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Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 23:28
Post subject: Re: Conflict with Lighthouse 64 5.14.2 Beta 4
radky wrote:
Jim1911 wrote:
As you can see with the attached image, when save is clicked the picture is taken, however, PupSnap doesn't remove itself while snapping the image.
Hi Jim,
Re: Conflict with Lighthouse 64 5.14.2 Beta 4
1 - Concerning PupSnap (64-bit version), do you have this problem with the prior release of Lighthouse64 (513), or with the current Fatdog64?
No, with Fatdog64, Did not test 513 on Laptop
2 - In Lighthouse-64 5.14.2 Beta 4, do you see this issue with your older Dell desktop PC and new Dell notebook?
Laptop only, no problem with desktop so the problem is probably related to the intel graphics on the laptop.
3 - Does it happen each time you attempt a screen capture?
Yes, but not with Fatdog64
4 - Does PupSnap exit immediately after the capture?
Does it help to apply a 2 second capture delay (compared to the usual delay of 0)?
Delay solves problem.
5 - On my system, PupSnap is working great on Lighthouse 64 5.14.2 and Fatdog64. To rule out the possibility of file corruption, you could download a fresh copy of PupSnap (64-bit version), then reinstall.
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Posted: Fri 30 Dec 2011, 10:42
Post subject:
Subject description: PupSnap-1.6.3
Version 1.6.3
-Added 0.1 second delay (full-screen acquisitions) to assure complete dismissal of the PupSnap GUI prior to capture. (thanks Jim1911)
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Location: England
Posted: Mon 27 Feb 2012, 11:40
Post subject: SOLVED - using v 1.8 of May 2012
Hi radky,
Thank you very much for 1.6.3 which works well with my Slacko 5.3.1 Main.
However, before I use it all of my Windows programs work using Wine, but after I use it some of my Windows programs no longer work until after a reboot.
If you would like to see if you can replicate this behaviour then one of the non-working programs is MalAware.exe which is only some 1.2 MB from
and although it literally only takes a minute to run it is sufficient to see if it loads before and after taking a screenshot.
I did try to investigate, getting first a message re "permissions" and when fixed, another message re "binaries" which I don't know how to fix.
For me, this is not at all urgent; though I shall appreciate any advice or assistance you may be able to give as and when you have time.
My regards
The problem is now, almost certainly, resolved, but I have made an sfs of the v 1.8 pet so that I can easily unload the sfs should any Windows/Wine application still fail to run perfectly.
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Posted: Tue 28 Feb 2012, 22:00
Post subject:
Jasper wrote:
after I use it some of my Windows programs no longer work until after a reboot.
Hi Jasper,
I tested the suggested virus-scanning program (MalAware.exe) in Lighthouse-64 which has Wine installed. The program seemed to scan OK, both before and after screen captures with PupSnap, so I can't duplicate the scenario you describe. Since PupSnap is only a graphical interface for the scrot command-line capture utility, you might want to run a simple test with scrot from the command line, to see if the problem persists.
To test, open a terminal and run
scrot screenshot.png
which captures the full screen to screenshot.png in the root directory.
Maybe others with Wine installations will share their experience with scrot-mediated screen captures.
Thanks for your question.
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Posted: Wed 29 Feb 2012, 06:12
Post subject: SOLVED - see second post above
Hi again radky,
Thank you for taking time to reply. Your code "scrot screenshot.png" does put a full screenshot in root, but my difficulty in being unable to reuse some Windows programs persists.
I can do everything I need using other methods of taking screenshots; though sometimes with extra keystrokes/mouse-movements - so not always as conveniently as with your excellent program.
My regards
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Posted: Sat 19 May 2012, 08:46
Post subject:
Subject description: PupSnap-1.8
Version 1.8. See main post.
-Revised user interface with improved access to options.
-Added 'sticky' persistence to the date and border checkboxes (checked/unchecked status persists until changed by the user).
-The option for reduced-size images (thumbnails) no longer requires a checkbox to enable/disable.
-Added standard-pixel options for the automatic reduction (or enlargement) of captured images.
-PNG images are now saved automatically with high 'lossless' quality and maximum file compression.
-The configurable 'Quality' option of PupSnap now applies to JPG images only.
-Added support for the ristretto image viewer.
-Added support for the pcmanfm and pcmanfm2 file managers.
-Restored support for the Libreoffice Draw and OpenOffice Draw image editors.
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Posted: Sat 19 May 2012, 14:36
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Looks like an interesting utility to try. I decided to try the ctrl*shift*s hotkey (without having installed PupSnap yet) to see if it might conflict with anything. It seems as if that key combo causes Seamonkey 2.2 to navigate away from the currently displayed webpage and show the homepage instead.
I don't care if I lose that option by installing PupSnap, but thought I'd ask if that was normal, and does it indicate something I should change before installing PupSnap?
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Posted: Sat 19 May 2012, 16:23
Post subject:
greengeek wrote:
Looks like an interesting utility to try. I decided to try the ctrl*shift*s hotkey (without having installed PupSnap yet) to see if it might conflict with anything. It seems as if that key combo causes Seamonkey 2.2 to navigate away from the currently displayed webpage and show the homepage instead.
I don't care if I lose that option by installing PupSnap, but thought I'd ask if that was normal, and does it indicate something I should change before installing PupSnap?
(Using Lup528)
Hi greengeek,
I have not used Seamonkey 2.2 for quite some time, but the current Seamonkey 2.9 series works fine with PupSnap and there are no conflicting calls to the Ctrl+Shift+s hotkey on my system.
I do recall that some of the older versions of the Adblock and NoScript extensions may have used the Ctrl-Shift+s shortcut. Is it possible you have one of those older extensions installed in Seamonkey 2.2?
When PupSnap is first installed, the hotkey is not enabled until you go to Help and select the 'Key' option. If you have another application that uses the Ctrl+Shift+s hotkey, then you can simply ignore the hotkey option in PupSnap. The program is still available in the standard Puppy Menu (Graphics subcategory).
Thanks for your interest in PupSnap.
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Posted: Wed 23 May 2012, 14:59
Post subject: PupSnap in Fatdog64-600a2
Hi radky,
PupSnap-1-8 doesn't work in Fatdog64-600a2, although you might hold off checking it until a3 comes out since there are already a lot of bug fixes on a2. It opens and sets up fine, however, nothing shows up when Save is pressed. The program closes. Of course it could be something as simple as an unrecognized default paint program. Default is Gimp 2.6, although Save still does nothing when gimp is selected in setup.
Hotkey calls the program fine.
The 32-bit version works great.
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Posted: Wed 23 May 2012, 17:49
Post subject:
Hi Jim
It may be possible that your download of the the 64-bit version of PupSnap is corrupt. So, a fresh download and new installation may be helpful.
Today I tested the 64-bit version of PupSnap in Fatdog64-600 alpha2 and I can't duplicate the problem you describe. Everything is working properly on my system, including full-screen, window and ROI captures in jpg, png, bmp and tiff formats. Also, there were no problems when capturing to defaultpaint, defaultimageviewer, gimp, mtpaint or fotoxx.
There is one thing to remember about full-screen captures in the png format. More time is required to apply maximum file compression to large png files, so you may notice a slight delay before a full-screen image auto-loads into the viewer or editor.
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Posted: Sat 26 May 2012, 11:23
Post subject: Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop
Hi radky,
Finally got around to installing Fatdog64-600a2 on my laptop. PupSnap worked fine initially, however it's broken now. Some program that I installed overwrote a key file.
I believe that installing xfe with it's fox dependency is what broke PupSnap.
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Posted: Sun 21 Oct 2012, 16:04
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Subject description: PupSnap-2.0
- New, intuitive interface with all capture options available on one tab.
- Added the option to send screenshots (or any local image) to the imgur.com image hosting service.
The image hosting module provides quick access to URLs for viewing or deleting the uploaded images,
changing the API access code to imgur.com, and viewing the activity log for all uploaded images.
Additionally, the image URLs are sent to the clipboard if xsel or xclip are available. (thank you stu91)
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Posted: Tue 13 Nov 2012, 18:42
Post subject: Change in Forum screenshot rule
Flash, our moderator, has amended the maximum screenshot width (using the forum software) from 600 pixels to 800 pixels.
Using PupSnap - from the drop-down-list choose 800px to maximise allowed, but not enforced, screen width (the depth will be auto-scaled as needed).
Also with PupSnap - a user could load the 'Image Host' screen to set up and display a larger 'clickable/expandable' screenshot using non-forum software.
There are alternative means of achieving similar results. However, using PupSnap it is really simple to observe forum sizing etiquette.
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Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2012, 08:47
Post subject:
This program works great, but today I seem to have difficulties uploading the images to the host 'imgur.com'.
The website itself works and I have uploaded to them via their site.
Is anyone else experiencing this too?
btw Using Lucid 5.28-005 with GTKDialog 0.8.2
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Posted: Tue 11 Dec 2012, 11:29
Post subject:
I have made the same experience on LazImUL because imgur.com has change the API version. The provided API key (by email@example.com) is not longer usable.
So, direct upload to imgur.com doesn't work anymore.
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Hay season is off to a great start for my family, with a first-cutting nearly complete. We are busy stacking and moving round bales, and we have adequate moisture to assume a second-cutting won't be too far away.
Harvesting quality feedstuffs can be a challenge, especially in very dry or very wet conditions. If there's too much rain, the hay never has a chance to cure, which can lead to poor-quality, damp and moldy hay. The last few years, this has been our challenge, and feeding moldy hay to bred cows can lead to complications like abortions. On the flip side, a dry year can mean a shortage of hay to get through the winter months.
Warren Rusche, South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension cow-calf field specialist, encourages producers to explore haylage and baleage as methods that allow them to harvest without needing to deal with rained-on forage.
According to Rusche, "The largest single advantage is that the hay only needs to wilt to about 35-45% dry matter; it does not have to completely cure. That means a shorter time interval between cutting and harvest, and reduced risk of losing forage nutrients due to rain. Also there should be less leaf shattering by chopping at a higher moisture content, which should result in higher quality, more valuable forage."
For additional information on haylage and baleage, click here.
This week's poll at beefmagazine.com asks: How are your hay-growing conditions?
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Vote in this week's poll here. And, let us know how hay season is going in your neck of the woods.

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Kim unveils all-white Kardashian family Christmas card
The reality TV family went for an all-white look this year.
The Kardashian-Jenner clan must have been dreaming of a White Christmas.
Kim Kardashian has unveiled the family's holiday card and it's all-white, right down to Kim's no-longer-with-us white kitten Mercy. See the little feline sitting in the box?
The E! reality TV stars went for a coordinated wardrobe this year (except for that little hint of Louboutin red on Kylie Jenner's shoes), from the body-hugging dresses on the ladies to the guys' white suits to baby Penelope's white dress and headband.
Next to Kylie is Kim. Rob Kardashian is in the back. Dad Bruce Jenner sits next to Mason Disick. Mason's dad, Scott Disick, is seated on the floor. Kourtney Kardashian holds baby Penelope on her lap. Mom/manager Kris Jenner is on the right next to Kendall Jenner, showing off her long legs.
They all look happily posed together, but Khloe Kardashian Odom (who is standing in the back) admitted last month that she and her husband, Lamar, were digitally added into the shot this year. As was Kourtney's sweetie, Scott Disick.
"We pretend that we're always together," Khloe said. "The powers of cameras and Photoshop."
One family friend who didn't make the shot: Kanye West.


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The Auto-lock feature on your iPhone allows you to set the amount of time that elapses before the iPhone automatically locks or turns off the display. Or, you can set Auto-lock so that the iPhone never locks automatically. Your Auto-lock choices are five minutes before turning off, four minutes before, and so on, all the way down to one minute.
To change the auto-lock settings, tap the Settings icon, then the General button. Tap on the Auto-Lock option and choose your preference.
Don't worry if the iPhone is locked. You can still get calls and text messages and adjust the volume.


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At the city of Orange's Jan. 25 meeting, elected leaders were bombarded by pleas from several residents to make a 3.5 mile stretch of the city a designated "quiet zone" for train horns. And, although council representatives were prohibited by law from responding to the comments, city staffers indicated the proposal was already being explored. On March 8, an answer to the citizen plights was given in the form of a quiet zone that spans an area from Main Avenue to Cordrey Avenue and shutting off W. John Avenue, W. Orange Avenue and W. Pine Avenue crossings.
Leading the crusade to stop the train horns' blaring noise was attorney Leslie Barras, who presented the city council and Mayor Brown Claybar with statistics related to train crossing noises and the number of vehicles using the crossings in the proposed corridor, raw figures for the cost of turning a portion of Orange into a quiet zone for train whistles and an outline of the scope of the project proposed by Barras and a group of neighborhood residents. She, and more than a few others, expressed to the city's leaders a strong sentiment that rerouting traffic was a small price to pay for residents along the corridor to finally receive a little peace and quiet.
Aside from the safety issues associated with excessive rail crossings, residents living near the tracks presented issues with quality of life, property value depreciation and loss of business. A representative from Serenity House said the quiet zone would give clients of the business the tranquility promised by the very virtue of the organization's moniker and a bed-and-breakfast owner, who claimed the train whistles are devastating his business because customers won't return to the establishment, told city leaders the project would give him and guests of his property "an opportunity to get a good night's sleep." And still more comments were waged on residential property owner's woes – one man said his dog went deaf from the sirens, and he was well on his way to a similar fate; a working father said his children's scholastic endeavors were being compromised by lack of sleep from the horns blaring at all hours of the day and night; and another concerned citizen said he has raised more than 200 signatures on a petition to the city requesting the zone's institution.
Homeowner Sandra Jolly, with a touch of cynicism, said not everything about the train crossing locations was negative. According to her, after sending in five pictures of her home's proximity to the train tracks her property taxes were cut by 10 percent.
Mayor Claybar said the city has a history of taking citizen complaints and concerns seriously, and with immediate action forth- coming.
City of Orange director of public works Jim Wolf said funds to close crossings and set up a quiet zone will be provided through a $322,500 incentive provided to the city by the Texas Department of Transportation to be used for safety and roadway improvements.


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Time has an interesting story. Here's how it begins:
Alta Jacko is the mother of eight children. She is also a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. Jacko says that playing baseball is what she was born to do.
Just kidding.
Here's how it actually begins:
Alta Jacko is the mother of eight children. She is also an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Jacko, 81, who earned her master's degree in pastoral studies from Loyola University, a Jesuit Catholic school, says that being a priest is what she was called to do.
Really. That's REALLY how the article "Efforts Rising to Ordain Women as Roman Catholic Priests" by Dawn Reiss begins. I could not make that up.
What to say other than ... this is not true. There is no mother of eight children who is an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church. How do I know this? Because I know that the church doesn't ordain any female, whether they've gotten a degree from a Catholic university or not. Whether or not you are an "ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church" is similar to whether or not you are a starting pitcher for the Yankees. It's not about what you feel called to do. It's not about feelings at all. And a journalist can check out this fact just as easily as she can check out the roster for a baseball team.
Even the caption is a joke:
Alta Jacko's (third from left) ordination to be a deaconate on Nov. 1, 2008. She would later be ordained as a priest in 2009.
Time managed to not just misuse the word diaconate but misspell it, too.
Unfortunately, the story is just a complete train wreck. The reader who submitted the story described it as "the usual thread of 'These women are priests already, regardless of Vatican policy. Speaking of which, why doesn't the Vatican change its policy?'" And that's an understatement.
Last week, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver addressed religion news writers at their conference there. Among other things, he said:
[T]he Christian story now told in mainstream media often seems to be a narrative of decline or fundamentalism, or houses divided against themselves along predictable lines of sex and authority. It's a narrative of institutions and individuals that -- insofar as they stay true to their historic beliefs -- act as a backward social force and a menace to the liberty of their fellow citizens.
I imagine that if Chaput attempted to satirize the way the media write up stories about female ordination and Catholicism, he could not have done better than the actual story Time published.
After the horrible lede and problematic caption, we learn that there is "a movement against the no-women rule." We hear from a variety of people opposed to the rule. We hear from no one who can articulate, much less support the reason for not having female priests. Instead we get a quote from a priest whose previous opposition to female priests was based, apparently, on nothing more than emotion. But now his views are "complicated" and he helps her learn how to say the liturgy. He is presented as a hero facing the loss of his job, his pension and his home. And then we get this, which shows the combined problem of too little understanding of doctrine and a complete mangling of doctrine:
It is a question that more and more members of the flock are asking. Many have begun to publicly challenge the church's stance, especially after the Vatican decreed in July that ordaining female priests was a "grave" crime, on par with pedophilia. Biblical passages refer to female clergy, including an apostle named Junia in Romans 16:7. On Sunday, Sept. 26, thousands of Catholics around the world plan to protest, either by boycotting Mass or by showing up wearing green armbands that say "Ordain Women." "Women are tired of being treated as second-class citizens in the church," says Jennifer Sleeman, an Irish Catholic who turns 81 on Sunday and is helping champion the Sunday Without Women demonstration organized by Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW).
It's like the reporter was engaged in a contest to see how much she could fill a paragraph with weasel words, unsourced claims and other silliness. For starters, the use of "more and more" and "many" to quantify the movement is a bit much. I know journalists are always trying to suggest a trend -- but at least attempt to provide some data. Assuming you're not writing a press release, that is. And I'll skip the obligatory reference to the Vatican statement in July. But what's this about the Bible referring to female clergy including an apostle named Junia?
OK, that is certainly one view, a view espoused by the folks trying to get the Vatican to change traditional Christian teaching. They say that Junia/Junias was a female apostle in the Early Church but that male clergy conspired to cover up her legacy and the legacy of other female ministers. The argument goes that since Junia/Junias was a female apostle, women should be ordained as pastors. The verse, for those who are interested, reads:
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
The view espoused by those who support female ordination is not shared by the Catholic Church, the Orthodox or confessional Lutherans, to name a few. To begin with, there is some debate about whether Junia is being called an apostle, and even whether Junia is a male or female name (to be fair, even the early church fathers took opposing sides on just that issue). But keep in mind that this "smoking gun" passage is in Romans. The book written by none other than St. Paul. It's not like his views against female ordination aren't known. Normally he's getting in trouble for the many passages he wrote about the roles for men and women.
Anyway, the issue has adherents on varying sides. Unless reporters are confused about their job or have an inflated view of their understanding of Scriptural controversies, they probably should not come down on one side or another. That's not good reporting. The Sleeman quote above is followed by another quote from someone identified as "Chicago's first ordained Catholic female priest." She says that "many" male priests are all for the movement.
Then we learn of a documentary about women's ordination called "Pink Smoke Over the Vatican," followed by dramatic quotes from people who refuse to give their names. But the worst part is that it keeps going -- there are many more quotes from people, all from one side, all saying horrible things about the Catholic Church.
Perhaps the story is so laughably bad, so unbelievably silly, because the reporter failed to speak with anyone she disagreed with. That's bad enough in a story that quotes only one or two people. But in a story of this length, in this high profile of a publication, it's an embarrassment. It's as if Time is going after the Newsweek demographic.
Also, these stories are so routinely and increasingly bad that I'm almost beginning to wonder if there's some kind of Bulwer-Lytton-type contest for who can come up with the worst.


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Ayotte on defense over gun vote
TILTON, N.H. — Sen. Kelly Ayotte's town hall meeting here ended with scant discussion of gun control, an issue that consumed Washington for much of the past month.
Pro-gun control activists, who attended the meeting, were incensed. Security brushed aside two women who approached Ayotte and demanded to speak with the first-term Republican about her vote against expanded background checks for commercial gun sales, underscoring the lingering controversy that continues to hover over the New Hampshire senator.
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"It's a mixed reaction," Ayotte told POLITICO as she rushed for the exits. "Something both sides feel strongly about."
( Also on POLITICO: Sandy Hook victim's family presses Ayotte on guns)
In the aftermath of the Senate's failed vote two weeks ago to expand background checks, New Hampshire has suddenly emerged as ground zero in the national battle over gun control, with Ayotte now stuck at the center of the fight.
Powerful outside groups run by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are bankrolling ads and vowing to dump huge resources into the state to force Ayotte to reverse her opposition to the bill or pay the political consequences. And after two years of projecting a profile as a foreign policy and deficit hawk, her critics in the state have spent the past two weeks trying to rebrand her as: "NRAyotte."
Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association is running radio ads thanking her for her support.
( PHOTOS: Kelly Ayotte's career)
The emotional fight threatens to transform Ayotte — a young conservative Republican woman whose star is on the rise — into a polarizing figure back home on a contentious issue. Instead of taking up the banner of gun rights, Ayotte is seeking a lower profile on the subject in a state where she's become the last Republican in the all-female congressional delegation.
"It hurts her," said Kathy Sullivan, a longtime Democratic operative and former head of the state party here. "Elections are won in New Hampshire with the vote of independents, particularly independent women. Independent women will not favor a candidate who does not believe in background checks. Will it be the only issue? No, but it will be an issue."
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Endemic goitre in the Sudan despite long-standing programmes for the control of iodine deficiency disorders
Abdel Monim MH Medani a, Abdelsalam A Elnour b & Amal M Saeed c
a. Sudan Atomic Energy Commission, Algamaa Street, PO Box 3001, Khartoum, Sudan.
b. College of Medicine, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
c. Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Correspondence to Abdel Monim MH Medani (e-mail: email@example.com).
(Submitted: 15 December 2009 – Revised version received: 08 July 2010 – Accepted: 01 October 2010 – Published online: 22 October 2010.)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:121-126. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.075002
In the Sudan, the period from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s witnessed substantial activity in connection with iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) in the form of epidemiological and etiological studies and assessments of the effects of different interventions.1–7 The total prevalence of goitre reported in those studies ranged from 13% in the eastern city of Port Sudan and 17% in Khartoum state, to 78% in the central region and 87% in Darfur, in the west. According to a national study conducted in 1997, the overall prevalence of all types of goitre was 22%8 and prevalence figures ranged from 5% in the city of Khartoum to 42% in the Upper Nile region. It has been estimated that every year more than 200 000 children born in the Sudan are at risk of iodine deficiency9 and that 3% of those children may develop cretinism, while 10% may experience severe intellectual impairment and 87% less severe intellectual disability.
Various etiological factors in addition to iodine deficiency contribute to goitre endemicity in the Sudan.1–3,5,7 They include vitamin A deficiency and protein-energy malnutrition, both of which can affect thyroid function, and the very high consumption of pearl millet, which contains thiocyanate, a goitrogenic substance.
Although IDD control programmes in the form of distribution of iodized oil capsules and iodized sugar and the universal salt iodization strategy, were launched in the Sudan as early as the mid 1970s,5,10,11 in 2006, when this study was conducted, no progress in implementation had been made.9 Indeed, most iodine supplementation programmes, if not all, had ceased to exist, and only 1% of all Sudanese households had access to iodized salt, according to estimates by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).12 A more recent situational analysis has shown that IDDs still affect children and women throughout the Sudan and that no policy supporting universal salt iodization is in place.13 Thus, the aim of this study is to evaluate the current status of IDDs in the Sudan and to provide baseline impact indicators for future IDD control programmes. The study also seeks to respond to the 2005 World Health Assembly resolution (WHA58.24) mandating countries to report on their IDD situation every three years.
We performed a descriptive cross-sectional study to investigate the burden of IDDs using three indicators recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO): goitre prevalence, median urinary iodine concentration (UIC) (determined from casual urine samples) and mean serum thyroglobulin (Tg) levels. Mean serum levels of thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) were also measured, along with urinary thiocyanate (USCN) excretion.1–3,9,10 Our study, which was conducted from June to November 2006, covered ethnically and socioeconomically heterogeneous populations of schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years residing in the capital cities of nine states located in different parts of the Sudan. The cities were Nyala (west), Elfasir (west), Wau (south), Atbra and Dongla (north), Kosti (centre), Dmazine (south-east), Port Sudan (east) and Khartoum (centre). The sampled populations varied considerably with respect to their sources of drinking water and their staple foods. The locations from which population samples were drawn are shown on the map of the Sudan in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Map of the Sudan showing cities included in study of iodine status among schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years in the country, June–November 2006
A multistage sampling technique was used.14 Each city was first divided into three sectors and one school from each sector was then randomly selected, regardless of the gender of the school's attendees. Subsequently 150 to 250 children were randomly selected from each school and a total of 6083 children between the ages of 6 and 12 years were examined for goitre by a single investigator through palpation of the thyroid gland. Goitre size was graded according to the criteria recommended by WHO, UNICEF and the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (grade 0, no goitre; grade 1, thyroid palpable but not visible; and grade 2, thyroid visible with neck in normal position) .15 The combined prevalence of grade 1 and 2 goitre provided the total prevalence of goitre in the study population. In this study, the endemicity of goitre was classified on the basis of median urinary iodine excretion as established for schoolchildren by WHO.16 < 2.0 µg/dl, severe iodine deficiency; 2.0–4.9 µg/dl, moderate iodine deficiency; 5.0–9.9 µg/dl, mild iodine deficiency.
Blood and urine samples were collected from 360 children who were chosen by systematic random sampling, irrespective of gender or of the results of thyroid gland palpation. Serum samples were analysed for T4, T3, TSH and Tg using radioimmunoassay with reagents obtained from the Department of Isotopes of the China Institute for Atomic Energy in Beijing. Urine samples were used for two purposes: a fresh portion was used to determine the urinary iodine concentration and a portion that was kept at −20 °C for 5 months was used to measure USCN excretion. The UIC was measured using a modified Sandell-Kothoff reaction.17 USCN excretion was measured by the method described by Aldridge18 as modified by Michajlovskij & Langer.19 Blood and urine samples were analysed in the laboratories of the Sudan Atomic Energy Commission. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 13.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, United States of America). The central tendency was described by the arithmetic and geometric mean in the case of serum levels and by the median in the case of urine levels. Linear regression was used to explore the relationship between variables (goitre prevalence, T3 and T4, Tg, UIC and USCN). The χ2 test was used to test for differences in proportions (goitre prevalence) and the differences among all pairs of proportions were determined by the Marascuilo procedure. One-way analysis of variance was used to explore differences in mean serum T4, T3, TSH and Tg levels in the nine study cities. The procedure of least significant difference was applied to look for differences among pairs of means. Significance was set at P < 0.05.
The present study was approved by the review board of the Sudanese Academy of Sciences, and consent was obtained from local health and education authorities and from the department of school nutrition of the Ministry of Education. Permission for collecting blood and urine samples was verbally obtained from one of the parents of each pupil through school headmasters and parent councils. Pupils who declined to participate were randomly substituted with other students from the same classroom.
The prevalence of all types of goitre is shown in Table 1. It was found to be 38.8% overall and ranged from 12.2% in Omdurman to 77.7% in Kosti city.
Table 1. Goitre prevalence (GP) in schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years from selected cities in the Sudan, June–November 2006
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Median UIC and median USCN excretion are presented in Table 2. The overall median urinary iodine concentration was 6.55 µg/dl, which is indicative of mild iodine deficiency, and 35% of the population had < 5 µg/dl. The median local urinary iodine concentration was < 10µg/dl in all cities with the exception of Port Sudan. It was lowest in Kosti, where goitre was most prevalent, and highest in Port Sudan. Median USCN excretion ranged from 0.26 mg/dl in Port Sudan to 0.49 mg/dl in Wau and Nyala. The overall median value was 0.37 mg/dl.
Table 2. Goitre prevalence (GP) and other clinical indicators of thyroid functiona and iodine statusb in schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years from selected cities in the Sudan, June–November 2006
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Table 2 also shows mean serum T4, T3, TSH and Tg levels. The overall mean serum T4 and T3 levels were within the normal range. The mean serum T4 level in Dongla was similar to the mean level found in Port Sudan and lower than the level found in other cities. Mean serum T3 levels also varied widely among cities. Overall, serum Tg values were > 40 ng/ml in more than 40% of the children. No correlation was found between goitre prevalence and mean serum Tg or between goitre prevalence and median urinary iodine concentration (Table 3).
Table 3. Correlation between various clinical indicators of thyroid function and iodine status in study of 360 schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years from selected cities in the Sudan, June–November 2006
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Table 3 shows Pearson's correlation coefficients between the measured variables exploring the relationship and significance levels between variables (goitre prevalence, thyroid hormones, TSH, Tg, UIC and USCN excretion in 360 Sudanese schoolchildren from selected Sudanese cities.
WHO recommends using the following physiologic indicators to assess the iodine status of populations beyond the neonatal period: mean urinary iodine concentration (based on measurements in casual urine samples), the prevalence of goitre (based on palpation of the thyroid gland) and mean serum TSH and Tg.20 At the individual level, these physiologic indicators are sensitive to iodine deficiencies of different duration. For example, urinary iodine concentration is a sensitive indicator of recent iodine intake (days), Tg shows an intermediate response (weeks to months), and the size of the thyroid reflects long-term iodine intake (months to years). The overall prevalence of goitre and the median urinary iodine concentration in schoolchildren 6 to 12 years of age are the most accepted markers for assessing the severity of IDDs in a given region.16 In this study, all methods recommended by WHO were employed to assess IDDs in the population of schoolchildren. While the prevalence of goitre puts the Sudan among countries with a severe IDD problem, the median urinary iodine concentration is indicative of a mild IDD problem.21 In the nine cities studied, the prevalence of endemic goitre ranged from mild to severe. A population is considered to have iodine sufficiency when the median urinary iodine concentration is between 10 and 19.9 μg/dl and less than 20% of the people have a concentration < 5 μg/dl.21 Goitre prevalence and urinary iodine concentration showed no correlation with each other (Table 3). In the population studied, goitre prevalence placed the cities in a higher IDD status category than did the median urinary iodine concentration, perhaps because other goitrogenic factors besides insufficient iodine intake may be at play.1,7 Thiocyanate probably played little or no role in the etiology of goitre in this study, since its urinary concentration was much lower than reported in other areas with iodine deficiency.22 Despite the clear lack of correlation between mean serum Tg and goitre prevalence, the highest mean serum Tg was found in Kosti, where goitre prevalence was highest and median urinary iodine concentration was lowest. Although some studies have found serum Tg to be a sensitive indicator of chronic and acute thyroid stimulation,23,24 other studies have shown that serum Tg may be affected by other factors.25,26 This may explain why mean serum Tg in children from Khartoum was rather high despite the relatively low prevalence of goitre.
The exceptionally high median urinary iodine concentration (46.40 µg/dl) in Port Sudan is well above the level (30 µg/dl) indicative of a high individual risk of iodine-induced hyperthyroidism and, in genetically susceptible individuals, of autoimmune thyroid disease from excess iodine intake.27 However, in this city mean serum T4 and T3 levels were lower and the mean TSH level was higher than in other cities, as noted earlier by Eltom28 and recently by Hussein.29 The high median urinary iodine concentration in Port Sudan could be attributed to the consumption of seafood rich in iodine, since the city is located on the coast of the Red Sea. It is noteworthy that the city of Atbra was not studied before, since its location between Khartoum and Port Sudan and between Khartoum and the northern states leads one to expect a diversified diet. However, the median urinary iodine concentration in Atbra was 2.8 µg/dl and only 5 pupils out of 35 had sufficient (10 µg/dl) urinary iodine concentration. This supports previous findings that goitre may be spreading to new areas of the Sudan.
The results of the current study strongly agree with those of previous studies.5–7,11,30 Iodine deficiency is probably the most important but not the only factor leading to the high prevalence of goitre in the population studied. Such a population, it may be worth noting, was composed of schoolchildren living in urban areas, who may have had a more diversified diet and one higher in iodine than children living in rural areas. In areas where iodine intake is low, hypothyroidism,31 different degrees of intellectual impairment and even cretinism can sometimes affect a significant proportion of people, even if mean serum T4, T3 and TSH levels are within normal ranges.32
In conclusion, despite the fact that IDD control programmes were initiated in the Sudan more than 25 years ago, IDDs continue to be an important public health problem in the country. Although imported iodized salt is commercially available, no data on its consumption exist. An evaluation of existing IDD control programmes is urgently needed and strong consideration should be given to reinstituting the universal salt iodization programme.
This work was funded by the Sudan Atomic Energy Commission.
Competing interests:
None declared. A poster presentation of this study was made at the Micronutrient Forum 2009 Meeting in Beijing, China, and subsequently published at: http://www.micronutrientforum.org/Meeting2009/PDFs/Poster%20Presentations/1_Tuesday/1_Iodine%20and%20Universal%20Salt%20Iodization/TU07_Hassan.pdf
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- Osman AK, Basu TK, Dickerson JW. A goitrogenic agent from millet (Pennisetum typhoides) in Darfur Province, western Sudan. Ann Nutr Metab 1983; 27: 14-8 doi: 10.1159/000176619 pmid: 6830139.
- Eltom M. Endemic goiter in Sudan [dissertation]. Uppsala: Uppsala University; 1993.
- Abdel-Wahab MM, Eltom M, Omer MI, Mukhtar E, Kaballo AM. Prophylaxis and treatment of endemic goitre in western Sudan with intramuscular iodized oil. Ann Trop Paediatr 1984; 4: 159-64 pmid: 6084463.
- Hassan AM. Studies on simple goiter in Omdurman [dissertation]. Khartoum: University of Khartoum; 1993.
- Elnagar B, Eltom M, Karlsson FA, Ermans AM, Gebre-Medhin M, Bourdoux PP. The effects of different doses of oral iodized oil on goiter size, urinary iodine, and thyroid-related hormones. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1995; 80: 891-7 doi: 10.1210/jc.80.3.891 pmid: 7883848.
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- Ministry of Health, Directorate General Primary Health Care, National Nutrition Department. IDD baseline survey report. Khartoum: Ministry of Health; 1999.
- Bani I. Accelerating USI progress in Sudan. IDD Newsletter 2007; 24: 9-12.
- Eltom M, Monawer L, Kamal AM, Stephen P. Iodated salt intervention strategy in Sudan. Khartoum: United Nations Children's Fund & Federal Ministry of Health; 1994.
- Eltom M, Salih MA, Boström H, Dahlberg PA. Differences in aetiology and thyroid function in endemic goitre between rural and urban areas of the Darfur region of the Sudan. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 1985; 108: 356-60 pmid: 3984663.
- Hussein I. Severe iodine deficiency in Sudan. IDD Newsletter 2006; 24: 5-7.
- Izzeldin SH, Crawford MA, Ghebremeskel K. Salt fortification with iodine: Sudan situation analysis. Nutr Health 2009; 20: 21-30 pmid: 19326717.
- Kevin M, Robin H, Jonathan G, Jenny C. Monitoring universal salt iodization programs (WHO/ICCIDD/UNICEF/MI manual). Geneva: World Health Organization & United Nations Children's Fund & International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders; 1995.
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- Pino S, Fang SL, Braverman LE. Ammonium persulfate: a safe alternative oxidizing reagent for measuring urinary iodine. Clin Chem 1996; 42: 239-43 pmid: 8595717.
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- Chandra AK, Bhattacharjee A, Malik T, Ghosh S. Etiological factors for the persistence of endemic goiter in selected areas of Siddharthnagar district in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 2009; 22: 317-25 pmid: 19554805.
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- Van Herle AJ, Hershman JM, Hornabrook RW, Chopra IJ. Serum thyroglobulin in inhabitants of an endemic goiter region of New Guinea. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1976; 43: 512-6 doi: 10.1210/jcem-43-3-512 pmid: 956339.
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Louis-Philippe Hébert
Canadian, 1850–1917
Osla, 1909
35 x 33.5 x 6 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Sculpture, Canadian Historical (1800-1910)
Louis-Philippe Hébert discovered art in Rome when he was stationed there in 1870 for a short while as part of an international military mission providing security to the Vatican. He later studied briefly in Paris and then, upon his return to Canada, worked under the Quebec sculptor Napoléon Bourassa, assisting with the decoration of the interior of Notre Dame basilica in Montreal. Hébert received numerous commissions for sculptures and busts of Canadian historical subjects and public figures. Osla reveals Hébert's academic background and ongoing preoccupation with classical form. The WAG work is at once regal and moving, and the full profile recalls Greco-Roman portraits as well as those of the Renaissance period. The unknown subject is likely a native of Normandy, France, where Hébert had much of his bronze casting done and where the plaster portrait was located prior to being acquired by the Gallery.
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Oh! It knew it would happen! Everybody's staring at me, because I have a pimple on my cheek!
frankenstein's monster has come back!
It's weird.... he looks horrible, unhappy, and formidable, but except him, the picture looks sunny, warm and pleasant! He must be an attraction of an amazing park???
I presume he's just come out from a haunted house to take a cigarette!.
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That is what i call a stitched fourhead
I'd just say that the costume is really realistic :D
Looks like expression of my face after a difficult day.
I got rid of wrinkles by getting twenty-seven stitches on my forehead!
I need to get stitches on my cheek as well!
i agree
Man, that's hilarious! ;D
You know what?
Then, literally, I can be Stitch, an alien from outer space!
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I hope your stitches doesn't hurt anymore. I was very sorry when i heard that someone threw a helloween basket at you last year. But why are you here i mean its not helloween. So why you are here with your ugly face which had stitches on it? Please get out and don't come again because i don't want people to get afraid from you and again threw basket at you.
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Last week, Republican primary voters passed their first Senate test, producing a North Carolina nominee, Thom Tillis, who is merely imperfect, not catastrophic. After the disasters of recent years, national Republicans will happily take it.
The North Carolina result did nothing to change the expectation among most observers that the Republicans have a 50-50 or better shot at taking the Senate majority. It might even have enhanced those odds. The conventional wisdom is reasonable: We know that the president is unpopular, the president's party typically performs poorly in midterms and the Democrats are overextended on this year's Senate map. One of the ways the Republicans could hurt their chances is by running bad candidates in some of these races. Tillis might turn out to be that kind of candidate, but he was clearly the most credible nominee in the primary field.
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So where is the Senate right now? Hypothetically, there's still a wide range of potential outcomes – and all the likeliest ones involve at least some kind of Republican wave, perhaps delivering the magic six-seat gain that would dethrone Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Let's adopt a mariner's, or a meteorologist's, terminology to make sense of the situation. Democrats hope for no wave at all: Something akin to "beach week," the post-finals getaway that some of my University of Virginia students are celebrating this very instant on the Atlantic seaboard. Beach week for the Democrats, though, is about as likely as the undergrads' dream of putting off adulthood. More realistically, Democrats can hope for fearsome-sounding waves that crash loudly but do little structural damage. Republicans, on the other hand, are rooting for an impressive tidal wave, if not a full-fledged historic tsunami.
The following table offers a wide range of Senate outcomes, along with their likelihoods.
Some of these scenarios have virtually no chance of happening, particularly the ones where Democrats play even in the Senate or even gain a seat. The Democrats have only a couple real chances to play offense, and their odds in either case are not great.
The two Republican primary candidates the establishment fears most in the open GOP seat in Georgia – Reps. Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun, who have inspired headlines with the words "Todd Akin 2.0" – are lagging behind other, more electable candidates in polling ahead of the May 20 primary and a likely runoff. A solid GOP candidate there should be able to beat Democrat Michelle Nunn in a Republican state in a Republican year. The same goes for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky: Polls there are close, but this is a Republican running on very Republican turf. These races are competitive, but they are not tossups, either.
Meanwhile, there are 14 Democratic seats that are at least marginally practical targets for Republicans. The bigger the wave, the greater the number that could sink come Election Day.
The table above suggests a best guess as to how these seats would fall to the GOP. But let's be a bit more explicit about it. The next table ranks the 14 Democratic seats in order of their likelihood of flipping parties:
Generally speaking, two factors explain these rankings: President Obama's average performance in these states in 2008 and 2012, and whether an incumbent is running. But that doesn't explain all of it: There's more than a little judgment involved, too.
Two open seats, South Dakota and West Virginia, are at the top of the list. The Mount Rushmore State is ahead of the Mountain State because while Republicans have good likely nominees in both places, ex-Gov. Mike Rounds has run statewide before, and Rep. Shelley Moore Capito has not. National Democrats also have shown little interest in backing likely nominee Rick Weiland in South Dakota, while they are more bullish on Secretary of State Natalie Tennant in West Virginia, which also has a long history of electing Democrats to the Senate. (South Dakota's record is more mixed.) In any event, these two seats are probably gone for the Democrats even if President Obama and his party bounce back in a big way over the next several months. A "ripple" is enough to wash them away.


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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (March 28, 1928 - May 26, 2017) was a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor in the administration of President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
- This will require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, more arms aid, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our non-proliferation policy.
- Memo to President Carter following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979).
- History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
- The New York Times, January 18, 1981 Quotation of the Day.
- Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.
- Between Two Ages: The Technetronic Era, 1971.
- ...foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times.
- Address to the New American Strategies Conference, (October 28, 2003).
- In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.
- 1970, Between Two Ages : America's Role in the Technetronic Era.
- Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.
- PBS NewsHour, October 26, 2006 PBS Newshour (2006). On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush.
- The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.
- The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (January 11, 2007).
- [President George W. Bush] has a vision which can be described with two other words: Manichaean paranoia... the notion that he is leading the forces of good against the empire of evil, that in that setting, the fact that we are morally superior justifies us committing immoral acts. And that is a very dangerous posture for the country that is the number one global power. ... The fact is he squandered our credibility, our legitimacy, and even respect for our power.
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (March 14, 2007).
- I am very worried that most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.
- ...'world peace' imposed by a dominant power assisted by a few partners is unlikely... only world peace driven by a recognition of the threat to everyone's survival is the most likely source of salvation...
- Time, The Answers Issue (July 2015), p. 49.
- [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
- We have a large public that is very ignorant about world affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans.
- Morning Joe (July 13, 2011).
- This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America's capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world.
- Interview in The National Interest - Brzezinski on the Syria Crisis, Interview in The National Interest (June 24, 2013).
- You have to ask yourself, 'What was the desire of the people who, after more than 40 years of Soviet oppression, became free?' They didn't want to be pawns between a residual West that ended somewhere on the borders of the old West Germany and a resurgent Russia. They wanted to be part of the democratic West and, eventually, of the European Union. Those are perfectly legitimate aspirations. This is no threat to Russia –- except to those Russians who cannot conceive of Russia as anything else but a dominant empire that rules not only over the Russian people but over those adjoining Russian territory.
- Interview in The Huffington Post - NATO Should Stop Putin From Restoring Czarist Empire, Zbigniew Brzezinski Says (September 3, 2014). Commenting on criticisms of NATO expansion to Eastern Europe.
The Grand Chessboard (1997)[edit]
- Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
- Chapter 1, Hegemony Of A New Type, p. 9.
- The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.
- Chapter 1, Hegemony Of A New Type, p. 25.
- For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia.
- Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 30.
- Fortunately for America, Eurasia is too big to be politically one. Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played.
- Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 31.
- The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.
- Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 35.
- It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.
- Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 35-36.
- In brief, for the United States, Eurasian geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term: preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into increasingly institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.
- Chapter 2, The Eurasian Chessboard, p. 40.
- There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
- Chapter 3, The Democratic Bridgehead, p. 62.
- It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.
- Chapter 3, The Democratic Bridgehead, p. 75.
- The key institutions of Soviet power - though weakened, demoralized, and corrupted - were still there. Symbolic of that reality and of the lingering hold of the Communist past was the historic centerpiece of Moscow: the continued presence of the Lenin mausoleum.
- Chapter 4, The Black Hole, p. 104.
- Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.
- Chapter 4, The Black Hole, p. 118.
- The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.
- Chapter 4, The Black Hole, p. 122.
- The world's energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the next two or three decades. Estimates by the U.S. Department of Energy anticipate that world demand will rise by more than 50 percent between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant increase in consumption occurring in the Far East. The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.
- Chapter 5, The Eurasian Balkans, p. 125.
- The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.
- Chapter 6, The Far Eastern Anchor, p. 161.
- The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.
- Conclusion, p. 198.
- In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last.
- Conclusion, p. 209.
- To put it very simply, anyone can become an American, but only a Chinese can be Chinese - and that places an additional and significant barrier in the way of any essentially national global hegemony.
- Conclusion, p. 210.
- Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.
- Conclusion, p. 211.
- With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.
- Conclusion, p. 213.
- I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.
- Elizabeth Becker, When The War Was Over..., 1979, p. 435 [1] (Brzezinski responded in the letter the NYT clarifying his postion at the time: "China acted alone [... Becker's article] asserts flatly as if it was a fact that the Carter Administration "helped arrange continued Chinese aid" to Pol Pot.[...] we told the Chinese explicitly that in our view Pol Pot was an abomination and that the United States would have nothing to do with him directly or indirectly.").
- According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
- Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris (15-21 January 1998). (Brzezinski has repeatedly denied having said this, and no such memo exists.)
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- For Brzezinski, doing damage to Russia is a hobby.
- James K. Galbraith, Democracy inaction, Salon.com (November 30, 2004).


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Poet and fiction writer Tim Z. Hernandez blogs about two workshops he led on May 2 at libraries in Stockton, California, as part of a Rural Library Tour partnership between Poets & Writers and the California Center for the Book.
The Maya Angelou Library on Stockton's southeast side sits near a tired slab of old homes and pothole-ridden streets, but this is where my next workshop is, and I'm excited for it. By now I've learned that behind each workshop door are people whose stories and voices will stay with me for days, sometimes months after. Suzy Daveluy, librarian and my host, conveys her worry about the number of people in attendance. Before I can reply we are approached by two teenage girls, their younger brother, and their mother. The girls introduce themselves as Emilia and Yvette. Their brother is Jesus, and their mother is Gloria.*
They are here for the workshop, but their faces look grim. Right off, the girls let me know that they have no interest in pursuing writing as a career. In short, their mother makes them attend such workshops because she wants them to grow up articulate, well spoken. Jesus says nothing. Gloria tells me, in Spanish, that she is from Mexico but has been in the U.S. for over twenty-two years. She says the only reason she maintains a strong accent is because she's always been reluctant to learn English. And this is it. This is my workshop.
We sit down and jump into a hearty discussion about memory. The girls giddily recall moments from their time growing up together, and there's lots of laughing, and even a few tears, shed mostly by Gloria. I have them write those memories down, at the very least, I say, to capture them forever. "If we don't tell our own stories," I say, "who will?" When it's time to share their writing, the girls go first, and then their mother, and now I'm staring at fifteen-year-old Jesus.
Finally he lifts his paper in front of him and glances over the words, then sits up straight and begins to read the memory he wrote about his father:
...the seatbelt, with its zigzag patterns
in blue, the shiny buckle, with its shiny button,
ahh, that little worn out button,
the sun, against the worn out button,
ahh, the sun and the worn out blue
of a button...
If I didn't see him write those words out in front of me, I might have never believed he wrote it. His delivery is like a smooth Lenny Bruce, witty and sharp, confident. Suzy and I look at one another, and I know we're thinking the same thing: We've found the future poet laureate of Stockton! Of California! Hell, of the United States!
"You're a natural poet," I tell him.
He lowers his eyes.
His mother feels the need to explain. "Jesus was picked on when he was in elementary school," she says. Jesus rolls his eyes. "He had a bad teacher who put his English down in front of the other students, so he thought he was dumb. He used to come home saying he was dumb."
Jesus says, "Read and red."
"What's that?" I ask.
"Read and red," he replies. "It was read and red. I didn't understand the difference, so I always got those two words mixed up, and I always spelled them wrong."
I tell him spelling doesn't matter. I think of what the poet Maria Melendez says from the moment she enters a clasroom of children: YOU ARE THE BOSS OF YOUR OWN POETRY! And I can't tell you how many times I've seen adults steal away this possibility from children.
I tell them about California's newest poet laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera—the son of migrant farmworkers, selected by Governor Jerry Brown himself. And then I recite a line from one of Herrera's poems: I didn't start out as a poet, because I was silenced. I started out with something I wanted to say. Jesus smiles now, and so does his mother.
"You see," she tells him in Spanish, "One day you could be a famous poet too!"
He grins and looks over at his sisters. "That would be cool," he says, folding his poem and sticking it into his back pocket.
*Family members' names have been changed.
Top photo: Tim Z. Hernandez. Credit: David Herrera. Bottom photo: Jesus (left) and librarian Suzy Daveluy. Credit: Tim Z. Hernandez.
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