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Taking a page from the new bipartisan strategy now being employed in Afghanistan — waging cross-border military raids into sovereign countries in order to protect a failing military occupation in a neighboring country — the United States has apparently launched its first known incursion into Syria: the usual assault from on high with the usual tally of children as "collateral damage."
The BBC reports that American forces launched a small ground-air attack on the border village of Sukkiraya on Sunday, with military helicopters disgorging a squad of troops who attacked a building and killed "a man, his four children and a married couple."
Officially, the Pentagon has neither confirmed nor denied the attack, but the brass leaked word to the Associated Press that the shiv-stab into Syrian territory did indeed take place, and that it was aimed at — wait for it — "foreign fighters linked to al-Qaeda." As the leaky Pentagon mouthpiece told AP: "We are taking matters into our own hands."
(And isn't it remarkable how every single person killed by American forces in the global War on Terror is somehow "linked to al-Qaeda"? Even the children. I guess American bullets and bombs have some kind of super-secret al-Qaeda sorting software embedded in them, guiding the munitions directly to the evil ones — including the little evil ones: the doctrine of "pre-emption" in its purest form — and sparing everyone else.)
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Why has the Bush Administration raided Syria now, after years of accusing Damascus of aiding and abetting "al Qaeda-linked terrorist" funneling into Iraq? Well, most beserker militarist regimes have myriad reasons behind their various lashings-out, so there are probably a number of different factors invovled.
One might be the recent moves that Syria has made toward trying to end its pariah status, as the Guardian notes:
The attack comes as Syria takes another step in from the cold today when its foreign minister, Walid al-Mualim, visits London to hear praise for its newly conciliatory policies in Lebanon...The BBC report also touches on this theme:
In recent months Syria has established diplomatic relations with Lebanon and held several rounds of indirect talks with Israel, with Turkey acting as broker. In July, President Assad was invited to an EU summit in Paris.
[The attack's] timing is curious, coming right at the end of the Bush administration's period of office and at a moment when many of America's European allies - like Britain and France - are trying to broaden their ties with Damascus, our correspondent adds.As we have often seen, whenever one of the American elite's designated demons starts trying to make nice and act moderate, they are generally poked with a sharp stick in hopes of making them snarl again — thereby continuing their highly useful function as bogey-men to keep scaring the American people into giving trillions of dollars (and the blood of their children) to the Pentagon and its corporate associates in the war profiteering industry.
Of course, petty murderous spite can never be overlooked in anything the Bushists do. From the Guardian:
Joshua Landis, an American expert on Syria, commented last night: "The Bush administration must assume that an Obama victory will force Syria to behave nicely in order to win favour with the new administration. Thus White House analysts may assume that it can have a "freebee" - taking a bit of personal revenge on Syria without the US paying a price."Some have also offered the idea that Bush is trying to make sure that Barack Obama is thoroughly tied down in the region when he takes office, forced to contend with a newly enraged Syria on the Iraq border, which the Bushists obviously hope will spur more terrorist attacks in Iraq — on American forces and civilians — thereby creating the "dangerous conditions" that will "justify" a continuing U.S. presence in the conquered land. (Yes, Virginia, fomenting terrorist attacks has long been a strategy of the American government, as we noted here — and here — years ago.)
It's unlikely that Obama will need much encouragement to keep a substantial U.S. military force in Iraq; that's been his plan all along. And as he has also advocated "carefully targeted" cross-border strikes into Pakistan, he can hardly object to the same tactic in Iraq. What's more, Joe Biden has already warned us that he and Obama are going to plunge head-first into an unspecified "foreign crisis" sometime next year, adopting highly unpopular policies that the poor, dumb benighted citizenry are just not going to be able to understand at first. A major incursion into Syria would certainly fit that bill — although, admittedly, the venues and opportunities for Barry and Joe to prove their "toughness" are legion, given the vast and goading scope of America's military empire.
Of course, one can speculate on motives until the cows come home. (Or rather, until the chickens come home to roost, in the form of revengeful blowback against Americans. But none of the well-wadded, well-protected bipartisan Beltway barons are worried about that. After all, the more blowback, the more "emergency powers" they accrue.) But we should remember that Syria has been in the cross-hairs of several powerful factions in our militarist empire for years. The same gang that brought you the Iraq war — and would love to bring you the Iran war — have long been howling to put tanks on the road to Damascus.
Below is a piece that I wrote for the Moscow Times back in April 2003. Although a few details have changed since then, the column is still depressingly apt as an example of the imperial mindset that animates both parties in the corridors of Beltway power.
Some cynics claim that George W. Bush and his closest advisors — whom cynics cynically refer to as "bloodthirsty corporate pimps" — are just a bunch of vicious, shifty liars. But this column takes enormous umbrage at the heaping of such unsupported calumny upon the good names of these great leaders. They have been maligned, slandered, falsely accused. For when it comes to their plans for world conquest, these so-called "pimps" are as honest as the day is long.UPDATE: The New York Times, rather late to the party on this story, has more details.
As we all know, the rape of Iraq (or as future historians will doubtless call it, "The Dawn of the Shiite Empire") was planned openly several years ago by a hard-right agitprop cell led by Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Now it turns out that the recent big-monkey chest-beating aimed at Syria — threats of sanctions, "surgical" strikes, and "regime change" — was also carefully planned, by many of the same people, long before the Bush Regime seized power.
As we've often reported here, in September 2000 the Cheney-Rumsfeld outfit, Project for the New American Century, proudly published their blueprint for the direct imposition of U.S. "forward bases" throughout Central Asia and the Middle East. They even foresaw the need for what they called a "Pearl Harbor-type event" to galvanize the American public into supporting their ambitious program. Their reasons for this program were also stated quite openly: to ensure U.S. political and economic domination of the world, while strangling any potential "rival" or any viable alternative to the rapacious crony capitalism favored by the PNAC extremists. This dominance would be enforced by the ever-present threat — and frequent application — of violence. (A tactic known elsewhere as "terrorism.")
PNAC was also very honest about the role of Iraq in this crusade for empire, stating plainly that the need for a U.S. military presence in the area "superseded" the "issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." There was no sanctimonious posturing about "liberation," weapons of mass destruction or terrorist connections. To dominate the oil wealth centered in that region — and hence the economic/political development of the world in the coming decades — they needed a military presence in Iraq; it's as simple as that.
....A few months before PNAC's prophetic 2000 report, an allied group with an overlapping membership published a similar document outlining steps to be taken against Syria: first "tightening the screws" with denunciations and economic sanctions, then escalating to military action, as Jim Lobe of Inter-Press Agency reports. The architects of this document included Elliot Abrams, the convicted perjurer now running Bush's Middle East policy; Douglas Feith, one of [Don Rumsfelds'] top aides; Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary to Colin Powell; and influential Pentagon advisors such as David Wurmser, Michael Leeden and everyone's sweetheart, Richard "Influence-Peddler" Perle.
The report sprang largely from the loins of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon, a curious grouping of right-wing American Christians, right-wing American Jews, and a sprinkling of Lebanese exiles. They object — rightly — to the fact that Syria has maintained "long-term access to major military bases" in Lebanon, using this minatory presence to exercise undue sway over Lebanon's political and economic life. Of course, some cynics would say this situation is remarkably akin to Israel's own 18-year occupation of, er, Lebanon, or the United States' decades-long — and still-continuing — military presence in Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Panama, etc. But you know what cynics are like.
The USCFL also provides highly insightful and very nearly literate analyses of vital regional issues, such as its seminal paper, "Even Arabs Don't Like Arabs." But the mindset of the group — whose members now stalk the corridors of power in Imperial Washington — is perhaps best displayed in its thoughtful 2001 treatise, "A Petition Demanding War Against Governments That Sponsor Terrorism" (Except, of course, for governments who enforce their will by the ever-present threat and use of violence — i.e. terrorism — but are run by nice white men educated at Yale and Oxford.)
Here, the proto-Bushist group demands that six "rogue nations" — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and Sudan — "turn over their governments to the United States" on pain of massive military response. The United States will then "occupy these territories until proper governments" — ones that allow "long-term access" to major military bases, no doubt — "can be established." And just how massive should that threatened U.S. military response be? The USCFL is, as always, admirably — and brutally — forthright: "America must set a clear example-identical to that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you tread on me, I will wipe you off the face of the earth."
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Inasmuch, as the FOX JEWS NETWORK has worn out its film library of Colonel North's 'War stories' trying (as always) to make Americans proud of their (long) past history when the Great Satan was the world's 'savior' and walking demi-God and its citizens could travel (really!) anywhere on the planet, chest (((puffed))) out and 'feeling their oats.' Indeed, 'Those were the dayze my friend, I thought they'd never end' as the song goes.
Sorry to say, today, the Great Satan is seen by the world community (EU, Latin America & Asia) as the world's leading terrorist nation of the new millennium (along with its Jewish hemmoroid, of course) and the biggest threat to world peace on the planet - go figure!
Yup, there's something exciting about seeing the neighborhood punk get his 'clock cleaned' and as we read the news (foreign media, of course) we begin to 'yern' for that day to fast approach the insolent Great Satan.
Well, we're here all sitting and waiting here in Tombstone, AZ (ear plugs planted deep and dark 'flash proof' goggles wrapped tightly around our ears) for that big (((explosion))) that sez, 'We've had enough of your bullshit, genocide, racism and hegemony AmeriKKKa,' - here, take this: KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
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Sequencing traces TB outbreaks
14.02.2013 - EU researchers have prooved next generation sequencing to be more effective in tracing tuberculosis outbreaks than the current gold standard.
A new form of genetic testing of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) can provide better information on TB transmission and also trace TB outbreaks more accurately than the current gold standard test, according to results from the EU's €7.8m PathoNGen-Trace project (PLOS Medicine).
A team of researchers led by Stefan Niemann including the SMEs Ridom GmbH (Muenster) and Genoscreen SAS (Lille) compared the results of next-generation sequencing and genotyping on 86 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a TB outbreak in Germany between 1997 and 2010, in which 2301 people became ill. They found that sequencing provided more accurate information on clustering and longitudinal spread of the pathogen than the standard test (genotyping). Importantly, whole genome sequencing revealed that first outbreak isolates were falsely clustered by classical genotyping and do not belong to one recent transmission chain.
By using whole genome sequencing, the authors estimated that the genetic material of M. tuberculosis evolved at a rate at 0.4 mutations per genome per year, suggesting that the bacterium grows in its natural host (infected people) with a doubling time of 22 hours, or 400 generations per year. This finding about the evolution of M. tuberculosis indicates how information from whole genome sequencing can be used to help trace future outbreaks
As the costs of whole genome sequencing are declining, this test could soon become the standard method for identifying transmission patterns and rates of infectious disease outbreaks, say the authors. "We envision that progressive effective implementation will be accelerated by the continuously decreasing sequencing costs, broader distribution of so-called bench top next generation sequencers, and upcoming bioinformatics developments to facilitate quick and relevant interpretation of the resulting data in public health and medical contexts." PathoNGen-Trace had been kicked-off in March 2012.
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Denise Kiernan, author of "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II," will be the guest speaker at the Lunch with the League. The program will be at noon Tuesday in the Social Hall of the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church,1500 Oak Ridge Turnpike.
Kiernan will talk about her book that traces the story of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project, unknowingly helping to create the fuel for the world's first atomic bomb, known as Little Boy — detonated above Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
The book became a New York Times best seller in its first week of publication.
Kiernan started out in journalism, and as a freelance writer, her work appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, and Ms. Magazine amongst other publications. She served as the head writer for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire during its first season. She has produced pieces for ESPN and MSNBC. Additionally, she has authored several popular history titles and has ghost written books for athletes, entrepreneurs and actresses.
Kiernan is married to author and journalist Joseph D'Agnese, with whom she co-authored several books including "Signing Their Lives Away," "Signing Their Rights Away" and "Stuff Every American Should Know."
Cosponsored by the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge (LWVOR) and ORNL Federal Credit Union, Lunch with the League is open to the public. There is no cost to attend and reservations are not needed. Box lunches will be available starting at 11:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis for $7, or you may bring your own. Coffee and tea are provided.
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SAN JOSE -- Today's discussion topic: Which will happen first? Finding the missing Malaysian airplane? Or finding the A's a new ballpark plan that's serious and has a chance of working?
Except, as we all know, that is no discussion topic. It is an invitation to a pie fight -- one involving backers of two Oakland stadium proposals, San Jose politicians, Alameda County politicians, San Jose's lawyers who are suing Major League Baseball, a few churro and popcorn vendors, plus A's fans who are convinced that team owner Lew Wolff is the devil's spawn.
Pie fights are entertaining. And nothing about the A's mess is simple. But for a few paragraphs, let me try and bring a small piece of clarity to things.
Can we all agree on this much? Whatever happens, the A's are not going to get a new ballpark, anywhere, for years and years. So everybody should concentrate on something more immediate and practical.
For example, will Oakland please allow the A's to build a new scoreboard at the Coliseum? You know, so that customers who attend games there can feel as if they are watching a game in 2014 instead of 1986?
Right now, that's what the A's want. But right now, Oakland is not eager to make it happen. This is why, a few weeks ago, Wolff made public his seemingly fanciful notion of building a "temporary stadium" for the team somewhere in Northern California after its Coliseum lease expires following the 2015 season.
Sure, the idea sounds flying-unicorn nuts. But when reports surfaced of the concept, there was not much mention of the back story behind it -- the scoreboard issue.
Wolff and the team recognize that the Coliseum scoreboard stinks. They want to spend millions on a new scoreboard system, which involves the hardware and electronics to run it. But they don't want to spend that money unless the cost can be amortized over the next five to 10 seasons.
And there's the rub: Right now, the A's lease merely runs through the 2015 season. Wolff wants to negotiate a longer extension. So far, Oakland and Alameda County's negotiators have stonewalled that request. The supposition is that Oakland doesn't want to be trapped in a potentially sticky situation.
That stickiness -- surprise! -- involves the Raiders. If Oakland agrees to a longer A's lease at the Coliseum, that could be counterproductive to the NFL team's mission. The Raiders also want a new stadium. Owner Mark Davis has said his preference is to tear down the current Coliseum structure, then build a replacement on the same site, presumably as part of the proposed Coliseum City development project. Davis wants to reach an understanding on this by year's end.
The catch: If Oakland agrees to do what the Raiders want and the Coliseum comes down, then the A's would obviously have no place to play. On the flip side, if Oakland agrees to an extended lease with the A's, that would clearly make it impossible to satisfy the football franchise's desires.
Oakland's apparent dream is for the A's to jump on board plans for a ballpark proposal in downtown Oakland near Jack London Square. Good luck with that. Wolff said again Tuesday that he and A's co-owner John Fisher have (A) zero desire to pursue a Howard Terminal project and (B) no plans to sell the team to anyone who might build a ballpark at Howard Terminal.
"We are not going to Howard Terminal," Wolff reiterated Tuesday. "It's not going to happen. It would be easier to build a ballpark on Treasure Island."
You can call that hyperbole if you want. But I would challenge anyone to actually visit the Howard Terminal site, look around and ask serious questions about whether it's such a wonderful location, considering the remoteness from BART and possible toxic cleanup issues.
Howard Terminal's neighbors seem to be asking other serious questions. Last month, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan was sent a letter by representatives of Schnitzer Steel, Union Pacific and the California Trucking Association. All have nearby property interests. The letter expressed concerns about the project and asked that those reservations "be addressed thoroughly and realistically before any further promotion of the Howard Terminal location occurs."
In other words, even in the best-case scenario, scratch Howard Terminal as an easy solution. The Coliseum site remains Oakland's best hope for keeping the A's. But the city doesn't seem eager to negotiate anything beyond 2015. And so Wolff is continuing his study of a "temporary stadium" solution. He said Tuesday that the stadium could be built anywhere within the team's television footprint -- including Fremont, Sacramento, Livermore. Maybe even in San Jose. Wolff could make the case that a temporary ballpark would not violate the Giants' territorial rights.
"It'd be nice to know who wants us," Wolff said, basically inviting proposals.
But where does he really think the A's will be playing in 2016?
"If common sense prevails, we will be in Oakland," Wolff said.
It doesn't sound that complicated, does it? Oakland could negotiate an extended lease with the baseball team, then use those five to 10 years as a window for developing a more permanent A's plan. That might make a Raiders stadium plan more difficult to implement. But perhaps Davis can be persuaded to become more flexible in his options.
Plus, if all that happens, the A's fans might be able to watch video replays in high definition instead of fuzzyvision. Imagine that.
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A hunter who allowed an illegal campfire to leap out of control caused the massive blaze burning in and around Yosemite National Park, investigators from the U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday.
No arrests have been made, and the hunter's name is being withheld "pending further investigation," Forest Service spokesman Ray Mooney said. Investigators declined to release further details Thursday, including where he's from, whether they have interviewed him and whether there were other hunters involved.
But his excursion into the Stanislaus National Forest, where the Rim Fire began west of Yosemite on Aug. 17, is not going to be cheap. Not only could the hunter face criminal charges and possible jail time, federal officials may send him a bill for the costs of putting out the fire -- $81 million thus far.
"How much should he be worried? A lot," said attorney Kyle Graham, a former national park ranger who now teaches law at Santa Clara University.
Even if the hunter isn't a multimillionaire who could afford to pay all of the firefighting costs, that doesn't mean he won't be pursued for some of them, said Graham, a former firefighter and deputy district attorney in Mono County, which abuts Yosemite.
"There's no rule that says the state will or should only go after individuals with large bank accounts," he said. "The state's interest in such a case may be to send a message, or to recover some costs, or both."
At its peak last week, more than 5,000 firefighters from around the nation were battling the blaze. The fire, now 80 percent contained, has burned 237,341 acres, including 66,155 acres within Yosemite National Park between Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and the Tioga Road. It is the largest fire in recorded history in the Sierra Nevada and the largest in Yosemite since the park began keeping records in 1930. It also has destroyed 11 homes, dozens of other structures and caused five injuries.
Under state and federal law, government agencies have broad authority to recover costs from people who set fires deliberately or negligently.
Stanton Florea, a Forest Service spokesman, said he doesn't know yet if the hunter will be sent a bill.
"There is a mechanism to do that. It's happened in previous cases. It's up to our general counsel," he said.
The Forest Service says the blaze started in an area called Jawbone Ridge, north of Highway 120 near Groveland. There is no indication the hunter who started the campfire was involved with illegal marijuana cultivation, Forest Service officials said.
On Aug. 23, a local fire chief, Todd McNeal of Twain Harte Fire and Rescue, had told a community meeting: "We know it's human caused. There was no lightning in the area." He added that it was "highly suspected that there might have been some sort of illicit grove, a marijuana-grow-type thing."
When the fire began, at about 3 p.m., most of the forest already was under significant fire restrictions because of dry conditions. In June, Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor Susan Skalski announced that campfires, stoves and smoking were all banned in "high hazard areas" of the forest -- generally drier, low-elevation areas -- with penalties of up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine for violators. She extended that order on Aug. 8 to include "moderate hazard areas" after another fire, called the Power Fire, burned 1,070 acres in early August about 30 miles north of where the Rim Fire started.
The location where the hunter started the fire was in a "high hazard area," so any campfire would have been a violation of the law.
Often, the people who start fires do not have the means to pay the massive suppression costs. Sometimes, however, they do.
Singer Johnny Cash was blamed for starting a fire in Los Padres National Forest in 1965. A camper truck he was driving on a fishing trip near Ventura became stuck in the sand. The hot exhaust pipe ignited grasses and burned 508 acres.
Billed $125,000, Cash eventually settled the case for $82,000.
Mormon leaders were found negligent in a 1989 fire that burned 78 acres of the Tahoe National Forest. It began when church officials lost control of a campfire while trying to teach children about fire safety.
The Forest Service bill: $305,000. The church settled for $223,570.
In 2007, a former schoolteacher burning paper plates in a metal barrel near a remote cabin started a fire that burned 47,000 acres in Henry Coe State Park in Santa Clara County. State officials sent Margaret Pavese, of San Juan Bautista, a bill for $16 million.
Pavese pleaded no contest in 2009 to one misdemeanor count of failing to exercise reasonable care in the disposal of flammable materials. She completed 250 hours of community service and paid $200,000 in restitution to three fire victims whose cabins and vehicles were destroyed. The state dropped the $16 million claim after the criminal case was resolved.
"If the guy says, 'I have my house, $50,000 in stock, a pension and a couple of cars, and my finger ready to press the bankruptcy trigger,'" Graham said, "it would strike me the state would come to the bargaining table and say, 'Here's what we'll take.'"
Paul Rogers covers resources and environmental issues. Contact him at 408-920-5045. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulrogerssjmn.


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Drink It In: Refreshments of the Civil War
At the National Museum of Civil War Medicine's
Pry House Field Hospital Museum
Civil War Medicine… it's not what you think.
On Saturdays during the month of January, The Pry House Field Hospital Museum, at Antietam National Battlefield, will treat visitors to a bit of winter hospitality! Each Saturday, the Pry House will feature a hot winter drink that was popular during the 1860s as well as today. Guests can warm up by partaking of a hot beverage period to the Civil War, as well as something to nibble on! Staff at the Pry House will talk about how coffee, hot cocoa, mulled cider, and other warming drinks were important to soldiers and civilians, North and South, throughout the war.
January 5: Hot Chocolate
January 12: Coffee
January 19: Tea
January 26: Mulled Cider
Museum Exhibits will be open as normal. A donation of $3.00 is suggested when visiting Pry House.


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I have exactly the same issues.
My biggest enemy is the annoying 2104 dlna error, it's very rare that I can see even a 30 min eposide of some tv show without this occurring at least once.
I have 2 issues:
2104 error.
Isually I can stop the movie, wait approx. 30 seconds and start it again - but sometimes I have to reboot the PS3 in order to stream again.
I haven´t tried the suggested solution on the dlink router yet, will do it soon (I have a dlink dir-655) - however I have a hard time understanding why the router would be the problem.
Also, isn´t it a bit dangerous to put the PS3 on the DMZ?
The NIC on the PS3 just dies after streaming HD content, like a MKV from a BR rip. It seems to be related to the streaming speed since it goes away if I limit the maximum bandwith to approx. 20 mbit/s.
But streaming 1080p content over 20 mbit.... not so fun...
I have to manually "test" the connection in the xmb on the PS3 (under network settings) in order to "repair" the connection.
Could this be a PS3 hardware issue?
Note 1: I have a AMD Athlon II X3 (triple core), 2,7GHz with 8gb DDR3 on Windows 7 64-bit and enough free space on the disk where PS3MS is installed.
It should be enough for the PS3MS to stream most content
Note 2: I´ve noticed that after every PS3 software update the 2104 error occur more and more - but it might just be my imagination


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EU Preps Key Syria Debate
Europe's foreign ministers are set for a key debate Monday on the European Union's Syrian arms embargo and will discuss the Bulgarian report suggesting a Hezbollah link to the Burgas bomb attack last July.
Talks in Brussels will likely see the bloc extend sanctions on North Korea and relax them on Zimbabwe, while the Mali army-training mission will finally be launched. Here's a rundown of what to expect, according to a range of EU diplomats.
Mali: Don't await much discussion on the French-led action there but ministers are likely to officially launch the Mali army-training mission Monday. Officials are scrambling to put together the final elements of the force-protection team for the trainers with two diplomats saying Thursday mission chief General Francois Lecointre was chasing member states to provide two helicopters for medical evacuation purposes. But everything else is pretty much set to go.
Syria: The Anglo-French push to relax the blanket Syria arms embargo is the toughest nut to crack with no consensus emerging as of Thursday evening, diplomats said.
The EU's foreign service unit has released an options paper on possible changes to the embargo, an official confirmed.
As we reported Tuesday, the paper lists four basic choices ranging from completely lifting the embargo to allowing the opposition and "associated entities" to have access to weapons. Other options include allowing certain types of weapons and material to be sent, for example for the protection of civilians. Another option is to limit the embargo to the Assad regime and its main supporters.
But the basic political question remains: Should the embargo be changed at all?
Germany, Sweden and Belgium remain worried that opening up the embargo will be legally tricky, could lead to more bloodshed or allow weapons to flow to the wrong groups.
A decision now looms: the current arms ban expires March 1.
Several diplomats said if ministers reach a political deal to make some change Monday, the detailed work of how best to modify the arms embargo can be left to EU officials to agree on in Brussels over the coming two weeks.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nation's special envoy for Syria, who was originally invited to join talks, will instead come to Brussels for next month's foreign affairs meeting, an EU official said.
North Korea: Pyongyang's decision to carry out a third nuclear test this month has infuriated much of the world and diminished residual hopes that the reclusive state was looking to reduce tensions in the region under its new supreme leader, Kim Jung Un.
Yet on Monday, the EU will discuss the response they plan to make not to the nuclear test but to December's long-range rocket launch. Western capitals say the rocket launch was the latest step by Pyongyang to acquire ballistic missile technology in breach of its international commitments.
Last month, the UN Security Council updated a list of nuclear and ballistic missile technology that can't be exported to North Korea and targeted illicit supply of sensitive items to the country.
The UNSC also added to its list of people and entities facing asset freezes and travel bans.
The EU will match those efforts Monday and go further.
Brussels is expected to add four people and three entities to its sanctions list, taking the respective totals to 26 people and 55 entities.
Brussels is set to ban the export of gold and other precious metals and stop North Korean banks opening any new branches in Europe. EU companies and citizens will also be banned from trading certain kinds of North Korean public debt, diplomats say.
Zimbabwe: Europe has signaled since July it was looking at a fresh relaxation of its sanctions regime on Zimbabwe but there have been disagreements about how far to go.
While Zimbabwe successfully held a referendum on a new constitution, it's yet to hold free and fair elections.
Germany and the U.K. have successfully argued for a "light modification" of the sanctions regime, as one diplomat called it.
Some names will be chopped from the list of people facing travel bans and asset freezes. Currently, 112 people and 11 companies are listed.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and dozens of his supporters will remain on the blacklist, introduced in 2002 following violence and human rights abuses Western governments blamed on Mr. Mugabe and his allies.
An arms embargo is set to remain.
While Mr. Mugabe has now been in a power-sharing arrangement with his rival, Prime Minster Morgan Tsvangirai since 2008, many member states remain wary.
"The situation has not yet developed clearly in the way we want to see," said one diplomat.
Hezbollah/Burgas bombing: When Bulgaria issued its preliminary report on Feb. 5 on the bus bombing which left five Israelis dead in Burgas, it threw back on center-stage the European debate on whether to cut ties with Hezbollah.
The report for the first time linked the Shi'ite Lebanese group to the attack and identified two of the perpetrators as residents of Lebanon traveling on Australian and Canadian passports. If proven, it would be the first deadly Hezbollah attack on EU soil, raising the stakes within the 27-nation bloc.
In the past, France and Sweden have led opposition to U.S. and Israeli pressure to label Hezbollah a terrorist group. They have argued that blacklisting Hezbollah, a major player in the Lebanese government, could break the fragile stability in that country.
But there are signs even Paris is considering its position, diplomats say. The French foreign ministry has said it wants time to study Bulgaria's report.
Within Europe, only the U.K. and the Netherlands in some way include Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations.
Yet on Monday the issue will be left as the elephant in the room.
Instead of a broad debate, the Bulgarian foreign minister will discuss the Burgas report with his colleagues — and may respond to questions and concerns about the evidence in it, two diplomats said.
The report will be brought up under the 'any other business' part of Monday's discussions — a clear sign that ministers will attempt to avoid decisions – and a row.
A defeat for those who want what U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague called a "robust" response to the Burgas attack?
Not necessarily. One Brussels-based diplomat said that, with certain countries reconsidering their position, proponents of action against Hezbollah wanted to avoid "backing anyone into a corner," as one diplomat said.
(Corrected: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said Lakhdar Brahimi, UN special envoy for Syria, was due in Brussels on March 4.)


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I wear a large in almost everything and the fit is usually acceptable, I'm not too picky. The large I got in the shirt was way too small for me and I had to return it. Both the package and the shirt said large so it appeared to be labelled correctly.
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I weigh 175 lbs and 6.1 feet tall; the Large is a good fit.
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Great Jersey
By Old Rider Dude
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Very good looking... colors are vivid and great. This is my second one, and from my experience durability is excellent. Only minor criticism is that size runs a little smaller than expected, so probably best to buy one size up.
Very nice jersey with full lgth zip
I like this jersey a lot. Colors and general appearance are very attractive. Size definitely runs smaller... so order one size larger for a good fit.
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I got this on sale... so feel pretty good about it. The sleeves were shorter than I expected, but they are great in warm weather. Fully unzipped it's very cool. Looks good and fits good I'm 5-9 145, medium is snug, but not to tight. 37 inch chest. My arms are thin..if you have thick arms the sleeves might be too snug, though the sleeves stretch. I like the look and feel.
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Love this jersey, follow the sizing instructions and you'll be fine. I'm 6'1 210 and the XXL fits perfect.
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Beware, this jersey doesn't come with those grippers to keep the jersey in place. My bellwether jersey has those and they are nice. Also, being a skinny guy at 6'1", medium was the right length but too loose for me.
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rip 1
verb (rips, ripping, ripped)
1 [with object] Tear or pull (something) quickly or forcibly away from something or someone: a fan tried to rip his pants off during a show figurative countries ripped apart by fighting
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- She extended the claws on both her hands, then, in a sudden movement, grabbed each end of the tangle and pulled, ripping it apart.
- He felt as if he was throwing up everything inside of him, his insides being ripped, pulled, torn out.
- He fetched the keys from his pocket, grabbing them and ripping them out quickly, wasting no time.
1.1Make a long tear or cut in: you've ripped my jacket (as adjective ripped) ripped jeans
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- I decided to wear my favorite pair of blue low rider jeans, which were ripped at both knees, along with a normal yellow t-shirt.
- He was wearing his favorite jeans that were ripped down the left knee.
- He was wearing ripped jeans and his now-fraying Peter Pan t-shirt.
1.2Make (a hole) by force: the truck was struck by lightning and had a hole ripped out of its roof
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- He felt like a hole had been ripped in his chest.
- Across the way, he saw the reason there was no atmosphere in the dome: a large hole had been ripped in the outer wall.
- He was now wearing his shirt again; a large hole had been ripped where the snake had struck.
1.3 [no object] Come violently apart; tear: he heard something rip
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- She hit and hit until she'd gotten through to the picture itself and then it finally was heard ripping apart.
- The hiss turned into a scream, this one more like a ship's keel ripping apart under pressure than a triumphant blood-chilling cry like before.
- Sasaki huddled against the hot grains of sand, gritting her teeth, curled up in a ball and hugging her shoulders as if to keep herself from ripping apart.
1.4Cut (wood) in the direction of the grain.
Example sentences
- Make sure both of the long edges are perfectly parallel by either ripping the board on the table saw, or even edge-planing it.
- I don't want to rip the plank that hits the stair molding because I don't think the cut will be straight enough.
2 [no object] Move forcefully and rapidly: fire ripped through her bungalow
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- A shock of electricity ripped through me, making my muscles jerk and my hands clench; he caught me as my knees gave out.
- Merlin's head rocked back from the force of the impact and an explosion ripped through his ears.
- As each flash ripped through the reddened sky, the force of the angry discharge made him gasp in awe.
3Use a program to copy (material from a CD or DVD) onto a computer's hard drive: every Beatles song ever made, ripped from my boxed set of CDs
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- There have been hi-fi units equipped with hard drives, but nothing beats a personal computer for ripping and managing an audio collection.
- Media encoding for home and professional use is becoming more popular, as more users rip audio to their hard drives, or edit home movies.
- Typically, you'll need separate software to do specific tasks, such as burning DVDs, ripping audio, and of course burning CDs.
1A long tear or cut.
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- A jagged piece of basalt had torn a fresh rip in the hem of her robes, and a gash from the same rock was bleeding freely.
- There were rips, tears, and dirty patches all over them.
- His one-time shirt and breeches were now littered with rips and tears, and his body sorely needed a bath.
1.1 [in singular] An act of tearing something forcibly.
Example sentences
- Time seemed to slow down as she fell, and as she hit the ground she felt the rip and tear of ligaments, heard the crack of bones shattering.
- He could feel the rips and tears, the little cuts opening under the movement of the shrapnel.
- I cringed and quickly scooted across the floor, hearing the rips and tears of my gown from the nail heads in the wood.
2North American informal A fraud or swindle; a rip-off.
Example sentences
- If you think it's a rip, don't buy it!
- The food is above average, wine list is good, but it's a rip for sure.
- I've seen stores selling 2000 point cards for over 25 bucks! What a rip!
let rip
- informal Do something or proceed vigorously or without restraint: the brass sections let rip with sheer gustoMore example sentences
- Bank of England independence and the introduction of fiscal rules after 1997 told the markets that Labour would not allow inflation to let rip, and would exercise fiscal discipline.
- The giant grunted, his slow brain deciding when he would let rip and smother Glaucus in a deadly embrace.
- It is said that the losers during the last days of a battle often let rip in appallingly brutal ways.
- 1.1Express oneself vehemently or angrily.Example sentences
- And as he was lyin' there, half dozin' and thinkin' about things, he suddenly let rip a big stale Guinness fart that rumpled the bedclothes.
- It suddenly slowed up, crackled with blue electricity and let rip with a sizzling blue column of energy, followed by the plasma being dumped from the engine, completely frying the ship's shields.
- Now he is letting rip on drugs, Labour, his new record company and the race for London mayor.
let something rip
- informal Allow something, especially a vehicle, to go at full speed.Example sentences
- If that RX has been sitting a long time, then those rotary seals will go out the first time you let it rip on the highway.
- Drivers upset at being stuck in traffic let it rip when the road is clear.
- 2.1Allow something to happen forcefully or without interference: once she started a tirade, it was best to let it ripMore example sentences
- Both movies would have been better if maybe they had let it rip, instead of sticking to their "This is how it would have truly been" conceit.
- He realized the joy of being able to come into a game and throw whatever you wanted as hard as you wanted, just let it rip and not fret too terribly much over pitch selection.
- The cause of genuine competition has never been best served by just letting markets rip.
- 2.2Utter or express something forcefully and noisily: when I passed the exam I let rip a "yippee."More example sentences
- Only recently have I really understood this and also understood when it's good to let those emotions rip and when to hold back and keep things balanced.
- I remember it like yesterday: getting up there, taking a deep breath like I do now, and just letting it rip.
- Once he has walked through a bulkhead door leading out of the landing bay, Halkari lets his anger rip.
Phrasal verbs
rip into
- informal Make a vehement verbal attack on: he ripped into me just for going into the trailerMore example sentences
- Using the framework of the division of class, it rips into gender relationships with passionate honesty and superb brutality, challenging assumptions and uncovering uncomfortable truths.
- Chomsky rips into the scam of wiping the U.S. government's slate clean.
- Bullying sergeants ripping into their soldiers might make good television, but the British army fears the reality TV show Lads Army is having a disastrous effect on efforts to recruit new troops.
rip someone off
- informal Cheat someone, especially financially.Example sentences
- It's not possible to get rich quick in the space of time that they're talking about, and do it without cheating or ripping somebody off.
- I used to be furious at them because they kind of ripped us off financially too, but what can I say?
- Whatever you do, don't seek to change a booking because you will be ripped off.
rip something off
- informal Steal: they have ripped off $6.7 billionMore example sentences
- Look at this common blog style - should we not then say it was ripped off or stolen?
- His ideas have been ripped off for years and years, and with increasing frequency.
- I must confess, a lot of my style is ripped off from The Simpsons.
- 3.1Copy; plagiarize: the film is a shameless collection of ideas ripped off from other moviesMore example sentences
- Sometimes an ironic sense of genre is just a way to give yourself permission to flat-out copy something, to rip it off.
- I might as well admit now, Im about to rip off their idea.
rip something up
- Tear something violently into small pieces so as to destroy it.Example sentences
tear, claw, hack, slit, cutliterary rend
- If a potential employer mentioned to me that my work strongly resembled another designer's, I would rip the piece up right in front of them.
- So I ripped it up and threw the pieces into the river.
- One in ten Brits admit to simply throwing financial documents in their bin without shredding or even ripping them up, putting themselves at serious risk from 'bin-raiding' fraudsters.
Late Middle English (as a verb): of unknown origin; compare with the verb reap. The noun dates from the early 18th century.
Words that rhyme with ripblip, chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, lip, nip, outstrip, pip, quip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, toodle-pip, trip, whip, yip, zip
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rip 2
1A stretch of fast-flowing and rough water in the sea or in a river, caused by the meeting of currents.
Example sentences
- The onslaught of the Trojan army is 'charging in as a heavy surf roars in against the rip at a river's mouth.'
- It's like jumping into the ocean, with the waves crushing, and if you go too far out, you might be caught in a rip.
1.1 short for rip current.
Example sentences
- Why didn't I know about this before I entered the water, and we did check out the beach at the time, and there were no signs warning of the dangers of rips or sandbars, or any of the water conditions.
Late 18th century: perhaps related to rip1.
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rip 3
1A dissolute immoral person, especially a man: "Where is that old rip?" a deep voice shouted
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- They didn't see, and didn't want to see, the unregistered brokers and the rips - or at least, they didn't see them while the unregistered brokers were working and the rips were being charged.
1.1A mischievous person, especially a child.
Example sentences
- You're already bad as the rest of these insolent little rips.
Late 18th century: perhaps from rep, abbreviation of reprobate.
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From Latin requiescat (or, in the plural, requiescant) in pace.
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verb(usually rip) (RIPs, ripping, ripped) [with object]
Rasterize (an image): once you are happy with the image, you can rip it out
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- At $50, it's a bit expensive for a copy-only application, but it rips images for storage, too.
1970s: abbreviation.
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In November, the St. James Board of Education heard concerns from a group of football parents.
The Board requested a committee be formed to explore options. This committee had representatives from St. James and Butterfield-Odin Boards of Education and a parent representative from each sport.
This group met on Dec 5th and again on Dec 19th. Information was presented and options discussed. The group was optimistic a merger in football only with the Southwest and South Central Conferences could be a solution.
However, the proposed scheduling partnership of these conferences is not what the group had hoped for so at this point we are back to square one.
The St. James Board of Education has scheduled a community meeting on this topic for Thursday, February 28 at 6:00 pm at the Armstrong Auditorium.
A decision to leave the South Central Conference could impact all sports and the St. James Board of Education feels it is necessary to hear from all groups before considering that as an option.
The community meeting agenda will include the following: an overview of the concern, changes and progress that has been made, timelines and information on conference membership, other conference inquiries and their status, and future options.
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Acquired by A.C. Milan from Internazionale in a late summer 2012 transfer, Giampaolo Pazzini is a striker who is known for his movement off the ball and lethal ability to score with his head. Pazzini started his senior career with Atalanta in 2003, then moved to Fiorentina and Sampdoria before his most recent moves. He has earned a regular place with the Italian national team since 2009.
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Pre-painted and assembled, these 1:100 scale aircraft are made of durable plastic and can also be used in the Axis & Allies Army Miniatures game. Highly detailed models in 1:100 scale are pre-painted in historically accurate paint schemes.
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Wizards of the Coast, Avalon Hill, Hasbro
Year: 2012
Players: 2
Ages: 12 and up
Weight: 105 grams
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Average Rating: 5 in 3 reviews
I looked all over for the perfect miniature game and found one! I looked all over for the perfect game, narrowed it down, and because I like WWII, i bought this one. I loved it! I do not like painting miniatures for like, hours, so am very pleased! I recommend it.
I have always wanted to get into a miniature war game and I found the perfect one!! A&A is fun, fast, and compared to the other miniature games out there very very cheap!! I am currently collecting the base set but i'll soon have em all. Definite must have for any casual wargamer!!
For anyone already familiar with the Axis & Allies game universe I don't have to describe how addictive this game can be. I've been an avid player of A&A for over 10 years now, and while I can't play as often as I used to it doesn't mean the desire isn't there.
A&A Miniatures is the perfect solution for older gamers on a time-crunch and it's about time Avalon Hill figured this format out. A&A Miniatures is based on a "sqad level" or skirmish style battle with each games lasting between 7 and 10 real-time minutes, one minute per turn. The units used in this version of A&A are like no WWII unit you've seen before from Avalon Hill. This time around you'll find actual miniatures that are scaled quite well to each other. For starters, this game is as much a collector's game as it is a gamer's game. The first unit set of A&A:Miniatures features 48 units from both Axis and Allied forces. This doesn't mean just USA and Germany as UK, Russia, and Japan also bring units to the party. These units include infantry, recon units such as jeeps and armored cars, anti-tank guns and artillery, and of course tanks (armor) of all sizes. Each unit is uniquely painted instead of dipped one color like the standard A&A games. The unit sizing is as close as you can get and still remain playable, if infantry were actually scaled to a tank you couldn't find them on the board! In other words an M1 Garand Rile team is about the same size as a standard A&A infantry piece. An SS Panther Ausf. G is 3" long and 1" wide while a US M4A1 Sherman is only 2" long. This gives an actual feeling of scale to battles involving infantry teams and tanks instead of the universal unit size of the standard A&A games.
Before you get excited about playing with 48 miniature models however, you must know that this starter set only includes 12 units out of the 48 possible units. Avalon Hill took a page from miniature combat games such as Warhammer and MechWarrior by creating three separate classes of units. Common units are usually the more basic infantry teams and anti-tank guns, Uncommon units tend to be heavy infantry and commanders, while the hardest to find Rare units are the heavy tanks and armor of the game. This means that most of the time you'll only find 1-3 great units in a starter kit or expansion pack whicle most of the rest will be duplicates or common infantry. Don't get me wrong as this isn't bad, you'll need quite a few grunts to round out your forces in the future. I'm just saying it's always fun to rip open a new Booster Pack and see what's hiding inside... remember baseball/basketball cards as a kid? Same principle, just imagine looking for that rare rookie card and substitute a Tiger 1 tank instead. :)
Each unit is accompanied by a unit card listing all sorts of stats on that unit including; attack, defense, cost, movement, range, and info on the real world unit. These unit cards are displayed during the game for the units you've chosen to fight with. This makes keeping track of combat info for various units much easier during battles.
The actual battles are very fierce and over in about 45-60 minutes once you and a friend or two get the rules figured out. Each player gets 100 purchase points to spend on his army. Unit prices vary from 3-10 PP each for infantry teams to 15-65 PP each for armor and half-tracks. You'll see combat squads of anywhere from 11 to 4 units depending on purchase choices. Each player keeps his purchases secret until the map is chosen (by a die roll) from the 6 available maps. Each player may then place his/hers units on the map after turn order is decided by a die roll. Game phases are as follows:
- Initiative Phase (both players, determines First/Second player)
- First Player's Movement Phase
- Second Player's Movement Phase
- First Player's Assault Phase
- Second Player's Assault Phase
- Casualty Phase (both players)
Initiative is rolled for at the beginning of every turn, this determines the first and second player for that turn. This is quite important as movement and assault order can make or break your turn.
Movement allows your units to use up their movement points and place themselves for the assault phase. Units may incure defensive fire while moving near enemy troops.
Assault phases are where you actually fire and calculate damage done to enemy units. There are differing levels of damage for infantry and vehicles, possibilities are disrupted, damaged, and destroyed.
After all combat is resolved casualties are removed and damage applied using damage tokens for each unit. There are other rules I won't describe here such as line-of-sight, cover and camouflage, and specific unit bonuses. I'll just say there's definitely depth to this game that will take a few games to grasp completely, but when you do it's worth it.
Victory Victory may happen after the casualty phase of turn 7 if one player controls the objective hex without an enemy unit also next to the objective. If both players are next to the objective at turn 7 you will continue to check and see if the victory conditions have been met after every casualty phase until turn 10. If by the end of turn 10 no one has uncontested control of the objective both players count the purchase point value of their currently-surviving units. The player with the most PP value left alive is the winner.
Bottom Line
I'm so glad Avalon Hill took a chance with this game and brought some fresh air into a crowded and dusty Axis & Allies atmosphere. Older games are generally busy with work, families, and all manner of responsibilities that make those dorm-room all-night battles a thing of the past. A&A: Miniatures has given all of us armchair generals a new lease on combat. With games usually lasting less than 1 hour it's even possible to play a couple games on a Saturday evening. The balance between realism and playability is just about perfect with A&A Minis, it's more detailed and strategy driven than A&A Revised or the Europe and Pacific versions yet still very beginner friendly.
My long-time complaint about A&A versions before has been the likelihood of several horrendous dice rolls that ruin your whole game. I've had 12 tank attacks completely fail against 6 infantry and a fighter due to perfect rolls of 5 and 6. A&A: Minis takes the luck out of the game due to it's combat system. With as many as 17 dice for tanks and as few as 5 for infantry teams, the likelihood of ridiculous outcomes is lessened considerably. Thanks to the new rules and the Small-Soldiers skirmish-style gameplay, this is a much better 2-player game than D-Day ever was.
I strongly recommend picking up a few Set 1 Booster Packs and at least two Set II Booster Packs. You'll need a decent variety of units to set up a decent combined-arms strike force, plus it's just fun seeing what unit's you've acquired. At its current price point the Starter Set and Booster Packs are very reasonable, just buy one every month or so and by next holiday season you'll be able to wipe that grin off your buddies face with your incredible unit choices.
NOTE: These pieces may look like the G.I. Joe army men you used to have but they aren't near as bulletproof. The men are decently strong but can be broken off their base easily. Each tank gun raises and depresses for elevation and the turrets rotate realistically. A warning from personal experience, the tank guns are very easily broken if tossed into a box. Small children could easily choke or chew on most of these units, so keep kids away for their health and your unit's safety.
2ND NOTE: I tried keeping my A&A Starter set in its original box for awhile but soon abandoned that idea after my 2nd Booster Pack. I now keep all my units in a fishing tackle box from Plano, it works great and has adjustable sizes for its compartments. My box is double-sided with clear lids on both sides. One side is Allied, one Axis, and my maps go in one big compartment. Just a thought, it's better than plastic baggies and broken tank cannons.


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A power outage affects about half the lights in the Superdome during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Twitter is reporting record numbers from the Super Bowl.
Beyonce's splashy show, the power outage and a captivating game combined to generate a record 24.1 million posts.
That's up from 13.7 million last year -- and that doesn't even include the chatter surrounding the ads.
Twitter said late Sunday that about half of the more than 50 national TV spots that aired during the game included a "hashtag," a word or phrase preceded by a number sign that's used to organize subjects on the short messaging site.
During last year's game, only one in five ads included a "hashtag."
Some brands capitalized on the 34-minute blackout. Oreo, Tide and Budweiser were among those who captured online buzz by linking the blackout to their brands in humorous tweets.
Roughly 10 minutes after the power went out, Oreo's marketers tweeted a picture of an Oreo cookie in the half-dark with the words: "You can still dunk in the dark." As of this afternoon, the image had been shared on Twitter more than 15,000 times.


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Election Night 2012 was one marked by disappointment and defeat for the Summit County Republicans.
Despite running one of the party's most active and visible local campaigns in recent memory, members of the GOP spent the evening of Nov. 6 watching race after race fall to their opponents.
Democrats won all the way down the ballot, from the White House to the Summit County Board of County Commissioners, while Colorado turned blue on the national stage and the state House of Representatives was returned to Democratic control.
Even the Republican's lone victory - the state Senate seat, which went to Randy Baumgardner - was not won in Summit County.
But four months later, the party has had a chance to regroup, take stock and select a new leadership team following the departure of former chair Mark Hurlbert, who left the county to take a job on the Front Range in January.
With the 2012 election firmly behind them, local Republicans are ready now to look to the future.
And they're already talking about 2014.
The mid-term election will be an important one for the party, with Sheriff John Minor likely looking to win a final term and another opportunity for the Republicans to unseat state Rep. Millie Hamner (D- Dillon).
GOP leaders say they'll tackle the 2014 election with the same heat and hard work that defined the last campaign.
"I think a majority of voters out there believe what we believe," Summit County Republican vice chairman Kim McGahey said. "We're starting now to do a better job to get that message out."
Continuing to push their message with the voracity that marked the 2012 campaign starts with fundraising now. The new leaders are working on the party's Lincoln Day Dinner and annual picnic, both key fundraising efforts.
"That's going to be our focus," chairwoman Lindsay Backas said. "We want people to be able to come up and access us, talk to us and have an open exchange of ideals and values."
Backas and McGahey took over leadership of the local party organization after a re-election meeting following Hurlbert's departure. Backas is the mayor of Blue River and a long-time active member of the Summit County Republicans. Although he's lived in Summit County for more than 30 years, McGahey, who owns a real estate business, is a relatively recent addition to the organization, bringing a new leadership perspective to the party and a focus on the GOP's fiscal agenda going forward.
"I've been on the perimeter," said McGahey, a former school board member who says his two sons were a big part of his decision to become more involved in the party. "I want the same freedoms, the same economic opportunities for them. I want them to have the ability to create a better life. Sometimes you've got to roll up your sleeves and jump in."
The two, along with secretary Liz Wickert and treasurer Jay Brunvand, will be leading local efforts to get a Republican representative for Summit County into the state House for the first time in a decade and to help Minor hold on to his seat.
Minor has not officially announced intentions to make another bid for sheriff, but said he likely will.
"I've been a cop for 23 years now. I'd like to finish being sheriff, but that's up to the people," Minor said. "If I decide to run, all I'm going to say is this: if you think we've done a good job, hire me. If you don't, fire me."
With the election still two years away, there's no word yet on a potential Democratic candidate for sheriff or a Republican contender for the state House District 57 seat.
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Apple Shares Slide After Earnings; $13 Billion Doesn't Buy a Lot on the Street
Apple shares are down after hours after the company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings that beat the Street pretty handily, but revenue and some of the innards of the report were less than investors expected.
This report, and importantly, the outlook for the next quarter, aren't going to do anything to break the impression that Apple's competitors are finally gaining ground, after years of flailing helplessly while the geniuses from Cupertino ran roughshod over the tech world.
For some reason, the reality that Apple can't be a company as big as it is and grow as fast as it was growing is coming as a shock in some quarters.
Apparently, earning $13.1 billion in three months – the fourth-largest quarterly profit ever, mind you – is somehow a disappointment. Shares are down 6.3% in late trading amid heavy volume at $482.
Apple reported earnings of $13.1 billion, or $13.81 a share, on sales of $54.5 billion. A year ago, the company earned $13.06 billion, or $13.87 a share, on sales of $46.33 billion.
For perspective sake, that $13.1 billion profit represents the fourth-largest quarterly profit ever, by any company, bested only Exxon ($14.8 billion in the third-quarter 2008) and Royal Dutch ($15.68 billion in the second-quarter 2008) and Gazprom ($16.24 billion in the first-quarter 2011).
But, this quarter did break Apple's nearly decade long streak of EPS growth, even though the numbers were still well above Street consensus of $13.45. Sales came in about even with Street consensus of $54.58 billion, and better than last year's $46.33 billion.
Sales of the company's iPhones, which has become Apple's single largest product category, came in at 47.8 million units, at the low end of analyst predictions of 47-50 million.
The fact that Apple, which has a history of absolutely blowing the Street away, stayed more or less where it was a year ago, has some folks apparently worried. The stock is down 5.5% in late trading at $486.
There was more not to like. As Dow Jones Newswires' Tom Gyrta reported, the outlook for the second quarter looks light – as in, not-even-there light:
Apple projects second-quarter revenue of $41-$43 billion, well below analyst views of $45.63 billion. The company provided no EPS guidance, which is unusual.
It said gross margins would be 37.5%-38.5%, below the 38.6% for the latest quarter, and historically low for the company in general.
Apple is known for being conservative in giving financial guidance, but the view won't help the pressure on expectations as investors question how the company will top past successes.
Shares down 4% after-hours at $493.30 after 1Q EPS beat estimates, but revenue and iPhone sales were a little light.
The company is hosting a conference call at 5 p.m. ET.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - Nearing the end of the next-to-last day of the Kentucky legislative session, lawmakers haven't taken action to try to override Gov. Steve Beshear's veto of a bill intended to protect the religious beliefs of Kentuckians from government intrusions.
Beshear vetoed the measure on Friday, saying that while he values religious freedom, the bill went too far. That was one of several issues that remained unresolved as lawmakers headed into the final day of the legislative session on Tuesday.
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NC girl, 14, charged with killing brother
Published: Monday, November 11, 2013 at 7:10 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 11, 2013 at 7:10 a.m.
HIGH POINT (AP) — A 14-year-old High Point girl has been arrested and charged with stabbing her 16-year-old brother to death.
Police were called to an apartment complex shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday to investigate an assault with a weapon report.
Officers found the victim, who was taken to High Point Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Officers arrested the victim's 14-year-old sister and charged her with first-degree murder. Her name was not released because of her age.
Police say the teens had argued before the stabbing.
No decision has been made on whether the girl will be charged as an adult. The charges have been filed in the juvenile court system.
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France 2nd in the world?
24.05.2012 - France Biotech has presented its 2011 biotech survey together with France Biotech. The results are very favorable for the country.
Paris – The data of the Life Science Panorama 2010/11 survey provided by Ernst & Young claim a leading role for French biotechnology in the world. The accounting specialist has found an impressive number of 1,359 life science companies that are active in France, ranking the country 2nd in the world in terms of the number of such companies. However, the survey gives no clear criteria for the selection of the firms included. Other studies use clearly defined and internationally comparable criteria defined by the OECD. Furthermore, Ernst & Young only surveyed only about 200 companies. 103 firms responded. On this basis, Ernst & Young calculated annual revenues of €261 million in France. In comparison, a report from biotechnologie.de conform to OECD criteria found 552 biotech companies in Germany with €2.4bn in sales. As in Europe, the amount of private equity available for biotechs dropped sharply in France between 2010 and 2011 from €460m to €277m according to Ernst & Young, while the number of start ups founded balanced the number of companies liquidated (24 versus 25). However, the lack of private money could be largely compensated by state programmes such as the FSI-PME programme. France also expanded its product pipeline. According to the report, 320 therapeutic products were in development whilst 20 were already being marketed in 2011. On top of that, diagnostic companies sold 59 in-vitro diagnostics and 21 in-vivo diagnostics.
According to the report, the first foreign acquisitions by French companies took place in 2011. Swedish Cellartis AB was bought by Paris-based Cellectis S.A. and SC World Inc. from Japan by Vivalis SA (Nantes). In return, two French companies were acquired by foreign enterprises, namely Novagali Pharma S.A. (Évry) by Santen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Japan) and Ipsogen SA (Marseille) by Qiagen N.V. (Netherlands).http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/french-life-sciences-ranked-2nd-in-the-world.html


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WASHINGTON – July 25, 2012 – The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously reported to the Senate floor today three bills important to conservation and of priority interest to Ducks Unlimited: S. 2282, reauthorizing the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) through 2017; S. 2156, increasing the price of the federal duck stamp; and S. 2071, making online purchase of duck stamps a permanent option. The bills were reported without objection to the full Senate for consideration.
"We sincerely appreciate the leadership of Chairwoman Boxer and Senator Inhofe for moving these bills in a bipartisan manner in today's action by the full committee," DU CEO Dale Hall said during his visit to Capitol Hill this week. "We also want to thank the bill sponsors—for S. 2282, Senators Inhofe and Boxer; for S. 2156, Senator Begich; and for S. 2071, Senator Wicker—for their work in shepherding the bills through the committee process. All three bills will enhance wetland habitat conservation and opportunities for waterfowl hunters and other wildlife enthusiasts to enjoy our wildlife resources through science-based, sustainable use. We look forward to working with the Senate to quickly pass these bills."
Hall and DU's Chief Conservation Officer Paul Schmidt joined other key members of DU's Public Policy Team in Washington this week to support these three critical pieces of legislation, as well as to speak with members of Congress about the important conservation measures within the 2012 Farm Bill being debated this summer. The importance of provisions in the bill to protect wetlands and grasslands and sufficient funding for important programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program and Wetlands Reserve Program cannot be overstated.
S. 2282, one of the bills headed to the Senate floor this week, concerns the future of NAWCA, one of the most successful partnership programs for conserving key wetland habitats across North America. NAWCA uses modest federal funds to leverage non-federal funds in an average 3:1 ratio to deliver habitat conservation. Since it was enacted in 1989, NAWCA has helped fund more than 2,000 conservation projects on more than 25 million acres in all 50 states, Canada and Mexico. Reauthorization is essential to keep NAWCA funding available beyond its current expiration date in September.
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Marketplace: The Trouble with Truffles
In this lesson students watch a 60 minutes report on the market for truffles. The report explains how high demand from consumers coupled with the uncontrollable nature of truffle production affects the market. Students identify major concepts in the report as well as their supporting details, using an interactive note-taker.
Demand, Price, Profit, Scarcity, Supply
- Demonstrate how the scarcity of goods and services directly affects prices.
- Compare and contrast how scarcity affects buyers and sellers.
Market prices vary depending on many factors. When goods and services become relatively more scarce or the demand for those goods and services grows, market prices increase. The increase affects buyers and sellers. Buyers must decide if the good or service is worth the increased price, and sellers must decide if they can make a profit by selling the good or service at an increased price. In this lesson you will learn how consumer demand for the delicacy known as a truffle drives entrepreneurs to invest resources in producing them. Students will also learn of the darker side of the truffle market. Unmet demand has lead to an influx of inferior truffles from Chinese producers attempted at being passed off has the real thing.
Demand Shifters: A lesson teaching students about the factors that cause demand and how that influences consumer behavior.
Is the Price of Gasoline Really Too High?: A lesson about the demand, supply, and competition surrounding gas prices.
The Trouble With Tuffles: 60 minutes report on the Trouble with Truffles
The Trouble with Truffles Note-Taker: Students will use this note-taker to take notes on throughout the lesson.
Activity 1:
Have students watch the 60 minutes report: 'The Trouble With Truffles.' As they listen they will complete an outline of important information contained in the story. Then they will use their outlines to answer both factual and evaluative questions about the economic concepts addressed in the story.
Give students the the following instructions:
Watch the 60 Minutes Report .
While you are watching, use the note-taker to find and record supporting details for three main ideas. The three main ideas you will focus on today are these:
1. Scarcity of Truffles
2. Price of Truffles
3. Buyers and Sellers of Truffles
Additionally, as you listen to the segment, record any words which you don't know or which you think are important economic terms.
Then watch the report again to gather additional supporting details and possible definitions of the vocabulary words, using context clues; record these in your note-taker.
Finally, you will be asked a series of questions related to the story.
Teacher Notes:
While using the note-taker, students will identify the following:
1. Scarcity of Truffles
2. Price of Truffles
3. Buyers and Sellers of Truffles
1)Why are truffles so valuable _______.
a) Consumer preferences[CORRECT]
b) Abundance
c) Shortage
d) Chinese Substitutes
2) What is the incentive to a producer to use the Chinese truffles but not explicitly label their product as such?
a) Increase their sales in China
b) Decrease their sales in China
c) Sell Truffles at a lower price than they otherwise would
d) Sell Truffles at a higher price than they otherwise would [CORRECT]
3) What contributes to the scarcity of truffles?
a) Pigs eating them
b) Truffle demand in the United States
c) Truffles from China
d) The uncontrollable nature of their growth[CORRECT]
Question 4: What is the price per pound of black truffles? [$1000.]
Question 5: If truffles could be mass-produced in a laboratory, what do you think would happen to their price? [Possible answers: the price should go down because the supply would go up; restaurants wouldn't have to raise prices because there would be a potentially limitless supply.]
Question 6: Why do some restaurant owners continue to use truffles despite the increased cost and risk? What does the increased cost and risk do to their profits? [Possible answers: Some restaurant owners continue to use truffles because they want to keep their customers happy. The increase security costs or insurance costs will eat into profit margins or be passed onto consumers.]
Activity 2:
Conduct a class discussion about the news story. Ask the students to recall the effects that scarcity had on buyers and sellers.
Ask the students to recall the decisions that restaurant owners had to make in regard to truffles and their prices. Have the students discuss the decisions restaurant owners made and the possible effects those decisions had on their profits.
Have the students, working with partners, discuss the following scenario and think about each question. Ask the students to record their ideas on paper.
You are a restaurant owner and must decide how to deal with the scarcity of truffles. Consider the following:
Will you continue to sell truffles at the current price, or raise your prices? [Answers will vary.]
What are the benefits of keeping your prices the same for the season even though you are spending more money to purchase truffles? How would keeping prices the same affect your profit? [If you raise prices to compensate for the additional money you are spending on truffles, customers will be unhappy. Keeping prices the same for the season, but doing so may also ensure customer loyalty for future seasons.]
What might happen if you raise your prices to compensate for the higher cost of selling truffles? Could this affect your profit? [Your profit could go up because you are making back the additional money you spend on truffles. The demand for truffles is so high that people are willing to buy them at any price. Raising your prices could limit your profit if you lose customers due to the increase.]
What are the possible effects of removing truffles completely from your menu? [Your profit could increase because you aren't spending money on truffles and you don't have to raise your prices. Your profit could decrease if people continue to demand truffles -- they will go to restaurants that serve them.]
1. Have the students hand in their note-takers. The students' work should reflect an understanding of scarcity and its effects on buyers, sellers, and market prices.
2. Lead the discussion in Activity 2 and have the students hand in their answers to the questions. The students' thoughts and answers should reflect the concepts of scarcity displayed in the lesson.
By the conclusion of this lesson, the students should be able to identify at least three main effects that scarcity has on buyers and sellers. This will help them understand that scarcity directly affects profit in the market.
Have the students learn more about scarcity and market prices by completing Economics in the Headlines and Save the Moonflowers.
"This lesson looks fantastic and I would love to use it, but the link to the audio file is a broken link and goes to a page that no longer houses the audio file. Is there a way to get the original link or a redirection?"
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- The causes of caregiver stress will be explored at a workshop on Monday, July 22, in which caregivers will be empowered with practical knowledge and skills to effectively manage their daily stressors.
This event is being offered by the Cornell Cooperative Extension Sullivan County's Caregiver Resource Center from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Gerald J. Skoda Extension Education Center on 64 Ferndale-Loomis Road in Liberty.
Michelle Lorenzo, MA, LMT, and Reiki Master, will lecture on relaxation techniques in a group setting that can easily be done at home.
Through a combination of group discussion and practical exercises, the caregivers will learn what is stress, how to identify stressors, stress management tools and various methods of relaxation that would enable a caregiver to move into a more positive experience of inner-connectedness and peace while caring for a loved one.
Caregivers can use this workshop to take some time out for themselves, learn how to enhance their own sense of well-being in a supportive environment and learn valuable skills that can be shared with their loved one.
Pre-registration is required by July 17 and can be obtained by calling 845-292-6180.
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