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BOISSEVAIN -- A new surge of protests is spreading through rural Manitoba and it isn't Idle No More.
In Boissevain, farmers and townspeople recently protested the closing of their provincial agriculture extension office. In Grandview, a town hall meeting was held over the shutting of its Manitoba Conservation office, costing five local jobs. The positions were relocated to Dauphin.
In Beausejour, a petition has started to oppose padlocking its Employment Manitoba office and the loss of five jobs to the town.
The nerve of those rural Manitobans. Since when do they stage protests?
In addition, landowners around Lake Manitoba formed a blockade to delay the opening of the Portage Diversion, which drains the Assiniboine River into Lake Manitoba and contributed to flooding in 2011, for 12 hours. That made the province so mad it got a court injunction to clear them out.
The NDP government says offices are being shut across Manitoba to cut spending and modernize service delivery. The need for those offices isn't as great today with more rural people sourcing information via the Internet, a government spokesperson said.
Boissevain, Grandview and Beausejour will also be part of a pilot project -- the details are yet to be announced -- for a one-stop shop for information and services, said the province.
But people in the country don't see the same cuts to government offices in Winnipeg. Some allege the government has an urban bias. Neither are the cuts to government services all that's riling rural Manitoba.
At the same time, the province is forcing amalgamation on 92 rural municipalities -- almost half the municipalities in Manitoba. It also plans to zig Hydro's Bipole 3 all the way to the Saskatchewan border, upsetting scores of property owners along the way, then zag back northeast to Winnipeg, instead of the direct eastern route, which is about $1 billion cheaper.
The PST increase to eight per cent will hurt border towns such as Boissevain in southwestern Manitoba, vis-a-vis business and tourism with North Dakota. Roblin and Russell expect to lose business to rivals in Saskatchewan, where the PST will be three per cent lower.
"We live in the province of Winnipeg," said David Hicks, a rancher who organized the Boissevain rally.
There are reasons why he says that.
Grandview, Deloraine, Mafeking and Leaf Rapids have all lost their Manitoba Conservation offices in the past year. Fisher Branch, Starbuck, Boissevain, Stonewall, Treherne, Shoal Lake and Neepawa have lost or are losing their Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) offices. Minnedosa (four positions) and Virden (five positions) have lost their Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation offices. The Beausejour office of Entrepreneurship, Training and Trade is moving to Winnipeg.
Those are just the most glaring cuts.
And in Winnipeg? An office of Entrepreneurship, Training and Trade is moving from the west end of Portage Avenue to Lombard Avenue and 17 Manitoba Conservation staff will be moved from Carlton Street to offices on Main and Century streets.
It's almost a reversal of the government decentralization undertaken by the Filmon government in the 1990s.
For small towns such as Grandview, population 800, five jobs is a significant loss.
The total saving from all the moves is supposed to be $1.5 million, a figure rural communities dispute. That $1.5 million is simply the saving from abandoning buildings because the province is committed to relocate jobs, not cut them. Although that's not entirely true. At least 11 assistant conservation officers have been laid off recently.
Finance Minister Stan Struthers acknowledged several government initiatives are hitting rural Manitoba at once but "the sooner we move forward on each of these issues and have some tax savings for the rural Manitoba taxpayer, the sooner we can channel money into rural health care, education and infrastructure."
Struthers, a rural cabinet minister representing the Dauphin riding, maintained some people "like to promulgate the myth that the NDP is not friendly to rural Manitoba."
But the NDP has quadrupled spending on rural infrastructure such as roads and bridges from the previous government, he said. It also equalized hydro rates for rural and northern residents. "We have members in cabinet from rural Manitoba, Winnipeg and the north, and no one else can say that."
But Grandview Mayor Tom Bohun notes that being in government appears to have changed some MLAs.
"It seems that since they (rural NDP MLAs) got into the city, they have lost touch with their roots and with people that elected them."


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Google Flu Botched Predictions, Overestimated Flu Amid Record Season
Jason Mick
February 18, 2013 11:44 AM
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Typically accurate algorithm may need tweaking to deal with new trends
Launched in 2008
Google Flu Trends
is one of Google Inc.'s (
) most intriguing internet services. Leveraging Google's mastery of data mining and industry-leading search engine position, the system injects data on health-related searches into a complex model which spits out an estimation of the number of people in each region that are infected with the flu virus.
I. Flu Trends' Bad Forecast
The system performs extraordinarily well, typically matching up closely with data from the
Centers for Disease Control
(CDC). The system typically is several days ahead of CDC predictions in 29 countries and today also tracks a second disease -- dengue.
But this flu season was
a rough one
for the Google service. Google badly over predicted the Christmas peak of flu season, estimating that over 10 percent of the U.S. population had flu, versus the CDC's data, which showed only around 6 percent had it.
Google Flu overpredicted, while Flu Near You underpredicted. [Image Source: Nature]
So what happened?
Experts believe part of the problem was public fear influencing search behavior in an unusual way. The flu season got off to its earliest seasonal start in nearly a decade, starting in November and peaking in December. Of the three major flu virus strains, the most virulent strain -- H3N2n -- dominated, as in the severe 2003 outbreak.
There were multiple deaths, particularly among the elderly from the outbreak. As a result, the mass media latched onto the story and focus a great deal of coverage on the flu -- more so than usual. Experts say that may have led people to increase searches for flu terms, even if they didn't have flu.
It was also a bad season for norovirus outbreaks, which may have led to people searching for flu terms. Norovirus is a separate pathogen that manifests itself via intestinal symptoms. However, many in the public mistake norovirus infections for flu.
II. Self-Tracking Efforts Also Miss
Professor John Brownstein
, a
Medical School
epidemiologist, told
Nature Magazine
that the miss by Google shows the difficulty in adapting algorithms to new variables. He comments, "You need to be constantly adapting these models, they don't work in a vacuum. You need to recalibrate them every year."
Professor Brownstein helps maintain "
Flu Near You
" a
Boston Children's Hospital
project which tracks flu in the U.S. via volunteer self-reporting. The 2011 program tracks a sample set of 70,000 people and has 46,000 participants (who report on their own health and health of family members).
Tracking the flu-virus in real time is a daunting challenge. [Image Source: Navco]
To Google's credit, Flu Near You missed nearly as badly, underestimating the peak infection rate. It peaked around a little over 4 percent. It's unclear why that underestimation happened.
Digital tracking of influenza-like illness (ILI) -- symptoms such as fever and sinus issues -- first began in 1985 in France with the creation of the Sentinelles network. Today France's GrippeNet.fr continues that tradition. Similar to Flu Near You, GrippeNet uses self-reporting from volunteers and has 5,500 participants.
The CDC's tracking comes directly from a network of 2,700 health institutions, which cover 30 million patients.
III. What About Twitter Tracking?
The misses of Flu Near You and Google Flu Trends open the door to new analysis projects. A pair of new efforts --
-- look to track Twitter posts to determine flu rates. Johns Hopkins University Professor Michael Paul argues that Twitter monitoring may offer less noise than search term monitoring, while offering big sample sets than self-monitoring.
He comments, "I suspect that passive monitoring of social media will always yield more data than systems that rely on people to actively respond to surveys, like Flu Near You."
Some are turning to Twitter for flu tracking.
But some are skeptical of Twitter-mining.
Lyn Finelli
, head of the CDC's Influenza Surveillance and Outbreak Response Team, argues that Twitter crowdsourcing is less effect that search-term efforts, because Twitter's userbase tends to be younger, less reliable users. She comments, "The Twitter analyses have much less promise."
The 2012 miss was the
worst since 2009
for Google, which led to some major algorithmic adjustments. In 2009 Google under predicted the H1N1 swine flu outbreak. That mistake was the subject of a
PLOS One
paper entitled "
Assessing Google Flu Trends Performance in the United States during the 2009 Influenza Virus A (H1N1) Pandemic
Nature Magazine
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No, these aren't just promo pics for Girls Gone Wild, these are new photos of Rihanna from her official Facebook page showcasing her recent vacation to Hawaii (Jealous!). Proving once again that she's anything but shy, the 24-year-old singer included a variety of racy images on the social media site, Monday. She displayed shots of her in several revealing garments — and, in one, she even dared to take her top off.
But whether she's rocking a white bikini with a beautiful, blue ocean in the background or standing topless underneath a waterfall, it's awesome that she chose to share her personal vacation memories with her fans. Check out a few of the photos below, and join in on the yearning for the immediate return of summer.


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The 2009 Threads Archive DVD-ROM
This morning the Taunton Press Senior Multi-Media Manager arrived at my desk to install The Threads Archive DVD for final testing. (Many of us on staff are involved in testing.) I'm mind boggled by the fact that 146 Threads issues, starting with issue #1, are ALL stored on one, single DVD. Today's technology amazes me. This DVD is the best thing to happen at Threads in a long while. This is a product every sewer will want to own, especially those who think they could use some extra space in their sewing room (where the Threads hard-copy issues are currently stored!). The DVD has so many wonderful features; if I included every available option, the list would be too long, but here are a few of the great features that I've already discovered:
- It opens to show thumbnail photos of every single issue. (Thumbnails are pictures of each page reduced to about 1-1/2 inches high.) Depending upon the size of your monitor, you may have to cursor down to see them all, but they're all in view. Then a quick click on the issue of your choice, and the issue pops up full-screen, starting with the cover. As you cursor through the pages, you find everything--including the articles, departments and even the advertising.
- You can view all of the thumbnails of all of the pages in an entire issue. The thumbnails are small, but if you know what you're looking for, they're big enough to recognize an article. Just click on the page you want, and it becomes full-screen. Then you can cursor up or down from there, seeing the issue's full-screen pages going forward or backward from your original page.
- You can search by keyword, author, department, title or sub-title, or you can search the full text if there's something specific you're looking for. The thumbnails for each page containing your search criteria appear so that you can locate the article you want then click on it for a full-page image.
- As you run your cursor across each thumbnail any time they appear, you'll learn the issue number and page number of that page. If you also want to know the article title and author to help narrow down your search, you just click the list icon at the top of the page, and a spreadsheet appears giving you that information (and more) for each thumbnail.
- You can even save your favorite articles in a Favorites folder that's easy to find and even easier to use, and you can create file folders to organize your favorites.
- Any time you see thumbnails of magazine pages, you can either click to open the page of your choice, or you can click the CONTENTS tab at the upper-left side of the page which will bring up the Table of Contents for that issue. Then you can click on any of the articles or departments listed in the contents and go directly to that full article.
- You can view any article either as a single page per screen or two pages per screen (two-page spread).
From my perspective this DVD is simply fantastic. It's amazing how much incredible information we've produced in the last 25 years, but that wealth of information does cause a small problem to occur. There's just so much that's educational and inspirational, that it's hard to stop reading once you get started. It's much like reading an awesome novel that you just can't put down. When I research one small article, I end up reading a few extra articles while I'm at it. I'm learning so much, and just wish I had time to read even more.
The Threads Archive DVD will be ready just in time for your holiday shopping. In fact, you can even pre-order to be sure you don't miss it. Now's the time to drop a broad hint or two to your family about the gift that should be at the top of every sewers wish list! And if your family doesn't do a good job of "reading" your broad hints, just pre-order it for yourself now, and use your holiday cash to help pay for it. I suspect it will be the best holiday gift you've ever received.
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WHATEVER happens in tomorrow's Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, Casey Stoner will leave Phillip Island a hero.
Stoner's bid for a record sixth MotoGP victory in his national race will also be his farewell appearance in Australia before he retires, an event likely to attract a record crowd.
The majority of fans who have been arriving at the Phillip Island circuit since early Wednesday have come to cheer on the fresh-faced daredevil one last time.
Stoner, just turned 27, is popular because of his fearless riding style, which is at its pulsating best around the swooping high-speed ocean-side track, rather than his personality.
The ''kid'' from Kurri Kurri in New South Wales' Hunter Valley is the least outgoing and expressive motorcycle champion since fellow Australian world champion Mick Doohan, who was famously taciturn during his five-year reign from 1994-98.
But whereas Doohan, now an almost avuncular figure in the sport, was a workmanlike rider whose talent was more cerebral than seat-of-the-pants, Stoner does things with a motorcycle that simply amaze.
He has a unique technique, flashy and yet still fast, tail-sliding to the limit where mere mortals fear to tread.
He often looks to be on the verge of being out of control, yet contains the chaos to tame the most unruly two-wheeled beast.
Stoner made his name, and achieved the first of his two world championships, on bucking broncos called Ducatis that no rider has subdued.
Even Italian superstar Valentino Rossi, the outsized character who replaced the withdrawn Australian at the Italian team last year, has been humbled by the rambunctious red rockets.
Stoner disproved the theory that he was a one-trick pony by winning his second MotoGP title in 2011 on a Honda.
His Japanese bike's better manners haven't restrained his exuberance, which is perhaps more apparent around the 4.4-kilometre Phillip Island course than anywhere else.
The 60-year-old track layout is one of the classics, its combination of fast, flowing corners that follow the natural rise and fall of its wind-swept location overlooking Bass Straight revered by motorcycle and car racers alike.
The island is rated alongside the old Nurburgring in Germany, Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps and Bathurst's Mount Panorama - all of which have long been declared too dangerous for motorcycle racing - as one of the world's four great circuits.
Stoner's freakish ability has enabled him to establish a superiority in the AMGP that has been unchallenged since 2007.
Such is his advantage, which he ascribes to the bike, that even the injury that cost him his world title defence doesn't rule him out of repeating his heroics tomorrow and winning again.
Having announced in May his surprise decision to retire at the end of the season, which finishes in Valencia, Spain, in two weeks, citing his disillusionment with the constant travel and intrusion of the 18-race MotoGP series, he badly tore the ligaments around his right ankle in a crash at Indianapolis in August.
He missed the next three races before returning, not fully recovered from major surgery, at the Japanese GP two weeks ago.
Nothing if not gritty, Stoner finished fifth at Motegi and third in last Sunday's Malaysian GP despite limited movement in his right ankle that inhibits his riding style.
It's that sort of pluck, along with his spellbinding speed, that has captured the imagination of Australian motorcycle racing aficionados and enabled him to penetrate the consciousness of even the most casual follower.
Unlike Mark Webber, who has never really received full credit for his decade's service in formula one, Stoner has always been regarded as an Aussie star on the international stage.
Winning two world championships helps, of course, but they bookend three years of struggle not unlike Webber's car-related torment, when his Ducati wasn't a title-winning proposition.
Even his battle with a mystery illness in 2009 - diagnosed, much later, as lactose intolerance - that left him flat didn't tarnish his image at home because he still rose to the occasion at Phillip Island.
Whatever Stoner does in tomorrow afternoon's 27-lap, 120-kilometre race, he will be rightly hailed and given a rousing send-off by a crowd that could establish a new raceday record of 60,000, with the three-day figure set to challenge the 115,000 mark set at Doohan's last appearance in '98.
The paradox of Stoner's popularity is that he is one of the most unresponsive Australian sports stars there is.
Undoubtedly shy, he doesn't show much emotion and is not an engaging personality. He is content to do his talking on the track, which is all very well except that he is almost willfully uncommunicative and unsentimental.
Although he can be outspoken when it suits him, he is generally uncomfortable with the media and especially withdrawn, if not unco-operative, around print journalists.
He distrusts the written media, perhaps because they can envelope his quotes in comment, and perceives TV interviews as more transparent, even though his words to camera can be just as selectively edited.
At a media conference on Thursday where he talked about being honoured with the renaming of the track's third turn as Stoner Corner, no questions were allowed and the moderated interview lasted fewer than seven minutes.
He later attended a photo call at a local trout farm and despite doing extensive one-on-one interviews with all the TV networks, he was not available to speak with reporters from newspapers or news agencies.
His recalcitrance, which denies readers an insight into his personality, which V8 Supercar drivers who know him tell me is friendly and warm, extended to refusing to answer an additional, unscheduled question from a motor-sport TV presenter.
Asked to send a message to all the fans coming to farewell him, Stoner hesitated and then looked to his PR minder.
After a huddled conversation, the interviewer was informed that he didn't want to respond - even though I understand the video clip was requested by the Australian Grand Prix Corporation.
Despite this weekend being ''all about Casey'', Stoner is reluctant to get involved in the sentiment of the occasion.
His approach is to shut out the emotion surrounding the weekend and glibly deflects queries about the impending end of his career by saying that he looks forwards, not backwards.
Stoner may be in for a rude awakening if he activates his longtime interest in racing V8 Supercars, which he claims is a desire rather than a plan.
In V8 Supercars he will be faced with the dilemma of racing largely for fun while being expected to engage in a level of personal interaction he has spent a career on two-wheels eschewing.


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Ever wondered how to make a butterfly feeder and attract more butterflies to your garden? I love butterflies ..just to see one flitting by makes me so happy.
My kids love them too.
My daughter went on a wildlife trust event this weekend and came back full of information about butterflies. She had had such a nice time and all for the cost of a donation. 2 hours of education and learning around nature …how wonderful
They had been learning all about butterflies and she cane back hugely keen to make a butterfly feeder.
You'll be pleased to know it is a very thrifty craft.
What you need…
Mushy fruit, a paper plate and string
What to do…
Make four holes in the plates sides at quarters by pushing a pencil through.
Then tie 4 equal lengths of string through the holes and join them together at the top (it should look like an upside down parachute.)
Place the mushy fruit onto the plate (we used mashed over ripe banana.)
Now hang the feeder near some flowers and wait for the butterflies.
We made one colourful paper plate and one plain one. We are thinking the butterflies may be most attracted to the colourful. Will report back!
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Spring Practice No. 10
To say the Panthers enjoyed their fourth consecutive practice outdoors at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex Tuesday afternoon would be misleading. More appropriately, the defense had a good time at the expense of the offense.
The defensive front of tackles Rashaad Duncan and Gus Mustakas and ends Joe Clermond and Chris McKillop had their way with the offensive line. The first-team offense struggled during down-and-distance drills, as the timing between quarterback Bill Stull and his receivers was off and the backs failed to break outside containment.
That infuriated Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt, who chastised the offense and made everyone in white jerseys (specialists included) run a series of sprints the length of the field. That amounted to eight 80-yard runs, which left the offensive linemen absolutely exhausted.
Which was the whole point.
Can't blame Wannstedt for being disgusted with the offense, which has seven returning starters but is breaking in a new quarterback and center.
The defense lost its entire starting linebacker corps, including All-American H.B. Blades, and a likely first-round NFL Draft choice in cornerback Darrelle Revis. Despite being beset with injuries – defensive linemen Doug Fulmer (knee), John Malecki (shoulder) and Mick Williams (shoulder), linebackers Jemeel Brady (shoulder), Steve Dell (knee) and Dorin Dickerson (ankle) are sidelined – the defense dominated its counterparts throughout practice.
Granted, the Panthers have lost their most experienced lineman in fifth-year senior right tackle Mike McGlynn (shoulder). But this was more of an effort issue.
• Wannstedt finally said what we've been telling you all spring: Redshirt junior middle linebacker Scott McKillop has been a pleasant surprise and a solidifying force for the first-team defense.
That McKillop has led the Panthers in tackles in each scrimmage shouldn't be too much of a surprise, considering McKillop served his apprenticeship under Blades, who finished his career ranking third all-time with 433 tackles.
"Scott McKillop has proven that he's a better player than I've given him credit for," Wannstedt said. "I only say that because he hadn't had many opportunities to play behind H.B. Blades. Scott has been very, very solid. He's made plays. He's really taken a leadership role on the defense."
• Which brings us to my next point. Spring drills are a chance for teams to work on fundamentals and for individuals to establish themselves. But it's unlikely that many starting jobs are going to be locked up by April 14.
In fact, Wannstedt said as much yesterday.
"I think we wait," Wannstedt said. "I don't think it's necessary right now. We don't play a game until September. A lot of things can change. Everybody needs to feel like we've improved coming out of spring but at the same time have that same hunger going into August as they do coming out of spring."
That leaves the door open for several newcomers to compete for starting jobs. Most notable will be quarterback Pat Bostick, tailback LeSean McCoy, offensive guard Chris Jacobson and defensive lineman Tommie Duhart.
• Here's my guesses on players who have a pretty good hold on their positions: On offense, left tackle Jeff Otah, left guard C.J. Davis, flanker Derek Kinder and fullback Conredge Collins. On defense, end Joe Clermond, middle linebacker Scott McKillop, cornerbacks Aaron Berry and Kennard Cox and safety Eric Thatcher. On special teams, kicker Conor Lee, punter Dave Brytus and kick return man Lowell Robinson.
That will leave plenty of competition at center (Chris Vangas v. John Bachman), right guard (Joe Thomas v. Jacobson), tight end (Nate Byham v. John Pelusi and Darrell Strong), split end (Oderick Turner v. Marcel Pestano and T.J. Porter) and tailback (LaRod Stephens-Howling v. McCoy) on offense; at right end (Chris McKillop v. Greg Romeus), defensive tackle (Mustakas v. Duhart), nose tackle (Duncan v. Malecki), strong-side linebacker (Adam Gunn v. Nate Nix), weak-side linebacker (Shane Murray v. Dorin Dickerson) and safety (Mike Phillips v. Elijah Fields) on defense; and kickoffs (Lee v. Brytus), punt return (Aaron Berry v. Porter and maybe Maurice Williams) and a second kick return man on special teams (Williams v. Aundre Wright).
• Some practice highlights/lowlights:
Highlight: Gunn shooting past right guard Joe Thomas and dropping Stephens-Howling for a loss. Afterward, Thomas took an ear beating from offensive line coach Paul Dunn. Despite starting seven games last season, Thomas showed up to camp out of shape and has struggled.
Lowlight: Before practice, Wannstedt said he was pleased with Bachman's conversion to center and revealed plans to work him in with the first team despite bad exchanges this spring. Handling the calls, audibles and snaps has not come easily for Bachman. When an exchange with Stull was botched, Wannstedt lost his patience and replaced Bachman with redshirt freshman Scott Corson for a series.
Highlight: In 9-on-9 drills, Romeus flashed his speed on a toss sweep to Shane Brooks toward the left sideline. Romeus chased Brooks down and cut him off for no gain.
Lowlight: On one play where Stull had some protection, Fields appeared to give up on a play and allowed Strong to slip by him for a first-down catch.
Highlight: Thatcher made back-to-back plays in 11-on-11 drills, blanketing Kinder on a sideline pass and forcing Stull to throw it away (although Collins was open short). Thatcher then closed in quickly on Byham, causing him to drop a pass.
Lowlight: Stull's passes tended to be behind his receivers much of the day, and Jovani Chappel stepped in front of one intended for Cedric McGee for an interception. The lowlight is that the 5-foot-9, 185-pound Chappel out-muscled the 6-1, 200-pound McGee for the ball.
Highlight: Kevan Smith showed elusiveness in the pocket by escaping pressure from grayshirt defensive end Justin Hargrove and completing a pass to Strong on the right sideline.
Highlight: As he has done all spring, Stephens-Howling showed a quick burst through the line of scrimmage and made several defenders (including Phillips) miss for a long gain. Stephens-Howling hasn't done anything this spring to hurt his standing as the starting tailback. It's just a matter of whether McCoy is ready to help Stephens-Howling shoulder the load.
• Pitt has announced that its annual Blue-Gold Game will be played at 1 p.m. April 14 at Heinz Field. Ticket and parking information will be released at a later date.


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He says it "falls over in production". I would take that to mean that either it has a 20/80 problem like Rails used to (some would argue still does) or that once it's in production use, some steep decline in performance as real load of the web starts hammering it for data. The only short coming I've had thus far is ad-hoc bulk data manipulation. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Niket Patel <email@example.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Today, I was watching http://vimeo.com/10838794 ( Skip to 16.00 minutes ) > Ezra just discarded CouchDB and not recommend for any production use. He never tried to explain what those issues and why he doesn't recommend. > > But I would like to know views of CouchDB community despite the fact that he doesn't gave any reasons. this is his own preference but he is smart ruby hacker, he should have reasons. > > Niket >
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Aliquippa contractor facing home improvement fraud charges
An Aliquippa contractor hired to build an addition onto a Crescent woman's home bilked her of $40,000 and failed to finish the project, the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office said Monday.
Charles E. Hawkins, 46, owner of C.E. Hawkins Construction, faces charges of theft and home improvement fraud. He was arraigned Friday before Coraopolis District Judge Mary Murray and released without bond. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 13.
Detectives with the district attorney's office said the victim signed a contract on May 2, 2012, in which Hawkins agreed to build the addition by late November for about $84,000. The victim wrote Hawkins checks totaling $40,000 over seven months, despite delays and periods when she could not reach Hawkins.
In the interim, Hawkins damaged the vinyl siding on the victim's shed and damaged her driveway with a backhoe, the complaint said.
In late March, the victim hired an attorney directing Hawkins to return to and finish the project and refund her $10,000, the complaint said. On May 21, Hawkins agreed to refund $10,000, but the victim couldn't get in touch with him.
In the meantime, the victim's floor was left exposed to the weather and became encrusted with black mold. The complaint said the floor must be removed and replaced before the project can proceed.
Adam Brandolph is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-391-0927 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ENGLAND'S elder statesman and Warrington Wolves captain Adrian Morley is aiming to end his 17-year international career at the 2013 World Cup.
But the 35-year-old veteran of more than 50 international appearances for both Great Britain and England - making him the most experienced England international still playing - admitted that time may well be against him as he battles to recapture his best form after a difficult year.
"To play at the World Cup is a definite ambition for me, but to be honest if all the England front rowers were fit at the minute I'm not 100 percent sure that I would be selected," said the Wolves skipper, who spent months battling neck and eye injuries that threatened to end his playing career at the end of 2011 and the start of 2012.
"People have asked, with Jamie Peacock retiring, whether I will too and the pressure is building for me to do the same.
"But I have got that voice on my shoulder saying that my club form will improve next year and that I should make myself available.
"I have always said that I will never retire, that it is your duty to play for your country if you are called to do so.
"If it comes to the point where I am not selected because I am not playing well enough, I am man enough to take it on the chin.
"But I have thought about it, and I am going to go for it."
One of his main competitors for an England call-up next October is likely to be his Wolves teammate Chris Hill, whom he started alongside during the 80-12 demolition of Wales two weeks ago.
Morley hopes that competition between himself and teammates Hill, Garreth Carvell and Ben Harrison will spur him on over the course of the 2013 season, and is optimistic that an injury-free year will propel him back to the levels of performance he expects of himself.
"Chris is one of my main rivals not just for England but for Wolves, too," he said.
"I am very proud of Chris and it is a strange bond you have with your fellow props. You try and help each other out but you want each other's spot at the end of the day.
"I am expecting to turn my form around with Warrington next year and then the World Cup will take care of itself. It is a long way away and it will be tough, but not out of the question."


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OC to assume municipal building regs
At its next meeting, Oconee County Council will consider absorbing building code duties in four of the county's five municipalities. County Council Tuesday night is scheduled to consider in title only ordinances that would delegate municipal building code regulation in Walhalla, West Union, Salem, and Westminster to its building codes personnel. In recent times, the council has given attention to the numbers of inmates in its aging jail. On Tuesday, they are to consider what to spend on inmate food and decide the provider. County staff recommends a $150 thousand contract to US Foods of Fort Mill. Two Oconee County residents want to have a word with the council—an extended word. Signed up for extended public comment is Berry Nichols, who wants to address the recommended $15 road maintenance fee. Doug Young plans to address State Representative Tommy Stringer's plan to increase the state gas tax. Council meets Tuesday night at Pine Street, starting with public comment at 6 o'clock.


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A portal opens over Manhattan, panicking the inhabitants and causing destruction with energy blasts. Elsewhere, Generator Rex is training with Agent Six. Rex makes up a theme song for himself. Six and Bobo are not impressed. An alarm goes off. Providence arrives at the vortex. Cesar, Black Knight, Rex, and Bobo have no idea what the vortex is. Rex flies up to it and tries to punch it before realizing what it is. He touches it and it zaps him away. Humungousaur comes out of the portal. He attacks Rex, punching him into a nearby park, and lands next to him.
Humungousaur and Rex fight. Something else comes out of the portal and leaps away. Humungousaur tells Rex to give up, but Rex punches him. Rex tells Six to take care of whatever comes out of the planet. Humungousaur says that dangerous alien aren't welcome on his planet, confusing Rex. Black Knight tells her agents to get the EVOs that came out of the portal alive. White Knight calls Black Knight and tells her to let his team help and to stay out of their way. Humungousaur and Rex fight in a lake. Rex drags Humungousaur under, so he turns into Diamondhead. Rex tries to cure him, but nothing happens. Diamondhead and Rex fight. Holiday tells Rex to be careful. The creature is wrecking Manhattan. It scans all of the nanites present, confused. It sees Rex and Diamondhead fighting on another building when Six attacks it, as do Providence agents. Six knocks it off of the roof. Holiday says that it is entirely mechanical. Rex and Diamondhead fight on a bridge. Diamondhead turns into Lodestar. Lodestar magnetizes Rex's builds, but Rex builds the Slam Cannon and shoots Lodestar. Holiday comes up to Six and Six says that the thing has gone. Holiday scans a piece and says that it is not an EVO. Cesar arrives and Holiday asks him what it is. He takes the piece and flies away. The creature watches him fly into a Providence ship, calls him father, and follows, taking over a Providence fighter. Six climbs onto it. Rex and Lodestar fight on a roof. A billboard falls to the street. Rex and Rath save the people underneath it. Rex then tries to cure Rath, but when that fails, he realizes that Rath isn't an EVO. Rath turns into Ben. Ben gets confused when no one recognizes him. Six and the creature arrive and the creature blows up with Six on it. Six is injured and unconscious. Rex calls Holiday and blames Ben.
At Rex's headquarters, Ben is locked up and Six is placed in a medical chamber. White Knight says that he will be helping Providence close the rift, and tells them to find a piece of the machine that flew away. Ben volunteers, but the team tells Ben to shut up. Ben says that he has no idea what's happening. Holiday scans his nanite levels and says that Ben might be telling the truth. Ben says that he must be from a parallel world. Rex tells Ben to stop talking and that he is currently under arrest. Ben laughs and turns into Big Chill. Big Chill walks out of his prison and says that Rex isn't the only one worried about someone close before flying away. Rex chases Big Chill around the city. Cesar searches for the creature and recognizes its nanite signature. He flies off to find it. Big Chill flies to Mr. Smoothy, only to find that it is not there. Big Chill turns into Ben, convinced that he is not in his world. Ben tells Rex to do his worst, as he is all alone in this universe and may not ever get home. Rex offers to help Ben when Cesar arrives. Cesar shoots Ben. Ben turns into Diamondhead, destroying the weapon. Suddenly, a creature flies in. It is Nanite Alpha, and it calls Cesar its father and grabs him. Alpha says that his bodies do not last, but that his brothers can make him complete. He asks Cesar for help, but Cesar turns him down. Diamondhead attacks Alpha. Cesar tells him not to let Alpha touch Rex. Alpha is confused as to how Rex controls nanites. Diamondhead attacks and he flees. Diamondhead turns into Ben. They follow Alpha in Cesar's ship. They can track it with nanites. Cesar says that Alpha dragged Ben there from his world, attracted to the Ultimatrix. He explains how he created Alpha in the early days of the nanite program, but when he got too powerful, banished him to an empty dimension. Ben recognizes Cesar's weapon as a Null Void projector and says that Alpha must have gone to the Null Void. As they talk, Alpha absorbs the nanites from a bat EVO. It attacks the ship, melting the ceiling. Cesar gets in an escape pod and leaves Rex and Ben on the ship. It explodes.
Cannonbolt shields Rex as they fall to Earth. Rex complains about the smell. Cannonbolt turns into Ben. Rex calls Holiday and she says that the Knights have figured out how to close the rift. Ben says that he isn't leaving until Earth isn't in danger from Alpha. Holiday says that Alpha is at base. She goes out to meet it. It grabs her. Rex rides in and cuts off its arm, and XLR8 runs in and catches Holiday. Rex asks XLR8 for help, so he turns into Ben, then Four Arms. Four Arms throws Rex at Alpha. They come to a standoff. Alpha says that it wants Rex's nanites. Four Arms attacks it, but is blocked. Alpha tries to merge with Rex, but fails. He sees that Rex has the Omega nanite and tries to take it. Holiday frees Rex and Four Arms gets Alpha away from him. He flees. Four Arms turns into Ben. Later, while waiting for Alpha to return, Ben and Rex explain their origins to each other and bond. Rex gets a call and they run off. White Knight says that Alpha is at the Bug Jar. He accompanies Ben and Rex there. They find it deserted, with all of the EVOs drained of their nanites. Ben turns into Diamondhead to fight one before realizing that it is dead. Alpha appears with a new, more powerful body. White Knight tells Diamondhead to keep Alpha away from Rex. Rex and Diamondhead attack Alpha. Alpha grabs Rex. Diamondhead tries to save him, but Alpha absorbs the Ultimatrix. Diamondhead turns into Ben.
Alpha starts absorbing Rex. Ben can't help him because he can't transform. Alpha fails to absorb the Omega. The Ultimatrix recharges and Ben turns into Big Chill. Alpha drops Rex and Big Chill catches him. Big Chill turns into Ben. Alpha grows an Ultimatrix and turns into Heatblast. Heatblast attacks Ben and Rex and they run. Ben can't transform. Rex saves Ben from Heatblast. Heatblast turns into Four Arms. Rex kicks Four Arms. The Ultimatrix recharges and Ben turns into Shocksquatch, a yeti. Shocksquatch has no idea what his powers are. Rex fights Four Arms. Shocksquatch fires a powerful electrical blast at Four Arms and defeats him before turning into Ben. Four Arms turns into Humungousaur. White Knight topples a building on it. His faceplate is cracked and Rex tells him to leave, but he refuses. White Knight fights Humungousaur. Holiday tells Rex to get out, but he attacks Humungousaur and turns him into Alpha. He attacks Alpha, but Alpha tries to absorb Rex. Ben turns into Rath. White Knight tells Rath not to attack. Alpha takes the Omega and transforms into Alpha-Omega. Rath attacks him, but does nothing. He is blasted away and turns into Ben. Alpha-Omega absorbs nanites from the environment.
Alpha-Omega rampages. Big Chill flies Rex and himself to a higher vantage point and turns into Ben. Rex loses all hope, but Ben comes up with a plan and turns into Upgrade. Upgrade merges with Rex and tells him to build something. Rex does, and Upgrade improves it, making it more powerful. Upgrade and Rex use Rex's enhanced builds to fight Alpha-Omega, but it is not enough. Alpha-Omega knocks them away. Upgrade comes out of Rex and turns into Ben. Rex comes up with a plan and tells Ben to turn into Cannonbolt. He does, and Rex fires him at Alpha-Omega with the Slam Cannon. Cannonbolt hits Alpha-Omega in just the right spot and he explodes into his component nanites. Cannonbolt turns into Ben and Rex commands Alpha-Omega's nanites to condense around the Alpha. Cesar arrives and retrieves the Omega just before the Alpha becomes enclosed in a small, ultra-dense ball too heavy for Rex to hold and too tightly packed for Alpha to escape from. Cesar has a partially-repaired Null Void gun. He opens a portal and Ben turn into Upchuck. Upchuck eats the Alpha ball and walks into the portal. The portal closes. At headquarters, Six has recovered. Rex wonders if he will ever see Ben again, and Six says that it is entirely possible. Cesar comes in and injects the Omega into Rex, despite Rex's fears that it may be the Alpha. Cesar assures him that it is not. In the Null Void, Alpha begins to break free of his prison.
- Ben transforms into Shocksquatch
- Ben transforms into XLR8 and Upgrade for the first time in Ultimate Alien
- Ben transforms into XLR8, Shocksquatch, and Upgrade for the final time in Ultimate Alien
- Ben meets Rex, Dr. Holiday, Agent Six, Bobo, and White Knight
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- Diamondhead x3
- Lodestar
- Rath x2
- Big Chill x3
- Cannonbolt x2
- Four Arms
- Heatblast (Alpha)
- Four Arms (Alpha)
- Shocksquatch
- Humungousaur (Alpha)
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Blueberry Custard Parfait Recipe
A retired nurse whose hobby is cooking, Mildred Stubbs, Hamlet, North Carolina shares this refreshing dessert.
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1-1/2 cups whole milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons confectioners' sugar
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 1. In a saucepan, combine eggs, milk, sugar and salt. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until custard is slightly thickened and coats the back of a spoon, about 18 minutes.
- 2. Remove from the heat. Stir in the vanilla, peels and nutmeg. Cool for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- 3. In a small bowl, beat the cream and confectioners' sugar until stiff. Fold two-thirds into the custard. Layer custard and blueberries in parfait glasses. Garnish with remaining cream. Chill for 1 hour. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 294 calories, 17g fat (10g saturated fat), 159mg cholesterol, 236mg sodium, 30g carbohydrate (26g sugars, 2g fiber), 7g protein.
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Gallery: The Serious Eats Field Guide To Jelly Belly Identification
Basic Anatomy of a Jelly Belly
Black and Brown
The only truly black Jelly Belly is the licorice one—if you're not a fan of licorice, look out!
On to the brown options: Cappuccino is dark brown with white spots, and tastes a little like coffee grounds and very sweet iced coffee drinks. Fudgy Chocolate Pudding is dark reddish brown, but not as red as the Dr. Pepper bean. If you love Dr. Pepper, you might get addicted to the Jelly Belly version, as it's quite accurate. Jelly Belly really nailed A&W Root Beer, too—the flavor could not be missed. Look for the translucent brown bean.
Blue and Purple = Blurple
Green Beans (No, Not That Kind of Green Beans)
The Kiwi bean is bright green on the outside and white on the inside, but it only has a faint kiwi flavor. Green Apple is classic medium green in color, and tastes apple-like in the way that apple soda or apple Jolly Ranchers do. The bright green bean with forest green splotches is Margarita, which doesn't taste much like tequila, but 7-year-olds probably wouldn't like that anyway. Juicy Pear is yellowish outside with olive green dots, and white on the inside. It's impressive how much juicy pear flavor those flavor scientists squeezed into this little bean.
The very pale green bean is Sunkist Lime—it's not that tart, just lime-sweet. We always thought the Watermelon bean was cool—it's green on the outside and red on the inside. Fans of Jolly Rancher watermelon flavor will like this too.
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Seeing Red
The Strawberry Jam Jelly Belly has super-concentrated strawberry flavor, and it has dark purple speckles to identify it.
Sour cherry is opaque red; Very Cherry is a bit bluer than its sour cousin. The Very Cherry is the more recognizably cherry-flavored bean.
If you're looking for raspberry, think red + magenta, and if you see a red bean with a bit of a white sheen to it, you've hit Red Apple.
White and Off-White
Mellow Yellow
Orange Beans
Peach Jelly Bellies have an acidity that most fake peach flavors don't; Pink Grapefruit is just a little bit pithy-bitter, like a sweetened grapefruit juice that still tastes like the fruit. But the real surprise is the Chili Mango—the chili takes a second to kick in, but wow, it's there! Spicier than the Cinnamon beans, for sure.


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BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She's angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she's about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights' most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break. PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn't want--and couldn't escape. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine's diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There's comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal's antique pages--until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine's words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present. Jennifer Donnelly, author of the award-winning novel A Northern Light , artfully weaves two girls' stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love. Revolution spans centuries and vividly depicts the eternal struggles of the human heart. From the Hardcover edition.
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French Revolution.


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The check engine light indicates that the car's computer has found a fault and stored it in the system. The fact that the P R D N are lit, indicates that the fact has to do with a transmission fault. You need to have an OBDII scan done on the car to find out what is triggering that light and what the car has stored.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Popular tourist destination Fiji is grappling with its worst outbreak of dengue fever in 16 years.
But local authorities say it's no cause for alarm for beachgoers.
Government spokeswoman Sharon Smith Johns said most cases have been reported near the capital, Suva and in inland areas. There have been no outbreaks around the major resorts on the island of Denarau and the Coral Coast, she added.
The Pacific island nation has seen 2,589 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne virus since the outbreak began in November, officials said Wednesday. Two males, aged 17 and 35, have died.
Authorities have been spraying insecticide across the country to try and eradicate mosquito-breeding areas and have started a public health campaign to remind people to clean out water containers, Johns added.
Fiji's economy relies heavily on tourists visiting its idyllic beaches. Britain's government last week noted the outbreak on its travel advisory website.
Dengue fever, also known as "break-bone fever," is a viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms like fever and joint pain, and sufferers can occasionally develop fatal complications. Treatment usually involves rest and rehydration, with those badly affected sometimes put on an intravenous drip.
Smith Johns said the weather in Fiji has been very warm with little rain, providing ideal conditions for mosquitoes to breed.
"The hospitals have been very busy, all the doctors have had their leave cancelled," she said.
Fiji's last major outbreak of dengue fever was in 1998, when more than 8,000 people contracted the disease, she said. The country has been working with international health agencies to try and stanch the latest outbreak, she said.
Meanwhile, nearby New Caledonia has reported an outbreak of a closely related disease, Zika fever. A U.S. travel advisory says 64 cases have been confirmed in the French territory.
Last April, a study found about 390 million cases of dengue occur each year, though about two-thirds of those people have only mild illness and don't need medical attention. Those numbers were nearly four times higher than earlier estimates of about 50 to 100 million annual cases.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends to prevent dengue, use repellent on your skin while indoors or out. When possible, wear long sleeves and pants for additional protection.


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The new volume of Legacy continues on Wednesday with the second issue of Prisoner of the Floating World. Our new hero, Ania Solo didn't get much page time last issue, but now that she's found a lightsaber, she has both local police other mysterious parties on her tail. This issue will also introduce us to more of Ania's supporting cast. Hopefully they're as much fun as the cast from the first volume of Legacy.
Be sure to check out our EU Release Schedule. It's recently updated with Dark Horse's July solicits, which include the first issue of a new arc of Dark Times, and the official title for the upcoming Leia novel.
Legacy #2
Ania Solo found a lightsaber inside a broken Imperial communications droid. Now she's being pursued by the local police—and a determined Imperial Knight who is willing to kill to get the weapon!
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Spurs notebook: Ginobili convinces Pop he's good to go in L.A.
Published 11:26 pm, Tuesday, November 13, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Spurs guard Manu Ginobili went through his personal pregame warmup routine before Tuesday's game against the Lakers at Staples Center. Then he chatted briefly with head athletic trainer Will Sevening and presented himself to strength and conditioning coach Matt Herring.
After working through a stretching routine that included some yoga-like postures, Ginobili bounced up from the court roughly 50 minutes before tipoff and made a declaration.
"I am clearing myself to play," he said. "Now it is up to Pop."
The final authority, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, agreed and Ginobili entered the game with 4:36 left in the first quarter.
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Ginobili believes he is just getting to the point where he feels like the player he has been through most of his 10-year NBA career. He scored a season-high 17 points in a season-high 28 minutes Saturday in Portland.
"I want to play," he said as he headed to the locker room to make his case to Popovich. "We'll see how convincing I can be."
Ginobili had a rocky first half, making only 1 of 5 shots and scoring only two points, with two turnovers, in 11 minutes.
Stuck in his hotel room, convalescing during a bout with a stomach virus, Parker said the excitement of the game helped him forget about how bad he felt.
"It was a great game to watch on TV at the hotel," he said. "Up and down, and Portland really played well, especially (Nicolas) Batum was hot. But thankfully for us, Gary Neal was really hot, too."
Neal scored a career-high 27 points, 25 in the second half of the 112-109 victory.
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Popovich used small lineups through much of the second half against the Trail Blazers, and the Spurs responded with 69 points in the half.
"We'll play a good amount of it this year, just because of teams like Oklahoma City where you play small with (Kevin) Durant at the (power forward). It's harder for big guys to guard him," Popovich said.
"You have to get used to playing small so whenever we have an opportunity, we'll probably do it."
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Sourcing Praveen Swami's Story
I apologise for the unusual format of this post – rather than make [x/n] chirps on twitter, I thought it best to put my thoughts in a short post. These thoughts, for whatever they are worth, are as yet incomplete and may remain so until someone has more data. Nonetheless, I insist on working from data as much as possible and not on speculation.
Many readers will be aware of the two chirps I made yesterday about my emails to UNMOGIP. Basically, upon reading Praveen Swami's article in The Hindu, I was curious about the documents he mentioned. My curiosity was more motivated by my research habits of verifying sources than any disagreement I had with Swami's article. To be clear, let me state again that I accept what Swami wrote to be close to the truth. Unlike those offended by the article, I do not think that the events show the Indian Army in a bad light. Having studied conflicts over centuries, one accepts that tragedies occur when people with weapons under a lot of stress are put in extreme environments.
This is not to impose an equality between India and Pakistan – the latter has acquired an international reputation for aiding and abetting terrorists while the former, us guys, may have problems but do not indulge in such activities. It is also incredibly obtuse to think that one side would not give as good as it gets, no matter what the orders are from HQ – unit cohesion would not last the week otherwise.
Anyway, to return to my investigation about Swami's sources, the response from UNMOGIP-Delhi made me suspicious about the existence in the public domain of these "classified" documents. If they were classified, how had Swami obtained access to them? So as advised by Delhi, I emailed the UN Headquarters in New York. I was informed that any declassified documents they held would be available in their online database, and it seems to be true, given that the latest document listed there is from January 18, 2013.
By the way, the UN seems to follow a 20-year rule on declassification…just in case you missed my old article. In any case, I received a helpful email explaining how to use the database and narrow my search from an initial 3,980 documents to 560 at the last pass. Here are my findings so far:
- Swami is indeed right that the Pakistanis complained to UNMOGIP about the massacre of 22 civilians at Seri, Bandala, on April 26-27, 1998. However, though the report mentions mutilation of bodies by daggers and the presence of notes (as well as Indian ammunition casings and an Indian-made watch), it does not carry gory details Swami mentions such as decapitation or the gouging out of eyes. Neither is there any mention of a note asking, "How does your own blood feel?"
- In the Nadala enclave incident, the Pakistani complaint to UNMOGIP of January 24, 2000, was quite sparse. There is no evidence presented, and the only mention is of two dead and five missing Pakistani soldiers from the alleged company-sized attack with mortars and "recoilless rifle bunker-busting fire." There is no mention of Pakistani soldiers being tied up and dragged across a ravine. In fact, the report looks like a regular instance of cross-border firing and little else.
- Nothing was found on the other events mentioned – Bhimber Gali on September 18, 2003, Bhattal on June 19, 2008, or Sharda on August 30, 2011.
Is it possible that I missed some documents? Absolutely. However, given how broad my search terms were – "UNMOGIP," "Kashmir," "Pakistan AND India" – that seems unlikely. Furthermore, I searched not only for reports from the Pakistani delegation to the UN but also an entity called the Jammu & Kashmir Council for Human Rights, Amnesty International, and others. This means that at least part of Swami's story comes from sources other than UN documents or that he had access to documents that have not yet been declassified. Even on the 1998 Bandala incident where his story lines up most, the UNMOGIP report has been embellished with external material.
By the way, complaints are, by definition, one-sided. Even if Swami produces all the documentation he has cited, it does not prove the Indian Army's guilt but merely merits an investigation from the Indian side. It is not the media's job to adjudicate on guilt, something they seem to forget quite often.
I fully understand that newspaper articles are not peer-reviewed academic pieces and have different evidentiary standards, but it should not be this difficult to track down the sources of a story if one is so inclined. Journalists frequently make use of their privileged access to people in power, but that is a double-edged sword – you may as easily be a propaganda mouthpiece as the journaliste du jour. It is also, in my opinion, good research ethics to explain the nature of one's sources.
I am told that Swami has blocked people on twitter for asking him about his sources (RTing to him my two chirps) and I understand not wanting to be inundated with requests for information, especially when the matter puts one in an awkward light. However, given the sensitivity of the piece and the reaction it has provoked, the responsible thing to do would have been for The Hindu, Swami's employer and the tabloid that carried the story, to put up links to these alleged documents – documents are not people and need not be protected in the same way journalists protect their human sources. Swami could also have been clearer about the sources of the extraneous details he added.
If these documents are indeed classified and we have to accept the author at his word – which is fine – this whole fancy article based on "classified documents" can also be rewritten as "Sources say…" The latter seems, to me, a little more honest in that it does not even hold the slightest hope that the information can be verified, whereas "classified documents" implies that they might be available somewhere and have just been or are about to be declassified.
As was pointed out to me yesterday on twitter, "classified documents" can also mean a leak. This raises questions about how selectively documents were leaked, who these leaks were, and what their motivations for such a revelation were, that too when Indians were just beginning to forget the LoC decapitation of two Indian soldiers.
In conclusion, I can only say that, at present, the documentation on the Swami story is at best a mixed bag. I'd appreciate any assistance in deciphering this mess – from The Hindu, Swami himself, UNMOGIP, or especially a more persevering researcher. By the way, I have a classified document that appoints me as the head of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission…will the office send a car to pick me up?


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