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Al Qaeda in Iraq: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Bush administration propaganda notwithstanding, Al Qaeda was not a factor in Iraq before the U.S. invasion. But it is now—and any withdrawal plan needs to deal with the demons we helped create.
A gathering threat from Iraq, a safe haven for Al Qaeda; stockpiles of chemical weapons in the hands of forces deeply hostile to the United States; Iraqi terrorist groups capable of attacking American allies and even, perhaps, the homeland itself. That was the utterly false portrait of Iraq that the Bush administration painted in constructing a rationale to invade the country in March 2003. Four and a half years later, in a hideous twist of irony, that description is a dangerous reality. Although Al Qaeda had no meaningful relationship with the Saddam Hussein regime, it is now entrenched in Iraq and is carrying out scores of attacks a week, some of them with chemical weapons in the form of bombs containing chlorine gas. Al Qaeda has used Iraq as a launching pad for attacks on American allies and as a training ground for thousands of jihadist terrorists from across the Muslim world, and it has said it will use its stronghold there as a base from which to attack the United States.
President Bush, though he dismisses as "flawed logic" the notion that the U.S. invasion of Iraq had a role in all of this, now says there are terrorists there who pose a direct threat to the homeland. "We've already seen how Al Qaeda used a failed state thousands of miles from our shores to bring death and destruction to the streets of our cities—and we must not allow them to do so again. So however difficult the fight is in Iraq, we must win it," he said in a speech in July in Charleston, South Carolina. Indeed, President Bush has elevated the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq as the central justification for continuing to wage a large-scale war there, a rationale that has now superseded halting sectarian strife or installing a functioning democracy. At an Independence Day celebration in West Virginia this year, Bush asserted, "Many of the spectacular car bombings and killings you see are as a result of Al Qaeda, the very same folks that attacked us on September the 11th." That assertion is, of course, demonstrably false, as Al Qaeda in Iraq wasn't founded until three years after the 9/11 attacks.
As the nation wrestles with the question of how to execute the inevitable withdrawal, it is incumbent on all of us to ask the questions the Bush administration has clearly not. What is Al Qaeda in Iraq? Who is its leadership? How important has it been in fanning the conflict in Iraq? How Iraqi an organization is it? Can it attack American interests overseas or the United States itself? To what extent is it communicating with or taking direction from Al Qaeda's leaders in Pakistan? Does it pose more of threat to the U.S. than Al Qaeda Central on the Pakistan border? How can Al Qaeda in Iraq be contained? And what would happen to the organization in the event of a total American withdrawal? Using Al Qaeda's Iraq presence as a propaganda tool is inexcusable and irresponsible. But so is ignoring it.
Al Qaeda's Emergence as a Force in Iraq
Though the Bush administration tends to gloss over this fact, Al Qaeda only established itself in Iraq in October 2004, well after the U.S. invasion, when its leader Zarqawi fused his Tawhid and Jihad group with Al Qaeda by publicly pledging allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Zarqawi had earlier featured at the center of administration efforts to tie the Saddam Hussein regime to Al Qaeda. In his since-thoroughly-discredited address to the United Nations in February 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell described a "sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaeda network," elaborating that "Iraq today harbors a deadly network headed by Zarqawi's forces, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden" and that Zarqawi had set up his operations, including bioweapons training, with the approval of the Saddam Hussein regime.
No evidence of such a nexus has since materialized. Zarqawi's initial Iraq operation was limited to Kurdistan, part of the no-fly zone established by the United States in northern Iraq that was outside of Saddam Hussein's control. According to German intelligence officials who interrogated a defector from Zarqawi's group, Zarqawi traveled to northern Iraq with around 25 companions, mostly Jordanians, in mid-2002 and hooked up with the Kurdish terrorist group Ansar al-Islam, an outfit deeply opposed to Saddam's Baathist regime. Their plan was to use Kurdistan as a base to resist the impending American invasion.
Although Zarqawi ran a training camp in western Afghanistan up until the fall of the Taliban, he never joined the Al Qaeda fold, preferring to keep his independence from bin Laden—particularly because up until 2002 his preference was to attack Israeli, Jewish, and Jordanian targets rather than American ones.
It was only in late 2004, a year and a half after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, that a closer alliance made sense to Zarqawi and Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda wanted a foothold in the Iraqi insurgency, recognizing it as the cause célèbre for jihadists worldwide, while Zarqawi presumably recognized the power of Al Qaeda's global brand. After months of negotiations reportedly involving trips from Pakistan to Iraq by Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, a key bin Laden lieutenant, Zarqawi released an online statement on October 17, 2004, promising obedience to Al Qaeda's leader: "By God, O sheikh of the mujahideen, if you bid us plunge into the ocean, we would follow you. If you ordered it so, we would obey!" For Zarqawi the timing of the alliance made sense because the Iraqi insurgency was catching on as a cause in jihadist circles worldwide. The capture of Saddam Hussein and television images of insurgents battling U.S. troops in two-pitch battles for Fallujah in April and November 2004 encouraged more foreign jihadists to travel to Iraq, according to Mohammed Hafez, a visiting Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, whose 2007 book Suicide Bombers in Iraq authoritatively explores the insurgency.
Before joining forces with bin Laden, Zarqawi's group, though only a relatively small part of the overall insurgency, undertook a series of strategically significant operations that deterred the international community from taking on a greater role in stabilizing Iraq. In August 2003 his group bombed the Jordanian embassy and the United Nations' headquarters in Baghdad, killing the U.N. special envoy to Iraq and prompting the United Nations to withdraw. And in November 2003, one of Zarqawi's suicide bombers killed 19 Italians, mostly paramilitary police, in the southeastern town of Nasiriya. Zarqawi's ability to deploy suicide bombers allowed his organization to launch more ambitious attacks than other insurgent groups and was a key contribution to Iraq's slide into chaos.
But Zarqawi's biggest impact in Iraq was in provoking sectarian warfare between its Sunni and Shiite communities. On August 30, 2003, his group exploded a massive car bomb outside a Shiite mosque in Najaf that killed 125, including one of Iraq's top Shiite clerics, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim. In early 2004, the U.S. military released a letter it said had been written by Zarqawi to Al Qaeda associates that noted that provoking Shiite attacks on Sunnis was crucial to bolstering the Sunni insurgency. Sunnis in Iraq, the letter stated, "have little expertise or experience" in fighting and "for this reason…most of the groups are working in isolation with no political horizon." It went on, "The Shia in our opinion are the key to change. I mean that targeting them and hitting them in [their] religious, political and military depth will provoke them to show the Sunnis their hidden rancor. If we succeed in dragging them into the arena of sectarian war, it will become possible to awaken the inattentive Sunnis as they feel imminent danger and annihilating death at the hands [of the Shia]."
Zarqawi's strategy to attack the Shiites—which was continued by his successor Abu Ayyub al-Masri after he was killed in June 2006—has, unfortunately, proven wildly successful. The tipping point in the slide toward full-blown civil war was the February 2006 attack on the Golden Mosque in Samarra, a sacred shrine for the Shiites, which triggered a more intense cycle of sectarian strife that has killed tens of thousands and caused more than a million to flee their homes. According to the U.S. military, that attack was masterminded by Haythem Sabah al-Badri, a former member of Saddam's Republican Guard who joined Al Qaeda after the U.S invasion and rose to become the Al Qaeda leader for the Samarra area. Badri was killed in a U.S. air strike in August.
As a result in part of the tensions created by these attacks, Al Qaeda in Iraq (also known as AQI) has been able to diversify its volunteer base. Made up largely of foreigners at its inception in late 2004, the group is now dominated by Iraqi fighters, according to the July congressional testimony of Edward Gistaro, a top U.S. intelligence official. There has been a range of estimates about the size of AQI. The New York Times estimates that AQI has a fighting force of between 3,000 and 5,000 with perhaps twice as many supporters. In November 2006 AQI leader Masri claimed in an audiotape that his force constituted 12,000 fighters.
Whatever the precise numbers, it is clear that Al Qaeda constitutes a minority of the Sunni insurgency and has significantly fewer fighters than the Islamic Army in Iraq, the country's largest Sunni insurgent group. Last November Lt. General Michael D. Maples, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, estimated in congressional testimony that the total number of insurgents numbered between 20,000 and 30,000 fighters with many more supplying and supporting them.
Despite being smaller than some other insurgent groups, AQI has punched considerably above its numerical weight in Iraq. In a background briefing in July, the U.S. military estimated that AQI was responsible for up to 15 percent of all attacks in Iraq in the first half of 2007, though some experts have contested this figure, arguing it is a product of assigning Al Qaeda culpability too readily. For its part, AQI has certainly claimed a high attack tempo, detailing on jihadist websites 1,147 individual attacks for the month of January 2007; the Islamic Army of Iraq claimed responsibility for only 339 attacks in the same period, according to IntelCenter, a company that tracks jihadist propaganda for U.S. government clients. And the way AQI collates volumes of attack data from half a dozen provinces, detailing each individual operation, does seems to show an ability to coordinate operations across Iraq.
AQI's use of suicide bombers in Iraq has made the organization especially deadly, but because of improvements in American armor, such attacks have been mainly directed at Iraqi security services and Shiite civilians in recent years. According to figures tracked by Mohammed Hafez of the University of Missouri, as of October 15, 2007, there have been 864 suicide bombings in Iraq that killed more than 10,000 Iraqis. Given that the U.S. military estimates that Al Qaeda's foreign recruits have been responsible for 80 to 90 percent of such attacks, AQI has contributed more significantly than is generally understood to the conservative estimates of 70,000 Iraqi civilian deaths since the 2003 invasion.
AQI's suicide-bombing campaign has reached new heights since the U.S. military started surging troop levels at the beginning of this year, likely in response to the United States upping the ante. Hafez found that there have already been many more suicide attacks in Iraq in 2007 than in any other year, 351 as of October 15. And according to the U.S. military, in just the first six months of this year AQI killed or injured 4,000 Iraqi civilians. General David Petraeus accurately pointed out in congressional testimony in September that AQI was "off balance," but its destructive capabilities have clearly remained high.
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Annual General Meeting, 2 July 2013
The 2013 Annual General Meeting of the Friends will take place on Tuesday 2 July at 7.pm for 7.30pm in the Acanthus Room at the William Morris Gallery. In addition to the formal proceedings, David Mabb, Reader in Art and Course Leader in Postgraduate Studies in Art Practice at Goldsmith College, London, who has mounted the current exhibition […]Read more
Join the Friends at beautiful Standen
Tickets are still available for the Friends' 25th anniversary picnic on Saturday, June 22, at Standen in Sussex. Book soon to ensure a place on the coach! Standen, a late Victorian family house, is a gem of the Arts & Crafts Movement, hidden at the end of a quiet lane with breathtaking views over the […]Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Gallery named Museum of the Year
The William Morris Gallery has this evening been named Museum of the Year 2013 in the annual Art Fund awards. The honour comes with a prize of £100,000. At the awards ceremony in the V&A, the judges said that the Gallery "set the highest standards of curatorship, and reaches out impressively to its local community, […]Read more
Gallery wins national award
The extended and refurbished William Morris Gallery has won its first major national accolade. It was named as Best Permanent Exhibition in the 2013 Museum and Heritage Awards for Excellence at a ceremony in Central London last night. Tribute was paid to Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects and GUM Design. Lorna Lee, who managed the project […]Read more
E-petition launched
An e-petition has been launched after news in the last few days that crafts will no longer be considered part of the creative industries under proposals published by the UK government. The proposed change is part of a review of the UK's creative industries set out in Classifying and Measuring the Creative Industries, a consultation paper released […]Read more
Useful and beautiful
At Home with Morris is a new photographic exhibition by Katherine Green, a member of the Friends. A celebrated social documentary photographer, Katherine has taken her camera to the homes of William Morris admirers who have chosen to decorate their environments with his designs, and for whom his beliefs are often an extension of their […]Read more
A birthday gift for Topsy
Just before the Friends of the William Morris Gallery celebrated the great man's birthday on Sunday, news arrived that delighted us all. The extended and refurbished William Morris Gallery has been shortlisted for the Museum and Heritage Awards 2013, featuring in the Permanent Exhibition category with other national treasures including the Cutty Sark and […]Read more
Gallery founder's work on display
Designs by Sir Frank Brangwyn, whose gift of Arts and Crafts works forms the core of the William Morris Gallery collection, are currently on show at the Fine Art Society at 148 New Bond Street, London. His studies for the Rockefeller Centre murals in New York and a set of designs for the interior of […]Read more
David Bailey exhibition at Gallery
Photographer David Bailey is famed for capturing the mood and iconic faces of The Swinging Sixties, including characters as diverse as the Kray twins and his favourite model Jean Shrimpton. At the same time, he was taking a series of photographs of East London characters and scenes, and it is some of those – many […]Read more
Follow William Morris to Iceland
It is well known that Iceland exercised a great fascination for William Morris and led him to write his four-part epic Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs as well as to publish several of the sagas. Such was his interest that he visited the country twice – something of an epic journey […]Read more


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Phylogenetic tree constructed from complete mtDNA sequences for five Malagasy individuals. M and V represents the Mikea and Vezo populations, respectively. Mutations were scored relative to the rCRS [42]. Numbers along links refer to nucleotide positions. A plus sign (+) indicates an insertion. Recurrent mutations in the phylogeny are underlined. The prefix "@" indicates back mutations. Control region mutations are in bold, synonymous transitions are shown in red, and non-synonymous mutations are listed in italic. TMRCA estimates were calculated as in [35,36,56], presented in italic, bold and regular font, respectively, and are presented in units of thousands of years before present.
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Juventus have named a 20 man squad as they head out to Turkey for the second leg of their Europa League tie with Trabzonspor.
The Old Lady hold a two goal lead from the first leg at Juventus Stadium and will be big favourites to close out the tie on Thursday evening.
Giorgio Chiellini returns to the squad but Kwadwo Asamoah, Pepe and Mirko Vucinic all miss out through injury.
Fabio Quagliarella meanwhile cannot be included as he was not submitted on Coach Antonio Conte's European list in January, and is therefore ineligible.
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On Tap Today: Thursday see-thaw ride
No, we're not up in the attic trying to find our checkered blankets to slam down on Bradford Beach Thursday. But we do like January Thaws, and ours is set to continue today.
That forecast gives us "happy feet," just in time to hook up with The Happy Dutchmen playing at The Domes "Music Under Glass" tonight. Our Lederhosen might be a bit tight after all the holiday feasting, but we'll polka off the poundage when the band gears up its German sounds. It's also Poinsettia Giveaway Night, so bring some paper towels to wrap your freebie flora in. »Read Full Blog Post
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Caribou Coffee to close five stores in metro Milwaukee
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In all, 80 "underperforming stores" in the U.S. will close on Sunday, the company said in a statement. »Read Full Article(97)
Bill Cosby to speak at Marquette's spring commencement
Bill Cosby will be the guest speaker at Marquette University's spring commencement May 19 at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, the university announced Monday.
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Facebook has started charging its users as much as $15 to send messages to the inbox of popular people outside their friends circle. Charges to email a stranger start at $1 and go up to $15, depending how many followers the recipient has.
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Laura Gordon masterful in working-class drama 'Good People'
Madison - I'll cut right to the chase: Buoyed by a superb cast and a strong script, Laura Gordon is giving a career-defining performance in Madison, where Forward Theater is staging David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People," under Jennifer Uphoff Gray's direction.
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The final six music shows announced for the 2013 Wisconsin State Fair Main Stage include country star Gary Allan and spoofster "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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The Shouting Matches, the latest Justin Vernon project, will perform at Turner Hall Ballroom at 8 p.m. Aug. 1.
Bon Iver frontman Vernon - who's also got a pretty good thing going with Volcano Choir, a separate band he put together with Milwaukee's Collections of Colonies of Bees - formed the Shouting Matches, a blues-rock trio, with Phil Cook and Brian Moen. The group's debut album, "Grownass Man," was just posted for streaming Monday on NPR's website. It will be pre-released on iTunes Tuesday and go on sale April 16. »Read Full Article
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Over the weekend, readers who read the obituary for Cissie Peltz, an important figure in the Milwaukee art community, emailed to ask if the Peltz Gallery will continue. Peltz died on Wednesday. We published an obituary Saturday.
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Mark your calendars: Downtown Dining Week dates announced
Forty-two restaurants have signed on for Downtown Dining Week, set this year for June 6 to June 13.
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Someone call the cops! Late Les Blank's polka documentary
The sounds of the late documentary filmmaker Les Blank's polka documentary will be familiar to anyone who grew up around small-town beer halls, listened to Fritz the Plumber or ever attended Polish Fest.
Blank, who died over the weekend at the age of 77, was not well known. »Read Full Blog Post
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A 15-year-old hacker, who was one of those responsible for hacking the UFC website, was sentenced in Long Beach, Calif., on Wednesday. read news >>
A teenage hacker who helped reroute the UFC's website and take down several high-profile websites has been sentenced to six years of probation, according to a Wired report.
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Another piece of evidence came Wednesday that the MMA community is getting more serious about forcing illegal drugs out of the sport. The California State Athletic Commission drug-tested nearly every read news >>
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"The California Kid" Urijah Faber talks about his upcoming bout against Frankie Edgar in the main event of Fight Night 66 on May 16. read news >>
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One word comes to mind when trying to figure out the rules associated with the NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge: complicated.
Stock car racing's biggest nonpoints race is more difficult to understand than Indianapolis 500 qualifying.
In Saturday's 90-lap race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., a random drawing will determine a field inversion, at which point the order of six to 12 cars will be inverted with 50 laps to go.
Confused yet?
Let's start from the beginning. The field will include the following:
All-Star Challenge winners from this season and last season.
Series champions from the previous 10 seasons who have competed in one Cup race this season or in 2005.
All-Star champions from the past 10 years.
The winner of the Nextel Open, a preliminary 30-lap race for teams not qualified for the all-star event.
A second Nextel Open driver who wins a fans vote.
There are 18 drivers qualified and two still to be determined. The 20-car lineup will be decided by 3-lap time trials that include a pit stop for four tires.
As for the race, it's broken down into three segments of 40 laps, 30 laps and 20 laps. There is a mandatory 10-minute pit stop between the first and second segments, at which time the order of the field will be randomly inverted while the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers plays briefly from the infield.
The winner gets $1 million.
"I think it's nice to dedicate a weekend to the race fans," reigning series champion Tony Stewart said in a release. "We put on a race for them where we're not worried about points. We're all hanging it out every lap. ... It's good to have one evening where we all just get up on the wheel and put on a good show for the fans."
Junior documentary
The highly anticipated ESPN documentary about Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR's most popular competitor, will debut Monday on ESPN2 and ESPN Classic.
The look at the son of the late Dale Earnhardt includes interviews with his mother, Brenda Jackson, and crew chief and cousin Tony Eury Jr. The one-hour show will begin at noon on ESPN2 and at 6 p.m. on ESPN Classic.
Points for people
NASCAR unveiled Tuesday the redesigned website for NASCAR RacePoints, a program that rewards loyal fans for using the products and services of participating NASCAR sponsors.
The new site is accessible through www.nascar.com.
"This new website supports the growth of our program by expanding the ways to earn points and increasing the number of exciting race-related rewards, resulting in a more valuable program for NASCAR fans," RacePoints president Thorp Foster said in a release.
Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt are the winningest All- Star Challenge drivers, with three wins apiece. All of their wins led to championship seasons. Gordon won both titles in 1995, 1997 and 2001, and Earnhardt accomplished the double in 1987, 1990 and 1993. ... Driver Kyle Petty and his wife, Pattie, who lost their son, Adam, in a Busch Series racing accident in 2000 at New Hampshire International Speedway, will be honored as the inaugural recipients of the North Carolina Children's Lifetime Legacy Award on Thursday in Charlotte. The award recognizes the Pettys for their Victory Junction Gang Camp that caters to less fortunate children in Randleman, N.C.
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Please join us for a celebration of our outstanding faculty and students. On Friday, Oct. 4, CU-Boulder will host its eighth annual Fall Convocation: A Celebration of Faculty and Student Achievement. It will be held in conjunction with this year's Family Weekend. Events include speakers throughout the morning and an awards ceremony followed by a reception.
10-10:50 a.m., Drones: The Good, the Bad, and the Controversial
A panel discussion organized by Stein Sture, Vice Chancellor for Research; Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, can be used for a wide variety of purposes, from searching for oil and gas to forest fire detection. However, most of us became aware of drones after they began to be used extensively in pursuing terrorist targets after September 11, 2001. Controversy now surrounds the use of drones by the military and the CIA, and concerns have also been expressed about their use domestically in, for example, police surveillance. This panel will examine both the technology behind drones and the issues related to their use.
11-11:50 a.m., The Electronic Classroom: MOOCs, Flipped Classes, Lecture-Capture, and the Future of Education
A panel discussion organized by Michael Grant, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education; Professor of Evolutionary and Ecological Biology
The digital revolution has come to the classroom as new technologies are impacting the way we teach and learn, and CU Boulder has been a leader in using technology to support instruction. Some have argued that these changes in the delivery of knowledge will utterly transform higher education, while others have remained more skeptical. This panel will explore the ways that technology is shaping the way our children learn.
1:30-2:30 p.m., Awards Ceremony
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Capital Power provides updates at annual Investor Day event and announces launch of dividend reinvestment plan
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Capital Power provides updates at annual Investor Day event and announces launch of dividend reinvestment plan08:00 EST Thursday, December 08, 2011EDMONTON, Dec. 8, 2011 /CNW/ - Capital Power Corporation (TSX: CPX) (Capital Power or the Company) is hosting its third annual Investor Day event in Toronto at the St. Andrew's Club and Conference Centre (150 King Street West, 16th floor) starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today. Members of the executive leadership team will provide updates on Capital Power's operations and construction projects, the outlook for its target markets, and will outline its corporate priorities for 2012."During Capital Power's first 30-months, we've built a business based on the strategy set out at the initial public offering, focusing on creating shareholder value through continued operational excellence, maintaining financial stability and strength, and being disciplined in our approach to growth," said Brian Vaasjo, President and CEO. "In 2011, our employees delivered strong operations safety and production performance; commissioned Canada's most technologically-advanced coal-fired power plant, the Keephills 3 joint venture facility; aligned Capital Power's fleet with the business strategy through acquisitions, developments and divestitures; and demonstrated the ability to access capital markets and increase trading liquidity.""Looking forward, Capital Power is well positioned to deliver value for shareholders," Mr. Vaasjo continued. "Cash flow per share is visible, substantial and growing, as we expect to realize a full year of production from the Keephills 3 joint venture in 2012, begin to bring wind projects online in late 2012, and are well positioned to capture upside from rising power prices over time. If Alberta spot power prices average $74 per megawatt hour (MWh) in 2012, we expect cash flow per share to reach $3.90 to $4.30, more than 40% higher than 2010 levels, and expect normalized earnings per share to rise to $1.50 to $1.70."Corporate UpdatesFinancial and operating information provided during the presentation include updates on current and expected cash flow, funds from operations, plant availability, capital structure, and the Company's hedged positions in Alberta from 2012 to 2014.Development and growth updates provided during the presentation include construction and development updates and expected capital expenditures for the Company's four wind projects (Quality Wind, Port Dover & Nanticoke, Halkirk Wind, K2 Wind Ontario), the Company's outlook in its targeted North American power markets, and an overview of the Company's development pipeline.Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP)The Company announced the launch of a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the Plan) effective January 1, 2012 subject to the completion of customary documentation. Eligible shareholders may elect to participate in the Plan commencing with the Company's first quarter 2012 cash dividend. The Plan will provide eligible shareholders with an alternative to receiving their quarterly cash dividends. Under the Plan, eligible shareholders may elect to efficiently and cost-effectively accumulate additional shares in the Company by reinvesting their quarterly cash dividends on the applicable dividend payment date in new shares issued from treasury. Participation in the Plan will be optional. Those shareholders who do not enroll in the Plan will still be entitled to receive their quarterly cash dividends.The Company reserves the right to limit the amount of new equity available under the Plan on any particular dividend payment date. No assurances can be made that new shares will be made available under the Plan on a quarterly basis, or at all. Accordingly, participation may be prorated in certain circumstances. If on any dividend payment date the Company determines not to issue any equity under the Plan, or the availability of new shares is prorated in accordance with the terms of the Plan, then participants will be entitled to receive from the Company the full amount of their regular quarterly cash dividend for each share in respect of which the dividend is payable but cannot be reinvested under the Plan in accordance with the applicable election.No commissions, service charges or similar fees will be payable in connection with the purchase of shares from treasury under the Plan. All administrative costs of the Plan will be paid by the Company. Shareholders who wish to participate in the Plan indirectly through the brokers, investment dealers, financial institutions or other similar nominees through which their shares are held should consult such nominees to confirm whether commissions, service charges or similar fees are payable.Participation in the Plan will not relieve shareholders of any liability for taxes that may be payable in respect of dividends that are reinvested in new shares under the Plan. Shareholders should consult their tax advisors concerning the tax implications of their participation in the Plan having regard to their particular circumstances.Outlook for 2012The Company will discuss its financial targets and corporate priorities for 2012 including:Operational targets of 91% capacity-weighted average plant availability, reflecting two planned turnarounds at the Genesee facilities, plant maintenance capital and other expenditures of up to $108 million, and maintenance and operating expenses of $215 million to $235 million;On-time, on-budget and safe construction of current development projects, including commissioning of the Halkirk Wind and Quality Wind projects in fourth quarter 2012;Expected 2012 financial performance, based on an average Alberta spot price of $74 per megawatt hour:Normalized EPS of $1.50 to $1.70 versus 2011 estimate of $1.25 per share;Cash flow per share of $3.90 to $4.30 versus 2011 estimate of $3.74 per share;Funds from operations of $380 to $420 million versus estimate of $337 million; andDividend coverage ratio of 2.2 to 2.6 versus 2011 estimate of 2.1 times.Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) sensitivities to changes in Alberta power prices and New England spark spreads.WebcastA live audio webcast of the Investor Day event is available on the Company's website at www.capitalpower.com. The presentation slides and webcast will be archived and accessible for replay.About Capital Power CorporationCapital Power (TSX: CPX) is a growth-oriented North American power producer headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. The company develops, acquires, operates and optimizes power generation from a variety of energy sources. Capital Power owns more than 3,300 megawatts of power generation capacity at 16 facilities across North America. An additional 487 megawatts of owned wind generation capacity is under construction or in advanced development in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.Non-IFRS Financial MeasuresThe Company uses (i) EBITDA, (ii) funds from operations, (iii) funds from operations excluding non-controlling interests in CPILP, (iv) cash flow per share, (v) normalized earnings attributable to common shareholders, (vi) normalized earnings per share as financial performance measures, and (vii) dividend coverage ratio. These terms are not defined financial measures according to IFRS and do not have standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS, and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures used by other enterprises. These measures should not be considered alternatives to net income, cash flow from operating activities or other measures of financial performance calculated in accordance with IFRS. Rather, these measures are provided to complement IFRS measures in the analysis of the Company's results of operations from management's perspective. Reconciliations of EBITDA to net income, funds from operations and funds from operations excluding non-controlling interests in CPILP to cash flows from operating activities, normalized earnings attributable to common shareholders to net income attributable to common shareholders, and normalized earnings per share to earnings per share are contained in the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis dated October 26, 2011 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 which is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.SEDAR.com.Forward-looking informationCertain information in this news release and in the Investor Day presentations is forward-looking within the meaning of Canadian securities laws as it relates to anticipated financial and operating performance, events or strategies. When used in this context, words such as will, anticipate, believe, plan, intend, target, and expect or similar words suggest future outcomes. Forward-looking information includes, among other things, information relating to: (i) expectations regarding Capital Power being well-positioned to deliver shareholder value; (ii) expectations regarding visible, substantial and growing cash flow per share; (iii) expectations regarding the realization of a full year of production from Keephills 3 in 2012; (iv) expectations regarding the safe, on-time and on-budget construction of wind projects and their commissioning dates in 2012; (v) expectations regarding capacity-weighted average plant availability and planned plant outages; (vi) expectations regarding maintenance capital and other expenditures and maintenance and operating expenses in 2012; (vii) expectations regarding the average Alberta spot price for electricity; (viii) expectations regarding financial performance in 2012, including expectations regarding normalized earnings per share, cash flow per share, funds from operations, and dividend coverage ratio; (ix) expectations regarding rising power prices over time, and Capital Power's ability to capture the upside of the same; * expectation that the Company will meet its credit rating agencies' financial metrics in the 2012-2013 timeframe; (xi) estimated maintenance capital expenditures; and (xii) estimated sources and uses of cash for the remainder of 2011 and 2012.These statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by the Company in light of its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate. The material factors and assumptions used to develop these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i) the operation of the Company's facilities; (ii) power plant availability and dispatch; (iii) the Company's financial position and credit facilities and sources of funding; (iv) the Company's assessment of commodity and power markets; (v) the Company's assessment of the markets and regulatory environments in which it operates; (vi) the Company's assessment of economic conditions; (vii) weather; (viii) availability and cost of labour and management resources; (ix) performance of contractors and suppliers; * availability and cost of financing; (xi) foreign exchange rates; (xii) management's analysis of applicable tax legislation; (xiii) the currently applicable and proposed tax laws will not change and will be implemented; (xiv) currently applicable and proposed environmental regulations will be implemented; (xv) counterparties will perform their obligations; (xvi) renewal and terms of PPAs; (xvii) ability to successfully integrate and realize benefits of its acquisitions; (xviii) ability to implement strategic initiatives which will yield the expected benefits; (xix) ability to obtain necessary regulatory approvals for development projects; (xx) the Company's assessment of capital markets and ability to complete future share and debt offerings; (xxi) locations of projects and the areas of which they will be developed, including the availability and use of certain optioned lands; and, (xxii) costs of construction and development.Whether actual results, performance or achievements will conform to the Company's expectations and predictions is subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results and experience to differ materially from the Company's expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks relating to: (i) operation of the Company's facilities; (ii) power plant availability and performance; (iii) unanticipated maintenance and other expenditures; (iv) availability and price of energy commodities; (v) electricity load settlement; (vi) regulatory and government decisions including changes to environmental, financial reporting and tax legislation; (vii) weather and economic conditions; (viii) competitive pressures; (ix) economic and market conditions, including in the markets served by Capital Power's facilities; (xx) construction; (xi) availability and cost of financing; (xii) foreign exchange rates; (xiii) availability and cost of labour, equipment and management resources; (xiv) performance of counterparties, partners, contractors and suppliers in fulfilling their obligations to the Company, (xv) developments in the North American capital markets; (xvi) compliance with financial covenants; (xvii) ability to successfully realize the benefits of acquisitions and investments; and (xviii) the tax attributes of and implications of any acquisitions. If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely affect the Company's business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case the trading price of the Company's common shares could decline, perhaps materially.If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely affect the Company's business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case the trading price of the Company's common shares could decline, perhaps materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations, and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. 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Rimmer, J.; Warwick, C.; Blandford, A.; Gow, J.; Buchanan, G.; (2008) Information seeking in the Humanities: physicality and digitality. In: Ghazali, M. and Ramduny-Ellis, D. and Hornecker, E. and Dix, A., (eds.) Physicality 2006: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Physicality. (pp. pp. 37-38). Computing Department, Lancaster University: Lancaster, UK.
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This paper presents a brief overview of a research project that is examining the information seeking practices of humanities scholars. The results of this project are being used to develop digital resources to better support these work activities. Initial findings from a recent set of interviews is offered, revealing the importance of physical artefacts in the humanities scholars' research processes and the limitations of digital resources. Finally, further work that is soon to be undertaken is summarised, and it is hoped that after participation in this workshop these ideas will be refined.
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REUTERS/Brian SnyderDustin Moskovitz is the co-founder of Facebook and the founder of Asana. He's also a burner.
A "burner" is someone who loves to attend Burning Man, a week-long festival in the Nevada desert that has soared in popularity, especially among the Silicon Valley elite.
Mark Zuckerberg could also be called a burner. So could Larry Page and Elon Musk, who have also attended Burning Man.
Moskovitz has attended Burning Man five times. This year, he met two people he thought he'd never enjoy meeting: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. The Winklevoss twins infamously sued Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook for "stealing" their idea.
Moskovitz says he's envisioned meeting the twins before and it hasn't been pretty. But the reality was much different, because it happened at Burning Man, where everyone is all love, drugs and camping.
Moskovitz describes their first meeting on Medium. Instead of fighting, they trio actually hugged.
"These guys are among the only people on earth I might describe as real antagonists in my life or even enemies, but on playa my first instinct was that I quite obviously needed to introduce myself and start with hugs. They had just arrived so I wasn't sure how they'd react, but they were very gracious at the time and I knew they'd understand more deeply by the time they left. Almost immediately when I got back, I had a Facebook friend request from Tyler and we started a thread mutually extolling the virtues of the festival. In no uncertain terms, he described a spiritual experience. I had created all kinds of dark fantasies about how meeting them would go (Tyler assures me it would have been cordial regardless), but on playa it was laughably clear. There, we were all part of the same community. We were always part of the same community."
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