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got nothing on prairie dogs
The military buildup in the Mediterranean indicates that Assad's opponents intend to militarily intervene in Syria under cover of 'humanitarian intervention', a disingenuous narrative that could not be further from the truth.
Pictures and videos that have surfaced following the alleged use of chemical agents in the eastern suburbs of Damascus are profoundly disturbing and a thorough and substantial investigation into what took place there is absolutely essential. However, it is conversely disturbing that those Western governments who have staunchly supported anti-government militants are using this opportunity to legitimize the use of force against the government in Damascus.
The United States, Britain, and France are unwavering in their assertions that the Assad government and the Syrian Arab army were the perpetrators of the chemical weapon attack, despite no evidence to substantiate these claims. These governments seem to be sure that Damascus is guilty on the basis of it preventing a UN investigation team from visiting the site, and when investigators eventually did reach the area, it didn't matter to them because they argued that the Syrian government had destroyed all evidence of wrongdoing.
i also love how the u.s. pretends to be outraged by violence but their answer is … violence.
that's a bit juvenile and immature and totally in keeping with barack's limited vision.
i'm sorry, should i be boring every 1 with prairie dog talk?
oh, was that bitchy?
i'm sorry, i don't bill myself as 'author, activist, actress …' and then write about my tits, prairie dogs, movie premieres, etc.
apparently for some lefties, 'activism' when democrats are in the white house boils down to silence.
message received – silently.
i can't imagine any 1 on the left failing to use their voice to call out barack's war on the planet.
let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'
The drums of war grow ever louder as US officials (and some of the press) lust for war on Syria. As Peter Hart (FAIR) observes, "There is still no firm public evidence that would tie these specific attacks to the Assad government. But all around the U.S. media the signs are clear that war is on the way." IPS analyst Phyllis Bennis appeared this morning on KPFA's Up Front with Guest Host Philip Maldari to address various issues including the allegations that a chemical attack took place last week in Syria.
Phyllis Bennis: The poisoning of these people who died would be a horrific crime. We don't know for sure it was a chemical weapon, we certainly don't know who did it. But it is a terrible crime and should be investigated. It shouldn't be answered with military strikes which are not going to make it better for anybody. It's not going to bring the war to a quicker close. It's not going to protect any civilians in Syria. It's not going to make anything better, it's going to make everything worse — further instability, further engagement of the US in an illegal war. That's the other aspect here. We're already hearing, it's quite ironic that while we're hearing this incredibly aggressive talk from Secretary [of State John] Kerry and from other administration officials who are basically saying, you know, "We're about to go in" without quite saying those words, the front page of theNew York Times admits that — in fact the Washington Post as well — admits that the administration still is missing major pieces of information. The key one being: Who did it and was it a chemical weapon at all? So that needs to be figured out before The idea that they're preparing for a military response and actually calling for the UN weapons inspectors to be withdrawn, saying that they're there too late, it's too little, they won't be able to tell — when the inspectors themselves, who I would think know far better than Secretary Kerry, for instance, are saying, 'Yes, of course we can still find out,' They want to continue doing their work, they don't want to be withdrawn. And until we know that, there's no way to talk seriously about a response of any kind. Then when you get to the legal part, the third of these three things that the administration is claiming it needs — One, the assessment of what was the actual role of the Syrian government, if anything? Two, what's the position of US allies and members of Congress? And three, where does international law fit in? Number three becomes very important because international law in this is actually pretty clear — unlike a lot of international law which is about as clear as mud. The question of when is the use force legal is pretty clear because it's really limited. There's only two ways a country can use force and have it be legal. The first, and nobody's making this claim, is immediate self-defense. The United States is not threatened by Syria. We are hearing that they may ask Turkey and Jordan to claim self-defense and then the US would go to their aid as indirect supporting self-defense, which is a really cockamamie idea. But the bottom line is there's no self-defense argument here for the United States. The other way is if the [UN] Security Council agrees and we all know the Security Council is not going to agree. So they're talking about using the model they used in 1999 in Kosovo when they just said, 'Well, we'll never get a UN Security Council agreement so we'll just ask the NATO high command for permission instead.' And, what a surprise, NATO said yes. It's like the hammer and the nail. If you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Philip Maldari: Well they're talking about a coalition of the willing — and the willing are Britain, France, possibly, uh-uh, Turkey, of course, and-and Jordan. But then the Arab League —
Those countries together, no matter how many countries together, and the Arab League, or the African Union, or NATO don't have the legal right to decide on the use of military force. Only the UN Security Council has that right. So if they do it with any of these other forces — a coalition of the willing — it is, I mean, even theNew York Times in its editorial today said that going around the UN Security Council, the Kosovo model that they cite would, in their words, "provide legitimacy, if not strict legal justification." In other words, it's illegal. You know, they can try to justify it all they want, but it's illegal.
Today, Nathan Gardels (Christian Science Monitor) interviews former chief United Nations arms inspector Hans Blix. Excerpt regarding weapons inspectors.
Gardels: An echo of Iraq under President Bush?
Blix: In a way, yes. Then, too, the Americans and their allies asked for inspections for mass destruction weapons. Then, too, they said, "forget it, we have enough evidence on our own to act. We are the world police. Our publics are demanding immediate action!"
I do not go along with the statement by the US that "it is too late" for Syria now to cooperate. That is a poor excuse for taking military action.
Only last March, the West was satisfied with inspections concerning the use of chemical weapons. Why can't they wait again now? In one month when you have accurate tissue samples we will know for sure exactly which kind of chemical weapons have been used and who possesses such weapons.
Jonathan Chait is infamous for two things — a hairline that resembles Hitler's mustache and being a cheerleader for the Iraq War. Today, he wants to insist Syria isn't Iraq and insist that he supports war on Syria. Of course he supports attacking Syria — if you'd been given that hairline, you'd hate the world too and forever want to lash out.
We haven't compared Syria and Iraq here. Until now. When Chait bellows, we blow him off. Even more so on a day State Dept spokesperson Marie Harf declares, "We are not comparing this specific case to any other time we've concluded that a regime may or may not, or whatever the discussion was about chemical weapons." For Iraq, the White House claimed WMDs must be destroyed, for Syria, they claim chemical weapons. With Iraq, the White House would not allow the UN weapons inspectors to complete their work, with Syria, the White House insists the inspectors have arrived too late. In both cases, the law didn't appear to matter nor did public opinion.
For example, Saturday, Lesley Wroughton (Reuters) reported, "Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syria's government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll says. Abbout 60 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should not intervene in Syria's civil war, while just 9 percent thought President Barack Obama should act." But what the citizens think in a democracy didn't matter under Bully Boy Bush who dubbed himself "the decider." And what citizens think doesn't matter under Barack as State Dept spokesperson Marie Harf made clear attoday's press briefing when she was asked about the large majority of Americans opposing an attack on Syria and Harf responded, "I think the President's been clear that he makes decisions about our national security based on what's best for national security interests of this country, and I think it's clear here that there are core national security interests at stake for the United States."
Might someone educate Marie and Barack? Clearly they lack the basics of American history. ". . . to secure these rights. Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Marie and Barack should be informed that quote is from the Declaration of Independence. While Barack and his illegal spying have shredded much of the Constitution, I wasn't aware that the Declaration of Independence had also been flushed down the toilet by the White House.
Ruth found other similarities between the war on Iraq and the desired war on Syria last night:
I do not like The New York Times. Did you see this crap "Kerry Cites Clear Evidence of Chemical Weapon Use"?
No, he did not.
"Kerry Claims Clear Evidence of Chemical Weapon Use" would be a truthful headline.
The New York Times is yet again selling war. Apparently, that is why it exists.
It is selling war just as it did with the Iraq War.
But do not worry because when Matt Damon makes a film about it, he will lie and blame The Wall Street Journal — as he did in The Green Zone where The New York Times' Judith Miller was turned into a Wall Street Journal reporter.
Way to cover for the liars who caused the war, Mr. Damon. And you wonder why no one wants to pay money to see your bad movies?
They say it is always easier for a White man and I guess the above demonstrates that.
Colin Powell, as Secretary of State, had to go before the United Nations (and lie) with props including a mistranslated audio exchange and a small vial of white powder to generate the "case closed" press which led us into the Iraq War. By contrast, Secretary Kerry, a White man, just has to make a declaration.
Norman Pollack (CounterPunch) offers:
The rush to judgment is all too familiar, as in the case of WMD and Iraq. The US track record and its new rallying cry, humanitarian intervention, is rejected by most of the world. Obama and his national-security advisers have a craving for war, whether a distorted view of patriotism or simply courting popularity with a nation careening dangerously to the Right, is a moot point. Also, war is a good distraction from a shabby record on everything from banking regulation to job creation. The Democratic party is hopeless, a profound betrayal of FDR and the New Deal.
Rowena Mason (Guardian) reports, "Diane Abbott may be forced to quit Labour's frontbench if Ed Miliband supports military action in Syria, as one of several MPs who are weighing up whether to support their party leaders over the anticipated intervention." More connections and similarities? Angie Tibbs (Dissident Voice) raises questions about the 'evidence' (videos) John Kerry and others are citing:
If a check had been made, the real "breaking news" would be, not so much the videos but, the date on which they were uploaded, which was August 20, 2013. However, the "rebels" and their "activists" informed the media that the attack occurred on August 21, 2013! A full day AFTER the videos of the alleged massacre were published by various media. Whoops!
Only if it were carried out by the "rebels" themselves.
This is not the first time an attempt was made to portray victims of a Syrian government massacre to the world. Back on May 29, 2012 a photographappeared in corporate-state media outlets (initially by BBC, followed by countless others, including Canada's CBC) purporting to show the bodies of children who were supposedly awaiting burial following a massacre by the Syrian government in Houla. The photograph had been provided to the BBC by an "activist" (who else?).
At the time, the image, as it was meant to, created outrage amongst leaders in "the West", many of whom expelled all Syrian diplomats. However, was it a photo of dead bodies from the Houla massacre? Media outlets accepted its legitimacy without question.
Another huge mistake damning corporate-state media credibility!
Because when photographer Marco di Lauro, who had taken the picture, saw it, he, in his own words, "nearly fell off his chair" in shock. It was, in fact, a photo he had taken in March, 2003 in Iraq, and it showed body bags containing skeletons that had been found in a desert south of Baghdad.
Yesterday, Russia's Foreign Ministry issued "Phone conversation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with US Secretary of State John Kerry:"
On the 25 August a phone conversation between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry was held at the initiative of the Russian party. The situation around Syria was discussed.
The Minister pointed out that the official statements we had been hearing lately from Washington, about the readiness of the United States armed forces to "interfere" with the Syrian conflict, were received by Moscow with anxiety. It seems that known circles, including those who appeal for a military intervention "bypassing the UN" more and more actively, are sincerely trying to strike through the joint efforts of Russia and the United States to convene the international conference on peaceful settlement of the crisis.
We are puzzled by the references of individual representatives of the Administration to the allegedly "proven" involvement of the Syrian government in last week's incident in Eastern Ghouta with alleged use of chemical weapons. To that end, the Russian party appealed to refrain from a line of forceful pressure on Damascus, to remain unprovoked and to try to contribute to the creation of normal conditions for the UN mission of chemical experts, which is currently present in the country, to have the opportunity to conduct thorough, objective and unprejudiced investigations on sites. This becomes especially topical in light of the increasing evidence that the accident in Eastern Ghouta was a result of staging by the inexorable opposition for the purposes of accusing officials in Damascus.
John Kerry promised to attentively study the arguments of the Russian party.
Sergey Lavrov also drew the attention of his conversation partner to the very dangerous consequences of a possible new armed intervention for the entire region of the Middle East and North Africa, where the effect of destabilising processes, that countries like Iraq and Libya are still experiencing, is especially acute.
The Ministers agreed to continue their contacts on all aspects of the Syrian crisis in the near future.
The two spoke today as well and it did no go well. No surprise since, between the two calls, John Kerry appeared to blow off concerns expressed making statements declaring he knew a chemical weapon attack took place (when he knew no such thing) and that the attack was carried out by the Syrian government (when he knew no such thing). As Alex Lantier (Global Research) points out, "Kerry could not present a single fact, beyond his own lurid allegations, to justify the claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces carried out a chemical attack in Ghouta." Among other things, Kerry declared:
What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. It defies any code of morality. Let me be clear: The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders, by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. By any standard it is inexcusable, and despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured, it is undeniable.
Alex Lantier (WSWS) points out, "Washington has poisoned entire Iraqi cities with depleted uranium and white phosphorus." As Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani (Al Jazeera via BRussells Tribunal) notes:
Iraq is poisoned. Thirty-five million Iraqis wake up every morning to a living nightmare of childhood cancers, adult cancers and birth defects. Familial cancers, cluster cancers and multiple cancers in the same individual have become frequent in Iraq.
Sterility, repeated miscarriages, stillbirths and severe birth defects – some never described in any medical books – are all around, in increasing numbers. Trapped in this hellish nightmare, millions of Iraqis struggle to survive, and they call for help.
At long last, public pressure and media attention to this public health catastrophe prompted a joint study by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Iraqi Ministry of Health to determine the prevalence of birth defects in Iraq. This study began in May-June 2012 and was completed in early October 2012.
The WHO website says that this large-scale study was conducted in Baghdad (Karkh and Rasafa), Diyala, Anbar, Sulaymaniyah, Babel, Basrah, Mosul and Thi-Qar, with 10,800 households from 18 districts and a sample size of 600 households per district.
The Independent (UK) reported that this study was due to be released in November 2012. But the report has not yet come out.
How lucky for John Kerry that the WHO report has still not emerged. Dahr Jamail (Al Jazeera) explained in a report last April:
During 2004, the US military carried out two massive military sieges of the city of Fallujah, using large quantities of DU ammunition, as well as white phosphorous.
"We are concerned about the future of our children being exposed to radiation and other toxic materials the US military have introduced into our environment," Dr Haddad added.
A frequently cited epidemiological study titled Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009 involved a door-to-door survey of more than 700 Fallujah households.
The research team interviewed Fallujans about abnormally high rates of cancer and birth defects.
One of the authors of the study, Chemist Chris Busby, said that the Fallujah health crisis represented "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied".
Dr Mozghan Savabieasfahani is an environmental toxicologist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of more than two dozen peer reviewed articles, most of which deal with the health impact of toxicants and war pollutants. Her research now focuses on war pollution and the rising epidemic of birth defects in Iraqi cities.
"After bombardment, the targeted population will often remain in the ruins of their contaminated homes, or in buildings where metal exposure will continue," Dr Savabieasfahani told Al Jazeera.
"Our research in Fallujah indicated that the majority of families returned to their bombarded homes and lived there, or otherwise rebuilt on top of the contaminated rubble of their old homes. When possible, they also used building materials that were salvaged from the bombarded sites. Such common practices will contribute to the public's continuous exposure to toxic metals years after the bombardment of their area has ended."
Global Research's Washington Blog notes the hypocrisy of Kerry's "We condemn all use of chemical weapons" adding, "But the U.S. used chemical weapons against civilians in Iraq in 2004. Evidence here, here, here, here,here, here."
Through yesterday, Iraq Body Count puts the number of violent deaths this month so far at 713. Violence continued today and Alsumaria reports that Duraid Abbas, the Director of Passports in Nineveh, was shot dead in Mosul, and an armed attack on a Nineveh compound for displaced Shabaks resulted in one security guard being injured. NINAreports that 1 soldier was shot dead in the village of Tabj, a Falluja armed attack left 1 police officer dead and another injured, a Mosul roadside bombing claimed 3 lives (military captain and two soldiers), 1 internal affairs officer shot dead in al-Mohandiseen, Sheikh Barzan Bedrani ("the elder of Albobadran clans") was shot dead to the south of Mosul, 2 Baghdad bombings claimed 5 lives and left seven people injured, the Ministry of Defense announced that during mass arrests (305) 9 suspects were killed, and Nouri's military attempted "to storm Ramadi sit-in yard near Alibovraj bridge but [were] firmly confronted by militants today." If they hadn't been stopped by rebels, it most likely would have been another Hawija.
The April 23rd massacre of a sit-in in Hawija resulted from Nouri's federal forces storming in. Alsumaria noted Kirkuk's Department of Health (Hawija is in Kirkuk) announced 50 activists have died and 110 were injured in the assault. AFP reported the death toll eventually (as some wounded died) rose to 53 dead. UNICEF noted that the dead included 8 children (twelve more were injured).
Despite that, look for the attempted storming of Ramadi to be ignored. Alsumaria reportsthat Nouri is attempting to use the court, the Ministry of the Interior and Nouri's attorney general's office to stop the protests, insisting that it's so violent in Iraq today, the protesters are in danger. Whether in Hawija or elsewhere, the only people who have killed protesters have been Nouri's forces. Alsumaria notes that the attempt to kill the protest is being denounced with a coalition stating Nouri is attempting to violate the Constitution which allows for peaceful demonstrations and that this is yet another attempt by Nouri to silence opposition.
Alsumaria reports that the provincial council of Kirkuk today voted not to reconstitute Sahwa in their area — they state security is sufficient and that includes the local police force which includes many Turkmen. This matters because, over the weekend, Al Madareported that the collapse in security is forcing some Baghdad officials to consider returning to a full force of Sahwas. Sahwa, "Awakenings" and "Sons Of Iraq" are some of the names. Who are they? BBC News offers a fact sheet here. Please note, despite what the BBC says, Sahwa were apparently not all Sunnis. According to Gen David Petraeus when he testified before Congress in April 2008, there were some Shi'ites as well. For example, from the April 8, 2008 snapshot:
If reconstituted, they would have to be paid. Nouri has balked at that and attempted to disband then. Though he was supposed to integrate them into Iraqi forces and into government jobs, he refused that as well. All of this and the targeting of Sahwa with assassination attempts as well as with arrests from Nouri's forces have left them distrustful of Nouri and his government. There are some who believe this has led some Sahwa members to join the rebels, militants or even al Qaeda in Iraq. Mustafa Habib (Niqash) reported last Thursday:
As Al-Sabaah notes, the Sahwa remains active in Anbar Province (the article details some of their security operations today). Since the US military was just mentioned by Niqash, let's note Ahmed Hussein and Muhannad Muhammad (Alsumaria) who are reporting MP Jawad Alshahyla, of the Sadr bloc and who sits on Parliament's Integrity Committee, states that six US military bases currently exist in Iraq — the Committee has confirmed this — and that the number of so-called US "trainers" is far greater than was expected or portrayed — the Committee estimate is at least 1,000 US troops are in Iraq.
Turning to Iraq's political situation, last December, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani suffered a stroke. The incident took place late on December 17th (see the December 18th snapshot) and resulted in Jalal being admitted to Baghdad's Medical Center Hospital. Thursday, December 20th, he was moved to Germany. He remains in Germany currently. Every few weeks someone comes along to announce, "He's getting better!" It's past time that Iraqis were told when Jalal was coming back and if he's not coming back shortly, it really is time to replace him. He's been out of the country — and not doing his job — for over eight months now. Talabani was neither protector or warrior. He repeatedly refused to stand against Nouri and waived through Nouri's various law breaking. He appeased Nouri, at best. That humoring of Nouri is no longer present and Nouri's attacked the Iraqi people repeatedly in the months Jalal has been out of the country. There has not even been the pretense of a check on Nouri. And things may be about to come even worse. The Iraq Times — and only the Iraq Times — is reporting on rumors and leaks coming from the office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential cleric. They identify the information they are receiving as "confusing" but note that the health of al-Sistani is said to be deteriorating with some insisting he is in a coma and doctors have had to revive his heartbeat at least once. If the rumors are true, Iraq would be facing even more political unrest. Rumors also abound that Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq is attempting to get back into Iraqiya's good graces. al-Mutlaq was defended by Iraqiya in 2010 when the Justice and Accountability Commission declared him a "Ba'athist" and refused to allow him to run for the Parliament. They defended him when he told CNN, in 2011, that Nouri was becoming a new Saddam Hussein. They stood with him from December 2011 to May of 2012 as Nouri, in retaliation for the CNN remarks, demanded that al-Mutlaq be stripped of his post. Their thanks for that loyalty? When Iraqiya declared a walk-out on the Cabinet this summer, al-Mutlaq refused to honor it. As Ayad Allawi, leader of Iraqiya, made publicly clear, anyone who did not walk out was no longer a member of Iraqiya.
The man who betrayed Iraqiya, the man many members saw as no different from Nouri al-Maliki, now is said to wants back in. (He most likely wants back in do to planned parliamentary elections next year. Iraqiya came in first in 2010. And Nouri and his own State of Law are increasingly unpopular.) Amjad Salah (Alsumaria) reports that Allawi's office today denied that al-Mutlaq made a formal request to Allawi who rejected the request.
And things are tense enough as it stands. Sinan Salaheddin (AP) reports, "The Supreme Federal Court said in a brief statement on its website that it had ruled unconstitutional a controversial law that limits the premier, president and the parliament speaker to two terms of office." AFP reminds, "Maliki told AFP in a February 2011 interview, however, that he would not seek a third term in office, and said at the time that he wanted to pass a constitutional provision limiting his successors to two terms as prime minister."
NINA reports:
Iraqiya Slate denounced in a statement today the abolition of the law determining the tenure of three presidencies and the abolition of constitutional Article 23 by concerning the election mechanism in Kirkuk by the Federal Court.
The statement added : "Once again the Federal Court proving the serious volume of politicization of its decisions and the flagrant disregard for the Constitution which is in charge maintained by the amount of its decisions is subject to the whims of the executive branch./End."
All Iraq News quotes Ayad Allawi stating, "The parliament endorsed the decision of limiting the terms of the three presidencies by two terms only, but there are some attempts to change this law and violate the constitution."
Back to the United States. Anthony York (Los Angeles Times) reports Cindy Sheehan has announced she is running for governor of California and doing so on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket, "Dressed in a yellow T-shirt and Velcro-strapped sandals, Sheehan criticized [Governor Jerry] Brown's unwillingness to put a moratorium on extracting oil through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a procedure that critics say could contaminate drinking water and stimulate earthquakes. She noted Brown has received a $27,200 campaign contribution from Occidental Petroleum, the maximum allowed under state law." Cindy Sheehan's campaign website informs, "Cindy Sheehan is a native Californian who was raised in a California where education was excellent and other social safety nets were not as small and filled with holes so big, millions of Californians fall through while the rich and corporations keep exploiting more of this state's wealth and resources. Sheehan majored in California History at UCLA and envisions a state that leads the world in peace, economic stability and equality, environmental sustainability and delivering high-quality public education from pre-K through university. She knows it can be done because it has been done before." A press release noted:
I know Jerry Brown and have known him forever. I won't be noting his campaign — unless he addresses war. We don't generally follow state races here. That said, Cindy's making a third party run and we will note her campaign (a) for her historical and continued importance as a voice against war and (b) third party runs need coverage. In the 2010 race, Carlos Alvarez was the Peace and Freedom's nominee for governor and he received 0.9% of the vote (Green Party candidate Laura Wells received 1.2%; Libertarian Party candidate Dale Ogden recieved 1.5% and American Independent Chelene Nightingale received 1.7%). These numbers could be higher if the media covered all campaigns. And democracy needs variations and vibrancy, third parties and independent challengers are often the first to advance ideas that are embraced by larger political parties many years later.
Still in the US, Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com) sees the US government's non-stop bleating over Syria as an attempt at distraction:
The shouting is about taking the NSA story off the front pages for a while and drowning out the rising voices of civil libertarian protest. Edward Snowden's revelations of a wide-ranging years-long domestic spying operation threatens Obama's presidency. It also threatens the leadership of the two parties, who are confronted with a grassroots rebellion on both sides of the aisle and have only just barely managed to contain it. Official Washington has been shaken to its already pretty flimsy foundations by the scandal – and there's nothing likeanother war to take everyone's mind off the fact that they're shredding the Fourth Amendment.
Alex Abdu (ACLU) notes the ACLU continues to pursue judicial remedy from the government's illegal spying:
Last night, we filed the opening brief in our lawsuit challenging the NSA's ongoing collection of the call records of virtually everyone in the United States, including the ACLU's. We're asking the court for a preliminary injunction ordering the government to stop collecting our data and to bar any use of the ACLU call records it already has collected.
The NSA's program is illegal because it is not authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act as the government claims, because it invades every American's Fourth Amendment right to privacy, and because it forces ordinary Americans to pause every time they pick up the phone to consider whether they want the NSA to know whom they're calling – infringing on the First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association.
Under this unprecedented surveillance program, the NSA has built an enormous database filled with information about every American's associations and affiliations.
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In January, an international team of researchers published a huge analysis of the success of various post-surgical, or adjuvant, therapies for breast cancer. Drawing on 133 randomized trials from around the world, their data identified tamoxifen -- a synthetic hormone -- as the ascendant star.
Unlike standard chemotherapeutic agents -- which kill dividing cells throughout the body, not just in the cancer -- tamoxifen kills nothing. It routs cancers by starving them of the estrogen that can promote their growth.
Hailed as nothing less than a wonder drug, tamoxifen has proved so successful in stalling or preventing breast cancer recurrence that researchers in the United States stand poised to begin large-scale trials of the drug this week in healthy women at high risk of the disease. A related trial could begin any day in the United Kingdom, with others slated in Europe and Australia. Their goal: prevention of breast cancer -- the most common malignancy in women.
New toxicological studies, however, hint that tamoxifen may itself cause cancer. These findings are seeding doubts about the wisdom of administering the potent anti-estrogenic drug for years -- perhaps for life -- to healthy women.
The new data have already held up the U.K. cancer-prevention trial involving tamoxifen. On March 12, as the study's leaders planned to begin recruiting an estimated 13,000 additional volunteers for a scaled-up five-year program, Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) withdrew its support for the study as currently designed, pending further toxicological studies. The two remaining sponsors -- the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Research Campaign -- decided to continue the trial on their own, provided the U.K.'s Department of Health approves. At press time, that agency was taking a second look at the study design.
A U.S. tamoxifen trial for breast cancer prevention, funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), remains on track. NCI has scheduled a press conference for April 29 to announce details of this study, slated to eventually involve 16,000 healthy, high-risk women age 35 and over, half of whom will get the drug.
MRC Secretary Dai A. Rees explained his agency's decision to withdraw from the U.K. study in the March 28 BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. Unpublished data by tamoxifen's manufacturer indicate that the drug induces liver tumors in rats, he notes. Because of the way it accumulates in the human body, doses of the drug responsible for producing cancers in rats appear "similar to those to be used in the trial," Rees says. As a result, "there is no dose or safety margin."
Rees also cites a study reported in the March 1 CANCER RESEARCH showing that tamoxifen produces potentially carcinogenic DNA alterations -- known as adducts -- in the livers of at least two types of rodents. Finally, though researchers have studied tamoxifen's effects in thousands of women, few of those patients have received the drug for more than five to seven years; that's less time than it usually takes for carcinogens to induce liver tumors in humans, Rees notes.
Worldwide, breast cancer rates are increasing (SN: 4/21/90, p.245). This disease, which will strike one in nine U.S. and Canadian women sometime during their lives, kills almost 45,000 each year in the United States alone.
MRC "has no wish to spread alarm among women taking tamoxifen for proved breast cancer," Rees says; for them, tamoxifen "is a well-tried and effective treatment" (see sidebar). However, until potentially life-threatening side effects can be ruled out, he says, MRC cannot justify administering this drug, as planned, to healthy women under age 40.
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Bought this in 1998 when first came out. Always been impressed with the photo quality of it. Absolutley superb day time shots, and indoor shots without flash are also excelent. Put the flash on though, and you just get dark, grey images.
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Oklahoma State football: Running back Joe Randle might lead Cowboys in receiving yards
STILLWATER — One of the most popular questions facing Oklahoma State heading into the season was posed to coach Mike Gundy last week.
Who will be the Cowboys' leading receiver?
Without much of a flinch, Gundy had a bit of a surprising answer.
"I'd say Joe Randle," the coach said.
Sure, having an established 1,200-yard rusher and touchdown machine in Randle, not to mention backfield mate Jeremy Smith, will be a huge help as true freshman quarterback Wes Lunt gets acclimated to college football. But Randle's versatility as a pass-catcher will be just as valuable.
He can catch the ball out of the backfield, or split out with the receivers. And he's got the speed and shimmy-shake moves to make a defender miss in space that can turn a short, easy pass for Lunt into a big play.
"He just can get the ball so many times," Gundy said. "We throw that ball out there to him sideways, and then all the check down stuff is to a back.
"Now, Joe and Jeremy could be rotating, so (being the leading receiver) may not happen. But that position (running back) could get as many catches as anybody. Easy."
Though Randle has always been lauded for his wide array of skills, it's possible he wasn't utilized as a receiver enough at times last season, where he tallied 43 catches for 266 yards and two touchdowns.
After catching nine balls for 99 yards in OSU's second game of the season against Arizona, Randle's best receiving performance the rest of the year came when he totaled five catches for 31 yards and a touchdown against Kansas State. Compare that to Randle's freshman season, when he tallied seven games with more than 31 receiving yards and finished the season with 427 yards on 37 catches.
Granted, Randle's role dramatically changed in 2011, going from Kendall Hunter's backup to the featured back. And the Cowboys still had plenty of reliable receiving options, led by two-time Biletnikoff winner Justin Blackmon and Josh Cooper.
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What could also benefit Lunt and the Cowboys is Smith's apparent improvement as a receiver during the offseason. That was needed at times last season, most notably in the Iowa State game, when Smith dropped two passes on a key fourth-quarter drive.
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Yes, there will be a lot of new faces catching the football for the Cowboys this season. Yes, right now it's hard to pin down which one will be the leading receiver.
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This week we are in Zone 3, The Bathroom and Another Room. Today's mission it look up high and get the cobwebs off the ceilings and clean the vent grill. I know this is a nasty thing; get a proper step ladder and you better have on your shoes. If you don't have a bathroom vent then clean the light fixture. Remove those dead bug bodies and wash it. Then put it back up. This will not take long.
We are also in another room this week. I have chosen the Laundry Room.
The Habit of the Month is Laundry. Before you wash your load for today take a rag or wash cloth, and wipe down the out side of the washer and dryer. Then throw the dirty rag in the wash. I would use the same rag or cloth that you used on the vent or light fixture for the bathroom. Zone 3: Mission #2 Tuesday
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Our bathrooms get grungy from dirty little hands and big hands that come into the bathroom to get washed. Today we are going to take a hot soapy rag and wash these dirty spots off the door facings, switch plates and door knobs. They have become invisible to us. Now don't obsess about this. You don't have to do the whole door. It takes only two minutes.
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Today we are going to look at the front of our bathroom vanity. If you have a big one then you may not be able to do it all; so pace yourself. Most smudges and toothpaste spots will come off with a damp soapy rag. Don't use harsh chemicals on wood or painted surfaces. Do one drawer front or one door at a time. Wipe off the knobs and handles too. A little wiping every day will eventually take the layers of dirt and grime away.
After you have done your load of laundry for today, run hot water in your washer and no clothes. Add a little bleach or baking soda in there during the wash cycle. The inside of your washer needs to be cleaned too. You can also find washing machine cleaner at your local grocery store.
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Dear Friends,
Today we are going to think about things that we would like to change in our bathroom and make a want list. Now you don't have to go out and buy it all at once. Think color; paint, towels, and shower curtain. This is your chance to dream and scheme. Flying means we learn to break projects down into babysteps and not kill ourselves or our budgets.
Then make a list of things you are running low on in the bathroom; Shampoo, conditioner, bath soap, toothpaste. You know what your use. Take inventory and see what you need. Do you have a master list of everything you use in the bathroom? Hey I am not asking you to make this master list now. Just think about it and eventually put one in your control journal.
Today is errand day so we will make this an easy one. After you take your load of laundry out of the dryer, Take a quick look around. Do you see any trash? Tags that have come off, lint dropped on the floor, empty detergent bottles? Pick it up or do a quick sweep around the washer and dryer. Then take the trash out. This should only take 5 minutes. Zone 3: Mission #5 Friday
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We started high in our bathrooms and we are working our way down to the floor. Today we are going to do our baseboards. I know it is hard for us to get down on our hands and knees to do this. The baseboards get dusty, then you steam up the bathroom with a hot shower and the dust turns to mud. If you have not done this in a while then do one wall at a time. I have been known to use a new toilet bowl brush for this so I don't have to bend over quite so much. Be creative; Do it while the kids are bathing. Have them clean the baseboards; they are shorter and then put them in the tub. Make a game of it. Give them a spray bottle with just water in it or a squirt gun. Making it fun will get the job done.
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In the afternoon game with the Memorial Coliseum curtains open, the Hawks opened the scoring with just 41.5 seconds to go in the first period when Leipsic beat Spokane netminder Garret Hughson.
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As many of you may have noticed, I haven't been using MM as much.. *I HAVE NOT STOPPED MODELING* Freelance modeling is my job, and of course one of my passions.. so of course I'm still doing it! c:
I've mainly been shooting with photographers I've shot with before/photographers who shoot me regularly, because in September, I totaled my car on a suspend license and got my license revoked.. I relied on my car to get me to my photo-shoots, so I haven't been able to shoot with anyone who isn't willing to travel my way, or isn't located close to me. As of now, I have purchased a new vehicle, but I'm still working on the license situation. I go to court for the wreck on the 19th of March (tomorrow)and am hoping for the best! Also trying to get some points taken off my license from tickets (which caused this whole suspension/mess!)
I have a lot of messages to go through, don't worry, I WILL get back to you..!
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I've lost a lot of my pictures from my laptop which I split water on, and really need to update my portfolio! Hopefully things will be back to normal soon, this whole license/car thing has ceratinly taught me a lesson... I'm never going to wait to pay ticket fee's again!
-I'm a 20 year old model based in the DC/Maryland/Virgina area. I am willing to travel, as long as it is compensated. I have a pretty flexible schedule. I am very diverse, and shoot many different styles.. I'm not afraid to take risks.. Let's try something new.. there are no boundaries! I love to shock people and think outside the box.. I'm very easy to work with and love to try new things. I love the emotion that can be created through photographs.. . To me, the best feeling is when we're both in the zone, feeding off each others creativity and end up creating some lovely art.* Also, I am currently trying to put together a website where I can post all my work.. as mm only allows a certain number of photos to be posted on the type of account I have. I am also an actress, who is currently seeking work.. so I would love for any opportunities to be sent my way. I look forward to talking with you! Please send me a message on here, and if you'd like to communicate via email, etc. just ask me for it!
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Environmental Foundation for Africa - Sierra Leone (EFA-SL)
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A non-profit corporation which takes Hong Kong's quality superseded goods and redistributes them to people in need, locally and internationally. These groups typically work with orphans, the elderly, the handicapped, refugees, disaster victims and those with educational, financial or medical needs....
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This Christian charitable organisation has many years experience in aid distribution. Goods are donated to their depots in the UK and distributed to carefully selected recipients, mainly in Eastern Europe. Blythswood Care has set up some of its own projects including a centre for children from...
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Destiny Shapers Kenya is an NGO that runs a school for vulnerable and orphaned children in the Korogocho slum area of Nairobi. The school also provides a feeding scheme, a mentorship programme, guidance and counselling and a child sponsorship programme. The organisation also works with the families...
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Roto Riteup: May 28, 2016
Today's Roto Riteup mourns for the career of Julio Urias. It was fun while it lasted, kid.
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Today's Roto Riteup mourns for the career of Julio Urias. It was fun while it lasted, kid.
On the agenda:
1. Urias' Short Debut
2. Various News and Notes
3. Streaming Pitcher Options
Alright we're back here for another week of #2xSP. We're off to a pretty good start halfway through week seven. Here's what we're working with:
17-10 record
24 quality starts
And now here's who we're working with this week (with team wRC+ in parentheses):
RHP Junior Guerra – 18.1% ESPN – v. STL (116), @PHI (75)
Guerra's a 31-year-old rookie who has put together a pretty nice first run through the NL with a 3.30 ERA through five starts. He's got a 3.15 FIP, exactly a strikeout per inning and has allowed just two home runs through 30 innings thus far. Like a lot of week's we're sacrificing a pretty tough matchup for a really good one on the other side. Guerra's PITCHf/x profile is plenty interesting, as he throws in the mid 90s with a slider and a split. The fastball is nothing to write home about in terms of results (.870 OPS against), but the split and curve both carry OPS marks against in the .300s. The split also has an excellent swinging-strike rate of 21 percent. So with that and a solid heater — at least velocity wise — I like him as a decent option this week. Read the rest of this entry »
I know some tiered rankings have come out this week, but I wanted to take you in a little different direction this week. Next week I will have the first base tiered rankings up. This week, I wanted to explore a new statistic I came up with that will probably not help you win your league. It is simply a fun way to look at pitchers in a different light, so I hope you enjoy reading about it as much I enjoyed exploring it.
I am fortunate enough to have Jake Arrieta on one of my teams, so I have been able to look at his starts individually. I started to notice that even though he was giving up very few hits, he seemed to be giving up a lot of walks along with a high number of strikeouts. This got me wondering if Arrieta was turning into a modern day Nolan Ryan, where he was not going to let you make contact even if that meant walking the hitter. Turns out there are better comps to Nolan Ryan, but I'll get more into that later.
Initially, I thought I could look at contact%, but that looks at every single pitch and that is not really what I wanted. I wanted to see which pitchers allowed the least amount of balls in play on average. So I created the Nolan Ryan percentage (NR% for short). To calculate NR%, you simply add K% and BB%. Nothing complicated. Nothing groundbreaking. Just a fun way to see which pitchers are like Nolan Ryan in terms of either striking out or walking most of their hitters.
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Entering the 2014 season I knew my fantasy team was setup to succeed. After all, I had just spent the entire 2013 season tearing it down and building it back up again, so I had the benefit of a full year of preparation, collecting as many assets as I could along the way to ready myself up for another shot at the title.
Unsurprisingly, at least three other teams in my league also appeared to be possible front-runners, so I knew it was going to be a hard fought battle towards the top. My roster looked great on paper, but what I really needed was an edge, a small but real advantage that would work in my favor and help me outlast some very savvy Ottoneu owners. So, I decided I would be obsessive about daily roster management…and I built a spreadsheet to help me track my team's performance (by player) over the course of 180 days of baseball. If I was going to win a tight race, I would need more than just excellent players. I needed to know that I was effectively managing those players, too.
I ended up winning the championship in 2014 and owe a ton of credit to the daily roster tool I built to help me track it. You can view the tool here. I'm doing the same thing this year, so here are four roster management lessons I've learned that might be helpful for anyone playing daily fantasy baseball.
• I am going to recomend a couple must-read articles for the week which look at the differences and "results" of stem cell and platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections. The first one starts with the Angels Garrett Richards and Andrew Heaney choice to use them, but ends up being a great overview of the entire subject.
On May 2, Steve H. Yoon, a physician at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Southern California, extracted stem cells from Andrew Heaney's bone marrow and injected them into the damaged ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. Fourteen days later, Yoon did the same with Garrett Richards.
Now the Angels' two best, most promising starting pitchers are left to wait, and hope.
If the stem-cell therapy works, Heaney and Richards will be lined up to pitch for a full season in 2017 and may even be able to contribute toward the end of this very summer. If it doesn't, they will undergo Tommy John surgery that, at this point, is certain to knock them out until the start of 2018.
The second article is a study by the American Journal of Sports Medicine which found "no significant" positive effect for using PRP injections.
Episode 166 – Live With Brad Johnson Again
The latest episode of "Field of Streams" is live!
In this episode, Dylan Higgins and Brad Johnson do a live recording to discuss changing opinions on Matt Wisler, resurrecting faith in Luis Valbuena, the reverse bias involved in seeing a sleeper thrive and become too popular, making Brad guess Yoenis Cespedes' ridiculous numbers against lefties this year, believing in Adam Duvall, Brad's upcoming camping trip, and The Daily Grind Invitational.
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We're back with another edition of the Prospect Stock Watch. Today — in honor of the upcoming 2016 amateur draft — we're catching up with three highly-coveted shortstops from the 2015 draft.
Dansby Swanson | Braves | SS
ETA: late 2016
Value: Rising steadily
Arizona nabbed Swanson with the first overall pick in the 2015 draft but flipped him later that winter to Atlanta in the ill-fated Shelby Miller deal (Or is it too early to judge the deal this harshly?). The change in address hasn't hindered the young shortstop at all. After opening 2016 in high-A ball, he recently moved up to double-A and he's producing a triple-slash of .299/.382/.474 in 24 games. Swanson, 22, likely won't be a power-hitter but he has the pop in his bat to hit 30-40 doubles and eight to 10 homers, with enough speed to add another base or two to 20-30 hits via the steal. Veteran shortstop Erick Aybar is having a down-right-terrible season at the big league level so don't be shocked to see Swanson in some big league action before the year is out. Another talented shortstop, Ozzie Albies, is also in the system and playing at triple-A but he's been overmatched at that level as a 19 year old.
Jackie Bradley Jr.'s hitting streak came to an end at 29 games yesterday. Obviously, it's a massive failing of John Farrell for changing his lineup position and not at all because getting a hit in 30 consecutive games is incredibly difficult. Nope, all Farrell. In any case, Bradley now owns the fourth-longest hitting streak in franchise history, and he hit .415/.488/.783 over that stretch. Not a bad month.
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Glee Music Spoiler: Lea Michele Singing With Adam Lambert
We've loved getting to know Starchild, ever since he popped up on Glee earlier in Season 5. And it looks like we're going to see more of a friendship develop between Starchild and Rachel (Lea Michele) — as they even have a song together soon!
Starchild has done an amazing job with the songs he's performed on so far, including "Marry the Night" and "Into the Groove." Now, we're learning that he and Rachel will be teaming up on a tune for Season 5, Episode 10: "Trio," which is currently filming and will air in March.
On December 5, Lea tweeted:
Back to #Glee today! Dance rehearsal w/ the amazing @adamlambert! Getting to sing one of my all time favorite female rock songs with him!— Lea Michele (@msleamichele) December 5, 2013
Awesome news! We can't wait to see the dance moves that they come up with — and we're excited to hear how their voices sound on this mystery tune.
Glee vocal producer Alex Anders clearly loves what he's hearing from these two, as he tweets:
@adamlambert Working on one of your songs right now, and I just have to say that you are ridiculous. So good! Privilege to work with you.— Alex Anders (@alxanders) December 6, 2013
And now, the big question is: What exactly will they be singing? The only clue Lea gives is that it's a female rock song. So could it be a song by Janis Joplin? Blondie? Paula Cole? C'mon, don't tell us we're the only ones who'd love to hear Lea and Adam tackle Paula's iconic '90s hit, "I Don't Want to Wait." (We still miss you, Dawson's Creek.)
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I realize this is a premature question, but I'd like to know registering for baby items. ĀWhere do you recommend registering for baby shower gifts? Has anyone had any experience with Amazon.com or Diapers.com?
I registered at pottery barn kids.┬Ā I only did that because everytime you buy something off it, you get a $10 giftcard toward your next purchase.┬Ā I already bought all my bedding myself.┬Ā I will register at target also,┬Ā but Im buying most of the stuff myself.┬Ā
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DD- October 2011
Expecting DS- February 18, 2013 :)
I like Amazon and I also use wishlistr.com to put stuff I want from all over the internet.
Mama to awesome twin boys Max & Alex 8/8/05
WIfe to Clint 10/17/10
Welcomed little man, Griffin 9/29/11
We registered at BabiesRus and Target last time. There were some issues w/ Target. I preferred BabiesRus much more. Our family isn't really the internet type at all..heck even DH still refuses to order from the internent lol I'm all about it, but had to do what would work best for others. This time, I made one just as kinda like a list for us. I don't think I will be having a shower or expect anything at all.
*~*~You will always be our miracle.We love and miss you moreĀas each day passes.Rest inĀpeace angel.Chance Michael,born sleeping @39wks on 7-02-09~*~*
I'm doing Amazon and Babies R Us. I had everything on Amazon.com but my MIL pointed out that some people just hate online shopping, so I put a good bit of stuff at BRU. However, I intend to tell people that Amazon has the exact same stuff for a lower price (by several dollars most times) and they have free ground shipping.
Rebecca + Greg = Reagan McKenna 9/20/11
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons for thou art crunchy & taste good with ketchup.
target and babies r us!
Beautiful baby boy: Feb 2010
Growing baby2: Oct 2011
Target also gives you a 10% completion coupon, but I would fudge the due date when you register.┬Ā They send it like a month before so it cuts it close if you still need to buy┬Āimportant items.┬Ā I will say with Target though, that you need to register in the store AND online.┬Ā A lot of the stuff you find online are not available in the store, which makes it hard for some peple to shop.┬Ā
Baby's R Us has a very hard return policy.┬Ā Unless you have a gift reciept, they don't take ANYTHING back.┬Ā And their prices are MUCH higher than say a Target or Wal-Mart.┬Ā I just went there to but a gift for DH's cousin.┬Ā I bought a boppy for easily $10 more than I would have if I went next door to Kmart.┬Ā
My Registry.com is cool, because you can register for whatever you want, from whatever store/website it is at. But, if your friends/family aren't very tech savy it can be kind of annoying. For example, last time I simply registered at Target online, but a lot of the stuff turned out to be available online only, and my mom and other family members can't seem to figure out how to order stuff online, haha! Or, maybe they waited til the last minute, so they didn't have time to order anything.
Mom to Eli (3/30/2010) and Ada (11/1/2011)
Wow, you ladies are a wealth of information. ┬ĀThank you so very much!!!┬Ā
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Had our first 11/3/11
Had our second 9/4/13
I registered with my first at baby depot (burlington coat factory) and babies r us.


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I am writing some code to find duplicate customer details in a database. I'll be using Levenshtein distance.
However, I am not sure how to store the relationships. I use databases all the time but have never come accross this situation and wondered if someone could point me in the right direction.
What confuses me is how to store the bidirectional nature of the relationship.
I've started to put some examples below, but wondered if there is a best practice for storing this type of data,
Example data
id, address
001, 5 Main Street
002, 5 Main St.
003, 5 Main Str
004, 6 High Street
005, 7 Low Street
006, 7 Low St
Suggestion 1
customer_id1, customer_id2, relationship_strength
001, 002, 0.74
001, 003, 0.77
002, 003, 0.76
005, 006, 0.77
Not happy with this approach as it sort of infers a one way relationship between customer_id1 to customer_id2. Unless of course I include all relationships both ways, but that would double the amount of processing time and the size of the tables.
eg would need to include: 002, 001, 0.74
Suggestion 2
customer_id, grouping_id
001, 1
002, 1
003, 1
005, 2
006, 2