Musket Blasts: Patriots and NFL Draft Links, 7/9

Wes Welker: Show him the money?

NEPD Editor: James Christensen

Come back every Monday, Wednesday and Friday as I choose my five favorite New England Patriots and NFL Draft links to share. Feel free to submit your own links in the comments.

Greg Cosell from NFL Films with an enlightening look at the evolving X?s and O?s battle in the NFL today. (NFL.com)

When the Patriots align with one back, two wide receivers and Gronkowski and Hernandez, how do you match up? Do you treat Gronkowski and Hernandez as tight ends and stay with your base defense?

Will the Bills target a QB in the 2013 NFL Draft or is Ryan Fitzpatrick the answer? (BuffaloBillsDraft.com)

In 2012 the Buffalo Bills and their fan base are expecting big things. The Bills spent big this offseason bringing in star talent like Mario Williams and Mark Anderson. They drafted talent adding CB Stephen Gilmore and OT Cordy Glenn. There are plenty of reasons for the Bills and their fan base to be excited for the coming 2012 season. In the end though there is still one looming factor that nobody can figure out and that?s QB Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Former NFL scout Field Yates takes a look at scouting the 3-4 OLB position. (ESPN Boston)

In being an edge-setter, a 3-4 outside linebacker must have the length to leverage defenders and the strength and athleticism to perform from the edge. A player with long arms and functional strength can lock out on a tight end or tackle on the outside of the line to create a boundary for the offense to have to work within.

Is Kyle Love poised for an even better season in 2012? (Boston Herald)

Defensive tackle Kyle Love surpassed expectations as much as anyone on the defense last season. He was a force alongside Wilfork, and Love?s ability to consistently push through the middle gave the coaches enough comfort to swing Wilfork to the outside in certain situations.

Are Wes Welker and the New England Patriots that far apart on money? (Boston Globe)

Both sides have been respectful of each other during the process, but if you read between the lines, owner Robert Kraft has stated the club?s position. Kraft said both sides want to complete a deal, but ?it requires intelligence? and ?what?s going to happen in the next few years with the cap, you have to have a core group of players that you can plan around as the foundation of your team.?

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Twitter for iPhone to be bumped up to v4.3, will bring interactive Tweet view experience

Twitter for iPhone to be bumped up to v4.3, will bring interactive Tweet view experience

Twitter for iPhone looks like it?s heading towards a major update soon. According to a leaked set of release notes in the iOS 6 App Store will be getting some new features, namely an ?interactive Tweet view experience? that will give you the ability to view content (videos, images) within the Tweet. When version 4.3 goes live there will be Tweets about ?selected events? ? these are based on relevant tweets and images. In addition, you can expect to see the new Twitter logo be uploaded, plus autocomplete improvements, and push notifications enhancements that will give the option to receive push notifications when certain people tweet.

No word on when the update will be pushed through, but it?s coming.
Source: 9to5Mac

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Pollution protesters halt work on new China factory

Reuters

Local residents gather in front of a municipal government building in Shifang county, Sichuan province, in this handout picture taken Monday.

By NBC's Ed Flanagan

BEIJING -- Construction of a copper factory in central China has been halted, an official said Tuesday, after days of angry protests over fears of pollution culminated in clashes that saw riot police fire stun grenades and tear gas to break up a crowd of thousands.

Residents of the town of Shifang, Sichuan province, have been slowly gathering around a local city government office since Saturday, the day after a foundation-laying ceremony put on by Sichuan Hongda ? a conglomerate specializing in minerals, real estate and finance ? to celebrate the first phase of construction on the $1.64 billion proposed molybdenum-copper alloy refinery nearby.

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When -- or now if -- completed, the refinery could generate an estimated $8 billion a year.

According to local Sichuan newspaper reports, the protest started with around a dozen people, but by Sunday it had grown as fellow residents and high school students joined them.

By Monday, there was a crowd of thousands, a police officer on duty there told the Chinese newspaper, Global Times. However, the South China Morning Post?reported the figure was in the tens of thousands.?

By early Monday afternoon, tensions had escalated and protesters attempted to occupy the city government offices, forcing their way past police inside where they reportedly threw bricks through windows and destroyed offices there. Riot police were brought in to restore order, firing tear gas and stun grenades to break up the crowd. ?

Some 13 injuries were initially reported by official state media, but witnesses on the ground reported far more wounded.

As of late Tuesday afternoon, protesters were reportedly still on the streets of Shifang, effectively locked in a standoff.

Local government officials were facing pressure from provincial-level and central government leaders to stifle social unrest.

'No longer suitable for living'
A protester surnamed Wang told NBC News that their numbers had thinned out as the city boosted its police presence.

?The two sides are just standing, facing each other,? Wang said. ?There are a lot of police and the roads are blocked.?

?Yesterday, the protesters were all concentrated in front of the government building,? said another protester who requested anonymity. ?But today, the police have blocked all the roads around the government building so people cannot concentrate in one area and are scattered everywhere? I am not sure how many people there are, but fewer than yesterday."

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Asked what he would do if construction went ahead on the refinery, the man responded, ?As far as I?m concerned, I have settled here, but this place will be no longer suitable for living.??

?If my economic situation and other conditions meet, I will definitely move away," he added.

Concerns over the pollution created by the alloy refineries that dot China?s resource-rich regions have grown in recent years as China?s economy develops and its people become better educated about the effects of industrial waste on human health.

?I think in general smelters are heavily polluting facilities no matter what, they smelt,? said Ma Tianjie, a Greenpeace campaigner in China specializing in heavy metal waste. ?We have seen a lot of cases with heavy metal smelters where there is substantial release of all kinds of toxic pollutants.?

Those pollutants are released into the air through smoke and into the nearby area's ground and water supplies through the highly toxic slag waste that is a byproduct of a refinery?s production phase. Arsenic, an element that can cause severe kidney and liver problems in humans, is often found in worrying levels in this slag.

As these health concerns have become increasingly more public, so too has opposition to these refineries in urban areas.

While companies and local governments have up until now been largely able to duck growing NIMBY-ism in urban centers around China, officials here are increasingly finding themselves accountable for the environmental legacy of these lucrative, but highly polluting industries.?

A legacy that Ma warns can stay with a population for a long time. ?Generally the smelters will leave a quite heavy legacy to the local community? he warned, ?even decades after the facilities leave.?

Construction suspended
The mass public protest in Shifang has for now, had its desired effect: Late Tuesday afternoon, Shifang?s local Communist Party chief, Li Chengjin, announced through the government?s Weibo microblog feed that the government was halting construction of the refinery and would no longer allow it to go ahead.

?It?s definitely a piece of good news that construction is being halted, this is absolutely what we wanted,? said Wang upon hearing the news of the government?s decision to halt construction.

However, similar recent cases suggest that such success could just be temporary. Last summer, thousands of residents of the northeastern port city of Dalian took to the streets to protest?a chemical factory after a dike broke following a storm, potentially exposing the city to the threat of a toxic spill.

Local officials were successful in keeping the crowd peaceful and eventually broke up the protests when they emphatically pledged to halt production at the factory and have it moved out of the city.

But production resumed soon after, though local officials there have stressed since then that the factory was still slated to be moved.

NBC News? Horace Lu contributed to this report.

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Exhumation? Radioactivity found on Arafat's toothbrush

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Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says goodbye to well-wishers as he leaves Ramallah on October 29, 2004. He was flown to Paris to seek medical treatment, but died less than two weeks later.

By msnbc.com news services

Updated at 9:35 a.m. ET: Yasser Arafat's body may be exhumed to allow for more testing of the causes of his death, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a radioactive isotope in belongings the Palestinian leader is said to have used in his final days.?

Arafat's widow, Suha, called for an autopsy in the wake of the lab's findings, first reported by the Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. In an interview with the station, she did not explain why she waited nearly eight years to have the belongings, including a toothbrush and a fur hat, tested. At the time of his death, she refused to agree to an autopsy.

Nov. 12, 2004: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was buried in ceremonies that were at once stately, emotional and chaotic, reports NBC's Brian Williams.

The Palestinian leader died at a military hospital outside Paris in November 2004 of what French doctors called a massive brain hemorrhage ? weeks after he fell violently ill at his West Bank compound.?

Darcy Christen, spokesman for the Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne, Switzerland, told Reuters on Tuesday it had found "surprisingly" high levels of polonium-210 in Arafat's belongings.

But he stressed that clinical symptoms described in Arafat's medical reports were not consistent with polonium-210 and that conclusions could not be drawn as to whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned or not.

The Qatar-based Al Jazeera said the institute had tested Arafat's personal effects, given them by his widow.

'Unexplained'
Its documentary said they showed that his clothes, toothbrush and kaffiyeh headscarf contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element.

"I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr. Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids," Francois Bochud, director of the institute, said in the documentary.

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Bochud said the only way to confirm the findings would be to exhume Arafat's body to test it for polonium-210.

"But we have to do it quite fast because polonium is decaying, so if we wait too long, for sure, any possible proof will disappear," he told Al Jazeera.

Polonium was found to have caused the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, and he was assumed to have been deliberately poisoned.

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Arafat's widow Suha said she would ask for Arafat's body - buried in the West Bank town of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian self-rule authority - to be exhumed.

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Speaking at the end of the documentary, aired on Al Jazeera's English and Arabic channels, she said: "We have to go further and exhume Yasser Arafat's body to reveal the truth to all the Muslim and Arab world."

Arafat led the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's fight against Israel from the 1960s but signed a peace agreement with the Jewish state in 1993 establishing Palestinian self-rule areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Nov. 14, 2004: As Palestinians hunt for a new leader, there is a global search to find billions of dollars that may have been stashed by the late Yasser Arafat. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.

His mysterious death came four years into a Palestinian uprising, after years of talks with Israel failed to lead to a Palestinian state. French doctors who treated Arafat in his final days could not establish the cause of death.

French officials refused to give details of his condition, citing privacy laws, fuelling a host of rumors and theories over the nature of his illness.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.?

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Eminem Taps Dr. Dre For New Album, Remembers Adam Yauch

'Yeah, of course he'll be involved,' Em says of his frequent collaborator Dre in radio interview.
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Dr. Dre and Eminem
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JetBlue pilot who disrupted flight declared insane, not guilty

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Microsoft takes $6.2 billion of lumps on fizzled aQuantive online ad acquisition

Among all the Windows 8, WP8 and Surface excitement of late, Redmond has also dropped a chunk of less shiny happy news: its online services division is taking a goodwill writeoff of $6.2 billion as a result of its ill-fated aQuantive acquision in 2007. Not coincidentally, that's almost exactly what it paid for the company, which it brought in to create pre-Bing online ad revenue -- back when Mountain View was eating even more of its lunch in search. The software giant said that aQuantive didn't "accelerate growth" as much as intended, although it added that it still provides assets for its internet advertising activities. With the advent of tablets and smartphones since then, it seems unlikely we'll see any of its now-quaint tech -- like shopping cart-mounted computers -- again.

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