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Lewis Boyd Watkins, 69, of Fairfield Glade in Crossville, Tenn., died peacefully in his sleep at home Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013.
He was born Dec. 24, 1943, to the late Alonzo Harvey and Amelia "Jinks" Watkins. He was a native of Greenwood, a 1962 graduate of Center Grove High School and an alumnus of the University of Indianapolis.
He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and was of the Christian faith.
An avid golfer, he retired to Fairfield Glade in 2005 and was employed by the Fairfield Glade Community Club as pool attendant. In addition to golf, Lew enjoyed bowling, singing karaoke and spending time with friends and family.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, Bryan Scott Watkins, in 1995; and his wife, Claire Kriese Watkins, in 2005.
He is survived by his brother, Steve (Susie) Watkins of Greenwood; his daughter, Kimberly (Eric) McLaughlin of Portsmouth, Ohio; companion, Carol Demongin of Fairfield Glade; five grandchildren, Justin, Zachery, Molly and Aiden Kammler, all of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Kaila Haboush of Indianapolis; and longtime friends Bill and Celia Whitesitt of Fairfield Glade.
Friends and family may join a celebration of life at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Fairfield Glade Community Club multipurpose room in Fairfield Glade.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Lewis' honor to the American Legion Department of Indiana or the Fairfield Glade Fire Department.
Hood Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.
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William Jerome "SSG" Brooks
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Staff Sergeant William J. Brooks of Birmingham, Alabama attended Scott Elementary, Daniel Payne Middle and learned to play the drums at Jackson Olin High School where he graduated in 1992.
He joined the Army in October of 1995 and received several commodations while serving. William liked silly sitcoms like Gilligan's Island as a kid and he used to make everyone laugh. But when he joined the Army, his serious side emerged. He joined to take care of his daughter.
William mailed a Mother's Day card early this year so it would reach his mother in time. He wrote that he wanted to "make it back home to see everyone" but kept a positive outlook. He said, `I read my Bible and I stay prayed up and if something happens to me it's just my time to go.' He was a member of the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.
Funeral Services will be held at Antioch Baptist Church on May 13, 2005 at 12:00 p.m. with burial in G.W. Carver. His memories will be cherished by his wife, Roxanne D. Brooks; mother, Linda Brooks; daughters, Ayana T. Freeman and Aaryan L. Brooks; grandmothers, Annie M. Brooks and Willie A. Brooks; mother-in-law, Glenda Dominick; father-in-law, Floyd Dominick Jr.; brothers-in-law, sister-in-law, several aunts, uncles, cousins, God father, Larry L. Williams; soldiers of Ft. Stewart, GA and Baghdad Iraq, other relatives and many friends.
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- , Mark T BullingAffiliated withEnvironment Department, University of YorkBiological Sciences, University of Derby
- , Glenn MarionAffiliated withBiomathematics and Statistics Scotland, James Clerk Maxwell Building
- , Michael R HutchingsAffiliated withDisease Systems, Scottish Agricultural College
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The persistence of bovine TB (bTB) in various countries throughout the world is enhanced by the existence of wildlife hosts for the infection. In Britain and Ireland, the principal wildlife host for bTB is the badger (Meles meles). The objective of our study was to examine the dynamics of bTB in badgers in relation to both badger-derived infection from within the population and externally-derived, trickle-type, infection, such as could occur from other species or environmental sources, using a spatial stochastic simulation model.
The presence of external sources of infection can increase mean prevalence and reduce the threshold group size for disease persistence. Above the threshold equilibrium group size of 6–8 individuals predicted by the model for bTB persistence in badgers based on internal infection alone, external sources of infection have relatively little impact on the persistence or level of disease. However, within a critical range of group sizes just below this threshold level, external infection becomes much more important in determining disease dynamics. Within this critical range, external infection increases the ratio of intra- to inter-group infections due to the greater probability of external infections entering fully-susceptible groups. The effect is to enable bTB persistence and increase bTB prevalence in badger populations which would not be able to maintain bTB based on internal infection alone.
External sources of bTB infection can contribute to the persistence of bTB in badger populations. In high-density badger populations, internal badger-derived infections occur at a sufficient rate that the additional effect of external sources in exacerbating disease is minimal. However, in lower-density populations, external sources of infection are much more important in enhancing bTB prevalence and persistence. In such circumstances, it is particularly important that control strategies to reduce bTB in badgers include efforts to minimise such external sources of infection.
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The subtitle of the second and final volume of this exhaustive biography of the World War I-era British poet, Siegfried Sassoon, tells it all: "The Journey from the Trenches." For as Jean Moorcroft Wilson, a lecturer in English at London University, observed at the conclusion of her earlier volume, "The Making of a War Poet":
"It might be argued that the War both made and unmade Sassoon. As a young man determined to be a poet but with no clear sense of direction, it had given him a subject as well as the experience and passion to turn that subject into memorable verse. And as a mature writer who seemed again to have lost a sense of direction, the War provided the way forward in his fictional and autobiographical prose trilogies.
"When that material was finally exhausted, however, so too was Sassoon's creative impulse until, with his turning to religion and eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism in the 1950s he found a new subject for his work.
"It was not only as a writer that Sassoon was changed by the War. As a person, too, he benefited from the experiences of 1914 to 1918, however unbearable. A charmingly self-absorbed and immature young man at the outbreak of War, he gradually learnt to think more of others . . ."
Thus we have 500 pages covering the nearly 50 years remaining to Sassoon of an almost posthumous life: an oxymoron in its literal sense, it is true, but metaphorically on the mark, in that the half century was, professionally at least, spent working and re-working the raw material of those dreadful four years 1914-1918.
Sassoon's fictional autobiography, "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man," with its alter-ego, George Sherston, was not only a valuable therapeutic exercise for him, but also a conspicuous artistic (and commercial) success. The straight unvarnished nonfiction autobiography which he began shortly after concluding the fictional one may have been less rewarding financially, but it continued the vital process of remembering and rendering the seminal events of his life.
Clearly, in one sense Sassoon was writing not only to inform a new generation of what he and his had endured, but also for himself, plumbing the depths and fundaments of memory and flexing the muscles of prose writing. Of course, he continued to write poetry, could even proclaim that it was better than that of his younger self, but it would seem that his dominant energies were directed towards prose.
And certainly, insofar as he is included in the canon of English poetry (he is nowhere to be found in Harold Bloom's forthcoming anthology "The Best Poems of the English Language"), it is for his war poems, though even in this sphere he is less remembered than his deceased comrades Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, and Wilfred Owen (who are to be found chez Mr. Bloom).
The trouble with Sassoon as a poet is that, despite his technical accomplishments and undoubted sensitivity to the refinements of diction, he lacks that necessary spark of inspiration, with the result that even after reading the ample selections of his verse in this comprehensive biography, this lover of poetry comes away with little recollection of a line or even a fine phrase. And this, it must be said, is something of an indictment of Siegfried Sassoon's poetry.
If, in a very real sense, the poet transmogrified into a prose writer, so this new volume, rather than being like its predecessor a tale of promise fulfilled (albeit under horrific and unwished-for circumstances), becomes a rather depressing tale of a man looking for something - memoirs, novels, marriage, fatherhood, faith - that will allow him to find peace in his shattered world.
Having been the central man of English war poetry, a great influence on Owen and Robert Graves at the least and in general a facilitator and benefactor of the very poetry that would eventually eclipse his own, it is not surprising that Sassoon had aspirations to similar accomplishments in the postwar literary world. …


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My 2 month old rarely smiles and makes eye contact?
my son went for his 2 month check up and the doctor was suprised he didnt seem to want to smile at him. He smiles and looks at me if i am feeding him, and when hes laying on the bed beside me or infront of me, or on his change table but if i hold him in front of me he doesnt make eye contact, and if he does its only for a few seconds.He will smile though but i wonder if he is smiling at me or something else. Im scared that he might have autisim, my doctor didnt say much but scheduled a check up for 3 months, which with my first i never had a 3 month check up...anyone have any thoughts...im scared
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I too am in the same position with an 11 week old son that only smiles while laying down. How did it work out for the babies that are older now? Am I right to be concerned?posted 10/24/2010 by 2 under 2 IL
my son is turning three months old he dosnt do any of that but he does watch tv he looks at me for a second and looks at somthing else he smiled at me once or twice so i dont know what is going on with him but i am just going to see what happeneds and if he is not smiling at me more by the fourth month im going to talk to the doctor about itposted 08/03/2010 by christianvaughn
I have the same concerns. Our son is 11 weeks old and does not make a lot of eye contact. He smiles every once in a while, but I am not sure if it is at us. Should I be concerned? How are your sons doing?posted 10/26/2009 by Josh and Denise
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I am having the same issue, how have your babies progressed, do you have any good resources?posted 11/20/2007 by kateirwin
I thought I was the only one, my son is 3 monthsold and doesn't make alot of eye contact either, I too am concerned. I have been searching the web for answers and as soon as I get some information that is helpful, I will pass it on....RMposted 12/10/2007 by tharaq
I'm actually in the same situation as a lot of others. I have a son who will be 3 months old tomorrow and he rarely ever makes eye contact. He smiles a lot but I don't know if it is at me or something else. He stares at lights a lot. He doesn't even gve toys a second look. I have a nephew who is 12 days older and there is a huge difference between them. My nephew notices toys and makes direct eye contat a lot. I'm really worried about my son and I too have wondered if it could be autism. If there is something wrong with him I would love him as much as ever, I just would like to know as soon as possible to get him any help he needs. If anyone has any experience with this I would really appreciate an e-mail to talk about it. My e-mail is email@example.com 12/09/2009 by Amya209
As a 1st time mother, i was very worried about my newborn being able to focus on my face. every time we held him, he looks at pix on the wall or light, ceiling. i keep wondering why so and so baby 1month older than mine looks right at you and mine dont.Well, my son just turn 3 couple days ago and boy he is on me and his dad whenever we around or get up. His eyes follows us and he just started laughing. The kind of laugh where he open his mouth and kinda scream..or high pitch noise...LOL so precious. Like they say, each babies are indiviual and diff from one another. if by 6months he still do that then yeah i'll be concernposted 09/15/2009 by islandchix
(continued from my first post) If you are still concerned about your childs development by the time they turn 18 months, then call your local regional center for an evaluation. Don't wait like I did. This being said, a lot of you are worrying a little too young. My advice would be to keep very percise notes on your childs developement. Write down everything and date it. Nothing will be more helpful than this if you do find that your child has special needs. My son is getting minimal therapy through our school district now. This therapy does not even touch the wonderful therapy he received though the early start program from our regional center. However, to continue that therapy would have cost us $13,000 per month! No Joke! Now we struggle just to pay $800 per month for small group therapy 4 hours per week. Insurance does not cover therapy for Autism because they call it an "educational diagnosis".posted 06/06/2008 by ds kaden
I have a 3 year old son with Autism. He was a fantastic baby! He was so happy, always smiling, sweet as could be. Through the first 2 years of his life I noticed that he was a little delayed. He did not walk until he was 16 months, and he only had about 3 words by the age of 2. The doctors always say "Lets wait and see". My doctor told me to bring him back if he was not putting 2 words together by 30 months. When I took him back at 30 months she said that he made good eyecontact and that we should just wait to see how the language progresses. HUGE MISTAKE! Finally at about 33 months I called my local regional center and had him evaluated through the county. Their evaluation was that he needed to be treated for Autism. They only provide services (speech therapy, occupational therapy, and applied behavioral annalysis therapy)until the child turns 3 years old. So, by the time services started, he only received a month and a half of private therapy. (continue on second post)posted 06/06/2008 by ds kaden
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Re: Turning laptop into wireless access pointdonc13 Dec 31, 2010 10:55 AM (in response to RoyLB)
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I do not have a wireless router, but I do have a Windows XP laptop with a wireless card. I belive it should be possible to have the Nook color acess the internet via the laptop, but I cannot seem to make it happen. From reading the forums, I know I need the laptop to be a Wireless Access Point, and not an Ad Hoc connection. I probably need some software as well. Any ideas would be appreciated.
- Roy
Can't be done.
If you were able to set your laptop as an access point (infrastructure, not ad-hoc). I guess plain and simple....there's much more to accessing the internet than just a "connection"
Wireless routers are quite inexpensive, presuming you have an internet connection (for your laptop).....it would cost well below $100 to add a class B wireless AP to your internet connection.
B is speed limited to 11mbps but that is quite sufficient for web browsing and/or downloading books.


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As Republicans continue to lose their minds over Benghazi, to the detriment of all, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer puts things in perspective by going back to Beirut '83. "If you compare the costs of the Reagan Administration's serial security lapses in Beirut to the costs of Benghazi, it's clear what has really deteriorated in the intervening three decades. It's not the security of American government personnel working abroad. It's the behavior of American congressmen at home."
See also: the Dubya record on diplomatic attacks — there were over a dozen of 'em. I know complaining about GOP hypocrisy these days is like complaining about the weather. But honestly, what an egregious waste of time this is.
"When historians look back to the moment when the post-Cold War reign of American power ended, they may well settle on 2010 as a crucial year. Everywhere, it seemed, there were signs that the long-predicted "rise of the rest" had finally occurred, whether in the newfound assertiveness of fast-growing China or the impatient diplomacy of new powers like Brazil and Turkey. Foreign Policy's second annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers fully reflects that new world."
As above, Foreign Policy has picked its Top 100 Global Thinkers of the year. And, while there are some really atrocious choices on here (for example, the man at #33, who much more deservingly made the list in the next entry too), the article is worth a perusing regardless. (FWIW, #65, #68, and #80 seem really iffy to me as well.)
I don't mean to be too harsh — There's nothing terribly wrong with this edutainment-y attempt to explain de-Baathification, highly dubious detainee procedures, and most notably the faked WMD casus belli to disinterested laypersons by way of action-thriller. And, in a way, I sorta admire the gutsiness of the the attempt. But, if you were already well aware of these grim developments, and I assume most GitM readers are, then it's hard to escape the sensation that one is mainly just being talked down to for two hours. Wait, there were no WMD in Iraq? You're kidding me, right? And, while I'm a great fan of Greengrass' previous output — I said over and over again in this space that I wish he had stuck with Watchmen, and on the Top 100 films of last decade list, Bloody Sunday was #84, his two Bournes were at #49, and the exemplary United 93 was at #6 — The Green Zone feels quite a bit more leaden than usual.
As with the political edutainment project Greengrass aspired to here, I like the idea of fusing his highly visceral action work (the Bournes) with his fly-on-the-wall discursions into recent history (Sunday, '93)…on paper. But The Green Zone gets lost somewhere in the interstice, and lacks the gripping power of either of these previous Greengrass grooves. Instead, Zone ends up mostly being two grainy hours of watching Matt Damon run around at night, as he tries to uncover an insidious government plot that our nation has been fully aware of for years…and has chosen to greet with a yawn.
More on that depressing problem in a bit, but, first, to bring y'all up to speed: Loosely based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a non-fiction examination of Dubyaite imbecility and excess in post-war Baghdad, Green Zone begins with a brief sequence set amid the original Shock-and-Awe period of the war, followed by, a few weeks later, a tense raid on a possible WMD storehouse by American soldiers. Led by Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon), this crack MW2-ish assault ends up finding, well, bupkis, just like the time before and the time before that.
To Chief Miller, the problem here is obvious — the intel must be rotten. But, when he brings this up at the next briefing for high-level military muckety-mucks, he is basically told to shut up and do his job. Nonetheless, events soon conspire to introduce Miller to the "Jack of Clubs" in the Dubya deck, a Baathist general (Yigal Naor) with a still-clearly extant power base in Baghdad. And, when our hero digs deeper to figure out how this Jack might know "Magellan," the top-secret source of all this lousy intel, he soon finds himself trapped — along with a very Judith Miller-y reporter (Amy Ryan) — in a power play between a slimy executive branch bureaucrat (Greg Kinnear, stuck no more) and a grizzled CIA hand (Brendan Gleeson), one that might just end up getting Miller fragged by the creepy Special Forces guy (Jason Isaacs, with great accent) who keeps popping up…
Along the way, there's a digression into a detainee facility with all the makings of an Abu Ghraib waiting to happen, the tearful homecoming of the administration's hand-picked Iraqi stooge (re: Ahmed Chalabi), some rather pained attempts to make the decision to de-Baathify an action beat…In other words, Green Zone is basically an attempt to dramatize the Iraq war for people who, for whatever reason, weren't paying much attention the first time 'round. And, to be fair, it's done with solid acting all around (including several folks recognizable from United 93), quality production values, and a reasonable degree of versimilitude throughout. (Note also the brief Paul Rieckhoff cameo, which should nip any IAVA whining about dramatic license right in the bud.)
But, for all its edutainmenty truths to tell, Green Zone still ends up feeling rather fake and film-ish to me, perhaps in part because — unlike Greengrass' other recent histories — it seems to subscribe to a very movie-like All the President's Men view of things, where, once word of misdeed gets out, justice will be done tho' the heavens fall. Not to get all Debbie Downer up in here, but that's not really the way the world works anymore, is it? One of the saddest and scariest moments in the recent and very worthwhile Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America is when Ellsberg explains how he thought everything would change once the Pentagon Papers got out…and then he finds that, in the face of clear and irrefutable evidence of government wrongdoing, most people just shrugged.
This is the uncomfortable horror that Green Zone almost seems willfully designed not to recognize. The whole premise of the movie seems to be that, if We the People knew what really went down in Iraq (or could just be taught via action-movie), we would be totally livid about the corruption involved. But, is the problem really that the American people don't know what happened in the build-up to Iraq? Or is it that we know pretty well what happened and don't much seem to care?
Just as with our indefensible dabbling in torture and indefinite detention in recent years, we have known about the lies and incompetence that fueled the Iraq fiasco for awhile now. And, alas, nothing ever happened. Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and the whole awful, lying lot are still deemed Serious People with Serious Opinions by the nation's domesticated media watchdogs, who, by the way, have also been studiously ignoring the Blair hearings overseas. Our current president, elected with the largest mandate for change in a generation, has deemed all of this just the sins of the past and refused to "look backward" (or worse, made himself complicit in these Dubya-era crimes.) And life continues, much as it has this past age, with no sense of reckoning whatsoever for the Big Lies that were told.
One of the main reasons Bloody Sunday and United 93 work so well is that they offer complex, nuanced portraits of complicated times. But, as Green Zone moves along, it just ended up feeling more and more like a cartoon to me, and one predicated mainly on wishful thinking. Like I said, I guess I admire what Paul Greengrass & co. were trying do here, but Green Zone as an action film feels flat and mostly uninvolving. And Green Zone as a political enterprise — Iraq War: The Movie!, basically — often seems at best condescending and at worst dangerously naive.
z'[W]ith Reagan, the prophecy appreciation part of his brain functioned quite independently of the part that started wars (there's nothing in the Old Testament about Nicaragua or even Grenada). Bush seems to have taken the threat of Gog and Magog to Israel quite literally, and, if this story can be believed, to have launched a war to stop them."
One rather frightening story from a few days ago: As if the recent "Onward Christian Soldiers" war reports in GQ weren't Crusadery enough, it appears that Dubya explictly invoked the End of Days to convince Jacques Chirac to get involved in the Iraq War, making his appeal Christian-to-Christian about the unholy dangers of Gog & Magog. Uh, really? (Apparently, Chirac has confirmed it.)
"This evening, my thoughts return to the first night I addressed you from this house – Sept. 11, 2001." Now, there's a surprise. To be honest, there's not much to be said about Dubya's dismal farewell speech last night, which had been touted earlier in the week as potentially something interesting. [Transcript.] Rather than go the statesman route a la Eisenhower, Dubya chose to spend his last few moments with the nation's ear dispensing trite, self-serving, and patently idiotic bromides about the world that will do nothing to alter his status in history as one of our worst presidents, if not the worst president, to-date.
I hope to spend very little blog-time in the future attempting to parse the immature, inchoate worldview of this soon-to-be ex-president. But, for example: "When people live in freedom, they do not willingly choose leaders who pursue campaigns of terror." Uh, they don't? (No, then it's called regime change. [rimshot].)
By the way, was America not "free" in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, or were Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, and other duly-elected architects of ugly institutions like indian removal and slavery all just part of ye old axis of iniquitye? Now, put your keyboards down, crazy right-wing Freeper-types. (How'd you end up here anyway?) I'm not arguing that the U.S. is evil — I love America (I just hate flag pins.) But I am arguing that it's never been satisfactorily proven by world events that ostensibly freedom-loving people aren't capable of horrible atrocities from time to time.
This is the same ridiculous note Dubya struck constantly in his second inaugural ("Freedom, yeah!"), and it still rings false. When people live in freedom, they can willingly choose anything they want, including paths and policies deeply at odds with the direction we — or even common humanity — might want them to go. News flash: Dubya's windbreaker-clad nemesis, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is — along with being a certifiable, Holocaust-denying nutjob — the freely-elected president of Iran. So let's stop pretending that the introduction (or imposition by force) of a western-style democracy to a region is a sudden and immediate cure-all for that area's problems. Even after eight years in the world's most powerful office, Dubya once again showed us last night that he harbors the black-and-white, absolutist worldview of a child…or an ex-alcoholic. Good riddance.
Update: See also DYFL on this Dubya chestnut last night: "Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Um, yeah.
Given what little I know about what's going on, that's basically my view of it as well. On the one hand, Israel is responding to an untenable security situation — Hamas rockets being fired into neighborhoods and cities — that we wouldn't tolerate for a second. (In fact, we invaded Iraq on a much flimsier security pretext.) Still, it's hard to shake the feeling that Israel is trying to run the table right here right now, in the twilight moments of the Dubya presidency, because they know they have carte blanche from 43 to do what they will. And I suspect this particular neocon-run advance, like all the rest of 'em in recent years, is doomed to failure — if anything, I'd wager, it's just swelling the ranks (and the coffers) of Hamas.
Regardless, the Obama administration and Secretary of State Clinton are going to have their work cut out for them. I'm not one who believes particularly that conflicts with roots in millennia-long religious strife can get "solved" in one or two US presidential terms. But let's at least hope, under their watch, we can start to achieve the type of broader range of discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that you can find in…say, Israel. It's both embarrassing and extremely counterproductive for our nation to be seen — and to continually be used — as a knee-jerk diplomatic dupe that will always blindly support policies initiated by the most conservative factions in Israeli politics.
After eight long years, the end is in sight, and the Idiot Wind is at long last subsiding. For the 43rd president of these United States, George Dubya Bush, gave his final press conference today, during which he finally conceded that "there have been disappointments." Why, yes, yes, there have. "Abu Ghraib obviously was a huge disappointment during the presidency. Not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment. I don't know if you want to call those mistakes or not, but they were — things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way." Um, yeah.
At any rate, don't worry: I'm sure we'll be getting one last round of 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 before closing time, when Dubya delivers his "farewell address" on Thursday. One can only hope that it turns out to be Eisenhoweresque, and not one more final, futile attempt to rewrite the history books. But I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.
"We hope the new vice president will not reverse his commitment to the Senate's constitutional authority." Uh, the new one? What about the old one? First it was Karl Rove discovering the virtues of executive transparency. Now the walrus and the carpenter of Dubya apparachiks, Johns "Bomb Iran" Bolton and "Torture at will" Yoo respectively, actually have the temerity to sing the praises of congressional oversight in foreign policy. "If Mr. Obama were to submit either of these agreements for approval by a simple majority of the House and Senate, his actions would pose a serious challenge to American principles of law and democratic governance." Oh, a "serious challenge" to law and democracy, eh? These assholes have no shame.
"I didn't know what the guy said, but I saw his sole." Say what you will about the 43rd president — and, no doubt, the history books will — the man has cat-like reflexes for his age. The story of the weekend was, of course, the shoe incident in Baghdad, which ended up clearly overshadowing Dubya's remarks and reason for his visit — the signing of a Status of Forces agreement — and serving as an exclamation point of sorts for the president's, shall we say, fraught relationship with the nation and people of Iraq. I have to give him credit, tho' — Bush not only handled the incident with agility, aplomb and a surprising amount of sang-froid, but generally struck the right tone about it afterward. "Okay, everybody calm down for a minute. First of all thank you for apologizing on behalf of the Iraqi people. It doesn't bother me. And if you want some — if you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw. (Laughter.) Thank you for your concern, do not worry about it."
In the wake of the biggest shoe-related world incident since Nikita Khrushchev (or perhaps Richard Reid), there's been some discussion of late about the legitimacy of shoe-throwing as a form of political protest. (Throwing shoes into machines, a.k.a. "sabot-age," is already generally considered a no-no.) It's not hard to understand, or even empathize with, the anger that drove Muntadar al-Zaidi to this act of protest. Here's a journalist who's been covering airstrikes and Abu Ghraib, who has seen the "collateral damage" of this war-of-choice firsthand, and who himself was briefly arrested by American security forces at one point. That being said, to my mind, any attempted act of physical violence against the president — even something as seemingly innocuous as shoe-throwing — cannot be countenanced. Now, I'm not saying the guy needs to rot in jail for the rest of his life — far from it — but let's not start pretending that that this form of protest is "ok." It's not. End of story.
Plus, keep in mind that a horrible situation was averted by Bush here just by his underreacting estimably to the incident. I don't think it's a stretch to think that al-Zaidi may have put his life in danger by making a threatening lunge at the president. The Secret Service are — and have to be — a hair-trigger bunch. Ok, al-Zaidi was only armed with a shoe…anybody ever heard of Amadou Diallo? All too often, tragedy results from a simple misunderstanding of intentions. Mr. al-Zaidi made his point, no doubt…but it was still a stupid and dangerous stunt, by any reckoning.
And besides, It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.
So, here we are at last. After the interminable Democratic primary, the mile-high heights of Denver, the RNC's sputtering lows, all the ignominious Palin follies, and the ugly throes of conservative crack-up we've witnessed over the past month or so, it's at long last decision time.
Not that it's going to be any big surprise to you, but I myself will be voting for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, for the reasons I listed back in January and for many others, and I strongly encourage you to do the same.
Of course, voting for Obama tomorrow is a much easier call than choosing among the Democratic field a year ago. If any undecided voters actually swing by GitM (a proposition I highly doubt), well, all you really need to know right now is this:
That's it. End of story. If you think Dubya was right 90% of the time, that everything from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown to national embarrassments such as Gitmo and Abu Ghraib were handled smoothly — heck, even competently — by this administration, then John McCain is your man. If you don't, then you should vote Obama.
Similarly, if you think Congress should spend more time pursuing the interests of immensely wealthy corporations and K-street lobbyists rather than representing the American people, that criminals like Duke Cunningham, Boss DeLay, and "Casino Jack" Abramoff should be allowed to plunder the nation's coffers for personal gain, and that the House and Senate should really be devoting their time to such all-consuming issues as flag burning and the fate of poor Terri Schiavo, then you should vote Republican. If, on the other hand, you want to finally move past all that, and help see real change enacted in this country under a President Obama, then you should vote for your Democratic House and Senate candidates, as I plan to.
Now, of course, I myself would take it farther than that. Y'see, I personally don't believe that conservatism works as a governing philosophy — it never has, and it never will. You wouldn't ask a vegetarian to prepare you a steak, and you don't hire someone who despises government and/or sees it only as his personal bankroll to run a country for you. Unlike the faith-based arguments of all too many Republicans out there, I'd submit that we've got almost two decades of data now to back this assertion up. But, you don't have to take it that far, if you don't want to — Just look at the record of the last eight years, and that should help clarify who to vote for tomorrow.
As for McCain himself, well, I confess, I'm disappointed in the man. If we'd seen the candidate who ran in 2000, the one who deplored all the right-wing pettiness, racism, and wingnuttery he's now wallowing in, we might've had the first win-win choice for president since…I dunno, Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes in 1916? (Update: Upon more reflection, I'll say since Ike and Adlai in '56.) But, the Saruman analogy holds here too. In pursuit of power, McCain turned from that path a long time ago — he enabled the Dubya administration in its idiocies, he began to coddle the hardcore right-wing fundies rather than stand up to them, he sold out his own campaign finance reform stance, and he even started to traffick in the same lowest-common-denominator, Rovian filth that was used to bring him low in South Carolina eight years ago. His choice of Sarah Palin for veep, so pathetically craven in its attempt to appease the stark raving fundies and grab disgruntled Clinton voters, was merely the cherry on top.
In short, when the worst impulses of right-wing gutter politics came a-knockin' at his door, John McCain — for whatever reason — blinked, and completely caved to their onslaught. In this election campaign, he has put His Own Ambition First, and in so doing, he has sold his soul. For the choices he's made during this election season alone, John McCain has lost any credibility he might've had to serve as our nation's commander-in-chief.
Fortunately, I firmly believe that, after tomorrow, John McCain and the sad, tired remnants of his cause will be old news. We have an exemplary, once-in-a-generation-type candidate in Barack Obama, and I refuse to believe I live in a country that would squander the amazing opportunity before us to elect him our president.
But, you never know… So, yes, the polls look great, but they looked good in 2004 as well (even the exit polls did, in fact), and we all know how that story turned out. So, let's handle our business tomorrow, get out to vote, and get to work on rebuilding this country. We have so much work to do.
Vote Obama, 2008.
"'We have a text,' Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said after a day-long visit Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice." How badly do the Republicans want to keep the White House? Apparently enough that the Dubya administration, contrary to its earlier stance (and to McCain's promises of "100 years" in Baghdad), seems to be on the verge of signing a withdrawal accord with Iraq that would have all U.S. troops out by the end of 2011. (Not that we have much choice in the matter, given that Baghdad has already made it clear it wants us gone.) Well, however politically influenced, this is clearly a step in the right direction…but it's way too late in the game to save the GOP now. It's not like we're all going to forget who started — and enabled — this disastrous sideshow.
"'I expressed my grave concern about the disproportionate response of Russia,' Bush said. 'We strongly condemn bombing outside of South Ossetia.'" As Georgian forces pull back from South Ossetia in the face of a full-scale Russian assault, the US, UN, and European Commission increasingly condemn Russian attacks across all of Georgia.
Meanwhile, Medvedev argues that Russian operations are winding down, but that troops will stay in South Ossetia for awhile. "Anatoly Nogovitsyn, a colonel-general on Russia's General Staff, said at a Moscow news briefing that Russia was not intending 'to invade Georgia' and that a 'key principle' of the current operation was that troops remain inside South Ossetia — ostensibly to protect a population it said was under assault by the Georgian military, as well as its own peacekeepers stationed there." Update: Russia pushes into Georgia.
"That it was a forgery can no longer be doubted; that it originated with the White House may be harder to prove. Two former CIA officials — Rob Richer and John Maguire — have gone on record as saying they were personally charged with carrying out the forgery, but their marching orders, if they existed, came directly from Tenet (who has fiercely denied the story). The closest thing Suskind has to a smoking gun is Richer's memory, five years later, of 'looking down at the creamy White House stationery on which the assignment was written.'"
In his review of Ron Suskind's The Way of the World, Salon's Louis Bayard tells the tale of the Habbush letter, a forgery fabricated by the CIA to tie Iraq to Al Qaeda (and, thus manufacture a casus belli for the War in Iraq.) In other words, George Tenet — perhaps on higher authority — signed off on an illegal black op aimed against the American people. If this goes up the food chain — and, at this point, who'd be surprised if it didn't — this is definitely an impeachable offense. Where's the outrage?
Update: Politico has more.
"Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes…Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement. Who they choose as their president is the Americans' business. But it's the business of Iraqis to say what they want." While much of the nation watched The Dark Knight, Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki shook up our election considerably, perhaps even decisively, over the weekend by publicly backing Obama's troop withdrawal plan in the German magazine Der Spiegel.
The Dubya White House immediately tried to lean on Al-Maliki to get him to walk back his remarks, but some hemming and hawing aside, they would seem to stand. In fact, they were reinforced today by Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraq's government spokesman, upon Sen. Obama's arrival to the region: "We are hoping that in 2010 that combat troops will withdraw from Iraq."
In other words, even the Iraqis believe Obama is right and McCain is wrong on our future in Iraq. Which means the McCain campaign has just lost one of their critical tentpole issues, and has no place to go now except scream "surge, surge, surge." "Via e-mail, a prominent Republican strategist who occasionally provides advice to the McCain campaign said, simply, 'We're f**ked.'"
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A good bit of Latin American flavour is spreading across Indias $100-billion IT/BPO sector, with an increasing number of companies expanding into this region to serve their key North America clients better, given this geographys proximity and cultural affinity to the US market.
Starting from Mexico all the way up to Argentina, Indian IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro and Mahindra Satyam have been adding more muscle to their presence in these regions with even a mid-tier firm like Hexaware Technologies joining this list to start a near-shore destination.
If India has become the dominant offshore destination for the global IT industry, the Latin America region with a sizeable qualified talent pool provides that extra sense of comfort for US companies that outsource their technology requirements. The current spend on IT by companies in the region is estimated at $70 billion.
Infosys, Indias second-largest IT services exporter, recently announced the opening up of a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre in San Jose, Costa Rica, with over 100 employees initially. It will provide key services in the strategic sourcing and procurement area for Procter & Gamble, the worlds leading FMCG company.
Infosys also plans to expand the BPO offerings in Costa Rica for its global clients in areas such as finance and accounting, human resources management, analytics, legal processes, customer relationship services, marketing and supply chain management. Besides this, the IT major already has a presence in Mexico and Brazil.
Similarly, Hexaware has also announced the opening of its third global delivery centre in Saltillo, Mexico, and it currently serves over 30 customers delivering over 100 active projects.
Raghavendra K, vice-president and head, HR, Infosys BPO, said, We look at areas which are strategic for our clients. Through the Latin America centres we are not only serving global clients but large Spanish and Portuguese-speaking markets. The region has a ready-made workforce with language skills. Latin America has a good education system so the quality of people is good who understands the local nuances as well as the business requirements.
Pradeep Mukherji, president & managing partner, Avasant, an outsourcing advisory firm, said, US customers are demanding from their IT service providers to have their centres in Latin America as this region falls in the same time zone and (the centres) are able to provide certain niche IT & BPO requirements.
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Mumbai, May 1 (IANS) After the box-office success of the Pakistani movie 'Khuda Ke Liye' in India, Percept Picture Company, the movie's India distributor, has decided to launch a joint film venture with the director of the film.
Confirming this, Ashok Ahuja, one of the directors of Percept Picture Company, told IANS Thursday that the company was in talks with 'Khuda Ke Liye' director Shoaib Mansoor.
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When Mansoor was in Mumbai recently, he told a section of the media that Percept Picture Company talked with him about a joint venture movie. He said he would be happy if the project came to fruition.
'Khuda Ke Liye' has grossed around Rs.60 million in India in six weeks so far and the movie is yet to be released in many centres in the country.
Its box-office earnings are expected to be substantial by the time it covers all the centres in the country, considering the response it has received wherever it has been released so far.
'Khuda Ke Liye' had grossed Rs.70 million at the Pakistani box-office, the first Pakistani movie to generate that kind of theatrical revenues.
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This year we are welcoming 4 new styles to our range: a pink pig with huge round eyes and a corkscrew tail, a blue budgie with huge flappy wings and a little pink beak, a turquoise-blue elephant with big round ears and a plump little trunk, and an adorable little grey mouse!
Aside from the animal onesies, we have also created some new products that will launch later this year. Think festivals and bike rides, and keep your eyes on the website.


text: ok i am preparing my first tour of new zealand that starts in october, and I would like to purchase my first bike. ive been told lots of good bikes to get and i have not been serious until now because i was moving. Now im all settled in should i just roll to shops or dare buy one off the interwebs?