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The 2009 application statistics are posted: http://firegrantsupport.com/docs/2009AFGAppStats.pdf
Some of the highlights:
19,791 applications submitted (5.8% decrease from '08)
Applicant Type:
18,001 fire departments (6.5% decrease from '08)
1,209 non-affiliated EMS (3.2% decrease from '08)
481 regional (11.9% increase from '08)
Program Area:
12,658 OPS (3.4% decrease from'08)
7,133 VEH (9.8% decrease from '08)
Service Area:
15,167 rural (6.9% decrease from '08)
3,281 suburban (2.2% decrease from '08)
1,343 urban (1.7% decrease from '08)
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3, 4 & 5 accounted for 56.9% of the applications submitted
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I would guess that some of the decrease in individual apps is making up for the regional increase. I do know of a few that didn't have permission to apply because of matching funds but that's about the biggest reason to apply. After all I doubt there are many with no needs. We always need things.
There is that but I have a couple of departments around here that have pretty much maxed it out. That is good for the other folks though. A little less competition.
But its not good for showing that we need the program. We should be showing gains - even if the application is wacked.
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What kind of vehicle are they buying for $328? that has to be a typo...
Ok, I am sure there is a very reasonable explanation....
DC has DC Fire and EMS. One agency. Announced in unity over
a year ago.
I am not aware of any other eligible agencies in DC. How do they get
two applications?
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DC probably submitted for an OPS grant and a vehicle grant.
Duh.... Now don't I feel stupid.... And Stupid is not even cute....
I know of departments who have knocked out grants year after year and literally have nothing to put in for. And there's still thousands of needy worthwhile departments who get turned down every year.
Thats my biggest complaint of the AFG is the mis-distribution of cash.
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they have maximum funding per year, why not maximum funding over a three to five year span. or you cannot recieve more than x grants in x time period.
So, a rural department that can only pay a small amount for their match cannot buy small items they need each year, they have to do it all at once, and may not be able to afford the match?
And seems like the act is enacted for a few years, which could make a department eligible once...
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The $328.00 match isn't necessarily for a vehicle. It doesn't say whether it is vehicle or ops. But even if it is $328.00 for ops, some depts. can only afford that match. I know depts. in my county can't afford the 5% match, so they don't apply.
And to the setting a limit on number of grants received, why? My dept. is in need of help. Until AFG came along we were 9 months from having to get a loan for new SCBA, our turn out was over 20 years old, our vehicles were over 30 years old, and I didn't have the proper equipment to keep my volunteers same while performing their duties (RIT equipment). I am still in need of other things. AFG wants a specific project, so when you apply for gear it should be the works for gear. Not gear, hose, scba, radios, etc. Each of those is a seperate grant for a different year. So don't limit the number of grants. Us small depts. can only afford a certain amount toward the match and i would prefer that over 5 or 6 or 7 years, not all at once that i cant afford.
I agree. If not for the AFG program, I'd still have 1982 (industrial, not even fire service) SCBA's, long boots and coats, and the exhaust from the vehicles would be spewing into the gear (among other problems) The ice storm would have been embarrassing with our doors closed, nowhere to go for storm relief... I've gotten 3 separate awards for my department: now we have compliant PPE for all firefighters, SCBA's with integrated PASS, an exhaust extraction system, a working fire & CO alarm system, and a generator to run the station as a shelter. My department has only $5,000.00 a year to spend on equipment, so I'd be lost if I had to do it all at once, or without AFG...
AFG has been great to us. This year I'm hoping to get past the computer to peer to replace a 32 year old water tender (what are those 'hydrant' things you urban guys talk about anyway?) to provide my crew with enough initial attack water to keep working until mutual aid can arrive... I also selfishly put in to replace my 20 - 40 year old attack and back up lines that are weeping at the couplings... Sound like I should get less consideration because of past awards? I've had to prioritize my projects (honestly, I asked for the tanker last year but never made it past the computer - still a little bitter about that)
Is there frivolous grant applications out there? I'm sure there is... But, overall, if the application makes it to peer and is positively reviewed and subsequently funded, great. The problem as I see it is the fact that there is a great disparity between the amount requested and the amount available for funding. Last year, there was something in the neighborhood of $2 Billion requested with a little over $500 million funds. This year, there is a little over $3.1 Billion with an estimated $420 million. A lot of rejections....
How do we solve it? I don't know (but if you'll fund my requests this year, I won't ask for funds next year....)
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i am not saying that departments are not deserving, i am just saying i have seen placed get equipment they don't need. There are places with 4+ different successful years, and others out there with 0 and have been trying almost every year. I see places who have excessive spending (waste) and who get grants.
So then limit the maximum funding over a certain number of years. I was just throwing out ideas.
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If Peer Review gave it to them, then the case for need was made in their app. What's usually the case is those that also need, and probably even need a little more don't have the points in the narrative. Peer can't give credit for assumptions, all they know is what's in the app but many are written from only one perspective. That's why sending it around to neighboring departments, other members in your own department, etc, etc. Since no one thinks exactly like another human since we all have different life experiences we all read the same things differently. Helps with interpreting guidelines, helps with making sure that the narratives are objective.
I do agree with you to an extent too, I have several departments that have 20+ year old gear that got computer denied last year and that was all that was in the app. Basic head to toe coverage, even went in at $2000 a set for a less expensive setup with rubber boots and metro style helmets. Sucks, but taking the big picture look says none ran more than 5 structure fires over the 3 years of calls reported. Need? Dang straight. As bad as someone else that runs a lot more? Not really.
I also have several that we've hit the 4+ awards, and still going. I probably have 200-300 that I've worked with that could use 3 truck awards because the whole fleet is over 30 years old. Everyone needs a basic and safe pumper, tanker, and brush truck in the rural world, since that's 75% of the country's land mass. None of those fill the other's shoes perfectly although we tend to make it work sometimes. So a new brush truck doesn't help with water supply, and so forth. That's why the lobby was there to allow for a second truck award by letting the program decide if someone had those needs more than another applicant. I'd say it's working pretty well.
Once we start saying X got too much money, or they get their PPE and a truck, now they have to sit out, etc, the whole thing turns into a welfare system. Welfare still doesn't work since all it does is encourage people to not work to take care of their own. Reminds me of the email I just got about taking away the birdfeeder, but that's another soap box....
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Well said Brian. This our third try to replace 16 year old scba. After the last two deniles, I was told by our AFG rep that only three structure fires in one year hurt our chances. In my opinion one should be enough. I too have seen other departments purchase equipment with AFG funds that sat in boxes for a year until somebody had time to unpack it. Must not have needed it to bad. AFG needs to take a good look at the program to be sure that all fire departments, big and small have compliant scba and ppe before they start awarding the "That would be nice to have" projects. I can only hope that with Kurt's help this will be our year. Good luck to all!
I agree, if the program was perfect, it would go to the most needy.
BUT, there is such a thing as political reality also.
Pennsylvania is one of the states that has some aggressive state
programs for fire departments equipment needs. Missouri has none. Does
that mean that departments in Missouri should get a priority in the program? Because my state legislature does not fund programs like Pennsylvania, or Arkansas do?
I don't think so.
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Problem is there aren't too many 'nice to haves' left. It's more of a degree of nice-to-have since everything that's eligible is needed, but in some areas not so much. MDTs for preplanning, the additional communications method to free up radio traffic, command uses, etc, etc are all valid and needed things that help us to do the job more safely than lots of radio traffic where MayDays are missed (documented in LODD reports), lack of building construction or layout knowledge resulting in exposure to hazmat or lost FFs (documented in LODD reports), accountability system enhancement (documented in LODD reports), and the list goes on. Every piece of equipment down to personal flashlights helps us to do our jobs in a safer manner.
Whether or not it's a nice-to-have depends on your situation. At some point there's the lower threshold of need versus nice on all statistics from population to call volume. 3-10 structure fires a year, minimal new construction happening in the first-due, paper preplans will get the job done it doesn't need to be computer based. Nicer and easier over long-term if it is, but not a diehard necessity. Run 1 structure fire a day, yeah there are probably too many properly done preplans to be able to stack that many binders in the truck for the officer to leaf through. Working down to other project if there are enough radios to hit 1 per 2 FF crew, which is a necessity at any level, but of course it is ranking behind gear and packs.
I am of the mindset that everyone should be read for any PPE request where the gear is over 10 years old, and every SCBA should be read when they're over 15. There shouldn't be any computer denials for those at all since as 56 said it only takes one call. There aren't that many out there that other apps would get bumped off, they still read enough apps to hit the higher priorities if something like that were implemented. I just think that they should at least get read and have the argument judged worthy or not. Can't string together sentences, probably won't see money, but at least the chance to present a base case of need was there. Not welfare at that point in my definition, just giving people their day in court for the #1 and #2 needs.
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If that is military behavior...I'm glad I'm not in the military.
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01-30-2009, 09:10 AM #21"This thread is being closed as it is off-topic and not related to the fire industry." - Isn't that what the Off Duty forum was for?
Additionally, if a nod and a very slight wave is a national security risk, they should have further instructed the drum major to keep his hands by his sides at all times, not swinging back and forth to the beat of the march where it could be construed as some kind of threat to the President.
If what this man did was out of line and "risked his own life", they should have canceled the F'ing parade and all future public appearances of the President.
I agree with Chief Harve's first post.RK
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Management is making sure things are done right. Leadership is doing the right thing. The fire service needs alot more leaders and a lot less managers.
"Everyone goes home" is the mantra for the pussification of the modern, American fire service.
Comments made are my own. They do not represent the official position or opinion of the Fire Department or the City for which I am employed. In fact, they are normally exactly the opposite.
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If the fire service is not loosely based on the military in regards to rank structure and discipline,why bother with rank?
On my old vollie department we could get away with telling the Chief or Captain that"Rich,I got the jaws pump going now." or "Willie,where you want the U-truck parked for lights?" but I always thought paid departments were different unless the officer wanted his guys to front name him with something other than his rank.
Back to the original topic,UNLESS the guy was in the lead and was supposed to be the one rendering honors to the new President,he wasn't supposed to wave,nod or even blink in "tap code" but maintain his position and stay in step and tune.
It wouldn't look good for a tuba player to belch any sour notes while passing the reviewing stand.
Besides, there's no way the secret service was going to shoot every person along the parade route that waved at the president -- and there were thousands of those. So I'm guessing they weren't going to take out a drum major for his half wave / half salute / wink gesture. Especially since the people in the parade were probably screened better than the people along the route.
So, forgive me, but as strange as the Secret Service might be, I'm not buying the idea that he "put his life in danger."
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Personally, I also agree that the whole fiasco is exactly that, a fiasco. It takes a lot of experienced parade discipline to NOT wave and smile/nod at people who have lined up to watch You march past. For most of us, that is not really a problem. Even I am guilty of small waves to the smaller kids, especially if they know me and actually see/recognize me.
When the "Boss" waves at you, its usually an automatic response to acknowledge the, for lack of better words, "salute".
Privately, I think (again from a certain amount of experience) that the Secret Service are just a bit too full of themselves. Like Cosmosis said, if they were so uptight about the whole Do Not Wave thing, then there should be several 1000s of folks in detention pending investigation by the SS.
Should have followed the rules of the parade and his unit.
This isn't about a fire department, this is more about being a part of a band. Never having been in band, it seems that there is a high level of structure and discipline (all that marching in step kind of thing). He let his band-mates down.
If he wanted to wave to the president, he could have joined the other million people watching it.I am now a past chief and the views, opinions, and comments are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for any department or in any official capacity. Although, they would be smart to listen to me.
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Tripods are a big no-no around the White House, which makes sense... If someone is going to disguise a weapon as a camera, they want you to at least have an unsteady aim.[/QUO
Never thought of that. Thats very interesting.
I do not know how to feel about this either,
I filled in for flag duty once or twice in the Army and know the hell you would pay for pulling a stunt like that in formation. However love him or hate him he is the Commander in Chief. If he acknowledges you invidually it could be taken as a sign of disrespect not to reciprocate. Maybe salute rather than wave? I agree though I think there was something behind the scenes nobody is being told bad blood that may have been festering or something to cause the suspension.
were all para-militaristic government workers. but were not the military..right?
It is a fact that parade participants were instructed by the USSS to not make any gestures toward the reviewing stand while marching by. A few groups did have performances in front of the viewing stand so obviously there were exceptions.
John Coleman was suspended from the band, and then resigned. He did not lose his paying job. I feel sorry for him to a point, but he also did not follow the rules that his organization operates under.
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One time at Band Camp ....I was suspended for waving at a Chipmunk.
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Mad troop worshipers say we need martial law to improve things. A kind reminder for them:
a) This war mess is a gift from Musharraf martial law.
b) The initial mistake of jumping into cold war was made by military and Ayub's martial law regime and the same policy was followed by Yahya, Bhutto (A civilian martial law administrator appointed by army and trained by General Ayub) and Gen Zia.
c) 90s, despite corruption and mismanagement was much safer and better.
d) Many national institutions like SUPARCO,NESCOM, NLC (the collapsed bridge fame) etc are under direct or indirect control of army. In most countries such institutions are run by civilians. SUPARCO is a failed organization when it comes to research and development in real space sciences and astronomy. Most of the time they do some missile work and some work with Chinese companies. The reason is simple that instead of being led by top level scientists it is being run by former or serving khakis with no brain.
e) Even the biggest city of Pakistan i.e. Karachi is directly or indirectly under administrative control of occupied armed forces in the form of DHAs, military cantonments and civil cantonment areas who have to pay extortion not only to local political and land mafias but also to military mafias (in the form of absurd charges and taxes) who milk money from civil cantonment areas, put restrictions on civilian liberties and don't do shit to improve things there.
f) Not only that, army is doing everything from running marriage halls, banks, factories and it has occupied a great deal of land and other economic resources of this country.
g) Army ,ISI and MI waste resources on spying journalists, judges and creating puppets in media (like Zaid Hamid) and politics or shutting down channels like Geo.
It shouldn't be hard to see why we continuously see intelligence and security failures or why we are still stuck in this war on terror mess? The prime security institution was never designed to be a defender of people or constitution, it was designed by British to work as proxy rulers. Cantonment areas are a reminder of such mindset. It will be interesting to see how much area of Newyork, Shanghai, Mumbai, London or even #Moscow is controlled by army like the so called Pakistan army and air force control or occupy Karachi.
Geo Suspended by PEMRA/ISI: A defeat for civil society, judiciary, democracy and free media.
Geo has been suspended by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on the pressure of Pakistan's corrupt military mafia and its nefarious spy agency ISI.
I strongly condemn this attack on the freedom of media and free speech.
This is not just a ban on a private channel but an assertion of authority by Pakistan's deep state or occupied mercenary armed forces over the rights of people and businesses.
The ban also shows that Musharraf's legacy still controls the country and a lot is needed to be done by freedom and justice loving people.
Unfortunately, many media houses, political parties and religious groups danced to the tune of military establishment.
I hope some sanity will prevail and freedom of speech will be restored.
Geo license suspended by PEMRA
According to latest media reports, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has suspended the licenses of Geo News, Geo Entertainment and Geo Tez. This is another attack by establishment on freedom of media and must be condemned.
If the biggest media group of Pakistan (Geo) goes down like this then forget about smaller media groups and wait for the time when establishment will exercise their patriotic totalitarian madness over blogs, news websites, websites of political parties or even their speeches. Worst part of this madness is that a political party like PTI and a leader with great potential like Imran Khan were used like a toilet paper. The establishment did it with ease. All they needed to do was to exploit the right fault lines and play cards like religion, nationalism, blasphemy or some personal differences.
Geo did bad journalism on many occasions including in 2013 elections but we need to know that media freedom also includes bad or biased journalism. Giving up freedom to satisfy some personal hatred is a sign of slave and weak mind.
People need to learn that if you don't like something use your TV remote. use the control in your own hand instead of giving it to PEMRA or Army. . I opposed Geo for their support of Swat operation or supporting army in this war or for 2013 election coverage but on Hamid Mir issue, they rightly stood up with the victim.
I hope sanity will prevail and this attack by establishment will fail.
Update: Next day government, after pressure from local and international circles, distanced itself from the decision and termed the meeting illegal. Still Geo is not available in many parts of the countries as cable operators are under pressure from military.
USAID fame Sunni Ittehad council and Iranian poodles MWM joining hands against talks with Talibans.
USAID fame Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and Iranian poodles MWM joining hands against talks with Talibans. It gives some idea how things are going in the region especially Iraq and Afghanistan. Syria was just a trap set for rising Turkey and another way to exploit sectarianism in the region.
If Shias realize how harmful these Khomenists are for their interest then it can bring some chance of peace for them and others. If these corrupt Sunni Ittehad council guys start not to use sectarianism to gain monetarily or politically then they can do some good for others too.
Both are playing as puppets of USA/Iran and their slaves in army/agencies/politics to push Pakistan into more and more war mess.
Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are no saints and have committed too many transgressions against non-combatant populations but they are the result of this mess. This phenomenon of terrorism cannot be dealt properly if we do not address the root cause of this mess. Root causes are Pakistan army's role of a mercenary organization for their client USA against Afghanistan and Pakistani tribes, Pakistan's soil being used for NATO supplies to strengthen the occupation, Pakistani bases being used to occupy a neighboring country (also for drones) and finally one of the main root cause is the support to these wars and wrong actions provided by sectarian and social class fascists sitting in army, politics, media and civil society.
People need to learn that senseless bombings and operations have created most of these militants in the first place and continuing with this bullshit will only create more terrorism. But how can someone convince those who are blinded by sectarianism or dollars?
Do the designers of this war have any favorite sects or social classes?
The designers of this wars sitting in Washington surely make it look like a war between sufi vs non sufi or shia/barelvi vs deobandi/ahl e hadith/wahabi sects or between liberals and conservatives or moderates and extremists or between other social class groupsbut in actual they don't share even a little bit of sympathy for anyone.
All they know is to exploit fault lines which they are doing. i agree that IK seems to be the only major leader who has some sort of idea what is going on with this war or in the region.
The unfortunate part is that their dollar slaves in Pakistan are also toeing their line despite seeing all the destruction. Another dangerous element of this war is Khomenist's direct and indirect support which is also not helping the cause. They think they can go on for long with their sectarian imperialism but in actual they are destroying the future of not only Sunnis or others they don't like but most importantly they are harming the interests of people they claim to represent i.e Shias in the region.
Its time to start acting like thinking humans not some sheep or insects. We need to come out of this self-destructive mode.
Aafia Siddiqui Issue–>Shameful attempt by some anchors to give it another twist using the same old nationality rant
Recently some anchors, including reputed anchor like Kamran Khan (Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Sath host) and not so reputed anchor Sana Bucha (Lekin host), have tried to show that Aafia Siddiqui is an American national or she is a dual national. Aafia's family has repeatedly denied these allegations. It was also interesting to see that how an international lawyer like Ahmer Bilal Sufi (also affiliated with PILDAT) didn't discuss the real aspect of the case i.e. her abduction and reasons behind her abduction.
My views on this issue are that dual national or not, the reality is that she was illegally abducted from Pakistani soil and she was a daughter of a Pakistani family. This is a ridiculous argument again trying to cash in false nationalism over single nationality or dual nationality which is not proved and most importantly was never contested in USA court in fake Afia trial. They also didn't discuss the main accusation on the media on her i.e. her links with Al-Qaida as they didn't have enough grounds for that. Shame on these social class fascists.
How can you allow someone to be abducted without due process if that person (national or not) has entered legally in Pakistan? The case on her was prosecuted for a stupid charge that she snatched gun from USA marines and then in the process got shot herself. No finger prints were there on the gun as was admitted by US official who gave the testimony in the case.
Apparently the momentum is being created to make a ground for the release of Dr. Shakeel afridi.
It is really shameful how things are being presented in the media. Either it is an act or irresponsibility and lack of prudence or lack of honesty, in both cases media organizations should see the professionalism standard of their anchors and opinion makers. Civil society should raise the issue on any forum.
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Few days ago I shared a news from UN website regarding forced conversion. Here is the other side of the story. Case is in Sind High Court, hopefully there will be a fair decision
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SUKKUR: Faryal Shah (Rinkle Kumari) appeared before the media on Thursday and made it clear that she had not been kidnapped and had not been forced to convert to Islam and marry Naveed Shah.
Faryal said that she had converted to Islam and had married Naveed Shah of her own free will, and that nobody had pressurised her into this. Reading out the Kalma-e-Tayyaba, Faryal said she was a Muslim girl and therefore had nothing to do with her parents.
Faryal (Rinkle Kumari) and her husband Naveed Shah were produced in front of the Sindh High Court (SHC) Sukker bench on Thursday morning amid tight security.
The couple was escorted by SSP Ghotki Pir Mohammad Shah along with a heavy contingent of police. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Mian Abdul Haq of Bharchoondi Sharif, his son Mian Mohammad Aslam and a large number of their followers were also present.
The couple through their lawyer, Achar Gabole, had filed a constitutional petition stating that their lives were under threat from the relatives of the girl, who had been issuing threats of dire consequences.
Answering a question on threats to their lives, she said, "Our lives are under threat from my maternal uncle Raj Kumar". She once again made it clear that she was a Muslim and wanted to live with her husband Naveed Shah.
Advocate Mohammad Murad Lund, who was representing Faryal's grandfather Manohar Lal, told The Express Tribune that the single bench comprising of Justice Ahmed Ali Shaikh without recording the statement of the girl had ordered SSP Ghotki to provide protection to the couple and ensure that they are produced before the SHC chief justice in Karachi on March 12.
Advocate Mohammad Murad Lund kept on insisting that, the girl was under pressure due to the presence of a large number of Bharchoondi Sharif followers. He said everything will become "crystal clear" in Karachi, as the girl would be able to record her statement in a tension free atmosphere.
Mian Mohammad Aslam of Bharchoondi Sharif said that everyone had seen that Faryal was neither under pressure and had not said a word against the Pirs. "Rather she gave a statement against her own maternal uncle who is threatening to kill her."
He said his father, PPP MNA Mian Abdul Haq had also come to the court because the girl's parents had requested that they wanted to meet their daughter, but they didn't come to see her.
Aslam said when the couple had come to Dargah Bharchoondi Sharif on February 24, Faryal had spoken to her parents on his instructions and had told them that she had come there to convert to Islam and marry Naveed Shah.
"I personally requested them to come over and meet their daughter to see for themselves that she was not under pressure, but they didn't' come," Mian Aslam said.
He once again said that neither Islam nor the law of the land allowed forced conversion.
Confessions of an 'agent' in Syria–>DAWN News Article
Below is an article by a Syrian journalist who has put light on the lives people of Syria are living in fear. Bashar al Asad like his father is a tyrant and he seems to be the modern version of Nazi leadership. People should raise their voices all over the world and support the freedom and justice loving people in any manner they can.
Confessions of an 'agent' in Syria–>DAWN News Article
by Maryam Hasan (Pen name)
Source : http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/28/confessions-of-an-agent-in-syria.html
Whether it's a call on my phone or at the door, I feel scared to death. I mentally prepare myself for the worst, assuming that "they" are here to take me.
But then, when I find a friend at the door or a homeless compatriot asking for food, I realise that it is not my day yet, it is someone else's.
Despite being unusually lucky, my nightmares don't end. I rather prepare myself to deal with a situation when Bashar's sleuths would come to pick me up for writing about the misery of Syrian taxpayers and democracy-lovers.
Regardless of our terrible conditions, we do greet each other daily with 'sabah al-khair' or good morning but with little hope for the same.
When I hear stories of torture and disfigured bodies of the missing Syrians and journalists alike, my only prayer to Allah remains, "I am ready for it but ease it on me and my people please."
We write with pen names and log on the Internet using proxies, thinking we are safe. The reality is otherwise. My missing journalist friends and bloggers had no time to say bye to their loved ones inside the very home they were abducted from. Al-mokhabarat or intelligence agents, just plucked them away, mostly in the dark of the night.
They may discover me sooner or later but I make it a point to erase all my cell phone logs of call and text messages, clear my browser history and empty my laptop's trash bin. Thinking that I might have forgotten something, sometimes I repeat the act many times a night.
Of late, my personal fear of being kidnapped by government sleuths has been overshadowed by a big, bloodier development. Every day, I see uploaded YouTube videos of the best of Soviet and Russian arsenal knocking down bustling neighborhoods first in Dara'a, then Hama and now Homs.
While I still fear the footsteps of sleuths on my door, I am not being searched as minutely as before.
Instead of looking out for activists and undercover journalists, Bashar's military is wiping out entire cities from world maps, over suspicions of treason against the Alawite regime.
What started as massacre has duly transformed into genocide. My editors abroad insist on sending my stories with real names, concrete evidence and versions from both sides. I have been in double jeopardy since the first eight months of the uprising when the world only knew about Tahrir square kind of protests.
I, sometimes, wonder if the top-notch media watchdog bodies really know what a faceless and nameless journalist in Syria goes through, at the hands of sleuths as well as the very editors known as gatekeepers.
When making a phone call can risk not only yours and your families' lives but also the person answering the phone, calling a government source is simply suicidal. Even the most naïve journalist here knows that cellular and landline phone companies are not only owned by the regime's front-men but also bugged and monitored.
Simultaneously, Syria is a busy place for journalists where one cannot choose which story angle to focus on any given day i.e. massacres in Homs, protests in Damascus and Idlib, Russian FM's visit to Bashar, or statements from Washington echoing only fake promises.
But in the end the choice won't be mine! The media company decides which one suits its agenda and its geopolitical context. Mostly, the easy bet is to bank on the wire service, ignoring the at-risk on-ground journalist who for them is a mere 'stringer'!
I felt proud of my profession when I first saw stories by foreign journalists covering Syria from their high risk abodes and makeshift media centers. Though the world would not have believed a Syrian journalist like me for the Bab Amar massacre or siege of Homs but I hope they won't ignore the outsiders' testimony.
The natural but tragic death of Anthony Shadid, a Lebanon-born journalist for The New York Times, weighed very heavy on Syrian people's hearts and the battered country's image. Syria was referred to as home of death.
Besides dozens if not hundreds of slain Syrian journalists, the uprising has claimed two French media-men, and the one and only Marie Colvin died in more familiar way. Their heartrending deaths came in solidarity with local fellow professionals whose names and faces may be known when the tyrant falls and conscience rules in Syria.
Unluckily, I have many pen names for it is hard to write with a real one. Death of Marie Colvin was personally embarrassing to me. Should I still use pen names when my star colleagues are writing with their warm blood?
I am a single woman with no liabilities except a widowed mother and siblings. One simple story with my real name appearing on an Arabic language blog or English-language website has greater probability of leading sleuths to my home.
Now even my family rarely knows which pen name I use and where in the world, my work publishes. Not that I don't trust my family but the regime's four decades of fear can easily cause a Freudian slip.
A year ago, I proudly showed off my byline in international dailies but now we are writing for our lives and not for pride.
I rarely get internet access good enough to open my emails and send my stories in time. I must admit that overall depressing conditions too result in my missing deadlines. Ironically, stories featuring Syrians' bloodbath are never stale and the desk accepts them more often.
When I work on my laptop, my siblings and mother spy on me to see what I am doing or writing. My eldest sister advised me last September, "I can't stop a journalist from writing but she should not forget the fate her younger brothers may face if they (mokhabarat) find out."
One of my university fellows was picked up for writing a blog about a missing seven-year-old in Dara'a. Her brother went to a police station to lodge a report but never returned home. Three weeks later, their mother was asked to receive her son's body from the same police office. She not only got the body of her 20-year-old son but also discovered the disfigured corpse of her blogger daughter.
Earlier, I hoped to change the world's opinion with my writings but now, I am only recording testimonies of massacres and detailing current history.
Long after they have taken me to die in their dark cells, my stories will serve as credible evidence to try Bashar and his advisors for crimes against humanity.
Like journalism, we are learning survival techniques on our own, the hard way. Whenever a couple of us sit together away from our parents and the listening walls, we talk about the best ways in dealing with the worst.
I usually tell my colleagues, "Why do you think they would wait for us to admit or defend ourselves. Our charge-sheets are already there with no room for defense or discussion . . . Agents we are! . . . Agents of change!"
Maryam Hasan is a young journalist, whose family struggled against Hafiz Al-Assad's tyrannical rule and policies. She is using a pen-name due to security reasons.
A disturbing news on forced conversion—>Sind girl forced to convert and marry the kidnapper
This seems really pathetic. there is no room for these type of actions neither in constitution nor in Islam. forceful conversion is not allowed and directly against Quran. I think human rights organizations especially some of rich or political class hindu community member can raise the issue in high court or supreme court or even in Sharia Court as it is a direct violation of Islamic law as well. Only conversion allowed is voluntary conversion by heart. Also I believe Islamic organizations can help in this as it is a direct insult and misuse of Islam.
"Even after a year of `marriage' I am not used to my new name. I was called Radha before," she told IRIN on a rare occasion when she was allowed to go to the corner shop on her own to buy vegetables.
Ameena, or Radha as she still calls herself, was abducted from Karachi about 13 months ago by a group of young men who offered her ice-cream and a ride in their car. Before she knew what was happening, she was dragged into a larger van, and driven to an area she did not know.
She was then pressured into signing forms which she later found meant she was married to Ahmed Salim, 25; she was converted to a Muslim after being asked to recite some verses in front of a cleric. She was obliged to wear a veil. Seven months ago, Ameena, who has not seen her parents or three siblings since then and "misses them a lot", moved with her new family to southern Punjab.
"The abduction and kidnapping of Hindu girls is becoming more and more common," Amarnath Motumal, a lawyer and leader of Karachi's Hindu community, told IRIN. "This trend has been growing over the past four or five years, and it is getting worse day by day."
He said there were at least 15-20 forced abductions and conversions of young girls from Karachi each month, mainly from the multi-ethnic Lyari area. The fact that more and more people were moving to Karachi from the interior of Sindh Province added to the dangers, as there were now more Hindus in Karachi, he said.
"They come to search for better schooling, for work and to escape growing extremism," said Motumal who believes Muslim religious schools are involved in the conversion business.
"Hindus are non-believers. They believe in many gods, not one, and are heretics. So they should be converted," said Abdul Mannan, 20, a Muslim student. He said he would be willing to marry a Hindu girl, if asked to by his teachers, "because conversions brought big rewards from Allah [God]. But later I will marry a `real' Muslim girl as my second wife," he said.
According to local law, a Muslim man can take more than one wife, but rights activists argue that the law infringes the rights of women and needs to be altered.
Motumal says Hindu organizations are concerned only with the "forced conversion" of girls under 18. "Adult women are of course free to choose," he said.
Sunil Sushmt, 40, who lives in a village close to the city of Mirpurkhas in central Sindh Province, said his 14-year-old daughter was "lured away" by an older neighbour and, her parents believe, forcibly converted after marriage to a Muslim. "She was a child. What choice did she have?" her father asked. He said her mother still cries for her "almost daily" a year after the event.
According to official figures, Hindus based mainly in Sindh make up 2 percent of Pakistan's total population of 165 million. "We believe this figure could be higher," Motumal said.
"My family has lived in Sindh for generations," Parvati Devi, 70, told IRIN. "But now I worry for the future of my granddaughters and their children. Maybe we too should leave," she said. "The entire family is seriously considering this."
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Slapped APO defends Waheeda Shah at press conference–>We need to get rid of these feudal scumbags
First that feudal bitch insulted the APO and now she has forced her to defend her. We need the toppling of this feudal/military/corporatist hold on our country to move ahead with prosperity and dignity.
We need to get rid of these feudal scum bags and their strangle hold on our country. These feudals along with military junta have damaged our country and they are holding our freedom as their captive. We need to take all back from them and kick them out of the corridors of powers. If we don't do it then our future generations will be right to curse us for our lack of interest in defending our future.
Also I would like to ask those so called liberal NGOs who advocate women rights only when it suits their agenda to come forward and take the lead on the issue.
I would also like to appeal Election Commission of Pakistan and Supreme Court of Pakistan to cancel the registration of Waheeda Shah.
Slapped APO defends Waheeda Shah at press conference
Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=37139&Result=0
TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN: Waheeda Shah, the Pakistan People's Party's candidate who slapped an Assistant Presiding Officer (APO) in a polling station Saturday, held a press conference and got the humiliated officer to speak in her favor, Geo News reported.
Waheeda Shah had the APO accompany her to the press conference held today and got the latter to give a statement in the former's support.
However, the people from Waheeda Shah's own constituency said the woman in Burqa was not the one who was slapped and humiliated yesterday.
Nothing could be said with certainty whether the woman at press conference was the same woman who was subjected to the ill treatment on Saturday. Even if it is believed the woman was the same, her defending the wrongdoer may lay bare the helplessness of the officer but it cannot give Waheeda Shah a clean chit.
It clearly appears to be a case of the powerful Waheeda Shah, a big landlord of the area, getting the poor teacher named Shagufta to give a statement against the herself (Shagufta) and in the former's defence.
Perhaps Shagufta would have thought that if Waheeda Shah could beat her in front of cameras what worse she must be capable of doing in their absence.


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Fire Below! The Importance of the 'Basement Check'
Checking the basement on arrival allows the incident commander to select the appropriate tactics and effectively extinguish the fire, without having to backtrack.When arriving at the scene of a reported structure fire, we know that size-up is a key...
Checking the basement on arrival allows the incident commander to select the appropriate tactics and effectively extinguish the fire, without having to backtrack.
When arriving at the scene of a reported structure fire, we know that size-up is a key consideration. The information obtained in our size-up will direct our initial operations and is also a key safety factor. Of course there are mnemonics and phrases galore to help you remember different size-up factors, but one issue is almost always left out: What is the status of the basement?
Basement fires are one of the most hazardous incidents we respond to and are frequently a cause of many line of duty deaths and significant injuries. Regrettably, there is often a significant delay in discovering that there is fire in the basement. Perhaps nothing was evident from the outside, maybe there was smoke coming from everywhere; or maybe we were focused on fighting fire on the upper floors (that was ultimately extension from a raging fire below). Left unchecked, a fire in the basement will burn away the structural supports for the first floor. This results in the "firefighter through the floor" stories that unfortunately seem to be more and more frequent (see photo 1).
Unfortunately, we are often distracted by more attention-getting conditions. Basement fires are often not evident from the outside. Since a fire in the basement can quickly extend almost anywhere in the structure, we may be drawn to what appears to be a fire on the first floor, or any of the upper floors -- maybe even coming from the roof. This may cause a "moth to candle" response: we go to work on the fire that we immediately see and the unchecked basement fire continues to grow, extend, and eat the building out from underneath us (see photo 2).
Often, we only become aware of the unrecognized basement fire because something bad happens:
- We can't find the seat of the fire.
- Conditions on the floors above become untenable.
- The floors begin to weaken.
- Fire comes through the floor.
- One of US goes through the floor.
Once we realize the fire is also below us, we try to re-group. Lines need to be repositioned, strategies changed, firefighters are pulled out -- but now we are losing the battle and it's hard, if even possible, to catch back up.
Like many firefighters, I have been to a number of fires that did not go well because a fire in the basement was not recognized early on. The solution to this problem is painfully simple: Check the basement at every reported structure fire.
When A Walk Around Isn't Enough
The concept of a "walk around" or "circle-check" is valid in that it provides a 360-degree size-up, but a peek at the outside of a building cannot confirm that the basement is not on fire. Basements typically have limited openings from which smoke or fire can escape and are frequently cut up into smaller rooms that may hide fire from the outside (see photo 3). A true "basement check" means that someone physically entered the basement and checked it for signs of fire.
This policy exists as "law" in the District of Columbia Fire Department. When responding to a reported fire in any building type, the second arriving engine officer is responsible for reporting the basement conditions to the incident commander immediately. This system works well because it happens every time. Do you have fire showing from the 10th floor? Check the basement -- it could have started in the trash chute.
That is just one example of the implementation of this policy. In departments with fewer resources or a more delayed arrival of companies, the basement check may need to be completed as part of the first arriving officer's size-up. Ultimately - it is not the "who" that is important. What's important is that someone checks the basement and reports its conditions at every reported fire.
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This is the bolted line that starts above The Wisdom Traverse. There are currently (Q1 2007) chain draws hanging from the bolts in the roof section. To start, either run it out to the first, coldshut hanger or place gear for the first few easy moves. Straightforward, moderate climbing gets you to the roof transition where you have to deal with a crack and difficult clip at the first chain draw (first bolt in roof). A large cam can be placed here which is a good idea if you are a lousy crack climber. Now, you get to pull on to the roof, clip the next hanging draw and deal with a difficult boulder problem. This leads to a leftward traverse that is juggy and fun. Clip the last bolt and climb great rock up to the anchors. The moves past the last bolt are not hard but if you blow it, you will be taking a safe but BIG fall!
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I think the impediments of use of company equipment and facilities will cause changes in company structure to allow direct purchase of "job shoppers" services. In the past it was never enough to be worth doing but now, it is not worth not doing. This will also lead to a major reduction in the "captive employment" sector. Temp agencies were a useful dodge in the old days but for the professional, will not be able to compete in the longer term.


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