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The ground war in Iraq Has Started?
Wednesday, 4 December, 2002, 11:01 GMT
'Clashes' in northern Iraq
Fierce fighting has erupted in northern Iraq between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Muslim militants believed to be linked to al-Qaeda, it is reported.
Fighters from a group known as Ansar al-Islam (supporters of Islam) took two PUK hilltop positions near the city of Halabja, close to the Iranian border, according to the Associated Press news agency.
The agency quotes a PUK commander as saying 20 of his fighters were killed or injured in the fighting.
Battles between the PUK and Ansar al-Islam have intensified over the past year in eastern parts of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
The Ansar are largely made up of Iraqi Kurds belonging to several Islamic groups which merged late last year.
They are also believed to include Arab fighters formerly based in Afghanistan, and thought to have links with the al-Qaeda network.
No rest
The Ansar fired heavy artillery as they charged the Kurdish positions, PUK commander Sheikh Jaffar Mustafa told AP.
He said the Ansar had succeeded because the PUK had sent some of its forces on leave for the Muslim holiday of Eid el-Fitr - which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
"They took advantage of the situation," Mr Mustafa said.
"Everywhere in the Muslim world people usually stop fighting for Ramadan," he added.
The PUK controls the eastern part of the autonomous zone in northern Iraq. Western areas are controlled by its rival, the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
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Wednesday Dec 4th, 2002 1:44 PM
The US gave gas to Hussein to kill Kurds, now the US is trying to kill even more by making the Kurdish portion of Iraq the front lines in a new war. Turkey opposed the war until now since Turkey wanted to make sure teh Kurds couldnt come out free. The second Gulf War will be a Kurdish Holocaust.
"On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis said Turkey would open its airspace and air bases to the U.S. military - "
Wednesday Dec 4th, 2002 2:04 PM
Iraq made its own gas from chemicals and equipment imported from western europe and the us. Its easier to make it locally than ship it. Your logic sucks Pakistan gave nuclear technology to N. Korea so if N. korea nukes s, korea its pakistans fault? Same as the fatasses who want to sue mcdonalds, always someone elses fault...Blame the evil empire. If kurds die it will be like how they normally die at the hands of their muslem peace loving brothers.
Wednesday Dec 4th, 2002 2:18 PM
Reagan Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas
By Patrick E. Tyler
New York Times | International
Sunday, 18 August, 2002
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- A covert American program during the Reagan administration provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence agencies knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war, according to senior military officers with direct knowledge of the program.
Those officers, most of whom agreed to speak on the condition that they not be identified, spoke in response to a reporter's questions about the nature of gas warfare on both sides of the conflict between Iran and Iraq from 1981 to 1988. Iraq's use of gas in that conflict is repeatedly cited by President Bush and, this week, by his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, as justification for "regime change" in Iraq.
The covert program was carried out at a time when President Reagan's top aides, including Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci and Gen. Colin L. Powell, then the national security adviser, were publicly condemning Iraq for its use of poison gas, especially after Iraq attacked Kurds in Halabja in March 1988.
During the Iran-Iraq war, the United States decided it was imperative that Iran be thwarted, so it could not overrun the important oil-producing states in the Persian Gulf. It has long been known that the United States provided intelligence assistance to Iraq in the form of satellite photography to help the Iraqis understand how Iranian forces were deployed against them. But the full nature of the program, as described by former Defense Intelligence Agency officers, was not previously disclosed.
Secretary of State Powell, through a spokesman, said the officers' description of the program was "dead wrong," but declined to discuss it. His deputy, Richard L. Armitage, a senior defense official at the time, used an expletive relayed through a spokesman to indicate his denial that the United States acquiesced in the use of chemical weapons.
The Defense Intelligence Agency declined to comment, as did Lt. Gen. Leonard Peroots, retired, who supervised the program as the head of the agency. Mr. Carlucci said, "My understanding is that what was provided" to Iraq "was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence."
"I certainly have no knowledge of U.S. participation in preparing battle and strike packages," he said, "and doubt strongly that that occurred."
Later, he added, "I did agree that Iraq should not lose the war, but I certainly had no foreknowledge of their use of chemical weapons."
Though senior officials of the Reagan administration publicly condemned Iraq's employment of mustard gas, sarin, VX and other poisonous agents, the American military officers said President Reagan, Vice President George Bush and senior national security aides never withdrew their support for the highly classified program in which more than 60 officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency were secretly providing detailed information on Iranian deployments, tactical planning for battles, plans for airstrikes and bomb-damage assessments for Iraq.
Iraq shared its battle plans with the Americans, without admitting the use of chemical weapons, the military officers said. But Iraq's use of chemical weapons, already established at that point, became more evident in the war's final phase.
Saudi Arabia played a crucial role in pressing the Reagan administration to offer aid to Iraq out of concern that Iranian commanders were sending waves of young volunteers to overrun Iraqi forces. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, then and now, met with President Saddam Hussein of Iraq and then told officials of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency that Iraq's military command was ready to accept American aid.
In early 1988, after the Iraqi Army, with American planning assistance, retook the Fao Peninsula in an attack that reopened Iraq's access to the Persian Gulf, a defense intelligence officer, Lt. Col. Rick Francona, now retired, was sent to tour the battlefield with Iraqi officers, the American military officers said.
He reported that Iraq had used chemical weapons to cinch its victory, one former D.I.A. official said. Colonel Francona saw zones marked off for chemical contamination, and containers for the drug atropine scattered around, indicating that Iraqi soldiers had taken injections to protect themselves from the effects of gas that might blow back over their positions. (Colonel Francona could not be reached for comment.)
C.I.A. officials supported the program to assist Iraq, though they were not involved. Separately, the C.I.A. provided Iraq with satellite photography of the war front.
Col. Walter P. Lang, retired, the senior defense intelligence officer at the time, said he would not discuss classified information, but added that both D.I.A. and C.I.A. officials "were desperate to make sure that Iraq did not lose" to Iran.
"The use of gas on the battlefield by the Iraqis was not a matter of deep strategic concern," he said. What Mr. Reagan's aides were concerned about, he said, was that Iran not break through to the Fao Peninsula and spread the Islamic revolution to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Colonel Lang asserted that the Defense Intelligence Agency "would have never accepted the use of chemical weapons against civilians, but the use against military objectives was seen as inevitable in the Iraqi struggle for survival." Senior Reagan administration officials did nothing to interfere with the continuation of the program, a former participant in the program said.
Iraq did turn its chemical weapons against the Kurdish population of northern Iraq, but the intelligence officers say they were not involved in planning any of the military operations in which those assaults occurred. They said the reason was that there were no major Iranian troop concentrations in the north and the major battles where Iraq's military command wanted assistance were on the southern war front.
The Pentagon's battle damage assessments confirmed that Iraqi military commanders had integrated chemical weapons throughout their arsenal and were adding them to strike plans that American advisers either prepared or suggested. Iran claimed that it suffered thousands of deaths from chemical weapons.
The American intelligence officers never encouraged or condoned Iraq's use of chemical weapons, but neither did they oppose it because they considered Iraq to be struggling for its survival, people involved at the time said in interviews.
Another former senior D.I.A. official who was an expert on the Iraqi military said the Reagan administration's treatment of the issue -- publicly condemning Iraq's use of gas while privately acquiescing in its employment on the battlefield -- was an example of the "Realpolitik" of American interests in the war.
The effort on behalf of Iraq "was heavily compartmented," a former D.I.A. official said, using the military jargon for restricting secrets to those who need to know them.
"Having gone through the 440 days of the hostage crisis in Iran," he said, "the period when we were the Great Satan, if Iraq had gone down it would have had a catastrophic effect on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and the whole region might have gone down. That was the backdrop of the policy."
One officer said, "They had gotten better and better" and after a while chemical weapons "were integrated into their fire plan for any large operation, and it became more and more obvious."
A number of D.I.A. officers who took part in aiding Iraq more than a decade ago when its military was actively using chemical weapons, now say they believe that the United States should overthrow Mr. Hussein at some point. But at the time, they say, they all believed that their covert assistance to Mr. Hussein's military in the mid-1980's was a crucial factor in Iraq's victory in the war and the containment of a far more dangerous threat from Iran.
The Pentagon "wasn't so horrified by Iraq's use of gas," said one veteran of the program. "It was just another way of killing people -- whether with a bullet or phosgene, it didn't make any difference," he said.
Former Secretary of State Shultz and Vice President Bush tried to stanch the flow of chemical precursors to Iraq and spoke out against Iraq's use of chemical arms, but Mr. Shultz, in his memoir, also alluded to the struggle in the administration.
"I was stunned to read an intelligence analysis being circulated within the administration that `we have demolished a budding relationship (with Iraq) by taking a tough position in opposition to chemical weapons,' " he wrote.
Mr. Shultz also wrote that he quarreled with William J. Casey, then the director of central intelligence, over whether the United States should press for a new chemical weapons ban at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Mr. Shultz declined further comment.
Wednesday Dec 4th, 2002 2:27 PM
In 1987, Hussein intensified his fight against ethnic Kurds for their support of Iran during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, bulldozing some 4,000 villages and using a combination of nerve agents, mustard gas and possibly biological weapons on several towns. The 4 million Kurds living in northern Iraq have a different culture and language from Iraqi Arabs and have fought for independence for decades.
Human Rights Watch estimates that 500,000 to 100,000 people died during the campaign. But the assault on Halabja and other Iraqi repression received little attention from the administration of then-President Ronald Reagan, which backed Iraq over Iran.
"The Western countries in 1988 didn't do anything against the Iraqi regime, " said Dr. Adil Karem, director of the Halabja Martyrs Hospital.
"Now they use the Halabja issue for their own benefit," he added, referring to Bush's citing of the incident.
Wednesday Dec 4th, 2002 2:32 PM
Amidst the ongoing efforts about building an alliance under the leadership of United states to effect a regime change in Iraq by all means, and as an Iraqi Kurd, somehow I have unease about the way the representatives of the American administration are trying to depict the post-Saddam build in Iraq, one hears repeatedly the assertions of the territorial integrity of Iraq after any regime change without mentioning the legitimate solution of a federated Kurdistan with the rest of Arab Iraq, the American foreign secretary did not mention any thing about the Kurds in his testimony to the Senate, and the vague condemnations of the Iraqi Dictator who gassed his (own) people without mentioning the Kurds by name and the mixed signals of deputy defense minister during his visit to Turkey lately about the American commitment to the territorial integrity of Iraq without mentioning the Iraqi Kurds with a single word, although its the atrocities that Saddam committed against Kurds which constitute the backbone of the arguments for regime change by the American administration, the silence of the American administration towards the provocative threats of Turkey to intervene in In Iraqi Kurdistan and occupy parts of Kurdistan to prevent any Kurdish entity whether its independency, federation or autonomy as if the Iraqi Kurds belong to the long buried ottoman Dynasty, all these among many other attitudes and statements raises a genuine suspicion that the Americans are probably ready to betray the Kurds again as they have done repeatedly without any remorse in 1975, 1988 und 1991, this time to appease its ally Turkey, a country with shameful history of treating Kurds in north Kurdistan within the boundaries of present Turkey or to comfort Arab nationalists within the Iraqi opposition.
The American administration must learn from its previous mistakes in dealing with legitimate issue of Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan and other parts of Kurdistan, the refusal of the successive Iraqi regimes to recognize the Kurdish aspirations and their resort to military force, assimilation and genocide to suppress the Kurdish uprisings did actually push Iraq into three bloody wars during the reign of Saddam Hussein alone, the internal war against Kurds and Shiites,the Iraq-Iran war and the first Gulf war, the Kurds in Iraq are, really without any exaggeration the key to stability in Iraq, they will continue to be a key to the stability in the post-Saddam Iraq, because they are the only force that have taken real steps to build democracy and a civil society which can serve as a model for future federated Iraq with its ethnic and religious diversities.
The American administration must restrain the Turks and forbid them from threatening and intervening in the affairs of Iraqi Kurdistan, because the Kurds are a democratic force which is grateful for the American protection in Kurdish safe heaven and are looking forwards to cooperate with Americans, as long as they guarantee their legitimate rights of self-determination in post-Saddam Iraq.
The Kurdish political leaders must abandon their good heartedness or naivety and ask the American administration for unequivocal written commitments, which they don't shy to mention to the entire international community and especially to the uneasy neighbors of Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey. In the Western world spoken words are forgotten quickly,
only written and signed statements can withstand the test of time. Without such commitments and clarity the Future of Kurds and other Iraqis in the Post-Saddam Iraq looks gloomy.
Dr.Nazad Hawramany
Wednesday Dec 4th, 2002 3:02 PM
23 Nov 2002 11:48
Turkish soldiers, Kurd rebels clash in north Iraq
TUNCELI, Turkey, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Turkish soldiers have pursued Kurdish separatists across the border into northern Iraq, but the death toll from three days of clashes was not yet clear, a military official said on Saturday.
Members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) told the Mezopotamya News Agency they had killed seven Turkish soldiers and four intelligence agents, but the official denied the army had suffered any losses.
He said "a great number of PKK were killed" after the army used ground forces and helicopters to track PKK fighters in a rugged mountain area bordering Turkey's Sirnak province.
The Turkish army regularly enters northern Iraq, where it keeps a military base, to fight PKK guerrillas who have waged an armed struggle for an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey since 1984. More than 30,000 people, mainly Kurds, have been killed.
Fighting has dropped off sharply since the 1999 capture and sentencing of PKK commander Abdullah Ocalan, who ordered his followers to withdraw from Turkey into northern Iraq.
Europe-based Mezopotamya, closely linked to the PKK, carried a statement from the separatists saying Turkish soldiers began attacking rebel camps across the border on Wednesday and that fighting continued.


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Safety reminder for boaties
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Safety reminder for boaties
As the mercury rises and everyone heads for the water, boaties and jet skiers are warned to take extra care.
A number of complaints have been received by Gisborne District Council about boats speeding up and down the city's rivers in the last few weeks.
City rivers are already busy with waka ama crews, rowers and kayakers so any type of motorised craft must take extra care, says Sarwan Kumar, regulatory services manager. "Our beaches are starting to fill up with locals and holiday makers enjoying a famous Gisborne summer. We urge all boaties to use common sense especially when close to shore and around swimmers. Slow down, it is very hard to see people in the water if you are travelling at speed."
Jet skiers are also reminded that their toys can be dangerous and they must stick to a five knot speed limit.
A maximum speed of 5 knots (9km/hr) for jet skis or any boat towing water skiers and biscuits within 200 metres of shore or on rivers is stipulated in Council's Navigation Safety bylaw. This is also the maximum speed within 50 metres of another craft or people in the water. An observer must be on board during towing or water skiing activities.
Rowers and kayakers can't use the bylaw as an excuse to go easy on their training. The maximum speed limit only applies to power driven vessels. Waka and other human powered vessels are exempt.
A $200 instant fine can be issued to anyone breaking the bylaw. These fines will be issued by the Harbourmaster and Council's monitoring and enforcement officers, who will not hesitate to issue these when boaties and skiers engage in dangerous behaviour.
"Surf lifesavers patrolling our beaches will be Council's eyes and ears. They will be keeping an eye on boat and jet ski behaviour close to shore. Their job is to keep beach users safe. If they see anyone not complying with the bylaw they will contact Council or the police. Anyone observing people breaking the bylaw can contact the surf lifesavers, who will take further action. People can also contact the Council or Police directly. If you are approached by a lifeguard please listen and do what they say – they are there to help you keep safe."
Visitors and residents are reminded that to use a jet ski in the Gisborne district it must be registered with Council. Registration is free and enables Council to monitor jet ski activity. Jet skis must display a unique identification number on both sides of the craft. The registration form is available from Council's website or Customer Services in Fitzherbert Street or Te Puia Springs.
There is a designated jet ski area beyond Midway Beach at the beacon opposite Pacific Street. The area is identified by orange posts and signs on the beach. Jet skis can easily be launched from the beach here. The area is close to the popular surfing area "The Pipe". Here jet skiers must also keep a safe distance from swimmers and surfers and stay 200 metres away from the waters edge.
Swimmers are reminded that The Cut at the Port end of Waikanae Beach is a designated access lane for boats and swimming is not permitted.
• Don't drink and boat or jet ski
• Wear your lifejacket at all times.
• Don't overload the boat, it could capsize
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Fears have re-emerged that iron ore prices are likely to succumb to pressure from patchy Chinese economic data and the unfolding 20 per cent annual surge in exports from the Pilbara, forcing investors to place the earnings outlook for leading producers on high alert, The Australian newspaper reports.
Prices for the key steel-making raw material have fallen $US4 or 4.1 per cent over the past two days to now be fetching $US112.50 a tonne.
The Australian reported on Wednesday that the sharp fall was attributed to the rise in stockpiles at Chinese ports to near record levels and another easing of mining bans in India, which have kept up to 50 million tonnes a year off the seaborne market.
India's Supreme Court also lifted a ban on iron ore mining in Goa, but restricted output to 20 million tonnes a year.
Most recently, the March 10 low of about $US104 a tonne for iron ore was reached after a shock one-day fall of $US9.50 a tonne or 8.3 per cent. That lent weight to the growing number of analyst calls — and a warning from
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Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared today during a tour of East Jerusalem that several of the Arab terrorist organizations which have organized sabotage acts in Israel had been broken up and he promised help to all residents of Judea and Samaria in the occupied west bank who were willing to cooperate with Israeli authorities. More than 60 El Fatah terrorists have been captured during the past 24 hours.
Pledging that Israel would guard its peace and security against the marauders, the Premier said he warned the would-be marauders some weeks ago. He added that events of the last few days, when several terrorists were wounded or killed in a major manhunt, should have been taken seriously.
Earlier in the day, Israeli officials reported that most members of an El Fatah group operating in central Israel had been tracked down and arrested and that security forces were now hunting for the remnant of the group believed to be hiding in Tulkarem east of Natanya on the coastal plain. The group was believed to have been responsible for the blasting of a glucose factory in a Hadera and the home of a moshav settler in the area which brought fatal injuries last Monday to his three-year-old son.
The officials indicated that more than 30 of the El Fatah men had been arrested and that large quantities of weapons had been found in the gang's hideout in a hilly area north of Tulkarem.
Another group of 30 El Fatah men was caught today in the Jenin area at the northern tip of Samaria in the occupied west bank. They were found in a hideout and in possession of weapons. Some of them admitted taking part in sabotage training courses in Syria after the Six-Day June war.
A group of village elders of Tulkarem met today to express their dissociation from the El Fatah sabotage acts. The elders declared that the El Fatah men were not local inhabitants but infiltrators from outside the area. They urged the Israeli military authorities not to take any punitive action against local Arabs who, they said, had no connection with the sabotage activities.
Army units, border police and helicopter-borne paratroopers took part in the hunt for the El Fatah unit in the Tulkarem area which began after a wave of sabotage incidents highlighted by the blasts at the Hadera area collectives. The actual hunt started when a border police unit combing some dunes areas suddenly came under fire from three or four men who apparently served as lookouts for the terrorists.
One border police sergeant was killed and another wounded in the clash that followed. Several of the terrorists were wounded or killed and a large number seized. In one incident, a Fatah terrorist was arrested after being disarmed in a hand-to-hand struggle with a border policeman.


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Economic Poverty in Finland 1971-2004
In this paper we examined trends in the economic poverty in Finland using two data sources, the IDS (Income Distribution Survey) and the CES (Consumption Expenditure Survey). We drew on the recent literature on poverty analysis to analyse a range of poverty measures, using dominance conditions to rank the distributions of living standards. We found that poverty rate was the U-shaped curve over the period 1971 - 2004. As regards trends in poverty over time, the long-run perspective available from the CES indicated that from the early 1970s to the beginning of 1990s, the relative poverty rate declined. The latter part of the 1990s and the early years of 2000s were clearly different. We found that relative poverty rose over the period 1995 - 2004 for a very broad class of poverty measures and a wide range of poverty lines. Poverty rate, measuring poverty line 60 per cent from median income, was about 7 per cent (328000 persons) in 1990 and 11 per cent (557000 persons) in 2004. At the same time poverty became more severe. We also found that since the mid 1990s the poverty rate among children grew much faster than the poverty rate in the whole population. Whilst the total numbers in poverty during the 1987 - 2004 on these various definitions rose markedly, the composition of the poor also changed significantly. There is little doubt that unemployed households are the most vulnerable group of the population. Another vulnerable group is families with youngest children less than 7 years.
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DE SMET — Elaine Larson, 82, De Smet, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at a Sioux Falls care center.
Funeral services will be Thursday at 10 a.m. in St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church at De Smet with Father Frankman officiating.
Burial will be in the St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery.
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Below you'll find a brief list of features the developer highlights, but there is one cool thing they never mention. In the Tools menu there is a Monitor File option (disabled by default) that I assumed I knew how it would work. Naturally I thought that if a file was saved with some other text editor while I had it opened that I would be prompted to refresh the file, which is exactly what Notepad++ does. You'll either love or hate the way this works though. When this feature is enabled the file will automatically be refreshed anytime Extreme Editor detects that it has been saved by another app. Let me demonstrate when you may and may not want to use this feature:
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- Text formatting tools.
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- It is a standalone binary: no DLLs or other installation. Copy the application to a flash drive and take it with you.
This is a pretty handy app for anyone that enjoys working in a notepad-like environment, but is looking for some notable features like tabs and syntax highlighting. The file monitoring capability is the cherry on top for me.
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Commentary: Give Nursing Moms a Break at the Office
By Diane Brady
The Japanese screen in my glass-enclosed office gives the place a sort of geisha-girl feel. But that beats the Old World-peasant vibe it had when I donned a shawl and crouched over a breast pump--or the harem look when I simply taped the shawl to the window. With no privacy in the ladies' room, I use my office to pump milk for my eight-month-old son, Elliott. Then I bag the bottle and store it in the staff refrigerator.
Aside from the one time a cleaning woman burst in on me, pumping milk at work has been easy because I just close the door. But that's not all you need. Kati Haney of Chapel Hill, N.C., had her own office but had to endure her male boss calling out "moooo" when she shut the door. Others recount stories of crouching in toilet stalls, suffering razzing, or even being fired for pumping on the job.
NEW LAW. In many cases, there's little women can do. The U.S. is one of the few developed countries with no mandatory breaks for nursing workers, according to the International Labor Organization. Bucking the trend is Illinois, which became one of the few states to require such breaks with a new law signed on July 12. Other states are only just getting around to protecting a woman's right to nurse in public. Just mention the word "breast-feeding" in the average U.S. office, and colleagues may run for cover.
Companies shouldn't be so squeamish. The U.S. Surgeon General and the American Academy of Pediatrics have identified low breast-feeding rates as a serious public health concern. One-third of women never start, and most stop after returning to work--as more than half of women with infants do. Only one in ten working mothers nurses for the recommended year. This despite mounting evidence of breast milk's superiority over formula for reducing allergies, obesity, childhood cancer, and other diseases--not to mention lower rates of some cancers for the mother.
A big part of the problem is that employers often make it tough for working women to nurse. Roughly 7% of U.S. companies now provide designated rooms to pump. If you don't pump regularly, you stop producing milk, and nursing is no longer an option. Corporate America makes big noises about the importance of retaining women. But one reason female workers flee large corporations is their inability to balance work and family once they give birth.
Accommodating nursing is a small step toward making that juggling act a bit easier. The payoff is fewer sick days, increased satisfaction, and lower turnover among mothers on staff. CIGNA Corp. (CI ) says its four-year-old national lactation program, with about 500 participants a year, or a third of its returning mothers, saves more than $300,000 a year in health costs and has led to a 77% drop in lost work time compared with other new moms.
So why do so many large companies ignore the issue? For one thing, most are run by men who may find the topic embarrassing. Ronald K. Beam, vice-president of engineering consultancy RETTEW Associates Inc. in Lancaster, Pa., admits he was unnerved when a worker said she wanted to pump. Brushing aside worries that others might be uncomfortable, he bought a fridge for about $800, plus installed an electrical outlet in the ladies' room.
Ideally, such support should amount to more than a new plug. It should also include consultants, manager training, and classes, along with private places to pump. Eastman Kodak Co. (EK ) takes the extra step of providing pumps to each nursing mom on staff. Mattel Inc. (MAT ) has covered the cost for traveling employees to courier their breast milk home. Even formula maker Nestle USA Inc. (NSRGY ) has a lactation program, which is becoming more popular despite free formula coupons. An added benefit: Pumping at work helps me feel close to my son while we're apart during the day. For a short, sweet period of motherhood, what's best for baby can also be a boost for the bottom line.
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Retiree Accounting: More Than Meets The Eye
Despite plowing billions in borrowed funds into its pension plan, General Motors Corp.'s (GM ) worldwide retirement schemes still had a shortfall of $7.5 billion at the end of 2004. On top of that, the auto maker had a $57 billion gap in its retiree health-care plans. Investors must delve deep into GM's 196-page annual report, to footnote 16, to learn all this. It's certainly not clearly laid out on the balance sheet, where much of GM's retiree obligations are not accounted for at all.
But if accounting rulemakers have their way, GM's $65 billion in unfunded retiree promises -- $20 billion more than its cash and investments -- will be front and center on its balance sheet as soon as next year. Encouraged by the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Financial Accounting Standards Board is moving to bring more transparency to pension and health-care benefit accounting. "The degree of underfunding in these plans has become more and more visible over the years," says Robert H. Herz, chairman of FASB. "We thought we needed to do something quickly to get these numbers on the balance sheet."
Once that's done, FASB will undertake a more ambitious reconfiguring of the way pension and health-care promises are tallied. This second phase could take several years, FASB says. Executives worry it could eventually result in companies having to reflect volatile swings in such liabilities in their earnings reports.
Herz may face a big backlash from business. Standard & Poor's (MHP ) calculates that companies in its 500-stock index owe $442 billion more in retiree benefits than they have put aside. Of that amount, some two-thirds, or almost $300 billion, isn't reflected on balance sheets, according to Morgan Stanley (MWD ). Indeed, Morgan Stanley calculates that if companies put their full pension and other retiree obligations on their balance sheets, reported debt would soar 40%, to $1 trillion. As a result, says Howard J. Silverblatt, S&P's senior index analyst, FASB's move "is going to make [the controversy over expensing] options look like nothing."
GM isn't going to have to stump up $65 billion all at once. Its pensions conform with Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) funding requirements. Legally, health-care promises don't have to be prefunded. Nor would a big downgrade of debt come into play, as debt rating agencies already factor these obligations into their ratings. GM Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer Frederick A. "Fritz" Henderson say the proposed new rules are very complex, and GM doesn't yet know what the impact will be. But GM's shortfalls could shrink this year, given its pension plan's strong performance. GM Chairman and CEO G. Richard Wagoner Jr. would not comment on FASB's proposed changes. But he noted during an analyst meeting on Jan. 13 that GM's plan is now overfunded by $6 billion after earning a 13% return on its investments in 2005, a $3.5 billion gain over 2004. A health-care deal recently signed with the United Auto Workers will cut that liability by $15 billion, according to GM.
Still, the initial change in FASB rules could have a significant impact on how companies employ surplus cash. It will also reset a host of financial ratios, such as debt-to-equity and debt-to-book value, that loan officers, investment bankers, and investors use to evaluate companies. "Anything that affects the balance sheet in this magnitude is important," says Henry McVey, Morgan Stanley's chief U.S. investment strategist.
Companies most affected will be older ones that are often unionized and have large pension plans and substantial retiree health-care commitments. For example, Boeing Co. (BA ) could see $18.6 billion in obligations added to its balance sheet under the proposed rules. Its health and pension plans are still open to new employees. But even companies that moved to freeze their plans, most recently IBM (IBM ), will add a lot of red to their balance sheets if they are underfunded.
The logic of putting these shortfalls on company tabs is simple. Companies have to make good on any underfunding that isn't compensated for by better-than-expected investment returns. And that won't be easy. S&P calculates that seven companies in its 500 index have unfunded retirement liabilities exceeding 25% of their total assets. At the top of the list: appliance giant Maytag (MYG ) (47%), Goodyear Tire & Rubber (GT ) (38%), and Navistar International (NAV ) (35%), maker of trucks and engines. For Lucent Technologies Inc. (LU ), which has $17 billion in assets on its corporate books and pension plan assets of $28 billion, "you can argue that the pension plan is as important as the operating company itself," says Credit Suisse First Boston (CSR ) accounting analyst David Zion.
For many, it's not the pension that hurts them the most. S&P figures retiree health plans are only 22% covered by assets, vs. 88% for pensions. The reason: Besides not being legally required to fund health-care costs, companies don't get the same tax credit for them as they do for pensions. An analysis by accounting expert Jack T. Ciesielski, publisher of the Analyst's Accounting Observer, shows that more and more liabilities are being hidden off balance sheets. He found that for 276 S&P 500 companies such underfunding rose 30%, to $318 billion, from 2001 to 2004, while the amount making it onto balance sheets barely budged, at around $200 billion.
Since many plans are being frozen these days, critics of change argue the accounting issue is fast becoming moot. "It's a dinosaur," says Colleen Cunningham, president and CEO of Financial Executives International, an association of corporate finance officers. "Shouldn't [FASB] be spending time on other things that might make a bigger difference?"
Executives seem especially concerned about the second stage of FASB's overhaul of the rules. Moving unfunded liabilities from a footnote onto the balance sheet is little more than a "geography question," says Gregory J. Hayes, accounting and controls vice-president for United Technologies Corp. (UT ), which has a pension underfunding of $3.1 billion and an estimated $4.5 billion in off-balance-sheet retiree liabilities. "We don't like it, but it's no new news." More worrisome to Hayes is the possibility that FASB might require liabilities and assets to be adjusted to reflect current market values. For his $15 billion fund, a 1% change could add (or subtract) $150 million in income.
Such volatility frightens financial executives, and many would prefer to stick with today's convoluted accounting. "Our concern is that the constant state of change at FASB makes it harder to understand the financial statements," says Hayes. "Our goal is to make [them] more transparent." Which is just what FASB hopes its changes will do.
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WOOTTON Bassett Development manager Mark Varney was pleased with his side's defence as they held off a spirited Corsham Town reserves to win 2-1.
In their previous three Wiltshrie Premier Division games Bassett had conceded 13 goals, albeit winning two of those 5-4.
Last Tuesday they were thumped 5-1 at home against Southbrook but on Saturday goals either side of half-time from Andy Guppy and Jake Covey brought about a more conventional scoreline.
Varney was enthused by the defensive discipline his side showed, especially in the last 10 minutes with Corsham chasing an equaliser.
"They tried their hardest to put us under pressure and I was well chuffed with how the team played," said Varney.
"If I'm honest, I couldn't fault them, I could be picky and pull holes in players if I wanted, as a team performance having conceded 13 goals in the last three games, I think it showed the team's character.
"It was quite an open game, no one was 100 per cent on top for the whole game.
"We had our spells, Corsham had their spells. They put us under a lot of pressure at 2-1 but our 'keeper and back four dealt with that well, despite the pressure we didn't look like conceding.
"I was really pleased with the response from last Tuesday.
"Jake Matthews, who had to go off injured after 70 minutes was running the show.
"Ray Lovell, who was my man of the match, set-up the first goal for Andy (Guppy) with a cross and gave their left-back a torrid time for the full period."
Elsewhere in the Premier Division last season's champions Southbrook picked up a good 3-2 win over Shrewton at home.
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ITT Educational Services (NYSE:ESI) provides postsecondary degree programs in the United States. As of December 2011, it had 144 locations where it offers 73,000 students bachelor's, master's, associate and career-oriented education programs. Due to rising uncertainty about ITT's existing and potential off-balance sheet, third-party student lending programs/liabilities, and relatively inferior free cash flow, the stock has been downgraded by analysts.
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PEMBERTON, a township, in the parish and union of Wigan, hundred of West Derby, S. division of Lancashire, 2¼ miles (W. S. W.) from Wigan; containing 4394 inhabitants. Adam de Pemberton, who held lands here, was living in the reign of Richard I. In the 34th of Edward I., another Adam de Pemberton brought an action of trespass against Thurstan de Northlegh and Matilda his wife, for cutting down his woods at Pemberton under pretext of taking estovers. Sir Robert de Holland obtained a licence to convey to the priory of Up-Holland a mill and sixty acres of land here, with their appurtenances. Pemberton is subject to the fee of Newton-in-Makerfield, of which the Legh family are lords; and the reputed manor is claimed by them in right of their ancestors. The township is bounded on the north-east by the river Douglas, and intersected by the road from Newton-in-Makerfield to Wigan, and by the Liverpool and Bury railway. It comprises 2500 acres, of which 1657 are arable, 807 pasture, 23 woodland, and 13 waste. The population is chiefly employed in agriculture, and in the coal-mines here, which are worked to a great extent: on the west side of the township is the manufacturing village of Lamberhead-Green. A district church, dedicated to St. John, was built in 1832, at a cost of £4766: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Rector of Wigan; net income, £150. The tithes have been commuted for £370. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; and among the schools is one endowed with £8 per annum.
From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 542-545. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51207 Date accessed: 20 July 2010.
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Property Description"N'awlins," "The French Quarter," "Bourbon Street," "the birthplace of jazz," "The Big Easy," "Mardi Gras," "Cafe au Lait," "Creole and Cajun cooking," "Dixieland," "Southern Decadence," "French Quarter Fest," "Jazz Festival," "voodoo," "riverboats..."
All these terms and more conjure up an image of New Orleans that brings a smile to your face, a tap to your toe, and an irreplaceable song in your heart!
THIS is the location of the Lions Inn bed and breakfast -- right "smack-dab" in the middle of all this history! A history which has supplied America and the world with a legacy of its musical, architechtural, politcal, and restoration accomplishments.


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I have a new favorite author and blogger, Jeff Jarvis. My first introduction to Jarvis was watching him as an analyst on one of my favorite "new tv" shows, This Week in Google, on the TWiT network. A couple of weekends ago, I drove from East Lansing, MI to Kansas City, MO and back for a friend's wedding. On the way back, I listened to the audiobook of Jarvis's What Would Google Do?. (Get it.You'll thank me later.) It is instantly clear when reading either his book or his blog, BuzzMachine, that Jarvis "gets" the internet and new media as much as anyone. His book discusses Google's philosophies about business, customers, publicness, creativity, and community, and how they all might be applied to other institutions.
Jarvis does a really excellent job of distilling some principles of Googliness (one of the many fun, Google-related words he invents) in a way that makes them meaningful while being general enough to apply to a lot of different circumstances. Here are some of my favorites:
- "Give the people control, and we will use it."
- "The link changes everything…Do what you do best and link to the rest."
- "If you're not searchable, you wont be found…Your customers are your ad agency."
- The mass market has been (or is being) replaced by the mass of niches.
- "Atoms are a drag."
…and, perhaps his most radical proclamation…
- "Free is a business model."
My favorite sections of the book, however, are after Jarvis has explained the basic tenets of Googliness. He goes through several hypothetical Googly institutions. Near then end of these is "Google U," a hypothetical university. Appropriately, Jarvis has made this chapter available as a blog post on his website. He wonders why, in this world of seemingly infinite communications technology, why do students have to be limited to taking classes at a single university? Why can't they take classes a la carte from programs around the country?
I'm not sure I think this is practical. How do you control the curriculum in such an institution? How do the institutions control their enrollment numbers and standards? I don't have answers to these questions. However, one thing I do like about the idea is that a degree-holder (would they even have degrees?) would have to be evaluated on something other than the name-brand familiarity of the institutions they attended.
One of my favorite websites seems to be working toward this idea already, and best of all it's free! You can watch videos of lectures from many courses at top institutions at Academic Earth. However, when you look through the available lectures, you might notice something missing: the arts (now we're back to my neck of the woods). There are a handful of offerings in creative writing and a course in Roman architecture, but there are no classes in music (not even theory or musicology), and no classes in artistic "practice." Courses that are so basic to art programs(life drawing or color theory) and music programs (counterpoint and aural skills) seem to defy the model.
I've been wracking my brains since reading and listening to this chapter. I really want for the arts not to be an exception to the Google U model. I really want arts education (and the arts themselves) to flourish in the Google Age. Is it the art that has to change or is it the way its taught? Or, do the arts simply defy our current communications technology? It's probably a little of both, and of course the combination of the crusty academics and curmudgeonly classical musicians means that music programs will probably be the last parts of their respective universities to make such a change.
Is it possible to start a "free" university-style music school for the internet? I don't know. Who wants to help me try?
I know there are a LOT of question marks in this blog post. I don't normally like writing that way, but there are some many questions and so few certainties. If you have any thoughts on the matter, please share away in the comments!


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A DISNEY fanatic from Bridgwater may have wished upon a star after winning half-a-million pounds in the Thunderball draw.
Stuart Andrew Sussex, a self-confessed Disney fan, realised that his numbers had come up for the draw on June 6 while celebrating his sister-in-law's 30th birthday.
He said: "My cousin had the National Lottery app and was looking at the Thunderball results. I know my numbers off by heart so realised instantly I'd won. I had to double-check but then the birthday party turned into a double celebration and we ordered a couple of bottles of champagne – on tab."
Disney fan Stuart has been playing the same two lines with his 'lucky numbers' since the Thunderball began and uses them on all three weekly draws as well as playing the Lucky Dip on Saturdays.
The 28-year-old, who lives with his mum and dad in Bridgwater, said one of the many things he'd like to spend his £500,000 winnings on is ... a Disney cruise.
Stuart said: "My mum and dad have been on a few cruises and always enjoy them so I thought it would be nice to try. I love Disney and went to Disneyland Paris four years ago. So I'd love to do something like that again."
As well as the cruise, Stuart's wish list is a new car for his dad and a family estate for his brother and sister-in-law who have three children.
The winning ticket was bought in Sainsbury's at The Clink Retail Park, Bridgwater.


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Big data has been a buzzword for a few years now, and it's continuing to trend. What big data means for marketers has been somewhat confusing, if not controversial. With personal information out in the world of technology, how do marketers use big data appropriately? What does it mean to make data-driven decisions in marketing? It seems to be the elephant in the room that nobody knows how to explain.
ASPE-ROI introduced its Data-Driven Marketing Boot Camp this month in order to give marketers answers to those questions. The class focuses on using key analytics and data to reliably drive business. With exabytes of data pouring in from multiple sources, it's hard to know where to start, how to grasp and analyze the information, and then even harder to decide what action to take. The three-day Data-Driven Marketing Boot Camp course teaches you to:
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Along with all of this, the Data-Driven Marketing Boot Camp provides hands-on activities that delve into defining business goals and related KPIs, identifying personas based on data and creating a test matrix to fine tune your data. When used appropriately, big data gives marketers the tools to pinpoint needs and speak directly to their audience. Instead of practicing subjective marketing where they have a gut feeling, marketers can make data-driven decisions by interpreting analytics from their big data.
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Just replaced the stock Dunlop SP Sport 01's with the Michelin Super Sports and the difference is amazing! I anticipated the new tires would be a bit better, but they've far exceeeded my expectations. They are much quieter, they absorb more of the bumps (speed bumps in parking lots are noticeably less harsh), and yes the car does corner like it's on rails. Took a sharp corner near by house at a higher speed than normal and it felt like I was going to hit the curb...on the INSIDE of the turn...because I had so much more grip and didn't have the slight sideways drift that I'd experienced with the old tires.
Stock Dunlops lasted me to about 32k miles, so they were down to the wear bars. I'm certain that a brand new set of Dunlops would have also provided some improvement in perfomance, but the Super Sports are still far superior in my opinion. I'll try to remember to post an update once I have several thousand miles on them. Shouldn't take too long!
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This depends on what your definition of "liberal" is:
Governor Bev Perdue has been liberal with her use of the veto stamp this legislative session and now lawmakers want her to know they don't approve.
In a surprising turn of events, the Republican leadership attempted two veto overrides on Wednesday with mixed results.
They weren't "mixed results"; Republicans got their asses kicked in the House, so they tried to save face by passing a pointless Senate Veto override, which won't mean a damned thing if they can't fix their House problem.
And as far as the Governor's "liberal" use of the Veto, there's not one word in this article mentioning the runaway train behavior of GOP legislators, who have been rushing legislation out of committees, lying about allowing time for amendments on the floor, holding closed caucus meetings with special interests, etc.
That's a "liberal" use and abuse of House and Senate rules, to facilitate their "liberal" approach to altering common-sense laws and regulations and deconstructing government. You don't like my use of the word "liberal" to describe their behavior? Well it damned sure isn't conservative:
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
2. cautiously moderate or purposefully low: a conservative estimate.
Their behavior is erratic, extreme fringe elements of their party are free to propose whatever their twisted minds can conjure, and it's impossible to predict what the state of our State will be by this time next year. That's. Not. Conservative.
And Thom Tillis is a liar
Promising both on Wednesday afternoon -- in open session from the Speaker's dais -- and again on Thursday morning that there would be no veto override votes the rest of the week, then using the threat of a veto override to demand one of the most irregular rules suspension motion and vote changes I've seen in over 20 years in the NC House...
If there was any question whether you could trust this Tillis guy's word or not, you now know it's not worth a damn.
Where's my Tweet button!
Oh for gawd's sake.
Governor Perdue has only used the veto button because she has been given no alternative. The peoples' agenda (jobs) has been subverted by the GOP's agenda (I haven't been able to discern what it is, exactly). Thank Goodness Governor Perdue has the good judgment and sense to use the veto stamp that she's got.
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Where ya been? Good to see you haven't lost your edge.
I didn't mean that "girl" thing.
Just trying to be cute, which is not my strong suit.
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Washington, Aug 3 (IANS) US family income continued to rise in June and boosted their spending, a positive sign for economic recovery, US Commerce Department said.
US personal income rose 0.3 percent in June, after a 0.4 percent gain in May, said the department Friday.
Personal consumption expenditures rose 0.5 percent in June, after an increase of 0.2 percent in May, Xinhua reported.
US savings rate, personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income, edged down to 4.4 percent in June from 4.6 percent in the previous month, but remained well above the 2.1 percent average savings rate for all of 2007 before the financial crisis.


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The Wiggles Show is jam-packed with fun! Join Dorothy, our favourite dinosaur, for Dorothys Dance Class and sail around the world with Captain Feathersword. Remember when The Wiggles were young with The Little Wiggles and then learn more about the work people do with Say Aah At The Doctors, The Bricklayers Song and New York Fightfighter, So lets go, go, go, its on with The Wiggle Show!
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Put the Chicago Bears in Candlestick Park, and you have a recipe for disaster.
This is Chicago's eighth straight loss in San Francisco, and on Monday they were embarrassed by a score of 32-7 by the San Francisco 49ers. Sure, the No. 1 excuse for the Bears can be that Jay Cutler wasn't the starter, but at the same time, the 49ers ran backup Colin Kaepernick out there for his first career NFL start.
Kaepernick delivered, to the tune of 243 passing yards, two touchdowns and most important, no turnovers.
"It's everything I could've ever wished for," Kaepernick said. "It feels great just to be out there."
He connected on touchdown throws to Vernon Davis and Michael Crabtree, while running back Kendall Hunter found the end zone on a 14-yard touchdown run. Kaepernick's performance against Chicago — one of, if not the best defense in the league — is sure to cause quarterback rumors throughout the San Francisco bay area.
He was replacing Alex Smith, who wasn't cleared to play due to a concussion suffered in last week's game. It's expected that Smith will be ready for Week 12, but it is unknown which quarterback coach Jim Harbaugh will truck out there. Quite frankly, he's in a great situation.
Lovie Smith, on the other hand, is not. He has to be praying that Cutler can give it a go in Week 12. The team is 1-6 in games he hasn't started the past two years, and he has the ability to make up for the fact that the offensive line cannot block. Jason Campbell was unable to get into a rhythm in this one, causing team-wide frustration — mainly from star wideout Brandon Marshall.
Campbell connected with Marshall on a 13-yard score, but it came late in the third quarter, cutting an already large deficit to twenty.
Alshon Jeffery made his return to the Bears after missing four games with a broken hand and caught two ball for 15 yards. He did leave the game in the fourth quarter, though, with an apparent knee injury. At this time, it isn't said to be serious, but we'll monitor the situation.
This loss drops the Bears to 7-3 on the year, and out of sole possession of first place. They currently sit in second place, behind the Green Bay Packers, who are also 7-3.
The road ahead doesn't get any easier for Chicago, who face a pair of 6-4 teams, the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks. Chicago needs to prove they belong in the playoff picture with wins over these teams as all three of their losses have come against teams with winning records.Tags: Alex Smith, Alshon Jeffery, Brandon Marshall, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Colin Kaepernick, Football, Jason Campbell, Jay Cutler, Jim Harbaugh, Lovie Smith, NFL, San Francisco 49ers


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It is widely known to store owners and economists the world over that ice cream makes an effective "loss leader" in terms of what to sell to get people in the door. In a high traffic tourist destination, quite often you will see ice cream vendors selling their wares at less than market value so that buyers will browse around, casually eat their ice cream, and (hopefully) buy something else. Accordingly, many world travelers have caught on to this little trick of the trade and some will often use the cost of an ice cream cone to gauge the overall expense of traveling to a certain country. We decided to see how some of the more popular destinations around the globe stacked up side by side with our version of the "8 colors ice cream currency calculator" Enjoy!
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As the economy improves and international travel begins to soar, a familiar but unwelcome chronic condition is on the upswing: jet lag.
For a tourist who may travel overseas only every few years, it might mean nothing more than yawning at the Great Wall. But business executives with back-to-back international trips across multiple time zones must juggle power meetings and dealmaking with disrupted sleep patterns — and do it over and over again.
Along with elite mileage status come symptoms of foggy memories of important meetings, lost luggage and misplaced mobile phones.
These frequent fliers "are all becoming time zone-less people," said Tim Chang, a partner with Norwest Venture Partners in Palo Alto, Calif., who heads to the airport virtually every other week. "You are in China but you have to do your conference calls with the United States."
For a six-week stretch at the end of 2010, he traveled to China four times. "It's like a weekly commute," he said.
"I am the new norm," Chang said. "Investors have to find deals all over the world, business development and sales executives have to go around the world. Most startups probably have an India and China development team."
All this time aloft can create surreal moments on the ground.
"You end up becoming more absent-minded in your personal life," said Tom Lattie, a general manager at Harmonic, a provider of video infrastructure who logs about 120,000 miles a year.
A few years ago, he was traveling as many as 200 days a year with back-to-back international trips. At one point, Lattie said, he became "almost narcoleptic," and caught himself dozing off while driving one afternoon.
"You begin to think you aren't jet-lagged but you probably are and you don't realize it," he said by phone while waiting for a flight in Frankfurt during an 18-day business trip.
Matthew Cui, an executive in the semiconductor industry, doesn't have time to let his body catch up with Taiwan's time zone, 16 hours ahead of the West Coast. When he touched down in Taipei recently, he faced a grueling day of meetings.
Every now and then "my brain action stops," he said. "It just goes blank. Sometimes it's so hard to keep my eyes open. You feel like you are dozing off and then you are saying to yourself, 'No, no, no!' It lasts for maybe 10, 20 minutes."
Fact is, said Dr. Clete Kushida, a neurologist and director of Stanford University's Center for Human Sleep Research, "There is no real substitute for a good night's sleep."
So transoceanic travelers are left to their own wits as they battle the pressures of doing global business with confused body clocks.
Sleep deprivation combined with "circadian rhythm misalignment" is often associated with decreased attention, Kushida said. It can impair memory and cause "alterations in frontal-lobe executive function," he added.
To avoid boardroom blunders, companies like Lattie's, which does not usually pay for pricey business and first-class seats, want their executives to get a good night's sleep in a hotel before heading to meetings.
These global sojourners are disciplined travelers. Those who occupy the rarefied world of business and first-class cabins live more like monks than jet-setters. Many don't touch alcoholic drinks — if they do, it's to sip just one beer or glass of wine — and are more concerned with finding quiet time to work and sleep .
"When was the last time you had 12 hours of uninterrupted time to read, eat and sleep?" Chang said.
Cui said proper diet helps him feel at home in the air, such as the traditional Asian breakfast that Taiwanese carrier Eva Air serves.
Global commuters become experts at sleep management.
Sleep "is like a bank account," said Ta-lin Hsu, founder and chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific. "You can never get as much as you need."
The trick is staying up as late as possible after arriving, Lattie said. It's also important to learn to take quick naps in airports and taxis.
But, he added, "Going back to your room in the afternoon and laying down on the bed is deadly. I lay down at 4 p.m. and wake up at 8 and I don't know where I am. It all goes sideways."


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John Boehner doesn't let the jobs numbers get in the way of a political argument.
The July jobs report wasn't released until 8:30am this morning, but it looks like House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wrote his reaction before seeing the actual numbers.
In a statement posted to his website, Bohener wrote:
"Today's unemployment report is more proof that all of the Washington spending, taxing, and regulating is devastating our economy. While the American people are asking 'where are the jobs?' the Democrats running Washington are determined to punish small businesses with higher taxes and more red tape – including hundreds of new regulations last month alone – and to keep their spending binge going at all costs. Instead of more jobs, they're creating more fear, more uncertainty, and more debt."
Really? Today's jobs numbers aren't anything to shout about, but they hardly reflect economic devastation. The economy added 117,000 new jobs, and the unemployment rate fell from 9.2% to 9.1%. Both were above consensus expectations, and the only actual decline was in the public-sector jobs (private sector added 154,000). Aren't Republicans in favor of smaller government?
If you want to argue that today's report signals stagnation rather than significant growth, you'll get little argument here. But it's patently false to call it a negative reaction to Obama's economic policies. I understand why Boehner writes his statements ahead of time, but shouldn't he make some edits when the underlying facts have changed?


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'Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior'Isaiah 43:1b-3a
When God sends a message to us through scripture it is never by accident. In Isaiah 55:11, God says that wherever He sends His word it never returns empty, but always achieves the special purpose for which it was sent.
Prayerfully consider the verse that inspired this painting and know that the Mighty God of all the heavens has reached out to touch you this moment.
I Will Be With You. Isaiah 43:1b-3a, VerseVisions VII Collection. Mixed media on canvas. Copyright 2009 by Mark Lawrence. All Rights Reserved.
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