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Russian authorities refused to ease their tough stance in a politically charged dispute with Ukraine over gas prices Friday, issuing a stern new threat to halt supplies to its neighbor on New Year's Day and criticizing Kiev's call for more time reach a deal.Last year Russian President Vladimir Putin, who supported Viktor Yanukvych, was embarrassed by Viktor Yushchenko's victorious Orange Revolution. Yushchenko enjoyed widespread Western support, pushing for economic and media liberalization and for Ukrainian membership in NATO. The Kremlin backed Yanukvych who has close ties to the Russian government. After three elections and a bout with dioxin that malformed the previously handsome prime minister, Yushchenko was declared Ukraine's new President.
Putin has come under increasing fire for nationalizing Russian industries, clamping down on free media and jailing journalists, and most saliently for essentially throwing out foreign NGOs. Russia is once again breaking from the West, and is determined to take the old Orthodox Soviet states with it (Ukraine's 48 million people are just over half Christian Orthodox with slightly less than half being Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish). As the 2004 election showed, Ukraine is pretty evenly split, with the country's western half supporting liberal reform and the east half backing closer relations with Russia. Yushchenko, of course, represents the former.
In response to Ukraine's slide westward, Russia's state-owned Gazprom is letting the country know that if it likes Europe more, so be it:
Russian authorities are demanding that Ukraine pay $230 -- more than four times the current price of $50 -- per 1,000 cubic meters of gas. Ukraine wants a more gradual increase that would bring what it pays closer to world prices and says $75 to $80 is a fair price for now. The price Russia wants Ukraine to pay is far higher than it is charging other former Soviet republics, even those that are seeking, like Ukraine, to shake off Russian influence and integrate with the West.Instead, the price is in line with what Gazprom charges most of Europe. If that isn't enough, Russia recently signed a deal with nearby Turkmenistan (as well as with Kazahkstan and Uzbekistan) to purchase gas from Turkmenistan to limit available supply to Ukraine, which gets a third of its natural gas from Russia and 45% from Turkmenistan.
Yushchenko's administration has had a rough year, suffering allegations of corruption and internal bickering. Economic growth, which has been stellar for the last half decade is teetering and such a shock in the dead of winter could be devastating.
There are parliamentary elections coming up in March. Russia is timing this to hurt Yushchenko's block at the polls with the ultimate goal of putting him out of power and someone with an affinity for the Kremlin back in.
The Clash of Civilizations is upon us. Russia, who will get the rotating G8 leadership position in 2006, is asserting itself as a major player in the heart of Eurasia, distinct from the Sinic East and liberal West. It wants to exert its influence on its cultural brethren in the Balkans and other former states of the Soviet Union, and economic coercion is one way to do it.
Of course, Russia has its share of problems. It's enormous natural resource base remains underdeveloped yet still comprises 80% of the country's economy leaving the country vulnerable to abrupt price swings, its fertility rate is well below replenishment at 1.27 births per woman, and rampant alcoholism and disease contribute to an average life expectancy of only 67 years (among the lowest in the world outside of Africa).
Currently, Yushshenko is flouting Gazprom's demands by threatening to restrict use of the gas lines that run through eastern Ukraine. If the winds shift in favor of those close to Russia, it is likely that the Kremlin will bring back the substantially discounted prices it gives to other former Soviet states. This is what Putin is hoping will happen.
If fissure becomes realistic, the West should back western Ukraine in splitting with the east. The gas pipelines, however, make this seem farfetched.


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Week 1: at Ayala
Week 2: Wilson
Week 3: at Don Lugo
Week 4: at Brea
Week 5: West Covina
Week 6: Diamond Ranch
Week 7: at Bonita
Week 8: at Walnut
Week 9: Rowland
Week 10: at Los Altos
Aram's take: What jumps right off the page is the three-week stretch of playing West Covina, D-Ranch and Bonita. Will there be anything left in the tank for the Branding Iron game right after that? For fans, it's nice because we'll find out right away in league just how seriously we should take D-Bar. Here's the thing, while it's tough for D-Bar to play those Big 3 back to back to back, the good news is they'll be catching a young Bonita team may or not have all the seasoning it needs at that point, and the same can probably be said for D-Ranch. The nonleague looks doable and with some breaks the Brahmas could be 4-0 heading into league and have everybody from Robledo to Donte Nicholson excited. I will call for 7-3 simply because the offense should give D-Bar in most games and the only time they'll struggle is when teams can throw them around at the line of scrimmage and/or out-athlete them. Who do you see on this schedule, beside WestCo, that is lock to do this? Exactly. That's why I say 7-3.
2011 Schedules: Diamond Bar Brahmas …
Week 1: at Ayala

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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Junior wide receiver Tim Benford
received the prestigious Robert Hill Johnson award for the second
time in his decorated career and eight other teammates accepted
honors Sunday evening as the 2010 Tennessee Tech football squad was
recognized at the team's annual Awards Dinner.
Fourth-year head coach Watson Brown and his staff handed out five long-standing awards plus five newer honors after the Golden Eagles posted a 5-6 overall record in 2010.
Among winners selected by team voting, Tre Lamb received the
Sonny Allen Leadership Award, Kelechi Ordu accepted the Tech Pride
Award, and Cass Barnes the Unsung Hero Award.
Three awards that were established last year included the Offensive MVP (Jocques Crawford), Defensive MVP (Dustin Dillehay and Kelechi Ordu) and Special Teams MVP (Henry Sailes). Brown and his staff added awards for the top Offensive Lineman (Slade Adams) and top Defensive Lineman (Justin Hilliard).
Tim Benford, a junior from Chattanooga, is a
three-year starter for the Golden Eagles and a three-time all-OVC
selection. He also received the Robert Hill Johnson Award following
his freshman season in 2008.
In 2010, Benford led the team and ranked among OVC leaders with 50 catches for 812 yards and tied the school record with 10 touchdowns. His 812 yards ranks as the fourth-highest season in school history and his 50 receptions is the sixth-best season total. Benford was third in the OVC and 29th nationally in receiving yards per game, and sixth in the OVC in receptions per game. With 148 career catches, he is listed second all-time in the Tech record book, and his career yardage total of 2,174 ranks third all-time.
The Sonny Allen Leadership Award went to sophomore Tre Lamb, a quarterback from Calhoun, Ga., who was the team's starter for the first eight games before being sidelined by an injury. Lab passed for 974 yards and 11 touchdowns while throwing just four interceptions. He also ranked fifth on the team in rushing yards with 100 in 82 attempts. He finished the year first on the squad in total offense with 1,084 yards.
Linebacker Kelechi Ordu, a senior from Stone Mountain, Ga., received the Tech Pride award and shared the Defensive MVP honor with Dillehay. Ordu started all 11 games and led the team with 90 total tackles to rank fourth in the OVC. He wrapped up his Golden Eagle career with 186 tackles and 12.5 tackles-for-loss.
After quietly filling a backup role for much of the season,
Cass Barnes stepped into the starting role at
quarterback late in the year and led the offense with poise and
strong play. In the season finale, Barnes passed for 271 yards and
ignited a fourth quarter comeback that lifted the Golden Eagles to
a stunning 25-24 victory over No. 4 Jacksonville State. He was
named the OVC Offensive Player of the Week following that
A senior from Tullahoma, Tenn., Barnes passed for 758 yards and three touchdowns and had a team-best 135.93 quarterback rating. He had just one interception in 99 attempts. The fleet-footed signal-caller also ranked third on the team in rushing with 250 yards in 68 carries, an average of 3.7 yards per carry. He was second on the team in total offense with 1,008 yards.
Dustin Dillehay shared the Defensive MVP award with Ordu, the second consecutive year that the senior safety from Hartsville, Tenn., has received the honor. Another 11-game starter, Dillehay ranked third on the team and 12th in the OVC with 73 total tackles. He grabbed two interceptions, broke up four passes, caused a fumble and recovered a fumble. He closed his career with 184 total tackles and five interceptions.
The Special Teams Player of the Year honor went to Henry Sailes, a multi-dimensional senior from Palmetto, Fla. Moved to wide receiver for his final season, Sailes finished second on the team in receiving with 18 catches for 186 yards. He also had nine carries for 75 yards. As a returner, Sailes averaged 18.1 yards in 22 kick returns and 19.3 yards in nine punt returns. During the year, he broke the school record for most kickoff return yards in a career.
The two new awards started this year by Brown honored linemen, with sophomore Slade Adams earning the Offensive Line MVP award and senior Justin Hilliard capturing the Defensive Line MVP honor.
Adams, a sophomore from Mt. Juliet, Tenn., started all 11 games at left guard and was a key player up front for the Golden Eagles. He was one of three offensive front men to start every game, finishing the year with 111 total knockdowns, an average of 10.1 per game.
A senior from Pikeville, Tenn., Hilliard was named second-team
all-OVC following his final season. The only Golden Eagle to start
all 11 games in the defensive line , he was tops among linemen with
47 total tackles. He ranked third on the team in tackles-for-loss
with 6.5 for 15 yards, and had one of the team's two blocked
kicks in 2011. He finished his career with 112 total tackles and 20
The staff also recognized eight seniors, a group that included Barnes, Dillehay, Hilliard, Ordu and Sailes, along with Corbin Miles, Dedrick Miley and Charlies Seivers.
Peggie Parrott, the popular TTU football secretary for 28 years, was also recognized by Brown and the coaching staff, and received a standing ovation from the audience.


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The business dynamics of auto lending are so good -- low interest rates, low cost of funds, low delinquencies and rising consumer demand -- that auto lenders are asking: Is this as good as it gets?
There's no black-or-white answer. If good means easy, the answer could be: Yes, current conditions in many ways are probably as good as they're going to get.
Competition is heating up among auto lenders. Lenders likely will have to shave margins to fight for market share. Delinquencies are bound to increase, as subprime auto lending increases. Used-car values are past their peak.
But if good means higher revenues and higher profits in absolute terms, the answer has to be: No way. Auto lending is probably years away from the next peak.
Fundamentally, U.S. light-vehicle sales are still well below the long-term growth trend. The average car on the road is more than 10 years old, according to R.L. Polk & Co. Even allowing for longer-lasting vehicles, that represents a lot of pent-up demand.
So, the question: Is this as good as it gets? is on the agenda for next month's American Financial Services Association Vehicle Finance Conference, immediately prior to the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Orlando.
With thousands of naturally optimistic retailers converging on Orlando, I think the answer is going to be: No way.


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At first I thought it was too early to look ahead at the new attractions coming to U.S. theme parks in 2012, but then I realized a number of big rides have already been announced and many more are being teased in elaborate marketing campaigns.
Photos: Most anticipated new U.S. theme park rides for 2012
It already seems like 2012 is shaping up as a good year for ride enthusiasts and theme park fans as the major industry players are planning to roll out big projects that have been on the drawing boards for a while.
Coming in 2011: Top 10 new U.S. theme park rides debuting this summer
Other projects remain mysteries that the marketing divisions at the individual parks have been relentlessly priming with viral campaigns designed to build excitement in advance of an official announcement.
Since it is still early, I'll update my Top 12 over the coming months as new projects are announced. Until then, here's my list of most anticipated rides for 2012:
1) Cars Land, the 12-acre themed land under construction at Disney California Adventure, will feature three new rides set amid a faithful re-creation of the isolated red rock desert town populated by Lightning McQueen and other animated vehicles in the Pixar movie "Cars."
2) The Magic Kingdom will transform Fantasyland into a magical fairy-tale forest with new and upgraded rides, character meet-and-greet areas and a themed restaurant. The centerpiece of the expansion at the Florida park will be a new Little Mermaid dark ride that will take visitors on a musical journey under the sea with Ariel and her friends.
3) Universal Studios Hollywood will add a Transformers dark ride featuring 3-D high-definition footage with special effects and robotics. The new Transformers attraction at the California park is expected to constitute the next generation of the Spiderman dark ride systems at Universal Studios parks in Florida and Japan.
4) Canada's Wonderland moves into the top echelon of the world's roller coaster parks in 2012 with the addition of Leviathan, the Toronto-area amusement park's 16th coaster (just one behind the 17 coasters at Six Flags Magic Mountain and Cedar Point). The $28-million inversionless Giga coaster will include an 80-degree first drop followed by a series of camelback hills and a 115-degree overbanked hammerhead turn.
5) Six Flags Great America (X-Flight) and Dollywood (Wild Eagle) will both add similar wing coasters by Bolliger & Mabillard in 2012. With riders sitting on either side of a 3,000-foot-long track in a winged formation, both coasters will feature multiple inversions and high-speed drops.
6) The Verbolten multi-launch roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg will take riders on a high-speed drive along the German autobahn before detouring through the forbidden Black Forest. The themed family coaster will feature two launch zones and an indoor section of the ride with special effects and a free-fall platform.
7) The Superman: Ultimate Flight launch coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom will rocket riders at 60 miles per hour through a towering 150-foot-high inversion and a pair of vertical twists.
8) SeaWorld San Diego will add a $10 million-plus roller coaster that marks the U.S. debut of a highly anticipated prototype ride. The 30-foot-tall Manta coaster at the California park will feature dual launch zones, a 54-foot drop into a subterranean trench and a dramatic wing dip into a shallow lake over a 2,800-foot-long track.
9) Hersheypark will add a first-of-its-kind $25-million steel roller coaster in 2012 that will be the tallest, fastest and longest at the Pennsylvania theme park. The 200-foot-tall Skyrush coaster will feature a near-vertical 85-degree first drop followed by four high-speed banking turns and five airtime hills at speeds reaching 75 mph.
10) The Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom drop tower at Six Flags Magic Mountain will be attached to both sides of the park's 415-foot-tall Superman: Escape from Krypton coaster tower. The new thrill ride will rank as the world's tallest (400 feet) and fastest (85 mph) drop tower.
11) Universal Studios Florida will replace Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast motion simulator ride with a digital upgrade themed to "Despicable Me," for which a movie sequel is already in the works.
12) Holiday World's new ride for next year is essentially the same ride the Indiana theme park added last year. The $9-million Mammoth, destined to become the world's longest water coaster when it debuts in 2012, will unseat the previous title holder, Wildebeest, which Holiday World added in 2010.


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Would Dell Really Be Better Off Private?
Would Dell be better off away from the tyranny of quarterly earnings and what-have-you-done-for-me-lately shareholders? Francesco Guerrera joins the News Hub with his take.
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St. Petersburg Lakewood defensive backs Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin knew UCF is where they wanted to go after visiting the school on Tuesday.
The twins just had to get their mother on board with them.
So on Friday, the Griffin brothers returned to the Orlando campus with their mother and got the OK to commit to UCF, giving the Knights their 11th and 12th verbal commits of the 2013 recruiting class.
"When it happened, I had a big smile on my face," Shaquem said in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel Friday.
The brothers said they were impressed by everything UCF had to offer.
"The campus is amazing and we really like what we see," Shaquem told the Sentinel on Tuesday. "We've talked to a lot of their coaches, the trainers. We looked around the school, weight room and it's amazing being in that environment."
The brothers share a close bond and made it a point to commit to the same school, stressing to college coaches that they would be a 'packaged deal.' UCF head coach George O'Leary told the duo on Tuesday that they UCF would not take one without the other, something that appealed to the Griffins.
Shaquill Griffin (6-0, 185) is ranked as a three-star prospect by Rivals.com, which also rates him as the No. 47 cornerback in the nation. Along with UCF, he holds scholarship offers from USF, Vanderbilt, Illinois and others.
Shaquem Griffin (6-1, 185) holds offers from Cincinnati, Minnesota, FIU and others. Rivals.com ranks him as a two-star prospect.
A noteworthy fact about Shaquem is that he had his left hand amputated when he was four years old because of complications from a birth defect.
But that hasn't impacted is on-field performance.
Once glance at his junior highlight film reveals a ferocious hitter that fearlessly screams down to the line of scrimmage from the safety position to make one jarring tackle after another. According to his profile on beRecruited , Shaquem had 90 tackles last season.
The Griffin brothers represent a recent recruiting surge in the Tampa area for UCF. In July, the Knights added commitments from Tarpon Springs East Lake quarterback Pete DiNovo and Tampa Bay Tech receiver Richard Benjamin, both members of the Team Tampa 7-on-7 squad with the Griffins.
UCF also has verbal pledges from Seffner Armwood offensive guard Aaron Evans and Bradenton Manatee defensive end/linebacker Blake Keller.
Brendan Sonnone is the Sentinel's recruiting correspondent and can be reached at email@example.com. Follow Brendan on Twitter at @BSonnone or Facebook at Brendan Sonnone or at Orlando Sentinel Recruiting.


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One year ago today, Yasiel Puig made his MLB debut with the Dodgers ... since then, it's been a helluva ride -- with chicks, nightclubs, expensive cars, cops and more chicks.
TMZ Sports has captured Puig's evolution from rookie prospect into bona fide rock star -- it's hard to believe it's only been 365 days.
July 15th, 2013Puig Hits the Club Scene -- In a Rolls Royce!
After a blazing start on the field, Yasiel got himself a $300k ride and hit the Hollywood nighclubs looking to conquer.
July 30th, 2013I've Got Designer Clothes Now!
After just 2 months in the majors, Yasiel upgraded his wardrobe to Hugo Boss and flaunted his new threads outside a swanky Hollywood restaurant.
August 20th, 2013Partying Continues ... Even After Big Loss
Puig's partying habits came under fire when he hit the clubs in Miami after a big loss. But critics backed off when Magic got his back.
October 8th, 2013Breaks $75k Camera ... Doesn't Care
After a HUGE playoff win Puig drenched a very expensive TBS camera during a live shot. Not his problem, TBS had to cover the cost.
October 24th, 2013Crashes Random Little League Practice ... But Something's Fishy
Puig "surprised" a bunch of excited kids when he just happened to appear at a Little League practice in L.A. Something didn't seem right -- turns out, it was part of a plan to curry favor with a judge after a secret speeding arrest in Tennessee.
December 14th, 2013Santa Puig Hits L.A. Children's Hospital.
No agenda this time -- just Puig spending quality time with sick kids during the holidays. The legend grows ...
December 28th, 2013Puig's First Public Mug Shot
Talk about living life in the fast line ... Puig was popped doing 110 on a highway in Florida and was arrested. But it was about to get worse ...
January 7th, 2014The Embarassing Arrest Video Surfaces
It's hard to tell which was worse, the officer yelling at Puig for driving like a maniac with his mom in the car ... or those awful pink shorts.
March 24th, 2014Sophmore Season Kicks Off with a Bang!
No signs of slowing down ... Puig returns from Australia where the Dodgers kicked off the '14 season and immediately hits the L.A. club scene. He's now in the middle of an EPIC sophmore season. Viva El Puig.


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The eruption of Mount St. Helens 35 years ago provided an amazing opportunity for scientists to study the effects of catastrophe.
Have you ever been "tongue-tied" when asked to provide geologic evidence that the Genesis Flood really did occur, just as the Bible describes?
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most awesome erosional features. How did it form?
The Creation Museum was built on top of one of the most well-stocked and uniquely well-preserved "fossil graveyards" on the planet.
Every claim the Bible makes about science is not only true but crucial for filling in the blanks about the origin of the universe.
Did the continents drift apart in the days of Peleg as a result of God dividing and separating the continents?
Rare geologic wonders—like delicate arch—draw gawking tourists from around the world.
God only brought to the Ark representatives of all the created kinds of air-breathing, land-dwelling creatures. How did freshwater and saltwater fish survive?
The details of the Flood have profound implications for explaining the geology of the earth today.
Read an excerpt from the book Grappling with the Chronology of the Flood.
How could a massive, global flood be triggered? Do plate tectonics provide a valid mechanism? Geologist Andrew Snelling answers.
The fossil record is hardly "the record of life in the geologic past" that so many scientists incorrectly espouse, assuming a long prehistory for the earth and life on it.
Dr. Andrew Snelling explains how radioactive dating methods may help us derive not absolute but relative ages of rocks.
This is ultimately about the authority of God's Word, which plainly teaches that the Flood of Noah was global in extent.
No other mineral has provoked so much wonder and strife.
Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., responds to a common misconception that the Bible is silent on geological events.
The Bible doesn't say, "And then there was an Ice Age." Yet it does help us narrow down when the ice built up and then melted away.
On Thursday, February 28, at about 11:00 PM (Eastern Time) a Florida man was in bed sleeping when a huge hole opened under his house, swallowing part of the inside of his house and him with it.
If the world's oceans have been around for three billion years as evolutionists believe, they should be filled with vastly more salt than the oceans contain today.
Carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) is a radioactive form of carbon that scientists use to date fossils. But it decays quickly.
The earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that protects living things from solar radiation. Without it, life could not exist.
Why, according to evolutionists, would rivers other than the Colorado River not form canyons? Dr. Andrew Snelling, AiG–U.S., responds.
In many mountainous areas, rock layers thousands of feet thick have been bent and folded without fracturing. How can that happen if they were laid down separately over hundreds of millions of years?
Helium diffuses so rapidly that all the helium should have leaked out of rocks in less than 100,000 years.
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I've been a Saints fan my whole life, and I've been going to Saints games since 1980. I am now a season ticket holder and have been for a few years now. I noticed something during the 1987 season that really made me enjoy attending games at the Superdome on Sundays. That season was when the Saints recorded their first winning record. The war chant inside the dome during games became Who Dat Say Dey Gon Beat Dem Saints! The noise level became deafening. Opposing quarterbacks couldn't hear themselves think much less be heard at the line of scrimmage. I remember QB's walking away from the line pointing to their ears and asking the officials to quiet the crowd. The officials would plead with the crowd, but they kept right on chanting. This would later cause the NFL to instate the crowd noise rule. The dome would be packed with rabid fans. Everyone from Moses, to the man with the big piece of fence that said d-fence, to the man with the pope hat. Let's not forget that Darth Vader attended every home game too. There were brightly colored umbrellas every where you looked, and people dancin to the Who Dat Song being played over the PA system. Opposing teams barely had a chance against the 12th man. John Madden even brought out a noise meter during one game and kept referring to it when opposing offenses took the field. The needle stayed pegged the whole time. He even said this was the noisiest stadium in the NFL.
My how times have changed in the last 6 or 7 years. Now you can hear a pin drop during games in the dome. Half the seats are empty, and it doesn't look like it is going to be any better this season. Sometimes I think opposing teams laugh at the sparse crowds in the dome. There are always alot of no shows. Rarely does the crowd get loud, and when people do try to get the crowd pumped they get little or no response. How sad it is to see what was once one of the loudest stadiums in the league become so dormant.
I think that if we had more of the type of fans like we had in the late 80's and early 90's, we could definitely turn the dome into an advantage for the home team. I would like to see more crazy's at the games. People who don't mind dressing up and showing their butt's. Let's show these other teams that they have just walked into the TERROR DOME!!! My heart is starting to pump nitro as I type. Whoo!!!! Hey Falcons, Bucs, Panthers, Dolphins, Bills, Lions, Bears, and Giants, us Saints fans ain't taking your crap anymore!!! Walk into the Terror Dome and get eaten alive!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! Who Dat Say Dey Gon Beat Dem Saints! Who Dat! Who Dat! I'm putting my black and gold war paint on right now. It's time to go to war!!!! Anybody with me? Let me hear you! Reply with some thoughts of your own. Go Saints!!!!!!
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RE: The Dome Is An Advantage When Utilized Properly
Agree 110%. The Dome use to be one of if not the loudest stadium out there. When the Dome Patrol was still around, I can remember this place BOOMING. Team couldn't even call plays and had to use hand signals for everything. Those were the good ole days.
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I made a post about this subject once before i agree 150% da fans do not want to get da dome pumping thats what really made me become a true saints fan going to the games in da late 80's early 90's i remember when da ref. had to try to quite the crowd dat made us get even louder we need dat back in da dome I love da new name u said TERROR DOME man what a name i hope we can stick to it i promise i will make a sign saying welcome to da TERROR DOME this year starting preseason we need to get the dome popping Go Saints Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need somebody to hang out with at da dome i go to all da games by myself i need to be around some crazy people like me man i be getting mad at da fans when they dont get loud they piss me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If we ever started playing like those days we would hear the noise again -- but I agree the Who Dat chant was the best saints cheer ever -- I hope we can find another one to use this year -- or just bring the old one back -- I would love to be chanting who dat -- who dat -- who dat sey dey goin to beat dem saints
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Great post. I had season tickets during that time also - late 80's and early 90's. I remember it being so loud that you couldn't hear yourself. Man that was awesome. I think that the Dome gets loud, but it's usually after the O has scored on a big play or long drive or something. I don't think the fans have changed, I think the team has. You shouldn't get loud when your O is on the field. It's real easy to go nuts when the Dome Patrol is on the field. It's another story when the worst defense in the league is being butchered. What are you going to get loud about? Woo-Hooo!!! Peyton only completed 87% of his passes on that drive, that's a moral victory! Woo!
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..there is one huge difference between those days and the past 6-7 years, well, more like the past 8-9...
.. as Papz mentioned before, in those days we had the Dome Patrol.
When the Dome Patrol was on the field, you knew the big play was coming, you knew they were going to stop that drive, you knew somebody was going to pop someone...
..also, the Dome Patrol were the defense, so you could scream all you wanted... whereas it would be kind of counterproductive if fans would scream while the Saints offense was on the field calling plays , and the past few years, it has been the offense that has provided the reasons to cheer really, whereas the defense has been bad... instead of expecting the big sack or the INT or the big tackle from our defense, we have come to expect the other team's big run, big catch for 3rd and long, etc... kinda hard to cheer when you are busy praying....
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I'm glad someone brought this up. I've also been disappointed by the lack of noise in the dome in recent years. I leave every sunday hoarse and barely able to talk for days, but while I'm yelling and getting excited, the people around me are looking at me like I'm crazy.
Although, I can remember one game where the dome was rockin'. The defense had the panthers backed up to the goal line on the first drive of the game (Jake's first game back as a panther i think?). The dome was unbelievably loud and the panther's offense looked like they had no idea what was going on. It was amazing. Of course, after Jake got away with an obvious intentional grounding and the saints defense blew an assignment, the panther's went on to score a touchdown on the drive. I believe that was the game the league sent an apology to the Saints for three blown calls (all of which allowed the panther's to score points, significantly changing the course of the game since the saints lost by one point).
I wonder if it illegal for the announcer to orchestrate the crowd. Why can't the guy inform fans of the right times to get start yelling?
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The only time I hear it get loud in the dome is when the beer man comes around and tells you how much a cold one is gonna cost ya... And normally thats just a big sigh...
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I think they should play the Public Enemy anthem Welcome To The Terror Dome over the PA system, as well as the Who Dat Song from the 80's. As a matter of fact, I wish someone would make a modern version of the Who Dat Song. Maybe even some T-Shirts that say Welcome To The Terror Dome, and have a picture of the dome in the background would be a good idea.
I understand you are not supposed to get loud when your offense is on the field. When our defense is on the field we should be blowing the roof off that dome. Even if the d isn't playing up to expectations, by getting loud you can still ruffle the opposing QB's feathers. Maybe it would also cause some mental errors on the part of the opposing offense. The more the opposing team feels that it is in a hostile enviroment, the more it takes away from their focus and composure. That is the job of the 12th man to help the home team gain an advantage. It will also boost the moral and confidence of the defense. Every player on the D will take pride in stopping opposing offenses when it has a dome full of rabid fans screaming and yelling behind them. I remember Charles Grant in an interview last year asking the fans to "please not boo us when we are on the field. We are trying really hard. We are just a little young on defense right now. We will get it together before too long." I want every team that plays in the dome this year to leave saying I don't want to play there again, those are the craziest fans I've ever seen.
The league has tried to make the NFL as bland as possible over the last ten years. It has taken away all the fun celebrations that we as fans use to go crazy for. They have tried to make the No Fun League. I think it's time the fans got back involved and made it fun again. Maybe our craziness will get our team and city noticed by the national media. I can see national sports headlines now. The Fans Put The F Back In Fun In New Orleans. I say let's go crazy. What's the league gonna do? fine us?
Anybody else got any ideas on some things that will make Sundays in the dome fun again? Of course winning games is the main thing. Let me know your thoughts.
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UK Trying To Censor Parody Video About The 2012 Olympics
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Take, for example, this story of a simple parody video about the 2012 Olympics that has been taken down over claims it violates the Olympics' IP rights. The video is clearly a parody, making use of the 2012 Olympics' creepy mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, to show them in what appears to be a London riot (using some computer graphics work). The original video got about 90,000 views before being taken down. As the link above notes, there is no right to parody in the UK, so while it may be legal to have the video taken down, it's still ridiculous. The site linked above, LiberalConspiracy.org, insists that it'll keep posting the video if it gets taken down. But, as of the time I write this, I'm embedding the working version of the video, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's gone before too long.


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After a two and half hour rain delay, and under a settling fog due to wildfires in the area, the Bisons defeated the Jacksonville Dolphins for the first time late Thursday night 10-2.
The Dolphins were first on the board in the bottom of the third as right fielder Mike McCallister reached on a fielder's choice. Dolphin third baseman Thomas LePage drove in McCallister on a single through the left side. The Dolphins then loaded the bases and shortstop Ben Kerr scored on a walk.
In the top of the sixth, the fog lifted over Sessions Stadium and the Bison bats caught fire. Centerfielder Casey Bond led off reaching first on a fielding error by the Dolphin second baseman. Catcher Caleb Joseph reached on a fielder's choice scoring Bond.
With one out in the inning the Bisons loaded the bases with Shane Simpkins, Andrew Nickerson, and Justin Sanders. With two outs in the inning, left fielder, Allen Bolden hit a three run double to the right field wall. Bolden would score on a bunt single by Ben Williams. Williams would score on a triple by centerfielder Casey Bond to complete the rotation. Casey Bond, Caleb Joseph, and Ryan Wilkins each added an insurance run in the top of the ninth.
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On his team's victory, Bison coach Jeff Forehand said, "After going down two runs, we stuck with it, and we had a big seven run inning. Allen [Bolden] really came through for us with a two outs bases loaded double for three runs... Charles [Williams] also came through for us pitching four scoreless innings. When we went down early, we didn't panic and we came through."
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hi, i'm a new user of mvc 2, so, i need to use crystal reports on mvc 2, actually, i'm developing on visual studio 2008, but i canôt run my reports. it's posible run my reports???
thank you very much.
Having a very wierd problem. I have an application that uses Crystal Reports and it uses what I have found to be a common scenario (I am not a CR expert in any way). I have an ASPX page that gathers options for the report, and then it goes and gets the data and if there is some, a button appears for them to launch the report. On clicking that button, the code sets some values in the HttpResponse.Context area, then performs a Server.Transfer to another ASPX page that is our Report Template. This page contains the CR stuff and it generates a PDF version of the report. It then does the following code:
With HttpContext.Current.Response .ClearContent() .ClearHeaders() .ContentType = "application/pdf" .AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=Report.pdf") .BinaryWrite(s.ToArray) .End() E
I need to develop 3 pages.
On the first page user defines atmost 7 column names to be displayed on the report. I'm saving these names in a Sql DB table 'Columns' with Column_Nm and Column_ID as Table columns.
On the second page I'm retrieving column_Nm from the table and displaying them on the page so that the user enters the data. This data is saved in another table 'Summary' with the Columns column1 through column7.
on the 3rd page I need to show a report of 'Summary' table.
How do I dynamically replace column1 through column7 names with that of 'Column_Nm' on the report?
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Hi All,
I am new to .Net and And I have absoutely no idea about crystal reports. Can anyone please let me know a step by step process of how to design and generate a crystal report in vs2005
I need to ask for start date and endate.. when selected .. i should genarte a report using the existing stiored procedure and the connection string in my web config file..
Please help.........
Your help willbe very much appreciated..
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A can grow field in the details section of a crystal report may have so much text that the section will be larger than the remaining space available on the page (the space below the previous record). The section has vertical lines on it with Extend to bottom of section when printing set to true. The section starts on a new page (and may continue on the following one). I want it to start on the page where the last record was laid out, and continue to the new page without leaving a gap with vertical lines on it. I'm using Crystal Reports 9 and I can't work out how to do it. Has anyone got a solution?
I am working on updating a reporting system that uses Crystal Reports. All of the 250+ reports were created in CR 8 and I have been opening up the old files in Visual Studio 2005 and updating the database location. All I have had to do with all connections to views and even a couple of stored procedures is create a new connection to the database and then update the old report's datasource location. The reason I need to update the location is so that the .NET application will use the correct driver. Everything has worked fine up until I got to one stored procedure. The old version of the report works perfectly with the stored procedure, but when I try to run the report using VS 2005 I keep getting errors.
First I connected to the database using the Oracle OLE DB provider, then updated the location of the stored procedure in the report. It then prompts me for the two parameter values for the stored procedure, both of which I keep as NULL so that the report parameters will be passed to the procedure. Then I get the following error:
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I have been trying from the past two weeks to integrate crystal reports into my web application. The problem is "We created some reports using Crystal Reports 2008(Sp2) and we are trying to integrate those reports into webpage. Everything works fine on my local machine but when it is deployed to the production server i ran into a lot of problems..
Problem-1 : First time I load the report it comes to the screen where it prompts for DB credentials and stucks up there..I mean those are non editable and doesn't go to next screen. On my local machine the report even didn't prompt for DB credentials. Why it prompts when moved to prod'n Box? How to avoid that?
Problem-2: How about the images on parameters screen?
Can somebody please help me out with this issue..Can some body have the code for doing all these stuff
I need to generate almost 73 reports using Crystal reports using SQL SERVER. I might get more data from XML so opted ASP.NET MVC2.
I have 2 questions:
1) I have a lot of tables to generate Data Context around 35 ( I was thinking to write more stored procedures). Any help with that?
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TorrentFreak has the unfortunate story of filmmaker Brian Taylor, who released a short horror film called "the Bite" via his En Queue Film production studio, and decided to distribute it via isoHunt. However, that's when things went bad:
"I got it going, had downloads start from the US and Europe almost immediately, which made me a very happy guy," Taylor told TorrentFreak.
However, this enthusiasm faded quickly when he tried to access the torrent from a US connection a day later. Instead of a link to the torrent file the filmmaker was welcomed with the following message. "Torrent has been censored, as required by US court."
They also note that a torrent of public domain music has been blocked by the MPAA (even though the MPAA's filter is about movies, not music). Of course, this is what happens when you force overblocking and the use of technologically stupid filtering methods like keywords. What's amazing is that a court made this same mistake a decade ago with Napster (forcing keyword blocking) and it didn't work then, and doesn't work now. It's amazing that judges who clearly are technologically illiterate find it reasonable to make rules up out of thin air like this one, that not only does little to block any actual infringement, but does plenty to block legitimate uses of tools.


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I like Gods that you haven't even heard of !!
It's not necessarily true. More like, they believe in the same bullshit, but they hold church services in a pub on Sunday mornings instead of a church.
I was one of 4 people to start a local YWAM base in Portland a few years ago...I know hipster Christians inside and out. Some of them (Mars Hill in Seattle-well, they think they are hipster, but really they are just regular old Christian Culture, repackaged) are horrible and lame and damaging...but others (the Bridge Church in Portland) are wonderful, and really do a lot to help their community, and don't really care if you believe the bullshit or not, they just want to take care of people.
Love it!
Just another chain letter, but people pass them on.
I was taught in the military that after you have strangled someone to death to always cover their eyes with your arm and then quickly retract it to ensure they were actually dead, by checking if there was any pupil change to the dark/light.
It's interesting that after having seen this picture that was the first thing to come to mind ;)
It's not bullshit; we just haven't heard of it.
I want to get rosary beads tattooed around around my wrist, like they are held in real life. No religious reason, I'm not catholic nor have I ever been but I think they're so beautiful and why should the religious people get all the cool bling. Might get like a ying yang or peace sign or something instead of the cross though.
More effectively translated: We believe in bullshit, we just want to pretend it's unique bullshit... but we don't actually want to challenge ourselves enough to leave our comfort zone and find something REAL.


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WINTER PARK, Fla. – Barry University's baseball team was tabbed fifth in the Sunshine State Conference preseason poll. A year after finishing 23-22, including a 13-9 mark that was good for third in the league, the Bucs will play the underdog roll entering the 2013 season.
In a poll conducted among the SSC's head baseball coaches, Tampa tallied 64 points and eight first-place votes. When completing the poll, coaches do not rank their own squads.
Barry and Tampa have alternated conference championships in each of the last four seasons with the Buccaneers capturing the league crown in 2009 and 2011 under Marc Pavao.
Only seven points separated the teams in the second through fourth slots. Nova Southeastern was picked to finish second, collecting 51 points and the lone remaining first-place vote. Florida Southern was not far behind in third place with 48 points. Nipping on the Moccasins' heels was Lynn with 44 points.
Barry occupied fifth place in the poll with 38 points. Florida Tech was just six points behind (32) in sixth place. Rollins was tabbed to finish seventh and received 22 points.
Saint Leo (16) and Eckerd (9) rounded out the poll.
Last season, Tampa won the SSC title with a 38-10 overall record and an 18-6 mark in league play. The championship was the fifth in seven years for UT.
A mix of young stars and experienced veterans such as freshman J.C. Cardenas, sophomore Sheehan Planas-Arteaga, as well as seniors Michael Slabach and Kevin Youst will be essential in getting the Buccaneers back a-top the conference standings at season's end.
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1 – Tampa, 64 (8)
2 – Nova Southeastern, 51 (1)
3 – Florida Southern, 48
4 – Lynn, 44
5 – Barry, 38
6 – Florida Tech, 32
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At War in the Fields of the Drug Lords
In Afghanistan, opium fuels everything: the culture, the politics, the economy, and most important, the resurgent Taliban fighters. Sam Dealey goes deep into the remote southern provinces, where the war on drugs—and the insurgency—is more dangerous than ever
The soldiers have run for some distance, over paddies of rice and wheat and across a graveyard where shards of stone and tattered flags mark the dead. Now, as they sprint across a broad dry riverbed, there's the sudden roar of helicopters slinging low over the small village 500 yards away. The soldiers clamber up footpaths and break for their objectives—two compounds separated by a narrow dirt alley.
The first team kicks in a metal door to one of the compounds. Inside, a howling woman cowers against a wall while another tugs her loose clothes tighter and tries to cover her wild hair. A third woman holds a bawling child and mocks the intruders.
Even without translation, it's clear what she is saying: "Put away your guns. You won't find anything here. Mohammad Kharim is not so stupid as you are."
According to his dossier, Mohammad Kharim is 50 years old. He is wanted along with another man from the village, Haji Mohammad, for allegedly operating a heroin lab and smuggling drugs across the Pakistani border. Their pursuers are not coalition soldiers or American Marines but members of the Afghan National Interdiction Unit, an elite counternarcotics force mentored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The several dozen Afghans and handful of DEA agents are here in this small border village, tucked in mountains so steep they appear as a mash of thumbprints on a contour map, to seize 900 liters of acetic anhydride, an essential chemical used to convert morphine into heroin.
Several soldiers swarm up mud steps, kicking in doors and windows, and still more search a low-ceilinged barn—but they turn up nothing. At the gate to the second compound, a dog snarls, and a retarded man babbles crazily and spins in the dirt. Inside the soldiers discover three bales of hashish and several fist-sized clumps of raw opium. But still no sign of the chemicals, and no sign of the two men they're seeking. In fact, there's no sign of any men at all. They've all fled to the fields beyond, where they warily watch the spectacle unfold.
As a few soldiers dump the hash down a stream and tag the opium for evidence, others spy Kharim out in one of the paddies. They rush toward him with weapons drawn, but Kharim doesn't run. "What opium?" he asks from behind his hennaed beard. "What chemicals?" They secure his hands with plastic flex cuffs, slip taped goggles over his eyes, and force him to his knees. In a few days, though, I am told by a DEA agent that after booking and questioning and more denials, his bluff has set him free.
The teams will later hear that the chemicals were secreted to the fields, but now there's no time to continue the search. The helicopters attract too much attention, and crowds of men from local villages and farms have gathered on the surrounding hilltops. "If we stay here much longer, it's going to be a problem," a DEA agent says. So it's back across the riverbed, through the graveyard, and over the paddies to the waiting convoy beyond—mission not accomplished.
In most other countries, of course, some four kilograms of raw opium and 120 kilograms of hashish would make an impressive haul. But when it comes to Afghanistan, supplier of 90 percent of the world's opiates, drugs are measured in metric tons and not ounces. The raid did almost nothing to slow the trade that underwrites everything here.
In the five years since the U.S.-led coalition toppled the fundamentalist Taliban, there has been some genuine progress in Afghanistan. The camps that harbored Osama bin Laden and his mujahideen were destroyed; elections were held, and a parliament convened. Children attend schools, and women walk unaccompanied through city and village streets. The capital's stadium hosts soccer games and not ecutions.
But the insurgency is undeniably alive—and getting stronger. And the inability of President Hamid Karzai's administration to provide basic services and security has left many Afghans angry with their government and its American overlords. The frustration is palpable even in the capital, where reconstruction has been most lavish. This past May, Kabul suffered its worst violence since the Taliban were run out of town, when a brake failure caused a heavy truck in an American military convoy to plow into a busy market, killing several Afghans. As a seething crowd closed in on them, the unnerved Americans opened fire and fled the scene. "They are saying that the truck didn't have brakes, but this is untrue," one man shouted at me from the site of the accident. "The Americans were drunk. Why should we trust any of them?"
With shouts of "Death to America" and "Death to Karzai," the mob pushed toward the presidential palace, looting stores and torching cars. Machine guns rattled across the city center, several Westerners were attacked, and an NGO and a Chinese brothel were burned to the ground. On two occasions, photographer Paolo Pellegrin and I were chased and nearly overtaken, escaping only when our car punched through a side street. With a senior Afghan police general and his aides, we hid out in a government minister's house for hours, eating Spam and fava beans as the mob rampaged outside.
"We'll go to the Ministry of Interior to do our jobs now," the general joked as the shooting stopped. A week later, Karzai purged the police force's senior ranks for ineptitude. Western and Afghan officials largely dismissed the riot as opportunism and hooliganism, but the story on the ground, in Kabul and throughout the country, said otherwise. In the two weeks preceding the Kabul riots, more than 350 people were killed across Afghanistan, significantly more than the casualties in Iraq during the same time period. Most of the deaths were the result of coalition combat, but there were also assassinations, car bombs, and roadside explosives—against civilians and aid workers and even in the relatively peaceful provinces of the north and west. "Three years ago, the Taliban operated in squad-sized units," noted retired general Barry McCaffrey after he visited Afghanistan this spring. "Last year they operated in company-sized units of one-hundred-plus men. This year the Taliban are operating in battalion-sized units of 400-plus men. They now have excellent weapons, new IED technology, commercial communications gear, and new field equipment." The former U.S. drug czar concluded that "drug money and international financial support have energized their operations."
Things are grimmest in the country's southern provinces, where the U.S. military recently ceded control to NATO forces and where the Taliban's ranks are stronger than at any point since the American invasion. Their resurgence has less to do with a rise in Islamic fundamentalism than with drugs. In the remote deserts and rugged mountains of the south, the Taliban have forged an alliance with the drug lords. "It's a symbiotic relationship," says Stuart Nash, a senior counternarcotics official with the Justice Department. "The terrorists benefit both economically and by having smuggling routes preestablished to smuggle whatever it is they want to smuggle. The drug lords benefit from the protection the Taliban offers them from the central government."
The danger the narcotics trade poses isn't lost on Karzai. "Poppy cultivation is more dangerous than terrorism," he has said. "If we fail to eradicate poppy, the poppy would eliminate us." But while the coalition has pledged billions of dollars to wean farmers from harvesting opium, only limited resources are devoted to actually attacking the traffickers' networks.
The failure to employ a tactic that would seem obvious to anyone the least bit familiar with Afghanistan's problems goes back to a decision five years ago, in the feverish months after September 11, when U.S. military planners clashed with other U.S. agencies and coalition members over the importance of counternarcotics. Steve Casteel, chief of DEA intelligence at the time, recalls National Security Council strategy sessions he attended at the White House. "My position, and that of the British, was you can't do anything in Afghanistan unless you take care of the drug issue," he told me. "The White House and Pentagon position was that drugs don't matter. Their three priorities were, one, get Karzai in there; two, have there be no human-rights violations; and three, get a functioning government. The Brits argued and argued and argued against it, but ultimately that was the decision the White House made." It's a decision that now seriously threatens the country's future. Name your crisis in Afghanistan—insurgency, corruption, porous borders, disintegrating government control—and at its source you'll find the raw, sticky gum of opium.
At the heavily fortified U.S.-embassy compound in Kabul, a U.S. counternarcotics official stated plainly, "The big problem in this country is criminality and corruption. It's huge. It's just rampant. It's rife. It's beyond anything we've seen in Colombia or Mexico or any place else. And drugs are the principal fuel for that." The accusations go straight to the palace itself, where Ahmed Wali Karzai, younger brother of the president, is reputed to be a major drug lord—though the palace has consistently denied Ahmed's involvement, and such allegations are a popular way to discredit political enemies in Afghanistan. But not every one can be false.
In a low building just steps from Parliament, Major General Sayed Kamal Sadaat, the surprisingly gregarious, owlish chief of Afghanistan's counternarcotics police, sat hunched over his cluttered desk, dwarfed by stacks of paperwork and a wall-sized map of the country behind him.
The general is one of the few public servants regarded by Western officials as clean, and when I asked what might happen to him if he dared to build cases against senior government officials, the general leaned back in his desk chair and said, "Everybody knows who is doing what, but nobody can do anything. If the government really wants to support us, like your government does the CIA and DEA and other big agencies, then we could go against the big names."
Sadaat's counternarcotics police are headquartered in a fortified compound that, I'm told, at one point belonged to a prominent and brutal mujahideen leader. Now it serves as a safe house for most of the drugs seized in Afghanistan. One of Sadaat's aides led me down rough concrete steps to the mujahideen leader's personal dungeon. The acrid smell of raw opium and hashish was overpowering. "This was not a pleasant place," he said needlessly. There were several cells, each labeled according to the drugs it now held. Cells 1 and 2 were filled with hashish in big burlap sacks and feed bags, stacked taller than a man. Cell 3 held opium, shoulder high, and cell 4 was waistdeep in heroin. There were at least four more cells, but bales of hashish blocked the hallway. In total, the compound held some four tons of heroin, twelve tons of opium, and twenty-four tons of hashish, all seized the previous year. Using average British street prices—most of Europe's drugs come from Afghanistan—a back-of-the-envelope sketch put the haul at $980 million. A few weeks later, the Afghans burned it all.
In mid-June, I joined the Afghan Eradication Force as it destroyed the last of the country's poppy harvests in the far northern province of Badakhshan. The government's well-publicized antipoppy campaign had made little impact on cultivation, and the brightly colored flowers covered the hillsides. After withstanding weeks of local stonewalling and even gunfire, the teams now moved from field to field, slashing poppies with crude scythes and switches. In one plot, a farmer stood with his sons surveying the damage to his crops. "We will starve," he lamented. "We have nothing now. The government doesn't help, and now I have no choice but to grow poppies next year."
The farmer was being modest. The bulbs on his thrashed poppies were big and fat, some scored and scraped for opium as many as eight times. In a few days' time, he would take his opium to market and be paid $100 per kilogram. Then a steady stream of donkeys, SUVs, and police cars would ferry the opium to a crude mountain laboratory to be boiled, reduced, and dried into cakes of morphine. Then it would be transformed with chemicals into heroin, refined, and smuggled across the rugged mountains to Tajikistan and to organized-crime syndicates beyond. By the time it reaches the streets of London or Stockholm, a bulk kilogram of heroin will retail for $40,000. Broken into gram bags, that kilogram can fetch almost $100,000—all but 2 percent of which the Afghan economy will never see.
But what a lot of damage that 2 percent can cause. Despite Afghanistan's status as the world's largest narcotics bazaar, there has traditionally been a surprisingly low demand for drugs. That's not the case anymore. During the thirty years of war that began with the 1979 Soviet invasion, a third of the Afghan population fled. Most became refugees in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, both nations with astounding addiction problems. The U.N. estimates that nearly 3 percent of Iranians abuse opiates—the highest level in the world—and of those, as many as a quarter are infected with HIV.
"There are thousands, tens of thousands, of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran who are addicted," says Tariq Suliman, director of the Nejat Center, a bare-bones nonprofit treatment facility in Kabul. "Now they are returning home. If you come again next year, the number of addicts will be higher. The door is open. The problems are finally coming into Afghanistan instead of from it."
Early one morning, we set out for the Shah-do-Shamshira, the mosque of the King of Two Swords. It's a squat two-story mosque on the Kabul River with saffron walls and light blue minarets, named after a seventh-century Islamic marauder who lost his head not far from here but still managed to slaughter a good many Hindus before finally dying. Now the tiles outside the mosque are littered with the bodies of addicts.
The sun was just rising as we met a thin, grubby man called Khalifa. He led us to a gap in a metal railing, and we climbed down an embankment to the dark recesses beneath a bridge. The ground was littered with syringes and garbage, and it smelled of urine and feces. Khalifa took his spot beside two other addicts wrapped in blankets, and the three huddled forms looked like mounds of trash themselves.
With one half the foil of a discarded cigarette box, they each rolled a tight stem; on the other half, now flattened and smoothed, they sprinkled heroin. With matches that shook in their hands, they chased the black beads of heroin down the foil and sucked the smoke through their stems. Khalifa gave an ugly cough, and the other two murmured in good-natured appreciation. They passed over the foil strip half a dozen times until there was nothing left but a dark stain.
Their morning fix over, the men struggled to their feet. Khalifa coughed again and spat, his phlegm deep yellow and flecked with black. As if in apology, he said he prefers to inject, and he pulled up his sleeve to reveal a thick black vein pockmarked with tracks. "Most who take medicine this way are from Iran," he said. "We brought the addiction to Afghanistan."
It's a measure of the fear inspired by the Taliban that during a single growing season in 2000, they managed to stamp out opium production. Prior to that, tas on farmers, refiners, and traffickers brought the Taliban movement as much as $27 million per year, according to the U.N., and opium production actually doubled under the religious movement's iron fist.
But the spike in opium under the Taliban alarmed the international community. In the office he keeps in Kabul, Vahid Mojdeh, a former senior official in the Taliban foreign ministry, sat upon a settee carved with poppy flowers and spoke authoritatively about the external pressures against the Taliban: "I remember I was in a meeting at the ministry where there were several diplomats from European countries. These diplomats were telling us that issues like women's rights, Osama bin Laden… Things like this are not important to us,' they said. What is important are drugs, which are killing in our countries.' " He shrugged and added, "The Taliban did not care about international relations."
But when pressure began to come from neighboring Islamic states and it was clear that Afghanistan's drugs were killing not just infidels but good Muslims too, the Taliban took notice, and banning opium began to make sense: It would save Muslims, keep its neighbors and the West at bay, and potentially bring in a bundle of U.N. aid. These were all miscalculations, but the drastic reduction did lead to one windfall: It allowed the Taliban to centralize the drug trade under themselves. "I remember Mullah Omar [the Taliban leader and partner to Osama bin Laden] asked his people to buy the [remaining] opium from farmers across the country at a cheap price," Mojdeh recalled. "I don't know what they did with it."
Western officials can hazard a guess. As the opium supply was reduced, prices jumped from just $150 per kilogram in September 2000 to almost $750 in the days before September 11. The Taliban continued to tax refiners and traffickers at exorbitant rates, and may even have sold the opium themselves from seized stockpiles. "The more obvious reason [for the ban] is that the international community wanted it," recalled a British diplomat in Kabul. "The other reason, which is the more cynical one, is that the price of opium shot up and the Taliban profited enormously from it." Added an American official, "They were not such religious scholars that they didn't take advantage of that opportunity to make a shitload of money to fund their war effort."
Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, who spent nearly four years in Guantánamo for his role as Taliban ambassador to Pakistan and now resides in Kabul under government surveillance, largely agreed with Mojdeh's account. But he drew the line at the accusation that the Taliban trafficked as well as tad. "Who is saying this?" he demanded over tea and sweets. "I'm not rejecting it completely. But the leadership, they were not involved. If Mullah Omar knew this, he would not allow it."
Almost no one questions that Mullah Omar and his remnant Taliban are involved in the opium business now. Opium farmers are tad by Taliban commanders and reportedly receive "night letters" threatening harm should they not grow poppies.
But outside of a handful of counternarcotics officials, the United States was slow to grasp the problem's enormity. As the drug trade and its Taliban connections grew stronger, American officials washed their hands and blamed the British government, which headed the coalition's counternarcotics efforts. In one embarrassing instance last May, a confidential cable from the U.S. embassy labeling the Brits "substantially responsible" for failed eradication efforts landed on the front page of the Sunday New York Times. A U.S. official in Kabul, discussing the incident, defended the British effort. "That was not fair to do," he said. "Frankly, you needed both players to get involved. And if you want to be critical, you should be critical of the United States government for being on the sidelines as long as they were."
But the Pentagon still staunchly resists—and even hampers—any aggressive role in drug interdictions. When DEA squads were first dispatched to Afghanistan last spring, the Pentagon agreed to provide air support for four operations a month, a critical concession if the heroin labs and smuggling routes hidden in the country's rugged mountains were to be reached. Fifteen months and numerous DEA requests later, only two operations have so far received support. "It was complete and utter bullshit," a DEA agent in Afghanistan fumed. "About all I've seen out here is excuse after excuse after excuse. Rather than find a way to help us, they find a way to frustrate us. The military's done nothing they promised they would do."
The situation became so bad, a senior Justice Department official confided, that last summer Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wrote Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seeking his help. The response was halfhearted.
If there were any lingering doubts about the Pentagon's reluctance, they were erased by an officer who facilitates military embeds. When I told him I was interested in reporting on drugs and the insurgency, he quickly replied that an embed would be a waste of everyone's time. "Our job," he said, "has nothing to do with drugs."
Of course, fighting the insurgency has everything to do with drugs, and that fight is at its most vicious in Helmand Province, which jabs north from Pakistan and abuts the aptly named Deserts of Death and Hell. Since the coalition invasion five years ago, it has become a stronghold not only for the Taliban but also for opium. U.N. officials predict this year's harvest in Helmand will more than double and could account for more than half of the world's opiates.
This summer the military launched a massive offensive in Helmand dubbed Operation Mountain Thrust. At the tip of the spear here was Lieutenant Colonel Chris Toner, whose base was just outside Musa Qala, the opium heartland of Helmand. His bare-bones outpost, erected just four days before I arrived, was a mere flyspeck in the desert, accessible only by helicopter or heavily armed convoy.
"What we've got here is almost like a big ink stain," Toner said as he surveyed several maps dotted with pushpins identifying troop locations. "The center of gravity for an insurgency is the population. But the center of gravity for a counterinsurgency is the population, too. We're all relying on the same thing. My job is to isolate the population from the enemy." Toner pointed to three red bos representing Taliban redoubts, drawn around clusters of villages. "Put your pen down on these," he said, "and this thing"—coalition control—"goes wider and wider and wider."
But the insurgency is not always confined to tidy red bos. On a broiling day in June, just over a ridge from the outpost in a village called Sarbesa, one of Toner's patrols was ambushed.
Crouched behind a foot-high mud ridge, six soldiers held the front line, taking fire and returning fire across dry paddies stubbled with stalks of harvested poppies. The Taliban fighters were a mere 125 yards ahead, and over the next several hours the battle unfolded in fits and starts. For long periods the Taliban went to ground; then suddenly shadows would move, a patch of rocks in front of us would explode, and shots would ricochet by.
Apache helicopters made repeated runs over the village, strafing the Taliban who were dug in. Suddenly the earth shook from two impacts fifty yards ahead, and then a third missile slammed into the ground thirty yards to our left. The noise was deafening. Dirt rained down, followed by ash and the thick smell of explosives. "Somebody get the fuck to those Apaches and tell 'em we're fuckin' down here!" a sergeant yelled.
As dusk settled, the troops withdrew, and later that night surveillance spotted women and old men removing bodies. Of the estimated forty Taliban fighters, perhaps as many as twenty-two were dead. Given the intensity of the fighting, Toner thought a senior Taliban commander was present. He sent his soldiers back to sweep Sarbesa the next day. Two ambushed Humvees were recovered, their reinforced windows spiderwebbed from stopped bullets. There were pools and trails of blood, an armful of human intestines on the ground, and a pile of blood-soaked clothes nearby. As night drew near, a half-dozen men approached a checkpoint on foot. "Are the Taliban gone?" they said. "May we go back to our lives?"
It would be easy to frame this scene as one of violence to no end in the middle of nowhere. But if the fight in Afghanistan is going to be won—and it really has to be won, because an anarchic Afghanistan is a doorway to more trouble in civilized places far beyond Helmand—this is the unglamorous way in which it must happen: Move forces into a tiny area; chase the Taliban away; give the locals something to depend on other than the largesse of drug lords demanding poppy. That's the task, and it will take a commitment of troops and weapons and money for many years, which isn't quite the war the Pentagon had in mind.
About a month after the firefight in Sarbesa, Operation Mountain Thrust came to an end, and the United States handed over control of the southern provinces to NATO forces led by the British commander Lieutenant General David Richards.
At a meeting with reporters in Kabul, Richards signaled his show would be run differently. "For the last four years, some very brutal people have been developing their little fiefdoms down there and exporting a lot of opium to the rest of the world, both near and far," he said. "This is a very noble cause we're engaged in. We have got to liberate the people there from that scourge of those warlords."
Five years after the idea was first introduced, the coalition will finally take on its most deeply rooted enemy.
Sam Dealey is a writer based in Washington, D.C.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Do you teach school subjects or test prep? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Do you teach school subjects or test prep? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> China (Job-related Posts Only) View previous topic :: View next topic Which option most closely resembles your job? I teach mainly oral English at a university 26% [ 8 ] I teach mainly oral English at a high school 0% [ 0 ] I teach N A, British or Australian curric. at an intl. school 16% [ 5 ] I teach many English subjects at a uni or high school 23% [ 7 ] I teach children at a language mill 3% [ 1 ] I teach adults at a language mill 10% [ 3 ] I mainly teach IELTS TOEFL or other foreign school test prep through a private company 3% [ 1 ] I mainly teach test prep at a middle school or university 3% [ 1 ] I teach at a kindergarten or primary school 10% [ 3 ] I mainly teach private lessons 3% [ 1 ] Total Votes : 30 Author Message roadwalkerJoined: 24 Aug 2005Posts: 1750Location: Ch Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:36 am Post subject: Do you teach school subjects or test prep? I thought it would be interesting to find out what kind of work respondents are doing these days. In writing the questions, I realized how many variations are possible. The poll would be too long, so if I missed your niche, please give a few details. Sorry if I'm stepping on any earlier polls, I didn't check. On the other hand, it would be good to see the current situation. For example, I think test prep has really grown. This being my first poll, I didn't realize that there are limits on entries... so...if you have your own school or somehow don't fit into the above, please count yourself in a response and give some details. Back to top GeminiTigerJoined: 15 Oct 2004Posts: 999Location: China, 2005--Present Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:42 am Post subject: Well, speaking for the disgruntled University faction I would just like to throw a caveat into your poll. While most of us "usually" teach Oral English or have a majority of Oral English classes, I think those of us who have been here for a while have also taught a number of other courses. It sometimes annoys me because of the attitude that oral English is either inferior to other courses or that people assume foreigners only teach this one course. Judging by the title of your post though I'm not really sure it matters much. Back to top 7969Joined: 26 Mar 2003Posts: 5782Location: Coastal Guangdong Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:00 am Post subject: Roadwalker, your subject question doesn't seem to match the poll. I teach a writing class but have also done the "western culture" class in the past. Back to top roadwalkerJoined: 24 Aug 2005Posts: 1750Location: Ch Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: Yeah, I put up the poll without having it thought out and organized. Next time I'll sketch up a rough draft first. Points taken. Oh, and I mainly teach oral English (and I'm one of the ones that thinks it's an important and worthwhile class) but I've sometimes taught culture and writing classes as well in universities. Back to top GreatApeJoined: 11 Apr 2012Posts: 582Location: South of Heaven and East of Nowhere Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:14 am Post subject: I voted for #3 in the poll, but I'm actually doing a combination of #3 and #7. I work for an International School with an IGCSE based curriculum, but I also teach IELTS, TOEFL, & SAT/ACT exam prep. (according to student needs). For my really low level classes I'm basically an Oral English teacher, and for my higher level classes I teach EAP style college-level writing classes. --GA Back to top Non SequiturJoined: 23 May 2010Posts: 4725Location: China Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:56 am Post subject: I'm surprised the 'teach many English subjects' response is so high. Back to top kev7161Joined: 06 Feb 2004Posts: 5880Location: Suzhou, China Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:16 am Post subject: I ticked off: I teach at a kindergarten or primary school A little more detail: I teach many American primary school courses in a Chinese school that considers itself "international". That's stretching it a bit in my opinion as a majority of students are mainland Chinese, but what can you do? Back to top Denim-ManiacJoined: 31 Jan 2012Posts: 1238 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:33 am Post subject: I have indicated that I teach adults at a training centre. Ive completed two contracts in that working environment, and will be heading back for a third contract there early next year (not actually in China at the moment). Small classes, no weekend or evening classes, low working hours so its perfect for me. When Im not in China, I also teach young adults /teenagers in the same type of environment. Back to top kungfumanJoined: 31 May 2012Posts: 1749Location: In My Own Private Idaho Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:49 am Post subject: I teach college prep to high school students who will go to the USA. My educated guess is that 99% of them will crash and burn within their first 90 days there. Of them boys they ALL will fail miserably as they are the Devil Spawn of rich parents - who obviously buy them expensive toys in lieu of giving them life advice or love. Of the girls I believe only 1 out of the bunch will keep her head above water. The rest will - most likely - become potheads until someone introduces them to crack and prostitution. They are also all evil useless beings who have no clue of reality as their rich families just heap unto them the latest expensive gadgets and shower them with everything except love and common sense. I used to love my job and even like my students. Something happened. Back to top Non SequiturJoined: 23 May 2010Posts: 4725Location: China Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:33 pm Post subject: kev7161 wrote: I ticked off: I teach at a kindergarten or primary school A little more detail: I teach many American primary school courses in a Chinese school that considers itself "international". That's stretching it a bit in my opinion as a majority of students are mainland Chinese, but what can you do? Hope you are paid 'international school' rates kev Back to top BabalaJoined: 28 Jan 2005Posts: 1303Location: Henan Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:12 am Post subject: I do corporate training at companies so none of the options really applied. Back to top fat_chrisJoined: 10 Sep 2003Posts: 3198Location: Beijing Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:52 am Post subject: kungfuman wrote: They are also all evil useless beings who have no clue of reality as their rich families just heap unto them the latest expensive gadgets and shower them with everything except love and common sense. I used to love my job and even like my students. Something happened. Hope you are all right these days, kfm. Warm regards, fat_chris Back to top dean_a_jonesJoined: 03 Jul 2009Posts: 1151Location: Wuhan, China Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:18 pm Post subject: I teach a bit of a mixed bag, your typical 2+3 programme (what used to be 2+2). As these guys are going abroad, we get to teach them a few more interesting subjects, but with a heavier bias on speaking. We have a two semester calendar, and each semester we teach the following: Semester one: First year students: English Speaking 1 (general speaking); Second year students: Business English listening and speaking (a bit of a misnomer, as they also have reading homework each class). Semester two: First year students: English Speaking 2 (IELTS test focused), Public Speaking and Presenting; Second year students: History and Culture (of the country they are going to) The first year courses are generally in smaller groups--a class of 30 is split into two groups of 15, for example, and each group gets a two hour lesson. The second year courses are lecture and small seminar groups--a one hour lecture with all students (again, around 30) and three 45 minute seminar groups of 10 students each. We are in a transition year, as next year our current first years will take English Speaking 3 (more IELTS focus) as they have pushed back the IELTS test taking date from end of year one to middle of year two. We also teach a General Study Skills course, but that is switching from the first to second year, so we are not teaching it this year for that reason. I also teach Academic Study Skills course to MA 1+1 students this year, again in the lecture/seminar format. So as I said a mixed bag, but I quite enjoy that. Back to top kungfumanJoined: 31 May 2012Posts: 1749Location: In My Own Private Idaho Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:09 am Post subject: Actually I am sad now - my school gave me business cards and the title is ESL TEACHER!!!!! I am NOT a gd ESL teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I teach pre-college preparatory courses! Not esl. I'm fuming. 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