We Clean Homes All Over Greenville	How an appointment with Super Maids works?
There are many responsibilities a professional house cleaning service has, and while some people may feel that it is an easy job, it is actually the opposite. Duties and responsibilities are very high and there must be a set standard each cleaner must meet within the cleaning company. It's not as simple as picking up laundry off of the floor after a young child; it goes as deep as making the house feel like a home again. Let's talk about house cleaning duties of maid services from Super Maids NC in Greenville, North Carolina.
Depending on the house cleaning company worked, a maid's responsibilities vary due to conditions, locations, types of jobs such as commercial or residential, etc. With ours, it goes beyond general house cleaning services and goes into a Super cleaning and total cleanliness restoration. A general task list would be to clean as long as there is something dirty to clean, whereas other jobs want a more thorough job done and may require a bit of elbow grease.
Each price is based on the home size and required level of cleaning, which is why it's important to contact and speak directly with the company you're trying to book. This is so that there isn't anything hidden and you can get a breakdown explained.
Hiring house cleaning services from Super Maids NC in Greenville, North Carolina, doesn't have to be a difficult process. There are qualified professionals ready to turn your Greenville house back into a home and for a great price. Don't worry about the extra cleaning before that big party, sit back, relax and take care of the things that are already on your plate – we'll wash it after!
Let Super Maids NC house cleaning service in Greenville give you a superior clean.


I don't have amazing solar imaging gear - just a DSLR and a home made solar filter - but when there is a sunspot or active region large enough, it's always worth taking a look to see if I can 'spot' it! 😂 But seriously, when I started seeing photos of active region ("AR") 2665 show up on my social media feeds, I had to grab my camera.
My lens isn't quite sharp enough to really pull out all the detail, and who can compete with the Solar Dynamics Observatory with crystal clear live images of the sun.
Nevertheless, I've found over the years that my best chances are to focus the camera while it's tethered to my laptop, rather than relying on the auto-focus or trying to focus by hand looking through the viewfinder.
If you stop and think for a second, it's pretty darn cool to be able to see a sunspot like this with very little equipment. Controlling my camera from my laptop makes me feel super cool, as if I have my own observatory at my disposal.
My laptop perched on a chair near the sliding door so the USB cable can reach the camera.
My camera slowly following the sun so I don't have to keep re-adjusting it.
I don't think it's my best sunspot photo, but it definitely was an honest attempt. If you take a look at the weather conditions, they were just okay I guess. I've tried stacking solar photos before and it just doesn't boost the clarity as nicely as moon photos. I'll quit moaning and just enjoy this sunspot the size of Earth, captured on my DSLR in my backyard.


This ungrateful city speaks slowly , not out of shyness because of her short garments , but because its suitcase is overburdened with blood. Bitterly I have been crying since the time I saw her. I cry for my dear trees , for I am a man from the wild , a man who knows the sounds of animals but not pure like them . Thus bears are not coarse or brown , but soft and rosy balloons. As well , an owl is not blind or ominous , but it has a silver heart through which she sees the truth . If only you know how friendly she is! She used to talk to me about the stories of the ancestors. Rootless and homeless I am now . I used to live in a warm cottage over a tree.. I used to smile .. to laugh in the morning.. and I used to sit cheerfully by a pool whose name I no longer remember. For this city slapped me with her hard hands and made me forget every beautiful thing. I forgot my colour and voice. A dumb man now I am , with no colour, with no voice and with no tale. A very sad man now I am . I never know anything about the spring and I never remember my dear trees .


This episode we bring you the melancholy music of Erika Moya. Painted in breaths measured out like brushstrokes, Moya's images build rich and lonely dwellings in a landscape where it often rains, beautiful lovers are drowning in the distance, and there is more moonlight than sunlight. The listener may want to console Ms. Moya, but we must be grateful that in quiet moments of sometimes difficult observation she has found splendours. Please enjoy Erika Moya.


× The 2018 Premier Competition has taken place on November 18, 2018, hosted in four countries. Results from across global sites are now available on this page: please see below.
If you are a prospective contestant who cannot travel to the U.S. for the PUPC Onsite Test, the Physics Unlimited Premier Competition is an opportunity for you to exhibit your physics skills by completing the same work at the same time as students who would partake in PUPC at its original headquarters. Physics Unlimited has inherited the international chapters formed by PUPC in 2015-2016.
A combined list of results from all global sites is available here.
Brief history:For our inaugural event we partnered with the Freshman Institute of FH Aachen in Germany and the non-profit organization ASDAN China to help bring the event to more universities and schools within China. Beginning November 2018, we are bringing the event to the Republic of Korea through the organization KGSEA to reach Korean high school students.
The sites established in previous years through PUPC are currently listed on the PUPC Global webpage; they will transition to this page as further re-organization takes place.
If you are a representative of an institutuion of higher education and would like to bring the PUPC experience to your location, please e-mail directors@physicsu.org, and we will work with you on bringing this opportunity to fruition.
This page will be updated periodically as details about new international sites emerge.


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Category Archives: Microbiology Investigations
Research – How Does Hepatitis A Spread Through Food?
Food Poisoning News
In a developed country such as the United States, outbreaks of Hepatitis A (HAV) from contaminated food are not common but are still possible and have occurred in the past. Some outbreaks have been linked to thousands of cases. It can be difficult, however, to pinpoint the source of infection because of the late onset of symptoms especially when the victims are geographically scattered. A food product can become contaminated at any step during the process of harvesting, distribution, preparation, etc… When the problem occurs at one of the early stages, say during production, this can lead to a wide-spread outbreak, such as recent outbreaks of HAV linked to imported pomegranates or HAV linked to imported strawberries.
However, most recorded HAV outbreaks in the United States have occurred at the point of sale when food is handled and served in a restaurant. While most food handlers with HAV do not transmit the virus because they practice proper personal hygiene, all an infected person has to do to spread the virus is touch food after failing to wash their hands. These "establishment" HAV outbreaks are usually in a single geographic location tied to a particular restaurant, like the relatively recent Burger King or Famous Anthony's outbreaks.
Posted in Food Micro Blog, Food Microbiology, Food Microbiology Blog, Food Microbiology Research, Food Microbiology Testing, Food Virus, Hepatitis A, microbial contamination, Microbial growth, Microbiological Risk Assessment, Microbiology, Microbiology Investigations, Microbiology Risk, Virus
New Zealand – National Microbiological Database Programme
This introduction is not part of the Animal Products Notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice supplements the requirements of the Animal Product Regulations 2021 and sets requirements for microbiological sampling and testing of animal material and animal products intended for human consumption.
The National Microbiological Database (NMD) Programme is a standardised microbiological sampling and testing programme to provide ongoing monitoring of microbiological process control across all industry participants.
Who should read this Animal Products Notice?
You should read this notice if you are:
•an operator who processes red meat or poultry intended for human consumption; or
•a recognised laboratory that tests red meat or poultry intended for human consumption
A failure to comply with this notice may be an offence under section 135(1)(c) of the Animal Products Act 1999 and may result in further action by an animal products officer.
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Irish officials search for the source of the Salmonella outbreak
Health officials in the Republic of Ireland are investigating a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 20 people.
The number of laboratory-confirmed cases associated with the epidemic is 26 and people fell ill between Nov. 30 and Dec. 25, 2022.
Patients range in age from 10 to 91 years old; 14 are male and 12 are female, according to the Health Service Executive (HSE).
The Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak was identified through routine whole genome sequencing.
The outbreak control team includes the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), regional departments of public health, HSE environmental health officers, the National Salmonella, Shigella, and Listeria Reference Laboratory, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and the Marine (DAFM), and colleagues from Northern Ireland.
The source of the infection remains under investigation. Officials would not say if the outbreak was linked to a recall of raw chicken products in late January.
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Research – Zoonoses, foodborne outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance guidance for reporting 2022 data
This technical report of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) presents the guidance to reporting European Union (EU) Member States and non‐Member States in data transmission using extensible markup language (XML) data transfer covering the reporting of isolate‐based quantitative antimicrobial resistance data, as well as reporting of prevalence data on zoonoses and microbiological agents and contaminants in food, foodborne outbreak data, animal population data and disease status data. For data collection purposes, EFSA has created the Data Collection Framework (DCF) application. The present report provides data dictionaries to guide the reporting of information deriving from 2022 under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC, Regulation (EU) 2017/625, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/627 and Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1729. The objective is to explain in detail the individual data elements that are included in the EFSA data models to be used for XML data transmission through the DCF. In particular, the data elements to be reported are explained, including information about the data type, a reference to the list of allowed terms and any additional business rule or requirement that may apply.
Posted in antimicrobial resistance, Antimicrobials, Decontamination Microbial, Food Micro Blog, Food Microbiology, Food Microbiology Blog, Food Microbiology Research, Food Microbiology Testing, microbial contamination, Microbial growth, Microbiological Risk Assessment, Microbiology, Microbiology Investigations, Microbiology Risk
Research – Manual for reporting on zoonoses and zoonotic agents, within the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC, and on some other pathogenic microbiological agents for information derived from the year 2022
This reporting manual provides guidance to European Union (EU) Member States (MSs) for reporting on zoonoses and zoonotic agents in animals, food and feed under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC, Regulation (EU) 2017/625, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/627 and of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/772 and also on the reporting of other pathogenic microbiological agents or contaminants in food. The objective of this manual is to harmonise and streamline reporting by MSs to ensure that the data collected are relevant and comparable for analysis at the EU level. This manual covers all the zoonoses and zoonotic agents included under the current data collection system run by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Detailed instructions are provided on the reporting of data in tables and information in text forms. The instructions given relate to the description of the sampling and monitoring schemes applied by the MSs, as well as the monitoring results. Special reference is made to data elements which allow trend watching over time and the analysis of sources of zoonotic agents at the EU level. This manual is specifically aimed at guiding the reporting of information deriving from the year 2022.
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Research – Campylobacter, the bacterium that causes most foodborne outbreaks in Spain
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There were 11,244 cases of Campylobacteriosis in 2021, almost double the 6,891 cases reported in 2020
Campylobacter is the bacterium that causes most gastrointestinal infections in humans. According to the latest report on zoonotic diseases (infections from animals to humans) published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Campylobacter was the most common cause of infection in the EU accounting for 62% of the cases registered in 2021. and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
In Spain, there were 11,244 cases of campylobacteriosis in 2021, almost double the 6,891 cases recorded in 2020. The incidence of this bacterium has a marked seasonal pattern, with the highest figures being found in summer, with a rebound in January. The most frequently implicated food as confirmed by the Consumers' and Users' Organization (OCU) is poultry meat (turkey and chicken).
Posted in Campylobacter, campylobacter coli, Campylobacter jejuni, food bourne outbreak, Food Illness, Food Micro Blog, Food Microbiology, Food Microbiology Blog, Food Microbiology Research, Food Microbiology Testing, Foodborne Illness, foodborne outbreak, foodbourne outbreak, Illness, microbial contamination, Microbial growth, Microbiological Risk Assessment, Microbiology, Microbiology Investigations, Microbiology Risk, outbreak
India – 36 School Students Fall Sick Due To Food Poisoning In Maharashtra
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Thirty-six students in Sangli in Maharashtra on Friday fell ill due to suspected food poisoning, an official said.
All of them were shifted to a hospital, where 35 were discharged post treatment, while one has been kept under observation, he said.
"Food samples from the school and the central kitchen have been sent to a lab for tests. A three-member committee has been formed to probe the matter," Gaikwad added.
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India – Over 60 students hospitalised following suspected food poisoning at Wayanad school
More than 60 students at a boarding school in Wayanad were hospitalised after they experienced vomiting and diarrhoea after having their meals.
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Argentina – What is Shigella: The criminal 'rotten meat' bacterium
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Such as urgent 24 As reported, the Municipality of Berazategui made official two deaths from salmonella and shigella batteries after eating offal and other types of meat in poor condition. The subjects aged 49 and 36, without pre-existing diseases, had acute diarrheal symptoms, which required admission to intensive care with mechanical ventilation, but "died in hospital on January 12 and 17."
As for the shigella bacterium or bacillary dysentery, it is transmitted by the fecal-oral route, just like salmonella , or by direct contact with infected people. It is endemic in tropical climates, with a higher incidence in summer, in addition to generally presenting in institutions such as nursing homes and schools due to lack of hygiene measures or contagion through food and water.
Posted in Decontamination Microbial, Food Micro Blog, Food Microbiology, Food Microbiology Blog, Food Microbiology Research, Food Microbiology Testing, Food Poisoning, microbial contamination, Microbial growth, Microbiological Risk Assessment, Microbiology, Microbiology Investigations, Microbiology Risk, Salmonella, Shigatoxin, Shigella, Shigella flexneri, Shigella Sonnei
USA – Outbreak Investigation of Listeria monocytogenes: Enoki Mushrooms (November 2022)
FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, is investigating an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to enoki mushrooms. FDA has identified enoki mushrooms distributed by Utopia Foods, Inc. of Glendale, New York and imported from China, and enoki mushrooms labeled as "Producer: Shandong Youhe Biotechnology, Co.," with an address in China and "Distributed By: Sun Hong Foods, Inc." as likely sources of illnesses in this outbreak. Enoki mushrooms are long thin white mushrooms, usually sold in clusters. They are especially popular in East Asian cuisine and are also known as enokitake, golden needle, futu, seafood, or lily mushrooms.
As of January 18, 2022, CDC reports three illnesses included in this outbreak. Through ongoing import and product sampling of enoki mushrooms, two strains of Listeria monocytogenes detected on enoki mushroom products have been determined through Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) to be the same strains of Listeria monocytogenes linked to illnesses in this outbreak. Both strains are included in this outbreak investigation.
On January 17, 2023, FDA reported a positive import sample of enoki mushrooms that matched both outbreak strains and resulted in a voluntary recall expansion from Utopia Foods, Inc. Additional sample collection and analysis conducted by the Maryland Department of Health have also identified both outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes in two product samples of enoki mushrooms. These products that tested positive are sold in a 7.05-oz (200g) clear plastic package with a brown and green label and include a label on the back of the package that states: "Producer: Shandong Youhe Biotechnology Co.," with an address in China, and "Distributed By: Sun Hong Foods, Inc."
On December 17, 2022, FDA issued a safety alert for enoki mushrooms labeled as "Producer: Shandong Youhe Biotechnology, Co.," with an address in China and "Distributed By: Sun Hong Foods, Inc.," as a result of a positive product sample collected by Missouri state partners. At that time, these products were not linked to an active outbreak. The strain of Listeria found in these products matches one of the two strains linked to illnesses in this outbreak. FDA's safety alert has been updated with the most recent information linking these products to an ongoing outbreak investigation.
FDA's investigation is ongoing to determine a potential source of contamination and whether any other products are contaminated or linked to illnesses. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.
Consumers, restaurants, and retailers should not eat, sell, or serve recalled enoki mushrooms from Utopia Foods, Inc. and enoki mushrooms labeled as "Producer: Shandong Youhe Biotechnology, Co.," with an address in China and "Distributed By: Sun Hong Foods, Inc." Consumers should check the label on both the front and the back of their enoki mushroom package to view distributor information (see photos below).
Listeria is especially harmful if you are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or have a weakened immune system due to certain medical conditions or treatments. If you are in any of these groups, do not eat any raw enoki mushrooms. For enoki mushrooms that are not recalled or potentially contaminated, always cook enoki mushrooms thoroughly to kill any foodborne germs.
Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of these symptoms after eating enoki mushrooms:
People who are not pregnant usually have fever, muscle aches, and tiredness. They may also get a headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, or seizures.
Pregnant people usually have fever, muscle aches, and tiredness. However, Listeria can cause pregnancy loss or premature birth. It can also cause serious illness or death in newborns.
Follow FDA's safe handling and cleaning advice and use extra vigilance in cleaning and sanitizing any surfaces and containers that may have come in contact with these recalled products to reduce the risk of cross-contamination, including retailers who stored or repackaged recalled enoki mushrooms. Listeria can survive in refrigerated temperatures and can easily spread to other foods and surfaces.
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Home Press Releases Dre Island Set To Release Debut Album Now I Rise
Dre Island Set To Release Debut Album Now I Rise
Fernando Hevia
Dre Island is one of Jamaica's most powerful messengers. The multi-faceted artist – who sings, songwrites, produces and plays piano – will release his debut album Now I Rise on May 29th, 2020 through a joint-venture partnership with DubShot Records and Kingston Hills Entertainment.
The 13-track release will feature the hit single "We Pray" feat Popcaan, "My City" and the recently released "Be Okay" feat Jesse Royal, as well as 9 previously unreleased songs. Other collaborations on the album include "Days of Stone" feat Chronixx and "Run to Me" feat Alandon. Today, along with the pre-order of the album, he unveils the last song on the album "Still Remain" accompanied by a brand new video directed by Fernando Hevetia.
For the past five years, his stone-chiseled voice has reflected universal themes of struggle and triumph on introspective anthems making him a revered collaborator of his peers in the reggae community (from Popcaan, Chronixx and Agent Sasco) and internationally. He turned heads outside of the reggae sphere in 2016, when he teamed up with UK sensation Jorja Smith on the Cadenza-produced track "People," which was voted Hottest Record In the World by BBC's Radio 1 host Annie Mac.
As fans earned a taste of Dre Island's versatility during his rapid climb, the arrival of his opus Now I Rise is an embodiment of the core values of reggae music (roots, reality, and culture) mixed with R&B sensibilities and seamless melodic flows akin to hip-hop, gospel and blues. Taking on the title as the Voice of the Ghetto on his album standouts such as "Never Run Dry," "My City," and "Be Okay," Dre Island wails through the emotions of the less-fortunate, while also taking aim at greed and corruption in all nations. He continues to delve deeper with more intimate love songs including on "Four Seasons," "Calling" and "Favorite Girl."
Now I Rise is largely self-produced, but includes an impressive list of reggae and dancehall hitmakers like: Jam2, Anju Blaxx, Teetimus, Winta James, Dretegs Music and Barkley Productions.
"This album speaks of arising, growth, new beginnings and emerging from the ashes. At this time, these are all the things we need based on what is happening right now. The truth is, since 2015 I have been advertising that the album is coming. It has been five years and the time is right. As an artist and person Dre Island move different. I embrace Rasta and this way of life, but I am not part of any group like Boboshanti or Twelve Tribes. Everything I do is inspired by the father. I am moved to drop this album at this time because I am divinely inspired to do so. When you look at a song like "We Pray" I can take no credit for a song like that. Yes I wrote the lyrics and built the rhythm and I voice the track, but it's a prayer, not just a song so how a man fi tek credit for something that come from above," Dre Island states.
A schedule of live stream performances will be announced and promoted in the coming weeks as the release date approaches. The first partnership leading up to the release will be with Pepsi Jamaica, and features an original song written and composed by Dre Island that will be promoted on social media with the tag #PepsiTanAYuhYard. The team chosen by Dre to market and distribute the album is Kingston Hills Entertainment, a partnership between Kingston, Jamaica based The Solid Agency and New York, USA based DubShot Records. Previous releases include Wayne Marshall's "Glory to God" and Tessanne Chin's "Somebody Loves You."
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NOW I RISE:
1. Now I Rise
2. Kingdom
3. We Pray feat Popcaan
4. Never Run Dry
5. Be Okay feat Jesse Royal
6. My City
7. More Love
8. Four Seasons
9. Days of Stone feat Chronixx
10. Calling
11. Favorite Girl
12. Run to Me feat Alandon
13. Still Remain
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Home » How Do You Know Your Mobile Browser is Safe?
These little indicators are all around us, telling us we're safe. The security guard at our bank. The sleeping dog at the end of our bed. And the subtle shift in our browser's URL bar to display the little padlock and https. But this universal experience of safety indicators does not translate to mobile browsers.
According to a recent study, the basic, recommended security indicators didn't make the cut because of small screen size on mobile browsers. The study found that even security experts couldn't tell from the visual interface on most mobile browsers whether or not a website visited was secure.
"We found vulnerabilities in all 10 of the mobile browsers we tested, which together account for more than 90 percent of the mobile browsers in use today in the United States," said Patrick Traynor, assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science.
So what can you do? Practice caution! Mobile malware and scams are on the rise, and without these basic security indicators on mobile devices it can be hard for even a tech-savvy user to spot all the scams. To plug the indicator gap, you need more protection, like SecureIT. SecureIT detects the latest threats and alerts you whenever you're hit with bad content, malware or phishing schemes.
Think of it as your personal flare in the night.


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Site to provide customer support and training for technologies such as five-axis machining and multifunction turning centers.
Manufacturers from throughout the region attended the ribbon cutting and open house for the new West Chester, Ohio, location.
This week, DMG MORI officially opened a new tech center and showroom in the Cincinnati area. The ribbon cutting at the new West Chester, Ohio, location was yesterday.
The primary purpose of the 15,000-square-foot facility is for customer support and training. DMG MORI USA CEO Thorsten Schmidt noted that the majority of the staff at the new site are service personnel and applications engineering specialists.
In his remarks at the opening event, he also described the significance of the region. The machine tool builder estimates there are 2,000 manufacturing sites within 150 miles of the new tech center that are candidates for technology such as the various five-axis machining centers and multifunction turning centers running within the facility. See the company's event page for a complete list of the machine tools currently operating at the new Ohio location.


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Q: How to compute $P(A_k)$?
Toss a coin with $P(\text{Heads}) = p$ repeatedly. Let $A_k$ be the
  event that $k$ or more consecutive heads occur among the tosses
  numbered $2^k, 2^k+1, \dots, 2^{k+1}-1$. Compute $P(A_k)$

I don't know why the following is wrong:
$$P(A_k) = \sum_{i=k}^{2^k} p^i (1-p)^{2^k-i} (2^k-i+1)$$
(This is not hard to bring into closed form, although is a little long)
But I am pretty sure it's wrong.. Here is my reasoning:
If we want exactly $i$ consecutive heads, then we can position them in exactly $2^k - i + 1$ ways (i.e. $HHHTT, THHHT, TTHHH$ and so on). We get $p^i(1-p)^{2^k-i} (2^k-i+1)$.
Then sum for all $i\ge k$ and of course $i \le 2^k$
What's wrong with that?
EDIT
Actually, I see what is wrong. Let's say that I look for $2$ consecutive heads, I did not take into consideration something like $HHTHT$
How to compute $P(A_k)$ then?

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En construction en 2010, LOFAR (abréviation de  : « grille à basses fréquences ») est un ensemble d'interféromètres qui sera utilisé en radioastronomie et constituera le plus grand radiotélescope du monde. Les postes seront installés dans plusieurs pays européens dans le but d'obtenir une aire d'observation supérieure au . Le traitement des données sera effectué à l'aide d'un ordinateur Blue Gene/P installé à l'Université de Groningue aux Pays-Bas. Il est construit par ASTRON et sera exploité par le Radio Observatory d'ASTRON.

Présentation
LOFAR est un ensemble de  antennes regroupées dans 48 stations, elles-mêmes réparties dans cinq pays européens : 40 aux Pays-Bas, 5 en Allemagne, une en France, une en Grande-Bretagne et une en Suède. En France, la station de radioastronomie est installée à proximité de Nançay dans le département du Cher.

Ces antennes captent les courtes longueurs d'onde radio. Elles reçoivent les ondes des rayonnements émis par les gaz froids entourant la formation des planètes, des exoplanètes, des étoiles et des galaxies.

Les signaux radios collectés sont envoyés par fibre optique vers un superordinateur situé à Groningue (Pays-Bas) et qui calcule l'ensemble des données d'interférométrie envoyées par l'ensemble des stations.

Notes et références

Ciel et Espace, , ,

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Radiotélescope de Dwingeloo
 Observatoire de Chilbolton

Liens externes

  LOFAR en Allemagne
  LOFAR en Grande-Bretagne
  LOFAR en France

Par ailleurs, un astéroïde de la ceinture principale porte son nom en hommage.

Radiotélescope

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Directorate S: Steve Coll on the CIA & America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan & Pakistan | Democracy Now!
author of Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Coll is dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
AMY GOODMAN: The news comes after a particularly bloody period in Afghanistan. Last year, the United States said civilian casualties in 2017 had reached a record high in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, about 10,000 of Afghanistan's security forces reportedly were killed over the past year. Despite the spiraling violence, President Trump recently ruled out negotiations with the Taliban, during a meeting of members of the United Nations Security Council.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We'll also discuss what more we can do to defeat the Taliban. I don't see any talking taking place. I don't think we're prepared to talk right now. It's a whole different fight over there. They're killing people left and right. Innocent people are being killed left and right, bombing in the middle of children, in the middle of families, bombing, killing all over Afghanistan. … So, there's no talking to the Taliban. We don't want to talk to the Taliban. We're going to finish what we have to finish. What nobody else has been able to finish, we're going to be able to do it.
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Steve Coll, a journalist who has reported on Afghanistan and the region for the past three decades. In 2005, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Well, now he's just published a sequel looking at what has happened in Afghanistan since the 9/11 attacks. It's titled Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Steve Coll is dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. He joins us now in our studio.
STEVE COLL: Thanks, Amy. Good to be back.
AMY GOODMAN: So, let's start with your title, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. What is Directorate S?
STEVE COLL: So, it's the covert action arm of the Pakistani intelligence service, the main intelligence service called ISI. And it basically has supported the Taliban and other militant groups to pursue Pakistan's idea of its foreign policy interests in its neighborhood, or at least the idea of its military, which is really in charge of ISI and Directorate S, and which is, you know, the strongest institution in Pakistan and has ruled the country for many of its years of independence.
And, you know, the CIA knows all about Directorate S, because they worked with them during the 1980s to defeat the Soviet occupation. That's the story of Ghost Wars. The story here is that after the United States went into Afghanistan, set up a constitutional government, led by Hamid Karzai initially, a few years after that, starting around 2005, Directorate S went back into action, this time not to defeat the Soviets, but to undermine the American project in Afghanistan.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, could you say a little bit more, Steve Coll, for our listeners and viewers who don't know very much about the history of Afghanistan during the Cold War, and of Pakistan—give us a sense of the expansion of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's premier intelligence agency. What was it—the scope of it? I mean, now, in Pakistan, it's come to be known as a state within a state.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: How did it come to have the proportions it does now, and also influence over Pakistan's foreign policy?
STEVE COLL: Yeah, well, so, you start with the Army's influence over Pakistan's foreign policy which goes all the way back to the 1950s. But the growth of ISI really took place during the 1980s with funding from the CIA and Saudi Arabia to try to help ISI support the Afghan rebels against the Soviet Union in a Cold War proxy fight, right? So, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Afghans rebelled spontaneously against that occupation. Many of them fled to Pakistan. Gradually, Pakistan organized a resistance. And then the CIA and Saudi Arabia came in with billions of dollars. And essentially they contracted ISI to carry out this covert action. And Pakistan insisted on that. They said,"We don't want a bunch of Americans running around on our frontier. You let us do the work. Give us the funds." And gradually, they grew into this corrosive force within Pakistan. And they moved beyond supporting groups like the Mujahideen—and, later, the Taliban—into interfering in Pakistani politics, trying to shape media narratives, and essentially become a state within the state.
AMY GOODMAN: So the U.S. and Saudi Arabia provided enormous support for Pakistan and, ultimately, the ISI, over the years.
STEVE COLL: Yes, and directly to ISI, because the main—we had a long-standing alliance with Pakistan, tried to provide, you know, humanitarian aid and so forth, over the decades, but it was the Soviet war that really changed the character of the relationship by bringing ISI's role in this kind of covert war to the forefront of the alliance.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, I mean, there's—it's quite remarkable, the shift that happened in U.S. policy vis-à-vis precisely ISI. I mean, they used, as you've said, ISI to funnel all these funds and arms to the Mujahideen during the Soviet occupation. But in documents leaked in April 2011 by WikiLeaks, the U.S. government described the ISI as a terrorist organization on par with al-Qaeda and the Taliban. So, could you give us a sense of what accounts for this massive shift?
STEVE COLL: Well, it was the experience of being on the receiving end of ISI covert action after the U.S.-led war to overthrow the Taliban in 2001. So, you know, the Taliban fell in December of 2001. The Bonn Agreement established a new constitutional government in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai was elected president. A parliament was elected. Afghans came home from abroad. There were a couple of years of relative peace. And then the war started again. And initially, I think, the United States, which was distracted by Iraq, had gone off and invaded Iraq, was trying to turn—the Bush administration was trying to turn the war over to NATO allies. They didn't really see ISI coming for a while.
But, gradually, the Taliban revived. Gradually, it became apparent to U.S. officials, who would go over and try to study what's going wrong with this war, that ISI was back in action, that the Taliban were receiving not just physical sanctuary inside Pakistan, but material support, maybe training, that they seemed to be getting more and more sophisticated. They started to attack Afghan forces. They started to attack Canadians and Brits and carrying out terrorist bombings in cities.
And then the U.S. escalated the war, right? So, at the end of the Bush administration and then the first years of the Obama administration, we sent tens of thousands of U.S. combat troops back to Afghanistan to try to finish the war, much as you quoted President Trump saying he was going to do. You know, "This time we're going to get it done." And it was at that time—you were quoting this document from 2011—that the Taliban started to strike American soldiers, kill and wound thousands. And U.S. commanders became furious. They said, you know, "We're giving all this aid to Pakistan, but ISI is supporting groups that are attacking and killing our own soldiers." And that led to assessments like, well, they're the enemy, they're the terrorist organization.
AMY GOODMAN: Before we break, I mean, Afghanistan cannot be looked at in isolation, in so many different ways, but how the U.S. engaging in the Iraq War, what that meant for Afghanistan, the first Bush war? So, can you talk about this moment, when the U.S. is focusing on Afghanistan, and then Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, prevails upon Tommy Franks to divert attention from that to deal with Iraq?
STEVE COLL: Yeah. There's a scene in Directorate S where, after the fall of the Taliban, Rumsfeld insists on a light footprint. You know, "I don't want a big military force there." But it's peaceful. There's a task force. And some American generals come out to set up a kind of peacekeeping and "maybe we'll chase al-Qaeda" terrorist-hunting operation, just outside of Kabul. And they're getting themselves organized. They're called to a conference. This is in 2002. And they go to Europe to this meeting, and they come back, and they say to their comrades, you know, "This war is over. We're going to Iraq. We're already going to Iraq." And this was, you know, months before even the U.S. public first started to get hints that this planning was underway. And, of course, if you're in the military or you're in the intelligence services, you know, your career depends on being present at the next big war. So everybody's attention shifted. And the U.S. basically abandoned Afghanistan in order to carry out the Iraq invasion. And then, of course, we know how well that invasion went, and it bogged down the U.S. for years to come.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to go to break, and then we'll come back to this discussion. The U.S. bombing Afghanistan, the beginning of it, October 7th, 2001, just weeks after the September 11th attacks. Many in the U.S. would think that those who piloted the planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were either Afghan or Iraqi. But, in fact, 15 of the 19 people who were in those planes were from Saudi Arabia. This is Democracy Now! When we come back, we'll talk about many different issues, including what actually happened in Abbottabad, what happened to Osama bin Laden, Mohammed Omar, if you remember him, and much more. Stay with us.
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This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. Our guest for the hour is Steve Coll. He is the author of Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, just out this week. I'm Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, last month, President Trump became the third president in a row to use his State of the Union address to put a positive spin on the war in Afghanistan, the longest war in U.S. history.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Our warriors in Afghanistan have new rules of engagement. Along with their heroic Afghan partners, our military is no longer undermined by artificial timelines, and we no longer tell our enemies our plans.
AMY GOODMAN: Five years earlier, President Barack Obama predicted at his 2013 State of the Union that the war would soon be over.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: This spring, our forces will move into a support role, while Afghan security forces take the lead. Tonight I can announce that over the next year another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan. This drawdown will continue. And by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: We remain on the offensive in Afghanistan, where a fine president and a National Assembly are fighting terror while building the institutions of a new democracy.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: So that's President George W. Bush speaking in 2006.
We're speaking with Steve Coll, author of Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.
So, Steve Coll, we spoke earlier, in part one, of the impact of the U.S. decision to invade Iraq on what happened in Afghanistan. So, that was, one could say, the failure—one of the failures of the Bush administration. As you point out in your book, though, President Obama made a shift in policy, first of all, by appointing a special office within the State Department to deal with Afghanistan, Special Representative Richard Holbrooke. And this, people thought, would be a significant shift from Bush's policy. And you reveal in the book that in 2010 the Obama administration also established a secret cell in the White House called the conflict resolution cell, which was established only to coordinate political negotiations with the Taliban. Now, why did those negotiations never go anywhere? You also say that Mullah Omar wrote a letter to Obama, offering or making it clear that he would be open to negotiations with the Americans. So, what happened with negotiations, American negotiations with the Taliban?
STEVE COLL: Yeah, so, direct negotiations with the Taliban lasted about two-and-a-half years, almost entirely in secret. There were occasional reports about what was going on, but most of what was really happening was kept secret. And they fell apart for a variety of reasons. I would name two really important factors.
One was that the Obama administration was really divided about the strategy. The military wanted to keep fighting the war. The CIA, more or less, was supportive of the military's position, skeptical that negotiations with the Taliban would lead anywhere. And so you had this kind of government that was running three policies at the same time. They rationalized it by saying our policy is fight and talk. So, that confused everyone out in the region, but it was at least a way to describe what was going on accurately: They were fighting and talking.
But another factor was that Hamid Karzai had lost trust in the United States, after all these years. He kept asking the United States, "Why aren't you doing more to pressure Pakistan? Why are you sending troops into my villages? Why are you creating civilian casualties?" And eventually, he concluded that the United States must want to destabilize Afghanistan, in order to justify having a military presence there. And, you know, American diplomats would say, "Mr. President, that's a conspiracy theory. Let it go." And he would say, "Well, but I can't understand why you're conducting the war this way." So, he, ultimately—Karzai, ultimately, undermined the negotiations with the Taliban. He just felt like this was somehow out to get him, and so he kind of blew up the talks in 2013.
Now, since then, the United States, both in the Obama years and possibly into the first part of the Trump administration, has probed for another way forward, with Pakistan or otherwise. You know, we heard the president, in your clip, say, "I'll never talk to the Taliban." But if you look carefully at what the Trump administration is saying, they're saying what the two previous administrations are saying, which is, "We're not saying we're never going to talk to them ever, ever. It's that we're going to bomb them to the negotiating table. We're going to defeat them on the battlefield to such a point that they'll have no choice but to come talk to us." Well, this was exactly what the military was arguing during the Obama years. It's not as if we're against any settlement eventually, but we need to make more progress on the battlefield before we can force them to the negotiating table. And remember Vietnam? That was kind of pretty much the theme of the Johnson administration and the Nixon years.
AMY GOODMAN: There were major protests, not only against the Iraq War, before the Iraq War began, but even before the U.S. bombing Afghanistan. Talk about the U.S. doing that on October 7, 2001, and then what happened immediately with Mullah Omar, and then your very detailed and fresh reporting on what happened with Osama bin Laden, how he was in Tora Bora, what happened to him and ultimately being caught in Abbottabad, with or without Pakistani knowledge. And that's very interesting, how you write about it.
STEVE COLL: Right. So, kind of three stories there. I mean, after September 11th, the Bush administration really was blind about where these attacks had come from. They knew that a lot of al-Qaeda leaders were in Afghanistan, so they quickly came up with this plan to try to disrupt them and to—and maybe to destroy al-Qaeda through bombing. And in that plan, there were targets of leadership. One was Mullah Omar. One was Osama bin Laden.
AMY GOODMAN: And explain why Mohammed Omar was so important, the one-eyed sheikh.
STEVE COLL: Yeah, he was the emir of the Taliban, the unquestioned leader of the—what was then the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the government of Afghanistan, run by the Taliban, recognized as legitimate only by three other governments in the world—Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. But it was the government of Afghanistan. And so, as the emir, he was—his authority was absolute, with, you know, some shura and ministers that he consulted with, but it was ultimately his decision, war or peace.
And, ultimately, Mullah Mohammed Omar said, "You know, it's God's will. I cannot turn a fellow Muslim over to American justice. If God wants us to suffer and lose our government, it means that we weren't doing a very good job in the first place, and we'll just have to learn our lessons and find our way back." And so that's what he ultimately decided to do.
AMY GOODMAN: How did he escape?
STEVE COLL: So, he—after escaping that night, through this series of poor decisions by the Americans, he survived in Kandahar for another two months. And then, as his government fell, he got on a motorcycle and rode into Pakistan, where he lived until he died in a hospital in Karachi in 2013.
There's a funny scene, because one of the themes of this whole history is that: Are the Taliban independent, or are they just a creature of ISI in Pakistan? Are they just a creature of Directorate S? And, you know, you see, when the negotiations occur with the Taliban, that the Taliban want to see themselves as independent. They don't want to be clients of Pakistan. They are Afghans, and they would rather negotiate on their own behalf. But when Mullah Omar ultimately dies in this hospital—nobody knows he's there—the leader of the Pakistan Army is at talks with the Americans, presenting statements that have been supposedly written by Mullah Mohammed Omar. So, the Pakistanis did act as the agent of the Taliban in these negotiations, even while keeping secret the true circumstances of the Taliban's leadership. I mean, it is—you can't make this stuff up.
I mean, you asked about Osama bin Laden. He escaped from Tora Bora around the same time Mullah Omar got on his motorcycle. And that was a missed opportunity to maybe end the whole narrative of al-Qaeda's war with the United States and the Bush administration's war with Osama bin Laden. The main missed opportunity was that it was—he was clear he was up on this mountain at Tora Bora. He was being bombed. But the door to Pakistan was wide open. And the Americans debated: "Should we put troops up there to stop him and to finish this?" And they decided not to, because they were afraid that they would provoke an uprising among local people if they put troops up on that mountain. They also said later, "Well, we didn't have enough helicopters." But in the U.S. military, it's seen as a huge missed opportunity to have ended this whole story about the United States being at war with bin Laden, 10 years before, in fact, he was killed.
AMY GOODMAN: And then, bin Laden in Abbottabad and what happened? And Pakistani knowledge or not?
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, let's go back to what you were talking about earlier, President Hamid Karzai and the falling out with the U.S., because one can say that that's one of the definitive reasons that no political negotiation has been possible. And one of the things that your book does is it gives an account of Karzai which is not really representative of a lot of U.S. writing on Karzai, where he's seen, more or less, as a conspiracy theorist, who's always been opposed to U.S. interests. And you say in the book that when he first became the leader of Afghanistan in December 2001, he was celebrated here in the U.S. as an Afghan Mandela, but by the time he left office, 13 years later, he was viewed more as an Afghan Mugabe. So, could you explain what accounts for that quite radical shift in perspective on Karzai?
STEVE COLL: Several things. And the first was that he just could not understand what the U.S. was doing with Pakistan. And when I—I had interviewed him. You know, I've covered this story as sort of a magazine writer, almost as a beat reporter. But when I went back and tried to dig out the records and interviewed people and found notes of all the conversations with Karzai over the years, it was so striking that almost every time an American came to visit him, he said, "What are you doing about ISI? What are you doing about Directorate S? Why are you pursuing these counterinsurgency strategies? The real war is to try to change Pakistan's conduct." And the Americans would say, "Yes, Mr. President, we understand. You know, Pakistan is also an important ally. They're doing their bit." And over the years, he just could not understand what the U.S. was doing. And he finally concluded that they were deliberately collaborating with Pakistan in order to undermine Afghanistan's independence and security, in order to establish a long-term U.S. military presence in the country. He really lost faith.
The second reason was because of the way the U.S. conducted the war. He just—he was the sovereign leader of Afghanistan. He did not support the counterinsurgency campaign, that involved sending U.S. troops into Afghan villages, breaking down doors, you know, rounding up people, putting them in detention. He wanted a war that was focused on the border, to try to secure the Pakistan border to prevent militants from coming into Afghanistan. He wanted a war that was, you know, about the basic security of Afghanistan, the cities, American troops on bases supporting Afghan forces. And he didn't believe that the Taliban were an insurgency. And when the Americans would come in and show these long PowerPoint presentations about how they were going to use counterinsurgency doctrine to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people, President Karzai would say, "That's not the war I want to fight." But the Americans went ahead anyway. Essentially, he was not in a position to stop them. And he resented being their vassal. And the more he felt like he was not in control, the angrier and the more defiant he got about the United States.
AMY GOODMAN: And the more he was made out to be a madman, even by the U.S. media.
STEVE COLL: Yes. And, you know, in fairness, he was—he was untethered, as he felt like he had lost his position, lost control of his own office. But he wasn't a madman. He was just confused and angry and also trying to demonstrate his independence. And sometimes that was interpreted by the U.S. media, the Western media, as, "Oh, he's erratic, or he's off his meds." No, he was trying to demonstrate to his own people that he was not a lackey of the United States. And those words were hard for Americans to hear.
AMY GOODMAN: Your chapter on torture begins with the quote, "His rules were different than our rules," as you talk about somehow the Bush administration wanting to win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan, which would make most laugh, if they weren't crying in bitterness and horror and pain. What about what happened in Afghanistan, the torture cells, the prisons?
STEVE COLL: Yeah, I thought it was important to write a version of the torture history that was set in Afghanistan, because, you know, a lot of what Jane Mayer and Dana Priest and a lot of other investigative reporters uncovered a decade ago about the secret prisons and the enhanced interrogation techniques against al-Qaeda prisoners offshore, in places like Thailand and Morocco and so forth, that was one regime of torture. What happened in Afghanistan was like a much more thuggish and much more politically consequential version of the same regime.
STEVE COLL: No, of course.
AMY GOODMAN: —what the U.S. and CIA did, the torture chambers they built and set up.
STEVE COLL: Yeah, well, there were—you know, there's a whole archipelago in Afghanistan by 2005 of detention facilities, some run by the Afghan security service, some run by the Americans, some run by the military, some run by the CIA. There are a couple of documented cases of either murder or death by neglect in the CIA facilities. But, you know, a lot of the Afghans would say, "I'd rather be put in the American facilities, for all the trouble I'll get, than be in the Afghan ones." And it was really a—and the Afghans who were detained, under suspicion, they understood that the Afghan security service was essentially a client of the United States. So it was—it all had the same kind of effect.
It was a time when the CIA officers in the field and, to some extent, the Special Forces officers, though they still were subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and were a little more cautious, they felt a sense of impunity. That's what—"His rules were different than our rules." That's a quote from a military sergeant who watched the murder of—the main case that I write about there, testifying in the accused's murder trial. And the prosecutor says, "Well, you know, what did you think was going on as you stood outside this hut and listened to the thuds of this guy being beaten to death?" And he said, "Well, he told us his rules were different than our rules." And that was a metaphor for what happened in the years between, you know, 2002 and 2007 or so.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: —they were quite different. And also the relationship to the Mujahideen? Because the Mujahideen, who fought the Soviets during the occupation, were not just Afghan nationals. I mean, there were lots of Arabs and other Muslims who came from across the world to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and many have questioned where they went afterwards and how many of them came to constitute al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
STEVE COLL: Right. So, the Taliban are Afghans. They are Afghans. They come from Afghanistan. They formed in Afghan villages in southern Afghanistan. As you know, Nermeen, the Afghanistan's ethnicity is a sort of polyglot. But one of the largest groups are the Pashtuns, speak a distinctive language, Pashto. And the Taliban emerged from Pashtun villages and areas of Afghanistan.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
STEVE COLL: And Pakistan. You know, not all—and especially refugee camps in Pakistan, but also the tribal areas. Not all Pashtuns are Taliban, by any means. But all Taliban, at least for a long time, were Pashtuns. So they represented a kind of nationalism in those communities. But they were indigenous. I mean, they were not international terrorists or militants. Now, among them were the Uzbeks and the Arabs and the Chechens and other groups that migrated to Afghanistan in order to participate in an international uprising against the United States and its allies.
And the relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda was never clearly understood. There was no agreement in the U.S. system about how to understand that relationship. There were some—and this is a recurring theme in Directorate S. You know, you get into the Situation Room. They have all the intelligence on the table. The Cabinet is assembled. And they have these long arguments. "Well, is the Taliban the same as al-Qaeda?" You know, hardly anyone, except the intelligence briefers, has even been to Afghanistan. And so they're trying to—they have—they go through these education sessions. "These are where the Pashtuns live. This is the relationship between the Taliban and the Pashtuns. These are the Arabs." And then, a really substantive argument.
Well, no, the Taliban are not the same as al-Qaeda, but they have some kind of tense, sometimes accommodating, relations with one another. But the big difference is that the Taliban aren't going anywhere. And also, the Taliban have never declared war on the United States, even after September 11th, even after the U.S. overthrew the Taliban regime. Except to liberate Afghanistan, the Taliban did not conspire with al-Qaeda to attack London or to attack Spain or to attack New York. They were very clear that they did not—if they came back to power, they did not want to be a rogue state again, because that hadn't worked out very well the first time.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, if any leader wanted to end this war, they would have to negotiate with the Taliban, the indigenous leadership of Afghanistan.
STEVE COLL: Yes, and also the neighbors, who—you know, because Afghanistan has always been shaped by interference from outside countries, at least since the Soviet invasion. So you would have to deal with the Taliban. You'd have to deal with Pakistan. You'd have to deal with China, Russia, Iran.
AMY GOODMAN: And we'll talk about that in a minute. Steve Coll is our guest. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has just written a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Ghost Wars. It's called Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Stay with us.
AMY GOODMAN: "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. Our guest for the hour is Steve Coll, author of Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We chose that music break, Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows"—"Everybody knows the dice are loaded/Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed/Everybody knows the war is over/Everybody knows that the good guys lost"—because it's the epigraph of this book. Why, Steve, did you start with this?
STEVE COLL: Well, it's a great—it's a great lyric, but the reason is because there's a character in the book, a scholar of Afghanistan, who tried to advise the Obama administration about negotiations with the Taliban and with region governments, named Barney Rubin. And I've interviewed him. And I was interviewing him at one point, and I asked him, "Well, what were you doing on the day that bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan?" And he said, "Well, I was in Kabul. I was in a meeting. And I was listening to the briefers drone on. And I was writing in my notebook, and I just wrote down these Leonard Cohen lyrics." And this was the day before May 1. And I just had—that always—that scene of him, this kind of bearded scholar, writing down the Leonard Cohen notes in the middle of a tedious embassy meeting just seemed like a pretty good—stayed with me. So then I chose those lyrics as the epigraph.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, that scholar, of course, was Barney Rubin.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Who worked for years with Richard Holbrooke.
AMY GOODMAN: Now, earlier, you were talking about why it's so important that Afghanistan's—the countries surrounding Afghanistan are crucial to any kind of a settlement. And one of the key things—I mean, your book is, after all, taken from—the title is taken from a branch within Inter-Services Intelligence, the intelligence service of Pakistan. It's long been clear to the Americans that Pakistan is absolutely central to any resolution of the conflict. And multiple American administrations—the Bush administration, the Obama administration, and, presumably, the Trump administration also, even though he's made comments recently very critical of Pakistan. But in 2008, to go back to the Bush administration, very early on, the Bush administration signed a nuclear agreement with India, which is, of course, the historic enemy of Pakistan. Now, given the fact that the Americans were aware that Pakistan's participation was absolutely crucial to reaching peace in Afghanistan, why do you think that the Bush administration made such a provocative decision?
STEVE COLL: I don't think they thought through the consequences for the Afghan War. In hindsight, we can see that they were significant, because, as you say—I mean, it's important to, you know, remind your viewers and listeners, from Pakistan's point of view, it's all about India, right? So, if anything—they've fought three wars with India. The reason that they are supporting the Taliban, primarily, is to keep India's influence in Afghanistan in check. And they really see the world in a zero-sum way in regard to India's influence in their neighborhood.
So, when the United States embraced India in this strategic nuclear deal, which essentially forgave India for breaking the Nonproliferation Treaty and developing an atomic weapons capability, and then they said to Pakistan, simultaneously, "By the way, we're giving this sweetheart deal to India. We're not giving it to you, because you don't have the record that would justify us doing this," well, you know, the Pakistani high command looked at that and said, "OK, you've made yourselves plain. You are a close ally of our enemy, India, strategic ally, for the next decades. And we're not. And so, we should get ready to defend our own interests in this neighborhood." And I think, you know, it was a factor in shifting sentiment within the ISI, and particularly in the Army high command. The combination of the India nuclear deal and the U.S. essentially pulling out of a commitment to the Afghan War, because of the quagmire in Iraq, turning the war over to NATO governments, you know, ISI looked at that and said, "You know, we should start preparing for a post-American Afghanistan. You know, we're already—we're already there." And for them, historically, that had meant the Taliban had to have a role.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about the just enormous impact of the war in Afghanistan—that's what people in the United States don't learn about—I mean, for these people. We keep talking about the longest war in U.S. history, the number of U.S. soldiers lost. But what about the toll on the people of Afghanistan? If you could talk about this and the devastation of this country, and also this remarkable story you tell about 2012, the CIA officer Marc Sageman carrying out an investigation into murders in Afghanistan and what this told the United States?
STEVE COLL: Yeah, I mean, you know, when you go back through all of this into one kind of volume of history, you know, one thing that's really striking, that I hadn't thought about until I got to the end of the project, the war really stabilized all three countries—destabilized all three countries. It destabilized the United States, it destabilized Afghanistan, and it devastatingly destabilized Pakistan.
I mean, Pakistan had the worst years of terrorism the country has ever known. Why? Because al-Qaeda fled over the border, during the U.S. bombing, into Pakistan, collaborated with local radicals and then, ultimately, turned against the Pakistani state. Tens of thousands of Pakistanis died in the mid-2000s—after 2007 up 'til about 2012. Car bombs in major cities, things the country had never known. Now, if you're a Pakistani, you look at this and say, "Why is this happening?" All right, we can blame ISI. They've suckered these groups. They've been complicit with these groups for many years. But also, the American war spilled into this country. They didn't invite the American war. They advised against it.
In Afghanistan, you know, Hamid Karzai says, "Take a lighter footprint. Stay on your bases. Go on the border. Stop dropping so many bombs indiscriminately. We're not going to win hearts and minds the way you're fighting this war." The Americans go about it their way, and thousands and thousands of Afghan civilians die, tens of thousands of security forces die. And the war is a stalemate. You know, one of the—the CIA draws up these maps every six months, where they color all the districts of Afghanistan in different colors to say whether the government controls it and or the Taliban controls it or it's contested. And over the course of a decade, despite the presence of 150,000 first-rate international combat troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, the colors essentially don't change. And they're really not much different today. And if anything, the Taliban probably have come back a little bit in the countryside. And, you know, there are reasons why the war is a stalemate from a military perspective. But in a bigger-picture sense, it's a grinding price that Afghan civilians are paying for this.
STEVE COLL: —Afghans aren't working on this, you know?
AMY GOODMAN: And the U.S.? Trump?
STEVE COLL: Trump is not interested in diplomacy. That seems evident, on a global basis.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to leave it there. And people can pick up the book and find out the other remarkable stories that this book is chock full of, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the sequel to Steve Coll's Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden. Professor Coll is dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.


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Review: Dark Horse Comics - Predator: Hunters II #3
Ashes To Ashes!
The adventure continues this month in the third issue of Chris Warner's Predator: Hunters II.
As the action heats up, Jaya and her crew are now not the only ones interested in the Predator.
Three separate teams are converging on the creature - each with their own plans for the deadly alien hunter. The Black Ops team make contact first, ambushed by the monster while investigating an apparent Jihadi stronghold.
A massive firefight ensues, and as the bullets fly and fire licks the sky, Jaya and her team can't help but wonder if this new Predator has them outgunned. Making their way further up the mountain, the team begin to formulate a plan to bring the creature's lair down on its head, unaware that a third team is close by and ready to engage the Predator too.
Meanwhile, the remaining members of the Black Ops team frantically attempt to take down the beast, but it soon becomes evident that they were not prepared to come knocking on the creature's front door. Within moments, the Predator has finished off the soldiers - but, he's not done with his hunt! Not by a long shot!
The latest issue of Predator: Hunters II is a brilliant and bombastic bloodbath that ramps up the action in a big way, and sets the stage for one massive confrontation where only one group will walk away! Chris Warner continues to deliver an action-packed plot that embraces everything fans love about this classic universe, while artist Augustin Padilla perfectly captures every last aspect with beautifully savage imagery!
This is a sequel that outdoes its predecessor at every turn, and we're quite excited to see where things will be going from here! This is a must-read for fans of the Predator mythos, one that has quickly solidified itself as one of the best books of the year!
Rating: 5/5 - "An action-packed follow-up that outdoes its predecessor at every turn!"
Predator: Hunters II #3 stalks onto newsstands Wednesday, October 24th.


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Q: How to insert key value pairs to new unordered_map* (pointer) in C++? I have an unordered_map pointer in a structure since I need it in shared memory to access and modify as the program runs.
struct Umaps {std::unordered_map<int, int> *node_index;} ;

I then initialize the unordered_map, node_index, in another function.
Umapsptr->node_index = new std::unordered_map<int, int>();

Where Umapsptr is the pointer to the Umaps structure in my function. I then try to insert values to the unordered_map.
Umapsptr->node_index[5] = 10;

But I get this error and I don't know how to resolve it:
error: no match for 'operator=' (operand types are 'std::unordered_map<int, int>' and 'int')
Umapsptr->node_index[5] = 10;
What am I doing wrong? Any help would be incredibly appreciated.

A: Applying [] to a pointer does pointer arithmetic.  You want to apply the [] to the pointed at object, so you need to explicitly dereference the pointer:
(*Umapsptr->node_index)[5] = 10;

If you know the key 5 is already in the map, you can use at instead:
Umapsptr->node_index->at(5) = 10;

but this will throw an exception if the key is not present.  If you know the key is not present, you can use emplace:
Umapsptr->node_index->emplace(5, 10);

but this will do nothing if the key is already present with a different value.


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Blacksnob Archive
Don't Bother with the MSM for News on Iran
InternationalSnob
MediaSnob
by daniellebelton
It's been bollocks here in the US. If you want to stay up the two best live blogs on-line I've found are on Huffington Post and Andrew Sullivan's "The Daily Dish." Not to mention Twitter. I can't believe how pathetic the coverage on this story has been in the states. Makes me seriously wonder how today's TV news would handle the massacre in Tianamen Square.
If you know any other good sources, please share in the comments.
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13 thoughts on "Don't Bother with the MSM for News on Iran"
Mr. Noface says:
Coverage of these events could be a defining moment for the 24 hour Newsers, but it seems that they wouldn't know real news if it bit them on the nose. Then they wonder way they are losing viewers to other types of media! MMF (Mega Media Fail) all the way.
Danielle Belton says:
@ Mr. NofaceI just frustrates me to no end. And don't get me started on how MSNBC just goes dark every weekend and shows nothing but Chris Hansen and LOCKUP. Would it kill them to have someone mind the store on Saturdays and Sundays?Anyway, the NYT did a story on the whole #CNN Fail thing on Twitter where Twitter-folks have been basically goading the network to wake up and do their jobs.
azcatz says:
It is so dissappointing to see the lack of coverage of the aftermath of Iran's "election", if can even call it that. Fareed Zakaria's GPS this morning helped answer some of my questions but the MAJORITY of my info has been from online.Im like WHY am I watching a rerun of Wolf Blitzer's interview of the dumbass sarah palin and her beef w/Letterman instead of the protests??!?!?!? only in America…..
Here's a link to Fareed discussing Iran from HuffPo. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html)
dukedraven says:
Let's face it, gang. The internet is the future for news.
rikyrah says:
It's been startling how useless CNN and the others have been. I've gotten all my info from foreign news services and blogs.
OT SNOB – The First Lady and the WeeMichelles met the Queen during a private tour of Buckingham Palace.
dilettante says:
BBC News/The World; there are great region/country tabs to zero in on topics, as well as past history , and for more middle east coverage Link TV , done by a US non profit towards bringing Americans up to speed. Or a more direct source:English language; AljazerraAnd good on you snob for posting about this stuff. Simply by virtue of American Hegemony, and 'our' projected power- I've had people from every place you never heard of, offer opinions on American culture/politics/values etc [American in general, and Af Am in particular]. Who doesn't know who Beyonce is, or how to 'pimp a ride'? The world is getting smaller by the hour, and we really do need to keep abreast of more than the usual; endless gazing at celebrities and and wall to wall pictures of the President &family(haven't OD'd on that last bit yet)
Anthony Taurus says:
I still say that cop is being carried off for an asswhooping. Aside from that, the US journalists have never really been good for reporting the news properly, especially foreign events. The only way to get information these days is through citizen journalism. And that's usually either a had-to-be-there situation or 2nd/3rd/4th hand information. Blah!
MIchael Totten.com is doing a pretty extensive job, with footage, although his commenters are infuriating.
nyc/caribbean ragazza says:
Here in Europe Iran is the number one story. CNN international and the BBC have breaking stories, reporters on the ground, and are showing Twitter feeds and Flickr photos.Iran's govt. blocked Facebook and other social networks. The news is reporting that hundreds of thousands of protesters are at the University now. Not sure why this wouldn't be considered a very important story in America. What's going on in Iran hasn't been seen since the Shah was removed. Then again we are a country who had a VP candidate who didn't receive her passport until two years ago.
The MSM over here isn't covering Iran the way they should because they don't want our young people to get any ideas, lol.
dkan71 says:
Snob…thank you for covering this. As much as the Obama election last year and all of us regular ass folks getting involved and saying no the bullshit and becoming stakeholders in the democratic process, this is the same type of thing. I feel like it's a sister movement in a lot of ways. I just heard a stat that over 60% of Iranians are under the age of 29. That's incredible! Those are mostly young people like us standing up to "fight the power" and I am definitely down with that. Oh and yes: MSM/ Cable News FAIL! And they wonder why their ratings are plummeting.


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OK Boomer: Kipchoge says 95% of parents have failed to guide their children in matters of morality
3 years ago 11/06/2018 11:09am CST
re: 800 dude
800 dude wrote:
It was certainly not the headline Mary deserved.
It certainly reflected the editor's attitude towards the sport of running (i.e., there's no such thing as a running star).
It MAY have reflected the editor's feeling that Mary is just another Kenyan. Though, even if it did, such an attitude wouldn't NECESSARILY be grounded in racism. One could have the same attitude towards Russian chess prodigies or Brazilian soccer players or Iranian Taekwondo fighters, and it wouldn't have to be about race.
Anyway, it's a shame. Especially because the article by Crouse was fantastic, and that's obviously not the headline she would've written herself.
Exactly. They just don't care about the sport and actually sports in general as their Yankees headline has already suggested, which is fine by me, because we just aren't their target audience.
passive aggressive
Why does white 'Murrican racism have to be so passive-aggressive all the time?
as always smarter than rojo
re: comedyrelief
Lowball troll effort 2/10
Not surprised to see rojo making a thread of this, but jon gault you can do better!
re: as always smarter than rojo
Hey guys,... I have a relevant image I'd like to share in this thread. However, for the life of me, I don't see how you include an image in a post here. I tried copy and paste with no luck. What am I missing? (I hope it's not stunningly obvious; my ego can't take that today).
comedyrelief
Case in point, Coburn wins the world championship in the steeple, here is the headline in Kenya:
https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/1100-4055078-nr0ke3z/index.html
Absolutely no respect for the American runners. Stop jumping on your high horse calling this racism, it is just national / local interest. I can't tell you the name of the run of the mill East Africans that win the Bolder Boulder each year, but I can name the Americans and where they place. I bet most people on this board couldn't name the second place women's runner, but they all know that Shalane was third and Huddle was 4th. There is a national interest in all sports, this is nothing new. Just feel fortunate that the marathon is getting as much press as it got considering it wasn't an American who won.
KudzuRunner
3 years ago 11/06/2018 12:00pm CST
re: Avocado's Number
Avocado's Number wrote:
KudzuRunner wrote:
people have forgotten how "wit" used to manifest in the New Yawk papers.
You mean like the New York Post's headline "Headless Body in a Topless Bar"?
Or the New York Daily News headline when the president rejected a financial bailout of NYC? "Ford to City: Drop Dead."
Those were the days.
I didn't say that I LIKE those headlines. But I remember them. :)
re: Piopus
Piopus wrote:
It was not racist. It is more symptomatic of the relative obscurity of the sport and most of its so-called stars. Anybody who cares at all about the sport either already knew who won or would then see her name in the article. She is not a household name in the US. If she were a white European named Constantine Dita, they would likely have done something similar. Some of you do not know even know who Dita is of course. This is more about the obscurity of the sport and the country of origin, meaning not a US runner, irrespective of race.
cofounder
re: RunAnnArbor
To post an image you just post the link to its URL.
If you have an image that isn't on the web, the easiest way to get a URL is to upload it to an image website like https://imgur.com/upload
or just email it to me at wejo@letsrun.com
NewtotheSouthSide
I don't say this too often but well done LRC. We don't even have to go to the -isms. It's clear that some implicit bias is going on because it's the women's race and a non white athlete.
Now if we can only get you to stop harping on where athletes were born...
Banana Beard
... And it wasn't the headline she got either was it? As per wejo's post, the ACTUAL headline in the paper was exactly what you'd expect.
The "headline" being discussed here was in the marathon pullout section, and accompanies the striking image just fine.
This entire thread is just one big troll...
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While it is true that many eastern African runners are underrated, it's undeniable that they have huge genetic advantages. They have thousands of years of the fittest ancestor's DNA in their blood along with bodies adapted to living at high altitude. Even the african runners who didn't grow up running 10k to school have little difficulty reaching world-class levels. Just look at the 17-18 year olds running considerably faster than galen rupp or cam levins did at the peaks of their careers after training for 24 months or less. It's simply a fact that they don't have to work nearly as hard to get fast. What africans have you heard of doing 40 mile up-tempo runs on the treadmill in 85 degrees like rupp has? That being said, just because they generally don't have to work as hard doesn't mean they arent training at superhuman levels compared to the average human.
zxcvzxcv
re: Barakus Obama
Among the 100 most famous athletes in the world, there is just one track and field/road runner, Usain Bolt at #7.
The rest are mostly soccer, tennis, basketball, and football players. Mary Keitany is almost completely unknown. Probably not more than 10% of running fans could even name her. The headline for Shalane Flanagan's win did not name her either and mentioned tears. When a right winger like Rojo claims racism, he sees it in a liberal source, the Times. Winner would not have been my choice for the headline, but it was not a racist choice. It looked like a headline fit to the picture, which was at such a distance that it didn't even make the winner's face discernible.
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/worldfame100/espn-world-fame-100-top-ranking-athletes
To OP
Not racist headline. Just shut up and reflect on where your contrived virtue signaling is really coming from.
Brainwash '18
*stipe
re: Trying to Explain
Trying to Explain wrote:
They choose to emphasize the fact that she was so far ahead that no on else was in the picture. It's a legitimate journalistic decision and it's certainly not racist.
Yes. I think use of the word "winner" is unnecessary. Since the picture was conveying that nobody was close, they could have just said "nobody in sight" or "leaving the pack out of the picture". The picture essentially said enough, so fewer words would be preferable.
But sure, if they use "winner" they should probably just use "Keitany"
stop the madness
Hey Rojo, given that your entire premise of this post is wrong, why not fix the subject or put in an editor's note into the first post?
old guy 72
I think you're a Conservative who is trying too hard to put the NY Times in a bad light.
asfasfsadfasdf
re: old guy 72
A lot of things on letsrun are racist and I argue with Rojo and Wejo about it occasionally but I don't think this is one of them. I mean, it might be, but it's not intentional, and it's probably a combination of things. I think it's more just a combination of foreigner bias and her quiet personality.
Letsnotoverreact
100% correct. This happens VERY often in journalism. And also lures you into reading the article to find out who won, etc.
Mahavishnu1500
It's not racist, but it is certainly discriminatory towards runners, as being a runner has little to do with race. Running is constantly made fun of due to the popularity of football/basketball and the oversized nature of the two sports. It is very crude in this day and age to give such great respect to humans who were simply born gigantic. Now practiced skill and discipline are two things to praise, and certainly Keitany has those things.
Avocado's Number
re: KudzuRunner
"Headless Body . . ." was pure genius. Quite a legacy for a newspaper editor.
https://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-critic-vincent-musetto-dies-at-74/
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