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Friday, January 20, 2012
France Considers Breaking Out The White Flag. Again.
Sarkozy Weighs Afghan Withdrawal After Soldier Kills 4 French Troops
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Nicolas Sarkozy of France suspended military operations as part of the American-led coalition in Afghanistan on Friday and said he was considering an early pullout of his nation's forces after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French soldiers on a base in eastern Afghanistan.
A Western official said Mr. Sarkozy's threat could lay bare "real cracks in the coalition" at a time when the alliance is seeking a cohesive position to assure the Afghan government of its long-term commitment and to push the Taliban insurgents to negotiate a peace deal rather than continue fighting.
It was the second fatal attack in a month involving an Afghan soldier opening fire on French troops and came at a time when American forces are deeply concerned about increasing numbers of killings of American and other allied forces by the Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train. It also comes as many European countries with troops here are facing unprecedented economic pressures at home and adds to public questioning of the value of continued involvement in Afghanistan.
If France, the fourth-largest troop-contributing country after the United States, Britain and Germany, were to reduce its numbers more than planned it could spur other countries to follow suit, leaving the Afghans feeling less secure, said Western and Afghan officials.
President Hamid Karzai quickly expressed his condolences in a strong statement that reminded the French of their long involvement with Afghanistan and conveyed the Afghan people's gratitude.
"Throughout history, the two countries have enjoyed a sincere relationship, which Afghan people will always cherish," Mr. Karzai said.
The four French service members were killed and a number more wounded on Friday when a gunman wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon on them, according to an Afghan police official in Kapisa Province in eastern Afghanistan where the episode occurred and a Western official in Kabul, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The Afghan police official, Asadullah Hamidi, said the shooting happened in the southern part of Tagab District, an area that is viewed as dangerous and dominated by insurgent forces.
The gunman is in custody, a NATO official said.
The attack prompted Mr. Sarkozy to tell French diplomats at an annual meeting in Paris on Friday that he had ordered the suspension of training and combat operations by French forces in Afghanistan.
"If security conditions are not established clearly, then the question of an early return of the French Army will be asked," he said. He added: "It is a difficult decision that we will have to take in the coming days."
But, he went on, the decision was one he felt he had to make "for the French people and our soldiers." Much of Mr. Sarkozy's public behavior at present is perceived by analysts through the prism of presidential elections beginning in April, and he can ill afford to be depicted as anything less than robust and decisive in defending French interests.
While he has not yet announced his candidacy, the French leader is facing a tough re-election battle against a challenge from the opposition Socialists, who have already promised an early withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan by the spring of 2013.
Western officials in Kabul said they were not altogether surprised by Mr. Sarkozy's mention of an early withdrawal. President Karzai is set to visit Paris next to meet Mr. Sarkozy and, in military circles here it was expected that the French leader would use the encounter to announce a larger troop withdrawal than many other contributor nations in the NATO alliance wanted.
The French contingent of some 3,600 soldiers is vastly outnumbered by the dominant American military presence, but its withdrawal would present a damaging psychological blow to the alliance and would be presented by the Taliban insurgents as a significant victory.
NATO is struggling to persuade major contributor nations not only to hew to their promise to remain in Afghanistan until the end of 2014, but also to commit to helping the country militarily after that date.
"It's not very good in terms of alliance cohesion," said a Western official in Kabul, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "If your fourth largest troop contributing country decides to pack up and go home, well that shows there are real cracks in the coalition."
The bulk of the French contingent is based in troubled eastern Afghanistan, primarily in Kapisa Province and neighboring Sarobi, a district of Kabul Province. Although the area is close to Kabul it is heavily infiltrated by insurgents, and French soldiers have faced a number of lethal attacks, including an ambush in 2008 that killed 10 members of a parachute regiment as they moved through a narrow mountain pass and another in July 2011 when five members of a parachute regiment who had just met with local village elders were attacked by a suicide bomber.
Of non-American forces contributing to the alliance, only the British and the Germans have more troops on the ground.
Like other allied forces, French troops had been scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Mr. Sarkozy said he would send his defense minister, Gérard Longuet, and the head of the armed forces, Adm. Edouard Guillaud, to Afghanistan and "until then all training operations and combat help from the French forces are suspended."
"The French Army is at the side of its allies, but we cannot accept that a single one of our soldiers be killed or wounded by our allies," Mr. Sarkozy said. "It is unacceptable. I will not accept it."
The killing of the French soldiers raised the tally for a particularly bloody 24 hours for allied forces after a helicopter crashed late on Thursday, killing six more members of the international force.
The French have lost 82 soldiers including Friday's casualties, according to icasualties.org, a Web site that tracks coalition deaths.
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Killing Jobs and Energy Independence In One Swift Blow
Obama's Keystone Denial Prompts Canada to Look to China Sales
President Barack Obama's decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to China for oil exports.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a telephone call yesterday, told Obama "Canada will continue to work to diversify its energy exports," according to details provided by Harper's office. Canadian Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver said relying less on the U.S. would help strengthen the country's "financial security."
The "decision by the Obama administration underlines the importance of diversifying and expanding our markets, including the growing Asian market," Oliver told reporters in Ottawa.
Currently, 99 percent of Canada's crude exports go to the U.S., a figure that Harper wants to reduce in his bid to make Canada a "superpower" in global energy markets.
Canada accounts for more than 90 percent of all proven reserves outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to data compiled in the BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Most of Canada's crude is produced from oil-sands deposits in the landlocked province of Alberta, where output is expected to double over the next eight years, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
"I am sure that if the oil sands production is not used in the United States, they will be used in other countries," Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, said in an interview before a speech at Imperial College in London today.
'Profound Disappointment'
Harper "expressed his profound disappointment with the news," according to the statement, which added that Obama told Harper the rejection was not based on the project's merit and that the company is free to re-apply.
Canada this month began hearings on a proposed pipeline by Enbridge Inc. to move crude from Alberta's oil sands to British Columbia's coast, where it could be shipped to Asian markets.
Environmentalists and Canadian opposition lawmakers welcomed the Obama administration's decision. Megan Leslie, a lawmaker for the opposition New Democratic Party, said the Keystone pipeline project was harmful to Canada's energy security.
"What I'm opposed to is continuing the unchecked expansion of the oil sands," Leslie said by telephone.
New Flashpoint
Enbridge's pipeline may now become the new flashpoint between Harper and the opposition. Harper has said building the capacity to sell the country's oil to Asian markets is in the national interest, and the government will review regulatory- approval rules for new energy projects so they can be done more quickly. Harper has also said he will look more closely into complaints that "foreign money" is being used to overload the regulatory process.
"We have to have processes in Canada that come to a decision in a reasonable amount of time, and processes that cannot be hijacked," Harper said at a press conference Jan. 6 in Edmonton.
The Keystone decision is the latest of several U.S. moves that have irked Canadian policy makers. Canada objected to "Buy American" provisions in the Obama administration's $447 billion jobs bill that was blocked by Republicans in Congress, as well as the restoration of a $5.50 fee on Canadian travelers arriving in the U.S. by plane or ship.
Approval of Keystone is a "no-brainer," Harper said in a Sept. 21 interview with Bloomberg.
Cornerstone of Development
Yesterday's rejection "certainly introduces new uncertainties into the economic relationship," said David Pumphrey, deputy director of the energy and national security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "This is a cornerstone of economic development for the country."
The denial came before a Feb. 21 deadline set by Congress after Obama postponed a decision in November. TransCanada said the 1,661-mile (2,673-kilometer) project would carry 700,000 barrels of crude a day from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast, crossing six U.S. states and creating 20,000 jobs.
"I'm disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision, but it does not change my administration's commitment to American-made energy," Obama said today in a statement. "We will continue to look for new ways to partner with the oil and gas industry to increase our energy security."
Canadian policy makers said they remain optimistic TransCanada will eventually be able to proceed.
Still Supporting
Alberta Premier Alison Redford said in a press conference in Edmonton that it is still "entirely possible" the pipeline will be built and said it was good news that TransCanada planned to apply again.
Canada will continue to support TransCanada Corp. (TRP)'s plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said, adding that it is in the best interests of both Canada and the United States.
"We strongly believe that Keystone's in the best interests of both countries," he said. "We'll continue to be an active supporter of the project."
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By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Police have closed down dozens of toy shops for selling Barbie dolls in Iran, part of a decades-long crackdown against "manifestations of Western culture," the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Friday.
Barbie dolls are sold wearing swimsuits and miniskirts in a society where women must wear headscarves in public, and men and women are not allowed to swim together.
A ban on the sale of the Barbies, designed to look like young Western women, was imposed in the mid-1990s. In its latest report, Mehr quoted an unidentified police official as saying authorities confiscated the dolls from Tehran stores in a "new phase" of the campaign.
In 1996, a government-backed children's agency called Barbie a "Trojan horse," sneaking in Western influences such as makeup and revealing clothes.
Authorities started confiscating the dolls from stores in 2002, denouncing what they called the toys' un-Islamic characteristics. The campaign was eventually dropped.
Iran that year also introduced its own dolls - twins Dara and Sara, designed to promote traditional values with modest clothing and pro-family values - but those proved unable to stem the Barbie tide.
Despite bans on many Western books, movies, satellite TV channels, music, haircuts and fashion, young people maintain their interest in that culture.
Iran's state TV channels broadcast several Western and Hollywood films every week. Islamists have repeatedly tried to fight what they see as a cultural "invasion" since 1979 Islamic Revolution that ousted a pro-Western monarchy.
Since then, importing Western toys has been discouraged by the regime.
In 2008, the Iranian judiciary warned against the "destructive" cultural and social consequences and "danger" of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys. Even so, Iranian markets have been full of them. One-third of Iran's population of 75 million is under 15.
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AQAP commander says 'the Islamic Caliphate is coming'
By Bill Roggio
The al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander who took control of a town in central Yemen late last week has released a short videotape urging Muslims "to unite and be patient" as "the Islamic Caliphate is coming."
Tariq al Dhahab, the leader of the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula forces that seized the town of Rada'a in Baydah province last weekend, made the statement in a 54-second-long video on YouTube that was released on Jan. 18. The statement was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
"So, be patient, perseverant, and stationed," Dhahab told the "Muslim Ummah," or community. "The Islamic Caliphate is coming, with permission from Allah, and it will be established, even if we sacrifice our own skulls, money, children and homes."
Dhabab's forces seized control of Rada'a last weekend after more than 200 of his fighters stormed the city, took over government buildings and a historic fort, and freed more than 250 prisoners, including many al Qaeda fighters, from a jail. Dhahab's fighters raised the black banner of jihad over the fort and swore allegiance to al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri.
Two policemen were killed during the brief assault. Some residents of Rada'a said the government put up little resistance. Others, including Dhabab's own brother, Sheikh Khalid al Dhahab, accused the Yemeni government of supporting AQAP's takeover of the town.
Baydah province is the home of Nasir al Wuhayshi, who was Osama bin Laden's personal secretary and was instrumental in founding al Qaeda's branch in the Arabian Peninsula.
On Jan. 18, tribal leaders in Rada'a and Baydah province gave AQAP 24 hours to leave the town and threatened to use force if their demands were not met. But Dhahab ignored their demands and instead said his forces would quit the town if the government frees more than 400 al Qaeda prisoners currently being held in Sanaa and imposes sharia law in Rada'a.
Tariq al Dhahab is a brother-in-law of Anwar al Awlaki, the American citizen who served as a senior cleric and operational commander for AQAP before he was killed in a US drone strike in August 2011. Dahab was recently transferred to Yemen from Syria, which had captured him while he was attempting to enter Iraq, according to Reuters. It is unclear if Yemeni authorities released him or if he escaped from a Yemeni prison.
For more information on AQAP's expansion in Yemen, see LWJ report, AQAP fighters seize control of Yemeni town, swear allegiance to Zawahiri.
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Rest In Peace
This is not how I planned to start it.
One of the greatest Blues/R&B artists EVER.
She was first discovered by Johnny Otis (who died yesterday) and followed him to Los Angeles to record and toured with him until she joined Chess Records.
With Chess Records she broke through and crossed over at a time when it was nearly unheard of for a Black artist, let alone a Black woman, to do so.
Her influence cannot be overstated.
And they ALL know it.
Her first hit. The one that brought Johnny Otis' attention.
Her great crossover hit. A staple at proms and wedding receptions. Still.
One of her greatest hits. It has become a Blues/R&B standard.
It was originally released as a B Side.
I'd Rather Go Blind
The Sad Irony
The facts about jobs related to tourism:
Obama touts low-wage tourism jobs, nixes high-wage energy jobsWhoever the GOP candidate is should be sure to point out the facts about jobs related to tourism. Such jobs will not drive our economy!
A day after President Barack Obama nixed up to 20,000 high-wage Keystone XL pipeline construction jobs, he flew down to Florida to tout his support for low-wage tourism jobs.
The 1.7 million workers in the "traveler accommodation" category earned an average wage of $27,210 in 2009, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
That's barely half the wages earned by the estimated 98,210 workers in the "heavy and civil engineering construction" category. In 2009, they earned a mean wage of $50,730, according to the BLS.
In contrast, tourism jobs are mostly low-skill service jobs — serving dinners, cleaning bedrooms, guiding visitors....They can also be accomplished by immigrants who will accept lower wages than U.S.-born Americans....
We need a higher GDP to bring this economy out of its doldrums, not what Obama is lamely touting as the solution as he zooms all over the country for photo ops to promote the illusion that he's doing something for our ailing economy.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Weekly Standard lumps Uighurs in same boat as Christians
Members of Congress should consider asking President Obama to make the ongoing crackdown as well as the despairing self-immolations by Tibetans, the persecution of Uyghurs, Christians, and land rights and other activists, a central feature of First Secretary Xi's visit. But they don't need to bother asking Congressman Paul to join them.Now they're right that Christians have been persecuted there to some extent, and humans rights activists even more. But the Uighurs? Doesn't Bork know that they're an Islamist group that's conducted its own jihad against China? The al Qaeda even encouraged them to commit jihad against China a few years ago. And Bork not only has to stupidly put them alongside Christians as a persecuted group in China, she even gives them first billing?
There's a very valid argument to be made about Paul's loathsome record in focusing on China's communism, but putting the Uighurs in the same boat as the Christians is making almost the same mistakes as Paul himself, and undermines the full impact of the article.
Rest In Peace
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Details of Obama's letter to Iran released
TEHRAN, Jan. 18 (MNA) -- A number of Iranian officials have released the details of the letter that U.S. President Barack Obama recently sent to Tehran.
The New York Times, citing U.S. government officials, wrote on January 12 that the Obama administration had sent a message to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warning that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a "red line" that would provoke a response by the United States.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast said on January 15 that U.S. officials had sent a message on the Strait of Hormuz to the Islamic Republic through three officials, noting, "Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, delivered a letter to Mohammad Khazaii, the Islamic Republic of Iran's ambassador (to the UN). The Swiss ambassador to Tehran (Livia Leu Agosti) also conveyed the message, and Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, conveyed the message to officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran as well."
Obama has called for negotiations
MP Ali Motahhari said on Wednesday, "In the letter, it has been stated that 'closing the Strait of Hormuz is our red line' and they have requested direct negotiations."
"In the letter, Obama has announced readiness for negotiation and the resolution of mutual disagreements," he added.
He went on to say that Obama uttered threats in the first part of the letter and talked about friendship and negotiation in the second part.
Obama says U.S. will not take hostile action against Iran
MP Hojjatoleslam Hossein Ebrahimi said on Wednesday, "Obama's letter has several parts. Part of it is about this, (namely) that using international waterways is the right of all countries and all should benefit from them. And in this letter, he has described it as the United States' red line."
"In the letter, Obama has mentioned cooperation and negotiation based on the interests of the two countries," Ebrahimi, who is the deputy chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told the Nasimonline news website.
"He has stated in the letter that they will not take any hostile action against the Islamic Republic of Iran," he added.
Ebrahimi also said, "This is not the first time that Obama has sent a message and letter to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has repeatedly spoken in a soft tone about the Islamic Republic of Iran, but, in practice, he has not acted accordingly."
"Obama's letter indicates that the United States has become afraid of the Islamic Republic of Iran's might and has realized the point that an arrogant spirit is of no use, and therefore, he has softened his tone when speaking about the Islamic Republic of Iran," he stated.
He added, "The important issue is that without the Islamic Republic of Iran's permission, no country can benefit from the Persian Gulf."
Iran responsible for maintaining security of Persian Gulf
Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaii also commented on the letter on Wednesday, saying, "Mr. Obama has written a cunning letter and intended to claim that the U.S. is responsible for maintaining the security of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran itself is responsible for maintaining the security of this region."
"We maintain the security of the region with the help of regional countries," he said, adding, "There is no need for the presence of extra-regional forces to maintain the security of this region, and we believe that the presence of the United States and Britain mostly creates insecurity."
If they "feel compassion" for regional countries and want to help them enhance security in the region, "I advise them to leave the region," Rezaii stated.
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This Week On The Gathering Storm: Midnight Rider!
The call-in number is 646-915-9870.
Our scheduled guest this week is Midnight Rider.
Listen to the January 20, 2012 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.
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Humpday Blues
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
King Abdullah International Gardens Design in Saudi Arabia Mirrors Flight 93 9/11 Memorial in Shanksville, PACan you imagine the heroes of flight 93 seeing this? The victims of jihad on flight 93 who died to the wails of allahu akbar.
King Abdullah International Gardens in Saudi Arabia Design Bears Uncanny Resemblance to the Flight 93 9/11 Memorial in Shanksville, PA
Here is the Flight 93 Memorial, "Crescent of Embrace."
Go here (scroll) for more on the flight 93 memorial here.
Click on the title to read the whole thing at Atlas Shrugs.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
But not the idea things may be turning around.
Americans raid savings, putting recovery at risk
Workers pare back contributions to college funds, more borrow from retirement accounts
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Wreckovery Rant
A pet gripe is their stance on unemployment of course. You hear the idiots say that they don't think people should be paid for sitting around doing nothing, that unemployment should be tied to training.
Sure, go ahead, train me. I have no problem with that. But with 1 job for every 5 unemployed, what do you plan on doing after that?
As for sitting around doing nothing, do they think we're not looking for jobs? That's nothing? That's full time work in itself. We're not sitting here watching Oprah or The View, fools.
As for blaming it on the 99ers, that's just stupid. The 99ers are no longer collecting unemployment, so I guess they don't have to worry about them now, do they?
If these five bozos are the best the GOP can field we are in deep trouble.
They have little understanding on the unemployment situation -- which is separate from the jobs situation -- and no understanding of the unemployed.
And none of them have ever had to suffer through the degrading humiliation of living on the dole.
If they had they wouldn't be singing this tune.
And before you blame the 25-30 million un(der)employed for the debt woes of this once great nation, fix your spending problems in D.C. Fix the issues that are causing companies to not hire and take their business elsewhere.
If you fix the jobs problem, then the unemployment problem will go away of it's own.
But don't throw them under the bus and hope that problem will go away.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Ahem. . .
Egypt's next parliament to be led by Islamist
By Leila Fadel and Ingy Hassieb, Updated: Monday, January 16, 11:55 AM
CAIRO — Liberals and Islamists in Egypt announced a temporary agreement Monday on a power-sharing plan that would install a Muslim Brotherhood leader as speaker of the country's newly elected parliament.
The agreement among six political parties all but guarantees that the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party will lead Egypt's first elected parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February, with the Islamist party expected to control as many as half the seats.
Under the power-sharing agreement, the ultraconservative Salafist Nour party and the liberal al-Wafd party would also claim top positions, with their representatives serving as deputy speakers, the parties announced during a news conference Monday at the Freedom and Justice Party's headquarters.
With a week left until the lower house of the parliament meets, the Freedom and Justice Party said its nominee for speaker would be Mohamed Saad Katatny, the party's secretary general.
During the announcement, the party heads said the agreement would be a temporary alliance to put their voting weight behind agreed-upon candidates for the parliament's leadership positions.
"This is a one-day agreement for the day the parliament opens," Mohamed Abou el-Ghar, the head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party said in an interview. "We have to cooperate so the main posts in the parliament are distributed fairly to all parties, including the people who won the elections."
Abou el-Ghar said it was possible that his own party could still be allotted one of the deputy positions if the Wafd party chose not to go along with the accord. The Social Democratic Party is part of an alliance of liberals and leftists that is expected to take the fourth most seats after the Freedom and Justice Party, the Nour party and al-Wafd.
This week the agreed parties will begin discussions to divvy up the chairmanships of political committees in the lower house of the parliament, known as the People's Assembly. On Monday, the body will convene for the first time.
Final results of the elections are expected this week, but party projections and early returns show that Islamists are expected to take about two-thirds of the seats, most of which will go to the political wing of the historic Muslim Brotherhood organization.
The powers of the People's Assembly are unclear and will be laid out in a still-unwritten constitution. The People's Assembly is supposed to choose members of a constituent assembly that will write the country's constitution.
But Egypt's military rulers have made clear that they would like to oversee the constitution-writing process and possibly influence the selection of the constituent assembly. Political party leaders said the ruling generals would have no influence over the selection of parliament leaders.
The head of the Freedom and Justice Party, Mohammed Morsi, said during the news conference that the short-term agreement was to guarantee a "parliament that expresses national unity."
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Iran warns Gulf Arabs on oil
By TAREK EL-TABLAWY
CAIRO (AP) - Iran warned Gulf Arab oil producers against boosting production to offset any potential drop in Tehran's crude exports in the event of an embargo affecting its oil sales, the latest salvo in the dispute between the West and the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.
The comments by Iran's OPEC governor, published Sunday, came as Saudi Arabia's oil minister was quoted the same day denying that his country's earlier pledges to boost output as needed to meet global demand was linked to a potential siphoning of Iranian crude from the market because of sanctions.
World oil markets have been jolted over concerns that Iran may choke off the vital Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for sanctions hampering its ability to sell its oil. Saudi Arabia and other key Gulf Arab producers have recently said they are ready to provide stable and secure supplies of oil.
Iran's official news agency IRNA said Sunday that the U.S. has relayed a message to Iran about security in the Strait of Hormuz. It gave no details, and there was no immediate comment from Washington.
The U.S. recently imposed sanctions targeting Iran's central bank and, by extension, refiners' ability to buy and pay for crude. The European Union is also weighing an embargo on Iranian oil, while Japan, one of Iran's top Asian customers, has pledged to buy less crude from the country.
Mohammad Ali Khatibi, Iran's OPEC governor, was quoted Sunday by the pro-reform Shargh newspaper as saying that attempts by Gulf nations to replace Iran's output with their own would make them an "accomplice in further events."
"These acts will not be considered friendly," Khatibi said, adding that if the Arab producers "apply prudence and announce that they will not participate in replacing oil, then adventurist countries will not show interest," in the embargo.
The embargo concerns are linked to Iran's nuclear program. The West maintains Iran is enriching uranium for weapons purposes while Tehran says its program is for purely peaceful purposes such as generating electricity.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer and a close U.S. ally, had said that it was ready to raise its output to accommodate global market needs. The country is the only member of the 12-nation Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries that has significant spare capacity, currently estimated at roughly more than 2 million barrels per day.
With concerns building amid the standoff between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear program, a string of Asian and Western officials have visited Saudi Arabia over the past week. While offering assurances that it could meet a shortfall in supply through its spare capacity, Saudi officials have also been careful to say that it was an internal matter if nations chose to abide by any sanctions.
Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi appeared to try to further clarify the country's position in comments published Sunday in the daily Al-Ektisadiyah newspaper.
"We never said that Saudi Arabia is trying to compensate for Iranian oil in the case that sanctions (are enacted)," Al-Naimi was quoted as saying. "We said that we are prepared to meet the increase in global demand as a result of any circumstances."
The kingdom has a production capacity of 12.5 million barrels and is believed to be producing slightly over 9 million to 9.5 million barrels per day.
Iran's warning introduces a new layer of complication to an issue that has the potential for broad regional and global fallout.
"If the regional countries ... say no to what is harmful to the security of the region, then nothing will definitely happen," he said. But if the security of oil traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is violated, "all will be lost," he said.
"If these countries make a mistake and give the green light, this will be a historic green light," Khatibi said.
Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's largest economy, is widely seen as the main counterweight to Iran in the region. Any attempt by Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which a sixth of the world's oil flows, would also affect the export abilities of the major Gulf producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar.
While momentum appears to be building for the sanctions by the West, China, another major buyer of Iranian oil, has come out against the measures.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for meeting with officials in which the two countries "pledged to work together to further expand all-around exchanges and cooperation," according to China's Xinhua news agency
Wen said the two sides "should expand trade of crude oil and natural gas and energy-related cooperation as to deepen their energy partnership," Xinhua reported.
During the visit, Saudi state-owned oil giant Aramco and Chinese refiner Sinopec finalized an agreement to develop a 400,000 barrel per day joint venture refinery in the Red Sea city of Yanbu. The deal is just one between China and Gulf producers as the Asian powerhouse reaches out across the world to secure energy supplies for its booming economy.
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Pro-Sharia Textbooks In American Schools
As expected by those of us who follow the Islamification of our education system and the ongoing whitewash of Islam, Susan Douglass, American convert to Islam and married to a Wahhabist, figures prominently in the lies being spread.
Once young minds are imprinted by such taqiyya, it is inordinately difficult to undo the damage.
Also as expected, Susan Douglass has a past association with the Islamic Saudi Academy.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Iran Warns Arabs Not to Replace Embargoed Oil
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian pro-reform newspaper says the country's OPEC governor has warned the country's Arab neighbors that Tehran will view any increase in crude production to counterbalance a potential embargo on Iranian oil as an unfriendly act.
A Sunday report by Shargh daily quotes Mohammad Ali Khatibi as saying that Arab nations will be an "accomplice in the consequences," if they raise output to offset any potential loss of Iranian crude exports due to an embargo.
New U.S. sanctions against Iran approved last month target the country's central bank and, by extension, its ability to sell petroleum abroad. The U.S. has delayed implementing the sanctions for at least six months. The EU is also contemplating an embargo.
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U.S. Warns Israel on Strike
Officials Lobby Against Attack on Iran as Military Leaders Bolster Defenses
By ADAM ENTOUS,JULIAN E. BARNES and JAY SOLOMON
WASHINGTON—U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran, over U.S. objections, and have stepped up contingency planning to safeguard U.S. facilities in the region in case of a conflict.
President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top officials have delivered a string of private messages to Israeli leaders warning about the dire consequences of a strike. The U.S. wants Israel to give more time for the effects of sanctions and other measures intended to force Iran to abandon its perceived efforts to build nuclear weapons.
Stepping up the pressure, Mr. Obama spoke by telephone on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will meet with Israeli military officials in Tel Aviv next week.
The high-stakes planning and diplomacy comes as U.S. officials warn Tehran, including through what administration officials described Friday as direct messages to Iran's leaders, against provocative actions.
Tehran has warned that it could retaliate to tightened sanctions by blocking oil trade through the Strait of Hormuz. On Thursday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to punish the perpetrators of the assassination—blamed by Iran on the U.S. and Israel—of an Iranian scientist involved in the nuclear program.
The U.S. denied the charge and condemned the attack. Israel hasn't commented.
The U.S. and Iran, however, have taken steps in recent days apparently designed to ease tensions. Iran has agreed to host a delegation of United Nations nuclear inspectors this month. The U.S., meanwhile, has twice this month rescued Iranian sailors in the region's seas.
Covert efforts by Israel's intelligence service to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons have been credited with slowing the program without the high risk of military conflict that could be sparked by an airstrike. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful uses.
But Israel has declined to rule out a strike, as has the U.S.
"It is the policy of the Israeli government, and the Obama administration, that all options remain on the table. And it is crucial that the ayatollahs in Tehran take this policy seriously," said Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the U.S.
Mr. Netanyahu said in a recent interview that Iran has begun to "wobble," a signal some U.S. officials believe suggests he is willing to follow the current U.S. strategy, which seeks to avoid a military confrontation with Iran.
"Recent comments by the Israelis show they understand how tough the sanctions we've put in place are and are giving them time to work," said a senior Obama administration official.
The U.S. military is preparing for a number of possible responses to an Israeli strike, including assaults by pro-Iranian Shiite militias in Iraq against the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, according to U.S. officials.
The U.S. believes its embassy and other diplomatic outposts in Iraq are more vulnerable following the withdrawal of U.S. forces last month. Up to 15,000 U.S. diplomats, federal employees and contractors are expected to remain in Iraq.
In large measure to deter Iran, the U.S. has 15,000 troops in Kuwait, and has moved a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf area.It has also been pre-positioning aircraft and other military equipment, officials say. Arms transfers to key allies in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, have been fast-tracked as a further deterrent, officials say.
Israeli officials said Mr. Netanyahu's government continues to closely coordinate with the U.S. in responding to the Iranian threat. "Israel believes that heightened sanctions combined with a credible military threat may dissuade the Iranian regime from developing nuclear capabilities," Mr. Oren said.
Mr. Panetta and other top officials have privately sought assurances from Israeli leaders in recent weeks that they won't take military action against Iran. But the Israeli response has been noncommittal, U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials briefed on the military's planning said concern has mounted over the past two years that Israel may strike Iran. But rising tensions with Iran and recent changes at Iranian nuclear sites have ratcheted up the level of U.S. alarm.
"Our concern is heightened," a senior U.S. military official said of the probability of an Israeli strike over U.S. objections.
Tehran crossed at least one of Israel's "red lines" earlier this month when it announced it had begun enriching uranium at the Fordow underground nuclear facility near the holy city of Qom.
The planned closing of Israel's nuclear plant near Dimona this month, which was reported in Israeli media, sounded alarms in Washington, where officials feared it meant Israel was repositioning its own nuclear assets to safeguard them against a potential Iranian counterstrike.
Despite the close relationship between the U.S. and Israel, U.S. officials have consistently puzzled over Israeli intentions. "It's hard to know what's bluster and what's not with the Israelis," said a former U.S. official.
Inside the Israeli security establishment, a sort of good cop, bad cop routine, in which Israeli officials rattle sabers amid a U.S. scramble to restrain them, has assumed its own name: "Hold Me Back."
Some American intelligence officials complain that Israel represents a blind spot in U.S. intelligence, which devotes little resources to Israel. Some officials have long argued that, given the potential for Israel to drag the U.S. into potentially explosive situations, the U.S. should devote more resources to divining Israel's true intentions.—Charles Levinson and Siobhan Gorman contributed to this article.
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The West Throws Israel Under The Bus, Again
Jerusalem Post:
'Western intelligence: Israel behind Iran bombs'
01/14/2012 21:37
Israel's Mossad is responsible for training and paying the assassins of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists over the past two years, TIME magazine reported Saturday citing unnamed Western intelligence sources.
In addition to the assassinations of the scientists, all of which were carried out using nearly identical magnetic bombs attached to the side of their cars, the intelligence sources claimed Israel was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian missile base outside Tehran late last year.
Iran accuses Israel, US in nuclear scientist assassination
Iranian man pleads guilty to murder of nuclear scientist
Majid Jamali Fashi, one of several suspects arrested, tried and sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic in the past two years, was part of a cell operated by the Mossad, the sources cited by TIME said.
The latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist took place last week in Tehran. Like the others before him, 35-year-old Darioush Rezaie, a physicist, was killed by a magnetic bomb attached to the door of his car.
The assassination came just a few days after Iran announced it was activating the Fordow enrichment facility near Qom, buried hundreds of feet under a mountain.
This raised speculation that Roshan might be connected to the activation of the centrifuges at the new facility.
Stressing that he did not know who assassinated the scientist, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai wrote on his Facebook page: "I will definitely not shed a tear for him."
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Photo feature: Bangkok's blowtorch-wielding Buddha makers
Sparks flying, a man blowtorches the Buddha's head until its neck glows red hot, allowing it to be soldered onto a standing life-sized brass body.
Elsewhere in this large open-air factory, another worker shoves a fierce industrial-strength buffer onto the eyelids of a tipped-over giant Buddha, smoothing the brass so it glistens while the buffer's rotary engine whines.
Amid the shrieking machines, reject Buddha heads and decapitated bodies lay jumbled on the ground in small piles, their metallic faces disfigured by accidents during the difficult statue making process.
Temples, institutions, hotels, homes and businesses in Thailand often display a giant Buddha atop a reverential plinth, surrounded by flowers, currency notes, portraits, food, candles, incense and small statues, worshipped by devotees and tended with care.
But making a huge Buddha statue involves fire, bare hands and dangerous tools.
Building Buddha: A how-to guide
"Some people who order statues bring a photo of what they want the statue to look like, and we then make it based on the picture," says Thanyathip Ruengsirapat, who helps manage the Rong Lao Phra Ruang Samai factory, which builds big Buddhas in Nonthaburi, on Bangkok's outskirts.
"The first step is to use a sticky clay, to make a model of the statue. It has to be good quality clay, without any sand," she says, pointing at the wet clay feet of a standing, life-sized Buddha, draped in orange cloth.
"Then the customer will come and confirm this is the shape they want. It has to stay wet, and this clay can stay like this for only two weeks, otherwise it cracks.
"Then we put beeswax on top of the clay model. We boil the beeswax to make it soft, so we can mold it. We boil it here, on this fire."
The flames resemble a campfire, burning in the dirt in the middle of the factory. Murky beeswax soup cooks in a battered, blackened, metal canister atop the blaze.
"After boiling, we cool the beeswax by keeping it in water," Thanyathip says.
Snails, Garudas and floating body parts
Nearby, Kanyapak Laona, 36, shapes brown globs of cooled beeswax into thin strips, which she pushes into a flat board's indented circles, lines and other shapes.
"These bubble shapes are for Buddha's head," Kanyapak says, lifting a thin strip after it becomes the shape of several small circular half-shells, symbolizing the curls of Buddha's hair or, as some legends say, snails which crawled up and died while protecting his head when he meditated.
"I've been doing this work for about one year. Simple designs, like these round shapes, are easy to do, but detailed designs are more difficult.
"I feel proud to be one of the people who makes big Buddha statues. My husband also works here, right over there," Kanyapak says, pointing at a man smothering a mythical Hindu bird-like Garuda under a thick coat of fresh white plaster.
"After we cover the clay statue with beeswax, we cover the whole thing in thick white plaster," says Thanyathip.
"You see this man covering a Garuda statue? Underneath the white plaster is a clay Garuda, covered with beeswax."
Nearby are rectangular pools of water, where brownish beeswax Buddha heads, hands and other body parts are kept, eerily floating like a macabre collection of dismembered humans.
"These pools are for storage of new beeswax models, because otherwise the heat will melt them," Thanyathip says. "When we want to use them, we can take them from the water."
Jewelers and other artisans call this ancient technique "the lost wax process."
The sum of many precious parts
Whether the workers are making a tiny earring or a giant Buddha, the process is the same: build a wax model, cake it in hard plaster, drill a hole in the base and another hole in the top. Pour in hot bronze, brass, silver, gold or other metal.
The incoming metal's heat melts the wax, which drains out through the bottom hole. The metal replaces the wax, and when cooled, hardens to be the same shape as the "lost wax" model.
The plaster coating is then sliced or chipped away, revealing the desired piece -- solid metal if the model was solid wax, or hollow metal like this factory's statues, if the wax was merely a thin coating on top of clay.
Brass, bronze and other metals are melted in the factory's upright cylindrical ovens, which are covered in ash and cracked from years of heat.
Long-handled spoons are used to scoop the liquid metal and pour it into each plaster-covered statue part.
"We have to make the big statues in big pieces -- a separate head, separate arms, and separate body," Thanyathip says.
The metal cools and hardens inside the plaster mold after one day. Workers then hammer away the surrounding plaster, revealing the metal part. The pieces are then assembled with blowtorches, soldering, sanding machines, buffers, and other tools into big statues.
"The biggest Buddhas take about four months to finish, but a small Buddha will take only about two days," Thanyathip says.
Rising material costs and lower demand
Her father, 72-year-old Watcharapong Ruangsiripath, owns the factory.
"I've been making big Buddhas for more than 40 years, and have had this factory at this location for 30 years," he says.
"I can make 10 or more Buddhas, of different sizes, every week. I have 50 workers here.
"I began this work when I was working in a Buddha factory, before starting my own factory. Every step is difficult when making a big Buddha. In the past five years, business for me is not so good at all, it has been going down.
"This factory produces made-to-order Buddhas, and less people are ordering them, because of the overall economy. All the materials are made in Thailand, and are getting more expensive.
"The most popular position for a big Buddha is the sitting position. The biggest Buddha we ever made was 14 meters tall. It was ordered by someone who took it to a temple in Buriram."
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Potato-Scented Taxi Leaves Passengers Salivating For More [Video]
McCain Foods outfitted a cab to emit the scent of oven-baked spuds.
For their new campaign, McCain Foods created a potato-scented taxi that gave free rides for five minutes, the time it takes to microwave the brand's Ready Baked Jackets potato snacks.
The "Jacket Taxi" was created in five weeks. The resulting taxi had a giant 3D jacket potato on its roof. The giant potato emitted the scent of baked potatoes and gave passers-by a chance to enjoy the delicious aroma of hot jacket potatoes.
The Jacket Taxi was also fitted with cooking facilities and a flip-down tablet screen from the roof. At the end of their free ride, passengers were treated to a hot baked potato — or jacket potato as they are called in the UK — made right in the taxi.
The taxi traveled through London, Birmingham, Manchester, York, Leeds and Bristol, and was part of the campaign to promote the McCain Ready Baked Jackets, which smell and taste like oven-baked jackets, but only take five minutes to cook.
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Help again
there are 2 heater hoses should both be hot or one be hot and one be cold when engine is hot and heater is running on
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I believe they should both be warm ( or hot) . the heater core , isnt that efficient to cause one hot and the other cold .
There might be a slight difference in there temp but I dont know about "cold"
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just finish flushing out heater cores and radiator and anything was clean but just getting warm air not hot air not sure what wrong
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Since both heater hoses are hot, it seems that coolant is flowing through them. Then there are 2 posibilities left, or the heater performance is bad (ie kettlestone fixed on the inner walls, making it difficult to transfer the heat from the coolant to the air), or the blend door(s) doesn´t move. I forgot if you have the manual or automatic AC system. You said that the blend door was checked, but did you check if the actuator also moves and that it takes the door with it? For the manual system, the only actuator is hidden behind the glove box door. Remove the door and check if the actuator moves when you move the temperature selector knob. If ok, remove the actuator and move the door by hand. It should move freely and not bind. There should be some resistance though, of the door itself.
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x2 on the possible bad actuator
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when you flushed your heater core what did you use? i blew mine out, then ran water though it... was dirty yes... but after i let CLR sit in there for 5 min and then flushed it again a TON of crap came out... that would be my recomendation
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well after you check the actuator of course! that is an easy swap
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Take me there: Camber Sands
To call Camber Sands Britain's answer to the Hamptons is perhaps an overstatement (it's got a Pontins for a start), but there's definitely something a bit Long Island about the new wave of holiday houses popping up behind the dunes of this Sussex beach. The newest addition is Sea Gem, a gorgeous architect-designed house, all clean lines, glass walls, decking and sea breezes. It's been designed with film crews in mind – Camber is a popular location for fashion and music industry shoots – but will be available for holiday rentals, too. Sleeps 8, from £3,000 per week. For details of this and other beach houses in Camber, go to camberbeach.co.uk.
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The dilemma We celebrate our golden wedding in September and would like to spend a few days in an interesting European city. My husband is in a wheelchair. Any ideas? Judy
If you were to choose a destination based on accessibility, Berlin would come out tops. It was rebuilt after the Second World War; its modern city centre, U-Bahn system and attractions such as the Reichstag and Checkpoint Charlie are wheelchair-friendly, and there are plenty of resources to help with trip planning (see tinyurl.com/6vpmqum).
However, for a celebratory weekend, Barcelona's mix of sunshine, food and culture might have the edge. Most of the city centre, including Las Ramblas and the marina, is flat and you can get to most sites on the wheelchair-adapted Barcelona Bus Turístic. Mike Davis of Disabled Access Holidays (disabledaccessholidays.com) recommends the harbour-front Duquesa de Cardona hotel, which has wheelchair-adapted rooms. A three-night package costs about £900 for two, including hotel, flights and taxi transfers. They can also arrange local mobility-scooter hire. For details go to barcelona-access.com.
Three of the best… quirky places to stay in Dublin
Ahead of St Patrick's Day, we track down three unusual holiday homes which will be sure to give you an alternative experience of the capital city.
1. 73 Coastguard Station Beautifully restored Victorian cottage with log fire in the Docklands. Sleeps 4. From £500 per week (holidaylettings.co.uk/rentals/dublin/136231).
2. Moffatt Cottage Cosy red-brick artisan cottage in a hidden square right in the centre of the city. Sleeps 4. €90 per night (holiday-rentals.co.uk/p250025).
3. Sunset Crag Airy sea-view apartment in the fishing town of Skerries, 20 miles from Dublin. Sleeps 4. €100 per night (pureholidayhomes.com; property ID number 15380).
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The game was effectively decided in the 26th minute when sophomore Chris Taylor converted his third penalty kick of the season after ORU's Taylor Cluff received a red card.
The last three goals came in the last 20 minutes. Austin Neil scored his team-high seventh goal of the season, while Ashley McInnes and Benjamin Pettit scored their first goals of the season.
"We started out pressuring early on and created a couple of near chances, but lost our concentration around the 15 minute mark," Coach Tom McIntosh said. "The red card and subsequent penalty kick and goal changed the complexion of the game. You have to give a lot of credit to ORU. They played very well. They were patient and well disciplined. We are learning to score through combinations, and it was great to see two guys get their first goals, but we have to get better. We haven't reached our potential and we have to go out and get ready for every game."


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Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) - A supermarket parking lot in Kota Baru, Malaysia, has turned into a meeting point for couples to have sex during their lunch break, reported Malaysian newspaper Harian Metro.
The couples need only pay 2 ringgit (66 US cents) per entry and they usually arrive in separate vehicles to avoid being spotted by acquaintances before engaging in sexual acts inside their cars in dimly-lit areas of the parking lot.
Supermarket workers could view what was going on through CCTVs installed at strategic spots in the parking lot.
"I have seen couples having sex in their cars," a source said.
The Malay-language daily also reported that an express bus driver in Jasin showed an Indonesian woman a pornographic film before allegedly trying to rape her in the vehicle
The incident, which occurred at 10.45pm on Tuesday, happened when the 38-year-old suspect was driving the bus from Kuala Lumpur to Melaka Sentral but took a detour to an oil palm estate in Jalan Tiang Dua-Bukit Kajang before attempting to rape the woman.
The woman, a masseuse at a reflexology centre, told the man off for playing the clip when she was the last passenger on the bus.
However, the driver ignored her and took off his pants after stopping at a secluded area.
The woman was rescued when two police officers patrolling the area suspected something amiss and examined the bus.
Jasin Officer In-charge of Police Department Deputy Supt Che Suza Che Hitam said the patrol unit decided to check the bus because its engine was still running and they heard a woman screaming from inside.
The case is being investigated under Section 376 and 511 of the Penal Code for attempted rape.


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ABC Family Announces Summer Line-Up
Hoping to capture fresh audiences on the off-season, ABC Family announced the new crop of summer premieres on Monday (March 10).
Returning for another round, "Pretty Little Liars" begins Tuesday, June 10th at 8:00pm ET while "Switched at Birth" starts Monday, June 16th at 8:00pm ET. Hoping for a successful sophomore season, "The Fosters" returns on the same day at 9:00pm ET.
As for new shows, "Chasing Life" is a one-hour drama that follows a female aspiring journalist who tries to balance her career and family all while battling cancer. Check it out on Tuesday, June 10th at 9:00pm ET.
Executive produced by Ashley Tisdale, "Young and Hungry" tells the story of a rich young tech entrepreneur who meets a sassy young food blogger and hires her to be his personal chef. "Young and Hungry" hits the small screen on Wednesday, June 25th at 8:00pm ET.
Finally, "Mystery Girls" reteams Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth as former detective TV starlets who are brought together by a real mystery. See the "Beverly Hills, 90210" castmates on Wednesday, June 25th at 8:30pm ET.
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When the show kicks off, things hop about rather abruptly, never really giving the viewer a chance to completely understand what point they're at in the story (unless of course they really know their shit). To make matters worse, the pacing fluctuates constantly, and even though the animation looks damn cool, it feels a little "off" for STAR WARS. It also doesn't help that the 5 episodes (or as they're listed on the DVD, "chapters") are just too short, lasting a mere hour in length. I can only imagine how random Vol. 1 must've felt, since there were a whole 20 episodes there, still clocking in at a measly 60 minutes. Needless to say, taking each issue I had with the series into consideration, I can't exactly pretend to have thoroughly enjoyed watching CLONE WARS. I can certainly see why others might, but personally, none of it really stood out in my mind enough to give it a full recommendation.
Audio Commentary (with director Genndy Tartakovsky and other crew): An interesting track that has the crew discussing various aspects of the show, ranging from working with the animation to working with Lucas. Much of their ideas are explained, which made understanding the series that much easier.
Connecting the Dots (10:24): A nifty featurette that details the process of filling in the gaps between Episodes II and III. The crew discusses the material exactly as you'd expect any geeky STAR WARS fan to.
Still Galleries: A collection of images separated into two sections: Sketches & Storyboards, and Posters & Artwork.
Revenge of the Brick (5:17): A short and silly Lego Star Wars segment presented in CGI. It's okay, but the animation looks a bit creepy. The short would've been a lot cooler had it been done with real legos.
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Census: More minority U.S. births than white now - CBS News
Just to clarify, the minority births are inclusive and do not represent Mexican births only.
I call it the "money factor".... the more money you have; less kids you have as a general rule. There are always exceptions but for the most part it is true that people with careers and high paying jobs don't want kids
That's a generalization which might not be that true. You say "want", but more goes into the equation than mere desire. Religion, access to control measures, age, health, education and many other factors. I've had plenty of wealthy clients with bushels of rug rats.Quote:
but for the most part it is true that people with careers and high paying jobs don't want kids
Catchy thread title, but it is already in use by Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or United Mexican States, the official name of Mexico.
more like a realization; on an average higher income people have more/better access to health care and are more career orentated in which they start familys later in live or none at all. like I said there are exeptions but higher income familys have less children and here is just one study to back up my claim.Quote:
that's a generalization which might not be that true
"The average number of children per household among households with children has declined for all households, although the number of children per household is still higher among relatively low income households."
Average Number of Children per Household by Income Quintile | Russell Sage Foundation
Perhaps they have a shorter gestation period.
They were Mormon right? LOL
I am not arguing that monied have fewer children, I am arguing there are many reasons. Sshhhhh..........I'm not stupid.........:gah:
Better get use to seeing people as humans like Jesus did and not separate them by whatever constraints your mind creates.
Recent studies say college educated Mexican Americans have less children. Usually about two or three. So now, what you want to do is bring them up in society and allow them better education.
I know you were being creative with the title but that is actually Mexico's name. They are named Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United States of Mexico)


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hey you guys go anywhere other than subaru to get brakes changed? i dont have time and i need to get my brakes changed asap. i was thinking firestone, or brake check or something. i got brakes and fluid
This is a discussion on where do you get brakes changed? within the General Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Accidents. forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; hey you guys go anywhere other than subaru to get brakes changed? i dont have time and i need to ...
hey you guys go anywhere other than subaru to get brakes changed? i dont have time and i need to get my brakes changed asap. i was thinking firestone, or brake check or something. i got brakes and fluid
04' WRX, Stage 4 with fmic R.I.P
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DIY. It is relatively easy.
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Definitely, especially if you're just talking about a pad change.Originally Posted by 04.SPT.WRX
Yep, DIY if just the pad or fluid change. If I am running tight on time I guess I would revert back to the local shop that worked on my last car. Lower rates than the dealer and I had a pretty good relationship with them. I could trust them to do the work right and the price was fair.
Sears and Meineke have been good to me in the past (in terms of speed, customer service and quality of work)
My beef with places like Sears & Meineke are a simple pad change becomes a $400 job when they list all the other "worn" parts that "need" to be replaced, not to mention the annoying up sales (hey, we'll cut you a deal and install premium wipers for you for $19.99 today only! ). I learned my lesson when I was younger with my first two cars. Now I pretty much wrench it myself at all possible.
Yep, this strategy is particularly effective on people like my wife. They use to scare her into spending 5 times what she had intended to spend. Now, if for some reason she finds herself at a shop, she's under strict orders to talk to me before doing anything additional...Originally Posted by VOLFAN
That is exactly who I had in mind when I wrote that! My wife who was my GF at the time fell for it every time and it used to make me soooo mad. "You paid $20 for wipers???!!!"...Her--> "But they are premiums and they installed them for me"Originally Posted by RayfieldsWRX
Me--> DOH!
It pays to have a smidgen of car knowledge. My inlaws know exactly zero about cars, and have been taken by dealers and shops time and time again. I can't even talk them out of it, because they believe if it came from a mechanic's mouth it must be gospel..
^ i know many people who are like that.
Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh
sula bhfuil a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
May you be a half-hour in Heaven before the devil knows that you're dead.
I see that all the time at my job. Mechanic: "Ya you need new breaks and so much more, all this in here is worn down and cant be fixed, must be replaced." People just obey. Some people do know better, most dont.Originally Posted by RayfieldsWRX
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My sister hung out with me and my wrench-turning friends enough growing up to pick up a few things. Way back in the late '80's, she had the following exchange with a mechanic:Originally Posted by uncle lewie wrx
Mechanic:Well, we're going to need to do some work on your fuel system.
Sister: What's wrong with it?
Mechanic: Near as I can tell, your carburetor needs to be rebuilt.
Sister: Err, my car is fuel injected.
Sister: I'll be leaving now...
I was so proud..
Thats awesome. I see people getting new tires/breaks whole radio's being replaced not under warranty all day, Id like to say something to the customers, but id get fired. Im in a lose lose situation.Originally Posted by RayfieldsWRX
Uncle Lewie
06 Aspen White STi w/ Gold BBS's
When I bought my 4Runner w/ 150k+ miles on it it had a completely new brake system. Apparently the guy had taken it in for new pads or rotors or whatever before he went to sell it and they talked him into replacing everything. Told him that he could get sued if the next owner had a problem. And when I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING! Pads, rotors, calipers (all 4!!!), soft lines, proportioning valve, booster and master cylinder! The only thing that wasn't replaced were the hard lines and the pedal! Cost him like $1800 according the the reciept, I believe. I know it's an old truck, but c'mon! You know those rear calipers at worst needed a simple rebuild probably the fronts and master cylinder as well. Most likely there was nothing wrong with any of those parts. Sucker!
"Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me." -Jesus
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Project overview*
|EIS status
|EIS active
|Upgrades at the Port of Cairns to improve access for larger shipping, including cruise ships
|Far North Queensland Ports Corporation Ltd (trading as Ports North)
|Port of Cairns. Map
|Local government/s
|Cairns Regional Council
|Not available
|Key features
* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.
Environmental impact statement (EIS) process
|Revised draft EIS being prepared by proponent.
|20 December 2016
|Coordinator-General extended the project declaration lapse date from 30 June 2017 to 31 December 2017.
|18 December 2015
|Coordinator-General extended the project declaration lapse date from 31 March 2016 to 30 June 2017.
|28 July 2015
|Revised draft EIS requested by Coordinator-General.
|29 June 2015
|Coordinator-General extended the coordinated project declaration lapse date to 31 March 2016.
|18 April 2015 to 1 June 2015
|Draft EIS public consultation
|10 September 2014
|Coordinator-General extended the coordinated project declaration lapse date to 30 June 2015.
|30 November 2012
|Final terms of reference for EIS ( 495 KB) issued.
|4 October 2012
|Commonwealth Minister for the Environment decided the project is a 'controlled action'.
|29 September 2012 to
29 October 2012
|Draft terms of reference for EIS public consultation.
|24 September 2012
|Gazettal of 'coordinated project' declaration ( 117 KB)
|6 September 2012
|Project referred to Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.
|3 September 2012
|Application, including initial advice statement ( 2.5 MB), submitted.
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Tuesday, 1/25/11
Posture & Stability:
90s of Handstands (wall or freestanding)
Push Press, light peak set of 3
Ab-Wheel Rollouts
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Free your sticky bits. Enhance sexiness. – KStar
If you are the proud bearer of what I would like to dub "pistol butt" you know you'll have at least 8 minutes in your day to do the below.
When you do Grogleo or Paleo you kind of have to plan to plan ahead. It's sort of like anytime you want to do anything well… you've got to think a little bit. Here's a great example of how to exercise some strategy in feeding yourself.


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Click here to download the terms of reference for the moratorium committee:
All trustees are invited to attend the meetings and work together on the commitee and I look forward to the outcomes of our multi-pronged approach we have taken to building strong schools and strong communities.
The Board passed a two-year moratorium on school closures on November 30, 2010 with the intent of seeking to "understand the issues and impacts surrounding school closures" and to "identify a number of ways to support schools instead of close them."
On December 14, 2010, the Board approved the creation of a committee "to further understand the issues and impacts surrounding school closures and that this committee work to keep schools open by recommending initiatives to the Board that will address these issues and impacts over the period of the moratorium. And further tasked "that the Committee report back to Board with the proposed terms of reference and a plan and budget by the end of February."
The School Closure Moratorium Committee, comprised of Trustee Colburn, Trustee Hoffman and Trustee MacKenzie (Chair) have developed the attached Terms of Reference for the School Closure Moratorium Committee (Appendix I) for the Board's consideration.


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Boxing News
More Klitschko-Wach photos
More photos from the press conference in Hamburg, Germany for the November 10 clash between WBA/IBF/WBO/IBO World Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko and his challenger Mariusz Wach. The two will face off at the o2 World in Hamburg.
Wladimir Klitschko: "16 years ago I started my professional career in Hamburg. It is always special to come back and have an event in this city. I expect from Wach that he will be as well prepared as never before."
Mariusz Wach: "I promise a very hard and interesting fight. My goal is to take Wladimir's belts. It is the most important fight in my entire career but I have nothing to lose."
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#1: will dying my hair change my hair?
sooo my hair is dark brown and i want to dye it black so black that it has blue undertones. Someone told me that going darker isnt as damaging as going lighter, is this true? If not will my hair change after dying it black. Heres my hair now


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The doctor says I will still have a pooch without Mini Tummy Tuck. I'm confused by this since I see a lot of before/after pics on-line of just Liposuction & the stomach looks flat to me.
It's $1000 more to have the mini tuck. I'm 5'2 107lbs. Do you think the mini tuck is necessary? There would be no reason to have just lipo if I'm still going to have a pooch.


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IT is a widely entertained belief, especially among reformers, philanthropists and many educators, that the force of environment is very great. This view may be the result of vague personal impressions, natural hope, kindliness of heart or perhaps at times professional and selfish interests. But do the facts of science support the expectant hope? Something is needed beyond dogmatic statements and wordy essays.
Experimentally and statistically there is not a grain of proof that ordinarily environment can alter the salient mental and moral traits in any measurable degree from what they were predetermined to be through innate influences. Yet there is naturally a feeling that environment must count for something, and from experimental zoology we know that in many ways its influence is very great. Surely the institutions, discoveries and inventions of civilization form an environment, the value of which from one point of view, is difficult to overestimate. How then can we bring relative order and laws out of the conflicting testimony? It is the purpose of this article by treating the subject from the comparative standpoint, and after a new method, to attempt to harmonize the diversified facts of inheritance and modification.
To distinguish between the relative importance of heredity and environment is not a mere academic question, but a practical one to be answered separately for each biological trait and always with an eye to comparative and proportionate influence. To say that both forces are important is to voice a platitude. To say that they are of equal importance is, in my opinion, to express a falsehood. To say that we can not unravel their interrelations is to turn our back, in a weak--


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A New Way To Live Forever 10.30.2014
Here is a history of the recorded music my bands have released. As I gather old files and tracks, this list will grow.
Promotional CD we took on tour in the summer of 2010. It contains the un-released tracks She's Not My Girlfriend (Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids cover) and Outta My Head.
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Cubicle Fever: Is There Life At Your Desk?
Hopefully there's not an earthquake that "traps" you at work! Hahahahaha. Oh.
When the days are shortest, but feel the longest... when it's dark when you leave for work and dark when you get home... when those partition walls are closing in and you just don't think you can stand another minute at your desk... that's when you've got a bad case of Cubicle Fever. It's like cabin fever, but less rustic.


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I finally made my appt with a very experienced plastic surgeon in my area. I went for the consultation yesterday and told him I want to look less tired. I went in thinking I probably want restylane under my eyes and in the marrionette lines. The doctor pretty much agreed (without me mentioning where I wanted it) but he said that he doesn't do injections in the tear trough area - he does it in the upper cheek area and it will fill in that area below the tear trough without causing the possible problems that can occur (ie, tindall affect, etc). Is this what other docs say? I have no idea. I walked in pretty worried still (but very obviously wanting to do this) and left convinced that I will do it. I had taken ibuprofen throughout the week so I held off on injections yesterday and made my follow up appointment for two weeks from now. I bought the arnica and bromeleine (sp?) to prepare and hopefully minimize bruising or swelling. I'm excited though! I can't wait to get it done... Can anyone here tell me if they have had the injections of restylane (or other filler) to the upper cheek area to help improve the under eye area? Thanks!
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Welcome to the new edition of "2009 Get to Know Your Pals"
Copy this diary entry, and paste it into your diary. Read then delete my answers. Then you can fill in your own! We can get to know our pals better!! Have fun!! Then send a rosette to 4 pals and ask them to post it in their diary!!!!
Here we GO!!!!!
1. What color is your collar?
2. What kind of food do you eat?
Purina Dog Chow.
3. What are your favorite treats?
Made for dogs or otherwise? BOL Made for dogs is bones and raw hide, otherwise is bacon.
4. Do you have a Valentine or significant other??
No...Just love up on my bwother. BOL
5. Do you get Table Scraps?
Occassionally, after everyone else is done eating, and in our own bowls so we don't beg.
6. What is your favorite toy?
Jolly Ball is the top of the list, lasts long time, and is lots of fun, Rope toys come in second. BOL
7. When is your Birthday?...
(best guess) We just know it's Feb, so we set it as Feb 14th. Made it easy to remember. BOL
8. How many times a day do you get to eat?
Whenever I want, food is down all the time, but usually twice a day, as I don't like to eat without dad in the room.
9. Do you have a favorite color?
Blue and Black
10. Do you hope all your pals put this in their diary? YES, Pwease!
Fangks Riley for letting us know this game!!!
I recently found this friend here at Dogster.com that needs some help. She's a special needs dog, but looks to be sweet as can be. You can read up on her here, and she's ADOPTABLE!! Please take a look.
Thank you in advance.
My life didn't start out too well, very little food, a owner that didn't treat me the way I should have been treated. Life just sucked, and it only got worse for a while. Soon some nice people in uniforms came and took me away from the mean owner. They were really good to me, but I was in a cage all the time.
One day, this nice man and lady came and didn't walk past my cage like everyone else was doing that day. They took me out in the play yard, and spent almost a whole hour with me. I really liked the guy, he stuck in my head. So much that when he came back in a week, I remembered him, and started jumping for joy against my gate. "Another hour of play time outside with this nice man." I thought... But it wasn't just another hour.
He took me out into the main room, and bought me a collar, and a had a leash. I even got a ball and some treats. Then after I sat next to him while he did something on these big white things, he took me out of what I had called home for the last 3 weeks a different way than what I had came in. He put me in this big noisey metal thing with 4 black circles, and we traveled for a long time.
He treated me with love the whole way while the lady drove. I have been loved on every since. I got so many toys I don't know which ones to start with, and I have so much room to run with no fences... well except those fences that keep me away from those funny looking animals I want to chase so much. (Goats and Cows) I bark at them through the fence all the time, my owner tells me not to though. I've learned not to get my nose too close to the fence though, it hurts. Last time I got my nose to close and it hurt, I bit back, and it hurt worse... I burnt my tongue... so I had to be on a softer diet for a while.
But I have been out here almost 2 and a half years now, and am so happy. I love everyone that comes around, get along great with the cats, I even play with one of them. I even have too much energy for my owner sometimes. Dad takes such good care of me... Mom wasn't sure of me at first, and I of her, but we're coming around, and forming a bond finally. But don't take me away from my dad.
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Roque R. Ruiz
Born June 1, 1935, passed away August 28, 2013. He was preceded in death by his wife, Reyes C. Ruiz, also his brothers and sisters. Survived by his sister, Oralia Calderon; his sons, Alfred (Jan) Torres, Roque (Clarissa) Ruiz Jr.; daughters, Suzy Ruiz and Becky Ruiz (Curtis); ten granddaughters, one grandson, two great-grandsons. Also survived by many nieces, nephews and many great friends. Dad (Tata) thank you for all your support, love and wisdom you blessed us with. We'll miss you and love you always.
Visitation will be held Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. at St. Margaret Mary Church, 801 N. Grande Ave., with Rosary recited at 9:30 a.m. and Mass offered at 10:00 a.m. Interment to follow at Holy Hope Cemetery. Family and friends may express their condolences by visiting www.carrillostucsonmortuary.com.