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The Department of Public Safety will be honoring a local teenager during this week�s Jacksonville City Council meeting for his work at the local Jacksonville Police Training Facility in August.
The Department of Public Safety will be honoring a local teenager during this week�s Jacksonville City Council meeting for his work at the local Jacksonville Police Training Facility in August.
Richlands High School student Ben Hall, 17, directed a project to build a fence around the firing range at the Jacksonville Police Training Facility on Stillwood Road. The 430-foot fence was constructed in one day by 15 volunteers in the community, and planned and orchestrated by Hall.
Hall, an active Boy Scout who completed the project as his Eagle Scout Project, is part of the Order of the Arrow.
Hall said he learned about the need for the fence through his mom who works for the City of Jacksonville. Hall met with JPD Chief Mike Yaniero and got the project going.
He said the most difficult part of the project was dealing with the rain on the actual work day. He said keeping everyone focused and on-task was a challenge, but seeing the finished project was the most rewarding part.
�It looks good out there,� he said.
For the project, Hall not only put up the fence but designed it, priced the materials, worked with local vendors to get donations for the supplies, organized delivery of materials and delegated volunteer workers. Hall also was the project manager the day of the work.
�I gained valuable leadership experience,� he said. �[It] was a good bonding experience with my friends and family that helped on the work day.�
Hall�s mom, Jeanette, said the entire experience has been one of �growing up� for Ben and she is very proud. Her other sons are also involved in scouting: middle son, Dakota, 16, who is also in Troop 790, plans to make an obstacle course for the K-9s out at the training facility for his Eagle Project. Her 14-year-old, Luke, has some time before he begins thinking about his project, according to Hall.
JPD officials said the fencing helps maintain control of areas when there are different groups training, and also helps maintain the landscaping to enhance the appearance of the facility.
Hall added that �making the police officers happy is important to the community.�
Yaniero noted that the JPD operates by a principle from Sir Robert Peel, which states �Police are the public and the public are the police,� in terms of community interaction and help.
To begin his project, Hall had to receive prior approval from the Eagle Project Review Board, but now that the task is complete, he has to finish paperwork on the full Eagle Rank application and go back in front of the district board for a final review. He said he hopes to do that in October.
Each Eagle ceremony is specifically tailored to the scout�s individuality. Hall said his ceremony will most likely take place at the Lighthouse Baptist Church or his home and it will be presented to him by his Scoutmaster Scott Segabarth.
�What a great way for young people to become involved in their community,� said JPD Chief Mike Yaniero, director of the Jacksonville Department of Public Safety. �We were very pleased that Ben selected JPD for his project.�
After the presentation of a Certificate of Appreciation to Ben for the project, City Council also will discuss a joint project with the N.C. Department of Transportation to improve pedestrian traffic near Jacksonville High School on Henderson Drive. The estimated $58,242 project, which would consist of advanced lighted school crossing warning signs with advance stop bars at the existing mid-block crossing, would be funded by the N.C. DOT and constructed by the City of Jacksonville.
In addition, the board will appoint a resident to the Jacksonville Tourism Development Authority.
And the board will discuss designating voting and alternative voting delegates for the 2013 N.C. League of Municipalities annual business meeting.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Jacksonville City Hall, located at 815 New Bridge Street.

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Review: Google's Nexus 7 tablet with Android 4.1Google's first Nexus-branded tablet is a compelling device offered at an aggressive price point a combination that could make the Nexus 7 a fierce competitor to Amazon's Kindle lineup, though it won't likely have much of an effect on Apple's current, larger iPad.
Starting at just $199 for the 8-gigabyte model, going up to $249 for double the capacity, the Nexus 7 is clearly an aggressive effort by Google to push Android in the tablet space and an attempt to counter Amazon's Kindle Fire. Google has good reason to go after the Kindle Fire: Amazon's own touchscreen tablet, released less than a year ago, essentially hijacked Google's work on the Android platform to make its own forked tablet operating system.
In countering the Kindle Fire, Google's Nexus 7 is an indisputable success. While the $199 price point was essentially the main selling point for the slow and limited Kindle Fire, the Nexus 7 would be a compelling device for consumers looking for a 7-inch tablet at prices much higher than the $199 Google is asking. Unlike the Kindle Fire, the Nexus 7 has adequate horsepower to do most of the activities users have come to expect with a tablet.
But because of its smaller screen particularly its narrow width when used in portrait mode, which is the default orientation the Nexus 7 feels like a device that is better suited for reading e-books or light Web browsing. The device's form factor, combined with a relative lack of enticing tablet-specific applications for Android, simply puts it in a different class of device and an entirely different market segment than Apple's market leading iPad.
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If first impressions are everything, the packaging of the Nexus 7 stumbles right out of the gate. Attempting to slide the box cover off and get to the tablet is an unnecessarily difficult task thanks to a strange packaging choice. We weren't the only ones to encounter this issue, as the video below clearly demonstrates.
Once it's finally out of the box and up and running, the most noticeable feature of the Nexus 7 is how snappy and responsive the device is, thanks to optimizations in Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean," plus the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor and a full gigabyte of RAM. While previous versions of Android and older Android hardware had a noticeable lag in user interface responsiveness, the Nexus 7 feels akin to what iPhone and iPad users are already accustomed to.
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A major factor in the Fire's Saturday night defeat to the New York Red Bulls was Chicago's slow start to the game.
The Fire looked sluggish from the opening whistle, and though the team's play greatly improved in the second half, Chicago's lackadaisical beginning to the match proved too much to overcome [WATCH HIGHLIGHTS HERE].
What is to blame for the Fire's poor first-half play? MLSsoccer.com spoke with Fire technical director Frank Klopas after the match and he offered his take.
"I'm a little disappointed that we lost," Klopas said over the phone Saturday night. "I think my main concern going into the game was the fact that we haven't had a game in a while."
The Fire had scheduled a final preseason scrimmage against Notre Dame University for March 20 but had to cancel due to inclement weather.
"I think it hurt us a little bit that we didn't play a game last week, and I think it showed in the first half when we weren't as sharp," Klopas said. "But I think the second half was a different game. I think we were a better team in the second half; we were able to move the ball better, but unfortunately they scored a great goal and that was all it took."
Expect head coach Carlos de los Cobos to work hard this week to ensure that his players come out of the gate strong at Colorado on Saturday. The Fire will need a solid effort for the full 90 minutes if they are to beat the Rapids, who impressed in their 1-0 road victory against Chivas USA this past weekend.


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When I set up an emacs process filter, I never know how much input the process will deliver me at one time. Therefore I generally buffer the input and process (say) a line at a time.
(defvar buffer "") (defun process-input (input) (setq buffer (concat input buffer)) (let ((count 0) (pos 0)) (while (string-match "^\\([^\n]+\\)\n" buffer pos) (message "Before: [%s] [%d]" (match-string 1 buffer) (match-end 1)) (process-line (match-string 1 buffer)) (message "After: [%s] [%d]" (match-string 1 buffer) (match-end 1)) ;; error handling in case of runaway loops (incf count) (when (> count 10) (error "Looped too many times!")) (setq pos (1+ (match-end 1)))) (when pos (setq buffer (substring buffer pos)))) (message "REMAINDER: [%s]" buffer))
Given a simple
(process-line ...) we can see the results from a simple test.
(defun process-line (line) (message "[%s]" line)) (process-input "XXX (line 1)\n13.15 (line 2)\n")
Before: XXX (line 1) 12 [XXX (line 1)] After: XXX (line 1) 12 Before: 13.15 (line 2) 27 [13.15 (line 2)] After: 13.15 (line 2) 27 REMAINDER: []
An Infinite Loop
Now say I want to add some special handling for lines with a number in, what do you think happens?
(defun process-line (line) (when (string-match "\\([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\\)" line) (message "[%s]" line)))
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Looped too many times!")
Before: [XXX (line 1)] [12]
After: [XXX (line 1)] [12]
Before: [13.15 (line 2)] [27]
[13.15 (line 2)]
After: [XXX (] [5]
Before: [13.15 (line 2)] [27]
[13.15 (line 2)]
After: [XXX (] [5]
The string match against the number has reset a hidden global variable used by
(match-end ...) which has sent us into an infinite loop. Surprising action at a distance indeed!
Perl Regex Globals
Perl also uses global variables such as $1, $2, @- and @+ for its regular expressions, so could this cause a similar problem?
No. Fortunately, these globals are dynamically scoped so the appropriate values are maintained up the call stack.


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Perennial, shrub, tree, glabrous or hairy
Stem often forked
Leaves opposite, sessile or petioled, pairs generally unequal; blade generally entire
Inflorescence generally forked; of spikes, clusters, or umbels, each unit sometimes with a calyx-like involucre
Flower bisexual, radial; perianth of 1 whorl, petal-like, bell- to trumpet-shaped, base hardened, tightly surrounding ovary in fruit, lobes 45, generally notched to ± bilateral; stamens 1many; ovary superior (appearing inferior because of hardened perianth base), style 1
Fruit: achene or nut, smooth, wrinkled, or ribbed
Genera in family: 30 genera, 300 species: warm regions, especially Am; some ornamental (Bougainvillea ; Mirabilis , four o'clock).
Annual, perennial herb, generally glandular
Stem prostrate to ascending, generally ± red
Leaf generally fleshy, petioled
Inflorescence: head or umbel; flowers opening together or outer first; receptacle conic, ± smooth
Flower: perianth salverform to trumpet-shaped, generally fragrant, lobes 45; stamens 45, included; stigma linear, included
Fruit: body fusiform; lobe-like wings (0)25 (if present, prominent, opaque, thick, not continuous above fruit body)
Species in genus: 25 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: graceful)
[Galloway 1975 Brittonia 27:328347] Closely related to Tripterocalyx.
Annual, ± glabrous to glandular-hairy
Stem prostrate, > 1 m
Leaf: petiole 16 cm, slender; blade 1570 mm, 850 mm wide, ovate to ± diamond-shaped
Inflorescence: peduncle 2.515 cm, slender, generally erect in fruit; bracts 57 mm, lanceolate to ovate; flowers 827
Flower: perianth tube 616 mm, ± green or red, limb 616 mm wide, light to bright magenta
Fruit 712 mm, glandular-hairy at top, glabrous below, angled or with 25 (generally 4) wings broadly rounded above the top of fruit body
Ecology: Disturbed sandy areas, coastal dunes and scrub
Elevation: < 100 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Central Coast, South Coast
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Baja California
Hybrids with A. maritima : subsp. alba (Eastw.) Munz; subsp. platyphylla (Standley) Munz; subsp. variabilis (Standley) Munz. Hybridizes also with A. latifolia.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Flower: perianth tube 68 mm, ± green or yellow, limb 68 mm wide, light to bright magenta, throat surrounded by cream eyespot
Fruit: wings poorly to moderately developed, ± angled
Habitat of sp.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Central Coast (Marin Co.)
Distribution outside California: s Oregon
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DALLAS, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Finding alternatives for high-calorie food and snacks for the Super Bowl need not stop at the big game; they work the rest of the year, a U.S. expert says.
Lona Sandon, a clinical nutritionist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said fat free does not necessarily equate to lower calorie intake and the lack of flavor of some substitutes might actually lead people to want to eat more.
"Not everyone is going to be satisfied with the salad bowl," Sandon said in a statement. "If you're not ready to replace your entire plate with healthy alternatives, you can still significantly cut down on calories and fats by blending your favorites with some lower-calorie options and alternatives."
Offer taco salad bowls instead of burgers, substitute lean ground turkey and beans for beef or cold cuts, offer subs with lots of salad-style fixings and use less cold cuts, or grill some vegetables to help fill the plate.
Some nutritional alternatives for Super Bowl parties -- or basketball season -- are:
-- Chips: Try baked versions, lightly salted pretzels, unbuttered popcorn sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese, trail mix, unsalted nuts, pumpkin or sunflower seeds. These are not really calorie savers over chips, they just better nutritional value.
-- Dip: Try salsas, low-fat sour cream dips or yogurt instead of traditional chip and vegetable dips, or low-fat versions of dressing instead of traditional ranch dressing.
-- Pizza: If selecting more than one slice, substitute a slice of thin crust, veggie pizza for a slice of three-meat pizza.
-- Wings: For chicken wings, take the skin off, bake or grill instead of deep frying. Use low-fat versions of cream cheese, sour cream and blue cheese or substitute plain Greek yogurt.
-- Chili: Try meatless chili with different types of beans. Include rice.
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As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear a case involving the constitutionality of President Obama's health care overhaul, social scientists are asking a disturbing — and controversial — question: Do the intense feelings about the health care overhaul among ordinary Americans stem from their philosophical views about the appropriate role of government, or from their racial attitudes about the signature policy of the country's first black president?
In a new paper published in the American Journal of Political Science, Michael Tesler presents survey and experimental data that suggest that the racial attitudes of ordinary Americans have shaped both how they feel about the health care overhaul, and how intense those feelings are.
The paper is one of many studies that examines how the views of voters on policy issues are shaped — at least in part — by factors unrelated to those subjects: Voters are more likely to back the policies of leaders with whom they share some core aspect of identity, such as race or religion.
Tesler finds that blacks have become increasingly supportive of health care under Obama's watch. Among whites, Tesler finds a sharp divide between whites who have a liberal outlook on racial issues compared with those who have a conservative outlook on racial issues.
In an experiment, Tesler presents a health care overhaul policy to whites, telling some that the policy is advocated by Bill Clinton and telling others that it's advocated by Barack Obama; Tesler finds that whites with liberal racial attitudes become more supportive of the policy when they think Obama is its chief advocate, while whites with a conservative attitude become less supportive of the policy when they think of health care as an Obama policy.
The study is part of a broad range of research projects that shows that issues such as race and religion play a powerful role in shaping how people feel about policies related to war, welfare and crime.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene.
And I'm Steve Inskeep.
All this week on MORNING EDITION, we're hearing about the health care overhaul. Next Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about the law, and emotions are running high. There's new evidence that racial attitudes may play some role in the way the two sides have come to feel so passionately about this issue. We're turning, as we often do, to science correspondent Shankar Vedantam to tell us what it's all about.
Hi, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, Steve. Thanks for having me.
INSKEEP: And we should acknowledge at the beginning we're going into dangerous territory here. People are very emotional about health care. Of course, race can be a very emotionally charged issue as well. And now we're going to mix them all together here.
VEDANTAM: That's right. So let me give you a little bit of background. So social scientists have known for a long time that when you ask people their views on policy questions, they are influenced by the identities that they share or don't share with political leaders. So if you're president shares your religion or your gender or race, you're much more likely to find the president's policies something that you can support. If you don't share the identity of your president, then you're much more likely to find yourself in opposition to the president.
INSKEEP: Which is understandable. People may say I don't understand all the details here, but I identify with this guy or this woman. And if they don't identify with the guy, it's going to be a different situation.
VEDANTAM: Right. And this is especially true for policies that have something to do with race. So for example, it isn't surprising that our attitudes about race would say something about our policy views on affirmative action. But the interesting question is, does the same thing happen in policy domains that have nothing to do with race?
INSKEEP: Which, in theory, health care does not have anything to do with race, so what do the experts find when they look into it?
VEDANTAM: So I'm looking at a specific study that was just published in the American Journal of Political Science. The author was Michael Tesler at Brown University. And he's found that over the last 20 years there has been a steadily growing racial divide in how Americans think about health care overhaul. So he finds that compared to the early 1990s when Bill Clinton was advocating a health care overhaul, blacks have become much more supportive of health care overhaul than whites. Here's Tesler.
MICHAEL TESLER: African-Americans were about 20 points more supportive of the Barack Obama-framed plan than they were of the Bill Clinton plan.
INSKEEP: OK. So you're saying that African-Americans are more supportive of health care than when Bill Clinton was president. You're also saying, I suppose, that African-Americans are more supportive than whites of the health care overhaul that's been passed in the last couple of years?
VEDANTAM: So overwhelmingly, yes, blacks do support the health care overhaul compared to whites.
INSKEEP: Although some people are immediately saying, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait - African-Americans in this country are overwhelmingly Democratic, the president is a Democrat. This is a signature Democratic issue. Of course African-Americans would be more supportive...
VEDANTAM: Right. So that's an excellent question, Steve. You have a difference in the opinion of these two groups, but you don't know that it's race that's causing the difference in opinion.
So Tesler took his study a step further and he conducted an experiment. He said what if I gave whites the very same health care policy, but in one instance I told them that this policy was being advocated by Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and in the other case it's being advocated by Barack Obama, who's also a Democrat, but one of them is white and one of them is black. What Tesler's trying to do is he's trying to hold every other variable constant except for one - race.
INSKEEP: What happened?
VEDANTAM: Well, Tesler finds that there's a sharp divergence in opinion among people who have liberal attitudes toward race and those who have a conservative attitude towards race. Here he is.
TESLER: White racial liberals become more supportive of a policy when it's framed as Barack Obama than when it's framed as Bill Clinton's, but white racial conservatives become less supportive of that policy.
INSKEEP: Oh, now this is very interesting, because he is saying that people who are more conservative on racial issues may be more likely to oppose President Obama. At the same time, he's saying that people who are more liberal might be more willing to follow the president regardless of what the policy might be.
VEDANTAM: I think that's exactly right. What he's finding is that race seems to intensify people's support for health care policy and intensify their opposition to health care policy. And so what he's finding really is that race is making the divide between those who support and oppose the policy much wider.
INSKEEP: Which means that no matter where we may be on the health care debate, everybody is affected in some way by questions of race.
VEDANTAM: Yeah. We think we are making policy judgments based on our ideological views, and what Tesler is finding is that this unrelated issue, racial attitudes, is actually playing a very powerful role in shaping how we feel about health care.
INSKEEP: Shankar, it's always a pleasure when you come by.
VEDANTAM: Thank you, Steve.
INSKEEP: NPR's Shankar Vedantam, science correspondent, joins us to talk about interesting social science research. You can follow him on Twitter @HiddenBrain. And you can follow this program @NPRInskeep and @MorningEdition. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Texas House has approved a public school pilot program allowing parents to purchase supplemental concussion insurance for boys who play football and girls who play soccer.
Students participating in sports already have insurance through their school districts. But the proposal by Brownsville Democratic Rep. Eddie Lucio III gives parents the option of buying extra insurance for "around $5."
Lucio said concussion-related symptoms sometimes don't appear until after students graduate and lose their district insurance.
The latest news from around North Texas.
The bill passed Tuesday must clear a final, procedural hurdle before heading to the Senate.
Private companies would underwrite the policies administered by the University Interscholastic League and the Texas Education Agency.
Both entities would decide which districts participate in the pilot program. But Lucio said he hopes it's a cross-section from around the state.


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The large storm system that created dangerous road conditions and white-outs in the Midwest is moving out of the Northeast. Cold air is on the way, however, bringing lake-effect snow across southwestern New York. Weather Channel meteorologist Chris Warren reports.
Updated 11:45 p.m ET: Holiday travelers across the country were feeling the effects of the first big storm of the season, with hundreds of flights canceled and thousands delayed Friday — many disrupted by the ripple effects of stormy conditions in the Northeast and Midwest.
The winter storm was moving across the Buffalo, N.Y. region on Friday night, with gusty winds, snow, blowing and drifting snow slowing traffic. The storm was expected to travel across northern Pennsylvania by Saturday afternoon, NBC affiliate WGRZ reported.
Across the country, nearly 700 flights had been canceled and 9,300 delayed by late Friday afternoon, according to FlightStats.com. The majority were in storm-impacted cities like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Newark, New York and Philadelphia.
Delays of an hour or more were reported at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and La Guardia Airport in New York.
The combination of low clouds, rain and hing wind gusts disrupted major Northeast airports. Those delays could continue into Saturday, when the tail end of the system is expected to leave a few more inches of snow in Pittsburgh and western New York.
Full storm coverage at Weather.com
At Chicago's O'Hare airport, travelers who spent Thursday night there included Patricia Oliver, who called her attempt to get from California to Waterloo, Iowa, "a nightmare."
"They keep pushing us and bumping us and booting us back," she told NBCChicago.com. "We slept two nights on the floor."
Airlines on Thursday canceled more than 1,000 flights as the storm dumped up to 20 inches of snow across parts of the Midwest, caused blizzard conditions that led to seven deaths and even spawned a twister in Mobile, Ala., that damaged property.
Much of the Midwest is digging out after the first major snowstorm of the season dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas. Meanwhile, cancellations and delays are causing problems for travelers heading home for the holiday. NBC's John Yang reports.
In Iowa, two people were killed and seven injured Thursday in a 30-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35. Drivers were blinded by blowing snow and didn't see vehicles that had slowed or stopped, causing a chain reaction of crashes, state police said.
The storm was blamed for traffic deaths in three other states: two deaths each in Nebraska and Wisconsin; and one in Kansas.
In Utah, a woman who tried to walk for help after her car became stuck in snow died Tuesday night.
Power outages caused by the storm continued Friday. More than 320,000 homes and businesses were without power in the eastern half of the U.S. The hardest hit states were Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin.
Outages that started Thursday also remained in Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska and Texas.
Although the storm has become largely a wind and rain event for much of the Northeast, the snow belts around the Great Lakes and Appalachians on Friday are likely to continue to see wind-whipped snow that could top a foot in many areas, Weather.com reported.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
AAA predicts 93 million Americans will be traveling 50 miles or more this holiday weekend, and as a massive winter storm rolls across the mid-section of the country, travelers are concerned about delays that may affect the weekend. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
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Their sex life really slumped, however, when Bonds started taking steroids, driven by jealousy after Mark McGwire began receiving piles of press for his pursuit of Roger Maris' single-season home run record. Bell told Playboy that Bonds suffered from sexual dysfunction, one side effect of steroid use. He tried Viagra several times but didn't like it because it affected his vision and stuffed up his nose.
His body had grown thicker, his back was pocked with acne, his hair had fallen out and his testicles had shriveled when Bonds asked his former mistress if she thought anyone would suspect he was on the juice. "Do I look bloated?" Bonds wanted to know. "Does it look funny? Do you think this is obvious?"
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Once we take off with the helicopter we fly in the direction of the Bernese Alps. We pass the world renowned Eiger North Face, and dive into the world of sheer rock faces and eternal ice fields. Passing over the peaks Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau, and the UNESCO world heritage site, the Aletsch Glacier to the Petersgrat, and back to the starting point in Lauterbrunnen.
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have teamed up to address the issue of climate change. Their latest plan involves using economic leverage in harmony with the technical assistance of private organizations to effect changes that the United Nations simply cannot achieve on its own.
Nations around the world have begun to sign the Paris agreement on climate change. The Paris agreement was an initiative led by the United Nations by which the nations of the world are supposed to reduce their respective emissions of greenhouse gases.
Of course, as ground breaking as the agreement is, many fear it will not go far enough. The World Bank and the IMF, among other groups, believe that cutting the signature nations' emissions enough to actually have the necessary effect on climate change will simply not be possible without a financial component. These groups believe the answer lies in forcing polluter nations to pay for the carbon dioxide they emit.
According to World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, "There is now an overwhelmingly obvious scientific consensus that the more carbon pollution we put into the air the more impact it has on warming the massive melting of the Arctic, the cycles of droughts and flooding, the die-offs of coral reefs…And to our economists, who have been studying this for quite some time, there is an equally obvious consensus that putting a price on carbon pollution is by far the most powerful and efficient way to reduce emissions…We strongly urge people to prepare for the carbon pricing that is to come."
The World Bank sees this objective as running in parallel with its primary mission of combating global poverty. According to a 2015 World Bank report, if left unchecked, climate change could push more than 100 million people below the poverty line by 2030. "We cannot poison the planet and thrive," Kim said.
To that end, the World Bank has already created a "Carbon Finance Unit" to aid nations trying to find ways to put a price on carbon. The Bank has already enrolled 18 emerging economies – including China – into the program. It hopes to link the program to the nations that have agreed to sign the Paris agreement to create a global carbon trading market.
Similarly, the IMF is also providing information to nations about how best to set up carbon pricing systems, in part as a means to help financially strapped nations to improve their own revenues.
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My HealthySELF: How Pop Star JoJo Finds Time for Exercise
Pop star JoJo is one busy lady. She hit the road earlier this year with Joe Jonas and Jay Sean, is prepping to drop her third album, Jumping Trains, in April and even managed to carve out some serious time in her schedule to give back.
This year, that meant taking part in the Hard Rock Cafe Pinktober Tour in support of breast cancer research. The opportunity had special significance for JoJo, who has been personally affected by breast cancer. "My Nana was just recently diagnosed, and my family and I are learning all we can so we can support her in the best way possible," she says. "I was honored to be a part of this concert series with Hard Rock...it's such an important cause."
With so much on her plate, we had to know how this young star (she turns 21 this month!) stays balanced. We were lucky enough to catch up with JoJo to chat about her secrets to staying healthy on the go, what keeps her happy despite her hectic schedule and her biggest inspiration.
Typically, I do cardio five times a week and strength training three times. I also like to switch things up by doing hot yoga, Pilates on the reformer and boxing when I get the chance. If I'm on the road, we make it a point to stay at hotels with 24-hour gyms. I just fit it in where I can. Sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the middle of the day, after a show or in the wee hours of the morning if I can't sleep!
What song gets you most fired up at the gym?
Madonna's Hard Candy album is the music perfect for working out. And the fact that she is so super-fit is inspiration in itself!
If you feel like you are gaining weight, what do you do to stay on track?
Good question! I just try to eat better when I feel I'm gaining weight. [I'll have] fruit, oatmeal, vegetables and salads with chicken or tuna. I love having dessert, so I'll do fruit and coffee instead of a sundae or something.
Best workout class you've ever taken?
Core-power hot yoga. It's a total mind/body experience.
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What's in your fridge?
Fruit, coconut water, almond milk, leftover Indian food, kale salad, cereal, cookies and lots of popsicles and frozen treats in the freezer. I have a good mix of both healthy and not-so-healthy foods.
What's your go-to breakfast?
Oatmeal with Splenda, raisins and a coffee.
What do you typically have for lunch and dinner?
Lately I've been liking something heavier for lunch and lighter later in the night. I love flavor and spice, so I'll have Mexican or Indian food for lunch and then soup and a salad with chicken for dinner.
If you have to eat fast food, what do you get?
I like grilled chicken sandwiches, so I take one piece of bread off and eat it open-faced. If I'm really craving a fry, I order a small size and go for it!
Do you have a favorite healthy snack?
Dried fruit and nuts, popcorn, whole-grain goldfish.
What's your favorite indulgence?
Right now it's ice cream sandwiches!
Do you have a favorite gadget?
A single cup coffee maker with all different kinds of flavors!
What do you do to relax?
Lay in bed with candles lit and music playing.
What's your idea of a perfect night out?
My closest girlfriends and I would go out to a great restaurant and catch up over delicious food and drinks and laugh and smile and share stories! That's one of my favorite things to do.
What are you reading?
Sex and the Soul of a Woman by Paula Rinehart.
What is your most urgent goal right now?
To finish unpacking and decorating my new place in L.A.
What accessory will you NEVER get rid of?
My favorite pair of distressed combat boots.
What cause or charity are you most passionate about?
She's the First! It's an amazing organization that empowers young women around the world to be the the first in their town, family or circumstance to do something awesome. The focus is on education and bringing girls from different cultures, financial backgrounds and walks of life together to help one another.
What's the best happiness advice you've ever gotten?
A friend who has faced great challenges in his life told me that he chooses to be happy every day. Even if he doesn't necessarily feel it, he flips a switch in his mind and intentionally acts in accordance with being happy.
What's your biggest source of inspiration?
My friends, my family, my team and artists like Beyonce, Jill Scott, Justin Timberlake, Pink and Joni Mitchell really inspire me. I'm not just inspired by beautiful things, but by difficult times, adversity and pain. I like to turn something that most would view as negative into a positive.
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ICS456: Essentials for NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection
Mon, August 21 - Fri, August 25, 2017
This course is amazing. For me it was perfect timing to help me better serve my clients in P&U sector.
As my first SANS training course I was very impressed with the relevance and quality of the training.
The Essentials for NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection 5-day course empowers students with knowledge of the "what" and the "how" of the version 5/6 standards. The course addresses the role of FERC, NERC and the Regional Entities, provides multiple approaches for identifying and categorizing BES Cyber Systems and helps asset owners determine the requirements applicable to specific implementations. Additionally, the course covers implementation strategies for the version 5/6 requirements with a balanced practitioner approach to both cybersecurity benefits, as well as regulatory compliance.
Our 25 hands-on labs range from securing workstations to digital forensics and lock picking.
Course Syllabus
ICS456.1: Asset Identification and Governance
Tim Conway
Mon Aug 21st, 2017
A transition is underway from NERC CIP programs that are well defined and understood to a new CIP paradigm that expands its scope into additional environments and adds significantly more complexity. In day 1 students will develop an understanding of the electric sector regulatory structure and history as well as an appreciation for how the CIP Standards fit into the overall framework of the reliability standards. Key NERC terms and definitions related to NERC CIP are reviewed using realistic concepts and examples that prepare students to better understand their meaning. We will explore multiple approaches to BES Cyber Asset identification and learn the critical role of strong management and governance controls. The day will examine a series of architectures, strategies, and difficult compliance questions in a way that highlights the reliability and cybersecurity strengths of particular approaches. Unique labs will include a scenario based competition that helps bring the concepts to life and highlights the important role we play in defending 'the grid.'
CPE/CMU Credits: 7
- Regulatory History and Overview
- NERC Functional Model
- NERC Reliability Standards
- CIP History
- Terms and Definitions
- CIP-002: BES Cyber System Categorization
- CIP-003: Security Management Controls
ICS456.2: Access Control and Monitoring
Tim Conway
Tue Aug 22nd, 2017
Strong physical and cyber access controls are at the heart of any good cybersecurity program. During day 2 we move beyond the "what" of CIP compliance to understanding the "why" and the "how." Firewalls, proxies, gateways, IDS and more - learn where and when they help and learn practical implementations to consider and designs to avoid. Physical protections include more than fences and you'll learn about the strengths and weaknesses of common physical controls and monitoring schemes. Labs will re-inforce the learnings throughout the day and will introduce architecture review and analysis, firewall rules, IDS rules, compliance evidence demonstration, and physical security control reviews.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- CIP-005: Electronic Security Perimeter(s)
- Interactive Remote Access
- External Routable Communication and Electronic Access Points
- CIP-006: Physical Security of BES Cyber Systems
- Physical Security Plan
- Visitor Control Programs
- PACS Maintenance and Testing
- CIP-014: Physical Security
ICS456.3: System Management
Tim Conway
Wed Aug 23rd, 2017
CIP-007 has consistently been one of the most violated Standards going back to CIP version 1. With the CIP Standards moving to a systematic approach with varying requirement applicability based on system impact rating, the industry now has new ways to design and architect system management approaches. Throughout day 3, students will dive into CIP-007. We'll examine various Systems Security Management requirements with a focus on implementation examples and the associated compliance challenges. This day will also cover the CIP-010 requirements for configuration change management and vulnerability assessments that ensure systems are in a known state and under effective change control. We'll move through a series of labs that reinforce the topics covered from the perspective of the CIP practitioner responsible for implementation and testing.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- CIP-007: System Management
- Physical and Logical Ports
- Patch Management
- Malicious Code Prevention
- Account Management
- CIP-010: Configuration Change Management and Vulnerability Assessments
- Change Management Program
- Baseline configuration methodology
- Change management alerting / prevention
ICS456.4: Information Protection and Response
Tim Conway
Thu Aug 24th, 2017
Education is key to every organization's success with NERC CIP and the students in ICS 456 will be knowledgeable advocates for CIP when they return to their place of work. Regardless of their role, each student can be a valued resource to their organization's CIP-004 training program, the CIP-011 information protection program. Students will be ready with resources for building and running strong awareness programs that reinforce the need for information protection and cybersecurity training. In day 4 we'll examine CIP-008 and CIP-009 covering identification, classification communication of incidents as well as the various roles and responsibilities needed in an incident response or a disaster recovery event. Labs in day 4 will introduce tools for ensuring file integrity and sanitization of files to be distributed, how to best utilize and communicate with the E-ISAC, and how to preserve incident data for future analysis.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- CIP-004: Personnel & Training
- Security Awareness Program
- CIP Training Program
- PRA Evaluation Process
- CIP-011: Information Protection
- Information Protection Program
- Data Sanitization
- CIP-008: Incident Reporting and Response Planning
- Incident Response Plan/Testing
- Reporting Requirements
- CIP-009: Recovery Plans for BES Cyber Systems
- Recovery Plans
- System Backup
ICS456.5: CIP Process
Tim Conway
Fri Aug 25th, 2017
On the final day students will learn the key components for running an effective CIP Compliance program. We will review the NERC processes for standards development, violation penalty determination, Requests For Interpretation, and recent changes stemming from the Reliability Assurance Initiative. Additionally we'll identify recurring and audit related processes that keep a CIP compliance program on track: culture of compliance, annual assessments, gap analysis, TFE's, and self-reporting. We'll also look at the challenge of preparing for NERC audits and provide tips to be prepare to demonstrate the awesome work your team is doing. Finally, we'll look at some real-life CIP violations and discuss what happened and the lessons we can take away. At the end of day 5 students will have a strong call to action to participate in the on-going development of CIP within their organization and in the industry overall as well as a sense that CIP is doable! Labs in day 5 will cover DOE C2M2, audit tools, and an audit focused take on 'blue team - red team' exercise.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- CIP Processes for Maintaining Compliance
- Preparing for an Audit
- Audit Follow Up
- CIP Industry Activities
- Standards Process
- CIP of the Future
Additional Information
"This is best-in-class NERC CIP training. The courseware provides valuable compliance approaches and software tools for peer collaboration to build consent on implementation." - Jeff Mantong, WAPA
"An excellent course that identifies CIP implementation through audit response." - Kevin Money, Iroquois Gas
"Best CIP training I've ever had in all my years of the CIP program." - Michael Veillon, Cleco
"Great class. I would like to send my entire staff." - Erik Weinmeister, Nebraska Public Power District
"Valuable information in a classroom setting you can't get anywhere else." - Tiffany Applegate, Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
"Excellent information - very helpful to our program." - Melanie Thigpen, GE
"This is a course that has been needed for a long time." - Mike Weld, Burns & McDonnell
Laptop Required
NOTE: It is critical that students have administrator access to the operating system and all security software installed. Changes may need to be made to personal firewalls and other host-based software in order for the labs to work.
- 64-bit system
- Laptop with Windows 7 or higher installed on the host or in a Virtual Machine
- Laptop with at least one USB port
- Laptop must include Wireless capabilities
- Latest VMware Player (11 or higher), VMware Workstation (11 or higher), or VWware Fusion installed
- Ability to disable all security software on your laptop, including antivirus and/or firewalls
- At least 100 GB of hard-drive space
- At least 6 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended)
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Who Should Attend
Individuals with CIP responsibilities in the following areas:
- IT and OT (ICS) cybersecurity
- Field support personnel
- Security operations
- Incident response
- Compliance staff
- Team leaders
- Governance
- Vendors / Integrators
- Auditors
Press & Reviews
"The lecturers have an intimate knowledge of cybersecurity and the CIP standards and are able to answer the questions posed by students, including the highly technical and detail-oriented." - Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford. Read the full review at EnergyCentral.com.
Author Statement
The SANS ICS456: NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection Essentials course was developed by SANS ICS team members with extensive electric industry experience including former Registered Entity Primary Contacts, a former NERC officer, and a Co-Chair of the NERC CIP Interpretation Drafting Team. Together the authors bring real-world, practitioner experience gained from developing and maintaining NERC CIP and NERC 693 compliance programs and actively participating in the standards development process.


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Merida. Hawkeye. Katniss Everdeen. If you are a parent, chances are you may haveheard one or more of these names in your house this year, and as a result you may have young people eager to try their hand at archery. If my experience at an Ealdormere event about a month ago is any guide, where the archery range was swamped with young archers eager to try the sport, we will have more young archers on the range this year than ever before. Luckily, Pennsic is one of the best places for people of any age to try their hand with a bow, to acquire equipment, and to have fun. When I'm not editing the Independent, I'm Ealdormere's Kingdom Archery Marshal, and I'd like to share a few tips for young archers.
Equipment will be your first requirement. First check with local archery marshals attending Pennsic to see if they brought any loaner equipment. Bows may definitely be shared amongst shooters, so long as each shooter is inspected with the equipment separately. Marshals do this in order to make sure the equipment fits the archer properly. This is especially important for young shooters. If you cannot find loaner equipment, almost all of the archery merchants here at Pennsic carry youth bows, arrows, and other equipment and they may be willing to let archers try them out on the range to make sure they're getting what will work for them.
In general, beginning archers under 10 will probably want to start with a bow in the 10-15 lb range, while those between 11-15 can start with a 20-25 lb bow. Many adult shooters also shoot with a 25 lb bow quite effectively even on longer-distance shoots. The key is that the shooter be able to draw the bow to a steady nock point, often using a cheek or jawline as an anchor. Too heavy a draw weight and the young archer will become frustrated quickly. Another key point is to do an eye dominance test to determine whether the shooter should be shooting left or right handed. (Do not assume that because you write with your right hand you will be a right-handed shooter!) A marshal or archery merchant can help.
I usually recommend first-time young shooters under 10 or 11 start with a basic fiberglass bow until they're sure they are going to continue shooting. (If you're willing to go offsite, these may often be found at Walmart, although you will need to acquire wood-shafted arrows). The nice thing about these bows is that they can be shot either left or right handed. Take-down recurve bows are an affordable option for older beginner shooters. You'll also want at least half a dozen arrows appropriately sized for the archer (any of the archery merchants and/or marshals can help you with this one) and optimally, an arm bracer and a finger tab or shooting glove.
The next task is to get out to the archery range! Yes, it is a long walk, but keep an eye out for the regular buses running out to the range (stops are along the west side of the battlefield). They will become more frequent starting on Sunday, when war point shooting begins. Before you make the trip, read the rules of the range in the Pennsic book (this applies regardless of your age!)
When you reach the range, you will need to get your equipment inspected by a marshal, and then you are ready to shoot. There will be a family range available all during Pennsic for families to shoot together, and there are marshals available to supervise the range to help get you familiar with the rules and to ensure safety standards are followed. The general rules regarding minors at other Pennsic activities also apply on the range, so please check your Pennsic booklet. Check in at the marshals' tent to see if any special shoots for young people are scheduled. The youth Archer Champions shoot takes place on Sunday from 4-6 PM, so come out and participate or to watch the other young shooters. And, of course, shooters of any age may shoot the War Point shoots daily starting on Sunday (except for Wednesday).
If you have been here at Pennsic and missed the Olympics, you may not have heard that NBC has stated that archery was its most popular event to view over the first few days—and Olympians shoot recurve bows not too far removed from what you'll see on the range at Pennsic. This is a fabulous place to begin your archery adventure.


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|Smiley Genetic Engineering
|Jay Clark
|flip coins, coins, baby, genetics, genetic makeup, breeding, specifications, dominant, recessive, traits, heterogenous, homogenous, 1 Hour Total
|Grade Level
|1 Hour Total
|Brief Description
|Students flip coins to determine the genetic makeup of a baby smiley from mom and dad smilies. Next, the children "breed" their smilies to try and make a specific smiley.
|Lesson Objectives:
|– learn about dominant and recessive traits.
– learn about heterogeneous and homogeneous genetic makeup.
– learn about genetic engineering.
|Materials Needed:
|1 unique smiley for every student in class with genetic makeup.
key for genetic makeup
1 coin per student
Baby smiley worksheet
|Preparation and Set Up:
|Print out attached documents, or make your own.
|Lesson – 10 minutes Ask all brunettes to raise their hands Ask all blonds to raise their hands Why are there more brunettes? Brown hair is a dominant trait! explain how if you inherit a dominant gene, you will show that trait no matter what gene it's paired with. What are some other inherited traits? (have students see who has dominant and recessive traits) widows peak (dominant) hitchhikers thumb (recessive) rolling tongue (dominant) left thumb over right when hands are interlaced (left over right – dominant) attached/detached earlobes (detached – dominant) You inherit traits from your parents! which gene you inherit from each parent is just like a flip of a coin! Talk with students about genetic engineering- breeding to achieve favorable traits. This includes seedless fruit, large vegetables, and fast horses. Activity – 40 minutes Hand out a smiley and a coin to each student. With their partner, students should have a set of 'parent' smileys, and two coins. One trait at a time, students flip coins to determine which gene is passed on from the parent smiley. Heads means the first trait is passed, tails means the second trait is passed. Students fill out their 'baby smiley' worksheet to determine the genetic make up of the baby, and then draw the child in the box. activity phase two – if time permits Students draw a smiley using their favorite traits, and go around the room flipping coins with other smilies to try and 'breed' their favorite smiley. Students should keep track of how many generations it took them to arrive at their smiley.
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Train Broadly. Write Specifically.I get one question repeatedly from new medical writers wanting to be trained. They are often not sure of what direction they want to take, so they ask: "Should I take a lot of medical writing courses and learn everything, or should I specialize in a specific type of medical writing?" It's really two questions, and let me separate them for you.
The first question is, "What kind of training should I take?" The second question is, "Should I be a specialist or generalist?" Both are good questions, and they are two questions, not one.
My simple and I hope memorable advice is: Train Broadly, Write Specifically.
When employers or companies look for medical writers, they typically want someone for a specific job, or a specific type of medical writing. They like to hire and work with specialists - people who know the particular field, who are familiar with the literature and practice around specific ailments, populations, pharmaceuticals, or devices. Everyone wants someone who knows what they are talking about, in order to get the most bang for the buck out of an author.
So, when you are presenting yourself for work, it's best to be the specialist who really knows what they are talking about.
Now, of course you can have specialties in a number of different areas. It's good to do that. That way you can have broader appeal to potential employers or buyers of your content. But they are only interested in the specialty relevant to THEM. Present yourself through your payer's eyes. Be the specialist THEY want.
Now, with regard to training, think about training broadly. There are about 7 different kinds of medical writing:
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Grant Writing
Scientific Journal Writing
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Continuing Medical Education (CME) Writing
You can be well known in one or two kinds. But you should train broadly. That means Abstract and Poster Writing, and Biostatistics and Epidemiology skills are broadly applicable to Consumer Health Writing, Scientific Journal Writing, CME Writing, and Regulatory Writing.
And Scientific Journal Writing, Regulatory Writing and CME Writing require similar discipline in gathering evidence, performing analysis, drawing conclusions, and making recommendations. So, when you think of getting trained, train broadly, consider packages of Medical Writing Training.
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Securing a Wireless Network on Your Laptop
If you set up a wireless network on your laptop, you need to make it secure. You don't want anyone within reach of your wireless signal to be able to use the network, or worse, eavesdrop on the electronic information that passes between devices. Even worse: If you've enabled "sharing" of files or folders, an outsider who gets through the electronic front door may be able to get into the data on the disks of any machine on the network.
The most commonly offered security options follow:
Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP). To sign on to a network that uses WEP, you need to know the WEP key, usually a numerical password. Most routers offer a choice between 64-bit and 128-bit encryption. WEP 64-bit codes are ten digits or letters in length, while more secure 128-bit numbers require 26 digits. Follow the instructions offered by the router maker to enter and verify a key.
WiFi Protected Access (WPA). A newer and more robust form of security, WPA is considered by many experts to be an improvement on WEP. WPA2, the latest implementation, is included with Windows Vista and Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed.
Media Access Control (MAC). This system functions as if you were issuing keys only to a specified and pre-identified group of users. A router based on MAC does not use a password to authenticate users but instead compares the address it finds within each computer's network interface card to see if it is on the authorized list of users for your network. If you add a new machine or want to grant a visitor access to your network you will have to sign on to the configuration screen of your router and add a new MAC address to the list.


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As America looks back on this 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the war in Iraq looms large — and usually not in a good way. At best, it's regarded as a distraction, a needless conflict that took America's focus away from Afghanistan and al-Qaeda. At worst, the Iraq war is decried as a fiasco, the United States' "greatest strategic disaster," as retired Gen. William Odom, the former National Security Agency director, once put it.
There is no question that Iraq, as it stands today, has fallen short of American — and Iraqi — hopes and expectations. And there is no question that the costs of the war, for both sides, have been greater than anticipated. Even so, Iraq's achievements — including the establishment of representative institutions against all odds — are hardly minor. The country could still become mired in a civil conflict that destabilizes the region. But it is equally or even more conceivable that, with relatively small amounts of continued U.S. support, the greatest strategic benefits of the Iraq intervention will materialize in the next several years. And these benefits would more than justify an ongoing U.S. military presence there.
This belief about Iraq's strategic potential is not based on the naivete that underpinned many optimistic assessments before the war, and it is rooted in firmer ground than the desperate hopes of someone, like me, who has devoted much of the past decade to U.S. efforts in Iraq. While by no means inevitable, there are at least three ways in which Iraq has only just begun to show its strategic value.
First, Iraq can offer a great deal toward ensuring that the nascent transitions from dictatorships to more accountable governance in the region succeed over the long term. Egyptians, Tunisians, Libyans — and perhaps eventually Syrians and Yemenis — have an advantage over Iraqis in the sense that they carry none of the baggage that comes with having a regime removed by the armed forces of an external power. But they will face many of the same challenges tackled by the Iraqis over the past eight years: how to hold members of the former regime accountable without stripping society of the expertise needed to rebuild the country; how to manage a political transition amid competing pressures for both quick results and inclusive processes; and how to deal with elements of the former regime determined to unseat the new order.
For sure, Iraqis — and we Americans — did not meet these challenges without mistakes and missteps. But Iraq's lessons can help other countries of the Arab world make smoother, more successful transitions. Even before the Arab Spring, Arab intellectuals had begun looking to Iraq's experience to gain insights into their own challenges.
Second, Iraq, perhaps paradoxically, is now one of the Middle Eastern countries best positioned to maintain ties with the West and with the United States in particular — no small matter in a region where U.S. strategic allies have almost literally disappeared overnight. The eight years since the ouster of Saddam Hussein have been traumatic both to Iraqis and Americans. But at the same time, the shared experience has built relationships and sympathies between the two populations that run deep. Even Americans who lament the U.S. intervention in Iraq must realize that their country made a large investment there and that there are benefits to some sort of ongoing relationship.
The Iraqi view of the United States is more complex. Even while there is real resentment, in private many Iraqi officials recognize that a continued relationship is important to the future stability and prosperity of their country. This mutual understanding is enshrined in the Strategic Framework Agreement of 2008, which pledges robust, nonmilitary cooperation between the two nations for the long term. A close U.S.-Iraqi relationship may be an important asset as other countries in the region draw further away from the United States, rejecting the policies of their former authoritarian, but pro-American, regimes.
Finally, and most compelling, there is the role that Iraq may play in averting a major global energy crisis in the coming years. The world economic recession eased pressure on global oil supplies and provided relief from the climbing energy prices of 2007 and 2008. But a quiet trend of 2010 was that growth in global oil consumption grew at the second-fastest rate ever, 2.8 percent, while growth in global crude oil production lagged behind at 2.5 percent. If demand continues to outgrow supply, it will be only a few short years before global spare capacity of oil — one of the indicators most closely tied to prices — gets dangerously low, and jittery markets push prices up and up. Assuming the world escapes another dip in economic growth, this outcome would probably materialize even without any additional geopolitical hiccups, such as political unrest in Saudi Arabia or a military confrontation with Iran.
Iraq is one of a very small number of countries that could bring oil online fast enough to help the world meet this growing demand at a reasonable price. In fact, major energy institutions and international oil companies are already assuming that Iraq will significantly increase its oil production in the coming decade. The International Energy Agency expects Iraq to nearly double its production in the next decade, from roughly 2.5 million barrels per day to 4.8 million barrels per day; BP's 2030 global assessments are based on similar assumptions.
Such assessments are not pie in the sky. Yes, the claims made in 2003 that Iraq would pay for its own reconstruction with oil turned out to be woefully inaccurate; the country struggled to maintain its production in the face of decrepit infrastructure and a determined insurgency for nearly six years after the invasion. But in the past two years, Iraq has made impressive, if incomplete, progress in developing its vast oil resources. It has signed 11contracts with international oil companies geared toward increasing production more than four-fold to over 12 million barrels a day — more than Saudi Arabia produces today. Few analysts expect Iraq to reach these levels, because of infrastructure bottlenecks and political obstacles. But most still expect a significant increase in production, and they acknowledge that without it, the global economy could be in trouble.
If lessons from Iraq's difficult experience help stabilize the region, if Iraq remains one of a rapidly dwindling number of Arab countries willing to cooperate with the United States publicly and privately, and if the development of Iraq's oil resources help the world avoid another energy crisis, some may recalculate the strategic ledger on the U.S. intervention in Iraq.
These potential strategic contributions make a compelling case for maintaining support for Iraq at a time when most Americans are more than ready to let the Iraqis sink or swim on their own. Iraq no longer needs the enormous volumes of U.S. financial, political and military assistance of the previous eight years. But, as a fragile state whose institutions are still vulnerable, Iraq could benefit greatly from a relatively small, continued investment of resources and time.
While the military component of this investment need not be large, it is critical to shoring up Iraq's nascent armed forces against extremist threats. And in demonstrating America's continued interest in Iraq's trajectory, this assistance would buttress Iraq's political and security institutions.
The Obama administration and Iraqi leaders are grappling with the question of whether all U.S. forces will leave Iraq by the end of 2011, as stipulated in the current bilateral security agreement. The alternative is a different legal arrangement for a small number of U.S. troops — perhaps 10,000 — to stay and help Iraq's security forces train and deal with challenges that they still cannot adequately address on their own.
Recent news reports suggest that the Obama administration has already decided to limit the number of American troops it would keep in Iraq to as few as 3,000. This is disheartening on several levels. First, troop numbers should come out of negotiations with the Iraqis over the necessary missions — not as a fiat from Washington based on domestic politics. Second, it is not clear what such a small force could accomplish while still protecting itself. And finally, it calls into question whether the Obama administration really understands the opportunities and imperatives it is presented with in Iraq.
Meghan O'Sullivan served as President George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007. She is now the Jeane Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs at Harvard University and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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