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Sounded ok to me. The old recordings always seem to lack any depth of bass. I liked his delivery, seemed like he had a dark sense of humor, my kind of humor.
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I've heard him before. He sounded like my grandfather.
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Patton, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abe Lincoln all had high-tenor speaking voices. They were also among history's greatest badasses.
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Voices are funny things. It is alleged that barrel chested Teddy Roosevelt actually had a high, squeaky voice. But it still worked out for him, and crowds liked his wholesale ripoff of Nietzsche in his speeches (pointed out by H.L. Mencken).
William Jennings Bryan, however, sounded like an undertaker, but his speaking had a hypnotic quality that "Even if you didn't believe a word of it before or after, while he was speaking, it made sense."
A grandmother has entered the record books after catching the biggest ever freshwater fish by a British woman - a 15st 4lb catfish. Sheila Penfold, who stands at just 5ft 3in and is registered blind, was nearly dragged into the river when the monster catfish took her bait during a holiday in Spain.
The 56-year-old had to be directed by husband Alan and son Arthur as she fought for 30 minutes to land the prized 214lb catch. The record for the biggest fish caught in Britain by a woman is a 69lb 8oz catfish caught by Bev Street, 46, from Skegness.
Mrs Penfold, from Wandsworth in London, used a bait of halibut pellets to snare the 8ft 2ins long catfish on the River Ebro near Barcelona. See link for photo
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"In Russia's Far East, the thermometer plunged to minus 59 Celsius in parts of Siberia, and minus 45 in Irkutsk."
Interesting. Carbon dioxide freezes to a solid at minus 78.5 degrees C and boils (becomes a gas) at minus 56.6 degrees C (both when at sea level).
A few more degrees in the minus direction and Siberia will suck all of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, making dry ice. (Not likely, but not off scale.)
Global warming Climate Change in action.
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Indonesian authorities said Monday they are considering a petition to tear down a statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy, only a month after the bronze was unveiled in Jakarta.
The statue of "Little Barry" -- as Obama was known when he lived in the capital in the late 1960s -- stands in central Jakarta's Menteng Park, a short walk from the US president's former elementary school.
Critics say the site should have been used to honour an Indonesian and 55,000 people have joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed.
"We've been discussing for the past two weeks what to do with the statue... whether to take it down, move it elsewhere or retain it. We're finding the best solution," Jakarta parks agency official Dwi Bintarto said.
Obama, who was born in Hawaii, lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.
The bronze was designed by Indonesian artists and depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a butterfly perched on his hand.
"The statue is of Obama as a child, not as the US president. His relatives and friends who erected it said it's meant to motivate children to study hard and dream big," Bintarto said.
Members of the "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Menteng Park" group on Facebook say Obama has done nothing for Indonesia.
"Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation. We could say Obama only ate and s (expletive) in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American," the web page says.
"For the dignity of a sovereign nation, Barack Obama's monument in Menteng Park must be removed immediately."
The childhood connection and his knowledge of a few words of Indonesian made Obama popular in the mainly Muslim country of 234 million people.
Obama said in November he would visit Indonesia this year along with First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha.
[Bangla Daily Star] A fisherman was killed and 11 people including four policemen were injured in two separate incidents of gunfight in Barguna and Cox's Bazar districts on Sunday and yesterday.
Four policemen including a sub-inspector and seven robbers received bullet injury during a one-and-a half hour-long gunbattle between the law enforcers and a gang of dacoits.
The incident took place around 9:30am at Kachuridhala area under Haldia Palong union of Ukhia upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday morning.
Following a robbery incident on buses at Ramu Paaner Chhara Pahari Dhala on Cox's Bazar-Teknaf highway early morning Saturday, police conducted a raid in the area on Sunday, reports a correspondent from Cox's Bazar.
Rafiqul Islam, Ukhia Thana officer-in-charge, said during the raid police arrested an alleged robber Ziabul Haque, 26, alias Ziabul from Link Road area.
Following Ziabul's confession, a team of police raided a den of the robbers at Kachuridhala around 9:00am yesterday.
Sensing the presence of police, the robbers opened fire on the law enforcers prompting them to retaliate.
The injured policemen were admitted to Ukhia Upazila Health Complex.
Police arrested three bullet-hit robbers from the spot while the other injured managed to flee.
Police recovered some looted valuables, a long gun, three sharp weapons and five cartridges from the spot.
In another incident, a fisherman was killed and four others were injured during a gunfight between the coast guard and a gang of pirates at Asharchar of Patharghata upazila under Barguna district early hours on Sunday, our Patuakhali correspondent reports.
The deceased was identified as Joynal Abedin Sikder, 50, of Ghutabacha village under Pathorghata upazila of the district.
Abdul Khaleque, OC of Pathorghata Police Station, said a gang of 40 pirates in two engine boats came to Asharchar around 2:00am and looted cash and cellphone sets from the fishermen.
The gang abducted 10 fishermen from the area demanding Tk 1 lakh as ransom for each.
Four fishermen were also injured as they tried to resist the gang.
A team of coast guard chased the pirates who were fleeing after looting and abducting the fishermen.
The robbers opened fire on the coast guard prompting them to retaliate.
Abdur Rashid Khan, station commander for coast guard in Pathorghata, said around 500 rounds of bullet were exchanged during the hour-long gunfight.
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A soldier who has served in Iraq has been officially crowned Miss England after the original winner relinquished the title last year to clear her name.
L/Cpl Katrina Hodge, 22, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was drafted in when Rachel Christie stepped down following her arrest over an alleged nightclub brawl.
L/Cpl Hodge said she wants to use her title to promote the British Army and military charities.
She was presented with her crown at the Manor House Hotel in Guildford, Surrey.
The soldier said she hoped to join the war effort in Afghanistan when she steps down as Miss England in July.
She was first runner-up in the 2009 national contest but was promoted after Ms Christie, athlete Linford Christie's niece, gave up her crown to clear following her arrest in Manchester in November.
L/Cpl Hodge was given leave from her duties as a soldier in the British Army to represent England in the Miss World final in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 12 December.
Why cover this? Because Argentina is unstable, its economy is swirling the drain, and Iran has operated there in the past. The Kirchners are scoundrels and will make deals with all the right devils to keep power.
BUENOS AIRES--The struggle for control of Argentina's stockpile of foreign currency took a new twist as the country's dissident central-bank president was barred from entering the bank late Sunday by police posted at the door by the government.
The government's latest effort to oust bank president Martin Redrado followed a two-pronged appellate-court decision late Friday that left Mr. Redrado's status in doubt, while also dealing another blow to the government's plan to use several billion dollars in central-bank reserves to pay foreign debt. President Cristina Kirchner's leftist government was scrambling to come up with alternative strategies for laying hold of funds so it can increase politically popular spending ahead of 2011 elections.
The Argentine dispute is one of several battles over central-bank independence playing out in various countries in the aftermath of the world financial crisis, though in no other country has the dispute over central-bank autonomy taken such bizarre twists. After being rebuffed at the bank door Sunday night, Mr. Redrado told the Buenos Aires newspaper Clarin that he would file suit against the government and also suggested he could reveal names of friends of the government who had bought dollars. A government spokesman said it had nothing to hide and that Mr. Redrado should just go away.
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So, the lefties want to plunder the treasury of the remaining value in order to spend their way to an election victory. Is this right? I never understand these central banking articles.
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You got it. Sad tale but we've heard it before.
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So Christina (socialism) has run out of other peoples money, and is looking for a new fix.
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I'm willing to bet that with Argentina frozen out from international capital markets, those reserves are the only thing keeping the Argentine economy functioning, and that they were painfully collected for that very purpose - to serve as the basis for the national money supply. Nobody in their right mind would extend credit to a country that just robbed its own national bank, so once that debt is serviced, they're going to find that the international bankers will be strangely unwilling to open up the taps again like they expected.
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So what does Iran have to offer them other than our own money, thanks to LLL who don't understand that refusing to drill only raises oil prices and "transfers" wealth to them even faster?
Amidst reports on Pakistan tunnel being cited along the border, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said that the Government is monitoring Pakistan's border activities and will analyze its implications to India on Monday, Jan 25.
"We are closely monitoring whatever has been happening in Pakistan and both our Defence Ministry as well as our ministry will certainly work together to analyze what it means by way of implications to India," Krishna said.
Krishna's statement came close to the media reports about Pakistan digging tunnels in Sargodha district of Pakistan's Punjab province near the Indian border.
In a media report, an official investigating the report said that the government was trying to established the reason behind the digging of the tunnel.
"An attempt is being made to establish the purpose of digging up such tunnels which are really big in size. These clearly can't be meant for transport as is obvious from the images available; unlike ordinary tunnels they don't lead on to roads,", the official said.
With the report ruling out connection of the tunnel to any roads, the possibility of the tunnel being used for storing nuclear weapons or missiles is being considered.
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imported Nork moles?
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Gee, sounds like India can use 12 spy drones?
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cross border - install modern drill rigs and hole the tunnels...
insert - snakes, gas, water whatever....
The National Assembly voiced outrage on Monday over the alleged murder of a young maid by torture at the house of a lawyer in Lahore, demanding, in a unanimous resolution, "severest" punishment for the perpetrators of the crime.
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The House observed one-minute silence for 12-year-old Shazia Masih, television pictures of whose wounds have sent shock waves across the country
from all parliamentary groups condemned the incident and called for stern action against child labour and domestic violence, after the house observed one-minute silence for 12-year-old Shazia Masih, television pictures of whose wounds have sent shock waves across the country. Notice that the child was a Christian...
But Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi did not grant ANP member Bushra Gohar's request that Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who is a Christian, lead a prayer in the house for the victim, ruling that prayers be better left reserved for the members of the house and their relatives.
Mr Bhatti later moved the consensus resolution which condemned the murder, expressed sympathies with the victim's family and demanded "the severest punishment" for the culprits.
As done in the resolution, several members praised President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for taking personal interest in the case that some said overcame initial police hesitation to move against the accused. But
PML-Q's Begum Atiya Inayatullah regretted what she called "silence" of the lawyers' community over the case in which a former president of the Lahore Bar Association was the main accused
PML-Q's Begum Atiya Inayatullah regretted what she called "silence" of the lawyers' community over the case in which a former president of the Lahore Bar Association was the main accused, and demanded that the government promptly move against what she saw as a "gang" engaged in abusing children.
Asiya Nasir of the JUI said hundreds of thousands of children suffered torture every year. She called for an explanation -- which did not come -- from the labour and social welfare ministers about what was being done to check such practices.
An independent member from
Zafar Baig Bhittani came out with what he himself said would "appear as an unreasonable" suggestion to seek help from the Pakistani Taliban who, he claimed, would eliminate such practices within six months.
the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Zafar Baig Bhittani, came out with what he himself said would "appear as an unreasonable" suggestion to seek help from the Pakistani Taliban who, he claimed, would eliminate such practices within six months.
But the suggestion was condemned by PML-Q's Sardar Bahadur Khan Sehar who blamed the situation on a perceived brutalisation of the society over the past 30-35 years and drew attention to the reported "sale" of children in southern Punjab to be employed for camel races in the Gulf.
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The National Assembly voiced outrage on Monday over the alleged murder of a young maid by torture at the house of a lawyer in Lahore, demanding, in a unanimous resolution, "severest" punishment for the perpetrators of the crime.
IOW: It's going to cost just about everything the guy has to get out from under this one.
U.S. Department of Energy scientists say they've created a computer algorithm that allows a substantially enhanced view of nuclear fission. The Argonne National Laboratory scientists said the algorithm, known as the neutron transport code, enables researchers for the first time to obtain a highly detailed description of a nuclear reactor core.
"The code could prove crucial in the development of nuclear reactors that are safe, affordable and environmentally friendly," laboratory officials said in a statement.
To model the complex geometry of a reactor core currently requires billions of spatial elements, hundreds of angles and thousands of energy groups -- all of which lead to problem sizes with quadrillions of possible solutions, the researchers said. Such calculations exhaust computer memory of the largest machines, they said, and therefore reactor modeling codes typically rely on various approximations.
"The (neutron transport code) is intended to reduce the uncertainties and biases in reactor design calculations by progressively replacing existing multilevel averaging techniques with more direct solution methods based on explicit reactor geometries," said Andrew Siegel, leader of Argonne's reactor simulation group.
Officials said the code has run successfully in some of the world's fastest supercomputers, including the IBM Blue Gene at Argonne and the Cray XT5 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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U.S. Department of Energy scientists say they've created a computer algorithm that allows a substantially enhanced view of nuclear fission.
So why don't we just publish the algorithm or at least leave it on the internet somewhere so that terrorist-supporting regimes can "steal" it and use it against everyone they don't like.
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In Uncle Sam's nuclear Navy, the safety section of the reactor plant manuals talked about how the reactions were calculated in one inch layers. That was done by slide rule and mechanical calculators. So the best these new codes can do is make them safer in design, the real safety equipment are the trained and motivated operaters.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] An Ethiopian airliner transporting 90 passengers, including 54 Lebanese nationals and seven crew members crashed shortly after takeoff from Beirut International Airport early Monday, Al Arabiya reporter said. The Boeing 737 plane plunged into the Mediterranean, Al Arabiya reporter Adnan Ghalmoush said, pointing out that stormy weather might be the cause of the crash.
Twenty bodies were recovered in the hours after the crash as authorities combed through the waters under gray skies, a Lebanese military official said.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but a police official said it was likely weather-related. Beirut has seen heavy rain and lightning since Sunday.
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said that authorities had ruled out terrorism or sabotage as the cause of the crash of the jet. "Up until now we have ruled out foul play," Suleiman told reporters. Inspector! How do you do it?
The Boeing 737-800 took off for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, said Ghazi Aridi, the public works and transportation minister.
"The weather undoubtedly was very bad," Aridi told reporters at the airport. He added that the plane went down about 2 miles (3.5 kilometers) off the Lebanese coast.
"The control tower was assisting the pilot of the plane on takeoff and suddenly lost contact for no known reason," Aridi told reporters.
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Check the genital area of all bodies for missing penis and testicles AKA "Pantybomber".
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Hey, check this out. In the CBS News article they said this: Accordingto a government official, Abdulmutallab first arrived in the Ghana capitol of Addis Ababa on December 9 after spending five months in Yemen. Double sic. It's capital, not capitol. And the capital of Ghana is not Addis Ababa, as Shereter Poodle9774 and Old Patriot said. But if you go back to the original CBS story, they have a link to their own, separate story on the FBI safari. Here's an excerpt from that: Abdulmutallabarrived in Lagos, Nigeria December 24 from a flight originating in Ghana. He then flew to Amsterdam where he boarded a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas.
Details are scarce because "this is a security issue," James Agyenim-Boateng, the country's Deputy Information Minister, told CBS News. He said the FBI had been in the country since Saturday and that no arrests have been made as of yet.
Agyenim-Boateng said Abdulmutallab, upon arriving in Ghana Dec. 9 from Ethiopia, had listed one hotel where he was staying on his immigration form, but actually stayed in a different hotel.
So I think what CBS meant to write in the first article was: "Abdulmutallab first arrived in the Ghana capitol from Addis Ababa."
Ethiopian 409's destination was Addis Ababa. Abdulmutallab was there, in between his 5 month Yemen stay and his two week Ghana stay.
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I expect far better than this whole thing.
We are approaching the 72 hour mark. We have record number of non flys, in air disturbances, and wacked out statements.
All air travel is now becoming a full time bomb sniffing job for everyone. You think this jet was just a busted oxygen tank?
18 incidents in the last 5 months and all the no flyers are showing up at the gates.
This is not some kind of joke with the air incidents - this really is a tempest in a teapot.
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Ethiopian 409's destination was Addis Ababa. Abdulmutallab was there, in between his 5 month Yemen stay and his two week Ghana stay.
AQ is also in Addis Adaba, apparently. Check out excerpts from this article, BlackNews.com - An Interview With Kola Boof, Osama Bin Laden's Mistress:
The author of six books published in eight countries, Kola Boof is not only Sudan's top selling novelist, but in 1996, was the mistress of Osama Bin Laden.....a fact that jeopardized her American citizenship four years ago, until Morocco's Prince Fabrizzio Ruspolli confirmed Boof's claim that she had been held against her will by Bin Laden at Ruspoli's estate for sexual purposes.
In her memoir, Diary of a Lost Girl, coming Feb. 1st in hardcover (0-9712019-8-6), Boof reveals a side of the terror chief that's never been explored before. In a telephone interview, I learned a few things that I never expected to find out...such as where he's been hiding.....The fact is...Osama Bin Laden was in Morocco in 1996, he was in Afghanistan, he lived in Sudan, he went to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt that year. He went to Iran for a wedding. Peter Bergen and none of these know-it-all white men know a damned thing about where Osama was...if they did...the U.S. government would have been able to find Osama back in 1996.
There have been lots of Morroccan's involved in plots over the years, too. The hunt needs to expand to greater Africa.
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More on the crash:
BEIRUT The pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the sea flew in the opposite direction from the path recommended by the control tower after taking off from Beirut in thunderstorms, Lebanon's transportation minister said Tuesday.
All 90 people on board were feared dead after the plane bound for Addis Ababa went down in flames minutes after takeoff at around 2:30 a.m. Monday.
Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi said the pilot initially followed the tower's guidance, but then abruptly changed course and went in the opposite direction.
"They asked him to correct his path but he did a very fast and strange turn before disappearing completely from the radar," Aridi told AP.
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ION NEWS KERALA > US PLANS TO CREATE THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN HAITI.
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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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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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