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A man who conspired to distribute crack cocaine from 2010 through 2012 was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison.
Rico Dixon, 29, from Waterloo, Iowa, and previously from Chicago, Illinois, received the prison term after a July 12, 2012, guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
At his guilty plea hearing, Dixon admitted he agreed with others to distribute crack cocaine from 2010 through 2012 in and around Waterloo, Iowa. At his sentencing hearing, Dixon also agreed he possessed a gun in connection with his drug trafficking.
Dixon was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade. Dixon was sentenced to 70 months' imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a 4-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Dixon is being held in the United States Marshal's custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Tony Morfitt and investigated by the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement and the Waterloo Police Department.
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My first earnings short-squeeze play today is retail apparel player Finish Line (FINL - Get Report), which is set to release numbers on Friday before the market open. This mall-based specialty retailer in the U.S. operates two retail divisions under the Finish Line brand name and Running Specialty Group. Wall Street analysts, on average, expect Finish Line to report revenue of $357.27 million on earnings of 44 cents per share.
This stock has been uptrending fairly strong so far in 2012, with shares up around 19%. Shares of Finish Line trading are currently trading about three points off its 52-week high of $26.16 a share ahead of its report. The current short interest as a percentage of the float for Finish Line is notable at 7.2%. That means that out of the 49.19 million shares in the tradable float, 3.53 million shares are sold short by the bears.
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Day 2 – Diary of the Aspen/Snowmass Shoot – Nailing It
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Chase, what do you use to stabilize your cameras in the choppers? And what are the remote heli's that you are using? Thanks. Andrew
we'll have more detailed info posted later about the remote heli stuff. for shooting out of a full size heli, i shoot a faster than 1250 shutter speed using still cameras to avoid high frequency camera shake and when shooting video we normally use a fancy gyro unit, or a suspension system /hand held combined with some smooth cam filtering in final cut pro.
This has turned into my daily soap. Thanks for the suspense and information. Big fan.
This will be awesome. Just shared it with all my clients, hopefully they'll seethe value of doing behind-the-scenes campaigns.
Had to change the title of the post though… I'm campaigning to take the word "shoot" out of photography: http://jtography.co.uk/2012/02/24/photography-is-not-a-blood-sport/
sounds like a great first day… well besides the early start but that comes with the job. fingers crossed weather stays good
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guess you can give me that hammer back…lol. better see some bts vids on this stuff.
Good stuff! Looking forward to the rest of the coverage!
So good to hear professionals doing what the love. Looking forward to the finished products and the video.
It looks like you guys have a fantastic day. I really want to start doing more behind the scenes video and blogging on my shoots. The only problem I find is that it can become a distraction to what is actually going on. Can't wait to see your ad when it comes out.
So when you say hiked to 12k you mean, ride on a snowcat? Did you take the snowcat down too?
Sounds like a great day Chase, good luck with the weather tomorrow!
I really love the diary of a shoot episodes!
How long did it take for you to get up from snow cat drop off to the Highlands summit?
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Little question Chase, will we get to see the photos you're shooting in either your portfolio or in a blog post here? I'm really curious what they look like
Did you happen to shoot anything on the big burn?
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Ahead of the 2013 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix, we remember the inaugural race at Albert Park in 1996 and Jacques Villeneuves spectacular F1 debut
Formula One racing has a rich history of impressive debut performances - think Giancarlo Baghetti winning the French Grand Prix in his first race in 1961, a still-injured Johnny Herbert coming fourth in Brazil in 1989, or more recently, Lewis Hamilton marking his first ever start with third in the 2007 Australian Grand Prix. But few drivers in the modern era have come as close to winning on their maiden outing as a precociously-talented 24-year-old did in Melbourne in 1996
Jacques Villeneuve, son of the late six-time Grand Prix winner, Gilles, was hardly an unknown when he arrived at Albert Park that year. The previous season the French-Canadian had won both the IndyCar championship and the showpiece Indy 500, but with memories of Michael Andrettis disappointing transfer from Indy to F1 racing still fresh in the memory, the jury was out on whether Villeneuve would be a success.
His Williams team had given him every chance to get to grips with F1 machinery with a lengthy programme of winter testing, but when he pipped experienced team mate Damon Hill to pole position in his first ever qualifying session, there was still shock in the paddock, not least from the man himself.
"I didn't expect to be up there," said Villeneuve, "but after the laps on Thursday, Friday and this morning we knew we could make it. So with my engineers and the rest of the guys we worked to be sure to get it. I am very satisfied."
The rookie had every reason to be satisfied - hed become the first man since Carlos Reutemann in 1972 (and only the third person in history) to score pole position on his debut and, with the Williams FW18 looking the class of the field, there was every chance of him emulating Baghetti with victory.
On race day morning, there was debate in the paddock - would Villeneuve repeat his qualifying heroics or would he succumb to the pressure of the occasion? Having raced in IndyCar for the previous two years (and in Formula Atlantic before that) Villeneuve was accustomed to rolling starts, not that youd know it by the way he launched his FW18 off the grid at the start of the race.
Team mate Hill tucked in behind Villeneuve going into the first corner, but the newcomers good start was soon to count for nothing as the red flags came out after Martin Brundles Jordan had spectacularly barrel-rolled into the gravel at Turn 3.
After a slight delay, the race was re-started and, impressively, Villeneuve made as efficient a start as he had before - minimal wheel spin, maximum acceleration and the chance to turn into the first corner unopposed. But one thing was for sure - Hill, championship runner-up in the two previous seasons, was not going to let his new team mate run away to victory. Instead, the Briton latched onto the back of Villeneuves car until his first pit stop and then put in a sequence of quick laps to emerge marginally ahead after a stop of his own.
But for those thinking the race would be a formality now that Hill had got his nose in front, Villeneuve had a swift response. With his team mates tyres still not up to temperature he bravely forced his way around the outside of Hill into Turn 4 and proceeded to hold the lead, even surviving a grassy moment at Turn 1 on lap 35.
"I thought he'd lost it," said Hill. "I thought he might catch me when he came back onto the track so I was going to one side. Then he started coming across the track and I had to lift off. When I got back on the power again he had straightened it all out. It was a bit scary."
But just as a fairy tale debut victory seemed to be on the cards, fate intervened. Villeneuves car had been trailing small amounts of smoke throughout the race, with Hills behind him getting grimier and grimier as a result. The Canadians car was losing oil and eventually the Williams pit wall gave him the inevitable slow down message.
"I reckon Jacques started losing oil from about the time of our stops," said Hill. "I was getting covered in it - it was down my neck and everything. I'd used all my visor tear-offs and was wiping my visor with my glove, which just made visibility worse, of course. As well as that, I was worried that his engine might go bang and we'd both go off on the oil."
As it was, Villeneuve let Hill by and the future champion went on to cross the line 38 seconds ahead of his young team mate.
"Of course it was disappointing, because the win was there, said Villeneuve afterwards. We had fought until those final laps and, without the problem, it would have been a battle to the end. But, you know, second place in my first Grand Prix is great, so I feel very happy."
He may not have won, but Jacques Villeneuve had made quite an impression.
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Following the briefing to the Security Council by the Chairman of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737
We had today a meeting of the Security Council to examine the report of the Committee about the implementation of resolution 1737, the resolution of sanctions against Iran, the first resolution of sanctions against Iran - because the Security Council, as you know, has voted three resolutions of sanctions: 1737, 1747, 1803, resolutions of sanctions which have been confirmed by resolution 1835.
The sanctions committee has confirmed that we are facing a pattern of violation of the UN resolutions by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Several ships carrying weapons have been intercepted by States and we are now convinced that there is a deliberate attempt by the Islamic Republic of Iran to violate the UN resolutions.
It is all the more serious because in parallel all our efforts to engage negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, all our efforts have failed. Since 2003 we have tried to open a negotiation with Iran. And, as you know, President Obama has made a new proposal of engagement with Iran, we have made several very concrete proposals which would allow Iran to develop peaceful use of nuclear energy. Iran has never entered into a negotiation. Iran has not accepted our proposals. The clock is ticking. Iran is enriching uranium and we don't have any, any explanation for the use of this enriched uranium since Iran does not have a nuclear power plant.
So we make a last call to the Islamic Republic of Iran to respond to our offer of negotiation. If Iran does not do it in the short term, France will propose a new resolution of sanctions. We won't make this choice in a light way, for us it would be a heavy decision. We want a negotiated settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue. And we do regret that, so far, Iran has not entered into the negotiation.
I think you have read the last resolution of the Board of Governors of the International Agency for Atomic Energy. This resolution is showing that Iran is not respecting its obligations. This resolution is showing that Iran has not responded to the request presented by the Agency. So we have all the evidence on the table.
We want to solve this issue. But again, we are following a dual track policy: on one side asking for negotiation, on the other side increasing the pressure on Iran, and we consider that the time has come to increase this pressure. France considers that the time has come to increase this pressure.
Q: Ambassador, what is the timing? You say that if Iran won't respond soon, you will propose…what's the timing?
A: It's not up to my country to decide the timing; it will be negotiated between the members of the Security Council. We, the French side, we are ready to work as soon as possible. And as for the sanctions it will be the negotiation of the Security Council.
Q: How would you respond, M. Ambassador, to what the Libyan envoy said about the fact that you have double standards and totally ignoring the Israeli nuclear arsenal, they refuse to join the NPT, etc…they never came here so why is this?
A: The Security Council is in charge of international law. What is the law? The law is the Treaty on Non-Proliferation. Iran has signed the Treaty on Non-Proliferation. Iran has signed a safeguards agreement with the International Agency of Atomic Energy. What we are seeing is simply that Iran is violating the obligations that it has taken. We have never obliged Iran to sign the NPT. We have never obliged Iran to sign a safeguards agreement with the Agency. It is simple: Iran is violating its international commitments.
Q: What about Israel? It's not violating anything?
A: We are talking about the NPT and the agreement with the IAEA. If you show me that the State of Israel is violating the NPT we'll consider the issue.
Q: But there are resolutions that the Middle East should be a nuclear-free zone.
A: There is no text demanding the establishment of nuclear-free zone. It is a goal that we have to fulfil. It is a goal with conditions, and France is favourable to going in this direction.
Q: Quelle est l'atmosphère au sein du Conseil? On sait que parfois c'est très difficile d'obtenir un consensus sur ce sujet là en particulier. Comment ça se passe ?
A : On verra. Nous verrons naturellement, mais il y a quand même le sentiment général au sein du Conseil de sécurité, à la lecture du rapport que nous a présenté l'ambassadeur du Japon, que l'Iran est en violation délibérée, organisée, des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité, qu'il y a un véritable flot d'armes qui provient de l'Iran en direction de zones fragiles, en direction de zones de conflit. Nous devons agir et nous devons évidemment discuter à quinze. Tout ceci résultera d'un accord du Conseil de sécurité
Q : Qu'est ce que la France veut ?
A : La France veut une solution négociée du problème nucléaire iranien. Nous voulons une solution négociée. Mais pour négocier, c'est comme danser le tango, on doit être deux


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Simone Mühl studied Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology and Proto- and Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). After achieving her Master of Arts-degree there in 2007, she started working on her PhD-thesis entitled, "History of Settlement in the central Trans-Tigris area – from the Neolithic to the Late Assyrian period". In 2011, she received her PhD and started working as Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Munich. Presently she is the archaeological director of the Shahrizor Survey Project (Iraq), where she started working in 2009.
Briefly describe your personal research and outreach background in regards to Iraq?
I have worked as an archaeologist, investigating the ancient cultures of northern Iraq since approximately 2007. Like many people around the world, the happenings in Iraq create a feeling of helplessness regarding this humanitarian disaster, but also the destruction and harm in the cultural sector. In order to keep track and sort the news reports, initially published primarily by Iraqi Arabic and Kurdish news networks, but later also by international agencies, I started trying to approach the problem more systematically, to find a way to separate inaccurate news (copy and paste journalism) and relevant material. Since such work is best done together with other people who work in the area of cultural heritage preservation or who are interested in it, social network platforms such as Facebook are perfect to keep things simple and to reach different groups of people all over the world.
Why do people need to know about endangered sites in Iraq?
The cultural history of the landscapes within the borders of modern day Iraq goes back to the Paleolithic period (ca. 500,000-100,000 BCE), with sites from this period discovered in the Haditha region (al-Anbar province), Mosul region and in Iraqi Kurdistan. Starting with earliest prehistory, there are several archaeological sites within Iraq that represent benchmarks within human prehistoric and historic chronologies. Within the now conquered and contested areas in northern and central Iraq lie more than 4,000 archaeological and historical sites that we know about, mainly from archaeological surveys. Excavations were restricted in this area to the flood zones of the large dam projects north of Mosul and near Haditha, as well as to the Assyrian capitals, Nineveh, Nimrud, Ashur, and Khorsabad.
For decades, Iraq has been shaken by conflicts and wars. Therefore, nearly no archaeological research could be carried out apart from very small, targeted examinations at Nineveh in Mosul for the training of students of archaeology at Mosul University, or pre-war excavations by German, British and Italian missions.
It is known from the ongoing situation in Syria, and from past conflicts in Iraq, that looters, smugglers and art dealers are working in organized networks to fill art markets all over the world with antiquities from both nations. Objects that come from famous sites such as reliefs from Nimrud, which were reportedly stolen in June, will vanish unseen and undetected in collections of people who can afford to pay large sums for them, and who probably arranged "looting on demand" with prior knowledge of which objects are stored where and what they represent. But the looting of large and famous sites is only one facet of destruction on the much broader scale. Smaller, unexcavated and archaeologically unexplored sites lie next to villages and cities without being monitored. Sites in rural areas of contested regions are also endangered because the rural population is the one which is hit first economically: it is dangerous to grow crops, livestock is being stolen, and markets have shifted. Often digging for "treasures" is seen as easy money to support one's family, but as can be seen around the world, it is these "subsistence diggers" who get the least money.
Militant organizations such as ISIS (or ISIL/IS/Da'ash/Da'ish) put taxes on smugglers and partially sell looted objects directly to customers. Looted and stolen antiquities become part of the bloody chain of weapons acquisition; the profits gained by dealing in antiquities provides money to pay the salary for their fighters, to pay equipment for their propaganda machinery and much more. It is important to make the criminal intentions behind the art market public, also to appeal to the ethical consciousness of the ones who can control the business, the ones who pay for it.
The destruction of cultural heritage is not a bagatelle. After the Hague Convention (first protocol 1954, second protocol 1999) it is considered subject to criminal prosecution in the Criminal Court of the country whose national territory such crimes were conducted, or at the International Criminal Court.
How many known sites are currently threatened? Which areas are seeing the greatest threats?
An area of about 100,000 sq km (nearly as big as Iceland) is not under the control of the Iraqi government in Baghdad or the Kurdish Autonomic Region. We know of about 2,000 archaeological sites in the regions of Sinjar and Mosul and another 2,000 sites in the wider region of Ashur (near the modern city Qal'at Sherqat), Kirkuk and down to the Diyala river. The number of sites in al-Anbar province, where Haditha lies, goes well into the hundreds. All of them are threatened. Among the threatened sites are three of four sites in Iraq that were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: Ashur, Hatra and Samarra. The first image below is of the ruins of Ashur, seen from across the Tigris, while the second represents the current dig house with the Temple of Ashur in the background (courtesy of M. Herles, 2001).
Ashur and Hatra were overrun by militant forces in the beginning of June, while Samarra is on the front line at the Tigris since the beginning of July. At least in Samarra it was possible for the General Directorate of Antiquities and Heritage in Baghdad to establish ground forces for the protection of the site.
Nevertheless we can differentiate threats: First are finance related risks, second is cultural destruction as part of "ideological" programs, and third are damages as the result of armed conflicts. Dealing with antiquities looted from archaeological sites and museums is not new to Iraq's recent history. Everybody remembers the looting of Iraq's largest archaeological museum in Baghdad, and some provincial museums like the one in Mosul, even though precautions were taken by the staff members of these institutions to safeguard many movable pieces. Sites of great antiquity were turned into moonscapes by some local and predominant professional looters equipped with weapons and heavy construction equipment.
We know that many activities of looting are related to an organized antiquity market. Most buyers choose not to engage with information about where their money goes to or what it contributes to. While mafia-like structures will also prevail during the ongoing conflict in Iraq, information gained about the illicit traffic of antiquities in Syria, and information found in digital files secured near Mosul early in June 2014 shows that direct selling of looted antiquities is a major source of financial funding of groups such as ISIS (or ISIL/IS/Da'ash/Da'ish).
Cuneiform tablets, stone objects such as cylinder seals, and metal antiquities are jackpots for looters, because these objects can be sold as items of "art" as if they were produced only for glass cabinets in galleries. Historically speaking they are items of daily use, and if preserved in their context and documented by professional archaeologists they can reveal a plethora of information about ancient societies.
We would know nothing about, for example, the earliest efforts at crop cultivation and animal domestication, or the Mesopotamian mathematician who authored a clay tablet with geometrical exercises that is sold at an auction or by a black market dealer. With contextual information such as the mudbrick architecture of surrounding buildings, crude and fine ceramic vessels, food remains, and his burial place, we can reconstruct the mathematician's life from the cradle to grave. We know how children were raised, what schools looked like and how they were organized, we know how handcrafts were coordinated by an administration or family business, how important astronomy was for the organization of calendars, and we know about individual and communal treatment of the dead and what the dead can tell us about the living. But what we know from excavations is also still incomplete. The knowledge varies from region to region, period to period. It was impossible to carry out archaeological excavations in Iraq for decades. Since then new methods were developed and applied, but mostly at excavations in Syria, Turkey and the Levant, leaving a great gap of scientific knowledge in Mesopotamia, a heartland of earliest writing, scholarly traditions, deployment of economic strategies and mechanisms.
But historical sites are not just valuable for the scientific community only. People in Iraq are much connected to their cultural heritage. They live on and near the sites, profited from tourism or worked in cultural sectors. Children are taught the material and intellectual history of Mesopotamia and the people are proud of it. Many shops and companies were named after famous kings and ancient cities of importance, the famous winged bulls that guarded the entrances of the Assyrian palaces were chosen as business logos, amongst other Mesopotamian symbols. The ancient history of Iraq is omnipresent.
But the region's history is also of importance for many branches of Islam, since important historic events during and after the life of the prophet took place along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Later, during the medieval period, Islamic religious and scientific scholarly tradition was blooming. Remnants from this time period include manuscripts, scientific equipment and buildings with unique architectural features. Many buildings and architectural remains are still preserved from this time, and the architectural tradition continues to this day. Next to it, mostly in northern Iraq, Assyrian Christian, Ezidi/Yezidi and smaller branches of Islam add cultural traditions and material heritage to the diverse ethnic and religious life of today's Iraq, each of which is part of the millennia-long circuitous course of history in the region.
Another threat, which cannot be underestimated, is the destruction of heritage sites and movable items as "collateral damage" in war activities. While modern military weapons systems seem to be able to aim at targets very accurately, public reports of errors and failure mostly are not available, but to be expected.
The ancient settlement mounds, also known as 'tells' (from the Arabic word for mound) bear the remains of numerous episodes of ancient building construction superimposed on each other. But due to their elevation they are also important landmarks within war zones. Gun emplacements, guard houses, and tank positions are often dug into such mounds, as well as mines being placed on and around them to harm opponent parties if the station is captured.
Some sites are also bulldozed to get building material for street barricades; others are cut for fire trenches or barrier trenches around cities. In several cases such destruction has been complete as in the case of a site visited by our team in 2013 not far from Halabjah. The ancient settlement mound was used as a tank emplacement during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) and was completely bulldozed from within to make it still look like a normal landscape feature to the enemy. The first image below is of an ancient settlement mound near Halabjah, bulldozed to serve as a tank emplacement during the Iran-Iraq War. The second image is from the top of the same mound, that has been hollowed out, destroying all archaeological context (courtesy M. Herles, 2001). A more recent example from sites cut near Kirkuk can be found in a crisis list from 2005.
What is the motivation behind these attacks?
The motivation for targeted attacks at mosques and sanctuaries at first seems to be religious. In strict interpretations of the Kur'an it is forbidden to build mosques on top of graves to avoid worshipping the dead and ancestors respected by the community. The destruction of ancient sites, such as Hatra, was threatened in a recent statement released by ISIS/Da'ash. I do not know if the explanation given in the media was part of the original statement, but it is said that the site was supposed to be destroyed, because it was a place for the worshipping of false gods, demons or devils. In Syria, Assyrian statues and reliefs from the archaeological site 'Ajaja in the lower Khabur region were smashed, all photographed, videotaped and broadcasted on various social media. This arguably also served a propagandistic purpose. We might also assume that both the religious aspect of destroying images of heathen gods, but also the outreach and recruitment potential of such attacks goes far beyond this.
Destruction of cultural heritage is a war crime as laid out by the Hague Convention; thus it is subject to criminal prosecution. It aims to eradicate the cultural identities of people and reshape history according to radical dogmatic and political aims.
In Iraq, this often accompanies ethnic cleansing and the elimination of any structure that is part of Iraq's multiethnic/-religious society. Once the destruction of living and visual memories is completed, only fading shades of what is lost will prevail, leaving nobody behind to mourn the loss, leaving nothing to remember what was lost. Children growing up in such territories are not taught about the ancient history or diverse religions of Iraq or the world, but only the condemnation of pluralistic societies.
The recent history of wider parts in Syria, now under control of radical religious/political groups amongst which ISIS is one, already shows the outcome of such rule: a young generation that has no place to call home, that has lost its traditions and the family bonds which carry these traditions and memory, a new generation who will be trained in weapons and destruction and the maintenance of industrial facilities of strategic and economic importance, but not in the preservation, reconstruction and building of cultural values.
Where can people learn about the illicit trade of materials from Iraq in Germany?
Some information is provided by the German Homepage of UNESCO, governmental initiatives are mediated on the homepage of the Ministry for Culture and Media. A Red List for cultural heritage has been set up by the International Council of Museums to inform institutions like police, border control, Interpol and to help to identify looted objects more easily. Several newspapers have published reports about the current situation. Nevertheless the public impact of the current events in Iraq and threats to its globally significant cultural heritage still seems to be less in comparison to the last Iraq war, when the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad was plundered and archaeological sites were destroyed by looters, which caused furor worldwide.
Finally, can you explain the goals for your website overall? Its primary audience? Any plans for the eventual translation of content into Arabic and/or Kurdish?
Endangered Heritage Sites In Iraq offers the possibility to include friends and colleagues from European countries, the United States and Iraq, most of them also involved in archaeology, history or the cultural sector. Many group members feel connected to Iraqi cultural heritage in some way or another, be it by their family background, religion, or cultural or historical interest. I intend the website to be another forum to discuss and try to control the authenticity of news reports together, as well as a place for field archaeologists, architects, historians, etc. to provide more contextualized background to breaking news events as they happen. Modern media allows "normal users" to check with local sources or even with "informants," most of them friends or family members who live in Iraq. Much can be done from the desk right now, also because it is much too dangerous for any of us to do on-the-ground background check given the violence of the situation. Another advantage of Facebook is instant translation from English into Arabic and vice versa. Kurdish dialects are still not supported, but maybe this is only a matter of time.
Nevertheless, since several weeks there are basically no reports coming from the conflicted areas. This partly might be due to the tactical pressure that is put on ISIS/Da'ash and its allies by coordinated air and ground assaults by the US Army, Kurdish, governmental and self-organized forces. Additionally, the conditions of daily life became very difficult (lack of electricity, internet access). It became very dangerous to keep contact with people outside of the contact zones, but also amongst each other. Therefore information structures are not or only little functioning.
In this phase it is important to keep up posting news and articles about the cultural heritage in the conflicted regions such as Iraq and Syria in order to keep the focus of public awareness on the topic. As we all know: no news is usually not good news and the destruction of sites and the illicit traffic of antiquities have certainly not stopped.


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Tags psychedelic rock, experimental, dream pop, folk, post-rock
Genres indie, indie pop, experimental, shoegaze, electronic (beta) (flag as incorrect)
Artists Alt-J, Micachu & The Shapes, The Radio Dept. (beta)
Published July 30, 2012
Names to call your cat Vol. 2 by krojd
A mixtape for a friend that changed his impression for the word 'mixtape' due to a cat that was called this by his roommate, who is also a DJ.
psychedelic pop, chillwave, shoegaze/dream pop, experimental electronic
Names to call your cat Vol. 1 by krojd
Pink Noise & Silver Fog Vol. 1 by krojd
This is the first part of a mix that puts together the best pieces of post-rock, shoegaze and experimental music.
post-rock, shoegaze, alternative folk, slowcore, noise rock
Math-what? (vol. 3) by krojd
Third part of a math-rock and post-rock collection.
math rock, post-rock, psychedelic rock, post punk, experimental rock


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SAC Tournament
v. (1) Oklahoma City
1 p.m. | Jim Wade Stadium, OCU
v. Mid-America Christian
2 p.m. | Jim Wade Stadium, OCU
v. (23) Rogers State
10 a.m. | Jim Wade Stadium, OCU
CHICKASHA – With the regular season wrapped up, the Drovers enter the Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament as fourth seed."I'm pretty happy we got the fourth seed. It's only the second time we finished the top four, so we are pretty happy," head coach Mike Ross said.The Drovers entered the conference picked to finish fifth.The round-robin style tournament spans four days, with the first set of games on Wednesday and the SAC Championship game set for Saturday afternoon.
CHICKASHA – The Drover baseball team set the school's wins record as well as an individual hitting and appearances records in Sunday's final regular season doubleheader against Mid-America Christian.Collecting two more wins, the Drovers (38-16) set the school record for most wins in a season. In 2009, the Drovers had a record of 37-14.Left fielder Jared Coon, who had three hits and scored three runs on Sunday, now tops USAO record books in most hits in a season with 73. The record, which was previously 72, was set in 1999 by Hayden Herrin.
CHICKASHA- Whether for fitness, weight loss or the challenge, running is a part of every athlete's life. Inspired by the medical challenges facing the infant daughter of a dear friend, USAO's Scott Parkinson hopes to turn running into something personal that can transform her life.Parkinson, a soccer senior at USAO and Chickasha High School's boys soccer coach, is running Sunday's Oklahoma City Memorial Half-Marathon to help raise money to offset the cost of delivering life-saving treatments to his friend's daughter.
Donne Nel Green, 86, died Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at her home in Muskogee. Born in Lee's Summit, Missouri, on October 5, 1926, she was the daughter of Fred and Jewel Baker. She attended school in Madill and Frederick, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma College for Women, (OCW) Chickasha, in 1947 with a B. A. in mathematics. Following graduation, she was employed at the Oklahoma State Department of Health in Oklahoma City. She and Dr. James Lanis Green, Jr. were married October 21, 1950, in Oklahoma City.
Mary "Frances" Jones, 70, of Amarillo died Sunday, April 7, 2013. Celebration of life services will be at 2 p.m Thursday in Craig Methodist Retirement Center Chapel in Amarillo. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St. Frances was born April 20, 1942, in Quanah to Hattie Isaacks Jones and Green Webster Jones. She was raised in Eldorado, Okla., where she graduated as valedictorian from Eldorado High School with numerous academic scholarships.


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45% 3.5 lb Six Row 23% 1.75 lb American Rye Malt 23% 1.75 lb American Wheat Malt 10% .75 lb Weyermann CaraHell mashed ~154 .75 oz Summit at 15 minutes .25 oz Summit dry hop Spicy and grainy American Rye dominates in the aroma and flavor with citrus hops and sweet malts balancing it in the background. Spice, bitterness and a sweet malt lingers on the tongue in the aftertaste. It's a session beer I can drink a lot of. I don't use rice hulls. It does get a little sticky. The 6-row helps. The late hops provide plenty of bitterness and a lot of flavor. I really like the balance of this beer.
Oooh, that sounds so good! do you get any hint of onion from the summit, or is it all citrus?
I've never tasted the onion from Summit. It's all tangerine. I've used other hops with this but Summit worked best.
What's the OG like on this guy?
Sorry was looking at this on the appp, ignore the above...
I've brewed it anywhere from 1.040 to 1.047.


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DLR's Aviation Report provides information on the latest developments in the German, European and global air traffic. It is published annually since 2004.
On the basis of comprehensive data material from official statistics, surveys and aviation industry, available to the Institute of Air Transport and Airport Research, basic indicators on the structure and developments in the air transport sector are being gathered and processed. Although the focus here is on the air traffic of Germany, due to its international integration, the European and global air traffic with its volumes and changes is described, too. Also this year, the Report follows the already established structure. First, traffic flows in the domestic and cross-border air transport are described, followed by the presentation of developments of airlines and air traffic at German airports and aviation developments in Europe and worldwide. In two articles, the reader is informed on the one hand about business aviation at airports and airfields in Germany and, on the other, about the volume and structure of air freight in Germany. Finally, in a feature article the DLR air freight model is described by which an operational and expandable model tool is being developed for the analysis and forecasts of German and global air cargo events. Thus, beyond the original task of the air traffic report - commenting traffic developments consistently based on air traffic data -, the article reports on a methodical approach, which should also serve to describe the most complete picture of air cargo flows, so far incomplete owing to lack of structured air cargo data.
In the following Table the most important indicators of air traffic in Germany, Europe and the world in 2011 are summarized. (In order to achieve comparability between the data of Germany, Europe and the world, the values differ partly from the values shown in the relevant chapter of the report.) After the 2009 crisis, in which the number of passengers in Germany declined by 4.6%, air traffic has recovered in subsequent years. In 2011, the air traffic reached a volume of 103 million (emplaned) passengers at German airports. As a consequence, the air traffic in the two years (in 2009: 92 million passengers) rose by 11 million passengers or by 12%. In the same period, passenger traffic in Europe has increased by 9.5% to 822 million passengers carried and the global air traffic by 14.8% to 2,738 million passengers.
Air freight has recovered far more dynamically since 2009 than passenger traffic. In the crisis year of 2009, the freight segment has decreased faster than the passenger segment. However, the growth momentum in the year 2010/11 has waned considerably. As a result, the world's cargo volume has increased in the same year by only 1.4%, however in Germany by 8.0%. In contrast, the flight volume has remained fairly stable. The number of flights in and to and from Germany fell by 0.6% to 1,743 thousand flights. In the network of about 2,500 airports worldwide, over 30 million flights were carried out by airlines, 7.6 million thereof were flights dealing with and within Europe.
Air passenger traffic as measured in pass-kms is an important parameter of transport performance, especially in the global aviation, showing the consumption of transport services offered by airlines more directly than the passenger volume figure. On average, about 2.7 billion passengers flew nearly 1,850 km each way in 2011 and have thus provided a global transport volume of 5,062 billion pass-km, 6.5% more than the year before.
The world's largest airlines are located in the United States. While in 2009 Southwest Airlines with over 100 million passengers was the largest airline, after the merger with Northwest in 2010 Delta Air Lines became the largest carrier. In 2011, Delta Air Lines carried 164 million passengers, followed by Southwest Airlines with 135 million and American Airlines with 86 million passengers. In the fourth place follows already the largest European low-cost carrier Ryanair with 76 million passengers. Ryanair is now the largest airline in Europe, closely followed by the airline alliance of Air France and KLM with 75 million passengers and Lufthansa with 65 million passengers. In Germany, the largest airline Lufthansa remains unchallenged. Comparing the airlines by flights offered there is a similar picture, however here Air France-KLM is the largest one with 748 thousand flights in Europe.
Like airlines, the largest airports are located in the United States. Among the ten largest airports in the world there are four U.S. airports, namely Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas / Fort Worth. Atlanta has been the largest airport for years, with over 90 million passengers (in-and-outs) in 2011. Atlanta is both home and hub airport of Delta Air Lines, the world's largest carrier. The second largest airport, however, is not a U.S. airport, but Beijing with nearly 79 million passengers, followed by the largest European airport London Heathrow. With 924 thousand take-offs and landings, Atlanta is the airport with the highest flight volume, followed by Chicago and Los Angeles. As already stated, London Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe with 69 million passengers and Paris Charles de Gaulle with 514 thousand flights the airport with the highest flight volume. In Germany, Frankfurt has long been the busiest airport, both in terms of passengers (56.4 million) and flights (487 thousand).
In essence, in contrast to ground transportation, air transport has a clear international dimension in most countries both, regarding passenger as well as cargo operations. The major exception is the United States where domestic aviation accounts for more than 90% of air traffic. With regard to Germany, three quarters of all passengers are flying in cross-border traffic. Worldwide, the proportion of air traffic (pass-kms) carried out on international routes counts for more than 60%. By far the largest flow of air traffic between world regions is found on the North Atlantic route between the U.S. and Europe. Here in 2011, nearly 65 million passengers used the plane. The flow between Europe and the Far East, with over 40 million passengers, is the second largest flow, followed by the flow between the Middle and the Far East with 35.9 million, and between the United States and Central America with 33.2 million, and between Europe and Africa with nearly 30 million passengers. The strongest air traffic flow in Europe is marked with holiday traffic between the UK and Spain with 31.5 million passengers. It is followed by that between Germany and Spain with 22 million passengers, which is thus also the strongest international air traffic flow of Germany.
Due to its low prices, the low-cost traffic in Germany and Europe caused a dynamic growth of this segment in the last 10 years. In addition, the low-cost traffic has increased competition between established network carriers and low-cost carriers, so that the business models of airlines are approaching each other. After years of strong growth since 2008 a tendency of saturation of the low-cost traffic has been observed, at least the growth rates have moved closer to those of the classical regular services and the network expansion has slowed down significantly. While in the years 2002 to 2007, about 100 new routes per year were added in the low-cost market in Germany to grow to a network of 550 routes, this growth has been reduced to about 50 new routes annually since 2008, and is even negative since 2010. With approximately 650 routes spanning the network of low-cost carriers in Germany, the further network expansion seems to be at a standstill. More routes are likely to be added only after the planned conversion of flights performed within Lufthansa's own European routes network into low-cost flights of Germanwings. One of the causes for the decline in low-cost transport in Germany in 2011 is the introduction of the aviation tax introduced by the German Government at the beginning of the year. It seems that the disproportionate growth of lowcost traffic has come to an end in 2010 and is replaced by a normal growth that characterizes the regular service for years.
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Tax Provisions of the 2005/2006 New York State Budget
By Mark H. Levin
Corporation Business Franchise Tax
Single-factor sales. The four-factor formula used in computing the business allocation percentage was repealed and replaced with a single-factor sales formula that will be phased in over a three-year period, beginning with taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2006, as follows:
Capital base maximum tax. For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2005, the tax-on-capital ceiling of $350,000 will be raised to $1 million for all taxpayers except manufacturers, for whom the ceiling remains at $350,000. For the purposes of the capital base tax, a manufacturer is defined as a taxpayer principally engaged in the production of goods by manufacturing, processing, assembling, refining, mining, extracting, farming, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, or commercial fishing.
Small-business corporate franchise tax rate. For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2005, the 6.85% rate will apply to business corporations with entire net income (ENI) of $290,000 or less. For business corporations with ENI between $290,000 and $390,000, the 6.85% rate is phased out as follows: The tax will be the sum of $18,850, plus 7.5% of the excess of the ENI base over $290,000, plus 7.25% of the excess of the ENI base over $300,000 but not over $390,000. Business corporations whose ENI base exceeds $390,000 will be taxed at the regular rate of 7.5%.
Bank Franchise Tax
Single sales factor. The four-factor formula used in computing the allocation percentage was repealed and replaced with a single-factor sales formula. The new single-factor formula will be phased in over a three-year period, beginning with taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2006, as follows:
Limited liability companies (LLC) and limited liability partnerships (LLP). The temporary increase in the LLC/LLP fee to $100 per member (with a minimum of $500 and a maximum of $25,000), which had been scheduled to revert to prior levels for 2005, was extended to tax years 2005 and 2006. The single-member LLC fee remains at $100. These increased fees are scheduled to expire for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2007.
Special additional mortgage recording tax credit. Effective for eligible mortgages recorded on or after January 1, 2004, this credit [Tax Law section 606(f)] was extended to allow a personal income tax credit equal to the amount of the special additional mortgage recording tax paid against the personal income tax. Formerly this credit was allowed only to corporations. Individuals that are partners in a partnership may use their pro rata share of the special additional mortgage recording tax paid by the partnership against their personal income tax. This credit will not be allowed for any special additional mortgage recording tax paid with respect to a mortgage of real property principally improved by one or more structures containing in the aggregate not more than six residential dwelling units, each dwelling unit having its own separate cooking facilities, where the property is located in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District or in Erie County.
Low-income housing credit. The Commissioner of Housing and Community Renewal was authorized to allocate an additional $2 million of low-income housing tax credits. The additional allocation increased the total allocation to $8 million annually.
Certified Capital Company Program Five. Effective April 12, 2005, and deemed to have been in effect on and after April 1, 2005, the program that provides insurance franchise tax credits (Article 33) with respect to investments in certified capital companies (CAPCO) was expanded through the creation of Certified Capital Company Program Five. Under this new program, the aggregate amount of certified capital for which tax credits are allowed could not exceed $60 million for 2007. The certified capital could be invested in CAPCOs beginning in 2005, and credits would be allocated and vested in certified investors at the time of the investment. The credits will not be allowed for state tax purposes before tax years beginning in 2007.
Transferability of CAPCO tax credits. A taxpayer allowed a CAPCO tax credit is permitted to transfer or sell such credits, in whole or in part, to any affiliate subject to the insurance franchise tax. An affiliate is defined for these purposes in IRC section 1504, including insurance companies, but substituting a 50% voting and value test for the 80% voting and value test in IRC section 1504(a)(2).
Whenever a taxpayer transfers or sells a CAPCO tax credit, it must notify the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and the Insurance Department of the transfer or sale within 45 days. This provision applies to all credits transferred on or after August 1, 2003.
Empire Zones. The act authorized 12 new Empire Zones, changed the benefit formulae prospectively, and extended the Empire Zone program for six years, to June 30, 2011. The act also reformed the administration of the Empire Zone program.
Green buildings. Period 2 of the green buildings tax credit was created, extending the original green buildings tax credit passed in the 2000/2001 Budget Act. Initial credit component certificates for period 2 may be issued in 2005 through 2009. Such certificates for period 2 may not be issued, in the aggregate, for more than $25 million worth of credit components. The total amount of the credit component allowable for the five taxable years for which the credit components are allowed, as set forth on any one initial credit component certificate, is limited to $2 million. A taxpayer that is the owner or tenant of more than one building that qualifies for the green buildings tax credit, however, may be issued initial credit component certificates with respect to each building, with the aggregate amount of credit components permitted for each such certificate being $2 million.
A taxpayer that is the owner or tenant of a building for which an initial credit component certificate was issued for period 1 will not be issued an initial credit component certificate with respect to such building for period 2.
These changes are effective for years beginning on or after January 1, 2005. Certificates for period 2 shall be limited in their applicability as follows:
Qualified emerging-technology company facilities, operations, and training credit. Effective for years beginning on or after January 1, 2005, the act creates a new refundable credit for qualified emerging-technology company facilities, operations, and training. The credit applies to certain research-and-development property, research expenses, and high-technology training expenditures. The credit is calculated for each credit component separately, and aggregated for application against the tax. Eligible taxpayers may generally claim the credit for four consecutive years. Taxpayers located in an academic incubator that relocate to a nonacademic incubator within New York State are allowed to claim the credit for one additional year.
An eligible taxpayer is defined as a taxpayer that has:
The rates of credit are as follows:
The total value of these credits may not exceed $250,000 per eligible taxpayer per taxable year.
Personal Income Tax
Expiration of the temporary rate increase. The temporary rate increase enacted in 2002 will be allowed to expire as scheduled for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2006.
Long-term care insurance (LTCI) tax credit. Effective for LTCI premiums paid on or after January 1, 2005, nonresidents and part-year residents must limit the LTCI tax credit by multiplying the full 20% credit by the same New York–source fraction used in reducing the total New York State tax, computed as if a resident, to the amount attributable to the New York–source income. Previously, both nonresidents and part-year residents were able to take the full 20% credit without limitation based on New York–source income.
Sales and Use Tax
Clothing. The budget once again postponed the reinstatement of the sales-and-use-tax exemption for clothing and footwear costing less than $110 until April 1, 2006.
Sales tax rate. The temporary 0.25% sales tax increase enacted in 2003 was allowed to expire as originally scheduled. Effective June 1, 2005, however, the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD) surcharge will increase by 0.125%, causing the MCTD surcharge to rise from 0.25% to 0.375%.
Separate legislation provides that, effective September 1, 2005, all clothing and footwear, and items to make or repair clothing, costing less than $110 per item, will be exempt from the 4% New York City sales and use taxes.
Cigarettes and gasoline sold by Native Americans. Effective for sales made on or after March 1, 2006, Native Americans will be required to collect sales taxes on the sale of cigarettes and gasoline to non–Native Americans, with the caveat that a tribe can reach an agreement with the state that may supercede this requirement. Such an agreement must be ratified by the legislature.
Practice and Procedure
Mandatory electronic filing. Tax-return preparers that prepared more than 200 original personal income tax returns during 2005 must, if they are preparing one or more original returns using tax software for the 2005 tax year, file all authorized returns electronically for the 2006 tax year and thereafter. The 200-return threshold will be lowered to 100 original returns for calendar years beginning after 2005. The number of returns is calculated at the entity level. Thus, if an entity has multiple employees working on returns at several locations, the total number of returns prepared by all employees at all locations determines whether the entity is required to file electronically. Preparers that do not use tax software to prepare any New York State personal income tax returns are not required to file electronically.
An original return is defined as any personal income tax return that is filed, without regard to extensions, during the calendar year for which that return is required to be filed. An authorized return is defined as any personal income tax return that the Commissioner of the Department of Taxation and Finance has authorized to be filed electronically.
As of this writing, Department of Taxation and Finance spokespersons have indicated that the mandatory electronic filing requirement will apply to all personal income tax returns, both resident income tax returns (Form IT-201) and nonresident/part-year income tax returns (Form IT-203). In addition, as a transitional rule for tax year 2005 only, any personal income tax return filed by mail that contains the 2D-bar code cover sheet will be considered electronically filed.
Because an electronically filed return cannot contain a manual signature, the Department of Taxation and Finance is developing an authorization form that the taxpayer must sign before the electronic return may be transmitted. This authorization form will constitute a digital signature and is to be retained by the preparer. Taxpayers will have the option of electing not to have their return filed electronically. A new opt-out form is being developed that must be signed by the taxpayer and retained by the preparer as proof of the opt-out election.
While the Department of Taxation and Finance is currently requiring the electronic filing of only resident and nonresident/part-year income tax returns, the Budget Act authorizes it to ultimately require the filing of all returns required under Tax Law Article 22. This would also include returns for partnerships (Form IT-204) and for trusts and estates (Form IT-205).
Preparers required to file electronically that use tax software packages that will not support electronic filing must switch to a software package that supports electronic filing.
Tax-shelter disclosure. The budget now requires tax preparers of returns under Articles 9, 9-A, 22, 320, and 33 to report to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance any reportable transactions that are required to be reported to the IRS. A copy of the federal Form 8886 must be sent to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance for each taxpayer involved in any federal reportable transaction during the year. The six categories of federal reportable transactions are:
The act also permits the Commissioner of the Department of Taxation and Finance to prescribe by regulation New York reportable transactions. New York reportable transactions are to be reported on a form to be provided by the Department of Taxation and Finance. It imposes the same tax-shelter recordkeeping requirements on material advisors and tax-shelter promoters as required by the IRS for both federal and New York State reportable transactions.
The act also provides penalties for noncompliance for both preparers and taxpayers for reportable transaction understatements and nondisclosure. The commissioner has the power to rescind all or any portion of any penalty for reportable transaction or recordkeeping requirements if the violation is for a reportable transaction other than a listed transaction, and if rescinding the penalty would promote compliance with the tax-shelter reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
In addition, the act provides for an extended statute of limitations for assessments related to tax-avoidance transactions.
The Department of Taxation and Finance will prepare a written report showing the effect of the tax-shelter provisions, to be delivered to both the President of the New York State Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly no later than April 1, 2007.
The tax-shelter disclosure provisions are effective April 13, 2005, for listed transactions that a taxpayer participated in at any time that were required to be reported to the IRS. However, the act applies only to those reportable transactions other than listed transactions in which a taxpayer participated during any taxable year for which the statute of limitations for assessment has not expired as of April 13, 2005. It is effective for all other items on June 12, 2005.
The above tax-shelter reporting provisions will be deemed repealed on July 1, 2007.
Other Provisions
Effective April 12, 2005, the Commissioner of the Department of Taxation and Finance is authorized to enter into reciprocal tax offset agreements with the City of New York and with other states.
The act makes permanent the reporting requirements of Manhattan parking vendors. These requirements expired on November 30, 2004. The act extends the authorization of the Division of the Lottery to operate Quick Draw for one year, until May 31, 2006. It also alters the distribution of revenues from video lottery terminals.
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