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I began this glorious day by looking at three players — yes, actual people, and not just picks — who could be traded over the next three days. This will shock you, so you should probably sit down: I forget things. Sometimes, I forget what day it is, and several times I've even almost neglected to put on pants in the morning. It happens.
On this particular day, I forgot to include Ryan Mallett in that post, as he's also a very worthy candidate to be traded and employed by a different team in the very near future. So let's make up for that omission now, because the Mallett to Cleveland talk is a thing again.
That's the good word from Jeff Howe of the Boston Herald, with Howe reporting that at minimum, the Patriots want a second-round pick. Together, let's answer for the Browns: no.
Of course, the Browns don't currently have a second-round pick after giving it up to grab Josh Gordon last summer during the supplemental draft. But even if they did, that asking price is far too steep for a quarterback with potential, and little more than that.
Sure, with his strong arm and the speedy Gordon available to track down deep balls, Mallett would be a perfect fit for new head coach Rob Chudzinski's vertical offense (aside: horizontal offenses suck, as to diagonal offenses). The infatuation that new Browns general manager Michael Lombardi has with Mallett is also a well known fact. He wrote it in his diary.
Let's look at Matt Flynn, though, as he recently set the trade market for backup quarterbacks with little more than upside and potential. The Raiders acquired Flynn from Seattle for a fifth-round pick next year, and a conditional pick in 2015.
Say what you will with your Flynn hatred, and recite the tired lines about his lack of NFL experience, and two career starts. But at least he's, you know, started those two games. Over two seasons, Mallett hasn't started a game, perhaps because there's this Tom Brady guy ahead of him on the QB depth chart in New England. Worse, he's attempted only four moderately meaningful NFL passes, all in regular-season garbage time.
Flynn has attempted 87, and yet Mallett should fetch a pick that's three rounds ahead of the best pick in his final trade price? Wishful thinking is always the most entertaining kind of draft thinking.

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I live near the beach and started collecting sea glass a while ago, this Tiffany style lamp shade is made out of sea glass that my children and I have collected it's about 10x15 inches
Anyone that has foiled glass will understand the many hours that went in to just getting the glass ready, it was especially difficult as each piece of sea glass is different thicknesses and some are twisted or curved but this also adds to the wonderful eclectic look of the piece. The finished shade I still need to work on the stand which is very old Lit up at night You can see pieces of sea glass jutting out Close up |
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This is absolutely beautiful! I can imagine the huge amount of work that went in to it and it is really stunning. Nice job!! |
That is just beautiful. I live near the beach also and collect seaglass. I have tried putting foil around seaglass and it never sticks. I am not good at stainglass I am just a beginner. So when I put the foil around the seaglass its almost like its not sticky. I wanted to make a suncatcher. Anyway how do you get yours to look black? its so so pretty deezie |
- Posted by slowmedown (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 8:14
That's the prettiest lamp I've seen in a very long time. It is soooooo unique - one of a kind for sure. I w/so love to learn stain glass just for making things like that. What do you use for a mold - to make the shape of the shade? So, do you put copper foil around each piece, then solder? I may just have to take a class. Never had a desire to make wall/window art, but this kind of use intrigues me, along w/the inspirational website SILVA posted recently. You really pulled off a beauty in this lamp. |
Wonderful. I too, can only imagine the time it took, but the result is grand. The children will never forget this one. |
- Posted by coppertop52 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 10:03
That is just beautiful!! |
That is beautiful; so unique! Wow, I can't imagine how many hours it took. |
- Posted by iminmystudio (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 15:26
- Posted by slowmedown (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 16:04
I'm mesmerized!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ooohhhh - you foil AND solder b/f starting. Then you spot solder. Those little holes, then, you just stick a small foiled/soldered piece into it, or add beads or something? I guess the possibilities are endless w/this technique. It looks like a lot of work, but I can just imagine the fun that goes into that project, and how proud you must be w/the results. How COULD you part w/it? I'd put a huge price tag on it, if I were to sell something like that - if it sells, fine, if it doesn't, fine. What a beautiful work. I looked on-line for the place where I had planned to go for classes, but it must've closed. About an hr. from here. I THINK there is someone in my town that gives lessons. Gonna check it out. You've REALLY inspired me to learn something new. |
Awesome! |
- Posted by nanatricia (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 21:08
That is Awesome! |
- Posted by fiddlekate (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 21:29
Wow! What a fantastic and special project! I've not done any stained glass so particularly enjoyed seeing the WIP photos. I love that you and your family actually collected all of the glass, too! It's so gorgeous!!! |
Slow I took some lessons at EDS EMPORIUM in Bossier City LA. There were 3 ladies in the class from Texarkana. I do not know how far they had driven, but they had attended several other times. The e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com |
- Posted by slowmedown (My Page) on Tue, Nov 3, 09 at 8:33
SOXXX: Thank you so much for the addresses. I'm only an hr. from there. I'll write them today. FLAG w/probably go w/me. She is self taught, says she. How many lessons did you take until you were comfortable? |
Wow, I agree with Slow and am mezmerized too. Will have to check into classes here I think. Thanks so much for sharing. I wouldn't sell it either unless I put a hefty price on it. Donna in Florida |
wowzier!!!!!!!!! Great tutorial. Would love to learn this, now just to find the time and space. Absolutely great darlin. |
- Posted by katishooked (My Page) on Wed, Nov 4, 09 at 6:38
Lots of love went into this piece. Love it. I bet it just glows when the light is on. |
I am not that self taught..I love this and Slow is drooling and chomping at the bit to take classes. I really want to also but the schedule looks like it is thru at Eds Emporium for the year, so next year project. In the meantime I will try to do as you have shown us and put together some glass and see what I get. I have been gathering glass since I saw the site Silva posted. Ear of the wind studio...love it. I have to finish a few things first. Thanks for the inspiration...your lamp is beautiful. |
- Posted by concretenprimroses (My Page) on Mon, Nov 9, 09 at 18:39
Gorgeous! kathy |
Your lamp is really beautiful... you should keep it, it will make a wonderful family heirloom. I feel that way about my camp window... it has special meaning to all of us. Yours will to since your kids helped to find the glass. I think Slow is right... put a huge price on it, then if someone really wants it, it would be worth it to you to sell..I put such a huge price on my window that I'm sure no one would pay so much... |
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RBC - I have read it is greasy and will probably be shiny. Also that it will not harden - which is no big deal. The squares will be put on the morning of delivery. I have read that some people have successfully replaced some of the confectioner's sugar with corn starch while some have had good results using only half of the shorten called for. I also read that I shouldn't use the Crisco sticks, but the canister instead. When would I add the coloring?
MMF - I have seen many recipes but will most like use Darla's recipe over double boiler. I don't know if I can locate the dough hooks for the old oyster kitchen center mixer I use. Since I plan on separating the MMF in liquid stage to color it, can I use the regular blades until it comes together a bit then knead in the rest of the sugar? I have read that I butter extract added makes it taste like the rolled buttercream. Can I used butter vanilla emulsifier (or what ever it is called that is sitting on my table)?
I have a couple more little questions too. Please forgive me, I am a hobby baker because I worked fulltime and went to school fulltime. This is my first wedding cake and, even though they aren't paying for it, I don't want to screw it up.
I thought with the fact that the decorations are minimal a 2" difference in pan sizes would look better, so I am using 14" thru 6". Five tiers... wow! Location is 2 hours or so from my house. I want to stack the bottom two and the top two to travel. What do you think? Should I use all shortening and no butter in my buttercream so it will be stable. Wedding at 4pm, set up about 2pm, leave house at 11:30am. It will be out awhile but it is supposed to be about 12 degrees outside.
She doesn't care about filling and whatnot. She has given me no taste preferences. I know - she is very easy to please... not picky at all. She doesn't even care what I looks like, but I showed her my thoughts. Anyway, I plan on all cakes being white. My fillings are chocolate buttercream and ganache (from Toba) - cake spritzed with Amaretto; vanilla pastry cream - cake spritzed with orange liqueur; and lemon curd with raspberry jam spread on cake first... in that order from the bottom up. Don't know what to do with the other two tiers. I plan to torte the cake. What are your thoughts.
I thank you all in advance for any input you want to give. Sorry for such a long post but I still feel new at all this cake stuff since I do one every few months. Any other tips would be nice! Oh, cake is for this Saturday and I think I should make RBC or MMF tomorrow or Wednesday so it can meld together. Sorry for the last minute during holidays... I didn't think I would have this many issues.
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Nothing signals skillful craftsmanship like an inset door with elegant hinges and eye-pleasing margins. This challenging job leaves no room for error: Uneven surfaces and unsightly gaps will tell the tale if the hinges, door and frame don't fit precisely. Like mastering handcut dovetails, successfully hanging inset doors on mortised butt hinges is a woodworking milestone.
I'll show you a three-step method for installing inset doors that produces great results every time. First, you match the door to the opening. Then you rout mortises for the hinges. And finally, you create uniform, attractive margins between the door and frame. Of course, you can skip the mortising step altogether by choosing different hinges (see "No-Mortise Hinge Options," below).
To complete the job, you'll need a couple simple jigs, a mortising bit, and a laminate trimmer. A laminate trimmer is a compact router that's a really handy addition to any woodworking shop. (If you don't own a laminate trimmer, this is a great excuse to buy one.)
Round out your door-installing arsenal with a pair of secret weapons—a plastic laminate sample swiped from the home center and a double-bearing flush-trim router bit. This great new bit should be a fixture in every woodworking shop.
Your first task is to choose between extruded (also referred to as drawn or cast) or stamped hinges (see photos). Extruded hinges are machined and drilled, so there's virtually no play between the knuckles or around the hinge pin. Stamped hinges are made from thinner stock. Their leaves are bent to form the knuckles that surround the pin. Extruded hinges will last longer, because their knuckles have more bearing surface.
I often use stamped hinges because they cost about one third as much as extruded hinges and they're available at most hardware stores. They work fine in most situations. Examine stamped hinges carefully before buying. If you notice large gaps between the knuckles and vertical play between the two hinge leaves, keep looking. Be aware that some stamped hinges are brass plated rather than solid brass. Hinges with loose pins make it easy to remove and reinstall the door, but they aren't widely available.
Before you install the hinges, make sure the screws' heads recess fully in the chamfered holes in the hinge leaves. Amazingly, the brass screws supplied with brass hinges often don't fit. If that's the case, you'll have to deepen the screw-hole chamfers or use smaller screws.
Brass screws are delicate. The heads strip easily or break off, leaving the shaft buried in the wood. Avoid trouble with broken brass screws by threading the pilot holes with steel screws, which are much more durable. Install the brass screws only once, after the piece is completely finished. Or forget brass screws altogether and leave the steel screws in.
I make each door about 1/32 in. larger than its opening. Then I trim it to fit squarely and snugly. First I joint the latch stile until the door slips between the face frame's stiles without binding. Then I check the door's fit: While holding the hinge stile flush against the face frame, I butt the door's top edge against the frame's upper rail. If no gap appears, the door and opening are square. Then I joint the door's top and bottom until the door wedges into the opening—I want a friction fit, so the door stays put.
If the door or the face frame are out of square, I true them by tapering the door's hinge stile. I mark the end that needs to be tapered while I hold the door in position (Photo 1). If the gap along the top appears above the hinge stile, as in the photo, the side's taper increases from top to bottom. If the top's gap appears above the latch stile, the side's taper runs in the opposite direction. The taper increases from zero at one end to the width of the top's gap at the other end. If the top's gap is wider than 1/16 in., I taper both the side and the end, removing one half of the gap from each edge.
Routing is one way to taper the stile (Photo 2). You could also use a hand plane or your jointer. Just make sure the taper runs the full length and the tapered edge is perpendicular to the door's face. When both the hinge stile and top edge fit properly without any gaps, trim the bottom edge so the door fits snugly in the opening.
Make two jigs, one for routing the hinge mortises (Fig. A, below; Photo 3) and the other to position the hinge in the mortise (Fig. B, below; Photo 4). Then rout test mortises to dial in the depth of cut (Fig. C, below; Photo 5). Laminate samples make perfect gap testers for frame-and-panel doors with stiles and rails up to 2 in. wide; these samples are usually slightly less than 1/16 in. thick. Doors with wider frame parts should have slightly wider gaps, because they'll exhibit greater seasonal movement.
Rout mortises in the door first (Photo 6). Make sure they go in the correct stile! It's easiest to rout hinge mortises all the way through. If you want to rout halfblind mortises, to shoulder the hinge leaves along their length, simply modify your mortising jig by moving the fill block forward to meet the hinge leaf. This modification eliminates the need for the hinge projection guide, but it requires squaring the mortise corners by hand after routing.
No hard and fast rule exists for locating the hinges on the door. One method is to align the hinge with the door's rails. However, this doesn't work if the top and bottom rails are distinctly different widths. Another method is to divide the door's length by six or seven and center the hinges one unit from the ends. Use your eye and trust your gut.
Carefully transfer the mortise locations to the face frame (Photo 7). Your marks have to be perfectly located, because the hinges fit the mortises so precisely. Use the door's top-to-bottom friction fit to hold it in position, and make sure the door's hinge stile is flush with the face frame's stile.
Rout mortises in the face frame (Photo 8). If you don't have a laminate trimmer, your options are to chop these mortises by hand or to change your entire procedure and rout these mortises first, before you assemble the face frame.
After mounting the hinges on the face frame, temporarily install the door by pressing the mortises onto the mounted hinges' loose leaves. Then mark the door's ends and latch stile for trimming (Photo 9).
Remove the door, clamp on a straight board and rout the ends to final length using a flush-trim bit with two bearings (Photos 10 and 11). Clamp the board so its straight edge barely covers the line; the line indicates the laminate sample's thickness and the goal is to remove exactly that thickness.
If you build during the summer's high humidity when your lumber is at its widest seasonal dimension, a one-laminate sample gap between the door's latch stile and the face frame is sufficient. But if you build during the winter, it's wise to provide extra room for the door's seasonal movement (Photo 12).
(Note: Product availability and costs are subject to change since original publication date.)
Woodcraft, woodcraft.com, 800-225-1153, Drawn brass cabinet hinge, 2 in. x 1-1/2 in., #16R59; Stanley solid brass butt hinge, 2 in. x 1-3/8 in., #149747; Self-centering hinge-drilling bit, 5/64 in. for No. 3 and no. 4 screws, #16i43.
Amana Tool, amanatool.com, 800-445-0077, Mortising bit, #45460-S.
Freud Tools, freudtools.com, 800-334-4107, Top- and bottom-bearing flush-trim bit, 1/4-in. shank, #50-501.
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1. True an out-of-square door by tapering the side, rather than the end. The side is longer, so the taper will be more gradual and less noticeable. In this case, making the hinge stile narrower at the marked end will eliminate the gap at the top.
2. Taper the side with a straight board and a flush-trim bit. Position the board so it's offset by the width of the gap at the marked end and flush at the other end. Routing this taper eliminates the guesswork associated with creating tapers with a jointer.
3. Use the hinges to make your mortising jig. This guarantees that the hinges will perfectly fit the mortises. After installing the guide blocks, add the fill block to provide continuous support for the router.
4. Locate the hinges on a test piece, using a projection guide to position the center of the barrel 1/32 in. out from the board's face. Drill pilot holes using a self-centering bit.
5. Test the mortise depth by mounting hinges on scrap stock. The gap should equal the thickness of laminate. If the gap is too wide, the mortises aren't deep enough. Widen a gap that's narrow by jointing the door stile.
6. Rout mortises in the door stile. Locate the mortise at least one hinge length from the top. Because of its small size, a laminate trimmer works great for this delicate job.
7. Transfer the mortise locations from the door to the face frame using a straightedge. The door's snug top-to-bottom fit holds it in position.
8. Rout mortises in the face-frame stiles using the mortising jig. You'll need a laminate trimmer for this job, because the mortises are so close to the corner.
9. Mark the door's final size, using a laminate sample to establish uniform gaps. Slightly recess the door in the opening, using the hinges and the top-to-bottom friction fit to hold it in position. Mark with a mechanical pencil, so there's no gap between the laminate and the line.
10. Rout the door to final length. Use a fence and a flushtrim bit with top- and bottom-mounted bearings to avoid blowing out the back edge. First, rout halfway using the top bearing.
11. Flip the door over, adjust the bit to use the bottom bearing and finish routing.
12. Allow for seasonal movement between the door's latch stile and the frame. Make the gap wider if you build during the winter, when the humidity in your heated shop is probably significantly lower than during the summer months.
If mortising hinges isn't your idea of woodworking fun, consider one of these two options for mounting inset doors.
Euro-style hinges only require drilling holes for hinge cups and mounting screws. They also have the advantage of adjustability: Once the door is installed, you can easily move it up or down, side to side and in or out—whatever it takes to even up the margins. These hinges take up a lot of space inside the cabinet, though, and some versions only swing open to 95 degrees.
No-mortise hinges are quite simple to install and they leave an acceptably narrow gap. Some no-mortise hinges have elongated slots for adjustability. Still, the door must be carefully fitted to the opening and the hinge locations have to be carefully laid out. It's a good idea to use a projection guide, like the one shown in Photo 4, to ensure that the door and frame faces will be flush. No-mortise hinges are available in a variety of finishes, including polished and satin brass, but they're often made of plated steel instead of solid brass.


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Doctors Urged to Stop Accepting Bri- —Oops, Make That Gifts—From Big Pharma
Drug companies spend billions of dollars on research, and it's obvious that they spend more billions on advertising. Well, according to the New York Times, they spend the most billions on giving nice things to doctors: pens, samples, banquets, trips, and educational opportunities among them. For doctors, in fact, there is a free lunch: Pharma companies spend as much as a billion a year just on lunches for doctors. And over 90 percent of doctors have accepted at least some of this largesse from the industry.
But Big Pharma doesn't give away all that stuff without expecting something in return, and what they expect is to influence prescribing behavior. The unspoken assumption is that the doctors will use their nice free pens to write prescriptions for the company's product. Does it work? Apparently it works a lot better than the physicians themselves realize, because they often underestimate the effect that it does have on them. Social scientists have found that people can't really assess their own bias, especially if that bias is financially beneficial to them. Even free pens exert an influence, and the free lunches are especially effective because people are apparently more receptive to information when enjoying a good meal.
This is not really news: Between 2001 and 2008, there were at least 16 prominent reports calling for change in the financial relationship between medicine and Big Pharma, and DH commented on the practice back in 2007 ("Hey Doc, Let's Fly to Maui to Talk About Drugs"). But it is attracting even more notice lately, most recently from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science, an extremely prestigious nonprofit organization that provides "unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy."
In April, the IOM issued a report that told doctors in no uncertain terms to lay off the free stuff. In particular, the report emphasized the need to regulate the complex relationships between medicine and industry. In 2007, industry footed nearly half of the $2.54 billion bill to provide doctors with required refresher courses, known as Continuing Medical Education (CME), as well as funding over half of all American biomedical research. And in the April Journal of the American Medical Association, a group of doctors themselves expressed their concern about taking corporate money to fund the development of "practice guidelines," which are considered the final word on how to treat patients. They also came out against allowing doctors with industry ties to serve on practice guideline committees.
The IOM report recommended that Congress force Pharma to publicly disclose all payments made to doctors. There is already legislation pending to do just that, sponsored by Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley and Wisconsin Democratic Senator Herb Kohl, both of whom are clearly pleased with the IOM's blessing.
The largest drug makers (but not device and biotech companies) did agree last year to stop pushing the pens and other little gifts, but they are still underwriting the meals, refresher courses, and practice guideline committees. And of course, the companies are not convinced that keeping their fingers out of the medical pie is such a good idea. With regard to the practice guidelines, a spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America told JAMA that such policies would disallow the input of all the experienced doctors, most of whose research is industry-funded, leaving the decision-making to "very junior people who have no experience."
What do you think? Can medicine extricate itself from business sufficiently to prevent conflicts of interest? Or is Big Pharma right? Use the Comments box below to voice your opinion.
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Wrecked vehicles sit abandoned along the "Highway of Death," where large numbers of Saddam Hussein's retreating forces were destroyed by U.S... View Enlarged Image
Middle East: Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. can't bomb the terrorists taking over Iraq because we would be acting "in a vacuum." Actually, every day's a good day to kill terrorists.
President Obama pulled out prematurely from Iraq and the inevitable bloody aggression and chaos has finally arrived. But Kerry adds insult to injury by promising that U.S. support "will be intense and sustained, and if Iraq's leaders take the necessary steps to bring the country together it will be effective."
Democrats have been touting this nonsense for many years — that the key to Iraq is pressure, which will unite and stabilize the country, and that the longtime heavy presence of U.S. troops was preventing such pressure.
Now Kerry, President Obama and congressional Democrat leaders see a perfect storm of pressure: Unite democratically or the U.S. won't help you and you'll be at the mercy of the invading jihadist Sunni wolves. "The very future of Iraq depends on choices that will be made in the next days and weeks," Kerry warned.
Too bad Kerry and Obama, so convinced of their own diplomatic prowess, don't understand that the ways of the free West are not those of the Middle East. And even if they were, Obama has signaled to the world that U.S. promises are worthless.
Why should Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, or anyone else within the regime we abandoned, believe a president who has broken promises on everything from the red line in Syria to the border in Texas.
Kerry claims that "it would be a complete and total act of irresponsibility" to launch U.S. airstrikes on ISIS, because "there's no government, there's no backup, there's no military; there's nothing there that provides the capacity for success."
What a joke. The world's lone superpower needs no "backup" to annihilate the ISIS' sitting-duck battalions. Hasn't Kerry heard of the "Highway of Death," where thousands of Saddam Hussein's retreating forces were blown to kingdom come by U.S./NATO bombings in 1991?
And Kerry has got to be kidding that "we're not making a decision about American force in a vacuum." The vacuum was created by Obama, who promised it would be fine to withdraw.
Pro-ISIS Sunni tribes have now totally displaced Iraqi forces in the western frontier. Does this sound like a nation that can get its act together, even with a gun to its head? Meanwhile, soon-to-be-nuclear Islamofascist Iran stands ready to "help."
ISIS, an al-Qaida splinter group, is at least as dangerous to us as its parent organization. Whatever the Iraq government's "choices that will be made in the next days and weeks," armies of terrorists who will one day turn their focus against U.S. personnel and interests are visible and vulnerable right now.
Bombing them would save more lives than killing Osama bin Laden; but Obama and Kerry are making such action conditional on Baghdad doing the near-impossible.
Homeland Insecurity: With Belgian, German and French police all busting up Islamic State terror cells, some in deadly shootouts, attention is turning to the U.S. At least a dozen IS sleeper terrorists are secreted here. Yet the FBI still hasn't kicked down any doors. Apparently the bureau is still ...
Another busy day of carefree activity on the road for President Obama. Fundraisers in three cities. Speeches. Photo-op games of pool. Filling up his time with campaigning until the lame duck leaves office in 924 days.But POTUS ran into a tall problem, a professional pol named Rick Perry, the ...
Whose fault is the current debacle in Iraq? It could be Nouri al-Maliki's since he is the country's strongman and has alienated the minority Sunnis. It could be George W. Bush's because he started the whole thing off with possibly the stupidest war in history, the Children's Crusade exempted on ...


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Eminem appeared on ESPN's Saturday Night Football halftime show last night to promote his new single "Berzerk" off MMLP2, the album he is dropping this fall. Starting next week, Em's track will be the intro to the college football program.
Things got a little awkward during his live interview with announcers Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit, who premiered the trailer for the "Berzerk" music video, officially dropping on Monday, Sept. 9. While the video preview hinted at appearances from Rick Rubin, Kendrick Lamar and Slaughterhouse, it's Em's video interview that's making headlines.
When asked what he was most excited about on his new LP, Em awkwardly replied, "Um, nothing. No, when it'll be out Nov. 5, I'll probably be most excited to be done with it. It's called Marshall Mathers II. It's kind of a revisit to the first Marshall Mathers album?"
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US drones kill 17 in first strike in Pakistan in nearly a month
The US targeted the Haqqani Network, a Taliban subgroup that is closely tied to al Qaeda, in the first strike in Pakistan in more than three weeks.
The CIA-operated, remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired four missiles at a compound in the village of Danday Darpa Khel near Miramshah in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan, The Associated Press reported.
Pakistani officials told the news agency that four Haqqani Network members were killed and two more were wounded. Reuters later reported that 17 people, most of whom were Haqqani Network fighters, were killed in the airstrike.
The target of the strike has not been disclosed, and no senior Haqqani, Taliban, or al Qaeda commanders are reported to have been killed at this time. Haji Shahrifullah, a senior Haqqani network commander in the area, was not killed in the attack, according to Dawn.
Danday Darpa Khel is a known hub of the Haqqani Network. Two of the group's top leaders have been killed in US drone strikes in the village over the past several years. On Oct. 13, 2011, a strike killed Jan Baz Zadran, a top-level coordinator for the Haqqani Network who has been described as the organization's third in command. Jan Baz was a key deputy to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the operational commander of the terror network.
On Feb. 18, 2010, US drones killed Mohammed Haqqani, one of the 12 sons of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the patriarch of the family. Mohammed served as a military commander for the Haqqani Network.
The Haqqani Network is a powerful Taliban faction that operates in eastern, central, and northern Afghanistan, and is based in North Waziristan in Pakistan. The terror group has close links with al Qaeda, and is supported by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). Siraj leads the Miramshah Shura, one of four major Taliban regional councils. Siraj is also a member of al Qaeda's Shura Majlis, or executive council, US intelligence officials have told The Long War Journal.
Since 2008, nine top Haqqani Network leaders, including Sirajuddin, have been placed on the US list of terrorists; six of them were designated in 2011. All of them have ties to al Qaeda. Jalaluddin has not been added to the list. For more information on the Haqqani Network, see LWJ report, US adds Haqqani Network to list of terror groups.
Despite the known presence of al Qaeda and other foreign groups in North Waziristan, and requests by the US that action be taken against these groups, the Pakistani military has indicated that it has no plans to take on the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network or Hafiz Gul Bahadar, another powerful Taliban leader who operates in the tribal agency. The Haqqanis and Bahadar and are considered "good Taliban" by the Pakistani military establishment as they do not carry out attacks inside Pakistan.
Today's strike is just the second since President Barack Obama's speech at the end of May outlining a reduced US counterterrorism role in the world. Obama said that the drones, which are currently operated by the CIA, will eventually be turned over to the military, and that the pace of the strikes will be reduced. Obama claimed that al Qaeda has been sufficiently weakened, despite the fact that the terrorist organization has expanded its operations in Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Egypt, and in North and West Africa.
The strike today in North Waziristan is the first by the US inside Pakistan in 25 days. The last US strike took place on June 7, when US drones killed six terrorists in a strike in North Waziristan. A "high value target" was reported to have been killed, but was never named. The previous strike, on May 29, killed Waliur Rehman, the top Taliban commander in South Waziristan who was closely allied with al Qaeda.
The US has launched 16 drone strikes in Pakistan so far this year, according to data compiled by The Long War Journal. The number of strikes in Pakistan has decreased since a peak in 2010, when 117 such attacks were recorded. In 2011, 64 strikes were launched in Pakistan, and in 2012 there were 46 strikes.
The US has targeted al Qaeda's top leaders and its external operations network, as well as the assortment of Taliban and Pakistani jihadist groups operating in the region. The strikes have been confined mostly to North and South Waziristan. Of the 340 strikes recorded since 2004, 323, or 95%, have taken place in the two tribal agencies.
READER COMMENTS: "US drones kill 17 in first strike in Pakistan in nearly a month"
Posted by Gerald at July 2, 2013 7:44 PM ET:
Four less Murderers in the world is a good thing!! way to go CIA/USAF!!
Posted by KaneKaizer at July 3, 2013 1:20 AM ET:
If the pace of the strikes is to be reduced, then each and every one of them NEEDS to take out a HVT. Otherwise there's no point in doing them at all.
Posted by JT at July 3, 2013 1:36 AM ET:
According to an update from Dawn, there are more killed, with a particular target involved.
Posted by mike merlo at July 3, 2013 1:36 AM ET:
It looks like the wheels are getting ready to come off the Morsi's Presidency in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood will fight to the death before they allow a repeat of 1952. Who ever is responsible for managing the Drones' best be ready to shift to Egypt & the greater Middle East. So much for the Administration's banana peel Pivot to Asia.
To bad for the newly elected Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan. Just when it looks like he's given the Green Light to Drone Strikes in Pakistan Egypt comes along to steal his 'Thunder.'
If Egypt does come apart at the seams, which now looks more than possible, Zawahiri will probably pop up somewhere in its vicinity. Besides getting his grubby paws on Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal or parts of it Egypt has always been his primary objective.
Wow! Right when one thinks things couldn't get any crazier "along comes a spider." These Muslims sure are a highly entertaining lot. One other thing is certain is that these guys sure don't lack for trying.
Posted by mike merlo at July 3, 2013 2:51 AM ET:
This interesting:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/us-drone-attack-kills-18-in-pakistan/article4876423.ece = 18 killed
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/07/2013735453402946.html = 12 or 17 killed
http://dawn.com/news/1022310/us-drone-attack-kills-17-in-north-waziristan = 17 killed
Plus TLWJ was the 1st to Post notice on the Drone Strike. Though TLWJ may have been short on the final number determined to have been killed due to their rapidity of having received & posting of info their accuracy as to the nature of the reported action certainly isn't in dispute. That's pretty impressive.
I guess the recent attacks in Kabul can be considered traced, fixed & dusted.
Posted by kafantaris at July 3, 2013 9:18 AM ET:
Semiautonomous Taliban regions and Pakistan sovereignty cannot coexist. Either the country reigns in on its militants, or affected outsiders will continue to do so.
Besides, with the Taliban weakened Pakistan can bring central government to more of its lands. Otherwise, the semiautonomous regions will overrun neighboring towns -- one after another.
Has Pakistan forgotten that the Taliban did just that three years ago?
Or that that they have been doing no different in Afghanistan for decades?
The Taliban is the hydra of both countries and both countries need help to cut the hydra heads off.
Posted by Craig at July 3, 2013 6:34 PM ET:
But what of blowback? Not winning hearts and minds with the drones...
Posted by Moose at July 4, 2013 12:11 AM ET:
I believe you mean Waliur Rehman was killed May 29 (third paragraph from the bottom).
Posted by newsmoose.com at July 4, 2013 2:20 AM ET:
Most of the world has been calling this the attack of the US terror drone. And not the, "Great heroic drone and the drone pilot and the forces of US."
The problem with Pakistan is that eons ago, they fell in the trap of taking aid from US. US always gives aid only with strings attached. And now they are stuck with it.
US is using the same tactic today in Egypt. They are supplying aid to the Egyptian military, when they need it. But everything comes for a price. Egypt will become like pakistan in sometime, and you'd eventually have the US bases in Egypt as well.
Anyways getting back to the topic of the drones. While the americans and the serving military families are all very patriotic and stuff, just like the Germans were once upon a time (watch any movie depicting the Germans from WW II, and you'll know what I mean.) These drones are being called the terror drones. I mean yeah its good to be patriotic and all. But sometimes you just get so blinded by power. US was lucky enough to develop during the old "Great economic depression." cause US was physically seprate from the rest of Europe. They used it to their advantage at that time.
But the US should realize, that they have been making too many enemies lately. And maybe US is very strong, but when it becomes US and rest of the world. US will become = germany of the ww II.
This just reminds me of the story of the male deer: Male Deers Are Born To Live Fast, Die Young.
I mean, people are great, but countries sadly, democratic or communist aren't run by the people. They are run by few people who all think the same, and thats why they are in that place first of all.
At the end of it all, a common man dies and suffers, just like you me, or even the soldier, who doesn't even know what he or she is fighting for. Some of them are there just for the heck of it, cause they like playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare on the Xbox.
And they think they are being patriotic. But in reality, its just one man killing another man, for some other man (or men, who have the lust for power - the politicians - they are all the same, every single one of them, give them power and salutes thats all they want)
Posted by Bill Roggio at July 4, 2013 5:00 PM ET:
Thanks, Moose. I have corrected that. Nazir was obviously killed in January.
Posted by sundoesntrise at July 4, 2013 6:32 PM ET:
It has **always** been the case that war has been fought on someone else's behalf. Usually the ones giving the orders are never the ones on the frontlines themselves. No matter under what pretext war is fought under, there are always going to be other interests that just happen to be in the general area of where a certain war is being fought. I don't want to go into examples but I'm sure everyone can understand what I mean by that.
There are still jingoistic patriotic folk that may detest my words, but more and more people these days are really starting to question what's going on with the military and intelligence services. In 2013 people have a right not only to question religion, but wars and government policies as well.
The U.S. cannot and should not be in a far corners of the world wasting taxpayer dollars on unpopular ventures meanwhile people are going on food stamps in mainland U.S. Yes terrorism should be tackled but after 10 years of casualties, money wasted, and a Muslim population that despises us, it's time to rethink our strategy and lighten our regional footprint.
We all respect our military forces for what they have done, and what they have tried to do. But the best way to respect the military is to not get them involved in pointless wars with a primitive culture. They are worth more than that.
Posted by GhaznawiGhilzai at July 7, 2013 12:05 PM ET:
The Pakistanis do not understand the drone attacks because the insurgents are fueled by Islamic extremism that has created Pakistan, it is in the fabric of Pakistan, and it is Pakistan's national narrative. Operations in North and South Waziristan are operations to control Pashtons, the same operation that has been going on to control the Baluchs, and the same operation by Pakistani elites to control the Kashmiris. That operation has nothing to do with combating Muslim extremism. On the other hand, the drone operation may be an indication that the United States has finally realized the duplicity of Pakistan elite-government-army, and in that matter of pursuing terrorists, follows the true lead independently and without consideration of the self serving duplicitous Pakistani advice. If Pakistan wants to combat Islamic extremist terrorists, they should handover the wanted Islamic terrorists in Kashmir to India, and Haqani and Mulla Omar to Afghanistan, and should down all the extremist factories in the Madrassa system of Pakistan. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the region who observes the Pakistani elite and politicians make these fake demands to stop the drone attack , and watch Pakistan elite-government-army's protest on behalf of the Waziri's and the Pashtons, will laugh hard and knows that the Pakistani elite-government-army who have continued the suppression of Pashton and Baluch since Pakistan's artificial birth in the name of Islam in 1947, are never sincere about Pashton and Baluch population of the region.
Posted by Moose at July 10, 2013 1:19 AM ET:
Very well-said. I've been saying the same thing on this site for almost a year, but it falls on deaf ears. Pakistan has always played the divide-and-conquer game extremely well. The Pakistani elites created a national identity around Islamic extremism so that their fake country didn't fall apart. At the same time, they militarily suppressed their minority populations or caused infighting among them (the Pashtun paramilitary force known as the "Frontier Corp" is a good example of causing Pashtun-on-Pashtun conflict). Everyone should understand that Pakistan is a Punjabi-dominated country that maintains a balance with its minority populations by all means necessary.
Some Indian posters on this site like Charu and Vyom understand this quite well, but Westerners have fallen for Pakistan's lies for way too long. Those lies include controlling Afghanistan for strategic depth with India (one of their most laughable cons) and that Pakistan is in danger of being overrun by Islamic fundamentalists (a narrative that gets pushed when they need more U.S. aid).
Long-term, Pakistan's strategy is to annex Afghanistan. Its population is expected to reach 300 million by 2050 and it can't fit that many people within its borders. The Taliban were the first phase of that strategy before 9/11 derailed their plans. Pakis will continue to launder their drug and terrorist operations through Afghanistan to make Afghans look bad to the world. Then they'll say, "Look, we told you they're pariahs, let us handle them." It's a Paki M.O. that I witnessed repeatedly when I worked for an NGO in Afghanistan. Harass the Afghans, tell the Western managers that Afghans can't do the job, get them fired, and move a Paki into the organization to replace them. Classic Paki tactic.
Posted by SIDNEY at July 15, 2013 10:05 PM ET:
he Taliban is the hydra of both countries and both countries need help to cut the hydra.They are run by few people who all think the same, and thats why they are in that place first of al.Thanks, Moose


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September 17, 2013
Microsoft has recently announced the acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division for $7 billion. The acquisition will come into effect in 1Q2014 upon regulatory approval. The event was followed by Apple's long awaited launch of a cheaper iPhone model, iPhone 5c, last week. In this Pyramid Point, we examine the effect that the two events will have on the smartphone adoption in emerging markets.
2013 is the first year in which smartphone sales will trump those of feature phones. We project that out of 1.8 billion handsets that will be sold to end-users, almost 1 billion will be smartphones. The gap between smartphones and feature phones will continue to widen, with smartphones expected to account for 73% of the total handset sell-through in 2018. In dollar terms, this means that the cumulative global smartphone related opportunity adds up to $1.55 trillion in the period between 2013 and 2018. Emerging markets will be the driving force behind the global smartphone sales growth, with 70% of total smartphone sales originating in this part of the world in 2018.
Exhibit 1: Smartphone sell-through projections, 2012-2018
The above projections assume that the global smartphone ASP (average selling price) will gradually decline from the current $214 to $166 in 2018. It also assumes that this number will be below $100 across the poorest countries in the emerging world. The general consensus, however, is that in order for the next 2bn people to be connected to the Internet via smartphones in the next five years, the price of these devices should fall to around $50. This relatively hard to reach target is attainable if more competition is injected into the emerging market smartphone space and the current dominance of Android based phones is disrupted. We believe that iPhone 5c will not (and is not meant to) compete against Android based smartphones and increase emerging markets' smartphone adoption rates; on the contrary, Apple's and Brightstar's recently signed buy-back & trade-in partnership and Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia have a potential to do so.
iPhone 5c — "c" stands for "caro," "muy caro" *
After the launch of the two new iPhone devices, Apple's shares fell more than 5%, with the share price ending at $467.25 at midday Wednesday. The decline is mostly attributed to the high price of the less expensive version, the iPhone 5c, which while slightly cheaper than the 5s model, is still too expensive for most smartphone customers in emerging markets. The device will address the high to middle-end of the demand at best, and not the first-time smartphone buyers. We expect the first-time smartphone buyers across most of the emerging world to be willing to set aside a maximum of $250 for a new smartphone in 2013-2014. Beyond this timeframe, potential first-time smartphone buyers will increasingly comprise very low-income mobile users who will have much lower budgets for a new smartphone. Exhibit 2 provides an overview of some currently available smartphones across the emerging world, which we believe are more appropriate for price sensitive mobile users in emerging markets. We have also included iPhone 5c in the table for the purpose of comparison.
Exhibit 2: Select emerging market smartphones v. Apple iPhone 5c
While Apple is most certainly aware of the immense emerging market smartphone opportunity, its strategy is based on a tightly controlled growth and primary focus on margins (which explains why its long-awaited budget version of iPhone is everything but an affordable smartphone). At this point in time, it doesn't appear that Apple is interested in targeting the untapped segment of the demand in emerging markets i.e. the future first-time smartphone buyers. Instead of pursuing volume by launching a truly inexpensive iPhone for low-end smartphone and current feature users, Apple is hoping to increase its share of smartphone sales in emerging markets by addressing high-end Chinese customers. Apple's new deal with China Mobile will indeed result in improved position of Apple in emerging markets, albeit within the existing smartphone clientele and not the prospective smartphone users as the iPhone 5c will retail at $730 (4,488 Yuan). In other words, we don't expect that the launch of iPhone 5c will have an effect on overall smartphone adoption rate in emerging markets.
However, it is important to note that Apple's presence in the emerging world will not be limited to the sales of iPhone 5c only. While the launch of iPhone 5c will be inconsequential for smartphone penetration in emerging markets, the recently announced buy-back and trade-in deal between Apple and Brightstar may have a pronounced role. Via a Brightstar administered buy-back program, Apple will allow its users in the developed world to sell back their old iPhone models in Apple stores. Those will then be refurbished and placed onto secondary markets (read: emerging markets) where Brightstar has strong position in distribution value chain. The price of these refurbished, older iPhone models will be much more in line with the disposable incomes of the first-time smartphone buyers in the emerging world. While the sales of refurbished handsets will not have much effect on the official smartphone sell-through figures of Apple, they are still likely to connect millions of new smartphone customers to the Internet, many of them for the first time. In our upcoming report: Smartphone Strategies: How Devices Can Revitalize the Role of Operators in the Mobile Ecosystem we discuss buy-back and trade-in business strategy and its implications on mobile operators' business in more detail.
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia provides a reason for cautious optimism
As mentioned above, a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division for c. $7bn. The news sent MSFT's shares down 4.6% to $31.88, while Nokia's share price rose 45%. The deal came after the two have worked as close partners since 2011 when Nokia announced its transition from the "burning platform" of Symbian to exclusive focus on Windows Phone (WP). The partnership brought about a number of changes, particularly in the way that Nokia runs its business, but hasn't improved Nokia's or MSFT's position in the smartphone space.
The combination of MSFT's ambitions and financial profile and Nokia's technology and brand, experience and distribution network in emerging markets has the potential to both improve the position of WP and Nokia in the smartphone arena and drive faster smartphone adoption in the emerging world.
MSFT, despite its still strong position in the desktop space, is having a hard time conquering the mobile arena. WP market share, while improving in some regions, is still a single digit on the global level. With mobile devices sales having already overtaken desktop PC sales, MSFT has to improve its position in the mobile and consumer markets in order to stay relevant in the Internet connectivity market. Thus, with the acquisition of Nokia, MSFT's key ambition will be to gain market share in mobile, with revenues and profit margins from smartphone sales being only a secondary priority for the software (and now hardware too) giant for now. Given the currently low smartphone penetration in emerging markets, even the "late bloomers" in the mobile world still have a chance to significantly improve their market share in the next five years; however, they need to accept a high volume and low profit margin game characteristic for this part of the world. We believe that this is the exact market strategy that MSFT will implement. Upon the acquisition of Nokia, MSFT is likely to provide much support (read: $) to the development of the lower-end Nokia Lumia line and allow for further price reductions in the Nokia's smartphone portfolio. With total cash stockpile that amounts to $77 billion and annual revenue of over $78 billion, MSFT surely has the muscle to make this happen.
While MSFT has the ambition and the strong financials to support the expansion of WP across emerging markets, what Nokia brings to the equation is a still reasonably strong brand in this part of the world and, more importantly, among the relevant target market; Nokia's feature phone sales amounted to 53.7 million units in Q2 only and the first-time smartphone buyer of tomorrow is the feature phone user of today. Furthermore, the strong presence of Nokia's brand across retail outlets in Africa and Middle East, Latin America and emerging Asia will be a significant asset to MSFT too. Having a strong physical presence across local stores is more important for an emerging market brand than that of developed markets. This is because, due to their low disposable incomes, customers in emerging markets diligently compare products (quality and price) across different local stores; also they often have "special" financing arrangements made with the owners of their local stores. Nokia still has a strong distribution network and direct relationships with mom and pop stores in emerging markets, as well as strong ties with mobile operators (which are expected to start taking a more pronounced role in smartphone distribution value chain across emerging markets); all this will compensate for the weak presence of MSFT's brand and products in these regions.
The bottom line is: With MSFT's support, Nokia's low-end smartphone portfolio is likely to grow faster and become more affordable. More variety in the low-end smartphone offering in emerging markets, and increased competition in this space can result in faster decline in smartphone ASP and thus faster smartphone adoption rates. However, it's important to mention that MSFT's success in the mobile space of emerging markets won't come without many a problem waiting to be resolved, despite the recent acquisition of Nokia. First of all, the weak point, which goes beyond opportunities that the acquisition of Nokia creates, and which MSFT is yet to address in an effective manner, is the involvement of developers in the WP ecosystem. The current low scale of WP does not provide much incentive for key developers to invest significant resources into developing WP apps. New emerging market smartphone customers will have very specific needs for applications and services. If MSFT cannot attract developers to address those needs, its smartphones will fall short of emerging market customers' expectations. Secondly, Google (who also has a hardware manufacturer under its roof) and Samsung, eager to strengthen software and services element of its business, will not sit idly and watch MSFT take their share of emerging market smartphone opportunity away — the war of the mobile giants, in which MSFT lost most battles to date, is only going to become fiercer. Finally, there is an abundance of new comers in the mobile arena who have ambitions to break Android's rule of the emerging market smartphone space — Mozilla and Ubuntu (Canonical) are just some of the names that come to mind.
___________* "caro" means expensive in Spanish
— Stela Bokun, Senior Analyst
Related resources: Pyramid Smartphone Forecasts Forecasts updated quarterly Offered as a subscription with quarterly updates or as a one-off resource, the Smartphone Forecasts provide annual sell-through of total mobile handsets and smartphones for five historical years and five forecast years. Smartphone sell-through is segmented by the top 10 vendors (including country-specific vendors) as well as by operating system, network generation, replacement sales and more. ASPs and total revenues by device category are also provided. Granular data is provided for each of more than 50 countries as well as in regional packs for Latin America, Africa & the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Research in Focus: Smartphones Research in Focus: Smartphones is offered Quarterly Research in Focus: Smartphones report helps clients analyze and keep track of handset, smartphone and gray market handset sell-through trends by country, vendor and region. This comprehensive report also details the OS competitive landscape and revenue and ASP trends. This series also provides eight-year historical data and projections on smartphones for 14 markets around the world.