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Beheading unpardonable, we'll retaliate: Army Chief
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 14
In a stern warning to Pakistan, Army Chief General Bikram Singh today upped the ante saying India would retaliate militarily to the gruesome beheading of its soldier. It was an unpardonable act and its long-term strategic impact had been conveyed to India's western neighbour, he said.
Addressing the annual Army Day press conference, he said: "I have given clear directions. Retaliate to firing (from across the Line of Control). Uphold ceasefire as long as adversary upholds it. When fired at, we will respond immediately."
Virtually laying down the rules of engagement for his officers, the Army Chief said: "I expect all my commanders along the LoC to be aggressive and offensive in the face of provocation and fire."
On the January 8 beheading of an Indian soldier, he said it was a "gruesome, most unpardonable act which defies logic and is against the ethics of a professional soldier". He said, "We will respond in the same manner. We reserve the right to retaliate at the time and place of our choosing." He went on to add in Hindi: "Hum unko jawab dengey, pucca hai (we will respond, for sure)."
He also contradicted claims of the Pakistan Army that the Indian Army had carried out an operation on January 6 and that the Pakistan Army had only responded on January 8. "There was no operation undertaken by us on January 6. The Pak army was allegedly looking at justifying and legitimising their action (of January 8). Their campaign is based on lies," he said.
In response to a question if the Pakistan Army had beheaded Indian soldiers of the 20 Kumaon regiment in July 2011, the Army Chief said: "That did happen."
On the January 8 incident, he said: "Prima facie there were tactical errors. We will go into that and correct. However, there is no probe at this stage." On being asked if there was any possibility of the Lashkar-e-Toiba having played a role in the incident, he said, "The possibility cannot be ruled out. The Pak army has this tool. However, our reports say it was carried out by the Special Services Group. They are Pak army regulars."
LoC tension: PM speaks to Jaitley, Sushma
New Delhi: Amid tension with Pakistan on the LoC, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday spoke to BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj and assured them that the Opposition would be kept in loop over the situation. He told them that NSA Shivshankar Menon would brief them on Tuesday on the developments on the LoC where tension prevails. The PM said the Opposition would be kept in loop over the situation and appealed to them that the issue should not be politicised. — PTI
It (beheading of Indian soldier) was a gruesome, most unpardonable act. We will respond in the same manner. We reserve the right to retaliate at the time and place of our choosing. Hum unko jawab dengey, pucca hai. — Gen Bikram Singh, Army Chief
Fate of ceasefire hangs in balance
Time and again, Pakistan has violated the ceasefire in place along the Line of Control since 2003. The butchering of two Indian soldiers is an eye opener. With nearly 100 ceasefire violations in 2012 alone, can Pakistan ever mend its ways?
Arun Joshi
IT was Id-ul-Fitr on November 26, 2003, when the armies of India and Pakistan celebrated the end of their hostilities on the Line of Control (LoC). The ceasefire was like an "iddi" (gift) by the two governments. The ceasefire also applied to the Siachen glacier, the highest battlefield in the world.
It's January 2013 and the ceasefire is under threat. The standard statement of the Army Commanders on this side of the border used to be: "Ceasefire is holding on and there is peace on the LoC and borders." But there was an underlined caution, too, "Infiltrators would be neutralised along the borders."
Since India has been a victim of terrorism and has seen much violence in Jammu and Kashmir, it took advantage of the ceasefire and completed its fence along the LoC in 2005 and strengthened its counter-infiltration grid along the borderline, which many term as a "de facto border". On the other hand, Pakistan started raising the level of its embankments and built new bunkers behind these raised walls to avoid detection. It was surely preparing for some mischief. The Indian Army and the BSF would often voice concerns but there argument was lost because the ceasefire agreement did not permit any action.
Playing dirty
The ceasefire violation by Pakistan began in January 2005 itself when it fired mortar shells, days ahead of the completion of the barbed wire fence along the LoC. It was done twice in less than a week's time, but India underplayed the issue and reluctantly accepted the Pakistani version that it might have been non-state actors. But militants had not used mortar shells of high calibre in their attacks on the Indian Army.
"We didn't want to escalate the tension on the LoC and give Pakistan a chance to say we were engaging in hostilities on the border," the then Army Chief NC Vij had told the media. Thereafter, there were ceasefire violations by Pakistan at regular intervals on both sides of the Pir Panjal range of the Himalayas. It was in 2008 that the Indian Army started retaliating as its soldiers were getting killed.
It maintained that the violations were linked to infiltration from across the LoC and the Pakistan army was providing fire cover to terrorists to cross over to the Indian side. During the ceasefire, the first Indian soldier was killed in May 2007, after which there were many more such casualties. Despite all of this, the response of the Indian Army was: "Ceasefire violations take place on the LoC and other sectors also. Our response is immediate and efforts are made not to escalate the situation."
Contentious issues are conveyed through a hotline or flag meeting between local commanders. Whenever these issues are not resolved, they are forwarded to the headquarters to be conveyed at the Director-General of Military Operations level. The ceasefire is holding by and large, the Army told The Tribune a few months ago.
But it changed with the brutal killing of Indian soldiers Lance Naik Hem Raj and Lance Naik Sudhkar Singh. The Minstry of External Affairs (MEA) summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir and Defence Minister AK Antony called it "provocative".
While Pakistan regular army troopers were offering assistance to terrorists to cross the LoC, equipping them with sophisticated weapons, electronic gadgets, satellite phones, etc., India was playing down the infiltration and visible hostility. There were nearly 100 ceasefire violations in 2012 alone.
Hand of friendship
The ceasefire was put into effect after the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, while speaking at a rally in Srinagar in April 2003, extended a hand of friendship to Pakistan. This friendship offer came at a time when the Indian Army had withdrawn from the borders under Operation Parakram. This operation came to be known as "coercive diplomacy", forcing Pakistan to discourage non-state actors from acting against India.
The situation changed after the Parliament attack on December 13, 2001, providing the trigger to mobilise forces along the border. The two sides regularly exchanged fire following the incident.
Vajpayee justified the friendship offer, saying "we can change our friends, we cannot change our neighbours". The political and diplomatic logic was: The US had launched a war in Iraq and if India and Pakistan failed to forge better relations, there was danger of such things happening here too.
The US had warned of a nuclear clash between India and Pakistan after the attack on Parliament, and the US foreign office made its Deputy Secretary of State shuttle between New Delhi and Islamabad to help defuse tensions. His efforts were blunted by Pakistan when it sponsored a major suicide attack on the Army camp at Kaluchak, near Jammu, in which 38 soldiers, their wives and children were massacred. War seemed imminent, but international diplomacy prevailed and the armies withdrew to their peace-time positions.
That laid the foundation of back channels getting active. It was realised there was need to end hostilities with Pakistan and the best way to do it was to end the standoff on the borders. On November 26, 2003, Pakistanis offered sweets to Indian troops. It became a regular feature between the two armies on the LoC and the international border. While Indians would offer sweets on Diwali, Pakistanis would do it on Id-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Zuha.
More than the armies, border residents of both sides rejoiced at the ceasefire. Most of them had shifted to safer places as firing had made their lives a living hell. They could not afford to stay indoors nor could they tend to their fields, which were mined, or send children to school.
Ujjagar Singh of Abdulian, a village close to the international border, trembles at the thought of pre-ceasefire days. "There were only bullets and mortars," he recalls. There was hardly any house that was not perforated by bullets in border villages. After the ceasefire, border residents returned to their homes and started a new life. Weddings resumed as earlier, no one would give their daughters as bride to young men from these villages.
Then came the time when the ceasefire prompted the Governments of India and Pakistan to open the LoC route for travellers and trade. On April 7, 2005, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while flagging off Carvan-e-Aman bus, had described the initiative as an "unstoppable march toward peace" between India and Pakistan.
In July the same year, the Prime Minister voiced his wish that he wanted Siachen, where not even a single ceasefire violation has taken place since the ceasefire came into effect in November 2003, to become the "mountain of peace", though he categorically stated that the boundaries cannot be redrawn. His idea was to reduce the LoC as a "line on the map".
The best example of the ceasefire's benefits was on display on October 23, 2011, when an Indian helicopter of Siachen Falcon 666 strayed across the LoC and landed in the Skardu area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK). All four crew members — Lt Col Verma, Major Kapila, Major Raja and JCO Akhilesh — were taken into custody, but later released. Pakistan had even refuelled the chopper's tank and they were allowed to return to Kargil.
The ceasefire also had a positive effect on the bilateral relations between the two countries. In a declaration in January 2004, Islamabad committed itself to not allowing any terrorist activity from its soil or the areas under its control against India. That promise has not been honoured to date even as Manmohan Singh has been reminding Pakistan, time and again, of its commitment to peace.
The horrid incident of January 7, 2013, was not simply a violation of the ceasefire alone. It was something more than that. Pakistani troops came from POK, reached the LoC and targeted a patrol party of Indian soldiers before entering the Indian territory. They killed two Indian soldiers and then severed the head of one of them. They slit the throat of the other soldier. Lance Naik Hem Raj was from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh and Naik Sudhkar Singh belonged to Madhya Pradesh.
The dastardly incident exposed the brutality of the Pakistan army. At the same time, it was a blatant violation of the sanctity of the Line of Control. The armies are not supposed to cross the borders, and when they do, they spark trouble. Who would have stopped the Indian Army from undertaking the hot chase of militants entering the Indian side from across the LoC, where 42 terror camps are still alive? These camps are training more than 2,500 militants, who are waiting to cross over to the Indian side.
The US has advised India and Pakistan to maintain peace. It is true matters should be resolved amicably across the table, but the January 7 incident has opened the door wide enough for the Indian Army to respond to "open aggression" by Pakistan. At this stage, who can guarantee peace on borders and longevity of the ceasefire?
At Poonch flag meeting, Pak still in denial mode
Tribune News Service
Jammu/Poonch/Islamabad, Jan 14
The Indian Army today lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the "barbaric" killing of two of its soldiers and recurring violations of the ceasefire agreement by the latter's troops during the Brigade Commander-level flag meeting at Chakan-da-Bagh crossing point on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch.
In a brazen denial, the Pakistan Army said it was not involved in the killing of the Indian soldiers and mutilation of their bodies on January 8 and did not have Lance Naik Hemraj's head. It refused to accept that its troops crossed the LoC to target Indian posts. It claimed a Pakistani citizen was injured in firing from the Indian side in Battal sector on Monday.
Army sources said the flag meeting began around 1pm and lasted about 35 minutes.
"We lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over its soldiers resorting to open aggression in the KG Sector and killing two Indian soldiers besides mutilating their bodies on January 8," sources said.
The Indian side also vehemently raised the issue of recurring ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC. Pakistan has violated the ceasefire at the LoC 10 times already this year. Last year, 117 violations were reported, which was a 100 per cent increase from 61 in 2011.
"While voicing serious concern over brutal killing and mutilation of the bodies of two soldiers, the Indian Army demanded the severed head of the beheaded soldier, which was taken away by intruding Pakistan Army troops," sources said.
Lt Col Rajesh Kalia, PRO (Defence) Headquarters Northern Command, said the Army raised a strong protest against the "heinous mutilation" of the deceased soldiers' bodies, pointing out that it was against the tenets of the Geneva Convention as also in contravention of all established norms of soldierly behaviour.
"Our representative expressed our grave concern over the barbaric act by Pakistani troops in the recent ambush of our patrol in the Mendhar Sector. It was conveyed to the Pakistan delegation that such a dastardly and cowardly act is totally unacceptable and is a pre-meditated attempt to undermine the ceasefire agreement of 2003 and can lead to further escalation," the PRO said.
He further said: "It was conveyed in no uncertain terms that repetition of such acts would not be tolerated and the Indian Army reserves the right to retaliate at the place and time of our own choosing in case they recur."
He, however, said the Pakistan Army's response was on "expected lines" as the Pakistani delegation leader denied their involvement in the incident, besides denying any ceasefire violations by their troops.
"The Pakistani delegation also reiterated false and fabricated allegations that our troops crossed over the Line of Control and killed one Pakistani soldier and injured another. Their response was on expected lines wherein they stated that no ceasefire violation has been initiated by their troops," the PRO said.
He said the situation along the Line of Control was being closely monitored and Indian soldiers were maintaining necessary vigil.
"Apart from the discussion on various issues related to cross-border terrorism and ceasefire violations, the Indian Army also favoured the resumption of trade and travel from Poonch sector to restore normalcy on the border. The Pakistan Army, however, made no commitment on the resumption of cross-LoC trade and travel, which it had suspended following massive outrage over the killing of two Indian soldiers," he said. Pakistan unilaterally suspended cross-LoC trade and travel at Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch sector since Thursday and Friday, respectively.
Brazen Stand
The Pakistan Army reiterated that it was not involved in the killing of the Indian soldiers and mutilation of their bodies on January 8 in the KG Sector
It also denied that it had the head of Lance Naik Hemraj and refused to accept that its troops had crossed the Line of Control (LoC) to target Indian posts
Pakistan has violated the ceasefire at the LoC 10 times already this year
'Oversight' deprives 2 disabled soldiers of pension benefits
Vijay Mohan/TNS
Chandigarh, January 14
An "oversight" on the part of the government has resulted in a young disabled Army officer running from pillar to post for the past 10 years to get his pension and other due benefits released.
Exposing the hollowness of the claims of military authorities with regard to treatment accorded to ex-servicemen and disabled veterans, a commissioned officer and a soldier today approached the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT), stating that their pensions and benefits had not been released even 10 and six years, respectively, after leaving the service.
Lieutenant Amit Vasudev from Gurdaspur was invalided out in 2002 as a young officer with a disability that was declared to have been aggravated due to military service for life. Running from pillar to post for the past 10 years, he was not given any reason for Army's failure to sanction his disability pension.
When questioned under the RTI Act, the Army Headquarters recently replied that his disability pension had not been released to date due to an "oversight" on the part of the authorities.
Naik Govinder Singh, a brain-damaged soldier from Hoshiarpur with disability assessed at 100 per cent, was invalided out of the Army in 2007 after having rendered 14 years of service with the entitlement of pension but the benefits have still not been released to him by the Army.
The medical board's declaration attributing his disability to military service was overturned by the Army Headquarters, for which his appeal remains pending.
In his petition, he has contended that even by treating his disability as non-attributable he remained entitled to invalid pension that is granted to soldiers with non-service related disabilities having more than 10 years of service.
The soldier is from the Sikh Light Infantry, which happens to be the Army Chief's regiment.
Both disabled veterans, who remain without pension, have pointed out that in the absence of release of pension, which was their rightful claim, they were not even entitled to medical facilities under the Ex-serviceman Contributory Health Scheme.
The AFT has issued a notice to the government, asking it to respond to the petitions.
Martyred soldier's family ends fast
Khairair (UP), January 14
The family of beheaded soldier Hemraj today called off their six-day-old fast after a visit by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and top BJP leaders and assurances by Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh that steps will be taken to get back the severed head.
The end of the protest came in the evening when Akhilesh met the family and offered juice to Hemraj's fasting wife Dharamwati, mother Meena Devi and cousin Narendra, offering all help to the family as well as for the development of the village.
Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh visited the family of the martyred soldier and announced that the government would give Rs 46 lakh to the family. "We are also talking to other ministries so that the family get a petrol pump," he said.
Akhilesh promised to take steps to meet the family's demands, including development of the road for the village and take up with the Centre the allotment of a petrol pump for them.
"The family have shown the strength to face this (tragedy). We have to stand by them. We should all support the family of Lance Naik Hemraj. We have assured that whatever demands they have made for village." The day began with the family refusing to take "even liquid", demanding that the Army Chief meet them personally and give an assurance that Hemraj's head severed by Pakistani troops last week be brought back or else they will continue the fast.
However, the family decided to end the fast after a string of leaders, including Akhilesh, Jitendra Singh and top BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh visited them and offered support. — PTI
Continue the peace process
Reach out to secular sections of Pakistan
by B.G. Verghese
IF there is something India needs to remember at this time, it is the 150th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, that great soul who tried to reinterpret India to itself and rid it of caste and other social blemishes. That is the Idea of India we must never forget but, rather, build on.
One is powerfully reminded of this when one sees sundry current "godmen" and other religious frauds backed by gullible and even fanatic followers spouting nonsense and dividing the country. India is a deeply religious and spiritual society. But some of this religiosity is rooted in medieval-rootedness that is not merely irrelevant but antithetical to our times.
Asaram Bapu is one such cult figure who cannot be left to defy the law and the Constitution and be allowed to get away with hate speech. These men often get away with such conduct because politicians and other powerful or wealthy persons have been allowed to set deviant standards with immunity and impunity. The rot begins with political parties whose politics is for person and pelf above all else and whose members' electoral criminality is now well established.
Akbaruddin Owaisi was initially arrested and placed in judicial custody in Hyderabad for his utterly outrageous communal and anti-India rant after days of evasive action and pleading life-threatening illness. Such lies, when exposed, as in this case through an independent medical examination, should fetch condign punishment in itself for the person concerned and his family and political protectors.
People in high places also defy the law and norms of conduct by pulling rank. Witness the utterly disgraceful conduct of V.K. Singh, former Army chief, last week when a uniformed Signal's Major sent to the General's residence to remove the telephone exchange allowed him as a courtesy for six months — not the telephone connection itself — found himself virtually taken prisoner for eight hours. Both the front door of the residence and the compound gate were locked to prevent his "escape". The General's personal security staff and family said they had received no prior intimation of such a visit owing to what an Army spokesperson later described as a mis-communication for which an apology was issued. A simple telephone call to the right quarters by Singh's family could have resolved the issue one way or the other.
Instead, the media was alerted, admitted into the compound and allowed to chase and harass the Major who was charged by the General's lawyer with snooping around and seeking to plant a bug in the house as a plot for "something big". It is not known whether the General was at home or not but there was no word from him then or since. Singh's rogue conduct both in uniform and out of it falls far short of the norms expected of "an officer and a gentleman".
How can a former Army Chief, who earlier shamefully sued his own government for self-falsification of his age, now formally charge the Army with "snooping" on him and be allowed to get away with it? As before, the Defence Minister has dealt with the matter with supreme incompetence and thereby undermined military discipline and morale.
No nexus is implied, but it is at this juncture that Pakistan for some strange reason has decided to up the ante alongside the LOC and J&K while swearing commitment to the peace process with India for its own salvation. Rather than target India as its permanent enemy, the Pakistan Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, has called on the country to redefine its military doctrine in order comprehensively "to tackle terrorism". He told the National Defence Institute in Islamabad on January 5 that danger to Pakistan's national security "stems mainly from non-state actors who are targeting the State's symbols and institutions in a bid to impose their agenda". Political will and people's support were critical for the success of military action.
Despite reiteration of this new dogma at various levels, General Kayani being first of the mark last April, both political will and public support remain fragmented. The LOC violations in the Uri-Mendhar sectors last week, howsoever triggered — and each side accuses the other of initiating unprovoked action – two matters stand out as undisputed. The first is that the bodies of two Indian soldiers were found mutilated, with the head decapitated in one case. This is barbaric. The second is that Pakistan has prolonged and escalated the crisis by unilaterally stopping cross-border truck movements in the Poonch sector, while previously missing yet another, December-end deadline for granting India long-overdue MFN status on specious grounds.
India's restraint and offer to hold Brigadier-level flag meetings to sort out matters has been scorned. Instead, Islamabad has suggested investigation of these cross-border incidents by the UN Military Observer Group (UNMOG. This sounds very fair except for the fact that the proposal mischievously attempts to revive a dead horse. UNMOG was rendered comatose in 1972 when both sides agreed at Simla to bury the UN Resolutions and settle the Kashmir Question bilaterally. Islamabad is now cleverly trying to resile from the governing Simla agreement and internationalise the matter. As importantly, Pakistan is in flagrant and repeated violation of the UN rulings and resolutions on J&K. Such devious cunning will not work. Kashmir cannot once again become an international football with allies and Islamists playing their own games for their own ends.
It would seem that political will and public support in Pakistan for peace with India is divided. A radicalised section of the Army, the Islamists and jihadis continue to favour a hard line as the recent escalation of cross-border infiltration indicates. Non-state actors are still able to blackmail the state. Even the Army finds it useful to engage with these nefarious elements, some of whom have been raised, trained and funded by it and offer it plausible deniability. Hafeez Saeeds and Salahuddins are still at large and continue to spew venom and hate against India while others talk peace. The 26/11 trial drags on. The separatist Hurriyat is still a prime interlocutor in Pakistan while recently-elected panchayat leaders in J&K keep being targeted by those who fear self-determination.
Yet, the peace process with Pakistan must not be broken. The truly democratic, secular, peace-minded sections of Pakistan, though still small and fearful, must be supported. They exist. The familiar chorus of "denials" from Pakistan must be rigorously exposed so that falsehood does not masquerade as truth. But for this India needs a communications policy. Where is that?
India, China Try To Revive Military Exercises
NEW DELHI — India and China discussed reviving military exercises Jan. 14, stalled since 2010, and increasing military exchanges during the Third India-China Annual Defence Dialogue in Beijing, said an Indian Defence Ministry official.
India and China held their first military exercise in 2007 in China followed by another in 2008 in India. The planned military exercise in 2010, however, was stalled after China denied a visa to an Indian Army commander.
Indian Defence Secretary Shahsikant Sharma led the Indian delegation at the Jan. 14 Third India-China Annual Defence Dialogue, while the Chinese deputy chief of the General Staff, Gen. Qi Jianguo, led the Chinese side.
"Both sides agreed to expand and enhance bilateral exchanges covering the Army, Navy and Air Force of both countries," says an Indian Defence Ministry release.
The two sides also discussed regional and international issues of common interests, including potential hotspots in the Asia-Pacific region and in the India-China border areas, adds the release.
India and Vietnam are jointly working on exploiting energy resources in South China Sea, which is not to the liking of Beijing.
Early this year, the Indian Navy chief, Adm. D.K. Joshi, said that Beijing's growing maritime strength was a "major, major cause for concern," and pledged to support a state energy firm in its contentious search for oil in the South China Sea.
"It is actually a major, major cause of concern for us, which we continuously evaluate and work out our options and our strategies for," Joshi had said.
India and China fought a brief battle in 1962 over border issues and have held a series of talks to resolve the issue. The dispute between the two countries involves the longest contested boundary in the world. China claims 92,000 square kilometers of Indian territory.
The border between India and China is currently defined by a 4,056-kilometer Line of Actual Control (LAC), which is neither marked on the ground nor on mutually acceptable maps. Efforts to have a recognized LAC since the mid 1980s have made little headway.
The Jan. 14 meeting also discussed the border issue.
"The two sides reviewed the ongoing measures to maintain peace and tranquility on the Line of Actual Control (LAC)," the release says.
India's army chief warns Pakistan of retaliation
NEW DELHI — India's army chief on Monday accused Pakistan of planning an attack in which two Indian soldiers were killed in the disputed Kashmir region last week, and warned of possible retaliation.
Gen. Bikram Singh's strong words are a clear message that India believes the Jan. 8 attack was a deliberate provocation and not an unintentional skirmish of the kind that often breaks out along the Line of Control, the de facto border between the two archrivals in the Himalayan territory.
Pakistan did not immediately respond to the comments, which are likely to raise tensions further.
The tit-for-tat fighting began Jan. 6 when Pakistan accused Indian troops of raiding an army post and killing a soldier. India denied attacking the post, and said its troops fired across the border in response to Pakistani shelling that destroyed a home on the Indian side.
On Jan. 8, India claimed Pakistani soldiers, taking advantage of heavy fog, crossed the border and killed two Indian soldiers and beheaded one of them.
Pakistan denies India's allegations and has suggested U.N. monitors in the region conduct an inquiry - a call that India rejected, saying it didn't want to internationalize the issue.
"The attack on Jan. 8 was premeditated, a pre-planned activity. Such an operation requires planning, detailed reconnaissance," Singh told reporters. He said India reserved the right to retaliate at a "time and place of its choice."
Singh urged his troops to be "aggressive and offensive in the face of provocation and fire" from Pakistan. He said the alleged beheading of the Indian soldier was "unacceptable and unpardonable" and accused Pakistan of violating the "ethics of warfare."
Tensions escalated further on Jan. 10 when Pakistan said Indian troops fired across the border and killed another one of its soldiers. The Pakistani army said the shooting was unprovoked, while the Indian military said its troops were responding to fire from across the frontier.
Both countries accused each other of violating a 2003 cease-fire and have summoned their envoys to lodge protests.
Singh spoke hours before Indian and Pakistani military commanders met to defuse tensions along the Line of Control.
The meeting between the local commanders of the two armies in the Poonch region of Indian-controlled Kashmir lasted about half an hour, said Col. R.K. Palta, an Indian army spokesman.
Brig. Bipin Bakshi, a senior Indian army officer, said India raised the issue of repeated cease-fire violations by Pakistani troops "and conveyed our strong protest regarding the barbaric act of the mutilation of our soldier."
Bakshi said Pakistani army officers refused to acknowledge that their troops initiated any violations of the cease-fire, staged any raids or killed any soldiers.
He said Pakistan accused the Indian army of violating the cease-fire and crossing the military line.
The cease-fire over Kashmir has largely held for about a decade, despite periodic firing across the de facto border that sometimes causes casualties.
The two countries have fought three major wars since Pakistan's birth after British colonial rule of India ended in August 1947. Two of the wars have been over Kashmir, which both countries claim in its entirety. The wars have left about one-third of Kashmir with Pakistan and the rest with India.
Indian Army will respond immediately if provoked: Gen Bikram Singh on LoC attack
Terming as "unpardonable" the beheading of a soldier by Pakistan on the Line of Control, army chief Gen Bikram Singh on Monday warned that India's military will retaliate aggressively in case of any further provocation.
Talking tough, he said the killing of two Indian soldiers on the LoC in Mendhar area of Jammu and Kashmir on January 6 was a pre-planned and pre-meditated action by Pakistani troops and India reserves the right to retaliate at "time and place of its choice".
Addressing a press conference here on the eve of Army Day, Gen Singh said India's response to Pakistani firing at its posts in LoC in Jammu and Kashmir is measured and perfect.
He said the ceasefire, in place since November 2003, has been holding except for "some aberrations" for which he squarely blamed Pakistan.
"Beheading (of Lance Naik Hemraj) is unacceptable and unpardonable," the Army Chief said about the incident in which Pakistan soldiers crossed into the Indian territory to attack Indian army patrol party.
"It (the attack) was stage-managed and pre-planned (by Pakistan). They (Pakistan) have planted lies to justify what they have done," he said.
He said the attack was carried out by Pakistan army personnel but did not rule out the possibility of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists being associated with it.
Gen Singh said while the issue is being taken up with Pakistan at government and military levels, directions have been given to army commanders to respond immediately if provoked.
"India reserves its right to retaliate at the time and place of its choice. We won't remain passive when attacked," he said, adding he expected "commanders to be aggressive and offensive."
Hitting out that the Pakistan army, Gen Singh said beheading is against all rules of engagement.
At the same time, he said there were some "tactical errors" on part of the local unit which will be looked into later as an inquiry at the moment will affect the morale of the forces.
"Our teams should be balanced to take on the onslaught of the enemy," the army chief said.
Putting the onus of maintaining the ceasefire on Pakistan, the army chief said India will uphold it as long as the "adversary" does.
He applauded the Indian Army Commanders at the LoC, saying they did a "great job".
Gen Singh discounted the possibility of the skirmish leading to a full-fledged war and was dismissive of Pakistan's nuclear blackmail, saying it had no relation to the local conflict.
"Indicators does not show upping the ante," he said.
On any response to the Pakistani action, he said it has to be the decision of the government.
Noting that the morale of the force along the LoC was "high", Singh said he would go there at an "opportune time".
The army chief said he shared the grief of slain soldier Hemraj Singh's widow. "I am sorry (for all her pains and sorrows). She is a part of the army family... she will be provided with all the entitlements," he said.
Regretting the beheading incident, he said the Indian Army would have never indulged in such type of acts.
"We give respect to enemys' bodies. This is our value and you have seen this during Kargil war," he said.


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Greensboro, NC – Florida State sophomore Sel Kuralay picked up her second ACC Player of the Week award of the season and FSU's third conference honor of the year when she was honored by the ACC this afternoon. The sophomore led the Seminoles wins over Citadel (5-0) and No. 23 Clemson (3-0). She recorded six points on two goals and two assists including the game-winning goal versus Clemson and the game-winning assist versus the Citadel.
The Australian Olympian closed out a spectacular 2005 regular season in a big way by recording six points in the last two games. The sophomore started the week off by assisting on FSU's first goal in a 5-0 win over the Citadel. Then she put on a show versus No. 23 Clemson having a hand in all three FSU goals. The first was a shot from over 20 yards away that proved to be the game-winner in a 3-0 victory. Her second was a penalty kick goal and then for good measure she delivered the third goal on a silver platter to Viola Odebrecht. Her performance versus Clemson assured FSU of its best regular season and ACC season in school history.
With the two goals, Kuralay recorded her fifth multi-goal game of the season, which is a new single season record. She also upped her season goal total to 14. Her 14 goals, seven assists, 35 points and six game-winners all rank in the top five for single season numbers at FSU and are each the most ever by an FSU player in her first season. Her game-winning assist and goal last week gave her eight on the season meaning Kuralay has either recorded the game-winning goal or assist in half of FSU's 16 wins.
Florida State returns to action back Wednesday in Cary. NC as they open the 2005 ACC Women's Soccer Championships. The Seminoles will face Clemson at 2:30 p.m. in a rematch of both teams final regular season game. Check out Seminoles.com for the Game Tracker link for the ACC Tournament and for all your Seminole soccer news.


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NAMB's 2018 topped by Annie Offering, disaster reliefALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- In 2018 Southern Baptists stepped up their support of North American missions while helping thousands of disaster survivors who endured devastating hurricanes, fires and floods as well as a church in Texas after a tragedy that shocked the world.
Here is a look at some of the highlights from 2018 as the North American Mission Board (NAMB) had the privilege of partnering with Southern Baptist churches in these and numerous other ways. Read More
FIRST-PERSON: Where poppies grow
The resilience of poppies in former battlefields, Sarah Dixon Young writes, conveys "a picture of the Lord's work during times of great personal tragedy and loss." Read More
'Looking up': 1 year after Sutherland Springs attackSUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (BP) -- Once members of the news media journey to Sutherland Springs, Texas, many leave with something unexpected after spending time with First Baptist Church pastor Frank Pomeroy and the congregation, which lost 26 people in a mass shooting attack one year ago.
"Out of all the shootings I have covered," one reporter recently told Pomeroy, "you are the only ones who are smiling, thriving and moving forward."
To be sure, there are still many tough days. Sometimes tears come at unexpected moments. ... Read More
Sherri Pomeroy tells of life after church shootingDALLAS (BP) -- Sherri Pomeroy never expected for 26 people in her church family to enter heaven together when she and her husband Frank Pomeroy agreed to serve at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs 17 years ago.
But on Nov. 5 of last year, in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, a gunman took the lives of 26 worshipers, including the Pomeroys' 14-year-old daughter Annabelle. Another 20 church members were injured in the attack. Read More
Sutherland Springs groundbreaking starts with prayerSUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (BP) -- Karla Holcombe, one of 26 victims to die in shootings at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on Nov. 5, 2017, walked the lot adjacent to the church often, praying for God to provide a place for expansion. Members said the two-acre tract was too expensive.
"You're not going to have to buy a church. God is going to give it to us," Holcombe replied.
"God gave it to us," Mark Collins said, recalling Holcombe's story before some 350-400 gathered May 5, 2018, for groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Sutherland Springs facility. Read More
FIRST-PERSON: The National Day of PrayerWASHINGTON (BP) -- Tomorrow an incredible movement will unfold in our country. Millions of Americans across all 50 states will gather in churches, local businesses, the steps of city halls, in schools, neighborhoods and public gathering places for a day of public prayer for the United States of America.
In one voice, they will lift a single prayer request to God: unity in America.
This Thursday, May 3, is the National Day of Prayer. It will be the 30th annual observance since President Ronald Reagan signed the amended law designating the first Thursday of May as a day of national prayer, and the 67th observance since the day was first created in 1952 by a joint resolution of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. Read More
Sutherland Springs expresses accountability to donorsSUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (BP) -- Donors supporting First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs after the mass murder of 26 worshippers there can be assured of the church's integrity in handling donations, the church said in an April 12th open letter.
The statement comes after concerns related to the use of funds for victim relief have been raised, a spokesman for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC) confirmed to Baptist Press today (April 13). Read More
FBC Sutherland Springs launches building projectSAN ANTONIO (BP) -- First Baptist Church Sutherland Springs, the Southern Baptist congregation whose members were targeted by a gunman in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, will begin construction of a new worship center and education building in May.
Plans were announced Tuesday (March 27) by Frank Pomeroy, the church's pastor. The North American Mission Board (NAMB) will accept donations for the project. If donations do not cover all of the construction expenses, NAMB will cover any remaining costs.
"Our primary goal is to lift up Jesus in our community," Pomeroy said. "Sutherland Springs has a certain distinction because of the enormity of the tragedy that took place at our church, but every community is touched by tragedy. Every family and every person has hurts and sorrows. We want to be a lighthouse. The light of the Gospel shines hope, even in the deepest darkness." Read More
TRUSTEES: NAMB introduces 'Send Puerto Rico'ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- The North American Mission Board is adding Puerto Rico to its list of special areas that will receive increased attention and resources for church planting, Send Relief ministries and partnership opportunities with Southern Baptist churches that want to minister on the island. NAMB president Kevin Ezell shared the plans with NAMB trustees Tuesday (Feb. 6).
The emphasis comes as Puerto Rico continues to slowly recover from the staggering toll Hurricane Maria took on the island when it struck Sept. 20, 2017. Since the storm hit, NAMB, along with Southern Baptist volunteers from several ... Read More
Sutherland Springs lifted by influx of compassionSUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (BP) -- Kris Workman, paralyzed during the melee at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, is leading worship from a wheelchair for the rural Texas congregation.
Ryland Ward, age 6, came home from the hospital Jan. 11 after multiple operations for four wounds inflicted by the gunman who killed 26 people -- including his mother and two of his sisters -- at First Baptist on Nov. 5.
Ryland -- riding in a fire truck in a police convoy -- returned to Sutherland Springs after a two-month hospitalization in San Antonio, 30 miles away. Read More


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Redirecting the War on Terror
Vivek Rao
Let's not mince words; as far as American security and foreign policy is concerned, the proverbial shit has hit the fan.
Insurgency in Iraq is reaching potentially catastrophic levels, and the recent release of a crucial pre-Sept. 11 memo has given former chief counterterrorism aide Richard Clark renewed credence in his sweeping denouncement of government policies toward Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. Yet in this election year, with both Republicans and Democrats eager to prove that they acted logically and appropriately over the last few years, the nation runs the risk of remaining polarized, with a good number of people relentlessly bashing the president's policies and just as many offering him their unwavering support. Neither mindset is healthy, since for the most part, American foreign policy has transcended party lines in recent years, with most prominent politicians supporting an irrational, short-sighted, and largely jingoistic method of dealing with the rest of the world. Now is the time for our leaders to show that they truly understand the complex new dynamic in foreign relations by admitting their past failures and proposing more realistic and palatable solutions for the future.
The complex sphere of security and counterterrorism can be broken down into a number of key issues. Currently, the highly publicized proceedings in Washington continue to deal primarily with intelligence gathering by various government agencies, along with the consolidation of and response to such intelligence. Certainly, this is an important issue. Allegations that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and other members of the Bush administration should have better anticipated the attacks of Sept. 11 deserve foremost attention.
Another crucial discussion should center around the military campaign in Afghanistan, which was designed to punish the perpetrators of Sept. 11, including but not limited to Osama bin Laden, and to rip out the heart of Al-Qaeda. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy is among those critical of the Bush administration's shift in focus from the Afghanistan initiative to the war in Iraq, saying "This misguided war in Iraq has distracted us from the real war we must win and made that war harder to win, because even as we combat terror, it has left America more and more isolated in the world."
Further attention, of course, should be given to the current strife in Iraq. Clearly, large contingents of Iraqis are highly discontent with American administration in the post-Saddam Hussein era, and the mayhem that has erupted recently threatens to claim many more lives on both sides in the days, months, and maybe even years to come. The White House faces a critical decision of whether or not to pull out of Iraq.
Yet as important as these issues are, they all fail to address what will ultimately define the success or failure of the counterterrorism campaign: the need to lessen the anti-American sentiment fundamentally responsible for the security threats facing our country. There is one unmistakable truth about the current situation; lots of people around the world are disenchanted, to put it mildly, with the United States and specifically, American foreign policy. Put your personal political beliefs aside for a moment and realize that justified or not, it is that disenchantment that produced the tragedies of Sept. 11 and is responsible for the threats that exist today. Many of the terrorist organization minions that act on orders from above may indeed be lunatics with little humanity, but the fact is that the Osama bin Ladens and Muqtada al-Sadrs of the world have specific political agendas that draw their lifeblood from masses that fervently object to American policies.
The cold, harsh truth remains that even a vaunted combination of improved intelligence gathering, more technologically advanced airport security measures, and intensified efforts to capture bin Laden cannot and will not solve the problem of anti-Americanism, and as a result, the threat of terror will linger, largely unchecked. The security of the United States is in danger these days not because of a few individuals or a few organizations but because of a firm mindset that permeates significant portions of the world population. This mindset can be altered by a number of methods (a change in the American policy of heavy involvement in international affairs, rampaging military campaigns, state-of-the-art mind control, whatever), but the bottom line is it needs to be altered for any real alleviation of threat. Only when politicians and policymakers realize that they need to attack the source of the problem rather than its various late-stage manifestations will America have a fighting chance of winning the war on terror.


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Four Coupled Tanks Case Study
This apparatus consists of four interconnected water tanks, two pumps and associated valves. The apparatus inputs are the supplies to the pumps, v1 and v2, (voltages) and the outputs are the water levels in the bottom two tanks, y1 and y2 (voltages). The flow to each tank is adjusted using the associated valves.
The first step was to derive a mathematical model of the Four tank
laboratory apparatus.
Mass balance for one of the tanks gives:
Where A denotes the cross section of the tank, h>=0 the water level and qin>=0 and qout>=0 the inflow and outflow of the tank, respectively. In order to establish a relationship between output and height Bernoulli's Law is used and states that
where a is the cross section of the outlet hole and g is the acceleration due to gravity. This relationship is roughly the expected output due to height relationship although it does not take into account any flow dynamics of the orifice. A common multiplying factor for an orifice of the type being used in this apparatus is
Coefficient of discharge k = 0.90 (in this case)
We can therefor re-write Bernoulli's Equation
The flow through each pump is split so that a proportion of the total flow travels to each corresponding tank. This can be adjusted via one of the two valves shown in Figure 1. Assuming that the flow generated is proportional to the voltage applied to each pump, (change)v, and that qT and qB are the flows going to the top and bottom tanks, respectfully and by letting the parameter ? be determined by how the valves are set. We are able to come up with the following relationship.
Combining all the equations for the interconnected Four Tank
Laboratory Apparatus we are able to
All numbers associated with the coefficients relate to the pump or tank that the particular coefficient is associated with.


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I started out asking a few questions about the photos on the "Rocking the Forest" sleeve... "Dope Club" is a private joke according to Jason who's maybe too drugged to elucidate. "I smoke dope," sniggers Eric. "So do I," admits Lou.
Sidetracked by drugs already Lou is at pains to point out that they don't smoke pot habitually. "It can make you lazy and alienate you from people around you and sometimes makes you paranoid." Eric and Jason tell the tale of how they took acid and did the hippy things with guitars in the forest, Eric warns of the dangers of driving on acid and taking opium and not being able to stand up. Lou went on a three day acid binge on one tour and was tripping on stage in a club with a big grain elevator outside which everyone knew was going to explode while they were playing: "I was yelling 'We're all gonna die'. I was really over the top and forceful about it. You have a lot of power standing up on stage and I don't normally use it but 'cos I was on acid I guess I thought that I should."
The pictures of a happy couple horsing about in trees with shotguns on the back of the sleeve turn out to be "Sebadoh vs. Helmet" cover boy Bob Fay's parents when they were first married. "Bob filled in for Eric when he went to San Francisco for a couple of months," Lou explains, "and 'Mind-Meld' was a song Bob had written during the tour as his mother was dying while we were touring and every night it became more obvious we were doing it for his mother. When we put it on the record she died and he wanted to put the pictures on."
I got a bit confused over all the Bobs floating around the periphery of the Sebadoh universe, the other Bob, Mr. Weston, used to be in a band who seemed to have lain dormant for too long, Volcano Suns. "They broke up," Lou breaks the bad news, "They did it for so long and never really became press darlings like Sebadoh." To cap it all it turns out Salem 66, or as Sebadoh style 'em Slayem 666, decided to call it a day too and Eric reckons one of them now works in a strip club...
Still on the subject of other bands, it seems to me Sebadoh are the band to cover these days, with Superchunk and Bettie Serveert paying them homage. Lou's not so happy about it though: "Whenever I hear a Sebadoh cover I think, "Oh my god, leave it alone, we'll do it!" 'cos we have more of an idea what to do with it!"
The singing bunny! Jason looks bemused at the mention of the hero of the first Sebadoh record. "I don't exactly remember what the singing bunny is," admits Lou sheepishly, "some delusion I had when I was little. If it dropped out of the sky tonight while we were playing that'd be really awesome, but nothing supernatural's happened yet while we've been playing."
Staying with the supernatural, I questioned them about UFO sightings: "I think you know if you see one and I haven't," Eric draws a blank. "I thought I did when I was little, but my parents said it was a low flying 'plane," says Lou, "There were four of us outside at the picnic table and we ran in going, 'There's a UFO outside'. I think we were waiting for the UFO's to come and take us away for some time after that." Jason thought he saw one too when he was young, a strange series of lights in the sky but there was no one around to verify it for him. There was a movie they saw not too long ago too, as Lou relates it: "It was about this guy who was an alien and he admitted himself to a mental institution. He had all the proof that he was an alien but people wouldn't believe him: 'So you don't believe I'm an alien, this proves that humans are limited, they limit themselves with stupidity and we've come from another planet to save you from your stupidity."
But is time speeding up as is thought by a certain popular fanzine editof? Or is it just the aging process taking its toll? Lou considers: "You become more adjusted to the horror of being alive, the rush of sensation. When you're little you can be sitting around waiting for your mother to give you a cookie and it seems like three years, 'I wanna cookie so bad' and it takes forever to get there. Today I needed to piss real bad and that was the longest five minutes I've experienced in a very long time. You'd have to ask someone who was terminally ill about that."
Eric and Jason both live in fear of death, but before that happens, I wondered if there were any unrealised ambitions as far as the band went... "There's the songs that haven't been written," ponders Eric, "I'd like to obtain a lot of different instruments to work with besides guitar/bass/drums, get a nice place to live and have a studio with a piano."


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We have the first trailer for you for Argentinian director and author Aldo Paparella's forthcoming mystery thriller 'Olvídame' (Forget), starring Antonella Costa, Gonzalo Valenzuela and Mario Alarcón. Victor Terx, a young, attractive and mysterious man, performs his task as a preacher and the leader of an obscure sect of spiritualists. Come on inside for more, and the brand new official trailer.
'Olvídame' (Forget) is a thriller that takes place in the suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires. In this area, Victor Terx (Gonzalo Valenzuela), a young man, attractive and mysterious, performs his tasks as a preacher and leader of an obscure sect of spiritualist. Victor is a compulsive murderer who exercises the systematical killing of prostitution, who are also his casual partners.
Amber Atlas (Antonella Costa) is a young stripper in a nightclub and also works in the brothel. She possesses an unconventional beauty, and an exhilarating and disturbing sexuality. A devoted Christian, Amber longs for her own death and uses the search for sex as a vehicle of her own destruction.
Unable to stop the inevitable, Amber and Victor fall deeply and passionately in love, attracting and repelling each other, violently aware of the looming danger that stalks them both, and seems inescapable.
Together they embark on a dark and tortuous journey in order to find miraculous salvation, without mediums, sorcerers or shamans with their strange false rites.
A release date for 'Olvídame' (Forget) has not officially been announced at the time of this writing.
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Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Director: Aldo Paparella
Authors: Aldo Paparella, Eduardo Leiva Muller, Dodi Scheuer
Antonella Costa – Ámbar
Gonzalo Valenzuela – Víctor
Mario Alarcón – Ayudante Dr. Atlas
Marco Antonio Caponi – Chico Beso Ambar
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Carlos Kaspar – Dr. Atlas
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Brawl involving 40 people at Nashville water park allegedly sparked over racial slurs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) —
It's not how you'd imagine your typical family gathering but an all-out brawl between two families, one white and one black, broke out over the weekend at Wave Country.
"They tried to gang me so I just started trying to defend myself. Next thing I knew, I was on the ground kicked and punched," Tyrone Holt said.
Holt's hand and eye socket are broken. Doctors are implanting a metal plate in his face Monday afternoon.
All after Holt says white men yelled racial slurs at his family and beat them up.
"I wasn't scared. I was just in pain. I wanted the police to press charges, but for some reason they didn't," said Holt.
They didn't because police tell FOX 17 News there's no clear way to identify who is the victim and who is the villain. The white family involved says they were the ones racially insulted and defended themselves.
"They had their kids throwing stuff at us calling us white trash this and that and all kind of craziness," Jonathan Sellers said.
Both families agree, saying this all started when a man from the white family bumped into the floats of three black girls.
The girls accused him of yelling racial slurs and told their parents — something Sellers disagrees with.
Holt's family says they approached the white men.
But this is where the family's stories split.
"With us approaching them, that's when all the aggression from them started and that's when we were called the 'N' word," Amanda Holt said.
"As soon as I got over there, I said 'what happened? What happened? Then I see fists start flying," Sellars said.
Police say they had to separate 40 people involved in the fight and have interviewed several people. Meanwhile, both families also accuse Wave Country of not having security to keep the fight from starting.
Wave Country responded with the following statement:
"We are very concerned about the incident that took place at Wave Country on Saturday. The safety and well-being of our customers is our highest priority. While an internal investigation is underway, we will continue to provide access and recreational opportunities to everyone in Davidson County."
Wave Country did not respond to FOX 17 News when asked if they have security on site.
Both families tell FOX 17 News they plan to file charges against the Wave Country, holding them partially liable for what happened.


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Id like to start with what happened -- which is where we quickly start running into those he said, she said statements. Social networking site MySpace saw its security breached around mid-January when a list of 56,000 of its user names and passwords hit the net. This list was posted several times to the members of the Full-Disclosure mailing list. The mailing list is devoted to the somewhat controversial idea of disclosing all of the known details of a security problem.
It isnt clear when MySpace knew its security had been breached, but this reportedly wasnt the first time it has happened. The information having now found its way onto the Internet, MySpace tried to get the cat back in the bag. A number of web sites archive the Full-Disclosure mailing list. One of these sites is SecLists.org, whose raison detre is to archive a number of IT security and other IT-related mailing lists. SecLists.org archived the post from Full-Disclosure that contained the dangerous list as a zipped attachment.
MySpace rightly wanted that list removed. Strangely, though, it didnt go to the owner of the SecLists.org web site. It didnt even go to his ISP. Rather, it went to Go Daddy, his domain name registrar, and asked that the site be taken down. Its important to note at this point that MySpace did not have a court order.
What happened next is a matter of debate. According to Go Daddy general counsel Christine Jones, We tried to contact the registrant, but they were not available at the time. To protect the MySpace users from potentially having private information revealed, we removed the site. Jones gives the impression that SecLists.org was down for only an hour, and that the site was promptly restored after the owner contacted Go Daddys abuse department. The picture Jones gives is of a registrar acting quickly and responsibly, but not precipitously. She also makes it sound as if Go Daddy might have even been generous in giving any warning, pointing out that the companys terms of service says it reserves the right to terminate your access to the services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
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text: Hello all! Chris in Sherman Oaks, CA here. Looking for parts for my Phantom 4 Pro or my Phantom 2 Vision Plus, as follows: P4P - crashed drone, need mainly circuit boards only, gimbal boards, etc. Have power board and ESC/side sensor boards already. Also a bag/backpack/case of some sort, batteries, charging hub/strip etc. P2V+ - UPDATE - have re-shelled my crashed drone and it's 100%. Now to work on the gimbal and camera... put it back together (the roll motor broke away and the flex cable snapped - redid the cable, etc) but no gimbal and black app screen... so need parts for that? Also spare props, batteries, case, etc., but, of course, this stuff has to be not expensive, since complete kits are going for the lower $200s nowadays. Paypal, I'll pay shipping if you charge reasonable prices. PM me here or at email@example.com Thanks!


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Elle.com recently posted an article titled '7 Designers to watch from Lagos' Emerging Fashion Scene'. Whilst the spotlight is flattering, the tone of it's introduction teetered on the patronising. There was an incredulity that a country known primarily for oil could have 'a week devoted to fashion', but in fact Nigerians have been known to have a rich and flamboyant artistic history – in fashion and design. What is true, is the Lagos Fashion and Design Week is in it's infancy, this being the 3rd annual event, so the traditional, organised presentation of designers' latest collections is new.
Elle.com singled out 7 designers, probably for their international appeal. some of these collections have more wearable day pieces, others are incredible works of art. Some of the designers are well established, others are new kids on the block.
These are my 3 favourites from the bunch…I'll let the clothes speak for themselves.
- Maki Oh
2. Tsemaya Binitie
- Tiffany Amber
There are lots of other great Nigerian designers that I love and should definitely be on that list. But I especially want to get my hands on Grey, for it's wearability and chic simplicity.
Photo Credit: Kola Oshalusi (Insigna)
What I love is that more Nigerian designers are creating their own prints and fabrics in Nigeria, rather than importing them. In fact, there's a real shift in the creation of ready to wear fashion, with and without prints.
The real story here is how long it took elle.com to catch up!


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Step 1: My Friends Sign Up for a Half Marathon
I began running in the spring of 2012 when my friends decided to sign us up for a half marathon (I had suggested just a 10K!) – the St. Jude Country Music Rock 'n' Roll in Nashville on April 28. I was VERY nervous about running such a long race since I hadn't run anything longer than 3 miles before! I also didn't think that I enjoyed running very much…
Step 2: I Start a Running Plan
But I'm not one to turn down a challenge without at least trying, so I looked up half marathon training plans and picked the Novice 1 Plan by Hal Higdon. In true Dawn+Mike fashion, the first thing I did was to set up a Google Doc to record my training runs and progress (we use Google Docs for everything!). This is why I can tell you that my first training run was on February 7, 2012 and I did 3 miles in 30:06. I can also tell you that those three miles were HARD.
Going into the plan, my mindset was to just grit my teeth and endure the runs – kind of like visiting the dentist. But to my surprise, within a few weeks I found myself enjoying the discipline of following a training plan (read: crossing off the days!) and began looking forward to the cathartic release that running provided. I also surprised myself each weekend as I ran longer and farther than I had ever before; I wasn't fast by any measure, but I COULD DO IT!
Step 3: Running Becomes My Therapy
On April 16, my formerly extremely healthy dad had an aneurysm out of the blue and fell a coma. I can't begin to tell you what a shock this was; that phone call from my mom at 6 AM telling me to come home because Dad had collapsed felt like a nightmare, and it took me weeks to process what happened. Mike and I went home for two weeks to sit at his bedside at the hospital and be with my mom and siblings. I continued to go home nearly every weekend and of course cancelled my half marathon (a huge thanks to Rock 'n' Roll for being understanding and immediately refunding the fee).
But I had been bitten by the running bug and with all the stress and emotion building up in me, I found myself BURSTING to run again. So I laced up my sneakers, cried, and ran. I found release and peace in those miles, and often poured out my frustrations and fears to God on those runs. Guys, He listens and answers – if you've never experienced it, leave your headphones at home and try talking to God instead (that's what prayer is!).
Step 4: I Sign Up for My First Marathon
After a few months, I decided to sign up for another race because my dad had been SO proud that his daughter was going to run a half marathon; we have no runners in our family! But rather than sign up for another half, I decided to see if I could tackle a full marathon; after all, I had gotten up to 12 miles in my previous training plan so I knew I could run the half already. I may be a little bit of a masochist – but what long distance runner isn't? I decided I could be ready by October and chose the Towpath Marathon in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio known for its small size and beautiful scenery.
Summer running in DC was described to me as hellish by other runners in my office, and 2012 was a particularly hot year, so I made sure to wake up early for my runs outside. I found that I enjoyed running at 5:30 AM and having the trails around VA almost to myself (anyone else running at that time was sure to be a marathoner too!).
I thought a lot about the relationship between running marathons and staying true to the faith. The Bible relates running to spiritual perseverance as well: "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us runwith perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith…" (Hebrews 12:1-2a). I found that running strengthened my faith, because in moments of doubt or anger or frustration, I would remember those tough miles on the road and what perseverence felt like, and remind myself that faith required the same, with help from God.
Step 5: I Cross the Finish Line
On October 7, 2012, I ran my first marathon. The first 22 miles were a breeze, and the course was so beautiful and peaceful – it wound through the woods and boardwalks near the falls. I'm not going to lie; the last four miles were painful (I later found out that I had tendonitis); I'm lucky that my good friend Nasly jumped in and basically pulled me to the finish! But crossing that finish line? Knowing that I FINISHED what I set out to do a few months ago? Completing something I never thought I could do? A feeling like no other – complete joy.
So of course I decided I had to do it again, and I signed up for two half-marathons and a full for the following year.
My beloved dad passed away in January 2013. We miss him, and it was hard letting him go. Running and training continued to be a way for me to process my thoughts and emotions and cry out to God. It kind of doubled as therapy and exercise, as it continues to do today.
I'm a Christian, and I'm a runner. I press on for the prize at the end.


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Here is How to Lose Weight on Safe and Natural Way With Water
Our body structure is mainly based on water, it consist of almost 70% water. We constantly lose water through urine, bowel movements, breathing, perspiration, so we need to be very careful and drink water to keep water levels and stay hydrated.
There are many studies that confirm the benefits of drinking water regarding weight loss. Here are some of them.
Benefits of Drinking Water
- Mood booster
- Promotes loss of weight
- Helps toxins elimination
- Increases energy
- Strengthens the immune system
- Relieves fatigue
- Improves skin health
- Calms headaches
- Improves kidney functions
- Maintains regularity
- Prevents cramps and sprains
In case you keep forgetting to drink water, read this:
- Always have a bottle of water near you.
- Drink a glass of water before every meal
- If you want to lose more calories, drink ice cold water
- You can improve the taste of water by adding some flavors like lemon, lime or cucumber.
- Drink 8 glasses of water as daily minimum
- Drink tea or lemon juice throughout the day
- Stay hydrated by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables.


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It's one of the most diverse and historically-rich cities in the whole country, and that's part of the reason San Francisco vacations are a great bet for solo travelers, couples, and families. With dozens and dozens of attractions and things to do and sights to see, it's easy to pack a full calendar with fun adventures in this city.
And, if you want a more laid-back time to take things slowly, San Francisco is also home to dozens of parks and waterfront restaurants where you can pass a lazy afternoon in the sun. We love it here, and you will too! You'll find lots of suggestions for things to do in our other articles, but here let's look at five of the many reasons why San Francisco vacations are great ideas.
San Francisco is essentially a collection of diverse neighborhoods, each with its own characteristics that make it worth a visit on your San Francisco vacation. From the posh enclave of Nob Hill to the relaxed counterculture of the Haight-Ashbury to the ethnic Asians centers of Chinatown and Japantown you pass through a wide range of ambiances just going from one neighborhood to the next in San Francisco.
To guide you through the San Francisco's diversity, we've created a 22-part guide to the neighborhoods of the city. That's right, it took 22 parts to even start to describe the variety!
Not only are the neighborhoods diverse, San Franciscans are as well. In fact, it is one of the most diverse cities in the whole world. This city is truly a melting pot of cultures, ethnic groups, languages, and, most importantly, food. San Francisco is a majority-minority city, which means there are more people of color here than white people.
Going from neighborhood to neighborhood you feel like you're entering a new country every few blocks. The Chinese community in Chinatown is the largest in the world outside of Asia. All your favorite American-style Chinese foods such as chop suey got their start in this neighborhood.
You'll find a large population of Mexican heritage in the Mission. Rumour has it that the Mexican food in the Mission is some of the best you can find anywhere, and a couple of sumptuous burritos can make San Francisco vacations feel like the best traveling you've ever done. (Notice how we always seem to get back to the theme of great food?)
In every culture and every district, the people of San Francisco are friendly and open to introducing and sharing their cultures with curious visitors.
San Francisco is home to something like fifty hills that rise above the city, providing marvelous panoramic views. Climb to the top of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill or take the steps up Russian Hill to find unparalleled vistas of the city, the bay, and the mountains beyond.
The city itself is pretty darn nice to look at, but the real clinchers are the views of San Francisco Bay with the fog rolling in on the Golden Gate Bridge — those postcard-ready experiences you want to see on San Francisco vacations.
Pack up your wicker basket and picnic blanket and head to Dolores Park for a lunch worth remembering and a view of the city you'll never forget. By the way, we always recommend packing walking shoes for your San Francisco vacation because, to get to all these stunning views, you'll have to do some stair climbing. If the walk doesn't take your breath away, the views sure will.
One of the first major American cities in the US west, San Francisco is full of history. When gold was found in 1849, thousands of adventurers left their homes behind to come mining in the mountains around Northern California. These men wanted to get rich quick. To cater to their needs, cities quickly sprang up around them. The creator of blue jeans, Levi Strauss, who made jeans to meet the demands of these miners, still has corporate headquarters in San Francisco. As a visitor, you'll probably want to visit a couple of the numerous museums and historic sites important to the Gold Rush era of San Francisco history.
The 1800s also saw a huge influx of Chinese laborers come through the Angel Island immigration station. These are the workers who built the Transcontinental Railway System, enduring the dangerous work of laying railway track through treacherous mountain passes. These Chinese immigrants also established the first and largest Chinatown in America. Visiting Chinatown nowadays still give you a real sense of the long history of this community (and don't forget to try some of the best Chinese food in the world).
During World War II, San Francisco became a strategic port and naval base for ships fighting in the Pacific Theatre. Scattered around San Francisco you can find memorials to the fallen soldiers and those veterans who lived to tell the tale. Likewise, you can visit old forts where you step into the shoes of military servicemen to see what it was like. In the harbor, you can also go aboard ships that were used to fight the Japanese. There's even a real submarine that you can tour where you can get a sense of the close quarters.
San Francisco is ground zero for hippie counterculture, the LGBT community, and Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs. This melange of cultures makes San Francisco one very interesting city.
It was in 1967 that hippies flocked to the Haight-Ashbury for the Summer of Love, where some of the generation's most compelling artists, musicians, and poets created an enduring testament to peace and love. With flowers in their hair and free love on their minds, these hippies burst forth an alternative vision to the Vietnam War and, along with it, rights for women, minorities, and gays. In this neighborhood, you can still find people wearing tie-dye t-shirts and kicking hacky-sacks around. The spirit of the Summer of Love is alive and well in San Francisco.
For the past 70 years, San Francisco has also been a safe haven for the LGBT community. Long before it was acceptable to be gay, neighborhoods like the Castro were home to artists and activists. Think of Harvey Milk, who have fought for rights for the community for decades. In these neighborhoods you still find places that proudly fly the rainbow flag and are open and welcoming to everyone.
The near proximity of Silicon Valley in the Bay Area has also made San Francisco a hub for entrepreneurship and technological innovation. Many aspiring start-up founders flock to San Francisco to secure venture capital funding hoping to become the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. This tech-savvy ethos has infused itself into everything in a city where there's even an app to help you find street parking.
All-in-all San Francisco vacations are a surefire way to please everyone, and you'll realize that one visit surely isn't enough to take in all the wonderful things this city has to offer.
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If you're like us, we don't spend a lot of time thinking about the kitchen inside our house — as long as everything works inside. Although we can cook perfectly fine indoors, where we really shine is in our newly installed outdoor kitchen. There is something about the outdoor air getting to food that makes it taste so much more delicious. If you're looking into installing your very own outdoor kitchen, here are some of the pieces that in our opinion should definitely be included.
The Best Outdoor Kitchens Start With A Built In Grill
When we interviewed Jonathan a keen Jas Boutique cook and member of staff his opinion took presidence. Here is what he had to say "The best outdoor kitchens are highly functional, but also look great. When I was researching outdoor kitchens, I decided to go with a built-in grill that had a total of almost 1000 square inches of cooking space. I also chose one that had five separate burners so that I could have multiple pots going — my favourite so far has been my famous baked beans and my wife's amazing chocolate sauce that we poured over home made vanilla ice cream. I love rotisserie chicken from the grocery store so I also included a rotisserie so that I could roast an entire chicken on the grill. I have to admit, my version is even better than a store bought roasted chicken!"
How To Know What Extras You Want?
Again Jonathan says "Outdoor kitchens aren't just about the grill (though in my opinion, that's the only piece that matters!). My wife insisted that if we were going to have an outdoor kitchen, we had to do it right. We decided to include a built-in fire pit with some high quality lawn furniture around it and even a built-in kegerator so that we could always enjoy a cold, frosty beverage straight from the tap. We've spent many, many nights sitting around our fire pit after cooking an entire dinner in our outdoor kitchen and I anticipate many more."
Outdoor kitchens with built-in grills can make the summer months incredibly enjoyable — there's nothing like preparing a meal outside and then eating as a family together around our fire pit. If you've been researching outdoor kitchens, narrow down what you'd like and then get it installed as quickly as possible so you can maximize the beautiful summer months.


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Really Bad Design Decisions
This is a case study of a really bad database design . Often, initial design decisions can have a cascading effect, creating multiple, secondary design errors.
One such error, commonly made by novice developers, is to slavishly follow a pre-existing paper form to determine their table design. But paper forms are not created with proper database design in mind. They are designed to make it easy for humans to fill out.
This design can be at odds with established design principles. By blindly following the paper form to determine the database design, the developer can create a system subject to numerous data and relational integrity errors.
Sample contains an explanatory document and two databases: "ReallyBadDatabase.mdb" and "ReallyBadDatabaseReborn.mdb". The former shows the initial design, the second shows an improved design. Sample include both the data model and application.
You can find it here: http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=291


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Kay stands 6' tall and is nearly covered from head to toe in chainmail armor. Besides her full armor, she wears a blood red tabard that covers her chest and ends almost at the knees. A black baldric with two small dagger hilts hanging from inside is slung from her shoulder to hip. Matching the red of the tabard is a full cloak that hangs from the shoulders that nearly touches the ground. Black knee-high riding boots and gauntlets, silver scabbard, sword and leather backpack finish the outfit.


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It's been surprisingly hard to find a complete Halloween party playlist...until now.
Being a mum sometimes just feels like one giant nag session, doesn't it? Well, I've found a way to keep my kids on track without tantrums or tears. Matter of fact, it's fun!
My 6-year-old rocking out singing "I feeling sexual"? Ah, no thanks. I won't let my kids listen to explicit music for as long as I can get away with it.
This is entertainment for the kids and a tough workout in one. Thanks Wiggles!
If I hear another rendition of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" on the radio---or worse yet: "Santa Baby"---I think I'll go nuts.


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Cocaine worth almost EUR 250,000 seized in Vilnius
A drug-selling criminal group has been busted in Vilnius, and officers have seized cocaine worth almost 250,000 euros, Vilnius County Chief Police Commissariat said on Monday.
A pre-trial investigation was launched in April upon receipt of information and persons well-known to the police and part of organized criminal gangs in Vilnius are engaged in the distribution of large amounts of drugs or psychotropic substances.
The decision was made in June to detain three persons, and around 3kg of cocaine, worth around 240,000 euros on the black market, were found during searches at the addresses.
More people might be detained as part of this investigation, police say.
Source: BNS