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Fresh-Brewed 7-Election™ Poll Results
Published Wed, Oct 10 201211:12 AM EDT
DALLAS, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- It's halftime for 7-Election™, 7-Eleven's presidential coffee cup poll. While President Barack Obama has maintained a steady 20-point lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney through the first four weeks of polling, three of the nine swing states have shown movement after last Wednesday's debate. And Romney cup sales in some areas apparently perked up.
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For the week leading up to the debate, Obama led Romney in 7-Election cup sales, 63 to 37 nationally. Counts on Oct. 4, however, were closer with Obama's lead shrinking to 57 percent over Romney's 43 percent. In Denver, where the debate took place, the numbers were even tighter – before and after. Leading up to the debate, Obama's lead averaged 16 points, 58 percent to Romney's 42 percent. The following day, the candidates were nearly tied – Obama, 51 percent, and Romney, 49 percent.
"This is the fourth 7-Election, and we go into it every time not knowing if our results will reflect the actual outcome," said Nancy Smith, 7-Eleven vice president for marketing. "But history, so far, speaks for itself, and 7-Eleven seems to have the pulse, maybe a bit more rapid, of the nation. There's still another month before Election Day, and we invite people to come to 7-Eleven and support their candidate by getting a red or blue 7-Election cup and, even more important, to take advantage of their privilege to vote in the real election on Nov. 6."
Through Wednesday, Oct. 10, approximately 60 percent of customers had cast their blue cups for Obama while 40 percent picked the red Romney cup. 7-Eleven began counting red and blue cups Sept. 6. Of the 34 states in which 7-Eleven has stores, the president carries 31 while Romney leads in three (Idaho, West Virginia and New Hampshire).
Media pundits and "real" pollsters have identified nine key battleground states, or as 7-Eleven coined them: battle coffee-ground states -- that are too close to call and key to winning the election: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. 7-Election voters seem more decided:
7-Election Swing State Results as of Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012
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Cup counts for Obama dropped slightly in three states the day after the first debate on Oct. 3, with the president losing a percentage point to Romney in Iowa, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Even more telling were the results in Denver 7-Eleven stores last Thursday, the day after the first presidential debate and the city where the event took place. Obama had led 58 percent to 42 percent of 7-Election cups sold up through the day of the debate. The day after the debate, the president slipped 7 percentage points to 51 percent versus Romney whose cup share grew to 49 percent.
As the U.S. presidential election swings into the final weeks and early voting begins across the country, Americans are encouraged to continue to cast their cups in the 7-Election just-for-fun presidential coffee cup poll at participating7-Eleven stores.
Throughout the first half of the 60-day voting promotion, the margin between the two candidates has mirrored the 2008 presidential election when Obama bested Sen. John McCain.
National, state and select cities appear on www.7-election.com, and 7-Eleven updates results daily. 7-Eleven operates and franchises stores in eight of the top 10 most populous markets – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth and Washington, D.C. with the following results:
7-Election Major City Results as of Oct. 10, 2012
7-Election percentages do not include the sale of the green-colored, large-size 7-Eleven coffee cups for the "No-Opinion/Another-Party/Undecided/None-of-Your-Business" consumers or the other sizes of 7-Eleven's hot beverage containers.
"7-Election has never been a scientific study, so it's anybody's guess why the spread between the cup counts is greater than national polls, you know, the real ones," Smith said.
"7-Eleven customers are younger than the general population, and some news sources have suggested that younger voters, who communicate primarily by wireless phones rather than landlines, may be under-counted by pollsters."
7-Eleven's Mobile Oval vehicle continues its rolling tour. The red, white and blue bus with a miniature oval office inside was in the U.S. Capitol this weekend before this week traveling down the East Coast to Norfolk, Va. (Oct. 11); Jacksonville, Fla. (Oct. 14); Orlando (Oct. 15), Miami (Oct. 16) and Tampa (Oct. 17). The bus then moves on to Austin (Oct. 19) and other points west. Dates for future Mobile Oval stops in Colorado, Nevada, California, Washington state are posted on www.7-election.com. The Mobile Oval returns to 7-Eleven's hometown of Dallas the day before the election. Visitors get a fun non-political experience with free coffee, free mugs and free photos in the mini-oval office.
Voting polls are open until 7 p.m. on Nov. 6, but even later at participating 7-Eleven stores. The 7-Election coffee cup poll will continue its count until midnight on Election Day, so the cup race is not over until the last drop that Tuesday night.
"We put out the cups, and our customers take it from there," Smith said. "They are the real winners in 7-Election. Besides having some fun with this campaign, we are can raise awareness about the importance of voting in America. Every vote, like every cup, counts."
About 7-Eleven, Inc.
7-Eleven, Inc. is the premier name and largest chain in the convenience retailing industry. Based in Dallas, Texas, 7-Eleven operates, franchises or licenses approximately 9,500 7-Eleven® stores in North America. Globally, there are some 48,000 7-Eleven stores in 16 countries. During 2011, 7-Eleven stores worldwide generated total sales close to $76.6 billion. 7-Eleven has been honored by a number of companies and organizations recently. Accolades include: #2 on Forbes magazine's 2011 list of Top Franchises for the Money; #3 spot on Entrepreneur magazine's Franchise 500 list for 2012, #3 in Forbes magazine's Top 20 Franchises to Start, and #2 in Franchise Times Top 200 Franchise Companies. Hispanic Magazine named 7-Eleven among its Hispanic Corporate Top 100 Companies that provide the most opportunities to Hispanics. 7-Eleven received the 2010 Retailer of the Year honor from PL Buyer because of the company's private-label brand initiative. 7-Eleven is franchising its stores in the U.S. and expanding through organic growth, acquisitions and its Business Conversion Program. Find out more online at www.7-Eleven.com.
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United States Code/Title 17/Chapter 4/Section 408
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←←§ 407. Deposit of copies or phonorecords for Library of Congress
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Title 17, Chapter 4, § 408. Copyright registration in general
§ 409. Application for copyright registration→→
From the U.S. Copyright Office.: Added by section 101 of title I of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Pub. L. 94-553, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2541), with effect from January 1, 1978, as amended by Public Laws 100-568, 102-307 and 109-9.
75588United States Code — Title 17, Chapter 4, § 408. Copyright registration in generalby the United States Government
§ 408—Copyright registration in general
(a) REGISTRATION PERMISSIVE.—At any time during the subsistence of the first term of copyright in any published or unpublished work in which the copyright was secured before January 1, 1978, and during the subsistence of any copyright secured on or after that date, the owner of copyright or of any exclusive right in the work may obtain registration of the copyright claim by delivering to the Copyright Office the deposit specified by this section, together with the application and fee specified by sections 409 and 708. Such registration is not a condition of copyright protection.
(b) DEPOSIT FOR COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION.—Except as provided by subsection (c), the material deposited for registration shall include—
(1) in the case of an unpublished work, one complete copy or phonorecord;
(2) in the case of a published work, two complete copies or phonorecords of the best edition;
(3) in the case of a work first published outside the United States, one complete copy or phonorecord as so published;
(4) in the case of a contribution to a collective work, one complete copy or phonorecord of the best edition of the collective work.
Copies or phonorecords deposited for the Library of Congress under section 407 may be used to satisfy the deposit provisions of this section, if they are accompanied by the prescribed application and fee, and by any additional identifying material that the Register may, by regulation, require. The Register shall also prescribe regulations establishing requirements under which copies or phonorecords acquired for the Library of Congress under subsection (e) of section 407, otherwise than by deposit, may be used to satisfy the deposit provisions of this section.
(c) ADMINISTRATIVE CLASSIFICATION AND OPTIONAL DEPOSIT.—
(1) The Register of Copyrights is authorized to specify by regulation the administrative classes into which works are to be placed for purposes of deposit and registration, and the nature of the copies or phonorecords to be deposited in the various classes specified. The regulations may require or permit, for particular classes, the deposit of identifying material instead of copies or phonorecords, the deposit of only one copy or phonorecord where two would normally be required, or a single registration for a group of related works. This administrative classification of works has no significance with respect to the subject matter of copyright or the exclusive rights provided by this title.
(2) Without prejudice to the general authority provided under clause (1), the Register of Copyrights shall establish regulations specifically permitting a single registration for a group of works by the same individual author, all first published as contributions to periodicals, including newspapers, within a twelve-month period, on the basis of a single deposit, application, and registration fee, under the following conditions—
(A) if the deposit consists of one copy of the entire issue of the periodical, or of the entire section in the case of a newspaper, in which each contribution was first published; and
(B) if the application identifies each work separately, including the periodical containing it and its date of first publication.
(3) As an alternative to separate renewal registrations under subsection (a) of section 304, a single renewal registration may be made for a group of works by the same individual author, all first published as contributions to periodicals, including newspapers, upon the filing of a single application and fee, under all of the following conditions:
(A) the renewal claimant or claimants, and the basis of claim or claims under section 304(a), is the same for each of the works; and
(B) the works were all copyrighted upon their first publication, either through separate copyright notice and registration or by virtue of a general copyright notice in the periodical issue as a whole; and
(C) the renewal application and fee are received not more than twentyeight or less than twenty-seven years after the thirty-first day of December of the calendar year in which all of the works were first published; and
(D) the renewal application identifies each work separately, including the periodical containing it and its date of first publication.
(d) CORRECTIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS.—The Register may also establish, by regulation, formal procedures for the filing of an application for supplementary registration, to correct an error in a copyright registration or to amplify the information given in a registration. Such application shall be accompanied by the fee provided by section 708, and shall clearly identify the registration to be corrected or amplified. The information contained in a supplementary registration augments but does not supersede that contained in the earlier registration.
(e) PUBLISHED EDITION OF PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED WORK.—Registration for the first published edition of a work previously registered in unpublished form may be made even though the work as published is substantially the same as the unpublished version.
(f) PREREGISTRATION OF WORKS BEING PREPARED FOR COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION.—
(1) Rulemaking.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection,[ARTdate] the Register of Copyrights shall issue regulations to establish procedures for preregistration of a work that is being prepared for commercial distribution and has not been published.
(2) Class of Works.—The regulations established under paragraph (1) shall permit preregistration for any work that is in a class of works that the Register determines has had a history of infringement prior to authorized commercial distribution.
(3) Application for Registration.—Not later than 3 months after the first publication of a work preregistered under this subsection, the applicant shall submit to the Copyright Office—
(A) an application for registration of the work;
(B) a deposit; and
(C) the applicable fee.
(4) Effect of Untimely Application.—An action under this chapter for infringement of a work preregistered under this subsection, in a case in which the infringement commenced no later than 2 months after the first publication of the work, shall be dismissed if the items described in paragraph (3) are not submitted to the Copyright Office in proper form within the earlier of—
(A) 3 months after the first publication of the work; or
(B) 1 month after the copyright owner has learned of the infringement.
^ Subsection (f) was added by the Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-9, 119 Stat. 218), enacted on April 27, 2005.
Amendment historyEdit
Section 408 was added by § 101 of title I of the Copyright Act of 1976 (Pub. L. No. 94-553, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2541), with effect from January 1, 1978.
Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988Edit
Pub. L. 100-568, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2853
Amended subsection (a) by deleting "Subject to the provisions of section 405(a)," at the beginning of the second sentence.
Amended paragraph (c)(2) by substituting "the following conditions:" for "all of the following conditions"
Deleted old subparagraph (c)(2)(A) and renumbered old subparagraphs (c)(2)(B) and (C) as new subparagraphs (c)(2)(A) and (B), respectively.
Copyright Renewal Act of 1992Edit
Pub. L. 102-307, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 264.
Amended the first sentence of subsection (a) preceding the words "the owner of copyright or of any exclusive right".
Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005Edit
Pub. L. 109-9, Apr. 27, 2005, 119 Stat. 218
Added subsection (f).
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Wine Making & Vineyards
Captivating Rhine Wine Cruise
7-Night Wine Cruise
Amsterdam to Basel with AmaWaterways
August 17th – August 24th, 2023
Contoured by vineyard clad hills and castles from yesteryear, the legendary Rhine captivates – and we invite you discover the flavor of this tantalizing region on a Celebration of Wine River Cruise with enhanced epicurean experiences included in the price of your cruise. Immerse yourself in France's Alsace region in its welcoming capital, Strasbourg, and its priceless gem, Riquewihr. Discover Breisach, rising above the vineyards of the Rhine, and Freiburg, one of Germany's sunniest cities and gateway to the Black Forest. Fabled towns lost in time present you with the chance to taste local flavors—Rüdesheimer coffee and Kölsch beer—and to touch history up close with guided hikes and bike rides. From Amsterdam's colorful canals to Germany's Black Forest, journey into the heart of the destinations you visit.
Day 1 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Embarkation
Board the ship in Amsterdam for your Captivating Rhine Celebration of Wine River Cruise.
Day 2 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
There are 165 canals in Amsterdam, and you'll get enjoy some of them on your canal cruise. Later in the day, set sail out of Amsterdam.
Day 3 | Cologne, Germany
Enjoy cruising to Cologne. Join a guided tour through the Old Town and explore the UNESCO-designated Cologne Cathedral, one of Germany's most revered Gothic masterpieces. Continue to the Cologne Rathaus, Germany's oldest town hall, plus see other local sights. For a different view, visit a local tavern to taste its famous Kölsch beer, only made in Cologne, and reibekuchen mit apfelmus, potato pancakes typically served with applesauce. Active adventurists will want to join a guided bike ride along the Rhine and through the historic Stadtgarten.
Day 4 | Rhine Gorge – Rüdesheim
Cruise through the captivating UNESCO-designated Rhine Gorge, the most stunningly beautiful stretch of the river before reaching the winemaking town of Rüdesheim. Join a wine tasting to discover the flavors of the town's iconic vineyards. Or drink up the stunning views by soaring high above the vineyards with a gondola ride to the Niederwalddenkmal. For a more active adventure, hike through the town's beautiful vineyards or join a guided bike tour along the scenic Rhine River. Later in the day, let Siegfried's Mechanical Musical Instrument Museum charm you with its remarkable collection of self-playing musical instruments; or taste one of the town's special delights, Rüdesheimer coffee, ceremoniously made with brandy, coffee and whipped cream.
Day 5 | Ludwigshafen, Germany
Ludwigshafen is your gateway to a choice of four excursions. Visit Heidelberg, the perfectly preserved medieval city nestled in the Neckar River Valley along Germany's Castle Road. Discover the iconic red sandstone Heidelberg Castle and Great Vat, an 18th-century, 49,000-gallon wine cask. For a more active adventure while in Heidelberg, join a guided hike up the Philosopher's Path, aptly named during the Romantic Period, and enjoy panoramic views of the city; or bike along the Neckar River to the medieval town of Ladenburg, with its shops and quaint Marktplatz. Alternatively, you can visit one of Germany's oldest cities, Speyer, known for the largest Romanesque cathedral in Europe—a UNESCO World Heritage Site—and the medieval Old Gate, Altpörtel.
Day 6 | Strasbourg, France
Strasbourg offers flavors of both France and Germany because of its borderline location. Enjoy a panoramic tour past the stunning Parc de l'Orangerie, the European Parliament and the Place de la République before walking through its iconic "La Petite France" district, lifted straight from the pages of a fairytale. Wander through charming streets past the Cathédrale de Nôtre Dame with its famous astronomical clock. Alternatively, take a guided bike ride through the city and Parc de l'Orangerie. Later, discover the fragrant aromas, ranging from bright and fruity to crisp and spicy, of Alsatian wines a special tasting.
Day 7 | Breisach, Germany
Breisach is your gateway to several different excursions. Step back in time with a visit to the enchanting Alsatian town of Riquewihr, which looks almost the same as it did in the 16th century. On your walking tour, admire historic architecture and famous sights, such as the Dolder Gate, and enjoy a visit to a winery for a tasting of locally produced Alsatian wines. Alternatively, head to Freiburg, founded in 1120 and home to the Freiburg's Münster, a Gothic cathedral said to have "the most beautiful spire on earth," followed by a wine tasting. Those wishing a more active excursion can cycle through the countryside, or hike in the Black Forest, a magical land full of cultural traditions. (Black forest hike is weather dependent and may only operate at certain times of year. Please refer to your final documents for details.)
Day 8 | Basel, Switzerland – Disembarkation
After breakfast, bid farewell to Switzerland and prepare for your return flight home.
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The Cheetahs Made a Kill. Then the Safari Trucks Swarmed In.
Reading time: 14 min.
The video surfaced online around October. Filmed from a distance, it shows an antelope grazing on the African plain. Suddenly, two cheetahs race toward it and the antelope takes off, running toward the camera. However the cats are too fast. They converge on it and produce it down. They start to feed.
Almost at that exact moment, a second drama unfolds: The safari vehicles which have been parked within the background begin to maneuver. One dark-colored 4×4 hits the gas and begins driving closer to the animals. Then vehicle after vehicle is on the move — green, brown white, in various states of repair. You may hear the voices of the guides inside yelling at each other. Some begin to honk their horns. The vehicles form a circle, jockeying for position as their passengers delay cellphones to record the cheetahs and their meal.
A lady's voice could be heard within the background. "Are they silly?" she asks.
The video was filmed within the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, home to lots of the Big Five animals (lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo and rhinoceroses) that safari participants tick off their lists. The identity of the video's creator stays unknown, as does the date it was shot.
It was originally shared by a Twitter account using the name @DrumChronicles and has been viewed greater than 175,000 times because it appeared. Guides and conservationists who've seen it said the video underscored an issue lots of them have observed for the reason that Kenyan government began lifting most pandemic-related travel restrictions: safari vehicles full of cellphone-wielding tourists led by guides who're willing to get too near the animals.
Overcrowding at popular safari spots was a serious issue before the pandemic, but as tourists have returned to Kenya, the issue has come back with alarming speed and "appears to be heightened by pent-up travel demand," said Judy Kepher-Gona, director of the Sustainable Travel and Tourism Agenda, a corporation based in Kenya that has called for stricter monitoring within the reserve.
"Sadly, what's seen on this video is the rule and never the exception in Masai Mara reserve," she said.
In February, a Toyota Land Cruiser carrying tourists got so near a family of cheetahs, the vehicle nearly ran over one in all the cubs.
In August, Simon Espley, the chief executive of Africa Geographic, a travel and conservation company, watched in horror as 60 vehicles idled on either side of the Mara River, which runs through the reserve, mere feet from where tons of of wildebeests and zebras were slowly amassing at a crossing point during their migration within the Masai Mara.
When the hooves hit the water, there was a "crazy, chaotic rush as tons of of tons of steel lunged forward with screaming engines" from the 4x4s that maneuvered to catch up with to the herds, Mr. Espley said.
"It was surreal and sickening as all of us converged on what is simply just a few hundred meters of riverbank, jostled for position and in some way avoided collisions," he said.
Mr. Espley, whose company had organized the safari trip for a gaggle of photographers, said he felt "regret and unease" about being a part of that crowd. "Everyone in our safari vehicle did," he said. The travelers asked their guide, an area Masai, to drive them away immediately.
"He was pleased to oblige," Mr. Espley said.
The issue, which conservationists describe as "aggressive tourism," preceded the pandemic, however it appears to have gotten worse, with guests hungry for Instagram moments and tour corporations attempting to make up for the losses they suffered when the world shut down.
"Personally I won't go into the Mara Reserve ever again in season for this reason," said Michael Lorentz, a safari guide based in Cape Town who leads tours in Kenya. "It actually upsets me a lot, and it upsets my guests to see how badly animals are being treated."
An urge to get too close
The human desire to get near animals, nonetheless dangerous, is innate, said Prof. Philip Tedeschi, the founding father of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection on the University of Denver, who continuously visits Kenya together with his students.
"It's a part of our DNA to pay special attention to living systems," he said.
Last summer, a small boat in Plymouth, Mass., got here so near a humpback that it almost capsized when the whale leapt out of the water and landed on its bow.
In May, a 25-year-old woman who approached a bison in Yellowstone National Park was gored and tossed 10 feet into the air. She survived, park officials said in an announcement that warned visitors to remain not less than 25 feet from the animals.
The behavior could also be misguided and dangerous, Mr. Tedeschi said, but it is usually an try and have a "peak experience," a term coined by the psychologist Abraham Maslow that describes a euphoric frame of mind that comes from witnessing or participating in a moment so intense it changes the neurochemistry of the brain.
And it may lead us to place a premium on being far too near animals — "literally having the ability to look over the shoulder of the animal because it kills its prey" — while forgetting that animals are sentient beings whose behavior is altered by our presence, he said.
The results for animals could be devastating, Mr. Tedeschi said.
In Kenya, cheetahs — the fastest of the massive cats, but additionally amongst essentially the most timid — can easily be scared off a hard-won kill even in the event that they have gone days without eating. Vehicles that get too close can reveal a cheetah's position to prey or other predators, adding one other challenge for animals which can be already struggling to search out food due to drought and habitat loss.
Large numbers of vehicles and tourists within the roughly 580-square-mile Masai Mara are also threatening the annual journey of mammals generally known as the Great Migration, when multiple million wildebeests, together with zebras and gazelles, move through the reserve in July and August, the height travel months for Kenya.
The Great Migration was already being threatened by other sorts of human behavior, including urban development, latest settlements and fencing for farms.
Tourists clamoring for front-row seats are adding pressure on the animals, who could respond by traveling in smaller numbers or deviating from their established routes to avoid the crush of vehicles and tourists, said Benson Gitau, a Kenyan guide.
Looking for a greater way
Tourism is critical to many African economies. By 2030, travel to the continent is projected to generate greater than $260 billion annually. In Kenya, before the pandemic, tourism accounted for nearly 10 percent of the gross domestic product, in line with the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife.
In 2019, greater than two million people visited Kenya, a number that was expected to grow by greater than 7 percent in 2020, the tourism ministry said. But then the pandemic hit, forcing hotels and restaurants to shut and greater than 80 percent of corporations within the country's tourism sector to put off employees. And people who didn't lose their jobs often needed to address pay cuts of as much as 70 percent, the ministry said.
Through the height of the pandemic, many guides lost their jobs and had to make use of their vehicles as taxis or to deliver groceries, said Mr. Gitau, the Kenyan guide, who works within the Loisaba Conservancy, a 57,000-acre wildlife reserve north of Nairobi.
Visitors have returned steadily, though in smaller numbers. By the spring of 2022, international tourist arrivals in Africa had greater than doubled compared with 2021. In October, Najib Balala, then Kenya's tourism secretary, projected 1.4 million to 1.5 million visitors to the country by the top of 2022, compared with 870,000 in 2021.
But because the country welcomed back visitors, leaders began rethinking tips on how to manage tourism in its reserves and parks.
In May, Mr. Balala's office released a 130-page report that called for a "latest tourism strategy." Amongst its proposals: increasing prices for the Masai Mara in July and August (it currently costs as much as $80 for nonresident adults to go to the park) and restricting development of recent lodging within the country's national parks to 30 beds.
There are dozens of camps and lodges within the reserve and the protected areas that neighbor it, in line with Masai Mara Travel, a tour company in Kenya. Some camps and lodges within the reserve have as much as 200 beds, Mr. Gitau said.
But conservationists and guides on the bottom say few, if any, of the measures proposed by the ministry have been enacted.
The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, which got here under latest leadership in October, didn't reply to repeated messages for comment. The Kenya Wildlife Service, a state corporation charged with managing and conserving the country's wildlife, declined to comment.
Zebra Plains, one in all the tour operators whose vehicles could be seen within the video, didn't reply to requests for comment. The video was posted in November on Zebra Plains' Facebook page by a user complaining in regards to the drivers' conduct.
"Whilst our photographic guests often have off road permits that doesn't excuse driving between other vehicles and the sighting," the corporate responded within the comments. "This will likely be taken up with the guides concerned."
With the Masai Mara increasingly under pressure from tourists, conservationists have been pushing for the "conservancy" model, through which private parcels of land owned by local communities, corresponding to the Masai, are leased to tour corporations. They conform to hire community members as guides, camp managers, kitchen staff and housekeepers and to follow rules that include caps on the variety of lodges and camps and limits on the variety of tourist vehicles. The most important camp in Loisaba Conservancy, for instance, matches 20 to 30 tourists, Mr. Gitau said.
Since 2013, when the Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association was established, about 350,000 acres of wilderness bordering the Masai Mara reserve have come under the sort of private-public partnership.
Research shows wildlife fares higher where tourism is more controlled. For instance, female cheetahs within the Masai Mara reserve raised far fewer cubs than cheetahs within the conservancies, in line with a 2018 report within the scientific journal Ecology and Evolution.
Staying within the conservancies as a substitute of the Masai Mara is dearer — not less than $1,200 an evening versus just a few hundred, said Ashish Sanghrajka, president of Big Five Tours & Expeditions, a Florida-based tour company that organizes trips within the conservancies.
The reply to limiting the variety of tourists within the Masai Mara may lie in raising park prices, he said.
"It needs to be expensive," said Mr. Sanghrajka, who was born in Kenya. "It's alleged to be a privilege. It's not alleged to be a right."
At the identical time, a healthy tourism industry is critical to conservation efforts in a region of the world with a number of the most endangered species, including black rhinos. Tourism offers local communities an incentive to guard wildlife, and with few other industries offering well-paying jobs, many Kenyans depend upon tourism as a lifeline out of poverty.
The goal needs to be to enhance enforcement and monitoring within the Masai Mara reserve, to not discourage travel, Ms. Kepher-Gona said.
To that end, visitors have tremendous power, she said. They'll ensure tour corporations have guides licensed by the Kenya Skilled Safari Guide Association and ask tour corporations for his or her codes of ethics and if the guides keep their distance from animals to avoid disturbing them.
Mr. Gitau said that as a rule, a trained guide will come no closer than 20 to 30 meters to a hunt. "While you arrive there, you have got to change off your engine, keep quiet and revel in the scene," he said.
Tourists may act more responsibly by tempering their expectations, Mr. Gitau said. When he picks up guests, he said, he all the time asks them what they wish to see. Often they are saying they wish to see "a kill."
Mr. Gitau said he tells them he'll do his best to present them a memorable experience. But he all the time adds this reminder: "Nature is stuffed with surprises. Whatever happens, just know that it was meant to occur."
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Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
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The name and memory of Peter Connelly, known for so long as Baby P, joins a sad and far too long list of children who have died at the hands of those whom they could have expected to give them the love, protection and security which is surely the right of every child. This week the release of Peter's name, along with the names of those who were responsible for his wicked injuries and death has brought Peter's short and tragic life back to public attention.
There can be no excuses for Tracy Connelly, Stephen Barker or Jason Owen whose actions and inactions caused and allowed Peter to suffer so much. Once again we are reminded that the vulnerable – whether they be young or old – are at the mercy of those who have them in their care. Yet vulnerability is at the heart of being human for it is the stuff of our early years, of our old age and, for some, it is their experience throughout life.
A symptom of a healthy family is the care and attention it gives to its most vulnerable members and the same is surely true for a community. It is how we invest in and support the most vulnerable in society which reveals the quality of our communities. As we reprioritise our public spending in the wake of the current recession, we must be wary of those politicians who would look for savings in our support for the vulnerable, the sick and the casualties of modern life. As I see it, their care, through the work of the social services and other agencies, is a good gauge of the health of our nation.
Jesus said "By their fruits you shall know them" and that remains a good measure for many things, not least in our attitude to the vulnerable. Baby Peter is a sad reminder that when the strong take advantage of the vulnerable – then pain, suffering, misery, death and wickedness are ever present. The only remedy is for the strong and capable to be vigilant and to demand that the vulnerable are supported and protected. Another phrase of Jesus comes to mind: "whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me".


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Constantinos Daskalakis wins Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
CS alumnus Constantinos Daskalakis (Ph.D. '08, advisor: Christos Papadimitriou) has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians, one of the highest awards in theoretical computer science. Daskalakis, who is currently a professor at MIT, was cited for his work on game theory and machine learning. He is profiled in a Quanta Magazine article titled "A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths," that describes his fruitful time at Berkeley with Papadimitriou.
Quanta Magazine: A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths
Valerie Taylor Named CEO and President of CMD-IT
EE alumna Valerie Taylor (M.S. '86/Ph.D. '91) has been promoted to the position of CEO and President of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT). CMD-IT is a national center comprised of corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits, that is focused on engaging under-represented groups in computing and information technologies. Taylor is currently the Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and a Senior Scientist in the Center for Research Collaborations at the University of Chicago. "Valerie has provided exceptional leadership of CMD-IT since its founding. Her dedication has enabled CMD-IT to expand its impact on diversity in academia, industry and government as well as assist with the success of many individuals," said Stuart Feldman, Board Chair, CMD-IT.
CMD-IT Newsletter, July 2018, Volume 8, Issue 6
Five Questions for David Patterson
CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson, winner of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award, answers 5 questions posed by the Cal Alumni Association's California Magazine. Topics include the unsurpassed number of Berkeley Turing laureates, the dangers of AI, the RISC revolution, Patterson's classic textbook on computer architecture, and how much weight he can bench press. You can attend lectures by many of U.C. Berkeley's prominent Turing laureates, including Patterson, this fall at the Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Colloquium.
California Magazine: Five Questions for David Patterson
Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Colloquium
Nancy Amato is first woman to lead UI computer science department
CS alumna Nancy Amato (M.S. '88, advisor: Manuel Blum) has been chosen to lead the highly ranked University of Illinois Department of Computer Science — the first woman to hold that position. She will oversee a fast-growing department that has 80 faculty members and more than 2,400 students, plus 700 online, and is ranked fifth in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. As a professor at Texas A&M, Amato's research focused on motion planning in robotics, parallel algorithms and bio-informatics. She led an influential group within the Computing Research Association (CRA) to bring more women into the field and runs an undergraduate summer research program that matches students from underrepresented groups with faculty members. She received the CRA Habermann Award in 2014 for her efforts to involve more women and underrepresented minorities in computing research.
The News-Gazette: Robotics expert to be first woman to lead UI computer-science department
Dawn Tilbury: Shaping engineering research
EECS alumna Dawn Tilbury (M.S. '92/Ph.D. '94) is the subject of a Berkeley Engineering profile in honor of the campus's year-long 150th anniversary celebration. As head of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Engineering, which provides academic institutions with more than 40% of the federal grants for fundamental engineering research, Tilbury exemplifies the type of leadership nurtured through a Berkeley Engineering education. "As the primary funder of basic research, NSF is uniquely positioned to bring people together to discover new approaches to renewable energy, reliable transportation, enhanced health and safety, and other national challenges," she said.
Berkeley Engineering: Dawn Tilbury: Shaping engineering research
RAFAR wins Best Student Paper Award at MARSS 2018
"Bidirectional thin-film repulsive-/attractive-force electrostatic actuators for a crawling milli-robot," written by recent EE alumnus Ethan Schaler (Ph.D. '18), his advisor Prof. Ron Fearing, and two undergraduates from other departments (Loren Jiang in BioE and Caitlyn Lee in E3S), received the Best Student Paper Award from the International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS) 2018 in Nagoya, Japan in July. The authors demonstrated a new thin-film electrostatic actuator (RAFA) capable of generating bidirectional repulsive- and attractive-forces: 156 Pa in repulsion and 352 Pa in attraction, when operating at up to 1.2 kV. They used this actuator to power RAFAR, a 132 mg milli-robot that crawls at 0.32 mm/s with anisotropic friction feet. Schaler will be joining NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) this summer.
MARSS 2018: Winners of Best Student Paper Awards
Tawfiq Mossadak named sales and marketing manager of Sensortech Systems
EECS alumnus Tawfiq Mossadak (B.S. '97, member of HKN) has been named sales and marketing manager of Sensortech Systems, a manufacturer of measurement and control instruments. Tawfiq, who has 15 years of experience at Avnet, Madell Technology, and Altera, will be responsible for leadership of the business development team, driving revenue, marketing and business strategy. This appointment is part of Sensortech Systems' expansion, which includes a new larger building, higher capacity production line with state-of-the-art environmental product testing.
Cision: Gearing up for Growth, Sensortech Systems Hires Sales and Marketing Manager
Larry Nagel wins IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits
EECS alumnus Larry Nagel (B.S. '69/M.S. '70/Ph.D. '75) has won the 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits, named for his graduate advisor EECS Prof. Donald O. Pederson. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to solid-state circuits and has previously been presented to five EECS professors: Paul Gray, Robert Brodersen, Ping Ko, Chenming Hu and Robert Meyer. Nagel was cited "for the development and demonstration of SPICE as a tool to design and optimize electronic circuits." His Ph.D. dissertation was on SPICE2 and he founded Omega Enterprises in 1998 to consult on analog circuit design, circuit simulation, and semiconductor device modeling.
Startup Elph secures $875K in pre-seed funding
The House Fund has backed a $875,000 pre-seed round for Elph, a startup co-founded by two EECS alumni: Ritik Malhotra (B.S. '15) and Tanooj Luthra (B.S. '13). Elph operates a portal for accessing decentralized apps known as Ethereum dApps. It provides a place to store digital assets (cryptocurrencies, tokens, collectibles), find dApps without having to scour the web, and use them natively. Elph also plans to roll out a software development tool to simplify the process of building dApps. The House Fund is a berkeley-based AI-focused startup accelerator.
Global University Venturing: Elph enters the House for pre-seed funding


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Punk icons Jawbreaker to reunite after 21 years for incredible new music documentary
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Jawbreaker, the Punk icons who former in the late 80s, are the subject of a new documentary entitled Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker.
Set to premiere at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in San Francisco in August, Don't Break Down was directed by Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron.
Active for a decade during 1986 and 1996, Jawbreaker went on to influence a host of bands around the time and, as explained in the trailer below, many believed they had the ability to bridge the gap between the likes of Nirvana and Green Day.
The documentary features interviews from band members, producer Steve Albini, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett, and others.
Jawbreaker will reunite for their first show in 21 years as the headliner of the final night of Riot Fest in September 2017.


Chung Wah Chicken Rice Balls in Melaka were the best Rice Balls we had whilst in Melaka, Malaysia. Big call I know.
The Hainanese chicken was moist, cooked to perfection and delicious. The Rice Balls were just as moist and as delicious as the chicken and about the size of a ping pong ball. Perfection on our plates and then in our tummies!
I wrote about how wonderful I thought these were previously, I think they are the bees knees. I stand by my original thought that perhaps the rice balls were formed so that farm workers were able to just place one in their mouth and chew instead of having to deal with loose rice in a banana leaf.
This restaurant is only open from about 8:30am till 3 or 4pm in the afternoon. Be warned that there is nearly always a queue of people lining up for this place. We walked past this restaurant numerous times and there was always a queue. We went in at about 2pm one day, still people waiting to get in after that time!
We are sorry that we do not have a picture of the front of the restaurant to show you. On our Melaka Food Map, you can see the exact location.
Kedai Chop Chung Wah,18, Jalan Hang Jebat,75200 Melaka.
If you look at the start of Jonker Walk, after crossing over the bridge, there is a little round about, on one corner is an air conditioned durian chendol restaurant, on the exact opposite corner (closer to the bridge) is the Chicken Rice Ball Restaurant.
Here is a link to our food map of Melaka.
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Mark A
Charlwood House open rail data
Three years historic timetabling data. Living under a rock, I'd not met with this site:
http://charlwoodhouse.co.uk/rail/liverail
Also, is there a thread on the Bristol area pay as you go scheme?
https://blog.brfares.com/2021/04/29/bristol-payg-fares-reform/
stuving
Transport Scholar
Re: Charlwood House open rail data
Quote from: Mark A on May 03, 2022, 12:06:52 pm
I have mentioned it several times, but by the name Liverail. That's their internal name for this bit of their site, but turns out to be a useless search term. Officially, Charlwood House call their public services "Open Rail", while their site as a whole promotes their software products. Confusing, huh? Here's a list of people working in this area of open rail data, most of them from public service sites, which may help in finding them.
While the longer history is useful, the main advantage is that it shows the data feed as is, without interpolating reports (as RTT» (Real Time Trains - website) does). It also shows more accurately what really happened when it's not as planned, within the limits of the data fed. And it shows reports from a diversion, though still can't cope with movements the happen before they get put into the timetable. But it's not pretty - which is an advantage, for some of us!
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Hockley viaduct
Another use of "Open data"
https://datasciencecampus.ons.gov.uk/visualising-rail-schedules-using-open-data/
Not sure this uses the same data source as other sites mentioned here. Will this be publicly available beyond 31 August>


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Evaluating the satisfaction level of citizens in municipality services by using picture fuzzy VIKOR method: 2014-2019 period analysis
Bahadir Fatih Yildirim İstanbul University, Faculty of Transportation and Logistics, İstanbul, Turkey
Sultan Kuzu Yıldırım İstanbul University, School of Business, İstanbul, Turkey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31181/dmame181221001y
Keywords: Picture Fuzzy Sets, VIKOR, Municipal Services, Satisfaction
In this study, it is aimed to rank the satisfaction levels of the municipality services. For this purpose, 20 municipal services included in the Life Satisfaction Survey (LSS) that the Turkish Statistical Institution regularly applies every year are considered as alternatives. In addition, the satisfaction of citizens was evaluated not only for the last year, but also for the period of 2014-2019, and these years were considered as a set of criteria. LSS statistics contains the citizens' responses which involve such opinion as abstain and refusal besides yes or no answers. For analyze the effect of all types of opinions on decision process, the participant responses constituting the dataset were converted into Picture Fuzzy Numbers (PFNs) consisting of 4 parameters (positive, neutral, negative, and refusal). Finally, we apply utilize VIKOR (VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) method by using PFNs arithmetic operators and evaluate the citizens' satisfaction levels of the municipality services. As a result, it was determined that the municipal services with the highest satisfaction were graveyard (A18) and fire-fighting (A17) activities, while the services with the lowest satisfaction were zoning and city planning (A10) and control of food producing facilities (A20).
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This special class of comfort food is oh so naughty, but oh so nice. Traveling from Key West to San Diego and everywhere in between, DEEP FRIED PARADISE 2: EXTRA CRISPY scours the country for a second helping of the crispiest, crunchiest, and craziest delicacies you can throw in the fryer. From corn dogs to deep-fried corn on the cob, and from french fries to old-fashioned fried potato chips, DEEP FRIED PARADISE 2: EXTRA CRISPY celebrates how Americans can take any meal from ordinary to extraordinary with a layer of batter, a dusting of flour, and a dunk in the deep-fat fryer.


Case Video Presentation: Thinking out of the 'bracket'… Is partial orthodontic treatment acceptable?
One of the risks and potential sequela of fixed orthodontic treatment is the shortening of roots commonly known as orthodontically induced inflammatory root resorption (OIIRR). In its severest form, OIIRR can cause tooth mobility and can compromise the long-term prognosis of teeth. If a patient is at risk for OIIRR and requires orthodontic intervention (for example, has an impacted canine) it is important to consider an overall force system that is conservative and delivers light intermittent forces rather than comprehensive traditional braces that apply heavier continuous forces.
The etiology of root resorption is multi-factorial and some risk factors include: genetics, gender, tooth root morphology and length, systemic factors, iatrogenic orthodontic concerns, and tooth type.
A detailed family history is helpful if root resorption is noted.
Early panoramic x-rays are valuable for orthodontic diagnosis because they give a broad view, can verify the presence of all permanent teeth, and can help identify any pathology or impacted teeth.
A severely angulated or impacted canine, if noticed early, can be monitored and early orthodontic intervention can assist in the eruption of that permanent canine.
If an individual exhibits root resorption prior to orthodontic treatment, then he or she is at risk for further OIIRR during orthodontic treatment.
Properly planned orthodontic treatment can help to minimize the risk and further extent of root resorption.
The video below details the diagnosis, treatment planning, and orthodontic rehabilitation of a Hispanic male adolescent who was at high risk for orthodontically induced inflammatory root resorption and had an impacted maxillary canine.
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Do bib clips pose a cross-contamination risk at the dental clinic?
Thanks for the very informative video!


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Becki Jones plugged in her guitar at an old unventilated storage unit that's been converted into a practice space. Sweat dripped from her forehead, a petite punk rocker with a mischievous smile.
But Jones said they don't have any plans to change their name. The Nizhoni Girls, which means beautiful girls in Navajo, is Becki Jones on guitar, Lisa Lorenzo on drums and Liz McKenzie on bass. They call their sound desert surf.
Women-empowered rock is not the norm. But that hasn't stopped them. The trio of sometimes pink- sometimes blue-haired feminist rebels rock hard all over Indian Country and inspire new bands to find a way out through music. The Nizhoni Girls are redefining what it means to be Navajo. They're shaking down their assimilated ways in their songs and holding onto key Navajo beliefs in their activism.
Music was about the only thing that made sense to Jones when she was growing up.
Many Navajos, like Becki, straddle two worlds — the Navajo traditional world and the assimilated western world. To complicate matters, Jones was also dealing with domestic violence and substance abuse at home. And she lived in Flagstaff, a reservation border town, where people discriminated against her family.
Jones said at first she internalized the racism.
It was the coming of age ceremony that was a pivotal point for Jones, who finally felt she could claim her Navajo identity as her own and be proud of it. It was around this time when she moved to the reservation to live with her aunt.
"There weren't a lot of things to do, especially in Window Rock and Fort Defiance, so I craved going to a live show," Jones said.
But Jones said the punk scene was also pretty toxic.
Today Jones calls out all forms of predatory behavior and discrimination on social media, in her music, even at Trader Joe's when a cashier called her a derogatory name last spring. Jones lives her activism everyday. And that can be exhausting.
Becki said her family doesn't really understand her music. Nizhoni Girls' bass player Liz McKenzie can relate.
McKenzie said after her mom died, she bounced from grandparents in Gallup to her dad's house in Tucson.
Both McKenzie and Jones said they're products of boarding school.
As we've heard in this series, there's hardly a Navajo who hasn't been affected by the federal government's attempt to assimilate thousands of Native Americans. Christianity was passed down three generations in McKenzie's family. But she's trying to replace it with her Navajo traditions.
The band just organized Asdzáá Warrior Fest, a women's festival, on the Navajo Nation with this concept of kinship in mind. They also perform at schools on the reservation and give music workshops to kids.
At a recent school event, drummer Lisa Lorenzo said she realized they're the role models now.
"I always look back, and I always kinda wish I had a band like ours when I was growing up, just to like encourage you and like show you that you can do it too," Lorenzo said.


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Q: Spotify Tech Puzzle - stdin in Python I'm trying to solve the bilateral problem on Spotify's Tech Puzzles. http://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/tech/bilateral-projects/  I have something that is working on my computer that reads input from a file input.txt, and it outputs to ouput.txt.  My problem is that I cannot figure out how to make my code work when I submit it where it must read from stdin. I have looked at several other posts and I don't see anything that makes sense to me. I see some people just use raw_input - but this produces a user prompt?? Not sure what to do. Here is the protion of my code that is suposed to read the input, and write the output.  Any suggestions on how this might need changed? Also how would I test the code once it is changed to read from stdin? How can I put test data in stdin?  The error i get back from spotify says Run Time Error - NameError.
import sys

# Read input
Input = []
for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
    if len(line) <9:
        teamCount = int(line)
    if len(line) > 8:
        subList = []
        a = line[0:4]
        b = line[5:9]
        subList.append(a)
        subList.append(b)
        Input.append(subList)

##### algorithm here

#write output
print listLength
for empWin in win:
    print empWin

A: You are actually doing ok.
for line in sys.stdin.readlines():

will read lines from stdin. It can however be shortened to:
for line in sys.stdin:

I don't use Windows, but to test your solution from a command line, you should run it like this:
python bilateral.py < input.txt > output.txt

If I run your code above like that, I see the error message
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bilateral.py", line 20, in <module>
    print listLength
NameError: name 'listLength' is not defined

which by accident (because I guess you didn't send in that) was the error the Spotify puzzle checker discovered. You have probably just misspelled a variable somewhere.

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CIA chief: Iraq wasn't imminent threat
#2307021 - 02/05/04 11:55 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)
By KATHERINE PFLEGER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Intelligence analysts never told President Bush (news - web sites) before the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)?s rule posed an imminent threat, CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet said Thursday in a heated defense of agency findings central to the decision to go to war.
The urgency of the Iraqi threat was Bush?s main argument for the war. But the president said Thursday he still would have invaded Iraq if he?d known no weapons stockpiles existed ? adding a new element to the much-debated question of whether the United States went to war based on faulty assumptions.
Tenet, addressing such questions for the first time after weeks of silence, acknowledged that analysts believed before the war that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons, although none have been found. He said he believes some of what U.S. intelligence predicted about Iraq will turn out to have been right ? and some wrong ? as is often the case in such matters.
He made clear that analysts differed among themselves all along on important aspects of Saddam?s chemical, biological and nuclear programs and spelled out those disputes in an October 2002 intelligence estimate given to the White House.
"They never said there was an imminent threat," Tenet said in a speech at Georgetown University. "Rather, they painted an objective assessment for our policy-makers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts to deceive and build programs that might constantly surprise us and threaten our interests."
Tenet?s remarks hit back at his former special adviser on Iraqi weapons, David Kay, who said last month "we were almost all wrong" about Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction.
The comments also seemed designed to inoculate the CIA from becoming a scapegoat in the fight over whether the war was justified.
Speaking in Charleston, S.C., Bush acknowledged that the weapons have not been found, although investigators have discovered evidence of possible programs. He said the war was still justified.
"Knowing what I knew then and knowing what I know today, America did the right thing in Iraq," Bush said.
Tenet, in his 40-minute defense, never said in detail how the Bush administration, citing U.S. intelligence, might have painted an inaccurate picture of Iraq?s weapons arsenal. He insisted that the intelligence analysts had not tailored their findings for any political purpose.
That leaves the door open for Democrats to demand more investigation and explanation, and for many to question the basis of the administration?s pre-emptive strike doctrine.
"It goes to the core of why a nation went to war," said Democratic presidential front-runner, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites).
Before the war, Bush and his senior advisers made clear they viewed the threat from Saddam as urgent.
In October 2002, Bush told an audience in Ohio that "the danger is already significant and it only grows worse with time. If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today ? and we do ? does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?"
On Sept. 13 of that year, Bush said of Saddam, "He?s a threat we must deal with as quickly as possible."
White House aides have pointed out that Bush, while he cited the urgency of Saddam?s threat, never called the threat "imminent."
In his State of the Union address in January 2003, Bush said: "Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words and all recriminations would come too late."
In general, the Bush administration before the war cited three main justifications for military action: preventing Iraq from using weapons of mass destruction, protecting America from terrorists and liberating Iraqis from a repressive regime.
Tenet?s speech came at a sensitive time.
Bush was expected to announce Friday a nine-member panel to look at the Iraq intelligence and weapons proliferation issues worldwide. An administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would be a member. Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Pat Roberts of Kansas, are also completing work on a report detailing intelligence mistakes. They shared it with members in a closed session Thursday.
Democrats want to focus on whether analysts were pressured by the White House to justify an invasion. At the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Thursday, Kay said he doesn?t believe analysts? arms were twisted, but he said the president?s commission should look into whether political leaders manipulated the intelligence data given them. "I think that is an important question that needs to be understood," he said.
Tenet, who was appointed by President Clinton (news - web sites), made his own pre-emptive strike: "No one told us what to say or how to say it."
Like Bush and other administration officials, Tenet wouldn?t rule out that weapons still may be found. "Despite some public statements, we are nowhere near 85 percent finished," he said rebutting Kay?s figure.
As chief of the CIA and 13 other agencies that make up the intelligence community, Tenet conceded that there were mistakes. Analysts, for instance, overlooked a notice that one source providing information on Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction was unreliable, he said.
On chemical and biological weapons, Tenet said analysts believed before the war that Saddam had programs and perhaps stockpiles, but investigators have found no evidence of such production. He said two sources with high-level access told the CIA in fall 2002, shortly before the war, that Iraq was producing biological and chemical weapons.
While Tenet conceded that U.S. intelligence agencies never penetrated Saddam?s inner circle, those sources solidified his personal view that Saddam was a danger, he said. "Could I have dismissed such reports at the time? Absolutely not," he said.
Going into more detail than intelligence chiefs normally do, Tenet also claimed agency successes, including:
_ The U.S. penetration of Libya?s network of foreign suppliers for its weapons of mass destruction. That led the agency into developments indicating Libya?s programs were no longer on a back burner, Tenet said.
_ A CIA spy who led the U.S. to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the al-Qaida mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
_ Human sources that led to the arrest of Nashiri, al-Qaida?s operational chief in the Persian Gulf who planned the USS Cole (news - web sites) attack, and to the capture of Hambali, a chief terrorist in South Asia.
"A blanket indictment of our human intelligence around the world is dead wrong," Tenet said. "We have spent the last seven years rebuilding our clandestine service."
I guess the CIA isn?t going to fall on their swords after all. Mr. Bush, you?ve got some ?spainin? to do.
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Re: CIA chief: Iraq wasn't imminent threat [Re: Learyfan]
infidelGOD
Loc: there
well Bush never actually said Iraq was an imminent threat. we've already been through this. but everyone knows that through various warnings and ominous language, the Bush administration was essentially making the case of an imminent threat.
looks like Bush is between a rock and a hard place.
but it seems like he really doesn't care about the evidence..
"the president said Thursday he still would have invaded Iraq if he'd known no weapons stockpiles existed"
Xlea321
And lo..the silence from the neocons was deafening..
Re: CIA chief: Iraq wasn't imminent threat [Re: Xlea321]
you've been referring to the neocons here on a daily basis now. i'm curious as to whom you have be referring... who are the "neocons" here?
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Re: CIA chief: Iraq wasn't imminent threat [Re: ]
oh, don't pretend like you don't know!!!
All I know is The Growery is a place where losers who get banned here go.
Re: CIA chief: Iraq wasn't imminent threat [Re: afoaf]
i've got a feeling that it's anyone who votes libertarian or republican, embraces free market capitalism, or is opposed to gun control... who the hell knows.
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So they believed there were weapons, but were wrong. What's to explain?
Or have you never been wrong?
Perhaps these people should explain as well......
On Iraq and WMD: Did the president lie?
Larry Elder (archive)
February 5, 2004 | Print | Send
Can one make the case that President George W. Bush "lied" or "misled" or intentionally "mischaracterized" the intelligence on Iraq and WMD in order to lead us to war? Sure, if one possesses a visceral anti-Bush mindset coupled with a willingness to ignore powerful arguments in favor of the war:
-- Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, during a press conference last week, said "Many months before (the) Iraqi action, I met (the) predecessor of (chief U.N. weapons inspector) Hans Blix in Warsaw. . . . He told me (a) very important thing: that Saddam had these weapons or is ready to produce these weapons. Because to have such (an) impression that he has mass destruction weapons is a part of his doctrine, to keep . . . power in Iraq and to be strong in the region. So I think it's very difficult today to judge how it was when he . . . decided to continue this project of mass destruction weapons. . . . Absolutely, Iraq is ready to produce if it's necessary to keep the power of and dictatorship of Saddam and to play such (an) important role in the region."
-- In October 2003, months after the Iraq war began, former President Bill Clinton visited Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso. Durao Barroso said, "When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime."
-- French President Jacques Chirac, in February 2003, spoke about "the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq," noting "the international community is right . . . in having decided that Iraq should be disarmed."
-- Former Clinton CIA director R. James Woolsey, in a Wall Street Journal article, made several points -- that Saddam possibly intentionally misled the world into thinking he still possessed WMD to keep his status as a power player in the region; that stockpiles of WMD possibly remained only to be destroyed at the last minute; that WMD-related material "probably" entered Syria months before the war; that Iraq admitted making 8,500 liters (8.5 tons) of anthrax, which if reduced to powder, could fill a dozen easily portable suitcases; and that "Iraq's ties with terrorist groups in the '90s are clear," with a decade worth of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda, "including training in poisons, gases, and explosives."
-- Weapons hunter David Kay, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that based on the pre-war intelligence, Saddam Hussein posed "a gathering, serious threat to the world." Hussein's scientists possibly misled the former dictator into believing Iraq possessed WMD, with the scientists possibly misappropriating funds. Kay also said that, based on his investigation, Iraq posed an even greater danger than previously thought.
-- Former President Bill Clinton on Dec. 16, 1998, stated, "Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. Unleashing chemical weapons against Iranian troops during a decade-long war. Not only against soldiers, but against civilians, firing Scud missiles at the citizens of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran. And not only against a foreign enemy, but even against his own people, gassing Kurdish civilians in Northern Iraq. . . . I have no doubt today, that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again. . . . "
-- Former President Clinton, in an appearance on "Larry King Live" on July 22, 2003, said, " . . . (I)t is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. We might have destroyed them in '98. We tried to, but we sure as heck didn't know it because we never got to go back there."
The near pathological contempt so many hold for President Bush clouds their ability to put themselves in the commander-in-chief's shoes. On Sept. 11, in America, over 3,000 people lost their lives. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein continued to defy United Nations Security Council resolutions to come clean. He flouted the U.N.-sponsored Oil-for-Food program, diverting the money from its intended purpose.
Critics quite properly accuse the U.S. intelligence community for failing to connect the dots and thus prevent 9/11. After the first Gulf War in 1991, the advanced nature of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program shocked intelligence analysts. Nuclear bomb testing in India and Pakistan came as a surprise, as did the advanced nature of Iran's and Libya's WMD programs. By all means, the U.S. intelligence failures call for serious soul-searching, and possibly housekeeping to improve accuracy.
But, in the case of pre-war Iraq, the president's critics suggest the following: Cross your fingers, hope for the best, and run the risk of another attack on American soil, this time possibly with chemical or biological weapons. No, the president acted upon the best available information and properly discharged his responsibility as commander-in-chief.
On October 9, 1998 some members of the U.S. Senate sent a letter to Bill Clinton expressing their concerns about Saddam and his weapons program. That letter contained this paragraph:
"We urge you, after consulting with Congress and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction program."
That letter was signed by Tom Daschle, Carl Levin and John Kerry .. three Senators, one a probable Democratic nominee for president, who are now slamming George Bush for acting on the very intelligence they relied on for their 1998 letter to their president, Bill Clinton.
Carl Levin is particularly obnoxious. I saw him on some talking head show earlier this week pressing the idea that Bush should have known that the intelligence information he was relying on was faulty. In September of 2002 Levin said "We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandates of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." Levin, it seems, believed the exact same intelligence information that Bush relied on ... and now he's faulting Bush.
How about some other names of people who believed that Saddam had a weapons program and a stockpile of WMDs? Let's put Nancy Pelosi on that list, and there's Clinton's Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Al Gore said "We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Ted Kennedy said "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." How about some more from John Kerry? On October 9th of last year Kerry said "I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real grave threat to our security." In January of this year Kerry said "So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real."
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
Re: CIA chief: Iraq wasn't imminent threat [Re: luvdemshrooms]
alright here's the deal:
so what if all those people were also fooled?
they did not make the decision to go to war, Bush did.
even if Bush himself was misled by someone else,
doesn't accountability fall on the decision maker?
it's really tacky to say "ok so I was fooled, but look at all these other people! they were fooled too! so it's not my fault!"
whatever happened to "the buck stops here"?
Re: CIA chief: Iraq wasn't imminent threat [Re: infidelGOD]
So what? It shows that those who claim Bush lied are speaking from their asses.
For the most part, yes.
Not when they all get their info from the same place. And most definitely not when those doing the squealing had the same beliefs.
Sadly, no-one wants to be held accountable any more.
The fact is, Bush is an asshole. But those who scream "Bush lied" conveniently seem to forget that many others held the same beliefs. Are they liars as well?
The point of that article was that Tenet said that Iraq was not an imminent threat.
Neither did Bush. So what?
Tenet, addressing such questions for the first time after weeks of silence, acknowledged that analysts believed before the war that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons, although none have been found.
And how does this fit in with your "Bush lied" claims?
Perhaps another reading will show several "points" in that article.
And.............
"In January of this year Kerry said "So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real."
This is the guy you say From now until 2005 I will be on the side of John Kerry.
I guess we both have our opinions about what is important in that article.
I know Kerry was pro-war, but I want Bush out of office so bad that i'm rooting for him.
#2310719 - 02/07/04 03:45 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)
Depends if you buy that anyone was fooled or whether they knew it was bullshit from the very beginning.
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