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Feds admit they lied over storing images, why trust them over safety, functionality and efficiency of radiation-firing machines?
At the height of the furor over airport body scanners earlier this year, the TSA publicly stated that it was not possible to store, record, transmit or print out the images that show in detail the naked bodies of men, women and children that have passed through them. At the time we presented evidence to the contrary. Now it has been conclusively proven that the TSA and other federal agencies using the scanners flat out lied to an unwitting public.
Declan McCullagh of CNET reports that "The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse."
The proof comes in the form of a letter (PDF), obtained by The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), in which William Bordley, an associate general counsel with the Marshals Service, admits that "approximately 35,314 images…have been stored on the Brijot Gen2 machine" used in the Orlando, Fla. federal courthouse.
EPIC says it has also obtained more than 100 images of electronically stripped individuals from the scanning devices used at federal courthouses. The disclosures come as part of a settlement of an EPIC Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Marshals Service.
Brijot, the manufacturer of the body scanning equipment in question, also admits that its machine can store up to 40,000 images and records.
EPIC, has filed two further lawsuits against the Department of Homeland Security over the scanners, claiming that the DHS has refused to release at least 2,000 images it has stored from scanners currently in use in U.S. airports.
EPIC's lawsuit argues that the body scanners violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable" searches, as well as the Privacy Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, referencing religious laws about modesty.
The group points to a further document (PDF) it has obtained from DHS showing that the machines used by the department's TSA are not only able to record and store naked body images, but that they are mandated to do so.
The TSA has now admitted that this is the case, but claims that it is for training and testing purposes only, maintaining that the body scanners used at airports cannot "store, print or transmit images".
"In complying with our Freedom of Information Act request, the Marshals Service has helped the public more fully understand the capabilities of these devices," EPIC President Marc Rotenberg said in a statement. "But the DHS continues to conceal the truth from American air travelers who could be subject to similar intrusive recorded searches in U.S. airports."
The TSA and the DHS have consistently lied about all aspects of the body scanners, from their very inception.
As we have previously documented, the plan to implement the scanners on a mass scale was in the works well before the Christmas day attempted bombing incident. In October last year the TSA announced plans to expand the passenger electronic strip search program. In November, EPIC filed its first FOIA lawsuit challenging the DHS's failure to make public details about the agency's Whole Body Imaging program. On December 17, just one week before the failed bombing, EPIC filed its second lawsuit against the Department of Justice concerning the use of the screening devices.
In an effort to downplay the intrusion of privacy they really represent, the TSA has routinely claimed that the images produced by the scanners are "ghostly" or "skeletal".
The passenger's face is blurred and the image as a whole "resembles a fuzzy negative," the TSA spokeswoman Kristin Lee told the media last year, prior to the underwear bombing attempt.
"It covers up the dirty bits," James Carafano, a homeland security expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation told the Washington Post in January.
Former Department of Homeland Security official Stewart Verdery also dismissed the notion that the machines produce detailed naked images, describing them as not "the type of image that is going to make a thirteen year old boy very excited".
Manchester Airport in the UK has also rejected claims that the scanners invade privacy, claiming that because they use X-rays "they do not make an image".
These consistent claims are clearly contradicted by readily available examples of the body scanning images that show high quality detail of naked male and female bodies.
Furthermore, if there is no capability for the devices to save, distribute and print images, then how on earth have news organizations obtained print outs of such images like the one above?
Journalists who researched trials of the technology reported that the images made genitals "eerily visible".
German Security advisor Hans-Detlef Dau, a representative for a company that sells the scanners, admits that the machines, "show intimate piercings, catheters and the form of breasts and penises".
Images on the TSA's own website produced by backscatter devices also show that genitals are visible.
The claims that sensitive body parts will be blurred out is also bunkem. When they were first being installed, Australian authorities admitted that the machines don't work properly if sensitive areas of the body are blurred out – a fact that the British government later also admitted:
Cheryl Johnson, general manager of the Office of Transport Security, said:' It will show the private parts of people, but what we've decided is that we're not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities. '
The level of intimate detail captured by the scanners prompted the passage in the House last year of an amendment brought by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) to ban "strip-search" imaging at airports, a proposal he has reiterated his support for since the failed bombing attempt.
"You don't have to look at my wife and 8-year-old daughter naked to secure an airplane," Chaffetz said at the time.
"You can actually see the sweat on somebody's back. You can tell the difference between a dime and a nickel. If they can do that, they can see things that quite frankly I don't think they should be looking at in order to secure a plane," Chaffetz told the House.
Across the pond in Great Britain, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wrote a letter to the UK government recently warning that the use of the scanners constitutes a breach of privacy laws.
Multiple incidents over the past months have proven that the TSA and other airport security authorities worldwide have been engaging in a monumental public relations cover-up by suggesting the machine do not show crisp images of naked bodies.
In May it was reported that a TSA worker in Miami attacked a colleague who had made fun of his small penis after he passed through a scanner device. A similar controversy unfolded in March when an airport worker at Heathrow was caught ogling a a female colleague's breasts after she passed through one of the devices, commenting, "I love those gigantic tits".
Perhaps the most significant factor here, the smoking gun that proves the authorities have lied about the degree to which the scanners invade personal privacy, is their contradictory stated need for new "privacy sensitive" machines.
"With full body searches becoming the norm at airports amid terror threats, a Canadian engineer has invented a three-dimensional scanner that doesn't violate passengers' privacy." reported IBN Live in Toronto back in February.
"The new 3D scanner developed by Montreal-based William Awad highlights metal or organic material on a human body without showing the body outline under clothing, according to reports." the article continues.
"But the current scanners at airports produce a three-dimensional outline of the human body, raising a hue and cry over privacy violations."
The Canadian inventor of the new machine, currently seeking certification from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the US, expects sales to balloon. But if we are to believe our governments' statements on the original scanning machines, there should be no need for any new privacy sensitive machine at all.
An article in yesterday's Boston Globe again highlights this point:
The TSA is working with technology companies to develop software that would show a generic paper-doll-like figure instead of an actual image of a passenger's body — and transmit images only when a threat is detected.
The TSA plans to keep the current scanners in place until less invasive software is available.
This serves as an admission that, despite previous claims to the contrary, the scanners currently in place do indeed reveal detailed images of genitalia, they are in breach of child pornography laws and the images produced by them are tantamount to criminal evidence.
It highlights the fact that the public was once again grossly misled over the capabilities of the scanners now in place in airports the world over.
Furthermore, any "privacy sensitive" versions of the technology will not change a thing, as Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC notes:
"This will not solve the privacy issues," Rotenberg said "because the images of travelers' naked bodies are still being captured by the machine."
Despite the fact that the machines would not have prevented the Christmas Day bomber from boarding Flight 253, according to their designers, and other security experts who have dismissed the devices as "useless", the mainstream media for the most part has lauded their introduction.
In an editorial in February, titled "There's nothing to fear from the use of full-body scanners at airports", The Washington Post poo-pooed privacy concerns and stated that the images produced by the scanners are fuzzy and blurred.
The Post joined scores of other corporate media sources in it's unreserved praise of the body scanners. In a Globe and Mail article, University of Ottawa professor Mark Salter gushed over the virtual strip searches, concocting a bizarre twist of logic argument that the machines actually increase privacy. This viewpoint flies in the face of that of surveillance experts who note that the scanners will do nothing to make air travel safer.
Of course, we shouldn't be surprised given that the vast majority of the corporate media is owned wholesale by the very military industrial complex defense contractors set to land huge profits from the sale of thousands of the naked imaging scanners.
Another area where the government has consistently misled the public over the scanners is regarding their questionable safety.
The TSA has stated that going through the machines is equal to the radiation encountered during just two minutes of a flight. However, this does not take into account that the scanning machines specifically target only the skin and the muscle tissue immediately beneath.
The scanners are similar to C-Scans and fire ionizing radiation at those inside which penetrates a few centimeters into the flesh and reflects off the skin to form a naked body image.
The firing of ionizing radiation at the body effectively "unzips" DNA, according to scientific research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The research shows that even very low doses of X-ray can delay or prevent cellular repair of damaged DNA, yet pregnant women and children will be subjected to the process as new guidelines including scanners are adopted.
The Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety concluded in their report on the matter that governments must justify the use of the scanners and that a more accurate assessment of the health risks is needed.
Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, according to the report, adding that governments should consider "other techniques to achieve the same end without the use of ionizing radiation."
"The Committee cited the IAEA's 1996 Basic Safety Standards agreement, drafted over three decades, that protects people from radiation. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can lead to cancer and birth defects, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency," reported Bloomberg.
Scientists at Columbia University also entered the debate recently, warning that the dose emitted by the naked x-ray devices could be up to 20 times higher than originally estimated, likely contributing to an increase in a common type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma which affects the head and neck.
"If all 800 million people who use airports every year were screened with X-rays then the very small individual risk multiplied by the large number of screened people might imply a potential public health or societal risk. The population risk has the potential to be significant," said Dr David Brenner, head of Columbia University's centre for radiological research.
Despite these fears, and the blatant violation of privacy laws, and the consistent lies that the authorities have engaged in over the machines, Janet Napolitano, head of the DHS, recently announced plans to expand the full-body scanner program even further.
Currently, 157 full-body scanners are in use at 43 airports in the United States; by the end of the year nearly 500 are planned to be in place. Next year, 500 more machines are scheduled to be installed.
In the U.S., people can refuse the body scanner and opt for an aggressive and intrusive hand-search, but people traveling out of the UK and other areas of Europe don't even get the choice – they are forced to go through the scanner if asked and cannot refuse or they are banned from traveling. This policy seems to be slowly extending into the U.S., however, given recent reports from airport workers in El Paso, Texas who say that everyone is now being put through the machines.
Despite all the spin that the expansion of the naked body scanner program is being meekly accepted by a compliant public, more documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that there have been more than 600 formal complaints about the devices in the last year.
Furthermore, the documents reveal anger at TSA officials for refusing to offer passengers a pat-down alternative, as well as forcing children to go through the machines.
More people in the United States need to follow this example and lobby for states to pass laws nullifying use of the body scanners as a threat to privacy, health, and a total violation of human dignity, a virtual strip search.
The will of the people is being systematically eroded and incrementally broken down. Airports are serving as reservations where the fundamental right to privacy must be left at the door.
A culture of extreme fear has been engendered where the only way to stay safe is to cozy up to big brother, a psychological response akin to that of Stockholm syndrome.
This is where the technological control grid plays such a key role. Imagine if TSA agents were made to take women and children and physically strip search them while they held their hands aloft, the public would balk at such an abuse. However, with the body scanning machines there is a divide that clouds the process in futuristic technology.
If the public willingly accepts naked imaging x-ray machines in the name of security, what comes next?
The former EU justice Commissioner says that scanning inside people's bodies is an acceptable proposal. The TSA is considering taser bracelets that can deliver electric shocks to anyone who steps out of line inside an airport or on a plane.
Passport control officers at airports are to be phased out as new biometric face scanning cameras are set to replace them under UK border control measures that came into force last year. A global biometric facial scan database is the end goal of security authorities the world over.
Other proposals include placing the cameras in every seat on aircraft and installing software to try and automatically detect terrorists or other dangers caused by passengers.
Passive brain scanners that pick up brain waves in order to sense the behaviour of travelers have already been trialed in airports. The technology known as "MALINTENT" has been developed by the Department of Homeland Security under a project lovingly called "Project Hostile Intent". The following image is a DHS Impression of the mindreader technology in action.
We are also being incrementally taught that what goes on in the airports will be transferred to the streets, schools, shopping malls, rail stations and bus terminals.
The very body scanners we see being implemented within airports now have already been extensively trialed in railway stations in major cities.
The same technology is being considered by governments for general use in cameras on the street. Once accepted as part of everyday life in airports, it becomes much easier to sell for use in all public places.
X-ray specs were once considered a pervert's fantasy science fiction invention, now they have become a reality.
The development of all of this nightmare technology only emphasizes the need for immediate outright rejection of the mass implementation of body screeners. If we continue to allow such gross attacks on our liberties to succeed the onslaught will never end.
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According to singer James Skelly, The Coral's singles collection marks a full stop in the history of the band. Now's a good a time as any, then, for a critical assessment of their canon and in particular how they've progressed (or... not) since their Mercury nominated, widely fêted debut of 2002.
That The Coral remains their most complete record to date is a widely held opinion, one with which this writer would certainly concur, but they've always been regarded as more of a singles band over the course of their six year career. But though memory suggests the quality of those singles has been pretty consistent, hearing them in this non-chronological order makes one thing abundantly clear: they're still yet to better the early trio of 'Dreaming Of You', 'Goodbye' and 'Shadows Fall', and much of the later stuff pales in comparison.
It might sound like classic indie snobbery, but, to these ears, it's true: in general here, the older stuff = better. Simple as. The Coral are absolutely great at what they do, which is, essentially, writing intricate pop songs inspired by the sounds of the 60s and 70s, but their promise to get weirder and weirder after some of that first record's more excessive moments (Zappa-esque freakout number 'Skeleton Key', for instance - sadly omitted from this collection*) was one they never quite made good on.
Indeed, it's material drawn from the second and third albums, Magic And Medicine and The Invisible Invasion where this lack of progression is most apparent. The former's 'Liezah' (never actually released as a single, according to every discography we've seen...), 'Don't Think You're The First' and the latter's much-maligned 'In The Morning' are but three examples of The Coral treading water - hardly bad songs, but pit them against the tracks mentioned in the previous paragraph and, well, it all sounds a bit by numbers.
That's an accusation levelled at latest full-length Roots And Echoes, but I'm in the minority camp that thinks that record represents something of a return to form: here, they've abandoned any pretence and gone straight for the pure pop jugular. 'Jacqueline' might well be a guilty pleasure, but there are few songs in their oeuvre that sound sweeter.
New track 'Being Somebody Else' also ploughs this acoustic-driven furrow, with Skelly's lilting vocal performance and the inclusion of some strings the only real deviation from The Coral norm. Three more newies, along with a selection of outtakes and live tracks, can be found on the second disc, but there's little to inspire there either, leaving this collection as an essential purchase only for completists or those entirely unfamiliar with one of the noughties' most enduring bridesmaid bands.
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Little Switzerland ski hill opens after 5-year absence
Hill originally began operations on Dec. 7, 1941
A ski hill in Slinger will open for the first time in five years thanks to a lot of family elbow grease.
Little Switzerland originally opened on a famous day in history - Dec. 7, 1941, the day of the Pearl Harbor bombing. The hill fell into financial troubles and shut down the lifts in spring of 2007.
A team of three brothers bought the hill and sunk time, money and muscle into bringing the hill back to life.
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"We moved a lot of walls down here," Mike said of the lodge that the brothers gutted. "We reconfigured the rental area, moved the pro shop. Really this place went through a total renovation."
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"They were more-or-less operating resorts and I came in and made some improvements and got them going," he said of Nordic and Blackjack. "This one we've rebuilt from the ground up."
All three men say the renovation of Little Switz has been a labor of love as all three know and appreciate the history of the hill. It's the place where the entire family learned how to ski more than 24 years ago.
"I remember coming right here and standing on top of the bunny hill, scared to death, not knowing how to get down," said Ralph Schmitz, the boys' father. Now he's working at the bottom of the hill in the rental shop. And his wife Arlene works the ticket counter.
The family's labor of love will debut Friday afternoon as Dave, Rick and Mike make the first tracks on Little Switzerland's slopes in nearly five years.
"It's hard to describe how excited I am about it," said Rick.
The ski area is located just west of Highway 41 and County Road AA in Slinger. For more information, visit www.littleswitz.com.


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Liberty women's tennis signee Maria Khval (center in red shirt) won the Belarus U18 national doubles title.
Recent Liberty women's tennis signee Maria Khval captured the Belarus U18 national doubles championship this past weekend in Minsk. As a result of her national championship, Khval was awarded the prestigious European title "The Master of Sports."
In the quarterfinals, Khval and partner Anastasiya Shleptsova breezed through their matchup against Aliona Ladutska (ITF world ranking 450) and Karina Silkina (ITF world ranking 1651), 6-1, 6-1. In the semifinals, Khval and Shleptsova outlasted Alina Zubkova (ITF world ranking 429) and Kondratiuk in three sets, 7-5, 6-7 (9-7), 10-8. Khval and Shleptsova delivered a convincing 6-2, 6-1 victory over Palina Dubavets (ITF world ranking 238) and Lizaveta Gordeeva (ITF world ranking 1932) to claim the title.
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Narendra Modi has been denied permission for one of the two rallies in Varanasi city tomorrow, the BJP said today terming the move as "unprecedented" and "unheard of".
Modi was supposed to hold two rallies in the constituency tomorrow but permission for one of the rallies is yet to be given, the party said.
In Varanasi, ADM(city) MP Singh told PTI that they received the application seeking permission for the rally yesterday and the decision will be taken by 5 PM.
BJP media in-charge of Kashi region, Sanjay Bhardwaj said they had sought permission for Modi's rally at Beniabagh ground and another at Jagatpur ground in Rohania.
He said the district administration is yet to give permission for Beniabagh ground rally.
Flaying the district administration, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, "I don't know who is interfering but the returning officer of this constituency is a threat to free and fair election".
"This is unprecedented and unheard of and the party will not take it lying down," he said when asked if the party would approach the Election Commission over it.
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said the Varanasi administration was obeying an "unwritten order" and there is an "undeclared understanding" between them and the ruling Samajwadi Party.
She said it was for the first time a candidate was denied permission to hold a rally in his own constituency.
Modi is fighting election from the holy city which goes to the polls in the last phase of polls on May 12.
"There is an undeclared understanding between SP and district administration. How can the administration deny permission to a candidate to do it (rally) in his own constituency. It is obeying an unwritten order," she told reporters.
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Letter, E. [Ephraim] Nute to [Edward Everett] Hale
Author: Nute, Ephraim
Date: August 3, 1857
Rev. Ephraim Nute, minister of the Lawrence Unitarian Church, wrote from Lawrence, Kansas Territory to Edward Everett Hale, a member of the New England Emigrant Aid Company's Executive Committee. Nute described efforts to establish a high school in Lawrence as well as a university in Kansas Territory. He also advised Hale to pay close attention to the activities of Francis Serenbetz, a German Congregational minister who was the leader of a group of German immigrants who settled in Humboldt, Kansas Territory. In Nute's opinion, Serenbetz was an "unmitigated humbug and nuisance" who came to Kansas for self-interested reasons. Nute urged Hale to stop sending settlers to Kansas who lacked financial resources or a willingness to work to support themselves.
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Recently as Osama bin Laden was shot dead in an US raid, Facebook was scattered with fake links pointing to Osama execution censored video. And the result was obvious. Curious people ended up clicking them and falling prey to it. The more worrying news is that, those links are going to appear again. So what do we do to stop from getting affected? Well, some rational thinking helps. However here is a great free tool that can save you the worry.
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Using Protection is a free (for personal use) browser extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that does the job for you. Google Chrome let me install the extension, although, there were no significant changes to the scam links I tested.
3 simple steps and you are done. Provide an email to sign up. You will then be prompted to post an update letting your friends know about the installation. This is optional and you can choose to skip this step. Finally, download and install the add on.
How Does It Help?
Every time you visit any page on Facebook, the page will scanned for any suspicious link. Once detected, the link will be removed and instead it will be provided with a link to post an update letting your friends know about it. Yes, it is as simple as that.
The tool performs the job silently without cluttering your screen space which makes it even better. Provided the fact that Facebook is not going to be clean any time soon, the tool is a definite necessity for any Facebook user.


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Nov. 19, 2012
THE FLATS – Carlos Benito, the 85th-ranked player in Spain and No. 168 among juniors by the International Tennis Federation, has signed a letter-of-intent to play tennis at Georgia Tech, head coach Kenny Thorne announced Monday.
The 17-year old Benito, from Madrid, Spain, has played for the Spanish junior national team as an under-18, under-16 and under-14 player. He has a current ATP world ranking of 1485 in singles, and has been as high as 1475.
"Carlos will be an immediate impact player for us," said Tech coach Kenny Thorne. "He has qualified for numerous professional level tournaments in Spain, which has the toughest competition in the world. He defeated Austin Krajicek in May of this year. Austin was a three time All-American at Texas A&M, was ranked No. 6 singles and No. 1 doubles NCAA, and is currently 154 in the ATP world rankings for doubles and 354 for singles."
Benito also has recent wins over Roberto Ortega (506 ATP) and Sergio Magro (975 ATP). In the past 12 months, he has participated in 27 international tournaments. Benito trains at the SD Tennis Academy in Madrid, Spain, which is one of the foremost tennis academies in the world.
He helped Spain win 2010 World Championship in the Czech Republic, and was the 2010 singles world champion of Nike Junior Masters Tournament in the Dominican Republic.
"His mother is a school teacher and his father is the director of a consulting company," said Thorne. "They are family friends with Eduardo Segura (a Tech sophomore), and they understand how well respected a degree from Georgia Tech is internationally."


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Sure, this season there are blockbusters and romantic comedies hitting theaters. But there are also a handful of films daring to take on some heavy sex themes. Porn, sex addiction, and strippers are some of the topics in these Fall movies. Whether you're looking for a raunchy comedy to watch with your girls or a flick on relationships for date night, see what's hot on the horizon now:
Don Jon
Out today
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a porn addict who tries to keep his habit hidden from a new love (Scarlett Johansson) in Don Jon. But juggling all the priorities in his life begins to break down when he gets caught red-handed.
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Thanks For Sharing
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Mark Ruffalo plays a recovering sex addict in the dramedy Thanks For Sharing. Things get complicated when he tries to move past his addiction to start a relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow's character. It looks like a sweet but tough look at love and recovery.
In theaters
Amanda Seyfried stars as Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace in the '70s-set biopic Lovelace. While the flick shows Linda's glamorous rise to porn fame, it also shows the dark side of the industry and her relationship with her abusive husband and manager, Chuck Traynor.
Afternoon Delight
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In what looks like a pretty heartfelt film, Afternoon Delight is an indie comedy about a married woman in a sexless marriage who takes in a 19-year-old stripper and maybe-hooker to live with her and her husband. There are sure to be complications, tears, and love lessons learned along the way.


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My family does a gift exchange every year at Christmas. There are five couples and we draw names from a hat. If a person draws their own name, or the name of their spouse, all the names go back in a hat and we re-draw names. This happens maybe 7 times out of 8.
Using a computer, I know that the probability of this happening is
1 - (440192 / 10!)
or about 88%.
(It's been too long since I took combinatorics) What's a general expression for n couples?
Edit Oct 19, 2011: I was so impressed with the answer, I wrote a blog post about it: http://michaeljswart.com/2011/10/secret-santa-as-a-puzzle/


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1. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Taskvchmakov Jan 24, 2012 12:20 PM (in response to gboro54)
Perhaps you can start with reading of this thread: https://community.jboss.org/thread/177660?tstart=0. There are also some useful links inside.
2. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Tasksalaboy21 Jan 24, 2012 12:26 PM (in response to gboro54)
That's the default behavior. The evaluations are being done as soon as the information goes into the engine, then the activated rules will only fire if they belong to a ruleflow group and that ruleflow group is activated by your process.
3. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Taskgboro54 Jan 24, 2012 12:29 PM (in response to salaboy21)
Why would a task node be executed before all the rules in the rule group have finishing executing. I understand that activations get determined when facts are inserted but why wouldn't the rule task node wait until all rules have finished processing before moving on to the next node?
4. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Tasksalaboy21 Jan 24, 2012 12:30 PM (in response to gboro54)
Take a look at the documentaiton. There is a difference between a rule being evaluated, activated and fired.
5. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Taskgboro54 Jan 24, 2012 12:33 PM (in response to salaboy21)
I am not having an issue with the drools aspect but the jBPM aspect. The next task node after my first rule-task has been completed needs information inserted into the context by the rules. However the Task node is being ran before the firing of all the rules has completed. This seems like odd behavior as I imagine what I am describing is a pretty typically use case. I want to ensure my next node is not executed until the first rule group has completed. Is there a way to accomplish this?
6. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Taskgboro54 Jan 24, 2012 12:48 PM (in response to gboro54)
From the documentation:
{quote}. If the ruleflow group was already active, the ruleflow group will remain active and execution will only continue if all active rules of the ruleflow group has been completed.{quote}
I have a very simple use case where I have 2 rules. One is active when the rule-group node is reached and the other is activiated when an object from rule 1 gets inserted. This should keep the process at the rule task node until completion but it seems to me it is not doing this at all. I have a logger on the session, which I see an activation created but before the activation fired event occurs the process has moved on to the next node(which right now is just logging when it is reached). This is either a but or I am missing a configuration somewhere.
7. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Taskgboro54 Jan 24, 2012 12:52 PM (in response to gboro54)
Hmmm...the correct answer would be ensure someone did not comment out your ruleflow-group tag in your rules fire. Should have checked that first. Sorry for the confusion and thaks for hte help...
8. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Tasksalaboy21 Jan 24, 2012 12:52 PM (in response to gboro54)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Exactly, if you have one active rule the ruleflowgroup will stop until you call the fire all rules method..
If you don't have any activated rule that belongs to the ruleflowgroup, the rule-task will automatically continue to the next node.
9. Re: jBPM 5.2 Rule Tasksalaboy21 Jan 24, 2012 12:54 PM (in response to gboro54)
We are assumming that you are asking questions about a code that you can check we can not ask for each question if you are sure about what you are asking and if all the lines in your code are uncommented..


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Voting in Valdosta: 'Difficult Not to Register'
At games, grocery stores and on street corners, young and old register.
Oct. 3, 2008 -- It's a Friday night in Valdosta, Georgia, and what looks like the whole town is in the football stadium stands, cheering for the home team. Shouts of "Come on defense" and "Go Wildcats" ring out across the field.
But it's not just football that's happening there. In this election year, the local stadium is one of the many places across town where they're registering voters.
"I went to a high school football game, to watch the high school band primarily, and as I walked up there was a table there registering people to vote," said Deb Cox, the director of the Board of Elections. "It would be difficult to not register if you weren't registered to vote in Loude's county."
At the grocery store, at restaurants, even on the street corners, there's someone there, registering voters. In the last two weeks alone, 4,000 new voters have signed up.
Watch the story tonight on "World News" at 6:30 p.m. ET
According to Ricky Rowe, whose son is the quarterback, people in Valdosta are worried about higher gas prices and lower home prices.
"I think the economic issues have taken the forefront of this election, and we've really not heard -- I've not heard from either side -- how to solve the issues," he said.
The trouble on Wall Street and the huge government bailout certainly has everyone's attention.
"I mean it's really hard for me to wrap my hands and my mind around a $700 billion buy out," said Laverne Rome.
In the black neighborhoods, they're working overtime to get out the vote. George Rhymes is a man on a mission, going door to door, and reaching out to black businesses.
"Is everybody registered to vote? Can I register anybody to vote?" he said at the local barbershop. "You have the most important elections to come up perhaps in the history of this nation."
It all appears to be working; the election board is overwhelmed.
"These are all new registration forms that we've just put in or are waiting to be put in," said Cox.
Much of this would seem to benefit Sen. Barack Obama. His campaign has energized African-Americans: statewide, upwards of 40 percent of voters who've already cast their ballots are African-American. But the reality is that Georgia will most likely go to Senator McCain, and just about everyone there knows that.
That isn't stopping 82-year-old Pearlie Patterson, who will vote for the first time this November or Willie Mae Johnson, who's 62, and registered to vote at the local Wal-Mart.
"I believe there is going to be a change," Patterson said. "This'll be a big change, and maybe things will be … [I] hope and pray things will be a little better."
"I'm going to take a chance this time," said Johnson. "Maybe my one vote might matter -- you never know -- but whether it do or don't I'm proud that I did it ."
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Over the past 10 years through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions, Mostotrest has evolved from a niche contractor into the largest diversified infrastructure construction player in Russia. The Company has the requisite expertise and competences to build any type of transport infrastructure using both its own capacity and the involvement of qualified subcontractors.
The Company intends to further develop and improve its business in line with the needs of the Russian infrastructure construction market. In early 2014, Mostotrest's Board of Directors reviewed the Company's development strategy up to 2018 and decided on the following main development areas:
· Business expansion and market share growth
· Develop and strengthen positions in core and related business segments
· New acquisitions.
Business Expansion and Market Share Growth The bulk of transport infrastructure construction financing in 2017-2018 will be used to upgrade federal highways, build toll roads (Moscow – Saint Petersburg and Moscow's Central Ring Road), and modernise Moscow's transport infrastructure and that of other cities hosting the Football World Cup.
The Company intends to respond effectively to growth in the transport infrastructure construction market and meet the high standards expected by major government customers, by focusing on improving the efficiency of its production and management processes, increasing productivity and making sensible use of its material and intellectual resources.
Mostotrest's current backlog covers 1,5 years [1] of revenue, which enables the Company to be selective with regard to new projects. The Company's strategic plan envisions steady market share expansion. At the same time, the growth in the volume of construction work performed by the Company using its own production capacity should not significantly exceed market growth rate, enabling the Company to minimize the risk of downtime.
Revenue growth will be driven by a balanced distribution of construction work between the Company's own capacity and subcontractors.
Backlog growth will be driven by participation in large, complex projects (mainly in the road construction segment) that only a handful of construction companies are able to bid for.
The Company will seek to maintain dividends to shareholders at an attractive level.
Access to capital markets to finance projects will play an important role. Mostotrest is the only publicly listed company in the Russian transport infrastructure construction industry and has a reputation as a reliable borrower from the largest Russian banks, which provides the Company with certain competitive advantages in terms of access to capital.
New Acquisitions In addition to organic growth or cooperation with leading players in specific business segments, Mostotrest may in future consider acquiring stakes and participations in other companies, subject to efficiency criteria.
Mostotrest intends to strictly comply with its strategy for future acquisitions. Any potential acquisition will be assessed in terms of its cost-effectiveness compared with organic development, its strategic impact on existing operations, the possibility for operational control, as well as in terms of required return on investment.
The Company is considering increasing its stakes in its subsidiaries in order to consolidate the earnings of efficient and fast-growing businesses.
Platform for Successful Development A full set of competencies, a growing backlog, a strong engineering component to its business, highly skilled engineers and workers, and an effective combination of own production capacity with general contracting expertise certainly offer the Company additional opportunities for access to capital markets.
Its reputation as a reliable contractor that has been delivering projects on time and to the required quality for more than 85 years, as well as its partnerships with major foreign players give Mostotrest clear competitive advantages in bidding for infrastructure construction projects and PPP contracts.
The transport infrastructure construction market has very strong potential, while Mostotrest's business platform enables the Company to respond flexibly to demand and offer transport infrastructure customers and users a full range of services, from project design to maintenance and operation, as well as to invest in developing Russia's transport infrastructure, while adding strategically important PPP projects, including concessions, to its backlog.
Development and Strenghening Positions in Core and Related Business Segments
Mostotrest has vast experience in construction of all types of transport infrastructure, including roads, bridges, railways, airports and ports. The Company is able to respond flexibly to market opportunities, while developing and strengthening its position in those segments that are expected to be a priority for the government.
Mostotrest expects to generate the bulk of its revenue from road and bridge building projects, considering current priority financing of the segment. However, should government investment be channeled to the development of other segments of the transport infrastructure construction market, the Company intends to diversify its revenue sources by participating in new projects.
Considering its market leadership and competitive advantages, Mostotrest will be selective in its choice of projects and will only participate in those with clearly defined risk profiles, attractive profitability and compatible geography.
Services and participation in long-term investment contracts
Most major infrastructure construction projects in Russia are tendered off in the form of long-term investment contracts. Such tenders feature tighter requirements for bidders.
Additional competitive advantages include availability of design capability enabling construction companies to be involved in the development of project documentation, as well as own capacity for long-term project repair and maintenance post-completion.
Over the past three years, the Company has been actively developing its capabilities in the following areas:
Project design;
Sites preparation;
Road repair, maintenance and toll-based operation (Service Segment).
Mostotrest's expertise in related business segments allows it to participate in complex, long-term projects not only in the construction phase, but also in the pre-production, operation and maintenance stages. It means that the Company can effectively assess risks associated with such projects at all stages of the life cycle, from bid submission through to the end of the project's service life.
Mostotrest's subsidiaries have all the requisite competences. They include, among others, the operator that has been implementing Russia's first ever contract for toll-based operation of a highway section, and a company specializing in comprehensive maintenance and repair of transport infrastructure.
The availability of such expertise within the Group creates significant competitive advantages when bidding for long-term contracts and it allows the Company to control the long-term stage of operation of the facility, thus avoiding risks associated with subcontractors.
Over the next two years, Mostotrest intends to rapidly expand its business volumes in the Service Segment, which offers stable cash flows and attractive profitability levels.
The acquisition in 2012 of a stake in the concession business will allow the Company to diversify its cash flows and generate stable high-margin revenue at the operating stage of the concession.Concession experience and partnership with a strong foreign player will be useful in the case of a rapid development of concession projects in Russia going forward.


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Participant Checklist
As indicated on the workshop application form, participants are expected to do several things in advance of the workshop on Teaching Hydrogeology, Soils, and Low-T Geochemistry in the 21st Century. Here's a list of those preparatory activities and their deadlines.
By March 5, 2013:
- If you are interested in being part of the collections review team (with travel stipend), please fill out the review team application form. You can find details about the review team job and travel stipend on the application form. Those selected for the review team must arrive in Albuquerque on Monday, June 3 (the "Review Camp" will take place on Tuesday, June 4). We will notify applicants by March 10.
By March 15, 2013:
- We offer small travel stipends to participants from institutions that are unable to cover costs. If you are part of the review team (which already receives travel stipends), need-based stipends are limited to the cost of workshop registration. If you are not part of the review team, need-based stipends cover the workshop registration plus $450 toward travel. Application deadline is March 15.
By April 15, 2013:
- Confirm your registration for the workshop and pay the registration fee. Note that all accepted applicants must register and that the registration form is not the same form as the application form that you have already filled out.
- If you plan to stay in the dorms at UNM, you will pay for your lodging at the same time that you pay your registration fee. If you do not plan to stay in the dorms, you must make your own lodging arrangements, as well as be responsible for your own transportation from your hotel to UNM for workshop sessions.
- The optional field trip on June 5 is described below.
- We will travel north through geologically diverse regions of New Mexico that include the Rio Grande Rift and the edge of the Colorado Plateau to the Jemez Mountains to (1) visit a large travertine spring where several years of geochemical data have been collected; (2) see the influence of recent forest fires on local geomorphology; and (3) visit study sites in the Valles Caldera National Preserve for research in hydrogeology, groundwater and surface water interaction and geochemistry, and paleoclimatic reconstruction. We may also be able to stop at some cultural points of interest. The trip will take us through geologically diverse regions of New Mexico that include the Rio Grande Rift, the edge of Colorado Plateau, and a large caldera.
- Contribute the following:
- At least two hydrogeology, soils, low-T geochem, biogeochem, or upper level environmental science assignments or activities at the undergraduate level. You must do this on line using the activity submission form. Please do not email submissions to workshop conveners.
- A syllabus for a course in one of the workshop disciplines or a course with a significant component of hydrogeology, soils, low-T geochem, biogeochem, or upper level environmental science. You must do this online using the course syllabus submission form.
By May 10, 2013:
- Fill out the workshop travel form to let us know what your travel plans will be. Note: please make your travel plans so that you can attend the opening workshop session at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 with a reception. The main part of the workshop will not conclude until dinner on Sunday, June 9, and it is essential that you attend the full workshop, including the full day on Sunday. The workshop will include an optional field trip leaving early on Wednesday morning, June 5. Review team members must arrive on Monday, June 3 (the "Review Camp" will take place on Tuesday, June 4). Additional information for travel and ground transportation:
- Remember that participants must provide their own transportation to and from the workshop.
- The workshop will be held at University of New Mexico, which is located in Albuquerque. The Albuquerque International Sunport is serviced by American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United, and USAirways.
Before arriving at the workshop:
- Make a poster for the Thursday evening poster session. When it's ready, upload your poster. Note: We cannot print your poster for you; you will need to print it out and bring it to the workshop yourself. However, we ask you to upload it so that we can make it available as a downloadable file from the workshop website.
- Upload your presentation file if you are giving an oral presentation at the workshop. This will give you an on-site backup copy and will allow us to post your presentation on the website. You should still plan to bring a copy of your file with you. You will have the option of giving your presentation from your own computer, or you may use one of our laptops (both PCs and Macs will be available).
- Download the Medical Emergency Information Form (Acrobat (PDF) 5kB Jan13 04), complete it, and bring it with you to the workshop in a sealed envelope. We will open the envelope and read the form only in the case of a medical emergency during the workshop.


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Police: iPhone helped find stolen vehicle, teen thief
Teen arrested after woman's car stolen
A teenage carjacking suspect is in custody Thursday morning after authorities said they used a cellphone application to find him and the vehicle he's accused of stealing.
Orlando Police Department officers said the 17-year-old, who was not immediately identified, jumped into a woman's car while she helped someone into her home.
The teen sped away, according to officers. But the woman left her iPhone inside the vehicle, and officers were able to use the phone's GPS locator app to find it -- along with the vehicle and the teen.
Authorities found the car parked at a Walmart store on Orange Blossom Trail in the Apopka area. When the teen saw officers approach the vehicle, he locked himself inside.
Officers broke a window, opened the door and took the teen into custody. The teen faces a carjacking charge.
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We've been trying to take pretty photos of the little baby, but it's proving exceedingly difficult as we have very filtered light in our house, and even that we only have for about 10 minutes in the evening. We'll keep trying!
Friday, April 30, 2010
getting lost and loving the babe
Posted by Carrie at 2:35 PM
7 comments:
- Caity said...
What a pretty song. That so neat that he loves to hear your singing voice. Every time I tried to sing to Emma she would cry. And if she was already crying she would cry louder :) They grow so fast, yet, Emma is such a sweet girl and still wants my "loves" so thankfully it last for a while.
- April 30, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- melissa said...
that song makes me cry too. and it did a year ago before i could claim it was hormones.
i hope your benson can ride his bike in the sun soon, but i'm sorry to say i'm kind of glad i'm not the only one dealing with snow this week.
- April 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- diana palmer said...
what a sweet song. i've never heard it. i'm not crying yet, and i am pregnant. but i have a heart of stone sometimes. jk. i clicked over to old cjane, but still can't figure out who sings the song? also, such sweet pictures of romie (hehehe, okay, i won't ever call him that again). you might try putting some sort of sheer material over the window, or a really really thin, white sheet (some have also been known to use thin shower curtains). something that still lets the nice light in, but diffuses it quite a bit.
lastly, sweet thoughts on this crazy phase, i'm stiiiilll not looking forward to. eek.
- April 30, 2010 at 8:47 PM
- Stephanie said...
i sang this song to asher over and over when he was a newborn sick baby visiting on the mainland and so i know the feeling. i sang the wilco version (almost the same thing!) and it is just so perfect for this time of life. i remember this all well and yet as i read your post i was eager to do it all over again.
- April 30, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- Rachel said...
Oh my heart! Your baby in combination with this song is the most sweetest thing.
so dear!
- May 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM
- Carrie said...
The song is originally by Wilco, covered by Ryan Tanner in this version on a compilation cd called Baby Mine. The whole cd is fab. I should have sourced the actual cjane post but I was too lazy to find it again. And thanks for the tips about the lighting! Too bad I don't live closer cause then I could just hire you to do it the right way. :)
- May 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM
- Rachel Elizabeth said...
Love the song. So sweet.
- May 3, 2010 at 2:03 PM


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'GMA' Announces Major Political Interviews This Week
Sen. Hillary Clinton hops aboard the train for an exclusive interview Tuesday.
Sept. 15, 2008 -- "Good Morning America" will interview the biggest political names of this election year as part of its unprecedented "Whistle-Stop Tour."
"GMA" anchor Chris Cuomo interviews Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama Monday morning.
Presidential and vice presidential nominees and their spouses from both parties were invited to be interviewed. "GMA" is still waiting to hear if Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will participate.
Tuesday: Sen. Hillary Clinton talks exclusively to "GMA" on the train when it rolls through New York.
Wednesday: Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, will talk to "GMA" during a live broadcast from an Ohio farm.
Thursday: Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, sits down with "GMA."
Friday: Michelle Obama wraps up the exclusive series of interviews from the campaign trail.
ABC News and USA Today began its "50 States in 50 Days" tour Monday, an unprecedented initiative to report from every state in the nation during the 50 days leading up to the presidential election.
Over the course of the next two months, ABC News anchors and correspondents and USA Today reporters and photographers will report on one state each day in the run-up to the historic vote Nov. 4.


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My latest issue of InStyle magazine is touting the "moon" manicure as a hot fashion trend for fall. Also, referred to as a "reverse French" manicure, it originally became popular with movie actresses in the 1920s.
In the 1930s women often painted just the center of the nail, leaving the moon and tip bare. Filling in the whole nail with color was considered an extreme look. Nice girls didn't do it! A whitening pencil was used on the back of the nail tip as well, like this one from Sally's Beauty Supply.
Of course, Dita Von Teese, the queen of vintage glamour, has been sporting these pretty retro nails for quite some time.
And here's a photo of Joan Blondell someone posted at the Fedora Lounge. Those classy dames at the Lounge have a whole thread dedicated to vintage manicures!
According to this very informative site on vintage makeup, common nail polish colors in the 30's included red, pink, deep coral, lilac, emerald green, cornflower blue, gray, gold silver and even black!
There are two ways to re-create this vintage moon manicure. Leave the half moon, or moon and tip, completely bare, or paint a lighter shade on the whole nail, let it dry, then apply the darker shade over it.
According to what I've read on several blogs, the easiest and cheapest way to get the perfect moon shape is to mask the area with those little round reinforcement circles for notebook paper that you can buy at the office supply store. Just cut them in half , stick on the bottom of your nail, then apply the top color. When almost dry, peel off and voila, perfect moon manicure.
I think the look is very chic and the possibilities are endless for yummy color combinations. What do you think? Would you do your nails like this?
red, deep corals, lilac, emerald green, mother of pearl gray, pale pink, cornflower blue, mauve, gold or silver


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SUNY Canton Students to Investigate Silver Screen Homicide for Max Payne DVD
CANTON – Several SUNY Canton students will be the stars of an international media event promoting the recently released DVD Max Payne.
London-based representatives of 20th Century Fox have recruited and sponsored the Criminal Investigation students as premier educated examples of law enforcement professionals to play out the complexities of a real-life investigation for journalists. The students will leave for New York City on Wednesday, Feb 18, and will spend about three days immersed in the scenario.
Max Payne is a 2008 action film based on a video game. The film was directed by John Moore, who will be joining the SUNY Canton students for an interview during their crime scene scenario. The plot revolves around Police Officer Payne's (Mark Wahlberg) journey through the unsavory underworld of New York City as he investigates the deaths of his family.
SUNY Canton offers a wide variety of career-driven bachelor's, associate, and certificate programs, as well as three master's degrees in conjunction with SUNYIT, Utica. Most of SUNY Canton's new four-year programs are designed so students can take them on-campus, online, or both. SUNY Canton OnLine features more than 100 courses online each semester. The college's athletic teams belong to the NAIA's Sunrise Conference, enabling students to compete in their respective sports for four years.
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- Motorhead - "(We Are) The Road Crew '08"
- Tenacious D - "The Metal"
- Testament - "More Than Meets the Eye"
- Black Tide - "Show Me the Way"
- Blink-182 - "What's My Age Again?"
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The tracks will hit Xbox 360 and Wii on Tuesday Roctober 13 then PlayStation 3 on Thursday, priced at $2 (160 Microsoft Points, 200 Wii Points) a pop or $5.49 (440 MS Points) for the Brutal Legend Pack. All are based on original master recordings.
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Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Masovna tuca navijaca Maribora i Zeljeznicara u Sarajevu! 24.07.2012." Tonight's commentator: The Iron Sheik, former tag-team partner of Volkoff, greatest Iranian of all time, Twitter wordsmith and T-shirt vendor.
Look at the Mexican people they fight because of the Jose Canseco have raisin balls or because they not happy that they smell like dog shit….
They throw the glass because they think it is Olympic sport but they fucked up…
The police look like dumb stupid pussys from the big boss man shit. Only wish they get hit by bus so they learn the real….
I also see the chair the use. If they were in wwe they would be fucked old country way because they use pussy chair on the street and the real shooter use the steel chair that beat the fuck out of the people forever. Fuck the Jose Canseco he broke no good piece of shit son of a bitch he cause fight for the Mexican people to get angry. I wish I see him so I beat the living fuck out of him forever.
all the people use stupid chairs to fight. They don't know the real fight. They don't use real weapon like the hands. They throw the glass bottle. I use the bottle to drink the beer only. I drink the American or the Canadian beer not the Mexican beer. Mexican beer is for the jose Canseco he drink the pee.
They don't need to fucking waste the beer bottle for the fight they need to drink so they chill the fuck out. so stupid and mad they make me I wish I see them I beat the fuck out of them with my Iron Sheik T shirt forever.
Full Tuesday Night Fights posts will return next week (with a three-week cavalcade of fistacular fun).


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#1 Iraqis Lead Final Purge of Al Qaeda07-06-2008, 03:18 PM
Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda
Marie Colvin in Mosul
American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.
After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaedas dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant last stand in the northern city of Mosul.
A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.
Operation Lions Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.
We're winning the War on Terror
The group has been reduced to hit-and-run attacks, including one that killed two off-duty policemen yesterday, and sporadic bombings aimed at killing large numbers of officials and civilians.
Last Friday I joined the 2nd Iraqi Division as it supported local police in a house-to-house search for one such bomb after intelligence pointed to a large explosion today.
Even in the district of Zanjali, previously a hotbed of the insurgency, it was possible to accompany an Iraqi colonelGun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown
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Well this Liberal thinks its great. More power to them.
Sorry about taking the holiday weekend off. (This kind of stuff happens every year about this time.) :)At Coretta Scott King's funeral in early 2006, Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, leaned over to him and whispered, "The torch is being passed to you." "A chill went up my spine," Obama told an aide. (Newsweek)
OORAH boys! That's what I'm talking about, destroying those creeps every time they pop their head out of the current rats nests they're occupying. Don't worry bout the Lamestream media not covering the story, real recognizes real and us on the ground know we're kicking their a$$es out here.
No doubt Keith Overbite is already working on a way to spin this story before the next "Countdown to No Ratings" episode gets on PMSNBC.:p"Don't vote. It only encourages the bastards." -PJ O'Roarke
Need to kill more, capture less in my opinion.
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