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It is meant to be violent, corrupt, divided, disorganised, economically backward, unjust and a haven for extremists. But having visited Pakistan a dozen times over the past three years, I'm struck by how its international reputation contrasts with what it's like to actually be there.
The capital, Islamabad, felt surprisingly tranquil when I arrived 2½ weeks ago to report on the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. As my flash Honda Civic hire car sped along a well-maintained freeway, en route to bin Laden's compound, traffic police in neat blue uniforms were on duty to monitor speed limits.
Abbottabad, the picturesque town that hosted bin Laden's lair, was bustling but calm. It didn't really feel like a nation in deep crisis.
Even so, the bin Laden fiasco has triggered fresh speculation over the future of Pakistan. That's nothing new - Pakistan's viability has been queried ever since British India was partitioned to create a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims in 1947.
Pakistan's biggest crisis was the bloody war in 1971 which led to the secession of East Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. But the insurgency spearheaded by the Pakistan Taliban, which has gathered momentum over the past few years thanks in part to the Afghanistan war, has renewed concerns about Pakistan's survival.
After Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in late 2007 headlines claimed the country was on the brink of civil war. In 2009 there were breathless warnings that Taliban insurgents were on Islamabad's doorstep. Many feared the worst after last year's devastating floods.
But, so far, Pakistan has survived. Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who chaired the White House's strategic review of policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009, recently added his gloomy forecast.
In a book called Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad, Riedel warns that a jihadist state is possible in Pakistan and urges the US and its allies to do everything possible to forestall that danger. Islamabad has the world's fastest-growing nuclear arsenal and may already have the fifth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, surpassing Britain's.
The signs are it's on course to be the fourth-largest nuclear weapons state in the world, ahead of France.
"Imagine a jihadist state with the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in the world," Riedel told an audience at the Washington think tank the Brookings Institution. "If that doesn't scare you at night, then you're watching too many horror movies."
So will the doomsayers on Pakistan eventually be proved right? Anatol Lieven, professor of international relations and terrorism studies at Kings College London, doesn't think so. In his fine new book Pakistan. A Hard Country, Lieven argues that while the state is weak, Pakistani society is immensely strong.
Deeply rooted social traditions, such as kinship networks, have contributed to many problems, including endemic corruption. But they should also be strong enough stop any push for radical change, including a takeover by Islamic militants.
"Pakistan, though a deeply troubled state, is also a tough one," concludes Lieven. "Barring catastrophic decisions by Washington, New Delhi - and of course Islamabad - it is likely to survive as a country."
The biggest long-run threat to Pakistan's existence is not insurgency, says Lieven, but ecological damage, being exacerbated by climate change, that causes food and water shortages. For all the international attention on Pakistan, we hear little about its society and culture. Lieven, a journalist turned academic, with many years of experience in Pakistan, claims the country is not well understood, and often badly misrepresented, in the West because "so many analysts are too afraid to go there, or if they go, to travel outside Islamabad".
The strength of Pakistan's societies has been underscored amid recent armed conflicts and natural disasters.
When about 2 million fled fighting in Pakistan's Swat Valley region in 2009 all but 200,000 were estimated to have been taken in by friends, relatives and local families in nearby districts. Muhammad Ikram, a school teacher I met in the town of Swabi, was sheltering about 50 displaced people in his modest family compound. ''It's our religion, our custom, to provide shelter for people like this,'' he said.
This kind of behaviour is deeply entrenched in the region's Islamic tradition. ''People don't even think about it," says Professor Samina Yasmeen, the Pakistani-born director of the University of Western Australia's Centre for Muslim States and Societies. "If you can help, you do. It's part of the culture."
It's an aspect of Pakistani Islam often overshadowed by the publicity gained by hardliners promoting Sharia law. I've repeatedly benefited from this tradition. Many strangers, some extremely poor, have welcomed me into their homes in Pakistan and offered me a cup of tea or a meal.
Pakistan's strong social bonds were highlighted again during the devastating floods last July and August when households across the country took in the homeless. Thousands were affected in the north-western town of Nowshera, but I found almost half of the victims had been put up by locals.
"Many people here have opened their hearts,'' Mian Burhan, a local Red Crescent volunteer, told me.
Pakistan's monsoonal deluge affected about 21 million people, making it one of world's worst natural disasters in modern times. Entire villages were destroyed, more than 2 million hectares of crops were wiped out and infrastructure the length of Pakistan was damaged.
However, fears that flood-related food shortages might cause social unrest and political instability have not materialised. The resilience of flood-affected communities and a good winter wheat crop have helped keep things under control.
Maybe Pakistan isn't as fragile as it seems.
Matt Wade was the Herald's South Asia Correspondent. Hamish McDonald is on leave.


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The US president faces a tough decision on Iran. Brinkmanship has obviously failed to put an end to the nuclear weapons programme. Embargoes imposed by the UN have achieved little in making a dent on the leadership. Where coercion has obviously failed as a foreign policy tool, where does Washington go from here? Decision time for Barrack Obama has arrived.
While Israel has always opted for military action, the rationale for such a strike has been perceived to be fraught with too many unknown variables by the US. Domestic support for yet another overseas adventure is slim at best. That coupled with the possible fallout from a direct attack on Iran could very well spark a regional war embroiling other not-so-stable countries like Lebanon. Costs associated with a long-drawn conflict will run literally into hundreds of billions of dollar for the US treasury annually, money that is simply not there.
Yet, Washington cannot sit by and allow Iran time to develop a nuclear capability, a weapons programme that will almost certainly be aimed at the State of Israel. Diplomacy as a whole has taken a backseat as the Iran crisis has developed these last few years. Indeed, as Fareed Zakaria stated in his column in TIME magazine recently "while the sticks have been handled shrewdly, the carrots have not. The US has been unable to define for itself or for the world what would be an acceptable deal and, most important, what it is willing to do if Tehran agrees to such a deal. Would sanctions be lifted? Which ones? Would the US stop its efforts to overthrow the regime? Would it be willing to discuss normalisation of relations with Iran?" Valid questions all.
But then, making credible diplomatic overtures have their respective problems. Backing away from a bellicose tone to one of "carrot and stick" policy could be misinterpreted by Iranians as a softening of American position. Yet, a more balanced approach is now called for given that sanctions have not worked and outright military action is an extremely high risk option. Given the current scenario, i.e. Iranian legal export of oil facing serious constriction, estimates vary precisely how long the Iranian leadership can sustain the economy on current foreign exchange reserves. Even if this is a year down the line, and with all avenues cut off for an embattled regime, there is nothing to stop the Iranian government to allocate all available resources to develop at least one bomb. That is not a conducive scenario for either the West or Israel.
One possible solution to stop Iran from taking that drastic step has been discussed by Columbia University Scholar Robert Jervis. He states in his article (Getting to Yes with Iran. The challenges to Coercive Diplomacy): "In the most likely deal, Iran would agree to stop designing warheads and to refrain from enriching uranium above the 20% level. It would retain only limited stockpiles or uranium enriched to 5-20%, accept limits on the capacities of its enrichment facilities, allow robust inspections of its nuclear facilities, and agree to refrain from building facilities that the United States could not destroy. (Such a deal would permit the heavily fortified underground Fordow enrichment plant to remain open, since it is vulnerable to a US strike -- something that would displease the Israelis, whose own capabilities to overcome are insufficient Fordow's defences). In return, the United States would accept a limited Iranian enrichment programme, promise not to overthrow the regime (and maybe not to undermine it), and suspend sanctions that were imposed specifically in response to the nuclear programme." Such a deal could pave the possibility of normalisation of relations between Iran and the estranged West over the mid to long-term. But that step has to be taken, primarily by the US. For only the US can overcome Israel's obsession with an Iran having nuclear-enrichment capability.
The US must bring the Europeans into the fold to convince Israel that peace, and only a peaceful solution is the way forward. Engaging Iran in an armed conflict is not the solution; rather it will set the stage for a wider conflict whose outcome cannot be predicted. Overcoming deep-rooted suspicions on both sides of the negotiating table will take a lot of work by US policymakers. But that negotiation must begin now. And we are talking about serious negotiations here. The offer for truly credible negotiations and the first tentative steps will have to come from the Americans. Taking up the offer for genuine talks with the "great Satan" carries a lot of risk for the Iranian leadership. It may spark an internal struggle between hardliners and reformists. But it is a risk worth taking. No one gains from a conflict that will upset the relative peace Mid-East has enjoyed since the end of the second Iraq invasion.
The US president faces a tough decision on Iran. Brinkmanship has obviously failed to put an end to the nuclear weapons programme. Embargoes imposed by the UN have achieved little in making a dent on the leadership. Where coercion has obviously failed as a foreign policy tool, where does Washington go from here? Decision time for Barrack Obama has arrived.

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In the high-stakes poll battle in Amritsar, Congress candidate Capt Amarinder Singh wants to take no chances. Amid apprehensions that the fight between him and BJP's Arun Jaitley may hinge on a narrow margin, the former chief minister's team on Monday requested the Election Commission (EC) for deployment of two layers of central security forces at the counting stations.
Amarinder's campaign incharge Rana Gurjit Singh submitted four request in this regard from Amarinder's election agent Karanpal Sekhon to the Punjab chief electoral officer (CEO).
As per EC guidelines, the first layer is manned by personnel from central security forces such as the CRPF, the second by special police forces of the state — the Punjab Armed Police in this case — and the third and final layer by state police personnel.
The Congress alleged that the Amritsar district retur ning officer had let the local unit of CRPF man strong rooms on the first night after polling concluded on April 30, and it was only following a complaint from the party to the EC that an outside state battalion was moved in that night.
The party also expressed its apprehensions on the presence of state government employees inside the counting stations saying they are "susceptible to pressure" of the SAD-BJP alliance.
"We have demanded presence of only central government employees in counting stations as the state government staff is likely to be influenced through allurements or threats by the state government.
After the attack on advocate Vineet Mahajan, who had exposed nearly 7,000 forged votes in Amritsar North segment of BJP minister Anil Joshi, including the MLA's own and those of his family, we foresee that they (SAD-BJP) can do anything on the counting day," Rana Gurjit Singh said after meeting state CEO VK Singh.
In a letter to the EC, Amarinder's election a g ent Karanpal Sekhon said there were reports of ad hoc employees of the state government being deputed for counting at Amritsar "with a lure that they will be regularised if they favour the BJP candidate".
The party also demanded videography at all counting stations in the constituency. VK Singh, when contacted, said all strong rooms are already protected by the CRPF and they would continue to protect the counting hall till results are announced.
"Adequate CRPF companies were retained for this purpose, and the PAP and local police will secure the complexes from the outside," he said.
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Germany's Education Minister resigned yesterday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarised parts of her thesis – an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as it prepares for elections later this year.
Mrs Merkel said she had accepted "only with a very heavy heart" the resignation of Annette Schavan, who has been her education and research minister since 2005 and was considered close to the chancellor.
On Tuesday, Duesseldorf's Heinrich Heine University decided to revoke Ms Schavan's doctorate following a review of her 1980 thesis, which dealt with the formation of conscience. The review was undertaken after an anonymous blogger last year raised allegations of plagiarism, which the minister denies.
"I will not accept this decision – I neither copied nor deceived in my dissertation," she told reporters, speaking alongside Mrs Merkel at a brief news conference. "The accusations... hurt me deeply."
Ms Schavan made clear that she was going to prevent the issue turning into a festering problem for her party, and the government, as Germany gears up for parliamentary elections on September 22 in which the conservative Mrs Merkel will seek a third term.
Ms Schavan, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, announced her decision after returning from an official trip to South Africa during which, she said, she thought "thoroughly about the political consequences".
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NEW HAVEN -- The cry for peace isn't always expressed in serious terms. Whatever it takes to call our attention to the plight of war-torn countries, the hope for a world without conflict, the cartoonists of the world are using.
On Monday, the newly named NewAlliance Foundation Art Gallery at Gateway Community College will inaugurate its space with the "International Antiwar Cartoon Exhibit," a wonderful touring show of cartoons that have won the Ares Awaits You competition, sponsored by the International Salon of Antiwar Cartoon.
It's the 16th year of the competition, and the first time the exhibition tour has been shown in the U.S., according to Al Marder, chairman of the New Haven Peace Commission, one of the presenting organizations, along with the Gateway CC Peace Studies Center in collaboration with the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities, the Greater New Haven Peace Council and the City of New Haven.
That's a lot of people working for peace, and Marder, 91, a longtime peace and community activist, calls it "an amazing coincidence how everything happened" with the new space and the tour stop here.
The International Antiwar Cartoon Salon was founded 30 years ago in Kragujevac, Serbia, one of 130 so-called peace messenger cities around the world. A distinguished panel of art judges selects the finalists from more than 500 submissions, with a grand prize of 1,500 euros awarded to the top winner by the International Association of Peace Messenger Cities. Serbian artist Jugoslav Vlahovic took home that prize. Seven other peace cities donate to the runners-up.
Last year, Marder was in Kragujevac to award the grand prize.
"This whole concept of conflict resolution, especially with the violence in our cities is so important," he says. "New Haven really has a very large peace community. Witness, for example, (the city) had a resolution at the November election about converting the military budget to human needs, and 23,678 people voted for it." says Marder.
Evelyn Gard, Gateway's director of public affairs and marketing, calls it "the perfect exhibit for us, especially because it's on the corner of George and Church streets where it's accessible to the public."
The 70 cartoons -- none of which have any text -- vary in medium from watercolor to pen-and-ink with watercolor washes to color pencil, and get the message across with heart-tugging imagery, biting visual satire and much humor. They are, as Gard puts it "serious in their candor."
Chinese artist Xiaoqiang Hou's mother dove sits with her chicks on a nest of rifles with knotted barrels. German artist Waldemar Mandzel shows children holding out their empty dishes for food to a father figure pulling a cart that's filled only with missiles. A missile seems to be destroyed by a couple carrying a heart-shaped balloon, perhaps symbolizing that love can conquer everything (City of Pitesti, Romania, Award for artist Musa Gumus of Turkey).
Miroslav Barvircak depicts a child playing hopscotch amid a minefield. Bronze plaque winner Luk Descheemaker O-Sekoer of Belgium shows a tank crossing sign defaced to X out the tank and pencil in an "h" for Thanks.
"As you look at some of them, you will chuckle," says Marder. "What impresses me is it's a genre that's extremely popular, because the cartoon is for public viewing, as in a newspaper. It's a popular genre, but then artists have always conveyed their desire for peace and their understanding of peace. Some of our most famous art pieces such as (Picasso's) "Guernica," and by Goya and other artists have been classical portrayals of war and peace."
Marder was instrumental in getting the exhibit to New Haven. "The peace commission thought it would be a wonderful thing, not even knowing there was an art gallery at Gateway, but we wanted to tie it into the community," he says.
"What better place than where the students are coming downtown, and it ties into what we want to do with their peace studies program."
There will be a public reception Thursday from 5-7 p.m., which Marder will attend and to which invited guests include Jorge Perez, president of the New Haven Board of Alderman, D-5, and GCC President Dorsey Kendrick.
"I just hope people turn out for the next two weeks, especially young people, says Marder.
Title: International Antiwar Cartoon Exhibit
Where: NewAlliance Foundation Art Gallery at Gateway Community College, 20 Church St., New Haven
When: Monday through March 22; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays
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I read with interest the story ''Gas bills set to soar just as cold snap hits hard again'' (August 7, p1), but I have three questions.
Why does a charity such as St Vincent de Paul, whose spokesperson is extensively quoted, have the need to employ a ''director of research'', presumably paid out of public contributions?
Why would they wish to criticise ActewAGL, an organisation that has contributed more to the charitable and non-profit sector in the ACT - St Vincent de Paul no doubt included - than any other organisation by far?
And why would the spokesperson not acknowledge that while our local supplier does indeed have the lion's share of the local energy market, ActewAGL consistently provides ACT consumers with the lowest utility prices in Australia?
To suggest that ''there's a bit of a gouge in there'' seems grossly unfair. As the spokesperson acknowledges, the recent sharp rise in natural gas prices Australia-wide is due to economic factors that are beyond ActewAGL's control.
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Your obituary on the life of Cardinal Edward Clancy (''Cardinal for the ordinary people'', August 8, p10) was a little short on his achievements in Canberra. Sure, the flock welcomed the four churches and the school at Florey, but the cardinal's biggest achievement is in Bruce - Calvary Hospital, run by the Little Company of Mary (LCM).
The federal government had long planned a third public hospital for Canberra, but the public service argued that the Commonwealth Department of Health should run the new facility, just as it funded and operated Royal Canberra and Woden Valley hospitals for years.
The decision was made under prime minister Malcolm Fraser to proceed with construction, then the LCM put in a bid for operating rights. The public service resisted, and cabinet - with a good proportion of Catholics, including treasurer Phillip Lynch - dithered. Apparently the new treasurer, John Howard, was not convinced the LCM would be the best operator.
Very late in developments, Cardinal Clancy wrote a very personal letter to Malcolm Fraser (not a Catholic), and the LCM suddenly got over the line. That letter should still exist in the city's archives.
The LCM as operator, but not owner, of Calvary Hospital has been, on most measures, very successful at conducting the hospital's business as a lean and efficient unit.
When Royal Canberra and Woden Valley hospitals were crippled by strikes in the 1980s and 1990s, Calvary was seldom drawn into the disputes, and staff morale was always high.
Take a bow, Cardinal Clancy, for a job well done.
Bill Brown, Holt
Pell's earthly reward
On Monday, I watched the ABC's Four Corners program, which revealed further damning evidence of the Catholic Church's legal strategy over many years to protect its reputation and minimise its compensation payouts concerning child sexual abuse.
In mid-2013, I had a letter to the editor published that referred to Cardinal George Pell's combativeness about this issue and seeming lack of empathy towards the victims. His appearance before the royal commission only reinforced my view.
One Catholic priest told Four Corners: ''It's been a misguided attempt to preserve the Church's assets … the real assets of the Church are its people.''
So who was responsible for the strategy? It appears there is no one leader of the Catholic Church in Australia, however Bishop/Cardinal Pell's name cropped up in the various cases on the program, which alleged he hand-picked the lawyers and instructed them.
And what is his earthly reward for his work in this country? He has been promoted to the Vatican as ''prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy'' to sort out the Church's finances.
Let's hope he is a better accountant than social worker.
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Chills add to thrills
I congratulate Jack Waterford (''Wisdom in a dog of a proverb'', August 10, p17). His description of Andrew Barr's ''taxpayer funded monument to himself in the form of a football stadium'' was refreshing, and a true description of what is one of Barr's most ill-conceived and stupid ideas for Canberra's central business district.
Wasting millions on a potential white elephant that removes forever our much-loved and historic Civic pool doesn't make any sense.
Canberra already has a perfectly good stadium in Bruce, with excellent parking and good facilities. Has anyone considered that the much-discussed cold weather might actually be an advantage to Canberra teams hosting sides from the warmer climates of Sydney, Queensland and Perth? After all, union and league are cold-weather sports.
Our family has attended both codes regularly at GIO Stadium for decades, long before anyone heard of Andrew Barr. We rug up appropriately and enjoy getting behind our team. Why? Because we love watching the sport played in its preferred climate of cool to cold weather, which is perfectly suited to our existing stadium.
Attendance will not improve because of a roof, despite the government's expensive public relations exercise to sell it.
Parking in the CBD for thousands of people will be a pain. Everyone knows Canberrans attend games when their teams are winning - the weather has very little to do with it.
Andrew Barr, leave our CBD alone, your government hasn't done the best job so far. Stop wasting taxpayers' money on projects that only serve to upset and annoy the majority while appeasing the few.
Alison Chapple, Macquarie
Gammy hypocrisy
If Gammy, the baby at the centre of the surrogacy controversy, had been aborted (along with the other 100,000-odd unwanted Australian babies each year) as his alleged biological mother apparently condoned (60 Minutes, August 10), no one other than those directly involved, let alone the tens of thousands now clamouring for justice on Gammy's behalf, would have been any the wiser. We are indeed a hypocritical lot.
D.N. Callaghan, Kingston
Gen Y up to oldie trick
The light rail survey must have been conducted among Gen Y. They obviously want us oldies to pay for it before we fall off the twig.
They already complain that they will have too many of us to support in our dotage, presumably using ''their'' infrastructure.
Michael F. Buggy, Torrens
Proposal to rename Haig Park ignorant
The efforts of the Braddon Forum to change the name of Haig Park (''Residents push to remove Haig's name from park'', August 11, p1) is another example of a protest based on sheer ignorance. By their own admission they have no historical expertise on the subject.
Professor Peter Stanley is quite right in rejecting their case. The ''lions led by donkeys'' school of thought has long been discredited by serious academic study of the Great War, and several recent biographies show Douglas Haig has been badly maligned by the likes of Alan Clark and Denis Winter, and popular mythology. Interestingly, more than a million British ex-servicemen who fought under him lined the streets for his funeral cortege to pay their respects.
Perhaps the Braddon Forum might like to read widely about the man, and the Great War, before progressing further in their ill-conceived quest.
Chris Roberts, Curtin
To rename Haig Park would be a travesty (''Residents push to remove Haig's name from park'', August 11, p1). As German historian Fritz Fischer pointed out, World War I was a ''grab for world power''. It had to be, and was, defeated. Haig did as much as any single man to achieve this and in August 1918 used the Australians and Canadians as the spearhead in his final advance to victory.
The present proposal can only be seen as in line with leftist agitation to trash our cultural icons, rewrite our history, force innocent people to apologise for crimes they did not commit and denigrate our Diggers as victims rather than the victors they were.
Peter Edgar, Garran
If we are unhappy with the Haig Park appellation, and thank you to the residents for highlighting the horrors of war planning, it follows that Blamey Crescent, Campbell and others are under a cloud.
Matthew Ford, Kambah
Outlawing offensive language attacks fundamental freedoms
I fear we are at risk of losing something important now that the government has abandoned its free speech proposals. We are left with Australia claiming to believe in free speech but legislating a list of things Australians can't say. Isn't that an obvious contradiction?
You can try arguing that all right-minded people agree some things are so offensive that no one should say them. However, while we would all agree that saying things that give offence can be inappropriate, it doesn't follow that there should be a law against it.
History is full of societies that outlawed views that offended them and punished those who uttered them (think of Galileo, and maybe Peter Greste in our own time). However, with hindsight, most of those societies look pretty foolish and I can't think of any reason why ours will look better.
And who gets to decide which views are sufficiently offensive and which are not? Again, history is full of the wrong people getting to make those calls.
Different views enrich our society. That we might be offended by some seems to me like a small price to pay to avoid becoming the sort of society that burns books or heretics.
Greg Pinder, Charnwood
PM follows US lead
Rhys Stanley (Letters, August 11) questions why the Prime Minister does not seem to have responded to the humanitarian crisis in Palestine. I am surprised because the answer is simple. It is because America has not asked Australia to do so.
Geoff Barker, Flynn
Small steps in Iraq
I envy the editor his space to make more plain a vexed matter, but even the editor (''We helped break it, we must own it'', Times2, August 11, p2) has lacked room to propose practical solutions for Iraq and surrounds. We know the sorry history, but what is to come?
I suggest the West has to behave less like it arbitrarily wishes to build a many-roomed democratic mansion, and more like a pioneer who starts with a log cabin first. Get a central bit stable, and more stability will come. That could be the role of a Kurd state. A bit of strong leadership is now required, inside and outside of Kurdish influence. It is worth mentioning that Saladin was originally a Kurd, even if like Saddam he came from Tikrit. Some arms for the Kurds please, Mr America. Mesopotamia and surrounds is where human civilisation was born, and should be a park rather than a battleground.
Roy Darling, Florey
Western hypocrisy in Iraq
The English-speaking nations that wreaked a pretext-based hell on a previously stable Iraq from 2003 on, now have the gall to be outraged at the persecution of Christians in that country. Could we remind them that Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and then his deputy PM - no less - was actually a Christian?
And in this very same week we have NATO brazenly decrying the very idea of military force (potentially in Ukraine by Russia) being used for geopolitical objectives under the guise of peacekeeping. This is the very NATO that has been doing the same under American orders for the past couple of decades, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan.
Were there a Nobel prize for hypocrisy, it would surely be monopolised by the right-wing militarists of the West.
Alex Mattea, Kingston
Seeking a divine policy
George Williams (''Our rights, freedoms at risk'', Times2, August 11, p1) waxes lyrical about a nirvana where countries would simply do nothing to fight and indeed cut out the scourge on humanity embodied in such groups as ISIS and Hamas.
Well, here in George's nirvana, I am reminded that as the nation plunges headlong towards the first anniversary of the electorate having tossed that previous iteration of something resembling a national government into opposition, I would dearly like to receive the call that tells me that under Bill Shorten (or anybody else for that matter) Labor has reformed, and policy platforms developed.
I suspect the only call of any importance coming my way will be from a granddaughter reminding me that ''nirvana'' or not, she will be turning seven a few days after the aforementioned anniversary - and I might indeed have in place a ''policy'' to address this matter.
Michael Doyle, Fraser
ABS has job to do
Perhaps it's time the Bureau of Statistics reviewed its method of calculating unemployment figures. The bureau says the ACT's unemployment rate rose by 0.1 per cent in July (0.3 per cent nationally), and yet the ''number of ACT residents in employment increased by 200'' (''Jobless rate rises - and worse to come'', August 8, p1). There's a technical explanation for this apparent anomaly, but it's probably still confusing to tell people that unemployment is increasing but employment is also increasing!
Wouldn't it be possible, and more accurately describe the situation, to show each month the percentage of the population (or the percentage of the workforce - say, people between ages 15 and 65) who are unemployed?
R.S. Gilbert, Braddon
Abortion indefensible
I don't know if Senator Eric Abetz has got the scientific bull by the tail about a demonstrated link between breast cancer and abortion, but one fundamental fact stands unchallengeable.
Abortion is the direct killing of an innocent and unrepeatable human being mainly to make life easier for another or others, ie. murder.
To suggest that we are not human beings and have no rights until we are born, as the ACT Human Rights Act assumes, is an insult to one's intelligence. Modern science has proven that we obtain our unique human characteristics at conception and no number of emotive feminist distractions will alter this fact.
Shame on bodies like the AMA for rushing to defend the indefensible.
John Popplewell, Hackett
How refreshing to see that two of Australia's leading business identities will be speaking out against Australia's rampant population growth at the National Press Club this Wednesday.
The economic benefits of population growth flow only to the few who specialise in reaping the profits. The real costs are borne by the rest of us. Dick Smith and Graham Turner are willing to put country before profits. If only there were more like them!
Martin Tye, Broulee, NSW
A gong to Tony Abbott for abandoning section 18c of the Racial Vilification Act. The hate-speech conservative ideologues are out-trumped by realpolitik and commonsense.
Francis Bucknell, Lyons
If preferring empathy to vilification, truth to lies, knowledge to ignorance, reason to blind faith, science to religion, and liberalism to conservatism means being a bigot, Frank Scargill (Letters, August 11), by all means count me in.
Jon Stirzaker, Latham
Could Tony Abbott and his ministers please explain why they accept the science on breast cancer and abortion, but won't accept the science on global warming?
Felicity Chivas, Scullin
The past week's criticisms of ''Team Austraya'' have been ill-founded and based on the mishearing of ''I'm leading the team astray''.
Heino Lepp, Macquarie
Where is Mrs Abbott? I don't think I have seen her accompany the Prime Minister on any public appearance here or overseas, political or humanitarian. Isn't this odd?
Jennifer Saunders, Canberra City
Will a national day of mourning and the associated memorial service be held for future Australian travellers, sea or air, unfortunate enough to be the innocent victims of ever increasing international violence, or only when our country's leadership capability is rating low in the polls?
Eva Reid, Farrer
Once again at Manuka Oval on Saturday, the supply of food and refreshment was appalling. No lemonade, and the queue for the one-man-operated ice-cream truck was a mile long all day. Each time I go to this venue, the food story is always the same: sadly lacking.
Brian Higgins, Gowrie
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According to the power rankings article on pft, Deon is still a free agent... He was an integral part of our defense the last few years... Am I missing something here? Why isn't he back?
Btw, I love the new boards... The first overhaul was in 04 and these were ling overdue... Too hard we can't see the threads from our 07 run..


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im building a '77 omega and ive found a borg warner rock crusher 4 spd to put in it but i need some beef to turn it. i found a pontiac 400 and i was wondering if a pontiac 400 and a chevy 400 were the same and is it a big block or a small block cause a 400 is right on that line. sorry i didnt mean to make 2 post! i got lost.
rock crusher
ive been told that its a borg-warner but ive not picked it up although i have been told that they have not been made since the eighties. ive also had some old hot rodders tell me that muncie never made the crusher it was borg but all the same visa-versa
In "old hot rodder" circles, Borg Warner is known for the T-10 4-speed and variants. Muncie is known for the M20 wide ratio 4-speed, M21 close ratio and M22 close ratio "rock crusher".
Google it.
Better find a trans ID guide to take with and make sure it's not a Saginaw. I don't know how many people have told me that they had a Borg Wwarner T-10 or Muncie "Rock Crusher" for sale and it turned out to be a Saginaw.
Pontiac used three different Muncies. The M20 wide ratio, the M21 close ratio, both of which had helical gears, and the M22 close ratio with straight cut gears, asa "The Rock Crusher".
the transmissoins will not bolt up probraby more horeses in the pontiac
The transmissions won't bolt up to what?? The Pontiac bellhousing or the Chevy bellhousing?
lmao amusing thread here
also to confuse things some more the M20 rpo code is the 4 speed top loader trans code for the old 60s and 70s trucks
Let's start at the beginning. First, the Pontiac and Chevy motors are completely different designs with different bore, stroke, castings, and bolt patterns. The motor mounts are different. The bellhousing bolt patterns are different. The accessory brackets and locations are different. The exhaust manifolds are different. The starter motors are different and are on opposite sides. The only thing they have in common is the distributor cap!
The Chevy 400 is in the small block family. Pontiac motors have all one family (excepting 301s and 267s with their shorter deck height) so there is no big/small block distinction.
As for the trans, the BELLHOUSINGS are different, but with the correct bellhousing, you can bolt any GM-compatible trans to either motor.
ok im going with the pontiac 400 and as for the trans some one is picking it up on there way through okc but it was 75 bucks and if it explodes after puting it in ill just get a different tranny plus i have a buick trans in the shop that looks just like the pontiac trans siting next to it. the buick tranny being a good one and the pontiac having huge holes and cracks all over.
thanks for all the input, i will up date on the 4 spd
The transmission should bolt up to the bell housing with no issues. A Chevy bell housing will not bolt up to a Pontiac engine and visa versa. The standards were pretty much interchangeable back then. The only issue will be to get the right spline and pilot bearing for the clutch and crank up front and the correct yolk and drive shaft length for the back.
The rock crushers were called that because they were noisy due to the straight cut gears. The straight cuts were supposed to be stronger.
The m-22 is easy to work on. I rebuilt a few back in the day.
The BW transmissions were not bad either but everyone wanted a Muncie
The m20, m21, etc are rpos I think had more to do with being close and wide ratios. My old boss had a 79 camaro with a factory 4 speed it was a super t10 and had the m21 rpo on the option sticker. Muncies supposedly didn't come in vehicles past 74 or 75 but some Canadian cars received them later on. I guess they were using up old stock.
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Twitter is saying that Peterson had a horrifc knee injury did anyone see it. Hope he is okay great player
Showed it on Fox halftime show. nasty. if you saw the Willis Mcgahee knee video from his college days, this was close. Very hyper extended.
Everyone has the right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.


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|Source: No-trade wouldn't impact Red Sox' chances of landing Asdrubal Cabrera
|12.03.12 at 2:21 pm ET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A source confirmed to WEEI.com Monday that the Red Sox are one of six teams on Asdrubal Cabrera's no-trade list. However, the source indicated the clause would not be an impediment to any deal and that shortstop would be open to a trade.
Cabrera's limited no-trade clause simply represents a form of leverage in the event that a deal involving the 27-year-old were to be struck. The list consists of the Sox, Yankees, Tigers, Nationals, Giants and Mets.
An All-Star in each of the last two seasons, the switch-hitting Cabrera hit .270/.338/.423 last season with 16 homers, 68 RBI and nine stolen bases.
|Sunday's Red Sox-Indians matchups: Jon Lester vs. Corey Kluber
|08.12.12 at 9:37 am ET
Red Sox left-hander Jon Lester will start against the Indians in the final game of the four-game series at Progressive Field on Sunday afternoon.
In his last outing, the 28-year-old threw 6 2/3 innings and allowed four runs in a 6-3 loss to the Rangers. Lester (5-10, 5.36) is on a two-game losing streak. The Red Sox have lost six of his last seven starts.
Boston defeated the Yankees when Lester pitched six innings and allowed four runs in late July. The lefty has not won a start since June 27, when the Red Sox defeated the Blue Jays 10-4. Lester pitched seven innings of four-run baseball in that game.
Lester hasn't pitched against the Indians since May 25, when he allowed zero runs through six innings in a Red Sox victory.
Corey Kluber, who will be starting for the Indians, has never faced the Red Sox in his career. In two years in the majors, Kluber (0-0, 6.10) has pitched in five games. He has started twice in his career, both times this season.
Both of Kluber's starts ended in losses. In his last outing, the 26-year-old allowed one earned run in six innings as the Indians lost to Minnesota. In his first start of the season, on Aug. 2, Kluber allowed six runs through 4 1/3 innings to the Royals. Read the rest of this entry »
|Daniel Bard regrets shaking off Salty and watching his streak come to an end
|08.02.11 at 12:21 am ET
Daniel Bard hasn't gotten this far in his big league career and had the success he's had without paying attention to the little details.
That's why Monday's game might stick in his craw just a little longer than normal.
He threw a pitch – that in hindsight – he had no reason to throw since recent history dictated that you don't sneak a slider down and in on Asdrubal Cabrera.
And the last thing Bard wanted was to have his career-best 26 1/3 scoreless innings streak end and have it end costing the Red Sox a game. But that's what happened Monday night when he gave up a two-run homer to Cabrera in the eighth inning, leading the Indians to a 9-6 win over the Red Sox at Fenway.
Ironically, it was Cabrera who last got to Bard for an RBI hit when he doubled off the Sox reliever on May 23 with two outs to help the Indians to a 3-2 win in Cleveland. Between that May 23 appearance and Monday night, when he shook off Jarrod Saltalamacchia and went to a slider to Cabrera, Bard had gone 25 straight outings without allowing a run.
The second Cabrera homer of the night came on a 1-2 pitch, a slider that Bard was trying to sneak past Cabrera. Instead, it was blasted like a rocket to right, caroming off a fan's left knee and flying back out to right fielder Josh Reddick. After ruling it initially a single, the umpires went back in and looked more closely. Verdict: Ball struck the fan sitting down clearly on the other side of the fence and in fair territory.
'Apparently, hit a lady in the knee," Bard said after seeing the stitches from the ball leave a mark in the woman's left knee. "From my perspective it looked like it stayed in the park but it looks like they got it right. The pitch to Cabrera I thought was a pretty good pitch and I didn't realize Lackey had thrown him quite of few of those same sliders down and in. I think he was probably sitting on that one. So I probably should've stayed hard with him there. Read the rest of this entry »
|Transcript of Terry Francona on The Big Show: 'When [Daniel] Bard's in the game, Bard's pitching'
|05.24.11 at 4:12 pm ET
Red Sox manager Terry Francona joined The Big Show Tuesday afternoon to talk about the injury status of Dustin Pedroia and Daisuke Matsuzaka. He also addressed his decision to let Daniel Bard pitch to Cleveland's red-hot Asdrubal Cabrera in Monday night's 3-2 loss to the Indians. Boston had a 2-1 lead heading into the eighth, but Bard (1-4) gave up two runs in the inning and took the loss. Cabrera's RBI double proved to be the game-winner.
"When Bard's in the game, Bard's pitching." Francona said. "The reason we took him out is we lost the lead and we're trying to minimize his workload. But we never match up Bard with lefties or righties or take him out for a lefty. I think last year he led the league vs. lefties, so he's almost like having a lefty. That right there for me, it's not an option.
"I actually don't mind facing [Cabrera] — and again I know Cabrera is hot right now — but having the open base sometimes can really be an advantage. Bard, if you look back at the at-bat, he threw [Cabrera] a breaking ball that I don't know how he fouled off and kept himself alive. I think if I'd have [intentionally walked Cabrera], it would have been more for me to maybe cover my backside and I wouldn't have agreed with it, so I really don't want to do something like that."
Francona also said that Bard has not performed as well as he did last season.
"What he did last year was probably hard to duplicate. He was on such a run for such a long period of time," Francona said. "I don't think his command at times is exactly what it was last year, because when he throws the velocity is tremendous. I think there's times when the life through the zone isn't quite the same. Not always, just sometimes. Because you see right now like last night when he makes a mistake, he got hit, and we didn't really see that last year. Now saying that, it's obvious how much confidence I have in him because we go to him almost every time somebody's on base or the game's on the line because of the amount of confidence we have in him."
Following is a transcript of the conversation. To hear the interview, go to The Big Show audio on demand page.
How's [Pedroia] doing today?
You know what? He's OK. He popped his head in about an hour ago kind of gave me a thumbs up. I think he gave us all a scare last night, including himself. He went around the bag [Monday night against Cleveland] and kind of slipped. It was wet and he turned an ankle and he's got that screw in there and gave him a little zinger, kind of a bolt of lightning going up that leg. We obviously needed to get him out of there because of that.
The doctors came over right away and looked at him and he's OK, and again he got the feeling back real quick. I was kind of thinking about giving him today off anyway, because we've got the noon game tomorrow, and that kind of clinched it after that.
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Jason Mraz Splits From Fiancee Tristan Prettyman
Six months after announcing their engagement, Jason Mraz has split from his fiancée, 29-year-old singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman.
The 33-year-old 'I'm Yours' singer revealed the news to The Daily Beast at the Samsung Hope for Children gala on Tuesday night. "My greatest mistake right now is, I've been clinging to my art," he said. "In that, I have victory for my art and a great loss for my heart. At the moment, my beautiful fiancée is no longer my beautiful fiancée."
Mraz proposed to his on-again-off-again girlfriend in December, tweeting "SHE SAID YES" on Christmas Eve. However, the couple had no plans to wed until marriage became legal for everyone.
"We can't get married until [gay] marriage is legal and equal," Mraz told Us Weekly in January. "I think giving people the right to marry will be a huge movement in civil rights."
As for the reason behind their breakup, Mraz said, "Two halves don't make a whole, two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man."
For now, the split is amicable. "We are still super friends, we go to yoga together, we surf together," Mraz said. "We acknowledge the journey that each of us is on. We certainly want each of us to feel whole and complete. And it's when you're whole and complete that that attraction exists and it really thrives."
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Soap Lake will remain 'Soap Lake'
The body of water known as Soap Lake will continue to be known as Soap Lake.
Likewise, Ebey Slough between Everett and Marysville will stay a slough, instead of a polysyllabic "estuary."
The state Committee on Geographic Names announced Friday that it has deferred a controversial proposal to rename Soap Lake, whose slippery and mineral-filled water is reputed to heal people, as Lake Smokiam in honor of the area's Native American peoples. The committee denied outright a plan to rename Ebey Slough, a part of the Snohomish River Delta, as an estuary to emphasize its saltwater ecology and provide a "more welcoming" image that's been endorsed by the city of Marysville.
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Was hoping to see this yesterday. Mainly interested in how it will be priced/equipped compared to the Kindle Fire and others..... rumor mill is sometime in October.
Was hoping to see this yesterday. Mainly interested in how it will be priced/equipped compared to the Kindle Fire and others..... rumor mill is sometime in October.
They wouldn't have two huge launches in the same event. It's still coming out, but like you said, probably next month.
It's better than Microsoft surface back in July Steve Ballmer holds a preview of the Windows RT Surface and then tells the world that the thing ships sometimes in November. Gee, thanks for telling us that.
$299 base? $349? Doubt they would match nexus 7/kindle fire at $199/$249.
They could probably release it at $299 or less.. but there is a line to draw between max profit, and number of sales. Would they sell 25% more if the price were 25% cheaper? i.e. 10 mil units at $299 vs 7.5 mil units at $399? They have such high brand loyalty and name recognition I think they'd probably lose out on profit trying to price match other 7" tablets. History tells us people will pay the premium and be happy about it.
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Really small equates to more expensive. I think $299 for a non-Retina < 8" iPad is reasonable. It's also telling that Apple just stopped selling the original iPad but still sells the 2 for $399.
I'm waiting for the mini to come out but i will probably be disappointed and get the new kindle fire. It's cheap and gets the job done. Probably will be cheaper than the iPad mini
Kindle Fire has always been a good little tablet with pretty darn good specs when compared with other tablets considering its price point. What made a lot of techies sad was that the Fire used a version of Android specific for Amazon, but now you can root your Kindle Fire and install a normal version of Android. However, Amazon never really marketed the Fire to compete with other tablets because of its small size and known capacity as an ereader/ebook... despite its pretty decent power.
However, the new lineup of HD Fires are even more impressive given the resolution, specs, features, and the great price. The 8.9 inchers flat out beat the Ipad 3 in several categories, and once again, at the price point that is impressive.
- The software on the 8.9 is very sluggish, not an improvement from previous Kindle Fire.
- Speaker is better, Amazon book store is better than iTunes
- Amazon claim to have faster Wifi but tests from Anandtech reveals it's competitive but not clearly better
- The Kindle Fire CPU/GPU worst than Nexus 7's Tegra 3 which the iPad 3 beats across the board.
I can't see Amazon making a huge run against the iPad charging $499/$599 for the 8.9 LTE versions while Apple is serving up $629+ for iPad 3 LTE but it's 10" vs 8.9"
The software is garbage on the KF, sluggish, boxed in, and you have to pay to remove ads. Majority of the people buying are not going to flash the device. The Amazon app store is pure garbage.
The sweet spot for Android tablet is $200-300. Most Android folks do not care about built in LTE service when hotspot is a feature on their smartphone.
The Nexus 7 is also a better choice than KF 7", so this year the competition is stiffer for Amazon not for Apple yet. I can't see Apple losing any marketshare this year once the iPad Mini is out, they will sell even more.
If the iPad Mini uses the same SOC as the iPhone 5, I assume so. It will be very tough to beat until next year. Not a single chip out today can match the A6.
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Yes I don't expect the Kindle to be near as advanced as the Ipad as far as what it can do. At least not when Amazon is wanting to keep the Kindle very simple which is a plus to some users while other users don't like it. But, there's plenty of people who think Apple's mobile OS are too simple too, so it's all relative to the user.
As far as the ads go, I use to have a Kindle Keyboard with "special features" (ads ) and they were not troublesome in the least because they were only present when the device was sleeping. I am guessing they are still using this method? Or are there visible ads when you are actually working on the device? I have not read anything on this.
I have to disagree with the Fire's OS being sluggish. IMO its a very snappy OS that shows good response throughout. Better than my Droid Bionic phone running on Ginger Bread for sure. I also like Amazon's app store apart from the limited number of apps when compared to Google Play and Itunes. Despite that I don't really use Amazon's app store because I use my Fire as a reader 90% of the time I am on it.
I can't see myself with a true tablet device anytime soon (I still see the Kindle Fire as an E-reader, maybe I'm in the minority though?) and I still go out and purchase real books while I use my Fire for free books. If I pay money for it then I want to be able to look at it on my bookshelves! I'm still a CD guy too for music.
Also from what I have seen about the Wifi quality is not really that it is much faster but that it works better at farther distances.
Otherwise I wouldn't buy for myself, but wouldn't put past getting it for a family member. I'm honestly tempted since I use Amazon Prime and they only have an app for the iPad and not Android even though the Kindle is android based.
Let me specify, There's no Android app for Amazon Instant Video.
gotcha.. yea I think it's a little strange too.. but it only came out a couple months ago, so I assume an Android version can't be far behind.
from what I read about 2 weeks ago that it will be announce in the first 10 days of November but I don't know exactly when
iPad mini. $329, $429, $529.. 16GB, 32GB, 64GB.
Nexus7 still looks mighty good at $200 (8GB) /$249 (32GB.. 16GB has been replaced) with it's higher DPI screen.
Especially with the rumored 3G option being announced Friday.
Cue Vision33r as to why we are dead wrong.
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Hi great shots I have been doing more activity shots my self and enjoy that. Congratulations on the editors choice. Peter
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Nice shots. Have you had those two lenses long, and do you like them? I am renting both of them from lensrentals.com for a wedding I am shooting in a couple weeks. I'm hoping to get good results with them.
I like your zest for life, you are always doing/trying something new! It encourages me to get out there and try new things too. I've had a bad week with my 2 kids down with the flu and then a tummy bug in the youngest one. It makes me think more about my rejections this week. Thanks for the pick-me-up :0)
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#4 XAVIER (27-7, 12-4 Atlantic 10) vs. #1 PITT (30-4, 15-3 Big East)
NCAA Tournament Regionals Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:27 p.m. ET TD Banknorth Garden (19,600) Boston, Mass.
Television: CBS (Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery; Producer: Bob Mansbach).
Radio: Pitt Panthers/ISP Sports Radio Network (Bill Hillgrove and Dick Groat), 94.5-FM (WWSW), 970 AM (WBGG). XM Satellite Radio: TBA.
Internet Radio Broadcast/Live Stats: www.pittsburghpanthers.com
The Coaches: Pitt: Jamie Dixon, 10th year at Pitt, 6th year as head coach (162-44); Xavier: Sean Miller, 5th year at XU (120-46), 5th year as a head coach (120-46).
Rankings: Pitt: 4-AP, 4-ESPN; Xavier: 20-AP, 22-ESPN.
NCAA Tournament Notes: Pitt has advanced to NCAA Sweet Sixteen play in five of its last eight seasons. Only two programs have surpassed that achievement (6-Duke and 6-Kansas) and two have matched that accomplishment (Connecticut-5 and Texas-5). In its school record eighth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, Pitt is a No. 1 seed for the first time in school history. Pitt is one of only eight programs nationally to advance to each of the last eight NCAA Tourneys.
No. 4 ranked and No. 1 seeded Pitt (30-4, 15-3 Big East) travels to Boston, Mass. and the TD Banknorth Garden to compete in its fifth NCAA Regional in the last eight seasons against No. 20 ranked and No. 4 seeded Xavier (27-7, 12-4 Atlantic 10). Tipoff is at 7:27 p.m. ET. No. 2 seed Duke (30-6) and No. 3 seed Villanova (28-7) meet in the second game at approximately 9:57 p.m. ET.
The contest will be nationally televised on CBS with Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery making the call. Bob Mansbach (producer) and Suzanne Smith (director) handle production.
Should Pitt win its NCAA Regional contest it would advance to Saturday's Elite Eight competition against the winner of the Duke-Villanova contest. Tipoff time is TBA on Saturday, March 28.
Pitt has now advanced to NCAA Sweet Sixteen play in five of the last eight seasons. Only two schools (Duke-6 and Kansas-6) have surpassed that accomplishment while two others (Connecticut-5 and Texas-5) have matched it. Pitt has never advanced past the Sweet Sixteen in a 64-team NCAA Tournament. Pitt made it to the Elite Eight in 1974, a 32-team tournament. Pitt played in the 1941 NCAA Final Four, an event that featured only eight teams. This year, Pitt earned a school record eighth consecutive NCAA Tournament berth. Previously, Pitt had made three straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 1987-89. Pitt is one of only eight schools nationally to advance to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last eight seasons. The others include Arizona, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Michigan State, Pitt, Texas and Wisconsin.
Pitt Head Coach Jamie Dixon (162-44) became the first head coach in school history to guide Pitt to six consecutive NCAA Tournaments. With a win over Oklahoma State, Dixon set the NCAA Division I all-time record for most victories after six seasons as a head coach. North Carolina State's Everett Case previously held the record with 161 wins from 1947-52. Additionally, Dixon has guided Pitt to NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances in three of his six years as head coach at Pitt (2004, 2007 and 2009).
Pitt is in its 21st all-time NCAA Tournament. It is 20-21 in its 41 all-time NCAA Tournament games. Since 2002, Pitt is 12-7 in its 19 NCAA Tournament games, reaching the NCAA Regional Round five times (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009). In addition, Dixon owns an 8-5 record in his 13 NCAA Tourney games as head coach.
The 2008-09 season has seen a number of firsts for the Pitt basketball program. Pitt ascended to the nation's No. 1 ranking on two different occasions and three weeks during the regular season. Pitt also defeated the nation's No. 1 ranked team for the first time in school history. It also earned a No. 1 seed upon entering the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history. Previously it had been a No. 2 seed on two different occasions (2-1988, 2-2003). Pitt also set school-records with a program-high 15 Big East wins and completed its home schedule undefeated for the fourth time in school history at 19-0. Pitt needs one more victory to tie the school record for most wins in a season (31 in Dixon's first year in 2003-04).
Pitt enters the NCAA Regional with a 30-4 overall record. Over the last eight years (2001-08), Pitt has proven to be the winningest Big East Conference basketball program. From 2001-08, Pitt owns the league's top records for league play (96-36) and overall games (219-55). Pitt is the only Big East Conference program to win both 20 or more overall games and 10 or more league games in each of the last eight seasons. Prior to the 2001-02 season, Pitt won 20 or more games in only two consecutive seasons. It marks Pitt's 16th all-time 20-win season. In addition, Jamie Dixon became the first head coach in school history to win 20-plus games in six straight years. He is the only coach in school history to guide to Pitt to a 30-win season (31 in 2003-04 and 30 in 2008-09).
Pitt enters the game after having won 12 of its last 14 contests. At 15-3, Pitt finished the Big East regular season tied for second place with Connecticut (15-3) and behind No. 1 Louisville (16-2). With two regular season wins over Connecticut, Pitt held the tiebreaker over the Huskies.
The 15 league wins set a school record for most Big East regular season victories. Pitt's senior class of Tyrell Biggs, Levance Fields and Sam Young has won a school record 111 wins from 2005-09. The previous school record was 108 wins set by the 2004-05 senior class of Chevon Troutman and Mark McCarroll. The current class has a 111-30 record.
Pitt advances to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen for the fifth time in the last eight seasons. Only two schools have advanced to more Sweet Sixteens than Pitt in the last eight years (Duke-6, Kansas-6). Pitt is one of only eight schools to advance to each of the last eight NCAA Tourneys. It is the only Big East program to play in the NCAA Tournament in each of the last eight years.
Over the last eight seasons, Pitt has proven to be the Big East's leader in overall (219-55, .799) and league winning percentage (96-36, .727), consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (8) and most 20-win, 10-league win seasons (8).
Jamie Dixon (162 wins) is the NCAA Division I all-time recordholder for most victories after six seasons as a head coach. He bested North Carolina State's Everett Case, who won 161 games from 1947-51.
Pitt has won 30 games for the second time in school history. The Panthers need one more win to tie the school record for most wins in a season (31 in 2003-04).
Pitt Lands St. John's Transfer Malik Ellison
Pitt to Host Montana and UCSB in Legends Classic
Davis Joins Pitt's 2017 Recruiting Class
Four Pitt Teams Earn APR Public Recognition Awards from NCAA
Woodley Named Special Assistant at Pitt
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Nick Baumann is in Germany and has spent the last week talking with German journalists. Across the political spectrum, he says, they all share a similar view on the euro crisis: rote opposition to both inflation and the idea that German taxpayers might have to pay to cover Spanish or Italian deficits:
Perhaps this isn't surprising. But what was shocking to me was the total absence of any recognition that there might be an alternate view. When I mentioned the idea that the euro's problems might not be entirely due to government irresponsibility on the periphery, but rather a balance-of-payments issue (see Matt Yglesias or our own Kevin Drum for more on that idea), people looked at me like I was from space. The fact that German and French banks are holding the bag for Spain and Italy's debt never came up, and no one seemed to have any doubts that the European Stability Mechanism, the fund the eurozone countries are setting up for emergencies, would be sufficiently large to deal with the situation.
....It's possible, of course, that my sample of journalists was oddly skewed and that German media are talking about this sort of stuff. But if Germans really are taking the "worry" side of the story seriously, it's a fringe thing. I spoke to reporters or editors from most of the country's largest papers and broadcasters, and they all seemed unconcerned. What's hard to convey remotely is the general mood: a kind of serenity, an almost utter confidence that everything will turn out fine. I hope they're right. But I'm not so sure.
I'm not so sure either. But if the confidence fairy has any power at all, I guess it's good to know that the German press has so much confidence that everything's going to turn out OK.


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By now, winter was approaching. The two traveled on across Iran, arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan, to clear days and 20-degree weather at night, with snow capping the distant mountains. They showed up in the only Volvo in Kabul.
Here is what Carol wrote home to her parents on October 1967: "Afghanistan is an amazing country. It hasn't really changed in 2000 years. Hardly anyone wears Western clothes. However they are the kindest and most honest people I have met yet and completely unpretentious. . . . Dad, it is melon season here and in Persia."
Meats hung drying on outdoor racks and turbaned men hawked yarn, apples, and utensils on outstretched wooden tables. In public, women still wore the chadri (now called the burqa), a full-length gown and veil. Lightweight and usually made of rayon, it covered the face in mesh and hung in long, thin pleats to the ground. Communism and the Soviet war had not yet gripped the country.
Carol wrote to her parents about making two purchases: "A beautiful embroidered lambskin jacket. They sell for around $10 and would be worth over $100 in the States — plus a lambskin hat for $1.00." Also, she was "watching my food because everyone seems to get dysentery here."
Even with the presence of dangers greater than dyspepsia, the young American remained unfazed. "The bazaars here are great. Gold jewelry and precious stones are cheap plus beautiful rugs and silks. Also practically everyone here carries a gun. It is quite funny."
Brits drove in Land Rovers painted with "London to Katmandu" signs. Junkies wandered around buying morphine for 50 cents from drug stores. There was occasional unrest, as when Carol wrote home about student demonstrations in Kabul: "[T]hey expect some shooting before dark. The whole town is full with police and army. The demonstration is against the opening of parliament or some such thing."
Or some such thing. Nothing to worry about, mom and dad. The melons are great.
She signed many of her letters "Your loving but far away daughter." At the bottom of one she appended a note:
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When Carol was a little girl in Roanoke, Virginia, she would often curl up in a crawl space off her bedroom. Tucked into an eave of the roof, the niche had enough room for a blanket, a pillow, and a flashlight. She didn't read a lot of books — still doesn't — but she read magazines and spent time listening to the adults talk.
Her family had moved from upstate New York to the South, where the other kids had (to Carol's ears) phony accents. She had worn jeans up north, but now was made to wear dresses; she hated that. "I liked being a nonconformist," she says, "much to my mother's dismay." Which is maybe why, sometime in the fifth or sixth grade, a particular issue of National Geographic devoted to Afghanistan wheedled its way into her heart. It would take another 10 years to fulfill her now-kindled desire to go there, but she needed to go to a place that was "so remote."
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Dulux told retail brokers the S&P/ASX small ordinaries index had dropped 11 per cent since it had first announced its offer, while the offer had been increased to $2.05 cash a share (including the 15¢ dividend).
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This exclusive interview with Lou Del Bianco was conducted by Nicola Linza and Cristoffer Neljesjö in New York during May 2011
My grandfather Luigi Del Bianco was born aboard a ship near La Havre, France on May 8, 1892. His parents, Vincenzo and Osvalda, were returning from the United States to Italy. When he was a small boy hanging around the wood carvingshop of his father in Meduno, Pordenone province, men of the village used to say, "How curious the little one is!" Vincenzo Del Bianco became convinced that his son was interested in carving and had more than ordinary ability. He took the 11 year old boy to Austria to study under a skilled stone carver. After two years in Vienna, Luigi then went on to study in Venice.
In 1909, cousins in Barre,Vermont wrote that skilled carvers were needed, 17 year old Luigi boarded the La Touraine out of Naples and headed for America. In 1913 World War I broke out and Luigi returned to Italy to fight for his country. After the war, He emigrated back to Barre, VT. In 1920 and after a year of work as a stonecutter, he settled in Port Chester, NY where he met his wife, Nicoletta Cardarelli.
How did Luigi come to be associated with Mount Rushmore designer Gutzon Borlgum?
The boys went to school, rode horses, became blood brothers to the Sioux and swam naked in the nearby streams. A daughter, Gloria, was born in 1946. She fondly remembers her father as "Charming, funny and very handsome."
Why wasn't Luigi given any credit or mentioned in most publications about his work?
Now, in terms of factual evidence, we know that most authors who wrote about Rushmore were from the area and wrote mostly about the men who were natives of South Dakota. We also know that Luigi quit the mountain several times over lack of wages. "The Borglum Papers" out of the Library of Congress, tells, in Borglum's own words, his frustration over the way Luigi was being treated:
"For the purpose of Washington's "red tape", a portion of our better men are designated as carvers; there are no carvers on the mountain—there never have been but one and he refused to return because of the chronic sabotage directed at him by influences in RapidCity, and the Park Department."