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YES! Picks: Dispensing Seed Bombs
Seed bombs are a favorite tool of guerrilla gardeners for planting flowers on derelict ground. The simplest seed bombs are made of compostable paper, the most ingenious from a hollow eggshell, while a mixture of compost and clay gives weight for a long-distance throw.
The seed bomb idea was taken up by designers Daniel Phillips and Kim Karlsrud, who customize vending machines to distribute seed bombs instead of gumballs, for 50 cents.
"We really like the idea that seed bombing, while appealing perhaps to our desires to be bad and illicit, actually has the positive result of ecological restoration," says Phillips.
The duo's "Greenaid" seed-bomb vending machines are used to promote public awareness and raise funds by organizations like Project H Design, a nonprofit that runs an education and design project in a high school in Bertie County, N.C. Director Emily Pilloton says they used the vending machines to start discussions about small-scale, local alternatives to large-scale issues.
"Particularly for kids, the vending machines are great conversation starters," she says. "First, people want to know what it is, and then the lightbulb goes off, and it opens up a whole new world of conversation about why it is important to support green spaces and how we can all play a part."
Greenaid supplies localized wildflower seed bombs for the vending machines. Three machines recently placed in Monterrey, Mexico, offer seeds recommended by local experts, including species that were once prevalent in the area—butterfly weed, Mexican hat plant, and cowpen daisy.
Cascadian Edible Landscaping in Seattle is developing their own version of a seed bomb vending machine, offering seeds for salad greens and edible flowers to encourage interest in growing food close to home. The proceeds will go to the Just Garden Project, a nonprofit that establishes edible gardens for low-income families.
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5 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
1 T. curry powder plus 1 t. for sauce
2 T. olive oil, divided
1 red pepper, sliced into strips then cut strips in thirds
1 whole pineapple, cut into small wedges or chunks
1 jalapeño pepper, stemmed, de-seeded and de-veined, minced
1 (13.5 oz) can light coconut milk
1 T. brown sugar
1 T. fish sauce (if not available, add 1/4 t. salt)
garnish with chopped basil and chives (optional)
Skillet #1 -
Chop chicken things into bit size pieces. Sprinkle 1 T. curry powder over top of all chicken, and massage into chicken with hands. Heat 1 T. olive oil in skillet (medium heat) and add chicken, stirring frequently, about 7-10 minutes until chicken is nicely browned and done.
Skillet #2
-Heat 1 T. olive oil in skillet over medium-high heat. Add red pepper and pineapple and stir fry until pineapple begins to brown and carmelize 5-7 minutes. Add in jalepeno, cook one minute. Add in coconut milk, fish sauce and curry powder. Dump Skillet #1 (the chicken) into Skillet #2. Mix and simmer one minute. Serve over brown or white rice.
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Décision : CONF 010 XI.(b).54
[Uniquement en anglais] Booklet on How to Prepare World Heritage List Nominations
[Uniquement en anglais]
Following the recommendations of the Bureau, the Committee decided that a booklet explaining how nominations to the World Heritage List should be prepared, should be drawn up by ICOMOS and IUCN instead of the model nomination files which they had previously been asked to prepare and that the Secretariat of UNESCO should follow up this decision. This booklet should be published in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
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Code de la Décision : CONF 010 XI.(b).54
Année : 1978


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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Western concern over the growing strength of jihadist rebels in Syria is mounting, hindering aid to the moderate Syrian National Coalition opposition and possibly pushing it into the arms of religiously conservative backers, diplomatic sources said.
The widely recognised coalition has failed to gain traction on the ground in Syria since being formed in November, its credibility undermined by its failure to secure arms and cash in the battle to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Meanwhile, the coalition's lack of cohesion - it this week failed to form a transitional government - has deterred the West from boosting aid to the group, in particular the guns and ammunition coalition fighters are crying out for.
That has left the door open to Islamist groups, funded and armed by wealthy Gulf states and individuals, to become the strongest fighting factions in Syria. They command local respect for their effectiveness, but alarm some in the West.
On Monday, Western and Syrian coalition officials hope to break the deadlock at a meeting in Paris, amid coalition accusations of broken promises of aid and splits in the West on how to address the Islamist presence in the Syrian rebel ranks.
"This meeting is to ring the alarm bell. We have to assure the coalition of our support and the support of the international community," said a French diplomatic source.
"We must avoid a government in exile. The objective is to have a direct impact on the ground. Bring value to the Syrians on the ground," the source added.
Syrian coalition officials say the best way to make an impact is to provide its poorly equipped fighters with weapons.
But Western diplomats are wary of the coalition's disunity, and are mindful of the spread of weapons to Islamists in Syria and across the volatile region.
French forces are currently battling Islamists in Mali, the insurgents armed with weapons thought to have come from Libya after the Western-backed 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
"We have also learnt from experience and we're seeing it in Mali with weapons that came from Libya to the armed groups there now. What we don't want is weapons falling into the hands of the wrong people," the French source said.
It would have been easier to arm the rebels had they agreed to form a transitional government, the source added.
Complicating matters are apparent divisions on how to handle Islamist groups such as the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the most coherent and disciplined anti-Assad forces in Syria.
The United States has proscribed the group as a terrorist organisation, and Britain is understood to share its concerns.
"It is a concern that the strongest groupings are Islamist fighters possibly linked to al Qaeda, and that clearly is a vital national interest for us to make sure that does not happen," said a Western diplomat on condition of anonymity.
But the Syrian coalition, mindful of alienating a group fighting for Assad's downfall, criticised the U.S. move, while France downplayed the Islamist influence.
"There are a multitude of groups and factions, political or military allegiances changing all the time ... we don't believe there can be an Islamist front," the French source said.
Meanwhile, there may be pressure on the Syrian coalition to turn to more religiously conservative backers, said mainly to be states and wealthy individuals in the Gulf, for arms and cash in the absence of aid from the West.
In the midst of negotiations in Istanbul to form a transitional government, Syrian coalition leader and moderate Sunni cleric Moaz Alkhatib flew to Sunni Muslim Qatar try to secure financial aid, opposition sources said on Sunday.
Conservative Gulf backing could make the coalition less inclusive, alienating Syrian minorities such as Alawites, Christians and Kurds and fanning ethno-sectarian violence.
Western powers are keen to avoid such an outcome.
"One of the main objectives of my diplomatic engagement and those of my Western colleagues is to keep the pressure on the national coalition to expand into the centre ground of Syrian opinion," said the Western diplomat.
The coalition has dismissed such concerns, but fears are mounting among Syria's minorities.
"A good number of Christians and Alawites don't see themselves represented neither in the regime nor the insurrection which they fear is increasingly dominated by radical Islamists," former senior Syrian military official and prominent defector Manaf Tlas told France's Le Monde newspaper.
Writing by Mohammed Abbas


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Aviation ordnance Marines ensure aircraft are fit for flight
By Cpl. Nathan Wicks, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION, IWAKUNI, Japan -- Aviation ordnance Marines with Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 225 are receiving, equipping and inspecting F/A-18D Hornets at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to support exercise Cope North, scheduled for Feb. 8 - March 8, 2017.
Cope North is a multi-national, bilateral training event including the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, Royal Australian Air Force, and Japan Air Self-Defense Force.
Aside from equipping aircraft with munitions, the aviation ordnance Marines' job includes inspecting aircraft prior to take off to ensure that nothing will compromise the safety of the aircraft or pilot.
"We armed the jets and conducted safety checks," said U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Joel Pozosrodriguez, aviation ordnance Marine with VMFA-(AW)-225. "The quality assurance safety observer verifies the entire aircraft is safe for flight."
The job not only requires technical skill, but also years of experience ensuring the pilot's aircraft are fit for flight.
"There's not a set syllabus for a safety flight check," said U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Edwards, quality assurance safety observer with VMFA-(AW)-225. "It's more of an experience related task. I've been doing this for about four years. I know what I'm looking for as far as missing screws, loose bolts, secure caps and anything that would endanger the aircraft as it flies. Is anything going to fall off the aircraft? Is anything going to damage the aircraft? That's what I'm asking myself and visually verifying. I'm looking for anything that may have been over-looked."
The Marines said no matter where they are, they are able to do what is expected of them. Without them, the aircraft would not be able to operate to the best of its ability.
"It's our job to be expeditious and go where our country needs us to go," said Edwards. "Everything we can do here we can do anywhere else. It's just a different environment. The primary job of the F-18 is close air support. We are the ones who load up the bombs and arm the aircraft. It can't do what it was meant to do without us."
Pozosrodriguez said he is excited to continue doing his job and meeting with the other nations.
"I'm looking forward to the missile shoot and interacting with Australians," said Pozosrodriguez. "I've never met anyone from Australia so I'm excited to see how they are and to train with them."


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Reading 2: Settlement and Commerce:
Within a short time, Skagway progressed from a homestead, to a hastily-constructed boomtown, and finally to a permanent city. William Moore's log cabin, which he built in 1887, was the first permanent structure in the Skagway River valley. By the time the stampeders arrived in the summer of 1897, Ben Moore (1865-1919) had built a 16-foot by 14-foot, story-and-a-half wood frame house next to the original cabin to accommodate his growing family. The tent city created by stampeders began disappearing by the fall of 1897 as settlers replaced tents with buildings. Structures ranging from simple wood frame shacks to large false-fronted buildings soon covered the town site. Stores, saloons, and offices lined the muddy streets. By March 1898, residents boasted that Skagway was the "Metropolis of Alaska" and the most prosperous town on the North Pacific Coast. A population estimate reported 8,000 residents during the spring of 1898 with approximately 1,000 stampeders passing through town each week. By June 1898, with a population estimated at between 8,800 and 10,000, Skagway was the largest city in Alaska.
Skagway's settlers were anxious to set up stores to sell supplies and services to their neighbors and stampeders. The Goldberg Cigar Store was typical of the earliest businesses that merchants quickly established in the new town. Annie Leonard, the first woman to stake lots in Skagway, constructed a 12-foot by 30-foot building of recycled mismatched lumber and packing crates. D. Goldberg probably arrived in Skagway during the fall of 1897 and either leased or purchased the building from Leonard. His cigar store prospered during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. An advertisement in the Skagway News, September 16, 1898, lists his stock of goods: "Everything Fresh. Fruits, Confectionery, Cigars, Tobacco, Nuts, Cakes, Candies, and Dried Fruits."
Many of Skagway's small businesses doubled as homes for the owner and his family. Richard C. (Dixie) Anzer's description of his father's shoe shop provides information on one such arrangement:
A big black wooden replica of a man's shoe with the word "maker" painted on it, the typical symbol of a cobbler...was attached to the building. It was about fifteen feet wide with a fairly large window in front and about thirty feet deep.... My father pushed aside a gray blanket which served as a partition and we entered the rear of the shop, which comprised the sleeping quarters and kitchenette. There was a double bunk and father said the upper deck was for me. "Just unpack what you need, he suggested, and hang it on those nails." A large tin basin with a pitcher filled with water stood on a table and the inevitable chamber [pot] underneath. Behind another blanket partition were cooking utensils, a small stove, a table and two chairs.¹
As entrepreneurs prospered they hired builders to construct more permanent buildings. Herman Kirmse was one early successful entrepreneur in Skagway. In 1897 Kirmse opened a jewelry and watch repair shop in a tent he shared with a cobbler. Within a few months he opened Pioneer Jewelry Store on Sixth Avenue. In 1903, well after the gold rush had ended, Kirmse purchased a two-story wooden frame store on 5th and Broadway. In 1906 he expanded into the adjacent structure and remodeled it with large display windows. Native carvers created jewelry and curios for the shop. Still standing today, the building exhibits features typical of the era such as a false front, decorative brackets, and metal roof.
Skagway's permanent residents began establishing a community within a few months of the town's founding. Church groups organized and held services, elementary schools opened, and the first issue of the Skagway News appeared. Townspeople contributed money and labor to build a community hall, which several denominations shared with Skagway's first school. An Episcopalian and a Methodist missionary arrived in March 1898. In 1900 Skagway had five churches: Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist-Episcopal, and Presbyterian. In 1899, when the Methodist Episcopal Church determined that the community needed a school of higher education to serve the nearly 400 children who soon would finish elementary school, members built McCabe College. Classes taught at the new school, according to an article in the Daily Alaskan, December 24, 1899, included arithmetic, orthography, penmanship, algebra, geometry, rhetoric, chemistry, geography, U.S. History, Latin, German, French, English, English grammar, and physiology.
The White Pass and Yukon Route company began laying railroad tracks along Broadway in Skagway in May 1898. The railroad depot was constructed between September and December 1898. Railroad employees hastily assembled the two-story wall sections on the ground and then raised them into place. Part of the building's original interior walls were made of rough boards torn from packing crates. Newspaper and sawdust served as insulation. By 1900 railroad officials wanted to send a message of stability to the public. To do so, they hired a Seattle architect to design an elegant general office building next to the depot.
Not surprisingly, Skagway's most prosperous or "boomtown" era ended when the tremendous rush of stampeders passing through the town slowed down in late 1898. At the turn of the century, Skagway's permanent population was little more than 3,000.² It had dropped to below 900 by 1910. Despite the end of the gold rush and a dramatic decrease in population, Skagway continued to survive. Between 1900 and 1920 Skagway's population consisted mostly of railroad employees, merchants, and some miners. The railroad helped promote tourism and by the 1920s the Dead Horse Trail and other sites associated with the gold rush had become some of Alaska's best known tourist attractions.³
Today about 100 buildings from the 1898-1910 era remain. Fifteen have been restored by the National Park Service as part of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Together, these buildings remind us of the entrepreneurial spirit that led people to settle in this Alaskan town.
Questions for Reading 2
1. What evidence in the reading indicates that Skagway was becoming a permanent community as opposed to simply a supply station for people on their way to the Klondike gold fields?
2. What do the businesses and institutions tell you about the occupations and daily lives of Skagway's residents?
3. Why did Skagway's population drastically decline by 1910? What happened to the town after that?
Reading 2 was adapted from Richard C. Anzer, Klondike Gold Rush as Recalled by a Participant (New York: Pageant Press, 1959); Catherine H. Blee, Robert L.S. Spude, and Paul C. Cloyd, "Historic Structures Report for Ten Buildings," U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1984; Alison K. Hoagland, Buildings of Alaska (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); J. Bernard Moore, Skagway in Days Primeval (Skagway: Lynn Canal Publishing, 1997); and Robert L. S. Spude, "Skagway, District of Alaska 1884-1912: Building the Gateway to the Klondike," Report prepared as a cooperative effort of the Cooperative Park Studies Unit, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and the National Park Service Alaska Regional Office, U.S. Department of the Interior, September 1983.
¹Catherine H. Blee, Paul C. Cloyd, and Robert L.S. Spude, "Historic Structures Report for Ten Buildings," U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1984, p. 149.


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Suppose I have an inelastic head on collision between two idential particles of mass $m$ that come to rest in the centre of momentum frame where relativistic momentum is obviously conserved. If I now switch to the proper frame of one of the particles, the velocity of the other before the collision is $2v\gamma^2$, and after they both travel with velocity $v$.
This would appear to suggest that relativistic momentum isn't conserved in the proper frame of either particle if I write the initial relativistic momentum as $(\gamma_{2v\gamma^2}) (m)(2v\gamma^2)$ and the final as $(\gamma_v) (2m)(v)$. So where is the error in this reasoning?


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Asking for Feedback
I remember requesting some feedback on my Kellogg essays from someone I really respected. Well turned out, in a few days there were tons of red lines and comments all over my essay. She thought they sucked. Big Time. She completely trashed my essays. Checking my email, I sunk my head and shame. Then, lifted myself back up to do some HEAVY rewrites. In retrospect, I learned asking for RIGOUROUS feedback helped.
So fast-forward to the last few months. I steadily applied to pre-MBA opportunities and never heard back from one in particular that I was really excited about. I knew people around me who got the opportunity, and other people who were officially rejected. Yet I heard nothing. What do I do? Well, I decided to ask for feedback from the recruiter on my cover letter and resume just to see what went wrong. Eventually I got a reply from someone in recruiting…and apparently my application never went through the online system properly. So the recruiter immediately replied that a Wharton recruiter would be in touch with me. Lesson Learned: ASK FOR FEEDBACK.
Although my resume and cover letter may very well have been crap, I learned the value in asking for feedback. Not only did asking for feedback help strengthen my application essays but also its giving me a second chance at this company, since my first chance fell through the cracks. Look at asking for feedback as a way to help yourself and be the best you can be! Yes, that's corny….but hey it works ☺


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Player of the Week - No. 3
Cao was the catalyst in the Badgers' 3-2 upset victory over No. 2 Lee (Tenn.) on Sept. 17 when she exploded for 34 kills, 18 digs and two aces. For the week, she blasted 73 kills and tallied 47 digs, 14 service aces and eight block assists in 15 sets. Cao led her team to wins in all four of its matches as Spring Hill improved to 15-0 and remained as one of only three unbeaten NAIA teams in 2011.
The 6-0 senior from Shanghai, China, tops the NAIA with 5.3 kills per set. She also ranks fifth in total kills (251), sixth in service aces (33) and 12th in hitting percentage (.382). Cao was chosen as a Third-Team NAIA All-American last season.
The next Player of the Week announcement will be on Sept. 27.
Nominees: Alyssa Foster, Cal State-San Marcos; Thaise Vieira, Bethel (Tenn.); Tina Frick, Tabor (Kan.); Ana Guerra, Texas at Brownsville; Lindsey Nowak, Daemen (N.Y.); Cara Barkes, Cincinnati Christian (Ohio); Kelsie Byrd, Stephens (Mo.); Amy Braaksma, Viterbo (Wis.); Brittany Mcdonald, Graceland (Iowa); Heather Brown, Jamestown (N.D.); Chelsea Phillips, Aquinas (Mich.); Brittany Johnson, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Lacey Taylor, William Penn (Iowa); Katie Dettmer, Midland (Neb.); Jordan Holcomb, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Carolyn Goettsch, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Kristin Telin, Carroll (Mont.); Chelsea Breaden, Bryan (Tenn.); Paula Ogbevoen, Dillard (La.); Kathleen Anderson, Fresno Pacific (Calif.); Kelsey Pritchard, Taylor (Ind.); Maureen Wardian, Bellevue (Neb.); Amanda Sutter, Menlo (Calif.); Whitney Smith, Rio Grande (Ohio).
2011 Composite Winners
Week 1: Danica Markovic, Texas at Brownsville
Week 2: Paula Ferreira, Columbia (Mo.)
Week 3: Yiting Cao, Spring Hill (Ala.)


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Forty Under 40
Steve Morey, 38
President, CEO, Team Lorain County
Steve Morey wants the region to raise salmon — at least metaphorically. Of course, he considers himself a prototype of the migratory fish that returns home to spawn.
He left this region for work in the South before his return to Northeast Ohio, where he and his wife settled and had two daughters.
"One of the best things we could do is say to our young people, "Go experience your 20s in different places doing different things,'" he said. "'Then bring what you've learned back here.'"
The Elyria native spent a decade after graduating from Ohio University working as a banker in Tennessee, Georgia and Ohio. He and his wife, Tara, returned to Northeast Ohio in 2003, when he began working as a small business lender for National City Bank.
As a banker, Mr. Morey, 38, found himself wooed to the boards of directors of two of the area's neighborhood development organizations: Maingate Inc., which serves the commercial and industrial district south of downtown Cleveland, and Kamm's Corner Development Corp., in the neighborhood where he and his wife live.
Doing his board work, Mr. Morey warmed to the idea of promoting stable residential communities and brokering efforts to build healthy neighborhood economies. He said he realized, too, that his banking skills would transfer well to this nonprofit world.
"The more that I participated with these groups, I found out, "Gosh, this is something you could do every day and feed yourself,'" he said.
So when the opportunity arose in 2007 to take a job with the new Team Lorain County as an economic development specialist, he jumped. A year later, he became president and CEO of the organization, which was created to woo business investment to Lorain County.
Since then, the organization — and Mr. Morey in particular — have been praised for their success in bringing jobs to the county.
Roy Church, president of Lorain County Community College, one of two people who nominated Mr. Morey for this year's 40 Under 40 class, is one of his biggest supporters.
"Steve is a rising star in economic development in Northeast Ohio," said Dr. Church, who is on Team Lorain County's board of directors. "We need to keep him in our region; he's got a bright future with us."


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The National Transportation Safety Board will tell the world on Tuesday what it found while investigating last summer's Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport.
The NTSB is scheduled to release the official cause of the accident Tuesday morning.
There were no apparent mechanical problems with the airliner, so the report is expected to focus on potential problems with the automated systems of the plane and possible pilot error.
The report is also expected to address the San Francisco Fire Department's role in the death of one of the victims. After the crash, one of the passengers was run over by a San Francisco fire truck. She and two other teens were killed in the July 6 crash.
The Boeing 777 was on approach to runway 28L at SFO when it struck the seawall at the end of the runway. Three of the 291 passengers on board flight 214 died and over 180 other passengers and crewmembers were injured.
- Special Coverage: Flight 214 Crash Landing
At a hearing back in December, a number of issues were discussed as possible contributing factors, including the skill level of the pilots, and their awareness of Boeing's automated throttle system. Bloomberg News is reporting that Boeing could face scrutiny in the report for the design of that system.
As for the pilot, he had eight years of experience with the airline, but was new to the 777. Testimony revealed that there was confusion between the pilot and co-pilots about the operation of those automated controls. That is also expected to be addressed in the report.
The report is also expected to make recommendations for the aviation industry to prevent such crashes in the future.
NBC Bay Area's Stephen Stock will be at Tuesday's NTSB meeting in Washington, DC. He'll have live updates on NBC Bay Area News throughout the day.
Lined up waiting to get into #NTSB hearing room story @nbcbayarea#Asiana flight 214 crash probable cause hearing pic.twitter.com/LHWcv2IDLu
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The Dodgers have won every game since June 22 that Chris Capuano hasn't started. Unfortunately for them, it was Capuano (2-6) on the mound for their series finale against the Rockies on Thursday.
He lasted just 4 1/3 innings, allowing six runs (five earned) and seven hits as the Dodgers recorded just their second loss in their last 12 games, falling 9-5 at Coors Field in Colorado.
Yasiel Puig and Adrian Gonzalez drove in runs in the sixth inning to pull the Dodgers within four, but that was as close as they would get. Hanley Ramirez struck out swinging to strand Gonzalez at second. Tim Federowicz missed a solo homer run by just a few feet an inning later and Gonzalez's solo bomb in the ninth proved too little, too late.
BOX SCORE: Colorado 9, Dodgers 5
In total, the Dodgers stranded 11 runners, nine in scoring position and at least one every inning excluding the seventh. Aside from Gonzalez, who went 4 for 5 to lift his average back above .300, the lineup was unable to cash in on enough opportunities to make up for Capuano's early struggles.
Rockies starter Jhoulys Chacin (8-3) worked through trouble, going 5 2/3 innings. He gave up four runs on nine hits while striking out four and walking three -- certainly not his best outing, but far better than Capuano.
It's now twice in the last 2 1/2 weeks that Capuano has allowed at least six runs and seven hits while failing to retire more than 13 batters. He gave up seven runs (five earned) and 10 hits over 3 1/3 innings in a 16-1 loss to the Phillies on June 28.
Capuano served up two doubles in his first five pitches as Carlos Gonzalez knocked home DJ LeMahieu to give the Rockies a first-inning lead.
After a two-run homer from Matt Kemp, his second longball in as many days, Capuano had a chance to extend his team's 2-1 lead with runners on first and second in the second inning. But his bunt attempt dropped right in front of Rockies catcher Wilin Rosario, who forced Tim Federowicz out at third, and the Dodgers failed to score again in the frame.
A Josh Rutledge single and Michael Cuddyer double pushed the Rockies ahead 4-2 before Rosario capped off a four-run third inning with a sacrifice fly.
Rutledge then chased Capuano with a leadoff double in the fifth inning. Troubled reliever Brandon League came on to walk Cuddyer and allow back-to-back RBI singles to Rosario and Todd Helton.
By the time J.P. Howell retired Chacin to end the inning, Colorado had broken open the game at 8-2.
Following the Dodgers' two-run sixth, Federowicz nearly cut the deficit to three runs, hooking Edgmer Escalona's hanging slider just left of the left-field foul pole with two outs in the seventh. He struck out swinging on the next pitch and walked back to the dugout staring at his bat.
Cuddyer finished off the Rockies scoring with a solo homer to right in the eighth before Gonzalez answered with an opposite-field bomb to lead off the ninth. Ramirez lined a single to right field to extend his 15-game hitting streak, but Andre Ethier, Kemp and Federowicz's fly balls fell short of the fences to end the game.
The Dodgers have won 10 of 12 heading into a three-game series with the San Francisco Giants. They sit just 3 1/2 games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West standings and will face them in the last leg of this nine-game road trip.


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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Kenyan Demographics on Google Maps
Demographic Kenya is a really nice example of how to present geographical and demographic data using the Google Maps API and Fusion Tables.
The application allows the user to visualise demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population in Kenyan counties using data collected in the 2009 national census. The data can be accessed via four main categories, Population, Education, Environment and Housing. Each category includes a number of sub-categories.
When you select a sub-category from the map sidebar the chosen data is automatically added to the Google Map and can also be viewed in a graph beneath the map.
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Thanks to MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting last Friday's music prompt challenge. The song this week is: "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter.
"Bay Day" – Daniel Powter
Thomas needed a job. It wasn't okay to do nothing anymore. His Masters Degree was finished and he had incurred a debt of student loans over the past eight-years. He had recently received his MA in History and he was choosy concerning where he would work — that had been six-months ago.
Thomas had figured he had six-months worth of savings to live on before he had to payback his loans. He knew there wasn't much luck for him finding a job in academics. His marks weren't high enough for him to teach or pursue a PHd.
He also felt he required a change, something different in life. Thomas had had his head stuck in history for the past eight-years; he had forgotten so much about the modern world around him. For this reason he spent six-months sleeping as long as he liked, drinking, picking-up girls, restablishing old friendships, and meeting new people; he took life easy after working so hard on his studies– perhaps too easy.
Thomas was facing his first payment on his mountainous student debt and he wasn't sure how much longer he could pay rent from savings, afford food, or have WiFi. He didn't want to end up working for Starbucks or some place like that. He wanted a real job; a career which incorporated history.
Yet, Thomas had one terrible interview after another. One older woman interviewing him commented: "You don't seem to care about anything Thomas. Not your appearance and not your career goals. You say you love history but you have no passion or drive in life. Try applying for other positions in our company when you find your moxie."
Many employers didn't want a scruffy looking guy in ill-fitting dress clothes such as Thomas, who didn't know what he wanted out of life. Either that or they said he could start in a low-paying administration job. No guy with an MA wanted to be a receptionist or work in the mail room.
Now Thomas wished he had taken a job as some guy's receptionist. He had been too proud and if he didn't nail his next interview, he wouldn't be eating soon.
He had spent some money ensuring he was groomed perfectly, hair cut trendy and face shaved clean. His brother's old suit he had tailored and he bought a fashionabl coloured tie. His black shoes were old but still in and polished, glinting in the sunlight.
The past six-months had been one long bad day. Thomas was tired of being hungover and of girls who only wanted him to buy drinks and never wanted any type of connection the morning after. He loved his friends but he knew he had to stop being so proud. Any job which would pay the bills right now was fine.
When Thomas arrived at his interview he tripped over the door as the receptionist led him into the interviewer's office. There was a burning pain on his forehead where he had rug burn.
The middle-aged guy sitting at his opulent desk chuckled as Thomas sat down across from him."It's alright. I've tripped plenty of times walking over that doorway. I guess we really should get that ledge fixed," the man said."I'm Greg, I'm the owner of this company," the man said gripping Thomas' hand and shaking it.
"Oh, its fine. I'm just clumsy. Sorry," Thomas said nervously and stretched out his fingers after Greg's mammoth hand shake.
Greg smiled and asked Thomas: "So who are your favourite sports teams? Did you play any sports in university? You look as if you did?"
Thomas had practiced several interview questions and situations with his sister so he was prepared: "I'm a Seahawks fan and love the Seattle Mariners of course. I didn't play football or baseball but I did golf on the university team. Did decently too."
Greg grinned at Thomas. He'd won Greg over with simple sports talk and the fact Thomas was great at golfing. The owner continued peppering Thomas with more questions which were typically relayed to work habits. The interview questions were standard and easy enough for Thomas to answer.
"When can you start?" Greg asked after a half-an-hour had passed."We could use someone to start from the bottom up. Learn the administrative ropes and move into a Junior Account Manager position and beyond. We need a guy who's willing to stay and learn about the company and grow with us. Are you our guy Thomas?"
Thomas grinned trying to contain his enthusiasm and excitement. Finally, a job he was interested in and a business owner who thought like him.
"I'm most definitely your man Greg. I love history, especially sports history and working for a network that broadcasts hockey and football games and also, looks back on bygone moments in sport's history is exciting to me. I'm happy to start whenever you need."
They negotiated a starting salary and Thomas would begin work in two-weeks. He was so relieved to have a job, even though he would begin on reception. Doing a job centred around sports, interested Thomas. It was the end of his bad luck and days spent worrying.
He was so happy, Thomas didn't notice the car pulling out in front of him in the parking lot. He broke his arm on impact in the crash but luckily, being in a parking lot, the accident was no fault for either driver. Thomas though injured, had the most contented smile on his face. Life was turning around.
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The work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered Jan. 21, when the M.L. King Celebration of St. Johns County, Inc., hosts the 28th annual commemorative breakfast. Setting for the 7:30 to 10 a.m. event will be the First Coast Technical College, 2980 Collins Ave.
Tickets are $25 per person, $250 for a corporate table of 10. Deadline to purchase tickets is Jan. 11.
Speaker will be Anthony S. Trotman, director of the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker at the Plaza de la Constitucion event, which follows the breakfast, will be Rabbi Mark Goldman of Temple Bet Yam. Also featured there will be praise dancers and a combined community choir.
Theme for the day is "A Call for Unity."
Trotman, son of Beverly Trotman of St. Augustine, is a St. Augustine native. He oversees the largest agency in the Ohio county in which he lives, managing a more than $72 million budget with approximately 700 employees.
A second highlight of the breakfast will be introduction of scholarship winners. Applications for the scholarships are due by Jan. 8. For information call Sonee Carswell, 392-1768.
Events schedule
This year's celebration begins Jan. 13 with a Happy Birthday Celebration at St. Luke AME Church, 694 Pearl St., beginning at 6 p.m. Host pastor is the Rev. Emory Howard.
Jan. 19 essay and poster contest winners will be honored in a 7 p.m. program at the St. Johns County School Board, 40 Orange St.
A Dreamers to Doers 5k run /walk is Jan. 21, with race chick-in at 7 a.m. The race starts at 8:30 a.m. from the Willie Galimore Center, 399 Ribera St. Proceeds benefit the St. Paul School of Excellence.
Following the Jan. 21 breakfast, a silent march is planned leaving the Boys and Girls Club, West King St., at 11:30 a.m., and from St. Paul AME Church, M.L. King Avenue, at 11:45 a.m.
Items commemorating the 28th annual event are now available. T-shirts are $10 for children, $15 for adults with sizes ranging from medium to 3 XL.
For information on events and programs, call 392-1768 or 794-5990.
The local Dr. M.L. King Jr. Celebration Committee includes Almarene Lowndes as emeritus chairperson.
Sonee Carswell is chairing the event, Hazel McCall is vice chair; Dianne T. Chase, secretary; Jacqueline Bryant, treasurer; Pearl Stevens, financial secretary; Arthur Bates, chaplain. Committee members include James Allen, Thomasena Jackson, Audrey Willis, Fred Ashdji, Jan Kelley, Annie Mae Tucker and Skip Hutton.


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Q&A with Senior Defender Peter Gresham
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For the past three years, 6-foot-5 Torrey Pines product Peter Gresham has been a steady performer for the UC San Diego men's water polo team. After racking up a combined 32 goals and 31 assists over the last two seasons, Gresham enters his senior campaign as a co-captain, starting two-meter defender and ready to be an even bigger force for the 10th-ranked Tritons. "Peter has consistently gotten better every year and we're looking for him to step up and lead what we hope will be a very stingy defense," says veteran head coach Denny Harper. "There's no question that he and Steven Donohoe are the leaders of this group and I think he's poised to have a great season." A biology major from nearby Solana Beach, Gresham took time on the eve of the season-opening Triton Invitational to talk about his career and this year's team.
Q: What is your No. 1 objective coming into the 2009 season?
GRESHAM: Our ultimate objective this season is to win the WWPA championship and earn a berth in the NCAA tournament.
Q: What are the keys to making that objective reality?
GRESHAM: Being focused and working hard are critical. We also have to get the "little things" right, like making good passes and communicating on defense. We need to continually improve as a team, never take anything for granted and always come ready to play.
Q: What's the biggest difference between the Peter Gresham that came in as a freshman in the fall of 2006 and the current version?
GRESHAM: About 40 pounds! Seriously though, I feel like I've grown so much as a person during my time at UCSD. I've learned how to set goals and developed the work ethic and organization to achieve these goals.
Q: What were your first impressions of head coach Denny Harper?
GRESHAM: I played high school water polo on the same team as Denny's son, Travis, so I knew Denny before my days at UCSD. He was always a good friend who offered me great advice about how to approach playing water polo in college. When I first got on the pool deck, I was surprised to find that Denny seemed to have lost all memory of our friendly chats. He had no problem chewing me out for making a stupid mistake. But seriously, Denny has become a great friend. He's a really important figure in my life and I owe him a lot for helping shape me into the person I am today.
Q: How has he influenced your game?
GRESHAM: Denny has been coaching water polo for so long that he really knows the game inside and out. He makes sure that I know to be calm and poised on defense so I don't get ejected and put forth a superior effort on offense so I can execute plays. He has been a great coach and always has good advice for me.
Q: Which of your teammates do you expect to have a breakout season in 2009?
GRESHAM: Two teammates that I know will have a breakout season are senior Kneif Lohse and junior Sean Cruz. Kneif is also a school record holder in swimming and he brings a lot of speed to the pool. Sean redshirted last year but this lefty is poised to burst onto the scene. The bottom line is that both of these players will be integral to our success this year.
Q: What do consider your biggest accomplishment as a collegiate water polo player to date? What's been your biggest disappointment?
GRESHAM: What comes to mind is not the biggest thing that I've done, but something that I'm proud of. During my sophomore year as a field player, I blocked penalty shots on three occasions. Our goalie had been kicked out, so I had to get into the cage and defend. Blocking penalty shots was especially challenging because field players can only use one hand in the goal. Due to a twist of fate, I played backup goalie the year before, so I had some experience. Those field players never knew what hit them.
My biggest disappointment was losing the WWPA championship last year. However, that disappointment has been fuel for my fire and has inspired me to work harder than ever to change that this year.
Q: What is the average fan's biggest misconception about the game of water polo?
GRESHAM: Fans generally don't understand how the whistles work. A foul is an integral part of the game of water polo. There's no limit to the number of ordinary fouls that a team can commit in a game, so it makes for a lot of whistles. A good tip for new fans attending water polo games is to sit next to someone who has played water polo. They can usually do a good job of explaining why a call was made.
Q: You open this weekend with the Triton Invitational Tournament. What do you expect it will tell you about this year's team?
GRESHAM: After the tournament, we'll have a better understanding of our strengths and weaknesses. We can adjust our strategy to play to our strengths and work on improving our weaknesses. We should also have a clearer idea about what the newer team members can do.
Q: What separates UC San Diego Water Polo from other collegiate programs?
GRESHAM: In my opinion, it's that the UCSD water polo team is like a family. Everyone is very supportive and we're always pushing each other to be better. I feel a deep bond with everyone on the team and I know that is something special.
Q: What's the toughest water polo skill to master? Why?
GRESHAM: I'd say having vision and game sense in the pool. It's the kind of thing you can only learn with experience, such as always knowing how much time is left on the shot clock, and reading the way a defender's hips are pointed and taking advantage of that. That's why it's great to play against older guys, who've been playing the game so long that everything is automatic for them. You can learn a lot just by watching the way they play.
Q: What do you enjoy doing away from the pool?
GRESHAM: I really enjoy surfing, stand up paddle boarding, playing guitar and hanging out with my friends. Though lately, due to our lengthy training regimen, whenever I am away from the pool I enjoy eating, sitting on the couch and sleeping.
Q: What is your favorite thing about UCSD aside from water polo?
GRESHAM: My favorite thing would have to be all the great people I've met. I have made many lifelong friends. Also, La Jolla is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend you check it out.
Q: You're sporting a "new look" fu manchu during training camp. Is it going to stay? Does it have any significance?
GRESHAM: Well, as I'm sure you know, the Fu Manchu was first worn by Dr. Fu Manchu in a series of English novels from the first half of the 20th century. Here is how one person described Dr. Fu Manchu:
"Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present ... Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu."
Coming from this impressive pedigree I knew that I could channel some of this awesome power into my water polo game. The moustache is also a metaphor for our team. It's strong, powerful, and a little bit dangerous. It's the underdog, but I'm confident that this season I can lead my team and my new moustache to victory.
That being said, I'll probably shave it when school starts because nobody takes me seriously with this thing.
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Diabetes and Scheduling: Starting a Routine
Keeping a routine when you have diabetes can help ensure adherence to diabetes management, according to Maria Koen, CDE, Nurse Practitioner at Joslin Diabetes Center. Routines help establish consistency in blood glucose levels and reduce the risk for severe blood glucose fluctuations.
Getting Started
To implement a successful routine when you have diabetes, gain a good understanding of what major factors influence blood glucose levels, so you can keep them in mind while building your routine. Some major factors that influence blood glucose levels include:
- food/meals
- physical activity
- diabetes medications and/or insulin
Illness, stress, hormone levels also have a significant effect on blood glucose levels. However, these factors are not usually easy to control or incorporate into a routine.
The second step in establishing a routine when you have diabetes is to gain an appreciation for the timing and interaction among various factors, Koen says. For example, understanding the action and approximate onset of meal time insulin and digestion of various micronutrients may help guarantee optimal timing of insulin administration.
What to Include in your Routine
Key components of a diabetes management or lifestyle routine should include relatively consistent schedules for:
- meals
- physical activity
- sleep
Depending on what type of diabetes medication or insulin you take, you might need to select a specific time for administration. Some types of insulin and/or diabetes medications should be coordinated with meals, while others should not. Some regimens also allow for more meal time flexibility than others. When selecting a diabetes medication/insulin program, think about your own individual preferences and lifestyle, says Koen. Speak with your diabetes team about your preferences to find the most appropriate and effective diabetes medication treatment plan.
Starting a routine should facilitate your ability to manage your diabetes by allowing you some control in preventing erratic or severe high or low blood glucose patterns, and avoiding such patterns can be beneficial to your health. For more information on starting a routine when you have diabetes, make an appointment with a Joslin diabetes educator by calling (617) 309-2400.
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Prince Edward Island - Case Assignment: Global Business Policy
Case Assignment: Global Business Policy Please follow the format provided in the course syllabus in your write up of the case Read Case 5: Prince Edward Island Preserve Co., on ...Rating:Essay Length: 266 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: August 7, 2011
Prince Edward Island Case Study
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Berlin Airlift Case
The Berlin Airlift was started because of the railways and road access was cut off for the allies. This was the first Airlift attempt that was actually successful. It was a response by the western alliances for the blockade that the soviets carried out. ...Rating:Essay Length: 330 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: April 3, 2011
Clyde V.Cessna Case Study
Based in Wichita, Kansas, Cessna Aircraft Company is now the world's largest manufacturer of private aircraft. The company focuses on the best quality and the nicest design. Cessna began its operations building small propeller-driven aircraft for ...Rating:Essay Length: 1,082 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: April 3, 2011
Pepe Case Analysis
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Audititng: Enron Case Study
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Case Study Apple Corporation
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The Sarasota Journal Case
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Affecting more than half the country, this summer's drought has put water issues front of mind. As the risk to supply chains and communities where they operate increase, not surprisingly, companies are paying more attention to their water impact.
Notably, this summer Facebook was the first company to ever release water usage effectiveness (WUE) data. WUE is a metric released in 2011 by GreenGrid, which builds upon the success of GreenGrid's power usage efficiency (PUE) metric, now ubiquitously employed across data centers. As the term suggests, WUE gauges the efficiency of water use in data centers.
Water use? Why does a data center use water? Well, the transfer and storage of data generates a great deal of heat, which needs to be removed for the equipment to continue to function smoothly. That heat removal usually occurs through the use of a water cooling tower, which uses significant amounts of water. Building cooling, in general constitutes 60 percent of water use in buildings. Because of the higher intensity of heat generated, data centers use an average of 20 percent more water for cooling than other types of buildings.
In August, Facebook reported that the WUE of its Prineville, Oregon data center was 0.22 L/kWh, which Facebook considered a "great result." We commend Facebook for releasing the WUE data and nudging others to follow suit. But, it is premature to pass judgment about what is a good, bad, or mediocre WUE. Facebook, itself, acknowledged this – recognizing the importance of benchmarking this metric against other companies and over time. The company will start disclosing its Prineville WUE data on a monthly basis, and in 2013 it will produce WUE data for a second data center in Prineville and one in Forest City, NC. We hope this will become a slippery slope toward the best practice of comprehensive water reporting and management, and that Facebook as well as other companies such as Google and Microsoft go beyond just showcasing best-practice sites to provide full context for their water usage.
Admittedly, water is more complex than other environmental issues. Unlike greenhouse gas emissions, which affect our global climate equally no matter where on Earth they take place, water's geographical use matters a great deal. A company's water footprint can mean different things based on the regional context in which it's set. As a case in point, through our collaboration with AT&T we've learned that in water-stressed areas such as the South and Southwest, water consumed for commercial building cooling alone accounts for a hefty 10 percent of total regional water demand.
To get their hands around water impact, companies should embrace comprehensive water reporting. This starts with mapping out their water footprint to identify areas of opportunity. For example, AT&T's water mapping revealed that 125 AT&T facilities account for approximately half of the business' total water consumption. We believe water efficiency efforts should begin there, and indeed they are. As mentioned in this recent blog about our collaboration with AT&T, we are in the midst of piloting practices to reduce water use in building cooling. Our focus isn't on a specific type of buildings; we're looking to develop tools and insights that can generate water efficiency at a variety of facility types across diverse industries. We are exploring three approaches for this reduction:
1) Optimizing free air cooling;
2) Minimizing the amount of water blown down from a cooling tower while maintaining equipment integrity; and
3) Tapping into non-traditional technologies that further minimize water blow down.
We will release our findings in early 2013.
In the meantime, check out the following water disclosure and measurement tools that can help get your business up to speed on sustainable water management, easing pressure on the environment and saving you money:
• CDP's water survey
• CERES's Aqua Gauge
• WRI's Aqueduct
• GreenGrid's WUE and WUEsource
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Global Water Tool
• Alliance for Water Stewardship's upcoming water stewardship standard
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today announced that special seating will be reserved for family members of those serving in the military at the City's fourth annual Abraham Lincoln Celebration from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, February 15, at North Star High School, 5801 North 33rd Street. The Celebration is free to the public, and North Star is handicapped-accessible. Seating will be reserved in the auditorium for the 2:45 p.m. concert of patriotic music by the Lincoln Municipal Band and for the 4 p.m. performance by Fritz Klein and Joyce Browning as President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
"The event is free for all, but we wanted to do something special to support our troops," said Mayor Seng. "Those families who have loved ones in the service will have the best seats in the house for these two special performances." Families do not have to make a reservation, but they are encouraged to contact the Mayor's office at 441-7831, so organizers know how many seats to reserve. Details are available on the city web site at lincoln.ne.gov.
The Mayor thanked the community donors who make it possible for the event to be free and the volunteer steering committee planning the Celebration. Producers are the City of Lincoln and the Lincoln/Lancaster County Convention and Visitors Bureau with support from the Nebraska Humanities Council.
The 33-member Lincoln Municipal Band will perform from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. in the Auditorium. The band was formed more than 90 years ago, making it the oldest professional music organization in the state. The band is also Nebraska's only professional wind ensemble. It presents its concerts in a traditional turn-of-the-20th century concert format. More information is available at www.artsincorporated.org/lmb/.
Klein and Browning will perform from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Auditorium. Brown is from Charleston, West Virginia and has been portraying Mary Todd Lincoln since 1996. Klein, who performed at the 2002 Celebration, lives in Springfield, Illinois and has been portraying President Lincoln since 1976. He is considered by many to be one of the nation's foremost Lincoln actors, appearing in 35 states for film and television, on stage and as a motivational speaker. More information is available at LincolnInstitute.com.
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A variety of Abraham Lincoln exhibits will be on display, and area Civil War re-enactors in authentic uniforms will mingle with the crowd and answer questions. Those attending are encouraged to wear costumes from the era. Refreshments and souvenirs will be available.


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Lucius is the son of the devil who has to clear the mansion of it's residents. To do this he must orcastrate "accidents" without anyone suspecting him of any foul play. The player starts as Lucius and must cleverly devise these incidents from simple household items. Every time he succeeds he will gain supernatural powers to help him take full control.
His growing supernatural powers may be used in various ways. He will eventually become able to control objects and people with mind power, move objects around without touching them. Lucius even has the incredible mind power to dictate weak people into causing destruction and pain.
He was born 6th of June in 1966 and when he had lived his sixth year on earth, he finally started to show signs of his true origin.
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Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.
Such information would've provided a foundation for one of former President George W. Bush's main arguments for invading Iraq in 2003. In fact, no evidence has ever been found of operational ties between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and Saddam's regime.
The use of abusive interrogation — widely considered torture — as part of Bush's quest for a rationale to invade Iraq came to light as the Senate issued a major report tracing the origin of the abuses and President Barack Obama opened the door to prosecuting former U.S. officials for approving them.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and others who advocated the use of sleep deprivation, isolation and stress positions and waterboarding, which simulates drowning, insist that they were legal.
A former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration.
"There were two reasons why these interrogations were so persistent, and why extreme methods were used," the former senior intelligence official said on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity.
"The main one is that everyone was worried about some kind of follow-up attack (after 9/11). But for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there."
It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly — Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in March 2003 — according to a newly released Justice Department document.
"There was constant pressure on the intelligence agencies and the interrogators to do whatever it took to get that information out of the detainees, especially the few high-value ones we had, and when people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people to push harder," he continued.
"Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn't any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam, and that no such ties were likely because the two were fundamentally enemies, not allies."
Senior administration officials, however, "blew that off and kept insisting that we'd overlooked something, that the interrogators weren't pushing hard enough, that there had to be something more we could do to get that information," he said.
A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under "pressure" to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.
"While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq," Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. "The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results."
Excerpts from Burney's interview appeared in a full, declassified report on a two-year investigation into detainee abuse released on Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., called Burney's statement "very significant."
"I think it's obvious that the administration was scrambling then to try to find a connection, a link (between al Qaida and Iraq)," Levin said in a conference call with reporters. "They made out links where they didn't exist."
Levin recalled Cheney's assertions that a senior Iraqi intelligence officer had met Mohammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague just months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The FBI and CIA found that no such meeting occurred.
A senior Guantanamo Bay interrogator, David Becker, told the committee that only "a couple of nebulous links" between al Qaida and Iraq were uncovered during interrogations of unidentified detainees, the report said.
Others in the interrogation operation "agreed there was pressure to produce intelligence, but did not recall pressure to identify links between Iraq and al Qaida," the report said.
The report, the executive summary of which was released in November, found that Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and other former senior Bush administration officials were responsible for the abusive interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rumsfeld approved extreme interrogation techniques for Guantanamo in December 2002. He withdrew his authorization the following month amid protests by senior military lawyers that some techniques could amount to torture, violating U.S. and international laws.
Military interrogators, however, continued employing some techniques in Afghanistan and later in Iraq.
Bush and his top lieutenants charged that Saddam was secretly pursuing nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in defiance of a United Nations ban, and had to be overthrown because he might provide them to al Qaida for an attack on the U.S. or its allies.
(John Walcott and Warren P. Strobel contributed to this article.)
In reversal, Obama opens door to prosecuting top Bush aides
Guantanamo: Beyond the Law — a McClatchy investigation
Archive of McClatchy's Iraq intelligence reporting