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There were no legal grounds for holding the Italian Marines: Surya Gangadharan
CNN-IBN's Surya Gangadharan on India-Italy standoff over the undertrial marines' non-return.
CNN-IBN's Surya Gangadharan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on India-Italy standoff over the under trial marines' non-return.
Q. What would Italy have done if India renegaded in a similar circumstance? Asked by: EMathew
A. I think we need to understand the legal situation first. I recall a top Indian navy source telling me last year that the Italian ship was outside the 12 nautical mile limit of Indian waters. Therefore, they cannot be tried in India, that is international law or the UN law of the sea. But our govt was on the defensive from within and without (the media) and the result is this. They should have been tried by the Italians. As for India we don't authorise our sailors to shoot at people in the high seas unless without good cause.
Q. Is there any relation between the Augusta deal and the Italian marines case? Asked by: EMathew
A. No absolutely not. They stand alone.
Q. We people are considered too soft by other countries. Do you think (though I know it won't) that the govt. will listen and highlight to other countries that we are no pushovers? Asked by: Gaurav
A. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Where India's vital interests are at stake we go the extra mile. In the case of the Maldives we were able to broker a deal between the ruling party and the opposition. The world knows we will not be moved on our vital interests like Kashmir, nuclear weapons etc.
Q. Hey Surya, this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Many will remember how the Union Carbide's Anderson was flown out of India by Arjun Singh (CM, MP) and Rajiv Gandhi. So its just a resounding approval of the fact that we are a very soft country. Asked by: Gaurav
A. You should ask the tribals of India, or the Kashmiris or those countless Sikh families who died during the years of militancy whether the Indian state was soft. As for Anderson ,it was a different time and am not sure there were any legal grounds for holding him.
Q. We honor our commitments with the word we have given. Italians had done the same and now is reneging. Can we sue and claim breach of trust on the same grounds. Asked by: EMathew
A. I am pretty sure the Italians would have informed the Indians of their intentions. The fact is the legal basis on which the Italians are being held is shaky. The incident took place outside Indian territorial waters, it is the Italian govt which is responsible and has to try the sailors, also the Italians have paid compensation to the Kerala families whose breadwinners were killed.
Q. Why do we allow 2 murderers facing trial, to go out of the country, so that they could celebrate Christmas or vote in the elections? Did the family of the dead fishermen celebrate Christmas? Would we accord the same rulings to others who are charged with murder? Haven't people heard of postal ballots? There was no reason to let them out of the country! And I believe this is in itself is evidence enough of a collusion! Asked by: Kart
A. I believe there was collusion because there were no legal grounds for holding them. This case is not in India's jurisdiction as it happened outside Indian waters. The issue became politically sticky for the Indian govt because of the outcry in Kerala. The Italians have offered arbitration but I think South Block would prefer to allow this thing to just fade away from public memory.
Q. What do you think will be the final outcome of this episode? In your opinion, do you think the marines will be sent back to India? And what will be the effect of this domestically? Asked by: Sandeep
A. The Italians are not coming back. I haven't heard any noise from the families of the dead fishermen, they've been compensated very handsomely by the Italians. I do hope the Italians probe the conduct of the two sailors and take action. It's tragic yes but it happened outside Indian waters and the matters should just be closed.
Q. Is Italians criminal on holiday in India. they are getting Christmas holidays and holiday to vote in Italy. Is the same treatment will be given to Indians if they are in Jails of Italy? Asked by: prathap
A. Which Indians are you referring to here? Indians in Italian jails for immigration offences committed on Italian soil. They need to be in jail, they are in Italy illegally, working illegally. Their case and that of the sailors are very different.
Q. Anderson, Kim davy, Quottarachi, Italian Marines. In all these has India made a mistake in trying to say they are culprits even before an investigation was done and the landed up mud in face? Asked by: sundar1950in
A. These are all different cases. Anderson am not sure can be held personally responsible for the Carbide tragedy. Kim Davy could be brought to India for interrogation in the purulia arms drop case. Quattrochi it would seem is a key figure in the Bofors scandal but got away with the connivance of the Indian govt agencies. The Italian marines have spent time in Indian jails so it would not be fair to say they've got away scot free. Plus they probably face some inquiry into their conduct in Italy.
Q. Guilty or not was to be decided by our Hon'ble supreme Court which has a fair view. Breach of trust by Italians to the court - does it not amount to Contempt of our Court? Asked by: sundar1950in
A. Sure but they are in Italy where the jurisdiction of Italian courts apply. What can an India court do about that.
Q. On India being soft-their are numerous evidences. What happened in Kandahar during 1999, late 1980s- J&K CM's daughter was abducted and the govt. had to leave some terrorists. Numerous terrorists incidents even after 26.11.2008-no lessons learnt. We could see the preparedness and the level of sophisticated weapons and protective shields provided to the forces. When SM Krishna was in Pakistan a couple of years back, we knew what happened at the Press Conference. Now Hafeez Saeed was seen with a Hurriat Separatist in Pakistan. What did the govt. do. The list is big. And yes, during Operation Bluestar something extraordinary happened. But that was exceptional. the govt. had no choice and India was in danger. Your views on this? Asked by: Gaurav
A. You are really going back in time but let me try. The Indian govt was accused of being soft when they released terrorists to get back the Indian hostages in Kandahar. That was also because our anti-terror systems failed to stop the aircraft on the ground. The J&K CMs daughter, yes I vaguely recall the enormous effort made to ensure she was set free; 26/11 was failure on multiple fronts from intelligence to basic policing. Hafeez Saeed is symptomatic of a larger problem, that of the Paki govt/army hand in glove with jihadi groups and we have yet to develop the instruments of state power to counter them. Those are failings. Bluestar was also a failing for although Bhindranwale was killed terrorism took off in Punjab for another six to seven years leading to Indira Gandhi's killing and the anti Sikh riots.
Q. Killing person or illegal emigration which is a bigger crime? Asked by: prathap
A. Killing yes but I was trying to make a legal point there. Our jurisdiction in the case of the Italian marines is questionable, senior Indian naval officers told me that the govt will end up with egg on its face, which it did!
Q. You replied to a query on Quattrochi, Anderson, Davy, etc. But if it had been USA instead of India, will the reply of India have been the same? We knew how USA's response was to Roman Polanski, Bobby Fischer, etc. Asked by: Gaurav
A. Forget Polanski etc, last year a US naval ship killed an Indian sailor at a port in the UAE. They informed us about it and said investigations are on. Not clear where it's headed since the ship involved has since left the UAE. But they are a 200 pound gorilla and we know we can do nothing. Much depends on what the UAE probe turns up but not sure how far that has gone.
Q. How can you have a view on jurisdiction which differs from view taken by SC? Asked by: Kapil
A. Why not, I have a brain and can think.
Q. You speak about tribals, Sikh and Kashmiri Separatists. Firstly, its India's internal matter. Secondly, Kashmir is a communal issue (you may agree/disagree). And not just tribals, Kashmiris, etc, everyone not in power or having links or money feels dissatisfied with the govt. This is because in India, politics is above everything else even for the tiniest of issues. I can elaborate if you want Surya! Asked by: Gaurav
A. Sure the Italian marines case took off because of the outcry in Kerala and AK Antony had no choice but to stand up for his constituents. All I'm saying is since the incident happened outside Indian waters, India has no jurisdiction here. This is what the Indian Navy also tells me.
Q. How can you say that they were wrongly held in India when SC ruled that Italians has to be tried by Indian Court. SC just said that case has to be registered by Central Govt rather than Karela Govt. Asked by: Kapil
A. I'm not a lawyer but this is a case under the UN law of the sea and that is very clear. Tomorrow if an Indian sailor on an Indian ship goes and kills an Italian outside Italian waters, it is Indian law that will apply, not Italian.
Q. If an Indian kill some one thinking that he is a dacoit in Italy will Indian government will protect them as being done by Italy? Asked by: prathap
A. It it happens in Italy we have no jurisdiction, but the Indian embassy will be given consular access and they can assist in his legal defence.
Q. The stand that it was in International waters does not hold water. An unabashed act of trigger happy Italians shooting down innocent fisherman has no excuses. If the victims were US or Gulf country citizens would the Italians got such a lenient treatment? Asked by: sundar1950in
A. I don't know.
Q. Hi Surya, Are you defending the Italy's decision to not send back the marines and trying to make the point that India has been wrong right from the very beginning? Asked by: Raj
A. My point is the Indian govt would have known this would happen. My guess is even the courts were in the know, how else could these guys have been allowed to travel outside even when the trial was on.
Q. Do you think there is a conspiracy here? India will lodge an official protest and then will later claim that due to this issue, Italians are not co-operating in Augusta Westland Probe? The Italian envoy has diplomatic immunity so he can't be tried for contempt of court but he can still be asked to go back. India can call back their embassy. This is shameful. Consider what China would have done in this case. Asked by: Raj
A. I can't speak for the Chinese. I think the scenario you are drawing is fanciful. In the AW case the probe is going on in Italy, not here. All the information/evidence is coming from there and the Italians are concerned about wrongdoing by their people! It remains to be seen what India's response will be. Salman Khurshid was circumlocutory as usual.
Q. Hypothetical, but if Italians were killed in hi sea by Indian soldiers, and arrested in Italy. Do you think our govt would have ever raised voice? Asked by: Kapil
A. Yes it would have and incidentally, you seem to be under the impression we are bunch of weasels. We are not. The Italians need us more given all the stuff we are buying from them. We can always take our business elsewhere.
Q. Is this not a legal matter? can India take it to International Criminal Court? Asked by: sundar1950in
A. The Italians have offered arbitration, yes we can take this forward if we want to.
Q. Does this not show that the Italians have a complete contempt for Indian systems and a complete lack of integrity? And if this is true what chance do we realistically have of getting those two back? Asked by: c4conscience
A. Mr Conscience have you considered that there was collusion between the two govt's, that the Indians would have known the Italians were not coming back. Get real. Those chaps are not coming back.
Q. Sir, if Italy remain adamant,what is the way out? Asked by: Shyam Vadalker
A. The Italians have offered arbitration that's a way forward. Or perhaps some international criminal court but we maybe wary of that route.
Q. If it was another country in say Europe, would they have allowed the marines who have been charged to go back to their nation even temporarily. Does the western world see India as a weak country? Asked by: Narayan
A. The west sees India as a place to do business with. Witness the Danish govt offering to do a deal on Kim Davy the Purulia arms drop key man. There were reports recently we will cold shoulder Danish firms trying to do business here. So we have enough leverage.
Q. Just one last thing to add on India being soft-the planned Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline. What was India's response to USA's suggestion on this. Now Pakistan and Iran have decide to start this. This pipeline would have been a boon for India. Your views. Asked by: Gaurav
A. We are okay with the pipeline if Pak wants to take it upto the Indian border at their cost. We will pay the cost in India. Once the gas starts coming we'll pay Iran for the gas and Pak the transit fee. Nothing more nothing less.
Q. You say that the Italian marines issue happened in the international waters. But what to the justice thing? Will the culprits go scot-free? Asked by: Gaurav
A. I hope not. Hope the Italians open an investigation and probe the conduct of their sailors.
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All the news photos show two people with broad smiles hugging each other, the tall man with gray hair clamping his arm around the petite brunette. Both look like winners, and both are, in their own way. But the media mavens have declared the woman a loser, even though she just made history — unanimously elected as the first woman ever to hold the most powerful legislative office in the land. The man is declared as a big winner, even though he is #2 to the woman. What to make of this strange turn of events?
This morning, the House Democratic Caucus elected Nancy Pelosi (Trinity '62) as the new Speaker of the House. The vote was unanimous. She made history, but apparently not so much progress in the minds of her party peers and media mavens. Her election was down in the story, after the lede that announced the victory of Steny Hoyer (D-MD) as Democratic Majority Leader, the #2 position after the Speaker.
Speaker-elect Pelosi backed John Murtha (D-PA) whose anti-war stance brought him to public attention this year. But Congressman Murtha was a controversial choice for Pelosi because of ethics issues, and the Democrats preferred Hoyer, who has been #2 to Pelosi for all of the years that she was Democratic Leader.
Confusing? Perhaps. But this blog is not about the politics of the Murtha v. Hoyer vote, or even about Pelosi's motivations in backing Murtha. Frankly, I have no idea what really went on, though I have read all the published news items. IMHO I think there are things that go on behind closed doors in the political arena that we common citizens will never understand …. not because we're stupid, but because the processes are not "transparent" in spite of decades of efforts to make them so.
Instead, for students of leadership and politics — and especially women's leadership — my reflection here is about losing and leading, learning the art of compromise in order to make progress. Nancy Pelosi must lead from this point forward, regardless of the loss she sustained today. She also won — the most powerful legislative position in the country, no small change! — and now she must learn to wear that mantle well. Perhaps this loss will be a great lesson for her.
Truly effective leaders have to practice a form of RealPolitik — certainly with a moral point of view, but avoiding extremes of ideology or rhetoric. The realistic leader must make compromises, be inclusive of many different points of view. The realistic leader knows that progress is not made through grand posturing, but rather, through persuading the rest of the community in small and subtle ways to move forward together in ways that serve the common good.
Losing a big contest might be a good thing for a leader. Losing pushes the leader away from the ideological edge, forces the leader to a position of realism, the imperative of finding the center where most people can agree.
Can Nancy Pelosi recover from losing her bet on Jack Murtha? Of course. For heaven's sakes, she's a seasoned politician, a woman who just made history. But to make progress, she will definitely have to work not only with the Hoyer camp and the majority of Democratic Congresspeople who backed him, but also with the new minority of Republicans who are just itching to turn the tables again. She is challenged to practice realism in ways this nation has not seen recently among its top political leaders.
Losing gracefully, embracing the winner, moving ahead with the common agenda — these are the marks of true leadership. If Pelosi does that, today's loss for her will be tomorrow's gain for all American citizens regardless of party or ideology. Learning to lose well, to turn the loss into a gain, is one of the most important lessons of leadership in today's conflictful political world.


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Advocates for medical marijuana typically run into arguments about smoking: "No real medicine is smoked; smoking anything is bad for the lungs so why would any doctor recommend something harmful?"
It's a line of reasoning that medical marijuana opponents have used effectively. But new research demonstrates that fears of "smoked marijuana" as medicine are completely unfounded.
While marijuana smoke has never been shown to cause lung cancer (in fact, quite the opposite), heavy marijuana smoking has been associated with adverse respiratory symptoms and an increased risk of bronchitis. That's because burning any plant material produces substances such as tars, smoke particles and carbon monoxide that are not good for the lungs.
Unlike smoking, a vaporizer does not burn the plant material, but heats it just to the point at which the THC (155-157 C.) and the other cannabinoids vaporize (CBN: 185 C., CBD: 187-190 – see article How Vaporizers Work).
Immediate effect makes dose estimate and titration better
Smoking has traditionally been the route of choice for most cannabis users because it delivers a more rapid 'hit' and this allows more accurate dose titration. Because the effect is nearly instantaneous, users can simply take as many puffs as they need, stopping when they've achieved the desired effect without excessive intoxication.
When intoxication is the main objective, every vaporizer user we have spoken to talks fondly of the crystal clear, 'up' high that leaves them motivated and full of energy, certainly when compared to the stoned drowsiness of a tobacco joint.


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As the microprocessor industry has shifted focus away from raw megahertz in favor of multiple cores and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), developers and IT managers have struggled to adapt to the new computing paradigm. Adding more cores is all well and good, but until the other components of the IT environment directly support multithreading, some of the touted performance gains remain largely hypothetical.
No company understands SMP as well as Sun Microsystems, having invested heavily in the technology since the 1990s. Sun's current UltraSparc T1 chips are the most multithreaded processor designs in the mainstream server market. Now Sun has turned its eye toward bringing network hardware up to speed with its new chip designs.
The Sun Multithreaded 10 Gig E Networking Technology, announced today, is the first networking hardware optimized specifically for parallel threaded environments, according to Sun spokespeople. By comparison, most current network hardware was designed to work with single-core, single-threaded processors, which creates a bottleneck in multi-core hardware. Sun's new design should benefit network-intensive applications, such as server virtualization or storage networking over iSCSI, running on multi-core x86 and Sparc processors.
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In 1971 the US was pulling troops out of Vietnam, and its bases in Germany were full of draftees at a loose end. "You were painting shovels, picking up cigarette butts – it was a lot of busy-work," remembers former serviceman Lewis Hitt. "There was a longing by everyone, especially the draftees, to get home and go back to what you were doing before."
This was the crucible in which were formed scores of raucous funk bands made up of servicemen, four of which have just been compiled by Now-Again Records. Adoring crowd noise was crudely dubbed on top of their records, which were then distributed in recruitment centres. These bands were used by the army to present service as varied, even hip. But the songs they cover – the bitter, suspicious likes of Backstabbers and Smiling Faces Sometimes – undermine any potential propagandising.
Hitt, now 62, was a white guitarist in East of Underground, a multi-ethnic group centred around three flamboyant black singers. He's the only member of all four bands to have surfaced. "I could see a message in there," he says of the singers' song choices. "There was a lot of distrust of authority, of government, with the war going on, and Nixon in office." Dave Hollander, who compiled the release, adds that "the music wasn't censored in any way. It was understood that the path of least resistance was to let the soldiers express themselves."
But Hitt, who got to sleep in late, tour Germany, and avoid being sent to Vietnam, is keen to point out it wasn't all doom and gloom. "The songs addressed love, right there alongside [ones such as] Hell Below. Maybe we all mistrusted a lot of what was going on, and we didn't like the war, but there's love in your life, good times." This sweeter side is reflected poignantly by another band on the compilation, the Sound Trek, with their cover of Love Unlimited's Walking in the Rain: two servicemen wryly play-act the sweethearts talking on the phone, complete with a spoken-word ringtone.
East of Underground's record was rediscovered by cratedigger Dante Carfagna (a cohort of DJ Shadow) in 1997. The quality and rarity, with just two or three dozen copies having since been unearthed, had collectors glued to eBay. "In general, collectors don't really respond to covers," says Hollander, "but the covers are so different. The Curtis Mayfield track – the original is a tough song but the cover is fierce, ferocious. Funk is also usually very regional, but on this record, you have players from all over – Los Angeles, New Mexico, Detroit. So that imparts another je ne sais quoi not seen in any other records like it."
Hitt walked off stage after a gig and never saw his bandmates again. "The last time we played, we didn't realise it would be the last time. They were reducing troops – I woke up one morning, and I went from nine months' [service] to three months, just like that. I don't know if I ever saw them after I found that out." It was the end of a good set of friendships. "We were a contradiction – there was a lot of [racial] friction at the time, and there were even blacks who had meetings that whites were not invited to. But as far as the band, the unifying thing was the music, and we all got on really well. The only argument we got into was about the credibility of Michael Jackson, who was only 12, telling us what love was. They didn't understand why I would have a problem with that!"
Hollander, meanwhile, has found lots of other similar army bands, never recorded, "playing the same kind of stuff, sort of acid rock mixed with deep funk"; they collectively mark a weird aberration in the US military's musical history. "Now the recruitment tool is something like Godsmack – the music that would work well in a first-person-shooter videogame."
A 3CD boxset, East of Underground: Hell Below, is out 9 January on Now-Again Records.


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Hello Firefall Fans! This week, Frank and Sara were joined by Chris Young, aka "Bludge," our Senior Linux Administrator. They hopped in game with a vehicle and Kream for some sick Recluse action. An amazing Dreadnaught papercraft stole the spotlight in this week's Do You Even Art Bro, and Frank gave the special announcement that we talked about yesterday!
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In early June, we're going to finally start releasing some of the information we've been talking about but not talking about for the past couple weeks, including a special sneak peek of an area we've been working on on June 6th. However, since you guys have been so patient and awesome, we wanted to do a little something for you so you weren't sitting in silence for a month. For the rest of May, we'll set a goal for a number of viewers for Firefall Live every week. If we reach those goals, we'll release some hints about the new area that we'll be giving you a sneak peak of on the 6th. On top of that, every week we'll also be giving out some great Roccat keyboards, mice, headsets, and mouse pads to our viewers, so make sure to tell your friends and tune in!
- The Public Test Server downtime has begun! We brought down the server so we can use it for some internal testing on the content we've been working on. When we're ready, we'll bring it back on an invite-only basis for a little while before we open it back up to everyone. Sign ups for the closed testing should be opening up soon, so keep an eye out for an announcement about that!
- The Army Relations Program is starting up. If you're an army leader or officer who took part in one of the meetings last week, you should see the "Firefall Army Relations" subforum all the way at the bottom of the list, and can join in on the army-related discussions that are already ongoing in that section.
- Don't forget that the Recluse weekend starts today at 5pm PDT!
Frank, Sara, and Chris were joined in game by a vehicle and Kream. The gang hopped in their Recluse frames and took back some watchtowers, knocked out a melding tornado, and even did a Baneclaw run! They also dragged some users into their Teamspeak channel for our weekly Copa Call-In Q and A session.
Copa Call-In
Where did the Recluse frame come from?
- Many people will remember the old Medic frame that we had before it was redesigned and renamed to the Biotech we know now. At the time, we had a basic design for a separate frame called the Toxin, which was going to be the damage dealing version of the Medic. More recently, when we started doing different versions of the same frame, a lot of the Toxin design work was brought back and iterated on, and thus the Recluse was created.
Are you guys going to try and capitalize on the game's verticality with any of your upcoming areas?
- Sara has been lucky enough to be helping out the World Building team recently, and one of the main things they like to stress is "keep in mind that we're not just moving left or right in this game." They have to think about spots that maybe some frames can't get to and how that isn't fair. They're always keeping in mind all of the different frames and their abilities and how they can use the playspace. That's definitely something that the team is always looking at when building new areas.
Can we expect any more interesting flying creatures, like jump jetting Chosen?
- It's something that we definitely would like to do, but it's a matter of the technical limitations right now. Adding jump jets to the Chosen would greatly increase the strain each one would put on the AI server to the point of breaking. We definitely recognize that there are some problems with the creatures being uninteresting right now, and we're absolutely working on creating some more interesting creature types and encounters.
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Dreadnaught Papercraft by Fabricio21RJ (WINNER)
"Thumping at Night" by Fadedpez (YOU WERE WARNED!)
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"The Legend of Zelda X: Firefall" by Fooni
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"Stop lazing around and get some content going."
"After P-Body destroyed part of the testing facility's DB, the "get well soon" turret GLaDOS sent to Chell wound up on Fadedpez's desk."
"Sic Runners Brah."
"'I still can't figure out how Terromoto got so talented and handsome' - Fadedpez, an idiota."
"Boxes of cookies for each tier of progression? Ship it (with Fedex)."
"Behold the Community Manager in his natural habitat. All Aperture safety rules followed by the turret."
"I have no idea what I'm doing."
"Wow these caption suggestions suck."
That's it for this week gang, make sure to tune in again next Friday for some more Firefall action, plus some awesome giveaways!


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During the final 10 weeks before the season kicks off, NoleNation will march through the depth chart to analyze Florida State's top 50 contributors for the 2012 season. From Austin Barron to Vince Williams, we'll review each player's career, evaluate his role in 2012 and project what might be in store down the road.
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Double phase conjugate mirror with x6 gain in photorefractive BaTiO3 at near infrared wavelengths
G.W.Ross, R.W.Eason
We describe incoherent beam coupling using the double phase-conjugate mirror arrangement between a laser diode and a Ti:sapphire laser at the near-infrared wavelengths of ~800nm using a nominally undoped sample of BaTiO3. We report phase-conjugate reflectivities of greater than 6 times, which we believe to be the highest reported to date at these wavelengths. We also examine the fidelity of the phase-conjugate beam and the wavelength response of the double-color-pumped oscillator.
Optics Letters (1993) Vol.18(8) pp.571-573
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Hits 1 to 25 of 270C.S. Lewis - "The decay of Logic results from an untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."
Ludwig Wittgenstein - "Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic."
Niklaus Wirth - "A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
Emily Watson - "You have to play the logic of a character."
Tony Visconte - "I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance."
James Tobin - "At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory."
Josiah Strong - "America is to have the great preponderance of numbers and of wealth, and by the logic of events will follow the scepter of controlling influence."
Stendhal - "Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."
Michael Shermer - "Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic."
Gene Roddenberry - "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."
Jeremy Rifkin - "It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic."
Paul Ricoeur - "The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism."
Ludwig Quidde - "In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic."
Carsten Nicolai - "The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like What is creativity Where do we come from What are our motors What is coincidence What is logic"
Howard Nemerov - "Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Jamie Muir - "He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
Gabriel Marcel - "But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."
Thom Mayne - "But often it's doubtful whether the logic of the work itself and the words used to describe it really have anything to do with each other."
Thom Mayne - "Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art."
Christopher Lasch - "It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
Christian Lacroix - "There's always some kind of hidden logic."
Anish Kapoor - "Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form."
Antony Jay - "He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."
Charlie Hunter - "Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer."
Susan George - "What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands."


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We're excited to let you know about a great webinar being hosted by our friends from Vivanista.com this Thursday 11/4, featuring our very own President and Co-founder, Julia Hartz! Titled Fundraising Best Practices, the webinar will spotlight ideas for promoting your fundraiser, tips for increasing profitability, suggestions for creating new events, and much more.
The webinar will also feature Mary Poland, a Bay Area fundraising expert who brings particular experience around corporate sponsorships—one of the trickiest (and most important) areas for NPO events. Vivanista Founder and CEO Layne Gray will moderate. The proceedings will be live videostreamed, and attendees can jump in the conversation with the #VivaFUNdraising hashtag. You can also submit advance questions to email@example.com.
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Here's a look at who will be on this weekend's public policy shows…
TPT's Almanac:
Mary Lahammer preview's the upcoming legislative session… our media panel picks the best of local online media… and we meet Elizabeth Kautz of Burnsville who is the new head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
WCCO Sunday Morning with Esme Murphy:
Democratic gov candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher, GOP Rep. John Kline, I-P gubernatorial candidate Joe Repya and political expert Larry Jacobs.
KSTP's At Issue:
Tarryl Clark to talk about her Congressional race and the political panel.
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2010 is a major election year in Minnesota, and Chair Ann Rest of State and Local Gov't Oversight Committee discusses her bill to set guidelines for Ranked Choice Voting in local elections. Republican Chris Gerlach, believes RCV is unconstitutional and explains why to moderator Julie Bartkey. Senator Mee Moua is the first Hmong American to be elected to the legislature. She gives her Inside Perspective on living the American Dream.
ABC's This Week:
Guest anchor Barbara Walters interviews Senator-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass.
CBS Face the Nation:
CBS' "Face the Nation" – Govs. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., Ed Rendell, D-Pa., and Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich.; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.
CNN's State of the Union:
Topics: GOP Response to SOTU; Economy. Guest: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Minority Leader. Topic: Presidents State of the Union. Guest: Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) Michigan.
NBC's Meet the Press:
Topic: President Obama's Agenda — the Economy and Health Care. Guest: David Axelrod, Senior White House Adviser. Topic: The Republican Party's Agenda. Guest: Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), House Republican Leader.
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dont know who to starrt this week in 1st round of playoffs:
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Lawrence Maroney vs panthers- bench right now
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With Dragon Con only a few days way, is anybody going? I will have my red shirt with me.
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With Dragon Con only a few days way, is anybody going? I will have my red shirt with me.
I'll be there in my Fett, Sandtrooper and Hip Hop Trooper - not all at once ..lololol
I will be there! I can't believe there has not been a huge responseto this! Will TDH have gathering there?
cant believe it too !!! i was rocking my Fett on friday night and met only one other Boba Fett forgot his name but he was real cool .... the security thought we was both the same person.. lol
Hey Stryder, I think I saw you in your Hip Hop Stormtrooper costume in this video...
I was there Saturday and Sunday with my wife as Storm-Girl. We had a great time even though my blasters scope rings didn't survive the trip and I had to go without it.
yea that was me :) :)
gonna post some pics of me in my fett today
i had a blast !!!
I was the Jango on the parade float. I think the only other Jango there was Seeker, eh Arturo?? He was giving me **** cuz everyone kept thinking I was him! :P
nice compliment to be confused with Seeker.
I had a blast
Saw some amazing Fett's and Mandalorians as always. I'll come back link the photos soon
Sunday night seem be the biggest night this year. I think its because saturday was just to dang hot and people tired from parade LAUGH !
I was ThorMando and the Purple Mando Assassin in the parade... I pretty much did Marvel and DC photo shoots the rest of the weekend until the Masquerade... For the Masquerade I was the Darth Malgus looking Sith who beheaded the Pure Sith I think we were number 26...
OK Pics from D*Con
Yeah Sunday rocked! I stayed in my Jango costume for 16 hours from 12:30PM to 04:30 AM! It was a massive party!
LOL me on parade float
Hey Thrax, your Jango looks really nice. Good work. You do happen to be the same height as Temura too.


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Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead of ending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks a strange and powerful new beginning. After the lightning strike, the chill in her spirit starts to have physical manifestations.… (more)
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Talk is cheap. Everyone knows that. As American citizens, we are guaranteed the right to say whatever the heck we want. (See: the First Amendment to the Constitution.) In the realm of professional sports, however, talk can be very, very expensive. (See: Doc Rivers' $25,000 fine for criticizing referees and being ejected from Monday's loss against the Hawks.)
Once an athlete or coach inks a contract with a professional team, he loses the right to publicly express discontent with anything having to do with his league. Is it wrong for Doc to have stood up for Glen Davis, whose flagrant foul was later rescinded? No. As a coach, Doc is responsible for the well-being of his players. The NBA, however, is responsible for protecting the well-being of the referees whom Doc threatened, thus prompting the fine. So everybody has everybody else's back, even if the backlash involves a monetary setback.
But what athletes do not lose is their right to privately express their discontent. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the world of trash talk. A recent Sports Illustrated NBA player's poll found that an overwhelming 62% of 173 players surveyed reported that Kevin Garnett is the NBA's biggest trash talker. Watching Garnett play, one would never guess that he is such a rabble-rouser. His intensity is menacing, but his play and his actions come across as very controlled and deliberate. I bet his trash talk follows suit.
Unlike baseball or football, basketball gives players ample opportunities to subtly trash talk. Baseball is so slow that first basemen regularly have full-blown conversations with opposing base runners. An opponent could be stuck on first for an indefinite amount of time, so it's probably not in his best interest to heckle the first baseman.
In the NFL, I can imagine that trash talk flows freely when guys get piled up, or maybe downfield between a receiver and cornerback, but the play clock inhibits any sort of milling around between plays.
In the NBA, a player is constantly matched up against the same guy(s) on the opposing team, be it running up and down the floor or lining up for a free throw, which provides plenty of time for some caustic chit-chat.
OK, so back to KG. The guy has been around the block a few times. He has earned the right to run his mouth a little bit. If KG banks a fade away jumper in your face and wants to tell you about it, that's fine. And if you do something he doesn't like, he will let you know. Dikembe Mutumbo silently talked smack by waving his finger. KG is more of a vocal type.
The next highest vote-getter in the poll, with a whopping 7%, is Kobe, followed by Rasheed Wallace (5%) and Paul Pierce and Nate Robinson (3% each). We will deal with Nate in a minute. As for KG, Kobe, Rasheed and Pierce, all are seasoned vets who have won an NBA championship. Each of those guys established himself first with his play and then with a ring (or, for Kobe, rings), thereby earning them the right to speak their joys and frustrations to opponents.
There are, of course, notable exceptions to that theory. Tim Duncan certainly minds his manners. Dwyane Wade seems pretty chill. But that goes back to the thing about having teammates' backs. The Celtics have the one of the most superstar-laden, and arguably hated, lineups in the league, so of course they are going to catch lip from their opponents. The most proven (with the exception of Ray Allen) and outspoken Celtics must bear the burden of giving that lip right back, and fortunately there are three guys who are more than willing to do so. The idea of trash talk has a negative connotation, but maybe it's not all bad.
Has it been a minute? Let's get back to Nate. Robinson has shown that he is freakishly athletic and capable of putting up big numbers (he exploded for 41 points on New Year's Day), but his production over his four and a half years in the NBA hasn't quite given him the right to yap with the aforementioned guys. Nate is pretty cocky and very frustrated in New York, which is a surefire combo for him to run his mouth. I would guess that 96% of Nate's trash talk relates directly to himself. I would like to think that the Celtics' yappers have a bit more of a team-oriented approach. Boston is a brotherhood.
Trash talk, when done under the radar, will always be a part of the NBA. There is essentially no way to stop it. What are players going to do, tattle to Stern? Frankly, as fans, we don't know half of what is said on the court. It is clear to us, however, that the Celtics are a pretty tight-knit group of guys, and if that bond is underscored by a little (ok, maybe a lot) of trash talk, then so be it.
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yeah I agree with you, it's pathetic that fines are used when someone speaks their mind. Someone can criticize Obama for being a Nazi with impunity and Doc Rivers says he disagrees with the refs call and he gets penalized.


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Nothing says summer like burgers and beer -- and nothing says Miami like a killer party. Enjoy the best of both worlds with today's deal from Taste of Brickell: VIP admission to the 2nd annual Burger, Beer & BBQ Bash on Saturday, June 29, presented by the Miami Taste of Brickell Food & Wine Festival. This event features some of the best culinary talents in the city, all sharing their unique interpretation of what "burger" and "barbecue" means to them. You'll have seven hours to sample these savories from 25 local restaurants.
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Residents of Ludhiana would soon be required to pay Rs 6 for every 1,000 litres of water once meters are installed and handed over to a private company.
The work on finalising the tenders for water meters is on and would be completed within two months.
The residents will get round-the-clock water supply after the private firm takes over.
The proposal for installation of water meters through a private company was included in the municipal corporation (MC) budget this year. The total cost of the project would be Rs 1,500 crore, of which Rs 200 crore would be spent on water meters.
The project was approved under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as per which 50% of total funds will be provided by the central government, while 30% and 20% will be pitched in by the MC and state government respectively.
Kamlesh Bansal, additional commissioner (technical), MC, said the tenders for hiring a private agency for taking care of the water meters would be floated soon, adding that residents would be required to get the water meters from market themselves.
The MC has decided to give the contract for water bills to a private company after it suffered heavy financial losses due to residents not paying their water bills.
Water meters were installed around 15 years back in every house of the city. But, the project failed miserably as most meters were tampered with and some developed technical snags.
The MC had been calculating and providing bills to the residents itself since then. But, now it has decided to hand over the job to a private firm after inviting tenders.
Sources said that MC would also install new water pipes, upgrade the sewerage system and also improve canal water system in the city.
An official of the operations and maintenance (O&M) wing, said the project that was launched 15 years ago for recovery of water bills through meters hit a road block when the biased approach was seen in issuing the bills.


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(1)The Secretary of State shall issue a code of practice specifying what an employer should or should not do in order to ensure that, while avoiding liability to a penalty under section 15 and while avoiding the commission of an offence under section 21, he also avoids contravening—
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Melanie McClure surfed and taco-ed her way through Mexico from Baja to near the Belizean border. She has found a way to bring Mexico's tastes and street vending style back to Portland, using a tricked-out tricycle. Now three carts strong, Taco Pedaler hand-presses its own corn tortillas on-site and fills them with shredded chicken, beef, carnitas-style pork or pinto beans. McClure also makes her own salsas, including a (tomato-less) mango pico de gallo and a spicy tomatillo-serrano pepper number, to augment the entirely gluten-free menu. tacopedalerpdx.com


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little howlin wolf has a new band. sometimes known as little howlin wolf & his blooz foolz or little howlin wolf & the boogie mistake. we have no official band name yet. tuesday feb. 14th (valentine's day), wfmu will be airing our recent session from 3 to 6 p.m.
here's the link: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/18056
photos from feb. 2006 by bill t miller: http://billtmiller.com/nom/wolf.htm
here's a hot cut from the upcoming wfmu session:
wolf's latest record, 'brave nu world' is available for free mp3 download or lp purchase from http://ehserecords.com/
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little howlin wolf
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June 1, 2005 - After a year and a half of constant litigation, attorneys representing the Marana Unified School District reached a $275,000 settlement agreement April 25 in the lawsuit involving a Thornydale Elementary School student who was allegedly abused by her bus driver.
In a trial that was scheduled to begin next week, district officials would have had to defend themselves against allegations of negligence in allowing a 10-year-old female student to be touched and tickled inappropriately by her male bus driver and failing to immediately report the allegations to law enforcement in May 2003.
With two years of court filings and deposition transcripts stack-ed up inside Pima County Superior Court, the district's insurance carrier chose to pay the more than quarter-million-dollar settlement instead of fighting the $1.2 million lawsuit filed by the girl's parents in on Dec. 16, 2003, court records show.
Attorney James Stuehringer, who represented the family in the lawsuit, said the terms of the settlement agreement are confidential, and he couldn't comment on the case or say whether the district is admitting any wrongdoing.
"That was one of the provisions of the settlement agreement," he said. But he added, "I think my clients were pleased (with the settlement). Actually, I'm sure they were pleased, lets put it that way, and certainly happy to have the litigation over."
The lawsuit claimed the district acted negligently in its supervision of the bus driver, that the district had been warned of the driver's activities and took no action, and that, because the district conducted its own investigation before contacting police, it tainted the police investigation and prevented the driver from being prosecuted.
The three-year veteran bus driver was accused of repeatedly and roughly tickling the girl, giving her wedgies and touching her bottom and bare chest in May 2003. The driver was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a minor, a class 3 felony, though the charges were later dropped for unspecified reasons.
The school district was admonished by a Pima County Sheriff's Department investigator for not immediately reporting the accusations and for conducting its own interviews of the victim and child-witnesses.
Shortly after the allegations were made, the bus driver resigned and the Arizona Department of Public Safety suspended his driver's certificate. DPS later conducted an investigation but no criminal charges were brought against the district.
The girl and her family are not being named by the EXPLORER because of the nature of the allegations. The bus driver is not being named because he was never criminally prosecuted.
District officials knew little information pertaining to the settlement when questioned last week because they say the case was completely turned over to the district's insurance carrier, which is covering all costs.
"The district's liability insurance has covered that whole case and I don't even have any details because they would not even give it to our attorney," said interim Superintendent Jane Pryne. "I asked what the settlement was and they said, 'I cannot tell you.'"
Carl Hazlett, of the Hazlett Law Firm in Tucson, handled the case for the district but did not return several phone calls last week seeking comment on the settlement.
Board President Bill Kuhn said the district governing board never gave direction to legal counsel regarding the lawsuit and said he hadn't seen any information regarding a settlement. He said he didn't think the board would be required to be involved because the district's insurance is covering the costs.
"If it's a situation where the district has to spend money then of course there'd have to be a vote, but if its being handled strictly by the insurance company then we don't have to vote," he said.
According to a May 12 amended settlement order, $20,000 will go specifically to the girl's parents, and the girl will receive the remainder of the $275,000. Court records show both parties agreed to conduct off-the-record communications and the case is dismissed with prejudice. Each side will bear its own attorney's fees, and all future hearing dates are vacated.
The case saw regular action on an almost weekly basis for the past year and a half as attorneys from both sides were continually filing motions and countering opposing arguments.
According to a Feb. 23 deposition, the girl gave a sworn statement that her bus driver tickled her "rough" underneath her shirt and had inappropriately touched her 11 times. The girl said the bus driver was nice to her, but she didn't like being tickled and asked him to stop when the tickling became rough.
In an Aug. 16, 2004, deposition, the girl's father testified that his daughter, fearing the bus driver, had begun using her scholastic workbook to shield herself from his advances.
"There was a time where she went to the back of the bus to avoid him," he testified. "There was a time when she grabbed the broom to guard against his advance or efforts to tickle her."
In an Aug. 16, 2004, deposition, the girl's mother testified that her daughter told her, "He tickles me on my knee too and sometimes he gives me wedgies … he follows me through the bus." It was then that the mother said she broke into tears. The mother was the first one to make a 9-1-1 call on May 10, 2003, three days after her daughter mentioned the allegations while being tucked into bed May 7, 2003, court records show.
In an April 26, 2004, letter to Stuehringer, Richard Hinton, a licensed psychologist with special training in child clinical psychology, stated he had performed a psychological evaluation of the girl in October 2003 and found that she exhibits "some, though not all, of the characteristics that are generally observed in child sexual abuse victims."
According to court records, the tickling often began early in the morning and stopped by the time other students got on the bus. But at least one other student said he witnessed what he considered inappropriate contact between the bus driver and the girl.
Court records show the girl circled the center of the chest on an anatomical diagram when asked where she was touched under her clothes. According to statements filed by the district in court, the district believes that the circled area does not qualify under the definition of "breasts" and refuted the term "molestation."
The district maintained that the tickling was "in no way sexual or illegal, although it may not have been a smart thing to do in such a litigious age," court records state, further adding "it is possible that his hand slipped under her shirt since he was tickling (the girl) as she passed him entering the bus."
The parents brought their concerns to the school the morning after their daughter told them of the tickling on the night of May 7, 2003. School officials admit they then conducted their own investigation into the allegations on May 8, 2003.
In an Aug. 13, 2004, deposition, Thornydale Principal Lynnette Brunderman testified that she heard about the allegations on the morning of May 8, 2003, and, later that day, she personally questioned several students on the girl's bus. Brunderman took rough handwritten notes that neither she nor attorneys could make sense of during her deposition.
Brunderman gave a sworn statement that she was aware of the school district's policy requiring school personnel to immediately report to law enforcement any sexual allegations involving a minor. The district's policy, specifically using the word "immediately," had been in effect since Oct. 27, 1997, according to court records.
"My understanding of immediate at that time was with a 24-hour or 48-hour period," Brunderman stated, admitting that she did not report the allegation even within 72 hours after being notified of the allegations.
According to Brunderman's testimony, the parents of the young girl also have two other children who went through Thornydale and are well-respected, so she never doubted the family's concerns. Brunderman said the girl was a good student, was involved in school activities and enjoyed learning.
The district's attorneys defended district officials, claiming the parents had a duty to report the allegations to police because the girl told her parents the night before they told the school.
According to statements filed April 18, the district's attorneys stated that the district called the girl's parents into their offices to make a police report May 9, 2003, but the parents postponed making the report until after a slumber party that was scheduled for that weekend.
"The (parents) violated the statute threefold by doing nothing the first day, calling the school instead of the police on the second day, and by postponing the police report to throw a slumber party on the third day," the district's attorneys stated in court records.
"If the (plaintiff's) strict reading of the word 'immediately' in the reporting statute is accepted, they themselves have violated the statute and are not entitled to recover (damages)," the district's attorneys further stated.
District attorneys claim that the district learned of the allegations May 8, 2003, and legally "caused a report to be made," under the definition of the law, by informing parents they must contact the police.
District spokeswoman Tamara Crawley said the district has since taken measures to better train teachers on the mandatory reporting laws. Four DeGrazia Elementary School employees were indicted on charges of violating mandatory reporting laws in September when they failed to immediately report a kindergartner's claims that her father sexually abused her.
"Our district enhanced and modified training curriculum regarding mandatory reporting to require the training of district employees," Crawley said. The district now gives employees handouts on the law and brings in speakers from various law enforcement agencies "to ensure all staff are trained and reporting per law," she said.
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