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I recently had the pleasure of sharing the microphone at a Direct Marketing Association luncheon with Michael Parker, the vice president of strategic marketing at Symantec. He spoke about the myth of viral video and how Symantec went about measuring its video marketing social success.
During his informative, insightful presentation, he pointed out the need – and Symantec's ability – to deliver a "consistent customer experience" across multiple channels. The phrase stuck with me and kept perturbing me until I got a handle on why such a simple idea is actually such a deep, dark problem.
When an individual sees an ad on TV, receives a direct mail piece, clicks on an ad, arrives on a landing page, views a video, receives a follow-up email, etc., etc., that individual should be having a seamless experience. The message, the look-and-feel, the offer, and the voice of the company should be consistent.
If a search results in a great offer, you expect the landing page to continue the conversation. But so often, you end up on the home page with no reference to the click-through enticement. Waaay too often.
When it comes to more considered purchases, the lines of communication cross in even more complicated ways. As a prospect or a customer, I want the experience to be seamless. I do not mean it should be cookie-cutter. I applaud serious segmentation and wish for it fervently. My experience should not necessarily be the same as yours but should necessarily be the same as mine.
My impression of the brand should be tailored and consistent.
Connecting the Dots
Your job is to collect the data from a dozen platforms and follow the customer experience thread through multiple departmental silos, dozens of disparate datasets, and numerous political battlefields.
If you can do that, you should be able to show how the customer experience threads that enjoy seamless experiences deliver more sales, more loyal customers, and more profits. Those that don't, exhibit higher bounce rates, lower engagement, and lost opportunity.
This analytical evidence can convince the powers that be to view the company from the customer's point of view. It can lead to an organization that intuitively understands the value of social media. It can inspire management to consolidate brand messaging and line extensions so they make sense to target audiences. It can lead to a customer base that enjoys repeatedly engaging with the company.
Start on the Offensive
Where do you begin? With a little show and tell: dirty laundry.
Gather up current marketing materials from around your organization. What might a customer see from your company today? The magazine ads, the TV commercials, the search results ads, the banner ads, the direct mail pieces, the email newsletter, and, yes, the wide variety of posts, tweets, comments, and photo sharing that's going on out there with your brand all over it.
Put it all up on a wall and step back.
Does the result look like a well-planned, well-coordinated, cohesive strategy? Or does it look like a multitude of marketing managers, product marketers, agencies, and interns were off in their respective corners reinventing the wheel?
The data you collect, correlate, and explain to the rest of the company might just be the wakeup call needed to help your customers get the message, instead of getting mixed messages.
Michael Parker, I take my hat off to you. Well done, sir. Well done.
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Having spent thousands of dollars creating your website, you feel it does
nothing to promote your organization. Should it not help you grow your
business at least to some extent, when so much pain is involved?
You are on a long hunt for a suitable method of conversational marketing
on Internet, which can replace the so-far passive Internet marketing.
Visitors do not trust web contents unless its credibility is clear.
You wish to give a distinguishable look to your company with the help of a
blend of audio and video elements in your website.
Whichever category you may fall into – the former or the latter – here comes an
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RSS opens a new gateway to ever-flooding effective business strategies, never
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I have a 10 year old lab mix rescue, Penny - super sweet pup. I've had her since she was 6 months old and she's never had any skin issues until this past October. I let my mom take her to a new groomer and after that, all hell broke loose on her skin. She developed a horrible rash and what looked like sores on her back. I took her to the vet who shaved the affected area, put her on antibiotics, gave her a shot of steroids and sent us on our way. The sores dried up shortly thereafter and I thought we were done with the problem.... Until she started developing hot spots in other places of her back!
Since then, we've had to take her back to the vet countless times, have gone off and on antibiotics. The vet has injected her with steroids and has sent me home with Benadryl (now recommends Zyrtec). The hot spots will usually dry up and disappear while she's on the antibiotics but a few weeks after she's off, they're back! The vet recommended Royal Canin Limited Ingredient Diet food so she's on that right now. She doesn't eat people food and we have restricted her treats to none right now.
The vet initially ran blood work - she thought it might be her thyroid (or cushings disease) - but everything came back normal. Skin scrape and allergy test is next but it's so expensive. I"m hoping maybe there's something I can do for her at home that'll take care of the problem before we go that route.
I've read that Apple Cider Vinegar works so I've been diluting it with water and spraying it on her about 2 times a day. I've also tried Aloe straight from the plant. That works nicely but then a new hotspot will pop up somewhere else! She is getting regular weekly baths now with some ACV sprayed into her coat as a leave in rinse after her bath. It seems to calm the skin a bit for a while...until another one pops up somewhere else.
I am nearing the end of my rope and poor Penny looks so miserable.
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Re: Sink
Wait...wasn't a design very similar to this submitted to a previous derby? All of the buildings on a boat...
Excellent halftone work. Very cool illustration
Re: DoomsDay By Shark.....like wtfudge!
What exactly is happening in the background? Looks like an abstract Canadian Maple Leaf.
Re: The end of the world series
We're doomed.
Sweet design! :^)
Re: Hey, Watch it!
Should be texting.
Re: It Came For Cotton Candy
Oh, yeah! This is a winner right here. Love the colors, the monster and the sparkles. You got my vote!
Re: The Last One
voted! I love the purples.
studio1172 wrote:What exactly is happening in the background? Looks like an abstract Canadian Maple Leaf.
The subliminal imaging worked! You have blamed Canada for the worlds end. Sweet!
Very cool!!
This one is perfect for my husband. He's a diehard baseball fan. GMV!
Re: Unexpected Error
But I refuse to live on Internet Explorer!
Wow, what a striking design Diana! WTG. ^_^
Re: So this is how it ends
Is it sad that some days I wish this would actually happen? Like, the entire Earth could use a little whooparse.
Kickin! +1!
Re: earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane
This song came on the radio while I was trying to think of an idea for the theme. Glad someone was able to pull of a solid design for it. You get my vote and a purchase.
Re: oh the huge manatees!!
I really liked the sketch and idea, but the green is just too much in my opinion. I think it would be cool if you just put the sketch minus all the other stuff, not on black of course.
Found it.
Hmmm...unless you are using a different username, I don't think this is your design.
Nice! Love the way you manipulate the lighting. +1
Amazing work. Very detailed
Spiritgreen wrote:Tweeted out of the solar system. What an inauspicious end for a fine young planet.
Great design! +1 from me, fishbiscuit5. ^__^
Thank you, SG!! I appreciate the vote.
Re: pandemonium
My mom loves pandas. If this prints, I'm buying.
BootsBoots wrote:Stick Figure Uprising.
It will be the end of us. Surely.
Is that a fat tie or are you just happy to see me? XD
The more I look at this shirt, the more I really like it. I can even forgive the asphalt color (I have way too many of those.) In my mind, this design embodies everything a woot shirt is all about. It's funny and it gets the point across well.
Well done - if it wins, I'm in for won.
Fantastic work, love it!
And this is why I stick with Safari. Great design, DianaSprinkle!
Re: Kamikaze Botz
Dr. Doomsday McDobad has constructed an army of Kamikaze Botz in an attempt to destroy the world. Sadly, some of the Kamikaze Botz are defective and dumbly run into other Kamikaze Botz, causing a premature detonation. Will he have enough Kamikaze Botz to complete his goal?
...stay tuned!
Side note: I already did an apocalypse type piece for woot awhile back, so I wanted to do something silly and awkward this time around. Also, I was unaware of the heather grey until Jewelwing's classic (version 1) was rejected... I thought I try it out. Hope you like it!
Re: Oops!
The splatter is awesome lol Did you drop an egg as an experiment to see how it would fall? xD
illuminator wrote:Is that a fat tie or are you just happy to see me? XD
Lol, it's sexy, no?
Re: The End is Near !!!
No, its not a meteor shower, though it may appear that way at first. It's weird, ball- shape monsters, tearing apart our cities with their tentacles!
This is a re-entry. I first did this for the Cities derby. I can't help but feel like I am partly to blame for this week's topic :P So here it is again, but BETTER thanks to last submission's feedback.
-Killed the box and added torn edges.
-Added airflow: the line work is now the color of the T shirt (except for the small, yellow dots to add the classic aged look), and made the clouds a halftone so the shirt is more exposed.
-Added a new highlight color (using the shirts color as the line work gave me a new color to work with...smileyface).
Thanks again to all those who provided valuable feedback the first time I submitted this. Much love!
The world ends with hentai? o_O
No complaints here... xD
Yes, cool idea and very clever construction. :^)
This week is like the opposite of the Earth Day derby. I'm really enjoying all the inventive shirts though!
"Let's do the panda stomp again!
It's just a jump to the left! and then a stomp to the right!"
Spiritgreen wrote:But I refuse to live on Internet Explorer!
Wow, what a striking design Diana! WTG. ^_^
Thanks Spiritgreen! I really love my browser of deadly fire. Falls over. Fire takes forever to color.
Re: Earth Landing
Super illustration, specsmachine!
(And high-five for a fellow destroyer of the Washington monument. :D)
Love the style, very appealing
Re: Killer Saturn
The Earth Killer!
Mr. Moon, take me away!
Drawing: Drakxxx
Colors: CrescentDebris
At the last minute we decided to change the layout of the design from my original drawing, and place more emphasis on the moon.
Thanks as always.
Re: I Bet It's Better There...
I was very fond of the separation in your original layout but you've both done a wonderful job.
Melancholy and somehow hopeful. :^)
Re: still hungry
Super cute idea! "I'd want one"
I honestly don't like this comp nearly as much as the original. The colors are pretty good, but the moon is just killing it for me. When it was up higher the seen just looked so intense and forlorn. Definitely got my vote, but eh, it isn't nearly as good looking as the original comp. Sort of loses it's impact. The first image was just so lonely, the moon seems to crowd this and it makes it feel less lonely. That sounds weird, but eh, I can't explain it any better.
Ah, I thought this was you no1. One of your cutest pandas yet!
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New Jersey capsule firm buys Bend Research
Pioneering Bend drug technology firm, workers to stay
BEND, Ore. - New Jersey-based, global drug-maker Capsugel announced Thursday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bend Research, a pioneering drug technology company with 250 workers that will stay in Bend and pursue growth plans, officials of the two companies said.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Bend Research officials said the company will keep its name, leaders, 250 workers and three facilities in Tumalo and northeast end.
The firms will work together with pharmaceutical companies to, among other things, develop better ways for drugs to be more readily absorbable by the body.
Bend Research VP Trevor Wigle told NewsChannel 21 the sale solidifies Bend Research's place in the industry: "They bought us for our ideas and our people."
Here's the rest of the news release issued by the two companies:
The acquisition provides Capsugel Dosage Form Solution's business unit an industry-leading position in bioavailability enhancement with access to a premiere suite of technologies to address customers' most pressing formulation challenges for oral drug delivery.
Additionally, it brings the company a full range of modified and targeted release solutions to develop innovative new products for its customers.
"The Bend Research transaction highlights Capsugel's commitment to investment and strategic growth since becoming a KKR portfolio company in the 2011 carve-out acquisition from Pfizer," said Guido Driesen, President & CEO of Capsugel.
"Capsugel and Bend Research share common foundations in science and engineering, with values centered on innovation, quality and customer service. We have been impressed by Bend Research's people, achievements and technology for some time and are delighted to combine our two companies. Capsugel's vision of being a leading provider of innovative dosage forms and solutions to its healthcare customers is significantly advanced by this transaction."
Bend Research is a recognized industry leader in bioavailability enhancement, particularly through Spray- Dried Dispersion (SDD) formulation technology.
Their portfolio is supplemented by technologies to help advance compounds with a variety of delivery and development challenges, including solutions for modified release, inhalation delivery and biotherapeutic processing and formulation.
Bend Research complements Capsugel DFS's existing customer offerings with a broad range of technologies and best-in-class capabilities that support new compound development and enable improved life cycle management for existing products across pharmaceutical and nutritional markets.
"We are ready to take Bend Research to the next level, and the combination of our two companies is the best vehicle for helping us get there," said Rod Ray, Ph.D., CEO of Bend Research.
"We will expand our industry-leading capability to meet low bioavailability formulation challenges; strengthen the global footprint to support customer partnerships around the world; and enhance our ability to scale-up and commercially manufacture the customer compounds we help formulate. We are excited to be a part of Capsugel's future."
"Our customers strive to bring improved products to market more quickly and seek new and innovative ways to overcome difficult formulation challenges," added Amit Patel, President of Capsugel DFS. "Capsugel DFS will support effective and accelerated product development needs from formulation feasibility to final commercial production through new and expanding technologies and capabilities."
He concluded, "Bend Research brings the leadership, capabilities and assets necessary to deepen our distinctive customer offerings and will ultimately enhance benefits delivered to patients and consumers."
The completion of this transaction is subject to customary closing conditions including approval from regulatory authorities, and is expected to occur within the next 30 days. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
For more than 35 years, Bend Research has worked with clients to create value by advancing new medicines that improve human health and to solve their most difficult scientific and technical problems. This success is based on the company's ability to develop, advance, and commercialize pharmaceutical technologies, which grow from a solid base of scientific and engineering fundamental understanding. Bend Research provides several capabilities, including formulation and dosage-form support, assists in process development and optimization, manufactures clinical trial quantities of drug candidates in its cGMP facilities, and advances promising drug candidates from conception through commercialization. The company is a leader in novel formulations, including spray-dried dispersions and hot-melt extrusion formulations, as well as controlled-release, inhalation, and biotherapeutics technologies. With 250 employees, Bend Research is based in Bend, Oregon, USA. For more information, visit www.bendresearch.com.
Capsugel is a global leader in providing innovative, high-quality dosage forms and solutions for the health care industry. With more than 100 years of experience, we provide a comprehensive array of advanced solutions to pharmaceutical and nutritional customers from formulation through clinical and commercial supply. From hard gelatin, liquid-filled and vegetarian capsules, to product development and manufacturing services, we help our customers improve their product profiles and accelerate development and commercialization timelines. Capsugel is headquartered in Morristown, NJ, employs 2,900 people, has 12 manufacturing and R&D facilities across three continents and serves more than 4,000 customers in over 100 countries. Follow Capsugel on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/capsugel. For additional information, visit www.capsugel.com.


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Think Outside the Book Publishing LLC TOTBP Maria Veloso Fraudulent Bad Business Beverly Hills California
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This company is so fraudulent. You call their 1-800 number and it is a message saying it is a bank and to leave your credit card number. This has happened for me on 3 different occasions. When I finally did get through to someone they told me their phone had gotten hacked into. How is that possible?
I've also been receiving their Underground Health Reporter newsletter which just basically advertisers their other products and they pretend to be advertising a separate company's products. How stupid do they think people are?
I swear they have like 3 customer service reps handling all their emails and calls. Every time I call I've either had a girl named Cici a girl named Vanessa or a girl named Rosemary. Same witht he emails.
They seem to have 3 companies. Think outside the book, quantum wellness botanical institute and rodeo drive collection and all they do is advertise each others products but they are actually one company. [continued below]....
I.E. 311 N. Robertson Blvd. Suite 323 Beverly Hills, CA 90211
That was their address before and that is a po box place. Why couldn't they just use a po box address instead of pretending that they had a store front. I paid 39.95 for an ebook that was basically information that was copied and pasted off the internet. The writer of the one minute cure is not even real which i'm ok with. I understand that people write under pseudo names, but with such wild claims as curing virtually all diseases you'd expect a lot of integrity from this company. Another time i called and I got a hold of a woman named Catherine Chang? She could hardly speak english and she was so unprofessional. She sounded like an idiot that didn't know what was going on. I guess she must have been their new cs rep.
I'm so disappointed in this company especially when I uncovered they were just sending emails about their other companies and the same old crap over and over again about 5 other companies and all their emails have are a bunch of crap as well as long videos that nobody has time to watch. I sent in for a book before and I didn't receive it til 3 months later and they said because it was being delivered to canada, what an excuse? It never took that long for something to be delivered to canada. EVERYONE beware of this company that uses "TRUTH" to make you think they're trustworthy. Look at their other results on other websites. They are horrible. Some of the reps that I spoke with before even said that the managers don't listen to their suggestions.
They are being exactly like the big companies they ridicule. Dishonest and ruthless and money hungry. I am writing a different report on Quantum Wellness Botanical Institute. they are a whole nother fraudulent story. They sold their green superfood product without even having it. Without even warning people they were sold out. And then refused to give refunds after trying to cancel the order since I didn't want to wait 2 months.
THIS Company is a Joke!
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Title : Who's Driving Doug (2016)
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8502SCO2V02S - Square D Nema Contactor
Schneider Electric / Square D, Nema Contactor features a three pole, three phase, 27 ampere with Nema full voltage non reversing starter screw clamp connection and Nema AC magnetic contactors use with heating loads, capacitors, transformers, electric motors and other power loads where overload protection is provided separately, Normally open holding-circuit contact for 3-wire control is provided as standard, UL Listed and CSA Certified.
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Product Type : Nema Contactor
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Coil Voltage : 120VAC@60Hz - 110VAC@50Hz
Enclosure : Open
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Eva Lenz embraces her boyfriend Aljoscha Zeisler passionately, ignoring the hundreds of passengers hurrying around them at Auckland International Airport's arrival gate.
The 23-year-old German last saw him five months ago - before she moved to New Zealand.
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The pair will celebrate Christmas with the family she's working for, then travel the country for a month before Mr Zeisler, 24, heads home.
Miss Lenz had been waiting right up the front of the arrivals area, pressed against the barrier with a neon orange, heart-shaped sign inscribed with her boyfriend's name.
Her eyes were just one pair among thousands glued to the automatic doors that open through from Customs, releasing passengers into the arms of their loved ones the week before Christmas.
This week last year, the number of passengers moving through jumped from 70,000, to nearly 92,000.
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Dry bulk stocks have struggled since the start of the credit crisis. There have been some ups but mostly it's been all downs since 2008. However, all of this pessimism has sent some shipping stocks to irrational valuation levels and a number of them are trading below liquidation value.
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There are a number of issues plaguing the industry including the over capacity of ships as well as the slow economic recovery from the economic recession. Dry bulk players ordered ships when the BDI was at 10,000 plus and now the ships are coming online. Every dry bulk company has slides demonstrating the impact of the ships.
The value in the dry bulk stocks now comes in two ways: the ships and the charters attached to the ships. Companies can rent out their ships in two ways: spot or contract rates. A spot rate is just based on the BDI and the time charter is based on the agreed-upon rate a company will pay to lease out the ships per day. Some companies have a strategy of chartering out ships for longer term periods, and those companies are in a lot better shape now as the rates they receive for their vessels are a lot higher than market rates.
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Kerbala attack: Iranian fingerprints?
posted at 1:39 am on January 27, 2007 by Bryan
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If Iranian agents are behind the murder of US soldiers in Kerbala, some things ought to explode on the Iranian side of the border. Bill Roggio has been checking with intel sources:
The American Forces Information Service provides the details of the attack in Karbala. Based on the sophisticated nature of the raid, as well as the response, or cryptic non-responses, from multiple military and intelligence sources, this raid appears to have been directed and executed by the Qods Force branch of the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. My sources agreed this is far too sophisticated an operation for the Mahdi Army or Badr Corps, while al-Qaeda in Iraq would have a difficult time mounting such an operation in the Shia south. "The Karbala Government Center raid the other day was a little too professional for JAM [Jaish al-Mahdi, or the Mahdi Army]," according to a military source.
This raid required specific intelligence, in depth training for the agents to pass as American troops, resources to provide for weapons, vehicles, uniforms, identification, radios and other items needed to successfully carry out the mission. Hezbollah's Imad Mugniyah executed a similar attack against Israeli forces on the Lebanese border, which initiated the Hezbollah-Israeli war during the summer of 2006.
Hezbollah=Iran. Iran has been sheltering Mugniyah for a long time.
Read Bill's entire post. The US announced in the past day or so that Iranians working with the insurgents in Iraq are now fair game. This should have been the policy for at least a year, but the Kerbala atrocity may have been the final straw that forced a shift now. The war in Iraq has long been with Iranian agents (among a whole host of others), and it may be about to heat up.
Too bad more US troops had to die before Washington made this long overdue move, though.
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'If' is for CSI. The hell with that. One loose daisy cutter in downtown Qum ought to send the message. After that JDAM and Hellfire everything with a beard.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 2:00 AM
Game on.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 2:05 AM
Probably the biggest single problem in Iraq is the intervention of foreign powers attempting to widen the conflict, inflict casualties, destabalize the government of Iraq, and setting the stage for possible conquest of portions of Iraq. One guess who the biggest player is in this intervention.
Iran is a paper tiger that is capable of less than many give it credit for – at the moment. I sincerely hope that the United States and Iraq protect their own interests and smash the Iranians whever they find them, without pause, and to complete obliteration. Nothing short of complete anahiliation will do when it comes to Iranian interference in Iraq.
omegaram on January 27, 2007 at 2:07 AM
Problem with that Paper Tiger theory is that they have the backing of Russia and China.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 2:10 AM
Is this from ABC News about more info about Iranian arms smuggled into Iraq
Potential New Evidence of Iran Providing Weapons to Iraqi Insurgents
Out of all the enemies the United States faces in Iraq, the most troubling ones come from Iran, and according to U.S. officials, the Pentagon will soon present evidence that Iran is providing deadly weapons to insurgents.
ABC News has learned the weapons include efps, explosively formed pentrators that can cut through the strongest armor.
William Amos on January 27, 2007 at 2:12 AM
Not a chance in the world Editor. They will huff and puff and pass U.N. resolutions then it's business as usual.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 2:13 AM
Uh, Limerick, I don't know if you misunderstood me or if I'm misunderstanding you, but Iran definitely has the backing of those 2 countries.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 2:18 AM
I understood. You actually think Russia and China would commit their military?
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 2:19 AM
Not right now – but I sincerely believe they are supplying moral and material support.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 2:20 AM
I'm going to go pessimistic on you editor….two Air Force fighter wings and one carrier battle group….the Iranian Air Force lives 6 hours. Without air superiority Iran will be unable to receive the material support. Moral support doesn't stop B2s.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 2:32 AM
We should have drones watching the borders 24×7, laying waste to anything that moves across. Game is on, no doubt. Let's get serious.
prototype on January 27, 2007 at 2:34 AM
If Iranian agents are behind the murder of US soldiers in Kerbala, some things ought to explode on the Iranian side of the border.
Assuming Iran is behind this attack. It would not be the first time they are accused of it. In fact the perps behind Khobar Towers showed a similar MO.
From the wiki article…
With Khobar terrorists tried to drive a water truck on base and park it to do more damage.
They were turned away and as a result they went to plan-B and parked it just outside the complex.
F15Mech on January 27, 2007 at 2:34 AM
If your troops (our brave children) are struggling in a foreign conflict, it makes a lot of sense to send in reinforcements.
To let them struggle and die for anti war politics when we could be saving their lives by strengthening troop levels is well past irresponsible.
Double or triple the numbers, if that's what's needed to provide a functioning environment and get that environment stabilized. No matter what it takes, it's American's lives at stake here.
Then we can afford to bicker but not before our troops have the strength of numbers needed to support themselves while in harms way.
Any less is equivalent to a politician pointing a finger at a GI and saying, your next.
There's nothing lower than allowing even one soldiers death by politic.
There is always a price to pay, for winning.
The price to pay for losing is always greater.
the politicians that tied the hands of our soldiers need to be exposed and hung…
retired on January 27, 2007 at 3:04 AM
Probably nothing will happen.
I have little confidence at this point in our leaders, including Bush, to get serious with Iran over things like this. I would love to be proven wrong, but this is the same president that let Moqtada al-Sadr get to where he is today by not taking him out a few years ago, and this isn't the first time we've apprehended Iranians soldiers or learned that they were providing aid to those killing our soldiers (in the form of Iranian-manufactured shaped charges, for example).
What have we done about the Iranians at this point?
tommy1 on January 27, 2007 at 3:27 AM
this may seem politically incorrect in this "modern age", but IMHO we have owed Iran a major PAYBACK since 1979. Perhaps now, we can have the excuse we need to obliterate Tehran.
You mess with the USA, you die. If that message gets out there, terrorism will quietly go away.
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 27, 2007 at 4:11 AM
BTW, Please give me a "K". My name is supposed to be JayHawk.
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 27, 2007 at 4:11 AM
Or maybe not. Was that one of the places you went? Just realized whose post I was commenting on.
Yet Sen. Joe Biden (who's been running for 2008 since..oh..about November of 1942) wants us to turn the other cheek with Iran, tying the hands of our military, hence belittle Bush in the eyes of Americans and terrorists.
oakpack on January 27, 2007 at 7:02 AM
Step 1. Start dipping all of our bullets in pig blood.
Step 2. Every non-Iraqi we find, march them to the border, shoot them with porcine tainted bullets and bury them with pigs.
This is an asymmetric war. We usually refer to asymmetry when talking about strategy, tactics and equipment. This is asymmetric not just because of these differences. More importantly, it is asymmetric because we don't understand the enemy and we assign Western values to their motives (like we did in Viet Nam).
Jihadis love and welcome death as martyrs. If you ensure them that you're not just killing them but also sending them straight to hell, let's see how many line up. Unfortunately, we are too worried that we are going to offend them while they are worried that they aren't killing us fast enough.
cmay on January 27, 2007 at 8:04 AM
We should have drones watching the borders 24×7, laying waste to anything that moves across. Game is on, no doubt. Let's get serious.
prototype on January 27, 2007 at 2:34 AM
Aviation Week and Space Technology, Jan. 22, 2007 article "A Need To Succeed" has a photo of the "new, improved-sensor Global Hawk…" with the mission of monitoring Iraq's cross border traffic with Iran and Syria.
Zorro on January 27, 2007 at 8:45 AM
As for China's relationship with Iran, the same article continues…
Last week, Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh, a member of the Iranian parliament, was quoted by a China's Xin-hua news agency as saying Iranian troops shot down an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft… AWST Jan.22.2007 p.29
I believe Russia and China consider it is in their best interest to keep us occupied in Iraq as long as possible. If using the Iranians to help do that, well, there you have it.
Zorro on January 27, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Yep Zorro…..China wants us screaming and yelling at each other as long as possible. It can't take care of Taiwan until it finishes it's 600 ship navy and if we loose in Iraq the odds of us interfering with them pretty small.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 9:08 AM
Whats wrong with you people? Don't you know that if we'd just leave the ME all of our problems would go away?
csdeven on January 27, 2007 at 9:26 AM
I suspect that there will be more mysterious large explosions in Iran as a result of this raid.
I'm reading Guests of the Ayatollah just to fire back up my 79′ emotions about Iran. It's not hard to do. I'm with Limerick and Jayhawk, payback time. Much is said of how patient AQ is regarding a strike. Say hello to American patience. It's time. Another commenter had a great plan where Iran's refineries are hit combined with Naval blockade until the people revolt. A similar plan it turns out was considered in 79.(Bottom of page 138.) I say wing attack plan R.
Then send Delta force to HA's server to rescue Jayhawk's hostage K in a daring night-vision chopper raid. Free Jayhawk. Give me K or give me death.
Buck Turgidson on January 27, 2007 at 11:03 AM
I imaging it might not be that hard to declare war on Iran if their government sponsored operatives/fighters get into very many pitched battles with our troops in Iraq.
Once tensions get high enough a U.S. Navel vessel strays a little too close and Iran fires an Exocet missile I'm thinking the war is on.
Iran remember is a whole other ball game from Iraq.
Their military, though not of course comparable to ours, is however up to date with the new Russia's finest armaments and Russia of course secured the service and training contracts to go with the sales.
So if we do take on Iran, Russian pilots and command and control will be tested against our military.
Iran also has a huge network sleepers in our own country.
This all might sound glorious but not necessarily exercising the brain option to effect regime change in Iran.
From WaPo story linked in Bill Roggio's piece:
A senior intelligence officer was more wary of the ambitions of the strategy.
"This has little to do with Iraq. It's all about pushing Iran's buttons. It is purely political," the official said. The official expressed similar views about other new efforts aimed at Iran, suggesting that the United States is escalating toward an unnecessary conflict to shift attention away from Iraq and to blame Iran for the United States' increasing inability to stanch the violence there.
Appeasers like this need to be flushed out and fired post- haste. This person would allow Iran to train the Mahdi Army, foment chaos in Iraq which destabilizes the whole region and imperils the U.S., and kill our soldiers with impunity.
Clearly, this person's alliance is to the Democrat Party and not to our Republic.
Buy Danish on January 27, 2007 at 12:16 PM
No worry….with Hanoi Jane marching in DC today all our problems are solved. I can live in peace now. Will sign pledge to not spank my children and never never never shake a soldier's hand.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 1:07 PM
with Hanoi Jane marching in DC today
Speeding tickets are payed in ninety days but treason is forever.
Russia and China are not allies of Iran, they are cooperating with Iran for the term that is in their best economic and poltical interest.
Military equipment, including sophisticated air defense systems, nuclear technology, economic transactions, and limited political support is what Iran is getting now, and will get in the future from China and Russia. China and Russia will continue this arrangement because it is in their best interest, at the moment.
China and Russia also support Iran because Iran can be used as a proxy against the United States. China and Russia are not enemies of the United States, they are compeititors and opponents. They are not interested in a World War, they are intersted in limiting American power, influence, and their own economic gain.
It will give some satisfaction to see China and Russia in the same place the United States was in when they desire UN cooperation and are blocked by the US. The UN is a political body with it's own agenda, definitely anti-US, but powerless to gain concensus because of US veto power and allied support.
Perhaps the best way to think of China and Russia is as one would think of a "Ferengi". Totally profit motivated, lacking moral and ethical standards that we relate to, will cooperate only when it is clearly in their best interest, and will actively support anyone who is providing resistance to a competitor.
omegaram on January 27, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Russia and China are not allies of Iran, they are cooperating with Iran for the term that is in their best economic and poltical interest.
Military equipment, including sophisticated air defense systems, nuclear technology, economic transactions, and limited political support is what Iran is getting now, and will get in the future from China and Russia. China and Russia will continue this arrangement because it is in their best interest, at the moment.
Now expand your field a bit – all the major players nations are engaged in this sort of thing an have been for many years.
China and Russia also support Iran because Iran can be used as a proxy against the United States. China and Russia are not enemies of the United States, they are compeititors and opponents. They are not interested in a World War, they are intersted in limiting American power, influence, and their own economic gain
Not quite true – Russia has considered us an enemy since around 1919 in one form or another. China for at least as long and possibly before as we were considered a part of that class of foreigners who had exploited them.
We are politically, although possibly not culturally enemies and that is bad enough because of the potential for the political to spill over through the skillful use of media to the mass.
They definitely want ecomomic gain – and if they get that gain, guess who loses?
That's right – we do – at least initially.
It will give some satisfaction to see China and Russia in the same place the United States was in when they desire UN cooperation and are blocked by the US. The UN is a political body with it's own agenda, definitely anti-US, but powerless to gain concensus because of US veto power and allied support.
Nice thought, but this will not happen – why?
Because it would be bad for our busines interests. If you don't believe that, look at many of the (what used to be predominately US) major companies that we are familiar with (not just oil, although that is instructive).
They will openly state that they consider themselves to be multinational or global, not merely American.
Just think, if they feel that way about the business end of it, what would make you think that they are that "patriotic" about the societal end of the equation?
Perhaps the best way to think of China and Russia is as one would think of a "Ferengi". Totally profit motivated, lacking moral and ethical standards that we relate to, will cooperate only when it is clearly in their best interest, and will actively support anyone who is providing resistance to a competitor.
This comes closest, however, keep in mind that business works well with business – no matter where it is.
War, suffering, etc.. is merely the price one must endure of making sure that business is good and that the bottom line reflects positively upon their interests.
Unfortunately, those interests are not often those shared by tha majority.
Further keep in mind that there are not true competitors except in the business sense – and regional trouble spots that impede the flow of trade.
Situational Ethics will dictate how it is both presented to "us" and how "we" must respond, when in reality it is conflict between business interests, some of whom actually beleive that governments control business when in the real world it is the other way around.
Look around you – it does not matter whether you look at the US, UK, Europe, South America, Middle East, etc..
Politicians are bought and sold with dizzying frequency. They purport to serve "our" interests, but in reality serve their corporate masters better – any benefit we get is purely incidental from these elitists.
And they are from both parties – again, it gives the illusion of chioce, although I do beleive that that facade is crumbling a bit and at least some of the people are starting to see clearer.
Make no mistake – China and Russia are our enemies. They will support Iran, it is true, due to the potential to destabilize us in any trouble spot world-wide, just as they support Chavez, Castro, etc..
The goal is to destroy the US. Their actions kill our warfighters.
I only wish it were possible for the money boys and uniformed pampered princes in DC to do the right thing for a change and look out for our soldiers instead of their business portfolios.
That would mean unleashing our warfighters to do what must be done and do it right with decisive force so that our enemies cannot stand against us for at least as long as it takes for them to rebuild their countries back to the industrial age from the stone age we should leave them in.
We as individuals fight for survival of self and of culture – not the bottom line for a congressman, senator, or generals portfolio.
Emmett J. on January 27, 2007 at 3:21 PM
If Iranian agents are behind the murder of US soldiers in Kerbala, some things ought to explode on the Iranian side of the border.
Oh, how I wished that we could have taken out these worthless folks since 1979. I only hope against hope that we could take them out for good. We'd miss nothing from this region of the world – aside from possibly oil, they giove nothing of value to the planet either culturally, spritually, or otherwise.
Oil, I would note, we can get anywhere pretty much.
Emmett J. on January 27, 2007 at 4:05 PM
Once all the people are dead, just plant a spigot in the smoking ground and let the oil flow.
Maybe the radiation will give the gas an extra octane or two.
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 27, 2007 at 4:25 PM
I hope you didn't take my questioning of the "paper tiger" theory as hesitation to attack Iran or target Iranian agents. That is 180-degrees opposite my stance. In fact, I've consistantly said and still believe Iraq has always been about Iran – the main reason I supported and continue to support a presense in Iraq. It can't happen fast enough for me.
My only contention is that if we're ready to take on Iran we better understand we're taking them on as a proxy, just like Iraq is. Agreed they would be defeated quite readily, which is one of the reasons I'm ready.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 5:37 PM
Gee, it's taken how many years to prove what has been known by most for years ??? … PC war is a waste of treasure and American lives. General Sherman knew it … Churchhill knew it … Vietnam proved it in the modern era …I suspected we were doomed in our efforts when the war first started and the MSM question was always split between how long will it last and how much will it cost … President Bush was too soft about it being a long struggle … the right answer would have been it will be over when we have achieved victory, and it will cost what it takes to reach that end.
America no longer has the stomach to shoulder the burdens it's highground beliefs require. I'm glad I'm old and have no children … I have little confidence that the future holds a positive outcome … but hey, I read Mark Steyn to cheer me up .
pbary on January 27, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Wow just had a mental image of Sherman doing a march through Iran ending up in Tehran.
Made me smile.
The only way to fight a war is total war. Everything else is just ****ing around.
JayHawk (with a "K")
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 27, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Ya'all do remember that it was this type of attack that provoked Israel into pounding south Lebanon into rubble?
Ya'all do remember that Nasrallah was quoted as saying he was surprised by that response?
Would Iran then hope for a similiar response from the US? Or do the leaders in Iran believe that we will react as we did in Mogadishu when the two Blackhawks were shot down?
Ya'all do know that it was three years later that General Mohamed Farrah Aidid died of gunshot wounds?
rockhauler on January 28, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Hmmm… just a thought but it appears that Iraq has national borders like ours here in the USA… Just about anything can get through.
ricer1 on January 28, 2007 at 8:32 PM
Emmett J:
Your post above was well taken, we agree on many points, but the point of contention is that you believe China and Russia are enemies of the United States at this time and I believe that they are competitors and opponents, at this time.
That could be an entire set of threads on this topic alone, starting with the definition of an "enemy" and what foundation you have for your conclusion that Russia and China are enemies of the United States since 1918 or so.
I believe that, at present, both Russia and China are not enemies that wish complete destruction on the US., they wish to limit U.S. power to great degree and continue to exploit our system to their economic advantage. China in particular is benefiting greatly from their exports to the United States and has great interest to see that relationlship continue.
Russia has it's own reasons for a degree of cooperation but destruction of the United States is not in their best interest either.
This post and thread are about to disappear into archives on Hot Air, but the point is made. If you wish to respond perhaps you would reveal your defintion of "enemy" and your rationale for concluding that Russia and China are enemies, and not competitiors and opponents
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Aside from redistricting (or losing a seat), there's not much we can do about problem number one. Tarryl Clark is addressing number two by running an excellent campaign.
MPR has taken a first step in addressing problem number three. They've got a little thing they call PoliGraph at which they analyze politicians and candidates statements. They finally analyzed something Bachmann said:
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann had some choice words for a recently passed $26 billion bill meant to aid states hit hard by the economic downturn.
"Taxpayer money will essentially be laundered through the public employee unions, and spent to reelect those same Democrats this fall," Bachmann said on the Aug. 10 episode of FOX News's Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano.
The next day, she clarified her point on another FOX News program, saying, "Quite literally what will happen is this money will be shifted over to public employee unions. The unions will skim off the top; they'll put a good portion of that into political action committees."
Their ground-breaking analysis reaches a conclusion we've been trumpeting here at MPP and upon which the good folks at Dump Bachmann have been hammering since forever: Bachmann is a liar.
The Verdict
Bachmann is wrong to say that the state aid will be "laundered" through public employee unions and used to help reelect Democrats. In fact, the bill is clear that the money can only be used to keep teachers on the payroll.
Her claim does not pass the PoliGraph test.


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I could see Mel Schutts approaching before I heard his shuffle down the senior center hall. My office, surrounded by windows, usually gave me a heads up on upcoming visitors. A regular, Mel reminded me of Colonel Sanders with the white goatee, hair, and twinkle in his eyes. He usually wore a plaid golf cap with a suit jacket, tee shirt, worn Wranglers and Converse sneakers. Mel was eccentric and his wife visually impaired so everyone at the center was used to his fashion style. This was Mel's first visit without Martha. I attended her funeral six weeks before.
"Hey there missy, got something for ya." Mel stuck his six foot frame inside my office without knocking. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was Martha's sewing kit. He placed the clear plastic tote on top of my budget reports.
"I know this kit meant everything to Martha, especially as she lost her sight." Mel nodded, opening the snaps to reveal a cornucopia of sewing products.
"You know young lady, I feel like I'm handin' you a million dollars. This was special to my Marty. You know, I started to speak to the Lord again last week and He told me I had to give this up. I know you'll do right by this." He presented the open box to me. I observed three packages of zippers for seventy-five cents from Woolworths.
"She wasn't a fan of zippers but she wanted them on hand." Mel explained. I nodded, my mind flying with ideas. The center boasted over one hundred volunteers who did various things around the community. Phyllis Yates could use the zippers. She created jackets for local preschoolers.
"Mel I'll put these to great use."
"I've one stipulation. I mean, this is hard to do." His voice thickened and he focused on the faded tomato shaped pin cushion. I reached out for his calloused hand.
"Name it Mel. I'll do my best."
"Give the items away. Don't charge folks. Martha would want it that way. I bet half this stuff could go to her friends, you know?" I smiled, entertaining a plan as I ruffled through about fifty small spools of thread.
"You know Mel, I could use some help with this." Mel picked up a pewter thimble. He looked out the office windows and saw two of his buddies heading to the billiard room. He rolled the thimble in between his thumb and index finger.
"I don't know anything about sewing stuff." Mel confessed.
"No, but you come here for lunch every day. The volunteers who sew come here. It would help me if I gave you a list of who needed what and the item so that you could deliver it. I mean this yarn? Gladys Becker could use that to make lap robes for the nursing home. I could even use help once the lap robes are completed. I'm real short on volunteer drivers." Mel looked me square in the eye.
"That so? Now listen, don't be getting any ideas about marrying me off. I just got back on terms with God. It took me a near week to get the gumption up to come and see you. I can help out as a volunteer, think it'd be good for me I suspect. But I'm a grieving widower. Don't be matching me up with some spunky gal here." I resisted the smile begging to burst forth and shook his hand.
"Deal. When do you want to start? I'd probably need a good three hours to go through the kit and inventory it. Want to start next Tuesday? Clyde Walker comes in the morning to play pool and I know he could bring some buttons to Ginny. Sound good?" Mel returned the thimble to the box and nodded.
"Guess if I'm comin'in Tuesday to see Clyde I best get workin' on my pool game. I see Chet and Hank playing in there now. Say thanks missy, letting go of this kit was the right thing to do. I'm much obliged." Mel gave me a tip of his plaid cap and started out the door.
I heard the men heartily welcome Mel back to the game complete with their regular sports insults and outfit jokes. Mel responded with his own joke and soft laugh. I closed the box feeling a sense of accomplishment. I returned to my budget report, the clunk of billiard balls and laughter echoing throughout the hall.
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Solving a System of Linear Volterra Integral Equations Using the Modified Reproducing Kernel Method
College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Heilongjiang 150001, China
Received 16 May 2013; Accepted 30 September 2013
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A numerical technique based on reproducing kernel methods for the exact solution of linear Volterra integral equations system of the second kind is given. The traditional reproducing kernel method requests that operator a satisfied linear operator equation , is bounded and its image space is the reproducing kernel space . It limits its application. Now, we modify the reproducing kernel method such that it can be more widely applicable. The n-term approximation solution obtained by the modified method is of high accuracy. The numerical example compared with other methods shows that the modified method is more efficient.


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Well, that didn't take long. The hoopla surrounding the Apple iPad has died down somewhat, so naturally, the question becomes, who's next? If the New York Times is to be believed, Google is next in line for tablet glory.
The paper reported Sunday that Google will soon start selling "its version of a slate computer." The device would be "an e-reader that would function like a computer," the Times said.
Apparently, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was talking about the company's tablet at a recent party. It would be Android-based, but few other details have emerged. Google is reportedly operating in "stealth mode" with only a few publishers, the Times said.
The paper also said that Nokia is working on a slate/e-reader of its own, as are Microsoft and HP.


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On any given day you can find thousands of words of reporting, advocacy and debate over the role of patents in technology. One side promotes the availability of patent protection as the source of much innovation, while the other contends that patents have exactly the opposite effect, and many other vices besides.
There is, however, one inequity that patents help to perpetuate that gets little attention. That inequity arises in the area of standards, where the owners of patents can exercise significant influence not only over the costs of implementing standards, but over who can reap the greatest economic benefits from producing standardized products at all. In a nutshell, this inequity works to the favor of patent owners in developed countries, and to the disadvantage of the industries of developing countries, making it that much harder for those living in emerging nations to attain the same standard of living as those lucky enough to be born into the developed world.
I dedicated the latest issue of my eJournal, Standards Today, to this topic, and if you're interested in the intersection of social justice, intellectual property and government, you might find it worth a read. Here's what the issue is all about.
The current standards infrastructure has its roots not just in the last century, but in the one before. Over the last 125 years or so, that structure has been through some changes, such as the founding of global standards bodies like ISO, IEC and the ITU. More recently, the information and communication technology (ICT) industries have seen the formation of the hundreds of consortia that now provide the majority of ICT standards.
All of these changes, however, have been accomplished largely at the behest of stakeholders in the developed nations. The result, I believe, is that the structure that has evolved to meet the standardization requirements of the First World is not adequate to meet the needs of the rest of humanity, and in particular of the rapidly emerging economies of China and India, among other nations.
I begin this discussion in my Editorial, titled It's Time for IPR Equal Opportunity in International Standard Setting. In this piece, I highlight the disproportionate advantage that the corporations headquartered in long-developed countries enjoy over those based in developing nations as they seek to make their way into the global marketplace. In particular, I focus on the formidible patent portfolios owned by the traditional market leaders, and the prospect for a succession of international standards wars unless greater emphasis is placed on adoption of royalty-free standards by the ICT industry.
I take a deeper dive on the same topic in the feature article, which is aptly (I think) called Government Policy and Standards-Based Neocolonialism. In this piece, I analogize the current situation to the colonialism of the past. In prior times, developed nations extracted resources from the colonies that they seized, and also used these new territories as captive markets into which they could sell European goods. Today, a sort of patent-based neocolonialism allows the corporations in developed nations to subcontract manufacturing to factories in developing countries. There, cheap labor can produce inexpensive products which can then be sold at a healthy markup both locally and around the world under the brand of the foreign patent owner. Meanwhile, high standards-related royalties effectively bar the same factories from selling similar products under their own brands. The results are predictable, and I suggest a number of ways in which the rules might be changed to level the playing field to the ultimate benefit of all.
The issue also includes revised versions of two pieces that have already appeared here in the Standards Blog, the first of which (called OOXML, ODF and UOF: What's Up in China?) uses the development of UOF and the recent defeat of OOXML in China as an example of how developing nations are taking action to promote their industries in spite of the efforts of First World industries efforts to maintain their primacy.
If you're so inclined to learn more, I invite you to read these articles to see once again how the world in which we live is one increasingly interconnected community. Even in the world of standards, we are reminded that what benefits us most is what benefits us all. And if you like what you read, remember that you can get a free subscription to Standards Today by signing up for one here.
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Authored by: Chris Ward on Friday, September 28 2007 @ 03:43 PM CDT
I know that these guys http://getopenlab.com/olmambo/ have significant trouble bringing their product (software development services) to markets in the Western world where they could earn good money.
It's rather like what I was told went on in eastern europe in the communist era; there would be a plentiful crop of tomatos, but they would rot in the fields because the trains weren't running to get them to market.
It was then, and is now, a question of 'control of the distribution channel'.
Oh well. "My software is valuable, your software is worthless". This guy http://www.silentcoder.co.za/silentcoder/ may have something to say on the subject which would be worth listening to.
I see the problem, But I don't know what I can usefully do (without causing my wife and children to go hungry).


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AMSTERDAM — Moroccan anti-Semitism is on the rise in Holland.
Dutch Jews already have known it for several years: According to the Center for Information and Documentation about Israel (the Dutch equivalent of the Anti-Defamation League), the number of anti-Jewish incidents has been increasing since 1997.
Since the Palestinian intifada began in September 2000, however, the number of incidents has increased and their nature has changed, becoming more violent and physical.
Muslim immigrants — primarily Moroccan youths — are responsible for the sharp rise in incidents, according to CIDI.
In its 2000 annual report, Tel Aviv University's Institute for the Study of anti-Semitism and Racism reached a similar conclusion: It registered an increase of 50 percent in violent anti-Semitic incidents in Western Europe, most of them in countries with large Muslim communities.
In cities like Amsterdam, Jews say they have been subjected to name calling, physical attacks and aggressive behavior from Moroccan youths.
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Dutch society long has ignored or downplayed the situation. In recent weeks, however, the tide seems to be changing. On May 4, the day Holland commemorates its soldiers, Jews and other civilians who died in World War II, Moroccan youths disturbed various commemoration ceremonies in Dutch cities, mainly in Amsterdam.
It took a week until Michel Rog, a local politician for the center-left party D'66, filed an official complaint of anti-Semitism with Amsterdam police.
"Suddenly a group of 10, 20 young Moroccans came and began to shout 'Joden moeten we doden,'" he said. They repeated the slogan, which means "We should kill the Jews," again and again.
Similar incidents took place in other Amsterdam neighborhoods, where Moroccans disturbed speeches and the traditional two minutes of silence for the dead, shouting the same slogan or "Hamas Hamas, put the Jews into the gas."
Non-Jewish participants in the ceremony were perplexed but remain divided over what the Moroccan youths could have meant.
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