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Deciding how to edit a photograph
Following my last blog post on the Essential Skills for photography, the question was posed "Where I'm stuck is the step between picking the strongest image and playing with software. How do I decide what to do with it. " This seemingly simple question is one of the most fundamental in photography and is one that I found myself wrestling with for a number of years. This is how I resolved the for myself. As I am a Landscape Photographer I will speak about scenes but you can apply this approach to most forms of photography.
The key to deciding how to edit an image doesn't start when you download the image to your computer, it starts much earlier. It even starts before you even lift the camera to take the shot. It actually starts when you spot the opportunity to capture an image. When something catches your eye and you recognise there is a photograph to be taken, at that moment you should be working out what has captured your attention.
Having identified something that is attracting you to a scene you will begin to take photographs. It's unlikely your first image will be what you wanted (if it is you are either amazingly talented or very lazy) so you need to experiment with angles and composition. As you work with a scene your vision for the image should become stronger. This is the vision that will become so important when you come to edit your image later.
Having a strong vision is the key to understanding how to edit your image.
Having selected the image that you want to work with; the one that best represents your vision, you should ask yourself 2 questions:
- What defects is the image suffering from that I need to correct? Perhaps it's too bright or it looks a little flat. Perhaps it has a lot of dark areas which look ugly and need to be opened up. Spend time looking at the image and identify what you don't like about it. Defects in the image hide your vision from the viewer.
- Now consider your vision and ask how can this image be enhanced to better convey my vision for the photograph? This should take you right back to the reason for taking the picture in the first instance. Why did you take the picture? How can you emphasise this aspect of the image to the viewer?
As you consider these questions, make notes about the changes that you would like to make. Don't try to get all technical about how you will make the adjustments, just describe the changes. If you want to make some dark areas lighter, write that down. If you want to make the pinks more vibrant and colourful, write it down. If you think the image looks a little hazy and you want to give it more snap, write that down.
Once you have the list of changes you need to write out a plan for the adjustments you will make. Start with the global adjustments and work down to the smaller localised changes. Also try to make the corrections and fixes (question 1) before you make the enhancements (question 2).
I hope I haven't made this sound easy as it's not. It takes years of practice to develop your own styles and preferences as well as the skills necessary to be able to make the adjustments. But preserve and improvements will come.
Essential skills for Photography – Skill 6
In this final blog post of the series I will introduced the sixth skill that I believe is essential in producing great photography.
Image Adjustment
There are two aspects to this:
- Technical skills to be able to make the adjustment
- Aesthetic skills so that the adjustments are pleasing and not taken to an extreme
For the first element you must understand the image editing and adjustment tools that you use. You must also seek to use the best and understand how the different controls can be used to manipulate he image. You also need to understand this from the perspective of a photographer or an artist. You are not interested in lightening an image or adjusting the contrast, you are interested in creating illusion. Illusions such as sharpness and clarity. You need to understand how to control and manipulate light.
As you master your chosen tools you also need to understand the aesthetics of the adjustments you make. Your adjustments should be believable and realistic. Take your adjustment too far and the image will appear ugly. This is art and this is where you can truly introduce your vision.
Now it's your turn. What have I missed? Do you agree with the skills discussed or do you find the concept of these skills too vague? Let's share some opinions.
Essential skills for Photography – Skill 5
In my previous blog post I introduced the fourth skill that I believe is essential in producing great photography. Today I will try explain another of these essential skills.
Image Selection
In an earlier post we spoke of exploring your subject in order to realise a clear vision and strong communication. It's likely that this will result in many photographs of the same subject with only small variations between images. What we can't do is present all these variations to our audience and expect them to select the best one; that's our job as the photographer. I recall attending a wedding where the photographer was shooting continuously. When the bride and groom received the proofs the photographer had presented them with almost 1700 images and expected them to pick the 20 they liked best.
Being able to edit your images in order to select the best one for any particular subject is an essential skill that's often overlooked. Let's say we are faced with 20 image variations for a subject we have been shooting and we need to pick the best one. Which is best is quite subjective but:
- It must have a strong composition – if we can't recognise a weak composition to weed out poor images we need to study this.
- Of all the images with a strong composition, which one conveys our vision and communication best? If we don't know, it's because our vision isn't as strong as we thought it was and we need to spend more time developing this.
- If we are producing a series of images we need to ensure all the images work together. If we have one image that stands out above the rest we will make all the others appear weak. If we have one weak image it will stand out and damage the story being told.
If we really do have a few images that are similar and all very strong, just pick one. The rest of the world will never know we had a difficult choice to make. They also don't care; they just want to see a great photograph.
I will introduce the final essential skill tomorrow.
Essential skills for Photography – Skill 4
In my previous blog post I introduced the third skill that I believe is essential in producing great photography. Today I will try explain another of these essential skills.
Understanding your equipment
Now please don't confuse this with knowing how to use the features of your camera. The ability to pick up and control a camera is a given skill that every photographer needs. No, this skill is about understanding and appreciating the characteristics of the equipment at your disposal and understanding how we can use this to strengthen our communication with our audience.
An example to understand this a little better is if we were shooting a portrait. The subject would need to be the person in the image. What we therefore want to avoid is having multiple people dominant in the frame as these will be distracting. If our composition and technique is very poor it may leave our audience unsure which person is the subject. To make it clearer we might chose a long lens so that we can concentrate on a single person in the frame. We might also use a wide aperture to create a shallow depth of field. This will ensure objects behind our subject are thrown out of focus, so emphasising the subject still further.
A second example is where we use of Wide Angle lenses in Landscape Photography. Unless we move in close to our subject and include something in the foreground, the image loses impact as objects recede very quickly into the distance.
These examples are about understanding the characteristics of your equipment and then being able to make decisions about how use them to create strong compositions.
I will introduce another essential skill tomorrow.
Essential skills for Photography – Skill 3
In my previous blog post I introduced the third skill that I believe is essential in producing great photography. In today's post I will explain another of these skills.
This is probably the first of the recognised traditional camera skills and one the many people will answer with when asked what do you think are the essential skills for photography. But a lot of people when starting out in photography (myself included) struggle with knowing how to create strong compositions. I can remember reading lots of books on the subject but never quite grasping what was being said. What I had failed to understand is that composition can't be reduced to a set of rules that if followed will produce the best compositions.
Whilst it's true that a strong composition is recognisable, it's almost impossible to arrive at the perfect composition. What you need to strive for are strong compositions. Whilst you can follow some guidelines, it's better to train yourself to recognise good composition as well as the faults of poor composition.
If your composition is weak it will hamper your photography as it will hide your vision and communication. When you get it wrong, the composition will jar with the audience and they won't invest the time necessary to appreciate your work. Your communication will be hidden by the noise of poor composition. It's a little like experiencing a small amount of static on the telephone line. Whilst you can still hear the conversation it becomes more difficult to hear the message, requiring more concentration. Your audience is choosey with their time as it's precious. If they can't hear your message clearly, they will move on to another message that is clear.
I will introduce another essential skill tomorrow.
Essential skills for Photography – Skill 2
In my last blog I introduced the first skill that I believe is essential in producing great photography. In today's post I will try to explain another of these skills.
Communication and Vision
Vision is about understanding what we have seen that inspired us to want to take a picture. Once we understand this we can begin to think about how we want to represent this to others. This recognition is something that we need do this at the point we take the picture. If we don't we will probably find later that we just didn't quite capture the image right.
When we notice an opportunity and decide to take a picture, we may not make the best capture on the first effort. To know we have achieved the best result we need to take time (where possible) to explore a scene or subject. This is not just to check things such as composition and technical image quality but also to ensure our vision comes through as strongly. If you are not clear about what our vision is, how do we expect others to understand and appreciate your work.
The same argument also applies to being able to select the strongest image that best represents our vision. And when we come to work on our best image we need to understand how we want the finished image to appear. How should it look in order to best represent our vision. We need a clear image before we start to work on any adjustments.
The reason I included communication under this heading is that our image or images need to communicate our vision. We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that our photograph is our medium of communication but our vision is our message. The clearer our vision, the stronger and communication, the better people will hear us.
I will introduce another essential skill tomorrow.
Essential skills for Photography – Skill 1
Someone recently asked me what I thought were the best skills to develop in order to improve their photography. The question is an interesting one as the answer depends on your current level of skill. Despite this I thought I would have a crack at documenting six skills that I think are pretty much essential if you want to produce great photography.
As I'm going to share my thoughts with a little explanation, or you might wonder why I have made the choices I have, I thought I would turn this into a short series of mini blog posts. As you read these you may agree or disagree with my ideas. If you have any strong feelings about a particular post please do comment as I'm really interested to hear the views of others.
So here we go…
Inspiration and Opportunity
This is the ability to tune into your inspiration and recognise the opportunities for great photography. As we go through each day we are presented with almost limitless opportunities to take great photographs. If those don't register with us we never bother to capture the picture.
Even when we do recognise the opportunity, with so many how do we know which ones to pursue? Each time we pause to capture a photograph there is an opportunity cost to our work in that we have less time to pursue other opportunities. We therefore need to do more than just recognise the opportunities; we need to be able to distinguish a good opportunity from a great one. This requires us to have the confidence in our ability to make the decision of how best to invest our time.
One tool that can help is to understand our inspiration. What is it that we want to take pictures of? What are the specialist areas of our photographic interest? If we understand this and concentrate our efforts pursuing these, it will pay dividends. Let's not wander aimlessly through our days snapping random photographs. Let's be led by our inspiration to create great work.
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The Secret To One-Night Stands
work your magicIf you want to be able to approach a woman anywhere, you have to be prepared at all times, in both the physical and emotional sense. Here are six common characteristics that can make you irresistible to any woman. All that's left is the one night and the stand.
1- Well-groomed
Most women prefer men with a casual and stylish look. This means that you should practice proper hygiene, your clothes should match, your hair should be clean and trendy, and above all, you should always wear fashionable shoes (Player's tip: women can't resist an attractive man with trendy shoes).
If you look and feel great about your physical appearance, you will feel more confident when approaching a woman and in return, she will be more receptive. So why not look good at all times?
2- Physically fit
I will not try to sugarcoat the facts. Women — just like men — are attracted to physically fit bodies. They're especially weak when it comes to sculpted chests, shoulders, abs, butts, and calves. It's no secret that a man who stays in shape has an upper hand in seducing women. This means that you're going to have to exercise regularly and eat healthier food.
Player's proverb: "If you're out of shape, hit the gym, gain some muscle mass and lose the gut, and before you know it, you'll have women just itching to pinch your butt."
Not sure how to train efficiently? Here's a precision training program that works wonders for me. It's called "Static Contraction" (SC) and it provides quick and effective results without the need to spend hours at the gym.
3- Right attitude
The difference between a loser and a winner is the right attitude. For example, a man who gets rejected by a primary target is definitely not a loser. Just think back to all the times you observed a FROG being shot down. Did you laugh at him? Did you think any less of him? Of course not! Chances are that you respected him for trying, or at least having the courage to approach his target. This is the courage that you lack.
What qualifies a man as a loser is his fear of rejection. A man who sits there gawking at a beautiful woman all night long without making a move is a loser. He's the type of FROG who, in prehistoric times, would have failed to spread his genes for the survival of the fittest.
There is no reason to be afraid of rejection. All players go through it. The important thing is to be confident and have fun. Besides, approaching a woman shows confidence and is half the battle of making contact. Trust me, most women appreciate a man who puts his ego on the line to speak with them.
So the next time you find yourself wondering if you should approach a beautiful woman or not, simply ask yourself, "Am I a loser?" If you are indeed a loser, then just stay put.
Are you still a FROG, or are you ready to roar?

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AMES, Iowa - The 3rd-ranked Texas A&M soccer team (12-2-1, 6-1-0 Big 12) logged its eighth shutout of the season with the 1-0 victory over the Iowa State Cyclones (6-5-3, 2-3-1 Big 12) at the ISU Soccer Complex on a chilly Friday night in Ames, Iowa.
"First and foremost, it's a win on the road," A&M head coach G Guerrieri said. "Any coach in our conference will tell you that when you can get a win, especially on the road you take it. This is a hard environment for us to come and play in, it's cold, and almost 30 degrees colder than when we left College Station yesterday. It's a wet, bumpy surface. I am proud of our players for being able to dig in and get the win."
Senior captain Melissa Garey out-hustled the Cyclone defense for the Aggies' gamewinner. An ISU midfielder tried to play the ball back to the keeper, but Garey stepped through the backline intercepting the pass and took Andrea Gleason one-on-one beating the keeper to her left in the 18th minute. The goal was Garey's fifth of the season.
A&M pressed hard in the first half, drawing a foul just to the left of the 18-yard box only a minute and a half into the match.
In typical fashion, All-American Ashlee Pistorius fired a round of shots in the ninth and 13th minutes that resulted in Gleason having to make three saves. The first shot came off a pass from Elisabeth Jones on the left side of the box into Pistorius who was just a couple of yards out on the ride side of the goal. Pistorius drilled the shot into the gut of Gleason for the save.
The Aggies managed another offensive onslaught in the 25th minute with Paige Carmichael sending a ball into the close post that was rebounded by Whitney Hooper who caused Iowa State to make a team-save off the line. Rachel Shipley won the cleared ball and drove a low shot into the near right post for A&M's third shot in just a matter of seconds.
The Ags took the 1-0 lead into the lockerroom at the half having dominated the shot column, 13-3 over the Cyclones.
The Aggies continued to pound the Iowa State half of the field in the second 45 minutes of play, adding 11 more shots for a total of 24 on the night.
"We had a lot of chances, hit the post three times and had another ball or two cleared off the line," Guerrieri said. "It was a gutsy performance by Iowa State. They are definitely a hard team to play and I think we are the first Big 12 team to come in here and get a positive result, that's something for us to build on. It is one more step for us in achieving our goals."
Garey almost put the Aggies up 2-0 with a header that grazed the inside post but luckily for the Cyclones, caromed out.
With just 14 minutes left in the match, Laura Grace Robinson dribbled down the right flank. Cutting towards the goal, Robinson played a cross into a streaking Pistorius, but Gleason ran onto the ball beating it back to top of the penalty area.
ISU's best chance to net an equalizer came in the 68th minute when the Cyclones were awarded a free kick about 25 yards out. A&M goalkeeper Kristin Arnold made a leaping save, having her feet knocked out from underneath her as she brought the ball down, keeping her sixth shutout in tact.
Arnold posted seven saves on the night, bringing her season total to 58.
"We are going to have to head over to Nebraska and play an old rival on their home field, a tough place to play," Guerrieri ended. "We've won the last two in Lincoln, and it would be great to finish off the weekend with two wins."
The Aggies will head to Lincoln, Neb. to face the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Sunday. Game time is set for 1 p.m. at the Nebraska Soccer Field.
Shots by period 1 2 Total
Texas A&M 13 11 24
Iowa State 3 7 10
Corner kicks 1 2 Total
Texas A&M 1 1 2
Iowa State 1 4 5
Saves by period 1 2 Total
Texas A&M 1 6 7
Iowa State 7 4 11
Fouls 1 2 Total
Texas A&M 5 4 9
Iowa State 5 4 9
Scoring summary:
No. Time Team Goal scorer
1. 17:23 TAMU Garey, Melissa (5)


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Classical musicians tend to wear their mileage proudly. Conductors supposedly hit their stride at age 60, probably because they no longer care what people think of them, while pianists continue practicing their art without the pitch worries that plague senior violinists.
Two opposite maturity scenarios unfolded Friday as the Philadelphia Orchestra revved up for this week's Florida tour with frequent guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, 79, and one of Philadelphia's proudest exports, pianist Andre Watts, 66, in a Beethoven/Hindemith program.
Having suffered health problems over the last year, Frühbeck conducted most of the Verizon Hall concert sitting down. But infirmity didn't keep him from stepping outside his Mediterranean-colored repertoire in favor of Hindemith's brainier, normally black-and-white Concert Music for Strings and Brass (Op. 50), whose contrapuntal writing had entire sections playing in boldly drawn unison. Frühbeck gave the piece more heat, even anguish, than I previously imagined. Why isn't it heard more often?


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People opened the doors of the James N. Green Senior Center.
Dothan City leaders along with Houston County commission Chairman mark Culver and State Senator Harri Ann Smith were there to help in the celebration.
The building was named after the former mayor of Columbia who served for twenty-eight years.
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Israel detains 37 more Palestinians in the West Bank
Israeli military forces detained 37 Palestinians overnight Sunday in the occupied West Bank as a search operation launched to find three missing Israelis continued for the 11th day.
Israeli soldiers carried out house-to-house inspections in Nablus and Balata refugee camp and detained Salih Saadi al-Amir, Taha Salous, Ahmad al-Tanbour, Abd al-Rahman al-Bishtawi, and Amir Ishtayya, locals said.
In Bethlehem, Israeli forces confiscated computers and surveillance cameras from a money changing shop and damaged a safe while trying to open it.
Israeli forces also raided four money changers in Hebron, confiscating all computers and security cameras.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said 37 Palestinians were detained overnight as Israeli forces raided 80 locations, focusing on northwest Hebron, Jenin and Beit Awwa.
Soldiers also raided seven Hamas-affiliated charities, she added.
A large-scale military operation was launched by Israel 10 days ago after three Israelis went missing in the occupied West Bank.
Under the pretext of searching for the missing teenagers, Israeli forces have detained 471 Palestinians, including 11 parliamentarians, in over 400 targeted raids on homes, civil society institutions, universities and media outlets, according to the PLO.
Israeli forces have also severely restricted the movement of Palestinians, with temporary closures at the main north-south Container checkpoint and a lock-down on the Hebron district, home to over 600,000 Palestinians.
Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians while conducting arrest operations, including two men shot dead on Sunday.
Israel accuses Hamas of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers from Gush Etzion settlement near Bethlehem.
So far, there has been no claim of responsibility and no sign of the missing youngsters, although Israeli military spokesman General Motti Almoz said on Sunday that all information indicated they "are alive."


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On the outskirts of the baroque old town, in an old villa and leafy district comfortable 2-family house "Soriat", renovated in 2006. 1.3 km from the centre of Salzburg. For shared use: grounds, garden (fenced). Table tennis, patio. In the house: store for bicycles, central heating, washing machine. Motor access to the house. Parking by the house. Shop, supermarket, restaurant 300 m, bus stop 50 m, railway station "Salzburg" 2 km, outdoor swimming pool 1.5 km, indoor swimming pool 2 km. Golf course 5 km, tennis 1.5 km, cable cabin 5 km, childrens play area 300 m. Ideal location for visiting the historic centre, unforgettable musical and cultural experiences or to explore the limestone Alps and the lake areas.
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Alojamiento 100% recomendable. En muy buenas condiciones, instalaciones inmejorables y una atención excelente por parte del propietario. Relación calidad-precio muy buena. Repetiríamos sin dudar!
Accommodation 100% advisable. Thanks very much to our host for such a wonderful stay. We loved the quality of the rooms and all the spaces in the house. Markt Josef was very kind and warm since our arrival. We really felt confortable and happy with our choice. We definitely recommend your accommodation to others.
Great stay in a very pleasant apartment.
Vute little ski appartment in a good location, communication was good and very clear. Good value for money, had everything you need and a stones throw from all the local hot spots.
This place is a ripoff please be careful before clinking book on there are massive terrible extra charges and these interhome people are the wrosre people in the entire world fuck them
Nice, little cosy house! The only downside was, that it was hard to find and the second bedroom is separated on the ground floor (description/pictures didn´t match). Also there were a couple of additional costs, that weren`t mentioned in the description. We loved the view and the typical small italian village! The communication with the host was great and he was super helpful.
The apartment 'Palais de Justice' is pretty nice. Although it's not actually in the Palais the Justice as the name suggests, it's next to the actual Palais, in the middle of Vieux Nice. In the same street as the apartment you'll find bars, restaurants and local shops, excellent when you want to enjoy the old town of Nice. Excellent place to get to know the town, minutes walk from the beach, the park and other nice places. The boulangerie is just around the corner and you can smell the fresh baked bread in the morning. The apartment itself is comfortable, we stayed there with 4 persons. The fold-out sleeping couch makes actually a good bed an the bed is the bedroom is good as well. Minor points that are good to know: 5th floor, no elevator and some street noise (which is obvious if you want to stay in an authentic building in the narrow, busy streets of Nice)
Perfect camping, very clean, modern houses! Improvement suggestion is the outdated wifi useage. Helpfull people, clean toilet buildings. Would like to come back when the wifi is multi useable. Good french fries / chips available.
Clean and comfortable. Friendly hostess. Handy for the Circumvesuviana train station for Napoli, Sorrento and Vesuvius sites. Friendly little neighbourhood shop very handy. Our apartment did not have balcony as claimed - others in the complex did. Some noise from neighbouring flat. Very much enjoyed our stay.
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special place away from the hub of the home. With a good measure of
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Sun and fun guaranteed - this will be a popular choice.
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Persian Cream
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 15 mins
Rosewater flavoured "cream". Serve with partially frozen or fresh berry fruits. Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005. Cook time doesn't include chilling.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 tablespoon gelatin
- 1⁄4 cup cold water
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs (separated)
- 1 tablespoon rose water
- Sprinkle gelatine over cold water to soften.
- Heat milk and sugar in a heavy saucepan (or the top of a double boiler).
- Beat the egg yolks and, with the pan off the heat, add to the warmed milk/sugar mix.
- Over a very low heat, stir until the custard begins to thicken.
- Add the softened gelatine and stir until dissolved.
- Cool then stir in rosewater.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into the custard mixture.
- Chill for at least four hours.
- Serve with fresh or partially frozen berries and whipped cream.
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Made this today for my guests, I added about 2 tablespoon honey to each serving. Thank you for sharing! It was superb!
I really like it! I love persian cusine. My husband is from Iran. He is making very similar cream. It's very refreshing.
What a lovely cream to serve with berries. Such a wondeful and different flavour with the addition of rosewater. Although I couldnt find rosewater so I used rosewater essence, but next time will cut the essence to 1/2 tablespoon, but apart from that I followed the recipe exactly and it was wonderful. The rosewater adds such a fantastic flavour to the cream. Great recipe Fairy Nuff, will be making this again to serve with fresh berries, when we have them.


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Chile Relleno Casserole
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 1 hr
This is another recipes that's been around for years. It tastes like real chile rellenos, but is a lot easier to make. Serve with hot flour and corn tortillas and butter, with a simple salad.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄2 lb cheddar cheese, grated (about 2 cups)
- 1⁄2 lb monterey jack cheese, grated (about 2 cups)
- 3 (4 ounce) cans whole green chilies
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 2 (5 ounce) cans evaporated milk
- 2 -3 eggs
- 1 (16 ounce) can tomato sauce, with
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano, added
- hot tortilla, and
- butter, as accompaniment
- Grease a 8-9" square baking dish.
- Layer in the following order; half of chilies (split open and laid flat), Jack cheese, remaining chilies, cheddar cheese.
- Mix flour, milk and eggs.
- Pour over layered ingredients.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes.
- Pour tomato sauce over top and bake for an additional 15 minutes.
- Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
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I made a chile relleno casserole with my friend from a recipe of her grandmother's and this was the closest I could find online. The original was probably the best thing I ever ate and I wish I could eat it every day.
The main differences between the two recipes were:
Original had more chiles
No oregano in tomato sauce
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There were also a few minor differences relating to the sizes of the cans used in cooking but that's not a huge deal. Really an excellent recipe overall and I will definitely be making again. I recommend that future users separate the eggs and beat the whites until stiff because it makes the casserole much lighter and fluffier in texture. Definitely worth it.
The ingredients are a bit off. I was not impressed byt his dish. I think it needs some fine tuning. I may make some adjustments and try it again.
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Bank of England Rates to Australian Unemployment: Global Economy
Central bankers in London and Jakarta will probably conclude this week that inflation poses little threat as they choose to keep borrowing costs unchanged.
In the U.S., data at week's end will probably show a pickup in consumer sentiment in April as the economy emerges from a weather-related slowdown. Figures on U.K. industrial production are forecast to show further progress in manufacturing, and Australia's jobless rate is projected to rise to an 11-year high. Inflation in Brazil probably picked up.
-- It's no change again at the Bank of England this week. All economists in a Bloomberg survey predict the Monetary Policy Committee will keep its key interest rate at a record-low 0.5 percent, in line with its guidance to maintain policy at least until unemployment, now at 7.2 percent, drops to 7 percent and some of the slack in the economy has reduced. U.K. inflation held below the BOE's 2 percent target for a second month in February, further easing pressure on central bankers to tighten policy as the economic recovery gains traction. Officials have shortened their normal two-day meeting to a single day, on April 9, to allow some MPC members time to travel to International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington. The BOE will still announce its decision at noon in London on April 10.
-- The meeting change "does not exactly suggest an agenda brimming with contentious debate," Philip Shaw, an economist at Investec Securities in London, said in a research note. "With the economy growing respectably but not roaring away, we see it likelier than not that the MPC will avoid tightening policy this year, especially with CPI inflation expected to remain below target over the medium term."
-- U.K. industrial production probably rose for a third month in February, according to a survey of economists before an April 8 report. The median forecast calls for a 0.3 percent increase from January. The figure and April 11 data on construction are the last major output indicators before the Office for National Statistics publishes its estimate of first-quarter gross domestic product at the end of the month. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research will publish its own GDP estimate after the production report.
-- "The smog enveloping the country this week is an apt metaphor for much of the U.K. economic data, but the industry and construction data for February should bring some additional clarity," said Ross Walker, an economist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London. "We expect steady, if unspectacular, industrial growth. Greater uncertainty surrounds the construction data," though the sector "should remain on course to achieve solid growth."
-- The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's preliminary index of consumer sentiment rose to 81.5 in April from 80, the lowest level in four months, economists project the figures to show on April 11. The rebound comes against a backdrop of further job gains in March and the strongest sales month for automakers since 2007.
-- "We view the relative stability of confidence measures as a sign that the weak activity data in recent months was weather-related and not fundamental," Peter D'Antonio, a Citigroup Inc. economist, said in weekly research note. "The March surge in auto sales confirms this view, suggesting that the spate of poor economic data is coming to an end."
-- Indonesia's central bank will keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a fifth straight meeting as the currency strengthens and inflation remains contained, a Bloomberg survey of economists showed ahead of an April 8 decision.
-- Even so Glenn Maguire, chief economist for the Asia-Pacific at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Singapore, said in a research report that he expects Bank Indonesia to tighten eventually. "Our confidence that inflation and the current-account deficit will remain well-behaved is waning, hence our revised forecast for an extension to the BI tightening cycle," Maguire said in a research report.
-- Australia's jobless rate climbed to 6.1 percent in March, the highest in almost 11 years, economists forecast data to show on April 10. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens has warned unemployment will probably rise a bit further. In a statement on April 3, Boeing Co., the world's largest planemaker, announced it will cut about 300 jobs at its Australian unit. A day earlier, BP Plc and Philip Morris International Inc. announced more than 500 in combined job cuts and plant closures.
-- "The RBA is typically reluctant to lift rates while unemployment is trending higher," John Peters, a senior economist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney, said in a research report. The next meeting is May 6. "It typically takes a peak in unemployment and subsequent shift lower to give the green light for the RBA to start shifting away from stimulatory policy settings." The key interest rate currently stands at a record-low 2.5 percent.
-- Brazil's statistics institute on April 9 probably will report that inflation accelerated for a second straight month in March, as prices rose 0.85 percent to push the annual rate to 6.08 percent. The central bank has raised borrowing costs at its last nine meetings, to 11 percent, in a bid to get consumer prices back toward the mid-point of their 2.5 percent to 6.5 percent target range.
-- Accelerating inflation will force the central bank to continue raising interest rates, said Luciano Rostagno, chief economist at Banco Mizuho do Brasil SA in Sao Paulo. "We're seeing a very high chance that inflation will break the upper limit of the central bank's target throughout the year. It has to keep increasing rates to reduce inflation inertia and enable it to move down after shocks fade."


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GRAND FORKS, ND (July 24) - Eighteen WISSOTA Late Models set the grid for the 20 lap main event. Grand Forks' very own Dustin Strand and Brad Seng led the field to the green flag.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (July 10) - The 30 car WoO Late Model field was trimmed to the fastest 24 for the 50 lap, $10,000-to-win A-main. Chub Frank and WoO point leader, Shane Clanton, led the thunderous pack to the green flag.
The World of Outlaw Late Models invade River Cities Speedway this Friday, July 10th!
Josh Richards in his Valvoline/Rocket Chassis #1 World of Outlaw Late Model. Photo by Rick Rea.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (July 8) - The fendered version of "The Greatest Show on Dirt", the World of Outlaw Late Models, will rumble into River Cities Speedway for their one and only appearance at the Bullring this Friday night.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (May 1) - The WISSOTA Late Model feature was 16 cars strong and set for 20 laps around the Bullring. Steve Anderson and NLRA Rookie of the Year candidate, Robert Bladow, sat on the front row. Anderson got the jump at the green flag on the low side of the speedway, while Bladow tried to make it work up high on the cushion. The man on the move, however, was the defending RCS track champion, Brad Seng.
AJ Diemel holds on to win a thriller over Joey Pederson.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (September 6) - After the stout 26 car field paid tribute to the late John Seitz with their four wide missing man formation, the drivers cinched down their seat belts and got their elbows up for the 92 lap, $9,200-to-win Late Model feature.
Don Shaw wins the $920 "Go Hard or Go Home" pole dash for the 2nd consecutive year.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (September 5) - Don Shaw of Ham Lake, MN put his Blaine Brothers #42s Late Model on the pole for the 92 lap John Seitz Memorial A-main for the second year in a row with his "Go Hard or Go Home" pole dash victory, presented by Turk Enterprises, Friday night at River Cities Speedway
Brad Seng wins his 7th Late Model feature at River Cities
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Tim Fuller holds off Tim McCreadie for his 2nd RCS Outlaw win.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (July 18) - The World of Outlaw Late Models made their annual return to River Cities Speedway Friday night and as usual, they did not disappoint. The 32 car field was trimmed to the fastest 24 for the 50 A-main with Brady Smith and Tim McCreadie leading them to the green.
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The sheer deception of the July 28 column by Planned Parenthood Board of Directors member Carol Stahl brings tears to my eyes.
China has long had a one-child policy, and it has been recently documented by the Population Research Institute that women who carry "unauthorized" children in their wombs are subject to coerced abortion, destruction of their homes, crippling fines and imprisonment. Certainly, honest citizens who have convictions against abortion, and even those who don't, abhor this type of "family planning" and do not want our tax dollars to pay for it.
Ms. Stahl fails to mention that the Bush administration cut the U.S. funding for the U.N. Population Fund following an investigative visit to China by a State Department delegation. The funding was withheld pursuant to the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which prohibits U.S. funds from going to groups that support forced abortion and involuntary sterilization.
It is a sad thing if a board member of Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle wants our president to deliver our tax money to the groups that are involved in such atrocities.
Abortion is not family planning. Forced abortion and sterilization are the next exit on the slippery slope when governments decide that children are our enemies to be avoided at all costs and pit mother against child.
Regarding Ms. Stahl's allegations directed toward those of us who pray on public property near the local Planned Parenthood facilities, I will once again state that we do so out of a great love and concern for all those who enter those premises, including Planned Parenthood staff. We quietly, peacefully, legally pray for an end to abortion and for respect for human life. We do not intimidate; we pray.
Our posters speak the truth. They simply say "Face it, Abortion Kills" and "Stop All Abortion." A picture of a beautiful baby girl killed by abortion proclaims the horror of abortion. Those who advocate for abortion rights are given the opportunity to look upon the face of one of the millions of small victims of their advocacy.
There are hundreds of families waiting to adopt just such a precious baby girl. Sorrow of sorrows, she was not allowed the opportunity to experience the love of the family who longed so much to hold her in their arms.
Looking into the eyes of one so innocent who died so needlessly is very disturbing, but it allows us all an opportunity to see and reflect upon the result of abortion advocacy and failure to speak out against abortion.
Those of us who pray near the local Planned Parenthood facilities oppose all violence, including violence committed against preborn children in the abortion clinics of this world.
We pray and work for the day when all human life will be respected and all Americans truly will be given the benefit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, rather than the grisly death that a full one-fourth of all Americans conceived in the decades following the decriminalization of abortion have suffered at the hands of the abortionists of our nation.
Rita Diller is Family Life director for the Diocese of Amarillo.
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No matter how many times coaches say special teams are as important as offense and defense, it often takes game-costing breakdowns for players to realize it.
Just ask Baylor or Texas - or Missouri, which only narrowly avoided the mistakes that doomed the Bears and the Longhorns.
Baylor missed two extra points, including the game-ender in overtime, and saw a blocked punt lead to a Boston College touchdown in a 30-29 loss Saturday.
Missouri had two blocked punts result in touchdowns for Alabama-Birmingham, but the Tigers escaped with a 31-28 victory. The Longhorns weren't as fortunate last weekend when three blocked punts turned into 16 North Carolina State points in a 23-20 loss.
Texas rebounded in a big way Saturday, drilling Stanford 69-17 for the Cardinals' worst loss in 45 games.
Elsewhere in the Big 12 Conference, No. 5 Nebraska overcame a sloppy first half to whack Iowa 42-7. No. 6 Texas A&M withstood Louisiana Tech's passing attack for a 37-17 victory, and Oklahoma State beat Louisiana-Lafayette 24-7 despite losing quarterback Tony Lindsay to a second-quarter knee injury.
Gary Barnett's debut as head coach at Colorado couldn't have been worse as the No. 14 Buffaloes had to score two late touchdowns just to get within 41-14 of Colorado State.
Texas Tech will visit Arizona State tonight.
Baylor, which lost its last six games last year, was outplayed in coach Kevin Steele's debut, but the Bears were still in the game, proof that his can-do attitude is rubbing off on his players.
Baylor went ahead 16-7 with a touchdown shortly before halftime but failed to take a 10-point lead into the locker room because Kyle Atteberry's extra-point attempt was blocked. (A blocked punt, by the way, led to an Atteberry field goal for the Bears' first points.)
In the third quarter, Boston College tied the game at 16 with a touchdown one play after blocking an Atteberry punt. The Eagles failed to go ahead by missing their PAT.
The game seemed headed for a second overtime following a 1-yard touchdown run by Jermaine Alfred, until Atteberry hooked his PAT wide left.
Alfred usually holds on kicks, but he was hurt on the touchdown play, so backup punter Ryan Chapdelaine went in. Atteberry said that wasn't the problem.
"It was a great snap and a great hold," Atteberry said. "I totally muffed it."
Problems on special teams cost Missouri at least two victories while going 8-4 last season, and the bug almost bit the Tigers again Saturday.
Missouri seemed over the problem when it blocked a punt for a touchdown and a 10-0 lead midway through the first quarter, but UAB returned a block for a score six minutes later.
The Tigers led 24-14 when another blocked punt was returned for a touchdown midway through the fourth quarter, but they held on.
The star of the game was DeVaughn Black, who had 140 yards on 25 carries, including 10 straight on the game-saving drive.
"We were a very sporadic, erratic team," Missouri coach Larry Smith said. "We were good enough to win, and that's about it."
Texas found the best remedy for its punting problems - touchdowns.
The Longhorns found the end zone on their first six possessions en route to their blowout. Things went so well they even got a touchdown on a botched field-goal attempt, and they blocked two punts.
"We're not the only ones that had first-game punt woes," said Texas coach Mack Brown.
Nebraska's problem was turnovers. Three of them in the first half by quarterback Bobby Newcombe prevented the Cornhuskers from getting on a roll, but they did in the second half once the Hawkeyes wore out.
"Our offensive line had been hitting on them; they were starting to get bruised," Nebraska running back Dan Alexander said. "Things started opening up that weren't there in the first half."
Backup quarterback Eric Crouch scored Nebraska's first touchdown and ran for two more in the final period. In between, Newcombe ran for two touchdowns and passed for another.
"Both of them I thought really played well," coach Frank Solich said. "I expected that would be the case. We have two outstanding quarterbacks. They both will be used."
The Cornhuskers remember the passing display Tim Rattay had against them last season, but the Aggies were able to keep the nation's reigning passing leader in check.
Rattay was 45-of-65 for 331 yards with two interceptions, while A&M's Randy McCown was 17-of-28 for a career-high 252 yards. Each threw for two TDs.
Oklahoma State saw Lindsay, its third-year starter, get helped to the dressing room after being hit on the left knee while throwing a pass. His status won't be known until today.
B.J. Tiger, a third-year sophomore limited to defense and special teams last year, was 6-of-13 for 109 yards and a touchdown. Freshman Ben Bowling played the final 6 1/2 minutes and had an interception returned for a touchdown on his first pass, then directed a nice drive to run out the clock in the closing minutes.
"We've got to put the right game plan together that takes advantage of both quarterbacks' skills," coach Bob Simmons said.
Colorado State's defense forced six turnovers and sacked Colorado quarterbacks Mike Moschetti and Adam Bledsoe nine times as the Rams ended an eight-game losing streak to the Buffaloes.
"They got the momentum and we never really got it back," Barnett said.
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ICE Composite edit of Waitawheta river, from our lunch stop
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Apres tramp, we met this dude and he was more than happy to take us for a spin on his model railway.
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Skip to comments.What Iranians have known about Jimmy Carter from the beginning
Posted on 04/19/2003 12:08:44 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A few days ago, I walked into a local small business owned by a naturalized American citizen who was from Iran. During our conversation, the owner asked me what I thought about the U.S. and Coalition forces invading Iraq.
I said that in my opinion Jimmy Carter and his State Department were totally responsible for this war, Iraq's slaughtering of its own citizens, and the tragic war with Iran.
The shop owner grabbed me and gave me a "bear-hug." He said that in his 20 years living in America, I was the only American who understood what Iranians have known about Jimmy Carter from the beginning.
He agreed with me that Jimmy Carter started the dominoes falling that eventually created the chaos that led to the present and recent wars in the Gulf.
Thousands of Iraqi citizens now fleeing the Gulf II War zone will join thousands of Iranians who fled during the "Reign of Terror" which the Ayatollah Khomeini unleashed after then-President Jimmy Carter decided to make a regime change by pulling U.S. support from the Shah of Iran. The Shah and his administration were suppressing Islamic fundamentalists who wanted to return Iran to the 7th century under Islamic law.
President Carter's advisors were out of touch with reality. Like Don Quixote, they raced in, without regard to reality, to vanquish the Shah and his attempt to modernize Iran.
The consulting company I worked for at that time sent their Iranian office manager and engineering staff to a technical symposium in Pasadena, CA. The staff from our Tehran office was not so concerned about the technical presentation as they were about the pending disaster that President Carter was about to create, since his State Department was removing all support for the Shah. After all, it was argued, the kindly religious leaders of Iran would install a peaceful socialist government and save the country from the upheaval of Westernization.
Our office manager, a Jordanian Christian, recommended that we cease soliciting contracts from the Shah's government because its days were numbered. He recommended finishing the existing construction jobs and moving the office to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was worried we might not be paid for the existing work, and certain we would not be paid for any work done for a replacement government.
We had moved his family to Riyadh and also recommended that all other employees move there for their safety.
When the Shah fell, the Ayatollah Khomeini promised a welfare state that would outshine anything the Shah had done for Iran. Of course, his real objective was to use Iran as a launching pad for radical Islamic rule of the Middle East.
The Ayatollah unleashed a blood bath against his enemies. Americans in the Embassy were taken hostage for 444 days, and the economy of Iran plummeted into chaos.
As the Ayatollah encouraged radical Islamic uprisings in surrounding countries, we decided to contain Iran by using the dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. We supplied him with a massive arms buildup, which apparently included chemical, and perhaps even biological, weapons.
The 15,000,000 Iraqis were outnumbered by the 43,000,000 Iranians; but with the weapons we supplied him, Saddam Hussein fought the Iranians to a stalemate. Millions were killed and wounded.
In the first Gulf War hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Kuwaitis were sacrificed by Saddam Hussein. The United Nations Coalition failed to consummate their victory over Saddam Hussein.
General Douglas MacArthur said it best: "There is no substitute for victory."
We naively thought that the Iraqis would rise up and depose their evil dictator. The majority of Iraq's provinces, with our encouragement, did revolt. However, the United Nations and the United States left these people without the needed military support, and Saddam Hussein annihilated them by the tens of thousands. Thousands of them were killed by poison gas.
Perhaps the most ironic twist in this whole affair is that Jimmy Carter was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
No argument here.
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Arming Saddam
The Weekly Standard ^ | April 14, 2003 | The Weekly Standard Scrapbook
Posted on 04/09/2003 5:28 PM PDT by forsnax5
Two things stood out in the excellent April 2 dispatch from Najaf, Iraq, filed by the New York Times's Jim Dwyer. There was the headline, "Cheers and Smiles for U.S. Troops in a Captured City," which one had not expected to read in the Times. And there was this delicious kicker: "American troops found that the fleeing Baath Party and paramilitary forces had set up minefields on roads and bridges leading out of the city....Lt. Col. Duke Deluca, noting that the mines had been made in Italy, said, 'Europeans are anti-war, but they are pro-commerce.'"
As it happens, Colonel Deluca's point had just been made by the inimitable bilingual blogger and illustrator known as the Dissident Frogman (http://thedissidentfrogman.now.nu). He produced this chart with data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
I've seen lots of comments about how the U.S. armed Saddam in the 80's. This article from the Weekly Standard and the nifty chart from the Dissident Frogman adds a little perspective...
1 posted on 04/09/2003 5:28 PM PDT by forsnax5
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Surprised that Germany's sales are near nil.
3 posted on 04/09/2003 5:30 PM PDT by C210N
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Remember, this is for weapons sales only. Trying to find machinery, etc sales elsewhere is a little more difficult.
4 posted on 04/09/2003 6:10 PM PDT by cmsgtusafret
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Nice chart.
5 posted on 04/09/2003 6:15 PM PDT by k2blader ("Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful." - C. S. Lewis)
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Looks like there are certain UN security council members that sponser terror
6 posted on 04/09/2003 6:20 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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adds a little perspective
Adds a little perspective, my butt. It exposes it as a lie. What else are they lying about? (Rhetorical question)
7 posted on 04/09/2003 6:23 PM PDT by 1L
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Looks like there are certain UN security council members that sponsor terror
8 posted on 04/09/2003 6:26 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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Excuse me if I don't believe the German percentages. No one ever said the Germans were dumb, only evil when it is profitable to be so. We've heard repeatedly that the bunkers were built by German engineers. I doubt they stopped with sending blueprints on how to pour concrete and form steel.
9 posted on 04/09/2003 6:27 PM PDT by pepperdog (God Bless and Protect our Troops)
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read later
10 posted on 04/09/2003 7:43 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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The "we armed Iraq in the 1980's" is a constant excuse used by the Left to argue against war against Saddam. While Saddam did get limited military support, most of what he got during the Iraq/Iran war was intelligence information. In fact, the evidence of this was the Gulf War in 1991...which wasn't too far from when our outrageous military support supposedly occurred. But, just how much US-made military equipment did you see used against our troops in the Gulf War? How many US made tanks did you see? Their troops were using AK-47s, not M-16s; their tanks were Soviet TU-type tanks and their aircrafts were Soviet and French made MIGs and Mirages. Seriously...think about that. If we had given this regime so much of our military equipment...the best in the world, why were they using someone elses?
And even if we did, it's irrelevant. We also armed Stalin during WWII with the Lend-Lease Act but that didn't preclude us from engaging in a Cold War, immediately after WWII ended. Even shortly before WWII, when we knew of the atrocities being committed in China, the Japanese were still getting steel to build their ships and fuel to power them from the USA. Throughout history, friends have become enemies and enemies have become friends...but that shouldn't preclude us from reacting to a dangerous situation. Using this argument, the British should've remained our enemies...those dirty Redcoats.
And this crap about giving Saddam Bio/Chemical "weapons" is an exaggeration as well. Saddam never got "weaponized" nerve agents or "weaponzed" biological agents from the USA. Everything he got from us was a cooperative (UN and Western nations) effort to help Iraq deal with the rampant spread of contagious diseases and viruses that were killing his people. While this did include biological samples of viruses, this was a standard practice with the ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) and other medical institutions as they sent samples to medical researchers around the world...so they could develop immunizing agents to battle these diseases.
This was especially of interest for Baghdad University and the Ministry of Higher Education (not Saddam) as they appealed to the UN, CDC and WHO for help in controlling the spread of Brucellosis, Diphtheria, Hepatitis, Cholera, TB and any number of contagious diseases. Much of these so-called "chemicals" were also based on the same principal of fighting disease...which included chlorines and pesticides that could be used in water treatment facilities and in agriculture to contain the spread of disease. Before the concern over bio/chem warfare, these were common practices that medical researchers engaged in world wide. Saddam never got instructions from the US on how to weaponize these agents. That, he got from the USSR which was revealed shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The documents released uncovered that the Soviets engaged in the deadliest bio/chem weapons research the world has ever seen...including "cocktails" which was the mixing of deadly pathogens that made them resistant to vaccines and standard protections.
In hindsight, what the "USA" did was obviously a stupid thing, but it was not illegal...and if it was, the Senate Banking Committee, who actually investigated these charges, would've brought charges and prosecuted those who participated. While they did acknowledge bio-material transfers to Iraq, nothing was done outside the law that existed at that time. But there has been a deliberate attempt to confuse the issue of biological samples, which we did supply legally and deadly chemical materials, which we didn't. While one report says the US government was aware of Saddam's ambitions for "chemical" weapons exploitation as early as the early 1980's, a UN report states that Saddam's "biological" weapons program wasn't initiated until mid-1986 at Salman Pak. And this wasn't acknowledged until after the Gulf War, when the inspectors hit the ground and did their investigations. Now this is important because there has been a deliberate diception by some to say that if we knew about Saddam's chemical weapons, why did we continue to give him more. Number one, we didn't give him chemical weapons; number two, there was no evidence at that time that he was working on "biological" weapons. As the UN report states, he started that in mid-1986...and even then, it wasn't learned until "after" the Gulf War. The attacks on the Kurds and Shi'ites were by chemical weapons...not biological weapons. But that didn't matter because this was enough for some to infer that we continued to supply Saddam with weapons to kill his people.
Unfortunately, this was all the ammunition the left needed to accuse the US of arming Saddam with bio/chem weapons. There is a great article the debunks this myth and explains the details in these transfers. And even though anthrax was a part of these transfers, these transfers had been occurring since the late 1960's and was common practice within the medical community, before the fear of bio/chem warfare. Heck, from what I understand, anthrax is a spore that can be found in Nature.
Unfortunately, nowadays, anyone can turn chlorine and pesticide into a deadly aerosol weapon...and fertilizer into a explosive device. This is a far cry, however, from the Sarin and Mustard Gas that was used by Saddam on the Kurds and Shi'ites. And the USA never gave Saddam these deadly nerve agents. You wouldn't know that, though, from reading the accusations and articles of others. According to them, we gave Saddam these "weaponized" materials. This is nothing but the same liberal clap-trap that looks to blame Smith & Wesson (or any other gun manuafacturer) for the death of an individual because another individual used that product irresponsibly, malisciously...or in Saddam's case, other than how the product was intended to be used. I could be wrong, but from what I've read, I see alot of people connecting dots that don't exist. I think this chart goes further to mitigate these charges, as well.
11 posted on 04/11/2003 12:58 PM PDT by cwboelter
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"[Marshall Tito] is a man who believes in human rights. [He is] a great and courageous leader [who] has led his people and protected their freedom almost for the last 40 years." -- Carter, while still in office, hailing Yugoslavia's communist dictator
But Tito did fight the Germans with his Yugoslav partisans, he did resist Stalin.
I know a Croatian Serb who says that Tito refused to tolerate ethnic and religious strife in Yugoslavia. It was his death that led to the horrible civil wars there in the 1980s and 1990s.
Of course he was a communist. Of course he didn't settle the scores between the muslims and serbs in Yugoslavia. And of course he was a dictator who ruled with an iron fist. Carter should have put his adoration into a more accurate phrase.
I agree with your point, and I don't mean to detract from it with my comments.
But the Shaw of Iran is often held up by the left as an example of what goes wrong in the mideast when we give carte blanche to client dictators in defense of our national interests. Of course the left even goes so far as to say that religious extremism itself would be casued by the terrible suffering the Shaw caused.
War is hell, and we already know the left will do anything it can to deny its necessity.
Many on the left today don't understand the bitter flareups that were the reality of the Cold War. They blame the heinous suffering on the battle-scarred Cold Warriors, their client dictators, and our supporting troops both clandestine and conventional.
Of course the left never addresses the fact that the communists brought conflict to the regions in question. It's their deeply held belief in Marxist ideology that ties them to acceptance of "armed economic struggle." There's never a hint of encouragement for free markets as a solution for poverty.
The force of maniacal communist expansion had to be stopped with whatever means necessary.
We supplied him with a massive arms buildup, which apparently included chemical, and perhaps even biological, weapons.
... is an absolute lie. We supplied Saddam with intelligence during the Iran-Iraq war and bought his oil. That was the extent of the relationship.
He got his weapons on the free market, mostly from Russian sources, with the money he made from oil sales. His chems and bios were homegrown for the most part. Iraq had the second-most advanced biological program in the world, after the USSR.
Can't anybody get this straight?
We did NOT supply Saddam with WEAPONS. Yes, we did give him some intelligence about those calling us "the Great Satan." Weapons?---No.
That data is from SIPRI, as indicated in the chart notes.
Very interesting. I consider myself an existentialist, and this (to me) points out the error in Carter's ways: he wanted perfection, and he got something much worse. If he could have faced the real implications of his choices, he would have worked with the Shaw to reform that rule instead of letting it fall. The existentialist would have accepted the Shaw's flaws or would have found a humane solution equally or better suited to American interests.
Of course the Shaw was dying, but wouldn't that have been an opportunity to replace him with a successor who could have renewed efforts to bring peace to the country?
One question: were any of the 100,000 deaths per year your Iranian friend mentions related to the Iran-Iraq war? As far as I know, this war was started by Saddam and tolerated by the USA because we wanted to limit Iran's Islamic revolution. The Iranian tactics were characteristic of suicide warfare, and they would even use children to clear minefields.
I don't recall anyone accusing Jimmy Carter of being a crook.
Yes, he is politically my adversary, and he might be lusting for worldly recognition by getting involved in losing crusades.
Nevertheless, the only person I know who met Carter while he was Georgia governor told me that Carter was a nice guy. Maybe Carter has changed since then.
Thank you for enlightening me about Iran. I was a kid during the seventies, and I did not pay attention to the news in those days.
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