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Sanguinaria canadensis
Sanguinaria canadensis L.
Papaveraceae (Poppy Family)
USDA Symbol: SACA13
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Photographer: Faucette, StevenCity: Walhalla
County: Oconee
State: SC
Location Notes: Station Cove Falls Trail
Accession date: 2008-10-07
Filename: SF_IMG0006.JPG
Slide Index: bloodroot4.jpg
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Collection: Wildflower Center Slide Library
Original Format: 35 MM
Orientation: Landscape
Shot: Flower(s)
Date Taken: 2007-03-14
NPIN Image Id: 26196
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XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint - add pleasant whitespace to a DOM tree
my $document = XML::LibXML->new->parse_file('in.xml');
my $pp = XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint->new(indent_string => " ");
$pp->pretty_print($document); # modified in-place
print $document->toString;
Long XML files can be daunting for humans to read. Of course, XML is
really designed for computers to read - not people - but there are times
when mere mortals do need to read and edit XML by hand. For example, if
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Syntax highlighting helps, but to really make sense of some XML, proper
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your XML, you should probably not use this module.
Constructs a pretty-printer object.
* indent_string - The string to use to indent each line. Defaults to
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* new_line - The string to use to begin a new line. Defaults to
* element - A hashref of element categorisations. Each
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callback functions. Element names may use Clark notation.
my $callback = sub {
my $node = shift;
return 1 if $node->hasAttribute('is_block');
return undef;
my $pp = XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint->new(
element => {
inline => [qw/span strong em b i a/],
block => [qw/p div body html head/, $callback],
compact => [qw/title caption li dd dt th td/],
preserves_whitespace => [qw/pre script style/],
Callbacks should return 1 (true), 0 (false) or undef (dunno).
Constructs a pretty printer object pre-configured to be suitable for
HTML and XHTML. The indent_string and new_line options are supported.
If you just need to use a default configuration (no options passed to the
constructor, then you can call these as class methods, unless otherwise
Strips superfluous whitespace from an `XML::LibXML::Document` or
Whitespace just before, just after or leading/trailing within an
inline element is not considered superfluous. Runs of multiple
whitespace characters are replaced with a single space. Whitespace is
not changed within an element that preserves whitespace.
The node is modified in place.
`indent($node, $level)`
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children to `$level + 1`, grandchildren to `$level + 2`, etc.
Typically you'd just want to indent the root node to level 0.
The node is modified in place.
Elements that preserve whitespace are not changed.
`pretty_print($node, $level)`
Strip whitespace and indent. The node is modified in place and
Example use as a class method:
print XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint
Returns the string that would be used to indent something to a
particular level. Descendent classes could override this method to do
funky indentation, such as having varying levels of indentation.
Returns the string that would be used to begin a new line.
Returns EL_INLINE, EL_BLOCK, EL_COMPACT or undef.
Boolean indicating whether the contents of the element have
significant whitespace that needs preserving.
Returns undef if $node is not an `XML::LibXML::Element`.
`print_xml $xml`
Given an XML string or an XML::LibXML::Node object, prints it nicely.
This function is not exported by default, but can be requested:
use XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint 0.001 qw(print_xml);
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Did government health officials "cry swine" when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu?
The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that's not how public health officials see it, calling complacency the thing that keeps them up at night.
The World Health Organization added a scary-sounding warning Thursday, predicting up to 2 billion people could catch the new flu if the outbreak turns into a global epidemic.
Many blame such alarms and the breathless media coverage for creating an overreaction that disrupted many people's lives.
Schools shut down, idling even healthy kids and forcing parents to stay home from work; colleges scaled back or even canceled graduation ceremonies; a big Cinco de Mayo celebration in Chicago was canned; face masks and hand sanitizers sold out — all because of an outbreak that seems no worse than a mild flu season.
"I don't know anyone who has it. I haven't met anyone who knows anyone who contracted it," said Carl Shepherd, a suburban Chicago video producer and father of two. "It's really frightening more people than it should have. It's like crying wolf."
Two weeks after news broke about the new flu strain, there have been 46 deaths — 44 in Mexico and two in the United States. More than 2,300 are sick in 24 countries, including more than 800 U.S. cases. Those are much lower numbers than were feared at the start based on early reports of an aggressive and deadly flu in Mexico.
Miranda Smith, whose graduation ceremony at Cisco Junior College in central Texas was canceled to avoid spreading the flu, blames the media.
"It's been totally overblown," she said Thursday.
"Everyone seems to know it's not going to kill you and it's not as deadly as they think," she said. "Everybody needs to just calm down and chill out."
Craig Heyl of Decatur, Ga., said the government overreacted.
"Swine flu is just another strain of flu. People get the flu. I guess you have to call it a pandemic when it's a widespread virus, but I don't think the severity of it is all that concerning," said Heyl, 43.
Public health authorities acknowledge their worst fears about the new virus have not materialized. But no one's officially saying it's time to relax. And experts worry that people will become too complacent and tune out the warnings if the virus returns in a more dangerous form in the fall.
"People are taking a sigh of relief too soon," said Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Besser said the outbreak in the United States appears to be less severe than was first feared. But the virus is still spreading and its future potential as a killer is not clearly understood.
"The measures we've been talking about — the importance of handwashing, the importance of covering coughs, the real responsibility for staying home when you're sick and keeping your children home when you're sick — I'm afraid that people are going to say, 'Ah, we've dodged a bullet. We don't need to do that,"' Besser said.
"The thing that's keeping me up right now is that feeling of dodging the bullet," he added.
Peter Sandman, a risk communication specialist, says on his Web site that reminding people the risk is still real and warning them in the future if a pandemic looks imminent "will be extremely difficult."
"Swine flu looks to be an extremely mild pandemic if it goes pandemic at all, despite WHO warnings that it may 'come back with a vengeance' in the fall. People are going to be very, very skeptical," Sandman wrote.
That concern is shared by infectious disease specialists. But elsewhere, especially online, talk of hype is rampant.
"If I hear 1+ person freaking out because of the "Swine Flu" they won't have 2 worry about dying from it. I will kill them w/ my handbag!" read a comment Wednesday on Twitter.
"Adults are acting like a bunch of crybabies in a B-rated science fiction germ-outbreak movie, wringing their hands, whining about what to do next," Dallas Morning News reader Mark Thompson wrote in a letter to the editor posted online Wednesday.
Kari Carsey Valente of Lake Oswego, Ore., had similar thoughts in a letter on the Oregonian newspaper's Web site.
"Is the daily front page body count really necessary? In reading the entire content of the collected articles one learns that the H1N1 strain is not likely to be more lethal than its predecessors. Give it a rest — and lots of liquid!," Valente wrote.
Colt Ables, 22, an economics major at the University of Texas in Arlington, said he thinks the Obama administration overreacted and unfairly tried to make it seem as if Republicans have been soft on preparedness.
"This shouldn't be about politics or about hyping up a virus to send the American people into a panic. Do yourself a favor, wash your hands and turn off the TV," he wrote in a campus newspaper column.
Whether the media overhyped or accurately reported the dangers is a toss-up, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll published Thursday on Americans' views of the media's flu coverage.
The May 5 poll also found that concern about the flu peaked a week ago. But even then, only 25 percent of Americans said they worried about getting the virus.
Dr. Robert Daum, a University of Chicago infectious disease expert, says authorities acted properly when news first broke about the new flu strain.
"It's like overcalling a snowstorm in Chicago. You want the plows out even if it's only going to snow a flake," Daum said. If not, and a blizzard hits, "there will be an outcry like you've never seen before."
Still, Daum says authorities have been a bit awkward in "downshifting" now that it appears the U.S. situation isn't dire.
"I think it was right to place everyone on high alert, and now right" to say it's time to calm down, Daum said.


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By Tyler Durden
Well that was quick: Italy is about to be acquainted with the old Asian saying that a "known devil is better then unknown angel", especially when the angel is a Prime and Finance minister (two for the austere price of one) working purely on the behalf of offshore banker interests. As Reuters and Corriere report, thousands of Italians took to the streets in several cities on Thursday to protest against what they called a "bankers' government" led by economist Mario Monti, and there were clashes with police. Students in Italy's financial capital Milan threw firecrackers at police trying to prevent them approaching the Bocconi university, which is chaired by Monti and has become a symbol for the new executive of technocrats he has formed to tackle Italy's debt crisis. Police responded by charging the students with batons. One journalist was injured by a firecracker, police sources said. The students also threw eggs and fake dollar banknotes at the building of the Italian banking association. "We don't want the banks to rule" and "Monti's government is not the solution," the students chanted." Well as long as it is only the students who feel this way, all is well. If, however, the anti-Monti sentiment is shared by more, which it is, then the technocratic government will be lucky to survive three weeks… forget 2013. And the greater the revulsion, the bigger the Stockholm Syndrome nostalgia for Berlusconi will be. If we were betting people, we would speculate that Silvio's chances for reelection are soaring with each passing minute.
More from Reuters:
There were also protests in Turin, Rome, Palermo and Bari, with demonstrators targeting universities where some of Monti's ministers used to teach, bank branches and tax offices.
In Turin, clashes broke out between police and thousands of demonstrators including anarchists trying to approach the local headquarters of the Bank of Italy.
Police said several people had been injured, including a policeman. Some of the protesters chanted: "Smell of austerity" and "Monti will all make us beggars."
A collapse of market confidence has pushed Italy to the brink of financial disaster and driven up its borrowing costs to unsustainable levels.
Monti's cabinet is made up of a mix of academic specialists and experienced administrators and includes Corrado Passera, the chief executive of Italy's biggest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, as industry minister.
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The snow trapped Jeremy R. Taylor, but taco sauce saved his life.
It all began last Sunday when Taylor, along with his dog Ally, went to get gas for his Toyota 4Runner, according to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office in Bend, Oregon.
Taylor told investigators his SUV got stuck in the snow. He then fell asleep and woke up Monday to even more snow, unable to get out of the vehicle. He tried to walk out Monday, but the snow was too deep and made it hard to walk so he and his dog returned to vehicle, the sheriff's office said.
Sunday had been the last day he was seen, the sheriff's office said. By Wednesday, a missing person's alert was put out for Taylor, according to CNN affiliate KATU-TV .
Over the next few days after initially getting stuck, Taylor told authorities he stayed warm by "periodically starting his vehicle and used a few taco sauce packets he had as food," the sheriff's office said.
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On Friday, a snowmobile rider called 911 saying they had seen Taylor. Authorities responded with an Oregon Water Resource SnowCat, a construction vehicle, and were able to dig out Taylor and his dog.
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The debate over whether global warming is natural or manmade is an artificial one: scientists know that both factors can affect the planet's temperature. The real question is which factor is doing the heavy lifting — and a new report in Nature released Wednesday says that on the Antarctic Peninsula, at least, human-generated greenhouse gases have almost certainly been by far the most important driver of warming over the past half-century.
Scientists are intrigued with this corner of the world because it's warming faster than anyplace else on Earth. The planet as a whole has heated up by about 1.3°F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5° in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and penguin colonies to collapse.
Antarctic Peninsula
Heat trapping greenhouse-gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past. If the kind of warming happening now also happened before we started burning fossil fuels, it would cast doubt on the human contribution.
What the scientists discovered, however, removed any doubt. "We found that the peninsula has been warming for the past 600 years," said lead author Robert Mulvaney, of the British Antarctic Survey, in an interview. "But the rate of warming has been much faster during the past century, and fastest over the past 50 years."
The currently skyrocketing temperatures, in short, are very likely the result of human-caused warming, which is superimposed on a natural climate variation. "Asking whether it's natural or caused by humans is silly," said Eric Steig, of the University of Washington, who wrote a Nature commentary on the new research. "We've changed the atmosphere so dramatically that it has to be mostly human. The only question," he said in an interview, "is how large the human influence is relative to other things."
Given the rapid rise in recent decades, the answer seems to be "pretty large," but emissions from the burning of fossil fuels may only be part of the human contribution. Another is almost certainly the infamous ozone hole that opened up over Antarctica in the 1980s, and which is still there. The loss of stratospheric ozone has changed the local energy balance in the atmosphere, which in turn has changed wind patterns, bringing warmer air to the Peninsula. "The ozone hole alone would have caused some warming," Steig said.
The disintegration of ice shelves is clearly caused by warmer air, according to Steig. "It's clear from satellite images that the breakups are preceded by the appearances of large ponds on the ice surface," he said. "The meltwater then drills down, turns the ice into Swiss cheese."
Warm water, by contrast, is the problem in other parts of Antarctica — at the Ronne-Fitchner Ice Shelf, for example, to the east of the Peninsula, or along the Antarctic coast to the west. In both cases, however, the melting of ice that reaches the sea allows ice further inland to flow faster, boosting the overall transfer of ice from the continent to the ocean and adding to the rise in sea level. (The same thing is happening in Greenland).
Unlike some other scientists, Mulvaney declined to comment on whether the warming will continue. "I cannot say for sure," he said. But he did say that when he started doing Antarctic research several decades ago, he was a climate skeptic. "Not any more," Mulvaney said. "You can't keep doing this year to year and decade to decade and not become a very strong believer."
"You can look at one particular location and say 'oh, it's happened before,' " Steig said. "But this is one of the very few times you can say it's warming all over the planet."


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AMSAT Wants Amateur Satellites Off US Munitions List
AMSAT has asked the federal government to confirm that the Amateur Satellite Service will not be subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), as a result of export control reforms now underway. In May the US Department of State Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) proposed changes to the US Munitions List (USML) Category XV (Spacecraft Systems and Related Articles). The changes redefine satellites that would remain under the USML. Satellites removed from USML would be transferred to the Department of Commerce Commerce Control List (CCL).
"We ask that the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls explicitly confirm that satellites, ground equipment, and associated technical data for items pertaining to the Amateur Satellite Service are not subject to the ITAR when the new Category XV provisions are implemented," AMSAT said in comments filed earlier this month "Over the past 43+ years AMSAT has been integral to the development of Amateur Radio communications spacecraft based upon the model of an all-volunteer organization that follows 'open source' practices and creates spacecraft that are very low cost, which also reflects relatively low levels of sophistication compared to commercial satellites," AMSAT said.
A related set of AMSAT comments went to the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), which has proposed creating a separate CCL category for satellites formerly under ITAR. AMSAT asked that Amateur Satellite Service spacecraft and associated equipment be separately categorized and controlled, given the significant differences between commercial and Amateur Satellite Service spacecraft.
"We ask that the Department of Commerce recognize the relative impacts of regulatory oversight on small, not-for-profit scientific and education organizations such as AMSAT and to find ways to mitigate these impacts on both AMSAT and our volunteers," AMSAT said. AMSAT suggested creating a separate category for Amateur Satellite Service; allow a license exception for "deemed exports" for Amateur Radio satellite design and construction, to permit a "free exchange of ideas, software, etc pertaining to Amateur Radio satellite design and construction when interacting with foreign nationals who are citizens of nations listed in the License Exception Strategic Trade Authorization Country List, and focus export licensing requirements only on the export of hardware.
AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, and AMSAT Congressional Liaison Peter Portanova, WB2OQQ, took on the task of drafting comments in response to a combined 105 pages of bureaucratese drafted by the DDTC and the BIS. Former AMSAT President Bill Tynan, W3XO crafted initial comments as a starting point.


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Modern Classifieds / Re: Star Wars Kubricks chases and some other stuff
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Grievous' kidnapping of Palps is already in CW 2D, and is pretty outstanding actually. I'm kind of cool with that being the way they go with everything and not stepping on it.
Ha ha nice one.
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One of the most bitter congressional races is in the suburbs of Chicago, where controversial freshman Republican Joe Walsh is fighting to keep a seat he was actually drawn out of.
The Tea Party favorite's bombastic rants frequently get him into trouble, even with members of his own party, and Walsh is facing a tough Democratic opponent in Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in combat.
When the two political opponents get together, it doesn't take long for the fireworks to begin. They've battled over spending cuts, taxes, Medicare, social security, and in a recent debate on public television, Walsh's opposition to abortion, without exception.
"Not for rape, incest, or life of the mother," Duckworth said of her opponent. "He would let a woman die, rather than give her—"
"Now Ms. Duckworth, that's not fair," Walsh interjected.
After that debate, Walsh told reporters that abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother.
"There's no such exception. With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance," he said.
After being called inaccurate by medical groups, Walsh backtracked. To Tammy Duckworth, the comments are part of a pattern.
"Unfortunately, this is Mr. Walsh," Duckworth says. "He has repeatedly said many things that are inappropriate, many things that are not true, and that he continues to say things that are very irresponsible, especially in a sitting congressman."
Indeed, Walsh stands out among the freshman class of Tea Party-backed Republicans much more for what he's said than for anything he's done.
Walsh has called the president a tyrant and idiotic, and he's suggested Duckworth is not a true war hero because she talks too much about her service. He's even berated constituents at town hall meetings.
Walsh has insisted he is not a loose cannon. "There are times when I've gotten ahead of myself and whenever I've felt like I've stepped over the line, I've tried to apologize," he said at a debate.
But Walsh says he has no regrets, adding that most constituents he meets appreciate his brand of straight talk.
"I think we're all sick of politicians who poll test every single word that comes out of their mouth," he says. "This country is broke. This great, good country is dying right now. I'm an odd duck in that I'm not driven by my re-election."
In a way, Walsh has nothing to lose. The former political activist is getting only limited support from his own party, and Democrats have targeted Walsh from the start.
They carved Walsh and almost three quarters of his old district out of Illinois' Eighth, and made it one that not just leans more Democratic, but a district that would favor Duckworth in particular. She ran and narrowly lost six years ago in a neighboring district, much of which is now in this new district.
Conservative superPACs and tax exempt groups have come to Walsh's rescue, however, airing a steady drumbeat of negative ads attacking Duckworth.
Duckworth has plenty of money on her own side, and has hit back at Walsh — hard.
The latest Chicago Tribune poll shows Duckworth leading Walsh by 10 points.
Political scientist Alan Gitelson at Loyola University of Chicago says Democrats see a symbolic opportunity in defeating Walsh.
"Knocking him out would certainly be a very strong message that the Tea Party can't hold onto all of the candidates they hope to hold onto in the House of Representatives," Gitelson says.
Joe Walsh's seat is one of five Republican congressional seats in Illinois that Democrats hope to pick up, and in a race that has been nasty from the start, constituents should only expect the mudslinging to intensify in its final days.
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Seventh Central Pay Commission-Revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners Notional Fixation: Shortcomings and common error/mistakes listed by PDCA (Circular No. 177)
O/o The Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pesnion), Draupadighat, Allahabad – 211014
(Subhash Kumar)
Dy.CDA (P)
O/o The Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pesnion), Draupadighat, Allahabad – 211014
Important Circular No. C-177
No: G1/C/0199/Vol-II/Tech
To, ———————————–
(All Head of Department under Min. of Defence)
Subject: – Implementation of Govt's decisions on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission-Revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners, etc.
Reference: – This office important circular no. C-164, bearing no.G1/C/0199/Vol-I/Tech, dated 30th May 2017 .
Attention is invited to above cited circular wherein all HOOs were advised to submit the LPC-Cum-Datasheet to PCDA (P) Allahabad for revision of Pension/ Family Pension of all pre-2016 pensioners with effect from 01.01.2016.
2. Of late, it has come to notice of this office that following common errors/mistakes are being made by the HOOs while initiating/forwarding above said LPC-Cum-Datasheet. These shortcomings are main cause behind avoidable delays in revision of pension causing of hardship to the pensioners.
i. Annexure-A :- Common errors/mistakes in claim(LPC-Cum-Datasheet) for revision of pension/family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016 in respect of 7th CPC recommendation.
3. In view of the above, you are requested to issue suitable instructions (along with copy of this circular) to all the Head of the Offices under your administrative control to ensure that these Common errors/mistakes may be avoided while initiating/forwarding the LPC-Cum-Datasheet in r/o revision of Pension/ Family Pension to this office.
(Subhash Kumar)
Dy.CDA (P)
1 Hardcopies of claims are being received without softcopy in CD.
2 A number of claims (Hardcopies) are being received alongwith scanned image/pdf of LPC instead of M S Access utility.
3 Few Head of the offices are forwarding M S Access utility alongwith only scanned image/pdf of LPC only. No hardcopies are being received.
4 Hardcopy-softcopy record mismatch- The major problem is being faced in uploading of data into system due to the reasons that softcopy contains more number of records than for which hardcopies received in that particular batch and it is difficult to reconcile records before uploading into the system for processing.
5 CD containing soft-copy are not being received in CD mailer resulting into number of CDs received as broken in this office.
6 M S Access utility containing only single record in each utility and each CD are being received instead of all the records in one/two utility. For example:- One Head of the office has sent 21 claims along with 21 CDs i.e. one CD against each claim.
7 Claims are being received without obtaining HOO code.
8 Last pay and retiring pay scale are not being entered into LPC-Cum-Datasheet corresponding to pay commission when individual retired in Pay Detail portion.
9 Instead of claims in one or two batch; piecemeal batches containing only 10-15 records are being received.
10. During uploading, it has been observed that structure of fields in MS Access Utility provided by this office has been modified by HOOs at their own, which results into in-correct uploading of data into the system, Hence, it is requested to not to temper/modify fields/structure of the Utility provided to you by this office.
11. Claims are being forwarded in piece meal batches, it is therefore requested to forward the batch containing at least100 cases.
(Raj Bahdur)
Sr. Accounts Officer (P.)
Sr. Accounts Officer (P.)


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The letter says they don't care what the FDA label says about storage and temperature, they are shipping insulin without cool packs. Well that is a loose translation. A translation in the spirit of uglycemia is more like: "FU. We're saving a few cents."
How hot do you think a delivery truck gets in direct sun on a few 78 degree days?
Here's copy:
In the mean time feel free to catch up on YDMV's experience with Caremark, weather and insulin shipments. Oh and these had cool packs but were on a slow truck from New Jersey. The three part Mini Series is here:
Caremark Saves You Money
Third Time Hold the Charm
46 Degrees of Separation
So here is what has got me ticked off, well other than We-Don't-Care-Mark's actual existence, Lilly the wonderful makers of Humalog lobby their opposition to "middlemen whose interest are making money – not patients" ie no cheaper Canadian imports. They Lilly are the ones on file with the storage requirements at the FDA. Anyone think they will stop selling to CVS/Caremark?
So what can we do? Here is what I did, please copy and paste and send it or something like it to Lilly and your Congressional Representative:
Timothy J. Garnett, M.D, Vice President Chief Medical Officer
Eli Lilly & Co.
Lilly Corporate Center
Indianapolis, IN 46285
March 25, 2009
Dear Doctors Lechleiter and Garnett,
Thank you for helping me to keep my kids healthy. I am the parent of two Type 1 insulin dependent children. Your insulin keeps them alive. It is an understatement to say we use a lot of Eli Lilly products in our household. We buy Humalog a dozen and a half bottles at a time.
It is in the dozen and a half at a time where my concern lies. I would like your instructions on what to do if the Humalog we are receiving does not meet Lilly's safety standards. I know what to do when it gets home; it is in the getting here that I have concern about maintaining your standards.
Like many patients in the US we receive our Humalog through Caremark, a domestic US mail order pharmacy. Our insurance requires us to use them and we are required to get 90 day supply at a given time. As you can image it is a big shipment of insulin.
Over the years I have heard major drug companies, including Eli Lilly, stress the importance of the US drug supply chain as a safety issue. You have clearly told consumers, like our family, that you the manufacturers can not assure the proper handling of product from non US sources. Your lobbyists have testified to congress that the US drug supply system must be protected from imports as a safety issue. Specifically Eli Lilly has very clearly stated that they are opposed to middlemen "…whose interests are making money – not helping patients." Again thank you for your concern for our safety. Clearly you care about safety and by inference you can use market forces in the US to assure safety.
I'll take your word for that. I must however ask you to stand behind your word. Specifically that you stand behind the safety of insulin shipped by firms like Caremark. With your public concern for the safety of the supply chain I would like to know if it is safe to presume that you are aware that Caremark insist that insulin does not need to be shipped in cooled packages. They are telling families of type 1 children that insulin does not need to be refrigerated in shipping, only for long term storage. See the attached form letter from CVS Caremark.
This seems to me to fall outside the labeling of the insulin and you filings with the FDA. Your Humalog packaging slip in PDF form on your web site states;
"How should I store Humalog?
• Store all unopened (unused) Humalog in the original carton in a refrigerator at 36°F to 46°F (2°C to 8°C). Do not freeze.
• Do not use Humalog that has been frozen.
• Do not use after the expiration date printed on the carton and label.
• Protect Humalog from extreme heat, cold or light."
You make a very similar statement to the FDA on the web at
Storage — Unopened Humalog should be stored in a refrigerator [2° to 8°C (36° to 46°F)], but not in the freezer. Do not use Humalog if it has been frozen. Unrefrigerated [below 30°C (86°F)] vials, cartridges, and Pens must be used within 28 days or be discarded, even if they still contain Humalog. Protect from direct heat and light.
I have always understood this storage to include shipping. Shipping can take a few days and trucks get hot. Further our experience is that Caremark's delivery firm leaves the insulin on the front step in the sun in 90 degree weather.
Lilly takes a clear stand on free markets. (http://www.lilly.com/about/public_affairs/positions/) You are for them.
So am I. The way our free market works is you freely sell to Caremark as a trusted US supplier of Humalog to US patients, like my kids. I trust that you support the supply chain safety system and practices you have specifically lobby for. Our Humalog is safe.
To be clear: This means you support the practice of shipping insulin without cooled containers by your US partner in the delivery chain because you continue to sell them product. You stand behind your product and remain responsible for its safety through the free market. You specifically use only middlemen whose interests include patient safety as well as profit.
In the absence of clear written notice to the contrary, I can trust that Lilly stands fully behind the safety of insulin shipped without any temperature controls. In this case you agree specifically that a few days shipping and storage are not the same thing.
If that is not the case, I trust you will take the free market steps necessary to assure the safety of the supply system, since you have strongly advocated for said system. Further if needed you will provide notice users with clear guidelines about shipping safety.
I know that you have gone to great length and expense to communicate what you are for to our elected officials. I am sure you will be happy to be as clear with them on this issue. I will forward a copy of this letter to my elected officials so they can be prepared to hear how you are using market forces to insure that the products you provide in the market meet the labeling you have cleared with the FDA. I will encourage my fellow type 1 parents to reach out to their elected officials as well.
Barring a clear reply to the contrary, I and these other parents of Type 1 insulin dependent children can rely on Lilly to use free markets to protect the safety of our insulin. It is after all a responsibility that you have specifically asked for.
Thanks again for helping keep the kids alive.
Very Truly Yours,
Representative Allyson Schwartz (PA–13)
423 Cannon Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
March 25, 2009
Dear Congresswoman Schwartz
Thank you for your service to our nation. We had the pleasure of meeting in your Jenkintown Office with a group supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation a year or two ago.
I was impressed by your to attention and understanding of type 1 diabetes as well as your commitment to fiscal responsibility with pay as you go.
As the nation deals with economic stress and starts a process of examining our health care system I hope you can find a few minutes to ask the pharmaceutical industry to stand up for what they have been asking of you and your fellow representatives for years. Specifically to keep our domestic drug supply safe from those who would take risk to maximize profits.
You will find attached a letter to Eli Lilly executives on the safety of insulin shipped via by US based mail order pharmacies. Lilly has lobbied congress to keep the domestic drug supply free from non US "middlemen whose interests are making money – not helping patients."
Lilly has filed specific temperature requirements for storage of their Humalog band of insulin with the FDA. Lilly's distribution partner CVS Caremark has announced that they will not follow those guidelines when shipping insulin.
I believe that we as consumers and you as our representative have the right to expect that Lilly and Caremark will follow the requirements agreed to with the FDA and the market conditions they have lobbied for.
Sadly my experience with large companies is that they try to ignore or double talk their way out when dealing with consumers. This was certainly Caremark's approach last summer when they shipped and subsequently took back $4,000 of insulin that was not kept cool in 90 degree weather.
I hope that you have the time to have a letter sent to Lilly and Caremark and ask them to standby the drug labeling and the market freedoms they have lobbied for. I suspect that they maybe more responsible to a member of Congress than a consumer. Sad.
Very Truly Yours,


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Readings of the day: RB 45
Mass: 1 Maccabees 4:36-37, 52-59; Resp. Psalm (1 Chr 29); Luke 19:45-48
Luke 19:48
In the wake of our country's celebration of Thanksgiving Day, I share Franklin D. Roosevelt's (XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945) Day Proclamation, November 1, 1944. I was especially struck by the 4th paragraph where FDR recommends a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures. Thanks be to God. Thank you, President Roosevelt. RIP.
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
A Proclamation
In this year of liberation, which has seen so many millions freed from tyrannical rule, it is fitting that we give thanks with special fervor to our Heavenly Father for the mercies we have received individually and as a nation and for the blessings He has restored, through the victories of our arms and those of our allies, to His children in other lands.
For the preservation of our way of life from the threat of destruction; for the unity of spirit which has kept our Nation strong; for our abiding faith in freedom; and for the promise of an enduring peace, we should lift up our hearts in thanksgiving.
For the harvest that has sustained us and, in its fullness, brought succor to other peoples; for the bounty of our soil, which has produced the sinews of war for the protection of our liberties; and for a multitude of private blessings, known only in our hearts, we should give united thanks to God.
To the end that we may bear more earnest witness to our gratitude to Almighty God, I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. Let every man of every creed go to his own version of the Scriptures for a renewed and strengthening contact with those eternal truths and majestic principles which have inspired such measure of true greatness as this nation has achieved.
Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of the Congress approved December 26, 1941, do hereby proclaim Thursday the twenty-third day of November 1944 a day of national thanksgiving; and I call upon the people of the United States to observe it by bending every effort to hasten the day of final victory and by offering to God our devout gratitude for His goodness to us and to our fellow men.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this first day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth.
(Citation: Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Proclamation 2629—Thanksgiving Day, 1944," November 1, 1944. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=72460.)


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Why Israel is Winning
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Yesterday, the Israeli prime minister arrived in the U.S., and he plans to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, but it remains uncertain whether he will meet with President Biden. Nonetheless, Amit Yagur urges Benjamin Netanyahu to use the trip for ordinary as well as public diplomacy—"assuming," Yagur writes, "there is someone to talk to in the politically turbulent U.S." He argues that the first priority should be discussing how to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. But there are other issues to tackle as well:
From the American perspective, as long as Hamas is not the official ruler in the Gaza Strip, any solution agreed upon is good. For Israel, however, it is quite clear that if Hamas remains a legitimate power factor, even if it does not head the leadership in Gaza, sooner or later, Gaza will reach the Hizballah model in Lebanon. To clarify, this means that Hamas is the actual ruler of the Strip, and sooner or later, we will see a [return] of its military capabilities as well as its actual control over the population. . . .
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The Asia Private Equity Forum (APEF) is a leading industry event that influences regional and global development of a vibrant venture capital and private equity industry in Asia. The forum will gather more than 60 industry practitioners to address the key issues investors are facing in China, India and Southeast Asia, and North Asia. As well as such timely topics as crypto investing, private equity real estate, ESG, and regulatory matters.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is the agency we think of responding to natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. But in recent weeks it's also been helping to administer COVID-19 vaccinations in several states, as well as assisting at the border.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last month FEMA was helping the Department of Health and Human Services place unaccompanied minors in shelters and with families. "They're playing a number of roles there to address what we feel is a significant problem and a significant challenge."
Playing a "number of roles" is nothing new for FEMA, but Elizabeth Zimmerman, a former associate administrator at the agency during the Obama administration, says it does pose a potential problem.
"FEMA is stretched very thin right now," she told NPR. "FEMA is the coordinating agency on behalf of the president and does their job and does it very well. But when you do look at FEMA's daily reports with the number of staff that they have available to deploy for disasters, it is very low."
With some 5,000 full-time employees, FEMA is one of the smallest federal agencies. It has another 23,000 temporary workers on reserve. Almost all are deployed right now, working on previous disasters and at the border and with COVID-19, leaving about 2,700 workers available in case another disaster strikes.
Steve Reaves, president of AFGE National Local 4060, the union that represents FEMA employees, says the agency is short-staffed with future disaster deployments likely on top of existing responsibilities. "With fire season and hurricane season, and right after that flood season, the mudslides season, right? We need we need more people."
Brock Long, who served as FEMA administrator during the Trump administration, said in a statement to NPR that "if the FEMA workforce was a car engine, it has been red-lining since 2017."
He said the current path is unsustainable, and that the agency "was never designed to be the federal government's equivalent to 911."
But Zimmerman says that's just what the agency has become: "FEMA is looked at across the whole federal government as being that agency who knows how to coordinate and bring people together to get action, to get results."
Craig Fugate, who was FEMA administrator during the Obama administration, says concerns about the agency being stretched too thin are exaggerated.
"This is an evergreen story, it comes up every time FEMA gets busy. What most people don't understand is that there's a lot of flexibility in how FEMA deploys," he says.
Fugate says the vaccination centers are not staffed entirely by FEMA. "There's a lot of contractors and a lot of other federal agencies that are doing the bulk of it," he says. "So, you know, when you think about these sites, they're not like hundreds of FEMA employees at every one of them."
Fugate says if another disaster strikes, FEMA can transfer workers from other long-term disaster rebuilding, which he says is disruptive, "but it doesn't have the same urgency as the next disaster."
He says when he was administrator, "We had people down in Haiti during the the earthquake there. We had deployed people to CDC during Ebola. We were involved in the border." In fact, Fugate says, "this is actually a much smaller deployment than we did in the Obama administration."
Fugate says the biggest issue for FEMA's additional deployments is paying for them. During his tenure, FEMA was reimbursed for its assistance at the border by HHS, and that the CDC paid for FEMA's help with Ebola.
FEMA did not respond to a request for a comment.
Meanwhile, President Biden this week declared a major disaster in Kentucky because of severe storms there in February, making it eligible for federal assistance and serving as another reminder of the day-to-day role FEMA plays.
The AFGE's Reaves calls FEMA "the closest thing in the federal government to the Red Cross," adding, "You can really make a difference and you're really making a difference in people's lives on the worst day of their life. And that's really our mission."
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The following appeared recently as a featured story on North Central College's website:
North Central College's Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) joined forces with employee volunteers at Lowe's Naperville home improvement retail store to create a self-sustaining, organic garden for immigrant residents associated with the nonprofit Emmanuel House CDC.
SIFE students and faculty and Lowe's volunteers built several raised garden beds at a residential property in downtown Aurora on April 19. The property, called Emmanuel House, provides transitional housing and assistance to resettled refugees and immigrants from war-torn countries. New residents at the home joined volunteers in preparing the garden and will be involved in choosing types of produce for later planting.
Gerald Thalmann, a North Central faculty advisor for this project and associate professor of accounting, says students had the idea to do this service and educational project for the community. "SIFE college teams and Lowe's often work together on community outreach projects, although this is Lowe's first garden project. After talking with several different places about our idea, I decided Emmanuel House was the best fit. It's a good organization and can directly benefit from the project."
Once the garden is built, Thalmann says, it will be low maintenance and provide food for residents at the property, as well as residents at nearby homes operated by Emmanuel House. SIFE students will train the residents in all aspects of gardening, from using proper materials and planting to its financial and health benefits.
Overgrown with weeds, the space was cleared in preparation for setting eight raised beds, 4 by 12 feet, with new soil and fencing. The beds, says Neil Nicholson, also a faculty advisor on the project and assistant professor of mathematics, help keep rabbits at bay and create a new space for healthy soil.
"Lowe's employees were on site April 19 to deliver the soil and materials and help with manpower to build the garden," Nicholson says. "We set up rain barrels for irrigation and composting bins and have already started nearly 100 seedlings for tomatoes, broccoli, bell peppers and jalapeños off site."
Various areas of North Central's campus community have been involved in the project, too. The sustainability coordinator advised students that using nontreated wood was a must in creating an organic garden. The campus gardener helped set up the space to enhance the property and suggested different ways to grow a variety of vegetables and herbs. Members of the maintenance staff built grow stands so many seedlings could be planted. And, because North Central College has its own community garden on campus, many garden-friendly faculty and students will be helping, too.
Students have created a Facebook page at facebook.com/NccSifeGarden with details about the project and will develop educational materials for current and future residents at the property.
"We hoped our students would get as much out of this effort as those we're partnering with at Emmanuel House," says Nicholson. Thalmann, who loves gardening, agrees and is eager to share with others the values of becoming more self-sustainable with food and gardening and in giving back to the community.
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation provided a grant to help cover related costs for materials for the garden project.
North Central College's award-winning SIFE chapter was established in 1987 to educate others how the free enterprise system works. Projects have evolved over the years based on the interest of students and faculty and needs in the environment, but all have stayed true to the original mission of including a social justice component. Projects have ranged from helping entrepreneurs from the United States and around the world become economically self-sustainable to teaching refugee families how the U.S. financial system works to educating high school students on the basics of running a business. SIFE has also developed its own business known as NCC's Best, which has transformed into a free and direct trade business promoting wares produced in seven countries by entrepreneurs striving to make the free enterprise system work.
Emmanuel House CDC, formerly Bryan House Community Development Corporation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping refugee families from around the world save and work their way out of poverty in a responsible and dignified manner. It operates several locations, apartments and homes, that function the same way. Families pay regular rent—the majority of which goes into their own down-payment fund, helping them buy their first home. Emmanuel House is uncompromising in its commitment to work with refugees, immigrants and everyday working-class poor, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or creed. For more information visit emmanuelhouse.org.
Founded in 1957, Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation has a long and proud history of improving the communities it serves. It funds nonprofit organizations and public agencies that support its charitable goals. The foundation's primary philanthropic focus centers on K–12 public education and community improvement. Within these areas, Lowe's Foundation is committed to supporting projects that have the greatest impact on communities and align with its core business—home improvement.
♦ In 2016 Emmanuel House was named one of the "TOP 100" social change organizations in the world. RETURN to Emmanuel House / Bryan House main page.
♦ VIDEOS: Watch a video on Service at North Central College, the middle third of which tells about starting the garden. A Cornerstone Day at North Central College, the last third of which focuses on college president Troy Hammond's call for a time of service at the Emmanuel House to work on the garden started by SIFE/Enactus. Also, go Here to see a music video about that same time.


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And the Band played Waltzing Matilda
Now when I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of the rover.
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When we stopped to bury our slain,
Well, we buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs,
Then we started all over again.
In that mad world of blood, death and fire.
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
Though around me the corpses piled higher.
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head,
And when I woke up in me hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead --
Never knew there was worse things than dying.
For I'll go no more "Waltzing Matilda,"So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed,
All around the green bush far and free --
To hump tents and pegs, a man needs both legs,
No more "Waltzing Matilda" for me.
And they shipped us back home to Australia.
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane,
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.
And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay,
I looked at the place where me legs used to be,
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me,
To grieve, to mourn and to pity.
But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"And so now every April, I sit on my porch
As they carried us down the gangway,
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared,
Then they turned all their faces away.
And I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march,
Reviving old dreams of past glory,
And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore,
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"
And I ask meself the same question.
But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda,"
And the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear
Someday, no one will march there at all.Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda.
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong,
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?
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As civilian deaths mount in Ukraine, some in the international community accuse Russia of war crimes. Others, including Ukraine's president, use another word - genocide. But that word is specifically defined as killing or other actions committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Is that what we're witnessing?
Leila Sadat is an international law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and advises the International Criminal Court prosecutor on crimes against humanity.
LEILA SADAT: Genocide is extremely difficult to prove before an international criminal court. That said, this does look like a pattern of ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity.
FADEL: So what's the difference there? If it looks like ethnic cleansing, do Russia's actions in Ukraine then constitute genocide?
SADAT: That is a complicated question, Leila. The international community has said that sometimes ethnic cleansing can be a form of genocide. And we've seen that in early decisions from the International Criminal Court in the situation involving Darfur, where the prosecutor did charge genocide because there was, in fact, a pattern of ethnic cleansing - destroying villages, driving people away from their homes, terrorizing a civilian population - very similar pattern to what we saw in the former Yugoslavia, what we saw in Darfur and we are now seeing today in Ukraine.
FADEL: Why the international outcry here? I mean, Russian forces conducted themselves similarly in Syria - civilians being targeted and killed. We saw it in Chechnya - and now a call for war crime charges and possible genocide charges.
SADAT: We definitely have seen this before, and it's a really awful movie. Right now, Mariupol looks like Aleppo. In fairness, there were calls for criminal prosecution. We had two vetoes by the Russian Federation in the Security Council with respect to Syria, and we did not have the international political well sufficient to overcome that through either the establishment of a no-fly zone to stop the atrocities or creating a special tribunal to try those crimes, because the vehicle for getting to the International Criminal Court was blocked. Fortunately, Ukraine had the foresight to declare that the International Criminal Court statute was applicable to its territory in 2014 and 2015. So unlike Syria's Assad - who would never, never accept the jurisdiction of the ICC - the Ukrainian president and parliament has done that. And so the ICC does have jurisdiction here. And one also has to say that I think at some point the fact that the invasion was done in such a blatant fashion to a European neighbor clearly played a part.
FADEL: You mentioned that genocide is really hard to prove, but right now what we're seeing in Bucha and Chernihiv - these places that have been liberated from Russian forces - are these pockets of genocide, or is that ethnic cleansing? I think for me, it's still kind of unclear to me legally what the difference is.
SADAT: So in the former Yugoslavia, the massacre at Srebrenica, for example, was labeled and adjudicated a genocide, even though some of the violence in other communities around the former Yugoslavia was labeled crimes against humanity. The differentiation that the tribunal made was that with respect to Srebrenica, we had a specific intent that we could demonstrate, and they actually used cell phone intercepts and documents and communications in order to show that. And they also showed that a substantial part of the population was exterminated and that by exterminating the men and boys of Srebrenica - these 8,000 individuals who were slaughtered - that actually made it impossible for the community to ever be constituted again.
FADEL: Is it easy to assess based off the fact that we've seen mass graves, that we've seen these burned bodies, these bodies that have been stripped and people who had seemingly been executed, the mock executions, the sexual violence, all of this stuff?
SADAT: We are definitely seeing evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Genocide requires this special intent. So we actually have to show that they're committing all these terrible crimes in order to destroy, in part or in whole, the particular group. And so that's why genocide is more difficult, because you have to get into the mind of the perpetrator, as opposed to being a look-in at the circumstantial evidence that we can see with our own eyes and our own ears.
FADEL: Yeah.
SADAT: The other thing I would say, Leila, is that crimes against humanity are just as serious as genocide. There's no hierarchy here. Crimes against humanity is what the Nazis were charged with for the Holocaust.
FADEL: Yeah.
SADAT: And so I know that the international community and victim groups tend to grab for this concept of genocide because we have a treaty on it, and we don't yet have the treaty on crimes against humanity, so it seems as if they're less important. They're not less important. They are absolutely horrific crimes that involve attacks on a civilian population and the dehumanization of the human spirit and human beings.
FADEL: Yeah.
SADAT: So it's really important to note that this idea of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is a very, very serious crime.
FADEL: Now, the U.S. has promised to help with any type of investigation into possible Russian war crimes. But, you know, some people would point to the U.S. and say, well, this is hypocritical or politically motivated when the U.S. is not a member of the ICC and does not appear to want to be held accountable for its own alleged war crimes.
SADAT: It is hypocritical, and yet it's a really good thing. The Biden administration is seriously considering dismantling some of the obstacles to cooperation with the International Criminal Court because it can see that this is exactly the kind of situation the ICC was created to address. We have a prosecutor already with jurisdiction. We have judges already to approve arrest warrants and hear confirmation cases. We don't have to staff up and hire new people and figure out what laws should be applied. We have a court ready and willing to do the job, and those of us who have been involved with the International Criminal Court for 20 years have been making this argument for 20 years. So is the United States coming a day late to the party? It absolutely is. And I think it's great that it's finally getting there.
FADEL: Leila Sadat is a professor of international law at Washington University in St. Louis. Thank you for speaking with us.
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