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Iran 'Not Interested' in Nuke Enrichment if Given Reactor Fuel
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'Iran May Halt 20% Enrichment'
Press TV | Sept 25
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran will consider halting uranium enrichment to the level of 20 percent when it is assured the Tehran research reactor has the nuclear fuel supply it needs.
Ahmadinejad made the remarks during a press conference in New York on Friday.
"We were not interested to enrich to 20 percent. They [the US and its allies] politicized the issue. We were forced to do it to support the patients," he said.
But he added, "We will consider halting [20 percent] uranium enrichment whenever nuclear fuel is provided to us."
He went on to say that Iran would still allow UN inspectors to oversee its nuclear activities, but called on them to conduct their inspections within the framework of IAEA rules and regulations.
Ahmadinejad also stated that Tehran is open to talks over its nuclear energy program, adding that an Iranian envoy will meet with representatives from the P5+1 group -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany -- in October for preparatory talks.
"We are ready for talks. The doors are open for talks, within the framework of justice and respect," he added.
See also: "Iran Likely to Stop N. Enrichment If Supplied with Fuel" (Tabnak)
Obama Reaches Out to Iran with Multiple Messages
Washington Post | Sept 24
Nearly two years after President Obama took office, the broad outlines of his Iran policy are clear: accumulate leverage, keep your options open, and prepare for the worst.
The strategy was illustrated Friday when the president took to the airwaves of Iran, granting a lengthy interview to the BBC Persian service in which he balanced sometimes dissonant themes: praise for the Iranian people; a willingness to seek a diplomatic solution to the impasse over the government's nuclear ambitions; condemnation of the Iranian president; and rhetorical support for the opposition movement that seeks to topple the leadership with whom Obama needs to make a deal.
Freed U.S. Hiker Meets with President of Iran
MSNBC | Sept 24
Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested last year while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border, said Friday she met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to advocate for the releases of her fiance, Shane Bauer, and their friend Josh Fattal, who remain jailed.
The 32-year-old hiker, freed 10 days ago after spending more than 13 months in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, called the meeting "a very positive step in the right direction."
Shourd and her mother met with Ahmadinejad while he was in New York to attend to the United Nations General Assembly.
Ahmadinejad has told the AP that he hopes Bauer and Fattal would be able to provide evidence that "they had no ill intention in crossing the border" so that they can be released. Iran has issued espionage-related indictments against the three of them, which could bring trials for the two men and proceedings in absentia for Shourd, although she says she hasn't ruled out returning to face trial.
Ahmadinejad's Pet Deputy Dares to Show Himself among Iranian Protesters in NY
Planet Iran | Sept 25
This week, thousands of Iranians showed up in New York, from around the U.S. and indeed the world to protest Ahmadinejad's appearance at the General Assembly this week.
As usual however, the international media totally missed this specific story, though Voice of America (VOA) Persian section produced this exceptional report.
[In the accompanying video] you see Iranian activists cornering Ahmadinejad's pet deputy Esfandiar Rahim-Mashei [...] one of the most controversial and reviled characters inside the Iranian regime, [who] dares to show up among Iranian protesters.
The human rights activists question him, demanding explanations regarding the various issues for which the Iranian regime must be held accountable. The following is a translation of that conversation:
The lady in the black shirt says: "Inside Iran all of our most esteemed journalists are being tortured..."
Rahim-Mashaei brazenly responds: "VOA...what does it mean?"
The voiceover then says: "The Voice of America's reporters however were attacked by him."
Then you see him covering the VOA camera lens.
Then the woman in the lavender colored shirt asks him: "What do you have to say for yourself about the case of Sakineh Mohmmadi-Ashtiani? Mr. Ahmadinejad claims that the sentencing was not even passed on her case."
Rahim-Mashei snickering: "It was not at all passed!"
Woman in lavender shirt: "The judiciary passed the sentence! Then what is the judiciary saying that for now, the sentence is voided."
Rahim-Mashei: "Who says? Voided? The case has not even been processed!"
Forced Media Blackout For Prisoner Families
ICHRI | Sept 24
Following the summons of journalist and human rights activist Abdolreza Tajik's sister, an informed source close to the Tajik family told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, "The sister of this prisoner is being forced to stop talking to the media for a while in order to avoid getting arrested herself. She needs to be able to pursue her brother's case."
Parvin Tajik, who is now free on bail, was summoned to investigation Branch 5 of Evin prison on Saturday. The reason for the summons was stated as, "providing some explanations about Reza Tajik's case." But at the interrogation session, Tajik was accused of publishing lies, congregation and collusion and propaganda against the state. She has not accepted any of these accusations. At the end of the session a bail order was issued and she was released.
"Ms. Tajik has been placed under pressure to not speak any more. Apparently these charges were raised against her because she publicized her brother's mistreatment to websites and news agencies. But is it possible for the family of a prisoner to seek justice for their loved one and not to defend him? However, she is forced to remain silent for a few days because Tajik only has his sister to deal with his affairs," said the informed source.
Family of Jailed Iranian Dissident Cleric Appeals to UN Chief
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Sept 23
The family of dissident Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi has written to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking him to address human rights violations in Iran at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly that opens today, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.
A supporter of the separation of religion from the state, Boroujerdi was arrested in October 2006 on charges including "enmity with God" and "spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic." He has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The letter says that due to physical and mental torture, Boroujerdi has developed a heart condition, kidney disease, and respiratory problems; he has also lost 80 percent of his vision as a result of a torn retina.
"The judicial authorities have not only deprived him of medical treatment but also refused to give us his medical records solely because he still perseveres in his beliefs and continues his activities in prison," his family says in the letter.
Culture Ministry Bans Farhadi Film over His Latest Remarks
Tabnak | Sept 25
Deputy Culture Minister for Cinematic Affairs Javad Shamaqdari has said that Asghar Farhadi's latest remarks forced them to revoke the production license for his film "Separation of Nader and Simin."
"His remarks were not amusing," Mehrnews quoted him as telling the Persian service of ISNA on Saturday.
"He was given a one-week opportunity to retract his remarks, but he refused to do so and consequently, the decision was made about his film," Shamaqdari said.
During the award presentation ceremony at the 14th Iran Cinema Celebration on September 16, Farhadi had criticized Iranian cultural policy for isolating a number of prominent cineastes, including film director Bahram Beizaii and Amir Naderi, and actress Golshifteh Farahani.
Iran's Nuclear Agency Trying to Stop Computer Worm Capable of Seizing Control of Power Plants
AP (via L.A. Times) | Sept 25
Iran's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites throughout the country and is capable of taking over power plants, Iranian media reports said.
Experts from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran met this week to discuss how to remove the malicious computer code, or worm, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Friday.
The computer worm, dubbed Stuxnet, can take over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants. Experts in Germany discovered the worm in July, and it has since shown up in a number of attacks -- primarily in Iran, Indonesia, India and the U.S.
The ISNA report said the malware had spread throughout Iran, but did not name specific sites affected. Foreign media reports have speculated the worm was aimed at disrupting Iran's first nuclear power plant, which is to go online in October in the southern port city of Bushehr.
See also: "Iran Successfully Battling Cyber Attack" (Tabnak)
Iranian Nuclear Plants Likely Target of Foiled Cyber Sabotage
Guardian | Sept 25
Iran was the likely target of a sophisticated computer worm designed to sabotage factories and infrastructure which was almost certainly the work of a national government agency, security experts told the Guardian yesterday.
According to the security company Symantec, 60% of the computers infected by the Stuxnet computer worm are in Iran, which is where the malicious software, known as malware, was discovered by a Belarussian computer security company.
Stuxnet has been described as one the "most refined pieces of malware ever discovered". What makes it even more unusual is that it is aimed, not at financial gain, but at sabotaging computer-controlled infrastructure including nuclear plants.
There was speculation among experts yesterday [...] that Israeli hackers were behind the sophisticated operation. But security analysts said it may be impossible to identify the perpetrators.
Iran Accuses UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief of Partiality
AFP | Sept 25
Iran's nuclear programme chief Ali Akbar Salehi has accused the head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency of partiality, in an interview in the German weekly Der Spiegel.
"Mr (Yukiya) Amano should be careful to not lose his legitimacy due to his partiality in favour of a certain politics," said Salehi in the edition of Spiegel to appear Monday.
"We will not accept this tone," he said, describing his comments as a "friendly but serious warning" that Iran would not let itself be instrumentalised.
Salehi also speculated over whether the IAEA chief was looking for a pretext against Iran to launch an attack, and reminded that his predecessor, Mohamed ElBaradei, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his "neutral" attitude.
"Does Mr Amano want to associate his name with a war? Does Mr Amano want a catastrophe?" he asked.
Russia Pushing Back on Tougher Sanctions against Iran
Los Angeles Times | Sept 24
Even as the White House praised Russia for declining to sell antiaircraft missiles to Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions, Russian diplomats were quietly recruiting other countries this week to undercut tougher penalties imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Russia supported weak United Nations sanctions approved in June to pressure Iran over its nuclear program. But it has strongly objected to tougher sanctions added individually by the United States, the European Union and four other countries. It fears those sanctions may end up hurting Russian companies that do business in Iran.
It is unclear whether Russia's effort at the U.N. this week to rally major developing countries will bear fruit. But Moscow's pushback sends a troubling signal about the prospects for more rigorous efforts to force Iran to bend. And it raises questions about whether the Obama administration has much to show for its highly publicized effort to "reset" relations with the Kremlin.
'Dragging Out to the Utmost Is Traditional with Iranian Diplomats' -- Russian FM
RT | Sept 25
Iran will challenge the demands of the UN Security Council for as long as possible - despite realizing the need to restart talks over its nuclear programme, says Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"Even though the Iranians realise very well the need to restart talks over its nuclear programme, they will challenge the demands of the UN Security Council for as long as possible. Iran is an ancient country with centuries of history. Iranian diplomats are very intelligent people. It turns out that Iranian diplomats are liable to be holding very drawn-out talks, haggling to the bitter end and forcing partners to work to their maximum, maybe to be utterly impossible, in order to learn how a partner will be ready to react. Of course, we face further problems in the context of Iran's nuclear dossier. In this aspect, the Iranian partners could be more constructive and could react to the IAEA claims more co-operatively and must comply with all that we agree on," Sergey Lavrov said.
MP Says Downplay of Imam Khomeini's Statement on Majlis Intolerable
Tabnak | Sept 25
Senior lawmaker Shahabeddin Sadr has joined other Majlis deputies in defending the superior role of [the] Majlis as insisted [on] by Imam Khomeini, saying the Majlis will not remain silent toward any move in downplaying [the] statement by Imam Khomeini that [the] "Majlis is above all affairs."
In an interview with Iran newspaper, President Ahmadinejad said earlier this month that certain people cite Imam Khomeini's statement on the importance of the Majlis, but at that time the president was not entirely in charge [and] the prime minister was mostly responsible for running the country.
Ahmadinejad has also claimed that the executive power is the most important branch of government.
"I do not agree with what President Ahmadinejad said on the role of the Majlis and the administration," Mehrnews quoted Majlis Deputy Speaker Sadr as saying.
Ahmadinejad Urges Unity in Lebanon
Press TV | Sept 25
The presidents of Iran and Lebanon urge Lebanese groups to unite in face of Israeli conspiracies, highlighting the importance of security and stability in Lebanon.
"The enemies have no choice but to surrender and back down in the face of Lebanese groups' resistance," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman in New York late Friday.
President Ahmadinejad lauded the resistance of Lebanese groups against the Israeli, IRNA reported.
The Iranian president underlined that the Lebanese Army's stiff resistance against Israel has "upset many equations" to the benefit of Lebanese resistance groups and regional nations.
He said Israel seeks to sow discord among Lebanese and Palestinian groups.
The Lebanese groups will indubitably bring about Israel's defeat by remaining united, President Ahmadinejad said.
Deadline for Relocation of Offices outside Tehran Extended
Tabnak | Sept 25
The deadline set for relocation of administrative offices outside Tehran has been extended till the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2011), Vice President Lotfollah Forouzandeh has announced.
The administration hopes to implement the plan by the end of the Iranian year, Forouzandeh told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday.
Last week, Forouzandeh announced that 8,100 employees have been transferred to provincial offices.
According to reports, despite the fact that the administration had announced that by August 22 all executive administrative offices have to relocate at least 40 percent of their personnel outside Tehran, until that date only 1,000 employees had left the capital.
According to the directive ratified by the cabinet 200,000 employees should have left Tehran by the set deadline.
The administration has also banned establishing any new organizations or posts in the metropolis of Tehran.
India's Iran Calculus
Raja Karthikeya (Middle East Channel/Foreign Policy) | Sept 24
Is India an adversary or ally of the West in opposing Iran's nuclear ambitions? As one of the countries that has consistently voted against Iran at the IAEA -- yet has been loathe to abandon business with the country -- India has been viewed with both confusion and consternation in the West. Recent commentary in the international media suggests that India is reluctantly adhering to the sanctions regime against Iran because it needs the attention of the West to fulfill its major power ambitions, and that given a chance, India would trade with Iran without hesitation in a bid to protect its energy interests and to get its support on Afghanistan. These statements are often used synonymously with India's engagement with other pariah states like Myanmar and Sudan. But such commentary oversimplifies India's Iran policy, which cannot be defined in the binary "Are you with us or against us?" terms that have characterized debates on Iran in the West.
India sees Iran as being part of its "proximate neighborhood." When talking about Iran, Indian diplomats often talk about "traditional relations" -- though this is a confusing notion given that the two countries haven't had much agreement in recent history: the Shah's pro-West orientation during the Cold War was anathema to India's non-aligned views on foreign policy; whereas after the Islamic revolution, Iran's votes on the Kashmir issue at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) were often cited as a stumbling block for closer engagement.
In certain ways, the notion of 'traditional relations' between the two countries is apparent. India has the second largest Shia population in the world after Iran and some Indian Shias have familial relations with Iran (and unlike in places including Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Pakistan, where Iran has played patron to Shia revivalist and militant movements, it has refrained from such meddling in India).
How to Stop Iran
Interview with Mark Fitzpatrick, Director of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, by Shaun Jacob Halper (Huffington Post) | Sept 24
What is the nature of the Iranian threat?
Some analysts don't like to use the word "threat" until capabilities actually materialize into the form of a weapon that is deliverable. Today Iran does not have a deliverable nuclear weapon, so one might be more accurate to talk about Iranian capabilities, which are quite worrisome.
What are Iran's nuclear capabilities?
There is no doubt that Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon's capability, and I think this is beyond reproach except from somebody who is ready to believe anything Iran says. Just based on the economic logic of their program, the military ties, the evidence of nuclear weapons development work, the lying, the hidden nature of it and so forth--everything points to a desire to be able to build nuclear weapons should they make the decision. I don't know that anyone can say that they have made a decision. I don't know that they've decided themselves whether to produce nuclear weapons, but they want to be close enough so that if when they make a decision, they can do it. And that's the threat.
The deliverability part of it is exacerbated by Iran's simultaneous pursuit of ballistic missiles that are capable of carrying a nuclear weapon if Iran can make it small enough. The development of Iran's program points toward being able to deliver a first generation 1 ton sized nuclear weapon at a distance that could easily hit Israel. They do not have a missile that today could deliver a nuclear weapon to Europe--and why would they it wouldn't make any sense. But certainly they would like to have what to their minds would be a deterrent capability vis-à-vis Israel; it would also be potentially useful to them to be able to threaten Gulf states.
What Iran possesses today and what they are developing seems to me clearly to be directed at Israel and other countries in their near neighborhood within 2200km. The Sejil is their most worrisome ballistic missile, it has a reach of 2000+--say 2200-2600km--that puts Israel squarely on the target by means of a missile that is deployed far enough back from Iran's borders that it wouldn't be susceptible to preemption.
Arming the Mideast
Peter Goodspeed (National Post) | Sept 25
While the rest of the world struggles to find a sanctions formula capable of curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions, its neighbours in the Middle East are rushing to arm themselves for a possible war.
This week, as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, staged his annual visit to the United Nations [...] Arab states were putting the final touches to the largest peace-time rearmament program in history, with orders for US$123-billion-worth of weapons.
In the largest order, Saudi Arabia plans to spend US$67.8-billion. The first phase of the Saudi deal -- US$30-billion -- is scheduled to go before the U.S. Congress for approval next month.
That sale will cover 85 new F-15 fighters and upgrades to 70 other planes, as well as 70 Apache helicopters, 72 Black Hawks, 36 Little Bird helicopters, HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) missiles, precision-guided bombs and Hellfire air-to-surface missiles.
Riyadh is expected to follow up with a second arms package: US$24-billion to US$27-billion for naval vessels and missile defence systems.
"Concern about a nuclear Iran is at an all-time high," said Michael Knights, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"The new [Saudi] deal appears to reflect a Saudi perception that it must better equip itself to cope with the potential threat from Iran."
Obama Interview with BBC Persian TV
Complete Transcript of Interview with Bakman Kalbassi (BBC) | Sept 24
If I could just begin with getting your reaction to the remarks Mr Ahmadinejad made yesterday, faulting America for 9/11.
Well, it was offensive. It was hateful. And particularly for him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of Ground Zero. Where families lost their loved ones. People of all faiths, all ethnicities who, you know, see this as the seminal tragedy of this generation.
For him to make a statement like that was inexcusable. And it stands in contrast with the response of the Iranian people when 9/11 happened.
When there were candlelit vigils and I think a natural sense of shared humanity and sympathy was expressed within Iran.
And it just shows once again sort of the the difference between how the Iranian leadership and this regime operates and how I think the vast majority of the Iranian people who are respectful and thoughtful think about these issues.
When your first video message that you sent in March 2009, you spoke to the government of Iran and people of Iran. And you talked about how you were committed to diplomacy. And you also said that this process of talking about all the issues on the table will only succeed if there are no threats. And with threats this will not go forward.
Yet, your administration in much of this year, not only threatened Iran with sanctions, but finally enacted sanctions that have been described as crippling. What do you say to those who see this as a departure from that promise of no threats and only diplomacy?
I think we have to be -- we have to look at what we've done this year and it's very consistent.
What I've said consistently is that we are willing to reach out with an open hand to the Iranian government and the Iranian people. Because we believe that there's nothing inevitable that means, that should cause Iran and the United States to be enemies.
There's a history there that is difficult. But it can be bridged with mutual understanding, mutual respect, and we want to see the people of Iran ultimately succeed.
But the government has taken Iran on a path that has led to international condemnation. Now, I think it's very important to understand that the sanctions that arose this year had to do with the fact that alone among signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has not been able to convince the international community that its nuclear program is peaceful.
Background on Obama's BBC Persian Interview
Complete Transcript of Briefing by a Senior Administration Official (Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State) | Sept 24
Let me just start by saying that, as I said yesterday, the President is always interested in ways in which he can speak directly to the people of Iran. That's something, of course, that we did, for instance, early in the administration through a Nowruz message. And this interview was an opportunity for him to do that as well and to continue to underscore to the Iranian people that it is their government that has made a series of choices that has led to significant sanctions and accountability measures.
The Iranian people have the opportunity of a better future. Were their government to make a different series of choices, they could have greater prosperity, greater integration with the international community.
So that's our fundamental case from the beginning of this administration, frankly, and going forward, that there's a choice before the Iranian government. The costs associated with continuing to -- failure to live up to its obligations are growing. And those costs, frankly, have exceeded even what I think the Iranian government thought they would be. And you've seen not just the very real consequences of the sanctions -- including private companies pulling out of Iran, people seeing the cost of doing business in Iran, the international isolation of Iran -- but you've also seen statements from prominent Iranian leaders expressing concern about the sanctions. And that suggests a level of internal debate within the government about whether or not this was handled well on their end.


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I was cleared to run just in time for my July race, Silks & Satins 5K which benefits the Special Olympics. I didn't run during the week and my neck was still tight so I did not race the 5K. I want to make it back to 100% before I try anything silly like that.
Early Saturday morning I headed to Saratoga Springs, where track season started the day before. I got there early enough to watch some of the horses warming up:
Right after the first water break I came across one of my favorite people to run into at Fleet Feet, Patty. She is a sweetheart and this was her first race in a long time (due to injury). When I mentored new runners through No Boundaries she was always there as the Fleet Feet rep. I ran with her and she was doing great! I was happy to be going slower so that I could talk when she needed some encouragement and to listen when she wanted to talk. She pushed it at the end and was happy to have the race done. It was fun to run with someone new! When we finished I found out that she used to be a sub 25 min 5ker! Wow!
Garmin (started watch at start line): 3.13 mi / 30:17 / 9:41 ave
Official (no starting mat): 5k / 30:38 / 9:52
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The 49ers have allowed six passing touchdowns in six games this season, yet none of those scoring plays went for 20-plus yards.
Moreover, San Francisco is the only team in the NFL to not surrender a 20-plus yard touchdown pass this season. Only three of such passes have been completed against the 49ers all year, the third-fewest in the league.
Deep passing plays come into focus this Thursday night when the 49ers face a Seattle Seahawks team led by rookie quarterback Russell Wilson, a nimble quarterback who's shown a knack for extending plays with his legs and then finishing them with deep vertical passes.
Just ask the New England Patriots. The defending AFC champions were defeated 24-23 last week in Seattle at the hands of Wilson's Seahawks. The rookie signal-caller completed two of his three touchdown passes with less than eight minutes remaining in the game, including a 46-yard, game-winning touchdown pass to Sidney Rice with 1:18 left in the fourth quarter.
Wilson also tossed three passes against the Patriots that traveled 46 yards or more.
In doing so, the third-round draft pick out of Wisconsin has impressed coaches and players league-wide with his play-making ability.
"Been very impressed with him," 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said this week. "He's obviously very athletic, very fast. He's got 4.52-speed in the 40, which is extremely fast for a quarterback.
"He's elusive. He's a creator when he's moving. When things will break down, you'll see him move all the way around, go anywhere on the field. And he's got a strong arm. He throws the deep ball extremely well, as you guys saw last week against New England."
Wilson threw for a career-high 293 yards against the Patriots and posted a career-best 133.7 passer rating. The breakout performance further underscores how much Wilson has meant to Seattle's first-place status through six weeks.
In four wins this season, Wilson has a 107.6 rating with seven touchdown passes and two interceptions. In two losses, however, Wilson has a 51.0 rating with one touchdown and four interceptions.
"He's been playing great for those guys," 49ers All-Pro linebacker
"He certainly poses a threat with his scramble ability. We've got to keep him in the pocket and not let him get loose."
Wilson's recent emergence (85.6 quarterback rating and 62.5 completion percentage, ranked No. 17 and No. 16, respectively in the NFL) lends itself to an emerging trend of strong quarterback play throughout the NFL this season.
Through six weeks of action, quarterbacks league-wide have averaged an 86.3 quarterback rating and a completion percentage of 61.9. Both figures are on pace to be highest of any season in NFL history. Both statistics would surpass league records set in 2011 (84.3 passer rating) and 2007 (61.2 completion percentage).
The 49ers have never lost back-to-back games under Jim Harbaugh. Following four regular season defeats, Harbaugh's team has allowed a combined 11 points.
In order for San Francisco to keep the trend intact Thursday night, the defense will have to limit Wilson's production.
"He keeps plays alive," said 49ers cornerback
Culliver believes the 49ers pass defense has improved in the unit's second season under Fangio. San Francisco has allowed the fourth-fewest passing yards this season (1,099 yards) and the second-fewest yards per game (183.0).
In comparison to 2011, the unit's first season playing under Fangio, San Francisco finished the regular season ranked No. 16 in both passing yards allowed and passing yards allowed per game.
"We just have to put everything together," Culliver said. "We're hard to stop if we can get everything together, but it's better than last year."
Culliver hopes he's able to record an interception against Wilson unlike his last outing against the Seahawks quarterback.
"When he played for N.C. State," Culliver recalled, "he almost threw me a pick, but I dropped it. Well, he threw me a pick, I dropped it."
Despite the bitter memory, Culliver respects Seattle's 5-foot-11 quarterback's rise to the starting lineup.
"Always respect a guy for that," Culliver said. "He's a good quarterback, same way as he was in college, mobile, run around, try to get of pressure, try to get away for defensive ends. He sets them up real good."
If the 49ers are able to disrupt Wilson's production and win on Thursday it would give San Francisco a four-game winning streak over its rivals from the Pacific Northwest. It would also mark the franchise's longest current winning streak against a division opponent.
Fortunately for the 49ers, opponents have a 35.4 quarterback rating on passes over 21 yards this season, second-lowest in the league.
If Wilson takes the easy money and looks to complete check-down passes, the 49ers have to be prepared to tackle all of Seattle's play-makers.
Even Wilson if the quarterback decides to scramble.
"I think he's a pretty confident and poised guy," Fangio said of Wilson. "He handles the situations good. I think he handles if he's ever involved in a bad play, he comes right back. He had great experiences in college playing in two different places, playing in front of big crowds. He's got that, like you said, it's hard to measure or quantify it, but he's got the intangibles."
Fangio doesn't see Wilson's size being an issue either. San Francisco's defensive coordinator said he hasn't seen any more of Wilson's passes being batted at the line of scrimmage than anybody else in the NFL.
"I've been impressed with him," Fangio said. "I think he'll be their quarterback for a long time and credit to them for seeing through his height and picking him."
Now, it's a matter of if, and how many times, the 49ers are able to pick Wilson on Thursday night.


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This is a node.js module for fetching info from VR's Junat kartalla-service.
You can fetch info from different stations and trains.
Documentation of the API is available here:
npm install vr
Useful information
Stations are named by codes. The list of the train stations with their code is available at:
Also, the service also gives you information about whetever train is canceled or why it is delayed with code names.
The list of them is available at Finnish Transport Agency's site:
How to use
There's three methods in this module.
Gives you station's departing and arriving trains. You need to use code name of the station. For example, Lahti is LH.
var vr = require('vr'); vr.getStationInfo('LH', function (info) { console.log(info); });
Gives you all trains that are on the tracks at the moment.
var vr = require('vr'); vr.getTrains(function (trains) { console.log(trains); });
Gives information about the stations that the train with given guid goes by. Also gives latitude/longitude, speed and direction of train. (Use guid from getStationInfo/getTrains in this.)
var vr = require('vr'); vr.getTrain('S79', function (train) { console.log(train); });


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Former Silsbee quarterback Jeremy Johnson will join the Lamar University football team for the 2011 season, the university announced today.
Johnson, a 2010 Silsbee graduate, began last season at West Virginia but left the school in midseason.
Recruiting website Rivals.com considered Johnson the nation's No. 9-rated dual-threat quarterback in the country, and his addition at Lamar could give coach Ray Woodard the game-breaking offensive player his team needed last season.
Johnson led Silsbee to a District 21-3A championship his senior season, when he accounted for 32 touchdowns running and throwing. Johnson threw for 1,957 yards with 17 touchdowns and 12 interceptions and ran for 691 yards with 15 touchdowns.
Johnson ended his senior with scholarship offers from 11 major college football programs but picked West Virginia because it promised him a chance to play quarterback. Johnson did not play this season and left the team in midseason because of homesickness.
Johnson is thought to have many college options but is somewhat limited now by NCAA rules. Johnson would have to sit out another season if he transferred to a Football Bowl Subdivision school. Only at a school in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) or below could Johnson play in 2011.
Lamar is in the FCS.
Although listed as a quarterback, there is no guarantee Johnson will immediately play the position at Lamar. Woodard and offensive coordinator Todd Whitten will likely figure the best way to give Johnson to make plays on offense.
Woodard commonly recruits quarterbacks and moves them to other positions. He likes quarterbacks because he figures them to be the most athletic players and best leaders.
Former high school quarterbacks now at other positions include starting wide receiver Marcus Jackson and defensive backs Chad Allen and Payton Ploch. West Orange-Stark product Andre Bevil started Lamar's first eight games at quarterback and moved to slot receiver for the last three games.


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Skip to comments.Islamists Harsh Justice Is on the Rise in North Mali
Posted on 12/28/2012 8:13:01 AM PST by knighthawk
BAMAKO, Mali Moctar Touré was strapped to a chair, blindfolded, his right hand bound tight to the armrest with a rubber tube. A doctor came and administered a shot. Then Mr. Tourés own brother wielded a knife, the kind used to slaughter sheep, and methodically carried out the sentence.
I myself cut off my brothers hand, said Aliou Touré, a police chief in the Islamist-held north of this divided nation. We had no choice but to practice the justice of God.
Such amputations are designed to shock residents are often summoned to watch and even as the world makes plans to recapture northern Mali by force, the Islamists who control it show no qualms about carrying them out.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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In the Muslims world.
"That's Entertainment".
It's what they enjoy watching and doing.
Stop this BS baput a peaceful religion and torture. To Islam Torture is entertainment.
Coming soon to a country near you, while we sit and call it a religins instead of the Satanic Cult it is.
Growing by eaps and bounds every day. The only moderate Islamic is one who is trying to fool you into thinking he/ she is moderate.
Stinking muslim scum killing and disabling stinking muslim scum; who cares?
The article used the term "Islamist" without all the usual mealy mouthing meant to equate their practices with all other religions. Interesting.
Someone must be asleep (or out for the holidays) at the NY Times editorial desk.
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Editing a Non-Person account's attributes
Using Western Identity Manager either owner of the Non-Person Account may edit the attributes. There are 2 attributes that can be modified on a Non-Person account:
- Description - This allows you to store a description of the account. This may be populated upon creation with the reason given during the original request but it can be changed to reflect any pertinent information.
- Display Name - This allows you to set the display name of the account. The display name field is visible in many applications, such as email clients and Windows domain log in sessions.
The steps for both are described below.
- Log in to Western Identity Manager.
- Find the account(s) you would like to manage the passwords for, using either List Accounts or Search Accounts from the Non-Person Accounts tab. More information on finding accounts.
- Place a check mark beside each other accounts you would like to manage attributes for, and select Edit.
- Place a check mark beside the attribute you would like to change (you may do both attributes at the same time) and enter the new values. Whatever you enter here will be applied to all accounted selected on the previous page. When done, click Submit.
- A results page will display each User ID and updated values.
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Review: A powerful 'Testament' of the Great War
Published 6:09 pm, Thursday, July 9, 2015
World War I remains the disaster the world has never completely digested, because, like the Wicked Witch of the East, it was followed by something even worse. But for Great Britain and France, its death toll was yet greater than that of World War II, involving the decimation of a generation of young men.
"Testament of Youth" dramatizes a war memoir that's not from the usual angle. Based on the book of the same name by the feminist author Vera Brittain, it tells the story of World War I from the viewpoint of a young, upper-middle-class British woman, who had friends, family and a fiance fighting on the frontlines. Though it had been the ambition of her life to study at Oxford, Brittain left school within months of enrolling to take a job nursing the wounded.
By 1914, the 20th century had yet to show its true colors, but then it did, all at once, with a ferocity that must have astounded people. As "Testament of Youth" begins, Vera (the Swedish actress Alicia Vikander) and her friends have no conception that their lives are about to be upended. In the summer of 1914, they're swimming in the pond, strolling through the countryside and dreading nothing more terrible than the start of school. And then the war erupts, and the men start enlisting.
World War I — or the Great War, as it was known for more than 20 years — marks what will probably stand as the last time anyone could be fooled into thinking of war as a noble and glorious undertaking. The men sign up in a sporting spirit, or at least to avoid ridicule. In the case of Vera's genial younger brother (Taron Egerton), Vera must intervene with her father to allow the boy to go. In her mind, and his, she is doing him a favor.
As Vera, Alicia Vikander is virtually in every scene, the eyes, ears and conscience of the film. When we meet her, Vera is already angry, that her father won't pay for her education (but will pay for her brother's), and everything that happens subsequently only confirms in her the sense that men are running the world into the ground.
"Testament of Youth" demands that an actress convey a fierce intelligence, an ever-deepening understanding and a depthless sorrow, lest the story have no impact or meaning. She also must show the openness of youth, a willingness to hope and be happy, because this is not a movie about a scold. Vikander accomplishes all this, often in close-up, for director James Kent's searching camera.
That it's not a fiction but based on a memoir allows for some unexpected scenes, as the truth is often more extreme than the things we imagine. There's a brilliant sequence in which Vera's boyfriend (Kit Harington), a fellow would-be writer, returns home for a few days, after months at the front, and he acts scornful and indifferent toward her. After months of waiting and worried, she is almost crushed, until she has the insight that she represents emotion to him. She understands that he fears opening himself up to all that feeling, and yet he must or else he'll lose himself.
When it was published in 1933, Brittain's "Testament of Youth" was a bestseller. Timing is everything in the book world, and the memoir arrived just as intelligent people were beginning to dread and fear a second world war. To see this film is to understand — not in an intellectual way, but in a direct, visceral way — why the British ignored the threat of Adolf Hitler for so long.
In World War I, a generation learned that war was not the answer. In World War II, another generation learned that pacifism was not the answer. It would seem that there just isn't an answer.
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A 71-year-old woman pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit a capital felony after she asked an undercover detective to kill her daughter-in-law 10 months ago, according to the State Attorney's Office.
Diana Reaves Costarakis avoided trial by pleading guilty Friday and faces sentencing Sept. 22, court records show.
Costarakis asked the detective in October to kill Angela Costarakis for $5,000. She reasoned that her daughter-in-law was a bad mother to her 6-year-old granddaughter and would take the child with her after she divorced her son, according to prosecutors.
Costarakis gave her daughter-in-law's photograph to the detective, along with her address and a description of the vehicle she drove. During undercover meetings, Costarakis gave the detective cash totaling $2,000 and promised him the rest once her daughter-in-law was dead.
She also told him her daughter-in-law wore expensive jewelry and he could take it and sell it once the murder had occurred, according to the State Attorney's Office.
Costarakis faces 15 years in prison.