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Reader Center|What It Looks Like to Care for Separated Migrant Children
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What It Looks Like to Care for Separated Migrant Children
Constantin Mutu, left, and his brother Floren Armando in their Romanian home. Constantin was separated from his father, Vasile, at the United States-Mexico border after they applied for asylum.CreditCreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times
By Caitlin Dickerson
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There is a lot that remains unknown about family separations along the United States' southwestern border that began in secret in 2017 — nearly a year before the federal government acknowledged them publicly.
That's in part because the federal employees and contractors involved were prohibited from speaking with reporters. But in writing about Constantin Mutu, the youngest child taken from his parents, for an article on Monday's front page, I got a rare look at what it was like to care for separated children. I talked to the baby's caseworker, Alma Acevedo, a 24-year-old who handled his case in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Speaking with Ms. Acevedo helped fill out my understanding of one of the most inscrutable parts of the Trump administration's experiment with family separations. Parents affected by the policy had been able to tell me about their experience. But most children weren't old enough to recount in any level of detail what they had been through during their months or weeks in custodial care.
[Watch an episode of "The Weekly" about the youngest child separated from his parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.]
At the time, Ms. Acevedo worked for Bethany Christian Services, a foster care and adoption agency that has a federal contract to house immigrant children. She took the job out of college, hoping to help people with whom she could identify — having come to the United States, albeit with her parents, when she was 2.
Ms. Acevedo was just settling into the role when things suddenly became more chaotic, in the late summer of 2017. Unlike the teenagers she was used to working with, who had intentionally crossed the border alone, the separated children who began to arrive were inconsolable when they reached her. Each new one seemed to traumatize the rest all over again. "It was horrible," she said. "We could not do work. It was just a classroom full of crying kids all day."
Even after covering family separations for over a year, as an immigration reporter for the National desk at The New York Times, I was struck by how much they uprooted not only the lives of family members who were divided from each other, but also the people like Ms. Acevedo who were charged with caring for them. While she was on call, Ms. Acevedo had to be available 24-7. She often waited up after midnight to meet newly separated children arriving at her office, transported from the border by contract workers. She would be roused from bed by phone calls about children who refused to eat or leave their rooms until they were allowed to speak to the parents from whom they had been separated.
Ms. Acevedo was particularly good at soothing them during outbursts, which usually meant going from classroom to classroom and pulling up videos of songs from "Frozen" or "Moana" on her phone. It helped that she could identify with the children. She still remembers the day in first grade when she had to participate in a classroom discussion about family. She didn't know how to say in English that she didn't have any siblings, so she lied and said she had a brother.
Many of the parents of children on her caseload ended up being deported, ending any hope of a quick reunion. When that happened, she would meet with her fellow caseworkers and staff therapists, sometimes for hours, to discuss how to break the news to the child. They used pictures and puppets to illustrate the distance between the United States and countries like Guatemala. And they spoke in intentionally vague terms to avoid making false promises about when the children might be able to see their parents again, after learning the hard way that even those who were barely old enough to talk would latch on to any concrete expectation.
"We would have to say, 'In many, many days you will be reunited with your parent, but we have to do a lot of paperwork,' " she told me, mimicking the soft voice she would use with an upset child. "The kids would still be like, 'O.K., when am I going?' They would start crying and it wasn't just tears, it was screams."
Parents who were in detention would call to ask whether they should give up their asylum claims, as Constantin's father had. They said they had been promised they would get their children back. Ms. Acevedo would tell them she had received no such assurance from the federal government and could not advise them on how to proceed. "The parents would sign in desperation and then, the next thing you know, they would call me from their home country and say, 'I'm here, where's my child? Give me my child back.'"
Ms. Acevedo's account matched up with our understanding of how the separations began — with little planning or communication from federal authorities to the workers who would be tasked with handling them — yet it made clearer just how little guidance was in place to minimize harm to the children, or to ensure they would be quickly reunited with a family member.
Most days after work, she cried in her car before she left the parking lot. She checked the news on her phone constantly, watching CNN until she went to bed, hoping to find out when the family separations would end. In her dreams she would file a piece of paperwork late or incorrectly, and a child would be kept from going home.
After all the children in her care were reunited with their parents, she quit her job and took several months off work. Even now, she tries not to think about those months. "When I left," she said, "I didn't want to turn back to that."
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Caring for Migrant Children. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
The Youngest Child Separated From His Family at the Border Was 4 Months Old


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in All News / By: BVI News on October 2, 2020 at 6:01 AM /
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US President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19).
President Trump made that announcement in an early-morning post on Twitter on Friday.
First Lady, Melania has also tested positive.
President Trump's October 2 Twitter post
At age 74, Trump falls under the 'high-risk group' for serious complications from COVID-19.
Describing Trump as also being obese, American news organisation, CNN has said the COVID diagnosis is "the most serious known health threat to a sitting American president in decades".
Trump's announcement comes a little more than a month before the November 3 presidential elections; at which time he will face Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.
The Republican president has, most times, refused to wear protective face coverings and has been captured on multiple occasions not social distancing. Amid the pandemic, he has also held relatively large political rallies as part of his 2020 election campaign.
Trump says:
Best wishes to the best US President and friend to the Black man world over. May he and his wife get well soon and return for another 4 years of lifting the Blacks out of poverty.
You are a coon!
you must be one of the most ignorant non American black men.
USA says:
That is what you call a dose of KARMA.
America says:
Hope everything turns out well for him and his wife. However a big dose of Karma. He knew since February how deadly the virus was and he hid it. Face masks were to be sent out in the mail to everyone, he said no. Having people packed up at rallies mask less. Talking about maybe you can vote 2 times, talking about having people watch polling sites on Election Day. And the list goes on and on.
Just says:
Just the answer from the racist n***as of the BVI. It is our hope that you drown in your racism. Let's see what the US does to the BVI based on these racist comments. Remember whose currency you use, where you travel through to go everywhere and where you buy all your needs. You like karma? Just wait for it.
US Currency been here before Trump and will still be here after November 3rd 2020. Ain't crap he could do! So you go wheel and come again! Nonsense!
Reply says:
First, I wish him and his wife along with other staff members infected with covid a successful recovery.
Now, this outcome was inevitable. Trump has been reckless and irresponsible in his behavior.
From denying the virus existed publicly while privately acknowledging it's deadly potential, downplaying the pandemic stating the virus was a hoax and made up by democrats, refusing to model responsible social behavior by not wearing a mask and telegraphing that to the world, and having mass rallies despite every health expert advised otherwise.
He thought he knew more than trained scientist, but he was wrong. Science always win.
He has been simply obstinate in his overall behavior relative to covid.
Even on Tuesday during his first disastrous presidential debate he ridiculed Biden for wearing a mask. Now this.
His reckless anti-science antics has placed him, his family, the country including his ardent supporters life and health at risk.
With over 7 million Americans infected with covid, and 208 thousands dead, he has not shown proper leadership during this pandemic, and I would argue made it worse.
He did so because he is a sick man who thinks he knows more and smarter than anyone else on this planet. His narcissistic personality did him in, and will be his undoing.
A lot of people I know have very visceral feelings about Donald Trump that I could not repeat here. I have said to those people, I wish he would have a humbling experience that will show him that no matter how much money he says he has, title he has, he is no better than any other human being. He goes to the bathroom like everyone else.
Ms. Karma has hit him and she always have her say.
I hope Trump recovers from this virus and come out a better human being. I think his presidency was over before he got covid. This development will certainly seal his faith.
The lesson for all others who think like Trump is to take head. Listen to the health experts, socially distance, and wear a mask for God sake. Protect yourself, family, and others, and stop being ignorant jerks.
Covid will get you if you ignore it. It's all around us and will be around us for sometime even when an effective vaccine or treatment is found. So do yourself and the world a favor, don't be like Trump.
Black Nationalist says:
This is OUTSTANDING NEWS! There might be some type of god after all.
Comical says:
The Babylonian Emperor without clothes has finally been exposed.
The Truth says:
In he backside
fake news says:
LETS SEE IF THE CLOROX WORKS
Free Thinker says:
The Clorox will work my friend. Just wait and you will see. Obviously you are to blind to see what's truly taking place.
LMAO says:
You all really believe this f***ry! Wow!
Now that's KARMA wish nothing but good vibes to him & his family And may God have mercy on him🙏🏼
He lie just an election gimmick. Can't believe anything coming out of this man mouth.
granny says:
"Who dont hear will feel"
Yawn says:
And by next week he will be just fine, having little or no symptoms.
You're very smart
Full.a tricks says:
Some kind of trick Trump up to… He realized he is going to lose the election..Trust me if Trump had want a secret test with secret results he would have had it… Something he up to that's why he put that out there some kind of political trick .. We will see
What trick? says:
You give this man too much credit, he is not up to anything.
I think he has seen the light and realized he does not want to go to the other side now and argue with God. You are looking at a frightened man.
Trump is absolutely BRILLIANT…. comes out with the news of being infected…Only to be cured a few weeks later when his vaccines roll out.
$Billions$
Politics is a game and the championship is on the line. Trump just scored a huge tree point shot to give him the lead with seconds remaining on the clock. Now Let us see how the other team will respond.
Karma is a b***h. Let's see if clorox will cure him.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."Galatians 6:7
schemers says:
Some of you are sick and wicked. Praying for others downfall, just wicked.
You have it backwards. The "sick and wicked" one is Donald Trump. What world are you living in? If hoping that he is voted out of office come November 3rd is "praying for his downfall", count me in. I'm going to pray harder.
I'll be happy when he is gone. The U.S. and the world would be a better off once he is out of office.

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How the Mighty Have Fallen: GE Kicked Out of the Dow Jones Industrial Index
by Paul-Martin Foss June 20, 2018 4 comments
In yet another sign of how mighty American corporations are going by the wayside, American conglomerate General Electric (GE) was just recently kicked out of the Dow Jones Industrial Index. GE's place will be taken by Walgreens Boots Alliance. It's a hard fall for GE, which was the only company in the Dow index that was also in the index at its inception in 1896. GE had been in the Dow index continuously since 1907.
The component companies of the Dow index have changed numerous times over the years, and it isn't unprecedented for companies to leave the index and then return. Chevron was part of the Dow index from 1930 to 1999 and then returned in 2008. Coca-Cola was part of the Dow from 1932 to 1935 and rejoined in 1987, while IBM was part of the Dow from 1932 to 1939 before rejoining in 1979. But GE's problems may very well preclude the company that traces its founding to Thomas Edison from returning to the Dow index anytime soon.
The company's stock is currently trading at less than half of its 52-week high as the company's well-publicized financial woes have executives thinking about breaking the company up. Like many other American legacy corporations, the majority of GE's revenues come from its financial services arm, meaning that the company is arguably a financial services company that just also happens to engage in manufacturing. That's similar to General Motors, which has been described as a financial services company that also manufactures cars.
Once a household name, GE has morphed over the years into an industrial conglomerate with products ranging from lighting to healthcare equipment to railroad locomotives. But as the company has grown ever larger, it has grown further and further from consumers. Many of its products are sold to businesses and governments, not to consumers. The few business units that still do or used to sell to consumers are slowly being spun off.
GE Appliances, for instance, which manufactured appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, is now owned by Chinese conglomerate Haier. Like its one-time competitor Westinghouse, GE may very well end up spinning off or selling many of its core businesses, essentially becoming a brand name used or licensed by numerous independent companies. It has been a long, slow decline for GE, but that's the nature of the marketplace. Legacy corporations that can't continue adapting and serving consumer needs are destined to fall by the wayside as newer and more innovative companies outcompete them.
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'Mummy Wake Up!' – MP Describes Heartbreaking Moment On Covid Frontline
Sophia Sleigh
December 6, 2021, 10:46 a.m. ·2 min read
Labour Party MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Photo: Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan today told of the heartbreaking moment she helped a dying woman's children see her on an iPad during the pandemic.
In an emotional interview, the MP for Tooting described working at the Royal London Hospital as part of the family liaison team during the second wave.
It was a time when families were not allowed to visit the bedsides of loved ones, so NHS staff would arrange zoom calls or final visits if they were dying.
Dr Allin-Khan said the intensive care wards were "overflowing" with patients and described it as something out of a "bad movie".
She told GB News' Gloria De Piero: "It affected me hugely. There's one call that I'll never ever forget as long as I live.
"I took the iPad to a lady who was in her late 20s and she was pregnant and she had to have her baby by emergency caesarean on the intensive care unit.
'She was dying, and it was heart-breaking.'@DrRosena Allin-Khan, Labour's Shadow Minister for Mental Health, breaks down telling Gloria De Piero of her experience working as a doctor during the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/vIxony54cN
— GB News (@GBNEWS) December 6, 2021
"She was unconscious, her baby was in the neonatal intensive care unit, and on this call these three little faces popped up and she had three kids at home who were under 6, and their dad.
"I'm there in full PPE looking like an alien to them, then I'm saying hello to them on the iPad and I said 'I'm just going to turn the iPad so you can see your mummy'.
"They were having this discussion amongst themselves about 'how can we help Mummy wake up?' and then they had this discussion that if they all shouted together, maybe Mummy would hear them.
"They just basically in unison, just shouted 'Mummy, Mummy wake up! You've been asleep too long. We miss you.'
"They said 'Dr, do you think she can hear us?' I just said 'oh she can't just hear you she can feel you, she can feel your love coming through the iPad'.
"They were like 'Do you think she'll wake up soon? Do you think that helped?'
"What are you supposed to say at that time? What are you supposed to do? You know, you've got these three hopeful little faces the same age as your children."
An emotional Allin-Khan added: "She was dying. She was dying, and it was heartbreaking. And that's just one story..."
She has previously described how she struggled to get out of bed at the height of the pandemic after seeing dozens of Covid patients dying in hospitals.
During the interview, the shadow minister for mental health also described her upbringing, becoming a doctor and her love of singing.
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Q: R squared change multiple linear regression I calculate multiple linear regression in R with
lm(var ~ VAR1+VAR2+VAR3+VAR4)

Do you know how to calculate R-squared change for each variable VAR1, VAR2, VAR3 ?
Thank you

A: The OP essentially wants to calculate the $R^2$ differences for individual variables. So the models would be:
m0 = lm(var ~ VAR1 + VAR2 + VAR3)
m1 = lm(var ~ VAR2 + VAR3)
m2 = lm(var ~ VAR1 + VAR3)
m3 = lm(var ~ VAR1 + VAR2)

And then you can do
pr2m1 = summary(m0)$r.squared-summary(m1)$r.squared
pr2m2 = summary(m0)$r.squared-summary(m2)$r.squared
pr2m3 = summary(m0)$r.squared-summary(m3)$r.squared

But this probably doesn't do what you think it does (explain exactly how much the individual variables explain via the $R^2$ difference) - at least if there is any multicollinearity (which there usually is).

A: Why not computing all the nested models ?
lm(var ~ VAR1)
lm(var ~ VAR1 + VAR2)
lm(var ~VAR1 + VAR2 + VAR3)


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In Part 1 of How to Compare Fractions, I explained how I used fraction strips to have students explore fraction sizes. Comparing fractions and their sizes visually helped my students establish a benchmark fraction of one-half. In PART 2, I will show you how I used the same fraction strips to enhance mathematical conversations with supporting arguments. I'll also show you how I enhanced the process with technology.
One strategy we had learned when comparing fractions was to use the denominators FIRST. If they are the same, then we just use the numerator to determine the biggest and smallest fraction (greater than or less than).
If the denominators are different, but the numerators were the same, we then use the denominator to reason abstractly about unit fraction size (would you rather have an eighth of a pizza or a half of a pizza?). The fraction pieces helped support those students who still had a difficult time with reasoning abstractly in their heads.
I gave each student a bag of fraction strips. They worked with a partner to complete the following task.
As they did this, I went around providing guidance (to those confused about what to do) while hearing their arguments in support of which was largest. I would ask the partner group: how do you know it is the largest? It was exciting to hear how the students used the mathematical terms of numerator and denominator to support their arguments of which was largest.
We started with the simpler task of just comparing fractions with the same denominator. Then I upped the ante to Task 2, which ask the students to use the fractions strips to make two fractions with different denominators but same numerators. Again, it was confusing to some exactly what the task was so I circulated around and helped those students understand the task.
As students were working with their partners, I again circulated to hear arguments. If there were some good arguments or explanations I took a photo of the fractions made with the fractions strips to share with the entire group.
Why did I do this? I want students to use mathematical language and practice those mathematical practices! By taking photos of the different models, other students can listen to see how to explain your thinking so others can understand as well.
These kinds of questions I use during my math instruction as much as I can to keep the engagement up. I sometimes even use my pick sticks to call on random students. Keeps them on their toes!
I think if I taught this same lesson again, I would also add another component: Duo to Duo share. I would have one set of partners share their explanation with another set of partners. Then keep rotating around the room for more practice.
I also projected student models for everyone to see and use for practice.
If you're wondering how I was able to project the photos to the entire class, it was done with an iPhone, an AppleTV and a projector.
It is a very quick and simple process to AirPlay over to my projector anytime I want to show something from my MacBook, iPad or iPhone. I also used student samples for others to come up and explain which fraction was larger or smaller.
The next day I taught using the fraction strips again. This time, it was to teach probably the most difficult strategy for students to grasp: the missing piece strategy.
It is a strategy that twists your brain around…at least for a third grader! It requires to think OPPOSITE of what you see. But with fraction strips, it becomes more understandable and easier to explain.
I had the students build two fractions: 3/4 and 2/3. Each fraction is missing just one piece for it to complete a whole. This is the way I had the students use this strategy.
What is the missing piece in 3/4? 1/4…find a one-fourth fraction strip.
What is the missing piece in 2/3? 1/3…find a one-third fraction strip.
Now put the one-fourth strip above the one-third strip. Which is bigger? The one-third piece.
Because the missing piece ____________ is larger than the missing piece ____________, we can say that _______________ is larger than ________________.
As you can see, it can be hard for a student to follow along especially English Language Learners. So by using the fraction strips and the sentence frame, the thinking can be scaffolded until complete understanding is achieved.
In Part 3 students compare and order fractions in Google Slides for digital practice that will prepare them for online state testing.


United today officially introduced its new signature seat design that will be seen on domestically configured mainline and regional aircraft. A United Express CRJ-700 is the first to sport the new look, which features leather seat covers, double-stitch patterns and a United-branded tag.
United will deploy the new seats on more than 500 aircraft that fly within the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. So, in my interpretation, I'm calling it the "domestic" fleet. United developed the seats with global travel and transport design consultant Priestmangoode.
That last bullet intrigued me with the word "technology," but its meaning isn't my own. But I do see in that first image above that there are power outlets for each row, which will be a welcome addition to United's aircraft where no power is currently available.
On another United seat-related technology front, check out The Wandering Aramean's post about the lack of IFE screens in newer United seats. It appears that United will be forging ahead with streaming in-flight entertainment content, once all aircraft are equipped with Wi-Fi. That's my guess, anyway.
For more images of the seats, click here. And additional details on United's release and rollout schedule for the new seats can be found here.
The 737s these seats are being installed in already have power for the most part. That isn't particularly a new thing. In this case I believe "technology" is code for new, lighter materials which still meet the 16g impact test required by the FAA but which weigh a lot less and are likely less comfortable than prior iterations.
The fact that they are making a big deal about the "tag" on the seats says to me that they really have nothing else good to share about them. That's worrisome.
@Wandering Aramean: That's my take for use of "technology," too. I found the tag notation quite amusing in their release. I like it as an #avgeek, but it's funny they included it in the bulleted point.
Interesting choice. They look way more modern but they don't look like they have much cushion to them.
@Kyle: Definitely not… we'll have to see how our bums take the change.


Souvlaki 7 Ways: the souvlaki truck has arrived!
A souvla is a large skewer used for rotisserie roasting, like gyro. Souvlaki refers to a smaller skewer used for cooking individual portions of meats, fish, vegetables, and fruit.
Souvlaki—commonly recognized as marinated meat on a stick—is one of those dishes that is pretty much without limits when it comes to the kind of food you can skewer, grill (or broil), and enjoy. There's a version for every food-lover's palate. If you can cube it, you can souvlaki it!
As a Greek, I can attest to the fact that lamb (the Greek meat) really rocks when it comes to souvlaki but this meat can be expensive, so Greek food trucks and restaurants don't always offer it on their menu. The remedy is to turn your kitchen into your own souvlaki truck by grilling up this Greek meat and making the neighbors jealous!
Some people don't like lamb (I don't think they're Greek!), and if you're not used to it (or raised on it), it might taste fatty or gamey. Enter pork (left) and chicken (right), the easiest to find when eating out.
The one thing that makes all of these meats taste Greek is the marinade: a simple emulsion of olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, and minced garlic—one marinade, three meats! Marinate in the refrigerator for 1 hour (or overnight), skewer, and grill (or broil).
For a twist, try alternating cubes of lamb and pork on a skewer. The pork will absorb some of the fat from the lamb, keeping it moist, and the lamb will taste a bit leaner.
Not a meat lover? Go fish! Seafood: swordfish, shrimp, scallops, cod, halibut…cast your net and sea how deliciously it grills! Swap lemon zest or thyme for the oregano, marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, skewer, and grill.
Not a meat or fish lover? Veg out! Vegetarian souvlaki can get the meat-marinade treatment: marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, skewer, and grill. Adding cheese (like halloumi) adds protein and substance but if you don't want cheese or are vegan, it can be replaced with extra-firm tofu and topped with soy tzatziki. The idea is to put what you love on the skewer, as long as it's firm enough to skewer and grill.
For the ultimate food-truck experience, place your souvlaki in a pita with tzatziki sauce (included in our Meze cookbook), lettuce, tomato, caramelized onions, and Greek fries!
I hope you enjoyed my food-truck-inspired souvlaki post. Stay tuned for upcoming segments on uniquely Greek foods and ingredients!


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Q: Django - get instances of base model as corresponding proxy models I have a base Django model, and proxy models that subclass it. They override all methods. I need to iterate over all the instances of the base model (i.e. for i in BaseModel.objects.all()), but be able to call the methods of their corresponding proxy classes instead of the placeholder methods declared in the base class.
How do I approach this? I actually have a model field which can determine which proxy model corresponds to each particular instance. Maybe I can make use of it and cast the base class into the subclass somehow? I'm at a loss.
EDIT: I've had a look at this question and have managed to change the class by writing to self.__class__. However, is that safe to use with Django?

A: proxymodels = {"Foo": FooModel, "Bar": BarModel}

for o in BaseModel.objects.all():
    proxymodels[o.type].method_name(o, *args, **kwargs)

The methods are called on the proxy models (the classes), passing the BaseModel instances as first argument plus any additional arguments you want to pass. That way the methods are called as if they were called on an instance of a proxy model.
PS: re-assigning self.__class__ seems very hackish to me.


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Air Force contract adds Oklahoma City jobs, services
Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:00 am By: Debbie Blossom
The Oklahoman
Oklahoma City-based Delaware Resource Group has been awarded a Command and Control training contract by the U.S. Air Force, company officials said Tuesday.
The Oklahoma City-based company will provide contract academic training, courseware development, distance learning services and staff support services at 11 locations, said Philip Busey Jr., vice president of public relations and government affairs for Busey Group of Companies.
The company is immediately moving into transition phase to begin work on the contract scheduled to begin March 1, Busey said. The contract, which exceeds $30 million over four and half years, will add about 45 people.
"What's really significant about this is we're an Oklahoma City-based company that has been awarded two major prime contracts for the Air Force in the past year," he said. "That's a really big deal, it doesn't happen often."
Philip Busey said the company, which now has operations in 12 states, has been working on a bid process for the past year.
Founded in 2002, DRG has operations in Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Wyoming and performs training services for four military aircrafts and natural gas field service operations in the Powder River Basin.
Last February, DRG was selected by the Air Force for a five-year, $40 million contract to provide E-3 mission crew training and courseware development at Tinker Air Force Base. DRG had been a subcontractor on that program since 2002. Last April, the company was also awarded a subcontract for work on a Marine AV-8B program at Yuma, Ariz., and Cherry Point, N.C.


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Whither the Liberal Hawks?
By Jim Lobe January 31, 2012
During the years preceding the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, several factions in U.S. politics came together to support an attack, creating tremendous public pressure for war. Under the banner of letterhead groups like the Project for the New American Century, neoconservatives, Christian Zionists, hardline nationalists, and liberal interventionists made common cause, arguing that a key aspect of the "war on terror" must be the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
Today, as tensions over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program reach a crescendo, such a coalition appears far from coming together. In fact, some key liberals who supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq are pleading for caution.
The course of events in recent weeks has been unmistakable. Senior Israeli officials have stepped up their threat to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, a fifth Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated on the streets of Tehran, there has been a sharp escalation of western economic sanctions designed to "cripple" Iran's economy, and Tehran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz. These events have brought the previously hypothetical possibility of war—whether by design, provocation, or accident—sharply into view.
The hawkish declarations of three "pro-Israel" Republican presidential candidates (Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich) have also added to the apparent momentum toward war, as has the intensified drumbeat for "regime change" by some of the same neoconservatives at institutions like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) who led the drive to invade Iraq—and who also happen to be key advisors to many of the Republican candidates.
These events have coincided with the publication by the influential Foreign Affairs of an article entitled "Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike is the Least Bad Option.'' The article, authored by Matthew Kroenig, an academic based on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) who recently completed a stint as a strategic analyst in the Pentagon, advocated a limited and carefully calibrated U.S. aerial attack on Iran's air defenses and nuclear sites.
The piece has served as a rallying point for several prominent neoconservatives, among them Max Boot, Kroenig's colleague at CFR whose op-eds are published in several high profile outlets like the Los Angeles Times. Characterizing Kroenig's article as "a powerful case for force against Iran," Boot argued in the Commentary magazine blog that "if the U.S. is truly determined to prevent [a nuclear Iran] … the most effective option is to use force. Obviously, air strikes carry risks of their own, but those risks have to be measured against the risk of letting Iran go nuclear."
However, in contrast to the lead-up to the U.S. decision to attack Iraq, this mounting pressure for war has been remarkable for the fact that a broad-based pro-war coalition has yet to gel. Indeed, the confluence of threatening developments has provoked a number of influential members of the foreign policy establishment—including several prominent liberal interventionists who supported the Iraq war—to warn against further escalation by the United States or Israel.
"We're doing this terrible thing all over again," wrote Leslie Gelb, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, the think tank that publishes Foreign Affairs, in the Daily Beast, arguing for Senate hearings on the implications of war with Iran.
"As before, we're letting a bunch of ignorant, sloppy-thinking politicians and politicized foreign-policy experts draw 'red line' ultimatums. As before, we're letting them quick-march us off to war," warned Gelb, a repentant Iraq-war hawk, about the chorus of neoconservatives and other hawks with whom he had previously been aligned.
Similarly, Steve Coll, the former managing editor of the Washington Post who now heads the liberal New America Foundation, has written in the latest issue of the New Yorker that while "no one can confidently predict what aerial bombardment would achieve," the "costs of any such attack are much easier to describe," including "retaliatory rocket and missile strikes by Hezbollah and Hamas against Israeli civilians, a wave of popular anti-Israeli upheaval in Egypt, and the prolonged inflammation of Iran's nuclear nationalism."
Coll instead urged caution and restraint, quoting a speech from President Obama during a visit to Prague in 2009, when he prescribed "patience and persistence" as an antidote to "fatalism" regarding potential nuclear dangers.
In the pages of The New Republic, the Brookings Institution's Kenneth Pollack—a former top CIA analyst whose 2002 book, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq, was cited frequently by liberal hawks before the war—argued not only against any further escalation, but also suggested that the sanctions track on which the Barack Obama administration and the European Union have increasingly relied was proving counterproductive.
"The problem is that these sanctions [against the Central Bank of Iran] are potentially so damaging that they could backfire," he wrote, citing their possible negative impact on the West's own struggling economies and the difficulty of sustaining them diplomatically over time if they result in the kind of "humanitarian catastrophe" inflicted by the sanctions regime against Iraq from 1992 until the invasion.
"[T]he more we turn up the heat on Iran," he added, "the more Iran will fight back, and the way they like to fight back could easily lead to unintended escalation. Doubtless such a war would leave Iran far, far worse off than it would leave us. But it would be painful for us too, and it might last far longer than anyone wants."
Meanwhile, another influential liberal hawk, Princeton Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, argued at project-syndicate.org that the West and Iran were playing a "dangerous game" of "chicken" and that the West's current course "leaves Iran's government no alternative between publicly backing down, which it will not do, and escalating its provocations."
"The more publicly the West threatens Iran, the more easily Iranian leaders can portray America as the Great Satan to parts of the Iranian population that have recently been inclined to see the U.S. as their friend," wrote Slaughter, who stepped down as director of the policy planning office under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"It is time for cooler heads to prevail with a strategy that helps Iran step back," she added, suggesting that the aborted Turkish-Brazilian 2010 effort at mediation between the P5+1 and Iran be revived.
CFR's Gelb quickly followed up on Slaughter's proposition, arguing this week on the Daily Beast that it was time to back away from punitive measures and start making serious offers to Tehran: "As Western leaders back Iran into a corner and as they are locking themselves into a war policy they haven't seriously contemplated and don't really want, now is the time to offer a deal. The peace package is simple: Iran keeps its uranium facilities but with capabilities to enrich reduced to levels fit only for civilian use. Tehran also agrees to the tightest international verification procedures. The West lifts sanctions gradually as Iran complies with both reconfiguring its nuclear plants and accepts the necessary verification. For sure, President Obama has tried similar proposals before. This time, however, Iran may find that the biting economic pressures make the deal more palatable."
Yet another Iraq hawk, New York Times columnist Bill Keller, attacked the Foreign Affairs article, assuring his readers that Kroenig's former colleagues at the Pentagon "were pretty appalled by his article, which combines the alarmist worst case of the Iranian nuclear threat with the rosiest best case of America's ability to make things better."
Contrary to Kroenig's predictions, Keller wrote, "an attack on Iran is almost certain to unify the Iranian people around the mullahs and provoke the supreme leader to redouble Iran's nuclear pursuits, only deeper underground, and without international inspectors around. Over at the Pentagon, you sometimes hear it put this way: Bombing Iran is the best way to guarantee exactly what we are trying to prevent."
Indeed, in a reply to Kroenig entitled "Not Time to Attack Iran," Colin Kahl, who also recently left the Pentagon after two years as its head of Middle East policy, argued that Kroenig's "picture of a clean, calibrated conflict is a mirage. Any war with Iran would be a messy and extraordinarily violent affair, with significant casualties and consequences."
Among other objections, Kahl, a senior fellow at the hawkish Center for a New American Security (CNAS), predicted that a pre-emptive strike of the kind promoted by Kroenig could well spark a regional war, solidify popular support for the regime in Tehran, and transform "the Arab Spring's populist antiregime narrative into a decidedly anti-American one."
Much of Kahl's analysis was subsequently backed up by retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who, as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency during George W. Bush's second term, could hardly be called a liberal.
According to Foreign Policy's "the Cable" blog, Hayden, who served as the head of the Pentagon's National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005, told a small group convened at the Center for National Interest last week that top Bush national security officials had concluded that a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities—whether by Israel or the United States—would be counterproductive.
The Israelis, he reportedly said, "aren't going to [attack Iran]. … They can't do it, it's beyond their capacity. They only have the ability to make this [problem of Iran's nuclear program] worse."
And while the United States has the ability to mount a campaign, it could only serve as a short-term fix. "What's [the] move two, three, four, or five down the board?" Hayden asked. "I don't think anyone is talking about occupying anything."
Jim Lobe is the Washington bureau chief of the Inter Press Service and a contributor to Right Web. He blogs at: http://www.lobelog.com/.