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Back in 2010 our Editor Andy Dixon went head-to-head with Olympic Champion Mo Farah. Find out who came out on top in this running battle...
Mo's weaknesses (yes, really!)There's another disappointment coming his way (albeit on a slightly smaller scale than not qualifying for an Olympic final) when we do the final two physical tests of the Run Check. A balance test on a pressure plate shows Farah's average forward/backward deviation is 2.4cm compared with my 1.4cm. "Mo's static balance is quite poor," says a surprised Fairthorne. "He's wobbling backwards and forwards." The test also shows Farah has less balance on his right leg compared with his left.A treadmill-running analysis springs another surprise. Mo's feet overpronate and his knees roll slightly inward as he loads his weight through his foot. He wears orthotics to correct this, and Fairthorne recommends that he get them replaced. By contrast, Fairthorne says I have "a more neutral gait pattern than Mo. Your foot pattern is close to perfect."But my moment of glory is stopped short by a "but" – and it's a big but. "You're losing energy as you run," says Fairthorne. While my gait looks good to the naked eye, the pressure plate analysis shows that I land on my midfoot, come back onto my heel, then move forward again into the toe-off. Fairthorne advises me to practise landing on my heels. This seems to contradict a lot of research extolling the efficiency of a midfoot landing, but the evidence is there on the screen: the line showing my weight transfer has a zig-zag look to it – forward, back, forward. By contrast, Mo's line is straight and direct – heel, midfoot, toe-off. Fairthorne explains: "Mo's landing on his heel and moving through his foot in a very smooth manner. The most important thing is that you don't lose force to the ground. But your running style has a 'handbrake' effect with each footstrike."While I was more stable than Mo when standing still, once in motion his balance is better – his stronger core offsets the deficiency in his natural balance. Like a thoroughbred horse, Mo's body seems to be more at ease and reactive when he's moving.With the tests complete, Fairthorne advises us both on how we can improve our running. I need to work to strengthen my gluteal muscles to improve my core stability, and try to practise a heel-toe running pattern. He advises Mo to improve his balance by strengthening his weaker right leg with a series of single-leg lunges.What makes an elite?So, what have I learned from going toe-to-toe with an elite for a day? What really marks them out is flexibility and strength, rather than more obvious markers such asstamina. "Mo is running 80 to 100 miles a week and the guy still has excellent flexibility, whereas most club or recreational runners are tight," says Fairthorne. "He's got a good power-to-weight ratio, which gives him the ability to run faster with less effort."On a mental level, his discipline and work rate shone through – it's fair to say elite athletes have a capacity for application and self-sacrifice many of us simply don't possess.But hearing Mo's challenges and his efforts to rectify them, there are more similarities than at first glance. He has experienced many of the same struggles as you and me in our running careers – balancing training with a social life, coping with disappointment and learning from mistakes – but he has worked hard to solve them. Nor is he biomechanically perfect – the test identifies issues where he can work to improve his running, and he says he intends to do so."Talent can only take you so far," Farah says as we get ready to leave. "If you really want a gold, silver or bronze, you have to work hard. If I've found even one exercise today that will result in a fraction of a second's improvement, it's worth it."
The message is the same for elite and amateur alike: train hard, rest properly, eat and sleep well, be dedicated to your sport, work on your weaknesses. Whether the goal is running a decent marathon (me) or chasing medals in the World Indoor and European Championships (Farah), do this over time, and the rest will fall into place.
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Food: Ugali"It's maize meal. It's got loads of carbs, and you make a kind of porridge from that in one pot, and in another pot you make a stew with onion, tomatoes, chicken, cabbage and vegetables. It's really healthy – pure carbs and protein," says Farah.Recovery tip: Ice baths"Ice baths work, it just depends whether you can put up with them! After my long run I'll get into an ice bath for 10 minutes, then get into a hot bath after. You feel a lot better for it. Your muscles feel less tired. The same with a massage."Kit: Compression socks"My calves get quite tight, so if you're doing a lot of miles they can help." According to a 2007 study in the Journal of Sports Sciences, wearing the socks during a 10K road run appeared to reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness.The Bupa Fitness Assessment includes 13 tests to help you develop an action plan and get more from your training. It is available nationally at an introductory cost of £149.00. For more information call 0800 66 55 77.


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The Good Life
Sunday - October 9
- RACE DAY: Chicago Marathon
Friday - October 7
Arrived at my parent's house at 2:30am. Then my daughter, who slept the entire car trip, was wide awake. So I spent the next hour and half convincing a 15 month-old that she should go back to sleep because mom and dad were running a marathon and needed their sleep. In the end I got 4 hours of sleep for the night. I would like to thank Red Bull, Coffee, and Twizzlers for keeping me up for the whole trip.
Thursday - October 6
Packing up the wife and kid and hitting the road tonight for Chicago. Driving at night for most of the eight hour trip is not my particular cup of tea, but if it means the kiddo will be sleeping the whole way then I'm for it.
Barkeep's Training Log
Upcoming races
- Kansas City Triathlon - Olympic Course (Triathlon)5/17/2015 Kansas City, Missouri
- Legend 70 (Triathlon)6/7/2015 Lawrence, Kansas
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Are we addicted to information? Is there something hardwired into our beings that makes us unable to resist compulsive Twittering? Every other day there's a news article or radio story on how studies show that… well, really, not much more than scientists like to publish things.
The Mind Hacks folks do a good job of demolishing the "studies show" myth with respect to information-seeking behaviour here. If you've ever nodded to one of those articles going on and on about how we're natural information addicts, then go read this one. Now. GOOGLE COMMANDS IT.
In case it's not obvious, I think those theories are, like a lot of the rest of pop psychology, bullshit. Yet we techie types eat them up like coffee ice cream or something. If you'll excuse me, I have some bark to examine now.
Category: Philosophy
Quirks and Quarks on Psychopathy
On my walk in to work this morning, I listened to a rebroadcast of the 30 September 2006 Quirks and Quarks show. Aside from some small disappointment that Ted Bundy made their list of serial killers, but not Alan Legere, there was a question raised in my mind by the conclusion.
One of the researchers interviewed posited that psychopathy is a mental disorder, just like chronic depression and others, and as such ought to be fairly understandable – and treatable. Well, we can tell when treatment for chronic depression is working; the person is no longer so severely depressed, or indeed, is "cured".
How can we tell when a psychopath is made better? It's not actually in the best interests of a psychopath to cooperate with treatment or the law, except insofar as it might get them released. Reliance on self-reporting is foolish in this case.
The tone of the podcast reminded me of the conclusion of a movie about another psychopath: "I was cured, all right!"
(From the archives of "posts I intended to publish a year ago." First written 2007-07-17, published 2008-10-04.)
Popular views of justice
Tangentially related to a paper I wrote for my cognitive science seminar, I've been collecting references to stories on CBC, CTV, and other outlets that allow commenting. What I'm interested in is the popular reaction to matters related to what can loosely be described as justice. For instance, I've bookmarks to stories on Robert Pickton, Thomas Svekla, street racers who've killed people, Gregory Despres's trial, some child pornography cases, and so on.
Besides the obvious effect of the stories themselves – litanies of the indignities which we visit upon one another with depressing regularity – I've found a couple of other things. First is an extension of that thought; it's similarly depressing how people who are presumably largely Canadian citizens, my peers, presumably fairly well-educated and in the top 10th or 20th percentile worldwide, folks who are well-enough off to have both the free time and access to read and comment on these stories online, are able to so casually dismiss and pass judgement on other human beings with a minimum of information. Second is now every time I see a story that's likely to get such comments, I mentally grin and rub my hands in anticipation. Then I feel guilty, because each one of those stories means something horrible has happened to one or more human beings, and chances are something horrible is going to happen to at least one more person.
I have a rough idea where I'd like to go with this stuff, and I even have a rough idea about the direction in which I'd like to see our society headed. But given that we live in a democracy, it's fairly unlikely we'd even come close to what I'd like to see, at least in my lifetime.
Emotions, simulating and emulating
From a marginal note I made in class last term: talking about computers simulating emotions makes me think of virtual machines.
Is my iMac running VMWare Fusion creating a Windows box, or simulating one, or is it even attaining Windows? An emulator like VICE doesn't somehow turn my Mac into a C64. Look at the difficulty of emulation: it takes a P2-400+ to emulate a C64, a 1MHz CPU with 64kb of RAM.
So what would it take to emulate a human brain? Would that emulation be sufficient to simulate emotions? (Ignore the obvious physiological issues; assume that those also are emulated, or are unimportant.)
Public credulity with respect to brain science
If you read no other magazine article summarizing an academic study, read this one. I wish I'd had it when I did my paper. Summary of the summary: the general public is fairly credulous when it comes to articles with pretty pictures of brains included, even if the conclusions drawn by those articles is counterintuitive.
My initial thoughts were that this could be dangerous, but Western society is pretty firmly libertarian (in the philosophical sense, not the political one) and dualist. It should be interesting to see how this cognitive dissonance – trust in science, yet a fervent belief in truly free free will – plays out.
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Phoronix: Ubuntu Can Now Dual-Boot On Android Devices
Canonical has announced an early Christmas present for Ubuntu Touch fans in the form of support for dual-booting with Android...
Bring It On, babies!
Interesting, but I don't get the point. Hasn't canonical failed on the smartphone business?
They haven't entered market because their public-fund didn't even reach one third of their goal. Now, while this may not mean anything, it may also mean everything ... it depends from how you look at it.
Keep in mind I use Ubuntu every day so I'm not against Canonical. I'm just trying to understand how is Mark spending his money.. I really can't stand the idea that in 2 years, after Canonical failing on making money on desktop, after failing making money on smarptones... Mark comes out saying: hey folks, we're going out of business!! Go back to Debian! I have just 2 milion dollars left, the amount needed to go on Mars one way ticket!
...and the Ubuntu Touch operating system isn't even nearly ready for prime time. The goal was absurdly high for a crowd funded project and the phones were very expensive considering that you didn't even know what you would get. So yeah, I wouldn't read too much in to it.
Well mobile market is worth a shot because it's relatively new and will only grow in coming years. Also the technologies between desktop, tablets and mobile are shared so the developement will not go to waste. I mean next generation laptops (that account to most of PCs anyway nowadays) are very similar to laptos, they have numerous sensors, touchscreens, 3g modems and such.
Well they might as well focus on the sever market where they actually get their money and do desktop as a side business like Red Hat does. I don't see Canonical going anywhere considering how popular it's in the cloud/web market.
...Still no news on Ubuntu for Android, sigh.
As beautiful and innovative as I think Ubuntu Touch is, the best feature (or associated project) hasn't been mentioned since the AMA before the Ubuntu Edge failed...
They failed because they missed the optimal time to enter the market. For a small startup trying to enter a hugely competitive and volatile market, timing is essential (Jolla got that right). Anything they manage to do now will be overshadowed by at least Sailfish and Firefox OS, possibly also Tizen.
People said similar things about Android (timing). I seem to recall not completely dissimilar discussions about Apple given that Blackberry had such a strangle on the smart phone market at the time.
There's ALWAYS room for someone offering a compelling experience and something new. Whether or not that's what Canonical inevitably delivers is up for discussion. Whether or not the opportunity exists is not. It's always there.
The other options you list might well beat them to offering up the next great alternative. Time will tell.


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Shrewd comic instincts keep a formulaic pity-party largely afloat in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's fourth feature collaboration.
Shrewd comic instincts keep a formulaic pity-party largely afloat in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's fourth feature collaboration, "Imogene." An able cast, led by Kristen Wiig's prickly lead turn, saves this uneven, excessively quirky but ultimately ingratiating story of a mopey Manhattanite forced to return to her inglorious New Jersey roots for an extended period of self-rediscovery. Offering another sly snapshot of the filmmakers' native New York, a la "The Nanny Diaries" and "The Extra Man," this soft-bellied crowdpleaser should post modest numbers in specialty play and DVD/VOD rotation.
In one of those patented bad-luck spells that typically force comedy protagonists to drop everything and go find themselves, Imogene Duncan (Wiig), a once-promising playwright in her mid-30s, loses her Gotham high-society boyfriend (Brian Petsos) and her magazine job in quick succession. Desperate to win back her ex, and perhaps taking a page from her namesake in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," Imogene fakes a suicide attempt that backfires and instead earns the sympathy of her long-estranged mother, Zelda (Annette Bening), who drives her heavily sedated daughter back home to in Ocean City, N.J. Crude slapstick and sitcom-level formulations make for an off-putting early stretch, as the family homestead turns out to be populated with one zany character after another. Zelda, whom Imogene blames for ruining her life, is a high-functioning gambling addict who likes to get spanked by her apparently CIA-involved boyfriend, known simply as the Bousche (Matt Dillon). Imogene's brother, Ralph (Christopher Fitzgerald), is a tubby mollusk enthusiast as shy as the hermit crabs he collects. Most annoyingly of all, Imogene finds her bedroom now rented out to laid-back Yale grad Lee (Darren Criss), though their tetchy early encounters inevitably give way to friendship and mutual attraction. An amusing scene at the halfway mark, featuring one of Lee's nightly performances as a Backstreet Boy lookalike in a hokey '90s-nostalgia lounge act, marks a turning point for their relationship as well as for the film, as Wiig and Criss begin to generate an appealing older-woman/younger-man chemistry, and Ben-ing and Fitzgerald bring animating subtleties to their broadly eccentric roles. This is the first bigscreen production directed but not also scripted by Springer Berman and Pulcini, working here from a screenplay by Michelle Morgan (who had a role in their 2011 telepic "Cinema Verite"). As such, the originality and conceptual ingenuity of the filmmakers' 2003 breakout debut, "American Splendor," are even less in evidence here than in their prior two pictures, as "Imogene" tells a thoroughly predictable tale of a needy, self-pitying city girl forced to renew bonds with the unsophisticated beach-town folk who really care about her. The script's overarching missteps include a too-easy contrast between Manhattan snobbery and Jersey-shore integrity, and a subplot involving long-buried secrets about Imogene and Ralph's late father is too obviously rigged to conclude the film on a cathartic note. Yet scene by scene, the helmers and actors manage to mine warmth, wit and gentle comic rhythms from Morgan's dialogue, a process aided considerably by Pulcini's typically sharp editing. Though her performance here isn't as thorny and layered as her turn in "Bridesmaids," Wiig is again ideally cast as a woman experiencing bitter disappointment in life, and her character's almost nonstop irritability has an invigorating effect on the rest of the ensemble. The dynamic between protective older sister and awkward younger brother is played with particular delicacy by Wiig and stage thesp Fitzgerald; elsewhere, Bening and Criss bring abundant charm to the table, while Dillon exudes gravel-voiced presence in the one role that doesn't really pay off. New Jersey beach locations provide a nicely atmospheric contrast to New York's bustling streets and swanky parties, and Zelda's cramped, cozy house merits special mention in Annie Spitz's spot-on production design. Otherwise, the tech package has a low-budget roughness that suggests an edgier movie than the audience winds up getting.Imogene
A Voltage Pictures presentation of a Maven Pictures, Anonymous Content Pictures production in association with Ambush Entertainment, 10th Hole Prods. and Gambit Films. Produced by Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Mark Amin. Executive producers, Kristen Wiig, Michelle Morgan, Miranda Bailey, Matt Leutwyler, Steve Golin, Dylan K. Narang, Nadine De Barros, Dan Frishwasser, Marra B. Gad, Anne O'Shea, Pamela Hirsch, Olivier Morali. Co-producers, Luca Borghese, Hardy Justice, Cynthia Coury, Olivier Cojot-Goldberg. Directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini. Screenplay, Michelle Morgan.
Camera (color), Steve Yedlin; editor, Pulcini; music, Rob Simonsen; music supervisor, Linda Cohen; production designer, Annie Spitz; art director, Robert Pyzocha; set decorator, Shannon Finnerty; costume designer, Tom Broecker; sound (Dolby Digital), Stuart Deutsch, Jeff Pullman; supervising sound editor, Paul Hsu; re-recording mixers, Lora Hirschberg, Hsu; special effects coordinator, Drew Jiritano; visual effects supervisor, John Bair; visual effects producer, Vivian Connolly; visual effects, Phosphene; stunt coordinators, Manny Siverio, Roy Farfel; associate producers, Jay Thomson, Andrea Resnick, Arnaud Achour; assistant director, Richard Patrick; casting, Ann Goulder. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentations), Sept. 7, 2012. Running time: 102 MIN.
Imogene - Kristen Wiig
Zelda - Annette Bening
The Bousche - Matt Dillon
Lee - Darren Criss
Ralph - Christopher Fitzgerald
Dara - June Diane Raphael
Maxwell - Bob Balaban
Zelda - Annette Bening
The Bousche - Matt Dillon
Lee - Darren Criss
Ralph - Christopher Fitzgerald
Dara - June Diane Raphael
Maxwell - Bob Balaban
With: Natasha Lyonne, Brian Petsos, Patricia Kalember, Mickey Sumner, Reed Birney, Nate Corddry, Ronald Guttman.
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Baked deep into this new Volvo is an extensive array of safety measures that go beyond two-stage front-impact airbags, side-impact airbags, and special head restraints. Notably, Volvo employs several strategies to tackle the rollover gremlin associated with high-center-of-gravity sport/utility vehicles. The first defense is an electronic system that senses roll speed and angle. If these exceed predetermined limits, engine power is reduced and braking one or more wheels is initiated to stay ahead of the roll and regain stability. The second level of defense is special high-strength boron steel in the crush-resistant roof. A third strategy is seatbelt pretensioners to keep passengers securely in place. Finally, an inflatable curtain prevents passenger heads from striking the side glass.
The XC90 is a workhorse that seats as many as seven or can carry more than 90 cu ft of cargo. That adds considerable mass to what is already a pretty stout vehicle. So at all four corners are vented disc brakes at least 12 in. in diameter backed up by a four-wheel anti-lock system. In addition, Emergency Brake Assistance senses a panic stop and automatically applies full braking pressure for a shorter stop.
Volvo acknowledges that the XC is not intended for extreme off-roading. For that, something like GM's H2 Hummer is a better answer. We were impressed, however, with the XC's off-road moves. The electronically controlled all-wheel drive, developed with Sweden's four-wheeling experts at Haldex, and the 8.6 (2.5T) to 9.2 (T6) in. of ground clearance provide sure-footedness without the belly scrape and clatter of pretend SUVs on moon-crater roads. In normal driving, about 95 percent of the power flows through the front wheels. But if the fronts begin to slip, in as little as one-seventh of a rotation, power can be diverted to the rear contact patches.
The AWD is made up of three main parts: a hydraulic pump actuated by differences in speed between the front and rear axles, a wet multidisc clutch, and a control valve with feedback electronics. When both front and rear axles are rotating at the same speed, no pumping takes place. But if a speed differential occurs, the axles are progressively locked together, smoothly reducing the difference. This all-wheeling setup also interacts with the vehicle's electronic traction and stability control systems to maximize thrust, control, and safety by braking a wheel that tries to spin.


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RAVEN LORD Videoblog Episode 04 Guitar Demonstration And Update
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Rock N Growl Promotion has announced that Raven Lord has posted episode 4 of their video blog entitled 'Raven Lord TV' featuring a guitar demonstration and an update on the band.
Immediate Press Release The fourth episode of Raven Lord TV from multinational metallers Raven Lord can be seen below. George Karafotis gives a brief update on Raven Lord activity, announces and demonstrates his new endorsed instrument. George Karafotis is proudly endorsed by VGS Guitars. Raven Lord TV - Episode 04: http://youtu.be/wLvWpShG7zw Raven Lord recently added current Power Quest drummer Rich Smith to the groups ranks. Raven Lord are: Csaba Zvekan (Killing Machine) Vocals Joe Stump (Holyhell, Reing of Terror) Lead Guitar Jamie Mallender (Tony Martin) Bass Rich Smith (Power Quest) Drums George Karafotis (Vermillion Days) Guitar Alessandro Duo (Voodoo Highway) Keyboards Press Quote: Raven Lord and one of the best power metal albums in the last couple years the power metal masterpiece that is Descent To The Underworld (Metal Delirium) Raven Lord confirmed festivals: R-Mine Metalfest in Belgium 2013 and Netherlands Summer shows: 15. June Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN 22. June R-Mine Metalfest 2013,Tongeren, BELGIUM 28. June P3, Purmerend, NETHERLANDS 29. June In the mix, Uithoorn, NETHERLANDS more shows to be announced very soon Raven Lord recently released their debut album, Descent To The Underworld worldwide via Mausoleum Records. The CD was mixed by acclaimed Swedish producer Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Arch Enemy, Nightrage, In Flames, Dream Evil, Opeth) and was mastered by U.S. mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum (Sepultura, Halford, Yngwie Malmsteen, Angra, Dokken). The cover artwork was created by Brazilian artist Caio Caldas of CadiesArt, who has previously worked with Doro, Paul Di'Anno, Seven Kingdoms, Dominanz and Violet Sun among others. www.raven-lord.com www.facebook.com/ravenlordmusic Source: www.rockngrowl.com/fourth-raven-lord-tv-episode-posted-online
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OSLO: An Oslo court on Friday found Anders Behring Breivik guilty of "acts of terror" and sentenced him to 21 years in prison for his killing spree last year that left 77 people dead.
The five judges unanimously found Breivik sane, a verdict in line with what the far-right extremist himself wanted, bringing to an end a spectacular trial for the attacks that traumatised normally tranquil Norway and shocked the world.
Breivik killed eight people in an Oslo blast and took 69 more lives, mostly teenagers', in a shooting frenzy at an island summer camp on July 22, 2011.
"The ruling is unanimous," presiding judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen told the court. "He is sentenced to prison for 21 years, with a minimum of 10 years," she added. Under Norwegian law the sentence could be extended.
Breivik, wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and a grey tie, smiled as the verdict was read out in court.
Survivors of the Utoeya island massacre took to Twitter immediately to comment on the sentencing, with Emma Martinovic tweeting: "YEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!"And Viljar Hansse, who took a bullet to the head in the massacre, tweeted: "Finished. Period."
Breivik has previously said he would not appeal a prison sentence, as he wanted to be found sane so his Islamophobic ideology would not be considered the rantings of a lunatic.
Norway's penal code does not have the death penalty or life in prison, and the maximum prison term for Breivik's charges is 21 years. However, inmates who after that are still considered a threat to society can be held indefinitely.
The 33-year-old loner, who made a right-wing salute in court after his handcuffs were taken off, had confessed to the attacks, seeing himself as a Nordic warrior against Europe's "Muslim invasion" and against all those who promote multiculturalism.
The main question the court had to determine was whether he was sane and could be held responsible for his actions.
Ironically, the prison sentence is what Breivik, most of the families of the victims had wanted, and the general public in Norway wanted.
But Prosecutor Svein Holden had called for him to be sentenced to closed psychiatric care, arguing that "it would be worse to sentence someone who is psychotic to prison than to send someone who is not psychotic to psychiatric care."
Breivik, who laid out his hateful world view in a rambling 1,500-page online manifesto, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and declared criminally insane after his bloody rampage on July 22, 2011.
However, a public outcry led to a second assessment which found him legally sane — a view shared by most Norwegians in polls, and by Breivik himself who has said he would accept prison but appeal against closed psychiatric treatment.
Prosecutor Svein Holden, who wants Breivik to be found criminally insane, has said that "it would be worse to sentence someone who is psychotic to prison than to send someone who is not psychotic to psychiatric care."
Breivik hopes to speak again on the final day of his trial, at which Norway has gone to great lengths to stress its free and fair judicial process.
In previous testimony during the 10-week trial that ran until June, Breivik laid out in chilling detail what motivated him to meticulously plan for years and then execute Norway's worst massacre since World War II.
Breivik has called himself a "foot soldier" for the 'Knights Templar', allegedly a clandestine ultra-right group named after an order of Christian Crusaders of the Middle Ages. Police doubt the group's existence.
He has also railed against "cultural Marxists" whose support for immigration he blames for the emergence of a "Eurabia", the reason why he targeted the centre-left government and a summer youth camp run by the Labour Party.
The court heard how Breivik spent years planning the bloodbath, using a farm as cover for purchasing the chemical fertilizer he used for the almost one-tonne bomb he set off in a rented van outside Oslo's main government building.
In his years of seclusion, Breivik said he practised meditation, worked out and used steroids to steel his mind and body, while playing video shooting- and role-playing games for relaxation.
He joined a pistol club and obtained a hunting licence to get the 9mm Glock handgun and Ruger semi-automatic rifle which he used to mow down terrified young people, the youngest just 14, trapped on the tiny lake island of Utoeya.
Dressed in a police uniform, he methodically shot dead 67 people, many at point blank range, and two more died as they fell to their deaths or drowned while trying to escape the more than hour-long shooting spree.
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MA LS (96 version): | Characteristics of Organisms: Explore and describe that plants and animals are living things and have characteristics that differentiate them from non-living things. |
MA LS (01 version): | K-2 Life Science: Differentiate between living and nonliving things. Group both living and nonliving things according to the characteristics they share. |
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OMAK A new business, Emergency Remediation Services, has opened to clean up water and fire damage, and mold.
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The business can extract moisture and standing water, clean up some fire damage and remove smoke odor, and do mold abatement, Demmitt said. The business is certified by the International Restoration Institute.
Demmitt previously owned Culligan and Clearwater Spas locally, and NAPA stores in Yakima.
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Relief provisions to Jaffna reduced[TamilNet, Thursday, 22 June 2000, 11:15 GMT]The Jaffna Government Agent (GA) was informed on Tuesday that relief provisions for civilians will be reduced to account for those who have fled the peninsula as a result of the war. Sources said about 5000 people who fled the war are currently housed in makeshift accommodation in the Pooneryn area. The GAs of Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu had requested that as about 800 families were now in areas under their administration, funds for their essentials should be paid to those areas for redistribution. However, government authorities in Colombo are yet to respond to this request, said sources. The Voice of Tigers radio said Wednesday night that 60 elderly people who were stranded in the combat zone of Thenmaradchi sector of Jaffna were transported to the Vanni. Meanwhile the Vavuniya Students Union of Jaffna University has sent letters to the Government Agent and parliamentarians of Vavuniya seeking their help to provide them safe transport to leave the peninsula. The Union, which represents about 75 students from the Vavuniya District, in its letter has stated that the students have lost contacts with their families. |
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The story of America is a story of dreamers and defaulters. It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. As far back as 1792, these panics boiled down to one simple question: Would Americans pay their debts—or were we just a nation of deadbeats?
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Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity remains an important and essential discovery because it permanently altered how we look at the universe. Einstein's major breakthrough was to say that space and time are not absolutes and that gravity is not simply a force applied to an object or mass. Rather, the gravity associated with any mass curves the very space and time (often called space-time) around it.
To conceptualize this, imagine you're traveling across the Earth in a straight line, heading east, starting somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. After a while, if someone were to pinpoint your position on a map, you'd actually be both east and far south of your original position. That's because the Earth is curved. To travel directly east, you'd have to take into account the shape of the Earth and angle yourself slightly north. (Think about the difference between a flat paper map and a spherical globe.)
Space is pretty much the same. For example, to the occupants of the shuttle orbiting the Earth, it can look like they're traveling on a straight line through space. In reality, the space-time around them is being curved by the Earth's gravity (as it would be with any large object with immense gravity such as a planet or a black hole), causing them to both move forward and to appear to orbit the Earth.
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Russian Sanctions Backfire
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The belief that calling for and instituting sanctions against Russia is a sound policy, illustrates the economic disconnect of the Obama administration. With the fervor for starting a new cold war, the propaganda machine is working overtime to paint a picture that ignores real economic synergism. Note the conflicting reports regarding the EU. Nine EU countries ready to block economic sanctions against Russia, quotes a diplomatic source to ITAR-TASS:
Inevitability of Financial Bubbles
July 1, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
Financial instruments are inventions of gnomes from investment houses and exchanges. There is nothing intrinsic about profitability or guarantee that over time such transactions will be rewarding. Much like the games played at a casino, the baccarat banks that run the betting sport and wheel of fortune, are running the odds in their favor. If only the payoff was similar to the gambling den probability, the consistency of indulgence might be worth the risk. However, the systemic incentivisations within the markets themselves are designed to reflect little of economic proportion to actual trading results. Just look how the financial firms compensate their traders to substantiate that the underlying security of the "so called" investment, which bears little resemblance to quoted pricing.
Individual Wealth in Perspective
June 10, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
A quaint comparison of what money can buy in today's market has Bill Gates being able to afford every home in Boston. His $76.6 billion reported by the Washington Post or the $78.4 billion by Forbes seems a pittance when put up against John D. Rockefeller's peak wealth of $318.3 billion (based on 2007 US dollar). According to your resident commissars over at MSNBC, "The median net worth of American households hasn't changed much over the past decades, it's about $20,000." So if Gates decided to purchase all the Beantown houses, whom would he pay for the bricks and mortar? Certainly, most Americans may think of "their home is their castle", but few actually own a debt free deed to their grand estate. No wonder the banks and financial institutions, are so fond of placing liens on real property.
The Japanese Debt Economy
May 13, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
What does the United States have in common with Japan's economy? Demographics of an aging population have consequences for both countries. As Japan News reports, National debt hits record high.
"Japan's national debt totaled a record-high ¥1.02 quadrillion as of the end of March, up ¥33.36 trillion from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said.
The central government debt, which increased ¥7.01 trillion from the end of December last year, kept rising mainly due to ballooning social security costs in line with the aging of the population."
Technology and the Future of Jobs
April 29, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
Quite a stir occurred with the academic presentation, How Technology Is Destroying Jobs, by Brynjolfsson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his collaborator and coauthor Andrew McAfee. Both "have been arguing for the last year and a half that impressive advances in computer technology—from improved industrial robotics to automated translation services—are largely behind the sluggish employment growth of the last 10 to 15 years. Even more ominous for workers, the MIT academics foresee dismal prospects for many types of jobs as these powerful new technologies are increasingly adopted not only in manufacturing, clerical, and retail work but in professions such as law, financial services, education, and medicine."
Underground Commerce is the Real Economy
April 1, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
As the deadline for filing yearly income taxes is rapidly approaching, businesses especially hard pressed to make a profit in a depressed economy struggle with their tax compliance. Reporting legitimate deductions and costs is the easy part. When you are losing money, disclosing a diminished income stream based upon lower margins, is not a difficult decision. Nevertheless, small enterprises burdened with government regulation costs and tax obligations, often are unable to conduct business and retain a net return. Self-proprietorships frequently are so scared that many look to the cash underground economy to hide income earnings.
Does a 100 Trillion Debt Total Matter?
March 11, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
Debt is everywhere but it just does not seem to matter. Thanks to the folks at Zero Hedge, you get the account Global Debt Crosses $100 Trillion, Rises By $30 Trillion Since 2007; $27 Trillion Is "Foreign-Held" – "Total global debt has exploded by 40% in just 6 short years from 2007 to 2013, from "only" $70 trillion to over $100 trillion as of mid-2013, according to the BIS' just-released quarterly review". They make this assessment:
Obamacare as a Jobs Killer
February 11, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
Economic illiteracy is a hallmark of most political policies. The prime example of this principle is the idiocy out of the Obama administration that maintains that the Affordable Care Act is favorable to job seekers. The ranks of progressive euphoria reporting on the joys of Obamacare want to spin the latest Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) analysis as favorable. As these imbeciles push out their demented dreams for a neo Great Society, the facts of trade and industry need to be buried in order to institute the total welfare state.
China Becomes Largest Trading Nation
January 14, 2014 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
The globalists put their plan into motion decades ago. The proper meaning of the headline is not that China is an economic miracle, but that the United States, systematically stripped of its industrial might, is destined to fall even further. The Chinese economy is a haven of direct transnational integration. The outsourcing of manufacturing from domestic capacity is not solely a response of cheaper economic cost of goods production. No, the underlying reason for the migration of product assemblage is to weaken an independent American economy.
The Business of the Christmas Season
December 23, 2013 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
Commercialism, long criticized, as a distortion of the true celebration of Christmas, has become a crucial profit component for the corporate economy. Very little observation about the religious nature of the holiday rises for reflection. Likewise, even less focus is devoted to the underlying reasons why holiday gifting has become a stable to the season. Heritage and tradition has given way to popular cultural advertisement. A disconnect between purchases of necessity and acquisitions of disposable novelties is the hallmark of the mad rush to buy needless objects.
Why Business Franchising is a Bad Deal
December 10, 2013 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
The most often cited reason to go into business is to make money. At least that is what you are supposed to believe. If that was the only motivation, there are many other options to turn a quick buck and avoid all the pit falls and responsibility of making a payroll. For the brave of heart and persistent of will, starting your own business is a dream come true. Therefore, at first look, it seems reasonable to follow a pattern of a proven winner, when the leap requires putting your entire net worth on the line. Franchising has the appeal of lessening the odds of failure, to the uninitiated.
Economics of Non-governmental Organizations
November 12, 2013 by SARTRE · Leave a Comment
What is the first thing that comes to mind when the term NGO appears? Well, many will respond, the United Nations. Directly from a UN site is their definition for Non-governmental organizations. How uplifting and benign the altruistic effort, the deep-seated purpose and intention of such associations, frequently projects that noble endeavors need to enhance the governance process. The term governance essentially is a loaded political concept that benefits a model of economic activity that requires a managed society as opposed to a free, independent and individualistic economy.


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Goli otok
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Goli otok (pronounced [ɡôliː ǒtok]; literal translation: barren island, Italian: Isola Calva) is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison in use when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia. The prison was in operation between 1949 and 1989. The island is located in the northern Adriatic Sea just off the coast of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia with an area of approximately 4 square kilometers (1.54 square miles).
Goli otok prison[edit]
Despite having long been an occasional grazing ground for local shepherds' flocks, the barren island was apparently never permanently settled other than during the 20th century. Throughout World War I, Austria-Hungary sent Russian prisoners of war from the Eastern Front to Goli otok.
In 1949, the entire island was officially made into a high-security, top secret prison and labor camp run by the authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, together with the nearby Sveti Grgur island, which held a similar camp for female prisoners. Until 1956, throughout the Informbiro period, it was used to incarcerate political prisoners. These included known and alleged Stalinists, but also other Communist Party of Yugoslavia members or even nonparty citizens accused of exhibiting sympathy or leanings towards the Soviet Union. Many anticommunist (Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Albanian and other nationalists etc.) were also incarcerated on Goli otok. Non-political prisoners were also sent to the island to serve out simple criminal sentences[1][2] and some of them were sentenced to death.[3] A total of approximately 16,000[4][5] political prisoners served there, of which between 400[4] and 600[6] died on the island.
The prison inmates were forced to labor (in a stone quarry, pottery and joinery), without regard to the weather conditions: in the summer the temperature would rise as high as 35 to 40 °C (95 to 104 °F), while in the winter they were subjected to the chilling bora wind and freezing temperatures. Inmates were also regularly beaten and humiliated either by guards or, predominantly, by other inmates.[7] Guards did not kill any inmate but they did not prevent inmates from killing each other either.[3]
After Yugoslavia normalized relations with the Soviet Union, Goli otok prison passed to the provincial jurisdiction of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (as opposed to the Yugoslav federal authorities). Regardless, the prison remained a taboo topic in Yugoslavia. Antonije Isaković wrote the novel Tren (Moment) about the prison in 1979, waiting until after Josip Broz's death in 1980 to release it. The book became an instant bestseller.[8]
The prison was shut down in 1988 and completely abandoned in 1989. Since then it has been left to ruin.[9] Today it is frequented by the occasional tourist on a boat trip and populated by shepherds from Rab. Former Croatian prisoners are organized into the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Goli otok.[10] In Serbia, they are organized into the Society of Goli otok.[11]
Notable prisoners[edit]
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- Adem Demaçi ‒ Kosovar-Albanian politician and author
- Šaban Bajramović ‒ Serbian Roma musician
- Panko Brashnarov ‒ Bulgarian and Macedonian politician
- Vlado Dapčević ‒ Montenegrin partisan
- Teki Dervishi ‒ Albanian writer
- Vlado Dijak ‒ Bosnian writer
- Alija Izetbegović ‒ former president of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Tine Logar ‒ Slovenian linguist
- Venko Markovski ‒ Bulgarian and Macedonian writer
- Dragoljub Mićunović ‒ Serbian partisan, sociologist, and politician
- Dragoslav Mihailović ‒ Serbian writer
- Alfred Pal – Croatian painter and graphic designer
- Dobroslav Paraga ‒ Croatian politician
- Igor Torkar – Slovenian writer
- Savo Zlatić ‒ Croatian physician and politician[12]
Goli otok in literature[edit]
- 1968: Kad su cvetale tikve ‒ fictional novel by Dragoslav Mihailović about 1950s political purges against Stalinists
- 1981: Noč do jutra ‒ fictional novel by Slovenian author, Branko Hofman
- 1984: Umiranje na obroke ‒ autobiographical book by Slovenian author, Igor Torkar, about Goli otok prison conditions
- 1984: Goli Otok: The Island of Death ‒ non-fiction book by Croatian author, Venko Markovski, detailing a history of Goli otok prison
- 1990: Martin Muma ‒ autobiographical book by Croatian poet/author, Ligio Zanini, about his imprisonment in Goli otok prison
- 1991: Čas, ki ga ni ‒ autobiographical book by Slovenian author, Radovan Hrast, about his imprisonment in Goli otok prison
- 1995: Sabbath's Theater ‒ fictional novel by author, Philip Roth
- 1997: Goli Otok: Italiani nel Gulag di Tito ‒ fictional novel by Italian-Croatian author, Giacomo Scotti[13]
- 1997: Tito's Hawaii ‒ fictional novel by Yugoslavian-born author, Rade Panic[14]
- 1997: Bando,sagni glavu ‒ autobiographical book by Goli otok prison survivor, Vilim Lončarić
- 2002: Brioni ‒ political essay by Slovenian author, Drago Jančar
- 2008: Blindly (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) ‒ fictional novel by Italian author, Claudio Magris
- 2004: Prigionieri del silenzio ‒ fictional novel by author, Giampaolo Pansa
- 2007: Island of the World ‒ fictional novel by author, Michael D. O'Brien, about one prisoner's time in Goli otok prison and his eventual escape
- 2012: Hela havet stormar (Opcop 2) - Fictive, detective story Jan Arnald. Large part of the story, goes on at, or is related to Goli Otok.
Goli otok in film/television[edit]
- 2007: Goli Otok ‒ documentary film directed by Darko Bavoljak[15]
- 2009: Die Geschichte der Gefängnisinsel Goli otok ‒ German-language documentary film with 8 former prisoners; produced/directed by Reinhard Grabher[16]
- 2013: Lost Survivors ‒ Travel Channel reality TV survival series episode entitled "Prison Island"[17]
- ^ Donja Klada » Goli otok
- ^ Višestruki ubojica s Golog otoka opet ubio - Jutarnji.hr
- ^ a b http://www.karlovacki-tjednik.hr/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=946&theme=Printer[dead link]
- ^ a b "Popis UDBA-e: Više od 16 tisuća zatočenih na Golom otoku, 413 mrtvih". ipress.hr (in Croatian). 8 January 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ Central Intelligence Agency (20 November 1970). "Yugoslavia: The Outworn Structure" (PDF). p. 13.
- ^ "Srbija nudi odštetu zatvorenicima na Golom otoku - devet dolara po danu". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). 25 July 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ Goli otok - zloglasna Titova kaznionica | Priča dana | DW.DE | 14.07.2009
- ^ Daniel J. Goulding, Liberated cinema: the Yugoslav experience, 1945-2001, Indiana University Press, 2002. (p. 159)
- ^ Goli otok website Quote: "This picture of a room for musicians was taken in 1990, in other words directly after Golis relinquishment."
- ^ Slobodna Dalmacija
- ^ Spomen žrtvama Golog otoka na Adi | Glas javnosti
- ^ Stipančević, Mario (April 2004). "Razgovor s dr. Savom Zlatićem" [Interview with Savo Zlatić, M.D.] (PDF). Arhivski vjesnik (in Croatian) (Zagreb: Croatian State Archives) (47): 119–132. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ scotti
- ^ Tito's Hawaii by Rade Panic
- ^ Darko Bavoljak
- ^ Goli otok Documentary in the Works
- ^ "Travel Channel's Lost Survivors episode, "Prison Island" partly filmed on Croati's Goli otok island". travelchannel.com. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
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- Comparative criminology | Europe - Yugoslavia
- Goli Otok: Hell in the Adriatic is the true story of Josip Zoretic's tragic experience and survival as a political prisoner of the former Yugoslavia's most notorious prison, Goli Otok, and the circumstances that led to his imprisonment[1]
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Okay peeps, this is Juri, many of you may remember her, some may not... here's her sheet...
Name: Juri Stargazer
Race: Human
Class: Thief/Psionic
Nature: Chaotic Neutral
Demeanor: Careless/independent
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 119
Hair: Dark Auburn
Eyes: Emerald green
Build: slender/lithe(very lithe)
Quote: "Half of being clever is making sure you're not being stupid"
History: Juri was born and raised (if you want to call it that) in the streets of Sanction. When her mother died, she refused to be sent to an orphanage, or to one of the labor camps that the Dark Knights ran. Instead she was taken in by one of the more prominent thieves in Sanction. She quickly surpassed him, and went about on her own, using her unusual gifts and a pet crow that she has had ever since she could remember.
Juri's past was uncovered when she met a woman of a ancient mage order, the order of Centauri. Fate's hand had joined these two women together and revealed that they were cousins. Ku'Yule revealed Juri for who she was, by means of a pendant that Juri wore. Once revealed, even Juri's pet underwent a sort of transformation. Going from black crow to white phoenix, the guardians of the Centauri order. Only prominent households of the order were lucky enough to receive a guardian Phoenix.
Character Insight/Song: Juri is my only thief character, she can be cocky, and enjoys taking advantage of stupid rich people, she's also had some bad luck concerning romantic relationships, and shuns such advances cruelly.
I haven't used her in a long time, and hoped to work on some sort of story...no real plot going on here as of yet, I figure we'd just work off of another, and just see where it gets us.
I'm in. Pyranthas will make an appearance, but I think I have another character in mind that I will post later on.
Name: Spear
Race: Drow
Class: Ninja
Nature: Chaotic Good
Demeanor: Careful/keeps his distances
Height: 5'
Weight: 90lbs
Hair: White
Eyes: Ghost Blue
Build: Muscular/slender
History: Spear is a drow who came to Krynn by unknown means. He arrived in Taladas about 10 years before the Cataclysm. He then managed to cross over to Ansalon and make it to Istar, where he was captured immediately and taken as a slave and brought to the games. There, he honed his ninja skills in battle, and became undefeated, until the fateful day when he met the young captured priest, Pyranthas Bronzeblade. During that fateful moment, he was placed under a spell of mind control and ordered to slay the elf. Pyranthas broke the spell and befriended him. He, Pyranthas, the Minotaur barbarian Mingaz, and the Dwarven warrior Davin all managed to escape the games and then meet up with the King Priest.
After their meeting, where they were all freed from their slavery, they all went their own ways. Spear headed South towards Neraka, where he eventually starts his own clan of ninjas and continually battling against Ogres. As Pyranthas had been doing the will of the King Priest and battling evil, Spear aged as Pyranthas semed to not. Realizing this, he set off on a quest to renew his youth, and eventually found an artifact that allowed him to stay young as long as it was in his posession.
Currently, the Ninja is in Palanthas on business, looking for something that had been stolen from a client. He is also traveling with his best friend, Pyranthas Bronzeblade, the High Priest of Habbakuk.
[Edited by Pyranthas on Thursday, November 9, 2006 1:04 AM]
this is one of the pics I have of Juri, actually it's the best pic I did for her... :D
Very nice Kalia.
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With an estimated 175 million people [as of 2013], Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation. It is also the United States' fifth largest oil supplier. Although Nigeria potentially could offer investors a low-cost labor pool, abundant natural resources, and the largest domestic market in sub-Saharan Africa, its economy remains stagnant, its market potential unrealized. The country suffers from collapsing infrastructure, possesses an inconsistent regulatory environment, and enjoys a well-deserved reputation for endemic crime and corruption. Following decades of misrule, Nigeria's transportation, communications, health and power public services are a mess. Once a breadbasket, Nigeria has witnessed a severe deterioration of its agricultural sector. Social, religious, and ethnic unrest, and a lack of effective due process, further complicate business ventures in Nigeria. Moreover, the government remains highly over-reliant on oil exports for its revenue and thus subject to the vagaries of the world price for petroleum. Investors must carefully research any business opportunity and avoid those opportunities that appear "too good to be true."
Nigeria has, over the past four decades, earned a reputation for corruption on a grand scale. Modest requests for dash early in the country's history grew by leaps and bounds, with the exploitation of centrally controlled oil resources from the 1960s onward, into truly massive transfers of public funds from government coffers to private accounts. The military by no means started the system-allegations of corruption figured heavily in the first ("January") coup in 1966-but men such as Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha certainly escalated the scale of corruption to astounding levels.
Public monies are viewed as open access goods; anyone who fails to grab as much as he can as fast as he can is a fool, stupidly stinting himself and his relatives and friends so that others may benefit. This concept has become entrenched in Nigerian thinking about public affairs. A latter-day Hausa political adage-In na gwamnati ne, ba na kowa ba ("If it belongs to the Government, it belongs to no one")-encapsulates the idea that public funds are fair game for anyone who can capture them. The majority of office holders at all levels of public secular government seemingly prefer to risk jail for embezzlement of public funds entrusted to their care rather than risk opprobrium in their home areas for failing to enrich themselves and their communities during their time at the public trough.
Nigeria experiences civil unrest, violence and strikes. The causes and locations vary. Locations where outbreaks of violence have occurred include the Lagos area, Southwestern Nigeria, the oil-producing states in the southeast, and Kaduna State. There has been an increase in the number of unauthorized automobile checkpoints. These checkpoints are operated by armed bands of police, soldiers, or bandits posing as or operating with police or soldiers. Many incidents, including murder, illustrate the increasing risks of road travel in Nigeria. Reports of threats against firms and foreign workers in the petroleum sector recur from time to time. Chadian troop incursions have occurred at the border area in the far northeast, near Lake Chad. Incidents also occur in the southeast in the disputed Bakassi Peninsula at the border area between Nigeria and Cameroon.
While General Sani Abacha ruled, the Government continued to suppress harshly demands for greater local autonomy by members of ethnic minorities in the oil-producing Niger River delta region, including the Ogoni minority. In June 1998 Abacha died and was succeeded by General Aboulsalami Abubakar, who launched a program intended to restore decentralized constitutional democracy in the form of a federal republic. After Abubakar consolidated his authority in the armed forces the largely ceased to use lethal force to repress nonviolent political activities. The Government acted to mitigate ethnic and regional discrimination and tensions by restoring a federal system of government with substantial local and regional autonomy.
President Jonathans term tenure since his April 2011 election has largely been defined by political, religious, and ethnic violence that affect Northern Nigeria and Abuja. Boko Haram (formally known as Jamatu Ahlis Sunna Liddaawati Wal-Jihad) has waged a terrorist campaign across a growing number of northern states, calling for the institution of Sharia law across Northern Nigeria. Such attacks have resulted in nearly three thousand deaths since 2009. Attacks on churches continued to catalyze religious and ethnic-based reprisals, resulting in death tolls often under-reported in the media. President Jonathans January 2012 appointment of Mohammed Abubakar, a northerner from Zamfara state, as the new Inspector General of Police and his June 2012 appointment of Colonel (retired) Sambo Dasuki, a former military officer from Sokoto state, as his new National Security Advisor brought fresh perspective to Government of Nigeria efforts to contain Boko Haram.
Attacks in Northern states and Abuja have become increasingly lethal and sophisticated. Boko Haram has targeted churches, mosques, government installations, educational institutions, and leisure sites with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and Suicide Vehicle-borne IEDS across nine Northern states and in Abuja. In 2011, Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a bombing at the National Police Force headquarters and a suicide car bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja. Due to challenging security dynamics in the North, the Mission has significantly limited official travel north of Abuja. Such trips occur only with security measures designed to mitigate the threats of car-bomb attacks and abductions.
Since 2010, Nigeria has deployed a Joint Task Force (JTF), comprised of military and police personnel, as part of Operation Restore Order to combat Boko Haram. Security force efforts to counter Boko Haram in Borno and Yobe States have elicited public allegations of the use of excessive force and human rights abuses against both innocent civilians and suspected Boko Haram members. In 2012, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch published reports noting the alleged commission of crimes against humanity by Boko Haram members and detailing credible instances of systematic human rights abuses committed by JTF forces. The Government of Nigeria has publicly denounced the reports as biased and based on unreliable witness accounts, while noting frequent, deadly attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram elements against innocent civilians.
During the year 2012 Joint Task Forces (JTFs), composed of elements of the military, police, and other security services, conducted raids on militant groups and criminal suspects in Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kano, Kaduna, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Sokoto, and Yobe states, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries to alleged criminals, militants, and civilians. According to credible eyewitness accounts, JTF members committed illegal killings during attempts to apprehend members of the extremist group Boko Haram in several states, including Borno, Kano, Kaduna, and Yobe states and surrounding areas. Local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international human rights groups, and political and traditional leaders from the affected states accused the security services of indiscriminate and extrajudicial killings, illegal detention, inhumane treatment of detainees, and torture during the year.
Political violence often erupts during Nigerian elections. Some candidates hire young people to engage in violent acts, including intimidation of their opponents supporters or of voters believed to support opponents. Violence can also occur during the polling process, with the theft of ballot boxes and clashes at or near polling stations. The murder of political opponents and the kidnapping of family members of political opponents have also taken place.
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The sentence comes after a jury in November convicted DeLay, a Houston-area Republican, on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering for using a political action committee to illegally send corporate donations to Texas House candidates in 2002.
Prosecutors said DeLay will likely be free for months or even years as his appeal makes it through the Texas court system.
Before being sentenced, DeLay repeated his longstanding claims that he did nothing wrong, the prosecution was politically motivated and that he never intended to break the law. DeLay was convicted in Travis County, one of the most Democratic counties in Texas, which is one of the most Republican states in the country.
"I can't be remorseful for something I don't think I did," DeLay said in a 10-minute speech to the judge.
DeLay told Senior Judge Pat Priest the "selective prosecution" he's gone through has deeply affected his wife's health, forced him to raise and spend $10 million in legal fees and cost him everything he has worked for — including the second-highest post in the U.S. House.
"This criminalization of politics is very dangerous. It's dangerous to our system. Just because somebody disagrees with you they got to put you in jail, bankrupt you, destroy your family," he said.
Priest sentenced him to the three-year term on the conspiracy charge. He also sentenced him to five years in prison on the money laundering charge but allowed DeLay to serve 10 years of probation instead of more prison time.
"I do not agree that the Travis County District Attorney's Office has picked on Tom DeLay to persecute," Priest said.
DeLay was briefly taken into custody, but Priest granted a request from his attorneys that he be released on a $10,000 bond pending appeal. About three hours after he was sentenced, DeLay posted bond and walked out of the county jail without talking to reporters.
DeLay's attorney Dick DeGuerin said he expected the conviction would be overturned.
"If I told you what I thought, I'd get sued," DeGuerin said. "This will not stand."
The former congressman had faced up to life in prison. His attorneys asked for probation.
"What we feel is that justice was served," lead prosecutor Gary Cobb said.
During his closing argument, Cobb told Priest that if DeLay received only probation, the ex-lawmaker would use such a sentence to make himself a martyr for his political beliefs and that he would "wear probation like Jesus on the cross."
"He put his principles, ideals and beliefs above the laws of Texas," Cobb said.
Priest issued his ruling after a brief sentencing hearing on Monday in which former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert testified on DeLay's behalf.
Prosecutors attempted to present only one witness at the hearing, Peter Cloeren, a Southeast Texas businessman who claimed DeLay had urged him in 1996 to evade campaign finance laws in a separate case. Prosecutors said the case was similar to the one DeLay was being sentenced for.
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