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Build a solid foundation: Your e-mail subscriber listYou can build a responsive email subscriber list in a number of ways. The fastest and most popular method is by using your website. An email subscription offer should be posted on each of your popular web pages touting signups for deep discounts, discontinued item alerts, seasonal items, service availabilities, grand openings, insider tips and any other offers your customers will find valuable and informative. This online form should have fields that record a subscriber's first name and email, at the minimum, and should also be posted on each page of your website, preferably "above the fold" in high visibility locations on your most popular web pages. A privacy information page telling customers what kind of email offers they can expect from you, and how often, should be also be included as part of your permission email campaign.
Don't spam and send only relevant messages that speak to customer needsOne thing that both corporations and small businesses have discovered about email marketing is that if you are not sending exciting, relevant messages that speak directly to your customers, the email list you worked so hard to build becomes bloated and lethargic in very short order. You must send the kind of offers that your customers want to open, read, print or bring back to your store. This means studying their online and in-store buying habits, and delivering the same kinds of pushes for these products and services. Exciting email messages might include: limited time coupons, service agreement deadlines, deep discounts on popular products and special offers on items specific customers have purchased in the past. Short on ideas that might inspire your customers? Then look in your own email inbox… has an email you've received lately inspired you to take action, like click on a website, pick up a phone, or purchase an item? If so, what did that email look like?
Immediately honor unsubscribesPermission email campaigns call for honest and respectful relationships with the customers you are emailing. This includes not over emailing them, respecting their privacy by not selling their data, and honoring their unsubscribe requests. Federal law calls for removing customers that request to be unsubscribed from your list within 10 days, but unsubscribe requests in general should be processed as quickly as possible.
- No matter the format of your email message, be it newsletter, printable coupon, service alert, direct product sell or message from the president… the permission email marketing format should be your method of choice. This practice is not only for the sake of long-term relationships with your valuable customers, but for the sake of continuing the future of email marketing as an effective, rapid, and affordable way to directly communicate with customers.


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Everybody needs a hero. Even the citizens of Snacknation. No—good old Superman or the "Caped Crusader" just won't do. To rid ourselves of sniveling, snack-scene villains, we'll need a real powerhouse—a genuine champion, one who doesn't balk at nutrition or shirk his healthful responsibility. We need a green snack... a vegetarian-vegan-gluten-free-no-cholesterol kind of nibble that motivates us to thrust our hands right back into the cute little, reclosable bag. We need a tasty treat that's low on sugar and salt, and high on flavor and nutritional attitude. What we need is...Read More
You can get a really great taste of India at Trader Joe's. In fact, all of the Indian food we offer was recently catalogued by the Smithsonian in preparation for the "Beyond Bollywood" exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History. The exercise illustrates the integration of Indian food into the American culinary landscape—thanks, in part, to our reputable collection. While humbled by the inclusion, we're not curators, just culinary adventurers, enchanted by India and her myriad tastes. That leads us to our latest discovery—Uttapam [pronounced U-thap-pam] from Ahmedabad, India, an area famous for...Read More
Buddhist monks coveted it. Samurai warriors thrived on it. It is Miso. A traditional ingredient in Japanese cuisine for more than a thousand years, this fermented soybean wonder started making waves (mostly in small soup bowls) in America around the 1960s. The last decade, though, has witnessed a major Miso awakening. Incorporated into everything from barbecue sauce to butterscotch, the thick, umami-rich paste conducts flavor and texture with deliberate grace. Along the way, it...Read More

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Ivy League is a style of men's dress, popular during the late 1950s in the Northeastern United States, and said to have originated on college campuses, particularly those of the Ivy League. The clothing stores J. Press and Brooks Brothers represent perhaps the quintessential Ivy League dress manner, the former with two of its four locations found at Harvard and Yale Universities (the Princeton branch closed in 1942). The Ivy League style was the predecessor to the preppy style of dress. The Ivy League Style is epitomized by the sack suit which is defined as being a 3-to-2 (3 buttons with the top button "rolled" back to reveal only two usable buttons) blazer without darts and a single "hooked" vent. The pants are typically cuffed and without pleats. It was also characterized by the use of natural fabrics, shirts with button-down collars, and penny loafers. In suits, the Ivy League style was promoted by clothier Brooks Brothers and included natural shoulder single-breasted suit jackets. In 1957 and 1958, about 70% of all suits sold were in the "Ivy League" style.[1][2][3]
Controversially, in a recently revised form, a version of this style is sometimes promoted and marketed online (and elsewhere) as "American Trad" or simply "Trad," although there are marked differences between the two styles. 'Trad' is considerably narrower in scope than the original Ivy League style.[4]
An American style known as preppy is similar to Ivy League but more juvenile. Preppie style is more colorful, especially in spring and summer. It was first popularized in the late 1970s as a return to Ivy League styles after a decade of more modern trends, but today Preppy differs from historic Ivy League in that it is a personal style rather than a general trend, and generally viewed as more youthful. Today Polo Ralph Lauren, Vineyard Vines, and J. Crew are the largest marketers of this kind of clothing, though each offers a wide range of styles.
The style was parodied in Clark Gesner's musical "The Ivy League Look".


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This is a photo of me that also appears on my SparkPage and is my FB profile photo. It was taken on my fifth day in London, England. I weighed about 190 lbs in this photo, but I wasn't even thinking of my weight and it is one photo where I don't notice all of the little imperfections or bulges that only you tend to notice in photos of yourself.
I was so happy in the above photo. It was my second trip to Europe, my last day in London before heading to Paris the next day. I had dreamed of visiting London and many other places in Europe for years and after putting off my dreams for a lack of time, a lack of money, and a lack of company able to travel with me I finally made a decision to find a way not to delay and achieve at least one of my dreams. I was going to make it happen. My first trip involved a low cost bus tour visiting Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. Instead of quenching my desire to travel, see, and experience the world, it just increased it. And after hearing my fellow tour members talk about London and Paris I just knew I had to go there next.
In 2009 I booked a seat on a bus tour visiting London and Paris which caters primarily to single travellers, all in the 18 to 35 age range. I also added two extra days on in each London and Paris at a reduced rate through the tour company. My first tour experience gave me confidence that I could travel on my own without the safety net of a tour group the entire time, use public transit, eat in good restaurants on my own, and navigate through unfamiliar cities. Thus, my unforgettable trip to London and Paris was born.
The purpose of this challenge blog is to find a photo of yourself where you feel confident and happy in the photo and explain why. So, I think I am so happy and full of confidence in the above photo because I have just had an amazing five days fulfilling one of my passions. I was seeing new places, experiencing new things, and meeting new people. It was a rush! London is an amazing city filled with a great energy, but still has a connection to its past and slow, quiet moments can still be found within it. I was feeling all of that and more.
What I would like to keep from that photo is my sense of adventure and knowing that I can accomplish my dreams. There is always a way, it just may not be the most conventional. And it is always worth it to try new things, visit new places, and meet new people. What is keeping me going right now is planning for my next trip and trying to figure out how to accomplish it. Croatia here I come!
As a part of the DONE Girls' Fun in the Sun Challenge I have decided to train to complete a 10 km run. The decision to participate in this challenge was an easy one for me since I had already decided to attempt this training plan on my own. I needed a new challenge and something to work towards after completing the C25K training program. As a part of my employer's healthy living program they offered all employees the opportunity to participate in one of the Running Room's online training programs free of charge. As a part of this online training program it provided a ten week training program to build up endurance to run a 10K race using the Stanton method of run ten, walk one. However, after completing five weeks of the training program I had to give it a rest due to a knee injury. It was incredibly frustrating and disappointing due to my Type A personality. I wanted to be able to complete the program as planned, perfectly, without delay. Instead I had to rest for a full two weeks without any training, and I was ready to start training again just at the start of the FITS challenge with a new plan.
My knee injury has slowed me down, but I am slowly building up my endurance again. If all goes well, by the end of the FITS challenge I should be able to run 10 km at a steady pace using the Stanton method. This is based on me amending my original Running Room training plan. I now only run at most three times per week and have at least one rest day in between running days. So far my training has been going well. I have managed to fit in all of my planned training sessions, but it has been hard on the weekends. Summer is a busy time, especially on the weekends, and to find the extra time to fit in an hour long run when the heat and humidity isn't too stifling has been hard. There have been both early morning and late evening runs to try to fit them in.
I have found that running in the early morning is definitely harder on me. My run times in the morning have been longer and my motivation definitely isn't as strong. This confirms what I already believed about myself, I am not a morning person. It doesn't help that if I have to run before work, I don't have time and it upsets my stomach to eat right before I leave for my run and my energy reserves are low. So, evenings have been key to successful runs, especially when there is a little bit of a breeze, no bugs, falling temperatures, and I've eaten supper at least one hour before my run to restore my energy reserves.
Since I have approached my revised training program my knees haven't been bothering me as much. This slower, extended training program rather than what was proposed by the Running Room's system is definitely working and my run times are improving too. However, not pushing myself too far too fast and overtraining has been difficult, but I know it is better for me in the long run. Every once and a while my knees will tweak with pain, but I just slow down to a walk until the pain is gone and start paying more attention to my running surface, making sure that I stay on the most even terrain. Tonight I completed a 8 km run for the first time. It was supposed to be a long, slow run. My knees are now a little bit stiff, but there wasn't any pain. I guess I'll find out tomorrow if extending my distance caused any problems. Fingers crossed that there is no additional pain or stiffness and I can continue with my training program as planned.
With each week I have been thinking more and more about my weight loss goal. Like many people I set my weight loss goal when I first signed up for SP in 2007 and had a large amount of weight to lose. I had been overweight for almost all of my life, so I had no idea what weight I would look good at with my current height and build. So, I picked a number. 150 lbs. That was 65 lbs to lose and seemed huge to me, so very far away in the future.
Now that I am 4 lbs away from my goal I've started to re-evaluate my goal. It has taken me over two years, and a bit of back sliding and lack of commitment, but I can see the finish line now. My original goal was achievable. However, I'm starting to see the flaws in my original goal. It still leaves me with an overweight BMI, I still can't manage to fit into regular size 10 jeans, but a size 12 is too big, and there are still some stores where I can't find anything that looks good and fits me properly. I am close to achieving a number on the scale, but I haven't achieved all of my other weight associated goals.
So, here I am re-evaluating my target weight. What is the right number??? Is there ever a right number? How much difference will an extra 5 lbs make. So, I'm thinking I will re-adjust my target weight loss to 145 lbs. It is still achievable in my time frame, before my trip to Scotland & Ireland, and it will put me in the top end of the healthy BMI range. From there who knows. I'll probably re-evaluate again once I hit 149 lbs to see if I want to can lose more. So, here I go . . . . 145 lbs here I come!
For all intents and purposes I had intended to get in a great workout at the gym today, then work on last year's taxes which I still haven't filed, do some laundry, grocery shop, and clean the house. Instead I have done none of it. The day is wasting away and I don't feel guilty about it. Instead I laid in bed, surfed the net, read some romantic fluff, drank tea, and had breakfast in bed. I then had a nap. So, I basically didn't roll out of bed until almost 3PM. Normally, I don't nap, but today I've just been so tired.
I'm trying not to feel guilty about it. I can't remember the last time I spent so much time laying around and not doing anything of substance. Work has been crazy for the last two months and I've been busy on weekends. It doesn't help that I'm experiencing my TOM, so I think I was just ready to crash. I think I needed today to just relax and decompress. I think next up will be a nice, long bubble bath with the jets going.
So, tomorrow will be back to regularly scheduled programming with a trip to the gym, laundry, and grocery shopping. It all still has to get done, just not today. Today is time for me to rest, recover, and spoil myself.
I just finished writing a long blog about whether or not I should go to the gym this afternoon and feeling guilty about taking rest days. Just to stop all of you who say I should go to the gym I should also mention that I have already gotten in a 20 minute power walk and have completed my calories burned goal for the week.
Just as I was to run my spell check and then post the blog my internet connection went down, my IE stopped responding, and my Outlook locked up. So, my nice blog is lost. I then had to re-boot my computer and I could not establish a network connection. I got an authentication failure notification. This has been happening frequently lately but the IT people seemed to be stumped. My office is located at a satellite site on a construction project. I am the only person from my company, so I can't even check with someone else to see if it is just me. Then all of a sudden my connection will re-establish itself. Today it took rebooting my computer twice and waiting over an hour. To kill time I started to read my Rick Steves' guidebook for Scotland. Nothing like daydreaming about your vacation to pass the time!
At the same time while I waited for my network connection to re-establish itself I felt impotent. I am waiting for information from my architect and mechanical design engineer to respond to questions from a grant administrator for a grant that I applied for and is in the evaluation process. Unfortunately with this grant they only accept electronic communication, so I couldn't even call them to tell them the information was coming. And to give some perspective this grant is valued at somewhere between $700,000 and $1.2 million. So, there are big stakes tied to this grant. Who knew not being able to send or receive email could be so stressful??? Thank goodness it is Friday! I need some time away from here to decompress. Once 5PM roles around, in about 11 minutes, there is nothing I can do about it until Monday morning.


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What does FACS stand for?
What does FACS stand for?
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FACS is an abbreviation for a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. This is a very prestigious honor only bestowed upon surgeons after completing stringent residency requirements.
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We've just bought a load of these to replace some aging PC's...
Product Specs PDF
They came with DVD drives and a Media Card reader in the FDD slot (I'm told there wasn't an option to not have them included!??! I'm not sure... I don't do the ordering).
Instead of just disconnecting them internally to stop them being used, we ideally we want to remove them altogether otherwise the students will eventually trash them, but I've hunted high and low to find 5.25" and 3.5" blanking plates etc for them but aren't having any luck. What would you recommend I do?
a) Leave them in and just disconnect them?
b) Try and fashion bespoke blanking plates from something (if so, what?)
c) Put proper HP blanking plates in (if so, where do I get them?)
d) Other (please specify)
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Seabob Price list 2014
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|Seabob Cayago F7
|Underwater Scooter 7 Hp – Limited Edition
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10.780 €
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10.840 €
|Seabob Jet 4.12
|For best operating time – 75 min
8.930 €
|Seabob Magnum
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78.000 €
|*Models are available in limited quantities and limited colors. Limited offers apply.
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|Extra Accu for Seabob F7
|Spare Accumulator for SEABOB F7
6.045 €
|Quick Charger for Seabob F7
|reduced charging time to aprox. 110 min
1.685 €
|Quick Charger for Seabob F5
|reduced charging time to aprox. 90 min
1.430 €
|Pilot Belt for Seabob F5/F7
|for sporty driving of Seabob F7/F5
192 €
|Seabob F7 Bag
|Seabob Carry bag for transport and storage
285 €
|Seabob F5 Bag
|Seabob Carry bag for transport and storage
285 €
|Seabob F7 Cart
|Seabob Cart for easier transportation of F7/VX2 models
395 €
|Seabob F7 Rack
|secure Seabob wall/floor mounting device
96 €
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165 €
|Seabob Case
|Seabob Aluminium Case for F7
635 €
|Lift for Seabob F7
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784 €
|Seabob Weights for F7
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|Seabob Weights for F5
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The 2014 High School Leadership Summit will be held November 21-23, 2014 at Hampton University. Lodging, meals and events will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel adjacent to campus.
The focus of the summit is: "The Leader Within." Students will participate in workshops designed to develop a sense of self awareness and their leadership styles.
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Registration Fee: $280.00
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This is the time that we've waiting for! We really do want to Watch Pacquiao vs Cotto Free Live Stream on Saturday November 14, 2009 at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada.
After a long time preparation and conditioning we will able to see the result of the fight of this two fighters. Manny Pacquiao is facing Miguel Cotto in the welterweight division, Cotto is defending his WBO Welterweight belt so I'm sure there's a lot of people searching and wanted to Watch Pacquiao vs Cotto Free Live Stream.
You maybe wondering on where to Watch Pacquiao vs Cotto Free Live Stream, many sites offer fake live streams but to be sure, just visit the free live streaming sites like justin.tv, atdhe.net, ustream.tv and many more this streaming sites will have the pay per view match live but some of them were being blocked at the time of the fight.
We have a lot of Free Live Streaming sites and advices on where to Watch Pacquiao vs Cotto Free Live Stream. Just bookmark this page or just stay tuned on the date of the fight and FOLLOW THE LINKS I will post here. Enjoy!
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Apple Maps Gets a Boost (Update 1)
The potential for Locationary is huge. The company notes it has 5.61 billion data fields, with 175 million profiles and 253 feeds and repositories. That's a serious amount of data, and should drastically improve the location whereabouts of restaurants, businesses, and other shops on Apple Maps.
While Apple may not make money from Maps, it's clear that Apple is serious about drastically improving its software and services. It also shows that Apple is serious about changing the perception of its software and services, particularly its mobile apps, which have been seen as lacking in the past.
Cook has said in the past that Apple is not simply a hardware company. He's also talked about how Apple has great products, software and services coming, and Apple Maps is one of Apple's services.
Apple's decision not to include Google Maps in iOS 6 was a blunder, though Google Maps has since come back to iOS in the form of an app from the App Store. Google continues to dominate this space, and its recent acquisition of Waze only helps solidify this position. However, it's clear that Apple is not just going to sit back and watch Google extend its lead. It's going to fight back, and hard, and Locationary is going to help.-- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Chris_Ciaccia
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Vacation is going by so quickly... it's really depressing. I don't want to go back to school. Well... at least I've done a few things with my friends. And Sherri came over. I missed her a lot. Hopefully I'll get to see her next weekend, too. I want to go to Vermont for her party. She wants me to meet more of her friends. I'll get to see the ones I already know... like Trina and Vanessa. I miss them. Today was boring. I get to see Matt tomorrow... I'm glad. And Mander wants me to stay over this weekend. Last time we had so much fun. I'm glad she's doing better. Well... like I said today was uneventful. I'm gonna go. ~*~April~*~


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There is really only one ocean. But over time, it's been cordoned off into various regions, with the most fluid of boundaries. Today, geographers recognize more than 50 seas within five major oceans. There are also more than 150 Exclusive Economic Zones where individual coastal nations exercise sovereignty up to 200 nautical miles from their shores.
Now, thanks to the rise of marine protected areas (MPAs), the global ocean is becoming increasingly partitioned. The term is a catchall for sites like ocean sanctuaries, marine parks, and no-fishing zones—scattered havens where marine life is supposed to thrive, free of human interference (or, at least, subject to limited human interference). The world's 5,000-plus MPAs include national treasures like the Galápagos and the Great Barrier Reef, but they also include small "fishery-management zones" that are undistinguished except for fine-print prohibitions on certain types of fishing gear. Even the Great Barrier Reef is open to extractive activities like trawl fishing and deep-sea dredging.
Only 2 percent of the ocean is currently covered by some sort of MPA. (In contrast, 12 percent of the world's land is protected in national-park systems and wildlife preserves.) And only half of that 2 percent—a mere 1 percent of the ocean—is classified as "no-take," or completely closed to fishing and other extractive activity.
The international conservation community has long heralded the role of MPAs in protecting ocean resources. But amid growing concern over how to save the seas from overfishing, acidification, and "dead zones," ecologists and economists are beginning to ask a fundamental question: Are these special conservation zones actually achieving anything?
Such queries are especially important in light of news that Palau, a small island nation in Micronesia, intends to turn its entire territory into one giant marine reserve. Commercial fishing would be banned from Palau's coasts to the outer reaches of its Exclusive Economic Zone—in sum, an area of about 230,000 square miles. Palau, it seems, has decided that attracting more tourists and scuba divers is worth shunning the commercial fishing industry.
In March, two economists at Columbia University put some numbers to the upside of MPAs, arguing in a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research that these zones are only worthwhile if they make up at least 8.5 percent of a country's Exclusive Economic Zone. That's the tipping point at which the costs of implementing MPAs are outweighed by the benefits they confer through boosts to the country's tourism and fishing industries.
But thinking about conservation only in terms of percentage of area covered may not be the best strategy. In February, the marine geographer Rodolphe Devillers and other researchers published a study asserting that the majority of MPAs are "residual"—established in locations of convenience rather than in places where they could actually do good. Creating a "no-take" marine reserve sounds like a significant action, unless you choose to locate it in a corner of the ocean where no one wants to fish or drill, and where there are few species in need of protection.
According to Devillers and his co-authors, this is a consequence of politics, industry influence, and the widely accepted use of "area size" as a measure of success. When governments like Australia's try to enact MPAs in a way that pleases everyone, their goals are are to minimize costs, avoid conflict with commercial interests, and still be able to boast about protecting "x" square miles of habitat. A Case in point: In early April, the Australian government "created Australia's largest fully protected marine reserve near two far-flung islands, in a move which environmental groups say will help safeguard rare whale species." As The Guardian reported:
The reserve now spans 71,200 sq km of ocean. Heard and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory located 4,100 km south-west of Perth, are barren, uninhabited outposts considered among the most remote places on Earth.
All this isn't to say that the Heard and McDonald Islands are devoid of natural resources. In fact, according to the MPAtlas database, the territory serves as an important breeding habitat for seabirds and seals, and the surrounding waters act as a "nursery" for commercially harvested fish species. It's just that the biggest threat these barren, uninhabited Antarctic islands appear to be facing isn't exploitation by commercial fishermen or oil companies, but rather climate change. And that's not something a marine reserve can protect against.
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Iran's supreme leader raised the stakes today defiantly vowing that if Israel attacks Iran's nuclear program, American interests would suffer as well.
Some American officials believe Israel may be planning to strike Iranian nuclear targets sometime this spring. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta did not dispute a Washington Post story Thursday reporting his belief that Israel could attack as early as April, May or June. The story for the first time publicly pinned a specific timeframe to what has been an ongoing concern for the U.S. national security team.
Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranians today that if his country is attacked, it would be "ten times worse for interests of the United States" than it would be for Iran.
In a fiery sermon, the defiant leader told Iranians that the country would not hesitate to retaliate if its nuclear facilities are attacked. He gave much of the speech in Arabic – even though Iranians don't speak Arabic — in a clear signal to leaders of the Arab world that Iran would not hold back and that those countries would be held accountable if such an attack by Israel took place.
"Threatening Iran and attacking Iran will harm America," Khamenei said. "Sanctions will not have any impact on our determination to continue our nuclear course … In response to threats of oil embargo and war, we have our own threats to impose at the right time."
Israeli facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase.
Amid a threat of retaliation from Iran, Panetta today said that the United States is "prepared to respond if we have to," but behind the scenes, the United States has urged Israel not to attack. U.S. leaders still feel that international sanctions against Iran will pressure them to back down from their nuclear program and will be more beneficial in the long term.
But Israelis feel that Iran is developing nuclear arsenal at such a rapid pace that Israel will soon run out of time if they don't act now.
"For the Israelis, time is running out sooner because their military capabilities are more limited. So over the next six months the odds are pretty good that if they are not convinced they will take action," said Matthew Kroenig, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an assistant professor of government at Georgetown University. "Israel is calculating that in the next six months their window of opportunity for a strike will close. So it's now or never."
In December, Panetta warned of the devastating consequences for the United States if such an attack is carried out. Fresh out of Iraq and embroiled in an expensive war in Afghanistan in a weak economy, there is little appetite for another costly foreign engagement.
"The indication is that at best it [an Israeli strike] might postpone it maybe one, possibly two years," Panetta said, referring to Iran's eventual development of a nuclear device. "Frankly, some of those targets are very difficult to get at."
Panetta also warned of "unintended consequences" of such an attack.
"Ultimately it would have a backlash and the regime that is weak now, a regime that is isolated would suddenly be able to reestablish itself, suddenly be able to get support in the region, and suddenly instead of being isolated would get the greater support in a region that right now views it as a pariah," he said.
"Thirdly, the United States would obviously be blamed and we could possibly be the target of retaliation from Iran, striking our ships, striking our military bases. Fourthly there are economic consequences to that attack, severe economic consequences that could impact a very fragile economy in Europe and a fragile economy here in the United States.
"And lastly I think that the consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret," Panetta said.
President Obama sent a letter last month to Khamenei via Iran's United Nations ambassador, which Iran says both threatened against shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and also invited Tehran to hold talks.
Khamenei said today that Iran's response to Obama's letter will be made public soon.
Another war, even if it's started by a U.S. ally, would present both an international and domestic challenge to Obama, who is up for reelection in November.
Experts say the country will likely unite behind Israel if it were to make a move, but the monetary cost and the threats to U.S. facilities would be grave.
Obama has already been assailed by some Republican candidates for not taking a more aggressive approach towards Iran.
"This is, of course, President Obama's greatest failing, from a foreign policy standpoint, which is he recognized the gravest threat that America and the world faced as — and faced was a nuclear Iran and he did not do what was necessary to get Iran to be dissuaded from their nuclear folly," Republican front-runner Mitt Romney said in November.
The former Massachusetts governor has said he would support military action "if all else fails."
"It is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," he said.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich supports "a maximum covert operation to block and disrupt the Iranian nuclear program" and "breaking the regime and bringing it down," but agreed with Romney that he would also support military action if needed.
Rep. Ron Paul is the only one among the four remaining GOP candidates who oppose such an engagement.


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France, which has more nuclear reactors than any other European country, will push ahead with so-called stress tests that exclude those risks while evaluating dangers from earthquakes and flooding, Andre-Claude Lacoste, head of the Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, said in an interview yesterday.
"What we asked of French operators will at the same time serve as an application of European stress tests," he said following a parliamentary hearing in Paris. "The commissioner has sowed confusion. Planes aren't included in the stress tests."
The parameters for safety checks of Europe's 143 atomic plants were a source of friction between member countries and regulators after governments called for the tests following a disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant triggered by an earthquake and tsunami. European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger announced May 25 that the tests will include crashes and explosions.
Any differences are down to "minor details," Lacoste said, adding that the French stress tests will be based on what was agreed by the European Commission and European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group on May 13.
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"Commissioner Oettinger communicated alone on this and created confusion," Lacoste said. "There was agreement to a text and that is what counts. He took this and added personal comments."
The French approach is broader than Europe's because it includes reactors along with associated sites, including waste storage and treatment centers operated by Areva SA, notably at La Hague, Lacoste said. The ASN will also examine sub- contracting within the industry.
"We have a huge amount of work to do in a short time," he said. "We are asking new questions. Fukushima was a shock. We'll play the game as honestly as possible."
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The 11-12 age group freestyle relay team finished in second place.
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I have an ARE LSII on my rig (05 Double Cab Shortbed) I paid a hair over $900 for it. The cover is lockable and I haven't tried removing it yet but it looks like 4 bolts (no drilling required) and lift it off. I like the fact that it locks because my wife lugs around about a grand worth of tools and they pretty secure. Drag being reduced is of no consequence. So far it has been proven (by the Mythbusters) that having a cover has no real benefit and the best thing for reducing drag (minus geting a tailgate net) is to actualy leave the tailgate up.
Your Toyota dealer can source them for you. I bought mine from them and they get it from Van and Truck World. I'm told the soft covers are very hard to user install, initially.
Looking for a cover, start @ Ebay type in Tacoma and sit back and look at the different styles available. I have an 06 double cab and chose a soft cover. For me on another truck every time I had my hard cover on is when I needed to take it off to haul some thing.
I have a double cab long bed taco '05 and purchased my bed cover at extang rt tonno. it is so easy to install it took me 30mins, and the sleek design not too bulky for my bed, for $328 it's worth it. no drilling required.
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Thanks for the truth about pickup trucks and drag! :D
Thanks... I'll look at Ebay
does your soft cover fit well and no water gets in it?
We haven't had ours long enough to have a problem. I bought a Tonneau Freadom cover. On the 5 ft box it has 3 ribs across the box to support the cover and divert the rain. The longer box has 4 according the the instructions. The snaps that hold the cover on have a summer and winter position so the cover should stay tight. The bad news in your case is you can still open the tail gate with out unsnapping anything. The good news is it was about $170.00 on ebay
Question is "Hard or Soft"
I have a '06 Tacoma with the 6ft bed and just purchased a Undercover hard cover. I researched so much with on-line shops and visiting local auto parts stores to finally decide on a hard cover from Undercover (www.undercoverinfo.com). This is the lightest hard cover in the market only at 57 lbs. and it is a lockable and even comes with a bright battery powered light installed which is pretty handy when it's dark. Also with this wrap-around design, it eliminates the need for tail-gate lock and the installation is very easy and uses the existing multi-trak rail systems with no drill. I'm pretty happy with it except for the wind noise that the front rubber flap makes when going over 60 mph. If you live in a area with a lot of snow falls, you definitely have to go with a hard cover because the soft type won't stand the weight of snow and the cover itself constantly makes the wind noise even though the soft cover is capable for a unscheduled purchase of a big furniture or TV set because its removal is relatively easy with just rolling-up.
Look at the Access Literider. I plan to order one this week. I have had one before and it was very handy. Easy to roll forward to put big stuff in. Sealed up fairly well against rain and car washes. They have one for the long or short bed that doesnt require any drilling. There is a special install kit for Tacomas that comes with the cover.
where do u find the ARE LSII for a little over 900????
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they have all styles find the one you like then back check a web search to find best price.
Ditto this review. My Undercover Tonneau is great. Easy to install. Looks factory. Hard cover always looks good.
Only thing with hard cover is that you have to take it off for big items. No big deal.
Can you post some pix?
In 04 when I had my F150 I bought a Leer, it was that or the Undercover and I wish I went with the Undercover. The Leer looked very nice and was very good BUT the Undercover just makes sense to me. The Undercover weighs less, more durable, easier to install/remove. With my Taco I am going to get the Undercover. I never removed the Leer because it seemed like a pain in the butt. If you remove it you have to set on a barrel or other flat surface versus the Undercover just being able to hang on the wall. I am lucky I never cracked the Leer in half because all the times I had to haul things and was unable to remove the lid (because it seemed like a pain in the butt) and ended up tying down the lid or just leaving it up. If you want looks the fiber glass covers are very nice. For me practical use would be the Undercover. The Leer did have nice rain/water protection when the lid was raised. I am not sure about the Undercover.
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I have an 06 double cab long bed. I purchased an UNDERCOVER. Im very satisfied, you can walk on top the cover, it locks and keeps the tailgate from opening, comes off in about 2 min with just one person, light enough to pick up by yourself, completely waterproof and got it for a great deal. My friend works at a truck place so he got it to me for a discount so I only paid $525
I have the Bak Bakflip. It got great reviews. It's a hard lockable and foldable sturdy cover; plus it looks good. It's very similiar to the the cover on the Colorado Avalanche. No drilling required to install plus you can still use the rail system... I paid 546.00 for mine delivered.
I also have a A.R.E LS II lid for my Ranger, color matched to the truck of course. Cost was $800.00 back in 2004 when I bought my truck. Problem with a hard cover, is your limited to what you can haul in the back of your truck, height wise. Since they do bolt on with 4 bolts and clamps, who wants to unbolt the lid and then re-install it just to carry something large in the back???? Don't get me wrong, lids are great as long as you keep the things that you place back there, "below the sides of your box", height wise.
A few freinds at work went with a Torza folding soft cover, and that's what I'll be getting next for my future Tacoma as well, when ever I buy one. It comes off and on in less than 1 minute!!! Here's a link showing that very tonneau cover in action. I've done the cap and Lid route on my last few trucks, but the Torza Tonneau cover is my next choice, bar none.
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Newt Gingrich's recent rise in Republican primary polls has occurred in tandem with the release of his historical novel set in the Civil War, which positions him as a champion of the African-American community and at the same time attempts to placate his conservative southern base, whose agenda is interwoven with a traditional narrative of the Civil War that avoids the tough questions surrounding slavery and race. The result is a narrative that grossly distorts our understanding of the war and the important role of black Union soldiers.
In the course of two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have divided Americans and raised questions about this nation's own moral standing on the world stage, Newt Gingrich has released a steady stream of historical novels that hearken back to those moments in the past that showcase "American Exceptionalism." Historical events that have preoccupied Gingrich, along with co-author William R. Forstchen, revolve around the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Second World War, including the larger than life personalities such as George Washington, Generals Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee, and Admiral William Halsey. Many of these books utilize counterfactuals to pinpoint decisive moments in a history that is on the march toward realizing the nation's founding ideals.
The latest release and the third in their Civil War series is The Battle of the Crater, which tells the story of one of the bloodiest encounters of the Petersburg Campaign of 1864-65. The battle, which was fought on July 30, 1864 and popularized in the recent movie Cold Mountain, is best remembered for the early morning detonation of 8,000 pounds of explosives under a Confederate salient by the Army of the Potomac's Ninth Corps in an attempt to break the siege and perhaps end the war. The subsequent attack quickly bogged down, as many of the men were caught in the entangled web of earthworks as well as the large crater caused by the explosion. A quick Confederate response by units in the immediate vicinity of the explosion, as well as a mid-morning counterattack, saved Lee's army and resulted in what would be the Army of Northern Virginia's last decisive victory.
Gingrich and Fortschen tell their story by focusing on the 28th United States Colored Troops and the rest of the black soldiers of the Fourth Division. The unit suffered horrendous casualties and evidence indicates that large numbers were executed both during and after the battle. Those who survived ended up in southern prison camps or, worse, were enslaved.
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Upbeat after their two consecutive victories, Rajasthan Royals would aim for a hat-trick of wins and inch closer to a playoffs spot when they take on an insipid Chennai Super Kings in an IPL match on Thursday. Rajasthan have the winning momentum with them and have emerged from the shock of four consecutive defeats by posting two impressive wins over Kings XI Punjab and Pune Warriors. The match will be a keenly-fought contest because a defeat in the match might just spoil the chances of either team to make it to playoffs. The team composition for the previous two matches has been remarkable for Rajasthan Royals. With Australian all-rounder Shane Watson and pacer Shaun Tait in the side, they have proved that they are better as a team than their more fancied rivals. Shane Watson has been in fine form both with the bat and ball while Tait has proved that he is more than a handful in conditions that suit him. The batting of the hosts revolves round the opening partnership of skipper Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane who has surrendered his orange cap to Delhi skipper Virender Sehwag. Shane Watson, at number three, has added strength by smashing the bowlers while Ashok Menaria, Brad Hodge and Owais Shah have played their role to perfection. The bowling has been consistent and Shaun Tait, who had to wait for a couple of games to get a chance, has been lethal in the past two matches. The reliable Sidhartha Trivedi and Watson give a settled look to bowling. On the other hand, champions for the past two years, Chennai Super Kings have not been in prime form this season and are languishing at sixth with five victories and six defeats. They have not been able to finish off close games and have lacked consistency. But Chennai have enjoyed a three-day break which might have provided them with enough time to regroup and plan for their remaining four games. The fact that they are the most successful IPL team, having played in three finals and have been victorious twice, should also give them confidence. Besides, Mahendra Singh Dhoni leads a team that boasts of several international stars who have the ability to turn games. Their batting has a solid look on paper with Faf du Plessis and Murali Vijay at the top and the likes of Suresh Raina, Dwayne Bravo, Dhoni and S Badrinath coming down the order. All-rounders such as Ravindra Jadeja, Albie Morkel and R Ashwin add depth to the line-up. The bowling appears strong with Ben Hilfenhaus, Morkel, Bravo, Jadeja and Ashwin. The fact that Chennai beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets at home should also give the visitors some confidence. The slight drizzle last night has increased the humidity which might also help the visitors.
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