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On October 31, 2003, in a piece called The Time of Withdrawal I wrote: "I think one thing is predictable in a world where predicting anything accurately is a low-percentage bet: Sooner or later, the time of withdrawal will be upon us. Some of us would like it to be sooner, not later… But, given ongoing events in Iraq, the idea of withdrawal is already on an inexorable course into the mainstream world."
I seldom return to my past writings, but looking back at this essay, in the context of the first presidential debate and ongoing events in Iraq, set me thinking about how subjects that are, in some often hard-to-label fashion, tabooed in the mainstream media nonetheless percolate upwards into our American life -- just as the idea of withdrawal from Iraq has recently begun to do.
Two of John Kerry's lines on Iraq from the debate leaped out at me for quite different reasons. There was the most depressingly expectable moment, his emphatic comment, "Now that we're there, we have to succeed. We can't leave a failed Iraq." (To which the answer would have to be, "Every moment we delay announcing a plan to withdraw from Iraq means an ever more deeply failed Iraq.") As Kerry returned to the campaign trail the morning after his encounter with the President, he took up just this issue even more emphatically, responding to Bush criticisms by saying: "Well, Mr. President, nobody's talking about leaving, nobody's talking about wilting and wavering. We're talking about winning and getting the job done right."
It's here that the President got in his strongest riposte more than once: "My opponent says help is on the way, but what kind of message does it say to our troops in harm's way, 'wrong war, wrong place, wrong time'? Not a message a commander in chief gives, or this is a 'great diversion.'" There is indeed an inherent illogic embedded in Kerry's position and the President picked up on it. If the war was a massive botch, a plan-less mess, then shouldn't he indeed be planning to end it, not "win" it? Shouldn't some form of withdrawal be his obvious goal? Shouldn't he want to avoid letting more American soldiers die for a mistake?
But in this debate there are, as yet, not two sides, not quite two positions. At best, Kerry's is only a half position over from the President's. Still, that half-position is interesting, even potentially promising; and, for me at least, it provided the single most unexpected moment of the night. Kerry said of Iraq:
"As I understand it, we're building some 14 military bases there now, and some people say they've got a rather permanent concept to them. When you guard the oil ministry, but you don't guard the nuclear facilities, the message to a lot of people is maybe, 'Wow, maybe they're interested in our oil.' Now, the problem is that they didn't think these things through properly. And these are the things you have to think through… I will make a flat statement: The United States of America has no long-term designs on staying in Iraq. And our goal in my administration would be to get all of the troops out of there with a minimal amount you need for training and logistics as we do in some other countries in the world after a war to be able to sustain the peace."
Now, it would be a promising beginning to any withdrawal strategy to state up front that the United States has designs neither on Iraqi oil, nor on permanent bases in the country, despite the $2-3 billion or more that has already gone into building our elaborate base structure there. At best, then, there's a potential withdrawal strategy lurking somewhere under Kerry's "winning" strategy, but more on that later. Let me first turn to those "14 military bases" with that "rather permanent concept to them." Their sudden appearance in the first presidential debate was nothing short of a strange miracle, given that our media has essentially not mentioned them, no less covered them for almost the last year and a half.
The "Enduring Camps" that couldn't be seen
As those of you who read Tomdispatch regularly know, I've long hammered away at our permanent bases, also known in Pentagonese as "enduring camps" – something close to an oxymoron. If you didn't factor those "camps" into the equation that was Iraq, the Bush administration's policies there made no sense from the start. (And almost no American could have done so, since almost no one knew about them.) If you did, they made a mockery of the neocons stated desire to create an independent, "democratic" Iraq rather than an occupied, acquiescent client state at the heart of the Middle East.
On April 19, 2003, Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times wrote Pentagon Expects Long-Term Access to Four Key Bases in Iraq, a front-page piece about plans to build four permanent bases in Iraq. The story was denied by the Pentagon. No major paper in the United States had even mentioned them again by October 2003 when, in "The Time of Withdrawal," I wrote:
"When thinking of withdrawal, it's important to remember that it was never a concept in the Bush administration's vocabulary. Despite all those years of Vietnam 'lessons' and Colin Powell's 'doctrine' which said that no military action should be undertaken without an 'exit strategy' in place, Bush's boys had no exit strategy in mind because they never imagined leaving. Of course, they expected to quickly draw down American forces in the face of a jubilant and grateful population. But there was no greater signal of our long-term intentions than our dismantling of the Iraqi military, and their planned re-creation as a lightly armed border-patrolling force of perhaps 40,000 with no air force. Put that together with the four permanent bases we began building almost immediately and you know that we were expecting to be Iraq's on-site military protector into the distant future."
Except for the number of permanent bases, that paragraph remains accurate to this second. Almost a year after the Times piece came out, in March of 2004, the Chicago Tribune published a piece on those permanent bases, mentioning the number fourteen for, as far as I know, the first and only time in a news article. No other mainstream publication or significant American media outlet of any sort had a piece on the subject again until just last week when David R. Francis of the Christian Science Monitor wrote US bases in Iraq: sticky politics, hard math. It said in part:
"If a new Iraq government should agree to let American forces stay on, how many bases will the US request? One, as the United States Army currently maintains in Honduras? Six, the number of installations it lists in the Netherlands. Or maybe 12? The Pentagon isn't saying.
"But a dozen is the number of so-called 'enduring bases' located by John Pike, director of GlobalSecurities.org. His military affairs website gives their names. They include, for example, Camp Victory at the Baghdad airfield and Camp Renegade in Kirkuk. The Chicago Tribune last March said US engineers are constructing 14 'enduring bases,' but Mr. Pike hasn't located two of them."
The planned (and now built) bases, obviously already in the works before our invasion even began, were proof that the Bush administration was, from the beginning, ready to settle into Iraq, however peaceable it might prove, for a long, long stay. If, of course, you were a visitor to political websites and blogs on the Internet, you would probably know a little more about the existence of such bases from places like Tomdispatch, Globalsecurity.org, or to give a recent example, Justin Raimondo, columnist for antiwar.com; if you wandered the foreign press on the Internet, you might have found the odd piece on the subject in the British Observer or, say, Middle Eastern papers like Jordan's al-Arab al-Yawm.
But around this crucial subject a silence, until recently, lay like a pall; this despite the fact that our press regularly covers the Pentagon's global basing policies; despite the fact that, given all the problems involved in covering the Iraqi story (see below), American reporters are assumedly still capable of visiting U.S. bases like Camp Victory in Baghdad or Camp Anaconda near Balad with its 12 ½ mile circumference, its first-run movie theater, its two swimming pools and fitness gym; despite the fact that reporters in touch with me insisted they were indeed considering taking up the subject. Some of these bases, after all, are elaborate facilities, comparable to those we built in Vietnam in another era, and they must be impressive indeed. (Check out, for instance, a description of Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.)
And yet somehow, despite a blanket of self-censorship or inexplicable indifference, the subject has suddenly bubbled up out of the precincts of the Internet and into our Iraq conversation in recent weeks. To offer but two examples, William Pfaff, columnist for the International Herald Tribune last week wrote a piece entitled 'De Gaulle option' may be our best Iraq exit strategy which had the line, "The principal purpose of the invasion of Iraq was to make it into Washington's new strategic anchor in the Middle East, with permanent U.S. military bases there, and an assured American role in its economy and oil industry"; while in The Last Deception, columnist Paul Krugman of the New York Times wrote on September 21:
"But if the chance to install a pro-American government has been lost, what's the alternative? Scaling back our aims. This means accepting the fact that an Iraqi leader, to have legitimacy, must be able to deliver an end to America's military presence. Unless we want this war to go on forever, we will have to abandon the 14 'enduring bases' the Bush administration has been building."
Neither of these brief references is likely to knock your socks off, unless you realize that nothing else like them has been written in month after month of media "debate" on Iraq. Krugman, who -- we know -- does visits sites on the Internet might have picked this up from there or from the now-ancient Chicago Tribune piece. My own guess is that Kerry (or his people) probably then picked up the subject and the number of bases from the Krugman piece -- and so, somehow, permanent bases managed to emerge from the nether world of blanket inattention, except on the political Net, and enter the Iraq discussion, such as it is, at the highest levels.
What isn't being reported on what isn't being reported
You turn on the TV and there's a CNN reporter standing on what looks like a porch set against the night sky of Baghdad; from there he offers us a report on the situation in Iraq. Only one problem, he's more or less stuck on that porch. It would evidently be difficult, if not impossible, for him to hear about a breaking story, jump into the nearest car or taxi, and head down the road. The danger to foreigner reporters, especially Western ones, especially American ones (and, of course, the Iraqis they interview) is now simply too great.
Trapped much of their time in their hotels, or perhaps in their company offices, or in the U.S. occupied and fortified Green Zone -- the six square miles of Baghdad that we set aside 18 months ago to house our occupation and have never given up -- western reporters, unless embedded with U.S. troops, now act largely as collators of government or military news (or leaks), of reports from Iraqi stringers (who can move somewhat more freely through an increasingly dangerous landscape), of gossip or rumors from elsewhere, and even of information that can be picked up off the Internet on, say, Juan Cole's Informed Comment website; but they're increasingly not reporters a lot of the time -- and so what passes for Iraqi news in our media turns out to be a very limited diet indeed. And yet, I haven't seen a single serious report on the subject of reporting from Baghdad in our press.
Now, this may be obvious enough to news junkies keeping careful tabs on Iraq or anyone who knows someone who's been reporting from the place, but most Americans can't have the faintest idea. Two weeks ago, in a dispatch entitled Incident on Haifa Street, I wrote:
"If anything, parts of Iraq began blinking off the map of American reportage long before they disappeared from the military map of the country. Now our reporters, unless embedded with American forces, are largely trapped in restricted parts of Baghdad, waiting for the war to come to the Green Zone. Most of the major papers have hired Iraqi reporters to help them out, but don't imagine for a second that what you're reading is simply the news from Iraq. Note, for instance, that when the helicopters struck in Haifa Street, only several hundred yards from the Green Zone, Arab television was there but, as far as I could see, not CNN or the networks. The reasons for all this are quite understandable. Iraq is now a desperately perilous place for unarmed, or even armed, westerners. I won't be surprised when the first American news organizations, like the last of the relief organizations, simply decide to pull out. What's far less understandable is that the conditions for reporting in Iraq, for our 'news' on Iraq, go largely unreported."
Then, last week -- still with not a single My-Day-in-Baghdad piece published by a single Western reporter in "Iraq" -- a fascinating thing happened. It turned out a reporter had written just such a story -- shocking, honest, blistering. It began: "Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest." And it continued:
"I am house bound. I leave when I have a very good reason to and a scheduled interview. I avoid going to people's homes and never walk in the streets. I can't go grocery shopping any more, can't eat in restaurants, can't strike a conversation with strangers, can't look for stories, can't drive in any thing but a full armored car, can't go to scenes of breaking news stories, can't be stuck in traffic, can't speak English outside, can't take a road trip, can't say I'm an American, can't linger at checkpoints, can't be curious about what people are saying, doing, feeling. And can't and can't. There has been one too many close calls, including a car bomb so near our house that it blew out all the windows. So now my most pressing concern every day is not to write a kick-ass story but to stay alive and make sure our Iraqi employees stay alive. In Baghdad I am a security personnel first, a reporter second."
And that was in many ways the mildest part of the report penned by Farnaz Fassihi, a skilled Wall Street Journal reporter, who in the Journal's pages had made the most of the limited opportunities Iraq now offers a foreign reporter. Last week, for instance, Fassihi wrote a superb piece, "For Iraqi Families, 'Green Zone' Is Hardly an Oasis" (not available on line), about Iraqis who were already living in what became the Green Zone and are now trapped there. ("Iraqi residents can enter only with special identification badges issued by the U.S. military. They must endure hours-long lines at checkpoints and then submit to a search… 'I miss living in Baghdad,' says the 27-year-old Mr. Jumah. 'I don't know where this is we are living.'")
When it came to Fassihi's piece on her life as a reporter, the only catch was: It wasn't a Journal piece at all, but an e-letter to friends that somehow was released onto the Internet where it sped around like a demon. In the end, Fassihi confirmed that the document was the real deal, though she did so not to an inquiring mainstream reporter but to Jim Romenesko, a media columnist for the Poynter Institute who first posted her letter. When queried by the New York Post, Fassihi's WSJ editor Paul Steiger supported her (WSJ Editor Backs Iraq Screed) with a classic defense of the status quo: "Ms. Fassihi's private opinions have in no way distorted her coverage, which has been a model of intelligent and courageous reporting, and scrupulous accuracy and fairness." In this way was Farnaz Fassihi's private news turned into a piece of mainstream media gossip. Her piece still hasn't gotten significant coverage in our major papers.
But everything does have an effect in one strange way or another, and so on Saturday what might be termed the first mainstream news story appeared -- not about Fassihi, of course -- but about the situation of reporters and reportage in Baghdad. The New York Times put European News Organizations Are Reducing Presence in Iraq by correspondent Jacques Steinberg at the bottom of page 6 (of that day's thin paper). Steinberg reported that, as I just guessed might happen two weeks earlier, major European news organizations had either "scaled back" their operations or were simply pulling out of Iraq due to the way events (including the kidnapping of two French journalists) had limited the ability of reporters to report.
Steinberg's last three paragraphs -- confirming my theory that most Times pieces should be read back to front since the last paragraphs, meant only for committed news junkies, are often the most revealing -- also brought us the first news we've had in print on the state of reporting in Iraq as the Times sees it:
"Ethan Bronner, deputy foreign editor of The New York Times, said the five staff reporters now in Iraq - roughly the same number assigned there in recent months - had experienced frustration at their travel limitations inside the country.
"'Our reporters feel they cannot wander unaccompanied,' Mr. Bronner said. 'There's even concern about not returning to a place they've been, for their own safety and for the safety of the people they've been visiting.
"'It's not possible to report the way we'd like,' he said, 'or the way we're used to.'"
You could now say that, thanks to the last three paragraphs of a page 6 Times article, the story of what isn't being reported in Iraq has its first hold -- by a fingernail perhaps -- in the mainstream. Sooner or later, it will undoubtedly become a front-cover story in the Times Sunday magazine as well as a commonplace of news about Iraq, and no one will even remember the time when it couldn't be written about.
It's worth considering, though, why Farnaz Fassihi -- and perhaps other reporters like her with real stories about the ever more constricted nature of the reporting they're doing -- had to write this to friends and not to her editor to be published for the rest of us. Why was this story not fit for American readers? We have to assume, after all, that those editors back in New York or Washington or Chicago or Los Angeles are dealing daily with the difficult dilemma of ensuring their reporters' safety and so would find Fassihi's comments no surprise. But amid all the news that's fit to print, news that would make sense of Iraqi reportage clearly wasn't. Thank god for the Internet.
This is not a small matter when you, as a "consumer" of news, try to assess the quality of the news you're getting. So I say again, it's strange the way certain subjects percolate up into our world out of the political part of the Internet, which is increasingly becoming our great percolation range (and is sometimes used as such by mainstream publications). There, you can find a kind of unvarnished writing like Fassihi's, but unlike hers actually meant for the public.
To give but two recent examples: The biting William Saletan of Slate and the always sharp Chris Dickey of Newsweek (but only in a "web exclusive commentary" for that magazine) have written scathingly of something that should have been more widely noticed and reported on in the mainstream: The Bush administration has continually claimed that escalating violence in Iraq was only a sign of oppositional desperation, a last gasp of effort before a certain date. Last spring, it was the June transition of sovereignty; now it's the November election in the U.S. or the January elections (that may or may not happen) in Iraq. As the date passes and violence and opposition only escalate, administration officials simply push the ever-receding violence horizon on to the next event. About this, Saletan wrote:
"Three months after the handover, the attacks continue to escalate. Fallujah is completely out of control. Is this failure? No, it's success. Things are getting even worse because we're doing even better. Now it's the January 2005 Iraqi elections, not the June 2004 handover, that's supposedly inspiring the enemy's desperation. If we stay the course till January, we'll turn that corner we thought we'd turned in June."
Dickey's version of what he calls the administration's "hallucinatory rhetoric" was:
"Will Iraqi elections in January solve this problem? No. The elections are yet another artificial deadline or milestone declared by the U.S. government largely so it will have something to tell the American public. Since the summer of 2003 we've heard repeatedly that if there's an increase in violence, it must be because the insurgents want to undermine some great new American accomplishment just over the horizon. The through-the-looking-glass logic is that the more successful we are, the more violent the opposition becomes. But, then, the event passes, and the killing just keeps getting worse. The death of Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay in July 2003 did nothing to stop what was then an insurgency in its early stages. Neither did the capture of Saddam himself in December 2003, as the rebellion continued to spread. Neither did the supposed transfer of sovereignty in June, which was followed by the appearance of no-go zones for U.S. troops in much of the Sunni heartland."
Withdrawal on the agenda
We know Iraq's a mess -- that's now widely accepted -- though it wasn't back in October 2003 when I wrote: "The president of the greatest power on Earth is being forced by events in '5% of Iraq' to call in his advisers for endless meetings, shake up the structure of his administration, hold sudden news conferences, offer new and ever more farfetched explanations of American actions, and backtrack on claims -- all because of Iraqi resistance." And I added the historically obvious: "Invade Texas, invade Iran, invade China, invade Albania, invade Lebanon, invade Iraq -- name your place, in fact -- and you better not assume there won't be resistance. Someone always resists. That single sentence sums up the last two centuries of global history."
Back then, having reviewed our sordid history in Iraq from the 1950s on, I tried to sum up our Iraqi problem in four sentences:
"History, long term and more recent, is not on our side.
"We are a war-making and an occupying force, not a peacekeeping force.
"We never planned to leave Iraq.
"Time is against us.
"Or to boil all this down to a sentence: We are not and never have been the solution to the problem of Iraq, but a significant part of the problem."
But back in October 2003, when only a couple of brav, isolated souls in the mainstream media like James Carroll of the Boston Globe and Bob Herbert of the New York Times had even brought up the idea of "withdrawal," it was not yet on anyone's agenda. It was, in fact, widely dismissed. (I remember, for instance, watching Charlie Rose one night during this period telling Richard Holbrooke that no one -- meaning no one respectable -- could possibly suggest that we leave Iraq.)
What a difference eleven months of catastrophe make. What a difference even the last weeks -- in which significant portions of Iraq have been turned into "no-go" areas -- make. Now, withdrawal is in the air and increasing numbers of our pundit class, most of whom have been painfully behind the curve in their Iraqi assessments, have declared that the time at least to contemplate various forms of withdrawal is at hand. "Withdrawal" -- rather than "cutting and running" –is fast becoming a respectable position (even if not yet, in many cases, the right one). This is a growing consensus that extends from liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen (" I still don't think the United States can just pull out of Iraq. But I do think the option is worth discussing.") to conservative columnist Robert Novak ("Inside the Bush administration policymaking apparatus, there is strong feeling that U.S. troops must leave Iraq next year. This determination is not predicated on success in implanting Iraqi democracy and internal stability. Rather, the officials are saying: Ready or not, here we go."); from Professor W Andrew Terrill, the top expert on Iraq at the Army War College's strategic studies institute ("If we leave and there's no civil war, that's a victory.") to former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski (who recently speculated on the possibility of a withdrawal policy on the Charlie Rose show); from Knight Ridder's respected military analyst Joseph Galloway who offered "we get out" as the third, and clearly most reasonable, of three Iraqi options ("A suggestion in one of my recent columns that we begin the withdrawal by establishing American enclaves on the Iraq borders has gained some traction and is being discussed by Army planners, we are told.") to a front-page Sunday Week in Review piece in the New York Times by Roger Cohen entitled What If America Just Pulled Out?
Of course, we can't be surprised, given the magnitude of the disaster. Back in Oct of 2003, organizing the kind of elections that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani wanted still might have been possible. Everything, in fact, would have been so much easier, including withdrawal. Since then, things have gotten much worse. Given another eleven months, it's reasonable to assume that they will grow worse yet.
The American public has, in fact, long been ahead of the pundits on this issue, a perception the most recent Chicago Council of Foreign Relations poll reinforces. More than two-thirds of both the public, reports Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service, "agreed the United States should withdraw from Iraq if a clear majority of Iraqi people want it to do so." (And a staggering majority of Iraqis, by the polls of the Coalition Provisional Administration, our pre-June occupation entity, showed that to be the case.) Even the Bush administration now seems obsessed with the issue of withdrawal; in an upside-down fashion, of course, but the point is, it's now on the American brain. The first days of a "season" of withdrawal have dawned in the mainstream. Someday, undoubtedly (though how far down the line we have no way of knowing), withdrawal will seem like the obvious strategy, the only one. Our pundits will speak of it with approval, and few will even remember the raw days when they were dismissing it, and anyone who suggested it, out of hand.
Of course, at the moment, whether Novak is right or not about the policies of a second Bush administration, the officials of the first one simply want to stop the public-relations bleeding in Iraq. And so, not illogically (and with the distinct help of kidnappers in that country), they are making a major, if hopeless, effort to replace all bad news and negative information from Iraq with "uplifting accounts." And, of course, they have launched what's being billed as the first operation in a rolling campaign to take back that country's urban "no-go areas," starting with one of the last cities to fall off the American map of the country, Samarra. We've sent several thousand American troops backed by our air power, and newly trained Iraqi troops as well into the city; and as guerrillas will do in the face of overwhelming force, the insurgents are reported to be "melting away."
After three days we, or our Iraqi client-officials, are already declaring "victory." According to a New York Times report, our troops went through Samarra neighborhoods kicking (or shotgunning) down doors -- in one case finding a startled Turkish truck driver being held hostage.
The problem for the Bush administration, of course, lies not in "taking" the no-go cities of Iraq, but in what to do with them, once taken. You can kick down the doors to apartments, shops, offices, and governmental buildings; it's less easy to kick down the doors to people's brains. Bombs and other heavy armaments, however "precise," are by their nature indiscriminate and tend to do quite the opposite -- as of course does the kicking down of a door if a hostage isn't on the other side. Nor can you build up doors on your own side based solely on military training and a paycheck, though both presidential candidates have put great emphasis on the need to speed up the training of Iraqi troops and police. You can train someone to fire a gun or wield a baton, but you can't train him to be loyal. You can't train him not to see the obvious. You can't train him to be the Iraqi of your dreams.
As we all know by now, there are only 140,000 American troops in Iraq. Our troops can't be left garrisoning "taken" cities all over the country. There aren't enough of them. So those cities will have to be turned over to the troops and police of a regime whose prime minister's major speech in the United States was at least partially written by someone on the Bush election team. We all know -- or should know -- more or less what's likely to happen to the cities where (non-Kurdish) Iraqi troops are the main or sole garrisoning force. They will not remain "taken" for long. Things will get more desperate. The time of withdrawal, which will by then be a defeat beyond measure, will sooner or later be upon even a second Bush administration.
Should John Kerry be elected, the question is: Will he and his advisors feel themselves trapped inside his campaign promises to "win" the war in Iraq and by a fear of being labeled -- by the Republicans who are sure to give him a post-election day respite of perhaps 30 seconds -- the flip-flopper-in-chief? Even now, inside his "winning" strategy lie the seeds of a withdrawal strategy, including a no-oil, no bases pledge; but he won't have long to get out. As the canny columnist William Pfaff wrote, citing the way French President Charles De Gaulle once bit the bullet over Algeria and negotiated a French withdrawal:
"If John Kerry wins the U.S. presidency in November, he will find himself in the same plight as Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon when they took office. Each inherited another man's war. Each prosecuted that war -- Johnson reluctantly, Nixon because he thought he could do better. Both failed and were destroyed by the war…. Kerry expresses no such doubts. He apparently accepts what 'everyone knows' in Washington today: that 'failure in Iraq is not an option.'
"This is true, but not in the way they think. Failure is no longer an option; it is a certainty. The questions that remain are failure's timing, and the gravity of its consequences... If Kerry is elected president, he will have the de Gaulle option. He will have a window lasting a few months during which he could reverse U.S. policy and expect, provisionally, to carry public opinion with him…
"The consequence of failure in Vietnam unseated the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Revolution in Iran and retreat from Lebanon in 1983 damaged the Carter and Reagan administrations. This year Iraq may defeat George W. Bush. Why should Kerry, an intelligent man, wish to be next?"
Withdrawal has bubbled up, finally, into the mainstream, though not yet quite into the realms of policy-making. That may not be enough, but it is something. Let me end with my final words of October 31, 2003. I don't think one of them yet needs to be changed:
"For me at least, the imperial occupation of the lands of this earth – whatever the empire – is unacceptable. Any armed occupation will always be part of the problem not the solution on this planet. In our present world, such acts can only lead to hell. We need to pressure this administration hard to step outside the box it has created for us, our troops, and the Iraqi people who truly did deserve a liberation and not the occupation and looting that they are living through. They are not the spoils of war.
"Let us offer Iraq genuine help, reconstruction aid, and support of all sorts afterwards, possibly indirectly through groups whose interests can't be mistaken for ours. But our troops are an occupying army. They can't keep the peace. They are the war."
Read more dispatches by Tom Engelhardt at Tomdispatch.com, a web log of The Nation Institute.


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Sami slapping Nicole . . . I can hear the chants of Jer-ry, Jer-ry.
Mason, I agree, the sets are hideous and need a lot of work.
As for the music, is Ken Corday himself taking charge of this? I mean, he has been credited for some of the show's music.
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I come here today as president of the Wisconsin chapter of The Periodic Table Fan and Library Club, which is open to anyone who owns at least five books honoring all things you can drop on your foot. Or to quote Theodore Gray in his e-book, The Elements: "The Periodic Table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot."
So remember to think "elements" when you next drop a hammer on your toes. Gray's book resides on my iPad but the rest of my Period Table library overflows a shelf in my home office. Of course, my idea of periodic table literature may not be that of the classic chemist. My collection includes John Emsley's poisonous take on The Elements of Murder, Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, which mixes chemistry, memoir and fiction into a sometimes heartbreaking exploration of life and of death, and Sam Kean's charming book, The Disappearing Spoon (and other true tales of Madness, Love and The History of the World From The Periodic Table of The Elements) which asks the all important question: "Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of Cadmium (Cd, 48)?
So you can see why I was delighted to discover that No Starch Press in San Francisco (publisher of The Cult of Lego) has just released a translation of Japanese illustrator Bunpei Yorifuji's Wonderful Life with the Elements: Periodic Table Personified. Yorifuji has a cult following in Japan thanks to a series of cartoon etiquette posters he did for Tokyo subway riders, titled "Just Do It At Home." The posters dance with humor and so does his version of the Period Table in which every element becomes a character, and a hard-working character at that. Consider the multi-tasking nature of carbon (C) below, as he hurries busily from purifying water to creating ink:
The book has already received an enthusiastic review at Brain Pickings, where Maria Popova described herself as smitten. Me too. I especially loved a section titled "How to Eat the Elements," which points out that our own bodies are made of elements – "about 34 elements, actually" – all essential to a healthy life. Consider the minerals, calcium (Ca) or magnesium (Mg) which help us build and maintain strong bones. "If a body were an orchestra, the minerals would be its conductors. If it were an airport, the minerals would be its control tower," Yorifuji writes, which tells you that the writing is as fun as the illustrations.
My only complaint is that he didn't do a fully illustrated page on the element Dubnium (Db, 105), a radioactive man-made element named after Dubnya, Russia, where the Joint Institute for Radioactive Research is located. I happen to particularly admire that element for the self-absorbed reason that it contains my initials. This Db omission led me to search the book for an element that might yet be about me. I did mention the self-absorbed bit right?
And this led me to Lithium (Li), drawn by Yorifuji as a woman with way too much to do, which seems to define my life these days. I also appreciated the image with her hair on fire, which was something that I achieved in freshman chemistry lab when I managed to ignore the fact that my braid was dangling in a Bunsen burner. I would tell you more about that ("Do you smell smoke?" asked the lab instructor) but I'm leaving now to find a special place of honor on the Periodic Shelf of Books.
All images courtesy of No Starch Press.
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This is a drink that requires macerating before 4 months until can be consuming. Obviously I do not recommend it if you're thinking of preparing something quick, but I guarantee that if you have the patience to wait, the result is a delicious drink that will surprise all your guests.
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20 green walnuts picked before they have fully matured
1 liter of white Aguardiente* (you can use white rum)
1 gr of grated nutmeg
1 clove
500 gr sugar
Crushed nuts and place in a glass bottle, sprayed with Aguardiente and allow to macerate for 2 months. After 2 months pass the preparation in a colander.
Bring back the liquor in the jar, add sugar, nutmeg and clove. Cover and let macerate for another 2 months, shaking occasionally.
If by this time the sugar has not dissolved completely prolongs the duration of the maceration.
When the liquor is ready, strain through a cloth.
* Aguardiente is a type of liquor used in Colombia, it comes from fermentation of sugar cane, colored transparent as water, a high alcohol degree with a slight sweetness, this type of liquor is very common in Colombia and is consumed in almost throughout the country. In different regions of the country, there are several types of this liquor, in the eastern plains people of this region makes Aguardiente Llanero, in the coffee zone of Antioquia, Aguardiente Antioqueo is produced. Its flavor varies a little, but the ingredients happen to be the same.
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Lack of holiday updates is becoming an issue for many.At least make the loot relevant, seriously 470, Useless for the majority of players this far into the expansion.Blizzard really need to address the holiday issue, I'm hoping the datamined mounts for Winter's Veil could be the start of a full seasons revamp.
lets see how many subscriber the next quarter will bring to us.
You missed one bucket at Stonetalon Peak in Kalimdor.
OMG 470 loot ? I thought it would be at least 480.... oh well just another useless drops then and not even a gold bag to compensate the fact that you can't sell or disenchant them.These world events are getting old for real, nothing new.... they update the boss encounters and the loots only once for the current expansion and that's all.
I'm having trouble on the Let the Fires Come quest. I'm trying to do it in Goldshire and on my realm, there is never anyone else around. Is there anywhere that this can be soloed?LOL - One time when CRZ would actually be helpful :)Cheers.
BTW - No bucket for Alliance on Theramore Isle any more.But it's still in the Achievement, so where the heck is it?
I couldn't find the item that says "You better eat it before it gets bad" or something like that ,from wowhead. Help? :/
One of my favorite events of WoW :)
Can't DE them anyway.
i run 9 toons everyday for the headless horseman mount 6 days still no mount
Yea I feel you man been trying to get that mount too :/
when i do this on my lvl 89 shammy healer the loot filled pumpkin gives me only candy and a mask. no rare or epic! im hoping i'm not wasting my time farming the mount with this toon just to learn only 90's can loot the good stuff
You cannot DE or sell the rings the HH drops, but you can DE the stuff you get from the pumpkin.
Uh, not only no d/e, but you can't even vendor the items... all you can do is DELETE them!
Blizzard could increase the mount drop rate. I've been doing it since the start of Hallow's end with 3 chars and nothing til' now.
8 Toons every day - been trying for 5 years now - Bliz should at least look at the ratio of tries - so frustrated! Has anyone actually seen the mount drop this year - cause i haven't - maybe its just no love to Nagrand?


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Re: 49 Things you should know about the PS4!
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FiveFourteen wrote:
Color coded for your replies!
1. The PS4 will require PlaystationPlus for "Multiplayer" gameplay. This does NOT follow onto anything else on the PlaystationNetwork.
Sorry but that's incorrect, it will but only if the developer says so, so most yes, but NOT all multiplayer games will require a PS Plus Subscription.
Also the other poster da1writer didn't post their own poll just a link to an external third-party poll, they broke no Forum rules 514!
Didnt want to take the chance
Isnt that for Free 2 Play games though?
Re: 49 Things you should know about the PS4!
If you look at the detail in the turfs and spectators in the background in the Madden games, you will very easily see that the Xbox version was very clearly favored. In NBA2k12, the spectators and court details are more defined on Xbox, and in Call of Duty, the game targets 60fps on 360 where it targets 30fps on PS3 along with more detailed on the textures of the guns and buildings than what the PS3 version got.
Have the PS3 and Xbox 360 been treated equally… no they most certainly have not.
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Cross platform games have definitely not been set equally during this generation. In Madden 11, Madden 12, NBA2K12, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1 - 3 and Call of Duty Black Ops 1 & 2 if you compare the PS3 version side-by-side with the Xbox 360 version, you will see that the Xbox version has gotten extra attention to detail on the graphics in every case on these games.
If you look at the detail in the turfs and spectators in the background in the Madden games, you will very easily see that the Xbox version was very clearly favored. In NBA2k12, the spectators and court details are more defined on Xbox, and in Call of Duty, the game targets 60fps on 360 where it targets 30fps on PS3 along with more detailed on the textures of the guns and buildings than what the PS3 version got.
Have the PS3 and Xbox 360 been treated equally… no they most certainly have not.
Agreed, I used Digital Foundry a lot when I had a 360 to see the differences between third party games. That's where the comparison ends though. PlayStation 3's first party exclusives are just not possible on anything else, The Last Of Us is a good example. Next generation, the hardware differences look almost identical on paper but if you read my last post, developers would beg to differ, check my posts a few back, I provide links. The PS4 has vastly more resources available to game developers as little is being used for the OS. The Xbox One takes about a third of its hardware resources and dumps it into the OS, leaving very little left for game develops to work with. Game developers have already spoken, PS4 will be superior this next gen and be cheaper and developer friendly (which was the reason why a lot of multiplatform games looking not on par with 360, PS3 was hard to develop for and only first party studios knew the ins and out of the console).
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First of all the difference isn't as awesome as you think it is... 50% more doesn't mean 50% better... it is a rather small difference. These are consoles remember? Not computers.
50% More " powerful " is a line sony is using to market, it does not translate into actually 50% better or even that much of a difference.. remember that most cross platform games were even capped by developers this gen? Even if this were to not happen this generation with current televisions and the specs provided from both sides I would be surprised if you could see a difference in games at ALL.. it has also been said that the PS4 may work unnecessarily harder and that doesn't always mean something good.
Opinion, not fact.
Here is a famous line people use on the interwebs far too often...
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You_Silly_Humans wrote:
For the record number 19 is an opinion not a fact.
Not if the PS4 will have better specs. It may be written as an opinion, but it is actually a fact.
Forbes would like to talk with ya, read all the article or at least the bottom of it.
Oh and specs are better on PS4, here's another article for you to read. Enjoy!
PS4 will actually be 8 cores for games, 7GB of Fast Gddr5 ram available for games (1GB set aside for OS), No GPU used for OS (additional dedicated hardware has been put inside for video out for the OS, just like there is a dedicated chip for remote play streaming).
Xbox One will have 6 cores for games (2 cores set aside for the OS) , 5gb of slow DDR3 ram (3gb set aside for OS), 10% of gpu will be used for the OS. Yeah, the PS4 has better specs, sorry to burst your bubble.
Knowledge is power, the PS4 has plenty of power.
P.s. Dualshock 4 touch pad a clickable button, multiple sites state it, here's one:
Would like to add that while the additional esram may help things with the Xbox One, it sadly isn't enough compared to the PS4 tech. While 1080p native will be for the PS4 with no upscaling, Xbox Ones downgraded tech will only be 720p again (but will be native standard) with only a few games possible for 1080p native, but upscaling will be standard.
On paper you are correct, however even one of your own articles states that on paper, and on your T.V. are two different things http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/game/3452022/ps4-vs-xbox-one-comparison-review/, the truth is you can post as many fan boy links you want of people whining about Microsofts policies, but I think you will be surprised.
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@You_Silly_Humans Those are fanboy websites? Those are pulling dev info from other sites. Where exactly do you want me to pull my information from? Would Neo gaf suffice or something. It seems to me that you might be in a bit of denial. I mentioned that the specs were similar on paper but Sony gives developers more resources to use for games (have you seen screen shots, apparently the PS4 OS looks like as simplistic as the xmb but with more visual cues). Microsoft focused on the multifunction of the console so of course the Xbox One uses more resources for the OS (Microsoft even admited before and during the E3 conference, 3 OS on top of each other, 3gb would be needed to run it along with 2 cores). Mark Whitten, Microsoft's Chief Product Officer, for crying out loud said it in an interview, what more do you want!
Again, where else do you want me to pull my info from since you apparently don't believe my links. I got plenty to choose from since you can't Google for **bleep** sake. Your low post count is making me question your own information, I know you are getting both but holy crap, the facts are in front of your face and only you wish to ignore them.
Ann article for you, it's about Mark Cerney, the technological genius behind the PS4 and how it works. If you aren't impressed with his thinking, you're more lost than I thought.
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Its nice
1. Its like Games for windows LIVE/XboxLIVE but you only pay for online gameplay thats okay with me
3. Its alright no true denial on the price
5. Rumors go of on October but mostly be on November
7. Just because it includes a camera does not mean it will spy on you and the PS4 was originaly going to have its PSeye included and for the whole spy thing its just silly people. So i have a webcam my pc is always online and my OS is Windows "Windows contains NSA software" this means that they can access my PC and spy on me when ever given same will be for the Xbox but its also with phones and other internet connecteded machines were being spied on daily clearly the Xbox One makes no difference.
9. I never buy used games so that never gave me a real reason to hype it during its E3
10. DRM is on PC "Steam and Uplay" it does not affect me at all every game i buy has its code and its DRM im so used to it its normal for me. I personally boycott Used games i dont support that idea at all.
11. I would never give my game to my friends or lend and since im on PC its not possible to do so
12. Looks like stairs
19. Did you see the Assassins creed gameplay at E3? it had issues or the Knack gameplay? it froze up
33. I herd the Xbox One disc speeds are more faster that the console was built to be flat down to prevent the failure the Xbox had with Disc
scratching. PS4 improving disc reading is nice maybe it will load much faster
42. What on earth will that work for?
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The PS4 wont be available to those who dontpreorder because they will all be sold out for this year and those who wont or didnt pre order will have to wait till around february 2014. **bleep**


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Gabriel Dumont scored a hat trick and added two assists as the Hamilton Bulldogs doubled-up the St. John's IceCaps 6-3 in American Hockey League action at Copps Coliseum Friday night.
Dumont scored a pair of first period goals and added the insurance marker late in the third as the Bulldogs snapped their five-game losing streak and handed the IceCaps their second consecutive loss. Jason Jaffray scored twice for St. John's while Eddie Pasquale made 24 saves on 26 shots after coming on in relief for Mark Dekanich in the first period.
Patrice Cormier also scored for the IceCaps, who fall to 3-3 on their current eight-game road trip.
Hamilton got off to a quick start with a power play goal in the opening minutes of the first. After some rough stuff in the early-going (Ryan Schnell and Zack Stortini dropped the gloves two minutes in), Eric O'Dell was whistled for roughing when he came to the aid of Carl Klingberg, who was hit hard into the boards by Louis Leblanc. On the ensuing power play, Patrick Holland took a pass from Michael Blunden, snapping a shot that was redirected in front by Dumont to give Hamilton a 1-0 lead.
Then, just a few minutes later, the Bulldogs extended their lead on a goal by LeBlanc. Alexander Avtsin made a great solo effort to get around an IceCaps defender and was initially stopped, but LeBlanc followed up and banged home the rebound, making it 2-0 just 6:38 into the game.
The Bulldogs kept coming in the opening frame. On another power play, this time after a hooking call on Max Macenauer, Dumont picked up his second of the game. The Bulldogs forward jammed in a loose puck at the side of the net by banking it off Dekanich and in, making it 3-0. The goal spelled an early end to Dekanich's night, as he was relieved by Eddie Pasquale.
In the second, the IceCaps came out strong. Just 2:27 in, Jaffray converted on an odd-man rush for his fourth of the season. After a nice evasive move by Zach Redmond to get the puck up ice, Ray Sawada fed Jaffray just over the Hamilton blueline, and the captain snapped a hard wrist shot past Mayer to cut the lead to 3-1.
Several minutes later, the IceCaps came yet another step closer with their second shorthanded tally of the season. Spencer Machacek forced a turnover by blocking a pass in the defensive zone and raced in alone. Mayer made the initial save but the puck lay in the crease for Cormier, who smacked in his first goal of the season to close the gap to 3-2.
Late in the frame, Jaffray notched his second of the game to knot the score. The IceCaps moved in off the rush before Ben Chiarot dropped a pass to Jaffray at the top of the left circle, and the Alberta native rifled a wrister that beat Mayer on the glove side to make it 3-3 heading into the third period.
However, the third period was all Hamilton. The Bulldogs retook the lead less than two minutes into the frame. Dumont outmuscled an IceCaps defender down low and fired a tape-to-tape pass to Morgan Ellis at the right point, who blasted a slap shot that beat Pasquale on the blocker side to provide the Bulldogs with a 4-3 advantage.
Hamilton iced the game with 1:30 remaining in regulation on Dumont's third. Jarrod Tinordi's point shot was stopped by Pasquale but Dumont grabbed the rebound, spun and fired a shot along the ice that beat the IceCaps' netminder.
Brendan Nash added the empty-netter to make it 6-3.
The IceCaps head to Syracuse Saturday to take on the Crunch, beginning at 9:00 p.m. NT. Catch all the action with play-by-play broadcaster Brian Rogers at stjohnsicecaps.com and 930 AM, or watch online at ahllive.com. Pregame show begins at 8:30 p.m.


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Caller First is a call center analytics app that offers much more than a stripped-down means of accessing BI software remotely. Users can customize their app and choose what data to display, whether it's usage, performance issues or the call historically of any individual customer.
SugarSync is one of the more popular personal cloud storage services out there, and that can be credited to any number of things that it manages to do right. It lets the user sync files or data to any folder in their main computer, and features remote control capabilities that cover more access, organization and sharing options. Offline viewing and media streaming are also included, among other things.
Minute Mate is a neat organization app that's meant for professionals, and offers enough features to live up to this depiction. It lets you take notes, categorize them, take pictures and categorize those too. There's also password protection, backup, iTunes sync, a built-in drawing board for on-the-fly doodles and the ability to take voice memos.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A web camera can be a handy tool, until it's being used against you. Hackers can turn web cams into spy wear, and if you're not careful, they could be watching and listening without you ever realizing it.
"We've had it come up several times," said Tray Leatherwood, owner and lead technician for Computer Clarity, a Colorado Springs computer service company.
He said it's easier than you might think for hackers to access your phone or computer web cam.
"In essence, any two-way communication device that has a mic or camera does have the ability to have those features turned on," said Leatherwood.
He said hackers use web chat programs like Skype, iChat or MSN Messenger. It makes it easy if your settings let anyone call you, and automatically turn on your web cam when you get a call. If you chat with a stranger, Leatherwood said you've just given them enough information to potentially switch your settings.
"Say you're using MSN Messenger and you turn on a video chat with someone you don't know," he said. "They automatically know you're using MSN Messenger and have a web cam, so with those two things, if they can get a virus file into your computer, then they could change those settings."
Hackers can also get into your system by sending you an email or link. Once you click on it, your computer is taken over by the hacker's program. That can automatically turn on your web cam, as well as let the hacker see everything you're looking at online.
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Remember last week when the session drummer from Jack Black and Juliette Lewis' TV bands went on the Grammys and said all that racist shit against DJs right before performing with Deadmaus5? Awkward. A couple days ago he put out a pretty funny, lengthy, and charming apology, in which he said, in part "I don't know how to do what Skrillex does (though I fucking love it) but I do know that the reason he is so loved is because he sounds like Skrillex, and that's badass.
Not to be all crotchety today, but when I was younger, kids in my day carved SLAYER into their arms. It didn't even hurt. And it was classy. The shit is all this about?
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The Northwest Suburban Alumni Chapter invites you to attend the Roosevelt Career Fair at the Schaumburg campus.
Date: Saturday, Feb 23, 2013
Time: 8am - 12:30p.m.
Location: Schaumburg Campus, Alumni Annex Zurich Hall
Your local alumni chapter will provide a continental breakfast and will be hosted by Rev. Larry Bullock, president of the RU Alumni Association and NWSAC.
The Career Fair will also have an exciting keynote speaker and three great workshops to help charge up your job search for 2013.
Meg Schmitz, will start our event with her keynote discussion on Networking for Success in 2013. Meg is a high-energy, solution-oriented franchise expert and professional career coach with more than 20 years' professional experience.
Attendees can choose from 2 of the 3 workshops to attend:
- Workshop I: Using Social Media in Your Job Search, Presenter: Fred McMurray
- Workshop II: Current Employment Trends and Dynamics, Presenter: Fred Ettinger
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Poll: Who's freaking out about this Nemo dude?
The blizzard is coming. Are you losing it? Pissed? Mildly annoyed? Indifferent?
Fri Feb 8 2013
We just hopped out of the cozy confines of our office to grab some coffee, and it's hailing pretty bad out there. So yeah, this Nemo thing is real. A few events this evening have already been canceled, although we're not sure how this mess will affect Fashion Week in the coming days. (Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week's only tweet on the matter today thus far is "What are your last minute wardrobe changes due to weather?!" To which we thought, emphatically, Um, a coat?!?). Before heading out tonight, please double-check which venues that they are, indeed, open. And, as always, be safe.


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Missouri's 7th District Candidates: Energy Policy
Evans spoke about green energy and how to avoid a case like Solyndra:
"We have to have a truly all-of-the-above approach. [We need to] look at conservation, where we look at efficiency improvements..."
I'm interested in solar energy because I have solar collectors on my house. There is a big push right now for some new kinds of grasses like miscanthus, that we can grow biofuels that do not take away from food production."
"And in the case of Solyndra what we found out was, it wasn't a product that people were not ready for or could not compete in the market. What we need to do is look at the market-side stimulation of the economy..."
Evans is talking about tax incentives and rebates there.
The incumbent, Republican Congressman Billy Long, talked about oil reserves, new technology and his energy approach:
"I'm for an all-of-the-above energy policy and the president has gone after green energy, and that's fine, but when it's not commercially feasible for other people to do green energy, and we're loaning money to people like Solyndra, people who lose billions and billions and billions of taxpayer dollars, it makes no sense whatsoever...."
"[The way we secure oil is with the] Keystone pipeline number one, we can get oil from Canada that way, but as far as our own natural resources, well, there's new oil shale development up in North Dakota. Their unemployment is below three percent in North Dakota. I think it's one point some percent right now. We have the new technology. Four or five years ago I couldn't have sat here and said that we have more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia, but today, we know that's true. But yet, we have people that don't want to go after it because of environmental concerns..."
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American Horror Story - Season 2 Episodes
American Horror Story - Season 2
Set in 1964, American Horror Story: Asylum takes us into a Church-run haven for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude (Jessica Lange), a nun with a troubled past. Inside this locked down facility, danger lurks around every corner. From Nazis and serial killers, to mutants and aliens, no one is safe inside these walls. Starring Jessica Lange as "Sister Jude," Sarah Paulson as "Lana Winters," James Cromwell as "Dr. Arthur Arden," Evan Peters as "Kit Walker," Lily Rabe as "Sister Mary Eunice," Lizzie Brocheré as "Grace," Zachary Quinto as "Dr. Oliver Thredson," and Joseph Fiennes as "Monsignor Timothy Howard." Guest stars for the miniseries will include Frances Conroy, Chloë Sevigny, Adam Levine, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Mark Consuelos, and Ian McShane. American Horror Story: Asylum is produced by 20th Century Fox Television.
"Welcome To Briarcliff"
Welcome to Briarcliff Manor, a notorious insane asylum home to the deranged serial killer, Bloody Face. Lurking in the shadows of this "sanctuary of healing" are terrifying evils that blur the boundaries between reality and insanity.
"Tricks And Treats"
An Exorcist is summoned to Briarcliff to help save a troubled farm boy. Sister Jude's darkest secret is revealed.
A violent storm hits Briarcliff, allowing a group of patients to plan a daring escape. Sister Jude is haunted by her past.
"I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 1"
A new patient claiming to be Anne Frank exposes Arden's past. Kit learns why Grace was admitted to Briarcliff.
"I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 2"
Sister Jude employs a renowned Nazi Hunter to gather evidence against Arden. Kit makes a surprising confession. Bloody Face is unmasked.
"The Origins of Monstrosity"
A mysterious little girl is abandoned at Briarcliff. The Monsignor makes a Faustian pact with Dr. Arden. The origin of Bloody Face is revealed.
"Dark Cousin"
Sister Mary Eunice is terrified to discover a dark angel has descended on Briarcliff. Kit makes a bold move to be reunited with Grace.
"Unholy Night"
A murderous Santa wreaks havoc on Briarcliff. Sister Jude faces off with the Devil. Arden has a shocking encounter in the Death Chute.
"The Coat Hanger"
The Monsignor takes an unlikely convert under his wing. Lana secures a new piece of evidence that can exonerate Kit. Dr. Arden witnesses a miraculous return.
"The Name Game"
The Monsignor confronts the Devil. Dr. Arden's experiments reach a shocking conclusion. Dr. Thredson facilitates a surprising reunion for Kit.
"Spilt Milk"
Grace brings Kit devastating news about the aliens' experiments on Alma. Dr. Thredson receives an unexpected visitor. The Monsignor goes to extreme lengths to silence Jude.
A deadly new inmate threatens Sister Jude's chance of release from Briarcliff. Grace's obsession with the aliens turns violent.
"Madness Ends"
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A morning workshop on Friday, November 21, 2014,
New Orleans, LA
Held in cooperation with SC14: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
On This Page
- About the Workshop
- Call for Workshop Papers
- Extended Papers for Special issue of CC-PE
- Workshop Schedule, including slides and posters
- Logistics
- Program Committee
The workshop proceedings are now available in the ACM Digital Library!
A Science Gateway is a community-developed set of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated through a web portal or a suite of applications. Gateways can provide scalable access to many things: a highly-tuned parallel application running on a supercomputer; a remote instrument like a telescope or electron microscope; a curated data collection; tools to create workflows and visualizations linking these different resources; and collaborative venues to discuss results, share curricula and presentations and more. Gateways enable not only researchers with a common scientific goal but also students and members of the broader community by providing access to top-tier resources.
There is much that is common in gateway development regardless of the domain area. But gateway developers typically have few venues for exchanging experiences. Gateways are often developed in a hobbyist environment. This workshop series aims to help change that.
Related Events
International Workshop on Science Gateways (Trinity College, Dublin, June 3-5, 2014)
Science Gateways Workshop at IEEE Cluster 2013
Gateway Computing Environments Series (2005-2011)
About the Workshop
It is the goal of this workshop series to provide a venue for researchers to present pioneering, peer-reviewed work on all topics related to gateways. We hope to provide an interactive forum, including lightning talks, posters, and opportunities to share common experiences. Leveraging knowledge about common tasks can free gateway developers to focus on higher-level, grand-challenge functionality in their discipline.
Our featured keynote speaker will be Charlie Catlett, director of the Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. The Center brings scientists from mathematics and computing together with social, behavioral, economic, policy, education, and health scientists to support research in urban sciences. He's a Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where he also served as Chief Information Officer from 2007-2011. Charlie is a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne and a Visiting Artist at the School of Art Insitute of Chicago. From 2004-2007, Charlie directed the NSF TeraGrid project and from 1999-2004 he was the founding chair of the Global Grid Forum (now the Open Grid Forum).
Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library, and accepted authors will have the opportunity to publish extended versions of their submissions in a special journal issue sponsored jointly with the International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG, hosted at Trinity College, Dublin, from June 3-5, 2014). Details of the special issue are below.
For further details or with questions, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Call for Workshop Papers
We invited the submission of papers related to various aspects of science gateways — their design, but also their use and impact in research and education. The majority of talks will be lightning talks accompanied by a poster. We request an extended abstract of 2-4 pages, plus accepted papers/talks will be expected to have a poster prepared by the time of the workshop (maximum size 4′ x 3′). It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference workshop. Accepted papers will also be invited to submit full papers for the special journal issue described above.
The workshop is Friday, November 21, and presenters should bring a poster at that time.
Format: Papers should be 2–4 single-spaced, double-column pages (including figures, tables and references) in the ACM SIG Proceedings Format. Templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
Accepted papers must include a copyright form signed by all authors. Details may be found on the IEEE Copyright Form page: http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/authorKit.asp?Facility=CPS_Nov&ERoom=GCE+2014 (Note that this link was updated on October 6.)
Topics of interest include the following:
- Gateways connecting aspects of advanced cyberinfrastructure (for example: data collections, instruments, and all types of computing services);
- Gateway interoperability including, but not limited to gateways that make use of one another, gateways that exchange data through new or commonly accepted data specifications such as RDF and SparQL, and gateways that provide common interfaces to disparate data or cross-domain data.
- Gateways in support of new communities, for example supporting rural or underserved communities or in newer computational domains such as digital humanities;
- Design and architecture of gateways, including tools and frameworks that make developing gateways easier;
- Gateway security models and solutions;
- Middleware solutions in support of gateways including Web Services, workflow and mashup composers and engines, and similar capabilities;
- Novel user interface/user experience implementations for science gateways
- Non-browser gateways: desktops and mobile computing gateways;
- Approaches to long-term sustainability (for example, experiences with open source development and licensing);
- Gateways and community building, for example citizen science and social networking successes;
- Gateways used in education;
- The management and governance of gateways, such as securing funding, attracting users, monitoring content, and organizing the development team;
- Demonstrations and success stories; and
- Summary and survey papers.
Extended Papers for Special issue of CC-PE
The deadline for submitting an extended version of a paper accepted to the workshop has been extended to January 19, 2015. Please visit http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2014.html#SGW-2014
Workshop Schedule (Subject to adjustment)
|Presenters (presenters of multi-author papers are highlighted in bold)
|8:30 – 8:45
|Introduction and welcome
|8:45 – 9:30
|Keynote: Charlie Catlett, Director of the Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory – Slides on Dropbox
|9:30 – 10:00
|Lightning talks (presenters noted in bold)
|10:00 – 10:30
|Break with posters to browse (refreshments to be provided by SC14)
|10:30 – 11:30
|Panel – Panelists have been asked to respond to the following questions:
Panelists (in bold) and their papers include:
|11:30 – 12:00
|More lightning talks (presenters noted in bold)
|12:00 noon
|Adjourn for lunch
The workshop will be held at the New Orleans Convention Center, Room 273 (add this event to your calendar from the SC website). Registration through the SC conference is required, and the early-bird deadline is October 15. The cost of registering for the workshop only is $200 for members/non-members ($100 for students); there are other registration options, too (e.g., as an add-on to regular SC registration, the workshop is $50 [or $25 for students]). The hotel reservation system is open now through October 17. Graduate and undergraduate students who wish to attend may consider applying for a Travel Grant through SIGHPC.
Program Committee
- David Abramson (Queensland)
- Roberto Barbera (U of Catania)
- William Barnett (Indiana U)
- Rick Bonney (Cornell)
- Jim Bottum (Clemson)
- Gus Evrard (U Michigan)
- Ross Gardler (Microsoft Open Technologies)
- Sandra Gesing (IWSG)
- Stephen Goff (Arizona)
- Linda Hayden (Elizabeth City State U)
- Peter Kacsuk (MTA-SZTAKI)
- Tamas Kiss (U of Westminster)
- Yan Liu (NCSA)
- Rich Loft (NCAR)
- Katherine Lawrence (U Michigan)
- Alex MacKerell (U Maryland)
- Suresh Marru (Indiana U)
- Michael McLennan (Purdue)
- Mark Miller (SDSC)
- Jarek Nabrzyski (Notre Dame)
- Steven Newhouse (EMBL-EBI)
- Marlon Pierce (Indiana U)
- Dan Stanzione (TACC)
- James Taylor (Johns Hopkins)
- James von Oehsen (Clemson)
- Shaowen Wang (NCSA)
- Von Welch (Indiana U)
- Renata Wentzcovitch (Minnesota)
- Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (SDSC)
- Kate Wittenberg (ITHAKA)
- Michael Zentner (Purdue)


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The Liberal Democrat conference's debate on the economy today has highlighted the tensions thrown up by coalition with the Conservatives. The debate is being addressed by the party leader, Nick Clegg, but not by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who takes both a more critical line on the Chancellor's policies and a more sceptical view of the state of the recovery. To reinforce the impression that the two highest-ranking Lib-Dems are not in complete harmony, Mr Cable is today engaging in Tory rhetoric which seems designed to emphasise his dissatisfaction with coalition policies. Polls suggest that a majority of Lim-Dem activists agree with Mr Cable.
Yet there is some justice in Mr Clegg's contention that the party deserves to share credit with the Tories for the recovery and for ensuring that it is socially equitable. This is Mr Clegg's argument for coalition — that it takes the sharp edges off Britain's party divisions. He says that Labour would have compromised the recovery while the Tories alone would have achieved it less fairly. The Lib-Dems took the difficult decision to back public spending cuts but also raised the tax threshold so as to ensure that the poorest-paid are lifted out of tax altogether, was genuinely radical. Now Mr Clegg suggests that he wants to go further, to ensure that no-one on the minimum wage (though not the living wage) would pay tax.
Being in coalition may not have served the Lib-Dems well electorally — polls show a sharp decline in its popularity since the last election. But the practice has confounded those who thought power-sharing would not work. There is no need for the party to make choices about which party it would prefer to be in government with ahead of an election: if it aims to be equidistant from the two and supports whichever party wins the most votes, the decision is rightly up to the electorate.
Flexible fares
The Liberal-Democrat Transport minister, Norman Baker, has raised the possibility that rail operators could introduce a flexible season ticket to ensure that Londoners who commute to work three or four days a week are not placed at a cost disadvantage to those who do so five days a week. He also wants to see a tapered peak-time fare, made possible by smartcards, to come into effect at the start of rush hour.
This is the kind of flexible thinking we need. Londoners no longer work nine to five, five days a week; rail (and Tube) fares should reflect that reality. The soaring price of season tickets under the inflationary pressure of the Department for Transport's formula for annual ticket price increases has made getting to work more and more of a financial burden for many commuters. Anything that lessens that is to be welcomed.
Debating education
AS Lord Adonis points out on this page, in the last few years London has seen a big improvement in schools in some of its most deprived areas. New academies and free schools are transforming the capital's school system. Yet the successes coexist with the reality that four in 10 16 year-olds are still not getting decent GCSE results. This is the context for this paper's public debate on The Future of Schools, to be held on 8 October. A lively panel will debate how to raise standards and bridge the gap between state and private schools. When it comes to the happiness and life chances of our children, few subjects are more important than schools. Come and join the debate.
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Bad news guys we cant find Hope my sister let her out of the garage and we havent seen her since
Thank you Louie, Gracie Tatanka, Dahlia, Guest, Lexi, Izadore (Izzie) for giving me advice it was really helpful but my sister let Hope out of the garage (Hope was her name the cat who is skin and bones and can barely walk) and now she has gone missing and we cant find her we havent seen her in 2 days and im starting to get worried i hope her "abusers" havent taken her back or that she is dead i really hope her name comes in to play at this point
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Is there any way you can speak with these people to see if Hope has gone back there? If you are diplomatic and non-confrontational and she HAS gone back there, you may be able to get her back. Other than that, about all you can do is keep lookiing for her, put posters up and notify your local animal control officer (through your police department), vets, shelters and rescues about her. If you do get her back (and we will pray that she's OK and comes back), you need to take her to the vet immediately. She needs treatment as she is most likely not well.
Izadore (Izzie) answered on 10/27/10. Helpful? / 0
you have one other option depending on how proactive your spca unit is in your area contact them and tell them of her condition and your fears and they may just be able to call and do a follow up on these people will be thinking of you good luck and we will all pray for the best
gracie tatanka answered on 10/27/10. Helpful? / 0
Try to make some Lost Cat posters and contact friends near by. You might want to contact a animal shelter.I hope you find her soon.
Casey answered on 1/7/13. Helpful? / 0