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Many American women who served during WWII had amazing lives - I think it was because even the thought of serving as a member of the military predisposed them towards breaking barriers and taking risks about what they really and truly wanted to do with their lives. And I have to say as regards confidence-building? Getting through basic military training, or assorted specialty and advanced training is terrific for when it comes to installing that in a person. If you can do this - than you can do anything!
An astonishing and wonderful woman. The time to start recording their memories and experiences is now, BTW.
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I think Id read an article about this amazing women a few years back. There was no indication of just how impressive a person she really was.
Reading this piece, I found myself wishing it had been displayed double-spaced. Singly-spaced, Shirley Eleanor Nashs, life accomplishments made me dizzy. As I now forward (it) to my daughter, sisters and ex-wife, they might want to think about re-calibrating the latest gal-power benchmarks. Leading vice Trailing.
We argued about this poll last week, with some growing impassioned about the refusal of Jews to understand their true interests. Y'all may now reconsider your words -- it seems the newspaper that reported the story pulled a "hide the decline" with the data. Here's what really happened:
Haaretz misled readers to give the impression that an overwhelming majority of Israelis see US President Barack Obama as "fair and friendly" toward the country, the newspaper's pollster, Tel Aviv University professor Camil Fuchs, said on Sunday.
Both the English and Hebrew editions of Friday's Haaretz led with the headline "Poll: Most Israelis see Obama as fair, friendly toward Israel." The English edition elaborated near a picture of Obama that "69% say Obama is fair and friendly."
The story itself gives no numbers, but the lead says "A sweeping majority of Israelis think his treatment of this country is friendly and fair." The English edition contains no graphic distributing the actual numbers, either online or in print.
The print and online versions of the newspaper's Hebrew edition included a graphic indicating that just 18 percent of respondents considered Obama "friendly" toward Israel, 3 percentage points fewer than the 21% who called the president "hostile" to the Jewish state. Ten percent did not know, and 51% defined Obama's approach to Israel using the Hebrew word "inyani," which can be translated as "matter-of-fact" or "businesslike," but not as fair.
Fuchs, who chairs Tel Aviv University's statistics department, said he received many reactions from people around the world who were surprised by the poll's headline. He distanced himself from the headline and criticized the way his poll was presented. "What can I do? Only the editor writes the headlines," Fuchs said. "When they write the number 69 together, it is correct but misleading. They could just as easily have combined the hostile and inyani categories and gotten a different large number."
Fuchs was disturbed to hear that the English edition did not include the full distribution of the numbers. He also disagreed with the translation of the word "inyani." When told it had been translated as "fair," he responded: "I definitely would not have translated it as fair. They must have a problem with English."
The story has been removed from Haaretz's online print edition archive. An edition of the story that remains online has been rewritten with no reference to the issue in the original headline. It instead focuses on the 27% of respondents who said Obama is anti-Semitic.
A Likud source called the original Haaretz headline a "trick intended to convince the public to like Obama more and Netanyahu less." Wonder if Haaretz got an e-mail from Rahm and Dave ...
Polls taken over the past week by the Geocartographic Institute for Channel 2's Meet the Press program and by the Dahaf Institute for Yediot Aharonot found that a majority of the Israeli public blamed the American administration for the crisis in US-Israel relations.
Other polls sponsored by The Jerusalem Post and the Hebrew University's Truman Institute have found that Israelis see Obama as significantly more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israel.
Haaretz English Edition editor Charlotte Halle responded that "Haaretz published a fair and accurate representation of the survey conducted by Prof. Camil Fuchs at the request of Haaretz. Any attempt to claim otherwise by another newspaper is false."
"We need another trick to hide the decline," added the English edition editor of the newspaper that quite fairly preens itself on being the New York Times of Israel.
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Why are we even surprised by this behavior anymore?
Carbon dioxide "domes" that form over cities contribute to more deaths in those areas, a new study shows. What, the plants don't like the CO2?
Although the total health impacts of such concentrations of CO2 are uncertain, they are of concern the study concluded. Nevertheless...
"It is estimated that local CO2 emissions may increase premature mortality by 50 to 100 per year in California and 300 to 1,000 per year in the U.S.," the study says.
Conducted by a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, Mark Jacobson, it states that, "Reducing locally emitted CO2 may reduce local air pollution mortality even if CO2 in adjacent regions is not controlled."
The research also highlights a gap in the carbon dioxide "cap and trade" proposal that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in June last year. "If people are doing cap and trade they need to consider where the emissions are going, they can't just blindly trade emissions from someplace where the air pollution is low to where it's high," Jacobson said. So China and India are out?
The study found that local CO2 emissions in isolation may increase local ozone and particulate matter. Measurements in Phoenix indicate that peak CO2 in the city center was 75 percent higher than in surrounding rural areas, while the mean measurement was 38 to 43 percent higher than surrounding areas.
Jacobson's latest research helped California get approved for a waiver that would allow the state to regulate greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. In 2008, then-EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson denied the waiver on the assumptions that there is no difference in the impact of globally-emitted carbon dioxide on California versus U.S. health, and locally-emitted carbon dioxide does not affect air pollution. Makes sense, I think...but then...
The waiver was subsequently passed under the new administration.
The plan would be to replace all emissions--eliminate all air pollution emissions, and climate-relevant emissions--and use wind, water, and sun. Vehicles and industrial processes would need to be converted to electric-and-hydrogen-driven. "Basically anything that doesn't emit carbon and effectively eliminates air pollution," he said. C'mon, NUKES!
Jacobson's current research includes studying aircraft emissions related to climate and air quality, the effects of soot on air quality, and the health impacts of aerosols, and climate response to aerosols.
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Plant more trees along the streets and green roofs on city buildings -- the problem will grow away.
/going to my room now
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That's it. I'm moving to a cave in flyover country. Far away from any doctors and hospitals. And close to bobcats, wolves, bears, and club-dragging conservatives. ;-)
Here on the famous Ark Royal, the flagship of the Royal Navy, a crew of 770 are readying for the multinational Auriga deployment off North America this summer. After more than a year's preparation, and the recent delivery of six Harriers from the Naval Strike Wing, the excitement is intense. But the brutal fact is that the next 18 months are likely to represent the last great adventures for the ship.
Launched in 1985, Ark Royal was designed to carry six Harrier jets. Once the cutting edge of naval and aviation science, a generation later both ship and planes are part of a familiar modern problem: like video recorders and in-car cassette players, they are technologically obsolete.
Though she will work again as a helicopter carrier for a couple of summers, Ark Royal is likely to be decommissioned by 2015.
In the 21st century, it seems aircraft carriers are all a matter of scale. When HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of two new vessels, is launched from Rosyth in 2014, she will be twice the size of the Ark and carry six times as many jets, American-built Joint Strike Fighters. The second ship, Prince of Wales, will launch in 2018, with the same capacity. Assuming either is ever built ...
If these modern carriers are a boon to the Navy, great old names are another thing altogether. Hanging heavy in the air in the Ark Royal's ward room and its messes is the absolute belief that its badge should live on, whatever happens to the old ship.
Off the record, it seems every officer and crewman or woman is keen to let you know that Prince of Wales should have its name changed to Ark Royal.
True, such a move might be problematic; the sensitive matter of naming is dealt with by a sub-committee of the Ministry of Defence. But it is whispered that if the Prince of Wales himself could be persuaded of the sense in preserving a powerful naval tradition, who knows what could happen.
John Clink, the captain of Ark Royal, protests that he will not endorse a proposal to change the name of the second of the two new carriers. Prince of Wales is after all a famous warship name in its own right, and history shows that in the rarefied air below decks, men and women soon get used to the idea of a ship's badge.
Creating a sense of pride begins in the shipyard, argues Captain Clink. "When the ship's company arrive, it's very special. There is a palpable pride. It starts with the badge: 'You're joining HMS Queen Elizabeth? Have the Queen Elizabeth cufflinks?'"
That said, he will admit that when he was informed by the Admiralty that he was to captain a ship, he sent an e-mail saying: "I don't care what one it is -- as long as it has two names."
This "Spirit of the Ark" is part myth, part history. The first such vessel began life as the Ark Raleigh, before it was commandeered by Queen Elizabeth I from Sir Walter Raleigh and became the English flagship at the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
It took more than 300 years for a second -- a converted collier -- to sail from port, but that Ark Royal saw action at Gallipoli as an aircraft carrier. Its successor was even more illustrious, and one of its Swordfish bi-planes crippled the Bismarck in 1941. The fourth Ark never fired a shot in anger but spawned a 1970s TV series, still cheerfully remembered by the older crew. This vessel, the fifth, has seen action in the Balkans and in the Gulf.
Tradition, in other words, looms large here.
At his breakfast table, with his commanders around him, Captain Clink remains phlegmatic about those two words, the name of his ship. He served in Fearless, a vessel that sailed for many years after it was due to be decommissioned. When it finally docked at Portsmouth harbour for the last time, he watched as men in their 50s and 60s lined the quay and cried.
So when this Ark Royal makes its last voyage, will he join the people weeping at the dockside? "Yes," he says with a smile. "Sign me up for that."
But as his senior officers troop off to work, one of them says: "Listen, you never know what might happen." The first Ark Royal was built in 1587, the first Prince of Wales in 1765.
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And the same battle rages in the US over naming our navy's ships. There is no 'Hornet', 'Ranger', Lexington,' just to mention a few. Intrepid is a museum, so naming a successor would be problematic.
Just so long as we never, ever, have a Barry Obama. One question immediately comes to mind if that were to happen : where would it be built and what would the papers say? ( if we could even see the papers)
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...Rumor has it that the America class LHAs will get the great old carrier names, including Enterprise. Way too much precedent has been laid down now for naming CVNs after politicians.
Mike
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Two additional submarines of the Yuri Dolgorukiy class are reported to be under construction at Sevmash -- the Alexandr Nevskiy and the Vladimir Monomakh. A fourth unit is planned.
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Blackadder and the Baldrick are still available, arguably the most famous Englishmen ever.
Just so long as we never, ever, have a Barry Obama.
The way his poll numbers are sinking, a submarine, ala Jimmy Carter, would be a bad idea.
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Don't worry with the looming price of health care, the US will have to cut it's military force significantly. We shall have everything the EU has (problems and all). FOAD Nancy Pelosi
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Very appropriate Lex. Let's go with your selection of ChomskyObamsky. If we plan well enough ahead, perhaps we could convince Rahm to dance Nureyev's 'The Sleeping Beauty' from the bridge as she slips down the quay.
The North Korean national soccer team asked for some W280 million from Swaziland to set up a training camp for its World Cup football team there but has been turned down. The 2010 World Cup is held in neighbouring South Africa.
The Swazi Observer on March 17 said Swazi Minister of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs Hlobsile Ndlovu decided to decline a request from one of the World Cup finalists that wanted to train there for eight days in late April and early May. Ndlovu did not specify what country, but the daily identified North Korea.
The North promised to provide local football players and coaches with a clinic, play a practice match with the Swazi national team, and give an interview to the local press. In return, the North demanded transport, accommodation and meals for its national team. It is not clear whether the 1.9 million lilangeni it demanded was a separate demand for cash.
Meanwhile, a warm-up match with Nigeria in Pyongyang on April 14 is now uncertain due to conflict over who will pay the airfare for the Nigerian team, the Nigerian newspaper Complete Sports reported. In principle, the host country pays the expenses for a visiting sports team, but North Korea wants Nigeria to pay, the newspaper added.
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When in Rome ..
As regards Norks paying for Nigeria to come and play.. If I was Nigeria, I'd just go elsewhere, the Norks need them , they dont need the Norks
Aaah the joys of the footie world cup are just beginning !
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March 22 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel told investors they shouldn't expect this week's European Union summit to agree on any aid package for Greece. EU leaders must not create illusions' for markets by building expectations for Greek aid, she said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk that aired yesterday.
Her remarks came after Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and European Commission President Jose Barroso said the EU should spell out its rescue plan at the March 25-26 summit in Brussels. Papandreou is urging EU allies to announce a package that will help him steer the country's borrowing costs lower and avoid the need for a bailout.
Greece isn't insolvent and therefore the question about assistance isn't the one we need to be talking about now,' Merkel said in the interview. We always talk about the so- called markets that always respond to signals. I think it's important that we don't create illusions.'
Merkel last week signaled Greece might have to turn to the International Monetary Fund for any emergency finance, a shift that put her at odds with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other backers of a European solution to the Greek budget crisis.
Papandreou, who says current borrowing costs are unsustainable, is looking for help as 20 billion euros of Greek debt mature over the next two months. Speaking to members of his governing Pasok party in Thessaloniki on March 20, he said the EU should place the gun on the table, so that the speculators can leave us at peace.'
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And after you are done with the Greece disaster, there is Portugal, and then Spain. And who will foot the bill for these sick financial puppies?
And on a similar note, who will foot the bill for California and other states in financial disaster? Especially when we are all tapped out? Congress? the Chinese?
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Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
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The EU have been playing this silly game with the hedge fund managers for weeks now. It's got them stumped. They don't know whether to short the Euro or not.
At the beginning of the week Barroso and EU financial institutions say they are close to reaching agreement on bailing out Greece, causing the managers to pull back, then at the end of the week Merkel tells Greece what they can do, and hopefully Greek-style until it hurts.
Then at the beginning of the next week the song and dance starts all over again. In the meantime Greece is stocking up on loans at a lower rate of interest and Papandreou is implementing draconian reforms which he can blame on the Steel Lady Chancellor, Merkel.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling center-right bloc has suffered a comprehensive defeat in regional elections that comes as the last major national test before the country's 2012 presidential vote.
As polling stations closed on Sunday, initial estimates gave the Socialist party and its Green allies some 54 percent of the vote at a national level, while Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) won only 36 percent.
According to exit polls, the far-right National Front won just under nine percent of the vote nationwide.
The vote, which saw record low turn-out, will give the left control over at least 20 of the 22 regions on the mainland, leaving only Alsace for Sarkozy's UMP.
The local vote was held to select regional councils, which run local transport and maintain local infrastructure such as school buildings and hospitals.
While French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, a member of the UMP, acknowledged that the poll was "a disappointment," he said that national policy cannot be determined by regional elections.
In the last round of regional elections held in 2004, the UMP won just Alsace and Corsica but the Socialists' comprehensive win did not prevent Sarkozy from being elected president in 2007.
The French president has come under criticism from his own camp over his policies with analysts saying that the feeble economy and growing unemployment rate is taking its toll on the government.
Meanwhile, President Sarkozy said the poll had only "regional ramifications" and was not a protest against his government.
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I would, however, like to inform you, or perhaps remind you, that our domestic laws, both provincial and federal, delineate freedom of expression (or free speech) in a manner that is somewhat different than the approach taken in the United States. I therefore encourage you to educate yourself, if need be, as to what is acceptable in Canada and to do so before your planned visit here. You will realize that Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression.
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I think it would be hilarious for the Canadian "Human Rights" kangaroo courts commission to charge Ann Coulter with a crime. They are already skating on thin ice, and it might break their back, especially if she were to very carefully phrase her speech to break a bunch of their rules, without sounding like it.
And while they were trying to disabuse her, she could continue to savage them in her column, and do her level best to create an international incident out of it.
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Heh, I very much DO hope Ann Coulter hears this vice-rectal's warning, and rest confident in her ability to stick it to him in a very memorable way.
They are already skating on thin ice, and it might break their back, especially if she were to very carefully phrase her speech to break a bunch of their rules, without sounding like it.
One possibility is to phrase everything as "the Canadian Human Rights commissions have warned me not to tell you that muslims are..." so that she can STILL get her point across while claiming that she was only talking about the commissions, not Muslims.
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I would like to see her make a speech where every word was previously uttered by Canadian muslims and then dare Canada to prosecute. A Fitna for the Great White North.
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You will realize that Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression.
Depending on who is doing the reasoning...
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Big whoop - pepper spray grenades! They have only been around for like 30 years, most major police departments in the US have them, including ones that can be fired from standard 12 gauge shotguns.
[Geo News] SHUJABAD: In an unusual incident today, the family of a bride held the groom and members of his wedding procession hostage before subjecting them to torture on a dowry issue. The incident took place in Tehsil Shujabad of District Multan. The tension began when the groom made a demand of 125 CC motorcycle in dowry instead of 70 CC. The demand angered the bride's family, who then claimed that the groom had cheated them by bringing four tolah gold contrary to the agreed 6-tolah gold. The tension mounted between the two sides, leading to a brawl. The bride's party held the groom and his baraatis and linked their release with the return of the dowry, which was already dispatched to the groom's hometown in Bahawalpur. However, police reached the scene and arrested the groom, some members of his wedding procession and five relatives of the bride. The police told Geo News that the detained people would be released once the dowry was returned to the bride's parents.
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[Straits Times] THAILAND was locked in political stalemate on Sunday with demonstrators planning a fresh protest with their own blood after refusing talks offered by the government. Buoyed by a huge parade, the defiant 'Red Shirts' said they would paint a white canvas with blood left over from the gallons donated by supporters and splattered on the prime minister's house and offices over the past week.
'We will depict our fighting in poems and paintings,' Red Shirt poet Visa Kantab told the red-clad crowd gathered at their main rally site in Bangkok's old quarter on Sunday, the eighth day of their protest. 'After we have finished, we will display our artwork on the stage, and after we are victorious, we will frame it as evidence of history,' he said.
Saturday's carnival-like protests, which swelled to 65,000 people, aimed to recruit urban support and revive their waning rally demanding the dissolution of parliament and immediate elections.
Thaksin, who lives in exile to avoid a jail term for corruption, spoke to supporters via videolink on Saturday night, thanking those who took part in the parade. 'I'm really proud of you. I almost cried,' he said. Today I want to invite everyone to join us to call for democracy. You don't have to wear red, but just have one ideology: democracy,' said the ex-premier, who was deposed in a coup in 2006.
Earlier, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the demonstrators had agreed to send two senior Red Shirts to meet one of his ministers and a government official, for talks on Monday arranged by senators. But after their colourful convoy returned to the main rally site, the Red Shirts stuck to their demands for snap polls. 'We will talk only with Abhisit and with the condition of house dissolution,' Mr Nattawut told reporters. He denied that the Reds were 'closing the door' on talks.
Mr Abhisit, who has spent most of the rally holed up in an army barracks due to security fears, said on Sunday that he would not meet protesters immediately. 'They can talk to me but before reaching that step, they must meet representatives to talk about the outline of talks,' he said on his weekly television programme. 'If (the Red Shirts) come it means they are interested in democracy. If not, they are following what Thaksin wants them to do,' he added.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Two Lebanese soldiers took their lives in a double suicide in the same military barracks near the northern coastal town of Batroun on Saturday, an army spokesman said.
"Two soldiers committed suicide separately in their barracks at dawn this morning, around 15 minutes apart," he told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
The spokesman identified the soldiers as Tanios Yammine and Shaheen Bashir, both of whom hail from northern Lebanon, but would give no further details or speculate on a motive.
Lebanon's army, which is no longer a conscript force, has launched an investigation into the rare suicides but ruled out homicide as a cause of either death.
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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.
