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C. Everett Koop-Understanding AIDS: Former surgeon general became a hero to AIDS activists during his time in the Reagan administration - Slate

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<base href="data:"></base><br /><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div class="cpf-printOut-body-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="">C. Everett Koop, the Ronald Reagan-appointed surgeon general who would go on to become a hero to AIDS activists, died yesterday in New Hampshire at the age of 96. Koop, who was both a pediatric surgeon and evangelical Christian, will be remembered for a number of things—his high-profile crusade against smoking; his role as <a href="http://www.lifealert.com/ceverettkoop.aspx" style="color: black; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Life Alert spokesman</a>—but the part of his legacy that will likely last the longest is his efforts to draw attention to the then-emerging AIDS epidemic. As the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/us/c-everett-koop-forceful-surgeon-general-dies-at-96.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&hp&gwh=9884F10E3B8A1C52645F7B7B98B2A6DF" style="color: black; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none;">New York Times</a> reminds us, AIDS had just been discovered in the United States when Koop was awaiting confirmation in 1981, but it would soon sweep the country with more than 100 cases reported in the weeks that followed:</div></div><div class="cpf-printOut-body-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><blockquote><div class="">[Koop] said he realized later that the Reagan administration had been slow to address the disease because the election had brought to power people who were antithetical to gay people, then thought to be its only victims. As the epidemic worsened, reaching drug addicts infected with contaminated needles and hemophiliacs who had received a contaminated blood-clotting factor, Reagan, in 1986, asked Dr. Koop to prepare a special report. Dr. Koop proceeded cautiously, knowing the report would be unpopular with many in the administration, with conservatives in Congress and with church groups opposed to homosexuality. He wrote 17 drafts.</div></blockquote></div><div class="cpf-printOut-body-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In that 1986 report Koop didn't mince words, promoting the use of condoms for safe sex and calling for sex education to begin in school as early as third grade. While Koop personally opposed homosexuality and premarital sex, he nonetheless insisted, in the words of the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_KOOP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-02-25-17-06-49" style="color: black; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Associated Press</a>, that "Americans, especially young people, must not die because they were deprived of explicit information about how HIV was transmitted." That explicit information about homosexuality, anal sex, condoms, and intravenous drug use was all the more noteworthy because it came at a time, as the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/c-everett-koop-former-surgeon-general-dies-at-96/2013/02/25/be6cc52e-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html" style="color: black; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Washington Post</a> explains, "when almost nobody in the Reagan administration would even utter the word 'AIDS.' "</div><div class="cpf-printOut-body-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">As part of his educational outreach, Koop went on to author a groundbreaking seven-page brochure, "Understanding AIDS," that provided many Americans for the first time with specific information about a disease that was poorly understood and rarely discussed. Despite some opposition from within the Reagan administration, Koop found a way to mail that pamphlet to all 107 million households in the country in 1988, making it the largest public health mailing ever. (For a little context, Magic Johnson's announcement that he had HIV wouldn't happen for three more years.)</div><div class="cpf-printOut-body-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In hindsight, that brochure may not be perfect, but it represented the best available information the country had about AIDS at the time. Perhaps most importantly, it made sure to refute the notion that it was an epidemic that only some communities had to worry about. "The male homosexual population was the first in this country to feel the effects of the disease," Koop wrote matter-of-factly. "But in spite of what you may have heard, the number of heterosexual cases is growing. People who have died of AIDS in the U.S. have been male and female, rich and poor, white, Black, Hispanic, Asian and American Indian."</div><div class="cpf-printOut-body-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The full brochure (via the the <a href="http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/QQBDRL.pdf" style="color: black; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none;">National Institutes of Health archives</a>, by way of <a href="http://gawker.com/5986875/remembering-c-everett-koops-groundbreaking-controversial-aids-introduction-brochure" style="color: black; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Gawker</a>—who I should note dug it up before I did) is below. Think of it as a snapshot of the times, as well as a fitting reminder of Koop's fulfilled promise to lawmakers that he wouldn't let his religious ideology get in the way of doing his job as America's doctor. (Meanwhile, if you want to honor Koop's legacy, <a href="http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/hivaids/Pages/Default.aspx" style="color: black; cursor: inherit; text-decoration: none;">head on over to the NIH's website</a> to read up on the most up-to-date information on AIDS and HIV.)</div><div class="cpf-printOut-body-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div></div><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/26/c_everett_koop_understanding_aids_former_surgeon_general_became_a_hero_to.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/26/c_everett_koop_understanding_aids_former_surgeon_general_became_a_hero_to.html</a><br /><div style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /></div><div style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/127304991" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Understanding Aids on Scribd">Understanding Aids</a> by   <a href="http://www.blogger.com/undefined" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View 's profile on Scribd"></a> </div><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="undefined" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_31876" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/127304991/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll" width="100%"></iframe>

C. Everett Koop-Understanding AIDS: Former surgeon general became a hero to AIDS activists during his time in the Reagan administration - Slate

C. Everett Koop, the Ronald Reagan-appointed surgeon general who would go on to become a hero to AIDS activists, died yesterday in New Hamps...

SYRIA: ASSAD WINNING THE WAR?

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGV1A4-j4W1xwu7Fr-8oLxLXWALmwzJnOyAcCusqod6__Na_C7wz3PH6fgjBs3aPnYEUzVE7cf0NgP0GWSYe5Pn63mI5geOLVSGzXjR3iJrZ6B95-SQSDQm4RIonBoDKxlsWKqrM4cWucF/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGV1A4-j4W1xwu7Fr-8oLxLXWALmwzJnOyAcCusqod6__Na_C7wz3PH6fgjBs3aPnYEUzVE7cf0NgP0GWSYe5Pn63mI5geOLVSGzXjR3iJrZ6B95-SQSDQm4RIonBoDKxlsWKqrM4cWucF/s320/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ASSAD PULLS AHEAD IN SYRIAN WAR. PUTIN, KHAMENEI ARE CO-VICTORS</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="articledescription">Via DEBKA</span><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">file</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">PEACE TALKS IN MOSCOW</span></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">March 5 has been set as the date for peace talks to open in Moscow between the SYRIAN opposition and the Assad regime, </span></span><span class="debka" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">debka</span></span><span class="file" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">file</span></span><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> reveals exclusively. Opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib is waiting to meet the Assad regime’s representative, possibly Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, in the RUSSIAN capital by the end of February to set up the talks. Bashar Assad has taken his resignation off the agenda and insists on reserving the option to run again for president in 2014.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span class="articlebody"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">REBEL MOVEMENT HAS REACHED ITS LIMIT</span></b></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">He is backed in this by President Vladimir Putin. And even the SYRIAN opposition appears to have tacitly bowed to this precondition – an admission that the rebel movement has reached its limit and Assad’s genocidal, no-holds-barred tactics have paid off. With all their acclaimed victories, rebel forces know that their desperate bid to conquer Damascus was repulsed by the SYRIAN army’s superior fire power and heavy armor. </span></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></u></b></span><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> <b>Background Information</b>: </span></u></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">See: <b>ASSAD FIRM IN THE SADDLE (January 2013)</b></span></span></div><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/syria-assad-firm-in-saddle.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/syria-assad-firm-in-saddle.html</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">SYRIAN REGIME LIKELY TO SURVIVE UPRAISE (June 2011<i>)</i></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/syrian-regime-likely-to-survive-upraise.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/syrian-regime-likely-to-survive-upraise.html</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">ASSAD FIRMLY IN CHARGE IN SYRIA (March 2012)</span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syria.html</a></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">They were thrown back from the heart of Aleppo, SYRIA’S largest city. And they failed to gain control of Assad’s chemical arsenal. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Ferocious fighting failed to bring the big SYRIAN Air Force bases into rebel hands. Now, most of the fighting opposition to the Assad regime is ready to negotiate terms for a ceasefire as the opening gambit for a political settlement. They face their enemy standing firm as the unvanquished ruler of SYRIA and commander-in-chief of its armed forces at the cost of Syria 80-100,000 Syrian lives and a ravaged country. In so doing, Assad has cemented the Tehran-Damascus-Hizballah alliance. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s’s sphere of influence now stretches from the PERSIAN GULF up to the MEDITERRANEAN – his reward for the billion dollars worth of aid per month he poured into buttressing Assad. His other ally, Hassan Nasrallah, whose Hizballah operatives fought shoulder to shoulder with SYRIAN troops, emerges as the strongman of LEBANON. </span></span></div><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring Background<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Information: </span></u></b></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/syrias-chemical-weapons-taken-off-us.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/syrias-chemical-weapons-taken-off-us.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/russian-forces-take-syrian-chemical.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/russian-forces-take-syrian-chemical.html</a></span></span></div><br /><u><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="articlebody"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></b></span><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></i></span></u><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="articlebody"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">IRAN’S influence in SYRIA stretches far beyond the uprising. Thus is it can hardly be considered to be a new challenge for ISRAEL or the USA. As claimed numerous times on this blog,  ISRAEL </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">would, on balance, prefer the Assad regime to continue; for it is a known quantity and any new regime could severely destabilize the effective balance-of-power between two uneasy neighbors’…………</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">For in-depth analysis read:</span></span></i></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-feasts-and-rites-of-confusion.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-feasts-and-rites-of-confusion.html</a><span style="color: blue;">and</span></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/syria-israel-iran-and-usa.html</a></span></i></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span class="articlebody"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">TURKEY GAMBLED HEAVILY ON BRINGING DOWN ASSAD IN ORDER TO BECOME A REGIONAL POWER PLAYER – AND MISSED</span></b></span></span><br /><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Russian President Vladimir Putin, Assad’s staunch backer in diplomacy, arms and moral support, congratulates himself for picking the winning side in SYRIA’S civil war and, moreover, frustrating US and NATO designs to remove the SYRIAN ruler from power. Those are the winners. </span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span class="articlebody"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></b></span><span class="articlebody"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">:</span></span></u></span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Unlike in LIBYA, this time around RUSSIA and CHINA <span style="font-size: small;">(See:<a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/china-and-syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/china-and-syria.html</a>)</span>reiterated their stance and did not tolerate to be left out of the equation as was the case with the toppling of the LIBYAN regime and subsequent oil bonanza shared by FRANCE, the UK and the USA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring Background Information:</span></u></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">TRANS ARABIAN PIPELINE “TAPLINE”</span></b></span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/syria-cause-and-effect.html</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></b><span style="color: blue;"> wrote in <b><u>January 2012</u></b>: </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">GEO STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF IRAN’S NATURAL RESOURCES AND GAS PIPELINE DEAL BETWEEN IRAN SYRIA AND IRAQ and</span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">REACTIVATE SAUDI ARABIA’S AND USA ARAMCO TRANS ARABIAN OIL PIPELINE?</span></b></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/01/strait-of-hormuz-and-syria.html</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Oil Price</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> wrote <b><u>February 2013</u></b>: </span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: blue;">IRAN-IRAQ: PIPELINE TO SYRIA UPS ANTE IN PROXY WAR WITH QATAR</span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: blue;">IRAQ’S agreement to allow IRAN to build a pipeline through its territory and on to SYRIA is in direct competition with QATAR’S similar designs for a SYRIA pipeline that would connect to TURKEY. This pipeline is another proxy in the SYRIAN conflict theater and Iran’s response to its loss of ground here. It is also a sign of IRAN’S growing foothold in IRAQ. QATAR will respond in kind. </span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: blue;">The IRAQI Cabinet green lighted IRAN’S $10 billion pipeline project, which will supply gas from the South Pars field (which is the largest in the world, and which, as mentioned above, it shares with QATAR) to SYRIA and beyond to other export markets. There is talk of extending the pipeline to LEBANON. </span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: blue;">The first part of the pipeline—some 225 kilometers—through IRAQ will reportedly be completed in June 2013. The pipeline will connect the southern IRANIAN port of Assolouyeh to IRAQ and then to SYRIA—for now. It will have a 110 million cubic meter/day capacity. The plan is to give IRAQ 20 million cubic meters/day of IRANIAN gas for its power plants, with 20-25 million cubic meters/day going to SYRIA.</span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>  <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">And the losers are the UNITED STATES, the GULF EMIRATES and SAUDI ARABIA, ISRAEL and TURKEY. Barack Obama’s vision of a democratic, liberal “Arab Spring” has collapsed. Al Qaeda is a ubiquitous presence as transitional governments struggle to their feet – or not - in TUNISIA, LIBYA and EGYPT. ISRAEL finds a tighter than ever SYRIAN-Hizballah-IRANIAN noose closing around its borders as Tehran’s nuclear weapons program marches on. TURKEY gambled heavily on bringing about Assad’s overthrow as the key to its bid for regional power– and missed.</span></span></div>

SYRIA: ASSAD WINNING THE WAR?

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Program Manager, Information Technology (Linux | Windows Applications | Servers) (# 109118)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Position:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Program Manager, Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Full time<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Information Technology Program Manager is responsible in partnering with our Product Divisions, Global Operations and CTOs Office in a technical leadership group within   KLA-Tencor IT department responsible for providing solutions to technical and strategic challenges in product development so as to improve product time to market and operational excellence while creating a competitive advantage through Information Technology   innovations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We are seeking a dynamic, multi talented Information Technology Program Manager with superb technical skills responsible for driving technical solutions, increasing KLA-Tencor’s   competitive edge with innovative technological capabilities through Information Technology in a fast paced environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">             <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In this position you will interface with the global Design Engineering group and provide user support and technical solutions which will support meeting our strategic objectives   of bringing new products to market Better, Faster, Cheaper.  In addition you will be responsible for identifying pain points in the development cycle and coming up with solutions to address those needs.  Solutions can entail enhancements to current enterprise   wide applications, changes to business process, application substitution or new technologies which will yield the desired improvements. The user must have a strong working knowledge of common Information Technology tools that support the troubleshooting and   implementation of Linux, Windows applications and servers.  As well as IT infrastructure and Architecture tools.  You will also work with common industry application used by design engineers.  In this position you must be able to establish good rapport with   design engineering groups and managers, and provide continuous solutions and improvements to our business partners.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">             <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This individual will manage projects as well as assist project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology.   These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions. Participation   on projects is focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">1. Excellent troubleshooting knowledge on computer systems (Windows and Linux Environment)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">2. Knowledge on Windows XP, Windows7, 2003/2008, AD, DFS, DNS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">3. Knowledge on Virtualization technologies like VMware and Citrix Xen Server<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">4. TCP/IP Networking, VPN, imaging Technologies, WAN acceleration technologies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">5. Experience of supporting users for day to day support (Desktop / Laptop) in large corporate environment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">6. Knowledge on Linux and Unix Environment will be added advantage<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">7. Project Management skill<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">8. Should have excellent problem solving capability<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Basic Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">10+ years of work experience capable of supporting IT systems and Networks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com">raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div></div></div>

Program Manager, Information Technology (Linux | Windows Applications | Servers) (# 109118)

Position: Program Manager, Information Technology Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Full time Job Description: The Information Technology ...

Materials Director (Supply Chain | Supplier Agreements | Supplier Management) (#109135)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Position:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Materials Director<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Full time<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Job Description:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Global Service Support Organization (GSS) team headquartered in Milpitas, CA is our service organization that consists of Service Sales and Marketing, Spares Supply Chain   management, Field Operations, Product Training, and Technical Support.  The GSS organization partners with our field teams and customers in all business sectors to maintain the high performance and productivity of our products through a flexible portfolio   of services. Our comprehensive services include: proactive management of tools to identify and improve performance; expertise in optics, image processing and motion control with worldwide service engineers, 24/7 technical support teams and knowledge management   systems; and an extensive parts network to ensure worldwide availability of parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oversees activities related to external supplier management for the service organization. Directs supply chain relationships and contracts for assigned commodities/suppliers   within the Service Supply Chain Management Group. Understand company business requirements, market dynamics and trends, supply base and supply base capabilities for given commodities. Lead complex supplier negotiations. Execute, manage and administer supplier   contracts, SOWs, SLAs, NDAs and any other required supplier agreements. Effectively manage supplier relationships at both the enterprise and division, function and project level. Lead, develop, create and deploy supplier scorecards. Lead, coordinate and manage   supplier business reviews. Create, implement and/or drives industry and company supply chain best practices. Ensure adherence to company supply chain management best practices, policies, procedures and external compliance requirements. Lead supply chain management   project/program management and complex problem resolution on new product, cost reduction, value engineering, quality, reliability, delivery, inventory and service initiatives. Can hold his/her own in a highly technical supply chain environment. Selects, develops,   and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oversees activities related to the external purchase and repair of materials for the service organization. Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures and material   control systems. Ensures materials are ordered and in stock to meet service requirements, while maintaining acceptable inventory levels. Develops material schedules and coordinates the efficient movement of materials with purchasing, production and engineering.   Reviews and plans requirements for purchasing/repairing materials at external suppliers. May prepare material requirement plans using enterprise resource planning systems. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the   function. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oversees activities related to urgent order escalation management for the service organization. Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures and material control   systems. Ensures urgent orders are fulfilled in an expedited manner, while maintaining part quality and acceptable inventory levels. Develops fulfillment schedules and coordinates the efficient movement of materials with purchasing, production and engineering.    Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">SCOPE:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives. Develops   corporate and/or organizational policies and authorizes their implementation. Makes final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensures operations’ effective achievement of objectives.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">JOB COMPLEXITY:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth   knowledge of the company. Participates in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people. Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. Interacts internally and externally with executive   level management requiring negotiation of extremely difficult matters to influence policy making bodies.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">DISCRETION:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of functional,   division or company operations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">INTERACTION:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers. Interactions frequently   involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">SUPERVISION:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through several department   managers within the company. Has overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hard Skills:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Experienced negotiator<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Ability to manage all aspects of KT’s supply chain, including:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  - Contract negotiation and administration<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  - Supply/demand management<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  - Supplier evaluation and selection<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  - Purchasing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  - Inventory management<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  - Shipping, receiving, logistics<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">  - Achieving cost reductions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Working knowledge of SPC and how to apply it<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Ability to manage the supply chain in an upturn and downturn<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Ability to manage new product introductions as well as product end of life<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Develops very effective and practical processes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Understanding of Finance – E&ND, inventory reserves and their impact on profit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Compliance with SOX requirements and other regulations like ISO 14001, etc…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Understanding of service support requirements, and allocations<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Understanding all components of the gross margin in order to be able to drive gross margin improvement initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Business, finance understanding of E&ND, reserves<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Very tight working relationship with Finance.  Understand how P&L works<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Business acumen.  Understand the trade-offs between upside, making money and obsolescence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Very deep understanding of BOM structures<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Lead time and hedge management both in house and at suppliers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Soft Skills:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Very strong people selection and people management<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Develops his/her people<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Delegates<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Ability to work well in a highly matrixed environment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Ability to manage very high complexity<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Can make decisions based on limited or ambiguous input<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Works very well on teams (PLC, within the factory)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Demonstrated experience in taking plans and making them into reality (eg. Cost reduction)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Very strong communication skills<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Strong leadership<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Customer focus<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">• Strong strategic thinker<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Basic Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Master's Level Degree with at least 6 years of experience.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 7 years of experience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com">raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>

Materials Director (Supply Chain | Supplier Agreements | Supplier Management) (#109135)

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