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Did Vladimir Putin Bait a Trap for the United States in Damascus?
Why the Russian president has every reason to cross Barack Obama's "red line" on Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East
The nerve-gas attack that left an estimated 1,000 or more dead civilians foaming at the mouth last month in Damascus constitutes a national security risk that the United States cannot afford to ignore, President Barack Obama argued in his televised remarks on Saturday, because it "risks making a mockery of the global prohibition on the use of chemical weapons." A more precise description of the attack in Damascus was that it made a mockery of Obama's "red line" against the use of chemical weapons—a line that Obama appears to have laid down precisely because he believed that it would never be crossed, thus providing America with a bullet-proof excuse for staying out of Syria's bloody civil war.
So, who in their right mind would aim to force Obama into a conflict he obviously wants to avoid? Syria has little military or political interest in being bombed by the United States—especially now that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is clearly winning the war for primacy in Syria. In the context of the regime's recent military gains, a chemical weapons attack on a civilian neighborhood in the middle of Damascus served no strategic purpose even remotely commensurate with the risk it entailed. The same goes for Syria's regional allies: Hezbollah has little interest in their Syrian ally appearing to be even more of a monster, and Iran's chief interest would appear to lie in encouraging the rest of the world to forget about WMD threats until they actually acquire a nuclear bomb.
Who actually benefited from breaching Obama's "red line"? A compelling answer can be found in the nature of the attack itself. A Sarin gas attack like the one in Damascus requires days of preparation so that the chemical agents can be mixed and loaded into specialized delivery systems by trained handlers and troops in the region can be issued gas masks and other protective clothing. Orders must travel through a defined chain of command—allowing them to be intercepted, as they apparently were by Israeli intelligence, which put them in American hands before the attack was even launched. In other words, a nerve-gas attack is not the kind of atrocity that a local commander can order up on a whim to please his goons or terrify the locals into obedience. Except in the most extreme instances of Col. Kurtz-like madness or institutional disintegration, orders to use such weapons necessarily come from the top.
Clearly, suggesting that anyone aside from Assad gave the final order to launch a massive chemical weapons attack in the center of his own capital is tantamount to suggesting that Assad is no longer in charge of his regime—a suggestion for which there is no evidence. But the chain of military command inside Syria doesn't end with the country's president. The idea that Assad gave the order to carry out such a massive and politically dangerous attack without the approval of his Russian and Iranian advisers is also absurd—given the regime's near-total reliance on Russian and Iranian strategic planning, supplies, fighters, and diplomatic backing for its week-to-week survival. Ditto for the idea that Russian or Iranian officers inside Syria gave their approval for such an attack without the blessing of the men at the top of their own chains of command: Ali Khamenei in Iran, and Vladimir Putin in Russia.
So, who—Khamenei or Putin—gave the OK? A reading of public statements by Iranian leaders suggests that they were at the least discomfited by the Syrian government's actions, if not blind-sided by them. Both current Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and former Iranian President Rafsanjani condemned the attack, with Rafsanjani openly naming the Syrian government as the perpetrator. Rouhani, for his part, called on "the international community to use all its might to prevent the use of these weapons anywhere in the world, especially in Syria"—which hardly seem like the words of a man whose immediate boss just OKed the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Which leaves the more influential and powerful authority figure in the room by nearly every conceivable measure, including disposable wealth, diplomatic throw-weight, and advanced weapons systems: Vladimir Putin.
The most illuminating way of understanding why Putin would greenlight a nerve-gas attack that would cross America's "red lines" in Syria is therefore to ask how the Russian president understands U.S. policy toward the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction—a policy whose real focus is not Syria but Iran.
Among students of the rougher techniques used by fascists, communists, and other old-fashioned political actors whose names rarely appear on ballots in contemporary Western democracies, the nerve-gas attack in Damascus is what's known as a provocation. In the aesthetics of power that Putin learned from his instructors in the KGB, and that they learned from both their Leninist teachers and the Nazi enemy in WWII, a good provocation is a thing of beauty—a sinister and mind-bending event designed to elicit a response that will serve as a pretext for a predetermined course of action directed toward a larger strategic goal.
One of the classic aims of provocation as a technique is to alter the context in which future action takes place; the aggressor looks like he is defending himself, while the injured party looks like the aggressor. One major aim of this reversal is to disorient and demoralize the victim as well as anyone who is watching, a situation that often leads to paralysis, which further augments the aggressor's tactical advantage. Some classic examples of provocation include the burning of the Reichstag, which was provoked by the Gestapo and led to Hitler's formal seizure of power in Germany, or attacks on ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia and Poland that were staged or provoked by Nazi agents and then used as pretexts for the Nazi invasions of those countries. A more recent example of the technique can arguably be found in the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow by Chechen terrorists—attacks that may have been sanctioned by the FSB for the purpose of bringing Putin to power.
And while Hezbollah is silent and the Iranians condemn their ally's actions, Putin appears to be enjoying himself at his victim's expense. Calling claims of a Syrian nerve-gas strike "utter nonsense," Putin told the Ria Novosti news agency last week that he had not seen even the slightest proof that the Syrian government was behind any use of chemical weapons, ever—or that chemical weapons had been used at all. "If they say that the governmental forces used weapons of mass destruction … and that they have proof of it, let them present it to the U.N. inspectors and the Security Council," Putin opined, adding, "Claims that the proof exists but is classified and cannot be presented to anybody are below criticism." Putin also seemed to delight in personally tweaking Obama—addressing him not as President of the United States but as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and urging him to embrace nonviolence.
If what happened in Damascus was a provocation, authored by Putin and intended to display American weakness to the world—the next question then becomes, why? Or, to put a finer point on things, what purpose, apart from the obvious pleasure of making Obama look like a sissy, was worth the risk of being held responsible—even partially responsible—for killing more than 1,000 people with weapons whose names are bywords for horror and whose use is a heinous crime under international law.
A worthy prize is not hard to find. While Obama was making his calculations about staying out of Syria—calculations that appear in retrospect to have been both reasonable and false—Putin was making his own calculations about the power vacuum that Obama had left behind in the Middle East. His first conclusion from studying that vacuum appears to have been that Obama wasn't serious about stopping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb—since that would mean involvement in another shooting war in the region. His second conclusion was that the best way to make that conclusion obvious was by crossing Obama's "red line" in Syria—in response to which the U.S. president would probably do nothing, or next to nothing. What made the "red line" a perfect target for a provocation was that the line was never serious; it was a fig-leaf for excusing American inaction in a bloody civil war while keeping alive the president's stated commitment to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.
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Nov. 6: How can you contribute to this Place of Possibilities?
Last week I wrote about leadership effectiveness and engagement. I also challenged each of us to begin to "Start with Why" and engage each one of us to contribute toward improvement at Banner Good Samaritan.
In order to encourage ideas and contributions from each one of you, we are launching a new survey, which invites each of you to share your ideas and lead Improvement at Banner Good Samaritan … the "Why" that will bring patients, families, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, social workers, techs, culinary, EVS, finance and others to 12th and McDowell.
WE cannot afford to have even ONE disengaged member of our team.
As an example of engagement, last week we had Banner Good Samaritan's inaugural Patient Safety Fair — an example of contributions from each one of you committed to improving our processes of care, so every patient receives the right care at the right time without HARM.
How can YOU contribute to this Place Of Possibilities ?
We have 3,800 employees and 1,800 medical staff. We have one TEAM, one VISION. We need to focus on improvement.
Our focus:
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- To developing highly differentiated and coordinated programs
- To do all this, we need one simple thing: you. What ideas can you share to contribute to this Place of Possibilities called Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center? Banner Good Samaritan provides a unique intersection of clinical care, teaching and research that creates a culture of excellence and continual improvement.
- This drive for excellence and improvement will cause patients and employees to see Banner Good Samaritan as a continued place of opportunity that they will want to experience.
Submit your idea for improving:
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The Place of Possibilities committee will review submitted ideas and make selections. These will be based on ideas that are aligned with Banner's Strategic Initiatives, Mission, Vision and Banner Good Samaritan goals and that can be implemented in the right place at the right time and create a better patient experience through innovative ideas, process improvement and operational efficiencies. You will receive a status update within 30 days of submittal.
If your idea can be implemented, you will be invited to help with the research, plan design and implementation.
Thank you for submitting your idea and helping to continue to make Banner Good Samaritan an amazing medical center.
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Trying to prove once again that no level of hypocrisy is ever high enough for the US security theater industrial complex, today's New York Times gives space for John Brennan to lament the use of Syria as a training ground for al Qaeda terrorists. Never mind that the US touted its efforts at developing death squads to send into Syria last fall, we must be outraged against this latest development:
Dozens of seasoned militant fighters, including some midlevel planners, have traveled to Syria from Pakistan in recent months in what American intelligence and counterterrorism officials fear is an effort to lay the foundation for future strikes against Europe and the United States.
"We are concerned about the use of Syrian territory by the Al Qaeda organization to recruit individuals and develop the capability to be able not just to carry out attacks inside of Syria, but also to use Syria as a launching pad," John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, told a House panel recently.
But wait a minute. Didn't we spend all that time and money droning the shit out of the terrorists in Pakistan? Oh, yeah:
The extremists who concern Mr. Brennan are part of a group of Qaeda operatives in Pakistan that has been severely depleted in recent years by a decade of American drone strikes. But the fighters still bring a wide range of skills to the battlefield, such as bomb-building, small-arms tactics, logistics, religious indoctrination and planning, though they are not believed to have experience in launching attacks in the West.
That is just classic Brennan security theater. We are supposed to get our panties in a wad about a group that he spent years to render "severely depleted" and now they suddenly are going to move to Syria, where they will magically develop the ability to attack the West even though they "are not believed to have experience in launching attacks in the West".
Okay, then. Recall that just back in September, the US was thumping its chest over its own efforts in training death squads for Syria. Except that Obama then had to doctor the record a bit on the timing and size of the first death squad we sent in when it coincided too closely with the chemical weapons attack in August. Oh, and we had to tell people that the guy eating his opponent's heart really was from one of the moderate groups we were training.
The bottom line is that the US can use the region to train any group of terrorists it wants to use in service of its own goals, but nobody else is allowed to do exactly what we are doing.
Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in Syria remains dire. Reuters reports on a just released but not published report from the UN. And, of course, the US is wasting no time in spinning the findings of the report:
A U.N. report on how Syria's neediest civilians are often not accessible to humanitarian relief workers makes it clear that the government of President Bashar al-Assad shoulders most of the blame, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
"What the report shows is that the magnitude and frequency of violence committed by the Assad regime far outstrips that of the armed groups in Syria," a U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
"The Syrian government's massive and indiscriminate use of violence is the single most important factor driving the humanitarian crisis," the official said. "The report is very clear on this and in pointing to the government's failure to implement the resolution's provisions."
Information released to date doesn't make either side look very good: Continue reading
It seems that Mike Rogers lately is aiming to take over the Emptywheel blog. When he's not yapping about criminalizing journalism or dissembling about Congressional briefings on the Patriot Act renewal, he's putting out bloodthirsty endorsements of drone violence. When we last heard from him on the drone front, he was joining the mad rush to come up with the most damning indictment of Hakimullah Mehsud after the US disrupted Pakistan's plans to start peace talks the very next day with a Taliban group headed by Mehsud. Yesterday, Rogers used a hearing of his House Intelligence Committee as a venue in which to pitch a tantrum over the US daring to adjust its drone policy, leading to fewer strikes.
Now, almost exactly three months after the Mehsud drone strike, we see the prospect for peace talks between Pakistan and the Taliban disrupted again. As I mentioned yesterday, Taliban negotiators fear that Pakistan's government may be planning to scuttle the talks in order to launch an offensive against the Taliban in tribal areas, which might also play into a desire by Sharif's government to be in line for counterterrorism funds which the US might not be spending in Afghanistan.
The Washington Post has Rogers' tirade. First, there is news of a pause in drone strikes in Pakistan:
The Obama administration has sharply curtailed drone strikes in Pakistan after a request from the government there for restraint as it pursues peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban, according to U.S. officials.
"That's what they asked for, and we didn't tell them no," one U.S. official said. The administration indicated that it will still carry out strikes against senior al-Qaeda targets, if they become available, and move to thwart any direct, imminent threat to U.S. persons.
Concern about Pakistani political sensitivities provides one explanation for the absence of strikes since December, the longest pause in the CIA's drone campaign since a six-week lull in 2011, after an errant U.S. air assault killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at a border post, triggering a diplomatic crisis.
Oooh, look! There's Marcy's favorite word again, "imminent". But this lull in drone strikes, coupled with the explanation offered in the Post, tells us that no suitable al Qaeda targets with credible plans against the US presented themselves in Pakistan's tribal areas for over a month. That didn't deter Rogers; he's upset that any potential targets aren't blasted immediately: Continue reading
Back in November, two bomb blasts in front of the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed 23 people. From the very beginning, it was known that an al Qaeda-linked group known as the Abdullah Azzam Brigades was responsible for the attack. In a fascinating sequence of events, we have learned that the mastermind of the attack, Majed al-Majed, died in Lebanese custody. Iran claims that Majed had very strong ties to Saudi Arabia, and specifically to Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin Sultan. In a very interesting twist, Saudi Arabia announced a pledge of $3 billion to Lebanon, ostensibly to be used to buy weapons from France. The announcement most likely came after Majed had been arrested but before news reports had leaked out about his detention, although news reports vary widely on when and where he was detained.
The announcement of the Saudi pledge to Lebanon came on December 29:
Saudi Arabia has pledged $3bn for the Lebanese army, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman announced, calling it the largest grant ever given to the country's armed forces.
"The king of the brotherly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is offering this generous and appreciated aid of $3bn to the Lebanese army to strengthen its capabilities," Suleiman said in a televised address on Sunday.
He said the funds would allow Lebanon's military to purchase French weapons.
An AFP report suggested that Majed was arrested around December 26:
An Al-Qaeda-linked Saudi suspect detained in Lebanon is being held in a military hospital because "he is in poor health", a medical official told AFP Friday.
The doctor who had been treating Majid before his arrest without knowing who he was said he suffers from kidney failure and requires regular dialysis.
"On December 26, the hospital where Majid was being treated contacted the Red Cross to arrange his transfer to another hospital," said the source.
But before the suspect arrived at the second facility, "the Lebanese army intelligence intercepted the ambulance and arrested Majid," the source said, adding that neither the hospital nor the ambulance teams had prior knowledge of who Majid was.
In its announcement on January 1 of Majed's arrest, the New York Times has highly conflicting information about when the arrest took place. First, this bit suggests they were working under the assumption that the arrest was near the January 1 date of the article:
He was taken into custody just three days after Saudi Arabia pledged a $3 billion aid package to the Lebanese Army.
But near the end of this same article, the Times suggests that he was in custody as early as December 15 (clearly before the Saudi pledge was announced):
While it is not known when Mr. Majid was detained, Hezbollah's television channel Al Manar quoted Lebanese security officials as saying that an attack on a security checkpoint on Dec. 15 near Sidon and the Ein al-Hilwe camp was an attempt by militants to free him.
Given the additional detail and reporting from doctors involved in his treatment, the AFP report seems to me to be more reliable, placing Majed's arrest after December 26, but most likely not very long after that date since a patient requiring dialysis cannot put if off for very many days.
The Times report suggests that Saudi Arabia considered Majed to be a criminal: Continue reading
Iraq has been seeping back into the headlines lately, as civilian deaths there have now reached a level last seen in 2008. What is striking about this increase is that it did not occur until almost 18 months after the last US troops left Iraq.
Here is a screen capture of the latest data on civilian deaths in Iraq by Iraq Body Count:
Recall that the final US troops left Iraq in the middle of December, 2011. The civilian death rate had leveled off in 2010 and remained steady throughout all of 2012, not rising significantly until May of 2013. Recall that earlier this week, conclusions of a National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan were leaked, suggesting that should the US completely withdraw troops from Afghanistan as we did in Iraq, the situation would deteriorate very rapidly. With Iraq now at high levels of violence, it would be very easy for politicians to lose sight of the very long gap between withdrawal of our troops and the rise in civilian deaths. Iraq should not be used as a cautionary tale against complete withdrawal though, since there was such a long gap between the withdrawal and the degradation of security.
Recall that David Petraeus was quick to accept praise for the drop in civilian death rates that began in late 2007 and continued throughout 2008. Many attributed this calming to Petraeus' surge and others ascribed it to the "Anbar Awakening" that Petraeus exploited:
Controversially, he even started putting some Sunni groups – including some that had previously fought the U.S. – on the American payroll. The "Anbar Awakening" of Sunni groups willing to cooperate with the Americans had begun in 2005, but at a smaller scale. Petraeus recognized that the groups had real community influence and ability to bring security, whether he liked them or not, and brought them on board. At the program's peak in 2008, the U.S. had "contracted" 103,000 fighters who were now ostensibly paid to assist an American-dominated peace rather than the disrupt it. That same year, according to Ricks, the U.S. signed ceasefire deals with 779 separate Iraqi militias.
Other analysts, especially Daniel Davis, came to the conclusion that most of the decline in violence was due to Sunni citizens in Anbar rejecting the extreme violence to which al Qaeda had sunk and especially its toll on fellow Muslims.
As is well known, the turning point in 2007 Iraq came when the heart of the Sunni insurgency turned against al-Qaeda and joined with US Forces against them, dramatically reducing the violence in Iraq almost overnight. The overriding reason the Sunni insurgency turned towards the United States was because after almost two years of internal conflict between what ought to have been natural allies – al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and the greater Sunni insurgency – a tipping point was reached whereby the Iraqi Sunnis finally and decisively turned against AQI. Had this unnatural split not occurred, by all accounts I have been given on both the Iraqi side and the US military side, "we would still be fighting in Iraq today," in the words of two officers I know who fought there.
Although there likely are many factors that contributed to the eventual outbreak of violence in Iraq that elevated civilian death rates, one possibility that intrigues me is that the timing fits reasonably well to be a part of Saudi intelligence chief Bandar bin Sultan's play for regional dominance. Marcy noted this week that the recent bombings in Russia fit with Bandar's warning delivered to Putin in a secret meeting last July. But if we go back to the report on that meeting, we see this about Bandar's regional plan and especially how it applied to Syria: Continue reading
As more details emerge on the drone strike Thursday in Yemen that hit a wedding party, it is becoming clear that the New York Times got it wrong, and those killed were mostly civilians rather than mostly suspected al Qaeda militants. A follow-up story in the Los Angeles Times on Friday put the death toll at 17, with only five of the dead having suspected al Qaeda connections. But CNN's follow-up on Friday is even worse: they put the death toll at only 14, but they carried this statement from a Yemeni official:
"This was a tragic mistake and comes at a very critical time. None of the killed was a wanted suspect by the Yemeni government," said a top Yemeni national security official who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to talk to media.
If we read between the lines, then, it would seem that although a few of those killed may have had al Qaeda connections, they were not of sufficiently high profile to merit being wanted by Yemen's government.
The CNN story only gets worse:
The convoy consisted of 11 vehicles, and the officials said that four of the vehicles were targeted in the strikes. Two of the vehicles were completely damaged. Among the killed were two prominent tribal leaders within the province.
This piece of information alone seems to embody all of the moral depravity of the US drone program as it now stands. Despite all the bleating about the effort put into assuring that only militants are targeted and that every effort is made to prevent civilian casualties, there simply is no justification for proceeding with an attack that intends to target fewer than half the vehicles in a large convoy. Such an attack is virtually guaranteed to kill more than just those targeted, and as discussed above, it seems very likely that even those targeted in this strike were low level operatives instead of high level al Qaeda leaders.
Sunday saw a strong response to the attacks by Yemen's Parliament. They voted to end drone strikes in the country. From CNN:
Yemen's parliament Sunday called for an end to drone strikes on its territory after a U.S. missile attack mistakenly struck a wedding convoy, killing more than a dozen people.
The nearly unanimous but non-binding vote was "a strong warning" to both the United States and the government of Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a Yemeni government official told CNN.
"The Yemeni public is angered by the drone strikes," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to talk to reporters. "The people's representatives reflected on the tone of the streets."
The official statement carried in the Reuters story on the vote strikes a similar position to what we have been hearing from Pakistan regarding US drone strikes there:
"Members of parliament voted to stop what drones are doing in Yemeni airspace, stressing the importance of preserving innocent civilian lives against any attack and maintaining Yemeni sovereignty," the state news agency SABA said.
There's that pesky issue of sovereignty again. Recall that it is a huge driver for the demonstrations by Imran Khan's PTI party that have shut down NATO convoys on Pakistan's northern supply route. And Khan appears to be gearing up for his protests to stage major events in Lahore and even Islamabad next week.
Writing in The Atlantic this morning, Conor Friedersdorf poses some interesting questions regarding the strike: Continue reading
At least fifteen people were killed by a US drone strike in Yemen yesterday. It is particularly difficult to get accurate information in the immediate aftermath of strikes in Yemen, and the reports being generated now conflict in several regards, but what seems to be clear on all fronts is that the convoy of vehicles that was attacked was a wedding party.
Reuters reports the targeting of the wedding party as a mistake:
Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.
The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.
"An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital," one security official said.
But the New York Times seems quite willing to accept claims that there were al Qaeda militants present in the convoy:
Most of the dead appeared to be people suspected of being militants linked to Al Qaeda, according to tribal leaders in the area, but there were also reports that several civilians had been killed.
The Times opened their article, however by noting that the vehicles that were hit were indeed traveling to a wedding. Yemen reporter Adam Baron noted that he also was getting reports that those killed were mostly militants:
Possible twist? (staunchly anti-drone) Qayfa contact now saying those killed wedding convoy strike were mostly local AQ fighters. #yemen
— Adam Baron (@adammbaron) December 12, 2013
That Baron got that report from a drone critic is especially interesting. But Baron went on to pose a very important queston:
What's worse: a drone strike hitting a wedding convoy by mistake or a drone strike hitting a wedding convoy on purpose? #yemen
— Adam Baron (@adammbaron) December 12, 2013
And just to make things even more interesting, Baron tweeted this morning that he now is hearing from "tribal sources" that a teenager with US citizenship was among those killed.
The AP story carried in the Washington Post reports on the multiple accounts that exist:
There were no immediate details on who was killed in the strike, and there were conflicting reports about whether there were militants traveling with the wedding convoy.
A military official said initial information indicated the drone mistook the wedding party for an al-Qaida convoy. He said tribesmen known to the villagers were among the dead.
One of the three security officials, however, said al-Qaida militants were suspected to have been traveling with the wedding convoy.
Did you notice what AP reported the "military official" to have said? From that snippet, we see the claim that it was the drone that made the mistake in targeting, as if we already are employing drones that are capable of autonomous function. No, drones are still simply tools to deliver weapons and it was the operator flying the drone and firing the missiles who made the mistake, not the drone.
Once again, John Brennan has shown with this strike his amazing ability to carry out strikes that now and then are so depraved that they seem almost intentionally crafted to put the drone program in the worst possible light.
Spencer Ackerman gives us more on the ham-handedness of this latest strike: Continue reading
Marcy has been all over the current episode of security theater surrounding the latest al Qaeda "conference call" that led to the closure of many US embassies, but I want to focus on news reports that have come out over the last month or so that remind us, once again, that high rates of civilian deaths in drone strikes in Yemen, as they do elsewhere, contribute dramatically to recruitment for al Qaeda. Analyst Gregory Johnsen is one of the most authoritative voices on militants in the region (a must-follow on Twitter as @gregorydjohnsen). He appeared on the PBS News Hour last week to discuss the latest flurry of US drone strikes in Yemen. A startling statistic he cited is that on the date of Underwear Bomb 1.0, Christmas Day of 2009, al Qaeda had approximately 200-300 members in Yemen. Today, after dramatic increases in US drone strikes, al Qaeda has "more than a few thousand". Johnsen informs us that the estimate of al Qaeda force size in Yemen today comes from the US State Department. Here is his interview in full:
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Wow, US "targeted killings" of high-level AQAP figures in Yemen has been so effective that the group is now only ten times larger than it was less than four years ago.
In an extended video report posted at BBC last week, Yalda Hakim talked to family members of civilians killed in US drone strikes along with a widely known "pro-US democracy advocate" and Yemen's Foreign Minister.
A particularly sad story comes from Mohammed Ahmad Bagash, whose eight year old daughter died in a strike:
During the fighting, al Qaeda fighters stored ammunition in the local hospital against the wishes of the doctors.
After the hospital was hit by a missile strike, Mohammed and his two children ran to a school and hid in the basement.
But then the school was hit in a suspected drone strike.
"It was as if everyone was burning. It was all dark," said Mr Bagash.
"When the smoke cleared, I saw my son's leg was bleeding, and my daughter was hit on the back of the head," he said.
He carried both children out. His son survived but his eight-year-old daughter bled to death on the way to the hospital.
Mr Bagash has a question for the person who ordered the drone strike: "What did my daughter ever do to them? She was only eight years old."
And then a bleak observation.
"They think we're rats. We're not. We're human beings."
Even fans of the US in Yemen see that drone strikes work against the US: Continue reading
Joby Warrick takes to the pages of the Washington Post again today in his primary function of regurgitating whatever points the US government wishes to make. In today's installment, Warrick is repeating US statements on how Iran's expulsion of Suleiman Abu Ghaith reveals a widening crack between Iran and al Qaeda, but by confining his report to the talking points he got from the government, he misses the larger context of how the Iran-al Qaeda issues fit into the overall propaganda battle between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Here is the beginning of Warrick's report (which he begins, of course, by crediting "US officials"):
Iran's expulsion of a senior al-Qaeda official appears to signal a crackdown on the terrorist group that has long been granted safe haven within its borders, U.S. officials say.
Iran's ouster of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a former al-Qaeda spokesman and the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, marked at least the third time in the past year that a prominent al-Qaeda figure has left the country after living for years in a limbo between houseguest and home detainee.
U.S. officials and terrorism experts say the tougher stance appears to reflect growing tensions between Iran's Shiite clerics and the Sunni Muslim terrorist group, particularly over the civil war in Syria, where they are backing opposing sides.
Despite the fact that the primary source of support for al Qaeda, as a "Sunni Muslim terrorist group" is Saudi Arabia, that country is never mentioned in Warrick's report. Such an omission is especially glaring because Iran is producing much material right now in its ongoing propaganda battle against Saudi Arabia. The UN report on human rights in Iran released earlier this week provided much fodder for Iran's propaganda machine. In the press release accompanying release of the report, the UN noted:
An independent United Nations expert today voiced serious concern about the general situation of human rights in Iran, pointing to "widespread and systemic" torture, as well as the harassment, arrest and attacks against human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists.
"The prevailing situation of human rights in Iran continues to warrant serious concern, and will require a wide range of solutions that are both respectful of cultural perspectives and mindful of the universality of fundamental human rights promulgated by the treaties to which Iran is a party," said the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed.
At the same time, a "preponderance of reports" communicated to him this past year indicate that that the situation for individuals in Iran who advocate for the advancement of human rights, or those that document, report, or protest against human rights violations, is "grave and continues to deteriorate."
People who defend the rights of women, religious and ethnic minorities, as well as those that work to advance protections for the environment, workers and children continue to be subjected to harassment, arrest, interrogation, and torture and are "frequently charged with vaguely-defined national security crimes, which is seemingly meant to erode the frontline of human rights defence in the country," said the expert.
At Fars News, Iran is denouncing the report and Shaheed, blaming "terrorists" aligned with the West for fabrication. Remarkably, though, at Mehr News, Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of exactly the same offenses as the UN found against Iran, specifically the abuse and imprisonment of human rights activists: Continue reading
Australia's Institute for Economics and Peace released a study (pdf) today in which they have tabulated terrorist attacks over the past ten years. They have developed a Global Terrorism Index which, on a country by country basis, quantifies attacks by number of fatalities, number of injuries and property damage incurred and allows for trends over time. The top three countries in the index are, in order, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the US has spent the bulk of its efforts in the Great War on Terror since the attacks of September 11, 2001. The fact remains that after over ten years of effort, over a trillion dollars spent and thousands of US troops killed, terrorism remains at greatly elevated levels in those countries compared to the level at the beginning of the study in 2002. There has been a slight plateauing of the number of attacks since its peak in 2007, but there is no real trend toward lower numbers of attacks. The top ten countries, from the report:
What qualifies as terrorism differs greatly depending on the definition employed. The definition employed here is:
the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation
The study notes that in this context, drones are excluded:
This definition excludes perceived acts of state terror, such as drone attacks resulting in civilian casualties.
It should be noted that the scale employed is logarithmic and so small differences in the terror index number reflect large differences in the numbers of attacks and fatalities. For 2011, there were 1228 incidents in the top country Iraq with 1798 fatalities while the number nine country Russia saw 182 incidents with 159 fatalities. An interactive map of the data can be found here.
As mentioned above, attacks increased greatly from 2002 through 2007 and then plateaued. The trend of attacks over time can be seen here:
The study looked at the data in an attempt to find potential causes of terrorism (emphasis in original):
Analysis has also been carried out against a range of socioeconomic data to determine what factors may be associated with terrorism. The factors that correlated the strongest with the GTI were group grievances, intergroup cohesion, human rights, and political stability.
Interestingly, even though the US embarked on its Great War on Terror in response to an attack by al Qaeda, the study found only one incident in 2011 attributed to it. However, there are many offshoots of the group which remain active:
According to GTD data, however, the al-Qa'ida organization itself was responsible for only one incident – a kidnapping – out of the 5000 terrorist incidents in 2011, while 11 of the most 20 [sic] active groups globally were al-Qa'ida linked.
So while the primary al Qaeda organization is essentially defunct with regard to terror attacks, its offshoots remain active. In terms of fatalities, the top three groups for the time period 2002 through 2001 were the Taliban, al Qaeda in Iraq and Islamic State of Iraq. Despite all the effort by the US, its targets remain the most effective actors in global terrorism in terms of deaths.
In a rational world, this report would prompt long, careful review in Washington and a reassessment of how our country goes about trying to stop terrorism. Instead, it is more likely to result in allocation of even more lives and treasure to tactics and strategies that have proven completely useless.
Yesterday, the State Department released its annual Country Reports on Terrorism and held a briefing regarding the findings. Both ABC and Reuters covered the report and crafted their stories around a single finding from it: world-wide terror attacks decreased from 11,641 in 2010 to 10,283 in 2011. Both outlets decided (as the State Department dictated to them) that this decline was due to the death of Osama bin Laden just before the midpoint of 2011. ABC chose to use "Sharp Decline in Terror Attacks After Bin Laden Death" as their headline and Reuters went with "Al Qaeda decline hard to reverse after Bin Laden killing: US".
However, even a cursory look beyond the comparison of the attack totals for 2011 compared to 2010 shows that drawing the conclusions stated by these headlines is completely unwarranted. First, take a look at the "noise" in the annual numbers for worldwide attacks. Data have only been collected for four years, 2007-2011 and the number jumps considerably from year to year:
I don't think bin Laden also died in 2008 and 2009, so there must be some other reason the worldwide attack numbers went down in those years.
Looking further into the data, we see that the NCTC did break out the attacks that could be directly attributed to al Qaeda. Neither ABC nor Reuters chose to present this information in their stories, perhaps because it directly contradicts the narrative that the State Department wanted delivered:
Attacks by AQ and its affiliates increased by 8 percent from 2010 to 2011. A significant increase in attacks by al-Shabaab, from 401 in 2010 to 544 in 2011, offset a sharp decline in attacks by al-Qa'ida in Iraq (AQI) and a smaller decline in attacks by al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
That's right. Attacks by al Qaeda actually went up in 2011, and yet the State Department and our subservient press are happily chirping that we have them on the run. From ABC Continue reading


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Please add my thanks to your thoughtful treatment of disabilities. I have always lauded Blizzard for making a game that I can play. I'm a wee bit older, 61, so my eyesight is losing acuity. I flunked the eye test in first grade, so you can imagine how bad it has gotten now, lol. Even wearing trifocals, with normal computer use, I'm leaning forward to see the screen to be able to read most text, but I can sit back to play WoW and the clean graphics lets me see just what I need. I do tend to get lost in dungeons, it has become a guild running joke.
I also have an Essential Tremor, which makes my hands shake rapidly. Unwanted mouse clicks have me casting spells when I wanted to be fishing, at times. Still, I find I can heal with ease, and look forward to getting my Holy Priest geared up for heroics at least. I healed ICC in the past, but I think things have progressed to the state that I may not raid again. Even so, I'll be happy to run heroics. Deathwing, count yourself lucky...
My son has dyslexia and dysgraphia. His reading has gotten a lot better, so now he can read the quest text in a reasonable time, but typing into chat windows sometimes becomes a session of me spelling every third word for him. Has anyone tried using Dragon Naturally Speaking with WoW? It advertises that it will dictate into the chat window, but my experiences with earlier versions was that it was not accurate enough and you had to speak in an uncomfortable style. Anyone tried the latest version? I would appreciate some feedback on it, thanks.
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For spelling I use an addon called Misspelled. It highlights incorrect words in mage-blue and lets you right-click on the word to select the correct spelling. The dictionary it has isn't always great though, and it's still no help with muddling up letters. Example: I'm always having to double-check if I've just typed "definitely" or "defiantly"!


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A professional on and off the field, Bierhoff is a pioneer within the football industry and constantly seeks new opportunities to improve the sport for players, coaches and fans. Having made a successful transition from professional player into business management and consulting for global companies, Bierhoff is a valuable partner for SAP and compliments SAP's existing relationship with the German Football Association (DFB). As a brand ambassador, Bierhoff acts as advisor to SAP on their sports strategy, calling on his outstanding network of international sports professionals.
Beginning his professional career with Bayer Uerdingen in 1986, Bierhoff represented nine different clubs in four different leagues across Europe; including Italian powerhouse A.C. Milan. He gained his first cap for Germany in 1996 and claimed international notoriety for scoring the first "golden goal" in the history of major international football for Germany in the UEFA Euro '96 final. After playing 70 games and scoring 37 goals for his country he made his final national appearance during the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea.
Following the success of his playing career, Bierhoff was appointed manager of the German National Team in 2004 and works alongside current head coach Joachim Löw to improve the strategies of one of the world's most successful teams.
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Entrepreneurship is a dirty word for many MBA candidates. Synonymous with extreme financial distress, entrepreneurship for many MBAs is a deep chasm of despair, particularly considering the high debt load that most MBAs have post-graduation. These attitudes and misconceptions have hurt MBA grads instead of helping them.
I was raised in Silicon Valley before moving to Vancouver and I love to see entrepreneurs with big dreams. But what concerns me is when people build a business with a focus on trying to get big simply based on the belief that "bigger is better" or when those involved with the company view anything other than a multimillion dollar acquisition as a failure.
In September of 2010, Troy Conrad launched a new format of stand up: unscripted and on a topic that the performer sees at the same time as the audience. It is (quite aptly) billed as "Stand-up Without a Net. I recently spoke to creator Troy Conrad and Paul Provenza about Set List, and the changing business of comedy.
Nellie Akalp started her second company in the middle of a recession. You'll absolutely want to find out how she was able to successfully navigate one of the most challenging time for most small businesses. Is it easier the second time around? You'll find out when you listen to my interview with Nellie Akalp.
On January 14, 2012 the Government of Canada finally made some details available about its venture capital measures first announced in the 2012 Budget Plan. It is not clear what the overall intent of these measures is. Is the intent to help build Canada's lack luster venture capital market over the long-term or spur economic growth in the short term?


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#AstrosMMP is the New #GoDBacks
Gosh…It sure must've seemed like such a good idea. A tweet arrived around 5:30 PM yesterday from Astros beat writer Zachary Levine to inform us all of a new feature for home games at Minute Made Park. Had the Astros Front Office not heard of the whole #GoDBacks thing the Arizona Diamondbacks did a couple of months back?
As you might've guessed, a lot of people (including myself) suddenly turned in to 10 year old boys again. Here's the best of the worst—with most never making it to the big scoreboard—from last night.
@zachmayer14 Enjoy watching Hunter Pe… Lance Berk… Roy Osw… Michael Bo… Craig Big… Jeff Bagw… Carlos Lee. #AstrosMMP
@John_Royal And you thought Kaz Matsui was bad, Bill Hall. #AstrosMMP
@houcounterplot Why does my wife smell like bacon grease and why does my child look like Carlos Lee? #AstrosMMP
@danolaurel Jim in section 308, you aren't here to watch a baseball game. We want to talk to you about your drinking. #AstrosMMP
@yokorick Have you seen Marley and Me yet? No? Well, the dog dies… #AstrosMMP
@kevinbassstache Craig James didn't kill five hookers. He killed six. #AstrosMMP
@PSKolaches Really disappointed in the "Coke porch" you guys. Embarrassed, Dude who scalped me these seats lied, also is not 80's night #AstrosMMP
@RoyalesWCheese Rodriguez's first name Wandy also happens to be the most common nickname that magicians give their penises. #AstrosMMP
@MKsmn515 I heard Jimmy Hoffa and Roger Clemens' roid needles are buried under the hill in centerfield #AstrosMMP
@cowboycane The roof at Minute Maid Park is powered by trained dolphins #AstrosMMP
@houcounterplot Voting for Obama? Romney? Neither? Its a GREAT night to share your political beliefs! Also, mini-bats are $4 at the team store! #AstrosMMP
@AstrosCounty Ed Wade has me in a holding cell, giving me asparagus, and petting me, saying, "You're a Phillie now…shhhh" #AstrosMMP
@spencerleeder I met my wife on http://www.blackpeoplemeet.com. #AstrosMMP
@houcounterplot Yeah, I've been to prison. So what? #AstrosMMP
@mferrier31 Have you ever imagined Betty White naked? #AstrosMMP
@RBBonner_ What's the best way to hide a dead body #AstrosMMP
and finally…
@temiller72 Ed Wade has diarrhea #AstrosMMP
Many years from now an elderly man will sit on the front porch of his house with his two Grandkids nearby. A twinkle in his eye will appear and he'll ask, "Did I ever tell you about the time I tweeted 'I'm just here for the Jesus music #AstrosMMP' and it showed up on the big scoreboard at Minute Made Park??" And the kids will respond, "Yes Grandpa! Can we go to the mall now and see High School Musical 87, please!?!"
Thank you, Astros, for giving us something to remember this utterly forgettable 2012 season by. #AstrosMMP


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A global survey of 930 business executives was conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services in 2011 to determine the current state of business analytics in the organization. While the majority of companies surveyed reported reliance on analytics in day-to-day decision making, only one in four deemed its use of analytics "very effective." However, the survey also revealed behaviors or characteristics common among the most effective users of analytics. These users have developed pro-analytics practices, have built a business infrastructure to support analytics, and have cultivated a company culture that emphasizes analytics and encourages its use.
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Skittle Fight! - Chapter 151 Reviews
Skittle fight, and Bob and Mikey are staring at each other..
'Ouch!' I said falling down the stairs, landing on my butt, and the bottom.
'What did you do?' Gerard said, coming to the bottom of the stairs looking down at me, smirking.
'Fell down the stairs.' I grinned, using the hand he offered me to get up.
'Trust you, come one, Mikey's making breakfast. Which in my experience, is not the best thing.' Gerard said, grimacing.
'Oi! I heard that!.' Mikey's muffled voice came from the kitchen, making me laugh.
'What did he do?' I asked, still smiling from Mikey's response.
'He blow up the toaster.' Gerard said, chuckling slightly. 'By shoving a knife in it.'
'I didn't blow it up, I simply put the knife in it, trying to get my toast out, 'coz it was stuck, next thing I know BOOM! It blow up, in my face.' Mikey said, using hand gestures to show the boom.
'WHILST IT WAS PULGGED IN!' Gerard laughed, falling on the floor, myself joining him soon after.
'Its not funny!' Mikey wined, crossing his arms, looking at the floor.
'Dude, it really is! Did you not think to un-plug the toaster?' I asked standing up, using the counter for support.
'No, it was a spur of the moment decision.' Mikey said, glaring at Gerard and myself.
'Come on where 'gonna be late.' Gerard said, still laughing.
-Time Lapse-
'Told you we were 'gonna be late!' Gerard said, pulling me towards our first lesson of the day. PE, grate!
'Meh, its only PE, nothing important.' I sighed, not wanting to go one bit.
'Yeah, but if we skipped two days in a row, I think they'd say something.' Gerard said, pulling me into the changing rooms.
'Can we not pretend where ill.' I asked, screwing my nose up at the awful smell coming from the changing rooms.
'No, where here now, not that we'll be doing anything.' Gerard smiled, pulling me to where Ray and Bob where standing.
'Finally! We thought you weren't coming in!' Ray said, smiling along with Bob, when they saw our joined hands.
'No, Mikey thought it would be a good idea to make breakfast at Frank's house, then I had to explain to Frank why it is not a good idea for Mikes to be anywhere near a toaster, which made us late.' Gerard laughed, along with the others.
'Get into groups of 5 and come this way, you'll be working with the other classes.' The coach said from the door way.
'Shit! I thought we had maths.' Mikey said , coming in behind us, just then I realised that Bob was in here as well, they were in a different year group and shouldn't have PE at the same time as us. 'Hey, what are you doing in here anyway?'
'Oh, we now have PE with you lot, 'dunno why, they told us yesterday.' Bob shrugged.
'Oh, cool.' I smiled following them out into the gym, where all the other boys where.
'Right, as you 5 are the last one's out, you can do croquet.' The coach grinned, menacingly.
'Awesome, we get to use mallets.' I grinned. Gerard rolled his eyes, his arm going around my shoulders.
'This should be.. interesting..' Bob said, slowly.
'Is it the best idea to give Frank a mallet?' Ray asked, eye's slightly wide, he was looking at me grinning like a maniac. 'And from the look on his face. No. it isn't a good idea.' Ray said, giving the mallets to everybody, but me. I pouted and crossed my arms.
'Why you no trust me?' I asked, making my puppy dog eyes at him.
'The look on you're face earlier said I shouldn't, and you just seem the type of person to hit someone with it.' Bob grimaced, making me grin.
'Gimme, gimme, the god damn mallet, c'mon!' I said in a sing-song way, still grinning.
'Okay, okay. Here.' Ray said, handing me the mallet. 'Err, does any one even know how to play?' Ray said, sheepishly.
'No..' Bob said, looking to Mikey and Gerard.
'Not one bit.' Gerard laughed.
'Nope.' Mikey said straight faced. Bob looked at me.
'I think I know.' I said, trying to remember back to when I was little and my teacher tried teaching it to me, without much success.
-Time Lapse-
'So you just, hit the ball through the hoopy thing's?' Gerard asked, still looking confused.
'I think so.' I laughed.
'Cool, well that was a total waste of time.' Mikey said, laughing slightly.
'Yuup.' I laughed, following them back into the gym, where we put away the equipment and went to lunch. 'I HAVE SKITTLES!' I said, grinning my face off, pulling a bag of skittles out of my bag, ripping them open and shoving some of them into my mouth, still grinning.
'Oh god, no.' Gerard said, knowing what I was like on skittles. I grinned at him, offering them all some.
'What do you mean by, 'Oh god, no. Gerard?' Bob asked, curious.
'Yesterday when he had skittles, he went crazy, running round and shouting things at people.' Gerard said, remembering yesterday when he had given me them.
'Oh god.' Bob said, looking wearily over at me. I grinned happily eating more of the deliciously malty coloured sweets.
'A oov ittles.' I smiled, my words coming out muffled.
'Say again.' Gerard laughed.
I swallowed the sweets and said again. 'I love skittles.' I grinned.
'As I can see.' Gerard laughed again, along with the others, his arm going around me waist, pulling me closer over to him. I snuggled into his side, breathing him in.
'So what you guys wanna do?' Ray asked, sitting on the floor in front of the bench.
'Don't mind.' I said, happy I had my skittles. Gerard shrugged next to me. I looked over at Bob and Mikey, expecting one of them to come up with an idea. When I did look up, they were both staring at each other intently, Ray cleared his throat, trying to get their attention.
'Hello, earth to Mikey and Bob.' Ray said waving a hand in front of their faces. Both there heads snapped up, there eyes going wide, then back to normal.
'You like, zoned out then. Both of you.' Gerard grinned, looking down at me. I looked back up at him, not knowing what the look was about. 'What?' I mouthed, 'I'll tell you later.' He mouthed back.
'What, no, no. Just thinking.' Mikey said, sheepishly.
'Err, yeah, thinking..' Bob said, also sounding sheepish. 'What did you ask anyway?' He asked, frowning slightly.
'What do you want to do? 'Coz we don't know, and were bored.' Gerard chuckled lightly.
'SKITTLE FIGHT!' I suddenly shouted, making everyone jump, throwing skittles and Bob and Mikey.
'The skittles are only just kicking in aren't they?' Gerard chuckled, holding me away from him as I throw more skittles and the others.
'Yuup.' I laughed, grinning my face off.
'Can you please stop throwing skittles at me!' Ray asked, covering his face from the skittles.
'As you asked so nicely.' I said, aiming the skittles more at Bob and Mikey than at him.
'Why did you stop throwing them at him, but not us?!' Bob shouted.
''Coz you haven't asked me to.' I grinned, still throwing them at him.
'Will you please stop throwing skittles at me?!' Bob practically shouted again.
'Yuup.' I grinned, now concentrating on throwing them at Mikey.
'What he said.' Mikey grimaced, also covering his face from the skittles.
'Nope, you didn't ask nice enough.' I grinned.
'Please, Frank, will you stop throwing skittles at me, as you stopped when Ray and Bob asked you to.' Mikey asked, still covering his face.
'Sure.' I stopped throwing skittles, and started eating them again. 'Oh, and by the way, you guys owe me another bag of skittles.' I grinned down at the half empty bag of skittles in front of me.
'What no-!' Mikey got cut off by the end of lunch bell.
'Yes you do!' I shouted over my shoulder as I ran down the stairs, pulling Gerard with me.


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A Guide To Current And Emerging NPWT Modalities
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Can Fluid Installation Therapy Have An Impact In Preventing NPWT Complications?
Fluid instillation therapy, as delivered by NPWT, has shown a great deal of promise in avoiding many of these potential complications. Otherwise known as "wound chemotherapy," a couple of different systems currently facilitate this process. The VAC Instill Therapy Unit (KCI) allows for separate infusion and vacuum periods via two different ports. The SVED negative pressure device (Innovative Therapies) provides simultaneous infusion and NPWT.14-16
While the VAC Instill Therapy Unit is more accessible than the SVED system in most clinical settings, its "hold" cycle — during which fluid infuses into the foam and NPWT pauses — may result in maceration and a loss of seal.14 Recent modifications to the updated KCI instillation system may have improved the seal.
Researchers have studied fluids such as Dakin's solution (sodium hypochlorite), insulin, doxycycline, Dilantin (phenytoin), diluted Betadine, lactoferrin and biguanide antiseptics for their potential application to fluid instillation NPWT.14-16 The instillation of Dakin's solution may prevent wound maceration and colonization, and researchers have shown that insulin-like growth factor increases the rate of wound healing.14,16 Furthermore, doxycycline is antimicrobial and is a competitive inhibitor of MMPs as well as tissue necrosis factor-a.15 This tetracycline antibiotic may also reduce inflammation in the wound by decreasing nitric oxide synthesis.15
What You Should Know About NPWT And Tension Stress
Another way in which NPWT works to improve wound healing can be explained by the law of tension stress. As the clinician applies NPWT, the wound bed experiences a negative, deforming force, which stretches individual cells and results in increased cell proliferation and angiogenesis.10,17
In 2004, Saxena and colleagues reported that finite element modeling of VAC therapy was able to produce strains consistent with the levels needed for promoting cellular proliferation in vitro.17 Researchers have investigated the notion that micromechanical forces are able to induce cell proliferation and division with respect to the use of tissue expanders for reconstructive plastic surgery, and distraction osteogenesis for bone lengthening.10,17,18
Expanding The Use Of NPWT Beyond DFUs: What The Literature Reveals
More recently, the use of NPWT has expanded beyond the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. Negative pressure wound therapy improves the take of split-thickness skin grafts by acting as a bolster and preventing an accumulation of fluid beneath the graft site.10 In 2004, Moisidis and co-workers found that the take for split-thickness skin grafts subjected to NPWT was qualitatively improved in 50 percent of the cases they studied.19
Researchers have also studied the benefits of NPWT with respect to the healing of wounds secondary to traumatic, open fractures. In 2009, Stannard and colleagues reported on the results of a prospective, randomized study in which 58 patients with 62 open fractures received either standard wet-to-dry dressings or NPWT.20 The authors found that the group treated with NPWT was one-fifth as likely to develop an infection as the control group, suggesting that NPWT may be an effective adjunct in the treatment of severe, open fractures.


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Like so many other lost black boys, Trayvon Martin was killed close to home. He was killed by someone whom he lived around. His hoodie marked him, as surely as any gang color ever marked anyone. He was watched by George Zimmerman in the exact same way that I, and all my friends, were watched when we strayed into some other neighborhood. Indeed, one thinks of George Zimmerman's attitude and can't help but hear the moans of Kendrick Lamar ("Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?") And finally Martin was killed in a way that is very familiar to a lot of us: a sucker goes looking for trouble, finds it, and shoots his way out of an ass-kicking.
There are no fair ones in America."
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, on Trayvon Martin, Hadiya Pendleton, and Derrion Albert.


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BOSTON – Sometimes it is more fortunate to be lucky than good.
The Boston Bruins were a prime example of that statement Thursday night in front of another sellout crowd of 17,565 at the TD Garden in their 7-5 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.
After the Bruins were a victim of a couple of unlucky breaks in the second period, Nikolay Zherdev and Jeff Carter each took advantage of the unfortunate bounces against the Black and Gold and gave the Flyers a 3-2 lead heading into the second intermission.
But, in a game that saw five lead changes during the course of the sixty minutes, things started to bounce the Bruins way.
Just 38 seconds into the third when Mark Recchi gathered the puck off a crazy bounce off the boards on a Zdeno Chara dump in and buried the puck into the empty net to tie the game at 3-3.
"I was just trying to throw the puck out there," Recchi said with a laugh when talking about his ninth goal of the season. "I was just trying to get a good forecheck going but I got a nice lucky bounce and I'll take it. You don't get those too often.
"It was huge. When you see a puck like that come out you just hope it doesn't bounce off your stick or something when you have a wide open net," Recchi said about how lit his eyes were when he saw the puck bounce his way.
Things might not have been as fortunate for the Bruins, however, as they weren't able to sustain their momentum from their lucky breaks.
Shortly after Recchi's goal, Michael Ryder tipped the puck past Flyers goalie Brian Boucher on Adam McQuaid's shot from the point to give the Bruins their second lead of the game just 1:10 after Recchi's ninth goal of the year.
"It wasn't the way we wanted to start the period," said Flyers forward Mike Richards. "We would rather have a better start [to the period] but sometimes you get bounces and sometimes you don't."
However, exactly five minutes after Ryder's 12th goal of the year, Flyers forward Danny Briere gathered a rebound off a shot from Braydon Coburn and buried it past Tim Thomas for his 23rd goal of the season at 6:48. Fifty-three seconds later, Sean O'Donnell (out of all people) jumped in on a Flyers odd-man rush and buried his first goal of the season to give the Flyers a 5-4 lead at 7:41.
"That's the type of team the Flyers are," said Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron, who scored his 14th goal of the season just 45 seconds into the second period. "They have lots of firepower up front but I thought we did a great job of scoring goals and staying up and coming in the game to earn a couple of points."
"We started sustaining pressure and had a couple bad bounces, a couple bad shifts and they're right back in the lead," said Bruins defenseman Steven Kampfer, who played a huge role in the game. "It's something we've got to tighten up on and we'll work on it in practice, but we're lucky to get two points out of here."
And just when one thought things couldn't get any crazier, well, it did.
After what was perhaps a questionable non-call down the Flyers end — where the puck might have been ruled out of play when it hit the protective netting — the Bruins took advantage as Blake Wheeler found a streaking Brad Marchand who netted his ninth goal of the season to tie the game at 5-5 at 11:26.
From there Kampfer played the role of the hero on this crazy night. The Bruins rookie blue-liner made a brilliant play to keep the puck in the Flyers end late in the game. From there the former University of Michigan defenseman gathered the puck and wristed a shot past Boucher's blocker side to put the Bruins ahead for good.
"I saw the guy rimming the puck around the wall there. I had a jump on the guy – the forward up on the red line – so I jumped in," Kampfer said about his game-winner. "I just tried to get a shot on net and I was fortunate enough to beat him far-side high."
Gregory Campbell added his fifth goal of the year on an empty netter at 19:53 to seal the come from behind victory for the Black and Gold.


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A bit from a comedy or other showbiz routine; by extension, any person's idiosyncratic performance. From Yiddish "shtick" = Ger. "stuck", meaning "piece."
I asked him for me $20 back, and he went into his usual shtick -- something about losing at pinochle.
octopod tarafından 23 Ocak 2004, Cuma
Indian slang for a really skinny person.
"That kid's a shtick."
BakedGoods tarafından 10 Şubat 2003, Pazartesi
the sound that happens when u rip a jonny off your wang
Dude! Take the paiiin!
Dude! Take the paiiin!
buttsauce Mcgee tarafından 29 Ocak 2004, Perşembe
the sounds made by juveniles when describing the act of fist fighting.
"he hit that bitch, and it was like shtick... shtick! im tellin you, he jacked that succa up!"
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Wayne Chang and Associates prides itself on providing the best client experience in today's real estate industry. All team members and vendors offer the hiqhest quality service with a great attitude.
Wayne Chang - Broker Associate, CPA
As founder of Wayne Chang and Associates, Wayne sets the tone for quality and professionalism in all aspects of daily business from client relations to business strategy. Wayne graduated from Brigham Young University in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in accounting and subsequently obtained his CPA license prior to becoming a full-time real estate broker. With his strong background in business, finance, and marketing, Wayne connects with clients on a financial, service, and personal level. Through skilled negotiations and a direct approach to business, Wayne helps his clients achieve their real estate goals.
Stevie Koller - CCAM, Real Estate Agent
With over seven years of sales and account management experience and six years of real estate and property management experience, Stevie's diverse professional background allows her to utilize her skill set and knowledge to assist both buyers and sellers in every aspect of the process. She is CCAM certified and informed about Homeowners Associations in California. She is also very experienced in sales, negotiations and well groomed in business acumen. A self professed lover of knowledge and life, Stevie is constantly looking to grow and learn new things.
Denisa Nitulescu - Real Estate Agent
Denisa's understanding of excellent client service stems from her colorful and decorated sales background. As a longtime resident of Orange County, Denisa puts her insider knowledge to work to find a special property in your neighborhood of choice. Her clients' needs are her top priority. She genuinely listens to you and will work tirelessly on your behalf. Denisa graduated from National American University in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in business. Denisa loves to find new restaurants, yoga, and enjoys the beach in our California sun.
Nancy Clark - Transaction Coordinator, Realtor
Nancy is an integral part of each transaction. Once escrow begins, Nancy is the liason between the seller, buyer, agents, escrow, title, and any other parties involved. She ensures that escrow runs smoothly and documents are completed timely. Being a fully-licensed agent herself, Nancy understands the nuances of today's ever-changing real estate industry. Her experience helps our clients easily navigate what can otherwise be a daunting task of legal paperwork that accompanies every real estate transaction.
Heather Millspaugh - Senior Loan Officer with Alpine Mortgage
Wayne Chang and Associates has partnered with Heather Millspaugh of Alpine Mortgage to provide our clients with the best loan products available on the market today. With over 20 years experience in the lending industry, Heather Millspaugh provides incredible value to home buyers. Because obtaining a loan in a timely manner is such an integral part of every home purchase, it is extremely important to partner with a seasoned professional like Heather.


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Northern Colorado notes | Big Sky Conference notes | Portland State notes | Eastern Washington notes
PORTLAND, Ore. -- There's a lot of "bad" to focus on when considering Northern Colorado's annual men's basketball road trip this weekend to Portland State and Eastern Washington.
For starters, the Bears (15-3, 4-1 Big Sky) are 0-6 on this trip since joining the Big Sky in 2006. Also, Northern Colorado is 0-10 all-time against Portland State.
And then there's the fact that this year this trip will be held in the back-to-back, Friday-Saturday format, with a gameday flight from Portland, Ore., to Spokane, Wash., thrown into the mix on Saturday to add to the difficulty.
But, here's the good news: Northern Colorado can make a huge statement with success this weekend and put itself in an absolutely enviable position as it nears the midway point in the Big Sky Conference title race.
Simply stated, if the Bears can take care of business this weekend against the Vikings (7-9, 2-2) and Eagles (6-11, 2-2) they'll be in great position to take a major step forward in this year's Big Sky Conference race.
Northern Colorado has already played exceptionally well through the season's first half -- they've already surpassed their win total from a year ago, they've won at least six games in a row two times already this season, and they're up to No. 12 in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll.
But they really haven't accomplished anything yet. In a year where the stakes are this high, the Bears' biggest game always seems to be the next game. And that starts tonight inside Portland State's cozy Peter W. Stott Center and continues tomorrow night on Eastern Washington's Reese Court.
If the Bears can focus and win where they never have -- against teams that, if nothing else, are always dangerous -- they'll be rewarded with a still-sparkling record and four straight home games to solidify their title-chase posititioning.
The Bears almost always play well enough to win on the road against the Vikings and Eagles -- they've lost by a combined total of five points in their last two games at Portland State -- but the "Ws" just haven't come.
Will they come this weekend? We're about to find out.
Date: Friday, Jan. 15
Tip: 8:05 p.m. (MT)
Location: Portland, Ore.
Venue: Stott Center (1,500)
Radio: 1310 KFKA (Greeley)
Play-by-play: Troy Coverdale
Web stream: 1310kfka.com
Television: BigSkyTV.org
Play-by-play: Tom Hewitt
Analyst: N/A
Sideline: N/A
Live stats: www.goviks.com
The Bears are hot, but an "are they for real?" test awaits this weekend in the Pacific Northwest. First up is Portland State, which has earned the Big Sky's last two NCAA Tournament berths.
This will be the 10th meeting between Northern Colorado and Portland State. The Bears are 0-10 against the Vikings, 0-6 against them in league play and 0-5 against them on the road.
Tad Boyle (46-61) is in his fourth year with Northern Colorado and fourth year overall as a head coach. Tyler Geving (7-9) is in his first year at PSU after assisting Ken Bone for four years.
Date: Saturday, Jan. 16
Tip: 8:05 p.m. (MT)
Location: Cheney, Wash.
Venue: Reese Court (6,000)
Radio: 1310 KFKA (Greeley)
Play-by-play: Troy Coverdale
Web stream: 1310kfka.com
Television: BigSkyTV.org
Play-by-play: Tom Weir
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Sideline: N/A
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The Bears will face a quick turnaround Saturday night in Cheney, Wash., where they will face the Eagles just 22 hours after their loss to Portland State. NC is 0-3 in Cheney in Big Sky games.
This will be the eighth meeting between the Bears and E. Washington, with the first game coming during the 1971-72 season. Northern Colorado is 2-5 vs. EWU and 0-3 on the road.
Tad Boyle (46-62) is in his fourth year with Northern Colorado and fourth year overall as a head coach. Kirk Earlywine (29-49) is in his third year at EWU and sixth year overall.


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I've passed the other parts and always had time to go back and review each multiple choice question in the testlet, but for FAR i didn't have time to check any of them. I left myself with about 100 minutes for the simulations and finished with about 4 minutes left on the counter. I thought REG was tough, but this was quite brutal.
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My children have been at WCS for the last 2 years. I am very pleased. I have seen my children grow academically and spiritually. It is great to know that my children are surrounded by a staff of professionals who love and care for them. I am very pleased with the principal and teachers. They are willing to communicate with me anytime I have concerns or questions. I would not hesitate recommending this school to anyone.
Very difficult to write this review. My child has attended Wynnbrook Christian School for several years. Unforunately, we have been forced to make a school change this year. There is no longer a school board with parent involvement. The administration doesn't want parent input. Teacher salaries have been decreased and several outstanding, qualified teachers have made tough choices not to return. New principal for the 2012-2013 school year with questionable experience. Not certain if she even has a degree in education or management. Sadly, parents and teachers only discovered all of this change during the few weeks of July. Shame of Wynnbrook Christian School for the deceit!
My child has been at Wynnbrook Christian School for many years, and I have seen a positive progressive growth in her academic performance. As a practicing teacher in the public school system, I can certainly compare the advantages Wynnbrook has to offer. Smaller classroom numbers, frequent teacher communications, numerous after school activities and a sense of being one big family with Christian values, makes this school an excellent place for your child to grow academically, spiritually and personally.
Christian in name, only. From the church leadership down to the principal. Don't waste your time or your money with this school. There are a lot better ones in the community.
First rate facilities, first rate teachers (up to 4th grade only) terrible administration. Unless you want your kids to be guinea pigs for a social experiment, I don't recommend. We were here for one year and left. Joke of a school.
Our daughter has been attending Wynnbrook Christian School since kindergarten and is currently in the 4th grade. With great regret, we moved her last year to the best public school in this area. We quickly saw how even the best academic public school could not compete with Wynnbrook when it comes to academics. Compare Wynnbrook's national test scores to any public or private school in this area and you will see that WCS is by far the highest. Not only did we miss the challenging academic program, but more importantly we missed the loving, nurturing, Christian environment of WCS. The faculty/staff really enjoy doing what they do and it shows. They love the children as if they were their own. The children love each other and are so supportive of each other. We quickly returned our daughter to this wonderful school! Come for a visit and you will love it, too!
A wonderful school it is very well rounded in acedemics, athletics, and you can feel Gods presence as you walk in the door.
I am so thankful for this wonderful school. As a parent of three children I have experience with both public schools and another private school in the area. This school far exceeds either. Academics are challenging, but presented in a way that does not cause sress for both parents and students. I feel totally confident that my child is receiving a top-notch education, and also that she is exposed to and surrounded by a loving, Christian environment. The facility is breathtaking and the faculty is some of the best that I have ever encountered. If you are interested in a state of the art facility, caring and talented teachers, and your child being surrounded by intelligent, and well-mannered peers, I would encourage you to visit Wynnbrook.
It is a great school. I am so thankful that a friend recommended it to me. I can't encourage people enough to take the time and check it out in person. Incredible facility, excellent academics, with the absolute best and totally committed faculty and staff. Check it out!!!
I am the athletic director of WCS and I want to say that Wynnbrook Christian School is the BEST kept secret in the Columbus area. We have a fantastic brand new facility, with highly qualified teachers for all grades K-6th. Our athletic programs of cross country running ,wrestling and basketball are some of the only programs offered in the Columbus area. Our Physical Education Program provides your child with professional instruction twice a week. Your child will also have Spanish, Art and Music electives. If you are looking for a school to build Biblical values along with strong academics into your child, Wynnbrook Christian School is your choice.
My husband and I have had our daughter in Wynnbrook since kindergarten and she is currently in the 3rd grade. We are so pleased with the high level of academics, positive christian values, and family atmosphere of Wynnbrook. The brand new school facility is amazing. The gymnasium is wonderful and the classrooms have state of the art technology with Smartboards. I am so thankful that we can send our daughter to Wynnbrook Christian School. Gracie loves the school and we are so thankful that the faculty and staff love each student and are committed to providing them with an outstanding christian education.
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500 River Knoll Way
Columbus, GA 31904
Phone: (706) 323-0795
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