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By Ana Reinhardt
University of Idaho
ITV Series: "Life and Times of the Humpback Whale"
Students will learn the names of a Humpback Whales exterior body parts, including pectoral fins and fluke. With guidance from the show, students will also learn how to draw a Humpback whale and be able to label body parts on their drawings.
Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to identify the exterior body parts of the Humpback Whale.
- Students will be able to draw it and correctly label the exterior body parts of the whale on their drawing.
- Classroom set of "Ibis: A True Whale Story" by John Himmelman
- A blank diagram of a Humpback Whale(1 per student)
- Pencils
- Blank paper
- Tracing paper
- Stapler(1 per group)
- Scissors(1 per group)
- Recycled newspaper
- ITV Video Life and Times of the Humpback Whale
Pre-viewing Activities (5-7 minutes)
Have students look at the picture of the Humpback whale on the cover of "Ibis: A True Whale Story" by John Himmelman. Encourage students to name the body parts like eyes, head, and tail. Ask them if they know what the scientific names of those body parts are. Solicit answers.
Focus for Viewing
To give students a specific responsibility while viewing; students will watch for and listen for the narrator naming and describing the whales body parts. When the video is paused, students are to identify and point to that body part on their picture. Students are to write the names of the body part on their diagram.
Viewing Activities (20 Minutes)
On the board write the words "Humpback Whale." Note: if tape is rewound, fast forward until counter displays 16:48.
Play the video and write on board: Baby humpback is 14 ft. long.
Pause after rostrum is pointed out and defined (18:44 sec). Ask the students to label the rostrum on their diagram.
Resume the video and pause after tubercles are pointed out and defined (19:24 sec). Ask the students to label the tubercles on their diagram.
Resume the video and pause after ventricle pleasts are pointed out and defined (19:55 sec). Ask the students to label the ventricle pleats on their diagram.
Resume the video and pause after ear is pointed out and defined (20:19 sec). Resume the video and pause after the blow holes are pointed out and defined (20:44 sec).
Resume the video and pause after fluke is pointed out and defined (21:56 sec).
Resume the video and stop at 25:59 Sec.
Hand out the drawing materials!
Resume the video and stop when narrator is done drawing (29:33 sec.)
Post Viewing Activity (25 Minutes)
Have the students get into pairs. They will measure two pieces of tracing paper that are approximately two feet long. They will use their small drawings as a guide to draw a baby whale on their tracing paper. Once they have one outline of their whale, they staple it to the second sheet of tracing paper. This makes the front and back of the whale with only one drawing. Students will cut out along the drawing line of their whale. After the whale is cut out they will staple both pieces of paper at the very top of the whale (leaving the bottom open.) Students will then stuff their whales with recycled newspaper and staple it shut. Whales are to be displayed or hung around the classroom.
- Remind children that whales can communicate with one another by making sounds called phonation. Play "Songs of the Humpback Whale" (Capitol, 1979) and invite them to listen to recording of whale sounds and imagine what the whales are "saying" to one another.
- Making up teams of large sizes, students can link and form wave movements (chain reaction) as if they were Humpback whales. This is a flexibility exercise.
- Have children of average height hold his/her arm outstretched so children can see the distance from fingertips to fingertips. Ask students how many children with arms outstretched they think it would take to equal the length of a humpback whale (approximately 70 ft.)
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By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — A mother whose children were found locked in the trunk of her car during a traffic stop won't spend many more days in jail, but it could be even longer before she is allowed to have contact with her kids.
Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wynne on Wednesday called what Anna Boyle did in September the "epitome of bad parenting" and then sentenced her to six months in the county jail.
Before he handed down the sentence, Wynne read to Boyle the conditions of the court order that prohibits her from seeing or contacting her children. The order is valid until 2017.
After Boyle was arrested, her children, ages 5, 7 and 8, were removed and placed with relatives.
Boyle, 28, could earn the chance to see her children sooner if she meets the requirements established by the dependency court. She also could eventually regain custody of her children. Boyle likely will need to undergo drug treatment, parenting classes and mental health counseling.
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Afghan demonstrators shout anti-U.S. slogans outside of Bagram airbase on February 21.
KABUL -- The burning of copies of the Quran at an American base in Afghanistan was intentional, said a member of the team investigating the incident that triggered widespread and deadly anti-Western protests.
"We believe it is intentional," Maulavi Khaliqdad, a member of the panel established by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur on Monday. "If they burnt one or two copies, then we could have said it could have been a mistake. But they took hundreds of such books to burn. Everyone knew those were religious books."
While the United States said that burning copies of the Muslim holy book last month at Bagram airfield was a unintentional, the incident sparked violence that killed 30, including American troops shot by Afghan soldiers.
Report: 5 soldiers involved in Quran burning
Also on Monday, a suicide bomber killed at least two civilians after detonating explosives at the gates of the base, Afghan officials said.
The bomber targeted a vehicle belonging to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said district governor Kabir Ahmad Rahil, adding there could be foreign casualties, although a NATO spokeswoman said no coalition troops had been harmed in the attack on Bagram.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell speaks with Gen. John Allen and Amb. Ryan Crocker about what they are doing to protect U.S. forces against the wave of protests occurring the aftermath of the burning of Qurans.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was "revenge" for the Quran burning, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a text message to media according to Reuters.
Doubts are growing that the United States and Afghanistan could narrow sharp differences in negotiations and reach a long-term strategic partnership deal.
The Strategic Partnership Agreement, which Washington and Kabul have been discussing for over a year, will be the framework for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan beyond 2014, when the last foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan.
Afghanistan wants the United States and NATO to agree to stop carrying out night raids on Afghan homes as a precondition for signing an agreement with Washington and a timeline to assume control over detention centers.
Images: Protests erupt over Quran burning
But while the rules covering night raids and air strikes have been tightened, they continue to cause great resentment among many Afghans. Movement on the detention issue has also stalled, causing a deadlock.
"The impasse in talks could threaten the strategic partnership," said an Afghan foreign ministry official.
A senior Afghan government official told Reuters that Kabul has been pressing the Americans hard to hand over the detention facility at NATO's Bagram airbase.
Afghan clerics demand trial of Quran burners at US base
"The United States government thinks Afghanistan does not have the ability or the international standards to run the prison and also insists that night raids can't be stopped overnight as it's a key tool against the insurgents," he said. "The United States government believes that Afghan forces are not yet ready to take over the control of night raids from U.S. troops."
U.S. embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall suggested a pact may not be possible. "We have always said it is more important to get the right agreement than to get an agreement," he said in a statement.
Without a strategic partnership, the United States may find it difficult to maintain a presence in the form of advisers in the country after 2014. That would raise the possibility of prolonged instability in Afghanistan.
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Rebooting after custom ROM install
I have acquired a HTC EVO V CDMA phone for virgin mobile.
I have unlocked the phone and ported it over to page plus. It was working fine on stock ROM, tested phone calls and mms. I then tried to use CWM to install a custom rom, pacman. I ended up using fastboot to boot the boot.img to finally get into the ROM. After roughly 30 seconds it locks up and reboots everytime, even if in airplane mode. I did some searching and found this to possibly be related to the radios baseband.
I tried using the RUU for this phone but it keeps stating that it will not work for this phone. I tried the Sprint and WWE generic PrimoC.
I am unable to get into recovery as every CWM recovery.img file I use does not work... typically locks up at the HTC dev warning, but the 5.5 version would let me scroll up and down but hitting the power button simply removes the menu options so nothing can ever be selected.
I'm a bit stuck on what to do next. Can anyone point me to the correct RUU for this phone or help me find a good CWM recovery.img file (if that would even reset the radio) or any other advice?
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Re: Rebooting after custom ROM install
Thanks for the link AN23. I don't know how I missed it but it got me on track.
I was able to use TWRP recovery but the RUU still needed to be used in the end. The radio was the reason for the bootloop. The RUU's have been pulled from that link due to HTC recent legal battles there but are still able to be found.
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Former Highflyer Could Rise Again
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Before the financial crisis, Bridgeway Aggressive Investors 1 (BRAGX) posted a remarkable record. From the time the fund launched in 1994 until October 2007, Bridgeway returned 21.0% annually, outdoing its mid blend competitors by more than 7 percentage points, according to Morningstar.
Then the roof collapsed. In 2008, the fund lost 56.2% and trailed 98% of peers. For the next three years, the results continued to be subpar. What caused the trouble?
Bridgeway's Chief Investment Officer John Montgomery attributes the poor record partly to the unusual market environment that prevailed during the financial crisis. He says that the fund could do better now that the Bridgeway portfolio managers have made adjustments and markets are calming.
Montgomery could be onto something. In 2012, his fund regained its winning ways, returning 21.6% and outdoing 89% of peers.
Bridgeway's struggle to revive is hardly unique. In the turmoil of 2008, many stock-picking systems failed. Dissatisfied with the results, angry investors dumped active managers and shifted to index funds, which aim to track benchmarks such as the S&P 500 . But in recent months, markets have stabilized. Like Bridgeway Aggressive, many active managers have begun outdoing the index funds. If the market environment remains relatively steady, then Bridgeway and other active funds may do better and present a compelling reason for investors to abandon index funds.
To find the best investments, Bridgeway uses computer models that consider a host of variables, including stock values and market momentum. Some of the models favor stocks that are trending upward and have low prices. Montgomery says that the models failed in 2008 because investors ignored valuations, selling stocks of all kinds at once. "When people get scared, they just want out of the market," he says. "They don't care whether one stock is more attractive than another."
Montgomery says that growth funds like Bridgeway Aggressive did particularly poorly. This may have occurred because big hedge funds were forced to liquidate portfolios that were heavy with growth stocks. Under normal circumstances, some of the best performers are growth stocks that surprise Wall Street, delivering earnings that surpass the consensus. But as hedge funds sold growth holdings in 2008, stocks with earnings surprises lagged shares that were not beating estimates.
Montgomery says that the poor performance of his fund is connected to a measure known as correlation. When the stocks in a group such as the S&P 500 all move in unison, then the correlation is said to be 1.0. When the stocks do not move in lockstep, the correlation is 0.0.
Montgomery says that his fund can do well during periods when the correlation of the S&P 500 is near its normal level of 0.2 to 0.3. In such an environment, investors tend to favor one stock over another based on valuations and other factors. But when investors panic and sell everything, the correlation can top 0.5.


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Kimberly McCormack and Chalan (Sportfot)Wellington, FL - The third annual FTI WEF Collegiate Equitation Challenge was held on Friday evening in the International Arena at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC). Riders representing 16 National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) varsity teams from around the country gathered to compete in a bracket-style format. The championship trophy, presented by the South Florida Hunter Jumper Association, was awarded to University of South Carolina junior Kimberly McCormack. Laura Chapot was the fastest to win the $6,000 Spy Coast Farm 1.40m Speed Challenge with Bradberry. In the Camping World Adult Amteur 51 & Over Hunters, R. Bruce Duchossois and Just Fred earned the championship ribbon.
Week five of the FTI WEF, sponsored by Spy Coast Farm, will run February 8-12. The highlight class of the week is Saturday night's $125,000 FEI World Cup Qualifier Grand Prix, presented by Spy Coast Farm. The 2012 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival has 12 weeks of competition that conclude on April 1, 2012, and they will be awarding more than $6 million in prize money through the circuit.
Invitations were extended to 16 student athletes who currently participate in collegiate equestrian programs. They rode over fences in courses set at 3'6" designed by Bobby Murphy of Lexington, KY. The judges were Leo Conroy and Christina Schlusemeyer. The 16 riders were narrowed down earlier in the day to eight who competed under the lights in the International Arena tonight. Horses and tack were generously provided by area professionals. The riders were given a four minute warm-up in which they were allowed four fences before completing the course.
Three rounds were held over fences this evening, and it came down to Kimberly McCormack from University of South Carolina and Lisa Goldman from Baylor University in the final bracket. Both riders completed the final course aboard Chalan, owned by Claire Beth Nogay, who was also given the Best Horse Award. In the first round tonight, McCormack rode Mador Du Chaufour, owned by Sarah Porter, to a score of 84. In the second round, she showed Diamond Creek, owned by Diamond Creek Stables LLC, to a score of 86.5. A final score of 87.5 aboard Chalan gave McCormick the win.
Lisa Goldman finished with scores of 86 aboard St. James, 80 aboard Diamond Creek, and 85 aboard Chalan. The other riders competing over fences tonight were Sarah Mershon of Kansas State University, Carly Anthony of University of Georgia, Haley Jacobi of Texas Christian University, Maggie Earle of Texas A&M University, Jennifer Waxman of Auburn University, and Hillary West of California State University, Fresno.


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The Ballsbridge Hotel is in Dublin's D4 district, next to the DART Railroad which connects guests to the centre of the city in minutes. Aviva Stadium and the RDS are also within walking distance of the hotel and the Aircoach stop is just outside the property. Free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel is available.
Breakfast is served in Raglans Restaurant and freshly baked snacks, along with specialist teas and coffees are all available at The Coffee Dock throughout the day. Raglans Restaurant serves a sumptuous menu of classic Irish dishes. With fantastic food, the Dubliner Pub is a traditional Irish pub that features live music on weekends.
The rooms at Ballsbridge Hotel feature all the modern facilities expected in a city hotel, including a private bathroom, a cable TV, telephone, and tea/coffee-making facilities. There is 24-hour room service and many of the bedrooms were refurbished in 2013. With private parking on site, the Ballsbridge Hotel is within easy reach of Temple Bar and Grafton Street, along with the Guinness Storehouse.
There are a beauty salon and barber shop on site and there is a gym less than 5 minutes from the hotel which offers discounted rates for guests. Secure parking is available onsite and the DART train station is less than 5 minutes' walk away.
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Room itself was a bit dated but clean and spacious with a big bed. A strong smell of paint throughout. The usual toiletries but no dressing gown or slippers. The fire alarm went off at 4.30am without any explanation or reassurance from staff. At breakfast the next morning, after 20 minutes waiting at our table, we eventually managed to get the attention of the waiter to request coffee. The coffee, when it eventually arrived in a large coffee pot, was almost pure water, THE worst coffee we have ever had the bad luck to taste. The buffet looked like an amazing spread but it was only ok. There was no offer of freshly cooked eggs, the only offering was scrambled eggs from the buffet which were drowning in liquid. On checkout when I mentioned that we were very tired after being woken by the fire alarm at 4.30am the receptionist was not very sympathetic, she more or less said 'well it is good to know that it works'. Well obviously it doesn't if it is going off without any fire. I have since checked reviews of the hotel since I have come home and I see that it is not the first time that the fire alarm has gone off during the night scaring the life out of guests and disrupting sleep. The hotel is in a convenient location but I would not return. There are plenty of other hotels in that area that I would try next time.
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Lightning Strikes Shape Mountains
When Jasper Knight and Stefan Grab used a compass to explore the mighty Drakensberg mountain range, they needed it to guide them not through space, but through time.
Knight and Grab, both geoscientists at Wits University in Johannesburg, held their compass out over the rocks of the Drakensberg, the highest mountain range in southern Africa, looking for evidence of lightning strikes. What they found leads them to believe that lightning and other climatic factors play a much greater role in the shaping of mountains than previously thought.
"The viewpoint has been that these mountains are passive agents, that their presence today and their physical properties today bear no relation to today's climate," Knight told Weather.com. "But what we've been able to show is that this is not the case at all. These landscapes are changing much more quickly than we had previously realized."
Basalt rocks, like the ones Knight and Grab are studying, form from molten material that cools into a solid mass. Any magnetic material inside the rocks coalesces in alignment with magnetic north, leaving a signature of the rock's physical relation to north. Since the continents have shifted since the rocks of the Drakensberg first cooled 180 million years ago, rocks that might form today would bear a different magnetic signature than the rocks that formed then.
Lightning strikes, it turns out, deposit so much energy in such a short period of time that the rocks undergo partial melting. When they cool again, their magnetic material relines up with north, giving parts of the rock a new magnetic signature — causing a compass to spin rapidly 360 degrees.
The widely accepted view has been that angular formations like the one Knight and Grab are studying were formed over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, as water seeped into tiny cracks in the rocks and then, upon freezing, expanded and cracked them open further. This new evidence shows that mountains, generally viewed as passive and unchanging, are actually dynamic, reactive systems.
The research can be extrapolated to mountains all over the world, Knight said, meaning that our landscapes are much more susceptible to climate than we previously thought. The researchers are next looking at how the lightning strikes create debris, which can flow down into rivers or create landslides, both of which are a concern for communities that live and farm near mountains.
"The bigger connection here is that this process of generating loose debris on mountain sides is part of a much bigger picture of soil erosion," Knight said. "These mountainous landscapes are becoming unstable as a consequence of over grazing. Very high rates of soil erosion are exposing new bare surfaces. This is helping to destabilize the whole of these mountain landscapes."
The research will be published in a paper in the journal Geomorphology.
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Hundreds of nurses will stop work at Swan District Hospital this afternoon over fears they will lose leave entitlements if they work at the new Midland Health Campus.
The Australian Nursing Federation says nurses could lose $50,000 or more in entitlements such as long service leave if they transfer across to the Midland hospital.
The new hospital is due to open in 2015 and will be run by the private St John of God Health Care.
ANF secretary Mark Olson says any nurse who wanted to work at the new health campus would have to resign from the public sector and give up their accrued sick leave, long service leave and other entitlements linked to service such as maternity leave.
Mr Olson says the majority of nurses want to work at the new health campus but have told him they will not go if it is going to cost them money in lost entitlements.
Health Minister Kim Hames says a decision has not been made yet on benefits but options included SJOG honouring the benefits or the State Government negotiating with the health care group to have the staff entitlements transferred over.
He said the Government would need hundreds of workers for Fiona Stanley Hospital so nurses would be in demand.
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private military corporations
A private military corporations (PMC) provides specialized expertise or services of a military nature, sometimes called or classified as mercenary ("soldiers for hire").[1] Such companies are equally known as private military contractors, private security contractors (PSCs), private military company, private military firms, military service providers, and generally as the private military industry.
The services and expertise cover those typically found in governmental military or police forces, but most often on a smaller scale. While PMCs often provide services to train or supplement official armed forces in service of governments, they are also employed by private defense agency firms. However, contractors who use offensive force in a war zone could be considered unlawful combatants, thereby referring to the "concept" being implicitly mentioned in the Geneva Conventions and explicitly specified by the Military Commissions Act.[2]
Private military companies supply bodyguards for the Afghan president and pilot armed reconnaissance planes and helicopter gunships to destroy Coca crops in Colombia.[3] [4] They are licensed by the State Department, they are contracting with foreign governments, training soldiers and reorganizing militaries in Nigeria, Bulgaria, Taiwan, and Equatorial Guinea. The PMC industry is now worth over $100 billion a year.[5]
- 1 General terms
- 2 United States
- 3 Recruitment
- 4 PMC activities in Iraq
- 5 PMC activities elsewhere
- 6 List of PMCs
- 7 See also
- 8 Resources
- 9 References
- 10 External links
General terms[edit]
PMCs are also known as security contractors, although this term usually refers to individuals employed or contracted by PMCs. Services are mainly rendered for other business corporations, international and non-governmental organizations, and state forces.
Private military companies are sometimes grouped into the general category of defense contractors. However, most defense contractors supply specialized hardware and perhaps also personnel to support and service that hardware, whereas PMCs supply personnel with specialized operational and tactical skills, which often include combat experience.
The 1949 Third Geneva Convention (GCIII) does not recognize the difference between defense contractors and PMCs; it defines a category called supply contractors. If the supply contractor has been issued with a valid identity card from the armed forces which they accompany, they are entitled to be treated as prisoners of war upon capture (GCIII Article 4.1.4). If, however, the contractor engages in combat, he/she can be classified as a mercenary by the captors under the 1977 Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) Article 47.c, unless falling under an exemption to this clause in Article 47. If captured contractors are found to be mercenaries, they are unlawful combatants and lose the right to prisoner of war status. Protocol I was not ratified by the United States because, among other issues, it does not require "freedom fighters" to obey the convention in order to be granted its protections.
United States[edit]
The United States State Department employs several companies to provide support in danger zones that would be difficult for conventional U.S. forces. The military employs many of them as guards to high ranking U.S. government officials in high risk areas all around the world. The term most often refers to the two dozen U.S. firms that provide services for the Pentagon and indirectly assist in overseas theaters of operation. Some contractors have served in advisory roles that help train local militaries to fight more effectively instead of intervening directly. Much of the peacekeeper training the United States provides to African militaries is done by private firms, and with the increasing absence of Western military support to international peace operations, the private sector is commonly utilized to provide services to peace and stability operations from Haiti to Darfur.
The Center for Public Integrity reported that since 1994, the United States Department of Defense entered into 3,601 contracts worth $300 billion with 12 U.S. based PMCs. Some view this as an inevitable cost cutting measure and responsible privatization of critical aspects of a military. However, many feel this is a troubling trend, since these private companies are not directly accountable to a legislative body and may cost more than providing the same functions within the military. Seventeen of the nation's leading private military firms have contributed $12.4 million in congressional and presidential campaigns since 1999.[5]
Another issue of concern has been the recent high-profile operation of various PMCs within the United States, specifically during the initial response after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Supporters are quick to point out the stabilizing influence that the operators of these companies put into place in the first few days provided, whereas detractors have levied claims of abuse and unlawful activities. Neither side has provided much proof to back their claims, however, beyond anecdotal evidence.
Domestic operations are generally under the auspice of state or federal agencies such as the United States Department of Energy or the United States Department of Homeland Security rather than the Department of Defense. Driven by increasingly greater fears of domestic terror attacks and civil unrest and disruption in the wake of disasters, more conventional security companies are moving into operations arenas that would fall within the definition of a PMC.
U.S. administration policy on PMCs[edit]
From the December 5, 2005, lecture by Donald Rumsfeld, then U.S. Secretary of Defense: "The Future of Iraq"[6] (In answer to a question by graduate student Kate Turner regarding PMCs during the Q&A session)
Turner: "There are currently thousands of private military contractors in Iraq and you were just speaking of rules of engagement in regards to Iraqi personnel and US personnel. Could you speak to, since the private contractors are operating outside the Uniform Code of Military Justice, can you speak to what law or rules of engagement do govern their behavior and whether there has been any study showing that it is cost effective to have them in Iraq rather than US military personnel. Thank you."
Rumsfeld: "Thank you. It is clearly cost-effective to have contractors for a variety of things that military people need not do, and that for whatever reason other civilians, government people, cannot be deployed to do.[7]
There are a lot of contractors, a growing number. They come from our country but they come from all countries, and indeed sometimes the contracts are from our country or another country and they employ people from totally different countries including Iraqis and people from neighboring nations. And there are a lot of them. It's a growing number. Of course we've got to begin with the fact that, as you point out, they're not subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. We understand that. There are laws that govern the behavior of Americans in that country. The United States Department of Justice oversees that.There is an issue that is current as to the extent to which they can or cannot carry weapons, and that's an issue. It's also an issue, of course, with the Iraqis. But if you think about it, Iraq's a sovereign country. They have their laws and they're going to govern, the United Nations (UN) resolution and the Iraqi laws, as well as U.S. procedures and laws govern behavior in that country depending on who the individual is and what he's doing. But I personally am of the view that there are a lot of things that can be done for a short time basis by contractors that advantage the United States and advantage other countries who also hire contractors, and that any idea that we shouldn't have them I think would be unwise."
New U.S. law on PMCs[edit]
According to the fiscal year 2007 Defense Budget appropriation bill, the text of the Uniform Code of Military Justice has been amended to allow for prosecution of military contractors who are deployed in a "declared war or a contingency operation."
Paragraph (10) of section 802(a) of title 10, United States Code (article 2(a) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), is amended by striking 'war' and inserting 'declared war or a contingency operation'."[8][9]
Farah Stockman of the Boston Globe, (7 January 2007) writes: "Previously, the code applied to "persons serving with or accompanying an armed force in the field" only during a war, which US courts interpreted to mean a war declared by Congress. No such declaration was made in the Iraq conflict. Now, Congress has amended the code to apply to persons accompanying an armed force during a "declared war or contingency operation."
But the provision might also have unintended consequences, if the military chooses to use its new power to court-martial civilians. For instance, the language in the law is so broad that it can be interpreted as saying that embedded journalists and contract employees from foreign countries would also be liable under the military code. Other punishable offenses under the code include disobeying an order, disrespecting an officer, and possession of pornography in a combat zone."[10]
In light of the above issues, some commentators have argued that there has been a recent exodus from many special operations forces across the globe towards these private military corporations. The British Special Air Service,[11][12] the US Special Operations Forces [13] and the Canadian Army Joint Task Force 2[14] have allegedly been severely affected. Finding work in the industry is not difficult for most former soldiers as their personal network of fellow and ex-soldiers is enough to keep them informed of available contracts.
PMC activities in Iraq[edit]
Currently in Iraq there are thought to be at least 100,000 contractors working directly for the United States Department of Defense which is a tenfold increase in the use of private contractors for military operations since the Persian Gulf War, just over a decade earlier.[15] The prevalence of PMCs has led to the foundation of the Private Security Company Association of Iraq. In Iraq, the issue of accountability, especially in the case of contractors carrying weapons is a sensitive one. Iraqi laws do not hold over contractors. Just before leaving office as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Paul Bremer signed Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17 where it is stated that:
Contractors shall not be subject to Iraqi laws or regulations in matters relating to the
terms and conditions of their Contracts, including licensing and registering employees, businesses and corporations; provided, however, that Contractors shall comply with such applicable licensing and registration laws and regulations if engaging in business or transactions in Iraq other than Contracts. Notwithstanding any provisions in this Order, Private Security Companies and their employees operating in Iraq must comply with all CPA Orders, Regulations, Memoranda, and any implementing instructions or regulations governing the existence and activities of Private Security Companies in Iraq, including registration and licensing ofweapons and firearms.[16]
PMCs supply support to U.S. military bases throughout the Persian Gulf, from operating mess halls to providing security. They supply armed guards at a U.S. Army base in Qatar, and they use live ammunition to train soldiers at Camp Doha in Kuwait. They maintain an array of weapons systems vital to an invasion of Iraq. They also provide bodyguards for VIPs, guard installations, and escort supply convoys from Kuwait. All these resources are called upon constantly due to the war in Iraq.[5]
Events involving PMCs in Iraq[edit]
- Employees of private military company CACI and Titan Corp. were involved in the Iraq Abu Ghraib prison scandal in 2003, and 2004. The U.S. Army "found that contractors were involved in 36 percent of the [Abu Ghraib] proven incidents and identified 6 employees as individually culpable",[17] although none have faced prosecution unlike US military personnel.[17]
- On March 31, 2004, four American private contractors belonging to the company Blackwater USA were killed by insurgents in Fallujah as they drove through the town. They were dragged from their car in one of the most violent attacks on U.S. citizens in the conflict. Following the attack, an angry mob mutilated and burned the bodies, dragging them through the streets before they were hung on a bridge.
- On March 28, 2005, 16 American contractors and three Iraqi aides from Zapata Engineering, under contract to the US Army Corps of Engineers to manage an ammunition storage depot, were detained following two incidents in which they allegedly fired upon United States Marine Corps checkpoint. While later released, the civilian contractors have levied complaints of mistreatment against the Marines who detained them.
- On June 5, 2005, Colonel Theodore S. Westhusing committed suicide, after writing a report exonerating US Investigations Services of allegations of fraud, waste and abuse he received in an anonymous letter in May.
- On October 27, 2005, a "trophy" video, complete with post-production Elvis music, appearing to show private military contractors in Baghdad shooting Iraqi civilians sparked two investigations after it was posted on the Internet.[18][19][20] The video has been linked unofficially to Aegis Defence Services. According to the posters, the man who is seen shooting vehicles on this video in Iraq was a South African employee of Aegis Victory team named Danny Heydenreycher. He served in the British military for six years. After the incident the regional director for Victory ROC tried to fire Heydenreycher, but the team threatened to resign if he did. As of December 2005, Aegis is conducting a formal inquiry into the issue, although some concerns on its impartiality have been raised.
- On September 17, 2007, the Iraqi government announced that it was revoking the license of the American security firm Blackwater USA over the firm's involvement in the deaths of eight civilians in a firefight that followed a car bomb explosion near a State Department motorcade. Blackwater is currently one of the most high-profile firms operating in Iraq, with around 1,000 employees as well as a fleet of helicopters in the country. Whether the group may be legally prosecuted is still a matter of debate.[21]
Legal position[edit]
Two days before he left Iraq, L. Paul Bremer signed "CPA Order 17"[22] giving all Americans associated with the Coalition Provisional Authority and the American government immunity from Iraqi law.[23] A July 2007 report from the American Congressional Research Service indicates that the Iraqi government still has no authority over private security firms contracted by the U.S. government.[24]
PMC activities elsewhere[edit]
- In 1994 and 1995 South African based PMC Executive Outcomes was involved in two military actions in Africa. In the first conflict, EO fought on the behalf of the Angolan government against UNITA after a UN brokered peace settlement broke down. In the second action EO was tasked with containing a guerrilla movement in Sierra Leone called the Revolutionary United Front. Both missions involved personnel from the firm training 4-5 thousand combat personnel for the Angolan government and retaking control of the diamond fields and forming a negotiated peace in Sierra Leone.
- In 1999, an incident involving DynCorp in Bosnia and Herzegovina was followed by a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit was filed against DynCorp employees stationed in Bosnia, which alleged that: "employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior and were illegally purchasing women, weapons, forged passports and participating in other immoral acts."
- In 2000, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's international affairs program "Foreign Correspondent" broadcast a special report "Sierra Leone: Soldiers of Fortune", focussing on the exploits of South African pilot Neall Ellis and his MI-24 Hind gunship.[25] The report also investigated the failures of the UN Peacekeeping Force, and the involvement of mercenaries/private military contractors in providing vital support to UN operations and British military Special Operations in Sierra Leone in 1999-2000.[26]
- On April 5, 2005, Jamie Smith, CEO of SCG International Risk announced the expansion of services from the traditional roles of PMCs of protection and intelligence to military aviation support. SCG International Air would provide air support, medevac (medical evacuation), rotary and fixed-wing transportation, heavy-lift cargo, armed escort and executive air travel to "any location on earth." This marks a unique addition and expansion of services to rival the capabilities of some country's armies and air forces.
- On March 27, 2006, J. Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA announced to attendees of a special operations exhibition in Jordan that his company could now provide a brigade-size force for low intensity conflicts. According to Black, "There is clear potential to conduct security operations at a fraction of the cost of NATO operations".[27]
- In mid-May 2006, police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrested 32 alleged mercenaries of different nationalities; 19 South Africans, 10 Nigerians and three Americans. Half of them worked for a South African company named Omega Security Solutions and the Americans for AQMI Strategy Corp. The men were accused of plotting to overthrow the government but charges weren't pressed. The men were deported to their home countries.[28][29]
- In 2006, a U.S. congressional report listed a number of PMCs and other enterprises that have signed contracts to carry out anti-narcotics operations and related activities as part of Plan Colombia. DynCorp was among those contracted by the State Department, while others signed contracts with the Defense Department. Other companies from different countries, including Israel, have also signed contracts with the Colombian Defense Ministry to carry out security or military activities.[4]
List of PMCs[edit]
All of the below companies have articles on Wikipedia, as named in the left column
U.S. companies[edit]
- AirScan. Based in Titusville, FL. Provides airborne surveillance and security. Clients/operations: US Department of Defense, US Air Force, NASA, US Forest Service, National Test Pilot School, National Response Corporation, US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Reclamation, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, Maximum Protective Services, ECOPETROL: the national oil company of Colombia, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (Angola), SONANGOL: national oil company of Angola.
- Custer Battles. Based in McLean, Virginia. Iraq and oil sector (at present, have ceased operations in Iraq)
- Defion Internacional
- DynCorp. Based in Falls Church, VA. Clients/operations: Iraq
- ITT Corporation. Based in Falls Church, VA. White Plains, NY. Clients/operations: Kosovo
- KBR. Based in Houston. Formerly a Division of Halliburton
- Military Professional Resources Inc. Based in Alexandria, VA
- MVM, Inc. Based in Vienna, Virginia. Clients/operations: CIA and NSA contractor
- Northbridge Services Group. Based in Turkmenistan, Somalia, Nigeria
- Northrop Grumman. Based in Los Angeles
- Paratus World Wide Protection. Based in Charlotte, New Jersey. Clients/operations: Iraq.
- Pathfinder Security Services. Based in Casper, Wyoming. Clients/operations: Oil, gas and mining sector; mainly in the US.
- Raytheon. Based in Cambridge, MA.
- Red Star Aviation. Based in Quonset Point, RI. Clients/operations: Military Aircraft Operator.
- Triple Canopy, Inc. Based in Herndon, Virginia. Clients/operations: South America, Iraq.
- Sharp End International. Mainly uses Australian and New Zealand ex-special forces instructors.
- Titan Corporation. Based in San Diego, CA. Clients/operations: Benin.
- Triple Canopy. Clients/operations: Iraq
- Vinnell Corporation. Based in Fairfax, Virginia. Clients/operations: Turkey, Saudi Arabia ||
- Xe, aka Blackwater USA, aka Blackwater Worldwide, aka Blackwater. Based in Moyock, NC. Clients/operations: Iraq, Afghanistan, New Orleans, Louisiana, and others || Formerly Blackwater Worldwide
U.K. companies[edit]
|Aegis Defence Services
|Iraq, Afghanistan, and others
|Now part of G4S
|Control Risks Group
|Provider of security and armed guards for British Embassies and Consulates
|Erinys International
|Britain company
|Sandline International
|Ceased operations on April 16, 2004
|PMC Trust
|Provides risk management
- Executive Outcomes, South Africa (ceased operations on January 1, 1999)
- Omega Group - Norway
- Integrated Risk Management Services - Ireland, protecting of Shell oil in Ireland and Bolivia
- Unity Resources Group, Australia, Based in Dubai - Special Forces veterans from Australia, the US, New Zealand and Great Britain - as well as former law enforcement officers from those countries.
See also[edit]
- Arms trade
- Blackwater Watch (on Wikipedia)
- Cold War covert overthrow of governments by the US
- Guatemalan coup d'état of 1954
- Iranian coup d'état of 1953
- List of Military Interventions of the United States
- Mercenaries
- Military-industrial complex
- post-Cold War covert regime change by the US
- US military operations in the 20th and 21st centuries
Private military corporations[edit]
See 'List of PMCs' section above
- Aegis Defence Services
- Danny Heydenreycher (Aegis Victory
- team member in vehicle-shooting video)
- CACI (information gathering)
- Titan Corporation
Academic publications[edit]
- Brooks, Doug/ Rathgeber, Shawn Lee: The Industry Role in Regulating Private Security Companies, in: Canadian Consortium on Human Security - Security Privatization: Challenges and Opportunities, Vol. 6.3, University of British Columbia, March 2008.
- The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security, by Deborah D. Avant, George Washington University, August 2005. ISBN 0-521-61535-6
- Armies Without States: The Privatization of Security, by Robert Mandel, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.
- Private Armies and Military Intervention, David Shearer, April 1998. ISBN 0-19-829440-9
- Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Peter W. Singer, Cornell University Press, March 2004. ISBN 0-8014-8915-6
- Brillstein, Arik: Antiterrorsystem. Engel Publishing 2005 - ISBN 3938547006
- "Privatising Security: Law, Practice and Governance of Private Military and Security Companies" by Fred Schreier and Marina Caparini, DCAF Occasional Paper 6, The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, March 2005.
- "Soldiers of Misfortune – Is the Demise of National Armies a Core Contributing Factor in the Rise of Private Security Companies?" by Maninger, Stephan in Kümmel, Gerhard and Jäger, Thomas (Hrsg.) Private Security and Military Companies: Chances, Problems, Pitfalls and Prospects, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2007. ISBN 978-3-531-149011
- The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Non-academic publications[edit]
- Making A Killing, James Ashcroft. Virgin Books. ISBN 1-85227-311-9
- Licensed to Kill : Privatizing the War on Terror, Robert Young Pelton ISBN 1-4000-9781-9
- Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific, Robert Young Pelton, August 2006. ISBN 1-59228-100-1
- An Unorthodox Soldier, Tim Spicer, September 2000. ISBN 1-84018-349-7
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Jeremy Scahill, Nation Books. February 2007. ISBN 978-1560259794
- ↑ Peter W. Singer, ({{{year}}}). "Outsourcing War," Foreign Affairs, {{{volume}}}, .
- ↑ Barnes, Julian E. America's own unlawful combatants?. Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Vieira, Constanza COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: Coca Spraying Makes for Toxic Relations. IPS.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Private Security Transnational Enterprises in Colombia José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers' Collective February, 2008.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Yeoman, Barry (2003-06-01). "Soldiers of Good Fortune". Mother Jones magazine. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/05/ma_365_01.html.
- ↑ Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Speak at JHU SAIS, press release December 2, 2005
- ↑ Secretary Rumsfeld's Remarks to the John Hopkins, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
- ↑ Bill Number H.R.5122 for the 109th Congress
- ↑ H.R. 5122 109th: John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
- ↑ Farah Stockman (01-07-2007). "Contractors in war zones lose immunity". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/01/07/contractors_in_war_zones_lose_immunity/. </li>
- ↑ Crisis as SAS men quit for lucrative Iraq jobs, The Daily Telegraph article dated 15/02/2005
- ↑ Soldiers to be allowed a year off to go to Iraq to earn £500 a day as guards, The Daily Telegraph article dated 23/05/2004
- ↑ $150,000 incentive to stay in US elite forces, The Daily Telegraph article dated 07/02/2005
- ↑ Special forces get pay raise, National Post article dated August 26, 2006
- ↑ Merle, Renae (2006-12-05). "Census Counts 100,000 Contractors in Iraq". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401311.html. </li>
- ↑ Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17 (revised). (PDF)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Peter W. Singer (March/April 2005) Outsourcing War. Foreign Affairs. Council on Foreign Relations. New York City, NY
- ↑ A movieclip containing the behavior of alleged Aegis Defence Services driving in Iraq
- ↑ 'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers, Daily Telegraph article from 26/11/2005.
- ↑ Discussion on a blog about Aegis trophy video
- ↑ Blackwater license being revoked in Iraq
- ↑ http://www.cpa-iraq.org/regulations/20040627_CPAORD_17_Status_of_Coalition__Rev__with_Annex_A.pdf
- ↑ Hirch, Michael (2007-09-20). "Blackwater and the Bush Legacy". Newsweek: p. 2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20892483/site/newsweek/. </li>
- ↑ "Blackwater staff face charges". CNN.com. 2007-09-23. http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/23/blackwater.probe/index.html. </li>
- ↑ "SL:SoF Synopsis". Foreign Correspondent (ABC Television (Australia)). http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/s220036.htm. </li>
- ↑ "Sierra Leone: Soldiers of Fortune, Script". Foreign Correspondent (ABC Television (Australia)). http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s433773.htm. </li>
- ↑ U.S. firm offers 'private armies' for low-intensity conflicts, WorldTribune article from March 29, 2006
- ↑ Congo Holding 3 Americans in Alleged Coup Plot, Washington Post article from May 25, 2006
- ↑ Congo Deports Nearly 3 Dozen Foreigners, Washington Post article from May 29, 2006.
External links[edit]
- Democracy Now! website, particularly searches for 'Blackwater' and PMC investigator Jeremy Scahill
- Shadow Company award winning documentary on PMCs with footage of Blackwater, 2007
- Riding Shotgun in Baghdad with Blackwater's Security Detail Robert Young Pelton's article in Popular Mechanics about his month spent with Blackwater running Route Irish between the Green Zone and Baghdad International Airport.
- "Making a Killing: The Business of War", Center for Public Integrity, October 2002.
- "The Private Military Industry and Iraq : What Have We Learned and Where To Next?", DCAF Policy Paper 6, 2005
- The Strategic Contractor - op-ed 19 September 2007 by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
- P.W. Singer. "Can't Win with 'Em, Can't Go To War without 'Em: Private Military Contractors and Counterinsurgency"]. Brookings Institution Policy Paper No. 4,.
- U.S. Army Sustainment Command. A site to accumulate and offer materials helpful to the resolution of legal issues arising from the in-theater use of contractor support to military operations.
- The UK Foreign Affairs Committee agreed to the following (Ninth) Report: On Private Military Companies on 23 July 2002.


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Bon Air Baptist Church Launches Bon Air Baptist @ the Village on the Site of New Covenant Baptist Church in Richmond's West End
(Richmond, VA – May 22, 2013) – Bon Air Baptist, a church with multiple campuses on Richmond's southside, has launched a new church on the site of New Covenant Baptist in the near west end. Called Bon Air Baptist @ the Village (bonairbaptist.org/village), this church will offer people throughout Richmond, and especially those in its immediate community, a vibrant place to gather for a family-focused worship service and Sunday school program. While the official launch date is Sunday, September 8, 2013, the new church plans to reach out to the community this summer with a neighborhood BBQ, Vacation Bible School, and a small-group program that nurtures spiritual development. The church eventually plans to open a coffee café with free wi-fi, as well as a preschool program in 2014.
"New Covenant Baptist is a church that's rich in spirit, and its members are strong in their faith," says Travis Collins, senior pastor at Bon Air Baptist. "So when they approached us last fall about making their facility one of our campuses, we saw this for the blessing that it is. Our mission at Bon Air Baptist is to increase the number of lives transformed by a relationship with Christ," Collins says, "and one of the ways we accomplish this is by establishing new campuses of our church. Thanks to the vision and faith shown by members of New Covenant, Bon Air Baptist @ the Village has been born."
To give the new church momentum, more than one hundred people from Bon Air Baptist formed a launch team, committing themselves to worshipping at the church and assuming leadership roles to encourage its growth. Together with former members of New Covenant, members of the launch team will serve the church in a variety of ways, from teaching Sunday school and singing in the choir to initiating mission projects and caring for the grounds. These members will also play a key role in helping the church start a preschool program in 2014.
"Different people have different styles of worship," says Jake Maxwell, the campus pastor at Bon Air Baptist @ the Village, "and Bon Air has grown over the years both in membership and diversity by meeting the distinct needs of each worshipper. We have found this approach to be the most effective way to bring people into relationship with Christ at a time when membership at some churches is waning. That is not the case at Bon Air Baptist. We're growing."
The name Bon Air Baptist @ the Village implies community. "We want to create a sense of closeness and fellowship among the members of these two churches, and the word 'village' connotes that kind of relationship," says Maxwell. "But what's just as important, if not more important, is the sense of community we want to develop with people in the neighborhoods that surround us. Located at the vibrant intersection of Patterson Avenue and Horsepen Road, we want people to view us and use us as a resource that's vital to their spiritual growth."
Bon Air Baptist Church
The original campus of Bon Air Baptist, the Buford Road Campus, was founded in 1952 on the growing outskirts of Richmond, Virginia. Since then, the church has grown to be one of the largest and most dynamic churches in Richmond, offering dozens of ministries that reach into its home city and out to its home state, nation, and world. In addition its Buford Road Campus, Bon Air Baptist worships in several other locations. The James River Campus began in 2006, and the Robious Hall Campus, which offers two services, one of which is in Spanish, opened its doors in 2009. The church is also home to Northstar Community, a Christ-centered recovery ministry founded on the belief that a spiritual problem, with a spiritual solution, underlies our various life experiences and struggles.
For more information about Bon Air Baptist @ the Village, please visit the church's website at bonairbaptist.org/village or call Jake Maxwell at 903-649-4935. You may also learn more about the Village at http://babcnewcampus.blogspot.com.


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Members of the Boise City Council are (back, L-R) council members TJ Thomson, Ben Quintana, Lauren McLean, Scot Ludwig (front, L-R) Council Pro Tem Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter and Council President Maryanne Jordan.
The Mayor works full-time, managing the day-to-day operations of the City and providing leadership and policy direction to the City Council. The Mayor chairs all meetings of the City Council, voting only in the case of a tie. The six members of the City Council work part-time, holding budget and policy-setting authority for the city. The Mayor and City Council members are elected at large by popular vote. City Council members are elected to a specific Council seat, but the seats are not determined geographically. City elections are held in odd number years (e.g. 2007, 2009, 2011).
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Boise September 21st 2007, Boise Police have taken a juvenile male into custody on a robbery charge in connection with a case that took place one week ago. On September 13th, a young male robbed a business on the 3300 block of Five Mile. Detectives through the course of the investigation identified a juvenile in his teens as the suspect who was taken into custody this morning. The suspect in this case is a juvenile and no further information about the arrest is available. The suspect faces one count of robbery at this time.
Boise September 14th, 2007. Boise Police are investigating a robbery that took place overnight. At approximately 9:00 PM thursday evening the 13th victims tell police an unknown male entered a business on the 3300 block of North Five Mile and demanded money. No weapon was displayed during the robbery. The suspect left the restaurant with an undisclosed amount of cash. The man was last seen leaving the establishment on foot. Victims contacted Boise Police who conducted a search of the area however, the suspect was not located.
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State Department Intelligence and Research Predicted 1973 Arab-Israeli War
Key INR Memo Published for the First Time
A "Case of Wisdom Lost" Nearly Lost
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 415
Posted — March 5, 2013
Edited by William Burr
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Washington, D.C., March 5, 2013 — The fabled but previously secret State Department intelligence memorandum that predicted, five months in advance, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, has now emerged from classified vaults that were so obscure that even State Department historians and CIA FOIA officers could not penetrate them. Published for the first time today by the National Security Archive the INR memo from May 1973 warned Acting Secretary of State Kenneth Rush that there was a "better than even bet" that war between Egypt and Israel would occur "by autumn."
According to the INR analysis, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat would initiate a war with Israel not for specific military objectives but to spur "big power" diplomatic intervention in the Arab-Israeli conflict so that Egypt could regain the Sinai Peninsula lost in the 1967 War. On 6 October 1973 war broke out in the region.
The existence of this example of INR acuity has been known for years, but the document itself was surprisingly elusive. State Department historians preparing the official Foreign Relations of the United States series could not find a copy, even with their security clearances and access to classified files, and neither could CIA FOIA offices as recently as 2011.
The author of the INR paper, Roger Merrick, anticipated that if war unfolded, U.S. "interests" in the region would come under attack because of the close American-Israeli relationship. He anticipated the possible nationalizations of petroleum facilities, "efforts to displace US oil companies with those from Europe and Japan," and "prolonged oil embargoes." The prescient analyst did not discuss the implications of such a conflict for U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, which had close ties to Egypt and Syria (U.S.-Soviet relations was not his field), but he might have anticipated that it could lead to increased tensions, possibly even a crisis. Other intelligence organizations in the U.S. government disagreed with the estimate of war and the conflict came as a surprise to the U.S. and Israeli governments. A post-mortem of the intelligence failure characterized the INR paper as a "case of wisdom lost."
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Time Commanders Returns 21 hours ago
2010 has been a stellar so far for the Xbox 360 with a lineup that contained great exclusive games and multiplatform titles. Here are the top ten games released for the system during the first-half of the year.
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hoggys2much Aug 1, 10Just who the heck wrote this pathetic article and just what the heckl is he smoking?
Bug ridden mess Red Dead Redemption and that dire mess Mass Effect 2 better than Bayonetta??? WT!!!
Is he having a laugh.
I would just like to point out that EDGE magazine gave Bayonetta it 12th maximum 10/10 in 16 years and Famitsu gave 40/40.
Did his pathetic top 2 games get that? NO they did not!


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Speaking from experience, some Ice-cream man do a real lousy job at securing the ice-cream to the cone…
Which why some people like me now eat straight out of a (Ben & Jerry's) ice-cream tub…
The sad thing is that, if our local ice cream vendors are any indicators of the national trend, Dean could have bought two gallons of store ice cream for what the vendor charged for that single cone.
Sorry Dean.
Remember the Dixie cups?
(sigh) Yes.
I can remember the Good Humor truck coming to our neighborhood so many, many moons ago…..
Ice cream bars were generally ten cents. Something with flair, such as a toasted almond, cost fifteen cents. A cup of ice milk would cost ten cents, and was as much fun to get all over your face as it was to eat it.
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Marketing, distribution, and business support services group DCC is considering changing its primary listing from Dublin's Iseq to the London-based FTSE as the profile of its business and investors change.
In its interim management statement, DCC said it is reviewing its listing and expects to make a decision on its future listing shortly.
"The board is considering whether DCC should seek admission to the FTSE UK Index Series in order to increase the awareness of DCC among the international investor community," the company said.
"In addition, as part of this process, the board is considering whether it would be appropriate to change DCC's reporting currency from euro to sterling. It is expected that this review will be completed within the next few weeks."
The Irish Stock Exchange said this review was prompted by the admission requirements of the FTSE and that, in order to be eligible for inclusion in the UK series, an Irish incorporated company must meet the FTSE UK nationality requirements.
"Currently, DCC is dual-listed on the ISE and [London Stock Exchange] and 83% of DCC's trading takes place on the ISE. The consequence of complying with the FTSE's rules would mean the cancellation of DCC's Irish listing and the loss of its euro quotation," the ISE said.
DCC said its operating profit was well ahead of previous years and was driven by DCC Energy, which benefited from a colder winter that pushed up energy usage compared to the extremely mild winter the year before.
DCC Energy, the group's largest division, grew by 19% as people across Europe turned up their heaters.
DCC SerCom, the group's second largest division, performed in line with forecasts.
The business in Britain benefited from strong growth in mobile communications and tablet products, but growth was hampered by a weak home entertainment market and a challenging trading environment in continental Europe.
The company has also completed a number of acquisitions including finalising a deal to take over British generics manufacturer Kent Pharmaceuticals (Holdings) Limited.
The company has €200m committed to finalising takeovers including Kent, BP's LPG distribution business in Britain, and other LPG distribution firms across northern Europe.
Overall, DCC anticipates that its operating profit and adjusted earnings per share will be approximately 17.5% and 20% ahead of the prior year, respectively.
NCB analyst Gerard Moore said that the company's performance supports the upgrade in earnings outlook.
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Luckily, my arm did not get broken tonight so I could write this article!
Tonight, we witnessed broken arms, terrible dancing and one confusing ending.
As I do every Monday night following Raw, I present the top questions going forward.
These questions are meant to stimulate conversation and give us pause, so we can examine current storylines.
Shall we have at it?


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Bizarre: FFII award for OOXML opponents goes to Microsoft
The Kayak Prize 2007, awarded by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) for the most effective campaign against Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) as a standard, went to Microsoft itself.
Microsoft had submitted its internal OOXML format in December 2006 for ISO standardization. The non-profit organization FFII declared the event a "war of formats". The foundation spearheaded the anti-OOXML lobby and took a stand with its own "NoOOXML" website. As a part of the publicity campaign FFII offered an award for the best campaign leader in the fight against the Microsoft format. Now the FFII has given the prize to its opponent, Microsoft, stating that the company had played the biggest part in ensuring that the ISO vote went against Microsoft because it failed to achieve a majority in the first round of voting.
The statement by FFII President Peter Hintjes isn't exactly flattering: "By pushing so hard to get OOXML endorsed, even to the point of loading the standards boards in Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, and beyond, Microsoft showed to the world how poor their format is. Good standards just don't need that kind of pressure." He continued, "All together, countries made over ten thousands technical comments, a new world record for an ISO vote. Microsoft made a heroic — and costly — effort to discredit their own proposal, and we're sincerely grateful to them." The foundation explains that its own activities were far cheaper; in fact, the Noooxml.org domain cost them just twelve euros. If Microsoft doesn't want to collect the prize of 2500 euros, minus the twelve for the domain, at the awards ceremony, the money will go to earthquake relief in Peru.
In February 2008, the results of the first vote will be discussed by the ISO committee, and Microsoft will have a chance to improve its document format. Mario Wendt, Interoperability Architect with Microsoft, speaking in an interview with Linux Magazine, said that he was optimistic, and that suggestions by ISO members on the Microsoft format will lead to success in the long-term: "We are confident that we will be able to integrate them with the standard to the satisfaction of our customers and competitors". In contrast to Microsoft, FFII does not believe that the Redmond standard will make the grade: " We think they (Microsoft) will make cosmetic fixes and then push all the harder. It's exactly the worst approach and will alienate many governments, possibly spelling the end of their global office monopoly."
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American College of Toxicology 2014 Annual Meeting
Date: 2014-11-08
Location: Hyatt Regency Grand Cyprus, Lake Bueno Vista, FL USA
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The Annual Meeting provides an ideal venue for keeping abreast of emerging trends in the discipline of toxicology, for staying connected with friends and colleagues, and for making new connections. The people have spoken! While attendance at annual scientific meetings across industry is in a downward trend, ACT meetings continue to attract record-high attendance. This may be attributed to many things, but Council continues to ensure development of Symposia and Continuing Education courses that are directly applicable to the daily practice of toxicology. ACT is also a society whose size and culture offer consistent appeal to those who enjoy interacting personally with speakers, Council, and other colleagues in the field.
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Turn San Pedro Creek into a linear park like Leon and Salado Creek and make it link with the Mission Reach of the river. 0
5:03pm Jun 17, 2011
Where? San Pedro Creek/West side of downtown
Put an actual square/plaza in Cattleman's Square. It'll make a great public space infront of VIA's multimodal center and help make the line more attractive to riders. 0
4:32pm Jun 17, 2011
Where? Medina St. & Houston
Provide affordable minimum 2-bedroom housing downtown to young urban professionals - rent or to own. 0
3:53pm Jun 17, 2011
Where? All of downtown
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Reverse the course that the repaving of Houston St. has done. Open it up again to allow for more lanes rather than one in both directions. Increasing the ease of access to downtown is vital to rebirth 3
3:52pm Jun 17, 2011
Where? Houston St.
By Armando Gaytan
No more surface parking lots 0
3:50pm Jun 17, 2011
Where? All of downtown
By Number Two
Line every single street with shade trees. 2
1:17pm Jun 17, 2011
Where? All over downtown
By Scott Martin
Give tax breaks to retail chains to establish stores downtown. All that's down there now are restaurants, bars and T-shirt shops for tourists. 0
4:01pm Jun 16, 2011
Where? Virtually anywhere on Houston Street, the old Solo Serve building, the old Joske's building, Commerce Street from City Hall west. Look around -- you'll see abandone storefronts.
By Robert Kolarik
Remove the window tint from the Robert E. Lee Apartment building on the street level. It looks abandoned, maybe add street level store fronts. 2
11:59am Jun 16, 2011
Where? 111 W Travis, corner of Travis and N. Flores.
By Malik SAT
engage Green vegetarian restaurant the bike rental shop on the block between marshall and euclid. Salvation Army has a lg parking lot empty 0
4:48pm Jun 15, 2011
Where? N. Flores near Green Vegetarian
Populate parking lot with a Farmers Market or Flea Market 1
2:57pm Jun 14, 2011
Where? Alamodome Parking Lot
By John Kenny
an effort must be made to keep the fountains clean & operating. More trees and shrubs. Raspa and Hotdog vendor carts. 1
2:08pm Jun 14, 2011
Where? Main Plaza
By Joan Korte
Open the bottom floor of the old Joske's department store for vendors and artists to have small shops that face Commerce and Alamo to eliminate the blank wall syndrome along Commerce. 1
1:00pm Jun 14, 2011
Where? Commerce and Alamo
By Trisha Logan
Develop a more pedestrian friendly parkway along Durango. Include angled parking, landscaping, and a paved path for bikers and walkers. 1
12:48pm Jun 14, 2011