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Senate passage was secured when the bill's sponsors substantially increased the amount of money for increased border security - $36 billion over 10 years, effectively doubling the border security force and providing for 700 miles of new security fences.
This week the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the revised bill would reduce illegal immigration by 33 percent to 50 percent over existing law. The earlier version of the bill, according to the CEO, would have reduced illegal immigration by about 25 percent.
Despite the increased enforcement costs of the newly passed bill, it still would provide substantial economic benefits, the CBO said - $158 billion in deficit reduction over the first 10 years and $685 billion in the following decade.
The deficit reduction estimate is crucial because the bill's opponents had claimed that the bill would provide some short-term financial benefits but cost the government over the long term. Implementation would cost $23 billion over the first 10 years, the CBO estimated, substantially less than the value of its economic impact.
As passed by the Senate, the new version of the bill also would address other concerns raised by opponents, while creating a 13-year path to full citizenship for about 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally. For example, it would establish a program to help set up local assimilation programs for immigrants on the path to naturalization, including English instruction.
While complaining about "amnesty," House critics offer nothing other than increased enforcement. The Senate bill not only addresses border control, but converts a problem into an opportunity for immigrants and for society, which functions better when everyone can fully participate, rather than live in the shadows.
The bill does needlessly pander to some business interests by allowing relaxed visas for some types of workers without requiring them to exhaust the domestic work force supply.
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Opening batsman Cook had been a "brilliant" player for England, but had few people in the dressing room to turn to help pull the team out of its funk, Pietersen added.
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Everyone deserves a second chance. That is a basic tenet that can be applied everywhere from a misdeed by a child in an elementary school class through a person convicted in court and about to be sentenced.
Councilman Bill Dixon of Plymouth Borough is the target of his fellow council members, who have hired special counsel to determine whether Dixon can remain in office.
It seems Dixon has a decades-old criminal record. State charges have been wiped away by a pardon from Gov. Tom Corbett and a petition may be filed seeking a federal pardon.
Nonetheless, Dixon has been a solid citizen. He is a Vietnam War veteran and he has worked for UGI for 25 years. He is active in the community, including coaching youth sports, and he won election to council with the highest vote count of all candidates.
Dixon's attorney calls the move "small-town politics at its worst." On its face, it appears there may be more than a smattering of truth in the statement.
Dixon is considered a reformer in a town that has a longtime, solidly entrenched political machine. In the hard-ball politics that we have seen often in Luzerne County and its municipalities and school districts, the Dixon matter has a peculiar bent.
Spending taxpayer money on action to oust Dixon e is wasteful and divisive. Plymouth has other challenges toward which money would be better funneled.
Whatever Dixon did in the past is well in the past. He has served his sentences and he has earned a pardon on the state level with a chance for another on the federal level.
Bill Dixon deserves his second chance at life. As that chance includes public service beyond volunteerism, in service on the town council, to which the voters elected him despite whispers about his past, we urge Plymouth Borough Council to embrace and encourage this second-chance opportunity.
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With Mikayla sent to Redemption Island, for the Savaii Tribe: Ozzy, Whitney, Keith, Dawn, Cochran, and Jim and on the Upolu Tribe: Coach, Edna, Sophie, Albert, Rick, and Brandon are still in the game to show that they are the Survivor. On Night 16, the Upolu tribe do not like the fact that Brandon had another outburst and Rick says that they need to watch out for that and Coach says that it is to kill or be killed.
Day 17
The Duel is underway and Christine and Mikayla are told that they are going to take a crate apart and build a bridge. Afterwhich they are going to have to build puzzle. The two girls are neck to neck. They work on their individual puzzles and Mikayla thinks that she has it, but she doesn't. Christine gets it first and stays alive in the competition. Ozzy sees the winning streak and says that it would be smart to send someone to beat Christine.
Ozzy and Cochran talk and Ozzy says that they might be smart to send someone to Redemption Island to beat out Christine and be able to move back into the game. He says that he is willing to go in himself and Cochran likes the new side to him. At Upolu, Coach prays and practices Tai Chi. Later, he goes up and organizes the tribe together. He says that they need to get the Idol and Coach pretends to not know where it is. They pray and Sophie feels a little sick that Coach prayed that God help them find the idol when the Idol is in his pocket. The tribe get together and look for it. Coach and Sophie get the tree mail and get a clue into the next immunity challenge. It is all about painting each other to be twins and partnered up with that person. Coach shows Brandon the Idol and they all celebrate.
Immunity Challenge time and Jeffs says that the winning tribe will gets to see the new movie "Jack and Jill". They are going to have to get through a maze by the voices. Coach and Rick and Jim and Cochran are callers. Savaii takes a lead, but loses it with Upolu going ahead of them. Ozzy and Whitney are caught on their line and lose the big lead that they once had. Upolu gets to the end of it and start to arrange the masks. Coach and the rest begin to pray again. Upolu wins the challenge and prays together. Ozzy is upset and says that they now have to go to tribal.
Upolu gets to the Survivor Cinema and enjoys an endless amount of hotdogs and unlimited amount of candy. Coach gets the message and says that it is about family and says that he is ready to play the game. That night, Savaii talks about the fact that they lost and that Cochran should man up and take the road to Redemption to prove that he has what it takes to be a member of the tribe. Cochran is confused because earlier, Ozzy was saying that he would take the punishment so that they would be able to have him win and get back in the game. The tribe tells Cochran that he can do this and that it is really his way to redemption with them. Cochran doesn't like the idea that he is getting set up for failure.
Day 18
Dawn and Cochran talk and she says that Cochran is going to be able to redeem himself with the tribe. Cochran says that he is not confident enough to be able to go with it. Ozzy wakes up and says that he had a dream that he was going to Redemption Island as a way of redeeming his own personal journey and that he needs this. He gives the Idol to Cochran to hold on for him until he gets back. However, Keith doesn't like the idea that Ozzy, their strongest player, is going to go away without them knowing for a fact that they are not going to another challenge.
Tribal Council time and they sit down and talk about what the plan is. Jeff says that it is a risky move because they could be dooming themselves and Ozzy could lose the challenge and be out of the game. This would leave the tribe without their strongest player. Ozzy gives Cochran the Idol and tells him to give it back when he comes back. The survivors vote and it is unanimous that Ozzy with the 3 votes is voted off to Redemption Island. He says that it is good to leave on his own terms to vows to take Christine out of the competition and return to the game.
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The Rockwood Christmas parade scheduled for 7 p.m. today, Monday, has been postponed due to forecasted bad weather set to hit the city this evening.
It has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8.
Rockwood officials want to tackle the problems addressed in a city audit head on.
Rockwood City Councilman Bill Thompson has asked for a meeting this month auditors to address some of the problems he took affront to because they were never addressed by council.
Thompson is adamant council is part of city management and needs to address the issues brought up at a Nov. 21 meeting.
"A lot of things were talked about," he said. "A lot of things were not resolved."
No one from the public spoke at a Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation hearing at The Roane Alliance last Thursday.
The hearing was held to give the public a chance to comment on an application for a state water quality permit for CPD Development Inc.
The permit is for the construction of a major vehicle parts distribution facility in Roane Regional Business and Technology Park.
CPD has ties to Panattoni Development Co., which specializes in industrial projects.
The Guinness Book of World Records entry for a Dance Dance Revolution marathon has been blown out of the water.
Harriman's Travis Houk said he completed a staggering 40 hours, 2 minutes and 12 seconds dancing with the computer game during an event at Zuma Fun Center in Knoxville.
If Guinness accepts the 28-year-old's entry, it will replace the currently-held record of 15 hours, 17 minutes and 44 seconds.
The county received resignations from a group of ambulance department employees last week.
County Executive Ron Woody would not confirm or deny if the employees were seen drinking at an area restaurant while in uniform.
"I got a call saying 'Ronnie, we had a complaint, we started an investigation, we're going to have some resignations,'" he said.
Woody said five employees — three full-time and two part-time — were the subject of the investigation.
The building that holds the Regions Bank in downtown Harriman is being auctioned off along with six other Regions locations in Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas.
Signs announcing the auction, which will be at 4 p.m. Dec. 14 for the Harriman location, said the bank will remain open.
Bank branch manager Ted Meredith said the bank doesn't own the building, but the sale shouldn't change business.
"They are going to honor our lease," he said. "We're not going anywhere."
Construction crews at the new Roane Medical Center campus are busier than ever with major construction milestones near completion.
With mass grading nearly complete, the 64 acres of land have been recontoured and leveled to accommodate the 155,000-square-foot medical center campus that will include a state-of-the-art hospital, an adjacent new medical office building and large and easily accessible parking areas.
Steel construction is under way with crews anticipating completion by early December.
Darth, a coal-black pug mix with amber eyes, seems to have been born to be a survivor.
His mother — swollen with pregnancy — was one of dozens of dogs removed from deplorable conditions at a Poland Hollow Road puppy mill two years ago. She landed in a foster home with Rhonda Whalen of Roane County.
Whalen had the dog four days before the puppies — nine of them — were born.
The point of fostering dogs is to find them good homes, and Whalen works with rescue organizations and others to do just that.
Darth, the biggest of the puppies in that litter, was still with Whalen this summer.
Roane County Director of Schools Toni McGriff has accepted the resignation of a tenured teacher who had multiple run-ins with the law during his time with the system.
Justin Giles taught physical education at Ridge View Elementary School in Rockwood.
He was arrested by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on a DUI charge on Oct. 28 just before midnight. According to the police report, Giles was running vehicles off the road as he traveled east on Hwy. 70.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comments on its preliminary finding that there are no environmental impacts that would preclude issuing an operating license for the Watts Bar 2 reactor under construction near Spring City.
NRC staff will discuss the Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement in meetings from 2-4 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Magnuson Hotel, 1421 Murrays Chapel Road in Sweetwater. The NRC will transcribe the meetings and post the transcript on the agency's website.
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A town called Cyrus back in the 40/50's: June 2013
A town that when called by your first name - most everybody knew who you were..
A town where all the street lights were controlled by one seeing eye on the water
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A town that didn't have any street signs or house numbers back in 58 that I remember.
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A town where the train only went West on Tuesday and East on Thursday - and never
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Avenged Sevenfold – Approached for Ozzfest 2006 – Headliners Yet to Be Named…
AVENGED SEVENFOLD look to be the second band from Orange County to be courted by the Osbourne camp for a slot on this year's edition of the famed OZZFEST tour. According to Billboard.com, the SoCal boys join hometown heroes ATREYU in receiving approaches from Sharon and Co. Neither band, however, has committed to the 2006 Summer-long festival, and are heartily weighing their options.
According to AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman Matt Shadows in a article, "We're not going to do a Vans Warped run, we're probably going to go to Europe but there are a lot of tours going on. We're not really sure what's going on with Ozzfest. They've been offering stuff but we're not really sure who is headlining. They won't tell us and they want us to commit now but we won't do that until we know who is headlining. We might just get out of the country and do a [U.S.] tour after the summer."
OZZFEST 2004 alumns EVERY TIME I DIE, on the other hand, have been confirmed for the Vans Warped Tour, with several other OZZFEST alumns from years past also expected to reveal their Summer plans very shortly. More news soon.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, AVENGED SEVENFOLD has sold upwards of 396,000 copies in the United States of their latest release "City of Evil".


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It's a good day to be a writer at developer Naughty Dog. The developer of the hit PS3-exclusive The Last of Us has won the Outstanding Achievement in Videogames Writing award from The Writers Guild of America.
The annual award honors what the WGA picks as the best video game script of the past year. Judges for the award are caucus members or WGA members actively working in games, which means that whoever wins the word either has to be a member of the WGA or have an application to it pending at the time the script is submitted for consideration.
This year's award was given to Neil Druckmann, who served as creative director of The Last of Us.
Past winners of the WGA award include Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, Uncharted 3, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Dead Head Fred.
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Well, the FBI has been busy tracking down the perpetrators who stole and tried to sell photos from Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's baby shower. It turns out that the pictures were taken by Angelina Jolie's brother James Haven (whom she made out with at the Oscar's a few years ago), and here is where the story gets more complicated.
The camera was broken, so James took the camera to Best Buy where the camera was purchased to have it repaired since it was under warranty. Well, the photos were still in the camera, when the camera was sent out for repair to Precision Camera and Video Repair in Enfield, Connecticut.
Sources tell TMZ that two employees at Precision, Bill Keyes and Adam Beckwith, discovered the pictures in the digital camera. We're told that Keyes told authorities that Beckwith downloaded the photos.
Keyes mother, Madelon, told TMZ that her 36-year-old son was excited, showed her the pictures and sent an email to someone in California. Sources say the email may have been an attempt to sell the photos. Madelon Keyes told TMZ, "I don't think he would do something like that."
Sure he would have Ms. Keyes. Unfortunately the photos were of the hottest couple on the universe at the moment. Do you think photos of Rachel Weisz's baby shower would have caused such action?
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From June 1, a four-month option will be available with a nominal administration fee of £15 per ticket.
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This season's annual BBC Sport 'Price of Football' report, which analysed matchday costs of 166 clubs in 10 divisions across British football, identified Villa as the third best-value day out in the Barclays Premier League and the second-cheapest ticket in English football's top flight.
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Indiana law in doubt after ruling
ELKHART — Preliminary court injunctions have prevented implementation of two disputed sections of Indiana's anti-illegal immigrant law.
Now, in light of Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down part of Arizona's controversial immigration law, chances are the preliminary injunctions will become permanent. That's what a pair of Elkhart County immigration attorneys think, anyway, citing legal provisions putting authority over immigration matters largely in the hands of the federal government.
"The Supremes are saying you're interfering in our territory," said Rosy Meza, an Elkhart immigration lawyer. "Immigration is the exclusive province of federal law, not state law."
Cooperating with the federal government in immigration matters isn't prohibted by law, echoed Felipe Merino, another immigration attorney with offices in Goshen and South Bend. "It's trying to do the federal government's job that's prohibited."
The Supreme Court justices turned back three provisions in Arizona's 2010 immigration law, House Bill 1070. Notably, they struck a section that would have given state and local law enforcement officials authority to make warrantless arrests if they think a suspect has committed a crime that makes him or her deportable.
Upheld was a provision that requires law enforcement officials to ascertain the migratory status of detained suspects they think may be undocumented immigrants.
But even there, the signals from the high court were mixed, according to Merino. The decision leaves open the possibility of another legal challenge if detainees can show they were initially targeted due to racial profiling.
"The courts very clearly left it open," said Merino.
Karen Tumlin, managing attorney for the Los Angeles-based National Immigration Law Center, said the questions at issue in the Arizona matter are hardly carbon copies of the matters at the heart of the Indiana dispute. NILC and Indiana American Civil Liberties Union lawyers are heading up the legal challenge of the 2011 law here, Senate Enrolled Act 590, in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis.
Even so, the Arizona case affirms that states have limited authority in immigration matters, bolstering the legal challenge here, Tumlin said. The U.S. Supreme Court decision is "absolutely helpful" in the Indiana matter.
On the other side, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, who's arguing on behalf of SEA 590 in U.S. District Court, said the Arizona decision offers "valuable guidance." At the same time, he took a swipe at the federal government, suggesting inaction on the immigration issue by the feds has led to initiatives like HB 1070 in Arizona and SEA 590 here.
"The failure of Congress to reform our immigration statutes has put states in the difficult position of seeking this guidance from the judicial branch," Zoeller said in a statement this week. After reviewing this week's legal decision, he'll "advise Indiana's legislature of any necessary changes to our current statutes."
Indiana Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, also took a jab at the feds. Delph pushed several years for immigration legislation in the lead up to passage last year of SEA 590, which he authored.
"Presidents from both parties have pandered for political reasons and now the court is once again suggesting the federal government enforce the law," Delph said in his own statement this week.
At issue in the Indiana case is a provision of SEA 590 that allows law enforcement authorities here to arrest immigrants with federal deportation orders and even notices of action issued for them.
The provision goes too far, the NILC and Indiana ACLU say. Immigrants with deportation orders can be lawfully released as they appeal removal from the country, the critics noted, while notices of action can be issued for immigrants legally here as they go through the citizenship application process.
Also disputed is a provision that prohibits use of identification cards issued by consuls of foreign countries, like the matricula consular issued by the Mexican government. The state provision, say the NILC and ACLU, runs afoul of federal regulations.
At any rate, two disputed sections are hardly the only elements of SEA 590 and several other provisions of the law are in effect, not subject to any legal challenge.
Among other things, SEA 590 also:
Ÿ Mandates use of E-Verify in the hiring of employees by state offices, schools and public libraries and contractors hired by those entities. E-Verify is a federal system meant to help identify undocumented immigrants.
Ÿ Calls for the loss of tax credits and tax breaks applicable to undocumented workers by companies that don't use E-Verify.
Ÿ Calls for a comprehensive study by state experts, due in July, of the costs of illegal immigration to Indiana.
Originally, SEA 590 contained a provision, later removed, requiring that local law enforcement authorities conduct background checks into the immigration status of detainees suspected of being illegal immigrants. It also had initially called for use of only English in most state government and school operations.


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The story of an aging man-child has been told and retold so many times that it has evolved into a kind of narrative ritual. Witness the phenomena of Seth Rogen and his ilk, a brand exclusively defined for their dopey charm in the face of adult responsibilities, or the series of stubborn lackadaisical men throughout Mike Judge's oeuvre: The character type often works because he remains likable in spite of his archetypical trainwreck routine. Chris D'Arienzo's "Barry Munday" runs this playful stereotype into the ground with its titular crude ladies' man (Patrick Wilson), whose rough wake-up call arrives when he loses both testicles and looks beyond the bedroom to a more settled life. Thanks to Wilson's gentle, unassuming performance, the character works well enough to generate a steady volume of pathos. The rest of the movie is a different story.
Like "Choke" as a sitcom, "Barry Munday" suffers from an ever-present lightness despite its vulgar nature, deflating the emotional value intrinsic to the plot. With its character's dilemma fully in place -- after the testicular accident, his work life grows unstable and naturally his sex life goes extinct -- "Barry Munday" falls prey to a tepid plot device: A moody young woman (Judy Greer) shows up claiming that Barry fathered her child after a one-night stand. Unable to recollect the incident, Barry simply accepts it and attempts to leverage the accident into a means of injecting significance into his life.
D'Arienzo (adapting Frank Turner Hollon's novel) delivers the usual routine with a few eccentric digressions (the intervention of a genital mutilation support group offers a few shallow laughs), but he simultaneously avoids giving Munday's world more than the vaguest definition. The result often feels like an unfunny "Saturday Night Live" sketch in need of better gags. With no constant sense of reality, "Barry Munday" feels like a shallow comedy dressed as something far quirkier.
Much of the problems with "Barry Munday" come from its repeatedly uninspiring screenplay, which contains a constant barrage of personal gripes ("I once had options. My balls were great. I was great") and directionless vulgarity ("My tits feel like they're two Ziploc bags full of oatmeal," says the mother of his child) that lacks enough ingenuity to give momentum to the lightness. But the real precedent for the plot of "Barry Munday" harkens back to Preston Sturges's classic 1944 comedy "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," in which a virtuous young man takes on responsibility for the pregnancy of a woman knocked up by another anonymous soldier. Parenthood offers an easy route for the coming-of-age story, even when it involves older men, and "Barry Munday" occasionally manages to create a gently bittersweet vibe due to this decisive blend. But an appreciable tone and the considerable efforts on Wilson's part to make Barry come alive simply fail to compensate for the greater lack of competence needed to excuse the shoddy, half-baked plot. The movie's forgettable qualities set it up for a put-down on its own lame terms: "Barry" is mundane.
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The Olympics and HR share the same ultimate goal, which is getting the most out of human talent. Other things that HR has in common with the Olympics include the use of metrics, a continuous improvement process, teamwork and the use of technology to enable greater human performance. Both the Olympics and business are competitions (although it is often forgotten that business is so). By studying this model, which has operated successfully for decades around the globe, HR can capture some operational principles that can be modified and then applied to the way that HR manages employees. Here are four of those key principles:
Competition is a powerful tool. Thousands participate in the Olympics, and millions watch them. That demonstrates that the competitive model excites people. Just to get a berth on your country's team, you must successfully compete against your own teammates. In direct contrast, HR tends to discourage both internal and external competition, because it prefers harmony and it doesn't like the discord associated with the heat of competition.
Unfortunately, avoiding competition means lower levels of excitement and productivity. Some firms have embraced the competitive model. While firms like Google and Microsoft use contests to identify potential hires, MGM Grand has really mastered the science, employing "black box" competitions to seek out and identify talent anywhere within a function regardless of tenure and experience.
In the food and beverage department, for example, any employee can sign up to compete in tournament-style culinary challenges in which winning contestants move on to the next round. Contestants are provided black boxes that contain ingredients they must use to prepare an original dish (anyone who has watched Iron Chef knows how this works). The challenges allow employees new and old, with and without experience, and from anywhere within the function, to showcase their skills and abilities to complete truly job-relevant challenges.
In the recent past, black-box challenges have enabled a 23-year-old sous chef in a nonrated venue to be promoted to executive chef in a four-star venue, and a wait-staff member to be promoted to general manager, both having proved their ability to manage all aspects of the job through various challenges. Not only do the challenges enable superstars to shine, but they also remove all doubt among other employees why someone got promoted.
Performance-based hiring is best. In the Olympics, you don't make the team based on seniority, education or experience. Selection is based solely on the person's performance in real-life trials. Corporations could benefit by shifting some of their emphasis away from interviewing and instead give candidates real problems or simulations to solve, as Microsoft, Google and GE have done.
Reward superior results, not effort. In the Olympics, medals go exclusively to those who produce the top numbers. There is no "show-up pay" or guarantees. Although dozens might compete in a grueling event, only three will be recognized and rewarded with medals. HR, by contrast, tries to utilize the "soccer mom" model, where everyone gets equal praise and some reward and the differential between the top and the average performers may be marginal. HR also can over-praise intangible factors like effort, heart, loyalty, commitment, perseverance and values. The lesson is that dramatic differentiation in rewards sends a clear message that exceptional performance is the goal. Average results have little value because only exceptional results can teach us how to change the process so that all can improve.
Compare yourself with the best in the world. In the Olympics, the standard is an external "best in the world" standard. You compare everything you do with the holder of the continually improving world record. HR metrics, rather than being internally focused, also need to be compared directly with the best HR results in the world. Winning requires comparing yourself with the results produced by the world's best firm—and then beating them.
The overall lesson to be learned from the Olympics is that it's not the shoes that create champions, despite what the advertising slogan says. Obviously it takes talent, but it's equally important to have great managers and superior processes to select, develop, motivate and get the talent to work together as a team. Sounds a lot like HR.


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WASHINGTON — Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a number of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block.
The detainees are offered a hot meal or a liquid nutritional supplement and, if they refuse, they are strapped into a chair. A nurse then passes a tube through their noses and down into their stomachs; for one to two hours, they are fed a drip of Ensure while a Navy corpsman watches.
Those who have experienced force-feeding have described it as painful. But, as the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are well aware, fasting and then enduring the procedure can also bring political advantage.
From British-run prisons in Ireland to detention facilities in Israel, the hunger strike has long been a political weapon wielded by the imprisoned or the powerless. With their protest, the 100 men refusing food at Guantanamo — 23 of whom are being fed through a nasogastric tube — have forced the largely forgotten issue of their indefinite detention back on to Washington's agenda.
The hunger strike has also reopened a debate about whether it is ethical for medical personnel at Guantanamo Bay to force-feed some of the protesters. When a hunger striker falls to 85 percent of his ideal body weight and continues to refuse food, a military medical doctor writes a prescription for what officials at Guantanamo call an"enteral feed."
The hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay began in early February over allegations that the guard force improperly handled Korans during searches — charges strenuously denied by the military. But the number of hunger strikes has since skyrocketed, and the protest has taken on broader meaning for detainees seeking to protest Guantanamo's seeming permanence and the Obama administration's failure to make good on it promise to close the facility.
President Obama said Tuesday that he would renew efforts to shut the detention center, a challenge that, if anything, is more politically demanding than it was when he signed an executive order to close Guantanamo on his second day in office in January 2009. White House officials said Obama is considering appointing a senior State Department official to oversee the transfer of detainees who have been cleared for repatriation or resettlement — the post is vacant — and will also accelerate efforts to start a periodic review process for others being held without charge.
There are 166 detainees at Guantanamo, 86 of whom have been cleared for transfer by an interagency task force. The policy of slowly emptying the facility by sending detainees home or finding them third countries in which to live has been moribund for a year.
The administration blames the paralysis on congressional restrictions, but the secretary of defense can still act by certifying that a particular transfer is in the national security interests of the United States. Lawyers for the detainees said the administration should move quickly to exercise that option.
"Let's start with the 86; there can be no argument about that," said Carlos Warner of the federal public defender's office in the Northern District of Ohio, which represents 11 Guantanamo detainees. "There could be transfers home in one month, two months."
The White House would still need to engage Congress so it doesn't further restrict options for handling detainees, said an administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the issue, noted that 56 of the 86 cleared detainees are from Yemen.
The administration suspended transfers to Yemen after a plot to bring down a U.S. commercial airline over Detroit was found to originate in that country. Any decision to lift that suspension would require the administration to help Yemeni authorities manage a staggered return of their nationals.
Warner said visible movement on transfers, coupled with a willingness by the military to negotiate with detainees on matters such as the handling of the Koran, could end the hunger strike.
The American Medical Association and the International Committee of the Red Cross have said they oppose force-feeding. They each cite a declaration by the World Medical Association that states that "where a prisoner refuses nourishment and is considered by the physician as capable of forming an unimpaired and rational judgment concerning the consequences of such a voluntary refusal of nourishment, he or she shall not be fed artificially."
Obama defended the practice Tuesday, saying, "I don't want these individuals to die."
The Pentagon has not responded to a letter from the AMA on the issue, but Lt. Col. Samuel House, a spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said the military wants to preserve lives.
There are a handful of detainees at Guantanamo who have been on a hunger strike and force-fed since 2005, according to House.
But the scale of the current protest has forced the military to move additional medical personnel onto the base to monitor detainees and cope with the rising numbers of forced feedings. There is nearly one nurse or corpsman for every detainee, he said.
There are no participants in the hunger strike at Camp 7, the high-security, classified facility that holds 14 high-value detainees, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.