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To keep up with rapidly changing business scenarios and global customer needs, a seamless flow of data and information across multiple systems is required. Therefore it is imperative for enterprises to organize their data flow and data transfer across cross-functional business units in the organization.
Disparate enterprise applications such as SCM (supply chain management), CRM (customer relationship management), ERP (enterprise resource planning) and various other applications, services and frameworks typically find it difficult to communicate over different operating systems, databases, languages, automation methodologies etc. Many organizations face the challenge of understanding and seamlessly integrating various systems.
At CompNova, our vast CRM, ERP, SCM, data warehousing and enterprise expertise provides you with the technological depth required to handle complex integrations. Effective and successful EAI integrations give your business the competitive edge and gain customer confidence.
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When you choose Compnova, you get the best of our IBM Websphere application integration middleware technical expertise. Some of the main benefits our dedicated team of Websphere professionals offers include:
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Our solutions are based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) principles and models which facilitate a modular, flexible solution that speeds up time to market and is at the same time scalable and reusable.
We provide consulting services to review your solution architecture and design, to enhance your business processes or to add new applications and modules.
Our integration methodologies and industry practices are tailored to align with your organization's business needs. Our EAI framework ensures a seamless integration between different application modules and services to best leverage your organizational business objectives.
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The CompNova Foundation helps unprivileged members of society gain access to quality education and healthcare by providing financial and technical support; designing and implementing educational and healthcare improvement programs; and partnering with Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, healthcare institutions, government agencies and corporations.
For the first time CompNova sets up Corporate Social Responsibility. The CSR was focused to embrace responsibility for the companies' actions, to create a social awareness, ethics and encourage a positive impact through its activities.
CompNova CSR program was held at Kidwai Cancer hospital on 29th Jan.2012.
To spread the cheer to heal, CompNova organized a festive for the children in Kidwai memorial Institute of Oncology by celebrating their birthday. The program was essentially succeed by performing mimicking, conducted cultural event, interacting the children by playing games and various kinds of activities by the CompNova team. We distributed gifts, fruits and Toffees to the 60 children.
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The NULYX technology uses a pulsed signal from a smartphone app to the Bluetooth headphones to activate more vivid and realistic experiences.
California-based NULYX and MediaScience have introduced a new wireless headphone technology designed to intensify emotional experiences across all audio-visual entertainment.
The NULYX technology uses a pulsed signal from a smartphone app to the Bluetooth headphones to activate more vivid and realistic experiences.
The NULYX effect works by stimulating feel-good neurotransmitter release in a completely natural way using an electromagnetic pulse. "This effect is natural and has always been - it's the first headphone to come out of Neuroscience," a NULYX team member said.
With a technology that aims to allow producers greater control over the emotional highs and thrills of audience experience, it is hoped that the NULYX technology will find mainstream use in the cinema, TV, and gaming industries.
"We feel we're at just the beginning of a new technology like with stereo, wide screen, or 3-D, or even when the movies learned to talk," added one NULYX team member. "An advanced headphone is the initial vector selected to debut the NULYX effect to the world."
One of the NULYX discover team described the effect: "It is even more immersive that 3D or virtual reality in its audience effect. Everyone experiences it a little differently - because our brains are also configured differently - just as we respond differently to music and film. With NULYX you can get psyched to feel the story or song, more charged, intense and real, fired-up, and even totally exhilarated."
NULYX will be available to application developers with a SDK and supporting published university research is available at NULYX's partner Indiegogo.com.

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In a signal to the U.S. marketplace that the sun has not completely set on the modern full-size pickup truck, General Motors Co. has freed up cash to fund a major update of its full-size pickups on a bet that consumers and businesses will resume buying trucks after a long lull in sales, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Chairman and CEO Edward E. Whitacre Jr. has agreed to fund the move, reports Tom Stephens, vice chairman of global product operations. The remodeling could cost the company close to $1 billion and should be generally available in the 2012 or 2013 model year.
GM, which once had relied on full-size pickups such as the Chevrolet Silverado for a major portion of its U.S. revenue and operating profit, had put off redesigning the trucks as its finances collapsed and it underwent a government-backed bankruptcy reorganization last year. Truck sales sagged in the past two years after gasoline spiked to $4 a gallon in 2008 and home sales — a big driver of truck purchases by contractors and builders — collapsed amid the recession.
Now, unlike the 1990s truck boom, the company plans to go in two directions at once by revitalizing its pickup line at the same time it invests heavily in small, fuel-efficient cars and a tiny electric Chevrolet Volt due later this year.
Redesigns of GM's chief light truck competitors, Ford's F-150 and Dodge's Ram, were launched in late 2008 with some features that GM's Sierra and Silverado — last updated in late 2006 — currently lack.
Stephens said Whitacre approved a top-to-bottom exterior redesign and engineering overhaul to make the vehicles guzzle less gas without giving up capabilties such as cargo capacity.
The makeover is more extensive than what GM had planned heading into bankruptcy and will be one of the company's biggest upcoming redesign efforts.
Full-size trucks "have been and will continue to be important to us," Stephens told The Wall Street Journal, noting that while some personal use buyers won't return to the market, demand among contractors and small businesses will remain solid.


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Dürr Systems, Inc. APT, a subsidiary of Stuttgart, Germany-based Dürr AG, offers turnkey paint and sealing robotic solutions. Fully integrated with Dürr application equipment, the Dürr Ecopaint robots enhance painting performance for all liquid, slurry and powder painting applications. With both painting robots and handling devices, Dürr Systems offers a complete range of robotic solutions for automotive and non-automotive industries tailor made to meet any process requirements for high quality paint finishes. With system design, manufacturing and modular build, as well as 24 hour support from a modern facility in Auburn Hills, MI, Dürr Systems provides total solutions for robotic painting needs.


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The French Laundry Donuts
A yeast raised donut, golden and puffed after frying is rolled in cinnamon sugar for the ultimate in decadence.
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- Combine 1 1⁄2 tbsp. yeast with water. When mixture foams, add 4 cups flour. Mix and knead. Refrigerate 8 hr.
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Make Informed Decisions Using the TIA Fuel Cell Reference Guide
As an alternative to competing power solutions, there are more than 1,000
stationary fuel cells for backup power currently deployed across the U.S., and that number is rapidly growing. Fuel cells provide the ICT industry clean and reliable power. Unlike other backup power options, fuel cells have almost no moving parts and require minimal maintenance.
To help entities tap into ways to use fuel cells for backup power, a critical resource titled the "TIA Fuel Cell Reference Guide: Compliance with Regulations, Codes, and Standards for the Deployment of Stationary Fuel Cells" was developed by the TIA Focus Group on Fuel Cell Standards for ICT Infrastructure to address power issues related to cell towers. The group produces documents and technical leadership on fuel cell issues to advance and inform the ICT industry on clean, sustainable, and reliable power.
The Guide is presented in a succinct, clear and accessible format and enables companies to:
- Make informed decisions when deploying stationary fuel cells as backup power units at cell tower sites
- Move more quickly through the permitting and approval process when deploying fuel cell power systems
- Understand the regulations, codes and standards that must be met for safe and compliant installations - typically one of the largest barriers to further deployment of stationary fuel cell technologies
In addition to cell tower sites, fuel cell technology can be used to provide either back up or primary power at other locations including:
• Sites where temporary power is required
• Sites housing computer equipment that require high levels of reliability
• Sites where combustion equipment is prohibited or restricted due to concerns over worker exposure or equipment damage
• Sites where air pollution control regulations require zero emissions technology
This Guide will provide necessary information for any company, vertical industry or market needing to experience the benefits of fuel cells. Potential users include, but are not limited to:
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Looking at Jordan Danks' raw numbers from 2010 — .240-6-31 with 14 stolen bases and a .306 on-base percentage — it would seem like he could be easily included in a deal. But Danks' standing with the Sox actually has increased with his performance at Triple-A. He has shown a lot of toughness in playing through injuries and remains very much on track to crack Guillen's roster the next time there's an opening for an outfielder (Juan Pierre, Alex Rios and Carlos Quentin are all under control for 2011).
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A: Nope, there's nothing nice about a pea soup-colored pond. Just about every water gardener dreams of a clean, crystal-clear pond – not an algae-filled eyesore. During the warmer seasons, what do you do to prevent and get rid of that unsightly green water? By making sure your pond is in balance.
For a stable pond that inhibits algae growth, you have to strike a perfect balance (or close to perfect, anyway) between fishes, aeration and filtration. And to keep it that way, you have to keep it well maintained. Here's what you need to know to get rid of that green water.
Watch Fish Load, Feeding
Yes, it's tempting to take home a dozen or more of those tiny koi from your favorite water garden retailer. But remember: those fish will grow and excrete nutrients that feed the algae. The rule of thumb is to allow 1 inch of adult fish per square foot of surface area, so don't max out your capacity with one impulse buy at the koi store.
Speaking of fish, take it easy with the food. Feed them a quality diet, like Pond Logic® Growth and Color Fish Food, once a day, and give them only what they can gobble down in a few minutes. Anything more than that just adds excess waste to the pond – which is food for the algae. You can feed your finned friends more often, but be prepared to do more partial water changes or add extra filtration to handle the job.
Add Some Aeration, Bacteria
When you circulate your pond's water with an aeration system, like the Airmax® KoiAir™ Water Garden Aeration System, you deliver oxygen to the bottom where all the muck – a.k.a. algae chow – sits. This oxygen helps all the beneficial bacteria, like Muck Defense® that's found in the Pond Logic® DefensePAC® Pond Care Package, break down and consume the material there and throughout the water column, resulting in cleaner, clearer water. Plus, the aeration is good for your fish's health, too.
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Go big with your mechanical filtration system. Make sure it's at least big enough to handle the amount of water in your pond. Manufacturers rate filters for minimal fish load, so if you intend to have a lot of fish, go even bigger.
Plants – floating, submerged, marginals and bog varieties – make excellent natural filtration systems that complement your mechanical and biological filtration. Plants also shade the pond, keeping temperatures cooler and sheltering your fish. So try to cover 40 to 60 percent of your water with plants.
If you still have a pea soup colored pond after getting your fish load right, your feeding routine in check, your aeration system in place and your filtration system humming and growing, it's time for the big guns – an ultraviolet clarifier. A UV clarifier, like The Pond Guy® PowerUV™ Ultraviolet Clarifier, will help to bind the green water algae so it can be pulled out by your filter.
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Normal maintenance, like regular partial water changes and debris removal, can go a long way to get rid of excess nutrient buildup. But don't overdo the filter-cleaning chores. Too much – meaning daily or weekly – washing of the filter media will wear the material down faster and wipe out the beneficial bacteria that actually clean the water. If water is unable to pass through the filter, simply rinse it lightly with water.
And if you don't already, it's always a good idea to do an annual spring cleanout of your pond to get rid of organic materials that feed the algae.
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Suzy Bogguss took the stage last night at the Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis and reeled off three hits from her breakthrough 1991 country album Aces — "Outbound Plane," "Aces," and "Someday Soon," in that order. They're the kind of songs many artists might save for an encore. Where do you go from there?
In the rest of her hour-and-forty-five minute set she ranged freely over her career, playing one great song after another. There was no set list in sight as she called out the songs for her accompanists on stage. Backed by Chet Atkins protege Pat Bergeson on lead guitar and Charlie Chadwick on acoustic bass, Bogguss made every song a highlight.
She reached back to Sweet Danger, her last recording, to play "The Bus Ride" and "If You Leave Me Now" (video below from an outdoor performance in Vacaville, California). She reached forward to her forthcoming collection of American folk songs (I think) to pluck "Shenandoah." She returned to Aces to retrieve "Letting Go," a song that really hit home for me as my youngest daughter is about to graduate from high school.
It was a completely winning show. Bogguss even provided some local flavor, recalling her "many appearances" in Minneapolis at the Coffeehouse Extempore on the West Bank in the '70s as she was working her way up in the business. Playing in an intimate venue before a warm crowd last night, Bogguss said she was going to beg the Dakota to have her back. If last night's audience has anything to say about it, I don't think that should be a problem. She stuck around for an hour after the show to chat and pose with fans who lined up to purchase her recordings.
Country music has moved on, in my view not entirely for the better, since Bogguss established herself in the late '80s and early '90s. If you were aware of her at the time, you may have lost track.
The gentleman I was seated with at a table up against the stage last night said that he usually came to the Dakota for instrumental jazz but that he had seen Suzy perform at A Prairie Home Companion and wanted to hear more. He found the show remarkable, as I did. I mention her now to let you know that she sounds better than ever as she continues to pursue her own muse.
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Philly.com reports this morning that a Chestnut Hill woman was attacked on Forbidden Drive near the Valley Green Inn at approximately 8:20 a.m. Monday morning.
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The attacker was described as Hispanic, between 5 feet 8 and 5 feet 11 inches with a muscular build. The man was wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt and fled on foot.
The special victims unit is investigating the attack.


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"Read anything on SuperBot Entertainment's PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and you are certain to see the words "Super Smash Bros." pop up somewhere within the sea of words. For a brand that has lasted almost two decades now, it is about time that PlayStation got its own all-stars game. While the similarities to Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. are indeed prevalent, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale certainly does enough to distinguish itself from the series whose shadow it has stood in since its announcement."
Ah! The PlayStation All-Stars review, as it was meant to be! :)
Hahahahehehehhaha. Not a small laughter, not a really big one. Just a middle one.
7.5/10 is what I would give this title. It is not as perfect as that score would suggest. However I do enjoy it even though I am not a big fan of the playstation brand which must mean something.
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Miracles can happen; I know they can, because I have toilet trained a boy.
After more than a year of trying, our little man is finally done with nappies and pull-ups.
We were warned it wouldn't be easy, but there was a time I thought he was still going to be in nappies when he left home.
Bribery, made-up songs, sticker charts and fancy potties all failed to tempt him to take the plunge - not even Pirate Pete's swashbuckling potty-training adventures could persuade him to part with his Pampers.
Strangely, potty training was new to me, even though Isaac has an older sister. Jessica was out of nappies before she was two.
She literally just decided that she didn't want to wear them anymore, and happily used the potty or toilet from that moment on.
I felt really smug when Isaac started to take an interest in the potty before his second birthday, but it was short-lived.
He suddenly seemed to fathom that the alternative to nappies was too much like hard work, and went on strike.Realising it asn't meant to be, we decided not to force him, but as he approached his third birthday in June, the pressure was on (or at least it felt that way).
Isaac is a big lad for three. He is really tall for his age and a bit of a chunky monkey, so we often got funny looks taking him into the baby change – especially those awful communal ones.
I rarely care what other people think, and I am a firm believer that all children develop at different speeds, so I was cross that I had allowed nosey strangers to make me feel like a bad mum.
Eventually, we had a breakthrough in the wee department, and Isaac started telling us when he needed to go, but the clever little monkey would be so proud of himself for making it to the loo, that he would forget the little detail of tucking his tail in, and leave himself and mummy or daddy, looking like we had been soaked by an out-of- control garden hose.
Number two was to prove a little more problematic. His four-a- day habit, meant going cold turkey was not for the feint hearted.
From what I gather, it's quite common for children to be scared of going anywhere but in their nappy when they are toilet training, and Isaac was no exception.
He would try really hard to hold it in, and the result would be an explosion that couldn't be helped.
Needless to say, things took another step backwards, and Isaac once again decided it was preferable to piddle in his Paw Patrol pants.
Rightly or wrongly, we opted for pull-ups for a while, and figured he would be ready in his own time.
Sure enough, while we were on holiday in Wales over the summer, he picked his moment, and just like his big sister, he suddenly decided nappies and pull-ups weren't for him.
It was a proper proud mummy moment - although one that was tinged with a bit of sadness when I realised it really is the end of the baby era in our house (sob).


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Enjoys a fine meal ~ There's nothing like al fresco dining on the water. Or is a no-frills dad who'd rather go out for burgers and beer ~ Perhaps taking him to a sports bar for casual dining and watching a game.
For the dad who loves to get out and move, enjoy a little adventure and spend time with the family: Why not try a picnic? Florida has beautiful Local and State Parks with plenty of activities such as nature trails, kayaking, paddle board, bike trail, nature cruises, canoeing, hiking or perhaps an airboat ride through the Everglades…something for everyone in the family. Learn more about how to do Florida.
Does Dad like fishing? There are several fishing piers throughout the state, state parks or chartering a boat for deep sea fishing which may be more his style.
Does Dad think he's a golf pro? There may be more than 1,000 golf courses in Florida offering a short course for beginners, greens with varying elevations, wetland areas that attract wildlife or semi-private courses offering various tee times.
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Check out what's new at Summerfest this year
Summerfest is fast approaching, and with so many special attractions to choose from, fans are encouraged to come celebrate the Big Gig's 45th anniversary.
Milwaukee's cornerstone summer event will take place from June 27-July 1, and July 3-8. The festival will be closed on July 2.
Along with the wide variety of musical attractions offered this year, new to Summerfest 2012 include:
- Do you have what it takes to Land the Big Gig presented by Boston Store's Mambo Brand and Tap Milwaukee? As fans voted for their favorite performers at LandtheBigGig.com and the Top 3 finalists will be chosen to perform at Summerfest on Wednesday, July 4 for their chance to win a share of $45,000 in cash and prizes.
- A 50/50 raffle to be conducted every day during the festival. The grand prize winner will receive 50 percent of the proceeds from that day's raffle ticket sales, and the second and third place winners will receive a $500 cash prize.
- On July 4, Summerfest will conduct its 4th Annual Summerfest Salute, to honor members of the U.S. military. All active-duty military personnel and veterans, along with up to four family members, who present their Military I.D. at designated turnstiles at the South Gate will be admitted free from open to close.
Be sure to stop by the Hooters Hole-In-One Contest every day, where one lucky winner will take home the Grand Prize of an all-inclusive getaway to Mexico. The trip for two will be for seven nights and includes airfare and transportation between the Cancun airport and resort.
And be sure to set your eyes on the sky on June 27 as WISN-TV and Menards presents the Summerfest Big Bang Fireworks Show starting at 9:30 p.m. WISN will have coverage starting at 9 p.m.
Also be sure to come down on Thursday, June 28 for The World's Largest Happy Hour. The event will take place from 5-7 p.m. and includes $1 off all alcoholic beverages and any 20 oz. soda or water product.
Be sure to come down for a little fun for the whole family and enjoy the Northwestern Mutual Children's Theater and Playzone, which features not only jungle gyms and slides, but a children's theater and interactive activities for the whole family! This area is open daily, all 11 days of the festival, from noon-8 p.m.
Also be sure to stop by the Target Kid's Activity Tent any day between Noon and 5 p.m. to engage in these wonderful activities:
- Check out UB the Band! and discover what it's like to be a "real" Rock Star! No experience necessary! This exhibit runs June 27-July 1 and July 5-8.
- F.I.R.S.T. Robotics, where kids can control a miniature robot built by students of Sussex High School
- The Uline SportsZone, and see that this area will offer interactive daily programming including sports demonstrations from the Milwaukee Admirals, the Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee Wave and other pro athletes, local university teams, robotics demonstrations and much more.


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Burlington mayor to meet on jobs, rebuilding
Miller wants to keep Echo plant in city
Burlington Mayor Bob Miller said he will work to get Echo Lake Foods employees on the job again following Wednesday's fire.
Miller announced an effort to connect workers with unemployment and job search resources on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
In a news release Friday, Racine County Executive Jim Ladwig announced that the Racine County Workforce Development Center, in partnership with the State Department of Workforce Development Center, will offer an Informational Briefing to the Echo Lake Foods' workforce in Burlington.
"(We will) help them, guide them through that process so we can get them some income coming as soon as we possibly can," Miller said.
Meantime, Miller said another meeting will address keeping the plant in Burlington.
"We're going to sit down with the owners and see what we can do to help them along through this process, what needs we can address, and what incentives or financial help the three groups can do to help them rebuild," Miller said.
Fire crew fought the fire through the night Wednesday into Thursday. Miller said the fire appeared to be centered in the manufacturing area inside. He said 88 departments across the state responded to the eight-alarm fire.


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Ballots to be mailed out to Denver voters, should arrive at homes end of week
Ballots for the Nov.1 mail-in election will be sent to eligible Denver voters, including active voters and inactive-failed-to-vote voters tomorrow.
According to a news release the ballots will be mailed in batches, with the last batch going out on Friday.
Ballots can be returned by mail or in person to any one of eight Voter Service Centers across the city.
Last week a Denver District Court judge ruled that Secretary of State Scott Gessler hadn't shown there would be irreparable harm if the ballots are sent to inactive voters. The judge sided with Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson's arguments that state law doesn't specifically prohibit ballots to be mailed to inactive voters, although he said that issue would be grist for trial.
In September, Gessler filed a lawsuit alleging that Johnson's office would be violating state law by mailing ballots to inactive voters.
In this odd year election, voters will be asked to decide on Proposition 103, a statewide ballot initiative to increase taxes by $3 billion over the course of five years that would go toward K-12 and higher education. They also will decide local issues, including school board races.
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Our backsplash is "Prairie Falling Water" made by Stone and Pewter tile company, purchased at Mosaic source:
There are several different color options, as well as different pattern and size options. I popped out tiles randomly here and there and filled them in with translucent glass tiles ("bars") from the same company.
I used Honey Silk (yellow), Sage Silk (green), and Tiger Eye Silk (red), according to my order. I used two sizes, as the rows within the fallingwater tile are not the same height. I think that they actually sell the falling water tile now with pieces already popped out for you. Not sure, but you could look into it.
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Even as Egypt's generals continue their violent crackdown on supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi, Israel has been lobbying the international community to give the military its full backing. Israeli policymakers are understandably nervous about the Muslim Brotherhood, and they take as a given that Islamist group wants to see the Jewish state's destruction. But security and intelligence cooperation between Israel and Egypt actually thrived during Morsi's presidency. And particularly in the wake of Monday's massacre of 25 Egyptian policemen in Rafah, a city on the border of the Gaza Strip in North Sinai, Israel might find that it was better off with Morsi in power.
For Israel, the worst possible result of the political upheaval in Cairo is chaos along its southern border. The Sinai Peninsula stayed relatively calm for decades after Israel returned it to Egypt in 1982, following the countries' 1979 peace treaty. Terrorism, smuggling, and cross-border provocations did not begin with the collapse of the Mubarak regime, but Sinai began to descend into total lawlessness as the police state apparatus melted away around the time of the February 2011 revolution. And the security situation there has dramatically worsened since the military's removal of Morsi on July 3, after which there has been a marked uptick in deadly attacks against Egyptian soldiers and police in Sinai.
The violence in Sinai could soon spill over into Israel. Israel remains an obvious target for jihadis, who see it as an occupier of Muslim land. This is especially true for Gaza-based terrorist groups that operate in Sinai, such as the Mujahedeen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem. Moreover, some jihadi groups in Sinai, such as Ansar Jerusalem, view cross-border attacks as holding a second beneficial purpose: showing the Egyptian military's weakness and inability to protect its borders. Indeed, jihadi action over the past two years has purposefully attempted to embarrass the Egyptian military, expose Israeli-Egyptian cooperation, and draw Israel into a cross-border response. As with the increased jihadi activity in
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It was a tranquil afternoon at a mountain village in Chinshan Township, Taipei County (台北縣金山鄉). Chiang Jung-yuan (江榮原), head of Taiwan's first brand specializing in making handmade soap out of natural ingredients, A-yuan Soap (阿原肥皂), and his obliging assistant led the way into what looked like a farmhouse studio situated in the middle of a fallow field. Inside, the sweet perfume of herbs permeated the air and several housewives were busy cutting semi-finished soap into pieces and stamping them with names such as Asiatic wormwood, common lantana and licorice.
"Chinshan is a withering town. The young people are long gone … I am initiating a community development project of my own, working with locals to make their town the homeland of soap," said Chiang, whose study of plants and chronic skin problems prompted him to embark on his now burgeoning soap business some 18 months ago.
Spending most of the day studying herbal concoctions and hand-making soaps together with his 11 local employees at the studio, the 40-something entrepreneur hasn't always enjoyed such a peaceful existence. Physically and spiritually exhausted after 15 years of running advertising companies in Taipei, Chiang's life-long interest in Chinese medicine led him down a different path a few years ago with help from his herbalist friends and doctors of Chinese medicine. Soon he was using the healing powers of natural ingredients such as organic lemons from Taitung (台東), Asiatic wormwood from an organic planter in Changhua (彰化), aloe vera from Penghu (澎湖) to mineral water from Wanli (萬里) and black sesame and camellia oils manufactured in local factories to make a series of preservative-free products.
Ingredients are selected not for their pretty colors but their supposedly curative effects and are tested on humans before reaching store shelves. The key raw material is fat made from edible oils renowned for their therapeutic powers, the making of which illustrates the meticulous methods employed by Chiang. He had several water samples from locations across the island tested at research centers before determining that Wanli's would produce the finest soap.
A-yuan soaps are also the fruits of collective labor. From the drying and grinding of fruits, vegetables and herbs to the natural process of saponification and packing, the SGS (the world's leading testing and certification company) approved products take two months preparation before being shipped while the hundreds of thousands soaps manufactured monthly by the dozen employees can hardly meet the expanding market demand.
Mechanizing the process isn't an option for Chiang because "local residents need the jobs and a group of villagers happily chatting while hand-packing soaps makes a more beautiful image droning machinery does," the soap-maker said.
Yet when Chiang and his partners began their business, locally handmade soaps were virtually unheard of. "When we first began operations, there was no market for our products. My partners and I traveled across the island and knocked on doors of shops and stores with bags of soaps on our backs … We got rejected all the time and the pain from carrying heavy loads still troubles us today," Chiang said.
Chiang's persistence and the quality of his products have gradually built up a base of clients. Local media quickly trumpeted the budding business as an ideal story of success while investors approached Chiang for a lucrative venture into the global market.


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Part of Grand Gallery.
At 63 feet long, the seaworthy Great Canoe is one of the Museum's most popular artifacts. Carved in the 1870s from the trunk of a single cedar tree, the canoe features design elements from different Native American peoples of the Northwest Coast, notably Haida and Heiltsuk.
The magnificent killer whale depicted on either side of the prow of the Great Canoe was most likely painted by Charles Edenshaw (1839-1924), one of the most influential Haida artists of his time, known for his woodcarving, jewelry, and painting.


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A 1971 graduate of San Diego State, Maffei lettered in baseball for the Aztecs. His first job was as a sportswriter at the Escondido Times-Advocate. He returned to San Diego State as Sports Information Director in 1972 and held that position through the 1978 season when he returned to the Times-Advocate as sports editor. He moved to the Oceanside Blade-Tribune as a sportswriter in 1985, then was part of the merger when the Times-Advocate and Blade-Tribune joined forces to form the North County Times. He joined The San Diego Union-Tribune staff in 2012. He has covered all sports from preps to pros.


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He served on the Board of Trustees of Northside for 12 years.
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Belmokhtar breaks away from AQIM
[Magharebia] Dissent is growing among terrorist groups controlling the Sahel. Former Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) emir Mokhtar Belmokhtar (aka "Laaouar") quit the group to assemble his own band of
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In a video statement obtained by ANI on December 6th, Belmokhtar said that his new katibat included foreign jihadists.
The Algerian terrorist (real name Khaled Abou El Abass) reportedly left AQIM after his demotion as head of the El Moulethemine katibat ("Brigade of the Veiled Ones")
"The Algerian believed to have been behind the kidnapping and deaths of several
in the countries of the Sahel, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has announced in a video statement...that he is creating a new armed Islamist group called the Signers in Blood," Libération reported on Sunday (December 9th).
The new terrorist group "is headquartered in the Malian city of Gao, which is under the control of Islamists from the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an offshoot of AQIM".
Through the creation of the new group, Belmokhtar wants "to help to consolidate Sharia rule in northern Mali, where armed Islamists are enforcing Islamic law very strictly after having driven the Malian army out in the spring," the French daily added.
Belmokhtar will finance his activities "including the purchase of weapons" by "specialising in the kidnapping of Westerners, whom he usually frees in return for large ransoms".
"The differences which already existed between Laaouar and the Algerian leaders of AQIM led to him being ousted as leader of his brigade," terrorism expert Sidati Ould Cheikh said.
"AQIM recently decided to oust Laaouar and make Abou El Hammam head of the Emirate of the Sahara," he added.
Ould Cheikh explained that tensions have existed for some time within AQIM between Abou Zeid and Belmokhtar.
"One of the reasons for this dissent is the disagreement between these leaders over how to share the ransoms paid for the release of Western hostages," said Abdalahi Ould Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Chouhoud.
"As the organization has grown and incorporated fighters of different origins, conflicts of interests have become increasingly frequent," he added.
Journalist Hamid Fekhart argued that "Droukdel's decision was motivated by the unruliness of his junior, who is thought to have been gunning for him over the past few months. Security sources say that the supreme leader, who tried in vain to bring Mokhtar Belmokhtar to heel, simply decided to relieve him of his duties as part of a bid to reorganise AQIM."
Fekhart noted that his successor, thirty-six year old Abou El Hammam, was reportedly "behind the kidnapping of an Italian-
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couple in the Sahel in December 2010". Belmokhtar joined the Afghan mujahideen fighting against the Soviet Union at the age of 19. He returned to Algeria at the end of 1992 and help found the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). He joined the
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It is difficult to imagine modern life without modern chemistry. Chemistry is a science which forms a bridge to biology, pharmacy and helps to better understand medicine. Without chemical engineering there could be no rational production of numerous products, which we normally take for granted.
Since 1994, chemistry studies have been organised within the framework of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Since 2009 the Faculty runs following programmes: three-year 1st cycle study programmes in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Technical Safety, all leading to university diploma, and a three-year 1st cycle study professional programme in Chemical Technology.
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JAVIER GARCIA, a 28-year-old neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, was in the campus pub recently having a grilled cheese sandwich. But before he took a bite, he snapped a digital picture of it, cheese artistically oozing between toasted white bread, just as he has photographed everything he has eaten in the last five years.
Every other week he posts the photos on his Web site, ejavi.com/javiDiet, providing a strangely intimate and unedited view of his life and attracting fans from as far away as Ecuador. The nearly 9,000 photos leave nothing out, not even snacks as small as a single square of shredded wheat.
When he lost his iPhone while visiting New York last month, he pleaded with exasperated friends to take pictures of his food and to e-mail them to him, lest his record be incomplete. "It was a nightmare," Mr. Garcia said, particularly because the unfocused pictures "were not the quality I'm used to."
In 1825, the French philosopher and gourmand Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." Today, people are showing the world what they eat by photographing every meal, revealing themselves perhaps more vividly than they might by merely reciting the names of appetizers and entrees.
Keeping a photographic food diary is a growing phenomenon with everything from truffle-stuffed suckling pig to humble bowls of Cheerios being captured and offered for public consumption. Indeed, the number of pictures tagged "food" on the photo-sharing Web site Flickr has increased tenfold to more than six million in the last two years, according to Tara Kirchner, the company's marketing director. One of the largest and most active Flickr groups, called "I Ate This," includes more than 300,000 photos that have been contributed by more than 19,000 members. There would be more, but members are limited to 50 photos a month. The same phenomena can be found on other sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Foodspotting, Shutterfly, Chowhound and FoodCandy.
Nora Sherman, 28, the deputy director of the City University of New York's Building Performance Lab, which promotes sustainable construction, finds that the pictures she takes of her food are her most popular posts on Facebook, Twitter and on her blog, Thought for Food, (noraleah.com). The immediate and enthusiastic commentary on, say, an arugula and feta salad or a plate of fried okra have given her a sense of connection and community since moving to Manhattan from New Orleans in 2006.
"People I have never met follow my blog and know me through the food I eat," Ms. Sherman said. She was even introduced to her boyfriend through someone she came to know through his comments on the food pictures on her blog, and who thought the two might be a match.
She said she takes pictures of at least half the meals she eats, omitting, for example, multicourse meals when it might "interrupt the flow." But she has noticed lately that it's becoming harder to suppress the urge to shoot. "I get this 'must take picture' feeling before I eat, and what's worse is that I hate bad pictures so I have to capture it in just the right light and at just the right angle," Ms. Sherman said.
She uses a Canon PowerShot S90 and uploads pictures to her Web site daily, sometimes several times a day, which takes at most 30 minutes a day. The camera, she said, is small but works well in low light. She doesn't style her photos, saying, "I like to take shots that no pro would ever take holding an oyster in my hand about to slurp it down, or a bagel with a bite out of it."
Her impulse to photograph her food and do so artistically has made her a more adventurous eater. "It's driven me to seek out interesting, photogenic foods," she said. She is now more likely to eat foods she would have once avoided, like beef tendon, heart and tripe at an Asian shopping mall in Flushing, Queens. And, she said, photographing the food has kept her honest when she has started diets: "When I decided to have salad for dinner during a juice fast, I snapped and posted that."
Photos are also a means of self-motivation for Mr. Garcia, who began photographing his food after he lost 80 pounds. "It's definitely part of my neuroticism about trying to keep thin," he said. "It keeps you accountable because you don't want to have to see that you ate an entire jar of peanut butter."
And, ever the scientist, he hopes to one day use the photographs to calculate how much money he spends to consume a calorie versus how much he spends in gym memberships and sports gear to burn a calorie. "People I have dated haven't been that into it," he said of his food photo-journaling. "But it's never been a deal breaker."
Pamela Hollinger, 36, an independent radio programmer and announcer in Stephenville, Tex., said her husband of eight years is resigned to her taking pictures of her food. "When we were dating, it was like, 'What are you doing?' " she said. "Now it's a quirk he's come to accept."
Her habit began in 1997 as a way to show her mother what she ate on vacations, but she now photographs almost everything she eats, leaving out only insignificant snacks and anything unappealing looking, like a bowl of oatmeal. "I think getting an iPhone had a lot to do with it," Ms. Hollinger said. "It's so easy to just take a quick picture of what I'm eating and no one really notices." Or maybe they think she is just texting at the table.
She e-mails the pictures directly from her phone to a few friends and posts some of them on her Facebook page as well as on Chowhound. "I like to show off what I'm eating or something I've made that I'm proud of, like a pork rib-eye roast that became pulled pork sandwiches and then pork tacos and then pork salad," she said. "I get more comments on my food pictures than anything else. Within seconds, I get, 'Oh, I'm jealous,' or 'Hey, can I come over?' "
That some people are keeping photographic food diaries and posting them online does not surprise psychotherapists. "In the unconscious mind, food equals love because food is our deepest and earliest connection with our caretaker," said Kathryn Zerbe, a psychiatrist who specializes in eating disorders and food fixations at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. "So it makes sense that people would want to capture, collect, catalog, brag about and show off their food."
Photographing meals becomes pathological, however, if it interferes with careers or relationships or there's anxiety associated with not doing it. "I'd have to ask if they would feel O.K. if they didn't do it," said Tracy Foose, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, who treats patients with obsessive-compulsive disorders. "Could they resist the urge to do it?"
Joe Catterson, the general manager of Alinea restaurant in Chicago, said that, increasingly, people can't. "One guy arrived with the wrong lens or something on his camera and left his wife sitting at the table for an hour while he went home to get it," he said.
Such compulsion is apparent even at restaurants where the plating is less elaborate. "They've got to take a picture of their pancakes and send it to their friend," said John Vasilopoulos, the manager at the Cup & Saucer, a diner on the Lower East Side. "I don't get it because their food gets cold, but I take it as a compliment."
Evidently aware of the trend, manufacturers like Nikon, Olympus, Sony and Fuji have within the last two years released cameras with special "food" or "cuisine" modes, costing around $200 to $600. "These functions enable close-up shots with enhanced sharpness and saturation so the food colors and textures really pop," said Terry Sullivan, associate editor of digital imaging technologies at Consumer Reports.
This bemuses Tucker Shaw, the food critic for The Denver Post, who made do with a basic point-and-shoot digital camera to take pictures of everything he ate in 2004; he published the photos in his book, "Everything I Ate: A Year in the Life of My Mouth."
"It used to turn heads if you took a picture of your food, and I even got in trouble at a few restaurants," he said. "Now it's ubiquitous and just shows that we are in a spastic food era we couldn't get more obsessive."
Nonetheless, Mr. Shaw said the year he spent photographing his food (and a year was enough for him) resulted in an achingly honest account of his life that revealed far more than the fact that he ate too few leafy green vegetables: "The pictures, I realize now, are incredibly personal, and by looking at them you can probably deduce the type of person I am." Moreover, the pictures set off memories and emotions in a way a written journal could not. "I remember every single day, who I was with, what I was feeling," he said.
Unlike a picture of a flower or friend, a picture of a meal recalls something smelled, touched, tasted and ultimately ingested. Carl Rosenberg, 52, a Web site developer who divides his time among San Francisco; Austin, Tex.; and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, photographs his food along the way with a Nikon D3.
"You have more of a direct connection with your food, so it forms a more essential memory of an occasion," he said. He often places a small stuffed animal, a sheep, which he calls the Crazy Sheep, next to his food before taking a picture; reminiscent of the globe-trotting garden gnome in the French film "Amélie."
"I think photographing food is a more accurate way to document life," said Mr. Rosenberg, who shares photos with family and friends but does not post them. "Food isn't going to put on a special face when you take a picture of it."


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