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Acute Tubular Necrosis
Definition | Causes | Risk Factors | Symptoms | Diagnosis | Treatment | Prevention
Acute tubular necrosis is damage to the tubule cells (tiny tube-shaped cells) in the kidney that results in acute kidney failure. This is a potentially serious condition that requires medical care.
Anatomy of the Kidney
Acute tubular necrosis can be caused by:
- Lack of oxygen to kidney tissues from problems such as blood clots, surgical complications, severe dehydration, or heavy bleeding
- Exposure to toxic materials such as antibiotics, x-ray dyes, or anesthetics
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of acute tubular necrosis include:
- Injury
- Trauma
- Surgery
- Blood transfusion
- Septic shock
- Shock
- Low blood pressure
- Liver disease or damage
- Certain medications, such as aminoglycosides, amphotericin B, cyclosporine, or tacrolimus
- X-ray dye
- Blood transfusion reaction
Exposure or build up of toxic chemicals, such as:
- Crystals (uric acid, calcium phosphate)
- Myoglobin
- Hemoglobin
Acute tubular necrosis may cause:
- Change in urine output
- General swelling, fluid retention
- Nausea, vomiting
- Dehydration
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Tests may include:
- Blood tests
- Urine tests
- Kidney biopsy
Imaging tests evaluate the kidneys and surrounding structures. These may include:
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment will focus on treating the conditions that are causing damage. Good nutrition and proper fluid intake will also help reduce stress on the kidneys during recovery. Treatment options may also include:
Dialysis is a process that uses a machine to assist or take over the work of your kidneys. The blood flows from catheters to a machine that removes wastes and returns it back to the body.
Acute tubular necrosis is sometimes the result of an accident. If you have kidney disease or a history of kidney problems, follow your doctor's instructions after surgical procedures or imaging test that required contrast dyes.
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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Kidney Foundation of Canada
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Last reviewed May 2015 by Adrienne Carmack, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.


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As Jim laid out this morning, yesterday Nawaz Sharif visited the White House, where he scolded the President for the use of drones.
Pakistan and the United States have a strong ongoing counterterrorism cooperation. We have agreed to further strengthen this cooperation. I also brought up the issue of drones in our meeting, emphasizing the need for an end to such strikes.
The statement comes in the wake of an Amnesty International report finding some of the US drone strikes in Pakistan it examined were illegal.
Even before Sharif made his comments, Michael Hirsh pointed to a protocol between the US and Pakistan authorizing some of the strikes.
But what is obscured by the public dispute is that there has been, since the administrations of George W. Bush and Pervez Musharraf, a secret agreement in place by which Pakistani military and intelligence authorities have approved many of the strikes, U.S. and Pakistani officials say.
"The exact terms were never shared with civilians but there was a protocol between the Musharraf government and the Americans," says a former senior Pakistani official who would discuss the classified matter only on condition of anonymity. "When the civilian government came in [in 2008], it was informed about it but there was no renegotiation."
Elsewhere, Hirsh quotes from Husain Haqqani's upcoming book, Magnificent Delusions, which is available but technically does not get published until November 5.
Then, later in the day, Woodward et al published a story reporting on the drone agreements between the US and Pakistan (note, Jonathan Landay reported this story back in April, though relying on different documents covering a slightly different span of time and US sources). The WaPo story covers strikes from late 2007 to late 2011, though the 2007 strikes were reported in a 2008 document.
Despite repeatedly denouncing the CIA's drone campaign, top officials in Pakistan's government have for years secretly endorsed the program and routinely received classified briefings on strikes and casualty counts, according to top-secret CIA documents and Pakistani diplomatic memos obtained by The Washington Post.
The files describe dozens of drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal region and include maps as well as before-and-after aerial photos of targeted compounds over a four-year stretch from late 2007 to late 2011 in which the campaign intensified dramatically.
Husain Haqqani was
Foreign Minister Ambassador to the US from April 2008 until November 2011.
The story relies on a document from Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that almost certainly wouldn't have been shared willingly.
In a measure of the antagonism between the two sides, a 2010 memo sent by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to its embassy in Washington outlined a plan to undermine the CIA.
"Kindly find enclosed a list of 36 U.S. citizens who are [believed] to be CIA special agents and would be visiting Pakistan for some special task," said the memo, signed by an official listed as the country's director general for the Americas. "Kindly do not repeat not issue visas to the same."
And WaPo describes some of the documents may have been used in briefings Mike Morell gave to Husain Haqqani.
Several of the files are labeled as "talking points" prepared for the DDCIA, which stands for deputy director of the CIA. Michael J. Morell, who held that position before retiring this year, delivered regular briefings on the drone program to Husain Haqqani, who was the Pakistani ambassador to the United States at the time.
But Haqqani refused to comment for the WaPo.
When contacted Wednesday, Haqqani declined to comment and said he would not discuss classified materials.
Perhaps the most interesting file portrayed by the WaPo describes Hillary Clinton complaining to her Pakistani "counterparts" (again, suggesting these documents were Haqqani's) about Pakistan's support for terrorism.
Some files describe tense meetings in which senior U.S. officials, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, confront their Pakistani counterparts with U.S. intelligence purporting to show Pakistan's ties to militant groups involved in attacks on American forces, a charge that Islamabad has consistently denied.
In one case, Clinton cited "cell phones and written material from dead bodies that point all fingers" at a militant group based in Pakistan, according to a Pakistani diplomatic cable dated Sept. 20, 2011. "The U.S. had intelligence proving ISI was involved with these groups," she is cited as saying, referring to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
A Jeffrey Goldberg review of Haqqani's book reveals it criticizes Pakistan for supporting terrorism.
Whether Haqqani talked to Woodward, the documents sure seem to come from his collection and may have been used to write his book. Maybe they got liberated in the process of publication?
Now, Landay's story described how we originally got permission for drone strikes from the Pakistani government (though often had to fight to get it). But we stopped when it became clear Pakistan was protecting the Haqqani network to sustain its influence in Afghanistan (a topic Sharif and Obama also discussed yesterday).
The main reason for ending the ISI's ability to veto targets, said two former U.S. defense officials and a senior U.S. official, was that after several years of arguing, U.S. military and intelligence officials finally persuaded the White House that ISI officers were protecting the Haqqani network to ensure that it could participate in peace talks and bring a pro-Pakistan government to power in Kabul. The three requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
"Basically, they (the CIA and ISI) started out together but then they diverged because the two sides had different objectives. It was as simple as that," explained the individual with knowledge of the North Waziristan strike.
As you'll recall, Haqqani was ousted in 2011 for having passed on a memo in May 2011 to Admiral Mike Mullen expressing Asif Zardari's concern that Pakistani military and intelligence would launch a coup in response to the Osama bin Laden raid. The entire point of the Mansoor Ijaz column that first revealed the memo was to call on the US to treat ISI's Section S as a terrorist organization. But in ousting Haqqani, his column led to a stronger hand for ISI and the military.
Sharif has always been perceived as much more approving of terrorists than Zardari (and has very close ties to Saudi Arabia). And it may be that his call to end drone strikes is intended to protect Pakistan's own sponsored terrorist organizations.
The leak doesn't target Sharif directly — the materials all precede him. But it does make it clear that those aiming to halt strikes that target Pakistan's terrorists have also used drones for their own uses.
Update: Thanks to Glenn Kessler who pointed out my error on Haqqani's title.
On the same day that Pakistan's newly elected Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, spoke to the press alongside US President Barack Obama in Washington, Bob Woodward teamed with Greg Miller to release confirmation that Pakistan's government has agreed to and collaborated in choosing targets for the US "secret" drone program inside Pakistan. Participation by Pakistan, and especially its military, has long been known by close observers and the regular insistence by Pakistan's government that drone strikes are a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty is viewed cynically as the government's need to provide domestic political cover.
On first thought, the timing of this revelation seems to break the basic tenets of what Marcy describes as the Bob Woodward Law that applies to classified information being leaked to Woodward:
As explained by John Rizzo in the context of the Obama Administration's leaks to Bob Woodward, they can and do insta-declassify stuff for their own political purposes all the time. They can do it to make the President look important; they can do it to lie us into an illegal war; they can do it to ruin the career of someone who might expose the earlier lies.
The timing of this leak seems to be aimed more at embarrassing Obama than making him look important. The description of the joint appearance by the New York Times is quite interesting if one assumes that Sharif and Obama were aware that the leak was about to be published:
But Mr. Sharif said after the meeting that he had asked Mr. Obama to halt American drone strikes in Pakistan, broaching an issue that has aggravated tensions. The president did not respond publicly, saying only that the two sides needed to find ways to fight terrorism "that respect Pakistan's sovereignty, that respect the concerns of both countries."
So Obama would not address the drone issue directly in his public remarks. But it seems that Sharif was not particularly enthusiastic in his obligatory public denouncement of drone strikes: Continue reading
There are two separate major developments coming out of Pakistan in the last 24 hours. First, US negotiators have left Pakistan without reaching an agreement on reopening NATO supply routes. Both sides appear to be trying to gloss over the obvious conclusion that this represents a major breakdown in the process, but since it appears that Pakistan is insistent on a real apology over the killing of 24 Pakistani troops last November and a stop to US drone strikes in Pakistan, there is no reason to continue the lower level talks on details of route reopening until the larger political issues are settled.
On a separate front, the commission appointed by Pakistan's supreme court has finally delivered its report and it places blame squarely on former ambassador Husain Haqqani for authoring the memo that sought US help in avoiding a military coup days after the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Haqqani has been ordered to return to the country, but he is rightly pointing out that the commission's findings are not the result of a judicial process and that he has not yet presented his defense.
Dawn provides a summary of the breakdown in negotiations:
The Pentagon said on Monday the United States was pulling its negotiators from Pakistan but the State Department said the team could go back at an appropriate time.
Pakistan's Ambassador in Washington, Sherry Rehman, also indicated that the talks would continue.
But diplomatic observers in the US capital noted that "no spin can hide the fact that relations between the two countries are at their worst now", as one of them said on an American news channel.
"I believe that some of the team left over the weekend and the remainder of the team will leave shortly," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told a briefing in Washington. "This was a US decision."
The Express Tribune offers more details:
Officials familiar with the development said the two sides have almost worked out technical details on the resumption of Nato supply lines but the deal could not be finalised due to political issues, including the US refusal to offer an explicit apology for the Salala raid and halt drone strikes.
"Unless the US offers something that resembles an apology, it is very difficult for Pakistan to reopen Nato supplies," said an official familiar with the development.
"We want to have a package deal and the issue of apology is still included … there will be no compromise on it," the official added.
The US appears to be taking a very hard line at this point. Reuters quotes a "senior US government official": Continue reading
Following up on his original video deposition from late last month, Mansoor Ijaz, once again by video link from London, was subjected to cross-examination yesterday and today by the judicial commission investigating the Memogate scandal. Ijaz reiterated his primary claim he has made from the start, that his actions were prompted by a strong belief that a military coup was imminent on the heels of the US action that killed Osama bin Laden in May, 2011.
Although he did not list the countries, Ijaz claimed to have been briefed by intelligence agents from four different countries. He submitted multiple documents as his proof. The Express Tribune described the documents as including a transcript of a phone call between Pakistan's President and Army Chief:
After Haqqani approached him first, Ijaz said, he used his contacts with intelligence agencies of various countries to obtain documents, including travel records of Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, minute-by-minute Pakistan Air traffic Control flight monitoring of US helicopters which infiltrated Pakistani airspace for the May 2 raid, and a transcript of a call between President Asif Ali Zardari and Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
Interestingly, Dawn's coverage of the cross-examination doesn't specifically mention Zardari and Kayani by name as being in the transcripts, although it comes close:
During the cross-examination before the judicial commission investigating the case, the Pakistani-American businessman said he had been briefed by at least four intelligence networks of different countries after the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2, last year.
He said he had obtained the information about actions and reactions of Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, President Asif Ali Zardari and the military secretary to the president after the incident, details of foreign visits of the Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and transcripts of conversation between air traffic control staff and the pilots of the US helicopters which raided Osama's compound.
He also claimed to have the transcripts of conversations between the President's House and the Army House on the operation.
How is it that an American citizen of Pakistani descent would have access to intelligence agencies of so many countries? And, especially, how could Ijaz come into possession of a transcript of a call between Zardari and Kayani? Continue reading
Today is the day on which Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz was scheduled to provide testimony before a judicial commission in the Memogate controversy that has heightened tensions between Pakistan's civilian government and its military. In many ways, Ijaz stands as the central character in the case, as he was the first to mention the existence of the memo at the heart of the controversy and was responsible for delivering it to US authorities. Remarkably, although the memo seeks US help in supporting the government's removal of top leaders in Pakistan's military and intelligence forces, and despite Ijaz's claims that he and former Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani are close friends who worked together to produce and deliver the memo, Ijaz now claims that he wants military protection if he is to return to Pakistan and that he fears the government will seize and destroy important electronic evidence in his possession. Such a change of apparent allegiance is not surprising, given Ijaz's controversial past.
The Express Tribune provides a short description of Ijaz's refusal to come to Pakistan:
Despite assurances on full security from the judicial commission probing the Memogate scandal, Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has once again refused to come to Pakistan to record his statement, Express News reported on Tuesday.
Ijaz's counsel, Akram Sheikh had earlier today – on the directives of the commission – written an email to his client to inform him that the commission had given assurances that he would be given full security on arrival.
Sheikh later distributed copies of Ijaz's email response to the three judges.
A much longer article on the latest developments is carried in Pakistan Today, in an article that opens with the statement that the "government finally succeeded in scaring away Mansoor Ijaz":
The counsel for Ijaz, the Pakistani-American businessman at the centre of the memo controversy, expressed his reservations on the security arrangements meant for his client's appearance before the judicial commission, saying his client would be ready to record testimony before the commission either in London or Zurich. Continue reading
Two major steps toward stability in Pakistan and restoration of relations with the United States have taken place, as President Asif Ali Zardari returned to Pakistan yesterday while liaison officers have now returned to the border coordination posts from which they were withdrawn as part of the response to the November 26 NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops. NATO supply routes remain blocked, however. In a very interesting move, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani has been forced to submit a statement and to appear before the Abbotabad Commission. The Commission is seeking information on visas issued by the Washington embassy during his tenure as Ambassador.
Despite the earlier statements that Zardari would take two weeks of rest before resuming his duties, Zardari yesterday returned to Pakistan from Dubai:
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returned home from medical treatment in Dubai to face rising tension between his civilian government and the military over a memo accusing the country's generals of plotting a coup.
It's not clear when the deeply unpopular leader who has uneasy ties with the army will return to work. He flew into the southern city of Karachi after treatment for a heart condition.
It would appear that Zardari immediately took up at least ceremonial duties:
State television showed him at his residence, looking relaxed as he met senior provincial officials.
Multiple media reports had addressed the fact that Zardari and Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani had talked on the phone prior to Zardari's return. An article today by Dawn provides more details on that conversation: Continue reading
While a great deal of the attention on the effects of Saturday's NATO attack on two (or three) Pakistani border posts that killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers centers on US-Pakistan relations, the importance of these developments on relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan should not be overlooked. Most reports on the incident suggest that Afghan soldiers in the border region were responsible for calling in the air attack. While NATO and Afghan accounts claim that the Afghan forces were under fire from the Pakistani border outposts, the Pakistani military insists that the attacks were unprovoked. It should be noted that an Afghan group of investigators had arrived in Islamabad on Thursday before the incident on Saturday. This group was in Pakistan to investigate Pakistani ties to the militant group that killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani on September 20 when he was starting peace talks with the Taliban.
The Attack
The Washington Post account of the attack has this key passage on the background situation:
The poorly patrolled and ill-marked border is the central sore point in Pakistan's relations with both the United States and Afghanistan. American military officials say al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban fighters live on the Pakistani side and cross the border to attack U.S. troops — with the knowledge of and help from Pakistani intelligence. Pakistan says the homegrown militants its army is fighting in the restive tribal areas can easily find refuge ineastern Afghanistan, which borders Mohmand, and that CIA drone strikes in the region inspire militants.
The Saturday airstrike came one day after [Commander of US forces General John] Allen met with [Pakistan's Army head General Ashfaq] Kayani to discuss border security.
That Friday meeting between Allen and Kayani certainly makes the subsequent events on Saturday hard to understand. Only one day after discussing border security at the highest levels, we see a massive communications breakdown at a critical moment:
Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, a Pakistani military spokesman, stopped short of that characterization [describing the attack as a US offensive action], but he said the strike was "inexplicable." In an interview, he said the two border posts are clearly marked and their locations are known to Afghan and coalition forces. No militant or military firing preceded the NATO assault, nor did coalition troops inform Pakistan that they were receiving fire from the Pakistani side, as is procedure, Abbas said.
Once the strike began, Abbas said, soldiers notified their commanders in the nearby city of Peshawar, who told officials at military headquarters in Rawalpindi, who then informed two trilateral border coordination centers located at the Torkham pass and the border of Pakistan's North Waziristan region.
"But somehow it continued," Abbas said of the firing. "Our side believes there is no possibility of confusion. The post location is not where a Taliban would take position."
The Express Tribune carries more of Abbas' remarks: Continue reading
As I noted yesterday, Josh Rogin has been doing outstanding work on the issue now rocking Pakistan, a memo purportedly sent from the highest levels of the Pakistani civilian government seeking US support for shutting down the branch of Pakistan's ISI that deals with the Taliban and the Haqqani Network and weakening Pakistan's military. Now that Rogin has confirmed existence of the memo (and today has even provided a copy of it), I'd like to return to the figure who got this whole scandal started, Mansoor Ijaz. Here is information Rogin dug up regarding Mansoor Ijaz back on November 8, when Michael Mullen was still denying existence of the memo:
This is only the latest time that Ijaz has raised controversy concerning his alleged role as a secret international diplomat. In 1996, he was accused of trying to extort money from the Pakistani government in exchange for delivering votes in the U.S. House of Representatives on a Pakistan-related trade provision.
Ijaz, who runs the firm Crescent Investment Management LLC in New York, has been an interlocutor between U.S. officials and foreign government for years, amid constant accusations of financial conflicts of interest. He reportedly arranged meetings between U.S. officials and former Pakistani Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
He also reportedly gave over $1 million to Democratic politicians in the 1990s and attended Christmas events at former President Bill Clinton's White House. Ijaz has ties to former CIA Director James Woolsey and his investment firm partner is Reagan administration official James Alan Abrahamson.
In the mid-1990s, Ijaz traveled to Sudan several times and claimed to be relaying messages from the Sudanese regime to the Clinton administration regarding intelligence on bin Laden, who was living there at the time. Ijaz has claimed that his work gave the United States a chance to kill the al Qaeda leader but that the Clinton administration dropped the ball. National Security AdvisorSandy Berger, who served under Clinton, has called Ijaz's allegations "ludicrous and irresponsible."
Those are some pretty damning allegations. Before moving to the detail from the source Rogin linked on Ijaz's attempt to get $15 million from Pakistan in return for securing a positive vote in the House of Representatives for the Brown Amendment back in 1995, it's worth getting the context for this bill. From the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Continue reading
Back on October 10, Mansoor Ijaz, an American from a Pakistani family, published a remarkable column in Financial Times in which he claimed to have been involved in the passing last May of a memo purportedly from Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari to Michael Mullen, who was at that time Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ijaz described the memo as being prepared out of fears that Pakistan faced an imminent military coup as fallout from the government's embarrassment over the ease with which the US carried out its mission to kill Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan. After Josh Rogin published denials from Mullen on November 8 that Mullen had any knowledge of the memo, Ijaz responded by publishing a number of communications with a Pakistani official from the time period in which the memo was being crafted. These communications are widely believed to have been with Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States. In a flurry of action yesterday, Josh Rogin provided confirmation from Mullen that he had indeed received the memo, Pakistan recalled Haqqani for discussions and Haqqani offered to resign.
Unfortunately, the draconian "Terms and Conditions" at Financial Times prevent treatment of their material in the same way sane publications can be excerpted for quotes, so it will be necessary for readers to go through their ridiculous "free registration" process to read the Ijaz column in full at the link above. Suffice it to say that Ijaz described an offer represented as coming from Zardari to eliminate the branch of Pakistan's secret Interservices Intelligence Agency (ISI) that deals with the Taliban and the Haqqani Network. Zardari sought US protection for taking such action.
Here is the denial Rogin obtained on November 8 from Mullen's spokesman, Captian John Kirby:
"Adm. Mullen does not know Mr. Ijaz and has no recollection of receiving any correspondence from him," Kirby told The Cable. "I cannot say definitively that correspondence did not come from him — the admiral received many missives as chairman from many people every day, some official, some not. But he does not recall one from this individual. And in any case, he did not take any action with respect to our relationship with Pakistan based on any such correspondence … preferring to work at the relationship directly through [Pakistani Army Chief of Staff] Gen. [Ashfaq Parvez] Kayani and inside the interagency process."
Rogin goes on to describe Pakistani denials from that same time period:
Mullen's denial represents the first official U.S. comment on the Ijaz memo, which since Oct. 10 has mushroomed into a huge controversy in Pakistan. Several parts of Pakistan's civilian government denied that Ijaz's memorandum ever existed. On Oct. 30, Zardari spokesman Farhatullah Babar called Ijaz's op-ed a "fantasy article" and criticized the FT for running it in the first place.
"Mansoor Ijaz's allegation is nothing more than a desperate bid by an individual, whom recognition and credibility has eluded, to seek media attention through concocted stories," Babar said. "Why would the president of Pakistan choose a private person of questionable credentials to carry a letter to U.S. officials? Since when Mansoor has become a courier of messages of the president of Pakistan?"
Here is the admission from Kirby that Rogin obtained yesterday on the existence of the memo:
"Adm. Mullen had no recollection of the memo and no relationship with Mr. Ijaz. After the original article appeared on Foreign Policy's website, he felt it incumbent upon himself to check his memory. He reached out to others who he believed might have had knowledge of such a memo, and one of them was able to produce a copy of it," Kirby said. "That said, neither the contents of the memo nor the proof of its existence altered or affected in any way the manner in which Adm. Mullen conducted himself in his relationship with Gen. Kayani and the Pakistani government. He did not find it at all credible and took no note of it then or later. Therefore, he addressed it with no one."
Rogin also spoke with Husain Haqqani:
In an interview late on Wednesday afternoon, Washington time, Haqqani confirmed to The Cable that he will travel to Islamabad and has sent a letter to Zardari offering his resignation.
"At no point was I asked by you or anyone in the Pakistani government to draft a memo and at no point did I draft or deliver such a memo," Haqqani said that he had written in his letter to Zardari.
"I've been consistently vilified as being against the Pakistani military even though I have only opposed military intervention in political affairs," Haqqani said that he wrote. "It's not easy to operate under the shadow of innuendo and I have not been named by anyone so far, but I am offering to resign in the national interest and leave that to the will of the president."
Rogin goes on to speculate on the possibility that Zardari may sacrifice Haqqani in order to quell the controversy surrounding the memo, but from Haqqani's statements Rogin provided, it does not appear that Haqqani will go quietly.
Dawn, which is usually considered to be closely aligned with Pakistan's military, described yesterday's events in this way:
A senior diplomatic source, when asked to comment on reports Ambassador Haqqani had sent his resignation to the president, said: "We cannot call it a resignation. He has sent a letter to prove that he is not guilty."
In his message, the ambassador is believed to have written that he was not responsible for the letter that allegedly sought US support for sacking the ISI and army chiefs. The ambassador offered to resign if proven guilty.
Haqqani left his office at lunch and did not return. Before leaving, he sent an email to dozens of Pakistani journalists, giving details of a news conference he addressed in the morning on ties with US.
Earlier in the day, Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said the government had summoned Ambassador Haqqani to Islamabad to learn more about a letter 'falsely' attributed to the president.
The Express Tribune chose merely to run a Reuters article that rehashes Rogin's revelations (without citing him).
It will be very interesting to see what unfolds when Haqqani arrives in Islamabad.
On Tuesday, noting the felony charge Raymond Davis faces in Colorado over a parking lot fight, I asked what happened to the investigation the US promised regarding Davis killing two Pakistanis in Lahore earlier this year. It turns out I'm not alone in asking that question. Karen DeYoung at the Washington Post reports that Pakistan has made a formal request for an update on the investigation. In other Pakistan news breaking this afternoon, we learn that a commission in Pakistan has urged filing of conspiracy and high treason charges against the doctor who assisted the CIA by setting up a fake immunization program in order to gain access to the suspected compound where Osama bin Laden was hiding.
It turns out that Pakistan asked about the Davis investigation a day before I did. From DeYoung's post:
In an Oct. 3 diplomatic note to Justice and the State Department, Ambassador Husain Haqqani referenced "the ongoing investigation" and asked that "the latest status in the matter may kindly be conveyed to the Embassy." Haqqani said no reply had yet been received.
Asked the same question, Justice spokesperson Laura Sweeney declined to comment on the department's behalf.
DeYoung also provides further background on the initial steps taken in the US to start the Davis investigation:
In a May 26 letter to Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Mary Ellen Warlow, director of the Criminal Division of Justice's international affairs office, said that the department was "currently investigating" the Lahore shooting and requested that Pakistan "take steps to preserve all evidence relating to these events" and set up a liaison officer at the embassy to handle the matter.
That, Pakistan says, is the last it heard.
Note that this letter to Pakistan came over two months after Davis was released in mid-March. If that letter was the last Pakistan heard about the investigation, it seems safe to assume that no US investigators have been to Pakistan to examine the evidence Pakistan was instructed to preserve or to interview witnesses. Also, it remains unclear whether the investigation into Davis' actions also is to include investigation into the vehicle which struck and killed a pedestrian after it was dispatched from the consulate in Lahore to rescue Davis.
Voice of America brings us the news on the recommendation of treason charges against the Pakistani doctor:
A Pakistani commission said Thursday that the government should file conspiracy and high treason charges against Shakeel Afridi.
Afridi is accused of running a fake vaccination campaign to help U.S. intelligence obtain DNA samples of bin Laden and his family.
The Pakistani government set up the commission to investigate how U.S. forces managed to track down bin Laden and carry out the operation without Pakistan's prior knowledge.
The article goes on to inform us that this same commission also interviewed Ahmad Shuja Pasha, who heads Pakistan's main intelligence organization, the ISI. In addition, the commission interviewed bin Laden's wives and children. The commission is headed by a Supreme Court judge, but it is not clear how binding its recommendations will be.

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"Golden Autumn - Italy, Switzerland, Germany" - Mimi's New Serie
Why did I call it "Golden Autumn"? Because it is the only one season that gives you a magnificent carpet by many wonderful colors and you always could find inside the color of the Gold, which makes the season to shine!
The pictures you see here I did during one of my trip to Germany in 2006. Maybe it could sound you incredible but during this trip I got also some snow in the high places in the Mountain after the tunnel Gran San Bernard between Italy and Switzerland!
Very beautiful colors, it is almost CANADA...
Amitiés, Jean-Claude
Many thanks Jean-Claude! Maybe but it is made in Europe! ;-)
Ciao, Mimi
Wow, that is like a painitng Mimi, super scene!
Невероятно, като пъстра българска черга...
Мн.добра!И последно,ама наистина последно за днес - сега живея в Сливен.Весел уикенд и на теб!Камен
Wonderful colours, Mimi, congratulations. Friendly greetings, Jean.
Great scene, like a beautiful carpet, cheers scally.
Интересна обработка,като живописно платно на импресионист е.Поздрави от Русе!
Photo taken in Martigny, Switzerland


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OpenTK Mac OS X support.Posted Tuesday, 18 March, 2008 - 16:39 by kanato in
Well, I thought I would let you know I've been working on writing support for Mac OS X for OpenTK. I've successfully wrapped window creation and event processing through the Carbon API. I need to work on keyboard and mouse event processions, then AGL wrapping, then I think I'll be to the point where I can integrate with OpenTK. Hopefully I can get there by early next week.
Awesome news! Let me know if you need help with anything.
What's the rule on converting GL* types to c# types? I'm guessing GLint -> int is ok, but is GLboolean -> bool ok? Or do I need to use an int type?
Edit: nevermind, I see it's defined as unsigned char in the headers.
Do you have any tips on Marshalling? I think I understand that I need to pin arrays to a fixed pointer to marshal them, but I don't know if there are any other gotchas.
As a rule of thumb, just write a
DllImport with the correct signature and let the runtime handle the details for you (pinning etc), unless it is performance-critical code.
For example:
// C function #define bool char typedef struct { ... } SomeStruct; bool Foo(SomeStruct *data); // C# - whichever of the following makes the most sense [DllImport("library")] bool Foo(SomeStruct[] data); // or, if SomeStruct is a struct (i.e. value object): [DllImport("library")] bool Foo(ref SomeStruct data); // or, if SomeStruct is a class (i.e. reference object): [DllImport("library")] bool Foo(SomeStruct data);
This should cover just about 90% of all p/invoke cases.
Void pointers can be turned into
IntPtrs, and char arrays should be made into
strings (in parameters) or
StringBuilders (out parameters). Generally, the biggest issue is converting structs with unions or embedded arrays/strings - just make a post if anything strange shows up ;)
Another complication has to do with 64bit datatypes: do
ints change bitness from 32- to 64bit compilers (i.e. 32bit on 32bit compilers and 64bit on 64bit compilers)? If so, int parameters should be defined as
IntPtrs, which is a bit ugly (but necessary).
Ok, here is a patch which adds preliminary MacOS X support: http://agate.sourceforge.net/download/macos.patch
This patch should be considered preliminary, and not for production use. Keyboard support is incomplete, and there are some exceptions when windows are closed, and I haven't gotten GLControl to work right yet. So I don't recommend commiting this to SVN right now.
I put everything in a MacOS folder and namespace, instead of the OSX folder / namespace. The reasoning for this is that since CarbonLib predates OSX, it should be possible, with a bit of work, to add support for Mac OS 9. I don't have a Mac which can run OS 9 however, and there is no official support from Mono for Mac OS prior to 10.3 or so. So that may not ever be a reality. Plus I think MacOS is easier to read than OSX. But if you don't like it, I can change everything to using OSX instead.
I've wrapped Agl context creation, Carbon window creation, mouse and keyboard events. Several of the examples work (Simple Window, Immediate mode, Display Lists, Fonts, Text, Texture Mapping). There are some artifacts with the text, just above and below the glyphs. I think this might be related to artifacts mentioned in other threads on the forum.
Apparently my MacMini only supports OpenGL 1.2, so VBO and GLSL don't work. The GLU Tesselate example doesn't work, and I'm not sure why. Other GLU functions like Glu.LookAt work, and extension loading for GLU seems to work.
Things that need to be resolved with GameWindow:
- Window closing. I'm not sure how to integrate this into OpenTK. When I close the window manually, I get a "Cannot enter game loop without a render window" exception from GameWindow.OnUpdateFrameInternal. If I don't, then the window doesn't close when the close box is clicked.
- Resizing events. I have them wired up, and I see "Firing internal resize event" in the console, but the actual rendering does not change area. I don't know if this problem is because I'm using AGL incorrectly, or I'm interfacing with OpenTK incorrectly. I think the problem is GL.Viewport is not called, but I am unsure where is an appropriate place to put a call to it.
A couple of other thoughts:
Have you thought of abstracting all the platform stuff to some sort of class factory? Rather than have lines like "if (Configuration.RunningOnOSX)" all over the place, just have a static class in Platform, which a hidden implementation object that each platform implements, and it just creates whatever objects are necessary. If you are interested, I can code this up, it won't take long.
I noticed when the GameWindow is closed, the run loop is terminated by throwing an exception. Is this really the best way to do it? I would think setting a flag to terminate the loop would be better. I also noticed if you aren't using GameWindow.Run but a custom run loop, then this exception is difficult to deal with, because the exception itself is not public, so you have to catch a base exception and either deal with, swallow, or rethrow exceptions that are of a different type.
Well, let me know what you think. If there are coding style / naming issues, let me know and I will fix them.
Oh, one other thing I wanted to ask. Is there support for the type of event handling where the user clicks the close box, and the program asks if they want to save before quitting (or something like that). I already have support for this sort of thing written into the carbon wrapper, so that it can cancel a window close event if the program / user input requires it.
Fantastic work kanato!
I just ran the GLSL example, and it gives an error message about requiring OpenGL 2.0 and says it will abort, but then it runs anyway. Looking at the extensions supported by my card, I see things like:
but no other gl_versions are listed.
And my the OpenGL driver info listed is
Intel GMA 950 OpenGL Engine, Intel Inc., 1.2 APPLE-1.4.56
So shaders are supported, even though I don't have higher than OpenGL 1.2 ?
Ok, just one more thing for today, then I will wait for responses :P
I have mapped the OpenAL dlls to their OSX equivalents, but I know nothing about OpenAL. Are there any example programs which use OpenTK with OpenAL that I can test out? If I run the Example launcher and run AudioContext Test four times in a row, this is the output I see:
Launching example: Examples.TestApp Enumerating audio devices. Testing AudioContext functions. AudioContext.CurrentContext... AttributeSize: 12 4103 0 25189928 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Launching example: Examples.TestApp Testing AudioContext functions. AudioContext.CurrentContext... AttributeSize: 9 4103 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 Launching example: Examples.TestApp Testing AudioContext functions. AudioContext.CurrentContext... AttributeSize: 3 4103 0 0 Launching example: Examples.TestApp Testing AudioContext functions. AudioContext.CurrentContext... AttributeSize: 3 4103 0 0
I don't know if that's good or not. And it's strange that the output changes after the first two runs.
Great work! I won't have time to review the code for another 24 hours or so, but I can respond to your questions :)
[MacOS vs OSX]
No problem, MacOS looks better too.
[Font artifacts]
This has to do with sampling/texture coordinates, it happens on some cards/drivers but not on others. I'll loosen the packing by 1 pixel - this should take care of these artifacts.
[GLU tesselate]
This looks like a Mono problem (doesn't work on Linux either), but I haven't bothered to investigate yet. I'm looking for a managed alternative - if one exists, I'll be happy to see GLU go away.
[Window close event]
The implementation is a bit hairy. There are three ways to close the window:
- User calls
GameWindow.Exit. This terminates the main loop. Then the Unload event is fired, the context is disposed and
INativeGLWindow.DestroyWindow()is called. Finally, all pending events are processed until
GameWindow.Existsbecomes false.
- User clicks the "Close" button.
INativeGLWindow.ProcessEventsdetects this and raises the
INativeGLWindow.Destroyevent, which is handled by
GameWindow.Exitand the rest work out as above.
- User calls
GameWindow.Dispose. This calls
INativeGLWindow.Dispose, but I haven't worked out the details yet (presumably it should call
[Window resize event]
GL.Viewport generally belongs to a
GameWindow.Resize event handler. As long as OnResizeInternal is called, the resize event will be raised.
(The On*Internal methods will potentially perform some bookkeeping before raising the actual events. They also make sure that things will work correctly if the user overrides the On* methods - e.g. OnUpdate - and forgets to call
[Class factory for platforms]
I was planning to do this, but I didn't think a MacOS port would become reality so soon. :)
I think you have such a system in place for AgateLib? I'd be very interested in such an implementation.
It is the only way (I know of) to stop the main loop asynchronously. I.e:
override void OnLoad(...) { if opengl version < 2.0 Exit(); use opengl 2.0 }
Exit() must stop control before it reaches the "use opengl 2.0" line (otherwise it will crash!). To the best of my knowledge, an exception is the only method to achieve this.
I added this exception very reluctantly, but I really cannot see a better way.
If you have a custom main loop, the solution is simple: don't call Exit() (Exit() is specific to the Run() method - should document this better). Since you have control over the main loop, you are free to use a flag (or any other method you can think of).
[Exit event with cancel support]
I'm planning to add this, so this code is useful.
Intel GMA 950 OpenGL Engine, Intel Inc., 1.2 APPLE-1.4.56
OpenTK reports the version from GL.GetString(): "1.2 APPLE-1.4.56" - I don't know if there's a better way.
I'll update the app to test for GLSL support explicitly, instead of relying on gl_version_2_0 being available.
This doesn't look very good. The attributes look bogus - they should contain things like frequency (44100) etc. At least it doesn't crash :)
I'm still working on
AudioContext. Should have a couple of examples ready later today, that test audio playback and audio effects.
Ok, I figured out the closing and resize events issues. In AGL, when a window is resized, aglUpdateContext needs to be called on the context. It looks like inorder to do that, either IGraphicsContext or IGraphicsContextInternal needs to have an Update method. The only other way I see to do it would be to expose the implementation of GraphicsContext, at least internally.
I guess I was a bit thrown off with the close event integration because if you're running your own event loop there is no event that is raised when the native window is closed. But that can be resolved easily by making GameWindow.ExitInternal call an event. I'll submit a patch for that later.


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A dishwasher was blamed for a Columbia house fire Sunday morning.
Fire crews said the flames and smoke were spewing from the kitchen window of 1000 Bourn Avenue just after 9 a.m.
The Assistant Fire Marshal said in a news release that a dishwasher had sparked the blaze, which did roughly $10,000 worth of damage to the property.
Crews had the fire put out within five minutes, but spent several hours using large fans to air out the house.
No one was injured in the fire.
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SEBRING — Summer school is in session, from Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten through high school "credit recovery" classes, with hundreds of students attending various summer school programs and nearly every district school hosting one or more programs.
The School Board of Highlands County's Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program started Monday with 48 students at the Kindergarten Learning Center and Lake Placid and Sun 'N Lake elementary schools. The summer VPK, which is free for 4 year-olds, is a day-long program, 7:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m., as opposed to the half-day school-year program that is offered by private providers.
Last year the school district served 57 students in its summer VPK program.
The 39-day program will conclude on Aug. 1.
The district's Migrant Enrichment Summer Program, which starts today, has grown over the past two years with more grade levels.
Two years ago, it served students in grades one and two. Last year, kindergarten and grades four and five were added.
This summer third-grade was added, making it a K-5 program at Lake Placid, Sun 'N Lake and Woodlawn Elementary schools.
Federal Programs Resource Teacher Debbie Wood estimates that about 325 students will be served in the migrant summer program. Last year the program served about 240.
"We were afraid last year when we added the kindergarten and fourth- and fifth-grades that, maybe, we would be competing with the third-grade reading camp," she said. "But, a lot of our children did very well in third-grade and so we wanted to make sure they would be able to go to a reading camp. So that is why we opened up third-grade this year."
The Third-Grade Summer Reading Camp is primarily for students who scored in Level 1 on the Reading FCAT.
The migrant program focuses on improving reading skills with a goal of minimizing learning losses over the summer, Wood said.
"They read a lot, between two and a half and three hours a day," she said. "We test them on fluency and comprehension so we work on those kind of things."
Also, "each year has a different subject area ... we are trying to broaden their horizons," Wood noted.
In addition to the reading instruction, the following topics will be covered: kindergarten - animals, first-grade - hometown (library, fire station, services, etc), second-grade - Egypt, third-grade - Rome, fourth-grade - Greece and fifth-grade - Africa.
The Third-Grade Summer Reading Camp starts today with a total of 145 students at Lake Placid, Sun 'N Lake and Woodlawn elementary schools.
Both the migrant and reading camp programs will operate for 24 days, 7:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., and conclude on July 17.
The district's three high schools will have an EOC Camp for Algebra I to help students who did not pass the end-of-course Algebra I exam. The camp will operate weekdays, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., from July 7 through July 25.
Driver's Education will be offered at the three high schools from June 10 through Aug. 1. The district's Summer School Program Guide notes that students will not earn high school credit and will pay a fee for this course.
Extended school year service for Exceptional Student Education students will be offered at Lake Placid, Fred Wild and Memorial elementary schools; Sebring Middle, Lake Placid and Sebring high schools; Highlands Academy; Ridge Area ARC and Visions ADT.
District Student Support Services Director Pat Landress said the extended school year program starts June 16 and offers "educational experiences" in June with a break followed by another session in July.
The program's goal is to keep students from losing or regressing in skills, she said.
The High School Summer School (Credit Recovery) will be held June 10 - June 24 at Sebring High School for graduating students only.
Middle School Summer School (Credit Recovery) will be held June 10 - June 27 at Sebring High School.
Also, all three high schools have summer swim programs, recreational and instructional, at various times.
The Kindergarten Learning Center and nearly all of the elementary schools (except Lake Country) are offering child daycare services.
For more information and contact phone numbers, check the School Board of Highlands County's Summer School Program Guide at http://www.highlands.k12.fl.us/sbhc/.
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BELPRE - A pharmacist at Fruth Pharmacy in Belpre has been nominated as Pharmacist of the Year for 2013.
Pharmacist Chris Border was chosen as one of 12 nominees from more than 700 employees.
Border, the son of longtime Parkersburg area pharmacist Larry Border, never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. He started in an engineering major at college where a professor encouraged Border to take a job as a pharmacy technician because of his math and science skills.
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Employee of the Year awards are given in four categories each to Fruth Pharmacy employees: Technician of the Year, Manager of the Year, Pharmacist of the Year, and Associate of the Year. Employees were nominated by their peers and customers.
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The hormones estrogen and progesterone attach to certain receptors on the breast cells to stimulate the growth of normal breast cells and some breast cancers.
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I don't think I've ever seen one quite like this before.
Back in the late seventies I sold a Baccarat carpet ground weight with white spiral twists on a pale blue ground and it has always stayed in my mind, so that is probably where I got the inspiration.
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I was there! Front row!! It was amazing, thank you so much
I saw your wife and sons at the Green Day show @ Pinkpop festival Billie!!
fucking great photo. happy birthday man, you and the rest of the band are my biggest inspiration ever
Quite the double meaning, haha. Great to know you're doing well. Guitar looks better than ever, with the cracks!


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The Lucy Elliot Keeler Photograph Collection consists of more than 1,885 albumen and cyanotype prints dating from 1887 to 1929. Keeler arranged the prints chronologically in sixteen 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch albums. Keeler experimented with a variety of cameras, including early Kodak cameras, creating prints of varying quality, size and shape. Most of the images were dated and identified by Keeler.
Pictures of friends, family, gardens, homes (including interiors), historic sites, and Keelers travels dominate the collection. Of particular note are the candid images Keeler took of Rutherford B. and Lucy Webb Hayes and the Hayes family at Spiegel Grove during the post-presidential years. Many of these appear in Album 15. Keeler also photographed Hayes relatives, including the Birchard A. Hayes family (Hayes eldest son), the Rutherford H. Platt family in Columbus, Ohio; the Russell Hastings family in Bermuda; and the Bigelow family in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
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SEMIFINAL VOTE: Best Save vs. Best in OT
Steve Mason or Giroux in OT; Fans can decide which highlight moves into the Final
POLLS ARE OPEN: One highlight is through to the finals and this week fans get to vote for the other.
Winner of the 'Best Save' section of the bracket, Steve Mason's stop on Pens' Beau Bennett will challenge Claude Giroux's game-winner in the last seconds to beat the Blackhawks, which was voted the 'Best in OT'. (see bracket above)
The winner of this week's vote advances to face off against the 'Best Goal', Claude Giroux's incredible, no-look, backhand, topshelf goal against Curtis McElhinney and the Columbus Blue Jackets to determine the 2013-14 Flyers Highlight of the Year.
HIGHLIGHT #1: Playing in his 300th game in the NHL, Steve Mason keeps the Flyers tied at 1-1 as the Penguins force pressure on the power-play early in the second period. With time winding down the man advantage, Beau Bennett was left alone on the doorstep when the puck popped out right on his stick. Steve Mason stretches out with his pad and glove to deny Bennett.
HIGHLIGHT #2: In the final 10 seconds of overtime on Mar. 18 at the Wells Fargo Center, Flyers captain Claude Giroux raced down the wing and fired a rocket through the Blackhawks defenseman and over the shoulder of Chicago netminder Antti Raanta to steal a victory in dramatic fashion over the defending Stanley Cup Champions.
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20-year old Mario Jacquez Boykin was arrested last evening after calling 911 from a pay phone located at Cliffdale and 71st School Road. Boykin placed his call at 1939 hours, advising dispatchers that he was ready to turn himself in. Upon arriving on scene at 1944 hours, Officers took Boykin into custody without incident.
Boykin is currently in the Cumberland County Jail under no bond. A photograph is attached to this release. Boykin has been charged as follows:
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Man in Middle of AOL Deal Is Now at Center of a Storm
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: July 27, 2002
In the 18 months since his company, America Online, acquired the media giant Time Warner for $165 billion in stock, Stephen M. Case has left much of the work of integrating the companies and fulfilling their lofty promises to his prominent lieutenant, Robert W. Pittman.
Now, however, after Mr. Pittman resigned under pressure last week, Mr. Case, AOL Time Warner's chairman, has been deprived of a lightning rod for shareholders' ire and has become the target of a growing chorus of criticism from analysts and investors saying the company's management might be better off purged of executives from AOL altogether, including him.
This week, the drumbeat of investor discontent with the company accelerated as the company disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission had begun an investigation into accounting practices at AOL that may have inflated its past revenue. Just as discouraging, the company said it was working through the last of the long-term advertising deals it struck during the Internet boom, with few new commitments.
Some analysts now say Mr. Case's role as the architect of the merger makes him a liability as AOL Time Warner tries to rebuild its credibility on Wall Street, especially amid allegations that AOL was less than fully candid about its revenues in the period preceding the deal.
At the same time, Mr. Case's control of the company appears diminished. With Mr. Pittman's departure from the board and a decision not to fill his seat, the company's directors are now evenly divided between members from Time Warner and AOL. Some people close to the board said that with the stock price suffering, only 2 or 3 of the 14 directors could now be counted on to support Mr. Case on crucial issues. For now, however, Ted Turner -- a vice chairman and one of the largest shareholders -- supports Mr. Case, a person close to Mr. Turner said.
At a series of high-level strategy meetings in May, the company moved away from Mr. Case's previous emphasis on synergies between its Internet operations and its media businesses in favor of stressing the autonomy of the divisions. (A company spokesman said Mr. Case contributed to the plan and signed off on it.)
Mr. Case declined to be interviewed about his role at the company. But Kenneth Novack, vice chairman of AOL Time Warner and a close associate of Mr. Case, said that there were no divisions on the board. Mr. Novack said that Mr. Case was united with the rest of the board in support of its current chief executive, Richard D. Parsons.
He also said there was no move afoot on the board to seek Mr. Case's removal. ''Steve Case isn't going anywhere,'' he said.
He said that Mr. Case's role was largely advisory. In an unusually passive arrangement for a chairman, Mr. Case has made himself available for consultation but has effectively ceded operating control to Mr. Parsons.
Company officials acknowledged the increasing scrutiny of Mr. Case, and to deal with it drafted a statement fully clarifying his role for the first time. The statement said in part, ''As C.E.O., Dick ultimately is responsible for managing the company but he welcomes and seriously considers Steve's advice and counsel.'' In a conference call with analysts this week, Mr. Parsons took the unusual step of offering an unsolicited declaration of support for his chairman, Mr. Case.
Executives who worked with Mr. Case at AOL said he did not deserve blame for the falling stock and that he never misled investors or executives of Time Warner. They said he no better anticipated AOL's future problems than anyone else.
No one doubts his acumen and some analysts have called on him to emerge from the shadows and take a more active role. He did, after all, build AOL virtually from scratch, laboring through 15 years of obscurity and derision toward his vision of building a mass medium around e-mail and online chat. He outflanked a host of powerful competitors and repeatedly survived premature reports of his demise.
But after 1996 Mr. Case, then chief executive of AOL, handed much of the direct control of the company's operations to its president, Mr. Pittman, and just how much each executive knew about the state of the company's books at the time has become a subject of new interest in light of the investigation into the company.
Several people close to both men said they forged a somewhat tempestuous partnership. Mr. Case often balked at Mr. Pittman's relentless push for short-term results. Mr. Case was wary of making decisions that might foreclose future possibilities, and he favored expensive investments in technology that might pay off down the line.
Mr. Pittman, for his part, insisted on complete freedom to manage the businesses he oversaw. He often complained to friends that Mr. Case intruded on his authority and wasted his time with long conversations and instant-message exchanges about the distant future.
As AOL's stock soared in the late 1990's, they settled into a complementary dynamic between long-term strategy and short-term management, but people at the company said that their relations grew tense once again after the spring of 2000, as the boom in Internet advertising began to collapse and Mr. Case took a more active interest in operations.


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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - V-twin parts and service businesses in August posted same-store gains of 5.9 percent and 7 percent over August 2012, according to new data released by ADP Lightspeed.
Nationwide, V-twin dealers are outperforming their colleagues on the metric side. Metric dealers monitored by ADP posted an overall same-store gain of 5 percent in service for August, but a loss of 0.6 percent in parts.
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And yes- eight's happiness!
I am glad and almost can't contain my thanks to God especially, because of the beautiful events He creates in our life. The story of Vaks' and mine's marriage would sum up that eight years and still together, it actually is a miracle!
Because of great and apparent personality differences, it is only by God's love for us that we have remained faithful to our vows- after all the stories beyond one's imagination: Buena going away with all her birth certificates and all; Vaks almost literally damaged a door that remained closed; Buena escaping to the mountains; Vaks escaping to another region… and so on the love story goes, BUT IT REMAINED A LOVE STORY, after all.
The power of love indeed! And it's the power of God's love.
We offer endless gratitude to my in-laws and friends and instrumental people who have stood by us and helped us get through. You are all angels in disguise!
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- Adjust your withholdings. If you get a raise this year, make sure you've worked things out with your employer to adjust your W-4, and get extra help from this IRS resource on how to adjust tax withholdings.
- Keep good records, especially if you're self-employed. We like what LinseyKnerl from FinancialHighway.com said in our tax tips blog: "Don't wait until the end of the year to get organized." Organizing your receipts and bills at the end of each month is a smart step towards being far more prepared by next Tax day.
- Start thinking ahead. Are you getting married this year? Buying a home? As you go through these life changes, consider how they will affect your tax filing. Make sure you take the steps to be prepared, like changing your name with the Social Security Administration or changing your address with the IRS.
- Build an emergency fund. Just in case you're hit with an unexpected tax bill next year, be ready to pay it off in full, without worrying about paying interest on installments or penalties on late payments.
- Donate to charity. Megan Tice from the Money Aisle blog suggested, "Start your spring cleaning early and deduct charitable donations." Keep track of your donations just in case the charity neglects to send you a report of what you've donated at the end of the year.
- Make a separate file for your 2010 tax return. Remember, you'll want to be able to find it for reference next year, so create a specific file for tax returns and put the previous year's return there. If you've lost any documentation, the IRS has copies you can request.
- Start saving for retirement. A way to lower your taxable income is to contribute to a retirement plan. If you open either a 401(k) or a Traditional IRA, your contributions will be tax-deductible and tax-deferred, meaning you won't be charged income taxes until you take your contributions out at retirement. Read more about which plan might be right for you.
- Go back to school. Take a cooking class at a community college. Sign up to learn Italian. Even when you've graduated from college, you may be eligible for higher education tax credits. Check Publication 970 to see it you'll qualify.
- Keep records of your investments, including when you purchased them, interest and dividends earned on them, and when you sold them.
- Educate yourself! If you have specific tax questions, the IRS has some great resources on its website.
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(February 15, 2011) On Saturday,
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