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A complete waste of time and paper. no accountability here
Replace "Washington" with "Democrats" and you have a more accurate headline.Fast and FuriousSolyandraEgyptSyriaWithdrawal from IraqPetreaousLibyaBenghaziIranIt goes own and own and own...
No. Washington washes away SOME of the scandals, and we all know which ones. The passing of Judge Bork is a fine example. That learned man was attacked for no reason, slandered and lied about with no repercussions for the liberals. The Dems can and always will do whatever they want. Judge Bork would have been an amazing Supreme Court Justice.This country is changing, and not for the better. I´m very sad about this and don´t see it getting better in the near term.
I find it questionable as to why Mrs. Clinton did not go to the hospital for her concussion. Said she was treated at home. Do they have all the medical testing equipment and e-ray equipment in their home?Anyway it worked out well for her not to have to testify now that we know that no one was responsible for what happened in Benghazi.
The pols in washington have proven themselves incapable, incompetent, and untrustworthy. Our government is becoming a charade, motivated by greed and fueled by unaccountability.
Re: #2 Good comment. Good listAnd it is indeed the Democrats that "own and own and own" these scandals.
We need a separation between Media and State.(or, Media and Democrat Party)
They could not wash away the scandal with the msm.
Yes there is systemic problems, but isn´t why Managers are put in place? Don´t forget, Hillary is one of the most brilliant leaders have! Why didn´t she see these issues?Also, what do you say about the Ambassador crying out for protection for the impending assault? How can you not cite current State officers for ignoring this?´No discipline this time, but boy, if it ever happens again, there will be hell to pay.´ Whitewash.
Wuncha think that someone in the administration would be minimally embarrassed? High level government employees: Look to your left and to your right and see if there is anyone raising his hand.While you are at it, make a note to self to pay your back taxes. We´d appreciate it.The only difference between this outfit and dog-doo is that the latter can be picked up with a shovel and discarded.


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Hamas; "Israel has opened the gates of hell"
Israel takes out Ahmed Jabari, Head of Hamas Military Wing
More here on the story http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...305343,00.html What I find Punnuy here, Did Hamas really just call themselves "hell" ?!?! |
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"The occupation has opened the gates of hell on itself," Hamas' armed wing said following the targeted killing of its commander. Itself refers to Occupation (the Jews) Thanks for the post....one comment is that "you can only kick a dog so many times before he turns around and bites you." |
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Considering Hamas hides behind human shields, and has been recently upping the attacks on Israeli civilians. need links?
This was well deserved, and Hamas had it coming. http://www.timesofisrael.com/air-for...rgets-in-gaza/ "Gazans signal conditional cease-fire, fire 3 more rockets" http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=291521 "Mixed statements from Hamas in Gaza about possible ceasefire; after 160 rocket strikes, Netanyahu tells 50 envoys their countries would not tolerate such an onslaught" http://www.timesofisrael.com/rocket-...ht-to-respond/ "For second day in a row, Israel responds to Syrian shells, this time hitting two Syrian mortar launchers." http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=291470 All very recent, Did you expect Israel to just take it up the....... and do nothing? |
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"In September 2010, Jabari threatened to increase attacks against Israel to derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jabari |
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looks like Egypt wants to become a state sponsor of terrorism now:
"Today, Egypts Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood a party formerly headed by current President Mohammed Morsi announced that Egypt would get involved if Israel continued to kill terrorists in the Gaza Strip." http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2...nt-Egypt-Hamas |
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http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...0&postcount=30 Wow that propaganda catapulted in your direction by Israel must be very strong, for it makes you forget so soon! |
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It is Israeli troops who use civilians as human shields. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shield#By_Israel Quote:
http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/11/i...ho-started-it/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/wo...nt&tntemail0=y Palestinians responded to Israel's killing of a civilian by attacking an Israeli military target, injuring four soldiers. Israel responded to that by killing more Palestinian civilians, including children. Here are some of the survivors of Israel's terrorist attack on defenseless civilians.
It was then, that Hamas finally responded by firing rockets into Israel. Do you really expect Hamas to take the killing of Palestinian civilians ''up the ...'' and do nothing? Dusty |
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Wal-Mart's world headquarters put Bentonville, Ark., on the map, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art put it on the cultural map. But there are other things to do in this northwest Arkansas town.
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Don't miss the goods that were returned to Wal-Mart stores (the mixer that was "possessed," the fishing rod that "will not catch").
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Editor's note: In this final article in a three-part series on the history of the Mausert Block in Adams, the Transcript examines the past three decades of the building's story, concluding with the promise the current development taking place at the building holds for its future on the town's main thoroughfare.
ADAMS -- The supports holding up the Mausert Block's roof had sunk 18 inches by the time Thomas Hawke and Bruce Patenaude bought the structure in 1980, constituting the first of two immediate crises the new owners would face.
A mere two months after the purchase, Building Inspector James Leitch condemned the apartments on the upper two floors, fearing "a collapse" possible. "The resultant pressure is starting to pop bricks from the upper parts of the exterior," reported the Transcript.
"On Christmas Eve we were running around asking [the tenants] to go someplace else," Hawke reflected Friday.
Woolworth's, auto parts shop Schwartz Store and the other downstairs businesses remained open.
The owners undertook repairs and began refilling finished apartments. But before this work was completed, a fire severely damaged the Mausert Block for the second time in its history.
"It was like one bang right after the next," Hawke said.
A two-story woodframe building next door, a homemade candy shop called Sweet Shoppe, went up in flames in April of 1982.
The candy shop was completely destroyed while in the block, "smoke and water damage affected most apartments" and "much of the attic was burned, and two apartments on one floor were destroyed, as was one on another floor," according to the Transcript. It had "sent [Hawke and Patenaude] nearly back to the beginning."
"[The fire department] filled the place with so much water it was rolling down the stairwells," Hawke said.
All of the building's businesses closed for a period. Woolworth's kept its doors shut longer than the rest, fueling speculation.
A Transcript article of May 7, 1982, notes that "corporate executives have been inspecting damage to the store" and "are weighing a decision whether to reopen."
A day later, Stanley O'Connor, Woolworth's spirited store manager for over 30 years, had his triumphant reply for the papers: The store would reopen.
"I always said we should never leave Adams," he said in the Transcript on May 8. "If [we don't open] Monday then it will be shortly thereafter."
Eight months later -- or, as long as it took the Mauserts to build the place in 1900-01 -- the renovation of 18 upper-floor apartments was complete.
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From that point, Hawke -- who'd eventually buy out Patenaude and become the building's sole owner -- said it was a matter of "hanging on" and "keeping things on an even keel."
Businesses came and went for years. In January 1993, against the wishes of Mr. O'Connor, the most notable one went.
Woolworth's closed -- it was the last remaining branch in Berkshire County -- and the shelves were bare within 24 hours, the Transcript reported.
"Generations have grown up in that store," nearby storeowner John Socha said at the time. " ... Everything's going to revolve around malls now. I doubt if there are going to be any more real downtowns."
In a show of respect, Woolworth's racks and displays could be found in other Park Street businesses for months and even years to come.
Hawke had the Woolworth's space renovated to house commercial spaces and storage units. Also during Hawke's 27-year ownership, the building's heating system was upgraded from coal, to pellet to gas.
It came to an end in 2007. Hawke sold the building to a Boston architect named Chiong Lin who "[fell] in love" with the building and offered to buy it for $600,000 before ever setting foot inside.
The deal went through, but not to the benefit of the structure, time proved.
Town Code Enforcement Officer Scott Koczela condemned the building in 2009 due to lack of a safe fire escape. The nationwide economic turmoil of the time had taken its toll locally: Capital investments outside major markets was virtually nonexistent. Lin fell behind on taxes and declared bankruptcy.
The story of an aged icon now reaches its present ownership.
Braytonville Properties LLC, a real estate holding company based in North Adams, bought the building in 2011 for $60,000. They handed it over to project managers REDPM for a renovation, and the work has seen progress.
Perhaps by fall, new businesses are expected -- a dance studio, a pizza restaurant and an Asian-fusion eatery. The latter will feature a rear section with outdoor seating, catering to the nearby Ashuwillticook Rail Trail's traffic.
"In the past, everything was always Park Street, Park Street, Park Street," Stephen Stenson of REDPM, said. "Now we've opened it up to the rail trail as well."
The renovations of 11 upstairs apartments are reportedly in the works.
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Summary (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
Winterbourne is a young American who has lived in Europe for quite a while. He spends a great deal of time at Vevey, which is a favorite spot of his aunt, Mrs. Costello. One day, while he is loitering outside the hotel, he is attracted by a young woman who appears to be related to Randolph Miller, a young American boy with whom he was talking. After a while, the young woman exchanges a few words with him. Her name is Daisy Miller. The boy is her brother, and they are in Vevey with their mother. They came from Schenectady, Winterbourne learns, and they intend to go next to Italy. Randolph insists that he wants to go home. Winterbourne learns that Daisy hopes to visit the Castle of Chillon. He promises to take her there, for he is quite familiar with the old castle.
Winterbourne asks his aunt, Mrs. Costello, to meet Daisy. Mrs. Costello, however, will not agree because she thinks the Millers are common. That evening, Daisy and Winterbourne plan to go out on the lake, much to the horror of Eugenio, the Millers' traveling companion, who is more like a member of the family than a courier. At the last moment, Daisy changes her mind about the night excursion. A few days later, Winterbourne and Daisy visit the Castle of Chillon. The outing confirms Mrs. Costello's opinion that Daisy is uncultured and unsophisticated.
Winterbourne makes plans to go to Italy. When he arrives, he goes directly to the home of Mrs. Walker, an American whom he met in...
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Summary (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Daisy Miller was James's first commercial success; it made him immediately famous as the chronicler of "the international theme" and remains, after The Turn of the Screw (1898), probably his most widely known work. A characteristic example of James's early fiction, which is indebted to the allegorical tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novella establishes a recurrent theme that would be reworked with increasing complexity as James's career developed.
Frederick Winterbourne, an expatriate American resident for a number of years in Geneva, is on an excursion to Vevey, Switzerland, to visit an aunt. He encounters the Miller family, wealthy Americans touring Europe. While Mr. Miller has remained home in Schenectady to attend to business, Mrs. Miller, her son Randolph, and her daughter Daisy are sampling the pleasures of European tourist attractions.
Winterbourne is immediately attracted to the young, beautiful, and flirtatious Daisy, who innocently ignores the social conventions governing the conduct of young women in Europe. Daisy scandalizes Winterbourne's aunt, Mrs. Costello, but charms and intrigues Winterbourne himself. Daisy extorts from him a promise to visit her in Rome in the coming winter, and the tale turns to their relations there.
In the intervening months, Daisy has taken up with a handsome Italian named Giovanelli, with whom she rendezvouses in the evenings—against the advice of both...
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Chapter 1 Summary and Analysis
Winterbourne, a twenty-seven-year-old American, has lived most of his life in Switzerland, specifically Geneva. Friends and family speculate (i.e., gossip) on his reasons for this location. Some state that he is studying; others say that he is "devoted" to an older lady there. The real reason is that, having gone to school there, he has many friends who live in Geneva. He has come to Vevey, a favorite tourist spot for Americans, to visit his aunt, Mrs. Costello, who at the moment is indisposed with a headache, as she often is. Sitting in the hotel gardens at the Trois Couronnes, he observes a nine-year-old American boy mischievously using his alpenstock to spear flower-beds, benches, and the trains of ladies' dresses. The boy boldly requests Winterbourne to give him some sugar. In striking up a conversation with him, Winterbourne is told by the boy that "everything" is better in America. The boy's sister then approaches the garden, and Winterbourne is intrigued. She ignores Winterbourne, however, and reprimands her brother on several points. Winterbourne learns that Daisy and her family are soon to go to Italy. The boy introduces himself as Randolph C. Miller and his sister as Daisy, but her real name is Annie P. Miller. Daisy eventually warms to Winterbourne and converses in an open, revealing, unrestrained manner. She explains that their family is from Schenectady, New York, where her father is a well-to-do merchant. Her father is not present in Switzerland; only she, her brother, and her mother are there.
Winterbourne is not sure if Daisy is a girl with bad manners or just a complete innocent. He regrets having lived so long away from America that he cannot make a proper judgment about American girls. He decides at last that Daisy is a naïve, though innocent, flirt. He points out the nearby Chateau of Chillon, made famous by the poet Lord Byron. He asks her if she has visited it yet. She explains that Randolph refuses to go and no one, not even their courier Eugenio, cares to stay behind with the obnoxious boy, so Daisy and her mother have not been able to see the castle. When Winterbourne offers to help, Daisy at first mistakenly believes that he offers to stay with Randolph. Winterbourne corrects the error and says that he meant that he would like to accompany her to Chillon, just the two...
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Chapter 2 Summary and Analysis
Winterbourne asks his aunt, Mrs. Costello, if she has met the Millers that are staying in the hotel. When Mrs. Costello determines that they are the family that is "familiar" with their courier, she announces that she has seen them and has no intention of meeting them. Winterbourne tries to point out that Daisy is pretty, dresses very fashionably, and is very charming. Mrs. Costello agrees with all this but says that she and the rest of the family are "common." Winterbourne tells her that he is already acquainted with the family and that he is planning on visiting the Chateau de Chillon with Daisy. Mrs. Costello is shocked, and Winterbourne pleads innocence on what is now expected of "proper" American girls.
That evening, Winterbourne finds Daisy walking alone in the garden. When she asks about his aunt, whom he had mentioned that he wanted to introduce her to, he says that she is unwell and is not receiving anyone. Daisy correctly perceives that Mrs. Costello does not want to meet her at all. Daisy does not appear to be offended but instead is impressed that Mrs. Costello is very exclusive.
Mrs. Miller comes out to walk in the garden. Randolph has at last agreed to stay and talk to the waiter, though he will not go to sleep, so that she can get away. Though Daisy introduces her to Winterbourne, she ignores him, just as Daisy had done when the two young people first met. Daisy tells her mother that she is going to Chillon with Winterbourne, since Randolph refused to go. Winterbourne expects Mrs. Miller to disapprove strongly, and he invites her to go along. Mrs. Miller, however, tells them that they had better go alone. Winterbourne is very excited by this, not believing his good fortune to get Daisy alone. He proposes that they go out on the lake in the moonlight. Daisy seems willing, but in the end she and her mother go when Eugenio comes to announce that Randolph has at last gone to bed.
Two days later Winterbourne and Daisy go to Chillon alone. They decide to take the steamboat rather than the cars. Daisy talks the entire trip. Winterbourne still cannot decide if she is "common," as his aunt judged her to be, or wonders if he is simply getting used to her commonness. In the castle, the two wander through it alone, Winterbourne having paid the guide to keep at a distance. Winterbourne tells her the history of the castle, and Daisy says he ought to come with them to...
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Chapter 3 Summary and Analysis
The next January, Winterbourne arrives in Rome at Mrs. Costello's request. She also asks him to bring her "that pretty novel of Cherbuliez's—"Paul Méré". When he comes to Rome, he discovers that Daisy is worse than ever, going everywhere with "foreigners," obvious fortune-hunters. Winterbourne again insists that Daisy is ignorant, but not bad. Mrs. Costello replies that the Millers are vulgar; she will leave the question of whether vulgarity is "bad" or not to the metaphysicians, but the Millers are bad enough to dislike.
Winterbourne hesitates concerning a visit to Daisy. He decides to go instead to a gathering at Mrs. Walker's, a wealthy American lady whom he knew in Geneva. While he is there, the Millers arrive. Daisy reprimands Winterbourne for coming to see Mrs. Walker before her and refuses to believe that he had only recently arrived in Rome. Randolph, also present, of course hates Rome, which is not nearly as wonderful as America. Mrs. Miller is bothered by dyspepsia, which she blames on the climate of Rome.
Daisy tries to get Winterbourne in hot water with Mrs. Walker, but the hostess is clearly on Winterbourne's side. Mrs. Miller brags about the number of gentlemen friends that Daisy has acquired, completely unconcerned or unaware about the eroding condition of her reputation among the American expatriates in Rome. Talk then turns to the party that Mrs. Walker is giving in the near future. Daisy announces that she is coming, bragging about the beautiful dress that she has to wear to it. Mrs. Walker politely agrees to everything Daisy says, but is obviously unimpressed as much as Daisy wants her to be. When Daisy asks if she can bring an Italian gentleman friend, Mrs. Walker reluctantly agrees. Daisy then announces that she is going walking with Mr. Giovanelli that evening. Both Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Miller try to persuade her not to, warning her that she will get "Roman fever" (malaria) from walking in the night air. Daisy ignores the warnings, but talks Winterbourne into going with her. Daisy rattles on, while Winterbourne accompanies her. She decides that she is going to ignore the warnings, and Winterbourne's presence, and find Giovanelli. She finds him standing under a tree, watching the carriages containing ladies. Giovanelli is not happy that Winterbourne is accompanying Daisy, but he says nothing, revealing that he has long-range plans for his...
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Chapter 4 Summary and Analysis
At Mrs. Walker's party, Mrs. Miller comes alone, telling Winterbourne that Daisy is with Giovanelli, playing songs at the piano, and that they will possibly come later. Mrs. Walker is outraged at Daisy's inconsideration, vowing that she will not speak to her at all when she finally comes. When Daisy finally arrives she states that Giovanelli and she were practicing some songs that Daisy wanted Giovanelli to sing for the party. When Giovanelli does so, Daisy talks through his entire performance.
Winterbourne warns Daisy again that she should not be seen walking the streets (insinuating that she will be viewed as equal to a "street walker," or prostitute) with Giovanelli. Daisy chooses to misinterpret his remark and asks where else they should walk. Winterbourne tells her outright that she has the habits of a flirt, which is not acceptable in Europe, whatever it might be in America. Daisy resents Winterbourne's "preaching," to which Winterbourne replies that if they are in love, that is an entirely different affair. Daisy is genuinely shocked that he would insinuate that she was having an affair with Giovanelli. On top of this, Mrs. Walker turns her back on her when she approaches, signaling that she has been "cut" from society. Daisy is then fully aware of the opinion she has generated among the expatriates, but she does not seem to care beyond being incredibly hurt.
Winterbourne sees Daisy several more times, always in the company of Giovanelli. Daisy does not seem to be bothered by Winterbourne's presence with Giovanelli, and Winterbourne concludes that Daisy would never be jealous, proving to him that she is a very "light" person. In speaking about Daisy to his aunt, Mrs. Costello, Winterbourne tries again to defend her, mainly because of her innocence coupled with her ignorance. He feels sorry for her because she has made herself such an object of derision simply because she does not know any better, despite repeated warnings. Daisy believes that people do not really care what she does and are only pretending to be shocked. Finally Winterbourne concludes that Daisy Miller is a "young lady whom a gentleman need no longer be at pains to respect." At this point, Winterbourne ceases to care about Daisy except in terms of her safety. When he finds the two of them in the Coliseum in the middle of the night, he warns them about catching malaria, to which Giovanelli...
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Top ten signs you're losing your Americanisms to Irishisms - an American living in Ireland
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I really enjoyed Seán Brosnan's recent, witty IrishCentral piece, "Top ten signs you're losingyour Irish brogue as Americanisms creep in." It was interesting for me, in particular, in that I am one of a relatively small number of people having the converse experience on the other side of the Atlantic.
Although my Boston accent remains undiminished – I just can't pronounce the letter "r" – there is no doubt but that my speech pattern and the expressions I use regularly have changed after more than a decade of living here. This leaves me in something of a "no win" situation. In Ireland, I'll always be the Yank with the Boston accent. When I go home to Boston, however, both American and Irish friends tell me I'm picking up an Irish twang.
With this as context, I thought I'd compile my own top ten list of areas where my native American (or Boston) English is fighting Irish English for survival and let you know which is winning.
10. Footwear: While we Americans would never call them anything but sneakers, in Ireland, depending on where you are and who you're talking to, they're either "runners" or "trainers." Moreover, the athletic shoes with spikes for extra traction are known as cleats in the US, but as "boots" in Ireland. American English wins on footwear. The use of sneakers is too deeply engrained in my head. And referring to footwear that doesn't rise above the ankles as a "boot" is, quite frankly, bizarre.
9. Household appliances: Many things we use in the house on a day to day basis are called the same on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet there are two big differences in Ireland.
First is that what we in the US know as a vacuum cleaner is called nothing but a Hoover here. Hoover would certainly kill for such brand loyalty in the US market!
Second is that what we use to keep food cool or frozen is never, ever called a refrigerator in Ireland; it is always and only a fridge. Anytime I say the word refrigerator, I can count on it being repeated back to me in a drawn out, exaggerated American accent. When it comes to household appliances, therefore, Irish English has won out.
8.Furniture: Most items are labelled the same in Ireland. The one term that left me totally blank, and which I still cannot fathom, is the term "press." When I first moved to Galway in 2001, a housemate asked me if I would retrieve something from the "hot press." I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. Again, to this day, I'm puzzled by the use of the term. If you're equally puzzled, a "press" is what we Americans call a closet or a cabinet, depending on whether it holds clothes or cookware. American English is a clear winner here.
7. Pants vs. Trousers: Only the haughtiest of Americans would regularly use the term trousers to describe what we wear to cover our legs. But it remains common parlance here. While I mostly say it mockingly to my wife and son, I do now use trousers more and more when talking with relatives, friends and colleagues. I'm afraid Irish English is slowly winning out.
6. Soft drinks: This is more of a Boston English, than an American English, battle. Growing up just outside Boston, whether it was Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew or Ginger Ale, it was all tonic. Now that word provoked strange looks from those Americans from outside the Boston area, for whom it was all soda. Here in Ireland, anytime I ask someone if they'd like a tonic, I get the same reaction. My wife thought I was talking about hair tonic the first time I said it to her. So despite being a proud Bostonian, my references to tonic are getting fewer and further between. Irish English wins.
5. Brilliant vs. Awesome: Because I know how Irish people react to the use of the word, both directly to the person who says it and in murmured disparaging comments to one another afterward, awesome has been wiped from my vocabulary. Period. Irish English wins.
4. Alcoholic drinks: While we Americans would commonly say to one another that we're going for a few beers, in Ireland, it is always for a few pints. Indeed, the use of beers is probably more appropriate in the US because many drinkers do not go out to drink pints (the quality of which varies widely in bars). Here in Ireland, however, it is pints, and I now say pints wherever I am. Irish English wins again. One quick cautionary note: the posh American phrase that I and my friends on both sides of the Atlantic despise, "going for drinks," is creeping in here.
3. Greetings: My standard means of greeting anyone for the first twenty five years of my life was quintessentially Bostonian. "Howahya?" In Ireland though, I'm usually asked to repeat it when I do say it, so that the recipient(s) can have another chuckle at my accent. As such, I'm afraid, I've started to greet people here with "How's things?" or "Any craic?" I still revert to "Howahya?" though and always say it when I'm back in Boston, though I might jokingly use Irish greetings on Irish friends there. American English is hanging tough.
2. Sandwiches: Something I will never get used to in Ireland are the miserable, always underwhelming sandwiches with one slice of meat on them, a grossly disproportionate amount of starch and a vile combination of butter and mayonnaise. They compare horribly with the wide array of delicious, heaping, hot and cold sandwiches I grew up eating and stuff myself with every time I'm back in Boston. The big distinction here would be that what we call a sub is called a "roll." To make myself understood and, if nothing else, to not dishonour American subs by likening them to Irish "rolls," Irish English is winning out.
1. Baby: My wife recently had a baby and our lives are now dominated by the needs, wants and bodily functions of little Larry. These precipitate an epic linguistic conflict between my wife and me when we are scrambling to attend to him. Pacifier vs. "soother"; crib vs. "cot"; cradle vs. "Moses basket"; diaper vs. "nappy"; nozzle vs. "teat"; baby carriage vs. "pram" or "buggy"; and so on. While I admit to using Irish English sometimes in this context, I am claiming this as a victory for American English because my wife often uses US terminology to deny me the chance to feign ignorance and evade my responsibilities!
That makes for a tally of 6-4 in favour of Irish English. Professionally and personally, Ireland has been my land of opportunity and I love this country at least as much as I love the country of my birth. The tally, however, makes me sad in one way. I'll always consider myself a Bostonian on the inside, yet I'm beginning to wonder what those who see me from the outside will think in future as that which makes me American slowly but inevitably fades from earshot and view.
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Frosty38 | Dec 18, 2012, 11:14 AM EST
I love it and it is so true
I'm from Boston and can relate
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bobby | Dec 16, 2012, 11:27 AM EST
Woundedknee, you are full of crap
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bobby | Dec 16, 2012, 11:22 AM EST
Woundedknee i don't live in Ireland you muppet. You do speak alot of crap. Small minded idiot, typical American.
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anglo-norman | Dec 14, 2012, 05:23 PM EST
ciara- Grow up
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ciaradexy | Dec 14, 2012, 03:15 PM EST
George/Wounded, those migrants are very welcome here. Loud mouthed yanks from Savannah not so much.
Was it you shooting kids in schools there today?
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WoundedKnee | Dec 14, 2012, 05:35 AM EST
bobby: " London has got more English schools than Dublin, i never said they didn't". Yes you did, don't add lies to stupidities.
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WoundedKnee | Dec 14, 2012, 05:33 AM EST
"People from India and Pakistan mainly choose to come here to learn english." Now I see that you're a total nut, bobby. English is an official language of both those countries--their citizens don't need to go anywhere to learn the langauge! No, bobby, if you're weren't a crazy you'd see the patent truth: the reason that Paks and Indians go to Ireland is to work! Often illegally. I was horrified by the numbers of Paks and Indians I saw when recently in Ireland. Far more than there were on my previous visit. Bobby, why don't you emigrate to pakistan and make room for another Pak to come to Ireland? You're certainly of no benefit to Ireland.
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anglo-norman | Dec 13, 2012, 09:37 PM EST
bobby- yes you can understand them, everyone else can.
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bobby | Dec 13, 2012, 07:00 PM EST
Anglonorman what a load of crap from you as usual, as i said before watch some trash tv like Maury or Steve wilkos, and listen to how they speak, because i cannot understand most of the guests. And you have millions of people in the states like the guests of those shows. Thick and inarticulate. Another one in denial. Sad bunch.
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bobby | Dec 13, 2012, 05:28 PM EST
Woundedknee the Bitter, Loner thing. London has got more English schools than Dublin, i never said they didn't.... People from India and Pakistan mainly choose to come here to learn english. As i said Europeans head to Dublin, mainly the spanish and Italians. Fact..Plonker.
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Irishinumbria | Dec 13, 2012, 04:53 PM EST
Hilarious! As an Irish woman in Italy I understand what you're saying about losing your accent but hey! We will create new mixtures, it'll be grand, as we say. Also, have you ever heard of minerals rather than soft drinks?
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WoundedKnee | Dec 13, 2012, 01:58 PM EST
bobby: "Dublin is the number one place in Europe were (sic) Europeans go to learn English every year". That's false. London has far more English language schools. Get your facts right and quit the mindless boosterism. And even if Dublin were so great for English, that would be nothing to be proud of. The Irish abandoned their native language. Only a handful of nations have ever done that, and it's something to be ashamed of.
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pilib04 | Dec 13, 2012, 12:36 PM EST
We always use Fridge and we are Irish transplants via England to Ohio. Also, pop is the only word we were ever familiar with to describe coke, pepsi etc. We knew that easterners called it Soda. Nothing but Hey or Hi as a salutation unless around Irish, then the more trad Dia Duit, Dia Maire Dhuit, agus- on ad finitum. Finally, the very first time I landed on Irish soil 40 years ago, the first sandwich I had reminded me of home (Ohio). Butter and Cheese sandwich at the "old" Cliffs of Moher hospitality. Not there anymore and I would presume the sandwiches aren't either. My children prefer the Baguettes at the Petrol stations (over American subs) when they are visiting. First couple of times they told me about them, I had no idea what they were talking about.
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ancavker | Dec 13, 2012, 11:43 AM EST
anglo-norman: You seem to think you know so much about Ireland, and the Irish, and yet most of what you post is rubbish. Come one up to west Cavan/southwest Fermanagh, and northwest Leitrim; we are still very Irish up here.
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bobby | Dec 13, 2012, 08:47 AM EST
anglonorman you can say that about all countries, including the US, some accents in the states are hard to understand and are inarticulate. I wouldn't generalise a whole country because that is wrong. Dublin is the number one place in Europe were Europeans go to learn English every year, thousands choose Ireland to learn the language.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- It's no surprise our area is still seeing drought conditions, but with recent rainfall and changes to our water restrictions, what progress are we making to pull out of the drought?
Colorado Springs Utilities says some rain is a nice bandage for now, when we're talking about our lawns, but it's not a solution to the long-term issues a drought can bring.
"Our water doesn't come from local supplies. Our water comes from 200 miles away over the continental divide. So, what we're looking for is during the winter we want to see those heavy snows," Patrice Lehermeier, a spokesperson for CSU explained.
Thanks to back to back drought-plagued winters, Colorado Springs' water reserves have hit a low point. Historically low, in fact.
As of July 21, city water capacity sat at just 57%. Compare that to the norm of nearly 85%.
"What a season like this demonstrates is that water is always going to be critical for us and it's always going to be important that we use it wisely," Lehermeier said.
She explained that you can think of the reserves like a savings account. Our only "deposits" of water came in the spring with the snowmelt, which was low. Now we're making withdrawls everytime we turn on the faucet, sprinkler, dishwasher... and it's uncertain when our next paycheck will come.
"If we get average or below average (snowpack) this winter, we're still looking at some kind of restrictions. The weather is so unpredictable, there's no crystal ball, we can just hope for the best and use only what we need," she said.
We're not alone, though, all 64 counties in Colorado are feeeling the effects of the drought. El Paso County and Southeastern Colorado just happens to have it a little worse, with the majority of the area categorized by the U.S. Drought Monitor as "exceptional" drought conditions.
"We don't want to say it's becoming the norm, but dry conditions in Colorado is something we're going to be facing, especially in Colorado Springs, for a long time," Lehermeier concluded.


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TIA is the not-for-profit trade association representing all businesses involved in creating and bringing toys and youth entertainment products to kids of all ages.
TIA California Toy Day is a series of meetings and small group discussions that brings toy company representatives together with the state's most influential decision-makers to discuss our industry's key issues and concerns.
Similar to TIA's annual DC Fly-In, this event provides a critically important opportunity for small, mid-size and large toy companies to meet with California's top legislators and help them understand:
Andrew Hackman (202.459.0356) Vice President, Government Affairs
May 21, 2013 | Representatives of toy companies gathered with key California lawmakers to discuss issues impacting the world of toys and games, as well as the public at large, during the Toy Industry Association's (TIA) Third Annual California Toy Day, held in Sacramento on May 14-15.
California's "Green Chemistry" legislation, which calls for the prioritizing and regulating of "chemicals of concern" in consumer products, and the state's Rigid Plastic Packaging Container Program and Proposition 65 inspired the most active engagement among the industry reps, legislators, regulators and staff.
"This event brought industry professionals and government officials together for valuable in-person conversations, helping both parties to gain additional perspectives," said Andy Hackman, TIA's vice president of government affairs. "I would say this was the most successful California Toy Day yet."
After a kickoff welcome dinner on Tuesday, May 14th with toy companies, lawmakers and staff from Governor Jerry Brown's office, Wednesday began with welcome remarks from California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, followed by a keynote address from Angela Perez, senior health scientist at ChemRisk LLC, on corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability.
Presentations continued throughout the day, including: CA Green Chemistry: Safe Consumer Products Regulation (with Karl Palmer of the Department of Toxic Substances Control), and Rigid Plastic Packaging Container Program (RPPC) (with Lorraine Van Kekerix and Trevor O'Shaughnessy of CalRecycle). Panels included:California's Future: Legislative Perspectives on What's Ahead for the Golden State (with Assemblymembers Cristina Garica, Brian Maienschein, and Sharon Quirk-Silva), andProposition 65: "What Toy Companies Need to Know" (with panelists from Greenberg Traurig, LL; the Office of the CA Senate Pro Tempore and the American Chemistry Council). The afternoon was punctuated by a Privacy Policy & California's Prioritiesluncheon address, given by Joanne McNabb from the Office of the California Attorney General.
"California Toy Day is an excellent platform to network, get informed and impact government legislation at the state and federal level," said Roger McKinley III, sales manager at ImagAbility, a small toy company based in California. "TIA has made great in-roads into government to get our voices heard."
Similar to TIA's annual Washington, DC Fly-In, California Toy Day provides a critically important opportunity for small, mid-size and large toy companies to meet with the state's top legislators to engage in conversations about the impact that policy decisions have on real people and real companies. California is regularly at the forefront of legislative and regulatory activity that impacts the toy industry. More than 26% of TIA's members are located in the state; collectively, toy companies, retailers, wholesalers and distributors account for an estimated 91,173 jobs in California, business taxes in excess of $2.45 Billion and a total economic impact of $11.1 Billion.


text: The The Devil wiki last edited by Billy Batson on 07/21/13 11:40AM View full history Soon after The Beginning, God made the Angels. He made them because he wanted to be loved, to be adored, and they certainly did. But, He thought, how could they not? To be in the presence of God is to love Him, pure and simple. How much of their love was actually real?So He came up with a plan. He announced that He was going to create a race of sentient beings on the Earth - Humanity - and let them decide their own destinies. He wanted to see if they would love Him too.Half the Angelic Host went mad on the spot. They knew that any world that was cut off from the direct presence of God would descend into chaos. Earth would become a charnel house, and all of humanity would suffer. To their minds, it was a cruel and wasteful thing to do. So they rebelled.The fighting was horrible, with no quarter asked or given. Finally, the rebels were ejected from Heaven, and landed in Hell. First among these was The Devil. Lucifer. Satan. Nick.The Devil managed Hell, the kingdom of the Damned, where those humans who died in sin were sent for their eternal punishment. Usually, their humanity was burned out of them by their approach to Hell, but there was one man, an ex-soldier, whose hatred was so strong and so cold that it could not be destroyed. He had a heart cold enough to freeze the fires of Hell itself.The Devil tried to beat the hatred out of him , to whip it out, but torture was ineffective. It was Angel Of Death who came up with a solution. Since all this man wanted to do was to kill, he could take the place of the Angel. His swords were melted down and remade into guns while the Devil sewed the meat back to his flesh. This man of hatred became the Saint of Killers, with guns that never missed and always killed.As soon as he stepped through the gates of Hell, the fires started up again. The Devil shouted with joy, he shouted to the Saint, "Good riddance, you cold-hearted son of a bitch!" The Saint heard the insult, turned around, and put the first shot of his new guns straight through the Devil's head, killing him.


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Music and animal motifs from "The Lion King" will provide thematic structure for the April 18 talent show by members of the Jeremiah Society, a group serving Orange County's developmentally disabled Jewish adults.
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In my opinion, Jennifer, the first thing is to link up with others offline, like we're doing. Then comes making our presence known, either through advocacy or volunteerism. Letters to the Editor of various newspapers (I happen to have followed my own advice once on that, just hours after moving into our new house by sending one to the Journal News re: Jesus & Christmas; see http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/moving-to-god-s-country-...), contacting congressional representatives, and much more. But even just networking and socializing with each other makes a difference, even if it is just social. Not everyone's an activist.
what shall we do? I have a child in public school, my hope would be something to counter-act all the X-mas krap in December---that is NOT holidays around the world. They think if they give lip service to Hanuka and kwanza(!), etc thats good. The idea of reason never seems to occur to anyone.
Greg, I think many of us share your concerns. But, as they say, there is strength in numbers, and we're becoming more focused and cohesive. We can make ourselves heard!
For those who are interested, my wife & I - who are members of an atheist meetup in Hagerstown and one in Winchester - just started a meetup in the Eastern panhandle. Check out: http://www.meetup.com/Mountain-State-Freethinkers/. Our first meetup is scheduled for June 9th.
how do we go about organizing such a thing ? I live in Jefferson County, and would be thrilled to help arrange such a thing?
Seems like a few of us are in the eastern panhandle... any possibility of a meet?
Hi Logan! Welcome to the WV group. I'm not sure where everyone else is, hibernating? I certainly can relate to your experience. The solution? Activism in my opinion. What do you think?
Hello everyone. Just wanted to add my voice to this group and say that I am an atheist living in southern West Virginia. Being an atheist can be tough in WV (particularly in the more rural areas). I know that my high school did not respect the separation of church and state in several instances and let students bully their gay classmates with little to no repercussions. Has anyone else had similar experiences?
I am in the east, would've thought given my (relative) closeness to Washington DC, that there would be oodles of others, but if there are, they are hidden.
Do we have any atheist hoopies in the northern panhandle? I live near Wheeling.
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For first time, new principal academy CEO was once a principal
The head of the city's principal training academy has an unprecedented line on her resume: she has worked as a principal before.
Irma Zardoya, who was principal of The Bilingual School in the Bronx for nine years in the 1980s and served as a district leader for many years after that, replaced Sandra Stein as CEO of the city's Leadership Academy last month.
Stein, who had led the academy since 2005, came to the position from Baruch College, where she wrote about principal training and created its Aspiring Leaders Program. Stein's predecessor, Robert Knowling, came from the corporate world.
In an interview at the Leadership Academy's headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, Zardoya said that she doesn't have immediate plans to change the content or aim of the academy. But she is zeroing in on one goal that might separate her from her predecessors. She wants to work on building new principals' relationships with other administrators in their districts.
"Everyone needs to be responsible for a [new principal's] success, so that when the person is placed they are not lonely, so that the superintendent is aware of who this person is," she said.
The Bloomberg administration created the New York City Leadership Academy and its Aspiring Principals Program in 2003 to train administrators for service under former Chancellor Joel Klein. The original idea of the academy, which had former General Electric C.E.O. Jack Welch on its original advisory board, was to apply leadership principles from the corporate world to education.
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April 23, 2003 -- Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Iraq for five weeks now, only interrupted by the imprisonment of two volunteers by the Iraqi authorities during the height of the fighting. Much of that work has been in hospitals, directly with patients and trying to identify the most critical needs of the health system, which was under strain during the war. MSF's International President, Dr. Morten Rostrup, was the medical coordinator in Baghdad for the past five weeks and has just returned to Europe. At a briefing for international journalists today in Brussels, he described what MSF sees as the challenges in Iraq. His remarks follow. Thank you everyone for coming I was the Medical Coordinator and was concentrating on the medical aspects of the mission - but I was also the International President and also saw a lot of what was happening and what was going on. I will give you first the background to the mission. We started to approach Iraq and the Iraqi regime back in December of last year. We had several exploratory missions into Iraq before that in the time since 1991 when we left Iraq. We just had to realise it was not possible to create a humanitarian space under the regime that was in power. But we managed to get some kind of access and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with some key players in Iraq just ahead of the war and we then decided to send a medical team to Iraq to stay there during the war and to support our Iraqi colleagues with medical supplies and also with manpower. This was, for us, a very natural thing to do being a medical humanitarian organization and we thought there should absolutely be a presence of such organisations in Baghdad even though, of course, we had a lot of security constraints. And both from a personal perspective and from an institutional perspective, it is not an easy decision to take to put a team at risk in which the scenario was very, very unpredictable - as you all know. So we did not know exactly what kind of challenges we would encounter in Baghdad. The team of six, three doctors - a surgeon, anaesthesiologist and myself, an emergency intensive care doctor - and we had three logistical support personnel. And on the second night of the bombing the team felt we had to find out what was happening to the civilian population because there was heavy bombing and we decided at around midnight to go to Yarmouk Hospital which was on the west side of Baghdad, in order to see what was happening. And there were a lot of civilian casualties coming in to the hospital at the time and we met with people in the hospital. We saw they were coping pretty well with the casualties and we also ran into, by coincidence, the Minister of Health of the Government of Iraq - he was also in the hospital in the middle of the night. And so we were sitting there in the hospital during the bombing and discussing how to proceed further with the assistance to the Iraqi population. And there were certain needs not in the Yarmouk hospital but in the Al Kindi hospital and we then decided after an assessment the following day to put our surgical team in the Al Kindi hospital. This was a first line hospital for war victims and it was supposed to play a major role in the second phase of the war in case the Americans were approaching from the south west side in which the Yarmouk hospital would be soon under American control. So we started working in Al Kindi with our Iraqi colleagues. There were not many casualties in the first phase of the war in this hospital. Medical casualties came to other hospitals. But we were able to assess quite a lot of civilians being injured, some others having been killed and there was a wide range of casualties from minor casualties to more severe cases. But the majority were more minor cases. We should be aware that it is still very uncertain how many civilian casualties there were in Iraq and nobody really knows the correct number - and maybe we shall never know the correct number. And also the classification of the casualties according to the severity of the injury has not been done at all. So it is difficult to get a total overview but of course with Baghdad we can talk about several hundred casualties, perhaps over a thousand. But the numbers are not very precise. And some of the registers are now lacking in the hospitals so it may be difficult even now to track down the exact number. So we continued our presence in the hospitals for quite some time. We were staying there during the night time in case we were needed and all the time there was bombing. It was very irregular in many ways, both day and night, so we could not really take bombing into consideration when moving in town, we just had to move whenever in order to be able to do some medical action. Then we experienced on April 2 a very severe event for the team. Two of our members were taken by the security police of the regime. They disappeared from the hotel without any sort of explanation or information. Or course, this was another factor that added to the stress we had at the time being in the middle of this war. It was a very difficult time for us and especially for them who were put in jail and spent ten days in three different jails, transported around during heavy fighting - especially in the areas where the jails were. And the rest of the team, the four of us, we also had a difficult time, having two people missing, our friends and colleagues and not knowing anything. And we decided to suspend our medical activities in Al Kindi hospital on April 2, which of course is already a difficult decision we had to make. We had to make it clear that is was totally unacceptable that volunteer humanitarian aid workers are arrested in this way. We could not accept this and we it was also a pity because at this phase this was the last week of the war and the battle for Baghdad that everybody had been waiting for was really approaching and we were not able, in the height of this conflict, to assist as much as we wanted to in the Al Kindi hospital. I passed by and we gave some important medical supplies, so we did give some support despite the fact that two were missing. On April 7, Yarmouk hospital was hit, according to the doctors there, and they had to close down the hospital. All the major casualties were transferred to the Al Kindi hospital. On April 9, due to insecurity - the Americans were entering Baghdad - the Al Kindi hospital closed down. There were 120 patients in the hospital. Some were referred to other hospitals but many patients were sent home for not any kind of follow-up medical treatment. And we saw at the same time a partial collapse of the hospital system in Baghdad and we started to wonder what were the reasons for this partial collapse. I think what we said at the time, and it was stated by other organisations being present - although there were very few international organisations present - that it was the security problem. The looting started as you all know. Hospitals were not protected and they were looted, many of them. And they were afraid of being looted themselves and so staff from the hospitals stayed home to protect their homes. There was a lack of public transport, a lack of petrol, people could not move so even though some of the hospital structures were there, even though they were not being looted, they were very short of staff and some of the Iraqi doctors who stayed in the hospitals did very good work. I think some of there Iraqi doctors were pretty heroic working for 24 hours for many days trying to treat their patients under very difficult circumstances. So I think we should also pay tribute to those doctors who stayed as many people left these facilities. And, in addition, there was looting of the hospitals and a lack of medical supplies. But we saw a staff shortage as a key problem in this stage - which could be described as a second stage of what happened to the health structures in Baghdad - in addition to electricity failure and a lack of generators in some hospitals, which made it pretty difficult to carry out appropriate medical work shortly after Baghdad came under the control of the Americans. However it was also interesting to see things moving to another phase. The problems in hospitals in Baghdad are no longer related to lack of transport, security or so on as much as disorganization and a lack of administration. What we are seeing is a power vacuum in Iraq in general and very clearly in the hospitals. There is a lack of leadership, there are different groups that are trying to control the hospitals and I think we have to agree that hospitals may play a political role when it comes to the importance of service institutions and the control of hospitals may be looked at as a political issue. And it has been a bit frustrating to see that what has not been addressed that well is the problem of leadership in the hospitals. Many of the problems we see today in the hospitals are really due to this lack of leadership. That has to be addressed. The Ministry of Health (MoH) had a pretty clear hierarchical structure in Iraq and suddenly these people disappeared and the hospitals had nothing to relate to. And especially Baghdad this has been a big problem. Outside Baghdad and in the other cities some of the structures have been kept going, so they could work, more or less, in the same old fashion and you did not see the same crisis there. But In Baghdad still we have problems. There are problems with patients getting medical treatment even though it has improved quite a lot. But there is no big hospital that is functional in Baghdad today, two weeks more or less after the Americans took control of the city. So that is a great concern. As I stated earlier, when I was in Baghdad there were a lot of patients who were discharged and we have been pretty worried about the condition of these people because they have been without medical attention. Many of them may need secondary surgery so we still want to ask the question of whether there will be a kind of second wave with a lot of patients needing surgery coming again to the hospitals. In addition to this, we also know there are many patients there with chronic diseases. Diabetes, epilepsy, cardio-vascular disease, kidney diseases that need regular follow up and also medication. Many of these patients have been without their regular medication and if you think of a diabetic who is insulin dependent, without insulin you will die of diabetes if you do not get care. So what we still do not know is what has been going on in the many homes in the Baghdad, a city with millions of people, when the primary health system along with the hospitals broke down. But I hope we shall be able to do a proper assessment and the teams are trying to do this as well, even though it is a bit difficult under the current situation in Baghdad. What we have been able to do over the past two weeks is to send MSF teams from Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Kuwait into different areas of Iraq. And we have now done quite a few assessments of medical needs in Iraq in general by visiting about ten cities now and we are getting, more and more, a kind of overview of the health situation. Of course it takes time. These are rapid assessments and to do a thorough assessment we need more time to look into the morbidity, mortality, epidemiological studies and so on so that could take some time. But I think it is telling that, after two weeks, and after being in ten cities, MSF has not found any reason to justify a major humanitarian medical program in Iraq. I think it is pretty interesting and for me what we have been doing so far contrasts what has been portrayed, especially in Europe I think, about this huge humanitarian crisis or catastrophe in Iraq. This perception does not correspond with what we have been so far able to see ourselves in Iraq and I think we also have to ask a question whether it is really justified to use the whole notion of a major humanitarian catastrophe from a medical perspective at this point in time. Things are working pretty OK in many places. Of course there are needs, definite needs, there are specific needs in the medical community. There is a shortage of oxygen and anaesthetic drugs. There is kala azar, a special disease that is pretty abundant in Iraq. So for sure there are needs and there is a kind of crisis in the health care system. But I would really ask the question of if it justifies this notion of a huge humanitarian crisis or catastrophe. For MSF it is still to early to draw any final conclusions on the situation. We shall still be carrying out assessments for some weeks to come. But it is a bit provoking to see how attention has been brought to this humanitarian situation in Iraq while, at the same time, we are struggling with tremendous humanitarian problems and crisis in the DRC at this time, in the Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and we have alarming data from south Sudan with increased levels of malnutrition. We have not seen any signs of famine or epidemics in Iraq nor any mass displacement of people. We have not seen any of the general characteristics of a huge humanitarian crisis. I think we have to be a bit critical in order to be honest and precise as possible in describing what is going on today. The people responsible today for Iraq have to address the current problems. The lack of leadership and administration has to be addressed very, very urgently. I think it is a shame that such issues mean that people are not getting adequate treatment. It should be easy to put in place a system very quickly that will take on the responsibility to get the Iraqi health care system working. It is more needed now than huge amounts of medical supplies. There are challenges in Iraq. There are needs of reconstruction and development. And there are many challenges still to come and MSF shall continue to be present. QUESTIONSWho is responsible for improving the hospital administration?We have an occupying power in Iraq and according to the Geneva Conventions it is the occupying power that has the responsibility to see that needs of the civilians are met and urgently so. As long as we have an occupying power it is up to the Occupying power to find a solution to the problem. Whether they do it themselves or they bring in other parties, it is up to them to decide. Are the British and Americans doing enough?What we are seeing after two weeks is that some of these needs are not being addressed in a pertinent way it should have been dealt with . It has clear consequences for the civilian population and I would have thought this would have been addressed. Two weeks, I would have hoped we would not have seen this administrative chaos. What about the French proposal for an air bridge for patients?I think the Iraqi doctors I have met are skilled people and the level of the health care system in Iraq has been pretty advanced. I think they are able to deal with most of the cases that they see. When we think about airlifts to Liberia or Cote d'Ivoire it is not even a question. It is not raised at all. What is wrong with the reporting?We are here in a very politicised crisis as well and the media attention has been tremendous in this crisis. Take a step back and look at what is really happening and what kind of crisis is this and what is an adequate way of dealing with this and also keep a perspective on other crises in the world today. There was a media report that in one week about 1,000 people were massacred in Congo. At the same time, Iraqi authorities felt that 1,200 civilians had been killed so far in the war and 5,000 injured. It gives a perspective on what is happening and how we all get drawn into this crisis in a way that is not all the time appropriate. Have you shared your analysis with other agencies?There are very few really big international organizations inside Iraq. Lots of them have been outside Iraq and still many of them have not had access to Iraq properly but they are starting to come now. We have shared our thoughts with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who was also present in Baghdad. But of the big international organisations, it was only the ICRC and MSF who were present during the war. And remember, we are only talking about the medical situation. We are not looking into the water or food situation in Iraq. We have not found a huge amount of malnutrition. We are speaking specifically of the medical humanitarian situation. Even there, we have a lot of practical issues to be resolved. Salaries, for example, who is going to pay the salaries for the people who work in the hospitals. |
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Charlie Cook, of the Cook Political Report, and Stu Rothenberg, of the Rothenberg Political Report, offered their analysis of the 2012 election results.
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The START Center for Cancer Care is a state-of-the-art cancer center with a team of 30 world-class oncologists that has grown to 13 locations in San Antonio and across South Texas, and the world's largest Phase I clinical trials program for oncology with a START Center in Madrid, Spain. The mission of The START Center is to provide the highest quality of care for cancer patients and to accelerate the development of new anticancer drugs with the purpose of improving quality of life and survival for patients with cancer.
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