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"This one is installed without the straps, all it is, is placed under the mattress. If you put a little pressure on it, you can see it slides pretty easy. And, if the person laying in the bed would roll over into that, they would eventually get entrapped between the mattress and bed rail and would not be able to get out," says a CPSC engineer.
Cutting a person's air supply and blood to their head. Then the CPSC engineer showed how the bed rail should be installed to keep it in place.
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"It's not the type of product where you can just slide it under the bed and feel like, okay, I'm good now. I just let my loved one use it just days and weeks on end," he says.
Gloria Black says, "I did not realize at all that this was not attached to my mother's bed. I had always assumed that there were nuts and bolts fastening it to her bed."
So, this daughter has made it her mission to keep other families from getting an unexpected, awful call about a loved one lost to a bed rail. She's on a crusade to ensure to spare other families her kind of pain.
"Sometimes there's a need for a reality check. And, the bed rails story is three decades overdue for a reality check. My goal has always been to stop the next death," she says.
Gloria filed a lawsuit against the assisted living facility where her mother died. The case has since been resolved.
Right now, there are no mandatory standards for manufacturers of bed rails.
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And, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration plan to launch an education campaign later this fall.
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There are some thins you can do right now.
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Yum Cha at The Eight, Haymarket
So many choices..So little stomach space! We were searching for our favourite dessert but unfortunately the mango pancakes eluded us.
23 comments:
- missklicious said...
Yum cha is definitely the best hangover cure!
- August 28, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- sara (Belly Rumbles) said...
What would we do if yum cha didn't exist for that Saturday/Sunday brunch hangover cure!
Those dumplings do look big, and score on the peking duck!
- August 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- MissPiggy said...
Lordy, Demos looks a bit rough in the first picture (did he get his eyesight back after the IVY?), but the yum cha seems to have worked wonders by the last photo.
I want to try an emperors puff - have always seen the queues here but had no idea what they were lining up for.
- August 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- Simon Leong said...
With 57% liked on Urbanspoon it looks like The Eight is on the way down in popularity?
- August 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Gianna@TheEmptyFridge said...
Hi Karen - it really is! all that fried goodness!
Hi Sara - Yum Cha is a gift to mankind! There always is something for everyone.
Hi Mel - hahaha oh that's the ever rough and tumble some Demos for you! You have to try the puffs, they are such a cheap treat!
Hi Simon - It would be such a crying shame to limit restaurant visits to only the "popular" urbanspoon places
- August 28, 2011 at 8:00 PM
- Stephcookie said...
So true, yum cha is the BEST hangover food. The only thing that rivals it is bacon. But they serve enough porky goodness at yum cha to beat it :)
- August 29, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Laura said...
i love the eight, i used to go back in the day when they were called something different & had a different entry. i think it's great value there. sadly i'm closer to the fish markets so i go there instead.
i'm like mel, i've seen the lines but i've nver stopped at emperors puff. now i'm make the effort to stop there seeing as i know what they are lining up for!
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Thomasville, GA- Christmas came early today for patients at the Southwestern State Hospital in Thomasville.
As part of the Georgia Municipal Association's annual Mayors' Motorcade, city officials delivered gifts and personal care items to patients on Thursday.
Santa also came along for the ride, as well as some elementary school Christmas carolers.
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The Mayors' Motorcade began back in 1958 as a way to provide gifts to patients of each of Georgia's seven regional mental health hospitals and to raise awareness of the needs of the residents of these facilities.
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Anna Kournikova, a Miami finalist in 1998, was spotted in the stands with her sexy boy toy Enrique Iglesias watching Serena Williams defeat sister Venus 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the semifinals.
The top lady baller evened her head-to-head with V at 10-all and, more importantly, held onto the keys to the WTA Penthouse. She'll face Victoria Azarenka for a chance to earn a record-setting sixth Miami crown.
These two are still unbelievably hot together. I'd love to watch. Just once. And join in. At least once.
PS - It seems like someone else might have a Crackberry addiction. Someone page Mirka.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
SIGHTING: Enrique + Anna still hot, watch Serena defeat Venus in Miami
Labels: Anna Kournikova, celebrity, Enrique Iglesias, gossip, tennis
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- AnonymousApril 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Enrique looks absolutely enthralled by the match. I wonder if he was disappointed to learn that not all tennis players are hot Russian blonds.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 3, 2009 at 9:17 AM
I'd rather see Anna on the court. Even losing she was entertaining.ReplyDelete
Just once?ReplyDelete
Personally, a little more than once...ReplyDelete
I met Enrique's tennis-playing cousin today... I was FAR too excited about it.
Enrique's tennis-playing cousin is who?ReplyDelete
Anyhow, Anna is so hot!
Love this girl, but to bad she gave up on tennis because of the lime-light and relationship with Enrique.
She was very talented player, but her mother's stubbornes of not hiring proper trainer for her, yet to train her herself(wtf?) plus all the lime-light and eyes looking close on her, just were too much for her.She was 16 when she made SF in Wimbledon, her first Wimbledon was that, afterwards it all went the wrong way, but talent and game she most definetly had.
Too bad she won't come back.
I met Enrique's tennis-playing cousin today... I was FAR too excited about it.ReplyDelete
Yes derangedsoviet - DO TELL!!
It must it kill her a little inside that she's not still out there competing. It was her vs. Venus in the finals way back when.ReplyDelete
Rich: I'll send you an email about it!ReplyDelete


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Family Guide on Adolescent DepressionNAMI's family guide on What Families Need to Know about Adolescent Depression.
CABF Child and Adolescent Bipolar FoundationFor five years the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation has been a meeting place for families dealing with the challenge of raising children with bipolar disorder. We are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to provide essential support and information to all of you who are struggling to do the best you can for your children and families.
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Promoting, Preserving, and Restoring Children's Mental HealthA report from the Children and Families subcommittee of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, this document discusses the public health crisis in child and adolescent mental health, and outlines policy options.
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Currently working on his PhD in ceramics at Kookmin University in Seoul, Jongjin Park creates a curiously teetering and layered look in this ongoing series of colourful ceramics. See more images from "Artistic Stratum" below.
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Otis Hope Carey explores his indigenous heritage in a series that mixes 1960s optical art with themes of home and dreams of safe passage for his ancestors and the Gumbaynggirr people. His first solo exhibition, "NGURAALAMI," will be on display at China Heights Gallery in Surry Hills (Sydney) starting May 27th. More images and video below!
Japanese Artist Motoi Yamamoto's incredible, labyrinthine installations are the result of 45 hours of meticulously piled grains of salt, strewn inside a medieval castle in the South of France. I've posted about his work several times (here, here, here) but I never grow tired of it.
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It took the Google Cultural Institute five years to archive 200 artworks in super high resolution (we're talking gigapixels). Now they've scanned 1,000 in just a few months all thanks to a new camera! The device, dubbed the Art Camera, has cut down capture time from a full day to around 30 minutes. With 20 cameras built, Google has been lending them out to major institutions in cities across the globe free of charge!
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By Kathleen Berger
St. Louis (KSDK) - A photo showing the dead and bullet-riddled body of the man accused of killing a Deputy U.S. Marshal is being forwarded by text and email to countless people. The picture was taken at a secured scene and wasn't supposed to be made public.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI were all there as the shooting is a joint investigation. The FBI insists the photo was taken before they arrived. St. Louis police have launched an internal investigation and US Marshals are cooperating in that investigation.
Due to the graphic nature of the photo, NewsChannel 5 will not show it; but as we learned, so many people have already seen it.
Nina Barnette knows the house on Osage. It's next to the park where she walks. She says everyone knows what happened to the man who fired at authorities, killing a Deputy U.S. Marshal. Suspect Carlos Boles was shot and killed as well.
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"I understand the police man's job, and I understand that it's dangerous and all of that, but come on. You don't have to go that route," said Barnette.
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"My sister-in-law sent me that picture, someone sent it to her through text," said Tina Tate.
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"Photos are only taken for evidence, not for personal use, and not to mention it was very disrespectful," said Wu.
And there's fear in the community of possible retaliation.
"'Okay, fine, I can do better. I can be a better gangster or I can be badder than he was. And that's not going to happen to me,'" said Barnette.
St. Louis police say if it discovers the photo was taken and circulated by one of its own, that person will be disciplined.
The St. Louis Police Department released the following statement about the picture:
"This photo is incredibly distasteful. While various agencies had access to the crime scene and we cannot be sure who may have taken this photo, our Department's policies are crystal clear-the only photos our personnel are to take at any crime scene are those that are for investigative purposes. Anything otherwise is completely inappropriate and unacceptable. While we cannot speak for the FBI or the U.S. Marshals, surely their policies are similar. Actions like this threaten the professionalism and integrity of ALL law enforcement. There is an ongoing Internal Affairs investigation to determine if a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department employee took the photo and if so, the offending employee will absolutely be disciplined by this Department."


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The Cult of Barack Obama – Eight Questions to Help Identify Members
I've never quite gotten the cult of Che Guevara. Colleges across the country are crisscrossed with students wearing Che tee shirts and dorm rooms are decorated with Che posters. Sometimes if you ask the student wearing a Che shirt about him you'll get a leftist screed worthy of Matt Damon's bar scene in Good Will Hunting. They'll talk about his "affinity for the poor", that | Read More »
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Near-Shoring/Right-Shoring Strategies: Weighing the risks of global sourcing
August 01, 2011
Risk mitigation may now be the top concern among supply chain professionals. Given the state of today's volatile world, is it any wonder?
Natural disasters in Iceland and Japan have been highly disruptive, as has the political upheaval in the Middle East and emerging markets. Piracy, whether it be intellectual or physical, is also an ongoing worry. And, of course, there's the energy card that will potentially put even more stress on already stretched transportation budgets.
As a hedge against rising transport costs, many industry analysts are advising Fortune 500 clients to weigh the benefits of prevention and response when it comes to managing their global pipelines. Dr. Bruce C. Arntzen, senior research director at MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics, says that there are several key drivers pushing a global reversal in sourcing strategies.
"The emerging middle class and mass of new consumers will be a major force for change. The demand for luxury goods manufactured outside of China is going to remake the manufacturing landscape within that country. For example, a Gucci bag made in one of the local provinces is not going to have the cache of an authentic item from northern Italy."
Furthermore, he says, the sheer quantity of these new purchasers of high-end foreign-made goods is impressive. In a few years, the number of Chinese middle-class consumers will equal the entire U.S. population, says Arntzen.
"Multinationals hoping to sell the Chinese their own manufactured products are going to take a fall," he says. "And the escalating wage structure in China will soon take away another cost-saving advantage."
At the same time, a variety of social pressures outside of China may transform that country's manufacturing base as well. Global demand for "green" products, for example, is already having an impact, says Arntzen. He points to Sourcemap.org, a non-profit consumer web site that allows buyers to create open supply chains for a wide range of products and services using a shared carbon catalog and life cycle assessment (LCA) tools.
"With the complexity in outsourcing from China, the network of sub-contractors is not going to disappear quickly," says Arntzen. "For a new generation of global consumers, the carbon footprint is a critical part of the buying process."
Indeed, even if a multinational is doing everything right when it sources from overseas, the perception that it may be socially irresponsible can be devastating. "It only takes one episode," he says, recalling when a certain Fortune 500 toy-maker had a scandal related to lead paint in one of its products.
"The threat did not come from the primary subcontractor," he says, "or even the secondary or tertiary subcontractor. It came from one of the many obscure providers of services that were vital to keeping manufacturing cost down. And guess what? The company is still paying for that mistake."
Finally, says Arntzen, the risk of losing intellectual property and control over inventory is changing the way companies plan for outsourcing.
Labor-intensive first to shift
Data from Panjiva, an online search engine with detailed information on global suppliers and manufacturers, however, suggests that it's too soon to see a major shift in outsourcing.
"This is despite the fact that sourcing executives are talking incessantly about moving beyond China."
This is, in part, due to the fact that sourcing executives are finding it difficult to move beyond China quickly, Green adds. Also, China is growing more dominant, not less, in high-tech industries.
"For instance, we pulled data on harmonized trade, which captures the electronics and electrical machinery," he says. "In the most recent three-month period for which data is available, China actually increased its share of the U.S. import market from 32.3 percent to 33.4 percent."
In contrast, adds Green, Mexico dropped from 22.9 percent to 19.9 percent. "The one notable bright spot in the Western Hemisphere is Costa Rica, which has grown—but still has a tiny share of the market."
However, in lower-tech, labor-intensive products, like apparel, Panjiva is seeing more movement to the Western Hemisphere. In the most recent three-month period for which this data is available, China lost 1.7 points of market share—though it still retains a massive one-third of the U.S. import market. Of the 10 countries that gained share in the labor-intensive sector, five are in the Western Hemisphere (Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Peru).
Near-shoring: Advantage Mexico
According to a recent poll of 80 C-level executives across more than 15 industries by AlixPartners LLP, a global business and supply chain advisory firm, 63 percent of senior executives chose Mexico as the most attractive locale for re-sourcing manufacturing operations closer to the U.S. market, compared with just 19 percent who would re-source to the U.S.
According to the findings, respondents highlighted geographical proximity and improvements in transportation services between the borders as the key driver in this decision. The survey also found that 9 percent of executives surveyed have already taken efforts to near-shore manufacturing operations, and another 33 percent plan to do so within the next three years.
Additionally, just 19 percent of those surveyed have experienced supply-chain disruptions in Mexico due to security issues.
"While safety and security in Mexico are certainly issues to be taken very seriously, our survey suggests that many companies believe these issues can be effectively dealt with," says Foster Finley, managing director at AlixPartners and head of its logistics and distribution practice. "As companies think about near-shoring production that was previously off-shored to respond to rising labor costs overseas and exchange-rate changes, Mexico is obviously high on their lists."??
According to the survey, Mexico's average ranking for attractiveness among those U.S. executives likely to near-shore was more than seven times that of Brazil's and countries in Central America combined.
The survey also polled executives on plans to off-shore current U.S. operations, and found that 37 percent of respondents have already completed or are in the process of off-shoring, while 27 percent expect to off-shore U.S. operations within the next three years. Of those who have off-shored or plan to off-shore, Mexico also topped the list as the most attractive locale, beating out the much-touted BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
"Despite security concerns in Mexico, the country has a lot of appeal right now because of its proximity to North American demand and the continuing need of many companies to improve their working-capital positions," says Chas Spence, a director in the Latin American manufacturing practice at AlixPartners. "That appeal could grow if fuel prices continue to rise globally."??
In terms of the expected advantages to be gained from near-shoring, lower freight costs, improved speed-to-market times, and lower inventory costs were the top three reasons cited on average. Other reasons included "time-zone advantages" (easier management coordination) and improved "cultural alignment" with North American managers.??
"In-transit inventory, in particular, was a high priority among those interviewed," says Russ Dillion, a vice president in the Latin American manufacturing practice at AlixPartners. "Obviously, shipping products in from long distances eats up a lot of inventory expense, and that's something companies would like to improve if possible."??
Right-shoring = balance
Other analysts insist that hybrid strategies will be in place for the foreseeable future. Eric Peltz, associate director of the RAND Corp.'s national security division and director of its supply chain policy center, says that capital-intensive industries, like automotive and farm machinery, may prefer to remain in the North American hemisphere, while more agile industries in high-tech and pharmaceuticals can remain in distant lands.
"And then there's the tactic of remaining in China, for example, but moving from the coast to further inland to save on labor costs," says Peltz. "It depends on what makes the most sense for the given organization. We don't see this as a static trend, either. Multinationals are weighing the balance of sourcing so that it can be defined and defended as right-shoring."
RAND, which conducts research that addresses issues critical to the supply chains that drive the U.S. and international economies, places a special emphasis on freight transportation policy and infrastructure. To get closer to the day-to-day issues, Peltz serves on the Board of Directors of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and co-chairs the CSCMP Research Strategies Committee.
Peltz and other RAND supply chain policy center analysts say that for several decades, firms have optimized their networks of suppliers to minimize inventory and increase responsiveness to customers. These actions have been an economic boon and were predicated on inexpensive and efficient freight transportation. However, several factors are conspiring to erode these gains:
1) The growth in international trade is overwhelming intermodal freight capacity in the U.S. and other countries.
2) Congestion at critical ports, border crossings, transfer points, and urban areas is slowing the flow of freight throughout North America and major gateway locations worldwide.
3) Safety and environmental concerns including noise and air pollution make expansion of the freight transport system difficult.
4) Labor shortages and security concerns compound capacity constraints.
While it certainly presents these and other evolving problems, the globalization of the world economy—leading to the rapid growth of international goods movement—is essential to world economic health. RAND and others interviewed for this article maintain that there's no easy solution to maintaining a free flow of goods and services worldwide.
"Put quite simply," adds Peltz, "it's a work in progress."
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For much of this young century, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have continued to benefit from a steady crush of inbound cargo emanating from offshore factories in China and elsewhere in Asia. However, recent statistics suggest those days may be numbered.
Zepol Corporation, a leading trade intelligence company, reports that U.S. import shipment volume for June, measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), decreased 4.57 percent from May and 7.38 percent from June of 2010. The total number of shipments also decreased 4.79 percent from May and more than 6 percent from June of 2010. Year to date, total TEUs are up 4.80 percent this year over last year.
Tellingly, the overall June shortfall was largely caused by the nearly 6 percent decrease in incoming shipments from Asia. China played a large part in this, with a 5.82 percent decrease in shipments.
"As the nation's primary gateway to the Pacific Rim, California derives ample economic benefits from the import trade," says Jock O'Connell, Beacon Economics' International Trade Adviser.
"As much as we might like to reduce our dependence on imported goods, it's worth emphasizing that moving imported goods to markets throughout the nation represents a vital source of jobs—many of them well-paying—in a state where unemployment rates remain perilously high," says O'Connell.
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WHEELING - Washington Avenue residents believe the future of their neighborhood will be at stake Tuesday when City Council chooses between clashing visions for development.
On one side of the debate is Jonathan Bedway, who is seeking to build a three-story, 36-unit apartment complex on Washington Avenue, and nearby Wheeling Jesuit University, which says it needs housing for some of its more than 400 graduate students.
On the other side are neighbors who worry about increased traffic, parking problems and just who will move into the apartments if WJU can't fill all the available units. Some residents also worry that the complex Bedway plans to build will be just the beginning.
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Washington Avenue residents are concerned about the effect a proposed multi-story apartment complex on their street will have on the neighborhood.
During its meeting at noon Tuesday at the City-County Building, City Council members will vote on whether to rezone a large portion of Washington Avenue's west side from R-1 single-family residential to R-4 high density residential. The measure would affect about 20 properties, from 200-406 Washington Ave.
Councilman David Miller - whose ward includes the area that would be affected by the zone change - and Councilwoman Gloria Delbrugge both have said they plan to vote against the measure. Everyone else, however, claims to be undecided.
Councilman Don Atkinson voted against the zone change as a member of the Wheeling Planning Commission, and counted himself a solid "no" vote on the rezoning just a couple weeks ago. Now, however, he says he's unsure how he will vote.
"For me, it's up in the air. ... It's a good project," Atkinson said. "You can't predict the future. ... We can't keep stopping everything."
Despite vehement opposition from neighborhood residents, including a petition bearing about 120 signatures, Atkinson said he's spoken with a number of people who support the project. He said it's been "the same two or three people" speaking out against the zone change at recent council meetings.
"I think there's some hatred toward the college, and there are some people who don't like Mr. Bedway, and there's some people that don't like" council, Atkinson said. "You have to take the personalities out of it. ...
"You have to look at it as a zoning issue, and nothing else. ... Whatever way I vote, I'm going to make half of them mad. I just have to decide which half I want to make mad," he said.
Ed Hinebaugh lives in the Steenrod Mansion, not far away from Washington Avenue, and is firmly against the rezoning. He owns a number of rental properties in the neighborhood, but said his opposition has nothing to do with potential competition.
Once the property is rezoned, he predicts many of the property owners in the affected area will eventually sell their homes, and the area will then be cleared to make way for additional multi-story apartment buildings.
"You're not going to see just that one go up. You're going to see a bunch of them go up. ... Not one person, unless they stand to make money on this, wants this on Washington Avenue," Hinebaugh claimed.
As a landlord in the neighborhood, Hinebaugh also is skeptical about the level of demand for apartments from WJU students.
"I rarely get a call from a Wheeling Jesuit person ... maybe once a year I'll get that call. Is there really a need for this?" he said. "They don't need it, and we don't want it. Aren't they supposed to be listening to us?"
Tina Birkett lives at the southern end of the proposed rezoning area at 406 Washington Ave., right across the street from the Interstate 70 eastbound exit ramp. She said she often can't back out of her driveway as it is, and believes the situation will become unbearable if a 36-unit apartment complex is built just up the street.
"We want to maintain the integrity of the neighborhood. The traffic is deplorable now," Birkett said.
University officials have cited a need for living space within walking distance of the main campus and said if the zone change fails to pass, they have no other options. But Birkett disagrees.
"I know they are developing the Stone Center, and there is plenty of property available downtown. ... What better place? I would like to have a river view, be close to the bike path and WesBanco Arena," she said.
Birkett, who has spoke against the project at several City Council meetings, said she has attempted to contact council members directly but hasn't been able to reach some of them.
"I don't know what's going to happen. I just hope (council goes) the way the people in the neighborhood want it to go," Birkett said. "I guess we'll see."
Even if council approves the zone change, there would still be another step of regulatory review for the development. Because of its size, the proposed apartment complex would still be subject to a site plan review by the Planning Commission.
That body was sharply divided over the zone change, voting 4-3 to recommend City Council approve it.
Commission members Thomas Mauck Jr., Russell Jebbia, Michael Leo and Barry Crow voted in favor during the Aug. 12 meeting, with Thomas McCullough, John Clarke and Atkinson against. With commission Chairman Howard Monroe absent, Mauck's vote as acting chair was needed to break an initial 3-3 tie.


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In 36 hours on May 22nd and 23rd, you will think, market, and build your startup or NGO project with a team composed of young professionals coming from different backgrounds.
Cop 21 and the Paris agreement made 2015 an important year. Now, in 2016, it is time for entrepreneurial innovation to provide solutions more than ever.
Bearing this is mind, ClimatUP wants to create an ecosystem where people with different backgrounds (engineer, businessman, students or people with experience, ...) meet up and advance projects together.
In 2015, the first edition of ClimatUP - HEC took place on the HEC campus at Jouy-en-Josas. In 2016, we have decided to organize this event in the Latin Quarter, a central place in Paris, so that the ClimatUP can be accessible to as many people as possible.
Do you have an idea in mind? If everyone keeps his ideas in his corner, innovation will still be far. Let's work together to transform ideas into projects, and make projects come into success. For example, the Fresh Square project, whose team emerged during ClimatUP 2015, which now has been awarded many times and is now developing in Berlin!
It is important to develop further and go beyond boundry: to find how to carry out a project, to find partners, to communicate, to build the network, and eventually to sell. For this reason, the ClimatUP encourages and accompanies participants to go through many phases: ideation, development and final presentation before jury. With our forces as individuals, companies, laboratories, associations or campus, we search together innovative solutions in this transition, such as new products, social spaces, technologies, industrial processes or business models.
Come with your skills, your ideas and your desires to share a moment of collective intelligence.Enjoy ClimatUP to test your ideas or complete those of others.
To inspire, motivate, and support the pro-climate entrepreneur : this is the goal of Climatup.
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On the opening day of the Cannes Festival, the six finalists: Estée Artis, Roma Beaufret, Gaspard Randon de Grolier, Alexandre Chertok, Barbara Gibot-Leclerc and Théo Galula will have to comment on famous cinema quotes.
They will be judged by a jury co-chaired by Bernard Ramanantsoa and comedian Anne Roumanoff. Also joining the jury – those who will ask the candidates the most absurd questions to test their quick responses - Eloïc Peyrache, Nathalie Gobin, Xavier Boute, Bertrand Périer… Simon Catrice will play the ringmaster role of the evening.
The audience will have their role to play, not only to support and applaud the speakers but also to give the speakers words to use in their speech with such short notice!
New this year, the audience will vote to award the 'Audience's' prize.
HEC Débats welcomes France's Chief of Defence Staff General Pierre de Villiers for a conference on the challenges he faces today in the 21st century.
This event will take place in French.
Philosopher of science and essayist, Jean Staune is a graduate of paleontology, maths, management, political science and economics.
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Michèle Alliot-Marie, founder of the "Nouvelle France" movement and potential presidential candidate for the Republican primaries, will come and speak to the HEC Paris pro-European society, Involv'EU.
This event will take place in French.
Registration obligatory for external guests.
On April 29th-30th 2016, HEC Paris proudly organises the second edition of its real-life case competition, the HEC Business Game, with around 150 participants selected from a large sample of applicants from all around the world.
During the HEC Business Game, you will be confronted with 5 very different challenges. In only a few hours, steer everyone in the same direction and present your findings.
The perfect opportunity to meet and convince top tier firms. Follow their tips, present in front of them and exchange business cards. If you impress them, it is very likely that you will see them again!
The focus being on real-life business cases, you will get a real sense on how to tackle everyday problems. During the challenge, you will be put in the employee's shoes and asked to deliver the same level of quality.
A unique experience which will leave you with lifetime memories. The HEC Business Game is a chance to meet top students from all over the world and have fun with them. Work hard, play hard!
The deadline for registration is March 6th. Head to the official website to find out all you need to know!
Artur Mas, a graduate in Economics and Business Science, was president of Catalonia during its most challenging political and economic period since the end of the dictatorship in Spain. He will come from Barcelona to discuss foreign investment during political turmoil and to share his experience of Catalonia and Barcelona. At the end of the event he will answer your questions.
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|Wallace crowd enjoys Dinner & Delights
Wallace vocalists presented "Dinner & Delights," a choral production that followed a spaghetti dinner at the Wallace School on Friday, Oct. 26. Above: singers (l-r): Colin Swedberg, Taylor Doell, Landon Swedberg, Tanner Clough, Josh May, Jackson Porter, Josh Harms and Jeff Harms prepare to sing the National Anthem. The boys were selected by NSAA to sing the anthem at a high school championship football game on Nov. 19. (Photos by Nora Jameson)
Josh May, Tanner Clough and Colin Swedberg sing, "Homeward Bound."
Morgan Messersmith, Paige Aylward, Taylor Doell and Rachel Marquardt lead a "train" in their exit number, a combination of songs, "Put a little love in your heart" (with "Love Train)."


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Man injured in Elkhart County motorcycle accident
One man was taken to the hospital following a motorcycle accident on the far-west side of Elkhart County.
ELKHART — A man was taken to the hospital after an accident on the far-west side of Elkhart County on Saturday, March 30.
Cpl. Ray Warren, with the St. Joseph County Police Department, said a 54-year-old man was riding a motorcycle north on County Line Road near C.R. 24 at a high speed when he lost control.
He hit a mailbox east of the road and was thrown from the motorcycle upon impact. The man and motorcycle landed west of the road. Warren said the back wheel of the motorcycle flew off and struck a power line.
The man was taken to Elkhart General Hospital to be treated for non life-threatening injuries.
Baugo Township EMS and Penn Township EMS also responded to the scene.


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You know there are many individuals throughout the Cal U global community that help our students on a consistent basis with little fanfare. Some are mentors, some recommend Cal U to prospective students, and some volunteer with our student groups. Now is your chance to recognize these special contributions through our new "Cal U Community Champions "recognition program. Just click on the following link to file your nomination application. Finalists selected will be awarded a certificate and invited to a future recognition event.


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The system grew out of some local command-line scripts that would convert a list of recording times, channel info and program title into a matching recording script along with a CronTab entry. Transforming it into a TracPlugin allows for easier installation on a remote recorder box as well as sharing the recorder by multiple persons with just a web access to the recorder box.
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I changed the admin password through the admin web console and the zimbra system seemed to lock me out or i made a mistake typing the password twice. The latter seems unlikely but is possible. Anywho i used the zimba command line until to set the admin password like a so.
zmprov sp firstname.lastname@example.com XXXXXXX
Now i have a particularly nasty problem of being able to login to the admin web console without enter a password is this what the setpassword command is supposed to do?
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Literary Agency Agreements
November 17, 2010
A literary agent acts as an author's sole and exclusive representative in selling her work to a publisher. She has contacts in the publishing industry and usually specializes in particular genres. The standard agent's commission is 15%. This commission typically rises to 25% on sales of foreign rights through overseas agents, who receive the additional 10%, and on sales of performing rights (motion picture, dramatic, radio and television) when they are represented by specialized co-agents, who will also receive 10%.
The cautions in my Notes on publishing contracts apply equally to agreements with literary agents. Grant and reservation of rights, single or multiple book representation, subsidiary rights, distribution of royalties, termination and ongoing commissions are among the issues that should be clarified before an author signs an agency agreement. This Note is directed to the type of agency agreement that attempts to unfairly enlarge the scope of the agency and the agent's right to commissions.
In one agreement, the agent proposed the following : "After [the agent] has negotiated the sale of any of the rights to the Work, it shall be entitled to its commissions as stated above, regardless of when the sale or sales take place." The "regardless of" and "when" phrases are ambiguous. Commissions are paid from the advance before publication) and from royalties after publication. The agent agreed to delete the provision as her commission was protected by the "agency clause" in the publishing agreement which provides that all monies earned by the author are paid directly to the agent. The agent deducts her commission and expenses from the proceeds and remits the rest to the author within a stipulated period of time (usually not more than ten to fifteen business days).
With regard to termination the agency agreement should state clearly what the mechanism is and what rights survive. In Peter Lampack Agency, Inc. v. Grimes decided in October 2010, the literary agent claimed he was entitled to commissions on a work published after termination of the agency agreement because the publishing contract he negotiated for the author contained an option provision. The court ruled that since the option work came into existence only after termination of the agency agreement the agent was not entitled to any portion of the author's proceeds from contracts negotiated by a subsequent agent.
On the other hand, a literary agent may have a claim against an author who terminates an agency agreement and returns to the publisher to complete an agreement for which the agent started negotiations. Typically the agent will insist on a paragraph that defines her post-termination right to commissions. The following would be acceptable:
Within six (6) months after termination, should you enter into an agreement for a sale of rights to the Work represented by [agent] pursuant to this agreement with a firm to which [agent]formally submitted [the Work] and has been negotiating on your behalf prior to termination, that agreement shall be deemed to have been entered into during the term of this Agreement.
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Dallas, TX (Sports Network) - Vince Carter scored 14 of his season-high 25
points in the fourth quarter and the Dallas Mavericks held off a late surge by
the New York Knicks surge to earn a 114-111 win at American Airlines Center.
Carter drained 5-of-10 from behind the arc and O.J. Mayo scored a game-high 27
points for the Mavericks, who bounced back after losing to Golden State in
overtime on Monday. Darren Collison added 19 points and seven assists in the
In their second loss of the season, Carmelo Anthony paced the Knicks with 23
points, but missed a jumper in the final seconds that would have given New
York the lead.
In his return to Dallas, New York's Jason Kidd notched a season-best 17
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Tyson Chandler recorded a double-double with 21 points and 13 rebounds in the
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Batman Begins
|Release Date: June 15, 2005
|Running Time: 140 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $205,343,774.00
|Genre: Action, Adaptation, Adventure
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Summary:How does one man change the world? It's a question that haunts Bruce Wayne like the specter of his parents, gunned down before his eyes in the streets of Gotham on a night that changed his life forever. Tormented by guilt and anger, battling the demons that feed his desire for revenge and his need to honor his parents' altruistic legacy, the disillusioned industrial heir vanished from Gotham and secretly travels the world, seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. In his quest to elucidate himself in the ways of the criminal mind, Bruce is mentored by a mysterious man called Ducard in the mastery of the physical and mental disciplines that wil... Full Summary >>


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AFRO Clean Block Campaign Revived, Refined
At its height, the AFRO Clean Blockers was an army of 8,000 children using brooms, buckets of paint and elbow grease to take back their neighborhoods one inch of pavement at a time.
The initiative aimed its' entire arsenal at combating urban decay and crime seen in neighborhoods across Baltimore City and they were more than just successful- they started a movement.
Now over seven decades after the program's humble beginnings, Eastern District police and community leaders are putting a new spin on the program, calling it the AFRO Clean Green Campaign (CGC).
"Ultimately, I'm hoping this is a tool, a way to re-engage our communities and get them to re-engage with themselves," said Eastern District police commander Maj. Melvin Russell, who helped bring back the program.
"I want this to wake our communities up so that they might see we have everything we need within ourselves to reclaim our own neighborhoods," said Russell, adding that no city agency is needed to begin actively changing each block of this city.
Launched in 1934, the program was begun by Frances L. Murphy, daughter of AFRO founder and civil rights giant, John H. Murphy, and eventually spread beyond Baltimore boundaries to cities such as Philadelphia, Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C.
The program began in June and lasted until the beginning of September, encouraging young Baltimoreans the opportunity to add value to their community spaces and neighborhoods, not only during the summer but year-round. Organizations both local and national donated to the pot of funds needed to both purchase materials, such as the iconic tire rings that denoted an AFRO Clean Block, and the small monetary prizes awarded to the youngsters who participated.
"It puts unity back into the community," said Sandy Coles, president of the Greater Greenmount Community Association (GGCA), which has decided to tackle the intersection of Greenmount and North Avenues. "It brings us together and starts communication. People need to realize that strength in numbers can make a difference."
Understanding of the unique culture surrounding the Baltimore stoop, communities in the past both agreed to and enforced regulations that said no one could be seen on their porch or house entrance with untidy or dirty clothing. Deserving blocks hung AFRO Clean Block flags at their doors and those that fell behind in their work had their block captains and co-captains put on notice publicly in the paper.
Similar to the neighborhoods that first participated, community leaders are now encouraging their neighbors to remove abandoned cars and trash from their lots.
"We want them to focus on the beautification and leave the heavy lifting to us," said Officer Fred Allen, lead organizer of the campaign for the Baltimore City Police Department's Eastern District. "If there is an abandoned car that isn't taken care of one week after a 311 report is made, contact us and I will come out personally to ticket or tow as needed."
In the past the program also gave strict instruction on how each residence should look down to the planters that hung from the windowsills. Though more relaxed, today's regulations still leave no room for "broken windows, degraded door molding, or uncut lawns," said Allen.
Furniture such as old couches and broken appliances has also been targeted for removal from front porches this year, but community leaders know nothing can be accomplished without a communal sense of urgency to better their surroundings.
Unlike past years, young people are encouraged to become involved, but neighborhood associations are homing in on specific areas of their neighborhood instead of having block leaders sign up individual streets with a co-captain.
Eastern District police are ready to begin documenting the progress of the competition, but there is still time to complete a registration form and enter the competition that will end on Sept. 1.
During the week leading up to that date, final assessments of the neighborhoods will take place and the winning neighborhood will be crowned at a much anticipated crab feast on Sept.8.
For more information, or to request help with the AFRO Clean Green Campaign, please email Officer Fred Allen at [email protected]
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Nice map. Extremely clear.
Are you using it as the DM's map to draw from or putting it on a computer for the players to see?
I ask this because the numbers are really really big and bold. Makes for an interesting style but it would draw a great deal of attention to the numbering of the rooms. I think it would print really well but I find it a little over the top personally.


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Like father, like son
The Royals Radio Network will feature a father and son duo for tonight's 6:05 Central start in Cleveland. The radio team of Bob Davis and Steve Stewart will be joined by a second Davis, Bob's son Steven. The younger Davis just finished his third season as the voice of the Double-A NW Arkansas Naturals. Steven Davis spent the previous three seasons calling the action for Kansas City's rookie affiliate in Idaho Falls.
While Steven will help the radio team throughout the weekend, Thursday will be the only pairing with his father. Bob will return home to call Saturday's football game between KU and New Mexico State.


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Finlandia Blue Line Club Golf Outing
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HANCOCK, MI - The Finlandia University Blue Line Club will host a golf outing Saturday, September 1, 2012, at the Wyandotte Golf Club in Twin Lakes, Mich.
Golf team sign-in will begin at 9:00 a.m., with a shotgun start at 10:00 a.m.
Registration is $50.00 per person, which includes 18 holes of golf and lunch. Prizes will be awarded.
Everyone is invited to participate. Proceeds will benefit the Finlandia men's and women's hockey teams.
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Man arrested in connection to Sacramento shooting death | Crime
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A man was arrested in connection to shooting and killing one man and injuring another at an Arden-Arcade apartment complex early Saturday morning.
Sacramento County Sheriff's Department received a report at 1:30 a.m. early Saturday of a shooting at an apartment complex on the 1600 block of Bell Street.
Sgt. Jason Ramos said when deputies arrived at the scene, they found two men with gunshot wounds.
Ramos said an 18-year-old man was transported to the hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to his upper body. Another man, Rickey Howard, 33, also sustained a gunshot wound to the upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene.
After several witnesses were detained for questioning, detectives learned that there was a party at the apartment when three people got into an fight, which escalated into a shooting.
Ramos said witness reports and evidence at the scene lead deputies to identify Donnell DeShawn Stean, 30, as a suspect.
Stean was arrested around 3 p.m. Saturday in a Foothill Farms neighborhood. He was booked into the Sacramento County jail for murder and assault with a deadly weapon.


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|Chris Pell graduates
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Christopher Nathaniel Pell graduated as a tank operator from U.S. Army base Fort Benning, Ga., Oct. 30.
After a brief break, he will report to Fort Stewart, Ga., later this month.
Pell is a 2013 graduate of HHS and is the son of David and Estella Pell of Holyoke.
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Adam "Pacman" Jones showed his generous side by handing out $100 bills to the homeless last week.
The Cincinnati Bengals cornerback gifted 15 vagrants with cash before announcing his next act of benevolence will be to help needy mothers.
In a post on Twitter.com, he writes, "I just give (sic) 15 homeless people a 100 next I'm pay (sic) for 15 mothers bills that's in need."
Jones has been known nearly as much for his off-field troubles as he has for his on-field performance.


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Mr. Chairman, members of the Commission, thank you for inviting me to testify today.
I believe that the answer to the question this hearing poses is painfully clear. Guantanamo, and the Bush administration's broader detainee policies, have done profound damage to the moral and legal standards the United States has long championed in the world, and to America's ability to promote those standards. They have diminished America's moral authority, alienated its friends, encouraged its enemies, and, ironically, undermined its ability to wage an effective struggle against terror. The only way for the United States to regain the moral high ground--and the initiative in that struggle--is to close Guantanamo and to change the policies for which the prison has come to stand.
What is it about Guantanamo in particular that has hurt America's standing? Is it fair that the United States has taken so many hits from its friends over the camp and the policies surrounding it? After all, as the administration often reminds us, the Geneva Conventions allow the detention without charge of combatants in wartime for the duration of the conflict in which they were caught fighting. The United States has held such people as prisoners of war in every past conflict, without giving them access to lawyers or courts. Why is this case different?
For one thing, most of the prisoners in Guantanamo were not captured on anything resembling a traditional battlefield, in a traditional war, in which it is easy to tell who is a combatant and who is not. Most were not even captured by the United States, but by Pakistan and by various Afghan militias, who picked a tiny handful of the tens of thousands of foreign men who were fleeing Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime, and sold them for bounties to U.S. forces, even as other, more important al Qaeda and Taliban leaders managed to escape. Still others were detained as far afield as Bosnia and Thailand and the Gambia. The U.S. government hasn't even claimed that most of these men were fighting the United States; many are accused of little more than living in a house or working for a charity linked to the Taliban. They are part of a broad, amorphous universe of people who are suspected to have had some association with international terrorism. The administration has prosecuted some people in this category in civilian courts; it has released others outright; for reasons that often appear entirely random, it has chosen to hold some in Guantanamo without charge.
The laws of war do indeed allow the United States to detain without charge for the duration of an armed conflict combatants captured on a battlefield. They also, by the way, allow the United States to kill combatants on the battlefield without warning or hesitation. In other words, they allow governments engaged in armed conflict to do things to combatants that they would never be allowed to do to civilians. That's why maintaining a crystal clear distinction between combatants and civilians is so important.
What the Bush administration has done in Guantanamo is to blur that distinction--to apply the highly permissible rules governing a military battlefield to anyone anywhere in the world who is suspected of having any association with terrorism. It is treating the laws of war as a license to kill or detain without charge anyone who the President determines to be a threat to the national security of the United States. And if the President of the United States can do this, then by definition, the leader of any other country can, too. And the United States loses its ability to complain when other governments do the same thing -- whether to their own citizens or to Americans -- for their own narrow ends.
Here, in a nutshell, are the arguments the administration has made to the world through its detainee policies: First, the whole world is a battlefield in an open-ended war on terror. Anyone the chief executive of a country believes to be associated with terrorism is a combatant in that war, and can therefore be killed or held without charge. Second, such people can be seized anywhere, at any time, without judicial authorization, and if the leader of a country considers them especially dangerous, he can hold them in secret for as long as he likes. Governments can also subject such prisoners to "enhanced" interrogation procedures, including techniques such as water boarding, extended sleep deprivation, and excruciating stress positions, even though such practices have been prosecuted as torture by the United States for over a hundred years.
To demonstrate how dangerous this is, I'd like to ask you something I wish the administration had asked itself before it embarked on these policies.
Imagine if another government –let's say, for the sake of argument, the government of Iran--set up a prison camp on some island to which it claimed its domestic laws did not apply, and that it held there, without charge or trial, several hundred men of multiple nationalities, captured outside of Iran, who it accused, based on classified evidence, of supporting groups it claimed were hostile to Iran.
Imagine if some of these prisoners were Americans -- not soldiers, but contractors, or diplomats, or aid workers -- seized not on a battlefield, but by a private militia off the streets of an Iraqi city, and then sold for bounties to the Iranian intelligence service. Imagine if those Americans were ultimately given a hearing -- not before a court, but before a panel of Iranian military officers -- to confirm the legality of their indefinite detention. Imagine if those Americans tried to say that they had been tortured by their interrogators, but that the Iranian tribunal kept this testimony secret because it didn't want Iran's enemies to learn how it interrogates prisoners.
What would be talking about here today if this was happening? Would any member of Congress or official of the Bush administration defend Iran's right to do such things?
Now, imagine if the intelligence service of the United Kingdom suspected a lawful U.S. resident of sending money to the IRA in Northern Ireland, or the secret police in China or Burma accused an American of supporting rebels in their country, and on that basis, kidnapped that American off the streets of Baltimore or Miami, bundled him on a plane, and held him for years in a secret facility, hidden even from the International Committee of the Red Cross. How would the U.S. government react? Would the president say "sure, no problem, I guess that guy was considered an enemy combatant over there in Burma or China so I can't really complain?" If it happened to one of your constituents, Mr.Chairman, would it matter to you if some official in the U.S. intelligence community had given Burma or China permission to whisk that American away?
Or, just for the sake of argument, imagine if the president of Russia declared that his country was engaged in a global war on terror, and that anyone with any connection to any group that supported separatist elements in places like Chechnya was a combatant in that war who could be detained or shot or poisoned wherever he was found, whether in Moscow, or Berlin, or, just for the sake of argument, London.
Clearly, we live in a world in which such things are possible. But do we want to live in a world where they are considered legitimate? That is what is at stake here. Whether we will preserve the legal and moral rules we have struggled to develop over generations to limit what governments--and here I mean not just the United States but all governments--can and can't do to people in their power. And whether the United States will have the credibility to remain the world's preeminent champion of those rules.
Now, it is important to note that nothing the administration has done in Guantanamo or anywhere else is remotely as horrible as what happens every day to the victims of cruel dictatorship around the world. The United States is not Sudan or Cuba or North Korea. The United States is an open, democratic country with strong institutions--its Congress, its courts, its professional military leadership--which are striving to undo these mistakes and uphold the rule of law. There is no question that before long we will look back on these last few years as a sad, but brief, departure from American traditions of justice.
But in the meantime, we need to remember that the United States is the most influential country on the face of the earth. The United States is a standard setter in everything it does, for better or for worse.
When Saddam Hussein tortures a thousand people in a dark dungeon, when Kim Jong Il throws a hundred thousand people in a prison camp without any judicial process, no one says: "Hey, if those dictators can do that, it's legitimate, and therefore so can we. But when the United States bends the rules to torture or unlawfully detain even one person, when the country that professes to be the world's leading protector of human rights begins to do--and to justify--such things, then all bets are off. The entire framework upon which we depend to protect human rights--from the Helsinki Final Act to the Geneva Conventions and treaties against torture--begins to fall apart.
The United States still can promote human rights, and it does. President Bush can still champion democracy and stand with courageous dissidents from around the world, as he did earlier this month in Prague. And whenever he does, we should applaud him. But it has become almost impossible for the U.S. government to criticize certain kinds of human rights violations around the world, especially torture, indefinite detention, and disappearances. And it is simply an undeniable, objective fact that when President Bush talks about his freedom agenda today, most people around the world do not conjure images of women voting in Afghanistan, or of Ukrainians and Georgians marching for democracy, or of American aid dollars helping activists in Egypt or Morocco fight for reform. Even America's closest friends now turn their minds to Guantanamo, to unlawful renditions, to secret prisons and to the administration's tortured justifications for torture.
These policies have not only discredited President Bush as a messenger of freedom, they also risk discrediting the message itself. Because the whole idea of promoting democracy and human rights is so associated with the United States, America's fall from grace has emboldened authoritarian governments to challenge the idea as never before. As the United States loses its moral leadership, the vacuum is filled by forces profoundly hostile to the cause of human rights.
Around the world, including in the OSCE region, authoritarian governments are leading a backlash against human rights defenders, democracy promoters, and civil society groups. When we call these governments out for violating a universal standard, they now have a stock reply: "Guantanamo is the new universal standard. The United States does what it has to do, and so do we."
A couple of years ago, Human Rights Watch was meeting with the Prime Minister of Egypt, and we raised a case in which hundreds of prisoners rounded up after a terrorist bombing were tortured by Egyptian security forces. The Prime Minister didn't deny the charge. He answered, "We're just doing what the United States does." We've had Guantanamo and the administration's interrogation policies thrown back in our face in meetings with officials from many other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and Lebanon. U.S. diplomats have told us they face the same problem. A U.S. ambassador to a leading Middle Eastern country, for example, has told us that he can no longer raise the issue of torture in that country as a result.
After President Bush chided Egypt in his recent speech on democracy in Prague, the Egyptian parliament's foreign relations committee issued a statement that Bush should have talked about Guantanamo prisoners, "deprived of the simplest legal defense guaranteed by all human rights conventions." When Secretary of State Rice recently, and rightly, criticized Hugo Chavez's government in Venezuela for violating human rights, Venezuela's Foreign Minister shot back: "How many prisoners do they have in Guantanamo?"
The master of the tactic is Russia's president Vladimir Putin, who uses it preemptively to ward off criticism of Russia's slide back to authoritarianism. Just before the recent G-8 summit, a reporter asked Putin about his human rights record, and he immediately shifted the subject: "Let's see what's happening in North America," he said. "Just horrible torture . . . Guantanamo. Detentions without normal court proceedings."
Now, don't get me wrong: Putin doesn't need Guantanamo as an excuse to persecute his critics in Russia. Guantanamo is not the reason why Egypt or any other country tortures and detains prisoners without charge. Still, America's detention policies are a gift to dictators everywhere. They can use America's poor example to shield themselves from international criticism and pressure. Guantanamo enables them to say, to their own people as well as to the world, "we are just the same as everybody else."
Back in the days of the Cold War, when the Helsinki Final Act was adopted, the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe tried to do the same thing. But it didn't work. Dissidents and ordinary people behind the Iron Curtain knew that America wasn't perfect. But they believed that the United States was at least dedicated to the principle that governments were bound by law to respect human rights. It was profoundly important to them to know that the government of the world's other superpower limited its power in accordance with this principle. It gave them hope that a different way of life was possible, and the courage to fight for it.
Leaders like Putin understand how powerful America's example has been in the past, and they use Guantanamo to tear that example to shreds. They use it to tell their people that all this American inspired talk about democracy and freedom is hypocritical rubbish. "Even self-righteous America," they say, "which preaches moral ideals to the world, tortures prisoners and locks people up without a trial. Even America throws away the legal niceties and behaves ruthlessly when it feels threatened. The Americans use human rights talk to beat up their enemies, but they're really just the same as us. And if you think that things can ever be different here or anywhere else, you're just naive."
These are cynical men, and Guantanamo helps them to spread their cynicism. They use it to demoralize dissidents and anyone who's ever been inspired by America's example to demand their human rights. The Bush administration has given them this weapon. It's time to take it away. It is time for the United States to be once again the country it professes to be. It is time for the United States to close this prison and bring its detention policies in line with the values it has long championed to the world.
Can the United States do this and still fight terrorists effectively? The real question is can America fight terrorists effectively if it does not do this? That question may be beyond the scope of this hearing, but I'll just say that I agree with General David Petraeus that:
"Adherence to our values is what distinguishes us from our enemy. This fight depends on securing the population, which must understand that we not our enemies occupy the moral high ground."
I agree with the U.S. Army's new counter-insurgency manual, the U.S. military's basic document for fighting non-traditional foes like al Qaeda, that in such a conflict killing or capturing every enemy fighter is impossible. You win such a fight by cutting off the enemy's "recuperative power"-- it's ability to recruit new fighters to its ranks. You win by convincing the people in contested countries that your vision and values are more attractive than those of your enemies. As the Army Manual says, illegitimate policies, including "unlawful detention, torture, and punishment without trial," make that task impossible.
Does anyone believe we are really made safer by detaining in Cuba at most a few hundred of the hundreds of thousands of angry young men in the Muslim world who on any given day wish America harm? There is, sadly, no shortage of potential sucide bombers in the world today. Guantanamo makes that problem worse, not better. It creates far more enemies for America than it takes off the battlefield. It is a key source of al Qaeda's recuperative power.
There is no question that some of the people detained there truly are dangerous al Qaeda terrorists, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But by holding these people in military detention, by treating them as combatants, by comparing the "war" with them to the struggle with Hitler, the administration gives them a status symbol they crave. Throughout history, terrorists have longed to be viewed as soldiers in a war, because that status justifies, in their minds, the killing of their enemies. When he was brought before a military review panel in Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed proudly embraced the label of enemy combatant. That is why wise governments have always treated terrorists as the lowest form of criminals, not as combatants.
What should be done with these prisoners if Guantanamo is closed? Again, you have not asked us to specifically address that question, Mr. Chairman. But the administration has admonished its critics for stopping at the simple slogan of "close Guantanamo" and not confronting the dilemma of what comes next. I think that's a fair point. I also think it's fair to acknowledge that there is no straighforward answer to this question. Sending detainees home is not as easy as it sounds, and many detainees shouldn't be sent home because of the risk they will face torture and persecution.
I would be happy to discuss this challenge in further detail if you like. But in short, I believe that those prisoners who haven't committed crimes and who can't be prosecuted, should be sent home. It will take a vigorous diplomatic effort to find appropriate and lawful arrangements in the detainees' home countries and places of asylum for the small number who can't go home. I believe that such an effort could succeed if the United States made a clear, public commitment to close the camp, and enlisted its allies in a common venture.
As for those prisoners who have committed or conspired to commit terrorist crimes, they should be brought to justice before civilian courts. I am tired of hearing that using civilian law enforcement institutions would be a sign of weakness, or of a "pre 9-11" mentality. Since 9/11, the Bush administration's own Justice Department has successfully prosecuted dozens of international terrorist suspects in the civilian courts, putting many away for life in maximum security prisons. In all this time, the system at Guantanamo has succeeded in prosecuting one Australian kangaroo-trapper to a nine-month sentence, which he is serving in Australia. No one else there has been held accountable for their crimes. They remain a source of unending grief for America.
The terrorists who were prosecuted by civilian institutions are, to use one of President Bush's favorite phrases, no longer a problem for the United States of America. Every last one of the prisoners in Guantanamo is a continuing problem for the United States. The system at Guantanamo is a miserable, embarrassing, and complete failure, not just in moral but in national security terms. It has hurt America far more than it has hurt America's enemies. The answer is not to perpetuate this failure, but to end it.
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