IED stands for improvised explosive device; this could be anything that is retooled to create an explosion like old mortar rounds, unexploded artillery shells, and usually incorporates some kind of shrapnel designed to operate like a hand grenade or claymore once it explodes, the shrapnel could be anything from nails, pellets, bolts or even rocks. ... The way JIEDDO attacks the network is by improving intelligence gathering on possible IED affiliates and placement as well as forensic and surveillance methods. ... This strategy includes 2 parts training men on how to recognize and defuse the ma...

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As provisional it was as no other age has been provisional, an age of assimilation and recuperation, a political pause, a gathering up of the ideas of men and the resources of science for a wider human effort. ... The ideal they sustained was the ideal of a polite and polished world in which, men of quality, that is, for no others counted would be ashamed to be cruel or gross or enthusiastic, in which the appointments of life would be spacious and elegant, and the fear of ridicule the potent auxiliary of the law in maintaining the decorum and harmonies of life. Voltaire had in him the possibil...

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Athenian democracy was limited to only male citizens of at least twenty years, for this reason the central event of the ancient Athenian democracy where the recognised Athenian citizens gathered to deliberate and vote on the affairs of the polity constituted only men who were not disenfranchised (Thorley).This gathering was known as the Assembly or Ecclesia. ... According to Held (2006), the ancient democratic city-state was considered a unique political community because it attempted to enable the men express and transform their understanding of the good through political interaction and par...

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