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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:00 p.m. EDT
Defense Department Operational Update Briefing
MR. DI RITA: Good afternoon. I thought we'd just provide some updates on things that may be on your mind, a few things that we can just provide in terms of an operational update.
We welcome back to the briefing room General Schwartz. General Rodriguez is away this week, and we'll put him back into his well-desired spot when he does return.
And with that I'll turn it over to General Schwartz.
GEN. SCHWARTZ: Thank you, Mr. DiRita.
In the past 24 hours, Multinational Force Iraq has conducted nearly 1,700 patrols, 268 of which were with Iraqi forces. Several offensive operations were conducted, resulting in a number of personnel detained, and actionable intelligence from one such detainee led to the discovery of a large weapons cache, which included 175 mortar rounds and 105 grenades among other items. Operations like this do much to reduce the threat, naturally, to U.S. and coalition forces, and the Iraqi population alike.
Similarly, conducting security patrols yesterday, U.S. forces, Marines in this case, searched a suspicious vehicle and found over 200 60-millimeter mortar rounds hidden inside wheat bags in the vehicle. And this find was especially significant in that roughly 40 percent of the indirect fire attacks use this caliber of mortar round.
And as many of you may have seen in the news, this morning a car bomb -- an improvised explosive device -- exploded outside a police recruiting facility in Baqubah, killing what we know at the moment 45 Iraqi individuals, wounding 94. There were no coalition forces involved. And naturally we feel for those families that experienced loss of life. The strike on civilian underscores the insurgents' real intentions: to prevent a free and stable Iraq, even at the cost of innocent Iraqi lives. Despite the deliberate attack on those courageous Iraqis who are stepping forward to advance Iraqi sovereignty, clearly progress will continue.
And with that, ladies and gentlemen, be happy to take your questions.
MR. DI RITA: Charlie?
Q: Larry and General, Iraqi officials are saying that perhaps as many as 70 or more Iraqis were killed in that. Today NATO is debating in Brussels the training of Iraqi security forces, which some are pushing to begin in Iraq as early as next month. Are you concerned that the French, who appear to be one of the few countries against it, might veto that or in fact could veto it?
MR. DI RITA: Well, NATO will work out what it's going to work out. They've been -- the prime minister of Iraq has asked NATO to get involved. NATO has made a political commitment to get involved, and now the details need to be resolved.
But there are things NATO can do to contribute, and we're obviously all hopeful that NATO will provide robust training capability. But the training that is going on now will continue. I mean, we've got the United States and other coalition forces in Iraq already. General Petraeus has the security forces that are principally responsible for police and border and the army working through a very systematic security force training, appropriate to their category of responsibility. So that'll continue.
And obviously there are areas where NATO can be of assistance, we're all hopeful that NATO will decide this.
Q: But is the Pentagon -- is the U.S. military concerned that France might be able to, by itself, veto this move to help the United States train Iraqi security forces?
MR. DI RITA: Well, it's just too early to characterize what's going to happen in NATO. NATO's -- NATO has the issue. It's seized with the issue. The general -- the NATO secretary-general has made public statements to the effect that he is hopeful that NATO can add a lot of training value inside of Iraq. And I think he's working the situation as well as he's capable, and he's quite a capable individual.
Q: General, a lot of these improvised explosive devices appear to be a combination of smaller grenades or rounds, ammunition. Is there still a major concern about these caches all throughout the country? And what's being done about that? You mention one find, but it seems like that there are finds almost every day.
GEN. SCHWARTZ: It is a routine occurrence. In fact, you know, we are now at the point where, since the conclusion of major combat operations, we've discovered 10,000 or so such caches throughout the country and disposed with probably 9,900 of them. But it is an ongoing process. In other words, we find them, we collect up the contents of them, either take them to a central collection point where the captured enemy ammunition, as it is known, is destroyed, or it's destroyed on site.
So the bottom line is, there is a lot, a lot of ammunition strewn and stored, and what have you, throughout the country. We continue to discover it, continue to destroy it. At the moment, over 150,000 tons of captured enemy ammunition have been destroyed.
Q: If I could follow up, there are some reports that recent suicide bombers have been found chained to their cars, suggesting that perhaps they weren't willing participants in the event. Do you have any intelligence, any information on that?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: I do not. I have not seen a report that would confirm that.
Q: It appears that an increasing number -- today's attack was the largest since the end of the major conflict, in terms of the number of people killed. And it seems like the attacks are increasingly aimed at Iraqis themselves, including assassinations of individuals who are participating in the new government. Is that because there's a shift in strategy among the anti-coalition forces, or is it due in part to a withdrawal of U.S. presence in some of the areas, neighborhoods, reduced patrols, or a combination of both?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: I would say it's a combination of both; that there has been an attempt, clearly, since the transition to engage those individuals that are associated with the interim Iraqi authority. And as you're aware, a number of assassinations have occurred.
Likewise, there has been this apparent effort to use the IED technique to intimidate Iraqis generally, or in this particular instance from this morning, it was near an Iraqi police service recruiting station, and a number of the casualties in fact were those who were interviewing for future employment as Iraqi police. So it's part of the campaign to intimidate both Iraqi population generally, those who would serve in the security forces, and of course, the leadership of the country.
Q: But at the same time, is it due, in part, because there are fewer American targets on the street -- before, and they're picking targets of opportunity that perhaps they hadn't thought of before?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: I think, you know, we continue to sustain casualties. And so I would suggest that our effort is to use U.S. forces where we -- where they're needed, and to encourage, and in fact to mentor and partner with Iraqi security forces where they can be successful. That clearly is the case in the north and the south of the country, less so in the central region. But the bottom line, the calculation is dependent on what the circumstances are on the ground.
MR. DI RITA: Also, you know, it's not certain who's doing these things. We all have our suspicions, and there's intelligence that suggests who's contributed. But if you look at what Zarqawi said, what was discovered in the letter that was -- you know, that he wrote or was believed to have written -- this is quite consistent with that. They're attacking the things that General Schwartz talked about -- police and local officials, which you mentioned. It's no new tactic to attack soft targets, and soft targets are buses and things like that.
So I'm -- it would be -- I don't know anybody that could kind of say, well, it's -- there's 25 million Iraqis; there's 125,000 troops. At the most, there were 25 million Iraqis and 300,000 troops, or 200 (thousand) and something. There's always been a much -- a greater preponderance of Iraqi civilians, and these people are clearly indicating that they intend to kill civilians to terrorize the country. And it would be -- I wouldn't want to attach some relative weight to --
Q: It seems that that strategy has been turned up since the turnover of authority to the Iraqi interim government.
GEN. SCHWARTZ: And I -- sir, if I may, it seems to me that that is not entirely unpredictable. I mean, the development of Iraqi sovereignty is a threat to those who would like to see another arrangement. And so they are undertaking those efforts that they think might be effective in unhinging that transition.
Q: Since today's bombing was by far the largest since the return of legal sovereignty, were there any indications in the intelligence network this attack was coming? Any chatter in the system?
And more broadly, I know that one of the benefits that was hoped to have accrued by returning sovereignty to Iraqis was an increase in intelligence across the board, Iraqis being more comfortable bringing these tips to the Iraqi government. Are there any specific instances where you've seen this increase in intelligence assistance from the Iraqi people because of sovereignty?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: I can only give you a couple of anecdotes. But in the last week, for example, there were two or three caches, to speak of your question earlier, that were identified and secured not by U.S. or coalition forces -- that is, non-Iraqi coalition -- but by Iraqi National Guard units specifically. And of course, the genius in that is that they have the capacity to gain intelligence themselves, particularly of the human variety, and that is, in fact, what happened in these two instances.
So I think the supposition that Iraqi forces in some ways can be more effective than the non-Iraqi forces is certainly true in terms of interaction with the population which will produce the intelligence you addressed.
Q: And as far as today's attack, any chatter in the system in advance that you could tell us about?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: I can't address that.
Q: Larry, about the Army inspector general's report that was released last week, two questions. One is, there was some suggestion by critics that there was an attempt to bury the report by releasing it on the same day as the 9/11 commission, and I wonder if you might just respond to whether there was any attempt to conceal it.
MR. DI RITA: It's just a ridiculous suggestion. First of all, it was at a congressional hearing, and to the best of my knowledge, we have very little control over the timing of congressional hearings. In fact, that report was completed when it was completed. The Army, and the secretary of the Army, in particular, was personally involved in getting it ready for public dissemination. And when it was ready, we told the Congress we'd like to come up and talk about it, and Senator Warner asked for a hearing. So -- and we didn't choose the date of the hearing. So it's just a ludicrous suggestion.
Q: And secondly, the report, when it was presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee, there was some skepticism among the members and some criticism that perhaps the report didn't go far enough or answer all the questions about Abu Ghraib. Perhaps you -- I wonder if you could just talk a little bit about what the limited scope of this investigation was, and how perhaps some of those questions the senators had might be answered in upcoming reports, and when we might get --
MR. DI RITA: I mean, it's reasonable. I mean, senators, as we all are, are very interested in getting to the breadth of understanding of what happened at Abu Ghraib and, more broadly, what's going on with detainee operations. The Army inspector general was tasked to and did go look at training, procedures, how the people that ended up -- not individuals, but the types of individuals that are assigned to prison operations are trained, how interrogators are trained. So they were looking at a lot of doctrinal activity, and they were looking at a lot of -- once the doctrine was set and there were procedures in place, could you track through down to a unit whether the procedures were being followed? And they identified areas where more training was needed, where units may have been less aware than they should have been of the doctrine and of the training.
So that's the kind of thing that the Army inspector general was doing. It was kind of a -- accepting at face value what was decided by doctrine, procedures, authorized guidance, are the units in the field aware of that guidance and following it? It was not so much inspection into individual situations, although, in order to determine the things I said, they did go look at reported cases of abuse.
So it's important to remember that that slice that the Army inspector looked at was one slice of several. There's the ongoing investigation into the military intelligence assignments to the prisons and what their responsibilities are, begun by General Fay, taken over by General Jones; that continues, that investigation is ongoing.
Admiral Jacoby, [sic] [Correction – Brigadier General Jacoby – Assistant Division Commander (Support) 25th Infantry Division (Light), not the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency], was asked by General Barno in Afghanistan to provide an analysis of activities inside of Afghanistan on the basis of specific allegations. The Army Reserve is looking at Army Reserve-related issues; do we have the right training for reservists and are we assigning the right people. Admiral Church, at the secretary's direction, is trying to track, and has been doing very good investigatory work on how procedures may have been established in one area of operations and applied elsewhere, and on what basis were they applied, and was it appropriate that they were applied -- Guantanamo procedures, for example, that may have found their way into other theaters, for whatever reason.
I mean, there's a range -- the Schlesinger panel itself is going to do I think precisely what the senators are looking for, which is: Is there gaps in the ongoing investigations? You know, with the, I think eight or 10 formal investigations, are there any gaps that another investigation or an expansion of an existing investigation could close?
So, I think senators share the desire of the secretary and the chairman to get to the full breadth of understanding of this, but no single investigation was ever intended to do that. That's why so many multiple activities are taking place to examine all facets of detainee operations.
Q: Any idea when the -- what was the Fay report, now I guess it's the Fay-Jones report, whatever it is, when is that going to be -- come to fruition and when we're going to see it?
MR. DI RITA: Yeah. Everybody wants these things resolved when they can be resolved. But the investigators are off doing their work and we have not been working against timetables. I know that -- I noticed a statement that Secretary Schlesinger made to the effect that he was hopeful that the Fay investigation could be concluded in early August because his panel was hoping to be briefed and understand what the Fay investigation is. But General Fay and General Jones are working against the facts, not against a timeline, and everybody I think shares the desire that they conclude their work as soon as they are capable of doing that.
So I wouldn't want to attach a timeline to it, but I note Dr. Schlesinger's view of his panel, which is he's like to -- they'd like to provide sort of preliminary assessments sometime next month. And to do that, they do need to hear from some of these other investigators.
Q: Okay. You said General Jones. Did General Kern or --
MR. DI RITA: As I understand it, General Kern was named as the appointing authority, and then he appointed General Jones to do the investigatory work that General Fay was less appropriate to do.
Q: General Schwartz, has anything significantly changed with resources or anything changed in the hunt for Osama bin Laden? And is he still believed generally to be in the Afghan-Pakistan border region?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: The short answer is yes. That continues to be our sense, and that we continue to have considerable resources devoted, both intelligence and otherwise, to continuing the effort to locate and to capture or kill if that opportunity presents itself.
Q: Has anything changed since the handover of power in Iraq, for example, in the resources devoted to the hunt for bin Laden?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: No change.
Q: Larry, last week General Custer told ABC News that he thinks that the big myth is that the foreign fighters are everywhere in Iraq, that there are a thousand. He says, "My feeling is that it's largely the Arab street. That's the story everybody wants to hear." That was just a couple days after Secretary Wolfowitz said that there would be a lot more terrorists in Afghanistan if they weren't flooding into Iraq. What does Secretary Wolfowitz know that General Custer doesn't?
MR. DI RITA: I'm sure there are lots of things that both know that neither of the other does. But to get to your specific point, I didn't see either one of their comments. The fact that there are foreign terrorists in Iraq is undeniable. I wouldn't -- I'm not in a position to quantify. I think the commanders there have done their best assessments.
Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz sees a range of intelligence and draws his conclusions. I think General Custer and the other commanders probably do the same -- or the commanders in Iraq do the same thing, draw their own conclusions based on probably more tactical intelligence than -- a term I hate using in this context -- but strategic-level intelligence; in other words, the kind of products that the policymakers see every day that aren't necessarily the same kinds of products that are seen by tactical decision-makers who are getting real-time intelligence from the street.
So it's -- I think the basic point is there is no question that there are foreign terrorists in Iraq. But I think it's equally true that there is an element inside Iraq who are Iraqis who are resisting the transition to Iraqi sovereignty in a way that probably reflects a holdover view that we've talked about a lot here. So I don't think either one of them intends to be set up in tension to the other, notwithstanding somebody who might draw that conclusion based on what you said.
Q: As Iraqis assume more control of their country, do you have any reason to believe that attacks like we saw today won't continue or get worse?
MR. DI RITA: Look, I don't think anybody wants to handicap this. It's a dangerous environment. There are people there very committed to stopping what's happening. But there -- I think the general view from the prime minister and the other Iraqi officials who are saying this -- not me -- is that there is a large -- a much larger number of people who are highly committed to seeing that sovereignty take root and that the government proceed.
I mean, we can see this week there's going to be this Iraqi national council. There are some who, for very good reasons, I'm sure, counsel delay – "jeez, this isn't the right time; you're going to get the wrong set of people at this council" -- and the Iraqi officials responsible for this council have insisted we're going to move forward; this is the time to have the council.
So I think I wouldn't want to handicap whether it's going to get better or worse. It's bad.
And we've discussed motives behind why people are conducting these attacks. But I think one of the principal motives is, they just don't have the same vision for Iraq that the Iraqi government has, and that's sovereignty and self-government.
Q: General --
MR. DI RITA: I don't know if you wanted to contribute there, add to that.
GEN. SCHWARTZ: (Off mike.)
Yes, sir?
Q: General, the tally of patrols and joint patrols that you mentioned earlier seemed to me, at least, to be more or less on a par with previous tallies that have been addressed from this podium. Yet the implication of one your earlier answers and the anecdotal reporting from the ground has suggested that the profile of U.S. forces has diminished, at least in certain areas, since the hand-over. Could you just say a bit more about that, about whether the profile has changed?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: We continue to do about 12,000 total patrols per week. About a quarter of that is done either in a unilateral sense or in a joint patrol context with Iraqi security forces. So the implication that somehow -- that we have, quote, "reduced" our profile doesn't square with the numbers.
We are continuing to work our activities in those areas where it is required. Some of them are not on the beaten path. For example, patrols have occurred out in the western part of the country -- recently, in the al Qaim area, for example -- that might not be visible to media in the Baghdad area.
Bottom line is, based on the metrics that we're following, the level of effort is roughly the same as it was before transition.
MR. DI RITA: But let me -- and I'm not sure if I even understand the nature of the discussion on this point, because notwithstanding what General Schwartz said, one of the things I think we've been -- we couldn't be more clear in what we've been saying for the last year, which is our objective is to get Iraqi security forces trained and out there securing their own country, and over time that's happening. And I don't think there's any question but that people want to see more Iraqis doing this, and first and foremost the U.S. military that would like to see more Iraqis providing for their own security. And we're a long way from the Iraqi security forces being able to secure that country. We're just a long way from that, but they are moving in the right direction. And if that is in areas accompanied by an appropriate or proportional sort of reduction in the U.S. presence, all that's happening is what we said would happen and what we've been saying, I think, for a year.
Q: (Off mike) -- an issue of the timing, isn't it, particularly in this political season -- the timing of how this all happens and why it would happen?
MR. DI RITA: Well, I would say the timing started a year ago when it wasn't this political season. We said: Stand by; everybody be on notice: this is going to happen, so when it starts to happen people shouldn't be shocked that it's happening. I think we've been repeating it 'til we're blue in the face that sooner or later Iraqis are going to start to develop their own sense of security through their own security forces. And it's going to happen as quickly as we can make that happen, and it's going to happen -- we think it will be facilitated by the transition to Iraqi sovereignty, itself a date that we said a year ago would happen.
So I don't know the context that you think this is interesting in, but I'm just telling you this is happening, in part, because over time we said expect this to happen. And whether it's a dramatic shift or not, I think I'd go with what General Schwartz says, which is that the general level of effort is about the same. But nobody should be surprised to see more Iraqis doing their own security. I mean, I just --
Q: Can I just sort of --
MR. DI RITA: Sure.
Q: -- jump on that a little bit? How many Iraqi security forces are there now? And how many are fully trained and fully equipped?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: The total numbers are about 225 (thousand) to 230,000, roughly. You know, there's probably 5,000 or so in the Army who now are trained and completely equipped. We've got 29 battalions of now the Iraqi National Guard that numbers in the area of 45,000 or so, and they have been performing really quite well of late. And then you've got the police, which is a large number. And in the police area, 75,000 or so, there is a greater array of who are trained and who are not. For example, 6,000-or-so personnel have completed the eight-week academy course -- about 4,000 in the school in Jordan, about 2,000 in the school in Iraq. Then there is a large number, about 25,000, who were former police who have gone through a three- week refresher course, if you will. So that leaves about half of the Iraqi police still not having attended an academy course.
But the bottom line is that, as Mr. Di Rita suggested; the idea here is -- and this is clearly General Petraeus's mission -- is to work up that glide path of equipping, training and mentoring the Iraqi security forces so we can make the transition. And in some parts of the country, it's occurring already, and the north and the south are key examples of that.
Q: General Schoomaker said the other day from that podium that there was a dialogue ongoing and that some commanders did believe that the presence of U.S. troops in those patrols is causing some of the attacks inside those cities, and that the dialogue is ongoing to possibly pull them out and have the Iraqi face in the cities. So that's where the story's coming from.
MR. DI RITA: And it's ebbed and flowed. I mean, that -- well, he was responding to a story from the day before, so --
Q. But commanders are talking privately about that.
MR. DI RITA: It ebbs and flows. I mean, we've gone that way at other periods during our presence inside of Iraq where we've tried -- let's get a little less visible presence. Sanchez talked a lot about that; they were experimenting with ways that they could be less obtrusive. It's going to continue to ebb and flow. But I think the general trend will be what we've described, which is more Iraqis getting trained.
And, Jim, I don't want to put -- I don't want to over-emphasize; we've got a long way to go, and we do, and we recognize that.
GEN. SCHWARTZ: I think the key thing is we shouldn't apply a cookie cutter here. You know, achieving security in one location may not be the same solution set as achieving security in another. And that's what we pay commanders for.
Q: What is the military doing to keep the coalition together in the light of the kidnappings, which from the insurgents' point of view have been somewhat successful; they've changed the policy of the Philippines and some countries -- or rather, some companies. Is the U.S. able to bring any pressure to bear on other countries, on even companies, to stay in Iraq even though their people, their countrymen are being kidnapped?
MR. DI RITA: I don't know if it's a military question or a policy question. I mean, if you want to -- I'll be happy to add to whatever General Schwartz --
GEN. SCHWARTZ: At the military-to-military level, clearly we are encouraging our colleagues to remain steadfast. And I wouldn't say that this is a pressure thing. It's regrettable when countries and individual entities decide to accede to the demands of terrorists. I mean, it's just proven over time to be a sort of ineffective approach to dealing with terrorism. So we're not -- I think people understand that's how the United States feels. I don't think that we need to pressure anybody, nor would we. People need to join this coalition because they believe in the mission.
And in fact we've seen countries like South Korea and Japan and Italy and Bulgaria and other countries say, "We're staying, and this is important and we're not going to be affected by this," as unfortunate and tragic as the situations involving some of their own nationals have been, too. So I think there's probably more countries that have said we're not going to accede to these demands than have said what the Philippines and a few companies, I think you mentioned, said. So.
Q: Larry, does the Pentagon still have a directive or rule or whatever you call it technically that prohibits political campaigning on military bases or the use of the U.S. military for political campaigning?
MR. DI RITA: I don't think the rule is quite as expansive as you just described it. But basically, when a political candidate -- as I understand it, and we can provide more specific detail for you -- when a political candidate appears at an installation for some kind of official activity, if the installation commander is aware of it and has made the installation available to that candidate, the candidate can't do media queries and he can't be -- I think the ruling is specifically he may appear on camera and in photographs but he may not make a statement or respond to media queries while on the installation; he or she, I should say.
Q: So they can make essentially their stump political speech as long as they don't engage the media? Is that the difference?
MR. DI RITA: They may not make a statement or respond to queries while on the installation.
Q: They can't make a speech?
MR. DI RITA: Right. That's the policy.
Q: Because there were a couple of speeches yesterday, one by the vice president and one by John Kerry, which clearly appeared to be statements, at least, if not political speeches.
MR. DI RITA: The prohibitions do not apply explicitly to the president, the vice president and the speaker of the House. They've got official responsibilities that, particularly in a time of war, the president is going to go to military installations, and so will the vice president, and the speaker is certainly encouraged to do the same thing.
I can't speak to any specific issue that you're raising, but my understanding is that an event that occurred yesterday was in accordance with our procedures.
Q: Including John Kerry?
MR. DI RITA: I think that's specifically what somebody has advised me, that it followed the procedures. [Note: it was subsequently clarified that Senator Kerry was not on a military installation – his appearance on 27 July was in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, not at the Norfolk Naval Base.]
Q: Hmm. Okay.
Q: Larry, these detainee status review tribunals in Gitmo, are they going to begin this week as expected, or is there a delay? And does the release of the four Frenchmen yesterday signal an accelerated move on the part of the Pentagon to begin releasing these people outside of tribunals?
MR. DI RITA: That -- the desire to release is as accelerated as it needs to be, which is, everybody from the secretary on down has indicated the desire to move people out if we should not be retaining them. And if we can determine that, we'll get rid of them. We'll send them back to their countries of origin, if possible.
And I -- some of these discussions have been going on. In other words, determinations have been made about people over time, and it's a matter of negotiating with their home countries on the modalities for releasing them. That is -- that has continued.
The combatant -- the status review procedures -- Secretary England is hopeful to start them soon, perhaps this week. He's still resolving some of the sort of policy guidance that needs to be actually well understood, and there are some logistical issues that have to be worked through. But it is hopeful that this can be started pretty soon. And as I said, I think his desire is that they may even start this week.
We'll take this -- the last two. (Inaudible.)
Q: Okay. On the political issues, again, what are the restrictions on service members supporting or giving support to candidates?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: Not do so in uniform. And there is legislation, I -- if I'm not mistaken, I believe it's called the Hatch act, which precludes military participation in rallies and things of that nature. So -- and during a season such as this, commanders do remind their troops what the left and right aiming limits are in this sort of situation.
Q: But essentially you can support a candidate, but not in an official capacity --
GEN. SCHWARTZ: Absolutely true.
MR. DIRITA: The same applies, to the best of my understanding, to DOD civilians -- not in an official capacity. And the secretaries, the deputy and others have been quite clear about the desire not to -- that this department not be political or be seen to be political.
Q: But just a -- and to go back to the president and the exemptions for the president and vice president --
MR. DI RITA: And the speaker of the House.
Q: -- and the speaker, who obviously have official capacities, but the speech by Vice President Cheney yesterday sounded very much like a campaign speech. So there are no restrictions on the kind of official statements they can make.
MR. DI RITA: The vice president -- this is a country at war. The vice president of the United States went to a military installation to talk about the country at war. And I believe, to the best of my observation of what he did yesterday, it was not only appropriate, it was the right thing to do.
Q: Well, he didn't say vote for Bush-Cheney in 2004.
MR. DI RITA: I think he did the right thing.
Q: Just a question about Afghanistan. U.N. workers have been killed in this mosque bombing. Doctors Without Borders has announced it's pulling out. There's concern about mischief from a warlord in effect dropped by President Karzai. As Afghanistan moves towards elections, do you see it as more or less stable, more or less dangerous nowadays?
GEN. SCHWARTZ: From a military point of view, operational point of view, it is pretty stable. We continue to have the cross-border activity that we have had in the east and the southeast, and we've been focusing on both the remnants of the Taliban and the al Qaeda residual as well in a number of areas of the country. The numbers -- we have roughly 19,000 or so troops in Afghanistan as we speak. And as we run up to the elections, you may be aware that at the Istanbul summit, NATO has chosen to augment those fielded forces with one or two additional battalions to provide for additional security. So the bottom line is that we are going to be posturing the force to make sure that we provide the best possible environment for the elections to come.
MR. DI RITA: And it's important to remember that -- I think something on the order of 8 million Afghans have registered to vote; almost half of that is women. There's something very special going on in Afghanistan. The president is making decisions about his ticket. Political opposition leaders, who may indeed be warlords, are deciding what they want to do within the political system to respond to that.
Now, there's still a few months to go before the election, and there are people in that country, that the general just talked about, a small number of Taliban holdovers and perhaps some foreign fighters that would very much like to disrupt what's going on. But there's a political process moving forward, and it's going to be -- there could well be violence associated with it. But Afghans themselves appear to be investing in this process and people should feel as though something very special is going on there, with all the attendant dangers that are associated with it, and challenges.
GEN. SCHWARTZ: Thanks a lot, folks.
Okay, thank you.


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Gabriel Campanario, is a staff artist at The Seattle Times and the founder of Urban Sketchers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing. Campanario's newspaper column, Seattle Sketcher, was recently awarded first place for blog writing in "The Best of the West" journalism contest.
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By bummble 17 Mar 2013
If you like the books of Danny Gregory, Cathy Johnson and D. Price, you will *love* this one.
It is filled to the brim with THE most inspiring art; it's lively and beautiful and it makes me want to go out and draw!
What I find incredibly helpful are the notes with each sketch; not only about the materials used, but also about how long it took to do a sketch.
It's very reassuring to know that an incredibly beautiful drawing took, say, 2 hours to make - it makes me feel less disappointed in my rough, 10 minute sketches.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
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"Campanario founded the nonprofit organization Urban Sketchers, and this book showcases the work of over 100 artists worldwide who draw scenes from the cities where they live and travel, posting them at urbansketchers.org. The concept caught on fast, and new groups are forming around the world, connecting with each other online. Here, Campanario offers guidance on tools, techniques, the urban environment, and drawing styles, but the main strength of this book is the 500-plus full-color examples of successful sketches drawn in metropolises and towns all over the globe. VERDICT: Part travel book, part art instruction, this is a great guide to look at before (or instead of) your next vacation." - Library Journal
Table of contents
Preface Introduction SECTION I: Becoming an Urban Sketcher What is Urban Sketching? Tools for Your Portable Studio Style and Technique SECTION II: See the World, One Drawing at a Time Seattle Victoria San Francisco Davis Los Angeles San Diego San Antonio Kansas City Toronto Montreal New York City Washington DC Norfolk Orlando Santo Domingo São Paulo Buenos Aires Johannesburg Nouakchott Marrakech Malaga Cordoba Lisbon Barcelona Blois Rennes Paris Liege London Sheffield Dublin Berlin Stuttgart Kandern Venice Rome Naples Istanbul Tel Aviv Al Ain Pune Bangkok Penang Singapore Jakarta Semarang Hong Kong Seoul Tokyo Auckland Sydney SECTION III: Drawing Inspiration Skylines, Cityscapes, and Panoramas Buildings and Architecture Industry and Construction Sites Harbors and Waterfronts Monuments, Cars, and Urban Furniture Through the Seasons Events, News, and Performances Subways, Buses, and Airports Cafes, Restaurants, and Bars People in Action Parks and Museums Night Sketching Contributors About the Author

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The Interactive Park Monument That Plays With YouMeet Morphs, autonomous robot structures that interact with their environment.
How Can a Blood Test Tell if You're Schizophrenic?The new method could launch within 18 months.
How Ferguson Changed America A year ago Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown. What has followed has been the greatest national reckoning on racism since the beating of Rodney King.
Donald Trump Said It's "Disgusting" to Pump Milk in Front of Colleagues. So We Found A Lady Who Did.
What Happened at Slate This Week? Aisha Harris rounds up some shocking, informative, and hilarious reads.
What Happens When We Get It Wrong? Slate's Corrections Czar Talks About Our Policy on Errors and Typos.
The Unusual Mind of Clarice Lispector The Brazilian writer's Complete Stories reveals she was a genius on the level of Nabokov.
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SEARHC interim general counsel Michael E. Douglas has been hired permanently for the job.
Douglas has been the attorney for the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium since June and will continue to be based in Juneau. The non-profit health consortium serves Native communities in Southeast Alaska, including the Ethel Lund Clinic in Juneau and Mt. Edgecumbe Hosptial in Sitka.
Douglas is Haida Indian, with a law degree from the University of Washington. He was formerly president of the Northwest Indian Bar Association and a volunteer mentor for the Alaska Court System Color of Justice Program. He coordinates a scholarship program for Alaska Native and American Indian law students through the bar association.
Before moving to Juneau, Douglas worked for Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Munson, LLP, an American Indian law firm in Anchorage.


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Painter, Robert K. & Jeruen E. Dery. 2014. An acoustic investigation of R-Umlaut in Old Norse.
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Heider, Paul M., Jeruen E. Dery & Douglas Roland. 2014. The processing of it object relative clauses: Evidence against a fine-grained frequency account.
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Chaves, Rui & Jeruen E. Dery. 2013. Which subject islands will the acceptability of improve with repeated exposure?.
Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
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Pearson, Hazel & Jeruen E. Dery. 2013. Dreaming de re and de se: Experimental evidence for the Oneiric Reference Constraint.
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If you've dialed 911 in the last five years while in South Walton, you may have been speaking with a former Miss Florida — though you'd never know it.
Priscilla Brown, nee Schnarr, worked as a 911 dispatcher for the South Walton Fire District before retiring Aug. 31. And even among her colleagues, Brown never let slip that she was a pageant winner.
"I never bothered to say anything to anybody," the 1964 Miss Florida said. "I kept it from them for five and a half years."
But at her surprise retirement party, the group presented a slideshow of photographs of Brown, including some from when she won the Miss Florida crown at the age of 17.
"If you ever happen to meet Charlotte Flynt … thank her for letting the 'cat out of the bag' to (South Walton Fire District administrative assistant) Robbie (Lund) one day in late July," Brown told The Sun of how her colleagues found out.
Brown said she's still a bit shy to share the story, but that her Miss Florida win was an unexpected honor.
"I didn't expect to win," said the woman who identified herself more as athlete than beauty queen. "Athletic blondes did not win giddy contests then."
But even so, it is clear Brown had the winning combination of talent, interview skills, and beauty to win.
"It's more than just walking around being pretty. You have to have a little brain in there," she said with a laugh.
Her song-and-dance routine of Damn Yankees' "Whatever Lola Wants" likely won over the judges, who she pleased again with her answers to the interview questions.
Her responses to the judges': "What one book would you bring with you if you were stranded alone on a desert island?" and "What's your favorite state in the U.S.A.?" were, respectively, "A cookbook to teach me how to use the flora on the island" and "Florida."
"What do you think I said to that one?" she said, laughing. "Some girls said California."
The year following the win, Brown acted as a delegate for the state of Florida, traveling around the country and continent to "sell" the state.
She traveled more than 80,000 miles that year, and stopped off in Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Chicago and Canada.
Growing up and especially after that year, Brown had imagined she would follow in the footsteps of her mother, a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, and end up in show business.
But after she married, divorced and was left to support two children, she decided she would go a more stable route and began work as a 911 dispatcher in Miami.
"It's not something you do to have a paycheck every two weeks," said Brown, who quickly realized it's more than just a job. "It's definitely a calling."
She said her time in Miami definitely kept her busy, and she remembered a call at 4 a.m. from a man who said an elephant was at his door.
Though incredulous, she dispatched a deputy, per protocol, and when he arrived, he did indeed find an elephant from a nearby circus at the caller's front door.
She left Miami behind in 1990 and moved to Northwest Florida to work for the Fort Walton Beach police. She took the post at South Walton Fire District in 2007.
Brown said she loves it here, but that the pace is a bit slower than it was when she first started her career.
"It's not nearly as busy. They also don't have elephants knocking on their doors," she added with a laugh.
Brown said she loved her job and will most miss her coworkers and helping people in the community, but she realized it was time to start a new phase.
"I'm 66, it's time for me to let somebody else do it," she said. "I didn't feel that I was going to be the best that I could be for much longer."
But though she is retired from 911 lines, she certainly will not be idle.
"My husband and I ride motorcycles, we hunt, we fish, we garden," the Freeport resident said. "We're going to have a good time."


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7th District School Board Candidates Don't Disagree on Much, Including Each Other's Qualifications
So who's ever heard competing candidates approaching the final stretch of a long campaign saying stuff like this?
"I think the 7th District will be well represented by whomever becomes the school board representative. We both have good intentions."
Or this?
"It has been a blessing to me to be able to begin a political career with people that really care about what they're doing…. Before the primary, we all said we wish we could all be on the board and be in different districts."
The first quote is Bill Warwick. The second is Kim Sepesi. They are competing for the 7th District school board seat and were the top vote-getters in a four-person May primary, winning the right to have their names on the ballot in the Aug. 5 county general election. Sepesi got 2,261 votes, Warwick 1,353 in what had to be the most amicable campaign ever.
So amicable, in fact, that when fellow candidate Charlotte Dorsey's husband died just a couple of weeks before the primary, the other three (Sepesi, Warwick and Matthew Jones) pitched in together and sent flowers.
School board races are non-partisan, and having four strong candidates in the field meant that no one was able to get the 50 percent of the vote (plus one) that would enable the frontrunner to win the race outright in the primary. Sepesi, who has long been active in the vote-rich Powell community and is a Republican (yes, party affiliation still matters, and the 7th District rarely elects Democrats) finished with 43 percent of the vote.
Warwick—in a turn of events that shocked many 7th District politicos—came in second, despite being a Democrat and living near Cedar Lane, on the southern fringe of the district, which includes Halls and parts of Fountain City.
"From what I understand, I think it was a little bit of a surprise," says Warwick, 71 and a retired captain with the Knoxville Fire Department. "But I think I got some attention when I opened up a subject that most folks weren't aware of—and that's the attrition of the career and technical programs in our schools. I think these are as important as the rest of our programs. I applaud academic achievers, but we've also got to have in place programs for students who may not feel that they want to go through four years of college.
"We also want to have in place the programs for students who want to be electricians, mechanics, or carpenters. We only graduate 79 percent of our students anyway. That right there tells you that we've got some work to do."
Sepesi, 40, is a longtime Powell community volunteer and says she was somewhat surprised that Warwick finished so strong. "But really, I didn't know what was going to happen," she says.
If she is elected she says her main focus will be on the issue of school overcrowding.
"All of the high schools in the 7th District and many across Knox County are facing overcrowding, so I'm very interested in what we can do to ease that situation."
During the primary season, Warwick emphasized his steady habits and dependability. "I am a very dull person," he says. "I've been married to the same woman for 54 years, lived in the same house for 38 years, had the same job for 35 years, belonged to the same church, Gillespie Avenue Baptist, since 1944, been a deacon for 16 years, spent the bulk of my career at one firehall, Burlington, and was president of the Knoxville Firefighters Association for 16 years."
Despite once being told he was going to go to hell for being a Democrat, he doesn't consider his party affiliation a major handicap. "I'm an ultra-conservative Democrat and I've voted for lots of Republicans," he says. "I vote for Jimmy Duncan every time he's on the ballot and I've voted in Republican primaries and will do it again in August.
"Coming out of a labor organization, you have to hold hands with Democrats, and we have some great people in the party."
Warwick served as president of the Fulton High School Alumni Association and says that kept him involved in and informed about the school system. He is proud to have been endorsed by the Knox County Education Association and to have gotten a vote of confidence from a group he knows well. "For some reason, the firefighters chose to endorse me," he says, laughing.
Sepesi has also been very involved in school issues. The married mother of two young children, she is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and the public information officer for Rural Metro, which has its main office in Powell. She is a Republican and was a founder of the Teen Driver Awareness Program at Powell High School, which was a response to a series of traffic accidents that have killed and injured a shocking number of PHS students and recent alumni. She has joined Warwick as an advocate for career and technical (vocational) education.
"I would like to see another vocational school here in five to seven years," she said. "But I'm a pragmatic person and I know that the main thing is, where does the money come from? I would like to see us put back money within the next five years. We spend a million and a half per day. If we could save just one day, we could go into [building a new vocational school in North Knox County] debt-free in five-seven years. I'd like to see the school board more proactive than reactive."
Sepesi knows that many Powell residents are still smarting from a hotly protested school rezoning two years ago, but she says overall, she supports schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre.
"So far, Dr. McIntyre has done a very good job. Being in the heart of Powell, I was not affected by the rezoning, but lots of families around me are. I don't single him out for blame, though. I think he's tried to be a good caretaker of the budget. He's been asked to come in and keep a flat budget and that's just hard to do. At some point in time, we're going to have to address that. We can't be flat."
Warwick agrees: "I see education as an investment in our future, not a cost."


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Pics of Seducer supporting Jon Oliva's Pain in Wörgl are online:
I had the chance to see Jon Oliva's Pain doing an acoustic gig (with some great Savatage classics too) in Wörgl, pics here:
Here are the plans of Photopit.com for the next months… the dates might change and some arent confirmed yet but its just an idea of what you can expect:
24.5. Jon Olivas Pain @ Wörgl 28.5. Kosheen @ Innsbruck (maybe) 5.6. "A Night Of Power" with Serenity & co. @ Wien (maybe) 11.6. Social Distortion [...]
Beside the gigs I also did a lot of nature photography lately, you can see the results here:
Alpenzoo in Innsbruck Springtime
you can find more of that stuff in my "Other Photography" section
I had the chance to see the supergroup Hail with members of Sepultura and Megadeth + Tim Ripper Owens, doing a great show of alltime metal classics.
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Lemon juice alternatives in a sour cocktail
I've just recently started drinking and have been looking into the sour family. From what I've gathered a sour is a holy ratio of a base spirit, a "sweet" (liqueur or syrup) and a sour (lemon juice); so naturally I want to screw around with it. What would you guys think about playing with other sour flavors like Seville oranges, Green apple juice, Cranberry juice etc.? Have any of you had a cocktail like that? how did it turn out? the closest I can find is the cosmopolitan's use of cranberry juice.
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IN THE DRAFT: NASCAR's changes make Daytona bigger
Another Super Bowl has come and gone which means Daytona is not far away. I sure hope the race in three weeks is better than the game.
I wonder when Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, is going to change the rules to make the game more interesting? He is probably calling Brian France to get some ideas.
The Super Bowl was anything but super. It was hard to watch Peyton Manning and Broncos disintegrate like they did. Not that I was pulling for either team, I just wanted to see a competitive game. Never have I ever experienced a team deflate as quickly as Denver did. It was similar to a NASCAR team preparing all winter for Daytona only to blow an engine on the first lap.
I know how hard each race team has worked over the last few weeks. They have put in countless hours of overtime for one race. And it is only one race. Their season is 36 weeks of racing all over the United States but they live and die for Speedweeks. Some teams get their annual salary at Daytona which means if they do well, they get paid. If they do bad, there may not be another week. Talk about pressure!
Last week I mentioned the possibility of the Chase changing and now it's official, which adds more pressure to the Daytona 500. Teams, drivers, owners and sponsors now realize what a victory can mean. The winner can almost automatically qualify for the Chase. That would make the next 25 races a little easier.
The new Chase is designed to make consistency less of a factor. The emphasis is being put on winning. I find that to be ludicrous! There is not a person out there who can say one of these drivers doesn't want to win every race.
Kyle Busch said it best. He said winning is the only thing he ever thinks about so this format should suit him just fine.
It is hard to believe it has been a year since we enjoyed our weekend in Charlotte as Herb Thomas was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Where did the time go? Sue and I went out with Marty and Sandy last weekend and we all said we truly enjoyed the opportunity to witness his induction and we wanted to again say a huge thank you to Joel and Vic Thomas for the invitation. We'd never trade the experience for anything. We will always be grateful for what you and your family did. Thanks again!
I want to remind everyone about the Daytona get together at Goodfellas on Feb. 23. I would love for many of the readers to come and watch the race and talk some NASCAR. And as you all know I will talk about anything. We can talk about Herb Thomas and his contribution to NASCAR or we can talk about the NBA, NFL or curling! No subject will be left out. So mark your calendars or post it on Facebook or Twitter! Whatever it takes I want to see you there. See you next week!


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Posted by Allison on 08/22/2006
The place looks good, it is a little pricy though and I ordered a few sushi rolls which were not very good. I didn't even finish them. Plus, the waiter was just trying way too hard to be excited and it was actually turning us off.
Posted by Anonymous on 08/19/2006
the main reasons i wanted to visit this restaurant were after hearing rave reviews of the food. in honesty, i believe it was way too pricey. the food was mediocre. the atmosphere was friendly and nice yet the food was not up to par. the menus need an editting job with many more creative Asian dishes. I can find pad thai or dim sum or peking duck in China town. Overall, it was not as great as I had thought.
Posted by Anonymous on 08/17/2006
I have lived in NY my whole life. I must say that Ruby Foo's may be my favorite restaurant ever! Not only is the food delicious and prepared to your liking, but, the service is impeccable. I enjoy every dish that I eat there and the desserts are fantastic!! The decor is beautiful and unique as well. All in all, Ruby Foo's is the place to be!
Posted by Jay on 07/17/2006
The restaurant looks nice and the staff is efficient and friendly, but the food just isn't that good. The Szechuan pork rolls were served in an excellent sauce but the pork itself was tasteless. The sushi rolls (I ordered the Thai filet mignon and the Florida rolls) didn't have much flavor and tasted a bit odd. The three sauces they give you do not do anything for the sushi except change the color, and even the wasabi was pale and tasteless. The Thai ice cream sundae was the one highlight of the meal, but it wasn't enough to salvage a boring, overpriced eating experience.
Posted by big eater on 06/28/2006
Interior is nicely decorated, however the food is poor, esp for the price. food was lukewarm. stir-fry had too much black bean sause. i'm not an authenticity snob, but ruby foo is just not good. chinatown has much better food, altho it'll prob be lacking in the ambiance. bottomline, food was too salty. not even the ingredients were fresh, the mushrooms were from a can. for the price, about 20 a dish, it doesn't make sense that the mushrooms are from a can. 35 a person is fine for a decent lunch, but this was just subpar. in addition, our waiter disappeared, didn't bother checking on us once, or the tables near us.
Posted by peaches on 06/21/2006
As a native NewYorker I decided to see what some of the mixed reviews were about this restaurant. As a lover of Pan Asian food this was not up to par. Crabmeat sushi was ordinary and not tasty. Lettuce wraps were not plentiful and the main dish of PaqTai was very dry. It was not as special a dinner that I had hoped for. Beautiful decor does not mean good food.
Posted by FoodLover'06 on 04/16/2006
I went here expecting good things because of all the positive reveiws, and was actually quite unimpressed. The service was fine, but who goes to a restaurant for the service? The food was....ok, I guess, definitely not delicious or even good. Passable, one might say. But barely passable. Food lovers be warned: this is NOT a "must eat at while in NYC" place. (And it actually IS quite touristy and expensive in addition to being mediocre.)


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'Log on to Ludgvan' as parish goes live
Posted: November 15, 2012|
RESIDENTS and visitors are being encouraged to 'log on to Ludgvan' after the parish council launched its first website.
The internet pages are packed with information on the council, history of the area and the wider community.
Ludgvan councillor Peter Vaughan said the council was proud of the site, which also has details of council members, minutes from meetings and a list of current planning applications in the parish.
"All in all, therefore, an active website which contains a lot of useful information – plus, if you want a visual treat, go to banner heading 'visitors' and then the drop-down heading 'gallery'," he said.
"This brings up a selection of iconic photographs, all taken from within the parish."
The website also has space for three directories – business and commercial, community groups and health and education – which the council hopes will eventually provide a comprehensive guide.
The council is offering any local club, community group or business the opportunity to feature in this section of the site for free.
To get involved, go to www.ludgvan.org.uk and use the contact heading to send parish clerk Eddy Edwards information and contact details for your group. He can also be contacted by post at 12 Carnsew Meadow, Hayle, TR27 4JW or by calling 01736 751790.


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Global warming, as well as climate change, is a subject which indicates zero indicate of cooling down.
Here's the mean on why it's occurring, precisely what is inflicting it, and how the way it will change the planet.
Are Global Warming & Climate Change Happening?
Truly!!!. Earth is presently screening several symptoms of worldwide climate change.
• Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the globe since 1880, a lot of this in recent decades, in accordance with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
• The speed of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last twenty years seem to have been the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for some millennia, according to a range of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) news that 11 of the past 12 years is some of the dozen warmest since 1850.
• The Arctic is feeling the outcomes essentially the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, as well as eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Effect Assessment report compiled within 2000 and 2004.
• Arctic ice is quickly disappearing, and the region could have the first of all entirely ice-free summer by 2040 or before. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice harm.
• Glaciers and mountain snows are quickly melting—for instance, Montana's Glacier National Park at the moment have solely 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern Hemisphere, thaws additionally come a week before in spring plus freezes commence one week later.
Are Human beings Causing It?
The report, based on the work of some 2,500 scientists in more than 130 countries, concluded that humans have caused entirely or perhaps most of the most present planetary warming. Human-caused global warming often is referred to as anthropogenic climate change.
• Industrialization, deforestation, as well as pollution have tremendously increased atmospheric concentrations of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and even nitrous oxide, entirely greenhouse gases which help entrap heat near Earth's surface.
• Humans are pouring carbon dioxide to the surroundings much speedier than vegetation plus oceans could take in it.
• Those gases persist within the atmosphere for years, meaning that even if the mentioned emissions have already been eradicated now, it would not directly finish global warming.
• A number of experts show that natural cycles in Earth's orbit can modify the planet's hype to sunlight, which can describe the current trend. Earth have indeed experienced warming and cooling cycles harshly every hundred thousand years the result of these orbital shifts, but such changes have occurred along the span of several centuries. Today's changes have taken place in the last hundred years or less.
What is Going to Occur?
A follow-up arrive warned that global warming could lead on to large-scale food and water shortages and have catastrophic effects on nature.
• Sea level may rise between 7 and 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by century's end. Rises of only four inches (10 centimeters) may flood numerous South Seas islands and swamp large parts of Southeast Asia.
• Glaciers around the world could melt, causing sea levels to climb while making water shortages in places relying on runoff for clean water.
• Robust hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, along with natural disasters may turn out to be ordinary in lots of parts on the planet. The growth of deserts may also trigger food shortages in many areas.
• A lot more than a million species face extinction from disappearing habitat, altering ecosystems, and acidifying oceans. This can possibly be the worst effect of the Global Warming & Climate Change.
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Dancing With The Stars
DWTS's Tom Bergeron, Anna Trebunskaya & Sasha Farber Prepare to Eat … Garlic? (PHOTO)
At least we know they're not secretly vampires. It turns out, Dancing With the Stars hosts and pro dancers aren't that different from the rest of us — sometimes they snack on tortilla chips and chase them down with, er, chopped garlic.
Tom — who'd better win that hosting Emmy this year — got his start in radio and TV in northern New England and he frequently returns to the area. On July 16 he tweeted, "Best surprise of my leisurely drive up the coast!" while driving around Ogunquit, Maine.
He shared a photo of a local sign advertising Ballroom with a Twist at the Ogunquit Playhouse, featuring married DWTS pros Anna Trebunskaya and Jonathan Roberts, along with Carson Kressley, who will perform on July 21.
Earlier today, Tom tweeted another photo, with Anna and DWTS pro troupe member Sasha Farber. "Post-show in Ogunquit, ME. Anna & Sasha prepare a meal of chopped garlic and Doritos."
Tom is making the appropriate face for the occasion, but if eating garlic and Doritos gets your body to look and dance like Anna and Sasha, we're on our way to the market now.
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anyway, I live where the home of golf tv is- Golf Channel. I moved to FL little more than 3 years ago. I have two bad hobbies(not bad of course, but they have hurt my intimate relationships and jobs), fishing and golf. Supposedly FL is the golfing and fishing capital of the world, hence that is why I moved here. I used to be VERY hardcore golfer(grew up in SF bay area), but after moving to FL, I stopped golfing and my number one addiction was fishing(still is).
Anyway, I want to get back into playing again(have maybe played 4 rounds in 3 1/2 years, used to play that much in 2 weeks). I have actually been to range two or three times in last month or so(and of course my swing is all over the place). I used to be a 7, and like many other's on here(especially Kyle/Anthony!:)) I wanted to get to be a high level golfer(scratch or close to it). I had a buddy I played with(who, btw looked a LOT like Tiger!!) who was a 2 or 3cap. Anyway, I just learned the golf swing on my own over the years and never took a lesson(Im a stubborn guy who played all the major sports growing up and played D1 college football, so I always thought getting very good at golf would be easy for me, which it wasn't), but I am now thinking of taking one.... so in order for me to take lessons from a Pro, I REALLY want to like the guy's style AND personality and teaching methods.
I'm a personal trainer, and believe me, they're are a lot better trainers than me, BUT I also think I fit a particular person and personality...so I feel like in order for me to take lessons finally, I need someone who is somewhat similar in terms of personality, teaching style and athletic ability(it would help if they guy hasn't just been a golfer for 30 years and actually played several other sports). Simply, I want a PGA pro that respects his health and Is not grossy overweight and smoking in-between talking about my swing! :)
I can get a little long-winded...so I will end this now. I have watched some of the mods videos(especially with Anthony) and I like you're teaching style and like the fact that you're not 60 or 70 something years old, like a lot of the PGA pros I see at the courses I have hit balls at.
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Bank of America will release quarterly earnings tomorrow and once again, foreclosures will be part of the equation. The Charlotte-based bank's role in the 2008 housing crash has landed it on a fair number of lists of most hated institutions in America.
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Among the speakers with a prime-time slot at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week is South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. The speech could propel her into national politics.
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CEREDO -- When Vernon Browning finished his shift at American National Rubber Co. in Ceredo on Friday evening, a letter was waiting for him at the time clock. The first word he noticed was "Termination."
An estimated 50 to 60 other workers lost their jobs Friday as the plant shut down.
Browning said the letter explained that the company had defaulted on loan payments to Fifth Third Bank, which then foreclosed on the plant.
Ceredo Mayor Mose Napier said he had received calls from employees informing him that the plant had shut down.
"They called me and told me about it," Napier said. "It makes it bad for the community."
A company manager could not immediately be reached for comment Friday evening.
According to local economic leaders, the closing is an example of the ripple effect from the economic crisis in the auto industry. American National Rubber manufactured rubber products for Ford Motor Co., among others.
"I know they've had difficulties, even before this latest crunch," said Jerry McDonald, president of the Huntington Area Development Council.
McDonald said he hadn't heard that the plant was shutting down, but wasn't surprised by the news.
"They supply to the automotive industry, and I know they've had problems even before," he said.
America's three automotive giants, Ford included, are currently lobbying congress for a $14 billion bailout as the industry continues to plummet in the midst of a global recession.
The local steel industry also has suffered at the hands of the downward spiral in the automotive market.
AK Steel in Russell, Ky., recently laid off 650 workers temporarily while placing the mill on "hot idle" status. Steel of West Virginia has been making a string of layoffs over the past few months, the largest of which was a furlough of 52 workers in November.
Other local industry sectors have been hit by the slow economy as well.
Greif Brothers, which manufactures packaging products, announced earlier this month it would be shutting down its Culloden plant, putting 41 employees out of work by January.
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Team GB look ahead to the Olympic Tennis Event during a press conference at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
Andy Murray
On what winning a gold medal would mean:"Winning a gold medal is the pinnacle of sport so it would be right up there with what I have done so far."
On playing as part of Team GB on home soil:"I think there's always pressure on a player at Wimbledon but when you're playing in front of a home crowd I think everyone would agree you up your game. It helps in all sports to have the crowd behind you. Sometimes when you are struggling it can lift your game. I've played some of my best tennis at Wimbledon and I've always enjoyed it.
On his memories of the Olympic Games: "I always remember watching Steve Backley, and Michael Johnson is someone I remember watching a lot when I was growing up. I remember in Beijing watching Usain Bolt and seeing what he did there - it was pretty amazing, how far he won by and what he did throughout the Games."
On what it's like staying in the Olympic Village: "I met William Fox-Pitt - my girlfriend was very happy about that, she loves horses. I also met Anthony Joshua, a super-heavyweight boxer, so for me that was cool, we chatted a bit about boxing. We also sat amongst the handball team. For me it wasn't specific people that I wanted to seek out and meet, it was just nice speaking to all sorts of different athletes from all of the sports."
Heather Watson
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"I'm so excited. To have the opportunity to play in the singles as well and to be back on the Wimbledon grass, which I'm really enjoying at the moment, hopefully it goes well." On coming back from an ankle injury:
"At the beginning of the year it was really tough for me - I had my ankle injury and I just wasn't really enjoying tennis and playing because I wasn't winning any matches. It was probably the worst I have been in my tennis career so to be here now, climbing the ladder and playing well again, I'm just really happy and I couldn't hope for anything more."
Elena Baltacha
On advice her father, football bronze medallist Sergei Baltacha, has given her:
"He said it was the most amazing experience he has ever had in his life. He won bronze and they beat Yugoslavia to win the medal. Obviously he showed me lots of pictures but he just said it was unbelievable to be part of something that big and he's just so proud that I managed to get my spot here.""My mum's going to be here but my dad is just going to stay at home and follow it on the TV, but basically my dad said, 'Try and experience everything that you can and it will be something that will stay with you forever'."
Jamie Murray
On being in the Olympic Village:"Yesterday, we all had dinner in the Village with the other members of Team GB. There are so many different athletes covering so many different sports it's totally unique for us. Normally we see the same faces every week, I'm bored of seeing them and I'm sure they are bored of seeing us as well, so it's nice to be around so many different athletes and learn from them."
On playing doubles with Andy:"I like to be in charge but I don't know whether he would listen to me! We have probably played five or six tournaments together for the last two or three years and I enjoy playing with him, but I don't know whether he enjoys playing with me. To be able to play at a home Olympics with your brother is something very special."
Anne Keothavong
On taking part in an Olympic Games on home soil:"When it was confirmed that I would be part of this British team I was over the moon. This is something that I think all of us have worked so hard towards and wanted to be part of.""For me growing up in Hackney (east London, the borough in which Olympic Park is situated) and seeing all the changes there - that's something really special. Hopefully there will be some legacy there too.""My first Olympics, there's a lot to take in, but it has been great meeting some of the athletes from the other sports and hopefully we can all do well."
Colin Fleming
On whether playing doubles with a regular partner - Ross Hutchins - is an advantage:"It will be a little bit of an advantage that Ross and I have been playing together for the best part of 18 months now, but at the same time it doesn't guarantee us a win in any match against a pair that haven't been doing that because there so many good players playing together. You see, week in week out in doubles, that scratch teams come together and do well. In any one-off event any team can play well but I feel like we are in a better position having worked together."
On their chances in the Games:"I don't think we are going to be seeded in the draw so we are obviously not one of the favourites. Our results since we have played together show that if we play our best we can compete and we have had some wins against some of the top players."
"We saw what our good friend Jonny Marray and Frederik Nielsen did a few weeks ago (winning the men's doubles at Wimbledon), it's a really special achievement. I'm not saying anyone can do it but it does show you that if you play well on a surface that we are used to playing well on we are a match for anyone."
Ross Hutchins
On the condition of courts at Wimbledon:"I heard the courts were playing a little bit slower last week because the grass was a little bit longer, but I went on the match courts yesterday with Andy and they were normal speed as the Championships were. Not too slick, not quite like a hard court, and now they are coming up to normal length so are the same as they were a few weeks ago."
Laura Robson
On which of Team GB's tennis players have met the most famous athletes in the Olympic Village:"I think Heather has done well!"
On staying in the Olympic Village:"It's been great in the Village with all the other athletes, there's a lounge with pool tables, a Playstation. We've been socialising a little bit but definitely focusing on training, that's what's most important."
Team leader Paul Hutchins
On Britain's tennis squad:"I'm really pleased that we've got a good team. I'm really pleased that we are representing in singles and doubles and it would be really good in future, in Rio, to get two or three of the men in the top 70, which I think by Rio we will do. I'm really hopeful that we can all over-perform our normal standard and once you over-perform you can easily start to look at a medal situation."
On what the Olympic Games will do for British tennis:"I think it's a boost. It will definitely be a plus factor to helping British tennis, which is what we're all about."
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A record-equalling number of sibling pairings are competing in the Olympic Tennis Event at this year's Games, with four couples playing in the men's and women's doubles...
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