer power to. In this particular case what Paul Lehto was trying to say is that the people's right to know if the election was properly carried out is being blindfolded and taken away by the other side."
We can only hope that before Tuesday Judge Hofmann will have the opportunity to read the rest of the Constitution. It could be enlightening.
Donations are still needed for the lawsuit and other efforts in California's 50th District to fight the illegal June 6 election. For more information, go to nosleepovers.org.
UPDATE: We have another report of the day's proceedings, this one from Judy Hess of CA 50 Action Committee:
News from the front lines— the judge is thinking.
We had our hearing this afternoon, and we are still alive! The judge ordered argument on whether he has jurisdiction in this case, based on Bilbray's arguments that the US Constitution says the House and Senate judge who belongs in their chambers.
Bilbray's argument goes like this: The Constitution calls for each chamber to judge its members. Since Brian Bilbray was sworn in on June 13 (before the votes were all counted, and 17 days before the certification) this judge has no jurisdiction and would be a violation for the court to judge that which properly belongs to the legislative branch.
WELL! All that sounds great until you hear Mr. Lehto argue. Oh my, what a case he presented.
His argument? That if Bilbray's argument is correct, then everything is topsy turvy (my term, not his!). Saith he, read the rest of the Constitution, meant to be interpreted in its entirety.
The Constitution reserves for the states the method and timing of the federal elections. That includes counting the votes – that means finish counting the votes. That means if you have a contest you have to recount the votes, and until you have done that, the state's right to exercise its obligations under the constitution are not met.
So, if you still agree with Mr. Bilbray, then you must conclude that all that is needed to cut off the state's right to its procedures is rush to swear in! Who cares if the count is accurate? Who cares if the ROV played games? Who cares if the PEOPLE are not able to select the candidate of their choice through the election process fully played out?
If rushing to swear in wrests the ability to count votes away from hands of the people, then what is the point of certification? It is rendered null, without point, without gravitas. What the heck, what is the point of voting? Let the Registrar "elect" (select?) our representatives to the House.
And to the judge, he cautioned, how can it be that a rush to swear in a candidate, an act of the legislature (House) is of no consequence to the courts? How can the House render this judge (State Judge) powerless, when the Constitution says we Californians get to count our votes according to processes the Constitution says we get to set!
I have put this in plain terms.
Paul's argument was so eloquent that I found myself on the verge of mistiness at one point. My words tell you much of the argument— but I can't do the presentation justice. He has set up the classic tensions, though, between different parts of the Constitution, and also the tensions between Federal and States' rights.
This argument was so well done, that about three quarters of the way through, I finally put down my pen and just listened and enjoyed. I knew I was watching a little slice of history, and I didn't want to miss it "working". But I got the gist of it for you and will transcribe my notes later.
The great news is that the judge paid close attention. Paul had him really engaged at some points. The judge has taken the issue "under submission". Meaning he has to think about it, do some research or have it done for him, before he decides.
At 1:30 pm Tuesday, we'll be back in court, and he will announce his decision whether he has jurisdiction to decide this case, or whether the power of the Federal government is plenary (or supreme), under our facts.
If he gives us the go ahead, then he will hear other argument, and presumably will decide what documents we can get from the ROV.
So we wait. Waiting is the hardest.
Judy Hess
CA 50 Action Committee
www.nosleepovers.org
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
-- Benjamin Franklin 1759
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... Laura	said on 8/25/2006 @ 7:38 pm PT...
Thank You Emily, I'll be waiting with baited breath for the Judge's ruling. Thank God he didn't dismiss outright and will hopefully rule for the PEOPLE! WOOHOO Judge Hofman, now do the right thing DAMMIT!
... Wayne	said on 8/26/2006 @ 10:53 am PT...
"Rev Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972), American politician, was the first African American to become a powerful figure in the United States Congress. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Harlem in 1945, and became chair of the Labor and Education Committee in 1961. His tenure as committee chairman saw the passage of important social legislation. His career was ended by a corruption scandal."
"In 1945 Powell was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives, representing the 22nd congressional district, which included Harlem. He was the first black Congressman from New York, and the first from any Northern state other than Illinois."
"In January of 1967, following allegations that Powell had misappropriated Committee funds for his personal use and other corruption allegations, the House Democratic Caucus stripped Powell of his committee chairmanship. The full House refused to seat him until completion of an investigation by the Judiciary Committee. In March the House voted 307 to 116 to exclude him. Powell won the special election in April to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion, but did not take his seat.
In June of 1969 the Supreme Court ruled that the House had acted unconstitutionally when it excluded Powell, and he returned to the House, but without his seniority. Again his absenteeism was increasingly noted."
For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/.../Adam_Clayton_Powell,_Jr.
... anonymous said on 8/26/2006 @ 7:29 pm PT...
{Ed Note: I don't think this is a forum for trashing other bloggers. You could figure out a better way to make your point... and, you might go over there and look, see for yourself that your allegations are untrue. --99}
... John Blossom	said on 8/27/2006 @ 3:07 pm PT...
I am not sure that the Adam Clayton Powell example is the strongest available. It really doesn't point to Congress judging an ELECTION - just the overall qualifications of a member. The Constitution says that each chamber of Congress can JUDGE elections of its members. Judging implies a judicial process - which is not the case in Bilbray vs. Busby: Hastert held a swearing-in for Bilbray, not a trial with evidence and witnesses. An interesting case to consider dates from 1929 - Barry vs. Cunningham, which the Supreme Court heard (SCOTUS opinion on FindLaw). In this case the Senate was investigating through a judicial process whether illegal funds had been used to tip an election, including calling witnesses, etc. So perhaps one claim Busby could raise is whether there was due judicial process by the House in swearing in Bilbray before election results were even complete.
This raises another interesting point: if the Democrats retake the House, under the Constitution they have the right to call into question these shady election procedures and the validity of the election results. John Conyers could be a very busy man soon...


On leaving the Airport turn left, go straight through the next two sets of traffic lights, on reaching a T junction turn left and then immediately right which takes you down hill past St. Martins Parish Church. Keep going down the hill, on the right is La Blanche Pierre Lane – La Bellieuse Cottages are on the right hand corner of this junction. For Parking and Le Douit Farm and Housekeeper keep going around the bend, without turning into La Blanche Pierre Lane, immediately on your left is Le Douit Farm, go through the granite pillars (the Housekeepers cottage is to the right of the pillars), parking is on your left.
On leaving the Harbour proceed to the roundabout. Take the first left, keeping in the outside lane, proceed along the sea front keeping in the left lane. You will pass the bus terminus. Keep going straight, up the hill (Val des Terres). Turn left at the top of the hill and keep going along main road that is called Fort Road and then Sausmarez Road. At the traffic lights turn right into Routes des Camps going towards the Parish Centre – take the third right which takes you down past St. Martins Parish Church. Keep going down the hill, on the right is La Blanche Pierre Lane – La Bellieuse Cottages are on the right hand corner of this junction. For Parking and Le Douit Farm and Housekeeper keep going around the bend, without turning into La Blanche Pierre Lane, immediately on your left is Le Douit Farm, go through the granite pillars, parking is on your left.
On leaving the Airport turn left, go straight ahead at the first set of lights and at the second set turn left. Follow the road through the next set of lights and straight through a small roundabout. Turn right at the next set of lights and bear left at the filter that takes you into Queens Road. Keep on this road and turn right at the next filter into Grange Road ** - turn immediately left into Brock Road, keep on this road and go straight through the next set of lights. Take the next left into Fosse Andre and at the bottom of the hill turn right into Rue Maurepas, on the next corner turn left into the driveway leading to Ilex Lodge.
On leaving the Harbour proceed to the roundabout. Take the St. Julians Avenue exit – (second – half way round) – up the hill. Go straight through the next five sets of pedestrian crossing and traffic lights. Immediately after the fifth set of lights turn right into Brock Road, keep on this road and go straight through the next set of lights. Take the next left into Fosse Andre and at the bottom of the hill turn right into Rue Maurepas, on the next corner turn left into the driveway leading to Ilex Lodge.
or On leaving the Harbour proceed to the roundabout and go to the right along the main coast road. Turn left at the next set of traffic lights into Admiral Park Continue on this road until you reach traffic lights and turn left into La Vrangue (eventually passing the main post office on your left). At the next junction left into Couture Road. At the next set of traffic lights – turn left into the Fosse Andre. Take the next left into Maurepas Road. About 50 meters on your left (on the bend) turn left onto the drive way to Ilex Lodge.
On leaving the Airport turn left, go straight through the next two sets of traffic lights, on reaching a T junction turn right. At the next traffic lights turn left into Saumarez Road and then take the next right into Le Varclin. Keep bearing straight and go down a dip in the road, up the other side and at the top on your left is a driveway between two granite cottages where you will find Del Mar Court.
On leaving the Harbour proceed to the roundabout. Take the first left, keeping in the outside lane, proceed along the sea front keeping in the left lane. You will pass the bus terminus. Keep going straight, up the hill (Val des Terres). Turn left at the top of the hill into Fort Road, take the fourth left turn into Le Varclin. Keep bearing straight and go down a dip in the road, up the other side and at the top on your left is a driveway between two granite cottages where you will find Del Mar Court.
La Bellieuse Cottages - after following the directions above you can park outside the cottage in the lane or you can park across the lane at Le Douit. Walk through the gateway with wrought iron gate, down the side of the cottages and turning left you will find on your left no. 2 and then no. 1. The Housekeeper can be found across the lane at Le Douit - her cottage faces the lane with iron railings - Le Douit Farm Cottage. Go straight to your accommodation - from 2pm the door will be open and the key inside. The Housekeeper who lives in Le Douit Cottage to the right of the main granite pillars will leave a notice board outside No. 5 which will show if your cottage is ready for you.
Le Douit - follow the directions above - Le Douit Nos 3 & 5 are inside the granite pillars, facing you to the left. Nos 4 & 6 are also inside the granite pillars, round to the back of the building, to your left and up the granite steps. Please park your cars facing the granite wall in front of nos 3 & 5. There are a couple of parking spaces facing the barn with the three arches. Go straight to your accommodation - from 2pm the door will be open and the key inside. The Housekeeper who lives in Le Douit Cottage to the right of the main granite pillars will leave a notice board outside No. 5 which will show if your cottage or apartment is ready for you.
Ilex Lodge - follow the directions above - Parking is to the side of the Housekeepers house. You need to go down the entrace to the side of the Housekeepers House to reach your apartment. The Housekeeper leaves a notice board outside her front door which will show if your apartment is ready for you. The door will be left open and the key will be inside so go straight to your apartment if it is ready.
Del Mar Court - follow the directions above - Parking can be found on three sides of the property. Del Mar Court has a notice board in the lobby area which will show if your apartment is ready for you. The door will be left open and the key will be inside so go straight to your apartment if it is ready.
Route 91, 92, 93, 94 & 95 runs to St. Peter Port town terminus and runs through St. Martins Parish Centre - with a few minutes walk down past St. Martin's Church to La Bellieuse and Le Douit and along Sausmarez Road for a short few minute walk down Le Varclin to Del Mar Court. For Ilex Lodge - once at the terminus take the number 51/52 bus - get off at Couture Road, walk down the water lane and up Fosse Andre. Take the next left into Maurepas Road. Follow the directions for each property from there.
There are late opening convenience shops close to all properties and also one close to the Airport. Airport - coming out of the airport turn right and a approx. 200m on the left side of the road is a CO-OP (Foret en Route) Petrol available and shop behind - open until 22.30 every day of the week. If arriving by ferry there is also a late opening convenience shop as you come off the pier - it is easier to park on the pier and cross the road at the pedestrian crossing - this shop is open until 22.30.
Del Mar Court - from Del Mar Court turn right up the lane to the main road - turn left to the traffic lights. Straight in front of you is a small super market called Iceland. Turn right at the traffic lights and on your left after the Queen's Hotel is a Co-op. If you carry on that main road, going through the Parish Centre, without turning off you will find an M & S Food Store on your right. In between the Co-op and M & S on your right is a petrol station with a small convenience store (later opening).
La Bellieuse & Le Douit - go up the lane, past St. Martins Church, to the main road - turn right for M & S or turn left for the Co-op which is on your right. Go as far as the traffic lights and turn right for Iceland. Before the Co-op is a petrol station on your left with a small convenience store.
Ilex Lodge - if walking, there is a pedestrian gate at the back of Ilex Lodge which takes you to the main road, turn left and then right at the traffic lights, about 100m on your right is a small late opening shop. By car - leaving Ilex, go up the one way road and straight through the next junction. At the bottom of the hill turn right, about 50m on your right is a Co-op. If you go past the Co-op to the main road turn left and keep going and turn left at the next set of traffic lights, on your left you will see signs for B & Q and Admiral Park Waitrose. You can also go right at the top of the one way road from Ilex. Turn into the next right, as though going back to Ilex but do not turn off and go straight through the traffic lights. Next set of traffic lights turn right, you will see the signs for Waitrose which is approx 100m on your right.
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package ua.org.dector.moon_lander.screens;

import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Input;
import com.badlogic.gdx.audio.Sound;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Color;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL10;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.BitmapFont;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.TextureRegion;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Action;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Stage;
import static com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.actions.Actions.*;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Image;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.Label;
import ua.org.dector.gcore.common.Settings;
import ua.org.dector.gcore.game.AbstractScreen;
import ua.org.dector.moon_lander.graphics.Graphics;
import ua.org.dector.moon_lander.LanderGame;

import static ua.org.dector.moon_lander.AppConfig.*;

/**
 * @author dector (dector9@gmail.com)
 */
public class SplashScreen extends AbstractScreen {
    private LanderGame landerGame;

    private TextureRegion gaminatorLogo;
    private TextureRegion dedication;

    private Sound fadeInSound;

    private Stage stage;

    private boolean completed;

    public SplashScreen(LanderGame landerGame) {
        super(landerGame);

        this.landerGame = landerGame;

        fadeInSound = landerGame.getResourceLoader().loadSound(FADEIN_FILE);

        Texture splashTex = landerGame.getResourceLoader().loadTexture(SPLASH_FILE);
        gaminatorLogo = new TextureRegion(
                splashTex,
                GAMINATOR_LOGO_WIDTH,
                GAMINATOR_LOGO_HEIGHT
        );
        dedication = new TextureRegion(
                splashTex,
                GAMINATOR_LOGO_WIDTH,
                0,
                DEDICATION_WIDTH,
                DEDICATION_HEIGHT
        );

        Settings gameSettings = landerGame.getSettings();
        int screenWidth = gameSettings.getScreenWidth();
        int screenHeight = gameSettings.getScreenHeight();

        stage = new Stage(screenWidth, screenHeight, false);

		final Image dedicationImage = new Image(dedication);

        Action gaminatorLogoAct = sequence(
				moveTo((screenWidth / 2 - GAMINATOR_LOGO_WIDTH) / 2,
						(screenHeight - GAMINATOR_LOGO_HEIGHT) / 2,
						0),
				fadeIn(.5f),
				delay(1f),
				run(new Runnable() {
					@Override
					public void run() {
						stage.addActor(dedicationImage);
						fadeInSound.play();
					}
				})
//                FadeOut.$(.5f)
		);
        final Image gaminatorLogoImage = new Image(gaminatorLogo);
        gaminatorLogoImage.getColor().a = 0;

        dedicationImage.getColor().a = 0;
        Action dedicationAction = sequence(
				moveTo((3 * screenWidth / 2 - DEDICATION_WIDTH) / 2,
						(screenHeight - DEDICATION_HEIGHT) / 2,
						0),
				fadeIn(.5f),
				delay(1f),
				run(new Runnable() {
					@Override
					public void run() {
						SplashScreen.this.completed = true;
					}
				})
//                FadeOut.$(.5f)
		);
        dedicationImage.addAction(dedicationAction);

        gaminatorLogoImage.addAction(gaminatorLogoAct);

        // Very dirty hack

        Label emptyActor = new Label("", new Label.LabelStyle(new BitmapFont(), Color.WHITE));
        Action startedAct = sequence(delay(0.05f), run(new Runnable() {
			@Override
			public void run() {
				stage.addActor(gaminatorLogoImage);
				fadeInSound.play();
			}
		}));
        emptyActor.addAction(startedAct);
        stage.addActor(emptyActor);
    }

    public boolean keyDown(int keycode) {
        if (keycode == Input.Keys.ESCAPE) {
            Gdx.app.exit();
        } else if (keycode == Input.Keys.SPACE) {
            landerGame.play();
        }

        return true;
    }

    public void render(float delta) {
        Gdx.gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

        stage.act(delta);
        stage.draw();

        int screenWidth = ((LanderGame)game).getSettings().getScreenWidth();

        if (completed) {
            Graphics g = game.getGraphics();
            g.begin();
            g.drawCentered("Press <<Space>> to start",
                    screenWidth / 2, 100, Graphics.FontSize.BIG);
            g.end();
        }
    }

    public void dispose() {
        gaminatorLogo.getTexture().dispose();
        stage.dispose();
    }

	@Override
	public boolean mouseMoved(int screenX, int screenY) {
		return false;
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This year for Melbourne Cup, Courtyard by Milk Crate will be offering a three course lunch, with optional drinks packages!
There will be big screen coverage of the races in the venue throughout the afternoon, in-house sweepstakes, live music all afternoon and a DJ from 3pm.
Tables will be available inside or outside – for those who want to enjoy a little bit of sunshine.
You can purchase your tickets by emailing: [email protected].
Look forward to the frocked up day of fun!


Those are words newly named IBM Fellow Mickey Iqbal lives by in his role as IBM's Global Technology Services' Architecture and Technical Solution Design lead and Master Inventor. He has averaged more than 150,000 air miles all over the world each of the last two years to literally develop IBM clients' future IT systems architecture, side by side.
"Whether from business and technical workshops, or taking a look at what's under a raised floor in a datacenter, we will work with the client's technical experts as an extended team member. We'll determine their requirements, lay out a blueprint for their future IT 'state,' and ultimately make them feel 100 percent vested in the final solution," Mickey said.
That new state is hybrid cloud IT management. Today's companies have cloud, social, mobile, big data, security technology – and the analytics needs for each – plus legacy systems all made up of multiple vendors. And they just expect everything will work together for results. For example, banks want better, more secure services for their customers, the highest level of agility to respond to new business models and client trends, and have the resiliency to be always-on; not to mention having simplified ways to meet government compliance requirements. Mickey takes this all into account to design an innovative "future-state" IT architecture and technical solution, not a stand-alone product.
"During a recent client engagement, we showed the CIO (of a large financial institution) an analysis of how a sub-set of his company's workloads could be migrated to a hybrid IT environment. We performed the analysis with almost no input from the CIO's team, just using our industry experience to come up with a detailed point of view on what workloads could be moved to the hybrid environment, and how quickly we could do it.
"The CIO was pleased with how we took initiative and told his team how thrilled he was to see how proactive we had been in developing and presenting a point of view for his future state hybrid IT – which was in line with his vision," Mickey said.
Mickey credits his own proactive approach to investing significant time with any business and technical leader, from any industry, who will work with him. The diversity, including geography – he spent most of 2013 in Munich, Germany working with a multi-national Insurance industry client – imprints new perspective on problem solving. "I gain a wealth of knowledge from doing this, and I translate what I learn into objective discussions with clients," Mickey said.
In the future, Mickey sees future hybrid systems able to codify a higher level of expertise and exploit big data analytics automatically, and perhaps even proactively. So, in instances like his visit to the CIO mentioned above, he could automate several systems tasks to deliver a blueprint faster and with more detail.
How do you stay on top the latest IT research and information?
I meet regularly with IBM Research. We discuss the various client engagements I am working on and what I might be working on in the future. The Research team also informs me about their recent and planned developments. I provide my feedback on these developments, and we discuss how I could take these assets and include them in my future work with clients. This way, we are already working as a tightly knit unit, and are ready when we formally get asked to work on a live client engagement.
We – IBM Global Technology Services – also need reusable assets for our engineers to use when developing a solution. So, I've done everything from help set up asset repositories to write the assets: articles, technical documents, and even a book. Doing this keeps me in tune with industry and what our teams are working on.
A key mentor who helped me get to where I am today is Carl D. Meadows. He's a computer scientist, lawyer, and business administrator who I worked with at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Carl encouraged me to wear many hats and work on the latest advancements in all areas of technology.
He fueled my passion for technology simply by making me aware of educational resources that I could use to enhance my skills. He also encouraged me to become an expert in multiple fields concurrently. And so I've been a database administrator, a network administrator, application developer, software engineer, business systems analyst, end user computing services consultant, IT architect and teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses – all at the same time! I still carry Carl's advice close to my heart, and am always looking to expand my technical expertise.
During my orientation week at IBM in 1999, one of the IBM executive speakers who welcomed us gave me an excellent piece of advice which I still cherish. He told me to never approach a manager or a client with a problem without also providing them with your recommendations on potential solutions. This will show that you thought through the problem and have a vision for how to solve it.
It is a humbling experience. I look forward to, in the ever-accelerating pace of progress, continuing to design large scale IT management solutions for our clients and the industry.
I am a night owl and some of my most creative ideas come to me when I work late at night without any interruptions. And it sometimes happens during the day once I've turned off Sametime (IBM's internal chat app)!
What do you enjoy away from work?
I really enjoy playing golf. Someday, I'd love to play at Pebble Beach, St Andrews, and Augusta National! For now, Tour 18 Dallas (which replicated the PGA tour course's most-famous holes) and The Tribute (a course that replicated European course's most-popular holes), and also near my home in Dallas, will have to do.
I just finished Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku.


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CRISIS OVER: All 12 Boys and Coach Now Rescued from Flooded Thai Cave, 'Thank You to God'
The final rescue mission is now complete in Thailand as all 12 boys and their soccer coach have been extracted from a flooded cave in a drama that has riveted their nation and the world. More ambulances with flashing lights were seen leaving the site of the flooded Thai cave Tuesday as the last of the boys were rescued.
Health officials say all the boys, ages 12 to 16, have now been brought out over the last three days, and they're in "high spirits" and generally healthy.
Those rescued are now in the hospital, quarantined for at least seven days away from germs and infections. Their lungs and hearts will be evaluated, and they'll be given vaccinations and antibiotics to be safe.
Jesada Chokdumrongsuk, deputy director-general of the Thai Public Health Ministry, said Tuesday that the first group of four boys rescued are generally healthy and now able to eat normal food. But infections are a serious concern since they were trapped in unsanitary conditions, exposed to human waste for weeks during their ordeal, and two of the boys reportedly may have a lung infection.
If medical tests show no danger, parents will be able to enter the isolation area to see their children for the first time since the boys became trapped in the cave two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, it turns out one of the boys was being sponsored as a beneficiary of Compassion, attending one of their child development centers. The ministry's motto is, "Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name."
"Thank you so much for all prayers and all the encouragement. Thank you to God. I'm really thankful that they found my son and all 13 are alive," the boy's mother tells Compassion in an interview seen below. "I'm so happy and so thankful to see my son again. Thank you so much to everyone that has been praying for us and the boys and helping us; thank you."
Thai Cave Rescue: Parents say Thank You from Compassion Canada on Vimeo.
The 12 boys and their soccer coach became trapped by flooding due to heavy rains after entering that cave. The dangerous conditions of the flooding made rescue attempts impossible for days, leading to the death of a highly trained navy SEAL diver.
The final leg of the mission involved 19 divers with oxygen tanks for the victims, and a rope line to guide them through murky waters, occasional fast currents, and completely flooded sections of the cave complex.
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Published on February 7, 2015 February 6, 2015 by CIGH Exeter
Marc-William Palen
History Department, University of Exeter
Follow on Twitter @MWPalen
From the Deep Roots of Afro-Asia, to Mumbai's Tata Empire, here are this week's top picks in imperial and global history.
The Deep Roots of Afro-Asia
Keisha N. Blain
African American Intellectual History Society
More often than not, when my students hear the terms "Afro-Asian solidarity," they usually point to the Rush Hour movies, featuring the talented duo Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. When I taught a group of high school students last summer, their faces lit up when they suspected I might show a clip from one of the movies. They were wrong. I showed a video clip of Fred Ho and his Afro Asian Musical Ensemble instead. I wanted my students to think about Afro-Asia as part of our ongoing conversation about the meanings and functions of black internationalism. Since none of them had heard of Fred Ho (1957-2014), I was also excited to introduce them to this musical genius, writer, and activist.
My students were astute to draw a connection to Rush Hour. Our popular memory continues to associate Afro-Asia with a myriad of cultural productions including novels—i.e. Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway and Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring—and films such as Unleashed, Cradle 2 the Grave, and Rising Sun. The Rush Hour movies, first released in 1998, certainly exemplify the cultural manifestations of Afro-Asia even as they perpetuate racial and ethnic stereotypes.1 Describing Rush Hour 2, in particular, Crystal Anderson argues that the film "embraces interethnic male friendship, but only on the basis of a reductive notion of national identity, which reinforces the distance between the African American and Chinese leads." 2 This is true but I also think the portrayals of two police detectives—one African American and the other Chinese—working in tandem to fight crime in the United States and abroad symbolically allude to a richer, deeper, and dynamic history. [continue reading]
Ripping Yarns: How a British Empire Novelist Has Become the Darling of the American Right
Christian Today
A Victorian author of ripping yarns about great figures from history and plucky empire-builders is enjoying a renaissance thanks to a children's 'audio theatre' series and the growth of the Christian 'homeschool' movement in the US. G A Henty (1832-1902) was a novelist and war correspondent who wrote historical adventure stories such as The Dragon and the Raven, Through Russian Snows – about Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812 – and Under Drake's Flag. Henty was a firm believer in the virtues of the British Empire and set a template for uplifting stories which was followed in journals such as the Boys' Own Paper and Chums. Authors such as Frederick Brereton and Percy F Westerman, author of The Wireless Officer, also wrote in the 'Henty tradition'.
Though his books are not now widely read in the UK, his stress on the virtues of courage, faith and modesty have made him popular with Christian conservatives – though this popularity is arguably based on a very selective reading of his work. [continue reading]
Preventing 'Another Castro': John F. Kennedy and Latin America
Mark Seddon
In December, Presidents Barak Obama and Raul Castro announced that they would be taking steps to normalise US-Cuban relations thereby ending decades of animosity between the two governments. In a public statement, Obama declared it time 'to cut loose the shackles of the past' and do away with the enmity that brought about the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Although Cuba is currently in the headlines, the Caribbean island does not figure as prominently in US politics as it once did. During the Cold War, developments in Cuba had a profound effect on US policy towards Latin America as a whole. In particular, Washington officials feared that the Cuban Revolution would pave the way for other communist governments, allied with the Soviet Union, to emerge throughout the region. For President John F. Kennedy, this prospect made Latin America 'the most dangerous area in the world'. [continue reading]
The Men of Steel with a Softer Side
Zareer Masani and Vibeke Venema
Towards the end of the 19th Century, Indian businessman Jamsetji Tata walked into one of Mumbai's most expensive hotels – but, so the story goes, he was told to leave because of the colour of his skin. Legend has it that he was so incensed he decided to build his own hotel – a better one that would welcome Indian guests.
And so, in 1903, the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel opened its doors on the waterfront in Mumbai. It was the first building in the city to have electricity, American fans, German lifts and English butlers. It's still the height of luxury today. Jamsetji was born in 1839 into a Parsi family – many of his forefathers had been Zoroastrian priests. He had made his fortune trading cotton, tea, copper, brass and even opium, which was legal at the time. He was well-travelled and fascinated by new inventions. [continue reading]
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The BBC article about Tata was obviously written by the company's public relations manager. A coup for him, no doubt, but hardly worth featuring on this site.
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Kalimpong: Despite her busy schedule in national politics, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is ready to visit Kalimpong on 28th May, and she has "multiple objectives." Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is arriving in Kalimpong for a 4-day tour on Monday.
It would be her first visit after Kalmipong was upgraded to a district on February 14, 2017. District administration, political parties and others are preparing to welcome Mamata.
The chief minister is expected to hold a meeting with representatives of the 15 bodies during her four-day stay in Kalimpong from May 28, sources said. Party sources added that the chief minister will campaign indirectly in the rural polls.
An official source said Miss Banerjee, after her successful visit to Darjeeling for the Hill Business Summit, plans to hold another programme, this time in association with development boards, including the Lepcha Development Board, in Kalimpong.
The entire Hill region under the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) is politically significant for political parties like the Trinamul Congress and the BJP for a Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal.
The Centre has recently released funds of around Rs 135 crore (the remaining amount of a 600 crore package announced by the Centre earlier), so that no one can blame the Centre and brand it a stepmother, Keeping in mind the present fund release from the Centre, the chief minister will leave no stone unturned to do something impressive.


The paper analyzes the contribution of Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice for development studies. The influence of Sen's book for thinking about development is likely to parallel that of John Rawls's Theory of Justice in political theory. This paper argues that The Idea of Justice has a limited reach in relation to addressing concrete cases of injustice because it is built only on the dual foundations of freedom and reasoning. On the basis of real world examples of unjust situations derived from Sen's body of writings itself, the paper discusses the limits of The Idea of Justice. It contends that remedying injustice requires an understanding of how justice is structural and which recognizes that discussion of justice is inseparable from reasoning about the nature of the good society. The paper concludes by pointing out The Idea of Justice's ambiguous relationship with liberalism.
Deneulin, S. (2010). Development and the limits of Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice. Bath, U. K.: Bath Papers in International Development. Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath.
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Another uneventful MRI scan last week and an appointment with Dr Mason on the October 28th. I have come to realize that I still suffer from my own variant of pre-scan jitters (or stress.) In the two weeks before my MRI I awoke with a headache every single morning, and my blood pressure was way up. As soon as the scan CD-ROM was in my hands the headaches abated and the blood pressure started to drop. Strange huh? Between the MRI scan and the clinic appointment I did a 23 hours straight job installing a new operating system on one of the servers I help manage as part of my business. No stress there…no siree! I'm still going to see my family doctor about the BP issue to be safe though.


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A Rocker Slows Down: Jason Slatton
His sound: Rocker turned singer-songwriter
For fans of: Neil Finn, Paul Westerberg
Jason Slatton wrote his own headline for this feature: "Guy who used to play in much louder, occasionally faster bands slows down a bit and is perhaps easier on your ears. Perhaps."
The Athens, Georgia, native once shared stages with Widespread Panic, Bright Eyes, Lucinda Williams, Verbena, and the Drive-By Truckers. He made records, toured, heard himself on the radio, signed autographs, and "barely made a living" with the Lures and Randall Bramblet. In the early 2000s, though, he got off the road to start a "next chapter" of life and eventually married, started teaching literature, and welcomed a daughter into the world.
It was her birth that inspired his new album, We Are Nighttime Travelers. In this season of life, Slatton found himself wanting to make music, but not like he used to. As he says in "And She Goes On"—which he recorded with his wife, Kristi Houk, on vocals too—it's about "dismantling and then beginning." "Anyone who has had a child can tell you about literal or figurative nighttime 'travelling,'" he says. "Maybe it's also about looking back and taking stock of some things I left in the rearview mirror."
The album title comes from a short story by one of Slatton's favorite writers, Ethan Canin. Slatton had already played some "quiet" shows with Janet Simpson-Templin (vocals, keyboard), so he recruited her along with Les Nuby (bass, drums)—who was "literally next door"—and Jason Hamric (guitar, production, engineering), the "backbone" of the album.
Slatton is always drawing inspiration from life, what he reads, and the literature he teaches to write music. What results he leaves up to interpretation: "I don't want to put too fine a point on what the songs do or say, though. That's up to the listener. I know what they mean to me, or my wife, but that's for us. Once it leaves me, I don't get a say, in my opinion."
Hear more local artists in our full Magic City Mix 2016.
Eugenius Neutron
The Burning Peppermints
Anna Thomical of Zenosyne
Rashid Qandil
Jason Slatton
Ashley Sankey and Company
Creature Camp
In Snow
Lee Shook
Gary Wheat
Chris Hendrix
Tags: August 2016, Magic City Mix, Music
Posted on Monday, August 1st, 2016.
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I am so damn proud of my city and all the cool artists who are killing it locally, regionally, and nationally.
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This town is full of wonderful writers and musicians and Jason Slatton is one of the best at writing evocative songs. If you haven't heard his album GO CHECK IT OUT!
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Our Sister's Place was drawn in the wildcard round in this year's Great Charity Challenge and we were presented $8000 for the great work we do. Our Sister's Place is grateful for this donation to support our services for individuals experiencing domestic violence. Great Charity Challenge thank you for your generous support of charities in Palm Beach County.


A healthy Denzel Ward is a stud, and soon could be one of the NFL's top cornerbacks. Terrance Mitchell was a nice find last season as part of John Dorsey's aggressive rebuild, and he is playing himself into the team's long-term plans.
TJ Carrie was demoted last summer but ended up playing valuable snaps for the Browns late last season. He has experience at every corner spot and at safety, and his experience means he'll again have a role. The Browns figure to use Carrie and new trade acquisition Eric Murray at multiple spots, even though Murray is primarily a safety.


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UK court rules Julian Assange shouldn't be extradited to the US
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A British court has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange shouldn't be extradited to the US in order to stand trial. Judge Vanessa Baraitser said that, while Assange had exceeded the role of a journalist, the risk to his mental and physical wellbeing was too great. The US has already committed to appealing the ruling, and the case is likely to end up in the British Supreme Court, a process likely to take several years.
Wikileaks was founded in 2006, but received global attention in 2010 after publishing a series of documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The site would go on to publish leaked material from the State Department, Guantanamo Bay and the Democratic National Committee. Assange's critics in the US believe that he has received material from hostile nation-state actors, including Russia.
"I accept that there are entries in the notes which indicate a much better mood and lighter spirits at times, however the overall impression is of a depressed and sometimes despairing man, who is genuinely fearful about his future," the judge said. "For all of these reasons I find that Mr. Assange's risk of committing suicide, if an extradition order were to be made, to be substantial."
The 49-year-old Australian is wanted in the US on charges of espionage and conspiracy to commit computer hacking after working with whistleblower Chelsea Manning. In both the UK and US, advocates for Mr. Assange believe that his work does constitute journalism and, as such, extradition would be a violation of press freedom. In her judgment, Baraitser dismissed such claims, saying that Assange had previously encouraged people to join the US intelligence community in order to leak sensitive information.


Artist Reply: This is Jeremy Bryan, the drummer for the band Alesana. With my daughter, I saw (and really heard) and met a few of the members of the band at the WARP tour while in Dallas. Jeremy was very, very expressive when taking a photo of him. I think it was the endorphins?


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Persian and Urdu
Title: Persian and Urdu
Subject: Iran–Pakistan relations, Urdu, Balochistan conflict, Persian language in Pakistan, Mah Laqa Bai
Collection: Afghanistan–pakistan Relations, Iran–pakistan Relations, Persian Language, Persian Language in Pakistan, Urdu
The Persian language influenced the formation of many modern languages of all Asia, Europe, Central Asia, and South Asian regions, including the South Asian language Urdu.[1]
Following the Turko-Persian Ghaznavid conquest of South Asia, the speech based in Delhi's Khariboli and other dialects of the South Asia received a large influx of Persian, Turkish and Arabic vocabulary, as well as a limited number of grammatical patterns from these languages. The subsequent Turko-Afghan Delhi Sultanate gave way for a further continuation of this. The basis in general for the introduction of Persian language into the subcontinent was set, from its earliest days, by various Persianized Central Asian Turkic and Afghan dynasties.[2] Eventually, this lexically hybrid language that emerged in the northern subcontinent, was called Zaban-e-Urdu-e-Mualla ('language of the exalted (army) camp') to distinguish it from Farsi, the court language, and was later shortened to just Urdu. It grew from the interaction of Persian and Turkic speaking Muslim soldiers and the native peoples.[3] Under Persian influence from the state, the Persian script and Nasta'liq form of cursive writing was adopted, with additional figures added to accommodate the Indo-Aryan phonetic system.
Urdu is grammatically an Indo-Aryan language, written in the Perso-Arabic script, and contains literary conventions and specialized vocabulary largely from Persian.[4] Some grammatical elements peculiar to Persian, such as the enclitic ezāfe, and the use of the takhallus, were readily absorbed into Urdu literature both in the religious and secular spheres.
Urdu soon gained distinction in literary and cultural spheres in South Asia because of the hybrid nature of the language, producing a distinct Indo-Persian blending. A famous cross-over writer was Amir Khusro, whose Persian and Urdu couplets are to this day read in South Asia. Allama Iqbal was also a prominent South Asian writer who wrote in Persian and Urdu.
Urdu scholars in Persian literature 1
Urdu scholars in Persian literature
Urdu Persian scholars include:
Amir Khusro[5]
Allama Iqbal[6]
Mirza Ghalib[7]
Dr. Rais Numani[8]
Allama Jamil mazhari[9]
Dr. Shamim Hashimi[10]
Ataur Rahman Ata Kakwi[11]
Persian language in South Asia
National anthem of Pakistan
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^ http://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_family.asp?subid=90019
^ Sigfried J. de Laet. History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century UNESCO, 1994. ISBN 9231028138 p 734
^ Hindi by Yamuna Kachru http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ooH5VfLTQEQC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=urdu+heavy+persian&source=bl&ots=dG3qgmaV95&sig=WivP7AW9eRlTcp4oscBoHCBFEE0&hl=en&ei=9sp8SqzpLI6y-AaM5vxG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#v=onepage&q=urdu%20heavy%20persian&f=false
^ http://allpoetry.com/Amir_Khusro
^ http://www.allamaiqbal.com/publications/journals/review/apr79/2.htm
^ http://www.scribd.com/doc/30458478/Kulliat-e-Mirza-Ghalib-Nazme-Farsi
^ http://www.mintocircle.com/staff-directory/teaching-staff/41-teachers/5-dr-rais-ahmad-nomani.html
^ http://www.patnauniversity.ac.in/pgdebt-urdu.html
^ Zaheer Ghazipuri.2009. "http://connemara.tnopac.gov.in", Jhārkhanḍ aur Bihār ke aham ahl-i qalam, New Delhi. Nirali Dunya Publishers.184-192.
^ "ciillibrary.org", Jamal ghazal Ataur Rahman Ata Kakwi.
English to Urdu and Persian trilingual dictionary
Urdu and Persian Forum
Persian language
Persian language in Pakistan
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India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka
India, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Canada, Australia
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
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Advice: BUY, with a target of Rs 3168, a 47.3% appreciation by Mar'17.
Britannia rides not just the consumption theme, but within that the large food segment and also commands a premium image. Britannia is a powerful brand in this space. As an organization, BIL has recovered completely from the poor performance in 2010. Under a new leadership it is reinventing itself across marketing as well as operations. After many good initiatives in biscuits, the focus is on the high potential dairy products. The market conditions have been challenging in 2014-15, but even so, BIL has performed excellently so far. We expect the demand to look up in the next few years, and BIL to be a multi-year outperformer for investors. Investors may buy the stock for a Mar'17 target of Rs 3168, a 47.3% appreciation.
This is an update of our Feb 2014 report on Britannia Industries – A Ready to Eat Investment. The share has appreciated 144% in the 14 months since this BUY recommendation.
Britannia Ind. (BIL) is a Bangalore based, bakery and dairy products firm, started in 1892.
Revenue in FY14 was Rs 6,912 crores and PAT 396 cr, a growth of 52.3% from FY13.
Revenues have grown 17% (CAGR) over the last 6 years. Market Cap is 25,300 cr., ranked 2nd in India in the food processing industry by market cap. It has about 2340 employees.
BIL operates in foods segments of (i) Bakery – biscuit, bread, cake & rusk and (ii) Dairy – milk, butter, cheese, ghee, dahi, milk-based ready to drink beverages & dairy whitener.
The biscuit market is worth 24,000 cr. and BIL has 27-30% market share in India. The dairy segment is much larger at 75,000 cr. but BIL has a very small share here.
The shareholding % is: Promoter 50.8, FII 19.5, Retail/HNI 17.2, DI-5.2, MFs 4 and Corporates 3.3%.
Key executives are: Chairman Nusli Wadia, Director Ness Wadia and MD Varun Berry.
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This topic will be specifically about the big 14th November raid, known by all as simply "The Blitz". For more general chat about Coventry and Warwickshire in the Second World War, please try this thread: Coventry & Warwickshire in WWII
Wartime and the Blitz - The Blitz - 14th November 1940
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I am a producer at BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. I thought members on this board may be interested in getting involved or spreading the word about our 70th anniversary of Coventry Blitz commemorative programming. 14 November 2010 marks the 70th anniversary of the Blitz that devastated Coventry and its cathedral. As part of a series of events on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, we would like to hear your memories and stories of the time. We aim to collect 70 stories for 70 years. All stories will be pre-recorded and copies will be given to The Herbert Museum & Archive History Centre to form part of the city archives. We would also like to see your photographs of old Coventry and any other interesting archive material you may have. Nearer the date, there will be features on air and on our website. If you have something you would like to share with us, please call 02476 551000 or email the BBC Coventry & Warwickshire website Along with your story, please include your name, telephone number and email address. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/coventry/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8759000/8759091.stm
Suitably Chastised
Where the Teacher can see me
3 of 417 Tue 15th Nov 2011 7:47pm
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Stood outside the ruins of the old cathedral last night at around 10.30 and tried to imagine what the scene must have been like 71 years ago. Doesn't bear thinking about.
Yes it makes you wonder doesn't it how horrific it was, I'm surprised it has so much still standing, at present some of it's failing to uphold itself so I've heard on examining for restorations they said they found some treasure, did you find any??? they said they will reveal to the public what treasure they have found but didn't say when.
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On 15th Nov 2011 7:47pm, Suitably Chastised said: Stood outside the ruins of the old cathedral last night at around 10.30 and tried to imagine what the scene must have been like 71 years ago. Doesn't bear thinking about.
Remember, it was incendiary damage that destroyed it. So the stonework would not have suffered from blast damage. Holy Trinity was also hit, but the vicar had organised fire watch and defence precautions, so they were able to extinguish the fires before they could take hold. I believe he was somewhat critical of the cathedral staff because they had failed to do the same.
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Thank you for that information InnisRoad, I didn't realise it was incendiary bombs that had done the damage. Yes I read about Holy Trinity being hit and the precautions the vicar took shame about the cathedral though.
7 of 417 Wed 16th Nov 2011 12:19pm
A bit more info, folks The problem with the cathedral was that incendiaries easily penetrated the lead on the roof, then stuck inside the woodwork below. Whilst sand was the recommended way to put 'em out, it was useless once the bomb had disappeared under the lead; and with the burst water mains, there was no other way to win the losing battle. Heat, of course, also damages the stonework - it's a miracle that it didn't bring the tower down. This was particularly true in Dresden. After the bombing, during which we dropped 300,000 incendiaries on that city, the famous domed Frauenkirche was still standing, seemingly untouched. Roughly two days later, it collapsed in a great heap of shattered stonework; the heat, which it's said could be felt in the aircraft 13,000 feet up, had caused so many fractures in the stone. And it stayed in that heap until after the Berlin Wall came down. It is, of course, now fully restored, with Coventry's help. The same thing happened to many other of the burned out shells of the baroque houses in Dresden, and the Communists simply dynamited them, thus destroying any chance at the time of restoring any of them. (Some are now to be reconstituted)
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Is there any information about ambulance drivers on the night of the blitz? Family story says that my late father (Robert Walker)and other ambulance drivers were seconded to Coventry the night BEFORE the Blitz. He was based at Kidderminster Ambulance Station. It is said that he told my mother he couldn't tell her where he was going but that he would be a few days and wouldn't be in touch with her. Their second son was just 12 days old. It also said that he was to be presented with a bravery medal by the King but declined it as he preferred to go home. Might there be truth in this intriguing story?
Elizabeth M
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Well, there has long been a conspiracy theory about Churchill knowing where the attack would be, but letting it happen unchallenged, because (a) it would expose our ability to decipher German codes, and (b) Coventry was to be sacrificed for propaganda reasons. There have been TV programmes debunking the theory; but, given what I've read about Churchill in recent years, I wouldn't put (b) past him! If your family story is correct, it would certainly give credence to the target being known in advance, wouldn't it? Given this country's governments over the years having a strong predilection to secrecy - even the full government information relating to the death of Edith Cavell in 1915 is still not released to the public - our generation is unlikely to ever find out the truth. And of course, a lot of records relating to WWII in particular were destroyed immediately after the war ended.
10 of 417 Thu 1st Dec 2011 2:23pm
It was common knowledge a town 'somewhere in the West Midlands' was going to be bombed that night. Many people fled the city taking their keys with them which made the job of fighting fires more difficult than it would otherwise have been. There was also a crack Polish night fighter squadron based at Baginton but they were refused take-off clearance for reasons which have never been satisfactorily explained.
Well, as I said, I wouldn't have put anything past Churchill. I - and most of us, I guess - was brought up to believe the propaganda, making him out to be some kind of saint. Two books that I read in the last year tell a different story: "Castles of Steel" by Robert Massie (the story of the naval battles of WWI) "Admirals" by Andrew Lambert. (Life stories and careers of our most important admirals through history) If anyone is interested in the subject matter, these are excellent books by eminent historians, and I can highly recommend them.
On 1st Dec 2011 3:31pm, KeithLeslie said: Well, as I said, I wouldn't have put anything past Churchill. I - and most of us, I guess - was brought up to believe the propaganda, making him out to be some kind of saint.
He's practically a God where I come from!
I'd suggest that you read those two books then!
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Saint or not, without him, we would have certainly lost the war. A great pity that recent politicians lack the same guts that he had.
As PM, he was a leader, and an effective orator. But he was always reckless; when Asquith's government fell in 1916, Bonar Law only agreed to a coalition if he were moved to a job, and I quote, "where he couldn't do any more damage". He was given the job, as I remember, of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He had a major part in the unnecessary loss of a lot of lives in WWI (his leaving his post to take the almost untrained newly formed Naval Division to Antwerp to try to defend it, whilst he was First Lord of the Admiralty; the Dardanelles, and Gallipoli; failing to install anti-submarine and anti-surface raider defences at Scapa Flow; ordering Admiral Cradock to attack a much superior force at Coronel.) However, as a field commander in France after he left the government he did very well, but that isn't quite what was wanted of the First Lord of the Admiralty. The thing he couldn't bring himself not to do in WWII was meddle in what was properly the preserve of military officers; he wanted to be both leader and at the sharp end - again - and no-one can be both. I suspect that, as the youngest son, he always felt that he had something to prove, a not uncommon trait.
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David Burkitt '97, PhD, is a firm believer in giving to the community, something he learned from his parents who were both great influences in his life and from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
"Each generation has the ability and responsibility to empower the next to learn the value of giving," says Burkitt, director of the master of business administration (MBA) program.
He volunteers his time and talent to organizations that reflect his values, serving on the finance committee of Our Mother of Good Counsel in Los Angeles, and as chair of the family council at St. Joseph's Home in Springfield, Ill.
In one of his favorite courses as a Weekend/Evening College (WEC) student, Burkitt learned a life-changing way of thinking: The past created today, today creates tomorrow.
He knows this concept well. His time as an undergraduate at the Mount while already working professionally opened new doors for him in his career. Now, he's hoping he can, in turn, help influence the future of many of his students.
"Going to the Mount was the best decision I have ever made regarding my self-improvement, education and career advancement," says Burkitt, associate professor who also teaches business courses in the WEC and Healthcare Administration graduate programs.
Armed with his Mount degree, which was quickly followed by an MBA and doctorate in leadership and organization development from Regent University, Burkitt rose to top-level executive positions, including national controller for the American Youth Soccer Organization's Los Angeles branch and chief financial officer for Shriners Hospital in Los Angeles.
While earning his bachelor's degree through WEC, he took advantage of Study Away program opportunities that took him to China, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He strongly encourages his students to do the same.
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A: There is a problem with your .jtl results file, JMeter expects to find a long value representing a timestamp in milliseconds since beginning of Unix epoch
You should replace 1.65269E+12 with its "long" equivalent of 1652690000000
If you opened and saved JMeter's .jtl results file using Excel or equivalent you should re-save it again and configure the first column to contain numeric values without floating points.
Also be aware that you can run a JMeter test and generate HTML reporting dashboard in command-line non-GUI mode in one shot like:
 jmeter -n -t /path/to/testplan.jmx -l /path/to/testresult.jtl -e -o /path/to/dashboard

More information: Generating Reports

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Hearing Loss in Military Personnel: Getting Treatment in Trivandrum India.
Here a military person working in Northern India came with hearing loss after otitis media with effusion and getting treated in Jubilee Hospital Trivandrum in South India.
Many of our military personnel are suffering from hearing loss in –Army, Navy and Air force. Noise induced hearing loss, Tinnitus, Barotrauma, Traumatic perforation from blasts etc.
Many of them don't use ear protection devices. High Noise exposure in intense combat and gun fire can lead to permanent hearing damage and disability. Since I have worked in a military hospital for 18 years, I know what all damage can happen for the soldiers.