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Clayton, Melbourne, VIC Florist
Delivery to Clayton, Melbourne & Surrounding Areas
You�ll want to put this colourful arrangement on your hit parade of gifts to send. Bold primary colours and a perfect mix of flowers make it great for everyone.
Flowers are subject to seasonal availability. In the event that any of the flowers are unavailable, the florist will substitute with a similar flower in the same shape, style and colour. Stem count, packaging and container may vary.
Garden Spectacle reviews
Feedback for Garden Spectacle has been compiled from 20 customer reviews
This is a beautiful and cheerful arrangements and have made the recipients day special
The arrangement never arrived and I never got to see it
The flowers were colourful but the roses were deformed and twisted and almost unrecognisable as roses and only a few petals hung open, and the gerberas were half dead with rotting and drooping petals. I would have been better going and buying a bunch of flowers from Aldi. The birthday girl was delighted to receive flowers of any sort and I do not want her to know of this review. I have had large and beautiful flower gardens and could not believe that a qualified florist would palm off shoddy blooms in an $80 arrangement. My overall reaction was colourful, cheap and nasty.
I didn't see the flowers but the recipient said they were absolutely beautiful.
I had stopped buying my mother flowers (another supplier) because she had become disappointed in the quality of the flowers that we delivered - More fillers than flowers. Your delivery was just amazing. So many flowers - NO fillers. My mum loved it and it was the perfect thing for her 89th birthday.


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If you�re near a school bus this week, chances are a state trooper isn�t far away.
This week, troopers with the State Highway Patrol are looking to bring attention to motorists to pay closer attention when driving near a bus, in order to protect children getting on the bus in the morning or leaving the bus in the evening.
�We must ensure our children�s safety as they travel to and from school,� said Frank Perry, secretary of the Department of Public Safety, in a statement. �A child�s life should never be put in danger just to save a minute or two during a daily commute. That�s why we�re going to make sure people know the law as well as the consequences of breaking it.�
According to the state Department of Public Safety, on one day last year, 3,196 drivers committed moving violations at 2,299 bus stops.
�Children are now back at school, and just be careful in the early morning hours, and in the afternoon hours for buses stopped, picking up and discharging children,� NCHP 1st Sgt. Robert Bowen said. �This week, Highway Patrol�s going to be making a specialized effort across the state to follow school buses and be scene in and around school zones.�
Bowen took over as the Highway Patrol first sergeant for Lenoir and Jones counties, replacing Charles Johnston, who retired from the position Aug. 2.
�I�ve worked as a trooper in Raleigh and over in Pitt County, in Greenville,� said Bowen, who�s been with the NCHP since 1992. �And I�ve been a sergeant in New Bern, Washington, Greenville, and then up at the Training Academy up in Raleigh. Though, mostly around here � mostly Down East since I came here in �99.�
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Jewelry Store - Ann Arbor, MI - Urban Jewelers
Welcome to Urban Jewelers, handcrafting jewelry in Ann Arbor since 1968.
Visit our jewelry store on Main Street in Ann Arbor, MI. We specialize in Custom Jewelry Design, Jewelry Repair and Restoration, Eco-Friendly Conflict Free Sustainable Diamonds and Gemstones since 1968. With over 125 years of combined jewelry industry experience, our award-winning goldsmiths and gemologists know how to listen to your needs and create a lasting jewelry treasure for yourself or a loved one.
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Cholesterol. You have heard it is "bad for you," but why? Where does it come from? Why is it a cause for concern?
Cholesterol itself is not bad. It is a type of fat that has several important roles in the body, such as:
Problems occur when the levels of cholesterol in the blood get too high. This fat causes a build up of plaque in the blood vessels. Over time this build up increases the risk of cardiovascular disease such as coronary artery disease or stroke.
Cholesterol comes from internal and external source. Your liver creates cholesterol, but you also take in cholesterol through your foods. Dietary cholesterol comes from animal products, such as meat, milk, cheese, and butter.
Not all cholesterol is the same, there are several subtypes with important differences. Two more common subtypes include:
Problems occur when the levels of cholesterol in the blood get too high.
Increased levels of cholesterol in the blood can contribute to atherosclerosis. This is the gradual build-up of plaque along the walls of your arteries. Over time, this build-up can narrow the artery and stiffen the arterial wall. If the plaque is severe enough, it can block blood flow. If this blockage occurs in the heart, it can cause a heart attack. In the brain, it can cause a stroke.
Part of the plaque can also break off and be released into the blood flow. Once released, clots can travel through the bloodstream through smaller and smaller vessels until they either dissolve or reach a point where they cannot squeeze through, causing a blockage.
High cholesterol is one of many risk factors for developing heart disease. Your actual risk of heart disease will depend on the combination of risk factors. Some risk factors like cholesterol level can be modified, while others like age can not be changed. The full list of risk factors for heart disease includes:
|Unmodifiable Risk Factors
|Modifiable Risk Factors
The more risk factors you have, the greater your chances of developing heart disease.
Cholesterol levels can be measured with a simple blood test. What is too high for you will depend on the number of heart disease risk factors that you have. The table below are recommended levels for people with no known heart disease risk factors.
|Lab Test
|Total Cholesterol
|less than 200 mg/dL (5.2 mmol/L)
|LDL Cholesterol
|less than 100 mg/dL (2.6 mmol/L)
|HDL Cholesterol
|More than 40 mg/dL (1.6 mmol/L)
|less than 150 mg/dL (2.6 mmol/L)
If you have other risk factors for heart disease such as diabetes, your doctor may recommend lower target cholesterol levels. Discuss your risk factors and cholesterol goals with your doctor.
Fortunately there are some effective ways to lower and manage your cholesterol levels.
Lifestyle changes are often an effective way to lower cholesterol and reduce your risk of heart disease. This can include regular exercise, a healthy diet, not smoking, and maintaining a healthy weight. There are also cholesterol-lowering medications if you need them.
Make sure to have your cholesterol levels tested regularly (every 4-6 years) once you reach 20 years of age. If you are concerned about your cholesterol levels, talk to your doctor to create a plan that is right for you.
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Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians
Heart & Stroke Foundation
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About Cairo
The great Cairo is one of the biggest cities in Africa and in the entire Arab world,It is also the capital of Egypt, Cairo is one of the most crowd city in the world, it has a nickname which is "the city of a thousand minarets" and that is belongs to the Islamic history inside it, Over the time Cairo was the most important witness for the history by his all faces.
- Coffee & Sheesha (Have a coffee, mint tea or Sheesha at El Fishawy's coffee shop in Khan El-Khalili.)
- Felucca (Ride a felucca along the Nile River. )
- Parks
- Shopping (Citystars is Egypts premier shopping mall and is quite comparable to a foreign mall.)
- Horseback Riding (Go horseback riding in the desert from one of the Nazlet El-Samaan stables )
Inside the huge Cairo we find political regions, religious areas, literature and the culture everywhere, in the all Cairo's walls the history is digs by the Egyptian hands,Also Cairo was associated with the ancient Egypt cause the proximity with the pyramids and the sphinx in the neighbor city which is the Giza.Also Cairo includes a famous and great places like:
1-The Egyptian Museum
The location of the Egyptian museum is inside the downtown, it was building in the center of Cairo, It is involve a fantastic and extensive collection of an ancient Egyptian artifacts for more than 3000 years dating back to the old kingdom for the roman period, If we look to the Egyptian museum's exhibit….then we will know if we give only one minute to each exhibit inside the museum we will take a months to see everything inside it.
2- Giza Pyramids
The great pyramids of Giza are the only survivors of the of the seven wonders of the ancient world, The three pyramids were building to the three kings Khufu, Kafhre and Mankura which are the pyramids called by them names, to be later such a great tombs for those kings All the three pyramids are built during the third and fourth dynasty, but unfortunately the three pyramids for the three kings were not finished by the end of each respective king's reign, like many of the great kings of ancient kingdom at Egypt.
3- Sphinx
The legendary Sphinx which is known in Arabic as "Abu al houl" which meaning "the father of terror" The Sphinx is carved out the hillside, this massive statue is still big mystery for a statue as a body of lion and head for man and that is refers to the huge strength and power in the body also has a smart mind I the head, The Sphinx now is in a poor case, the old story says it's nose is fell off while used it as a target by the Napoleonic soldiers and Memeluke, While it's beard is in the British Museum in London.
4- Khan al Khalili
The Khan is a confusion maze of alleys, shops, cafes and bazaars mostly organized by trade, Khan al Khalili is a bustling commercials soul of the old city of Cairo since the middle ages. Inside the Khan you can feel and smell the soul of ancient Egypt, you will find out a local shops sells stuff belongs to ancient Egypt and there, are a good places for lunch or drink something like Nagib Mahfouz restaurant-cafe and al Sokaria restaurant-café also there are bazaars and shops for Egyptian perfumes and spices and inside the Khan there are a famous silver and gold shops. Around the Khan is a big religious area definitely Islamic area like the mosque of al Housayn and sharia Almuizz li Din Allah. The Khan is a big commercial area collects different nationalities.
5- Cairo Tower
The massive Cairo Tower is built on Zamalek island along the Nile river,it is a built from 1956 to 1961, by 187 meters it is a 43 meters taller than a huge pyramid of Giza , The upper floors is has a nice revolving restaurants which are popular for the all people specially for the couples, also on the top of the Tower you can watch all the downtown and the Nile river in it's magical scene with the lights at the night, The Tower is crowned by an observation deck and it is the tallest build in the area of Zamalek Island.
6- Citadel of (salah Eden)
Salah ad-Din Citadel is one of the most popular and amazing places in Cairo, it is count as one of the most world's greatest monuments to the medieval warfare, the Citadel reveal a character of the medieval. Also the Citadel is the largest fortification in the Middle East and still dominating skyline of Cairo, The Citadel was built in 1176 by Salah ad-Din as part of his plan against the Crusaders; it was the royal residence for more than 700 years. The Citadel involve the history inside it, even each wall in the Citadel tell a different historical event like the history in it's towers, museums and the mosque of Muhammed Ali.
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"My name's Guybrush Threepwood, and I want to be a pirate!"
"Guybrush Threepwood? Ha ha ha! That's the stupidest name I've ever heard!"
"Well, what's your name?"
"My name is Mancomb Seepgood."
Ah yes, ask any seasoned gamer to name the funniest video games they've ever played, and you'll almost always find "The Secret of Monkey Island" somewhere at the top of their list.
This beloved point-and-click adventure from LucasArts launched in 1990 and in doing so introduced the world to the misadventures of Guybrush Threepwood, a bumbling but endearing would-be pirate, along with Guybrush's nemesis — the ghost pirate LeChuck — and his true love — Elaine.
The game also introduced the world to "insult sword fighting" — a kind of duel in which you must outwit your opponent with clever insults. (Jab: "You fight like a dairy farmer!" Parry: "How appropriate. You fight like a cow.") With its witty repartee, quirky story and clever puzzles, "The Secret of Monkey Island" spawned not only three sequels, but went down in history as one of the great adventure games of all time.
Alas, here we are almost two decades later and the once flourishing point-and-click adventure genre has long been pushed into near obscurity.
And yet, it's starting to feel like 1990 all over again. That is, after almost 10 years without a "Monkey Island" game, players were greeted last week with "Tales of Monkey Island," a brand new entry in the beloved series, available for both the PC and the Wii. And this week, LucasArts released a totally revamped version of the original "Secret of Monkey Island" game for the PC and Xbox 360.
Silly swashbuckling ahoy!
"It's been a little strange," says Dave Grossman, who's not only one of the three masterminds behind the original "Secret of Monkey Island" game but the man spearheading the long-awaited new "Monkey Island" title.
"The last time I worked on a 'Monkey Island' game it was 1991," he says. "It's been kind of like running into a stranger at the supermarket and then suddenly realizing that it's an old friend of yours that you've kind of lost touch with. Things come flooding back like, 'Oh yeah, I remember what I loved about these characters and why I liked writing in this style.'"
"He said he had always wondered what it would be like to step off the ride and talk to the people who lived in that world," Grossman says.
And so the three of them set about creating their pirate tale. But while their competition at the time was making adventure games that could be frustratingly difficult, they decided to design a friendlier game experience — one that made it rare for players to get themselves into a game-ending predicament.
And they packed "The Secret of Monkey Island" to the gills with hilarity, sprinkling zingy dialog and zany puzzles throughout.
"There was a unique kind of synergy of humor between the three of us," Grossman says. "We were all funny in slightly different ways, and it worked well together."
But he believes it wasn't just the humor that made the game into a beloved classic, but the mix of both the funny and the serious.
"The moment-by-moment lines of dialog and scenes are quite funny, but the overarching story is to be taken fairly seriously," Grossman says. "It's a story about this young man who comes to an island in search of his life's dream. He's pursuing his career goals and he discovers love in the process and winds up thinking that was actually more important than what he was doing to begin with. You're laughing, but there's actually something deeper going on as well."
Sadly, the laughter began to fade when "Doom" hit the market in 1993. The adrenaline rush of this first-person, demon-shooting thrill ride spawned countless immitators and wooed players and publishers away from other games, helping to usher the "Monkey Island" series and other point-and-click adventure games out the door.
Grossman says it wasn't until all of the Telltale and LucasArts business stars finally aligned last year that they could start work on a new "Monkey Island" game. But he says it's not exactly easy revisiting a game with such an avid following.
"There's tons of pressure actually," Grossman says. "The fans are very vocal, and they're vocal about all kinds of different details."
Get your hot monkey vengeance here
With "Tales of Monkey Island," he says they've tried to return to the series in a way that will please long-time fans. They brought in "Monkey" mastermind Gilbert (now busy developing a game called "DeathSpank") to do some early brainstorming on the project and also put together a team that included writers, designers and artists who had worked on previous "Monkey Island" games.
But Grossman says they also tried to make "Tales of Monkey Island" welcoming to a new audience. To that end, they set it several years after the last game in the original series ("Escape from Monkey Island") to give it room to take on its own life. And it will be doled out to players much like a TV series — with the story taking place over the course of five episodes, one delivered each month. The total package costs $35 and the first episode — "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal" — launched last week. It can be downloaded at SteamPowered.com and will soon appear for download via WiiWare.
Having played "Narwhal," I can say that the beloved characters, though done in a thoroughly modern style, feel like their good ol' selves. The game gets underway with Guybrush trying to rescue Elaine from that persistent pirate LeChuck only to have things go so horribly awry that he's left stranded on an island without Elaine and with one of his hands acting like it has an evil mind of its own.
"Tales" certainly retains the signature "Monkey" humor with funny lines flying faster than a flock of winged monkeys.
Meanwhile, the puzzles are authentically twisted and intriguing. The only (minor) negative is that, in the PC version, the controls can feel a bit wonky at times.
And the "Monkey" love continues this week with LucasArts launching "The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition" — the original game with all new high-def graphics, a remastered score, a new hint system and a fully voice-acted story. (For $10 it can be downloaded through Steam or Xbox Live.)
Ultimately, it's great to see the imaginative, playful and delightfully twisted world of "Monkey Island" get a new life and hopefully a new audience. This is one treasure that should not be buried in the sand and forgotten.
And now, as Guybrush would say, "Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!"
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This class is for all 12 Steppers (AA, NA, Al-anon etc.) interested in exploring the 11th Step and establishing and deepening their spiritual practice in the context of an Insight Meditation Center.
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September 23, 2002-TANNA AND THE VOLCANO
Tanna and the Volcano
As we stood on the rim of Yasur, the volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu, casually pondering the smoking crater floor Yasur decided to shake us out of our complacency. Somewhere deep under the three steaming vents on the crater floor, three hundred yards from where we stood, an explosion occurred. It shook the earth and it roared. Its shock wave hit us in the chest and we felt it in our insides. We wanted to run away, but we could not move quickly enough. Then results of this explosion roared out of the vents and into the sky in front of our eyes: giant spouts of hot gases and molten lava shooting high over our heads, then lazily floating down onto the sides of the volcano and landing with clearly audible thuds. We were stunned.
This was more than we'd bargained for, but this was Tanna Island.
Two days before this we'd arrived on our sailboat Wings in Port Resolution, on Tanna Island's east side, its most protected anchorage. But we had not sailed here for a good anchorage: we'd come to see the volcano. The day we arrived we were aware of the volcano's presence just over the hill; it was making sounds. A cruiser from another yacht in the anchorage came over to welcome us. She said, "Yes, that's Yassur, its very exciting." We looked at each other. Yes, this was going to be exciting. We just didn't know how exciting.
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The next day the volcano was talking loudly all day, as the natives say, with a voice that started like the rumble of surf, then grew to a roar like a jetliner on take-off, and then smoke and ash would roil up into sight over the hill next to the bay. In five seconds it was over, nothing left but a fading mushroom cloud. The word reached the village, and they passed it on to the cruisers anchored around the bay, that the geologists in Vila had raised the volcano's activity level to four, and maybe it wasn't a safe day to climb to the top and peer over the rim into the crater. We quietly cancelled our plans to do just that; we'd go on another day when the level was slightly lower.
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Looming volcano
Meanwhile, even without the volcano's ominous presence, Port Resolution had an air of primordial about it. On the hillside above the anchorage steam rose lazily from vents in the jungle, and around the bay there were cracks in the rocks where boiling water shot out like from an over-filled tea pot. On the beach local people were cooking vegetables in natural pools and further down towards the water's edge, where it is cool enough, they were doing their laundry.
Port Resolution is remote and life here is primitive for the villages in the area, but this might be changing. The Vanuatu government now allows yachts to check into or out of Tanna, making Port Resolution an easier place to visit. Before, when formalities had to occur in Port Vila, it was a tough beat to weather to get here, and only the hardy came. Now there are boats coming and going every day. The villages have been quick to capitalize on the new opportunities that all of the visiting yachts present. One thing they do is organize tours to the volcano.
When, a couple of days later, the volcano had quieted down from its previous level, we asked at the village if a visit that night was possible. They said it was. At 5:00 PM a beefy 4WD Mitsubishi pick-up arrived for us and seven yachties piled into the back for an expedition. After a stop to pay for admittance to the area to a village near the volcano's base, the driver shifted to 4WD low and ground up the hill to the ash field where he parked. "You walk from here", he said, "too dangerous for me." We looked up at the rim of the volcano. It seemed quiet, but maybe he knew something that we didn't. With some trepidation we got out of the truck and started to walk up the hill over the same kind of black sand found on beaches all over Vanuatu. It was a short climb up and then we were on the rim of the crater of the volcano. We were just standing there when the eruption occurred.
After that first eruption some of those watching quietly returned to the truck where the driver and our "guide" waited. The rest couldn't get enough, watching spellbound as the volcano roared again and again. Hot lava soared skyward and fell on the rim east of where we stood. Some of these molten rocks were as big and garbage cans and they made the ground shake and the sand hiss when they landed, but they were landing well clear of the watching cruisers, so people stayed where they were a little longer before the last of us finally wandered back down to the waiting truck, and piled in for the return trip to the shore of Port Resolution and back to our boats, our minds filled with images of fireworks better than any fourth of July, and memories which we will be a long time forgetting. The adventure on the rim Yassur, on Tanna Island, was really a highlight of our cruise in the South Pacific.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Tanna
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The husband of a "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star says prison officials are improperly preventing him from entering an alcohol-treatment program.
Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice made the claim in a court filing Friday. He says authorities at Fort Dix are using a detainer placed on him by Immigration and Customs officials as a reason to exclude him from the prison's treatment program.
The federal Bureau of Prison's website notes that inmates can't join the program if a detainer prevents completion of the community treatment aspect.
The husband of reality star Teresa Giudice was recommended to participate in the program after his October 2014 sentencing for bankruptcy fraud and false loan applications. It would have helped Giudice reduce his prison sentence for up to one year.
Giudice's attorney has declined comment.


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December 19, 2011-Forty Knots Isn't The Same Anymore
Four days ago we were anchored at Cape Agulhas and it was blowing forty knots and we could hardly stand up in the boat it was pitching and rolling so badly.
A few days before that we were in the port of Mossel Bay in 35 knots of wind and we were being slammed up against the wall and knocked down so badly fenders were exploding.
Now we are in the marina at Royal Cape Yacht Club in Cape Town, its blowing forty knots again and it's nothing. We are just so very damn glad to be here. There is no pitching, no violent rolling, no jerking and no shrieking dock lines. Judy looked outside and instead of breakers she sees ripples.
Forty knots? Bring it on. We're in Cape Town.
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Gene Haas validated by Kurt Busch victory
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Gene Haas believes his decision to hire Kurt Busch was validated by Busch's victory last Sunday at Martinsville Speedway.
"I look like a genius this week, don't I?" Haas said Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.
The founder of Stewart-Haas Racing hired Busch in August for a new fourth car that he funds out of pocket. Haas wanted Busch to drive a Haas Automation-sponsored car because he believed the driver could take his company to Victory Lane.
The Haas organization scored just one top-10 finish in 284 starts with 12 different drivers before Tony Stewart joined as co-owner in 2009. Since Stewart's arrival, SHR has 21 wins and one Sprint Cup championship.
But Haas badly wanted to see his own name in Victory Lane and hired Busch last summer while Stewart was recovering from his broken leg.
Only when Busch got the win, in the sixth race of the season, Haas wasn't at the track to celebrate.
"It looked great on TV," he joked. "It was one of those things that I've been doing this for a long time and finally saw it happen, and then you just go, `Wow, I missed that one.' "
Haas said Busch's victory has sparked an interest in his machine company, which is one of the largest in the world.
"Just this win, we've had such an interest in what we do, the raising of awareness of who Haas Automation is in terms of the machine tool builder, that I know it's already paid back," he said. "I know we already sold a lot of machines because of it. We had a couple salespeople go `Oh, I just sold 10 machines because of this win.' I don't know, maybe there's some truth to that. But I think what it does is it brings the awareness level of who are up."
Haas is also excited for Busch's attempt next month to run both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. Busch is just the fourth driver to attempt the 1,100 miles of racing in one day, and Haas supports the feat, which he likened to climbing Mount Everest.
He said he'll attend the Indy 500 and is pulling for Busch to finish both races – "it's more the adventure than what the results are going to be. You really can't expect to win both of them." Although Busch's win at Martinsville likely guarantees him a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship and gives him breathing room in trying to make it from Indianapolis to North Carolina in time for the start of the 600, Haas said he still wants Busch in his car for the NASCAR race later that day.
"Because that's the challenge. The challenge is to do both races on the same day," Haas said. "If I told him he could stay in Indy, he'd say `You're crazy. I'm going. I'm going to be in Charlotte.' Half the part of Charlotte is obviously winning, but the other part is just getting to the track and competing. That's the thing with Kurt – the guy doesn't want to finish second. I know that."


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Junior / Middleweight Retail Interior Designer
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An exciting opportunity has come up for a Junior/Middleweight Retail Designer to join a creative top London practice, specialising in Retail and Food and Beverage. The firm commit and pride themselves on promoting sustainable designs. Focusing on strengthening their work ethics and relationships with their employees and consumers making sure they are one step ahead of the fast-changing design led world.
The ideal Junior/Middleweight Retail Designer will have to be immediately available and have gained between 2 to 5 years' experience for the chance to work at this commendable practice.
They will be an excellent all-rounder, being able to multi-task and balance working from strategy to detailing. In addition, the candidate will need to be able to proficiently use Vectorworks, Sketch-up and Adobe CS Suite. You will have the opportunity to develop your career within a commendable firm, as an immediate starter.
Key responsibilities of the Junior/Middleweight Retail Designer:
- Cross sector experience would be great Retail/F&B/Brand Experience.
- Good all-rounder from strategy to detailing.
- Needs to be enthusiastic and proactive.
- Be passionate about what they do and the work they carry out.
- Keen to contribute to studio culture.
- High level of creativity and visualisation.
- A desire to develop yourself and those around you, being a team player.
- An Eye for organisation.
- Have excellent, strong technical skills with excellent detailing.
- Impeccable style and taste.
- Good organisational skills and time management
- Be pro-active, confident and inquisitive when working on projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven experience in conceiving and developing architectural designs.
- Collaborating with the team in delivering highly creative design solutions.
- Sketch-up with v-ray would be advantageous.
Essentials for the Junior/Middleweight Retail Designer:
- Understanding of packages and construction detailing.
- Strong technical skills are essential.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Good organisational skills and time-keeping.
- 2 to 5 years' experience is essential.
- Strong knowledge of Vectorworks.
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If you are interested in hearing more about this Junior/Middleweight Retail Designer, please contact Deborah D'Silva or apply online.
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Geithner Among Fed Losers in 2008, Dudley Among Winners
The Federal Reserve's release of transcripts from its 2008 policy meetings provides a chance to size up who among central bank officials did well, and who didn't, in the heat of the crisis.
The story on Chairman Ben Bernanke has been written many times: He was slow to respond to the grave situation in financial markets in 2007 and 2008, but moved with command and authority to steer the economy straight once he recognized what was at stake.
How about everyone else? Here's a subjective rundown from one Fed-watcher of the winners and losers who emerge from a review of 1,865 pages of documents. It's based on an unscientific sense of how accurately they assessed ongoing developments, how they responded, and also on personal style and how they interacted with others. (Titles are those they held at the time.)
William Dudley, head New York Fed's markets group
He got it. Mr. Dudley, now the New York Fed president, ran the New York Fed's markets group in 2008. His presentations to the Fed's policy making Federal Open Market Committee throughout the crisis were thorough and raised the right red flags. In a long discourse on January 29, 2008 he issued warnings on problems plaguing monoline bond insurers exposed to mortgage-backed collateralized debt obligations. Related problems contributed to the September failure and bailout of American International Group Inc. On March 10 2008, a few days before Bear Stearns Cos. collapsed, he warned about troubles brewing there. "There were rumors today that Bear Stearns was having funding difficulties: At one point today, its stock was down 14 percent before recovering a bit," he said. And then in April 2008 he alerted his colleagues about troubles with the London interbank offer rate, or Libor, a benchmark interest rate that became the subject of a long-running scandal.
He almost always handled questions from doubting policy hawks—the officials who tended to be more focused on inflation risks-- with a cool hand.
And in the middle of the Bear collapse, he balanced the job pressures with personal strife. "Not only did he write a terrific statement for the FOMC just now, despite all of those other preoccupations, but he sat with his wife through major surgery on Thursday and Friday and with her as she recovered," New York Fed president Timothy Geithner noted at a March 18 policy meeting.
Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren
At almost every point in the crisis, he put his fingers on real problems. Consider this comment in June 2008: "The recent flurry of articles on Lehman before their announcement of their capital infusion highlights continued concerns about investment banks, despite our new liquidity facilities. As a result, I continue to view the downside risk of further financial shocks as being significant."
San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen
We've already reported that transcripts from 2008 and earlier Fed policy meetings showed Ms. Yellen, now Fed chairwoman, had pretty good judgment about risks brewing in housing, the financial markets and the broader economy.
What we didn't know is that she also appears to have a sense of humor.
In her testimony to Congress earlier this month, Ms. Yellen came off as quite unexciting, and thanked lawmakers when they said as much. (Central bankers think they're succeeding when they're boring.) Behind the scenes, it turned out she had a deadpan wit that disarmed others. "The Silicon Valley Country Club, with a $250,000 entrance fee and seven-to-eight-year waiting list, has seen the number of would-be new members shrink to a mere thirteen," she noted wryly in September 2008.
New York Fed President Timothy Geithner
Mr. Geithner, a future Treasury Secretary, ran the New York Fed through most of 2008. He was supposed to be the Fed's eyes and ears on Wall Street, but events spun out of his control. His commentary at meetings lacked Mr. Dudley's precision and he often appeared engrossed in disagreements with the Fed's policy hawks.
After Mr. Dudley gave a detailed presentation on Jan. 29 2008 on troubling risks in the bond insurance business – a precursor to AIG's collapse and New York Fed-led bailout the following September – Mr. Geithner was asked by a colleague if he was in touch with the bond insurers. He responded vaguely: "We have not been in touch with them directly to get a sense about their risk profile and so forth." Instead, he said, the New York Fed was conferring with their New York state regulator and offering it advice.
Later at that January meeting he offered this assessment of financial conditions: "In the financial markets, I think it is true that there is some sign that the process of repair is starting," he said, pointing to capital-raising by financial firms and "pretty substantial improvement in market-functioning." He did say later that he remained worried about a "dangerous self-reinforcing cycle" in markets which raised recession probabilities, a point he emphasized often during the year in a call for the Fed to action. Still Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn felt the need to gently push back in that case in January: "The repair process that President Geithner referenced among financial institutions strikes me as very fragile and quite incomplete." Bear Stearns collapsed several weeks later.
At times Mr. Geithner appeared to lecture his colleagues, as in this passage on March 18 in which he talked about inflation expectations: "Some of you at this table may believe that we are losing credibility, and you may be losing confidence in the capacity of this committee to mitigate the risk to our long-term inflation objectives. If you say that in public, you will magnify that problem, and just because you believe it does not make it true. I believe that you should have more confidence in the commitment of this committee to do what is necessary to keep those expectations stable over time."
Mr. Geithner spent a great deal of time in these meetings jousting with the Fed's policy hawks who were resisting the New York Fed's efforts to extend support to new corners of the financial system, especially Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker. The hawks didn't appear to appreciate his tone in these debates. For instance, there was this backhanded exchange between Mr. Lacker and Mr. Geithner in January 2008. Mr. Geithner said, "Think how surprised we have been by so much over this period, even with all our thinking through three years ago about alternative paths for housing. So I would just vote for humility." Mr. Lacker shot back, "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our Vice Chairman urges humility. I strongly support that."
Fed governor Frederic Mishkin
Mr. Mishkin produced a regular stream of cringe-inducing personal commentary throughout the crisis. It included this about his personal housing decisions: "As somebody who stupidly is just going to contract on a new house because I have to please my wife, I actually thought … about pulling out but then decided that my marriage was more important."
Mr. Mishkin noted in April 2008, after rereading transcripts from a previous meeting, "I sounded so depressed then, as though I might take out a gun and blow my head off. That is the way it read. But my sunny, optimistic disposition is coming back. I think it is very possible that we will look back and say, particularly after the Bear Stearns episode, that we have turned the corner in terms of the financial disruption."
Mr. Mishkin deserves some credit for usually being alert to the risks. On August 5, when others worried about high inflation, he warned, "I am very concerned about the headwinds as a result of the difficulty in recapitalizing financial institutions … I see downside risks as having risen substantially." Still, the message often got drowned out by off color commentary.
Mr. Mishkin left the Fed in August 2008, in part to work on revising his popular economics textbook.
Policy Hawks
It turns out they were focused on the wrong problem for much of 2008. While they worried about inflation, the foundations of the financial system and the broader economy were cracking.
Among many examples was this passage by Thomas Hoenig, then president of the Kansas City Fed on June 25 2008: "More recent data suggest that the downside risks to growth have diminished, and in my judgment the current stance of policy is much more accommodative than necessary to address these risks. I continue to believe that the two most recent policy actions of this Committee were more than sufficient, and we really need to think about reversing them sooner rather than later. Inflation risks have risen, and we have seen erosion in longer-term inflation expectations. As I noted in my previous remarks on the outlook, if we do not begin to remove policy accommodation soon, I think we risk having to tighten policy more aggressively in the future to reestablish our credibility."
Mr. Hoenig said Monday in response to a request for comment: "I said in 2008 that in a crisis the Fed's job is to provide short term liquidity into the market, and I continue to hold that view today. I have been very consistent in my concern that rates that are held too low for too long, as was done between 2002 and 2006, risks inflation and asset bubbles. And, when the asset bubbles burst, you can be reasonably sure that an economy in severe recession will avoid inflation. We would do well to remember this lesson today."
Others in the hawk camp were Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, Philadelphia Fed president Charles Plosser and Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker.
Mr. Fisher said in an interview Sunday he was consistently concerned about the plumbing of the financial system, but an inflation surge in the summer of 2008 couldn't be dismissed. Mr. Lacker said soaring inflation in the summer of 2008 proved short-lived, but it was hardly clear at the time that would be the case.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 has seen its share of shocking races over the years, but nothing that has come before — and likely nothing that occurs here again — will ever quite match what happened to the 54th running of Nascar's premier Sprint Cup event.
First came the rain — causing the Daytona 500 to be postponed to Monday for the only time in its history. Then came the fire. A bizarre crash, even by auto racing standards, involving a racecar and a jet dryer truck led to a huge jet fuel fire across the track that seared the asphalt.
In a race already delayed 36 hours by rain, the fire caused a stoppage of two hours and five minutes. Throw in a trio of major wrecks at the end, and an extra two laps of racing had to be tacked on for a green-flag finish after all that had come before.
When it was finally, finally, finally done, Matt Kenseth was in victory lane. And the clock showed Tuesday morning.
"It feels great," Kenseth said after earning $1.589 million for his second career Daytona 500 victory. He also won in 2009 in a race that was shortened by rain.
"I wasn't expecting to win when I woke up this morning. It feels good to be sitting here."
An eight-car wreck with four laps to go forced the extra two laps to allow for a green-flag finish. Kenseth, who led the final 38 laps despite a variety of mechanical issues with the car, was in front with teammate Greg Biffle in second and working as his wingman to protect the lead. But in the end, neither Biffle nor Dale Earnhardt Jr. was able to catch Kenseth. Earnhardt pulled ahead of Biffle to finish second. If that was frustrating for Earnhardt's vast legion of fans, it wasn't for Earnhardt, despite extending his winless streak to 130 races.Continue reading the main story
"I'm really in a good place," Earnhardt said. "I'm not frustrated at all, I promise. I'm in a great mood.
"I know later tonight and tomorrow and the rest of the week it's going to eat at me what I could have done to win the race."
It was hardly a surprising finish, given the strength of the Roush Fenway Racing Fords here. Carl Edwards had won the pole, with Biffle on the front row as well and Kenseth starting fourth after winning a qualifying race on Thursday. Kenseth's victory in the Daytona 500 was the 300th for Roush Fenway in the top three national series in Nascar.
But that was the only part of this year's Daytona 500 that played out as expected.
After two unprecedented rain delays led to the Monday night start, with 140,000 fans showing up to fill the stands along the front stretch, the race was down to its final 43 laps when the engine on David Stremme's No. 30 Toyota blew up and he spun out. The race was still under caution when Juan Pablo Montoya came off pit road after trying to find the cause of a vibration in his No. 42 car. He was driving down the backstretch and about to enter Turn 3 when something broke in his racecar and he suddenly went sliding sideways across the track. He slid into a truck carrying a jet dryer that was slowly driving along the outside wall of the track and blowing dust and dirt away. The truck carries as much as 200 gallons of jet fuel.
The crash with Montoya's car burst the jet fuel tank and the fuel streamed down the track, immediately catching fire. That led to flames leaping all the way across the track. Montoya, who exited the burning car, was not harmed. The driver of the jet dryer truck was transported to a local hospital for evaluation but was not seriously injured.
"It burned the helmet and everything," said Montoya, who finished 36th. "It's not where you want to finish the Daytona 500."
The race was immediately red flagged. In a sign of the times, driver Brad Keselowski tweeted while he was sitting in his racecar. Eventually, the drivers were allowed to leave their racecars and they stood together in groups on the racetrack, casually chatting as the track was repaired.
"One thing about racing," Keselowski said, "when you think you've seen it all, it finds a way to show you something you never thought you'd see and that's the case today in the Daytona 500."
It was a stunning turn to a Speedweeks that had a bit of everything for Nascar, from a return to the pack racing and major crashes, to the first-ever postponement of the Daytona 500 because of rain and the debut of Danica Patrick, the third woman ever to run the Daytona 500.
It was not the coming-out ball that Patrick would have wanted. With pack racing back at Daytona after rules changes eliminated the odd tandem-style drafting of a year ago, the big wrecks were back, too. And the first of many Monday night happened on just the second lap of the race, collecting Patrick among others.
The "big one" occurred when part-time Cup driver Elliott Sadler tapped his No. 33 Chevrolet into five-time champion Jimmie Johnson's No. 48 on the front stretch. That touched off a six-car wreck that collected Patrick, last year's Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne, 2004 Cup champion Kurt Busch in his new ride in the No. 51 with Phoenix Racing, along with Bowyer and David Ragan.
Patrick's car sustained serious damage. She wound up more than 60 laps behind the leaders, never a factor in the race. Patrick finished 38th.
"I can't wait to see who was the bonehead who did that," Ragan said.
It was the third wreck in three races at Daytona for Patrick. She was bumped on the final lap of the qualifying race on Thursday, crashing hard into the wall as her racecar was destroyed. She was bumped again in the lower-level Nationwide race on Saturday, finishing 38th in that race as well.
"It's disappointing," she said. "I would have loved to have gotten a great finish. I would have loved to have been able to run on the lead lap there at the end. I feel back for disappointing my fans who were cheering for me; especially going out so early. But I'll come back stronger."
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Date: Oct 30, 2012
Press Release Number: 172-2012
Port Authority staff and engineers are on site at all Port Authority facilities to inspect conditions and assess damage. Our primary goal is to ensure the safety of our workers and those who use our facilities. We will resume operations at our facilities as early as possible, but only when it is safe to do so.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reports the following update on conditions at its transportation facilities as of 8:45 p.m.
In preparation of the opening of John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) tomorrow, some airlines will land planes at the airport beginning at 10 p.m. tonight. JFK will be open tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31 at 7:00 a.m. however, carriers will be providing limited service.
Newark Liberty International also will open tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31 at 7:00 a.m., however carriers will be providing limited service.
LaGuardia and Teterboro airports remain closed at this time.
Stewart International Airport is open, but running limited operations.
As airports ramp up service this week, passengers are strongly urged to confirm with their individual carriers regarding flight status in the coming days before traveling to the airports.
Rail service on AirTrain JFK and AirTrain Newark is suspended until further notice.
Tunnels and Bridges
The George Washington Bridge, Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing are open.
The Holland Tunnel is closed under further notice.
The Lincoln Tunnel remains open.
All PATH service is suspended until further notice.
Port Authority Bus Terminal
All public and private bus service is currently suspended. However, some bus carriers may resume service in the early morning hours.
Passengers are urged to check with their carrier before leaving for the bus terminal.
World Financial Ferry Terminal
The first ferries will run between New Jersey and New York from 7 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, starting from Paulus Hook, Weehawken and Hoboken North at 14th Street and going to the World Financial Ferry Terminal in Battery Park City.
For further information, customers should go to nywaterway.com..
The Port Authority's maritime facilities are closed until further notice.
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We have a deep bench of trial lawyers who are widely known for their capability to handle the most complex and demanding business litigation matters. In addition to their litigation and trial expertise, Morrison & Foerster's litigators have substantial experience providing pre-litigation or litigation avoidance advice to clients with respect to their business ventures in Asia and internationally.
Intellectual Property
Morrison & Foerster has long been recognized as having one of the strongest intellectual property practices in the world. We are consistently ranked among the leading firms in the world for IP and Patent Litigation by Chambers Global and Chambers U.S. We were named to Managing Intellectual Property's 2018 American Awards shortlist in the Appellate, ITC, and Life Sciences IP Litigation categories. In 2016, we were shortlisted for Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year by ALB Hong Kong Law Awards.
Our IP litigation practice is a group of more than 200 lawyers whose practices focus on patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation. The IP litigation practice is renowned for its deep bench of world-class trial lawyers, dexterous approach to solving issues of any complexity, and sophisticated legal, technical, and business expertise.
The firm's team of IP lawyers regularly litigates highly complex cases involving cross-border matters, cutting-edge technologies, and multiple-party disputes. Our collaborative culture and integration of our patent prosecution practice with our patent litigation practice ensures litigation teams are staffed with expert litigators as well as experts with relevant technical training. This winning combination of legal and technical talent has enabled the firm to develop litigation expertise in fields such as biotechnology, chemical technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, nanotechnology, electronics, semiconductors, software, and communications.
The firm has won high-stakes cases involving disputes over key patents and other intellectual property for clients such as Altera Corp., EchoStar, Novartis, Novell, and Thomson Electronics. In Asia, the firm regularly represents clients such as Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Toshiba in international patent litigation matters.
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Morrison & Foerster's Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White-Collar Defense Practice Group includes more than 150 attorneys worldwide, enabling us to handle seamlessly a wide range of highly complex and cross-border matters. The group includes over a dozen former federal and state criminal prosecutors, former SEC enforcement attorneys, and in-house accounting experts with decades of public accounting experience.
The firm is a recognized leader in all aspects of securities litigation, enforcement, and white-collar defense. We have successfully represented China-based companies, international companies with operations in China, and their officers and directors in private securities litigation, including class actions. We have also defended such clients in civil and criminal government investigations and litigation, including enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, and various state Attorneys General. Our China offices also provide integrated advice on U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, and PRC law to our international and Chinese clients.
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The international disputes and arbitration practice handles all aspects of dispute resolution. Our litigators provide complete representation in local courts, particularly in Hong Kong, and in arbitration proceedings, particularly in China and Japan. Lawyers in our China and U.S. offices have participated in both China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and International Chamber of Commerce arbitrations venues in China and elsewhere involving Chinese companies as parties. The firm's litigation practice in Asia is equipped to handle all aspects of local Asian and U.S. litigation and international arbitration, including factual and legal analysis, pretrial proceedings and discovery and trial.
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Latest developments
The Clean Team does its best to deliver reliable software. It therefore might take some time before a new release is published. On this site we will keep you informed about the latest developments. Please be patient, software development always takes more time as expected.
- the iTasks combinator library for the Web
At the ICFP 2007 conference we presented iTasks [1], a multi-user workflow system for the web. With this library one can assign tasks to users and control the order in which these tasks have to be performed. A user uses a browser to perform the tasks assigned to him or her. The iTask system is therefore also very suited for web programming and web form handling. The tasks are defined on a very high level declarative monadic style.
Have a look at the iTask pages [2].
The new release of the iTask library we are working on will support:
- Ajax handling of iTasks
- Client side evaluation of iTasks
With a simple annotation an iTask will be evaluated on the client instead of on the server. To make this possible we run full blown Clean applications in the browser as Java applet, making use of the fast Sapl interpreter [3]. The system automatically switches between client side and server side evaluation when needed.
We will use and release this new system at the AFP-summerschool [4]
- the Clean Compiler
We are adding a new front-end to the Clean compiler that will accept Haskell '98 source code.
Good news for many people, we hope.
Not only there will be another Haskell '98 compiler, which should be one that compiles fast and produces efficient code.
Another important property is that Haskell and Clean code can be mixed!
So, Clean users can make use of Haskell libraries, while Haskell users can make use of Clean libraries (such as the iTask library) and Clean features (such as uniqueness typing, dynamics, generic programming, sparkle, gast).
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The Huntington Advertiser, which began daily publication in 1889, merged with The Herald-Dispatch in 1927 to form the Huntington Publishing Company. The two staffs remained separate and competitive. These photos show the final printing of the Advertiser on Aug. 24, 1979.
We have a treasure trove of old negatives and photos at The Herald-Dispatch. Some of the images, we know. Others, we have no idea.
We are scanning the negatives and photos and running some of the photos in the newspaper.
Browse through the gallery. If you can add caption information to any of the photos (or correct a caption we already have), e-mail online editor Andrea Copley-Smith at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 304-526-2764. Be sure to include the title of the gallery, details of the photo, your name and phone number.


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Ordinarily, I love going to the movies. I come from a family of movie buffs and have created a family of movie buffs. I swore I would still find the time to catch a movie when I had kids. I couldn't imagine I could go without.
When I was a uni student (for far too many years than I care to remember) and I barely had two cents to rub together, I would forfeit anything for a Tightarse Tuesday at the movies. I was often seen walking from Kensington to Darlington (seven kilometres or so) for a week at a time in my first year of uni so that I could use my weekly bus money for a night at the pictures
In the past six years, I have found myself unable to get out to the flicks. Most of my movie indulgences have occurred in the comfort of my own home. But the lure of the big screen has never left me, although after a while I stopped reading the reviews in the newspapers. It felt too much like a tease to have to wait until the movie came out on DVD.
So I had until June 30 to use my six gifted movie tickets. I put it on my 52in52 list. Just to make sure. I made it! Six movies in six months.
I didn't always get to see what I wanted to see. It seems that every time I got an opportunity to go to the movies, there was precious little on. But I have broken the drought of trips to the movies so I feel this just may be the rekindling of a beautiful relationship. As great as break-up sex.
So the Geege and I caught a couple of sessions together (Black Swan and Source Code) which was an added bonus. Nugget and I saw two together in the school holidays (Rango and Kung Fu Panda 2). The whole tribe had a trip to the Drive In to see Cars 2. And I had one date with the girls to see Water for Elephants.
I know, I know. There are three 'kids' movies in my list, all of which were fantastic. You get that when the children out-number you, four to two. Of the adult films, Black Swan was nuts, Source Code a great perve and Water for Elephants a bit meh (I am a crappy movie reviewer so I won't elaborate!)
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WASHINGTON -- The shrinking U.S. combat role in Afghanistan has given insurgents an opening to devise and carry out deadlier attacks using bigger improvised bombs against U.S. and coalition military vehicles and bases, American officials say.
With fewer U.S. forces patrolling road networks beyond their bases -- and with the grounding of eye-in-the-sky surveillance balloons known as aerostats -- Taliban fighters are adapting their tactics, according to officials at a Pentagon agency that tracks attacks that use improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
"Insurgents are able to invest more time in preparing and staging an attack, and when we see an effective attack, it tends to be more lethal to our forces," said Al Sweetser, chief of the operations analysis division at the Joint IED Defeat Organization, which has its own team of analysts on the ground in Afghanistan.
So while the number of IED attacks against U.S. and coalition troops -- as well as the total casualties they cause -- has declined, certain attacks can be more elaborately planned, precisely targeted and more lethal because the insurgents have time and room to prepare, Sweetser and other American officials said.
The Pentagon has invested billions of dollars to develop gadgets, such as hand-held ground-penetrating radar systems, and techniques to find IEDs before they explode and to mitigate damage from those that can't be stopped. The evolving struggle began a decade ago in Iraq with insurgent groups countering high-tech U.S. weapons with relatively cheap and surprisingly effective methods of killing and maiming. A hallmark of the insurgents' use of IEDs in Afghanistan has been their ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
A recent IED strike near the southern provincial capital of Kandahar killed five American soldiers in an armored vehicle in one of the more deadly examples of how the Taliban have taken advantage of a changing military landscape.
Insurgents took the time and effort to tunnel underground and place an unusually large improvised explosive well below the surface, said David Small, spokesman for the counter-IED agency. They also had time to plan where to position themselves to remotely detonate the bomb, Small said.
Hel said other details about the attack are classified, but it is believed the insurgents had learned through observation that reduced coalition patrolling gave them more time to plan this attack.
Among other recent incidents:
-- An IED attack on a coalition base in Zabul province in April killed three soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and wounded three others. Another attack in April killed three British soldiers.
-- Five soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, were killed when an IED hit their Stryker vehicle in Kandahar province in May. Three other members of the same brigade were among four soldiers killed in a separate attack later that month, also in Kandahar.
-- In June, a suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with explosives attacked an isolated NATO base in Helmand province, killing seven Georgian soldiers and wounding nine. That was the deadliest single attack of 2013.
"These are precision attacks employing suicide, vehicle-borne and command-wire IEDs, all of which require longer planning and preparation than the more common IEDs encountered," Small said.
Afghan forces are taking the brunt of insurgent violence this year as U.S. troops pull back from a combat role to a support mission in line with plans to end the American and coalition combat role by December 2014. Yet IED attacks are taking a relatively larger toll on the smaller force that is still operating there. Deaths from IEDs alone from April through June represented 9 percent of all coalition casualties, including those wounded in action, Sweetser said. That compared to 7 percent in the same period in 2012.
Because U.S. and coalition troops are not as active beyond their bases as they had been previously, prior to the Afghans taking the lead combat role across the country, Taliban fighters "are coming to us and attacking us on our bases," Sweetser said.
A spokesman for coalition forces in Kabul, Lt. Col. Will Griffin, acknowledged the increased lethality of some attacks but said, "We don't necessarily identify that as a trend." He said a "full spectrum" of tools designed to counter the threat of IEDs is still available to coalition troops even as they shift to a back-seat role.
U.S. officials also are now grappling with a time lag in learning details about IED attacks, since the Afghans are in the combat lead and use more rudimentary means of reporting up their chain of command, Sweetser said. He said it now can take many weeks, rather than several hours, to learn details of IED attacks.
There are now about 60,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, down from 87,000 a year ago. The number is scheduled to shrink to 34,000 by February. President Barack Obama has yet to announce whether he intends to keep some number of American forces in Afghanistan after 2014 to train Afghans and to hunt extremists.


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BackTrack Linux
Back|Track Linux is an open source GPL-compliant Linux distribution built by penetration testers, for penetration testers with development staff consisting of individuals spanning different languages, regions, industries, and nationalities.
The evolution of Back|Track Linux took place over many years of development, penetration tests, and unprecedented help from the security community. Back|Track originally started with earlier versions of Live Linux distributions called Whoppix, IWHAX, and Auditor.
When it was initially developed, Back|Track was designed to be an all-in-one Live CD to be used on security audits and was specifically crafted to not leave any remnants of itself on the system. With millions of downloads, it has become the most widely adopted penetration testing framework in existence and is used by the security community all over the world.
Note: Back|Track is no longer in development, and has been succeeded by the Kali Linux distribution.