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I look at the flip side of all of this, having once received a ticket at 5:30am on a rural road in an undeveloped area, for making a rolling stop at a stop sign. With no other vehicles in sight, the cop hiding behind a large tree.
My point being that giving tickets should be based on safety, not forcing the public to "obey the rules".
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I was once caught doing a brazen U-turn on a 2 lane hiway, with traffic moving both ways. The cop cut me a break after I sorried up. Cops will stop any offender with the secondary purpose of checking for wants and warrants. A ticket is not a certainty unless the county derives most revenues from traffic fines.
Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known living American-born veteran of World War I, was honored Sunday at the Liberty Memorial during Memorial Day weekend celebrations.
"I had a feeling of longevity and that I might be among those who survived, but I didn't know I'd be the No. 1," the 107-year-old veteran said at a ceremony to unveil his portrait.
His photograph was hung in the main hallway of the National World War I Museum, which he toured for the first time, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States presented him with a gold medal of merit.
On Monday, he will be presented the American flag flying outside the memorial.
Buckles, who now lives in Charles Town, W.Va., has been an invited guest at the Pentagon, met with President Bush in Washington, D.C., and rode in the annual Armed Forces Day Parade in his home state since his status as one of the last living from the "Great War" was discovered nearly two years ago.
Federal officials have also arranged for his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Born in Missouri in 1901 and raised in Oklahoma, Buckles visited a string of military recruiters after the United States entered the "war to end all wars" in April 1917.
He was rejected by the Marines and the Navy, but eventually persuaded an Army captain he was 18 and enlisted, convincing him Missouri didn't keep public records of birth.
Buckles sailed for England in 1917 on the Carpathia, which is known for its rescue of Titanic survivors, and spent his tour of duty working mainly as a driver and a warehouse clerk in Germany and France. He rose to the rank of corporal and after Armistice Day he helped return prisoners of war to Germany.
Buckles later traveled the world working for the shipping company White Star Line and was in the Philippines in 1940 when the Japanese invaded. He became a prisoner of war for nearly three years.
Buckles gained notoriety when he attended a Veteran's Day ceremony at the Arlington grave of Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, who led U.S. forces in World War I, said his daughter, Susannah Flanagan.
He ended up on the podium and became a featured guest at the event, and the VIP invites and media interview requests came rolling in shortly afterward.
"This has been such a great surprise," Flanagan said. "You wouldn't think there would be this much interest in World War I. But the timing in history has been such and it's been unreal."
Buckles spent much of his museum tour Sunday looking at mementos of Pershing, whom he admired. He posed for pictures in front of a flag that used to be in Pershing's office and retold stories about meeting the famous general.
While Pershing claims most of the fame, Buckles now has a featured place at the museum.
"This is such an extraordinary occasion that we here at the museum decided that the photo of Mr. Buckles should be permanently installed in the main hallway here" said Brian Alexander, the museum's president and chief executive.
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...The story doesn't quite go far enough - Mr. Buckles became a very successful businessman after WWI, and was in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in Dec 41 - he survived the brutal San Tomas Internment Camp until he was rescued in 1945.
One tough old bird - long life health, and happiness to him.
(One last note - the daughter mentioned in the story is 52. Do the math. :) )
Mike
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Since World War I, 88,000 Americans have disappeared at war, never to be seen again. But our government has never stopped trying to find them. This is the story of one searchfor a B-24 bomber shot down over the tiny island nation of Palau in September 1944and the extraordinary effort to bring those bodies home.
What follows is an amazing story, perfectly appropriate for today, about the recovery of a dozen young men.
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Honest, that's the NYT headline. And the photo in the background looks like ANWR. But no Martian caribou.
The first pictures sent back by NASAs Phoenix Mars lander from the northern arctic plains of Mars show a flat terrain marked by a polygonal pattern of shallow troughs and a few pebbles scattered about. I know it looks a little like a parking lot, (just like ANWR)
said Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona, the missions principal investigator.
Phoenix reached its destination after a 422-million-mile journey that lasted almost 10 months.
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what a waste of money this mission is.....me thinks its pure largess to the contractor, a vehicle that cant explore beyond 6 feet of its landing point, has one camera to view the sourrounding panorama...sheesh what a waste of 450 milllion this is.
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Yeah, like Maxwell's experiments in electric and magnetic fields, only more expensive.
So tell us, TP 2099, was the Apollo program a waste too, or was it faked?
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(IIRC) it is a generation ago when the Viking mission made the last successful controlled landing on Mars, a critical element to almost any large missions. While this may not seem like much, it is nice to get back to where we were 30 years ago, and also maybe to prove we didn't just 'get lucky' then.
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what a waste of money this mission is.....me thinks its pure largess to the contractor, a vehicle that cant explore beyond 6 feet of its landing point, has one camera to view the sourrounding panorama...sheesh what a waste of 450 milllion this is.
Exactly, assuming the whole things not some damn fake cooked up by BigOil.
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This is left over stuff, that needed bookings. Maxwell how is that relevant to my comment. A waste is a waste, the Mars Rovers are hugely productive, this particular platform is a waste and should have been shelved as such in its planning. A Couple of UAV's could have been packaged into the same base platform....but no, that would have been to logical, expanding the reach of the probe to a few hundred miles, and a few hundred sampling locations....you must work for these guys to defend this waste of money.
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The next mission is a rover that's supposed to be the size of a small truck.
Personally, I couldn't have been more thrilled, and watched the JPL coverage of the landing live. Heck, where I live, I had to stay up until 3 a.m. to do it.
When we're hemorrhaging money in Iraq, I think this kind of money is peanuts. And it's good to see the U.S. lead the international news with something that no one else has been able to do.
This is the background of how the present electrical engineering model (and practice) was severely curtailed to exclude COP>1.0 electrical power systems taking their excess EM energy directly from their interaction with the active medium (the active vacuum/spacetime). The ruthless suppression of Nikola Tesla also set the stage for the major cartels continuing to suppress subsequent overunity inventors from the 1890s to the present day.
Introduction
Maxwell died in 1879 of stomach cancer, and at the time his own theory had not been accepted very much at all. Immediately the vectorists notably Heaviside, Gibbs, and Hertz began emasculating Maxwells 20 quaternion-like equations in 20 unknowns, into the present highly simplified vector algebra of much lower group symmetry.
(Quaternions also have a much higher group symmetry than tensors, for those who believe tensors are the answer). This occurred in the 1880s and 1890s. Heavisides equations were tentatively selected as the basis for the new electrical engineering, just being created and being slowly placed into our universities.
To see a glimpse of what can be done in quaternion EM, see T. W. Barrett, "Tesla's Nonlinear Oscillator-Shuttle-Circuit (OSC) Theory," Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie, 16(1), 1991, p. 23-41. Barrett one of the cofounders of ultrawideband radar shows that EM expressed in quaternions allows shuttling and storage of potentials in circuits, and also allows additional EM functioning of a circuit that a conventional EM analysis cannot reveal. He shows that Teslas patented circuits did exactly this sort of deliberate shuttling and control of the potential energy, quite contrary to what is thought possible in our present regular circuits and theory.
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Its about time we sub contract design to Toy companies, afterall transformers were a great example for engineers, and still could be. DARPA is on a power trip that just wont quit, chaos amongst potential breakthrough technologies has become the norm, not the exception. This state of affairs should be rectified internally, some self awareness of the present methods would have the top guys fired. We cant progress under a system of systemic largess, and that is where we are right now. too much power directed toward inserting inertia, so that inertia prevails, is bad for all of us. a system is only as good as its sensory organs, and this present system is all about self preservation at the expense of everyone not already annointed to the big table of largess.
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I'm a highway guy, TP2099, but I admiore their creativity.
The Maxwell remark was naot as clever as that of Ben Franklin - "A quoi sert un enfant nouveau-né?" (What use is a new-born baby?)in 1783. I think Faraday said it to the Queen, too.
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bobby likes trucks, and doesnt understand the potential of a new born baby? Well from my point of view, Its about Love.....and truth and all that can be.
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A Couple of UAV's could have been packaged into the same base platform.
Uh huh. And those UAVs just pop off the shelf for re-use in Mars gravity and atmosphere, right?
Pfeh. I just LOVE people whose expertise comes from sites alleging Tesla's great breakthroughs were and continue to be suppressed by Big Electricity despite de-regulation a couple decades ago ....
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All a plot to establish hegemony by the Big Red Dirt oligarchies
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How long ago was the Mars Lander designed and sent out? UAV's are pretty new -- as far as I can tell most of what we have today has been designed post March 2003... and most of those are being shipped to the troops while still in the development stage, to test possibilities before going into large-scale production.
Thraviper Panda2099, I think Bobby likes trucks and babies equally. 'Twas Ben Franklin he quoted, talking about either the use of the new science of electricity, or about the new country he was representing at the French Court, I don't remember which.
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lotp; the history channel( i believe) just recently did a piece on Tesla which was an apology of sorts, it contained everything a system would say, when it was cought with its pants down, and a clock was ticking to clean up its mess. RO/RS=CF
the site reference I posted contained the contents of that show, in nearly its entirety.....edited of course to prevent a lawsuit for plagerism.
my role is input....i am a go fer. most here are enrolled to output....there is a huge difference.
locards exchange principle would be a good place for you to start understanding yourself..
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Twife UAV's are pretty new -- as far as I can tell most of what we have today has been designed post March 2003... and most of those are being shipped to the troops while still in the development stage, to test possibilities before going into large-scale production
that is almost funny, we have a park near hear that have been flying RV planes for 20 years, but then again those type systems were toys, and brought costs way below systemic need. understanding uav isnt tough, and it should be clear why its taken so long to get them flying in milapps. i have no illusions, as a gofer, i go where the smoke is to warn about potential fire.
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Hooboy .... while we have indeed had military UAVs flying prior to 2003 on a limited basis, the idea that RV planes are their equivalent ranks right up there with regarding the History Channel as an authoritative source.
That would be the same History Channel that regularly runs a breathless series on Nostradamus and BigFoot. IIRC they've got a couple on Freemason conspiracies too.
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the history channel outputs information, just like you they do so for profit, u for self preservation.......
i never mentioned big electricity....u did, why?
now u bring big foot and nostrademus into this, why? trying to be smart? or a smart alec?
u never heard of action at a distance? Nostrademus must have...
as for the big foot, keep it out of your mouth and u'll be just fine.
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Rantburgers live for good information and for snarking at silly conspiracy theories and uninformed assertions.
As for my knowledge re: military UAVs, well ... it's my field so to speak. Not space systems tho - for that I rely on Mr. Lotp whose work was in military space systems and who worked alongside NASA on a number of critical national defense launches. Oh, and I also rely on the insights from a physicist colleague of mine who used to be a senior member of NASA's robotics / intelligent systems team.
Yeah, I'd rank them a bit above the History Channel for credibility ...
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That would be the same History Channel that regularly runs a breathless series on Nostradamus and BigFoot. IIRC they've got a couple on Freemason conspiracies too.
So basically you're saying I'M in the same category as Nostre-dumbass and all those idiotic Stonecutter conspiracies?
(I'm not going to mention the warehouse upon warehouse of top-hats resulting from Tesla's failed transporter thingey).
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lotp you have the habit of inserting non transaction commentary onto your replies. I am happy to know your a uav maven, i analyse companies who make em, and then i watch systemic action at a distance. You should realize that all history channel produced output is paid for....do you understand that?
Your in the mil uav trade so that makes you an expert on good or bad output? my job is input, perhaps u dont understand, sources are convenient....if history or discovery does a program you might be used as a source of input, and what u say could be true or false based on your employment, my input started by calling the phoenix mission a waste of money....i stand by that and call for better oversight before funding such limited missions.....
i am not impressed by all authority, some abuse authority more often than not, there are huge numbers of scientists employed as geologists who claim oil is made from fossills, that is authority being stupid, so why pretend it does not happen?
science has many creibility problems, they output science on history channel and discovery and a host of other places routinely. If the information is half truths or missing truth entirely, its up to us to discover that.
The world is a social system, it has inputs and outputs......you would do well to begin understanding that in your roles in life, you can not escape the fact that you might be executing within a role, that has its own limitations that are unknown to you due to compartmentailzation.
science has many limitations as this dialog has shown today....rationalizing a 450.00 million dollar boon doggle, according to subjective criteria with only a strong apeal to authority....isnt particularly flattering when your own opinion, is invested to a bought and paid for purpose.
Lets start over, tell me about actuators and where i might find non prime companies to invest.....
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lotp you have the habit of inserting non transaction commentary onto your replies. I am happy to know your a uav maven, i analyse companies who make em, and then i watch systemic action at a distance. You should realize that all history channel produced output is paid for....do you understand that?
And it's about time you humans started asking yourselves the really obvious questions: who's paying for the History Channel, and why do they want you chasing failed _power transmission_ experiments by Tesla as a method of power generation instead of all the technologies we've made over the past fifty years and thrown away? LIke, say, fission reactors?
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The truly funniest part of this day, is how Tesla and not Maxwell's missing Quaternions, became the subject of later posts, many here have outted themselves.....to the extent that your vested in changing the subject, whenever possible. In making the History channel then Tesla important focus of criticism, you've failed to listen.....
now you have a CF.....and its fundamentally skewed toward blatant obfuscation.
oh well, sources of output, always fails this test.
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I can't argue that those cute little radio-controlled airplanes haven't been around for a while, because I remember something like that when I was a child, back in the Dark Ages (or perhaps it was cars -- I never got into that set of applied physics). And I do believe that some of the troops brought over such things and attached cameras or something to them, to look around corners for bad guys and to trundle up to potential IEDs. The key point, however, is that the kind of thing we have now was not available even a year ago when the Phoenix Mars Lander was sent into space, nor likely do we even yet have such things manufactured to the quality necessary to survive a several year trip through space, landing on another planet, and acquiring and transmitting information the 422 miles back to Earth. If I'm wrong, which is entirely possible as I haven't been paying close attention to NASA for a while, I apologize.
Does NASA misspend their money? I'm sure they do, just like every other government agency. For instance, the last I heard they were still using computers from back in the 1970s, when for a $2000 per person investment at Dell they could get laptops that would suit all but the most avid gamers... and for a little more they could turn in their slide rules for TI-10 calculators, enabling much more ambitious calculations. ;-)
On the other hand, NASA's purpose is to explore space. Give the technology of at least two years ago so that there would have been time to build the equipment, Thraviper Panda2099, and your personal expertise, how do you think they could better have accomplished a Mars Lander type mission? And how much would your proposal have cost, compared to the Phoenix? You know the basis for your opinions, but because you haven't shared that, you have done nothing to guide the thoughtof those following this thread.
P.S. You wouldn't really want lotp to share insider information, I'm sure.
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you would do well to begin understanding that in your roles in life, you can not escape the fact that you might be executing within a role, that has its own limitations that are unknown to you due to compartmentailzation.
I'll be sure to let my 'company' know we're being analyzed by a true systems expert and that we can't put a thing over on you.
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Sending a lander to Mars and performing a tricky landing on a pole with a piece of equipment light enough to launch yet strong enough to dig and analyze soil, to me, is a bargain at $450 million - if the federal government is going to spend money I would rather it be on projects like this than a museum at woodstock.
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On the other hand, NASA's purpose is to explore space. Give the technology of at least two years ago so that there would have been time to build the equipment, Thraviper Panda2099, and your personal expertise, how do you think they could better have accomplished a Mars Lander type mission
outsource it! might prove more efficient in terms of capital and payback.
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u know what......ive watched what 6 folks come to your defence here.....obviously this isnt a place to input, when everyones momentum is to output...bobby says dont feed them....feed what?
nasa explore space? please. nasa avoids exploration, favoring wasteful spending to facilitate avoidance with the things they know they are ill equipped to handle.
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by #17 - I'm pretty sure you've been around enuf to know my tired schtick. My advice - pick a nym, keep it? That way peeepuls know who they're discussing with and histories stick. You'd be more respected if you used the same nym, day-after-day, taking the slings and arrows or accolades for repeated demonstrations of insight and intelligence. Excepting some juvenile attempts at humor (hard to believe, I know...) using nyms of our infamous (Vince Foster, Madeleine "I drank cognac with Kimmie", etc...) I've had the same nym for nearly 6-7 years here. Most know where I'm coming from when I say something, and it helps
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I has output in muh teefs. Ima transmitting. Breaker braker 19, Come in large aboreal primate what is sentinent and outputting. Ima inputting and has the frequency. Toby? Are you there Toby?
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The Phoenix spacecraft was originally going to go to Marss equatorial region as Mars Surveyor 2001, but after investigations of the Polar Lander failure turned up major flaws in the design, that mission was canceled and the almost complete Surveyor spacecraft was put into storage.
Dr. Smith proposed resurrecting the Surveyor spacecraft as Phoenix for a new mission. Testing identified more than a dozen flaws in the lander design, and mission managers believed they had fixed the problems. NASAs budget for Phoenix is $420 million, which includes testing and retrofitting the spacecraft, outfitting it with new instruments, launching and operating the mission. The Canadian Space Agency contributed $37 million for one of the instruments, a weather station. In addition, the development and construction of the original Surveyor 2001 spacecraft cost $100 million.
So basically a nearly complete and essentially-paid-for craft that already cost $100 million was taken from mothballs, refurbed, given new equipment and sent on a new mission. Total cost: $420 million. Actually less than that, because the Canadians chipped in $37 million. So the US cost is $383 million. $100 million of that was already spent and sitting in storage collecting dust. So it's basically $283 million.
The second Mars Rover costs about $200 million (the first one was 300-450 million). Assuming that the now-closed Rover program could be reopened, it's unlikely that a new one could be built for less than Rover #1. Factor in the amount of time for the project, and it'd be 2012 at the earliest.
And as far as the 'private sector' - nothing has stopped them from offering to design a craft, or doing their own exploration. Where are they?
fred....cancel this id. ive gotten all i can out of this experience.
Come back when you've leaned some social skills... Spiny G.
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And as far as the 'private sector' - nothing has stopped them from offering to design a craft, or doing their own exploration. Where are they?
I know of about three-four companies I believe are credible that are working on suborbital RLV's that would eventually make somewhat decent first-stages for light satellite launchers.
Bigelow Aerospace Co. is working on inflatable space stations; their sub-scale prototypes are in orbit now.
I also know there have been various private proposals for lunar and/or asteroid missions. (Many in response to the Google Lunar X-Prize).
Then again, AFAIK none of them are using scalar wave technology, so they're probably wasting their time.
A German medical association has awarded a medal to a 92-year-old doctor who was a member of the SS suspected of carrying out Hitler's euthanasia policies, according to the magazine Der Spiegel to be published on Monday.
Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering was honoured for having "perfomed unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession, and to the nation's health system," according to a press statement by the German Federation of Internal Mecdicine (BDI).
Since 1978, Der Spiegel has published documents testifying that Sewering, while a doctor at tuberculosis clinic at Schoebrunn near Munich, sent a 14-year-old girl to die at a euthanasia centre carrying out secret Nazi policies of murdering members of society especially weak of body or mind. The US Anti-Defamation, a US Jewish organisation, claims Sewering sent a total of 900 children to their death at a euthanasia centre. Sewering has admitted to membership of the SS, an elite Nazi formation, but has always denied being responsible for euthanasia.
Der Spiegel said in its report, released in advance of the news magazine's Monday edition, that the BDI had declined any commentary on Sewering's Nazi past. Sewering, former head of the German doctors' association, was designated in 1992 as chairman of the World Medical Association but had to withdraw the following year under international pressure because of the accusations against him.
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Dr Hans-Joachim Sewering was honoured for having "perfomed unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession, and to the nation's health system, from any moral and ethical bounds"
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German police said on Sunday they have taken a seven-month baby away from a couple in Bavaria who are under investigation after putting the child for sale on Internet auction site Ebay. The baby boy was put on sale on Tuesday at a starting price of one euro (1.58 dollars) and was withdrawn from the site around two and a half hours later, police said. There had been no offers. The mother said it was meant as a joke, but police failed to see the funny side, putting the baby into care and launching an investigation of both parents for attempted child trafficking, a statement said.
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Thousands of Kashmiris, more accustomed to the rattle of gunfire than guitar power chords, screamed, clapped and danced on Sunday to the first Pakistani band to play in the region for at least two decades.
Junoon played outdoors amid tight security on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. "Welcome, Kashmir, to the Sufi peace concert," said Salman Ahmed, the band's lead singer. Junoon, which means obsession in Urdu, belts out rock tunes inspired by Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam widely practiced in Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority region. "It's mesmerising," said 21-year-old student Shahid Khan, as music from guitars, drums and electric keyboards echoed through the green hills. "I can't believe this is happening in Kashmir."
Ties between India and Pakistan, which have fought wars over disputed Kashmir, are slowly becoming warmer. Sunday's concert took place days after the two South Asian rivals said they had put their flagging peace process back on track. Separatist Muslim guerillas once banned most forms of entertainment, but the terrorist's militants' influence in Kashmir has waned since India and Pakistan began talking about peace in 2004.
In a nearby field, a popular India-wide soccer tournament, the Santosh Trophy, also returned to the region on Sunday for the first time in three decades. "The music in Kashmir had disappeared. But I think now God has answered our prayers and peace and normal life is returning," shouted Shaida Parveen, a university student. "This was just impossible a few years ago."
Policemen in motorboats patrolled the lake where musician Ravi Shankar is said to have taught the Beatles' George Harrison how to play the sitar as they sat in a houseboat. "It's like reversing the Beatles' journey," Ahmed said.
Not everyone enjoyed the music. "Pakistan should not let any of its cultural groups, such as Junoon, perform in the disputed territory of Kashmir," Syed Salahuddin, chairman of the Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant alliance United Jihad Council, said in a statement. He complained the performance gave legitimacy to Indian rule in Kashmir.
Two brothers on Sunday allegedly tried to sell their sister for Rs 50,000 in Sukkur but were foiled by police, ARY TV reported. Khatoons brothers and nephew allegedly wanted to sell her due to poverty, reported ARY. They exposed her to severe physical torture when she refused to leave with the buyer, it added. The woman was taken to Sukkur Civil Hospital for treatment. Police authorities have arrested Khatoons nephew but her two brothers are still at large, the channel said. It said that Ganj Khatoon, 65, a resident of Pir Murad Shah colony, has been living with her brothers since her husband died 15 years ago.
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Iran's state media say at least 30 people have died and 38 were injured in an explosion caused by fire at a factory in central Iran.
The fire broke out during welding work at the plant which produces cosmetics and detergent near the city of Arak in central Iran, the official IRNA news agency reports.
Cosmetics? In a country where the women aren't allowed to wear any? Pull my other finger ...
IRNA says the fire quickly spread to other parts of the plant and a container holding 60,000 liters of chemicals exploded, causing many of the deaths. IRNA reported 23 of the injured suffered extensive burns. Fire fighters and rescue teams were dispatched to the site of the explosion.
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60,000 liters is a big vat...
Wonder what it was for?
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Mr. Wife says this doesn't sound unusual. Perfumes are explosive (the alcohols), sulfur compounds and other raw materials, not to mention wiring not up to U.S. codes, storage arrangements and in-plant transport techniques not to U.S. standard... those of you who've spent time in the third world or in manufacturing facilities in the West will have some idea of the possibilities for impromptu exothermic chemical reactions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Since World War I, 88,000 Americans have disappeared at war, never to be seen again. But our government has never stopped trying to find them. This is the story of one searchfor a B-24 bomber shot down over the tiny island nation of Palau in September 1944and the extraordinary effort to bring those bodies home.
Thousands of Kashmiris, more accustomed to the rattle of gunfire than guitar power chords, screamed, clapped and danced on Sunday to the first Pakistani band to play in the region for at least two decades. 
