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My adult son bought a XMT 304 off local classifieds. Divorcee getting rid of stuff. XMT belonged to ex. He used it all the time, she said. Been sitting in storage over a year, she said. No way to try it at her location. You can bring it back if it doesn't work, she said. My son brings it to the shop. Plug it in. Lights come on, hear clicks and beeps, then a blinking HEL P7 code comes up. Download owners manual. We check wiring under the cover, OK. Our voltages OK. No output. Told son to return it to the lady. Story short, lady gone. Her crackhead son says FU it's yours. Lesson learned. Contacted Miller. "take to authorized service facility. Too much liability to tell you anything". OK, I can understand that in today's lawyer infested world. I'm not entirely stupid as to the inherent electrical hazards of this unit, but I can use a multimeter or change out a PC board without endangering myself. According to the operators manual, PC-1 main control board may be the problem. Serial # of machine is LF141807A. My question is this: would this machine be worth trying to repair or should we sell it as salvage and take the lumps. It is very clean in and out. My son has somewhat less than a thousand in it. He was trying to surprise me with this machine. Can't fault him for his good intentions. Hoping you Miller gurus might offer a ray of hope here.
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I am sure Dwayne or Cruizer will be by shortly. Here is some leisure reading in the mean time. http://www.millerwelds.com/resources...-xmt304-help-7
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Thanks Mr. Walker,
I'll give it a read.
Help 7 merely means that you output board caps can't maintain a proper charge and can't discharge, If you were to remove the cover, or the right side there are a couple large capacitors under that "output" board. Remove the 4 5/16" head cap bolts, pry the board back slightly, and with a ohm meter check the resistance. must be around the 18 K ohm mark. If not just order one or 2 from Dijikey. I remove the board then flame the old ones off, much easier that a soldering gun. and put the new ones on.
You can change them out with the 20K versions ohmite part# L25J20KE
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Mr. Cruizer,
Thank you for your advice. We will dig into it as per your suggestion on Monday. Will probably have questions as we go along if you don't mind our inquiries.
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Yep, I like inquires, and hopefully solve your problems in an effiecient manner


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Mark Thwaite: In your most recent book, A Reason For Everything, you talk about the different impact Darwinian thinking has had in Britain compared with the rest of Europe and the US. How do you account for this difference?
Marek Kohn: The distinguishing feature of English evolutionary thought has been its attitude to adaptation. An adaptationist tends to see the work of natural selection in every aspect of an organism - a reason for everything. You see bands on a snail's shell: you wonder what good the bands do for the snail. And you go out into the field, and you look for possible reasons for them. In the case of the snails there's a camouflage effect - different coloured or banded shells are better suited to different habitats, such as leaf litter or grass. Not the whole story but a robust example of English adaptationism in practice.
The palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould called this the British "hang-up", and his colleague the geneticist Richard Lewontin said that it arose in large part from the fascination for butterflies, snails, birds and gardens typical of the pre-war upper middle class from whose ranks these scientists mostly came. True enough, though it doesn't acknowledge the fascination with natural history that used to run right across the social spectrum. Also one can see its roots in Victorian natural history, which of course is where all this began. As Alfred Russel Wallace observed, it was a fascination with species and the subtle distinctions between them - beetle-collecting - that allowed him and Darwin to realise, independently, how natural selection works.
If by contrast your vision is shaped, as that of their counterparts on the continent was, by idealist philosophy, you are unlikely to see what is going on in nature. Idealism is concerned with ideal types and therefore discounts variation as 'noise'. You need to be fascinated by variation to see natural selection, because variations are what nature selects.
The British enthusiasm for natural history may also underlie differences in scientific practice. In France, by contrast, field biology never flourished because science was seen as a formal discipline that required the proper setting of the laboratory. So, we have a tradition of natural history and a tendency towards empiricism rather than idealism. Britain also had a more accommodating mainstream religious environment, which adjusted to evolution with relatively little difficulty. And in the 20th century the natural history was combined with mathematical analysis, demonstrating the power of natural selection.
MT: Are we in Britain therefore right to have been more receptive?
MK: The record of English evolutionary thought demonstrates conclusively that we are, in terms of biological knowledge and theory. But the social and ethical ideas of one or two of the thinkers I discussed also illustrate the disturbing results of an all-pervasive belief in natural selection.
MT: So you don't think this has had a negative impact on, say, more philosophical and/or postmodernist approaches to questions of human society and culture?
MK: Facing up to natural selection is an ongoing challenge. I think it's regrettable that it has developed into a kind of cold war between scholarly blocs.
MT: In your superb earlier book, As We Know It: Coming To Terms With An Evolved Mind, you said that we should "learn to stop worrying and love sociobiology", and that the discipline has "too much potential to be left to the sociobiologists". What did you mean? Can it really be safe to go back into the dangerous waters where Darwinism and the social sciences mix?
MK: We're evolved organisms and our nature is evolved too. We need to accept that in order to understand how individuals and groups behave. It's how I think about behaviour at the everyday level and on the broadest scale.
But sociobiologists for their part need to accept that the social sciences may have insights into how human societies and institutions work. Sociobiologists are endlessly and often justifiably indignant about the obfuscation with which their proposals are greeted from the other camp, but never seem to see any great problem in their own indifference to, or contempt for, any discipline outside the sciences. And most importantly, I think they should accept that their work is practiced in and influenced by its social context.
If Darwinism and the social sciences actually did mix, the waters would become a lot less dangerous. Though that's not to say that our evolved minds are how we'd like them to be.
MT: Why do you think that progressive thinkers have, in general, failed to take this more positive approach to sociobiology?
MK: People want to believe that humans are different. They want to believe that there is a separate domain, outside biology, for understanding humans. And they have also grown up, since World War 2, with a deep-rooted sense that applying biology to people is evil. We have thus arrived at a post-war settlement that established separate spheres of influence for science and other fields of scholarship. Much of what's going on is turf wars.
MT: But aren't there limits to Darwinism? Do you agree with your friend Kenan Malik that there are some things science just cannot tell us about human nature?
MK: I don't think there's a line beyond which Darwinism has nothing to say. In any given question I would always, I think, see Darwinian processes at work, but these are best at explaining general effects. They may not be much use for understanding individual cases or subjective experience, although they may well be a necessary perspective on these.
I suspect that in practice the limits of Darwinism may be set by the willingness of its practitioners to synthesise their insights with those of other forms of understanding. I mean, you could go through novels showing how characters illustrate evolved psychological patterns of behaviour, but that would be a pretty banal exercise on its own.
MT: Do we really have "stone age minds", as evolutionary psychology suggests?
MK: I'd like to think so, in one respect. Among other things, the idea of a 'stone age mind' is a device that addresses perhaps the biggest historical obstacle to human sociobiology: the discrediting of the assumption that different population groups - races - vary in evolved mental capacities. If you imply that the mind stopped evolving in the stone age, you head off suggestions that different mental capacities evolved in the different groups that differentiated in the last 10,000 years or so.
Evolutionary psychology (which is a particular form of sociobiology) has been distinguished by its emphasis on human universals, but it is next door to the hereditarians who are concerned with differences in mental capacities. It seems to me that the distinction between the two approaches is being removed.
MT: In A Reason For Everything, you make the intriguing point, outlined above, that the best evolutionary thinkers have been those who 'got their hands dirty' in the field. These scientists were less likely to get carried away with abstract theory and more likely to stumble upon the truth because they had their feet on the ground in the practical work of the real world. This sounds like a very Marxist argument! Would you call yourself a 'Marxist' or 'socialist'?
MK: The point I was making there was that field biology - going out and studying organisms in the field, rather than in the laboratory - was a fundamental and distinguishing element in the British approach to the study of evolution. As it happens, the one prominent Marxist in the series I wrote about, J.B.S. Haldane, made his contributions through mathematical calculations and wasn't a natural historian. On the other hand he was spectacularly practical, exposing himself to poison gas and potentially lethal extremes of cold and pressure in studies related to trench and submarine warfare. I'm certainly not a Marxist. I have the 'All that is solid melts into air ...' quote from the Communist Manifesto on the wall above my desk, but that's about it.
I do, however, call myself a socialist. For a long time I wondered whether that meant anything more than a nostalgic wave in the direction of what I believed in when I was a student, but since I became aware of the work of Richard Wilkinson and others on the effects of social relations on health, I have recovered my confidence in the term.
For me it involves the understanding that broadly equal social relations are good for health and that unequal ones are harmful. This can be measured right across the scale of severity, in deaths from heart disease to rates of cold infections; it relates to broader measures of individual and social well-being, such as a sense of trust in others.
The implication is that we need to reassert the importance of equality and rediscover the fundamental value of social solidarity. It implies examining how these human needs can be reconciled with the need to produce wealth efficiently. It means recognising how the need for social solidarity is expressed in contemporary political forms. And it means prising these values from the dead hand of Bolshevism.
MT: Who is Richard Wilkinson?
MK: He's a professor of social epidemiology at Nottingham University. His work looks at the body of evidence that inequality is harmful to health in itself, not just because it implies different levels of wealth or resources. The classic findings are in the 'Whitehall studies', conducted by Michael Marmot and his colleagues in London. They found that the lowest ranking civil servants were several times more likely to die of heart disease than those in the highest grades. The usual suspect lifestyle factors such as smoking accounted for only about a third of the risk, so the lowest grades appeared to be about three times likelier to die of heart disease because of their position in the hierarchy.
The mechanism researchers like these favour is that the damage results from being in a chronic (that is, long-term) fight-or-flight mode. When an animal, human or otherwise, comes under threat, it will go into an emergency mode in which resources are diverted from activities such as bodily maintenance and immune defence, into escape or combat mechanisms. Staying in emergency mode incurs the costs of neglecting the activities that have been inhibited. Being subordinate - always under a kind of threat, and limited in options - is thought to induce this chronic state of emergency.
Control over one's job seems to be a key factor here, so the most obvious things to do involves restructuring work to increase job control. But that's just the start. This really is a transformative way of looking at what's wrong with affluent societies. It also suggests that what is good for the poor is good for those who are materially comfortable too: that globally the interests of the genuinely impoverished can be aligned with those of the majority of people in developed market democracies, and that within the latter, it should be possible to build coalitions that unite populations in the pursuit of truly healthy societies.
MT: You say you're not a Marxist. Does that mean that, in your view, the "dialectical biology" of people like Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin is wrong? Can there be such a thing as dialectical biology? Could it properly be called science?
MK: John Maynard Smith, the other one of my subjects who went through a Marxist phase, studied genetics and came to realise there was "something deeply undialectical' about genes. He was taught that 'genes control development', which irked him: as a dialectical thinker, he thought that development should influence genes in turn. But John Maynard Smith had to accept that nature doesn't care whether it is dialectical or not. Where it is, then biology might be dialectical; everywhere else the approach would be metaphysics, not science.
MT: What philosophers of science inform your work, if any?
MK: I generally just ask myself "What would John Maynard Smith have said?"
MT: And what about books generally: what are your favourite books? Do you read widely outside of science?
MK: Of course: I'm a writer, not a scientist. But not as widely as I should. If it's obscure, fictional and central European, it's for me! Mostly this places me somewhere between the wars, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire (the collected works of Joseph Roth) but I was delighted to find that this lost world of Central Europe between the wars can be represented by a writer (Pawel Huelle's Mercedes Benz) facing the future and contemplating what actually-existing, market-democratic freedom actually means. The story is set in Poland not long after the transition to market democracy and revolves around the narrator's efforts to learn to drive. There's a wonderful opening scene where he gets into an uncomfortable position between a tram and a lorry, and with the drivers bearing down on him turns to his instructor and tells her about a dramatic motoring incident that happened to his grandmother in 1925. So he's trying to make progress, to modernize, but he still needs to call upon the past. Although driving is the archetypal capitalist freedom, in practice it entails submission to endless constraints, and history is not the same as progress. Besides its metaphorical strength, the theme of driving provides a highly effective means to reflect on the past without sinking into nostalgia. (See Marek's review of Mercedes Benz.)
Favourite quote: the first sentence of Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, which might well be the desert island book choice too. The quote is: "Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starr'd the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,-- the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stocking'd-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie-Spices, peel'd Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,-- the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coax'd and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy December, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults."
MT: Anything else you'd like to say?
MK: I have to pause for breath here but there's plenty more on my website including a number of articles that explore and perhaps clarify themes I've alluded to here.
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As pirates continue to prey on ships off the Somali coast, Singapore and the International Chamber of Shipping are calling for "the employment of private armed security service providers onboard ships to counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the Western Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea." Their proposal will go before the International Maritime Organization in early May 2011.
The ongoing piracy crisis off the Somali coast has been impacting the B.C. shipping business causing disruption to its routes and a sharp rise in costs. "Effectively, the Suez Canal, one of the world's busiest and most profitable marine routes, is off limits to us," said Samuel Tang, vice-president, chartering and operations for Fairmont Shipping (Canada) Ltd. to the Vancouver Sun. "The incidences of piracy are just too great. Piracy has forced us to decline certain charter contracts, it forces us to take longer, less-profitable routes and it's costing us revenue every day."
Other members of B.C.'s shipping community agree that the piracy situation is dire and argue governments could be doing more. "Piracy is claiming innocent lives and threatening global trade every day. I don't think governments are aware just how bad it has become," said Stephen Brown , president of the Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia. "Right now, more than 720 sailors are being held hostage on 34 ships in the Indian Ocean. It's a staggering situation and it's costing global economies up to $12 billion a year."
Fairmont Shipping has also joined a campaign putting pressure on governments to take a firmer stance against piracy. SOS Save Our Seafarers is spearheaded by the International Transport Worker's Federation, the Baltic and International Maritime Council, and the International Chamber of Shipping.


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Are the Pakistan Taliban charting an independent course?
For some weeks now there have been persistent reports about Taliban leader Mullah Omar, asking fighters in the Pakistani Taliban to stop carrying out attacks there and instead focus on Afghanistan where Western forces are being bolstered.
The reclusive one-eyed leader had in December sent emissaries to ask leaders of the Pakistani Taliban to settle their differences, scale down activities in Pakistan and help mount a spring offensive against the build-up of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a report in the New York Times said as recently as last week.
But the attacks haven't stopped. If anything they have become even more brazen, with the Sri Lankan cricket team attacked in Lahore earlier this month and then Monday's rampage through a police academy, again in Lahore. Between these two major attacks, there has a been suicide bombing in a mosque in the northwest near the Afghan border, a car bombing outside Peshawar and a blast in Rawalpindi, turning March into one of the bloodiest months in recent times.
And on Tuesday, Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, in a rather rare move, claimed responsibiity for the storming of the police training centre in Lahore, destroying whatever was left of Mullah Omar's reported calls for cooling off in Pakistan.
Is Mehsud going off-message ? Or is he setting another course?
Mehsud told a Reuters reporter that the attack on the police academy was to avenge U.S. missile strikes by unmanned aircraft. These Predator drone raids have been focused on the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) including South Waziristan, his base. According to U.S. army officials these attacks have taken a toll, accounting for a significant number of senior al Qaeda figures.
Mehsud has threatened more attacks, including in Washington which last week announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his location or arrest. So what really is behind the stepped up attacks inside Pakistan? Are the Pakistani Taliban, an off-spring of the Afghan Taliban, falling instead into an ever deeper thrall of al Qaeda?
By most assessments, Al Qaeda is encouraging a Taliban insurgency in Pakistani tribal lands bordering Afghanistan, and seeking to destabilise the Muslim nation of 170 million people. But these attacks have taken place in Lahore deep in Punjab, which is really the heart of the Pakistani establishment.
And they come just as U.S. President Barack Obama has made Pakistan the central front in his war on Islamist militancy in the region, prompting some to wonder if the militants' game plan is to draw the U.S. deeper into Pakistan.
Monday's attack in the Punjab capital should prompt concern about the internal stability of Pakistan, writes Nathan Hodge in Danger Room, pointing out it came less than a month after the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked in the same city.
"While Pakistani forces marked the recapture of the facility with celebratory gunfire, a serious question looms: Could the United States become more directly embroiled in Pakistan's internal affairs?"
Obama told an interviewer over the weekend that there were no plans to deploy combat troops inside Pakistan in the hunt for al Qaeda.
U.S. strategy in Pakistan is supposed to centre on a significant boost in civilian aid, along with continued military assistance and the occasional U.S. drone attack. "But when you say you're going after al Qaeda and its allies in the region, you are potentially expanding the roster of militant groups on the "to do" list," Hodge says.
[Photos of police with a suspected militant involved in Lahore police centre attack and an Afghan refugee protester outside a conference on Afghanistan at The Hague]


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There are reports Juventus are preparing a swoop for Chelsea captain John Terry if he doesn't renew his contract.
The veteran defender's current deal expires at the end of the season and so far negotiations have not progressed far.
According to Swiss media Infoticker and Italy's calcionews24, Juve are lying in wait and hoping to snatch him up on a Bosman.
The Bianconeri have specialised in such shrewd transfer tactics recently, picking up Andrea Pirlo, Paul Pogba and Fernando Llorente for free.
However, they aren't the only contenders should Terry walk away from Chelsea, as Roberto Mancini's Galatasaray are also thought to be interested.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Ive gone off on bad fans before. And Ill go off on bad fans again, because these people never cease to amaze me as to how low they can put the bar on what would pass for the human condition.
You have angry Braves fans pitching beer cans onto the field after the infield fly rule call went against them in this years National League Wild Card play-in game. Awful.
Then there were the angry Georgia Bulldogs fans egging football players homes because of their lousy showing against South Carolina in last Saturdays 35-7 loss. Worse than awful.
Lets not forget a faction of Berkeley Stags football fans either, who live by the creed, Win or fire the coach. I read the posts and comments with a train wreck curiosity.
I have to ask, is winning so important that when you lose you go on this pitchfork and torch rant to run the coach out of town on a rail? Theres got to be more to your life than football.
I love sports. I hate losing as much as the next guy. I am competitive to a fault.
But when fans cross the line you just want to shake your head and wonder, who let them in the front gate anyway?
So, irate Georgia fans went off on Bulldogs quarterback Aaron Murray after the Gamecocks drubbing last week and egged his house. Word has since come out of Athens that during the days leading up to the game, Murray had been living with the news that his father had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
There was a reason why he seemed distracted. His dad was sick.
Thick skulled Bulldog fans arent the exception, either. Pick any SEC school and youll find their cousins.
If you fly more than one flag on your car showing your support for your favorite college or pro team, or if you call yourself anythings Number One Fan, theres a problem here.
Life is more important than football, and Aaron Murray found himself in the middle of a real life situation last week involving his dad. Im sure there are a couple of you thinking, Well, he shouldnt have played, and feel justified in your opinion.
Murray played because hes an athlete.
Just like the New York Giants Victor Cruz played and honored his grandmother a few days after her passing earlier this year, and the Baltimore Ravens Torrey Smith, who played only hours after his brother's death when he caught two TD passes in a win over the New England Patriots.
These guys are grown men, and this is their job, and their job is a childs game. It doesnt take courage to catch a touchdown pass. And theyll be the first to tell you that.
I remember when former Tennessee coach Lane Kiffen bolted Knoxville for Los Angeles to coach Southern Cal. I remember watching a You Tube video of an irate Volunteers fan burning Lane Kiffen memorabilia in effigy, then relieving himself on the burning pyre.
ning pyre.
After coughing one up to LSU and with Florida and Tennessee waiting in the wings, Im waiting to see what Gamecocks fans do.
I hope Gamecocks fans show some class.
Just remember Aaron Murray. Aaron Murray is just a kid. A talented kid, but hes still just a kid.
These Berkeley Stag football players are just kids, too. And they lost a classmate this week. This is just a game, remember?
Sometimes fans forget that.
So cut them a little slack, okay?
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Multiple reports are stating that Joe Banner is part of this group. Bad news Fore as he is quite familiar with one Thomas Heckert and how good he is at his job as he was the president of the last team Heckert built. The only person in jeopardy, and only if Banner wants to go back to the position of president of the team, is Holmgren. Banner functioned as a special strategic advisor to the owner in Philly and they still had a team president that took over for him and he just may remain in that role here. This new ownership group has been with the Steelers for some time now and have probably learned the value of stability within an organization. Long story short, I don't anticipate any major overhauls taking place.
An outright sale of the team and someone buying a minority interest are two very different things. If you want to call that a lie so be it. I call that petty.
Nor, I think you have the wrong guy. This is Jimmy Haslem the 3rd, his son, who is not much different than Randy as he is currently running a company his father built.
BREAKING NEW: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/27/lerner-admits-that-buyer-wants-to-make-investment-in-browns/
At least a portion of the Browns up for sale.
Ray.. profootballweekly is a site and a draft book I know you buy so I am unsure as to why you would claim Osemele was rated higher than Schwartz. Nawrocki rated Schwartz 3rd behind Kalil and Reiff and Osemele 9th. Schwartz was graded as a 2nd rounder and Osemele as a 4th rounder.
The Ravens offensive line is having issues
This seems really, really important to you.. LOL.. I am getting a big kick out of it. 3-1 still equals 2. When you get to move up 4 spots in the NFL draft, it's not a cost.
The player represents pick 2. it's the same thing.. you can try to turn it around as many times as you want.. the fact is, it's a benefit to move up 4 spots. The trade for the player wouldn't have occured unless the player selected was the same player they would have selected with the swap. It's the same thing.. the two picks cancel each other out. The team that made out in the deal had to pay for the BENEFIT. They did so with 2nd rounder in 2012 and 1st rounder in 2013 and 2014. It's very simple.
Again, you just swapped a 2nd pick for a 6th pick. BENEFIT to the team that got the player selected with pick 2.
And I suggest you brush up on those math skills. 3-1=2
One of those 3 was swapped. pick 6 and pick 2 cancel each other out.. 1-1=0. Very small numbers, should be easy to comprehend. After the swap is where the cost comes in. The cost was a 2nd rounder in 2012 and a first rounder in 2013 and 2014. So simple. Don't overthink it.
This is the point I am trying to make Ira. He is focused on the amount of picks, and not looking at what the true cost was. Moving up 4 spots is not a cost or sacrifice. Pick 6 and pick 2 were swapped. They cancel each other out. The picks that follow are the true cost. Every GM in football would move up 4 spots if they could do it at no cost.
So to recap.. The Redskins swapped pick 6 for pick 2 which is a HUGE BENEFIT, not a cost. They did not give up their 6th pick, they still picked it, only 4 slots earlier. The picks they gave up for nothing ( the cost) was the 2nd rounder this year, the first in 2013 and 2014. The answer is NO! It's just not logical to look at moving up 4 spots as a cost. If the trade ended there, a 6th for a 2nd, not one person in the world would say it cost them the 6th pick to get the 2nd pick.. It would be celebrated as a huge benefit. Every GM in the league would gladly move up 4 spots. I guarantee you the Redskins did not view their 6th pick as a cost in the trade. They would be glad to make that trade every year.
This seems very important to you. LOL..
I think 7-9 wins is a reasonable expectation Ed. Tell Eric we still don't miss him Mrs Mangini.
I think it's pretty obvious I am a believer in this front office and coaching staff. I have to say this is just plain silly. Just name Weeden the starter already and quit the games. Let him develop the timing with his receivers from day one. Go Browns.
It's not a cost to pick earlier. The Browns still got their 4th pick, they just picked it one pick sooner. The Redskins didn't lose their 6th pick, they just selected it 4 spots sooner. What they did lose (the cost) is a 2nd rounder in 2012, a 1st in 2013 and 2014. The way you look at it is if the Browns had traded with the Vikings and no further picks were involved would you be saying that Richardson cost our 4th pick? Of course you wouldn't! You would think what a great deal that was because you would know that was a bargain, not a cost. The cost was the picks after the swap. It really is a very simple concept.
There is no spin to put on it. It's very simple. If Weeden is any good.. we should get a good 8-10 years out of him. This is good right? I used an example of a QB that backs up this claim. You apparently don't see it. Still waiting for an explanation as to how it is the Browns started out with two first round picks last year, gave up a pick and still ended up with 2 picks.. must be new math.
LOL.. what is the agenda? It's a very simple concept and MM put it in very simple terms. Thanks for trying MM. It didn't work.


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Moro insurgency in the Philippines
|Moro insurgency in the Philippines
|Part of the Cold War, the War on Terror, and
the Civil conflict in the Philippines
Above: Filipino and US Troops during the PMC Balikatan Exercise
Below: A member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front training with a light machine gun.
Supported by:
Moro National Liberation Front[8]
Former support:
Egypt (to MILF)[7]
Libya (to MNLF)[11][12][13][14]
Malaysia (to MNLF and MILF)[15][16]
Rajah Sulaiman Movement
Other MILF rogue factions
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[19]
Supported by:
14K Triad (to ASG)[23][24]
|Commanders and leaders
| Ferdinand Marcos (1969–1986)
Corazon Aquino (1986–1992)
Fidel V. Ramos (1992–1998)
Joseph Estrada (1998–2001)
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2001–2010)
Benigno Aquino III (2010–present)
| Nur Misuari
Habier Malik
Muslimin Sema
Habib Mujahab Hashim
Abul Khayr Alonto
Murad Ebrahim
Hashim Salamat
Khadaffy Janjalani †
Isnilon Totoni Hapilon [20][25]
|125,000 soldiers[26](2012)
|Casualties and losses
|Casualties for Operation Enduring Freedom: 2002–2010: 572 Filipino soldiers[28]
18 American soldiers[29]
(since 2002)
|Total killed: 160,000
The Moro Insurgency in the Philippines is an ongoing insurgency in the predominantly-Muslim Southern Philippines. In 1969, political tensions and open hostilities developed between the Government of the Philippines and Moro Muslim rebel groups.[30] The Moro Insurgency was triggered by the Jabidah massacre, which saw the killing of 60 Filipino Muslim commandos who were to be used for a planned operation to reclaim the eastern part of the Malaysian state of Sabah. In response, the University of the Philippines professor Nur Misuari established the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), an armed insurgent group that was committed to establishing an independent Mindanao. Over the successive years, the MNLF splintered into several different groups including the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which wanted to establish an Islamic state within the Philippines. The Moro Insurgency is rooted in a long history of resistance by the Bangsamoro people against foreign rule, dating back to the American annexation of the Philippines in 1899. Since then, Moro resistance has persisted against the Philippines central government in Manila.
Casualty statistics vary for the conflict; however, the conservative estimates of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program indicate that at least 6,015 people were killed in armed conflict between the Government of Philippines and ASG, BIFM, MILF, and MNLF factions between 1989 and 2012.[31]
The Moros had a history of resistance against Spanish, American, and Japanese rule for 400 years. The origin of the war between the Moros and Filipinos started during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. During the Spanish–Moro conflict, Spain repeatedly tried to conquer the Moro Sultanate of Sulu, Sultanate of Maguindanao, and the Confederation of sultanates in Lanao. The violent armed struggle against the Japanese, Filipinos, Spanish, and Americans is considered by current Moro Muslim leaders as part of the four centuries long "national liberation movement" of the Bangsamoro (Moro Nation).[32] The 400-year-long resistance against the Japanese, Americans, and Spanish by the Moro Muslims persisted and morphed into their current war for independence against the Philippine state.[33]
Following the Spanish–American War in 1898, another conflict sparked in southern Philippines between the revolutionary Muslims in the Philippines and the United States Military that took place between 1899 and 1913. Filipinos opposed foreign rule from the United States that claimed the Philippines as their territory. On August 14, 1898, after defeating Spanish forces, the United States had established a military government in the Philippines under General Wesley Merritt as Military Governor.[34] American forces took control from the Spanish government in Jolo on May 18, 1899, and at Zamboanga in December 1899.[35] Brigadier General John C. Bates was sent to negotiate a treaty with the Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram II. Kiram was disappointed knowing that the American forces would take over since he expected to regain sovereignty after the defeat of Spanish forces in the archipelago. Bates' main goal was to guarantee Moro neutrality in the Philippine–American War, and to establish order in the southern Philippines. After some negotiation, the Bates Treaty was signed which was based on an earlier Spanish treaty.[36] The Bates Treaty did ensure the neutrality of the Muslims in the south but it was actually set up to buy time for the Americans until the war in the north ended.[citation needed]
On March 20, 1900, General Bates was replaced by Brigadier General William August Kobbé and the District of Mindanao-Jolo was upgraded to a full department. American forces in Mindanao were reinforced and hostilities with the Moro people lessened although there are reports of Americans and other civilians being attacked and slain by Moros.
Insurrection began in 1900 and ended at the term of Major General John J. Pershing, the third and final military governor of Moro Province, although major resistance continued in Bud Dajo and Mount Bagsak in Jolo. The Americans slaughtered hundreds of Moro women and children in the Moro Crater massacre.
Repeated rebellions by the Moros against American rule continued to break out even after the main Moro Rebellion ended, right up to the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, the Moros waged an insurgency against the Japanese on Mindanao and Sulu until the Japanese were defeated and driven out.[37]
Marcos (1969–1986)[edit]
Under President Ferdinand Marcos, 68 Filipino Muslim military trainees were murdered in Corregidor allegedly by soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.[38][39] The trainees were believed to be a part of an upcoming rebellion.[39] By then, University of the Philippines professor Nur Misuari formed the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) to condemn the killings of the 68 Filipino Muslims and to seek the establishment of a Bangsamoro nation through force of arms.[39]
Mindanao, the home of the Moro Muslims, is rich in natural resources and minerals. The American colonial government and subsequently the Philippine government followed a policy of demographic swamping by settling massive amounts of Filipino Christian settlers from the Visayan islands and Luzon onto Moro Muslim lands in Mindanao. The policy resulted in a massive wave of Filipino Christians settling on Mindanao where the population of Filipino Christian settlers now outnumbers the native Moro Muslims by the millions. This was an additional factor in aggravating conflicts between the native Moro Muslims and Filipino Christian settlers as disputes over land increased. Another complaint of the Moros is the extraction of Mindanao's natural resources and wealth by the central government while the Moro population live in mass poverty.
In 1969, the MNLF waged armed conflict against the Philippine government.[39] During one of the fierce battles of the insurgency in 1974, Jolo was burned down and news of the tragedy galvanized other Muslims around the world to pay greater attention to the conflict. Over 10,000 Moro and Chinese civilians were killed by the Philippine Armed Forces when they burned Jolo to the ground. Two years later, the Philippine government and the MNLF signed the Tripoli Agreement, declaring ceasefire on both sides. Within the agreement provided that Mindanao would remain a part of the Philippines but 13 of its provinces would be under the autonomous government for the Bangsamoro people.[39] President Marcos went against the agreement and violence ensued.
The Philippine government encouraged Filipino Christian settlers in Mindanao to form militias called Ilaga to fight the Moros. The Ilaga engaged in massacres and atrocities and were responsible for Manili massacre of 65 Moro Muslim civilians in a Mosque on June 1971, including women and children. The Ilaga also engaged in cannibalism, cutting off the body parts of their victims to eat in rituals.[40]
Other massacres committed by the Philippine armed forces against Moro civilians include the November 1971 Tacub massacre, 1974 Malisbong massacre, October 1977 Patikul massacre, February 1981 Pata Island massacre.[41][42][43][44][45][46]
On September 24, 1974, in the Malisbong massacre the Armed Forces of the Philippines slaughtered 1,766 Moro Muslim civilians who were praying at a Mosque in addition to mass raping Moro girls who had been taken aboard a boat.
In 1977, Shiekh Salamat Hashim established the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a splinter group of the MNLF seeking to establish an Islamic state.[47] Conflicts between these rebel groups and the Armed Forces of the Philippines would continue until the end of the regime of President Marcos.
C. Aquino and Ramos (1986–1998)[edit]
Earlier in her term, President Corazon Aquino arranged a meeting with MNLF chairman Nur Misuari and several MNLF rebel groups in Sulu, which paved the way for a series of negotiations. In 1989, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was created under Republic Act No. 6734 or the ARMM Organic Act, pursuant to the 1987 Constitution.[48]
In 1991, Abdurajak Janjalani, a former teacher who studied Islam in the Middle East, formed the Abu Sayyaf Group after reportedly meeting Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Janjalani recruited former members of the MNLF for the more radical and theocratic Abu Sayyaf.[39]
Under the Presidency of Fidel V. Ramos, several negotiations and peace talks[30] were held and the ARMM was solidified and was to have its own geopolitical system.[39]
The North Cotabato conflict (2000)[edit]
1000 MILF rebels under the command of Umbra Kato have seized control of thirty five villages in the North Cotabato province. 2000 Philippine troops with helicopters and artillery were sent in to the seized area on August 9 to liberate it from the rebels. The MILF had wanted North Cotabato to be included in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. The government and MILF had been negotiating for the inclusion of the province in the Muslim Autonomous Region but the Supreme Court had struck down the proposal after hearing concern from local Christian leaders in the region.
The rebel troops were ordered to leave the area by their commanders but the contingents under Kato refused to leave the villages they had occupied and instead dug in. The Philippine Army responded on August 9 by bombarding them. The next day, the government forces moved to retake the villages recapturing two of them from the rebels.[49][50]
Estrada and Arroyo (1998–2010)[edit]
During his term President Joseph Ejercito Estrada he declared an "all-out war" against the MILF on March 21, 2000 although a series of negotiations for cessation of hostilities were held.[47] Apparently, several conflicts in and around Mindanao erupted and clashes between the Philippine Military and the rebel groups resulted in massive loss of lives.
During his term, these rebel groups kidnapped three Italian priests, two were later released and one was shot dead;[51][52] seized the municipal hall of Talayan, Maguindanao and Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte; the bombing of the ferry Our Lady of Mediatrix at Ozamiz; and the takeover of Narciso Ramos Highway. All these incidents resulted in massive loss of investments abroad, especially in the area of Mindanao.
As a result, the Armed Forces of the Philippines launched a successful campaign against these rebel groups and 43 minor camps, 13 major camps including the MILF headquarters, and Camp Abubakar[53] fell. MILF suffered heavy losses and the head of MILF, Sheikh Salamat Hashim, fled the country and sought refuge in Malaysia. On October 5, 2000, 609 rebels surrendered in Cagayan de Oro, along with renegade town mayor Mulapandi Cosain Sarip.[54] These was followed by another massive surrender of 855 rebels on December 29, 2000. President Joseph Ejercito Estrada then ordered that the Philippine flag be raised in Mindanao which symbolized victory. It was raised on July 9, 2000 near a Madh'hab and again the next day along with President Joseph Ejercito Estrada, which held a feast inside a classroom just meters away from a mosque.[53]
As a result, several Islamic rebel groups retaliated, bombing several key locations within the National Capital Region on December 30, 2000. It resulted in 22 deaths and hundreds of people injured. Saifullah Yunos, one of the perpetrators was arrested in Cagayan de Oro as he was about to board a plane bound to Manila in May 2003.[55] In 2004, two members of the Jemaah Islamiyah were arrested, namely Mamasao Naga and Abdul Pata as they were identified by Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi as responsible for the train bombing.[56] al-Ghozi was also arrested, but was later killed in a firefight when he tried to escape the prison on October 13, 2003.
On May 27, 2001, the Abu Sayyaf seized twenty hostages from an upscale resort in Palawan. Four of the hostages managed to escape.[57] The kidnapping group composed of 40 gunmen then seized the Dr. Jose Torres Memorial Hospital and St. Peter's Church compound in the town of Lamitan in Basilan[58] and claimed to have taken captive 200 people although 20 people were confirmed to be taken captive inside the hospital, including the staff and the patients.[59][60]
There was a crossfire between the Army and the Abu Sayyaf rebels in Lamitan following the takeover of Dr. Jose Torres Memorial Hospital which resulted in the deaths of 12 soldiers, including the army captain.[60] Up to 22 soldiers were reportedly to have been killed in an effort to rescue the hostages.
Five more captives escaped during the battle at Lamitan. Two of the captives were killed prior to the siege in Lamitan, including the beheading of one.[57] The Abu Sayyaf then conducted series of raids, including one at a coconut plantation[61] where the rebel groups hacked the heads of two men using bolo knives. The owners and a security guard was also held captive and the rebel groups burnt down two buildings, including a chapel a week after the battle in Lamitan.[61] Another raid was conducted in August 2, 2001 on Barangay Balobo in Lamitan, Basilan. After three days, the Philippine Army rescued numerous hostages[62] after they overtook the hideout of the militants where 11 bodies were found beheaded.[63] Other hostages were either released or had escaped.[62]
On June 13, 2001, the number of hostages was calculated at around 28 as three more people were found beheaded in Basilan,[64] including that of Guillermo Sobero.[65] They were beheaded since the Philippine Army would not halt the rescue operation.[65]
The Burhams were still on the group of 14 still held captive according to three hostages who escaped on October 2001.[65] On June 7, 2002, after a year of being held captive, a rescue mission was conducted and resulted in the deaths of Martin Burnham and a nurse named Ediborah Yap[66] after being caught in the crossfire. Martin was killed by three gunshots in the chest while Gracia was wounded in her right leg. By this time Nur Misuari ordered his supporters to attack government targets to prevent the holding of elections on ARMM on November 2001, ushering his exit as the governor of the region.[39] Misuari would be later arrested in 2007 in Malaysia and was deported back to the Philippines for trial.[39]
On July 2004, Gracia Burnham testified at a trial of eight Abu Sayyaf members and identified six of the suspects as being her erstwhile captors, including Alhamzer Limbong, Abdul Azan Diamla, Abu Khari Moctar, Bas Ishmael, Alzen Jandul and Dazid Baize. Fourteen Abu Sayyaf members were sentenced to life imprisonment while four were acquitted. Alhamzer Limbong was later killed in a prison uprising.[67]
These rebel groups, especially the Abu Sayyaf conducted several terror attacks, namely the bombings at Zamboanga in October 2002; the bombing of SuperFerry 14 on February 2004; the simultaneous bombings in Central Mindanao on October 2006; the beheadings of several Philippine Marines on July 2007; the Batasang Pambansa bombing on November 2007; and the 2009 bombings in Mindanao.
Numerous clashes erupted between the Philippine Army and the rebel groups, such as the clash on June 14, 2009 that killed 10 rebels.[68]
Since 2001, the Philippines and the United States have been on a campaign to battle this insurgency, known as War on Terror. To combat the insurgency, the United States and the Philippines conducted the Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines,[69] a part of the worldwide campaign against terrorism known as Operation Enduring Freedom.
Benigno Aquino III (2010–present)[edit]
In 2013, two main camps of the Abu Sayyaf group were overrun by forces of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in its latest offensive in Patikul.[70] According to MNLF leader Nur Misuari, the MNLF offensive against the Abu Sayyaf is because of the MNLF opposition to the Abu Sayyafs human rights abuses which goes against Islam.
During the term of President Benigno Aquino III, a series of peace talks for the cessation of hostilities was held, including the meeting of MILF Chair Al Haj Murad Ibrahim in Tokyo, Japan which was lauded on both sides.[39] Norway also joined the International Monitoring Team (IMT) on January 2011, overseeing the ceasefire agreement between the government and MILF on Mindanao. Despite the peace talks, a series of conflicts erupted. on September 10, 2011, Jal Idris, a hardcore member of Abu Sayyaf, was arrested by government forces after a crossfire between the Philippine Army and the rebel group[71] The Armed Forces of the Philippines also killed three Abu Sayyaf militants in a stand-off[72] the following day after the arrest of Jal Idris.
Terrorism continued throughout President Benigno's term, notable cases include when 4 merchants and a guide were killed by Abu Sayyaf bandits in January 2011.[73] and later a soldier who was killed in a clash against the rebels.[74] In August 2011, rebel factions attacked a village in Sulu, killing 7 Marines and taking 7 civilians captive. They later freed 2 of the hostages after a ransom was paid.[75] Also, several areas of Mindanao were bombed in August by the government, and a Filipino businesswoman was abducted in September 2011[76] who was later freed after the three gunmen were gunned down by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.[77]
On October 20, 2011, the MILF was blamed for an attack on 40 government soldiers in the province of Basilan, which lead to the deaths of 19 soldiers and 6 MILF fighters.[78] This thereby violated the ceasefire agreement between the government and MILF. This caused outrage in the government, which lead to the continuation of the war against terrorism in the country.
On the website of the Moro National Liberation Front, Nur Misuari declared its support for China against the Philippines, in the South China Sea dispute, calling both China and the Moro people as victims of Philippine colonialism, and noting China's history of friendly relations with the Moros.[79] The MNLF website also denounced America's assistance to the Philippines in their colonization of the Moro people in addition to denouncing the Philippines claims to the islands disputed with China, and denouncing America for siding with the Philippines in the dispute, noting that in 1988 China "punished" Vietnam for attempting to set up a military presence on the disputed islands. The website also pointed out that the Moros and China maintained peaceful relations, while on the other hand the Moros had to resist other colonial powers, having to fight the Spanish, fight the Americans, and fight the Japanese, in addition to fighting the Philippines.[80]
The Zamboanga City crisis erupted on September 9, 2013, when a MNLF faction known by other groups as the Rogue MNLF Elements (RME), under the Sulu State Revolutionary Command (SSRC), led by Ustadz Habier Malik and Khaid Ajibon attempted to raise the flag of the self-proclaimed Bangsamoro Republik at Zamboanga City Hall (which had earlier declared its independence on August 12, 2013 in Talipao, Sulu), and took civilians hostage. This armed incursion was met by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), which sought to free the hostages and expel the MNLF from the city. The standoff degenerated into urban warfare, and had brought parts of the city under a standstill for days. On September 28, the government declared the end of military operations in Zamboanga City after successfully defeating the MNLF and rescuing all the hostages.
On January 24, 2014, the Philippines government chief negotiator Miriam Coronel Ferer and MILF chief negotiator Murad Ebrahim signed a peace agreement in Kuala Lumpur. The agreement would pave the way for the creation of the new Muslim autonomous entity called "Bangsamoro" under a law to be approved by the Philippine Congress.[81] The government aims to set up the region by 2016. The agreement calls for Muslim self-rule in parts of the southern Philippines in exchange for a deactivation of rebel forces by the MILF. MILF forces would turn over their firearms to a third party to be selected by the MILF and the Philippine government. A regional police force would be established, and the Philippine military would reduce the presence of troops and help disband private armies in the area.[82]
On July 23, 2014, Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon swore loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video, along with the rest of the organization, giving ISIL a presence in the Philippines.[20][21] In September 2014, the group began kidnapping people to ransom, in the name of ISIL.[83]
On January 25, 2015, Philippine National Police's SAF conducted an operation to capture Abdul Basit Usman and Marwan in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. They were trapped between MILF's 105th Base Command, BIFF, and several armed groups. 44 SAF members were killed, but they were able to eliminate Marwan.
On February, the MILF and BIFF fought for territory in the boundaries of Maguindanao and North Cotabato.
In mid-February, the Philippine Army along with the Philippine Marines, declared a state of all-out war against the BIFF. MILF forces were pulled out to prevent them from falling victim to the fighting.
See also[edit]
- Spanish–Moro Wars
- Moros during World War II
- Moro Rebellion
- Moro attacks on Malaysia
- Peace process with the Bangsamoro in the Philippines
- History of Philippines
- Terrorism in the Philippines
- Communist insurgency in the Philippines
- Extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the Philippines
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External links[edit]
- Timeline
- The Long Struggle to Silence the Guns of Rebellion: A Review of the Long and Winding Trail to the Elusive Peace Agreements by The CenSEI Report
- 20th century in the Philippines
- 21st century in the Philippines
- 20th-century conflicts
- 21st-century conflicts
- Conflicts in 2015
- Ongoing insurgencies
- Islamic terrorist incidents in the 20th century
- Military history of the Philippines
- Moro
- Rebellions in the Philippines
- Wars involving the Philippines
- Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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In case you have decided against 5.1 sound and are happy with four speakers & the sub woofer working I would recomend that you follow the steps as outlined in following URL. Once this is up you can always do some r&d and make the 5.1 work like a 5.1 with all features enabled.
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