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(NAN)Alhaji Namadi Sambo, the former Vice-President, has urged Nigerians to support the government's effort aimed at diversifying the nation's economy.
Sambo, Vice President to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, made the appeal at a Seminar with the theme, "Consolidating Interface between Industry and Agriculture for Nigeria's Sustainable Development" at the ongoing 40th Kaduna International Trade Fair in Kaduna.
Sambo, who chaired the Seminar said that economic policies of the government would soon yield a strong economy that would be less dependent on oil.
He also commended the federal government for improving the Nigerian business environment.
Namadi said the theme was apt as it highlighted the growing interest to strengthen the non-oil sector, especially the two key Sectors, Industry and Agriculture.
According to him, government's measures which includes the customs control on importation of goods and services that can be found or produced within the country is a major milestone towards building a strong economy.
"It is my belief that the seminar will go a long way in generating ideas that will help to developing our private sector thereby boosting the economic growth and development of our country,
"It is through these avenues that solutions will be developed for the factors that are militating against achieving our socio economic development plans," sambo said.
The former vice president said the full implementation of the local content policy and the patronage of the made in Nigeria products must be encouraged and supported by all Nigerians.
He urged Nigerians in both private and public sectors to be more proactive in the effort to strengthening the nation's economy towards faster growth.
"It is through stronger collaborations that such policies will yield positive development towards building a greater nation," he said.
Sambo commended the Kaduna State government for supporting the Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Mines and Agriculture, organisers of the Kaduna International Trade Fair.
The state government support, he said had created the enabling environment for trade and commercial activities to flourish in the state.
He said the tremendous effort of Gov Nasiru El-Rufai to ensure the 215MW thermal power plant and the 30MW Gurara Hydro Power Plant were completed and commissioned would go in noticed.
The two plants, according to him would revive the failed industrial area in Kaduna Industrial Layout.
Sambo who commended the president of the Chamber, Hajiya Muheeba Dankaka said she had been active in ensuring the success of the Chamber in its various endeavours.
On her part, the President of the Chamber said the theme of 40th Trade Fair was chosen to spark up a debate that would complement the effort of government in revamping the economy and to drive investments in agriculture and manufacturing.
"The theme highlights the growing interest to strengthen the non-oil sector especially these two key sectors of industry and agriculture.
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Israel's Manual on the Rules of Warfare (2006) states: "Officers are required to know the rules of warfare and to endeavour to adapt them and apply them to conditions of engagement."
Israel, Rules of Warfare on the Battlefield, Military Advocate-General's Corps Command, IDF School of Military Law, Second Edition, 2006, p. 3.
The rules of warfare are binding upon every soldier in the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] … Headquarters Order 33.0133 (valid from 20/7/1982) requires an IDF soldier to behave according to the directives contained in the Fourth Geneva Convention. For every campaign order that is liable to develop into a situation to which the Geneva Convention might be applicable, and for any campaign order prior to an operation being conducted close to a site of cultural heritage protected under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, these directives will be specified to the soldiers. Copies of the Conventions can be found in all of the IDF's registration offices.
Israel, Rules of Warfare on the Battlefield, Military Advocate-General's Corps Command, IDF School of Military Law, Second Edition, 2006, p. 11.
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The Military Jurisdiction Law defines various offences that constitute a breach of the rules of war. Both General Headquarters orders and the code of conduct require IDF soldiers to comply with the rules of warfare that have been recognised by Israel. Many countries publish a "Guide to the Rules of Warfare" – a collection of guidelines for soldiers covering their conduct in the battlefield.
The Manual on the Rules of Warfare (2006) is a second edition of the Manual on the Laws of War (1998).
In its judgment in Physicians for Human Rights v. Commander of the IDF Forces in the West Bank in 2002, Israel's High Court of Justice stated:
The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] shall once again instruct the combat forces, down to the level of the lone soldier in the field, of this commitment by our forces based on law and morality – and, according to the state, even on utilitarian considerations – through concrete instructions which will prevent, to the extent possible, and even in severe situations, incidents which are inconsistent with the rules of humanitarian law.
Israel, High Court of Justice, Physicians for Human Rights v. Commander of the IDF Forces in the West Bank, Judgment, 8 April 2002.
An Israeli Chief of Staff Order of 1982 refers to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and states: "IDF [Israel Defense Force] soldiers are obliged to conduct themselves in accordance with the directives contained in the above[-mentioned Geneva] Conventions."
Israel, IDF Order of the Chief of Staff No. 33.0133, Discipline – Conduct in accordance with the international conventions to which the State of Israel is a party, 20 July 1982, § 3.
The Order also refers to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property and states: "IDF soldiers are obliged to observe the directives of the said [1954 Hague] Convention, as well as the Regulations and attendant Protocols."
In 2009, in a report on Israeli operations in Gaza between 27 December 2008 and 18 January 2009 (the "Gaza Operation", also known as "Operation Cast Lead"), Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated:
The IDF's [Israel Defense Forces'] emphasis on compliance with the Law of Armed Conflict was also directly incorporated into the rules of engagement for the Gaza Operation. The operational order for the Operation in Gaza specifically stated that "[a]ll IDF activities are subject to the principles and rules of international law." These rules and principles were further detailed in the order, which emphasised four guiding principles that applied in an integrated and cumulative manner: military necessity, distinction, proportionality and humanity.
Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Operation in Gaza 27 December 2008–18 January 2009: Factual and Legal Aspects, 29 July 2009, § 222; see also §§ 209–210.
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Clearing the way for corporate do-gooders
Published 3:09 pm EDT, Friday, May 17, 2013
Where are the corporate "good guys"?
For years, traditional corporate concepts forced boards of directors and company officers, often perceived as money-driven "bad guys," to consider only profitability and shareholder returns in decision-making. While this may be true in certain cases, it is also true that these so-called bad guys can actually be held liable for allowing such external factors as social concerns or the environment to influence decisions affecting shareholder returns.
Modern American consumers, however, drive hybrid cars, eat organic produce and trust companies that claim a commitment to social and environmental accountability. The fundamental incompatibility between the traditional corporate form and the modern preference for environmentally sound and socially responsible products has left many socially conscious companies in the midst of an identity crisis -- shouldn't the companies supplying these products, the corporate "good guys," be permitted to demonstrate their commitment to the same values?
Connecticut is seeking to resolve corporate America's moral dilemma through legislation permitting the formation of a new type of corporate entity, the Benefit Corporation, focused on maximizing social and financial profits. If passed into law, Governor's Bill No. 6356, An Act Concerning Benefit Corporations and Encouraging Social Enterprise, will add Connecticut to a growing list of 15 states that now permit directors of certain corporations to consider not only shareholder profits, but also social and environmental accountability in corporate decision making.
The bill was approved by the House Committee on Appropriations after being reviewed by the Judiciary Committee and the Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis. The bill was introduced by state Reps. J. Brendan Sharkey (D-Hamden) and Joe Aresimowicz (D-Berlin), and Sens. Donald E. Williams (D-Brooklyn) and Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven).
The major characteristics of the Benefit Corporation are: (1) the identification of a corporate purpose to create a material, positive impact on society and the environment; (2) an expansion of the duties of decision-makers to require consideration of non-financial concerns as well as the financial interests of shareholders; and (3) an obligation to report annually on the corporation's overall social and environmental performance using a comprehensive, credible, independent and transparent standard created and implemented by an entity separate from the Benefit Corporation.
The Benefit Corporation combines the traditional corporate model's concern for shareholder profits with the growing concern for social consciousness. But, a socially conscious goal is not enough. Benefit Corporations also must be accountable, through the provision of demonstrable progress.
In 2012, Ben & Jerry's, the famously creative Vermont ice cream company, added its name to the growing list of certified Benefit Corporations. The company, founded in 1978 by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, adopted a corporate mission linked to environmental and social accountability. Accordingly, Ben & Jerry's was active in the fair trade movement, supported environmentally sound practices at local dairy farms and used energy-efficient freezers. In short, Ben and Jerry were corporate good-guys
In 2000, when Ben & Jerry's was acquired by corporate giant Unilever, loyal consumers were concerned that the company's commitment to social values and the environment would be compromised in favor of shareholder profitability. Instead, Ben & Jerry's structured the transaction to maintain the brand's commitment to its original mission. In fact, Ben & Jerry's re-established its identity as a corporate good guy when it became the first wholly owned subsidiary of a public company to become a Benefit Corporation.
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Robyn H. Drucker is an attorney with the law firm Cohen and Wolf, P.C.
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Chiles Residence in Raleigh, North Carolina by Tonic Design + Construction
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Raleigh based studio Tonic Design + Construction has completed the Chiles Residence. The project involved the redesign of an abandoned home from the 1960's.
The property is now a 3,500 square foot contemporary space, designed and built for art collectors John and Molly Chiles. The Chiles Residence is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Chiles Residence in Raleigh, North Carolina by Tonic Design + Construction:
"The modern 3500-square-foot house was designed and built for art collectors John and Molly Chiles. It was constructed on the bones of an old modern, steel-framed and wood-panelled house overlooking Crabtree Creek in Raleigh, NC, that was abandoned in the 1960s.
The original house was in terrible shape: Its wood walls and floors, camouflaged by kudzu and ivy, had rotted. Yet the "bones" were still strong in concept, and the couple saw through the clutter. They were confident that the neglected remains could form the basis for a dramatic new house that would pay homage to mid-20th century modern design.
In form and plan, the new house provides both open perches and quiet retreats on its wooded hill site. Rusted steel panels, white painted steel beams, wood, aluminium, and glass frame views of the landscape and the clients' extensive art collection.
The main level's modern, open floor plan creates loft-like spaces in which low walls, area rugs, and mid-century modern furnishings loosely define boundaries between living room, dining room, office, kitchen, and breakfast area. This plan encourages movement through the various spaces and levels of the house.
The roof garden combines elements that serve, both in form and reason, to counter the clearly defined steel structure and to evoke feelings of height and expansion.
Because her house is sited halfway down a hillside and nestled in a stand of old-growth beech trees, Molly Chiles envisioned the roof deck as a large-scale "table on top of the house" where friends could gather for social occasions in a space with views across the treetops to the distant horizon.
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A gently curving driveway offers ever-changing vantage points to view the house's exuberant form. A steel and ipe wood bridge spans a private walled garden and connects the drive to the front door."
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The five best video game TV shows of all time
Netflix is slaying it with the video game adaptations.
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Netflix has changed the way fans view TV show adaptations of video games. The streaming service has released some of the most well-received video game adaptations on the market, bringing forth a renaissance of video game TV shows. Here are our picks for the best video game TV shows of all time, all of which you can find on Netflix.
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The Best Video Game TV Shows of all time.
Usually, the format of TV works better for a video game than a movie. Video games generally have elaborate lore and lots of characters, which makes it difficult to translate into a two-hour narrative. Shows allow writers to expand on video game worlds that movies just can't dig into as well. After decades of mediocrity, television writers have cracked the case of making engaging video game television shows that fans love, and here are the five best that you can watch right now.
5) The Witcher
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While Witcher technically began as a book series, The Witcher show is based on the iconography from games. The Witcher is equal parts gritty and campy. The monster designs and fight choreography are great, and Henry Cavill excels as the lead character Geralt. The storyline for Witcher contains action, adventure, and romance that make it appealing to all types of people. The show has some major flaws, primarily for its confusing timeline in its first season and the slow second season. Yet, if you are a fan of swords, monsters, and magic, the live-action Witcher is for you.
4) The Cuphead Show!
The Cuphead game is famous for its golden-age-inspired animation and aesthetics. The game truly felt like a cartoon show that aired back in the 1930s or 40s. The Cuphead Show kept that same animation style, delivering a cartoon series that's beautiful and charming. The show is a love letter to old-school animation, celebrating the classics while putting its own spin on things. The Cuphead Show is a great show to view with young kids because of its energetic animation and playful tone.
3) Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Edgerunners may be the only example on this list where the adaptation is better than the game. Cyberpunk 2077 had a problematic launch and needed patches to make it playable. Cyberpunk is a fine game now, but Edgerunners accomplishes everything that the game failed to. Edgerunners makes the world of Cyberpunk more lived in, and the animation from Studio Trigger is excellent. The story of the game is fun and full of action and romance, making the show accessible to a large demographic. The show has received raves from critics and fans, painting a bright future for the Cyberpunk franchise.
2) Castlevania
Castlevania changed everything for video game adaptations. Not many expected an animated show based on the beloved Castlevania games to end up being a masterpiece, yet it exceeded everyone's expectations. The show doesn't pull any punches when depicting the dirty and violent world of Castlevania. The monsters are horrifying, the action is gory, and innocents die all the time. The dialogue is equal parts poetic and crass, with characters often speaking soliloquies that vacillate between poignant and vulgar. Castlevania proved how successful an animated series can be to an older audience.
1) Arcane
League of Legends is more known for its prominent esports presence and toxic fan community rather than its deep storylines. It was up to the writers of Arcane to recontextualize the characters of League to produce a series that not only elevates the material but also presents it to a wider audience that isn't familiar with it. Arcane not only succeeds at elevating the League of Legends story, but it ends up becoming one of the smartest and most beautiful series ever produced. The show effortlessly juggles multiple themes dealing with familial love, mental illness, and the class divide between the rich and the poor. The show is ultimately a tragedy about how people's unwillingness to connect will bring our downfall, ending the first season on an incredibly grim note. Arcane accomplishes more with its first nine episodes than most other shows have been able to do with multiple seasons.


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One night in October of 2010, I arrived twenty minutes early to a Science College lecture at Concordia's Oscar Peterson Hall. I noticed that the Hall connected to their library and walked in.
It was years since I had stepped into the reference section of a university library. The feeling was akin to what you would experience if you had finally bathed in a tropical lagoon after years of living in the desert. There was a 65-volume reference set on heterocyclic chemistry, a CRC handbook that focused only photobiology and photochemistry, a gorgeous astronomical atlas, and a brand new textbook on Chinese herbal medicines.The thought occurred to me that when I retire I will devote a day of every week to devouring such shelves. And if only I could trade all the time I have spent watching and following dishonest athletes for future time in a great library.
When I stepped back into the lobby of the concert hall and into the auditorium, I was treated to the fine wit and enthusiasm of neutron star investigator, Victoria Kaspi. In 1993 when she completed her PhD, Joseph Taylor, her thesis advisor was awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering binary pulsars. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that two neutron stars would emit gravitational waves as they orbit a common center of mass. The waves would carry away orbital energy and cause the two stars to draw closer together. Taylor found that the orbital period of the pulsar system was indeed declining: the two bodies were rotating faster and faster about each other in an increasingly tight orbit. When the prize was announced she said it was the greatest feeling she had ever experienced. (And yes, she does have a life that comes with a husband and children.)
Her energy level did not wane during the question period. I found out that neutron stars have a proton-electron crust. One would think that it is probably responsible for pulsars' intense magnetic field, but neutrons can generate a magnetic field on their own. (She was tired when I asked her about this during the wine and cheese party and reinforced a misconception I had about how a neutral particle such as a neutron should supposedly not generate a magnetic field. But a neutron has a pair of down quarks and an up quark. Their sum-charge is zero, but since each quark is charged, each does a have a magnetic spin number of either (+ 1/2) or (-1/2). Being odd, the quark-trios sum of magnetic spin numbers can never be zero. So a neutron star,even if it did not have a non-neutron crust, would still have a magnetic field.
After the question period, she came to a wine and cheese reception. She literally walked two feet past the entrance only to be swarmed by more inquisitive guests. Almost 45 minutes later, when I finally left, she still had not moved from the spot. She had not had a chance to taste the fine wine or savor any of the vegetables or cheese. Instead she was still conversing with the same intensity she had displayed when she first walked on stage two and a half hours earlier.
The public had come across a true star.
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Q: Extracting small parts of large library (fx boost) I would like to know if there is an automated way to extract a small portion of a large C++ library.
Let's say I only need boost::rational in some project. However entire boost 1.42 takes up 279 MiB!
To keep my project "self-contained" (fx for some school work), I would like to be able to include boost::rational along with my own source. (The idea being, that my teacher should not have to install 1000's of libraries in advance in order to compile)
I know this violates good practice, as it would be better to actually have entire boost installed - but the argument nevertheless holds with other (lesser know) large libraries.
I guess this extraction could be done easily by walking the #include dependency tree of the root #include (like boost/rational.hpp); but has such a tool been made? What's its name?

A: Under Linux you can use the "x" flag to "ar" to extract all the object files from a library.
You can use "nm" to determine what symbols are needed by your code, and which (library) object files define them.  (There is an optional --demangle flag, which might help human's reading the output.)
You could then build a new library consisting of just the object files you needed.  (Via "ar" and "ranlib".)  Or just compile (link) them in directly on the command line.
It's a simple matter of scripting to find the symbols missing from your (compiled) object code, and then which object files from the library define them.  And then of course what symbols are missing from those library object files that require other library files...  And the ones that are missing from these new library (object) files...  And so on.  And so on.
It boils down to a lot of work for (usually) far too little gain.    Especially when you get into things like Weak Symbols, Indirect References, etc.

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A coffee break in the United States and elsewhere is a short mid-morning rest period granted to employees in business and industry. An afternoon coffee break, or afternoon tea, often occurs as well.
The coffee break originated in the late 19th century in Stoughton, Wisconsin, with the wives of Norwegian immigrants. The city celebrates this every year with the Stoughton Coffee Break Festival. In 1951, Time noted that
"Since the war, the coffee break has been written into union contracts"
The term subsequently became popular through a Pan-American Coffee Bureau ad campaign of 1952 which urged consumers, "Give yourself a Coffee-Break – and Get What Coffee Gives to You" John B. Watson, a behavioral psychologist who worked with Maxwell House later in his career, helped to popularize coffee breaks within the American culture.
Coffee breaks usually last from 10 to 20 minutes and frequently occur at the end of the first third of the work shift.
In some companies and some civil service, the coffee break may be observed formally at a set hour. In some places, a cart with hot and cold beverages and cakes, breads and pastries arrives at the same time morning and afternoon, an employer may contract with an outside caterer for daily service, or coffee breaks may take place away from the actual work-area in a designated cafeteria or tea room.
More generally, the phrase "coffee break" has also come to denote any break from work. Coffee was initially used for spiritual reasons. At least 1,100 years ago, traders brought coffee across the Red Sea.
At first, the Arabians made wine from the pulp of the fermented coffee berries. This beverage was known as qishr (kisher in modern usage) and was used during religious ceremonies.
Coffee drinking was prohibited by jurists and scholars meeting in Mecca in 1511, but the subject of whether it was intoxicating was hotly debated over the next 30 years until the ban was finally overturned in the mid-16th century. Use in religious rites among the Sufi branch of Islam led to coffee's being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed.
Coffee, regarded as a Muslim drink, was prohibited by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians until as late as 1889; it is now considered a national drink of Ethiopia for people of all faiths. Its early association in Europe with rebellious political activities led to Charles II outlawing coffeehouses from January 1676. Frederick the Great banned it in Prussia in 1777 for nationalistic and economic reasons.
"concerned about the price of import, he sought to force the public back to consuming beer"
Quite a number of members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church also avoid caffeinated drinks. In its teachings, the Church encourages members to avoid tea, coffee, and other stimulants.
Abstinence from coffee, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near-unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of coffee drinking, free from confounding factors.
One study was able to show a weak but statistically significant association between coffee consumption and mortality from ischemic heart disease, other cardiovascular disease, all cardiovascular diseases combined, and all causes of death. For a time, there had been controversy in the Jewish community.
Whether the coffee seed was a legume and therefore prohibited for Passover. Upon petition from coffeemaker Maxwell House, the coffee seed was classified in 1923 as a berry rather than a seed by orthodox Jewish rabbi Hersch Kohn, and therefore kosher for Passover.
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Gemma Champ has been appointed as Acting Editor for La Femme, covering maternity leave for Pinpoint Media Group's Group Editor, Jola Chudy. Working remotely from the UK, Gemma will oversee all content until Jola's return on October 19, 2014. Having previously lived and worked in the UAE, Gemma has specialised editorial experience in luxury fashion for various UAE and international titles.
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Guernsey's politicians vote to reject assisted dying
Those behind the call were disappointed but not surprised when it failed
Guernsey's government has rejected proposals that may have seen assisted dying legalised in the future.
Had it been approved, the island could have become the first place in the British Isles to allow assisted dying.
After a three-day debate, the proposals were rejected.
The plans would have prompted a lengthy consultation period before a legal framework was presented back to the island's politicians.
More on Guernsey's assisted dying debate
However, politicians did agree to a review of palliative and end-of-life care due to an anticipated "substantial increase" in healthcare needs for the island's ageing population.
"Measures necessary to improve quality of life and health outcomes for all islanders towards the end of their lives" will be investigated.
Politicians who supported the introduction of assisted dying said they were "disappointed" with the result, although described it as "not entirely unexpected".
Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying which campaigns for assisted dying in the UK, said despite the defeat the debate had shown there was "immense public support for change".
Reaction to the debate:
Our response to today's votes can only be 'V'là qui vaout!' Thanks to all who supported our campaign. We hope we may now come together as a community to improve end-of-life care in #Guernsey, & give true protection & dignity to all Islanders! À la perchoine! #PauseAndProtect pic.twitter.com/ahcJ2nlULU
— Care for Life Guernsey 🇬🇬 (@CareforLifeGG) May 18, 2018
#Guernsey votes against Euthanasia (sorry Assisted Dying). Well done. It is always a slippery slope
— Derrick Roberts (@degsyroberts) May 18, 2018
Good to see that the States of Guernsey has decisively rejected, by 24-14, the latest attempt by campaigners to legalise #AssistedSuicide in the British Isles. Follows similar heavy rejection in the UK Parliament in 2015.
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Commenting on social media, Sarah Griffith who runs the charity Bridge2 in Guernsey, said she would be becoming a member of Dignitas as a result of the vote, adding "I was hoping I would not have to make that decision but now I have to."
She added that it was a shame it had taken assisted dying proposals to prompt the States of Guernsey to improve its palliative care programme.
Anti-euthanasia campaign group Care Not Killing said it welcomed the "powerful rejection" of the proposals.
The group's campaign director Dr Peter Saunders described the plans for assisted dying as "dangerous" and said island politicians had recognised "the erosion of so called safeguards" in other places which had allowed assisted dying, including the US.
Deputy Gavin St Pier, the island's most senior politician and champion of the proposals, said: "The important thing is we've brought this topic up the agenda, it hasn't been debated (in Guernsey) for 14 years, we've now had a debate, a conclusion has been reached - we accept that result."
Heidi Soulsby, president of the Committee for Health and Social Care, said although rejecting the proposals was right, she does not know anyone who would be "pleased" with the result of the emotive debate.
During the debate she said she was sure an assisted dying regime "would eventually come to pass" in the island, but now was not the time.
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Colleges commit admissions fraud by ignoring the lack of a GED or high school diploma or by helping students obtain invalid high school diplomas.
To qualify for financial aid under Title IV, students must show that they are qualified to enroll in a college or vocational program. One of the criteria requires students to show that they have obtained a high school diploma or GED.
However, some schools, in efforts to enroll as many students as possible regardless of their qualifications, have admitted students into their programs who have invalid high school diplomas or even no diploma or GED at all. These schools then unlawfully collect federal financial aid monies for students who lack the credentials necessary to be successful in a post-high school field of study.
School employees who know about such admissions fraud can file a lawsuit on behalf of the federal government under the False Claims Act. Such lawsuits help the government recover funds that are fraudulently obtained and to put an end to these illegal practices. Under the qui tam provisions of the Act, a whistleblower is entitled to recover a percentage of the government's recovery.
Enrolling students without high school diplomas.
A whistleblower lawsuit filed in Atlanta, Georgia, by four former employees alleges that for-profit American InterContinental University (AIU) enrolled students lacking high school diplomas. Some students were even unable to read.
The suit also alleges that the college fraudulently obtained its accreditation. Schools must be accredited by an organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for their students to qualify for federal aid. According to the allegations, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) placed AIU's accreditation on probation in 2006, citing concerns that the school violated the federal ban on compensation incentives for recruiters and failed to require that students hold high school diplomas.
A week before the accreditation agency was scheduled to visit the campus, employees were instructed to hide relevant documents. After the school's accreditation probation was lifted, the unlawful practices continued, with university officials instructing enrollment counselors that quantity of students, not quality, was the school's goal.
Enrolling students with invalid or questionable diplomas.
A Keiser University campus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, enrolled 74 students between 2009 and 2010 who held high school diplomas from an online Texas school called "questionable" by the U.S. Department of Education.
The Texas Attorney General subsequently declared the online school a "diploma mill," and the school was temporarily shut down by a federal district court in El Paso.
Colleges have a financial incentive to ignore the Title IV requirements for federal financial aid.
Because federal financial aid is so important to the financial condition of for-profit colleges, they have a serious financial incentive to ignore the requirements for Title VI student financial aid—which include a GED or valid high school diploma. Whistleblowers have an important role to play in uncovering this fraud.
With a national presence and in-depth experience fighting fraud against the government, Waters Kraus & Paul, LLP's qui tam attorneys, provides aggressive representation of whistleblowers in qui tam actions and related complaints. The firm currently represents whistleblowers seeking to recover funds on behalf of the federal and state governments in a variety of cases, which may involve defendants such as large pharmaceutical companies, government contractors, school district contractors, and hospice and nursing home care providers.


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Q: OpenCV Python cv2.VideoCapture.read() returns wrong images I have just started using OpenCV 2.4.8.2 in Python 2.7.6 on a MacBook Pro Retina running OS X 10.9.2. My main goal is to make a video file using a few NumPy-arrays. I would also like to do the inverse: decompose a video into separate frames (and consequently in NumPy-arrays).
To make a video, I use the following piece of code:
import cv2

# Composes a movie from separate frames.
videoMaker = cv2.VideoWriter("videoTest.mov", cv2.cv.CV_FOURCC('m', 'p', '4', 'v'), 1, (256, 256))
if (videoMaker.isOpened()):
    videoMaker.write(cv2.imread("videoTestFrame0.jpg"))
    videoMaker.write(cv2.imread("videoTestFrame1.jpg"))
    videoMaker.write(cv2.imread("videoTestFrame2.jpg"))
    videoMaker.release()

This piece of code seems to work fine - videoTest.mov is created, can be played in Quicktime, is 3 seconds long and consists of 3 different frames.
To load a video, I have put directly under the above code piece:
# Decomposes a movie into separate frames.
videoReader = cv2.VideoCapture("videoTest.mov")
count = 0
while True:
    gotImage, image = videoReader.read()
    if (gotImage):
        cv2.imwrite("videoTestDecomposedFrame%d.jpg" %count, image)
        count += 1
    else:
        break

The problem: When inspecting the 3 decomposed frames, the first frame of the movie (videoTestFrame0.jpg) is not one of them, while the last frame of the movie (videoTestFrame2.jpg) is stored twice.
How can I fix this problem and retrieve videoTestFrame0.jpg from the video without having to modify it by putting in this first frame twice? Might something be wrong with cv2.VideoCapture.read()? I have tried saving the movie as videoTest.avi instead of videoTest.mov, but the behavior at decomposition is the same.
Thanks in advance for your kind help! Martijn


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Pastor criticises church leaders' 'hypocrisy'
Updated: 25 Feb 2018 - 10:13PM
Rev. Joseph Abraham speaks at the Church of the Nazarene service in Arnos Vale on Sunday. (iWN photo)
A Christian cleric has criticised church leaders in St. Vincent and the Grenadines over what he described as their hypocrisy.
"I remember a few years ago, … Son Mitchell was addressing a group of people – [former] Prime Minister [James] Mitchell — and he said to Vincentians 'Bat, but don't score.' And boy, Vincentians thought that hell was going to come to St. Vincent. I heard ministers get on their versions and everybody was criticising him.
"But here in our country today, there are many things that as ministers we can talk about but we are not talking. We are not talking," the Rev. Joseph Abraham told members of the Church of the Nazarene in St. Vincent on Sunday.
"Hypocritical behaviour and action do not mean that you're are present," he told Nazarenes gathered at their church in Arnos Vale for a service in appreciation of Superintendent of the Windward Islands District, the Rev. Kelron Harry.
"If your presence means a lot, you cannot be hypocritical," he said in the message based on 1 Timothy 3:1-7, a portion of scripture that focuses on church leadership.
"One thing cannot not be wrong because it is my party out of power or my pastor in the leadership or my sister leading the choir and then it's wrong if it's somebody else's sister. It's hypocritical, it's unethical."
"We need to learn [that] church, party, friendship, family, has nothing to do with morality and ethics. And if Jesus had sat down and only spoke when it touched his toes, he would not have gone to the cross," he said in the message delivered under the rubric, "Your presence means a lot".
Abraham, who has been a minister of the gospel since 1977 and lived and pastored in North America for decades before relocating to St. Vincent a few years ago, said that the church universal "is under very intense attack.
"Every day, you can hear or read verbal and written attacks. Some of these, we merit them. Some of these, the devil set us up. Some of these we create," he said.
He said that over the past few weeks he came across a number of unfavourable headlines about church leaders.
A few examples are: "Pastor impregnates girlfriend and then dumps her", "Prophet causes couple to divorce", and "Pastor says he is worth millions".
"There is this pastor who is too holy to walk on the ground, because the ground is contaminated. So when he comes to church, the members of his church have to lie down and he would walk on them," Abraham.
He said he saw an advertisement a few weeks ago for "miracle water" for sale.
"These are the sorts of headlines that we have to push back against. These are the things that bring shame to God and bring shame to what we stand for."
Abraham said that when church leaders are ruled by "sinful, unethical and hypocritical nature, you will find this kind of behaviour exhibited in the church".
Abraham said God desires that "as leaders we be above reproach and that our lives be exemplary.
"God never tell us that everybody has to love you. If everybody loves you, you are dead. That's the time when everybody loves you. But if you have a standard and you are a certain man of moral and ethical qualities, there will be many who would be against you, but you have a right to stand up for what is right. You have a right to live a life that glorifies God and speaks the virtues that God has placed in you, because that is the way God is going to build his kingdom."
The pastor said that Christian leaders must live exemplary lives.
"You can't preach one thing and live the other. Your focus cannot be on one thing and then you are not concerned about the other…"
He said that God has appointed pastors not to be in the news or on television but to be his servants.
Speaking about the characteristic that an influential leader who is building God's Kingdom should have, Abraham "mentioned character of the heart".
Elaborating, he said, "Every leader's influence is temporary… but however big our church may be, let us make sure that our character, the thing that makes us who we are, the thing that when people cut us they can see, is developed the way God wants it to be."
He also spoke of trustworthiness.
"When the people cannot trust their leader, we are in trouble. It is our heart that makes us what we are, not our possessions, not our eloquence, not our ability to gain friends. People will come to your church if they know you love them. It is our heart."
The pastor said that character includes moral integrity. "That is, adhering to conventional standards of conduct. Speak the truth. Live the truth. 'Let your light so shine before men that they will glorify your father.'
"Don't ever make a church member say, 'The pastor who gave me a ride home is different from the pastor I know in the pulpit.' You understand what I am talking about?
"'The pastor who visited me is different from the pastor that preaches and gives communion. We must have moral integrity. Integrity is the qualification of being honest, having strong moral principles. Integrity is moral uprightness. Integrity does not allow us to choose or make our stand based on what somebody may think of us. You make your stand based on the word of God."
Abraham said that many Christians were martyred "but they stood up because they believed and trusted God."
Superintendent of the Windward Islands District of the Church of the Nazarene, Rev. Kelron Harry. (iWN photo)
Addressing the congregation, Harry said that church transformation is important.
"I believe that we need to ensure that our churches are relevant," he told the Nazarenes, adding that members should ask themselves if their congregations would be missed if they were to disappear from their respective communities.
"Church transformation is fulfilling the great commandment of Jesus Christ. The Great commandment is to love God with all your heart mind and strength and love your neighbour as yourself. If we recognise or if we love our community, we will transform," said Harry, who last year became the first Vincentian to lead the Church of the Nazarene in the Windward Islands District, which also includes St. Lucian and Grenada.
"We cannot have churches where persons are becoming more wealthy and our churches are becoming more wealthy but our communities are becoming more poor. What I mean is that we should use our resources to affect our community. Our churches should be so transformed to meet needs," Harry said.
"… We will want to be a church that meets the needs of our people. We will not just exist to serve the purpose of those who are in.. We would want to look out at the communities around us and transform to suit," he said, adding that he is not talking about changing basic Christian principles.
"I am talking about the way we do things. We have to understand that we have a changing community around us so we will have to change to suit. Paul says I become all things to all men so that I may win some.
8 replies on "Pastor criticises church leaders' 'hypocrisy'"
26th February 2018 at 10:35 AM
Is this really news? Who cares what these self righteous false prophets think anyway? I guess that they will tell you Jesus spoke to them. Just a bunch of show men and con artists!!!!
Brown Boy USA says:
27th February 2018 at 1:02 PM
So who would you believe then, only Jesus Christ himself? The pastor has a point. Read the article again! He is saying the churches are demonstrating a high level of hypocrisy, which I totally agree.
Reader what makes you different from them?
BIG youth says:
Rev Abraham, you have spoken truth and I know you will be chastised for it. Too may church leaders find themselves in the pockets of politicians and are in too deep to be concerned about the morally crumbling society around them. The very same prophets spoken of in the Bible, whom they speak of in many sermons, used to go into palaces and call out many powerful kings and queens for their wrong doings. Right was called right and wrong was called wrong regardless of who was involved. Church leaders need to realize that they answer to a higher power than any dime a dozen politician.
Ariston says:
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Enough is enough says:
Timely message… I pray those who have ears hear!
Bruce shortte says:
Amen my brother words of wisdom a bishop must be a bishop and a man of GOD must be a man GOD , GOD stand by his word and he who preach the word must stand by it that is right .
Ras iZubah says:
27th February 2018 at 10:25 PM
At least this guy owns up about their own hipocrisy and spiritual enslavement Doctrines.


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Did Corinne Vote For Trump? 'The Bachelor' Contestant Makes A Telling Reference
By Mariella Mosthof
It would be pretty difficult for Corinne to make herself look any worse this season as the Season 21 villain on The Bachelor. But she dropped a Make America Great Again reference during the cocktail party after the Backstreet Boys group date, which begs the question: did Corinne vote for Trump? We do have a few clues. For instance, Corinne does hail from Florida, a state Donald Trump just barely won in the 2016 election, with 48.6 percent of the vote. But Corinne is from Miami, which is a heavily blue county. Hillary Clinton won Miami-Dade County by a whopping 24-point margin over Donald Trump.
Corinne isn't particularly politically active on social media, so neither her Instagram nor her Twitter account hold any clues about her political leanings. But she is paying close enough attention to know how to make a MAGA joke. Her comment came after another deeply awkward and kind of forced one-on-one interaction with Nick in which she heavily led with her sexuality. Corinne dressed up in a trench coat with nothing underneath and gave Nick a playful show with some whipped cream during a cocktail party. It was definitely bold and a little uncomfortable-looking, but Nick maintained that he appreciates how confident and in touch with her sexuality Corinne is. Fair enough!
Corinne, however, got interrupted by one of the girls and wound up feeling super embarrassed with the execution of her sexy surprise. The next day, she got to go on the first group date of the week, which just so happened to be a private dance lesson with the Backstreet Boys, followed by performing as their backup dancers during a concert. Corinne is not a dancer and she spent another day feeling hideously insecure. Finally, she snatched Nick away at the cocktail party (again) and was able to check in with him regarding his feelings for her. After being reassured by him, she triumphantly announced to the camera during a cutaway interview, "I made Corinne great again!"
She was probably just feeling some frantic energy after getting to "fix" her earlier awkward moment and made an off-the-cuff joke out of excitement. It's not exactly an endorsement of Trump, and, truthfully, I would be surprised to learn that Corinne was politically motivated enough to vote at all. But there's definitely an element of "maybe," considering how cheerfully she rattled off the Trump-Pence campaign slogan. Plus, it would be a political alignment very fitting of a Bachelor villain.


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Would you consider the atomic bombs a war crime?
Discussion in 'Atomic Bombs In the Pacific' started by thecanadianfool, May 5, 2012.
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It is one of the most frequently asked questions regarding the war, were the dropping of the two Atomic Bombs "Fat man" and "Little boy" a war crime after all?
There are many different ways to look at it, for example
Concidering the fact that thousands of woman and children, (civilians) for that matter were incincerated in a split second. The people farther away from the blast were likely blinded by staring at it and/or diagnosed with extremly high amounts of radiation poisioning and died anywhere from hours to days at a time.
Since these were civilian targets wouldn't this be concidered...immoral?
It's understood that if the Americans launched Operation Downfall (The invasion of the Japanese mainland), millions of young men would have died and Stalin (who also had plans on invading Japan) would have likely sent troops there too, this would have caused even more tension between these two superpowers (USA and the USSR)
So yes the bombs saved the lives of millions of young Americans, but it also took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians.
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A "War Crime"? NO, not a chance.
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Directly under the bomb there were ~5,000 soldiers lined up for morning parade. The bombs were intended to cause dreadful damage in order to prevent even greater dreadful damage.
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I agree with Clint and Biak. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not a war crime.
I strongly recommend reading the long thread somewhere on this forum (I forget the name of it) that examines this in detail. To quickly summarize my stance:
-Operation Downfall would have resulted in the deaths of millions of people -- both Japanese and Allied. Military personnel would not have been the only casualties. Japanese civilians were trained to fight the allies with anything and everything at their disposal, and do so until their death. 'Downfall' called for an amphibious assault from the south, and then onto Tokyo -- a long slog north over hundreds of miles of Japanese homeland. The battle would have been the bloodiest campaign of the war. Okinawa and Iwo Jima are an indication of how desperately the Japanese would have fought to protect their homeland. However, unlike the latter, Japan would have been able to use every resource at her disposal to fight 'Downfall' -- including her damaged air force, navy and kamikaze corps. Logistics would have been simplified and likely would have been more effective as it would not necessarily involve convoys that were easily wiped out in earlier 'island hopping' campaigns. In short, the Japanese would have opposed 'Downfall' to the death, would have been more motivated and would likely have been able to fight more effectively than they had in the past.
-Yes, the bombings killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. As unfortunate as this was, a demonstration of atomic weaponry was the only way to force the Japanese hard-liners to surrender. In the months leading up to the bombings, the Japanese cabinet was split between those wanting to reach a peace settlement and those wanting to fight on. The latter were steadfast, and would not change their positions. Without a show of force harsh enough to force the hard-liners to change positions, Japan would not have surrendered.
-Hiroshima and Nagasaki were cities that had military infrastructure and industries. Notably, Hiroshima was home to the headquarters of the 2nd Army, which commanded the defenses in Southern Japan. The 58th Army was also based here. Hiroshima Bay was a naval installation, and the Japanese Naval Academy was located on an island in the bay. Additionally, Hiroshima was an important road and communications junction. Both cities were untouched by conventional bombing because both were designated as potential atomic bomb targets. Had the bomb not been used, both cities would have been wiped out by conventional carpet bombing (most likely using firebombs) anyway. The cities were not merely the test grounds for a science experiment -- they were militarily significant, and would have been destroyed anyway.
I could add more, but I think that covers the important points.
George Patton, May 5, 2012
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While the Japanese suffered tremendous casualties from the blast and the after effects you need to remember; manytimes that number would have been lost in the ensuing invasion of the home islands.
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Atomic bombs can be considered a war crime in the same sense that the first caveman resorted to a club to whack his enemy. What is criminal is not the weapons but the irresponsible behaviors that lead to and cannot be stopped without the use of the "weapon of choice". If you study history, what you think today as your moral judgement for what is criminal and what is not criminal is as changing as the weather over time. I like to think we are advancing in this regard but one can also argue that our development and application of devices of war are also changing as each day goes by.
I strongly recommend the old threads be read in full to see why it has been so strongly established that the nuclear bombs actually saved lives on both sides of the conflict and the decisions to use the bomb were made after assessments of the predicted reactions and the assessed losses of life from the two "kinds" of fighting. It was clear that the prolonged conventional weapons fight would have been so much longer it proved to be a deadlier solution. Because it was as carefully assessed by leadership at the time it can be seen that the decision was an "Honorable" decision much to the chagrin of those who only cast shallow and ill-researched conclusions about the subject. There is enough data readily available in the historic facts of this argument that clearly establish this conclusion if one chooses to inform themselves on this subject. So often it is that the casting of stones in this matter finds a great deal of popularity as people even have tried to gang up on this argument only to slowly have to face the facts of this situation as they get revealed. This need not allow us to be insensitive to those individuals who suffered dearly for the use of these weapons. There is no greater sadness than to lose human life in any form of suffering while nations are engaged in warfare. No argument succeeds with me, in glorifying warfare as a means of settling differences. It is always better if we spend enough time, effort, and money or whatever it takes short of war to prevent the human loss of lives as a suggested solution of a conflict. Indeed I think war in fact does not always settle the problems but does delay the solutions to our human conflicts. What can be glorified is the soldiers contribution to his own kind to preserve his family, kindred and people in the lives he wishes to protect from unjust attack. I am highly inspired by those who serve the just causes for their own kind. In this we remember well the knights in shining armor that forms a root of human admiration in society today. It is in that spirit I hope to honor and make our veterans feel appreciated for their contributions that have preserved our efforts towards a righteous pursuit of the ideals held in our founding papers of government. Those who asked the thread question I encourage your thoughts on this matter, especially if you pursue them to a point of knowledgeable conclusions based on the known facts.
Victor Gomez, May 5, 2012
After reading the others posts I guess I should explain why I answered with a one word reply. This subject has been discussed and will continue to be discussed, forever. For some very good explanations check this out :
Atomic Bombs In the Pacific
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I liked your first answer better!
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Is this reappearing again ?
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Yes it is and I think we all remember what happened last time.:stickpoke:
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NO – The USA had to make a swift end to suffering of millions in Asia and at Pacific!
Regarding this subject, let me paraphrase Golda Meir (London, 1969):
"When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Japanese for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons."
Tamino, May 5, 2012
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Why the A bombing but not all the campaign? Fire bombardments over the japanese cities were far more deadly than the A bombing ... those days A-bomb was more a technical change in the way to make the job than a moral matter. (MAX Hastings' .. "What would you have done?"). A diferent point of wiew , maybe a matter of a what if ... The allies just do NOT invade Japan, but blocked the country ... How many people would have killed the famine? Nowadays ... How would be the live of the current janpanse population? ... May be like the North Korea's population.
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efestos, May 5, 2012
The atomics were less deadly in the short run than conventional bombings had been on the Japanese home-islands. Unless you believe that the fire-bombings started by the Germans is also a "war crime". It might be, but nobody was ever charged let alone convicted of a war crime in WW2 for any bombing campaign, whether simple explosives, or incendiary (fire-bombing). The "rules" were too loose to claim a war crime had been committed. And really only actions in war which have been defined as "outside" civility are defined as "War Crimes". But many of those have been delineated for centuries.
I would add this old post/thread in which I participated to more clearly define my position here.
http://www.ww2f.com/wwii-general/31563-i-found-three-links-atomics.html
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The simple answer is "no". The Japanese "civilians" were being urged to fight and many were prepared to do just that. In addition, many war industries were spread out among the population. They were hardly innocents. There are other threads which deal in some detail with this topic. Many are referenced above. I would urge you to read them before you bring up the topic again.
LRusso216, May 5, 2012
Agree. Every Japanese was being ordered to die for the homelands and the Emperor. School girls were being given wooden awls and instructed to stab the Gaijin in the groin. The IJHQ decided to decentralize the war industries, when meant the bombing was decentralized as a result.
War ain't purdy.
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No. What would have been a war crime, is if US could have but did not end the war sooner and thus sentenced to death hundreds of thousands of its own citizens as well as hundreds of thousands (if not millions) peoples all over the Asian part of the world. The only people who committed war crimes was the Japanese Army and government. First by murdering by the millions and then not giving up when it was too late. They were ready to murderer millions of thier own just in the name of their own selfish honor.
tomflorida, May 6, 2012
For a few, Strategic Bombing is a war crime. A smaller number view the Atomic's as war crimes by virtue of how they kill. I do not ascribe to either notion.
It is worth noting that no one, on either side, was ever charged, convicted or punished for the bombing of population centers. Despite the fact that both sides, and pretty much every nation that had a plane and crew did so. The only element seperating the Axis from the Aliies was a matter of scale and efficentcy, not morality. Bombing of population centers along with unrestricted submarine attacks and artillery barrages of cities were accepted military actions, period.
As for the inhumanity of the Atomic's, dead is dead. If you perished in moment by incineration, or over days from being crushed by rubble, you were just as dead. Fire house's, water mains, bomb shelters and other life saving or rescue centers were as likely to be destroyed/damaged in a conventional bombing as they were by atomic's. Again the only real difference was that 6 planes (only one actually a armed bomber) could do what it took hundred's planes to do before.
Well into the early 1960's, Atomic's were still aimed largely at population centers because delivery systems were still pretty crude in reguard to accuracy. Only with targeting improvements and the ability to construct smaller warheads has there been a movement to see them used 'discreetly' on purely military targets. The rub is that even with this, many 'purely military' targets are too close to population centers for this to mean all that much.
If you were to go down to the sub-basement of the Pentagon, a half dozen door's down from where the Roswell Alien Autopsy Report's are kept, you will still find war plans that call for nuking of major cities. These range from a single city "I'm Warning You" strike to the "Now you really Ticked Me Off" packages. Russia has them, China too and every other country with a Nuke and a delivery system has them as well.
The WWII War Crimes trials were as much about convincing ourselves that humanity was not as morally corupt as it appeared to be, as it was about seeking justice from the guilty. The sad truth is that mass murder, ethnic cleansing, Starvation, torture and experimentation that were declared outlaw then, have been repeatedly done right up to today. It matters not if you are an serviceman beheaded by a Jihadist or a Bataan prisoner beheaded by a Japanese officer. The calender may change, but not human nature.
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No....But a search of our previous discussions will tell you many of our reasons for those on both sides of the argument...What am I on about, there is no argument.
But I'll ask anyway...is it the weapon itself or the amount of people killed in one attack that is the controversy?
How many were killed in other forms of bombing missions in that and other theatres...So I'll answer my own question...Its the weapon rather than the numbers killed or how killed that seems to be most peoples problem.
I get fed up stating I'm anti bomb always will be...that ironically does not preclude me stating that the 2 bombs were dropped in good faith...strange sentence but I'll stand by it.
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