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I am surprised that nobody has mentioned it yet. The teacher next door (at school) and the principal went home sick. I think about 40 kids have had it so far, and many more were gone today.
Lucky for us that the vaccine will be ready in a month!!! Sarcasm isn't nice is it? Sammy |
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- Posted by zeffyrose_pa6b7 6b7 (My Page) on Tue, Sep 8, 09 at 19:07
some professionals are advising against the shot--- what have you heard about this???? Florence |
The woman next door said she was too late for the test to work, but the doctor said she has all the symptoms of the swine flu. Today our nurse was really sick , too. I think that by the time the swine flu vaccine is ready, most people will have had the flu. Sammy |
We don't have many cases of swine flu here...thank goodness! I am so careful when going out in the public now a days. I use a lot of the hand sanitizers, wipe the buggy handles off with it in the grocery stores. I haven't been sick with a cold for a long time...knock on wood!!! Deb |
- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Tue, Sep 8, 09 at 22:52
My husband is a nurse. A few weeks ago he took care of someone who they later found out to have swine flu. He was offered a vaccine but refused. I think it was just the tamiflu and not the one coming out. He's still susspicious about it. |
So, is the shot for swine flu dangerous? Does it make you sick? Deb |
- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Wed, Sep 9, 09 at 10:38
I think the problem is that we just don't know much about it yet. I haven't heard about it making anyone sick. He just felt at the time that he didn't want to take the risk of tamiflu and that it wasn't sure that it prevented Swine Flu anyway. |
I have 5 classes, and one class had 7 students ill. Each class had quite a few, but 7 out of 25 is too many. I hope none of you get it. My friend from next door is still running a fever. She began running a fever last Sat. Sammy |
My daughter teaches 2-8 grades in Gibson City, IL and I worry about her. She lives in Bloomington and it was reported last week that 29 students at ISU there have the swine flu. Her best friend teaches in Brazil and the president of Brazil delayed the start of school 3 weeks until the end of August due to the rash of swine flu there. I'm also very concerned about my 7-year old grandson, who has a liver transplant 2 years ago and had lymphoma last June and subsequent chemo last summer....he has absolutely no immune system. He is very suspectible to every germ that comes along and can get extremely sick within hours. |
Sammy, you know this is not personal. But swine is such a horribly ugly word. The term is H1N1. I had to take my daughter to ER this week as all the urgent cares were closed. They diagnosed her with H1N1. This diagnosis because this is not the typical flu season they said. Starts off with very bad cough, chills, aches. They gave her tamiflu. Also some other tests but did take chest xray. Thurs. I start the same symptoms and take some of her Tamiflu. Fri. I go to dr. Dr. tells me I have bronchitis. She has report from my daughter's xray too, saying it looks like bronchitis. She gives me antibiotics and cough syrup. Came home and called Hosp. to find out their response to the results of daughter's xray. They tell me it looks viral. Daughter goes to same doc as me later Fri. afternoon. Dr. now has full report from hospital saying flu. Now wonder if I had gone after daughter's report would the doc have given me tamiflu to prevent? Who knows. Sat. I go to urgent care for flu test. Flu test negative but gives me Relenza, a drug that has been off the market but is good for type A and B flu. Also gives me more antibiotics and Tessalon perle, coughing pill. I am taking the first antibiotic because I don't want to get pnuemonia. You must stay on top of your own healthcare. Healthcare workers are only human. Terry, you should be worried. Whatever we've had, it kicks your but. But it doesn't last very long. Doctors should tell everyone to cough into their arms at elbow and wash hands! Everyone stay well, it's so early for so much flu. Carla |
We are on high alert here in Oregon. I am a school counselor at a middle school and an elementary school, so I am washing my hands like crazy. They say the vaccine should be ready by Oct. and that it works well and quickly. I for one will be the first one in line. I hate to be sick. Kathy |
Terryjean, I can certainly understand your worry about that little grandson. Carla, here everyone says swine flu, just like they did when it went around 30 years ago. I am afraid to say H1N1 because a slight confusion in those letters is something else. My friend next door came back today, and when I started to go into my classroom, one of her students started throwing up in the waste basket. Most of my students were back today, but they didn't look good. On TV they say the shots will be ready the middle of Oct. I probably will do what the CDC says to do. My friend had a fever for about 7 days or more. THat is a long time. Sammy |
- Posted by meredith_e 7B Piedmont NC (My Page) on Fri, Sep 18, 09 at 0:07
I hope everyone feels better and makes it nicely through the flu season. I'm disappointed that the vaccine isn't available now. The more folks immunized, the safer at-risk people will be. I had swine flu this late spring. I did fine, but it feels awful. I'm actually glad now that I had it and it's over with for me. I'd get the shot otherwise! My fingers are crossed for everyone. |
- Posted by athenainwi z4b/5 WI (My Page) on Fri, Sep 18, 09 at 18:19
There was a student at the university who said she had H1N1 in the spring and she has it again now. A lot of the university kids have been getting sick with it. The student that works in my lab had it over labor day weekend. Luckily the rest of the lab didn't get sick. The football team had a bunch of sick players too. I'm hoping to get the vaccine as soon as it comes out since I work at the hospital, but I'm worried that I'll catch it before then. They lifted the doctor's note requirements at the university since they don't want the people with H1N1 to go to the doctor and get them sick. |
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craigslist is available for Nashville. That may be too far away for you. You could try an Internet search engine with the terms "barter" and the names of some nearby cities or counties to see what it finds. |
Check freecycle, it's a good thing, chapters all over. |
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On November 14 last year, the National Basketball Players Association transformed into a trade association. The nuclear option, so to speak, did not end all chances of basketball being played in the 2011-12 season. Less than two weeks later, on November 26 after 15 hours of negotiations between the NBA owners and lawyers representing the players, a tentative deal was reached.
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If decertification is option of choice…kiss season goodbye. Seems early for this move and still need to be educated on how it would work.
— Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) November 23, 2012
Another option for Fehr — a worst-case scenario for any hockey fan — would be decertifying the NHLPA. But that's a complex procedure that guarantees the players nothing, and guarantees not only no hockey for this season, but likely next as well.
The nuclear option can mean a lot of things. Basically as you know by now, there has been the threat of decertification among some NHLPA members. Ryan Miller sent an email to the Globe and Mail which presumably set off a number of Wednesday night barroom arguments between fans with different theories on how the NHL should be run.
Apparently, decertification ends the terms collectively bargained between the union and the league. That means salary caps, escrow, but also pensions and benefits. The draft and free agency. Guaranteed contracts. Essentially, it would be a chaotic system.
But we'll likely never get there. It's in the league's interest to have a union to negotiate with:
"Now, the purpose of the union is not so much to prevent exploitation, but it's really to protect the owners," Ron Klempner, associate general counsel of the NBPA, said in May. "The purpose of decertification, if we do it the next time, will be because the collective-bargaining process has pretty much run its course in professional sports," he added.
Certainly, many of the elements of a chaotic system where players negotiate independently with teams do benefit the players, particularly the upper-echelon stars. It's probably better for the fans, too, at least the "no lockouts" policy. For some of the third and fourth liners in the league, well, you know how at least a few fans have said that they'd play hockey for free? That just may become the case in a nuclear winter scenario.
But we won't get to that. The threat of decertification has been talked about prominently in the hockey media for the last couple of days, but whether the players follow through on the threat depends on the NHL's reaction. Judging by Darren Dreger's tweet on the matter last night, linked above, they're pretty scared and are looking to frame the discussion in a way that equalizes the union carrying out their threat with no season.
However, that would only be if this matter went into the courts. More likely, the threat is being conjured up in a way to get the owners back to the bargaining table. Why would it do that? I'd highly recommend this piece by Gabe Feldman over at Grantland last year about the NBA. His summary, or why the NBPA dissolving could be considered a note of optimism for basketball fans, is that "the owners might have been willing to cancel an entire season to get a better CBA for future years, but are they willing to cancel an entire season while also risking three-times damages under antitrust law?"
It's riskier for the owners if decertification is carried out. The quote from Klempner above shows why. Pro sports unions serve a different purpose than their original intent, one looking at preserving the status quo, allowing owners to preserve stability in exchange for widespread pension and medical benefits. The beneficiaries of a union are the players who are in the lower rungs, talent-wise. The NHL broke the PA last time around by raising minimum salaries, and the effect of the salary cap, seven years later, is that third and fourth line players are making way more than they deserve. In the NFL, where the union has significantly less power, the star quarterbacks make a lot more than the long snapper.
The point of this post, however, isn't to showcase my amateurish knowledge of sports and trade law. Mostly, I'm fascinated by how the NHL lockout has mirrored the NBA's of last season. Decertification rumours don't mean the end of the 2012-13 NHL season as we know it, since the NBA recovered in time for a memorable 66-game season plus one of the best playoffs. There are so many marketable young stars in the NHL right now, as there are in the NBA, that there's no reason for the league to drag this out into a year-long labour battle in the courts rather than at the bargaining table. I'm curious to see the owners' next move, or a more official response to this development that happened after the latest talks broke down.


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Dragon Soul normal and heroic nerf begins Jan. 31 {WoW}
Jan 19th 2012 6:38AM That's a fair point, but I'd still suggest that the problem there is bad design (with a huge spike in difficulty after four comparatively easy bosses).
Indeed, Ultraxion is a Patchwerk "Gatekeeper" boss: the whole point of an encounter like that is to slow progress and force people to farm earlier loot tables in order to 'unlock' the next segment. There's obviously a limit to how long that should take and a nerf allows new raiders (who haven't been farming 4/8 for weeks) to join in. Still, a raid shouldn't be designed in a way that holds people at 5/8 for 6/8 weeks.
The design intent just doesn't seem consistent / well implemented.
Dragon Soul normal and heroic nerf begins Jan. 31 {WoW}
Jan 19th 2012 5:58AM To those (including Blizzard!) saying this makes sense because some guilds have hit a roadblock: Dragon Soul will have had 8 complete lockouts when this nerf begins. Unless I've messed up by napkin math, that's 1 per boss, not counting heroics. Does anyone honestly think that we should be cruising through this stuff at the rate of one boss per week and that nerfs are necessary otherwise?
Fair enough if someone, somewhere is stuck on Yor or Zonn, but I'm tempted to suggest those people need better gear / tactics, not a retuning of the content.
The Star Wars Insider Show Episode 225: Ham bomb {WoW}
Jan 6th 2012 3:22PM Just got around to listening to this, having de-subbed from the itunes feed a while back. Really appreciated the unannounced SWTOR plot spoiler. Ftr, I didn't know *that*. Obviously I'm some kind of weird anomalous internet user who doesn't pore over information on plot-centric games in advance. I've also somehow managed to look a reviews of ToR, read news stories about ToR, check out class-guides for ToR and listen to podcasts specifically about ToR and still not have any of the plot reveals spoiled.
I'm probably going to vote with my feet in any case, but you guys could really do with revising your approach to this sort of thing. There's no need for it, or significant benefit from it.
The Queue: Shades.app {WoW}
Dec 5th 2011 3:53AM @Zodiac - He knows Kalecgos isn't going to be functioning normally as the aspect of blue fairy dust (or whatever it is) anymore. The fact that he doesn't know exactly how or why is irrelevant. It's still a plot detail he would otherwise remain ignorant of. Simple as that.
It's not as big a deal as this trainwreck of a comment system is making out, but it's still fairly dumb to have spoiler warnings everywhere and then post that above the cut in a queue. Even if you don't think the actual 'spoiler' is a big deal, it's a bizarre and inconsistent decision from the pov of editorial policy. Adding 'womp womp' doesn't help either - there's a word for that.
Sure, it's hard to decide exactly when things should and shouldn't be spoiled, but that's not actually a good excuse in this case. Within a day or two a huge section of the playerbase is going to have the chance to see the second half of Dragon Soul for themselves in Raid Finder. Why on Earth would you risk spoiling them *now*? If you have to do it, do it next week when you actually can assume a huge number of players will have seen it for themselves...
The Queue: Shades.app {WoW}
Dec 4th 2011 8:03PM This is a good point - I actually avoided clicking the KYL above this *because* of the spoiler alert.
Ball very much dropped.
Blue posts and other WoW news: Skyrim silence {WoW}
Nov 15th 2011 7:20AM @ Violet Arrows:
"I came to an entire village that was completely empty"
Yes. There's a reason why. Exploration would have discovered it. There's probably a mod that puts a dude with a ! above his head smack bang in the middle of it though...
"the first 3 hours after escaping the sewers, wandering what felt like friggin' forever, and the only other people I'd seen were bandits that had tried to kill me."
Turn around. There's a massive city right behind you. It's got lots of people in it.
The WoW Insider Show's Weekly News Update {WoW}
Nov 6th 2011 7:05AM Any chance we could get these on a separate itunes feed?
The Queue: Your Ex-Lover is Dead {WoW}
Oct 29th 2011 2:47PM This guy is making a reasonable point and he's doing so politely and articulately. He's also asking a legitimate question with respect to how popular the MoP concept might be relative to other possibilities. The sort of question that could reasonably be expected to generate some interesting discussion in these comments, by the staffers and perhaps even on the podcast.
There is simply no need to be down-voting every single person who has anything other than a positive comment to make about this surprising new expansion choice.
The Queue: Let's guess the Mists of Pandaria release date {WoW}
Oct 25th 2011 11:07AM I doubt it -we may not have as much involvement in 'building' them, but the different specialisations are still designed to do the same thing. A player will still need a second spec in order to fulfil a second role on the same character.
BlizzCon 2011: Samwise on Mists of Pandaria {WoW}
Oct 22nd 2011 7:46AM 'a six feet high predator'
Yeah man. That Orc will be quaking in his bamboo breastplate.


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Lord & Taylor launched live chat on its site in 2009 to give shoppers more ways to get their questions answered, says Christina Callas, senior vice president, e-commerce and digital marketing, at the retailer's parent company, Hudson's Bay Trading Co. "We want to have multiple ways customers can interact with us throughout their shopping experience," she says.
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Silencing Bahrain's Journalists
June 2, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Lamees Dhaif tells Al Jazeera: "They can stop us from telling stories now, but they can't stop us forever."
By Matthew Cassel
Women and local journalists have long been at the forefront of the movement for change in the Arab world. Bahrain's Lamees Dhaif is both, and for nearly a decade she has been an outspoken proponent of social justice in the small island nation.
Thirty-four-year-old Dhaif spoke to Al Jazeera in Doha this past weekend about her career as a journalist and the recent government crackdown that has silenced her and many others in the Gulf kingdom.
Dhaif described herself as a "golden child" when she entered journalism in 2002, saying she had "everything it takes" to be a great journalist. Since then, Dhaif has become one of the most recognised and controversial personalities in Bahrain's media.
"I came with an aggressive approach to journalism," she said. "In Bahrain, they try to avoid conflict in journalism; they don't want to upset anyone. It's a small society, so if you write about someone you're going to upset his relatives."
Dhaif, a Shia Muslim who comes from a "conservative" background, said: "I criticised the [Shia religious establishment] and I've been the target of my own people."
"And then I started to target the powerful and the elite, someone had to say something."
"For example, we have 21 sports unions in Bahrain, and the heads of 17 of them are members of the royal family," Dhaif explained. "I asked, 'why is the chairman of the swimming union so fat?' I asked the same for the minister of health, 'shouldn't he be a doctor?'"
"In the beginning I was smart, a little bit spoiled. I wanted to prove myself. When I put my hand deeper in my work and went for the first time to the villages and saw poverty and injustice, I started to despise myself for thinking that working in the media was something that could make me a star."
"I started addressing issues that made the powerful want to destroy me, I made many enemies," Dhaif said.
Dhaif described the government's campaign to ruin her reputation. Statements were made about her physical appearance and behaviour, claims she dismisses as rumours and attempts to "shrink" her in the conservative Gulf society.
Dhaif said these attacks backfired and "only made me more determined, and spreading the rumours made me more known".
However, lately Dhaif has been silenced since the government imposed martial law to suppress a protest movement that began in February of this year.
Bahrain, a key ally of the US and home to its Navy's fifth fleet, is controlled by a Sunni monarchy. Shia, who make up more than two-thirds of the population, lack rights and are excluded from most high-level political positions and the security forces.
The protest movement resembled those in Tunisia and Egypt which came before and succeeded in ousting the respective heads of both states. In Bahrain, protesters demanding change started their own Tahrir Square-like sit-in at Manama's Pearl Roundabout, before they were forcibly removed. The government later destroyed the roundabout.
One month after protests began, the Bahrainmonarchy imposed martial law and invited thousands of Saudi troops to help quell the uprising.
Since that time, more than 30 protesters have been killed and hundreds of protesters, human rights advocates, medical workers, journalists and others have been rounded up and imprisoned by the authorities. Rights groups have condemned the widespread detention and subsequent torture and abuse reportedly happening inside the prisons. At least four detainees have died in custody, and two have been sentenced to death. Amnesty International has condemned military trials in Bahrain as "politically motivated and unfair".
Dhaif described how her family had come under threat for her work, and, encouraged by her relatives, she took a break from writing since martial law began. "I stopped [practicing journalism] because I didn't want to be arrested. If I'm arrested now, how can I document the others in jail? Everyone is arrested."
Since the crackdown began, many activists, journalists and others have gone into hiding to avoid arrest by authorities – which posted pictures of the "wanted" on various media outlets, including Facebook.
"We reached a point where we're scared to even write on our laptops because it's the first thing they take when they invade our homes. So, I keep all the stories in my head," Dhaif said.
"They can stop us from telling stories now, but they can't do it forever. Even the dead will tell their stories."
The government and state media in Bahrain have portrayed the protest movement as sectarian and attempted to justify the crackdown by warning against Iranian influence in the country. In April, Bahrain's foreign minister said that foreign troops would stay in the country to remove any "external threat", that he associated with Iran.
According to Dhaif, in Bahrain, "there are some Shia who have a lot. And there are a lot of Sunnis suffering, but they're scared to [act] because the government makes them scared of Iran".
"The government says that the protesters want Iran [to controlBahrain] … it's an old song that they've sung for decades. What the hell do we want with Iran?
It is not a civilised government, it is a dictatorship. We wish a better life for the people in Iran."
Dhaif asked: "Do all Sunnis want a government like Saudi Arabia? So why do they accuse any Shia of wanting a religious government like in Iran?"
Unlike protests in other Arab nations, Dhaif contends that the majority of protesters in Bahrain do not want "isqat al-nitham" (to overthrow the regime), but rather reform and equal rights.
"Bahrainis are peaceful and intelligent people, and we deserve a modern country. We deserve to be treated as citizens and partners, not followers and slaves. We don't want to rule, we don't want their palaces, their thrones, their Rolls Royces and their jets, we just want to be treated with dignity."
"If the government said 'let us keep our thrones, and we'll offer you the dignity you deserve' the people would accept," Dhaif said.
"If the government gives them real rights there would be no need to protest. [The government] should stop being so stubborn – they can't change the people, but the people can change them."
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Bahrain or Bust?
April 14, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Pakistan should think twice before meddling in the Middle East.
By Miranda Husain
Less than three weeks after Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) forces, led by Saudi Arabia, entered Bahrain to aid the anti-democracy crackdown there, dignitaries from both oil-rich kingdoms did their separate rounds in Pakistan. The royal houses of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are nervous, and they need Pakistan's mercenaries, and—if necessary—military muscle to shore them up.
This is a remarkable turn of events for Asif Ali Zardari, who had been trying since he was elected president in 2008 to secure Saudi oil on sweetheart terms. He had been unsuccessful in his efforts because the Sunni Saudis view his leadership with some degree of skepticism. It also doesn't help that Zardari, a Shia, is big on improving relations with Shia Tehran. Riyadh now appears inclined to export oil on terms that better suit cash-strapped Islamabad. Manama, too, wants to play ball. It wants increased defense cooperation and has pledged to prioritize Pakistan's hopes for a free-trade agreement with the GCC in return. But Zardari and his Army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, should fight the urge to get mired in the Middle East.
Pakistan already has a presence in Bahrain: a battalion of the Azad Kashmir Regiment was deployed there over a year ago to train local troops, and retired officers from our Navy and Army are part of their security forces. Media estimates put the number of Pakistanis serving in Bahrain's security establishment at about 10,000. Their removal has been a key demand of protesters in the kingdom. Last month in Islamabad, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani reportedly assured Bahrain's foreign minister, Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, that Pakistan would offer more retired manpower to help quell the uprising against Bahrain's Sunni rulers by its Shia majority. Gilani's spokesman was unable to confirm the pledge.
Islamabad's support to the tottering regime in Manama is not ideal.
"It's like our version of Blackwater," says Talat Masood, a former Pakistan Army general, referring to Bahrain's recruitment drive in Pakistan. "We're doing [in Bahrain] exactly what we have been opposing here," he says. Pakistan, he maintains, has no business in trying to suppress a democratic, people's movement in another country. Short-term economic gains cannot be the only prism through which Pakistan views its national interests, he says.
Pakistan has a long history of military involvement and training in the Arab world. Its pilots flew warplanes in the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict, and volunteered for the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Involvement in Bahrain's current strife would not be the first time that Pakistan has used its military might to thwart an Arab uprising against an Arab regime. In 1970, future military dictator Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, then head of the Pakistani military training mission in Jordan, led his soldiers to intervene on the side of Amman to quash a Palestinian challenge to its rule.
Some Bahraini opposition groups have called on the U.S. to intervene to get the GCC troops out of their country, fearing it could become a battleground in a Saudi-Iranian battle for regional supremacy. They stress that they share no real affinity with the theocratic regime in Shia-majority Iran, while noting that a number of Bahraini Sunni Muslims have also come out in the streets to call for greater reforms.
Pakistani involvement, therefore, could result in it being embroiled in a proxy war, with serious implications for its own security interests.
The issue of Iran is important, but there's a deeper issue, according to author Noam Chomsky. "By historical and geographical accident, the main concentration of global energy resources is in the northern Gulf region, which is predominantly Shia," he told Newsweek Pakistan.
Bahrain, he points out, neighbors eastern Saudi Arabia, where most of the latter's oil is. "Western planners have long been concerned that a tacit Shia alliance might take shape with enormous control over the world's energy resources, and perhaps not be reliably obedient to the U.S."
Bahrain, which like Pakistan was designated a major non-NATO ally by the George W. Bush presidency, is home to the Fifth Fleet. It is the primary U.S. base in the region and allows Washington to ensure the free flow of oil through the Gulf, while keeping checks on Iran.
Chomsky believes that Pakistani presence in Bahrain can be seen as part of a U.S.-backed alliance to safeguard Western access to the region's oil.
"The U.S. has counted on Pakistan to help control the Arab world and safeguard Arab rulers from their own populations," says Chomsky.
"Pakistan was one of the 'cops on the beat' that the Nixon administration had in mind when outlining their doctrine for controlling the Arab world," he says. Pakistan has such "severe internal problems" that it may not be able to play this role even if asked to. But the real reason that Pakistan should avoid this role is so that it can stand on the right side of history, alongside those who are fighting for democracy.
It's All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement–Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq
December 18, 2008 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Courtesy Patrick Cockburn
On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by December 31, 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks time. Private security companies will lose their legal immunity. US military operations and the arrest of Iraqis will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. There will be no US military bases left behind when the last US troops leave in three years time and the US military is banned in the interim from carrying out attacks on other countries from Iraq.
The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), signed after eight months of rancorous negotiations, is categorical and unconditional. America's bid to act as the world's only super-power and to establish quasi-colonial control of Iraq, an attempt which began with the invasion of 2003, has ended in failure. There will be a national referendum on the new agreement next July, but the accord is to be implemented immediately so the poll will be largely irrelevant. Even Iran, which had furiously denounced the first drafts of the SOFA saying that they would establish a permanent US presence in Iraq, now says blithely that it will officially back the new security pact after the referendum. This is a sure sign that Iran, as America's main rival in the Middle East, sees the pact as marking the final end of the US occupation and as a launching pad for military assaults on neighbours such as Iran.
Astonishingly, this momentous agreement has been greeted with little surprise or interest outside Iraq. On the same day that it was finally passed by the Iraqi parliament international attention was wholly focused on the murderous terrorist attack in Mumbai. For some months polls in the US showed that the economic crisis had replaced the Iraqi war as the main issue facing America in the eyes of voters. So many spurious milestones in Iraq have been declared by President Bush over the years that when a real turning point occurs people are naturally sceptical about its significance. The White House was so keen to limit understanding of what it had agreed in Iraq that it did not even to publish a copy of the SOFA in English. Some senior officials in the Pentagon are privately criticizing President Bush for conceding so much to the Iraqis, but the American media are fixated on the incoming Obama administration and no longer pays much attention to the doings of the expiring Bush administration.
The last minute delays to the accord were not really about the terms agreed with the Americans. It was rather that the leaders of the Sunni Arab minority, seeing the Shia-Kurdish government of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki about to fill the vacuum created by the US departure, wanted to barter their support for the accord in return for as many last minute concessions as they could extract. Some three quarters of the 17,000 prisoners held by the Americans are Sunni and they wanted them released or at least not mistreated by the Iraqi security forces. They asked for an end to de-Baathication which is directed primarily at the Sunni community. Only the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held out against the accord to the end, declaring it a betrayal of independent Iraq. The ultra-patriotic opposition of the Sadrists to the accord has been important because it has made it difficult for the other Shia parties to agree to anything less than a complete American withdrawal. If they did so they risked being portrayed as US puppets in the upcoming provincial elections at the end of January 2009 or the parliamentary elections later in the year.
The SOFA finally agreed is almost the opposite of the one which US started to negotiate in March. This is why Iran, with its strong links to the Shia parties inside Iraq, ended its previous rejection of it. The first US draft was largely an attempt to continue the occupation without much change from the UN mandate which expired at the end of the year. Washington overplayed its hand. The Iraqi government was growing stronger as the Sunni Arabs ended their uprising against the occupation. The Iranians helped restrain the Mehdi Army, Muqtada's powerful militia, so the government regained control of Basra, Iraq's second biggest city, and Sadr City, almost half Baghdad, from the Shia militias. The prime minister Nouri al-Maliki became more confident, realizing his military enemies were dispersing and, in any case, the Americans had no real alternative but to support him. The US has always been politically weak in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein because it has few real friends in the country aside from the Kurds. The leaders of the Iraqi Shia, 60 per cent of the total population, might ally themselves to Washington to gain power, but they never intended to share power with the US in the long term.
The occupation has always been unpopular in Iraq. Foreign observers and some Iraqis are often misled by the hatred with which different Iraqi communities regard each other into underestimating the strength of Iraqi nationalism. Once Maliki came to believe that he could survive without US military support then he was able to spurn US proposals until an unconditional withdrawal was conceded. He could also see that Barack Obama, whose withdrawal timetable was not so different from his own, was going to be the next American president. Come the provincial and parliamentary elections of 2009, Maliki can present himself as the man who ended the occupation. Critics of the prime minister, notably the Kurds, think that success has gone to his head, but there is no doubt that the new security agreement has strengthened him politically.
It may be that, living in the heart of the Green Zone, that Maliki has an exaggerated idea of what his government has achieved. In the Zone there is access to clean water and electricity while in the rest of Baghdad people have been getting only three or four hours electricity a day. Security in Iraq is certainly better than it was during the sectarian civil war between Sunni and Shia in 2006-7 but the improvement is wholly comparative. The monthly death toll has dropped from 3,000 a month at its worst to 360 Iraqi civilians and security personnel killed this November, though these figures may understate the casualty toll as not all the bodies are found. Iraq is still one of the most dangerous places in the world. On December 1, the day I started writing this article, two suicide bombers killed 33 people and wounded dozens more in Baghdad and Mosul. Iraqis in the street are cynical about the government's claim to have restored order. "We are used to the government always saying that things have become good and the security situation improved," says Salman Mohammed Jumah, a primary school teacher in Baghdad. "It is true security is a little better but the government leaders live behind concrete barriers and do not know what is happening on the ground. They only go out in their armoured convoys. We no longer have sectarian killings by ID cards [revealing that a person is Sunni or Shia by their name] but Sunni are still afraid to go to Shia areas and Shia to Sunni."
Security has improved with police and military checkpoints everywhere but sectarian killers have also upgraded their tactics. There are less suicide bombings but there are many more small 'sticky bombs' placed underneath vehicles. Everybody checks underneath their car before they get into it. I try to keep away from notorious choke points in Baghdad, such as Tahrir Square or the entrances to the Green Zone, where a bomber for can wait for a target to get stuck in traffic before making an attack. The checkpoints and the walls, the measures taken to reduce the violence, bring Baghdad close to paralysis even when there are no bombs. It can take two or three hours to travel a few miles. The bridges over the Tigris are often blocked and this has got worse recently because soldiers and police have a new toy in the shape of a box which looks like a transistor radio with a short aerial sticking out horizontally. When pointed at the car this device is supposed to detect vapor from explosives and may well do so, but since it also responds to vapor from alcohol or perfume it is worse than useless as a security aid.
Iraqi state television and government backed newspapers make ceaseless claims that life in Iraq is improving by the day. To be convincing this should mean not just improving security but providing more electricity, clean water and jobs. "The economic situation is still very bad," says Salman Mohammed Jumah, the teacher. "Unemployment affects everybody and you can't get a job unless you pay a bribe. There is no electricity and nowadays we have cholera again so people have to buy expensive bottled water and only use the water that comes out of the tap for washing." Not everybody has the same grim vision but life in Iraq is still extraordinarily hard. The best barometer for how far Iraq is 'better' is the willingness of the 4.7 million refugees, one in five Iraqis who have fled their homes and are now living inside or outside Iraq, to go home. By October only 150,000 had returned and some do so only to look at the situation and then go back to Damascus or Amman. One middle aged Sunni businessman who came back from Syria for two or three weeks, said: "I don't like to be here. In Syria I can go out in the evening to meet friends in a coffe bar. It is safe. Here I am forced to stay in my home after 7pm."
The degree of optimism or pessimism felt by Iraqis depends very much on whether they have a job, whether or not that job is with the government, which community they belong to, their social class and the area they live in. All these factors are interlinked. Most jobs are with the state that reputedly employs some two million people. The private sector is very feeble. Despite talk of reconstruction there are almost no cranes visible on the Baghdad skyline. Since the Shia and Kurds control of the government, it is difficult for a Sunni to get a job and probably impossible unless he has a letter recommending him from a political party in the government. Optimism is greater among the Shia. "There is progress in our life, says Jafar Sadiq, a Shia businessman married to a Sunni in the Shia-dominated Iskan area of Baghdad. "People are cooperating with the security forces. I am glad the army is fighting the Mehdi Army though they still are not finished. Four Sunni have reopened their shops in my area. It is safe for my wife's Sunni relatives to come here. The only things we need badly are electricity, clean water and municipal services." But his wife Jana admitted privately that she had warned her Sunni relatives from coming to Iskan "because the security situation is unstable." She teaches at Mustansariyah University in central Baghdad which a year ago was controlled by the Mehdi Army and Sunni students had fled. "Now the Sunni students are coming back," she says, "though they are still afraid."
They have reason to fear. Baghdad is divided into Shia and Sunni enclaves defended by high concrete blast walls often with a single entrance and exit. The sectarian slaughter is much less than it was but it is still dangerous for returning refugees to try to reclaim their old house in an area in which they are a minority. In one case in a Sunni district in west Baghdad, as I reported here some weeks ago, a Shia husband and wife with their two daughters went back to their house to find it gutted, with furniture gone and electric sockets and water pipes torn out. They decided to sleep on the roof. A Sunni gang reached them from a neighboring building, cut off the husband's head and threw it into the street. They said to his wife and daughters: "The same will happen to any other Shia who comes back." But even without these recent atrocities Baghdad would still be divided because the memory of the mass killings of 2006-7 is too fresh and there is still an underlying fear that it could happen again.
Iraqis have a low opinion of their elected representatives, frequently denouncing them as an incompetent kleptocracy. The government administration is dysfunctional. "Despite the fact," said independent member of parliament Qassim Daoud, "that the Labor and Social Affairs is meant to help the millions of poor Iraqis I discovered that they had spent only 10 per cent of their budget." Not all of this is the government's fault. Iraqi society, administration and economy have been shattered by 28 years of war and sanctions. Few other countries have been put under such intense and prolonged pressure. First there was the eight year Iran- Iraq war starting in 1980, then the disastrous Gulf war of `1991, thirteen years of sanctions and then the five-and-a-half years of conflict since the US invasion. Ten years ago UN officials were already saying they could not repair the faltering power stations because they were so old that spare parts were no longer made for them.
Iraq is full of signs of the gap between the rulers and the ruled. The few planes using Baghdad international airport are full foreign contractors and Iraqi government officials. Talking to people on the streets in Baghdad in October many of them brought up fear of cholera which had just started to spread from Hilla province south of Baghdad. Forty per cent of people in the capital do not have access to clean drinking water. The origin of the epidemic was the purchase of out of date chemicals for water purification from Iran by corrupt officials. Everybody talked about the cholera except in the Green Zone where people had scarcely heard of the epidemic. .
The Iraqi government will become stronger as the Americans depart. It will also be forced to take full responsibility for the failings of the Iraqi state. This will be happening at a bad moment since the price of oil, the state's only source of revenue, has fallen to $50 a barrel when the budget assumed it would be $80. Many state salaries, such as those of teachers, were doubled on the strength of this, something the government may now regret. Communal differences are still largely unresolved. Friction between Sunni and Shia, bad though it is, is less than two years ago, though hostility between Arabs and Kurds is deepening. The departure of the US military frightens many Sunni on the grounds that they will be at the mercy of the majority Shia. But it is also an incentive for the three main communities in Iraq to agree about what their future relations should be when there are no Americans to stand between them. As for the US, its moment in Iraq is coming to an end as its troops depart, leaving a ruined country behind them.
Patrick Cockburn is the author of 'The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq', a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for best non-fiction book of 2006. His new book 'Muqtada! Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia revival and the struggle for Iraq' is published by Scribner.
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My maternal grandmother died in 1972, 10 years before I was born. One of the items that she gave my mother, before she died, was her favorite punch bowl. As you can imagine, my mother cherished this bowl. My mom is a very simple, down-to-earth, non-materialistic type person. She doesn't want, nor does she have, alot of 'stuff'. 2 weeks ago, at my 2-year old son's bday party, my wife asked to borrow a punch bowl, never imagining that my mom would let her use my grandmother's bowl. After the party, we loaded up the SUV and placed the bowl in the back floor board to keep it from sliding. I didn't know it was in the floor behind the driver's seat and, when I slid my seat back, it broke into 5 pieces. Needless to say, I was devistated. I told my mom about it and, as much as it upset her, being the great mom that she is, told me 'not to worry about it. It's just a bowl'.
I am going to replace her bowl. I've tried to piece it back together but have gotten no where. Does anyone know of a company/vendor that, if I mailed them the pieces, they could piece it together for me? I do not care if it is usable, I just want her to have it back. If this service doesn't exist, by looking at the attached pics, can anyone tell me the make/model (I know it isn't a car but I have no clue whatelse to call it)? I want to be able to buy her a new one but need to know what to search for. I am so sorry for the crueling length of this post. Thanks in advance for any help!! JSH |
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Your pictures are not very good....would like to see all the pieces so we might get an idea of shape....and the first 2 pictures are very dark. Google images of pressed glass punch bowls.....see what you find. Or contact this place....linked below. |
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I am so sorry, I know the pain of breaking something thats been in the family for years. Your mom is a true lady!! Good luck with the repairs. |
- Posted by newhomebuilder (My Page) on Fri, Jun 1, 12 at 16:14
So sorry this has happened to you. I know you must feel awful, but as your mother said, it is just a bowl. Is this the punch bowl? Looks like this one sold on eBay, but worth a shot to contact the seller and make sure. |
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- Posted by patty_cakes (My Page) on Fri, Jun 1, 12 at 19:33
You must feel so guilty. I'm posting a pic of one from the shopgoodwill.com site, but if it's not it, put the words 'punch bowl' under search and all will come up. You might want to start by visiting local thrift stores in your area. |
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If the breaks are clean, you may be able to find someone to fix it. We have a fellow here in Alexandria who is a wizard at repairing old glass pieces. Ask around at antique stores that carry a lot of glass and china pieces. Of course, it won't be usable, but at least it is still your grandmother's bowl. I probably wouldn't replace it with another because it is the sentiment that made it special-unless, of course, she used it frequently. Your mother is a wise woman and your son is lucky to have her as his grandmother! |
I just cleaned out my mother in laws storage unit (after she passed) and I have 2 of these bowls with 12 cups. If you haven't found a way to repair or purchased another yet - let me know and we can work something out. |
Holloway32 - I've posted some photos of what I have if you are interested. I found one on ebay - 1 bowl, no cups, for $49.99 + shipping. I'll give you both my bowl's PLUS 12 cups for $40 + shipping. |
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Unusually cold weather this month has caused most Wilson Energy customers' bill to rise, a result of heating systems compensating for record cold.
As of Tuesday, Wilson had already recorded 11 nights in January with low temperatures of 21 degrees or less. The lowest temperatures were reported Jan. 7-9 when the "Polar Vortex" pushed arctic air across much of the United States. Temperatures are expected to fall into single digits this week.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that 90 percent of all U.S. residents will face higher heating bills this month. Customers have used more electricity and natural gas, even if they never touched their thermostats. The frigid nights meant heating systems were working overtime to keep up.
Duke Energy Carolinas set a new winter electrical usage peak – 20,246 megawatt-hours in one hour on Jan. 7 – breaking a three-year-old record. Natural gas prices have experienced enormously high spikes and are at a three-year high, due to natural gas pipeline operating problems that have slowed gas delivery.
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- Have the HVAC system checked regularly by a qualified heating and air conditioning contractor to maintain efficiency and peak performance.
- Leave drapes or blinds open during the day to allow the sun's rays to warm the house. Close in the evening to keep the warmth in the house.
- Change air filters regularly to improve efficiency of heating system.
- Replace standard bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. CFLs are more efficient than regular bulbs, while giving off the same amount of light.
- Go to WilsonNC.org for more energy-saving tips.
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First Tumblr, and now comes another sizable New York City exit. Turns out the whimsical MakerBot won't be raising a round, after all, because the desktop 3D-printing startup is being acquired by publicly traded behemoth Stratasys, for $403 million in stock. (Of course, that's just the initial value, based on today's $84.60 closing price for shares of Stratasys stock.) Stakeholders qualify for additional performance-based earnouts, with an initial total value of $201 million. Read More


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Daniel J. Schuyler is the Senior Director of Exchange Technology at Leavitt Partners where he helps guide the firm's health insurance exchange practice. He brings to the firm applied experience in the development and implementation of health insurance exchanges.
Prior to his work with Leavitt Partners, Mr. Schuyler was the Director of Technology for the Utah Health Insurance Exchange where he was responsible for defining the technical goals and business processes associated with the exchange. Utah's exchange was only the second of its kind in the United States when created in 2009. The exchange allows residents and business owners to shop, compare, and buy health insurance plans online.
Prior to his post with the Utah Health Insurance Exchange, Mr. Schuyler was the Manager for the Department of Environmental Quality, National Environmental Information Exchange Network. While serving in this role, Mr. Schuyler helped bring the State of Utah from the bottom third in environmental exchanges to the top ten percent in less than one year.
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Trinity Rep wasted no time ringing in the holidays, kicking off its beloved "Christmas Carol" before Veterans Day. The show is recycling last year's set by Tony-winner Eugene Lee and bringing back director Tyler Dobrowsky, but otherwise it's as fresh as ever, with new ghosts, fourteen talented kids and Fred Sullivan Jr. taking on the role of tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge. The popular production runs through Dec. 28.
But if you can't get tickets to Trinity, there are plenty of "Christmas Carols" to pick from. Encore Repertory Company stages its annual take on the Dickens classic at Woonsocket's Stadium Theatre Dec. 6-15. Tickets are $19 and are available at the box office, or by calling (401) 762-4545.
Meanwhile, Cranston's Artists' Exchange is going with a modern-day version of the show, placing it in the here and now. Music director Tom Chace doubles as Scrooge.
The play opens Dec. 12 in the Exchange's new and bigger space at 82 Rolfe Square, then moves to the nearby Park Theatre Dec. 19. A holiday gala takes place at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet Dec. 21, just prior to the final show at the Park. Tickets are $15 for the Rolfe Square installment, and $18 when it's at the Park. Call (401) 490-9475, or visit artists-exchange.org.
At the Attleboro Community Theatre, it's up to director David Blessinger to tell the story of miserly old Scrooge. But in the end, it's the familiar tale of redemption. Once again, Bruce Church plays Scrooge, and longtime company member Alex Aponte is his late partner Marley.
The show runs from Dec. 6-Dec. 22 at the Ezekial Bates Masonic Temple, 71 North Main St., Attleboro. Tickets are $15, $13 for seniors and students. Call (508) 226-8100, or visit attleborocommunitytheatre.com.
At the Granite Theatre in Westerly, performances of "A Christmas Carol" run from Nov. 29 through Dec. 22. Brian Olsen directs and Ed Benjamin takes on the role of Scrooge. Tickets range from $12-$20. Call (401) 596-2341, or visit granitetheatre.com.
New this year is a collaborative "Carol" from the R.I. Shakespeare Co. and Big Nazo puppets at West Kingston's Courthouse Center for the Arts. Big Nazo will be making puppets especially for the production, and they'll be interacting with the actors.
Tickets are $20, $15 for seniors and children under 12. Call (401) 782-1018, or visit courthousearts.org.
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And for a new twist on this holiday tradition, veteran Rhode Island comic Frank O'Donnell has come up with a spin-off his "Ant'ny Claus" shows of the past couple of seasons. This time he's telling the story of Scrooge and his night with the spirits from the point of view of Ant'ny's mother-in-law, Carmella.
She is trying to entertain her grandkids, but has given the book away and has to tell the story from memory. That's when the fun begins.
"My goal three years ago was to create a fun holiday alternative to "A Christmas Carol," says O'Donnell. "All of a sudden, I've got a franchise on my hands."
"A Christmas Carmella" takes place at Woonsocket's Theatre Works, 142 Clinton St., Dec. 6-15. Tickets are $19, $15 for seniors. Call (401) 766-1898.
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Looking to other holiday offerings, Warwick's new Ocean State Theatre is staging the musical adaptation of "Miracle on 34th Street" Dec. 4-29. The show, based on the heartwarming 1947 film with music by Meredith Willson of "The Music Man" fame, follows a department-store Santa who claims to be the real Santa Claus. He not only fosters good will between Macy's and Gimbel's, but convinces a cynical divorcee and the whole state of New York that Santa is no myth.
Tickets are $39-$54. Call (401) 921-6800, or visit oceanstatetheatre.org.
Also, Wakefield's Contemporary Theater Company is putting on an adaptation of "The Gift of the Magi" that follows three couples at different stages in life, who on Christmas Eve try to do something special for their partners.
Performances run from Nov. 29 to Dec. 22, and every show is accompanied by carols, cookies and cocoa. The theater is at 327 Main St., Wakefield, and tickets are $15 and $20. Call (401) 218-0282, or visit thecontemporarytheater.com.
And Woonsocket's Stadium Theatre puts on its annual holiday variety show, "Christmas Around the World," Nov. 30. The show, which is like a Radio City spectacular, features festive music and dance from local talent, including a swing band and Rockette-like kick line, said Stadium executive director Cathy Levesque. You can also catch the winners and finalists from the recent "New England's Got Talent," the Stadium's popular talent show. Tickets are $19-$16. Call (401) 762-4545, or visit stadiumtheatre.com.


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I repaired a storm door (single light/pane) yesterday and the client told me four years ago they paid $2000 total for the door and install from their window replacement firm. Huh?? Is that what they typically quote for jobs like that? Just wondering. It wasn't any particularly fancy door, either, just a white, single pane and I can't imagine there was much adjustment to the opening either. |
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As an example last year I replaced my rear entrance door to the Garage. The door was a 6 ft 8 door, metal skin, prehung, cost $225 from a big box store. Took me 4 hours to remove old door, mount new door, trim out and paint. The big box store charged $285 labor if you wanted them to do it. They would not paint it. $2000 sounds high. Doors can cost in the $1000s thought but from the sound of it this door was not something special. My thoughts |
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Monday, May 5, 2014 Contact: Austin Braaten, Park Grounds Improvement Supervisor II, 971-7151 16th Avenue tree removal and pruning to begin tomorrow Kaimuki – Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 6, 2014, a tree care company hired by the city will begin removal of one mature Mahogany tree on the 1100 block of 16th Avenue, near Waialae Avenue in Kaimuki. Municipal arborists working for the city's Division of Urban Forestry (DUF) have determined that the tree warrants removal to allow for sidewalk repair. The contractor will also prune the two trees adjacent to the Mahogany tree. The work will require one lane of traffic to be intermittently closed and is expected to be completed by Thursday, May 8, 2014. -END- |