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Regular pot smoking in teens leads to long-term drop in IQ
NEW YORK (AP) — Teens who routinely smoke marijuana risk a long-term drop in their IQ, a new study suggests.
The researchers didn't find the same IQ dip for people who became frequent users of pot after 18. Although experts said the new findings are not definitive, they do fit in with earlier signs that the drug is especially harmful to the developing brain.
''Parents should understand that their adolescents are particularly vulnerable,''' said lead researcher Madeline Meier of Duke University.
Study participants from New Zealand were tested for IQ at age 13, likely before any significant marijuana use, and again at age 38. The mental decline between those two ages was seen only in those who started regularly smoking pot before age 18.
Richie Poulton, a study co-author and professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, said the message of the research is to stay away from marijuana until adulthood if possible. ''For some it's a legal issue,'' he said, ''but for me it's a health issue.''
Pot is the most popular illegal drug in the world, with somewhere between 119 million and 224 million users between the ages of 15 and 64 as of 2010, the United Nations reported. Within the United States, 23 percent of high school students said they'd recently smoked marijuana, making it more popular than cigarettes, the federal government reported in June.
Young people ''don't think it's risky,'' said Staci Gruber, a researcher at the Harvard-affiliated MacLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Gruber, who didn't participate in the new work, said the idea that marijuana harms the adolescent brain is ''something we believe is very likely,'' and the new finding of IQ declines warrants further investigation.
Experts said the new research is an advance because its methods avoid criticisms of some earlier work, which generally did not measure mental performance before marijuana use began.
''I think this is the cleanest study I've ever read'' that looks for long-term harm from marijuana use, said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which helped fund the research.
Ken Winters, a psychiatry professor at the University of Minnesota and senior scientist at the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia, said the new findings aren't definitive, but they underscore the importance of studying how marijuana may harm young people. He had no role in the work.
Meier and colleagues reported their work online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was funded with governmental grants from the United States and Britain, and a foundation in Zurich.
The study drew on survey data from more than 1,000 people in New Zealand, everybody born in the town of Dunedin during a year-long span ending in 1973. In addition to IQ tests, they were interviewed five times between ages 18 and 38, including questions related to their marijuana use.
At age 18, 52 participants indicated they had become dependent on marijuana, meaning that they continued to use it despite its causing significant health, social or legal problems. Ninety-two others reported dependence starting at a later age.
Researchers compared their IQ scores at age 13 to the score at age 38 and found a drop only in those who had become dependent by 18.
Those deemed dependent in three or more surveys had a drop averaging 8 points. For a person of average intelligence, an 8-point drop would mean ranking higher than only 29 percent of the population rather than 50 percent, the researchers said.
Among participants who'd been dependent at 18 and in at least one later survey, quitting didn't remove the problem. IQ declines showed up even if they'd largely or entirely quit using pot at age 38, analysis showed.
The researchers got similar overall results for IQ decline when they compared participants who reported having used marijuana at least once a week on average for the past year. The researchers had no data on how much was used on each occasion or how potent it was.
Dr. Duncan Clark, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, said he's not convinced that mental decline is only in those who become dependent by age 18. He said the main lesson he sees in the overall study results is that to preserve one's IQ, it's best to avoid marijuana entirely, no matter what your age.
The researchers also surveyed people who knew the study participants well at age 38. They found that the more often participants were rated as marijuana-dependent in the surveys over their lifetimes, the more memory and attention problems were noticed by their acquaintances over the previous year.


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Chapter 13
Judah and Jerusalem will be punished for their disobedience—The Lord pleads for and judges His people—The daughters of Zion are cursed and tormented for their worldliness—Compare Isaiah 3. About 559–545 B.C.
1 aFor behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread, and the whole stay of water—
2 The amighty man, and the man of bwar, the judge, and the prophet, and the cprudent, and the ancient;
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children unto them to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be aoppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall behave himself bproudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, and shall say: Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let not this aruin come under thy hand—
7 In that day shall he swear, saying: I will not be a healer; for in my house there is neither bread nor clothing; make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is aruined, and Judah is bfallen, because their ctongues and their doings have been against the Lord, to dprovoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them, and doth declare their asin to be even as bSodom, and they cannot hide it. Wo unto their souls, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves!
10 Say unto the righteous that it is awell with them; for they shall beat the fruit of their doings.
11 Wo unto the wicked, for they shall perish; for the reward of their hands shall be upon them!
12 And my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who alead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The Lord standeth up to aplead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord will enter into ajudgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the bvineyard and the spoil of the cpoor in your houses.
15 What mean ye? Ye abeat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
16 Moreover, the Lord saith: Because the daughters of Zion are ahaughty, and bwalk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet—
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a ascab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will bdiscover their secret parts.
18 In that aday the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments, and cauls, and round tires like the moon;
19 The chains and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings;
21 The rings, and nose jewels;
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins;
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and hoods, and the veils.
24 And it shall come to pass, instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, abaldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth; bburning instead of cbeauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her agates shall lament and bmourn; and she shall be desolate, and shall csit upon the ground.


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NATO and the Arab Spring
Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Forum for New Diplomacy hosted by Carnegie Europe
- English
- Arabic
Ambassador Cousseran,
Mister Techau
Mister Cohen,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you for inviting me to speak at the inauguration of the 'Forum for New Diplomacy' here in Brussels. It is a very timely initiative. And I would like to thank the three hosts: l'Académie Diplomatique Internationale, the International Herald Tribune and Carnegie Europe.
These last few months have been among the most eventful that I can remember. We have seen a new wave of freedom spreading across the Middle East and North Africa. From Tunis to Cairo to Benghazi, people broke down the wall of fear, just as another brave generation broke down the Berlin Wall.
They chose change through peaceful demonstration, not violent extremism. They chose the idea of freedom, not the ideology of fear. And they showed the world that the future lies in the hands of the people.
Across the region, there are vast differences and unique challenges. And in each country, the authorities have responded differently. Some took steps to meet the demands of their citizens. Others realised their time was up and moved aside. Yet others answered the call for freedom and dignity with state violence.
Today, I would like to look at three questions. What has changed in the region; why does it matter for NATO; and how can we work together with the countries of the region to shape the future?
First: What has changed?
A younger generation is demanding a brighter tomorrow. For too many years they heard about economic growth, but did not feel the benefits. They saw wealth, but were unable to share it. Some even saw elections, but did not experience democracy. Now they want to have all those for real.
We should not underestimate the importance of this moment – for all of us. This is the beginning of a long, complex and possibly turbulent transformation. But it will shape the region and the world for years to come. And, I believe, for the better.
We should embrace it. And see it is a chance to make a fresh start.
For too long, many thought that you could not have both stability and democracy in that region. The men and women on the Arab streets have shown they want both. They sent their governments, and the world, a very clear message: stability at the expense of our aspirations is not true stability.
This is because freedom is not just a western value - it is a universal value.
It is not a commodity for the few – it should be shared by the many.
And it is not to be feared – it is the best guarantee of long-term peace.
Tragically, some governments have answered the call for change with repression, not reforms.
In Libya, Qadhafi's regime brutally and systematically attacked its own people. The region, and the world, did not stand idly by. In an historic decision, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorising all necessary measures to protect civilians. It is under this explicit mandate that NATO took overall command of military operations in Libya. With strong support from the region and the participation of partners from the Arctic to the Arabian Sea.
Obviously, this development is of immense importance. And it matters a great deal to NATO.
Our essential mission is to ensure that the Alliance remains an unparalleled community of freedom, peace, security and shared values. Allies have built a solid security home in which we are prosperous and at peace. But how safe can we really be when a crisis breaks out on our doorstep?
Throughout history, the fates of Europe and North Africa and the wider Middle East have been linked. Our economies are linked. Our people are linked. And our security is linked too.
We face the same threats: terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, potential disruption to our energy supplies, and illegal trafficking. These threats are the same wherever we live – in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe or North America. And we must work together to deal with them.
It is the same with the crisis in Libya. If NATO and our partners in the region had not acted, we would have seen more bloodshed from Benghazi to Brega, and the end of the freedom movement in Libya. Across the region, the bright Arab Spring could have turned into bleak winter.
We want to see the Arab Spring blossom. And a region that is free, democratic, modern and stable. All of us have so much to gain from a closer relationship – politically, economically, and culturally. It won't happen overnight. But it can happen. And NATO wants to help make it happen.
So that brings me to my third question. How can NATO work with the countries of the region to shape the future?
First, we will continue our efforts to fulfil the United Nations' mandate to protect the Libyan people.
In just two months since we started our mission, we have made significant progress. We have the momentum, and we are fulfilling our mandate. We have considerably degraded Qadhafi's ability to use force against civilians and lay siege to cities. We have saved countless lives.
I was struck to read about Amran Zoufrey, an eighty-four year old man from Misrata. He wept as he walked through the town centre, past buildings blasted by Qadhafi's forces. He said, "If God hadn't brought NATO, they would have burned us all."
Clearly, the only permanent solution will be political, not military. But to pave the way, Allies and partners need to keep up the pressure. And we will -- for as long as necessary. Actually, just today, NATO and partners have decided to extend our mission for Libya for another 90 days.
So the question is not if Qadhafi will go, but when. The Contact Group and the recent G8 summit made that absolutely clear. And NATO Allies and partners strongly endorse that call.
It could take some time yet. It could happen tomorrow.
Let me be clear: I do not see a major role for NATO in Libya after we have completed our UN mandated operation. But once Qadhafi has gone, the international community must help the Libyan people ensure a peaceful and orderly transition to democracy. And it must start to plan and prepare for that day.
Secondly, the reform of the military and the security sector are key milestones on the road to democracy. Modern, effective and accountable defence and security institutions will be a vital priority for many of the countries in the region. And NATO is well suited to help achieve this.
Many Allies went through demanding defence reforms after their own revolutions just over twenty years ago. We stand ready to share this collective experience and expertise, also for the benefit of Libya.
A new Libya needs modern, democratic security forces that will not attack the people, but protect them.
I could imagine providing assistance in building Libya's new Ministry of Defence, a joint General Staff and a National Security Agency. Institutions that would be accountable to a democratically elected government, in a country where all institutions have been systematically wiped out over the last forty years.
Of course, any assistance from NATO would be tailor-made. It would complement other support, particularly from the European Union and the United Nations. And it would be developed at the request of each country, and in close cooperation with them.
Finally, we are ready to engage in an enhanced dialogue on security matters . We have a successful track-record of political engagement with countries in North Africa and the broader Middle East. We have already two partnerships that bring together the 28 Allies with many countries of the region: our Mediterranean Dialogue with Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. And our Istanbul Cooperation Initiative with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
The Arab Spring has underlined the need to elevate our dialogue and partnerships to a new level. Our new Strategic Concept calls for such enhanced cooperation.
Twenty years ago, a new future emerged in Central and Eastern Europe after the end of the Cold War. NATO established the North Atlantic Cooperation Council to provide the countries of that region with vital political and practical support.
Now a new future is emerging in North Africa and the Middle East.
We are prepared to engage with partners across and beyond our existing partnership frameworks. This will allow us to discuss a broader range of issues, including those that our partners wish to raise. And it will allow us to involve all others who have an interest in bringing security and stability to the region.
I see a democratic Libya as a most welcome partner for NATO, regardless of whether they would want to seek engagement within or outside our Mediterranean Dialogue.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
NATO member states form a unique community of values, committed to individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. We consider these to be universal principles that apply to all peoples of the world, including in North Africa and the Middle East. That's why NATO Allies support the legitimate aspirations of people throughout this region.
The Arab Spring has inspired us all. It has shown the tremendous potential waiting to be unlocked in the region. And NATO is ready, willing, and able to help to unlock it.
We can help countries in the region build the future they want. But stability, security and prosperity cannot be imposed from outside.
They can only come from within.
They can only come by meeting the legitimate aspirations of people throughout the region.
They can only come once all the people in the region have the opportunity to enjoy the universal values we all cherish: freedom, democracy and human rights.
Thank you.


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If you're coming to the East Bay Mini Maker Faire, you gotta make stuff while you're here. What better place than our Hands-On-Everything Zone at Studio One?
Tip from the Top: plan ahead for the Swap experience and bring a shirt to screenprint, and some clothes you either want to donate or something you've been dying to jazz up.
Swap-O-Rama-Rama is the brainchild of Wendy Tremayne, an inspired artist/maker/yogini/homesteader. Basically, its a clothing swap, a sewing room, a hackerspace, and a series of DIY/DIT (do it together) projects. Bring along some clothes or all that extra fabric you've been meaning to use. Grab something and turn it into something else. Make a Halloween costume, a cape, a costume, a monster or a miniskirt. Make a stuffed animal or a tea cozy or a shopping bag, a book cover or a tutu….use your imagination or avail yourself of ours!
This year, our sewing maven CC Clark is back in action with her rotary cutters, sewing machines, notions, trims, fabrics and projects galore. In addition, workshop artists Cedar Casper (young maker extraordinaire) will teach you to make a jeans purse and Jennifer Williams will get you cutting up old t-shirts to make TARN (t-shirt yarn) you can crochet into all kinds of neat stuff. Iggy from the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse will return as well, and make cars out of old floppy disks. Remember those?
Next door to the Swap/Sewing room is the Screenprinting Zone. This is the place to take any t-shirt, hoodie, skirt, totebag or any piece of fabric you can lay your hands on and transform it into something cool. The artists and homies from Oakland's Homeygrown collective will bring their original designs and help you create your very own work of art.
Also–thanks to 510 Families for helping promote the Faire and all our crafty efforts!


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Camshafts Explained
Air is surprisingly heavy stuff. The air under an average coffee table weighs about 1kg, which means when we push large quantities of it through the small pipes of an engine at high speed it has a significant amount of momentum.
Engines breathe in huge quantities of air, each 100bhp consumes about 35 pints of air per second and expels about three times that volume in exhaust gas. All this flow needs to be carefully controlled, the flow into the cylinders is not constant but stops and starts many times a second with each cycle, inertia has to be allowed for so that enough time is available for the gas to speed up or slow down.
This is all achieved with the camshaft, a long steel rod with lumps on that pushes the valves up and down. It's spun round in synchronisation with the crank and pistons so that the lumps, called lobes, hit the top of the valve stems via the follower or other links and force them open at just the right moment. The valve is gradually opened and shut to avoid excessive forces which would increase wear.
Because it takes time for the air to get moving the cam opens the intake valve before the piston starts the intake stroke (I'll come back to this situation later), as the piston draws the air in the speed increases and gains momentum, then when the piston is at the bottom of the stroke and starts coming up the momentum continues to force air in whilst the valve gradually shuts. So rather than the intake valve being only open for the 180 degrees of the intake stroke, it is more usually open for over 230 degrees in total.
After it shuts and the compression stroke is followed by the expansion stroke it becomes time to open the exhaust valve, but again rather than waiting for the power stoke to finish and the exhaust stroke to start the exhaust valve is actually opened a bit early. Near the end of the power stroke very little useful power is being transmitted to the crank, the exhaust is opened and gradually exhaust gas speed increases. Initially the exhaust gas is forced out by combustion pressure, but as the piston travels up on the exhaust stroke it pushes the remaining exhaust gas out, further increasing momentum. Near the top of the stroke there is still enough gas momentum to drag the remaining exhaust gas out of the chamber even as the piston starts going back down on the intake stroke. The exhaust valve is then gradually closed.
This does mean that there is a period at the end of the exhaust stroke and the beginning of the intake stroke where both the intake and exhaust valves are open, the exhaust momentum prevents it going the wrong way and even helps to drag fresh intake air into the cylinder. This situation is referred to as valve overlap.
Matching cam timing to the valve size and port diameter is vital, big valve/port engines have lower gas speeds, less momentum and during the overlap phase the exhaust gas can reverse direction and flow into the intake more easily at low engine speeds, but at high engine speeds a big valve head with a large overlap phase can make the engine breathe in much more air than it would normally do, effectively the gas momentum cramming more intake charge in just like a supercharger does.
That is why race engines can make so much more power than road engines, but struggle to idle smoothly and can be unpleasant to drive at light throttle.
Cams are generally referred to by the total duration the valve is open for in degrees, most cams have the same duration for the intake and exhaust, but some race cams may use different amounts, particularly on turbo or supercharged engines. A standard cam may have a duration of 240 to 260 degrees, a sporty road cam might have about 275 to 285 degrees, but a full bore race cam could keep the valves open for as much as 310 degrees, although that probably wouldn't idle below 4000rpm!
The cam designed is a complex subject but the design has a massive effect on how well the engine breaths, many tuning companies offer performance cams sold as 'Stage 1' etc., but there is no technical definition of a 'Stage' and this is simply a marketing term, one company's stage 1 cam might be equivalent to another companies stage 3.
The cams are driven by either a chain or a toothed belt that is driven by the crank so everything is synchronised. The crank has to go round twice for the pistons to do all four strokes on a 4 stroke engine, so the cams are driven at half the speed of the crank, this is done by having the cog on the crank half the size of the cogs on the cams. A very small number of engines use a series of gears instead of a belt or chain, one example being the old Rolls Royce V8, which has the advantage of never needing replacement and maintaining accurate timing under all conditions, the down side is that it is heavier and more expensive.
Adjustable 'Vernier' pulleys are available to fine tune the timing on race engines, these have two parts; one is the outer cog driven by the chain or belt and the other part is the inner mounting hub onto the camshaft. A ring of bolts join the two halves together, each bolt passes through a slotted hole so that the two parts can be rotated slightly with respect to each other. A typical cam gear, known as a sprocket, may have teeth separated by 10° so fitting the chain either one tooth ahead or behind adjusts timing by 10° either way, fitting a vernier cam wheel allows finer adjustment adjustment within that 10°. Retarding the cam by a few degrees can increase low speed torque at the expense of high rpm power, advancing it a few degrees has the opposite effect.
A good tuning company balances the intake dimensions, exhaust manifold and systems, port and valve sizes with the right cam type and setting just the right cam timing to achieve the desired characteristics. There is a lot more to cams than just a stick with lumps on.
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Hi all,
I have ADD and it's immensely difficult for me to pay attention. In Jundo's first video in the Beginner Talks, there was a blender and it was very, very loud. That is my mind day in and day out and it's rarely quiet, no matter what I do. Some days, when I think about sad things, it usually slows down, so I sometimes intentionally think about sad things. When I'm happy, it gets really, really fast and excited and I lose track of many things, my body, my responsibilities etc. Right now, it's difficult to try and write what I want to say because my thoughts are moving by so fast and I have little time to recognize that they're even there, much less type them down.
Day in and day out, my life consists of great effort to try and pay attention and get the job done. I often have to go to great lengths of dialogues with myself to keep myself doing things I should be doing.
"Ben, you're doing so and so, now you're doing this, you should be doing that next... don't forget to do this, so and so"
Now my question is if there are other people there with ADD.... how do you practice everyday? Sitting is so difficult, mostly very boring.... can I keep my dialogue? I need some anchor... shikantaza is no anchor... this sense of I just gets thrown about like in a tornado and I end up as scattered as when I begin sitting. Breathing is sooooo boring as well. Should I just force myself?
But then forcing yourself, trying... how do I put in great, great effort without... putting any effort? This feels like a koan... how do I solve my koan? I can't do it sitting... right? or
I'm so confused and scattered...


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U.S. Military Deaths In Afghanistan Hit 2,000
The killing of an American serviceman in an exchange of fire with allied Afghan soldiers pushed U.S. military deaths in the war to 2,000, a cold reminder of the perils that remain after an 11-year conflict that now garners little public interest at home.
The toll has climbed steadily in recent months with a spate of attacks by Afghan army and police — supposed allies — against American and NATO troops. That has raised troubling questions about whether countries in the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan will achieve their aim of helping the government in Kabul and its forces stand on their own after most foreign troops depart in little more than two years.
"The tally is modest by the standards of war historically, but every fatality is a tragedy and 11 years is too long," said Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "All that is internalized, however, in an American public that has been watching this campaign for a long time. More newsworthy right now are the insider attacks and the sense of hopelessness they convey to many. "
Attacks by Afghan soldiers or police - or insurgents disguised in their uniforms - have killed 52 American and other NATO troops so far this year.
"We have to get on top of this. It is a very serious threat to the campaign," the U.S. military's top officer, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, said about the insider threat.
The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, was blunter.
"I'm mad as hell about them, to be honest with you," Allen told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday. "It reverberates everywhere across the United States. You know, we're willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign, but we're not willing to be murdered for it."
The insider attacks are considered one of the most serious threats to the U.S. exit strategy from the country. In its latest incarnation, that strategy has focused on training Afghan forces to take over security nationwide - allowing most foreign troops to go home by the end of 2014.
As part of that drawdown, the first 33,000 U.S. troops withdrew by the end of September, leaving 68,000 still in Afghanistan. A decision on how many U.S. troops will remain next year will be taken after the American presidential elections. NATO currently has 108,000 troops in Afghanistan - including U.S. forces - down from nearly 150,000 at its peak last year.
The program to train and equip 350,000 Afghan policemen and soldiers has cost the American taxpayer more than $22 billion in the past three years.
The most recent attack came just days after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said most U.S. and coalition combat units in Afghanistan returned to their practice of partnering with Afghan forces, nearly two weeks after the top U.S. commander put restrictions on such cooperation.
Like so many other deaths in Afghanistan, the latest were shrouded in confusion and conflicting accounts.
On Sunday, U.S. officials confirmed the deaths of two Americans, a service member and a civilian contractor killed late Saturday.
The fighting started when insurgents attacked a checkpoint set up by U.S. forces in eastern Wardak province, said Shahidullah Shahid, a provincial government spokesman. He said the insurgents apparently used mortars in the attack. The Americans thought they were under attack from their allies at a nearby Afghan army checkpoint and fired on it. The Afghan soldiers returned fire, Shahid said.
The Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said the shooting broke out as a result of a "misunderstanding" while ISAF forces were on patrol near an Afghan army checkpoint.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force, commonly referred to as ISAF, gave a different account of the fighting in Sayd Abad district.
"After a short conversation took place between (Afghan army) and ISAF personnel, firing occurred which resulted in the fatal wounding of an ISAF soldier and the death of his civilian colleague," the coalition said in a statement. It said the three Afghan soldiers died "in an ensuing exchange of fire."
NATO did not say whether it considered this an "insider" attack on foreign forces by Afghan allies.
In Washington, Pentagon press secretary George Little said 2,000 deaths is one of the "arbitrary milestones defined by others " that the U.S. administration does not mark.
"We honor all courageous Americans who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan to make the American people more secure," he said. "The fact of the matter is that America is safer because of all of those who have served in this war, including our fallen heroes."
In addition to the 2,000 Americans killed since the Afghan war began on Oct. 7, 2001, at least 1,190 more coalition troops from other countries have also died, according to iCasualties.org, an independent organization that tracks the deaths.
According to the Afghanistan index kept by Brookings, about 40 percent of the American deaths were caused by improvised explosive devices. The majority of those were after 2009, when President Barack Obama ordered a surge that sent in 33,000 additional troops to combat heightened Taliban activity. The surge brought the total number of American troops to 101,000, the peak for the entire war.
According to Brookings, hostile fire was the second most common cause of death, accounting for nearly 31 percent of Americans killed.
Tracking deaths of Afghan civilians is much more difficult. According to the U.N., 13,431 civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict between 2007, when the U.N. began keeping statistics, and the end of August. Going back to the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, most estimates put the number of Afghan civilian deaths in the war at more than 20,000.
In recent years, some of those casualties have generated a great deal of criticism from President Hamid Karzai and changed the way NATO forces carry out airstrikes. The overwhelming majority of civilian casualties are caused by insurgents - with the United Nations blaming them for more than 80 percent of the deaths and NATO putting that figure at more than 90 percent.
The number of American dead reflects an Associated Press count of those members of the armed services killed inside Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion began. Some other news organizations use a count that also includes those killed outside Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the global anti-terror campaign led by then-President George W. Bush.
The 2001 invasion targeted al-Qaida and its Taliban allies shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives.
Victory in Afghanistan seemed to come quickly. Kabul fell within weeks, and the hardline Taliban regime was toppled with few U.S. casualties.
But the Bush administration's shift toward war with Iraq left the Western powers without enough resources on the ground, so by 2006 the Taliban had regrouped into a serious military threat.
Obama deployed more troops to Afghanistan, and casualties increased sharply in the last several years. But the American public grew weary of having its military in a perpetual state of conflict, especially after the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq at the end of last year. That war, which began with a U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to oust Saddam Hussein, cost the lives of nearly 4,500 U.S. troops, more than twice as many as have died in Afghanistan so far.
Although Obama has pledged that most U.S. combat troops will leave by the end of 2014, American, NATO and allied troops are still dying in Afghanistan at a rate of one a day.
Even with 33,000 American troops back home, the U.S.-led coalition will still have 108,000 troops - including 68,000 from the U.S. - fighting in Afghanistan at the end of this year. Many of those will be training the Afghan National Security Forces that are to replace them.
"There is a challenge for the administration," O'Hanlon said, "to remind people in the face of such bad news why this campaign requires more perseverance."
This program aired on October 1, 2012. The audio for this program is not available.


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How to Geotag Photographs on the Nokia N95 for Google My Maps and Flickr
Its taken a bit of time to work this one out but with a few simple steps you can capture geotagged photographs on your Nokia N95, upload to Flickr and then add them to Google's My Maps.
The process is simple:
Initial Set Up
1) First off go to ShoZu.com - Shozu is freely available software that allows you to both geotag photographs on your N95 and upload to a number of online services, in our case Flickr.
Sign up with the site and select the Nokia N93 as your phone (the N95 is not yet listed). You will be asked to set up a user name and password as well as your mobile number. Once registered ShoZu will send a text along with a link to download the software. We downloaded via a Wi-Fi link to make sure we didn't incur any phone charges;
2) Install ShoZu on your N95 and login to your account using the username and password you set up. This will authenticate your account allowing you to log back into the web based service and set up a number of destinations to upload your photographs;
3) To enable uploading to Flickr go to the web page and selecting the 'Share It' tag. Now simply go through the process of allowing ShoZu the required rights to upload to your account.
This completes the set up ShoZu in terms of services, we now simply need to turn on GPS tagging;
4) Open ShoZu on your N95 and go to: Options/View and then the images tag which is indicated by a film strip icon. The 4th option is GPS Tagging, switch this to On.
Capturing and Uploading
1) Open either Nokias 'Maps' or the 'Sports Tracker' application and make sure you are getting a GPS fix, we use Sports Tracker as it allows us to additionally upload our route to Google Earth/Maps;
2) Start taking your pictures, with ShoZu installed each photograph will have a location tag written into its EXIF information.
3) Open ShoZu and select Share-It/All files, this will display a list of your photographs. Select the image your want to upload and click Options, this displays the choice to Send to Flickr. Select send and your image will be uploaded, again we uploaded via Wi-Fi to minimise any data charges.
Your images will now be available on your Flickr page and automatically geotagged. Within Flickr you can choose to view by map which opens a Yahoo Map page, we prefer Googles My Maps options:
1) At the bottom of your Flickr Photos page you will see a RSS Feed Icon and the Feed link - Right click on this link and copy the link location;
2) Login into your Google Maps account and paste the feed location into the search box - now add the following to the end of the paste '&georss=true' (without the ')
3) Running the search will display your photographs from the N95 on Google Maps via Flickr, to add them to My Maps simple click on each icon and choose 'Save to My Maps'
You can view our geotagged images from the Nokia N95 on our My Maps page.
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This is very helpful, I just found the Shozu bit was slightly different on my UK bought T-Mobile N95.
Open Shozu (Share It highlighted)
Select Options
Select Settings (My Account Highlighted)
Select Options
Select View
Move cursor focus to the right tab (the one with the film strip image on it) using the right rocker switch
Move down to the 4th item and turn Geotagging On
Hope this helps your UK readers.- Anonymous6:37 PM
Thanks for your review of ShoZu :-)
We're working on a special version for the N95 with a few cosmetic fixes and also the ability to automatically 'wake' the gps antenna without you having to load the Maps app in the background.
Feel free to make use of our current Series 60v3 release though, if you can live with these little issues.
Mark Jambas
ShoZu All Nokia Mobile Phones Reviews on my Blog:
http://www.mobilepedia-nokia.blogspot.com- Anonymous10:03 AM
A few years back when the confluence project was young (2000-2003), I had the lucky fortune to be the first person to document the only confluence in Shanghai, another in Hubei and the first one in the country of Cambodia as well. Today, most of the world has now been documented but there are still some spots left to find. Best of all, these confluence hunts, serve to document the many changes and developments all over the world. I may have been the first, but I am not the last to visit those sites and its interesting to see how they change in time and seasons. Confluence hunting also brings you to places you normally would not go and to meet people you would normally never meet. China still has many confluence left to discover (316 visited, 965 total). Compare this to the US where almost everything has been visited at least once (867 visited, 1098 total), You can still try your luck with North Korea where you still have 3 incomplete, 0 visited, 18 total.
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Strange, when I right click and save the rss link of my picture and paste it in de search box with georss=true (with results in http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=8162072@N07&format=rss_200&georss=true) Google tells me : "can't be shown because it contains mistakes.
What the f* am I doing wrong? - Anonymous7:18 PM
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Anonymous - it gave me the same error (can't be shown as it contains mistakes) until I successfully uploaded a photo with a geotag to flickr (makes sense - until then, the search for photos with georss=true would have turned up nothing)
Simon (& Anon.) - worth reading phil's instructions, even if they're not perfect for you; you need to make sure you go into settings for shareit (in shozu) and make sure geotagging is turned on ... THEN, when taking the photo, make sure you have the GPS activated and with a lock (i find it easiest to just use GPS data, under tools)
Ok! Now - Mr D Urban:
I get all of that, get a successful search for a geotagged photo from my flickr account in google maps, but can't for the life of me work out how to save them into my maps! I can't seem to bring up an option to 'save to my maps', only the standard 'add placemark', etc.
Any hints? Pretty please? :)- Anonymous7:22 PM
Hi Gang,
A couple of things that may help. Make sure that you have the "Import EXIF location data" option turned on in Flickr first (it's off by default).
Second, the &georss=1 option gives you your RSS feed and if any of the photo have geo data in that'll get added to the RSS feed. Use this instead ...
(using your ID that you get from the RSS feed instead).
...That gets you your 20 most recent geotagged photos, and just the geotagged ones.
You can also use...
...to load them into Google Earth.
Hope this helps.
Dan. Thanks for showing the 'way'. When I display my geotagged pics in google maps in the way you described (N95, shozu, flickr etc) I do not have the option to then save that place+pic in googlemaps's "My Maps". if I right click the placeholder it does not give me the option to "save to my maps". Any suggestions?
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ReplyDelete Great tutorial, thanks! Shozu works great on my N95 now. Still have to try to add my geotagged pics to google. Why oh why doesn't Nokia geotag the pics natively? 'twould be so cool. Oh and I'm happy with the GPS on my N95, it's fast enough for me and at least accurate enough to show the right street, which is all I need.


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NFL Playoffs — Championship Recap: 49ers, Ravens Win, Will Meet in Super Bowl XLVII
The San Francisco 49ers rallied past the Atlanta Falcons for the NFC title, and the Baltimore Ravens upset the New England Patriots for the AFC crown. San Francisco and Baltimore, coached by brothers Jim and John Harbaugh respectively, will meet in Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3 in New Orleans. Here's a recap of Sunday's conference title games:
San Francisco 28 — Atlanta 24
Frank Gore ran for 90 yards and two second-half touchdowns, and the San Francisco 49ers overcame a 17-point deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons, 28-24, in the NFC Championship Game in Atlanta on Sunday. With the victory, San Francisco advanced to face Baltimore in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on Feb. 3. The 49ers will be making their first Super Bowl appearance since 1995.
Gore's two touchdown runs, including a 9-yard jaunt with 8:23 left in the fourth quarter, allowed San Francisco to complete the biggest comeback in the history of the NFC title game. The top-seeded Falcons' final drive stalled in the red zone, when the 49ers' NaVorro Bowman batted away Matt Ryan's fourth-down pass intended for Roddy White with 1:13 to play.
Atlanta established a 17-0 lead in the first half thanks to Ryan's two touchdown passes to Julio Jones and a Matt Bryant field goal. After San Francisco scratched back to within 17-14 after Colin Kaepernick's 4-yard scoring pass to Vernon Davis, Ryan hit tight end Tony Gonzalez for a touchdown just 25 seconds before halftime to give the Falcons a 24-14 edge at the intermission. However, Atlanta would not score again.
Ryan finished 30 for 42 for 396 yards, three touchdowns and an interception. He also fumbled. Jones had 11 receptions for 182 yards and two scores. White caught seven passes for 100 yards for the Falcons.
After struggling through most of the first half, Kaepernick finished with 233 passing yards and a touchdown. He was held to 21 yards on the ground just a week after setting an NFL rushing record for quarterbacks with 181 yards. Davis caught five passes for 106 yards and a score.
Baltimore 28 — New England 13
Joe Flacco threw three second-half touchdown passes, including a pair to Anquan Boldin in the fourth quarter, and the Baltimore Ravens shocked the New England Patriots, 28-13, in the AFC Championship Game in Foxborough, Mass. on Sunday. With the victory, Baltimore advanced to face San Francisco in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on Feb. 3. The Ravens will be making their first Super Bowl appearance since 2001.
Flacco threw a 3-yard scoring pass to Boldin on the first play of the fourth quarter, giving Baltimore a 21-13 lead. The Ravens got the ball back five plays later, when Patriots' running back Stevan Ridley fumbled after being knocked unconscious in a helmet-to-helmet collision with Baltimore safety Bernard Pollard. Flacco threw an 11-yard TD pass to Boldin four plays later to put New England away for good.
Flacco finished with 240 yards passing. He has thrown eight touchdowns and no interceptions in the Ravens' three playoff wins this postseason. Boldin finished with five receptions for 60 yards and the two scores.
Despite previously having a career record of 67-0 at home when leading at halftime, New England quarterback Tom Brady could not rally his team after they fell behind in the second half. Brady threw two fourth-quarter interceptions that helped seal the Patriots' fate. He finished with 320 passing yards and a touchdown. New England's Wes Welker had eight receptions for 117 yards and a score.
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Best Renovations to Prepare for Selling your Home
The housing market is a fluid, living thing that consistently changes. In a lively interview with Sandy Wentworth, realtor for the Jones Group in Amherst, MA, I learned the best tips about which renovations to work on and which to avoid if you are selling your home. "You want to spend the right amount of money to get the best return. For every dollar you put in, you want to be able to get at least that or more back," said Wentworth.
She added that it is important to not price yourself out of your neighborhood. "For example, you don't want to put a high-end kitchen in a tiny ranch house. You don't want to over-improve," she said. Wentworth said that "anything you can do to lighten or brighten a space, such as lighter curtains instead of heavy drapes will work in your favor. If you have a real dark room, you may want to consider a skylight."
Curb Appeal
"People make a lot of their decisions about buying a house in the first three minutes," Wentworth said. So having a clean, well landscaped yard, or entrance to your home really helps. "Eighty percent of buyers are searching online now. They see the pictures of your home and then they drive by, see the outside of your home, check out the neighborhood," said Wentworth. She advised that de-cluttering is important and to fix the obvious, most noticeable things.
"Does your roof look good? Does it have black lichen on it?" asked Wentworth. Having a newer roof is definitely preferable if you are trying to sell your home. If you have problems with black lichen, which can get under shingles and cause damage besides looking bad, you can have a copper or zinc strip installed on the peak of your roof. Wentworth said that copper and zinc prevent lichen from forming when it rains.
Kitchens and Baths
"Kitchens and baths are what sell homes," said Wentworth. She recommended doing simple upgrades, such as replacing a worn countertop, painting or adding new hardware to cabinetry. "If you have nice older tile, you don't have to tear it out. Put in a new sink, faucet, or better lighting. Get rid of the florescent lighting around your bathroom mirror for example," she said. Wentworth said that many big box stores carry relatively inexpensive countertops that have the look of granite.
Wentworth said that many people now are looking for homes with basements, but if you have one, keep it an open space so the buyer can envision themselves in it. "You may think putting a game room or a man-cave in would be great, but what if the new owner wants to set up model trains down there? So, you may not want tons of shelving or mood lighting," said Wentworth.
Carpets and Flooring
While hardwood flooring is popular, if you have carpeting and want to upgrade for sale, Wentworth said to go with a Berber carpet in neutral shades such as sand, taupe, or smoke. Wentworth said for your entryway, if you have vinyl flooring, you may want to consider putting in tile. "A tile or stone entryway makes a good impression," she said.
Energy Conservation & Green Upgrades
"Making improvements such as new windows not only works for you but for your buyer as well," said Wentworth. So having your home sealed, having insulation put or blown in, or improving the heating or hot water system could pay off.
Final Tips
Small changes can make a big difference. Other suggestions Wentworth had were to install ceiling fans, "or if you have a back porch or deck, have it screened in." To save money on hiring professionals, always get more than one bid and always check references.
Cris Carl is writes about Boston-area remodeling issues for Networx.
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Hey guys, as you all know I get legit inside sources within the raptors organization, been posting here for many years but the only time i do post is when I do get inside source information that I can share with my realgm family (u can track down my previous posts' some of the inside scoop i shared actually did go through). So the latest scoop is that washington offered us butler and crittenton for amir and jose, however BC doesnt want to give up Amir or pick up crittenton in a deal. BC is really high on Amir and says he will do anything it takes to lock him up this summer. BC made a counter offer of Rasho, calderon, and a 2nd rounder for butler and boykins but washington declined, however Bryan and Ernie is still going back and forth with offers. Personnel are really high on this deal and feel raptors can easily make it to the eastern conference finals if this trade does go through. Guys, get ready for a busy forum from now til deadline, I was told that there is a 75% chance BC makes a deal between now and deadline. There are many offers that BC does have on the table that I will try and find out and share with you guys. Take care guys!!
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's union membership held steady at 11.3 percent last year, but losses among state and government workers suggest an ominous trend for the future of organized labor.
In a turnabout, there are now slightly more union members working for private firms than in government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That reverses a five-year trend.
Although the rate of membership among all workers didn't budge, the overall number of union members grew slightly, rising about 162,000 to nearly 14.5 million.
Unions added about 282,000 new members in the private sector as the economy improved. But that was partly offset by the loss of 118,000 members in the public sector, as state and local governments and public school districts continued to face financial pressure from shrinking budgets.
For decades, the growth of union workers in government has helped compensate for steep losses in manufacturing, construction and other private industries where unions once thrived. The public sector union membership rate of 35 percent remains more than five times higher than that of private sector workers, at 6.7 percent.
But budget pressures have meant layoffs and hiring freezes for many state and local governments. Public unions have also been on the defensive in Wisconsin, Michigan and other states where Republican governors have pushed measures to limit union bargaining rights.
Public sector unions saw their biggest membership losses last year among workers in social assistance programs, administrative and support services, public school teachers and state university employees, according to BLS data.
In Wisconsin, union membership in the public sector fell from 53.4 percent in 2011 to just 37.6 percent in 2013.
"This suggests that the erosion of public sector union coverage reflects the new anti-collective bargaining policies implemented in several states," said Lawrence Mishel, president of the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The overall rate of union membership has been steadily declining for decades. The share of workers belonging to unions peaked in the 1950s at about 30 percent, and dropped to about 20 percent by 1983.
The modest increase in union ranks last year follows a steep decline in 2012 that saw the union membership rate sink to its lowest level since the 1930s. The increased unionization among private firms took place largely in construction, health care and the auto industry, as the economy rebounded to create about 2.2 million new jobs.
"It could be that we've hit bottom and things are going to turn around," said John Schmitt, a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington. "The other possibility is that it's just a blip and we'll get back to a slow steady decline in private sector unionization."
Among full-time wage and salary workers, union members in 2013 earned a median salary of $950 a week, compared to $750 for nonunion workers.
New York continued to have the highest union membership rate at 24.4 percent, while North Carolina had the lowest rate at 3 percent.
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All about pink wine
Pink wine varieties
These wines come in varieties ideal for holidays, special occasions or when enjoying a casual afternoon with family or friends. They offer flavors and aromas that appeal to the senses. Still or sparkling blushes, rosé wines and white zinfandel wines in pink shades that span from cantaloupe to almost purple liven things up without taking center stage. Their sweet, citrus essence sits well on the palate when the wine is enjoyed by itself or with brunch or during holiday feasts. If you're looking for a bottle of bubbly for a special occasion, sparkling rosé is an ideal option with its well-loved pink hue and fizz.
The making of these wines
Most of these varieties use the juices extracted from both red and green grapes, while some use only reds. Winemakers achieve the pink hue by soaking the skins of red grapes in the juices to bleed the skin's color until the juices reach the desired shade. After removing skins, the extracts then ferment to create wine. These wines taste similar to a light red with bright, crisp notes. The fruit-forward beverages have notes of floral, citrus, melon or red fruits kissing the palate.
Famed varieties
The pink hue has made these wines hugely popular, with pink moscato wine being a revered variety. The combination of muscat grapes and a dash of merlot emits a light, refreshing essence with fruity notes of peach and nectarine. White zinfandel, a sweet blush-toned wine, is well-liked in the United States with its subtle fruit flavors featuring hints of strawberry and melon.
Food and wine pairings
The crisp, fruity flavors of these light-colored wines pair well with desserts and savory dishes. Serve with appetizers or a main course flavored with herbs and citrus dressings like lemon and rosemary chicken, spicy steak or glazed ham. They mesh with desserts like gelato and fresh fruit tarts. When planning a menu that includes one of these wines, opt for foods with citrusy flavors and salty cheeses.
Whether you're enjoying special occasions or summer picnics, these wines are a refreshingly delicious choice. Grab a bottle from Drizly in your city or find liquor stores near you.