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Benjamin Netanyahu overstated Iran's nuclear technology in 2012 when he used his bomb cartoon in an address to the United Nations. The Guardian and Al Jazeera have released a trove of documents relating to Iran's nuclear program and one of the key documents was prepared by Mossad to brief South Africa just a few short weeks after the famous speech. From The Guardian:
Binyamin Netanyahu's dramatic declaration to world leaders in 2012 that Iran was about a year away from making a nuclear bomb was contradicted by his own secret service, according to a top-secret Mossad document.
Brandishing a cartoon of a bomb with a red line to illustrate his point, the Israeli prime minister warned the UN in New York that Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons the following year and called for action to halt the process.
But in a secret report shared with South Africa a few weeks later, Israel's intelligence agency concluded that Iran was "not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons". The report highlights the gulf between the public claims and rhetoric of top Israeli politicians and the assessments of Israel's military and intelligence establishment.
As The Guardian notes, although Bibi's darling little cartoon makes little to no distinction between the steps of enriching uranium to 20% and enriching it to the 90%+ needed for a bomb, the Mossad document (pdf) states that Iran "is not ready" to enrich to the higher levels needed for a bomb:
Despite that clear information that Mossad surely already had at the time of the UN speech (h/t Andrew Fishman for the link), Netanyahu chose to portray Iran as ready to zip through the final stage of enrichment:
Now they're well into the second stage. And by next spring, at most by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage. From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.
So Netanyahu described a step that the Mossad described Iran as not even ready to start and turned it into something Iran was eager to accomplish in a few weeks. Simply put, that is a lie.
Of further note in the document is information relating to the heavy water reactor under construction at Arak. Although it doesn't appear that Netanyahu mentioned it in the UN speech, it often is portrayed as another rapid route to a nuclear weapon for Iran, because, when finally functioning, it could produce plutonium that could be used in a bomb. Mossad found, however, that Iran was still a couple of years away from having the reactor functioning. Further, Mossad realized that Iran needs a fuel reprocessing facility (that it does not have) in order to use the plutonium in a bomb:
It should also be noted that those two years have elapsed and the reactor still has not been powered up. Further, there are proposals that the reactor can be modified to make it produce a dramatically lower amount of plutonium.
These documents have been released with very important timing. As I noted last week, Netanyahu aims to destroy the P5+1 negotiations with Iran. By pointing out his lies two years ago, we should be in a better position to see through whatever obfuscation he delivers next week. But with a new air of bipartisany-ness, to his visit, don't look for Washington politicians to be the ones to point out his next round of lies.
Postscript: I am significantly behind on my homework. I owe Marcy a careful reading of the technical documents from the Sterling trial and need to follow up more fully on the suggestions that false documents (including the Laptop of Death?) were planted with Iran for the IAEA to discover. Now with this new trove of documents and the looming date of Netanyahu's visit, I need to get busy (on something other than planting blueberries)!
Israel's upgraded ballistic missile shield failed its first live interception test on Tuesday, security sources said, a fresh setback for the U.S.-supported system billed as a bulwark against Iran.
Operators of the Arrow 3 battery at Palmahim air base on the Mediterranean coast canceled the launch of its interceptor missile after it failed to lock on to a target missile fired over the sea, the sources said.
"There was a countdown to the launch and then nothing happened," one source told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "A decision was made not to waste the interceptor missile."
Israel's Defense Ministry tried to deny the failure, and the Jerusalem Post parroted them:
Defense officials said they decided to abort the firing of the interceptor due to the failure of a series of conditions to materialize, adding that the trial was "neither a success nor a failure."
During the test, a target missile was fired at Israeli air space from over the Mediterranean Sea. In future trials, the Arrow system will be ordered to intercept incoming mock missiles, something that did not occur this time, the ministry added.
The ministry later clarified that during the trial, the target missile flew along its planned path and was tracked by Arrow, but that "the conditions for firing an interceptor were not ripe, and we therefore decided to class the trial as a target missile exercise only."
Yair Ramati, of the Defense Ministry's Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure, said the trial was to have consisted of two parts, Ramati said. "The first part of the launch involved tracking the target missile, which was fired over the Mediterranean Sea toward Israel. In the second phase, the Arrow 3 interceptor was supposed to be fired after a series of conditions we set for the trial are met. At an early phase, we collectively decided that the conditions have not been met. In accordance to our criteria, we decided not to launch the Arrow 3 interceptor."
But for a defense program where failure is a way of life, one more failure is just another milestone in product development:
He stressed that conditions for a trial are very different than those need for an operational launch. "This is not the first time that not all conditions are met for a trial," Ramati added.
"This trial represents a milestone in the development of the system," the Defense Ministry added.
Haaretz informs us that this failure comes quickly on the heels of another:
This is the second Arrow test to fail within a short time: In September a trial involving the Arrow 2 missile did not succeed either. In that incident Defense Ministry officials concealed the results for many hours. Even after Haaretz reported the failure, they made no comment.
Despite all these failures, Boeing happily touts the Arrow system on its website:
Arrow 3, the newest addition to the Arrow Weapon System, is the upper tier in the Arrow family of weapons that incorporates the latest technology to combat a continually advancing threat. Short- and medium-range ballistic missile threats require prompt and effective self-defense capabilities. The threat of more sophisticated missiles, including the threat of weapons of mass destruction, requires a multi-tier approach to achieve a zero leakage rate. As the world's first operational national missile defense system, the Arrow Weapon System successfully destroys targets using the latest – technology to achieve a higher probability of a successful engagement. The Arrow Weapon System is affordable and has low total ownership costs.
The Arrow Weapon System is Israel's national missile defense system. The Arrow system uses the two-stage Arrow II interceptor to destroy an incoming target with a fragmentation warhead. Arrow 3, also a two-stage interceptor, will destroy an incoming target with an exo-atmospheric kill vehicle and provide additional defense capability for evolving threats. Other system elements are a launch control center, fire-control radar and battle management center. Arrow provides Israel with flexible and cost-effective protection from ballistic missile threats.
Come on down, folks! With "low total ownership costs", you too can have your own ballistic defense missile system that doesn't work!
Meanwhile, is there anything in the world more vile and disgusting than the photos at the top of this post? They were downloaded from the Flickr account of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, which I reached from the Embassy's web page. Who could have thought that a menorah in the shape of an Iron Dome missile battery, complete with little flags from the US and Israel, would be a good idea?
Saturday night, the New York Times published a blockbuster article by James Risen and Matt Apuzzo that was then carried on the front page of Sunday's print edition. The article described the jaw-dropping revelation that somehow, a lowly Port Authority detective wound up as the primary contact for Jundallah, a Sunni extremist group on the Iran-Pakistan border that attacks Iran (and sometimes Pakistan) with an aim to unify the region that is home to the Baloch people. Further, it appears that through Thomas McHale's contacts (and McHale's membership in a Joint Terrorism Task Force), information on Jundallah attacks filtered into the CIA and FBI prior to their being carried out in Iran.
Iran has long accused the US and Israel of having associations with Jundallah, even going so far as to state that the CIA and/or Mossad equip them and help them to plan their attacks. With negotiations between the P5+1 group of countries and Iran now in the home stretch toward a November 24 deadline, Saturday's disclosure could hardly have come at a worse time. In fact, John Kerry was in Oman, meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif and Catherine Ashton from the EU over the weekend. Despite this disclosure coming out, Sunday's negotiating session turned into two sessions and a further session was even added on Monday. Upbeat news is still flowing from that meeting, so on first blush the disclosure Saturday didn't completely disrupt the talks.
My first thought on seeing the article was that it fit perfectly with the previous front page effort by the Times at disrupting the talks. David Sanger "mistakenly" claimed that a new wrinkle in the negotiations would allow Russia to take over enrichment for Iran. This would almost certainly give hardliners the room they need to kill the deal, since maintaining enrichment capacity is a redline issue for Iran.
The reality is that what is under discussion is that Iran would continue its enrichment activities, but ship low enriched uranium to Russia where it would be converted into fuel rods. Evidence that this pathway is making progress can be seen in this morning's announcement that Iran and Russia have signed an agreement for Russia to build two more nuclear power plants in Iran. It seems that a new wrinkle on the arrangement might allow Russia to prepare the fuel rods inside Iran:
Russia, which is involved in those talks, will also cooperate with Teheran on developing more nuclear power units in Iran, and consider producing nuclear fuel components there, according to a memorandum signed by the heads of the state atomic bodies, Sergey Kirienko of Russia's Rosatom and Ali Akbar Salehi of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI).
Just as hinting falsely that Iran was negotiating away its enrichment technology was a move by the Times that could have disastrous effects on the ongoing negotiations, I felt that providing this strange story on McHale would give ammunition to those in Iran who see the CIA behind Jundallah. However,there is another possibility. In a Twitter discussion with Arif Rafiq on the disclosure, Rafiq suggested that "the US is coming clean about something that has concerned Iranians for years. Could be a plus". He later allowed that hardliners could see it as a smoking gun. A further interesting speculation from Laura Rozen on Twitter suggested that perhaps the US played both sides of Jundallah:
@barbaraslavin1 @mattapuzzo @mlcalderone @JamesRisen so did the US give Rigi up to the Iranians?
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) November 9, 2014
So let's consider these nicer possibilities for a moment. Maybe we did give Rigi to the Iranians. Maybe we are admitting Jundallah contacts now as a way of making sure it ends. But if that is the case, Risen and Apuzzo are a very strange source for how this news came out. An admission of this sort is what I would expect to be routed through David Ignatius, Eli Lake or Josh Rogin. Risen would be especially difficult to see as cooperating with specific timing on a disclosure. Recall that the Times spiked his disclosure of Bush's illegal wiretaps until after the 2004 elections and then only published when the book was about to drop. To believe that Risen is now somehow cooperating with the government is a huge stretch, but he does still appear to be at risk of being subpoenaed in the ongoing DOJ actions in response to the wiretapping disclosure.
Many issues surrounding US support for Jundallah (and MEK) are still quite unresolved in my view. Recall that we had the whole "false flag" controversy back in January of 2012, where it was "disclosed" that Mossad ran Jundallah while posing as CIA. Not too long after that, Sy Hersh disclosed that the US has trained operatives for the MEK (no mention of Jundallah at all in the article) for covert actions against Iran. What particularly raised my hackles in that report was that the training was held at the same site in Nevada where I suspect that the materials used in the 2001 anthrax attacks was produced.
Over at Moon of Alabama, b seems to feel that the US was indeed behind the running of Jundallah. For that to be the case, we are pretty much forced to believe that Risen and Apuzzo have been either duped or coerced. I find so much of what has come out to be conflicting that I doubt we'll ever completely sort this out. I have no doubts that JSOC and CIA stand ready to see Iran's enemies prosper, especially as we saw in the MEK training in Nevada. When it comes to involvement in actual operations, I just don't know. But the possibility that we helped at some times and then handed over Rigi possibly to make up for it sounds so like what our rudderless intelligence services would do that I'm leaning that direction.
Detailed information is not yet available, but by all accounts there was a very large explosion east of Tehran Sunday night, around 11:15 local time. Many believe that the explosion took place at Parchin, the military site that has been at the center of controversy raised by those who accuse Iran of carrying out work there to develop an explosive trigger for a nuclear bomb. Some of the most detailed information comes from Thomas Erdbrink of the New York Times:
A mysterious explosion at or near an important military complex rocked the Iranian capital on Sunday, lighting up the skies over the city.
Iranian official sources denied the explosion had taken place at the complex, the expansive Parchin military site east of the city, where international monitors suspect Iran once tested triggers for potential nuclear weapons. But the enormous orange flash that illuminated Tehran around 11:15 p.m. local time clearly came from that direction, several witnesses said.
Officials at Iran's Defense Industries Organization, though also denying that the explosion took place at Parchin, confirmed that two people were missing after "an ordinary fire" caused by "chemical reactions of flammable material" at an unspecified production unit, according to the semiofficial Iranian Students' News Agency. There was no word on the location of the fire.
Witnesses in the east of Tehran said that windows had been shattered in the vicinity of the military complex and that all trees in a hundred-yard radius of two villages, Changi and Hammamak, had been burned. The villages are on the outskirts of the military site.
The map below shows the area in question:
As seen on the map, Changi is very close to Parchin, but Hammamak is on the other side of Parchin and the two villages are over three miles from one another. A blast fireball that scorched trees over three miles apart must have been quite spectacular.
Many factors go into calculating the strength of blasts, including the type of explosive and what type of containment might have been present. However, FEMA provides (pdf) this rough guideline (via DTRA) of the radius over which various types of damage might be expected to occur as a function of the amount of explosive material used:
Because it relates to assessing damage from terrorist bombs, the FEMA figure breaks the amounts of explosives down into the amounts that can be carried by cars, vans and large trucks. The Times story doesn't report on how far away from the complex windows were shattered, but the effect of burned trees in villages over three miles from one another suggests that such damage would reach quite a ways. At the very least, it would appear that the blast had the equivalent of more than 10,000 pounds of TNT, and perhaps significantly more than that.
A report from BBC does give a blast radius for window breakage: Continue reading
In a story published at 7:28 am this morning, Reuters more or less transcribed a sales brochure for Israel trying to get other countries to buy their own versions of the Iron Dome system. I have written on Iron Dome a couple of times, noting that it amounts to a billion dollar boondoggle and that Congress now wants US contractors to get their portion of the take from the huge funds the US is pouring into the program.
A recent summary of how the effectiveness of Iron Dome has been over-hyped can be found here. The New York Times also addressed problems with Iron Dome here.
Remarkably, it seems that Reuters reporter Dan Williams could find none of this information about problems with Iron Dome while he copied from Israel's sales brochure for Iron Dome:
Normally, an advanced new weapon system with a battle-proven success rate of 90 percent would have global defense procurement agencies on the phone in minutes. But Israel's Iron Dome rocket interceptor is yet to prove a hit with buyers abroad.
In terms of operational achievement, tested on the Gaza, Lebanese and Egyptian Sinai fronts, Iron Dome is unrivalled in the arms market. However its uniqueness – developed for a particular threat in a particular place – also limits its appeal to countries dealing with more conventional military adversaries.
But the praise for Iron Dome doesn't stop there. Later in the piece, Williams says:
So far the system – its effectiveness against Palestinian rocket fire demonstrated beyond doubt since 2011 – has been bought by just one foreign country. Its identity is being kept secret by both sides.
So far, at the time of this writing, about two hours after Reuters posted the article, I have had no response from Williams on Twitter to my calling out his uncritical transcription of Iron Dome effectiveness and Reuters has posted no comments on the story even though I submitted a comment about an hour ago.
In the worst strike yet by Israel against a United Nations school where Palestinian civilians were seeking shelter from the carnage, up to 19 people were killed and 125 were wounded last night when Israeli tanks shelled the school in Jebalya. Citizens in Gaza have very limited options on where to go once Israel issues an ultimatum to evacuate an area. Reuters reports that more than 200,000 have sought refuge in UN schools and other UN buildings since the fighting broke out. Also yesterday, Israeli tanks shelled the only power plant in Gaza, forcing it to be shut down when a fuel tank was hit.
Israel, of course, claims that there was mortar fire from the vicinity of the UN school:
An Israeli military spokeswoman said militants had fired mortar bombs from the vicinity of the school and troops fired back in response. The incident was still being reviewed.
It is hard to see the shelling of the power plant, however, as anything other than collective punishment for all of Gaza. For all of Israel's yammering about terror tunnels and the scary rockets that Hamas is firing toward Israel, numbers in a CNN article this morning drive home the asymmetry of the conflict. Gaza is home to 1.8 million residents while Israel has a population of 8 million. Israel's armed forces have 176,000 active personnel. As for Hamas:
The U.S. State Department says there are "several thousand" Gaza-based Hamas militant operatives along with a "reported 9,000-person Hamas-led paramilitary group known as the 'Executive Force.'"
Tellingly, CNN does not separate Palestinian civilians from Hamas militants when it first touches on casualty figures, stating only that "more than 1200 Palestinians have been killed". The Reuters article linked above puts the number this morning at 1270. Only later in the CNN article do we learn that Israel estimates that it has killed "more than 300″ Hamas militants. That means that Israel's own estimate is that 76% of the Palestinians they have killed are civilians. For all of Israel's claims about the "pin-point precision" of its attacks, that is a horrible track record.
Of course, Israel hides behind claims of Hamas using civilians as human shields to justify the high civilian death rate. The problem, though, is that it is impossible to see how Israel faces any sort of imminent danger from any Hamas militants who may be hiding among Palestinian refugees (or even in the terror tunnels!). While the death toll of Palestinian civilians is approaching a thousand in this conflict, a grand total of three Israeli civilians have died, along with 53 soldiers who have died once Israeli forces crossed into Gaza. The UN is taking as many precautions as they can to screen the refugees in their shelters, and they have found and disclosed rockets that operatives tried to hide in shelters three times now.
Given the horrific numbers of civilians killed and the clearly punitive nature of bombing the power plant, it is time to visit the regulations and policies that apply to US arms and arms funding that flows to Israel. Consider this policy pronouncement in Defense News in April of this year, where we learn that:
a State Department official said Washington's classified Conventional Arms Transfer Policy has been updated to make clear that the US will not transfer arms, equipment or training to countries that commit genocide, crimes against humanity or violate international humanitarian law.
The law against collective punishment is clear and the ratio of civilians to militants killed, along with the repressive blockade and power plant bombing would seem to be slam dunks for proving collective punishment.
Further, none other than the war mongers' best friend Ronald Reagan actually intervened (pdf) in arms transfers to Israel once when they over-stepped the bounds of humanity:
Questions raised regarding the use of U.S.-supplied military equipment by Israel in Lebanon in June and July 1982, led the Reagan Administration to determine on July 15, 1982, that Israel "may" have violated its July 23, 1952, Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement with the United States (TIAS 2675). Concerns centered on whether or not Israel had used U.S.-supplied anti-personnel cluster bombs against civilian targets during its military operations in Lebanon and the siege of Beirut. The pertinent segment of that 1952 agreement between Israel and the United States reads as follows:
The Government of Israel assures the United States Government that such equipment, materials, or services as may be acquired from the United States … are required for and will be used solely to maintain its internal security, its legitimate self-defense, or to permit it to participate in the defense of the area of which it is a part, or in United Nations collective security arrangements and measures, and that it will not undertake any act of aggression against any other state.
It should be noted that none of the critical terms such as "internal security," "legitimate self-defense," or "act of aggression" are defined within this 1952 U.S.-Israeli agreement. The House Foreign Affairs Committee held hearings on this issue in July and August 1982. On July 19, 1982, the Reagan Administration announced that it would prohibit new exports of cluster bombs to Israel. This prohibition was lifted by the Reagan Administration in November 1988
Note that Israeli tanks appear to have been involved in the shelling of both the school and the power plant. That would make tanks and their ammunition perfect candidates to replace the cluster bombs in a repeat of Reagan's move in 1982. From the figures in this document (pdf, see this pdf for a guide to the categories), it appears that in 2013, the US provided over $620 million worth of assistance in the category of "Tanks and Military Vehicles" to Israel, just among the figures reported by the State Department rather than the Defense Department.
Of course, don't look for Obama to have the courage to stem the flow of money and weapons to Israel any time soon. In the meantime, it will be up to outside groups to apply what little pressure they can.
Update: From the UN statement on the shelling of the school (the sixth one hit!):
Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.
We have visited the site and gathered evidence. We have analysed fragments, examined craters and other damage. Our initial assessment is that it was Israeli artillery that hit our school, in which 3,300 people had sought refuge. We believe there were at least three impacts. It is too early to give a confirmed official death toll. But we know that there were multiple civilian deaths and injuries including of women and children and the UNRWA guard who was trying to protect the site. These are people who were instructed to leave their homes by the Israeli army.
The precise location of the Jabalia Elementary Girls School and the fact that it was housing thousands of internally displaced people was communicated to the Israeli army seventeen times, to ensure its protection; the last being at ten to nine last night, just hours before the fatal shelling.
Back in April, I wrote about the horrible success rate of Israel's Iron Dome defense system and the outrageous sums of money that the US has poured into it. With more rockets now being fired fired from Gaza and Israel responding by massacring Palestinians who have no escape, the Iron Dome system is getting renewed attention. And as with much in the Israel-Palestine situation, there is the propaganda we see in much of the main press and then there is the stark reality behind it that is vastly different.
Writing in The Atlantic, James Fallows noted a week and a half ago how the Washington Post had swallowed the propaganda completely, putting up the headline 'Israel's "Dome' changes the fight" and provided a snippet of the Post's praise:
To Israeli security officials, the success of Iron Dome is akin to that of the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank, which they say helped bring an end to an onslaught of suicide bombings in the early 2000s.
The Iron Dome system has rendered rockets so ineffective that Hamas and its allies have, in recent days, been attempting more-creative ways of attacking Israel.
To debunk this baseless propaganda, Fallows relied heavily on an article by John Mecklin in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Mecklin pulls no punches, titling his piece "Iron Dome: the public relations weapon". Unlike the Post's propaganda, Mecklin backs up his piece with evidence, experts and explanations that ring true to common sense:
With the latest rounds of rocket fire from Hamas fighters in the Gaza strip, Israel's missile defense system, known as Iron Dome, is getting a lot of press again, much of it positive. As with much reporting on missile defense, however, the Iron Dome coverage has lacked context and misconstrued reality.
Ted Postol, an MIT-based missile defense expert and frequent Bulletin contributor, provided a dose of context to the Iron Dome coverage in a National Public Radio interview Wednesday. "We can tell, for sure, from video images and even photographs that the Iron Dome system is not working very well at all," Postol said. "It—my guess is maybe [it hits a targeted missile] 5 percent of the time—could be even lower. … And when you look—what you can do in the daytime—you can see the smoky contrail of each Iron Dome interceptor, and you can see the Iron Domes trying to intercept the artillery rockets side on and from behind. In those geometries, the Iron Dome has no chance, for all practical purposes, of destroying the artillery rocket."
For Iron Dome interceptors to work properly, they have to hit the incoming rockets head-on. See this description for Bloomberg from Richard Lloyd, who often collaborates with Postol: Continue reading
Less than two weeks after the US announced yet another $429 million in funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system (which had already gotten over $900 million from the US), the system malfunctioned badly on Tuesday, resulting in the firing of two interceptor missiles by the system. The mishap frightened citizens in Eilat, where the incident took place around 7:30 am. Iran was quick to note the event and picked up on an important point: initial reports inside Israel claimed another "success" from the Iron Dome system, saying three rockets were incoming to Eilat and two of them were destroyed. The report later was withdrawn and the firing was blamed on an accident. Here is Fars News on the incident:
Israel's Iron Dome missile system 'accidentally' fired interceptor rockets into the Red Sea resort city of Eilat in Southern Negev.
Eilat residents were panicked early on Tuesday morning following a series of explosions that also sent Israeli forces scrambling to find the source of the booms, press tv reported.
The Israeli army initially presumed that a rocket attack had occurred in the area.
Initial reports said three Grad rockets were fired at the resort town. They claimed two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome while the third one exploded in an open area.
However, the army later claimed that the attacks were really a false alarm caused by an error at the Iron Dome site near the city.
An army spokesperson said the explosions were caused by two Iron Dome anti-missile projectiles accidentally fired at around 7:30 am (0530 GMT).
PressTV took things a bit further, stating that Israel's bluffing about the capabilities of Iron Dome is meant to deter enemies. So did Israel initially claim that rockets had been intercepted? That does appear to be true. In my searching for news stories on this event, I found a story on Debka.com. The story now reads like this:
The loud explosions heard in Eilat early Tuesday came from Iron Dome which accidentally ejected two rockets. They were earlier accounted for erroneously by another Grad attack on Israel's southernmost town from Sinai.
But the Google remembered that Debka had originally described things differently. Here is how the story was displayed by Google in the search results (as an aside, whatever happened to the "cached copy" option that used to show up on Google?):
It turns out that despite cheerleading about Iron Dome from obvious sources like the US Missile Defense Agency and the Heritage Foundation, there are serious questions about just how well the system works and whether Israel has been falsely inflating its capabilities. Just over a year ago, the New York Times looked into how well Iron Dome functions. They found significant problems:
After President Obama arrived in Israel, his first stop on Wednesday was to inspect an installation of Iron Dome, the antimissile system hailed as a resounding success in the Gaza conflict in November. The photo op, celebrating a technological wonder built with the help of American dollars, came with considerable symbolism as Mr. Obama sought to showcase support for Israel after years of tensions over Jewish settlements and how to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Israeli officials initially claimed success rates of up to 90 percent. Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, hailed the antimissile system as the first to succeed in combat. Congress recently called the system "very effective" and pledged an additional $680 million for deployments through 2015.
But a growing chorus of weapons experts in the United States and in Israel say their studies — based largely on analyses of hits and misses captured on video — suggest that Iron Dome destroyed no more than 40 percent of incoming warheads and perhaps far fewer. Many rockets, they argue, were simply crippled or deflected — failures that often let intact or dying rockets fall on populated areas.
The story continues: Continue reading
Fars News reports that Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Catherine Ashton, chief negotiator for the European Union, will meet for lunch tomorrow just before the next round of P5+1 talks with Iran kick off in Geneva later in the afternoon. But even though an interim agreement that would freeze Iran's current nuclear work in return for a release of some impounded funds to Iran while a longer term agreement is finalized seems more likely than not, those who oppose any deal are desperately lashing out at the last minute. This morning, two bomb blasts near the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed more than twenty and injured well over a hundred. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ramped up his rhetoric even further, making the outrageous claim that Iran has on hand sufficient uranium enriched to 5% to make up to five bombs within a few weeks of a "breakout". Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry seem to have quelled for now any Congressional attempts to ratchet up sanctions ahead of this week's negotiations, but should no agreement emerge this week, look for Washington politicians to race one another to see who can introduce the most severe new sanctions.
Although Beirut has seen several attacks back and forth recently with various Sunni and Shia groups attacking one another, the timing of today's blasts suggest that the nuclear negotiations may be a target, as well. The Reuters article informs us that an al Qaeda group has claimed responsibility:
A Lebanese-based al Qaeda-linked group known as the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for what it described as a double suicide attack on the Iranian mission in southern Beirut.
Lebanon has suffered a series of bomb attacks and clashes linked to the 2-1/2-year-old conflict in neighboring Syria.
Security camera footage showed a man in an explosives belt rushing towards the outer wall of the embassy before blowing himself up, Lebanese officials said. They said the second explosion was caused by a car bomb parked two buildings away from the compound.
But the Syrian information minister goes further, blaming Israel and Saudi Arabia for supporting the attack:
Syrian Information Minister Omran Zoabi implicitly blamed Saudi Arabia and Qatar for supporting radical militants, who have been accused for previous attacks against Shi'ite targets.
Just as they have been working together to arm and fund Sunni fighters for Syria, Israel and Saudi Arabia have joined together to fight against any agreements between the West and Iran on nuclear technology.
The pending deal on Iran's nuclear technology has been described by Al-Monitor: Continue reading
Despite a near-miss last weekend on an agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations, a report released yesterday by the IAEA shows that Iran has already carried out several of the steps that such an agreement would have called for. The news is good enough that Joby Warrick even opens with a hopeful tone:
Iran appears to have dramatically slowed work on its atomic energy program since the summer, U.N. officials said Thursday. The report could add momentum to diplomatic efforts to resolve a decade-old dispute over Iranian nuclear activities.
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran all but halted the installation of new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plants beginning in August, the same month that moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani was sworn in as president. Work on a controversial nuclear reactor also slowed, the U.N. watchdog agency said. Iran continued producing low-enriched uranium, but at a slightly reduced rate, it said.
Similarly, the New Times also finds the report encouraging and associates the improvement with the election of Hassan Rouhani:
President Obama made a vigorous appeal to Congress on Thursday to give breathing space to his efforts to forge a nuclear deal with Iran, and the prospects for an interim agreement may have improved with the release of a report by international inspectors who said that for the first time in years, they saw evidence that the Iranians have put the brakes on their nuclear expansion.
The inspectors, from the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that very few new advanced centrifuges had been installed since President Hassan Rouhani of Iran took office in June, promising a new start with the West, and that little significant progress has been made on the construction of a new nuclear reactor, which became a point of contention in negotiations in Geneva last week.
Note that one of the big pieces of news heralded by the Post and the Times is the halting of installation of new centrifuges. But buried in the back of the report (pdf), in the second annex, is a graph showing the total number of centrifuges installed, the number of centrifuges dedicated to enrichment of uranium up to 5% and the number of centrifuges dedicated to enrichment to 20%. I have reproduced that graph here, but I have added arrows pointing to two major discontinuities in the trends shown in the graph.
The early arrow, where we see a halt of nearly two years in the installation of new centrifuges and a loss of a number of centrifuges enriching to 5%, corresponds very closely to the release of the Stuxnet worm in early 2010 (although it looks like the loss of functioning centrifuges may have been in late 2009, so the actual release most likely was around that time).
Beginning in early 2011, Iran put more of its installed centrifuges into operation for enrichment to 5% and continued at a fairly steady pace throughout much of the year. At the beginning of 2012, the US and EU imposed much stronger sanctions on Iran. Although Iran did put some centrifuges into operation for enrichment to 20% around that same time, this graph shows that even though Iran restarted installation of new centrifuges in 2012, no additional centrifuges have been put into service for enrichment to either 5% or 20% since early 2012. This capping of enrichment capacity that is in actual operation has rarely, if ever, been noted in the press. Significantly, it predates Rouhani's election by over a year. Perhaps it is a sign that the sanctions were effective in getting Iran to put the brakes on their program. Alternatively, it might suggest that Iran knew where Israel's "red line" would be (a stockpile of around 200 kg of 20% enriched uranium might be enough to make a bomb after further enrichment) and made sure that the approach to this line would be slow. They also delayed its onset by converting some of the 20% enriched uranium to fuel plates so that it would be less readily subjected to further enrichment under a "breakout" scenario.
The halting of new centrifuge installation shows up in the graph, where we see the installed centrifuge line level off in the middle of this year, but this seems less dramatic than stopping the process of putting installed centrifuges into use for enrichment.
When we realize that significant steps were taken to slow advancement of Iran's nuclear program before Rouhani was elected, it becomes easier to understand why his "moderate" stance and willingness to enter into negotiations have not met with significant resistance from Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Kahmenei and other leading clerics.


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Free agent Rodney an interesting test case for the value of saves and closers
Nov 9, 2009, 2:01 PM EDT
After six years spent as a mostly mediocre setup man Fernando Rodney picked a perfect season to become a full-time closer and go 37-for-38 converting saves, because now he's hitting the open market as a free agent with his value at an all-time high.
However, look past the saves and Rodney really wasn't all that great this season, posting a 4.40 ERA and sub par 61/41 K/BB ratio in 75.2 innings. Those numbers basically match his career totals coming into the year, which included a 4.25 ERA and 253/129 K/BB ratio in 254 frames.
Will blowing just one save in 38 tries make Rodney an "established closer" in the minds of teams looking for bullpen help this offseason? Or will most teams focus on his ability rather than his save totals and see someone who's probably better suited for seventh-inning duties?
Rodney will be an interesting test case for how big-league front offices value saves and the closer role in general. For his part, the 32-year-old right-hander has made it very clear that he'd like to remain in Detroit:
I want to come back to the Tigers. Detroit is the first team I will talk to, but right now, I have to wait. I want them to call me and ask me to sign. I want three years, maybe four [years], but I don't know how it will work out.
I'm sure that general manager Dave Dombrowski would be open to re-signing Rodney, but the odds of Detroit handing him a deal for "three years, maybe four" years seems highly unlikely. Dombrowski and the Tigers should know better than anyone that he's never been a consistently excellent reliever. This season's save totals are nice, but any team paying Rodney for going 37-for-38 figures to be very disappointed at the end of the contract.
- Ren Hoek - Nov 9, 2009 at 2:58 PM
I think some GM, somewhere, will look at the saves and overpay Rodney. Probably a mid-market team hoping to add "just enough" to "surprise people."
Or maybe a team like Washington, whose bullpen was so awful. Perhaps Rizzo looks at the saves and decides it's better to have a "proven" closer than last year's gaggle of misfits.
Either way, I sincerely would prefer NOT to see Rodney re-sign with Detroit. Granted, this is a team that dealt with Todd Jones' own shakiness for years. So, in a way, we're used to it. But I'd be much happier if the Tigers brought back Lyon, signed Putz to an incentive-laden deal and snagged somebody like Billy Wagner for a year or two.
- Mo Green - Nov 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Squeak I tell you … SQUEAK!
- low blow - Nov 9, 2009 at 8:53 PM
are you nuts…ryan perry is there closer and at league minimum he will be just what they are looking for.detroit is in cost cutting mode and they are loaded with a wealth of young talent all around the diamond
- Ren Hoek - Nov 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM
If said I'd be happier if they did those things. I never asserted they would.
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2.Put onion, salt, pepper in the kettle and let the water boil.
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4.Once the chicken is tender, take it out from the kettle and allow it to cool.
5.Remove the bones and put the chicken back in the kettle.
6.Put rice in it and lat them cook.
7.Take a sauce pan and put flour in it.
8.Add milk in the pan and stir for some time until the boil comes and the mixture thickens.
9.Take the hard boiled eggs, mash themand add them to the sauce pan.
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1) I remember that this problem occurred with 185.13. Not sure about 180.41.
2) and 3) There's no BIOS upgrade for my comp.
4) I'm sure it happens between cold reboots. Not sure after hibernate/resume.
It happens with every video AFAIK, with no other apps using XV or VDPAU.
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Exclusive Interivew with James Gayle, DE, Virginia Tech
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July 26, 2012
James Gayle is one of the best defensive end/3-4 outside linebacker prospects in the country, but somehow he seems to be flying under the radar. That won't last long, as he is primed and ready for a double digit sack season as a junior.
Tom: First of all James, thank you for your time, I really appreciate the chance to talk with you more in depth and I know you're busy.
Tom: What was your favorite thing about playing for Virginia Tech last season?
James: Probably the fans, just the Virginia Tech atmosphere and playing at Lane Stadium. I'd rather play in our stadium than anywhere else in the country.
Tom: You've been productive both seasons you've been at Virginia Tech even though last year was your first full season as a starter, do you expect an even more significant break-out year this season?
James: Definitely. I think the thing that hurt me last year was my injury, I missed 3 games and I still led the team in sacks. I'm healthy now though.
Tom: What is your accurate height, weight, and 40 yard dash time?
James: 6'4", right now I weigh about 266 or 267 and the last time I ran I ran a 4.45 40 yard dash time, but I think I only weighed 257 or 258 at that point.
Tom: You "only" weighed 257 or 258 pounds and you ran in the 4.4's, Josh Gordon just ran a 4.53 in the 40 yard dash at his pro-day and got drafted in the 2nd round of the supplemental draft and he weighs 40 pounds less than you!
James: Well I've always been fast though, even when I was in high school I was running in the 4.4's but I guess I never got slower since all I've gained since coming to Virginia Tech is muscle.
Tom: Do you have any statistical goals for yourself or the team?
James: For the team I just want to be the #1 defense in the nation, or at least top 5. For myself I just want to have a better season than I did last year and continue to improve. I think if I stay healthy I'll be better than I was last year and put myself in a good position.
Tom: What was it like watching Logan Thomas progress and grow as the season went on last year?
James: It was great. It was great watching him get acclimated to defenses but I think it was the Miami game where he really showed everyone what he could do.
Tom: Did he look even better in the spring?
James: You can tell he's more comfortable and I think he's getting better every day.
Tom: Everyone just kind of assumed he was going to play tight end when he was coming out of high school and now he's one of the top quarterback prospects in the nation, it's crazy.
James: I knew he was going to play quarterback because I played in an all-star game with him in high school, haha.
Tom: Well then you knew something I didn't! Now did your defensive coaches mention anything to you about things you were doing well during spring ball?
James: Yeah they said I'm starting to get the little things down like my technique and my angles. I feel like I did an overall better job of that in the spring than I did in the past.
Tom: What kind of technique stuff did they specifically say you were improving on?
James: Just when I'm pass rushing taking the right angles. I usually just get by with my speed but that's not going to work with every tackle so I'm just trying to get better with my hands and trying to take better angles to get to the quarterback.
Tom: That's great to hear, that's what you need to be a complete defensive end. You're going to be scary when you get that technique down James.
James: Haha, well I've been working on it all summer.
Tom: What do you think your greatest strength is as a football player? Maybe your speed?
James: Yeah my speed, I'm just a natural pass rusher.
Tom: What about some of the things you think you need to work on? Obviously you've already mentioned technique.
James: Yeah, I mean I really haven't been playing football that long to be honest my first season was my junior year in high school so basically I didn't really have anybody to actually coach me up or teach me the position. Then I redshirted when I got to Virginia Tech and they don't really teach you anything when you redshirt so I was just learning how to play the position my redshirt freshman year.
Tom: Do you have any mentors for the defensive end position? People you've patterned your game after?
James: Oh yeah definitely. Coach [Charley] Wiles the defensive line coach, Cornell Brown has been really instrumental and then I watch a lot of film of Bruce Smith since he played here.
Tom: What is one thing that every defensive end has to have in order to be successful?
James: I think he has to be aggressive. That's something you can't really teach a guy to be honest. There are a bunch of guys that have ability but they're not aggressive, but then there are guys that have less ability but are more aggressive and I think that's important. I feel like that's something you can't teach, but I think that also goes for every position.
Tom: Are there any players on defense that stuck out to you during the spring? Anyone I might not have heard about?
James: Antone Exum. I think he's going to be one of the best corners in the nation this year, him and Kyle Fuller. Antone runs a 4.3 and he's like 225 pounds. He's a good corner. Kyle is really good too he plays a lot bigger than he is. I've seen him lay some guys out that he was much smaller than.
Tom: Anyone on offense that has especially impressed you?
James: The running backs J.C. Coleman and Michael Holmes, then Logan Thomas. The receivers too, I know Marcus Davis is going to have a big year. For the most part our offense is going to do pretty well.
Tom: I'm sure Hokie fans will be encouraged to hear that the running backs look good since you just lost David Wilson and Josh Oglesby.
James: Yeah it's pretty different because when I came here I played against three All-American running backs. I played against Darren Evans first, then Ryan [Williams] and then David [Wilson]. So I'm pretty sure one of those guys is ready to step up next.
Tom: You're getting some hype coming into the season, do you feel any added pressure because of some loftier expectations?
James: No not at all. I feel like I'm just going to play my game. I feel like the expectations that people have for me coming into the season aren't any higher than the expectations I already have for myself, so it's not any different. I feel like I should be one of the best defensive ends in the country and I feel like I should be an All-American.
Tom: I know you saw me mention that you and J.R. Collins are one of the best defensive end tandems in college football, what do you think makes him so dangerous?
James: J.R. Collins is relentless. I totally agree that we're a great tandem too because I think that J.R. Collins' name should be up there with any of the best defensive ends in the ACC this year. He's relentless, he's hard-nosed and if I could pick anybody to play on the opposite side of me it would be him.
Tom: That's a glowing recommendation. And I was just looking at your defensive line depth chart last night and it occurred to me that you guys could have one of the best defensive lines in the country as well. Do you think that's possible?
James: I definitely think it's possible. I feel like if it weren't for my injury last year we would have been one of the best in the country from a pass rush standpoint.
Tom: And then you have the Hopkins brothers. You guys have a lot of returning experience on that defensive line.
James: Yeah the Hopkins brothers! I feel like our defensive line is going to be one of the best of the country. Both of them are really good players, and then we've got Luther Maddy who started last year as a true freshman at defensive tackle, so we essentially have a couple starters at second string.
Tom: Ok, who are the rotational guys behind you and J.R.?
James: Tyrel Wilson is the guy behind me, he did well last year. And behind J.R. is Zack McCray, plus we have another defensive end named Dadi Nicholas who redshirted last year.
Tom: Did you say his first name is Dadi? That's AWESOME!
James: Yeah his first name is Dadi, haha.
Tom: What is it like playing for Bud Foster in his aggressive defense? I imagine it's pretty fun.
James: Oh definitely, because I feel like I'm a pretty aggressive player so coming to school with an aggressive defensive coordinator it just matches. So I really enjoy playing for him.
Tom: Are you comfortable buzzing into coverage? Foster likes to bring zone blitzes so I know he asks you to drop sometimes.
James: Yeah definitely I feel really comfortable dropping into coverage. At first when you don't do it for a while it's weird but I've been doing it all summer since I've been working out with the DB's so I'm comfortable doing it.
Tom: Uh-oh… I hope they don't move you to safety James. You've got the speed for it after all.
James: Hahaha. I don't think I'm ready for some of these little receivers though!
Tom: Is there one game this year you are particularly looking forward to? Maybe Clemson?
James: Oh yeah definitely Clemson. They had our number last year but this year they gotta be ready to go to war.
Tom: You and Tajh [Boyd] go back to high school I'm sure you want to get a W against him.
James: Oh Tajh? Yeah definitely. I've been playing him since high school but I've never been able to beat him.
Tom: I think this year might be the year then James.
James: Yeah, hopefully.
Tom: You've got a pretty good football pedigree with your dad Jimmy playing running back at Ohio State from 1979-82 and your Uncle Shaun playing DB for the Buckeyes and in the NFL from 1984-95 as well. Do you think that has helped you pick up the game so quickly?
James: Absolutely. I feel like I have strong football bloodlines since both my father and uncle played at Ohio State. I think my dad was an All-Big Ten running back so that might be where I get my speed from. Actually in high school my father was one of the fastest backs in the nation. I think that's where the speed came from.
Tom: I definitely think that could be where you got your speed from.
James: Yeah I'd say that's it, haha.
Tom: I read in an article that before you started playing football you were "more of a video game guy" and that after you got done with video games you said "I think I'll just play football." How did that come about?
James: I really wasn't that interested in playing football when school first started so I just played video games. Then I got tired of that and just decided to play football, but I had never lifted weights or anything so I was like 160 pounds at the end of my 10th grade year. So I just started lifting weights and eating right and by the beginning of my senior year I was like 210. Now that I'm over 260 I've put on over 100 pounds of muscle since high school.
Tom: And you haven't lost any speed, that's the scary thing. Now, do you still play video games? If so, what's your favorite game to play?
James: Nah, I guess I kinda played myself out of that. I guess I play some NCAA. They've got me rated as one of the best defensive ends on the game so that's good.
Tom: What is one thing you would like the world to know about you that it may not already know?
James: Man, that's tough. I guess that I can actually run a 4.4 because every time I get on the internet I see people saying I run a 4.7 or something like that. I want people to know that I have that kind of speed because that's what I take pride in.
Tom: I had definitely read that you had 4.4 speed, I just wasn't sure I wanted to believe that a 260 pound defensive end had 4.4 speed, that s*** scares me.
James: Well I've seen guys at 270 be timed in the 4.5's! It's possible, there are guys that can do it. I guess we'll see if I get my shot at the combine.
Tom: Well I predict that you will, that's my prediction. It's not bold, but it's a prediction.
James: Haha, we'll see.
Tom: I just want you to realize how unfair it is that you can run a 4.4 at that size, even a 4.5 would be just disgusting.
James: Well I'm very confident I can run a 4.5. I've never ran a laser 40 time, but I know I can do it.
Tom: Well that's about all I have, do you have any questions for me?
James: No I don't think so.
Tom: Well thank you for your time James, I appreciate the chance to talk with you a little more in depth. When does camp start up for you?
James: August 7th, I'm getting ready.
Only a couple weeks away! I'm ready for some football. Well good luck with the rest of your training and good luck this season!
James: Thanks! It was great talking to you.
Tom: You're welcome, it was great talking with you as well. Take care.
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Here's a question for you widetrak21...
Worilds or Gayle? Who's the better pro prospect at comparatively the same point in their careers. Worilds was drafted after his junior year, and Gayle is entering his junior year? So I guess which do you think was better entering their junior years, and which do you think will come out on top by the end of their junior years??
Worilds or Gayle? Who's the better pro prospect at comparatively the same point in their careers. Worilds was drafted after his junior year, and Gayle is entering his junior year? So I guess which do you think was better entering their junior years, and which do you think will come out on top by the end of their junior years??
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Re: Exclusive Interivew with James Gayle, DE, Virginia Tech
Gayle is the better prospect, but it depends on scheme too. If you read there, he only starting playing football as a jr in HS. But they are different imo. Worilds was always a little smallish being around 250 or so, and mainly used his speed and tenacity in college. I knew in college his future in the nfl was as a 34 olb, and of course thats why Pittsburgh grabbed him. He was a very fluid overall athlete for that big, so I think he's made the transition well. The Steelers do need him to take another step now, as their D is aging some. The beautiful thing about his situation is they grabbed him years ago to atually have time to develop. I think one issue is he plays behind Harrison, and you're not taking that animal off the field much.
Gayle to me is a truer 43 end, as he just keeps getting bigger and stronger, but still maintains his speed. 44's, eh, 45's prob very legit though. The thing I love about him is he keeps getting better. He has a great motor, very good edge speed and has legit nfl size. My favorite thing about him though is like he mentions, aggressive and mean. I like my footballers mean, mean as a snake. He's the meanest Hokie defender I can remember in some time. I love that (but he's not dirty at all). He'll do very well at the combine, and b/c of JR Collins and the defensive line depth, you're not gonna be able to pick your poision this year. Legit 9-10 deep, 2nd unit is like a 1a unit, which is sick and I am very stoked for. I already told you about us using the GMen's Nascar DE package this year too, which is also awesome. His numbers should easily increase b/c of that, plus he did miss three games last year. If Worilds went rd2, he can go round 1 with a good year.
4:40 mark is a nice incapsulation of his game. #99
Gayle to me is a truer 43 end, as he just keeps getting bigger and stronger, but still maintains his speed. 44's, eh, 45's prob very legit though. The thing I love about him is he keeps getting better. He has a great motor, very good edge speed and has legit nfl size. My favorite thing about him though is like he mentions, aggressive and mean. I like my footballers mean, mean as a snake. He's the meanest Hokie defender I can remember in some time. I love that (but he's not dirty at all). He'll do very well at the combine, and b/c of JR Collins and the defensive line depth, you're not gonna be able to pick your poision this year. Legit 9-10 deep, 2nd unit is like a 1a unit, which is sick and I am very stoked for. I already told you about us using the GMen's Nascar DE package this year too, which is also awesome. His numbers should easily increase b/c of that, plus he did miss three games last year. If Worilds went rd2, he can go round 1 with a good year.
4:40 mark is a nice incapsulation of his game. #99
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Stuffed Potatoes With Bechamel Sauce
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Wash potatoes and pat dry; prick each potato several times with a fork.
Arrange potatoes end to end in a circle on paper towels in microwave oven, leaving at least 1 inch between each potato.
Microwave at HIGH for 12 to 14 minutes, turning and rearranging potatoes after 6 minutes.
Let potatoes stand 5 minutes.
(If potatoes are not done after standing, microwave briefly, and let stand an additional 2 minutes.) Slice away skin from top of each potato; carefully scoop out pulp, leaving shells intact.
Mash pulp, and set aside.
Place cream cheese in a medium-size glass mixing bowl.
Microwave at MEDIUM LOW (30% power) for 1 minute or until softened.
Add potato pulp, milk, and parsley; mix well.
Stuff shells with potato mixture, and place on a microwave-safe serving platter.
Microwave at HIGH 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated, giving dish one half-turn after 3 minutes.
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Howdy. I came to the greater Chicago area just over two years ago when I began medical school. I love to participate in and/or spectate pretty much any sport (beach volleyball is a newfound favorite) and have a keen interest in the great outdoors. I also don't allow a misguided sense of personal pride to interfere with my fun-loving spirit. Case in point: I will (and do) play dodgeball with six-year-old neighbor kids. I will dive, sprint, sweat, and bleed without reservation. And as much as I enjoy a microbrew or a movie, I'm not ashamed to admit I would be equally amused playing mini golf or laser tag. I would also be 100% content either having the most abstract, pointless philosophical/political debate or watching a movie like Step Brothers. Like just about everyone else on here, I've got a fair amount of ambition tempered by an extreme aptitude for chilling. I'd like to climb a mountain, but I also like curling up by the fireplace in sweats on a cold weekend afternoon. I'd like to meet someone who feels the same - someone who is content either to plan a day trip or relax inside; someone who can laugh at bad jokes and beat me at my own games (I need to be called out when I act a fool); and, to put it plainly, someone with whom to find joy in the little things. If you like getting lost in new places, trying disgusting new foods, and staying up way too late discussing God-knows-what, feel free to contact me!
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As if a track with Smoke DZA wasn't already all the proof you needed of Mookie Jones' affinity for smokeable medicine, the P.A.N. creator drives home the point on new burner DANK. Produced by DJ Burn One, who once... More
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Song: When I Want
A man wants what he wants, and what Mookie Jones wants is good money, good women, good weed and a steady stream of good music emanating from his studio. On his latest release What I Want, the P.A.N. creator grabs a supremely... More
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Song: Outstanding
It's been more than six months since Mookie Jones released his DJBooth-sponsored P.A.N. (Playa Ass N*gga) street album, but is it ever too late to pick up an Outstanding set of tunes? We think not, and evidently the... More
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Artist: D.R.G.
Featuring: Mookie Jones
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If there are two things that your average male loves more than anything else in the world, they're Money and P*ssy—no contest. On this newly-leaked mixtape bonus cut, Detroit crew D.R.G. (Dem Regular Guys) prove... More
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Mookie Jones Offers "P.A.N. (Playa Ass N*gga)" for Streaming/Download via DJBooth.net
New York, N.Y. -- Houston up-and-comer Mookie Jones is offering his latest street release, the P.A.N. (Playa Ass N*gga) mixtape, for free streaming and download via DJBooth.net. Featuring 15 original cuts from the underground... More
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Mookie Jones - P.A.N. (Playa Ass N*gga)
Underground buzzmaker Mookie Jones has hooked up with DJBooth.net, The Smoking Section and TheSmokersClub.com to bring listeners his latest street album, Playa Ass N*gga (P.A.N.). The project features 16 original cuts from... More
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If you want to get Mookie Jones' attention, then then you'd better be talking currency. Shallow? Perhaps—but you've gotta respect the dedication the Houston repper shows on his latest single, TCB... More
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Song: Everybodi Wanna B Famous
In today's tuned-in, media-saturated society, it seems like Everybodi Wanna B Famous. Booth newcomer Mookie Jones, of course, is no exception. On his latest mixtape leak and second Booth feature, the Houston hopeful... More
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Featuring: Mickey Factz
Song: Skeleton Key
Houston emcee Mookie Jones steps foot in the Booth for the first time on Skeleton Key. The song, produced by BC Of Necronam, features Freestyle Series alum Mickey Factz and will be a part of Jones' forthcoming... More
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Well yeah....I was under the impression that if one played a DVD on a HDTV monitor, that the DVD would still look fairly good because the monitor
the media{where upscaling means...:add more pixels to closely match the HDTV's native resolution}.....however, if it merely doubled the image like you can do with WMP11, then presumably, the image quality would degrade...?
For example, if you have a video file @ 320x240, you can use WMP11 to play it @ 100% or 200%, but @ 200% it doesn't look as sharp, although it's a larger image.
I don't mind the idea of having 1:1 pixel mapping, but if the files resolution is relatively low, then it would look tiny on a 13x768 screen wouldn't it?
Well I wouldn't exactly call it tiny, but it won't be hd-dvd quality that's for sure. Your computer is the one doing the upscaling when you use the screen as a monitor, so the quality depends on drivers gpu etc..
Stretching a DVD to that resolution won't really make such a huge difference, but I'd say it would look better if you just got a dvd player with a built in upscaler and hdmi out.
Just connect the pc to your TV and judge for yourself, I've found that watching DVDs on my comp really doesn't look that bad.
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The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
Taylor & Francis, Nov 11, 2008 - Political Science - 250 pages
The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.
The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable legitimate market sectors that are being legalised and decriminalised by governments. Sheila Jeffreys demonstrates how prostitution has been globalized through an examination of:
She argues that through these practices women's subordination has been outsourced and that states that legalise this industry are acting as pimps, enabling male buyers in countries in which women's equality threatens male dominance, to buy access to the bodies of women from poor countries who are paid for their sexual subservience.
This major and provocative contribution is essential reading for all with an interest in feminist, gender and critical globalisation issues as well as students and scholars of international political economy.
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text: Secretive Altarock latest to join rush to geothermal August 14, 2007 7:02 AM Matt Marshall 0 If you're not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you're likely losing them to someone else. Register now for the 8th annual MobileBeat, July 13-14, where the best and brightest will be exploring the latest strategies and tactics in the mobile space. A secretive Seattle geothermal technology company called Altarock Energy has raised $4 million in a first round of venture backing from high-profile Silicon Valley investors, the latest in dash by investors to tap into the earth's heat to generate electricity. Geothermal has been largely overlooked as a source of alternative energy in recent years, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and so has become the latest darling of investors looking for areas not over-invested. If 40 percent of the heat under the United States could be tapped, it would meet demand 56,000 times over, according to that study. It is clean, quiet and is so abundant, it meet the world's annual needs some 250,000 times over (see a summary of the MIT report by AP. For perspective, the study said, an investment of $800 million to $1 billion could produce more than 100 gigawatts of electricity by 2050, equaling the combined output of all 104 nuclear power plants in the U.S. Several other companies are active in the area. Geopower Basel of Switzerland and an Australian firm are reportedly seeking to generate power commercially by boiling water on the rocks three miles underground. The water rises as steam, and drives a turbine to generate electricity. Chevron Corp. has used power plants in West Java, Indonesia for more than a decade and yesterday said it would expand production in that country by 110 megawatts. Last month, another company, Vancouver's Western GeoPower Corp. raised $18.4 million to advance its geothermal efforts. Meanwhile, Altarock isn't saying much publicly, but is being led by Susan Petty (left), a consultant at Black Moutain Technology. It is backed by two well-known Silicon Valley venture firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Khosla Ventures, both of which have focused strongly on alternative energy lately. GreatPoint Ventures also participated, according to a report first published by PE Wire. Samir Kaul of Khosla Ventures, Joseph Lacob of Kleiner Perkins and Aaron Mandell of GreatPoint Ventures will join the board, according to a separate report by VentureWire (subscription only), citing a regulatory filing. VentureWire also mentions another geothermal company, Vulcan Power Co., of Bend, Ore., which received $35 million from Merrill Lynch Commodity Partners in April — the first stage of a $150 million total investment in an effort to generate up to 2,000 megawatts annually.


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This unit provides an examination of the theories that underpin developmental psychology and the research methods used in this area. The physical, social, cognitive, and personal aspects of adult development and ageing are considered, taking into account both the gains and losses associated with ageing. Although the focus of the unit is on normal ageing within changing social and historical contexts, the cognitive, behavioural and social consequences of age-related pathologies are also examined, and the promotion of optimal ageing is explored.
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So I'm tired, frustrated and depressed. I keep searching for the light at the end of the tunnel here. October 2012 we tried to get pre-approved for a home loan to start construction (because the builder only wanted $500 down- USDA loan). They told us to wait until my husband's credit lines turned a year old and come back. So in March 2013, we were pre-approved. Well fast forward to today, right around the government shut down, they said my husband's score didn't quite get to a 640, so they were transferring me to an FHA loan by myself. I needed to put $6,000 down at closing and get 4 "consumer disputes" comments removed from my report. My scores were absolutely fine, middle one being around 675 (which my lender uses youre middle score), high of 704, low being like 660. Everything was above 640, which is their requirement. I got the money down, so I went to work contacting the credit bureaus directly to remove the dispute comments. Even though they said "within 30 days", it was done within a couple. All except for one LVNV account that was in "investigation" with Equifax. I had been using a credit repair company at the advice of my lender (from back in Oct 2012). So I had to wait for that to finish before the comment could be removed. That happened, then I got my comment dropped, confirmed it the same day, then called the lender to say we were good to go. Pull my report.
Much to my surprise was the email that said my scores had dropped dramatically and I was no longer qualified for the house I've visited since March of this year. Transunion stayed at 704, Equifax went to a 604 and Experian dropped to a 587. Everyone was in complete shock. Originally I was supposed to be closing October 24th, but the house was still in progress, so they're giving me a minute to figure it all out.
I've heard a million different answers. I've heard when an account is in dispute, it stops counting. I've heard this is bs. I've heard, from Equifax, that the scores will bounce back up. I've read they won't. Another mortgage company told me to "piggyback" and it might help. So I was added as an authorized user to a card with a $5000 balance, opened in 2005 with impeccable payment history. I have credit history of my own, so they said this might work for me. When I pulled my Equifax report yesterday, it had the new card on there, and an increase of 10 points. It also had dispute comments back on there from LVNV (i hate that company).
I have two credit cards of my own. Both with a $3 balance (bc I've heard a 0 balance is not good, and I've heard that was BS too). Now the new card had a $900 balance on it (with impeccable payment history). She has since gone in and paid it to $0, in hopes it will help. The negative stuff is old. LVNV should fall off anyday now, but I'm sure they'll just sell it again before that happens.
So I'm looking for clarification. Will my score go back up? I've read after the dispute period (which no one has said how long that lasts) that it'll bounce back up. My lender is compeletly shocked. She said she expected a 2-5 point drop for each account. Not the dramatic drop we experienced. Only Equifax has acknowledged the piggyback card. Her card is due on the 5th, in which it'll report the 0 balance, so maybe that'll help. I dont know if removing the "new" dispute comments today that LVNV put on there is going to do more damage again or not. Everyone who posts here seems to report the issue, but never updates on what ended up happening. I'm certainly not going to make my Thursday closing, but if they think we're trying something, they're holding off. I am in love with this house. I've seen every board that has gone into it, and I cannot imagine not getting it. Transunion (last they looked) was fine. Equifax needed 36 points (which myfico says went up 10). I only need one of the lower scores to meet a 640. Just one. Is there hope of this happening in the next few weeks? Anyone have any real experience with scores "bouncing back up"?
I'm so sorry, I know that feeling. I myself have a hard time figuring out how it works too. Good luck to you.
I can understand the frustration. On the accounts the at were in/ are in dspute are they all collection accounts? if not why were they disputed also on the collection account(s) When were thye opened with the collection agency? For now let just focus on the Equifax report with the 604 score. If you do not have acopy of your Equifax report please use www.annualcreditreports.com it is free and you do not need a score with the report.
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