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Damn... takes balls to wear that jersey in ATL
The chairman is so old!
A frustrated Jonas...
Here is a pic of them...

That's odd... It was a video of Amir and JJ working out with Hakeem taken off Amir's instagram account... which has now been removed!!!
What's even weirder is that the Raptors tweeted about it......
That's what I'm talking about!

I just wish DeMar had this sort of confidence...
Sometimes in the way he moves, he looks like a YOUNG Kobe. His dunk style etc... I'm talking 1997/8 Kobe
I get that... I'm suggesting NBA.com isn't... Considering they had this linked up on their home page you would think it would be updated! No need to be sassy ;)
Check this... Says we've added Diante Garrett and lost Bebe?!
Yeah... I didn't put that together, just found it online. They certainly have lost weight though... Even with the 'slight different angles' you can see that, surely?!
Melo's instagram pic was...
The NBA elite seem to be trimming down... Opinions?
Personally, I thought the extra weight and muscle is what separated them from other players their height and position. Maybe this will add more...
Absolutely bossed that guy at the end...
You can tell that everyone just loves Big V! I bet he's it's a right joke to be around him!
Over 4 years old... But with DeMar turning 25 today, it kinda shows how much he has matured.
Just a question... How many times has everyone watched the limited highlights of Bruno in Summer League? I watch them every couple of days just to see if i missed anything or miraculously some extra...
Still can't get over those arms...
I don't know why but seeing Joel Embiid in his cast cracks me up... I understand it's not a funny situation but you thought maybe they could have ushered him to the back or placed him in the middle...
22.08.2013 to be more exact ;)

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The taste was weird and not pleasing. A big note of orange citrus then a bit of ginger and lemongrass come through. Really the big note is just solvent. Tastes like a lysol product. I've left beer in my glass once before at a bar and it was just so I was sure I could drive myself home. Tonight I left beer in the glass, but it was because the beer was horrible. This was that beer.
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The name of this one does not due it justice. To my surprise, it was a very tasty brew, it may be blonde but it was nicely loaded with Belgian yeast, sugar cane, and a smack of lemon in the finish.
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A - Pours a hazy golden straw color. It head no head.
S - Smells of lemongrass and like others have noted like a cleaning product. I feel that the ginger is adding this not too attractive quality.
T - Ginger is immediately present with some citrus notes and mild sweetness. The ginger really ruins it for me because of teh fact that it makes the beer taste like a cleaning product. Ginger is a good refreshing and interesting spice for beer but in my opinion this beer doesn't execute it well.
M - Crisp and well baalnced. Light bodied.
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The United States Supreme Court's recent (and landmark) decision in Lawson v. FMR LLC, broadly expanding the scope of potential whistle-blower claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2012 (SOX), highlights employers' enlarged whistle-blower-related exposure. The Lawson decision meaningfully enhances the number of employees who may seek to bring suit under the SOX whistle-blower provision. Passed in 2002 on the heels of the Enron scandal, SOX prohibits retaliation against employees who report specific violations of SEC regulations and/or other forms of shareholder fraud. Based on statutory language, up until Lawson, employers generally operated under the belief that it applied only to employees of publicly-traded companies.
Not so. In Lawson, writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Ginsburg held that the SOX anti-retaliation provision applies not only to employees of publicly-traded companies, but also to employees of non-public companies that provide work for public companies. Justice Ginsburg reasoned that prohibiting retaliation under SOX against non-public company employees furthered Congress' overarching "aim" of SOX, which was to "safeguard investors in public companies and restore trust in the financial markets following the collapse of Enron Corp."
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Academy of Finance juniors and seniors enjoyed a morning of networking and
team building last month with their advisory board members and fellow students.
Each advisory board member sat with 8-10 students while they shared their career
and business experience, answered students' questions, and enjoyed a light
breakfast prepared by students in the Career Readiness Program and by Chef Andy
and his staff in the high school cafeteria.
The AOF students were eager to hear what each board member enjoys about his/her job, what a typical day at work is like, where they went to college, the skills needed to be successful in the workplace, and even how it feels to wear business attire all day! The board members also asked students to share their interests and future goals, as well as what school subjects they like.
Each group was then challenged with building the tallest Lego structure that could stand on its own. They all worked feverishly to accomplish the task, making sure all team members were involved. The winning team's tower came in at over 30 inches in height! The time together ended with three AOF seniors sharing highlights of their internship experiences over the summer. Courtney Forrest spoke of his time at the county clerk's office, Yahaira Santiago-Morales shared what it was like to intern at The Center for Discovery, and Jennifer Avila explained what her role was at Sullivan Renaissance.
AOF advisory board member Jeremy Gorelick visited with many of the AOF juniors earlier this month to give the students insight into a career that takes him to a part of the world they may have only read about in history books: Dakar, Senegal in West Africa. Through his detailed accounts of trips to the third world nation, Mr. Gorelick spoke of the work he has done on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assist the city of Dakar in raising money through the sale of long-term bonds. The funds will be used to construct buildings to house new businesses in the city.
The pictures Mr. Gorelick shared with the students showed a city with a sea of people, with few paved roads, trying to buy necessities from what appeared to be street vendors. "If you need to buy socks, you keep walking until you find someone selling socks. And those socks may not be new, so you use a lot of bleach before you wear them."
Since Mr. Gorelick's work with the city of Dakar is coming to a close now that the bond offering is almost complete, the students asked Mr. Gorelick what project he will work on next. He said he did not know at this point, but he does know there are many more waiting in line. The students look forward to hearing about where Mr. Gorelick's work will take him next.
According to the National
Academy Foundation, which oversees the Academy of Finance, the
internship experience gives students a chance to gain real
world, hands-on experience, make lasting professional
connections, and discover more about their interests...The
business partners who hire NAF academy students as interns
benefit from the efforts of enthusiastic, prepared, and highly
conscientious workers. NAF academy internships hone workplace
skills such as teamwork, critical thinking, decorum, conflict
resolution, time management, ingenuity, problem-solving, and a
solid understanding of the importance of written and oral
One of the benefits of the program is monitoring of student performance by an AOF teacher. The educator checks in with the employer as well as the student throughout the length of the internship to provide guidance and support whenever needed. During the school year, students prepared for their work experience by learning proper work place etiquette. In addition, each academy junior prepared a budget in June to plan for saving and spending wisely. They were responsible for keeping a log of their earnings and when they returned to school this month, they compared their budget with their log to determine any adjustments that should be made for the future. Completing an internship manual detailing what they learned about the work environment of their internship site is required for students to receive school credit for their experience. It includes information regarding policies and procedures at the work place, and requires students to read relevant articles from professional journals or magazines. The internship ends with a written evaluation prepared by the supervisor, who reviews the results with the student so they can receive feedback about their performance and learn how to improve for future work sites.
Organizations that provided internships for Academy of Finance students this summer include Sullivan Renaissance, Youth Economic Group, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Sullivan County Clerk's Office, Sullivan County Office of Management and Budget, County Fountain Supplies, Inc., and The Center for Discovery. In addition, Boreal Water Collection, Inc., The Family Drug Store, and The Fat Lady Café collaborated with the academy teacher to make the work experience even deeper and more meaningful for the AOF students they had in their employment before the start of the summer.
The Monticello High School Academy of Finance (AOF) is offering a free tax preparation service for any tax return that has a gross income of $50,000 or less in 2011. This service is available from February 15 through April 4 at Monticello High School, on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:15-4:30 p.m. Students will also be providing this service on Saturday, February 25 and Saturday, March 10 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. This service is by appointment only. For more information, call AOF director Wendy Levinson at 794-8840, ext. 10848.
2012 is the fifth year the AOF has provided this service. In 2011, students prepared approximately 100 tax returns. This experience provides the students with the opportunity to use their knowledge in a real life situation and provides them with an experience that connects them with the adult community of our district.
It is a confidence builder for the AOF students as they move toward being independent adults. The students assume the challenge and push themselves beyond their comfort zones. It also shows them the value of socially responsible behavior because their skills and knowledge are being used to assist members of the community in which they live.
Through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, Monticello High School Academy of Finance students get certified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prepare income taxes. Students become certified by taking an on-line IRS exam. The AOF Financial Decision Making classes are being prepared for the exam by business teacher Susan Bahrenburg, who is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Students who pass the exam receive a certificate indicating their capacity to perform the service.
There is a quality review process where all returns are double checked before submission. In addition to learning about tax preparation, the students in Wendy Levinson's AOF communications class develop marketing materials and all of the necessary communication to inform the school community of the service and our hours of operation. Eric Shewmaker, a Monticello High School math teacher, also takes part in assisting the students as they prepare the tax returns for the public.
This is an example of team effort where Academy of Finance teachers Wendy Levinson and Susan Bahrenburg and math teacher Eric Shewmaker support the students as they provide this service. The students are able to take part in and observe a coordinated effort, which results in providing a service for our community.
On November 30, Dr. Peter Tarlow, a nationwide expert hired by Sullivan Renaissance to assist in enhancing Sullivan County, spoke to members of the Academy of Finance. Dr. Tarlow is a world-renowned speaker who lectures on current and future trends in the tourism industry, rural tourism, economic development, and issues of crime and terrorism. MORE
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Seniors in the Monticello High School Academy of Finance (AOF) dedicated their time and labor to help make the "Operation Daffodil" community service project a success.
During a mid-October weekend the students, along with AOF director Wendy Levinson (pictured left) worked on Broadway as a part of the Sullivan Renaissance project designed to beautify the Village of Monticello. The group hopes to see thousands of daffodils bloom in the spring of 2012.
October 13, 2011 - Times Herald-Record - Monticello finance academy students got a lesson in table etiquette at SUNY Sullivan. According to the students, their teachers and SUNY Sullivan staff, the country's future business leaders are lacking in a skill that is critical for getting jobs and doing deals, but is rarely taught. That is, getting through a standard business lunch. FULL STORY
As part of the requirement of the Academy of Finance and to get a real life taste of what it is like in the working world, AOF students participate in an internship at a local company or organization.
"This type of experience is the perfect supplement to what the students learn in class," said AOF Director Wendy Levinson. "This is the real thing."
Two students who recently interned were Maghan McCormack who spent time working at the Sullivan Renaissance offices in Liberty and Rahsheeda McRae who interned at the Sullivan County Government Center in Monticello.
Both students found their experiences to be invaluable to their understanding of the world of work. For more information about becoming an internship partner with the Academy of Finance, please call Ms. Levinson at 794-8840, ext. 10848.
Right photo: AOF intern Maghan McCormack works with her internship supervisor Denise Frangipane at the Sullivan Renaissance offices.
Left photo: AOF intern Rahsheeda McRae worked at the County Manager's office at the Sullivan County Government Center as part of her internship.
John Conway, the Sullivan County Historian spoke to the AOF Economics class about Sullivan County's rich history as it pertains to business and industry. Mr. Conway is the author of Sullivan County, A Bicentennial History in Images.
He spoke of Timber, Tanning and Tourism, the three industries that were important aspects of Sullivan County's economic history. John Conway shared his view of Sullivan County being a very special place and a much-celebrated region. He spoke of the positive aspects of our community and that there is hope for an economic resurgence.
Story by David Osrow.
On February 25, Monticello High School Academy of Finance (AOF) Director Wendy Levinson and five AOF seniors attended the National Academy Foundation (NAF) 2009 Gala Benefit at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan.
As part of NAF's partnership between top business leaders and teachers who prepare students for professional careers, the group from Monticello was invited to attend a free concert performance at Carnegie Hall that featured the Vienna Philharmonic, the world-renowned pianist Lang Lang and the conductor Zubin Mehta.
"It was a fantastic networking experience for the students, as they got to mingle with corporate CEO's and executives," said Levinson. "This opportunity helped them push beyond their comfort zones and challenged the students to network with the big-leaguers. I am very proud how well they handled themselves."
"It was a great experience that I will remember for the rest of my life," said AOF senior Shaun Wundrack. "It was beneficial because it gave me the opportunity to network on a more mature level. I would like to do it again!"
The Academy of Finance is part of Monticello High School's Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Academy. Within the school's academy structure, beginning in tenth grade, students get to choose their course of study. The other academies available are the Fine Arts Academy and the Liberal Arts and Science Academy.
Photo: From left, Monticello High School students Sabrina Santos, Kelly Owens, Tanner Wuerthner, Shaun Wundrack and Tyler Wuerthner with Xerox Corporation President Ursula Burns and AOF Director Wendy Levinson (right).
Through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, a group of Academy of Finance students were certified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prepare taxes. They offered the free service till April 2 to Joint filers whose gross income is $42,000 or less and to Single filers with a gross income of $40,000 or less. For more information about the program, please call 845-794-8840, ext. 10848. Click here to read the story, "IRS Certifies Students" by Jeanne Sager, courtesy the Sullivan County Democrat.
On Tuesday, Jan. 20, all the schools in the Monticello district took some time to celebrate the inauguration of the new President of the United States, Barack Obama. Each school had access to the televised event and used this historic day as a learning opportunity.
At Chase Elementary School, students decorated the lobby entrance, while at Rutherford, some classes celebrated with their own inaugural ball. RJK Middle School students gathered in classrooms to watch and discuss the swearing-in ceremony and what this moment meant to them personally. At the Cooke School, students gathered in the cafeteria and in classrooms to watch the event together, while teachers explained the different aspects of the ceremony.
Duggan Elementary School fifth-graders along with 60 Monticello High School Academy of Finance students got to attend a special big-screen presentation of the inauguration as part of the kick-off of the 2009 Education Program by the Museum of Bethel Woods at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. In addition to watching the event, the students listened to a lecture on the historical significance of the election.
Monticello High School AOF senior, Ebony Andrews, said "Watching the whole election and the inauguration proved that the younger people wanted change and are able to get together and make the change happen. I think that it is good that people are expanding their minds and accepting difference."
Assistant professor of American History at SCCC, Amy Colon, gave a presentation about the famous inauguration of President John F. Kennedy and showed the connection between the social and political changes made possible by the struggles of the 1960's.
On October 15 and 16, members of the Academy of Finance helped the Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development (a non-profit organization that helps businesses in Sullivan County relocate and expand their operation, with the goal of boosting the county's battered economy) during their annual dinner which honors Sullivan County business leaders and policy makers, who help the Partnership achieve their goals. The dinner, which was held at the beautiful Events Gallery at Bethel Woods, allowed business owners (large and small) a chance to network with one another, as well as special guests including Senator John Bonacic. Speakers at the dinner included Michael Skrebutenas, assistant secretary of state for economic development for New York State, as well as Tim McCausland, CEO and President of the Partnership, who was in charge of the event. Speakers introduced new local businesses, such as the Monticello Motor Club (who had a Ferrari and a Ford GT on display outside the Events Gallery) and spoke of the current economic crisis, on both a local and national level. They stressed the importance of involvement by local businesses in improving the economic situation, and they looked at a promising future for the County, led by the re-opening of the Villa Roma, another successful season at Bethel Woods, and the construction of "Entertainment City" on the grounds of the old Concord hotel.
Student volunteers from the Academy of Finance began helping out on the evening of October 15th, the night before the dinner. They helped set up the lobby and the events room for the dinner. Students came again the next afternoon, helping with the final preparations. During the dinner that night, students were in charge of registration and handing out nametags to guests, in addition to operating the coat check. Later that evening, the students were able to sit down and listen to speeches and awards presentations (one of the business leaders being honored was Zane Morganstein, a member of the Academy of Finance's board of trustees).
Once the speeches ended, the student volunteers were given an opportunity to meet local business leaders and even some politicians. At the closing of the ceremony, McCausland thanked the Academy of Finance for their help, and students were in turn grateful for a chance to learn about the economic situation in their community, and meet the business leaders who are trying to improve it.
Story by Monticello High School Academy of Finance students Oded Naiman and Ebony Andrews.
During October, the AOF students took the Financial Literacy Challenge given by the US Dept. of the Treasury.
The challenge was taken by more than 75,000 high school students with the following Monticello students scoring in the top 25th percentile: Marisela Acevedo, Ebony Andrews, Ashia Clark, Danny Gilbert, Meghan Hughes, Tyler Hutchens, Bryan Kimmons, Hannah McCallion, Kelly Owens, Vrundan K. Patel, Scott Sanford, Sabrina Santos, Danielle Schnitzer, Amanda Tejada, Stacey Trinidad and Shaun Wundrack. Dan Gilbert scored in the top one percentile.
With the state of today's economy, more than ever, students realize the significance of focusing on financial education during their high school years.


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Across the seas, a corpse in the wavesThe Dai Nippon Teikoku (Great Japanese Empire) was the political entity that ran Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was also known as "Dai-tou-a Kyoueiken" (Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere). The Greater Japanese Empire arose after the end of The Tokugawa Era, when Japan was wracked with two civil warsnote and casually battered by British ships after the murder of a businessman who failed to bow to a Samurai. The last Shogun of the House of Tokugawa was pressured to resign by the Domains of Satsuma and Chōshū, which first routed his armies and then declared their allegiance to the fifteen-year-old Emperor in preference to him. Crowned as the Emperor 'Meiji', the first years of his reign saw further conflict in the Boshin War of 1868-1869 - Satsuma-Choshu realized that the Tokugawa stepping down was not enough to ensure their control given that a third of the country's best land was the Tokugawa's private property. So they seized it and made it and the entire country - together with their own Domains - a single administrative unit under the Emperor. For the first time Japan was a nation-state in anything more than in name only. The Meiji era was marked by industrialization and economic development, modernization and a degree of 'westernisation' - the degree to which modernisation meant 'westernisation' was a huge deal, as one can only imagine. Culturally, Japan's earlier flirtations with Chinese culture had done something to prepare its people for this kind of change - but the radical restructuring of society that came with modernisation was something that no tradition of cultural assimilation could prepare them for, and left many people wondering what exactly it meant to be Japanese - thus, the fierce debates over 'Nipponjinron' - 'ideas of Japanese-ness'. The fairly sudden modernisation affected almost all areas of Japanese society - language, etiquette, clothing, laws and law enforcement, etc. The new Imperial administration expanded the Tokugawa's programme of sending observers and students to European nation-states (and the USA) to observe and learn their practices, and also hired foreign advisors - specialists in a plethora of technical fields - to staff their own colleges and universities. The new judicial system and constitution were largely modeled on those of Germany, for instance, because the formerly-of-Satsuma-and-Choshu ruling clique liked the idea of a strong Imperial Government and Military with rubber-stamp democratic assemblies. Also, their previous model—the French Second Empire—had had its ass thoroughly handed to it in the Franco-Prussian War at about the same time; obviously, the Prussian model was a winning one. Naturally, the government outlawed customs linked to Japan's feudal past - such as the bearing of weapons and top knot hairstyle, both of which were privileges of the nobility (think 'Samurai') - which was itself abolished along with the class system (of Nobles-Warriors, Artisans/Farmers and then Untouchables, in that order). Together with economic and administrative grievances, these policies saw the outbreak of Rebellion in the former Satsuma domain, led by Saigo Takamori; his last stand at the Battle of Shiroyama in 1877 effectively put the days of the Samurai to an end. It is during the Meiji era that Japan established itself as an international power and a colonial Empire. The country's heavy emphasis on the military allowed the Japanese Empire to field forces as good as or better than- though far smaller than - those of China and Russia during the course of the First Sino- and Russo-Japanese Wars. However, the Empire made good on her centralised command system, the abilities of her commanders, her slightly-better logistical situation and the internal political problems of her opponents, which saw her come out more-or-less on top in both engagements; though both her opponents had far larger forces, they could only deploy so many at a time due to a combination of internal politicking and simple logistics. At the strategic-tactical level, Japan's formations and flotillas were generally (far) better coordinated and more mobile than those of their more numerous foes. Sino-Japanese War saw relatively small but well-trained Japanese army and navy take on much larger, theoretically much better equipped (if only because China spent vast sums on buying up European weapons and ships, even if much funds were embezzled and their equipment were badly maintained), but rather poorly-trained Chinese forces. In principle, the Chinese intervened in Korea supposedly to prop up its government against peasant uprisings, contrary to previous agreement with the Japanese to mutually refrain from sending troops. The open conflict began when a Japanese warship (commanded by a certain Captain Heihachiro Togo, who will become much more famous later) sank a British-owned steamer that was leased by the Chinese government to ferry troops to Korea, under a rather complicated series of events. After a number of engagements in Korea and the Yellow Sea, the Chinese armies and fleets were in disarray and the Japanese were starting to invade Chinese mainland, forcing the Chinese to sue for peace. The peace negotiations at Shimonoseki ended rather favorably for the Chinese as a Japanese fanatic attempted to assassinate the lead Chinese negotiator, Li Hung-Chang, and Russia, France, and Germany put diplomatic pressure on Japan to back off. In the end, Japan gave up the territorial concessions on Chinese mainland that it had initially gained, but added Taiwan to its empire and increased political influence over Korea. Paying both the indemnities of the Sino-Japanese War and then the reparations from Boxer Rebellion on top of that were a huge drain upon the resources of the rather-weak and weakening central government of the Empire of the Qing - which, amazingly, continued to limp on for a few years yet until its final collapse and disintegration in the Revolution of 1911-12. On the other hand, the weakening and eventual disintegration of the Chinese central government established the unified nation-state of Japan as the new regional power in East Asia. There were a few ominous notes in all this, however. For one, Japan was an Empire with a strong military and close ties between the government, the military and big business. Second was the way Japan went about modernizing and responding to the interference of the colonial powers - via 'defensive Imperialism'. Take the Russo-Japanese war, for instance. Like the Sino-Japanese War, the war was basically fought over control of Korea; the Japanese claimed they were liberating it from foreign oppression. The Japanese started the war with a surprise-attack sea-based invasion of Russian Korea and China, which they launched without sea superiority. It was concluded when Japan made a negotiated peace with the Russian Empire, the negotiations being Theodore Roosevelt's personal initiative when it became clear that the War had ground to a stalemate that Russia could only win at a far higher cost than the Tsar was willing to pay. Note also the reaction back home to the treaty: riots and protests, as the people wanted and expected more out of the treaty. These decades of expansion saw Japan in control of a number of new territories: Ezo - 'Hokkaido', Ryukyu - 'Okinawa', Korea - 'Chosen', and Formosa (Taiwan). The unprecedented (conditional) defeat of a European Great Power by a non-European one startled many as Japan had been viewed as something of a backwater empire prior to that point. Prior to then, many had the impression that no matter how much Japan played copy-cat and styled herself after the Imperial powers, she would never truly be one of them because she was not of the same ("superior") European substance. However, the contest was not quite as uneven as it might appear at first glance. The Russian far east was at the end of a long and tenuous supply line. Far from the bright centers of St. Petersburg and Moscow it was properly viewed as a hardship and punishment post and its defenders were hardly numbered among their country's best soldiers. Also, the reinforcing Russian Baltic fleet had no choice but to try and fight their way through a Japanese blockade in a doomed attempt to reach their Pacific ports after sailing all the way around Africa (since Britain, Japan's ally in the West, refused to grant them passage through the Suez Canal). Still, few outside of Japan were prepared for just how quickly the Japanese were able to gain the upper hand; US President Theodore Roosevelt even publicly expressed admiration for them as "the plucky little guy" in the fight. To some extent the Russian Empire had also shot itself in the foot when, after using the unprovoked attack as a rallying point for imperialistic patriotism - to distract people from socio-economic problems - they appeared to have bungled the conduct of the war and then given in all too easily. Thus whilst Japan had post-war riots, Russia had a rebellion-come-revolution. The Russo-Japanese war also provided Europeans with their first proper glimpse of the (fanatical) bravery of the Imperial Japanese soldiery as well as their willingness to endure both grueling hardships and astonishingly heavy casualties in the frontal (infantry) assaults necessitated by their relative lack of artillery and machine guns. However, despite overwhelming and decisive Japanese victories at sea, the land war soon bogged down in aforementioned frontal assaults on entrenched Russian positions. Faced with a much more intractable conflict then they had bargained for, both sides accepted an American offer of mediation that culminated in the Treaty of Portsmouth. Under not-inconsiderable American-European pressure to give back most of the territory they had occupied, save Port Arthur (Lushun, the modern naval base at the southern tip of the Liaoning Peninsula that the Chinese had built in late 19th century, only to have lost it to Japan during the First Sino-Japanese War and to have the Russians take over as the price of diplomatically pressuring Japan to yield after that war) and its environs - it was a take-it-or-leave-it deal, as Russia was considering escalating (and quite probably winning) the War if the outcome looked particularly unfavourable - Japan acquiesced amidst nationalist protests and riots at home. In the long term the 'unfair' terms of the peace combined with the success of the military action - few within Japan knew how close the country had been to losing - to foster further anti-foreign sentiment and the feeling that the application of force was Japan's best foreign policy tool. The Meiji era was followed by the Taishō era (1912 - 1926) upon the establishment of the Taishō Emperor, Yoshihito, as ruler. The Taishō era is known as the "Taishō Democracy," as during this era that the lower house of the Diet (the House of Representatives) gained the upper hand in Japanese politics, and steps were made towards expanding the electorate (property qualifications were substantially reduced - although not eliminated - in 1925). Another significant event of the Taishō era was Japan's involvement in World War I where they, as allies of the British, seized many of the German-owned colonies in East Asia and Micronesia. (This time they were allowed to keep them under a League of Nations mandate.) The Japanese Empire was later invited by the United States to join the international force that was intervene in the Russian Civil War following the collapse of the Tsarist regime. The Japanese Expeditionary Force in Siberia was the largest single foreign force deployed, with Japan taking over the Russian concessions - including Port Arthur and key railway lines - in Chinese Manchuria. After the Allies withdrew from Vladivostok following the capture and execution of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, leader of the White Russian Army, the Japanese elected to stay on. This was essentially down to a fear of Communism effectively on their doorstep; some had hopes that they would be able to establish a Siberian puppet-state as a buffer to help protect the Empire. The continued Japanese presence concerned the USA, who were increasingly wary of what they saw as Japanese expansionism - which they considered a bad thing, even in the more-civilised European powers. Although Japan later withdrew due to risings costs and diplomatic pressure - amidst further rioting and public disorder back home, as the deployment of so many troops overseas had caused a domestic rice shortage which compounded the people's disappointment and anger at being ordered around by the foreign powers - the United States and Britain were much more wary about Japanese territorial ambitions after that point. Britain's chosen approach was to gradually disengage from the political side of Imperialism in the Far East, increasingly leaving 'formal Imperialism' (where you plant flags in places and call them yours) to Japan. France, whose interests in Asia were fewer but more formal - as per French Indochine - did much the same in its approach to China at least. The USA, which had always preferred to leave China open to trade from all countries,note settled for watching this business from afar and condemning it in increasingly more patronising and adversarial language. It should be noted that in many of these wars and conflicts, the European powers praised the Japanese for their conduct during the war. Many Russian and German prisoners found Japanese forces to be quite gentlemanly, and such prisoners were treated quite well until their release. Some German prisoners even emigrated to Japan after the First World War having become enamored with the Japanese due to the excellent treatment they received as prisoners. The Koreans and Manchurian Chinese, however, present a much more critical view of Japan during this time period, although it is agreed that, overall, the Japanese Imperial forces behaved with restraint—especially in comparison with how they behaved later. Note, however, that the reign of the Emperor Taisho saw no real changes to either the constitution or the structure of the government. The achievements of 'Taisho Democracy' were ultimately ephemeral, limited as they were by a system which strongly favoured - and saw a return to - a government dominated by the military and the bureaucracy. (It should be noted that historians also note that Yoshihito had to have his advisers make most of his decisions, since he was mentally deficient from being inbred.) With the accession of the Emperor 'Showa' in 1926, the Japanese Empire went through the Great Depression. The radicalising of politics met with military, government and big business interests - all of which overlapped because of the way the country had developed since the accession of the Emperor Meiji - to produce the kurai tanima (the Dark Valley), a dark era of militaristic fascist note Imperialism that lasted from around 1930 until 1945. The whole society was taken over by a militaristic frenzy—the traditional Japanese self-restraint seemed to shatter completely. This increasing militarization fueled imperial ambitions and resulted in massive conscription to rapidly inflate the size of the armed forces. Rapid modernization had also resulted in a population boom and considerable social upheaval, particularly in rural Japan. Conscription also presented a solution to popular unrest by drafting dispossessed, unemployed, and rootless younger sons—the most likely potential troublemakers— into the military. To compensate for these social forces a brutal disciplinary doctrine — ostensibly based on that of the samurai, in reality based on a very selective interpretation of samurai values — was adopted by the leaders. Historians usually point to the adoption of torture to 'toughen' soldiers up and keep them in-line as the ultimate source of Japanese brutality during the Second Sino-Japanese and Second World Wars as per the principle of 'knock-on aggression'note . Once a ready supply of 'logs' was made available thanks to the capture of Chinese troops and urban centers from 1937 onwards, it is worth noting that making new recruits murder civilians or PO Ws note to 'blood' them was made standard practice. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the result of Japanese gung-ho militarism - though not in the sense one might expect. It was actually Chinese nationalism, which had been incensed by Japan's actions in particular since the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 and the seizure of the warlord Zhang Xueliang's territorynote in 1931, that sparked the latest round of border-incidents in the summer of 1937 into a full-blown war. Ironically, figures within the Imperial General Staff and Army had in 1937 just begun to appreciate the fact that antagonising Chiang Kai-Shek's anti-socialist party-state was unproductive given the mutual threat posed by Soviet Russia. Do note that "The Manchurian Incident", an older and highly euphemistic Japanese name for the latter, is considered highly offensive by the Chinese and is subject to Kotobagari because: #1 it implies that the IJA's actions were in some way legitimate and #2 it implies that 'the Three Eastern/Northern Provinces' and their people have a claim to semi-autonomy/independence). This was followed up by such incidents as the Battle of Shanghai (1932) and ongoing economic warfare in Northern China, where the Japanese military tried to undermine the Chinese Nationalists' central government by supporting regional (separatist) warlords and smuggling huge quantities of goods either banned (i.e. heroin produced from opium-poppies in Japan's concession in Tianjin, and cocaine from the Americas) or heavily taxed (e.g. medium-quality cigarettes). After four years of brutal, seemingly-endless regular and partisan warfare, it eventually merged into the whole mess that was World War II. Japanese forces were involved in disgusting war crimes - primarily involving Prisoners of War and civilians - which in the space of two years blackened what had until then been a fairly good reputation. Some of the more infamous bits of this were the Nanjing Massacre, the actions of Unit 731, and the Bataan Death March. The Other Wiki has a page on it. However, it's worth noting that Japanese forces only directly killed half a million or so Chinese civilians and a couple of million combatants and PO Ws. The other 10-20 million merely died of starvation-related diseases due to the seizure of crops, displacement of populationsnote . Note also the USA's reaction to Japanese wartime atrocities - disapproval, and the placing of hard-hitting sanctions on strategic materials to bring the Japanese to heel (as the U.S. had already done thrice before - pressuring Japan, that is, not sanctioning her) directly led to them lashing out in an offensive to take all of south-east Asia, inclusive of the American Philippines. Caught up in this would be the day that has (together with the dropping of the Atomic Bombs) in most Americans' opinions defined most/all prior and subsequent US-Japanese relations: the day the Imperial Navy attacked the US Pacific Fleet at anchor in Hawaii. Mostly forgotten between the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II were the Soviet�Japanese Border Wars, a series of border conflicts between Japan and the Soviet Union between 1938 and 1939. While the Japanese Empire went into the conflicts with the confidence of their victory in the Russo-Japanese War, the relatively well-equipped Red Army of the USSR would prove to be a much tougher nut to crack. This conflict showed clearly how badly outdated and outclassed the Imperial Japanese Army was in terms of unit-organisation and equipment — especially when it came to armoured vehicles. Japan was not only without dedicated armoured-brigades, as per the French Army's example, but they were also short on tanks and moreover, what tanks they 'did' have were unbelievably rubbish even compared to the Soviet Union's shitty pre-T-34 and KV-1 models. The Soviet-Japanese border conflicts culminated in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, which resulted in a decisive Soviet victory and the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact. The latter would be the reason why there was little Soviet-Japanese conflict for most of World War II. The Soviets would later break the pact and invade Japanese-held Manchuria on August 9, 1945, less than a week before the Japanese surrender. Ironically, Imperial Japan actually managed to achieve one of its goals of the war because it effectively ended European domination over Asia. This excuses neither the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan nor its true intention, which was to supplant European imperialism with its own. "Asia for Asians" may have been the slogan that the Imperial Japanese government used throughout Asia, but in practice it was more often interpreted as "Asia for Ourselves", and local populations who may have welcomed the Japanese as liberators were quickly disabused of these notions by their so-called benefactors' predilections for exploitation, genocide, racism and cruelty. While the true toll can never be tallied, it's estimated that anywhere between 30 and 50 million people died under the "customary brutality" of Japanese military occupation and the associated famines and epidemics, most of the casualties being civilians. It was at this point that the Empire adopted the term "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere" to collectively refer to those nations thus "freed" (albeit free in name only) and run by puppet governments. To prevent a second Treaty of Versailles, and because Japan was needed as an ally against the emerging communist regimes in Asia, America was very soft on Japan after the surrender. Additionally, several senior Japanese officers who weren't involved in war crimes were nonetheless tried, convicted, and executed on trumped-up charges primarily to avenge the humiliating defeats they had inflicted on U.S. and British forces during the early stages of the war, leading some Japanese to dismiss those war crimes trials that did occur as "victors' justice." It is sometimes claimed that unlike Germany, which as a nation apologized for the actions of the Nazis in Europe, Japan has never formally apologized to the Asian nations that were invaded by the Japanese armies. Though there have been several apologies from the country's (Prime) Ministers. Japan has also paid over 300 billion Yen in war reparations to the nation-states it occupied, with some formal apologizes to former POWs by a few Japanese ambassadors. However, the lack of a Japanese counterpart of "Denazification" and (extremely) cautious treatment of the mention of the subject in school textbooks makes Asians that lived through the Japanese occupation continue to see the Japanese as generally unrepentant and being possessed of a disgustingly cavalier attitude toward the actions of their grandparents' and great-grandparents' generation. It should however be noted that virtually all Japanese school history textbooks do describe Japanese war atrocities (and in particular, the Rape of Nanking), and despite the recent attempt by the right-wing Society for History Textbook Reform to introduce a textbook omitting/casting doubt on the Nanking Massacre, comfort women, and general colonial nastiness, widespread protests and denunciation by the Japanese Teachers' Union led to the book being introduced in a measly 18 of the country's 11,000+ junior high schools. There's plenty of controversy about post-war Japan, ranging from attempted whitewashing of history in some Japanese textbooks and a lack of focus on the country's actions during World War 2, and ultranationalist revisionist movements that claim Japan did nothing wrong and vehemently deny Japanese war crimes. All this has led to lingering resentments against Japan, particularly in China and Korea. These tensions flare up somewhat often, like in recent disputes over the resource-rich Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Note that Japan is the only country that still has an Emperor (but importantly, Japan itself post-1947 is no longer an empire; unlike the remaining European monarchs, the Emperor officially has no powers, and takes no role in government at all).
Across the mountains, a corpse in the fields
I shall die only for the Emperor
I shall never look back.
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The published article is copyrighted by Springer and can be found at: http://link.springer.com/journal/454. 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Establishing Flight Software Reliability: Testing, Model Checking, Constraint-Solving, Monitoring and Learning Groce, Alex Havelund, Klaus Holzmann, Gerard Joshi, Rajeev Xu, Ru-Gang http://hdl.handle.net/1957/51437 2014-08-14T20:55:32Z 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z Establishing Flight Software Reliability: Testing, Model Checking, Constraint-Solving, Monitoring and Learning Groce, Alex; Havelund, Klaus; Holzmann, Gerard; Joshi, Rajeev; Xu, Ru-Gang In this paper we discuss the application of a range of techniques to the verification of mission-critical flight software at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For this type of application we want to achieve a higher level of confidence than can be achieved through standard software testing. 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