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More than two million people in the U.S. develop infections every year that are resistant to antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die as a result, according to a new government report that lists and ranks 18 drug resistant bugs in order of urgency. Betsy McKay reports. Photo: AP.
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
The bread basket at Bacan.
From the street Bacan Restaurante is simply gorgeous looking. Ana pointed out to me the other night as we drove by on the way to my favorite B&B. At the corner of Mexicali and Avenida Oaxaca, the place is stunning with it's garden water fountain, Parisian bistro chairs, Euro gas heaters and sharply dressed waiters. It's impressive.
Ana and her mom had been wanting to go and what better time than now?
Printed on the inside of the menu is the definition of Bacan. Dicho de una persona: refinada, de trato amistoso y agradable, muy atractivo y popular, elegante, afecto al lujo y al buen vivir.
And for those of us who are Spanish-challenged, it means a person who is refined, friendly and pleasant treatment, very attractive and popular, stylish, fond of luxury and good living.
In other words: this is place to see and be seen.
And it certainly lives up to its desire. It's obvious that someone spent a lot of money on the buildout because it's gorgeous and everything is well-appointed. This results in a decidedly beautiful crown of Chilangos in nice clothing, driving nice cars and looking like the social elite.
The only problem is that this place is a restaurant and restaurants this nice looking should deliver cuisine that's its equal.
But before I go further, I do have one gripe to grind. This restaurant opened in October of 2011. This is the age of the mobile device. Who the hell thinks its still okay in 2011 to develop a Flash page making it impossible for an entire population of diners to visit your website.
Please take your web designer out to the country and shoot him.
I want to note that the service was really great. The hostess and servers were all very nice, attentive and responded to our needs. The setting is fantastic, the service is good, now what about the food?
Utilizing our scoring standard for barista competitions where a six is extraordinary, I give Bacan a 3.5 - good plus. Described as contemporary fusion, the menu offers an interesting mix of items that sound promising but are produced by a kitchen that doesn't seem up to the challenge. The technique is there, it's just missing that extra detail to make it shine.
Tacos de Pato, Argentinean Empanada and Tuna Ceviche.
Take for example the Tacos de Pato (duck tacos). The meat is lovely. Perfectly cooked and shredded, the texture is also perfect, just where is the flavor of the meat? Strong notes of orange and sweetness dominate over the perfunctory tortilla. The rolled tacos (think: unfried flauta) are laid on top of sweet caramelized (without the caramel color) onions and fried chopped cebollita stems. Sadly, the sweetness comes through and the rest is just flat.
What really makes this dish a shame is that we're in Mexico City - Ground Zero for amazing Mexican cuisine and an ambitious restaurant such as this produces such a taco? For ten percent of the price of this duck taco, I can get an amazing taco at 101 different places. I mean really, a taco here should be stunning.
Then there was the Tuna Ceviche served with avocado on top of a tostada, a nice idea for fusion appetizer. Here the quality of the tuna was just lovely but it was marred by the liberal use of diced tomato (which made it seem like the kitchen is trying to stretch the quantity of tuna used in the dish) and the lack of acidity that is the hallmark of a ceviche. Here the problem of the duck taco returns with a candy like sweetness dominating everything else - even the creaminess of the avocado.
To add insult to injury, the tostadas weren't even executed well. Uneven and bland, some were thick, one was thin. One was soggy. I must note that the one tostada that was thin and crispy made for an excellent texture juxtaposition with the ceviche, it's just a shame the quality control in the kitchen isn't more stringent to maintain tostada consistency.
Senora Garcia's salad of lettuce, goat cheese, apple slices and walnuts was perfunctory but decent while Ana's Penne Con Chistorra was actually nice tasting with a sparse amount of tasty chistorro sausage slices. This dish too was marred by the slightly overcooked pasta which lacked that toothy resistance one expects from a pricey pasta dish at a fine dining restaurant.
Estofado of Ox Tail in red wine sauce.
When choosing between the oven roasted chicken in white sauce or the oxtail stew, our server noted that the stew was the right choice, I went with that recommendation. The braised oxtails were cooked perfectly and dressed with a lovely stew sauce, paired with a buttery smashed potatoes that gave off notes reminiscent of buttered cauliflower, but here too the kitchen fell short with a perfectly textured meat that lacked the oomph to send it over the top.
As I ate the meat, I wondered just what was missing and added a little salt. That was the ticket - the kitchen lacked the ability to season properly. And for a dish that is two hundred and twenty pesos (a little bit more than the average daily wage in Mexico) you expect something stellar.
And that is the problem with Bacan. The food lacks that final detail that make it soar. You want it to be amazing. You hope that it will be amazing, but the food falls short. And that's a shame.
I mean Bacan has all the things you want in a go-to restaurant. Beautiful setting, a place to be seen and great service. It just lacks that one key: stellar cuisine. And that's the reason that stops you from rushing back to eat there again.
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Space Harrier 3D for Nintendo 3DS has been outed by a Japanese game site. The game reportedly marks the beginning of a big retro push on 3DS from developer Sega. Get more details and screens below.
The game was feature by Japanese site Gamer and it appears to be a port of the original arcade version, rather than the Mega Drive/Genesis build.
Translated by NeoGAF member Hobby, the article states that Space Harrier 3D will launch on the 3DS eShop rather than at retail, will be widescreen, and has yet to be dated. Sega allegedly has plans to use Space Harrier 3D to launch a new wave of retro classics on Nintendo's handheld, following its mild run of Master System releases.
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The latest"100-year" economic crisis to affect the global economy, which lately seems to occur every seven to eight years, is the Euro-Zone debt crisis. The culprit: Too much borrowing and spending during the last decade.
What led to this profligate spending behavior? The adoption of the Euro in 1999 led to a "golden age" for the southern European countries. Governments were able to borrow large amounts of funds at very attractive interest rates.
And the financial markets didn't differentiate, for example, between the debts of frugal Germany and profligate Greece. Recent capitulation in the sovereign Greek debt market was due to Greece fudging its fiscal situation by posting deficits much larger than previously reported.
Adding to the instability: worries that Greece might not be willing or able to honor its debt. Private investors lost confidence and credit flows ebbed.
In 2008, European banks turned to their governments for bailouts; now the governments are asking the banks to return the favor.
Will this latest crisis cast a pall on the nascent U.S. economic recovery? Here's a "top ten" list of possible effects on the U.S. economy of the Euro-Zone debt crisis:
1. The European Union could fall back into recession, dropping incomes in Europe. This would reduce U.S. exports to Europe, slowing U.S. economic growth, and weakening U.S. labor markets.
2. The flightto safety could add a large inflow of European wealth into the U.S.—pushing up the value of the dollar, now at a four-year high against the Euro.
3. Interest rateswill ease further. The recent flight to safety pushed 10-year Treasury interest rates below 3.2%, reducing 30-year mortgage rates and helping sustain a housing market recovery.
4. Low interest ratesmake it less expensive to finance public borrowing by the U.S. Treasury. This gives Congress more time to create bigger problems down the road by not dealing with fiscal reform today.
5. Debt crisesreduce clarity about future global economic activity. This increases uncertainty, reducing investment and economic growth, and worsens the U.S. labor market.
6. Heightened uncertaintycreates a financial market rollercoaster—creating more sellers than buyers, with a corresponding drop in equity prices, wealth, and consumer spending.
7. The Federal Reservewill delay raising the federal-funds interest rate. Any interest-rate increase will increase the dollar's exchanged rate even further, making exports even less competitive.
8. The rising dollar will lower import prices and therefore U.S. inflation, giving the Fed greater latitude on when and how much to increase the fed-funds rate.
9. French and German bankshave large exposure to Greek debt. If Greece defaults, these banks could experience a 50% to 70% write-down of their bonds' values. American financial institutions that lend money to those same European banks are evaluating and curbing their exposure to the European banking system, which will keep more funds in the U.S., lowering U.S. interest rates further.
10. The cumulative economic impactcould be a 0.5 percentage-point reduction in second-half 2010 gross domestic product.
How will this affect credit unions? They'll experience higher loan-delinquency and charge-off rates and lower market interest rates than they would have without the Euro-Zone debt crisis.
Will the U.S. budget parallel the Greek crisis? Comparing the two is a false analogy. The U.S. issues debt in its own currency. The Greeks don't, so they can't inflate their way out of a debt crisis. The dollar is the world's reserve currency, the Euro is not. So the U.S. has more room to run a deficit longer than any other country. The U.S. net public debt is 70% of the economy, versus 115% for Greece.
The U.S. Treasury bond market is the largest and most liquid in the world. When things get dicey, people flock to dollar-denominated investments, not so much the Greek sovereign debt market.
Finally, U.S. demographics are more favorable because Europe is aging faster. This will spawn faster economic growth in the U.S. than in Europe.
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Residents of a modest Tijuana neighborhood are as much to blame as the out-of-control tractor-trailer trucks that have repeatedly damaged or destroyed homes, wrecked cars, and claimed at least one life during the past two years, according to the city's director of urban development.
The Camino Verde neighborhood, not far from Tijuana's massive 5 y 10 intersection, is situated precariously close to a major downhill thoroughfare used daily by hundreds of tractor-trailer trucks.
Because of the steep hill as Boulevard Salvador Rosas Magallón approaches 5 y 10, authorities long ago installed a series of sand-filled de-acceleration ramps meant to safely stop trucks when their brakes fail.
But, in an interview with El Sol de Tijuana, Esteban Yee Barba, Tijuana's secretary of urban development, said that residents of Camino Verde have been stealing sand from the ramp in their neighborhood for years, leaving little left to stop trucks.
In addition, he said residents have built structures on land originally meant for the truck-stopping ramp. "They have removed almost a third of the distance needed for the ramp to function," Yee told El Sol.
The result has been a series of disasters, most recently on April 26, when a family enjoying the afternoon sun on the patio of their Camino Verde home was struck by a tractor-trailer whose brakes had failed and was unable to stop in time because the de-acceleration ramp did not function properly.
The crash claimed the life of a father, seriously injured his wife, and left their one-year-old daughter less seriously hurt. Their home was declared a total loss, and two other houses nearby suffered substantial damage.
Almost two years ago, at the same ramp, another truck's brakes failed and it rammed into and destroyed another Camino Verde home, as well as crunching ten cars parked along the street.
Yee said city officials were taking steps to try to resolve the problem, but that it will take time. They plan to go to court to get orders to reclaim land originally meant for the ramps that has been taken illegally by residents.
In the meantime, he said, the city plans to erect concrete barriers, install speed bumps on the highway, place more signs warning of the danger, and to look for a less-attractive filler than sand for the ramps to discourage theft.
"The area adjacent to the ramp was once uninhabited land, and I remember that it functioned effectively on more than ten occasions to stop the trucks," Yee told El Sol.
If that crap happened here, heads would roll. So typical of Tijuana government to pass the buck when Tijuana government should've done something about the stolen sand and more importantly, not allowed a structure to be built. Here, if you even dream of constructing something, city inspectors show up almost magically. Within minutes, sometime. People died, who's gonna be held accountable? Wouldn't suprise me if the truck driver is in jail a la scapegoat. Andenle muchachos, ya basta con estupideses!
Put your seatbelt on. Not only is the government it's own worst enemy but, the PRI is back in power and it is back to business as usual! Case in point, the new rules Pena-Nieto recently released in regards to the drug war. One liason for all of our assets to contact. Thats not only stupid, its counter productive and the chances that this person won't be corrupt are nil! Time to go north amigos, there is no intelligent life here, only greed and corruption.


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Know the difference between the FBI and a terrorist organization? Me either...
Nothing an idiot with a badge does surprises me any more. TSA has set the bar so low that it's hard to believe that any of the other badged buffoons could beat them.
I would call Dodd a whore but I have a lot more respect for whores. He is really a pathetic excuse for a human being. Shove some money in his bank account, load him up with the bullsh*t he is being paid to spew and point him towards the camera.
He can sue all he wants. Doesn't change the fact he is a cowardly dog killer.
Is this your idea of intelligent conversation? You need to get back on your medication.
Why are you here? I fail to see why you remain here if Mike's "drivel" is so hard for you to stand. Go away!!
You obviously hang out with a better class of judges than I do. I will concede it was uncalled for to accuse the judge of such things, for which I apologize, but I stand by my opinion of Monsanto.
Bought,paid for and owned completely. If Monsanto were in the recording business then even the RIAA would be ashamed of them.
I'm just curious..are you always an asshole or do you just become one for our amusement? Since you obviously have a problem with this forum and it's moderator why don't start your own? You can then be an asshole to your hearts content and not bother the adults...
Pretty sad that the best you could come up with was name calling.
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Can't Stop Eating M&Ms?New study of rats' brains could hold a key to understanding overeating and obesity.
THURSDAY, Sept. 20, 2012 (HealthDay News) — Scientists served M&Ms to rats in an experiment that showed the brain can't resist sweet and fatty foods.
The University of Michigan researchers said the urge to overeat tasty treats comes from an unexpected area of the brain called the neostriatum, which produces an opium-like chemical that enhances such desire and may be partly responsible for overeating among people.
"Previously, people thought this area of the brain was only involved in motor function and learning, but we found it's involved in motivation and generating instant consumption," said lead researcher Alexandra DiFeliceantonio, a graduate student in biopsychology at the university.
This finding might have implications for people, she added, noting that it may be possible in the future to target the area with a drug that could block the impulse to overeat and thus may help people lose weight.
Experts note, however, that results in animal studies often don't translate to humans.
The new report was published Sept. 20 in the journal Current Biology.
For the study, DiFeliceantonio and her colleagues gave lab rats a drug to artificially boost the action of the neostriatum. The animals were then given M&Ms, and proceeded to eat twice as many as they normally would, she said.
"That's the same as a 150-pound human eating seven pounds of M&Ms in an hour," DiFeliceantonio said.
In addition, the researchers noted that the amount of a chemical called enkephalin, produced in the neostriatum, increased when the animals ate the chocolate treats.
It is the increased production of this chemical that increases the desire to overeat sweet and fatty foods, DiFeliceantonio said. When presented with a choice of usual food or M&Ms, the rats with high levels of the chemical consistently ignored their regular food and gorged on chocolates.
Preferring sweet and fatty foods is probably one of the things that helped humans to thrive, said Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center in New Haven, Conn.
"We tend to like flavors, such as sweet, that in nature are associated with life-sustaining foods, and tend to dislike flavors, such as bitter, more often associated with toxins," he said.
The impulses that once helped keep our ancestors from starving, however, now may contribute to eating disorders and epidemic obesity, Katz added.
"But the fault here is not with the world within us, which is the same as it ever was," he said. It is with what and how much people eat, which has made the brain's natural functioning "backfire rather badly."
Another expert thinks the research could have implications for addiction and obesity.
Paul Sanberg, director of the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, said the findings "suggest areas of the human brain that might be looked at for eating disorders or addiction."
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The World Explorer Achievement and Title
When you complete this achievement you are awarded a total of 85 achievement points:
- 50 for World Explorer
- 25 for the final continent you discovered, such as Kalimdor in my case
- 10 for the final zone you discovered, such as Winterspring in my case
It has been a long and arduous journey. While this is one of the biggest meta-achievements that can be easily (as in "a matter of time") accomplished by a solo player, it is very lengthy and at times annoying.
As far as I can tell, this is also the easiest way to obtain a title for players who don't wish to do PvP or raids. The title, obviously, is "the Explorer" which is suffixed to your name.
The order in which I went through the continents was Outland > Northrend > Eastern Continent > Kalimdor. This is also roughly the order of difficulty for me, although I Northrend seems to have more sub-zones than Outland. Now you can imagine that the two classic continents were the hardest to explore due to not being able to use your flying mount. Bugger! Outland and Northrend were cake in comparison.
So this is what I found most tedious and annoying: riding through dozens of zones and sub-zones. On the upside, I really got to appreciate the work that went into this World of Warcraft of ours and especially the amount of detail. I got to see beautiful vistas...
and remote regions that I had never seen before...
I have also learned to love and hate certain zones all over again. Some of the worst zones for me are Azshara and the Barrens. It takes ages to get through them. One thing that I have rediscovered is the relatively large number of hidden nooks and crannies that seem to have been abandoned by developers. They look desolate and sad. Unfortunately I don't think they will ever be populated but on the other hand maybe that's not such a bad thing since it's so hard to get to them in the first place. Besides, such zones are always a source of mystery and speculation so maybe it's better for them to remain as such.
In my travels I came across some of the dragon-infested areas known as boughs, such as Bough Shadow and Dream Bough. There's also a nasty area in Blasted Lands called The Tainted Scar which is filled with very tough elites. In fact, these low level (60-ish) elites are tougher than many non-raid 80 elites. I had trouble soloing them on my 80 hunter and at one point I had to sacrifice my pet who had become surrounded by them and went down swiftly. So explorers, beware!
Here are a dozen tips for making your explorations less tedious and more fun/profitable:
1. If you can gather stuff (mining/herbalism/fishing), try to pick up nodes as you go. I kinda suffer from a bit of OCD so I had to stop for most nodes but in the low-level areas I only picked those that were directly in my path because I was simply swamped in Copper Nodes, Peacebloom and the like. On the other hand if you are in a hurry to complete this achievement, don't bother stopping.
2. Try to pop into dungeons if you are in the area. I managed to complete Razorfen Kraul, Razorfen Downs and Wailing Caverns. Exterminating the denizens of such a low level dungeon can provide a welcome change of pace. And you will also make a bit of gold on the side.
3. Plan your portals. Being able to set your hearthstone to Dalaran is ideal. From there you can jump to any of the major cities and if you already have a bunch of flight paths, it's easy to get to the specific zones you need. Also try planning an ideal path through the zones you wish to explore and aim for efficiency. Running around aimlessly won't make for a more pleasant experience.
4. Use autorun as much as possible. I'm being Mr. Obvious here but some people still haven't mastered autorun. Personally I'm one of those noobs who discovered it very late in the game and I was like, wooow this is so awesome!!
5. Pick up missing flight paths. Even though my main is my most experienced character and I've had him since Classic WoW, I still missed some flight hubs. So picking those up along the way was a no-brainer.
6. Use helpful addons. I just discovered Tomtom and man, it was of enormous help in conjunction with the comments from Wowhead. You see, people who have already explored these zones were so nice as to load the coordinates of the various sub-zones in the comments under each zone's achievements. So you just plug those coordinates into Tomtom and it's smooth sailing from there! No longer will you have to hunt that elusive sub-zone for hours on end.
7. Empty your bags before you start because you never know what you might pick up along the way. Since I'm a miner/herbalist I managed to gather a lot of herbs and ore while exploring. When I popped into lower level dungeons my bags also popped at the seams with dropped stuff. Unfortunately I had to destroy a lot of it but I still ended up with roughly 100-150G from these dungeons.
8. Don't attempt to explore all zones in a single sitting. Unless that's your thing. Because you will go crazy. I would.
9. Pick up easy quests along the way. Some of them may be fun but this is another way to work towards The Loremaster meta-achievement. This is how I finally completed Hemet Nesingwary: The Collected Quests. Oddly enough, even though I had finished all the Nesingwary quests in Outland and Northrend, the final quest in the original series, namely Big Game Hunter, was incomplete. It was of course a matter of 10 minutes to finish it and it allowed me to complete another meta-achievement.
10. Keep a lookout for rare elites. Even low level ones drop nice stuff that you can put on the AH for a quick profit.
11. If on a normal (non PvP) server, try not to become flagged (again, unless that's your thing). Getting flagged can equate to getting murdered by the opposite faction. Also, if you need to get in close proximity to one of the major cities of the opposite faction, try to leave it for last because there are high chances that you will get flagged. To me it happened twice: once in Silvermoon City where I actually had to ride a bit inside the city gates to get the achievement. I even had to fight 2 guards that were in my way but since this was my last sub-zone, I just hearthed to Dalaran after I defeated the guards. The second time it happened on the outskirts of Thunder Bluff but again, I'd left it for last and afterwards I ported out of there.
12. Most of all, try to enjoy yourself. If it stops being fun, stop exploring for the day. You can come back tomorrow with a fresh desire for more discoveries. Also try to recognize and appreciate the uniqueness of each zone. You may never see it again!
One thing that I was reminded of is the complexity of certain dungeons. It seems especially boggling that very low level instances such as Wailing Caverns can be so convoluted and labyrinthine. At one point I was ready to quit because I simply couldn't get to one of the bosses. And in order to complete the particular achievement for this dungeon you have to kill all the 4 main bosses who are spread throughout the instance, after which the last boss spawns but not before you start a small quest from an NPC at the entrance. So yeah, all my level 80 firepower didn't help one bit in this regard.
Another thing that still amazes me is how people used to run through these simple-looking dungeons which nonetheless lasted for hours. Unfortunately, although there are a lot of blue drops, 99% of them are BOP which for me equals vendor bait.
Overall "the Explorer" title is still one of the easiest to achieve. All you need to invest is time, depending on how many zones you have already explored. A freshly-minted Death Knight, for example, will have a much harder time accomplishing this feat. I am very glad I went through with this but I wouldn't do it again on an alt.
26 comments:
- Alex Keeny said...
I just got it on my Death Knight and although it's harder because you haven't explored any of Eastern Continent or Kalimdor, you do have all the flight points. I hit up most of Eastern Continent while leveling herbalism and fishing/cooking, then I worked from North to South in Kalimdor. Having the inscription scroll hearths and Dalaran portals definitely made it easier. My suggestion is to watch TV or read something while doing it. I switched between TV episodes on Hulu and college reading while doing it. It's the same thing I do to make fishing less painful.
- April 3, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot to mention that Death Knights start with all flight points. At any rate, this achievement is best done when you are at least 70 so you can fly over Outland and Northrend. I would assume players at 70 should have most flight points in the old continents.
I was also watching a movie occasionally but since I like to gather stuff, I just had to stop every minute or so for nodes :)
- April 3, 2009 at 7:08 PM
While "the Explorer" is an easy title to solo (with as you say time), both "the Ambassador" and "the Diplomat" are very achievable solo.
The Diplomat requires 3 exalted reps - Kurenai, Sporegar, and Timbermaw - all of which can be easily grinded solo in a couple of days (sporegar has an easy repeatable quest, kurenai and timbermaw have grinds for kills and rep hand-ins that are very simple at level 80).
The Ambassador (exalted with the 5 faction home cities) is a little harder but most non-DK's who leveled via questing will be very close. To finish off, I find solo runs of Stratholme (and the chance at a Deathcharger mount) will net a lot of runecloth that can be turned in for rep with any of the 5 home cities. Also, starter zone quests now provide full rep rewards (diminishing returns was removed from rep rewards several patches ago) so you can easily generate a lot of rep by doing any of the remaining starter zone quests for the 4 starter zones of your faction.
- April 3, 2009 at 10:06 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Yes, I think the Diplomat will be pretty high up there on my list. Ambassador... not so much. I would rather do Loremaster first. I'm a bit of a scrooge so I prefer to sell the cloth but once I hoard enough gold I will probably attempt that as well. The only question is, what am I gonna do with so many titles?
- April 3, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Alexander said...
I find the MozzFullWorldMap add-on priceless when it comes to figuring out where I haven't explored yet. Seeing big green patches on my map makes things so much easier.
- April 3, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Thanks for the tip. While it's a bit late for me now, I'm sure others will find it useful.
- April 3, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Weird. I got my World Explorer achievement in the Hidden Grove too.
- April 4, 2009 at 4:40 AM
The killer add-on for this achievement is Explorer Coords, http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/explorercoords.aspx
It puts a blue spot in the centre of each sub-zone on the map that you still have unrevealed. Head towards the spot, ding the sub-zone. It makes this achievement a genuine pleasure of exploration.
Remember to head into PITA enemy cities (Orgrimmar, Silvermoon / Stormwind, Ironforge) naked. You will get killed, so you may as well save armour repair. Also it looks far more crazed (and stylish) :)
I did my best, but I'm pretty sure you actually have to be flying to get all of the Outland sub-zones, so this isn't going to happen before 70.
Finally, whilst yes, doing this as a DK meant touring _everywhere_, don't underestimate the sheer joy of Icy Path. Riding flat-out on water is THE best class perk *grin*. Once you go Black, you'll never go back!
- April 4, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Another great mod for helping with this achievement is EOWilson_PointsOfInterest. Just finished this last week after 3 or 4 days of running around. Totally agree about the content. Someone should do a waterfall restrospective, there are so many. :)
- April 4, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- Darth Solo said...
Wish I'd known about these mods before I started :) Oh well... hopefully other people will get to use them.
I sometimes wish my Death Knight was my main, because he's a lot more fun to play. My hunter however is the oldest and has the highest number of achievements so I'm concentrating on him.
- April 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- Scout said...
First I want to say that, as a fellow solo-ist, I love your blog! I have one too-but I spend more time complaining about people who don't like that I like to solo. :/
I also am an altoholic-I have 4 "Explorers" right now, and a couple more who will get it once that hit level 77. I took my level 71 Death Knight out and got the title too(only took about 35 deaths in Northrend to get that completed!), and he got the "Represent" achievement when he got the tabard! Most of my characters already had most of the maps filled in before achievements were ever announced. I LOVE exploring!
I love the "Ambassador" title too! I have -7- Ambassador characters right now! My lowest being a Gnome Rogue who had the title before he ever hit level 40. And I've never needed hardly any runecloth, some didn't need any at all. Just quest, quest, quest!
Keep up the good work!
- April 6, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Thanks for the appreciation Scout! How can you put up with getting those titles for all your alts is beyond me :) In a previous article http://wowalone.blogspot.com/2009/03/keeping-your-sanity.html I talked a bit about this. My conclusion: as far as achievements are concerned I will concentrate only on hunter main.
- April 6, 2009 at 6:23 PM
- Very Casual WoWer said...
Awesome post. Saw ur link on WoW Insider. I'll have you know that this poat was the singular reason I started trying the achievement on my DK. I really love the screenshot for some reason. Now that I look at it again, how did you hide ur UI but still have your massive gold acheivement notifications come up?
Great blog!
- April 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- Darth Solo said...
Thanks man! It really warms my heart that I can be of help to someone.
I didn't actually hide the UI. I just cropped the image :D Kinda lame, I know, I know...
- April 29, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Elkagorasa said...
I am only a portion of the way through this achievement, but a fellow explorer pointed out to me that you can set the color of unexplored areas in the Cartographer add-on. This really helped when I went back to the old world to try picking up the old starting area quests for the other factions.
- May 5, 2009 at 3:20 PM
- Darth Solo said...
I believe there's an addon built especially for this achievement, or maybe one that tracks achievements, I don't know exactly. It's a bit late for me now but maybe if you could search for it it should prove useful for you and other players.
- May 6, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- David said...
Love the blog! Would be very interested in hearing about how Loremaster is going. Am just getting started on it on my main - seems like it's very achievable solo and would also likely help knock out the Ambassador title in the process.
- June 2, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Oh Loremaster is certainly soloable. Just start with all the low level areas/quests that you missed.
The big problem with this (and the reason why I never really attempted it) is that it will take even longer than Explorer, especially in Kalimdor if you are Alliance and Eastern Kingdoms if you are Horde.
At least at 80 you will 1-shot everything, perhaps even AOE stuff that you need for quests but many old-world quests aren't very well-thought out and require you to move back and forth between a gazillion zones to complete the chain.
Ambassador is pretty easy once you get to the Argent Tournament. Thanks to the Tournament, I'm exalted with Ironforge, Stormwind and Gnomeregan. Still got Darnassus and Exodar but I'm taking it easy these days.
Also, if you have tons of Runecloth, you can turn those in for rep. I had lots of that since I ran Stratholme a few times.
- June 3, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Will said...
To Hide your UI, alt Z
Will hide the UI and make for easy, and beautiful screenshots.
- June 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Thank you !! I found this very helpful ..
- July 22, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Another great thing to do while grinding this is to pick up recipies and such from vendors in hard to get to areas...especially the ones that are on spawn timers and are in limited quanities. Put these in the AH for some serious gold!
- February 19, 2010 at 6:17 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Sure, that's a good thing to do... if you're not lazy like me!! :)
- February 19, 2010 at 9:28 PM
Can someone get me this... willing to pay 500g
- April 22, 2010 at 10:53 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Haha good one! I guess it could be done tho... with a passenger mount but only in Azeroth. You'd just go AFK and someone else would carry you through all the zones.
- April 23, 2010 at 7:21 AM
Thanks for your post, very informative. Just as a quick reminder, upcoming Cataclysm patch will destroy many of the classic Azeroth locations = no more achievement. I expect it will be modified with equivalents somehow.
Drunkelf - US Kel'Thuzad
- November 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Thanks and yes I know but at this point I'm so over achievements... I can't even tell you.
- November 22, 2010 at 7:44 PM


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Oof, apologies for the lack of posts this week! I'm leaving my job and preparing for yet another big move. So there's lots of reflection and a long to-do list on my part, but not a lot of blog-productivity.
Luckily, when my brain needs a break from job searching, I have the new Noodler's flex nib fountain pen to play with. I bought this from Goulet Pens, and you can read Brian Goulet's own review here. The unique thing about this pen isn't a spectacular flex nib or beautiful design, but that's it's priced at $14.
Flex nibs for $14 just doesn't happen, frankly. This is mainly because it's incredibly difficult to mass-produce a flexible nib– it usually involves some hands-on work. Thanks, Capitalism, for leaving us with only vintage pens and expensive customizations as options for a flexible nib! And as far as I know, nobody's quite sure how Noodler's is producing these so cheaply. Brian's hypothesis involves Oompa Loompas, and I'm just hoping that the secret is something like "patience and devotion to the craft" rather than, say, any exploitation here or overseas.
Although the flex factor isn't drastic, this cute little nib definitely qualifies as a flex nib– as opposed to the nib on my Aurora Ipsilon, which most pen geeks would say "has some spring to it." The difference is that when you're writing regularly, the Noodler's nib still responds to the slightest pressure change– whereas with the Ipsilon, you have to think about pressing down for flex.
Well heyyyy there. Hopefully you can see from my mediocre calligraphy skills that this flex is legit. In fact this is probably a great first pen for somebody wanting to get into calligraphy without the mess and supplies of a dip pen.
I tried to include three different writing styles so that you can see how this nib will work for varying handwriting. I saw the most shading on this third part, probably because I was writing faster and therefore the nib put down less ink on each letter. Compare this to the calligraphy, above, where I was writing more slowly and the ink color is fairly dark throughout. If you happen to write in all caps, a la The Pen Addict, you'll get a bit of shading but will probably be annoyed by the responsive nib making lines widths inconsistent.
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Last year when I wrote this Christmas Eve column, it was easy to look back on the year and put the biggest stories of 2008 neatly in one category. On Dec. 24, 2008, we were still congratulating Tina Fey for dropping her g's and embracing her inner Sarah Palin; we were still impressed by a little show called "Mad Men" that had yet to clean up at awards shows.
This year could not be more different.
If 2008 was about performances that were on the brink of breakthrough, 2009 was about performances that broke through, and did so with alarming brevity. It was a year with fewer truly big stories, but each one was met with a level of tangible passion.
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Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world.
There was the jaw-dropping shock that came with Michael Jackson's death, which consumed the summer. And there's the death of the Tiger Woods we thought we knew, which consumed this holiday season. Both events were epic in the way they stirred tremendous emotion from outside the usual realms of each subject.
People who cut their teeth on the Jackson 5 weren't the only ones moved to tears the night of June 25; kids who weren't even alive when "Thriller" came out were every bit as responsible for impromptu memorials in the weeks that followed. It wasn't just golfers who were shocked by Woods' "indiscretions" — everyone from corporate sponsors to the people who buy celebrity weeklies were too.
When a story doesn't belong to just one group, but can be claimed by many, it seems to expose a collective cultural nerve. And it wasn't just typical celebrities who found a way to tap into this. We kicked off 2009 with the historic inauguration of Barack Obama, which kicked off a year of bridging the gap between politics and pop culture.
What followed was political behavior that actually would have made C-Span interesting, if late-night TV didn't exist to make it more compelling. If Joe Wilson yelled in Congress, and "Saturday Night Live" wasn't there to mock it, would we believe that it really happened? And have you heard the story where a 65-year old man gets his finger bitten off ... at a health care rally?
It wasn't enough to be witnessing a story, we wanted to be a part of it, by any means possible. Just ask the Heene family of Balloon Boy fame, or the White House party crashers. While it was nice of them and others to proffer water cooler fodder, it might be nice to see the pendulum swing back to center a little, and not have to hear about how anyone did it "for the show."
If there's a time in 2010 where we can sit back, look at one another and say, "Wow, things are slow, huh?" that might not be such a bad thing. Let's all slow down, and just take a breather. There's a whole new decade before us.
Until then, a safe, happy, and most of all, peaceful holiday to all. See you in 2010.
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A combination of Marie Antoinette, '90s silhouettes including raver pants and platform shoes, meloncat hair, and Japanese anime seems like it would mix as well as oil and water… But, somehow, the Chanel cruise '12 collection pulled it off! Pretty, origami pleats, watercolor prints, sticker-like flowers, half-precious/half-bondage costume jewelry, and new takes on the Chanel tweed (appearing in the forms of royal waistcoats and scarves) made the offerings a bit more challenging than Karl Lagerfeld's others, but not so ridiculous that we couldn't imagine anyone wearing the pieces outside of the Palais (in fact, we'd like to wear 'em — hand it over!). Aside from the shoes that made all the models look like they were wearing nude pantyhose or were on their way to basketball practice with the Spice Girls, the pieces displayed that sort of couture-season bravura that's not often seen in a cruise collection. Click through for all 71 looks from the very pretty runway!
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Here's the South Pacific Coast rail line (now Union Pacific) looking south on Thornton Avenue in Newark. The branch line on the left went to the machine shop back in 1878.
By 1913, when this photo was taken, the machine shop was history. It closed around 1908. From South Pacific Coast by Bruce MacGregor.
Looking north on Carter Avenue is where the machine shop stood for more than 30 years. Carter Avenue is named for the Carter brothers, whose company built most of the narrow-gauge rail cars in California.
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Army veteran banned from daughter's school after posting picture of weapons permit, report says
An Army veteran living in Georgia says she wants an apology from her daughter's former school after being banned from the building for posting a photo of her concealed weapons permit to her Facebook page, WRDW.com reports.
Tanya Mount says she was approached by a police officer from the Richmond County Board of Education at McBean Elementary School and was warned that she was about to get a criminal trespass warning.
The officer told her that the principal at the school was "scared" of her and did not want her on the school property, she told the station.
"He asks: 'Were you in the Army?,"' she said. "I said, yes. He's like, 'Do you have a concealed weapons permit?' I said yes," she told the station.
A phone call from FoxNews.com to Richmond County Board of Education was not immediately returned. WJBF.com asked Janina Dallas, the school's principal, if the "no trespass order" was issued over the post, and Dallas responded: "Yes, it was."
"It is my duty and responsibility as the principal of this school to ensure the safety and security of all of our faculty, staff and students," Dallas told WJBF.com.
Mount reportedly said, "I feel that this is some high school crap." She is calling for a public apology.
"I am a private person. However, after serving OUR country, it is my DUTY to make sure that our lives are not infringed upon. However, do it all within the confinements of the LAW, I am a law-abiding citizen," Mount posted on Facebook after the uproar.
Other posts on Mount's Facebook page are photographs of children trick-or-treating and recipes for pork tenderloin.
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Iran, the Associated Press, and Covert-War of 'Imperial Mobilization'
(The synthesis and propagation of 'doctrinal motivation' for 'war on terror')
Zahir Ebrahim
April 13, 2008.
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Letter to Editor: Iran, the Associated Press, and Covert-War of 'Imperial Mobilization'
April 13, 2008.
In the Associated Press wire story of April 12, 2008 (cached) dispatched from Shiraz Iran by AP writer Ali Akbar Dareini, headlined "Bomb Kills 9 at Mosque in Southern Iran" and echoed across the United States from Fredericksburg to Oregon and on all the internet news reflectors from AOL to Yahoo reaching throughout the globe, and subsequently, within a few hours, on April 13, 2008, re-titled "Iran dismisses sabotage in mosque blast" by another AP writer Nasser Karimi, there is a crucial omission in both that will be entirely lost in the memoryless United States of America unless specifically pointed out.
The first AP report of the bomb explosion, after describing the fast breaking event, editorialized as follows to supposedly give a larger overarching context to the reader:
Bombings are unusual in Shiraz, a major draw for foreign tourists who come to see the ruins of nearby Persepolis, an ancient Persian kingdom that was a center for ceremonies and worship. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Iran has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies that have been behind rare but deadly attacks in recent years — though none have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
In February 2007, a car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, killing 11 of them and wounding more than 30 in southeastern Iran. A Sunni militant group that has been blamed for past attacks on Iranian troops claimed responsibility.
Some believe the group, known as Jundallah, is linked to al-Qaida. Jundallah, or God's Brigade, has waged a low-level insurgency in southeastern Iran.
Besides the violence in the southeast, ethnic Arab Sunni militants have been blamed for bombings in the western city of Ahvaz near the border of Iraq — including blasts in 2006 that killed nine people. ...
The fundamentalist Wahabi strain of Islam considers Shiites heretics and Iran is dominated by Shiite Muslims. Wahabis are suspected of having influence over some militants waging the insurgency in Iraq.
Please note that it appears quite comprehensive in its gamut – pretty much accounting for everything, from "insurgency" to "fundamentalism" to "terrorism" to "Jundallah" to the Muslim on Muslim violence bred from "radical Islamism" (although that last semantically loaded terminology is itself not employed). One might say it is as comprehensive in its attempt to capture the significant and essential contexts in a quick birds eye view as is possible in the limited word-space of urgent fast-breaking wire news. So what's the crucial omission?
Before analyzing this further, just for completeness, the second AP report of today, which mainly only offered the latest update on the calamity without editorializing any additional contexts, noted the following:
Iranian officials on Sunday ruled out an attack as the cause of an explosion that killed 11 people inside a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz. ... The police chief of the southern Fars Province, Gen. Ali Moayyedi, said he "rejects" the possibility of an intentional bombing and "any sort of insurgency" in the blast. ... Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Sunday that no group has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Since this only transpired less than 24-hours ago, more is sure to be reported. The subject here is only the editorializing in the first AP report and what's missing in it.
While constructing a comprehensive forensic analysis and rational solution-space for the urgent problem of the apparent full spectrum destabilization of Pakistan at the time of Benazir Bhutto's grotesque assassination that was being blamed upon the ubiquitous 'Al Qaeeda', Project HumanbeingsfirstTM had compiled the following short-list of news reports on what was publicly known at the time about the systematic destabilization of its next-door neighbor, the equally beleaguered Iran.
In the context of the 'trumpeting elephant in the bedroom' omission in the AP news report quoted above, it appears useful to rehearse a few sentences from that short-list here.
Jundallah and American covert-ops inside Iran, as publicly reported; a snapshot:
September 18, 2006 'We Are Conducting Military Operations Inside Iran Right Now. The Evidence Is Overwhelming' CNN report with Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.)
Gardiner: It's been given. In fact, we've probably been executing military operations inside Iran for at least 18 months. The evidence is overwhelming
March 8, 2007 CIA funds terrorist operations against Iran
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Jundallah (Party of God), a Pakistan-based Baluchi separatist group. ...
The February 26 London Sunday Telegraph reported: "America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran … The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime …
"Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now 'no great secret', according to one former high-ranking CIA official in Washington who spoke anonymously to the Sunday Telegraph.
"His claims were backed by Fred Burton, a former US state department counter-terrorism agent, who said: 'The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime.' ...
In an article in the Washington Quarterly magazine's first issue for 2007, John Bradley, the former managing editor of the Saudi Arabia-based Arab News, wrote that Baluchistan province is "particularly crucial for Iran's national security as it borders Sunni Pakistan and US-occupied Afghanistan … In fact, the Sunni Balochi resistance could prove valuable to Western intelligence agencies with an interest in destabilizing the hardline regime in Tehran …
"The Pentagon", Bradely wrote, "is especially interested in whether Iran is prone to a violent fragmentation along the same kinds of faultlines that are splitting Iraq and that helped to tear apart the Soviet Union with the collapse of communism."
March 25, 2007 Subverting Iran Washington's Covert War inside Iran
Much attention has been given to the Bush Administration's preparations for possible war against Iran as well as its drive to impose sanctions. Meanwhile, a less noticed policy has been unfolding, one that may in time prove to have grave consequences for the region. There is a covert war underway in Iran, still in its infancy, but with disturbing signs of impending escalation. In the shadowy world of guerrilla operations, the full extent of involvement by the Bush Administration has yet to be revealed, but enough is known to paint a disturbing picture.
April 03, 2007 ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across the border from Iran.
It has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials.
April 04. 2007 CIA hires terrorist group to operate inside Iran
New York, April 4, IRNA - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has hired a Pakistani terrorist group that has carried out a series of deadly terrorist attacks inside Iran, ABC News has reported on Wednesday.
The group, members of the Baluchi tribe, operates from Pakistan's province of Baluchestan, just across the border from Iran.
ABC cited US government sources it did not identify as saying the US has maintained close ties to its leader, Abdel-Malik Regi, since 2005.
The group, called Jundullah, has carried out raids, resulting in the deaths or kidnapping of Iranian ordinary people as well as soldiers and officials.
April 05, 2007 US backing 'secret war' against Iran?
An analysis by Strafor, a global intelligence consulting firm based in Texas, noting that Jundullah has stepped up its attacks recently, says that the US could be using Jundullah as a "poking device" against Iran.
U.S. support for Jundallah fits into the larger picture of U.S.-Iranian negotiations over Iraq. Iran has made painfully clear that it has -- and can use -- a variety of militant assets throughout the region to pressure Washington to meets its demands in Iraq. At the same time, the United States has an interest in demonstrating that it has friends among Iran's minority groups to gather intelligence, stir up public unrest and distract the clerical regime from its Iraqi agenda.
April 10, 2007 Active CIA Terrorist Cells operate inside Iran
The past year witnessed a series of attacks targeting ethnic minority border areas of Iran. Relentless violence, including bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials, resulted in a chaotic situation in the country that left a negative impact on the image of the current government. Aid to separatists and radical groups comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now no great secret.
April 2007 Through the Veil: The Role of Broadcasting in U.S. Public Diplomacy toward Iranians
From widespread mistranslation on the State Department's Persian website to terrorists appearing on Voice of America as "political activists," these flaws are keeping U.S. government broadcasting from effectively reaching the Iranian people.
May 23, 2007 Bush Authorizes New Covert Action against Iran
'A report broadcast on Iranian TV last Sunday said Iranian authorities had captured 10 men crossing the border with $500,000 in cash along with "maps of sensitive areas" and "modern spy equipment." A senior Pakistani official told ABCNews.com the 10 men were members of Jundullah. The leader of the Jundullah group, according to the Pakistani official, has been recruiting and training "hundreds of men" for "unspecified missions" across the border in Iran.'
May 24, 2007 More Bad Intelligence on Iran and Iraq
Time magazine: Both cases show how the Administration is still trying to manipulate intelligence to further its strategic goals. ABC says that Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams is behind the covert action against Iran,
June 10, 2007 Iran protests over US 'spy networks'
TEHRAN, June 9: Iran has handed an official protest to the United Nations accusing the United States of supporting a militant group and creating spy networks inside the country, media reported on Saturday. The protest, addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, accuses the United States of supporting Jundallah, an outlawed armed group blamed for deadly attacks in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
July 09, 2007 U.S. Support for the Iranian Opposition
Some reports indicate that U.S. financial support is in fact aimed at regime change and goes beyond the allocated $75 million. In May, ABC News reported that the CIA had hired Jundallah, a Pakistan-backed Baluchi group, to carry out sabotage operations inside Iran. (Later, ABC reported that President Bush had in fact authorized a covert CIA program against the regime.) ... In addition to public and covert funding of Iranian opposition groups, the United States also supports individual dissidents through various means.
July 11, 2007 Will the real Al Qaeda please step forward?
ABC News (US) reports that the Americans claim they are not providing direct funding to Jundallah (although they admit its leadership has met regularly with US officials), but that they find the alliance convenient for various reasons:
A senior U.S. government official said groups such as Jundullah have been helpful in tracking al Qaeda figures and that it was appropriate for the U.S. to deal with such groups in that context. Some former CIA officers [however] say the arrangement is reminiscent of how the U.S. government used proxy armies, funded by other countries including Saudi Arabia, to destabilize the government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.
July 24, 2007 The NYT, Doing What It Does Best: "Covering" War
"Eleven members of the Revolutionary Guards have been killed in clashes with drug smugglers in southeast Iran near the border with Pakistan . . . Nine others were wounded. The clashes occurred Thursday in a mountainous area in southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province after drug smugglers ambushed a group of Revolutionary Guards . . . The drug smugglers left without casualties, the [Fars News Agency] said."
As should be rather self-evident from this snapshot that spans almost a year worth of reporting, the reality when 'Alice' is wide awake is quite otherwise from that projected by the Associated Press correspondent from the 'unbirthday party' table. This coverage of the 'Mad Hatter's' rampage is also consistent with the last of the afore-cited items from the New York Times which refined the wonderful tale at the 'unbirthday party' to additionally include "drug smugglers" who have the fire-power to overwhelm and kill eleven members of an Armed Forces service without suffering any casualties. How the Fars News Agency knew they were "drug smugglers", since all "left without casualties", is of course irrelevant to when 'Alice' is awake.
The obvious journalistic point to make here is that such a profoundly blatant omission of the most significant context, 'the highest order bit' so to speak, of the 'empire' itself secretly cultivating the 'pirates' in order to continually wage a war of aggression upon other nations through various superpower instruments of coercion, is an excellent example of manufacturing consent in the West for its global "War on Terror" against all shades of 'Islamist terrorists' as being real and un-fabricated.
The un-subtle purpose is to continually lend substance, at every opportunity, to the "doctrinal motivation and intellectual commitment" du jour being employed for "imperial mobilization".
The ubiquitous Associated Press wire-news service which seeds most of the world's news headlines, is dutifully playing its instrumental role in this process of aiding and abetting in perpetuating doctrinal mythologies. With of course, help in no small measure, from the apparent endless supply of 'native informants' on AP's worldwide payrolls.
In the AP report under scrutiny, all immanent possibilities and speculations except of course the grotesquely real one, were surveyed by the knowledgeable AP writer to ostensibly provide a useful overarching context for the hideous bomb explosion that killed 9 innocent civilians and injured over 100 others inside the very sanctity of their own place of worship. How horrible – who could have possibly done it?
Only the 'radical Islamists' of course, fighting among themselves like barbarians! Since it has indeed been positively shocking how "so many people in the West still don't believe that they are at war [with] .. radical Islam", as America's favored son Daniel Pipes had lamented, perhaps now the West, and especially the American public, will believe that indeed, it's "not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized World and Barbarians"!
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
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The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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