An Inverness man was arrested Saturday after breaking into his neighbors' house and threatening them, shocking himself by sticking his fingers into a lamp socket, threatening a deputy with a metal rod, running naked through his yard and chewing through a cable in a patrol car, authorities said.
"Awright! Spit out the cable, put yer doinker away, and come out witcher hands up!"
Authorities arrested Shyne Harris Phelps, 39, of 2510 Jupiter St., at 1:45 a.m., on charges of kidnapping, burglary of a dwelling, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer with intent to commit a felony, resisting an officer with violence, battery and criminal mischief, an arrest report said.
... also disorderly conduct, jaywalking, lewd and unusual behavior, disturbing the peace, sedition, misappropriation of ladies' underwear, barratry and maintenance...
Deputies were called to a home on East Dawson Drive, just behind Beall's, at 1:35 a.m. after getting a call of a burglary in progress.
"Help! Police! There's a naked man putting his tongue in my socket!"
On arrival, Deputy Lynn Tabb saw several people standing in the yard, pointing and yelling. Then he heard something hit the rear passenger side of the patrol car. When Tabb turned, he saw a man holding a metal rod and wearing only a sheet wrapped around his waist, a report said.
"Hrarrr! Wanna see what's under me sheet?"
He was yelling that he was "ready to go to jail."
"Yeah! Lock me up! I'm a danger to myself and those around me and some folks not around me!"
Tabb got out of his car and ordered the man to drop the rod.
"Somebody screamed. It was a woman. She sounded hysterical, three octaves higher than normal women. I looked around, and there was a man holding a rod. A big man. An ugly man. In a sheet. It was a dirty sheet. The rod was big, too, but it wasn't a rosco. 'Drop yer rod, Beauzeau!' I said."
He did, but quickly picked it up again and made a threatening gesture. Tabb pulled his own rod gun.
"Stick 'em up, Beauzeau!"
The man dropped the rod but shouted that he was "ready to die" and took off running.
"I'm ready to die! No. I'm almost ready to die! Feet, don't fail me now!"
The man tried to scale a chain-link fence to get back to his home on the adjoining property.
"Harrr! I'll go back next door! They'll never look for me there!"
The deputy fired a Taser at him, but it didn't connect. The man threw dirt and rocks in the deputy's face, the report said.
"Hey! You're fightin' dirty, Beauzeau!"
The suspect made it over the fence, losing his sheet in the process and sprinted, naked, into his home, the report said.
"Cheeks, don't fail me now!... Hahah! I made it home! They'll never find me here!..."
Neighbors told Tabb that the man had several guns in the house, but the suspect soon came out of the house and was arrested without further incident.
"Hrarrr! I got several guns in the house, but no ammunition! Where's the hell's the ammunition!... Mom! Have you seen my ammunition?"
"Come out witcher hands up, Beauzeau!"
"Hokay."
Four people told deputies that the man came into their home after the family called the Sheriff's Office to complain about noise at Phelps' house. The man came in through the back door, they said, and grabbed them and shouted, "It is time for you to die."
"It's atrocity time!"
As he tried to force one of the family members out of the home, one of the victims shot him with a Taser.
"Ow! Hey! What'd yez do dat for?"
That just caused the intruder to demand to be shocked some more.
"More! More! Gimme more juice!"
He grabbed a lamp, unscrewed the bulb and stuck his fingers in, shocking himself and yelling.
"Yipes! Yow!... Hey, y'all! Watch what happens when I stick my tongue in it!... Wow!"
After Phelps was arrested, deputies say he damaged the patrol car by biting through a cable cord in the back seat.
"I told you to stop chewing that, Beauzeau! Now, spit it out, or no bail hearing!"
Phelps was taken to Citrus Memorial Hospital and then booked into the county jail. He was held without bail.
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...mopery and dopery on the High Seas, Conspiracy to lurk with intent to gawk...
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There are one million stories in the Naked City, and this one is the nakedist. Don't look, Ethel.
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It's Florida, nuff said. When you shake a can of peanuts, the loose ones fall to the bottom....Same with countries and latitudes. Might be hope for FLA if PR was admitted
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'Drop yer rod, Beauzeau!' I said
First time every I saw Beauzeau it was at LGF and someone explained that it was a Rantburg thing and linked.... The rest is a sad bittersweet yet somewhat filling history.
When will it start being an episode of Troops instead?
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Ahh, Florida. I saw Inverness, and assumed the tale was about our overseas cousins. That makes more sense -- it's still too cold in Britain to run around unclothed, even when barking mad.
I'm sure they will benefit from a coupla years' exposure to oompah bands and beer...
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Does ''culture exchange'' mean that 50 German students will go to the Magic Kingdom to study language and whatever? Can they practice their own religion there just the Saudis may do in Germany?
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Why should they practice their religion in Saudi when they don't in Germany. It seems like an excellent opportunity for dhimmi training discovering how much their cultures have in common.
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The 28th medical symposium — sponsored by Pfizer — for the Pakistan Doctors Group, Riyadh, concluded that more women than men are prone to bouts of depression and migraine in the Kingdom, where a young population base, marital tension and changes in lifestyle have acted as a trigger in inducing these ailments.
Yeah, sure. Lop their gennies off, then wonder why they're depressed...
Both Professor Mohammad Salah Abduljabbar, director of paramedical affairs and head of neurology division, Security Forces Hospital Program, and Dr. Amer Sheikh, consultant in family medicine at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, said migraine and depression were symptoms of a deeper malaise. Dr. Riad J. Khawaja, general secretary of PDG, outlined the activities of the group which included the launch of a social welfare fund to help the poorest segment of Pakistani expatriates by defraying the tuition fee and extending support. Pointing out that 17 percent of the patients who checked in at primary health care centers in Dammam showed symptoms of depression, Dr. Sheikh said the most common factor was marital disharmony.
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The 28th medical symposium â sponsored by Pfizer â for the Pakistan Doctors Group, Riyadh, concluded that more women than men are prone to bouts of depression and migraine in the Kingdom,..
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Andrea, women do have a statistically higher tendency toward depression, true, but that tendency is exacerbated on a case-wise basis when the woman in question is prevented from adequate aerobic exercise, adequate social intercourse, adequate intellectual stimulation, and subjected to excessive physical and mental abuse, as is the case in this particular subject group (ie the Pakistani wives in Saudi Arabia, but has been reported for the Saudi wives in SA as well).
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Naw men have depression too, it just that mens usually don't form groups, write plays, form committees, publish magainzes, create Lifetyme Movies and E-mail every 3 body on the planet about depression.
Hell, you're low, get a dawg, 2 cats and have a couple of choclates.
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You'd be depressed too if you had to sit through something like ''The Vagina Monolouges'' and pretend it was like the greatest work of theatre of all time... and then act like you enjoyed it.
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Dunno, but statistically, more men end up in suicide. That seems to indicate the opposite to the contention that women are more prone to depression. It may be that men are better trained to hide it (by whatever factors' contribution), but that may lead to 'nowhere to go' situations.
Also, chocolate does not affect men the same as women. That may be a part of the problem.
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So then what you're saying, eLarson, is, ''More spinach, more liver, then more chocolate for dessert!'' I like it -- all except the bits about spinach and liver. ;-)
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What was that old sketch? Was it SNL, or the daily show?
Researchers found that men have a greater tendency to crave starch, protein, and salt, while women have an inclination toward sweets---proving that historically men have brought down the bacon while women sit around eating chocolate.
Yet another confusion of cause and effect, or form and function. :)
The Council of Ministers yesterday reviewed damages caused by hailstorms and flashfloods that hit many parts of the Kingdom last weekend and urged immediate action to alleviate the suffering of disaster-stricken people. Prince Sultan, second deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, who chaired the meeting in Riyadh, said Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd had ordered emergency assistance to be dispatched to all areas hit by Thursday's rainstorms. The victims of natural calamities would be provided with all necessary support, the Saudi Press Agency said quoting a Cabinet statement. More than 40 people, including a number of expatriates, died and many others were injured as a result of heavy rains and subsequent flooding in various parts of the country. The casualties were mainly in the Asir and Makkah regions.
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Whoa, wait a minute. Odd are about 99% that Fahd didn't say anything, he drooled. And we have Prince Sultan, not CP Abdullah, informing the ''Council of Ministers'' of the orders?
Has the shift toward Sultan and away from Abdullah already happened, quietly and out of view?
Here we go again, it must work this time, the "right" person is in charge.
Via Bros. Judd: Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2005—"It is impossible that we will achieve our goals with capitalism, nor is it possible to find an intermediate path⊠I invite all of Venezuela to march on the path of socialism of the new century. We must construct a new socialism of the 21st century," said Chavez his speech at the end of the traditional May 1st workers' day march.
Chavez had just returned from Cuba earlier that day, where his government and that of Cuba signed 49 cooperation agreements. In allusion to his visit, Chavez said that the Cuban revolution "vibrates to the same rhythm" as Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution and that the changes have just barely begun. He pointed out, though, that his government does not intend to copy the Cuban model of socialism....
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''Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.''
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And another Lefty Socialist demands for Dubya and America to attack and invade his nation, aka VOTE HILLARY IN '08!? Time for MARIAH CAREY to hit them high notes, AGAIN, at Penn State.
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Now it's official. Chavez wants to take Venezuela to hell because he doesn't recall the brutal lessons of modern history all too well. Poor buggers. See you folks in 50 years and a few hundred thousand ruined lives later. Maybe it can all be blamed on the gringo at that point too! Hey it's the 21st century and time to try and prove the square wheel is the future of transportation.
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The strange thing is he may have the resources to keep it going. Venezuela is an oil-state with huge reserves and development potential; that means they have a huge buffer vs the consequences of economic irrationality. Consider the case of Saudi Arabia. Imagine if North Korea had oil in similarly large quantities.
And he is going to subsidize Cuba as well; in fact I hear he is going to buy the place.
In a move that could undermine his plan to extend limited amnesty to illegal immigrants, President Bush is quietly backing the completion of a security fence along the California-Mexico border.
The border fence provision is part of the REAL ID Act of 2005, which is attached to the House's emergency supplemental appropriations package to finance military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The measure would speed up completion of a 3.5-mile gap in the fence between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, according to Tuesday's Los Angeles Times.
In a letter to Congress last week, the White House said, "The administration strongly urges [congressional] conferees to include the REAL ID Act of 2005 in the final version of the bill." The legislation also includes a ban on driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
Democrats are bristling over the Bush endorsement, with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid saying he was "disappointed."
"The fact of the matter is Republicans did this in a very tricky way," Reid Spokeswoman Fabiola Rodriguez-Ciampoli told The Associated Press. "They knew that if they included REAL ID in the [military spending bill], it would be very hard to strike it out."
An older border fence constructed from scrap metal in 1993 was credited with an 88 percent drop in illegal immigration along the 14-mile length of border it protected.
In the 12 years since, however, the 10-foot-tall fence has deteriorated, leaving substantial gaps through which illegals now enter.
The White House-backed measure would finish construction of a much more formidable 14-foot-tall secondary fence, which was previously blocked due to environmental concerns.
The completed project would feature an impenetrable security zone framed by two access roads, three fences, bright lights and high-tech surveillance devices.
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Good. Next extend it, first with re-used scrap metal, then properly, along both southern and northern borders. And I don't think it's inappropriate to make this a military expenditure -- defence of the Nation should include protecting the borders from invasion.
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What are we talking about here? 1500 miles in need of a fence?
Let us say $500/ft. Do the math.
1500 miles x 5280 ft/mile x $500/ ft = $4 billion
Cheap at twice the price. Lets get building and cut the BS. [/real world math lesson]
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In most countries defending ones boreder is a military job, I don't know were we got the idea that a law enforcement agency should be doing that. TSA should have no part of it. Screw the treaties with Mexico that are against it. This is the new USA.
Mexico is a fart away from a revolution. We need a fence and military defending the border.
Barone is one of the smartest political writers I read and very insightful. In this article he exposes the Democrats for everything they are not. They are not the party of ideas and their rhetoric had to be toned down lest they alienate a larger portion of the electorate. I have chastised the Republican leadership (on these pages and via email) for their apparent appeasement of the Democrats in the Senate. Maybe (just maybe) I was wrong and they let the Dems trot out all the conspiracies and accusations they could muster. Seems now that they have punched themselves out, example is Bab's Boxer trying to claim there IS a Democratic plan but no one has been paying attention. Sorry Bab's after the Condi confirmation and now the Bolton dog/pony/donkey show nobody cares what plan you have they just don't want you or your party. The money phrase from Barone is: "Republicans who had a plan beat Democrats whose plan was a blank piece of paper."
P.S. I can't wait until 2006
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Indonesia has recorded its first case of polio in almost a decade. It raises fears that the crippling childhood disease could be making a comeback in one of the world's most populous nations. The case, a young girl, was found in west Java, close to the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. DNA tests done on a viral sample from the infant girl has determined the polio arrived in Indonesia from Nigeria, via Saudi Arabia.
I'll wager the transfer happened during the Haj.
It has prompted a mass vaccination programme that will eventually cover some five million children. The disease has all but disappeared in the developed world, but it is still endemic in Nigeria, a problem that was made worse in 2003 when Muslim clerics there spread rumours that the polio vaccine had been contaminated to make Muslims infertile.
The World Health Organization had suspected that the girl's paralysis might be related to polio for more than a week and has already vaccinated more than 4,000 children against the disease. It is the first move in a programme that is expected to reach more than five million children in all.
The head of the WHO in Indonesia, Dr Georg Petersen, told the BBC that there were more suspected cases, with a number of other children also showing tell-tale signs of paralysis. He said those cases were being investigated to rule out other possible causes, such as meningitis.
Until the middle of last century, when a vaccine was discovered, poliomyelitis was endemic across the globe and the international campaign for universal vaccination has been one of the great successes in the fight against disease of recent years.
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Those "Holy Men" who are responsible for this should have to pay to support every child that has contracted Polio/ If they refuse, kill them.
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how long before we have to reestablish vaccination here in the non-Islamoid world? one year? two? Freaking morons
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Frank, my children were vaccinated against polio as part of the standard infant vaccination program... and I suspect yours were, too. So I can tell you that at least in the U.S. and Germany this is standard procedure, and likely in the rest of the Western World.
The sad thing is, we are likely to see significant population contraction in the Muslim and Sub-Saharan parts of the world, as diseases like polio and AIDs -- and similar ''diseases of behaviour'' continue to run rampant, killing off the adults and crippling the children. In the end, regrettable as the West's last experiment in Colonialism/Imperialism was, we may need to run those parts of the world until a generation can grow up that is protected, healthy and educated enough to be self-supporting and self-ruling.
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We should start now, I don't want to see another iron lung or person walking with leg braces and crutches ever again. I had a friend get polio when I was a kid. I remember taking the sugar cube vaccine, every kid in town must have been lined up getting theirs at the same time.
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prolly true for mine, too, TW - but I understand that it might be necessary for us born in the 50's, 60's to re-up. As for running those parts of the world, the aid programs should start with a bullet in the heads of the mullahs and imams who tell these children (via their ignorant f*ck parents) not to get vaccinated. Consider it the first ''shot''
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Polio could have been eradicated from the face of the earth by now but these islamist conspiracy nuts, full of hatred towards kafirs, have suceeeded in making polio a muslim disease.
It is always the kafir (whether western christian or indian hindu) plotting to sterilize them or give them AIDS.
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My Grandmother had Polio,her left arm was about a third the size of her right.But let me tell you,that right arm could knock-out a horse at 20'with one of those big cans of cling peaches(heavy syrup of course).Bless her fried pie makeing heart.
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I have no idea about ''re-upping'', Frank, but that could be handled easily and quickly by offering the innoculation at grocery stores and such, just like the flu vaccine. I may look into it for Mr. Wife, just in case -- he's going to be spending a lot of time overseas, the next six months.
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hopefully we won't have to re-up. IIRC there were some % of vaccinated who had side effects - Dr. Steve can set me straight on that. My bitch is about these ignorant moon-worshipping asshats enabling the return of what should be a dead disease. What next? Small Pox?
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...It takes conventional rockets about six months just to get to Mars. Total roundtrip times can be as long as three years, because an extended stay on the Red Planet is required while the Earth and Mars progress in their orbits enough to be closely aligned again for the return trip.
But an exciting NASA-funded research project could send astronauts racing to Mars up to six times faster. The solution -- proposed by Dr. Robert Winglee of the University of Washington -- sounds like science fiction. A spacecraft rides a beam of plasma, which is electrified and magnetized gas, all the way to Mars and back. The roundtrip journey could be wrapped up in about 90 days using Winglee's Magnetized Beam Plasma Propulsion system, dubbed Magbeam....
The number of areas across the United States with real estate booms grew nearly two-thirds last year to 55, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said, warning that these booms may be followed by busts.
The boom areas represent 15 percent of the 362 metropolitan areas the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight analyzes, the highest proportion of boom markets in 30 years of price data and more than twice the peak of the late-1980s booms.
Boom areas were defined as having inflation-adjusted prices at the end of 2004 that were up 30 percent or more in three years.
Adding recent data and analysis to a study released in February, FDIC economists Cynthia Angell and Norman Williams repeated their view that credit market conditions may make current housing market booms different than past ones, which have tended to taper off rather than bust.
"To the extent that credit conditions are driving home price trends, the implication would be that a reversal in mortgage market conditions - where interest rates rise and lenders tighten their standards - could contribute to the end of the housing boom," they say.
The FDIC economists found that only 17 percent of local U.S. housing booms in the 1978-1998 period ended in busts, defined as a 15 percent or greater drop in nominal home prices over five years.
But their updated study, released Monday, also notes special qualities of the current boom, including the large number of boom markets across the country and a risky credit environment.
While the previous FDIC study on the subject in February emphasized local market factors for historical boom and bust cycles, recent past experience signals possibly broader ranging causes.
"The notable expansion in the number of boom markets in 2004 suggests that national factors could be helping to drive home prices higher," the updated study says. "If national factors are coming more into play, then clearly the most important factors to look to would be the availability, price and terms of mortgage credit."
Among special risks the FDIC has found in the current credit market are increasingly leveraged new home purchases, more use of adjustable rate mortgages, growth of interest-only mortgage payment plans and accelerating growth in subprime mortgage lending.
The study also cited more purchases of homes strictly for investment as a sign of increased speculation in the market last year.
May 03, 2005 09:47 IST
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The hero of the war for liberation of Bangladesh, Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, who oversaw the surrender of over 90,000 Pakistani troops, died in New Delhi on Tuesday morning in a private hospital.
Aurora, 89, who was ailing for some time, died in sleep. He is survived by a son and a daughter.
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The man who broke Pakistan
By General (Retd) JFR Jacob
In the run-up to the 1971 Indo-Pak war, one of Lt General JS Aurora's first missions was to organise the Mukti Bahini into a fighting force. The refugee problem from then East Pakistan had grown quite serious, and Defence Minister Jagjivan Ram was sent by Indira Gandhi to persuade the United Front Government to set up camps for a tide of human settlers in West Bengal.
The political leadership at the Centre was well aware that the crisis was going to hit a fever pitch very soon. But the State Government had its limitations; the problem was more in the nature of an external threat. We - that is, Lt General JS Aurora and I, (as the Chief of Staff in the Eastern Command) - were closely involved in administration and planning to deal with this threat.
The preparations went on for months. We worked, in conjunction with the Army Headquarters, towards ironing out the logistical difficulties. An entire infrastructure of roads, communication and bridges had to be built. The East Pakistan theatre presented peculiar problems because the Eastern Command of the Indian Army had been organised for mountain warfare.
With monsoon due to arrive, we trained our men in riverine engagement with the enemy and prepared the Mukti Bahini for guerrilla warfare. There were no Indian troops in Tripura. We had 30,000 tonnes of supplies transported to the State. It was all meticulously carried out.
Early on December 3, 1971, Pakistan launched air strikes on a number of Indian airfields. The Pakistani army also shelled Indian positions in the western sector. The Indian forces made rapid gains and by December 15, Dacca fell. I was ordered by General Sam Manekshaw to get a surrender on the morning of December 16. I arrived alone at Dacca but Niazi wasn't prepared to surrender. He only wanted a ceasefire and withdrawal under UN. Niazi took a great deal of persusaion to agree to a surrender. In fact, in his account, he accused me of blackmail.
The surrender was negotiated and signed in four hours. I drove to the airport with Niazi to pick up Aurora and others. A simple ceremony was arranged on the Race Course with the public of Dacca looking on.
The surrender was signed by both Niazi and Aurora. The people of Dacca were exuberant and wanted to lynch Niazi. We had trouble getting an Army car and driving him to safety. We then returned to Calcutta.
Niazi had 30,000 troops in Dacca. He could have fought for several days more with the UN in session. Incidentally, on December 13, there was an American resolution calling for India's withdrawal under UN, which was vetoed by Russia. On the 15th there was a Polish resolution when it was part of the Soviet block. Bhutto tore that resolution up because it did not condemn India as aggressor. On December 16, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced in Parliament that West Pakistan forces in Bangladesh had surrendered unconditionally in Dacca at 4.31 pm.
The credit for that famous victory goes not just to the commanders but equally to the officers and men who fought that war. Nearly 1,200 of our men were killed and 4,000 wounded. The latter are generally forgotten. It was their bravery that that led us to our great and decisive military triumph; not only did we liberate a country but also took 93,000 enemy soldiers as prisoners.
I knew General Aurora since 1951-52, when he was an instructor at Staff College, Dehradun. We were all young majors. He was physically tough and active. He was a good communicator, outgoing, and compassionate. He was also deeply religious. He had been in indifferent health for the last few years and had a pacemaker fitted sometime back.
I will remember him as a colleague, a comrade-in-arms and a thorough gentleman. I had the highest regard for him and his charming wife, Bhanti, who unfortunately passed away a few years ago. They were a devoted couple.
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In the dead region surrounding Dacca, the military authorities conducted experiments in mass extermination in places unlikely to be seen by journalists. At Hariharpara, a once thriving village on the banks of the Buriganga River near Dacca, they found the three elements necessary for killing people in large numbers: a prison in which to hold the victims, a place for executing the prisoners, and a method for disposing of the bodies. The prison was a large riverside warehouse, or godown, belonging to the Pakistan National Oil Company, the place of execution was the river edge, or the shallows near the shore, and the bodies were disposed of by the simple means of permitting them to float downstream. The killing took place night after night. Usually the prisoners were roped together and made to wade out into the river. They were in batches of six or eight, and in the light of a powerful electric arc lamp, they were easy targets, black against the silvery water. The executioners stood on the pier, shooting down at the compact bunches of prisoners wading in the water. There were screams in the hot night air, and then silence. The prisoners fell on their sides and their bodies lapped against the shore. Then a new bunch of prisoners was brought out, and the process was repeated. In the morning the village boatmen hauled the bodies into midstream and the ropes binding the bodies were cut so that each body drifted separately downstream. (Payne, Massacre [Macmillan, 1973], p. 55.)
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There were many other stories. The one that stuck in my mind becuase I was living in similar accomodation at the time, was the Pakistani army entered the Dacca universities high rise residence buildings killed everyone on the first floor then worked their way up floor by floor killing everyone.
The PAKISTAN Eastern Command agree to surrender all PAKISTAN Armed Forces in BANGLA DESH to Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora, General Officer Commanding of the Indian and BANGLA DESHI forces in the Eastern Theatre. This surrender includes all PAKISTAN land, air and naval forces as also all para-military forces and civil armed forces. These forces will lay down their arms and surrender at the places where they are currently located to the nearest regular troops under the command of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA.
The PAKISTAN Eastern Command shall come under the orders of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA as soon as this instrument has been signed. Disobedience of orders will be regarded as a breach of the surrender terms and will be dealt with in accordance with the accepted laws and usage of war. The decision of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA will be final, should any doubt arise as to the meaning or interpretation of the surrender terms.
Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA gives a solemn assurance that personnel who surrender shall be treated with dignity and respect that soldiers are entitled to in accordance with the provisions of the GENEVA Convention and guarantees the safety and well-being of all PAKISTAN military and para-military forces who surrender. Protection will be provided to foreign nationals, ethnic minorities and personnel of WEST PAKISTAN origin by the forces under the command of Lieutenant-General JAGJIT SINGH AURORA.
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(JAGJIT SINGH AURORA)
Lieutenant-General
General Officer Commanding in Chief
Indian and BANGLA DESH Forces in the
Eastern Theatre
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(AMIR ABDULLAH KHAN NIAZI)
Lieutenant-General
Martial Law Administrator Zone
Commander Eastern Command (PAKISTAN)
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College administrators have been enthusiastic supporters Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues and schools across the nation celebrate "V-Day" (short for Vagina Day) every year. But when the College Republicans at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island rained on the celebrations of V-Day by inaugurating Penis Day and staging a satire called The Penis Monologues, the official reaction was horror. Two participating students, Monique Stuart and Andy Mainiero, have just received sharp letters of reprimand and have been placed on probation by the Office of Judicial Affairs. The costume of the P-Day "mascot" — a friendly looking "penis" named Testaclese, has been confiscated and is under lock and key in the office of the assistant dean of student affairs, John King. Rest at link.
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The costume of the P-Day ''mascot'' â a friendly looking ''penis'' named Testaclese, has been confiscated and is under lock and key in the office of the assistant dean of student affairs, John King.
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LOL--This is hilarious! They need to get a bunch of demonstrators chanting outside King's office, ''Set my penis free!''
I think we need a B-Day (Breast Day) with an amply-endowed mascot called ''Testa-these''.
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I'm waiting for the new FOX Saturday morning cartoon called Testaclese the Friendly Penis.
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âTestacleseâ tipped the scales when he approached the university Provost, Edward J. Kavanagh, outside the student union. Apparently taking him/it for a giant mushroom, Provost Kavanagh cheerfully greeted him.
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I want to go on record in favor of ''B-Day'' butt let's be inclusive. Let start with the top and include the bottom! Either way it's something we can grab onto and feel free of biass.
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So will the Princeton or Stanford band be first celebrating P-Day at half time this football season? I can see the tubas and trombones making a real contribution.
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along with blowup balls - beach balls, dammit. Getchyer minds outta the gutter
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Anybody remember the Humboldt State Marching Band, and some of their more interesting displays?
Chuck, together with the current crop of kiddie killing child molesters in Florida, make a real cogent argument in favor of the death penalty.
Liberia's former leader Charles Taylor was behind January's coup attempt in Guinea, says the chief prosecutor of Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal. David Crane, who wants Mr Taylor to face trial for alleged crimes during Sierra's Leone civil war, said the information came from several sources. Guinea has always feared being caught up in the brutal conflicts which wracked Liberia and Sierra Leone. Mr Taylor is in exile in Nigeria, which has told him to stay out of politics.
Mr Conte backed the Lurd rebels who ousted Mr Taylor in 2003 and Mr Crane says Mr Taylor was trying to get revenge. Mr Crane said that according to his "multiple sources" another attempt would be made "soon". The Human Rights Watch lobby group recently reported that there was an army of young mercenaries for hire in conflicts across West Africa. Some of those who spoke to HRW said they had been offered money to fight in Guinea. "From exile, Charles Taylor remains in contact with his political network in Liberia on a day-to-day basis. He has also mobilised his network of warlords and cronies to keep West Africa in turmoil," Mr Crane said. Mr Crane accuses Mr Taylor of buying weapons for the brutal RUF rebels who fought in Sierra Leone in exchange for diamonds. Mr Crane is due to step down as chief prosecutor for the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in July.
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There have been 313 cases detected of the Marburg virus since monitoring of the outbreak, the worst recorded to date, began on October 13, it addedâŠâŠ. Deputy Health Minister Jose van Dunem told journalists that a health team travelled to the village of Ngombe, 150km north of the city of Uige, on Sunday and was told that a woman who had attended the funeral of a relative in Uige had spread the virus to the village. "When she returned to Ngombe, she contaminated 12 other members of her family and they all died," said Van Dunem. A traditional healer who treated many patients sick with Marburg in a town outside of Uige has also died from the haemorrhagic fever, he added.
No new cases of the Marburg virus have been detected outside the province. Results from a blood test on a suspected case of Marburg in nearby Malange province were negative, he said. The dramatic jump of Marburg cases to 313 is cause for concern. The official death toll of 280 matches the total death toll in the worst recorded Ebola outbreak. The prior record Marburg death toll of 126 was eclipsed last month. However, the sudden jump in cases raises serious questions about the accuracy of the official tally put out daily by the Angola Ministry of Health. That list has discarded most of the previously reported cases outside of Uige. The basis for the discarded cases remains unclear. I guess this answers the question I was asking - why isn't marburg spreading in the bush? It is and and we are only just getting reports.
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influx of people into cities is greater than the numbers leaving cities to go back to a rural enviroment , as there is less money to be made to support families . Could this be another reason phil_b ?
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When people leave the country to go to the city they travel back whenever they can to see their family and a killer disease will cause significant numbers to leave the city and accelerate the spread.
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Problem is that the last WHO report is from April 27. At that point, in April 2005, the epidemic had averaged 5 new cases per day. You'd expect, at that rate, at least 25 new cases with this new report. You have 38, and the difference can be explained by the cluster described in the news report.
WHO is not doing daily updates on the number. They skipped seven days between the 12th and the 19th, and again between the 20th and the 27th. That's how you produce statistical jumps, inconsistant reporting.
WHO has yet to update its web site with these numbers. Another correction to the news story is that WHO is the group that did the reclass.
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phil and Chuck, check out the good news that Islamic tourists (read Mecca) are communicating Polio all th way from Nigeria to Indonesia....I posted it late last night.....ignorance will kill how many?
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I hope you'll forgive me for thinking that little kids getting polio is bad news, no matter what nonsense their parents buy into.
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It is bad news. It's also symptomatic of the society their parents choose to live in.
They're the ones who make their countries that way.
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Here is another report of the family of an infected person fleeing. This is 'normal' human behaviour with killer diseases and a major factor in their spread. For years my hobby was reading first person accounts of historical events and people have always done this.
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Being the low tech sort that I am, I refer you not to a website but to your local public library for the NOVA video on Ebola. Reports from Angola sound exaclty like those from Kikwit. Same reaction, same vectors, probably even similar environment (maybe Angola's a little drier).
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Chuck may well be right that the jump in cases is a reporting artifact. As evidence to the contrary the difference between cases and deaths has also jumped from 20 (where it had been for a week) to 33 in the latest report. This disease is 100% fatal (+/- 1%). Also bear in mind that most cases seem only to be detected when the patient is dead or close to.
The important point is that WHO, MSF and the Angolan government's work to date has not slowed the diseases spread. This means two things. One is that this is going to be a lot harder to stop than WHO and others claim. The other is, a disease spreads where conditions are most conducive to its spread. The more people who are infected and the wider its geographic spread the more likely it is the disease will find its optimum ecological niche. We are dealing with a disease we know almost nothing about and it appears we don't know how to stop its spread.
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Phil, the data just doesn't support this being a big deal for the world. Or for Africa. Given the poor data, the graph still shows a leveling off of new cases in late April. The cluster will create a spike, but not that big of a one, since 25 cases could have been anticipated during the same time to begin with. It's 20:00 EST and WHO still has not updated their web site.
The death rate for the numbers in the story is 89.5%. That's a drop from the last figure of 92.7%. I suspect that the generally poor health and poor health care will contribute to a death rate of 90% or more, but it will be due to those conditions as much as Marburg.
We're not seeing exponential growth in cases. In fact, the latter half of April was nearly flat growth. Typically these epidemics have a second wave, and we may see that, however the cluster should not be used to extrapolate anything significant about the overall epidemic.
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Chuck the WHO is incorrect and arguably deceptive to claim a 90% death rate. To date only one person has recovered and 280 died, with 33 persons whose outcome is unknown. That gives a death rate of 99.5%. The decrease in the death rate you quote is wholly attributable to the increase in cases.
Otherwise, I understand as well as the next person what exponential means. A disease that is increasing in numbers is spreading exponentially irrespective of the rate at which it is increasing. You may well be right and what we are seeing does not mean the disease is increasing, however, I conclude it is. I also understand that any exponential trend will eventually encounter one or more limiting factors. I don't know what Marburg's limiting factors are but based on this data they do not appear to be intervention by WHO, etc.
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The 28th medical symposium — sponsored by Pfizer — for the Pakistan Doctors Group, Riyadh, concluded that more women than men are prone to bouts of depression and migraine in the Kingdom, where a young population base, marital tension and changes in lifestyle have acted as a trigger in inducing these ailments.
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There have been 313 cases detected of the Marburg virus since monitoring of the outbreak, the worst recorded to date, began on October 13, it addedâŠâŠ. Deputy Health Minister Jose van Dunem told journalists that a health team travelled to the village of Ngombe, 150km north of the city of Uige, on Sunday and was told that a woman who had attended the funeral of a relative in Uige had spread the virus to the village. "When she returned to Ngombe, she contaminated 12 other members of her family and they all died," said Van Dunem. A traditional healer who treated many patients sick with Marburg in a town outside of Uige has also died from the haemorrhagic fever, he added.
