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Create Report in Sap Business One V9
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Create a Replenishment report for SAP Business One v9
Step 1:
From SAP must obtain information on the minimum and maximum billing per day of the article in a given period. For the minimum billing should be considered in terms of what is sold and invoiced, ie should not be considered those in which there was no sale (zero turnover), but the days on which the lowest amount of the article was invoiced in the period in the period considered.
Step 2:
For each supplier of each item, the average response time measured in days (lead time) is obtained from SAP, that is, the number of days elapsed from placing the order to the supplier until the goods arrives at the warehouse door at COMPSIS. As an estimate, you could consider the date of each purchase order vs. SAP. The date of entry of goods (articles).
Step 3:
The minimum inventory level is calculated by multiplying the average minimum billing by the lead time
The maximum level is calculated by multiplying the average maximum billing by the lead time and adding to this result the minimum level
Step 5:
The reorder point is calculated by multiplying the average daily turnover by the lead time and the result is added the minimum level
Step 6:
The quantity to be ordered when the inventory reaches the reorder point is calculated by subtracting the sum of the following variables: current inventory (in stock) + transit order + special order
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State Government Records AccessionedBoard of Funeral Service Examiners. Minutes and files of non-active funeral directors and funeral homes, 1905-1996. 24 boxes. Board of Funeral Service Examiners, Charleston. Ar1963
Harrison County Circuit Court. Case file of State of West Virginia vs. Harry Powers, 1932. 1 box. Harrison County Circuit Clerk, Clarksburg. Ar1965
Industrial School for Boys. Correspondence, received/released records (records naming inmates less than 75 years old closed), 1906-1972. 12 items. Unknown donor. Ar1968
Morgan County Circuit Court. Case files, 1807-1957. 7 boxes. Morgan County Circuit Clerk, Berkeley Springs. Ar1966
Morgan County Circuit Court. Naturalization records, Revolutionary War pension files, 1821-1852. 1 box. Morgan County Circuit Clerk, Berkeley Springs. Ar1966acc
Naturalization Records. Tyler County, 1904-1958. 1 box. Tyler County Circuit Clerk, Middlebourne. Ar1878acc
Proclamation. Governor Jacobs declaring voters ratified 1872 constitution, 1872 Sept. 30. 1 item. Unknown donor. Ar1964
Secretary of State. Executive journal, Board of Public Works minutes, Armory Board records, Executive minutes, 1872 Constitutional Convention journal; 1863-1961. 50 volumes. Transfer from Secretary of State's office. Ar1969
Virginia-West Virginia Boundary Commission. Reports, maps of disputed boundary between Jefferson and Loudon counties, 1996-1998. 1 box and 5 oversized folders. Herbert Russell, Cape May Courthouse, NJ and David Hankin, Leesburg, VA. Ar1967
WPBY Collection. Materials re: Harry M. Brawley: Making a Difference about life of educational broadcasting pioneer, ca. 1993. 1 box. WV Public Television. Ar1918acc
Audiovisual Materials Accessioned
Digital CD Recording. Above the Smoke: West Virginia Fire Towers: An Audio Documentary (AV22.214.171.124, .2), produced by Pocahontas Communications Cooperative, 2006. 2 items. Gibbs Kinderman, Pocahontas Communications Cooperative, Dunmore. Av2007-009
Digital CD Recording. Rallying Round Our Liberty: Music for flute, guitar and voice from the era of Chief Justice John Marshall (AV3.4.16) produced by Wendell Dobbs and Leo Welch, Marshall University, 2005. 1 item. Transfer from Arts and Humanities Av2007-007
Digital CD Recording. Songs for America: Patriotic Songs Performed by West Virginia Artists (AV220.127.116.11, .2), produced by Ron Sowell, 2001. 2 items. West Virginia Lottery Commission, Charleston. Av2007-008
DVD. Crossings: Bridge Building in West Virginia (AV6-048.1, .2), 2006. 2 items. WV Department of Transportation Av2007-045
DVD. Ghosts of Green Bottom (AV6-046.1, .2), produced by Paradise Film Institute, 2005. 2 items. Huntington Corps of Engineers, Huntington. Av2007-043
DVD. The Historical National Road in West Virginia (AV6-044), produced by Walkabout Company for National Road Alliance of WV, 2006. 1 item. Walkabout Company, Wheeling. Av2007-041
DVD. Red Salt and Reynolds (AV6-045), produced by Paradise Film Institute, n.d. 1 item. Huntington Corps of Engineers, Huntington. Av2007-042
DVD. Return of the Thundering Herd: The Story That Inspired We Are Marshall (AV6-047), produced by New Wave Entertainment and Warner Brothers, 2006. 1 item. New Wave Entertainment, Burbank, CA. Av2007-044
Videotape. Early Wheeling (AV6-042), produced by Creative Impressions Studio, n.d. 1 item. James H. Thornton, Creative Impressions Studio, Wheeling. Av2007-014
Videotape. Elm Grove: A History in Pictures (AV6-040), produced by Creative Impressions Studio, n.d. 1 item. James H. Thornton, Creative Impressions Studio, Wheeling. Av2007-012
Videotape. Enterprise Community: Huntington, West Virginia (AV6-038), 1999. 1 item. US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pittsburgh, PA. Av2007-010
Videotape. The Great Flood of 2001 (AV5-1 a-i), 2001 July 8. 9 items. Jean Battlo, Kimball. Av2007-040
Videotape. Greetings from Wheeling Historic Postcards (AV6-041), produced by Creative Impressions Studio, 2004 1 item. James H. Thornton, Creative Impressions Studio, Wheeling. Av2007-013
Videotape. River Stay Away From My Door (AV6-039), produced by Creative Impressions Studio, n.d. 1 item. James H. Thornton, Creative Impressions Studio, Wheeling. Av2007-011
Videotape. Smilin' Sid Terror of the Tug (AV6-043), a McArts Production, n.d. 1 item. Jean Battlo, Kimball. Av2007-015
Manuscripts Accessioned
Account books. Tompkins Family, Burning Springs, 1820-22; Kanawha Salines, 1824-25; Cedar Grove Farm, 1894-97. 3 volumes. Richard Tompkins, Glasgow. Ms2007-018
Barnett, Callie Collection. Correspondence, articles about Callie Jackson Barnett, Huntington educator who lived to be 109, 1970s-1981. 3 folders. Kathy Pyles, Cedar Grove. Ms2007-064
Black Lung research materials. Notes, articles and other information compiled for Mine Safety and Health Administration documentary, 1969-2004. 2 folders. National Mine Health and Safety Academy, Beaver. Ms2007-066
Brady, A. Spates Collection. Correspondence, financial records, reports, publications, account books of Randolph County businessman, ca. 1899-1957. 61 boxes, 42 volumes, 3 oversized folders. Grace Sunderlin, Elkins. Ms2007-081
Castanoli, Alder Collection. Correspondence and other documents of coalfield engineer, 1921-1977. 1 box. Brantley Jackson, Huntington. Ms2007-001
Cook, Betty Collection. Kanawha School records, family history material, some Roy Bird Cook items, 1912-1979. 1 box. Unknown donor. Ms2007-052
Elk River Coal and Lumber Company. Correspondence for Dundon store, 1935-39; receipts for Widen YMCA, 1951. 2 folders. Alan Byer, Baltimore, MD. Ms83-12acc
Elk River Coal and Lumber Company. Letters from general superintendent about labor issues, Widen (photocopies), 1933 Oct. 23-1934 Mar. 21. 6 items. Tami Koontz, Elkview. Ms2007-063
Genealogies of the Kimble and Alt families by H. A. Alt, 1937, retyped by Clara Mae Alt Ross, 2006. 1 item. Clara Mae Ross, Colfax, NC. Ms2007-022
Kanawha County lands. Description for 5840 acres for Joseph Kerr, Thomas Scott and Anezah Davison (photocopy), 1818 August 28. 1 item. Unknown donor. Ms2007-025
Keeney, Roscoe Collection. Materials on Keeney, Morris, Paxton and related families, n.d. 3 boxes. Estate of Roscoe Keeney, Charleston. Ms2007-080
Lake Superior Coal Company Collection. Mine equipment parts listings, accident log, mine maps for McDowell County company, 1949-1985. 2 boxes. Transfer from Historic Preservation Unit. Ms2007-054
Literary manuscript. Arthurdale: Why It Failed by Jerry Wallace, 1966. 1 item. Jerry Wallace, Oxford, KS. Ms2007-023
Literary manuscript. Life of Ila M. Connard Hartley, originally from Ward, by Albert and Joan McGovern, 2007 March. 1 item. Albert and Joan McGovern, Cummings, GA. Ms2007-073
Literary manuscript. Remembrances of Shinnston Tornado (some graphic descriptions), 2006. 1 item. Maxine West Weser, Shinnston. Ms2007-024
Lutwich family. Handdrawn birth certificate for Henry Lutwich, Rockingham County, 1822 August 22. 1 item. Wes Cochran, Parkersburg. Ms2007-020
Moore, Harold Collection. Correspondence and WV State Guard materials, 1912-1983. 1 box. Richard Andre, Charleston. Ms2007-079
106th Station Hospital Collection. Reports, correspondence and other documentation of unit created by Dr. Charles Fisher of Clarksburg and unit member Cpl. Roy Edwin Kessel, 1942-1974. 2 boxes. Stephen Kay, Vienna. Ms2007-004
Payne family. Letter from Barrett Payne to Mattie Humphreys, Albemarle County, 1858 Aug. 18. 1 item. James Jones, South Charleston. Ms2007-065
Perry, Thornton T. Letter and photo to Perry from British friend Elsie Barker, 1977. 2 items. Gift, Bookworm and Silverfish, Wytheville, VA. Ms2007-074
Slack, Congressman John M. Jr. Collection. Papers, 1959-1980. 10 boxes. John M. Slack III, Charleston. Ms2007-059
Terrie, Philip G. Collection. Letters from Terrie to mother Mary Gibson Hunley Terrie in Charleston during WWII; obituary of Philip G. Terrie, 1942-1945, 1993. 1 box. Philip G. Terrie, Port Huron, MI and Katharine F. Terrie, Littleton, NH. Ms2007-003
WV Pulp and Paper Company Collection. Time books, assets and other records, 1923-1941. 1 box. Bruce DeBolt, Portland, OR. Ms2007-005
Wheeling Socialist Party Collection. Account books, membership journals, minute books and other materials relating to Socialist movement in northern panhandle, 1904-1918. 1 box and 2 oversized. Purchase. Ms2007-006
Wood, Anna Collection. Correspondence and other material of Bluefield resident and daughter of Chattaroy Coal Company Hatfield General Manager - includes booklet for treatment at Battle Creek Sanitarium, 1926-1934. 1 folder. Bookworm and Silverfish, Wytheville, VA. Ms2007-021
Photographs Accessioned
Barnett, Callie Collection. B&W of Callie Jackson Barnett, Huntington woman who lived to be 109, 1893-1976. 6 items. Kathy Pyles, Cedar Grove. Ph2007-064
Baseball. B&W of team, possibly in Charleston, 1910. 1 item Joe Geiger, Huntington. Ph2007-035
Blackwood, Edwin Neale Collection. B&W of road and bridge construction, color prints from scans throughout Blackwood's life, 1903-1978. 70 items. Matt Blackwood, Charleston. Ph2007-058
Blue Book Collection. B&W, color and slides of scenics, state parks, colleges and other views, 1980s-2006. 1 box (200 items). Transfer from Senate Clerk's Office. Ph2007-077
Brady, A. Spates Collection. Photographs, ca. 1920s-40s. 22 items. Grace Sunderlin, Elkins. Ph2007-081
Civil war generals. Photos of burial sites - albums arranged geographically, box of brevet generals roughly alphabetical, n.d. 13 volumes and 1 box. Estate of Joesph Hugh Ferrell, Pamilla Ferrell, St. Albans. Ph2007-036
Civilian Conservation Corps Collection. Panoramic of Co. 1522, Camp SP-3, Clifftop and Co. 532, Camp SP-6, n.d. 1 item. Shirley Surface, Jr., Charleston. Ph85-17acc
Coal, Widen. Copy negatives of West Virginia Coal and Coke Company, Widen, n.d. 2 items. Tami Koontz, Elkview. Ph2007-063
Coal towns. B&W, copy prints, postcards and negatives of coal towns compiled for publication project, most in Raleigh, Fayette and Wyoming counties, 1890-1997. 1 box (622 items). Bill Clements, Charleston. Ph2007-056
Confederate monument dedication. B&W digital prints of dedication, veterans at Union, Monroe County, 1901 September. 4 items. Rick Wolfe via Terry Lowry. Ph2007-034
Cook, Betty Collection. Schools, Charleston scenes, 1930s-1960s. 1 box. Unknown donor. Ph2007-052
Engravings. Various subjects, most from Harpers and Leslies, 1870-1896. 5 items. Purchase - Mannings Books and Prints, Pacifica, CA. Ph2007-016
Funk, Rosalind Collection, B&W of governors Meadows, Patteson, 1956 Democratic Convention, 1940s-1950s. 1 oversized folder. Purchase. Ph2007-076
Gillispie, Roland. Color prints and digital images of reburial of Union private Roland Gilliepie, Co. F, 7th WV Cavalry, in Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, 2007 May 12. 42 items and 1 CD. Ivan Kapp, DOH Right of Way. Ph2007-067
Glass lantern slides. Geologic scenes and other views of state, 1900-1930s. 3 boxes (522 items). Transfer from WV Geologic and Economic Survey, Morgantown. Ph2007-078
Horse racing, Romney, West Virginia University, B&O Railroad. B&W of Charles Town racetrack under construction and surry racing; Romney Bicentennial balloons in yard; WVU ROTC rifle team; B&O wreck near Martinsburg; ca. 1959-1962. 5 items. Historical Society of Frederick County, Frederick, MD. Ph2007-028
Hundley family. Digital copy prints of Holley Hundley and family, ca. 1880s-1991. 1 folder. Becky Kimmons, Charleston. Ph2007-029
Industrial School for Boys. B&W, some showing campus and staff, some showing sports teams and boys closed, 1904-1978. 2 boxes. Unknown donor. Ph2007-051
Marshall College. Aerial of campus during flood looking east, 1937 January 27. 1 item. Connie Bowling, Charleston. Ph2007-019
Military. B&W of troops, Vietnam era, ca. 1960s. 1 item. Pamela R. Westfall, Clendenin. Ph2007-031
Moore, Harold Collection. B&W and color, 1940s-1980s. 5 items. Richard Andre, Charleston. Ph2007-079
Morgan, Governor Ephraim F. B&W, mostly governor and family (oversized), 1920s. 1 folder. Suzanne Morgan. Ph2007-053
Murphy family. Digital reprints, 1904-2004. 1 folder. Marion C Hart, Sissonville. Ph2007-032
O'Brien, Edward Collection. B&W of O'Brien, Governor W. W. Barron and Local Pilgrim Installation, Loyal Order of Moose, 1960s. 1 folder. Robert E. O'Brien, Holiday, FL. Ph2007-046
Panoramic. Coal River Collieries by Haines Photo Company, n.d. 1 item. Unknown Donor. Ph2007-017
Portrait, Hartley, Ila M. Connard. Color and sepia copy print, 1947, 1997. 2 items. Albert and Joan McGovern, Cummings, GA. Ph2007-073
Portrait. Ribble, Rufus "Red", ca. 1950s. 1 item. E. Virginia Parker, Salem, VA. Ph2007-033
Postcard. Covered bridge over Cheat River at U.S. 50, built 1835, n.d. 1 item. Joe Geiger, Huntington. Ph2007-030
Quincy Coal Company. Copy print of tipple and hollow, ca. 1900. 1 item. Rev. Calvin T. Martin, Brandon, FL. Ph2007-027
Reese and Hall families. B&W of family members, n.d. 1 box. Transfer from Lewis Baxter, Natural Resources. Ph2007-050
Rusk, Paul Collection. B&W of fishing and other nature scenes, 1920s-30s. 1 box. Paul Rusk. Ph2007-049
Sayre Studio Collection. Negatives, many 11x14, of mostly senior high school composite groups, 1925-1988. 48 boxes (1353 + 177 items). Harrison County Public Library, Clarksburg. Ph2007-057
Slack, Congressman John M. Jr. Collection. Photos, 1935-1980. 2 boxes and 1 folder oversized. John M. Slack III, Charleston. Ph2007-059
Slides. New River Gorge Bridge construction and dedication taken by Leonard Rowley, Warwood, 1976-1977. 69 items. Margaret Brennan, Wheeling. Ph2007-026
Smith, Governor Hulett C. Collection. B&W and some color of family, administration, Democratic politics, mansion redecorating project, 1940-1976. 6 boxes (est. 1200-1500 items). Hulett C. Smith, Beckley. Ph2007-055
Stonewall Jackson Class of 1942 reunions. Prints, unidenfied photo album. 1 volume and 1 box. Unknown donor. Ph2007-060
Surveyor's photo album. B&W and cyanotypes of surveying, coal companies, Barbour County and central West Virginia, WWI, most taken by Benson, ca. 1917-1930s. 498 items. Purchase - Ebay. Ph2007-048
Unidentified group. Large group, possibly outside courthouse in Wood County vicinity, n.d. 1 item. Wes Cochran, Parkersburg. Ph2007-020
USS West Virginia. B&W photos collected during research and writing of Mountaineer Battlewagon by Myron J. Smith, Jr., 1919-1945. 1 folder. Myron J. Smith, Jr., Salem. Ph2007-047
Special Collections Accessioned
Broadside, receipt. Gospel Meeting, no location or date; receipt for charges State of WV vs. J. M. Moore, 1915. 2 items. Tyler County Circuit Clerk, Middlebourne. Sc2007-039
Calendar. Wolf Creek Printery, 2006. 1 item. Richard Fauss, Elkview. Sc87-41acc
Castanoli, Alder Collection. Drawings of coalfield engineer, 1916-1968. 3 folders. Brantley Jackson, Huntington. Sc2007-001
Christmas card. Governor Jay Rockefeller and family, 1982. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2007-071
Election materials. Bumper stickers, brochures and other materials for Jay Wolfe for Senate, 1988, Gaston Caperton for Governor, 1992, Stan Klos for Senate 1994 and Charlotte Pritt for Governor, 1996. 19 items. Steve Schafer, Minneapolis, MN. Sc2007-070
Forms. Absent Military Service Voters Primary Ballot Box seal, 1918. 15 items. Unknown donor. Sc2007-075
Hamilton, Woodrow Clay Jr. Yearbook Collection. 1916-1989. 30 volumes. Woodrow Clay Hamilton, Jr., Hightown, VA. Sc2005-003 acc
Menu, civil defense. Menu for Lock, Stock and Barrel Restaurant, Williamson; civil defense publication; 1960, 1970s. 2 items. Larry Legge, Barboursville. Sc2007-038
Morgan, Governor Ephraim F. Posters, broadsides, (oversized), 1920s. 1 folder. Suzanne Morgan. Sc2007-053
O'Brien, Edward Collection. Materials re: Loyal Order of Moose, 1960s. 1 folder. Robert E. O'Brien, Holiday, FL. Sc2007-046
Poster. Museum of Radio and Technology showing Atwater Kent store, 2006. 1 item. Richard Fauss, Elkview. Sc2007-069
Posters. Tourism, WV State Fair, 1988-1990. 1 folder. Division of Tourism. Sc2007-002
Program. Elkins High School commencement, 1937. 1 item. Transfer from Lewis Baxter, Natural Resources. Sc2007-050
Program. Joint meeting of 97th Congress to commemorate 100th anniversary of birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1982 January 28. 1 item. Unknown donor. Sc2007-072
Program. WV Centennial for Martinsburg and Berkeley County, 1963 June 22-30. 1 item. Marsha Clark Plybon, Parkersburg. Sc2007-037
Publication. Article on Silver Bridge collapse from Popular Science, 1968 March. 1 item. Larry L. Legge, Barboursville. Sc2007-062
Publication. In Memoriam booklet for State Senator William Nicholas Jasper of Greenbrier County, 1941 February 27. 1 item. Connie Bowling, Charleston. Sc2007-019
Publication. Yank the Army Weekly with Franklin Roosevelt's death and Harry Truman becoming president, 1945 May 11. 1 item. Lorraine Parr, Cross Lanes. Sc2007-068
Scrapbooks. Musicians, especially Vandalia Gathering 1987-1994. 2 volumes. Mrs. Webb, Charleston?. Sc2007-061
Scrapbooks. Rosalind Funk, secretary to governors Meadows, Patteson and Marland, much pertaining to Patteson's life, 1929-1970. 3 volumes and 2 boxes. Purchase. Sc2007-076
Scrapbooks. Stonewall Jackson Class of 1942 reunions, 1962-2006. 5 volumes. Unknown donor. Sc2007-060
Slack, Congressman John M. Jr. Collection. Scrapbooks, 1948-1980. 49 volumes. John M. Slack III, Charleston. Sc2007-059
USS West Virginia. Materials collected during research and writing of Mountaineer Battlewagon by Myron J. Smith, Jr., 1920s-1982. 1 box. Myron J. Smith, Jr., Salem. Sc2007-047
WV NOW. Articles and biographies of NOW award winners, officers and activities, 1966-1996. 1 folder. WV Historical Education Foundation, Charleston. Sc97-27acc
Yearbook. CD-ROM of South Charleston High School, Memoirs, 1958. 1 item. Joan Bennet Belcher, South Charleston. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbook. CD-ROM of Mountain State Hospital and Training School for Nurses, annual, 1926. 1 item. J. K. Bora, Troy, MI. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbook. Petersburg High School, Petro-Schola, 1961. 1 volume. Transfer from Underwood papers. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbook. Richwood High School, Mnemosyne, 1928, 1 volume. Vera Talbert, Charleston. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbook. Richwood High School, Woodsman, 1940 in 1939 cover, 1 volume. Pat Williams, Belle. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbook. Victory High School, 1924. 1 volume. Robert W. J. Williams, Washington, DC. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbook. West Virginia University Monticola, 1909. 1 volume. David Banon, Philadelphia, PA. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbooks. Braxton County High School, Eagle, 2004-2005. 2 volumes. Department of Education, Charleston. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbooks. Elkview Junior High, 1974, 1976-1977. 3 volumes. Becky Bennett, Newark, DE. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbooks. Morris Harvey College, Harveyan, 1960, 1969-1971. 4 volumes. Barbara Wolfe Harvey, Tornado. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbooks. Nitro High School, 1942-1945. 4 volumes. Dorothy Santrock, Cross Lanes. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbooks. Stonewall Jackson High School, 1956-1957. 3 volumes. Becky Bennett, Newark, DE. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbooks. West Virginia State College, 1990, 1992-1993. 3 volumes. Greg Carroll, Hurricane. Sc2005-003acc
Yearbooks. West Virginia University, Monticola, 1954-1958. 5 volumes. L. Owen Moore, Lemoyne, PA. Sc2005-003acc


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[Oath of Service in the Western Frontier of Texas for Elijah Collar]
Description: Oath of service in the Western frontier of Texas for Elijah Collar in the fall of 1842 under General Wall. The oath was taken by James J. Allphin and tracked where Private Collar went in the Western frontier. It stated that he served in R. Williams's company as a private. On the bottom, a notary public, James S. Fai[rl]y, certified the oath and added his seal to the paper.
Date: July 5, 1854
Creator: Madison County (Tex.)
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A versatile bikini bottom with side ruches in a rich jewel tone.
An extremely flattering and feminine design suited for lounging by the pool!
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Bikini set is sold separately. Purchase the matching bikini top as a set here and enjoy S$10 off!
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Full Memberships available for competing or non competing members within the same family for £80 per year. Visit our Joining page for more information.
Can you help? - Victoria Park Athletic Club is run by dedicated volunteers. The club would not exist or provide the service to athletes from the community we serve without the support of our volunteers.
We're constantly recruiting and training coaches to support our athletes on each of our four training evenings. There is no minimum commitment required and you don't need to have a background in athletics in particular or sport in general. We welcome all volunteers and full training will be provided by the club.
If you would like to be involved in coaching at any level, please contact Gordon Innes (Secretary).
All sizes are available from Achilles Heel with matching Lycra briefs or shorts. Our Club Crop Tops are £20 for adult sizes.Read More
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These pictures are five years old now, but they melt my heart every time I look at them. Baby Louie and I did this photoshoot for daddy on our very first Valentine's Day as a family.
I made the heart out of some velveteen scraps and a hand-drawn heart pattern. It was stuffed with grocery bags because I didn't have any poly-fil. He still has it, and loves the crunchy sound that it makes.
I didn't have an embroidery machine in those days, but I did have sharpie markers in the box that held the contents of my freshly-cleaned out desk from the lab. I just hope the fumes didn't get to him too much!
This is my favorite...he is telling me "enough pictures, time to eat!"
Happy Valentine's Day!!!


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"I can not really put my finger on it, something about this great moleskine popularity explosion worries me. You know, there is this little product we love to use, and it is a very intimate little thing that we carry around in our pockets and suddenly… suddenly there are tombolas and weird connections made to the product. Some people are behaving as if the moleskines themselves were the carriers of creativity…It is as if you managed to walk a beautiful little trail and then you come back to look at it the next year and it is all paved and there are little theme restaurants along the way. Blinking signs…
Some things are best consumed in moderation. "
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We Knit
We Ate.
And had fun all at the same time...do come next Saturday if you can...there must be some cheap flights from Scotland and Spain....
We Knit
This is totally unfair! Those of us living in Chagrin Falls, OH who drool over your fun cannot share in the festivities!!!!!
I'm chagrined that those in Ohio can't come. I think it is a 24 hour drive if the weather is good...we do have extra beds if you want to sleep over!
This Scottish lassie is already back in California but hopes to get to knit with you one day in the not too distant future!
and what about New York??
Will this be a weekly meeting? I'll be passing through on my way to Haystack in late June. Would love to knit and hang out if there's time!
one day......


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On the usual ship tour even the incessantly hard working crew rests on Sundays. People get up relatively late and take it easy, catch up on email and nurture social contacts. But this is not the usual ship tour and our Sunday could not have been more of a contrast. I was woken early in the morning with the news that two fishing vessels were showing up on our radar just off the coast of the Indian Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal. Once we caught up with them, we saw no national flag flying which would identify the country in which it was registered or a name displayed on the vessel. When there was no response on the radio from either of them, we decided to launch our inflatables and take a closer look.
They turned out to be Burmese vessels and it took quite some effort to communicate with the mostly very young looking crew: we asked them for their papers in three different languages (English, Thai and Taiwanese), none of which they were able to understand. The papers were in Burmese too and none of the vessels seem to possess any written permit from any Indian authorities allowing them to fish within the Indian waters. Without a Letter of Permit, foreign vessels are not allowed to fish in the Indian EEZ.
The circumstances on these vessels were far from ideal. Without any cooling facilities, catch such as sharks and juvenile yellow fin tuna - the smallest you've ever seen - is being spread all over the vessel to be dried and stored. In between the drying catch the crew lives for days and days on the couple of square meters that are left.
Not an hour later we sighted two more vessels; they turned out to be Burmese as well. While you may think that four illegal vessels in a day is no big deal as the lack of proper monitoring and surveillance means that there are numerous vessels in and out of Indian waters regularly. In fact, one study pegs this estimate between 150-220 US million dollars annually!
When we tried to contact the local Coast Guard, there was no immediate response. Two days later though, we were contacted by the Indian navy and they assured us that a vessel was sent to the spot of the previous encounter and checks about the incident were being made.
There have been news reports of arrests of illegal Burmese fishermen in India before, but the crucial problem with the current regulations is mainly in the implementation. The fact that these vessels continue to fish year after year, completely illegally, means that the Indian government is incurring economic losses thanks to unreported fish catch.
At the heart of it all lies a simple fact—that piecemeal measures like this will not do much if the Indian government is not serious about putting an end to illegal fishing in its waters and protecting the interests of its fishermen. And incidents like these are symptomatic of what is happening across the rest of the Indian coast. That is why we need change, we need action. Have you asked for it already?
Areeba Hamid is an oceans campaigner with Greenpeace India. Read her previous blog from this ship tour.
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all living creatures have the right to live. we need to share this world and look after the vulnerable. please find the link that will support this cause.
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Just out of curiosity, Please help me understand if we (India) has any programs to monitor the growth cycle of the aquatic li...
Dear Areeba
Just out of curiosity, Please help me understand if we (India) has any programs to monitor the growth cycle of the aquatic life forms. For e.g : if we can monitor how much fishing is done for a particular fish type say ABC. What is the impact of over fishing of ABC fish, or if any corrective measures are required to maintain a sustainable habitat etc.
My reason of asking this, the reason Thailand is fishing in our water is maybe cas they don't have a supply of fish in their own waters, so maybe they did something wrong is the management of their natural resource. We can learn from their mistakes and help develop a sustainable fishing model.
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@just out of curiosity : In India, the government run Fisheries Survey of India is the agency responsible for assessing fish stocks. According to thei...
@just out of curiosity : In India, the government run Fisheries Survey of India is the agency responsible for assessing fish stocks. According to their reports, fish catch over the years have plateaued, in the south, they have started to decline. This is a part of a global phenomenon where we have overfished our oceans and illegal fishing in other countries' waters has become rampant.
Right now, no central comprehensive plan exists to make sure that fish stocks rejuvenate and marine biodiversity is conserved. Greenpeace is campaigning to change this.
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While many know him for his role in the Ghostbusters movies, Ernie Hudson has had a very long and distinguished career that goes way beyond his time wearing the proton pack. After starting off with ambitions of being a playwright, he would go on to accrue over 100 credits in film and television, most notably in the aforementioned Ghostbuster films and as a regular cast member in the acclaimed prison series "OZ" on HBO.
Hudson is now cementing his presence in the pop-culture landscape as a voice-actor in the popular animated series Transformers Prime. He voices the role of Agent William Fowler, a US Government agent who acts as a liason to the Autobots. He's described by the Transformers Wiki as a "former Army Ranger" who is a "tough talking, robot dissing" character.
With Transformers Prime approaching it's mid-season hiatus, Hudson took time to answer some questions for Geek To Me. In our e-mail interview, Hudson talks about the difference between acting for films and animation; what his dream role would be; what he knows about a potential Ghostbusters sequel; and what kind of autobot he would create for himself:
Geek To Me: When you first agreed to take the role of Agent Fowler for Transformers Prime, did you ever think the show would gain the notoriety that it has?
Ernie Hudson: When I first took the role of Agent Fowler I didn't think much about how popular it would or would not be. It wasn't until I met everyone at the first session that I became a believer and genuinely felt we had something truly special.
G2M: Were you a fan of Transformers before you became involved with the series?
EH: I wasn't a hardcore fan. I have four sons who all love the franchise. I was more aware of it through them.
G2M: You can create your own Transformer character: What's your name?; Would you be an Autobot or Decepticon?; And what vehicle would you transform into?
EH: If I could create my own Transformer character, it would be named Vanquish and he would transform into an Aston Martin. He would be the coolest, most sophisticated Autobot of them all.
G2M: The show has the distinction of having both a member of the Scooby Gang (Frank Welker) and a Ghostbuster on the cast; do you and Frank ever discuss teaming up and solving a ghostly mystery?
EH: Frank and I have never discussed solving a ghostly mystery but now that you've brought it up, I think it's about time we did.
G2M: What's the difference between acting and voice acting for an animated series or a video game - like you did for the Ghostbusters video game?
EH: The difference between voice acting and acting for me is, you don't have your entire instrument to tell the story. It has to be all in the sounds and it's up to others to fill in everything else. I love it, but I'm not in control of Agent Fowler's physicality.
G2M: In all your interactions with fans, how different are fans of Transformers from - let's say - fans of Oz?
EH: The fans of Transformers tend to be more upbeat and optimistic. In general a lot more fun. OZ fans are more pessimistic and downbeat. In general, not as much fun to hang out with.
G2M: You hold the distinction of being the only minority character in the Ghostbusters franchise, how would you like to see that addressed in potential future films? Or do you think it's not that big a deal?
EH: I don't think the issue of minority characters in Ghostbusters is a BIG deal, but I do hope movies in general will consciously reflect the very diverse demographics of not just America, but the world we all actually live in.
G2M: Okay, I would be remiss if I didn't ask the question that everyone always asks: What's the latest news on Ghostbusters 3?
EH: As far as GB 3, I'm not at all involved in the creative development process of the movie, so I have absolutely no information to share. I had conversations with most of the key players and
everyone has expressed an interest in making it happen. I, like the fans, would love to see it happen and have no idea as to why it hasn't already.
G2M: Is there a dream role/show out there that you're still chomping at the bit to get into?
EH: In the mid-seventies I did the play the "Great White Hope." It was loosely based on the life of Jack Johnson, the first Black Heavyweight Champion. For years I've been wanting to tell his true story. I'm focusing my time and energy into making that happen.
G2M: Where can we expect to see you next?
EH: Next up, I can be seen from time to time in "Secret Life of the American Teenager" on ABC Family channel. I have a movie soon to be released with John Schneider called "Doonby," and another called "Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy," a children's adventure film.
G2M: Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions!
"Tranformers Prime" airs Saturdays on HUB TV. Check your local listings for more info.


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Survivors of an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami lie wrapped in blankets at the Red Cross operations centre in Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2011. Photo source: Reuters.comThe plight of the Japanese people is agonizing to watch. Naturally, your first instinct may be to donate as quickly as possible. But there are reasons to think before you text your money.
Texting a donation is easy, but it's not instantaneous. It takes about 90 days for your money to get to your designated organization, according to mGive, the leading mobile donation platform (and a charity itself).
Some organizations allow 5-10% of your donation to go to mGive to cover admin costs. "It's not ridiculously high," says Deborah Hirt, research manager at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. "But it's something you should be aware of."
The most efficient way to give is to donate online, through a charity's secure website, says Hirt. "Organizations know instantly that they've received a gift." (Although a similar percentage of your cash goes toward online administrative fees.)
But in many ways, using a good old-fashioned check is the most direct way to reach the cause of your choice—and studies show that people who send checks often donate more money, says Hirt.
Also consider is whether the organization you're supporting is effective on the ground, and has experience in the stricken country. "We saw many organizations with good intentions rush to Haiti, and rush to raise money, but they ended up pulling out quickly," says Jeff Nene, spokesperson for the charitable organization Convoy of Hope, which is raising money for Japan.
Nene and others recommend Charity Navigator to find reputable organizations providing relief.


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Using the 5-E model, these lessons introduce planets, planetary systems, star types, exoplanets, transits, light curves, and the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Supplemental materials include data/image sheets. Next Generation Science... (View More) Standards (NGSS) are identified. (View Less)
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Each lesson or activity in this toolkit is related to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The toolkit is designed so that each lesson can be done independently, or combined and taught in a sequence. The Teacher Implementation Guide provides... (View More) recommendations for combining the lessons into three main strands: 1) Lunar Exploration - These lessons provide a basic introduction to Moon exploration. Note that this strand is also appropriate for use in social studies classes. 2) Mapping the Moon - These lessons provide a more in-depth understanding of Moon exploration through the use of scientific data and student inquiry. The lessons also include many connections to Earth science and geology. 3) Tools of Investigation - These higher-level lessons examine the role of technology, engineering and physics in collecting and analyzing data. (View Less)
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This program uses NASA data and resources to promote authentic classroom research experiences. These two complementary guides lead students through the process of conducting their own inquiry-based research on an Earth-focused topic. In their... (View More) guidebook, students read content and answer questions about each step in the research process- from formulating a question to sharing results. The separate guide for teachers provides explicit instructions, lists the standards addressed, and includes additional hints, resources and websites. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the Discovery Program's exploration of the solar system. Learners will identify and communicate to others the varied space science explorations carried out by the Discovery Program and dig into one mission in depth. They can... (View More) then respond to a NASA Discovery Program Announcement of Opportunity (AO) to submit a mock proposal. Includes the 29-minute Discovery Program overview video, "Unlocking Mysteries of Our Solar System." (View Less)
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This collection of activities presents learners with intriguing questions about the universe and provides an opportunity to explore topics related to the search for life beyond our own planet. The collection includes eight existing classroom... (View More) activities that have been adapted for after school school settings. Each activity can be completed in one hour, however some activities require advance preparation. The activities also require materials that may need to be gathered by the instructor. However, these include commonly available supplies. The activities in this collection are targeted for 5-12 year olds. Separate instructions for the different age groups are provided as appropriate. (View Less)
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In this hands-on experiment, students will investigate the basic principle of photosynthesis and learn how light intensity diminishes as a function of distance from the light source. Questions help learners connect these two ideas to determine if... (View More) photosynthesis could occur at Saturn. (View Less)
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In this activity, learners will construct a model of a lunar roving vehicle. This activity is in Unit 2 of the Exploring the Moon teachers guide, which is designed for use especially, but not exclusively, with the Lunar Sample Disk program.
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Learners will design and build models of life support systems for a settlement on the Moon. This activity is in Unit 3 of the Exploring the Moon teachers guide, which is designed for use especially, but not exclusively, with the Lunar Sample Disk... (View More) program. (View Less)
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Liberty News
Karl Rove visits Liberty; Sean Hannity 'phones in'
Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. had promised students, faculty and staff a big-name speaker for Friday's convocation, kicking off Homecoming and Alumni Weekend at Liberty University. Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity was scheduled, but cancelled late Thursday afternoon due to illness. So Falwell quickly got on his phone and email to find a replacement. After five minutes of receiving an email, Karl Rove, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, responded with a "yes."
But Hannity was not forgotten. At the end of the service, he was able to call in for an interview with Falwell at the podium.
Rove, who served as President George Bush's senior adviser from 2001-2007, was Liberty's commencement speaker in 2004. Before Rove took the stage Friday, he said he was glad to be returning to the campus.
"It's a great school. It's inspired vision — I mean, you think about how far it's come so quickly," he said. "I was really impressed when I came here several years ago, with the students. So many of them are the first in their families to go to college, it's a diverse student body — all 50 states, 80 countries."
Rove said he has had employees and interns at the White House who were Liberty students and graduates, and it has always been a great experience.
"There's a very, very high quality education here; it instills a great set of values and a good work ethic," he said. "I don't know whether that happens by people coming here and getting it here or whether it just simply draws those kind of people, but whatever happens, people who graduate from this school have a good reputation for hard work and excellence."
His talk to the student body was about service to others. He gave several examples of his time in the White House and in travelling with the president, when he would see true acts of service from the American people — from mentors who helped single moms break free from welfare, to teachers with high credentials who could have been making three-figure salaries, to our nation's servicemen and women.
"I came to see that service is something that is quintessentially America," he said.
He spoke about the last act he did on the job — writing a letter to a man in Nevada who had lost his oldest son in the wars in the Middle East and who, at the age of 61, had requested a waiver so he could enter the military and give of his gifts as a successful orthopedic surgeon.
"Now, I'm not suggesting we all go out and join the Marines, but I am suggesting that it is a reminder to us of our obligations we have as Americans to, in our own way, following our own passion, at a time we consider to be right, to serve a cause greater than ourselves," he said. "… It's as old as the Bible itself, to love our neighbor … . It's important as Christians, it's important as human beings, it's vital as Americans."
After Rove's talk, Falwell surprised the student body by calling Sean Hannity and playing the call on the Vines Center speakers.
Hannity, who last spoke at Liberty in April 2007, was at LU's Commencement in 2005, where he received an honorary degree. On Friday, he apologized for not being there, saying he had been ill but was starting to feel a little better.
Interestingly, Rove is scheduled to be on Hannity's program tonight. Hannity called Rove "a great friend. He's probably one of the smartest politically minded in the entire country … in a time of political turmoil."
Hannity told Falwell he is excited about what is happening at Liberty.
"This is the future leadership of America. … Right now this country is in need of a lot of leadership," he said. "There's a lot of kids there who are going to be going into a lot of different fields. I'm really looking forward to people of faith, people of principle, people with character, people with good values taking those positions of leadership; there's no telling where that will take this student body, when they graduate, when they go out into the world, the impact that they're going to have to make this world a better place."
Falwell said Hannity was his dad's favorite voice in the U.S. media and he appreciated Hannity "fighting the battle for freedom on the frontlines for us every day."
In closing, Hannity told students, "There is no obstacle, there is nothing that can get in your way if you put Jesus Christ first in your life, if you put God first in your life, and you put doing what is right first in your life. There is nothing you won't be able to achieve and great things will happen if you do it, if that priority remains in its proper order."


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Top Trucks from the 2014 St. Lucie Mud JamPosted in Features on March 5, 2014
It's tough to get pictures of every rig out at St Lucie Mud Jam when hundreds of trucks and thousands of fans are jam packed into 500 acres of mud. We try to get a shot of everyone but realistically it's not going to happen. So instead of trying posting each and every rig we shot out at the event, we picked the Top 10 trucks we saw tearing it up all weekend. These may not be the prettiest or fastest, but they were all going hard while we were around and we would rather see your rig buried in the mud than parked in the grass. So here are the Top 10 in our book for this event, but the next time you see our cameras, go wild and you could make the next list!
Rockwell Jeep
This badass 2.5-ton Jeep will be featured in an upcoming issue of Mud Life. There are a few good videos of it on our Instagram page so be sure to check them out at www.instagram.com/mudlifemag
Harley Mud Truck
Here is the Harley Davidson Super Duty that Ford should have built. Instead, Josh built this 2.5-ton mega-truck in record time and like everything else, it's for sale!
A propane powered buggy that can go anywhere and through anything. What's better than that?
OBS Ford
This gold Ford was tearing through everything Mud Jam had to offer until it had a pretty nasty rollover. Safety is an important thing to remember at these events and luckily everyone got out OK.
Rollin Coal
This Dodge is known for rollin coal through the deepest parts of the pit. Just don't lean on the exhaust stacks!
LS Power
Justin Pun Young brought out his turbo LS powered Ford mega-truck. Adam Pela and Justin have been spending countless nights trying to get it running just right. Watch the video to see it mud running.
It's Real
The Townsend F-350 has been called a fake more than any other truck we posted. We assure you this truck is real and it is badass!
Run It
You don't have to have a mega-truck to have fun at these events. Bring whatever you have and let it loose.
Classic Chevy
Old square-body Chevy trucks are a huge hit at these events. This 4-linked and coil-overed truck is built right and run hard.
All Out
All Out Performance just released this insane tube-chassis mud racer. Tim and Linda Scott owe this unique rig and it's one of the fastest trucks in the country.


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A day after the massacre in Newtown, U.S. Rep. John Larson put his feelings on updating gun control laws succinctly.
"To do nothing in the face of continuous assaults on our children is to be complicit in those assaults. … Politics be damned," the Connecticut Democrat said in a statement Saturday.
Gun control is a topic that has gotten almost no traction during President Obama's first term, although he opened the door to a discussion Friday saying it was time to "take meaningful action, regardless of the politics."
Connecticut gets high marks from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence – only one of four states in that category – with California the lone state with the highest rating by the anti-gun group.
Arizona, Alaska, and Utah got zero points from the campaign and in an analysis, it said 31 states with few or no gun restrictions "export 9 times the crime guns as the six states with the strongest gun laws."
Adam Lanza is said to have shown up at a Newtown elementary school with several weapons, but Connecticut's Chief Medical Examiner Wayne Carver said all 20 children succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds from the "long rifle," which has been reported as a Bushmaster .223 M4 carbine rifle.
Larson was specific in his call for action and said Congress should vote on demanding background checks for all gun sales, something that does not happen now at unlicensed gun shows, as well as a renewed ban on assault weapons and a new ban on high capacity clips.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which was started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was a loud voice for advocates of gun control and a critic of Obama for being too timid.
"Calling for 'meaningful action' is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership – not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today," he said on Friday.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has its headquarters in Newtown, but it was not discussing the massacre in that town beyond a statement on its website.
"Our hearts go out to the families of the victims of this horrible tragedy in our community. Out of respect for the families, the community and the ongoing police investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment or participate in media requests at this time," it read.
Other postings on the NSSF site pointed to the record number of gun background checks conducted in a single month in November 2012. The 1.5 million was an increase of 38.5 percent increase over the November 2011 total, which marks the 30th straight month that the figures increased year over year. The biggest single jump was on Black Friday – the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
"Responsible firearms ownership is popular, mainstream and growing," said NSSF President and CEO Steve Sanetti on its website. "Americans in record numbers are choosing to own firearms for target shooting, hunting, collecting and personal and home protection," he said. Their story attributes the boom to the holiday season and a reaction to Obama's re-election.
Connecticut has tough gun laws, with an outright ban on assault weapons, a waiting period to obtain a rifle and a permit required to carry a hand gun.
The state has a list of individuals who cannot own weapons, which includes convicted felons, as well those with restraining orders or involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
To carry a handgun, one has to pass a background check, take a training course and report the loss or sale of a gun to a registry kept by state police.
After the shooting deaths of workers at the state Lottery in 1998, Connecticut passed a law that allows police to obtain a seizure warrant to remove weapons from individuals who they believe are in imminent danger to himself or others, something that has been invoked more than 300 times since it was enacted, a state report says.
Joe Visconti, a former council member in West Hartford and Republican candidate for the 1st District against Larson in 2008, spent the day responding to the calls on Twitter for gun control.
Describing himself as a "rabble rouser," who represents the right wing of the Republican Party, he said the fear is that the left ultimately wants to eliminate all gun ownership rights.
Like former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., he said he is against reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons because "it wouldn't be effective." Visconti said although he would be on board with regulating the size and quantity of ammunition that can be sold.
In light of the shootings at the Sandy Hook School, Visconti said it would be worth the cost to post police in elementary schools, something that is not now uncommon at high schools. "No price should be put on protecting our children," he said.
Ron Pinciaro, executive director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence, said what is needed is a cultural change and a reduction in how lethal the weapons are that are available to the public.
"The most calls I have been getting were from the foreign press. They can't understand the thinking here," he said. "Three-hundred million guns in the U.S. When is the number going to be enough?"
Pinciaro does hold out hope however. He said for a long time use of a designated driver, limiting smoking and wearing seat belts were not common behaviors. "It's a very different situation now," Pinciaro said.


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Loon Island Ice Cracks
Loon Island lighthouse on Lake Sunapee, NH during a frigid March morning.
The Tower
The West Quoddy Head lighthouse tower in Lubec, Maine in the fog.
Summer Sunrise at Cadillac Mountain
One frame from a time lapse of a beautiful sunrise at Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park.
Holiday Season in Bath, Maine
Downtown Bath, Maine gets ready for the holiday season with decorations along the streets. This is a view in front of City Hall at the intersection of Centre and Front streets showing the iconic Hallet's Drug Store clock.
Lubec Narrows, Maine
The old pickling shed reflected in the waters in Lubec on a foggy night with the bridge to Campobello Island lighting up the background.
West Quoddy Head In The Fog
West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Lubec, Maine surrounded by fog, photographed September 1, 2013.
A dinghy in Rockport Harbor, Massachusetts sits in the reflection of the Motif #1 building at the mouth of the harbor.
Forgotten Truck
I ran across this forgotten 1946 Chevy truck a few years ago while driving on a back road in central Maine.
Rock N Roll House
This dilapidated old house still sits on Route 1 in Searsport, Maine looking a bit worse worse for wear than it did a few years ago. Many folks have photographed this well-known landmark over the years. This photo is from early January 2013.
The Hawk's Nest
This twisty scenic section of road near Port Jervis, NY on Rt. 97 known as the Hawk's Nest. It has been frequently used in television commercials and advertisements.
Burnside Bridge
Burnside Bridge in Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland.
We'll keep the light on for you ...
Entering the fantastic Church Street Marketplace from the City Park in Burlington, VT.
The Red Gate
A photogenic gate and tree in Colonial Williamsburg just down the street from the Governor's Palace photographed in late December 2012.
Shawnee Peak Ski Resort in Bridgton, Maine photographed from the Bridgton Rd causeway in February.
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I mentioned at this post that we went to another park because it was all wet and still drizzling at Moanalua Valley Park. This is the park where we went to, Halawa District Park. Going here brings back some memories. I used to go here almost everyday, mostly all by myself. I ate here, read magazines here, I watched the kids playing. Sometimes, I walked through the neighborhood, which was a mile walk with a friend.
It's one of the biggest park I've been to. It has a huge gym pictured below.
It has a daycare center pictured below. I remember asking if I can take RC here but they said it is only for children with low-income parents and while I can be considered low income by myself at the time, combined income made us unqualified for any government help/subsidies.
It has picnic tables in various parts of the park.
It has a playground that is exactly the same as the park that we always go to by our apartment. It also has basketball and tennis courts.
It has two baseball fields and I saw kids playing soccer here too.
The mountain views are nice, this is just from one angle. Some views are just mountains with no houses.
RC smelling her hibiscus.
That's my Wednesday post! I hope you stop by and link up yours too. I'll link this too to other Wordless Wednesays and please pardon if I don't comment. I appreciate all of you sharing your photos!


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The weather should be good on Sat. Lets play at Brandis. Anytime is good for me.
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Would you like to hit some this weekend ? I can meet you at Brandis or O'Connor.
It looks like I'm ok for Saturday afternoon to play. My cell # is 210-218-3614. Give me a call or text when you have a chance so we can work out the time. I figure we'll wait until the warmest part of the day. I work until 3:30 during the week, so I can be reached after that or in the evenings. Looking forward to playing.
Let's shoot for Saturday afternoon at Brandeis if the weather holds. I may have an appointment late that afternoon, but I'll know for sure by tomorrow and I'll get back to you then.
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Last Week French Officials Stood Up for Offensive Speech. This Week They're Arresting People for It.
The French comedian Dieudonné has been arrested for a Facebook post from Monday in which he wrote, "Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly," mashing up the popular "Je suis Charlie" slogan with a reference to the gunman who took hostages at a kosher grocery store in Paris last Friday. In part the arrest could be seen as part of the beefed-up security measures France has put in place in the wake of last week's violence. But it's also not the first time Dieudonné has fallen afoul of the law.
The comedian has been convicted of inciting racial hatred multiple times for comments disparaging Jews and denying the Holocaust. The biracial comedian—his father is from Cameroon—was once part of a comedy duo with the Jewish comedian Élie Sémoun, known for edgy but popular bits mocking cultural differences. But he split with Sémoun in the late 1990s, and his comedy has since veered from Borat-style mockery to outright anti-Semitism.
Dieudonné has befriended former National Front leader and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen and appeared onstage with the Holocaust-denying historian Robert Faurisson. In 2012 he released a widely panned film, L'Antisemité, which includes an extended segment mocking Auschwitz.
The comedian has also become known for his signature gesture, the quenelle, which critics say is an inverted Nazi salute but which he says is a nonracist symbol of nonconformity. If Americans have heard of Dieudonné, it's likely through the French San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker, who apologized in 2013 for doing the gesture with the comedian in a photo. (Parker said he wasn't aware of its significance.) The French Premier League star Nicolas Anelka was suspended for five games last year for doing the quenelle as a celebration after a goal.
Loathsome as many of Dieudonné's remarks are, there's something ironic in the fact that a government whose leaders were marching last week in defense of the right to offensive expression are this week arresting people for it.
Freedom of speech is protected under French law, but as in several other European countries, there are a few more exceptions to that freedom than in the United States. France's main piece of hate-speech legislation prohibits incitement to discrimination, hatred, or violence based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or sexual orientation. Additionally, a controversial terrorism law passed last year bans material that incites or glorifies terrorism. (As the Dieudonné case shows, authorities are taking that rule pretty seriously this week.)
A number of high-profile figures have been charged under the law, including Le Pen, who has been fined multiple times for remarks about Muslims and the Roma. His daughter, current National Front leader and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, may also face charges over remarks comparing Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation of France.
Fashion designer John Galliano was fined for a drunken anti-Semitic rant in 2011. Actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has been fined for insulting Muslims while criticizing halal slaughtering practices. Charges were filed against Bob Dylan last year for a typically Dylanesque tangent in a Rolling Stone interview in which he (sort of) compared Croatians to Nazis. The case was dismissed on the grounds that he hadn't intended for the remarks to be published in France. Charges were also filed and then dismissed in 2001 against author Michel Houellebecq, who appeared on the last issue of Charlie Hebdo before the attack, for an interview in which he called Islam "the most stupid religion."
Not surprisingly, the provocateurs at Charlie Hebdo have themselves been targeted under the law. In 2006, Muslim groups tried filed racism charges against the paper for republishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Then-President and noted Charlie critic Jacques Chirac offered the groups the services of his personal lawyer, but the charges were eventually dropped. Cartoonist Siné was also charged in 2009 for a cartoon implying that Nicolas Sarkozy's son was converting to Judaism for financial reasons. He was eventually fired from the magazine after saying "I'd rather cut my balls off" than apologize for the cartoon.
Sensitivities are understandably high after last week's attack, and certainly Dieudonné's comments are worthy of denunciation. But it would be unfortunate if the byproduct of an attack on free speech was further legal restrictions on it.
ISIS and al-Qaida Are Enemies. How Can They Both Have Been Involved in the Paris Attacks?
In a video that surfaced over the weekend, Amedy Coulibaly, the now-dead suspect in the attack on a kosher market in Paris last Friday, declared his allegiance to "the Caliph of the Muslims, [ISIS leader] Abu Bakr al Baghdadi," and also claimed to be "with the team who did Charlie Hebdo."
Those two claims seem somewhat contradictory.Before he was killed on Friday, Cherif Kouachi, one of the brothers who carried out the attack on Charlie Hebdo, claimed to have been "financed by Imam Anwar al-Awlaki," the late U.S.-born cleric and propagandist for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Kouachi is believed to have spent time training with the group.
Both ISIS and AQAP have praised the attacks, but they are definitely not on the same team. Al-Qaida and its affiliates have been at odds with ISIS since early last year and have fought against each other on the battlefields of Syria. ISIS leader al-Baghdadi declaring himself caliph, as referenced by Coulibaly, was widely seen as a direct challenge to al-Qaida honcho Ayman al-Zawahiri's leadership of the global jihadist movement. In November, AQAP issued a statement directly rebuking ISIS's caliphate claim. There have been some reports that ISIS is patching things up with al-Qaida's official Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, but worldwide, the two groups are still generally seen as being in direct competition.
So the fact that adherents of both groups seemed to be working together in Paris last week is notable. As Clint Watts of the Foreign Policy Research Institute notes, in the days following the attack, the big question was whether ISIS or al-Qaida was involved. "The answer likely seems to be 'neither of them' and 'both,'" he writes. Watts breaks terrorist attacks into three types: "directed" attacks, like 9/11 or AQAP's bombing plots, fully orchestrated by groups like al-Qaida; "inspired" attacks, like the lone wolf actions recently seen in Canada and Australia; and an intermediate category he calls "networked" attacks, in which individuals who have spent time with groups like al-Qaida and ISIS organize their own cells with minimal supervision from the larger organizations. The Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly were likely operating along these lines.
While ISIS and al-Qaida, as centralized organizations, may be sworn enemies, things may be more fluid for their adherents around the world, who share a common ideology and common goals. As the counterterrorism researcher Thomas Hegghammer wrote on Twitter today, the dual claims in Paris suggest that "some jihadis relate to IS/AQ like football teams. You can support different clubs and still watch game together." Certainly, supporters of the two groups online seem to be reacting to the events in Paris with common enthusiasm.
It might seem somewhat incoherent that these two groups are fighting against each other in the Middle East while their adherents work together in the west. But frankly, they're not the only ones who've been forced into uncomfortable political contortions by the multidimensional civil war in Syria.
The Biggest Free-Speech Hypocrites at the Paris Rally
Sunday's massive rally may have been intended to demonstrate political unity, but, with 40 world leaders marching, it highlighted some bitter divisions as well, from American partisan politics, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to the French political establishment's agonized reaction to the growing power of the far right. But there was also this: For an event held to support freedom of expression, there were an awful lot of leaders in attendance who curtail that very freedom in their own countries.
Reporters Without Borders highlighted a list of free-speech "predators" who traveled to Paris for the event, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, which was the world's worst jailer of journalists in 2012 and 2013, and President Ali Bongo of Gabon, a country where press criticism of the government is discouraged by expansive libel laws and physical attacks against journalists.
Also in attendance were the foreign ministers of Egypt, Russia, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates—all of which rank near the bottom of RWB's press freedom index. The ambassador from Saudi Arabia, where a blogger just began a sentence of 1,000 lashes for blasphemy, was also in attendance.
The past three years have been the deadliest for journalists around the world since the Committee to Project Journalists began keeping records in 1992. More than 200 were arrested last year, including both local reporters and an increasing number of foreign correspondents.
Condemnation is usually swift and universal when the perpetrators of attacks on the media are nonstate actors like the Paris gunmen or the ISIS fighters who beheaded two American reporters in the Syrian desert last year. But it's much rarer for governments to be held accountable for either attacks on or intimidation of the press, or creating an atmosphere that makes such attacks more likely. It's unfortunate that a rally decrying extreme intolerance gave feel-good cover to some governments that are among the leading perpetrators of it.
Are Paris-Style Attacks the Future of Terrorism?
This week's assault on Paris does not fit into the mold of what we typically think of as a terrorist attack. The attackers employed guns, rather than bombs, fled the scene of the initial attack rather than martyring themselves, and displayed some level of tactical acumen without it being clear that they were trained professionals.
It's not that commando-style raids have never happened. They just receive less attention than suicide bombings because they more often take place in war zones, where there's less media coverage than in major international cities. A U.N. report released last July, in fact, found that the Taliban had shifted their tactics from improvised explosive devices to gun battles in heavily populated areas. This is one major reason for the recent increase in civilian casualties in Afghanistan. And this week hundreds are believed to have been killed in a series of shooting raids by Boko Haram on a town in northern Nigeria.
"I would place [the Paris attack] into the 'urban warfare' model of attacks," said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and co-author of a 2012 report commissioned by the U.S. Congress on the use of small arms by terrorists. "First, it's an attack that's designed to make use of a broader urban area as a battleground. Second, the attackers intend to survive long enough to extend this out over a couple of days, thus to prolong the terror and keep a place feeling skittish. Urban warfare attacks also often involve taking hostages in one place or another."
The first example of such an attack on a city at peace was Mumbai in 2008, when about two dozen militants from the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba attacked multiple locations in the Indian city, firing on civilians, setting off explosives, and taking hostages. The attacks "were perceived as being hugely successful, and al-Qaida has been talking about how to emulate this for some time," said Raffaello Pantucci, a terrorism analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London. In 2010, intelligence services of the United States, Britain, France, and Germany claimed to have disrupted a plan to carry out "Mumbai-style" attacks on several European cities.
Last year's al-Shabab attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi also fit the mold, involving multiple shooters, hostages, large numbers of casualties, and unfolding over the course of several days.
In the case of the Paris attacks, attention has focused on the possible role of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the networks' Yemen-based affiliate. According to a Reuters report Friday, intelligence officials believe that one of the two brothers who carried out the shootings, Said Kouachi, met with the U.S.-born AQAP cleric Anwar al-Awlaki during a visit to Yemen in 2011 and may have spent time training with the group.
Pantucci says that in terms of its international operations, AQAP "has mainly been focused on getting very complicated and sophisticated bombs onto planes." But, he says, that doesn't mean it's surprising that the group would be involved in something like this. "These guys don't have one methodology and that's it. They're flexible and out to make the maximum impact," he says. The group's English-language magazine, Inspire, has suggested a plethora of potential attack methods, and Awlaki had also been in touch with Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.
The appeal of this kind of attack is obvious. As Pantucci puts it, "The marauding-shooter scenario has maximum effect and only really requires people with guns." Commando-style attackers need some training—the Indian government has long alleged that members of Pakistan's intelligence services played a role in training and coordinating the Mumbai attackers—but not necessarily a whole lot. The Paris shooters clearly were well-equipped and weren't complete amateurs, but also made some major tactical mistakes. Military experts interviewed by the Washington Post have said the Kouachis' shooting stance betrayed a lack of professional training. Plus, they initially got Charlie Hebdo's address wrong.
Given the amount of damage the Paris attack caused and the international attention it has garnered, the natural question is whether we'll see more attacks of this type in the future. The director of MI5 warned Thursday that Britain is at risk of what are now being called "Paris-style" attacks. (It's worth noting intelligence agencies have a habit of hyping threats to justify their own activities and budgets.) As for the United States, al-Qaida has been suggesting for years that the country is "awash with easily obtainable firearms" that could be used in a jihadist attack.
The good news is that in order for urban-warfare-style attacks to be really effective, they require multiple participants and some amount of coordination. That means they're easier to catch before they happen. "It requires plotters, not just a plotter, and Western intelligence services are better at stopping groups," says Gartenstein-Ross.
"Lone wolf" attacks, like those seen in Canada and Australia in recent weeks, are much harder to detect ahead of time but also usually less effective. Though as numerous non-jihadist American shooters have demonstrated in recent years, a lone gunman can also cause a frightening amount of damage under the right circumstances.
The Kosher Grocery Shooting Follows a String of Anti-Semitic Attacks in France
It is unclear if the grocery store where a hostage situation unfolded earlier Friday was targeted because it is kosher, but the siege there follows a string of attacks on Jewish businesses and synagogues in France, the country with the third-largest Jewish population in the world, after the United States and Israel, as well as the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Last month, speaking at a rally against anti-Semitism in the Paris suburb of Créteil, the country's interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said that anti-Semitic acts and threats had more than doubled in the past 10 months, and he promised to make the issue a "national cause."
The rally was prompted by a particularly shocking crime in Créteil in which a couple was robbed and the woman raped in their apartment by armed assailants who told them they had been targeted because "you Jews, you have money." Tensions reached a high point during last summer's war in Gaza, when demonstrations turned violent with pro-Palestinian youths attacking Jewish businesses in a neighborhood known for its large Jewish population. Several synagogues were also firebombed. Demonstrators at some rallies chanted slogans like "death to the Jews" and "slaughter the Jews." These incidents followed an attack in May on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, where a French former ISIS fighter killed four people.
These attacks have added to the growing unease of a community still reeling from the 2012 shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, which killed three children and a teacher, as well as the grisly torture and murder of a young Jewish man named Ilan Halimi in 2006. While these dramatic incidents have garnered the most international attention, smaller anti-Semitic crimes have become depressingly commonplace. On New Year's Day of this year, for instance, a fire was started and a swastika drawn on the wall of a synagogue in a Paris suburb.
While not all the perpetrators of these crimes have been Muslims—police also arrested five men believed to be "far-right" activists for making threats against a synagogue last month—the vast majority of them have been, and they have contributed to the increasing public unease about the country's growing immigrant population.
Notably, Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's anti-immigration National Front party, has taken steps to distance herself from the overt anti-Semitism and Holocaust denialism of her father, the party's founder, and focused the party's rhetoric on immigrants from the Muslim world.
Debates over anti-Semitism have spilled over into the country's cultural conversation as well. Dieudonné, one of the country's most popular comedians, has sparked outrage and hate-speech charges with jokes about the Holocaust and the all-powerful Jewish lobby, as well as his patented gesture, known as the quenelle, which resembles an inverted Nazi salute. And in 2009, Charlie Hebdo fired a cartoonist known as Sine for a cartoon the implied that Nicolas Sarkozy's son was planning to convert to Judaism for financial reasons.
The distinction between anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment can often get pretty hazy, but it seems apparent that Mideast politics are often used as cover for plain old anti-Semitism. While French leaders have vowed to combat this problem, and have recently taken responsibility for past moments in the country's history of anti-Semitism (in December, France agreed to pay compensation to victims who had been deported to the camps on French railways), the country has seen a dramatic increase in Jewish emigration to Israel. The vast majority of the country's 500,000-strong Jewish community is staying put, but Friday's events will only increase a growing sense of unease.
The Charlie Hebdo Shooting Was a Violent Attack Against Blasphemy. Governments Do This All the Time.
The Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris this week was uniquely horrific. But in one way, it was not that unusual: Violent acts in response to "blasphemy" are unfortunately pretty common. They're just usually perpetrated by governments.
In December, Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed was sentenced to death for apostasy for a post he wrote that argued against the religious legitimacy of the country's rigid caste system, which often takes the form of chattel slavery. Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger, won't be killed for perceived insults to Islam, but this Friday he will receive the first of 20 weekly public floggings. Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes along with 10 years in prison and a $26,666 fine last May on charges that he had insulted his religion on his website, Free Saudi Liberals. As Reuters notes, the government of Saudi Arabia, where judges are trained as religious scholars and have wide latitude to interpret Islamic law, condemned the Charlie Hebdo attack but has also called for an international law against insulting religion.
In a recent essay in Foreign Affairs, UCLA law professor Amjad Mahmood Khan argues that Pakistan's absurdly broad blasphemy laws—under which any "imputation, innuendo, or insinuation" that "directly or indirectly defiles the sacred name of Prophet Muhammad" is outlawed and in some cases punishable by death—have not only led to the arrest of thousands of individuals for crimes as trivial as wearing an Islamic slogan on a T-shirt, but "provide legal cover for terrorists to commit atrocities in the name of protecting Islam's integrity based on their warped view of the faith." This includes the mass killings of members of minority sects like the Ahmadis, who are forbidden by law from calling themselves Muslims and frequently charged under blasphemy laws, as well as attacks on Christians.
Just this week a Pakistani man who had been arrested in 2011 for blasphemy after declaring himself a prophet but was recently released after being deemed mentally unstable, was found murdered by gunmen outside of Islamabad.
Blasphemy laws are harshest and most common in the Muslim world, but aren't exclusive to it. In the wake of Pussy Riot's church performance, Russia's parliament passed a new law mandating jail terms for insults to religion. Nearly a quarter of the world's countries have blasphemy laws on their books, according to Pew, and one out of 10 bans apostasy. The Charlie Hebdo killings have already prompted some Western governments, notably Ireland and Canada, to announce that they will reconsider the blasphemy laws on their books. But in much of the world, governments, not terrorists, will continue to be the biggest threat to freedom of and from religion.
This post has been updated for clarity.
Will Anyone Claim Credit for the Charlie Hebdo Attack?
While officials and analysts seem to be leaning toward the theory that the perpetrators of Wednesday's attack on Charlie Hebdo had help from a larger terrorist organization, no group has yet claimed credit. Does this make it more likely that that the shooters were lone wolves, operating independently?
Not at all. First, we're still in the early days. The shooters remain at large, and it's not unusual for groups to wait before claiming credit for major operations. As Foreign Policy's John Hudson pointed out in the aftermath of the 2013 Boston bombing, Osama Bin Laden took almost two months to claim credit for the 9/11 attacks. And as my colleague Brian Palmer noted during the speculation that surrounded the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, only about 14 percent of terrorist attacks get claimed at all.
Islamist groups, the leading perpetrators of terrorist attacks around the world in recent times, are generally less likely to claim credit than nationalist or extreme right- or left-wing groups, as they're often less interested in winning concessions from their enemies than in simply destroying them. "Anonymous attacks are often taken to indicate that groups are disinterested in building grass-roots support for their movements and closed to efforts at political compromise," wrote the political scientist Aaron Hoffman in a 2010 paper published in the Journal of Peace Research.
Still, if an international group was behind this attack, it does seem likely that we will eventually hear from it. In research presented at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting last year, the Stanford political scientist Eric Min identified several factors that make terrorist groups more likely to claim credit for an attack. Claims, he argued, are more likely "for attacks that involve high costs (suicide and casualties), institutionally constrained states (democracy), and competitive environments."
France is a democracy and the attack was large, but the last factor is probably the most important. Terrorists groups are more likely to claim responsibility for attacks when they're in competition with other terrorist groups. In some cases this can even lead to multiple organizations claiming credit for the same attack. At least three Pakistani jihadist groups tried to take credit for a bombing that killed about 60 people near the Pakistan-India border in November.
At the moment, al-Qaida is competing with its rivals in ISIS on the battlefields of Syria for the loyalty of smaller jihadist groups around the world, and for recruits—including young disaffected Muslims in Western countries like the suspects in the Charlie shooting. And the delay in claiming credit would fit the pattern of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the offshoot that French and U.S. officials have pointed to as the most likely perpetrator. AQAP waited several days before praising and claiming involvement in both the Fort Hood shooting and the attempted Christmas Day shoe bombing of 2009, the group's most high-profile operations in the west.
If al-Qaida is indeed involved in such a successful operation against a long-hated enemy, it seems likely that it eventually will want to make sure that al-Qaida—not ISIS, not anyone else—gets the credit.
What We Know About the Terror Group Thought to Be Behind the Paris Attack
Following eyewitness testimony reported yesterday, that the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo massacre claimed to be from "al-Qaida in Yemen," a French police official tells the AP today that the suspects, French brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, are believed to be linked to a Yemeni terrorist network.
If it's true that al-Qaida's Yemeni offshoot, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, was involved in the attack, Wednesday was quite a day for them. In Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, a suicide bomber killed at least 37 people when he rammed a bus rigged to explode into a gathering of recruits outside a police academy. No one has yet claimed responsibility for that attack, but it fits a pattern of recent al-Qaida assaults in the country.
The Editor of Charlie Hebdo Was on an al-Qaida Magazine Hit List
It's still early going, but the sophistication of Wednesday's attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is, as the New York Times reports, leading experts to suspect the involvement of al-Qaida or one of its affiliates. According to one eyewitness, one of the gunmen yelled, "Tell the media that this is al-Qaida in Yemen" as he was fleeing.
Another clue: In a recent issue of Inspire, the English-language magazine published by the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier, one of the 12 people killed Wednesday, was featured on a hit list under the caption "A Bullet a Day Keeps the Infidel Away."
The other figures on the list, with their photos displayed under the headline "Wanted Dead or Alive for Crimes Against Islam," are Kurt Westergaard and Lars Vilks, two cartoonists who have already survived assassination attempts after drawing cartoons of Mohammad; Carsten Juste and Flemming Rose, editors at Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that caused an international scandal by publishing Westergaard's cartoons in 2005; Terry Jones, the Florida preacher best known for attempting to publicly burn the Quran in 2010; Geert Wilders, the leader of the right-wing Dutch Party for Freedom, known for his outspoken criticism of Islam; Morris Sadek, an Egyptian Christian activist based in Virginia, best known for promoting the anti-Mohammad film The Innocence of Muslims; and Salman Rushdie, the celebrated author who spent years in hiding after being threatened by Islamic fundamentalists over his book The Satanic Verses. (Several of the names are misspelled in Inspire's graphic.)
The page also separately lists two women, though it does not include their photos: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-American activist and critic of Islam, and Molly Norris, the American cartoonist who promoted "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" in 2010 to protest the censoring of a Mohammad-themed episode of South Park.
Inspire, which has distinguished itself through its slick graphic design and cheeky headlines like "How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," was the brainchild of the American AQAP members Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, but has continued to publish intermittently since they were killed by U.S. drone strikes in 2011.
Terrorism analysts have criticized English-speaking reporters for attributing too much importance to the publication, which often seems aimed as much at the media as at potential jihadists. Which is why it's a mistake to read too much into the list. It's highly unlikely that the French-speaking perpetrators of Wednesday's attacks got the idea from the magazine. But it certainly gives an indication of the mindset that led to Wednesday's events, not to mention the strange but very real focus on writers and cartoonists.
France Was on Edge Over Terrorism Even Before the Charlie Hebdo Attack
We still don't know much about the attackers who killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday, though the paper's track record on poking at Islamic extremists and the video of the black-clad gunmen chanting "Allahu Akbar" as they made their escape makes their motivation pretty apparent.
France hasn't seen an attack on this scale since seven people were killed in a shooting rampage against a Jewish school and French soldiers in 2012. And it comes at a time when the country is on high alert over French extremists fighting in Syria. (Though it's worth keeping in mind that Hebdo's offices had been bombed before and the paper had been a target of extremists long before the war in Syria started.)
France, a member of the international coalition fighting ISIS, is also one of the leading suppliers of foreign fighters to ISIS and other Islamic extremist groups. The French interior ministry stated in September that about 930 of its citizens are fighting with jihadist groups, including ISIS and the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, in Iraq and Syria. France is one of a number of European nations that instituted policies last year aimed at preventing young people from traveling to the Middle East to take up arms, motivated in part by fears that these fighters could return to France to carry out attacks at home.
The concern is legitimate. Senior ISIS leaders have specifically called for attacks against citizens of France, as well as other countries involved in the coalition. Last May, Mehdi Nemmouche, a French jihadist of Algerian origin who had spent time fighting with ISIS in Syria, shot and killed four people in an attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels. A French journalist who was held captive by ISIS later recalled being beaten by Nemmouche. And in November the French government confirmed that two Frenchmen had appeared in the video depicting the beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig as well as 18 Syrian prisoners.
Recent days have also seen a series of smaller attacks in France. On Dec. 20, French police shot dead a man who had shouted "Allahu Akbar" while stabbing three officers in a police station near the city of Tours. Just before Christmas, the country saw two attacks, one in Nantes and another in Dijon, involving cars hitting pedestrians, which fit a pattern of similar recent attacks around the world. In the car attacks, prosecutors specifically said the men were mentally unbalanced and that these were not instances of political or religious terrorism, though that definition seems a little hard to parse given that the Dijon driver was a recent convert to Islam who was reportedly upset over the treatment of Chechen children.
It is fair to say that these earlier attacks were almost certainly the work of self-motivated lone actors who may have been inspired by jihadist propaganda but weren't acting under direct orders from anyone. These kinds of attacks are extremely hard to prevent—lone wolves leave less of a paper trail than organized terror cells—but tend not to be all that effective.
Wednesday's attack was several orders of magnitude more sophisticated and deadly than these earlier efforts. One early eyewitness account suggests that Wednesday's gunmen identified themselves as members of "al-Qaida in Yemen," which is likely a reference to the Yemen-based chapter more commonly known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. AQAP isn't linked to ISIS, though its compatriots in Jabhat al-Nusra have also been targeted by Western airstrikes in recent months. Whether or not it turns out that the gunmen were under orders from AQAP or another group, this was an attack that likely took extensive planning and coordination.
Last month Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned that France was facing an "unprecedented" threat from terrorism. At the time it seemed a bit of an overstatement in a country that has sadly known its share of terror over the years. Judging by the fact that the perpetrators were able to carry out such a well-executed attack in a major European city, escape the scene, and reportedly did it speaking perfect French, he may have been right.


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Reader Karl writes in to let us know his twelve year old son discovered a glitch in SMS security:
Being security conscious he turned on the passcode lock and disabled SMS Preview. [...] If a message is received during the passcode entry or while the screen is locked, a generic message of "New Text Message" appears, to prevent viewing of messages without unlocking the phone. [...] If however the phone is placed in emergency call mode, any incoming SMS messages are previewed instead of presented as the generic messages.
Next comes two issues concerning the implementation choices Apple made in the iPhone Mobile Mail client. According to Ars Technica, as disclosed by Aviv Raff, the first involves the way Mail truncates URLs for display on the iPhone. If a malicious URL is properly crafted by an attacker, the truncation can cause a fake URL to be non-obvious to the users, and thus more likely to result in phishing.
The second results from the lack of an option to display images in the full HTML Mobile Mail client. Since images are automatically displayed, spammers can gain confirmation that the email account that received it is active and ripe for spam attack.
As always, malicious attacks evolve and propagate at an alarming rate, and while we hope Apple fixes these immediately if not sooner, the onus is ultimately and always on we end users to pay attention and do everything we can to avoid them.