Delivery by the Navy was considered impractical, leaving relief flights as the best option.
The technique of duplicating images goes back several thousand years to the Sumerians (c. 3000 bce), who engraved designs and cuneiform inscriptions on cylinder seals (usually made of stone), which, when rolled over soft clay tablets, left relief impressions.
"I don't think it's a change in policy," said Nic Lee, director of the Afghan safety office, who said the Taliban had tried to leave relief workers alone because they provided services to areas they controlled that no one else could.
But still, with Kershaw having thrown only 81 pitches, he's likely to make it to the eighth inning, leaving relief duties to close Kenley Jansen.
In the past few weeks alone, President Obama has called for guaranteed paid sick leave and paid maternity leave, relief for first-time homebuyers, and two years of free community college for all.
He leaves with relief the grim "shuttered city" of Valladolid, which has shocked him with its poverty, and walks south for several days, "living on figs and ears of wheat".
He added: "So I leave with relief, tinged with regret.
The government was again slow, leaving the relief effort to UN peacekeepers and international aid agencies.
The act of writing is a kind of guerrilla warfare; there is no vacation, no leave, no relief.
Hundreds of military engineers will clear debris-choked roads to allow residents to leave and relief supplies to flow in.
