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We've played the Overlord demo, talked to the game's writer and, as we speak, Frank is hard at work playing the full version so he can share his professional opinion. Still, our readers and forum members are chattering away, and I thought it would be interesting to share their many views and opinions. What are they saying about the game?
"I like the
personality of the game. It's just so fun to play. Voice acting is fun
and the minions are just soooooo cute. I have one who's wearing a chef
hat for some reason and the moment he dies I'm sure I'm gonna be upset!"
"It doesn't look too complicated, and looks fairly linear, but so far it is a lot of fun. Great voice acting for the minions."
am not sure why these humans are so happy to see me. I just tend to
kick them, loot their towns, drink all their beer, and pee on their
picknic tables."
"I like the PC version myself, the controls included. Runs great on my
PC and at 1920x1200 I can still turn on 16xQ FSAA and max out
everything else I can find for a fps around 25-30 (it's limited to 30
it seems). Looks absolutely amazing like that, much, much nicer than my
360. Course my PC is rather on the high end."
"A few hours in and I'm hooked. The demo really doesn't do the game any
justice whatsoever. I had concerns about the control scheme (see
previous posts) but after some more consideration and experience with
it firsthand, it makes much more sense. The little tidbits are what
really make the game shine though. I've got a roving pack of hellions
wearing everything from metal helms to dead rats on their heads and
causing chaos with maces, swords and pitch forks."
"I am enjoying the game, but the camera
controls suck. Every now and then it decides to lock on a given view,
and I am unable to move the camera. Other than that, I enjoy being the
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One of the sadder stories in Washington wine from 2011 was the closing of Kennewick's Picazo 7 Seventeen restaurant. However, to many, it seemed unlikely that owner Chef Frank Magaña would be gone for long. Indeed, earlier this week Magaña announced the opening of Chef Magaña Catering.
The turnabout happened quickly. Magaña announced the closure of Picazo, which featured 'local fare with a Spanish flair,' last November. This came less than a year after the restaurant moved to Kennewick in search of additional business. Prior to this, Picazo had been located in downtown Prosser.
While sales went up at the new location, so did overhead, making the situation unsustainable. "We never wanted to leave Prosser," Magaña later admitted.
Once they closed the restaurant, Magaña and his wife were planning to move back to the Seattle area. "We were all set to go back to the west side," Magaña says. However, a group of local supporters implored the couple to reconsider. With a limited number of high quality restaurants and caterers, Magaña's impact on the area had been profound.
After consulting with accountants, the couple decided to start a catering company, operating out of the Alexandria Nicole Cellars tasting room. The company will be the exclusive caterer for Alexandria Nicole and will also serve businesses throughout the Yakima and Walla Walla valleys. "We're ready for business right now," Magaña says.
Magaña originally started out in eastern Washington catering to wineries and other businesses. After opening Picazo 7 Seventeen, named after Magaña's mother's maiden name and the restaurant's address, Magana continued to run a brisk catering business.
Indeed, this may have contributed to Picazo's demise with Magaña telling Andy Perdue at the News Tribune, "One of the things that brought down Picazo was Chef Magaña wasn't at Chef Magaña's restaurant." That won't be the problem here, and catering has often appeared to be where Magaña's passion lies.
"I'm excited," Magaña says of opening the new business. "It's going back to our roots."
It's hard to keep a good man down – Frank Magaña launches Chef Magaña Catering
One of the sadder stories in Washington wine from 2011 was the closing of Kennewick's Picazo 7 Seventeen restaurant. However, to many, it seemed unlikely that owner Chef Frank Magaña would be gone for long. Indeed, earlier this week Magaña announced the opening of Chef Magaña Catering.
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Nice Report Sean, and indeed those of us on the East Side are thrilled that Chef Frank is still here and back in the saddle.
His restaurant was NOT that good...
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You know, Anonymous, a cryptic and negative comment on a reputable and well-researched blog is just unnecessary. If you disagree, how about a respectful and thoughtful critique instead?
I have to agree that the food was not very good. Hanging out at Frank's place was not about how good the the food was. it never has been. People book Frank to cater and went to his restaurant to be seen. That is the simple truth of the matter.
Just kind of knowing the locations Frank has been in, its pretty hard for me to believe you can say his food is not very good. It was easily one of the best restaurants in the area. Food is like wine, their is a time and place for all of them. Lastly, I would also have to doubt that a restaurant that doesn't have good food would THE place to be seen? I know the majority of us that frequent Eastern Washington are Glad you're getting back to your roots Frank!
I really enjoyed everything, including the food! So glad to hear you're back. Much success!

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My kids are on spring break this week, and we're sick, so I decided to revive a craft that I did for Real Simple last year for their Family Issue. Real Simple produced a very open ended version of my ideas, which I thought was really cool, but when I designed it, there were several specific finished products that they didn't share. The original crafts can be found here, and we used food coloring for all of them. Today, my kids and I used watercolors, because I love that way that even the most novice crafter can create very impressive results with them.
I'll give you a step-by-step in case you too are marooned with your kids inside on these beautiful Spring days. I also think this craft is perfectly appropriate for an adult who just wants to make a little something special for Easter.
I started by tracing an egg template that I had left over from when Elliot and I made this Easter egg garland way back when he was two years old. I keep all of my templates in a file so that we can pull them out each year. A similar template can be found here. I traced the egg onto good quality watercolor paper. Four eggs fit on each 8 1/2" x 11" piece. I then cut each large sheet into rectangles, leaving the extra paper surrounding the eggs. This encourages you and your kids to paint right up to the edge of the egg shape.
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Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:13 am
Post subject: 7658 Y-Wing Fighter Review
Hi all just got this today and I just finished building it. As I also have the older y-wing I can do a comparison between the 2 but there is not much difference in size or look. The only real difference is the greebling that was put into the new one. Also the missles are sort of redundent without a way of actually getting them to fire. The bomb bay which I think was an afterthought without any real consideration is atrocious. It opens on its own when you swoosh it through the air. Even though you can adjust the technic wheel as sort of a slide bar, it is an eyesore from the rear as you can see the pin and underneath it looks naked because of this. The TIE bomber had the right idea with the rubber bands system and when it was in the closed position it was all flush and it wasn't such an eyesore underneath. The pilot doesn't sit in the cockpit, he floats as there are no studs to stick his legs onto. The head room above him is just all wrong. I have actually had the canopy come off as the click hinges have push against his head and the whole mount has litterally come away. Apart from those slight misgivings the y-wing itself is nice to look at and is caked with detail. Also there are no landing sticks like the old one had. Instead it sits on a 2x3 and 2x2 slope pieces.
By the way thanks to the instructions on this I can now mod the old one so the engines are mounted properly.
detail 10/10 just awesome greebling no need to add more to it
build 10/10 pretty easy and it comes together well
price per parts, 10/10 well for $60.00 AUD you get 437 parts which is more than enough.
engine detail 10/10 I know that normally this is not done but the y-wing is known mostly for the details around the engines and engine mounts and this rendition doesn't dissapoint. plenty of greebles.
Likeness to films. 8/10 because of the missles and the bomb bay which don't do it for me and also the way the pilot sits/canopy problems.
Please refer to me as SWR.
The force is strong with this one......
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Location: WI, USA
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:01 am
Post subject:
the Y-Wing is also the newest set I've built. Was a tad of a let down when it was finished, the negatives things you mentioned definately were bothersome. Plus, the front 2 white "poles" get knocked off constantly.
As for the Pilot, if you angle his legs right, and his arms, he sits in the cockpit well. But there's nowhere to put his blaster. That alone pissed me off.
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Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:16 pm
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I commented on this in another not quite related thread so I will add mine here.
Overall it is a nice set. I like the curves in the cockpit section that capture the shape better than in the original release. The guns behind the canop are better than the disporportionate guns used on the original as well. The greebling is well done and there are a ton of parts in this model, so for parts guys it is a good set.
The detractions for me are primarily the missles, the bomb section, and a lack of completeness on some sections.
The lack of completeness fals in 2 main areas. First, on the engine pods there are 3 of the 1x1 slopes on the outside edge of the pod, but they should have had the other three for the inside section as well. It looks like pieces were forgot. But the biggest one is for the bomb section. The pars are at least there to attach a rubber band to hold the bottom closed and then pull back to release so the axel isn't flopping all over the place when you swoosh. However they didn't complete it. I exchanged
this piece
out for
one of these
and ran a rubber band through the hole and wrapped it around
that were already built into the model (for what purpose if not to operate the bomb trap I don't know) The end result is a function that isn't that great (although I know why Lego puts them in) being even more funky.
One problem mentioned above was the 2 white rods on the front of the model for the guns falling off. However if you push them all the way back through the lamp piece it attaches to it is a very strong connection.
Nice set overall and one that is easy enough to mod to your wishes and good enough to warrent doing so.
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Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:36 pm
Post subject:
If you look at the action pic on the instructions the front cannons are shorter which indicates that they have been pushed in. There was one other thing I forgot to mention, it's not that big of a deal as it is easily modified. It's the front of the engines where the white short thing connects into the yellow round piece. On my old y-wing I have used a grey technic piece which is half the size of it and sits almost flat against the engine.
Also in regards to the pilots gun, I just put it in his lap when he is in the cockpit.
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Location: New Jersey
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:52 am
Post subject: Re: set 7658 y-wing review
Star_wars_rules wrote:
Also there are no landing sticks like the old one had. Instead it sits on a 2x3 and 2x2 slope pieces.
Wow, that bugs me. As if the underside of the thing wasn't neglected in the original! This makes me think about getting the ILC or AT-ST first.
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Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:51 am
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Well it actually sits almost on the engines anyway. They did that so it was I think as close to the movie y-wings where they sat almost on the ground anyway. The underside of the original lego y-wing wasn't as bad as far as the bomb bay is concerned. It didn't have one and so the whole underside was flush. The old y-wing also used simple 2x2 studless pieces for detail, which was ok. The old one thanks to the new instructions can be upgraded as far as greebles is concerned and engine mounts\angle so it at least looks much better.
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Location: Slave I, California
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:21 am
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Quick question, how do you actually fire the missile thingies?
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Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: Vacaville, California
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:52 am
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Flick-fire. I used a couple of technic rings that fit the shafts to lock em into the holes so they wouldn't fall out mid-swoosh.
Will litigate (or tactically consult) for food.
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Location: a frozen desolate wasteland (New England)
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:47 am
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I stick the pilot's gun into the technic piece that operates the bomb bay.
I was also dissapointed that the bottom of the model has absolutely no detail to it, when the top and sides are abundant with it, but since I display it
on a tabletop, the bottom is irrelevant. The pilot should have had a better face than a plain smiley, at least something with a headset. Same goes for the newer A-wing and Wedge. Also the ion cannon on top of the ship is on a swivel plate and moves far too easily, it sort of flops around. The front guns also easily fall off.
Now all that pales in comparison to just how awesome this set is. The level of detail (besides the bottom) is amazing, and when built it is HUGE! It looks great next to my custom X-Wing.
I definitely recommend this set
, it's one of my favorite ships and a brilliant execution.
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Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:21 am
Post subject:
GIR3691 wrote:
The front guns also easily fall off.
That is easy to fix, push the guns into the mounts they are on. It makes it look slimlined at the nose section as well. I will be posting pics on the modifications that I made to the rear section.
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Joined: 29 Jan 2007
Location: Singapore
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:00 am
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I am quite looking forward to acquiring the Y-Wing if I can (it's second after the AT-ST for my favourites list earlier this year). I do hope that departmental store voucher doesn't expire soon!
Ironic, huh.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:11 am
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I just picked this set up last night and I must say this is a very good set, I was not so sure before that it would be worth the money but after building it, dang, I'm impressed! Really cool set, the Y-wing is actually bigger than I expected (I never saw the first one in person) the detail is amazing for a play set, the minifigs are alright, but frankly you buy the Y-wing set for the Y-wing.
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Location: On the Outer Rim of the Milky Way Galaxy
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:02 pm
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To alleviate the bomb and missile problem, here's what I did:
Since the bombs have small axle-pin holes in them, I simply attached them to the back of the missiles. This way, the missiles stay in place, the bombs won't inadvertantly fall out, and you can swoosh to your heart's content without having to visit bricklink.
This was actually one of my first SW sets (I only started collecting this year), and I really like it. Great set, I highly recommend it.
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Location: East Side
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:00 am
Post subject: better than the b wing
neutron says it all. both weapons are poorly designed and 'flick fire' is pretty weird.
However, i feel that it is much better than the b-wing which has the most unstable landing pod and the expanding wings are very feeble. i only started collecting this year aswell and both sets set me off on the right foot.
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Location: Los Angeles, California
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:57 am
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My Y-Wing pilot fits in the cockpit perfectly. Just bend the legs a little and he fits. I also do not like the flick missiles and the bomb deployment because they fall out all the time. However, I think the detail is good. It may sound like the set is a good deal because it has 454 pieces, but a lot of them are small studs and technic pins.
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Location: Melbourne Australia
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:58 am
Post subject:
Pics are in. I should have posted these earlier.
Please excuse the blurryness of some of them
Overhead view
Side on with top hatch for the bomb bay open.
Underside view with bomb bay in the closed position......
...and in the open position
Also due to the darkness on the back, I did actually get a rubber band system in place so it works just like the tie bomber's bomb bay. The pin moves back and bombs just drop out from the bomb bay. Also sorry about the red underside hinge. I didn't have it any other color.
Please refer to me as SWR.
The force is strong with this one......
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Joined: 24 Apr 2008
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:27 pm
Post subject: Good Set
I happen to like this set as well seeing that the y-wing is 1 of my favorite starships in star wars. The bombing system is pretty cool, but the flick fire missile are pretty lame. But overall it is a really great set. Go Y-Wing!
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:21 am
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I got this set yesterday (first bigger set). I like it a lot, fun build. I'm planning to build a custom base, to recreate this someday:
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from the why-so-much-confusion deptWe've seen this mistake in the past, and it's a shame that politicians and defenders of stronger copyright still make this claim, but it's flat out wrong to say that copyright (or patents, for that matter) are about "allowing market forces" to act. By definition, copyright and patent laws are the opposite of allowing market forces. It's the government stepping up and providing monopoly rights because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that basic market forces don't work in those areas and, thus, the government needs to step in and "correct" some sort of imbalance. So it's really a shame to see Canadian politicians defending the proposed copyright reform bill there, C-32, by claiming that it's about enabling "market forces." That link (found via Michael Geist) highlights a Twitter debate that took place between well-known author/blogger/speaker Cory Doctorow and the leading voice behind C-32, Canadian Heritage Minister, James Moore.
Moore, famously, last week attacked any critics of the bill by calling them "radical extremists" and "babyish." While he later denied saying these things, unfortunately for Moore, the whole thing was caught on video tape. The episode has resulted in many concerned Canadians to speak out, and point out that having concerns over the bill does not make them "radical extremists." Doctorow took particular offense to the whole thing and started asking Moore a bunch of questions via twitter, which we'll try to embed at the bottom of this post (if it doesn't work, the link above to David Eaves' website has some screen shots).
Eaves points out just how many times in the conversation Moore resorts to claiming that this is all about "market forces" saying things like: "Have some faith in market forces - is working w/music & movies. Let creators create, and consumers consume what they want." Eaves counts that Moore resorts to the claim of "market forces" six times in a total of 22 Twitter messages. It's not only a dodge by Moore, it's blatantly false. As both Eaves and Doctorow point out, the whole point of this bill is to remove free market forces, and have the government tilt the scales to one side because it believes the market, without government monopoly protection, fails.
Doctorow tries to point this out to Moore, who doesn't appear to actually be paying attention -- or understanding the issue at all. Eaves points out the ridiculousness of the whole situation:
That a Heritage Minister doesn't understand this is troubling. That he would accuse those who seek to point out this fact and raise awareness to it as "radical extremists" is scandalous. Canadians have entrusted in this person the responsibility for creating a marketplace that rewards creativity, content creation and innovation while protecting the rights of consumers. At the moment, we have a minister who shuts out the very two groups he claims to protect while wrapping himself in a false cloak of the "free market." It is an ominous start for the debate over copyright reform and the minister has only himself to blameIt would be great if we could get past this myth, but it seems like many politicians like to hold up the myth that copyright is about "market forces" to get away from having to actually defend the harm that overly aggressive copyright law can create.
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Startup Amyris has hit a speed bump producing chemicals and fuels from sugar cane, another sign of the technical difficulties biofuel companies have had.
In an earnings call last week, Amyris CEO John Melo said the company had trouble maintaining reliable production of its operations in Brazil. "We showed conclusively that our technology does work at scale, but also learned that it takes time to translate from peak yield levels in the lab to maintaining those yields over longer operational periods in the field," he said on a conference call with investors last Thursday.
As a result, Amyris said it will produce less than it had anticipated this year, which will mean it will not be cash-flow positive from operations this year and it will need to raise additional equity. The news brought the company's stock down 30 percent on Friday. The conference call also led to reports that Amyris was exiting the biofuels business.
Despite the reliability problems, the company intends to stick with its strategy of producing both biofuels and biochemicals, Amyris senior vice president of external relations Joel Velasco said on Monday. The company plans to have a demo flight with its biofuel soon, he added.
Amyris was among many companies formed in the 2000s with the goal of making biofuel from non-food sources, such as sugar cane or wood chips. But most of them ran into technical or financial roadblocks, so that there are no commercial-scale cellulosic biofuel facilities in the U.S.
To avoid the low-margin fuel business, a number of companies have avoided biofuels altogether and focused on making commodity chemicals in the near term. Amyris, for example, launched a venture to manufacture farnesene, a chemical used in cosmetics and lubricants, in Brazil from sugar cane.
"Prioritization has been part of our approach for quite some time," Velasco said. "We have been working on a joint venture with oil major Total to bring those (jet fuel and diesel) products to market since it requires significant scale and capital for what is inherently a lower margin business."
Amyris has genetically engineered microbes, primarily yeasts, to consume sugar and produce a desired product, such as jet fuel or speciality chemicals. The company, which was first funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to make an antimalaria drug, went public in 2010.


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New Report: Nuclear Power After Fukushima
About this event:
Energy expert Mycle Schneider, in collaboration with the Worldwatch Institute, will preview preliminary findings from the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010-2011, which will be released around the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. The report highlights a bleak future for the nuclear industry which will require a reassessment of many countries' nuclear energy strategies. A discussion will follow the presentation featuring commentary by Rebecca Harms, President of the Greens-EFA, and Ralf Fuecks, President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
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Mayor Anthony Silva's second attempt to revitalize a dormant city committee appears to have resolved at least some earlier controversy.
Mayor Anthony Silva's second attempt to revitalize a dormant city committee appears to have resolved at least some earlier controversy.
The 10-member Climate Action Plan Advisory Committee is supposed to be made up of two representatives each from different backgrounds: nonprofit groups, business, development, labor and the environment.
That's important, because the city is legally bound to include people from those backgrounds on the committee, which formed after the city settled a lawsuit with the Sierra Club.
Earlier this summer, however, Silva proposed rejecting two environmentalists who had served since 2009, and placing a certified public accountant in one of their spots. Under his plan, major developers would also not have had a seat at the table.
Silva withdrew that first plan in late July and now proposes reappointing environmentalists Dale Stocking and Trevor Atkinson, and appointing David Nelson with the A.G. Spanos Cos. and John Beckman with the Building Industry Association of the Delta to represent developers.
The plan will be considered by the City Council tonight.
"Overall I think this is greatly improved," said City Councilwoman Kathy Miller, who had criticized the earlier proposal. "There's better representation from all of the groups. I think (the mayor) has retained some institutional knowledge for the group, and I think that's important."
The committee is supposed to be drafting a plan to reduce Stockton's carbon footprint, but it has not met since last November.
One appointment still being questioned Monday was that of Jeremy Terhune. Terhune is an environmentalist who works for the nonprofit group Defenders of Wildlife, but Silva proposed appointing him to represent the business community on the committee.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/breitlerblog.


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This is an original oil painting (size 40х50cm) in cotton canvas.
A painting brush and a palette knife, as well as a combination of methods give this picture the scope and depth of space.
The edges of the canvas are painted so it can be hanged with or without a frame as preferred.
I fasten the rope to hang the painting before sending it.
I fill out and sign the certificate of authenticity ,and put it inside the package.
I ship my paintings with Air Express delivery by the postal service "Ukrposhta" which means they arrive in 7-12 days to any destination worldwide.
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Oil paint, acrylic primer,brush,palette knife
"Vase with white flowers" , Gray cat (2017)
Oil painting by Aleksandr Neliubin
- Oil painting on Canvas
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- Size: 19.69 x 15.75 x 0.79 in (unframed) / 15.75 x 19.69 in (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
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- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Still life
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Rahvusvaheliselt tunnustatud permakultuuri koolitaja/praktik viib läbi sissejuhatava praktilise koolituse Kaagveres, Mäksa vallas, Tartu külje all järgmisel esmaspäeval 28. mail.
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1. Introduction to Permaculture
Permaculture is a word originally coined in Australia by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the mid 1970's to describe an "integrated, evolving system of perennial or self-perpetuating plant and animal species useful to man".
A more current definition of permaculture, which reflects the expansion of focus is "Permaculture integrates people into Nature's design. A permaculture design provides us with shelter, food, water, income, community and aesthetic and spiritual fulfilment within a balanced and healthy biological community. Dan Hemenway
Permaculture has an ethical foundation based on:
Earth Care caring for the Earth, keeping our human impact to a minimum
People Care meeting people's needs in compassionate and simple ways
Fair Share taking what we need and sharing what we don't
People, their buildings and the ways in which they organise themselves are central to permaculture. Thus the permaculture vision of permanent or sustainable agriculture has evolved to one of permanent or sustainable culture.
Permaculture principles
A range of principles underlie the design of land, space and virtual projects. Some of these are briefly described here.
• Zones: the placement of design elements for energy input required, the nearer the more attention can be given.
• Sectors: natural influences /energy flows through a site such as sun, prevailing wind, frost pockets, ramblers etc., Micro climates
• Networks: linking of elements within a design that are connected, ensuring efficient use of time, reducing the time needed to travel between them
• Linking outputs (products and wastes) with inputs to reduce transport requirements as it ensures all materials are (re-)used on-site to their maximum benefit
• Natural patterns: use of the patterns observed in nature for aesthetics and efficiency in systems
• Wild soil: Minimising bare soil by methods such as mulching, minimal ploughing, green manures, perennial planting.
• Maximise Diversity: inclusion of variety in every way: species, varieties, incomes streams, food
• Multiple functions: every element in a design should have more than one function, to maximise efficiency.
• Multiple elements: each function should be performed by multiple elements, to increase resilience of a system.
• Edge: incorporating and appreciating more edge, the place between two (eco) systems which are more rich, diverse and resilient.
• Stacking: use of multiple layers and vertical space, planning over time.
• Minimum effort for maximum result
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In a time of war, foreign agents are at work on American soil. They blow up buildings and munitions factories. They sink ships at sea with explosives hidden in the cargo. In a campaign of sabotage and terror, they kill hundreds of U.S. citizens. Spies and fifth columnists — some American-born, some recent immigrants still loyal to their native land — hold clandestine meetings in New York and other major cities, plotting violence against the United States. Overmatched police officers, unused to fighting an enemy they can't see, struggle to identify the terrorist cell's ringleaders before more havoc and unleashed and more innocents are killed.
Sounds like a pretty good espionage thriller, doesn't it? Or the plot of every Die Hard movie ever made? In fact, it's nothing less than authentic — albeit long-forgotten — American history, brought to vivid life in Howard Blum's latest book, Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America. A hundred years after the chilling events it describes — events that will strike an eerily familiar chord with anyone who pays even cursory attention to the vagaries of America's War on Terror — Dark Invasion reminds us, as Blum put it in a recent conversation with LIFE.com, that "the past is never past."
"When I first read about these events in the CIA's in-house journal," Blum told LIFE.com, discussing how he came upon the story of German saboteurs in America in the first place, "I thought, now this is really something. New York cops hunting a terrorist cell in the midst of World War I? Here was the birth of American homeland security, in a sense. But in order to tell the story, I knew I needed to find a character who could drive the story along, and I had to get inside that character's head. I couldn't make up anything he said or felt or thought — but I'd still have to portray all of that in a way that keeps the reader involved."
When he learned that a central figure in the tale, New York City police captain Thomas J. Tunney, had once written a memoir, and that the German naval officer and spy who masterminded so many of the often-deadly acts of sabotage — Franz von Rintelen, the self-styled "Dark Invader" — had penned a two-volume memoir, Blum knew he had what he needed to structure a cohesive, suspenseful and, above all, accurate story.
The number of German operatives active in America during the early years of the First World War is hard to determine with absolute accuracy; historians estimate that the core terrorist network included around 28 people. Blum points out, however, that the people who worked in concert with the key members of the cell — German loyalists who sabotaged factories, Irish stevedores who planted incendiary devices on ships carrying munitions to English troops fighting in France, and others — likely numbered in the hundreds.
A Congressional hearing in the 1920s, meanwhile, estimated that between 300 and 500 Americans were killed during the cell's lethal sabotage spree.
The dangers posed today by a terror cell even a fraction the size of von Rintelen's are, of course, exponentially more complex, and more destructive, than those of a hundred years ago. One example: In 1915, 375,000 people rode the New York City subway each day — "a number," Blum says, "that amazed me when I first read it. I had no idea it was that large."
In 2014, more than 4 million people ride the subway. Every day.
Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com


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Damn, makes me want to switch back to T-Mobile now...
every movie made is a sequel, prequel, or based on pre-existing content, any dream can be invented, including the accounting. Wait for the cheap show, folks.
Falafel or shawarma (but only if there's a "halal" sign on the truck somewhere). They're harder to handle than hot dogs.
Harry Reid: Less freedom, more junk mail for all.
Have they made renting CDs in Japan illegal yet? That used to be a good way of getting music inexpensively there.
Toshiba still makes laptops?
We are turning into a nation of wimps and wusses by the idiots in government who insist there's a terrorist/hacker/exploit/fill in the blank threat under the bed, around the corner, waiting for the flight/bus/train/subway you're about to get on, bugging your phone/home/workspace, tracking your car, etc.
Excuse me, but those very government officials have no clue about the internets. Most of them probably believe Al Gore invented it. And their complete lack of knowledge is the best reason for them to leave their grubby little mitts and their increasingly ill-informed, poorly-intended laws as far away as possible.
An IP address is not a person, in the US. How that can be conveyed to the idiots in the UK government, where justice seems to be a slippery construct (nailing jello to a tree, anyone?) is another matter entirely.
Let our media go! As for gatekeepers, I prefer Cerberus, not to be confused with Kerberos.
One word: Fansubs.
That was a legitimate piece of software intended for making a backup copy of a DVD so the real one wouldn't get annihilated by the kids the first time out of the box. That got shot down pretty fast by MPAA, although I still have a copy...
Anyway, Judge Posner's ruling applies to an ephemeral copy of a work that is held temporarily in a buffer. No copyright infringement on the part of the viewer here. Somewhat like borrowing a DVD from a public library and watching it, or like the old Borland software license (install on as many computers as you want, but you can only use it on one ccomputer at a time).
This isn't that hard, people.
Guess California didn't plan for that other big shareholder to renounce his US citizenship. Big risk can reap big return sometimes, probably not this time.
It's hard to be optimistic about this.
Apparently nobody at USTR has gotten the message that the European Parliament has driven a silver stake through ACTA. Do we need to send them heads of garlic and crucifixes?
Apparently nobody at USTR has gotten the message that the European Parliament has driven a silver stake through ACTA. Do we need to send them heads of garlic and crucifixes?
And NSA says it's an invasion of our privacy to tell us if they've been spying on us. What we have here is a failure to communicate.
Wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up faster.
More and more, DOJ = Denial of Justice, not Department of Justice.
Trollhattan is a real town in Sweden. SAAB had a car factory there back when they built cars. I had the bumper sticker "Made by trolls in Trollhattan". That doesn't excuse the epic humor failures, though.
The last name is misspelled. It should be Carrion, as in vulture.


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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) did not celebrate the anniversary of his first and second inaugurations yesterday.
It is safe to say the honeymoon period from last year's re-election is well and truly over. This is Ma's second term in office and he has little to show for it. Few people are feeling like celebrating his administration's record, and the Presidential Office has announced there will be no official celebrations to mark the anniversary, sensing that not many people would turn up. It got that right.
The Ma administration is most proud of its record on cross-strait relations. An appraisal of the short-term outlook does suggest a falling off of saber rattling, and an increase in trade and traffic across the Taiwan Strait. However, with the nation's progressively pro-China stance the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty has, for the international community, been pushed onto the back burner and it is difficult to say what the long-term repercussions of this development in relations will be.
Taiwan's increased economic reliance on China is making it the periphery to China's center. This will likely impact our political future: Taiwanese saw how much influence China had on last year's presidential election.
If this trend continues, Taiwan will have unification forced upon it and will lose the ability to make its own political decisions.
Ma's China policy may seem like a step forward, but it is really just a milestone on the nation's road to decline.
To assess Ma's performance, one must first review his campaign promises.
He has talked of his "6-3-3" economic goals of 6 percent economic growth, US$30,000 average annual salary and under 3 percent unemployment within his first term, promising that if he failed to meet this target, he would forfeit half of his salary.
From July 2008 to June last year, the average economic growth rate was a meager 1.73 percent, far below the 4.7 percent average during the eight years former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was in office. Currently, the average annual salary is not even US$20,000, let alone US$30,000. The government has blamed global economic factors and Ma has reneged on his promise to give away half his salary.
During the 2008 presidential campaign Ma swore he would resolve the problem of illicit assets held by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), but has yet to take any action. He has backtracked so far on tax reform over the contentious capital gains tax on securities transactions that the original proposals are hardly recognizable. Attempts to reintroduce the tax angered investors who would be eligible to pay it, leading to another U-turn by the government. Pension reform has gone much the same way, with the government afraid to offend civil servants for fear of losing their votes. The government has been forced to compromise on inter-professional and intergenerational justice, and half-baked reforms are not benefiting social justice or pension fund finances.
The Ma administration has often talked about corruption in the previous Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government, milking the corruption cases against Chen to divert attention from its own political travails.
However, Ma has not been able to keep his own house in order: His government has been plagued with more corruption scandals than the DPP government. Not only did former Executive Yuan secretary-general Lin Yi-shih (林益世) get caught with his hand in the cookie jar, one of Ma's trusted aides, KMT Taipei City Councilor Lai Su-ju (賴素如), has found herself the subject of a corruption investigation.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Giving impoverished infants iron and zinc supplements to prevent nutritional deficiencies may not have lasting benefits for their mental skills, a new study shows.
The findings, from a study of school-age children in northeastern Thailand, suggest that iron and zinc do not boost their IQ, memory or other intellectual abilities — at least not when the minerals are given only during infancy.
Iron and zinc are important to normal brain development, and children in developing nations are at risk of deficiencies in both minerals.
Some studies have found that giving these children iron and zinc during infancy can improve their blood levels of the nutrients, and possibly help them reach some developmental milestones sooner — like walking on their own.
But little has been known about whether those supplements have lasting benefits.
In the new study, researchers assessed 560 nine-year-olds in Thailand who, as infants, had been randomly assigned to have supplements of iron, zinc, both nutrients, or a placebo (a substance that looked like the real supplements but didn't contain any nutrients). The infants received the supplements or the placebo for 6 months, starting between the ages of 4 and 6 months.
At the age of 9 years, the children were given a variety of standard tests of their IQ, memory, attention and school performance. Overall, the researchers found no differences in the average test scores of children who had received iron, zinc or the placebo.
But the findings do not necessarily mean that iron and zinc supplements offer no brain benefit to children in the developing world.
"It is too soon to tell," said senior researcher Dr. Reynaldo Martorell, of Emory University in Atlanta, an author of the report that appears in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
One possibility, Martorell told Reuters Health in an email, is that the supplements need to be started sooner — given to mothers during pregnancy — and continued through at least a child's first 2 years.
A recent study of schoolchildren in rural Nepal found that when mothers took iron and folic acid during pregnancy, their kids did better on tests of intelligence and fine motor skills.
But it's also possible, according to Martorell, that iron and zinc, or any two nutrients, are not enough. "Maybe all nutrient intakes need to be improved, not just two," he said.
"I think the evidence will eventually show that in order to have long-term benefits on (the brain), major deficiencies in early life — such as iron and zinc, but others as well — need to be addressed," Martorell said.
Still, the researcher added, there are many short-term reasons to ensure that infants and children in the developing world have enough iron and zinc. There is some evidence, for example, that zinc supplements help prevent or treat diarrhea — a major killer of children in poor nations.
Iron supplements can also prevent some cases of anemia, a disorder in which the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity is reduced — causing problems like fatigue, dizziness and breathlessness.
Few children in the current study had overt iron deficiency as infants, when their supplements were started. But worldwide, iron deficiency is the most common nutritional disorder, affecting 2 billion people, according to the World Health Organization.
SOURCE: bit.ly/dLqFS5 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online January 26, 2011.


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On important note, yoursite.org returns the Vary caching header on User-Agent. This will reduce caching and acceleration performance dramatically (!!!). Why are you using Vary on User Agent for images? Is it possible to disable it?
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"The people want the downfall of the regime" was the demand that rang in every Egyptian street. Everywhere, a sea of red, white, and black rippled endlessly amid angry chants and occasional patriotic songs. Gucci and Louis Vuitton bags brushed up against synthetic burqas. Priests called for freedom alongside sheikhs. Young children tugged gently at their grandfathers' hands, wanting to paint their little faces with the colors of the flag. Farmers, judges, doctors, workers, young, old – people flocked from all over Egypt – for different reasons, with one cause.
These were the scenes that colored Tahrir (Liberation) Square and the rest of Egypt for the 18 days before the Mubarak regime finally fell.
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Why I joined the protests
When I decided to join the protests on Friday, Jan. 28, I had no idea what I was embarking on. Although I have a BA in both history and political science, and thus consider myself to be fairly politically aware, I had never engaged in a protest or belonged to a political party. In Egypt, as in much of the world, textbook politics is one thing, and political participation is another. As an upper-middle class Egyptian, I lead a comfortable life compared to the 42 percent of my compatriots who, according to the UN, live under the poverty line. However, this wasn't enough to keep me off the streets.
This time I was determined to take action, because I believed that "enough was enough." For the 22 years of my life, the same president ruled Egypt with an iron fist. And matters were only getting worse. It was widely believed the president was grooming his son to take the presidency by the end of the year. I felt the responsibility to participate in ridding the country of oppression and corruption. Even though I never really thought of myself as being personally "oppressed by the state" like millions of other Egyptians, I was yearning for freedom, to express my opinion, and to have a cause to belong to. Above all, I was longing to play an active role in shaping my country's future.
And in searching for this Egypt, I found myself.
A unified cause overcomes differences
I saw people of all classes, occupations, and ideological orientations protesting. They, too, all wanted to feel that they were part of this struggle for Egypt's future. This revolution debunked many class and gender misconceptions that I – and many others – had lived with. I never before thought that one cause could unite such diverse people. Everywhere I looked, people appeared so different, yet seemed very much the same.
Where I might have normally seen division according to class, gender, and religion, I only saw acceptance and understanding. For the first time in my life, men didn't deal with me as a woman but as a fellow citizen. That sense of unity still doesn't cease to impress me. It was as though everyone suddenly had an epiphany and discovered they were all Egyptians.
This is my Egypt. And I feel it's my Egypt for the first time – a feeling shared by millions of Egyptians who took part in this revolution. This newfound freedom and sense of ownership resulted in an unprecedented sense of individual ethical responsibility. People's morals and behaviors literally changed overnight. Verbal harassment stopped, as well as littering in the street – two widespread behaviors Egyptians used to complain about. The shift was noticeable in even people's basic interactions. Everyone was especially polite, as if to prove a point: We'll do everything we can to make this revolution succeed.
With peaceful revolution, 'impossible is nothing'
A new spirit was born out of the events of the last three weeks. If it can be summarized in one sentence: "Impossible is nothing." Ordinary people felt their power for the first time, and the sense of empowerment was overwhelmingly palpable. Millions of Egyptians now believe that if they were able to overthrow a dictator who had been ruling for 30 years and change the entire regime in 18 days, they can simply do anything. A new spirit of optimism and hope is swaying the country. I have never felt anything like it in my life.
In seeking their freedom, Egyptians were able to gain the world's respect and admiration as well, by showing an astounding ability to adhere to the principles of civic responsibility, respect, and peacefulness. The civility of the revolution surprised the world and challenged many of the Western stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims being dogmatic and anti-democratic. During the protests, not a single church or mosque was attacked, despite police absence. "Revolutionaries" made it a point to keep their activities peaceful until the very end, asserting and reasserting that the demonstration was selmeya – peaceful. After the protests ended, in a rare post-revolutionary scene, protesters actually made sure to clean all the streets and even painted the pavements and walls.
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I feel so blessed to be of this generation, the generation who not only made this change possible, but also led it. Today I feel I am Egyptian and proud. I feel liberated. I don't exaggerate when I say that I feel born again, because Egypt, indeed, has been born again. Something in the Egyptian psyche, the Egyptian mind, heart, and soul has changed – hopefully for good. We discovered a new Egypt and a new "us".
Khadiga Omar is a freelance writer particularly interested in social networking and Middle East politics, with a focus on human rights. She is a recent graduate of American University in Cairo.


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Brussels, 20 March 2013
ENP Package – Algeria
The EU and Algeria are linked by an Association Agreement (AA) signed in 2002 and which entered into force in 2005. In December 2011 Algeria officially indicated its willingness to start exploratory negotiations regarding the elaboration of an Action Plan under the renewed ENP. Following two rounds of informal discussions at working level, a first round of discussions was held in Brussels on 17-18 October. A second round is expected to take place in Algiers early 2013.
No Country Progress Report is prepared for Algeria since no ENP Action plan is in force.
Political situation and latest developments in EU relationship with Algeria
Domestic developments
On 15 April 2011, President Bouteflika announced a programme of political reforms. This led to the adoption of a package of laws covering: the electoral code, participation of women in elected assemblies, associations, media, political parties, decentralisation and incompatibility between political mandates. While the laws on elections, on women participation, on political parties, on mandates incompatibility and on decentralisation are on the average positive, the associations and information laws have been widely criticized as restricting freedoms of association and expression. Legislative elections were held on 10 May 2012. A revision of the Constitution is expected to take place in 2013.
On 10 May, 462 members of the lower house of parliament ("Assemblée Populaire Nationale") were elected.
Approximately forty political parties participated. For the first time in Algeria, the EU deployed an Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to observe the elections. The mission, headed by MEP José Ignacio Salafranca, issued a report acknowledging positive developments in the electoral process while underlining several areas where improvements can be made.
The national turn out amounted to 42.9% by comparison with 35.6% in 2007. As a result of a new law establishing a 1/3 quota for female candidates for elected assemblies, 143 women were elected. However, the national council (second chamber of parliament) has witnessed a decrease, from 8 to 4 women members. While these latest developments in Algeria testify to an increased role of women in public and political life, major discriminations remain in the legislative system and in practice.
Abdelmalek Sellal was appointed as new Prime Minister by President Bouteflika on 3rd September 2012. With most Ministers keeping their portfolios, the new Government is expected to ensure continuity of the President's programme.
Local elections were held on 29 November. Established parties such as the FLN and RND presented the most lists and were favoured by the 7% electoral threshold necessary to gain representation.
EU-Algeria relations
Bilateral relations have substantially improved since 2011. After the entry into force of the EU-Algeria Association Agreement in 2005 and following a long period of internal debate, Algeria expressed in 2011 its willingness to engage more actively in the European Neighbourhood Policy. A first round of negotiations on an Algeria–EU Action Plan took place on 17-18 October 2012. The next round of discussions is expected to take place early 2013.
The first session of the Sub-committee on Political Dialogue, Security and Human Rights took place 3-4 October 2011 in Algiers. The next session is scheduled for spring 2013 in Brussels.
The 7th meeting of the EU-Algeria Association Council was held on 6 December 2012.
Political dialogue between the EU and Algeria has intensified through more frequent high level visits: the HR/VP Mrs Ashton visited Algiers on November 6, 2012 and was received by the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Füle also visited Algiers in 2012.
In 2012, an agreement has been reached on revising the schedule of tariff dismantling on agricultural and industrial products. The Commission has launched the internal procedures to amend the relevant protocols (agricultural and industrial products) to the Association Agreement. Other trade irritants, such as the partial blockage of EU ship owners' accounts in Algeria, have found a positive solution.
Since 2006, Algeria and the EU have been negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding on a strategic energy partnership, which is expected to be concluded in 2013.
An EU-Algeria Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation was signed in March 2012 and entered provisionally into force pending the ratification procedure.
Economic and social issues
With a trade surplus generating substantial foreign exchange reserves, Algeria has used some of the hydrocarbon windfall to pay off debt and increase public spending on infrastructure and social programmes (including subsidies). But problems of inclusive economic development and diversification persist as the economy is nearly fully energy-dependent, with very little to export beyond oil and gas.
Reforms to build a functioning market economy are often postponed or suffer from slow implementation; the domination of the public sector leaves little room for private initiative. Algeria was placed 152 out of 185 by the World Bank in the 2013 Doing Business Index. Businesses face obstacles in several areas (electricity connection, paying taxes, accessing bank services, etc.). There remains much room for improvement, in particular regarding restrictions on foreign direct investment (mainly the 51/49% shareholding rule) and non trade and administrative obstacles. A stable and transparent regulatory framework for business operators and private investments would be important to contribute to the diversification and opening of the Algerian economy and to the creation of sustainable jobs, inter alia to the benefit of the youth.
Economic growth is estimated at about 3% for 2012. Consumer price inflation increased to nearly 9% in 2012 due to sharp increases in food prices (4.5% in 2011). Unemployment rate has declined slightly, reaching about 9.5% for 2012 (10% in 2011). The current account balance is in surplus at about 8% of GDP in 2012 (10.3% in 2011), due to the high oil prices. Algeria's foreign exchange reserves amounted to about EUR 150 billion at the end of 2012 (EUR 131 billion in 2011), which represents more than three times the yearly value of imports in goods and services.
Given the economy's vulnerability to oil prices, Algeria took measures to keep public expenditure under control in the 2013 budget after strong upward pressure on spending in 2012 (overall fiscal deficit is estimated at about 3.5% of GDP in 2012 including financing from the Oil Stabilisation Fund).
Trade-related issues
The EU is the first trading partner of Algeria with total trade amounting to approximately EUR 44.75 billion in 2011. The EU is Algeria's major source of imports and is its largest market for exports with an average share of 50.6 % for total trade. Algeria occupies rank number 12 and 20 in EU's imports and exports respectively, and 14 among the EU's major trade partners, covering 1.4% of EU total trade in 2011. Bilateral total trade grew up by 13.75% since 2009.
The Association Agreement provides for duty-free access for Algerian industrial exports and a number of agricultural preferences with the prospect of progressive liberalisation. General provisions are also included on progressive liberalisation of services, competition and intellectual property rights. In 2012, an agreement has been reached on the revision of the tariff dismantling calendar on agricultural products and industrial products.
Algeria has Free Trade Agreements with Mediterranean partners (Tunisia and States participating to the Greater Arab Free Trade Area).. In October Algeria signed a regional Convention on Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Rules of origin. Algeria is not yet a member of the World Trade Organisation.
EU Cooperation
The EU has been active in a number of sectors: from basic services to economic growth, rule of law, sustainable development, energy and environment. For the period 2011-2013, the EU assistance to Algeria amounts to EUR 172 million. This envelope covers: sustainable development and culture (environment, socio-economic development, heritage and culture) and economic growth and employment (transport, fisheries and Association Agreement support), with a substantial focus on youth, employment and civil society in conformity with Algeria's most urgent priorities.
In the framework of the SPRING programme, in March 2012 Algeria was allocated EUR 20 million, of which 10 million subject to further progress on democratic reforms.
Given the amount of its available financial reserves, Algeria is not in need of important financial assistance. However, Algeria is keen to have EU technical expertise which can make a difference when there is a concrete objective for reforms. Recently, Algeria has shown strong interest in agriculture and rural development (ENPARD initiative) and in 2013 actions are expected to be identified in this regard.
The first twinning projects providing EU Member States expertise to Algeria public administration proved effective and elicited strong interest from Algeria. The pipeline of twinning proposals from the Algerian administration has been on the increase (now about 15), demonstrating the pertinence of this instrument in the context of Algeria's reform process.
Discussions on the priorities for ENI programming 2014-2017 have been launched. The EU assistance to Algeria could be focused on areas such as justice, employment and economic development.
Civil Society: role and EU support
Following regional developments related to the Arab Spring and internal social and political unrest, the Algerian authorities lifted the state of emergency in February 2011, a positive development that has not yet been fully translated into concrete improvement as several restrictions to the work of civil society remains in place. The new law on associations released on January 2012 has been criticised as being regressive, and setting further limits on the activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, and freedom of assembly is limited due to a presidential decree (18 June 2001) banning marches in Algiers that has been used several times in 2012 to prevent demonstrations.
During 2006-2010, the EU implemented a EUR 10 million programme to support Algerian NGOs. Implementation of ongoing programmes in support of local NGOs using EU financial assistance is progressing smoothly. The current approach is also to involve civil society in the EU funded sectoral cooperation programmes whenever possible (e.g. in the new Cultural Heritage Programme and Youth Employment Programme).
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As the Phillies prepare to embark on a 2½-month farewell tour to 2014 and to the frayed and aged bonds that remain to the Golden Age of Phillies Baseball, it is worth remembering one thing: None of us really thought there was going to be a revival.
No one on Earth picked the Phillies to reach the postseason. It is why general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. and an enabling ownership deserve scrutiny for the way they are going about their business. The obliviousness about what their $185 million payroll was going to fund is astounding.
The most popular phrase uttered by Phillies fans on social-media venues is 'Fire Ruben.' It is fact that the moves and decisions that Amaro must own as GM are part of the unflattering assessment of his work.
There is, however, a problem with thinking the firing of Amaro is a magical cure to what has turned the Phillies from a solidly-funded butt-kicking machine into an overpaid, bloated, old, brutal-to-watch Jabba The Hutt in baseball form: There is much more within the organization that needs changing.
Start at the top - the real top, as in an ownership that by all accounts supported, if not urged, the retention of veterans with long-term contracts. The re-signing of Chase Utley and Carlos Ruiz this offseason spoke to lessons not learned. In Utley's case, it has nothing to do with his being more than adequate offensively, but the fact that he possessed ample trade value last July for a franchise that needs to cash out veteran value when it can. If ownership insisted on the Phillie-for-life tactic employed, then it should allow Amaro to wash his hands of that decision.
Then there are those who sit below Amaro on the food chain. Those in charge of the minor-league system and amateur scouting have disappointed in drafts and development. The scouts - majors, minors and collegiate - have not performed well in the search for talent in trades, free agency and drafts. Some of those poor choices actually fall on the shoulders of Amaro's predecessor, Pat Gillick, who for all his brilliance has a storied history of leaving the franchises for whom he had been the big cheese with a big mess when he steps down.
What the Phillies need more than anything is for someone of authority and respect to perform an autopsy of what has taken place over the last five years. Yes, it should go back that far. Yes, the 2010 and 2011 seasons came with postseason appearances, 102 wins and Four Aces hype, but that also was when the franchise really started to go off the rails, from the bizarre mishandling of the Roy Halladay/Cliff Lee shuffle, to Jonathan Papelbon and Hunter Pence coming, to Pence and Shane Victorino both going, to draft disasters and even misguided choices when it came to bench players and veteran minor-league depth.
There are enough senior advisors in the front office to create a Seamhead Supreme Court, but the Phillies could use someone who hasn't had much of a hand in the proceedings to go over the missteps and figure out how to properly reconstruct a franchise that is in need of a major overhaul.
The problem is that this probably should have begun last winter. By then it was clear this was a franchise spinning out of control, spending a half-billion dollars to see no October baseball for three straight years.
But that's how these things usually go. Those closest to a situation are the ones who have the hardest time bringing its faults into focus - call it the Flyers Syndrome.
It's why the Phillies at some point must look to an outsider to clean up the mess. A decade ago they turned to Gillick, and the move proved to be just what they needed. Gillick, however, has become part of the entrenched dysfunction.
If you want a name for a truly fresh start, a good one is that of Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer, a 40-year-old who, despite his age, has a great deal of experience and has worked for years alongside Theo Epstein in Boston and Chicago.
Fortunately for Hoyer, the Phillies offer a far easier mess to clean up than the one that he has been tackling at Wrigley Field. Still, the Phillies have let the corpse of their former glory rot longer than it should have. That will complicate the task.
If Lee is indeed healthy after his elbow issue, perhaps it will be a blessing in disguise that his injury could delay his being dealt until winter. It gives the Phillies a chance to put the responsibility in someone else's hands.
In the meantime, there will be 2½ months of dreary baseball to endure. Then, the process can begin in earnest - but only if ownership finally allows reality to come into focus.
As difficult as it is to believe, there is no guarantee they finally have the right lenses in place.
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Anti-virus companies like Symantec are interested in obtaining information about Botnets as they provide an excellent source on new kinds of malware. Once collected, these organizations publish information on Botnets, unfortunately at times this information is not enough. We can leverage honeypots to collect the necessary information ourselves as we demonstrate below. When it comes to publishing information on Botnets, organizations like Symantec take two common approaches.
We think that it is better to choose the second option. People who are using a virus scanner are not potential conscription victims, and nobody wants his Botnet getting published. But we show now that the information that is published by Symantec is not enough to actually track Botnets - it is just a pressure for the operators. The following section is an irssi session connecting and watching two Botnets. Commands and comments issued by us are formatted.
/stats P
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So we got the following information about this Botnet: It is a single-server network with about 10.000 clients on 26 channels. The server is listening on seven ports, but we lack any information about channels names or nickname structure. Thus we can not track botnets as close as we want to. The only possibility is to just add a randomly named client to that server. Maybe the operators of the botnet do not notice this strange client. And if we have a bit luck, they send interesting information to all clients via WALLMSG or the server gets linked somewhere.
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Once again, we are just able to add a client idling on the server. We lack information about nickname structure and Botnet channels since Symantec did not offers these informations.
This time we use a telnet session to connect to the Botnet server to see some
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This time, we could even collect less information (but some very interesting one). Again, we can't use the information to sneak a bot into the Botnet.
These three examples show that we can not rely on 3rd party information about existing Botnets. We have to collect these information ourselves using own Honeynets. Even though two of the three examples are unstripped and bad configured IRC daemons, we are not able to gain enough sensitive information. Incomplete information like Symantec offers just inform others about existing Botnets. But we are not able to collect any data about the Botnet usage or the botnetters themselves. We thus can not learn more about the tactics and motives of the operators of the Botnets with information provided only by others. We have to track Botnets ourselves and Honeypots are a perfect solution to help us in gathering the necessary information.


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The Lateisha Green Murder: Violence Against Transgender People Resource Kit
On July 13, 2009, the trial for the murder of Lateisha Green - a 22-year-old African American transgender woman - will begin in Syracuse, New York. Due to this landmark case's complexities and its significance for LGBT people, it is of utmost importance that media coverage of Lateisha's tragic death be inclusive, accurate, and respectful of a community that is too often targeted for harassment and violence.
On November 14, 2008, Lateisha "Teish" Green was shot and killed outside a house party in Syracuse, New York. The accused shooter, Dwight R. DeLee, was allegedly motivated by anti-LGBT bias and his belief that Lateisha was gay. The Onondaga County District Attorney has charged DeLee with second degree murder as a hate crime.
That Lateisha was, in fact, transgender highlights the unique nature of this prosecution, as well as the need for reform of New York State and federal hate crime laws. New York State law currently classifies it as a hate crime for an individual to target and attack a victim because of the victim's actual or perceived sexual orientation. While Lateisha was a transgender woman, Lateisha's murder is a hate crime because her attacker perceived her to be gay and targeted her for violence because of that perception. Neither New York State nor federal hate crime laws include gender identity or gender expression as protected hate crime categories. Indeed, federal law includes neither gender identity and expression nor sexual orientation as hate crime categories.
According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, murders of LGBT people in 2008 increased 28% from the previous year. More than 2,400 people reported being victims of hate violence involving incidents motivated by anti-LGBT bias. 12% of these reports on hate violence involved incidents motivated by anti-transgender bias. Nearly 300 transgender people filed reports of violence against them during the reporting period. On average, a transgender person is murdered once a month in the United States, based upon information collected by Remembering Our Dead and Transgender Day of Remembrance.
By looking back on Lateisha Green's death and the countless other incidents of tragic violence that occur every year due to anti-LGBT bias, the media can play a vital role in determining future community and law enforcement response to hate-motivated attacks. Hate crime legislation that would explicitly protect transgender people from violence is currently pending in New York and at the federal level. In New York, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (S.2406), which has passed the State Assembly and is awaiting Senate action, would make it a hate crime for an individual to attack another because of the victim's gender identity or expression. At the federal level, the Matthew Shepard Act (S.909), which would expand existing federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by gender identity or sexual orientation (as well as gender and disability), was passed by the House of Representatives on April 29, 2009, by a vote of 249 - 175. On June 25, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Matthew Shepard Act. The bill has not yet been scheduled for a vote in the Senate. The Obama administration has listed the passing of the Matthew Shepard Act in its goals for civil rights during the President's first term.
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