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War All The Time — seems appropriate now, and it's been more than a dozen years since this song was released. Also rather pathetic that MTV censored a reference to suicide in this tune, like a drop of merthiolate on a gaping wound.
Say it isn't so, girl! Wendy's investigating possible breaches
On the face it, this doesn't sound like a corporate-wide cybersecurity event. It may be confined to specific stores. But fast food chain Wendy's contracted a security firm to look into unauthorized credit card charges made to cards used at their stores. Wendy's joins Jimmy John's and Chick-Fil-A in the growing list of compromised fast food chains.
Ransomware infects Israel's Electric Authority
No outage has been reported as a result of ransomware infection of Israel's electrical power system via phishing. Computers may have been isolated from the system's network, though. The full extent of the malware's impact is difficult to determine from reports available online; some likened this to the cyberattack on a Ukrainian power plant, and others called this a hacking, though neither description appears to fit well.
California struggles with self-driving car regulations
Oh dear Cthulhu…this bit:
Google has concluded that human error is the biggest risk in driving, and the company wants to remove the steering wheel and pedals from cars, giving people minimal ability to take over.
But computers never, ever make mistakes, right? No wonder California is struggling with this…but no. Even though Google's DeepMind AI mastered GO a decade early, it can't master California's highways.
New high-speed wireless internet service launched by former Aereo CEO
Using microwave technology, new gigabit internet service provider Starry will begin in Boston this year once the FCC approves a limited test run in 15 cities. For now, this looks like a solution for urban areas, but it could be an alternative in rural areas where existing telecoms/ISPs fail to provide high-speed internet in spite of federal funds allocated to expand coverage. Imagine using wind turbine towers for Starry microcells to carry gigabit service to rural America.
All right, everybody back to the front, back to the foreverwar.
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues his whinging campaign that the West capitulated on a non-existent earlier demand for "any time, anywhere" snap inspections in Iran under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action negotiated by the P5+1 group of nations with Iran on its nuclear activities, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has come forward with a proposal that brilliantly turns the tables on Israel. Writing in the Guardian, Zarif calls on Israel to join in a plan to remove all weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East. Such a plan, of course, would require Israel to give up its poorly-held secret of an arsenal of their own nuclear weapons:
We – Iran and its interlocutors in the group of nations known as the P5+1 – have finally achieved the shared objective of turning the Iranian nuclear programme from an unnecessary crisis into a platform for cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation and beyond. The nuclear deal reached in Vienna this month is not a ceiling but a solid foundation on which we must build. The joint comprehensive plan of action, as the accord is officially known, cements Iran's status as a zone free of nuclear weapons. Now it is high time that we expand that zone to encompass the entire Middle East.
Also in the Guardian, Julian Borger provides some perspective on Zarif's proposal:
Israel does not officially confirm its nuclear arsenal, but it is believed to have about 80 warheads. Zarif's remarks also represent a rebuke to the five permanent members of the UN security council, all armed with nuclear weapons – the US, Russia, France, the UK and China – as well as the three other nuclear-armed states which, like Israel, are not NPT signatories: India, Pakistan, and North Korea.
Since a cold war high in 1986, when global stockpiles of nuclear warheads topped 65,000, the main weapons states have reduced their arsenals considerably. There are now thought to be fewer than 16,000 warheads worldwide, of which 14,700 are held – roughly equally – by the US and Russia. But the disarmament is now approaching a standstill. The Obama administration wanted to follow the 2010 New Start agreement with another, more ambitious, arms control treaty, but the dramatic worsening in relations halted progress. Russia and the US are modernising their nuclear arsenals.
That last bit about the US and Russia modernizing weapons rather than removing them is especially upsetting, but for now I'd like to concentrate on Zarif's Middle East proposal. Insterestingly, Zarif points to Iran's history of restraint on weapons of mass destruction when it came to the Iran-Iraq war. While widespread use of chemical weapons by Iraq in that war is indisputable, Zarif claims that Iran "never reciprocated in kind". The record seems to bear that out. While Iran did develop their own chemical weapons program late in the war, the evidence that they ever used it is murky at best.
Zarif correctly depicts Israel as openly flaunting the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty while at the same time noting how ironic that position is considering Israel's rabid attitude towards Iran's nuclear program:
One of the many ironies of history is that non-nuclear-weapon states, like Iran, have actually done far more for the cause of non-proliferation in practice than nuclear-weapon states have done on paper. Iran and other nuclear have-nots have genuinely "walked the walk" in seeking to consolidate the non-proliferation regime. Meanwhile, states actually possessing these destructive weapons have hardly even "talked the talk", while completely brushing off their disarmament obligations under the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and customary international law.
That is to say nothing of countries outside the NPT, or Israel, with an undeclared nuclear arsenal and a declared disdain towards non-proliferation, notwithstanding its absurd and alarmist campaign against the Iranian nuclear deal.
Borger gives us a concise summary of Zarif's proposal:
Zarif makes three proposals: for negotiations to begin on a nuclear weapons elimination treaty; that this should lead initially to nuclear arsenals being taken off high alert readiness (for example, by removing warheads from missiles); and for the creation of a zone in the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.
Again, the irony of Israel's actions are brought into full light here. Another front on which Israel has been vocal regarding the JCPOA relates to restrictions on Iran's missile program. At the same time Israel wants to severely restrict any further development of missiles in Iran, Israel has an arsenal of missiles already fitted with nuclear warheads and ready for launch.
But there is one more point that Zarif puts into his piece that I can't stop marveling at. In his description of how negotiations on his plan could start, we have this:
One step in the right direction would be to start negotiations for a weapons elimination treaty, backed by a robust monitoring and compliance-verification mechanism.
What better spokesman could the world have for a "robust monitoring and compliance-verification mechanism" than the man who just agreed to submit his own country to history's most intrusive inspections program for a country that hasn't just been defeated in a war. He is definitely "walking the walk" when it comes to inspections and compliance. But I can't help wondering if, should such negotiations actually get underway (note: yes, I realize that the chances are much less than zero), Zarif would allow himself, at least once, to call for Israel to submit to "any time, anywhere" inspections of its nuclear program.
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.
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This is an excellent fridge. We based our decision solely on the LG product name and we were not disappointed. This fridge is HUGE! We replaced an 11-year old GE and I...Read complete review
This is an excellent fridge. We based our decision solely on the LG product name and we were not disappointed. This fridge is HUGE! We replaced an 11-year old GE and I can't believe how much room I have. Yes, the ice maker only makes a few cubes at a time, but after one day, the ice maker was full, so I see this as a non-issue completely. Also, that's why they built in the Ice Plus feature which makes ice super fast. Just remember to turn it off - it's a nice feature! Our unit starting making ice after only about 4 hours. The freezer is super cold and again, has a ton of room. We have the temperature set to the third line on each side and it is at a perfect temp. The operation of the whole unit is very quiet. The design and styling are very sleek. I am not finding the stainless all that hard to clean. Here's a little trick - use microfiber cleaning cloths and a little glass cleaner and you won't get streaks! The only little complaint I have, although it isn't a major deal is that the light from the light bulb in the fridge side doesn't reach all the way towards the bottom, so it is a little bit dim at the bottom. But again, it really is not a huge deal. We looked at the french door fridges too and I was not impressed with them to warrant the additional almost $1000 in price (the bottom freezer bins looked like a place to dump stuff and I could see it getting very disorganized over time). I like the tidiness of freezer shelves in a side-by-side model. The outside controls on this fridge are very nice and easy to use. The handles are made out of the titanium, so they do not show fingerprints at all and are easy to clean. All around this is a terrific fridge for a great price and I would highly recommend it to anyone!
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We have had this refrigerator for about five months. It looks great and offered what I considered good features for the money. There are, however, four major design flaws you need to be...Read complete review
We have had this refrigerator for about five months. It looks great and offered what I considered good features for the money. There are, however, four major design flaws you need to be aware of: 1) Ice maker is absolute junk and suffers from a fatal design flaw. Basically, water fills a plastic tray and then "twists" itself to drop the ice. This causes the ice tray to contort over time, at which point water will start spilling all over the inside of your freezer. We had a tech come out and replace the ice maker and it still did the exact same thing. He said it was a major design flaw that many people experience. 2) As many others have noted, the "ICE TYPE" design is totally confusing to any guests you have over. It's not at all intuitive when you walk up to the fridge that you need to press "ICE TYPE" if you simply want to get a glass of water. Seriously? Who thought that was a good idea. 3) Even on the "cube" setting, small bits of ice will spray out of the ice cute and all over your floor, every single time you press the level for ice. This is another design flaw and just read the reviews to see how many other people experience the same thing. 4) As others have mentioned, the internal LED lighting is energy efficient, but makes for VERY dim lighting. This is even worse if you plan to use the top shelf of the refrigerator. In sum, we REALLY wanted to like this fridge, but we simply cannot recommend it based on these four major design flaws. AVOID this refrigerator if these things would bother you as they do us. We really regret our purchase.
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Comments about LG 26.5 Cu. Ft. Smooth White Side By Side Refrigerator:
Very attractive item in the shpwroom The ice maker does not work properly. I bought the refrigerator February 2013 February 2014 ice maker broke. Replaced!! February 2015 ice make broke Replaced. may 2015 Ice make "SWITCHED ITSELF OFF" august 2016 icemake brioke Repair shop out to fix (It needs replaced!! Again. Not a very efficient appliance if you like cool drinks!!
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Lasted only less than 3 months
By Rufino
from Oceanside, CA, United States
At first I was so impressed with this refrigerator for its great print free stainless look and very quiet operation. We love the door feature! Then just less than 3 months, it started having problems with its defroster. Lots of frozen food wasted!!! Currently waiting for the part ordered and in the process of being repaired. Not sure if it will be operating as it should.
Great product,
By callen12
from North Carolina, United States
This product has great features, also love the door in door
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Works Perfectly!
By Fred V
from El Paso, TX, United States
I have owned this refrigerator for over two years now and it has performed very well.
Great Looking Refrigerator
By cseverino
from Wildwood, MO, United States
We researched and decided this was the refrigerator we wanted to purchase. The black stainless is beautiful - but because it is a relatively new product it took 4 months to get it delivered. I love the door in door but you do have to push it to make sure it closes. The shelves in the interior could use some adjusting for various heights - but we worked it out. The water dispenser was tricky but now okay. Everything works well and we are very happy with it.
Great refrigerator!
By bsmith6470
from Minnesota, United States
We bought this mostly for the Door-in-Door feature. We use it all the time. Overall the fridge is a wonderful product. Plenty of room for our needs. My fiancee really loves the 2 fruit and vegetable drawers. All the produce stays nice and fresh. I am really enjoying the light inside. Very bright.Still need to hook up the water. It will be nice to have in-door water.We also LOVE the side-by-side doors. Having a full height freezer is wonderful. No need to dig into the bottom of a freezer on the bottom.My only compliant is all of the shelves should have the non-drip edges.Overall this is a well thought out product. Kudos to LG.
Love The LED lights, ice maker is problematic
By kamisan
from Austin, TX, United States
Bought this when I bought new house, liked the LED lites, and layout. Outside is easy for all to use and features inside are great. Ice maker dispensing does not work well, it did for the first year then had to replace the ice tray assembly and the auger gets stuck and now pops the whole bucket out of the assembly. The water dispenser also sprays crooked.
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By Wendy10
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I bought this a year ago, but wasn't living full time in our retirement home. We love LG and their products mainly because of the exceptional customer service. This product would have gotten 5 stars, but we don't like the fact that the water/ice dispenser doesn't light up well. Visitors consistently push on the area that one would think would dispense the item, but the actual button is below the picture area, which is confusing. It has plenty of room and otherwise as I said would have 5 stars from us.
The features are great and good storage
By kb21
from Las Vegas, NV, USA
The ice and water dispenser is an excellent feature where the drinking water is not that great
Great investment
By jackie2014
from Louisiana
I am very pleased with my new LG Refrigerator. I especially love the 'snack drawer' and LED Lightening. A great investment!
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(1) Billed for two light bulbs to replace burned out bulbs in a 16' plus overhead track light bar. Two brand new bulbs in their original packaging were left on a counter near the track lights.
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(3) Charged for replacement of a set of broken blinds that were broken when we moved in and were listed on a move-in damage sheet that was hand carried to their office within one week of move-in. They conveniently claim the sheet does not exist.
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(2) Charged for minor touch up painting of walls and doors - again a reasonable person would consider this normal wear for the occupancy duration.
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Noticed property was occupied on 4/24/2013 and contacted the new tenant. New tenant's contract is dated 4/19/2013. Have yet to be contacted about reimbursement of the 11 days of rent the property was under a new contract. Entire month of April was billed and paid on 4/1/2013 by us.
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Honestly mate they're just being idiots if they're giving you a hard time. Unfortunately you just need a thick skin, as you well know. Fans and non fans just get bored occasionally and like to give certain players a hard time. It's just your turn. You'll be the golden boy again in a month or two, and a month or two after that you''ll be back to being moaned about. Dont go though, really.
LuaLua I will keep this short...dont listen to the morons no matter how hurtful or spiteful they may (and I know how difficult it may be for you and your family) they really are NOT representative of TRUE POMPEY supporters they are SCUM listen to Harry, listen to the support on the fans on matchdays and savour your own well proven contributions on what has been a wonderful season so far - please dont let this sad and moronic minority influence your long term future with this club from A TRUE POMPEY FAN - thanks for giving me and the rest of the real fans so many good times!
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NMC Midlands is a charity set up to offer support to people with muscular dystrophy and other muscle wasting diseases in the Midlands region. There are 70,000 people with muscle wasting disease over the UK and around 12,000 of these are in the Midlands region alone.
People with these conditions experience a significant reduction in the amount of physiotherapy they receive from the NHS after turning the age of 19. The correct physiotherapy is essential to people with muscle wasting diseases as it maintains mobility and reduces the rate of muscle deterioration. One of the main services NMC Midlands offers is free and continuous specialist physiotherapy for people with these conditions. In addition we have services available to offer support for other areas of life that become challenging to people with muscle wasting diseases. To find out more about the wide range of services we have on offer and on how to get in touch with us please click here.
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Since attending the centre I am no longer experiencing the rapid deterioration that I had previously, and in some areas I have actually seen an improvement. The fact that I have suffered no falls in over a year, or had to take time off work through this condition speaks volumes."
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The osteopathy I receive is what I find most beneficial and I can't begin to explain how valuable it is to me. Osteopathy helps me to understand how my body is functioning and provides advice as to what might improve aspects that are limiting my range of movement. This is of paramount importance and so is the 'stack breathing technique' I have been taught. I am able to do this technique at home so really feel the benefits."
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Without the NMC Midlands my muscular dystrophy would have restricted my life but due to the fantastic centre my quality of life has improved and my muscle flexibility has been improved. It's an important centre as you cannot access these specialist services easily in Leicester, I cannot stress how brilliant this centre is in providing necessary care. Everyone would benefit if they were referred to the NMC Midlands"
"The physios here are outstanding! So patient and so concerned! I have only had 2 sessions and already can see benefits. All staff are fantastically helpful and I value being able to spend time at the Centre!"
"I have got nothing but praise for all at the NMC. Not just the physios but all the staff in the office, and all the people who help free of charge. For the first time in my life I actually look forward to attending my sessions. Ellie and Lynn are fantastic as you can also have a laugh and a joke with them."
"I have been helped by these wonderful people, it's a vital place for anyone like me they are a fantastic professional and dedicated group who are always there for anyone who needs them. They deserve our help back in any way we can and especially if you can do some fundraising. "
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benidorm spur benidorm spur Dec 27, 2010 17:42 Flag
tickets to the arsenal game.
defo the game to to pick, the wife is a star for sure. cant belive she go them for me.
the only thing is , if arse beat ipswich ( i think they will) then the game will be changed from feb26th to a later date. so comeon ipswich im dying to go to the match lol.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Kentish Maid Kentish Maid Jan 12, 2011 06:02 Flag
I got my ticket today Beni - East Upper.
I'm hoping Ipswich beat the Ar$e too so the date doesn't change.
Come on the Tractor Boys!
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"I'm hoping Ipswich beat the Ar$e too so the date doesn't change."
Over 2 legs? ....... It's a bit of a tall order for Ipswich.


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Thanks for the tips Johntheeng & Johnharding. The kitchen paper method & root trainer, sound like really good ideas. That way I will get to know if the seeds are viable or not - instead of wasting months waiting for them to show themselves through the soil where I've sown them.
I have already tried again & put some more parsnip seeds in the soil, (Yes I know it's very late now - but what have I got to lose?)
Anyway, many thanks again for the tips. I shall definitely use them in the future.
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Thanks for the replies. Yes, Italophile the seeds were this years - so very surprised no results at all! Previously I have had great succes with growing them & excellent results. I usually use Gladiator f1 which are a good quality seed. Anyway, I've put some more in and keeping my fingers crossed. I had a word with one or two other allotmenteers and they are having a similar problem? Oh well, there's always next year. Thanks again
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In March I planted out my parsnip seeds as usual - and previously I've had great success growing them. However, this year not one of them appears to have grown! The three rows of seeds is totally bare of any sign of them. Anyone have any ideas ideas what could have caused this?
Hello again fidgetbones
Thanks very much once again for the info on ceanothus cuttings. I will give it another go. I live on the Foxhill Road in Carlton - and you? Also, I have an allotment plot on the Robin Hood Allotments, which is on Cavendish Road. Small world eh!
Many thanks everyone for your responses. I always assumed that there was a lot of goodness in animal manure - which fed plants. I have now been enlightened! Thanks again.
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A friend supplies me with rabbit manure, which consists of droppings & straw. I build this up in a bin made of pallets and it appears to be doing some good to the soil in my garden Does anyone know how rabbit manure compares in 'goodness' for the soil, compared to horse, cow, or other animal manures? Thanks
How's about a lavender plant in a pot? Also echinops - which the bees adore! I have some in my garden & the echinops flowers are constantly covered in bees. Either plants could be grown in pots & put in the tunnel to attract bees during the summer season
Many thanks for the replies folks. Maybe it was just a bad year for leeks? But as they do have a very long growing season, I may well add a bit of chicken manure pellets late on - if they aren't doing too well. Thanks again. Nicki 7
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Last year I had a miserable outcome from my leeks, which were small & spindly - despite digging in plenty of well rotted manure in the soil previous to planting them. To ensure I get a better crop this year my question is, do I need to feed them again, later in the year? And if so, with what kind of feed. Many thanks for your replies
Many thanks Bob. Will put them under a cloche for a while - though my garden isn't too waterlogged. The soil drains really well. Appreciate the advice.


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Definition of Musci in English:
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jsptrck404May 19, 2008 - 20:07
i too saw this stunt. unfortunately, the sign in the picture when it gets smaller (i.e. street view) is not as legible as the real life sign was when it was seen from the street. neat idea. would love to see how it could have expanded to other markets - how they would have executed it.
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Isn't too small? Nice idea, though.
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Definition of brainwave in English:
noun(usually brainwaves)
1An electrical impulse in the brain.
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- My first specific criticism occurred in Chapter One, when the authors describe their own research regarding brainwaves of clients during hypnosis, counseling, or a control situation.
1.1 [usually in singular] informal A sudden clever idea.
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- I was fingering my car keys, wondering if my perverse appetite would last all the way to Tesco's and back, when I had a sudden brainwave.
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The Festival Band is a group of musicians based in Tucson, Arizona who provide live music entertainment in local clubs and venues. We play Tejano, R&B, Old School, Funk, Country and a little bit of Soft Rock. If you book us for an event and want us to learn a couple of songs, we will do that too! We play by our motto, "Live Music Without Borders" - Music for Everyone!
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Invent Help217 9th St. pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States of America
Invent Help They charged 12,000 grand for a worthless design patent, when I could have went to an attorney and spent less for a better patent. pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Eastwood returned to training this week following a lengthy spell on the sidelines due to a knee injury while fellow striker Corr has overcome a slight ankle problem sustained in last weekend's 1-1 draw against Cheltenham.
Midfielder Will Atkinson completes a one-match suspension having collected his fifth booking of the season against the Robins, joining Cauley Woodrow on the sidelines as he serves the second game of his three-match ban.
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Chisora vs. Boytsov in The Works For September 21
By Ruslan Chikov
Last week BoxingScene.com reported that the EBU ordered Dereck Chisora (17-4, 11 KOs) and Denis Boytsov (33-0, 26 KOs) to battle for the heavyweight title recently vacated by Kubrat Pulev. The fight is now being discussed for Chisora's return date of September 21 at Copper Box in the UK. While boxing professionally since September 2004, Boytsov is still only only 27 years old but the talented boxer has struggled with various injuries over the years. He recently broke away from Universum and signed a promotional agreement with Sauerland Event.
War chisora!Comment by CraigM on 08-22-2013
Chisora wins!Comment by Hayehammer on 08-22-2013
boytsov has way more fights then chisora! But compared to chisoras level of opposition, boytsov is still in his dipers! I see no chance that boytsov and his team would take the fight!Comment by yoz on 08-22-2013
Massive step up for Denis. Kind of funny, given his age/no. of fights/background.Comment by joe strong on 08-22-2013
It's nice to see boytsov sign with sauerland. His career was stagnating with universum. 33 fights with only a couple of tests. Chisora is a big step up so we will see if boytsov is a contender or pretender. He…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (13)


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The Man-Moth
by Elizabeth Bishop
Stanza 6 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 41-44
If you catch him,
hold up a flashlight to his eye. It's all dark pupil,
an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens
as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids
- If you manage to catch the Man-Moth, the speaker encourages you to shine a light in his eyes so you can see that he has no iris, just a big black pupil, just like a real moth. In fact, moths' eyes are some of the least reflective things found in nature (though their eyes don't have the same structure as a human, but if poets were required to be scientifically accurate then reading poetry would be just as much fun as reading a biology textbook).
- He will then close his eye.
- The "haired horizon" refers to his eyelid, and it's a pretty accurate description since moths are pretty hairy little guys.
- What's that? I can't hear you over all the awesome assonance in these lines (see, we can do it, too.). There's lots more alliteration in the rest of the stanza too. Can you spot the repeating sounds? Check out "Sound Check" for more on that.
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one tear, his only possession, like the bee's sting, slips.
- Okay, now things are getting a little weird. Well, weirder.
- After shining a light in the Man-Moth's eye, he will produce a single tear. The tear is the only thing that he truly owns because he made it himself. It is the only and the last thing, just like a bee's sting, since many species of bees can only sting a single time, dying soon after.
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Slyly he palms it, and if you're not paying attention
he'll swallow it. However, if you watch, he'll hand it over,
- The Man-Moth has moves like a street magician because he can let that tear slip into his hand gracefully, holding it in his palm so we can't see it any more.
- If he managed to fool us or if we look away, he'll put it in his mouth and make it disappear by swallowing it. He'll probably pretend it was never there to start with and try to pull a quarter out of our year to distract us too.
- The Man-Moth's tear is filled with truth, and he doesn't give that up easily. He'd really rather keep it private, especially if the person who caused the tear isn't really very interested. He's only willing to go in depth with someone who really cares.
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cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink.
- The final line in the poem shines a ray of hope onto everything.
- His tear is cool, clean, and pure—so much so that you could drink it, and it would taste like sweet, unspoiled water that's never seen the surface of the earth.
- Though the Man-Moth has been a little self-possessed, obsessive-compulsive, and neurotic through the bulk of the poem, this last line tells us that, despite it all, he's still extremely competent. When he produces, it is truly a thing of beauty, so putting up with all the quirkiness until he actually accomplishes something is totally worth it.


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As you continue getting your images organized in Lightroom, you'll no doubt start to think about the adjustments you'd like to make to improve the appearance of those images. While you're working in the Library module, you might notice that there is a Quick Develop section over on the right panel. And that allows us to apply some basic adjustments to the images. There's not a lot of control available here. We can apply a preset to define a particular look for the image, but we can also apply various adjustments. We can change the White Balance preset, we can expand the White Balance section, and increase or decrease the Temperature and Tint. We can also adjust the overall tonality.
We can increase or decrease exposure, adjust contrast, lighten or darken the highlights, shadows, whites and blacks. Increase or decrease the clarity of the image and also increase or decrease the vibrance, the overall saturation of colors within the image. The controls here are relatively straightforward. We can click the right arrow to increase the value, so for example in this case warming up the image. Or we can click the left arrow to reduce the warmth of the image, to cool it down a little bit. The double arrow buttons allow us to make larger adjustments to the image.
These controls are all well and good but obviously they don't give you a lot of control over the appearance of the image. But the real value of the Quick Develop section in the Library module is really, its ability to apply relative adjustments to multiple images. Let me give you an example here. I have two photographs of the gears of this clock at Grand Central Terminal in New York, and I'd like to apply some adjustments. I'd like to cool down both of the images a bit. If we switch to the Develop module momentarily, we'll see that this image has a color temperate on the blue yellow axis of 3950 degrees Kelvin.
Switching to the other image, we see that this image has a temperature of 3400 degrees Kelvin. So, they have different adjustments. If I adjust both of these images the same in the Develop module, I'll be adding an absolute adjustment. I'll be making both of these images have the same value. But that's not always a good thing. With Quick Develop we can apply relative changes. We can increase or decrease a value for both images without changing both to the exact same value. So they'll both get increased or decreased, for example, relative to their original values.
I already have selected one of the images. I'll hold the Ctrl key on Windows or the Cmd key on Macintosh, and click on the other image so that both are now selected. Now, if I'm working in the Quick Develop section of the right panel in the Library module, I can adjust both of these images in a relative way. To apply the same changes to both images, I need to be working in the Grid View, so I'll switch to Grid View here, and then I can adjust the temperature. I'll go ahead and cool down the images by clicking the Left Arrow button a few times, and you can see that each of the images is being cooled down, it's getting a little bit more blue for both of the images.
I'll then switch back to the Develop module, and you can see that both images have been adjusted. I'll switch back and forth between the images. They've both been cooled down but they both have different temperture values, and that is one of the key benefits of working with Quick Develop. I pretty much never use Quick Develop when working on an individual image. But I use it all the time if I want to apply the same relative adjustments to two or more images.


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TammiMinneapolis, Minnesota United States of America
Tammi 6124373014 robbed my money; did not provide any service, look at other people's review too. Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Called her for an hour of massage at the hotel, she came within an hour. Asked for money, i was nice and gave her money plus tip. After putting the money into her purse she says she need to go to her car to get her stuff from the car. I said ok. She tries to leave with her purse. How woud i trust her? I asked her to leave her purse but she ignores. She threatens me and tells me that i am not getting my money or service. I did not wanted to create any trouble and let her go.
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