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One man's torture, it seems, is another's "coercive management technique." For decades the United States has maintained that American prisoners were tortured by the Chinese during the Korean War. Now it turns out that at least some of the interrogation methods used at Guantanamo Bay were lifted directly from an American study of China's Korean War era practices.
When Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded, he might have thought he'd last longer than 17 seconds, but, as the columnist put it, "everything completely goes on you when you're breathing water."
With statements such as "if the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong" guiding our government's thinking during the formation and implementation of interrogation techniques, it's no wonder Carl Levin and others were outraged in the Senate on Tuesday.
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A military lawyer for a Guantanamo detainee says it was standard operating procedure to destroy evidence of torture (or harsh interrogation techniques, as some call it) in order to "minimize certain legal issues." Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler is concerned that, because of the policy, he will not be able to challenge the alleged confessions of his client, who was detained at the age of 15.
The American Psychological Association is in the midst of its own heated presidential campaign. The central issue is whether APA members should be banned from participating in "harsh interrogations."
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A recently declassified memo shines the spotlight once again on John "Take Them to the Point of Death" Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor and once deputy legal counsel in the Justice Department.
A Yemeni man has told Amnesty International that he was abducted and tortured and spent nearly three years in secret prisons at the hands of the CIA. Khaled al-Maqtari says that without charge, legal representation or even a word to his family he was shuttled from one prison to another and ultimately dumped into Yemeni custody, once the U.S. had finished with him.
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The reputation of the U.S. on the world stage might be further colored by President Bush's veto of a bill that would have limited the CIA's (and other intelligence agencies') array of interrogation techniques to those in the Army field manual. In defending Saturday's veto, Bush once again invoked 9/11.
Former FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan spills the beans to Foreign Policy Magazine about the techniques he used on top al-Qaida operatives. Cloonan explains that the ticking-time-bomb scenario often used to rationalize torture is a myth and that waterboarding only motivates the enemy to get revenge—even if it takes a generation.
Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer interviews documentarian Alex Gibney about his 2008 Academy Award-winning documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side," a compelling examination of the circumstances that led Americans to commit torture.
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating memos and opinions rendered by the department that endorsed the practice of waterboarding, which many consider to be torture. The inquiry is unrelated to the FBI's criminal investigation of the CIA, which destroyed video recordings of the waterboarding of suspects.
It's unfortunately not unusual anymore to hear about the politicization of American legal and intelligence institutions under the Bush administration, but, even so, this report by The Nation's Ross Tuttle about how the trials of six key prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have allegedly been rigged from the get-go is disturbing. Updated
By Mike Luckovich
The House of Representatives and Senate have now both signaled their disapproval of the CIA's use of waterboarding by voting for a ban on any techniques but the 19 officially approved by the Army, but President Bush has already, in turn, signaled his intent to veto any legislation that would rule out harsh interrogation methods.
The campaign for the White House is great fun, but it can also be a distraction. While the leading contenders to replace Bush continue to duke it out, the president and his lieutenants are still trying to justify torture in the name of protecting this once great democracy.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., responding to closed testimony from the CIA's acting general counsel, John Rizzo, said it appeared that the officer who destroyed evidence of "enhanced" interrogations was acting against orders. Jose Rodriguez, the official in question, is asking for immunity before he tells his side of the story to Congress.
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The Justice Department is (finally) treating the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of agents using severe interrogation methods on terrorism suspects as cause for a criminal investigation. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey (above) acknowledged that the probe was a go on Wednesday and named John Durham as the outside prosecutor for the case.
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Tapes? Oh, those tapes! CIA officials are justifying their failure to hand over videotapes of "severe interrogation" methods by saying they were not specifically asked for them. The officials were reacting to criticism by former 9/11 Commission members.
The kidnap and torture program of the Bush administration, with its secret CIA "black site" prisons and "torture taxi" flights on private jets, saw a little light of day this week.
CIA Director General Michael Hayden has been summoned by Congress and will appear Tuesday and Wednesday before the Senate and House Intelligence committees to answer questions about the destruction of secret CIA videotapes that documented the abuse of detainees. The White House counsel, meanwhile, has ordered press secretary Dana Perino to keep quiet on the matter.
The Justice Department and the CIA inspector general have launched a joint inquiry into the agency's destruction of video recordings of so-called harsh interrogation techniques. Color us skeptical, since Attorney General Michael Mukasey couldn't be bothered to take a position on torture—or harsh interrogation techniques, if that's the term you want to use—during his confirmation.
A bipartisan group of top lawmakers, including current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was briefed on the details of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques as early as 2002. According to several U.S. officials, over the course of roughly 30 private briefings only one objection to the practice was raised.
A day after The New York Times released its explosive report that at least two videotapes showing CIA agents using severe interrogation tactics (that most nefarious of euphemisms) on terror suspects, congressional Democrats are registering their extreme displeasure and calling for an official investigation into what Sen. Edward Kennedy slammed as a "cover-up."
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The New York Times has discovered that the CIA destroyed "at least two videotapes" showing agents using severe interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects. Those interrogations were part of the evidence in the official 9/11 investigation, yet the CIA never told the 9/11 Commission of the existence of the tapes or transcripts. The agency cited a "serious security risk" for destroying the evidence.
Sheldon Whitehouse, new to the Senate, was searching for what he called a "moment of moral clarity." Seated alongside the other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in its crowded hearing room, the Rhode Island Democrat was looking in precisely the wrong place.
It looks as though Michael Mukasey is one step closer to becoming attorney general, having secured the support of Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Charles Schumer. Judiciary Committee Chairman (and former Truthdigger of the Week) Pat Leahy, on the other hand, plans to vote no, because "No American should need a classified briefing to determine whether waterboarding is torture."
The nominee for attorney general doesn't know "what is involved" in waterboarding, and he appears to back Bush's usurpation of power. Isn't it time for the Democrats to grow some spine?
The senator rarely surrenders a juicy quote without a struggle. Yet her familiar preference for caution over candor is gradually changing with each step that she takes toward her party's presidential nomination.
By Mark Fiore
AP photo / Haraz N. Ghanbari, file
A new book by two ACLU lawyers, "Administration of Torture," includes documents in which one Gen. Michael Dunlavey claims that President Bush gave him "marching orders" to get the Pentagon's approval of more severe interrogation methods at Guantanamo. Also, it alleges that then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in the interrogation of Mohammed al Qahtani.
The British government's Foreign Affairs Committee will look into charges by a number of sources, including human rights groups and a retired U.S. general, that sovereign British land has been used as a CIA "black site" prison. The island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, has been leased to the United States and is the site of an American military base but remains British territory.
By simply deciding that something is a "state secret," the Bush government has avoided answering for its brutal treatment of innocent victims in the war on terror. This is a perversion of the principle of American justice.
In 2005, the Justice Department issued two secret opinions on torture that endorsed and protected the administration's desire to use physically and psychologically traumatizing interrogation techniques. Then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey reportedly warned his colleagues that they would be "ashamed" when their work became public.
Despite fleeting promises by the administration to shut the place down, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is still up and running, complete with many of the terrible conditions we've all come to know and be ashamed of, according to transcripts recently obtained by the Associated Press.
Last weekend, the American Psychological Association rejected a moratorium that would have prevented its member psychologists from participating in interrogations at U.S. detention centers at places like Guantanamo Bay and secret CIA "black sites" around the world.
Were the CIA to potentially, maybe, have a detention and interrogation program it would now have to adhere to President Bush's new executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment of detainees. It's still unclear whether water-boarding remains on the menu.
Sometimes the best way to tell what other nations think of the U.S. is to see how Americans are depicted in entertainment products. Judging by this translated excerpt from the Iranian television drama "Guantanamo" (granted, subject matter must also weigh heavily in the equation), our international PR leaves a lot to be desired.
First, do no harm. This tenet of medicine applies equally to psychologists, yet they are increasingly implicated in abusive interrogations, dare we say torture, at U.S. military detention facilities like Guantanamo.
AP Photo / Brennan Linsley
The Supreme Court may not be interested in applying American values to Guantanamo Bay, but at least one soldier has taken a principled stand against the prison's tortured justice system.
Like a terminally ill animal, the Guantanamo prison is soon to be put to death. It will be an ugly execution, played out against the sophomoric non sequiturs that are the unofficial soundtrack of the war on terror.
Robert Gates urged Congress on Thursday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, acknowledging that the international community was likely to doubt the credibility of tribunals held there: "My own view is that because of things that happened earlier at Guantanamo there is a taint about it."
Jose Padilla has been ruled competent to stand trial, a rebuke to his lawyers. The defense had sought to have him treated for PTSD before the trial began. Padilla has been held in isolation for three and a half years, during which time he was subjected to varying kinds of interrogation and, very likely, torture.
The U.S. military insists that Abu Ghraib was an isolated abuse, but at least one soldier suggests a wider system of torture is at work: "I watched as detainees were forced to stand naked all night, shivering in their cold cells and pleading with their captors for help. Others were subjected to long periods of isolation in pitch-black rooms. Food and sleep deprivation were common, along with a variety of physical abuse, including punching and kicking."
The CIA has argued that allowing detainees to publicly describe interrogation techniques used against them would endanger national security.
The International Committee of the Red Cross will contact the White House to address concerns over U.S. torture policy's compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
From Matt Groller / Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone presents one of the most harrowing stories we've read all year: a blow-by-blow description of the experience of a teenage jihadist who has been tortured by Americans in Gitmo for the past four years.
Lawyers for 25 men being held in Afghanistan filed a habeas corpus petition in advance of Bush's plan to outlaw that exact motion.
If Congress isn't going to stand up to Bush on this travesty of a law, it's good to see that some parties are.
While we wait for the Supreme Court to invalidate Bush's torture law, we offer up a little satire on the issue. In this piece, a Nation writer hilariously re-imagines our new Military Commissions Act. (Or let Jon Stewart take it away.)
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Sheffield's policies inhibited American commercial growth in the two decades after the Revolution. But Britain's war with France and the resulting opportunities for American shippers as neutral carriers limited the impact of these policies after 1800. Sheffield's policies led to the politically controversial Jay Treaty and contributed to the maritime tension between the United States and Great Britain that culminated in the War of 1812. His death in 1821 coincided with the emergence of the more flexible British trade policies that led to the improvement of Anglo-American relations by the end of the decade.


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Liqidation means $2 off regular prices? Gawker must be using the same liquidators that CompUSA has… (c:
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(WEAU) - "We've been working diligently with our seniors for the entire year," said Bethany Henthorn of UW-Stout Career Services.
According to UW-Stout's Annual Employment Rate Report, about 98 percent of graduates last year either had a job or chose to continue their education.
At U-W Stout some seniors say that they do in fact have jobs lined up for when they graduate, whether it's part-time or full-time related to their field.
Elizabeth Mendoza is one of them, and says she applied for a job in the retail industry back in September, and landed one at Kohl's.
"Kohl's is one of our big recruiters at Stout so I just applied and interviewed with them and I made it through the final interview process. I actually got the offer in November," said Elizabeth Mendoza who majored in Retail Merchandizing Management.
Bethany Henthorn of Career Services says some seniors are struggling but not many.
"We've seen some here that haven't landed that job where we can start to see the stress a little," said Henthorn.
Some seniors have even chosen not to go for the job but rather the direction of Grad School.
"I really thought it would help me with my career objectives, I've always wanted to further my career and I was really excited to be the first person in my family to actually attend college, so I thought I would take it to the next step and attend grad school," said Kelsy Gaida who majored in Psychology.
Last year's employment report also shows the average salary for new graduates at UW-Stout is about 37 thousand dollars.
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The most anticipated Silicon Valley initial public offering since Facebook is in the pipeline: San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. announced Thursday that it has privately filed for its first public sale of shares.
In a message sent on the corporate account of its own microblogging service, Twitter said Thursday afternoon, "We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale."
Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, and has grown to more than 200 million users who share their thoughts in bursts of no more than 140 characters at least once a month, with estimates of total users surpassing 500 million.
Twitter's massive growth has produced strong IPO buzz for years, but neighbor Facebook's rough Wall Street debut quieted much of the excitement.
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook exercised a record-breaking IPO in May 2012 that valued CEO Mark Zuckerberg's creation at more than $100 billion, but problems with initial trades and doubts about Facebook's ability to generate revenues helped push shares from an initial price of $38 to less than $20 in the first year of public availability.
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It seems Carl Icahn doesn't want to wait.
The billionaire investor is the largest stockholder in Motorola Mobility, which has agreed to sell itself to Google for $12.5 billion. Icahn is selling some of his Motorola stock in the open market, rather than wait to collect an ever bigger check from Google.
Icahn today reported selling more than 2.9 million Motorola Mobility shares, or less than 10% of his holdings in the mobile-phone company. The sales, at less than $39 a share, totaled about $114 million.
Icahn left more than $3.5 million on the table by selling at less than Google's $40-a-share acquisition price. But we're guessing Icahn has better things to do with his millions than to park it and twiddle his thumbs while Google winds through deal-related regulatory reviews.
And Icahn isn't the only impatient Motorola stockholder. According to recent regulatory filings, some Motorola Mobility executives also are taking an opportunity to sell their company stock on the open market.
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ROME—Prime Minister Mario Monti likes to say he doesn't fancy the campaign trail, but the former technocrat was not shy on Monday as he ventured further into Italy's political fray with controversial remarks about war and the budget.
Speaking on Italy's La7 television, Mr. Monti chastised lawmakers and their leaders for failing to offer clear support for a government decision to support France in its intervention in Mali, saying his talks to the leaders of the three parties in his parliamentary majority hadn't led to an agreement whereby Italy could join the U.K. and other European countries in helping France.
"That's rather surprising and he should clear that up," said Emma Bonino, vice-president of the Senate and, like Mr. Monti, a former European commissioner. She said there had been a convergence at a legislative meeting last week on offering logistical support to French troops fighting Islamic insurgents in North Africa.
"If the government has asked the three party leaders further questions, Parliament has yet to be informed," Ms. Bonino added.
Lapo Pistelli, head of foreign policy affairs for the Democratic Left, said his party had been "prudent but clear" in accepting the offer of logistical but not direct military help.
Italian leftists, including some allied with Mr. Pistelli's party, have historically been arch-pacifists, and Mr. Monti may have been trying to encourage them to make a hasty remark. Instead, by alluding to a plurality of leaders rejecting a Mali initiative, he implicitly included Pier Ferdinando Casini, who heads the UDC party, which is polling around 4% ahead of the Feb. 25 vote. But Mr. Casini is allied with Mr. Monti and usually emphasizes his total agreement with the premier on policy issues.
Mr. Monti showed rhetorical acumen in quickly reeling back his remarks and saying he meant that it was hard for Rome to make a decision given it currently doesn't have a proper government.
Polls currently suggest the center-left coalition will win the general elections, but fall short of a majority of seats in the Senate, forcing them to seek a compromise with Mr. Monti's grouping, which consists of Christian Democrats, a small right-wing faction and a slew of wealthy businessmen and other civic leaders with no political experience.
Mr. Monti raised eyebrows again in the La7 interview by saying that while there was no need for Italy to engage in fiscal tightening measures this year, the wrong electoral result might make them inevitable.
Despite his concerns that Italy may need further budget tightening – which economists say would almost certainly extend Italy's recession, which is now in its seventh consecutive month – Mr. Monti outlined a tax-cutting agenda in which €11 billion in levies on businesses would be phased out over five years and a further €15 billion in income taxes slashed.
"If there was all that money available why aren't we investing them now?" asked Susanna Camusso, head of the left-wing CGIL union. Speaking of Mr. Monti's suggestion that more austerity measures may be needed this year, Ms. Camusso added: "It sounds like a threat but I don't understand: are public finances in order or are they not?"
Silvio Berlusconi tried to go one better, claiming he would slash public spending by €80 billion and simplify the tax code at much lower rates than they are today. Delivery of such promises eluded Mr. Berlusconi while running the country for eight of the past 12 years.
Massimo D'Alema, who had his own experience of being an unelected prime minister in the late 1990s, said all the talk of tax cuts was a lurid "striptease." Part of the Democratic Left, he argued in favor of "rebalancing" the fiscal burden by making wealthier citizens pay more.


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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
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Directed by: Richard Marquand
Starring: Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Kenny Baker, Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, Frank Oz, Ian McDiarmid, James Earl Jones, Peter Mayhew
Question: How did Luke get off the Death Star before it exploded? We never actually see it happen in the movie, or do we?
Answer: He piloted a shuttle out of the hanger. There is a quick shot of him in the cockpit and the shuttle leaving the hangar, which is followed immediately by an explosion.
Question: In an answer for one of the other questions here, it says that Leia doesn't know she is adopted until Luke tells her that they are siblings. If she doesn't know, why would he use the term "real mother" when asking her about her mother? It seems that if she didn't know she was adopted, she would think it was strange for him to ask about a "real" mother.
Answer: It's never stated anywhere in the films whether Leia knows that she's adopted or not. Given her apparent lack of surprise at Luke's reference to her "real mother", it seems more than likely that her adoptive parents have told her at some point.
Question: Where in this movie is 1138 said/shown, if it is?
Answer: The number appears albeit almost invisibly on Boushh's (Leia in disguise) helmet. While visible in photos of the props, it's unclear on screen.
Question: What's the deal with R2-D2's 'short circuit' after he's shot while trying to override the shield generator's doors? Did the blast cause him to go haywire or is he having a panic attack?
Answer: The impact of the energy shot on Artoo's data-access arm has caused a short in his systems, so he's just going through an overload.
Question: Why did Vader stop Luke when he tried to strike at the Emperor with his lightsaber? I know he said earlier that he has to obey his master, but he keeps encouraging Luke to give in to the dark side. If he hadn't stopped Luke, Luke could have given in to his anger and killed the Emperor, and also rid Vader of the Emperor at the same time.
Answer: Because the Emperor probably wouldn't leave himself so open to attack without a trick up his sleeve (a personal shield, perhaps), and if Luke failed in this direct assault, as Vader is expecting him to do, he would have had to explain why he didn't do anything to defend the Emperor and would have been executed himself.
Question: Why does Vader go and stand near the Emperor for a moment before deciding to kill him and save Luke? Earlier, the Emperor told Luke to kill Vader and take his place. It seems strange that Vader would remain loyal after his master just encouraged someone to kill him.
Answer: Vader's alone; for twenty years, he's had only the Emperor, a man who he hates for what he's become, but also the only person truly remaining in his life, having killed or otherwise burned his bridges with everybody else. He has nowhere else to go but to the side of the Emperor. He may well be angry at the Emperor for telling Luke to kill him, but it's exactly the same deal that he tried to make - it's the way of the Sith that the strong replace the weak. The Emperor needs an apprentice; with Luke dead, the Emperor may well punish Vader, but won't kill him, because he doesn't have a replacement. So he initially returns to his master's side, resigning himself to going on as he is, a bitter twisted half-machine in the thrall of a more powerful master. It's only when Luke reaches out to him through the pain that he decides that his son's life is worth more than his own and finally acts directly against the Emperor.
Question: Who are the two men that the Emperor talks to on the Death Star, after he tells Vader to send the fleet near the far side of Endor, and Vader leaves? I know that who they are is not said in the movie.
Answer: According to the Star Wars Databank, the pair are Sim Aloo and Janus Greejatus, two members of the Imperial Ruling Council, a large group numbering several hundred who act as advisors to Emperor Palpatine and are also sent on missions across the galaxy as his personal representatives. Both are Force-sensitive with some training in the Dark Side directly from Palpatine himself and, as their presence during the Emperor's discussion with Vader shows, are among his more trusted acolytes.
Question: Can Jedi and Sith actually read thoughts? In this movie, Vader was able to realize that Luke was thinking about Leia during their fight on the Death Star. If he could read Luke's thoughts, even though Luke is also a powerful Force-user (not a weak-minded person), how come Jedi in the past couldn't detect the thoughts of other strong Force-users? For example, why didn't Mace, Yoda, or other powerful Jedi find out that Anakin was keeping a secret about his marriage to Padme, the way that Luke was keeping a secret about having a twin sister?
Answer: Jedi Knights and Sith can read thoughts using the Force, and they can communicate with each other that way if they wish, but they can also block others from reading their minds. The Jedi are well trained in mind control. Darth Vader was able to read Luke's thoughts because Luke was not yet a fully trained Jedi Knight; he was unable to block Vader's mental intrusion. Anakin was an exceptionally strong Jedi, and even as an apprentice, he possessed very advanced abilities.
Question: How did Luke learn to construct a new light saber (after losing his old one in the fight with Darth Vader)? Yoda seems like the only person who could have taught him, but Luke hasn't been back to see him since he lost his old one (Luke's line to Artoo about "keeping a promise to an old friend" makes it clear that this is the case). Was it part of their earlier training on Dagobah?
Answer: According to Expanded Universe materials, Luke constructed his new lightsabre using instructions and materials that he found hidden in Obi-Wan Kenobi's abandoned dwelling on Tatooine.
Question: Why does Luke agree to go confront his father right in front of his master? Even if he does win, he should know that either way, he ain't getting off that Death Star alive, still a Jedi.
Answer: He believes he can turn his father back to the light side, and together they can defeat the emperor.
Question: I am confused by Darth Vader's attitude in this movie. In Episode V, he asked Luke to join him and get rid of the Emperor. He seemed quite confident and happy about this idea. Now, in Episode VI, he tells Luke that he "must" obey his master, that the Emperor is Luke's master now, etc. Why does he now want himself and Luke to be the Emperor's servants?
Answer: Vader was always the emperor's servant. In ESB, he was ordered by the emperor to turn Luke. Vader (as a Sith) was attempting to convince Luke to follow him (his father) so that they could overthrow the emperor. Once that failed, he could no longer keep his plan a secret from the emperor. Vader most likely suspected the emperor planned to replace him with Luke anyway.
Question: At the beginning of the film C-3PO says that Lando and Chewie never returned from Tatooine and Jabba's Palace. If that's true then how did Luke and Leia manage to concoct a plan to get inside using Chewie as a bounty if he wasn't there to be told the plan?
Answer: C-3PO was unaware that Lando, who was disguised as a guard and spying on Jabba's domain, was smuggling out information to Luke. C-3PO, being an android, was often told information on a need-to-know basis only. He was often not trusted with more sensitive information, lest he inadvertently reveal something. He also didn't know that he and R2 were being sent to Jabba as a "gift" from Luke and that it was all part of the plan to rescue Han Solo.
Question: 2 questions about the Alliance Star fighter squadrons: 1. Only 3 squadron leaders are identified (Red, Green and Grey) but there are a lot more than 3 squadrons. Who led the other squadrons? 2. Is an Alliance squadron made up of more than 1 type of star fighter? For example are all of Red squadron made up of X-Wings? During the space battle, Wedge tells Red 3 and 2 to pull in and an A-Wing and Y-Wing respond.
Answer: According to Wookieepedia, the fighter squadrons at the Battle of Endor were Red Squadron, Gold Squadron, Green Squadron, Blue Squadron, and Gray Squadron. The squadrons were comprised of various types of fighters. (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Endor).
Question: At the Ewok village, Luke tells Leia that she is the only hope for the Alliance if he doesn't return from his meeting with Darth Vader. However, if he had died, how could she have become a Jedi? Would the ghosts of Luke, Yoda, or Obi-wan have trained her?
Answer: It is quite possible their spirits could have contacted her, and while she may not be able to be trained as a Jedi, they could certainly guide her into developing her powers to use the Force that would help her lead the rebellion. There may even be other Jedi still alive that she would find out about.
Question: How many ships were in each of the Rebel Alliance's five squadrons (Gold, Red, Green, Gray and Blue) at the Battle Of Endor?
Answer: The Alliance Navy has 12 fighters to each squadron therefore there were 60 fighters spread among the aforementioned squadrons and over 600 fighters present in the battle in other unnamed fighter groups.
Question: According to what I've heard, when a Jedi dies and accepts it, their body disappears. (like Yoda and Obi-Wan) Darth Vader accepted that he was going to die, so why didn't he disappear? Is disappearing more complex than that, or did Darth Vader not really accept his death, and if not, why?
Answer: Vader's body, does disappear off-screen and only his armour is cremated. The ability to cause one's body to disappear after death appears to be a matter of choice by the deceased as evidenced in the EU when Mara Jade Skywalker (Luke's wife) only allows her body to disappear when her killer (Jacen Solo) arrives for her funeral.
Question: Why are there transports in the Battle Of Endor? It doesn't seem sense that transports were to go into to battle without any armament at all. Also, the Death Star II is seen firing on one of these transports. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to fire on Home One?
Answer: According to the novelisation of Return of the Jedi, the transports were loaded with large quantities of explosives, with the intent of using them in a kamikaze role. Given that role, it makes sense to target them as a priority, before they could be used to destroy a major Imperial ship, plus the premature detonation of the explosives could damage or potentially even destroy surrounding Rebel ships, weakening their fleet.
Question: In Star Wars Battlefront II, if you're playing Galactic Conquest and move up on Endor, there is a big blue planet beside the moon. Which planet is that and how does the environment look there?
Answer: That is actually the planet Endor. It is a gas giant so the environment is probably just swirling masses of clouds and vapor. Check out http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Endor_(planet) for more information.
Question: What causes the change in the condition of Vader's helmet in the final battle? When he's taunting Luke it's at its normal mirror clean finish yet right after his hand is cut off it's all dusty and scuffed.
Answer: The fight is quite protracted, and several times during the fight, lightsabres are cutting through materials, which logically would cause the dust you describe on Vader.


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> After installing the Windows Xp sp2, I could not compile an
application that
> I have
> been developing with Visual C++ 6.
> and this is because the mororns from Microsoft have decided to
> **** up
> one of the best products put on the market by Microsoft (Visual C++
> Just to give an example in VC6, I used to add a toolbar item to the
> mainframe toolbar
> then hold the "Ctrl" key and double click the respective toolbar Item
> then I would add
> the handler (function) for that particular toolbar item, in the
> Studio 2003 crap (the
> most expensive **** up put by Microsoft on the market), this feature
is no
> longer available.
> I think is time to switch to Borland C++
I agree 100% and so do my co-developers who have moved from VC6 to VC7.
I think you'll find that VC7 is more expensive than just the cost of
the product as you have to fix problems introduced by ports. For
example, in their wisdom, MS made CoRegisterClassObjects do a lazy
create on Singletons. This has taken 2 people working on and off for a
year to fix. So don't forget to add in your unforeseen development
effort required to get ports working. My advice - don't port. Wait till
you discover that ClassWizard has disappeared, along with DocFile
viewer and other indispensible tools. Also hold back on your joy when
you discover that a solution's dependency checker will compile all the
projects irrespective of whats changed and that the new compiler allows
you to go for dinner while it compiles a 'Hello World' program. My
timesheet now has 6.5 hours down to my company's 'VC7 compilation'
time code every day and 1 hour actually spent on productive


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Description: Medal of Honor Patch - Multiplayer v1.11 (US/UK)This patch updates both the UK and the US versions of Medal of Honor to v1.11. Includes many bug fixes and tweaks.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault by 2015 - US/UK retail v1.11 patch
Patch 1.11 changes
- Stand-alone game server that runs without CD, mohaa_server.exe.
- Fixed bug in pak file search order
- Fix for spaces in rcon commands, fix for rcon data transmission
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- Fix for the dial-up networking problem when playing single-player.
- Fix for in-game server browser always auto-refreshing
- In-game browser shows version information on incompatible servers, and sorts
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the browser, rather than main menu
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The knives are out.
A 10-year-old girl in Florida was arrested and charged with a felony for bringing a steak knife to school. And perhaps if she had hurt or threatened someone with it, this would make perfect sense. However, in this instance the girl brought the steak knife to school to…cut steak. Yes, that's right, the girl was arrested for using the proper utensil with her meal at lunchtime.
When they saw that she was using the knife in the cafeteria, teachers confiscated the cutlery (fine) and then called the Sheriff's Department (not fine). The girl faces a 10-day suspension (a little harsh) and a felony weapons charge (utterly preposterous).
The school stands by the way the teachers handled the situation, stating that schools in the Marion County Public Schools district have a zero tolerance policy for bringing weapons to school, and then went on further to suggest that they hadn't been as harsh as they could have been. "From a School Board standpoint, we didn't enact our zero tolerance on that. We didn't expel her," (School Board member Sue) Mosley said.
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This assessment of the problem with modern health and prescription for returning human beings to the excellent health enjoyed by mankind 10,000 years ago is advanced by Mark Sisson, a nationally respected health and fitness authority, in his new book published this week titled The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, boundless energy and vibrant health.
In his book, Sisson points to numerous factors that have caused human health to deteriorate over the centuries since our hunter-gatherer ancestors led healthy, productive and relatively stress-free lives. He attributes this "devolution" of health to the advent of agriculture and the technological progress of civilization, as well as the failure of corporate America, the government and today's weight loss and fitness "experts" to dispense accurate, sensible advice about diet and exercise.
Sisson's "Primal Blueprint" philosophy details 10 behavior laws that serve as a road map to overcome today's negative cultural influences that cause people to mismanage their genes. Instead, Sisson stresses, the Primal Blueprint allows us to take control of our health, guided by the success story of human evolution. While the laws are simple and straightforward, he adds, they frequently oppose many well-accepted notions about diet and exercise that cause even devoted health and weight loss enthusiasts to fail. The laws are:
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Extreme ideologies of all types have their depressing sides as well as their hilarious ones. I guess choosing to laugh at it is my way of dealing with the fact that it's all the uncomfortable side of free speech - which I totally support. Maybe I'm just more of an optimist than I come across as here in that I think that hateful rhetoric just doesn't speak to the general public in any meaningful way.But then again, I'm speaking from a position of white privelege. Feel free to ignore my opinions because of it.(insert catch phrase)
In reply to:I should like to say that I think it's pretty hard to find even faux racism of this kind funny unless you're coming from a position of white priviledge, though.
I should like to say that I think it's pretty hard to find even faux racism of this kind funny unless you're coming from a position of white priviledge, though.
Humor by its very nature is divisive rather than universal, and us privileged whiteys have a right to a few laughs too as we go about our business of ru(i)nning the planet in our Guccis and knocking back frappucinos.Think about how you'd feel if someone said "You'd have to be black to find THAT funny".Me like bison fleshRoast on fire for make eat safeKeep bone for make toolGuiltpuppy's haiku
Thank goodiness for the voice of reason! One of my bestest & closest friends ever was a spade - Peter, God (or somebody you aspire to, living or dead, entity or non-entity, no bones..) bless him, died at the tender age of 28 back in 1987 & vice versa - we were pretty much inseparable throughtout our last two years at school, where we met, right up until he got wed at the age of 25 - I still miss him very, very much.Pete, would've laughed long & hard at the content within this thread.That said, it seems that certain quarters here are offended by my pretending to be racist and to those people I offer my apologies.The Great Grey Grasshopper
Yeah, I imagine you had a lot in common. I suppose Pete voted BNP as well, didn't he? Is there any means to verify this story, like a photo of you together (y'know, one taken with the flash on, so we could actually see him?)[neon]I'm not trolling; I'm moderating. [/neon]
In reply to:Think about how you'd feel if someone said "You'd have to be black to find THAT funny".
Think about how you'd feel if someone said "You'd have to be black to find THAT funny".
I wouldn't feel anything--I think that's a perfectly valid statement. The appreciation of humor generally hinges on experience. Coming from another culture, I can tell you there are plenty of jokes that I'd say "you have to be Jewish to find that funny," or "you'd have to have lived in Soviet Russia" to find that funny," and so on. Now, of course, with staements like "you have to be black/Jewish" what's really meant is "you have to be familiar with the black/Jewish/etc experience to find that funny"--it isn't determined by skincolor/ethnicity alone.And I should say that when I said that one would have to come from a position of white priviledge, I did not necessarily mean that one has to be white. It's possible to ally oneself with whiteness and some of its priviledges even if one is of a different ethnicity; it's just not as common.
I don't think anybody ever took a photo of them, for fear that Pete might steal the camera.Vote for me: TW's Top Fag!
In reply to:Yeah, I imagine you had a lot in common.
Yeah, I imagine you had a lot in common.
I'm suprised a person of your complexities pertains to such a simple philosophy on what the basis for friendship is.
In reply to:I suppose Pete voted BNP as well, didn't he?
I suppose Pete voted BNP as well, didn't he?
I can't vouch for it, the same way as I'm unable to provide photographical or any other means of evidence of our friendship, but I sincerely doubt that Peter ever visited a polling booth, and me likewise - we were too busy living life to the full to care about politics - before internet message boards & LJ's, that's what young people use to do, young man. The Great Grey Grasshopper
Racist cunt!I'll slash them cold, I'll kill them deadI'll break them gooks, I'll crack their headsI'll slice them till they're running redBut now I've got the running gun blues
Censorship in America.
First off, Strawman, I honestly appreciate the sentiments.Second, not to open this can of worms again, but
In reply to:Monkeyboy: I'm speaking from a position of white privelege
Monkeyboy: I'm speaking from a position of white privelege
I don't get what you think is so funny about this. The concept of recognizing one's privilege as a member of a class, race, gender or species that has dominated an area doesn't have anything to do with undercutting the validity of your beliefs and opinions. I feel like you're conflating the concept of recognizing white privilege with embracing white liberal guilt, the former being a productive exercise in trying to understand the different place from which you're coming and the effect it has on other people, the latter being a pointless exercise in ascetic handwringing and democrat-voting.
In reply to:Maybe I'm just more of an optimist than I come across as here in that I think that hateful rhetoric just doesn't speak to the general public in any meaningful way.
Maybe I'm just more of an optimist than I come across as here in that I think that hateful rhetoric just doesn't speak to the general public in any meaningful way.
Man, look at the coverage of the immigration issue in this country. There's some pretty intense hateful rhetoric coming from all the mainstream news stations and it's a minority that's standing up to say anything in reply. Far from causing something to click in all of our rational minds such that we reject it, all this does is normalize the ideas because they're everywhere. Not to evoke everyone's favorite ad absurdum comparison, but I don't think anyone was laughing in Germany 'round about 1932.All of that aside, I'm not even talking about the effect that hateful rhetoric has on the general public. Ignoring the way it incites people to action, I think certain types of speech can inflict psychic violence on their targets. The recognizing white privilege part comes in when you realize that, as such actions do not target you, you would logically not understand the full effect they have on those who they do target. If we want to be anti-racists, then I would say we are obliged to talk to those being targetted and see how they feel about what is being said. If there's no problem, there's no problem, but if we're talking about speech that makes people feel unsafe in their own neighborhoods, then something has to be done.Basically, I just feel like it's problematic to put public speech in this abstract removed category. I can talk about theories of race in a detached manner because no one has ever tried to exploit me with race as an excuse. However, a lot of people have been exploited in that way and don't have the luxury of distance from what we're positioning as a removed civil discourse. Not everyone can laugh off the Klan or the Minutemen.I just want to hold your pretty hand; the rest of you can be dissolved in acid


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The Return of Chorb
by Vladimir Nabokov
The Return of Chorb Theme of Love
Love transcends death in "The Return of Chorb." The story's main character has lost his wife in a freak accident, but his feelings for her are unwavering and dictate his (rather bizarre) actions. In this tale, love is pure and can be understood only by the couple in question. It is chaste – they didn't have sex on their wedding night – and almost holy in its motives.
Questions About Love
- How can we understand Chorb's love for his wife? What does "pure" and "chaste" love really mean, anyway?
- From the brief descriptions we have, what do we know about Chorb's wife? Why are we provided with such little information? Is it enough?
- Once the "ordeal is over," how does Chorb feel about his wife? Has he successfully re-created her image, or not?
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Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil's advocate.
Once his wife dies, Chorb is unable to love her.
Chorb only truly loves his wife after her death; he prefers the "image" of her to the woman who really existed.


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Gonzalez Rejoins Falcons After Time Spent With Son
All-Pro Tight End Appears Rested, Ready for Season
By Paul Newberry AP Sports Writer | 8/23/2013, 6 a.m.
The Falcons made it easy, basically allowing a very grateful Gonzalez to set his own terms for how much time he would spend at training camp.
"That means everything to me," he said.
Gonzalez said he was concerned "a little bit" about the reaction of his teammates, how they would feel about him being excused for such a lengthy period while they all had to go through the grind of training camp.
Ryan quickly put those fears to rest by giving his blessing.
"He's the leader of this football team," Gonzalez said. "When Matt was OK with it, that was good enough for me right there."
Ryan, who completed a nearly $104 million contract extension just as camp was beginning, expects to quickly recapture the rhythm he's had with his tight end throughout their time together in Atlanta. Last season, they hooked up for 93 receptions, the most by Gonzalez since his final year with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2008, plus a huge catch that helped the Falcons rally for a victory over Seattle in the divisional playoffs after they squandered a big lead.
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It's not always straightforward – it can be a struggle to register correct public and private secure shell (SSH) keys but these are essential because without them the code can't be uploaded.
Once this has been done however, the developer can get down to work. That's not to say that everything is easy, the whole process of writing an application to work on the cloud rather than a physical box means the developers have to think of different ways to do things. The virtual nature of the environment means they have to think their way round the way the code works, in particular how it accesses data and stores variables.
It's not totally foreign, many of these problems are similar to the way any web application works with sessions that expire and variables that may expire with them. The techniques needed to work around these problems are well known and both the systems have lots of on-line documentation to help you avoid the known issues with coding in these environments.
What's the difference between them? Assuming that they both support the referred coding language then there is not a lot of difference.
OpenShift has a great range of languages along with some ready rolled Open Source products than can be installed with a simple click.
The system offers 'instant applications' like Drupal or a 'web cartridge' which uses the popular Open Source Git version control system to manage the code. The idea is to push the changed code to the Git repository and then the system will automatically deploy the code and, if necessary, restart the application.
If there's a need to add extra capabilities to the application then further 'web cartridges' like databases or cron services can be added. To manage most of the capabilities of OpenShift , Red Hat provides a command line tool called RHC, but there's also a more user-friendly then there is a plug-in to the JBoss Developer Studio IDE which gives a full development environment with code colouring.
With Cloud Foundry, developers can either use VMC to deploy the code to the cloud service or use a a plug-in to STS or Eclipse if they want to use a graphical IDE.
Running the supplied virtual machine helps in the testing process although again, configuring the security settings was little confusing; however, it is a once only process and the supplied on-line documentation certainly clarified the process. The various different steps involved depending on whether the application requires none, single or multiple services are also well documented on the website.
Apart from the issues mentioned regarding data storage, writing for the cloud is not much different from normal web based development. It is the initial setting up of the application areas and the security that can take a little work, but that is often the case with conventional web-based code. Once the application is deployed on the cloud, then developers can sit back and not worry about such dull things as hard discs failing or server availability, that has just become someone else's problem.