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Horsham, PA, August 15, 2011— Astea International Inc. (NASDAQ:ATEA), a global provider of service lifecycle management and mobility solutions, today released financial results for the second quarter of 2011.
For the quarter ended June 30, 2011, Astea reported revenues of $6.1 million which were 33% greater than revenues of $4.6 million for the same period in 2010. Net loss available to shareholders for the quarter was $.8 million or ($.24) per share, compared to a net loss of $1.3 million or ($.37) per share for the same period in 2010. Software license revenues of $1.0 million were 41% higher than revenues of $.7 million for the same period in 2010. Service and maintenance revenues of $5.1 million were 31% higher when compared to revenues of $3.9 million for the same period in 2010.
"We are happy to report a significant increase in revenues this quarter. On a year to date basis total revenues are up 41%, including license revenues which are up 94%. While we successfully signed some significant deals this quarter with new customers, we did not meet our goals on profitability due to some of the deals we expected to close being delayed. We are pleased to report that some of those deals we originally expected to close have already been signed in the third quarter. Our professional services backlog remains strong as we are implementing projects throughout the world. These projects will generate a consistent stream of revenue for both additional licenses as well as professional services throughout 2011 and 2012. We are tracking a number of significant opportunities in the pipeline and remain optimistic. We anticipate operating improvements in the second half of the year and we are projecting to be profitable for the year," stated Zack Bergreen, CEO of Astea International.
Bergreen continued, "We maintain a focus on optimizing our business both strategically and operationally, and we are taking actions that allow us to capture a greater share of the service management market, improve our cost structure and expand our operating margins. Our unique breadth and depth of service management solutions, domain expertise and innovative technology continue to be a clear differentiator and are evident in the value that we deliver to our clients as well as our ability to capture more business in all of our operating regions."
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this was AFTER the flood and doesn't imply there were no other civilizations. prior to the flood civilizations were spreading all over the place.
"Moreover, even the single sentence in Ashurbanipal's inscription was full of scientific dynamite. He not only confirmed that there had been a Deluge; he stated that his tutoring by the God of Scribes included the understanding of pre-Diluvial inscriptions, "the enigmatic words in the stone carvings from the days before the Deluge." It could only mean that even before the Deluge there had been scribes and stone carvers, languages and writing— that there had been a civilization in the remote days before the Deluge!
It was traumatic enough to have realized that the roots of our modern western civilization go back not to Greece and Judea of the first millennium B.C., and not to Assyria and Babylonia of the second millennium B.C., and not even Egypt of the third millennium B.C. —but to Sumer of the fourth millennium B.C. Now, scientific credibility had to be stretched even farther back, to what even the Sumerians considered "the olden days" —to an enigmatic era "before the Deluge."
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Well the reason why i am leaning towards what Stitchin says is because he is the only one that taking into account that we are finding large underground cities that rival our old BCE companions.. no, these cities are just as great if not greater.
Not to mention these huge monuments they were able to erect and countless tales from different cultures that involves sky beings.
Back to Stitchin, his time frame might be off however, heh.


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This should be compatible with most stock-derived Gingerbread firmwares. It is NOT compatible with CM7/MIUI or any other AOSP-derived firmware. It is NOT compatible with ICS and WILL NOT BE until ICS kernel source for the I9100 is released. At that point a new thread will be created for those kernels. I am testing it currently with self-deodexed/debloated/Hellraised XWKL1.
This kernel series is intended to be similar in spirit to my Daily Driver series for the Infuse at http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1212795
It is built from sources at https://github.com/Entropy512/linux_...commits/master, and initramfs at https://github.com/Entropy512/initra...commits/master
My general goals are to focus on stability and battery life. If it comes to a tradeoff between performance and the above two, I will choose stability/battery life. In general I will choose stability first, with the exception of undervolting.
Current features:
- codeworkx's cpuidle patch - should improve battery life a bit. In most cases it will likely not improve things much, but in rare cases it will result in significant improvements. (I only have one partially-reproducible test case on the Infuse so far)
- JHash 3
- BFQ I/O scheduler
- CIFS module in initramfs
- CWM 18.104.22.168 pulled from latest CM7 source tree as of 2/28/2012
- "insecure" kernel (meaning root in ADB)
- CPU governor set to Conservative by default to conserve some battery - this will make your device slightly less responsive, use SetCPU or a similar app to return to ondemand if you want it, or reduce the conservative polling interval
- Filesystem readahead tweaks in initramfs
- netarchy's Sleep of Death fix
- netarchy's conservative governor tuning patch - should improve responsiveness of devices when using the conservative governor if you reduce the polling interval (misnamed as sample_rate) - the I9100 community calls this "lionheart" even though it's really only a 2-line patch
- Battery charge current monitoring (CurrentWidget) support - only reports charge current and not discharge, and reports a value 2.85 times the actual current. Use CurrentWidget's "operation on value" to divide by 2.85.
- Miscellaneous bugfixes pulled from Ninphetamine and CM7 sources - see github for details
- /system/etc/init.d support in initramfs - Note that this only runs stuff in /system/etc/init.d - ROM developers or you need to create it. Attached is an example script that will change the CPU frequency governor to ondemand if placed in /system/etc/init.d and set to executable
- Four "use at your own risk" features that trade performance for stability - See Post #4 for details
- Standard bootanimation support
- /proc/last_kmsg crash debugging support
- NFS modules in initramfs - note that they must be insmodded in a specific order: sunrpc.ko, lockd.ko, then nfs.ko
- Fix for fuel_alerted perma-wakelocks
- Fix for wifi tethering on I9100 ROMs that have been Hellraised
- Bump up TCP buffer sizes in initramfs to match that of the Infuse - may help network performance in some cases
- cpuidle driver from Tab 7 Plus kernel - allows entry into AFTR more often
- Support Bluetooth HID on newer firmware bases
- 3-step GPU clock/voltage control
- Extended hotplug tuning
- Support for Xan's ExTweaks universal tuning app - https://market.android.com/details?i...n.extweaks.app
Planned features, short term:
- Pull in some improvements from myfluxi and arighi's trees
Planned features, mid-term:
- ????
Planned features, long-term:
- Improved battery charge algorithm for faster charging - Initial research indicates we have an alternate battery charger chip (MAX8922) that differs from the MAX8997 used in the I9100. We DO have an 8997 also - but on our device for some reason Samsung decided to use an alternate chip instead of using the 8997's built-in charging. This means we have far fewer options (90,400,660 mA) in terms of charge rates compared to the I9100 (from 200 to 950 in 50 mA steps). So we might not be able to implement any fancy charging algorithms.
Features not planned:
- BFS process scheduler - I have only once ever seen a test case where this clearly outperformed the mainline Linux scheduler (multithread x264 encoding) - The mainline schedule was fixed in the next release and BFS now has no performance benefits
- Any feature that trades off stability or data integrity for performance unless it can be disabled entirely and defaulted to "off"
- Any feature that cannot have functionality tested without a paid app. Interface-only checks don't cut it - I don't want users complaining that the app they paid for didn't work because an interface check worked but function didn't
- Touch recovery - too prone to accidental user errors - Maybe I will revisit when ICS hits.
Known issues:
- Power management regression somewhere between 12/8/11 and 1/2/12 - Intermittent high drain without high AOS or reduced deep sleep percentage when on some wifi networks - seems more likely if GPS is used when connected to wifi. Wifi with high AOS/reduced deep sleep is not a kernel problem. This appears to only happen on some firmwares - it happens on XXKI3 but not XWKL1. It is likely connected to a wifi power management bug in some firmwares. A debugging feature in 2/7 and later will allow identification of such firmwares - see http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=1777 for details
- Some people have reported touchkey lights becoming disabled until the screen is turned off and back on again. Under investigation - seems to mainly happen on firmwares with BLN-modded liblights even if the BLN app isn't used
- Internal and External SD card are swapped in CWM currently
(Tested on Linux, not tested MacOS/Windows but should work) Heimdall - Extract the contents of the tar file, enter download mode, and flash with the following command line:
heimdall flash --kernel zImage
Flash in CWM, or extract the zImage and use the Heimdall instructions above.
Please do not ask how to enter download mode or install Heimdall/Odin in this thread - these are basic generic skills anyone flashing custom firmwares on Samsung devices should know and plenty of documentation exists elsewhere. If you really need to ask, use the General forum, or if created, the Q&A forum. I want to try to keep this thread clean and only with bug reports and issues specific to this release, not general HOWTO or troubleshooting posts. Some of the information you need is in jivy26's FAQs thread at http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1288112 - Reading at least the first post of this thread in its entirety is STRONGLY recommended.
Bug reports:
If you have a crash (reboot all the way to Galaxy S I9100 screen), use ADB dump the contents of /proc/last_kmsg and post
If you have oddball behavior, include a clearly reproducible test case with your report, or use ADB to obtain a dmesg and logcat capturing the odd behavior at the time of error.
Similar to flashing - using ADB and obtaining last_kmsg, dmesg, and logcat dumps are basic skills that anyone working with custom firmwares on Android devices should have. If you need help with these, do some searching, or post in the General forum or, if created, Q&A forum.
Firmware ("ROM") Developers:
While I cannot restrict anyone from putting this kernel into a ROM as long as links are given to the github sources for GPL compliance, I request that anyone who includes this kernel in a firmware release does the following out of courtesy:
Link to this thread
Clearly indicate in your firmware changelog which Daily Driver kernel release is included in your firmware release whenever you change DD releases - this lets users identify whether a fix is present in the kernel they're using or not
Kernel Developers:
Similar to my request for ROM developers, while I can't restrict you from doing anything, I ask as a courtesy that if you cherry-pick my commits, you do the following:
Please don't rebase my commits into a large multi-feature without consulting me - rebasing related bugfixes together is OK.
Please try not to implement lots of unrelated features or bugfixes in a single git commit - it makes it hard to reimplement that when Samsung drops new sources or releases a new device
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Now and then, I find it a challenge to maintain blood sugar control, although most of the time, the measurements are within the range of 4 to 8 mmol/L [72-144 mg/dl] (also after eating). In order to reach those values, I'm eating in two steps -- first two biscuits and then, after an hour, bread. I'm also experimenting with multiple injections of NovoRapid into three spots at the same time instead of one. I have the feeling that this helps to control the peak after dinner. I can't believe this hasn't been tried before since I don't think I am the person with diabetes who has a bit of scientific experimental behavior. Is there any information on the net about attempts to reach almost perfect control? Is it worthwhile trying this 'multiple injection system'?
When I think about the concept, I am struck by the fact that each of the injection sites will have its own absorption that might be accelerated or delayed, depending on local factors. The result will the sum of the three sites which may have fewer high/low peaks. It has the disadvantage that not many people would accept it, and it uses up more injection surface area than other schemes. It is my opinion that intermittent injections is still not the perfect way to administer insulin. It suffers from too much at one time and an imperfect means of providing basal insulin.
[Editor's comment: You should investigate the possibility of using an insulin pump which has the option of varying the bolus delivery. SS]
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A line of French cognac-based liqueurs using passion fruit and other fruit flavors. Alizé Gold Passion is golden-yellow and flavored only with passion fruit. The blue-colored Alizé Bleu adds vodka plus cherry and ginger flavors to the passion fruit-Cognac base. Alizé Red Passion has a rich red color produced in part by the addition of cranberry juice. The pink Alizé Rose is enhanced with vodka, and has added strawberry, litchi and rose petal flavors. Alizé Wild Passion is reddish orange and adds mango and pink grapefruit flavors.
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Every now and again you find something in Flash that you can't believe you've ever lived with out. Thank goodness Tom Kennett (one of the FlashCodersBrighton) showed me the FlashMX XPathAPI. Never will I have to custom write an XML parser again!
To use the XPathAPI, first you import the library :
import mx.xpath.*;
Let's say you have the XML file containing this :
 <news> <swf_file>C0201.swf</swf_file> <options> <format>html</format> <textcolour>red</textcolour> </options> <stories> <story> <heading>PLUG-IN-O-VISION IS REVEALED</heading> GEE-WHIZZ Plug-in's all new website has launched! </story> <story> <heading>FLASH FORWARD in Texas SPEAKER SHOCKER!</heading> Plug-in's technical director presents 3D in Flash at FlashForward Texas. </story> <story> <heading>Plug-in Media Directs Sony Video Nasty!</heading> Sony called upon Plug-in Media to produce EyeToy Next Generation promotional film. </story> </stories> </news>
First of all we need to extract the main node out of the XML object:
var mainnode : XMLNode = myXMLObject.firstChild;
Now using XPathAPI we can get any subsequent node value easily! To get the contents of the
textcolour = XPathAPI.selectSingleNode(mainnode, "news/options/textcolour").firstChild.nodeValue;
You can see there that we can access nodes within the XML structure in the same way that we would access files in a directory tree : "news/options/textcolour". As the selectSingleNode function returns (unsurprisingly) an XMLNode, we get the contents of that node using .firstChild.nodeValue.
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SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 30, 2014) - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability, today announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OhmData Inc. OhmData is a developer of Apache HBase ("HBase") database solutions. HBase is a core component of the Hadoop stack designed for real-time read/write processing of large-scale data sets, and is used in mission-critical applications at companies such as Facebook and Bloomberg. WANdisco recently applied its continuous availability technology to HBase and the OhmData team will continue this work to significantly enhance WANdisco's Big Data product portfolio. In addition to its pioneering work with HBase, OhmData has a patent-pending that addresses efficient database server power consumption.
OhmData was co-founded by Alex Newman and Ryan Rawson, who will join WANdisco as part of the acquisition. Alex Newman is an open source Hadoop committer who has worked in big data, network protocol design, software security and application development. He also worked on HBase at Cloudera. Ryan Rawson is a Core Committer on the Apache HBase open source project and a member of the HBase Project Management Committee. Before co-founding OhmData, Ryan was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on Google's 'Big Table' forerunner to HBase, and Amazon, where he developed synchronous cross-data center applications. He specializes in large distributed systems.
Working alongside WANdisco's Big Data and distributed computing experts such as Dr. Yeturu Aahlad, Dr. Konstantin Shvachko, Dr. Konstantin Boudnik and Jagane Sundar, they will enhance WANdisco's ability to develop new groundbreaking technology. Their status as senior open source committers who can contribute to Hadoop's code base will further improve integration between WANdisco's products and the Hadoop platform.
Gartner analysts Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker see HBase and other additional components as key to the relevance of Hadoop and comment: "As Hadoop core and related projects have progressed, its viability as a platform has been enhanced and substantial numbers of vendors in multiple categories, such as business analytics, data integration and workload management, have introduced products that assume its presence. Version 2.x of Apache Hadoop enables greater scalability and availability and expands beyond its batch processing roots to encompass new workloads and processing styles."*
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer of WANdisco comments: "We have again demonstrated that WANdisco can attract the top talent in the industry. Alex and Ryan come to us having worked as core technologists at some of the biggest names in the industry such as Google, Cloudera and Amazon. HBase is a critical component of the Hadoop stack and customers have told us that they need it to be continuously available. We are delighted to have added the OhmData team to our renowned Hadoop organization".
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
I remember my Grandma Theresa (Nebgen Sherlock) having a cousin Esther who I met several times in the early 1970's. Esther was married to a man named Atus Reuther (although she was a widow most of the time that I knew her) and she was related to my Grandmother (or so the story goes!) I also remembered that Atus was an attorney and that they lived in San Fernando, California. So, with this information, it should be pretty easy to research her, right?
Well, I found Atus (actual name Liberatus Peter Adelbert Reuther) in the California Death Index. He died in 1969. So far, so good! I found Atus and Esther in the 1940 census which said they were living in Los Angeles at the time (El Cerrito). It also said that Esther's birthplace was Minnesota. What??? We never had any relatives in Minnesota or did we?
Then I found Esther and Atus in the Illinois Marriage Index. It said that they were married in Chicago. Okay, now that is sounding more realistic to me. Grandma Theresa was born in Chicago. But how did Esther and Atus get from Minnesota to Chicago? I think I need to do a timeline for Esther.
1898 -- Esther was born in Minnesota
1900 -- Esther was living in Chicago
1910 -- Esther was still living in Chicago with her parents and siblings
1920 -- Esther was living in Chicago with her parents and siblings
1921 -- Esther married Atus Reuther in Chicago
1930 -- Esther is living in Minnesota with Atus, 2 kids and her widowed father
1940 -- Esther is living in Los Angeles with Atus and her three children
So now that I have her timeline, I have one more big question -- How is Esther related to Grandma Theresa? Where do the trees intersect?
Note: in the above photo, Esther is the woman 3rd from the left. My Little Grannie (Lillian Stachowiak) is sitting to her left. I tell stories about Little Grannie on my other blog -- MyPolishRoots.blogspot.com
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This book is a mind-boggling work purposely written to portray the true character of HE Sheikh Professor Alh. Dr. Yahya A.J.J Jammeh and to give the true picture of the giant strides, initiatives, major develoments and the meaningful reforms undertaken by him in building ` a new Gambia' beyond the frontiers, beliefs and faculty of human thinking. This book is a testament of the The Gambia's remarkable socio-economic, political and democratisation achievemens under the leadership of President Jammeh from 1994 to date. In addition, it is developed to give an independent unbiased account of how Yahya Jammeh had steered and is steering the affairs of the nation in terms of improving the lives of Gambians and non-gambians reisdent in the country. Therefore, this book based is on empirical evidence written in dedication to a visionary leader - a man of substance, President with a difference and a man of his people, with proven records of successes in bringing meaningful development that has transform lives and build better political and institutional structures in the country. It is extremely a valuable and must read book for students, scholars and researchers to acquaint themselves with Jammeh's type of revolutionary crusade for Action, Change and development in The Gambia and beyond. More so, the book critically look at all sectors of the economy in terms of performance expectations, registered achievments and improvements into the national economy. This book is therefore not purposely written as a political patronage but as a token of appreciation to a man who sacrificed his life by building `the fountains of a hopeful, thriving and young democratic- modern nation' - evidenced as the epitaph of continued progress and development in this country. Every one of us can attest to the unprecedented and meaningful development and modernization-taking place in this country in the sectors of the economy, ranging from health, agriculture, education, infrastructure, youth development, women empowerment, sport development, tourism development, fiscal and financial sustainability, hence the created enabling investment environment for trade promotion.Special thanks go to Ya Fatou Jallow-Sanyang for helping me in the conversion of the manuscript from Microsoft word to PDF format. I must also express my sincere appreciation to Liam Brandon a Publisher Service Consultant for introducinganbsp;...
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The benefits from the first shot only lasted 2 weeks. The second and third set of injections lasted about 90 days. In November, I was ready to have surgery. My EMG and nerve conduction tests proved that the nerves were "sleeping" before I was. After another MRI, the neurosurgeon said I was a candidate for surgery but I was not able to get the endoscopic type surgery that is less invasive. I would have an incision about 6-8" long. Along with removing the herniation, they would have to increase the size of the hole where the nerve roots were going through.


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We need salt –it is essential in small amounts. We need it, along with potassium, to maintain the right balance of fluids in our body. And more. But we don't need a lot. Too much is not good. Our body is very efficient at holding onto salt if it needs it. There is salt in our natural foods. If we added no salt we would probably get enough. Our taste for high salt foods is a learned behavior. People who lower their salt intake gradually start to appreciate the taste of healthy foods and find many foods they used to eat too salty.
The dangers of too much salt are well documented in many research studies in different populations. Joel Fuhrman MD has extensively researched the literature and found salt consumption is linked to high blood pressure, blood clots, heart attacks, stomach cancer. High blood pressure is a major killer in the world. Fuhrman says that if you don't have high blood pressure now that does not mean you do not have to worry about salt. Even if it's low now, 90% of all Americans eventually get high blood pressure from using high salt earlier in life and then it's not so easy to get the pressure down by taking salt away. High sodium diets have been shown predictive of death from heart attacks, independent of other risk factors including high blood pressure. "It's not just blood pressure – there is emerging evidence that salt is harmful to the heart in other ways."
The epidemic of autoimmune diseases parallels our increased consumption of processed foods. Three research studies published in Nature Magazine on March 6, 2013 suggest that "salt may be the missing link that might explain the recent marked increase of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases." One researcher wants us to be clear this does not mean it's just due to salt but that salt could be "one more thing on the list of predisposing environmental factors that may promote the development of autoimmunity." "This research is still preliminary and by no means proof "said Bruce Bebo Jr. PhD, of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in New York, but "It's another reason to encourage patients to follow a healthy lifestyle, including a diet that's low in salt." Dr David Hafler a neurologist at Yale said people should already be on a low salt diet" for general health concerns.
We may not realize it but we are on salt overload and it is putting our good health at risk. We usually get about 3400 mg a day of sodium. That's way too much. The maximum recommended amount is 1500 mg/ day. It's not the salt we add that gets us in trouble. It's the hidden salt, especially the salt in processed foods. 75% of the food we eat these days is processed. It is loaded with salt and sugar to make it taste good – to make us come back for more. It's an unhealthy learned appetite. We love salt and sugar but they can literally kill us. Of course the manufacturers know what they are doing. It is very good for their bottom line.
Yesterday I picked up a packet of salt in the hospital cafeteria and was about to about to put some on my dinner, but I changed my mind. Would you believe that tiny little single serve packet contained salt, sodium silicoaluminate, dextrose, and potassium iodide?
Salt from the shaker, salt from the sea – the saltiness of tears all have the ion sodium. Potassium is another ion which like sodium carries a charge and moves in and out of the cells via a sort of magnetic attraction. So what? Well it is important to your waistline and well-being. Take in more sodium than potassium and you can retain excess water. Sodium drives body fluids into the cells, plumping them up and plumping you up. It interferes with your cells functioning. And it can cause you to be bloated, have puffy eyes, swollen feet. Potassium helps keep water out of cells – it deflates what sodium inflates. Here again balance is vital. You want as much potassium as sodium in your diet.
In Paleolithic times I understand people ate a 50/50 balance of potassium and sodium. Today we get way more sodium than potassium. Since it comes mostly from processed, packaged, convenience and fast food avoiding those would help a lot. Unprocessed food generally has more potassium than sodium. We can eat a truckload of natural foods without getting into trouble, but if we take potassium supplements it is easy to get into trouble with too much potassium.
Together sodium and potassium choreograph such vital metabolic dances as muscle contractions and nerve cell transmissions. Too little or too much potassium can result in heart rhythm disturbances. Too much sodium meanwhile can raise blood pressure in susceptible individuals.
There are other players too, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium all essential, and balance is important. Sodium increases urination and promotes increased loss of calcium through the kidneys which can promote osteoporosis. My point is we need a balance of these minerals, these nutrients.
While it is important to reduce our salt (sodium chloride) intake, we may want to use a little salt, and sea salt is better. I like Celtic Sea Salt though there are other good ones as well. It is mined from ancient sea beds, and contains many minerals. Our blood salt concentration is similar to that of the sea. Refined table salt is processed, toxic and does not have the nutrients that are in unrefined sea salt. It is the salt that is used in processed and packaged foods.
Check out "The salty six" -6 popular foods that can add high levels of sodium to your diet. It includes breads, cold cuts, pizza, poultry (they often inject salt solutions into poultry and there is no requirement for putting that on the label), soup, sandwiches.
It is wise to read labels. Sodium by the way goes by many aliases, including sodium bicarbonate, brine, caseinate, citrate, chloride, phosphate, propionate, and nitrate. Any food ingredient that has the word "sodium" in the label is also salt – for example sodium benzoate, and MSG – monosodium glutamate. Stay away from all packaged foods labeled low fat – that pretty much means it is loaded up with salt and sugar to make it taste "better" . Also home water softeners can be a source of high salt.
Salt substitutes are not a good idea. My concern is that these substitute products sometimes are seen as a license to let loose a snow of seasoning all over the dinner plate. They are not. They contain potassium. They taste awful. Most people just pass out the excess potassium in their urine but if your kidneys are not up to par that could be dangerous. They could create heart rhythm disturbances.
Check out the labels on your supplements – even vitamin C tablets can be salty! If it's sodium ascorbate you are getting salt. There are many other supplements and remedies that can be loaded with salt including antacids, laxatives, sleeping aids, and many more. Read the labels and find the ones labeled no salt or sodium free.
When a recipe calls for salt, you don't have to add it. Compare labels for sodium content – you'll find that some have considerably more sodium than other brands. They may not even taste salty. Corn flakes, for instance, can contain more salt than salted peanuts. Opt for the least sodium/salt. Better yet opt for fresh, natural unprocessed foods.
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The 62-year-old man was in the boat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law on a pond in Australia's Kakadu National Park when the 4.7-metre saltwater crocodile — the largest of living reptiles — attacked on Saturday, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The family from Darwin, on a camping trip in the remote area at the time, contacted police who on Sunday shot and killed two crocodiles about 1.5 kilometres from where the man was grabbed and dragged away, the Morning Herald reported.
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Ranks in the U.S. Army are divided into the classifications of officers, warrant officers and enlisted personnel. Ranks range from second lieutenant to general of the Army for officers and from private to sergeant major of the Army for enlisted men.Continue Reading
Each rank receives a grade ranging from E-1 for a private to a special grade given to a five-star general in the Army. There are a total of 13 ranks for enlisted personnel, five ranks for warrant officers and 11 ranks for officers.
Privates in the U.S. Army are ranked as private (E-1), private 2 (E-2), or private first class (E-3). Following that rank is that of specialist (E-4), then corporal (E-4). Army sergeants are ranked as sergeant (E-5), staff sergeant (E-6), sergeant first class (E-7), master sergeant (E-8), and first sergeant (E-8), followed by the seargent major ranks including sergeant major (E-9) command sergeant major (E-9) and sergeant major of the Army (E-9).
Rankings for warrant officers in the U.S. Army with their appropriate grades include warrant officer (W-1), chief warrant officer 2 (W-2), chief warrant officer 3 (W-3), chief warrant officer 4 (W-4) and chief warrant officer 5 (W-5).
Rankings for officers in the U.S. Army begin with the lieutenants, including second lieutenant (O-1) and first lieutenant (O-2). The next ranks are captain (O-3) and major (O-4), followed by lieutenant colonel (O-5) and colonel (O-6). The general officer ranks are brigadier general (O-7), major general (O-8), lieutenant general (O-9), general (O-10) and general of the Army (special).Learn more about Military


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Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (S.C. 2000, c. 5)
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Marginal note:When access prohibited
9 (1) Despite clause 4.9 of Schedule 1, an organization shall not give an individual access to personal information if doing so would likely reveal personal information about a third party. However, if the information about the third party is severable from the record containing the information about the individual, the organization shall sever the information about the third party before giving the individual access.
Marginal note:Limit
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the third party consents to the access or the individual needs the information because an individual's life, health or security is threatened.
Marginal note:Information related to paragraphs 7(3)(c), (c.1) or (d)
(2.1) An organization shall comply with subsection (2.2) if an individual requests that the organization
(a) inform the individual about
(i) any disclosure of information to a government institution or a part of a government institution under paragraph 7(3)(c), subparagraph 7(3)(c.1)(i) or (ii) or paragraph 7(3)(c.2) or (d), or
(ii) the existence of any information that the organization has relating to a disclosure referred to in subparagraph (i), to a subpoena, warrant or order referred to in paragraph 7(3)(c) or to a request made by a government institution or a part of a government institution under subparagraph 7(3)(c.1)(i) or (ii); or
(b) give the individual access to the information referred to in subparagraph (a)(ii).
Marginal note:Notification and response
(2.2) An organization to which subsection (2.1) applies
(a) shall, in writing and without delay, notify the institution or part concerned of the request made by the individual; and
(b) shall not respond to the request before the earlier of
Marginal note:Objection
(2.3) Within thirty days after the day on which it is notified under subsection (2.2), the institution or part shall notify the organization whether or not the institution or part objects to the organization complying with the request. The institution or part may object only if the institution or part is of the opinion that compliance with the request could reasonably be expected to be injurious to
(a) national security, the defence of Canada or the conduct of international affairs;
(a.1) the detection, prevention or deterrence of money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities; or
(b) the enforcement of any law of Canada, a province or a foreign jurisdiction, an investigation relating to the enforcement of any such law or the gathering of intelligence for the purpose of enforcing any such law.
Marginal note:Prohibition
(2.4) Despite clause 4.9 of Schedule 1, if an organization is notified under subsection (2.3) that the institution or part objects to the organization complying with the request, the organization
(a) shall refuse the request to the extent that it relates to paragraph (2.1)(a) or to information referred to in subparagraph (2.1)(a)(ii);
(b) shall notify the Commissioner, in writing and without delay, of the refusal; and
(c) shall not disclose to the individual
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(ii) that the organization notified an institution or part under paragraph (2.2)(a) or the Commissioner under paragraph (b), or
(iii) that the institution or part objects.
Marginal note:When access may be refused
(3) Despite the note that accompanies clause 4.9 of Schedule 1, an organization is not required to give access to personal information only if
(a) the information is protected by solicitor-client privilege or, in civil law, by the professional secrecy of lawyers and notaries;
(b) to do so would reveal confidential commercial information;
(c) to do so could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual;
(c.1) the information was collected under paragraph 7(1)(b);
(d) the information was generated in the course of a formal dispute resolution process; or
(e) the information was created for the purpose of making a disclosure under the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act or in the course of an investigation into a disclosure under that Act.
However, in the circumstances described in paragraph (b) or (c), if giving access to the information would reveal confidential commercial information or could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual, as the case may be, and that information is severable from the record containing any other information for which access is requested, the organization shall give the individual access after severing.
Marginal note:Limit
(4) Subsection (3) does not apply if the individual needs the information because an individual's life, health or security is threatened.
Marginal note:Notice
(5) If an organization decides not to give access to personal information in the circumstances set out in paragraph (3)(c.1), the organization shall, in writing, so notify the Commissioner, and shall include in the notification any information that the Commissioner may specify.
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10 An organization shall give access to personal information in an alternative format to an individual with a sensory disability who has a right of access to personal information under this Part and who requests that it be transmitted in the alternative format if
(a) a version of the information already exists in that format; or
(b) its conversion into that format is reasonable and necessary in order for the individual to be able to exercise rights under this Part.
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(2) If the Commissioner is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to investigate a matter under this Part, the Commissioner may initiate a complaint in respect of the matter.
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(3) A complaint that results from the refusal to grant a request under section 8 must be filed within six months, or any longer period that the Commissioner allows, after the refusal or after the expiry of the time limit for responding to the request, as the case may be.
Marginal note:Notice
(4) The Commissioner shall give notice of a complaint to the organization against which the complaint was made.
Investigations of Complaints
Marginal note:Examination of complaint by Commissioner
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(a) the complainant ought first to exhaust grievance or review procedures otherwise reasonably available;
(b) the complaint could more appropriately be dealt with, initially or completely, by means of a procedure provided for under the laws of Canada, other than this Part, or the laws of a province; or
(c) the complaint was not filed within a reasonable period after the day on which the subject matter of the complaint arose.
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(2) Despite subsection (1), the Commissioner is not required to conduct an investigation in respect of an act alleged in a complaint if the Commissioner is of the opinion that the act, if proved, would constitute a contravention of any of sections 6 to 9 of An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act or section 52.01 of the Competition Act or would constitute conduct that is reviewable under section 74.011 of that Act.
Marginal note:Notification
(3) The Commissioner shall notify the complainant and the organization that the Commissioner will not investigate the complaint or any act alleged in the complaint and give reasons.
Marginal note:Compelling reasons
(4) The Commissioner may reconsider a decision not to investigate under subsection (1), if the Commissioner is satisfied that the complainant has established that there are compelling reasons to investigate.
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FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS.
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When the statues fell in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, the world witnessed a moment of elation quickly followed by chaos. Critics now contend that the U.S. was unprepared for the power vacuum left in the space once occupied by Saddam Hussein's regime. As Baghdad was looted, another, less visible, drama was going on in which decisions were made, and left unmade, about how to impose authority and restore the rule of law. Once again, much of the debate within the U.S. government centered on Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress, and whether a provisional government headed by former Iraqi exiles should be established and recognized. Here, discussing these events and the surrounding controversy, in excerpts from their FRONTLINE interviews, are Kanan Makiya, Jay Garner, L. Paul Bremer, Richard Perle, Richard Haass, and Ahmad Chalabi.
Leading Iraqi intellectual and advisor to the Iraqi National Congress
The meeting that takes place -- remarkable meeting -- on April 28 [in Baghdad]. ...
[There were] 300, 400 people there -- it was the first large assembly of Iraqis in Baghdad, I suspect, ever. It was important, I think, for one salient factor emerged from the meeting. ... You remember there was an old slogan [in the 1960s and '70s], "We want peace and we want it now" ... Well, the sense of the mood of that meeting was, "We want a government and we want it now."
The American officials who were up there on the platform ... were on the edge of losing control of the meeting, because they didn't have answers. ... And the United States appeared, at least to the 300 Iraqis present, as sort of waffling on about, "We want you to choose your own government," when authority was needed -- here, now, immediately, instantly -- authority in the sense of law and order. ...
But it was again this incredible, very American, embarrassment at being what you are -- in authority, in a position of power, in a position to determine government, and stating it, which is what people want to hear -- clarity. When you get up there ... and somebody says, "You mean you don't have a plan for the government?" [And Jay Garner] says, "No, we are here to meet to discuss that. This is your government, not our government. We don't want to impose this government on you." It all sounds so ridiculous. State Department talk all over again. It sounds so stupid. ...
There was nobody in charge who understood that the democracy was not some sort of instant switch. It's institutions that have to be built over time. ... So it's not about 100 flowers bloom and everybody does what the hell he wants, which was the sense that was coming out about U.S. behavior. That's what [Iraqis] think democracy is -- anarchy. They think democracy is running amuck. "Is this what democracy is?" That's the refrain that's been coming. Why? Because the United States was too embarrassed to say, "We're giving you this structure now, temporary. It's going to go. You can get rid of it in two years. It's going to rule affairs, and then we'll be out. We and this structure you'll vote out of existence. It's a temporary vehicle, an instrument that we put in place."
No, we had to go on and on having these endless [discussions] ... and all this State Department waffle over representativeness and so on. ... You have to have structures.
former U.S. administrator of the Iraqi reconstruction effort
... I met Chalabi in Nasiriya on the night of the 14th and talked to him. He said he wanted to get to Baghdad as soon as he could. He thought if the opposition leaders didn't get to Baghdad, there'd be a vacuum there, and that would be a bad thing. I agreed with that. We met for about 30 or 40 minutes I guess, talked. ...
Was he asking anything of you?
He didn't ask anything of me. I talked to him on the phone several times, too, when I was in Kuwait. After the forces got into Baghdad, he was fearful that the banks would be looted, and the money would be taken from the banks. ...
What else did Chalabi call you about?
He talked about the necessity of having the opposition leaders available because, like I said before, he was afraid there'd be a vacuum there, and there certainly was. The minute you take out Saddam Hussein, who's been the only leader for 30 years, there is a vacuum. He saw that as a danger and thought we needed to immediately plug that.
Was he was pressing hard, then, to get into Baghdad? And what did you tell him?
I told him, I said, "We're all trying to get to Baghdad." It just kind of ended there.
What comes of the Nasiriya meeting?
The Iraqis from the United States and the contingents from the United States ... all got weathered in, in Qatar. They were supposed to get flown in about seven in the morning, and the meetings started at nine. But they got weathered in, and we didn't get them in there until around one o'clock in the afternoon.
So what we had all morning were the Iraqis from Iraq. They came in the tent, we talked to them. We gave them refreshments. We talked a long time about freedom and what a memorable occasion this was and what a historic occasion this was and the significance of having that meeting that day to talk about a free Iraq right at the site of ancient city of Ur, which is most likely where civilization began. So at the spot where civilization began, we were beginning to start the first real democratic process for Iraq. They were very moved. A lot of them cried. It was emotional. Then at about one o'clock, members of the Iraqi opposition came in. ...
What was the relationship like between the Iraqis that had been there during Saddam's reign and the Iraqi exiles coming in?
They sat at separate tables. They didn't mingle.
What signal did that send to you?
I thought that's natural. I think we always suspected that that those that had been there all along would be a little reluctant to accept those that had not been there with them. Those that had not been there with them would want to put their arms around those who had been there. I think that's what we found. But there was no open opposition; it was just a little standoffish. But they talked. They talked, and when we had the next meeting on the 28th, you saw a lot more talking between the two of them.
But when you were talking at the Defense Department with Doug Feith, he had some hope that Chalabi in the INC would be welcomed back into Iraq.
Oh, I think he did, yes. For all the right reasons.
Were they?
Yes, I think they were. I mean, he thought Chalabi had the skill and the ability to lead and govern. He thought if he was acceptable to the Iraqi people -- and I'm sure Doug didn't know whether he would be or not -- but if he was acceptable, the soonest that you can put an Iraqi face on the government, the better we'll all be. ...
[Did you discuss] with [Rumsfeld] the viability of the various exiles?
... What I discussed with both he and Colin Powell was that [Jalal] Talabani, [Massoud] Barzani, Chalabi, Alawi, Pachachi and [Abdel Aziz al-]Hakim had come together, the leadership group, and they had agreed to bring in a Christian, a Sunni, a moderate Shiite, and anyone the coalition wanted to put on there as a leadership group that the coalition could use, as a mantle of leadership for right. They would take their orders from the coalition.
They all came to Baghdad the first week in May. They were trying to put together a group that would give the coalition an executive-type organization the coalition could use as an Iraqi face for the Iraqi people. The coalition would still be in charge. I think their hope was that if it worked well, that the coalition would make that a provisional government until such time there was an election.
They also had plans to stand up what they called a "big tent meeting," where they would bring in 300 or 400 Iraqis with us approving every one of them as well as adding any one that we wanted to, to begin the process of writing a constitution, to select what democratic model of government they would want to have, and to start judicial reform. ...
So why didn't that happen?
I don't know. I do not know why that didn't happen.
I'm sorry, I'm a little surprised that you don't know why that happened.
I don't know. I don't know.
But you were the point of contact between the American government and the Iraqi opposition.
I was, but when Ambassador Bremer came in, that was all stopped. We had a meeting. He came in on the 10th. We had a meeting with all of the Iraqi leaders, on Friday night, I think, the 15th. And everything slowed down. I don't think that necessarily was Jerry Bremer's plan. I think that was the plan that came out of the inter-agency, that he was just bringing a plan with him.
So they scrapped the old plan that you were working with?
Yes, it got scrapped. All that happened in about a week's period of time.
How did you feel about that?
I thought it was a mistake at the time. The other side of that, though, Martin, is that you also don't want to rush in the government. I think we were rushing into it too fast.
So the worry was that there would be too many Iraqi exiles in positions of power, and so you wanted to go slower?
No, I don't think that.
How do I get a handle on what was the reason for scrapping the old plan?
I don't know. You're asking me a question I can't answer. I don't know why it was scrapped.
Who can answer that question?
I guess you've got to walk across the river and ask somebody in the interagency there. ...
Chief U.S. civilian administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)
What was the day that you got here?
I got here May 12.
May 12. Just before that, a meeting had taken place at the end of April, that [Zalmay Khalilzad] had chaired. A couple days after that meeting, there was a decision to go forward with the provisional government -- a decision that got reversed when you came in. What was going on?
First of all, there's been a lot of mythology around there never was a decision anywhere in the U.S. government about a provisional government. There never was a statement by the U.S. government about a provisional government. So there was nothing to reverse.
My guidance from the president was very clear. He said, "Go over there. Use your judgment as to how things should transpire in terms of the economic, the political, and the security situation, and give me your best judgment." I got over here. I gave him my best judgment. I arrived here, and I said, the first week I was here, that we expected to have an interim government, a provisional government -- to use your term -- in place by the middle of July.
That's what we did we then, for the next two months -- basically executed that plan. We never made any course correction or change in terms of our overall strategy, which was to get our provisional government in place by mid-July. We did that when the governing council was created on July 13.
Ahmed Chalabi told me a different set of facts. ... He says that in a meeting with Zal, he was promised such a thing, and that Zal went back to Washington and was told you have no right to make such a--
I don't know what other people may have said to other people. But the fact of the matter was there was no way there was going to be an early Iraqi government. It simply was not possible. Anybody who thought it was possible obviously wasn't sitting here on the ground looking at a city on fire, with a difficult security situation; a country with no experience in democratic elections for 50 years. There was not about to be a provisional government. This was obvious to anybody with eyes.
There was the additional problem -- the people that we had been talking to for the last couple of years necessarily were exiles; they were people who did not live in Iraq. While that was a very useful group of people -- there were five political parties that were all founded outside of Iraq -- they quite clearly did not represent the majority of the Iraqi people. After all, there were 23 million people who did not leave Iraq during Saddam's dictatorship.
I told those five people, the leaders of those five parties, exactly that on the evening of May 16, at my first meeting with them. I said, "You people don't represent this country, and you're going to have to now broaden yourselves if you want to be considered the basis of a transitional government."
Did they squirm in their seats a little bit?
Yes, they did.
You had a problem with ferreting out Ba'athists -- still is an ongoing problem, I think, with ferreting out who are the Ba'athists and who are not the Ba'athists. You made quite a bold decision to de-Ba'athify the country and go several layers deep. Why did you do that?
I did that because I thought it was absolutely essential to make it clear that the Ba'athist ideology, which had been responsible for so many of the human-rights abuses and mistreatment of the people in their country over the last 40 years, had to be extirpated finally and completely from society, much as the American government decided that it had to completely extirpate Nazism from Germany at the end of the Second World War.
So we basically set up a system to take out, not everybody in the Ba'ath Party-- In fact, if people would read my decree more carefully, they would realize it was directed at only 3 percent of the people in the Ba'ath Party. It's not hundreds of thousands. It is directed at somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000, to the top 15,000 to 30,000 members of the party -- a party which had by its own estimates something like 2 million members. So this represented something like 1 1/2 percent to 3 percent of the Ba'ath Party.
It's been difficult. When I announced the decree, I said, "The following things will happen in the next few months. Number one, we will leave in place some people who are Ba'athist and bad people, because we don't know that they are; we will make that mistake. And the second mistake we are sure to make is we will take some people out of office that we should not have taken out of office."
The commitment I made to the Iraqi people and to the press at that time was, "When we find those mistakes, we'll correct them. We will fire Ba'athists as we find we've left them in power and shouldn't. And we will put people back, reinstitute people, who were unjustly accused of being Ba'athists." We've done that. We've done it in many cases across the board. I did it this evening. I just fired two Ba'athists this evening. ...
I want to talk about Chalabi just a little bit. He's now one of a number of people on the council. ... He's now one of a number of aspiring politicians, depending on who you talk to. But historically, he has a special relationship with the United States government, and had high expectations coming in -- had hoped to see a provisional government established early on during the war, before your time. But then he was also among those very disappointed with the decision to elect an advisory council, and had a frank meeting with you. Can you recall that? ... An "advisory council," as opposed to a "governing council?"...
The only thing-- It's not what I ever said. What I talked about was a political council, and the political council was designed by us to have exactly the same responsibilities that the governing council has. The change of the word "political" to "governing" was important, but it was just a word change. It simply made it, to many Iraqis, seem more like an interim government rather than the word "political council."
So we changed the name. It was a rather easy fix; didn't change anything else. We always all along said that this council, whether it was "political," as it was for the first five or six weeks, or "governing," as it was for the next month-- We always said this governing council would have three important responsibilities. It would appoint ministers to the Iraqi cabinet, it would approve a budget for 2004, and it would set in motion some kind of a process to write an Iraqi constitution.
Those are the three powers that it has, which it has already begun to exercise, just now after it's been set up for a few weeks. A number of the people in the original group of company -- parties we were talking to, including Mr. Chalabi's party -- a number of them had views that were different from ours, different from each other, different from the Iraqis who had lived here under Saddam's tyranny, about how this process should come about. It's one of the reasons that the process took, as we expected it would, a couple of months. It was a very intense round of consultations among Iraqis, between Iraqis and others, between us and Iraqis with the U.N. involved. A very intense round to try to figure out how to pull together a group that was representative of the Iraqi society. ...
Former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an influential group of advisors to the Pentagon
One of the criticisms … is that so much time has been wasted in the run-up to the war over infighting between the State Department and the Defense Department particularly -- much of it over who to support, Chalabi or not Chalabi.
That's quite right. There's been a debilitating and, I think, wasteful and damaging quarrel over Ahmad Chalabi.
So why have you clung to Ahmad Chalabi? Why not just find somebody else that's acceptable to both sides?
No one else has been proposed who's acceptable to both sides. The arguments against Chalabi have been without substance. He is far and away the most effective individual that we could have hoped would emerge in Iraq. No one was proposing that he be anointed in some sense, but simply that his advice and counsel would be valuable to us, and if he emerged in a leadership position, that would be highly desirable, from the point of view of the future of Iraq. He's a very capable guy.
Describe him for me.
He's quite brilliant. He is a Ph.D. in mathematics, with a background at the University of Chicago and MIT. He's a Shi'a, committed to secular democracy. He led the Iraqi National Congress, continues to lead the Iraqi National Congress, which was an umbrella group of organizations opposed to Saddam Hussein. He worked tirelessly to achieve Saddam's removal, and is the kind of modern liberal leader that we would hope to see, not only in Iraq, but throughout the Arab world.
What's the controversy?
The CIA doesn't like him, because they don't control him, and they only like people they control. Their view has always been that we should propagate a coup against Saddam; that we needed to find another strongman like Saddam, that the problem was Saddam and not the Ba'ath structure. So they were quite happy to find some other Ba'athists to replace Saddam. They went to extraordinary lengths attempting to do so. They organized coups that failed. People were killed.
Chalabi organized coups that failed, as well.
He organized an uprising that failed.
He attempted to build on what he thought was American support, which was not forthcoming. ...
You say that the feuding over Chalabi was extremely debilitating. How so?
It means that no decisions were taken, and we didn't align ourselves with any Iraqi opposition. So a strategy that might have entailed building up the opposition -- so that if and when we went into Iraq, we would go in with some thousands of Iraqis ready to go, trained and organized -- never happened. The reason why it didn't happen was a stubborn refusal to embrace an opposition-oriented strategy. We never had such a strategy.
By the White House? By the State Department?
The State Department was against it. The CIA, as I've explained, preferred a coup d'etat. The White House was essentially unable to reconcile differences among departments. So it chose not to take the steps that might well have meant that when we went into Iraq, we went in with a significant number of Iraqis to help us. ...
President, Council on Foreign Relations; director of policy planning at the State Dept., March 2001 - June 2003
There was a lot of discussion about what role the United States should play in supporting the political process, postwar.
My view on that is that we should play a very modest role. I didn't come into this having favorites. I thought the entire idea that we would try to tilt the playing field to install this or that person or this or that group-- If people had that idea, I thought it was misguided or a non-starter.
They did have that idea.
Some had that idea. My view was that we should simply try to do two things. One is get Iraqis in responsible positions as soon as possible, but, two … we should not have favorites among the Iraqis.
Like Ahmed Chalabi?
Like anybody. It's simply up to the Iraqis themselves to decide who has legitimacy, who they want to give political authority to. My feeling was, let's just be neutral about that. But what we want to do is gradually bring about a situation where Iraqis would have ever-increasing amounts of authority over their own lives. …
So my feeling was, whether you're pro or against Ahmed Chalabi or anything else, the smartest thing to do was simply level the playing field, and let the Iraqis shape their own future. Indeed, I think that's one of the reasons we arguably did this -- to give them the chance to shape their own futures. So I just thought it was unwise, and probably impossible for the United States to play too large a role in that.
When did you hear Chalabi being flown into Nasiriyah?
Pretty much when everybody else heard about it. When it became public. …
Was that appropriate, in your view?
You're asking me to pass judgment. I just thought it was unwise. I think it was simply unwise for the United States to be in the business of favoring one or another party. And it's interesting that, essentially, as things have since played out, that hasn't stopped.
I can't predict the future of Iraq anymore than you or anybody else can. But what's clearly obvious is that you have powerful dynamics that have been unleashed -- far stronger than anything the United States could do or control. So whatever happens, whatever individual or individuals are going to ultimately come to rule Iraq, the specific or precise nature of the political order, this is not something we're going to be able to micro-manage.
But flying an opposition leader into liberated territory is something that the State Department, presumably, should have been clued in about.
I can't tell you that there might not have been people at State who knew about it. I didn't, from my point of view.
But you're in charge of policy, I mean, you're at a high level. Presumably, you would have known.
I learn never to use the word "presumably" when it comes to government. All I can tell you is, I didn't know about it in advance, and I don't know who of my colleagues might have known about it. … I don't know that anyone knew about it in advance. All I can say is, in my own view, such initiatives were and are unwise, because they're an attempt to get too involved in the internal politics of Iraq. I just don't think that's the sort of thing that's wise or sustainable.
As a mission, did it succeed or fail?
I don't think it succeeded. There's no sign, for example, that Mr. Chalabi or his associates have gained the upper hand. I don't think that's the case. I think what you see in Iraq is a tremendous energy of political participation, a lot of which is centered not necessarily on those who are outside the country. But a lot of it's centered on those who are inside the country. I think some of the most interesting dynamics are not simply those dynamics, say, between Shi'a and others, but are those within the majority Shi'ite population, those who hold to various points of view. What we're seeing on a daily basis, this is being fought out; sometimes politically, the way it ought to be fought out; sometimes physically, with terrorism and other tools, which are obviously undesirable, and worse.
But again, I think it's going to be Iraqis who are ultimately going to fill in the dots as to what does post-Saddam Iraq look like. …
Founder, Iraqi National Congress; Iraqi governing council member
The debate in Washington, and the extreme amount of feuding that went on between the State Department and the CIA and the Pentagon -- [did it have] a debilitating effect on U.S. policy planners in making any kind of cogent postwar plan?
I don't think so. I think the State Department, CIA, won on the postwar plan. But their postwar plan collapsed because the assumptions they made came to naught.
What assumptions -- what plan did they have?
They had a plan to turn part of the Iraqi army against Saddam and use them to control the country subsequently. ...
The schism within the U.S. government. A lot of it's centered on you -- rightly or wrongly -- yet a lot of it came down to people's evaluation of you. The Pentagon supported you. At least the OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense], the civilian side of it, supported you. The CIA and the State Department -- after 1996 and onwards -- reviled you.
And this became all-consuming.
Yes, but you see, this is a very curious situation. I believe that the people who did not want to do anything against Saddam took me up as the bete noire of this, thinking that I was an easy target to discredit the entire policy. They picked me up as--
You became an extremely divisive character.
Yes, well, they made me so. Not I.
Well, no, but they say -- I mean, in all due respect, they criticized your fancy suits, your watch, your kind of intellectual arrogance -- a kind of sense that you thought you were better than everybody else. They acknowledged that you were a brilliant political counselor, but a person that didn't have any political charm.
Therefore, [you] should not have been a candidate.
Well, I'm not a candidate. I'm sitting in Baghdad with--
You're on the executive committee of the governing council.
Yes. But I did not campaign for it. I did not -- even today, I--
You have no political ambitions?
I am saying I am not a candidate.
But, I mean, you were a candidate of the Pentagon?
Well, I may be, but they thought that I was the candidate of the Pentagon. But this thing is not about Pentagon or State Department. We are in Iraq now. It doesn't matter what the State Department or the Pentagon says--
But these fights are going on and continuing to affect--
Well, they can go on. These are American fights. They have little relevance here in Baghdad now.
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