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The surprising advances by jihadists in northern and western Iraq have produced at least one unsurprising result: accusations that President Obama's "abandonment" of Iraq is responsible for the catastrophe. Critics have launched a two-pronged attack on the administration's Iraq policy: They blame Obama for being unwilling or unable to reach a deal with Baghdad to leave U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline for withdrawal established by the Bush administration; and they assert that such a residual presence would have proved decisive in heading off the current calamity. Neither criticism withstands much scrutiny.
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As the senior Pentagon official responsible for Iraq policy during the first three years of the Obama administration, I had a front-row seat for the internal deliberations over how to end the war. Through the first half of 2011, there was a vigorous debate within the administration about whether U.S. forces should remain in Iraq beyond December, and if so, in what numbers and with what missions. Ultimately, at great political risk, President Obama approved negotiations with the Iraqi government to allow a force of around 5,000 American troops to stay in Iraq to provide counterterrorism support and air cover and to train the Iraqi army. But, as commander in chief, he was unwilling to strand U.S. forces in a hostile, anti-American environment without the legal protections and immunities required to ensure soldiers didn't end up in Iraqi jails. These protections, which are common in nearly every country where U.S. forces operate, were guaranteed under the 2008 status of forces agreement negotiated by the Bush administration; Obama simply demanded that they continue under any follow-on accord.
Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, told U.S. negotiators that he was willing to sign an executive memorandum of understanding that included these legal protections. But for any agreement to be binding under the Iraqi constitution, it had to be approved by the Iraqi parliament. This was the judgment of every senior administration lawyer and Maliki's own legal adviser, and no senior U.S. military commander made the case that we should leave forces behind without these protections. Even Sen. John McCain, perhaps the administration's harshest Iraq critic, admitted in a December 2011 speech discussing the withdrawal that the president's demand for binding legal immunities "was a matter of vital importance." Moreover, because the 2008 security agreement had been approved by the Iraqi parliament, it seemed both unrealistic and politically unsustainable to apply a lower standard this time around.
Unfortunately, Iraqi domestic politics made it impossible to reach a deal. Iraqi public opinion surveys consistently showed that the U.S. military presence was deeply unpopular (only in Iraqi Kurdistan did a majority of people want American G.I.s to stay). Maliki was willing to consider going to parliament to approve a follow-on agreement, but he was not willing to stick his neck out. Other political factions would have to support the move, and the support wasn't there. The Sadrists, a populist Shia movement that was now a major bloc in the parliament, were dead set against U.S. troops remaining. Ayad Allawi and Sunni politicians aligned with the Iraqiyya coalition supported a continued U.S. presence, but they knew that most of their Sunni constituents did not. They also wanted to condition their support on Maliki agreeing to additional political concessions. The Kurds were more active in their advocacy for a follow-on agreement, but they could not convince others to go along. So when Iraq's major political bloc leaders met in early October 2011 in an all-night session, they agreed on the need for continued U.S. "trainers" but said they were unwilling to seek immunities for these troops through the parliament. The die was thus cast. Obama and Maliki spoke on Oct. 21 and agreed that U.S. forces would depart as scheduled by the end of the year.
Some critics assert that the administration was unwilling to offer enough forces to make it worth the Iraqis' while. But it is not clear Maliki wanted that many troops. Indeed, he was conscious of the extreme unpopularity of a continued U.S. presence among his Shia base, and he had no interest in a sizable U.S. contingent along the Arab-Kurd divide, which is what all of our military's troop options above the 10,000-man threshold assumed. These disputed boundary areas include Kirkuk as well as parts of Nineveh province north of Mosul and portions of Diyala province—precisely where jihadists are making inroads today.
Others claim the administration spent more time negotiating with itself than it did trying to get a deal from the Iraqis. Perhaps. But, in the end, the immunities issue would likely not have been resolved even if the administration had started negotiations earlier and offered more. There was little the administration could have offered or threatened to change their calculations. It was simply too toxic, politically, for Iraqi politicians to accept.


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(Reuters) - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck outside Los Angeles on Monday, the United States Geological Survey reported.
The quake, initially registered as a 4.7, was centered about 6 miles north-northwest of Westwood, California, and occurred at about 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time.
Local press reports said the quake was felt across the municipal area but there were no immediate reports of significant damage.
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A House of Representatives committee Thursday sharply criticized what it described as a lack of cooperation and transparency by the Department of Veterans Affairs that has made it difficult for Congress to adequately investigate delays and deaths at VA hospitals.
At a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing, lawmakers expressed their frustration with the VA, saying it had failed to submit hearing testimony in a timely manner and was slow to respond to requests for information.
The committee has 70 such requests pending with the VA, some of which are more than a year old, according to Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla.
Miller expressed particular concern about pending requests related to committee investigations into safety issues at VA facilities, including a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System facility.
"Given that five veterans are dead as a result of the outbreak, which VA's own inspector general attributed to VA mismanagement, the committee is engaged in an investigation into this matter to determine what went wrong and ensure it never happens again," Miller said. "Unfortunately, we haven't seen a similar sense of urgency from VA to help us with our investigative efforts."
The committee sent its request for emails and documents related to the Legionnaire's disease outbreak Jan. 18 but hasn't received the information, Miller said.
Joan Mooney, the VA's assistant secretary for congressional and legislative affairs, told the committee the VA is working to respond to all congressional requests but that the volume and scope of the requests contributes to a lengthier processing time.
During the past three fiscal years and through August this year, she said, her office has responded to more than 80,000 congressional requests. "Unfortunately, sometimes the sheer volume of work that we receive impedes our ability to provide answers in a timely way," Mooney said.
Miller responded that Mooney's office had received a 41 percent increase in budget authority and a 40 percent increase in staff since 2009.
"Resources have been provided, yet frustration persists on a bipartisan and a bicameral basis," Miller said.
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., was particularly interested in a report that detailed delays in diagnoses and treatment at VA facilities in Columbia, S.C., and Augusta, Ga.
Mismanagement of the Columbia VA medical center's gastroenterology program caused delays that left a backlog of nearly 4,000 patients waiting to be examined at one point in 2011, according to a report this month by the VA's inspector general.
Concern about the backlog at the Columbia facility surfaced in 2009. Since then, at least 280 patients have been diagnosed with malignancies, 52 of which were associated with the delay in treatment, according to the report.
Coffman said he had asked a top VA health system official at a hearing in March about the delays in Columbia and Augusta.
"Nothing to date has been received," Coffman said.
Mooney said she would look into the request.
Unsatisfied with her response, Coffman said Mooney was "engaging in the systematic cover-up on information that is embarrassing to the VA about the mistreatment of the veterans who served this country."
Miller also asked Mooney to rate the VA's performance in submitting hearing testimony punctually — 48 hours before the hearing — and responding to requests in a timely manner.
"Mr. Chairman, I would rate us at a B-minus, C-plus overall, for the past three and a half years," Mooney said.
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I'd give up career, Kidman says
Nicole Kidman has said she would give up her Hollywood career if her husband asked her to.
The actress, who won an Oscar in 2003 for her performance in The Hours, said she would not have taken on her latest role as Grace Kelly in the biopic of the filmstar-turned-princess's life if Keith Urban had asked her not to.
She told the Mail on Sunday: "If he said no, I wouldn't have done it. That's how we are.
"I know this sounds old-fashioned but I do put it on the table. Because if it won't work for us, then I'm not doing it."
Asked if she would ever choose between her family and her career, the 46-year-old said: "Yeah, if he asked me. No question."
Kidman, who wed country music star Urban in 2006 following a 10-year marriage to movie star Tom Cruise, also said she found she had more in common with Kelly than she thought.
Grace Of Monaco, which stars Kidman as the American actress and Tim Roth as her husband Prince Rainier, has been almost universally slammed by critics after it opened the Cannes Film Festival this week.
"A lot of the struggles that she had, I've had," she told the paper.
"Not in terms of being a princess, but the gilded cage and motherhood versus career versus responsibility versus the desire to put good in the world.
"All of those struggles and the desire to keep a marriage together. All of those things are very relevant to me. She is very human in her desires and that is what surprised me in the script."
The film caused controversy before it was screened with rumours of behind-the-scenes clashes and condemnation from the royal family in Monaco, with Kidman saying she now regrets turning down the chance to meet them.
"Now, subsequently, I wish I would have gone, because I would have been able to explain to them the intentions," she said.
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Within half a year, Harlem mother Mary Black went from not even knowing what a â€stop-and-frisk' was to headlining protests against it. She quickly learned that in her neighborhood, snitching on police cleared a crowded room, fast.
Beginning last June, police stopped Black's 16-year-old son three times in six months. The stops resulted in disorderly conduct summonses, all of which the court dismissed. But the pattern worried Black. Double-checking the whereabouts of her youngest child, knowing the parents of his friends—these methods helped her to successfully raise her first two. But these stop-and frisk-incidents added an unexpected chapter to her already dog-eared parenting handbook. They required interactions with the criminal justice system that Black had not anticipated. Her son did not have a record but each stop increased her fear that soon, he would.
Then in December, during a fourth stop, police arrested Black's son outside their apartment building on 137th street. Alerted by a neighbor who rang her buzzer, Black flew down four flights of stairs in a house robe, socks and not much else. After tears and pleas, Black says she left the precinct that night with her son, another pink summons for disorderly conduct and a determination to defend not just her son but everyone else's too.
For her first rally, planned with the Stop Stop and Frisk Campaign, Black says she distributed over 750 flyers throughout her neighborhood expecting about 100 to attend and share their own stop-and-frisk stories. Fifteen people came.
"That's the saddest part," Black says. "Everybody knows stop-and-frisk is an injustice but it's like you're fighting by yourself."
Black is learning first-hand the challenge facing the city's revitalized but fragmented police reform movement as it looks to influence the 2013 elections: mobilizing ordinary New Yorkers to speak out against the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk practice.
Just the Facts
Actually, nine out of every 10 stops are innocent. Of the 3 million stops conducted between 2004 and 2009, about 4,200 yielded guns, or, a seizure rate of 1.5 guns for every 1,000 stops, according to Columbia University professor Jeffrey Fagan. The NYPD hasn't yet released last year's tally but 2010 saw more than 600,000 reported stops, a 500 percent increase since 2002, the year that the mandatory reporting law from a compromise deal between former mayor Rudy Giuliani and city council took effect.
And even though the vast majority of innocent stops occur in black and Latino neighborhoods, interviews reveal a reticence on the part of ordinary New Yorkers to publicly speak out against the practice that NYPD has long credited with getting guns off the street and helping to reduce crime. Their reasons run the gamut from agreeing to fear of retaliation from local police. All point, however, to the corrosive effect of a citywide culture that allows for only two positions, pro- or anti-police, and no middle ground.
Looking for Middle Ground
At a recent Saturday afternoon rally to address, according to the event's flyer, "gun running; planting drugs; stop, question and frisk; and racist Facebook posts,"--all recent incidents involving officers as perpetrators--lead organizer and council member Jumaane Williams began with an apparently necessary preface:
"This is not an anti-NYPD rally. This is a pro-better policing and safer streets rally," said Williams to the roughly 80-person, multi-generational crowd that had gathered under the arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Many were community activists from throughout the city but also because of location, on-lookers included runners and shoppers at the weekly farmer's market.
"We can have those conversations,"--Williams had just led the crowd in a round of applause and praise for NYPD, including officers on scene--"and still want our police officers to be accountable."
Disclaimers denote however that the forthcoming statement will not be the status quo.
"The police has been very successful at painting critics as either pro- or anti-police," says Alex Vitale, associate professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and expert in community policing.
"There's no room for positive constructive criticism so that even those politicians who speak out, feel the need to do a ton of handholding and reassuring--and this [from] an African-American man who's been subjected personally to these policies."
The Stigma
In a climate that pressures Williams, an elected official with no history of militancy, to sugar coat criticism of NYPD, staying silent on stop-and-frisk is not an unreasonable option for everyday black and Latino New Yorkers. Unlike Williams' West Indian Day Parade incident, their police encounters will not be filmed or shown on the evening news.
"They're afraid," says Black, explaining why private support from friends and neighbors does not translate into bodies on the street. Her own family worries that because of her newfound activism police may target her son.
Lumumba Bandele is a senior organizer with the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund and member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement he has participated in anti-police brutality campaigns since the mid-1990s.
Bandele frames residents' decisions about whether to address stop-and-frisk abuses in their neighborhoods as a choice between the lesser of two evils: "Do I want to be attacked by the police or by my people? Who will do me the least harm?"
Foot traffic, he says, bears towards the latter direction.
Community Needs
But while some community members stay silent out of a fear of police, others stay silent out of a fear of criminals. Stop-and-frisk, they say, helps to keep them safe.
"We assumed that white people on the other side of town had been calling for larger police presence when in truth it has been our grandmothers," says Bandele, whose coming of age in Bedford-Stuyvesant included so many stops he says he lost count.
Repeating Bandele's experience as a younger man on another generation is, for some New Yorkers living in high-crime areas, an acceptable casualty in the war against drugs and violence.
"Most of the more established members of these communities, like homeowners, religious leaders and community board members," Vitale says, "are often more concerned about crime than civil liberties violations."
Looking For Middle Ground
However, some local leaders are reassessing the cost of silence. Brooklyn's Community Board 17 co-sponsored Williams' police accountability rally. Manhattan's Community Board 10 recently voted 25-7 in favor of a resolution initiated by the borough president, calling on NYPD to reform stop-and-frisk.
"A lot more parents and seniors are approaching me for help getting their son or grandson out of the grip of police," says Andre Mitchell, founder and chief executive officer of Man Up, Inc!, a multi-service community center in East New York.
"They asked for more police but not with the understanding that stop-and-frisk would target any and everybody."
Mitchell works both sides. He partners with police to help curb gang violence and runs workshops for youth seeking ways to handle being stopped by them. A frequent mediator, he blames stop-and-frisk for aggravating his efforts.
"I try to close the divisions but it doesn't help when police stop people for no reason at all," he says--like, loitering, crossing the park after dusk, sitting in the park, riding a bike on the sidewalk. Then again, he adds, even officers who admit to him that they disagree with the policy must follow their orders.
"Change is going to have to start at the top," Mitchell says, "with the mayor."
Reached for comment on whether, as councilman Williams' charges, stop-and-frisk is a problem, the mayor's press office referred the matter to NYPD.
Inside Manhattan Criminal Court last Tuesday, Mary Black finally exhaled. The arraignment judge hearing evidence in her son's disorderly conduct case indicated that telling a police officer, "I don't give a fuck," is insufficient justification for an arrest. A trial has been set for March.
"I feel a lot better," Black says.


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Washington DC Nano News - Is Your Summer Break Over?
authored by Margaret Glass, ASTC
Congress's almost is. And that means a possible decision on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendment Act of 2008. Want a refresher on where this Act stands, and what has to happen for reauthorization?
The NNI Amendment Act passed in the House on June 5 with a robust 407-6 vote. On July 16, it was introduced in the Senate, read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The Senate version of the NNI Act, S. 3274, has not progressed nearly as fast as anticipated. The Act was scheduled for markup in a timely fashion - the committee announced on July 24 that it would be considered in an Executive Session on July 31. But the process was preempted on July 29, when Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK and Vice Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee) was indicted on charges that he lied about gifts from an oil company on a Senate disclosure form. His arraignment before a federal grand jury took place on July 31 - instead of the scheduled markup. As required by Senate rules, Stevens has stepped down from the vice chairmanship of this and other committees while his case is pending. You can read more details about the corruption case in Alaskan politics here. So the House and the Senate both took off for summer recess (and the Democratic and Republican Party Conventions) without further action. The Senate is back as of Sept. 2 for a pro forma session only; work will supposedly begin on Sept. 8. The House also reconvenes on Sept. 8. Fall recess for the House is anticipated to begin on Sept. 26; no recess date is published yet for the Senate. It's probably safe to assume that legislators from both houses who are facing elections will want some campaign time before November. That doesn't leave a big window to get the NNI Amendment Act to the president's desk for signature. Because the Senate version contains some differences from its House counterpart, a Conference Committee may have to meet to resolve any differences, and a final version will have to go back to both houses for approval before it finally lands in the White House. Meanwhile, industry rolls on, products come on the market, and regulatory decisions are postponed – or are they? Next week, I'm going to public meeting held by the FDA to "consider developing guidelines" recommended by a Nanotechnology Task Force Report from 2007. Since FDA jurisdiction covers many items with which consumers are likely to have direct contact (like foods and food additives, cosmetics, dietary supplements, animal drugs and feeds, human drugs and biologics, and medical devices), this promises to be interesting. Stay tuned!


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Yay! London was today named best European city for shopping in the Globe Shopper City Index. Beating off stiff competition from the likes of Paris, Milan and Barcelona, London has come in as the number one destination choice for those of you who love to shop!
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10 unusual facts about shopping in Britain:
- London's Oxford Street is the busiest shopping street in Europe.
- London's Selfridges is home to the largest shoe department in the world!
- The Northern Quarter shopping district in Manchester is on a tentative list of nominated sites for UNESCO World Heritage Site Status.
- It takes over 12,000 light bulbs to illuminate the famous facade of Harrods department store in London! (pictured above)
- The small village of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is home to 40 second-hand bookshops and the largest collection of antique books in Europe.
- A number of shops around Wales stock Clogau Gold, which comes from Snowdonia and one of the rarest in the world. Will and Kate's royal wedding rings are made from Clogau Gold.
- The design of Birmingham's iconic Selfridges chain-mail building was inspired by the metal fabrics devised by fashion designer Paco Rabanne (pictured below).
- The new Liverpool ONE shopping and leisure complex is the largest open-air shopping centre in the UK and 10th largest in the world.
- Glasgow in Scotland is home to the famous Style Mile and is considered Britain's second most important shopping city after London.
- The new Westfield shopping centre in Stratford (East London) near the Olympic Park is home to around 300 shops – that's the same as the entire length of Oxford Street under one roof!
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Thinking about the things that I like about Google or about library databases in comparison with each other after my last post, I realized that library databases need crazy-easy URLs. I don't click through 2 or 3 layers of a website to get to Google. I type "goo" into my address bar, which fills in the rest, which takes me to Google. If I could type "MLA" into the address bar and get to even something as complicated as "MLAbib.csa.com," life would be easier. Sure beats my current option:
If I could also set a cookie that would authenticate me from my own home computer, life would be even easier.
Still need to work on the seamless access to full text part of the equation, though.


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Chyler Leigh Issues Statement on Grey's Anatomy ExitMatt Richenthal at .
According to TV Fanatics, it was the most heartbreaking season finale death of them all. By far.
And now Chyler Leigh has spoken out for the first time about her emotional exit, which took place on the Grey's Anatomy Season 8 finale and still has fans reeling.
"Earlier this year, I made the decision that season eight would be my last on Grey's Anatomy," the actress said in a statement released to multiple media outlets.
"I met with Shonda and we worked together to give Lexie's story appropriate closure. I am very lucky to have worked with this amazing cast and crew for five seasons. My experience on Grey's Anatomy is something that I will treasure for the rest of my life. I want to take this time to say thank you to the fans. Your unconditional love and support have made these last five years very special for me. I look forward to my next chapter and I hope you will continue to follow me on my journey."
Leigh's words echo those of Rhimes, who Tweeted not long after the finale aired:
"I love Chyler and I love the character of Lexie Grey. She was an important member of my Grey's family. This was not an easy decision.
"But it was a decision that Chyler and I came to together. We had a lot of thoughtful discussion about it and ultimately we both decided this was the right time for her character's journey to end. As far as I'm concerned Chyler will always remain a part of the Shondaland family and I can't wait to work with her again in the future."
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Please check the status of this specification in Launchpad before editing it. If it is Approved, contact the Assignee or another knowledgeable person before making changes.
Launchpad entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/upstart/+spec/job-event-expressions
Upstart currently allows jobs to define a list of events that can cause it to be started and stopped, where any single one of these events changes the goal. This specification proposes the replacement of this simple behaviour with the ability to construct more complex expressions for the set of events that start the job and set that stop it, and the job changes necessary as a result of this.
A simple list of possible events is sufficient for starting tasks that deal with just that event, however it is not sufficient for more complicated scenarios where multiple events may be required.
Use cases
- A job needs to be started when two different events both occur, in any order.
- A job needs to be stopped when either of two different events occur.
This scope of this specification is limited to changes to job handling to allow for event expressions to start and stop the job, rather than a list of any given events. Since this changes the fundamental assertion that there is only one "cause" of a goal change, the scope includes the changes necessary to allow for multiple "cause"s.
Complex periods of events are not defined by this specification, instead this specification allows a job to define one single period between expressions. The ability to define and use multiple periods will be defined by the ["States"] specification.
Both start on and stop on are changed to accept an event expression, rather than a single event.
Only one event expression is permitted for each of start on and stop on, repeating the stanza will override the previously defined expression.
- An expression is an infix boolean combination of events, parsed into an operator tree for evaluation.
- The permitted operators are as follows, in order of precedence.
or, and: unary boolean operators
(...): sub-expression grouping
- Non-operator tokens, including the quoting of operators, are treated as event names or arguments to events.
start on started dbus and started gdm stop on stopping dbus or stopping gdm
start on (started dbus and started g-p-m) or started ctld
- Within parentheses, newlines are treated as whitespace (Python-esque).
start on ((started dbus and started g-p-m) or started ctld)
- The expression, or sub-expressions within parentheses, must begin and end with an event, it is a syntax error for it to begin or end with a unary operator.
- Parentheses may only follow an operator, it is a syntax error for them to follow an event.
Each node in the parsed tree represents an event operator (or or and) or an event match.
Each node has a boolean value that is initially set to FALSE.
The value of an event match node is set to TRUE if a matching event occurs.
- The value of an event operator node is set according to the values of its children.
- When an event occurs, each node in the tree is checked, and the value changed if the event matches. Each parent node is then updated to the new value.
The goal of the job is only changed if the event matched and the value root node of the tree is now TRUE.
The start on expression sets the goal to start.
The stop on expression sets the goal to stop.
- The stop expression tree is updated before the start expression tree, so that the same event appearing in both trees will cause a restart, rather than strange behaviour.
The event that was matched is stored in the event match node, and referenced by it; they are also initially blocked. This replaces the previous cause member.
- When a job reaches the expected state (defined by being a task or a service), the start expression tree is unblocked, but the events remain referenced to supply environment.
- When a job reaches the stopped/waiting state, both the start and stop expression trees are unblocked and reset so that no references or blockers are held on the events.
- Spawning a new instance copies the start expression tree to the instance, including the information about matched events along with references and blocks to that event. The master instance is then reset, so that the expression of events must happen again for a new instance to be spawned.
If a job fails to reach its goal, all appropriate blocked events are marked as failed. Nodes with a FALSE value, and children of those nodes, are not considered since they have not caused the job to fail.
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Job processes will no longer receive the UPSTART_EVENT environment variable, since there are now multiple likely events.
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- Job script processes will no longer receive the positional arguments of the events, since there is no particularly logical order or construction for them.
Job script processes will instead receive the names of the events in the UPSTART_EVENTS environment variable. Jobs can then know what to expect in their environment.
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Data preservation and migration
These changes are not entirely backwards compatible with the previous behaviour, since multiple start on and stop on stanzas have previously appended to the list of events and must now be changed to a single stanza with repeated use of the or operator.
At this phase of Upstart development, it is acceptable for job authors to be required to change their jobs.
Unresolved issues
- Should we use different stanza names?
from started dbus and started gdm until stopping dbus or stopping gdm
The events in the stop on tree should be able to reference environment variables from the events in the start on tree; this will likely be added by another spec.
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CINCINNATI -- There's no shortage of blame for why the Angels fell short of their lofty expectations in 2012. You can point to an offense that inexplicably navigated through April with the second-fewest runs per game in the American League. You can look at the rotation, which posted a 5.50 ERA in a 36-game stretch to start the second half.
But in the end, there's this: 22 blown saves, tied with the Red Sox (the 26-games-out-of-first-place Red Sox) for most in the AL. Shave five off that total, which still puts them in the middle of the pack, and the Halos are probably a playoff team.
Yes, it's shortsighted, perhaps even unfair, to pin their shortcomings on one department -- the one area that universally gets lots of blame and little praise. But nothing is more crippling to a team than losing a game in the final inning. And down the stretch last year, as they were looking to gain ground on teams that simply wouldn't lose, a lack of options in the back end ultimately doomed the Angels' season.
It's why general manager Jerry Dipoto, a former reliever himself, made improving the bullpen his biggest priority of the offseason.
It's why he'll vehemently say that right now, even with Ryan Madson plateauing in the final stage of his 12-month rehab, they're better.
"Put that crew last year up against this year's," Dipoto said, "and just on sheer talent and ability and recent track record, yeah, we're in a better position."
Last year, each of the teams that boasted the top five bullpen ERAs (the Reds, Braves, Rays, A's and Orioles) won at least 90 games. Ditto for five of the six that blew the fewest saves (the Rays, Rangers, Yankees, Braves and Giants).
The Halos are headlined by three superstars in their lineup and boast one of baseball's best starting pitchers. But it's their bullpen depth that can ease the concerns of a perceivably flimsy rotation and will play a big part in how 2013 plays out.
And if Opening Day was any indication -- when six relievers held the Reds to one hit and no runs through seven frames of a 3-1 victory in 13 innings -- perhaps they've taken big steps forward.
This year, they'll have a full year of Ernesto Frieri, who posted a 2.36 ERA and went 23-for-26 in saves after coming over from the Padres last May. They have a seemingly improved Kevin Jepsen, the 28-year-old who posted a 1.67 ERA in his last 40 games. They still have Scott Downs, who has compiled a 2.30 ERA and 1.15 WHIP over the last six years. They have Garrett Richards and Jerome Williams, who started the season competing for the fifth spot in the rotation, exclusively as relievers.
And they've added Sean Burnett, arguably the best free-agent lefty this past offseason, and Mark Lowe, who compiled a 3.63 ERA in 84 1/3 innings with Texas the last two years.
"I love our bullpen," Jepsen said. "We have a bunch of great guys and a lot of good arms in there. A lot of guys with experience who have done it in the big leagues for a long time, have a good resume. I think we're going to have a great group."
These first few weeks are going to be crucial for manager Mike Scioscia to establish some set roles. That's always the preference, for managers and relievers, but not always the reality. Last year, it wasn't until deep into May when things started to materialize in the back of Scioscia's 'pen.
This year, though, he may have more options.
In Downs and Burnett, Scioscia has two veteran ground-ball-inducing lefties with sparkling track records. In Jepsen and Lowe, he has two power arms. In Richards, Scioscia has a wild card capable of pitching multiple innings or, with his explosive stuff, holding a late lead. And in Frieri, he has a reliable ninth-inning man.
"This year, even with Ryan Madson not quite in the fold, we're in a much better position starting off the season than we were last year," Scioscia said. "Last year, obviously, Ernie wasn't with us starting the season off, Jordan Walden didn't really throw the ball to his capability -- there were a lot more question marks last year. Hopefully this will be something that helps us get off to a better start, the fact that we have some depth in our 'pen."
Here's something that can throw all that out the window: The seven relievers that entered the season last year were statistically better than the new seven.
Walden, Jepsen, Downs, LaTroy Hawkins, Jason Isringhausen, Hisanori Takahashi and Rich Thompson came into the 2012 season on the heels of combining for a 3.06 ERA in 344 innings the previous campaign. Jepsen, Downs, Frieri, Burnett, Lowe, Richards and Williams, meanwhile, head into 2013 after posting a 3.61 ERA in 461 innings the previous season.
But Hawkins, Isringhausen and Takahashi were nearing the end of their careers, while Richards, Burnett and Frieri are basically in their primes.
And then, don't forget, there's Madson.
The Angels still don't know when he'll appear in his first game since Tommy John surgery, but he's in the final stages of his rehab -- "the last five percent," as Scioscia often says -- and could still be back by late April or early May.
"Frankly, I'm not sitting here putting a date on him," Dipoto said. "When Ryan's healthy, and he's completely and 100 percent back from his rehab, that's when we'll send him out there. We want Ryan Madson clicking on all cylinders."
When Madson is -- if he is -- this bullpen can go to a whole new level.


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– The Mount Sinai Medical Center has partnered with the March of Dimes Foundation to expand their Lifestyle Modification Program (LMP), a comprehensive educational program for underserved obese pregnant women to aid them in minimizing weight-gain throughout their pregnancies. The expansion is a result of a Mount Sinai study, published in the May issue of American Journal of Perinatology, showing that education and counseling reduces weight gain during pregnancy by about half.
An estimated 23.6 percent of women aged 18 to 44 in the United States were obese in 2007, compared to just 14.5 percent in 1997, according to the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control. Obesity has been linked to multiple medical problems during pregnancy, including hypertension, preemclampsia, and pregestational diabetes, as well as fetal risks including neonatal respiratory distress and preterm delivery.
"We are still combating the notion that a pregnant mother is 'eating for two,' and for already overweight women, this myth is dangerous," said Taraneh Shirazian, MD, Director of Global Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Principal Investigator of the LMP study.
For the study, researchers analyzed 41 pregnant women with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or greater over a two-year period. The study group, consisting of 21 women, received educational materials, a pedometer, and a diary to record food intake and walking completed. They also participated in seminars on healthy living, nutrition and exercise, followed by one-on-one counseling sessions and phone calls. Compared to the control group, women who participated in the LMP gained about half as much weight during pregnancy. Participants in both groups were selected based on similar BMI, age, ethnicity, and parity.
"Our study proved that education and encouragement are major motivating factors for controlling weight gain during pregnancy," said Dr. Shirazian who is also an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Member of the Board of Directors for Saving Mothers, a women's health organization dedicated to reducing maternal morbidity and mortality. "Since it was published, we've been able to increase services to more than 60 patients plus their friends and families who are welcome to attend seminars," she said. "We've also expanded our program to include offerings such as cooking and dance lessons and are working on creating educational web videos. Finally, thanks to the March of Dimes, we are able to provide our patients with take-home tools like a healthy eating cookbook, grocery store certificates, and a prenatal exercise video."
The research team at Mount Sinai, including Research Coordinators Jennifer Carleton-Nathan, Anna Starikovsky and Alana Griffith, encourages lifestyle changes that are easily accessible in New York City, such as frequenting grocery stores in walking distance, using community parks, free community pools, and green markets.
"Our goal is to give future mothers a chance to learn how to best take care of their bodies during this wonderful time in their lives and beyond. We introduce them to simple eating and exercise techniques that gently modify their habits to promote the health of both baby and mother," said Ms. Starikovsky. "We hope the proven success of our program leads to the replication of the LMP in other hospitals nationwide."
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Upton brothers decompress after big night
ATLANTA -- After B.J. Upton and Justin Upton hit ninth-inning home runs that provided the Braves a thrilling 6-5 win over the Cubs on Saturday night, they spent some time with their parents, who have been in Atlanta throughout the past week.
"They were happy," Justin Upton said. "But they looked exhausted more than anything else."
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Uptons became the fourth pair of brothers to hit home runs as teammates in the same inning. Hank Aaron and Tommie Aaron did it in similar fashion while playing for the Braves in 1962.
Trailing the Cardinals, 6-3, entering the bottom of the ninth, the Braves received a pinch-hit solo home run from Tommie Aaron. Hank capped the comeback with a walk-off grand slam later in the inning.
Justin Upton's walk-off home run on Saturday made him the first player in Major League history to hit five home runs through the first five games ever played for a new organization. The last player to hit five home runs through the first five games of a season was Detroit's Chris Shelton in 2006.


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Wild pitch leads to double trouble for Brewers
Lohse deals six innings in debut, Segura belts first career HR
MILWAUKEE -- In the positive column, there was a most encouraging outing for right-hander Kyle Lohse in his first Brewers start, and young shortstop Jean Segura's first Major League home run.
The rest went into the other column for 24,623 fans at Miller Park on a cold Friday night. They did not get to see left fielder Ryan Braun, who was scratched 45 minutes before the game with a neck so stiff he could not move his head in any direction by the end of the night. They saw cleanup hitter Aramis Ramirez exit in the fourth inning with a left knee sprain that Ramirez fears is worse than the one that sidelined him for two weeks in Spring Training. Then they saw the Brewers lose the game on one disastrously wild pitch.
Michael Gonzalez's misfire struck the umpire's mask and rolled far enough for two D-backs runners to score, snapping a seventh-inning tie and giving the Brewers a discouraging 3-1 loss.
"I don't know which one, but we got crossed up somewhere," manager Ron Roenicke said, referring to a missed signal between Gonzalez and catcher Jonathan Lucroy. "I don't know what happened."
"It was both of us," Gonzalez said. "I can't put too much thought into it. I'm going to get through this and get into a rhythm. It's going to get better."
For six innings, Lohse made it appear things were getting better for the Brewers, who were coming off a season-opening series against the Rockies in which none of the three starting pitchers made it through the sixth inning and the staff combined to surrender 41 hits -- a club record for the first three games of a season.
Lohse, fresh off a strange offseason that saw him pitching a simulated game against the Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes as late as March 22, provided some hope. He recorded five of his first six outs via strikeout and then settled in for four more efficient innings, working six innings in all and allowing one Arizona run on five hits with no walks.
After throwing 22 pitches in the first inning, Lohse threw 15 or fewer pitches in each of the next five frames and finished with 87 pitches, 61 strikes.
"We needed an outing like that tonight," Roenicke said.
After working around a two-out single by striking out the side in the first, Lohse told his teammates in the dugout, "Remember that, because I won't strike out the side too many more times this year."
"I didn't want my pitch count getting up there that high that early," Lohse said. "But we got it back down enough to go through six [innings]. That was good. I feel like everything I've done has worked up to now and I could have gone back out [for the seventh inning], but there's no sense in pushing it this early."
The only run against Lohse scored in the fourth inning, when Martin Prado led off with a double. Lohse retired No. 3 hitter Aaron Hill and cleanup man Miguel Montero, then worked to a 2-2 count to D-backs first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, who poked a low changeup on the outside corner into right field for a 1-0 D-backs' lead.
The Brewers answered in the bottom of the inning, when Segura connected against Arizona starter Wade Miley for a solo home run to center field. Segura's first Major League homer came in his 180th plate appearance.
"I feel pretty good right now," Segura said. "It's a weight off me. Last year, I didn't hit any, and this year I was so waiting for that moment. I got it. I got one."
Unfortunately, it came in a loss.
Tied at 1, the Brewers turned the game over to their rebuilt bullpen in the seventh inning. Right-hander Burke Badenhop surrendered a walk, a single and a sacrifice bunt before giving way to Gonzalez, who walked the first man he faced on four pitches.
Gonzalez rebounded to strike out pinch-hitter Alfredo Marte for the second out of the inning. But his second pitch to Gerardo Parra was so high it missed Lucroy's glove entirely and ticked off umpire Chris Conroy's facemask toward the Brewers' dugout. Yuniesky Betancourt, playing only his second Major League game at first base, stood still while Lucroy tried to find the baseball.
Two runners scored, "and that was the game," Roenicke said.
"It was just sitting over there and nobody was going after it, so it was easy," said Jason Kubel, the second runner to score.
"It wasn't pretty, but we're into winning ballgames and we did that tonight," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said.
Gonzalez did not pitch well in Spring Training and has retired only three of the nine men he's faced in his first three appearances of the season. But he has also endured his share of bad breaks, including a Rockies rally in the second game of the season aided by a flying broken bat. On Friday, the loss -- and the two earned runs -- went to Badenhop.
He felt helpless on the mound while Lucroy searched for the ball.
"It's the worst, man. But you know what? What kills me more than anything is that those were Badenhop's runs right there," Gonzalez said. "I take pride in going in there and shutting things down."


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In a finding that many doctors may not be aware of, an estimated 25 to 50 million Americans who may have been told they had the allergy could have been initially misdiagnosed or grown out of it, NBC News reported.
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Fulbright Award takes Thurston-Gonzalez to Korea for cultural, educational exchange
A Fulbright award will help a Kansas State University international services administrator learn more about the higher education system in South Korea.
Sara Thurston-Gonzalez, director of K-State's international student and scholar services, has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will spend June 10-25 in Korea through the International Educational Administrators Program. The goal of the program is to foster international understanding by acquainting U.S. and Korean personnel in international program administration with the system of higher education in each nation and the major issues affecting it.
During her two weeks in Korea, Thurston-Gonzalez will visit selected schools, colleges, universities, cultural sites, government agencies and related educational organizations. She'll also have meetings with Fulbright alumni and participate in cultural events. The first week is spent in Seoul and the second week outside of the capital.
"The goal is to develop a basic understanding of higher education in Korea in its cultural context," she said. "I haven't been to South Korea before and I know from my own personal experience and travels that one truly learns from experiencing countries and cultures firsthand. This program gives me an opportunity to better understand Korean culture and learn more about my Korean students' backgrounds so I can better relate to them and better advocate for them on campus."
K-State has more than 70 students from South Korea and typically hosts about 20-25 South Korean faculty, scholars and researchers on campus each year.
The trip also has a personal aspect for Thurston-Gonzalez.
"Both my father, from 1959-1960, and brother, from 1989-1990, were stationed in South Korea while in the U.S. Army," she said. "I've heard many stories about Korea from them, specifically the major changes in the 30 years between their tours, as my father had the opportunity to visit my brother while he was stationed there."
Thurston-Gonzalez is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2011-2012. The Fulbright program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The primary source of funding for the program is an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Thurston-Gonzalez joined K-State in her current position in December 2007 and oversees operations of international student and scholar advising and immigration status for more than 1,800 students and 300 scholars. She works directly with K-State's office of international programs and helps oversee recruitment, selection, training and evaluation of the staff at K-State's International Student Center.
Prior to joining K-State, she served as interim director and assistant director of international student services at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She also worked in international student affairs at the University of Chicago and Roosevelt University. She is active in NAFSA: Association of International Educators, serving in numerous leadership roles.
Thurston-Gonzalez graduated cum laude from the University of Louisville, where she earned a bachelor's in Spanish and art history. She also earned a master's in counseling and college student personnel services from Louisville and a doctorate in higher education administration from Loyola University in Chicago. She has traveled extensively, including to Austria, Belize, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.


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Palestinians said they were close to agreement on a unity government aimed at ending a crippling Western aid boycott, while Israel pressed ahead with its bloody offensive in northern Gaza.
Israeli troops killed seven Hamas militants, including a top rocket maker, and two other Palestinians, including a girl, died on Saturday, the fourth day of the drive against Palestinian rocket squads in and around the northern Gaza border town of Beit Hanoun.
A municipal official said the town's electricity was cut and water was in short supply. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed for UN intervention to stop the Israeli operation.
A 12-year-old girl was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli sniper, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military said the sniper was aiming at an armed militant and hit the girl by mistake. The military expressed regret.
Later on Saturday, a 19-year-old was killed by a shot to the head, hospital officials said.
Palestinian officials said agreement on a new government was just days away, but a top aide to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said the guidelines would fall short of Western demands.
Officials close to Abbas and Haniyeh said progress is being made on a Hamas proposal to set up a government of experts who have some ties to Hamas and Abbas' Fatah movement. Hamas would be given eight Cabinet seats, Fatah four, and several smaller groups one each, meaning Hamas would control any Cabinet vote. The new prime minister would also have Hamas ties, according to the officials.
The new government's program, the key sticking point in the past, would be intentionally vague, including on a possible recognition of Israel, the officials said. Hamas leaders were to review the proposal on Saturday and make a decision yesterday on whether to present it as the official offer.
In London, Ahmed Yousef, a key Haniyeh adviser, said the new government's guidelines would not include recognition of Israel, renunciation of violence or endorsement of past peace accords, as the West insists.
Negotiations have broken down repeatedly in the past, despite optimistic forecasts.
In Saturday's Gaza violence, Israeli aircraft killed a Hamas rocket maker in a missile strike on his minivan and ground forces blew up a weapons storehouse. Six more Hamas gunmen were killed in separate incidents and a civilian died when his house, apparently weakened by the shock of explosions, collapsed on him, according to Palestinian reports.
Forty-four Palestinians have been killed since Wednesday in the military's campaign in Beit Hanoun. More than 200 people have been wounded in the sweep so far, Palestinian health officials said. One Israeli soldier has been killed in the fighting and one seriously wounded.
The deputy head of Beit Hanoun's town council, Tisyan Hamad, said the destruction causededby the latest sweep is worse than anything the town has suffered in past Israeli operations.
The Israeli military says it has teams of liaison officers working with Palestinian officials to maintain deliveries of food and medical supplies, repair damaged power lines and facilitate the evacuation of the Palestinian wounded.
The army says the town was targeted as a major launching ground for rockets on Israeli communities nearby.
Abbas on Saturday sent a message to the UN Security Council asking it to rein in the Israeli military, his spokesman said.


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A GENERAL OFFICER WRITES as follows of the fighting in July:
"I doubt if anyone who ever ducked bullets and shells in the hedgerows, waded through the mud on foot, and scrambled over the hedgerows never knowing when he might find himself looking into the muzzle of a German tank gun, will look back on those days with any remembered feeling other than of the deadly unrelenting fatigue and danger. Except when the Germans counterattacked, there was so little result to show for so much suffering; just a few hedgerows gained, each one just like those already behind and those still to take."
There had been nothing glamorous about First Army's painful battle through the hedgerows. With use of air power limited by weather, and the effectiveness of tanks reduced by the terrain, the fighting came down to a matter of the artillery bludgeoning and the infantry pushing through an endless series of defended fields and orchards. In this close country, with so much cover and concealment, there was endless opportunity for superior forces to be tied down by a handful of resolute enemy snipers. In modern warfare, with modern weapons, battles are fought ordinarily at such ranges that opposing forces may seldom see each other. Here, in Normandy, bitter actions were often fought by units only 50 to 100 yards apart, with tanks and self-propelled guns in the front lines. But, even so, the American and German troops might not see each other in the course of a day's fight-except for the bodies left behind in a withdrawal. Whole squads, as well as individual snipers, could hide in the leafy embankments, and there was opportunity for use of daring tactics, such as might have been used in Indian fighting, by patrols and scouts on either side. A soldier story-not authenticated, but wholly plausible-relates the experience of an officer who joined a unit up front as replacement, in the course of the battle. After inspection of the outpost line, he came back to the company CP to complain that there was no contact with the enemy; the Germans must have retired. A guttural voice, using cultured English accents, immediately spoke from the hedgerow above the CP dugout: "Evidently the Herr Lieutenant is a recent arrival."
For most of the American soldiers, it had been a thankless, miserable, disheartening battle. It was, perhaps, particularly hard on fresh divisions, coming into their first action with the zest and high morale born of long training and of confidence in their unit. Many units were- or felt they were-wrecked by the losses that hit them in the course of a few days' fighting, wiping out key men, sometimes nearly all company officers in a battalion, or sergeants in a company. The close ties within a unit, built up by long association, were broken irreparably; new officers and new men had to be assimilated in the midst of battle, sometimes on a wholesale scale. Yet the shock was met and surmounted; units that lost 30 percent of strength or more in a week, were kept in line and went on fighting.
The losses taken by XIX Corps units in the advance to St-Lo were representative of those suffered by all First Army divisions engaged in the
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Battle of the Hedgerows. From the opening of the offensive on 7 July through the 22d of that month, the 30th Division had 3,934 casualties; the 29th's ran to 3,706; the 35th's were 2,437. If the figures of the 2d Division for its two days' battle at Hill 192 are included, and those of the 3d Armored Division, the total comes to nearly 11,000 killed, wounded, and missing. These losses were taken for gains of three to seven miles on the corps front.
Nor do the mere figures tell the whole story. An officer who fought with the 30th Division comments on their losses as follows:
The people who do the actual advancing to close with the enemy are the rile platoons, 81 of them (in a division), each with a T/0 strength of about 40 men. These are the men who do the scouting, the patrolling, the flank protection, the front-line work. The battles progress no faster than they do. Now the aggregate strength of these 81 platoons is about 3,240 men. I hazard a guess that at least 75 percent of the total casualties were in the rifle platoons, or a total of about 2,950 (30th Division). This figure is 90 percent of the rifle platoon strength. Possibly the actual figure was less than this, but I do know that the great bulk of casualties was in the rifle platoons. In two weeks' time there must have been at least a 75 or 80 percent turnover in these platoons. This had two effects. First, during a day's combat the squads and platoons would lose some of their men. They consequently had fewer men for patrols, for fire support, and for guard at night. Second, in order to fill the ranks, the replacements were sent up to their squads without any satisfactory pre-battle orientation. The squads never had a chance to get really organized and worked into a reasonable team. Casualties among these raw recruits were relatively high. From the view- point of these boys, things were really rather dismal, and had a natural tendency to discourage that dash and self-sacrificing spirit which one sees in the movies and the picture books.
The cost of the offensive was more apparent to the soldiers of First Army than were the gains. The original objectives set by Army had not been attained except in the St-Lo area, where the distance to the objective was least. Nevertheless, the ground won was sufficient for General Bradley's main purpose. Whatever the hopes at the start, the Battle of the Hedgerows evolved into an effort to win jump-off positions for a great break-through effort: by 18 July, suitable positions had been won. VII and XIX Corps had fought past the area of marshes and river where maneuver room was limited, and were firmly set in the higher, more favorable country near the St-Lo-Periers highway. Here, from the front won by the 9th and 30th Divisions, the opening blow could be launched. And the gains made east of the Vire by XIX Corps, while not used for a breakthrough base, would be of essential value to the main effort. On the one hand, the loss of St-Lo deprived the enemy of a main road center, weakened his chances to meet the forthcoming drive by maneuver from the east, and forced him to guard against a possible further attack up the right bank of the Vire; on the other hand, our capture of St-Lo and the high ground around it gave First Army solid protection on the left flank of the planned zone of breakthrough.
The fruits of the Battle of the Hedgerows were thus to be realized in Operation COBRA. Buildup, regrouping, and other preparations for that decisive offensive were well under way by the middle of the month, and the original target date was 18 July. Weather forced postponements and gave the enemy a breathing spell; the days from 18 to 22 July were marked by rains that were outstanding even in that wet month, turning the battle zone into a quagmire and postponing the jump-off. But on 25 July the armor, infantry, artillery, and air power assembled for COBRA began the attack that broke through to Marigny and St-Gilles, opening the way for the destruction of Seventh army in the Campaign of France.
The Battle of the Hedgerows contributed to this success in other ways than by gain of important tactical ground. First Army's losses were heavy, but, relatively, the German Seventh army had suffered much more. Many of its units, like the mixed battle groups composing the 352d Division, were exhausted to a point where they could no longer be counted on for sustained effort. None
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of them could be withdrawn from the front. By keeping pressure on the whole line from the coast to Berigny, General Bradley had not only prevented the enemy from regrouping, but had worn down his last immediate reserves for use against a breakthrough. Enemy armor, especially, had been committed to the line in driblets and used up in the hedgerow battles. German strength on the whole Seventh Army sector was strained to the breaking point.
No better evidence for this could be found than in the pages of Seventh Army's War Diary. Its commander was well aware that the American army could launch a blow in greater strength than the Germans had yet faced. He suspected that before 20 July plans for such an offensive were under way, and even predicted that the likely sector was the area between Periers and St-Lo. He judged (on 20 July) that the position of the German MLR was not favorable for defense, except on the Lessay sector. But, with all this, there was little that SS General Houser could do to meet the expected crisis. His losses in the July battle, unlike the American losses, had not been compensated by
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replacements; Seventh Army even found it worthy of note when a replacement group of 180 men reached the front. His supply situation was so bad that, to take artillery ammunition as one index, shortages were predicted on 20 July in several important categories-and German expenditure was bitterly contrasted to the American in ratios of 1 to 10 or even 20. Air support was almost nonexistent, and this affected both the combat and the supply situation. At a conference on 20 July with Field Marshal Kluge, the Seventh Army commander requested that German air combat the "particularly obnoxious artillery observation planes, and the heavy bombers and fighter bombers, at least once in a while" as a needed boost for troop morale.
On 21 July the War Diary reads: "After the capture of St-Lo the enemy discontinued his attack for the time being. Since then there has been a striking silence all over the Army area both day and night which suggests enemy movements behind the front-it is expected that the enemy will launch another large-scale attack west of the Vire."
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