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Justin Bieber, his bangs and a sweet pair of red shoes hit up SeaWorld in San Diego, where he put on a show and met an adorable beluga whale named Allua.
Sandy: 1510 days ago
let me talk to Bieber, this boy needs to be educated!
sandi: 1508 days ago
Not cool Justin, you need to get educated on these issues stat, for you will certainly get flack -for ths "stunt". Take your money/fame to "THE COVE" will you !!!!??? Jeeeez ~
For the oceans ~
Claire: 1508 days ago
This picture is only going to encourage others to visit places like seaworld.. should be ashamed Bieber.
There are so many places around the World to see these beautiful mammals in their own habitat, if people stopped going to places like seaworld, there would be no need to capture & keep these amazing mammals in captivity!.. They belong in the Ocean!
Jonathan: 1508 days ago
Jesus Christ, it's seaworld, you idiots acts like this kid is out bashing the skulls of seals or hunting dolphins by taking a picture at SeaWorld. Calm Down
kristin: 1508 days ago
I think Jonathan has missed the entire point the above persons are making- that keeping whales in captivity in places like SeaWorld IS the problem. There is a reason that Tilikum the killer whale has killed 3 people including his trainer, and it's not that he's inherently dangerous. It's that he is NOT meant to be kept in captivity. He is a wild animal, deserving of all the freedom a wild animal should be entitled to. Is the point laid out clearly now?
lilian: 1507 days ago
gush you should look for good places to visit rather than going to seaworld
Night Wolf: 1507 days ago
The new millennium promised so much hope - opportunity of new beginnings. Thus far, the opening decade has delivered little other than regression of the human species (on this occasion, in red shoes) ~ WARRIORS 4 WILDLIFE,.. for the animals
Polina Gugudi: 1506 days ago
This boy needs a bit of edication!
Boy this is NOT cute,you are giving very bad example by visiting Sea World,you better use your fame to help anymals be relised from there.
Sea World is the worste place for a Dolphin,Orca or any other!This is a prison,they don't belong there..THEY BELONG TO THE OCEAN!!!
Famose people have stronger voices than others,it would be great if more famose people would use them for helping the helpless!
On this picture i don't see anything to smile about!
Do you know that Dolphins or Whales are living mostly till 40 or even 50 years in the Ocean?And at Sea World they are dieing at age of 5-7 years?
Next time before you promote Sea World think twice!
Katieloveswhales: 1491 days ago
FAIL! Justin, you need to be educated on your failure of showing your little face at Seaworld, a place where whales are kept in places THEY DO NOT BELONG.
Can we lock Bieber or whatever it's spelled in a room for the rest of his life and see how he likes the lack of freedom or space?
Sandy: 1491 days ago
Justin, not cool dude. The brutal slaughter of dolphins in Taiji is linked directly to the captive dolphin trade. Sea World has never come out in opposition to this barbaric practice. You and your parents could do the world a huge favor by going to Taiji and standing with the Cove Guardians. This would bring media attention to an issue desperately in need of headline news. PLEASE consider this request. YOU could help bring an end to the slaughter.
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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author Van Wyk, Martha Susanna email@example.com URN etd-01312005-150408 Document Title The 1977 United States arms embargo against South Africa: institution and implementation to 1997 Degree DPhil (History) Department Historical and Heritage Studies Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Dr A J DeRoche Co-Supervisor Dr J E H Grobler Supervisor Keywords
- Munitions List
- arms embargo violations
- arms industry
- nuclear weapons
- arms smuggling
- arms and related equipment
- apartheid
- foreign relations
- foreign policy
- arms embargo
- South Africa
- United States
- Export Administration Act
- Export Administration Regulations
- Missile Non-proliferation Agreement
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Date 2005-01-31 Availability unrestricted Abstract THE 1977 UNITED STATES ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA: INSTITUTION AND IMPLEMENTATION TO 1997The institution and implementation of the 1977 mandatory United States arms embargo against South Africa and the impact thereof on relations between the United States and South Africa is investigated in this study. The investigation centers around the objectives of the United States in instituting the arms embargo, whether these objectives were met through the implementation and enforcement of the arms embargo, and whether the South African reaction to the embargo indicates the failure of the embargo to meet its objectives. The relation of the arms embargo to the foreign policy of the United States Government of the day, as well as the impact of the embargo on the South African military industry is discussed.
The basis on which the problem statement is built is that close scrutiny of the implementation of the arms embargo would allow one to judge the seriousness that the United States assigned to the objectives of the arms embargo. The main objective of the embargo was to force the South African Government to abandon apartheid. Full compliance with the embargo would demonstrate the commitment of the United States to this objective, while non-compliance would be regarded by critics as a retreat from that objective. The United States' implementation of the arms embargo would furthermore demonstrate the ability of major arms producers like the United States to reduce the threat of global violence by putting measures in place to successfully block arms and related items from being exported to potential belligerents.
In conclusion to the study, it was found that the implementation of the embargo was linked to external objectives of the United States Government of the day. Thus, the strengthening or weakening of arms embargo regulations occurred according to the objectives that the Government of the day wanted to achieve. Nonetheless, the United States' implementation of the arms embargo was generally very effective. It was also concluded that the arms embargo indeed acted as the main stimulant for the development of the world-renowned South African arms industry. This industry developed out of the determination of the white South African minority Government to remain in power, which in turn resulted in a defiant disregard for the arms embargo. Clandestine activities became the order of the day. These activities later had a major impact on the first democratically elected black government in South Africa. This government inherited a legacy of embargo violations, which led to much tension in relations with the United States in the first few years after the 1994 South African elections. The research therefore also paints a picture of the inherited struggles that the new South African Government had to face as a result of the arms embargo, and the resultant difficulties in normalizing relations with the United States.
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A report recently released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Africa Report on New and Emerging Challenges) detailed how African countries can turn challenges, such as biodiversity and ecosystem loss, water scarcity, and food crisis, into opportunities to transit toward a green economy, suggesting they focus on practices including sustainable agriculture and biodiversity protection.
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Last year my potatoes lived and died healthily, as far as I could see. My tomatoes got a bad case of early blight after the potato tops died. I dug potatoes before frost and only thought later about whether this could allow blight spores to infest the tubers. The potatoes we've eaten this winter haven't shown characteristic early blight lesions--they look healthy (better than what often get from the ag store). If they don't have visible blight damage after a year in storage can I assume they are healthy and replant them, or am I inviting another round of early blight? Any advice would be much appreciated.
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The fungus that causes Early Blight can over-winter in just about anything; soil, leaf debris, surrounding weeds, etc. It doesn't require live tissue. It is the fungus that causes Late Blight, a much more serious disease, that can only over-winter in live tissue such as potatoes. Preventing the spread of LB is the reason for the caution against using untreated, stored seed potatoes. So if you are sure the disease you had was Early Blight then you could use your potatoes. If not, then it is best to buy new seed potatoes. Standard recommendation is to treat your own stored potatoes with a fungicide before planting to improve the odds against possible problems but that doesn't appeal to some folks. Dave |
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Julia Schmid
In "Schriftbild #3, 2009," Julia Schmid deals with the big question of fault in reference to Hitler's dictatorship and German history. She composes the accusatory sentences such as "it is my fault/ it is your fault / it is our fault"
etc. resulting in a rotating swastika. Even though she deals with denunciations, the letter drawing is more a general question that everybody has to answer and think about. The constant number of iterations of the same sentences and the indication of a rotation creates an image of time and deals with the impossibility of turning it back or answering that question definitely.
This ongoing repetition of the same could be a symbol for the thousands of voices that tried to reject the question of fault over the last 60 years, but it can also be a symbol of all the people that were involved, that lived and died in the Second World War themselves and, at last, it should be a warning for the following generations at the same time. To break the risk of repeating the past, it is important for all not to forget what happened.
Written with ink on paper, its presentation is unframed, very raw, a kind of reference to graffiti tagging. Thus the artist does not exclude herself from her own statement, even though she is a young woman in the second generation after the Holocaust. She knows the importance of bringing this question into our mind again and again to be aware of not being guilty once more in relationship to contemporary politics as well as any possible future developments.
The young artist Julia Schmid was born in the south of Germany. After leaving her hometown, she worked as an assistant for several photographers and on movie productions primarily based in Munich, Germany using the skills she learned in the photography course during her first stay abroad in Cornwall, England. Afterwards she entered the photography class at the University for Applied Sciences in Munich, where she explored the field of documentary photography.
After the return from a residency in Paris, France she deepened her knowledge of German history. She started a project about forced displacement after the Second World War in the former "Sudetenland" in the Czech Republic. This project was based on finding out some truth around the stories that she had heard so often from her grandmother during her childhood. She combined her photographic work with hand written quotes and documents. She examined the term "Heimat" once more in the former German region Masuria in East Prussia with the juxtaposition of important historical quotes and photographs of places of history. In her recent work, the text and the images consolidate in these letter drawings where she focuses more and more on hand written compositions and skills.
Currently the artist lives and works in Berlin, Germany, where she is confronted constantly with the never ending project of accounting for Germany's past. In addition to her focus on this important concern of German culture, Julia Schmid spent a great deal of time participating in creative workshops for asylum children organised by the non profit organisation "Refugio" in Munich.


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On paper, the Green Bay Packers should be set at defensive back. They return their top three corners, Al Harris, Charles Woodson and Patrick Dendy, and, in the only significant free agent signing thus far, General Manager Ted Thompson added veteran corner back Frank Walker. Returning from injured reserve is 2006 draft choice Will Blackmon. The starters at safety, Nick Collins and Marquand Manuel, also return along with top reserve Tyrone Culver who was drafted last year. As with corner, there is a highly touted returnee form injured reserve, 2006 draftee Marviel Underwood. Finally, the Packers used a third round pick in 2007 to add safety Aaron Rouse. Five safeties and five corners would appear to more than fill the roster. Nevertheless, some camp bodies return from the last year and more have been added.
The cornerback with the best chance to crack the roster is Jarrett Bush 6-0 197 Utah State. Timed in college at 4.45 and having shown coverage skills, Bush was signed as a free agent by Carolina and was one of their final cuts before the 2006 season. He made 13 tackles and defensed 3 passes along with a fumble recovery in the preseason for the Panthers. Because Green Bay was so thin at corner following the wasted draft choices of Ahmad Carroll and Joey Thomas and the failed experiment with Jason Horton, Ted Thompson quickly signed Bush to the roster, and the cornerback played in every game on special teams and was the third leading tackler. As a gunner on the punt unit Bush was frequently charging the waiting returner or battling to keep the punt out of the end zone. He remains a camp body, because of the lack of game changing plays on special teams and his inability to add much in the nickel and dime. However, he now has a full season of experience and is in the mix at cornerback.
Jarrett Bush was not nationally a high profile player in college, but was a consistent performer. He began in junior college as a defensive back and kick returner and was all conference both years and all state as a sophomore. Both in junior college and at Utah State, Bush competed in track as a long jumper, hurdler and member of the 4X100 meter relay team. Also successful in football, although he was only a starter as a senior, Bush was honored as All Western Athletic Conference following that season. Although not noted as a big hitter, Bush was a wrestler in high school, which may help explain his success in tackling. Bush will be in the mix at cornerback
The other camp body corners are Antonio Malone and Tramon Williams. By coincidence, I was at training camp last season when Malone was signed. He played in one preseason game and was cut before the season began. Re-signed in January, Malone was allocated to Europe and has now returned to compete in Green Bay. The disoriented but willing performer I saw last summer will be worth watching again this season. Tramon Williams was added to the practice squad in November and remained there the final weeks of the season.
Antonio Malone 6-0 200 4.59 Toledo is described by scouts as playing fast and as a good college cover corner, but he was not drafted probably because of a slow forty at the combine and reduced production as a senior compared to his junior campaign. In a pro day work out he ran a 4.4, which raised his stock enough to be signed by Detroit. He also displayed above average 10 yard and three cone drill times and scored 23 of 29 on the Wonderlic. The Lions waived Malone prior to Training Camp, but he was signed by Green Bay in August. The fact that Antonio Malone was not signed to any practice squad last season adds to the conclusion that he is only a camp body.
Tramon Williams 5-11 194 4.59 Louisiana Tech is another camp body. Williams was way under the radar in college, and only his 37.5 vertical at his pro day sets him apart as an athlete. Houston signed him originally and he stuck until the final cuts. At Louisiana Tech, Williams was a starter for a season and a half and made some interceptions. He apparently was of enough value on the scout team to last 5 weeks on the Green Bay practice squad. Williams should be around into the preseason games. For what it is worth, his father's name is Ted Williams.
The camp body safeties provide three interesting names, Atari Bigby, Alvin Nnabuife and Charlie Peprah. Fans can hope for preseason success for these men if only to hear what Chris Berman of ESPN might do with the names.
Charlie Peprah 5-11 202 Alabama was on the Packer roster all last season and was active for half the games playing exclusively on special teams. A safety with some coverage ability, Peprah was a cornerback for 2 years for the Crimson Tide before switching to safety. During his four years in the Southeast Conference, Peprah started 45 games with 210 tackles including 9 for a loss. He forced 4 fumbles and recovered 5. His 9 interceptions produced 224 yards and 2 touchdowns. The New York Giants drafted Peprah in the 5th round but released him prior to the season, probably intending to keep him on the practice squad. Green Bay claimed the safety for their roster. Charlie Peprah did not play on the defensive unit last season, but following a full year of training camp, he is a candidate for the last safety position on the final 53.
Like Peprah, Atari Bigby 5-11 214 Central Florida has some experience with the team. He impressed the coaches in training camp last season enough that they kept him on the practice squad despite an injury suffered even before the preseason during "Family Night". Added to the regular roster later in 2006, Bigby played in five games before sustaining another season ending injury. Injuries are an issue with Bigby. During his college career, he missed games or practices with injuries at different times to his left wrist and shoulder and his right knee and hamstring. When playing, he recorded an impressive 296 tackles often playing "in the box" and roaming sideline-to-sideline Allocated to NFL Europe in 2006, Bigby started every game for Amsterdam and performed well. The extent of his ability to cover receivers and the luck to stay healthy will determine Bigby's season. For now, he is a high-end camp body with a shot to be on the opening day roster.
Alvin Nnabuife 6-1 210 Southern Methodist is, because of the competition, relegated to camp body status with little chance to make the final roster. The story here is strength. At SMU, weighing 208 pounds, Nnabuife bench pressed 341 and squatted over 500. In a strength index that his coaches used, which included the 40 and the other familiar tests of speed, agility and leg strength along with weight lifting, Nnabuife scored the highest on the team. He spent part of his career at linebacker because the team needed him there, but his size and 4.6 speed are better suited to his regular position at safety. To imitate the great Mr. Berman, we can hope that this player stays around awhile and does not vanish "Nnabuife of Smoke".
The Green Bay media has already hyped Bigby, and Peprah and Bush were solid special team performers last season. This is a fairly impressive camp body group, but most will not make the team when the season begins.


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"Game Over" for Gaddafi?
June 30, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Nick Carey and Adam Gray-Block
Stockpiles of ordnance inside a Gaddafi ammunition bunker which is now controlled by rebel fighters are seen approximately 40 kms (25 miles) southeast of Zintan June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Anis Mili |
(Reuters) – Libya's Muammar Gaddafi could fall within two to three months, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Tuesday, as rebels sought to build on a gradual advance toward Tripoli.
The ICQ's Luis Moreno-O campo, who on Monday announced an arrest warrant for Gaddafi on charges of crimes against humanity, is the latest international official to say the Libyan leader would soon capitulate to a NATO-backed revolt.
"It is a matter of time … Gaddafi will face charges," Moreno-O campo told reporters in The Hague, where the warrants were approved for Gaddafi, his son Said al-Islam and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi.
He added: "I don't think we will have to wait for long…In two or three months it is game over."
The Libyan administration rejects the authority of the ICC and has denied targeting civilians, saying it has acted against armed criminal gangs and al Qaeda militants.
While there is little chance of Gaddafi being arrested if he remains in power, his foes have seized on the warrant to justify the three-month NATO bombing campaign and to try and bolster world opinion in support of the operation.
In Washington, a U.S. Senate panel backed a resolution to formally authorize continued U. s. participation in the NATO-led operation. Senators on the panel rebuked President Barrack Obama for not having sought congressional approval in the first place.
In comments that appeared to make any political settlement even less likely, rebels said after talks in Paris that even indirect contacts with Gaddafi were now excluded — hardening a line that until now acknowledged talks through intermediaries.
"I don't think there is any place for direct or indirect contact with Gaddafi," Mahout Sham, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTSC) said after meetings with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
In its eastern stronghold of Benghazi, the NTSC hosted the foreign minister of Bulgaria, whose country along with Romania brought to at least 22 the number of states which recognize the NTSC as representatives of the Libyan people.
Rebels Closer to Tripoli
The rebellion against Gaddafi has made only slow progress since Western countries began bombing three months ago, but rebels say they are finally advancing closer to Tripoli.
Rebels based in the Western Mountains region southwest of the capital made their biggest breakthrough in weeks on Sunday to reach the town of Birr al-Ghanam, where they are now fighting pro- Gaddafi forces for control, their spokesman said.
The move took them 30 km (18 miles) north of their previous position and closer to Tripoli, Gaddafi's main power base.
A rebel spokesman said there had been further fighting on Monday. "Fighting broke out yesterday evening in Birr Ay and Birr al-Ghanem. The (government) brigades used Grad rockets. The fighting stopped later after strikes by NATO," he said.
A Reuters photographer said rebels tried to salvage weapons from a pro- Gaddafi arms depot some 20 km (13 miles) southeast of the nearby town of Zintan after it had been bombed by NATO, but they were prevented as fire broke out across the entire depot.
Elsewhere, rebels in Misrata said Gaddafi's forces struck at the Mediterranean coastal city some 200 km (125 miles) east of Tripoli overnight. Rebels said they blew up a vehicle laden with arms belonging to Gaddafi's forces in nearby Zlitan on Tuesday but were downbeat on the prospect of any imminent advances.
"Given our limited means, I don't see how we are going to make major gains," a rebel spokesman called Abdelsalam said.
The revolt has turned into the bloodiest of the Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic rulers across the Middle East, becoming a full-blown civil war with control of the country divided between the rebels and Gaddafi's government.
In London, a British minister told reporters a team planning for a post-conflict Libya had recommended Gaddafi's security forces be left largely intact after any rebel victory, avoiding an error made after the Iraq war.
"One of the first things that should happen once Tripoli falls is that someone should get on the phone to the former Tripoli chief of police and tell him he's got a job and he needs to ensure the safety and security of the people of Tripoli," said International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell.
The report of the UK-led team is to be presented at the next meeting of an international contact group on Libya on July 15.
"NATO Fig Leaf"
Reporters were taken on Tuesday by Libyan government minders to the town of Bain Wailed, a tribal stronghold about 150 km (90 miles) southeast of Tripoli to attend a pro- Gaddafi rally.
"We are here to show that all Libyan people love Gaddafi," said schoolteacher Halo Aimed, 20, one of 200 mostly female supporters, some of whom fired machine guns in the air, while two carried unloaded rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Bain Wailed is home to the Walhalla, Libya's biggest tribe, which originally announced its opposition to Gaddafi when the uprising began in February. The tribe's revolt was quickly suppressed by forces loyal to Gaddafi.
The launch of a third war in a Muslim country has divided U. s. public opinion while tens of thousands of troops are still deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. U. s. forces took the lead in the air campaign's initial days, but quickly turned command over to NATO, with most bombing carried out by Britain and France.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed a resolution formally authorizing U. s. participation in the operation but banning the introduction of U.S. troops on the ground.
Senators said Obama should have sought approval in Congress earlier. U. s. State Department legal adviser Harold Kohl said no authorization was needed because the U. s. role was too limited to be considered "hostilities" under the War Powers Resolution, which requires presidents to seek approval for military action.
Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat and former U. s. Navy secretary, said any operation that lasts for months and costs billions could be defined as hostilities "even under the NATO fig leaf."
(Additional reporting by Maria Gorgonian in Benghazi, Michael Martian in Beijing, Susan Cornell in Washington, John Irish in Paris, Joseph Nash in Berlin, David Brainstorm in Brussels and Hasid Auld Aimed in Algiers; Writing by Mark John; Editing by Peter Graff)
3 Muslim Clerics Barred from US Flights
May 12, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, USA – Three imams including a US-born Muslim bound for a conference on Islamophobia were kicked off US domestic flights out of security fears, clerics and an airline said Saturday.
Two imams boarded a flight from Memphis, Tennessee to Charlotte, North Carolina on Friday only to have it return to the terminal so they could be put through "additional screening," said a spokesman for Atlantic South Airlines (ASA), the Delta Connection airline operating the flight.
"We take security and safety very seriously, and the event is currently under investigation," said spokesman Jarek Beem, adding that the men were put on the next available flight.
ASA is investigating the incident, "and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused," Beem said.
US-born imam Al-Amin Abdul-Latif of Long Island was barred from boarding an American Airlines flight from New York to Charlotte late Friday and told to return to LaGuardia airport for a morning flight Saturday, only to be refused boarding again, without explanation, his son said.
"This morning we get to the airline, and the ticket agent told my father that the airline does not want him to fly. Those were her exact words," Abu Bakr Abdul-Latif told AFP.
"There was nothing he could do," said the son, who traveled on to the Charlotte conference without his father.
Masudur Rahman, a permanent US resident from India and former Memphis imam who teaches Arabic at the University of Memphis, said he and another cleric, a US permanent resident from Egypt and dressed in a shoulder-to-ankle Islamic robe, were pulled off ASA flight 5452 and cleared through new security checks.
"But when we went to re-enter the plane, the Delta supervisor said 'Sorry, the pilot is not allowing you to enter,'" Rahman told AFP.
Delta negotiated at length with the pilot, noted Rahman, who said he was told that "some passengers might be uncomfortable" with their presence on the plane.
"I think they were obviously upset to the extent that they were inconvenienced, but, you know, they understand what's going on in the world and particularly in the heightened sensitivities after the death of Osama bin Laden," Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told CNN.
Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda chief who orchestrated the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States was killed Monday by US commandos in a daring raid deep inside Pakistan.
Al-Qaeda acknowledged their leader's death, and has vowed revenge on America for the killing.
The imams were heading to the North American Imams Federation conference entitled "Islamophobia: Diagnosis and Treatment."
US Anger at Election Claims Prompt Karzai Call
April 8, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a shura, or meeting, in Kandahar city April 4, 2010. REUTERS/Golnar Motevalli |
The United States has rejected President Hamid Karzai's anti-foreigner outburst as "troubling" and "preposterous", prompting a hurried effort by the Afghan leader to make amends, Agence France-Presse reported.
Officials said Karzai did not specifically apologise during a telephone conversation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday, but expressed "surprise" at the furor over his claim that foreigners orchestrated election fraud.
The row came just a few days after President Barack Obama made an unannounced trip to Kabul to press Karzai on tackling corruption and to demand progress on good governance, as Washington's troop surge strategy unfolds against the Taliban.
The new confrontation will only raise doubts about the fragile relationship between the Obama administration and Karzai, whom Washington is forced to consider a partner despite distaste for his political record.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs called Karzai's comments "troubling" and "cause for real and genuine concern". Gibbs noted the huge US military and political resources – and sacrifices – committed to Afghanistan.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, meanwhile, described Karzai's intervention as "preposterous". US Ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry also met with Karzai in person to seek clarification on his comments on Thursday.
The Afghan leader then initiated the call to Clinton and expressed "surprise that his comments had created what he called a stir," a US official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Generally we were happy with the call and we're moving on," the official added.
Crowley called the conversation a "constructive" one as Washington and Kabul seek to defuse tense relations.
"President Karzai reaffirmed his commitment to the partnership between our two countries, and expressed his appreciation for the contributions and sacrifices of the international community," he said, adding that Karzai and Clinton "pledged to continue working together in a spirit of partnership". But the Obama administration scrapped a planned Karzai visit to Washington last month after he gave himself full control over the electoral commission. In another snub to the United States, he then invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Afghanistan.
The Afghan leader drew fierce global condemnation for his speech on Thursday.
"There was fraud in presidential and provincial council elections – no doubt that there was a very widespread fraud, very widespread," Karzai told Afghan election commission workers in Kabul.
"But Afghans did not do this fraud. The foreigners did this fraud," he added, accusing other countries of interfering in his country's domestic affairs.
He also claimed that such moves risked the 126,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan being seen as "invaders" – terminology used by the Taliban – and the nine-year insurgency as "a national resistance". Afghan analysts suggested Karzai had lost control after being criticised by Obama and angered by the Afghan parliament, and noted the statements could signal a shift in foreign policy.
Afghan soldiers killed
German troops based in north Afghanistan mistakenly killed at least five Afghan soldiers, NATO forces said on Saturday, hours after the Germans lost three of their own soldiers in a gunfight with insurgents, Reuters reported.
A statement from NATO said that on Friday evening a unit of German soldiers was approached by two unmarked civilian vehicles which failed to stop when troops signalled them "using a variety of methods" in the northern province of Kunduz.
"The force eventually fired on the vehicles killing at least five Afghan soldiers … Initial reports indicate that the two civilian cars were part of an Afghan national army patrol en route to Kunduz," NATO-led forces said in a statement.
A NATO spokesman later said it was unclear if the vehicles were civilian and the alliance was investigating the matter.
Hours before the incident, three German soldiers were killed in a gunfight with insurgents. The unit of German troops that killed the Afghan soldiers were on their way to the scene of that gunfight, when they came across the Afghan soldiers, NATO said.
Earlier, the governor of Kunduz province, Mohammad Omar, said he had been to a hospital in the province and saw the bodies of six Afghan soldiers who had been killed in the incident, which happened near Char Dara district.
Opinion polls show most Germans oppose Berlin's involvement in the Afghan war.
Opposition spiked after a German-ordered US air strike in a village in Kunduz in September killed scores of people, at least 30 of them civilians according to the Afghan government, the deadliest incident involving German troops since World War II.
Germany is the third-largest NATO contributor to the war with some 4,300 troops in Afghanistan, most in northern Kunduz where Taliban attacks and strength have increased over the past year. Germany's parliament has agreed to send a further 850 soldiers.
Somali Shabaab Rebels Say They Shot Down U.S. drone
October 22, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Insurgents of the Somali al Shabaab group shot down a U.S. drone aircraft flying over the southern port of Kismayu on Monday and were searching for the wreckage, an insurgent spokesman said.
U.S. commandos killed a 'most wanted' al Qaeda suspect allied to al Shabaab last month in a helicopter raid in the rebel-held south of the failed state.
"We fired at an American plane spying for information over Kismayu. Our forces targeted the plane and shot it and we saw the plane burning. We think it fell into the sea," said Sheikh Hassan Yacqub, spokesman for al Shabaab in Kismayu.
"We are still searching for it," he told Reuters.
Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, spokesman of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, said all its unmanned aerial vehicles had been safely recovered but could not give further details.
Al Shabaab, which Washington says is al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia, controls much of the south and center where it is waging an insurgency against the fragile U.N.-backed government.
Residents in one small central town, Galhareeri, said al Shabaab fighters destroyed a mosque, the grave of a revered Sufi Muslim cleric and a Sufi Muslim university there on Sunday.
The hardline group has targeted Sufi holy sites and religious leaders in the past, saying their practices conflict with the insurgents' strict interpretation of Islamic law.
"They destroyed the Sheikh Ali Ibaar's grave and our mosque. They also knocked down our Islamic university," elder Hassan Ali said by telephone. "We do not know where to flee."
Fighting in Somalia has killed 19,000 civilians since the start of 2007 and driven 1.5 million from their homes.
A spokesman for Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a moderate Sufi militia group that is battling al Shabaab in central regions, denounced the desecration of the holy sites in Galhareeri.
"We strongly condemn al Shabaab for its evil acts," Sheikh Abdullahi Sheikh Abu Yusuf told Reuters. "They are notorious for destroying great graves, even in places where they just spend a couple of nights."
Al Shabaab has shocked many Somalis, moderate Muslims, with its stern version of Sharia law, involving amputations for theft, and lately the public whipping of women for wearing bras.
Al Shabaab fighters have banned movies, musical telephone ringtones, dancing at weddings and playing or watching soccer.
Some residents, however, give the rebels credit for restoring a degree of law and order to parts of the country.
In the capital Mogadishu, police displayed on Monday the body of a foreign gunman who appeared to be Arab and was killed on Sunday during an al Shabaab attack on government forces.
"You see this dead Arab. He was among the members of al Qaeda who came from other countries just to destroy Somalia," police spokesman Abdullahi Barise told reporters, standing over the corpse of a light-skinned man with several bullet wounds.
Al Shabaab have urged foreign jihadists to join their battle against what they describe as Somalia's apostate government.


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My great ocean view includes Cuttyhunk Island and the lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard, and also Horseneck Beach in Westport MA. We were lucky enough to find a cheap former rental cottage and put in various perennial and shrub beds to frame the best view. Now (or in a couple of years) it looks like we'll be staring at 166 very tall windmills with aircraft lights on the tops. So does anyone have any ideas on how to screen the view yet allow some ocean view bits to be enjoyed? Tall bushes? Willow trees? My idea is to veil the windmills but not obscure the ocean blue.
Carol |
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IDK if it will be possible to screen em..I wish you the best in your project! |
- Posted by corgicorner Mass 6/7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, May 23, 10 at 16:43
YEAH! Turn around and face EAST! |
- Posted by katsrevenge42 7 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 11, 10 at 22:20
Good luck. I'd go with trees. |
We only have one in our town and it's in an industrial area but there has been a lot of grumbling about the fact that it has definitely affected the view. There is no way to easily camouflage it and screening it would be an excellent option. You could plant a Rose of Sharon barrier but my guess is that it's gong to only accentuate what is rising skyward above it. My suggestion is to consider adding panels of lattice around your sitting area, leaving wide spaces between them to allow you to enjoy the view. You could even add a pergola type top -- something you could cover with canvas or with clematis, wisteria, and maybe some trumpet vines and well, any other vine that tickles your fancy. We did that with a metal gazebo to provide it with a strong and sturdy support structure and it has been a fabulous addition and very inexpensive to put together with L brackets and screws. Cathy (MA) |
Personally I agree w/corgicorner as in Yeah! I live on Cape Cod & while this is not Cuttyhunk, it's well past the time to turn to alternate energy sources. Wind or solar & I'm all for it. I'd recommend that you proudly show off the view. |
- Posted by poultryman none (My Page) on Wed, Jun 1, 11 at 16:01
I agree. We need renewable, safe clean energy, and what better way than wind? I get kind of impatient with people who, when asked would probably agree, and who claim to be pro environment, but as soon as they learn that it'll be close by, all of a sudden it's NIMBY. I've seen the wind farms in CA and upstate NY. I don't really think that they're unattractive. Certainly not as much as solar farms. People actually buy gaudy colored windmills to place on their property, and who thinks that the windmills in the Netherlands should be screened from view? Lighthouses are an unnatural "blight" if you will, on the coastline, but who doesn't pay more for real estate with a view of one? I spend more time in York Beach than on the Cape and Islands, but I do get down there, and I'd gladly accept the windfarm within the view from my cottage, especially if it meant cleaner electricity, and hopefully some day, cheaper. I do question the econmics of placing them offshore, as far as construction and maintenance costs, vs onshore, but at least it's wind, and it's a step in the right direction. Who knows, maybe in 10 years when people see that it's really not the eyesore that they imagine, the idea will spread, and they'll get to see my view "spoiled" too. I'm betting by then they'll be claiming that they had them first, and others are now copying the idea. |
Personally I find windmills kind of cool looking. However, if you have a problem with them...Eastern Red ceder is skinny, so you can plant some to block strategic parts of your view from the house and not others. Best I can come up with. |
- Posted by carol6ma_7ari zones 6 %26 7a (My Page) on Sun, Apr 28, 13 at 10:30
I stand corrected, if not admonished for my desire to not see my fine ocean view sullied. I frankly don't care about the green savings but was focused on the aesthetics. So what I have done is create a middle- distance distraction: a large (1800sq. ft.) high-fenced vegetable garden between our house and where I think the windmills will be. This serves several purposes: it keeps the ever increasing local deer population from dining off my salad fixin's, it got me to increase the size of my small garden which kept running out of space as I added more kinds of veggies and fruit, it partly blocks the summer view of 11 RVs which are brought in, May to October, on the other side of the small brackish pond of our wetlands boundary, it made it easier for me to go organic, it provides me with many tall fence posts to top with decorative items (such as pinwheels) AND it eventually will somewhat block the distant view of wind turbines. Thanks to you all. Carol |
- Posted by eclecticcottage 6b wny (My Page) on Fri, May 31, 13 at 13:56
Carol, I SOOOO understand where you're coming from, and find it funny to hear of people put off by folks not wanting them shoved in their faces. IMO, it's the cities using most of the power, stick them on the skyscrapers and in central park. You want constant lights and such YOU deal with the views. And while you're at it, stick solar panels on the sides of them instead of all the windows. We're hoping they give up on windmills here in our lake (we're on Lake Ontario, we did about the same-bought an old run down cottage and made it home). Bad for views, bad for one of the few things that brings $$ to this area (sport fishing) and I can only imagine the junk that would end being stirred up if they tried drilling in the sediment here. Hmf. Anyway, I hope your idea works for you! And don't worry about those that don't agree. Rich or not (I know I fit in the "not" catagory quite well, lol) you paid for the view, and you should have a voice in what happens to it. |
- Posted by anneok1979 none (My Page) on Mon, May 5, 14 at 19:50
Two industrial wind turbines in my town. They are like kinetic sculptures - very hypnotic and lovely to look at. Incorporate them into your landscape. Make it your focal point. Bring the wind theme into your garden. You may change your perspective if this change is inevitable. And look on the bright side: it's a preferable neighbor to fracking. I lived on Horseneck Beach throughout college and live very close to you - there are many of us who support Cape Wind. I'm sorry that you feel negatively towards it, but I hope that you may be swayed in time. |
- Posted by carol6ma_7ari zones 6 %26 7a (My Page) on Wed, May 7, 14 at 8:39
Anneck, I'm replying the day after the latest climate change report was issued by the White House. Yes, I agree that using alternative sources of energy is preferable to burning fossil fuels and creating even higher levels of emissions. But if I want my view to have motion, let it be the movement of waves. But I feel this cluttering-up of the natural views is inevitable. I can't control the part of my view that I don't own, just the view of the land I do own: thus, the fenced garden I installed in the middle distance. I hung spinning flickering wind-moved objects over the garden beds to discourage plant-pestering birds (alas, they aren't discouraged) so that's an ironic reference to the wind. But what I add is dark at night, not like the navigation lights that will be at the base of each windmill. So there's no perfect solution to keeping my fine view -- unless I turn my back to it. Not gonna happen! The town's property appraisal is partly based on the quality of the view and I doubt that adding windmills right over the state line (my Horseneck Beach view) is going to lower the valuation. We, on this thread, are arguing ecology, aesthetics and money too. And everyone concerned with climate change will be juggling these 3 items, not just climate warming. Carol |
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Soccer as the American's call our football is where I want to discover their rules of our wonderful game of football. I have played Major League Soccer in FM a few years ago but never wrote or seen a good article or guide on the MLS so we decided we had to make this a priority for one of our first contents for FM Academy.
The American's love their American Football (NFL) so much that they have decided to put some of the rules from their into American Soccer (MLS) such as player drafts, salary caps, waived players, domestic group's sorted by location (Eastern & Western conferences), Wild Cards and much more additions or changes to the Soccer or Football we know. I find this more of a positive as it almost makes Football Manager a different game and more challenging to play to get to grips with which I hope this article will help guide you and give you advice as I play.
I will start the game with New York Red Bulls one of the favourites to win the MLS Cup which is basically the domestic title that goes through their group into a knockout stage after 34 games. I thought it would be an easier way to find out all the rules of the MLS that are so different to the majority of domestic set up's around the world of soccer or football.
The game starts off like any other new game when taking a club, attending a meeting, training camp & meeting the media. The best part of the game and what most managers want to do first is to sign players but this is not as simple as it is in most countries, this is where I start to delve into the different world of football in America.
Transfers & Wages
The wage budgets is the same as it is at any club, well its a transfer budget which that can be spent however you like.
A maximum wage a senior player can be offered is $6.75k per week (£4.2k per week), you can offer much more for a designated player but can only have 3 in your squad at any time. The max squad salary below is only for the players on senior contracts and does not count the remaining salaries of the designated players a separate wage budget for them is found in the finances screen and again is also different for clubs depending on their financial state. The wage budget that does not consist of designated players is the same for all MLS clubs as it is the MLS who set these budgets and can change every year.
Conditions for your squad:
1. Max Squad size of 30
2. Max of 3 Designated players in squad (your high earning international players, only $6.75kpw of wage included in budget for each player)
3. Max of 10 Internationals (not American)
4. Max of 20 Senior rooster players (on Senior, Senior listed or Designated player contracts inc American players)
5. Max of 6 Developmental players (including Academy Apprentice)
6. Max of 3 Senior Goalkeepers in squad
7. Max of 4 Goalkeepers in squad
8. Max squad salary of $66.449k p/w (£41.562k p/w) – This is different depending on your team
9. No more than 6 Discovery players bought in a season (no more than 10 for new MLS teams)
Senior Listed Entry Level contracts are for players who tend to feature as back up or on fringes of your first team, the board set a maximum wage which tends to be fairly small. The Red Bulls board have set it at $850 (£525).
A Discovery Player is also a player you have found away from the MLS or bought on a free transfer (inc American) that was not in a draft. You can make 6 discovery players in a season or a new MLS side can make 10.
Generated Adidas players are the top youth players in America and every year a handful of Generated Adidas players will enter the SuperDraft.
Buying players
Non Based MLS players
Buying foreign players away from MLS is exactly the same as it would be at a European club by offering a transfer fee and all the usual options you have available such as exchanging a player & additional fee's. Same goes for free transfers only difference being is different contract types as already mentioned and MLS do not have a loyalty bonus scheme in their contracts, agents will still have to have to be paid unfortunately.
MLS based players
You can approach these players but can allocate funds up to your transfer budget and/or exchange players and/or offer one or some of your draft picks up to the next 3 years. Depending on how high the draft pick is the more valuable the pick is and will show value of pick in the transfer also more recent the pick the more valuable.
Buying Staff
There is no difference at all in buying staff, staff that are at clubs you will have to pay compensation just like normal.
Waiver list
The waiver list is a list of all MLS players released, their MLS clubs or contracts expired and/or the player who was not added in their rooster for the season but Generated Adidas, designated contracted or injured players can't be waivered if not selected.
Pick order for the waiver draft is determined by the MLS Cup standings but in reverse order, so LA Galaxy the holders will be in last place at 19th. You don't have to pick players from the list you can simply pass your selection, if you do decide to sign a player from the draft they will automatically be offered a contract they are eligible for and then will have to re register your squad to add your new player.
You can waive any layer during the season and will be placed on the waiver list, any MLS club will have up to 2 days to claim the player's contract and transfer immediately but your MLS club will still have to pay his wages for the remainder of the season. If no club approaches the player he is released on a free. It will be announced in your news if other MLS clubs do the same with any of their players for you to approach if you so wish.
Weighted Lottery
This can come about randomly through the season offering Generation Adidas players who missed out in the draft, other MLS players that were offered contracts during the draft but was not signed up for whatever reason and MLS players put on waiver list but no clubs approached him in the 2 day period so was released. The players cost nothing except a contract as you would offer normally and like the Waiver List the player will go to the list ranked team who were interested in the player and agreed to take part in the lottery.
You don't have to take part in the lottery if not wanting that player but once you signed a player in the lottery you can't participate in the Weighted Lottery again that season.
MLS Re-Entry Draft (Stage One & Two) – 10th & 17th December 2012
This draft consists of all MLS expired contracted players, if signed will be automatically signed on same wage last season and given a one year contract. However clubs can not pick former players that were at club when released for the draft. If you decide to pass one of your picks then you can no longer take part in the remaining draft even if you have a remaining pick left. The pick order is determined by final league rankings but reversed like waiver list. So MLS Cup winner will have last pick.
A week later there will be stage two of the draft; same rules and pick order apply.
MLS Draft Combine – 5th January 2013
This is the chance for all players that are part of the MLS SuperDraft to show off their talent in front of your scouts and other clubs scouts too. So you will be asked in your news if you wish to send a scout to the MLS Draft Combine.
MLS SuperDraft – 10th January 2013
This is a much larger list of players than other drafts mentioned above and consists of two rounds, but these players are youngsters wanting to make it into the professional game. In Football Manager these will all be regens but in real life they are college players. A small amount will be awarded with Generated Adidas status which normally is the players to look out for and will go early in the draft; they tend to have the most potential. The youngsters are also mixed with players playing in the lower leagues of American Soccer but won't tend to be any older than 24 years old.
The pick order is the same as other drafts but usually during the season picks would have been traded for players so may look very different come draft day.
Supplemental Draft – 15th January 2013
Same process as MLS SuperDraft but consists of 4 rounds; it Is the left over players from the SuperDraft.
Transfer Windows
• 28th November 2011 – 15th September 2012(domestic transfers only)
• 21st January 2012– 15th April 2012 (foreign transfers only)
• 8th March 2012 is Waiver Draft
• 27th June 2012 – 27th July 2012(foreign transfers only)
Major Soccer League
Regular Season – 10th March 2012 to 27th September 2012
• Top three teams of each group will qualify for the knockout stages.
• Teams placed 4th & 5th play in a wild card against one another.
• Groups sorted by points then goals scored then if points and goals scored are same will be down to goal difference.
• Four teams qualify for the North American Champions League
• No relegations
MLS Cup – 3rd November 2012 to (Final) 1st December 2012
• Like playoffs e.g. 1st will play winner of wild card (4th or 5th)
• 1st and 2nd legs are played
• Extra time played if scores are level then penalties
• Overall winners of their conference will then play in MLS Cup final
US Cup
(1st Round) 15th May 2012, MLS teams join 3rd round (29/5/12) to (Final) 8th August 2012
• No more than 5 foreign players in match squad
• Extra time played if scores are level then penalties
• Winner qualifiers for North American Champions League
This concludes my MLS guide I hope this has made life in Major League Soccer clearer, if you are an NFL fan then the rules may be more familiar to you. I am no MLS expert I have just played the game of Football Manager to find out the different rules but if your are then please tell me if I have missed anything out so I can add it in here. Thanks for reading and enjoy almost a new Football Manager experience.


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