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Japanese Whisky, Scotch BlendThe Story of Masataka Taketsuru, his Scottish wife, and the Japanese whisky industry
by Olive Checkland (Edinburgh, 1998)
Paperback, 160 pages. £10.99.
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Checkland has classic material here: the true story of how one Japanese man travelled alone to Scotland and stole the secrets of traditional whisky making, fell in love with a Scottish woman, brought her home to Japan, where he made himself into a Japanese whisky baron and where she lived the rest of a life which spanned a devastating war with her home country.
Checkland provides a great source of information on one of the key personalities of Japanese whisky history, Masataka Taketsuru. The first chapter`s account of Taketsuru`s training in Scotland between 1918 and 1920 has a depth of detail that is not rivaled in English and quite possibly not in Japanese either. Checkland cites her sources with proper academic references and bibliographies, making it very easy to follow up her work with a fresh eye. I expect to be thumbing this paperback a good deal as I try to put together a better history section on this site.
There is a disappointing side to the book. Checkland was an established scholar who wrote several books about modern Japan, so I am surprised to find her general descriptions of Japan so unreliable. For instance, she quotes a campaigning political theorist's view of all women in pre-war Japan as completely dependent on men as a description of reality and continues: "Even after 1945, when some rights were granted, women in Japan were subservient and were living entirely on their men". The overall impression is given that it was almost unheard of for women to live independent lives.
In fact, the ubiquity of the "Japanese housewife" was to a large extent a particular phenomenon of the latter part of the 20th century (the institution is now being undermined again). The Japan Chronicle reported that Isabel McCausland, a lecturer in sociology at Kobe college, told a meeting in March 1923 that: "56 per cent of the wage earners in this country were women, while in Germany the proportion was only 20 per cent of women and the United States 14 per cent. Among factory workers in Japan the proportion of females to males is 3 to 1" (March 8, Japan Chronicle, 1923). Many of these jobs were unpleasant and confining but to portray Japanese women as uniformly passive recipients of male financial support is misleading. It was perhaps true that upper middle class women of the sort Rita Taketsuru was mixing with were more dependent on men but Checkland does not qualify her description.
This is by no means an isolated example. The text is peppered with over simplifications and misunderstandings. When reading Checkland, it is probably safest to ignore her descriptions of Japanese society past and present.
It is more of a problem for the book that the description of the love story between Masataka Taketsuru and Rita Taketsuru is also unsatisfying. Checkland goes in for a lot of groundless speculation about the couple's motivations and intentions and has a tendency to try to logically analyse a love affair, always a hazardous thing to do. She also seems determined to make Rita into a tragic figure, which is not convincing on the evidence presented in the book. Certainly Rita went through some difficult times, especially in the four years that Britain and Japan were at war, but every time Checkland qualifies her general tragic framework with some new evidence that Rita was in fact quite happy at some time during the 40 years of her life in Japan, it makes you wonder why she seems driven to write sentences like: "Only time revealed to her the high price of the decision she had made [to marry Taketsuru]."
The whisky chapters are touched in places by this tendentiousness. For instance, at one point she is straining hard to portray the war years as very difficult for Japanese whisky makers (there is some evidence that Taketsuru's company actually found its feet under military patronage in the war). Anyway, she writes:
It was a sorry state of affairs when a bottle of Grade 1 Nikka whisky could be bartered for a pair of heavy rubber boots or even a straw bag of rice.
Hasn't it ever been thus? A pair of heavy rubber boots often costs more than a bottle of the best whisky [eg]. I don't know how big the bag of rice was but the larger bags down at the supermarket here rival the whiskies. This is just a trivial example but, throughout this book, you get the feeling that the author has decided what the story will be before she looks at the evidence.
Despite my grouching, I am glad I have "Japanese Whisky, Scotch Blend" on my shelf. Its spine is already cracked. That, in the end, is the real test of any book isn't it?


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Russian authorities have charged 16 more Greenpeace activists with piracy over their protest at an Arctic oil rig.
The entire crew of 30 from the Arctic Sunrise - the Greenpeace boat used to launch the protest - have now been charged. The group was arrested last month after two of the protesters tried to board an oil platform owned by the Russian state-controlled oil company, Gazprom.
Greenpeace has called the charges "irrational, absurd and an outrage."
Freelance journalist Charles Maynes, based in Saint Petersburg, says the protest was part of a wider campaign against drilling in the Arctic.
But the Russian media, Maynes pointed out, has been painting Greenpeace not as an environmental group, but as an American-backed organization that is attacking Russian sovereignty.
The Greenpeace activists tried to climb aboard the platform, but were rebuffed by the Russian crew. Eventually, the Arctic Sunrise was captured by Russian special forces, Maynes said, and now the entire crew is being brought up on piracy charges.
"It's likely to turn into an international scandal. We're talking about 30 people from 19 countries," he said.
Maynes says this incident comes at a bad time, with Russia already under pressure because of its new, anti-gay law and the Olympics just a matter of months away.
It's similar to the situation that developed over the Pussy Riot arrests and trial, where members of a band were arrested for their protest and jailed. That episode drew widespread international condemnation.
"Unless someone in Russia, someone high up, takes a look at what's happening and decides this just isn't worth the kind of distraction ahead of the Olympics... I can see this being a major nuisance to the Russians," Maynes said.

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The average Minnesota farm is growing rapidly in terms of total assets and net worth, according to the 2010 FINBIN Report on Minnesota Farm Finances published by the University of Minnesota's Center for Farm Financial Management. FINBIN, one of the largest and most accessible farm financial databases in the world, summarizes actual farm data from thousands of agricultural producers to generate detailed reports on whole farm, crop and livestock financials.
In constant dollars, total assets per farm have increased by more than $1.1 million over the past 15 years. However, total debt increased by about $500,000 over the same period. As a result, the average farm has gained almost $700,000 of real net worth over the past 15 years. This equates to 10% growth in net worth per year.
The FINBIN report included 2,446 Minnesota farms, or about 10% of the state's commercial farms with total sales of more than $100,000. From $250,000 to $500,000 in total sales are generally needed to provide for a family's living expenses.
Net worth increases can have two sources—those resulting from earnings, either farm or non-farm, and those resulting from asset appreciation.
Over the past 15 years, 79% of the net worth growth was earned. Retained earnings result when farm and non-farm income exceed the amount consumed by family expenditures and income taxes. The remaining 21% of net worth growth resulted from asset appreciation.
In high-profit years, the high-debt farms are able to leverage borrowed capital to multiply their earnings growth. However, they remain in high-risk territory in terms of their liquidity and solvency positions.
More details of the 2010 FINBIN Report on Minnesota Farm Finances are available at www.finbin.umn.edu.


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The book follows the form of other titles from St. Martin's Griffin, which I really like - there are big gorgeous full bleed "selector" spreads in the front of the book that cross reference the patterns. And, at the end, there are nice examples of how to assemble the random stuff you made into larger projects.
The wonderful editors at Quarto who put this together did a fantastic job making my scribblings presentable, and every crochet pattern has a chart. I didn't appreciate the utility of those until now, especially for patterns that double back on themselves (like this octopus).
I actually wrote close to 100 patterns for the book, but some of them were cut due to lack of popular interest (diatoms! algae etc). Since those are dearest to my own heart, I will definitely be finding a way to make them available to my fellow dorks out there.


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A Study of Adoptive Immunotherapy With Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Solid Tumors
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01462903
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified November 2014 by Jiang Li, Sun Yat-sen University.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : November 1, 2011
Last Update Posted : November 24, 2014
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Background: T cell based adoptive immunotherapy including CTL and TIL may stimulated the immune system and stop cancer cells from growing.
Objective: Phase I clinical trial to investigate the toxicity and immune response of therapy with autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocytes as adjuvant treatment for metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma after primary operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Methodology: Phase I clinical trial in patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, breast cancer and other solid cancers. The investigators isolated lymphocytes from fresh tumor tissues, activated and expanded TILs in vitro; and infused the enough number (10e9 to 10e10) of TIL back patients.
|Condition or disease
|Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Hepatocellular Carcinoma Breast Carcinoma
|Biological: tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, IL-2
|Phase 1
Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes were isolated from tumor tissues from tumor biopsy or operation. These TILs were cultured in human IL-2 medium for 2 to 3 weeks, and reactivated by OKT3, irradiated feeder cells from the PBMCs of healthy donors and LCL set from EBV-transformed normal B cells, and expanded in human IL-2 medium for another 15 days. 10e9 to 10e10 TILs were yielded. The phenotype, function and sterile were detected before these TILs infused patients. After accepting operation or first round of routine chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the patients were treated with autologous TILs 10e9-10e10 via intravenous in 30 min, q weekX2 weeks, and followed by two weeks with daily sc low-dose interleukine-2.
Patients will be evaluated for toxicity and immune response. Peripheral blood of patients using multimer analysis and/or ELISPOT assays. Additional, we will be able to determine anti-tumor effects from immunotherapy by evaluating the clinical response of patients with stable or progressive disease at the time of TILs infusion. Lastly, we will assess additional tumor markers in patients with relapsed/refractory disease by immunohistochemical staining of tumor sections from previous diagnostic or therapeutic biopsy samples to determine the incidence of additional tumor antigen targets that may be used in future studies.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Study of Adoptive Immunotherapy With Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Solid Tumors
|Study Start Date :
|September 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|November 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2014
|Experimental: Drug, T cell immunoterhapy
Biological: tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, IL-2
Biological: Infusion of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (10e9-10e10 cells) by iv in 30 Minutes. Followed by daily sc injections of 2 MIE Interleukin-2 for two weeks.
Other Name: TIL immunotherapy for cancers
- • the safety and tolerability of autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in combination with Interleukin-2(IL-2) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). [ Time Frame: {Time Frame: 12 months} ]Twenty of participants with adverse events as a measure of safety and tolerability according to standard NIH criteria including fever, mucositis, dermatitis, vomiting and hematologic toxicity leucopenia, neutropenia and lymphocytoponia etc. and a Quality of Life assessment. Adverse events will be reported on the case report form. The problility of observing at least one subject experience an adverse event in a sample of 20 subjects is 0.99, if the probability of the event occurring is assumed to be 0.2. There will be 95% power to detect a change in the proportion of adverse events in the group from 0 before treatment to 0.2 after treatment.
- • immune efficacy and anti-tumor effects of autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in combination with Interleukin-2(IL-2) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). [ Time Frame: [ Time Frame: 12 Months] ]Treatment response will be measured by immune response including the frequency of EBV antigen-specific T cells and ELISPOT detection for IFNg, EBV DNA concentration and tumor size. These data will be examined for normality and transformed if required.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in stage IVa or Ivb and patients with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma were planned for tumor biopsy or primary surgeon
- Age 18 to 70 years.
- Willing to sign a durable power of attorney
- Able to understand and sign the Informed Consent Document
- Life expectancy of greater than three months
- Patients of both genders must be willing to practice birth control from the time of enrollment on this study and for up to four months after receiving the preparative regimen.
- Seronegative for HIV antibody.
- Women of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test because of the potentially dangerous effects of the preparative chemotherapy on the fetus.
- WBC (> 3000/mm(3)).
- Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm.
- Hemoglobin greater than 8.0 g/dl.
- Serum ALT/AST less or equal to 2.5 times the upper limit of normal.
- Serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.6 mg/dl.
- Total bilirubin less than or equal to 1.5 mg/dl, except in patients with Gilbert's Syndrome who must have a total bilirubin less than 3.0 mg/dl.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous treatment with IL-12.
- Women of child-bearing potential who are pregnant or breastfeeding because of the potentially dangerous effects of the preparative chemotherapy on the fetus or infant.
- Active systemic infections, coagulation disorders or other major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory or immune system, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmias, obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease.
- Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease).
- Concurrent opportunistic infections (The experimental treatment being evaluated in this protocol depends on an intact immune system. Patients who have decreased immune competence may be less responsive to the experimental treatment and more susceptible to its toxicities).
- Concurrent systemic steroid therapy.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01462903
|Contact: Jiang Li, Ph.D.
|Contact: Yi-Xin Zeng, Ph.D.
|China, Guangdong
|Sun Yat-Sen University, Cancer Center
|Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510060
|Contact: Jiang Li, Ph.D. 86-20-87343174 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Yi-Xin Zeng, Ph.D.
|Sub-Investigator: Jiang Li, Ph.D.
|Sun Yat-Sen University, Cancer Center
|Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510060
|Contact: Jiang Li, Ph.D. 86-20-87343174 email@example.com
|Contact: Hai-Qiang Mai, Doctor 86-20-87343360 email@example.com
|Sub-Investigator: Hai-qiang Mai, Doctor
|Principal Investigator:
|Yi-Xin Zeng, Ph.D.
|Sun Yat-sen University
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|Jiang Li, Sun yat-sen University cancer center, biotherapy center, Sun Yat-sen University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01462903 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|November 1, 2011 Key Record Dates
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|November 24, 2014
|Last Verified:
|November 2014
Keywords provided by Jiang Li, Sun Yat-sen University:
hepatocellular carcinoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Liver Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
Pharyngeal Neoplasms
Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Digestive System Diseases
Liver Diseases
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Nasopharyngeal Diseases
Pharyngeal Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
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Why is rallying in America so great? The roads, for starters.
Here's John Buffum back when he was racing a Triumph TR7 with a bellowing Rover V8 up front and rear drive out back, demonstrating just how pretty American rallying can be. Even he has to point out the scenery, and he's the one driving between two massive drops.


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Trumpeter Lee Morgan performs two funky boogaloos, a ballad, and three complex group originals on this album whose music was first released in 1980. This is a transitional date with the hard bop stylist leaning in the direction of modal music and even anticipating aspects of fusion. His sextet (which includes Bennie Maupin on tenor, guitarist George Benson, pianist John Hicks, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Billy Higgins) is quite advanced for the period and inspires Morgan to some fiery and explorative playing. ~ Scott Yanow15-02-1968


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School Road, *thought to be in the 1930s.
The houses on the south side have yet to be built (first occupied in Summer 1947).
Courtesy of Sandra Clayton, and scanned by Ken Jacobs
Have you tried the other Winteringham Websites?
Winteringham, Parish Council (includes current news items, photographs, weather forecasts, calendar of events, etc etc) Don Burton World of Nature, Photo Archive
(modern photographs of the village), What the Papers have said about Winteringham (since July 2004), High Resolution Historical Photographs, Winteringham Film Archive, Winteringham Football Club, Winteringham Nature Site, Winteringham Recipes, Winteringham Sales, Winteringham Camera Club, Winteringham Village Hall, Winteringham Chapel


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Delays have been reported on the M25 anticlockwise after an earlier vehicle fire between junction eight and junction seven.
One of the lanes is still reportedly closed for recovery work.
Common Lane, in Ditchling, is closed from Beacon Road, Ditchling, to Hurstwood Lane, in Wivelsfield, according to traffic reports.
Due to planned work Southern and Thameslink train services are not serving London Bridge today, tickets are instead being accepted by London Underground between Victoria and London Bridge and between London Bridge and Canada Water.


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LOS ALAMITOS – The Wings Wheels and Rotors Expo touched down here on Sunday, showcasing military aircraft as well as a car show featuring hundreds of vintage and custom hot rods.
Ed Whisenant of Burbank came for only one reason: to fly in a 1975 retired Channel 5 News Bell 206 JetRanger.
"It has a turbine jet engine that used to be popular but now it is rare," said Whisenant, who is in the aerospace industry and has been in love with planes since he was a kid.
After paying $45 for a five-minute ride and waiting almost two hours, Whisenant had an added surprise when pilot Esteban Jimenez of copterpilot.com extended Whisenant's flight time to refuel in Fullerton, adding 20 minutes to a dream flight.


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The bollywood movie industry is one of the leading movie industries in the world today, producing in excess of twelve hundred movies a year. Some of the world's most famous actors and actresses first began their career or have appeared in bollywood movies. Bollywood movies have changed over the years. At one time most bollywood movies were romantic love stories, whereas today, most popular or famous bollywood movies have a violent theme running through them. Even bollywood is changing their style of keep up with their American equivalent, Hollywood.
Bollywood has produced several top grossing movies in 2008. Once such movie is Jodhaa Akbar. This historical film that was released in early 2008 is a romantic movie that highlights the romance between Muslim Mughal Emperor Akbar and his Hindu wife, Jodhabai. While the movie is one hundred percent accurate, the director of the film is conservative in stating that it is over seventy percent accurate. Most, if not all, of the events that occur in the move have been based on real events that have occurred throughout history in some way.
If you are looking for an action packed film, then look no further than Race. This bollywood movie takes place in South Africa and contains elements of comedy, action and thrill seeking behavior. This movie explores such themes as sibling rivalry, passion and romance. While
there are mixed reviews from critics, Race has gone on to become the fifth highest money making bollywood movie of the year.
Due to the increase in popularity of bollywood movies, most American movie stores have created a section for foreign films, most of which are produced by the bollywood movie industry. If you are interested in finding a particular bollywood movie, there are many online sites that list the most popular bollywood movies and several popular stores will have a list of bollywood films that they may carry.


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at Red Gallery, 1-3 Rivington Street in Shoreditch tomorrow.
Monday, October 10, 2011
I hope to see you all tomorrow at the private view for EAST POP RED
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Yesterday I offered a map highlighting some of NYC's free (like really free) landmarks and attractions in Manhattan's Midtown (and surrounding area).
Today: Lower Manhattan. When I had visited NYC prior to moving here, I had never really spent that much time in Lower Manhattan, beyond "Oh cool, that street sign says 'Wall Street'" and "Why is that bull significant again?"
But beyond the brief walk through I'd done, along with knowing that this area was home to the New York Stock Exchange, Ground Zero, and a pretty respectable view of the Statue of Liberty, that was about all I could say for Lower Manhattan. However, once Josh started working in Lower Manhattan (and not as an occupier OR a Wall Street Suit, by the way), he got to know the area very well, as did I.
It's no secret that NYC is an oooold city; it was once our nation's capital, after all. And Lower Manhattan is a neighborhood teeming with some of the most interesting… old stuff (which translates to major cool points for a super history dork like me). So with the help of my husband (that's GPP web designer/social media guru/everything-else-I-can't-wrap-my-head-around-fella/"no, he still doesn't have a proper title" guy), we created a walking map of some of the more interesting landmarks, some with huge plaques next to them, others that you'd miss if you blinked twice (no blinking allowed).
This is by no means an exhaustive Lower Manhattan tour; there are still plenty of museums and landmarks that we haven't seen and aren't included in this map. However, if you have a free afternoon and you're trying to cram as much as you can into a three day trip, this is a good way to do it!
Hope you enjoy!
And here's a printable MS Word doc version: Lower Manhattan walking tour DOC
And… here's a more detailed itinerary, because sometimes the buildings don't speak for themselves.
(Letters below correspond to the map above.)
A. Sphere Sculpture: For years, this sculpture was by the World Trade Center Twin Towers. As a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, this sculpture was damaged. However, it was not completely destroyed, and the ruins of it were re-located to Lower Manhattan's Battery Park as an interim memorial. On the one year anniversary of the attacks, an eternal flame was lit in memory of those who lost their lives on this day. To see what the Sphere looked like before it was damaged and to read more about its significance, check out this Wikipedia article (there's also a plaque by the actual sculpture that explains some of this).
B. Castle Clinton: Currently a national monument, this sandstone fort has served as a beer garden, theatre, aquarium, and exhibition hall, as well as America's first immigration station (yes, even before nearby Ellis Island!). Because of its geographic position, it is also a departure point for those visiting Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty (and you can get some pretty good views of both of those landmarks from here).
Battery Park is also home to the East Coast Memorial, an area of eight 19-ft. tall granite pylons commemorating the WWII U.S. servicemen who lost their lives in the western Atlantic Ocean.
C. Museum of the American Indian (housed in the U.S. Customs House): While we have never been in the museum, the building itself is a work of art in the Beaux-Arts style, and the nearby informational signs offer some interesting tidbits about the building and its original site.
D. The Charging Bull statue: This bronze statue, an iconic image of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, was originally a guerrilla art installation. When artist Arturo Di Modica placed the statue beneath the Broad St. Christmas tree in 1989, police seized it and placed it in an impound lot. Due to public outcry, The NYC Department of Parks and Recreation installed it two blocks south of the NYSE in Bowling Green Park. (Where did I learn this? Right here.)
E. Federal Hall National Monument: Perhaps my favorite part of the Lower Manhattan tour, this is where George Washington was inaugurated as our first president! Did you know that? I guessed if I'd thought of it, I could have figured it out, but this was a cool surprise to me when I read this sign in front of it:
F. New York Stock Exchange: Maybe you've heard of it? Often considered the financial center of the world, it is the world's largest stock exchange in terms of market capitalization (Source). Not to mention, it's a lovely building with some intense high relief going on in the building's pediment and a colonnade of Corinthian columns that'll bring out the architecture nerd in anyone (or at least, me).
G. Trinity Church: An ooolllddd church, and by "ooolllddd" I mean founded in 1696. (However, it has suffered a few fires and some rebuilding, but still… it's ooolllddd.) Take a free stroll through the church, as well as its museum in the back. You can also check out the cemetery which is the final resting place for many historical figures, including John Jacob Astor (the business guy), Robert Fulton (the steam engine guy), and Alexander Hamilton (the first Secretary of Treasury/ten dollar bill/died-in-a-famous-duel guy).
H. Zuccotti Park: This park — famous or infamous, depending on your ideological views — was the campground of the Occupy Wall Street protesters (and still sort of is, though they mostly just protest during the day as of this writing).
WTC Memorial: Continue down Trinity Place (northwest) and you'll begin to see signs pointing you in the direction of the WTC Memorial. While the memorial is a free attraction, you must reserve passes to see it (check out this website).
Brooklyn Bridge: To access this famous NYC landmark by foot, you can enter the promenade at Centre Street by City Hall (easily found on a Google map, just type in "Avenue of the Finest and Centre Street, NY, NY").


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CHAPEL HILL � The New Bern Bears are 4A state champions.
Senior Jachin Watkins scored on a two-yard run with 26 seconds remaining to lift the Bears to a 39-38 win over Porter Ridge on Friday at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill.
Watkins scored four rushing touchdowns, but none were bigger than his score on the final drive. The final possession took 15 plays for 80 yards.
New Bern scored first on Bra'lon Cherry's 11-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, capping off a six-play, 80-yard drive.
Porter Ridge responded with back-to-back one-yard scoring runs from UNC-Charlotte commit Chris Duffy.
The legs of New Bern quarterback Josh Taylor knotted the score at 14-14 with 37 seconds remaining in the first quarter. On Porter Ridge's next drive, Duffy scampered for a 64-yard touchdown run.
Watkins, also a UNC-Charlotte commit, plowed in the end zone for a two-yard score, ending an 11-play, 80-yard drive.
The Bears went to halftime tied 21-21.
Porter Ridge began the second half with a 10-yard touchdown reception from Luke Bayly. Watkins came back with a 17-yard touchdown run, but the extra point was blocked.
The Pirates took advantage when Jerrick Robbins exploded for a 66-yard touchdown, extending their lead to 35-27.
Watkins then punched in a four-yard scoring run, but the Bears missed on the two-point conversion.
New Bern's following possession, the Bears fumbled, and Porter Ridge recovered on the 12-yard line.
The Bears' defense held Porter Ridge to a field goal, keeping it a one possession game.
New Bern (15-0) won its second title in the past five years.


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From the perspective of being an owner, an industry pioneer in corporate sponsorship, a track president and fan, Vic Zast writes the "Destinations" column for The Blood-Horse. His five-star ratings of international events have shed light on racing in all corners of the globe - from England, Australia, Hong Kong, Dubai to Japan.
Vic is a regular contributor to MSNBC.com, a columnist for the Illinois Racing News and has written on racing for ESPN.com, National Public radio and The Age, Australia's leading daily.
Vic makes his home in Chicago and lives in Saratoga Springs in August.


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Scott and Yasue Schumaker moved from Japan to Hawaii in 1995. They and their son Ian, 14, live in Kapolei. In mid-January, Yasue unexpectedly returned to her childhood home in Sendai, Japan to care for her ailing mother. She was in Sendai when the devastating 9.0 earthquake struck. In this blog, Scott will share how all 3 family members are coping with the separation amid the chaos and misery of post-quake life in northern Japan. All times in this blog are HST.
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Ranked third nationally in batting average,
Oberacker goes 2-for-3;
Kirby-Jones clubs two more home runs to break school record
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Things could not have worked out any better Tuesday for the Tennessee Tech baseball team.
Yes, they added a win to their season total with an 11-2 non-conference victory over Western Carolina in Bush Stadium. Tech has now won 14 of its last 17 games while improving to 26-23 overall.
There were a handful of heroes. Chad Hayes hit a two-run home run to jump start the offense on his way to three RBI. A.J. Kirby-Jones shrugged off strikeouts in his first three at bats to slug two opposite field home runs and break the school single-season record. They were his 21st and 22nd of the season.
Chad Oberacker, who came into the game ranked third in the nation with a .451 batting average, went 2-for-3 to raise his season mark to .455.
On the mound, senior Wade Bilbrey (1-0) [pictured] logged four strong innings to earn the win, and four Tech hurlers combined on a four-hitter with 11 strikeouts.
But, the biggest thing to come out of the contest was that coach Matt Bragga's bullpen will be rested for the upcoming series with Murray State.
The Golden Eagles have just with two days of rest before Tech hosts the Racers in a three-game set in Bush Stadium that could determine the regular season Ohio Valley Conference champion.
Tech got a wining performance from some seldom-used pitchers in notching the mid-week triumph.
Starter Nick Price overcame a shaky first inning and started a streak of eight scoreless innings by Tech's mound staff. The Catamounts scored one earned run and another unearned run in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead. With one out, Matt Johns doubled and Tyler Kirkpatrick reached second on an error in the outfield that scored Johns. Ross Heffley's single made it 2-0 before Price settled down. He retired the next two batters and pitched a 1-2-3 second inning.
Bilbrey worked four innings, striking out six and allowing just
two singles to record his first win of the season.
Ben Burgess, Tech's usual starting catcher, looked solid in two innings without allowing a hit in the seventh or eighth. Oberacker, a candidate for the John Olerud Two-Way Player Award, struck out all three batters he faced in the ninth.
Meanwhile, Hayes clubbed his fourth home run of the year with Devin Rivers aboard in the fourth to tie the game at 2-2. Tech had stranded five runners in the first three innings against WCU starter Preston Hatcher (1-2), who eventually took the loss despite a solid start.
Oberacker singled to lead off the Tech fifth, stole second, and scored what proved to be the winning run on a double by Seth Edwards. Hayes collected his third RBI of the game with a single to make it a 4-2 lead.
Tech scored four more in the sixth, beginning with a one-out home run by Kirby-Jones that broke the school record. He topped his own record that he had established last year with 20.
Oberacker was hit by a pitch and Edwards singled, followed by a two-run triple from freshman Zephan Guyear to make it 7-2. Brandon Crossman's sacrifice fly made it 8-2 through six innings.
With two outs in the seventh, Kirby-Jones launched a blast deep to right for his second home run of the game and 22nd of the season to make it 9-2.
Tech added two more in the eighth on two hits. The big blow was an RBI double by freshman Austin Wulf with two outs, making it 11-2.
Six Golden Eagles had multi-hit games, topped by Hayes with a 3-for-5 performance Wulf, Kirby-Jones, Oberacker, Edwards and Crossman had two hits each. Tate McMillan walked three times. In all, seven of the Golden Eagles' 15 hits were for extra bases.
Johns was 2-for-4 for Western Carolina, accounting for half of the Catamounts four hits.
Hatcher threw four innings, walking four and striking out a
career-high six. He allowed three runs on five hits. He was the
first of six pitcher used by Western Carolina, whose record moved
to 31-19-1.
Tech and Murray State will play a doubleheader Friday beginning at 1 p.m., and a single game Saturday with the same start time. Admission is free.


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A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Design needed for four vertical pages: 1) front cover 2) back cover 3) inside front cover, and 4) inside back cover.
To save time, you can design the front cover first. If we like your front cover design, we will then ask to you submit designs for the other 3 pages.
Company: We are a wholesalecompany selling eyewearproducts for everyone: sports for men, fashionable styles for women, readersfor elders, and even kid sunglasses. We would like our catalog cover to reflectour quality and fashion.
For reference, you can take a look at our2006 to 2008 catalog cover designs. However, we would like the generallayout and colors to be different from these previous designs.
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Table of Contents
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Rhinestone/Stone/Pearl -------------------------------------8
Hot Fashion Metal-------------------------------------- 10
Sports Metal ---------------------------------------------17
Polarized Lens --------------------------------------------20
Glass Lens----------------------------------------------- 23
Revo Lens -----------------------------------------------24
Driving Lens ---------------------------------------------26
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Goggles --------------------------------------------------41
Cover Over ----------------------------------------------42
Safety Glasses------------------------------------------ 43
Kiddie-------------------------------------------------- 44
Clip Ons -----------------------------------------------46
Reading Glasses ----------------------------------------48
Opti Clear Lens---------------------------------------- 52
Cases --------------------------------------------------53
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K --- Kids
RH --- Rhinestone
ST --- Spring Temple
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Here is a lot of 2 vintage Tim Mee Vietnam era soldiers made by Processed Plastic. These are the rare grenade throwing soldiers. Sometime during production, the molds for these soldiers were modified to have an open, cupped hand. This early version is much less common. The soldiers shown in the photo are the ones you will receive. They are armed with M16 rifles. The soldiers are in very good, played with condition, and will be packed in a polybag.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A chimpanzee once hooked on smoking by visitors offering it cigarettes has died at a South African zoo at the relatively advanced age of 52, officials said on Wednesday.
"He appears to have died of old age," said municipal spokesman Qondile Khedama. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.
"Charlie the smoking chimp" used to put two fingers to his mouth to mimic smoking and reach out with his other hand to bum cigarette butts from visitors at Bloemfontein Zoo. But when videos of him puffing away circulated globally a few years ago, zoo officials moved to cut off the supply of smokes.
The nickname stuck even though the cigarette habit faded.
The life expectancy for chimps in the wild is about 15 years and only 7 percent of wild chimps live past 40, a Harvard University report published in 2007 said.


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Source-code analysis tools company GrammaTech has announced CodeSonar 3.8, promising faster code analysis with fewer false positives. The current speed boost has been achieved by parallelizing the software's analysis engine to take full advantage of multi-core processors.
"The improvement is dramatic, especially for large projects. For example, on an 8-core machine, we have seen analysis times reduced by 85 percent," said Paul Anderson, VP of engineering at GrammaTech.
NOTE: CodeSonar is a static-analysis tool that performs a whole-program, interprocedural analysis on C/C++ code, and identifies complex programming bugs that can result in system crashes, memory corruption, concurrency errors, and other serious problems.
The company now claims to be able to produce a lower false positive rate due to a combination of new models for C/C++ libraries (e.g. Boost) and improvements to the analysis itself. Workflow enhancements have been incorporated to make it easier for developers to manage defect warnings across multiple project versions and development branches — and there is also better checking for concurrency-related errors.
This release is the first version to incorporate CodeSonar's software architecture visualization, which is designed to provide developers with insight into the relationships between elements in software and scales to large projects with millions of lines of source code.
"Fluid transitions allow developers to visualize massive data sets in real time and to see the program at different levels of abstraction. CodeSonar visualization also includes other program-understanding and navigation features, and supports annotations and sharing of diagrams between team members," said Anderson.


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No More Saturday Mail Deliveries
The United States Postal Service plans to stop delivering Saturday mail beginning this August. The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service says it plans to stop delivering mail on Saturdays, but continue delivering packages six days a week. The landmark decision to be announced later today by the USPS not to deliver mail on Saturdays is expected to save the agency nearly $2 billion per year.
The move accentuates one of the agency's strong points — package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010. The delivery of letters and other mail has declined with the increasing use of email and other Internet use. Post offices that are now open on Saturdays will remain open.


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Dancing to Biederbecke in Montana
In his first novel, Montana memoirist William Kittredge serves up a simmering potboiler, a deliberately old-fashioned stew rich with The-Summer-I-Became-a-Man mythology and a poor boy/rich girl romance.
The mother of The Willow Field's protagonist, Rossie Benasco, runs a sort of halfway house in Reno for divorcées: "By the time his voice changed, Rossie had seen more than one woman weep because a cowboy hadn't come around to say goodbye."
Soon the 15-year-old Rossie hits the trail himself, herding horses from California to Calgary during the Depression-era 1930s. The novel follows this half-Basque Nevada native, inarticulate and untutored, through sundry rites of passage — from bedroom conquests, to that first underage sip of a double martini, to the gunning down of a "velvet-horned" buck.
Readers with delicate sensibilities should be forewarned that nearly every character on these hard sod prairies has a foul mouth; even Kittredge's womenfolk do not blush to bandy terms that are sexually graphic and scatologically precise.
Much of
the story takes place in Montana's Bitterroot Mountains,
where Rossie marries Eliza Stevenson, the daughter of two
ex-Chicagoans who have fled academe for life on a ranch. The
novel's sharpest exchanges center on Eliza's wealthy
parents, Bernard and Lemma. Good neurotic energy pulses not far
below the surface of their polite façades. Bernard nourishes
himself by claiming a kinship to Robert Louis Stevenson, and he
introduces Rossie to Krazy Kat cartoons and hot jazz. Kittredge
uses the music of the day to entrancing effect: The Willow Field is
at its most pleasing when everyone ceases swearing and simply
dances the night away to Bix Beiderbecke or Earl Hines.
The Willow Field
William Kittredge
342 pages, hardcover: $24.95.
Knopf, 2006


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Fall is the perfect time to pack the car for a fun picnic. These car ideas could be used for a family outing, a romantic afternoon or some fun tailgating.
This truck would be great for a nice outdoor romantic dinner and then watching the stars at night.
The Carbeque is already set up for you to enjoy a fun outdoor meal!
Drive into the country with this comfortable picnic ready from the car.
This vintage station wagon from Country Living sets the mood for a great picnic in the woods.
This car from Better Homes and Gardens looks like the perfect afternoon get away with perfect snacks and fun outdoor entertainment.


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Landscapes of the mind: worlds of sense and metaphor
University of Toronto Press, 1990 - Psychology - 227 pages
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Loved it! More like this, please.
QUBE is like being in the environment of the movie Cube 2: Hypercube while playing an increasingly more complicated three-dimensional game of Sokoban with colored blocks that have different functions. If that seems confusing, it isn't once you begin playing.
You awaken on the floor of an all-white room that resembles a padded cell. The walls, ceiling, and floor are constructed of equally-sized cubes. Your hands feel strange. When you look at them, you realize you're wearing a tight-fitting pair of gloves that appear to be fitted with electronics. A bit of color catches your eye.
You must find your way through the QUBE, and each room is a puzzle. No room can be skipped; the exit door will not open until you've cracked that room's conundrum. The only colors inside the QUBE are on the function blocks, and there are five in all.
1. Red: three cubes in length, extrudes and retracts one cube at a time
2. Yellow: shaped like a staircase, extrudes all at once, three configurations depending on where you click it (3-2-1, 1-2-3, 1-2-1)
3. Blue: just one cube, retracts into springloaded position, used as a trampoline
4. Green: just one cube, but you need other function blocks to shove it around
5. Purple: not movable, consists of directional arrows and rotates the portion of the room its on
In the first sector, you merely have to figure out how to get yourself to the exit, using the blocks. But it quickly gets more complicated with the addition of lasers that need to be activated, empty function blocks where you have to decide which one must be which color, blocked exits necessitating looking for a new exit, secret areas, areas that are completely dark except for the blocks you light up, and more.
The graphics are customizable, so if you have a powerful computer, you can amp everything up with depth of field, shadows, and the like. If not, you can "downsize" the graphics. I set everything to eleven and, despite the mostly white environment, I really got lost in the seemingly endless QUBE. I found it very realistic, and even creepy in spots.
Over time, the environment changes from pristine and perfect to rundown and obviously in disrepair. Tunnels and rooms become surreal and appear to have been designed by Escher. Don't rush through; take your time and look around each room. Immerse yourself.
Turn it up! There are lots of ambient sounds that occur on the periphery, and they really add to the experience of being alone inside the gigantic, mysterious QUBE. Alone, that is, except for the times when you feel there are others watching you. What was that?!
QUBE is exactly the type of game I love and will play over and over again. First person adventure has always been my favorite genre, and I wish there were more quality games available. To be honest, QUBE drew me into its universe the same way Rhem and Myst did, despite its lack of developed storyline. That's why I'd love to see a sequel...there are so many questions about the QUBE. In the meantime, I'm voluntarily going back in.


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BOSTON, Mass. – Earlier this week members of the University of Massachusetts Boston softball, women's ice hockey, baseball, and lacrosse programs traveled to Northeastern University to take part in special forum "The Invisible Athletes" which was presented by GForce in conjunction with Northeastern's Sport in Society.
The forum, which was open to the public, featured four keynote speakers and a special panel of student-athletes to address and break down the negative stereotypes about gay athletes through competitive play and educational outreach. Philadelphia Flyers scout Patrick Burke moderated the panel of gay and lesbian athletes. Each athlete shared their personal story and experiences with the audience. People in attendance were able to ask the panel a variety of questions and received some valuable information in return.
Also in attendance at the forum was Andrew Goldstein, former All-American goalie of the Dartmouth College lacrosse team and commentator on gay athletic issues for ESPN, Lee-J Marasolo, current assistant coach at Princeton University and former team captain for the Boston College women's ice hockey team, and David Farber, former scoring leader and captain of the University of Pennsylvania men's ice hockey team.
GForce Sports is a non-profit organization based in Denver, Colorado, whose key focus is to educate people on the negative stereotypes about LGBT athletes. It demonstrates competitiveness, teamwork, pride and courage on the playing field, by relating diverse stories and experiences as told by LGBT athletes. Their hope is to create a dialogue and change the perceived differences between gay and straight athletes.
For more information about GForce Sports, visit http://www.gforcesports.org.


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Brett Favre's Agent: 'He Could Play Today'
With an alarming number of underachieving teams in the NFL after three weeks, you know it was only a matter of time before someone invoked the name of Brett Favre.
If you had September 24th in the office pool - you win!
Bus Cook, Favre's agent, tells the Mobile Press-Register #4 isn't interested in making a comeback (yet), but could if he wanted to:
Today, he could play today. I saw him the other day. He's in the best shape I've ever seen him in, physically. His arms look like a blacksmith's arms.
He rides a bike probably 30-50 miles a day.
He runs four or five miles a day.
He's coaching at the high school and they're undefeated. He loves it.
His body fat is 7.5 percent and he weighs 225 pounds.
He could play today, better than a lot of them out there today.
Keep in mind, Favre is 43 and hasn't played since the 2010 season, but knowing the track record of this guy, can we really rule anything out?


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REYHANLI, Turkey — In this bustling border town, anonymous apartments serve as safe houses for Syrian rebel commanders, clinics for wounded fighters and opposition media centers equipped with banks of sophisticated laptops and video gear.
Turkey has allowed an assemblage of Syrian rebels and their associates, including secular activists, cash-wielding sheiks, arms traffickers and Islamist militants, to use its territory as a transit route, logistics hub and rest stop.
The government has been very clear that it wants to see Syrian President Bashar Assad removed from power. But after more than two years, the conflict is dragging on. Al Qaeda-linked rebel groups are strengthening rapidly in Syria and seizing territory close to the Turkish frontier, the eastern boundary of the NATO alliance.
Increasingly, officials in Ankara, the Turkish capital, as well as critics of the government's policy worry that the militants will establish a permanent presence, exporting extremist ideas and fighters from a chaotic, war-torn state. Despite concern in Washington about the militants' advance, Turkey appears to have few good options.
"Ankara's calculation has been that Assad has to go, and Turkey will allow anyone who wants to fight Assad to go into Syria," said Soner Cagaptay, an analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "To Turkey it didn't matter that much if there were some bad guys, because once Assad was gone the good guys would take over and clean out the bad guys."
Now that calculus is changing. "Turkey is realizing that Assad may not go," Cagaptay said. "And the good guys may not take over."
Turkish artillery batteries opened fire last month on positions in Syria of a powerful Al Qaeda-linked rebel faction, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, after its fighters captured the Syrian town of Azaz, just three miles from the border. Turkey shut the crossing to Azaz, prompting an Internet threat by the group to extend a campaign of car bombings to Turkish soil.
Turkey could be more cautious about which Syrian opposition groups receive aid and who can operate in the border region. Officials are pushing back against charges that Turkish territory has become a launch pad for Al Qaeda-linked groups such as Al Nusra Front. News reports have cited seizures of trucks carrying what they described as suspicious chemicals and warheads for hundreds of rockets.
But sealing the frontier zone to Syrian rebel factions would choke off supply routes and could lead to the collapse of the entire anti-Assad rebellion in Syria's north.
Alarmed by the downward spiral, Turkey has launched something of a diplomatic offensive with neighbors, including Iran, a key backer of the Assad government. Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, visited Ankara early this month and the two nations vowed to work together to find a solution for Syria, despite being on opposite sides of a proxy war there.
When an armed rebellion first surfaced against the autocratic Assad in 2011, Turkish officials embraced a vigorous policy of backing the opposition on the assumption that Assad's government was on the verge of collapse. Assad's exit would have opened the way for Turkey's grateful clients to seize power in Damascus.
But it hasn't worked out that way, with Assad clinging to power as the West, and most specifically the Obama administration, opted not to provide robust military aid to the Syrian opposition.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, architect of Ankara's Syria policy, did not hide his displeasure when the recent U.S.-Russian-brokered deal to neutralize Syria's chemical weapons seemed to rule out the prospect of an American bombing campaign against Syria.
Erdogan rejects the idea that Islamic militant groups could gain a foothold in Turkey. "It is out of the question that organizations like Al Qaeda or Al Nusra could take shelter in our country," he said Thursday on a visit to Sweden.
But his policy of providing a welcome mat for Syrian rebels of all stripes is drawing the ire of many Turks who fear that long-secular Turkey is being dragged into Syria's increasingly sectarian quagmire.
"Why are we bringing in all these crazies here?" asked Suleyman Osterek, an opposition politician in Antakya, another border-area town that has seen an influx of Syrian fighters. "These people scare us."
In an interview this month with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Turkish President Abdullah Gul voiced concern that Syria could become "something like Afghanistan on the shores of the Mediterranean."
It is unclear whether additional Western military support or even direct U.S. intervention would have pushed Assad out or just accelerated the process of militarization and radicalization in Syria. Afghanistan in the 1980s, Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and current-day Libya all provide examples of Islamist militants gaining traction after the West-backed toppling of authoritarian governments.
Today, fractious opposition brigades and sundry warlords hold sway over vast stretches of Syria. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and another Islamist offshoot, Al Nusra Front, both apparently bankrolled by wealthy donors in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere, now count among insurgent Syria's major power brokers, and by some accounts are the most dominant.
The Islamic State has drawn thousands of recruits from other rebel units and throngs of eager volunteers from dozens of nations. Turkey is now widely regarded as a transit route for Syria-bound Islamist militants from the Persian Gulf, North Africa, Europe and Chechnya and elsewhere. Iraqi, Jordanian and Lebanese volunteers usually enter via their nations' borders with Syria, experts say.
With extremists in the ascendance, the U.S.-backed policy of aiding "moderate" rebel groups appears to face major hurdles.
The numbers of foreign Islamist militants in Syria now exceed those who previously flocked to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to U.S. congressional estimates. There is widespread concern in the West that the Syrian conflict is incubating a new generation of extremists who could eventually wreak havoc across the globe.
"When it is over, these people will be combat trained, combat hardened, and they are going to want to go home," U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said last month.
As Turkey grapples with the Islamist militants on its doorstep, it also faces the emergence in northern Syria of autonomy-minded Kurdish militiamen allied with the Kurdistan Workers Party. Turkey has battled the party for more than 30 years, though peace talks are now underway.
Secular Kurdish militiamen, who have long viewed the radical Islamist forces as their archenemy, have proved to be the sole Syrian faction capable of pushing back the onslaught. Late last month, Kurdish militiamen overran a crossing along the Iraqi border, expelling Al Qaeda-affiliated fighters.
The volatile border tableau has prompted speculation that Ankara could eventually seek a strategic alliance with Syrian Kurds. Though improbable on one level, it no longer seems out of the question, analysts say.
"Turkey is going to have to make some very, very difficult decisions, given the way Syria has unraveled," said Howard Eissenstat, a Turkey expert at St. Lawrence University in New York. "They are backing up, recalibrating and saying, 'OK, what is our long game going to look like?'"
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With automation and optimization scarcely far from any vendor's "favorite adjective" list, news this month circles of new application release automation technology from Israeli company Nolio.
The firm's Application Release Operations Suite sits undeniably close to some of the other so-called "Dev-Ops" tools currently being championed by Serena Software and others with functions such as the ability to automate end-to-end release processes and options to gauge and assess cloud readiness.
Nolio's offering comes in three parts:
- Nolio Release Operations Center v1: A multi-release application release operations product designed for continuous release across the application delivery chain.
- Nolio ASAP Release Automation v4: The firm's flagship product designed for automating application deployment, maintenance, remediation, and recovery with (a term now being quite heavily coined) "zero touch" deployment.
- Nolio ASAP Cloud Pack: A new offering providing application-centric release operations for applications running in private, hybrid, and public cloud infrastructure.
According to Forrester Research: "Nolio's solution automates complex application deployment, maintenance, remediation, and recovery processes for all types of infrastructures across the application lifecycle whether it eventually runs on physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructures." (Source: Forrester Research, Inc., "Case Study: City Index Becomes Agile with Release Automation", May 29, 2012)
"Nolio's continuous application release operations solution accelerates the deployment of applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Many of the world's leading SaaS providers already rely on Nolio for their application release operations, and that level of operational agility is now available for applications deployed in the cloud or planned for the cloud by using the Nolio ASAP Cloud Pack," said the company.
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More than six years' worth of citations and out-of-service orders issued to truckers by the Minnesota State Patrol aren't worth the paper they were written on, according to a lawsuit filed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
OOIDA claims that's because the state had no authority to enforce federal regulations.
The Association and five members filed a lawsuit seeking refunds of fines and penalties associated with citations involving motor carrier safety regulations, handed down by the Minnesota State Patrol. The lawsuit, seeking class-action status, was filed Nov. 20, 2009, with the Minnesota District Court for the 4th Judicial District.
In documents obtained by OOIDA, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration determined through a review of Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program that the federal regulations governing truckers and the trucking industry were not adopted into Minnesota state law. The agency released the MCSAP report in April 2008.
"In essence because the federal regulations were not adopted by the state of Minnesota, there were no motor carrier safety regulations on the books that officers with the Minnesota State Patrol were authorized to enforce," said OOIDA President and CEO Jim Johnston.
The state of Minnesota did finally adopt the federal regs Aug. 1, 2009.
However, citations and out-of-service orders issued before Aug. 1, 2009, denied truckers and motor carriers alike their right to due process, the lawsuit claims.
"They had no authority to issue tickets or put people out of service. It's high time to give back what is owed and reverse the damage to drivers' records," Johnston said.
If the lawsuit is successful, the statute of limitations would require that all the fines imposed for six years before the suit be returned.
In addition to the state of Minnesota, OOIDA's complaint names four officials as defendants both individually and in their official capacities: Michael Campion, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety; Mark Dunaski, chief of the Minnesota State Patrol; Ken Urquhart, commander of the Commercial Vehicle Division of the Minnesota State Patrol; and Tom Hanson, Minnesota Department of Management and Budget.
This is the second lawsuit filed by the Association against the state of Minnesota.
The Association filed the first lawsuit May 13, 2009, with the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on behalf of truck drivers placed out of service and in some cases fined after members of the Minnesota State Patrol arbitrarily arrived at the conclusion the drivers were "fatigued."
The discovery of a seemingly random checklist of items that supposedly indicated fatigue did more than just raise an eyebrow at the Association. The list included the presence of a TV, reading material, a cell phone – to name a few – as signs of fatigue.
But that was just the tip of the iceberg. The Association immediately began to dig in and found out that the enforcement program not only lacked medical or scientific justification, but also infringed on truckers' civil and constitutional rights.
The Association's findings were highlighted in an in-depth investigation by Land Line Now Host Mark Reddig, which aired on OOIDA's Sirius XM radio show in April 2009.
The lawsuit charges that drivers were denied their rights to a hearing on the out-of-service orders and that the regulation under which the orders were issued fails both to define fatigue and to establish a standard under which a driver would know when to stop driving.
The state's enforcement procedures – which lead to arbitrary determinations of driver fatigue – are challenged in the lawsuit on constitutional grounds; the lack of due process; and warrantless search and seizure.
Research pertaining to the first lawsuit challenging Minnesota's arbitrary enforcement of fatigue turned up an April 2008 MCSAP report. That report revealed that the state had not adopted the federal regulations – prohibiting them from enforcing any federal regulations governing truckers, Johnston said.
That discovery immediately led to the Association's second lawsuit.
A copy of both lawsuits can be found on OOIDA's Web site in the Media Center section. LL


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Italeaf: Resignation of TerniEnergia CFO, Filippo Calisti appointed as new CFO of the company
ITALEAF: Resignation of TerniEnergia CFO, Filippo Calisti appointed as new Chief Financial Officer of the company
· Paolo Allegretti resigns from Chief Financial Officer, manager in charge of preparing the company's financial reports and IR manager, due to his new commitments as Executive Officer
TerniEnergia, a company listed on the Star segment of the Italian Stock Exchange and part of the Italeaf Group, announces that today the executive director Mr Paolo Allegretti has resigned with immediate effect from the office of Chief Financial Officer and manager responsible for preparing the company's financial reports. In accordance with the requirements of the Market Regulations of Borsa Italiana, Paolo Allegretti holds 7,777 shares in TerniEnergia SpA.
The Board of Directors of TerniEnergia, under the chairmanship of Stefano Neri, has appointed Mr. Filippo Calisti as the new Chief Financial Officer and manager in charge of preparing the company's financial reports, with immediate effect.
Filippo Calisti, 41, graduated in Economics at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome in 2001, has experience in administration, finance and control within the Group. He began his career at PriceWaterHouseCoopers as auditor until 2010, and then worked as CFO in TerniGreen, a company listed on the AIM market of the Italian Stock Exchange until 2012. From 2014 until today he has been Chief Financial Officer of Italeaf SpA, a company listed on the NASDAQ First North market of the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
Based on the communications made to the Company and the public, Filippo Calisti holds n. 38.270 shares in TerniEnergia SpA.
Italeaf SpA is obliged to make public this information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, at 17.30 CET on 12 January 2018.
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Italeaf SpA, established in December 2010, is a holding company and a business accelerator for companies and startups in the areas of innovation and cleantech. Italeaf operates as a company builder, promoting the creation and development of industrial startups in the fields of cleantech, smart energy and technological innovation. Italeaf has headquarters and plants in Italy at Nera Montoro (Narni), Terni, Milano and Lecce; has international offices in London and Hong Kong. The company controls TerniEnergia, listed on the STAR segment of the Italian Stock Exchange and active in the fields of renewable energy, energy efficiency and waste management, and Skyrobotic, in the business development and manufacture of civil and commercial drones in mini and micro classes for the professional market, Numanova, operating in the field of innovative metallurgy and additive manufacturing, and Italeaf RE, a real estate company. Italeaf holds a minority stake in Vitruviano LAB, a research center active in the R&D sector for special materials, green chemistry, digital transformation and cleantech.


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It's surely happened to you, too: You call someone back from a telephone message, not sure who they are or what they want, and what the receptionist recites upon answering comes off as a complete blur. It doesn't even separate into words.
In many cases this has nothing to do with the diction of the receptionist. Out of context, the company name simply makes no sense to the ear.
Years ago I had an extreme version of this experience when a gardening columnist I was interviewing said something interesting about "squash vine borers." Listening, I could not form words out of those sounds. I had to ask her to repeat the phrase three times. I still wasn't sure I'd gotten it right and emailed her to check, only to learn that what I'd finally heard as "bores" should have been "borers."
Two names submitted in our first Named At Last naming contest, for a web design/search engine optimization company, exemplify this problem. Each contains the kernel of an appealing visual image, but out loud they don't work:
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In the first name, the consonants smudge into one another, and in the second example, the vowels blend together when they shouldn't. Corral a colleague who hasn't read this newsletter, and test this by saying each name naturally, without exaggerating the space between the words. Ask them to spell what you just said. Most of the time, the colleague will look stunned, unable to echo the sounds, much less spell words.
Use "the receptionist test" on any name you're considering for a company or product. Even if you primarily sell through the written word, there will be times when you need to call a business partner and have the name create understanding rather than confusion.
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Data Management/Curation Task Force Wed. Aug. 21 2013, 1 2pm ; Library West 429 Members : Hannah Norton, Laurie Taylor Rolando Garcia Milian, Denise Bennett, Val Minson, Joe Aufmuth, David Schwieder, Blake Landor, Erik Deumens Robert Ferl and Cecilia Botero Agenda Updates and Discussion: Sept. 18, 10 11:30am, Smathers Library 1A: o Librarians presenting within the libraries at the Subject Specialist meeting on activities to date and e xpected future activities possible discussion points/r ecommendations may include: F or all LibGuides to include links to relevant repositories F or possible updates to position descriptions Oct. 3, 10am 5pm, Smathers Library 1A: o Registration: http://bit.ly/bigdataUF o Continue planning; potential topics: Introductory panel (members of the task force) talking about overall context, DMPTool, finding data, metadata, storage, the IR, etc. Introduction to HPC (M att Gitzendanner) Breakouts on particular elements related to data analysis (individuals listed in parentheses are ideas about who could be involved or volunteers from the Task Force): SPSS (Dave Schweider), SAS (Lou Ann Cooper), GIS (Joe Aufmuth), Google Refine (Val Minson), using Excel for research data (Pandora Cowart), copyright/permissions/data sharing (Christine Fruin), data visualization (Joseph Murphy, Chad Juehring, grad students at Digital Worlds) P erspective from/profile of a researcher (Erik Deumens or Rob Ferl) Brainstorming and discussion on fall data management workshops for other topics/areas o Discussion of HPC training; examples and use cases for future trainings New grad and faculty orientatio ns (Aug. 14 16) and handout: updates/feedback CKAN and DataConservancy evaluating these (and others TBD) for use in determining other UF needs that could be met with IR and other existing systems, and determining needs best met with additional tools Ong oing Activities /Upcoming Survey IRB approval now in place ( http://ufl.qualtrics.com ) ORCID system integration grant proposal in preparation SURA Dataverse Network : http://arc.irss.unc.edu/dvn/dv/ufl o Checking with DSR on awarded grant data feed/export ; NFREC Meetings Next meeting : September 4 Marston Science Library L107 Meeting s : alt. Wed ; HSC Library C2 41 Library West 42 9 Marston Science Library L107 Resources DMC TF site: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/datamgmt Related wiki: http://uflibdatacuration.pbworks.com/ Email list: datamgmt email@example.com
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