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Cyma CM517 M4 Short AEG (Sports Line - CM517)SKU 211363£109.99
Cyma CM515 M4 Long RIS AEG (Sports Line) (Black)SKU 210733£103.99
Cyma CM517 M4 Short AEGSKU 211527£112.99
Cyma M4 AEG (Inbuilt Silencer - CM513)SKU 210992£99.99
Cyma M4 CM506 RIS CQB AEG (CYMA-CM506)SKU 110033£103.99
Golden Eagle M4 RIS CQB 'Tanker' AEG (Full Metal - Inc. Battery and Charger)SKU 211903£224.49
Golden Eagle M4 RIS S-System AEG (Inc. Bat. & Charger - Full Metal - F6613)SKU 211797£224.49
Ares x Amoeba KW01 M4 PDW AEG (KW-01)SKU 211862£267.49
Golden Eagle M4A1 AEG (Inc. Bat. And Charger - Polymer Body)SKU 211795£152.99
Golden Eagle M4A1 AEG (Inc. Bat. And Charger - Full Metal)SKU 211796£224.49
Cyma M4 M-Lok (Nylon Fibre - Mosfet/QD Spring - Inc. Bat. & Charger - CM623)SKU 211891£174.49
Tokyo Marui M4 Patriot AEG (High Cycle)SKU 211282£374.49
Tokyo Marui M4 CRW (High Cycle)SKU 210632£407.99
Ares M45X-S with EFCS Gearbox (AR-084E)SKU 211590£350.49
Colt M4A1 10" KeyMod AEG (Metal - Cybergun - 180842)SKU 211505£264.49
Ares Amoeba M4 CCR Tactical AEF (Dark Earth - Tan)SKU 210099£176.99
G&G FireHawk FHK M4 Stubby (Combat Machine)SKU 210362£149.99
Ares x Sharp Bros. Hellbreaker Pro. M4 7" (Tan - M4-SB7-DE)SKU 211247£360.99
Tokyo Marui M4 Sopmod AEGSKU 211226£558.99
A&K MOE M4 AEG (Long - Tan - MOE-M4-DE)SKU 210901£171.49
A&K Metal M4A1 PTW (SS)SKU 210078£386.49
ARES AM-009-BK Amoeba M4 Assault RifleSKU 210112£216.99
Ares x Sharp Bros. Hellbreaker Pro. M4 15" (Tan - M4-SB15-DE)SKU 211250£416.49
ARES AM-008-BK Amoeba M4 Assault RifleSKU 210109£192.49
Ares x Sharp Bros. Hellbreaker Pro. M4 10" (M4-SB10-BK)SKU 211249£491.49
A&K - AXR-D M4 - AEG (Diamond Head - DH-M4)SKU 210894£250.99
BOLT SR-47 M4 with AK Mag. (Hard Kick Recoil System)SKU 210172£284.49
ARES Amoeba M4 Baby AEG (Electric Firing Control Gearbox) (Tan)SKU 210105£176.98
Lonex M4 L4-A1 AEG (14.5'' Barrel)SKU 210516£287.99
M4 AEG Airsoft Gun Blows Away the Competition
The M4 Airsoft gun is the perfect entry-level weapon for beginner players. This weapon is lightweight, accurate, reliable, and performs well in both close quarters and long-range scenarios. On the field of battle, this Airsoft gun delivers realistic response, recoil, and reloading effects. It has a reputation for maintaining its firepower during a long day of milsim play. You will see in example after example that Airsoft aficionados love the M4 and consider it an essential part of their gaming arsenal.
The M4 Carbine is one of the most-used rifles in the world today, along with the AK-47. It is a shorter and lighter redesign of the famous M16, also known as the AR-15 Assault Rifle, which was used by American combat troops in Viet Nam. Because of the reliability and flexibility of the M4 in a variety of field conditions over the years, versions of this weapon have remained the favorite of the US Army until today. As a result of a product improvement program, the next-gen M4A1 is rapidly gaining in popularity.
As a result of the real-world popularity of the M4 in military operations, the M4 Airsoft gun has been made available to gamers in a range of sizes and price points, starting at £44.99 for the M83 M4 Carbine and running all the way to £379.98 for the Kings Arm CQB-R Advance Airsoft Rifle. For the best combination of accuracy and affordability in a lightweight weapon that competes well in both close quarters battles and long-distance firing, try the Classic Army M15A4 Sportsline AEG Carbine Rifle at £149.99.
M83 M4 Carbine (Call of Duty model) £44.99
The M4 Carbine is a popular weapon, and is recognized for its prominent use in Call of Duty 4. This gun has full and semi-automatic options and fires at 245 FPS. The large magazine holds up to 40 6mm BBs and features a safety lock, extension barrel, large silencer, and red cross electric sight. The M4 Carbine is crafted from very strong ABS to give it durability and a realistic heft. A battery charger and eye protection are included. This model is great for the novice and can be modified to suit the player's personal style.
Classic Army M4 Full Metal URX Keymod 3.8 CA079M (Flash Magazine) £229.99
The M4 URX is a full metal model by Classic Army that weighs in at 6.4 lbs. and fires an astonishing 420 FPS without modification. This weapon is great for skirmishing with a range of 60m. The full metal magazine has a 300-round capacity. It is rear-wired with rechargeable batteries and comes with a battery charger.
Kings Arm CQB-R Advance Airsoft Rifle £379.98
The Kings Arm CQB-R Advance Airsoft Rifle is a high-powered, full-scale BB gun with a realistic heft at 6.2 lbs. Crafted with full metal-construction, the Kings Arm M4 has semi and fully automatic firing options and shoots at 350 FPS. The KA V2 metal gearbox is rear wired, the sights are adjustable, and the stock is retractable. This model includes a vertical tactical grip, 300-round high capacity magazine, and 4 x RIS rails. This is a great gun for skirmishing.
Classic Army M15A4 Sportsline AEG Carbine Rifle £149.99
This classic weapon has a standard M4 design and consists of a high-quality polymer receiver with a metal barrel and gearbox. Many players prefer the combination of plastic and metal which makes it lighter and much easier to carry than full metal models, especially after a full day of gameplay. The metal gearbox also lasts longer than plastic versions.
The handguard conceals the ample compartment for 8.4V batteries and the multi-position stock changes easily between full and semi-automatic play modes. This model has a muzzle velocity of 350 FPS, which is perfect for close quarter battles, and weighs a realistic and solid but manageable 6.5 lbs.
The classic M4 Airsoft gun holds up under repeated use and also has the advantage of performing well without modifications, making it a great choice for beginners. For advanced players who like the reliability and accuracy of the M4, but want to take it to the next level, this Airsoft gun is versatile and takes modifications well. The simple construction and well-made parts adapt to reconfiguration and innovative additions that contribute to your personalized style of gameplay.
Some of the more popular modifications and accessories include the Red Dot Sight, Vertical Grip, and the Standard Rail Cover. Also available are scopes, flashlights, grenade launchers, adjustable stocks, and hand guards. With the wide variety of models and features available, however, many gamers find that the M4 Airsoft gun can be used to great effect straight out of the box.
With its impressive performance and affordable price range, we promise the Airsoft M4 replica rifle will be your new favorite Airsoft gun. With the best selection of M4 Airsoft guns in the UK, we can provide a model that is right for you.


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How do you set a big cheese mouse trap? Release the arm bar from the staple. Move the arm bar to the back of the trap so it hangs over the back of the trap. Apply a small amount of high-protein bait, such as peanut butter, hazelnut spread or bacon to the yellow plastic pedal on the trap. Pull the kill bar back and hold it in place with your thumb. How do you easily catch a mouse? To catch a mouse, bait a trap with an appealing food such as peanut butter, put it against a wall or near a bucket, then dispose of the mouse when done.
What is the best mouse trap? Best overall: The Big Cheese Mouse Trap, best snap: Snap-E Mouse Trap, best electric: Victor Electronic Mouse Trap, best hidden: Victor Tin Cat Live Mouse Trap, best humane: Vensmile Humane No-Kill Mouse Trap and the best budget: Victor Metal Pedal Mouse Trap. How does a humane mouse trap work? How it works; the mice cube has one door made of light plastic that swings inward when the mouse enters the trap, then closes behind him. The door only swings one way, so once inside, the mouse can't get back out. You place the bait in the far end of the trap to entice the mouse to enter.
How do you know when all the mice are gone? Signs of a mouse infestation, if it's rice, it's mice, mouse droppings are the size of a grain of rice. Look for gnawed holes, size of a ballpoint pen or bigger. Mice leave smearing, greasy marks along skirting boards (look at big cheese rat poison homebase) and around holes. Squeaking and scraping sounds that stop when you make a noise. What food is irresistible to mice? Some very effective baits include peanut butter, the old standby, with its tempting aroma is very popular with mice. Cotton and dental floss are great nesting materials, mice love them. Small pieces of a thinly-sliced hot dog or tiny bits of cooked bacon. A drop or two of honey or molasses and jelly beans.
What smell do mice hate? Mice hate the smell of peppermint, according to experts. No one seems to be sure why they can't stand the smell of the mint plant, but they have been known to vacate the premises when fresh mint has been scattered about. Does one mouse mean an infestation? Signs of mouse infestation include droppings, gnawed plastic or furniture, tracks and rodent sightings. House mice also emit musky odours. Mice are excellent climbers, adept jumpers and are capable of fitting through openings much smaller than their bodies. One female mouse can produce as many as 10 litters in one year.
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Do mice leave on their own? It's not so far from spring, after all, and you may have heard that mice will leave on their own once it warms up. The truth is, they won't, mice are nesters, sure sign of a mouse infestation is finding its nest. Do mice recognise traps? Mice use their sense of smell to detect threats. If they smell dead mice left in traps, they will avoid those areas, sensing that death may wait for them in those locations. That is why it is a good idea to remove mice caught in traps, so they are not allowed to decay.
Are mice smart enough to avoid glue traps? No, they are not that smart, but they may start to avoid traps for other reasons, when you bait the trap again, other mice may sense the dead mouse smell (see big cheese rat poison homebase) and be repelled by it. This is one reason why some people think mice are very smart, and can work out that mouse traps are dangerous things for them. Do mouse traps get rid of mice? Use mouse traps; the best way to help get rid of mice in an ongoing infestation is with mouse traps. The classic wooden snap traps will do the trick for light to moderate mouse populations, but keep in mind that most people underestimate mice infestations.
How long can a mouse live in a humane trap? Live traps; with a live trap you need to be able to check these traps regularly, at least every 12-24 hours, otherwise you will cause distress to the rodent. Once you know an animal is confined in a trap their welfare is governed by the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Do mice return after release? The house, furnished with beds and full kitchen facilities, is well maintained but has openings through which mice can pass to and from the outside, each of the mice returning to a house do so within 24 hours of release.
What scent will keep mice away? Peppermint; mice don't like mint, so start cleaning with mint-scented solutions, or add a few drops of mint essential oil to your all-purpose cleaner. You also can pulverise peppermint sweets and sprinkle around mice nesting areas. To keep mice away from your house, plant mint around your foundation. How do I find where mice are coming into my house? How to find a hole where mice are coming from in a house. Inspect your attic and crawl space. Check your kitchen, larder and storage room, especially areas where food is kept. Inspect areas where you have plumbing pipes entering the house and wiring in walls. Contact a pest control company if you cannot find the holes where the mice are coming from.
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Will keeping lights on keep mice away? Things that repel mice; survival instincts cause mice to avoid larger animals and being active at night helps mice avoid being seen by predators, as well as avoid contact with people. Because mice avoid danger, they may scared off by loud noises or bright, flashing lights as well. Does peanut butter kill mice? Types of food used as bait to trap mice; if you want the food itself to finish the mouse off completely, you should try using chocolate. Chocolate is poisonous to mice and can kill them instantly. Chocolate and peanut butter combinations, for instance peanut butter cups, also work well.
What does peanut butter do to mice? The rodents are primarily nut and seed eaters, so the mouse trap bait they are most strongly attracted to is peanut butter or hazelnut spread. A pea-size amount of mouse trap bait is just right, enough to attract mice, but not so much that they can eat it without springing the trap. Do mice hate the smell of vinegar? Besides making your house smell like vinegar, household vinegar will do little if anything to deter a mouse. To keep mice out, you need to block their entrance holes. Keep food in plastic containers and vacuum crumbs to make your home less attractive to the mice.
Do mice hate the smell of lavender? Lavender oil is an effective repellent for rodents, such as mice and rats, because they do not like the odour. Along with other preventative methods, lavender oil prevents infestations if you use it in the proper manner. Lavender oil on cotton balls is effective in repelling mice and rats. Can you have just one mouse in your house? Live mousetraps found in the closed position; if you get a mouse in your house, trap it as soon as you can. There's no such thing as only one mouse and don't get upset about killing a few mice. A female mouse can have up to 10 litters a year with six or more babies per litter.
Do mice just leave a house? Once inside mice do not want to leave. One other reason they will be happy to stay inside your home is the protection your home provides from natural predators. In nature, mice will hide inside holes in trees, or underneath logs, or in any other place that provides protection. What is the fastest way to get rid of mice? Steps; use catch (see big cheese rat poison homebase) and release traps for the most humane method. Purchase electrocution traps to effectively kill the mice. Leave no touch, no see snap traps in problem areas to get rid of mice easily. Set a bucket trap with water if you're away from the infestation. Rotate the location of the traps every 2-3 days.
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How many mice is considered an infestation? If you have mice that build a nest somewhere inside your home, that's an even bigger problem and it could be considered an actual infestation. A female mouse usually has anywhere from five to twelve babies in one litter, and she can have between five and ten litters a year. What smell do mice hate? Mice hate the smell of peppermint, according to experts. No one seems to be sure why they can't stand the smell of the mint plant, but they have been known to vacate the premises when fresh mint has been scattered about.
How do you know if mice are gone? Signs of a mouse infestation, if it's rice, it's mice, mouse droppings are the size of a grain of rice. Look for gnawed holes, size of a ballpoint pen or bigger. Mice leave smearing, greasy marks along skirting boards and around holes. Squeaking and scraping sounds that stop when you make a noise. Does cinnamon keep mice away? Cinnamon has a strong spicy aroma that mice will not come near, a few drops of cinnamon oil on a cotton ball can repel mice. Sprinkle cinnamon around counters or in cupboards where you've spotted mice.
Does one mouse mean an infestation? Signs of mouse infestation include droppings, gnawed plastic or furniture, tracks and rodent sightings. House mice also emit musky odours. Mice are excellent climbers, adept jumpers (check big cheese rat poison homebase) and are capable of fitting through openings much smaller than their bodies. One female mouse can produce as many as 10 litters in one year. How far away should you release a trapped mouse? There have been reports of mice and rats covering two miles to return to a property, and you should be sure to take any rodent you have trapped at least this distance away from your home to ensure your house guest does not return.
How long does it take for a mouse to die in a snap trap? The mouse starves to death, it could take days for the mouse to die naturally if left on the glue trap unattended. The mouse dies trying to break free, mice have been known to break their necks, tear off their skin or even chew their own legs off trying to make their escape, resulting in a painful death. Can a mouse survive being flushed down the toilet? A rat can tread water for three days, and both mice and rats can survive being flushed down the toilet. They can also re-enter the same building via plumbing, so flushing these pests away won't work.
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Will a mouse find its way back? Put the mice in a bucket, if the bucket's deep enough, the mouse can't get out. Release the mouse early in the morning at least one mile from your house, or it'll find its way back and the second time around will be smarter and harder to catch. How do you get rid of mice permanently? How to help get rid of mice in your house; eliminate entry points. Use mouse traps. Choose the best bait for mouse traps. Proper placement of mouse traps is critical. Bait stations. Good sanitation won't get rid of mice, but poor sanitation will attract them. Tackle the mice in the house and out.
What will scare mice away? The easiest way to get rid of mice naturally is to soak cotton balls in peppermint oil and place them near your garage, doorways, and vents. Mice don't like the smell of peppermint, so the cotton balls will keep them away. You can also try a live-catch trap to catch the mice and release them into the wild. How do I get rid of mice in the walls of my house? Here's how to get rid of mice in walls; drill a penny-sized hole in your plaster-board, just a few inches above the floor. Put a corresponding hole on the side of a cardboard box, fill the box with a food-scented rat trap, cover the top of the box with transparent cellophane and secure the box against the wall.
Can mice learn to avoid traps? No, they are not that smart, but they may start to avoid traps for other reasons, when a rodent is killed by a mouse snap trap, or an electric mouse trap, if the mouse lies for perhaps a day or so before being removed, the smell of the dead mouse can be very strong to other mice. Do Mice hate mint? The mice need to smell the peppermint oil before entering your house, so they do not come in. This is the trick most people miss. If the mice are already in your home, they will not leave because you have peppermint in a few corners, they will just find a spot without the scent.
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Craven County may get a small accumulation of snow Saturday night into Sunday morning, according to forecasters.
Craven County may get a small accumulation of snow Saturday night into Sunday morning, according to forecasters.
Meteorologists are expecting a cold front moving into the area Saturday to collide with a strong low pressure system coming off the coast later in the night.
Tom Lonka, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Newport, said those two systems could create snow.
�It looks like the two ingredients coming together will produce some snow on the back side of the system,� Lonka said. �We are not expecting a snow storm but we are expecting some accumulation. The current thinking (Friday afternoon) is for a half inch for Craven County and the New Bern area.�
But any accumulation is hard to predict until about six hours before the snow falls, Lonka said.
�The forecast could change,� he said. �It could be more or less accumulation.�
It was difficult to forecast where the bands of snow might go or where the heaviest snowfall would be, Tonka said.
�We expect rain (Saturday) afternoon, transitioning into snow during the evening,� he said. �There will be a rain/snow mix switching to all snow about 8 p.m. or 9 p.m.
Gordy Ure, Department of Transportation maintenance engineer for Craven and Pamlico counties, said he is monitoring the forecast and on Friday it looked like a significant rain event coming in before the snow Saturday night.
Pretreating the roads with brine is not a good option until the rain changes to a wintry mix, he said.
Lonka said it would be a quick and brief cool down after the snow stops. Sunday temperatures are expected to be in the upper 30s, but it will be windy and feel much colder, he said.
Monday temperatures will rise into the lower 50s and Tuesday temperatures should climb into the low or mid 60s, above normal for this time of year, Lonka said.


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If I Were Off to College I Would…Part One of a Few: Wall Decor
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I decided after writing about college bedding that the dorm decor advice station shouldn't stop with sheets and duvets. There are so many other dorm decorating tips that need to be dished out. Thus, this is numero uno in a multi-part serious: "If I was off to college I would…."
If I were (corrected: thanks Adam!) off to college I would…seriously think about what you plan to put on your walls. Shortly after college begins there will be loads of sidewalk vendors attempting to sell the cliché "College" John Belushi from Animal House poster, or an overly large image of Bob Marley's head, or something related to beerz. Although John, Bob, and beerz are great, put your blinders on! You can do better than that.
At most schools you are not "supposed" to nail items to the walls and many colleges have tight restrictions and what types of adhesives you can use…that is when a light bulb went off in my head…wallbands! These puppies only require a bit of water to get them up and down…and they won't leave anything on your walls when the school year is over. Have a look-see at a few twenty2 wallband visuals to get an idea:
And, my personal favorite image which just screams…
"Weee! I am having fun studying in college next to my wallband!"
Ha. Actually, this photo could really use a better caption. If you have one, I'd love to hear it.
Sorry John, Bob and beerz. Goooo wallbands!
I enjoy wood paneled station wagons, German food and senior citizens (I am 80 years old at heart). Nearly every weekend I am taking photos at other people's weddings and I have a blog of my own (but I don't update it often enough). I love to paint, sew and knit. Check out my DP Staff profile on Hatch.


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The Call for Speakers is open for the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, slated for October 30, 2012 in San Francisco. Whether you're an experienced user or technologist, please consider proposing a presentation. Submit your proposal, by July 6, 2012 please, at sentimentsymposium.com/call-for-speakers.html. Choose from among the suggested topics listed there, or surprise us!
The San Francisco symposium will be the 5th, covering solutions that measure and exploit emotions, attitudes, and opinions in online, social, and enterprise sources. We'll have a new, special focus on signals -- on discovering and applying information with the greatest business value -- on sentiment data mashed-up with profiles, behaviors, transactions, and influence networks.
It'll be a great program. Given the timing, one week prior to the November presidential election, we're planning a Call the Election competition. Let me know if you'd like to take part!
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"I'm making a four-meter-long track on which to install seats in an aircraft cabin. With this new machine, the job takes one-and-a-half hours. The centerpiece of the machine is the automatic milling tool, which cuts aluminum extrusions according to a set program. First, it creates the wave shape and the actual guide rail on the inside. Then I turn the extrusion over and then onto its sides, where the machine makes further grooves. This is where the track will eventually be attached to the aircraft. Every aircraft type has its own structural particularities. When I program the milling tool, I have to take into account exactly where in the aircraft cabin the track will be installed. From above, all the tracks look the same, but there are big differences when you look at the bottom and sides. Using rasps, sandpaper and other tools, I finally remove all the rough edges created in the milling process, and then the track is ready to be installed."


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With three new settlements this week and more lawsuits pending, Chicago's price tag for legal claims against its police force is climbing and has already surpassed the $27 million the city set aside for this year.
The City Council agreed to settle three lawsuits this week for nearly $7 million. That's on top of the more than $32 million aldermen signed off on weeks ago in two police misconduct cases. With three more lawsuits stemming from one of the most shameful chapters in the department's history - the torture of murder suspects by detectives under the command of former Lt. Jon Burge - still in the legal pipeline and two more federal lawsuits filed this week, the total could climb significantly higher.
City law department spokesman Roderick Drew said the city now will use bonds to cover settlements, as it has done in the past.
The largest settlement this week was for $4.5 million to the family of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd. Drew said that Boyd was walking down the street on March 21, 2012, when an off-duty police detective sitting in his own vehicle got into an argument with a group of men nearby. Thinking one of the men had a gun as he approached his vehicle, the detective "started firing blindly over his shoulder," with one of the bullets striking Boyd in the head, killing her. "She had nothing to do with any of it," Drew said.
A second settlement, for $550,000, stemmed from a lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured in a traffic accident involving a police car.
In another settlement, the city agreed pay $1.8 million to James Andrews, 45, who spent more than half his life in prison for two 1983 homicides and alleged in his lawsuit that detectives working under Burge beat him until he confessed. Andrews was released from prison in 2007, and prosecutors decided to drop the charges against him the next year.
The settlement with Andrews follows another $1.8 million settlement last summer to his co-defendant, David Fauntleroy. Drew said that at the City Council's meeting this week, Corporation Counsel Stephen Patton noted there was substantial ballistics evidence that indicated that that Andrews was guilty in one of the slayings. But there was also strong evidence that he was tortured, Drew said.
Six cases in which men alleged they were victims of the Burge police unit that tortured black suspects in the 1970s and 1980s have been settled or gone to trial, Drew said. Three more cases are pending. Burge was convicted in 2010 of lying about the torture of suspects.
Aldermen said that while they believed the three settlements last week were fair, they're angry that such cases continue to come before the council. They said they still hear that the officers involved either remain on the payroll or continue to receive their pension, including Burge.
"These guys are untouched and unscathed, and they keep their jobs by and large and they keep getting a paycheck," said Alderman Howard Brookins Jr. "It has to stop."
Earlier this year, the city agreed to pay $22.5 million in the largest settlement in a police misconduct case in Chicago history. That involved a woman who was raped and severely injured after she was released from police custody despite her obvious mental illness.
In another case settled this year, $10.25 million went to a man who spent 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit after Burge's detectives tortured another man until he implicated him in the crime.
Meanwhile, two federal lawsuits were filed against Chicago police this week, including one by Bassil Abdelal, who alleges police, responding to a robbery at his store last March, mistook him for a robber and shot him 11 times.
In the other case, Rita King alleges that after she was taken into custody following a domestic disturbance, an officer "proceeded to violently press his fist into (her) nose for approximately 3 to 5 minutes" according to the complaint.
Drew said he could not comment on the two lawsuits because the law department had not reviewed them.


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Meyer, Klaus E. (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7069
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Will China Continue to Hold Together?Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The recent Bo Xilai affair has created strains in the Chinese political system and has intensified the power struggle concerning the new leadership appointments due to take place at the 18th Party Congress. The pressure on the political system is intensified by a number of social phenomena such as increased fragmentation, vested interests, corruption, social unrest, increased income and social inequalities and a de facto reform stop since 2009. Some scholars believe that we now see the end of 'resilient authoritarianism' and that China either will experience a political and social collapse or move towards a democratic system. However, developments since 1989 show the regime's amazing ability to revitalize its organizational capabilities and regain its Mandate of Heaven. It may be too early to declare the Party over. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8622
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SME on the way to Eastern EuropeMeyer, Klaus E.; Tind, Ane; Jacobsen, Mår K. (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7102
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An Inspiring Experience for the Sahara RegionLyck, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article includes as Part One factual information on Greenland and the structure of the Greenlandic economy, and factual information on the Sahara Region, south of Morocco. It is needed in order to have a basic understanding of what Greenland and the Sahara region are, seen from an economic, political and geographical point of view. Furthermore, the current economic situation in both Greenland and the Sahara region is presented together with the development of the last years. Part Two of the article deals with the constitutional framework conditions for Greenland in relation to being part of the Danish Realm, Greenland being situated in the Arctic with a geostrategic position for more Southern powers (America, the Nordic countries and Russia), being inhabited by indigenous people and having a prominent position in relation to sustainability. It also deals with "the Moroccan Initiative for Negotiating an Autonomy Statute for the Sahara Region" , as presented by Morocco to the Security Council on 11 April 2007. Part Three deals with natural resources both in Greenland and the Sahara Region. Firstly a short introduction to living resources, mainly the fisheries is presented. Secondly, the mineral resources are presented and analysed in depth. It includes the search for minerals, petroleum and gas before and after 1979. Furthermore, it includes the development and content of the mineral laws. In this context, the Greenland strategy for mining is presented. Finally, the status on minerals and petroleum resources in Greenland and the Sahara region is presented. Part Four includes the conclusion and the perspectives for ownership and management resources that can be learnt from the Greenland experiences, in particular in the context of the Moroccan Initiative for the Autonomy of the Sahara Region. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8473
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evidence from EstoniaJones, Derek C.; Mygind, Niels (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7061
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Reconceptualising the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast AsiaJacobsen, Michael (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper argues that the fluidity that permeates the contemporary international community is driven by especially political and economic globalisation, which has a huge impact of the relationship between the nation and the state. As the individual nation state is increasingly depending on the international community for its economic survival this dependency on the global has as a consequence that it rolls back aspects of national sovereignty thus opening up the national hinterland for further international influences. These developments initiate a process of disaggregating state and nation, meaning that a gradual disarticulation of the relationship between state and nation produces new societal spaces, which are contested by non-statist interest groups and transnational more or less deterritorialised ethnic affiliated groups and networks. The argument forwarded in this article is that the ethnic Chinese utilises these newly created spaces for setting up diasporic like networks thus providing substance for transnational ethnoscapes or nations without states. Keywords: globalisation, nation state, diaspora, ethnicity, Chinese, Southeast Asia URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7394
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Gudum, Connie K. (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6736
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Forskellighed og innovation del IIUhlenfeldt, Thomas; Hinz, Ole (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I nærværende rapport belyses de konkrete muligheder og udfordringer der møder danske virksomheder i forbindelse med ansættelsen af nydanskere. Herunder ser vi nærmere på, i hvilket omfang etnisk diversitet overhovedet opleves som et relevant tema ude i virksomhederne, hvilke organisatoriske konsekvenser den øgede diversitet har medført, og i givet fald hvordan den søges håndteret. Sidst, men ikke mindst undersøges, hvorvidt virksomhederne formår at omsætte medarbejdernes forskelligheder til konkret innovation eller anden form for værdiskabelse. Rapporten bygger på casestudier i 11 danske virksomheder fra forskellige brancher. Den overordnede konklusion på disse studier er at langt den overvejende del af de adspurgte ledere i virksomhederne oplever ansættelsen af nydanskere som værende helt eller hovedsageligt problemfrit. De nydanske medarbejdere opleves således som en særdeles stabil og samvittighedsfuld arbejdskraft som assimileres relativt problemfrit ind i den eksisterende virksomhedskultur. I enkelte tilfælde har ansættelsen af nydanskere dog krævet forskellige tiltag og tilpasninger af varierende omfang fra lidt mere lederopmærksomhed til mere omfattende programmer. Samtidig fremhæves især sprogvanskeligheder som en væsentlig udfordring. Derudover er det for ingeniørvirksomhedernes vedkommende ofte vanskeligt at oversætte en udenlandsk ingeniøruddannelses kompetencer til danske forhold. Personaleafdelingernes evne til at vurdere disse nydanskeres kvalifikationer er i disse virksomheder kritisk. I rapporten præsenteres afslutningsvis en model som beskriver tre forskellige måder hvorpå nydanskere kan bidrage til virksomheders værdiskabelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6762
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Forskellighed og innovation del IIUhlenfeldt, Thomas; Hinz, Ole (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: I nærværende rapport belyses de konkrete muligheder og udfordringer der møder danske virksomheder i forbindelse med ansættelsen af nydanskere. Herunder ser vi nærmere på, i hvilket omfang etnisk diversitet overhovedet opleves som et relevant tema ude i virksomhederne, hvilke organisatoriske konsekvenser den øgede diversitet har medført, og i givet fald hvordan den søges håndteret. Sidst, men ikke mindst undersøges, hvorvidt virksomhederne formår at omsætte medarbejdernes forskelligheder til konkret innovation eller anden form for værdiskabelse. Rapporten bygger på casestudier i 11 danske virksomheder fra forskellige brancher. Den overordnede konklusion på disse studier er at langt den overvejende del af de adspurgte ledere i virksomhederne oplever ansættelsen af nydanskere som værende helt eller hovedsageligt problemfrit. De nydanske medarbejdere opleves således som en særdeles stabil og samvittighedsfuld arbejdskraft som assimileres relativt problemfrit ind i den eksisterende virksomhedskultur. I enkelte tilfælde har ansættelsen af nydanskere dog krævet forskellige tiltag og tilpasninger af varierende omfang fra lidt mere lederopmærksomhed til mere omfattende programmer. Samtidig fremhæves især sprogvanskeligheder som en væsentlig udfordring. Derudover er det for ingeniørvirksomhedernes vedkommende ofte vanskeligt at oversætte en udenlandsk ingeniøruddannelses kompetencer til danske forhold. Personaleafdelingernes evne til at vurdere disse nydanskeres kvalifikationer er i disse virksomheder kritisk. I rapporten præsenteres afslutningsvis en model som beskriver tre forskellige måder hvorpå nydanskere kan bidrage til virksomheders værdiskabelse. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6294
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(Re) Integrating the strategic management perspective in the theory of multinational corporationsHoenen, Anne Kristin; Hansen, Michael W. (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The contemporary literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) has to some extent 'forgotten' a key insight of the early FDI literature, namely that FDI to a large extent is driven by strategic interaction of firms in oligopolistic industries. Instead the FDI literature has focused, at first on FDI as a way of generating efficiency in cross border transactions, and later on FDI as a way to effectively leverage and build capabilities across borders. These efficiency and capabilities perspectives on FDI may have been adequate in a situation where global competition still was in its infancy. However, in recent years, we have seen the emergence of truly global oligopolies, e.g. in electronics, aerospace, aviation, software, steel, automotive, construction, brewing, etc. These oligopolistic industries have been consolidated through massive waves of cross border M&As in the second half of the 90s and from 2003-2007. We argue that in such industries it is not adequate to analyze FDI only in terms of efficiency or resource leverage; FDI must also be understood in terms of its contribution to the global strategic positioning of the investing firm. The paper seeks to re-discover' the oligopolistic competition perspective, drawing on the early insights of the Hymer-Kindleberger-Caves tradition as well as on the recent Strategic Management literature, but bringing these into the context of globalization. It is argued that global strategic interaction in oligopolistic industries is manifest in well known FDI phenomena such as follow-the-leader, client follower, and first-mover. While the paper attempts no formal testing, evidence indicative of oligopolistic competition motivated FDI is presented, e.g. from the recent cross border M&A waves and from the recent surge of FDI in emerging markets. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7956
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The Case of Chinese Indonesian EntrepreneursKoning, Juliette (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Two things characterize the ethnic Chinese overseas: their subjection to discrimination and their over-representation (relative to the local people in the place of destination) in self-employment and entrepreneurship (Chan Kwok-bun 2004:xiii). Much has been written on ethnic Chinese firms in Southeast Asia. A major part of the scholarly attention has gone into trying to understand and explain business success. As such the debate has for a long time, in a rather dichotomizing way, been divided into capitalist (profit maximisation) and cultural (personal relationship) explanations as the main drivers for this so-called success. Since the late 1990s the debate has entered a new phase, sometimes referred to as the "revisionist mood‿ enhancing the deconstruction and de-mystification of ethic Chinese businesses. Interestingly enough the debate has been rather quiet on issues of identity and ethnic self-representation. This is where this paper tries to fill a gap. By focusing on the role and meaning of ethnicity and religion (as identity markers) in enterprise development, leadership and management styles, and decision-making and networking I hope to contribute to a better understanding of the significance of "being Chinese overseas‿ and "New-Born Christian‿ in entrepreneurial identity. Empirical case material on several new-born Christian ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs of small and medium sized companies in Indonesia shall be used to explore this delicate relationship. The overtly non-Christian socio-political domination and the contested citizenship position of ethnic Chinese in parts of the region shall be features of the necessary contextual discussion. Keywords: Ethnic Chinese, Indonesia, Entrepreneurship, New Order, Chineseness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7392
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Andersen, Kim Normann (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8327
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On the Choice Between Such Simple Mechanisms as Individual Ownership and the First-come First-serve Rule When Renegotiation is CostlyLando, Henrik (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article compares a set of often used simple contracts or mechanisms in terms of how well they allocate decision rights between two agents over time. A basic assumption is that agents incur a fixed cost each time they renegotiate. The contracts or mechanisms studied are: individual ownership and authority, the first-come first-serve rule, the alternating rule and the sign-up rule. One trade-off that arises is the following: when usage of the asset is flexible in the sense that it does not matter in which period it occurs, agents may rely on obtaining the asset through arriving first at some point, while when an agent needs to time and plan the use of the asset, he or she may wish to hold stronger rights or to use the sign-up rule as a simple form of contracting. (JEL:D10, D23, L22); Keywords: Incomplete contracts, individual ownership,first-come first-serve rule, costly renegotiation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6815
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Gudum, Connie K. (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6737
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Product Experimentation in the Music IndustryLorenzen, Mark; Frederiksen, Lars (Frederiksberg, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper is conceptual, combining project and economic organization literatures in order to explain the organization and management of market-based projects. It dedicates particular focus to projects set up in order to facilitate product innovation through experimentation. It investigates the internal vs. market economies of scale and scope related to projects, as well as the issues of governance, planning and coordination related to reaping such economies. Incorporating transaction cost perspectives as well as considerations of labour markets, the paper explains the management of market-organized innovation projects by virtue of localized project ecologies and local labour markets of leaders and boundary spanners. It illustrates its arguments with a case study of the Recorded Music industry. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7881
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Lando, Henrik; Rose, Caspar (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract: Proponents of specific performance as a remedy for breach of contract have found support in the alleged use of the remedy in Civil Law countries. However, we provide evidence that specific performance is in fact a rare remedy in Denmark, Germany and France, and under CISG, when performance requires actions to be undertaken, and we relate this to costs of enforcement. We argue that it is administratively costly to run a system of enforcement that renders specific performance attractive to the aggrieved party, and that the Civil Law countries have (like Common Law countries) chosen not to incur these costs of enforcement. This is especially clear in the case of Denmark, where specific performance of actions has been abandoned as a legal remedy. At the normative level, we argue that enforcement costs provides an additional rationale, over and above the rationales of the theory of efficient breach, for damages and against specific performance as the general remedy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6823
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Eliasson, Gunnar; Wihlborg, Clas (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The New Economy is closely associated with computing & communications technology, notably the Internet. We discuss property rights to, and trade in, the difficult-to-define intangible assets increasingly dominating the New Economy, and the possibility of under-investment in these assets. For a realistic analysis we introduce a Schumpeterian market environment (the experimentally organized economy). Weak property rights prevail when the rights to access, use, and trade in intangible assets cannot be fully exercised. The trade-off between the benefits of open access on the Internet, and the incentive effects of strengthened property rights, depend both on the particular strategy a firm employs to secure property rights, and the protection offered by law. Economic property rights can be strengthened if the originator can find innovative ways to charge for the intangible assets. The extreme complexity of the New Economy and the large number of possible innovative private contract arrangements make it more important to facilitate the use and enforcement of private individualized contracts to protect intellectual property than to rely only on standard mandatory patent and copyright law. Enabling law is one proposed solution. Current patent legislation in the US has led to costly litigation processes weakening the position of small firms and individuals in patent disputes. The property rights of such firms and individuals could be strengthened with insurance or arbitration procedures. Key words: Competence bloc theory, Enabling law, Experimentally Organized Economy, New Economy, Weak property rights, Tradability, Underinvestment. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6811
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On the optimal negligence standard in tort law when one party is a long-run and the other a short-run playerLando, Henrik (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6828
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internationalization of Danish and Austrian businessesKlinge Jacobsen, Mår; Meyer, Klaus E. (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7104
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Klingler, Sven; Kim, Young Shin; Rachev, Svetlozar T.; Fabozzi, Frank J. (, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce two new six-parameter processes based on time-changing tempered stable distributions and develop an option pricing model based on these processes. This model provides a good t to observed option prices. To demonstrate the advantages of the new processes, we conduct two empirical studies to compare their performance to other processes that have been used in the literature. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9104
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While the website is down, I know it must be driving you guys (who know how to find the forum without the website) crazy.
So here we go with the monday update. If it's not back up by thursday you'll get the next nailbat here too, but hopefully that won't be the case.


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Printing and Graphics Science Group
Exciting new developments are taking place in graphic arts technology and printing applications.
The digital revolution initiated a whole range of new ways of reproducing and displaying images and information: physics is involved in forming and measuring the image and how it is perceived.
Inkjet and other printing and deposition processes are being used in many novel applications such as visual displays, flexible electronics, smart packaging, lighting and photovoltaics based on organic and polymer electro-optic materials.
Physicists are actively involved in developing the processes, designing and characterising the products, and developing the new materials.
The UK has a world-leading position in these technologies, and the Printing and Graphics Science Group promotes the application of physics in these fields.
We will bring together scientists working in industry, academy and elsewhere, and develop links with other active professional societies, such as the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Institute of Paper, Printing and Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Photographic Society and the Colour Group.
Research in our areas is multi-disciplinary, often carried out in departments not called "physics", by scientists whose original discipline is often not physics.
Our activities include this wider community, wherever physics is being developed and brought to bear.
The PGS Group is affiliated to the Applied Physics and Technology Division of the Institute of Physics.
This ensures strong links with IOP Groups in related subject areas, such as Polymer Physics, Materials and Characterisation, Engineering Physics, Tribology, and Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions.
We participate in the Division Conference, as well as maximising the opportunities for joint meetings with other Groups.
The PGS Group is a relaunch and renaming of the Printing, Packaging and Papermaking (PPP) Group, which was formed in 1985 to promote physics in these subject areas.
We maintain an interest in the manufacture and properties of paper as a key substrate for printing, and in the physics of packaging.
Our objectives are:
- To promote the application of physics in graphics arts technology, printing, packaging and papermaking
- To promote the development of innovative printing in new markets such as displays, lighting and printed electronics
- To promote a recognition of the importance of physics in those industries, and to promote physics in these industries as a career choice to graduates
- To act as a forum for communication within the scientific community in these industries
Our activities include:
- An annual one-day group meeting on a current application of physics to technology.
- Technical meetings and visits to companies, laboratories and other venues
- Following a number of successful events on "Dynamics of Printed Drops" since 2008, a meeting on "Science of Inkjet and Printed Drops" is regularly held see our calendar page
- An annual Student Conference to enable postgraduate researchers to present their work and network
- Encouraging student participation by awarding two presentation prizes and making travel funds available through the RSCF
- An annual prize for the best application of physics in the subject areas
- Organising an IOP Conference on "Preservation and Conservation Issues in Digital Printing and Photography", following successful events in 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009. The next event is the IS&T Archiving Conference in April 2013 which is co-sponsored by the group
- Participating in the biennial APT Division conference "Novel Applications of Surfaces and Materials" (NASM)
- A newsletter published at least annually
- A website, Facebook page and a LinkedIn group covering the Group's activities
Our interests include:
- Physics
- Science
- Printing
- Graphic arts technology/science
- Smart packaging
- 3D printing
- Photovoltaics
- Bioprinting
- Printed electronics
- Flexible electronics
- Inkjet
- Visual displays
- Visual psychophysics
- Colour
- Electro-optic materials


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Typical endurance races, like the 24 Hours of Le Mans, demand a synchronistic en avant that combines the skills of technical wizards, drivers in top physical conditioning and a well-maintained street course. If you have none of those things, there's always the 24 Minutes of Paris.
Alex Roy returns to his old haunt, Paris, France, to conduct the last legal street race of the world (or thereabout). How many kilometers can he drive a Citroën C5 (the "Crown Vic of France") around the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile in 24 minutes during rush-hour traffic? Please note, Alex Roy never breaks the speed limit at any moment during his quest. It would be impossible even if he wanted to.
In the process, he breaks a world record, albiet an accessible one. As Alex says, "It's breakable, but who'd be dumb enough to try?"


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An estimated 15,000 people are trafficked into Canada each year. Most are women and children and most end up in the sex trade.
At least that number of Canadians are also likely to be under the control of domestic traffickers who move them about the country.
But some victims are in forced labour working in agriculture, processing and manufacturing.
On Wednesday, the Canadian government committed $25 million over the next four years to a coordinated national strategy to deal with the traffickers and their victims.
For years, the U.S. State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons reports have criticized Canada for its failure to have a coordinated, comprehensive plan to prevent trafficking, prosecute traffickers and protect victims, even though traffickers use Canada as a source of victims, a transit country and a destination.
The reports also consistently pointed to the lack of communication among RCMP, Canada Border Services, and provincial, regional and local police even though everyone acknowledges that human trafficking is not only highly organized crime, it's lucrative crime.
Pimps can buy a person from a trafficker for as little as $5,000. Over a year, each prostituted man, woman or child can then earn them about $280,000.
The $25 million for Canada's national anti-trafficking strategy will be used to set up an integrated law enforcement team, train police, prosecutors and the public to recognized trafficked victims. It will also provide more services for trafficked victims and better coordination with domestic and international partners, including non-governmental organizations.
Of the $7.3 million allocated for this year, more than $5 million will go to an integrated enforcement team, the RCMP's human trafficking national coordination centre and into the foreign affairs budget for work done overseas.
Another $2.2 million is earmarked for education and training.
Up until seven years ago, human trafficking wasn't even considered a crime. As a result, many front-line responders don't readily recognize victims if they come across them.
Since 2005, Canada has had few convictions — 25 involving 41 victims. Of those convictions, 90 per cent are related to the trafficking of Canadians, not foreigners. Another 59 cases are before the courts, including several in B.C., that involve 85 accused and 136 victims.
The national strategy was short on details. It has yet to be determined, for example, where the integrated investigative team composed of RCMP, border service officers and local police will be based.
There's no detail on how the $500,000 a year allocated for victims' services starting in 2013-14 will be allocated. It's not clear, for example, whether it will be used to pay the costs of foreign victims who choose to stay in Canada on 180-day temporary residence visas and receive medical care – neither of which is contingent on them testifying – or whether some might be used for detox and drug-addiction programs for those willing to testify or safe housing.
The Salvation Army, for example, has designated beds for female trafficking victims who are drug-free. It has no detox facilities, which means trafficking victims join the long queue for detox beds, which are sadly lacking in Vancouver and across the country.
"It's like eating an elephant with a spoon," Conservative MP Joy Smith said Wednesday after she couldn't provide an answer to yet-another question at a Surrey news conference about details. It was her way of saying how complicated all of this is.
And she's not one to give in to complications. The Winnipeg-area MP is the author of two private member's bills related to trafficking. The first calling for a mandatory minimum sentence for child trafficking has been enacted. The second, which would allow Canada to prosecute citizens for trafficking offences committed abroad, is in the Senate.
Beyond the broad-brush strokes of prevention, protection, prosecution and building partnerships, everything about stopping human traffickers is complicated by borders (domestic and international), areas of jurisdiction and the usual stuff of other kinds of prosecutions.
And while enslaving unwilling women and girls in the sex trade or forcing men, women and children to labour against their will is anathema to most Canadians, there is an even more fundamental complication to this national plan.
What drives human trafficking worldwide is the demand for prostitutes and Canada's prostitution laws are in flux.
In March, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a lower-court ruling that struck down sections of Canada's prostitution laws because they deny the right to free choice and security of person.
Canada plans to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada.
So, what if Canada's top court agrees that prostitution is a job choice, not coercion, and that brothels are legal?
It's a question Smith was asked and avoided altogether.
Yet it's hard to imagine any strategy or any amount of money would be enough to curb human traffickers.


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1. What is your name, age, residence, and occupation?
2. Where did you reside from the 1st of April, 1861, to the 1st of June, 1865? If on your own land, what is the size of your farm? How much of your farm was cultivated, and how much was woodland? Where is it situated? What was your occupation during that time? Did you change your residence or business during that time? If so, where was your new residence, and what [was] your new business?
3. Did you ever pass beyond the military or naval lines of the United States and enter the rebel lines? If so, how often, when, where, and for what purpose, and how long did you stay within the Confederate lines on each occasion?
4. Did you ever take any oath or affirmation to bear allegiance to the so-called Confederate States, or to aid or support them in any way, or to "bear true faith," or "yield obedience" to them? If so, when and where? State fully in regard to the same.
5. Have you ever taken any amnesty oath? If so, when, where, and under what condition? Have you been pardoned by the President? If so, when and where, and upon what conditions?
6. Were you ever directly or indirectly, or in any manner, connected with the civil service of the so-called Confederate States? If so, how, when, and where, in what capacity, and for what periods? Was any oath required of you for such service; and if so, what?
7. Did you ever hold any office or place of trust, honor, or profit under the Confederate Government, or under any of the States or Territories subordinate thereto? If so, state the nature and character of the office, the place at which, and the period for which you held it?
8. Did you hold any clerkship or have any agency or employment of any kind, for,or under, or for the benefit of the so-called Confederate States? If so, state fully in regard to the same.
9. Were you ever, in any capacity, in the military or naval service of the so-called Confederate States, or of any State or Territory subordinate thereto?
10. Were you ever an officer or soldier in the Confederate army? If yea, when, where, how long, and when did you leave such service? [Each one of these questions must be fully answered.]
11. Were you ever in the State militia of any State while subordinate to the Confederacy? If yea, state when, where, how long, and when you left the service?
12. Were you ever in the home guard, or upon any vigilance committee, or committee of safety, which subject to the Confederacy? If yea, state when, where, and how long?
13. If you claim that you were conscripted into the rebel service, state fully all the circumstances.
14. Did you ever furnish a substitute for the rebel army? If yea, state fully all the circumstances.
15. Were you directly or indirectly, or in any way, connected with or employed in the quartermaster's department of the Confederate service or the commissary's department, or the medical department, the engineers' department, the ordnance department, the impressment service, the provost-marshal's department, or any other branch of the Confederate service?
16. Were you employed on any railroad in the service of the Confederate government? Did you aid in the transportation of soldiers, munitions of war, or supplies for the Confederate government? If yea, state fully all the circumstances. If you claim that what you did was not "giving aid or comfort" to the rebel cause, state fully all the facts and reasons for such your claim.
17. Did you at any time have charge of any stores or supplies for the use of the Confederate army, navy, or government, or the charge or care of trains, team or teams, wagon or wagons, vessels, boats, or other craft, or munitions of war, for the use of the Confederate army or navy? If so, state fully in regard to the same.
18. Were you ever in any service, employment, or business of any kind whatsoever for the Confederate government, or its army or navy? Did you ever furnish any aid, or any supplies or stores, or property of any kind, to or for the so-called Confederate States, or any State in rebellion, or to the army, navy, militia, home guards, armed forces, or military organizations thereof, or for any officer, soldier, or sailor thereof? If so, state fully in regard to the same. Did you ever give any information to any officer, soldier, or sailor of the Confederate army or navy, or to any person employed by or for the so-called Confederate States, or acting on their behalf, or for their benefit, which might aid in any way any military or naval operations carried on against the United States? State fully in regard to the same.
19. Were you in any manner employed in the manufacture of munitions of war, of clothing, of boots, shoes, saddles, harness, or leather; of equipment for soldiers, or of any stores or supplies for the use of the Confederate army or navy; or were you in any way employed by, or did you aid or assist, others engaged in such manufacture? If so, state when and where, and by or for whom you were so employed, and for what period of time?
20. Were you ever, directly or indirectly, employed in the collection, impressment, or purchase, or the sale of stores, supplies or any property for the use or benefit of the Confederate government, or any State in rebellion, or the army, navy, or other forces thereof? Did you have any interest or share in contracts with, or purchases for, the Confederate government, or its army or navy, or any State in rebellion, or its forces? If so, state fully all particulars.
21. Were you ever engaged in blockade running, or illicit traffic or intercourse between the lines, or were you ever in any way interested therein? Did you ever have any interest or share in any goods, wares, merchandise, stores, or supplies brought into or exported from the so-called Confederate States during the war? If so, state fully all particulars.
22. Did you leave the so-called Confederate States between the 19th of April, 1861, and 19th of April, 1865? If so, when and how did you leave; where did you go; for what purpose; how long were you absent; in what business were you engaged while absent, and when and to what place did you return in the so-called Confederate States?
23. Were you the owner, or part owner, or in any way interested in any vessel used in navigating the ocean to or from any port in the Confederacy, or upon any waters in the Confederacy? If so, what vessels, when and where employed, and in what business?
24. Were you ever arrested by the Confederate government, or by any officer, soldier, or other person professing to act therefor, or for any State in rebellion? If so, when, where, by whom, and how long were you kept under arrest? How did you get released? Did you, for the sake of being released, or upon release, take any oath of any kind to the Confederate government? If so, what? [Put the same questions as to arrest by the United States Government, etc.]
25. Was any of your property ever taken by the Confederate authorities, or by any officer, soldier, or other person acting or assuming to act on their behalf, or in behalf of any State in rebellion? If so, what property, when and for what use, and have you received pay therefor?
26. Were you ever threatened with damage or injury to your person, family, or property on account of your Union sentiments? If so, state when, by whom, and what the threats were?
27. Were you ever molested or in any way injured on account of your Union sentiments? If so, state fully all the particulars.
28. Did you ever contribute anything-any money or property-in aid of the United States Government, or in aid of the Union army or cause? If so, state fully as to the same.
29. Did you ever do anything for the United States Government or its army, or for the Union cause, during the war? If so, state fully what you did.
30. Had you any near relatives-any husband, son, brother, or nephew-in the Confederate army? If yea, state his name, whether he is now living, and where he resides. Did you furnish him with any military equipments, any clothing, or any money? Did you contribute in any way to aid or support him while in the rebel service? [Each of the questions under No. 30 must be fully answered.]
31. Have you owned any Confederate bonds or any interest or share therein; or had any share or interest in any loans to the Confederate government; or did you in any way contribute to support the credit of the so-called Confederate States during the late rebellion?
32. Have you ever given aid and comfort to the rebellion? If so, state fully all the circumstances.
33. Were you ever engaged in making raids into the United States from Canada, or engaged in destroying the commerce of the United States in the lakes and rivers adjoining Canada?
34. Were you ever engaged in holding in custody, directly or indirectly, any persons taken by the rebel government as prisoners of war, or any persons imprisoned or confined by the Confederate government, or the authorities of any State in rebellion, for political causes? If so, when, where, and under what circumstances? In what capacity were you engaged, and what was the name, rank, and command of your principal?
35. Were you ever a member of any society or association for the imprisonment, expulsion, execution, or other persecution of any persons on account of their loyalty to the United States, or did you ever assist in such acts?
36. Were you ever a paroled prisoner of the United States? Is so, when and where, and by whom paroled?
37. Have you ever held any office in the Army or Navy of the United States? Were you educated by the United States at the Military Academy at West Point, or at the United States Naval Academy?
38. Did you ever receive any pass from any officer of the Confederate government, or from any person having or assuming to have authority to issue the same? If so, who gave you the pass; for what purpose; for what period of time; did you sign or swear to any promise or obligation in order to get it; or swear or promise to bear "bear true faith and yield obedience to the Confederate States;" did you use the pass, and for what purpose?
39. Are you or were you under the disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Article of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States? Have you held any office under the United States Government since the war? If so, what office; and did you take the (so-called) "iron-clad" oath?
40. At the beginning of the rebellion did you sympathize with the Union cause, or with the rebellion? What were your feelings and what your language on the subject? On which side did you exert your influence and cast your vote? What did you do, and how did you vote? How did you vote on ratifying the ordinance of secession? After the ordinance of secession was adopted in your State did you adhere to the Union cause, or did you "go with the State?"
41. [Original Question 34.] In conclusion, do you solemnly declare that, from the beginning of hostilities against the United States to the end thereof, your sympathies were constantly with the cause of the United States; that you never, of your own free will and accord, did anything, or offered, or sought, or attempted to do anything, by word or deed, to injure said cause or retard its success, and that you were at all times ready and willing, when called upon, or if called upon, to aid and assist the cause of the Union, or its supporters, so far as you means and power and the circumstances of the case permitted?
If the claimant be a female, ask the following questions:
42. Are you single or married? If married, when were you married? Was your husband loyal to the cause and Government of the United States throughout the war? Where does he now reside, and why is he not joined with you in the petition? How many children have you? Given their names and ages. Were any of them in the Confederate service during the war?
If you claim that the property named in your petition is your sole and separate property, state how you came to own it separately from your husband; how your title was derived; when your ownership of it began? Did it ever belong to your husband? If the property for which you ask pay is wood, timber, rails, or the products of a farm, how did you get title to the farm? If by deed, can you file copies of the deeds? If single, have you been married? If a widow, when did your husband die? Was he in the Confederate army? Was he in the civil service of the Confederacy? Was he loyal to the United States Government throughout the war? Did he leave any children? How many? Are any now living? Give their names and ages? Are they not interested in this claim? If they are not joined in this petition, why not? State fully how your title to the property specified in the petition was obtained?
If the claimant be a colored person, ask the following questions:
43. Were you a slave or free at the beginning of the war? When did you become free? What was your business after you became free? How and when did you come to own the property named in your petition? How did you get the means to pay for it? Who was your former master? Are you now in his employment? Do you live on his land? Do you live on land purchased of him? Are you indebted to your former master for land or property, and how much? Has anybody any interest in this claim besides yourself? State fully all the facts in your answers to these questions.
Revised Questions as the Taking or Furnishing of Property, to be Answered by Claimants and Witnesses.
1. Were you present when any of the articles of property specified in the claimant's petition were taken?
2. Did you see any of them taken? If so, specify the articles you saw taken.
3. Begin with the first article (Item No. ---) which you have specified that you saw taken, and give a full account of all you saw and heard in connection with the taking of that article?
[The special commissioner should require the witness to state all the circumstances; for it is only by a knowledge of all of them that the commissioners of claims can judge whether the taking was such a one as the Government is bound to pay for. The common phrase, "I saw the property taken by United States soldiers," is not enough, for there was much lawless taking. The witness should be required to detail the facts as to each item, when the items were taken at different times; but if all, or more than one, were taken at the same time, that fact should appear, and then a repetition of the circumstances is needless. The special commissioner must be careful to elicit all the facts, as well those against as for the claim, especially as to those articles of property which were the special objects of pillage and theft, such as horses, mules, cattle, hogs, &c. Claimants must bear in mind that a neglect to observe these directions works to the prejudice of the claimant, and may defeat the claim.]
4. Where were the articles taken? When were they taken? Give the day, month and year, if you can? By whom were they taken? Did you see more than one soldier engaged in the taking? How many soldiers were present? State the number as near as you can? How many helped take the property? How long were they engaged in taking the property?
5. Who were present other than soldiers when you saw them taken? Give the names of all you know?
6. Was any United States officer, either commissioned or non-commissioned, present at the taking? If so, state his name, rank, regiment, and the command to which he belonged. Did he order the property to be taken? Did he say anything about the taking?
7. Describe how the property was taken, and give a full account of all you saw done, or heard said, upon the occasion of the taking.
8. How was the property removed-by soldiers or in wagons, or in what manner? State fully as to each article taken and removed.
9. To what place was it removed? Did you follow it to such place, or see it, or any portion of it, at any such place, or on its way to such place? How do you know the place to which it was removed?
10. Do you know the use for which the property was taken? What was the use, and how do you know it? Did you see the property so taken used by the United States army? Did you see any part of the property so used? State fully all you know as to the property or any of it having been used by the army; and distinguish between what you saw and know, and what you may have heard from others, or may think, or suppose, or infer to be true.
11. Was any complaint made to any officer on account of such taking? If so, state the name, rank, and regiment of the officer. What did he say about it? State fully all that he said.
12. Was any voucher or receipt for the property asked for? If so, of whom asked? State name, rank, and regiment. Was any receipt or paper given? If so, produce it, or state where it is, and why it is not produced. If no voucher or receipt was given, state why none was given, and if refused, why it was refused; state all that was said about it. State fully all the conversation between any officer or other person taking the property, and the claimant, or any one acting for him.
13. Was the property, or any of it, taken in the night-time? At what hour of the day (as near as you can tell) was it taken? Was any of the property taken secretly, or so that you did not know of it when taken?
14. When the property was taken, was any part of the army encamped in that vicinity? If so, state how far from the place where the property was taken, and what was the company, regiment, or brigade there encamped? How long had it been encamped there? How long did it stay there, and when did it leave? Had there been any battle or skirmish near there, just before the property was taken? Did you know the quartermasters, or any of them, or any other officers of the army for whose use the property is supposed to have been taken?
15. Describe clearly the condition of the property when taken, and all that tends to show its value at the time and place of taking? Thus, if corn, was it green or ripe? Had it been harvested? Was it in the shock, or husked, or shelled? Where was it? If grain, was it standing; had it been cut; was it in shocks, or in the barn or in stacks; had it been threshed? If horses, mules, or cattle, state when they were taken, how taken, and fully their condition, age, and value. Have you talked with claimant about their value?
16. What means have you of knowing the quantity taken? State particularly how you estimate the quantity? Did you count or weigh the articles? Give us all your data. How much did you see taken and removed? What quantity was taken in your presence? As to quantity, distinguish carefully as to what you saw and know, and what you may think or believe from what you have heard from others.
17. If you have testified as to the taking of wood, how do you know it was taken? How do you know the quantity? Was it measured? By whom? What was the kind, quality, and value of the wood? Was it taken in the tree, standing, or had it been cut? Where was it taken?
18. If rails were taken, did you see them taken; how taken: in wagons, or by soldiers? To what place taken? How do you know, and what do you know, as to the quantity taken? Were the rails new or old? Did officers try to prevent their being taken? Was any complaint made to officers on account of the taking?


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Pre-Presidential Accomplishments of Barack Obama
The Pre-Presidential accomplishments of Barack Obama were a major point of contention in the 2008 American Presidential Election. The Republican ticket, made up of John McCain (Senior Senator for Arizona) and Sarah Palin (Governor of Alaska), made Obama's perceived lack of experience and accomplishments a major issue, leading to many allegations of the Republicans running a "negative campaign." However, despite allegations by the Republicans, Barack Obama accomplished much in his time before running for and eventually taking the office of President.
Economic Accomplishments[edit]
Mastering Houdini Economics[edit]
Among Obama's campaign promises was his assurance that he would reduce the national debt substantially during his time in office. As part of this plan of reducing government spending, Obama promised a slew of government programs that, if fully enacted, would cost $860 billion per year on top of the existing Federal budget. Obama was also a vocal supporter of the "bailout" of America's major financial companies, an undertaking that cost American citizens $700 billion. In addition, Obama promised numerous "stimulus packages" to members of the lower and middle classes.
In order to raise government revenue to pay for these massive increases in government spending, Obama vowed to cut taxes massively. Most of his supporters thought highly of the move. Obama also promised to pull out of Iraq (which costs the government $150 billion per year); a move that most experts that support Obama believe would save the United States all the money in the world while simultaneously not hurting its confidence or foreign standing at all, not to mention be totally beneficial for the wonderfully stable nation of Iraq.
When the numbers were worked for Obama's 2009 Federal budget proposal, it was found the Federal government would be up a massive negative $2,000,000,000,000; a deficit larger than the GDP of France. As a result, John McCain and the Republicans, as part of their negative campaign strategy, attacked Barack Obama, claiming his economic plans "made no sense" and would "hurt the economy." This is, of course, totally ludicrous. The Republicans, busy trying to smear Obama's image, purposely omitted the fact that Obama had mastered Houdini Economics.
Houdini Economics is a school of economic thought started by Harry Houdini sometime after the turn of the century. Rather than Keynesian, "trickle down", or so-called "real" economics, which are based in real-world principles, Houdini Economics is based in principles of magic.
Harry Houdini, in an effort to finance his increasingly expensive escape tricks, began the practice of producing large amounts of fiat money from literally nowhere (most likely his anus), thereby starting a whole new (albeit small) school of economic thought. Because of Obama's unparalleled understanding of Houdini Economics, he is regarded by most of his supporters—as well as most dolphins—as being qualified to hold STICKSAmerica's highest office.
Obama is a master of efficiency. Obama raised and spent double the money George W. Bush did in the 2004 Presidential Election (100% more), and as a result won a whopping 1.5% more of the popular vote. Not only that, but Obama traveled to a whopping 57 states during his campaign, leaving his opponents to claim without proof that there are only 50 states. Most regarded this claim by Obama as a forgivable gaffe, compared to the really stupid things that Sarah Palin was saying. (Either she, or maybe Tina Fey portraying her on Saturday Night Live.)
Public Relations Experience and Accomplishments[edit]
Ph.D. in Empty Rhetoric[edit]
Anyone who's ever heard a Barack Obama speech knows what a magnificent speaker the man is. Anyone's who's stopped lustily masturbating during a Barack Obama speech long enough to listen, however, also knows that Barack Obama doesn't exactly "say things" in the traditional sense when he talks. Sure, he speaks words—sometimes very big words!—but his words lack what one could call "substance." This could lead one to believe the Barack Obama, too, lacks "substance," but this too is a total misconception.
In fact, Barack Obama has a ton of substance. He has all the "substance" of one would expect of a four-year Senate veteran produced in a state run by a incredibly corrupt political machine and then some. Barack Obama has so much "substance" that he has to dumb it down for poor ol' reg'lar fo'ks like you and me; and the result is what one would call "empty rhetoric."
Rather than cold, hard, logical facts and statistics, Barack Obama will say vague slogans that are applicable to nearly anything in any context. This strategy of public speaking has long been employed, and has been used by some of history's greatest leaders.
Because of its incredible effectiveness, especially on smart, educated young people who are easily swayed by such things, achieving a Ph.D. in Empty Rhetoric is considered his crowning pre-Presidential achievement.
Barack Obama earned his Doctorate in Empty Rhetoric at Harvard Law School at around the same time he did not associate with radical Communist student groups or engage in anal sex with William Ayers. Obama used his degree to great effect, eventually winning a seat in the State Senate in Illinois. When it became clear Obama couldn't win the election, he used his Ph.D. in Empty Rhetoric to simply have his opponent removed from the ballot—a move that has been called "perfectly fair" and "not underhanded in the slightest"—thereby guaranteeing himself the victory.
Hope and Change[edit]
Obama's Ph.D. is credited with coming up with what many consider to be the greatest slogan ever devised: "Hope and Change". Others with Ph.D.'s in Empty Rhetoric have noted with excitement that the slogan is both "extremely ambiguous" and "doesn't actually fucking mean anything", while being "inspirational" and "assuring" at the same time. Kind of like babytalk, but for disgruntled middle class adults. Empty Rhetoric professors and as well as casual enthusiasts for the practice everywhere have hailed the slogan as the crowning achievement of the Art of Empty Rhetoric.
Earning Fair Treatment by the Mainstream Media[edit]
Barack Obama's Ph.D. is also credited with his rather positive, although perfectly fair, public image. The mainstream media was often accused of "bias" during the election, ignoring opponents of Obama while at the same time giving McCain's opponents plenty of airtime. This is, of course, unsubstantiated nonsense! Other alleged instances of media "bias" include:
- Claiming McCain was running a negative campaign--ignoring the fact that Obama had spent more money on negative campaign advertisements than any other political candidate in history, while McCain demanded that Virginia affiliates withdraw advertisements for the "negativity" of correctly mentioning Obama's real middle name.
- Ignoring or minimizing the importance of "issues" in Obama's past, like his involvement with Communist student groups, his association with unremitted radical terrorists, and his decades-long relationship with his inflammatory and racist pastor; while at the same time making issues out of "nonissues" like the cost of Sarah Palin's wardrobe and other terribly important things.
- Criticizing Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin's lack of experience, which was more Executive-branch experience than Obama and his own VP nominee combined.
Although Republicans, as well as anyone who opposes Obama in general, often point to these and other examples as being instances of uneven reporting by the media, there is a simple answer to these claims: racism. Anyone who opposes Barack Obama must be a massive, unredeemable racist worthy of being put on trial and shot/hanged, as was done to the Nazis at Nuremburg. Things like "disagreeing with his policies" or "seeing through his bullshit" are no excuse.
Political Accomplishments[edit]
Community Organizer[edit]
It's a little-known fact that being a Community Organizer for a small neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago is actually the ideal prerequisite to running the world's most powerful country, as there are many parallels between the two equally important offices. For instance, Barack Obama, at one point or another, held both positions!
Therefore, Community Organizer is a perfectly legitimate office and a perfectly valid prerequisite.
As a Community Organizer, Obama did many important things. Obama gave poor, downtrodden citizens hope for change, and later, even hope in change. He also hoped he could change things and changed things that needed to be changed. However, it is often overlooked that Obama changed the hope in change before changing the hopechange with his hope. The hope he changed, through change and hope, was hoped to bring the change that was needed as a result of hope. Hope change change change hope hopechangechange hope, hope change change middle class. Hope Diamond.
Despite its total legitimacy, Obama's opponents have continually lambasted the prestigious position of Community Organizer. McCain and Palin both claimed to have far more experience, executive and otherwise, than Obama. Palin even went so far as to say that being the mayor of an entire city is like being a Community Organizer, "only with responsibilities," to say nothing of being Governor of an entire state with approval ratings consistently above 60%. In retaliation for this unwarranted attack on Obama's credentials, the totally non-biased non-Liberal media waged an ad hoc war on Palin's character from which she will likely never recover.
Obama also served a four-year term in the state senate of the state of Illinois. During this term, Obama didn't chair a single committee or introduce a single piece of legislation, and cast 133 votes of "present" (abstentions). This highlighted his nuanced political philosophy, which often cannot be expressed in a simplistic "yes" or "no" vote. (The Democratic Party had been seeking a "nuanced" candidate ever since the defeat of its previous nominee, John Kerry, remembered now mostly for insisting that "I actually did vote for the $87 billion--before I voted against it.")
Moving up to the U.S. Senate, Obama largely ignored his legislative duties after promptly declaring his candidacy for President. However, meeting with American citizens on a whistle-stop presidential campaign does imply involvement with national policy, whereas a Governor of Alaska presumably considers nothing more weighty than where to cut new holes in the ice.