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The Falcons are in a division with Drew Brees and Cam Newton, and also have Peyton Manning, Philip Rivers, Tony Romo, Eli Manning, Matthew Stafford, Michael Vick, and rookie Robert Griffin III on their 2012 schedule. Stopping the pass will be both crucial, and incredibly difficult.
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Now it seems Dimitroff really is bent on forming his cornerback juggernaut, as ESPN's Adam Schefter is reporting that Atlanta is on the verge of acquiring Samuel for a late-round pick (probably a sixth rounder), in a deal will likely be completed prior to the draft. After leaving a fully stocked secondary where he played alongside Nnamdi Asomugha and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Samuel is now set to join Grimes and Dunta Robinson.
Of course, there is the small matter of money to be dealt with, and Samuel's bloated contract that partially led to Philly's desire to send him elsewhere. At 31, he's an aging player, and the vicious concoction of his age, the Eagles' surplus of CBs, and his massive contract made Samuel a luxury in Philadelphia that had far outlived its useful life. Samuel is set to make roughly $10 million in 2012, and $11.4 million in 2013, and finalizing the deal with Atlanta now depends on whether or not that salary can be re-worked to a more manageable number.
That digit-crunching process is already underway, with NFL Network's Jason La Canfora reporting that the deal could be completed today, and that Samuel is willing to reconfigure the final two years of his existing contract.
When that's done, the Falcons will have a three-time All Pro on their roster to balance their current talented but sometimes inconsistent cornerback duo of Robinson and Grimes. They're a pair that's often played a high risk, high reward game, delivering the big hit and interception, but also the big play. That's reflected in the Falcons' 19 interceptions last year (10th), which is countered by the 12 receptions of 40 yards or more they allowed (25th), and 236.6 yards per game (20th).
Better resistance against large gains through the air is a necessity given the Falcons' schedule, and the rapid growth of the passing game in today's NFL. For the Eagles, this becomes the acknowledgment that Samuel was an overpriced luxury, and it's also a blatant salary cap move. Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the Eagles will now have roughly $20 million in cap space.
As we wrote last week, if a team could find a way to be creative and fit Samuel in under the cap, they'd be acquiring an elite cornerback with 45 interceptions over nine seasons for slightly more than the price of a few used footballs. The odds of the Falcons finally winning a playoff game under Mike Smith just increased significantly.
UPDATE: The trade has been finalized, and Samuel has agreed to a three-year deal with the Falcons worth $18.5 million, according to NFL Network's Albert Breer. That's a pay cut compared to the $21.4 million Samuel was set to make over the next two years in Philadelphia, which is likely a meaningless observation.
Had he stayed in Philly, Samuel almost certainly would have been released, and therefore wouldn't have seen a dime of that contract.

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I'm wondering how this works. I know you want to put down fertilizer but it seems like it would be very useful for a quick spring booster to use an in-line fertilizer through the irrigation system. |
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Farmers all around the country have been using fertigators for years. Are you wondering about the physics of sucking fertilizer into the system or are you wondering how well it works? |
More about how well it works vs. standard fertilizing. |
My gut feeling is that it gets the fertilizer out there quickly but there could be side effects. Time released fertilizer might not work. Poor coverage could result. Fertilizer could wash down the street. Corrosion of any metal parts in the system or sprinkler heads. Sprinkler valves could stick open or closed and nozzles could stop-up. Potential water contamination due to back-flow if a failure occurs. I would opt for conventional methods of fertilizing rather than invest in an inline system. Too many things could go wrong. |
i understand it's a 2 yo thread, but just in case. i do have one of those installed into my irrigation. i did installation myself. was few bucks worth of parts from home depot. it works by running off water flow in the system. judging from the noise it makes, there's a turbine in it that is propelled by water flow and that propels some sort of a pump inside the housing that creates suction, sucking in certain amounts of liquid fertilizer from a can/bottle/canister. i am probably not a good source of opinion on results, as i live on a very, very poor soil acre. fertifator squirts in minute amounts of fertilizer, so it does not give tremendous results when sprayed over 25000 sq feet of grass. also, it should be proportional to time irrigation is on, and i do not exceed 17 minutes per station. also, i combine inline fertigation with broadcast spraying from my 14 gal sprayer, but i started doing this only 2 mths ago. so far, grass is still there. comparing to the last year, when i had 45% of it dead after drought. i have no weeds, as i add weed killer to the liquid. truly, i will know by september, as heat wave finally came to pacific nw, but this time i'll go for broke and keep watering. part of the issue you will have with fertigator is you are getting hassled with finding liquid fertilizer. stores do not have it. best i could find was miracle grow 4 bottle packs from walmart, at $10. liquid fertilizer canisters that will work with mine run about $25 plus shipping and should last about a month. that's really something to consider before you fork for one. what i did, i said froget that expense, and figured how to use regular 2L coke bottle for fertilizer. i simply mix mine and pour into the bottle. 2L lasts about 10 days on 5 days a week irrigation, so i simply watch for the level to drop beyond certain point and refill. i use - blasphemy - miracle grow mixed in water. i feel confident, i could also use fish fertilizer solution in water. heck, i could use black water from my septic. whatever is soluble in water without major solid particles left will work. now i need to find inline fertilizer that will connect into hose garden, for back yard, as i do not have irrigation there. |
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First post !! Anyways, I live in the country and have an old farm house with 70A service. I am going to upgrade to 200A service and am currently in the planning phase. I have an electrician friend that is going to help me, but is currently out of the country till this summer. So, I thought I'd get most of the planning out of the way while he's gone and educate myself in the process. So, to start things out.... I have my house, a detached garage/shop, and would like the ability to add some outdoor cirtuits in future (ie yard light, maybe a pond pump, maybe christmas lights, etc...). I'm currently not blowing any circuits and my load calculations indicate that I'm probably just under 70A usage right now, at the max. But, I'd still like to build out. With this being said, I figure I'll put a pole mount combination meter base. I'd like to have a 200A main disconnect which would feed two 200A breakers (one for the house, one for the shop), and the ability to add some other outdoor circuits down the road. I'll be re-running new/upgraded feeders for the house and the shop to support this additional amperage. But, I cannot find combination meter base (I have no preference if the meter is separate) that will support the main 200A disconnect with the two 200A sub-breakers. Why is this and what am I missing? I know the response I'll probably recieve is that I wouldn't be able to fully utilize the 200A in both the house and shop at the same time, and I recognize this. But I also don't want to limit myself and the main 200A disconnect should protect me anyway. I also know a response may be, "What in the heck would you need 200A in the shop for?" And again, I'd rather over build than under build. In the shop I have welders, plasma cutters, iron workers, etc. Also, I feed four grain bin dryers from it as well. So, help me out. Can you suggest a product or, am I missing the boat here? Thanks a million. |
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First question, did you contact the power company. Most of the ones I've dealt with have a single page as to what they expect for a meter base. Some don't care, some have specific things in mind. Why are you wrapped around having a combination? No problem with running 200A both places, just means you spend a little more on the bigger wiring in the feeders. |
Good luck finding a plug in 200A breaker to fit a combo panel. Use a 400A meter base and two 200A disconnects instead. |
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The QO 2P 200A breaker takes four slots but will fit into their combo panel. |
The QO 2P 200A breaker takes four slots but will fit into their combo panel. I believe you will find the mfg limits any breaker attached to the bus to 100 or 125A. |
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Given the tone of the headlines in Europe, it is hard not to consider recession scenarios and what the impact might be for the online travel agencies (OTAs). Europe has been a large part of the growth story for the public OTAs over the last couple of years, playing a major role in Priceline's emergence as the travel industry's market capitalization leader. The European opportunity also has evolved as a critical category for Expedia as it strives to catch up. We cannot say whether recession in Europe is coming or not, but it is clear that neither Phocuswright's forecast nor Wall Street consensus expectations are incorporating a downturn. With this Spotlight we take a closer look at expectations for the European online hotel category to gauge the downside risk to expectations under a recession scenario and the impact on the two most visible OTAs.


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We're really beginning to see more and more 1GB 9600GT cards come to the market, but we continue to see that they offer no real performance increase when compared to their 512MB counterpart.
With the 1GB offering and 512MB model offering the same overclock and the same excellent performing cooler, it's going to be hard to spend the extra money on a 1GB card when the 512MB offering is going to perform almost identically.
With that said though, if you find yourself needing a 1GB card the MSI offering is a good choice for a few reasons; the included HDMI adapter is good which is capable of carrying sound, and the cooler on it, while being dual slot does an excellent job of cooling the card at a reasonable noise level.
The extra $50 - $70AUD that you would spend by moving to the 1GB model could be spent on faster RAM, more RAM, a faster CPU or a number of other things.
The MSI 9600GT 1GB is a good card, but it doesn't represent the best value for money. With that said though, there is no doubt that people out there feel they must have 1GB of graphics card RAM, and if that's the case then MSI could have the card for you here.


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With the TES 1326 Infrared Thermometer literally in hand we found ourselves getting real-world temperatures from the products we test at load (3D clock speeds).
There are two places we pull temperature from - the back of the card directly behind the core and if the card is dual slot and has an exhaust point we also pull a temperate from there, as seen in the picture.
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In 1988 she hosted news programs and affairs probrams like Actuel, Montréal ce soir, Virages, and Le Point for Radio-Canada and she was the first person of Caribbean descent to be seen on French television news in Canada. In 1999 she started hosting The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts, which both broadcast the best in Canadian and foreign documentary films. And in 2004 she got her own show titled Michaëlle. While all of this was going on, she and her husband made several films including the award winning Haïti dans tous nos rêves ("Haiti in All Our Dreams").
She was appointed governor general by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin in 2005. This appointment made her a lot of firsts and fews, so many in fact I'm only going to list some of them here: She was the first governor general of Caribbean origin, the third woman, the fourth former journalist, and one of the few to have neither a political nor military background. Last but not least, she was the first representative of Queen Elizabeth II to have been born during the latter's reign.
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Whether identifying fish or monitoring water quality, students combine education with service through OSU's Oregon Natural Resources Education Program. Through partnerships with local watershed councils and other agencies, students are making a difference.
Lifelong stewardship can begin as simply as a school project at a local stream.
That's what happened when Philomath High School student Colby Davidson conducted a fish study for his senior thesis. An average student who wasn't accustomed to accolades, he was as surprised as his teachers when he discovered six native species previously unknown in Newton Creek - and then won a national conservation award from the National Wildlife Federation. Now, three years later, he remains vigilant and active in local watershed issues.
Stories like this drive and inspire OSU's Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP). Based in the College of Forestry, the Extension program's mission statement - "to prepare educators to inspire natural resources learning and experiences so that students make informed decisions, exhibit responsible behavior, and take constructive action for Oregon's natural resources" - captures its community-service thrust.
Building Skills
Through ONREP's Teachers as Researchers project, kids get initiated to service learning with a foundation in rigorous classroom instruction. "Authentic field investigations start with skill-building, such as graphing pollution data or identifying Northwest invertebrates," notes ONREP Director Susan Sahnow.
It then spills across local landscapes as teachers lead students into woodlands and riparian zones to study the natural resources that define the places they call home.
Finally, by forging partnerships with local watershed councils and other agencies, teachers and students embark on research-based projects that enhance their neighborhoods, forests and watersheds in tangible ways.
The key message for students is, "If we don't take care of our stream, who's going to do it?" says teacher and ONREP participant Jeff Mitchell. "They learn to care about their own community by doing meaningful community service."
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James V. Koch is Board of Visitors Professor of Economics and President Emeritus at Old Dominion University. He also has held teaching and research positions at Illinois State University, California State University at Los Angeles, the University of Grenoble (France), Brown University, Rhode Island College, Ball State University, the University of Hawai'i, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and the University of Montana. He served as President of the University of Montana (1986-1990) and Old Dominion University (1990-2001) and was named one of the 100 most effective college presidents in the United States.
Dr. Koch has published eleven books and 100 articles in refereed journals. His research has focused primarily upon applied microeconomics topics. His journal articles on the economics of intercollegiate athletics, the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, TQM, and the economics of education have been reprinted and cited frequently. He also has done extensive work on the economics of e-commerce. Lumina Foundation published his study of the textbook market, Turning the Page, in 2013.
past research examined the risk-taking behavior of corporate CEOs and was
funded by the Kauffman Foundation. The results were published as Born, Not Made (Praeger, 2008, co-author
James L. Fisher). He also is the author of America For Sale, a study of the purchase of U.S. assets by
foreigners (Praeger, Fall 2009, co-author, Craig T. Bouchard). Dr. Koch served for several years as a member
of the board of the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Company and its successor,
His forthcoming book, The Caterpillar Way (McGraw-Hill, October 2013, Craig T. Bouchard, co-author) focuses on how Caterpillar, Inc., the leading heavy equipment producer in the world, has achieved such great success even while many similarly situated manufacturing firms have stagnated or failed.
Dr. Koch has served as a consultant or expert witness for over seventy-five legal firms, corporations, and universities. For fourteen years, Dr. Koch has produced the widely cited State of the Region Report for the Hampton Roads, Virginia, metropolitan area (population 1.7 million) that analyzes and assesses the region's economic, political and social conditions.
Additionally, Dr. Koch has evaluated more than fifty presidents of universities, including the University of Hawai'i, the University of Central Florida, Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of Alaska. His 1996 book, Presidential Leadership (co-authored with James L. Fisher) is used as a reference and textbook in many universities and leadership institutes. In July 2004, his The Entrepreneurial College President (with James L. Fisher), was published by Praeger for the American Council on Education.
Another interest of Dr. Koch is the History of World War II; he has published a series of items on aspects of World War II. His publications on WW II focus on the eastern front. A 2008 DVD entitled "Valkyrie" focusing on the 1944 assassination attempt upon Adolf Hitler featured Dr. Koch as an expert commentator. He is a non-competitive runner, a life-long St. Louis Cardinal fan, and wishes he could spend more time in Montana.


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We the undersigned wish to express our deep disappointment in the State's MTA bailout package. The new payroll tax and other charges demonstrate that once again the business community and others bear the weight of the fiscal irresponsibility on the part of the State Legislature and the MTA. This new blow further threatens to drive more businesses out of the state when New York can least afford it, and it virtually ensures that the state will remain as the "least-friendly" business state in the nation. We call on our State Legislators to take action against future punitive measures against the business community. We know that the budget will have to be revisited, and we do not want the legislators coming back to the business community and other with their hands out.
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The National Finals Rodeo is extending its stay in Las Vegas and Canadian rodeos will once again count in the world standings.
Those were two of the major announcements concerning the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
The PRCA is extending its existing contract for the NFR another five years, keeping it in Las Vegas through 2014.
The previous contract was set to expire following the 2009 NFR.
The terms call for an annual $1 million dollar guarantee to the PRCA from Las Vegas Events, while the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has tentatively agreed to $1 million in annual sponsorship with the PRCA to promote the NFR and Las Vegas at PRCA-sanctioned rodeos.
The LVE will also continue to guarantee the purse and all the expenses for the NFR.
"In a somewhat unpredictable economy, this agreement guarantees that the showcase event in our sport of professional rodeo will remain in the great city of Las Vegas an additional five years, while also guaranteeing the PRCA a $2 million annual payment," said Troy Ellerman, the PRCA commissioner in a released statement.
"This agreement is a winner for everyone involved, including ProRodeo's world-class contestants, our loyal sponsors and rodeo fans everywhere."
The NFR purse will escalate from $5.25 million this year to $6.375 million by 2014.
Also, starting this year, each NFR contestant will receive $10,000. Last year, each qualifier received $6,197. The amount will reach $14,500 by 2014.
The agreement between LVE and PRCA was predicated on one schedule change.
The 10-performance NFR will now begin on a Thursday and end on a Saturday night. Previously, the NFR started on the first Friday of December and closed on a Sunday afternoon.
The NFR has been in Las Vegas since 1985.
Canadian agreement
The PRCA and the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association have reached a one-year deal to co-approve rodeos for 2006.
Back in August, the PRCA severed all ties with the CPRA, announcing that money won in Canada would not count in the PRCA world standings.
That impacted cowboys and cowgirls from all over the United States, but particularly from Montana, who go north many times during the spring and summer to compete.
Harlem team roper Shane Schwenke won approximately $30,000 this year in Canada, while Sidney steer wrestler Beau Franzen won the both the average and $50,000 bonus round at the Calgary Stampede.
According to the Calgary Herald, the agreement is not binding to the approximately 60 rodeos in Canada. If the Canadian rodeos don't want PRCA approval, the prize money will only count in the Canadian standings.
The major Canadian rodeos - Cloverdale, Innisfail, Wainwright, Ponoka, Medicine Hat, Strathmore and Armstrong are expected to pay both administrative fees to the PRCA and CPRA to have their money count on both sides of the border and keep attracting the U.S. competitors.
Team roping is also mandatory for every Canadian rodeo seeking PRCA approval.
The Calgary Stampede announced earlier it was breaking away from both the PRCA and CPRA to run its own show. The Calgary Stampede plans to feature the top 20 in each event and will pay the expenses of the cowboys and cowgirls to compete, along with annual bonus round.


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News literacy—the discipline that teaches students how to critically engage with the news they consume—grew specifically out of the contemporary American media environment. The first news literacy curriculum was crafted at Stony Brook University in 2005 to help students navigate Web outlets of dubious provenance competing for attention by churning out sensational headlines atop thinly-sourced stories. The News Literacy Project, which teaches high school and middle school students, includes the First Amendment as an one of the four pillars of its five-hour digital unit.
Nonetheless, news literacy is expanding abroad to some of the countries where you would least expect it. That includes some of the US's most powerful and authoritarian adversaries, such as Russia and China. But it starts with Bhutan, a tiny, remote, poor kingdom in the Himalayas.
In 2008, Bhutan was undergoing a transition to democracy, accompanied by an explosion of independent news outlets. Pek Dorji, founder of the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy, reached out to the Stony Brook Center for News Literacy to see if its staff might help Bhutanese students learn how to carefully assess news. "[Dorji] called me and said, 'We're trying to transition from a feudal system to democracy; we've introduced news media and cable television to a population that may not be ready for it, and would you help us?'" recalls Howard Schneider, founding dean of the Stony Brook journalism school.
Bhutan didn't allow cable TV until 1999, and internet only became widely available there in 2006. In 2009, Dorji attended a news literacy conference at Stony Brook, and in each of the last three years Stony Brook professors have gone to Bhutan to do workshops for public school teachers on teaching news literacy. (The workshops are essentially a shortened version of the Stony Brook summer institute that trains mostly American K-12 teachers in news literacy instruction.)
"It was first my experience trying to work across cultural divides when teaching news literacy," says Dean Miller, director of the Center for News Literacy. "It's so neck-snapping, driving down the highway countryside, and there's a woman with a forehead strap carrying manure down a steep hill to the rice paddies, and walking down the same road you see a young girl wearing a North Face knockoff parka carrying a smartphone."
Next came Hong Kong. Masato Kajimoto, a former CNN Web reporter, teaches an introductory course at the University of Hong Kong on principles of journalism. "In 2011, I felt that my students in this course, mostly freshmen, needed more than the traditional induction into what journalists do and how news media function," says Kajimoto via email. "My observation was that regardless of their majors, students were very casual news consumers who were arbitrarily deciding what is good journalism and what is not based on rather flimsy impressions they had about news outlets, journalists, and news presentation. I believed that the course should help the students develop their own mental tools to critically evaluate the types and sources of information they come across every day in this information age. That's when I encountered the News Literacy initiative by Stony Brook."
It was not immediately obvious to everyone at Stony Brook that news literacy could be adapted to all these different conditions. "News literacy is very much a creature of the US, created by print journalists in the US," says Richard Hornik, director of Overseas Partnership Programs for the Center for News Literacy. "We wondered if it could be de-Americanized enough to be exportable."
In Hornik's experience, the answer is yes. In the fall of 2012, Hornik co-taught Kajimoto's class at the University of Hong Kong. Hornik and Kajimoto had to replace most of the American stories in the Stony Brook curriculum with examples from the local media to make the lessons relatable. For instance, Hornik found a piece in the Hong Kong Standard with the headline "Overseas firms pack bags over high rents." But the claim was totally unsupported by the evidence in the article, which was merely that 3 percent of foreign firms in Hong Kong said they would move in the next few years, while 22 percent said they would expand. "We teach students to evaluate news stories the way an editor would, to deconstruct the news article," explains Hornik. "We want them to ask, 'Is the lede supported by the body? Is the hed supported by the body?"
These are principles that can be applied in virtually any media environment, no matter how restrictive, assuming the authorities will allow you to teach it. Stony Brook is currently putting that to the test by building relationships with the Communications University of China in Beijing, and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.


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Head Pakistani cleric backpedals on suicide attacks
In a somewhat startling reversal for the religious leader of a nation, Allama Tahir Ashrafi, the Chairman of Pakistan's Ulema Council, announced yesterday that his recent statement endorsing suicide attacks and other forms of violent jihad in "occupied" Muslim countries was taken out of context and that harming civilians is acceptable to none.
It was widely reported that on March 1 Ashrafi stated: "Palestine is occupied by Israel, Kashmir by India and Afghanistan by the US. So if Muslims don't have the atomic bomb, they should sacrifice their lives. We want America to leave the region." [See LWJ report, Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference.]
Ashrafi told Pajhwok Afghan News yesterday, however, that "I've never supported suicide attacks that cause civilian casualties in Afghanistan," and he added that such bombings had also been banned by Taliban emir Mullah Omar.
Despite Ashrafi's claim that Mullah Omar does not support suicide attacks, the tactic has been used with regularity by his Taliban forces.
Since the first such attack on Sept. 9, 2001, suicide attacks have killed well over 3,755 people in Afghanistan, and the vast majority of the victims of these attacks have been civilians. According to the United Nations' 2012 Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Afghanistan, 22% of all civilian casualties inflicted by antigovernment elements in 2012 were caused by suicide attacks. The UN documented 1,507 civilian casualties in 2012 (328 killed and 1,179 injured) from 73 incidents of suicide and complex attacks (the latter include suicide attacks). Three children died executing suicide attacks in 2012, and 48 more were arrested for planning to conduct such attacks.
The UNAMA report also states: "In 2012 UNAMA documented 46 separate incidents for which the Taliban publically claimed responsibility. These incidents accounted for a total of 513 civilian casualties and included 15 targeted killings, 12 suicide and complex attacks, nine IED incidents and seven ground engagements."
Ashrafi's assertion yesterday that a suicide attack against a purely military target would be permissible is also curious, given that many suicide bombers are themselves civilians. The ranks of suicide bombers include children as young as eight, women, and the mentally handicapped. [See LWJ reports, Taliban rebuild children's suicide camp in South Waziristan, Pakistani Taliban kidnap young girl to turn her into a suicide bomber, and Female suicide bomber strikes in Peshawar, and see also LWJ report, Al Qaeda in Iraq uses disabled women in Baghdad bombings.]
Ashrafi's statement endorsing suicide attacks triggered widespread condemnation from Afghan clerics and government officials, among others. The Afghan High Peace Council issued a statement castigating Ashrafi's declaration on jihad as contradicting every Islamic principle, and a group of Afghan Islamic scholars and clerics said that it was not for the head of Pakistan's ulema council to issue a fatwa, according to TOLOnews.
Afghan national security advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta warned that the "fatwa" issued by Ashrafi demonstrated the strong current of violence that threatened the Afghan people, Khaama Press reported.
Deputy national security advisor and former spy chief Rahmatullah Nabil called for the international community to blacklist both Ashrafi and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, according to TOLOnews. Nabil said the fact that Pakistani clerics had responded to the conference invitation with "a religious Fatwa and [that they] consider Jihad in Afghanistan as permissible" amounted to a "very shameless confession" that Pakistan does not want a peaceful and powerful Afghanistan.
Ashrafi's fatwa also drew a reaction from NATO. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated in Kabul today after meeting with President Hamid Karzai: "I strongly condemn endorsing suicide attacks and there is no justification for such a terrorist attacks." Speaking at the joint press conference with Rasmussen, Karzai said the chief Pakistani cleric's fatwa endorsing suicide attacks served to clarify Pakistan's position regarding Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported.
The speed and the nature of Ashrafi's apparent shift in position yesterday on the issue of suicide attacks suggest that forces are working on him to 'shape the message.'
READER COMMENTS: "Head Pakistani cleric backpedals on suicide attacks"
Posted by Infidel4LIFE at March 4, 2013 2:20 PM ET:
So, I guess if they had nuclear weapons, he endorses using them on the kafir's? Wow, thanx for telling us. I guess the Pakistani's are ok with killing indiscriminately, women, children, moslem or not?
Posted by blert at March 4, 2013 3:07 PM ET:
You've missed his legalese: the reference to NOT using suicide bombing WHEN a nation has atomic weaponry was a SPECIFIC coded reference to Pakistan, itself.
Translating into ordinary language: he meant that murder-suicide was proper in Afghanistan -- but not proper within Pakistan. (It's atomic arsenal, being the difference.)
After the Pakistani and Western press got through with his (too clever) phrasing -- just about everyone has misconstrued his messaging.
Having said all that, the ISI and its minions are using murder-suicide gambits within Pakistan -- anyway.
So, he was too clever, by far.
Posted by mike merlo at March 4, 2013 3:30 PM ET:
that Pakistani's of 'standing' would 'see' fit to impose their will upon their neighbors serves only to further 'enlighten' the Afghans of the ominous threat Pakistan poses to their Nation. This Pakistani Lebensraum targeting Afghanistan has long ago been exposed for the fraud that it is. Using religion as cover to satisfy extraterritorial ambitions by Pakistan has inexorably been grinding itself into irrelevance.
That Allama Tahir Ashrafi is the Chairman of Pakistans Ulema Council & is now seeking to reverse his position reveals the depth of the fraud being perpetrated by the Pakistani Government & high profile personages. Conversations, behavior's, & 'actions' by the 'rank & file' witnessing a Nation racked by sectarian violence, leadership of questionable loyalty & dysfunctional governance continue to fuel efforts determined to secure their well being & safety in spite of a government unwilling or unable to do the same.
Posted by gb at March 4, 2013 3:30 PM ET:
Does this rhetoric justify a preemptive strike if the PAK government were to lose positive control over it's nuclear arsenal.
Posted by Moose at March 4, 2013 11:04 PM ET:
@Mike Merlo
I agree with a lot of your comments. I also believe there is a Pakistani Lebensraum occurring.
I believe Pakistan implemented the first phase of this strategy by creating and supporting the Taliban in the 1990s. Using Afghanistan to launder their jihadists and drugs made Afghanistan look like a pariah on the international stage and gave Pakistan diplomatic cover to eventually annex the country. Of course, September 11 changed all that.
I base my conclusions on three facts: 1) Pakistan's population growth can't be sustained by its current territories, 2) Pakistan has a history of doing this, and 3) they teach their kids in school that Afghanistan belongs to Pakistan.
On the first point, Karachi, for instance, had a population of 500,000 in 1947 that today stands at over 20 million.
On the second point, this strategy has been underway in Balochistan for the last decade. The port at Gwadar was touted as creating 2 million jobs, but that labor force doesn't exist in Balochistan. Construction on the Makran Coastal Hwy was also completed a few years ago which connects Karachi to Gwadar and reduces travel between the two cities by over a day. As muhajirs arrive in Balochistan by the millions, the province will change drastically in the coming years.
They're accomplishing with infrastructure and overwhelming population growth what armed intervention couldn't do in Balochistan... conquering it. Current population trends lead me to believe that they still have their sights on Afghanistan.
Posted by BANBI at March 5, 2013 12:39 PM ET:
What about the terrorist cia who have beeen supplying and arming some of the taliban wich where created by the stinking lying two faced USA.
Posted by mike merlo at March 5, 2013 1:14 PM ET:
if you take some time study/research Pakistan you'll find that 'they've' been coveting Afghanistan, at least parts of it, since the Partition of 1947. One could also easily make the case that Afghanistan has been a much vocal & active advocate of securing parts of Pakistan at different times during their brief 'histories.'
Posted by Joe at March 5, 2013 4:52 PM ET:
It is fairly clear that the actual policy of the ISI and the Pakistani military is not aimed at grabbing territory. They are mostly determined to prevent the unification of the Pashtun peoples on both sides of the Durand Line and to suppress any Nationalist urges by the Balochs et al.
If they wanted to seize control over territory they could start by doing it in Waziristan and so forth. Instead they view these areas as ungovernable by a state as weak and disunited as Pakistan and try to prevent any other cohesive entity from taking root there.
In Afghanistan they are terrified of Indian influence, because India is a powerful nation with growing wealth and influence and Pakistan is pretty much on it's knees from mismanagement and reaping what they have sown with the Jihadist groups they helped to organize.
Posted by Pete Michael at March 6, 2013 12:08 AM ET:
Hey Allama Tahir Ashrafi: Interesting that fat, overfed cowards like you who coerce young and impressionable youths to end their lives in suicide bombings never seen to have the guts to sacrifice themselves in suicide attacks. What a surprise. I can only hope that so many young, brainwashed and hopeless young people that you pollute with your hateful rhetoric will finally realize that there is a better future in store than throwing their lives away for some fanatical tyrant such as you. Peace is possible, Pete.
Posted by Moose at March 6, 2013 4:55 AM ET:
My comments should be taken in the context of several decades.
The Pashtunistan issue has been moot since the Soviets left and Afghanistan collapsed. I'm sure the U.S. made guarantees early on ensuring Pakistan's territorial integrity. In any case, playing the sub-tribes in the region against each other has always been a specialty of Pakistan's. It's called divide and conquer.
Pakistan has also done a fantastic PR job of making it's strategy in Afghanistan seem like it's all about India. India has never had a large footprint in Afghanistan and the notion that building a few roads in the country somehow threatens nuclear-armed Pakistan is a red-herring. They just don't want a developing Afghanistan to ever be a threat and to unite the Pashtuns.
"Instead they view these areas as ungovernable by a state as weak and disunited as Pakistan and try to prevent any other cohesive entity from taking root there."
Absolutely agreed. They've been buying themselves time by keeping countervailing forces at bay, but do you really think Pakistan doesn't have a strategy in place to change this?
Pakistan hasn't done so yet in places like Waziristan b/c they've been too busy consolidating their country since 1947. Again, I'm not saying it's going to happen tomorrow or even 10 years from now, but at some point Pakistan will go after Afghanistan. Call it Lebensraum or Manifest Destiny, but I believe it's part of their long-term strategy.
Posted by Mr T at March 6, 2013 8:35 PM ET:
So they tell the world one thing out of their mouth and tell the poor bomber its ok to kill himself or herself including children.
"Posted by BANBI at March 5, 2013 12:39 PM ET:
What about the terrorist cia who have beeen supplying and arming some of the taliban wich where created by the stinking lying two faced USA."
Talk about two faced. The USA did not issue any fatwas for suicide bombers. Thats a guy from Pakistan who did. By the way, Bambi dies at the end of the movie.
Posted by blert at March 7, 2013 5:03 AM ET:
The US Constitution -- our highest law -- flatly prohibits a n y state supported religion.
Consequently, it has been unlawful for the US Government to run ANY monies through any religious institution -- by any mechanism of any kind.
Do note that the Taliban, as a collective, were created within the Islamic madrassas of Pakistan.
Such institutions have been, still are, supported by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- the King, himself, in particular. This is why they spout Wahhabist dogma -- something new to Pakistan during the 1980s.
The King is on record as having spent at least $200,000,000,000 since the 1970s on 'spreading the (Wahhabist) faith.' (Every king in his turn, of course.)
It's KSA state policy.
There is great irony: OBL and his AQ crew's core desire is to liquidate the entire Saudi royal family. (!)
We call that 'blow-back.'


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The Cleveland International Film Festival returns to Cleveland's Detroit Shoreway neighborhood for the fifth consecutive year. The historic Capitol Theatre is another Gordon Square Arts District star that shines in its splendor.
PARKING: A parking lot is located next to the theatre off of West 65th Street. Additional parking is available one block south of the Capitol (behind Gypsy Bean). Parking is also available one block east on Detroit Avenue.
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Plus the RTA Red Line's West 65th Street Rapid Station is about a fifteen minute walk from the Capitol Theatre.
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Many of us have been touched by Alzheimer's disease. Some of my friends in Atco are banding together, literally, to raise money to help fund research.
Music and magic will join forces for one special day at "Atco vs. Alzheimers," a benefit concert and performance to raise money for Alzehimer's research. Three bands based in Atco, NJ., as well as magician Richie B., will come together on Sunday, Aug. 11, from noon to 4 p.m., at Racks Restaurant and Sports Bar, located at 286 White Horse Pike in Atco.
Each of the three bands – Goodman Fiske, Shut Up Justice and Triple Dog Dare – have members who live in Atco. Additionally, magician Richie B, who will kick off the day's entertainment, also is an Atco resident.
"Alzheimer's is a disease that has personally touched myself and another member of our band," said Rich Bradley, event organizer and drummer for Triple Dog Dare. "We were discussing ways that we could help raise money to help find a cure for the disease, and came up with this event."
The idea to stage a benefit show went from a concept to reality very quickly.
"That's one of the advantages of living in a small town like Atco," Bradley said. "All of the bands know each other, Richie B. is a neighbor and personal friend. Entertainers are generally very willing to help out, especially if there is a personal connection to the charity. Everyone agreed to help out as soon as they heard the idea. The staff and management at Racks were really supportive of entire concept, especially since it has such a great local feel to it. All told, it took less than a week to get everyone on board."
Each band will play at least 45 minutes, while Richie B. will entertain before the bands, and during breaks.
In addition to the bands, there will be a Chinese auction and other fundraisers going on throughout the afternoon to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer's.
The event is open to all ages.
Entertainment schedule:
12:10-12:30 The Magic of Richie B
12:45-1:30 Triple Dog Dare
1:45-2:45 Shut Up Justice
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NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RFI Studios announced today it will launch LikeBlitz.com, a web app designed to measure and display in real-time the number of new Facebook Likes advertising brands receive during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, February 3 rd. LikeBlitz.com will track brands that advertise during the game as soon as the game begins and results will be displayed on a dynamic leader board that will continually refresh throughout the game.
"We were just curious about the social pay-off of a $3.8 million television commercial," said Scott Schneider, Chief Digital Officer. "We think a Facebook Like has a 'gateway effect' on a person's social engagement with a brand, so we made something simple that you could look at in real-time during the game."
The LikeBlitz tracker is optimized for all screens so football fans, ad junkies, and marketing industry followers will be able to easily keep tabs on the 'best' and 'worst' performing advertising brands throughout the game no matter where they are watching.
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I have fine, bleached, slightly damaged elbow-length hair that needs washing every 1-2 days.
I can't say this Dove "Dry Therapy"made a whole lot of difference, I'm still getting split ends and my hair is still quite dry (on the first day it's okay, second day it gets worse, on the third day it bears some resemblance to straw). But I didn't expect it to work miracles. It overall works well as an average shampoo, giving a good lather.
Personally I wouldn't repurchase this because of the average 'hair' smell it leaves (I prefer the scent of Herbal Essences and Garnier), but I feel this deserves a 'Yes'. And the slight egg-shaped bottle is somewhat cute, although the description on the back is rather vague.
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I love this shampoo, it smells amazing and I feel that it has improved the quality of my hair. The only thing I don't like about it though is that it makes my hair feel sort of stiff after i wash it out. I usually end up using a deep conditioner afterwards, and all's well. I've been using it for months now and and will continue to do so. It's a great shampoo.
Not a huge fan of this product. After the first use, my hair did feel nice and soft, but in the following days, it just made my hair a greasy mess. My husband uses this and has no problems, so maybe it's better suited for those with normal hair? I have fairly oily hair, and this product did nothing but add to that problem.
This shampoo is amazing. Prior to using it, my hair was a fried, frazzled mess... split ends and broken all to pieces. I've been using it for several weeks with incredible results. My hair is soft and bouncy and full of "life". This is definitely HG material!
well, i had a coupon for this, and my hair is damaged, and i am getting a haircut wendsday. So, i just used this, an hour ago. and my hair smells soooo good and feels so clean!dove is probaly the only product i can RELY on
I LOVE this shampoo. I had to switch to the advance color therapy after getting my hair lightened. It works great also. I LOVE Dove!!!!!!
Update: After going to get my hair bleached, the lady doing my hair said Dove isn't the best for color treated hair. I thought it was the best but now I have to change that......Nexxus color assure is the ONE! I use the shampoo, conditioner, and heat spray. My hair looks like it's never been damaged.
I have started to become loyal to Dove, ever since I tried their exfoliating body bar-- probably one of the best products I've used in the shower! Without straying too far off now, I bought this shampoo thinking I'd have the same amazing results. I fryed my hair 3 weeks ago and it is still repairing; After 1 week this shampoo doesn't have any noticable results, but it may be too soon.
Edit-- After one week of further use, I have noticed significant results and am starting to really like this shampoo!
In the past, I had tried the Dove "Extra Volume" line. It worked wonders for a while, and then stopped working dead cold.
So, when I received a sample of the Dove Advanced Care in our Sunday paper, I skeptically thought "Well it couldn't hurt to try it out on my color-treated thin but sometimes frizzy hair." And you know what... I loved it. It actually gave my hair tons of volume and made it feel healthy at the same time, which usually does NOT happen. Like the other Dove products (for me at least) this shampoo/conditioner work for a while, then I have to switch out and use another shampoo/conditioner. When I come back to the Dove, it works again. Horray! Repeat cycle.
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Back on topic - It's been a coin toss in the air on whether to use glyph of Immolation or glyph of Life Tap. I've switched to glyph of Life Tap and noticed my DPS has gone up significantly - that being as long as you keep it active.
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Nov 12th 2008 3:10PM Yea - so basically, I live on the east coast (pennsylvania). My server is Echo Isle which is PST. So that means I have to wait until 3AM EST to play????????
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What really sucks is that this is a clear indication of what could more than likely happen from 12:01AM Thursday throughout the weekend.
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Division of Banks Releases New Regulations Prohibiting Lenders from Foreclosing if Modification Is in Process
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BOSTON – Massachusetts homeowners will see enhanced protections under regulations filed by the Patrick Administration's Division of Banks (the Division) that prevent national and state lenders from foreclosing on a property if an application for a loan modification is in process.
"This is another step in the right direction to further strengthen protections provided to Massachusetts borrowers and homeowners," said Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Undersecretary Barbara Anthony. "These new rules complement the recently adopted foreclosure prevention regulations that require lenders and servicers to modify certain mortgage loans if the cost of modification is less than the cost of foreclosure."
The new regulations were established as a result of the law signed by Governor Deval Patrick in August 2012. Under the new rules, mortgage servicers will be required to explore more options to avoid foreclosure and third-party mortgage servicers will be prohibited from initiating a foreclosure when an application for a loan modification is in process.
Third-party loan servicers will also have to provide a single point of contact for the borrower, follow detailed loan modification procedures, and communicate with borrowers in a timely manner to comply with the new regulations.
These new regulations include many provisions of the Attorneys General's 2012 mortgage settlement with the five largest national mortgage servicers. The Division also considered the recently published Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rules which go into effect in January 2014.
"These regulations ensure that state regulatory requirements are consistent with the requirements of the Bureau's mortgage servicing rules," said Commissioner of Banks David Cotney. "These rules will provide clarity for lenders and servicers so that they can appropriately and fairly service the mortgage loans of Massachusetts borrowers."
The proposed regulations also amend the definition of "debt collector" to include active debt buyers who purchase loans in default and then directly collect that debt.
The Division of Banks oversees state-chartered banks and credit unions as well as mortgage lenders and brokers, debt collectors, and check-cashers, and is an agency within the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Follow the Office at its blog, on Facebook and on Twitter, @Mass_Consumer.


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Svenska Handelsbanken AB, Sweden's second-largest bank by market value, proposed paying shareholders 10 percent more in dividends after profit last quarter soared.
The Stockholm-based bank, which today unveiled plans to expand further in western Europe, proposed a dividend of 10.75 kronor ($1.7) a share for 2012, compared with 9.75 kronor a year earlier, according to a statement today. Profit in the three months through December jumped 49 percent to 4.54 billion kronor, beating the average 4.51 billion-krona estimate of 16 analysts survey by Bloomberg.
Handelsbanken and Swedish rivals Swedbank AB and SEB AB are the three best capitalized major lenders in the European Union, giving them scope to distribute more to shareholders at a time when other banks in Europe are trying to preserve cash to meet stricter capital rules.
Handelsbanken's capital strength is also giving the lender scope to fund an expansion in Europe. The bank announced today the purchase of U.K. investment manager Heartwood, and named the Netherlands as one of its home markets as part of an expansion.
"We see major opportunities for continued growth here in the Netherlands," Mikael Soerensen, head of the bank's Dutch unit, said in a statement. "The market is similar to the U.K., with a few large, centralised banks. We're opening branches and working close to the customer in a decentralised manner."
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Handelsbanken is expanding even as it faces some of Europe's strictest regulatory standards. Sweden's government is pushing through tougher capital rules than those set elsewhere. The country's four largest banks, including Nordea Bank AB, already fulfill this year's 10 percent core Tier 1 capital requirement of risk-weighted assets, and also top a 12 percent minimum rule that becomes effective from 2015.
Handelsbanken's core Tier 1 ratio rose to 18.4 percent in the fourth quarter, from 17.9 percent in the third. The Swedish lender's net interest income increased 2 percent to 6.48 billion kronor in the fourth quarter, while net fee and commission income rose 1.8 percent to 1.91 billion kronor in the period.
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Represented in nurseries by its superior selection 'Dropmore Scarlet', which climbs to 9–10 ft. Unscented, bright red flowers that look like trumpets bloom from late spring or early summer until frost. Pairs of triangular blue-green leaves to about 3 in. long appear to be joined at the bases.
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Hi - I am going to be putting up salsa tomorrow and hope to start in the morning. I have the tomatoes in my freezer right now. I'm wondering how I should thaw them - should I put them in a strainer in the sink overnight or put them in the refridgerator in the bags overnight? I probably want to start by 9:00 am. Thanks in advance for your help! |
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I don't think you want them sitting out uncovered all night. I usually take the bags out of the freezer and just set the bags in the sink before going to bed the night before. They are still somewhat icy the next morning. If I forget to take them out the night before then in the morning I just put the bags in the sink with some hot water. Dave |
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5 Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe. | 5 Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The LORD has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe. |
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