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Under Senator Murkowski's plan, coastal states would receive 27.5 percent of revenue generated from offshore energy.
In Alaska, a quarter of that sum would go to coastal boroughs with the rest going into state coffers.
Senator Murkowski said coastal states deserve money brought in from federal waters.
"We willingly want to access these resources; they provide good jobs and benefits most certainly," she said at Wednesday morning press conference. "But there is impact. There is undeniably impact."
"Impacts" like new infrastructure and traffic to oil spills, something neither she nor Senator Mary Landrieu mentioned when they unveiled their bill. Landrieu, a Democrat, represents oil-rich Louisiana.
The plan creates revenue sharing of 50 percent for onshore renewable energy projects. Senator Murkowski said that puts renewables and fossil fuels on the same plane, because states now take home half of federal revenues for onshore oil, gas and coal development.
And the new bill would also allow states to pocket an extra 10% of the federal offshore revenue, if they opt to use it to create conservation funds, or invest in renewable energy.
Senator Murkowski said that could raise a state's total stake to 37.5%.
"We want to do more to encourage the development, the research and development, the build out of our clean energy sources," she said. "What better way to do that, to help pay for that, than from some of our offshore energy opportunities?"
Just last week President Barack Obama proposed his plan to use money from offshore lease sales to encourage investment in alternative fuel cars and trucks.
Including the money for conservation and renewable energy may win over some skeptical Democrats, but not all.
Eight Democratic senators are circulating a letter opposing revenue sharing; saying any money generated from lease sales should go to paying down the debt, and oil spilled off the coast of one state could harm neighboring ones.
Senator Landrieu said Gulf Coast States have contributed $211 billion to the treasury in oil and gas revenues, and that helps the entire country.
"There are only four states producing that money. It's not Illinois. It's not New Jersey. It's Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama," she said at the same press conference.
That's a dig at Senators Dick Durbin, Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg. They represent Illinois and New Jersey and signed the letter of opposition.
Durbin is the number two Democrat in the Senate.
The bill does not call for any increased production, so overall, the federal government would earn less money if the bill became law. Congress will need to find cuts elsewhere to offset the loss of federal revenue.
Both Senators Murkowski and Landrieu deferred any talk of cost to the Finance Committee, a committee neither serves on.
Senator Mark Begich introduced his own revenue sharing bill earlier this year, one that looks quite different from Senator Murkowski's.
He said his plan would put more money into the local economies and Native Corporations but less into the state.
"The key for me is making sure the local communities, including the tribes are part of the equation," he said before a Senate vote.
He said the two plans can be reconciled.
Either would have to pass the Senate Energy Committee before it can be considered by the whole Senate.
There's no planned committee action yet.
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Taryn Manning was arrested Thursday for allegedly assaulting her makeup artist, TMZ.com reports.
The 33-year-old actress (Hawaii Five-0, 8 Mile) appeared in court Friday morning for two misdemeanor charges stemming from the alleged attack, in which she is accused of punching and kicking the 23-year-old alleged victim. Manning was released on her own recognizance.
The incident took place at New York City's Dream Downtown Hotel, the same hotel where Lindsay Lohan was recently accused of clipping a pedestrian with her car.
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Manning's attorney, Joe Tacopina, tells People that the whole incident has been blown out of proportion. "They'd been together every waking minute and they got on each other's nerves and had a little incident. It was a minor physical incident."
Tacopina also said the makeup artist, Holly Hartman, does not intend to press charges. "I expect it to be resolved based on the conversation I had with [Hartman]."

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For question 2 a where you use partial fraction to go from (Z/Z-i)(Z/Z+1+i), would you be able to clarify how you found those coefficients A and B? Is there a good way to do partial fractions when you have complex numbers in the denominator? I apologize if this seems simple, I may be missing something basic but I cant get the same answer.
For question 1a, I find 2>|z|>1/5. I understand that it's an annulus, but I can't see why -2 and -1/5 are not included for pole. Can you explain?
Is a mistake in question 5b? The roots that have been found might not be correct. Could you please check that and confirm?! The roots I found are and .
Is the answer to 5a missing a 'z' in the numerator? What happened to the 'z' that was being multiplied by x(z)?
For 2 b is there a short way to find a, b, and c in the PFE? Multiplying out all the terms is really a big mess, and the residue method doesn't seem to work because of the 'z's in the numerator. Thanks.
For Q5b
The roots for (z^2 – 2 Z +1 – i) could be (1 +/- sqrt(i)) as well, right?
because (z – 1 – sqrt(i)) * (z – 1 + sqrt(i)) = (z^2 – 2 Z +1 – i)


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I know a person. I've known her all my life. I have always thought she was a loving and fun loving, a kind person with a big heart. She welcomes almost all friends to her door. She has always been a bit bigoted.
She began emailing my neighbor, years ago before Facebook and all the networking sites started up. By e-mail she became a long lost friend to my neighbor. And, she was. She would have done anything for my neighbor. She used to be a friend to all.
I don't know what has happened to her over the years, nor how her heart has filled with so much hatred.
Lately, she has taken to forwarding political apps on Facebook. They are the cruelest, most illogical, often bigoted, bits of hatred you can find. They are pictures reminiscent of the old time Little Black Sambo era, where watermelon was a code for race and excuse for hatred.
She is a flag-waving American and proud of it. She is proud of this country and all that created it. I guess that even includes "All men are created equal," but I'm not sure she remembers that part. She is also a Christian, and yet she seems to have forgotten the "Do unto others as you would have them do until you." Right now, she just spouts hate.
I did not realize how much seeing it was affecting me every day, until someone else I knew mentioned they had blocked or removed her because they were tired of it.
Today, I blocked this "dear" person. I don't mean to abandon her, if she is slipping. I don't mean to offend her. I just cannot take it anymore and today, when I checked my Facebook and all that was on was teenagers writing poems and pictures of little children from relatives, not someone using the word Stupider to show how bright Sarah Palin is, I was happy again. I no longer had to see her spouting a belief that I will never agree with, no matter how much she tries to cram it down my throat.
You cannot force someone else to believe in your religion by sending four apps a day of "the daily picture of Jesus" or whatever else they have, and you cannot change their politics by belittling the political leaders that they believe in. It is insulting and only stirs up bile. If you wish to blog your beliefs, that is fine. I can choose to read or not read your blog. But, there should be different rules on a site like Facebook. There should be a rule for being civil and not cruel. There should be respect for other people's beliefs, without trying to cram your own down their throat.
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GREELEY, Colo. -- Colorado Rockies co-owner Charlie Monfort pleaded guilty to driving under the influence Friday and was sentenced to two years of supervised probation during which his alcohol use will be monitored.
The plea stemmed from his arrest on Nov. 4 in Windsor where police say he was pulled over and found to be driving with a breath alcohol concentration level more than three times the legal limit.
During the first six months of his probation, Monfort will have to wear an ankle bracelet that can detect alcohol use and then submit up to two breath tests a day, said Pamela Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Weld County district attorney's office. He will also have to undergo alcohol treatment and perform 120 hours of public service.
Monfort was also sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to driving while ability impaired following an arrest in Greeley in 1999. Police said he had a 0.209 blood-alcohol level, more than double the legal limit at the time.
The Tribune reported that Monfort has been in alcohol treatment for the past two months. Monfort's lawyer, Thomas Grant, told the judge that Monfort's latest arrest was a "turning point" that finally pushed him to get help.
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South American production continues to be questioned. Argentine weather was as expected over the weekend. If anything, the six-to-10-day looks to have gotten a little wetter and cooler. Many bears are saying the bulls have overdone the hype and weather-related risk premium associated with the crop. The USDA seems to agree, as they simply chose to offset the small Argentine crop reductions with an increase in Brazil's production. If you paid close attention to CONAB's numbers released last week for Brazil you would have seen the planted acreage numbers are much higher than most in the trade have been estimating. In fact total South American planted acreage is up by some 12 million acres. Personally, I believe the production itself is going to be there. BUT I question if it will be as strong as the USDA is currently estimating, and what type of logistical or political snafu's will take place as we move further down the road and more exclusively dependent on South American supplies?
Argentine inflation is now running at close to 30%, and the government is already taking steps to lock down and freeze prices. I am thinking we may actually start to see fewer export licenses granted in order to build a larger surplus of domestic supply to help keep a lid on domestic prices. There are also talks of port strikes in Brazil (maybe as early as Feb 18 or 19) that could start to become more of a concern as well. Let's also not forget Brazil's government just upped the ethanol blending levels from 20% to 25%, which should create another 320+ million gallons of ethanol demand. To help increase supplies Brazil is putting in several corn-based ethanol facilities. As we all know, this will chew through more of their domestic corn, in turn allowing less of a percentage for exports. This is why I do NOT agree with the recent USDA numbers that actually lowered Brazil's domestic corn usage by 2 million metric tons (mmt) in order to raise Brazil's corn export numbers to 19 mmt.
My point is, from a production stand point, South America is going to throw up huge numbers, there is no argument or debate, but they also might use a little more. Regardless of the weather from here on out, they are almost certain to produce an additional 30 mmt (maybe even more) of soybeans compared to last year. We may also see new record corn production. CONAB is thinking 5 mmt more corn than the current USDA estimate and 3 mmt more than last years record corn crop. This may be a little optimistic considering nearly all of the increase is coming from second crop corn production estimates. A crop that is just now going in the ground in many places, is still yet to be grown, yet to be harvested, and yet to be shipped. Understand this, in many key growing areas the window to plant second-crop corn will soon be closing (late-Feb), if producers plant any later than this they run a big risk of the crop extending out into a much drier period. I am hearing producers in Mato Grosso only have about 20-25% of their second-crop corn in the ground, compared to 40-45% of it planted at this time last year. With this mind, I believe South American "production" estimates may have peaked and will actually start work lower from here, especially is the weather turns drier during April-May time period. Argentine corn production may be more like 23-25 mmt versus the USDA's 27-mmt estimate. Argentine soy production could be sub-50 mmt versus the current USDA estimate of 53 mmt. I am also deeply concerned about unforeseen political and logistical problems that may arise in the coming months. Bottom line: I question how many bushels will actually make it out of the country, at what expense and in what type of time frame.
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In what way exactly am I doing that? I asked for clarification about what you meant, in what I thought was a concise and respectful way.Bob wrote:With all due respect, some new comers remind me of scouts expecting to earn all available merit badges before their first scout meeting.
You seem to have misinterpreted my meaning in this thread. You make it sound like you think I'm like some kind of naive, overstimulated little kid trying to get round every stall at the local fun fair.
All I said was that I wanted to find SOME WAY to participate. I don't have any intention of trying to volunteer for every available thing. I don't intend to try and work 12-hour shifts every day I'm there. I do enough of those at home. What I said was, I wanted to be sure that I could find some way of being a part of things and making some contribution to the community. That doesn't mean overestimating how much I might be capable of, overcommitting, or running around frantically trying to be a part of every single thing, all the time. I just want to find some small way to be a part of the bigger picture.
I appreciate what you say about having my shit together. I understand that survival is the single highest priority. I have no intention of neglecting my self-care. I'm not an airhead. I'm not even that young anymore (woe!) and I do have my head screwed on right. I fully intend to take care of myself as my first and highest priority.
But you seem to be equating enthusiasm with naïveté, and I think there's a marked difference between the two. I don't intend to be on the wrong side of that dividing line.


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Drag racing may be cause of serious Lawrence crash
Police search for green Honda
Drag racing may be to blame for a serious crash in Lawrence Saturday night that left a young man hospitalized.
David Gomez, 19, of Lawrence, was driving a BMW down Haverhill Street at about 10 p.m. when he slammed into a utility pole near Primos Liquors.
The video from a nearby surveillance camera shows the 2000 BMW speeding by, crossing the yellow line then crashing into a utility pole, slicing it in half. The car was twisted and mangled after tumbling about 100 feet along Haverhill Street. It came to rest after smashing into a food truck further down the road.
"When we arrived, we found a male lying on the sidewalk. He was face up. He, obviously, had been ejected from the vehicle after it had struck the pole," Lawrence Police Chief John Romero said.
Gomez was thrown 20 feet from the car. The crash happened at about 10 p.m. Saturday. Police believe it may have been caused by drag-racing. The other car was possibly a green Honda, according to one witness.
"Speed in the city is between 20 and 30 mph, depending on what street you're on. This vehicle was traveling well beyond that," Romero said.
Gomez suffered severe injuries.
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Rovio, the team behind Angry Birds, has come up with another interesting game — Amazing Alex for both the major mobile platforms, Android and iOS. It is a physics based puzzle game that features several fun filled challenges.
Rovio is known for creating very simple yet addictive games and Amazing Alex is no different. If you're among those people who love playing games such as Cut the Rope, Where's My Water, Apparatus, Sprinkle and other physics/puzzle games then you're surely going to love Amazing Alex as well.
The basic idea of the game is to create a complex machine by arranging items from a given collection such as balloons, scissors, cardboards, toy cars, etc. to perform an utterly simple task like putting a football in a basket or popping balloons with a scissor.
The items are limited and they can be arranged or rotated anywhere in the space in order to achieve the level's goal.
People who're familiar with a very old game, The Incredible Machine (TIM) will find the gameplay of Amazing Alex strikingly similar. Both the games have a similar goal of creating a Rube Goldberg machine with the only difference being that TIM was more complex.
Interestingly, Amazing Alex doesn't justify its name — there is no character as Alex present in the gameplay, unlike what I had expected since there are several angry-faced birds present in Angry Birds. Anyway, this physics-based game is fun to play.
Amazing Alex comes in three different versions — Free, Full and HD. The free version has only 16 levels and the gameplay in very limited which won't last longer than twenty minutes. On the other hand, the full and HD version feature 100 different and more challenging levels.
The free version is.. obviously free while the full and HD version of Amazing Alex come with a price tag of $0.99 and $2.99 respectively.
Grab Amazing Alex for Android — Free, Full ($0.99), HD ($2.99) and for iOS ($0.99).


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The days of all-male boards in the FTSE 100 Index have finally ended with the appointment of a female director at commodity giant Glencore.
The arrival of Canadian mining executive Patrice Merrin means the Swiss firm is no longer the only blue-chip firm without a woman on its board.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has praised the efforts of businesses in boosting boardroom diversity since the Government-commissioned Lord Davies review at the start of 2011, when women accounted for 12.5% of directors of FTSE 100 firms.
The percentage stood at 21.5% in May.
Mr Cable said: " This is a historic day for the FTSE and for the reforms I've been pushing for to ensure that there is more diversity in the talent running our biggest companies.
"Huge progress has been made on this agenda since 2010 and from today every single top 100 company listed on the London stock exchange now counts a woman on their board."
Pressure intensified on Glencore at its AGM in May when a group of shareholders led by Aviva Investors threatened not to approve its annual report because of the make up of its board.
Chairman Tony Hayward, who is the former boss of BP, told shareholders he would appoint a woman to the company's board by the end of the year.
Ms Merrin joins an eight-strong Glencore board, which takes the firm's female representation up to 12.5% at a single stroke.
She is a non-executive director of US platinum and palladium miner Stillwater Mining Company and was a director of CML Healthcare from 2008 to 2013, including a period as chairwoman.
Mr Hayward said: "Patrice's in-depth experience of operating across the resources sector will help strengthen the board's ability to work with the opportunities and challenges presented by the global extractive industry."
In January, Mr Cable wrote to the heads of the country's biggest public firms and said that 25% of the places on FTSE 100 boards should be filled by women by next year.
He added: " Much more needs to be done of course to tackle diversity in the FTSE 250 and to fix the pipeline of women working their way up to the top of businesses to become the leaders of tomorrow.
"But for today, let us celebrate this important landmark achieved working hand in hand with business, not by imposing tokenistic targets, which other countries have favoured."


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The numbers are compelling: 7bn messages sent between 230m users of its messaging app, 200m downloads of its games, 10m Indian users in three months as well as tens of millions in Spain, South America, Indonesia and beyond.
LINE is a large content hub, and once you've downloaded the messaging app, you're hooked into a network that gives away a lot of fun stuff for free, and ties everything together with a very strong brand.
So what is LINE doing that's significant, and how will it begin to affect other brands on mobile?
Humble beginnings to a whole range of products
LINE started out as a free app allowing instant messaging. It's produced by the Japanese arm of Naver, a popular Korean search engine, and was developed in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake, when Japanese infrastructure was damaged and Naver employees had to find a way to communicate.
The messaging app remains the most prominent, and now has more the feel of a social network with the addition of a timeline and photos, and Snap Movie (a ten second Vine-like video service).
But LINE is marked out by the wealth of stuff on offer. The gaming app has now matched the messaging app for users and LINE has a whole array of family brands. Everything from LINE Brush, allowing drawing and photo editing, to LINE Card (for birthdays etc) and even LINE Antivirus.
Building on the success of your products, adding more even as the monetisation of your first isn't complete, this is the kind of approach Google is famous for.
In August, LINE announced its users had sent over 7bn messages and 1bn stickers. This generated $10m in Q2 this year, up two thirds, year-on-year.
Stickers, so what? To some they feel like cheap (lazy) monetisation, but they certainly interest the user, and are a part of LINE's business model of in-app purchases.
Tying in with brands such as Barcelona and Psy, LINE has managed to create stickers that users want to use, enabling them to communicate better within their own groups. Adam Epstein writes a nice appraisal of stickers in this article.
Path and other communications companies have followed suit with stickers. One gets the feeling that although Facebook has failed with this kind of thing in the past, there's room on mobile for stickers, and cards (see LINE Card).
If you're a big brand, like say Manchester United, you should be making sure LINE has a set of stickers tied in to your image.
Many methods, one goal
When I go to 'add friends' in LINE, I'm delighted to find four ways of doing so. Two are fairly standard – search contacts (mail and SMS) and look for friends with their LINE ID.
However there are two other options, as shown below. One is a built-in QR reader that caters for those scanning codes and encourages others to use this format at events and in marketing to further the usage of the app.
The other is a 'shake it' function, so that two users shaking their phones in the same vicinity will link up via location-based services.
Giving people four ways to find other users is quite innovative, especially as adoption is a major issue for LINE considering it started out as peer to peer messaging.
Lots of apps could successfully add in-app purchases to increase personalisation or change look and feel. If it's not appropriate for your own brand to charge for this, there's no reason you shouldn't look at personalisation for free.
Although it might be hard to measure, I'm pretty sure that allowing users to change the colours of or completely reskin your app will increase engagement with it. If an app is going to be great, and used a lot, why not allow users to freshen it up every now and again?
If you can tie personalisation into culture – TV, sport, music, time of year – users will certainly be interested and engagement with the app will increase.
LINE allows you to choose between three themes in the app. Two are based around recurring characters Cony and Brown. Here's the Brown theme next to the standard one on my chat window.
There's not much difference – the colours and the buttons change. But I find it quite exciting, despite having never used the app before and having no friends using chat.
Not every brand can use colourful cartoons, granted. But iOS7's new flat design means it's even more likely your app will get lost. Apart from designing an app icon that stands out – here it's useful to have a strong brand colour (LINE's is bright green, and the app icon includes the word LINE) – it's also advantageous almost to break the spell of the device.
By that I mean does your brand or product benefit from a standardised app format? Yes, you want to create a usable app, and you might not want it to have a flavour of Ling's Cars but there's an argument that some apps play it safe when it comes to aesthetics.
While keeping the memory requirement as low as you can, is there room for more imagery in apps?
The V&A calendar app is a great example of a brand that has brought its design pedigree to the aesthetics of the interface.
The immersive power of the app
This range of additional apps, aside from the many games available, is variously promoted within LINE. This is very effective at giving the instant impression of being in a place where the user can spend a lot of time.
Looking at all these additional features (which are often simply links back to the app store to download further apps), it could be said that with recent focus on responsive design and web apps, some may have forgotten the immersive power of the app.
As we move towards mobile-first and mobile-only consumers (already the case in some Asian countries), it's important to be able to colonise a phone's desktop and keep the user interested, even when internet connection can't be relied on.
Ok, it's fairly obvious to say that apps are immersive, and for gaming and communication it's clear that only apps are appropriate.
But, I think there may be lessons here for any organisation with multiple apps in the app store. Are they as universal as they could be? Do they all link back to their brothers and sisters in the app store?
Just looking through apps on my iPhone, I find that the BBC News app doesn't list other BBC apps that can be downloaded. Surely this would increase downloads and wouldn't affect app performance?
Do you have consistent and engaging branding across all apps? It's tempting to give an app its own look and feel for a specific event or product, but will this help in the long run?
As a lot of early adopters of apps have used agencies for what felt like standalone projects, there are companies out there with a suite of apps that don't sit together as a set of products, and don't tie together with each interesting the user.


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GLENDALE, Ariz. - It wasn't just Justin Bieber's fans who had "Bieber Fever" as the teen idol kicked off his national tour in suburban Phoenix.
Video posted on KTVK-TV's website shows the pop music star vomiting twice on stage Saturday night during his sold-out concert at the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. He left the stage after each episode but returned and even did an encore.
KTVK reports (http://bit.ly/W266wZ ) Bieber's fans sang some of his songs while he was offstage and he later apologized for being sick.
Bieber later tweeted "Great show. Getting better for tomorrow's show !!!! Love u"
He later added: "And .... Milk was a bad choice!"
Bieber's 45-city "Believe" tour continues Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.


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I going to close this thread, to limit confusion.
If you'd like to post your link to the blog train, go here.
If you have a comment or question about the train, go here.
There was some interest in doing a Pixel Scrapper blog train, and I say, "why not?" This is going to be pretty informal blog train. I think the only rules will be that you be a Pixel Scrapper community member and that you make something. It will be fun to go around and see people's blogs from the community.
This is the color palette that I am using to make a kit for December. Anything you make will coordinate along with that, so even if there are a small number of participants, there will still be my full kit, so people should end up with a nice bunch of stuff. I'm not doing much Christmas related with my kit, I'm going more for a winter theme. You can do as you like. You can also download the (EDIT: glitters now uploaded to site) if you'd like to use them.
The blog train will go live on December 1, at which point you will need to have posted your freebie on your blog and posted the link and preview image in a special thread that I will start a few days before. So you don't need to formally sign up to do this, we'll just use the final thread as the list. So there's no pressure, and no commitment. Just follow your heart!
If you want to participate and don't have a blog, you can just post your preview and link in the final thread. You'll have to upload the actual freebie to a file sharing site (dropbox, mediafire, maybe someone can recommend something else) and your preview to an image sharing site (see here).
Feel free to post any comments, questions, etc here in this thread. I'll make new one to be used as the formal list.


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With a population of 1.3 billion people and a rapidly developing economy, China plays an increasingly dominant role in the global economy. But China's economic liberalization is in tension with its authoritarian political order. The prolonged occupation of Tibet, the curtailment of civil liberties, and the violent suppression of religious movements are just some of the examples of China's lack of commitment to human rights.
Population & Geography
China's 1.3 billion people represent one fifth of the world's population. The largest country in Asia, it stretches from the East China Sea to the Himalayas in the West, and from the South China Sea to the Gobi Desert in the North.
China is also one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations; the earliest Imperial Dynasty dates to 2100 BCE. Modern China is the product of the decline of the imperial order in the 19th century and the dramatic civil war in the 20th century that led to the rise of the communist People's Republic of China in 1949. [1] [2]
Today, the Chinese economy has undergone significant economic expansion from an insular and centrally planned system to a market economy that is a dominant global force. While economic liberalization has brought rapid urbanization and an improvement in health and living standards, the Chinese government retains its authoritarian character. Civil liberties are restricted, due process is often unavailable in the judicial system, and grave violations of human rights persist. The violent suppression of the 1989 student protests in Tiananmen Square alerted the world to China's human rights record. China's occupation of Tibet and its ongoing campaign against the Falun Gong religious movement and other religious minorities continue unabated. [3]
CJA has been involved in two accountability efforts for human rights abuses committed in China. CJA brought a case on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners who were illegally detained and tortured in China (Doe v. Li Qui). CJA is also providing litigation support for a criminal investigation in Spain concerning the March 2008 torture and killings of Tibetan priests in Lhasa.
The Occupation of Tibet
On October 7, 1950, shortly after the Communist victory over nationalist forces and the founding of the People's Republic of China, 40,000 Chinese troops attacked Eastern Tibet's provincial capital of Chamdo. A highly controversial series of negotiations resulted in the signing of the 17-point "Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" on May 23, 1951. The Dalai Lama, the religious and political leader of Tibet, formally repudiated the 17-Point Agreement, declaring that it had been "thrust upon the Tibetan Government and people by the threat of arms."[4] On September 9, 1951, Chinese troops marched into Lhasa, marking the beginning of China's military occupation of Tibet.
In the decades that followed, China defied international law and ruthlessly repressed opposition in Tibet, confining thousands to forced labor camps and subjecting the civilian population to torture and killing of genocidal proportions. In a 1959 report on the "question of Tibet and the rule of law," the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) found that the evidence of mass violence indicated a prima facie case of genocide. The ICJ report cited evidence of torture, sexual violence, and extrajudicial killing—as well as the forcible deportation of 20,000 Tibetan children. [5]
During the 1950s, internal government records show that over 10,000 Tibetans were killed by the military.[4] In 1959, fears that China was plotting to abduct the Dalai Lama brought thousands of Tibetans to assemble outside his palace. Days later, barricades appeared throughout the streets of Lhasa, and a national uprising was underway. Military records show that 87,000 Tibetans were killed by the military in the uprising.[6] The Government of Tibet in exile estimates that between 1949 and 1979, 1.2 million Tibetans were killed by the Chinese invasion and occupation, including more than 173,000 killed in prisons or labor camps. [4]
In 1976, China initiated a controversial policy of settling ethnic Chinese on Tibetan territory. The 14th Dalai Lama has referred to the settlers as "an alternate society: a Chinese apartheid which, denying Tibetans equal social and economic status in our own land, threatens to finally overwhelm and absorb us." [8] While the Dalai Lama and the exile community have pursued a diplomatic, non-violent position, spontaneous popular opposition to the occupation continues to erupt periodically.
More recently, in March 2008, protests to mark the anniversary of the 1959 uprising turned violent. As many as 200 Tibetans were killed in a crackdown by Chinese security forces, while another 1,300 were detained and are currently being prosecuted by kangaroo courts. A 2009 Human Rights Watch report criticized the Chinese judicial system for denying due process to these detainees. [9] Amnesty International has also reported the deaths of Tibetan detainees while in Chinese custody: the bodies of several of the deceased showed signs of bruising and burns from torture. As of Summer 2009, major monasteries and nunneries remain in "virtual lockdown." [10] The precise numbers of those imprisoned, tortured or killed are difficult to obtain, as the Chinese government has clamped down on media access and human rights reporting. Still, there is little debate that China continues to perpetrate mass violations of human rights in Tibet.
Persecution of Falun Gong
Religious persecution has been a noted feature of the human rights landscape in China. Religion is highly regulated by the Chinese government and those believers who wish to practice outside of state-controlled venues for the five officially recognized religions—Buddhism, Islam, Taoism, Catholicism and Protestantism—face official harassment, possible imprisonment, and in some cases torture and execution. Every year since 1999, the U.S. State Department has designated China a "Country of Particular Concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act. [11] Certain ethno-religious minorities, including the Muslim Uighur of Western China as well as Tibetan Buddhists, face state-sanctioned violence. Since 1998, persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has been particularly severe.
Falun Gong is a religious practice that fuses traditional Qi Gong meditative techniques with a modern set of moral teachings introduced by Li Hongzhi in 1992. Drawing on centuries-old traditions, Falun Gong's popularity grew exponentially. By 1998, the Chinese government estimated that there were more than 70 million practitioners. [12] As government criticism of Falun Gong increased, practitioners organized demonstrations culminating in a silent protest in Beijing in 1999 attended by over ten thousand.
The Chinese government responded by banning Falun Gong, declaring it a "cult and false science." The practice was violently suppressed. Reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented the use of torture, incommunicado detention, confinement in labor camps and forced psychiatric treatment. [13] In 2006, an investigation led by MP David Kilgour—a Canadian former Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific Region—documented the harvesting of organs from live political detainees, in addition to the acknowledged practice of harvesting organs from the bodies of executed prisoners. [14] The Chinese government has denied the allegations. Nonetheless, human rights organizations continue to document and collect evidence of ongoing torture and religious persecution against Falun Gong.
[1] "China: A Country Study," Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, Ed. Worden et al., July 1987. Available at: http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[2] "China: Country Profile," Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 2006. Available at: http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/China.pdf Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[3] "China: Background Note," Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, January 2009. Available at: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/18902.htm Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[4] "White Paper on Human Rights," The Tibet Government in Exile, 1996. Available at: http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/white5.html Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[5] International Commission of Jurists Report on Tibet and the Chinese People's Republic, Report to the U.N. Secretary General. Geneva, 1960. Available at: http://www.tibetjustice.org/materials/govngo/govngo2.html Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[6] "White Paper: National Uprising," The Government of Tibet in Exile, 1996. Available at: http://www.tibet.com/whitepaper/white3.html Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[7] Dalai Lama condemns China's 'cultural genocide' of Tibet, The Telegraph, By David Eimer and Gethin Chamberlain, March 16, 2008. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1581875/Dalai-Lama-condemns-Chinas-cultural-genocide-of-Tibet.html Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[8] "Profile: The Dalai Lama," BBC News, May 20, 2008. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1347735.stm Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[9] "China: Hundreds of Tibetan Detainees and Prisoners Unaccounted For:
'Quick Arrests and Quick Sentencings' Followed Tibetan Protests," Human Rights Watch, March 9, 2009. Available at: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/03/09/china-hundreds-tibetan-detainees-and-prisoners-unaccounted Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[10] Amnesty International Report 2009: State of the World's Human Rights, pp. 108-09. Available at: http://report2009.amnesty.org/ Accessed August 18, 2009.
[11] 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. State Department. 2008. Available at: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108351.htm Accessed: August 18, 2009.
[12] Number of Falun Gong practitioners in China in 1999: at least 70 million, Falun Dafa Information Center, June 8, 2008. Available at: http://www.faluninfo.net/article/517/?ci=5 Accessed August 18, 2009.
[13] The crackdown on Falun Gong and other so-called "heretical organizations", Amnesty International, AI INDEX: ASA 17/011/2000. March 23, 2000. Available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20030711022606/http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA170112000
[14] Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China [PDF], MP David Kilgour and David Matas, July 6, 2006.


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Should Christians recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
It is absolutely true that our first allegiance is to the kingdom of God. We are to seek first the kingdom of God. But we are also to be good citizens (Rom. 13:1ff.) of the country of which we are earthly citizens. Jeremiah told Israel to pray for the good of the country in which they were exiles (Jer. 29:7). Paul happily used his rights as a Roman citizen without seeing a conflict with the kingdom of God (Acts 25:11). Now, had any of these been told to violate the law of the kingdom of God, they would have been required by God to refuse. Peter told the Sanhedrin, "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).
Let's put this in other but similar terms. We have given our hearts to our Lord Jesus Christ. And we are part of his bride, married to Christ. Yet we are permitted to marry wives here on earth and that does not conflict with our marriage to Christ. We can be loyal to Christ and our wives.
It seems, then, that we may commit ourselves to loyalty to the flag and to the United States of America, for which it stands, without at the same time committing ourselves to doing sin if that country should require it by law. Just remember to put crown and covenant first in your heart!
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The questions come from individuals like yourself. If you have questions about biblical and theological matters, you are invited to send them by e-mail by using the "Pose a Question" link on the OPC home page or by clicking here.
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Google Privacy Concerns and News
Lots of Google News going on today, especially when you talk about user data and privacy.
It all started with this post here, A Race to the Bottom:
Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies In which Privacy International says that Google is at the bottom of all the companies they "researched" and even though some companies come close, none are a endemic threat to privacy like Google is. Here is the conclusion of the report:
While there may be a temptation to focus criticism on Google's privacy performance, it is important to note that not one of the ranked organizations achieved a "green" status. Overall, the privacy standard of the key Internet players is appalling, with some companies demonstrating either willful or a mindless disregard for the privacy rights of their customers. Even the better performing companies create lapses of privacy that are avoidable. With minimal effort most organizations can improve their privacy performance by at least one grade.
The current frenzy to "capture" ad space revenue through the exploitation of new technologies and tools will result in one of the greatest privacy challenges in recent decades. The Internet appears to be shifting as a whole toward this aim, and the opportunity to create market differentiators based on responsible privacy may diminish unless those avenues are explored immediately. We have been impressed by the good work being achieved by some sites, but consumers are right to feel aggrieved when companies fail to adopt the best privacy tools that are available.
On the basis of the evidence we have seen from this study, there is no excuse for any organization to ignore the opportunity to create strong privacy protections. The technologies are available, the expertise is abundant, and the market appears willing to favor sites that treat their customers with respect. We hope that the 2008 rankings will reflect this potential.
Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land has the best coverage, so far, of the report in this post, Google Bad On Privacy? Maybe It's Privacy International's Report That Sucks, in which he goes step by step down the report to show that Google is at least as good as most of the ones they ranked higher than them, but, even so, Google has the most data on all users, and poses the biggest threat to users should the data get out.
Google Rated Bottom For Privacy Techcrunch coverage.
Google slammed in privacy report? Robert Scoble chimes in here, and says Google?s PR department needs to chime in and get their word out. Google's main problem is lack of communication with it's users, and this will be one of those cases.
Why I disagree with Privacy International from Matt Cutts. He says, and rightly so, that many companies gave user queries to the government, leaked millions of user queries or routinely sell user queries and they came off better in the report than Google did.
Google is WRONG On Consumer Privacy says Donna Bogatin, she says Google doesn't even know where all of the user data is, let alone be able to anonymize it. Peter Fleischer, Google's privacy point man, says, ?It?s actually very hard to answer the apparently simple question: ?where?s my data? You can?t pin-point the location of the clouds.?


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Great expectations? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Great expectations? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:53 am Post subject: Great expectations? What are your expectations from Obama and do you think he will meet them? I look forward to replies... Back to top pugachevVJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 2295 Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject: Well, unless he can feed the five thousand, walk on water, cure the sick, lame and weary then ascend into heaven, I don't think he can meet expectations. Back to top SuzanneJoined: 21 Apr 2008Posts: 283Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject: President Obama certainly has a difficult job ahead of him. Right now, one of his biggest challenges is getting agreement to help stop the economic problems before they get worse. He is young, energetic, and full of enthusiasm. I think he will make progress, but it will take time...and patience. No matter what he does, someone will always disagree or protest. Our country has been divided into two distinct political parties, and it will be hard to bring everyone together. Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:20 am Post subject: Obama looks promising specifically with respect to reviving economy as well as fight against terror. It is commendable that he rose to the occasion to yield pressure on Pakistan into a U-turn on their earlier stand that they have nothing to do with 26/11. I already have a (tentative) crush on him. That said, both India and US are now too very appeased with Pakistan, which will most likely backtrack once they pocket the $55M aid. It is strategic to appreciate and encourage Pakistan that has for the first time "owned up", as long as they don't fool us with a sham of admission, arrests and trials. What is hard to digest is how the world's smartest country can make such a big fool of itself by pumping in military aid to Pakistan all these years, when a child can tell where it is all going. Pakistan has meanwhile emerged as the smartest country who knows how to do war with India without incurring costs and blaming it on non state actors. Anyhow, Obama has taken the first step towards a hopeful global victory on terror and probably launched himself on the top Al-Quaeda hit list. We have to see where it all goes from here. Back to top alperJoined: 22 Mar 2006Posts: 96Location: istanbul - Türkiye Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject: hi in my opinion, Obama is one of the best leaders USA will ever have, sure that he's not a hero and as a friend has just put down, he's not supposed to walk on water or cure the sick I think, if America stops investing on ongoing wars, that could work.. Because everyone knows that the USA's money is being wasted on those conspiracy theories.. one cannot make money and life via others' lives and for oil and other needs, sure that there are more humanistic and peaceful solutions I agree with Anuradha about Obama's having a promising vision.. I hope his dreams can come true and I think that's not impossible..._________________Universal Peace... Back to top ClarissaMachJoined: 18 May 2006Posts: 644Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:22 am Post subject: I think Obama is a very charismatic leader, but we can't be naive when it comes to politics. Now he has achieved power, he is going to do what the people who helped him to get there tell him to (and I am not talking about his electors - I'm talking about the ones who financed his campaign). I don't know why, but a lot of Brazilians, even intelectuals and journalists, like Obama and are vey optimistic about his administration. Some of them really believe things will change under his government because Obama is a black man, and therefore, "quite different from his predecessors". In my humble opinion, it's ridiculous to think this way. I simply believe the colour of a man's skin has nothing to do with his ideas, capacity, potential or honesty, inter alia._________________Stormy Weather. Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:15 am Post subject: 100 days of Obama's Facebook news feed. Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject: Wtf? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:16 am Post subject: What I meant was the Afghan women were doing better under the Soviet supported PDPA regime. Communism helps fight religious dogma. Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:17 am Post subject: Obama watch: Hehe...and we all thought Nobel prizes are earned. Back to top Bob S.Joined: 29 Apr 2004Posts: 1767Location: So. Cal Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:57 pm Post subject: Anuradha Chepur wrote: Obama watch: Hehe...and we all thought Nobel prizes are earned. Fooled you. It (the Peace Prize) hasn't been about actual accomplishments since 1994 when Arafat won it for agreeing to not kill Israelis for a brief span. A very brief span. Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:46 am Post subject: The prize is best scrapped, isnt it? If anything, we are coded to fight for resources, land, water and now even airspace. And not for peace. The tools will change from stone to iron to bomb, the struggle remains. Whether it is India and Pakistan over Kashmir, Xingjians struggle for separation, China occupying Tibet, Palestine , Iraq...., Afghanistan . all are proof of Darwin. It is selflessness that is perversion, un-scientific. Some religions urge us to rise above our selfish genes, but its unnatural and the latter trump to hijack the very religions to strengthen their struggle. End of rant for now. 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Completed in fall 2000, EMU's University Commons provides state-of-the-art athletic facilities as well as a community gathering place. It houses the University Bookstore, Lion's Den snack shop and game room. It also houses student life office suites, including health services with massage services.
The gymnasium, Yoder Arena, is spacious enough to accomodate four full-court basketball courts and holds 1,800 fans at capacity. Dividers allow for team practices to overlap with recreational sports activities and other activities. Facilities include the only indoor pole vaulting pit in the region, a rock climbing wall, batting cages, and a state-of-the-art athletics training room.
EMU Turf FieldThe EMU Turf Field was installed in the summer of 2006 and replaced the old turf field that had lasted for 17 years. The new turf was installed by A-Turf and is the home field for the men's and women's soccer, women's lacross, and field hockey teams. A new elevated press box was built along the teams' sideline in the fall of 2009. The field also supports EMU intramurals, church league games, and other community activities as well.
EMU Baseball Field
At the north end of campus lies the baseball diamond, installed in 1990. A new backstop was built before the start of the 2018 season expanding the hill seating area and both dugouts. Also including a remodeling of the batting cages and bullpens down the left field line. In 2011 a new scoreboard was added beyond the leftfield wall.
Bomberger FieldThe outdoor track and field were updated in 1990 and lie on the north side of campus, adjacent to Park Woods. The interior of Bomberger Field is also used for practice by the soccer and field hockey teams.
Gehman Field
The home of the EMU softball team was installed in 1990. The complex underwent a major face lift after the 2002 season and now boasts two refinished dugouts, a press box, and new outfield fencing. An enclosed outdoor batting cage with two pitching circles were also added behind the leftfield fence.
Tennis CourtsSix lighted outdoor tennis and four basketball courts were installed along Park Road in 1990. Both courts provide outdoor recreation for the community as well as a home to fall intramural athletics at EMU.
Varsity Soccer Field
Another field, called Varsity Soccer Field, was created south of campus (adjacent to Eastern Mennonite High School's baseball and softball fields) in 1999 and is used for practice by the EMU teams.


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Wis. bishop charged in crash that killed runner
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Lutheran bishop is charged with striking and killing a runner in Sun Prairie last weekend.
Bishop Bruce Burnside was charged Wednesday with three felonies and one misdemeanor. The Wisconsin State Journal reports charges include homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle. Other charges include hit-and-run and homicide by negligent use of a vehicle.
Burnside is bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The 59-year-old oversees 145 congregations in a 13-county area.
Burnside is accused of striking and killing 52-year-old Maureen Mengelt, a married mother of three and an avid runner. Mengelt was a former City of Madison police officer.
Church officials have said Burnside as on his way to a Sunday ceremony at a Sun Prairie church when the crash happened.


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The reborn brand of 3Di LCD TVs will appeal to videophiles.
Today Sharp pulled the sheet of the new Elite LCD TVs, a collaboration between Sharp and Pioneer's Elite brand which mixes the best technology of both brands into the new premium TVs.
There were bowed heads across the videophile world when Pioneer left the TV business a few years ago taking with it the Kuro plasma TVs that many viewers believed were the best flat panels on the market. Ears started twitching earlier this year when Sharp and Pioneer announced that they were going to be working together to launch a new line of Elite TVs. Well, here we are, and the mating looks pretty sweet.
The TVs, available in 60- and 70-inch models, are both LED-based LCD TVs loaded with picture-quality enhancing tech, some of which sounds familiar. First, the TVs incorporate full-array backlighting, rather than edge lighting, creating more uniform screen lighting and localized dimming (by LED groups). All Elite TVs include a yellow sub pixel along with the standard red/blue/green formulation, which, when added together, creates more than 8 million dots on the screen. This sound a lot like the Quattron system Sharp introduced in 2010.
The models are claiming a refresh rate of "greater than 240Hz" due to a proprietary scanning backlight technology.
Videophiles will be pleased to learn that the Elite TVs are THX certified, which in my experience is pretty much a rubber stamp for a great-looking picture. It also includes ISF certification with Day and Night modes for calibration.
But the feature that the company is most hyping is something called Intelligent Variable Contrast. Found only on the new Elite TVs, it automatically controls both the brightness and backlight to enhance color depth, brilliance and detail in dark areas—sounds like the Kuro effect to me.
Finally, as expected from any TV sold in 2011, these models will include a suite of online features included Netflix, Vudu, CinemaNow and YouTube.
Another online feature borrowed from the Sharp book is Elite Advantage Live (called Aquos Advantage on Sharp TVs) which allows online tech support directly through the TV. A remote tech can adjust settings in the TV, so you can just hand it over to the experts without letting them in your home.
Wait, there's more. Yes, the Elite TVs are 3D and ship with two active shutter glasses.
The Elite TVs, remaining true to the original Elite line, will only be available at select specialty dealers and custom installation companies. The 60-inch model carries an MSRP of $5,999.99, and the 70-inch model carries an MSRP of $8,499.99.


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Craters and channels in Hephaestus Fossae
The High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter has obtained images of Hephaestus Fossae, a region on Mars dotted with craters and channel systems.
Hephaestus Fossae lies at about 21°N and 126°E on the Red Planet. Named after the Greek god of fire, it extends for more than 600 km on the western flank of Elysium Mons in the Utopia Planitia region.
Obtained on 28 December 2007, the images have a ground resolution of about 16 m/pixel. They show that the region has channel systems of unknown origin.
The images cover 170 x 80 km, an area almost as large as Montenegro. The surface is mostly smooth, and is covered by several small impact craters 800-2800 m in diameter. Smaller craters are scattered across the entire region.
The left side of the image shows a large impact crater measuring 20 km in diameter. Covering an area of approximately 150 sq km, a crater of this size on Earth could harbour cities such as Bonn or Kiel. In contrast to the smaller craters, it shows a blanket of ejecta with flow forms surrounding the rim.
The large craters were formed when loose, soft material was ejected due to impact, and the smaller ones formed due to secondary impacts, when consolidated material was ejected in a ballistic path and impacted the original crater at varying distances.
Most martian water exists in the form of subsurface ice. The presence of a blanket of ejecta and outflow channels around the crater suggest that the primary impact may have penetrated the surface enough to melt a buried frozen water reservoir.
Since the smaller impact craters show neither a blanket of ejecta nor any kind of outflow channel, they did not impact the surface strongly enough to reach the subsurface ice. It is possible to calculate the depth of a possible frozen water reservoir beneath the surface by determining the depth of the impact craters.
The colour scenes have been derived from the three HRSC-colour channels and the nadir channel. The perspective views have been calculated from the digital terrain model derived from the stereo channels. The anaglyph image was calculated from the nadir and one stereo channel. The black and white high resolution images were derived form the nadir channel which provides the highest detail of all channels.
For more information on Mars Express HRSC images, please read our updated FAQ (frequently asked questions).


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national / health / disability issues / news report Friday July 03, 2020 23:54 by 1 of indy 1 attached file
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has released a press release today where they did their own analysis of the excess deaths in Ireland since early March and the figure they come to is between 1,100 and 1,200 which is substantially lower than the "official" Covid death toll of 1700+.
This means that as was suspected the official number was way too liberal with categorizing deaths as due to Covid. This new figure is closer to a regular year of flu in terms of number of deaths and conclusively proves that Covid is barely any more dangerous than flu in terms of threat. What we see here is a slow back track and while the emphasis is still on social distancing, this is merely to give cover to the fact that at a minimum this has been one big mistake and a massive over-reaction but is true of many other countries but not all. It could be viewed as how badly group think has taken over our society because there were moments in the last few months where one dare not challenge the official figures for fear of social ostracizing
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national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday July 03, 2020 22:20 by IAWM 1 comment (last - sunday july 12, 2020 16:51)
Irelands previous stint on the UN Security Council in 2001 is nothing to be proud of in terms of promoting world peace.
In 2001, under the then Fianna Fail Government with Brian Cowan as Foreign Minister, Ireland voted for several resolutions that ultimately approved the US led invasion of Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, in what then Labour TD Michael D. Higgins termed an illegal war. Nineteen years later with no end in sight Americas longest war has caused the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands, many of them women and children, and has created deep bitterness, division and sectarianism. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday July 01, 2020 00:08 by foie
Shannon LNG faces further challenge in High Court
Judicial Review of listing as Project of Common Interest
The controversial Shannon LNG terminal proposed for the Shannon Estuary faces its second challenge in the High Court from the environmental charity, Friends of the Irish Environment today. The environmental organisation is asking the Irish Court to seek a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union on whether the inclusion of the project on a list of priority European Energy infrastructure was lawful. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday June 29, 2020 23:28 by foie
Legal Aid Board refusal to fund environmental NGO faces High Court challenge
Irish legal costs prohibitively expensive
The High Court will tomorrow [June 30] hear a two-day challenge to the Legal Aid Boards refusal to provide legal aid to the environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE].
The NGO sought the funding in April of 2018 to support its Judicial Review of the National Development Plan and the National Planning Framework. This case alleges that the Government of Ireland erred in law in failing to adequately fulfil its obligations under the Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Habitats Directive when approving the plans. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday June 24, 2020 22:47 by foie 1 image
Not Satisfied Over Bird Protection on Remote Island
An Bord Pleanála has sought further information on the application by Cork County Council in partnership with Fáilte Ireland for a 10 million development on Dursey Island off the west Cork coast.
The 6.5 km long uninhabited island, currently accessed by a cable car with a capacity of 6 and return journey time of 20 minutes, is to be replaced by a state-of-the-art two-way cable car system capable of carrying up to 300 people each way every hour. The project includes an extensive Visitor Centre with restaurant, gift shop and glazed elevator on the mainland. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday June 22, 2020 18:46 by icsh
The Programme for Government produced by Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Green Party promises a lot that is encouraging, but on the issue of US military use of Shannon Airport - which the majority of Irish people oppose - it is disappointing. The change of government provided an opportunity to end Irish complicity in the ongoing cycles of war and occupation that have been responsible for the loss of millions of lives this century. The military industrial complex is also the single biggest polluter on the planet (see recent study from Brown Universitys Costs of War project). The US. Department of Defense has a larger annual carbon footprint than most countries on earth, and with its global network of bases and logistics networks the US military is the single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world outside of nation-states themselves. [1] read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday June 22, 2020 18:40 by foie
High Court to hear challenge against unsustainable fishing in Ireland and the EU
The Irish High Court today formally initiated a Judicial Review proceedings aimed at challenging the EU Regulation setting 2020 fishing quotas under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) because of its failure to meet a legally defined deadline of ending overfishing in all stocks by 2020.
A judge will be assigned on July 15th to hear the application for leave to apply for a Judicial Review from the environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday June 18, 2020 20:27 by foie
Bord na Móna Enforcement Holiday flies in the face of a High Court Judgment
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An enforcement holiday currently being exercised by Bord na Mona to allow industrial harvesting to continue this year across its bogs flies in the face of a High Court Judgment, according to the environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE]. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday June 18, 2020 17:19 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin 5 images
"Symbols are what unite and divide people. Symbols give us our identity, our self-image,our way of explaining ourselves to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell; and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake."
Mary Robinson, Inauguration speech as President of Ireland, December 3, 1990
On the night of the 8 March 1966 a massive explosion was heard in the centre of Dublin and Nelson's Pillar came crashing to the ground in hundreds of tons of rubble. No one was hurt and a stump was all that could be seen of the 157 year old monument. It was not the first time that monuments had been attacked in Ireland and certainly not the last, at least figuratively, with a series of later monuments accruing many derogatory nicknames from the Dublin people.
The recent spate of attacks on monuments in the US and the Uk has opened up the debate on the cultural issues they provoke, ranging from those who can't believe the attacks hadn't happened sooner to those who see their destruction as mob vandalism.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday June 15, 2020 23:47 by 1 of indy
Today we are reproducing a press release from the Socialist Party on Covid-19 with our own comments added because the Left in general along with all the opposition parties has completely swallowed the Covid-19 is a deadly pandemic narrative hook, line and sinker. On another story soon, we will address the why. In the meantime from their perspective protecting workers rights and health is the natural thing to do but they seem confused by the sudden concern by the government for people. We offer a different perspective that explains things in a more consistent way,
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Coronavirus a trigger for rare syndrome which left three children hospitalised in Dublin, new test confirms
national / health / disability issues / other press Saturday June 13, 2020 22:52 by 1 of indy
Last week the Irish Independent carried this scare story with the headline above. The exact same story was also carried by hundreds of mainstream news sites too. It is a very good example of the relentless propaganda that has been appearing in the mainstream media during the Covid scare operation trying to hype it up to the maximum and even now they are doing their utmost to keep it going.
It is with this in mind that the story is carried here except we break it down to show at the manipulation works. The first point is that the media and those pushing this propaganda know well that most people only read headlines and the headline itself manages to link the word Coronavirus with some new strange disease. The purpose would appear to not only keep the fear going but to suggest to the population that Covid might be even more deadly and is perhaps mutating into the much promised and anticipated second wave. So it is laying the ground work for the second wave too. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday June 08, 2020 23:57 by ShannonWatch
The following is a letter to Irish media outlets from our friend, anti-war activist Tarak Kauff. Tarak spent most of a year in Ireland as a result of his non-violent action to inspect a US military plane at Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday June 03, 2020 21:31 by foie
Councils must publish planning documents online within 5 days
Regulations impose time frame to ensure public access to planning applications
Local authorities are now obliged to put online planning applications within 5 days of their acceptance.
A Statutory Instrument published May 26, 2020 and signed by Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, requires that Local Authorities must publish the application and all documentation accompanying the application on its internet website within five days. read full story / add a comment
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary ridicules Government restrictions and calls for 'unnecessary' lockdown to end
national / economics and finance / other press Sunday May 31, 2020 01:55 by 1 of indy
It's not often, in fact never that Indymedia agrees with Michael OLeary but in this case we do because the whole pandemic is a hoax. Now some people might think this now means that we agree with everything he had ever said, is saying and will ever say in the future. And it is not. We value our freedom and liberty first and foremost rather than submit to police state controls which have been clearly laid out. We don't agree that if Micheal O'Leary says lift the lockdown then we must automatically say the opposite but that is how people will expect us to think.
However given this pandemic is a hoax it means the forces at work are far far bigger than Micheal O'Leary so he is not likely to get his way. In fact the era of tourism for the masses may have come to abrupt permanent end last March for all we know. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / news report Friday May 29, 2020 23:08 by 1 of indy 1 video file 1 audio file
This interview by Dublin City FM discussing matters of freedom on health vaccines and the lockdown was about to be aired at the end of April but twas then pulled at the last minute and Health Freedom Ireland have made it available.
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national / health / disability issues / news report Thursday May 28, 2020 23:11 by 1 of indy 1 comment (last - monday june 29, 2020 17:41) 1 image
Now that the lockdown has been secured and people have been convinced of all the manipulation and lies and the police state measures have been accepted, it is very hard to overturn these in peoples mind and for them to accept the whole reason for economic suicide has largely been a hoax.
It is therefore safe for the mainstream media to publish more truthful information and some of them are doing. The reason is because they will be able to say they did -eventually -publish the facts if anything should go wrong -that is resistance against the police state and the second reason is because it will make little difference at this stage since the objectives of phase 1 of the global police state have been achieved.
So it is with this that Bloomberg is now telling us what those you have been paying attention already know and that is the Covid poster child of Europe -Italy that 96% of all the virus deaths suffered from other illness and were already dying. read full story / add a comment
Vaxxed Film Reveals Deaths and Injuries Caused by Vaccines by Interviewing the Victims - Gardasil Vaccine the Worst?
national / health / disability issues / news report Wednesday May 27, 2020 22:03 by vi 2 images 2 video files
With the current rush to fast-track a vaccine that will supposedly stop the Coronavirus, it is important to look at some of the history of vaccines, especially ones developed to supposedly stop viruses.
Perhaps one of the most deadly and dangerous vaccines to ever hit the market in the U.S. is the Gardasil vaccine which supposedly targets a virus that is thought to cause cancer, the human papillomavirus (HPV). read full story / add a comment
Minister Harris Presents Evidence Of HPV Vaccine Damage - Yet Continues Policy Of Gaslighting Affected Families
national / health / disability issues / news report Saturday May 23, 2020 02:43 by regret 1 attached file
REGRET have managed through Dail questioning to get the actual figures on the adverse affects of the HPV vaccines and the results have been shocking. This is despite the government deriding the REGRET campaign and Minister Harris along with the HSE continuously push a message of total safety for the HPV vaccine, dismissing families of healthy girls who became seriously ill after the vaccination in our calls for an investigation in a campaign of public derision. We trusted the authorities who told us it was a safe vaccine, and they abandoned us when what happened to our children didn't fit their message. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 11, 2020 21:10 by 1 of indy 2 comments (last - saturday october 03, 2020 22:48) 1 image
The weekend just gone by in the UK was a bank holiday weekend and the weather was really good. Millions of UK citizens fed up with the lunatic lockdown defied the authorities and were out in parks, beaches and on the streets in their droves. There were so many the police gave up trying to impose it. Even some pubs here and there opened up and people sat out enjoying the sun and having a pint. All the pubs should open rather than commit economic suicide and they should ask their customers to defend them.
Up to that point the UK government message was Stay At Home. Today when many people returned to work it is reckoned the numbers up back to the near 70% to 80% of normal. Some of the London tubes were packed and nobody dropped dead as a result. This morning media figures including many celebrity figures were stunned and wondered what was going on while many who had stuck rigidly to the rules realized they have been fooled and lied to in the past 6 to 8 weeks.read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / news report Sunday May 10, 2020 01:10 by 1 of indy 2 comments (last - saturday may 16, 2020 13:25) 2 video files 1 attached file
This page will contain updates and tips on how to stay health and any known measures to boost the immune system and help prevent getting ill from Covid if you are in he vulnerable group. The key advice though is to boost your immune system by taking Vitamin C and Zinc. Vitamin D which can be generated by your body's skin in sunshine is also very good and is well known to protect. Getting outdoors into fresh air and walking, hiking or swimming are all also excellent ways to improve your immunity. Eating good nutritious food rather than junk food is another important component of boosting your immune system. read full story / add a comment
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Steve Sullivan, Jordan Staal and Tyler Kennedy scored and the Pittsburgh Penguins fended off elimination with a 3-2 comeback victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves — including a series of big stops in the third period — to help Pittsburgh cut Philadelphia's lead to 3-2 in the best-of-seven series.
Game 6 is Sunday in Philadelphia.
Matt Carle and Scott Hartnell scored power-play goals in the first period for Philadelphia, but the Flyers failed to close out Pittsburgh for the second straight game.
Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 20 shots.
Following four wild games that featured a record 45 goals, the teams played something more closely resembling playoff hockey.
Staal, coming off a hat trick in Pittsburgh's 10-3 victory in Game 4, likely extended the Penguins' season when he beat Bryzgalov over the glove 6:15 into the second period to tie the game and give the team an energy boost in front of the largest crowd in the Consol Energy Center's brief history.
Kennedy put Pittsburgh in front to stay just over 3 minutes later, ripping a shot past Bryzgalov.
And this time, a one-goal advantage in this wide-open series was enough.
Fleury, who came in with an unsightly 5.43 goals-against average and an .817 save percentage overcame four games of shaky play with 20 brilliant minutes in the third period.
He made seven saves alone during a Philadelphia power play early in the third period, one of a dozen he made in the period as the Penguins stayed alive on a night when stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were held without a point.
The Flyers insisted the whipping they received in Game 4 was an aberration. If they were rattled, it didn't show, at least in the first period.
Carle scored his first goal of the post-season — thanks in part to a brilliant screen by Danny Briere right in front of Fleury — from the point with 2 seconds left on a power play to put the Flyers up 1-0 just over 8 minutes into the game.
Going ahead early has been a dubious honour in this series. The team that scored first has gone on to lose every time. And in typical fashion, it didn't take the Penguins long to respond.
Sullivan saved a sloppy power play — including one sequence in which Crosby and Malkin slammed into each other — by tapping in a pass from Kris Letang to tie it.
The Penguins, however, failed to play with the composure that highlighted the final two periods of Game 4. Malkin and Craig Adams went to the box with penalties, and Hartnell scored on the ensuing 5 on 3.
On the brink of having a season with Stanley Cup hopes come to a stunningly quick end, however, the Penguins responded by ditching flashy play for more basic, responsible hockey over the final two periods. It was enough to send the series back to Philadelphia, where the pressure will be squarely on the Flyers, who will try to avoid becoming the fourth team in NHL history to lose a seven-game series after winning the first three games.
NOTES: The teams combined for 23 first-period goals, the most in NHL history for through the first five games of a playoff series. The record is 25 set by Chicago and Edmonton in 1985. … The Flyers played without defenceman Nicklas Grossmann. He is dealing with a concussion and is out indefinitely. …. The Penguins played without D Paul Martin, who missed his second straight game because of an undisclosed injury. … The Penguins had never won a Game 5 after going down 3-0 in a series.