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Comment: Re:8.1 !=Start Menu.. Why Win8 was doomed... (Score 1) 516
yup. Not shure about the SP, but in general, the list is sidentical to my experiences.
yup. Not shure about the SP, but in general, the list is sidentical to my experiences.
Wrong. The 32bit-part did not prevent any Software to take down the whole OS. The NT line however did that, because they were completely 32 bit. Win9x had only parts that were in 32 bit. And those were no parts that improved stability. Win9x was more unstable than Windows 3.x. And NT 4 or w2k beat the shit out of win9x or me every time of the day. Pirating these versions over paid 9x versions was self defense.
yes. Because windows nt4 or w2k would only crash the app, not the whole f...ing OS, like Windows 9x or Windows Me did. To me, the list goes like:
win 3.1 - OK
win9x - crap. Bad crap that would crash the system judt because of a random game. The NT line did not do that. Normally it would only crash the game, the rest was working fine. Even the game, when you started it again.a
win NT 4 - major improvement
win me - shittiest crap ever, the mother of all shitty Windows OS. Boy, was that bad. Even worse than 9.x and this one was so bad it did not make it through the presentation before bluescreening.
win2k - loved it
win xp - unusable until SP 3, but OK, as it was possible to turn off that ugly GUI back to 2k
vista - quite nice on a decent setup except for the UAC, on dated or cheap hardware pretty annoying
windows 7 - loved it, still do
Windows 8.0 is as bad as Windows 9x was. A major step down from what was accomplished. Simply annoying for desktop users. Windows 8.1 is just getting there, but it is still crap without a touchscreen.
You nailed it. I was saying something similar to collegues, but you made the point far clearer than I had. That is the thing that annoyed me the most.
The lack of discoverability. The rest - includig the extra clicks neccessary just to do a real shutdown - were annoying, but the lack of a place were everything could be done SOMEHOW made me scream. I had to use skills just to get basic jobs done. Things that I found out years ago in a few minutes not took a very damn long time.
Thanks again for clearing my thoughts about the major issue.
Don't give up! Google! I can only point you to German guides, but I am shure that there are guides in english as well. In order to install Windows 8.1 over 8.0 on my gf laptop, I had to download the iso from the windows app store, burn it and do a complete install.
It is possible, it is legal, it is just annoyingly diificult and awkward to get it done. German version here, you may succeed if you use google translate or you may find the description in english elsewhere: http://www.pcwelt.de/tipps/Set...
And if you do succeed - please feel obliged to share it here. Windows 8.0 is an ungly mess, Windows 8.1 is slightly better, so people should know how to do it, if oss is no solution.
The link from the other guy was not in a reply to your outrageous lies, so here it goes:
Living in a surveillance state like china or the US is one thing. Denying it and accusing only the other country of being a fascistic surveillance state is ridiculous.
Yes. And there is one major point: Hiding backdoors like the ones implemented in the consoles and Windows is not as easy on linux. After NSA, even though I am gamer, there is no way in hell that I'll be running a closed source OS on my machines in a year or so except for dual boot from time to time. Starting steam could unmount the drives with my data on linux, the reast is more or less open, so a backdoor is harder to hide.
To me, that counts. A closed source device that listens to every word spoken in my room and looks for the number of people and what they are doing? You got to be kidding me. I do not care why Gabe does it. I want it. On my own machine, built by myself. Able to play current games (half life 3! Now!) and do serious stuff on a platform I could trust considerable more than any NSA-infested closed source system?
This is a nobrainer.
From what I've read, you can install any software you want on the SteamBox, or even run the OS on your own hardware. It's not the same model as consoles, iOS, or what Microsoft is heading for. It's the same model as Linux, Android, and what traditional Windows is.
I agree. Plus: As it is Linux, it is pretty damn hard to ship it with backdoors nobody finds. To me, the main reason for still using windows are games. If current games come to Linux, dual boot becomes an option. Working and most games on steam OS, a virtual box for some applications and dual boot as a fallback for some games.
I don't know about you, but after we know (!) that MS really builds backdoors into its products, I will swith. Gamer or not.
You have no fucking idea how true crypts hidden operating system and "plausible deniability" work, do you? The free space, when booting the decoy system, ist the whole free space, including the space of the real operating system. So you have a secret limit of data you could store in the decoy system.
This space is defined at the beginning of the encryption process. It is only possible to delete all data be exceeding the data limit on the decoy or overwriting the free space by zeros. But there is no evidence that you have a second OS with hidden files.
It's called 'plausible deniability' for a reason.
Insightful? You are ignoring the plausible deniability feature. Otherwise, true crypt would not be an option.
this. Use the whole system encryption and carefully use the plausible deniability feature to dual boot. The decoy system must be reasonable. Add some files, especially if you need them on your trip, browse the web, do searches for holidays in the US and add some porn. Seriously: You are suspicious if you're male and there is no porn on the private laptop. Combine algorithms when doing the whole system encryption, just in case.
So. At the border, give them the password for the decoy system. It should be reanonable complex password. If they take away the laptop for one minute, consider it to be compromised. Do not use it anymore or only use the decoy while being aware that your activity is closely monitored. Do not get your into your more private emailaccount abroad, only use the garbage account provided by an american company. Do not login to anything remotely security related, just as you would on a public terminal.
Or you do a clean install and take a HDD with your backup in a hidden container on the hdd.
Oh. And your iPhone or Android MUST be factory reset before entering the US border. Once they have physical access to it, they can extract the information, including important password stored on the phone. The backup could be on your laptop, the cloud is obviously not an option for a backup.
In most cases, nothing will happen. But be aware that you are entering a police state that is only a few years ahead of europe. So you came prepared.
To the FUD-spreaders in this thread: Snowden himself trusts true crypt enough to use it. Some enryption is compromised, but not all. If you combine different algorithms, chances are high that the decryption might take enough time for a mortal being to have it decrypted when it doesn't matter anymore.
Spreading FUD leaves Joe Average, who might get the whole system encryption installed with some help with nothing he can do. And that is not the case.
Yes, the tin foil hats were right. But even if everything is pretty much fucked, all is not lost. Personally, I prefer fighting back instead of doing nothing because the others have already won. Because they haven't - quite yet.
If you are a target, you're screwed. That is true. But at least the peeking into your whole privacy at a random custom search like this is deflectable.
After returning from the US, either throw away the compromised laptop if the laptop was taken away even for a short time or flash the BIOS, repartition the HDD, reinstall the operating system and hope for the best (that the bug was only planted in the BIOS and the mbr, not in other firmwares and that the bug in the BIOS was overwritten by the flashing).
If the laptop was not seized, simply decrypt the right system and repeat the steps above with a more perfomant combination of algorithms. Of course, all these steps are moot if you are a target.
BTW: Consider all closed source operating systems to be compromised big time. Only a few people need windows as the first operating system anymore. Most people will be fine with a restricted virtual machine within a Open Source OS.
Gamers could do a dual boot to play and reboot for work and browsing, but that is very inconvinient. At least until newer games are brought to linux by steam. And here is the problem of the closed source steamclient and the closed source driver for the graphic card, but my guess is that strange behaviour would be easier to find by the community on linux than on windows, so the attack vector is still smaller.
But still, if you are a target, you are screwed. The russian secret service has ordered hundreds of type writers recently for a reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_adoption_in_the_United_Kingdom Nuff said. "Think about the children!!!" justifies anything.
Like preventing adults from viewing porn without having to register as a pervert by british authorities first. And of course now they extend these laws to any inconvenient webcontent whatsoever. The Guardian left its co.uk domain because of the pressure of the fascist government reigning in the UK.
But all is well. My government wants to become one of the five eyes to spy on other countries citizens and send the information to the other states that are not allowed to spy on their own people because they have (lesser by every day that goes by, but still) something called "human rights". And vice versa getting all the forbidden fruits of surveillance on my countrymen. Oh wait, we are already doing this and much worse, even without being part of the five eyes.
It is sad. England brought us the freedom of press and human rights after WW II. And now they are the first to throw everything away with the governements of continental Europe trying everything from legal to illegal to keep up with them to ensure that Eurasia is just as bad as Ozeania.
George Orwell was so damn right. He just did not see that people would pay money to get a better bugging device and that even the small time the couple in 1984 had together is impossible because every citizen wears a portable televisor, leaving out no space and time in any privacy. Apple takes your fingerprints and kinect gets your home and everything you say and do covered.
Impressive. George Orwell just hadn't enough imagination for 2014.
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Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident
|Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident
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The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. The incident is disputed: Chinese government sources say that five members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is persecuted in mainland China, set themselves on fire in the square. Falun Gong sources disputed the accuracy of these portrayals, noting that their teachings explicitly forbid violence or suicide.[1][2] Several Western journalists and scholars also noted inconsistencies in the government's account of event, leading many to believe the self-immolation may have been staged by the government to discredit Falun Gong.[3][4][5]
According to Chinese state media, the five self-immolators had travelled to the square together from Henan Province[6] (in later reports the number rose to seven). One of them, Liu Chunling, died at Tiananmen under disputed circumstances, and another, 12-year-old Liu Siying, reportedly died in hospital several weeks later; three survived. The incident received international news coverage, and video footage was broadcast a week later in the People's Republic of China by China Central Television (CCTV).[7] In the Chinese press, the event was used as proof of the "dangers" of Falun Gong, and was used to legitimize the government's campaign against the group.
The official account of events soon came under scrutiny, however. Two weeks after the self-immolation event, The Washington Post published an investigation into the identity of the two self-immolation victims who were killed, and found that "no one ever saw [them] practice Falun Gong."[3] As reported by The Boston Globe, the television footage broadcast by CCTV appeared to show that "Liu Chunling, one of two people who died, collapsed not from the flames but from being bludgeoned by a man in a military overcoat."[8] Other evidence surfaced by journalists and international observers seemed to suggest that Chinese authorities had advanced knowledge of the self-immolation.[4]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote that the incident was among one of the most difficult stories for reporters in Beijing at the time to report on because of a lack of independent information available.[9] The self-immolation victims were accessible only to reporters from China's state run press; international media, and even the victims' family members, were barred from contacting them.[10] A wide variety of opinions and interpretations of what may have happened then emerged: the event may have been set up by the government to frame Falun Gong;[4] it may have been an authentic protest;[11] the self-immolators could have been "new or unschooled" Falun Gong practitioners;[10] and other views.
The campaign of state propaganda that followed the event eroded public sympathy for Falun Gong. As noted by Time magazine, many Chinese had previously felt that Falun Gong posed no real threat, and that the state's crackdown against it had gone too far. After the self-immolation, however, the media campaign against the group gained significant traction.[12] Posters, leaflets and videos were produced detailing the supposed detrimental effects of Falun Gong practice, and regular anti-Falun Gong classes were scheduled in schools.[7][13][14] CNN compared the government''s propaganda initiative to past political movements such as the Korean War and the Cultural Revolution.[15] Later, as public opinion turned against the group, the Chinese authorities began sanctioning the "systematic use of violence" to eliminate Falun Gong.[16] In the year following the incident, the imprisonment, torture, and deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in custody increased significantly.[17]
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a form of spiritual qigong practice that involves meditative exercises, and a philosophy drawing on Buddhist and Taoist tradition. The practice was introduced by Li Hongzhi in Northeast China in the spring of 1992, and by the late 1990s had attracted tens of millions of followers.[5][18] Falun Gong initially enjoyed official recognition support during the early years of its development.[5] By the mid-1990s, however, Chinese authorities sought to rein in the growth of qigong practices, enacting more stringent requirements on the country's various qigong denominations.[5][19] In 1996, Falun Gong came under increasing criticism and surveillance from the country's security apparatus.[20]
0n 25 April 1999, more than ten thousand practitioners congregated outside Communist Party of China headquarters in Zhongnanhai to request legal recognition.[20][21] That evening, then-Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin issued a decision to eradicate Falun Gong. At Jiang's direction, on 7 June 1999 a special leading group was established within the party's Central Committee to manage the suppression.[22] The resulting organisation, called the 6-10 Office, assumed the role of coordinating the anti-Falun Gong media coverage in the state-run press, as well influencing other party and state entities such as the courts and security agencies.[20][22] On 19 July, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued a document effectively banning the practice of Falun Gong. The following day, hundreds of adherents were detained by security forces.[20][23]
The suppression that followed was characterised by a "massive propaganda campaign" intended to justify the suppression by portraying Falun Gong as superstitious, dangerous, and incompatible with the official ideology.[5][23] Tens of thousands of Falun Gong adherents were imprisoned, and by the end of 1999, reports began to emerge of torture in custody. According to Ian Johnson, authorities were given broad mandates to eliminate Falun Gong and pursue the coercive conversion of practitioners, but were not scrutinized for the methods they used. This resulted in the widespread use of torture, sometimes resulting in death.[24]
Tiananmen Square—a central point for several major historical protests—was one of the main venues where Falun Gong practitioners protested the suppression. The Falun Gong protests were described as peaceful "appeals" and typically involved raising banners in defence of the group, or staging meditation sit-ins.[25] By 25 April 2000, more than 30,000 practitioners had been arrested.[26] Seven hundred Falun Gong followers were arrested during a demonstration in the Square on 1 January 2001.[27] The Wall Street Journal reported that over 35,000 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested for peaceful protests in Beijing within the first year of the persecution, most of them on Tiananmen Square.[28]
Chinese authorities struggled throughout the early years of the suppression to turn public opinion against Falun Gong. Instead, the campaign garnered criticisms from across a wide spectrum of Chinese society, with some commentators drawing comparisons to the Cultural Revolution and Nazi Germany's treatment of the Jews.[29] According to Human Rights Watch, "the leadership's frustration with the failure of its efforts to quickly and thoroughly dismantle Falungong was also evident in its media campaign." The state-run press admitted in late 2000 that Falun Gong was continuing to stage protests in defiance of the ban, and proclaimed that "the 'broad masses' had to be made to understand the 'duration, complexity and ferocity of our battle with Falun Gong.'"[13] In early January 2001, Chinese authorities launched a new wave of propaganda to discredit Falun Gong.
The incident[edit]
On 23 January 2001, the eve of Chinese New Year, five people on Tiananmen Square poured gasoline over their clothes and set themselves on fire.[13][30]
A CNN film crew, who were there on a routine check for a possible Falun Gong protest,[31] observed a man sitting down on the pavement northeast of the Monument to the People's Heroes at the centre of the square.[15] He proceeded to pour gasoline over himself and set himself ablaze.[15] Police officers quickly congregated on the scene and extinguished the flames.[15] Shortly afterwards, another four people on the square set themselves alight. One of the four, a man, was detained and driven away in a police van.[15]
According to the CNN journalists present, there were at least two males among the five self-immolators, and no children. This conflicted with later reports by official media sources, which stated that there was only one man and a 12-year-old girl. The CNN crew began filming the events, but was quickly interrupted by military police, who detained the journalists and confiscated their equipment.[15] The authorities then put out the flames consuming the other four people's clothing.[15] A police van came to collect the badly burnt man, and two ambulances arrived almost 25 minutes later to collect the other four.[15] The square was completely closed,[32] and security was tight the next day, the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. Police monitored public access to the square for the New Year celebrations, had fire extinguishers ready, and prevented Falun Gong practitioners from opening banners.[15]
One of the self-immolators, Liu Chunling reportedly died on the scene. A few months later, state media announced the death of Liu Siying, who, according to state-news, had been hospitalized with severe burns following the incident. The other three were reported to have been "severely disfigured". Beijing denied requests from western journalists to interview the survivors, and only China Central Television and the official New China News Agency were permitted to speak to their relatives or their colleagues.[4][33]
Chinese media reports[edit]
Xinhua released details of the incident to foreign media 2 hours after the self-immolation occurred.[34] Xinhua then distributed a fuller press release seven days later on Tuesday, 30 January,[35] in response to other media reports on the incident.[30] The Wall Street Journal's Ian Johnson was skeptical due to the speed with which the story was covered, observing that the state media "..reported the victim's death with unusual alacrity, implying that the death took place earlier than reported or the usually cautious media had top-level approval to rush out electronic reports and a televised dispatch, The 7 p.m. local evening news, for example had a filmed report from Mr Tan's hometown of Changde, a small city in Hunan province. Most reports for the evening news are vetted by noon, so the daily broadcasts rarely carries reports from the same day, let alone an event that happened at noon and involved satellite feeds from relatively remote parts of the country." [36]
On 31 January, a 30-minute special edition of the current affairs programme Forum told the state's version of the events to the Chinese public.[37] China Central Television aired footage, said to be taken by nearby surveillance cameras, of five people in flames.[38]
The Chinese authorities stated that the seven people had come to Tiananmen Square with the intention of self-immolating were all from the city of Kaifeng in Henan province. The state-run Xinhua News Agency asserted that the self-immolators were "avid practitioners" of Falun Gong who had taken up the practice between 1994 and 1997, and that they fantasised during the preceding week about "how wonderful it would be to enter heaven".[6] Six of them reportedly took the train on 16 January, meeting Chen Guo, the daughter of one of them, upon their arrival in Beijing. The seven agreed to light themselves in different parts of the Square at 2:30 pm on the designated day with gasoline smuggled there in plastic soda bottles; each had been armed with two lighters in case one would fail.[6] According to the government-run China Association For Cultic Studies website, Wang Jindong stated afterwards that the group arrived in Tiananmen Square by two taxis, and were dropped off at the south of the Great Hall of the People, from where they walked to the spot where they would ignite themselves. Wang said he was approached by police as he was splitting open the soda bottles, and ignited himself hurriedly without assuming the lotus position.[39] A press release from the Chinese government says that Liu Yunfang felt that the police were able to stop him burning himself because he had not attained the "required spiritual level."[30]
Articles in the Yangcheng Evening News and the Southern Daily reported that police had evidence that a few foreign reporters had advance knowledge of the incident, and suggested that such reporters could be charged with "instigating and abetting a suicide."[31][40] State media claimed surveillance video showed six or seven reporters from CNN, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse arriving just 10 minutes before the self-immolations took place; however, all three agencies denied advance knowledge of the incident—AP and AFP said they had no reporters in the square at the time, while CNN's chief news executive, Eason Jordan, said the CNN crew were there on a routine check for a possible Falun Gong protest.[31]
Falun Gong response[edit]
Discrepancies pointed out by the False Fire documentary [41]
False Fire, a NTDTV attempt to deconstruct the event[42] points out several inconsistencies in the Chinese Government's version of the story, including:[43][44]
- Liu Chunling, the only self-immolator who died on the spot appears to fall from being bludgeoned on the head by a man in military suit. The programme argues that Liu could have died from a severe blow to the head.
- The self immolators appear to be wearing several layers of, possibly fire-protective, clothing and masks. The hair and bottle of gasoline at the feet of an alleged self-immolator is intact, although this should have caught fire first.
- Police, who normally are not known to carry fire extinguishers on duty, appeared to have used almost 25 pieces of fire-fighting equipment on hand on the day of the self-immolations. The nearest building is 10 minutes away and footage shows that only two police vehicles were at the scene. The flames were put out in less than a minute's time.
- The camera of the CCTV footage zooms in on the scene as it unfolds; surveillance cameras in Tiananmen Square are usually fixed.
- Wang Jindong shouts comments that do not form part of Falun Dafa teachings; his posture, including hand position and sitting position, does not reflect the full or half lotus position required in Falun Dafa exercises.
- The hospital treatment of the victims, as recorded by Chinese state media, is inconsistent with proper care of severe burn victims: for instance, patients were not kept in sterile rooms.
- The girl who allegedly underwent a tracheotomy appeared to be able to speak and sing clearly mere days after the surgery.
Immediately following the self-immolation, the Falun Dafa Information Center denied that the self-immolators could have been Falun Gong practitioners, emphatically pointing out that Falun Gong's teachings do not sanction any form of violence, and that suicide is considered a sin.[1]
Falun Gong sources overseas questioned the official Chinese government account of the event, and apparent inconsistencies in government's official narrative led to a hypothesis that the self-immolation was staged by the government to justify the persecution against Falun Gong by portraying its practitioners as irrational and suicidal. According to this hypothesis, the self-immolation participants were paid actors, and were presumably assured that the flames would be extinguished before doing real harm.
Falun Gong-affiliated New Tang Dynasty Television produced a programme called False Fire,[45] which analyses the inconsistencies in the accounts of the event in the official Chinese media.
Based on a review of CCTV footage, the programme purports to demonstrate that the self-immolators donned fire-proof clothing and masks, and raises the question of why the participants' hair and the apparently gasoline-filled bottles they carried did not catch fire.[45] Falun Gong sources also noted that the self-immolators' behaviour, the slogans they shouted, and their meditation postures were not consistent with the teachings or practices of Falun Gong.[46]
Among the issues highlighted by the False Fire documentary is the conditions surrounding the deaths of self-immolators Liu Chunling and her daughter. A frame-by-frame analysis of the CCTV footage purportedly shows that Liu was not killed on scene by the flames, but by a deadly blow to the head from a man in a military overcoat.[47][48] The False Fire documentary also says that Liu's 12-year-old daughter died under unusual circumstances in hospital, noting that she was recovering well before dying suddenly on 17 March.[41][49] Some Falun Gong sources argue that she may have been killed by the government as a way of guaranteeing her silence.[50]
Falun Gong sources suggest that the reaction times of state-run television crews and police on Tiananmen Square demonstrates they had advanced knowledge of the event. They observed that officers arrived almost immediately on the scene equipped with numerous fire extinguishers. Fire extinguishers are not standard equipment for police on Tiananmen Square, the nearest building that would house them was several minutes away from the scene.[45][49]
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution further called attention to portrayals of Wang Jindong in the state-run television, claiming that the man who self-immolated on the square was not the same person who appeared in subsequent interviews with CCTV. It pointed to a voice analysis conducted by the Speech Processing Laboratory at National Taiwan University, which concluded that the voices did not match, and also noted that the hairline and facial proportions appeared to be different. These observations were used to advance the theory that the self-immolators were actors.[51][52]
Third-party findings[edit]
The identities of some of the self-immolators, and their relationship to Falun Gong, was called into question by an investigation in the Washington Post by reporter Philip Pan. The state-run Xinhua News Agency had reported that Liu Chunling's adoptive mother spoke of her daughter's "obsession with Falun Gong", her "worshipping of Li Hongzhi", and that Liu would teach her daughter Falun Gong.[53] Yet two weeks after the event took place, Pan travelled to Kaifeng, the hometown of the Liu and her daughter, both of whom died in connection with the self-immolation. Pan interviewed neighbours and those close to the participants, and found that Liu worked in a nightclub, took money to keep men company, and beat her mother and daughter. No one ever saw her practise Falun Gong.[3] According to David Ownby, a University of Montreal historian and expert on Falun Gong, Pan's portrayal of Liu Chunlin is highly inconsistent with the typical profile of a Falun Gong practitioner.[5]
The identities of participants on Tiananmen Square was also called into question by a CNN producer on the scene. While the Chinese government claimed that a 12-year-old Liu Siying had set herself on fire at the urging of her mother, the CNN producer said that she did not see any children among the self-immolators.[36]
Several observers have noted that foreign journalists were not allowed to interview the self-immolation victims recovering in hospitals. Even the victims' relatives were not permitted to speak with them, according to David Ownby.[54] Philip Pan wrote that "Beijing denied requests to interview Liu Siying and the three other survivors, who are all hospitalized ... A Kaifeng official said only China Central Television and the official New China News Agency were permitted to speak to their relatives or their colleagues. A man who answered the door at the Liu home referred questions to the government."[3] The survivors were interviewed by the state-run press, however. In one such interview, CCTV interviewed the 12-year-old Liu Siying. Government sources reported Liu Siying had undergone a tracheotomy shortly before the interview. Speaking through approved media outlets, she said that her own mother told her to set herself on fire to reach the "heavenly golden kingdom";[38] journalist Danny Schechter doubted that the child would have been able to speak to the Chinese media so soon after a tracheotomy, yet Liu Siying appeared to be speaking clearly and singing in the interview.[36]
Danny Schechter also drew attention to the fact that Xinhua had released a statement on the self-immolation to foreign media only hours after the event occurred. He noted that this was unusual because sensitive subjects in the Chinese press are almost never reported on a timely basis.[38] The usual protocol is approval by several party officials before publication.[31] The Wall Street Journal's Ian Johnson similarly observed the state media "reported [the victim's] death with unusual alacrity, implying that either the death took place earlier than reported or the usually cautious media had top-level approval to rush out electronic reports and a televised dispatch. The 7 p.m. local evening news, for example, had a filmed report from Mr. Tan's hometown of Changde, a small city in Hunan province. Most reports for the evening news are vetted by noon, so the daily broadcast rarely carries reports from the same day, let alone an event that happened at noon and involved satellite feeds from relatively remote parts of the country."[36][52]
Questions were also raised over where the footage of the event came from, and the speed with which camera crews appeared on scene. Chinese government media reported that the close-up shots in its video footage came from confiscated CNN tapes.[31] CNN representatives argued that this was impossible, however, as their reporters were detained shortly after the event began. Philip Pan of the Washington Post was also suspicious of the positioning of the cameras, and the fact that the close-up shots shown on Chinese television were taken without police interference. "In some, the camera is clearly behind police barricades", the Washington Post article says.[31] In addition, overhead surveillance camera footage seemed to show a man filming the scene using a small hand-held camera, rather than a large camera of the type used for TV news reporting.[31]
The Age commented that the "ready availability of fire-extinguishers and official TV teams and the lack of verification about the victims" raised questions about whether authorities had advanced knowledge of the self-immolation.[55] Police on Tiananmen Square were not known to carry firefighting equipment, and the nearest building would have been several minutes away. Yet police appeared on the scene of the self-immolation within 90 seconds carrying numerous pieces of firefighting equipment. A European journalist was quoted as saying "I have never seen policemen patrolling on Tiananmen Square carrying fire extinguishers. How come they all showed up today? The location of the incident is at least 20 minutes roundtrip from the nearest building — the People's Great Hall. If they were to have dashed over there to get the equipment, it would have been too late."[36] John Gittings of The Guardian offered an alternative explanation, however, noting it was common practice in many countries for police camera operators to be on hand when a public disturbance is anticipated; the police used small-scale fire-extinguishers of the type carried in public vehicles, many of which are routinely on the square.[56]
Following the incident, the details of why the individuals were involved has been and remains the subject of dispute between representatives of Falun Gong, the Chinese government, and other observers.
A significant challenge to arriving at a definitive assessment of the event is that independent corroboration of the government's claims has not been possible. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the lack of independent information made the incident one of the most difficult stories for reporters in Beijing to report.[9] The New York Times stated that conflicting claims were difficult to assess "[w]ith propaganda streaming in from seemingly opposite ends of the universe ... especially since the remaining Falun Gong practitioners have been driven underground."[57]
Philip Pan's investigation, and other inconsistencies highlighted by Falun Gong organisations, led some journalists and other observers to entertain the possibility that the self-immolation was not as straightforward as the Chinese official media accounts suggested. In the National Review, Ann Noonan of the Laogai Research Foundation suggested that it was "hardly a far-fetched hypothesis" that the government staged the incident or allowed it to proceed in order to discredit Falun Gong, as the government vowed to crush the practice before the eightieth anniversary celebrations of the Communist Party in July.[58] Clive Ansley, a Vancouver-based rights lawyer who lived in China during the self-immolation, suggested that a dramatic response by Falun Gong would have been understandable, but ultimately concluded that the event was staged: "You've got Falun Gong people in this country, they've been oppressed over and over again, they are not allowed to speak, they are not allowed to assert any of their rights as citizens, the level of frustration must be terribly, terribly high.. I can understand people doing that.. but ironically, we ultimately found out that it was staged anyway, it was not real. it was completely staged by the government."[59]
In his 2001 book on Falun Gong, journalist Danny Schechter drew on evidence from Falun Gong sources, from Philip Pan, and interviews with other journalists to conclude that the self-immolation was orchestrated by the Chinese government.[36] Citing Schechter's research, anthropologist Noah Porter wrote that "convincing evidence has been provided that the events described by the Chinese media are at least deceptive, if not a complete hoax," also stating "even if there were people who lit themselves on fire and considered themselves Falun Gong practitioners, they would not be representative of Falun Gong practitioners."[60] Beatrice Turpin, a China correspondent with Associated Press Television, said of the self-immolation that "There was a big brouhaha with Falun Gong protests and footage of police beating practitioners last Chinese New Year and it would certainly fit in with typical China strategy to stage an event this year [2001] and make the show their own."
Reviewing the divergent narratives on the identity of the self-immolation victims, historian David Ownby concluded that "although the arguments of Falun Gong practitioners seem cogent, it is very difficult to arrive at a final judgment about the self-immolation. [...] there are desperate people in China (and elsewhere) who will do anything for money (which would go to their families in this case, one supposes, unless the authorities had promised to rescue them before the flames could do harm). Or the entire event could have been staged. But it seems just as possible that those who set themselves on fire might have been new or unschooled Falun Gong practitioners, had discovered and practised Falun Gong on their own (and badly) in the post-suppression period, and, for whatever reason, decided to make the ultimate sacrifice."[10]
Other human rights activists speculated that the five who set themselves on fire did so to protest the government's crackdown on Falun Gong.[7] Barend ter Haar was open to the idea that the self-immolators were Falun Gong practitioners, and postulated that former Buddhists may have brought with them the "respectable Buddhist tradition of self-immolation as a sacrifice to the Buddha".[61] He sought to account for the inconsistencies by suggesting that the government may have fabricated a video of their own when they realised the mediatic potential of the suicides.[61]
Francesco Sisci, Asia editor of La Stampa, supported the possibility that the self-immolators were Falun Gong practitioners, writing in the Asia Times that "no one believed that the government could have paid a mother to torch herself and her daughter, or that she was so loyal to the Communist Party that she pretended to be a Falungong member and kill herself and her only daughter, even if Falungong master Li Hongzhi forbade suicide ..."[62] In Sisci's view, Chinese officials made a mistake by arresting foreign journalists on Tiananmen —"independently filmed news footage of the proceedings could have been the best proof of Falungong madness. Instead, when the government reported the episode, it looked like propaganda."[62]
Time noted some of the confusion surrounding the conflicting views on the self-immolation; one Beijing Falun Gong practitioner interviewed appeared to accept that the self-immolators were practitioners engaged in protest, while Falun Gong organisations overseas denied any involvement.[63] Time also speculated that the "lack of solidarity" in Falun Gong was contributing to the sense of desperation of Mainland Chinese practitioners who may feel out of touch with the exiled leadership.[63] Guardian reporter John Gittings reported that some observers believed it was possible that the self-immolators acted in desperation and confusion.[64]
Some observers have speculated that if the participants were Falun Gong practitioners, they may have resorted to self-immolation in response to the publication of a new scripture by Li Hongzhi released on 1 January 2001, "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance." An article authored by a collection of Mainland Chinese Falun Gong practitioners and published on the main Chinese-language Falun Gong website noted that the scripture had caused confusion both among Falun Gong practitioners and "in society," and that some people wondered whether Falun Gong would resort to violence to resist persecution. The authors wrote that this would not occur, as violence would be both counterproductive and contrary to the teachings of the practice.[65] A Falun Gong spokesperson clarified that the new scripture simply meant it was time to "bring truth to light" about human rights abuses committed by the Chinese government.[64] Nonetheless, Gittings posited that the scripture may have confused Falun Gong followers, particularly in Mainland China.[64] Matthew Forney wrote in Time magazine that Li's message had spread into China via the internet and informal networks of followers, and speculated that it may have galvanised more radical practitioners there.[12] David Ownby wrote that he found the brief message to be "difficult to interpret": on its surface, the scripture resembled a "call to arms" against what Li described as "evil beings who no longer have any human nature or righteous thoughts." Yet Ownby said no practitioners he talked to had seen the scripture as a "green light" for violent action. Instead, practitioners had interpreted it to mean that they could resist suppression without guilt; they could stop "simply surrendering to the police at the first moment of a confrontation. They could run away, they could organize, they were, in a word, free of whatever constraints the necessity to "forbear" had previously placed upon them."[37] In an interview with the Washington Post, Ownby noted that Li does not endorse suicide in any of his recent statements, "But a practitioner at the end of his or her rope in China could certainly see [the statements] as an endorsement for martyrdom, and perhaps choose his or her own means to achieve that."[66]
Media campaign and public opinion[edit]
The state media coverage of the event resulted in increased support for the Party's suppression efforts against Falun Gong, and eroded public sympathy for the group. Time reported that prior to the self-immolation incident, many Chinese had felt that Falun Gong posed no real threat, and that the state's persecution had gone too far. After the event, however, China's media campaign against Falun Gong gained significant traction.[12] The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong reported that hostility toward Falun Gong from the general public escalated, the government had stepped up its campaign, and charged that "hate crimes" targeting Falun Gong increased.[67] One western diplomat commented that the public changed from sympathising with Falun Gong to siding with the Government, popular consensus seemingly shifted by human-interest stories and accounts of rehabilitation efforts of former practitioners.[68] Østergaard believes that, in retrospect, the New Year scripture was Li's greatest gift to the state, as the self-immolations marked a turning point which ended domestic support for the movement.[69]
The self-immolation incident was given prominent coverage in the official Chinese media, which analysts say took a propagandistic line. According to Philip Pan, the Communist Party "launched an all-out campaign to use the incident to prove its claim that Falun Gong is a dangerous cult, and to turn public opinion in China and abroad against the group[...] Every morning and night, the state-controlled media carry fresh attacks against Falun Gong and its U.S.-based leader, Li Hongzhi."[3] Posters, leaflets and videos were produced, detailing the supposed detrimental effects of Falun Gong practice. The New York Times reported that the public was "bombarded with graphic images of the act on television and in newspapers."[70] In China's schools, regular anti-Falun Gong classes were scheduled.[7] Eight million students joined the "Anti-Cult Action by the Youth Civilized Communities Across the Nation".[13] Twelve million children were made to submit writings disapproving of the practice.[13]
Within a month of the Tiananmen Square incident, authorities issued a document entitled The whole story of the self-immolation incident created by Falun Gong addicts in Tiananmen Square, containing colour photographs of charred bodies.[13] The State Council's "Office for the Prevention and Handling of Evil Cults" declared after the event that it was now ready to form a united front with the global anti-cult struggle.[13] Meetings took place in factories, offices, universities and schools, and approved religious leaders across the country had delivered denunciations of Falun Gong. In Kaifeng, the post office issued an anti-Falun Gong postmark, and 10,000 people signed a petition denouncing the group.[7]
Violence and reeducation[edit]
The Washington Post reported that Chinese authorities benefited from the turn in public opinion against Falun Gong that followed the self-immolation, seizing on the opportunity to sanction "the systematic use of violence against the group." According to the Post, authorities "established a network of brainwashing classes and embarked on a painstaking effort to weed out followers neighbourhood by neighbourhood and workplace by workplace." The "reeducation" tactics employed included beatings, shocks with electric truncheons, and intensive anti-Falun Gong study classes.[16]
According to a report published in the Wall Street Journal, in February 2001 the 6-10 Office "stepped up pressure on local governments" to implement the anti-Falun Gong campaign. In particular, it issued new, detailed instructions requiring that all who continued to actively practice Falun Gong were to be sent to prison or labour camps, and individuals who refused to renounce the practice were to be socially isolated and monitored by their families and workplaces. This was a shift from the past, when local officials sometimes tolerated Falun Gong on the condition that it was practised privately.[71] According to Freedom House, In the year following the incident, the scale of imprisonment, torture, and deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in custody increased significantly. According to Freedom House, "months of relentless propaganda succeeded in turning public opinion against the group. Over the next year, the scale of imprisonment, torture, and even deaths of Falun Gong practitioners from abuse in custody increased dramatically."[17]
Impact on Falun Gong's resistance[edit]
The self-immolation necessitated a change in tactics for Falun Gong. Tiananmen Square had been "permanently contaminated" as a venue for protest, according to journalist Ethan Gutmann, and Falun Gong's daily demonstrations in Beijing nearly ceased altogether.[13][72] According to Human Rights Watch, practitioners may have concluded "the protests had outlived their usefulness for demonstrating Chinese abuses or for informing an overseas audience of Falungong's harmlessness."[13] Diaspora practitioners living oversees focused their attentions on getting the word out about the treatment of practitioners by the Chinese government, issuing reports to the United Nations and human rights organisations, staging public marches and hunger strikes outside of China, and documenting human rights abuses on websites.[13] Within China, practitioners used mass mailings and handed out literature to "spread the truth" and counter the government's allegations against them.[13] In an August 2001 press release, the U.S.-based Falun Dafa Information Center noted this shift in strategy, and said that Chinese practitioners "sometimes also manage to post large posters and banners in major thoroughfares. They even set up loudspeakers on rooftops or trees around labour camps and in densely populated areas to broadcast news about the human rights abuses."[13]
In 2002, Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun successfully broadcast the False Fire[45] video on Chinese television, interrupting the station's scheduled programming for 50 minutes.[73] Liu Chengjun, a Falun Gong practitioner who hacked into the satellite feed, was arrested and sentenced to prison, where he died 21 months later, allegedly tortured to death.[74] The remaining five individuals behind the television hijacking were also imprisoned, and all have reportedly died or been tortured to death in custody.[72]
Fate of the self-immolators[edit]
Five of the people involved in the incident were sentenced in mid-2001. Although the official Xinhua news agency had described the proceedings as an "public trial," only the final day in the month-long trial was public, and consisted mainly of the reading of verdicts.[56] The Guardian reported that on the last day of the one-month trial, Xinhua had, by mid-morning, issued a full report of the verdicts; the People's Daily had produced its own editorial by the afternoon.[56]
Liu Yunfang, named as the mastermind, was given a life sentence; Wang Jindong was given 15 years. Two other accomplices – a 49-year-old man named Xue Hongjun, and a 34-year-old Beijing woman named Liu Xiuqin who apparently provided the group with lodging and helped in the preparation of the incident – were sentenced to 10 and 7 years in prison respectively.[56][75] Liu Baorong, who had "acknowledged her crime", escaped punishment because her role in planning the event was minor.[56]
After having long denied foreign media access to the self-immolation victims, in April 2002 the Government arranged for foreign press to interview the purported survivors of the self-immolation in the presence of state officials. The interviewees refuted claims that the self-immolation was staged, showing their burn injuries as evidence, and denounced Falun Gong while expressing support for the authorities' handling of the group.[75] When asked why they set themselves on fire, Hao Huijun replied that she had realised the futility of writing letters and demonstrating by waving banners, "so finally, we decided ... to make a big event to show our will to the world. ... We wanted to show the government that Falun Gong was good."[75] At the time of the interview, Chen Guo and her mother were said to still be in the hospital, both having lost their hands, ears and noses.[75] Both her mother's eyes were covered with skin grafts. Wang Jindong, showing burns to his face, said he felt "humiliated because of my stupidity and fanatical ideas."[75]
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- ^ "Second Investigation Report on the 'Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation Incident.'", World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFalun Gong), August 2003. Accessed: 6 February 2007
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External links[edit]
- falsefire.com (Falun Gong site)
- China Uncensored, NTDTV Episode
- An essay and collated sources on the incident.


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I've been eping for 10 months now and I'm ready to stop. However, my little one is not a good eater. He was born at 29 weeks and I started solids at 6 months but he was not very interested. He is still not eating much. He's picky. If I stop pumping, what are my options for supplementing. I have frozen milk. Should i go with cow's milk or formula?


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A cold winter is burning up the cash in many people's wallets as higher energy bills are delivered every day to home owners and renters alike. Those triple digit bills, some in the hundreds of dollars, have people looking for answers and solutions to staunch their bleeding bank accounts.
According to experts, the drain on their cash could be coming from a drain on their home; or rather, a leak.
Home Diagnostic Solutions has been booked solid with requests for energy audits this winter.
Will Moyers is an energy auditor with the company. He goes into around two homes per day with a partner looking for the source of the problem.
"It's a matter of, is the air staying in the building, that's your conditioning; is the heat staying in the building, which is your insulation; and is the air that you're pumping into the building actually conditioned properly, which is the mechanical system," said Moyers. "So if you make sure your house is well sealed, you make sure your house is well insulated, and you make sure your HVAC system is running properly and actually performing, you should nip all those problems in the bud."
The entire process takes a few hours. Moyers and his partner, or another pair of auditors, will pressurize the home and look for air leaking into and out of it. They check the attic, look at insulation and do a whole host of things to get the best idea of what the situation is, and why it's occurring.
When they are done, they sit down with the customer and explain the problem to them with a report, using a laptop and pictures.
Then it's up to the customer to decide how to handle the situation from there. Home Diagnostic Solutions doesn't fix the problems, they just identify them.
They do give advice though, and that is getting an energy audit done now as opposed to later.
"Taking care of the problems, cataloguing and getting a game plan together, it's perfect timing for the spring," said Moyers. "That's the time when most of the contractors who do these improvements are not that busy."
Which means you could get a better rate and better quality of work, due to the lack of competing jobs.
On the other hand, if you are looking for a quick fix, you could buy some foam gaskets for your wall sockets and light switch covers. According to Moyers, those are notorious areas for air to be getting into and out of the home.
"Those will help treat the symptom; and understand you are treating the symptom when you are dealing with stuff like that," said Moyers. "The root cause is [a] leakage somewhere in that wall."
Not dealing with the root problem could lead to other issues later in the year.
A wet spring could cause mold and mildew problems; pollen can get into your home through the leak and make your life miserable; and a leak can make keeping your home free of dust, next to impossible, according to Moyers.
People who do get an energy audit done, and take the steps to solve their issues, often see the effort reflected in their energy bills; however, the degree of change varies by case, according to Moyers.
If anything, Moyers says, you'll notice your home is more comfortable than it was previously.
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Beach footwear is a must – Extra Butter knows that. The shop has held you down time and time again with respect to more traditional sneaker releases, and now they're turning towards that sandy destination for their latest effort. Gathered here is the Extra Butter x Sperry Top-Sider "Beach Getaway" pack, which consists of the "Atlantic" and "Sound" takes on their A/O boat shoe and canvas sneaker, respectively. Continue reading for imagery on the Extra Butter x Sperry "Beach Getaway" pack and watch for these to show up starting on July 10th when they make their in-store debut at the LES location.
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McKinney talks about one of the earliest false flag attacks from Israel to the US.
The USS Liberty is mentioned by McKinney as an act that many have forgotten and it relates to her recent incident in Gaza, where, in an international AID ship, was victim of an \"accident\" from the Israelis who vandalized the ship almost causing shipwreck.
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Lickdacat August 26, 2010 10:59:48 AM CEST
You must respect anybody in congress that will mention the USS Liberty. Nearly every congressman and senator will not let those words leave their mouths in public, yet in front of a camera. We cannot let the people know that Israel is actually our enemy that has hijacked our government along with the Rothschild Banking Mafia.Israel is a terrorist nation and should pay for attacking us on 9-11, the USS Liberty and many embassies. Israel needs to be taken out, we attacked the wrong people after 9-11.
Asperin December 31, 2008 10:19:58 PM CET
What\'s your beef with her? She\'s an example for other politicians.Talks about stuff others don\'t.
Fatrock386 December 31, 2008 12:25:24 PM CET
Cynthia McKinney what a joke! we ran her ass out of Georgia.Too bad she was not lost at sea.


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Check out that hsf, copper heatpipes and all! Jeebus, they shouldn't overheat like previous gen PlayStations... they better not at least!
I'm kinda surprised Sony used thermal paste over thermal pads for the cpu's, much more complex I'd assume... or is that why there is paste on the mobo near the end?
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hmm Ken Kutaragi must had been pissed when he found his PS3 Dissasembled!!!
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Hi Line 6 Users,
I have an ancient Line 6 POD 2, and I also have a Line 6 Roto Machine pedal. I recently tried to use the included software for the first time for the POD 2, but couldn't install or register the software. I have discovered some really great guitar sounds with the POD 2 and would like to use the deep editing software to create differing degrees of the air that's in 'direct' mode. I generally use the POD 2 in 'amp' mode.
I would really appreciate some advice about how to register and install such ancient software. I'm hoping to blend a little bit of the 'direct' mode effects to some of my patches, and then conveniently store them.
Don Randall
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You can go to http://line6.com/account/registergear/ and register your POD.
After you have done that go to http://line6.com/software/ and download Line 6 Edit version 3.04 for your POD.
You will need to buy a 3rd party USB to MIDI interface to connect your POD to your computer. Follow the link below to see an example of this.
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When the Levee Breaks climbs the gray streak in between Supre Guide and the Cooch Cave.
Located to the right of the Ruckman Cave proper, this route climbs a gray streak 150+ feet to the left of Supre Guide. It is best approached by parking at the Ruckman Cave and hiking up the road past the spot where the creek goes under the road. A faint climbers' trail (not the Koper Trail) goes up the hilll along the wall and leads to Supre Guide. Alternatively, you can also easily park at the campground and hike down canyon to this area. Look for the glue-in bolts.
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Kenyan resorts struggle without British tourists
Following a Foreign Office travel warning for coastal Kenya, British tourists have become something of a rarity here.
Following a Foreign Office travel warning for coastal Kenya, British tourists have become something of a rarity here.
The parents of a British man who died in police custody in Kenya say they are still seeking justice, 18 months after their son's death.
An Al-Shabaab recruitment video makes reference to 10 British militants, raising the possibility of links to the attack on a mall in Kenya.
Kenya has warned its citizens about transiting through Heathrow Airport because of "a substantial threat of possible attack" by Al-Qaeda operatives, according to local media reports.
Hours after the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) changed its travel advice for parts of the Kenyan coast following a spate of attacks that have left at least 87 people dead, the African nation's Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary issued the warning.
Karanja Kibicho told the Daily Nation newspaper: "According to information provided by US officials, Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen and Syria were developing sophisticated bombs that could bring down a plane."
He added: "The information states that Britain would be the most likely country to be affected. Based on this information, Kenyans are advised not to travel through London Heathrow where there is substantial threat of a possible attack.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has changed its travel advice for parts of the Kenyan coast following a spate of attacks that have left at least 87 people dead.
A total of 22 people were killed in raids last Saturday in the village of Hindi in Lamu county, and Gamba in Tana River county, according to the Kenya Red Cross.
In June 65 people were killed when gunmen launched an attack in the coastal town of Mpeketoni.
The Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attacks.
In the wake of the killings the FCO is advising against all but essential travel to Lamu county and the areas of Tana River county north of the Tana River itself.
Somali militants al Shabaab - the Islamist group behind the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi - has claimed responsibility for Saturday night's raids on the Kenyan coast that have left at least 29 people dead.
The group said that it had broken into the police station at Gamba and freed suspects from the cells.
Their claim was supported by a Kenyan police source who said the group freed Muslim detainees, including some linked to the Mpeketoni two weeks ago that killed 65 people.
"There were two attacks in Lamu and Tana River last night. In Lamu we have nine people dead and in Tana River we have 20. The number could rise," ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said.
"They went around shooting at people and villages indiscriminately," Abdallah Shahasi, the area chief said.
The death toll in two separate attacks on the Kenyan coast overnight has risen to 29, according to the interior ministry.
At least 13 people were killed when attackers wielding guns raided two separate areas on the Kenyan coast overnight, the Kenyan Red Cross said.
Four people lost their lives at Hindi trading centre in Lamu county, near the scene of attacks in which 65 people were killed last month, the Red Cross said on Twitter.
Nine more people were killed in another attack in the Gamba area of Tana River county.
At least nine people have been killed in two simultaneous attacks on the Kenyan coast overnight, the Red Cross said.
Four people were killed when a cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off from the international airport in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi earlier today.
The Fokker 50 aircraft, which was transporting cargo to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, crashed into a residential building after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, said the airport's head of police investigations.
No one on the ground was harmed, and the four bodies of those in the plane were recovered.
Five people have been killed by attackers who raided a village on Kenya's coast near Mpeketoni town where around 65 people died in assaults last week, a government official has said.
Somali militant group Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for last week's attacks on the Mpeketoni area, although Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta dismissed al Shabaab's account and said local politicians were behind it.
Speaking to Reuters Lamu County commissioner, Stephen Ikua said: "I am aware that a gang that is unknown attacked Taa village in Witu division yesterday (Monday) night and killed five people."
Two terrorist attacks on the Kenyan coast was not orchestrated by the al Shabaab terrorist network, according to the country's president Uhuru Kenyatta.
Mr Kenyatta said the 65 people were killed by "local political networks", dismissing claims by Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group that it was behind the assaults.
Speaking to the nation, he said:
"This was not an al Shabaab terrorist attack. Evidence indicates local political networks were involved in the planning and execution of the heinous crime.
"This also played into the opportunist network of other criminal gangs," he said.
More: Militants 'kill 15 more' in second night of Kenya attacks
Somali-linked Islamist militants killed at least 15 people and torched houses in a second night of attacks on Kenya's coast, a day after an assault on a town left almost 50 dead.
Armed al-Shabaab militants stormed the Poromoko village at night, ordered people outside and made them recite the Islamic creed, one witness told Reuters. He did not see what happened to anyone who failed.
The militant group has said it is punishing Kenya for sending troops to Somalia to confront its Islamist fighters.
Sunday's assault on the town of Mpeketoni was the worst since al-Shabaab gunmen stormed Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall in September, leaving 67 dead.
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Helen von Kolnitz Hyer was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina and was SC Poet Laureate from 1974-1983 .
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Helen von Kolnitz Hyer was born and raised in Charleston, daughter of Judge George Frederick von Kolnitz and Sarah Conover Holmes. After attending several private schools, Helen graduated from Ashley Hall, a private girls school in Charleston, and then went on to attend Simmons College, in Boston. There she began writing poetry, and she even won the college's Poetry Prize one year.
During World War I, Helen left school to return to Charleston, where she took a business course and worked as a statistician. After the war, she accepted a position as Curator of Public Instruction at the Charleston Museum, and a year later she helped organize the Poetry Society of South Carolina. During these years in the summers, Helen went back to Simmons College and took Library Science courses. In 1921 Helen married Edward Allen Hyer. The couple moved to Michigan, where Helen worked in several museum positions. The Hyers returned to Charleston in 1941, and in April, 1974 she was appointed South Carolina's Poet Laureate by Governor John West. Helen von Kolnitz Hyer was the state's second Poet Laureate. She held the honor until her death in 1983. Hyer's published work includes two volumes of poetry, two juvenile fiction books, and two nature study works. Over her lifetime, Hyer belonged to seven poetry societies.


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The big, obvious quartz dike. Gaining the dike is 5.12, but easily aided (A0) on less-than-inspiring bolts. The rest of the climb (5.11) is a continuous, excruciating test of balance. Just as mental for the follower as the leader. Top out on Big Brown Eye or rap.
15-16 bolts.