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HELL hath no greater fury than a cabinet minister whose career lies in ruins. Peter Mandelson's bid for rehabilitation after his forced resignation on January 24th over his intervention in the citizenship application of two Indian businessmen has little chance of success. But the former Northern Ireland secretary's determination to prolong the affair is likely to damage the party whose new image he helped to create.

Mr Mandelson's friends, with an eye to French history, are calling it a second “Dreyfus affair”, but it seems less than heroic to voters. A poll has shown that Labour is now seen as even more “sleazy” than the Conservatives. According to an NOP survey, 49% believe that Labour politicians “give the impression of being very disreputable”, 2% more than the Tories. That reverses the position before the last election, when the Tories were seen as “sleazy” by three times as many as Labour.

The story will rumble on at least until later this month, when an official inquiry reports on how two Hinduja brothers were granted citizenship. Headed by Sir Anthony Hammond, a former treasury solicitor, the inquiry will also be looking at the actions of the foreign office minister, Keith Vaz, who has admitted lobbying on behalf of the brothers. Home Office ministers are confident that the inquiry will show that the application was dealt with properly and in accordance with established procedures. But the Conservative opposition's front-bench team achieved an easy headline by pointing out that MI6, Britain's secret service, had serious reservations about the Hindujas' application, in view of the ongoing investigation into bribery charges against them in India.

Mr Mandelson has hired Goldsmiths, a law firm, to represent his interests in the inquiry. It has written to newspaper editors warning them against repeating allegations that the former minister lied. But as several members of the cabinet are on record as saying just that, Mr Mandelson will have an uphill struggle seeking to clear his name. One profitable avenue now opening up is autobiography. Publishers are queuing up to get the inside story. One offer is said to be worth £500,000 ($700,000).

Mr Mandelson's friends, who are conducting his defence while he takes a holiday, say that he was subjected to a kangaroo court composed of Jonathan Powell, the Downing Street chief of staff, Sir Richard Wilson, the cabinet secretary and the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg. It is this powerful triumvirate who advised Mr Blair that Mr Mandelson's convoluted story did not add up. Mr Mandelson originally said that he played no part in contacting the Home Office; but he was expressly warned by the home secretary, Jack Straw, only three days before the row broke that there was a record of a telephone call between him and Mike O'Brien, the junior home office minister. When Mr Mandelson was asked on television why he had forgotten this conversation with Mr O'Brien, he replied: “There's no question of my forgetting about anything. I was not asked [about it] until today.”

There appear to be only two explanations for Mr Mandelson's bizarre behaviour. The first is that he genuinely forgot what the home secretary told him about the conversation with Mr O'Brien. Given that the call from Mr Straw was so recent, that is a charitable verdict. A much harsher one is that Mr Mandelson simply panicked when pressed by journalists, and decided to give a less than truthful answer from which he subsequently could never escape. Derek Draper, his former aide, says that his old boss is by temperament a gambler and probably thought he could get away with it.

Whatever the outcome of the inquiry, Mr Mandelson's political career is almost certainly at an end. But his departure will have an impact, over and above a few weeks of excruciatingly bad publicity for the party he has spent his life supporting.

The key relationship in this government is that between the prime minister and the chancellor. Mr Mandelson's departure can only help improve this sometimes strained relationship. His determination to make waves on areas outside his brief, in particular Europe, was a perpetual irritant to the chancellor. The fact that the prime minister had put both of them in charge of Labour's election campaign guaranteed a flood of stories about rows between them in the run-up to the election. Politics and journalism will be duller without Mr Mandelson; life within the cabinet may be calmer.


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SLOWLY, ever so slowly, Japan's politicians have come to acknowledge that they have a problem on their hands. A decade after they came to inspire awe as the world's largest and richest institutions, Japan's banks are in desperate straits. If they honestly admitted the market value of the loans, shares and property they hold, many would be insolvent. The size of the hole staggers the imagination. The latest official figure for the banking system's bad loans, ¥77 trillion ($600 billion), may still be an underestimate, and the gap in life-insurance companies' accounts may be ¥60 trillion more.

This disaster did not arise overnight, but it has taken the Japanese government too many years to acknowledge its seriousness. The reason, of course, is that admitting a big problem necessitates a search for a big solution, and any big solution will have unpleasant political consequences. Only now, their hand forced by the failure of two big investment banks in November and by the increasing reluctance of the credit markets to lend money to Japanese banks, are the politicians seriously pondering a way out. The government says it is ready to spend ¥30 trillion, or approaching $250 billion, to restore the banking system to health.

The banking crisis in Japan, far more than the economic collapses in South Korea and South-East Asia, represents a serious threat to the world. It is badly retarding Japan's own growth. It hinders Japan's ability to buy the exports that other Asian countries must pump out to recover from their own crises. And because no important financial institution elsewhere can avoid dealing with banks the size of those in Japan, Japan's weak banks inevitably put the stability of the world financial system at risk. That the government is at least prepared to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars is a good sign. But why spend so much money without fixing the problem? At present, the cures it is considering make leeches look good.

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As always in Japan, details about the government's intentions are scarce. But the ideas that have leaked into the Japanese press suggest that the government intends to obtain funds mainly by borrowing from the state-run postal savings system, and to use them in two different ways. About ¥17 trillion would go, in some way or other, to pay off depositors in failed banks. The remainder, about ¥13 trillion, would buy preferred stock and subordinated debt in individual banks. This injection of capital would bolster the banks so that they can lend again, addressing the purported credit crunch on which many Japanese now blame a sluggish economy (see article).

While paying off depositors is unavoidable—the Japanese government has long promised its citizens that all of their bank deposits are insured—recapitalising the banks in this way is precisely the wrong remedy for Japan's ills. It would not force the banks to write off and sell assets that have lost value. Portfolios would still be chock-a-block with loans that yield no interest and shares that cannot be sold because their sale would force banks to book a loss. This would leave investors, depositors and foreign banks with only the most opaque view of any institution's true health—no minor issue given that, for all of their troubles, 127 out of 146 banks contrived to avoid reporting net losses in the most recent fiscal year.

Recapitalisation will also interfere with the long-overdue shrinkage of the financial system. Japan lags well behind America and Europe in restructuring its banking sector. Despite miserable performance—from 1987 through 1996, while America's biggest banks earned an average 8.4% return on equity, Japan's earned an average of 1.8%—only a handful of banks have merged or gone out of business. The survival of so many, thanks lately to generous loans from the Bank of Japan, has made it hard for the better ones to earn a decent profit. The onset of financial deregulation will only add to these competitive pressures. The government needs to allow weak institutions to fail rather than helping them limp along. Only if a good bank takes over the assets of a failed one should it be entitled to a shot of public money.

But what about lending? The call to recapitalise banks so that they can lend more shows that many in Japan still misunderstand the cause of the crisis. Japan's banks as a group suffer from too much capital, not too little. Trying to earn a return on this capital is why the banks have lent so freely, driving the prices of shares, property and golf-club memberships to ridiculous heights. Now, with the economy in the dumps, bankers rightly see that borrowers' risks are great and, in the near term, their profit opportunities small. They should be praised for scrutinising creditworthiness at long last, not pilloried for being tight-fisted.

Japan's prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, deserves credit for, however belatedly, putting the ills of his country's financial system on view. Curing them, however, requires steps that Japanese politicians still will not discuss in public: shutting sick institutions, laying their workers off, and wiping out their shareholders. Rather than topping up the banks' capital, the government should use its money to pay off insured depositors as their banks are closed. In return, it should take over failed banks' assets and sell them off—for cash only—to recoup some of its costs. And if foreigners should want to buy the assets, or the remains of the failed banks, the government should be only too willing to take their money.

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VICTORY is not a matter of seizing territory, Dan Halutz once explained. It is a matter of “consciousness”. And air power, continued Israel's chief of staff, affects the adversary's consciousness significantly. Indeed, the very concept of the land battle is “anachronistic”. Lieut-General Halutz, an air-force man, is said to have persuaded Israel's militarily inexperienced prime minister, Ehud Olmert, that the task of destroying Hizbullah in Lebanon was the perfect job for aircraft.

It did not quite work out that way. Yet the seductive idea that air power can provide swift victory with light casualties has been around almost as long as the aeroplane itself.

The belief that a few bombs could spare all the bloody butcher's bill of infantry fighting proved especially appealing to many of the military men—and politicians—who had witnessed the horrors of the trenches in the first world war. Even if it meant inflicting civilian casualties, the prospect of a short, decisive war waged from the safety of the skies was far preferable to the spectacle of “morons volunteering to get hung in the wire and shot in the stomach in the mud of Flanders,” argued Arthur Harris, an airman who rose to become head of British bomber command in the second world war, earning himself the name of “Bomber” Harris for his relentless obliteration of German cities.

Airmen like Harris argued in the 1920s that armies could fight only other armies, whereas aircraft could strike right to the heart of the enemy's territory, crippling its ability and, more important, its will to wage war. Success, it was claimed, would come mostly through influencing the psychology of the enemy. The first chief of Britain's Royal Air Force, Hugh Trenchard, repeatedly asserted that the “moral effect” of bombing “stands in a proportion of 20 to one” to any physical destruction it might cause. Trenchard once even said that not bombing a town could be as effective as bombing it: “The anxiety as to whether an attack is likely to take place is probably just as demoralising as the attack itself.”

Although it was the potential of air power in large wars that galvanised such thinking, airmen were also quick to argue that aircraft could be equally potent in small wars against irregular or guerrilla forces. An early opportunity to put this to the test presented itself in 1919 when the Emir of Afghanistan declared jihad against Britain's forces in the North-West Frontier Province. The RAF shipped a single Handley Page biplane bomber to Karachi. It flew over Kabul and dropped four 112lb bombs and 16 20-pounders. The emir sued for peace shortly thereafter.

The political capital and prestige which the RAF reaped from the incident were enormous. Basil Liddell Hart, a military writer, declared that “Napoleon's presence was said to be worth an army corps, but this aeroplane seems to have achieved more than 60,000 men did.”

The RAF repeated its triumph to much éclat the next year. This time the target was Mohammed bin Abdullah Hassan, the “Mad Mullah” of Somaliland. The mullah, a precocious Muslim fanatic, had been a thorn in the side of the British for decades. He had adopted a particularly puritanical form of Islam after a pilgrimage to Mecca, which inspired him on his return home in 1895 to emulate the Mahdi who had defied the British in Sudan. The British army then sent four expeditions to Somaliland to try to deal with the mullah, the last one involving 15,000 troops. Each time the mullah regrouped. In 1909 his men, waging a jihad against local tribesmen who had accepted British rule, slaughtered a third of the territory's inhabitants.

When the War Office balked at repeating the effort yet again, the war minister, Winston Churchill, proposed to have the RAF do it. Six small aircraft were ferried to East Africa on warships, the mullah's fort was bombed for two days, and a month later it was all over. Churchill crowed in Parliament that the previous land expedition had cost the Treasury £6m—about £120m ($220m) in today's money; the RAF had done the job for £77,000.

But there were hints even amid the glee that the truth was murkier. The mullah was never captured. He and 700 riflemen slipped out of the country only after being pursued by ground forces, whose commander dismissed the airmen's claims of victory as “something of a hoax”. The bombing, he said, had actually made his work harder by dispersing the enemy.

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Something approaching a mystique, though, soon began to surround the claims of the airmen. When, in 1922, the RAF was given the job of maintaining British authority in Iraq by similar means—by then the formal name had become air control or air policing—the airmen insisted that only they were qualified to judge just when and where to strike to achieve the exact psychological effect required to bring insurgents to heel. The local British army commander sarcastically described the RAF “appearing from God knows where, dropping their bombs on God knows what, and going off again God knows where.” He had a point. Although the RAF claimed it could hit the house of a particular sheikh in a particular village, the airmen often failed to get even half their bombs to land within the village at all.

But the saving in money and lives of troops swept aside most criticism. To the objection that little logic seemed to lie behind their choice of targets, the air commanders merely insisted that their real target was a concept—enemy morale and will—rather than any particular physical object. That proved to be a remarkably resilient theme over the decades. “Bomber” Harris, more honest than many of the Allied air commanders of the second world war when it came to acknowledging the imprecision of the bombing technology of the day, conceded that it was not possible accurately to destroy from the air any targets smaller than a few square miles. For that reason, he argued, the right targets to hit were the only things that were bigger—ie, entire cities. This, he insisted, would win the war.

The possibility that air power would make a ground invasion of France unnecessary tantalised some American politicians right up to the Normandy landings. Harris, too, continued to press his case, even during the final planning for D-day. “Harris told us how well he might have won the war had it not been for the handicap imposed by the existence of the other two services,” commented General Alan Brooke, an army compatriot, after one pre-invasion conference of top commanders.

Similarly, 20 years on, when some of Lyndon Johnson's advisers objected that bombing North Vietnam's factories and rail lines would not do much harm to an agrarian country in which industry accounted for only 12% of its minuscule GNP, America's air-force chiefs argued that since its industrial sector was so small, the country was that much more dependent on it, and would suffer all the more if it were destroyed. In fact, the North Vietnamese responded to the bombing of their oil tanks and railways by dispersing fuel across the country in small drums and hauling supplies around on bicycles. But zapping railways, factories and oil tanks was something the air force knew how to do.

By that time bombing, whether effective or not, seemed much more attractive than sending in more troops. As America's ground forces in Vietnam found themselves increasingly impotent against an elusive and resourceful foe, the military commanders proposed endless variations on the same bombing strategy that had so far failed. Johnson one day dressed down the army chief of staff in front of his underlings: “Bomb, bomb, bomb, that's all you know. Well, I want to know why there's nothing else. You're not giving me any ideas for this damn little pissant country. Now, I don't need ten generals to come in here ten times and tell me to bomb.”

The coming of age of precision guidance did sharply change conventional warfare involving conventional armies, as the two Gulf wars showed: aircraft were able to destroy hundreds of armoured vehicles and paralyse Saddam Hussein's ground forces well before they could engage American or British ground troops. And as NATO's air campaign against Serbia showed in 1999, precision weapons can nowadays destroy selected targets, even in the heart of cities, without causing a thousandth of the civilian casualties that were routine in the second world war.

But when it comes to rooting out guerrillas and insurgents, wishful thinking still tends to outweigh technological capabilities. A study of the use of air power in small wars over the past century by James Corum and Wray Johnson, two former professors at the American air force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies, concluded that insurgents and terrorists “rarely present lucrative targets for aerial attack”. Air power has been used to greatest effect in such campaigns only indirectly: to gather intelligence, move troops or maintain communication.

And as others besides the Israelis have found, trying to wage an air campaign against irregular forces is especially vulnerable to the backlash that invariably arises as civilian casualties mount. Since terrorists and guerrillas blend into the civilian population, fight in small units and rely on surprise and mobility, accurate and timely intelligence is crucial, and bad intelligence always results in civilian casualties, sometimes lots of them. Moreover, dropping a bomb in an urban area, even when the intelligence is correct, and even when the bomb is precision-guided, is likely to kill innocent neighbours.

Israel's excellent intelligence in the occupied territories has enabled it to carry out lethally successful precision air strikes against the leaders of Hamas and other outfits there. But even these attacks have often resulted in casualties to bystanders. In Lebanon the Israeli air force found itself in the worst of both worlds, killing civilians without achieving military objectives. No crucial Hizbullah leaders were killed and almost none of their mobile rocket-launchers were destroyed. Only the fixed launchers for their longer-range missiles north of the Litani river appear to have been much damaged.

Not by bombs alone

Israel was hoping, through its use of air power in Lebanon, not just to hammer an irregular guerrilla force; it was also seeking to put pressure on the Lebanese government and others to disarm Hizbullah and secure its southern border. In this General Halutz was said to have been strongly influenced by NATO's war of psychological pressure against Slobodan Milosevic, which aimed to force the Serb dictator to take a specific action—pull out of Kosovo and halt his ethnic cleansing—through an air campaign that kept ratcheting up the costs by destroying power plants, bridges, factories and other bits of infrastructure.

But, in the end, Israel found that even in a war that hinged on psychology and “consciousness”, air power had inherent limitations. In the 48 hours before the ceasefire went into effect, Israel sent a surge of ground troops into southern Lebanon to engage in the “anachronistic” pursuit of seizing territory—precisely in order to create the conscious perception of tangible military victory that air power alone had failed to deliver. The truly smart bomb remains as elusive as the silver bullet.


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SHOULD the future of the European Union (EU), and perhaps even NATO, be put at risk by the quarrels of a small, East Mediterranean island which is home to fewer than 1m people? It sounds crazy, but it could happen. For most of the past 40 years, Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots have been at odds; and their backers in mainland Greece and Turkey have made the quarrel their own. If the two communities' rival leaders cannot make headway in a meeting on December 4th, the first between them for four years, it could yet strain Europe's two main regional organisations themselves.

The trouble in Cyprus started almost from the day that Britain, the colonial power, left in 1960. The pressure for it to quit had come from Greek-Cypriots, eager to unite with Greece. No way, said the Turkish-speaking (and Muslim) minority, outnumbered about four-to-one by the (Christian) Greek-speakers. The result was independence, with a constitution intended to be fair to both groups: a Greek president, but Turkish vice-president, 56 parliamentary seats for Greeks, 24 for Turks, and various rules to stop the minority being over-ridden.

Unfortunately, these arrangements, so fair on paper, never really worked. In the Turkish version of events, the Greeks soon began throwing their weight around. By 1963 the Turks had quit the legislature. But things dragged on until 1974, when Greek-Cypriots, in a fit of folly inspired by the then-military regime in mainland Greece, launched a coup, again aiming for union with the mainland. It failed, but by then Turkey—almost next-door, whereas Greece is hundreds of miles away—had seized its chance. Its army landed, seized the north of the island where most of the Turkish-Cypriots lived, and expelled the many Greek-Cypriots who also lived there.

From that day to this Cyprus has remained divided, physically as well as emotionally. The world still recognises the Greek side as the official government of what is, in theory, a united island. In reality, even the capital, Nicosia (Lefkosa to Turks) is divided and Greek-Cypriot authority extends to the dividing line and not an inch beyond. North of it, power lies, supposedly, with the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”, self-proclaimed in 1983. But that too is largely a fiction: the real power—and money, and defence—comes from Turkey.

Across the line, patrolled by UN troops, the two sides glower, the Greek side quite prosperous these days, the Turks poor and growing poorer, not least because the European Union, in accordance with UN policy, has an embargo on their goods and on any direct travel to their side of the line. The north was once rich; the main historic tourist sites are there. But today it stagnates, its GDP per head perhaps $4,000, against some $14,000 in the south. The obvious answer is for outsiders to force the two sides to talk to each other, and then agree some new arrangement which could be described as unifying the island, and then let the entire island into the EU—which both sides are keen to join.

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Alas, there are two obvious obstacles: Glafkos Clerides, the Greek-Cypriots' long-time leader, and Rauf Denktash, the long-time leader of the Turkish side. Both are old men with a stake in the status quo, especially Mr Denktash, even though his republic is recognised by no country in the world except for Turkey. The UN has been trying to cajole, push, shove, arm-twist and kick the two sides together ever since 1974, and it has failed. The UN idea today is for some form of unity: a bi-zonal, bi-communal state, with two local governments running most of their own affairs and one relatively weak central one for international matters; plus a single central bank.

For a total of some 870,000 people, that sounds plenty. So it should be, and it could even work. But years of UN effort and an outside embargo on the north have not made reality of it. Desultory talks were pursued for years. Last year Mr Denktash even broke these off, once again demanding some kind of international recognition. There seemed no way around the stalemate. Then this November, Mr Denktash changed his mind yet again, and invited Mr Clerides for personal talks. Aided by Kofi Annan's special envoy, Alvaro de Soto, these will start on Tuesday December 4th.

Why should anyone care? If all that was at stake was Cyprus's future, most non-Cypriots would have little reason to take an interest. In fact, there is a lot at stake, because both Greece and Turkey see the Cyprus issue as a key sticking-point between them, and a test of the intentions of their allies. Both countries are in NATO, and Turkey, given its geography, size and Muslim nature, is an especially important member. Greece is also a member of the EU, which Turkey badly wants to join, as does Cyprus itself.

This is why the island's dispute now concerns the entire EU. The EU is eager to enlarge membership eastward to such countries as Poland. Greece insists that Cyprus must be part of the first wave of new entrants, due to come in by 2004—and it is threatening to use its veto over enlargement to stop any country from joining ahead of it. But if Greece does force Cyprus's entry in this way, it would further isolate the already impoverished Turkish northern part of the island, which would not be admitted as well.

Attempts by other EU members to persuade Greece to back down have so far failed. The Greeks remain adamant. For its part, Turkey, already sore because it feels that the EU has not taken its application for membership seriously, has threatened to retaliate if the EU admits only the Greek portion of Cyprus. Bulent Ecevit, Turkey's current prime minister and the very man who sent Turkish troops to the island in 1974, says that Turkey might simply annex the Turkish part of the island. That, in turn, would provoke a clash with the UN, dismay the United States and probably destroy for decades, if not for ever, Turkey's own chances of joining the EU.

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But some influential Turks now think that their Cypriot cousins should be pushed harder to negotiate. Indeed, pollsters say that, despite Mr Denktash, a majority of Turkish-Cypriots now want a federal Cyprus, since joining the EU would make them richer. The main businessmen's association in Turkey, in a fresh departure, is also urging Mr Denktash to give ground. And Turkey's parliament, in a closed session, has been debating the issue—itself a novelty.

A softening of attitudes on both sides would be welcome, not least because if tensions rise some sort of military clash between Greece and Turkey, two NATO members, cannot be ruled out entirely. The two countries have recently enjoyed much warmer relations than in the past, and both seem to want to put aside their past differences. And yet the Turks are increasingly aggrieved at the EU's obvious reluctance to take their candidacy seriously. Many Greek islands lie, in effect defenceless, within sight of the Turkish coast. And Cyprus has always been a flashpoint between the two countries. Should Greece force the EU's hand on the future of the island without some sort of rapprochement between the two groups living on the island, it is just conceivable that a Turkish government might be stung into some sort of hasty military action. This would be a disaster for the alliance. If Mr Denktash and Mr Clerides can compromise, and find a way forward for Cyprus, they would bring great benefits not only to their own peoples, but to the rest of Europe as well.


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8403 GA Hwy 315
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1605 East Oakland Ave
Bloomington, IL 61701
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1000 North Range Ave
Denham Springs, LA 70726
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RigExpert USB-to-transceiver interface (Standard version) Reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.8/5 MSRP: $205.
Description: This is another product created by MixW / RigExpert Team for operating digital modes, voice recording and playback (sound chip is totally compatible with any ham radio software), CAT system, which controls transceiver frequency, mode and other functions of various models of transceivers, FSK operation (crystal-clear RTTY signal) and additional COM port for connecting serial devices such as TNCs or antenna rotors.

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VE3ZPD Rating: 5/5 May 14, 2007 04:42 Send this review to a friend
Great device!  Time owned: 0 to 3 months
Purchased RigExpert Standard after reading a Sound Card review in May 2007 QST.
I have it just for a few days now, but really enjoy it. The installation went completely automatically on my laptop with WinXP. I'm not aware of any other interfaces that come with Microsoft Certified Drivers. MixW2.18 automatically recognizes this device. Manual contains very detailed examples of set-up with the most popular software: MixW, DigiPan, MMTTY and DX4WIN.
Additional Serial port at the rear is a real asset if you need to control older equipment with only COM port, for instance, rotor or TNC controller. And it's really small, much smaller than similar interfaces offered by other companies on the market. Very good product,
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I just received the interface since Saturday 5/5. It was easy to hook up to my Kenwood TS-480SAT and the installation software worked flawlessly. It is nice and small which is a real asset when you are trying to save room in the shack. Documentation was adequate and Yuri is more than happy to help you if you are having a problem.
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I received the RigExpert on December 26, 2006. I have installed it and it seems to work well. It is a very nice Interface and works great with MixW. MixW recognized the RigExpert Standard and did a perfect setup on 2 different computers. All I had to do was tell MixW I was running an Icom IC7000 and all setup was automatically completed. The unit was supplied with a driver CD which also had MixW and a manual. Setup information for other software was supplied to help in a manual setup.
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CAFOD pledges support to people fleeing Congo conflict

By agency reporter
21 Nov 2012

As rebels occupy the Congolese town of Goma, the Catholic aid agency CAFOD has pledged £100,000 to support people fleeing to safety from the conflict.

Rebel group the M23 entered the town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday morning, 20 November 2012, taking control of the airport.

Reports on the ground indicate that tens of thousands of people are fleeing, and hundreds are taking refuge in church buildings.

Deputy director of Caritas Goma Fr Arsene Masumbuko has been at the heart of calls for dialogue as the solution to DRC’s cycle of conflict.

He declared: “Thousands of people need help in my home of Goma and more than 50,000 will need help over the coming days. Caritas Goma, with the help of organisations like CAFOD, is working right now to get non-food items to people in need – tents, cooking utensils, blankets, soap and so on. With partners we will also be providing food and water. We are staying in Goma so we can help the community and the people who need us.”

The M23 is led by two former Congolese army commanders. Fighters belonging to an ex-rebel group, the CNDP, had joined the government army as part of a peace deal in 2009 but defected earlier this year.

Clashes have been ongoing since President Joseph Kabila announced that he would try to arrest one of the commanders, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for recruiting child soldiers.

Church leaders in eastern DRC say that without urgent international attention, the region could once again descend into full blown war.

Fr Masumbuko added: “The people of Congo have suffered repeatedly over many years. They are living in misery and fear, they are helpless, and they feel abandoned. Do not think we are not aware of the problems of the country: the problem of civil protection, social problems, corruption; but we do not want another war and war will not resolve these problems."

He continued: “All parties, all people, must now decide – do we continue with the logic of war or the logic of peace. The Church stands by its constant argument that the solution is dialogue, dialogue between all parties - with the M23 and the international community at the table."

“Instability in DRC is more than instability in one country – if we want peace in this whole region, we must negotiate security and stability for DRC. The instability in my country affects the whole region – it is at its heart. The people have had enough of repeated wars, they want an end to this misery," said the Caritas Goma deputy director.

“The Church right now is shoulder-to-shoulder with the people; we walk in solidarity with them; and this is not just today, but it was yesterday and it will be tomorrow. We will try to bring hope to those who are feeling no hope and we will continue to work for dialogue between all sides. We urge all our brothers and sisters in Britain to join us, and to pray for the peace we need,” he concluded.

With tens of thousands of people fleeing, many are likely to need shelter, water and food as they seek safety. The situation remains extremely volatile, and CAFOD has pledged £100,000 to support local Church partners as they respond to the crisis.

CAFOD’s Country Representative in DRC, Bernard Balibuno, commented: “The humanitarian situation is critical. Thousands of people are fleeing their homes and camps. More than 15,000 people from the Kibumba camp north of Goma have been forced to leave because of the fighting, and are fleeing south towards the towns of Mugunga and Sake with many of Goma’s residents."

“For many previously displaced by fighting, this will be the fourth or fifth time they have had to flee in the last two years. Our long-term partner Caritas Goma has estimated that more than 50,000 people will be in need of humanitarian aid in the coming days. CAFOD is ready to respond to any needs as they arise, alongside our partners Caritas Goma, Caritas Gisenyi and Caritas Bukavu,” said Mr Balibuno.

CAFOD has been working in the DRC since 1995, following the Rwanda genocide, responding to emergencies and helping people to rebuild their lives after the civil war.

In 2008 the CAFOD appeal responding to the Congo crisis raised more than £2.4 million to support people in the east of the country who had been displaced by an upsurge in fighting.

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A Tinseltown producer is bringing original content to Xbox Live users.
Xbox Live currently offers movies and TV content from a variety of studios.
March 31, 2008 by Rachel Cericola

Hello, Hollywood? It’s the Xbox. We need a new hook.

The New York Times says that Microsoft has turned to a big Hollywood mucky-muck to help create original content for the Xbox 360.

The guy they want to get creative is Peter Safran, who was the producer on the Eva Longoria flop “Over Her Dead Body.” He also reps Sean “don’t-call-me-Puff-Daddy” Combs, Nia Vardalos (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”), and Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the writers behind “Epic Movie.”

Safran says he will develop horror and comedy, kicking off with short-attention-span scripted content. Also expect some advertising thrown into the mix. The originals will be exclusive for a while, but could possibly be available via other outlets down the road. The Xbox 360 currently offers movies as well as programming from ABC, Comedy Central, and other networks.

Microsoft says they are working on deals with other content providers. Safran’s first original Xbox shows should premiere this fall.

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Coco Rocha has one of those faces—an exquisite confluence of marble-sculpture-worthy planes and angles punctuated by a big, showstopping, exclamation point of a grin—that once you start looking at it, you can't stop. Little surprise, then, that ever since she sealed her runway-superstar status by doing an Irish jig down the Gaultier catwalk in 2007, the 21-year-old Canadian (with a fashion-perfect name, to boot) has become one of the most in-demand models of her generation. Rocha takes an engagingly playful approach to her job (and to life itself, as fans of her ultra-charming blog, Oh So Coco, can attest), uninhibitedly throwing wild, kinetic shapes for the camera. "It's fun!" she says, during a break from the ELLE shoot. "I've found that the more exaggerated or weird the pose, usually the better the picture."

Rocha's outsize personality makes her a natural for her occasional stint as a presenter on E! Canada, but the model's next extracurricular venture is much more behind-the-scenes. She has recently announced plans to launch her own fashion line, into which she'll channel her "obsession with everything Tudor-era" as well as her love of statement-making vintage pieces. "I want my first things to be really over-the-top," she says, "really wow." In the meantime, however, she's enjoying her "dream" gig, having signed on as one of the new faces of Rimmel London alongside Georgia May Jagger. "As soon as I heard that they were considering me, I started practicing my `London look,' " she says, striking a hammy, Zoolander-esque pout. "I love makeup. I never leave the house without it. I see other models on the street and they're like, `Why do you have eye shadow on?' My answer: `Why not?'"

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Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it's all that hard, it's just because no one has ever shown folks how. It's a lot easier if you have a Media Center PC (MCE), but even if you don't have an MCE, we showed you how to put DVDs on your Portable Media Center when we reviewed the Creative Zen.

Walt Mossberg's most recent Personal Technology column smacked hard on the complicated nature of this as well, but instead of just complaining, we're going to show you yet another way of getting some pretty amazing, scary, and completely random videos from around the web automatically uploaded onto your Portable Media Center.

On a related note, we do think if people don't know how and where to easily get content on their devices, they'll likely turn to file sharing networks and become pseudo-pirates, and now with broadcasting flags stopping any type of recording, this will happen more and more, but that's another story-content _is_ the destination.

This week's How-To will use a video feed (RSS) from BlogDigger, WindowsMedia 10, iPodder, and a Portable Media Center to "BroadSnatch" video from many sources. A couple weeks ago we used RSS and Bittorrent as a way to download large files, to do something similar, but this is entirely new and different. We're calling this BroadSnatching, we'll see if it gets picked up.

Walt says you're only stuck with old baseball and bad movies, which isn't true, at least not for our readers. With our first How-To about getting DVDs onto your Portable Media Center and now with this one about BroadSnatching, you'll fill that 40GB monster up in no time.

For this How-To you'll need a Portable Media Center, we're using a Creative Zen, you'll also need iPodder and WindowsMedia 10. That's about it, as an added bonus you can also add MP3 and other types of feeds as well.

WindowsMedia 10
Download and install WindowsMedia 10, if you haven't already it can be found here.

You can check the version you have by going to Help > About WindowsMedia Player while using Windows media.

Download and install iPodder. The good news is, you don't really need a Portable Media Center you can use this How-To and watch all these videos on a Mac, PC or even Linux, as more video players become available this How-To can serve as a building block to add video to most likely any device, any way—time to configure iPodder.

Download folders
Configure iPodder's downloads to go to a folder called downloads, start up iPodder or double click the lemon in the task bar and click the Preferences tab.

Click browse and add the folder "downloads" if it's not already selected.

Click the Scheduler tab and choose times that make sense based on your connection and likeliness to sync up.

We choose 2 hours, also select "Check for new podcasts automatically" while these are not podcasts (audio files) it doesn't matter, iPodder will work with any files, including video.

RSS (Video feed)
Add the BlogDigger WindowsMedia Feed by typing the following in the Add field:

This a RSS feed, or "Really Simple Syndication", it basically has a list of videos from around the web, other RSS feeds have text news, some have music, other have images or all of this, but this one specifically has WindowsMedia videos ripe for the snatching.

Click Add and then click "Check for new Podcasts". This will go out on the web, check the RSS feed on BlogDigger and then download the videos.

For more about BlogDigger visit their site.

Set up Smart Plalists in WindowsMedia
First, open WindowsMedia Player, click Tools > Options, click the Library tab, click the Monitor folders button and add "downloads" which is in the iPodder directory, this will make WindowMedia look at this folder and fish out the videos that download.

Click the Library Tab. Right click the Auto Playlists and click New.

Name your Playlist "BroadSnatch" hilight (click) "Music in my Library" then click remove.

Click the plus to add criteria, choose "Video in my Library" from the pull down list.

Click the plus, to add criteria, scroll down and click more in the pull down list. Choose Keyword, click add criteria and type "Downloads" where it says click to set. This will pull in all the videos in the Downloads folder.

Click OK, you'll see all your videos now appear in the library.

Right click the BroadSnatch Auto Playlist and click "Add to Sync List".

This will add the files in a new panel called, you guess it, the Sync List.

Sync the Portable Media Center
When you plug in the Portable Media Center it will usually present you with a list of options, if you haven't already choose the following.

Now depending on how much video you have this may take up to an hour to transfer and/or convert the videos.

Watch the weirdness

A bit of warning, perhaps we should have said this sooner, but there's no way to know what you're going to get. Usually we get Daily Show clips, video game trailers, Japanese anime, music video mods, home made movies and many of the popular videos people send each other or post about around the web, oh, and once we got topless boxing.

So, all this being said, it's likely not something you want to play for your kids, but hey, maybe you're kids are cool.

Want a taste? Click here to watch a video (WindowsMedia). WARNING: NOT SO SAFE FOR WORK.

This video is what we recieved on our Portable Media Center last night! The weird thing is, this will show up on our device tomorrow.

Each day we get up to 8 hours of video, it's almost like a video pulse of the world, from videos shot in the Middle East to clips from comedy shows, it's random, creepy and amazing all at the same time.

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broadsnatchingIf you're thirsty for more geeked out videos, here are a couple other feeds. The first is from Microsoft's Channel9 which usually has some great interviews with the engineers and product people from uber-blogger Robert Scoble and the other feed is our test feed here that has a robot dance party, really we're not kidding, it's a dance party with robots.

Also, feel free to post up other feeds you find in the comments here!

Channel9 video feed:

Engadget Video feed test:

So there you have it, with a Portable Media Center you can sync TV with a Media Center PC or something like SnapStream, transfer home videos, watch DVD movies you've converted and now "BroadSnatch" videos, images and music from around the web. So go fill up those drives with RSS on your PMC, ASAP.

Update: There's another application that you may want to try as well, we will cover this in another How-To, but do check it out since it automatically makes playlists.

Doppler can do the same, but without setting up a smart playlist. Doppler will create the playlist for you in Windows Media Player just like it does in iTunes. Basically in Doppler it means: go to the website hosting the video feed. Drag the URL to Doppler, click ok to subscribe. And Doppler 1.1.1 also supports al kinds of other nice goodies, like spacesavers, which can help you to manage your precious disk space.

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Swedish Meatballs recipe

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Makes 6 servings

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This classic goes best with a tart berry sauce.

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  • 1 pound ground beef
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  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 small onion, grated and drained
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons flour (any kind)
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • Lingonberry or cranberry sauce (optional)

1. Combine the first 8 ingredients. Form the mixture into 1-inch balls.

2. Place 3/4 of the butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Brown the meatballs for about 10 minutes.

3. Remove them and most of the fat. Stir the flour and the remaining butter into the pan.

4. Add the broth. Simmer until it thickens, about 2 minutes.

5. Strain it with a sieve to remove clumps. Return it to the pan.

6. Reduce heat to low; stir in the sour cream.

7. Return the meatballs to the pan for 1 minute. Serve with the berry sauce.

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This eye opening dish is mostly flash and very little substance, but the fresh fruit is delicious and good for the digestion.

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Prepare this dish right before serving. Start by cutting up the fruit into bite-sized pieces (this can be done in advance), then soaking the bread cubes in the lemon extract. Anything soaked in lemon extract will burn with a lovely blue/yellow flame — that includes your clothing, the Formica, and this book, so be careful. Stack the fruit on the skewers, interspersing a cube whereever you'd like a flame. Be sure not to put a bread cube too close to the handle of the skewer. When the kebabs are all stacked, light the bread cubes. They'll burn nicely for a few minutes, but be sure to blow them out before trying to eat the fruit. Also, it's probably not a good idea to serve this dish in bed.

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  • 1 teaspoon white truffle oil*

Cook sweet potatoes in large saucepan of boiling salted water until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain. Transfer sweet potatoes to processor. Add cheese and process just until mixture is smooth. Add butter and truffle oil. Process just until blended. Season puree with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.) Stir puree in large saucepan over medium heat until heated through. Transfer puree to bowl and serve.

*Available at Italian markets, specialty foods stores and some supermarkets nationwide.

my notes

Nutrition Information

per serving (6 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
  • Calories254
  • Carbohydrates38 g (13%)
  • Fat9 g (13%)
  • Protein7 g (13%)
  • Saturated Fat5 g (26%)
  • Sodium174 mg (7%)
  • Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
  • Fiber6 g (23%)
  • Monounsaturated Fat2 g
  • Cholesterol19 mg (6%)

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This is about the fifth year we've had sweet potatoes this way for Thanksgiving. They are FABULOUS - why would anyone ever use brown sugar, marshmallows, etc. ever after tasting this recipe!!

by jomman from Minneapolis, Mn on 11/21/12 flag if inappropriate

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main ingredients: Cheese, Root Vegetable, Vegetable, Dairy, Sweet Potato/Yam, Goat Cheese

dietary considerations: Vegetarian

holiday/celebration: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fall, Winter

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