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Kiki Camarena
|Enrique Camarena Salazar
|"Kike" (Spanish),[1] "Kiki" (English)[2]
July 26, 1947
Mexicali, Mexico
|February 9, 1985
(aged 37)
La Angostura, Mexico
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| U.S. Marine Corps (1972-1974)
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Enrique S. "Kiki" Camarena Salazar (July 26, 1947 – February 9, 1985) was a Mexican-born American undercover agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who was abducted on February 7, 1985, and then tortured and murdered, while on assignment in Mexico. Camarena's nickname in Spanish was "Kike"[1] and "Kiki"[2] in English.
Early life and education[edit]
In 1973, Camarena joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served for two years. He then joined the DEA at their Calexico, California, office. In 1977, Camarena moved to their Fresno office, and in 1981 he was assigned to the agency's Guadalajara office in Mexico. Camarena had also worked as a firefighter and police investigator before joining the DEA in Calexico.[2]
Abduction and murder[edit]
In 1984, acting on information from Camarena, 450 Mexican soldiers backed by helicopters destroyed a 1,000-hectare (≈2,500 acres) marijuana plantation with an estimated annual production of $8 billion known as "Rancho Búfalo".[3][4] Camarena, who had been identified as the source of the leak, was abducted in broad daylight on February 7, 1985 by corrupt police officers working for drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Camarena was tortured at Gallardo's ranch over a 30-hour period, then murdered. His skull, jaw, nose, cheekbones and windpipe were crushed, his ribs broken, and a hole was drilled into his head with a screwdriver. He had been injected with amphetamines and other drugs, most likely to ensure that he remained conscious during his torture.[5] Camarena's body was found in a rural area outside the small town of La Angostura in the state of Michoacán on March 5.
The torture and murder of Camarena prompted a swift reaction from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and launched Operation Leyenda, the largest DEA homicide investigation ever undertaken.[4][6] A special unit was dispatched to coordinate the investigation in Mexico – where corrupt officials were being implicated. Investigators soon identified Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and his two close associates, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Rafael Caro Quintero, as the primary suspects in the kidnapping. Under pressure from the U.S.A. to President Miguel de la Madrid's government (1982–1988), Fonseca and Quintero were quickly apprehended, but Félix Gallardo still enjoyed political protection.[4]
The United States government pursued a lengthy investigation of Camarena's murder. Due to the difficulty of extraditing Mexican citizens, the DEA went as far as to detain two suspects, Humberto Álvarez Machaín, the physician who allegedly prolonged Camarena's life so the torture could continue, and Javier Vásquez Velasco, kidnapped and taken into the United States. Despite vigorous protests from the Mexican government, Álvarez was tried in United States District Court in Los Angeles. The trial resulted in an acquittal by a judge before the trial commenced. However the case was then appealed to the Supreme Court where they ruled that it is the State Department's choice whether to break extradition treaties and apprehend fugitives in other countries. Therefore Machain could be charged with a crime. The four others, Vásquez Velasco, Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, Juan José Bernabé Ramirez and Rubén Zuno Arce (a relative of former President Luis Echeverría) did not escape, and were found guilty of Camarena's kidnapping.[7]
Zuno Arce was known to have ties to corrupt Mexican officials,[8] and Mexican officials were implicated in covering up the murder.[9] Mexican police had destroyed evidence on Camarena's body.[10]
In October 2013, two former federal agents and an ex-CIA contractor told an American television network that CIA operatives were involved in Camarena's kidnapping and murder, because he was a threat to the agency's drug operations in Mexico. According to the three men, the CIA was collaborating with drug traffickers moving cocaine and marijuana to the United States, and using its share of the profits to finance Nicaraguan Contra rebels attempting to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government. A CIA spokesman responded that "it's ridiculous to suggest that the CIA had anything to do with the murder of a US federal agent or the escape of his killer."[11]
Camarena received numerous awards while with the DEA, and after his death, he posthumously received the Administrator's Award of Honor, the highest award given by the organization.[2] In Fresno, the DEA hosts a yearly golf tournament named after him. The nationwide annual Red Ribbon Week, which teaches school children and youths to avoid drug use, was established in his memory.[2]
In 2004, the Enrique S. Camarena Foundation[12] was established in Camarena's memory. Camarena's wife Mika and son Enrique Jr. serve on the all-volunteer Board of Directors together with former DEA agents, law enforcement personnel, family and friends of Enrique Camarena, and others who share their commitment to alcohol, tobacco and other drug and violence prevention.
Camarena is survived by his wife Mika and their three sons.[citation needed]
In popular culture[edit]
Several movies about Camarena were produced in Mexico.
In November 1988, Time magazine featured Camarena on the cover. A 1990 U.S television mini-series about Camarena, starring Treat Williams and Steven Bauer, was produced (Drug Wars: The Camarena Story). In 2005, the History Channel produced a documentary Heroes Under Fire: Righteous Vendetta,[13] that chronicles the events. It also features interviews with family members, DEA agents and others involved in the investigation.
The 2005 book ¿O Plata O Plomo? The abduction and murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena was written by retired DEA Resident Agent in Charge James H. Kuykendall.[14]
The third episode of the television show Narcos makes reference to Camarena's murder, and how the subsequent DEA retaliation deterred violence to other agents.[15]
See also[edit]
- Jaime Zapata (U.S. agent)
- Javier Barba-Hernandez
- Mexican Drug War
- United States v. Alvarez-Machain
- Hispanics in the United States Marine Corps
- Torture murder
- ^ a b Sifuentes, Hervey. Proclamarán Semana del Listón Rojo en honor a "Kike" Camarena. Zócalo Saltillo. Retrieved February 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Kiki and the History of Red Ribbon Week". Drug Enforcement Administration. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ^ Gorman, Peter "Big-time Smuggler's Blues." Cannabis Culture. Thursday June 15, 2006
- ^ a b c Beith, Malcolm (2010). The Last Narco. New York, New York: Grove Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8021-1952-0.
- ^ Seper, J. (May 5, 2010). Brutal DEA agent murder reminder of agency priority. Washington Times archive. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
- ^ "Camarena Investigation Leads to Operation Leyenda" (pdf 1.73MB). A Tradition of Excellence, History:1985–1990. DEA. January 15, 2009. p. 64. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ^ "Bodyguard Is Convicted in Case With Links to Drug Agent's Death". The New York Times. August 7, 1990.
- ^ "Central Figure Is Convicted In '85 Killing of Drug Agent". The New York Times. August 1, 1990.
- ^ "Thirty Years Of America's Drug War". Frontline. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ^ "Interviews - Jack Lawn - Drug Wars". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ^ ""Te CIA helped kill DEA agent Enrique 'Kiki' Camarena," say witnesses". El País (Spain) (in Spanish). 15 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ "Enrique S. Camarena Foundation". Camarenafoundation.org. February 7, 2010. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ^ Heroes Under Fire: Righteous Vendetta. aetv.com
- ^ ¿O Plata O Plomo? The abduction and murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena silverorlead.com
- ^ Narcos: Season 1 Episode 3 Recap
Further reading[edit]
- Andreas Lowenfeld, "Mexico and the United States, an Undiplomatic Murder," in Economist, 30 March 1985.
- Andreas Lowenfeld, "Kidnapping by Government Order: A Follow-Up," in American Journal of International Law 84 (July 1990): 712–716.
- U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Drug Enforcement Administration Reauthorization for Fiscal Year 1986: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime. May 1, 1985 (1986).
External links[edit]
- DEA biography of Camarena
- "Kiki Camarena". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- Zaid, Mark S. "Military might versus sovereign right: the kidnapping of Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain and the resulting fallout." Houston Journal of International Law. Northern hemisphere Spring of 1997.
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A new report reveals Rumsfeld was on the board of Zurich-based firm ABB which sold North Korea two nuclear reactors. [includes rush transcript]
There is one image from the 1980s that might best highlight the ties between the Reagan and Bush White House to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. It is a grainy video image of a U.S. envoy enthusiastically shaking hands with Hussein himself. The year was 1983 and the envoy was Donald Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense.
Over the past year Rumsfeld's pair of visits to Baghdad in the early 1980s gained considerable attention but he has generally refused to comment on his trips.
And now it turns out that Rumsfeld is refusing to talk about his possible connections with another of the nations in the so-called Axis of Evil: North Korea.
A new report in Fortune magazine has unveiled that Rumsfeld might have played a direct role in helping North Korea build its potential nuclear capacity.
Three years ago Rumsfeld was sitting on the board of a Zurich-based engineering firm that won a $200 million contract to provide the design and key components for a pair of North Korean nuclear reactors.
The company is ABB. Rumsfeld served on the board from 1990 to 2001. He was the only American serving on the board. And he has never acknowledged ABB's role building the reactors in North Korea.
But a former ABB director recently told Fortune magazine that Rumsfeld was asked to lobby in Washington on ABB's behalf.
We are joined by the Fortune magazine writer Richard Behar. The forthcoming issue of the magazine contains his article "Rummy's North Korea Connection: What Did Donald Rumsfeld Know About ABB's Deal to Build Nuclear Reactors There? And Why Won't He Talk About It?"
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AMY GOODMAN: There's one image from the 1980s that might best highlight the ties between the Reagan and Bush White House to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. It's that grainy video image of a U.S. envoy enthusiastically shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, himself. The year was 1983. The envoy was Donald Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense. Over the past year, Rumsfeld's pair of visits to Baghdad in '83 and '84 gained considerable attention, but he has generally refused comment on these trips.
He, it now turns out, refusing to talk about the possible connections with another of the nations in the so-called Axis of Evil: North Korea. A new report in Fortune magazine has unveiled that Rumsfeld might have played a direct role in helping North Korea build its nuclear capacity. Three years ago Rumsfeld was sitting on the board of the Zurich-based engineering firm that won a $200 million contract to provide the design and key components for a pair of nuclear reactors being sold to North Korea. The company is ABB. Rumsfeld served on the board from 1990 to 2001. He was the only American serving on the board, and he has never acknowledged ABB's role in building these reactors in North Korea. A former ABB director recently told Fortune magazine that Rumsfeld was asked to lobby Washington on ABB's behalf.
We're joined now by the writer for Fortune magazine, Richard Behar. The forthcoming issue of the magazine contains his article "Rummy's North Korea Connection: What Did Donald Rumsfeld Know About ABB's Deal to Build Nuclear Reactors There? And Why Won't He Talk About It?" We're also joined by a spokesperson for ABB, Bjoern Edlund. Let's begin with Richard Behar. What did you find?
RICHARD BEHAR: Hello.
AMY GOODMAN: It's good to have you with us.
RICHARD BEHAR: Yes, well, as you mentioned, Rumsfeld was on the board, the only American director, from 1990 until early 2001. Newsweek in February touched on this subject briefly, in which Rumsfeld's public relations spokesperson said that there was no vote on this and that Rumsfeld does not recall it being brought before the board at any time, but we were able to confirm that the board knew. And what is particularly interesting to us is that if you check the public record going back to 1994, when the agreed framework between North Korea and the United States was done under the Clinton administration, from that point forward, until he became Defense Secretary, you won't find his view on this light water nuclear reactor deal, and you will find views of just countless numbers of his Republican colleagues, from Paul Wolfowitz on down, Newt Gingrich, Jim Lilley, Larry Eagleburger. There barely was a Republican who didn't condemn this project, and not a word from Rumsfeld, which we found interesting, and he still doesn't want to discuss it today.
AMY GOODMAN: Let's turn to Bjoern Edlund, the ABB spokesperson. What do you know of Donald Rumsfeld's role in getting the contract to build the nuclear plants in North Korea? Did he have a role as a member of the board?
BJOERN EDLUND: Hi, Amy. I cannot really give you a definitive answer. I know the board was informed, as Richard has written in his article, because the board is always informed about large projects, and obviously this was a large project. Whether the Secretary of Defense now had a role in lobbying, I don't know, and it wouldn't have been — it would have been unusual if he had had one.
AMY GOODMAN: It would have been unusual?
BJOERN EDLUND: Yes. You know, first of all, it's perhaps important to understand the difference between the board structures here and in the U.S. The board of directors is a non-executive body here, and the company is run by the board of management or the executive committee, so, you know, the sort of the insinuation that the board was either asleep at the wheel or whatever are not really very apposite [inaudible]. The real thing here was I think that this seems to me to be a U.S. political dispute more than anything else. I mean, ABB was asked to provide nuclear technology for a U.S. government-led project, which also involved the governments of Japan and South Korea, and later the European Union, and now two dozen other countries. And the whole idea here was to make sure that the North Koreans would dismantle the old nuclear power technology they had and get new nuclear proliferation-resistant technology instead. That was the idea.
AMY GOODMAN: Richard Behar, you talk about ABB's efforts to keep its involvement in North Korea quiet. Can you comment on that? And then I'll have Bjoern Edlund respond.
RICHARD BEHAR: What Bjoern said, one ex-director of the board who we spoke with, the only one who would agree to speak on an anonymous basis, recalls being told that Rumsfeld was asked to lobby on ABB's behalf. We also have Goren Lundberg, who was a top ABB executive in Zurich, who says that he was pretty sure that at some point Rumsfeld was involved, since it was not unusual, he said, to seek help from board members when they needed contacts and help with the U.S. government. This definitely was a U.S.-directed, as Bjoern says, operation, and it was kept pretty hush-hush for a number of reasons, and —
BJOERN EDLUND: Most of the reasons being commercial, because you keep things hush-hush until the contracts are concluded. I mean, we announced the contract in January of 2000, you know, and explained also the international framework behind it, because, you know, we're not politically naïve. We understand that this was a contentious issue, and it's important for people to understand when you get involved in projects like this as a company.
RICHARD BEHAR: Right, and some of the top former ABB executives added that a reason to keep it hush-hush was because they just didn't want other companies, particularly European companies, trying to get involved, which they did anyway, to get a piece of this thing and mess it up. It was a sensitive initiative sponsored, again, by the U.S. government.
Can I add one thing about the light water reactors?
AMY GOODMAN: Richard Behar, yes.
RICHARD BEHAR: There are different arguments as to whether nuclear bomb material can be made from the light waters. It can be made. It's a more difficult process. It's more costly. The weapons themselves, as I understand it, are a weaker quality. But the reason the Clinton administration went forward with this was because we were on the brink of war in that peninsula in 1994, and it looks like this deal did restrain the North Koreans, who were notorious cheaters on proliferation agreements, from building a lot of bombs. They had a Russian — which they still have, Bjoern, I think — they have a Russian graphite reactor, in which it's very easy to get weapons-grade material.
BJOERN EDLUND: Correct.
RICHARD BEHAR: Light waters are certainly better on that, but they're not perfect. They're not like coal-fired plants. I mean, you can do it.
AMY GOODMAN: I guess the question is, why doesn't Donald Rumsfeld say this?
RICHARD BEHAR: Well, to me, that's the most interesting thing, is that it's almost — I don't know. It's almost as if the other Republicans were carrying a light water forum on this, if I may use a wordplay. You just didn't hear from him, and he's not generally someone who keeps his opinions to himself on these issues. And he did touch on these issues without mentioning the light waters or the deal. He did a speech in 1998 to the Heritage Foundation, in which he took a sideswipe, without mentioning the words "agreed framework," he took a sideswipe at it. And he was also appointed by Congress to head a blue ribbon panel in 1998 on ballistic missile capabilities and threats to the U.S., in which he took shots at North Korea. But again, this wasn't mentioned, and his role on ABB was not mentioned in his resume, which was attached to the Rumsfeld Commission report.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about Westinghouse and what its role is in the building of the nuclear reactors? You mention this, Richard Behar, in your Fortune piece.
RICHARD BEHAR: Yeah. There was a series of corporate transactions that took place, that are a little complex. I'll try to simplify it, but, you know, if I haven't done it right, please jump in. But ABB's nuclear division was sold right before — the negotiations to sell it took place just shortly before this actual contract was signed by ABB. There were five years of negotiations going on since around 1995. Then in 1999, Westinghouse was bought by a British government firm, BNFL, British government-owned, and that was about a year before it also bought ABB's nuclear power business. So the project is now in Westinghouse's hands, and these key components for the nuclear reactors are being — and many of them are manufactured already — sitting there waiting in factories in New Hampshire for shipping, if and when the U.S. government says to go ahead and do it. But about 300 documents, technology, was transferred, ultimately, already to the North Koreans, and there's been a suspension on that.
BJOERN EDLUND: No, no. To the South Koreans. To the South Koreans.
RICHARD BEHAR: Sorry?
BJOERN EDLUND: Richard, to the South Koreans, who are building —
RICHARD BEHAR: Well, to the South Koreans to provide to the North Koreans
BJOERN EDLUND: South Korean companies are building this.
RICHARD BEHAR: I'm sorry? Say?
BJOERN EDLUND: They're South Korean companies are building the nuclear power plants.
RICHARD BEHAR: Yeah, well, that's the way it was set up, and there were training courses done, and the South Korean engineers are taking Westinghouse's technology and training and providing it to the North Koreans.
BJOERN EDLUND: Yes.
RICHARD BEHAR: So it's an indirect route there.
BJOERN EDLUND: Mm-hmm.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you both very much for being with us. Richard Behar writes for Fortune magazine. His piece is "Rummy's North Korea Connection: What Did Donald Rumsfeld Know About ABB's Deal to Build Nuclear Reactors There? And Why Won't He Talk About It?"
RICHARD BEHAR: May I add just one thing?
AMY GOODMAN: Yes.
RICHARD BEHAR: I appreciate your interest in this. It is interesting, since the story came out on Monday, there's been no interest in newspapers, magazines or TV on this subject, and the press corps is following Rumsfeld around the world, but they seem to be asleep at the switch on this subject, which is unfortunate. It's an interesting topic that people should be talking about, I think.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, thanks for being with us and going on the air. Also, Bjoern Edlund, spokesperson for the company, ABB.
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Challenges to humanitarian action at the turn of the century
31-01-1997 Statement
Norwegian Red Cross Conference, Lecture by the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Dr Cornelio Sommaruga, Oslo, 31 January 1997.
Allow me to begin by thanking you and all your staff most warmly for having taken the initiative of organizing this conference to mark the inauguration of your magnificent conference centre. Over and above its functional aspect, the installation of such a centre in this new building, which houses your National Society's governing and executive bodies, has to my mind a deeper significance. Indeed, for over a century, the mission of the Red Cross has constantly expanded and been pursued in a dual approach combining action with reflection. In holding this conference the Norwegian Red Cross, whose remarkable energy and operational commitment at both the national and the international levels are well known, has demonstrated its determination to promote the expression of humanitarian purpose in the most effective way possible, through reflection and action alike.
You have invited me here to share with you my concerns about the challenges facing humanitarian action at the turn of the century. I am most grateful to you for giving me this opportunity to move forward with you in an analysis whose urgency we all recognize, at a time when our work in conflict situations is surrounded by dangers so extreme that it is sometimes reduced to impotence despite all the efforts, motivation and courage of those involved. We face these challenges daily. Their tragic dimension was brought home to us most cruelly only a few weeks ago by the terrible events in Novye Atagi, Chechnya, on 17 December last, at the field hospital placed at the ICRC's disposal by the Norwegian Red Cross and Government: five nurses and a delegate were murdered as they slept, in a cowardly attack by a commando of armed and masked men. The ICRC staff were working in that war-torn country in pursuance of the most time-honoured vocation of the Red Cross, namely, to afford impartial relief to the wounded. Their work and presence there brought a message of hope and solidarity to the victims of the conflict on behalf of the entire Red Cross Movement. The assassins sought to crush that hope by taking death into what had been a haven of peace and compassion. This appalling tragedy forced us to suspend our activities, but the Red Cross spirit which those five nurses and their colleague were seeking to propagate through their work will, I assure you, endure in Chechnya. Even the population demonstrated its support for us: as soon as news of the crime broke, hundreds of local people gathered spontaneously in the hospital compound and outside our Grozny offices to condemn the attack and express their revulsion and their solidarity. The population of Chechnya, which has suffered so much for so long, is now deprived -for how long, we do not know- of both our protection and the hope which it was our duty to bring them.
I should like to say once again to all our friends at the Norwegian Red Cross, and particularly to the families of Ingeborg and Gunnhild, how deeply shocked and saddened I was by this tragedy, and to tell them that all ICRC staff and certainly also all members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement feel their pain and share their grief. I also want to confirm that the ICRC will relentlessly pursue the representations it immediately made to the Chechen and the Russian authorities, both of which condemned this vile act and undertook to open an inquiry, so as to ensure that those who ordered and carried out the massacre are identified and called to justice for a crime which has brought infamy upon them for evermore.
Remembrance of the victims of the tragedy will forever remain painfully engraved in our hearts and in the history of the Red Cross. I honour their memory.
Sadly, this incident which has caused so much anguish is not the only one of its kind. On 4 June last, three ICRC delegates in Burundi also lost their lives in an ambush by armed men in uniform, even though their vehicle was clearly marked with the Red Cross emblem and the warring parties had been duly notified that they would be travelling in the area. Over the past few years, in other dramatic circumstances, ICRC delegates have been killed in deliberate attacks in Sarajevo, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and Somalia, while the wanton violence of armed bands in Liberia forced us last year to suspend the permanent deployment of expatriate staff there. Three months ago, three of our staff were held hostage in southern Sudan for several weeks and were released only after lengthy and difficult negotiations.
Admittedly, the men and women who serve the Red Cross cause are aware that in providing relief to the victims of conflicts they may, despite the protection afforded by their emblem and although they comply strictly with the security instructions given them, find themselves exposed to all sorts of hazards inherent in combat situations. Yet they courageously accept such dangers as stray bullets, bombing and shelling, and roads that may be mined. The circumstances of the tragic events I have just mentioned, however, tell us that we are no longer dealing with inevitable accidents. The threats hanging over humanitarian action today are, alas, of quite a different order.
Wars have always magnified the profound forces which shape, build or tear apart human societies. I think, therefore, that the major challenges now facing our protection and assistance operations should be analysed in a broader social and political context. We have to take a different approach in identifying our priorities and devise a new humanitarian strategy which is not reduced to tactical reflexes imposed by the diversity of situations and crises. Seen from that ang le, the permanent insecurity which marks virtually every conflict nowadays appears to be a direct reflection of two profound crises which, to varying extents, are unsettling contemporary society as a whole. The first of these is of a moral nature and is expressed by a rejection of the values of tolerance and solidarity. The second, more structural in nature, is political: it is the crisis of the State.
These observations give a better understanding of why international humanitarian law, on which Red Cross action is based, is so often ignored and flouted in present-day conflicts. It is not, as some think, because the law is a thing of the past; it is because the two essential foundations on which respect for it rests are now being challenged. The first of these consists of the values indissociably attaching to respect for the individual. Nowadays such values are being abandoned. The second foundation -a political one- consists of the State, whose only real legitimacy lies in its commitment and its ability to ensure respect for those values and therefore to fulfil the obligations it assumed by ratifying the Geneva Conventions. In the majority of present-day conflicts the State itself is falling apart. To convince ourselves of this we have only to look at the discrepancy between the conduct of belligerents and respect for the most basic human values in a situation where, as a result of the identity-related, ethnic, nationalistic, religious and cultural claims that have taken over from the now defunct Cold War ideologies, nations are being torn apart and States are breaking up and collapsing. This process of fragmentation, triggered in the international arena by the implosion of the former Soviet empire, has not stopped at the frontiers of the former USSR. By a series of chain reactions, it has spread to many Third World States which, although geographically remote, relied heavily on the political, financial or economic support they received from the great powers during the East-West co nfrontation. That development is having particularly devastating repercussions in many countries of Africa, where the dogma of the inviolability of borders drawn during the colonial era, a dogma that the Cold War helped to perpetuate, is now being called into question.
I see these two interlocking crises as both the cause and the effect of most post-Cold War internal conflicts, which are generally known as wars in failed States. In such civil-war situations, where central authority has broken down or disappeared altogether and armed gangs have taken over from traditional armies, humanitarian action can no longer rely on its traditional methods. To begin with, there are scarcely any authorities left which share its ideals or can even be regarded as credible or reliable. If the civil war in Lebanon taught the ICRC what a nightmare it is to conduct humanitarian operations and negotiations in an inter-factional war, in many of today's conflicts -and those in Somalia and Liberia are prime examples- the " Lebanization " of warfare is aggravated by generalized criminal behaviour on the part of the protagonists, behaviour which rejects even the principle of the immunity of humanitarian action under the protection of the Red Cross emblem. Denied the economic and military support guaranteed by East-West confrontation, combatants now organize for survival in war economies based on looting. The civilian population is their first victim and, once civilians have been stripped of all they own, the combatants turn on the humanitarian organizations, looting their relief supplies and taking over the logistic facilities they have set up for operational purposes. The Liberian conflict is typical of that development in warfare, but the same scenario occurred in Burundi, for instance, and in the huge camps for Rwandan refugees set up in Zaire's Kivu province.
In that sort of anarchic situation, do the humanitarian organizations have any choice but to place t heir operations under military protection? Faced with the urgent needs of hundreds of thousands of starving civilians in Somalia, we took the exceptional decision to place our convoys under the protection of armed militias. That experience taught us that such arrangements could hardly be regarded as a practicable option in the long term; we are now more familiar with all their adverse effects. Indeed, were we to resort to such measures on a more general scale, we would surely forfeit all hope of persuading the belligerents in future conflicts not only to respect humanitarian action but, above all, to respect the civilian population, the wounded and prisoners, who are always defenceless. Moreover, resorting to military protection has its limits. For instance, did the United Nations humanitarian operation conducted in Bosnia under the protection of UNPROFOR prevent massacres, or the ravages of ethnic cleansing? Alas, it obviously did not. The only real course open to humanitarian action, and it is the option we have chosen, is to work tirelessly and resolutely to restore and demand respect for the protective Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems. That is the price of ensuring that humanitarian action loses neither the impartiality it must preserve if it is to operate efficiently on behalf of all victims, nor the corollary of necessary independence from the belligerents. That is one of the major challenges to humanitarian action that we must take up today. I certainly do not include in this reasonment the protection by armed guards of our premises and warehouses, what has been done in the past and may be intensified as a measure against banditry.
However, it is also clear that humanitarian agencies are reaching the outer limits of their operational capacity in the face of anarchy, chaos, and racist and genocidal policies. We saw that in Bosnia, in Liberia, in Rwanda during the genocide, and we see it in Burundi today. Humanitarian action has certainly helped save lives in those situation s, but its effectiveness is bound to be limited when it is confronted with policies which are the very negation of every principle of humanity. When violence, as the expression of deliberate policy, reaches such a pitch and the survival of entire populations is at stake, the response to crises can no longer be defined solely in terms of humanitarian action; unless, of course, such action is merely an alibi, a means of keeping a clear conscience. Massacres and genocide, which are first and foremost political crimes, can be effectively combated only through political and if necessary military action, so it is in the United Nations Charter that the international community must seek solutions without delay. Moreover, humanitarian law makes provision for such a course: Article 89 of Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions states that, in situations of serious violations of humanitarian law, States " undertake to act, jointly or individually, in co-operation with the United Nations and in conformity with the United Nations Charter " . Despite the existence of such legal provisions, what transpired in Bosnia, in Rwanda and again recently in the Kivu province of Zaire? In Rwanda, although alerted by the humanitarian organizations, the international community chose not to see the danger looming and, when the irrevocable happened before the eyes of the whole world, was still not spurred into action. On the contrary, the Security Council withdrew almost all the United Nations forces deployed in Rwanda, leaving behind only a symbolic contingent which had no orders to intervene, so whose role was confined to passive observation of the genocide. That failure to act will remain a dark chapter in the history of mankind. Yet Bosnia had already taught us the cost, in terms of human lives, of lack of cohesion and political resolve on the part of the international community. For there too, equivocation, sudden changes of policy, endlessly postponed ultimatums and countless contradictory negotiations enabled the inst igators of ethnic cleansing to pursue their plans to the bitter end. We had to await the fall of the enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa -which the United Nations had declared protected zones- and the atrocities committed there before we saw the genuine military action that has since proved so effective. Disarray, or deliberate political will?
These reflections take me on to another challenge: the United Nations and the impartial and independent humanitarian organizations have not yet succeeded in defining the framework and the terms of effective cooperation between political action and humanitarian endeavour which will enable them, when the vital interests of conflict victims so require, to be mutually supportive without becoming entangled. The humanitarian role of the ICRC, the National Societies and their Federation is clearly defined in the Statutes of the Movement and in international humanitarian law. The humanitarian responsibility of States, however, being subject to political considerations, is more ambiguous and indecisive. Only when States establish common and predictable policies in this area will they form a genuine international community and will the United Nations be able to take effective preventive, deterrent and, in the last resort, repressive political action in the event of serious violations of humanitarian law, massacres, genocide and the other major challenges facing us. Nothing acts as a deterrent unless it entails predictable consequences. In recent history, Rwanda is a particularly striking precedent in that respect.
All this signals a very serious danger which every individual and every State, as well as the international community, must recognize as a matter of urgency. Individual responsibility and the credibility of the international community are on the line as never before, as is respect for humanitarian law and the values on which it is based. Let us reflect for a moment: what sort of world do we want to build for tomorrow ? Can we pass from one epoch to another, from the world of the Cold War in which solidarity was imposed on States by ideological considerations and geostrategic interests, to this fragile new world in which all those checks and balances have disappeared? Is the new world to be one of extreme nationalism, of fanaticism which sees the future in the past? Will it be a globalized economy dominated entirely by the laws of competition and its most dangerous by-product, the code of the survival of the fittest, with everyone for himself? Will it be another bipolar world, with the deprived majority dominated by a privileged few? Surely the present-day indifference to serious violations of humanitarian law and the policy of not rendering assistance to persons in danger, as in the Security Council's failure to react during the Rwandan genocide, are manifestations of a dangerous tendency which it is vital we resist. Beyond their tragic immediacy, the crises in Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, the former Yugoslavia and Chechnya demand a response from us. What do we make of a world that allows thousands of women and children to die but rushes into Kuwait, by perfect consensus, to prevent its oil being stolen? In that context, and bearing in mind the particularly serious nature of the events mentioned above, humanitarian action and the debate on its underlying values have clearly moved to the very centre of the major concerns of our time. The National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, individually and within their Federation, the International Committee of the Red Cross within the framework of its own mandate, and all of us in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement must show solidarity and feel that it is our duty to help make this world, now seeking its destiny, a more peaceful and humane place. It is also in that perspective that the objectives of Red Cross and Red Crescent humanitarian action are being defined as we approach the millennium. It is no longer enough to simply react to the tragic consequences of war.
As you who observe it daily all know, our world is profoundly riven by fratricidal conflicts and social inequalities, xenophobia, racism, the impoverishment of vast regions, the consequences of natural disasters, and damage to the natural environment. It is undergoing economic, social, scientific, technological and cultural transformations so radical that they fundamentally challenge political, national and international order, and man's place in a context that is constantly changing. During the Cold War the concepts of peace and security, which are at the very heart of humanitarian action, were defined -in the most elementary manner and in the way most immediately vital to mankind- as the absence of war between the major nuclear powers. Today, in order to build a more just and peaceful world, we need a broader concept encompassing three essential, interdependent and complex dimensions, namely military security, economic security and civic security, which might also be called democratic and human-rights security. The humanitarian organizations, and more particularly the universal Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, have a new and crucial role to play in those three domains.
While those areas of concern are by no means foreign to the Red Cross, the environment in which we have to operate has changed. On the question of arms control, for instance, the cautious attitude which our neutrality dictated during the Cold War is no longer valid; we are quite aware of this, as shown by our active campaigning for a total ban on anti-personnel mines. Major progress has been made towards that objective, but the effort will have to be relentlessly pursued. We also succeeded in alerting States to the potentially serious implications in humanitarian terms of producing new weapons, including blinding laser guns. Laser weapons, an area in which the technology was already highly developed, are now banned by a protocol adopted during the review of the United Nations Conventio nal Weapons Convention. I am gratified that the ICRC should have been the key artisan of that decision. However, I think it is urgent that we place another issue on our agenda of priorities, namely, the introduction of a system for controlling legal and illegal weapons transfers and markets. Such controls are essential not only in relation to security and anti-terrorist activities but also from the humanitarian standpoint: it is odious to see the starving populations of so many war-torn countries being held hostage by combatants who, fearing neither God nor man, have acquired abundant weaponry with impunity and use it in ways that are all too familiar.
In the context of economic security, solidarity among members of the Movement must be given fresh thought and considerably strengthened, particularly with a view to promoting the development of National Societies in the poorest countries through projects which meet the most crucial needs of their impoverished inhabitants. In defining our priorities, we must be careful not to focus all our energy on emergency aid in conflicts at the expense of peacetime development and implementation of post-conflict or post-natural disaster rehabilitation strategies mobilizing the different components of the Movement at successive stages. In both the industrialized countries and the former communist countries, whose economies are in serious crisis, the National Societies -with the support of their Federation- should perhaps include in their priorities assistance to those untouched by prosperity -the homeless, displaced, refugees and minorities- so as to protect them from exclusion, intolerance, xenophobia and racism. In expressing these thoughts it is in no way my intention to give the Red Cross economic responsibilities which are outside its mandate; but while humanitarian action cannot be expected to correct dysfunction in the economy, it must be there to ensure respect for and protection of human dignity under threat.
Lastly, democratic security implies respect for human rights, not only in the conduct of internal affairs and in relations between States, but also in day-to-day relations between all members of the human community. We must also play an active role in this context so as to promote, first among individuals and then collectively, a sharing of the values of solidarity, tolerance and brotherhood which inspire our action and lie at the heart of the fundamental principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and of international humanitarian law. In order to deal with all those issues, the members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will obviously have to organize their activities in a more coherent, precise and efficient manner, in a spirit of solidarity and cooperation free from institutional ambition. The drafting, now under way, of a new agreement on the organization of the international activities of the Movement's members is one of our goals in this respect. Personally, I hope that the agreement will provide a new agenda for our Movement and that, by allowing for a clear and dynamic organization of the activities we are called upon to perform both in peacetime and in conflicts, it will establish an unbroken chain of humanitarian action and solidarity whose ultimate purpose, shared by all concerned, will be to protect the lives and dignity of all those in distress or under threat.
In conclusion, may I say that I trust we shall remain united and confident so that Henry Dunant's message of humanity, evolving through this turbulent century, will continue to be heard loud and clear. "Per humanitatem ad pacem" .


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Posted by Bryan Fischer
We're right about halfway to Signing Day and that means it is time to take a look at the Big Ten and see how the conference is shaping up on the recruiting trail. Here's a few accolades for a few of the programs who are making head way (or not) at this point in August.
Big Ten Commitment List
Best class: Michigan
Quite the impact Brady Hoke has made in just a few months at the helm. The Wolverines have the top class in the country at the halfway point and have blown rival Ohio State out of the water on the recruiting trail. The program has five Top 100 players committed, with several others that are in the mix to make the list by Signing Day. This is a strong class that will be counted on to make an impact early in Ann Arbor with the transition to the new regime.
Work left to do: Nebraska
Bo Pelini and company haven't seen a big bounce from moving to the Big Ten just yet. The Cornhuskers have one of the smallest recruiting classes in the country at the moment and though they have some nice players, such as linebacker Michael Rose, there just isn't any depth or impact players at this point in the process.
Under the radar class: Wisconsin
It's a small class but what it lacks in quantity, Brett Bielema more than makes up for in quality. Three of the eight players committed are in the Top 100 and they address key positions at quarterback, offensive line and linebacker. Bart Houston is a perfect fit for what the Badgers do on offense and they have done a great job of getting the best player in the state in Vince Biegel. Wisconsin is still in the running for several other players and could finish strong come Signing Day.
Top commit: Quarterback Gunner Kiel (Columbus, Ind.), committed to Indiana
Loading up: Northwestern (6) and Michigan on offensive linemen (5), Michigan State on wide receivers (3), Penn State on tight ends (3).
Frequent Fliers: Purdue with commitments from eight states.
Fence builders: Ohio State, all of the school's commitments are from Ohio.
Road to Signing Day storyline: Will Ohio State land some elite talent?
It's not fun for Ohio State to see Michigan grab all the headlines on the recruiting trail (though, as any Buckeye will remind you, it has been awhile since they had a headline about beating their rival on the field). Given the coaching change and possible NCAA sanctions, there's a great deal of uncertainty and that has translated into a lack of production at the halfway point. Ohio State is one of the few places that can land elite recruits despite off the field issues because they continually send players to the NFL. The issues are a little bit different this year but if USC could the past two years, so can Ohio State. The only question might be when, not if, the Buckeyes will land some elite recruits between now and February.
Top 25 Teams:
1. Michigan
18. Wisconsin
20. Michigan State
Blog Entry
Halfway to Signing Day: Big Ten Edition
Posted on: August 3, 2011 2:18 pm
Edited on: August 3, 2011 2:19 pm
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Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps Kinney ® KLRC ™ liquid ring vacuum pumps are ideally suited for pumping wet mixtures and even slugs of liquid. KLRC pumps are available in standard, all iron construction (no yellow metals) and 316 stainless steel. Complete engineered system solutions, including instrumentation, controls, piping and valves; self-contained liquid recovery and recirculation are also available. KLRC liquid ring vacuum pumps can achieve vacuum of 4 Torr (5.3 mbar a). Please note that final pressure... (read more)Browse Vacuum Pumps and Vacuum Generators Datasheets for Tuthill Corporation / Vacuum & Blower Systems
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New U.S. outbreak likely in coming months; children and young adults still primary targets,,
FRIDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials said Friday that development of a vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu is on track, with the first doses possibly ready by the fall.
Initial tests of a vaccine are expected to start soon, possibly within weeks, although results about its safety and effectiveness won't be known for about month after that, officials said.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has announced plans for a voluntary vaccination program in the fall, "assuming availability of a safe and effective vaccine," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a midday press conference.
Schuchat said the CDC is working with states and local governments to develop vaccination programs. On July 29, the CDC's advisory committee for immunization practices will meet to discuss who should receive the H1N1 vaccine. The committee also will look at who should be vaccinated first -- for example, health-care workers -- if the vaccine is in short supply.
"We think things are proceeding well," Dr. Jesse Goodman, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's acting chief scientist and deputy commissioner, said during the press conference. "We expect initial trials to be starting very shortly."
As vaccine development continues, the H1N1 swine flu virus continues to sweep around the world.
"This virus is not going away," Schuchat said, adding that it's still causing infections in the United States in the summer, "in temperature and humidity conditions that are not very favorable to seasonal influenza virus transmission."
On Friday, the CDC was reporting 40,617 confirmed cases of H1N1 infection and 263 deaths, although officials believe more than 1 million A
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A Man Trapped for Life on the Wrong Side
O'Farrell, Maggie, New Statesman (1996)
Sebastian Barry's award-winning play The Steward of Christendom took the plight of an ageing Catholic who'd been a policeman in 1920s Ireland. In republican eyes he has "fought" on the British side. After independence he has no place in the new Ireland; ostracised by his peers, he ends up in an asylum, where he attempts to reassess his unfortunate life. The character is said to be based on a relative of Barry's, and the idea of Catholics inadvertently ending up on the wrong side of the battle for Irish home rule is something he returns to again and again.
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (Picador, [pounds]12.99), his first novel in ten years, is the life story of a young boy in Sligo. After drifting into the British merchant navy at the tail-end of the first world war, Eneas returns home to find that he is regarded as a pariah and that any conventional kind of employment is now closed to him.
He becomes, then, a "peeler" in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and the republicans put him on their blacklist. He is issued a death threat by his childhood friend and so must leave Ireland and become an itinerant wanderer about the world. He works on fishing boats, fights at Dunkirk, harvests grapes in France, goes insane in Sheffield, nearly gets killed on a brief sortie in Sligo, whereupon he leaves again to build waterpipes in Africa.
Eneas is a complex and tragic figure, at once deeply responsive and staggeringly naive. The whole course of his life is set by no more than a romantic teenage notion that France needs to be saved, and a vague adolescent overspill of early sibling rivalry. "Stymied", a word Barry often uses for him, could be his shibboleth: the repercussions of his unwitting actions mean that, like Hamlet, he is frozen into inaction by the fear that whatever he does could be wrong.
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Director Mark Gambol
Cinematographer Mark Gambol, principal of MG-Pictures, Ltd (Lansdowne/Philadelphia PA) full-service production company, has purchased two Panasonic AG-HPX250 P2 HD handheld camcorders with 10-bit, 4:2:2 ,full 1920 x 1080 resolution AVC-Intra recording to shoot two nationally syndicated series for teens, Wild about Animals and Awesome Adventures.
Director Mark Gambol was contemplating a cameras purchase to handle a new syndicated television show assignment with a two-camera production.
Gambol purchased two Panasonic AG-HPX250 P2 HD handheld camcorders with 10-bit, 4:2:2, full 1920 x 1080 resolution AVC-Intra recording.
Gambol appreciates the camera's ease of use when training new photographers while its light, compact design makes it a great piece of equipment to travel with on long shoots.
Produced by Steve Rotfeld Productions (Bryn Mawr, PA), these longstanding educational/informational, twice-weekly series have been cleared in 29 of the top 30 markets (total clearance in 85%of the U.S.), including the Fox O&O Station Group and major affiliates in other station groups including Local TV, Tribune, Raycom Media, Cox and Media General. The award-winning Awesome Adventures takes teens, ages 13 to 16, on incredible journeys all over the world. Hosted by Emmy Award-winning actress Mariette Hartley, Wild about Animalstravels the globe to bring young viewers fascinating stories based in nature. Gambol, who currently holds the Director of Photography credit on both series, is a veteran Panasonic shooter, and previous generations of P2 HD handhelds, the AG-HVX200 and AG-HPX170, long served as mainstays of his business. He purchased his first HPX250 at the end of last year, then the second in the spring to handle the television assignment. (Awesome Adventures is a two-camera production.) This is the first year Awesome Adventures is traveling its DP, and the first year the shows are airing in high-definition. Gambol said the HPX250's small size and attractive price point supported the expanded production and transition to HD. "When I wanted to replace my HVX200 and HPX170, I naturally gravitated to the HPX250 since I was already invested in P2 cards and the workflow," he said. "Ergonomically, the HPX250 is hands down the best balanced handheld in its range, with the considerable benefits of longer (22x) lensing, a full-resolution HD sensor, and the AVC-Intra codec. Jam syncing the time codes for multi-camera operation is quick and easy, and the HD-SDI out improves and facilitates monitoring." Gambol has already had the HPX250s on location in New Zealand, Maui, Alaska, multiple cities in the U.S., and is currently in Australia with Awesome Adventures. "I can't overemphasize how user-friendly these cameras are," he said. "They match so well, and are light and easy to travel with. I've worked with them while the teens—and I—have been bungee jumping, white water rafting, jet boating and shooting from a glider with the camera jammed right in front of my face: the HPX250 absolutely fits our run-and-gun criteria." "The camcorder is affordable enough that I can take chances with it," he added. "The images are looking great. What's more, we pick up our second cameraman in each location, and it's been real easy to train these shooters on the camera if they haven't used it before." Gambol is shooting Awesome Adventures and Wild about Animals in AVC-Intra 50, which he considers "the ideal trade-off between image quality and recording capacity." He is shooting several long and short-form documentaries while also working on marketing pieces for non-profits such as Delaware Valley College, Maccabi, U.S.A., and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. For these assignments he shoots AVC-Intra 100, with the HPX250 outfitted with the Letus35 Ultimate 35mm adapter for the "popular effect of shallow depth of focus but with the high-quality Panasonic codec." The DP has teamed the HPX250 as a B camera with Panasonic's AJ-HPX3100 2/3" P2 HD shoulder-mount for documentary assignments. "Panasonic has a good overall system, with all the cameras integrating very well," he said. For more information about Mark Gambol and his company, visit www.mg-pictures.com.


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Dry weather, early spring pose problems for TVA reservoir management
Despite recent rain, an early spring and several months of dry weather are making it difficult for TVA to get its system of reservoir lakes ready for the summer recreation season, which starts June 1.
If TVA can't get the lake levels as high as they need to be, boaters and others using the waters may have more worries about obstacles lurking in shallower waters.
"We will still have a good recreation season, but the impacts will be lower levels," said Charles Bach, general manager of river operations for TVA. "Some of the places people have gone into with boats in the past, they will need to be very careful because the chance to hit a sandbar, stump or something like that will be greater."
David Bowling, TVA River Forecasting Center manager, said rain over the weekend and Monday was welcome but more is needed.
"Every little bit helps, of course, but we are still behind for the last couple of months. For the past 30 days we are probably one-half an inch below normal in the Eastern valley," he said.
Each spring, the Tennessee Valley Authority starts trying to hold onto water that makes it into the reservoirs so that levels will rise to sufficient levels by June 1. This year has been a challenge, Bach said.
"We went back and looked at the rainfall and we had a lot early in the year but by about March 1, it quit raining, for all practical purposes," he said.
Compounding the problem was an early spring, meaning more vegetation at an earlier point into the year to absorb rain that would normally have made it into the lakes.
"This very early spring season we have had, with all the grass and trees coming out — every time it rains I get less runoff and that makes it a little more difficult to fill my reservoirs," Bach said.
TVA uses its 49 dams to control water levels in the 47 reservoirs on the 652 miles of waterways in its river system. This is done to balance a number of needs, including navigation, power generation, flood control, water quality, water supply and recreation.
Bach said that dams in the upper northeast corner of Tennessee, such as Watauga and South Holston, are in good shape to be at the right levels by June 1. In the Knoxville area, Fort Loudon and Tellico reservoirs are also on track, but others aren't, he said.
About three inches of rain are needed to fill both the Douglas and Norris reservoirs. About seven inches are needed to fill Cherokee, where the level is 10 feet below normal, Bach said. With June two weeks away, the odds of getting these rainfalls don't look good, he said.
Recent rains have helped, especially for Douglas, but Bowling said he still anticipates Cherokee will be about five feet below its target elevation by June 1.
TVA tracks forecasts from the National Weather Service and has its own private contractor that also provides forecasts. "And they are predicting an equal chance or above- or below-normal rainfall," Bach said.
Another effect of the lack of rain is that TVA' might be forced to buy more expensive electricity from outside suppliers. Bach said that hydropower is an important tool for keeping down TVA's energy costs, because the basic fuel itself is free.
"If you take water up at the South Holston Dam, you can use it 13 times before it goes into the Ohio River, and that is my definition of renewable energy," he said.
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From 1801 (Thomas Jefferson) until 1913 (Woodrow Wilson) the Annual Message was sent to the Congress as a written document. Wilson revived the tradition, begun by George Washington, of delivering the Annual Message in person.
Off and on, since then, Presidents have chosen to deliver a written message. The last time was Ronald Reagan's 1989 message.
Famous firsts include the first radio broadcast by Calvin Coolidge in 1923. The first televised broadcast by Harry Truman in 1947. And, the first evening speech by Lyndon Johnson in 1965.
The first time a President made reference to a guest in the gallery was in 1982 when President Reagan invited, and recognized, Lenny Skutnik whom he had invited to attend.
On January 13, 1983 an Air Florida flight left National Airport in a snowstorm, didn't gain height and crashed into the Potomac River just north of the airport. A flight attendant, Priscilla Tirado, swimming in the freezing water, was too weak to grasp a rope dropped by a rescue helicopter.
Skutnik, a clerk in a U.S. Government office, saw her distress, stepped out of his coat and boots and dove into the Potomac River and pulled Tirado to safety.
He was recognized by President Reagan saying:
"We saw the heroism of one of our young Government employees, Lenny Skutnik, who, when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter line, dived into the water and dragged her to safety."
Since then, Presidents have invited guests to sit in the First Lady's box for political, patriotic or social reasons.
President Obama's speech last night, like almost all which have been delivered in writing or in person before, fulfilled that simple requirement that the President "from time to time give Congress information on the state of the union."
It is a very nice custom, highly anticipated in Washington, DC, totally forgotten within hours of its delivery but links Presidents in an unbroken line back to George Washington.


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Update on AnkhzayaMrs. Ankhzaya, 28 years old, lives with her husband and son in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She and her husband have operated a printing business for the last five years. The business has been stabilized and attracted quite a number of customers. She is requesting a loan of 4500000 MNT to purchase an automobile which runs on natural gas. As a result, the automobile she is purchasing will be used for transportation purposes of printing materials. Ankhzaya has gotten a loan from our organization before and paid it back on the established schedule. She is one of our most reliable and trustworthy clients. Most importantly the automobile which runs on natural gas emits less exhaust thus contributing to the efforts against air pollution.
Previous Loan DetailsAnkhzaya again needs to renovate her printing machines and add to their number, due to many orders. Lately, she has had a high work load and the number of customers has increased in the last several months. Therefore, she is taking a loan to purchase new Xerox printing machines for equipment ... More from Ankhzaya's previous loan »
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This loan is part of Credit Mongol's green loan program, which helps clients to purchase products for improving their heating and ventilation systems, reducing pollution and health problems caused by burning coal in the winter.
About Credit MongolCredit Mongol is the largest non-banking financial institution (NBFI) in Mongolia. Its mission is to contribute to the prosperity of Mongolians by providing high-quality, affordable and varied financial services to micro-entrepreneurs and small-to-medium-sized businesses. It prioritizes serving remote, rural populations that have typically lacked access to credit and other financial services. Uniquely, it offers solar panel loans to nomadic herders, most of whom live without electricity.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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7 killed in Delhi building collapse
At least seven people were killed and several others are still feared trapped as a three-storey building collapsed in North Delhi's Inderlok area on Saturday, reports said.
The casualty figure might rise as more people are feared trapped in the rubble.
About twelve people have been pulled out from the debris so far.
The 50-year-old building reportedly collapsed around 9 am.
According to reports, the injured people have been admitted to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital in Malkaganj area.
Rescue operations are on.
(Posted on 28-06-2014)
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