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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved a nearly 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for Central African Republic, which has been torn by mounting violence between Christians and Muslims.
The 10,000 U.N. troops and 1,800 police will take over from 5,000 African Union soldiers — but not until Sept. 15.
A separate 2,000-strong French force in the Central African Republic was authorized to use "all necessary means" to support the new U.N. force.
Central African Republic has been in chaos since a March 2013 coup, when mostly Muslim rebels seized power and launched a brutal regime. Christian militiamen attacked rebel strongholds in early December. As the rebel government crumbled in January, the Christian militiamen stepped up the violence, forcing tens of thousands of Muslims to flee.
France, the country's former colonial power, took the lead in mobilizing international support to address the crisis but its ambassador, Gerard Araud, said the security situation remains volatile.
"African Union troops supported by the French troops are doing tremendous work to protect the civilian population but it's not yet enough," Araud said after the vote. "The resolution we have just adopted is a key turning point."
Toussaint Kongo-Doudou, Central African Republic's foreign minister, who urged the council last month to send U.N. peacekeepers, thanked members for adopting the resolution, saying it "lays the foundation for a solution and a way out of the crisis."
The resolution expresses serious concern at multiple violations of human rights and humanitarian law committed by both former Seleka elements and anti-Balaka militia including killings, torture and sexual violence against women and children.
It "demands that all militias and armed groups put aside their arms, cease all forms of violence and destabilizing activities immediately and release children from their ranks."
The Security Council wanted a strong mandate and the resolution authorizes the new U.N. force to protect civilians and support the disarmament of combatants and the restoration of peace and law and order. It also authorizes the mission to help investigate violations of human rights and humanitarian law by armed groups and arrest alleged perpetrators.
While U.N. peacekeepers and police will not take over until Sept. 15, the resolution immediately establishes the U.N. mission, to be known as MINUSCA. It will take over all activities of the U.N. political office, including supporting the country's political transition.
The resolution urges the transitional authorities to accelerate preparations for free and fair elections no later than February 2015.
With the establishment of MINUSCA, the African Union force on the ground will receive logistical support from the United Nations. Many of its members are likely to become part of the new U.N. force after being checked to ensure they meet U.N. standards.
Philippe Bolopion, United Nations director for Human Rights Watch, urged the U.N. and member states to make the U.N. force a reality on the ground quickly, "including by providing carefully vetted troops, so the U.N. mission itself does not become embroiled in any allegations of abuses."
"This resolution doesn't mean that the U.N. cavalry is going to roll in and save the day," he warned.
In the coming months before U.N. troops deploy, he urged all countries, especially the European Union and African Union, "to do everything in their power to bolster peacekeeping capacities on the ground, protect CAR's besieged Muslim minority, and contribute to the tragically underfunded humanitarian effort."
On the streets of the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui, there was a mixed reaction to the approval of a U.N. force.
Cyrius Zemangui-Kette, 25, who is unemployed, said U.N. troops should have been sent in long ago, but the international community dragged its feet and now things have gotten worse.
"They say they'll arrive in September," he said. "Until then, lots of Central Africans will continue to die, so who are they coming to save?"
Youssouf Adam, 45, a Muslim trader, praised the U.N. deployment but said there were other ways to resolve the crisis.
"If the International Criminal Court, for example, starts to identify the perpetrators of crimes and arrests them, that could worry the perpetrators and give a feeling of justice to the victims who would agree to lower the tensions," he said. "We also have to promote cohesion between the communities that are hostile."
Associated Press Writer Hippolyte Marboua contributed to this report from Bangui, Central African Republic .


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If you want, i can wait before i send you the card back...The symptoms 00WReX describes match exactly the one i encountered.
It almost sounds like the boards could have died from static discharge, but I would have expected the parts to be more robust than that.Bryce.
Thankyou all guys!!yes, you all were rightthe router didn't work well this morning, but the CPC stills displayed "connected" and "got ip 192.168.0.220", symbos believed to be "connect" too, but none of them were connect Yes, i'd the ip static 192.168.0.220, hence netstat and symbos were convinced on being online...this night i've reconfigured the router and set dhcp on m4, all started to work again!!!Thanyou all again!
I think SymbOS was correct when saying that it was online! If you use static ip and you have a link than you are online. It does not say that your gateway or dns is correct. Probably you can do network stuff in the same broadcast domain. If your DNS is not able to resolve or the gateway is not allowing you to do then problems are there but in fact you are online.
For example if you use symbus , which is a tool you start in symbos you can connect to your CPC by using a PC with telnet or use putty. In this case if you are in the same vlan you don't use your dns or gateway. With symbus you can telnet to your CPC and can do some kind of remote control.
@00WReX @remaxPlease try this one:http://www.spinpoint.org/cpc/m4diag.zipIt will take a bit longer than before.Afterwards there should be a report.txt in the root of microSDPlease let me know the results.Also it should bring your romboard/mass storage back alive.Thank you.
ESP Flash SR: 0x00 0x02ESP Flash ID: 0x00E04016ESP Upgrade CRC match!ESP Flash Readback CRC: 0xE969B0B2 vs 0xE969B0B2Checking ESP commandESP version 00010100 OKDone!
Hi Shaneis it the same as this, ( From my OLD PMG Toolkit )Ray
@00WReX Cool, glad it worked, I didn't expect it to - seems a chip erase command did the job.Hope it works for @remax too.
Thanks again Duke. That just surprised me when you said you was not expecting it to work.Only because you mentioned that it should bring it alive...I was confident at that point
Hope it works for @remax too.
if you do this on a large directory listing and press 'ESC' either once or twice the function key you just set will be lost.
Do you know what happened to the users experimenting trouble lately, and if so has this condition been adressed in the last beta ?
Hi Duke,Are you able to add an RSX to list installed ROMs.Something like the |help in utopia.Maybe |ROMSI know the ROMs can be seen from the Web Browser, but straight from the CPC is very handy too.Thanks.Cheers,Shane
FW 3.1x has this built in, and it works with the m4 beautifully.
Exactly... Using |HELP too.
M4 Firmware v1.1.0 beta #4 - Download it here http://www.spinpoint.org/cpc/M4FIRM_v110b4.zipChanges:Added C_GETNETWORK command.Added status byte after response string to C_NETSTATFix |cd,"/" to go to root if inside a DSK image.Fix SD hotswapping.Remove KM_RESET from cat/dir when pressing ESC, to continue listing one must use space now.Display current path when using cat/dir.Increased AMSDOS readspeed (using bigger buffer).Faster network speed when using netapi.|Netstat command now displays all IP info, if connected to AP.See more details in http://www.spinpoint.org/cpc/m4info.txt (also with documentation of SOS new RSX commands, thanks!)Sorry for all these beta's The purpose is to catch any (new) bugs before going to final release. So if you want to play it safe, stick with the non beta releases.
i know the wifi is trasmitted by Air, but i not need recieve the board flying XD.
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Confederate flag at school board meeting draws complaints, questions
Board president: "I didn't get his message, if he had one"
A Springboro man who unfurled a Confederate battle flag at a school board meeting says he was trying to make a point about history. Others say his move was offensive.
Sonny Thomas insists his message was misinterpreted, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. He showed the flag at a recent Springboro board of education meeting in response to the board's backing off an earlier plan to offer a constitutional class with a religious theme.
He says the flag means heritage to many people in the South and that he meant to educate and inform.
"People automatically skewed it to being racist," Thomas said.
The Rev. Damon Lynch Jr. of Cincinnati, a civil rights leader, said Thomas' use of the flag without considering its racial overtones shows his ignorance.
"The flag represents slavery, and he needs to inquire a little more into what the flag has meant," Lynch said.
Kelly Kohls, president of the Springboro school board and a Warren County tea party leader, said she was surprised by Thomas' actions and comments at the meeting last week.
"I didn't get his message, if he had one in there," she said, adding that the board couldn't restrict public comments in meetings.
Thomas calls himself the head of the Springboro tea party. Other tea party activists distanced themselves from him three years ago after he went on a social media rant against Hispanics.


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From "Operation Wetback" To Newtown: Tracing The Hick Fascism Of The NRA
I've been writing about these rampage murders for about a decade now, but Friday's rampage massacre was Different. So I'm going to approach this piece somewhat Differently than I usually do — I'm going to look at what's most obvious.
For one thing, this massacre had pathos, and I've never really dealt with pathos like this in all my years researching and writing about these rampage killings. I'm used to digging into a story that has no pathos, and finding it where no one bothers looking, usually hidden in all the obvious places.
But there's no point in being clever here. The slaughter of so may little children means approaching this from a more "obvious" angle.
Also, this isn't the sort of rampage massacre I studied for "Going Postal," my book that examined workplace massacres in which employees massacre supervisors and/or coworkers, and "middle America" school shootings where middle-class students attack their schools and fellow students.
Until relatively recently, those types of mass-murder were freakishly rare in America; they only appeared at the end of the Reagan Era. First they happened in the workplace, concurrent with the destruction of labor unions and the transfer of wealth and workplace power into few hands. Then, by the late 1990s, the workplace massacres had seeped down into the employees' children's schoolyards.
The dead Newtown killer, Adam Lanza, wasn't a student at the school he shot up, nor did he work there. He apparently suffered from mental illness — no shit he did -- and his mother was reportedly a gun enthusiast, a "prepper" who stored up weapons for the end of the world.
There've been other massacres like Newtown in the past — where the killer has no direct relationship or grievance to the victims or the site of the shooting, a lone and severely mentally ill adult for some reason chooses to massacre school children in their school. They're rare and often spectacular. It happened in Stockton in 1989, leading to California's assault weapons ban; it happened in Britain in '96, leading to a total handgun ban; it happens in China more and more lately, the adult attacker always uses a knife rather than a gun, meaning lower to nil death counts, and astronomical numbers of wounded.
Until now, I have largely avoided getting dragged down into the gun control debate, in part because gun proliferation doesn't explain why "going postal" first exploded into the culture in the late 1980s, and has worked its way into the American DNA ever since. Gun control or lack thereof doesn't explain why these kinds of rampage shootings only appeared in the late Reagan era and spread ever since then. And there must have been my own personal prejudices too — I grew up with guns, and despite a couple of bad episodes involving guns and a drunken violent stepfather, I have a reflexive contempt for people who haven't gone shooting and tell you that gun control laws are the answer.
Well, guess what? Their knee-jerk solution is more right than mine.
Passing gun restrictions today probably wouldn't do much to slow down rampage massacres, at least not for awhile — but the politics of sweeping gun control laws could have a huge transformative effect over time. It's no longer impossible for me to ignore that fact.
Which means it's also no longer possible for me to ignore the National Rifle Association, and its hick fascism politics that've been poisoning our culture ever since the NRA's infamous "coup" in 1977, when the NRA was taken over by far-right fanatics led by a convicted murderer and onetime US Border Guards chief named Harlon Carter — whose previous claim to fame was when he led a massive crackdown on Mexican immigrant laborers called "Operation Wetback." That's not a typo by the way.
Two decades before Harlon Carter led "Operation Wetback" he was convicted of murdering a 15-year-old Mexican American boy, sentenced to a three-year prison term (Harlon was under-age himself), before being inexplicably acquitted of all charges and allowed to walk free as if it had never happened. It probably didn't hurt that Harlon Carter's daddy was himself a ranking Border Guards official, and that his fate was in the hands of the Texas "justice" system.
Also, his victim was Mexican-American.
Two decades after murdering a Mexican-American boy and getting off scot-free, here is how the official Mormon newspaper, the Deseret News, described Harlon's "Operation Wetback" scam, in 1954:
Border Patrol Hits Wetbacks For Fare Home McALLEN, TX (UP) — The border patrol is taking "fare" from 11,000 wetbacks it has rounded up in the lower Rio Grande Valley to take them to El Paso — 800 miles away — for deportation. Most of the wetbacks live on the Mexican side of the lower Rio Grande Valley, only a few miles from where they were rounded up. But the border patrol is taking them 600 miles to deport them and is charging them "fare" for the bus trip. One farmer told a valley newspaper that border patrolmen took all but $1 from one wetback who was working on his farm to pay his "fare" for the 600-mile ride to El Paso. Harlon Carter, chief of the border patrol... said it is coming out of the wages they made in the United States.
A few years before that, Harlon was in the news bragging about how he'd protected America from half a million alleged illegal immigrants at the border, doubling his deportation total year-on-year. Piggybacking on McCarthyism hysteria, Harlon Carter — nicknamed "Bullethead" because of the shape of his head — oversaw a huge expansion of his border force, which he said was necessary to keep out "subversives" and "undesirables...'inimicable' [sic] to the best interests of the country" — singling out "Southern Europeans" in particular, meaning presumably Italians. Like his fellow Texan Vance Muse, it seems Harlan Cater didn't like Catholics much.
It wasn't until 1981 that a Texas journalist found the records of NRA chief Harlon Carter's murder conviction. By then of course that information wasn't worth much except maybe to confirm that yet another violent hick fascist was in charge of a right-wing pillar in the Reagan Revolution, but there was no way to stop it now.
The thing is, Harlon Carter didn't seem possible if you were awake at all in 1979-80. Most people assumed his type had been driven into extinction, that Harlon Carters only existed in Hollywood caricatures or black-and-white reels from pre-1967... but as Dr. Dolan once put it, "The Coelacanth lives." Without any irony, the convicted murder-turned-NRA chief announced,
"You don't stop crime by attacking guns -- you stop crime by stopping criminals."
When Harlon Carter seized control of the NRA in 1977 from the more moderate leader, a Mormon named Maxwell Rich, it wasn't so obvious that these resurrected Coelocanth monsters were anything more than a grotesque yet passing curiosity, a stark reminder of how rancid America might've been without the cultural revolutions of the 60s and 70s. Little did they know.
An article I found by Watergate investigative reporter Jack Anderson in 1978 gives a sense of the weirdness and dark foreboding right after Harlon Carter took control of the NRA. It's about the takeover by Harlon's "extremists" after the NRA split over whether or not to support a widely popular bill banning the "Saturday Night Special" handgun used in so many violent crimes. The NRA chief whom Harlon Carter overthrew publicly supported the Saturday Night Special handgun ban, telling the Senate in 1972, "On the Saturday Night Special, we are for it [banning] 100 percent. We would like to get rid of these guns."
The NRA nearly imploded in civil war over the leadership's support for the handgun ban. Harlon's fanatics saw it as treason; today's restrictions on Saturday Night Special handguns were tomorrow's Stalinist GULAG camps and the genocide of all gun-owning American patriots.
What the establishment didn't get about Harlon's new souped-up NRA gun-cult until too late — in fact what most still don't get — is that the more batshit disconnected from demonstrable reality your message is, the more fanatical and organized-for-war your organization will be. If you can get people to make that leap of faith —well, then you've got real power. Reagan understood that sort of power well: Pandering to the far-right John Birch Society cult won him California's governor's seat in 1966, and in 1980, he promised to implement Harlon Carter's radical pro-gun agenda as soon as he took office. Unfortunately that pro-gun push got delayed by an assassination attempt on Reagan's life, but nearly bleeding to death didn't change Reagan's mind (or what passed for Reagan's mind).
A speech Harlon Carter gave to the NRA as Reagan lay wounded captures the horribleness of these early Reagan Revolution arachnids, who had no more love for each other than they did for any other living creature on this planet:
"You know, sadly, why President Reagan isn't here. But you heard President Reagan himself advocate no restriction on those who commit no crimes. . . . [He] rejected the maudlin enticements of the press to say something in favor of gun control while he lay wounded by one little man's bullet."
As soon as Reagan could walk again, he pushed the NRA's agenda, first by moving to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the agency that enforces federal gun laws — and then turning around and rescuing the ATF from extinction after Harlon Carter got word that gun enforcement powers would transfer to the Secret Service. Reagan signed a bill in 1986 rolling back earlier gun regulations passed after JFK's assassination, such as banning mail-order weapons purchases after it was learned Lee Harvey Oswald bought his sniper rifle through a mail-order ad in the NRA's in-house magazine, "American Rifleman." Thanks to Reagan and the NRA, Oswald's liberties were posthumously restored.
The cult strategy worked: Membership soared into the millions, and the NRA's budget swelled to one of the largest budgets in DC outside of the federal government.
But the downside to starting a fanatical cult is the risk that you'll be denounced by your own fanatics — which is exactly what happened to Carter, who was soon denounced as a sellout for suggesting that being respectable had its merits too. Next thing Harlon Carter knew, he was forced into early retirement, and the real Harlon Carter was replaced by a mythologized Harlon Carter for the fanatics to worship, a Harlon Carter who never wavered.
The formula is simple: The more batshit malevolent the gun cult gets, the more power they exert. Just ignore the periodic squeals from the rest of the country, and keep pushing the batshit envelope.
Nothing proved this awesome power of gun cult batshittery more than the controversy in the mid-90s, when ex-President George H. W. Bush resigned from the NRA and published a letter attacking the group, in language that you can tell wants to be scathing, and would've scathed if Bush had allowed an editor to do a once-over, yet still manages to scathe if only because it captures a normally-careful politician in moment of genuine emotional outrage:
May 3, 1995 Dear Mr. Washington, I was outraged when, even in the wake of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of N.R.A., defended his attack on federal agents as "jack-booted thugs." To attack Secret Service agents or A.T.F. people or any government law enforcement people as "wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms" wanting to "attack law abiding citizens" is a vicious slander on good people. Al Whicher, who served on my [ United States Secret Service ] detail when I was Vice President and President, was killed in Oklahoma City. He was no Nazi. He was a kind man, a loving parent, a man dedicated to serving his country -- and serve it well he did. In 1993, I attended the wake for A.T.F. agent Steve Willis, another dedicated officer who did his duty. I can assure you that this honorable man, killed by weird cultists, was no Nazi. John Magaw, who used to head the U.S.S.S. and now heads A.T.F., is one of the most principled, decent men I have ever known. He would be the last to condone the kind of illegal behavior your ugly letter charges. The same is true for the F.B.I.'s able Director Louis Freeh. I appointed Mr. Freeh to the Federal Bench. His integrity and honor are beyond question. Both John Magaw and Judge Freeh were in office when I was President. They both now serve in the current administration. They both have badges. Neither of them would ever give the government's "go ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law abiding citizens." (Your words) I am a gun owner and an avid hunter. Over the years I have agreed with most of N.R.A.'s objectives, particularly your educational and training efforts, and your fundamental stance in favor of owning guns. However, your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us. You have not repudiated Mr. LaPierre's unwarranted attack. Therefore, I resign as a Life Member of N.R.A., said resignation to be effective upon your receipt of this letter. Please remove my name from your membership list. Sincerely, [ signed ] George Bush
Scathing or not, it didn't work. A few years later, the NRA was openly bragging that it owned George's son, "a president where we work out of their office." And the ex-president's nemesis, Wayne LaPierre, is still running the NRA.
And we're still stuck hand-wringing, still promising to do something "this time" because "this time it's different" — and still asking ourselves, "How many times will we be asking ourselves 'When will this stop?'"
So what's really going on here? Why the crazy? It's not exactly a revelation to learn that the NRA is run by hick fascist nutjobs, although we quickly forget just how toxic they are without constant reminding. But each time you peel off a layer, it's more shocking than you expected it be.
But what's the purpose, what are the deeper ideological politics of that sort of gun-cult fanaticism?
Looking back at Big Business' violent reaction against the New Deal and the political culture that it created: a more "collectivist" political culture, as the libertarians derisively call it, where people were more deeply involved with each other and their communities, and with that involvement in their politics and communities came greater trust in their communities. That political culture — where people were more involved in their politics and trusted government more than they trusted business — was a big problem, according to pollsters and PR experts hired by business lobby groups in the postwar era, groups like the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce.
Much better is to pour arms unrestricted into the population, give them legal cover and political encouragement to take political matters into their own hands with laws like "Stand Your Ground". That way you wind up creating a political culture of atomized, fear-fueled citizens who think they're literally at war with each other, and their only way out is to fend for themselves and their family.
One of FDR's first and most powerful opponents in the 30s and 40s was a New York lobbyist and public relations heavyweight named Merwin K. Hart. He was the brains and organizing force behind far-right big business groups like the American Liberty League, the isolationist America First Committee, and the far-right National Economic Council, fighting labor unions and waging nonstop war on democracy, which Merwin Hart equated with Communism. He also served as PR flak for Spain's fascist dictator, publishing a fawning book on Franco in 1939 titled "America, Look At Spain" completely whitewashing the hundreds of thousands of Spaniards his client the Generalissimo had just finished slaughtering.
Robert Jackson — the Nuremberg Trials prosecutor and Supreme Court Justice — singled out Merwin K. Hart as one of America's most dangerous fascists on the eve of World War Two. After the war, Hart became a leading Holocaust denier. He also helped engineer Joe McCarthy's election victory, and helped spearhead relentless attacks on "collectivism" (in which act together in politics and the workplace, rather than "individually" which is how the bosses prefer it), and against democracy, which Hart claimed was an alien Communist idea subverting American liberty. He proposed "that every person who accepted any form of government help should be denied the right to vote." He also called for impeaching the entire Supreme Court, accusing the justices of being "dedicated to socialism."
In place of democracy and "collectivism" and community activism, Merwin K. Hart promoted "individualism" and fear.
And that naturally led Merwin K Hart into promoting the sort of fanatical gun-politics that shocked the public in his time, but today is accepted as part of the mainstream discourse, as if NRA gun-fanaticism was always in the air, rather than a political project with political ends in mind.
In a 1948 newsletter to his followers later read aloud to shocked House committee members, Hart made a "concrete suggestion" to his members, calling on the head of every American home to "possess himself of one or more guns, making sure they are in good condition, that he and other members of his family know how to use them, and that he has a reasonable supply of ammunition."
And just before he died in 1962, Merwin Hart organized fringe gun groups like the Minutemen -- a Southern California gun-cult that claimed to possess hundreds of automatic weapons and had "information" of an impending invasion by Chinese troops massing on the Mexican border. Together, they successfully killed a bill that would require handgun registration. Hart used language too extreme for that era's NRA: "Any congressman or senator who votes for the Anfoso [gun] bill knowing its real purpose would disqualify himself from ever again expecting to be called an American."
A little over a year later, Kennedy was assassinated. One of the most famous national columnists, muckraker Drew Pearson (Jack Anderson's boss & mentor), blamed Kennedy's murder on gun fanatics like Merwin K. Hart:
Hate Lobbies Killed Anfuso Arms Bill Washington — If hate groups had not pressured Congress against passage of an Arms Registration Act, President Kennedy might still be alive today. ...When Anfuso introduced his Arms Registration Bill there was a storm of criticism from the right wing and a flood of letters to Congress. Another opponent was Merwin K. Hart, president of the so-called "National Economic Council" and once described by Justice Robert Jackson as well known for his pro-Fascist leanings. What motive, ulterior or otherwise, the pro-Fascists had in opposing the registering of firearms with the FBI is not known. At any rate, the pressure on Congress was so great that the Anfuso Bill did not pass.
Back then, Merwin K Hart's gun fanaticism was an ugly freakshow popping out of the political margins, but today it part of the landscape, and the only question is how can we get rid of it, rather than what's it doing there in the first place.
Because it's now so deeply ingrained that owning guns is a form of radical subversive politics, the people who still engage in real politics have the pick of the litter. That first became really clear in the depths of the 2008-9 collapse, when a lot of people who thought of themselves as radicals and anarchists made a lot of feckless noise about how they were arming and preparing for the collapse and revolution. They could've gone out and organized something and maybe built a politics of people power or even a politics of what they call revolution, a politics that actually changed things. But instead, they locked themselves in their homes and apartments with their guns and fancied themselves political revolutionaries just waiting to be swept up. But no one came. No one bothered or cared. And really, why would any plutocrat or evil government agency bother with the suckers, all harmlessly atomized and isolated and thoroughly neutralized by the false sense of political empowerment that their guns gave them, while you do the real work of plundering budgets, bribing politicians and writing laws even more in your favor?
So while everyone was hiding out in their homes armed and ready for Hollywood finales that never came, in the real world political power was concentrating at warp-speed with zero resistance.
From the oligarchy's perspective, the people were thoroughly neutralized by the false sense of political empowerment that guns gave them. Guns don't work in this country — they didn't work for the Black Panthers or the Whiskey Rebellion, and they won't work for you or me either.
It takes years to cultivate a political mindset that voluntarily neutralizes itself by convincing itself that its contribution to world revolution comes down to purchasing a few guns at K-Mart, then blogging about it. That's what reactionary plutocrats like the Koch brothers understood about the deeper politics of gun fanaticism, and why their outfits like the Cato Institute have been at the forefront of overturning gun regulations and promoting "Stand Your Ground" vigilantism as a substitute for political engagement: That by poisoning the political climate, it poisons the minds, which circulates back to the external environment, and back into the minds, until you lock the culture into a pattern in which you always get more and they always get fleeced, which makes them more fanatical and you more powerful...
This is what I missed or ignored about gun control: The longterm view that the Koch brothers and the Scaifes and everyone backing gun-nuttery understood about how gun laws or the absence of those laws can completely transform the surrounding political climate.


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U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald — heretofore best known for pursuing the charges in the outing of Valerie Plame and inspiring the term "Fitzmas" with his indictment of Scooter Libby — inspired a little more in me today with his all-American righteous outrage and bitten words when describing the charges against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Check out this "angry" mashup and watch as he practically steams behind the podium, saying that Blagojevich's conduct would make Lincoln "roll over in his grave". Fitzgerald + "rolling over" = my female fantasy.
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What would you do if an owl found its way into your house? Would you panic and lose your composure, or would you steady your nerves, rise to the occasion, and attempt a daring rescue?
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Scott Smith, EMT-P, is the DAN Medical Information Specialist & Prehospital Medicine Course Director. He is an EMS instructor who teaches several prehospital medicine courses including Diver Medical Technician, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Basic Life Support, among others. Smith specializes in working with public safety dive teams and prehospital medicine providers on education regarding diving medicine and has a background in clinical hyperbaric medicine. Smith has been diving since 1992 and has been a diving instructor since 1998.
Frances Smith is a certified DMT and DAN Examiner. She has been a paramedic for 25 years, a public safety diver, a firefighter and emergency first responder. Frances has more than 20 years of experience in laboratory research with a focus in biochemistry, molecular biology and clinical trials. She also has four years of experience teaching as a clinical faculty instructor for University of North Carolina Chapel Hill medical students.
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Dr. Strauss is an undersea and hyperbaric medicine expert. After completing U.S. Navy Submarine and Diving Medical Schools, Dr. Strauss served on a nuclear submarine, with salvage divers in the Philippines and Vietnam and with the SEAL teams in San Diego. After these fleet experiences, Dr. Strauss completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the Navy Medical Center, San Diego. He was released from active duty in 1977, but remained with the Navy SEAL reserve teams until his retirement from the Naval Reserve in the year 2000, concluding a 34 1/2 year affiliation.
Dr. Strauss is a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California Irvine as well as the orthopaedic consultant for the PACT (Preservation-Amputation, Care, and Treatment) Clinic at the Veterans Affairs Health Care Medical Center, Long Beach, Calif. Dr. Strauss has written two text books ("Diving Science," 2004 and "MasterMinding Wounds," 2010), three chapters for Kindwall's 2008 "Hyperbaric Medicine Practice" text as well as more than 100 publications on orthopaedic, diving medicine, hyperbaric medicine and wound management subjects as well as an equal number of posters and exhibits.
Dr. Christopher Logue graduated medical school from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He currently serves as the health system's clinician/clinical instructor, emergency department physician at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the hyperbaric medicine attending physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher became a SCUBA Instructor in 1993 through the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) and he still remains in active status.
An active diver since 1988, Dr. Richard Sadler attended the Medical College of Virginia and completed his surgery residence at the University of California– Irvine, followed by simultaneous Vascular and Thoracic Surgery residencies at the University of Iowa. Desiring to reconnect with his trauma experience, he merged his General Surgery and CV expertise and started the nonprofit Med Force Helicopter EMS system with a used Bell 222. He completed the NOAA Diving Medical Officer Course and became Board Certified in Underwater Medicine. He received his PADI Divemaster certification from the Kapalua Dive Company. He currently is an active Public Safety Diver, and is medical director for the Dive Rescue International training agency.
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>> Friday, November 25, 2011
Venue: Seng Kong Coffeeshop, Lorong Kubang Buaya 6
Overall comment: "Power" dim sum at a small, simple coffeeshop - my personal opinion is that they have the best stuffed brinjal dim sum EVER, not only in Kuantan, but also in PJ/KL! Why? It's not pure fish paste...delicious well-marinated minced pork!
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Seng Kong's is a coffeeshop in its own land. So if you're coming from Pantai Selamat on your right, once you turn left, you'll see Seng Kong on your right not too far from the junction that you turned in. It's somewhat opposite Croc Deli (or what's the cafe's name....it's opened by Crocodile Rock Restaurant/Bistro).
Each time I'm back in Kuantan, I will surely want to sink my teeth into the dim sum at Seng Kong, especially the stuffed brinjal ("yong ai gua"). I could eat at least 2 plates of brinjals although it's said to be not very good for healthy if we over-eat - creates wind in stomach & affects the eye sight.
This coffeeshop isn't a dim sum place, but it just happen to have good dim sum in their "pau" trays...haha. The coffeeshop offers good assam laksa & other variety of noodles i.e. fish ball noodles & wan tan mee as well. So if you're not interested in having steamed dim sum, "pau", "lo mai kai", or even "bak chang" (triangle dumpling with meat), the assam laksa is quite nice ;)
Here are some of my usuals (I didn't take any photo of the dumpling)
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p/s: The owner of this coffeeshop is quite entertaining. When he calculates your food prices, he's like some "machak" who counts really fast! You can't really catch what he's counting, but it's accurate!
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Wounded servicemen and women from the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia are embarking on the 208-mile Walking with the Wounded South Pole Allied Challenge. The charity race in Antarctica aims to raise money and awareness for disabled veterans transitioning back to civilian life.
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The three teams competing in the Walking with the Wounded South Pole Allied Challenge: Team U.K. in the red, Team Commonwealth in the yellow and Team U.S. in the blue.
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Ivan Castro, one of the wounded vets participating on the U.S. team, is seen here in Afghanistan in 2005.
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Ivan Castro is led by LTC Fred Dummar while running the Marine Corps Marathon in 2010. Castro has run more than 24 marathons.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Russ Smith scored a game-high 23 points and No. 4 Louisville shot 53 percent to run away from Providence 80-62 on Wednesday night in the Big East Conference opener for both teams.
Gorgui Dieng and Luke Hancock each added 11 points and Chane Behanan and Peyton Siva had 10 each as the Cardinals (13-1, 1-0) won their eighth straight.
Louisville, coming off Saturday's 80-77 victory over archrival Kentucky, didn't let down against Providence. Motivated by the memory of last season's 31-point road loss to the Friars, the Cardinals responded by handing Providence its worst defeat of the season.
Besides forcing 16 turnovers that led to 27 points, Louisville broke the game open in the second half with 63 percent shooting (15 of 24) after hitting 15 of 33 from the field before halftime.
Kadeem Batts had 17 points to lead Providence (8-5, 0-1)), which fell to 0-7 all-time in Louisville.
Though avoiding a post-Kentucky lull was part of Louisville's agenda, its main objective was starting off its conference schedule on a high note. The Cardinals were also seeking payback after last year's loss to the Friars, a game in which Providence obviously played well but one that Cardinals coach Rick Pitino noted was helped by his team's poor play.
There was no repeat of that as Louisville played well at both ends.
The biggest question for both teams was whether they would be at full strength.
Providence guard Bryce Cotton was a game-time decision because of a sore knee that sidelined him from Friday's loss to Brown. But the Big East's leading scorer (22.0 points per game) started and had a game-high 11 points in the first half.
Behanan was considered doubtful for Louisville with the flu but managed to start, though he seemed less energetic than usual.
The same could be said for the Cardinals' early play.
Providence scored the first eight points against the out-of-sync Cardinals before Smith, replaced in the starting lineup by Kevin Ware, hit a 3-pointer. But the Friars quickly increased their lead to 10 as Vincent Council answered from beyond the arc, creating unease from a crowd of 21,305.
Just as quickly, the Cardinals found their rhythm and tied the game with a 15-5 run as Smith added five straight points, Behanan scored off a turnover, Dieng and Hancock had tip-ins and Wayne Blackshear finished with a layup.
Providence took two brief leads soon after but Louisville was in high gear on both ends, especially on defense. The Cardinals turned up the pressure and ended the half with 19 points off 11 turnovers, helping them take a 37-31 lead.
Louisville quickly made it a double-digit lead on two free throws by Siva and Smith's layup off a steal by Behanan. The Cardinals followed with a 28-16 run including 13 straight that made it 69-49.


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Set overlooking Henry Cowell Redwood State Park, just north of Santa Cruz, California, walk onto the rear deck, and the world is at your feet: 20,000 acres of forest below you, ancient redwoods towering above. You may easily forget that you're only minutes from shopping, restaurants, wine tasting and the renowned Santa Cruz beaches and the famous Santa Cruz Boardwalk.
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Cream White 2020 Hyundai Tucson Value AWD 6-Speed Automatic with Shiftronic I4AWD, 4-Wheel Disc Brakes, 6 Speakers, ABS brakes, Air Conditioning, Alloy wheels, AM/FM radio: SiriusXM, Axle Ratio: 3.648, Blind spot sensor: Blind Spot Collision Warning (BCW) warning, Brake assist, Bumpers: body-color, Cargo Net, Cargo Package, Carpeted Floor Mats, Delay-off headlights, Driver door bin, Driver vanity mirror, Dual front impact airbags, Dual front side impact airbags, Electronic Stability Control, Emergency communication system, Exterior Parking Camera Rear, First Aid Kit, Four wheel independent suspension, Front anti-roll bar, Front Bucket Seats, Front Center Armrest, Front reading lights, Fully automatic headlights, Heated door mirrors, Heated Front Bucket Seats, Heated front seats, Illuminated entry, Low tire pressure warning, Occupant sensing airbag, Option Group 01, Outside temperature display, Overhead airbag, Overhead console, Panic alarm, Passenger door bin, Passenger vanity mirror, Power door mirrors, Power driver seat, Power steering, Power windows, Radio: AM/FM/SiriusXM Audio System, Rear anti-roll bar, Rear Bumper Applique, Rear seat center armrest, Rear window defroster, Rear window wiper, Remote keyless entry, Reversible Cargo Tray, Roof rack: rails only, Security system, Speed control, Speed-sensing steering, Split folding rear seat, Spoiler, Steering wheel mounted audio controls, Tachometer, Telescoping steering wheel, Tilt steering wheel, Traction control, Trip computer, Variably intermittent wipers, Wheel Locks, YES Essentials Stain-Resistant Cloth Seat Trim, AWD.
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She might be more accustomed to the red carpet's high-drama glitz, but for her latest Revlon commercial, Jessica Biel is going back to nature–and she's taking us behind-the-scenes of her picturesque shoot. The overall concept for the Revlon ColorStay Just Bitten Lipstain and Balm ad, she says, was inspired by "this idea of this girl just lounging in the beautiful field, and in this meadow, and the flowers are growing and the wind's blowing and it's just a very real environment. And then this kind of mysterious person arrives and breaks her out of her little private moment and they have this kind of playful little scene." Instead of playing up the jet-set lifestyle fans often associate with the Revlon Global Brand Ambassador, "I think what [we] are trying to create is almost like a watercolor," she explains, "which is a little bit sleepy and sort of magical–that is what I really respond to." The $9 two-in-one lip-stain and balm is available now on ulta.com. Tell us: What's your take on Jessica's behind-the-scenes shoot? –Katherine Kluznik Rentmeester


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Federal and state investigators trying to determine what caused a series of explosions at a central Florida propane plant said Wednesday they've uncovered nothing that indicates a crime was committed.
|Firefighters keep an eye on a fire of plastic cylinder caps while standing in an area of exploded propane cylinders after an explosion and fire at a propane gas company Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Tavares, Fla. Eight people were injured, with at least three in critical condition. John Herrell of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said early Tuesday there were no fatalities despite massive blasts that ripped through the Blue Rhino propane plant late Monday night. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Investigators have inspected the Blue Rhino plant's 5-acre property and also interviewed some workers who were at the plant when a fireball erupted in a lot outside the plant's two warehouses, said Maj. Brandon Ball of the Division of State Fire Marshal.
They have been unable to interview some of the eight workers who were injured, four critically, from the explosions due to their injuries, he said.
Investigators aren't ready to publicly say where the fire began or what caused it, Ball said, but he added that there was nothing to indicate the fire started inside the warehouses where propane canisters for gas grills are refurbished and filled. They also have done an extensive inspection on the plant's forklifts, Ball said.
Richard Keith, the fire chief of Tavares, the town northwest of Orlando where the plant fire occurred, said Tuesday that equipment failure and human error were among the possible causes.
The explosion Monday night sent flames 200 feet into the air and launched thousands of 20-pound propane canisters into the air. About 50 homes were evacuated for several hours. The day afterward, a lot next to two warehouses on the propane plant property was covered with tens of thousands of burned-out propane canisters. Officials have said the damage could have been significantly worse had three 30,000-pound propane storage containers nearby caught fire at the plant, which refills propane tanks for gas grills and other home uses.
A Blue Rhino employee who was at the plant when the explosions started told The Associated Press that based on what a forklift operator told him, the explosion was likely caused by a "combination of human error and bad practices."
The worker, Gene Williams, told the AP on Tuesday that the forklift operator came to him from the lot covered in burns from the initial fire. Williams drove him to a hospital.
Williams said the forklift driver told him, "'I did what they told me to do, I did what they told me to do, and then this happened.'"
"Something in that area must have triggered it. I don't know if he did something or something else triggered it," Williams said.
Hoses designed to spray water on the large tanks didn't go off because they had to be manually activated — requiring someone to brave dangerous conditions.
Tavares City Administrator John Drury said Wednesday that this was an issue of concern for city officials and that "any corrective procedures and improvements would be looked at very closely" by fire inspectors.
Blue Rhino is a subsidiary of Kansas-based national propane provider Ferrellgas. The parent company paid a $2,295 fine in November 2011 following an OSHA inspection of the plant that found a component at the end of an air hose used in the consumer tank refurbishing process was not present.
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John Cotter married Margaret(Peg) Hickson in Kilmichael Parish in 1826.I cannot find any record of who she was.They had 9 Children,8 of whom emigrated to the US.I am the G Grand Daughter of the one son that stayed at home,Cornelius.Family anecdotes suggest she was the Landlords sister or daughter.In the baptismal records for Kilmichael,no Hickson was a Godparent for any of their children,it appears that The Hicksons were not too pleased about the marriage to one of their temants.
In the Griffiths Valuation records of 1852 a John Hickson apprears as a Landlord to the said John Cotter,Shanacashel,Kilmichael Co Cork .I have tried to find out who these Hicksons were and where Margaret came from.A cousin seems to think that they were from Dingle in Kerry but I can find no link to them,nor any birth record for a Margaret Hickson.She was probably born around 1800.If there is anybody out there who can help me I would be very grateful.
Hallahans of Cooldaniel,co Cork
Im looking for any information on the Hallahan family of Cooldaniel in Kilmichael Parish in Co Cork Ireland.
Who was Margaret Hickson who married John Cotter of Kilmichael in 1826.Anybody researching the Kilmichael Cotters who might have got some information on her?
How can I find information on an ancestor who was born in Ireland c1800.The Irish Parish records for the particular parish only go back as far as 1819?.
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How's Your Reputation?
Stars Unfortunately, 39 of them were just one or two stars out of a possible five. These negative reviews detailed specific problems with the merchandise itself, the delivery, or with failed promises by sales associates. At a time when so many shoppers go online to get information before making major purchases, can any retailer afford this kind of bad publicity?
Word-of-mouth is the most powerful and effective mass email sender available to businesses as long as it's positive. The Internet and email marketing gives word-of-mouth an infinite audience, and negative online comments can be devastating to a business. With dozens of web sites offering a forum for comments, the potential for dire consequences is very real.
What are you doing to take charge of your reputation online?
If you are getting negative online comments, start looking at what customers are complaining about. Talk to them. Investigate the complaint. Then fix the problem so it doesn't happen again. Yes, there are a number of online companies that will help solve reputation issues, but they can't work miracles if you never solve the problems causing the complaints. Each new complaint validates the previous one to prospective customers.
Another way to help reduce online rants is to make it easy for customers to talk with you or someone in your business who can solve problems. One retailer I know has a customer help line with someone dedicated to answering that line, listening to customer complaints, and fixing the problems.
Some retailers selling higher cost merchandise such as home furnishings, appliances, jewelry, musical instruments, floor coverings, sporting goods, and better apparel have their sales associates call customers a day or two after they make a purchase. This phone call is to make sure everything was satisfactory with the merchandise and/or delivery and head off potential negative postings.
When you find negative reviews online don't get defensive. It is far more productive to become part of the conversation. Be humble and address the problem in a straightforward manner. Your goal is to turn unhappy customers into happy or at the very least satisfied customers rather than fuel their frustration or anger. After all, a great reputation is one of your business's most valuable assets.


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EPIC asks court to review NSA surveillance
A privacy group is asking the Supreme Court to stop the National Security Agency from collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the United States.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center said Monday that it wants justices to step into the controversy over American intelligence agencies looking at phone records of millions of U.S. customers. EPIC said in court papers only the Supreme Court can overrule a decision by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose order allowing the NSA to get the records cannot be reviewed by other federal courts.
EPIC says "it is simply not possible that every phone record in the possession of a telecommunications firm could be relevant to an authorized investigation."
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Special-Occasion Soba Noodles for the New Year at Miyabi 45th in Seattle
In Japan, the end of the year brings the tradition of eating toshikoshi (year-bridging) soba. Historically, noodles on New Year's Eve were for luck and fortune; today, the length of the soba noodles represents hope for a long and healthy life. If you're not cooking soba at home, a number of Seattle restaurants will serve you a celebratory bowl of noodles on New Year's Eve at a decent price. But if you're willing to pay a little more, there's one place where you can enjoy the best.
At Miyabi 45th, there's a master soba-maker in the house. Mutsuko Soma makes noodles daily in traditional fashion, using a rolling pin and a soba knife, and these fresh noodles find their way on the menu in many interesting incarnations.
Miyabi 45th's soba can be had simply: cold, with a soy and dashi-based dipping sauce (tsuyu), or hot in a broth version of that same tsuyu. There are also a handful of bukkake-style options, featuring cold soba "splashed" with cold broth and a variety of toppings. And then there's the column of specialty soba items (served hot or cold), where you'll see ingredients like truffle, oyster, and matsutake mushrooms. This is also where you'll find Miyabi's signature dish, soba with duck and leek.
But when I think of toshikoshi soba, I think of Soba Ten Zaru ($18)—soba with a side of assorted seasonal tempura. Several components come out from the kitchen. In front of you sits a tangle of cold soba sitting on a zaru (a slotted bamboo tray). On the tempura plate are two shrimp, plus one each of parsnip, kabocha squash, renkon (lotus root), and eggplant that's finely sliced and slightly fanned. The final components are two sauces and a dish of "extras"—the green onions and wasabi go into the soba tsuyu, while the grated daikon goes into the tempura tsuyu (lighter than soba tsuyu, with dashi stronger than the soy).
While I like the added elements, this dish is all about the flavor and texture of the noodles, which is why I prefer cold soba over hot. The buckwheat noodles have an earthy taste and a not-too-firm, not-too-mushy texture. Dipping allows you to control your sauce intake, and I like the little zing from the green onion and the wasabi. The crunchy bites of tempura offer a nice break from the noodle-slurping.
Once you finish the food, one more item comes from the kitchen. A black lacquerware yuto with angled spout and handle contains sobayu, the murky white water in which the soba noodles cooked. You pour this into the remaining soba tsuyu, resulting in one last delicious treat while recapturing the nutrients and vitamins that the soba left behind in the water—reason, perhaps, why eating these noodles each New Year's Eve leads to a long and healthy life.
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