Ah, the benefits of 'multiculturalism'. Dontya just love it?
Lawrenceville, GA - A jury Wednesday found an Ethiopian immigrant guilty of the genital mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter in what was believed to be the first criminal case in the United States involving the ancient African tradition.
Khalid Adem, 30, was convicted of aggravated battery and cruelty to children. He could get up to 40 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Adem used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in his family's Atlanta-area apartment in 2001. The child's mother, Fortunate Adem, said she did not discover it until more than a year later.
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As a resident of Lawrenceville, let me be the first to say this supposedly happened in Loganville. Now, that that's straight, the perp (daddy) is playing OJ's card....ya know, he'll be the first one to find out who the REAL genital mutilator is. I'm actually surprised in this neck of the woods he made it out alive. Rednecks "round here" would probably love to mutilate his genitals in return, lol!
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I gotta have some small bit of sympathy based on what I heard on the radio this morning, but the deed was still done, regardless of who is ratting on whom and somebody(ies) needs to do lots of hard time. People need to know we aren't going to tolerate this barbarity. If they want to act this way, they should go back to the old country.
South Africa's former apartheid-era president PW Botha has died at his home in the Western Cape at the age of 90, the SAPA news agency reports. Mr Botha passed away peacefully in his sleep just after 8:00pm local time, at his home near the town of Wildernes, a member of his security staff told the agency. "Botha died at home, peacefully," Frikkie Lucas said.
Mr Botha, nicknamed the "Groot Krokodil" (Afrikaans for the "Great Crocodile") for his tough and uncompromising stance on politics, led the white minority rule of South Africa between 1978 and 1989. He defied the world during the turbulent and violence-wracked period and turned a deaf ear to mounting international condemnation of the horrors of the apartheid system. The National Party leader stood down in favour of FW de Klerk who later steered South Africa towards the country's first multi-racial elections in 1994, which were won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC).
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And what impressive results the ANC has achieved!
Way better than having a job, no fear of gangrape, but separate drinking fountains.
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No surprise it's taking more than a dozen years to fix the damage to SA society. Botha and his predecessors radicalized a couple of generations of that society, it's no surprise they haven't reacquired the habit of respecting government quickly. He made sure an awful lot of people didn't get to die at home peacefully in his time. If he passed through the pearly gates, he's one I'll be surprised to find when I get there.
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#4 No surprise it's taking more than a dozen years to fix the damage to SA society. Botha and his predecessors radicalized a couple of generations of that society, it's no surprise they haven't reacquired the habit of respecting government quickly. He made sure an awful lot of people didn't get to die at home peacefully in his time. If he passed through the pearly gates, he's one I'll be surprised to find when I get there.
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Tell me please, how OLD is the African continent and it's native people again? The Cuban and Russian trained ANC proxies that represent the SA gov't will be "fixing" for until the second coming, just like Zimbob and all the rest of the communist kak in Africa.
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No surprise it's taking more than a dozen years to fix the damage to SA society. Botha and his predecessors radicalized a couple of generations of that society, it's no surprise they haven't reacquired the habit of respecting government quickly.
Amazing how Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia came out from Iron Curtain control in the early 90s, and are doing better than their former master, while the ANC took over a relatively advanced African nation 17 years ago and is currently running it into the ground.
CAIRO, Oct 31 - An Egyptian military court sentenced an opposition lawmaker -- a nephew of the late President Anwar Sadat -- to a year in jail on Tuesday for insulting the armed forces, his spokesman said.
If he'd wanted to do that he simply would have talked about their prowress.
Talaat Sadats spokesman told Reuters the lawmaker was also convicted of spreading disinformation. There is usually no appeal against emergency military court verdicts.
The lawmaker had said he believed the 1981 assassination of Sadat was an international conspiracy in which senior Egyptian military officials at the time were involved. He has said his comments were not intended to insult the military establishment.
"No, no, certainly not! Now can I go?"
The Islamist militant who shot dead the former President Sadat as he watched a military parade was later tried and executed.
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Can we do that to John Kerry?
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The Moroccan navy late on Monday intercepted 108 migrants from Gambia between the Western Sahara and Spain's Canary islands, authorities said. The migrants' boat which left Gambia on October 15 was spotted as it entered the area off Dakhla after running out of gasoline.
Many would-be emigrants are trying to reach the Spanish Atlantic islands from west Africa, notably Senegal and Mauritania, after surveillance around Spain's north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla was stepped up. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, was annexed by Morocco in 1975. The United Nations has been seeking since 1992 to organise a referendum on self-determination for the territory.
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The US President has frozen the assets of dissident general Laurent Nkunda and six others who the White House considers are destabilising the Democratic Republic of Congo. George W Bush issued an executive order immediately blocking any assets under US jurisdiction of seven individuals accused of impeding disarmament activities, violating international laws on the targeting of children, or violating the UN arms embargo.
The move came two days after a presidential election in the central African country, which is home to the United Nations' largest peacekeeping force. The vote, praised by foreign observers as largely peaceful and transparent, was meant to bring an end to decades of conflict and pillage that have left the mineral rich country destitute.
Nkunda, a Tutsi accused of war crimes allegedly committed in 2004, leads a rebellion from Congo's eastern hills and is reinventing himself as a protector of all Congolese excluded by the central government. Also targeted by the executive order was Hutu rebel leader Ignace Murwanashyaka, president of Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR). The FDLR is accused of taking part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
The UN last year extended the arms embargo on Congo and introduced a travel ban and assets freeze on those violating the embargo. Others named in the executive order were: Khawa Panga Mandro, former president of the Party for Unity and Safeguarding of the Integrity of Congo (PUSIC); Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout, owner of the Great Lakes Business Company and Business Air Services; Sanjivan Singh Ruprah, a businessman; Dimitri Igorevich Popov, general manager of the Great Lakes Business Company; and Douglas Mpano, manager of the Great Lakes Business Company.
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FIJI troops defied the Pacific nation's police commissioner today by collecting a shipment of ammunition from Suva's wharves even though he had not authorised its release.
Soldiers picked up the 7.5 tonnes of bullets at 8am (0700 AEDT) and transported the consignment to army barracks in Suva, Fiji commercial radio reported.
Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes, an Australian, confirmed the action had taken place without his issuing a licence releasing the shipment as required by Fiji law.
Mr Hughes has refused to issue the licence until the military publicly assures the nation the ammunition would not be used to overthrow the Government.
"There's no import licence and I'm not going to issue one," he told Legend FM after learning of army's move.
A joint press conference with acting military commander Elasa Teleni this morning was cancelled and Mr Hughes said he had so far been unable to make contact with military leaders today.
Mr Hughes met Col Teleni yesterday and was given a "rock solid" assurance the ammunition would not be used against the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
He had wanted Col Teleni to repeat the assurance at the press conference.
"Once we've carried out what we've agreed, and that was what I thought was quite clear yesterday, I'll reconsider," Mr Hughes said this morning before becoming aware that the military had taken the shipment.
Mr Hughes made the comment after briefing Mr Qarase and Home Affairs Minister Josefa Vosanibola on the issue ahead of an emergency cabinet meeting.
Military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who is in the Middle East, has vowed to seek Mr Qarase's resignation when he returns because of what he calls corrupt policies.
On Mr Qarase's advice, Fiji President Ratu Josefa Iloilo is reported to have suspended Commodore Bainimarama and attempted to replace him with another officer, Lieutenant Colonel Meli Saubulinayau.
But Lt Col Saubulinayau declined, and along with other officers, pledged loyalty to Commodore Bainimarama.
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Don't cancel the vacation! They're delightful people and when not deployed with the UN, the remaining Infantry Battalion guards the prison! I highly recommend the Sheraton Hotel in Nandi and the "firewalker show."
Papua New Guinea is threatening to slash the aid it receives from Australia in retaliation for the Howard government's ban on ministerial contact over the Moti affair. PNG has reportedly sent an aide-memoire to the deputy secretary of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, David Ritchie, Fairfax newspapers reported.
The note demands an explanation for the bans Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced after fugitive lawyer Julian Moti fled Port Moresby to the Solomons on a PNG defence force plane to avoid extradition to Australia where he is wanted on child sex charges.
The aide-memoire gives Australia a week to respond, and if the response is unsatisfactory, Fairfax said PNG would retaliate. The response would include instituting a range of measure to cause problems for Australia's $300 million annual aid program to PNG, suspending official visits by Australia entirely, and recalling PNG's High Commissioner to Australia. Fairfax says senior PNG officials believe Australia is using aid to try to influence politics in the Pacific.
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The idiots let a child sex offender leave the country on a PNG defence force jet so he would be free to assualt & harass other young kids around the world.. To hell with them, they can cut the aid all they want.. I'm sure we don't mind saving $$$$$
Fiji's military chief should accept the decision of the country's government to sack him and step down, Prime Minister Helen Clark says. Simmering tension between Fiji's government and the military climbed another notch on Tuesday after reports senior military leaders had refused a presidential decision to sack their commander Frank Bainimarama. Australia has issued a new travel warning to its citizens - advising caution in the wake of the developments - but New Zealand officials have kept an upgrade on hold while they monitor events.
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Australian warships are reportedly on standby to assist with the evacuation of Australians from Fiji in the event of a coup. Fiji's political crisis intensified on Tuesday when the military defied a government push to oust the outspoken commander who has threatened to unseat Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
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in light of the lack of details from the press as to why this is happening, I can only suspect that "youths" are somehow involved in this matter.
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Fiji is another fine mess of the British Foreign Office, circa 1910. The Fijians weren't industrious enough to suit the British, so they imported a few thousand Hindus and Muslims from India. Today, the Indians outnumber native Fijians (who DON'T breed like flies). The only part of the government the Fijians control outright is the military. This won't be the first (or the last) coup in Fiji by any means.
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AUBAGNE, France - The Foreign Legion isn't what it used to be. Murderers on the run are no longer welcome, and unhappy recruits have a year to back out without being branded deserters.
These days a bigger issue faces the 175-year-old force that made its name fighting France's overseas battles in jungle and desert. Its key role to be a crack professional force available for rapid, no-questions-asked deployment in far-flung conflicts has all but evaporated.
In campaigns from Algeria to Vietnam, Madagascar to Mexico, Legionnaires made up the bulk of the combat forces and suffered most of the casualties. Even in Bosnia a decade ago, serving as U.N. peacekeepers for the first time, they made up a significant portion of the French troops there.
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The Legion is needed now more than ever. They should arm up and be a rapid deployment group to banilues from Marseilles to Paree. And, since they have taken in Muzzies, it would be interesting to see what they'd do when called upon to directly attack the Muzzie "youth Brigades."
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I always thought it was funny that one of the best military units in the French Military is comprised of Foreigners. Yeah there are French in the Foreign legion but you all get my point.
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I knew a gut ( reealtive of my ex) who was a major or lieutenant_colonel in the Foreign Legion. He told me about recruitment rules: "no murderers, no rapers and you will deeply regret it if you lie about your past".
Now this guy had nothing in common with your average French officer. An interestin point is that he wasn't interested on becoming general (despite having been earmarked as general material) because that would mean being forced to leave the Legion so his ambition was to end as a colonel of one of Legion's regiments.
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Stern's 700-page report said evidence showed "that ignoring climate change will eventually damage economic growth."
"Our actions over the coming decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century," he said.
Upon what facts or previous data from other periods of global warming does he base this conclusions?
Historically, global warming was affiliated with times of economic plenty and advancement in arts, science, and human rights.
Or is it simply change that he fears?
The tranzi left - the NEW reactionaries.
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I wonder if the deal includes a Gulfstream and a motorcade of Suburbans?
Some turd on CNN Int'l yesterday commended Britain for being willing to expend basically all its resources on the problem, and vilified the US for dumping all its money into researching whether or not there is actually problem. The problem is just so urgent, there's no time to argue over whether it exists or not! The worst possible thing that could happen in the world, he asserted, would be for every country to experience US levels of economic growth.
It was amazing, and revealing. Environmentalism has nothing to do with the environment, and everything to do with re-inventing and re-packaging global communism.
I've heard such people called "watermelons." Green on the outside, red on the inside.
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Just as the monarch held (hold?) the title "Rightful King of France," one of the conditions was that Gore be referred to as "Rightful President of US."
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Spending assets on a solving a problem that may or may not exist is like a woman who may or may not be pregnat not spending money on whether she is but spending money on baby clothes and baby furniture, setting up a college fund, etc. Find out first.
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Well, you know the old saw: once you've bought a washer and dryer, the paperwork's irrelevant.
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...Well, look at it this way: can you just IMAGINE the things Algore is going to say in front of a EuroTranzi crowd? We all know that a lot of well-known LLLs tend to let their mouths run when they're out of the country and think no one is watching...
Mike
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It will be good to have Al Gore out of the U.S. more often. Besides, it didn't cost me much. Bwahahahahaha!
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There was a scientific paper recently that said that electrons from the sun had a much larger effect on the earth's atmosphere than anyone realized, including cloud formation. IOW all the climate models are worthless.
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It just occurred to me that this is Blair's way of finessing the issue. He hired a "prominent American political figure" to fight the good fight on Global Warming while knowing that after all the sound and fury, exactly nothing will happen.
New York Senator Hillary Clinton called for a broad reform of US foreign policy that would include better cooperation with other nations and bilateral talks with enemy nations.
Like the six-way talks with North Korea for example.
Criticizing President George W. Bush's foreign policy from Iraq to Afghanistan and North Korea to Iran, the wife of former president Bill Clinton called for a more internationalist approach to foreign policy in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based foreign policy think tank. "First, and most obviously, we must by word and deed renew internationalism for a new century," said Clinton, a likely Democratic Party presidential candidate for the 2008 election.
Even if a big chunk of the world doesn't want to work with us for their own reasons, we have to tie ourselves to them.
"We did not face World War II alone, we did not face the Cold War alone, and we cannot face the global terrorist threat or other profound challenges alone either," she said.
I guess we're condemned to keep the French as a boat anchor ...
Clinton also defended the idea of bilateral talks with nations that Washington has been avoiding, such as Iran and Cuba. "We must value diplomacy as well as a strong military," Clinton continued. "We should not hesitate to engage in the world's most difficult conflicts on a diplomatic front."
"Direct negotiations are not a sign of weakness; they're a sign of leadership," she said.
So what exactly are we supposed to talk about? Seems like every time a Dhimmicrat engages in direct talks with our enemies we end up giving stuff away. Carter and Iran. Clinton and China. Clinton and North Korea. Carter and Nicaragua. Seems like a pattern to me.
Clinton blasted what she said was the Bush administration's "simplistic division of the world into good and evil. They refuse to talk to anyone on the evil side, as some have called that idealistic. I call it dangerously unrealistic."
We talk with plenty of people on the 'evil side' if there's something to talk about and a reasonable chanced that talk will be useful. We're talking with the NKors despite what she says. But what exactly do we talk with Iran about? They've already told the IAEA, the EU and the UN to go screw on the one issue that matters.
Referring to the Bush administration's refusal to talk directly to North Korea she said: "Six years of policy with no carrots no sticks and only bad results."
Exactly how would you handle it, Hil? Tell us how you'd get Kimmie to cough up the nukes. Consider it a public service, especially since you are a, you know, Senator.
Clinton bemoaned "the lost opportunities of the years since September 11," when people around the world rallied to offer support for the United States following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
For about a week as I recall, except for the French where it was about a day.
"Five years later much of the world wonders what America is now," she said.
Concerning Iraq, Clinton blasted the administration's policy, and said the best policy instead would progressively redeploy US troops in the region, call for a regional conference to help discuss options and advocate for the creation of an organization aiming at guaranteeing a division of oil income among all Iraqis.
Oh yes, an 'international conferenece' wherein those paragons of virtue, the Syrians, Iranians and Saoodis, would tell the Iraqis what they should do. And I take it the redeployment of our troops 'in the region' includes Okinawa and Guam.
"In an increasingly interdependent world," Clinton said, "it is in our interest to stand for human rights, to promote religious freedom, democracy, women's rights, social justice and economic empowerment."
Which we do now. See Dubya's speeches. He hits each of those points pretty hard.
"But reality is, we cannot force others, nations and people, to accept those values. We have to support those who embrace them and lead by example," she said.
We can't force them, but we can make sure the ones who don't support these things don't get any help from us. And we'd better make damned sure that the ones who don't, and who also are a threat to us, get hammered.
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"We did not face World War II alone, we did not face the Cold War alone, and we cannot face the global terrorist threat or other profound challenges alone either," she said.
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She`s been eating too much beef now she`s got cow brains.
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Must mean WW2 VICHY PARIS = OWG VICHY WASHINGTON > WW2 FRANCE wasn't "defeated" by the Nazis either, ergo NORMANDY was a unilater but un-necessary expression of Anglo-Amer-anti-VICHY power, since Hitler was of no threat to anyone.
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"Direct negotiations are not a sign of weakness; they're a sign of leadership," she said.
To whom are you referring?
I have an idea: We could send her off to Wazoo and see how successful she is. Or perhaps she could convince the NorKs not to continue down their chosen path. Or the Iranians. She can only come home after she demonstrably accomplishes her task. Perhaps in NorK's case, they could get Kimmie to return that basketball as proof of how serious they are. The Iranians could prove how serious they are by returning one of their zillion centrifuges that they are using to only manufacture enough Uranium for the peaceful generation of Plutonium electricity. Or she could come back from Wazoo with Zawahiri's personal AK-47 to prove he has disarmed himself.
Oh, and get dressed more modestly before you head out or you're likely to be made fun of!
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"Direct negotiations are not a sign of weakness; they're a sign of leadership," she said.
Well, she's always been an admirer of Chamberlain.
Or maybe Hitler. Hard to tell.
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Yea, 'cus that worked Sooooooo well in the past during the 70s and 90s, huh? Solved that North Korean issue? Israel/palistine? China/Tiawan? African issues?
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We can not have a foreign policy alone, accept when we're having talks with enemy nations then we should do it alone. Is that what she really said? I got mental whiplash.
(2006-10-31) New York Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, said today that next Tuesdays Congressional elections are shaping up to be more and more a referendum on former President Richard Nixon.
The remarks come a day after Sen. Schumer received significant media coverage for saying that the election is increasingly becoming a referendum on George W. Bush, although Mr. Bush has promised to serve out his final term as president, and has no immediate plans to seek a seat in the House or Senate.
If you dont like Richard Nixons dirty tricks and his disastrous war in Vietnam, Sen. Schumer said, its time for a change in Washington. Its time to vote Democrat.
The senior senator from New York scoffed at the suggestion that Congressional elections are part of a Constitutional process for selecting legislators from each state to represent voters interests at the federal level.
Thats what Republicans would like you to think, he said, because they want to get you distracted with issues, and with the qualifications of candidates in your home state. In these final days, were going to stay on our progressive Democrat message when you vote Republican, its like voting for Nixon.
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Must mean CAMBODIA-LAOS since it was JFK & LBJ that got America involved. However, NVA manpower + materiel suppor for the war in southern Vietnam vv "the PARROT'S BEAK" etal. de facto dwindled to a trickle after Nixon ordered USAF bombings + Allied ground incursions into Cambodia.
After a joint anti-terrorism exercise with the Indian Army at the Commando Training Centre in Belgaum, US soldiers will take back not just experience of rigorous commando training, but also a quintessentially Indian sport -- kabaddi.
Shatrujeet 2006, the counter-terrorism exercise in which a company of the Punjab Regiment's 21st Battalion and 2/4 Marine company of US Army are participating, started at Belgaum in northern Karnataka on October 25 and will end on November 3.
The aim of the exercise, the commanding officer of 21 Punjab Colonel Vijay Nair, said, is "to enhance joint operability of the two armies".
But in the process, while training for operations like cordon-and-search or storming a terrorist hideout, the US Marines picked up kabaddi and even rudimentary cricket.
Kabaddi fascinated them, one of the American platoon commanders, Lt Lee, told reporters in Belgaum.
"My troops are playing kabaddi in barracks too. They are impressed with the game and the agility of the Indian troops," said Lt Lee.
The only hitch -- as an Indian officer put it tongue-in-cheek -- is that the Americans pronounce kabbadi as "cup of tea".
The current exercise, in which around 160 troops of each country are involved, is a follow-up to Shatrujeet 05 held at Camp Pendleton in the US last year.
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Two teams of seven, mostly naked players (consisting of socks and boxer shorts, sometimes briefs) occupy opposite halves of a field of 12.5m x 10m (roughly half the size of a basketball court). Each team has five additional players that are held in reserve. The game is organized into two 20-minute halves, with a five-minute half-time break during which the teams switch sides.
The teams take turns sending a "raider" across to the opposite team's half, where the goal is to tag or wrestle ("capture") members of the opposite team before returning to the home half. Tagged members are "out" and are sent off the field. The raider must not take a breath during the raid, and must prove it by constantly chanting (called 'cant' or 'dak') during the raid. The chant-word is kabaddi in India and Pakistan, hađuđu in Bangladesh, do-do in Nepal, guddu in Sri Lanka, chado-guddo in Malaysia, Zoo in Iran, and techib in Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the defenders must form a chain, for example by linking hands; if the chain is broken, a member of the defending team is sent off. The goal of the defenders is to stop the raider from returning to the home side before taking a breath. If the raider takes a breath before returning to the home side, the raider is out and is sent off the field.
A player can also get "out" by going over a boundary line during the course of the play or if any part of the player's body touches the ground outside the boundary, except during a struggle with an opposing team member.
Each time a player is out the opposing team earns a point. A team scores a bonus of two points, called a lona, if the entire opposing team is declared out. At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins.
Matches are staged on the basis of age and weight. Seven officials supervise a match: one referee, two umpires, two linesmen, a timekeeper and a scorer.
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Great to see the US-Indian cooperation.
OT : Looks like a manly sport. Still, in my fevered mind, half naked studs, in white socks and briefs brimming with sweat, wrestling each other while saying crazy things in tongues brings barely repressed homo-erotic fantaisies. Stop messing with my mind!
I mean, if they wear wondercups, I'm not sure I could support all that gayness...
I do not envy the Inidan team - I watched a USMC team take on an RAF team during what was probably the bloodiest rugby match ever played in North America, and the Marines won.
Of course, what the Marines call 'aggressive play', the rest of the world calls 'assault with intent'. :)
Mike
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November 1, 2006: In a major logistics breakthrough, a U.S. company, Aqua Sciences, has developed a system that can extract water out of the air, even if the humidity is as low as 14 percent. It does this using salts, and can produce water for less than a dollar a gallon. The system currently available is contained in a twenty foot long tractor trailer unit, and turns out 600 gallons a day. Why is this a major logistics breakthrough? Because in dry climates, about a third of the supply tonnage moved to American troops consists of water. And the movement alone costs up to $40 a gallon, depending on how bad the roads, or security situation, is. So each Aqua Sciences unit would save thousands of dollars a day in logistics costs for units in hard-to-reach areas. There are larger water extraction units, that can be moved by flat bed truck, that are even more efficient, producing much more water, for as low as 30 cents a gallon. Troops in hot climates require over 20 gallons a day per person (for all uses.) In most cases it will still be cheaper to move water by truck, or purify local sources. But in very dry areas, without wells or rivers, the new water extraction gear will solve a major logistics problem. In Vietnam, one of these units could have produced 600 gallons a minute.
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Lol, GolfBravoUSMC. A big-assed funnel woulda worked better 4 months out of the year, lol.
Ahem, no, seriously, this be purdy cool. Does the cost / gallon cover everything? Cost of the "salts", gas or whatever to generate the electricity to run the thing, etc? If so, rock on.
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com beat me to it: the cost to transport the salts and all the security associated with THAT. kind of like the environuts driving their Prius's: "i get a bizillion miles to the gallon because i have batteries." no mention made of the replacement cost of the battery pack; look for a flood of 80K mile hybrids on the used car market. (Sorry, topic was water, got distracted by these perpetual motion machine theories)
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One of the more interesting ways of transporting water, is to transport kerosene, burn it and capture the water vapour. From memory, a gallon/liter of kerosene will produce eight gallons/liters of water. The energy produced could be used to power this condensation process resulting more water.
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Troops in hot climates require over 20 gallons a day per person (for all uses.) In most cases it will still be cheaper to move water by truck, or purify local sources. But in very dry areas, without wells or rivers, the new water extraction gear will solve a major logistics problem
Sounds ideal for a longterm troop presence in, say, Anbar province.
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Sounds like they blow air to saturate salts, then heat the salt to release water vapor and then condense the vapor. Pretty enery intensive. Just uses a lot less fuel than the equiv water volume.
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Personlly, I sort of like the "Dune" approach - in an arid environment, you "take their water" when you defeat an enemy - literally, suck it out of their body.
So - Muzzies are good for something - they can contribute body water.
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Musing aloud... if the output from a hydrogen engine is water vapor, is there any way to modify a stone burner to leave behind a lake? All of the places that just scream out for the "treatment" need water... I'm just sayin...
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Well, if we need self-contained units cuz the Soddi desalinations plants don't have power, prolly due to some phreak thingy, you understand, then...
Microsoft Corp. and open source software maker Zend, whose products create programs that compete with ones built for Windows, said on Tuesday the two companies have struck a long-term partnership. Bill Hilf, a Microsoft technical strategist, said the Zend deal, a multiyear, multiphase partnership, will ensure that the most popular language computer programmers use to build open source Web applications, PHP, will run on past and future versions of Microsoft Windows Web server software. This marks a break from the aloofness that has characterized Microsoft's relations with open source projects. That cool stance forced developers wanting to use PHP software to automatically choose open-source software over Microsoft.
By making PHP applications like SugarCRM, a fast-growing open-source sales and marketing software tool, run as efficiently on Windows-based computers as it does on rival Linux computers, Microsoft can staunch such defections. The pact covers both PHP on the established Windows Server 2003 and the upcoming version, code-named Longhorn.
Zend Technologies is an Israeli-American company formed to commercialize PHP, used to build open source Web applications that pose a growing challenge to Microsoft's Windows franchise. PHP runs some of the world's most popular blogs and the Wikipedia. "PHP has always worked on Windows. The problem is that it never performed very well," Andi Gutmans, Zend's co-founder and chief technology officer, said in an interview.
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Same old story. Embrace and extend (then exclude).
Not a good prospect. MS would introduce "slight" incompatibilities and will try to derail the whole thing. After all, they have their .net platform to push.
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They couldn't break open source with the SCO suit so they'll try to do it by buying up key companies. Innovate? Us?
Posted by: Jonathan ||
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So what? It's open-source with a sane license, from what I recall. Nothing MSFT can do to control it; the project will just fork if they try anything.
As for getting it to run better on Windows -- good luck with that.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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South Africa's former apartheid-era president PW Botha has died at his home in the Western Cape at the age of 90, the SAPA news agency reports. Mr Botha passed away peacefully in his sleep just after 8:00pm local time, at his home near the town of Wildernes, a member of his security staff told the agency. "Botha died at home, peacefully," Frikkie Lucas said. 
Fiji's military chief should accept the decision of the country's government to sack him and step down, Prime Minister Helen Clark says. Simmering tension between Fiji's government and the military climbed another notch on Tuesday after reports senior military leaders had refused a presidential decision to sack their commander Frank Bainimarama. Australia has issued a new travel warning to its citizens - advising caution in the wake of the developments - but New Zealand officials have kept an upgrade on hold while they monitor events.
New York Senator Hillary Clinton called for a broad reform of US foreign policy that would include better cooperation with other nations and bilateral talks with enemy nations.
November 1, 2006: In a major logistics breakthrough, a U.S. company, Aqua Sciences, has developed a system that can extract water out of the air, even if the humidity is as low as 14 percent. It does this using salts, and can produce water for less than a dollar a gallon. The system currently available is contained in a twenty foot long tractor trailer unit, and turns out 600 gallons a day. Why is this a major logistics breakthrough? Because in dry climates, about a third of the supply tonnage moved to American troops consists of water. And the movement alone costs up to $40 a gallon, depending on how bad the roads, or security situation, is. So each Aqua Sciences unit would save thousands of dollars a day in logistics costs for units in hard-to-reach areas. There are larger water extraction units, that can be moved by flat bed truck, that are even more efficient, producing much more water, for as low as 30 cents a gallon. Troops in hot climates require over 20 gallons a day per person (for all uses.) In most cases it will still be cheaper to move water by truck, or purify local sources. But in very dry areas, without wells or rivers, the new water extraction gear will solve a major logistics problem. 
Microsoft Corp. and open source software maker Zend, whose products create programs that compete with ones built for Windows, said on Tuesday the two companies have struck a long-term partnership. Bill Hilf, a Microsoft technical strategist, said the Zend deal, a multiyear, multiphase partnership, will ensure that the most popular language computer programmers use to build open source Web applications, PHP, will run on past and future versions of Microsoft Windows Web server software. This marks a break from the aloofness that has characterized Microsoft's relations with open source projects. That cool stance forced developers wanting to use PHP software to automatically choose open-source software over Microsoft. 
